What are you suggesting? Maybe that Microsoft engineers had not ought to look at other browsers? Should they move forward blindly? Or is it that you are afraid they will take something they see and make it better? Isn't that what makes any one product more salable than another, because they did the same thing better? Perhaps they should not release a security update? Would that make you feel better if they just didn't do it? Change can be hard, we all know that, to bad we will have to change a few things, I know how all of us hate to see change and progress in our industry, of course MS embodies that, that's why we hate them so much. I am glad we stopped fixing things and change in the linux world or linux would be just like MS and we would have to hate that too! Come on! Let's apply the same set of rules and standards of judgement to everyone.
I don't participate in the types of activities that these individuals will be droning on about. I don't make money in those areas. They are not part of my core business. I pay others to worry about security.
It is FAR from being worth $50 to me.
Keep your subjective statements about what subjective material is worth to yourself.
lol, I would never trust the results from this! A search for the "best search engine" returns one result, itself. I would expect to see google there as they are by far the largest. Even MS can't argue that. I want real results, not MS's wishful fantasies.
I don't care if it's microsoft or any company. No one should be allowed to patent anything that involves my body, my personal property. If I choose to wire myself to an outlet, no one should be able to claim patent infringement. Next McDonalds will be patenting the process of eating hamburgers with your mouth. You will have to pay McDonalds Corp a small fee anytime you chew a burger from anywhere. It all amounts to the same thing. We seem to be giving Microsoft the exclusive right to say wether or not I can allow the natural abilities of my property to perform their natural functions or not. Maybe I should apply for a patent on my body and charge Microsoft with infringement on my rights. My body is unique and is wholly mine, therefore should be patentable, (or so it seems according to the patenting process). If Microsoft therefore uses my patented product to make their product work, is that not patent infringment if they do not pursue a licensing agreement with me to utilize my property? Where is this all going to stop? I find it extremely disturbing.
They are not going to absolve you of the licensing requirements. So, you have the source code, it doesn't mean that it's going to be free to use it with anything other than your personal use. Try to use it commercially and you WILL get wacked by them. I think it's a low blow to the term open-source and an underhanded technique to make themselves look 'better' than their competition.
If his files were that important, he should have backed them up himself. Just because it's Microsoft everyone gets all up in arms. I don't care what vendor it is. If I have stuff that's critical to me or my business, I am going to make sure that i have my own copy, in my posession. I blame the user for foolishly trusting someone else with their critical data.
I don't let anyone hold onto my wallet full of money for me, do you?
Sorry I left the word 'not ' out in a crittical place. It should read as follows; "If one looks at all of the facts though, it is extremely difficult, (if not impossible), to argue that Nuclear Power is not the lesser of two evils."
It's about time that 'environmentalists' started to understand that Nuclear Power is not as evil as the pictures that seem to have been painted for it over the past few decades. I will agree that it is not a perfect solution and that it has it's own set of hazards. If one looks at all of the facts though, it is extremely difficult, (if not impossible), to argue that Nuclear Power is the lesser of two evils. I have no intention of rehashing all of those arguements here, whereas they have all been publicized in many forums, over and over throughout our nuclear history. As a former engineer in the nuclear field, I do understand the facts and am hopeful that others can take a new look at this option under a fresh light. We don't have the time to wait for a new technology to become industrially sound enough to refit our power demands with it. In my humble opinion, the decades that would take will prove to be our end if we travel that road. We should never stop striving to that end, but we should also grasp the opportunities afforded us in the present, to provide our children with a cleaner, better, livable future.
Personnaly, I don't see merit to the claims made in this article post. Sellers can be, (and are), authenticated, via third party sources such as Square Deal, etc. Secondly Ebay does get involved in Buyer/Seller conflicts.
I am a power seller on Ebay. I am Authenticated by Ebay and by Square Deal. I have to have proof to back up my claims with them. If I don't perform to their standards, I lose my authentication and even risk my account being closed. I have been on both ends of 'conflicts' and Ebay involved themselves in ALL of them.
