If you're truly rich, you don't have mortgages. You have banks. And I don't think Steve Forbes, for instance, worries about his grocery bill. I guess the idea is to go from poor to rich while maintaining a sense of the value of money and friendship. Some people actually do this successfully.
If you're poor, there is only one path to happiness: find the "secret mental door" to overcome your worries and distress over your physical situation. That's not so easy. If you're rich, why not take a yacht trip to the Canaries? Or fill your pool with jello and hire models to swim around naked in it? Or buy a seat on a spaceship? Or a solid gold house? Or change your looks? Or... etc.
The point is, options. The poor have - the options that the poor have. The rich have - the options that the poor have, plus a much larger set of shiny new ones.
Why don't you take a poll? Hands up who wants to live in (insert slum village here) and struggle to buy food and keep your children safe? OK, hands up who wants to own a forest and live in a giant mansion with a private wildlife preserve?
When you're poor, you're likely to be unhappy and wanting more. When you're rich, you're likely to be at least satisfied, if still wanting more. I'd rather be satisfied than unhappy.
Also - when you're poor, the "more" you want might be: not to be living on the street if you can't find the money for rent this month. When you're rich, the "more" you want might be: none of the house-help quits this month. Again, I'd prefer #2.
Linux is not an invention - in fact it is a copy of an invention that occurred in a very large company.
The ideas and implementation models behind linux (and Free software) are, in fact, brilliant and revolutionary inventions whose very nature precludes any kind of corporate origin.
Right. I'm sure the first instinct of soldiers witnessing the enemy drop tons of some kind of seed on their heads is "Hey! Let's cultivate these things, wait a couple of years for them to yield, harvest all the leaves and buds, dry them up, crumble them into a rolled-up paper tube, and start smoking! Wonder what'll happen?"
If you invented some kind of transdermal cannabis gel, that might work. But half the soldiers would just become (more) paranoid and wary, and the other half would storm our camps looking for Doritos.
"The Windows 95 cd came with a Weezer video. I don't remember anyone complaining that their CD space was being used for things they didn't care to watch."
How is this a meaningful analogy? The multimedia content was advertised on the Windows 95 box. Did this program come with your TiVo? No, it was shoehorned in there after you bought it. A more apt comparison would be if Microsoft started loading up your Start menu with "new content" at random times. Would you defend that by saying "It's a cool feature" or "You can just scroll past them if you don't want to run them?"
Agreed... however on the majority of systems (which use "file-based" password storage and probably will for some time to come) I think it's good practice to define a maximum password lifespan and enforce it.
I'm not sure I ever understood why changing a password every month increased security.
If you lost the keys to your house at a burglars' convention, and your address was written on the keyring, how long would you wait to change the locks?
Your (/etc/shadow|SAM file|whatever) is like that keyring, except it's possible for someone to get a copy of it without you noticing. And when they do, they have until the passwords expire to run cracking programs on it and reenter your system.
And of course there are, metaphorically speaking, many, many burglars' conventions happening at any given time on the net.
I'm not sure how parent got (+4, Informative) instead of (+5, Funny). Unless it's informing me that there actually exist numbers like "20ya8khyshche'khe2bpp8shch."
busbar/tire? FastShrites? RAMDACH? Pikhel of syuader?
I came away from that translation more confused than enlightened, but maybe my dictionary is just too old.
Uh, I don't see how you figure that. Can you kill someone with a knife from the top of a building across the street? Can you walk into an office and knife 25 people to death in the space of 3 minutes? Does it take as much force to pull the trigger of a gun as it does to push a knife between someone's ribs? Are there as many stabbing deaths as shooting deaths in America?
No? Then how is it just as easy to kill someone with a knife as it is with a gun?
So what if the kids had pipe bombs? Did they use them to kill the other kids?
Here's how it can be "the guns' fault": If the kids didn't have access to guns, how would the other kids have died? The pipe bombs were intended to blow up the school after they were already done killing everybody with the guns. You can't very well expect people to stand still while you wire pipe bombs to their ankles. No guns = fewer dead kids.
And how, exactly, are pipe bombs conceptually different from guns? They both use a trigger and explosives to shoot projectiles at people. How can it be OK to use a metal tube with a trigger to shoot chunks of metal into a burglar, but not be OK to use a metal tube with a trigger to shoot chunks of metal into a burglar?
