Even though your AC, I'll still respond because these are valid points for anyone considering Linux.
Games, I can not dispute that. My kids love the Sim type games and various others. I have 2 other computers in the house that can run W2K for games, and they have a PS1, PS2 and a Dreamcast that they use for games. The Linux desktops are in thier rooms and heavily used, they play games elsewhere.
No usable software - I'll take that as a troll comment. Other then the lack of games, they have everything they need. Browsing the web, listening to mp3's or watching divx movies from my Samba server, an office package, GAIM and even plugging in their MP3 players and memory cards from the digital camera. It works and it works fine for this. I get the added benefit of not having to constantly remove spyware and adding software, updates and changing configurations from a remote SSH connection.
Unfamiliar interface - Compared to what? The change from 98 or W2K --> XP is not much different then moving over to a Linux desktop. I truely believe this is the biggest non issue when switching to something other then MS. They've used Knoppix, Fedora, Lindows, Lycoris, Mandrake, Win98, W2K and XP and have never had a problem finding out how any of them worked. I believe that whole "unfamiliar" concept is blown way out of proportion.
A Linux desktop is not Windows. I am not MS free and I don't plan to be, I use them both. I am not going to use or pay for MS on every machine when I do not need it on every machine.
I'm all for choice but I was not at all impressed with Lindows compared to other desktop based Linux distibutions. I bought $199 Walmart PC's for my kids this christmas. One with Lindows and one with Lycoris. Lindows was usable and it worked without problems but the click-n-run selection was too limited. I tried several non Lindows repositories and regular old packages but eventually I got frustrated and started over with Mandrake. Although not required, I feel the money I could have spent on a Lindows subscription was much better spent on a Mandrake membership.
I know some small towns can have an over zealous police force but I'd hope they had more to go on then a spot light into the woods called in by a few underage drunk teens. Being questioned, being arrested, and being convicted of something are three completely different levels.
I use my check card and my credit unions implementation of CheckFree for everything. I don't think I've had more then $20 in cash in my wallet for years. My other half still writes checks but only when she has to. To make it even easier (or because we are lazy), we don't even "balance our checkbook". I scope out the transactions online for strange activity but never actually verify the numbers or calculate how much we have in the checking account but, I do check more often when it gets below few hundred dollars. Luckily in the past 7 to 10 years, my goz-ins have always been more then my goz-outs and I have never been overdrawn.
My ex cubemate had direct deposit but went to the his bank on every payday and took out the entire balance in cash. Paid everything with money orders and cash. I never figured out what that was all about.
I was thinking the training may help management prevent the current employees from leaving when they start forgetting to pay them. I see it all the time on fuckedcompany;)
There are all the nice features of real bills, but seriously how often have you actually see someone hold a bill under a blacklight, or use a pen, or look for the watermark when accepting the bill.
There is a buffet style place in my town that checks all bills with a blacklight and a visual for the watermark. Off topic but when I went there, I paid by a Visa check card. Over a period of two months, I had two more charges for various amounts from the same place. According to the Visa fraud department, they determined the number was entered manually and not by swiping the card (no shit, I still have the card in my wallet). Seems this establishment is on the ball when it comes to getting ripped off but could care less about the customers getting ripped off. My bank did refund me for the charges though.
Where I work, we use DeltaView to compare incoming and outgoing Word documents. People do change documents and that's why we check them. For privacy reasons and legal concerns, we also run most outgoing documents through some metadata cleaners to strip out any document properties that we might not want to be included inside the document.
These web bugs are not just limited to email via Outlook, you can add them to your MS Office documents also. You can track when, how often and from what ip addresses people opened your Word documents from. I do not keep track of MS Office revisions so this functionality and method of deploying these web bugs in Office docs may have changed or be more obvious to the end users but it is/was possible. Someone what to test this on a.doc version of their resume?
Not in all instances. When connecting to an Exchange server, the option to disable notifications can be disabled, basically, Outlook/Exchange will respond back with the notifications automatically and the option to disable them is grayed out. Many businesses desire this option and use it. For non Exchange server use, the option is yours.
Does anyone have any non slashdot related references for this claim? There was a thread in a past iPod story that claimed they make 10-30 cents a song (about 4x what the artist gets). No references were shown for that figure either.