It is true that a seller of a single item, who is only making a single sale is not authenticated, and does not have any transaction history that can be viewed by the buyer. But what is new about that in any business model? If you buy an item at your local mall from one of those pedestrian walkway carts, where is your recourse? Doesn't the same situation apply there? What about Garage sales? I think Ebay will be around as long as there are garage and Lawn sales, it's no different. I don't recall my mom, reviewing her 'business model' prior to her anual lawn sale.
I think that this rattle of doom for Ebay is a bit overblown and probably comes from the mouth of someone who was ripped off, (due to their own reliance on someone else doing tthe homework that was theirs to do to begin with), and is now spouting off.
It all boils down to the same thing that has been said for centuries, BUYER BEWARE. You are spending the dollars, if you are uncomfortable dealing with a seller, then don't send them money. It's that simply. You hold the money, therefore you hold the power.
I am not sure that MS would want to do anything about this. They aren't going to stop Linux, maybe slow it down , but not stop it, and I think they are smart enough to know that. If David actually passes puberty without dying, it would give MS another platform to sell their products on. Secondly it would give publishers little reason to spend time porting their code to Linux when they on't need to. That in itself might play well into MS's hand. This could be a double edged sword.
This is not the great wonder that it appears to be on it's surface. This product, ethanol, has proven to be a very hazardous when combusted. The byproduct of burning or combusting ethanol dissolves very easily in water, but leaves the carcinogens intact. Read the official report on what is is doing and has already done to our environment here at ChemCases,. The following is a link to an article on CBS News last month the makes that connection between Ethanol and MTBE and pollution; This is serious stuff and making this very harmful fuel even cheaper ought to have us very worried. Where are the articles on how to solve this problem, there aren't any because a solution doesn't exist yet.
Stop living in the seventies and get on with life. Put away your polyester shirts and bell bottom pants. Its 2004 people! Who cares if Darth Vader's costume fabric looks different in the re-release of the remade release of the original remake.
String Theory is still in it's very infant stages of construction. No pun intended, but it still has a lot of loose ends to it. There are many factors that string theory proposes that when combined with other proven theories, simply don't work. I am not dismissing it at all, it is a work in progress.
Don't get me wrong, I love String theory concepts and would like to see it ironed out better, but it's just not there yet. Pretty road that goes nowhere as of yet. Personnally I feel that the Graviton theory (string based) is much more plasible than the space 'fabric' theory. Furthermore, I don't think that this experiment will do anything to determine whether the measured effects are from frame drag or caused by graviton concentration/migration to another plane. In short the experiment really isn't going to provide any answers to anything.
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They get away with the price hikes for two reasons. One, people continue to pay them despite the hike. Two, the artists you want to hear continue to sign with them. Why do they sign? Because the label offers them more than they can get elsewhere. As soon as the public gets their crap together and comes up with a real solution to getting the artists to stop signing with these money grubbing labels, the prices will stabilize at a reasonable rate.
The solution: 1) A new label whose primary delivery method is download based. 2) The share holders are the people who purchase the music. 3) The artists are comfortable that they have the general public's support and that they have some hope to earn relatively the same dollars that they did under the money grubbing labels. ( that's the hard part).
You have to be a real hermit to ask about rack mounting these days. Pick up any catalog and you will find hundreds of solutions. What a waste of web space to post this as a headliner questions. Bad slashdot editor, bad!
Some people get so impressed with stupid simple tricks. I think the people on that judging committee had ought to all be fired, then stoned, (puns intended). Evaporative cooling has long been known and used for centuries, even millenia. The only new thing here is using wet sand as a media to hold the evaporative fluid.
Most people in the southwest US must be laughing their a$$ess off with this article. "look at those idiots swoon of stuff we have used our whole life!". Evaporative coolers are have been and are still used in the US in warm less humid climates to cool everything up to and including entire homes.
See the URL for a heads up on good old 'swamp cooling' in the USA.
