"3) FHS is brain-dead. The UNIX filesystem hierarchy is so 1970's. Real OSs put all applications in seperate directories along with their necessary libraries. OS-X's app bundle along with its XML config files is the greatest thing ever.
How can you take seriously a hierarchy where every single program has its own directory? Imagine the $PATH for that one! Real OSes have each type of file (config file, binary, user files) in seperate directories, or even partitions if necessary. With Linux, to back up the setting, I merely have to back up/etc. And for user settings, I merely back up/home/$USER"
BeOS gives you a little bit of both methods. Each application, if you so desire, can have its own folder located anywhere on the hard drive (usually under/apps). With the BeOS programs I've used, all the settings files get stored under/home/config/settings/[program name]. This way, you can delete/upgrade your executables and still have your old settings handy if you need them later on.
If you don't like Disney's version of Snow White, you can watch Rammstein's version on the bonus CD that comes with their latest album. There is something rather wholesome about a dwarf getting spanked and Snow White shooting up gold dust.
The thing I didn't understand about Captain Planet is that if you shot him with crude oil from a pipeline or something he would be weakened...yet crude oil is a natural substance straight from nature! A lot of that show seemed to be about Jane Fonda/hippie environmental extremism.
The only good episode, in hindsight, is the one where the evil, fat guy started selling gas guzzling cars that pollute heavily. All of the sheeple were buying the cars in droves and polluting the air in their towns like no tomorrow. At the time I thought, "what kind of people would be stupid enough to drive big, useless cars that pollute so much?" Several years later, SUV's became popular and my question was answered.
Hehe, I've saved my clients hundreds of dollars each by pretending to be a student requesting research reports from trade groups. It pays to have a relatively high pitched and youthful voice. However, make sure you do you calls from home (in case they have caller ID) and have the materials sent to your home address (much less suspicious that way).
Why should I pay for another email service when I'm already paying for the email service offered by my ISP? I'd be pissed if @home or fast.net (dial-up back up) forced me to use Outlook and didn't give me the option to drop the cost of email service from my bill.
If those McDonald's workers never gain an understanding of the history of greasetraps and milkshake machines, then they'll always be stuck as burger-flippers and will never have a chance to advance themselves and the fast food industry.
It's not the size of your company that counts; what is important is the total market value of all of its pieces, regardless of capital structure. Spin-offs are a great way to maximize shareholder value. You are able to recogize the full, true value of each new company, rather than having one large company where certain divisions may weigh down the value of other, more profitable divisions.
AT&T and HP did this recently. AT&T broke itself into AT&T, Lucent and NCR. Then the new AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless. HP broke itself into a new HP (computers, printers) and Agilent (test equipment, which was the original business).
AFAIK you can run KDE and GNOME apps under one another as long as you have all the proper underlying api libs installed. The window manager is can be from either KDE, GNOME or something else like WM or Blackbox. I prefer KDE apps + WindowMaker.
I second doing some research on BeOS-based solutions. It runs on X86-based hardware, so you don't have to go out and buy a Mac. The definitive resource for BeOS pro audio solutions can be found at the le Buzz StudioLab.
BeOS, as an operating system, is an excellent environment for audio production, due to its incredibly low latency and flexibility. It's being used in live theatre and concert productions (www.lcsaudio.com) and in specialized editing/recorder devices (www.tascam.com).
...then nab'em. Since this guy *would* like to give you the computers but can't, work out a WWNNSNMSNM (1) system where the computers can be put in a "disposal area" ready for the cleaners to carry off. For effect, make sure some old boxes and garbage is thrown around them. At that point, the computers are officially garbage and you can help the cleaners carry them out.
At my company, it's different. A while back we did a partial company upgrade to Dell PIII's from old P166's and 200's. The older computers were raffled off and given to the lucky winners. Another day, the network room was being cleaned out and they put a bunch of old parts and systems outside the door. An email went out effectively saying "come and get it!!!" Since my office is just a few feet from the network room, I had an early Christmas:-)
(1) Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more.
Limited liability doesn't work that way. If someone is harmed from doing their job, the corporation is still liable. Limited liability is designed to protect the shareholders from being charged. Limited liability is what lets you invest in a dot-com and not be personally liable for its debts when it goes tits-up. You only lose as much as you invested (shareholder value goes down to $0). However, in some instances, the board of directors may be unable to escape liability since they are the ones actually making the decisions.
Don't mess around with arm-chair theories on what a domain name could be worth. If you think you can get a decent price, spend a few bucks and hire a intangibles appraiser to give you a professional and unbiased value.
