I have yet to see any presentation on a shortage of spectrum, so perhaps you're right in that respect. I would have to see the information for myself before I can believe or dis-believe there is a real shortage.
As far as the capital problem, perhaps DT needs to quit bleeding T-Mo dry? They can obviously make money, but how much of the money made is being siphoned off to DT? Leave T-Mo alone and let it "buy it's freedom" so to speak, And I think it's a BS move that all the spoils of this defunct buyout goes to DT, of course there will be non-monetary benefits and agreements too, but that will only go so far.
I say DT needs to spin T-Mo off to be their own company.
Why on earth would they fingerprint anyone for a programming position? My guess is simply because they can, and that if you don't submit to it you don't get the job.
Taking a gene profile is going waaaaay over the top. They can kiss my lilly-white butt.
So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.
Give it a rest already! I guess I'm what you would call a "switcheur" (as if that's supposed to be some derogatory remark or something).
I've been using my iMac now for a few months and I love it. I'm extremely comfortable with it. But then again, I'm comfortable with several flavors of Linux and BSD (command line and gui), a couple of flavors of commercial Unices, and of course Windoze. If you want to get vintage, I had a C=64 at home, and worked on a Apple IIe and a Trash-80 at school in the 80's. Now I can add OS X 10.4 to the mix and bring it all to a smooth consistency. By far I love my iMac over the rest.
Why? This kind of legislation is good. It allows the market to grow on it's own as opposed to the FCC dictating what technology can and can't do with respects to DRM.
There is no mandatory interoperability or standards enforcement the FCC does with respect to these kinds of technologies.
In essence, the FCC doesn't have the power to dictate which road technology takes. They can, however, dictate by whom and how the frequency spectrum can be used, and also regulate censorship on public broadcast networks.
The fact that a drug that a drug is brought to market and can save lives doesn't mean it's available to everyone. It's available to those who can either pay or have insurance. Making a valuation on someone's life because of what they have or don't have in the bank is wrong, in the most literal sense.
Drug companies should be obligated to allow at least one generic per name-brand drug they produce and patent. It may mean a little less advertising and Dr. smoozing money, but the rewards are more valuable than any amount of money.
Ummm.... It says he needs the money to help pay for his defense. I understand the "what about the children" concern, and I would normally agree with you. The article makes it pretty clear that his current concern is making sure he has a decent lawyer instead of a shit bag public defender that's less inclined to put up a fight. I suppose that if he does get off on a lack of evidence (no body), he would make sure his kids are taken care of, if he can. Child Protective Services would probably fight to keep his kids away from their father under the pretense that he's possibly dangerous.
Things don't look well for him at this point anyway....
Actually, I've had the displeasure of working with Unixware for the last 6 years now. It is a heaping pile of horse dung.
We recently moved our main transaction processing server to Suse Linux from Unixware. (yeah, I know, evil deal with M$ doesn't mean anything in this company) The difference is astounding! They actually found bottlenecks that were undetectable before, due to the inefficiency of Unixware, and many of the memory leaks vanished. As well, the same hardware that would have have only lasted maybe 6 month to a year under Unixware, will now serve us for a few more years yet.
I'd say that Unixware needs to be burned, pissed on, and burned again, then pissed on again for the piece of shit that it really is. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that Linux, in anyway, would be benefited by copying code from any SCO product.
The Fed regulates the security involved with ATM's. Every last detail is laid out, down to the 3DES encryption. Nothing regulates voting machines, and no sign of QA. Diebold didn't care, nor did the beurocrats that signed the damn order to unleash these pieces of shit on our population. Let's hope someone gets sued outta the shitstorm, and things change..... But I'm not holding my breath.
My teachers didn't need something like this to keep students from cheating. Of course, that was before the net was widely available, and certainly before this service came along.
That being said, I have a question: Wouldn't there be some, if not a lot of, similarities between most papers on the same subject?
