So then doesn't your analogy become something like:
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale. Firstly he unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, then offers the $5 that you asked for. You agree to the sale, and now he states that he legitimately owns. Is the sale legitimate?
I'd guess that that's just from someone getting online with the complete file in the beginning, but dropping off before anyone had to chance to get it all. That means that everyone else knows the full file is out there, but they just can't see it.
Alternatively, and slightly assuming how the network is searched, maybe the full version is too far away from you to even see it. Just a thought, though no doubt the first option is much more likely.
I think it would be very difficult for the very first person who uploaded it to start with a broken file. I mean, whether you cut the last part of the file off, cut the middle out or replace sections of the file with empty data, you'd still end up with a complete file of some sort (just not entirely what you expected).
Going slightly OT, but I've found the PDF virtual printer here to be pretty good. I've only used it for relatively mundane things, but am pretty happy with it all up.
The free one will pop up a web browser to show you an online ad each time you "print" with it, or you can register for $9.95US.
The fact that it's a virtual printer makes it simple to use for anyone who can print...
I wasn't talking about dumping. And you can't even say that corporate licences allow them to cut the price that much: unless, of course, they weren't providing corporate licences to begin with.
What I was talking about was in reference to the parent post comparing MS cutting the price by 90% without a change in product to free downloads of Linux distributions, which are a different product to that which you buy boxed.
My point is that they would have been getting a corporate licence *before* the discount. Discounts for academic users are different, as they are a different product, with regards to licencing, anyway. When I purchased Visual Studio in uni, the licence stated that it could not be used for commercial applications. Hence, a different product.
My only point was regarding a change in product when there's a change in price.
So tell me: if the price is not inflated (and I never said that it was, just that some people can argue it) what has been the product change to reflect the price change?
Nothing. That was my point, entirely to counter the reference to Linux based products. There was no malice intended towards Microsoft: I was merely deflecting that heading towards the Linux companies...
It says that if I am willing to go to the effort to download it or find a friend with it, instead of going to the shop to buy it, then I can pay for the convenience.
There would be no change in deliverables from Microsoft when they reduced the price, so one may be able to say that the original price is inflated.
It's to do with convenience.
There's also the fact that those boxed sets provide support, which neither the downloadable versions or an originally priced MS product, let alone one whose price has been reduced by 90%, do.
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Slight correction: The basket price in Australia is rounded to the nearest 5 cents, not always down. This way, in theory anyway, it all evens out in the end...
Well according to this, they can mean the same thing.
Thanks for the heads up, though. I always try and improve my use of language, and if I didn't decide to research exactly what my error was, I'd have never confirmed that they could be used as synonyms. It was an honest mistake, but I'm just glad that it happened to be correct, none the less.
And I'm sure some people would appreciate getting an AOL CD. For example, some family that's bought a computer with an ISP already installed, and they know nothing about other ISPs (cost, etc.)
They get this CD in the mail and then all of a sudden they realise that there are alternatives.
Now, they might not necessarily go with AOL, but the fact is that that CD opened their eyes to the possibilities.
No, they didn't "look forward" to that CD, but they were happy once they got it. Of course, there would be a small percentage of people who would be in this situation, but what percentage of people do you need to decide that that counteracts the annoyance of other people?
I think what 3DKnight is inferring is that we all send our resumes to known spamming companies. The idea is that if we all sent our resumes to them, they would have to keep them. In essence, an annoyance for them, provided by email.
The comment then goes on to say that it probably would not affect them, as they are not the most law abiding companies in the world.
So I would consider it a very interesting comment, actually. So maybe "interesting" would be a Slashdot poster actually bothering to try and understand the impact of another post.
I assume you're referring to the apparent lacklustre movies, right? If so, I have a different theory about them. Right from the outset let me say that the only Star Wars movie I've ever seen is Episode I.
After coming out of the movie, I was pretty disappointed, and the main reason was that it wasn't really a complete movie. He knew he was going to make Episodes II and III, and so the end of Episode I was not complete, as he has the luxury of spreading the whole story over three episodes (LotR suffers the same problem, but logistically this may be a bit harder to fix).
When he made his first Star Wars movie he didn't know that he'd be able to make the next two, right? Yeah, I know he may have had the vision of three films, but he could not be certain that he would be able to make them (who'd fund them if the first was a flop?). Therefore, the story he presented had to be at least a bit self contained. In reality, he needed it to be a good story without trailing off, as he needed the good reviews etc. to be able to ensure the rest of the story could be told. Hence, the first movie was "complete".
Unfortunately (well, from my point of view, anyway), Episode I had such a weird feel to the end, that I didn't even feel the desire to see the rest...
