Many of the day-to-day calculations we use in our craft brewery are simple Perl scripts run on FreeBSD. Who needs more? The real work is done with a pencil and a calculator anyway!;-)
"Some 3rd party vendors have spent quite a bit of time and money catering to CIOs freaked out about Macs appearing on their networks and have created or ported AV apps to the Mac, but no-one is buying these apps at all. We promised them we'd at least suggest to people that they buy AV software, just to keep them happy."
"I'm certainly not going to be a happy camper if I have to switch to a Mac or Linux system full-time, yet that is exactly where this scatterbrained company seems to be sending me."
Why would that be so bad? As someone who uses all 3 operating systems daily (XP, not Vista), this new iMac way outshines the rest. What a dork. If MS is that bad than stop using it.
If I understand the process correctly, in most cases credit card companies do not have information on individual cardholders and only see the card numbers - the issuing banks are the ones that maintain the meta data. I think, based on that premise (which is correct for at least one CC company), this article may be wrong. Speculation piled upon speculation, though.
"The Magistrate Judge declined to rule on the issue (pdf), but did give them the ex parte discovery order they were looking for."
One thing the article doesn't mention is that this is actually a good decision by the Magistrate Judge. I'm not a lawyer, but from a friend who is:
"...The RIAA also tried to get the Court to issue a ruling saying that 47 USC 551(c) did not apply to internet providers. That statute says a cable operator shall not disclose personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber. The Court declined to decide, likely because it wants to wait to see if Qwest will fight it, and that way have lawyers arguing both sides, instead of just the RIAA's lawyers.
They are not "above the law", and the Court issued the order in a way that actually allows the battle to be joined fairly--should Qwest so choose. And I'll bet they will."
The bill targets "bloggers" that are "retained by 1 or more clients to engage in paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying on behalf of such clients" and that take in at least $25,000 per quarter
In other words, it doesn't cover bloggers in any true sense of that word as most of us understand it - it covers people masquerading as "grass-roots" bloggers, but who are actually bought and paid for shills making at least $100,000 a year for online "lobbying" efforts.
Compare and contrast the number of NWN games sold to the number of NWN2 games sold, in the future. Should be a great way to see if cross-porting "pays off".
RealNetworks - it's like that dandelion on your front lawn that just won't go away and keeps coming back, year after year. Note that I couldn't care one way or another about DRM.
"Until the world learns to work together and not distrust each other I would much rather have my country be at the leading edge of military technology then some other country be the leader."
Until the nations currently at the top of the pecking order stop preparing for war and start working for an absence thereof, the world will not learn to work together. The have-nots aren't going to lead us to peace. Unless the US (and its fellow belligerents) get the ball rolling, we're going nowhere. Hence my reasoning.
As a fellow space enthusiast, and one who agrees with several threads extant here that NASA is creaking under the weight of it's on beaurocracy and nearing the void, I'd prefer the Military didn't take us any farther into space, but that a few transnational groups worked together (on both the economics and technology) to get us there. Maybe that way we can leave our childish bickering here on the Earth. Let the Military take us into space, and they bring it all with them.
Note that I'm not against the Military at all in a terrestrial sense (beyond the fact that it's a sign that we can't get our sh*t together as a society), I just don't want them leading us into space, as if it were some nationalistic race.
Actually, I rather like the capitalist society we live in, even if it's sometimes rather broken. History has shown us that continually ramping up for war in new venues only leads us to war in those venues, and then we begin to ramp up to war in even newer venues (the moon? interplanetary space?). I for one think we should break the cycle and do better here on the ground - it's that myopic sort of reactionism (as stated so eloquently above) that keeps homo sapiens squabbling over gods and land, as now. If we need to we can hit a comms satelite from the ground.
While I agree with (and knew beforehand) all the strees points you mention above, this is not the answer.
Actually, this used to be a valid argument. However, browser-based network apps and/or excellent cross-platform technologies like Qt have rendered it less relevant. Note that I didn't say it was rendered "irrelevant".
*or* I'm just asking an honest question. I provided no opinion at all. What a novel idea! Thank you for acting as a self-described "ignorant son of a bitch" and not answering my question, though the demagogue act you provided was highly gratifying.
"One can argue monopoly or whatever all day- but the fact is, MS is dominant in the market. There must be some legitimate reason for it..."
Sure - Extreme Marketing 101, coupled with a lack of scruples, and a general trend in the mid-90s to think cheaper is better. MS brought the financial price of rolling out desktops in an enterprise down, but the externalities have been awful, mostly due to poor design in their OpSys. Sell it on features, not on integrity.
Not all of us think that "dumbing down" computers for the common office worker was a good idea. It hasn't "enabled" society to do anything more than give PC companies and MS their money.
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" I am concerned that, if I do not abolish these annoying tendencies, I may have trouble later on in life"
No reason to worry. Life will abolish them for you.
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Many of the day-to-day calculations we use in our craft brewery are simple Perl scripts run on FreeBSD. Who needs more? The real work is done with a pencil and a calculator anyway! ;-)
... let me know.
"Some 3rd party vendors have spent quite a bit of time and money catering to CIOs freaked out about Macs appearing on their networks and have created or ported AV apps to the Mac, but no-one is buying these apps at all. We promised them we'd at least suggest to people that they buy AV software, just to keep them happy."
