If they want to audit my personal laptop, which I bring into the office sometime, they would not send the notice to my employer. They would send it to me.
At which time I would tell them to go lick a toilet seat.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you'd put your attitude aside (America gets all the attention, boo-hoo!) and actually take a look at the rest of the world, you'd see that it is you who are mistaken...about a great many things.
Go to any under-developed country and see who they think is the envy of the world. Whether they like us or not, they envy us.
That's not to say that any number of other countries don't also deserve envy. But we get all the attention, whether or not we deserve it (and whether or not you like to admit it).
Last year, recordable discs outsold CDs for the first time.
Maybe that's because for the price of a CD I can get 50 "recordable discs". Even if I spent the same amount of money on each I'd still have 50x more blank ones.
You're exactly right, and (for some reason) I was thinking about this very thing the other day.
It seems to me the solution would be to make it worth it to the providers of that information. It's all about money, and providers don't play nice with automated agents because they take without giving back (clicking ads, etc.).
I mean, maybe it could be setup in a way that you can pay a small subscription for certain services. Of course, it would have to be really convenient/neato for me to pay for something that I can get for free, but it's possible.
As an example: I can jump on weather.com for free and see what the forecast is for the next couple of days, but I might pay $5 a month to be able to say "computer: what's the weather look like for this week" and get a detailed response spoken back to me. (that ranks pretty high on the neato scale:) )
When it comes to convenience, it seems we as a society spare no expense. That seems to me to be the only way that this would ever really work.
I think somebody at Fox just has some vendetta against Chris Carter. Never mind that he brought them one of their biggest money makers. "The Lone Gunman" was a good show - really good as far as spin-offs go, but they got stuffed in the Fox Time-slot o' death. Same thing with Harsh Realm, Carter's other project. I watched it and I thought it was great! Yeah, it was definately Matrix-ish, but I'd watch a weekly Matrix episode if I could, but since I can't, this was the next best thing.
But again, it got relegated to the TSOD and Fox claimed "Oh my, this certainly won't do, look at the ratings!" and threw it out.
*sigh* Stupid Fox. If it weren't for the Simpsons I'd never watch that station.
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This isn't meant for home use. If you'll notice the target audience it's embedded devices and large clusters.
I work on large beowulf clusters and there are many advantages to using a linux kernel to boot the machines, and none of them are the fact that you can't boot windows.
Linux boots faster and is able to tell you if something failed, and what it was, and can actually continue past some problems so you're not totally sunk if something dies. You can also redirect the output to a COM port, which is *great* for headless nodes. That way you can see that "oh, I had a stick of memory go out" without making the trip to the server room and pulling out the node and starting a whole troubleshooting series on it.
Not everything relevant to Linux is involved in the Linux/MS holy war. This is about optimizing clusters for speed and ease of management. The fact that windows isn't supported is a side effect of the technology, not an attack on "The Enemy". It's not that the BIOS intentionally prohibits you from using windows, it's that the BIOS *is* a linux kernel.
An article is posted with the word 'Fed' in it and the Slashdot crowd is screaming the imminent doom and destruction of life as we know it.
They broke the law. People who break the law are punished. We're not talking about people's rights being violated, we're talking about groups who know that what they do is illegal and are getting caught.
If real life existed the way the/. crowd thinks it should be, we'd live in total anarchy.
Damn, are slashdot readers sarcastic and pessimistic or what? I think the first 25 comments I read thought this was a laughable product.
Boy, you're not kidding! For a group of people that whine so much about "Everybody should have a right to do whatever they want without retribution!" they sure are quick to tell you how stupid you are if you don't follow the herd.
I personally don't like foul language and nudity. In my opinion, cursing is a result of a weak script (couldn't think of anything provocative to say, so I'll just swear), and sex/nudity are compensation for a lack of plot (the story sucks, so just show some boobs and people will watch it). I mean honestly, in 90% of movies there's no plot involved with the sex scenes, it's just there to draw a crowd. Obviously there are those who would disagree, but this is about personal choices. Now I have the ability to watch a movie my way.
