When is FEC going to declare journalists as journalist? Never. Because they always want to put a slant or spin on a story to make their side look better.
Older band, only a few CDs sold a year, price has to increase.
I would think that price has to do more with the availability of a particular album in the entire market rather than the actual sales from one retailer. Rare or out of print CDs always seem to have a higher price.
When hybrids become mainstream, I would think that the macroeconomic impact would be somewhat higher. The oil companies always tout supply and demand to explain the high price of gasoline and their record $32 billion profit in 2005. So, if people start driving hybrids, the actual gasoline usage would be halved, assuming that their everyday usage of a vehicle has not changed on average. Therefore, there would be an oversupply of gasoline, which in the basic theory of supply and demand, would drop the price.
But will that happen? Maybe not. The oil companies and OPEC like being profitable, so they would reduce production accordingly in order to keep the price high. That's why they always call OPEC a cartel right? It's just a fancy word for monopolistic orgy.
When I was in the Navy, they had these MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat) that already had these Chicklet-looking pieces of crap gum. Throughout my short stint in the military, I've always heard rumors that there were alternative motive on supplying gum in the MREs. One rumor I heard was that the gum was included a laxitive to make you poop better. OK, I could have believed that. Ever had an MRE? Case closed there. Another rumor was that it may have included experimental medicines that they did not want you to know about. That's a little far fetched, but I would not have put it past our government. Now, the military want their personnel to have better oral hygene? That's sounds like it make too much sense to be true.
Just wait till he finds out that Google is hiring people that directly affects his bread and butter software -- Office. He'll throw a couch at the person who tells him the news...
Microsoft set up a "clean" PC, then infected it with malicious code commonly used by attackers to turn a computer into a zombie.
There is a wide interpretation with a lot of questions about this statement. By "clean" machine, I assumed that Microsoft has a current copy of Windows and it is fully patched. So did they manually put a virii on their computer locally or did they infected it remotely through a network using an unclean machine? The second part would mean that a fully patched Windows machine would not protect jack. Notice that they did not go into a lot of detail about that? Hmmmm...
I had to convince my wife to switch to a Mac so she would not throw her PC out of the second floor window. Her computer just would not stop blue-screening. She was actually going to do it, too. After rescuing the PC from the clutches of a sure death. I put switch out the OS for Linux. Now, it's living a long second life as a web server. She's happy with her Mac, and I am happy that I don't have to clean up silicon off of my driveway.
It may even be more appropriate to declare martial law. Surely, if some sort of nationwide crisis or panic ensued because of the bird flu, this will be first thing done. Any government will do what is necessary to contain any substantial outbreak and justify it. They will take your land, your liberty, and your freedom in the process.
In the U.S, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) may effectively have the power to suspend the Constitution. This power was granted, not by Congress, but by the President of the United States. He is the command-in-chief of the military, and will use it to enforce of this policy. Now, FEMA's use of power has not gone that far yet, but tinfoil hat aside, it may come down to this if big emergencies occur. Katrina will be a drop in the bucket compared to an disease outbreak or a nuclear / biological / chemical attack occurs. Violating obscure patents will not be even a blip on their collective radar.
Can't wait another 6 years...
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so I can finally go to buy that "over the hill" tee-shirts for our good pal, email.
How the heck does the web-site of an airline account for 75% of revenue? Do you mean that most of your ticket sales come from your web-site? Or do you mean the company is focusing on selling hats and T-Shirts from its web-site and isn't actually doing any flights?
Dude, how about getting into the 21st century? All airline trips that I have had in the past 8 years or so were all purchased through the Internet. In fact, I cannot remember the last time when I did not use the Internet to plan a flight. Last time, I actually found a better deal for my round trip to Las Vegas by picking a day that one or two days before my original trip, and staying an extra day and booking 14-days in advanced. The options are shown to me in a nice matrix format.
If the site is done right, it would give a smaller discount airline the tools to compete with the big boys. So, I would not be surprised if 75% revenue comes from Internet sales because it's the biggest bang for the buck.
I am suprised that the reporter was not arrested for "hacking" the system. If it was a student who did this, I think that he or she would have been expelled from school, arrested, and hauled off to jail.
If you have a BSD kernel, and you load a GPL module, then the entire kernel becomes GPL.
Why? I am not redistributing the BSD kernel with the GPL module. I am just linking it with binary code for my personal use. See section 0 of the GPL v2:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
IANAL, but there is no restriction where I can link a GPL module to a BSD kernel. However, there has been many arguments that most modules cannot be created without the kernel headers and internals. So, if it were even possible, how would one create a kernel module that works in BSD and Linux AND can satifies the conditions of both licenses? I personally do not think it's possible, IMHO.
Last year, when my father past away, I have been thinking about what to do with myself when I pass on. My father and mother have a plot in a mausoleum. Burying my remains seems to be a little boring, so I thought about cremation. But I do not want to have my dust stuck in an urn for all eternity. I am an atheist agnostic, so I do not have any predetermined requirements for my remains.
