Let's start a company where we get bands to sign up to giant loans at extortionate rates that we then spend on their behalf by deliberately choosing really crap distribution models that involve shipping slivers of acrylic all over the world. If anyone comes up with a parallel path for musicians, we'll use our artists money to lobby, sue and legislate them out of existence.
But that's their problem. Who's going to bother buying a Trabant when it has an AM radio and 2 stroke side valve engine while the store down the road is giving away fuel efficient, air conditioned kit cars that are easier to assemble than it is to get the Trabbie roadworthy? Oh, and they also have an option list a mile long?
SCO sell nothing worth buying, the SCO letterhead was purchased for mischief.
and a decent case with 400W PS ($100) bring us up to $940
As these things run on 60 watts (aka, a small light bulb' worth), I could run a stack of them without having a huge airconditioner. This would be pretty attractive in my current situation where we are paying much more to shift a huge air-con. Also remember that downtown commercial rents are by the sqaure metre/foot.
The Bill in question is available on the ACT government's
web site and (as passed) on the member's website. Don't get too excited, it uses the weasel-word "practicable" and the conservatives had it ammended to have a 3 year life. OTOH, it could be a great mandate.
The ACT is a administrative territory for the national capital, and we also had an OSS electronic voting system at our last election that is based on Linux
The Sparc4's I use draw a *maximum* of 53 watts, so as appliances (DHCP, NAT, Squid, DNS) go, they're cheap to run (IMHO). That'd be $3 per month.
Of course chunkier CPU and video will draw more current, but I think if you got something like a laptop with a broken screen, that'd make a decent, low power unit.
And it's not just power. My study is a lot quieter and cooler since I ditched most of the Yum-Cha PCs in favour of engineered stuff.:o)
Most (some?) of them read the iris. A bunch of German guys figured out that a digital picture of the iris held in the right spot would fool some scanners. This sort of picture would be easy to steal using a camera. I wish I still had the link...
Biometrics can be used to improve security, but it's not a substitute for careful design.
In the longer term, people have generally gone for "singles" anyway (except maybe for things like opera). I'd guess that albums are a fairly recent phenomenon driven by the capacity of physical media (that we don't need anymore).
I actually took quite a while for the banks to capture a complete faux-front. It seems they are very careful not to leave them on for too long, and they do blend in with the ATM quite well. For a while, my bank's ATM would post a toll-free number to call if you noticed anything suspicious attached to the ATM.
In the sense of Open Source. People need to ba able to have open access to electroral distributions and the ability for anyone to satisfy themselves that distributions are fair. I prototyped something that eventually became the electorate modelling tool described in
this document that let anyone with access to Excel
experiment with their own redistributions. While the ultimate result is still a judgement, any truly ugly gerrymanders should stand out.
The amount of money already spent is completely irrelevant. IBM must weigh the remaining costs against the projected benefits of crushing SCO vs settling.
This is an important tenet of sane business practice. No matter how much money you have already put into something, it does not continued funding unless it is going to geneerate returns to justify its own existence.
Having Darl's head on a spike by the castle gates would be an excellent investment for IBM in terms of a tangible guarantee of how seriously IBM regards their customer's rights to use Linux.
This seems just so fsck-ing stupid to someone outside the US of A (like myself). You can watlz around with a fsck-ing hand-gun and shoot people if they look like they might threaten you (like by saying "trick or treat" or by trying to steal your car which is insured anyway), but thay'll send you to gaol (jail) for recording a movie.
The *AA's are nothing more than medieval guilds, set up with privleges to foster industry, which later served to enforce a monopoly. Their authority to enforce and collect money is a prvilege and not a right.
As time went on, the guild system became increasingly rigid, and the trend toward hereditary membership grew very marked. Thus the development of new trade and industry fell to the capitalists, who adapted themselves to new demands in an age of exploration and expansion. By the 17th cent. the power of the guilds had withered in England, and their privileges were officially abolished in 1835.
CD-ROM is slow, no matter how good the drive is. Wouldn't copying a filesystem to local disk make a difference to performance? Say copy the filesystem image(s) to the local drive using the native OS, and have the bootable CD use such images in preference. As a plus, you could carry around more than one CD worth of stuff without resorting to "Amiga Workbench floppy mode".
You could have a root image that contains basic apps, then additional images for particular task sets.
So how would replacing the BIOS on my PC be any different from modchipping a console?
If it's notalreadyillegal. It probably will be real soon, that or the *AAs will put you in the slammer on a civil charge for abetting theft.
Yes, sure you want it for legitimate purposes, but the prosecution will demonstrate that you are a filthy software/music/video pinko/terrorist/hippie/thief anyway.