That works too. Knowing what to search for takes some practice. You can learn a lot by searching for serialz and crackz for specific versions of software you have and plan not to pay for.;) This practice will teach you how to fine tune a search, why you should not use IE as your primary browser, why you should block popups, how sites front load text to get listed higher in search engines, where not to go for porn, why you should delete or selectively use cookies, and a bunch of other useful tips you can use for all your web searching needs.
His example of searching for Paris Hilton is nothing more then an glorified example to try to prove his point. You do not need to completely redign a search engine to get your desired results. You need to refine your search. Search google for Paris Hilton Hotel and the first three results are directly related to a Hilton Hotel in Paris. I would not find this hotel any faster using his circle method with Grokker2. I use a search engine to find exactly what I am looking for. Displaying all the results on some chart, graph, or 3d display still requires me to browse around to narrow my search.
I've used Knoppix on an old P200/128 ram and it worked fine. I eventually did a hdinstall of Knoppix so I would not need the CD anymore. My kids used it for months with no problems. I put Fedora on the same machine and it ran like a dog. I eventually went back to Knoppix.
I've also played around with Movix, Mandrake Move, and various other smaller live distros. I switched my $199 preinstalled Lindows machine from Walmart.com over to Mandrake based on my good experience with Move.
Virus Alert!! ADW_RULEDOR.C is detected on C1-01D(jcarney) in XXXXX domain. Infected file: D:\Program Files\STC\ClrSchP038.exe Detection date: 2003.12.31 10:12:41 Action: Virus successfully detected, cannot perform the Clean action (Quarantine)
Trendmicro finds a lot of spyware but normally AFTER the fact. Better then nothing I guess.
--PERSONAL_RANT-- We get these messages all the time on our network. Funny, we have the computers themselves locked down pretty good but for some reason, they leave IE wide open. I've brought it up to our "MS does no wrong" decision makers but I guess this was not discussed in their MCSE courses so they ignore it. They also ignored my presentation about being so far behind in patches about 2 weeks before MS_Blaster was let loose also. --END PERSONAL_RANT--
The Hynix purchase was not shot down by the Korean govt. In fact, they were pushing for it.
You are correct. Maybe Micron thought with government backing, it was worth the effort to attempt the merger.
They have a big hiring banner in front of the Manassas fab. I do not know anyone that works there any more but obviously something is still happening there.
Micron bought out Dominion Semiconductor, a joint Toshiba-IBM memory fab plant in Manassas, VA in early 2002. As time went on, production went down, work on a second process lab was all but halted and the plant effectively stopped production early in 2003 (I had a family member that worked there). In the same time frame, they also cut production in their main plant in Idaho. The goal at was to also buy or merge with cash strapped Hynix in Korea but that was shot down by the Korean government. I believe their goal was either to move production out of the US or to buy who they could and join forces with those they could not. In that time frame, memory prices were extremely low, companies were failing and Micron saw a chance to gobble up the competition. The gamble failed when the Hynix buy fell through. Interestingly enough, they applied for and have recieved government funds related to memory dumping. They had a goal of getting memory prices to a certain level and could not do it with competitors.
A study by Cornell University estimates that as much as 60k deer a year are killed in NY state alone per year by cars. Add in the other states multiplied by 20 years and it looks pretty staggering. Take into consideration the side effects of human loss and property damage along with that and it makes these bird incedents look like nothing. These people probably like the anti-turbine battle because shutting down the turbines would not directly effect them. Take their cars away so they don't hit a deer and see how many are left to fight for that.
No. MP3 encoders have to decide what to get rid of and what to keep based on your desired bitrate and settings. They use a psycho acoustic, frequency cutoff, and can join channels based on frequency range[1]. Each mp3 compressor has a different model it follows to achive the smaller file, some are percieved better then others.
[1] Lower frequencies are harder for a person to determine the location of the source. This is the basis for home theaters with one subwoofer running in mono placed anywhere nearby. You do not really need a left and right subwoofer and placement is not as important from an imaging perspective (although placement can efffect the speakers frequency response). You can save space in compression of lower frequencies by combining certain lower frequencies from both channels into one center channel. The low frequency analysis is just a small portion of of the audio spectrum and for good compression, the ranges are treated differently for different reasons.
