SCO has a worldwide network of more than... 4,000 developers.
Where did they come up with that number? Unless they're including the OSS community (of which they are trying to royally screw). How many coders are really working on SCO only stuff anyways?
You could replace them with modded M16A2s (or whatever the kids are using today - I guess I'm dating myself) with tracers on a belt feed. Although I wouldn't be visiting any airports or US Govt installations with them anytime soon. Modded or not some dim witted LOE will probably impound it and give the owner a complete BCS. Guns mount on cars is a cop magnet (better than Dunkin' Donuts).
Oh crap, I can hear the TSA changing my rating to "yellow" as I speak for this joke...
Mod files were incredible 10 years ago and are still pretty good today. I'm a little surprised that it never really caught on (which is too bad). I guess marketing does matter. Imagine one of those cheapo 64M USB flash drive / mp3 players (~$50USD) that could play mods. Since they're a lot of them around that are 100k or less that's a lot of music. Plus they transfer so much better than mp3s over a slow connection.
The parent posting was enough for me start exploring mods again. Thanks.
Low electric use, the ability to change colors on command and lights that last for many years. Get the cost down to say $50 per light fixture and type A / Edison socket incandescent bulbs will go they way of the gas light fixture. Please make it happen soon. I already have plans for these lights. Imagine walking into a room and have a lights slightly change color to notify you of a pressing issue (like bad weather on the way or new porn posted to your favorite USENET group).
So the question is when will prices really come down? Isn't the big problem making blue LEDs [cheaply]? When will the masses wake up and upgrade?
The problem with your post is that WoD isn't just about Marijuana.
More money is spent on marijuana eradication et al than any other drug.
There is a whole slew of drugs and "substances" (sniffing for example).
"Huffing" is a very dangerous practice. We need to educate people about it's dangers. The problem is many people don't believe the Govt's claims of it's danger because they've "cried wolf" so much on marijuana. The attitude "If they lied about marijuana being deadly maybe they're lying about huffing". The Govt needs to be truthful about the proven dangers of certain drugs and stop lying about marijuana.
There was a story earlier about teenagers abusing cough medication.
I don't remember that but I'm sure it happens. Again, be honest with the people and teach them that many "over the counter" drugs are dangerous and deadly (over 7,000 die from Tylenol/Paracetamol overdoses each year in the US alone). Prohibitionist logic says that it should be banned but yet it isn't.
Making Marijuana legal will only make a slight dent.
Legalizing marijuana will make a giant dent in the US drug problem. The one of reasons the Netherlands has a lower use of hard drugs among it's residents is because marijuana is treated like alcohol. It's sold by those (i.e.: "coffee shops") that do not sell (in fact greatly shun) hard drugs. Exposure to hard drugs, like from a drug dealer in the US, is the number one factor in hard drug use.
The problem with the world right now is simply we're disrespectful, and shallow with respect to our bodies. We abuse them with drugs, and food
There is great truth in the statement. Sugar and caffiene use and abuse in the US is a major problem, in fact those two lead to more deaths than marijuana use. Again: teach, teach, teach.
The cost of drug prohibition in dollars and innocent lives is higher than the cost of drug consumption. Under my suggestion overdoses would be greatly reduced since contents and strengths would be uniform. If the money saved from marijuana prohibition (LEOs and prision space) and tax revenue raised (totaling billions of dollars each year) were directed into having a real working drug rehab system, with both in and out patient treatment, drug abuse would greatly drop. I believe most people that use hard drugs could be freed from their addiction if they could be open and honest with a psychiatrist (paid for by the Govt for as long as needed). This is a much cheaper option than prision. Of course there will be some that simply decide to continue there dangerous lifesytle (like skydivers, mountain climbers, backcountry skiers, etc.) and there is nothing we can do to stop it, but my plan would reduce it.