I'm a member of the American Society of Appraisers, one of the largest and most respected multidisciplinary appraisal industry groups. If you check out their web page, you can find references for intangibles appraisers in your area and around the country. Or, just email me and I could find you some references.
ATA's Chicago Midway - Philadelphia flight is a bitch from hell to deal with. There's always a delay or cancellation. But going the other way, there are no hitches.
The court did approach this from a zoning perspective...specifically they looked at this case and how it applies to the spirit of zoning laws altogether. The court determined that this business would not create "secondary effects" in the neighborhood that would be created if they had been running a regular store/restaurant/adult bookstore/brothel. The whole idea behind the zoning laws is to prevent these secondary effects from encroaching into a neighborhood.
This case would have turned out differently if they had been running any of the abovementioned businesses in a residential neighborhood and had been attacting customers to their location, like a real world business would.
Also, let's say you have 1 million baseball cards in your attic and you want to sell them over Ebay. That's quite a few cards to sell and some would consider that a commercial operation. It's taking place in a residence, but it's not drawing customers since you're not open to the general public.
"What makes anyone think cyberspace is a different world?
For a start I'd have to say because whenever I type "/me shoots Alen." you don't get knocked to the floor with a bloody hole in you.
If I actually came up to you outside of cyberspace and shot you it would likely be different somehow..."
There is no difference between "cyberspace" and the real world, because there is no such thing as cyberspace...sorry to burst your bubble. At most, when one discusses the difference between "cyberspace" and the "real world," they are metaphorically referring to the limitations to human interaction when people are far apart (as in IRC chatting) compared to human interactions when people are together (as in talking face to face).
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For $4, you can get about a month's supply of ramen noodles. Get the chicken or shrimp kind with little bits of meat for some protein.
"3) FHS is brain-dead. The UNIX filesystem hierarchy is so 1970's. Real OSs put all applications in seperate directories along with their necessary libraries. OS-X's app bundle along with its XML config files is the greatest thing ever.
/etc. And for user settings, I merely back up /home/$USER"
/apps). With the BeOS programs I've used, all the settings files get stored under /home/config/settings/[program name]. This way, you can delete/upgrade your executables and still have your old settings handy if you need them later on.
How can you take seriously a hierarchy where every single program has its own directory? Imagine the $PATH for that one! Real OSes have each type of file (config file, binary, user files) in seperate directories, or even partitions if necessary. With Linux, to back up the setting, I merely have to back up
BeOS gives you a little bit of both methods. Each application, if you so desire, can have its own folder located anywhere on the hard drive (usually under
If you don't like Disney's version of Snow White, you can watch Rammstein's version on the bonus CD that comes with their latest album. There is something rather wholesome about a dwarf getting spanked and Snow White shooting up gold dust.
The thing I didn't understand about Captain Planet is that if you shot him with crude oil from a pipeline or something he would be weakened...yet crude oil is a natural substance straight from nature! A lot of that show seemed to be about Jane Fonda/hippie environmental extremism.
The only good episode, in hindsight, is the one where the evil, fat guy started selling gas guzzling cars that pollute heavily. All of the sheeple were buying the cars in droves and polluting the air in their towns like no tomorrow. At the time I thought, "what kind of people would be stupid enough to drive big, useless cars that pollute so much?" Several years later, SUV's became popular and my question was answered.
Hehe, I've saved my clients hundreds of dollars each by pretending to be a student requesting research reports from trade groups. It pays to have a relatively high pitched and youthful voice. However, make sure you do you calls from home (in case they have caller ID) and have the materials sent to your home address (much less suspicious that way).
If a Boolean operator gave a FALSE output, did the case grow longer?
Why should I pay for another email service when I'm already paying for the email service offered by my ISP? I'd be pissed if @home or fast.net (dial-up back up) forced me to use Outlook and didn't give me the option to drop the cost of email service from my bill.
If those McDonald's workers never gain an understanding of the history of greasetraps and milkshake machines, then they'll always be stuck as burger-flippers and will never have a chance to advance themselves and the fast food industry.
MSN is owned by Microsoft, a monopoly. End of story.
However, this reply might imply that ALICE is not a computer at all, but rather a fat, naked guy sitting alone at his computer.
Here's a simple little chat that I tried...the first thing I typed to her was "a/s/l?" and I got the following:
5/Robot/California
Of course, seeing her age, I now feel rather dirty for asking in the first place.
