You sir are sadly misinformed. Most schools boast about 70-80% graduation rates, at the very best. Most of the time it can hover in the mid 50's when looking at percentage of incoming freshmen who graduate.
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There is a patch available for this and it has been available for 6 months. So if your server is infected it is because you weren't paying attention/lazy/whatever. Go Here for the patch, or Here to read the CERT bulletin.
Totally agree. I mean look at DVD sales. People can grab movies off the internet just as easily as they can music (granted it does take longer) but look at the huge amount of people buying DVD's and DVD players. or look at the success TV shows have had selling Season DVD's, nothing is cooler than watching your favorite show at 720p resoultion.
Why can't artists do the same? Of course you could point out that producing something like a 'music-dvd' would cost alot more than a pure vanilla music cd but the potentional for profit has to be higher.
Why can't the music industry sell us cool packaged deals like dvd's with all sorts of little 'extras'? I might actually pay for my music then... as it is now I see no point in buying a 20$ CD - not to mention I own most of the CD's I would ever want to own, I find very little new music now adays that I would consider spending money for.
Just the linux source. You can link to GPL'ed software/build stuff on top it/whatever. A number of distro's do this to set themselves apart (like SuSe with YAST).
They did up to a point... the tcp/ip stack in Win2k/XP is no longer based on the BSD tcp/ip stack. Of course there might be other things they use but the tcp/ip stack is no longer one of them.
I don't know much about the topic, but doesn't the liscencing disallow you from selling it for money? Or is it just a common misconception?
Common misconception. Otherwise how would all the linux distro companies make money? All the GPL states you have to do is make available your sourcecode. That's it. You can charge a nominal fee (whether it be cost of bandwith or cost of cd) to provide the source but yes MS could use the linux kernel and throw windows on top of it and still charge 299$ for it.
Of course they won't. I see no combination of factors that would cause MS to use the linux kernel. I am not a kernel engineer or even that expierenced in computer science but I fail to see how switching to the linux kernel would give MS any real sort of gains. The NT kernel currently in use, stripped of all it's overhead, is an extremely advanced/nice/fast/stable kernel... I believe linus torvalds has been quoted as saying the stuff Microsoft does at the kernel level is quite good.
Why windows gets a bad rap for security is basic fundamental flaws in it's system, not its kernel AFAIK. 90% of vulnerablities are the numerous buffer exploits that have been found (due largely to sloppy coding). Unstability is caused, usually, by a bad device driver or a problem with the GUI - same as linux. Indeed you could even argue that windows XP/2K are more stable, for the desktop user, than an equivalent 2.4.20 system + KDE/Gnome.
1,100,000,000/536 = 205,228 copies of MS Office XP Professional. With 34,501,130 people in the state that comes to one copy for every.005 people, unless I screwed up my math which is entirely possible.
Of course this little exercise in math shows you just how profitable the Office XP business is for microsoft. They sell a quarter million copies of software and make a billion dollars. You don't really think that it cost MS anywhere close to 1 billion dollars to support/code Office XP do you? Now take the fact that MS sells around 1 million copies a year (granted some are cheaper due to OEM, Enterprise Agreements, Education Discounts, etc) and you see why MS is so paranoid about losing its lead in the office line.
I ran into a similar problem with moo2 as did a friend of mine. The easiest way to completely and totally fix all these problems you mention is to shut off sound. For whatever reason shutting off sound/music has cured the problems you mentioned (screen redraw + random crashes) on at least our computers.
... my god what has the world come to. *You* Have got to be kidding me. What he is referring to is the Song Master of Puppets by Metallica and the song Orion by metallica. Do yourself a favor, go grab the mp3's off the web (lars ulritch loves it when you do this - everytime somebody pirates a metallica song an angel gets its wings) and download "master of puppets" and "orion".
"paddle shifting" is the term you are looking for. You have two paddles on either side of the steering wheel, one paddle is upshift one is downshift - at least on the MR2 I would imagine F1 car's are similar.
Master of Magic! Somebody who appreciates good, old classic games! I have a pentium 90 boxen with a (massive) 64 megs of ram, 1gbyte HD, some trident svga card, and sound blaster 16 dedicated to playing old dos games. Stuff like Master Of Magic, Master of Orion, tie fighter, dark forces, the *original* civ, and Crusader: No regret/No Remorse. Man I wish their was a way to run these on more modern machines... you just don't appreciate how much the 640k barrier/irq settings suck until you have to deal with it all over again =).
Man they just don't make games like that anymore.
P.S. If you are a true MOM fanatic you know that playing with chaos and using flamestrike is cheating! =)
o man the government monitoring facility, maybe the new slavery bill, proposed by Rep. Rangel of New York, can be used to supply labor for the place.
