How is the parent to this +5? Rogerborg doesn't know a thing about how books are remaindered or reimbursed for by the publishing companies.
If Amazon was selling remaindered books, the publishers would sue them so fast it would make their heads spin. The publishers are always on the lookout for people selling remaindered books.
It's not like it's hard to spot a remaindered book - they don't have covers (that's what is sent back to the publishers for the refund).
Credit Card companies are banks. A lot are banks set up to just do credit cards, but they are banks.
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I mean to be forced to get his warez at CompUsa instead of getting a copy from a friend... He probably has no internet connection either since he could have easily downloaded office if he had. This is a very sad story.
I thought it was obvious he didn't have any friends. Friends don't let friends use Microsoft software.
I'm not a big fan of MST3k. I would really like it except for those idiots at the bottom of the screen and make fun of the movie. It really gets on my nerves.
You might think you're being funny, but my dad has seriously made the same comment.
Thanksgiving isn't as much fun since CC stopped doing the Turkey Day marathon...
According to the CNet article, "HP plans to support existing customers for the next five years, two sources said. Sales of existing systems and upgrades will continue through the end of 2002." Since the systems you have won't suddenly stop working when HP stops supporting them, you probably have 6 or 7 year before things are really critical.
It is time to start planning a migration strategy. Evidently there are already some tools available to migrate to other platforms but this might be a good chance for your company to take a step back and reexamine the system as a whole - a rewrite might be in order.
Someone tell me WHY he's bothering to make an OS....
If you actually read the interview, you'll see that he's writing it for fun. He's not writing a 'take over the world,' 'free people from Micro$oft' operating system.
If you want to write CD-ROM support for it, I'm sure he'd be happy to let you.
Actually, according to the GPL, they only have to give the source code to the people that they give the software to. Most companies/groups give GPL'd source to anyone that asks - but they don't have to.
OTOH, the GPL also states that anyone who gets the software can redistribute it however they want - as long as they make the source available to the people they gave the binaries to (just like the original seller). I just can't see a company that buys software for $3000 giving it away to everyone else for free, however.
NOTE: if you read some of the information on the HP site (as point to in other messages), HP is making their Linux changes available for everyone. They do have non-GPL'd software available in their distribution (whaich can't be given away). This is also within the terms of the GPL.
I've been to the one at the DuPage Fair Grounds (http://www.giantcomputershow.com/) many times. It's ok, but not always worth the price unless you know exactly what you want & the price you want to pay. Be sure to get the $1 off coupon through their web site ($5 instead of $6).
Most parties with patents are not required to disclose them in the standards setting process, van den Beld said.
Is this true? Consider this article from Fortune about
Rambus, in which they were dinged for not disclosing a patent to a standards committee.
Different standards committees have different rules. The committee that Rambus was on required the disclosure of patents (with a contract, I believe).
Remember, with the notable exception of ANSI & ISO, most 'standards committees' are industry groups formed for specific purposes and with rules based upon varying goals.
If you write/distribute GPLed software, the people you sell/give it to have the right to distribute it however they want (free or for $$$$).
You don't have to distribute the software to everyone but you do have to make the source available to the people who you do distribute the software to - you don't have to make the source available to anyone else. But, you also con't restrict your users from giving it to the rest of the world.
If AOL isn't going to switch to a new Netscape or Mozilla browser to base their client upon, what happens to Netscape?
Simple. AOL will continue to use Netscape for what they always have - a bargaining weapon when they negotiate with Microsoft.
If you look at the way AOL positions/uses Netscape, this become obvious. AOL is not a software company (even though they write software), their only real product is their service (exempting the large Time-Warner chunk, of course).
My Parents live out in the middle of nowhere and used to have a big dish. It was great to visit them and see the live news & sports feeds (and next weeks shows), but then the networks started to encrypt the news & sports feeds (losing 'paying' customers).
And that's all they'll do now, start encrypting the rest of the 'free' stuff available to the big dishes. Someone will say 'we'll just unencrypt it' - probably, you'll probably be done after the show's aired.
Exactly! I worked for a medium sized company when it decided to implement SAP R/4 and the cost of the SAP R/4 software was (relatively) minor compared to the orhter costs.
At $2000/week for the cheap classes, it doesn't take long for the training cost to soar past the software cost (and we had lots of people in training for over 8 weeks).
Add to that the fact that they sent the entire programming staff (mainly AS/400 RPG programmers...) to several ABAP programming courses each. This wasn't an 'upgrade our workers' tactic so much as it was a 'keep the obsolete programmers happy enough until we can jetison them when we don't need them anymore' tactic.