I spend some time thinking about doing something special with my ashes if I chose cremation. A lot of people seem to like their ashes spread in ocean or in the sky. I thought about my ashes going to space, like Scotty's, but it may not be an option for a chump like me. Unless there is a service that performs this or I get connections, my family won't be able to do this practically.
I went to the Internet to find alternatives. I found a couple that were interesting and practical. The one that seemed most attractive was creating diamonds from human ashes. I am not kidding. There are many companies, like LifeGem and Memory Jewels, that do this. I could not believe it myself. What else could be the best way for my wife and children to remember me by? I will have lasting sentimental value. Plus, loking at the price lists from Memory Jewels, it's much cheaper than buying a $3000 casket. I am seriously considering it, too.
I tell you what, if I paid "ala-carte" or "by season subscription" for my favorite shows, I'll make damn sure that I would not have to put up with:
Paying over $70 a month for 120 channels or so of junk that has nothing to do with me or my family. Stupid C-SPAN, the most boring channel in this god-forsaken world!
Watching annoying commercials about "not feeling as fresh" or "erectile disfunction". Eeeewwww!
Seeing those stupid "sidebar" advertisements for pimping another show by taking up 1/3 of the screen and make silly noises all the time. That friggin' drives me up the wall!
Watching "Mrs. Doubtfire" on FX for ump-teen millionith time. Get a life FX.
Having to wait until 10PM to watch the latest "Law & Order". I want to watch it now, dammit!
Paying extra to timeshift or placeshift. Those corporate numbnuts really have no clue on what's cool.
The problem appears to be that Tenable Network Security (the company which primary author Renaud Deraison founded around Nessus) isn't making money because it's competition is simply repackaging their product.
Is the competition following the terms of the GPL? Is the competition providing the source code? If not, revoke the license for not following the terms of the license. If they are simply repackaging the code verbatim, use that knowledge against them. That's what competition is about.
"So in that regard, we have been fueling our competition, and we want to put an end to that. Nessus 3 contains an improved engine, and we don't want our competition to claim to have improved 'their' scanner."
If it's a false claim, sue them. If they really made improvements, enforce the license. Take their improvements, and merge it into your product. They must release the source code if they release their product. Otherwise, revoke their license. If their don't comply, sue them.
So in the ideal situation, you and your competition will be providing an improved product overall, sharing each other's improvements until the product becomes the defacto standard. I just think that there was a lack of vision and there was no real understanding of the GPL.
In the meritocracy of open-source development, the good code survives and the bad code dies.
This is true for most commercial software, too. But, as long as the machine keeps dumping millions of dollars in it and continue to force it down consumer's throat, it may survive for many, many years. There are many examples of this. *cough* MSFT *cough* *cough*
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When is FEC going to declare journalists as journalist? Never. Because they always want to put a slant or spin on a story to make their side look better.
Older band, only a few CDs sold a year, price has to increase.
I would think that price has to do more with the availability of a particular album in the entire market rather than the actual sales from one retailer. Rare or out of print CDs always seem to have a higher price.
With Linux, you don't even have to install the OS on the hard drive. It can run off of a CD.
As Snagglepuss would say:
It can run off a network, even
Time for Windows to exit, stage left!
When hybrids become mainstream, I would think that the macroeconomic impact would be somewhat higher. The oil companies always tout supply and demand to explain the high price of gasoline and their record $32 billion profit in 2005. So, if people start driving hybrids, the actual gasoline usage would be halved, assuming that their everyday usage of a vehicle has not changed on average. Therefore, there would be an oversupply of gasoline, which in the basic theory of supply and demand, would drop the price.
But will that happen? Maybe not. The oil companies and OPEC like being profitable, so they would reduce production accordingly in order to keep the price high. That's why they always call OPEC a cartel right? It's just a fancy word for monopolistic orgy.
When I was in the Navy, they had these MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat) that already had these Chicklet-looking pieces of crap gum. Throughout my short stint in the military, I've always heard rumors that there were alternative motive on supplying gum in the MREs. One rumor I heard was that the gum was included a laxitive to make you poop better. OK, I could have believed that. Ever had an MRE? Case closed there. Another rumor was that it may have included experimental medicines that they did not want you to know about. That's a little far fetched, but I would not have put it past our government. Now, the military want their personnel to have better oral hygene? That's sounds like it make too much sense to be true.
Just wait till he finds out that Google is hiring people that directly affects his bread and butter software -- Office. He'll throw a couch at the person who tells him the news...
Microsoft set up a "clean" PC, then infected it with malicious code commonly used by attackers to turn a computer into a zombie.
There is a wide interpretation with a lot of questions about this statement. By "clean" machine, I assumed that Microsoft has a current copy of Windows and it is fully patched. So did they manually put a virii on their computer locally or did they infected it remotely through a network using an unclean machine? The second part would mean that a fully patched Windows machine would not protect jack. Notice that they did not go into a lot of detail about that? Hmmmm...
I had to convince my wife to switch to a Mac so she would not throw her PC out of the second floor window. Her computer just would not stop blue-screening. She was actually going to do it, too. After rescuing the PC from the clutches of a sure death. I put switch out the OS for Linux. Now, it's living a long second life as a web server. She's happy with her Mac, and I am happy that I don't have to clean up silicon off of my driveway.
