The form of the terminal is different from a conventional computer terminal, both in the simplicity of its operation and in the form of its display.
Did anyone notice that? "... different from a conventional computer terminal..." does that mean they cannot enforce it on conventional computer terminals because they specifically said it was not applicable to them? Just something that caught my eye.
Forgive me if someone already brought this to the communities attention, but I thought this might be of interest. Lets see if Nike tries to silence my viewpoint here.:)
Direct quote from Nike's website: Finally, in several developing countries, labor laws allow companies to pay workers a minimum wage with a combination of cash and non-cash benefits. Nike however, requires a full cash minimum wage.
Farther down the page: People around the world working in Nike factories are paid a fair wage, which often combines cash with allowances for meals, housing, transportation, health care and even cash bonuses. Nike sets the cash wage for entry level workers using the standards set by local governments or trade unions in each country.
A fair wage they say? Does that mean they get all of the minimum wage in cash, plus bonuses? Notice they never quote any actual figures on the pages, just use generalizations and percentages. Refuting possibly ambiguous claims (I haven't read the book yet) with their own ambiguous claims doesn't do much to clarify the issue. They don't practice full disclosure and wonder why people give them a hard time. -djneko
I never thought I'd be the one coming to BGates' defense, but... do you know how much money BG gave to charities last year? I read the other day that it was something like $16 BILLION!
He gave that money to the Bill and Melinda Gates something-or-the-other charity foundation. That was a $16B tax write off, and his net worth was still over $70B after he gave away that money. He could give about $7 to every man, woman and child on this planet and still have billions left over (assuming he could convert all that net worth to cash}
HOWEVER... giving money to charities does not necessarily make him good, or better than anyone in the free/open software/source movement. If everyone had free/open software. They are giving, and giving a lot, just not in ways as easily quantifiable to the materialistic nation we live in. Money != Everything. And if it did, think of all the money that we could save with OSS (not only price of software, but downtime and security risks, etc etc) and give to charities of our choosing instead of Microsoft, which give to charities they control?
After a lifetime of being mean-spirited, Gates could redeem himself by acting with truly good intentions. However, I don't think giving to his own charities to make himself look good and get write-offs qualifies him for that. Mega-Rich people like Gates don't get where they are by being nice. They get where they are by any means possible.
-dj P.S. Go Woz! I really admire the work you are doing.
Actually, you just buy two ATA66 27gb maxtors for 200 each, plus a ATA66 card for 50 bucks, and you have 55 GB for 80 or so bucks. (My friend did something similar) Personally, I just got a nice 19" Sony Trinitron. Now I can't see my living room from where I sit in the corner. And thanks to MS (never thought I'd be saying that in any non-sarcastic manner) it was only $250. Occasionally, I love this country. This is one of those times.
-dj
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How many people were servicing equipment how old for the whole y2k (and I thank them for making it a) non-issue? The code was written the way it was because people weren't expecting the systems to be around for that long. Please don't prove yourself as shortsighted at the programmers who thought their work would all have been replaced by now. Just because the technofetishistic are always upgrading their equipment doesn't mean everybody does. Corporate greed for pushing the bottom line is an amazing thing. Microsoft, biggest tech company out there, programmed a non-y2k compliant operating system 4 years ago that was on 80% of desktops.
Don't rest easy my friend. If people smarter than you or I had, we might not be here mouthing off today. We'd be busy inventing a binary system for smoke signals.
Or how about this idea. Go to the eToys(R) website and search for items likes "wrongful suit against etoy.com" and "illegal litigation", etc. etc. Search for ten things or so, browse their website, and then leave without buying anything, and maybe leave some feedback first about their search engine not bringing up anything for your search terms (don't mention what they are, so that way someone might check the logs and freak out).
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there some danger in not patenting their design, especially the way the US Patent Office seems to be promiscuously handing out patents for stupid stuff that is in common use? If amazon.com can get a patent on their "1 click shopping"(r) even though it would seem to be a pretty common practice (and I recently bought from a website that had an option to save your info for the next time you visited... hmmm, sounds like a patent violation there...), couldn't a big, meal ol' company like Intel come along and patent the design?
