The Apache might fly 20 feet off the deck most of the time, but it is also doing 100+ kias 90% of the time also. So you assertion that NOE (nap of the earth) flying increases its risks to a rpg attack is rediculous under most circumstances.
Really? In wargames against our allies, our Apache pilots routinely hand their simulated enemies their asses to them. Now, do you consider our allies competent allies?
IMHO, they should be required to recall all XP boxes and pay for a qualified technician to install the patch. If anything breaks, Microsoft again pays the bill of fixing it.
Uh, right. I'm going to mail my laptop to Microsoft, not have a computer for a week or more while a trained monkey installs a single patch that any person with enough neurons to form a complete thought could install himself?
Excuse the sarcasm, but this is a great fucking idea. That ranks right up there with the pet rock idea. How about something more realistic, probable, and convenient?
Why doesn't Microsoft get a patch ready, make sure it has no unintended side effects due to the horrible way that Windows was architected, and put it up on Windows Update's website ready to install by default?
Well, my hatred for Microsoft came in the Winter of 2000 when it came time to buy a new laptop. I didn't want to purchase a copy of Windows with the laptop, and I made that very clear. Dell also made it very clear that I was going to pay for that copy of Windows because Dell's OEM contract demanded that Dell pay for a license for Windows for each machine they sold.
In the end, I ended up paying for Windows because it was that or no laptop from Dell. Now, does that sound fair to you?
But on the flipside, Europe has enough knife violence that many european countries require their police forces to wear body armor similiar to bullet proof vests but designed to stop a knife blade instead of a bullet.
If you are talking about kernel features in FreeBSD to allow better support for USB peripherals and the like, then comparing Linux against FreeBSD is like comparing apples to oranges. If you want to talk about a server platform, FreeBSD has better kernel throughput than Linux 2.4 while from a desktop standpoint Linux offers better support. Pick the right tool for the job.
It's not a "well-organized" thing. It's just so freaking hard to get a wiretap warrent in the United States. You have to have some very, very, very good reasons in order for the judge to grant you the warrant, that in most cases it's simply not worth the trouble.
In a nutshell, I guess the disparity in the numbers is a cultural thing. Americans have always been paranoid about the invasiveness of government in every day life so we have built in great protections against this kind of thing into our government. I havent done any research, but I would suspect this is the exact opposite of the Netherlands.
I'm currently working with a few developers across the company on a student courseware web application for an undisclosed university. Our primary means of communication is AIM, and it works out very nicely, though we can contact each other by phone and email also.
Well, the funniest quote is when someone in India says that they are a poor country. Microsoft's ploy with this free software is like crack: The first taste is free. In that regard, the Indian government was very stupid to accept Microsofts offer because the upgrades down the road definately arent going to be free. By that point, they will just be in the same boat as they were before.
In light of these facts, I would have gone with the open source offering, all beliefs aside.
I think you are missing point. It's my understanding that AOL is targetting this at the low-end of the market for people that dont necessarily need a powerful computer, but just merely wish to run AOL and pretty much nothing else.
Also, a system from Dell would cost several times more than this offering from AOL, and would probably be more than some AOL users would need. All they would really care about is signing on to AOL and occasionally doing some word processing, none of which would be too much for this system apparently. It's really just a niche market for AOL.
I'm running kernel 2.4.18 with ext3. It really just depends on how much work you want to put into your system after Debian finishes installing. Switching from ext2 to ext3 literally took me less than 10 minutes.
If you cant beat them(OSS), then make it where whatever computer they are later forced to buy will be forced to only run Windows. I sent of my comment on the DRM Workshop that is being held, and I suggest everyone else do so also.
I warned Microsoft would probably pull something like this to stifle competition. I just wish the government would see it that way too. Now I'm kicking myself in the ass, wondering why the hell I voted for George W. Bush.
I bought the latest Staind CD about a month back, and it appears to have copy protection. Apparently, thanks to the DMCA, I cant rip it to my hard drive to make mp3s out of it. I keep all my CD's in my Xterra, so this pretty much sucks. Thanks, DMCA!
I grew up in the shadow of the Cold War, along with many youths my age. I remember the principal of free speach and the time-honored principal of pointing out flaws before they became a problem. I remember these same principals landed people in prison back in the USSR back in those days.
Now these things are legal back in Russia, but not the United States? The United States is becoming a puppet to Corporate America, with our God given rights at the expense. Once one fundamental right is taken away, future encroachments are much easier to justify and pretty soon we begin to look like the former USSR.
Another premise on which the United States was formed on was the belief that intellectual property belongs to everyone. In the beginning, the government gave a limited monopoly to copyright owners giving them temporary ownership of that information, and after which that copyright expired the information became free to everyone. Under this ideal, the concept of fair use developed, another American concept handed down by the Founding Fathers at the inception of this great country.
It is with these points that the DMCA is unjust and violates every principle the United States stands for. If it violates these principles, the law is Un-American and is a threat to the very foundation of this very country that many have proudly fought and died for. If Dmitri Sklyarov was arrested on upholding these principles, then he is more American than those that framed this mangled and twisted law. Free Skylarov and let him go back to the new land of the free because as long as this law is in place and Skylarov is in jail, we are no better than the USSR.
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Why do this research in space when you could do the same research on a certain CEO in Utah in a lab for much cheaper. Oh, wait... too late.
The Apache might fly 20 feet off the deck most of the time, but it is also doing 100+ kias 90% of the time also. So you assertion that NOE (nap of the earth) flying increases its risks to a rpg attack is rediculous under most circumstances.
