Unfortunately, if their EULA is valid, they can do a lot more than drop support. They can audit you and charge you for every unlicensed machine, plus extra penalties.
And they can do it up to a year after you cancel support completely.
Yes, in 2002 MySQL AB sued Nusphere for statically linking to GPL code without including source. The judge didn't rule on the merit of those claims however, so it wasn't a very good test for the GPL. The judge just told Nusphere to stop using the MySQL name with their product.
I use the $69 model (what has become the green box, the one with the IR remote) for hooking a game system, a satellite box, and a computer to a monitor all at the same time. Computer video is not degraded at all when you use quality VGA cables. Not the thin kind, the shielded kind.
Basically you get svideo input, Coax input to an internal tuner if you want to use direct cable or antenna (or channel 3 for another device input), VGA computer passthrough when the box is off... It's got plenty of inputs.
If you want simpler, you can get the cheesebox. If you want more expensive, you can get video scalers, the lower end ones are just line doublers, they just double each scan line to get 640X480 from NTSC. Line doubled video looks pretty good though on a monitor, especially a larger one. It's not perfect though, it won't look quite as good as a high quality TV, especially up close.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but "economic gains without meaningful job recovery", is probably just a sign of short term efficiency.
We're been harping for decades about how computers and technology will save money. Now they are doing just that. New fields open up, old ones get destroyed. Right now I'd bet the new fields just reqire less head count than the old ones.
The good thing is that labor will become cheaper, and already has to a good extent. This will create new opportunities for investment in more labor intensive areas that were not viable before.
It will all balance out in the end, it just takes some time. Those who aren't willing to work at new jobs, maybe making less than they were before, are going to be left out, until they either face reality, or wind up on the street.
The world is a harsh place. The weak die. Fortunately it's less true than ever before in history, and what do you have to thank for that ultimately? Industrialization.
All made possible by harnessing energy sources.
The tradeoffs we make that cause pollution save far more lives through technology.
I have no degree, and yet I have a programming/admin job, imagine that!
And I don't even live in a tech centric area.
Here's the secret, work for a company that actually produces something. Something other than just software, or intellectual property.
Consulting/support companies that do custom things for each customer are OK, but you are still liable to be replaced by a very small shell script someday.
It's funny that Slashdot is basically a site about how intellectual property is being reformed in huge ways, and yet most of the people reading it still want to get jobs based on obselete business models of "owning information".
Well, it makes sense. You increase the pH of an alkaloid containing compound, you convert some to a freebase form. Freebase is usually more bioavailable when smoked.
In any case, I roll my own from additive-free tobacco.
You are right. I'm an affiliate for a vanity press for poetry, one of the not so scammy ones (not the one with the easy to remember domain, they are sleezy).
The only successful vanity press I ever see is stuff that is infomercial material. Weight loss... Make money, here's how... etc..
Anything else is a severe uphill battle.
The poetry anthologies are more akin to naming a star, or other vanity things. It's more for your own gratification, than any serious literary meaning. The winners of the contest who get their poems in for free are usually pretty damn good, however. If you are only offered the option to buy the anthology to get your poem in, then it's just a vanity thing.
There's nothing stopping you from reintroducing normal carp to an area.
Unlike the introduction of predators, this method leaves the door open in the future. If you can outnumber the GM population with regular carp, it's entirely possible to reestablish a carp population.
The possibility of dust storms is a known. Predicting the duststorms is an unknown.
Automobile traffic is known to be dangerous. That I may die on my way to work could be considered a "severity 1 defect" of my commute. There's no known workaround to having a car slam into me!
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I was born in the 70s and still read such books. Older books of experiments and projects for kids are much much better than the modern stuff. I guess people are too afraid of being sued to publish anything exciting.
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Unfortunately, if their EULA is valid, they can do a lot more than drop support. They can audit you and charge you for every unlicensed machine, plus extra penalties.
And they can do it up to a year after you cancel support completely.
Read the EULA.
Actually, odds are you'd be using a proprietary OS on a, oh, DEC PDP-11 or something.
No, she wouldn't. Without MS braindead apps, idiots like her would probably be teaching typing on IBM Selectric typewriters.
Someone with an IQ as low as her's couldn't possibly handle anything other than a GUI.
You are thinking of James T Kirk... See this is James R Kirk. :)
Yes, in 2002 MySQL AB sued Nusphere for statically linking to GPL code without including source. The judge didn't rule on the merit of those claims however, so it wasn't a very good test for the GPL. The judge just told Nusphere to stop using the MySQL name with their product.
It's a reductio ad absurdum...
Actually now that I look again, my model is more similar to the $89 or $129 model... it has a tuner.
