Interesting. Time Warner Cable are a bunch of dickheads. Luckily, a $100 Yagi antenna and $30 of antenna cable give me a rock solid 10 Mbps connection up and down.
"Even cable TV"?? If that's your definition of civilzation, then you indeed, are a goddamned moron. Most people also have shitty jobs in cubicles, massive car payments, and eat fast food. Must be a good idea then, huh?
Honestly, the broadband sitution is not all that bad. You really can get broadband in nearly all semi-populated areas.
You sure can. Your options just to be able to BUY broadband (note: these are prerequisites) are to buy a largely useless land line from a telephone company or buy shitty cable TV service from the local cable cable. Thanks, but no thanks.
Is it in fact a governmental responsibility to bring it to everyone?
NO!I don't want it. I have no use for it. It poses no greater good, so I don't want my tax money going to pay for people to download porn and MP3's. No fucking way.
The point of this article is that a MAJOR vendor was shipping with Linux. Who the fuck is "Evesham"?? Besides, lots of little guys will sell a Linux box.
That's insanely expensive. Anybody paying more than $.50/gig is getting ripped off. And on top of that spammers deal with BULK bandwith, meaning that they can probably find it for $0.25/gig. Nobody (other than your company, apparently) pays $70K for a mere 180 gig/month throughput.
Wow. For all of the dick waving here threatening to take down their site, it still responds incredibly fast. Guess/.'ers are all talk. Sad, really. Either that or these spammers are *really* fucking good.
This is WAR. Spammers will stoop to any level to get their crap into people's mailboxes, and now the blacklists are giving into their guerilla tactics - I say keep fighting, eventually they will figure out where the attack is coming from, and shut the damn thing down. We must never give up fighting spam, at any cost.
It sounds like somebody hasn't been laid in a while (ever?)...
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
As a business, generally, I don't want to deal with a college kid. No offense, but I can't have my business riding on software that's written by a college kid for free, no matter how good it is. I want to buy from a business. I want a comprehensive package. These packages need to be created by companies who have market research departments that make the requirements, marketing people that tell potential customers about it, QA departments for testing, support departments for support, etc. Nobody can just up and write software for a business unless you know the business intimately. Can't be done. Heck, I still don't even know all of the features that I want/need. If a company can present me with software that has something in it I've never thought of that's going to make my time more valuable, that's great.
Actually, I was able to buy mine off the shelf, and it was a 15 minute install. Didn't require a consultant. Works like a champ. If I have to rely a consultant for something similar, that's bad.
Us business owners need BUSINESS applications. We don't need servers. We don't needs cutesy tools. We need some business apps. If someone wanted to sell me an OSS package, all ready to go, I'd look at it. As is, I'd have to cobble it together myself, and I just don't have the time. Software is just another tool, and nobody who's in business has time or money to dick around with software. If someone came to me and said, "we can set up your POS workstations for you at $1000 each, I'd be all over it. I don't want to have to hunt around for an OS, figure out how to configure the goddamned thing, then find some POS software, then figure out how to install it, configure it, compile it, whatever.
I'm not saying this guy didn't steal a tremendous amount of money, but I'm shocked he was able to perpetuate such an series of thefts. Isn't this the purpose of the eBay rating systems, etc.?
Are you fucking serious? A half-assed "system" on a half-assed anonymous internet auction website is supposed to prevent fraud? Jesus, do you still believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny? There is ZERO guarantee behind any of that eBay shit. ZERO. Zilch. Nada. You're giving money to someone you haven't ever met, for something you haven't ever seen, and you're trusting that this person is going to mail it to you. That is the stupidest fucking system I've ever heard of. I don't care what the "rating" system says. A 10 year old could figure out the fake ID and rate yourself workaround. Why in the hell are you shocked? I'm shocked that you're shocked.
One of the last repressive, dictatorial governments on the planet is using Linux. Yay. I hear that Osama Bin Laden uses Linux too, but I haven't seen a story there.