OK, so not "registered": maybe "officially recognised".
Going off topic now was the fact that the email said that if enough people wrote it down, then the government had to recognise it as an official religion. Last time I looked, the Census had no control over government: sure maybe they'd think about it, but it's not a given that it would happen.
They didn't really forbid us from doing it. It's illegal to list an unregistered religion: end of discussion. It's not like they made a special rule for supposed Jedis, is it?
You make it sound conspiratorial, when in fact it's a law that's always been around. It's just that most people down here don't care too much about the "insignificant" laws until they stop you from having a little "fun".
I don't think it does perfectly describe any of the major religions. The people that "organised" these religions did not go on to create "a business underworld to avoid the government".
Yes, there are "followers" of major religions that use others' beliefs to their advantage, but that was not the intent of those that "developed" the religion, unlike the parent post's comment.
You almost had me as an Aussie, until you mentioned keeping the money in your boardies while you're surfing.
Mate, everyone knows that you keep your money and car keys in your shoes or under your towel while you're at the beach, or at least bury it if you're paranoid...
Except for the fact that that "conglomostore" (in the case of McDonalds, at least) is still owned by some franchisee trying to make it (well, more than likely: a small percentage are owned by the company). Yeah, they hired "substandard workers" but if the corner store did, too, then they should deserve the same response.
At the end of the day, the McDonalds' guy is trying to do the same thing, but with a name you know: a lot of people who run with these franchises are looking to it as a form of retirement. It is definitely not a "conglomostore".
I can't speak for Walmart, but I'm guessing that they are not franchised, but it still doesn't make it right.
Although I appreciate your argument, the guy doesn't have much choice. A quick look at the curvedspaces.com website shows that it's a free hosting company, that has an automatic popup. Admittedly, I didn't get one at all (I use Phoenix/Firebird/whatever), but I'd guess that that's where it's from.
If that's the case, then at the end of the day, a) he doesn't have a choice and b) he's still done better than either you or I...
Can I make a suggestion? Depending on the site you're referring to, and your connection with them, email them and tell them that you won't do business with them until they remove that crap.
It's one thing to not support your browser, it's another to support it, but make an assumption that it won't work, or push IE for any other reason.
The same type of thing happened with my bank: I emailed them, and quite quickly the problem was fixed.
Why did I do this? Because I want to make sure that they realise that people do care about what they use, and I want to make sure that my browser name shows up in their logs: we're not going to get any support if they keep seeing IE strings there, and we're just going to have to continue faking it.
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I've been running Mozilla through our proxy server for the last few months thanks to the 'NTLM Authorization Proxy Server'. Admittedly it's a little more hacky than directly integrating it, but it works a treat, and I can now use it for all the other apps (generally open source ones) that didn't work, either (CDex comes to mind).
If anyone has any problems with NTLM proxies, I can highly recommend this little app.
It cracks me up when I read people complaining about mounting and unmounting disks. I haven't had to do any of this for a very long time: the last few Mandrake installs (at least!) came with automount or supermount or whatever it's called, and it just works.
And don't think that the disk won't get "stuck" in Windows: it just means that the only alternative is to reboot the machine to unstick it, not type a oneliner into a command line. Just make a link to a shell script, and everyone should be happy.
I have to disagree with your call on professional atmospheres. I'm a developer, and there's one layer of management between me and the CEO (and this is not a small company). If I think something's wrong, I tell my manager exactly what I think, and if it's more a problem for the CEO or CFO, I tell them directly.
Having said that, I guess my company may be in the minority, and it has been built up quite quickly from what was the CEO's spare bedroom less than 10 years ago. The point is I am employed for my knowledge and technical abilities: not for my ability to gloss over problems (which I can do when I need to).
I call it how I see it, as does everyone up the line. If I fscked something up, I expect to be told, and to be told directly (without any niceties). Cut the crap and get the job done, I say.
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If you're interested in backing up Reiser partitions, check out PartImage. It does a fair few different file systems, and is GPL.
Except in the US where they are designed to work without seatbelts. Well, kind of. The propulsion used is much stronger in an attempt to help those that don't wear their seatbelts (one of those "we can't force them to wear their seatbelts: they're Americans, they're free, but let's tack on some copyright changes" things).
The problem is, then, that air bags in the US actually become more dangerous when seatbelts are used, but there is no evidence to suggest that they help those that don't wear them any more...
I believe you're right: although I don't have references anywhere, I did read once that it was named by the guy who ran the FTP server it was originally on.
After Linus put it into the incoming directory, it had to be moved / renamed: seeing as Linus hadn't named it anything, the FTP admin named it Linux (obviously due to Linus' name, but also presumably to sound like Minix, which it was intended to "feel" like originally).