USA Today Q&A on Swamp Coolers
I am a die hard Tivo user, (I think all TiVo users are actually Die Hard users). My Tivo ship s 30 seconds ahead too with a single button press on the remote. It is not a feature that TiVo ever even mentions or supports, but it is there. You simply have to press SELECT PLAY SELECT 3 0 SELECT on the remote, (providing that you have unlocked the backdoor), Backdoor Unlock Fact Sheet. Then your skip to end button acts as a 30 second skip instead. No need to add software or get out a screw driver. Works Great! Doing it this way, I believe, obsolves the TiVo manufacturer of the liability.
10 bucks is nothing, in my eyes, for someone who is spending 5 bucks a wack for a cup of coffee. They obviously have extra money and are willing to piss it away (that is where it goes after you finish drinking it), why stop them? How about $15?
I think you are really wrong here. MS is out to prove something. They want to show that they can dominate a marketplace by simply providing a better product. They want to show that it doesn't matter if someone else already owns the market, they can still win. You say that teenagers won't stand for big brother type manufactures? I don't think they care, they just want the flashiest game playing experience out there. Simple said they xbox owns that trophy. Now they just need to line up some more game titles to hold on against sony.
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What are you suggesting? Maybe that Microsoft engineers had not ought to look at other browsers? Should they move forward blindly? Or is it that you are afraid they will take something they see and make it better? Isn't that what makes any one product more salable than another, because they did the same thing better? Perhaps they should not release a security update? Would that make you feel better if they just didn't do it? Change can be hard, we all know that, to bad we will have to change a few things, I know how all of us hate to see change and progress in our industry, of course MS embodies that, that's why we hate them so much. I am glad we stopped fixing things and change in the linux world or linux would be just like MS and we would have to hate that too! Come on! Let's apply the same set of rules and standards of judgement to everyone.
I don't participate in the types of activities that these individuals will be droning on about. I don't make money in those areas. They are not part of my core business. I pay others to worry about security. It is FAR from being worth $50 to me. Keep your subjective statements about what subjective material is worth to yourself.
lol, I would never trust the results from this! A search for the "best search engine" returns one result, itself. I would expect to see google there as they are by far the largest. Even MS can't argue that. I want real results, not MS's wishful fantasies.
I don't care if it's microsoft or any company. No one should be allowed to patent anything that involves my body, my personal property. If I choose to wire myself to an outlet, no one should be able to claim patent infringement. Next McDonalds will be patenting the process of eating hamburgers with your mouth. You will have to pay McDonalds Corp a small fee anytime you chew a burger from anywhere. It all amounts to the same thing. We seem to be giving Microsoft the exclusive right to say wether or not I can allow the natural abilities of my property to perform their natural functions or not. Maybe I should apply for a patent on my body and charge Microsoft with infringement on my rights. My body is unique and is wholly mine, therefore should be patentable, (or so it seems according to the patenting process). If Microsoft therefore uses my patented product to make their product work, is that not patent infringment if they do not pursue a licensing agreement with me to utilize my property? Where is this all going to stop? I find it extremely disturbing.
They are not going to absolve you of the licensing requirements. So, you have the source code, it doesn't mean that it's going to be free to use it with anything other than your personal use. Try to use it commercially and you WILL get wacked by them. I think it's a low blow to the term open-source and an underhanded technique to make themselves look 'better' than their competition.
If his files were that important, he should have backed them up himself. Just because it's Microsoft everyone gets all up in arms. I don't care what vendor it is. If I have stuff that's critical to me or my business, I am going to make sure that i have my own copy, in my posession. I blame the user for foolishly trusting someone else with their critical data. I don't let anyone hold onto my wallet full of money for me, do you?
Sorry I left the word 'not ' out in a crittical place. It should read as follows; "If one looks at all of the facts though, it is extremely difficult, (if not impossible), to argue that Nuclear Power is not the lesser of two evils."
