Actually, they didn't get rid of the tax. I'm still paying it on my phone bills. What they decided to do was to keep that money rather than paying it out to the organizations it was intended for. Whether you agree with the USF or not, for the FCC to keep taking in revenue but suspend payments smells more like corruption than the program did before.
The N64's memory expansion is a pretty poor example. It was required for some games, but later versions of the console had it built-in. Also, even for games that didn't require it, it improved the graphics quality. Mario 64, for example, would use the additional video memory (as would most of the 3D games) to extend the range you could see -- push back the "fog of war."
Not comparable to the hard drive that only FFXI uses, because it improves games that were written before it existed.
Within limits, supply and demand works that way. However, gas isn't a good example. People still drive their cars. Most people can't afford to purchase a new car immediately simply because gas is too expensive.
A similar example is natural gas, used for heat in colder climates. Consumers are forced to buy it at the set price and will adjust other spending to compensate. Generally, people can't buy significantly less natural gas because it's expensive. The consumer will merely have less cash for discretionary spending. This has no effect on the seller of the gas/petrol, but will have effects through the rest of the economy.
Some parts of the cost of living are entirely set by the corporations, at least in the short term ( 3 years).
Unless you enforce a very strict, "less than 95% average mark in your first year and you don't get to go to the next year rule."
Of course, that policy would have a very simple result, and one that's already happening. Grade inflation.
Mostly due to the rules under "No Child Left Behind," some public schools are using a new compensation policy that gives bonuses to teachers whose students have good grades. Where do you think that's going to lead? Higher grades, of course. Nobody fails.
This would have the same problem, simply because the institution has a financial interest in students being enrolled.
Have you ever heard of the Soundex algorithm? It's an algorithm specifically designed to catch words that are pronounced similarly with different spellings. IIRC, Knuth vol. 1.
This one was even easier -- T. Kennedy (simple substring match on first name and exact match on last name).
Also, I would assume that *someone* could override the system, just not the front-line clerk, and that's what I was disputing with the parent poster. He and several others were complaining that the clerk wouldn't "check the list" if it was someone they knew, and that they should have just rolled over. That's what I was disputing (then I started ranting.)
We also don't know how high up the chain the call to a supervisor had to go, either. All that we know is that a supervisor was called, and at some point in the near future a boarding pass was issued. For all we know, there may have been a call to Tom Ridge's office to get the appropriate clearance to override the system. If it wasn't a senator, that call would probably never have been made.
You seem to be assuming, as do many other people, that the computers would even issue a ticket for someone that was on the no-fly list. I highly doubt that enforcement of that system would be someone pulling out an eight-inch thick book and looking for each name in small type, or even doing the equivalent operation on a computer. It's going to be automatic. The clerk has no control.
As an example, if you're on the "body-cavity searches for everyone!" list, there are large, obvious marks on the boarding pass. Since those designations both come from the same system (CAPPS II?), I wouldn't assume that it would be *easier* to bypass the more restrictive list.
Don't blame the clerk for not knowing that it was Ted Kennedy. She could not issue a boarding pass for someone who's name matched that list. I feel pretty bad for John Smith, considering there's got to be at least one "evil" J. Smith out there. You can extrapolate the odds of having trouble with a "Middle-Eastern sounding" name yourself.
Now, I will say this -- even if she could have overrode the system and issued a boarding pass, if I were her supervisor she would have been fired and possibly facing criminal charges the moment I found out about it. I don't like this system to begin with, but you damned well need to follow it if you're part of the system. You can lobby to change it, but while it's in place, it is your G*d. Can you tell that I do some security work?
The total price for Sun Rays should be going down nicely soon -- for the first time since 1.2, the server software will be available for x86 on both Linux (Redhat AS and others, like Sun's Java Desktop distro) and on Solaris x86 as well as on sparc.
Sun makes some excellent IA32 (v60, v65) and Opteron (v20z, v40z) server hardware that's nicely priced. Also, for a publically-visible deployment like this, you might be able to work something out with Sun to cut the price further.
I'm a sysadmin dealing with Sun Rays. Love 'em. Not employed or paid by Sun, blah, blah...
Didn't know about that one. Interesting. Somehow I doubt that many people went for the cPCI. Unfortunately, to swap cPCI for PCI on the 3800 requires a new centerplane (ie, upgrade to a 48x0.)
Actually, the only one of those that was cPCI was the 3800. My department has the misfortu^Wprivelege of owning one. Sun has never made a copper GigE card for it, they stopped making FC cards, and we got the original defective US-III(Al) CPUs, not the US=III+(Cu).