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Not at all - if anything I'm a KDE fan. However, as an entire hardware/software package, nothing on the market comes close to an iMac or MacBook.
"I'm certainly not going to be a happy camper if I have to switch to a Mac or Linux system full-time, yet that is exactly where this scatterbrained company seems to be sending me."
Why would that be so bad? As someone who uses all 3 operating systems daily (XP, not Vista), this new iMac way outshines the rest. What a dork. If MS is that bad than stop using it.
If I understand the process correctly, in most cases credit card companies do not have information on individual cardholders and only see the card numbers - the issuing banks are the ones that maintain the meta data. I think, based on that premise (which is correct for at least one CC company), this article may be wrong. Speculation piled upon speculation, though.
"The Magistrate Judge declined to rule on the issue (pdf), but did give them the ex parte discovery order they were looking for."
One thing the article doesn't mention is that this is actually a good decision by the Magistrate Judge. I'm not a lawyer, but from a friend who is:
"...The RIAA also tried to get the Court to issue a ruling saying that 47 USC 551(c) did not apply to internet providers. That statute says a cable operator shall not disclose personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber. The Court declined to decide, likely because it wants to wait to see if Qwest will fight it, and that way have lawyers arguing both sides, instead of just the RIAA's lawyers.
They are not "above the law", and the Court issued the order in a way that actually allows the battle to be joined fairly--should Qwest so choose. And I'll bet they will."
Just to clarify. I think.
"city-of-R'lyeh"
heh. That would fix things on the planet's surface fairly quickly, if we could wake the old bugger up....
The bill targets "bloggers" that are "retained by 1 or more clients to engage in paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying on behalf of such clients" and that take in at least $25,000 per quarter
In other words, it doesn't cover bloggers in any true sense of that word as most of us understand it - it covers people masquerading as "grass-roots" bloggers, but who are actually bought and paid for shills making at least $100,000 a year for online "lobbying" efforts.
Compare and contrast the number of NWN games sold to the number of NWN2 games sold, in the future. Should be a great way to see if cross-porting "pays off".
hehe. True enough, I suppose.
Morons. Guess they didn't learn from the Star Wars debacle. Never, ever, ever fool around with the originals.
RealNetworks - it's like that dandelion on your front lawn that just won't go away and keeps coming back, year after year. Note that I couldn't care one way or another about DRM.
All the comments about massive profit margins aside, what's the video format?
Cool! I couldn't find it. Not that I'd buy a PC anyways (build my own) but that's good news.
Have you tried going to dell.com and ordering one of these desktop machines, preloaded with (say) Red Hat?
"Until the world learns to work together and not distrust each other I would much rather have my country be at the leading edge of military technology then some other country be the leader."
Until the nations currently at the top of the pecking order stop preparing for war and start working for an absence thereof, the world will not learn to work together. The have-nots aren't going to lead us to peace. Unless the US (and its fellow belligerents) get the ball rolling, we're going nowhere. Hence my reasoning.
As a fellow space enthusiast, and one who agrees with several threads extant here that NASA is creaking under the weight of it's on beaurocracy and nearing the void, I'd prefer the Military didn't take us any farther into space, but that a few transnational groups worked together (on both the economics and technology) to get us there. Maybe that way we can leave our childish bickering here on the Earth. Let the Military take us into space, and they bring it all with them.
Note that I'm not against the Military at all in a terrestrial sense (beyond the fact that it's a sign that we can't get our sh*t together as a society), I just don't want them leading us into space, as if it were some nationalistic race.
Actually, I rather like the capitalist society we live in, even if it's sometimes rather broken. History has shown us that continually ramping up for war in new venues only leads us to war in those venues, and then we begin to ramp up to war in even newer venues (the moon? interplanetary space?). I for one think we should break the cycle and do better here on the ground - it's that myopic sort of reactionism (as stated so eloquently above) that keeps homo sapiens squabbling over gods and land, as now. If we need to we can hit a comms satelite from the ground.
While I agree with (and knew beforehand) all the strees points you mention above, this is not the answer.
Space weapons have nothing to do with security and everything to do with generating a fresh revenue stream for the military/industrial complex.
Actually, this used to be a valid argument. However, browser-based network apps and/or excellent cross-platform technologies like Qt have rendered it less relevant. Note that I didn't say it was rendered "irrelevant".
*or* I'm just asking an honest question. I provided no opinion at all. What a novel idea! Thank you for acting as a self-described "ignorant son of a bitch" and not answering my question, though the demagogue act you provided was highly gratifying.
"One can argue monopoly or whatever all day- but the fact is, MS is dominant in the market. There must be some legitimate reason for it..."
Sure - Extreme Marketing 101, coupled with a lack of scruples, and a general trend in the mid-90s to think cheaper is better. MS brought the financial price of rolling out desktops in an enterprise down, but the externalities have been awful, mostly due to poor design in their OpSys. Sell it on features, not on integrity.
Not all of us think that "dumbing down" computers for the common office worker was a good idea. It hasn't "enabled" society to do anything more than give PC companies and MS their money.
Really? Like what?