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but once action starts, the time for protest has passed.
It absolutely has not passed. Dissent is not disloyalty. and supporting troops has nothing to do with supporting war. Supporting troops means that when they come home, they don't come home to people calling them baby-killers and crap like that.
If going to war means that once action starts that all voice of dissent must cease, then who will take up the call to stop war when its time? You want to hand bush a blank check to continue making war on iraqi-style regimes wherever they may be? How about we go to Colombia and take up this war on terrorism against the drug cartels and FARC? Or any of two dozen african countries ruled by dictators who hold power through thuggery and murder?
no, now more than ever, the time for protest has not passed.
How about a secret decoder ring? if you make the band in two parts--outer and inner, or something like that--which are movable relative to each other, so the ring can twist or something like that, with notches representing letters or some such, you've got your very own (or her very own, anyway) Lil' Orphan Annie secret decoder!
you could also use the engagement ring as one half of the decoder and the band as the other.
Frankly, I don't think i understand why relational is considered a poor choice for this. would someone please explain this? (this is not a troll, i really don't know) is it just the work involved in storing an object in a set of tables?
Actually, my fiance goes to UT, and I can assure you that this is entirely the administrator's fault (well, and the hackers, but since we're in the "blame the victim" mindset here)... UT has no such "free access" restrictions in place. half the campus can't even send mail outside the UT mail systems.
I will say this in defense of the IT people there... its gotta be pretty fucking hard to lock down a system that has almost 70,000 users (between students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc).
I work for a company in the same industry, and I wrote the lion's share of their current viewer, which is web-based as you describe. Having been down this road before, I can tell you that you have two options: require a client-side installation of a newer VM, or submit to being windows-only. the only other alternative is to do server-side processing and create html montages using jpegs, which is hardly a scaleable solution if you're doing any kind of interaction with the physician.
of your other two options, as much as it galls me to do so, if you're stuck with the requirement of no installation, i have to recommend the activex approach. we've found performance of this approach to be quite good, though you have to watch out for the occasional com bug.
Hey, you know all those girls who think they're hot shit right now? in four years, they'll all be skanky sluts who still think they're hot shit--treat them like the skanks they are and they'll be putty in your hands. They'll stay that way until they're about 25. Then you can be nice to girls again.
ftp might be somewhat faster, but in an era of broadband, I dont' see this as a real problem. The biggest problem is that for active FTP there's a whole range of ports you have to leave open, posing a security risk. if you're behind a firewall it might be downright impossible to open that up.
with http you can get security if you need it (https/authentication) and deal with only a single port which is almost guaranteed to be open not only on your end but at the client's end as well.
I think the insurance carriers should charge you based on your record, not some statistical abberation of a 17YO wrecking daddy's BMW 3 times a year.
they charge you based on your liklihood of costing them a payout for an accident. This is in part determined by your record. however, your assertion that a 17yo wrecking a car is an aberration is far from both truth and rationality. A cursory google check revealed this: "according to the National Safety Council, from 1991 through 1996, 16-year-old drivers had an average of 37 police-reported crashes per 100 drivers. This is more than 20 times the national average for all other drivers combined. " this link shows the risks of a traffic accident by age.
The primary goals of the distribution are quite obviously differant from what you are looking for and you will probably be better served by another distribution.
correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't he say he switched to gentoo?
I'll be 36 in March, you stupid fuck! I just stopped playing cocksucking video games when my dick started sprouting pubic hair.
So let me get this straight... you haven't played a video game since pacman came out? seems like you might want to take a look at the market before you start knocking other people's pasttimes...
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if all that's preventing webmin from serving the purpose you need is an icon for each client, then for pete's sake, modify the source or replace the icon with a 1 pixel jpg or something. that's the whole point of open-source right?
I've got this great idea for a company in a niche market that's small enough to make money, but too small for the big boys to bother coming after me... i've put all the work and research into finding it. but what the hell, you can have it... after all, you obviously really WANT it more than I do.
chump. go join the underpants gnomes, they could use someone like you, methinks.
I started on linux using this book's second edition... even today that one is still gold. the fourth edition i'm sure is even better and more current. definitely recommend this one to anyone who is halfway technical and wants to learn linux.