Really? In wargames against our allies, our Apache pilots routinely hand their simulated enemies their asses to them. Now, do you consider our allies competent allies?
IMHO, they should be required to recall all XP boxes and pay for a qualified technician to install the patch. If anything breaks, Microsoft again pays the bill of fixing it.
Uh, right. I'm going to mail my laptop to Microsoft, not have a computer for a week or more while a trained monkey installs a single patch that any person with enough neurons to form a complete thought could install himself?
Excuse the sarcasm, but this is a great fucking idea. That ranks right up there with the pet rock idea. How about something more realistic, probable, and convenient?
Why doesn't Microsoft get a patch ready, make sure it has no unintended side effects due to the horrible way that Windows was architected, and put it up on Windows Update's website ready to install by default?
Well, my hatred for Microsoft came in the Winter of 2000 when it came time to buy a new laptop. I didn't want to purchase a copy of Windows with the laptop, and I made that very clear. Dell also made it very clear that I was going to pay for that copy of Windows because Dell's OEM contract demanded that Dell pay for a license for Windows for each machine they sold.
In the end, I ended up paying for Windows because it was that or no laptop from Dell. Now, does that sound fair to you?
But on the flipside, Europe has enough knife violence that many european countries require their police forces to wear body armor similiar to bullet proof vests but designed to stop a knife blade instead of a bullet.
If you are talking about kernel features in FreeBSD to allow better support for USB peripherals and the like, then comparing Linux against FreeBSD is like comparing apples to oranges. If you want to talk about a server platform, FreeBSD has better kernel throughput than Linux 2.4 while from a desktop standpoint Linux offers better support. Pick the right tool for the job.
I dont think you can actually put restrictions on the use of your software using the GPL and LGPL. I could be wrong, but this is my interpretation.
I'm sure if some people actually supported Mandrake by buying their product they wouldn't be going out of business now.
And maybe if Mandrake wasn't screwing their best customers, they wouldn't be going out of business now either.
It's not a "well-organized" thing. It's just so freaking hard to get a wiretap warrent in the United States. You have to have some very, very, very good reasons in order for the judge to grant you the warrant, that in most cases it's simply not worth the trouble.
In a nutshell, I guess the disparity in the numbers is a cultural thing. Americans have always been paranoid about the invasiveness of government in every day life so we have built in great protections against this kind of thing into our government. I havent done any research, but I would suspect this is the exact opposite of the Netherlands.
He sold his RedHat stock options and bought a nice house for him and his family in California. That's worth at least half a mil.
I'm currently working with a few developers across the company on a student courseware web application for an undisclosed university. Our primary means of communication is AIM, and it works out very nicely, though we can contact each other by phone and email also.
Well, the funniest quote is when someone in India says that they are a poor country. Microsoft's ploy with this free software is like crack: The first taste is free. In that regard, the Indian government was very stupid to accept Microsofts offer because the upgrades down the road definately arent going to be free. By that point, they will just be in the same boat as they were before.
In light of these facts, I would have gone with the open source offering, all beliefs aside.
You are allowed to revese engineer under the DMCA in order to create interoperable software, I believe.
According to the corrections mentioned at the end, Lindows does indeed have a firewall built in, but just lacks a GUI to configure it.
I think you are missing point. It's my understanding that AOL is targetting this at the low-end of the market for people that dont necessarily need a powerful computer, but just merely wish to run AOL and pretty much nothing else.
Also, a system from Dell would cost several times more than this offering from AOL, and would probably be more than some AOL users would need. All they would really care about is signing on to AOL and occasionally doing some word processing, none of which would be too much for this system apparently. It's really just a niche market for AOL.
I'm running kernel 2.4.18 with ext3. It really just depends on how much work you want to put into your system after Debian finishes installing. Switching from ext2 to ext3 literally took me less than 10 minutes.
If you cant beat them(OSS), then make it where whatever computer they are later forced to buy will be forced to only run Windows. I sent of my comment on the DRM Workshop that is being held, and I suggest everyone else do so also.
I warned Microsoft would probably pull something like this to stifle competition. I just wish the government would see it that way too. Now I'm kicking myself in the ass, wondering why the hell I voted for George W. Bush.
I bought the latest Staind CD about a month back, and it appears to have copy protection. Apparently, thanks to the DMCA, I cant rip it to my hard drive to make mp3s out of it. I keep all my CD's in my Xterra, so this pretty much sucks. Thanks, DMCA!
I grew up in the shadow of the Cold War, along with many youths my age. I remember the principal of free speach and the time-honored principal of pointing out flaws before they became a problem. I remember these same principals landed people in prison back in the USSR back in those days.
Now these things are legal back in Russia, but not the United States? The United States is becoming a puppet to Corporate America, with our God given rights at the expense. Once one fundamental right is taken away, future encroachments are much easier to justify and pretty soon we begin to look like the former USSR.
Another premise on which the United States was formed on was the belief that intellectual property belongs to everyone. In the beginning, the government gave a limited monopoly to copyright owners giving them temporary ownership of that information, and after which that copyright expired the information became free to everyone. Under this ideal, the concept of fair use developed, another American concept handed down by the Founding Fathers at the inception of this great country.
It is with these points that the DMCA is unjust and violates every principle the United States stands for. If it violates these principles, the law is Un-American and is a threat to the very foundation of this very country that many have proudly fought and died for. If Dmitri Sklyarov was arrested on upholding these principles, then he is more American than those that framed this mangled and twisted law. Free Skylarov and let him go back to the new land of the free because as long as this law is in place and Skylarov is in jail, we are no better than the USSR.