I get more news out of my daily copy of the Los Angeles Times. The L.A. Times web site has a mere fraction of what shows up in their daily copy. The same applies to the New York Times. I noticed that the print copy has magnitudes way more information than their web site has. I suspect the same applies to the Wall Street Journal.
The internet is good for obtaining technical information but for real world news, it's the major daily papers that have it.
Too many./'ers think it's their right to download hundreds, if not thousands, of songs via gnutella or kazaa, but bring up a GPL violation, they throw a hissy fit.
M$ has what? 90% to 95% of the browser market? So, M$ pulling in Opera and Netscape/Mozilla is clearly an attempt at FUD and inciting paranoia in those using alternative/open source browsers. Perhaps M$ is hoping the open source community can create a work-around and then, they M$, can co-opt the idea.
I hate Flash. I dispise Flash. There is nothing more annoying than a Flash home page. That being said, I'm glad M$ is losing this ruling.
All the paranoid little geeks who think the government is watching their every move will buy this motherboard in droves. That is, after they get done lining the interior of their home with aluminum foil.
I was writing in a combination of Java and Perl on a Linux system. PHP is a wonderful scripting language to work with. While Java forced me to write clean code, the clean Java code sucked up memory and was slower than molasses on my Apache 1.3.26 server running Resin. I had to dumb down my Java code to speed it up. When I did that, the cleanness of Java went away.
What I miss about Perl is being able to write obfuscated spagetti code so unreadable that I had no idea how the code functioned 3 months later. I also miss all of the broken and largely alpha and pre-beta modules on CPAN.
Wow! Debian users, that's what? 5% of the Linux users out there? However, that's still more than the 93 people still using BSD. bwahh!! hah!!!! haahhh ha!!!!!
Seriously, RPM or.tgz are the only format you need. RPM for ease of use..tgz when you need to build your own because the RPMS have library versioning issues or binaries are not available.
Fraud is the answer. Since the source to compute the checksums for credit card numbers of openly available, script kiddies in foreign countries run their little scripts in an attempt to get free services or products from vendors.
This is why various merchant banks now require those of us accepting credit cards to either take the 3 digit cvs number, a zip code or city name as part of the merchant verification process. Therefore, it's up to the merchant to decide whether to accept credit cards from outside of the U.S. Many online merchants will simply pass on non-U.S. cards because getting too many chargebacks can get your merchant fees to skyrocket or get your merchant account cancelled altogether.
In the book "All You Need To Know About The Music Business" by Donald s. Passman, an attorney in the music industry, royalties are extensively discussed.
SLRP: suggested retail list price minus 20% for packaging. ex: CD retails at $14.99, minus 20% for the packaging ($3.00), SLRP is $11.99.
New artists signing with an independent label get between 9% to 13% of the SLRP.
New artists signing with a major label get 12% to 14% of the SLRP
Any one who's tried to re-use someone else's code will probably have to kludge their software to interface with someone else's. I've lost track of the number of times I tried to use CPAN modules only to throw them out because who ever wrote appeared to be a high school drop out with a serious logic deficiency.
However, that's Perl. C++, on the other hand, tends to be much cleaner, and doesn't suffer from Perl's version of Windoze DLL hell.
Instead of MySQL 3.23.XXX or 4.XXX or MySQL Max, I think you'll now see an addition to the MySQL line, something like MySQL Enterprise.
I doubt the folks are MySQL will roll everything into a single database. That doesn't make sense. Sybase and Oracle have personal editions of their big servers.
I suspect this is what you'll see with MySQL. 1 version without all the fancy stuff -- the 3.X line, one version with transactions -- the 4.X series and then one version with transactions, stored procedures, constraints, foreign keys, etc. -- the database formerly known as sapdb.
The users then pick the database with the features that they need. And when it's time to upsize or downsize, get a MySQL tool that lets you transfer existing databases to the next higher level server.
If someone goes to the bank and illegally "samples" $100 from the bank, are they less of a criminal than someone else who goes to the same bank and illegally "samples" $5,000,000?
Stealing is stealing. Period.
If Dr. Dre wanted to do the right thing, he would've gotten a release or negotiated some sort of agreement *BEFORE* using that sample. That is, unless he thinks he can save a few dollars by hoping that no one spots the theft.
BTW: Led Zeppelin got nailed a few times for "sampling" various blues artists. Led Zeppelin was required to pay Willie Dixon for infringing on his copyrighted material.
Most MSCEs I know almost *NEVER* patch their systems until they've been zapped.