They've redone the product line since I bought mine, my particular model's features have been absorbed into others.
The best place to get things like this is avtoolbox.com
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I use the $69 model (what has become the green box, the one with the IR remote) for hooking a game system, a satellite box, and a computer to a monitor all at the same time. Computer video is not degraded at all when you use quality VGA cables. Not the thin kind, the shielded kind.
Basically you get svideo input, Coax input to an internal tuner if you want to use direct cable or antenna (or channel 3 for another device input), VGA computer passthrough when the box is off... It's got plenty of inputs.
If you want simpler, you can get the cheesebox. If you want more expensive, you can get video scalers, the lower end ones are just line doublers, they just double each scan line to get 640X480 from NTSC. Line doubled video looks pretty good though on a monitor, especially a larger one. It's not perfect though, it won't look quite as good as a high quality TV, especially up close.
Just wait until you start working with TB+ quantities.
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At work I'm constantly saying that the new RAID will hold 2500 MB. 2500 GB is just too large a number to wrap your head around.
I think this is the "advertise your porn site" forum.
The discussion forum is that way ------->
The weak die != Everyone who dies is weak.
I think you need to take a basic logic class.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but "economic gains without meaningful job recovery", is probably just a sign of short term efficiency.
We're been harping for decades about how computers and technology will save money. Now they are doing just that. New fields open up, old ones get destroyed. Right now I'd bet the new fields just reqire less head count than the old ones.
The good thing is that labor will become cheaper, and already has to a good extent. This will create new opportunities for investment in more labor intensive areas that were not viable before.
It will all balance out in the end, it just takes some time. Those who aren't willing to work at new jobs, maybe making less than they were before, are going to be left out, until they either face reality, or wind up on the street.
The world is a harsh place. The weak die. Fortunately it's less true than ever before in history, and what do you have to thank for that ultimately? Industrialization.
All made possible by harnessing energy sources.
The tradeoffs we make that cause pollution save far more lives through technology.
Back in non-liberal reality, I bet a coroner has never ever anywhere written "pollution" on a death certificate.
At our division we have an ecommerce site for existing customers. It's pretty comprehensive.
When I say "not online" I really mean "no retail web presence".
What are you talking about?
Are you saying the Ipod takes AC wall power directly without using a wall wart?
The companies that do speciality packaging aren't generally the online type of company.
Assuming you want reasonable quantities (like maybe 100,000), go to www.smythco.com, or call them and ask for sales.
Disclosure, I work for them.
Sure it would.
If there were no carp, because they all died, then it's a clean slate. You can introduce regular carp and start fresh. This should be very obvious!
I have no degree, and yet I have a programming/admin job, imagine that!
And I don't even live in a tech centric area.
Here's the secret, work for a company that actually produces something. Something other than just software, or intellectual property.
Consulting/support companies that do custom things for each customer are OK, but you are still liable to be replaced by a very small shell script someday.
It's funny that Slashdot is basically a site about how intellectual property is being reformed in huge ways, and yet most of the people reading it still want to get jobs based on obselete business models of "owning information".
I think you are the first to ever notice that.
Congratulations.
Well, it makes sense. You increase the pH of an alkaloid containing compound, you convert some to a freebase form. Freebase is usually more bioavailable when smoked.
In any case, I roll my own from additive-free tobacco.
You are right. I'm an affiliate for a vanity press for poetry, one of the not so scammy ones (not the one with the easy to remember domain, they are sleezy).
The only successful vanity press I ever see is stuff that is infomercial material. Weight loss... Make money, here's how... etc..
Anything else is a severe uphill battle.
The poetry anthologies are more akin to naming a star, or other vanity things. It's more for your own gratification, than any serious literary meaning. The winners of the contest who get their poems in for free are usually pretty damn good, however. If you are only offered the option to buy the anthology to get your poem in, then it's just a vanity thing.
I'm honest if anyone asks me things about that.
There's nothing stopping you from reintroducing normal carp to an area.
Unlike the introduction of predators, this method leaves the door open in the future. If you can outnumber the GM population with regular carp, it's entirely possible to reestablish a carp population.
by adding amonia to the cogaretts
I want some of what you're smoking!
BTW- What the hell are you talking about?
But where's the line?
The possibility of dust storms is a known. Predicting the duststorms is an unknown.
Automobile traffic is known to be dangerous. That I may die on my way to work could be considered a "severity 1 defect" of my commute. There's no known workaround to having a car slam into me!
I was born in the 70s and still read such books. Older books of experiments and projects for kids are much much better than the modern stuff. I guess people are too afraid of being sued to publish anything exciting.