There are a lot of movies out there that would be great, but for me they were ruined with just a few things that offended me. Somebody (I'm sure) will say "then just don't watch them!" well...I don't. But if it would be easy to take out the things that I don't want...then I could still enjoy those movies that are *almost* there.
Microsoft wants to fill my computer with things that I don't want - they are the devil!
Hollywood wants to fill my house with things that I don't want - that makes me a jerk for not wanting them. - go figure
I've also got to wonder if a PDA would even be allowed in the testing center?
I don't have a PDA myself (so I've never tried using it for a test) but I can see how schools would be suspicious since you could theoretically have all of your notes in there - hence, the requirement for a standard graphing calculator, I guess.
I was more than a little annoyed that I couldn't play normal DVDs in the GameCube...almost annoyed enough not to get one, but if this clone is a good copy (i.e. it plays the games just as well) then I sure hope it comes out in the States, because that's where my money will be going!
3 months?? Hmmm...somebody's slacking then. I don't know what else to tell you except you can try the 800 number...I'll kick up some dust and see where the ball was dropped.
One doctor also said that they needed proper breathing masks. Apparently there is a lot of asbestos floating around in the air and their standard paper masks aren't quite adequate. I realize that most people don't keep gas masks in the kitchen drawer, but if you find some they can use them!
There's a guy here at work (unnamed) that has successfully embedded a kernel in the bios of a Tyan 2390 motherboard. He says that he can type 'init 6' and have the login prompt back up in less than 2 seconds. We build cluster systems, and the reason for the project is so that with Linux controlling everything, it can report exactly why a node failed during boot up...even if it never POSTs!
I'm no techie...I just build the things, so I don't know much about all the technical stuff...but it's pretty amazing!
But isn't this the second (or third) time they've delayed the game?
I thought it was supposed to be out earlier this year...then October of this year...and now, next year?
I'm still looking forward to it...if the addiction level is anything like WarCraft I&II and StarCraft then I'm in real trouble;)...but if they're not careful they're going to go the way of Star Wars:TPM...so much dragged out over-hype that there's no way it will live up to the expectations of the public.
But in the end I would much rather have a sweet, stable game then a crappy game they just shoved out the door. It's nice to see that they actually want to give us our money's worth...an unpopular trait in today's corporate world.
...that the first thing I thought when I saw the picture of a hotel on the moon was..."man, I bet in lunar gravity I could stand 30 feet away from the toilet while I take a leak!"
What's so unamerican about a company having the freedom to make and sell products as they see fit? If anything, all the rules and restrictions placed on Microsoft (and our efforts to put more restrictions on them, and in fact to break up the entire company) could hardly be called "American."
Nobody's arguing that MS shouldn't be allowed to be competetive, they have the right to be...the problem is that they themselves are removing other's right to compete, but because they're not the "big bad government" people seem to think that they have a right to it.
Look back at Rockefeller. He was just shrewd business man. Move in next door to a competing gas station, sell below cost until they go bankrupt, then raise the price again to compensate. From a business perspective that's great, but what about Ma and Pa's gas station? Was it lower quality gas? Were they somehow 'unworthy' of owning their own business? No, they were just victims of a predatory company. So what happened to their right to own a business? You could argue about what they could or couldn't do about it, but the fact is that they were trying to follow 'the American Dream' and it was taken from them. But since it wasn't the government, then their rights weren't violated?
The whole idea behind the MS anti-trust case is that they are doing the same thing that Rockefellar did. (as one example) --Move into the browser market, 'integrate' browser for free, and kill Netscape. So what's Netscape supposed to do, write their own OS to compete?
My point is that the government isn't the only entity that can violate your rights. That's why we have laws. Stupid as some people seem to think they are, they're there to protect your rights from somebody else who thinks they can benefit from denying you them. There's nothing 'unamerican' about applying laws (that were only written in the first place because somebody thought they could trample over everybody else) that are there to protect our rights.
Just as a little off-topic conclusion I pose the question, where is Rockefeller's company now? Aren't they American Oil or something? No wonder they feared competition since they're all but gone now...
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If they want to audit my personal laptop, which I bring into the office sometime, they would not send the notice to my employer. They would send it to me.
At which time I would tell them to go lick a toilet seat.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you'd put your attitude aside (America gets all the attention, boo-hoo!) and actually take a look at the rest of the world, you'd see that it is you who are mistaken...about a great many things.