I have no opinion on using weight as the reference. My point was using gas consumption seems to makes more sense then mileage driven. The bottom line is the tax money collected is spent one way or another. If you think getting rid of a gasoline tax is going to put more money in your pocket, you are crazy. The tax on something else will go up to make up the difference. Money spent by a government has to equal money collected by the people no matter how you look at it. The only way you will ever pocket anything is if money spent goes down. Getting rid of a gas tax is not going to do that. That is why some states have a high income tax rate but a low sales tax but others have no sales tax, others have property tax on vehicles but a low property tax on your real property, some pay high registration fees but lower gas taxes, some pay a school tax and others pay a wage tax but some do not pay those or pay low property tax. You get my point? It all evens out in the end regardless of what you call the tax it.
Back to the gas tax.. You can in theory, get gas for non automotive use and not pay the tax in some areas. The problem is the price would not end up being much lower because regular gas stations make money in volume as they sell thousands of gallons, are streamlined for filling cars and have a lot of competetion. Opening up a corner store for filing lawn mowers would not be cost effective. I worked at a major hub airport on the east coast. We had a filing station on the airport for the airline support vehicles. The regular unleaded and diesel fuel was bought by the airline without the motor vehicle tax attached.
I know nothing about the history behind that effort but isn't that the purpose of a gasoline tax? The more you travel, the more gas you buy and therefore pay more taxes? That system leans harder on those that get less MPG but I also read a study referenced on/. many moons ago that showed as weight per axle of a vehicle increased, the damage it does to the asphalt goes up by a much larger factor. In fact, you could infer that same thing based an Oregon state study (Google cache)
With that in mind, a gas tax would seems like the best choice.
you're setting yourself up for legal action if you're knowingly letting your customers do this
I think common carrier covers that. Another point.. File sharing and P2P are not illegal. What people upload and download might be but the same thing applies to bittorrent, email, ftp, http, archie, gopher, irc, im, physically swapping media, writing down code on a piece of paper and many others. Are you gong to ban those too? What % of general use and illegel use would you become liable? (hint: your not).
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Even though your AC, I'll still respond because these are valid points for anyone considering Linux.
Games, I can not dispute that. My kids love the Sim type games and various others. I have 2 other computers in the house that can run W2K for games, and they have a PS1, PS2 and a Dreamcast that they use for games. The Linux desktops are in thier rooms and heavily used, they play games elsewhere.
No usable software - I'll take that as a troll comment. Other then the lack of games, they have everything they need. Browsing the web, listening to mp3's or watching divx movies from my Samba server, an office package, GAIM and even plugging in their MP3 players and memory cards from the digital camera. It works and it works fine for this. I get the added benefit of not having to constantly remove spyware and adding software, updates and changing configurations from a remote SSH connection.
Unfamiliar interface - Compared to what? The change from 98 or W2K --> XP is not much different then moving over to a Linux desktop. I truely believe this is the biggest non issue when switching to something other then MS. They've used Knoppix, Fedora, Lindows, Lycoris, Mandrake, Win98, W2K and XP and have never had a problem finding out how any of them worked. I believe that whole "unfamiliar" concept is blown way out of proportion.
A Linux desktop is not Windows. I am not MS free and I don't plan to be, I use them both. I am not going to use or pay for MS on every machine when I do not need it on every machine.
I'm all for choice but I was not at all impressed with Lindows compared to other desktop based Linux distibutions. I bought $199 Walmart PC's for my kids this christmas. One with Lindows and one with Lycoris. Lindows was usable and it worked without problems but the click-n-run selection was too limited. I tried several non Lindows repositories and regular old packages but eventually I got frustrated and started over with Mandrake. Although not required, I feel the money I could have spent on a Lindows subscription was much better spent on a Mandrake membership.
I know some small towns can have an over zealous police force but I'd hope they had more to go on then a spot light into the woods called in by a few underage drunk teens. Being questioned, being arrested, and being convicted of something are three completely different levels.
I use my check card and my credit unions implementation of CheckFree for everything. I don't think I've had more then $20 in cash in my wallet for years. My other half still writes checks but only when she has to. To make it even easier (or because we are lazy), we don't even "balance our checkbook". I scope out the transactions online for strange activity but never actually verify the numbers or calculate how much we have in the checking account but, I do check more often when it gets below few hundred dollars. Luckily in the past 7 to 10 years, my goz-ins have always been more then my goz-outs and I have never been overdrawn.