Given the limited amount of knowledge being taught these days, and a less than adequate system for learning something other than being a "good citizen," what makes the "educators" think this would actually work well? If you get so many papers on the same subject together, there are bound to be some that *look like* copycats, but aren't. I would hate to have my grade hinged on this system. I say the students are right to fight this.
Gambling is still illegal in many states, including mine. The only exception is a state lotto, which raises money for the schools ($8 Mill so far) instead of a state tax. On top of that, gambling can't even be put into the same category as free speech.
Honestly, I think dismantling the entire software patent system, and rebuilding it from the ground up if it's really needed, is probably what is needed. Take out the ability to submarine patents. Software patent litigation should not automatically mean a injunction. Require precise wording to get rid of overly broad patents. Don't allow revisions after subition. Allow one year probation for public opinion and prior art to surface before the patent is granted. Require a working prototype and a reasonable schedule for R&D. I'm sure there are problems with my ideas, but hey, I gave it a crack!
Thinking up some process or special button, patenting it, let someone else spend the money to do the R&D and produce something workable, then sue them for it. That seems to be a lot of business models these days.
I'm a Technician, and the only reason why is because I have a really hard time learning morse (not sure why, I've tried several ways with no luck). For that reason I hope they go "no code" on all licenses soon (yeah yeah, I know all the arguements to keep it. Call me selfish;).
Currently, I don't have an HT or rig because of money issues, but when I did, it was hella fun. I guess my interest got peeked when my friends and I got into CB radio in highschool. Funny, out of all of them, I was the only one who took it past the CB. Oh well, I enjoy it although the whole station id check and no slang is kind of annoying.
It's FCC mandated illegal to encrypt data over HAM operations. There are ways to connect vi TCP/IP over HAM, but I never got into it. I might look into it some day, but not today.
HURD's a nice idea, but turned into a piece of crap because of the developers.:) But hey, the Linux Kernel is going nice and fast. So are most of the BSD kernels. Tons of OSS programs, under the GPL, LGPL, BSD, and various other licenses are going great. Take a look at freshmeat.net or sf.net and you'd see what I mean.
Of course, you pragmatists would try and take credit for spuring other people into do something. Strange thing is, most individuals involved in OSS do it for the love of it, and not because anyone motivated them otherwise. I won't hold it against ya though, some just never get OSS and that's fine.
On the subject at hand, SUN can do what they want, it's their code. In the mean time, I'll choose something else like python or Ruby. I just think if I come up with something that's interpreted and want to release it, I should be able to package to interpreter or VM freely for platforms that it doesn't come with.
The problems come when a company doesn't comply with the GPL. The thing is, you can use your closed and proprietary stuff in your products which you don't have to release the source to should you distribute it. Many companies are doing it, and still complying with the GPL. I would venture to guess that companies that don't get it and fail to follow the license would find themselves in trouble. It's the same for any other licensing schema: You break the rules, you either comply and make it right or you don't have the right to use it.
But I see what you're saying. If a company doesn't want to comply, or doesn't understand the GPL enough to, they should move on and use something else more suited to their business model.
I understand the basic differences. But what I don't get is exactly how is the GW "pay as you go" fee's different from a monthly fee? The way I see it, either way they get the money out of you, especially if you play it quite often. I suppose it's kind of like that $.99 mark (like $29.99), but then again I always thought that was silly. Why not just make it $30 and be done with it? It's a psychological thing.
lol! To add to the confusion, I'll throw this out there....
SOE doesn't like you buying and selling items and gold unless they're getting a cut. This is shown through their own services in EQ2. Of course, if there are no such facilities through SOE for EQ, SWG, etc., it's against the EULA to use someone elses services. Go figure....
It's completely against Mythic Entertainment and Blizzard's WoW EULAs....
