Just wondering: Is there a real example of overproducing goods to bring unit cost down, then destroying the produced goods to correct for the lesser demand?
I believe there's a clause in the XP Pro license which states that if you don't want to run XP, you can run Windows 2000 Pro instead. Not sure about the Home Edition, or whether that clause is found throughout the various Microsoft licensing mechanisms.
At work we buy HPs that come with the XP COA stuck on top. I'm pretty sure that means they are legit. Anyway, we ghost these with an image with all our standard software and drop ship them wherever they're going. For some reason they all started failing the Genuine check months ago, and now it's just going to get more annoying.
I understand Microsoft's goal here, but there really needs to be a way to just type in the Product Key on that COA affixed to the chassis and have Microsoft stop bugging the users. To the best of my knowledge, there's really no way to do that.
I should mention that the computers are completely unmanaged, users have local admin rights, we don't even join a domain or change the SID, and that I was right those years ago when I said it was a stupid idea to go from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
[Rumsfeld] wants to transform the Army more than anything else, and when you evaluate his activities 100% through an Iraq lens, you aren't getting the whole picture.
What lens would you have us look through? I see 140,000 troops in Iraq. If that doesn't intrude upon Rumsfeld's "big picture," well, I guess that goes a long way towards explaining why the situation is such a fucking mess in the first place.
I strongly believe that the true case for war was to keep the petrodollar in power. I also believe that almost every war and military action we've been involved in since 1913 has been primarily for control of the global currency base, not for oil or trade or communism or any of the usual suspects..
I was just thinking about this last night, how many redesigns of the dollar (okay, the $20 and up) have we seen in the past decade? Five I think. Why so many changes? It certainly seems noteworthy (no pun intended) in contrast to the past half century of basically the same design in circulation.
I wonder if the war that is being fought is very different from the war that is in the news.
The notion that the Challenger disaster was some sort of unforseen and unavoidable "tragedy" is infuriating. (See Also: Hurricane Katrina repsonse.)
The whole mission was a PR stunt so Christa McAuliffe could call Ronald Reagan in the State Of The Union address. Unforunately the weather was not cooperating; they had been forced to postponed the launch for the bad weather, any more delays and they'd miss their window of opportunity.
After the loss of the shuttle, there was no State Of The Union address in 1986.
The loss of the Challenger was not just a tragedy. These were not brave explorers who died in some unforseen, unfortunate accident. These were brave explorers sent to their deaths by crass politicans only interested in self-aggrandizement, ice on the launch pad be damned!
Completely off-topic: I think I may have asked you this before MightyMartin, but I'm just curious: You've got phrases like "which is eye the biomass of this planet," the third word is eye spelled E-Y-E, where clearly you mean why spelled W-H-Y.
It seems practically impossible for that and other pseudo-homonyms in your writing to be typos. I suppose you're using speech-to-text software?
I wonder if it's really appropriate to make TCO guesstimates from a study which essentialy asks the question "Which OS has nicer installers?"
From the study:
We conducted an experiment pitting Windows 2000 Server against SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, simulating [a] one year period...At the end of the period, both systems are then transitioned to the more recent versions of their respective operating systems, Windows Server 2003 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
What I find lacking is the business case for upgrading the OS. And why on earth would any enterprise with even the tiniest amount of foresight and planning deploy Windows 2000/SuSE 8 knowing they will upgrade to the next gen just one year later? (Not that there aren't plenty of enterprises who fit your model, not to mention IT workers seeking to "power level" their skills...)
Now, certainly there is value in trouble-free installs. But can you say with confidence a better upgrade experience is really a fair test of value? Especially when the entire install/patch/upgrade philosophy between Windows and Linux is so disparate?
In other words: It's no surprise that Windows will perform better on the treadmill, constantly upgrading is at the very core of Microsoft's profitability. --
Hmm, interesting. I guess one of the things I've never understood regarding religion is how it's anything other than purely subjective -- one man's dogma is another man's heresy. How can you say it's "bad Christian religion?" Perhaps it's not up to snuff when viewed against the legacy of Thomas Aquinas or the church's persecution and subsequent acceptance of Galilieo, but it's very much alive and kicking in the evangelical tradition of the Bible Belt -- which extends as far north as Dover, PA, it turns out.