Go to any under-developed country and see who they think is the envy of the world. Whether they like us or not, they envy us.
That's not to say that any number of other countries don't also deserve envy. But we get all the attention, whether or not we deserve it (and whether or not you like to admit it).
Last year, recordable discs outsold CDs for the first time.
Maybe that's because for the price of a CD I can get 50 "recordable discs". Even if I spent the same amount of money on each I'd still have 50x more blank ones.
I hope that's the Rock I smell...otherwise, I'm doing laundry tonight.
and I quote: "The whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead"
Doh, I say!
You're exactly right, and (for some reason) I was thinking about this very thing the other day.
:) )
It seems to me the solution would be to make it worth it to the providers of that information. It's all about money, and providers don't play nice with automated agents because they take without giving back (clicking ads, etc.).
I mean, maybe it could be setup in a way that you can pay a small subscription for certain services. Of course, it would have to be really convenient/neato for me to pay for something that I can get for free, but it's possible.
As an example: I can jump on weather.com for free and see what the forecast is for the next couple of days, but I might pay $5 a month to be able to say "computer: what's the weather look like for this week" and get a detailed response spoken back to me. (that ranks pretty high on the neato scale
When it comes to convenience, it seems we as a society spare no expense. That seems to me to be the only way that this would ever really work.
The Honorable Judges Sporkin and Bork eat pork with forks, popping corks off ports while chortling over court reports of sports of a sordid sort.
I think somebody at Fox just has some vendetta against Chris Carter. Never mind that he brought them one of their biggest money makers. "The Lone Gunman" was a good show - really good as far as spin-offs go, but they got stuffed in the Fox Time-slot o' death. Same thing with Harsh Realm, Carter's other project. I watched it and I thought it was great! Yeah, it was definately Matrix-ish, but I'd watch a weekly Matrix episode if I could, but since I can't, this was the next best thing.
But again, it got relegated to the TSOD and Fox claimed "Oh my, this certainly won't do, look at the ratings!" and threw it out.
*sigh* Stupid Fox. If it weren't for the Simpsons I'd never watch that station.
This isn't meant for home use. If you'll notice the target audience it's embedded devices and large clusters.
I work on large beowulf clusters and there are many advantages to using a linux kernel to boot the machines, and none of them are the fact that you can't boot windows.
Linux boots faster and is able to tell you if something failed, and what it was, and can actually continue past some problems so you're not totally sunk if something dies. You can also redirect the output to a COM port, which is *great* for headless nodes. That way you can see that "oh, I had a stick of memory go out" without making the trip to the server room and pulling out the node and starting a whole troubleshooting series on it.
Not everything relevant to Linux is involved in the Linux/MS holy war. This is about optimizing clusters for speed and ease of management. The fact that windows isn't supported is a side effect of the technology, not an attack on "The Enemy". It's not that the BIOS intentionally prohibits you from using windows, it's that the BIOS *is* a linux kernel.
An article is posted with the word 'Fed' in it and the Slashdot crowd is screaming the imminent doom and destruction of life as we know it.
They broke the law. People who break the law are punished. We're not talking about people's rights being violated, we're talking about groups who know that what they do is illegal and are getting caught.
If real life existed the way the /. crowd thinks it should be, we'd live in total anarchy.
Or mention Wolfenstein at all.
What's with the "and then came Doom" stuff? Doom was the next step after Wolfenstein.
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Boy, you're not kidding! For a group of people that whine so much about "Everybody should have a right to do whatever they want without retribution!" they sure are quick to tell you how stupid you are if you don't follow the herd.
I personally don't like foul language and nudity. In my opinion, cursing is a result of a weak script (couldn't think of anything provocative to say, so I'll just swear), and sex/nudity are compensation for a lack of plot (the story sucks, so just show some boobs and people will watch it). I mean honestly, in 90% of movies there's no plot involved with the sex scenes, it's just there to draw a crowd. Obviously there are those who would disagree, but this is about personal choices. Now I have the ability to watch a movie my way.
