"To download security patches from Microsoft? There is a real chicken and egg situation here; you need to go online to patch your machine, but as soon as you are online you are hit by worms."
Secure the network, not the computer and you wont have this problem. An unpatched Linux install from a two year old ISO would have problems as well (not as much due to the lack of real interest in attacking Linux boxes). I assume that anything on my network can be attacked, so I push the security out to the edge of my LAN. Layer 3 switch and netscreen firewall, no problems to date and I never did get around to patching my main XP box.
"Sure you can. If you write custom software for clients, they pay you to write it, and you can GPL it.
Big proprietary software isn't going to work like this, I'll give you that, but for the custom software developer, it can work nicely. I make money installing and configuring GPL code, specifically the Content Management System, Plone - when I am finished writing a custom project for a client, I will use the GPL to license it in a way that lets others use it too."
I remember a day when a single person working in their spare time could create software and sell it. The GPL is opposed to that idea. I for one want to create software and not spend all my pogramming time on the clock.
"Free Software, in the GPL/FSF/Stallman sense is not about price at all. You should make money from your software, you should sell it- just allow people to study and modify it, redistribute and distribute it too."
In other words you should not be able to make money of software you write as there is no way you can compete with other people who are also selling your software since they dont need to recover devlopment costs. That is the problem with the GPL. It removes control from the devloper and puts it into the hands of large groups that can offer support for a lower cost.
"Next thing they'll be saying is "smoking causes cancer."
Naw, it causes preterm births. Says so right on the package.
"Tobacco use during pregnancy increases the risk
of preterm birth"
So I dont need to worry unless I'm pregnant, which would be a problem in itself giving my gender.
Will it be up to the quality of past VIA chipsets?
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Can i expect the system to not power on if I have a SCSI card and a PS/2 mouse hooked up like in the last system I had with a VIA chipset? Or have they at long last started making products that work?
"What *is* the sustained read/write rate for CF or SD? TFA says that the CPU in this thing can handle 8MB/s of video (64Mbps), so as long as CF or SD can handle that, it should be fine. Probably the real reason is what one of the other replies to the grandparent says: it's because Samsung has a business relationship with Sony."
It varries from manufacturer to manufacturer. So I would guess that they went with the memory sticks becuase there is a standard that sets a transfer rate at an exceptable level. Rather then having the performance of the device shift depending on whos CF/SD card you chose.
Its a speed issue. Sony designed the memory stick format to be able to handle 160Mbps sustained with the intention of using it for video. While Secure Digital can get up to the same speeds it is a burst speed used for saving single files fast rather then for streaming data.
"I thought, one was not legally responsible for content linked to and provided by others."
Your right. However in this case he is providing the links. Just as telling someone where to buy drugs, illigal firewarms, slaves etc will get you in trouble so will telling people where to get warez, MP3s and DiVX rips of DVDs.
"It's coming to citizens having to personally reclaim their rights from corrupt lawmakers."
Because if you cant enjoy the fruits of another persons work without their permission the terorists win! Please explain what "right" is being infringed here. Is it the rights of the copyright holders? Better yet, since you dont think other people should be able to make money from their time and efforts, why not tell your boss you'll work for free from no on, eh comrad?
at the same clock speed, what does the G5 offer over the G4? Unless Apple plans on going 100% 64bit OS in the next year (leaving all the current customers in the brink) I dont realy see the point.
I thought there was no such thing as intellectual property according to 90% of the people here. So this is a bad thing right? Or is it only OK when you download Mp3s and movies?
"Trying being a diabetic with an insulin pump. The security people aren't big fans of people with tubes coming out of them strapped to little computers."
Wait a second, if the letter 'n' where the letter 'm' and you moved all the other letters around 'insulin' becomes 'i muslium'.
I feel the same way about most religions who take money from their parishioners and buy gold alters and the like while still claiming to be charitable organizations.
"Back on 9/11, one of my biggest fears was not that terrorists would somehow feel that I was worth picking out of a crowd, but that my government would joyously tear up what remained of the Bill of Rights in an overzealous, misguided attempt to appear to be "doin' sumthin' about terrorism".
