No, not really. Most of those one time items were intangibles.
See, when a company buys another company, the premium they pay to what the assets of the company are is called goodwill. This goodwill is considered an asset on the buying company's balance sheet. The goodwill gets "used up" over a few years, and gets expensed off, that is, deducted against income (amortizing).
In other words, most of it wasn't "real" money. The only important one-time charges were the severance expenses, that was real tangible money that had to come from somewhere.
RAIDZone NAS states quite clearly that they use Linux...
And IDE drives!
IDE is the way to go, recently built a server similar to the TB server featured on slashdot... 167Megs/Sec sustained read from the RAID. (64 bit PCI bus)
OK cool then, I guess I can put a video camera in each room your house with a live feed to the local police station. After all they will only look at them if they think you have done something wrong, right?
The whole "If you havn't broken the law then why do you care?" argument is ignorant. Privacy is more important than that.
Since when have you recieved a non-scam, non-overpriced, non-pornographic, legitimate business offer via unsolicited email?
When we say spammers, I don't think we mean the companies that "accidentally" email you the newsletter you didn't ask for. (Even though they are pusing the line)
We are generally talking about the forged return address, random characters in the subject, open relay exploiting, pop-up windows that won't let you exit the web browser bastards that no one likes. They always were in a legal grey area, and the products they sell are usually even greyer. These are criminals, white collar criminals, and don't convince yourself otherwise.
1. There's nothing like a stupid Javascript programmer to make the most casual Html FORM a nightmare...
2. There's nothing like a stupid American programmer to make the most casual ZIP, State or Phone INPUT field a nightmare... Would you, American Javascripters out there, believe that some country actually use letters in their ZIP or have more/less than 10-digit phone numbers? Grrbl!
A lot of it has to do with what happens to your data after it gets submitted. Most sites will want to look up your ZIP+4 code for american addresses, and then print barcodes directly on the envelope, which allows for much lower postal rates.
Granted, there should be another seperate international form, or seperate fields for international addresses, or a toggle for international addresses, but there are valid reasons for tight validation.
If you've ever had to deal with a database that had data entry with little validation, you know what kind of nightmare it can be to do anything useful with it.
Just buy twice as many drives, and have two physically seperate computers, preferably in different buildings, or at least in different rooms, on different circuits. Combine this with RAID1 or 5 if you want.
Hard disks are so cheap, the preferred media to back up a hard disk becomes another hard disk.
Also alot of laughs were had about what qualifies for instant filing in the old circular file. For example: no suit, TRASH CAN; visible tattos or piercing, TRASH IT; any sort of attitude, BYE BYE; no degree at all or incompleted degrees SEE-YA (yes even for IT positions); H1-B, sorry but upper management will not let us even look at the extra legal cost involved; wierd hair, THANK YOU HAVE A NICE DAY! You know how many folks out there have certification of one sort or another? Every single one who came by. Moved jobs around alot, more jobs then years of experience? NOPE not a chance in HELL!
You just threw away the resume of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Wozniac, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc...
Great move asshole. Suits and degrees don't give you skills.
We should wear our halloween mask all day this coming halloween, and visit popular retail stores (Borders, for example) or cities using facial recognition software. Mayhaps we can get The Alien loaded into national crime databases for jaywalking.
Just make sure it is on Halloween, doing it on any other day of the year in VA is a felony.
In Virginia it is a crime for anyone over 16 years old to wear a mask that covers the face in public, unless it's medical, or a holiday costume.
It shall be unlawful for any person over sixteen years of age while wearing any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place, or upon any private property in this Commonwealth without first having obtained from the owner or tenant thereof consent to do so in writing. However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons (i) wearing traditional holiday costumes; (ii) engaged in professions, trades, employment or other activities and wearing protective masks which are deemed necessary for the physical safety of the wearer or other persons; (iii) engaged in any bona fide theatrical production or masquerade ball; or (iv) wearing a mask, hood or other device for bona fide medical reasons upon the advice of a licensed physician or osteopath and carrying on his person an affidavit from the physician or osteopath specifying the medical necessity for wearing the device and the date on which the wearing of the device will no longer be necessary and providing a brief description of the device. The violation of any provisions of this section shall constitute a Class 6 felony.
