I do not care how many safeguards are built into this law, it is still nothing more than legalized vigilantism. The right to determine guilt and mete out punishment belongs in the hands of our justice system, and not in the pockets of billionaire movie producers.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Sugar coating poison might improve taste, but it will still kill you.
I am a developer. In fact, I being the only developer on this project. I have two project managers that I report to, and the clients. Doing the daily status reports, the weekly status report, the monthly status report, the half-day meetings several times each week, the countless hours I spend backing out stupid ideas the client came up with that my two managers were too brain-dead to say no to,....
Well, you are getting the idea. The actual coding going into this effort is going to be worth about $10000 but our accounting says the client is going to have to pay $125000 for us to not lose money. That is being one hell of an overhead, folks. All that money to train managers, wasted.
This news would be more impressive if I had not been hearing it for the last twenty years. Every time that one of these vendors comes out with something new to make my life easier, I have to hire another person to take care of it.
If my life gets any easier, I'll have more I.T. people than I have customers.
Our website is not only obsolete (it was designed that way from the ground up), but it's ugly and almost entirely non-functional too! Mainly we use it to harbor and distribute viruses inside the company. It's been very effective.
Now that he's completely met his goal of total obsolescence, our webmaster spends every day looking for new ways to make our website even less useful, uglier, and more of a pain-in-the-ass to use. He's been very effective.
So this is from Tennesse State University? I remember years ago when I was in Tennessee, I had my own problems with the stars wobbling... and the moon, and the street lights, and the buildings, and so on. Had nothing to do with planets. Had everything to do with being in Lynchburg, home to the Jack Daniels distillery.
Get yourself a flask of Old No. 7 and you can induce a damn fine wobble in your own solar system.
Too bad this will get buried in the noise because I got here too late, but....
We have a new InterTel (can I say that?) voicemail system. We spent weeks designing the menus. And the end result is that no matter what buttons you punch, every fscking call eventually ends up getting answered by one girl at the front counter. I don't care if you called our company and punched in your SSN and your mother's birthday in Morse code, your call is going to the same place as the callers who immediately press "0" for Operator.
It was a Robinson R-44. The R-44 is not a kit, and it's far from a toy. Unfortunately, Robinson's have a huge piece of the statistics pie simply because they're the one rotary wing affordable enough to be used for instruction. And students crash a lot.
Cell phones don't make you stupid. Owning a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) makes you stupid, which then causes you to go out and buy a cell phone due to your dramatically decreased intelligence.
Just what is it about the combination of blonde hair, motherhood, a cell phone, and a big gas-guzzling SUV that destroys brain cells so completely? I'm not being arbitrary here, I had to fish one of these bimbos out of my front lawn last week... she didn't see the stopped schoolbus at the corner in time so she used my hedge as a deceleration device. She was still on the phone when the cops came.
"Now I wonder if I could remotely flush my toliet?"
This is as far as technology has taken us? Bidding Bon Voyage to a turd using a remote? You're making me happy that my dog and I use the same tree to take a whizz.
Have you all just come out of a coma recently? Microsoft owns about 25 percent of Corel. So MSFT won't make as much money as they could have, they still get some percentage off the top of this sale. Plus it looks good to the illiterati (aka the DOJ) who think that Corel is still a competitor to Microsoft.
This is like cussing at Arab terrorists while you're standing at a gas pump.
Our company's webmaster has managed to exactly duplicate the San Andreas fault then. That box is shakier than California... oops, here comes another tremor now. Yup, reduced to rubble one more time.
One of these days I'll find some way to get the URL posted to Slashdot and I can see if computers really do burst into flame and shoot out showers of sparks like on the old Star Trek....
2. Is Redhat a convicted monopolist yet again, after ignoring the court the first time?
3. Has Redhat's license agreement recently morphed into legalized extortion?
4. If Dell and HP and Compaq stop pre-loading Redhat will Redhat be able to drive them out of business?
5. Does Redhat force end-users to agree to license audits as part of their EULA?
6. Has Redhat ever descended on an end-user demanding unnecessary and duplicative license payments the way the BSA has?
I could go on, but there is just no comparison, none at all, there is no similarity whatsoever, by any stretch of the imagination. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. Microsoft is in a league by themselves here.