The "human responsibility" factor is totally useless as a preventative. All humans are prone to irrational behavior. And I'd rather my crazy neighbor be armed with a frying pan than with a gun when he or she goes off the hook one day. That's why murder is a relative rarity in nations where guns are strictly controlled. It's hard work to kill someone without a gun.
I won't even go into how stupid the "people would be killing each other anyway, so they should be able to do it more easily" argument is.
I have two of these on a Promise FastTrak TX2000 RAID controller. The 8MB cache really sets them apart from other drives and makes them a realistic alternative to a SCSI RAID setup for a medium-sized workgroup server.
Of course I know they won't perform as well as the fastest SCSI drives under extreme conditions, but I paid 1/3 the price of a comparable SCSI setup and haven't regretted the decision yet. Certainly worth consideration for your next server setup.
They would never have gotten rid of DOS under Windows. Then they'd have an out - "Windows isn't the OS, DOS is! You can remove IE and replace it with a different browser, and DOS will run just fine!"
As a matter of fact, they could even claim that Windows is modular - if they hadn't steamrolled the competition (Desq, TopView, VisiOn) back in the old days.
Another thing is the polish. Fixing those annoying little bugs, or getting that useful feature in that no one has time to do. IBM and their billion dollars could help here, but there does need to be more support for the Open Source polishers out there (like the Linux janitors).
I'm not sure why they should be responsible for fixing all the bugs, but here's a link to some open source Polish. Apparently they're also concerned that they need more suuport.
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OK. You obviously did not read the article, so let me expand my analogy for you, and explain the concept of "bait-and-switch" at the same time.
Say the donut shop with the 12-cent sign sells 200 dozen donuts on an average day.
What if you went into the donut shop and asked them about the sign, and the manager sold you the donuts for 12 cents? Fine, right? Everybody makes mistakes!
But what if they didn't take down the sign, and let the next 25 people buy 2 dozen donuts for 24 cents?
What if they told the 25 people after that that they were out of donuts, but gave them rainchecks entitling them to a dozen for 12 cents when they made more? And STILL didn't take down the sign?
What if they then took down the sign and told the next 25 people that the price was a mistake, but they would like to make amends by only charging them $2.00 per dozen - well below the usual retail price of $3.00, but still way above the donut shop's cost of $1.00?
And by this time, they had a line going around the block twice, with 4,000 people who had seen the 12 cent sign, waiting to buy a dozen donuts at 12 cents?
Even if 1/2 of the people wouldn't buy the donuts for $2.00 when they got to the register, that's 2000 dozen donuts sold at a profit on a day when they would normally have sold 200 dozen. They still made a killing that day because of the sign.
That's why it is illegal to refuse to sell your products at the advertised price, and why disclaimers about printed pricing errors so often fail to hold up in court.
Best Buy pulled all those tricks and more, and the people they swindled deserve to get their merchandise at the price they paid for it.
Please read the article before lauching into another patronizing spiel about a tangential point. Statement on your website or no, Best Buy appears to have pulled the wool over your eyes on this one too.
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Why should anyone know, or care, what best buy's wholesale cost is? It's irrelevant!
If you were walking down the street and saw a sign advertising a dozen donuts for 12 cents, don't tell me you wouldn't be rightfully pissed off if the donut shop refused to honor that price because donuts cost them more than 1 cent each to make.
Also, if you read the article, you'd see that best buy stated "a savings of $200" in the ad, which is one hell of a typo, and verified the $129 price two times over the phone. When they didn't hand over the merchandise after that, that wasn't a little mistake. That was a major bait-and-switch.
Why would anyone make a device this complicated to read CDs? CDs are designed to be read by something that holds and spins them. That's why they're round and have a hole in the middle.
I've got a better idea. Why don't we invent a VCR with 10000 heads to copy tapes faster?
You're underinformed. SB1394 is IEEE 1394. Sony calls it iLink. Apple calls it Firewire. Same thing.
They're just cross-marketing by suggesting a Creative soundcard. Just like Apple tries to sell you a whole Mac (iTunes) to go with the iPod.
If you have a Firewire port in your PC, that's all you need to use the Nomad 3.