I disagree with the idea that file extensions are a hack, I think that nature of Linux lends itself well to the idea that the file type should be encoded into the name of the file in a human readable form.
What I do have a problem with is the splintered way that MIME is done in practice. Suppose I want my file type "foo" to be associated with a certain mime type and opened with my fooviewer, I would have to register my application/x-foo in:
I can't even figure out what the heck Mozilla uses for local MIME types... It apparently isn't any of these, in the version of Mozilla I have. I see it makes some nice XML files for user defined types, but those don't work with plugins.
Why can't we just standardize on using/etc/mime.types and/etc/mailcap? I mean come on!
And even if they go out of business, someone will buy their assets (probably Intel), including the patents. Now, the new owner might not try to fight to enforce the patents, but someone somewhere will still have them.
Can your P3 outrun a MIPS 195mhz R10K on distnet? No, it cant
Assuming you mean distributed.net, you are incorrect.
MIPS processors do not implement the bitrotate instruction in hardware that x86 does, that RC5 cracking relies so heavily on. We benchmarked a 4 processor Origin 2000 with MIPS chips running at 300Mhz and it came out around a celeron in keyrate even using all 4 processors.
So, while your point is correct, using distributed.net as an example with MIPS processors is not a good idea.
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Excluding one time expenses is GAAP. Moderators, don't fall for this troll just because he used one correct accounting term.
No, not really. Most of those one time items were intangibles.
See, when a company buys another company, the premium they pay to what the assets of the company are is called goodwill. This goodwill is considered an asset on the buying company's balance sheet. The goodwill gets "used up" over a few years, and gets expensed off, that is, deducted against income (amortizing).
In other words, most of it wasn't "real" money. The only important one-time charges were the severance expenses, that was real tangible money that had to come from somewhere.
Their fiscal year ends in February, 2002, I believe. We are in their fiscal 2002.
RAIDZone NAS states quite clearly that they use Linux...
And IDE drives!
IDE is the way to go, recently built a server similar to the TB server featured on slashdot... 167Megs/Sec sustained read from the RAID. (64 bit PCI bus)
OK cool then, I guess I can put a video camera in each room your house with a live feed to the local police station. After all they will only look at them if they think you have done something wrong, right?
The whole "If you havn't broken the law then why do you care?" argument is ignorant. Privacy is more important than that.
i'm a working person not a business. let's see how much i'm getting the shaft: i have my own home,
Which the government can take away if one of your visitors decides to bring some drugs into.
i was educated,
I love big brother too! What a coincedence!
i (until some bastards blew up a few buidlings) the right and capacity to travel wherever i wanted whenever i wanted,
But only on foot. Driving a car is a privlidge.
i have a reasonable disposable income and can buy a whole assortment of goods and services unheard of in most other places in the world,
Given.
i have free access to information (not just on the fucking web either),
Good ol, Time/AOL/Disney/MSABSBC.
i have the right to worship as i please...
As long as it's a mainstream religion.
considering the situation most humans on this planet are in.
It could be worse, it could be much better too.
Depends on the implementation. The way I read this, it means they would have to tap and record all conversations on all phones that person might use.
Sounds worse to me....
Since when have you recieved a non-scam, non-overpriced, non-pornographic, legitimate business offer via unsolicited email?
When we say spammers, I don't think we mean the companies that "accidentally" email you the newsletter you didn't ask for. (Even though they are pusing the line)
We are generally talking about the forged return address, random characters in the subject, open relay exploiting, pop-up windows that won't let you exit the web browser bastards that no one likes. They always were in a legal grey area, and the products they sell are usually even greyer. These are criminals, white collar criminals, and don't convince yourself otherwise.
https is done through SSL normally. One could however use an ssh encrypted tunnel to get to a normal http site.
If you are going to be stupid, please don't be anonymous, so that your Karma will relect your stupidity!
:)
That would make a great sig! Go for it.
