With Windows 2000 Server licenses, if you buy this license from MS, it allows you to run Windows 2000 Server or any earlier MS Server Product. (I was research MS licenses recently for a client)
If the desktop license is the same, a single XP Prod License should be enough for all desktop OS's.
Wrong. Economy is war power. Production is economy. Social structure directly effects production. Look at Europe and it's shortened work weeks and frequent holidays. Socialist systems are huge and inneficient. Taxes are high. Governments are big and getting bigger.Basically, it is inefficiant at the individual level and it's economy will never match ours. Besides the fact that at the first real challenge, the European Union will fall apart. Too many distinct cultures which leads to too many distinct interests that will eventually conflict. Europe is not a threat, and won't be in the near (300-400 years).
Russia lost most of its infrastructure and still has too many socialist tendecies to build a competitive economy.
China has tons and tons of people, but can bearly feed itself. Until it solves that problem, it will never be a threat no longer how big its military is. (THey are aware of this... if you are a Chinese college student and studying agriculture, you can pretty much get a free ride to an American agriculture college. (Ohio State University for example). Also, if you are an American college student majoring in some kind of food science, it is pretty easy to get paid trips to China. Also, technologically and infrastructurally, we are way ahead of China. Finally, the reason China has it's food problems is that it's social system is so terribly inefficient. The only reason it could be a factor is the sheere numbers of people lead to huge amounts of production even if the production per person is a lot smaller. Talking with my friends from China, almost every job in China is like taking an American Government job (in America, THE example of inefficiency).
If the Chinese people found democracy and capitalism their productivity would sky rocket. However, the same thing that happened to russia would probably happen to China if it changes to a Democracy. This means they won't be a real threat without capitlism. Capitalism will send them back 100-200 years before it brings them forward (They likely would errupt in civil war and the whole society would be re-shuffled turning their attention inward.)
The Middle east has very little of its own production capability. They import a lot of food and have very little non-oil infrastructure. They aren't a real threat.
Without the Russian Nuclear threat, the United States and Europe will find themselves more at each other's throat. They no longer have a single dominant threat. NATO and the United Nations will soon dissolve away over the next 20 years as the nations of the world withdrawl from these organizations as the threats that existed when they were formed no longer exists.
The United States is dominant and they will be for the next 300-400 years and certainly throughout our lifetimes. I'm not too concerned with the United States pissing off other countries around the world. By the time things are changed, the people will have forgotten. We fought two wars with England 200 years ago, and now they are our strongest ally. It only takes one Nazi Germany to unite the world, no matter what past you have.
Don't like the fact that American interest will be determining your future, I'd recommend moving here. At least you'll be one of the leaders instead of the lead.
A hear a lot of people claim that, but I don't think it's true. For example, people say use gimp instead of photoshop. Granted photoshop sucks, but gimp isn't even close. Especially when you compare it to Fireworks.
And as far as open office goes, it still is only compatible with MS office if you keep the document very simple. Any complexness to your document, and it looks like shit when you open it in MS. It ain't there yet.
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Employers aren't desperate for employees. They have a little time to choose and lots of candidates. It's going to be harder for a stranger to get hired. Network baby... If you are unemployed, take that entry level position, and hope for a shining letter of recomendation. Then apply for that real-tech job. I'm a perl developer... I worked as a secretary at my current job, and the applied for my real job as a perl developer.
I have 4-5 years of perl development experience, and this is what I had to do to get in. If you are unemployeed, be shameless. If you are just looking for a job upgrade, network. The old rules apply now. It's no longer an employees market.
Agreed for the most part. Two things remain after the functional, good to lookat easy to use control panel is made...
Full DirectX compatability or something very similar. I want games, and I want them to run install and the game will work every time. (Works 99.9% on Windows)
Finally, most of my family is going to be pissed off when they buy x software at the store and they can't bring it home and play it.
Let me tell you what we were fighting for in WWII. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and it became perfectly clear that the border's of these United States were no longer safe, and the problems of the world could eventually affect us. The men and women of the US were afraid that one day, the war would be fought on our soil, and that life as we know it would change forever. That we might just have to sacrafice millions as the russians did. That our cities might be bombed as London was. If the American people gave a rats ass about the wellbeing of the rest of the world, we would have helped sooner. We don't.
Since our creation, we have been week, and we have been afraid to interact with the rest of the world in fear that this interaction might make our homeland appear on someone's radar screen, and that we may have to defend this land from aggressors homeland. Did we fight WWII to save the Jews? Did we fight it to liberate France or free England from the threat of her neighbor? Did we wish to liberate the people of Germany, Japan, and Italy from a repressive government? No! We realized that we may be next.