In the Unix/Linux, the proportion of sysadmins who apply patches is arguable higher.
It never ceases to amaze me at the number of MS-SQL servers that still have a blank password for the sa account. I did some consulting work for a Fortune 500 company with MCSEs and MCPs on staff, and are a hardcore MS shop *AND* is in a partnership with MS. Their SQL Server's sa account *STILL* has a blank password. Actually, they've got several SQL Servers running, and all of them have the sa account with no password.
Try playing back DivX5+ encoded videos on a p500 with 384megs of RAM. DivX5 runs like molasses on sub-1ghz machines, drops frames and jumping around in a movie is almost useless.
Plus, the DivX5.03 codec crashes my M$ MediaPlayer 6.4. I have to use DivX's player which takes *FOREVER* to load on my home p500 machine.
I don't view upgrading my home machine as an option to watch DivX5+ movies because the PC plays XVid, MPEG1 and 2, DVDs, DivX3/4, even Apple QuickTime movies perfectly.
crybaby socialists that believe that there is nothing wrong with stealing.
On the other hand, CD's should not cost $15. A musical CD should be in the $9 price range. The cost for manufacturing a CD versus a cassette tape is insignificant. 10 years ago, there was a substantial price differential in the wholesale cost of making a cassette album versus a CD album. Today that doesn't exist.
Also, record companies no longer release 45's. Who in their right mind would want to buy a $15 CD when there is only 1 song that you like? CD singles never took off because record companies were charging $3.99 for a CD single.
The music companies are responsible for their plight. However, trading songs is still illegal, but file swapping exists because of the greediness of the record companies.
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For news.
I get more news out of my daily copy of the Los Angeles Times. The L.A. Times web site has a mere fraction of what shows up in their daily copy. The same applies to the New York Times. I noticed that the print copy has magnitudes way more information than their web site has. I suspect the same applies to the Wall Street Journal.
The internet is good for obtaining technical information but for real world news, it's the major daily papers that have it.
This poster is right.
./'ers think it's their right to download hundreds, if not thousands, of songs via gnutella or kazaa, but bring up a GPL violation, they throw a hissy fit.
Too many
It's like the pot calling the kettle black.
Hipocracy is hipocracy.
M$ has what? 90% to 95% of the browser market? So, M$ pulling in Opera and Netscape/Mozilla is clearly an attempt at FUD and inciting paranoia in those using alternative/open source browsers. Perhaps M$ is hoping the open source community can create a work-around and then, they M$, can co-opt the idea.
I hate Flash. I dispise Flash. There is nothing more annoying than a Flash home page. That being said, I'm glad M$ is losing this ruling.
The BSD people obviously have no sense of humor. That's what happens when you spend all your time in your mommy's basement playing Quake, and D & D.
And, I bet the same number of people who try this out will be the same number who still use BSD -- about 10.
I definitely want to install this version. The previous version crapped out so much I deleted it after 30 minutes.
I use the "delete" key for all my mail.
when i post on usenet, i use the e-mail address of a person i dislike.
All the paranoid little geeks who think the government is watching their every move will buy this motherboard in droves. That is, after they get done lining the interior of their home with aluminum foil.
I was writing in a combination of Java and Perl on a Linux system. PHP is a wonderful scripting language to work with. While Java forced me to write clean code, the clean Java code sucked up memory and was slower than molasses on my Apache 1.3.26 server running Resin. I had to dumb down my Java code to speed it up. When I did that, the cleanness of Java went away.
What I miss about Perl is being able to write obfuscated spagetti code so unreadable that I had no idea how the code functioned 3 months later.
I also miss all of the broken and largely alpha and pre-beta modules on CPAN.
When has M$ ever lied?
Remember, they started the trustworthy computing thing a couple of years ago.
Wow! Debian users, that's what? 5% of the Linux users out there? However, that's still more than the 93 people still using BSD. bwahh!! hah!!!! haahhh ha!!!!!
.tgz are the only format you need. RPM for ease of use. .tgz when you need to build your own because the RPMS have library versioning issues or binaries are not available.
Seriously, RPM or
Fraud is the answer. Since the source to compute the checksums for credit card numbers of openly available, script kiddies in foreign countries run their little scripts in an attempt to get free services or products from vendors.
This is why various merchant banks now require those of us accepting credit cards to either take the 3 digit cvs number, a zip code or city name as part of the merchant verification process. Therefore, it's up to the merchant to decide whether to accept credit cards from outside of the U.S. Many online merchants will simply pass on non-U.S. cards because getting too many chargebacks can get your merchant fees to skyrocket or get your merchant account cancelled altogether.