Another factor in the cost of SAP is that (IIRC) 1/3rd of the staff trained on SAP leaves before the rollout (to be highly paid SAP consultants). At least that's the way it was in 1999, it's probably changed a bit by now.
free speech does not mean that the newspapers have to publish whatever you want to say, even if you offer to pay for it.
I agree. My disagreement is with the faculty/students who aren't involved with the paper demanding that the ad not be run (and demanding (and getting) appologies from the editors that ran it). If you haven't, read some of the salon.com stories/columns about this to find out how just how far some people are going to block ideas they don't agree with.
I'd bet that most of them would be screaming bloody murder if they couldn't get their ads run. The hypocrisy just amazes me...
look at the "My 15 minutes" column by David Horowitz (on Salon.com). It's part of the on-going 'battle' he is having trying to get his anti-reparations ad into college papers. Mainly, because he isn't agreeing with the liberals on campus, colleges have refused to run his ad and some editors have !!appoligized!! for running it. (and at Brown, 'activists' stole the paper so that no one could see it!)
Pretty much it seems like their mantra is 'Everyone has a right to be heard, as long as we agree with you.'
The left is looking more and more like the facist right.
Dude...Lucas doesn't care, episode one was evidence of that.
I agree with your opinion, but I still think that Episode #2 will be better - mainly because Lucas wants good licensing revenue from Episode #3!
Considering the bath that most licensees took from Episode #1 merchandise, I doubt if they're going to pay top dollar for an Episode #2 license. If #2 is good, they'll pay more for #3 - if not, expect to see little stuff out for #3.
Expect #2 to be better because if not, it'll hurt Lucas in his most sensitive place - his wallet!
As far as I understand it, NASA refused because they did not want the possibility that anybody might see the ISS as a Russian station with American modules rather than a joint project or maybe the reverse.
Sort of right. Originally the Russians didn't want the stations to be near each other because of communication problems - it takes 2+ hours for them to configure their communications facilities for each station, hence the stations need to be at least that far apart with more being better...
Less then a month before the launch of the first element, 'Russia' asked if it could put it closer to MIR (probably to bring over some modules - it would be cheaper for them and they don't have much money). Of course, the Russians that asked for this were ignoring the communication problem (it hadn't gone away) and weren't from the group who knew what it really took to run both MIR and IIS. The Russian space program is really a whole bunch of minor agencies and commerical entities all trying to get a bigger slice of a shrinking pie.
All of the sites that I've found (including the sites mentioned in this article/followup) seem to be mainly focused on MS-Windows. My favorite in this genre is Code Project (although it used to be Code Guru until they sold out to developer.com - the site useability went downhill fast after that).
Arre there any sites like this that aren't focused on MS-Windows? I'd prefer a 'generic' site, but one with a Linux/Open Source/*nix slant would be fine also.
I hate replying to what is probably a flamebait, but...
Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs by Steve Maguire is a good book on the subject. Ignoring the obvious anti-MS mindset of the original poster, this book has good techniques for any platform.
One of the books I rate higher then this is Steve McConnell's "Code Complete," which is also from MS Press. Maybe MS doesn't read their own books - but a lot of the are great.
No time. IIRC, Skynet sent the terminator back as a last-minute attempt to keep the humans from winning (or at least capturing something important).
That's why the humans were able to send someone back to save Sarah, they captured Skynet's time machine.
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How is the parent to this +5? Rogerborg doesn't know a thing about how books are remaindered or reimbursed for by the publishing companies.
If Amazon was selling remaindered books, the publishers would sue them so fast it would make their heads spin. The publishers are always on the lookout for people selling remaindered books.
It's not like it's hard to spot a remaindered book - they don't have covers (that's what is sent back to the publishers for the refund).
"what are they then? a Credit card compny?"
Credit Card companies are banks. A lot are banks set up to just do credit cards, but they are banks.
Cool, where? Now I can give my wife a real reason not to throw it away!
oh, I bet you're just joking...
A link would be nice. I found xsnow at freshmeat.
You might think you're being funny, but my dad has seriously made the same comment.
Thanksgiving isn't as much fun since CC stopped doing the Turkey Day marathon...
It is time to start planning a migration strategy. Evidently there are already some tools available to migrate to other platforms but this might be a good chance for your company to take a step back and reexamine the system as a whole - a rewrite might be in order.
If you want to write CD-ROM support for it, I'm sure he'd be happy to let you.
OTOH, the GPL also states that anyone who gets the software can redistribute it however they want - as long as they make the source available to the people they gave the binaries to (just like the original seller). I just can't see a company that buys software for $3000 giving it away to everyone else for free, however.
NOTE: if you read some of the information on the HP site (as point to in other messages), HP is making their Linux changes available for everyone. They do have non-GPL'd software available in their distribution (whaich can't be given away). This is also within the terms of the GPL.