Glad to see there is someone else who agrees with me. Caldera was the first distro with a foot in the door where I work. They had PHB appeal when RedHat conjured up images of long-haired kids in basements. And the Lizard installer would put together a working system on esoteric collections of hardware that made Mandrake choke and puke.
If only Love could keep his mouth shut they might still have a future.
When confronted with two possible explanations, the simplest one is usually the correct one.
The RIAA blames wholesale digital piracy for a downturn in music sales. Or it could be that the music is so bad nobody is willing to pay for it. The simpler explanation seems to be the answer here. Current music is simply not worth purchasing. Ergo, Occam.
For the past few days I have been seeing on TV some extremely negative reviews about Eminem's new music video. I have not seen it myself, but if the news is accurate it is one of the most revolting pieces of putrified garbage that the U.S. music industry has ever perpetrated on the American public.
So they are staying away from this trash in droves, and the RIAA is blaming piracy? The truth is more likely that there has been a sudden unexplainable outbreak of good taste by music-listeners.
NS4 users are important, you get people at work at low-tech companies [...]
And also a lot of high-tech. We've got a huge military-industrial community here, and almost all are still running NS4 on various flavours of UNIX. I guess when you work at these places, you just don't pull the latest updates for a product off an external website unless you don't want to work there anymore.
The range 000,000,000,000 through 999,999,999,999 is 1,000,000,000,000 possibilities. There aren't a trillion products you think? You must not shop at the same places I do, I think between Kroger and Wal-Mart and Radio Shack and a couple of big-assed auto parts stores, I could count a trillion items very easily.
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I do not care how many safeguards are built into this law, it is still nothing more than legalized vigilantism. The right to determine guilt and mete out punishment belongs in the hands of our justice system, and not in the pockets of billionaire movie producers.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Sugar coating poison might improve taste, but it will still kill you.
The problem? According to this Aviation Week article, Lockheed Martin has to figure out how to dissipate 900 kilowatts of heat.
Have they asked AMD for help yet?
I am a developer. In fact, I being the only developer on this project. I have two project managers that I report to, and the clients. Doing the daily status reports, the weekly status report, the monthly status report, the half-day meetings several times each week, the countless hours I spend backing out stupid ideas the client came up with that my two managers were too brain-dead to say no to,....
Well, you are getting the idea. The actual coding going into this effort is going to be worth about $10000 but our accounting says the client is going to have to pay $125000 for us to not lose money. That is being one hell of an overhead, folks. All that money to train managers, wasted.
This news would be more impressive if I had not been hearing it for the last twenty years. Every time that one of these vendors comes out with something new to make my life easier, I have to hire another person to take care of it.
If my life gets any easier, I'll have more I.T. people than I have customers.
Of course with my luck, it'll be pre-empted by some sporting event.
That sure as hell beats getting pre-empted by some terrorist attack.
Our website is not only obsolete (it was designed that way from the ground up), but it's ugly and almost entirely non-functional too! Mainly we use it to harbor and distribute viruses inside the company. It's been very effective.
Now that he's completely met his goal of total obsolescence, our webmaster spends every day looking for new ways to make our website even less useful, uglier, and more of a pain-in-the-ass to use. He's been very effective.
So this is from Tennesse State University? I remember years ago when I was in Tennessee, I had my own problems with the stars wobbling... and the moon, and the street lights, and the buildings, and so on. Had nothing to do with planets. Had everything to do with being in Lynchburg, home to the Jack Daniels distillery.
Get yourself a flask of Old No. 7 and you can induce a damn fine wobble in your own solar system.
Too bad this will get buried in the noise because I got here too late, but....
We have a new InterTel (can I say that?) voicemail system. We spent weeks designing the menus. And the end result is that no matter what buttons you punch, every fscking call eventually ends up getting answered by one girl at the front counter. I don't care if you called our company and punched in your SSN and your mother's birthday in Morse code, your call is going to the same place as the callers who immediately press "0" for Operator.
Fscking incredible waste of money....