Twenty years ago I was a LEO working almost exclusively on the WoD with the USCG. We got excited (and I mean hard core adrenaline highs) on "big" busts like say a few hundred pounds of pot or 20 pounds of coke. We figured we'd have the WoD won in a few years (we really believed this). Now the busts are bigger than I could've ever dreamed of and the problems caused by prohibition are worse than ever.
The current drug prohibition policies of the US Govt have failed. Let's follow the recommendation of the Shaffer Commission (US, 1972), Le Dain Commission (Canada, 1970) and LaGuardia Committee Report (US, 1934) which recommended the decriminalization of marijuana or the Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs report (Canada, 2002) which recommended full legalization.
It seems the only people supporting the current WoD are those who benefit from it like the Law Enforcement Community. Hard drugs are bad but our current style of prohibition is even worse. It's time to change course to saner shores.
Wiretaps for that year cost taxpayers $69.5 million, and approximately 80 per cent were related to drug investigations.
The WoD (war on drugs) currently costs the US taxpayer $600 per second according to the Drug War Clock.
I'm not saying legalize everything, just treat addiction to hard drugs as a medical issue and let medical doctors prescribe for maintance while helping their patients. Marijuana (something much safer than alcohol) needs to be legalized and taxed.
Get the facts about marijuana. End the drug war now.
December 10, 2003 - 02:19 PM
RIAA Hires Head of ATF for Piracy Enforcement
The RIAA announced yesterday that they have hired Bradley A. Buckles, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), to head up their anti-piracy unit. "This is just another example of the RIAA's ongoing plan to treat American consumers like criminals instead of customers," said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz. "If they really wanted to solve their file-sharing problems, the RIAA should have considered hiring someone with a business plan rather than a baton and a bulletproof vest."
Welcome to Amerika.
IMO not like Gillette or Wal-Mart.
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RFID Casino Chips
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Casino chips are generally meant to stay in the casino while Gillette or Wal-Mart sell items that are meant to leave the store. In theory Wally World could embed a RFID in all the shoes they sell and then profit from the data gained by tracking you walking around their stores or places that would like to sell your RFID movement data. I don't see the same problem with casino chips. A business (or casino) has the right to watch you while you are on their property. I'll give them that but tracking me past that is unacceptable.
RFIDs can be used for good. My Ford Focus ZTW has a RFID chip on the key. If the correct ID isn't there the car won't (and shouldn't atleast) start. Adding extra keys and programming them is a simple task too.
IMO this shouldn't raise the same concern that the Wal-Mart problem does, which could be a real nightmare.
2.6.1 can be grabbed via portage (sync and get gentoo-dev-sources). IFAIK genkernel doesn't work on 2.6.x yet so you'll need to build it the old fashion way (which a lot people don't like to do). Check out "Configuring the Kernel" for instructions and, of course, Gentoo's forums for others' experiences.
I'm running 2.6.1_rc2-gentoo and like it alot (since it's all new hardware and want to play with the new ALSA, USB and crypto stuff) but still will run 2.4.x on an older box until genkernel will work [with 2.6]. I'm guessing that genkernel will support 2.6 soon and they're just trying to figure out a way to make a smooth converision.
Jeeze, it seems just about every new mp3 player with a few extra bells will be the "next" iPod. Besides it looks like a Win CE handheld in a fancy case. Apple pumps some serious effort into functionality and style like no other computer maker. Me thinks there's a few iPods with color screens and Quicktime video floating around Cupertino right now.
Once someone finally comes out with something to beat the current iPod the Apple Store will be selling something even better. These days Apple never stops their R&D or marketing train.
"Licensed developers would get paid more as well."
Yeah. Sure. That's why programming jobs are leaving by the US by the boatload, so we can license and pay programmers more. So that would be 15 offshore programmers instead of 10? This will just drive more companies out of the US.
I think that the Dimension 2400 is a pretty good entry level system. $500 won't get you what many/. readers want like a fast FSB, AGP slot, bigger HD, but what I listed was Dell's cheapest system. For people (like our parents) who want/need a system for web browsing, paying bills, writing email/snailmail, printing pics and need some occasional "hand holding" from tech support it's one way to go.
