omg someone else out there programs in business basic.
Im not alone afterall!
yes.. our software is highly customizable and it costs. It includes POS, but goes way beyond that.
Hey.. at least Basic is sturdy.. we also program in Delphi and its a total and complete disaster.
umm.. does anyone but me notice that this article randomly links off to many small sections of what appear to be the soon-to-be-released Xmen 2 movie?
i'm not saying they are trailers. i'm saying they are actual clips from the movie in.mov format.
Has X2 been leaked?
Once again, as seems to be the case with so many of these kind of problems that involve the digital world, i believe the real problem is summed up on the last line of his (excellent) article:
If only it didn't depend on a bunch of music men who've yet to wean themselves from shiny plastic discs.
I think the real underlying issue that confronts us is simply a lack of understanding of the technology that is becoming available. These men have grown up in a "shiny disk" world, and judging by their actions i cannot help but think that they are fundamentally (and by no fault of their own) incapable of understanding the kind of societal and logical changes that are taking place as technology allows us to manage content more freely.
In short, i would predict that these problems wont really find resolution until the next generation that has grown up with this technology takes over the big businesses and is able and willing to do what they known needs to be done.
has anyone ever run into these kind of problems when downloading mp3's from the various mp3 channels on IRC?
I've always felt safe knowing that, while the courts and companies can play the Napster Startup/Shutdown game till they all die of redundant bordom, i can always count on finding most of what i want on various channels on various networks, and i've never come across these type of "poisoned" files.
The same cannot be said for the unlucky "participants" in the Social Security game.
Actually, the same can be said.
No one forced you to get a social security number, it is totally and completely voluntary.
That is to say, there is no law requiring you to obtain a social security number. "But,", I can already hear you say, "if I didn't have an SSN, how would they track my Income taxes?". Well, gosh, good question. If social security is voluntary, than...
Ah, shucks, nevermind, no one wants to listen anyway...
I know to a slashdot community that thinks the past tense of the word "pay" is "payed" (try paid), the big words those decepticons at the RIAA use can be confusing, so here's some help:
Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."
disingenuous
Pronunciation: "di-s&n-'jen-y&-w&s
Function: adjective
Date: 1655
: lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness
Spreading literacy, one blithering idiot at a time.
For those of you are hardcore non-cgi Spidey fans, there is always the 2 part movie from 1977 starring Nicholas Hammond. Check out this pic of the movie's cover art.
Yeah. Nice to see how far we've come in movies since then;)
Yeah. That's just GREAT. In your last moments, as you're lying on the floor, convulsing in the midst of cardiac arrest, do yourself a favor and think: "At least I didn't pay too much for real phone service."
this post's mod drops like a plane with an afghani pilot.
There are serious issues surrounding the legalities of a drivers license. There is a strong relationship to between the drivers license and the SSN (social securit number), the latter of which is not required of you to possess (but good luck trying to live without one).
It comes down to definitions. Words like "travel", "automobile", "motor vehicle", and amoung the most important, "driver". IANAL, but you have to understand that when you enter into the realm of law, you dont just have "general meanings" for words. They are each defined very strictly, and are often redefined in various sections so as not to have any confusion as to where or to whom the law applies.
"Motor Vehicle" is an important one. Definition in Title 18 USC 31 - "Motor vehicle" means every description or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, or passengers and property."
"Driver" is another one, definition from Bovier's Law Dictionary - "One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle..."
You'll notice that both of these definitions include mention of the thing in question (a Motor Vehicle or a Driver) involved in some form of commericial business. The argument exists, in what may people think as extremists circles, that licensing, by law, is only required for those who wish to use the public roads for commercial use.
So notice you are getting a "Driver's License" at the "Motor Vehicle Division", and you are not getting a "Traveler's License" at the "Automobile Division". Traveler and Automobile.. very different defintions on those 2 words than on the previous 2.
So you have "extremist" views and you have people who try to debunk them (cant find a legitimate link right now, but they most definitely exist). The difference seems to be one group is actively reading the laws and applying them (how dare they), and one group is saying "these guys are idiots, OF COURSE everyone has to have licenses, thats how we've done it for YEARS, so it MUST BE RIGHT!!!"