Texas is cool place to watch on "King of the Hill", but I wouldn't want to live there just because I love where I live (Friends, family, ect)
Friends comes on here in texas too you know--nbc on thursday nights... Yeah, I know we just got indoor plumbing in some parts last year, but come on--we're not BACKWARDS or anything...
dude, i think you're missing the point of backpacking.
unplug for awhile. it won't kill you, i promise. You do realize of course that there are several thousand years of recorded human history that predate the invention of the laptop, right? And that means--perish the thought!--they were recorded without the use of the laptop! That's right, that antiquated device used by our forebears for hundreds of years, THE PENCIL!
A five-year study, by definition, includes data collected over an ACTUAL five-year span. A PROJECTION can include predicted data, but its through the use of these PROJECTIONS that microsoft is able to make any type of argument whatsoever on the TCO front. The trouble is that microsofts projections are always WAY off--take MCSE's for instance. Has anyone ever seen less than five MCSEs handle the workload of a single experienced unix admin? I'm not talking about your typical non-saturated workload--i mean environments where the amount of work to be done is greater than the resources available to do it. That's the only way to really make a comparison.
As for stupid arguments, I'd lean more towards that as a characterization of a TCO study using projected data.
If you're unable to claim copyright because you have to remain anonymous, then you're also in no position to enforce copyright. I wouldn't worry too much about claiming copyright--release it under the gpl and trust public image to keep companies in line. PR value has a lot more enforcement potential than the courts anyway--few OS projects have the resources to prosecute a case in court against a real company, and the outcome is uncertain even if they did.
My situation is that my employer-provided machine HAS to run win2k, because that's our platform (not my call, believe me:)). My laptop runs Mandrake 9 right now, I'm considering switching back to gentoo. my gateway and fileserver is a linux box, which i also use as a desktop via the win32 x server from xfree86.cygwin.com. so i'm essentially a sheep in wolf's clothing, using linux as my primary desktop of choice, while doing what minimal tasks i have to in windows.
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but once action starts, the time for protest has passed.
It absolutely has not passed. Dissent is not disloyalty. and supporting troops has nothing to do with supporting war. Supporting troops means that when they come home, they don't come home to people calling them baby-killers and crap like that.
If going to war means that once action starts that all voice of dissent must cease, then who will take up the call to stop war when its time? You want to hand bush a blank check to continue making war on iraqi-style regimes wherever they may be? How about we go to Colombia and take up this war on terrorism against the drug cartels and FARC? Or any of two dozen african countries ruled by dictators who hold power through thuggery and murder?
no, now more than ever, the time for protest has not passed.
How about a secret decoder ring? if you make the band in two parts--outer and inner, or something like that--which are movable relative to each other, so the ring can twist or something like that, with notches representing letters or some such, you've got your very own (or her very own, anyway) Lil' Orphan Annie secret decoder!
you could also use the engagement ring as one half of the decoder and the band as the other.
Frankly, I don't think i understand why relational is considered a poor choice for this. would someone please explain this? (this is not a troll, i really don't know) is it just the work involved in storing an object in a set of tables?
Actually, my fiance goes to UT, and I can assure you that this is entirely the administrator's fault (well, and the hackers, but since we're in the "blame the victim" mindset here)... UT has no such "free access" restrictions in place. half the campus can't even send mail outside the UT mail systems.
I will say this in defense of the IT people there... its gotta be pretty fucking hard to lock down a system that has almost 70,000 users (between students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc).
Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial,
its sad to me that there's a standard procedure for this kind of violation, though after the last couple of years, not at all surprising.
I work for a company in the same industry, and I wrote the lion's share of their current viewer, which is web-based as you describe. Having been down this road before, I can tell you that you have two options: require a client-side installation of a newer VM, or submit to being windows-only. the only other alternative is to do server-side processing and create html montages using jpegs, which is hardly a scaleable solution if you're doing any kind of interaction with the physician.
of your other two options, as much as it galls me to do so, if you're stuck with the requirement of no installation, i have to recommend the activex approach. we've found performance of this approach to be quite good, though you have to watch out for the occasional com bug.
An electrifying discovery?
I bet you lay awake all night thinking of that punchline before you submitted this story, didn't you?