In this case "stripped down" and "junk" aren't the same.
I think the point is they're the first major PC maker to included a DVD+RW. AFAIK Dell was also the first to drop the [free] floppy drive. While it might seem like an advertisement it is really meant to demonstrate what some see as a possible trend (dropping CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD drives).
Now if there was a "commission" style URL in the article (like book reviews) I'd be more suspect.
Dimension 2400 P4 2.4GHz with 533MHz FSB Win XP Home 512M RAM (256M standard / 256M free) 40G HD 17" CRT.27dpi 4x DVD+RW Drive (free upgrade)
Of course there's no AGP slot but still $500 is pretty cheap and a good system for the nongamer. I myself prefer big blue hardware but Dell's pretty good. That's pretty cheap. I'm sure Gateway et al will follow soon.
Is that all? I've got a friend who lost three times that on the "dot bomb" crash. Now that was a real scam. A few key scammers with the investment companies skimming off the top. The Nigerians have nothing on Wall Street.
XM, in fact, already offers the first premium premium channel - a Playboy channel for an additional $3 monthly...
Does anyone else here think it just might be a little dangerous for drivers to be listening to porn? What's next: videos on a HUD (heads up display)? It would make for interesting accident reports ("The driver suddenly spun off the road while listen to a letter from a loney housewife and her single female neighbor...").
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Where did they come up with that number? Unless they're including the OSS community (of which they are trying to royally screw). How many coders are really working on SCO only stuff anyways?
it's really a one time pad. =)
Oh crap, I can hear the TSA changing my rating to "yellow" as I speak for this joke ...
Mod files were incredible 10 years ago and are still pretty good today. I'm a little surprised that it never really caught on (which is too bad). I guess marketing does matter. Imagine one of those cheapo 64M USB flash drive / mp3 players (~$50USD) that could play mods. Since they're a lot of them around that are 100k or less that's a lot of music. Plus they transfer so much better than mp3s over a slow connection.
The parent posting was enough for me start exploring mods again. Thanks.
Somebody's already on it
Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users
This makes sense since the US feels like China in the 1950s.
Boston to NYC: 211 miles / 50 minutes
Boston to Washington, DC: 465 miles / 1.75 hours
Boston to Orlando, FL: 1,320 miles / 5 hours
Los Angeles to San Francisco: 387 miles / 1.5 hours
NYC to Washington, DC: 258 miles / 1 hour
A threepeat? If that happens I'm definitely moving to Canada ...
So the question is when will prices really come down? Isn't the big problem making blue LEDs [cheaply]? When will the masses wake up and upgrade?
More money is spent on marijuana eradication et al than any other drug.
There is a whole slew of drugs and "substances" (sniffing for example).
"Huffing" is a very dangerous practice. We need to educate people about it's dangers. The problem is many people don't believe the Govt's claims of it's danger because they've "cried wolf" so much on marijuana. The attitude "If they lied about marijuana being deadly maybe they're lying about huffing". The Govt needs to be truthful about the proven dangers of certain drugs and stop lying about marijuana.
There was a story earlier about teenagers abusing cough medication.
I don't remember that but I'm sure it happens. Again, be honest with the people and teach them that many "over the counter" drugs are dangerous and deadly (over 7,000 die from Tylenol/Paracetamol overdoses each year in the US alone). Prohibitionist logic says that it should be banned but yet it isn't.
Making Marijuana legal will only make a slight dent.
Legalizing marijuana will make a giant dent in the US drug problem. The one of reasons the Netherlands has a lower use of hard drugs among it's residents is because marijuana is treated like alcohol. It's sold by those (i.e.: "coffee shops") that do not sell (in fact greatly shun) hard drugs. Exposure to hard drugs, like from a drug dealer in the US, is the number one factor in hard drug use.
