Every time someone hits a website, said website has to expend some resources. They have to send the information down the wire to your computer. This is not free.
If they don't want people to read their material, then why bother with the web at all?
The Albuquerque Journal charges $50 for the right to link to each of its articles. Localbusiness.com and Latino.com are more generous, and permit one to five links without payment.
I don't understand "news organizations" that try to charge for back articles. The San Jose Mercury, for instance, puts all of its older (by a few weeks) articles into a $1.50/article "service." It's like they don't want people to use them for research; as if they don't want to keep selling those banner ads; and don't want to used for or featured in research.
Nevermind xf86cfg, indeed. It wouldn't run on either of the machines I tried it on. The funny part is, it failed with "cannot read config file." So I fell back to X -configure plus vi.
I actually can't stand the flicker of flourescents as much as I disklike the spectra they produce. I use incandescents for this reason. A workable LED light source for the house would be great. Especially if the house were wired for 12v DC -- I could then have house-wide battery backup.
All political systems ARE inherently unstable. Dictatorships go broke and destroy themselves at the top via corruption and power struggles. Democracies last until the people vote themselves money.:)
The Byzantine Empire lasted 800 years with the same economic system, though; they were really strict about how money was to be handled. The penalty for debasing the currency (shaving gold coins in those days) was to have a hand cut off. Their currency was accepted the world over, even after the fall of their civilization.
If I read swordgeek right, he's saying the same thing.
Then he's saying it poorly, or in a way that I'm failing to understand.
I agree with what you said. Unfortunately, the government during the FDR period rigged the laws of this land to favor collusion, condone monopoly, create and legitimize cartels, and weight things towards large interests in the name of "stability."
I would prefer a system that favors many smaller competitors, rather than a few large MegaCorps. I.e., I would prefer real capitalism to the government-by-pressure-group system that we currently have.
Along those lines, I would prefer the end of government-created and sustained monopolies, the busting up of cartels (like the banking industry), the limiting of patents and copyrights to shorter amounts of time as they once were, and either the inclusion of the "corporate death penalty" in law enforcement (i.e., corporations obey the same laws real people do) or the end of the corporation as we know it. Corporations used to be very special things, set up by the U.S. Congress and granted special legal status and exemptions. The Postal Service, for example. Private business was confined to being companies, not corporations.
This day of government licensing of all activity and "public-private partnerships" is really detrimental to capitalism, to our culture, and to our system of governance (a federal republic -- which is neither a democracy or a corporate state).
You stated your position a little more reasonably; and I more or less agree with the content of your statement, but not the sentiment. You think that competition is a bad thing; I think it is a good thing.
With what would you replace competition? Who knows so much that they can pick the correct product/strategy/etc. at the outset? And are people so homogenous that they would be happy with a pre-ordained choice? Or are you thinking of some method of having choices in similar products somehow without competition?
Nope. Not in a capitalist economy. Capitalism implies (hell, it defines!) competition, conflict, and 'only the strong survive.' Competing agencies getting along is anathema to capitalism.
Bull. Capitalism is NOT "only the strong survive," and "getting along" is NOT "anathema to capitalism." Capitalism is freedom; often players in a capitalist economy specialize and then work together, because they are free to do so and it is to their benefit.
Sad, ain't it? Slurs and misunderstanding sure are.
CueCat is subject to patents -- and broad and horrible ones at that. They have patents on creating "network events" using a barcodes scanner. That covers anything done with a network and a barcode scanner, even if it's not the CueCat. I.e., if I have been using and old Symbol scanner for years to input data into a program that updated a database over the network, I'm now screwed.
Digital Convergence has licensed and is defending NeoMedia's patents:
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06108656__
Automatic access of electronic information through machine-readable codes on printed documents
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05933829__
Automatic access of electronic information through secure machine-readable codes on printed documents
The two big things I like about 2.2.18 (I've been running the -pre kernels) is that they include a working, and version 3, NFS client, and the VM seems more stable. I used to get "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for".. whatver/everything, especially kswapd, in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. It seems to have gone away with 2.2.18.