My ex cubemate had direct deposit but went to the his bank on every payday and took out the entire balance in cash. Paid everything with money orders and cash. I never figured out what that was all about.
I was thinking the training may help management prevent the current employees from leaving when they start forgetting to pay them. I see it all the time on fuckedcompany ;)
There are all the nice features of real bills, but seriously how often have you actually see someone hold a bill under a blacklight, or use a pen, or look for the watermark when accepting the bill.
There is a buffet style place in my town that checks all bills with a blacklight and a visual for the watermark.
Off topic but when I went there, I paid by a Visa check card. Over a period of two months, I had two more charges for various amounts from the same place. According to the Visa fraud department, they determined the number was entered manually and not by swiping the card (no shit, I still have the card in my wallet). Seems this establishment is on the ball when it comes to getting ripped off but could care less about the customers getting ripped off. My bank did refund me for the charges though.
Where I work, we use DeltaView to compare incoming and outgoing Word documents. People do change documents and that's why we check them. For privacy reasons and legal concerns, we also run most outgoing documents through some metadata cleaners to strip out any document properties that we might not want to be included inside the document.
These web bugs are not just limited to email via Outlook, you can add them to your MS Office documents also. You can track when, how often and from what ip addresses people opened your Word documents from. I do not keep track of MS Office revisions so this functionality and method of deploying these web bugs in Office docs may have changed or be more obvious to the end users but it is/was possible. Someone what to test this on a .doc version of their resume?
Not in all instances.
When connecting to an Exchange server, the option to disable notifications can be disabled, basically, Outlook/Exchange will respond back with the notifications automatically and the option to disable them is grayed out. Many businesses desire this option and use it.
For non Exchange server use, the option is yours.
They barely break even on the store.
Does anyone have any non slashdot related references for this claim? There was a thread in a past iPod story that claimed they make 10-30 cents a song (about 4x what the artist gets). No references were shown for that figure either.
That works too. Knowing what to search for takes some practice. ;)
You can learn a lot by searching for serialz and crackz for specific versions of software you have and plan not to pay for.
This practice will teach you how to fine tune a search, why you should not use IE as your primary browser, why you should block popups, how sites front load text to get listed higher in search engines, where not to go for porn, why you should delete or selectively use cookies, and a bunch of other useful tips you can use for all your web searching needs.
His example of searching for Paris Hilton is nothing more then an glorified example to try to prove his point.
You do not need to completely redign a search engine to get your desired results. You need to refine your search. Search google for Paris Hilton Hotel and the first three results are directly related to a Hilton Hotel in Paris. I would not find this hotel any faster using his circle method with Grokker2. I use a search engine to find exactly what I am looking for. Displaying all the results on some chart, graph, or 3d display still requires me to browse around to narrow my search.
I've used Knoppix on an old P200/128 ram and it worked fine. I eventually did a hdinstall of Knoppix so I would not need the CD anymore. My kids used it for months with no problems. I put Fedora on the same machine and it ran like a dog. I eventually went back to Knoppix.
I've also played around with Movix, Mandrake Move, and various other smaller live distros. I switched my $199 preinstalled Lindows machine from Walmart.com over to Mandrake based on my good experience with Move.
You mean like these? ;)
Virus Alert!!
ADW_RULEDOR.C is detected on C1-01D(jcarney) in XXXXX domain.
Infected file: D:\Program Files\STC\ClrSchP038.exe
Detection date: 2003.12.31 10:12:41
Action: Virus successfully detected, cannot perform the Clean action (Quarantine)
Trendmicro finds a lot of spyware but normally AFTER the fact. Better then nothing I guess.
--PERSONAL_RANT--
We get these messages all the time on our network. Funny, we have the computers themselves locked down pretty good but for some reason, they leave IE wide open. I've brought it up to our "MS does no wrong" decision makers but I guess this was not discussed in their MCSE courses so they ignore it. They also ignored my presentation about being so far behind in patches about 2 weeks before MS_Blaster was let loose also.
--END PERSONAL_RANT--
I don't take advice from a dude who uses "creamy texture" and "welcomed by the back of my throat" in the same sentence.
The Hynix purchase was not shot down by the Korean govt. In fact, they were pushing for it.
You are correct. Maybe Micron thought with government backing, it was worth the effort to attempt the merger.