Wow, nice "proof." I suggest you never try go travel anywhere, or you'll find yourself halfway there, then halfway of the distance remaining, then halfay of the distance remaining...
"How many angles can dance on the head of a pin?" is not a scientific inquiry. (Unless you've actually got angels, a pin, and a pretty good microscope.)
The only "ideology" I see is your ludicrous statement "[The right to abortion] IS an ideological issue, especially since the law was illegally created by the Supreme Court and not the representative branch of the US government."
The Supreme Court didn't create any law. They reviewed a law and found it was at odds with the Constitution and the greater body of law governing this nation.
Now, if you want to take issue with the entire concept of Judicial Review, then you might have an argument. Unfortunately you're 200 years too late.
The problem is not the content of the philosophy of Intelligent Design. The problem is including that content in the science curriculum. It has nothing to do with science; it's proper place is in Comparative Religion, Philosophy, heck maybe even an English class.
The reason this is in the courts is because religious zealots are trying to inject their I.D. doctrine into the public school system under the aegis of "science" -- which it ain't. It's an end run against the seperation of church and state.
I don't know the origins of the Intelligent Design theory, but in it's current manifestation the raison d'etre is to get camel's nose under the tent.
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With RAM pricing swooping up and down almost as often as Oil does
The price of oil goes DOWN?
Don't think that will be happening any more.
Just wondering: Is there a real example of overproducing goods to bring unit cost down, then destroying the produced goods to correct for the lesser demand?
I believe there's a clause in the XP Pro license which states that if you don't want to run XP, you can run Windows 2000 Pro instead. Not sure about the Home Edition, or whether that clause is found throughout the various Microsoft licensing mechanisms.
At work we buy HPs that come with the XP COA stuck on top. I'm pretty sure that means they are legit. Anyway, we ghost these with an image with all our standard software and drop ship them wherever they're going. For some reason they all started failing the Genuine check months ago, and now it's just going to get more annoying.
I understand Microsoft's goal here, but there really needs to be a way to just type in the Product Key on that COA affixed to the chassis and have Microsoft stop bugging the users. To the best of my knowledge, there's really no way to do that.
I should mention that the computers are completely unmanaged, users have local admin rights, we don't even join a domain or change the SID, and that I was right those years ago when I said it was a stupid idea to go from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
[Rumsfeld] wants to transform the Army more than anything else, and when you evaluate his activities 100% through an Iraq lens, you aren't getting the whole picture.
What lens would you have us look through? I see 140,000 troops in Iraq. If that doesn't intrude upon Rumsfeld's "big picture," well, I guess that goes a long way towards explaining why the situation is such a fucking mess in the first place.
I strongly believe that the true case for war was to keep the petrodollar in power. I also believe that almost every war and military action we've been involved in since 1913 has been primarily for control of the global currency base, not for oil or trade or communism or any of the usual suspects..
I was just thinking about this last night, how many redesigns of the dollar (okay, the $20 and up) have we seen in the past decade? Five I think. Why so many changes? It certainly seems noteworthy (no pun intended) in contrast to the past half century of basically the same design in circulation.
I wonder if the war that is being fought is very different from the war that is in the news.
Considering I wasn't working at NASA or the White House or Morton Thiokol, how is my expectation that everything's gonna be OK relevant?
The best you've got is "bad shit still happens?" Is your primary news source Grit or Reader's Digest?
I do commend you on your ability to type with your head so firmly planted in the sand.
The notion that the Challenger disaster was some sort of unforseen and unavoidable "tragedy" is infuriating. (See Also: Hurricane Katrina repsonse.)
The whole mission was a PR stunt so Christa McAuliffe could call Ronald Reagan in the State Of The Union address. Unforunately the weather was not cooperating; they had been forced to postponed the launch for the bad weather, any more delays and they'd miss their window of opportunity.
After the loss of the shuttle, there was no State Of The Union address in 1986.