Hey, you know all those girls who think they're hot shit right now? in four years, they'll all be skanky sluts who still think they're hot shit--treat them like the skanks they are and they'll be putty in your hands. They'll stay that way until they're about 25. Then you can be nice to girls again.
ftp might be somewhat faster, but in an era of broadband, I dont' see this as a real problem. The biggest problem is that for active FTP there's a whole range of ports you have to leave open, posing a security risk. if you're behind a firewall it might be downright impossible to open that up.
with http you can get security if you need it (https/authentication) and deal with only a single port which is almost guaranteed to be open not only on your end but at the client's end as well.
is anyone even the slightest bit surprised by this move? I know I am certainly not.
I think the insurance carriers should charge you based on your record, not some statistical abberation of a 17YO wrecking daddy's BMW 3 times a year.
they charge you based on your liklihood of costing them a payout for an accident. This is in part determined by your record. however, your assertion that a 17yo wrecking a car is an aberration is far from both truth and rationality. A cursory google check revealed this: "according to the National Safety Council, from 1991 through 1996, 16-year-old drivers had an average of 37 police-reported crashes per 100 drivers. This is more than 20 times the national average for all other drivers combined. " this link shows the risks of a traffic accident by age.
The primary goals of the distribution are quite obviously differant from what you are looking for and you will probably be better served by another distribution.
correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't he say he switched to gentoo?
I'll be 36 in March, you stupid fuck! I just stopped playing cocksucking video games when my dick started sprouting pubic hair.
So let me get this straight... you haven't played a video game since pacman came out? seems like you might want to take a look at the market before you start knocking other people's pasttimes...
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if all that's preventing webmin from serving the purpose you need is an icon for each client, then for pete's sake, modify the source or replace the icon with a 1 pixel jpg or something. that's the whole point of open-source right?
I've got this great idea for a company in a niche market that's small enough to make money, but too small for the big boys to bother coming after me... i've put all the work and research into finding it. but what the hell, you can have it... after all, you obviously really WANT it more than I do.
chump. go join the underpants gnomes, they could use someone like you, methinks.
the slashvertisements strike again.
I started on linux using this book's second edition... even today that one is still gold. the fourth edition i'm sure is even better and more current. definitely recommend this one to anyone who is halfway technical and wants to learn linux.
Texas is cool place to watch on "King of the Hill", but I wouldn't want to live there just because I love where I live (Friends, family, ect)
Friends comes on here in texas too you know--nbc on thursday nights... Yeah, I know we just got indoor plumbing in some parts last year, but come on--we're not BACKWARDS or anything...
dude, i think you're missing the point of backpacking.
unplug for awhile. it won't kill you, i promise. You do realize of course that there are several thousand years of recorded human history that predate the invention of the laptop, right? And that means--perish the thought!--they were recorded without the use of the laptop! That's right, that antiquated device used by our forebears for hundreds of years, THE PENCIL!
A five-year study, by definition, includes data collected over an ACTUAL five-year span. A PROJECTION can include predicted data, but its through the use of these PROJECTIONS that microsoft is able to make any type of argument whatsoever on the TCO front. The trouble is that microsofts projections are always WAY off--take MCSE's for instance. Has anyone ever seen less than five MCSEs handle the workload of a single experienced unix admin? I'm not talking about your typical non-saturated workload--i mean environments where the amount of work to be done is greater than the resources available to do it. That's the only way to really make a comparison.
As for stupid arguments, I'd lean more towards that as a characterization of a TCO study using projected data.
is her middle name really "marco polo"?
" Is anybody else interested in this?"
judging from the lack of comments on this story, i'd say the answer is a resounding "No."
If you're unable to claim copyright because you have to remain anonymous, then you're also in no position to enforce copyright. I wouldn't worry too much about claiming copyright--release it under the gpl and trust public image to keep companies in line. PR value has a lot more enforcement potential than the courts anyway--few OS projects have the resources to prosecute a case in court against a real company, and the outcome is uncertain even if they did.
My situation is that my employer-provided machine HAS to run win2k, because that's our platform (not my call, believe me :)). My laptop runs Mandrake 9 right now, I'm considering switching back to gentoo. my gateway and fileserver is a linux box, which i also use as a desktop via the win32 x server from xfree86.cygwin.com. so i'm essentially a sheep in wolf's clothing, using linux as my primary desktop of choice, while doing what minimal tasks i have to in windows.