So again, there are lots of issues surrounding the driver's license. As one previous poster put it, if you dont like the requirements to get one, dont get one. But then life actually becomes hard, and no one wants life to be hard...
Well, aside that I sit here and support XP all day (which tends to qualify me to know what I speak of), I'm also looking at the public MS knowledge base and the Hardware Compatibility List. In both instances, what you call ".NET Server" (which very well may be what it is eventually called), it is still in beta 3 and is referred to by MS as either 64bit edition or Whistler Beta Server.
Bitching over terms, pointless. Troll.
IIS will be back in force with the release of Windows XP 64bit Edition. It's half-broken presence in XP Professional should be hint enough that not only will it be staying around, but MS will be pushing more and more services to use it in some way, shape or form.
However forbidden it may be to link to MS on slashdot, check out this link to some specs on the next generation of MS's Server OS.
Apache hasn't won by a long shot.. the battle wages on in the minds and hearts of sysadmins across the globe.
Yes.. why are we going after Osama? Why aren't we going after those STUPID airlines? Why dont they have automatic-terrorist-detector-killer machines on every plane? I mean.. DUH...
Blame the gunmaker, instead of the person who committed the murder.
Blame the programmer, instead of the person who wrote the malicious code.
Blame someone else, just not me. make sure that we never get it back down to personal responsibility, because the liberal left hates that. They are just itching for you whine and complain yourself into slavery, to trade your freedoms so they can give you "security".
No, because the copyright for the artists work is owned by the suits while the artists are in contract with them. You see individual people going after copyright lawsuits once the contracts on those works (songs) have expired and the copyrights have transferred back to the individual. But you don't see too many individuals going to court, as much as you see Sony or RIAA or other suits filing because they own the majority of the copyrights... _
Just a few relevant points (that may or may not have already been covered):
a) Win95 support doesn't "die" until the end of this year (this I know, i'm sitting 20 feet from 300 people sitting in the 9x queue... 9x includes 95).
b) 95 doesn't "die". A ridiculous amount of people still use it, and tech support will be handed off to an outsourcer who will own the 95 project completely and seperately from Microsoft. We can only hope and pray that people (if they haven't already) will stop developing applications for windows 95. However much we would like it to die and just go away, it wont.
c)activation will be ongoing in MS products from now on. If you get rid of activation for any product, you essentially throw however much money you spent on developing that OS out the window (no pun intended) because it is impossible to install it. MS has never "killed" a product in such a way, and never will.
d)9x sucks, this we know. 2k was good, XP is better. Stop installing Norton Systemworks with cleansweep and other such registry-wreckers and watch your registry operate on its own just fine.
What I'd like to see are people like you pull their heads out of their cornholes and realize that Microsoft is a BUSINESS. They are in this game for MONEY. They are not here to support open source and hug trees, nor are they under any obligation to port to other systems.
In case you didn't know, if you want to have a successful business that makes money, you don't go around doing your competitor's job for them (and doing it better than they can) out of the goodness of your heart, meanwhile shunning your own product. That doesn't make money.
What i'd like to see is linux coders quit cry-ass bitching on prepubescent message boards and get to work actually producing marketable applications for what they claim to be a superior OS.
You know there are so many books full of so many laws in this ridiculous judicial system that you could fill a substantial sized house with them?
The point being, you may THINK that you don't do anything illegal, but none of us know all the laws that are on the books, so you never really KNOW. And, of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse...
Let me give you some words to look up:
-Freedom
-Privacy
-Liberty
-Sovereignty
-Constitution
And you probably represent the majority of americans... *sigh*
Slashdot Mirror
if i can replace your index.html..
i can probably replace or delete many other things. Yeah, still hacking.
omg someone else out there programs in business basic. Im not alone afterall! yes.. our software is highly customizable and it costs. It includes POS, but goes way beyond that. Hey.. at least Basic is sturdy.. we also program in Delphi and its a total and complete disaster.
seek professional help.
umm.. does anyone but me notice that this article randomly links off to many small sections of what appear to be the soon-to-be-released Xmen 2 movie? i'm not saying they are trailers. i'm saying they are actual clips from the movie in .mov format.
