As an added note a company called Itronics (ITRO) takes photochemical waste and turns it into silver bars and fertilizer for farms. Pretty interesting company. http://www.itronics.com/
Well considering amazon has always been about the long tail of online purchasing I'd figure they would be ramping up on all the movies you can't find anywhere else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail
I agree with BinarySearchTree. Your house is a liability because it does not provide you with positive cash flow and it is the bankers asset because he is getting money from you each month. Yes it can make you money in the long term, but how much? Who will ever know how much. On the other hand if I own a property that pays me money each month then that is an asset. Pretty simple actually.
I feel our government is as corrupt as you say and I feel you are right-on about the intimidation, but I think you are wrong about this being a Christian country. It's stopped being a Chrisitan country long before they took prayer out of schools.
"America is not a Christian nation. It never was and it never will be. This is not to say that America was not founded on some biblical principles. It was established on some Bible truths.... But America is a nation in the world and it behaves like a nation in the world. The United States Constitution does not contain the words "Christian" or "Jesus" or "Bible." Many of the founding fathers were deists. The power of the United States government rests in the 11 consent of the governed," not in the Word of God."
To solve your last issue of valid users crippling the system you could use a hardrive protection utility like Centurian Guard. This hardware device puts the harddrive into a "read-only" state allowing anyone to do anything to the contents of the drive. You can even deltree c:\*.*, but once you reboot the contents come back because the users can only actually add/remove data on a temp partition. This works really well with a domain controller (ala samba) so all users data stays safe on a network drive.
I have no problem with online banking et al, but I was talking to my accountant yesterday and he said he will never put a credit card number or transfer money using the internet. He is an older gentleman and I wasn't about to go on about how SSL and other tech keeps this stuff safe, but it makes you think. Why would I put my information so easily available out there? I will continue to use the internet for online banking and such because I feel I take the necessarly precautions to keep myself safe. Makes you wonder will there ever be a time when you will be safe on the internet? I would say no. What are your thoughts?
This article seems to remind me of the same thing M$ has been doing for years. They drop prices, work out licensing deals with organizations (ala University of Maryland), give away stuff, etc just to get their product in your hands, on your network, and essential to your computing life. M$ is not dumb. They have alot of smart people all working towards the same goal.
Also I don't think linux pressure has anything to do with it. I'm just sick of their licensing practices period and I think that attitude is what is changing things. Who wants to pay extra money to have a server sitting around doing nothing? Not me. That being said I would rather use linux for core systems whenever possible.
Anyway I think alot of the posts so far are good especially the one pertaining to the updates on an offline server.
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As an added note a company called Itronics (ITRO) takes photochemical waste and turns it into silver bars and fertilizer for farms. Pretty interesting company. http://www.itronics.com/
Well considering amazon has always been about the long tail of online purchasing I'd figure they would be ramping up on all the movies you can't find anywhere else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail
I agree with BinarySearchTree. Your house is a liability because it does not provide you with positive cash flow and it is the bankers asset because he is getting money from you each month. Yes it can make you money in the long term, but how much? Who will ever know how much. On the other hand if I own a property that pays me money each month then that is an asset. Pretty simple actually.
See an Anabaptist (Christian) perspective here: http://www.brfwitness.org/Articles/2003v38n3.htm Here is small part that explains it all:
"America is not a Christian nation. It never was and it never will be. This is not to say that America was not founded on some biblical principles. It was established on some Bible truths. ... But America is a nation in the world and it behaves like a nation in the world. The United States Constitution does not contain the words "Christian" or "Jesus" or "Bible." Many of the founding fathers were deists. The power of the United States government rests in the 11 consent of the governed," not in the Word of God."
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To solve your last issue of valid users crippling the system you could use a hardrive protection utility like Centurian Guard. This hardware device puts the harddrive into a "read-only" state allowing anyone to do anything to the contents of the drive. You can even deltree c:\*.*, but once you reboot the contents come back because the users can only actually add/remove data on a temp partition. This works really well with a domain controller (ala samba) so all users data stays safe on a network drive.
I have no problem with online banking et al, but I was talking to my accountant yesterday and he said he will never put a credit card number or transfer money using the internet. He is an older gentleman and I wasn't about to go on about how SSL and other tech keeps this stuff safe, but it makes you think. Why would I put my information so easily available out there? I will continue to use the internet for online banking and such because I feel I take the necessarly precautions to keep myself safe. Makes you wonder will there ever be a time when you will be safe on the internet? I would say no. What are your thoughts?
This article seems to remind me of the same thing M$ has been doing for years. They drop prices, work out licensing deals with organizations (ala University of Maryland), give away stuff, etc just to get their product in your hands, on your network, and essential to your computing life. M$ is not dumb. They have alot of smart people all working towards the same goal.
Also I don't think linux pressure has anything to do with it. I'm just sick of their licensing practices period and I think that attitude is what is changing things. Who wants to pay extra money to have a server sitting around doing nothing? Not me. That being said I would rather use linux for core systems whenever possible.
Anyway I think alot of the posts so far are good especially the one pertaining to the updates on an offline server.
Mod this parent up. Pure genius.