I am very sad to see myself proved right.. almost on a daily basis. "
Your right. If we cant try to crash commercial airliners and then pin it on our daughters the terorists win!
The guy was shining a laser at aircraft, including a police helecoptor. He then lied about it and tried to put the blame on his kid. Getting arrested is the least that should happen to him.
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Will Taco Bell be doing another of their brain dead marketing schemes and offer free food like sudstance if the Hubble hits an a given target?
I agree, however more and more ISPs are using some form of firewall (or at least a NAT box) as their standard install.
Secure the network, not the computer and you wont have this problem. An unpatched Linux install from a two year old ISO would have problems as well (not as much due to the lack of real interest in attacking Linux boxes). I assume that anything on my network can be attacked, so I push the security out to the edge of my LAN. Layer 3 switch and netscreen firewall, no problems to date and I never did get around to patching my main XP box.
This kind of thing unfairly punishes those of us who do a half assed job.
I remember a day when a single person working in their spare time could create software and sell it. The GPL is opposed to that idea. I for one want to create software and not spend all my pogramming time on the clock.
In other words you should not be able to make money of software you write as there is no way you can compete with other people who are also selling your software since they dont need to recover devlopment costs. That is the problem with the GPL. It removes control from the devloper and puts it into the hands of large groups that can offer support for a lower cost.
Naw, it causes preterm births. Says so right on the package.
"Tobacco use during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth"
So I dont need to worry unless I'm pregnant, which would be a problem in itself giving my gender.
Can i expect the system to not power on if I have a SCSI card and a PS/2 mouse hooked up like in the last system I had with a VIA chipset? Or have they at long last started making products that work?
It varries from manufacturer to manufacturer. So I would guess that they went with the memory sticks becuase there is a standard that sets a transfer rate at an exceptable level. Rather then having the performance of the device shift depending on whos CF/SD card you chose.
Its a speed issue. Sony designed the memory stick format to be able to handle 160Mbps sustained with the intention of using it for video. While Secure Digital can get up to the same speeds it is a burst speed used for saving single files fast rather then for streaming data.
Your right. However in this case he is providing the links. Just as telling someone where to buy drugs, illigal firewarms, slaves etc will get you in trouble so will telling people where to get warez, MP3s and DiVX rips of DVDs.
Because if you cant enjoy the fruits of another persons work without their permission the terorists win! Please explain what "right" is being infringed here. Is it the rights of the copyright holders? Better yet, since you dont think other people should be able to make money from their time and efforts, why not tell your boss you'll work for free from no on, eh comrad?
Any computer can keep you warm if you have enough hard drives in it. RAID-5 is your friend in the winter.
at the same clock speed, what does the G5 offer over the G4? Unless Apple plans on going 100% 64bit OS in the next year (leaving all the current customers in the brink) I dont realy see the point.
In other words, there will be no game included and they hope that we, the consumer, will finish their prodcut for them.
I thought there was no such thing as intellectual property according to 90% of the people here. So this is a bad thing right? Or is it only OK when you download Mp3s and movies?
It sure is. All the local people want a living wage, the jerks.
I have a pile of code here with comments in Spanish. I dread to think of trying to deal with comments in Bengali.
Wait a second, if the letter 'n' where the letter 'm' and you moved all the other letters around 'insulin' becomes 'i muslium'.
YOUR ONE OF THEM AREN'T YOU!
You win again speed of light. But I'll beat you some day!
But I cant read Finish, why would I want a Finished OS?
I feel the same way about most religions who take money from their parishioners and buy gold alters and the like while still claiming to be charitable organizations.
So your claiming that the buy was looking for stars in the cockpits of passing aircraft? Ok, then why lie about it and claim it was his kid?
I am very sad to see myself proved right.. almost on a daily basis. "
Your right. If we cant try to crash commercial airliners and then pin it on our daughters the terorists win!
The guy was shining a laser at aircraft, including a police helecoptor. He then lied about it and tried to put the blame on his kid. Getting arrested is the least that should happen to him.
Doh. Dang intel and their crap naming conventions.