I almost bought one of these (actually a factory reconditioned one), but found out at the last minute that the "W" at the end of their product number means "Windows". It apparently renders the printout in the Windows box, then shoots it over ethernet to the printer. This is useless to me as I only have Linux boxen on my network. I guess I could set up a Windows box as a print server, but the last time I tried to do this I had to reboot it about every other print job. -Sigh-
I don't know. They refer to the Kennedys' place as the Kennedy Compound but it doesn't get raided. Maybe that's the exceptiont that proves the rule??:-)
I have a bunch of different VMWare virtual machine images stored on my RAID so I can have instant access to multiple configurations of my company's software product. Each image (of a MicroShaft OS plus our software) takes up anywhere from 1.5 Gig to 5 Gig, depending on the configuration. Makes testing a snap!
(And before you ask... no, we didn't buy each copy of Windoze on the VM's... we subscribe to MSDN and I consider the VM's to be "lab machines".)
Oh, sure. Globalism is why the whole world hates the US. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact we have troops in 150 countries around the world and are continually poking our nose in everyone else's business.
I didn't read most of this article because of the way it started. He says the twentieth century was marked by bloody struggles against totalitarian political power. True. He thinks the twenty first will be "marked by efforts to curtail the excessive corporate power that grips the United States." What the hell is he talking about. Can corporations kick your door down in the middle of the night, take everything you own, and throw you in a dungeon for the rest of your life because of a *plant*?? Government can. Can a corporation decide that your land is a perfect habitat for a rat and keep you from doing anything with it? No, but government can.
The struggle for this century will still be against totalitarian political power I'm afraid. And now no one seems to even be aware of the danger. When you see corporations trying to buy politicians so they'll vote one way or another for the benefit of those corportations, the knee-jerk reaction is that the corporations are evil. But why do corporations want to pull the strings of government? Because government is powerful. If we limit government to its basic role of protecting our rights, corporations will no longer want to buy politicians. Instead, they will have to compete in the marketplace for whatever it is they want (usually money). And the best way to make money in a *fair* marketplace is by pleasing your customer. In an unfair marketplace, companies can use bought government power to create and enforce a monopoly (can you say DMCA??).
As much as I hate spam, I have to agree with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to regulate spam. Remember, if you let them regulate that form of email, there is nothing to stop them from regulating other forms of email.
What do you mean there are safeguards? We have the Constitution, but when's the last time they paid any attention to that??? Only the government can bust into you house (legally) waving guns. Big companies cannot do that without getting the government to do that for them.
What, if anything, should the federal government be doing to assist the transition from "meatspace" business models to networked models? Should Congress, as Senator Hatch recently mused in the Napster hearings, actually go so far as to compel this transition through legislation (e.g. mandatory licensing of intellectual property)?
Ignoring the fact that the federal government has no authority to "compel" the music industry to sell their wares in a particular fashion, ask yourself if this is really what you want to happen. If you give government a big club to go knock sense into the nasty recording industry, you never know when someone else will get them to use that big club on you.
There is a lot of talk (even in this interview) about how big money always manages to get their way with Congress. But step back and ask why big money wants to buy their own congressman. It's because they are buying power. If we neuter the federal government back to its Constitutional limits, control of the government will no longer be such a great prize.
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I almost bought one of these (actually a factory reconditioned one), but found out at the last minute that the "W" at the end of their product number means "Windows". It apparently renders the printout in the Windows box, then shoots it over ethernet to the printer. This is useless to me as I only have Linux boxen on my network. I guess I could set up a Windows box as a print server, but the last time I tried to do this I had to reboot it about every other print job. -Sigh-
I don't know. They refer to the Kennedys' place as the Kennedy Compound but it doesn't get raided. Maybe that's the exceptiont that proves the rule?? :-)
Coin dollars are great for vending machines. They stink for tipping strippers at a titty bar...
For something that's actually "work related"...
I have a bunch of different VMWare virtual machine images stored on my RAID so I can have instant access to multiple configurations of my company's software product. Each image (of a MicroShaft OS plus our software) takes up anywhere from 1.5 Gig to 5 Gig, depending on the configuration. Makes testing a snap!
(And before you ask... no, we didn't buy each copy of Windoze on the VM's... we subscribe to MSDN and I consider the VM's to be "lab machines".)
Oh, sure. Globalism is why the whole world hates the US. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact we have troops in 150 countries around the world and are continually poking our nose in everyone else's business.
I didn't read most of this article because of the way it started. He says the twentieth century was marked by bloody struggles against totalitarian political power. True. He thinks the twenty first will be "marked by efforts to curtail the excessive corporate power that grips the United States." What the hell is he talking about. Can corporations kick your door down in the middle of the night, take everything you own, and throw you in a dungeon for the rest of your life because of a *plant*?? Government can. Can a corporation decide that your land is a perfect habitat for a rat and keep you from doing anything with it? No, but government can. The struggle for this century will still be against totalitarian political power I'm afraid. And now no one seems to even be aware of the danger. When you see corporations trying to buy politicians so they'll vote one way or another for the benefit of those corportations, the knee-jerk reaction is that the corporations are evil. But why do corporations want to pull the strings of government? Because government is powerful. If we limit government to its basic role of protecting our rights, corporations will no longer want to buy politicians. Instead, they will have to compete in the marketplace for whatever it is they want (usually money). And the best way to make money in a *fair* marketplace is by pleasing your customer. In an unfair marketplace, companies can use bought government power to create and enforce a monopoly (can you say DMCA??).
As much as I hate spam, I have to agree with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to regulate spam. Remember, if you let them regulate that form of email, there is nothing to stop them from regulating other forms of email.
What do you mean there are safeguards? We have the Constitution, but when's the last time they paid any attention to that??? Only the government can bust into you house (legally) waving guns. Big companies cannot do that without getting the government to do that for them.
What, if anything, should the federal government be doing to assist the transition from "meatspace" business models to networked models? Should Congress, as Senator Hatch recently mused in the Napster hearings, actually go so far as to compel this transition through legislation (e.g. mandatory licensing of intellectual property)?
Ignoring the fact that the federal government has no authority to "compel" the music industry to sell their wares in a particular fashion, ask yourself if this is really what you want to happen. If you give government a big club to go knock sense into the nasty recording industry, you never know when someone else will get them to use that big club on you.
There is a lot of talk (even in this interview) about how big money always manages to get their way with Congress. But step back and ask why big money wants to buy their own congressman. It's because they are buying power. If we neuter the federal government back to its Constitutional limits, control of the government will no longer be such a great prize.