Just so I am clear, the American government cares about American's first. Thats why we, the American people have put it there. It is the job of our American government to do what is right in defending our way of life.
We have been placed in a world were the agressor with the biggest stick wins. This is apparent in Afghanastan, Cuba, Iraq, most of the middle east in fact, China, North Korea, and every other home of an oppressive totaltarion government. These governments would like to rape America of its fortune and discard are scared bodies to die. I support my government in setting up an empire in order to protect my family from the evil totaltarian governments of the world.
Further more, let me explain something else to you. The group of people with the biggest production get to build the biggest army. The group of people with the biggest army get to defend there borders and do what is neccesary to prevent aggression on its people. Therefore, economy, as shown in WWII, is equal to military might. Production is directly related to infrastructure, energy, and food. The power in the world that has the greatest infrastructure with sufficient food and energy gets to dictate whatever it wants. It was has allowed America to dominate in the last 50 years. The American capitalist system pays those who produce. Therefore, for 200 years, men have worked very hard to produce. We have spent lifetimes building businesses to take home money to our families so they can have nice things and live in luxury. As a side affect, because our individuals are paid per production and each generation grew beyond their parents, we have the biggest infrastructure in the world. Also, we grow way more food than we eat.
But remember, three things are needed in order to protect our borders. We need energy. Without it, our production (war making ability) goes down, and we are aggressed on by our neighbor. Therefore, war for oil makes since. Without war for oil, we fight wars for our territory. I'd rather fight wars for oil.
In conclusion, if you're not american, watch out because we will do whatever it takes to survive and defend our borders against you. If you your lifestyle to be directly related to your production, come aboard. It's a sturdy ship.
I talk to a lot of old school Unix guys (who prefer Solaris for it's Unix pureness). They seem to agree that the desktop isn't important. I think they're wrong here though. The future of any Unix is tied to the desktop.
Microsoft first controlled the desktop operating system. Then, they used the desktop operating system to control desktop applications. Then they used desktop applications to control network services/mid-level servers. (Outlook/Exchange, IE/IIS). Now, they are trying to strengthen their hold on mid-level servers and break into the high-level applications department. (Not through high-level servers but a bunch of mid-level ones).
They may or may not ever get the high-level servers, but I think if history proves anything, they will eventually. Not because they have a better product, but because they are able to use existing dominations to leverage into new markets.
Therefore, unless Unix makes headway on the desktop, there's no way they'll servive as servers. This is why there is hope in Linux as a desktop. Without it, Unix will eventually die.
XHTML wants to take away an authors ability to affect presentation. However, it is clear that authors want comlplete control over presentation. When HTML first started out, it was static. And it was good. Then, CGI appeared and you could now create static pages on the fly connecting to other systems. This too was good. Then HTML replaced the interface for 75-90% of internal corporate applications. This was kind of good.
The problem is that HTML is not a very good presentation language, and every since it first arrived, programmers are wanting to make it a better presentation language. Java, ActiveX,.Net, Macromedia, Netscape-Plugins, etc. all try to make the broswer a better presentation language for dynamic data in the back. People want to write applications and have them automatically work on all platforms. And not just work, but take advantage of what we know are good interfaces. Good interfaces are not hitting submit and waiting 3 seconds for a response, or even clicking a link and having the whole screen go blank while it downloads and figures out how to display the next page. A good interface to an application respons immediately and looks good.
Therefore, I think XHTML is doomed because it tries to take out the thing that everyone and there mother wants from a web application; the ability to create interfaces to applications that are always update and don't require complicated download and installation processes. A web language that increase a programmers ability to control the interface while not adding complicated download processes will replace HTML. Nothing short of that.
I think the bigger issue is that you are encouraging people to take naked sexual pictures of children who are not mentally capable of making rational decisions about such things. To support a child porn industry, you need to victimize children.
I think this comparison is poor. Not only is the door unlocked in this case, but sitting on the other side of the door is a functioning service that allows the public to view and download files. This is the equivalent of putting a sign in your front yard that says, 'Ruths Antiques' and a now open sign, and unlocking your door.
If you start providing a service to the public (paid or free), anyone may walk in, take a look around and even sample the free goods. (Unless you specifically ban them.)
This is exactly what they are doing... stepping into your front door to interact with your service to find out information about your activities. When there is a public access to your property, you can't turn around and claim privacy... you can, it just isn't going to work.