In the book "All You Need To Know About The Music Business" by Donald s. Passman, an attorney in the music industry, royalties are extensively discussed.
SLRP: suggested retail list price minus 20% for packaging. ex: CD retails at $14.99, minus 20% for the packaging ($3.00), SLRP is $11.99.
New artists signing with an independent label get between 9% to 13% of the SLRP.
New artists signing with a major label get 12% to 14% of the SLRP
Midlevel artists get 15% to 16% of the SLRP
Superstars get 18% to 20%+ of the SLRP.
Any one who's tried to re-use someone else's code will probably have to kludge their software to interface with someone else's. I've lost track of the number of times I tried to use CPAN modules only to throw them out because who ever wrote appeared to be a high school drop out with a serious logic deficiency.
However, that's Perl. C++, on the other hand, tends to be much cleaner, and doesn't suffer from Perl's version of Windoze DLL hell.
something that only virgin dorks can appreciate.
What that really means is: they've been Slashdotted.
Instead of MySQL 3.23.XXX or 4.XXX or MySQL Max, I think you'll now see an addition to the MySQL line, something like MySQL Enterprise.
I doubt the folks are MySQL will roll everything into a single database. That doesn't make sense. Sybase and Oracle have personal editions of their big servers.
I suspect this is what you'll see with MySQL. 1 version without all the fancy stuff -- the 3.X line, one version with transactions -- the 4.X series and then one version with transactions, stored procedures, constraints, foreign keys, etc. -- the database formerly known as sapdb.
The users then pick the database with the features that they need. And when it's time to upsize or downsize, get a MySQL tool that lets you transfer existing databases to the next higher level server.
If someone goes to the bank and illegally "samples" $100 from the bank, are they less of a criminal than someone else who goes to the same bank and illegally "samples" $5,000,000?
Stealing is stealing. Period.
If Dr. Dre wanted to do the right thing, he would've gotten a release or negotiated some sort of agreement *BEFORE* using that sample. That is, unless he thinks he can save a few dollars by hoping that no one spots the theft.
BTW: Led Zeppelin got nailed a few times for "sampling" various blues artists. Led Zeppelin was required to pay Willie Dixon for infringing on his copyrighted material.
Most MSCEs I know almost *NEVER* patch their systems until they've been zapped.
In the Unix/Linux, the proportion of sysadmins who apply patches is arguable higher.
It never ceases to amaze me at the number of MS-SQL servers that still have a blank password for the sa account. I did some consulting work for a Fortune 500 company with MCSEs and MCPs on staff, and are a hardcore MS shop *AND* is in a partnership with MS. Their SQL Server's sa account *STILL* has a blank password. Actually, they've got several SQL Servers running, and all of them have the sa account with no password.
Sure but will the codecs work with future versions of current operating systems?
That's like thinking if it runs on an Intel DOS machine, it will run on a WinTel XP machine.
Don't count on it.
I'm sure alot of CP/M and MP/M users thought their data would be useable for a long time.
Not as far as I'm concerned.
Try playing back DivX5+ encoded videos on a p500 with 384megs of RAM. DivX5 runs like molasses on sub-1ghz machines, drops frames and jumping around in a movie is almost useless.
Plus, the DivX5.03 codec crashes my M$ MediaPlayer 6.4. I have to use DivX's player which takes *FOREVER* to load on my home p500 machine.
I don't view upgrading my home machine as an option to watch DivX5+ movies because the PC plays XVid, MPEG1 and 2, DVDs, DivX3/4, even Apple QuickTime movies perfectly.
You're right, it does crash IE on a Wintel platform.
I now have a great piece of html to add to mod_rewrite for those people trying to link to images or mpegs on my web server.
Thanks, dude!
(this is going to be sooooo cool!!!!)
crybaby socialists that believe that there is nothing wrong with stealing.
On the other hand, CD's should not cost $15. A musical CD should be in the $9 price range. The cost for manufacturing a CD versus a cassette tape is insignificant. 10 years ago, there was a substantial price differential in the wholesale cost of making a cassette album versus a CD album. Today that doesn't exist.
Also, record companies no longer release 45's. Who in their right mind would want to buy a $15 CD when there is only 1 song that you like? CD singles never took off because record companies were charging $3.99 for a CD single.
The music companies are responsible for their plight. However, trading songs is still illegal, but file swapping exists because of the greediness of the record companies.
Reading it made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. :-)