I think that both of those desks look iGaytm. Talk about consumerism at it's worst. Ugh. Everybody who owns a Mac should be forced to watch Fight Club.
Further, under the GPL, you do not give up any legal rights. You obtain additional rights; and that could be considered "consideration" all on its own. They are not as far-reaching as rights given under other licenses, but they are still in addition to those provided by law--without the GPL, you do not have the right to reproduce that copyrighted work.
No, that is the exact opposite of consideration. The person using a GPL'ed piece of software "pays" exactly $0 for it, and offers nothing in return for use of the software. No consideration. No contract. That's contract law 101.
Somewhere down the road you can probably upgrade the CPU, also. There are CPU upgrades available for every single other Mac ever made, so it's quite likely that when the time comes that the original X-Serve CPU can't keep up, an upgrade will be available.
You sure can. As long as the one and only hardware supplier is still supplying them, and you're willing to pay their price.
No, the GPL is NOT a contract. In order for a contract to be a contract, there must be some kind of consideration (ie: payment). There is no payment or consideration of any kind under the GPL. Thus, the GPL is NOT a contract.
No, Friendster won't become "just another dating site". Friendster, at least in communities of 20 & 30-something hipsters, is changing the way people meet. Friendster is revolutionary, and it's not all about dating. I see it as a growing replacement for the bar scene. It's amazing the people you meet through friends for all kinds of activites. Sure, dating is part of it, but I'd guess a smaller part then ordinary people just looking meeting other ordinary people.
If I go and buy a share or two of SCOX from one of the many rats fleeing their sinking ship, could I claim that my Linux installs would then be non-infringing since I would be a part owner of the company which "owns" the IP my 2.4.x kernel is supposedly copied from?
Yes, and if you buy a single share of McDonald's stock, you'll never have to buy food again because you're an owner of the company. By the way, I have this bridge for sale...
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Interesting. Time Warner Cable are a bunch of dickheads. Luckily, a $100 Yagi antenna and $30 of antenna cable give me a rock solid 10 Mbps connection up and down.
Same goes for all social programs, like welfare and taxes to fund the military.
I couldn't agree more.
"Even cable TV"?? If that's your definition of civilzation, then you indeed, are a goddamned moron. Most people also have shitty jobs in cubicles, massive car payments, and eat fast food. Must be a good idea then, huh?
Jackass.
Honestly, the broadband sitution is not all that bad. You really can get broadband in nearly all semi-populated areas.
You sure can. Your options just to be able to BUY broadband (note: these are prerequisites) are to buy a largely useless land line from a telephone company or buy shitty cable TV service from the local cable cable. Thanks, but no thanks.
I use Sprint PCS. So do my family and my friends. Apparently, everybody uses Sprint PCS.
Is it in fact a governmental responsibility to bring it to everyone?
NO!I don't want it. I have no use for it. It poses no greater good, so I don't want my tax money going to pay for people to download porn and MP3's. No fucking way.
Last I checked, only a small % of US users have broadband. Without even a modem to get started, most people are dead in the water with this box.
The point of this article is that a MAJOR vendor was shipping with Linux. Who the fuck is "Evesham"?? Besides, lots of little guys will sell a Linux box.
That's insanely expensive. Anybody paying more than $.50/gig is getting ripped off. And on top of that spammers deal with BULK bandwith, meaning that they can probably find it for $0.25/gig. Nobody (other than your company, apparently) pays $70K for a mere 180 gig /month throughput.
Wow. For all of the dick waving here threatening to take down their site, it still responds incredibly fast. Guess /.'ers are all talk. Sad, really. Either that or these spammers are *really* fucking good.
This is WAR. Spammers will stoop to any level to get their crap into people's mailboxes, and now the blacklists are giving into their guerilla tactics - I say keep fighting, eventually they will figure out where the attack is coming from, and shut the damn thing down. We must never give up fighting spam, at any cost.
It sounds like somebody hasn't been laid in a while (ever?)...
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
You sure xgates.biz is the right URL...?
