No, the market is supposed to be judge, jury and executioner. Unfortunately, the market doesn't work very well if one party holds the power to suppress information about its product.
Health of the stock is also a factor in financing rates (loans, corporate bonds, etc).
No. Just, no.
Banks and other financiers look at cash flow, assets vs. liabilities, and market prospects when deciding on the rates for a bond. Not stock price, unless stock is used as collateral for the bond (as in a convertible).
And note that a loan is very rarely declined. The borrower may not like the rates, and the market may end up with a worthless junk bond if the company crashes, but very few banks decline to underwrite a public bond. Private loans are a different matter, but stock price still isn't a deciding factor.
Now go ask the sex workers in the Netherlands if that's what happening with them.
Well, that's easy. Their opinion is out on the net. As you can read from the English summary, even the prostitutes' more-or-less official trade union states that there is still plenty of exploitation going on in their trade.
Your point 3 is moving the goalposts, which is why I didn't address it. You avoided my point, that software is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Given that you try to misstate my original statement, try to place a false dilemma in front of me, move the goalposts, and do all this anonymously, makes it quite clear you're just trolling. So you can just fuck off, I have no intention of trying to discuss things with deliberately dishonest anonymous fuckwits.
And learn the definition of ad hominem. An insult isn't one.
Again, you seem to miss the point. There are plenty of reasons to write programs that are not meant as an item for sale. You are either deliberately misstating my argument by invoking 'hobby programmers', or you are plain fucking stupid.
Software is not a goal in itself. Software is a tool used to get a job done.
Meditate on this, and you may start to understand. If the software I write solves my problem, I have made my profit. What do I lose if I share it with you? Will my problem return? Hardly.
I get paid, not for my software, but for solving problems.
Active Directory is nothing but Kerberos+LDAP, with some quirks to accomodate legacy NT domains and a lousy, ill thought out schema. I can easily implement that using nothing but standard tools on Linux.
Sure, it may not have a pointy-clicky GUI for the MCSE Neanderthals, but it will work to hold network information and authenticate users across the network just as well as AD.
And comparing Microsofts thrown together system with the elegance of NDS is even more ludicrous. Remember that Novell was doing directories when MS was still merely doing NT domains.
Naah, it's the Unix(tm) greybeards who finally have something that is newer than 1991, so that they can now look down upon Linux as both Not Real Unix(tm) and technologically inferior.
If the original distribution was under 3a (source with the binaries), then if the original recipient redistributes, they become liable to provide the source (because they received it in the first place), not the original distributor.
Now, if the original distribution was under 3b (a written offer for the source), then the 'any third party' rule kicks in, as that is in 3b.
How about Panasonic? Their ToughBook line seems to fit almost all your requirements. Performance is a bit on the low side if you look at the specs, but in actual practice the use of well-tested chipsets and decent design make up for a lot. My little second-hand CF-18, with its ICH4 ATA controller and 5400 RPM Hitachi disk, blows away my work-supplied Dell with Intel SATA and a nominally faster disk. It runs compiz fast and fluid on a 900Mhz PIIIM and Intel 865 GMA, while the Dell, with a Core2 and two generations improvement in its Intel GMA chipset, struggles with the visual effects.
And when I broke off a few keycaps, Panasonic just sent me a form to order new parts, no whining about support, just a price list with decent prices (EUR 25 for a new keyboard), and I got that a full working day after my first enquiry.
I'd mention the generally lower resolutions on the Panasonic LCD screens, but you're coming from IBM/Lenovo, which also runs two tiers below the competition resolution-wise, so I gather that will not be much of a problem.
The 25-50% price premium for a fully-rugged ToughBook is a bit of a turn-off. You could, however, go for one of the 'executive' (semi-rugged) models, which are about as rugged as a ThinkPad, and about as expensive.
Third on the E61i. I got mine as a replacement for my 9500 Communicator, which was my third and last Communicator, because I got sick and tired of Nokia's rotten design on the Communicator line (bad hinges, very vulnerable to shocks, noticable wear after only a few months). I really, really like the E61i though. It's form factor is great, the screen is just right in terms of size versus resolution, and the machine just feels indestructible. At least the plastic for the screen is actually scratch-resistant: I've been putting the device in my back pocket for six months now, with no special precautions, and there's still zero scratches on it.
Now, if only helmet manufacturers were as good as their word as Nokia when it comes to scratch resistance...
You didn't answer the question, now did you? Could it be because you are just plain lying? Naaaah...