I loved that game! The new 3-D populous sucks. What I want is the original, Amiga populous! Although, I'd prefer a PC port, as I don't have an Amiga these days...
I used to get a lot of spam. Interestingly, my Mindspring mailbox was really heavy on spam. Interesting, because I NEVER used that email address,or gave it to anyone for anything, which means my (former) ISP sold it or gave it to spammers. This from the company that hyped their "spaminator" email filters.:)
On my other accounts, I started to get spam shortly after they were set up. For six months or so, I was religious about doing a full inspection of all spam -- headers, traces, whois, port scans, etc. I'd send a spam report to every ISP between me and the source, and sometimes to an attorney general somewhere. For intransigent cases, I'd mail-bomb them, sometimes attaching 100+ copies of the particular spam to the reply and sending it every @culprit.com address I knew.
Now, I must be on some special "don't ever spam this guy ever" list, because I just don't get spam anymore.
Funny how GTE keeps changing their name, hoping people will forget they are that same old sucky telco.
GTE actually installed a T1 line on a telephone pole outside the building once, rather than inside the building as they should have.
I think some of their fiber-repair guys once decided to haul the cut ends inside the van for repair due to inclimate weather. They brought each end in a separate door, and repaired it. Then they figured out that the cable couldn't be taken out either door, anymore. They ended up cutting the van in half rather than re-sever the fiber line.
They were also "Cellular One" -- the suckiest cell phone service ever. Tin cans run by a Russian mob would work better.:)
Perhaps GTE should change something besides their name...
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Every time someone hits a website, said website has to expend some resources. They have to send the information down the wire to your computer. This is not free.
If they don't want people to read their material, then why bother with the web at all?
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I don't understand "news organizations" that try to charge for back articles. The San Jose Mercury, for instance, puts all of its older (by a few weeks) articles into a $1.50/article "service." It's like they don't want people to use them for research; as if they don't want to keep selling those banner ads; and don't want to used for or featured in research.
Totally clueless.
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Nevermind xf86cfg, indeed. It wouldn't run on either of the machines I tried it on. The funny part is, it failed with "cannot read config file." So I fell back to X -configure plus vi.
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Does anyone have a link to information about GTK and/or Gnome adding support for this?
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Professional equipment, not consumer.
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I actually can't stand the flicker of flourescents as much as I disklike the spectra they produce. I use incandescents for this reason. A workable LED light source for the house would be great. Especially if the house were wired for 12v DC -- I could then have house-wide battery backup.
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All political systems ARE inherently unstable. Dictatorships go broke and destroy themselves at the top via corruption and power struggles. Democracies last until the people vote themselves money. :)
The Byzantine Empire lasted 800 years with the same economic system, though; they were really strict about how money was to be handled. The penalty for debasing the currency (shaving gold coins in those days) was to have a hand cut off. Their currency was accepted the world over, even after the fall of their civilization.
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If I read swordgeek right, he's saying the same thing.
Then he's saying it poorly, or in a way that I'm failing to understand.
I agree with what you said. Unfortunately, the government during the FDR period rigged the laws of this land to favor collusion, condone monopoly, create and legitimize cartels, and weight things towards large interests in the name of "stability."
I would prefer a system that favors many smaller competitors, rather than a few large MegaCorps. I.e., I would prefer real capitalism to the government-by-pressure-group system that we currently have.
Along those lines, I would prefer the end of government-created and sustained monopolies, the busting up of cartels (like the banking industry), the limiting of patents and copyrights to shorter amounts of time as they once were, and either the inclusion of the "corporate death penalty" in law enforcement (i.e., corporations obey the same laws real people do) or the end of the corporation as we know it. Corporations used to be very special things, set up by the U.S. Congress and granted special legal status and exemptions. The Postal Service, for example. Private business was confined to being companies, not corporations.
This day of government licensing of all activity and "public-private partnerships" is really detrimental to capitalism, to our culture, and to our system of governance (a federal republic -- which is neither a democracy or a corporate state).
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You may not agree, but that's how I see it.
You stated your position a little more reasonably; and I more or less agree with the content of your statement, but not the sentiment. You think that competition is a bad thing; I think it is a good thing.