They have a big hiring banner in front of the Manassas fab. I do not know anyone that works there any more but obviously something is still happening there.
I suggest the Xp Survival Guide from SANS.
Micron bought out Dominion Semiconductor, a joint Toshiba-IBM memory fab plant in Manassas, VA in early 2002. As time went on, production went down, work on a second process lab was all but halted and the plant effectively stopped production early in 2003 (I had a family member that worked there). In the same time frame, they also cut production in their main plant in Idaho. The goal at was to also buy or merge with cash strapped Hynix in Korea but that was shot down by the Korean government. I believe their goal was either to move production out of the US or to buy who they could and join forces with those they could not. In that time frame, memory prices were extremely low, companies were failing and Micron saw a chance to gobble up the competition. The gamble failed when the Hynix buy fell through. Interestingly enough, they applied for and have recieved government funds related to memory dumping.
They had a goal of getting memory prices to a certain level and could not do it with competitors.
PS.. Crucial is Micron
well, maybe the second or third by now
A study by Cornell University estimates that as much as 60k deer a year are killed in NY state alone per year by cars. Add in the other states multiplied by 20 years and it looks pretty staggering. Take into consideration the side effects of human loss and property damage along with that and it makes these bird incedents look like nothing. These people probably like the anti-turbine battle because shutting down the turbines would not directly effect them. Take their cars away so they don't hit a deer and see how many are left to fight for that.
No. MP3 encoders have to decide what to get rid of and what to keep based on your desired bitrate and settings. They use a psycho acoustic, frequency cutoff, and can join channels based on frequency range[1]. Each mp3 compressor has a different model it follows to achive the smaller file, some are percieved better then others.
[1]
Lower frequencies are harder for a person to determine the location of the source. This is the basis for home theaters with one subwoofer running in mono placed anywhere nearby. You do not really need a left and right subwoofer and placement is not as important from an imaging perspective (although placement can efffect the speakers frequency response). You can save space in compression of lower frequencies by combining certain lower frequencies from both channels into one center channel. The low frequency analysis is just a small portion of of the audio spectrum and for good compression, the ranges are treated differently for different reasons.
I have no opinion on using weight as the reference. My point was using gas consumption seems to makes more sense then mileage driven. The bottom line is the tax money collected is spent one way or another. If you think getting rid of a gasoline tax is going to put more money in your pocket, you are crazy. The tax on something else will go up to make up the difference. Money spent by a government has to equal money collected by the people no matter how you look at it. The only way you will ever pocket anything is if money spent goes down. Getting rid of a gas tax is not going to do that. That is why some states have a high income tax rate but a low sales tax but others have no sales tax, others have property tax on vehicles but a low property tax on your real property, some pay high registration fees but lower gas taxes, some pay a school tax and others pay a wage tax but some do not pay those or pay low property tax. You get my point? It all evens out in the end regardless of what you call the tax it.
Back to the gas tax..
You can in theory, get gas for non automotive use and not pay the tax in some areas. The problem is the price would not end up being much lower because regular gas stations make money in volume as they sell thousands of gallons, are streamlined for filling cars and have a lot of competetion. Opening up a corner store for filing lawn mowers would not be cost effective. I worked at a major hub airport on the east coast. We had a filing station on the airport for the airline support vehicles. The regular unleaded and diesel fuel was bought by the airline without the motor vehicle tax attached.
I know nothing about the history behind that effort but isn't that the purpose of a gasoline tax? The more you travel, the more gas you buy and therefore pay more taxes? That system leans harder on those that get less MPG but I also read a study referenced on /. many moons ago that showed as weight per axle of a vehicle increased, the damage it does to the asphalt goes up by a much larger factor. In fact, you could infer that same thing based an Oregon state study (Google cache)
With that in mind, a gas tax would seems like the best choice.
No one has actually bid on any of those. It's not technically a scam but there are better deals out there. When I buy, I use Cheapbytes.
you're setting yourself up for legal action if you're knowingly letting your customers do this
I think common carrier covers that.
Another point..
File sharing and P2P are not illegal. What people upload and download might be but the same thing applies to bittorrent, email, ftp, http, archie, gopher, irc, im, physically swapping media, writing down code on a piece of paper and many others. Are you gong to ban those too? What % of general use and illegel use would you become liable? (hint: your not).