In Second Life, the Linden's allow the buying and selling of anything in world for real cash, and if you use their service they get a cut. The pricing model also has yet to prove it's worth too. A basic account can do alot and all for free, but if you want land and to build stuff "permanently" you will pay through the nose with a sub and land taxes (both in real money).
But really, it's kinda sad that M$ would charge for such a small enhancement, and especially after their customers paid an arm and a leg for it.
"The only MMORPG I play is Guild Wars because I refuse to pay money for a game then be forced to pay a monthly fee to play it."
So basically, you pay $50 up front for the game and would rather pay for content as you go and as they add it regularly. I might be missing something, but I fail to see how this is different from a monthly fee?
Anyway, something as small as this should be a free enhancement. Now, if they added in new player armor, weapons, and other goodies along with it, then I could see it having a cost. What I saw on the blog probably took 3 to 4 hours of time to make, which probably costs the maker a couple of grand in labor, software, and hardware. Compare that to the possible thousands and thousands of dollars they would get from the download charge, and that's just plain greedy. I put this in the light that people have spent $60-$70 for the game already, not to mention the Live sub, and that's a hell of a lotta phat-lootz.
"specifically the virtues of responsibility, community, and generosity. especially the least that provide the most."
Since when have any of those "virtues" been included in business practices of large corporations? While it may be written into the human soul, corporations are different souless beasts. There have even been problems getting corporations to release code derivatives of GPL's programs.
If a corp doesn't have to release anything, most likely they won't.
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Disney didn't market it though. They relied on traditional word of mouth to fill the theaters, and it failed. That just couldn't happen with all the hype that Star Wars brought with it.
I saw both Star Wars and Tron in the theaters. Hell, I can attribute Tron and War Games to getting me into computers. Got my first C=64 back in '83 and have kept it up ever since.
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Yahoo! is still around? I thought that died off already...
I have yet to see any presentation on a shortage of spectrum, so perhaps you're right in that respect. I would have to see the information for myself before I can believe or dis-believe there is a real shortage.
As far as the capital problem, perhaps DT needs to quit bleeding T-Mo dry? They can obviously make money, but how much of the money made is being siphoned off to DT? Leave T-Mo alone and let it "buy it's freedom" so to speak, And I think it's a BS move that all the spoils of this defunct buyout goes to DT, of course there will be non-monetary benefits and agreements too, but that will only go so far.
I say DT needs to spin T-Mo off to be their own company.
Why on earth would they fingerprint anyone for a programming position? My guess is simply because they can, and that if you don't submit to it you don't get the job.
Taking a gene profile is going waaaaay over the top. They can kiss my lilly-white butt.
Give it a rest already! I guess I'm what you would call a "switcheur" (as if that's supposed to be some derogatory remark or something).
I've been using my iMac now for a few months and I love it. I'm extremely comfortable with it. But then again, I'm comfortable with several flavors of Linux and BSD (command line and gui), a couple of flavors of commercial Unices, and of course Windoze. If you want to get vintage, I had a C=64 at home, and worked on a Apple IIe and a Trash-80 at school in the 80's. Now I can add OS X 10.4 to the mix and bring it all to a smooth consistency. By far I love my iMac over the rest.
I highly suggest you STFU.
Why? This kind of legislation is good. It allows the market to grow on it's own as opposed to the FCC dictating what technology can and can't do with respects to DRM.
There is no mandatory interoperability or standards enforcement the FCC does with respect to these kinds of technologies.
In essence, the FCC doesn't have the power to dictate which road technology takes. They can, however, dictate by whom and how the frequency spectrum can be used, and also regulate censorship on public broadcast networks.
You're a bit confused. Lives are lives.
The fact that a drug that a drug is brought to market and can save lives doesn't mean it's available to everyone. It's available to those who can either pay or have insurance. Making a valuation on someone's life because of what they have or don't have in the bank is wrong, in the most literal sense.
Drug companies should be obligated to allow at least one generic per name-brand drug they produce and patent. It may mean a little less advertising and Dr. smoozing money, but the rewards are more valuable than any amount of money.