As a business, generally, I don't want to deal with a college kid. No offense, but I can't have my business riding on software that's written by a college kid for free, no matter how good it is. I want to buy from a business. I want a comprehensive package. These packages need to be created by companies who have market research departments that make the requirements, marketing people that tell potential customers about it, QA departments for testing, support departments for support, etc. Nobody can just up and write software for a business unless you know the business intimately. Can't be done. Heck, I still don't even know all of the features that I want/need. If a company can present me with software that has something in it I've never thought of that's going to make my time more valuable, that's great.
Actually, I was able to buy mine off the shelf, and it was a 15 minute install. Didn't require a consultant. Works like a champ. If I have to rely a consultant for something similar, that's bad.
Us business owners need BUSINESS applications. We don't need servers. We don't needs cutesy tools. We need some business apps. If someone wanted to sell me an OSS package, all ready to go, I'd look at it. As is, I'd have to cobble it together myself, and I just don't have the time. Software is just another tool, and nobody who's in business has time or money to dick around with software. If someone came to me and said, "we can set up your POS workstations for you at $1000 each, I'd be all over it. I don't want to have to hunt around for an OS, figure out how to configure the goddamned thing, then find some POS software, then figure out how to install it, configure it, compile it, whatever.
I meant it in the most juvenile way. Not literally "gay". Most gay men I know have better taste than to buy anything from Apple.
I'm not saying this guy didn't steal a tremendous amount of money, but I'm shocked he was able to perpetuate such an series of thefts. Isn't this the purpose of the eBay rating systems, etc.?
Are you fucking serious? A half-assed "system" on a half-assed anonymous internet auction website is supposed to prevent fraud? Jesus, do you still believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny? There is ZERO guarantee behind any of that eBay shit. ZERO. Zilch. Nada. You're giving money to someone you haven't ever met, for something you haven't ever seen, and you're trusting that this person is going to mail it to you. That is the stupidest fucking system I've ever heard of. I don't care what the "rating" system says. A 10 year old could figure out the fake ID and rate yourself workaround. Why in the hell are you shocked? I'm shocked that you're shocked.
One of the last repressive, dictatorial governments on the planet is using Linux. Yay. I hear that Osama Bin Laden uses Linux too, but I haven't seen a story there.
I think that both of those desks look iGaytm. Talk about consumerism at it's worst. Ugh. Everybody who owns a Mac should be forced to watch Fight Club.
Further, under the GPL, you do not give up any legal rights. You obtain additional rights; and that could be considered "consideration" all on its own. They are not as far-reaching as rights given under other licenses, but they are still in addition to those provided by law--without the GPL, you do not have the right to reproduce that copyrighted work.
No, that is the exact opposite of consideration. The person using a GPL'ed piece of software "pays" exactly $0 for it, and offers nothing in return for use of the software. No consideration. No contract. That's contract law 101.
Somewhere down the road you can probably upgrade the CPU, also. There are CPU upgrades available for every single other Mac ever made, so it's quite likely that when the time comes that the original X-Serve CPU can't keep up, an upgrade will be available.
You sure can. As long as the one and only hardware supplier is still supplying them, and you're willing to pay their price.
No, the GPL is NOT a contract. In order for a contract to be a contract, there must be some kind of consideration (ie: payment). There is no payment or consideration of any kind under the GPL. Thus, the GPL is NOT a contract.
No, Friendster won't become "just another dating site". Friendster, at least in communities of 20 & 30-something hipsters, is changing the way people meet. Friendster is revolutionary, and it's not all about dating. I see it as a growing replacement for the bar scene. It's amazing the people you meet through friends for all kinds of activites. Sure, dating is part of it, but I'd guess a smaller part then ordinary people just looking meeting other ordinary people.
If I go and buy a share or two of SCOX from one of the many rats fleeing their sinking ship, could I claim that my Linux installs would then be non-infringing since I would be a part owner of the company which "owns" the IP my 2.4.x kernel is supposedly copied from?
Yes, and if you buy a single share of McDonald's stock, you'll never have to buy food again because you're an owner of the company. By the way, I have this bridge for sale...