The problem with the world right now is simply we're disrespectful, and shallow with respect to our bodies. We abuse them with drugs, and food
There is great truth in the statement. Sugar and caffiene use and abuse in the US is a major problem, in fact those two lead to more deaths than marijuana use. Again: teach, teach, teach.
The cost of drug prohibition in dollars and innocent lives is higher than the cost of drug consumption. Under my suggestion overdoses would be greatly reduced since contents and strengths would be uniform. If the money saved from marijuana prohibition (LEOs and prision space) and tax revenue raised (totaling billions of dollars each year) were directed into having a real working drug rehab system, with both in and out patient treatment, drug abuse would greatly drop. I believe most people that use hard drugs could be freed from their addiction if they could be open and honest with a psychiatrist (paid for by the Govt for as long as needed). This is a much cheaper option than prision. Of course there will be some that simply decide to continue there dangerous lifesytle (like skydivers, mountain climbers, backcountry skiers, etc.) and there is nothing we can do to stop it, but my plan would reduce it.
Twenty years ago I was a LEO working almost exclusively on the WoD with the USCG. We got excited (and I mean hard core adrenaline highs) on "big" busts like say a few hundred pounds of pot or 20 pounds of coke. We figured we'd have the WoD won in a few years (we really believed this). Now the busts are bigger than I could've ever dreamed of and the problems caused by prohibition are worse than ever.
The current drug prohibition policies of the US Govt have failed. Let's follow the recommendation of the Shaffer Commission (US, 1972), Le Dain Commission (Canada, 1970) and LaGuardia Committee Report (US, 1934) which recommended the decriminalization of marijuana or the Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs report (Canada, 2002) which recommended full legalization.
It seems the only people supporting the current WoD are those who benefit from it like the Law Enforcement Community. Hard drugs are bad but our current style of prohibition is even worse. It's time to change course to saner shores.
I'm not saying legalize everything, just treat addiction to hard drugs as a medical issue and let medical doctors prescribe for maintance while helping their patients. Marijuana (something much safer than alcohol) needs to be legalized and taxed.
Get the facts about marijuana. End the drug war now.
RFIDs can be used for good. My Ford Focus ZTW has a RFID chip on the key. If the correct ID isn't there the car won't (and shouldn't atleast) start. Adding extra keys and programming them is a simple task too.
IMO this shouldn't raise the same concern that the Wal-Mart problem does, which could be a real nightmare.
I'm running 2.6.1_rc2-gentoo and like it alot (since it's all new hardware and want to play with the new ALSA, USB and crypto stuff) but still will run 2.4.x on an older box until genkernel will work [with 2.6]. I'm guessing that genkernel will support 2.6 soon and they're just trying to figure out a way to make a smooth converision.
For those that haven't read about Gentoo they should check "The Philosophy of Gentoo" and Portage User Guide. IMHO Gentoo rocks.
Me thinks MPEG2 to DiVX conversions ...
It's called "SCOrched Earth".
Once someone finally comes out with something to beat the current iPod the Apple Store will be selling something even better. These days Apple never stops their R&D or marketing train.
I don't know what works but I know what doesn't work.
Yeah. Sure. That's why programming jobs are leaving by the US by the boatload, so we can license and pay programmers more. So that would be 15 offshore programmers instead of 10? This will just drive more companies out of the US.
In this case "stripped down" and "junk" aren't the same.
Now if there was a "commission" style URL in the article (like book reviews) I'd be more suspect.
Dimension 2400 .27dpi
P4 2.4GHz with 533MHz FSB
Win XP Home
512M RAM (256M standard / 256M free)
40G HD
17" CRT
4x DVD+RW Drive (free upgrade)
Of course there's no AGP slot but still $500 is pretty cheap and a good system for the nongamer. I myself prefer big blue hardware but Dell's pretty good. That's pretty cheap. I'm sure Gateway et al will follow soon.
Is that all? I've got a friend who lost three times that on the "dot bomb" crash. Now that was a real scam. A few key scammers with the investment companies skimming off the top. The Nigerians have nothing on Wall Street.