With what would you replace competition? Who knows so much that they can pick the correct product/strategy/etc. at the outset? And are people so homogenous that they would be happy with a pre-ordained choice? Or are you thinking of some method of having choices in similar products somehow without competition?
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>"Can't we all just get along?"
Nope. Not in a capitalist economy. Capitalism implies (hell, it defines!) competition, conflict, and 'only the strong survive.' Competing agencies getting along is anathema to capitalism.
Bull. Capitalism is NOT "only the strong survive," and "getting along" is NOT "anathema to capitalism." Capitalism is freedom; often players in a capitalist economy specialize and then work together, because they are free to do so and it is to their benefit.
Sad, ain't it?
Slurs and misunderstanding sure are.
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CueCat is subject to patents -- and broad and horrible ones at that. They have patents on creating "network events" using a barcodes scanner. That covers anything done with a network and a barcode scanner, even if it's not the CueCat. I.e., if I have been using and old Symbol scanner for years to input data into a program that updated a database over the network, I'm now screwed.
Digital Convergence has licensed and is defending NeoMedia's patents:
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06108656__
Automatic access of electronic information through machine-readable codes on printed documents
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05933829__
Automatic access of electronic information through secure machine-readable codes on printed documents
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Put them against the wall.
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Do you see Plex86 becoming a standard feature of the Linux kernel?
I think that would be really useful...
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You're right. It's a short patch, so I thought, no harm. I was tickled that that patch was deemed "lame" by slashcode :)
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is different than both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0. I tried to post a patch to fix it here, but amusingly, slashdot's lamness filter rejected it.
.. whatver/everything, especially kswapd, in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. It seems to have gone away with 2.2.18.
The two big things I like about 2.2.18 (I've been running the -pre kernels) is that they include a working, and version 3, NFS client, and the VM seems more stable. I used to get "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for"
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Give me populous!
I loved that game! The new 3-D populous sucks. What I want is the original, Amiga populous! Although, I'd prefer a PC port, as I don't have an Amiga these days...
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I used to get a lot of spam. Interestingly, my Mindspring mailbox was really heavy on spam. Interesting, because I NEVER used that email address ,or gave it to anyone for anything, which means my (former) ISP sold it or gave it to spammers. This from the company that hyped their "spaminator" email filters. :)
On my other accounts, I started to get spam shortly after they were set up. For six months or so, I was religious about doing a full inspection of all spam -- headers, traces, whois, port scans, etc. I'd send a spam report to every ISP between me and the source, and sometimes to an attorney general somewhere. For intransigent cases, I'd mail-bomb them, sometimes attaching 100+ copies of the particular spam to the reply and sending it every @culprit.com address I knew.
Now, I must be on some special "don't ever spam this guy ever" list, because I just don't get spam anymore.
:)
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Funny how GTE keeps changing their name, hoping people will forget they are that same old sucky telco.
:)
GTE actually installed a T1 line on a telephone pole outside the building once, rather than inside the building as they should have.
I think some of their fiber-repair guys once decided to haul the cut ends inside the van for repair due to inclimate weather. They brought each end in a separate door, and repaired it. Then they figured out that the cable couldn't be taken out either door, anymore. They ended up cutting the van in half rather than re-sever the fiber line.
They were also "Cellular One" -- the suckiest cell phone service ever. Tin cans run by a Russian mob would work better.
Perhaps GTE should change something besides their name...
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Hey, 1010011010: Make a refernce to "The Clapper" or the old Wendy's commercial "Where's The Beef" to score big time!
:)
"High in his tower sits the Lord; he is the Bell, the Clapper, and the Cord."
Or is that not what you meant?
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... but it plays one on TV.
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Interestingly, you can just make windows look like it's running gnome:
d erbig.gif
http://www.dtop.org/outsider99/img/sshots/gnomesi
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http://206.26.113.2/ goes to the Macatawa Area Community Network home page. I'm sure they'll apprciate the hits, Taco! :)
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You could always find a project of some interest to you that takes plugins, and write a plugin.
You can document something.
You can write something new.
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Where can I download a version to try on my iPaq?
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