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So then doesn't your analogy become something like:
Lets say you have a priceless family heirloom. Someone steals it, locks it in a box, and gives it to you to sell at a garage sale. Then he goes to your garage sale. Firstly he unlocks the box to show you your family heirloom, then offers the $5 that you asked for. You agree to the sale, and now he states that he legitimately owns. Is the sale legitimate?
The answer is yes.
The British billion is a million million.
I'd guess that that's just from someone getting online with the complete file in the beginning, but dropping off before anyone had to chance to get it all. That means that everyone else knows the full file is out there, but they just can't see it.
Alternatively, and slightly assuming how the network is searched, maybe the full version is too far away from you to even see it. Just a thought, though no doubt the first option is much more likely.
I think it would be very difficult for the very first person who uploaded it to start with a broken file. I mean, whether you cut the last part of the file off, cut the middle out or replace sections of the file with empty data, you'd still end up with a complete file of some sort (just not entirely what you expected).
The free one will pop up a web browser to show you an online ad each time you "print" with it, or you can register for $9.95US.
The fact that it's a virtual printer makes it simple to use for anyone who can print...
Invented or discovered?
I wasn't talking about dumping. And you can't even say that corporate licences allow them to cut the price that much: unless, of course, they weren't providing corporate licences to begin with.
What I was talking about was in reference to the parent post comparing MS cutting the price by 90% without a change in product to free downloads of Linux distributions, which are a different product to that which you buy boxed.
My point is that they would have been getting a corporate licence *before* the discount. Discounts for academic users are different, as they are a different product, with regards to licencing, anyway. When I purchased Visual Studio in uni, the licence stated that it could not be used for commercial applications. Hence, a different product.
My only point was regarding a change in product when there's a change in price.
So tell me: if the price is not inflated (and I never said that it was, just that some people can argue it) what has been the product change to reflect the price change?
Nothing. That was my point, entirely to counter the reference to Linux based products. There was no malice intended towards Microsoft: I was merely deflecting that heading towards the Linux companies...
It says that if I am willing to go to the effort to download it or find a friend with it, instead of going to the shop to buy it, then I can pay for the convenience.
There would be no change in deliverables from Microsoft when they reduced the price, so one may be able to say that the original price is inflated.
It's to do with convenience.
There's also the fact that those boxed sets provide support, which neither the downloadable versions or an originally priced MS product, let alone one whose price has been reduced by 90%, do.
Slight correction: The basket price in Australia is rounded to the nearest 5 cents, not always down. This way, in theory anyway, it all evens out in the end...
Well according to this, they can mean the same thing. Thanks for the heads up, though. I always try and improve my use of language, and if I didn't decide to research exactly what my error was, I'd have never confirmed that they could be used as synonyms. It was an honest mistake, but I'm just glad that it happened to be correct, none the less.
And I'm sure some people would appreciate getting an AOL CD. For example, some family that's bought a computer with an ISP already installed, and they know nothing about other ISPs (cost, etc.)
They get this CD in the mail and then all of a sudden they realise that there are alternatives.
Now, they might not necessarily go with AOL, but the fact is that that CD opened their eyes to the possibilities.
No, they didn't "look forward" to that CD, but they were happy once they got it. Of course, there would be a small percentage of people who would be in this situation, but what percentage of people do you need to decide that that counteracts the annoyance of other people?
I think what 3DKnight is inferring is that we all send our resumes to known spamming companies. The idea is that if we all sent our resumes to them, they would have to keep them. In essence, an annoyance for them, provided by email.
The comment then goes on to say that it probably would not affect them, as they are not the most law abiding companies in the world.
So I would consider it a very interesting comment, actually. So maybe "interesting" would be a Slashdot poster actually bothering to try and understand the impact of another post.
I assume you're referring to the apparent lacklustre movies, right? If so, I have a different theory about them. Right from the outset let me say that the only Star Wars movie I've ever seen is Episode I.
After coming out of the movie, I was pretty disappointed, and the main reason was that it wasn't really a complete movie. He knew he was going to make Episodes II and III, and so the end of Episode I was not complete, as he has the luxury of spreading the whole story over three episodes (LotR suffers the same problem, but logistically this may be a bit harder to fix).
When he made his first Star Wars movie he didn't know that he'd be able to make the next two, right? Yeah, I know he may have had the vision of three films, but he could not be certain that he would be able to make them (who'd fund them if the first was a flop?). Therefore, the story he presented had to be at least a bit self contained. In reality, he needed it to be a good story without trailing off, as he needed the good reviews etc. to be able to ensure the rest of the story could be told. Hence, the first movie was "complete".
