I've had several LED flashlights so far and I can say that they are simply amazing. Batteries last a really long time. My kids got ahold of my PricetonTec flashlight and left it on for an entire day. The batteries were'nt dead.
I recenly bought a bunch of Inova Microlights to pass out at work as a going away gift and the amout of light they product for their size in amazing.
You'd be suprised both by how quickly people adapt to software that is 80-90% the same as MS products. You'd also be amazed how little people know about the software they use now. It wasn't that long ago that huge companies were rolling out Windows to replace Unix based systems. Users adapt. I've seen it firsthand.
The first place I'd start would be to suggest a test network, say convert some division within your company. Start by replacing everthing on the server-side. Samba networks, SMTP mail servers,etc. Maybe a phpGroupware or another collaboration suite setup to replace Outlook.
Next time one of these worms or viruses hit you can compare how the regular network and your test network fared and present the results to the corporate managment.
Also make the case for replacing the many clients with Linux/OpenOffice installs. As part of the proposal suggest adding 1 techie to the payroll for every 10-20 client computers you roll over to Linux. Station these techies in the same offices where the users are located. Remote tech support isn't user friendly.
What baffles me is that even with all this evidence for the need for operating system diversity in the corporate realm both corporate America and the US government are eliminating anything non-Microsoft. Lemmings.
What is it going to take? Ships sinking? Trains being derailed? Satellites dropping out of orbit?
At first I became upset that SCO/Caldera's claims were being taken at face value and the opinions of the "in the know" people ignored. SCO's stock prices have gone through the roof and the SCO management has already profited from their scam.
But then I realized that the investors who is inevitably lose their ass' on SCO stock will get what they deserve.
It isn't the government or the legal system that is allowing SCO's plan to succeed. It is the gullability of uneducated investors.
I'll say that they changed the rules midgame. I'd bet most people even today are under the impression that if they bought something they own it. Computers and software were no different.
A few years ago the consumer software industry wanted to start enforcing the per-user licensing. Of course the technology for enforcing per-user licensing has been around since the 80's. So don't even bother mentioning the "anti-copying" technologies.
What percent of the population do you think keeps receipts for home hardware two and three years after installing it? I'm betting less than one percent. Most peope go to their hardware store, buy the toilet, install it and forget about it. Since you can't really write off home improvements anymore even fewer people will be keeping receipts.
I would blame the software vendors for making proof of ownership too difficult (for over a decade most people tossed the software packaging). They changes the rules midgame and the politicians let them get away with it.
Most businesses being small businesses or starting out as small businesses' aren't that savvy about IP law. Or the DCMA. In the end the market will react either by the software vendors backing off, the law changing, or people doing what this guy did and choosing alternatives.
Show me proof of ownership for your toilet. Bet you can't!
Considering the kind of backstabbing the US has gotten over the last decade for opening its markets to world competition I think it is time to start protecting domestic markets again.
Reciprocity with Europe and Asia has been very poor. Meanwhile we have pushed more and more manfacturing and in some case service jobs abroad.
I bet you still can't buy Kodak film in Japan or a legal music CD outside Europe and the US.
The world is a parasitic circle jerk system, everyone screws the next little guy down the ladder and those at the bottom of the ladder are slaves for those above them. Those at the top are the oppressors and the tyrants.
Your rant is just more typical liberal jibberish bullshit that blames other people for their own actions. Anyone living above your standard of living is an "oppressor" and anyone living below is "oppressed". Bullshit!
The truth is likely that Americans understand politicians are corrupt and in the hands of big business. The problem is that rather than that generating a force to change things for the better it has given politicians lease to do even more against the best interrests of the public without fear of being singled out.
A killer app that just happens to also be GPL'd that you can use to create PDF files on-the-fly with in Windows is called PDFCreator. Basically it is a PostScript to PDF convertor. Installed it just appears as a new printer. When you print to PDFCreator it prompts you where to save the resulting file. The file created also has selectable text.
I've seen the plans morph for CVX over the last decade. One thing to keep in mid is that the USS Enterprise was commissioned in the 50's and is still in use. The next generation of carriers will probably have a service length twice that of Nimitz class. Planning for 100+ years of technological improvments is almost impossible. Your grandparents were probably driving an Edsel and hand cranking their phones when the current carriers were being developed.
Oh back in the day when your computer locked up once a week because the USB errors had maxxed outthe limit for error log size. All because MS wouldn't release a USB driver for NT even though motherboard manufacturers had been including them for years.
For awhile it looked like MS would do the samething with USB2 to force people to upgrade from Win2K to XP. But yesterday they released Win2K SP4 to include a USB2.0 driver.
Educate yourself aboutt he CIA, FBI and other agencies who produce and use Intel first. You do little credit to the rest of the crowd by sounding so ignorant.
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So the liars get to cash in their stock valued with the market expectation of this updated product. Sadly, they'll get away with it too.
Its a good thing MS already bought the legislature or they'd have somthing to worry about.
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Dows this mean they have to stop selling the t-shirts too?