There are a lot of movies out there that would be great, but for me they were ruined with just a few things that offended me. Somebody (I'm sure) will say "then just don't watch them!" well...I don't. But if it would be easy to take out the things that I don't want...then I could still enjoy those movies that are *almost* there.
Microsoft wants to fill my computer with things that I don't want - they are the devil!
Hollywood wants to fill my house with things that I don't want - that makes me a jerk for not wanting them. - go figure
I've also got to wonder if a PDA would even be allowed in the testing center?
I don't have a PDA myself (so I've never tried using it for a test) but I can see how schools would be suspicious since you could theoretically have all of your notes in there - hence, the requirement for a standard graphing calculator, I guess.
I was more than a little annoyed that I couldn't play normal DVDs in the GameCube...almost annoyed enough not to get one, but if this clone is a good copy (i.e. it plays the games just as well) then I sure hope it comes out in the States, because that's where my money will be going!
3 months?? Hmmm...somebody's slacking then. I don't know what else to tell you except you can try the 800 number...I'll kick up some dust and see where the ball was dropped.
"This is one Pantera's box you do not want to open!"
I am a man and will to refer to myself as such.
However, if you inquire at the web site a salesperson will contact you. :)
We build beowulf clusters and have (if I do say so myself) the most advanced cluster management utilities in the industry.
Check us out.
I'm not a salesman, but we've got some people that would be more than happy to talk to you. :)
One doctor also said that they needed proper breathing masks. Apparently there is a lot of asbestos floating around in the air and their standard paper masks aren't quite adequate. I realize that most people don't keep gas masks in the kitchen drawer, but if you find some they can use them!
There's a guy here at work (unnamed) that has successfully embedded a kernel in the bios of a Tyan 2390 motherboard. He says that he can type 'init 6' and have the login prompt back up in less than 2 seconds. We build cluster systems, and the reason for the project is so that with Linux controlling everything, it can report exactly why a node failed during boot up...even if it never POSTs!
I'm no techie...I just build the things, so I don't know much about all the technical stuff...but it's pretty amazing!
But isn't this the second (or third) time they've delayed the game?
I thought it was supposed to be out earlier this year...then October of this year...and now, next year?
I'm still looking forward to it...if the addiction level is anything like WarCraft I&II and StarCraft then I'm in real trouble ;)...but if they're not careful they're going to go the way of Star Wars:TPM...so much dragged out over-hype that there's no way it will live up to the expectations of the public.
But in the end I would much rather have a sweet, stable game then a crappy game they just shoved out the door. It's nice to see that they actually want to give us our money's worth...an unpopular trait in today's corporate world.
...when AOL will start paying me for their advertising space on my desktop!
...that the first thing I thought when I saw the picture of a hotel on the moon was..."man, I bet in lunar gravity I could stand 30 feet away from the toilet while I take a leak!"
Nobody's arguing that MS shouldn't be allowed to be competetive, they have the right to be...the problem is that they themselves are removing other's right to compete, but because they're not the "big bad government" people seem to think that they have a right to it.
Look back at Rockefeller. He was just shrewd business man. Move in next door to a competing gas station, sell below cost until they go bankrupt, then raise the price again to compensate. From a business perspective that's great, but what about Ma and Pa's gas station? Was it lower quality gas? Were they somehow 'unworthy' of owning their own business? No, they were just victims of a predatory company. So what happened to their right to own a business? You could argue about what they could or couldn't do about it, but the fact is that they were trying to follow 'the American Dream' and it was taken from them. But since it wasn't the government, then their rights weren't violated?
The whole idea behind the MS anti-trust case is that they are doing the same thing that Rockefellar did. (as one example) --Move into the browser market, 'integrate' browser for free, and kill Netscape. So what's Netscape supposed to do, write their own OS to compete?
My point is that the government isn't the only entity that can violate your rights. That's why we have laws. Stupid as some people seem to think they are, they're there to protect your rights from somebody else who thinks they can benefit from denying you them. There's nothing 'unamerican' about applying laws (that were only written in the first place because somebody thought they could trample over everybody else) that are there to protect our rights.
Just as a little off-topic conclusion I pose the question, where is Rockefeller's company now? Aren't they American Oil or something? No wonder they feared competition since they're all but gone now...