Ummm.... It says he needs the money to help pay for his defense. I understand the "what about the children" concern, and I would normally agree with you. The article makes it pretty clear that his current concern is making sure he has a decent lawyer instead of a shit bag public defender that's less inclined to put up a fight. I suppose that if he does get off on a lack of evidence (no body), he would make sure his kids are taken care of, if he can. Child Protective Services would probably fight to keep his kids away from their father under the pretense that he's possibly dangerous.
Things don't look well for him at this point anyway....
Actually, I've had the displeasure of working with Unixware for the last 6 years now. It is a heaping pile of horse dung.
We recently moved our main transaction processing server to Suse Linux from Unixware. (yeah, I know, evil deal with M$ doesn't mean anything in this company) The difference is astounding! They actually found bottlenecks that were undetectable before, due to the inefficiency of Unixware, and many of the memory leaks vanished. As well, the same hardware that would have have only lasted maybe 6 month to a year under Unixware, will now serve us for a few more years yet.
I'd say that Unixware needs to be burned, pissed on, and burned again, then pissed on again for the piece of shit that it really is. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that Linux, in anyway, would be benefited by copying code from any SCO product.
The Fed regulates the security involved with ATM's. Every last detail is laid out, down to the 3DES encryption. Nothing regulates voting machines, and no sign of QA. Diebold didn't care, nor did the beurocrats that signed the damn order to unleash these pieces of shit on our population. Let's hope someone gets sued outta the shitstorm, and things change..... But I'm not holding my breath.
My teachers didn't need something like this to keep students from cheating. Of course, that was before the net was widely available, and certainly before this service came along.
That being said, I have a question: Wouldn't there be some, if not a lot of, similarities between most papers on the same subject?
Given the limited amount of knowledge being taught these days, and a less than adequate system for learning something other than being a "good citizen," what makes the "educators" think this would actually work well? If you get so many papers on the same subject together, there are bound to be some that *look like* copycats, but aren't. I would hate to have my grade hinged on this system. I say the students are right to fight this.
lol! What was the point in that?
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How is that related to China sensoring?
Gambling is still illegal in many states, including mine. The only exception is a state lotto, which raises money for the schools ($8 Mill so far) instead of a state tax. On top of that, gambling can't even be put into the same category as free speech.
Just my $.02USD....
Didn't you just prove his point?
Honestly, I think dismantling the entire software patent system, and rebuilding it from the ground up if it's really needed, is probably what is needed. Take out the ability to submarine patents. Software patent litigation should not automatically mean a injunction. Require precise wording to get rid of overly broad patents. Don't allow revisions after subition. Allow one year probation for public opinion and prior art to surface before the patent is granted. Require a working prototype and a reasonable schedule for R&D. I'm sure there are problems with my ideas, but hey, I gave it a crack!
Thinking up some process or special button, patenting it, let someone else spend the money to do the R&D and produce something workable, then sue them for it. That seems to be a lot of business models these days.
I'm a Technician, and the only reason why is because I have a really hard time learning morse (not sure why, I've tried several ways with no luck). For that reason I hope they go "no code" on all licenses soon (yeah yeah, I know all the arguements to keep it. Call me selfish ;).
Currently, I don't have an HT or rig because of money issues, but when I did, it was hella fun. I guess my interest got peeked when my friends and I got into CB radio in highschool. Funny, out of all of them, I was the only one who took it past the CB. Oh well, I enjoy it although the whole station id check and no slang is kind of annoying.
It's FCC mandated illegal to encrypt data over HAM operations. There are ways to connect vi TCP/IP over HAM, but I never got into it. I might look into it some day, but not today.
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/zolpid.htms ter/a693025.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medma
I don't see any mention of fetal stem cells. What I do see is the non-generic names for the drug: Ambien® and Ambien CR®.