It's not the size of your company that counts; what is important is the total market value of all of its pieces, regardless of capital structure. Spin-offs are a great way to maximize shareholder value. You are able to recogize the full, true value of each new company, rather than having one large company where certain divisions may weigh down the value of other, more profitable divisions.
AT&T and HP did this recently. AT&T broke itself into AT&T, Lucent and NCR. Then the new AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless. HP broke itself into a new HP (computers, printers) and Agilent (test equipment, which was the original business).
AFAIK you can run KDE and GNOME apps under one another as long as you have all the proper underlying api libs installed. The window manager is can be from either KDE, GNOME or something else like WM or Blackbox. I prefer KDE apps + WindowMaker.
I second doing some research on BeOS-based solutions. It runs on X86-based hardware, so you don't have to go out and buy a Mac. The definitive resource for BeOS pro audio solutions can be found at the le Buzz StudioLab.
BeOS, as an operating system, is an excellent environment for audio production, due to its incredibly low latency and flexibility. It's being used in live theatre and concert productions (www.lcsaudio.com) and in specialized editing/recorder devices (www.tascam.com).
...then nab'em. Since this guy *would* like to give you the computers but can't, work out a WWNNSNMSNM (1) system where the computers can be put in a "disposal area" ready for the cleaners to carry off. For effect, make sure some old boxes and garbage is thrown around them. At that point, the computers are officially garbage and you can help the cleaners carry them out.
:-)
At my company, it's different. A while back we did a partial company upgrade to Dell PIII's from old P166's and 200's. The older computers were raffled off and given to the lucky winners. Another day, the network room was being cleaned out and they put a bunch of old parts and systems outside the door. An email went out effectively saying "come and get it!!!" Since my office is just a few feet from the network room, I had an early Christmas
(1) Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more.
Limited liability doesn't work that way. If someone is harmed from doing their job, the corporation is still liable. Limited liability is designed to protect the shareholders from being charged. Limited liability is what lets you invest in a dot-com and not be personally liable for its debts when it goes tits-up. You only lose as much as you invested (shareholder value goes down to $0). However, in some instances, the board of directors may be unable to escape liability since they are the ones actually making the decisions.
Don't mess around with arm-chair theories on what a domain name could be worth. If you think you can get a decent price, spend a few bucks and hire a intangibles appraiser to give you a professional and unbiased value.
I'm a member of the American Society of Appraisers, one of the largest and most respected multidisciplinary appraisal industry groups. If you check out their web page, you can find references for intangibles appraisers in your area and around the country. Or, just email me and I could find you some references.
Do what I do and let it sprawl from the server closet all over the floor of the apartment, running free and wild...just as God intended.
"The SSN is supposed to be used for one thing--Social Security accounting. It's not for credit. It's not for applying for a bank account."
Bank accounts pay interest and banks report the interest they pay you to the IRS. Ever receive a 1099-INT? It's the bank account version of the W2.
Don't you mean Randroid?
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ATA's Chicago Midway - Philadelphia flight is a bitch from hell to deal with. There's always a delay or cancellation. But going the other way, there are no hitches.
FedEx only comes by my office building 2-3 times a day and we have an account with them. Anyway...
If you're a QVC/HSN addict, you'll have a stream of UPS trucks coming by all the time, making deliveries, rather than picking them up.
The court did approach this from a zoning perspective...specifically they looked at this case and how it applies to the spirit of zoning laws altogether. The court determined that this business would not create "secondary effects" in the neighborhood that would be created if they had been running a regular store/restaurant/adult bookstore/brothel. The whole idea behind the zoning laws is to prevent these secondary effects from encroaching into a neighborhood.
This case would have turned out differently if they had been running any of the abovementioned businesses in a residential neighborhood and had been attacting customers to their location, like a real world business would.
Also, let's say you have 1 million baseball cards in your attic and you want to sell them over Ebay. That's quite a few cards to sell and some would consider that a commercial operation. It's taking place in a residence, but it's not drawing customers since you're not open to the general public.
"What makes anyone think cyberspace is a different world?
For a start I'd have to say because whenever I type "/me shoots Alen." you don't get knocked to the floor with a bloody hole in you.
If I actually came up to you outside of cyberspace and shot you it would likely be different somehow..."
There is no difference between "cyberspace" and the real world, because there is no such thing as cyberspace...sorry to burst your bubble. At most, when one discusses the difference between "cyberspace" and the "real world," they are metaphorically referring to the limitations to human interaction when people are far apart (as in IRC chatting) compared to human interactions when people are together (as in talking face to face).
Cyberspace is just as real as heaven and hell.
Come on! This should be modded as funny!