There were a few boards tossed around, but not sold as end-user products by Sun. There's a couple of other companies that made them.
Sun sells both the "US" layout and the "US Unix" layout. You have the Unix layout, which I actually prefer (as an occasional emacs user).
Modern Sun systems (any Blade or Sun Ray) use standard USB. You can swap that keyboard with anything you want -- I use a MS Natural Pro with my SunRay. They are similarly agnostic about mice, and the newest builds of Mozilla from Sun actually support the wheel (finally).
The only limitation is that a few of the older systems (at least the Blade 100) require that the keyboard be attached directly to the root hub (ie, don't put your keyboard for the Blade 100 on a KVM or it's going to decide that it should use a serial console). The workaround is to throw a keyboard on the root hub and hide it behind the machine, then attach another one to the KVM.
If I remember correctly, that's actually a Debian project to port a full GNU userland (glibc, etc.) to a FreeBSD kernel. It's not any attempt to rename anything -- it's a way to keep the two systems distinct, because they are very different. There's also a Debian GNU/Hurd.
More likely, the folks in IT think it's a load o' shit as well... it's not always just some PFY off in the corner trying to make your life more difficult.
If the auditors say to do something, you generally do it whether it make sense or not. Next year, after that change, the auditors will probably say to ban use of gmail and of usb storage devices. At the same time, someone in IT is crying since nobody funded him to build an actual fileserver, yet won't let people use a decent workaround.
In that case (email with encryption), there is still an audit trail. If you're somewhere that's serious about security, and you use a network, it is logged, down to your identity. It's that simple.
First, the OP was implying that his other machine is stable and that he plays games on it (complaint about touchpad). That implies that he dual-boots the laptop, and that it is stable in Windows. That may not be the case. If so, that implies that it's not the software loaded that's causing rot, and I have seen a clean Windows box that rotted in a way similar to his description -- due to bad memory and FS/registry corruption.
Second, if you do every possible thing wrong on a Linux box logged in as root (hello, Lindows^WLinspire), you will get this type of problem. The losers who write spyware haven't paid as much attention yet. The real problem is that most Windows users log in as an Administrator for day-to-day web browsing, and most Linux users do not. That's the key difference, honestly.
If you're downloading "Bob's Form Mailer" and installing it with a web server, and it's exploited, is that the fault of Linux, or the fault of the user? What if you didn't patch your SSH daemon -- or IE? Same thing for someone who installs Gator^WClaria software. Sure, some peope think that it's nice having the current weather on their desktop (here's a clue: go outside.) It's not worth the destruction it generally causes, but that's the fault of the user. [I'm not going to say that the various unpatched vulns in IE that these losers are exploiting aren't Microsoft's fault. They are. That is a different discussion.]
If you have bad memory, you can end up with filesystem corruption. I run enough (old and shitty) boxes that I've seen that happen. Filesystem corruption that affects libc.so will cause your system to crash. Hard.
That's all I was telling the OP. Not implying that Linux 5ux0rz, or that Windows rocks, or anything of the sort. Don't try to make it in to yet another OS flamewar.
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It's simple. The $30 DVD player at Walmart/Target/Best Buy isn't licensed. They don't pay the licensing fee.
Pastry chef or other advanced cooking. ;)
Well, that's not very cross-platform. ;)
I don't think you have to worry about IBM -- nobody wants to get in a patent-war with Big Blue. 'Cept maybe SCO, but they're nutters.
How in the name of doG does a web server about 20 hops away get a MAC address? All sessions would be keyed to the router...
Actually, they didn't get rid of the tax. I'm still paying it on my phone bills. What they decided to do was to keep that money rather than paying it out to the organizations it was intended for. Whether you agree with the USF or not, for the FCC to keep taking in revenue but suspend payments smells more like corruption than the program did before.
Not comparable to the hard drive that only FFXI uses, because it improves games that were written before it existed.
A similar example is natural gas, used for heat in colder climates. Consumers are forced to buy it at the set price and will adjust other spending to compensate. Generally, people can't buy significantly less natural gas because it's expensive. The consumer will merely have less cash for discretionary spending. This has no effect on the seller of the gas/petrol, but will have effects through the rest of the economy.
Some parts of the cost of living are entirely set by the corporations, at least in the short term ( 3 years).
Mostly due to the rules under "No Child Left Behind," some public schools are using a new compensation policy that gives bonuses to teachers whose students have good grades. Where do you think that's going to lead? Higher grades, of course. Nobody fails.
This would have the same problem, simply because the institution has a financial interest in students being enrolled.