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If you're truly rich, you don't have mortgages. You have banks. And I don't think Steve Forbes, for instance, worries about his grocery bill. I guess the idea is to go from poor to rich while maintaining a sense of the value of money and friendship. Some people actually do this successfully. If you're poor, there is only one path to happiness: find the "secret mental door" to overcome your worries and distress over your physical situation. That's not so easy. If you're rich, why not take a yacht trip to the Canaries? Or fill your pool with jello and hire models to swim around naked in it? Or buy a seat on a spaceship? Or a solid gold house? Or change your looks? Or... etc. The point is, options. The poor have - the options that the poor have. The rich have - the options that the poor have, plus a much larger set of shiny new ones. Why don't you take a poll? Hands up who wants to live in (insert slum village here) and struggle to buy food and keep your children safe? OK, hands up who wants to own a forest and live in a giant mansion with a private wildlife preserve?
When you're poor, you're likely to be unhappy and wanting more. When you're rich, you're likely to be at least satisfied, if still wanting more. I'd rather be satisfied than unhappy.
Also - when you're poor, the "more" you want might be: not to be living on the street if you can't find the money for rent this month. When you're rich, the "more" you want might be: none of the house-help quits this month. Again, I'd prefer #2.
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Linux is not an invention - in fact it is a copy of an invention that occurred in a very large company.
The ideas and implementation models behind linux (and Free software) are, in fact, brilliant and revolutionary inventions whose very nature precludes any kind of corporate origin.
Right. I'm sure the first instinct of soldiers witnessing the enemy drop tons of some kind of seed on their heads is "Hey! Let's cultivate these things, wait a couple of years for them to yield, harvest all the leaves and buds, dry them up, crumble them into a rolled-up paper tube, and start smoking! Wonder what'll happen?"
If you invented some kind of transdermal cannabis gel, that might work. But half the soldiers would just become (more) paranoid and wary, and the other half would storm our camps looking for Doritos.
"The Windows 95 cd came with a Weezer video. I don't remember anyone complaining that their CD space was being used for things they didn't care to watch."
How is this a meaningful analogy? The multimedia content was advertised on the Windows 95 box. Did this program come with your TiVo? No, it was shoehorned in there after you bought it. A more apt comparison would be if Microsoft started loading up your Start menu with "new content" at random times. Would you defend that by saying "It's a cool feature" or "You can just scroll past them if you don't want to run them?"
Agreed... however on the majority of systems (which use "file-based" password storage and probably will for some time to come) I think it's good practice to define a maximum password lifespan and enforce it.
I'm not sure I ever understood why changing a password every month increased security.
If you lost the keys to your house at a burglars' convention, and your address was written on the keyring, how long would you wait to change the locks?
Your (/etc/shadow|SAM file|whatever) is like that keyring, except it's possible for someone to get a copy of it without you noticing. And when they do, they have until the passwords expire to run cracking programs on it and reenter your system.
And of course there are, metaphorically speaking, many, many burglars' conventions happening at any given time on the net.
I'm not sure how parent got (+4, Informative) instead of (+5, Funny). Unless it's informing me that there actually exist numbers like "20ya8khyshche'khe2bpp8shch."
busbar/tire? FastShrites? RAMDACH? Pikhel of syuader?
I came away from that translation more confused than enlightened, but maybe my dictionary is just too old.
What's a neophile? Someone who likes new things?
Uh, I don't see how you figure that. Can you kill someone with a knife from the top of a building across the street? Can you walk into an office and knife 25 people to death in the space of 3 minutes? Does it take as much force to pull the trigger of a gun as it does to push a knife between someone's ribs? Are there as many stabbing deaths as shooting deaths in America?
No? Then how is it just as easy to kill someone with a knife as it is with a gun?
So what if the kids had pipe bombs? Did they use them to kill the other kids?
Here's how it can be "the guns' fault": If the kids didn't have access to guns, how would the other kids have died? The pipe bombs were intended to blow up the school after they were already done killing everybody with the guns. You can't very well expect people to stand still while you wire pipe bombs to their ankles. No guns = fewer dead kids.
And how, exactly, are pipe bombs conceptually different from guns? They both use a trigger and explosives to shoot projectiles at people. How can it be OK to use a metal tube with a trigger to shoot chunks of metal into a burglar, but not be OK to use a metal tube with a trigger to shoot chunks of metal into a burglar?
The "human responsibility" factor is totally useless as a preventative. All humans are prone to irrational behavior. And I'd rather my crazy neighbor be armed with a frying pan than with a gun when he or she goes off the hook one day. That's why murder is a relative rarity in nations where guns are strictly controlled. It's hard work to kill someone without a gun.