If they took the next step and took advantage of a flaw in your service to do damage to your computer or goods, this would be the equivalent of taking a baseball bat to a china shop, which is the wrong thing. If you crack in your store window or on your store shelves, you can't seriously claim your rights were violated when you get nailed.
I've used it to put out a medium sized application. Worked fine with no glitches, but in hindsite, it would have been a hell of a lot easier to just throw a web front end on it. Is that an option for you? Obvious advantages include only having one place to update code.
If a microphone were put on you 16 hours a day, would it catch you saying things wrong sometimes? Criticising a man because he sometimes puts a sentence togethor wrong when answering questions on the fly from his hear is a wrong thing. It is a political thing. At least he isn't memorizing standard responses and spouting them off like a robot. To me, not having the ability to speak from the heart about an issue on the fly is a sign of being an idiot, not using a wrong word or malforming a sentence.
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Yeah, Phillip Morris really gets its money worth from the government... considering it was almost sued into bankruptcy.
Is it a proper thing for government to force morality in research? Yes it is. What if researchers where taking three year old kids off the street, killing them, and then expirmenting? Would you be arguing then that the government shouldn't be interfering with science because of morale issues? It's government's job to do this. That's why they are there... to inforce the morality standards set by its citizens.
Do all citizens agreee it is immoral to do stem cell research? No, not at all. A lot of people think it is immoral. Should the research continue without there being a public discussion and somewhat of a consensus on the subject? Absolutely not.
If a public is not given the opportunity to have a moral discussion on public policy, then you get situations where later generations look down apon the immoral practice of it's earlier government. For example, the genocide of the American Indian and African slavery. (If these would have been abolished until the morality issue was resolved, they wouldn't have happened.) In the case of stem cell research, we can stop it before it even gets started, have the morality debate, and then continue working on it if there is a consensus that it is moral.)
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But the DOS prompt was called Windows 95.
Even though you can make Windows 95 boot to a command prompt, the command prompt is called windows 95. It isn't dos. Just looks like it.
Before Windows 95 you can load DOS, then load windows. Seperately. Windows 95 and after, there is no DOS.
With Windows 2000 Server licenses, if you buy this license from MS, it allows you to run Windows 2000 Server or any earlier MS Server Product. (I was research MS licenses recently for a client)
If the desktop license is the same, a single XP Prod License should be enough for all desktop OS's.
Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit!!!!!!!!!!
Wrong. Economy is war power. Production is economy. Social structure directly effects production. Look at Europe and it's shortened work weeks and frequent holidays. Socialist systems are huge and inneficient. Taxes are high. Governments are big and getting bigger.Basically, it is inefficiant at the individual level and it's economy will never match ours. Besides the fact that at the first real challenge, the European Union will fall apart. Too many distinct cultures which leads to too many distinct interests that will eventually conflict. Europe is not a threat, and won't be in the near (300-400 years). Russia lost most of its infrastructure and still has too many socialist tendecies to build a competitive economy.
China has tons and tons of people, but can bearly feed itself. Until it solves that problem, it will never be a threat no longer how big its military is. (THey are aware of this... if you are a Chinese college student and studying agriculture, you can pretty much get a free ride to an American agriculture college. (Ohio State University for example). Also, if you are an American college student majoring in some kind of food science, it is pretty easy to get paid trips to China. Also, technologically and infrastructurally, we are way ahead of China. Finally, the reason China has it's food problems is that it's social system is so terribly inefficient. The only reason it could be a factor is the sheere numbers of people lead to huge amounts of production even if the production per person is a lot smaller. Talking with my friends from China, almost every job in China is like taking an American Government job (in America, THE example of inefficiency).
If the Chinese people found democracy and capitalism their productivity would sky rocket. However, the same thing that happened to russia would probably happen to China if it changes to a Democracy. This means they won't be a real threat without capitlism. Capitalism will send them back 100-200 years before it brings them forward (They likely would errupt in civil war and the whole society would be re-shuffled turning their attention inward.)
The Middle east has very little of its own production capability. They import a lot of food and have very little non-oil infrastructure. They aren't a real threat.
Without the Russian Nuclear threat, the United States and Europe will find themselves more at each other's throat. They no longer have a single dominant threat. NATO and the United Nations will soon dissolve away over the next 20 years as the nations of the world withdrawl from these organizations as the threats that existed when they were formed no longer exists.
The United States is dominant and they will be for the next 300-400 years and certainly throughout our lifetimes. I'm not too concerned with the United States pissing off other countries around the world. By the time things are changed, the people will have forgotten. We fought two wars with England 200 years ago, and now they are our strongest ally. It only takes one Nazi Germany to unite the world, no matter what past you have.