So irony and sarcasm are no longer appreciated in your world? Hold on let's see how this will pan out.
flame against me for suggesting that a politician would introduce a bill just for purpose of irony. Vague suggestion that the left isn't serious. Important sounding statements about abuse of power and vast left-wing conspiracy to enslave the world. Defense of the Dubya. Grandiose sounding patriotic defense of his actions. Vague references to enormous threats to our democracy. More suggestions that the left is dominated by sympathizers to the terrorists. Illusion of a vast conspiracy to enslave the population of the United States. Refrences to what *really* happened at waco and ruby ridge.
That's right folks, now all you bored/.'ers can finally find an attractive local girl to stalk! Just enter your location into the convenient form, hit 'Submit', and stalk away!
Now, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I'm fairly sure to *stalk* 'women' you have to leave the house. This is a scary concept for us all... I think I will stick to downloading pr0n of that lovely housewife next door who wants me. She does. I'm serious you guys.
Most likely they used KHTML because it *wasn't* tied in any way, shape, or form to a major corporation. At least that would be my guess. Maybe, also, they thought KHTML rendering engine was better than mozilla's, who knows. But I would place money on the reason behind choosing KHTML over Gecko being the fact that KHTML isn't backed by some major corporation whose interests might run contrary to apple's.
just sent it to videodriverguy@rollercoasterrider.com. Out of curiosity is the site being blocked or are there other reasons for your inability to access it?
Wow. GNU Win II site is great! Nice collection of windows open source programs, thanks for the link. And jesus tap-dancing christ is Cygwin cool and useful.
Jay: I am the CLIT Commander! I AM THE CLIT CAMANDER!! WHEREVER YOU SEE A CLIT YOULL SEE THIS FACE! I am master of the CLIT!
Willenholly: We don't want to rub the C.L.I.T. the wrong way!
Willenholly: The C.L.I.T. is an offshoot of the L.A.B.I.A.
Reg Hartner: Oh, you mean the Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes movement?
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I imagine they missed a decimal point. Should've been 5.40$ I am guessing.
Penny Arcade said it best!
Best Misappropriation of tax dollars ever!
You sir are sadly misinformed. Most schools boast about 70-80% graduation rates, at the very best. Most of the time it can hover in the mid 50's when looking at percentage of incoming freshmen who graduate.
There is a patch available for this and it has been available for 6 months. So if your server is infected it is because you weren't paying attention/lazy/whatever. Go Here for the patch, or Here to read the CERT bulletin.
Totally agree. I mean look at DVD sales. People can grab movies off the internet just as easily as they can music (granted it does take longer) but look at the huge amount of people buying DVD's and DVD players. or look at the success TV shows have had selling Season DVD's, nothing is cooler than watching your favorite show at 720p resoultion.
Why can't artists do the same? Of course you could point out that producing something like a 'music-dvd' would cost alot more than a pure vanilla music cd but the potentional for profit has to be higher.
Why can't the music industry sell us cool packaged deals like dvd's with all sorts of little 'extras'? I might actually pay for my music then... as it is now I see no point in buying a 20$ CD - not to mention I own most of the CD's I would ever want to own, I find very little new music now adays that I would consider spending money for.
too late. check out the thread now, all -1's. God bless michael.. the dude has some serious issues.
Wait a minute... do you mean to say that the internet could LIE to me? That would be like saying everything TV has taught me is false!
Heretic!
Just the linux source. You can link to GPL'ed software/build stuff on top it/whatever. A number of distro's do this to set themselves apart (like SuSe with YAST).
They did up to a point... the tcp/ip stack in Win2k/XP is no longer based on the BSD tcp/ip stack. Of course there might be other things they use but the tcp/ip stack is no longer one of them.
I don't know much about the topic, but doesn't the liscencing disallow you from selling it for money? Or is it just a common misconception?
Common misconception. Otherwise how would all the linux distro companies make money? All the GPL states you have to do is make available your sourcecode. That's it. You can charge a nominal fee (whether it be cost of bandwith or cost of cd) to provide the source but yes MS could use the linux kernel and throw windows on top of it and still charge 299$ for it.
Of course they won't. I see no combination of factors that would cause MS to use the linux kernel. I am not a kernel engineer or even that expierenced in computer science but I fail to see how switching to the linux kernel would give MS any real sort of gains. The NT kernel currently in use, stripped of all it's overhead, is an extremely advanced/nice/fast/stable kernel... I believe linus torvalds has been quoted as saying the stuff Microsoft does at the kernel level is quite good.
Why windows gets a bad rap for security is basic fundamental flaws in it's system, not its kernel AFAIK. 90% of vulnerablities are the numerous buffer exploits that have been found (due largely to sloppy coding). Unstability is caused, usually, by a bad device driver or a problem with the GUI - same as linux. Indeed you could even argue that windows XP/2K are more stable, for the desktop user, than an equivalent 2.4.20 system + KDE/Gnome.
