I agree completely. Our psuedo-democracy was founded on the idea that all landowning males should have a voice in the government, such that the government does what the people see fit for it to do. Later, voting rights were extended for the government to get a better idea of what it is the people want it to do. The thought of anything, person or organization or business, _buying_ government policy was never intended. Surely, the framers would be rolling in their graves.
Even if it is not unethical, surely it undermines the whole government process as it was intended. Monetary contributions to government has greatly reduced the value of the people's voice, and has made a mockery of the US government.
If you noticed, spidey had his arms pulled in and his legs straight to achieve a low drag coefficient. MJ was flailing about with her extremedies all over the place. Spidey would fall faster. Skydivers use this to make formations. Now would spider-man have fallen fast enough to catch her? No. Would the plot have sucked if she died? Probably.
I remember sitting in front of my father's stereo (nice McIntosh integrated amplifier, JBL centurys, Technics direct drive record player (which I've got in my apartment now ) and an Onyx tuner) with a pair of headphones for hours on end when I was five. I'd record every song, and if I didn't like them, I'd rewind to the beginning during the commercials and record over. Queueing the songs I want on a p2p app and coming back half an hour later just isn't the same. I miss the warm glow of the backlights and the heavy metal knobs. *Looks at cheap plastic keyboard and mouse in disgust*
You need to get an old car that doesn't have any of these silly gizmos. Soon, all new ones will have them. So I will, for the good of humanity, sell my car to some lucky slashdotter. Its an '89 Dodge Colt with 212,000 miles. I think $10,000 is fair for the peace of mind of not having anyone spy on you. First one to call XXX-XXXX gets it.
If everyone used #000000 black, it would be fine. All black things would be black. But Dell's black is really dark grey, and someone else's black is really navy blue, and someone else's is a lighter dark grey. Looks almost as silly as having 4 drives that are 4 different shades of beige, none of which are the shade of the case.
Dell's new black cases are much better than the old GX1s and GXAs, for one simple reason: the sides are flat. My company mounts our computers in desks with suspended mounts below the desk. The new ones fit in and clamp tight very nicely. The old ones were never very secure. The design of the front is pretty lousy though. The front is rounded so the drives end up being somewhat recessed. You have to look really closely to see the difference between the zip and floppy drives, and the CD volume control is obscured. The black looks nice, but doesn't make up for bad design.
MS makes MS/UX getting an MSCE becomes hard. MSCEs get expensive If we have to hire expensive people, may as well use a real UNIX. MS makes office for MS/UX. People make OfficeUX run on any *n?x MS/UX dies a quick and painless death.
Bootlegs are illegal by nature, something being distributed that should not be. The Dead did not condone bootlegs. They let people tape their concerts, and distribute and trade those recordings free of charge.
(no hyperlinks for the goat-weary) GD's taping policy: http://www.dead.net/hotline_info/NEW_DOCUMENTS/tra ding/
A great source of related information: htttp://www.etree.org/legal.html
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Yes the thickness and alloy have an effect, but the reason you can make a mountain bike and not a computer is a matter of shape. Circles, or even better, and probably what your mountain bike frame cross section would look like if you cut it, ellipses, are much stronger than a straight sheet.
Take a sheet of paper, and hold it by the end. It flops over. Roll the paper into a circle, tape it, and hold it sideways. It stays out.
I suspect that his bike had a circular cross section, while your more expensive titanium one had an elliptical cross section. Your frame was stronger because of that, and his broke.
"Hackers" getting personal information and selling it to other "hackers" is bad. Corporations getting personal information and selling it to other corporations is good.
People with tightly held secrets are suspect. Corporations with tightly held secrets are to be trusted.
A person trying to extort people is a thug and scam artist. A corporation trying to extort people is just protecting the artists.
OK. I got it. Now can I incorporate myself? I think I'd be much better off as a corporation than as a citizen.
Anyone can use the rendering engine and distribute it with his own product, saving on development time while still providing a product to the widest possible market.
Yeah, but take the rendering engine out of mozilla, and how many other things will stop working?
I transfer 2-3 Gb per day. None of it is illegal. I run an ftp server that hosts high quality recordings of live bands that allow it. Bandwidth is measured in kbps. They provide me with X kbps. So why charge me by MBpmonth? There are better ways to go after the kiddies. This is like swatting flies with a laser cannon. Or swatting pirates with the DMCA. Take your pick.
100 people in front of one computer will never get anything accomplished.
Seriously though, If someone can get 100 computers in an organized setting, you'd get a lot of volunteers. You can't just sit them there though. Give them a task, and have some people who know the software (not people who wrote it) walk around with a notepad and take feedback. Watch the people. Tell them maximize a window, save a document in their personal folder, install a program, backup their work, change thier print setup, or play a cd; and note the first thing they try. Note the second thing they try. With XP or OSX, the second or third try they'll get it. With linux/KDE or linux/Gnome it will probably be the 4th or 5th. And not only because they've been trained to think windows or think mac.
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I agree completely. Our psuedo-democracy was founded on the idea that all landowning males should have a voice in the government, such that the government does what the people see fit for it to do. Later, voting rights were extended for the government to get a better idea of what it is the people want it to do. The thought of anything, person or organization or business, _buying_ government policy was never intended. Surely, the framers would be rolling in their graves.
Even if it is not unethical, surely it undermines the whole government process as it was intended. Monetary contributions to government has greatly reduced the value of the people's voice, and has made a mockery of the US government.
If you noticed, spidey had his arms pulled in and his legs straight to achieve a low drag coefficient. MJ was flailing about with her extremedies all over the place. Spidey would fall faster. Skydivers use this to make formations. Now would spider-man have fallen fast enough to catch her? No. Would the plot have sucked if she died? Probably.