Has X2 been leaked?
everything has your answer.
Along with the answer to, you betcha, everything else!
Once again, as seems to be the case with so many of these kind of problems that involve the digital world, i believe the real problem is summed up on the last line of his (excellent) article:
If only it didn't depend on a bunch of music men who've yet to wean themselves from shiny plastic discs.
I think the real underlying issue that confronts us is simply a lack of understanding of the technology that is becoming available. These men have grown up in a "shiny disk" world, and judging by their actions i cannot help but think that they are fundamentally (and by no fault of their own) incapable of understanding the kind of societal and logical changes that are taking place as technology allows us to manage content more freely.
In short, i would predict that these problems wont really find resolution until the next generation that has grown up with this technology takes over the big businesses and is able and willing to do what they known needs to be done.
I just hope we can survive until then.
Out of curiousity..
has anyone ever run into these kind of problems when downloading mp3's from the various mp3 channels on IRC?
I've always felt safe knowing that, while the courts and companies can play the Napster Startup/Shutdown game till they all die of redundant bordom, i can always count on finding most of what i want on various channels on various networks, and i've never come across these type of "poisoned" files.
Anyone else have different experiences?
I see this a lot..
You crazy linux people must really like your CDs...
I just hope you never want to see whats on your dog.
Pr0n
are you sure you saw what you saw?
The same cannot be said for the unlucky "participants" in the Social Security game.
Actually, the same can be said.
No one forced you to get a social security number, it is totally and completely voluntary.
That is to say, there is no law requiring you to obtain a social security number. "But,", I can already hear you say, "if I didn't have an SSN, how would they track my Income taxes?". Well, gosh, good question. If social security is voluntary, than...
Ah, shucks, nevermind, no one wants to listen anyway...
I know to a slashdot community that thinks the past tense of the word "pay" is "payed" (try paid), the big words those decepticons at the RIAA use can be confusing, so here's some help:
Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."
disingenuous Pronunciation: "di-s&n-'jen-y&-w&s Function: adjective Date: 1655 : lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness
Spreading literacy, one blithering idiot at a time.
For those of you are hardcore non-cgi Spidey fans, there is always the 2 part movie from 1977 starring Nicholas Hammond. Check out this pic of the movie's cover art.
Yeah. Nice to see how far we've come in movies since then ;)
of a better use for this.
From the Time article:
For arcane technical reasons, you can't call 911.
Yeah. That's just GREAT. In your last moments, as you're lying on the floor, convulsing in the midst of cardiac arrest, do yourself a favor and think: "At least I didn't pay too much for real phone service."
this post's mod drops like a plane with an afghani pilot.
There are serious issues surrounding the legalities of a drivers license. There is a strong relationship to between the drivers license and the SSN (social securit number), the latter of which is not required of you to possess (but good luck trying to live without one).
It comes down to definitions. Words like "travel", "automobile", "motor vehicle", and amoung the most important, "driver". IANAL, but you have to understand that when you enter into the realm of law, you dont just have "general meanings" for words. They are each defined very strictly, and are often redefined in various sections so as not to have any confusion as to where or to whom the law applies.
"Motor Vehicle" is an important one. Definition in Title 18 USC 31 - "Motor vehicle" means every description or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, or passengers and property."
"Driver" is another one, definition from Bovier's Law Dictionary - "One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle..."
You'll notice that both of these definitions include mention of the thing in question (a Motor Vehicle or a Driver) involved in some form of commericial business. The argument exists, in what may people think as extremists circles, that licensing, by law, is only required for those who wish to use the public roads for commercial use.
So notice you are getting a "Driver's License" at the "Motor Vehicle Division", and you are not getting a "Traveler's License" at the "Automobile Division". Traveler and Automobile.. very different defintions on those 2 words than on the previous 2.