Got my CD in today's mail - fast and free.
Interestingly enough, it was actually mailed from Germany (SAP's home base) rather the through SAP-USA.
Now I just need to find time to play with it...
I've been to the one at the DuPage Fair Grounds (http://www.giantcomputershow.com/) many times. It's ok, but not always worth the price unless you know exactly what you want & the price you want to pay. Be sure to get the $1 off coupon through their web site ($5 instead of $6).
Remember, with the notable exception of ANSI & ISO, most 'standards committees' are industry groups formed for specific purposes and with rules based upon varying goals.
There is a check box on the address form that allows SAP to use the personal information for 'internal uses.' Easily unchecked, though.
If you write/distribute GPLed software, the people you sell/give it to have the right to distribute it however they want (free or for $$$$).
You don't have to distribute the software to everyone but you do have to make the source available to the people who you do distribute the software to - you don't have to make the source available to anyone else. But, you also con't restrict your users from giving it to the rest of the world.
If you look at the way AOL positions/uses Netscape, this become obvious. AOL is not a software company (even though they write software), their only real product is their service (exempting the large Time-Warner chunk, of course).
My Parents live out in the middle of nowhere and used to have a big dish. It was great to visit them and see the live news & sports feeds (and next weeks shows), but then the networks started to encrypt the news & sports feeds (losing 'paying' customers).
And that's all they'll do now, start encrypting the rest of the 'free' stuff available to the big dishes. Someone will say 'we'll just unencrypt it' - probably, you'll probably be done after the show's aired.
Exactly! I worked for a medium sized company when it decided to implement SAP R/4 and the cost of the SAP R/4 software was (relatively) minor compared to the orhter costs.
At $2000/week for the cheap classes, it doesn't take long for the training cost to soar past the software cost (and we had lots of people in training for over 8 weeks).
Add to that the fact that they sent the entire programming staff (mainly AS/400 RPG programmers...) to several ABAP programming courses each. This wasn't an 'upgrade our workers' tactic so much as it was a 'keep the obsolete programmers happy enough until we can jetison them when we don't need them anymore' tactic.
Another factor in the cost of SAP is that (IIRC) 1/3rd of the staff trained on SAP leaves before the rollout (to be highly paid SAP consultants). At least that's the way it was in 1999, it's probably changed a bit by now.
I agree. My disagreement is with the faculty/students who aren't involved with the paper demanding that the ad not be run (and demanding (and getting) appologies from the editors that ran it). If you haven't, read some of the salon.com stories/columns about this to find out how just how far some people are going to block ideas they don't agree with.
I'd bet that most of them would be screaming bloody murder if they couldn't get their ads run. The hypocrisy just amazes me...
Pretty much it seems like their mantra is 'Everyone has a right to be heard, as long as we agree with you.'
The left is looking more and more like the facist right.
I agree with your opinion, but I still think that Episode #2 will be better - mainly because Lucas wants good licensing revenue from Episode #3!
Considering the bath that most licensees took from Episode #1 merchandise, I doubt if they're going to pay top dollar for an Episode #2 license. If #2 is good, they'll pay more for #3 - if not, expect to see little stuff out for #3.
Expect #2 to be better because if not, it'll hurt Lucas in his most sensitive place - his wallet!
Sort of right. Originally the Russians didn't want the stations to be near each other because of communication problems - it takes 2+ hours for them to configure their communications facilities for each station, hence the stations need to be at least that far apart with more being better...
Less then a month before the launch of the first element, 'Russia' asked if it could put it closer to MIR (probably to bring over some modules - it would be cheaper for them and they don't have much money). Of course, the Russians that asked for this were ignoring the communication problem (it hadn't gone away) and weren't from the group who knew what it really took to run both MIR and IIS. The Russian space program is really a whole bunch of minor agencies and commerical entities all trying to get a bigger slice of a shrinking pie.
Arre there any sites like this that aren't focused on MS-Windows? I'd prefer a 'generic' site, but one with a Linux/Open Source/*nix slant would be fine also.
Patents are issued for 17 years - I think you might be thinking of copyrights.
I hate replying to what is probably a flamebait, but...
Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs by Steve Maguire is a good book on the subject. Ignoring the obvious anti-MS mindset of the original poster, this book has good techniques for any platform.
One of the books I rate higher then this is Steve McConnell's "Code Complete," which is also from MS Press. Maybe MS doesn't read their own books - but a lot of the are great.
No time. IIRC, Skynet sent the terminator back as a last-minute attempt to keep the humans from winning (or at least capturing something important).
That's why the humans were able to send someone back to save Sarah, they captured Skynet's time machine.