I have a friend who buys consoles all the time. He only plays games, and he can upgrade all his hardware for far less than most PC gamers spend on this year's uber video card.
Even with a 3 year life, consoles represent excellent value.
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Shouldn't that be 24x7x52? Or 24x365?
At least your CEO can count on you...
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We have open 802.11 at the cafe in town, and one day we may even tell the office across the road. ;-p
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Let's start a company where we get bands to sign up to giant loans at extortionate rates that we then spend on their behalf by deliberately choosing really crap distribution models that involve shipping slivers of acrylic all over the world. If anyone comes up with a parallel path for musicians, we'll use our artists money to lobby, sue and legislate them out of existence.
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At least you'll rest easy in the knowledge that N'Sync and Brittney are making more money from your CDs than you do.
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But that's their problem. Who's going to bother buying a Trabant when it has an AM radio and 2 stroke side valve engine while the store down the road is giving away fuel efficient, air conditioned kit cars that are easier to assemble than it is to get the Trabbie roadworthy? Oh, and they also have an option list a mile long?
SCO sell nothing worth buying, the SCO letterhead was purchased for mischief.
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As these things run on 60 watts (aka, a small light bulb' worth), I could run a stack of them without having a huge airconditioner. This would be pretty attractive in my current situation where we are paying much more to shift a huge air-con. Also remember that downtown commercial rents are by the sqaure metre/foot.
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The ACT is a administrative territory for the national capital, and we also had an OSS electronic voting system at our last election that is based on Linux
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The Sparc4's I use draw a *maximum* of 53 watts, so as appliances (DHCP, NAT, Squid, DNS) go, they're cheap to run (IMHO). That'd be $3 per month.
:o)
Of course chunkier CPU and video will draw more current, but I think if you got something like a laptop with a broken screen, that'd make a decent, low power unit.
And it's not just power. My study is a lot quieter and cooler since I ditched most of the Yum-Cha PCs in favour of engineered stuff.
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Of course, you'd never see old designs here, the standards bar moves up too fast.
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Most (some?) of them read the iris. A bunch of German guys figured out that a digital picture of the iris held in the right spot would fool some scanners. This sort of picture would be easy to steal using a camera. I wish I still had the link...
Biometrics can be used to improve security, but it's not a substitute for careful design.
Xix.
In the longer term, people have generally gone for "singles" anyway (except maybe for things like opera). I'd guess that albums are a fairly recent phenomenon driven by the capacity of physical media (that we don't need anymore).
Xix.
I actually took quite a while for the banks to capture a complete faux-front. It seems they are very careful not to leave them on for too long, and they do blend in with the ATM quite well. For a while, my bank's ATM would post a toll-free number to call if you noticed anything suspicious attached to the ATM.
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Having Darl's head on a spike by the castle gates would be an excellent investment for IBM in terms of a tangible guarantee of how seriously IBM regards their customer's rights to use Linux.
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This seems just so fsck-ing stupid to someone outside the US of A (like myself). You can watlz around with a fsck-ing hand-gun and shoot people if they look like they might threaten you (like by saying "trick or treat" or by trying to steal your car which is insured anyway), but thay'll send you to gaol (jail) for recording a movie.
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Sound familiar?
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The tech pobably knew that your drive was dead. But there's a script to be followed.
The purpose of such scripts is not to help you, but to get you to go away and stop bothering Dell without having to tell you to fsck-off to your face.
And I can understand not supporting spyware removal. Outsourced helpdesk is all about minimising what you are responsible for.
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Getting ZModem was the coolest.
Being able to resume downloads rather than starting from scratch made life _soo_ much easier.
But you tell kids about XModem, and they'll nawght believe ye!
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CD-ROM is slow, no matter how good the drive is. Wouldn't copying a filesystem to local disk make a difference to performance? Say copy the filesystem image(s) to the local drive using the native OS, and have the bootable CD use such images in preference. As a plus, you could carry around more than one CD worth of stuff without resorting to "Amiga Workbench floppy mode".
You could have a root image that contains basic apps, then additional images for particular task sets.
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.. I wish I'd thought of it. :o)
I do far less "surfing" than before, and Google is my first port of call for most obscure things.
Basically, they would be getting a massive upset in their S/N ratio.
Maybe Wikis will be the cure? Or soem measure on the overall quality of linking...
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Yes, sure you want it for legitimate purposes, but the prosecution will demonstrate that you are a filthy software/music/video pinko/terrorist/hippie/thief anyway.
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This whole exercise probably costs far less than the shuttle's zero-G toilet.
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I have a friend who buys consoles all the time. He only plays games, and he can upgrade all his hardware for far less than most PC gamers spend on this year's uber video card.
Even with a 3 year life, consoles represent excellent value.
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I've been losing cell phones for years!
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