This one was even easier -- T. Kennedy (simple substring match on first name and exact match on last name).
Also, I would assume that *someone* could override the system, just not the front-line clerk, and that's what I was disputing with the parent poster. He and several others were complaining that the clerk wouldn't "check the list" if it was someone they knew, and that they should have just rolled over. That's what I was disputing (then I started ranting.)
We also don't know how high up the chain the call to a supervisor had to go, either. All that we know is that a supervisor was called, and at some point in the near future a boarding pass was issued. For all we know, there may have been a call to Tom Ridge's office to get the appropriate clearance to override the system. If it wasn't a senator, that call would probably never have been made.
As an example, if you're on the "body-cavity searches for everyone!" list, there are large, obvious marks on the boarding pass. Since those designations both come from the same system (CAPPS II?), I wouldn't assume that it would be *easier* to bypass the more restrictive list.
Don't blame the clerk for not knowing that it was Ted Kennedy. She could not issue a boarding pass for someone who's name matched that list. I feel pretty bad for John Smith, considering there's got to be at least one "evil" J. Smith out there. You can extrapolate the odds of having trouble with a "Middle-Eastern sounding" name yourself.
Now, I will say this -- even if she could have overrode the system and issued a boarding pass, if I were her supervisor she would have been fired and possibly facing criminal charges the moment I found out about it. I don't like this system to begin with, but you damned well need to follow it if you're part of the system. You can lobby to change it, but while it's in place, it is your G*d. Can you tell that I do some security work?
Sun makes some excellent IA32 (v60, v65) and Opteron (v20z, v40z) server hardware that's nicely priced. Also, for a publically-visible deployment like this, you might be able to work something out with Sun to cut the price further.
I'm a sysadmin dealing with Sun Rays. Love 'em. Not employed or paid by Sun, blah, blah...
Take a look at the cost for an EMC support contract sometime....
Doesn't anybody read the freakin' articles? Jebus.
There were a few boards tossed around, but not sold as end-user products by Sun. There's a couple of other companies that made them.
SRSS 2.0 got quite a bit lighter, rumors say that the next version will work acceptably well over a DSL-speed connection. ;)
Modern Sun systems (any Blade or Sun Ray) use standard USB. You can swap that keyboard with anything you want -- I use a MS Natural Pro with my SunRay. They are similarly agnostic about mice, and the newest builds of Mozilla from Sun actually support the wheel (finally).
The only limitation is that a few of the older systems (at least the Blade 100) require that the keyboard be attached directly to the root hub (ie, don't put your keyboard for the Blade 100 on a KVM or it's going to decide that it should use a serial console). The workaround is to throw a keyboard on the root hub and hide it behind the machine, then attach another one to the KVM.
If the auditors say to do something, you generally do it whether it make sense or not. Next year, after that change, the auditors will probably say to ban use of gmail and of usb storage devices. At the same time, someone in IT is crying since nobody funded him to build an actual fileserver, yet won't let people use a decent workaround.
Not so easy with a USB watch.
Y'all can always purchase dialup. Them's the rules.
First, the OP was implying that his other machine is stable and that he plays games on it (complaint about touchpad). That implies that he dual-boots the laptop, and that it is stable in Windows. That may not be the case. If so, that implies that it's not the software loaded that's causing rot, and I have seen a clean Windows box that rotted in a way similar to his description -- due to bad memory and FS/registry corruption.
Second, if you do every possible thing wrong on a Linux box logged in as root (hello, Lindows^WLinspire), you will get this type of problem. The losers who write spyware haven't paid as much attention yet. The real problem is that most Windows users log in as an Administrator for day-to-day web browsing, and most Linux users do not. That's the key difference, honestly.
If you're downloading "Bob's Form Mailer" and installing it with a web server, and it's exploited, is that the fault of Linux, or the fault of the user? What if you didn't patch your SSH daemon -- or IE? Same thing for someone who installs Gator^WClaria software. Sure, some peope think that it's nice having the current weather on their desktop (here's a clue: go outside.) It's not worth the destruction it generally causes, but that's the fault of the user. [I'm not going to say that the various unpatched vulns in IE that these losers are exploiting aren't Microsoft's fault. They are. That is a different discussion.]
If you have bad memory, you can end up with filesystem corruption. I run enough (old and shitty) boxes that I've seen that happen. Filesystem corruption that affects libc.so will cause your system to crash. Hard.
That's all I was telling the OP. Not implying that Linux 5ux0rz, or that Windows rocks, or anything of the sort. Don't try to make it in to yet another OS flamewar.