Unfortunately (well, from my point of view, anyway), Episode I had such a weird feel to the end, that I didn't even feel the desire to see the rest...
OK, so not "registered": maybe "officially recognised".
Going off topic now was the fact that the email said that if enough people wrote it down, then the government had to recognise it as an official religion. Last time I looked, the Census had no control over government: sure maybe they'd think about it, but it's not a given that it would happen.
They didn't really forbid us from doing it. It's illegal to list an unregistered religion: end of discussion. It's not like they made a special rule for supposed Jedis, is it?
You make it sound conspiratorial, when in fact it's a law that's always been around. It's just that most people down here don't care too much about the "insignificant" laws until they stop you from having a little "fun".
I don't think it does perfectly describe any of the major religions. The people that "organised" these religions did not go on to create "a business underworld to avoid the government".
Yes, there are "followers" of major religions that use others' beliefs to their advantage, but that was not the intent of those that "developed" the religion, unlike the parent post's comment.
You almost had me as an Aussie, until you mentioned keeping the money in your boardies while you're surfing.
Mate, everyone knows that you keep your money and car keys in your shoes or under your towel while you're at the beach, or at least bury it if you're paranoid...
Except for the fact that that "conglomostore" (in the case of McDonalds, at least) is still owned by some franchisee trying to make it (well, more than likely: a small percentage are owned by the company). Yeah, they hired "substandard workers" but if the corner store did, too, then they should deserve the same response.
At the end of the day, the McDonalds' guy is trying to do the same thing, but with a name you know: a lot of people who run with these franchises are looking to it as a form of retirement. It is definitely not a "conglomostore".
I can't speak for Walmart, but I'm guessing that they are not franchised, but it still doesn't make it right.
Although I appreciate your argument, the guy doesn't have much choice. A quick look at the curvedspaces.com website shows that it's a free hosting company, that has an automatic popup. Admittedly, I didn't get one at all (I use Phoenix/Firebird/whatever), but I'd guess that that's where it's from.
If that's the case, then at the end of the day, a) he doesn't have a choice and b) he's still done better than either you or I...
Can I make a suggestion? Depending on the site you're referring to, and your connection with them, email them and tell them that you won't do business with them until they remove that crap.
It's one thing to not support your browser, it's another to support it, but make an assumption that it won't work, or push IE for any other reason.
The same type of thing happened with my bank: I emailed them, and quite quickly the problem was fixed.
Why did I do this? Because I want to make sure that they realise that people do care about what they use, and I want to make sure that my browser name shows up in their logs: we're not going to get any support if they keep seeing IE strings there, and we're just going to have to continue faking it.
If anyone has any problems with NTLM proxies, I can highly recommend this little app.
It cracks me up when I read people complaining about mounting and unmounting disks. I haven't had to do any of this for a very long time: the last few Mandrake installs (at least!) came with automount or supermount or whatever it's called, and it just works.
And don't think that the disk won't get "stuck" in Windows: it just means that the only alternative is to reboot the machine to unstick it, not type a oneliner into a command line. Just make a link to a shell script, and everyone should be happy.
I have to disagree with your call on professional atmospheres. I'm a developer, and there's one layer of management between me and the CEO (and this is not a small company). If I think something's wrong, I tell my manager exactly what I think, and if it's more a problem for the CEO or CFO, I tell them directly.
Having said that, I guess my company may be in the minority, and it has been built up quite quickly from what was the CEO's spare bedroom less than 10 years ago. The point is I am employed for my knowledge and technical abilities: not for my ability to gloss over problems (which I can do when I need to).
I call it how I see it, as does everyone up the line. If I fscked something up, I expect to be told, and to be told directly (without any niceties). Cut the crap and get the job done, I say.
If you're interested in backing up Reiser partitions, check out PartImage. It does a fair few different file systems, and is GPL.
Except in the US where they are designed to work without seatbelts. Well, kind of. The propulsion used is much stronger in an attempt to help those that don't wear their seatbelts (one of those "we can't force them to wear their seatbelts: they're Americans, they're free, but let's tack on some copyright changes" things).
The problem is, then, that air bags in the US actually become more dangerous when seatbelts are used, but there is no evidence to suggest that they help those that don't wear them any more...
I believe you're right: although I don't have references anywhere, I did read once that it was named by the guy who ran the FTP server it was originally on.
After Linus put it into the incoming directory, it had to be moved / renamed: seeing as Linus hadn't named it anything, the FTP admin named it Linux (obviously due to Linus' name, but also presumably to sound like Minix, which it was intended to "feel" like originally).