Don't like the fact that American interest will be determining your future, I'd recommend moving here. At least you'll be one of the leaders instead of the lead.
A hear a lot of people claim that, but I don't think it's true. For example, people say use gimp instead of photoshop. Granted photoshop sucks, but gimp isn't even close. Especially when you compare it to Fireworks.
And as far as open office goes, it still is only compatible with MS office if you keep the document very simple. Any complexness to your document, and it looks like shit when you open it in MS. It ain't there yet.
Employers aren't desperate for employees. They have a little time to choose and lots of candidates. It's going to be harder for a stranger to get hired. Network baby... If you are unemployed, take that entry level position, and hope for a shining letter of recomendation. Then apply for that real-tech job. I'm a perl developer... I worked as a secretary at my current job, and the applied for my real job as a perl developer.
I have 4-5 years of perl development experience, and this is what I had to do to get in. If you are unemployeed, be shameless. If you are just looking for a job upgrade, network. The old rules apply now. It's no longer an employees market.
Agreed for the most part. Two things remain after the functional, good to lookat easy to use control panel is made...
Full DirectX compatability or something very similar. I want games, and I want them to run install and the game will work every time. (Works 99.9% on Windows)
Finally, most of my family is going to be pissed off when they buy x software at the store and they can't bring it home and play it.
Production is not how many widgets get produced per hour. Production is measured in dollars. Gross National Product is a dollar amount.
Therefore, how much you are willing to pay someone for their work is equal to their production, always, by definition.
Let me tell you what we were fighting for in WWII. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and it became perfectly clear that the border's of these United States were no longer safe, and the problems of the world could eventually affect us. The men and women of the US were afraid that one day, the war would be fought on our soil, and that life as we know it would change forever. That we might just have to sacrafice millions as the russians did. That our cities might be bombed as London was. If the American people gave a rats ass about the wellbeing of the rest of the world, we would have helped sooner. We don't.
Since our creation, we have been week, and we have been afraid to interact with the rest of the world in fear that this interaction might make our homeland appear on someone's radar screen, and that we may have to defend this land from aggressors homeland. Did we fight WWII to save the Jews? Did we fight it to liberate France or free England from the threat of her neighbor? Did we wish to liberate the people of Germany, Japan, and Italy from a repressive government? No! We realized that we may be next.
Just so I am clear, the American government cares about American's first. Thats why we, the American people have put it there. It is the job of our American government to do what is right in defending our way of life.
We have been placed in a world were the agressor with the biggest stick wins. This is apparent in Afghanastan, Cuba, Iraq, most of the middle east in fact, China, North Korea, and every other home of an oppressive totaltarion government. These governments would like to rape America of its fortune and discard are scared bodies to die. I support my government in setting up an empire in order to protect my family from the evil totaltarian governments of the world.
Further more, let me explain something else to you. The group of people with the biggest production get to build the biggest army. The group of people with the biggest army get to defend there borders and do what is neccesary to prevent aggression on its people. Therefore, economy, as shown in WWII, is equal to military might. Production is directly related to infrastructure, energy, and food. The power in the world that has the greatest infrastructure with sufficient food and energy gets to dictate whatever it wants. It was has allowed America to dominate in the last 50 years. The American capitalist system pays those who produce. Therefore, for 200 years, men have worked very hard to produce. We have spent lifetimes building businesses to take home money to our families so they can have nice things and live in luxury. As a side affect, because our individuals are paid per production and each generation grew beyond their parents, we have the biggest infrastructure in the world. Also, we grow way more food than we eat.
But remember, three things are needed in order to protect our borders. We need energy. Without it, our production (war making ability) goes down, and we are aggressed on by our neighbor. Therefore, war for oil makes since. Without war for oil, we fight wars for our territory. I'd rather fight wars for oil.
In conclusion, if you're not american, watch out because we will do whatever it takes to survive and defend our borders against you. If you your lifestyle to be directly related to your production, come aboard. It's a sturdy ship.
You go to hell... You go to hell and die.
Hey, if it falls after a 3000 year run, then let it. But meanwhile, in this lifetime, on this Earth, bow, and respect your superior or feel our steel.
I talk to a lot of old school Unix guys (who prefer Solaris for it's Unix pureness). They seem to agree that the desktop isn't important. I think they're wrong here though. The future of any Unix is tied to the desktop.
Microsoft first controlled the desktop operating system. Then, they used the desktop operating system to control desktop applications. Then they used desktop applications to control network services/mid-level servers. (Outlook/Exchange, IE/IIS). Now, they are trying to strengthen their hold on mid-level servers and break into the high-level applications department. (Not through high-level servers but a bunch of mid-level ones).