He can probably get a few patents out of it. If a mousetrap has been invented I can still get a patent on a better one.
I remember sitting in front of my father's stereo (nice McIntosh integrated amplifier, JBL centurys, Technics direct drive record player (which I've got in my apartment now ) and an Onyx tuner) with a pair of headphones for hours on end when I was five. I'd record every song, and if I didn't like them, I'd rewind to the beginning during the commercials and record over. Queueing the songs I want on a p2p app and coming back half an hour later just isn't the same. I miss the warm glow of the backlights and the heavy metal knobs. *Looks at cheap plastic keyboard and mouse in disgust*
even so, weren't domain names supposed to be first come first serve?
The projects aren't late. The scheduled release dates were just early.
Big Company takes domain name from 12 year old kid with website about his family.
XXAA sues nice musician for X million dollars for giving their own music away.
XXAA sues kid for playing the DVD he paid for on the hardware he paid for with software he wrote.
Big Company arrests some foreign guy who offered some constructive critisism.
I soure wouldn't bet on the little guy.
Linux's mother was a hampster, and its father smelt of elderberries!
You need to get an old car that doesn't have any of these silly gizmos. Soon, all new ones will have them. So I will, for the good of humanity, sell my car to some lucky slashdotter. Its an '89 Dodge Colt with 212,000 miles. I think $10,000 is fair for the peace of mind of not having anyone spy on you. First one to call XXX-XXXX gets it.
If everyone used #000000 black, it would be fine. All black things would be black. But Dell's black is really dark grey, and someone else's black is really navy blue, and someone else's is a lighter dark grey. Looks almost as silly as having 4 drives that are 4 different shades of beige, none of which are the shade of the case.
Dell's new black cases are much better than the old GX1s and GXAs, for one simple reason: the sides are flat. My company mounts our computers in desks with suspended mounts below the desk. The new ones fit in and clamp tight very nicely. The old ones were never very secure. The design of the front is pretty lousy though. The front is rounded so the drives end up being somewhat recessed. You have to look really closely to see the difference between the zip and floppy drives, and the CD volume control is obscured. The black looks nice, but doesn't make up for bad design.
yeah, right.
MS makes MS/UX
getting an MSCE becomes hard.
MSCEs get expensive
If we have to hire expensive people, may as well use a real UNIX.
MS makes office for MS/UX.
People make OfficeUX run on any *n?x
MS/UX dies a quick and painless death.
Not bloody likely.
By the way, Metallica also allows live taping. (Special tickets required)
For an evolving, near-complete list of bands that allow taping (some will suprise you), see http://btat.wagnerone.com
Bootlegs are illegal by nature, something being distributed that should not be. The Dead did not condone bootlegs. They let people tape their concerts, and distribute and trade those recordings free of charge.
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(no hyperlinks for the goat-weary)
GD's taping policy: http://www.dead.net/hotline_info/NEW_DOCUMENTS/tr
A great source of related information: htttp://www.etree.org/legal.html
Yes the thickness and alloy have an effect, but the reason you can make a mountain bike and not a computer is a matter of shape. Circles, or even better, and probably what your mountain bike frame cross section would look like if you cut it, ellipses, are much stronger than a straight sheet.
Take a sheet of paper, and hold it by the end. It flops over. Roll the paper into a circle, tape it, and hold it sideways. It stays out.
I suspect that his bike had a circular cross section, while your more expensive titanium one had an elliptical cross section. Your frame was stronger because of that, and his broke.
(mechanical engineer posing as a computer geek)
Article about IRC. Picture of Netscape on CNN.com
News media hosting chats to appear high-tech
"Hackers" getting personal information and selling it to other "hackers" is bad.
Corporations getting personal information and selling it to other corporations is good.
People with tightly held secrets are suspect.
Corporations with tightly held secrets are to be trusted.
A person trying to extort people is a thug and scam artist.
A corporation trying to extort people is just protecting the artists.
OK. I got it. Now can I incorporate myself? I think I'd be much better off as a corporation than as a citizen.
Anyone can use the rendering engine and distribute it with his own product, saving on development time while still providing a product to the widest possible market.
Yeah, but take the rendering engine out of mozilla, and how many other things will stop working?
The CD you buy is for personal use, not for broadcast. Broadcasting it out to the entire compnay would, in fact, be just as illegal as with MP3s.
Respect the guy who discovers some TINY hole and gains access.
Step #1 of Microsoft security, remove and/or disable everything that was written to be feature rich with no regards to security.
I transfer 2-3 Gb per day. None of it is illegal. I run an ftp server that hosts high quality recordings of live bands that allow it. Bandwidth is measured in kbps. They provide me with X kbps. So why charge me by MBpmonth? There are better ways to go after the kiddies. This is like swatting flies with a laser cannon. Or swatting pirates with the DMCA. Take your pick.
If they're gonna charge by bandwidth they had better do a VERY good job filtering spam. And how much bandwidth is 5,000 hits from Nimbda?
"sits 100 volunteers in front of a computer"
100 people in front of one computer will never get anything accomplished.
Seriously though, If someone can get 100 computers in an organized setting, you'd get a lot of volunteers. You can't just sit them there though. Give them a task, and have some people who know the software (not people who wrote it) walk around with a notepad and take feedback. Watch the people. Tell them maximize a window, save a document in their personal folder, install a program, backup their work, change thier print setup, or play a cd; and note the first thing they try. Note the second thing they try. With XP or OSX, the second or third try they'll get it. With linux/KDE or linux/Gnome it will probably be the 4th or 5th. And not only because they've been trained to think windows or think mac.