I give up. Nothing is going to get you to do anything but repeat the assertions of Microsoft PR, so why bother? It is obvious you know nothing of the internals of the Vista media architecture, otherwise you could have given a straight answer instead of evasive bullshit.
Ok, let's ask it concrete: how do I play HD-Audio and HD-Video over HDMI without involving the PVP-OPM and PUMA modules? Answer: I can't. Period. Even if the audio and video are unprotected content, I have to pass the Media Gateway Interface.
As mini_me says, the reboot is probably due to the need to relink the libraries. On Unix, if you delete or replace a library, the inodes will not be freed until all applications using it have closed the file. It could be solved by just restarting all executables linking to the various WebKit libraries, but Apple being Apple ("You don't have to know anything about that!") they chose the easy route to do that: a reboot.
Yes, it's stupid, but it's part and parcel of the design decisions that go into Apple's software. Heck, they could even write a program that detects all open instances of WebKit libraries and offer to restart all executables that use them, but rebooting is easier!.
Habit? If I post even the simple query 'anti islam' I get plenty of anti-Islamic videos, including the much-hoopla'd Fitna by Geert Wilders. I think it is pretty obvious that removing a single video does not a habit make.
Then again, the right wing persecution complex can make a mountain out of a flyspeck, so why do I even care to answer?
Any media still goes through the new driver infrastructure, and since all drivers for Vista must implement policy controls, I ask you again: how do I play unprotected content on Vista without clearing it with the kernel first?
You do realise that you are blatantly contradicting Microsoft's own whitepaper on the subject and basic computer science, aren't you?
Ah, now you're pressed on the actual addictiveness of nicotine, now you are suddenly making very clear distinctions in addiction and habituation. But if a smoker says he's not addicted, you sneer and jeer. You're a fucking weasel, you know that?
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No, the market is supposed to be judge, jury and executioner. Unfortunately, the market doesn't work very well if one party holds the power to suppress information about its product.
Something 'libertarians' would do well to ponder.
Mart
No. Just, no.
Banks and other financiers look at cash flow, assets vs. liabilities, and market prospects when deciding on the rates for a bond. Not stock price, unless stock is used as collateral for the bond (as in a convertible).
And note that a loan is very rarely declined. The borrower may not like the rates, and the market may end up with a worthless junk bond if the company crashes, but very few banks decline to underwrite a public bond. Private loans are a different matter, but stock price still isn't a deciding factor.
Mart
Well, that's easy. Their opinion is out on the net. As you can read from the English summary, even the prostitutes' more-or-less official trade union states that there is still plenty of exploitation going on in their trade.
Mart
Your point 3 is moving the goalposts, which is why I didn't address it. You avoided my point, that software is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Given that you try to misstate my original statement, try to place a false dilemma in front of me, move the goalposts, and do all this anonymously, makes it quite clear you're just trolling. So you can just fuck off, I have no intention of trying to discuss things with deliberately dishonest anonymous fuckwits.
And learn the definition of ad hominem. An insult isn't one.
Mart
Again, you seem to miss the point. There are plenty of reasons to write programs that are not meant as an item for sale. You are either deliberately misstating my argument by invoking 'hobby programmers', or you are plain fucking stupid.
Your answers depend on the assumption that software is produced by professional programmers who want to sell the software.
Mart
Software is not a goal in itself. Software is a tool used to get a job done.
Meditate on this, and you may start to understand. If the software I write solves my problem, I have made my profit. What do I lose if I share it with you? Will my problem return? Hardly.
I get paid, not for my software, but for solving problems.
Mart
Bullshit.
Active Directory is nothing but Kerberos+LDAP, with some quirks to accomodate legacy NT domains and a lousy, ill thought out schema. I can easily implement that using nothing but standard tools on Linux.
Sure, it may not have a pointy-clicky GUI for the MCSE Neanderthals, but it will work to hold network information and authenticate users across the network just as well as AD.
And comparing Microsofts thrown together system with the elegance of NDS is even more ludicrous. Remember that Novell was doing directories when MS was still merely doing NT domains.
Mart
You'd solve more problems by taking all MBAs and offer them a smoke.
In front of a wall.
Facing a firing squad.
MartNaah, it's the Unix(tm) greybeards who finally have something that is newer than 1991, so that they can now look down upon Linux as both Not Real Unix(tm) and technologically inferior.
MartIt is in fact a completely appropriate comeback. The IBM PC was not an 8-bit micro, it was meant to supplant the 8-bit business market.