What a relief! I misread the /. headline in my RSS aggregator as
Microsoft Loses Two Executive Keys
I certainly do not prevent Bill or Steve from taking their daily dump. Bill just turn 50 and it's important for him to say regular.
It may even be more appropriate to declare martial law. Surely, if some sort of nationwide crisis or panic ensued because of the bird flu, this will be first thing done. Any government will do what is necessary to contain any substantial outbreak and justify it. They will take your land, your liberty, and your freedom in the process.
In the U.S, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) may effectively have the power to suspend the Constitution. This power was granted, not by Congress, but by the President of the United States. He is the command-in-chief of the military, and will use it to enforce of this policy. Now, FEMA's use of power has not gone that far yet, but tinfoil hat aside, it may come down to this if big emergencies occur. Katrina will be a drop in the bucket compared to an disease outbreak or a nuclear / biological / chemical attack occurs. Violating obscure patents will not be even a blip on their collective radar.
so I can finally go to buy that "over the hill" tee-shirts for our good pal, email.
PDA's are targeted for the business community. iPods are for the audio-video-phile. Both devices fit their target audience very well.
How the heck does the web-site of an airline account for 75% of revenue? Do you mean that most of your ticket sales come from your web-site? Or do you mean the company is focusing on selling hats and T-Shirts from its web-site and isn't actually doing any flights?
Dude, how about getting into the 21st century? All airline trips that I have had in the past 8 years or so were all purchased through the Internet. In fact, I cannot remember the last time when I did not use the Internet to plan a flight. Last time, I actually found a better deal for my round trip to Las Vegas by picking a day that one or two days before my original trip, and staying an extra day and booking 14-days in advanced. The options are shown to me in a nice matrix format.
If the site is done right, it would give a smaller discount airline the tools to compete with the big boys. So, I would not be surprised if 75% revenue comes from Internet sales because it's the biggest bang for the buck.
I am suprised that the reporter was not arrested for "hacking" the system. If it was a student who did this, I think that he or she would have been expelled from school, arrested, and hauled off to jail.
You'll never know, that still might happen...
What did they find, hmmmm?
Why? I am not redistributing the BSD kernel with the GPL module. I am just linking it with binary code for my personal use. See section 0 of the GPL v2:
IANAL, but there is no restriction where I can link a GPL module to a BSD kernel. However, there has been many arguments that most modules cannot be created without the kernel headers and internals. So, if it were even possible, how would one create a kernel module that works in BSD and Linux AND can satifies the conditions of both licenses? I personally do not think it's possible, IMHO.
Hence, the term [making the quoting gesture with my hands] "Beamed up".
Last year, when my father past away, I have been thinking about what to do with myself when I pass on. My father and mother have a plot in a mausoleum. Burying my remains seems to be a little boring, so I thought about cremation. But I do not want to have my dust stuck in an urn for all eternity. I am an atheist agnostic, so I do not have any predetermined requirements for my remains.
I spend some time thinking about doing something special with my ashes if I chose cremation. A lot of people seem to like their ashes spread in ocean or in the sky. I thought about my ashes going to space, like Scotty's, but it may not be an option for a chump like me. Unless there is a service that performs this or I get connections, my family won't be able to do this practically.
I went to the Internet to find alternatives. I found a couple that were interesting and practical. The one that seemed most attractive was creating diamonds from human ashes. I am not kidding. There are many companies, like LifeGem and Memory Jewels, that do this. I could not believe it myself. What else could be the best way for my wife and children to remember me by? I will have lasting sentimental value. Plus, loking at the price lists from Memory Jewels, it's much cheaper than buying a $3000 casket. I am seriously considering it, too.
My head hurts now. I am going home...
I, for one, have been interested in MythTV for a while. It's looks like a great F/OSS solution. Any others?
I am getting a little tired of "Punch the Monkey".
The problem appears to be that Tenable Network Security (the company which primary author Renaud Deraison founded around Nessus) isn't making money because it's competition is simply repackaging their product.
Is the competition following the terms of the GPL? Is the competition providing the source code? If not, revoke the license for not following the terms of the license. If they are simply repackaging the code verbatim, use that knowledge against them. That's what competition is about.
"So in that regard, we have been fueling our competition, and we want to put an end to that. Nessus 3 contains an improved engine, and we don't want our competition to claim to have improved 'their' scanner."
If it's a false claim, sue them. If they really made improvements, enforce the license. Take their improvements, and merge it into your product. They must release the source code if they release their product. Otherwise, revoke their license. If their don't comply, sue them.
So in the ideal situation, you and your competition will be providing an improved product overall, sharing each other's improvements until the product becomes the defacto standard. I just think that there was a lack of vision and there was no real understanding of the GPL.
"The Network is the Computer".
Looks like they may actually try and do it this time...
In the meritocracy of open-source development, the good code survives and the bad code dies.
This is true for most commercial software, too. But, as long as the machine keeps dumping millions of dollars in it and continue to force it down consumer's throat, it may survive for many, many years. There are many examples of this. *cough* MSFT *cough* *cough*
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