HURD's a nice idea, but turned into a piece of crap because of the developers. :) But hey, the Linux Kernel is going nice and fast. So are most of the BSD kernels. Tons of OSS programs, under the GPL, LGPL, BSD, and various other licenses are going great. Take a look at freshmeat.net or sf.net and you'd see what I mean.
Of course, you pragmatists would try and take credit for spuring other people into do something. Strange thing is, most individuals involved in OSS do it for the love of it, and not because anyone motivated them otherwise. I won't hold it against ya though, some just never get OSS and that's fine.
On the subject at hand, SUN can do what they want, it's their code. In the mean time, I'll choose something else like python or Ruby. I just think if I come up with something that's interpreted and want to release it, I should be able to package to interpreter or VM freely for platforms that it doesn't come with.
July 17th, 2019? Damn, my hatchday is the 18th. Couldn't they wait until the 19th? Why they gotta be hatin'?!?!
The problems come when a company doesn't comply with the GPL. The thing is, you can use your closed and proprietary stuff in your products which you don't have to release the source to should you distribute it. Many companies are doing it, and still complying with the GPL. I would venture to guess that companies that don't get it and fail to follow the license would find themselves in trouble. It's the same for any other licensing schema: You break the rules, you either comply and make it right or you don't have the right to use it.
But I see what you're saying. If a company doesn't want to comply, or doesn't understand the GPL enough to, they should move on and use something else more suited to their business model.
I understand the basic differences. But what I don't get is exactly how is the GW "pay as you go" fee's different from a monthly fee? The way I see it, either way they get the money out of you, especially if you play it quite often. I suppose it's kind of like that $.99 mark (like $29.99), but then again I always thought that was silly. Why not just make it $30 and be done with it? It's a psychological thing.
lol! To add to the confusion, I'll throw this out there....
SOE doesn't like you buying and selling items and gold unless they're getting a cut. This is shown through their own services in EQ2. Of course, if there are no such facilities through SOE for EQ, SWG, etc., it's against the EULA to use someone elses services. Go figure....
It's completely against Mythic Entertainment and Blizzard's WoW EULAs....
In Second Life, the Linden's allow the buying and selling of anything in world for real cash, and if you use their service they get a cut. The pricing model also has yet to prove it's worth too. A basic account can do alot and all for free, but if you want land and to build stuff "permanently" you will pay through the nose with a sub and land taxes (both in real money).
But really, it's kinda sad that M$ would charge for such a small enhancement, and especially after their customers paid an arm and a leg for it.
"The only MMORPG I play is Guild Wars because I refuse to pay money for a game then be forced to pay a monthly fee to play it."
So basically, you pay $50 up front for the game and would rather pay for content as you go and as they add it regularly. I might be missing something, but I fail to see how this is different from a monthly fee?
Anyway, something as small as this should be a free enhancement. Now, if they added in new player armor, weapons, and other goodies along with it, then I could see it having a cost. What I saw on the blog probably took 3 to 4 hours of time to make, which probably costs the maker a couple of grand in labor, software, and hardware. Compare that to the possible thousands and thousands of dollars they would get from the download charge, and that's just plain greedy. I put this in the light that people have spent $60-$70 for the game already, not to mention the Live sub, and that's a hell of a lotta phat-lootz.
"specifically the virtues of responsibility, community, and generosity. especially the least that provide the most."
Since when have any of those "virtues" been included in business practices of large corporations? While it may be written into the human soul, corporations are different souless beasts. There have even been problems getting corporations to release code derivatives of GPL's programs.
If a corp doesn't have to release anything, most likely they won't.
Disney didn't market it though. They relied on traditional word of mouth to fill the theaters, and it failed. That just couldn't happen with all the hype that Star Wars brought with it.
I saw both Star Wars and Tron in the theaters. Hell, I can attribute Tron and War Games to getting me into computers. Got my first C=64 back in '83 and have kept it up ever since.