Then again, you guys in Redmond have a version of history that is uniquely your own. Too bad all your money won't make it true.
MartNo.
Lotus, Borland, Ashton-Tate and Wordperfect were the catalysts. Microsoft grew on their coattails.
MartDigital Research never existed.
These are not the facts you are looking for.Really, you Microdroids really don't know about anything that happened outside your smug little campus, now do you?
MartToo bad IBM was not interested in the world of the 8-bit microcomputer.
MartNo, not any third party.
If the original distribution was under 3a (source with the binaries), then if the original recipient redistributes, they become liable to provide the source (because they received it in the first place), not the original distributor.
Now, if the original distribution was under 3b (a written offer for the source), then the 'any third party' rule kicks in, as that is in 3b.
MartHow about Panasonic? Their ToughBook line seems to fit almost all your requirements. Performance is a bit on the low side if you look at the specs, but in actual practice the use of well-tested chipsets and decent design make up for a lot. My little second-hand CF-18, with its ICH4 ATA controller and 5400 RPM Hitachi disk, blows away my work-supplied Dell with Intel SATA and a nominally faster disk. It runs compiz fast and fluid on a 900Mhz PIIIM and Intel 865 GMA, while the Dell, with a Core2 and two generations improvement in its Intel GMA chipset, struggles with the visual effects.
And when I broke off a few keycaps, Panasonic just sent me a form to order new parts, no whining about support, just a price list with decent prices (EUR 25 for a new keyboard), and I got that a full working day after my first enquiry.
I'd mention the generally lower resolutions on the Panasonic LCD screens, but you're coming from IBM/Lenovo, which also runs two tiers below the competition resolution-wise, so I gather that will not be much of a problem.
The 25-50% price premium for a fully-rugged ToughBook is a bit of a turn-off. You could, however, go for one of the 'executive' (semi-rugged) models, which are about as rugged as a ThinkPad, and about as expensive.
MartODF may have been rushed, but it was not fast-tracked. That is the crucial difference.
MartThird on the E61i. I got mine as a replacement for my 9500 Communicator, which was my third and last Communicator, because I got sick and tired of Nokia's rotten design on the Communicator line (bad hinges, very vulnerable to shocks, noticable wear after only a few months). I really, really like the E61i though. It's form factor is great, the screen is just right in terms of size versus resolution, and the machine just feels indestructible. At least the plastic for the screen is actually scratch-resistant: I've been putting the device in my back pocket for six months now, with no special precautions, and there's still zero scratches on it.
Now, if only helmet manufacturers were as good as their word as Nokia when it comes to scratch resistance...
MartYou didn't answer the question, now did you? Could it be because you are just plain lying? Naaaah...
I give up. Nothing is going to get you to do anything but repeat the assertions of Microsoft PR, so why bother? It is obvious you know nothing of the internals of the Vista media architecture, otherwise you could have given a straight answer instead of evasive bullshit.
MartOk, let's ask it concrete: how do I play HD-Audio and HD-Video over HDMI without involving the PVP-OPM and PUMA modules? Answer: I can't. Period. Even if the audio and video are unprotected content, I have to pass the Media Gateway Interface.
MartAs mini_me says, the reboot is probably due to the need to relink the libraries. On Unix, if you delete or replace a library, the inodes will not be freed until all applications using it have closed the file. It could be solved by just restarting all executables linking to the various WebKit libraries, but Apple being Apple ("You don't have to know anything about that!") they chose the easy route to do that: a reboot.
Yes, it's stupid, but it's part and parcel of the design decisions that go into Apple's software. Heck, they could even write a program that detects all open instances of WebKit libraries and offer to restart all executables that use them, but rebooting is easier!.
MartProof please?
MartHabit? If I post even the simple query 'anti islam' I get plenty of anti-Islamic videos, including the much-hoopla'd Fitna by Geert Wilders. I think it is pretty obvious that removing a single video does not a habit make.
Then again, the right wing persecution complex can make a mountain out of a flyspeck, so why do I even care to answer?
MartAny media still goes through the new driver infrastructure, and since all drivers for Vista must implement policy controls, I ask you again: how do I play unprotected content on Vista without clearing it with the kernel first?
You do realise that you are blatantly contradicting Microsoft's own whitepaper on the subject and basic computer science, aren't you?
MartAh, now you're pressed on the actual addictiveness of nicotine, now you are suddenly making very clear distinctions in addiction and habituation. But if a smoker says he's not addicted, you sneer and jeer. You're a fucking weasel, you know that?
Mart