1. There's nothing like a stupid Javascript programmer to make the most casual Html FORM a nightmare...
2. There's nothing like a stupid American programmer to make the most casual ZIP, State or Phone INPUT field a nightmare... Would you, American Javascripters out there, believe that some country actually use letters in their ZIP or have more/less than 10-digit phone numbers? Grrbl!
A lot of it has to do with what happens to your data after it gets submitted. Most sites will want to look up your ZIP+4 code for american addresses, and then print barcodes directly on the envelope, which allows for much lower postal rates.
Granted, there should be another seperate international form, or seperate fields for international addresses, or a toggle for international addresses, but there are valid reasons for tight validation.
If you've ever had to deal with a database that had data entry with little validation, you know what kind of nightmare it can be to do anything useful with it.
Just buy twice as many drives, and have two physically seperate computers, preferably in different buildings, or at least in different rooms, on different circuits. Combine this with RAID1 or 5 if you want.
Hard disks are so cheap, the preferred media to back up a hard disk becomes another hard disk.
The 3ware ATA RAID controller cards do not put drives into master/slave config, they only support one drive per IDE channel.
Available in up to 8 ports per card, 3 cards per computer.
I propose this day be known as the "911 massacre", which might just have been the intent of the attackers, deciding to attack on 9/11/2001.
Condolences to those who lost loved ones today. When will we learn?
You just threw away the resume of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Wozniac, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc...
Great move asshole. Suits and degrees don't give you skills.
Here are some good places to donate.
Free Linux CD.org
LinuxFund
We should wear our halloween mask all day this coming halloween, and visit popular retail stores (Borders, for example) or cities using facial recognition software. Mayhaps we can get The Alien loaded into national crime databases for jaywalking.
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Just make sure it is on Halloween, doing it on any other day of the year in VA is a felony.
In Virginia it is a crime for anyone over 16 years old to wear a mask that covers the face in public, unless it's medical, or a holiday costume.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+c
It shall be unlawful for any person over sixteen years of age while wearing any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place, or upon any private property in this Commonwealth without first having obtained from the owner or tenant thereof consent to do so in writing. However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons (i) wearing traditional holiday costumes; (ii) engaged in professions, trades, employment or other activities and wearing protective masks which are deemed necessary for the physical safety of the wearer or other persons; (iii) engaged in any bona fide theatrical production or masquerade ball; or (iv) wearing a mask, hood or other device for bona fide medical reasons upon the advice of a licensed physician or osteopath and carrying on his person an affidavit from the physician or osteopath specifying the medical necessity for wearing the device and the date on which the wearing of the device will no longer be necessary and providing a brief description of the device. The violation of any provisions of this section shall constitute a Class 6 felony.
Be patient; we will have cheap recordable DVDs soon enough.
By the time we have cheap recordable DVDs, 4-6 GB will be a laughable amount.
What I do have a problem with is the splintered way that MIME is done in practice. Suppose I want my file type "foo" to be associated with a certain mime type and opened with my fooviewer, I would have to register my application/x-foo in:
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-foo.kdelnk
/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/fooviewer.kdelnk
/usr/share/mime-info/fooviewer.keys
/usr/share/mime-info/fooviewer.mime
/etc/mime.types
/etc/mailcap
/usr/local/lib/netscape/mime.types
I can't even figure out what the heck Mozilla uses for local MIME types... It apparently isn't any of these, in the version of Mozilla I have. I see it makes some nice XML files for user defined types, but those don't work with plugins.
Why can't we just standardize on using
GNU/UNIX?
I guess GNU really IS UNIX after all!
And even if they go out of business, someone will buy their assets (probably Intel), including the patents. Now, the new owner might not try to fight to enforce the patents, but someone somewhere will still have them.
Hope the new cluster isn't P4's with the VIA chipset. :)
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http://www.linuxfund.org/ Not much more to say. Link
Assuming you mean distributed.net, you are incorrect.
MIPS processors do not implement the bitrotate instruction in hardware that x86 does, that RC5 cracking relies so heavily on. We benchmarked a 4 processor Origin 2000 with MIPS chips running at 300Mhz and it came out around a celeron in keyrate even using all 4 processors.
So, while your point is correct, using distributed.net as an example with MIPS processors is not a good idea.