Sigh you are right. I knew it was too late to be doing math.
Fun with math!
.005 people, unless I screwed up my math which is entirely possible.
MS Office XP Professional - $536
1,100,000,000/536 = 205,228 copies of MS Office XP Professional. With 34,501,130 people in the state that comes to one copy for every
Of course this little exercise in math shows you just how profitable the Office XP business is for microsoft. They sell a quarter million copies of software and make a billion dollars. You don't really think that it cost MS anywhere close to 1 billion dollars to support/code Office XP do you? Now take the fact that MS sells around 1 million copies a year (granted some are cheaper due to OEM, Enterprise Agreements, Education Discounts, etc) and you see why MS is so paranoid about losing its lead in the office line.
I ran into a similar problem with moo2 as did a friend of mine. The easiest way to completely and totally fix all these problems you mention is to shut off sound. For whatever reason shutting off sound/music has cured the problems you mentioned (screen redraw + random crashes) on at least our computers.
... my god what has the world come to. *You* Have got to be kidding me. What he is referring to is the Song Master of Puppets by Metallica and the song Orion by metallica. Do yourself a favor, go grab the mp3's off the web (lars ulritch loves it when you do this - everytime somebody pirates a metallica song an angel gets its wings) and download "master of puppets" and "orion".
"paddle shifting" is the term you are looking for. You have two paddles on either side of the steering wheel, one paddle is upshift one is downshift - at least on the MR2 I would imagine F1 car's are similar.
thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out.
Master of Magic! Somebody who appreciates good, old classic games! I have a pentium 90 boxen with a (massive) 64 megs of ram, 1gbyte HD, some trident svga card, and sound blaster 16 dedicated to playing old dos games. Stuff like Master Of Magic, Master of Orion, tie fighter, dark forces, the *original* civ, and Crusader: No regret/No Remorse. Man I wish their was a way to run these on more modern machines... you just don't appreciate how much the 640k barrier/irq settings suck until you have to deal with it all over again =).
Man they just don't make games like that anymore.
P.S.
If you are a true MOM fanatic you know that playing with chaos and using flamestrike is cheating! =)
o man the government monitoring facility, maybe the new slavery bill, proposed by Rep. Rangel of New York, can be used to supply labor for the place.
.. Irony. learn to appreciate it.
So irony and sarcasm are no longer appreciated in your world? Hold on let's see how this will pan out.
flame against me for suggesting that a politician would introduce a bill just for purpose of irony. Vague suggestion that the left isn't serious. Important sounding statements about abuse of power and vast left-wing conspiracy to enslave the world. Defense of the Dubya. Grandiose sounding patriotic defense of his actions. Vague references to enormous threats to our democracy. More suggestions that the left is dominated by sympathizers to the terrorists. Illusion of a vast conspiracy to enslave the population of the United States. Refrences to what *really* happened at waco and ruby ridge.
Irony
That's right folks, now all you bored /.'ers can finally find an attractive local girl to stalk! Just enter your location into the convenient form, hit 'Submit', and stalk away!
Now, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I'm fairly sure to *stalk* 'women' you have to leave the house. This is a scary concept for us all... I think I will stick to downloading pr0n of that lovely housewife next door who wants me. She does. I'm serious you guys.
Most likely they used KHTML because it *wasn't* tied in any way, shape, or form to a major corporation. At least that would be my guess. Maybe, also, they thought KHTML rendering engine was better than mozilla's, who knows. But I would place money on the reason behind choosing KHTML over Gecko being the fact that KHTML isn't backed by some major corporation whose interests might run contrary to apple's.
Hey! My last name is Dinger! I take offense to that... ok maybe not really. You would be suprised about how many things rhymme with "dinger" =(.
Guess I need to go get a damm tinfoil hat if all you people are going to be spying on us peace-loving, harmless Dingers of the world.
just sent it to videodriverguy@rollercoasterrider.com. Out of curiosity is the site being blocked or are there other reasons for your inability to access it?
Happen to look at the date on that article stud? That would april 1st, also known as april fools day. Looks like they got you...
Wow. GNU Win II site is great! Nice collection of windows open source programs, thanks for the link. And jesus tap-dancing christ is Cygwin cool and useful.
Obligatory quote(s) from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay: I am the CLIT Commander! I AM THE CLIT CAMANDER!! WHEREVER YOU SEE A CLIT YOULL SEE THIS FACE! I am master of the CLIT!
Willenholly: We don't want to rub the C.L.I.T. the wrong way!
Willenholly: The C.L.I.T. is an offshoot of the L.A.B.I.A.
Reg Hartner: Oh, you mean the Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes movement?