They may or may not ever get the high-level servers, but I think if history proves anything, they will eventually. Not because they have a better product, but because they are able to use existing dominations to leverage into new markets.
Therefore, unless Unix makes headway on the desktop, there's no way they'll servive as servers. This is why there is hope in Linux as a desktop. Without it, Unix will eventually die.
XHTML wants to take away an authors ability to affect presentation. However, it is clear that authors want comlplete control over presentation. When HTML first started out, it was static. And it was good. Then, CGI appeared and you could now create static pages on the fly connecting to other systems. This too was good. Then HTML replaced the interface for 75-90% of internal corporate applications. This was kind of good. .Net, Macromedia, Netscape-Plugins, etc. all try to make the broswer a better presentation language for dynamic data in the back. People want to write applications and have them automatically work on all platforms. And not just work, but take advantage of what we know are good interfaces. Good interfaces are not hitting submit and waiting 3 seconds for a response, or even clicking a link and having the whole screen go blank while it downloads and figures out how to display the next page. A good interface to an application respons immediately and looks good.
The problem is that HTML is not a very good presentation language, and every since it first arrived, programmers are wanting to make it a better presentation language. Java, ActiveX,
Therefore, I think XHTML is doomed because it tries to take out the thing that everyone and there mother wants from a web application; the ability to create interfaces to applications that are always update and don't require complicated download and installation processes. A web language that increase a programmers ability to control the interface while not adding complicated download processes will replace HTML. Nothing short of that.
"but Linux machines can read/write FAT and read NTFS" um... no
I think the bigger issue is that you are encouraging people to take naked sexual pictures of children who are not mentally capable of making rational decisions about such things. To support a child porn industry, you need to victimize children.
I think this comparison is poor. Not only is the door unlocked in this case, but sitting on the other side of the door is a functioning service that allows the public to view and download files. This is the equivalent of putting a sign in your front yard that says, 'Ruths Antiques' and a now open sign, and unlocking your door.
If you start providing a service to the public (paid or free), anyone may walk in, take a look around and even sample the free goods. (Unless you specifically ban them.)
This is exactly what they are doing... stepping into your front door to interact with your service to find out information about your activities. When there is a public access to your property, you can't turn around and claim privacy... you can, it just isn't going to work.
If they took the next step and took advantage of a flaw in your service to do damage to your computer or goods, this would be the equivalent of taking a baseball bat to a china shop, which is the wrong thing. If you crack in your store window or on your store shelves, you can't seriously claim your rights were violated when you get nailed.
My dad maintains it. :-)
But he just replaces components when they break. All the research, etc. is done by exterior companies.
Linux cannot write NTFS well. Last I heard that's a good way to scramble your NTFS partition.
Isn't that basically writing drivers?
I've used it to put out a medium sized application. Worked fine with no glitches, but in hindsite, it would have been a hell of a lot easier to just throw a web front end on it. Is that an option for you? Obvious advantages include only having one place to update code.
If a microphone were put on you 16 hours a day, would it catch you saying things wrong sometimes? Criticising a man because he sometimes puts a sentence togethor wrong when answering questions on the fly from his hear is a wrong thing. It is a political thing. At least he isn't memorizing standard responses and spouting them off like a robot. To me, not having the ability to speak from the heart about an issue on the fly is a sign of being an idiot, not using a wrong word or malforming a sentence.
Yeah, Phillip Morris really gets its money worth from the government... considering it was almost sued into bankruptcy.
Is it a proper thing for government to force morality in research? Yes it is. What if researchers where taking three year old kids off the street, killing them, and then expirmenting? Would you be arguing then that the government shouldn't be interfering with science because of morale issues? It's government's job to do this. That's why they are there... to inforce the morality standards set by its citizens.
Do all citizens agreee it is immoral to do stem cell research? No, not at all. A lot of people think it is immoral. Should the research continue without there being a public discussion and somewhat of a consensus on the subject? Absolutely not.
If a public is not given the opportunity to have a moral discussion on public policy, then you get situations where later generations look down apon the immoral practice of it's earlier government. For example, the genocide of the American Indian and African slavery. (If these would have been abolished until the morality issue was resolved, they wouldn't have happened.) In the case of stem cell research, we can stop it before it even gets started, have the morality debate, and then continue working on it if there is a consensus that it is moral.)
class envy Pronunciation Key (kls)(nv)
n. 1. A feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another social class.
Synonyms: class coveting