I won't even go into how stupid the "people would be killing each other anyway, so they should be able to do it more easily" argument is.
Thanks, Sherlock.
I just finished downloading the skipjack ISOs about 30 minutes ago.
Does anyone know the differences between skipjack and valhalla?
I have two of these on a Promise FastTrak TX2000 RAID controller. The 8MB cache really sets them apart from other drives and makes them a realistic alternative to a SCSI RAID setup for a medium-sized workgroup server.
Of course I know they won't perform as well as the fastest SCSI drives under extreme conditions, but I paid 1/3 the price of a comparable SCSI setup and haven't regretted the decision yet. Certainly worth consideration for your next server setup.
They would never have gotten rid of DOS under Windows. Then they'd have an out - "Windows isn't the OS, DOS is! You can remove IE and replace it with a different browser, and DOS will run just fine!"
As a matter of fact, they could even claim that Windows is modular - if they hadn't steamrolled the competition (Desq, TopView, VisiOn) back in the old days.
Unfortunately, those little sentimentalists to whom the quote refers are likely neither to understand it nor to believe that it refers to them.
Another thing is the polish. Fixing those annoying little bugs, or getting that useful feature in that no one has time to do. IBM and their billion dollars could help here, but there does need to be more support for the Open Source polishers out there (like the Linux janitors).
I'm not sure why they should be responsible for fixing all the bugs, but here's a link to some open source Polish. Apparently they're also concerned that they need more suuport.
OK. You obviously did not read the article, so let me expand my analogy for you, and explain the concept of "bait-and-switch" at the same time.
Say the donut shop with the 12-cent sign sells 200 dozen donuts on an average day.
What if you went into the donut shop and asked them about the sign, and the manager sold you the donuts for 12 cents? Fine, right? Everybody makes mistakes!
But what if they didn't take down the sign, and let the next 25 people buy 2 dozen donuts for 24 cents?
What if they told the 25 people after that that they were out of donuts, but gave them rainchecks entitling them to a dozen for 12 cents when they made more? And STILL didn't take down the sign?
What if they then took down the sign and told the next 25 people that the price was a mistake, but they would like to make amends by only charging them $2.00 per dozen - well below the usual retail price of $3.00, but still way above the donut shop's cost of $1.00?
And by this time, they had a line going around the block twice, with 4,000 people who had seen the 12 cent sign, waiting to buy a dozen donuts at 12 cents?
Even if 1/2 of the people wouldn't buy the donuts for $2.00 when they got to the register, that's 2000 dozen donuts sold at a profit on a day when they would normally have sold 200 dozen. They still made a killing that day because of the sign.
That's why it is illegal to refuse to sell your products at the advertised price, and why disclaimers about printed pricing errors so often fail to hold up in court.
Best Buy pulled all those tricks and more, and the people they swindled deserve to get their merchandise at the price they paid for it.
Please read the article before lauching into another patronizing spiel about a tangential point. Statement on your website or no, Best Buy appears to have pulled the wool over your eyes on this one too.
Why should anyone know, or care, what best buy's wholesale cost is? It's irrelevant!
If you were walking down the street and saw a sign advertising a dozen donuts for 12 cents, don't tell me you wouldn't be rightfully pissed off if the donut shop refused to honor that price because donuts cost them more than 1 cent each to make.
Also, if you read the article, you'd see that best buy stated "a savings of $200" in the ad, which is one hell of a typo, and verified the $129 price two times over the phone. When they didn't hand over the merchandise after that, that wasn't a little mistake. That was a major bait-and-switch.
I know. My wife still doesn't get it that each interruption costs me at least 5 frags. Thank god I play against a bunch of losers.
Why would anyone make a device this complicated to read CDs? CDs are designed to be read by something that holds and spins them. That's why they're round and have a hole in the middle.
I've got a better idea. Why don't we invent a VCR with 10000 heads to copy tapes faster?
In your last sentence, you forgot to put "matters," "that," "survive" and "during" in all caps.
Thanks for the link... Guess I won't be doing that anymore.
You're underinformed. SB1394 is IEEE 1394. Sony calls it iLink. Apple calls it Firewire. Same thing. They're just cross-marketing by suggesting a Creative soundcard. Just like Apple tries to sell you a whole Mac (iTunes) to go with the iPod. If you have a Firewire port in your PC, that's all you need to use the Nomad 3.