The loss of the Challenger was not just a tragedy. These were not brave explorers who died in some unforseen, unfortunate accident. These were brave explorers sent to their deaths by crass politicans only interested in self-aggrandizement, ice on the launch pad be damned!
This sort of rhetoric is found to be dressed up in The Emperor's New Clothes in light of the "recruitment tool" America's Army.
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Bush has stated he was put in the Oval Office by God, and many of his supporters share this view.
Predicting the specific weather of tomorrow and predicting general weather behavior 20 years from now are two different things.
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As for anecdotal accounts, well your post is one.
Not that it should be dismissed just because it's anecdotal... but that's a two way street.
Please, someone who understans the WIPO layer of the ISO/OSI model, boil this down for me:
Does this mean I have to start paying for pr0n?
Completely off-topic: I think I may have asked you this before MightyMartin, but I'm just curious: You've got phrases like "which is eye the biomass of this planet," the third word is eye spelled E-Y-E, where clearly you mean why spelled W-H-Y.
It seems practically impossible for that and other pseudo-homonyms in your writing to be typos. I suppose you're using speech-to-text software?
It struck me as peculiar. That is all.
From the study:
What I find lacking is the business case for upgrading the OS. And why on earth would any enterprise with even the tiniest amount of foresight and planning deploy Windows 2000/SuSE 8 knowing they will upgrade to the next gen just one year later? (Not that there aren't plenty of enterprises who fit your model, not to mention IT workers seeking to "power level" their skills...)
Now, certainly there is value in trouble-free installs. But can you say with confidence a better upgrade experience is really a fair test of value? Especially when the entire install/patch/upgrade philosophy between Windows and Linux is so disparate?
In other words: It's no surprise that Windows will perform better on the treadmill, constantly upgrading is at the very core of Microsoft's profitability.
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They have diesel-electric hybrid cars, only they run on rails and are called locomotives. ;)
AMD chips outperform Intel, for less money, using less power, for something like five years now.
Shouldn't AMD stock be doing better? If you bought 5 years ago, AMD is flat, but Intel is up like 50%.
Hmm, interesting. I guess one of the things I've never understood regarding religion is how it's anything other than purely subjective -- one man's dogma is another man's heresy. How can you say it's "bad Christian religion?" Perhaps it's not up to snuff when viewed against the legacy of Thomas Aquinas or the church's persecution and subsequent acceptance of Galilieo, but it's very much alive and kicking in the evangelical tradition of the Bible Belt -- which extends as far north as Dover, PA, it turns out.
Hmmm... what's scientific materialism?
Okay, wikipedia says it's the belief that only matter exists. I'd say the fact that my radio works pretty much debunks that one.
Wow, nice "proof." I suggest you never try go travel anywhere, or you'll find yourself halfway there, then halfway of the distance remaining, then halfay of the distance remaining...
"How many angles can dance on the head of a pin?" is not a scientific inquiry. (Unless you've actually got angels, a pin, and a pretty good microscope.)
The only "ideology" I see is your ludicrous statement "[The right to abortion] IS an ideological issue, especially since the law was illegally created by the Supreme Court and not the representative branch of the US government."
The Supreme Court didn't create any law. They reviewed a law and found it was at odds with the Constitution and the greater body of law governing this nation.
Now, if you want to take issue with the entire concept of Judicial Review, then you might have an argument. Unfortunately you're 200 years too late.
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I think maybe the scientific process could have been patented, but I'm not sure a stand-alone ruleset is copyrightable.
"some scientists believe the world was created by intelligent design"
I thought ID was about the origins of humans, not the world.
The problem is not the content of the philosophy of Intelligent Design. The problem is including that content in the science curriculum. It has nothing to do with science; it's proper place is in Comparative Religion, Philosophy, heck maybe even an English class.
The reason this is in the courts is because religious zealots are trying to inject their I.D. doctrine into the public school system under the aegis of "science" -- which it ain't. It's an end run against the seperation of church and state.
I don't know the origins of the Intelligent Design theory, but in it's current manifestation the raison d'etre is to get camel's nose under the tent.