I recenly bought a bunch of Inova Microlights to pass out at work as a going away gift and the amout of light they product for their size in amazing.
I've been really itching to get ahold of a next generation Luxeon Star LED light. The CMG Sonic and Infinity look prety sturdy.
More information and comparisons on LEDs and LED flashlights han be found here.
Is this thing going to launch before or after they launch their GPS replacement system? Or finish the ISS?
Besides, shuttles just are soooo 80's.
You'd be suprised both by how quickly people adapt to software that is 80-90% the same as MS products. You'd also be amazed how little people know about the software they use now. It wasn't that long ago that huge companies were rolling out Windows to replace Unix based systems. Users adapt. I've seen it firsthand.
The first place I'd start would be to suggest a test network, say convert some division within your company. Start by replacing everthing on the server-side. Samba networks, SMTP mail servers,etc. Maybe a phpGroupware or another collaboration suite setup to replace Outlook.
Next time one of these worms or viruses hit you can compare how the regular network and your test network fared and present the results to the corporate managment.
Also make the case for replacing the many clients with Linux/OpenOffice installs. As part of the proposal suggest adding 1 techie to the payroll for every 10-20 client computers you roll over to Linux. Station these techies in the same offices where the users are located. Remote tech support isn't user friendly.
Then I'd advise choosing the OS that's not the #1 choice for virii writers. MS does make it awful easy for them.
What baffles me is that even with all this evidence for the need for operating system diversity in the corporate realm both corporate America and the US government are eliminating anything non-Microsoft. Lemmings.
What is it going to take? Ships sinking? Trains being derailed? Satellites dropping out of orbit?
But then I realized that the investors who is inevitably lose their ass' on SCO stock will get what they deserve.
It isn't the government or the legal system that is allowing SCO's plan to succeed. It is the gullability of uneducated investors.
Give each employee a computer as a bonus to use at work along with a list of recommended software.
I'll say that they changed the rules midgame. I'd bet most people even today are under the impression that if they bought something they own it. Computers and software were no different.
A few years ago the consumer software industry wanted to start enforcing the per-user licensing. Of course the technology for enforcing per-user licensing has been around since the 80's. So don't even bother mentioning the "anti-copying" technologies.
What percent of the population do you think keeps receipts for home hardware two and three years after installing it? I'm betting less than one percent. Most peope go to their hardware store, buy the toilet, install it and forget about it. Since you can't really write off home improvements anymore even fewer people will be keeping receipts.
Most businesses being small businesses or starting out as small businesses' aren't that savvy about IP law. Or the DCMA. In the end the market will react either by the software vendors backing off, the law changing, or people doing what this guy did and choosing alternatives.
Show me proof of ownership for your toilet. Bet you can't!
Just repackage it as the dissident locating and tracking service. Heck, I bet the US gov't already bought an Enterprise license.
Considering the kind of backstabbing the US has gotten over the last decade for opening its markets to world competition I think it is time to start protecting domestic markets again.
Reciprocity with Europe and Asia has been very poor. Meanwhile we have pushed more and more manfacturing and in some case service jobs abroad.
I bet you still can't buy Kodak film in Japan or a legal music CD outside Europe and the US.
I think perhaps that you are lying to yourself.
Your rant is just more typical liberal jibberish bullshit that blames other people for their own actions. Anyone living above your standard of living is an "oppressor" and anyone living below is "oppressed". Bullshit!
The truth is likely that Americans understand politicians are corrupt and in the hands of big business. The problem is that rather than that generating a force to change things for the better it has given politicians lease to do even more against the best interrests of the public without fear of being singled out.
I think the majority of Americans understand this as all some stupid game and one side has already bribed the referees.
Ex1: Disney's obvious bribing of Congress to get the Copyright length extended.
Ex2: AOL, Microsoft etc bribing state politicians to pass DCMA even though it is as anti-consumer a law as you can get.
and so on....
A killer app that just happens to also be GPL'd that you can use to create PDF files on-the-fly with in Windows is called PDFCreator. Basically it is a PostScript to PDF convertor. Installed it just appears as a new printer. When you print to PDFCreator it prompts you where to save the resulting file. The file created also has selectable text.
I've seen the plans morph for CVX over the last decade. One thing to keep in mid is that the USS Enterprise was commissioned in the 50's and is still in use. The next generation of carriers will probably have a service length twice that of Nimitz class. Planning for 100+ years of technological improvments is almost impossible. Your grandparents were probably driving an Edsel and hand cranking their phones when the current carriers were being developed.
Oh back in the day when your computer locked up once a week because the USB errors had maxxed outthe limit for error log size. All because MS wouldn't release a USB driver for NT even though motherboard manufacturers had been including them for years.
For awhile it looked like MS would do the samething with USB2 to force people to upgrade from Win2K to XP. But yesterday they released Win2K SP4 to include a USB2.0 driver.
Educate yourself aboutt he CIA, FBI and other agencies who produce and use Intel first. You do little credit to the rest of the crowd by sounding so ignorant.
A terrorist is a militant who specifically targets and attacks civilians.