Wouldn't a better idea be to patent the design and then GPL it, or something similar to that? Remember, Intel isn't making faster chips to make the world a better place, they're making faster chips because they like downloading greenbits from your wallet.
If it's from MS, the security is crap. everything else is better by comparison. Linux is pretty good if you're a Linux guru. Same thing with any other flavor of UNIX. But no matter how good you are, there's someone out there who is better than you.
And you ignored the comments from the other members totally because... ? Did you miss the part from the same member about "Linux: If it breaks, you fix it", meaning that because all the source is available to you, when something is wrong you can get in there and fix it yourself. The kernel for Linux has an official release at least every few months that I see, while the NT kernel is upgraded, what, every couple of years? And you can upgrade parts of the OS, without having to have an insecure, slow browser as part of your OS. Because NT is closed source, you have to rely on Microsoft to provide the security patchs, and Microsoft is the one responsible for the gaping security holes in the first place. Admittedly, they are getting better, but half of the security updates I get for NT are related to IE having some stupid bug in, say, the Favorites which "malicious website operators can exploit" or some such. When was the last time your Linux box was compromised in any way from visiting a web page? (Other than some shitty javascript making Netscape go nuts and break, which it can do very well by itself with no java) That is what I call some very terrible security.
I'm not saying Linux is perfect, far from it. But Linux has the benefit of possibly millions of trained monkeys that fix things in it because they love doing it. MS has a few thousand that fix things because they get told to fix things. IIS had a bug in the FTP code that would shut down HTTP if it recieved unrecognized commands, but the FTP would keep running. The solution was to install SP5, which fixed it. That was the only problem we had with a web server, and we had to install a 50 meg patch to fix it. Not very effecient. Because everyting is so tied together, the FTP daemon can shut down the HTTP daemon under NT. We were rebooting the server approx once an hour because of that bug. A commercial server that hosts over 400 websites, that MS wont provide tech support for anymore, because then only offer support if you host less than 150 websites on a server.
Do you mean life on earth, or human life when you say unsavable? Nothing is going to happen that Earth itself wont survive, at least not that humanity is likely to be around to see. Or are you thinking like a typical human in that no humanity == no earth?
FUCK stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge", or "fornicate unlawful carnal knowledge" i.e. having sex with someone when it is unlawful. It is, however, pretty damned old term. Back then any non-church-condoned sex (out of wedlock) was unlawful.
Find a legal dictionary.
ps the french don't speak english. they didn't back in medieval times either.
Speaking of crappy resolutions... Hasn't anyone ever heard of the VirtualIO goggles? They were exactly the same thing (or near enough), 180k pixels and all the rot. US$450 at The Good Guys about 3 years ago. They sucked. I looked at a Playstation with them, and it was horrible. I didn't buy them then and I wouldn't buy them now. Until they make some goggles sufficient for viewing a command line for under US$1K, they're just a toy and not worth my time.
My friend has the model that was from a year before the ones I saw. Each screen is 320x100, but they display 320x200 by each screen displaying every other horizontal line. He bought them at cost for US$600 and has regretted it ever since. They even have a motion tracking device that only works in games that have code written for it (like the special edition of descent that came with it). Of course, when you moved the mouse it would spin your view crazily and make you sick.
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Did anyone notice that? "... different from a conventional computer terminal ..." does that mean they cannot enforce it on conventional computer terminals because they specifically said it was not applicable to them? Just something that caught my eye.
-djneko
Direct quote from Nike's website: Finally, in several developing countries, labor laws allow companies to pay workers a minimum wage with a combination of cash and non-cash benefits. Nike however, requires a full cash minimum wage.
Farther down the page: People around the world working in Nike factories are paid a fair wage, which often combines cash with allowances for meals, housing, transportation, health care and even cash bonuses. Nike sets the cash wage for entry level workers using the standards set by local governments or trade unions in each country.