It was a Robinson R-44. The R-44 is not a kit, and it's far from a toy. Unfortunately, Robinson's have a huge piece of the statistics pie simply because they're the one rotary wing affordable enough to be used for instruction. And students crash a lot.
Frist psot?
Kill my karma, scumbags, but this is the first time I've ever seen a blank screen when I hit "post comment".
More like, how many intelligent women do you know?
At least one.... my wife. Any husband who would answer otherwise seriously lacks intelligence. Or a desire to live.
Cell phones don't make you stupid. Owning a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) makes you stupid, which then causes you to go out and buy a cell phone due to your dramatically decreased intelligence.
Just what is it about the combination of blonde hair, motherhood, a cell phone, and a big gas-guzzling SUV that destroys brain cells so completely? I'm not being arbitrary here, I had to fish one of these bimbos out of my front lawn last week... she didn't see the stopped schoolbus at the corner in time so she used my hedge as a deceleration device. She was still on the phone when the cops came.
Maybe I can set it up as a server for my Audrey terminals.... the blind leading the blind, so to speak.
"Now I wonder if I could remotely flush my toliet?"
This is as far as technology has taken us? Bidding Bon Voyage to a turd using a remote? You're making me happy that my dog and I use the same tree to take a whizz.
Please post a URL to a news story or an Edgar filing or a whatever. I can't find any record of the transaction.
The days of DOJ fishing expeditions against American Businesses are nearly over.
And that would be because the days of American Business are nearly over, right?
Have you all just come out of a coma recently? Microsoft owns about 25 percent of Corel. So MSFT won't make as much money as they could have, they still get some percentage off the top of this sale. Plus it looks good to the illiterati (aka the DOJ) who think that Corel is still a competitor to Microsoft.
This is like cussing at Arab terrorists while you're standing at a gas pump.
Our company's webmaster has managed to exactly duplicate the San Andreas fault then. That box is shakier than California... oops, here comes another tremor now. Yup, reduced to rubble one more time.
One of these days I'll find some way to get the URL posted to Slashdot and I can see if computers really do burst into flame and shoot out showers of sparks like on the old Star Trek....
Where I work, this would not be considered by any of us a trans-species transplant if it were for our boss.
1. Is Redhat a convicted monopolist?
2. Is Redhat a convicted monopolist yet again, after ignoring the court the first time?
3. Has Redhat's license agreement recently morphed into legalized extortion?
4. If Dell and HP and Compaq stop pre-loading Redhat will Redhat be able to drive them out of business?
5. Does Redhat force end-users to agree to license audits as part of their EULA?
6. Has Redhat ever descended on an end-user demanding unnecessary and duplicative license payments the way the BSA has?
I could go on, but there is just no comparison, none at all, there is no similarity whatsoever, by any stretch of the imagination. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. Microsoft is in a league by themselves here.
Glad to see there is someone else who agrees with me. Caldera was the first distro with a foot in the door where I work. They had PHB appeal when RedHat conjured up images of long-haired kids in basements. And the Lizard installer would put together a working system on esoteric collections of hardware that made Mandrake choke and puke.
If only Love could keep his mouth shut they might still have a future.
The RIAA blames wholesale digital piracy for a downturn in music sales. Or it could be that the music is so bad nobody is willing to pay for it. The simpler explanation seems to be the answer here. Current music is simply not worth purchasing. Ergo, Occam.
So they are staying away from this trash in droves, and the RIAA is blaming piracy? The truth is more likely that there has been a sudden unexplainable outbreak of good taste by music-listeners.
NS4 users are important, you get people at work at low-tech companies [...]
And also a lot of high-tech. We've got a huge military-industrial community here, and almost all are still running NS4 on various flavours of UNIX. I guess when you work at these places, you just don't pull the latest updates for a product off an external website unless you don't want to work there anymore.
The range 000,000,000,000 through 999,999,999,999 is 1,000,000,000,000 possibilities. There aren't a trillion products you think? You must not shop at the same places I do, I think between Kroger and Wal-Mart and Radio Shack and a couple of big-assed auto parts stores, I could count a trillion items very easily.