So you have "extremist" views and you have people who try to debunk them (cant find a legitimate link right now, but they most definitely exist). The difference seems to be one group is actively reading the laws and applying them (how dare they), and one group is saying "these guys are idiots, OF COURSE everyone has to have licenses, thats how we've done it for YEARS, so it MUST BE RIGHT!!!"
So again, there are lots of issues surrounding the driver's license. As one previous poster put it, if you dont like the requirements to get one, dont get one. But then life actually becomes hard, and no one wants life to be hard...
--- Check out this guy who lives a (semi)normal life without a Social Security Number.
i stand well corrected!
Well, aside that I sit here and support XP all day (which tends to qualify me to know what I speak of), I'm also looking at the public MS knowledge base and the Hardware Compatibility List. In both instances, what you call ".NET Server" (which very well may be what it is eventually called), it is still in beta 3 and is referred to by MS as either 64bit edition or Whistler Beta Server. Bitching over terms, pointless. Troll.
IIS will be back in force with the release of Windows XP 64bit Edition. It's half-broken presence in XP Professional should be hint enough that not only will it be staying around, but MS will be pushing more and more services to use it in some way, shape or form.
However forbidden it may be to link to MS on slashdot, check out this link to some specs on the next generation of MS's Server OS.
Apache hasn't won by a long shot.. the battle wages on in the minds and hearts of sysadmins across the globe.
Yes.. why are we going after Osama? Why aren't we going after those STUPID airlines? Why dont they have automatic-terrorist-detector-killer machines on every plane? I mean.. DUH...
Blame the gunmaker, instead of the person who committed the murder.
Blame the programmer, instead of the person who wrote the malicious code.
Blame someone else, just not me. make sure that we never get it back down to personal responsibility, because the liberal left hates that. They are just itching for you whine and complain yourself into slavery, to trade your freedoms so they can give you "security".
People need to get a clue.
No, because the copyright for the artists work is owned by the suits while the artists are in contract with them. You see individual people going after copyright lawsuits once the contracts on those works (songs) have expired and the copyrights have transferred back to the individual. But you don't see too many individuals going to court, as much as you see Sony or RIAA or other suits filing because they own the majority of the copyrights... _
Call me a troll, but I'm just wondering why we all eventually want to be naked on Mars?
Just a few relevant points (that may or may not have already been covered): a) Win95 support doesn't "die" until the end of this year (this I know, i'm sitting 20 feet from 300 people sitting in the 9x queue... 9x includes 95). b) 95 doesn't "die". A ridiculous amount of people still use it, and tech support will be handed off to an outsourcer who will own the 95 project completely and seperately from Microsoft. We can only hope and pray that people (if they haven't already) will stop developing applications for windows 95. However much we would like it to die and just go away, it wont. c)activation will be ongoing in MS products from now on. If you get rid of activation for any product, you essentially throw however much money you spent on developing that OS out the window (no pun intended) because it is impossible to install it. MS has never "killed" a product in such a way, and never will. d)9x sucks, this we know. 2k was good, XP is better. Stop installing Norton Systemworks with cleansweep and other such registry-wreckers and watch your registry operate on its own just fine.
What I'd like to see are people like you pull their heads out of their cornholes and realize that Microsoft is a BUSINESS. They are in this game for MONEY. They are not here to support open source and hug trees, nor are they under any obligation to port to other systems.
In case you didn't know, if you want to have a successful business that makes money, you don't go around doing your competitor's job for them (and doing it better than they can) out of the goodness of your heart, meanwhile shunning your own product. That doesn't make money.
What i'd like to see is linux coders quit cry-ass bitching on prepubescent message boards and get to work actually producing marketable applications for what they claim to be a superior OS.
/.cough
You know there are so many books full of so many laws in this ridiculous judicial system that you could fill a substantial sized house with them?
The point being, you may THINK that you don't do anything illegal, but none of us know all the laws that are on the books, so you never really KNOW. And, of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse...
Let me give you some words to look up:
-Freedom
-Privacy
-Liberty
-Sovereignty
-Constitution
And you probably represent the majority of americans... *sigh*
may our chains rest lightly upon us