A fair wage they say? Does that mean they get all of the minimum wage in cash, plus bonuses? Notice they never quote any actual figures on the pages, just use generalizations and percentages. Refuting possibly ambiguous claims (I haven't read the book yet) with their own ambiguous claims doesn't do much to clarify the issue. They don't practice full disclosure and wonder why people give them a hard time. -djneko
He gave that money to the Bill and Melinda Gates something-or-the-other charity foundation. That was a $16B tax write off, and his net worth was still over $70B after he gave away that money. He could give about $7 to every man, woman and child on this planet and still have billions left over (assuming he could convert all that net worth to cash}
HOWEVER... giving money to charities does not necessarily make him good, or better than anyone in the free/open software/source movement. If everyone had free/open software. They are giving, and giving a lot, just not in ways as easily quantifiable to the materialistic nation we live in. Money != Everything. And if it did, think of all the money that we could save with OSS (not only price of software, but downtime and security risks, etc etc) and give to charities of our choosing instead of Microsoft, which give to charities they control?
After a lifetime of being mean-spirited, Gates could redeem himself by acting with truly good intentions. However, I don't think giving to his own charities to make himself look good and get write-offs qualifies him for that. Mega-Rich people like Gates don't get where they are by being nice. They get where they are by any means possible.
-dj
P.S. Go Woz! I really admire the work you are doing.
-dj
Don't rest easy my friend. If people smarter than you or I had, we might not be here mouthing off today. We'd be busy inventing a binary system for smoke signals.
Happy hunting!
Wouldn't a better idea be to patent the design and then GPL it, or something similar to that? Remember, Intel isn't making faster chips to make the world a better place, they're making faster chips because they like downloading greenbits from your wallet.
And you ignored the comments from the other members totally because... ? Did you miss the part from the same member about "Linux: If it breaks, you fix it", meaning that because all the source is available to you, when something is wrong you can get in there and fix it yourself. The kernel for Linux has an official release at least every few months that I see, while the NT kernel is upgraded, what, every couple of years? And you can upgrade parts of the OS, without having to have an insecure, slow browser as part of your OS. Because NT is closed source, you have to rely on Microsoft to provide the security patchs, and Microsoft is the one responsible for the gaping security holes in the first place. Admittedly, they are getting better, but half of the security updates I get for NT are related to IE having some stupid bug in, say, the Favorites which "malicious website operators can exploit" or some such. When was the last time your Linux box was compromised in any way from visiting a web page? (Other than some shitty javascript making Netscape go nuts and break, which it can do very well by itself with no java) That is what I call some very terrible security.
I'm not saying Linux is perfect, far from it. But Linux has the benefit of possibly millions of trained monkeys that fix things in it because they love doing it. MS has a few thousand that fix things because they get told to fix things. IIS had a bug in the FTP code that would shut down HTTP if it recieved unrecognized commands, but the FTP would keep running. The solution was to install SP5, which fixed it. That was the only problem we had with a web server, and we had to install a 50 meg patch to fix it. Not very effecient. Because everyting is so tied together, the FTP daemon can shut down the HTTP daemon under NT. We were rebooting the server approx once an hour because of that bug. A commercial server that hosts over 400 websites, that MS wont provide tech support for anymore, because then only offer support if you host less than 150 websites on a server.
Do you mean life on earth, or human life when you say unsavable? Nothing is going to happen that Earth itself wont survive, at least not that humanity is likely to be around to see. Or are you thinking like a typical human in that no humanity == no earth?
FUCK stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge", or "fornicate unlawful carnal knowledge" i.e. having sex with someone when it is unlawful. It is, however, pretty damned old term. Back then any non-church-condoned sex (out of wedlock) was unlawful.
Find a legal dictionary.
ps the french don't speak english. they didn't back in medieval times either.
Speaking of crappy resolutions... Hasn't anyone ever heard of the VirtualIO goggles? They were exactly the same thing (or near enough), 180k pixels and all the rot. US$450 at The Good Guys about 3 years ago. They sucked. I looked at a Playstation with them, and it was horrible. I didn't buy them then and I wouldn't buy them now. Until they make some goggles sufficient for viewing a command line for under US$1K, they're just a toy and not worth my time.
My friend has the model that was from a year before the ones I saw. Each screen is 320x100, but they display 320x200 by each screen displaying every other horizontal line. He bought them at cost for US$600 and has regretted it ever since. They even have a motion tracking device that only works in games that have code written for it (like the special edition of descent that came with it). Of course, when you moved the mouse it would spin your view crazily and make you sick.
-dj