It's about time that 'environmentalists' started to understand that Nuclear Power is not as evil as the pictures that seem to have been painted for it over the past few decades. I will agree that it is not a perfect solution and that it has it's own set of hazards. If one looks at all of the facts though, it is extremely difficult, (if not impossible), to argue that Nuclear Power is the lesser of two evils. I have no intention of rehashing all of those arguements here, whereas they have all been publicized in many forums, over and over throughout our nuclear history. As a former engineer in the nuclear field, I do understand the facts and am hopeful that others can take a new look at this option under a fresh light. We don't have the time to wait for a new technology to become industrially sound enough to refit our power demands with it. In my humble opinion, the decades that would take will prove to be our end if we travel that road. We should never stop striving to that end, but we should also grasp the opportunities afforded us in the present, to provide our children with a cleaner, better, livable future.
I think they will find out that it's simply a recipe for Potato Pancakes.
Personnaly, I don't see merit to the claims made in this article post. Sellers can be, (and are), authenticated, via third party sources such as Square Deal, etc. Secondly Ebay does get involved in Buyer/Seller conflicts. I am a power seller on Ebay. I am Authenticated by Ebay and by Square Deal. I have to have proof to back up my claims with them. If I don't perform to their standards, I lose my authentication and even risk my account being closed. I have been on both ends of 'conflicts' and Ebay involved themselves in ALL of them. It is true that a seller of a single item, who is only making a single sale is not authenticated, and does not have any transaction history that can be viewed by the buyer. But what is new about that in any business model? If you buy an item at your local mall from one of those pedestrian walkway carts, where is your recourse? Doesn't the same situation apply there? What about Garage sales? I think Ebay will be around as long as there are garage and Lawn sales, it's no different. I don't recall my mom, reviewing her 'business model' prior to her anual lawn sale. I think that this rattle of doom for Ebay is a bit overblown and probably comes from the mouth of someone who was ripped off, (due to their own reliance on someone else doing tthe homework that was theirs to do to begin with), and is now spouting off. It all boils down to the same thing that has been said for centuries, BUYER BEWARE. You are spending the dollars, if you are uncomfortable dealing with a seller, then don't send them money. It's that simply. You hold the money, therefore you hold the power.
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I am not sure that MS would want to do anything about this. They aren't going to stop Linux, maybe slow it down , but not stop it, and I think they are smart enough to know that. If David actually passes puberty without dying, it would give MS another platform to sell their products on. Secondly it would give publishers little reason to spend time porting their code to Linux when they on't need to. That in itself might play well into MS's hand. This could be a double edged sword.
This is not the great wonder that it appears to be on it's surface. This product, ethanol, has proven to be a very hazardous when combusted. The byproduct of burning or combusting ethanol dissolves very easily in water, but leaves the carcinogens intact. Read the official report on what is is doing and has already done to our environment here at ChemCases,. The following is a link to an article on CBS News last month the makes that connection between Ethanol and MTBE and pollution; This is serious stuff and making this very harmful fuel even cheaper ought to have us very worried. Where are the articles on how to solve this problem, there aren't any because a solution doesn't exist yet.
Thank you! I was not able to see it and no one else took the time to say what it was. A bunch of us were in the 'slashdark'
In light of the site being removed, can someone take a moment and tell us what it was?
Stop living in the seventies and get on with life. Put away your polyester shirts and bell bottom pants. Its 2004 people! Who cares if Darth Vader's costume fabric looks different in the re-release of the remade release of the original remake.
String Theory is still in it's very infant stages of construction. No pun intended, but it still has a lot of loose ends to it. There are many factors that string theory proposes that when combined with other proven theories, simply don't work. I am not dismissing it at all, it is a work in progress. Don't get me wrong, I love String theory concepts and would like to see it ironed out better, but it's just not there yet. Pretty road that goes nowhere as of yet. Personnally I feel that the Graviton theory (string based) is much more plasible than the space 'fabric' theory. Furthermore, I don't think that this experiment will do anything to determine whether the measured effects are from frame drag or caused by graviton concentration/migration to another plane. In short the experiment really isn't going to provide any answers to anything.
They get away with the price hikes for two reasons. One, people continue to pay them despite the hike. Two, the artists you want to hear continue to sign with them. Why do they sign? Because the label offers them more than they can get elsewhere. As soon as the public gets their crap together and comes up with a real solution to getting the artists to stop signing with these money grubbing labels, the prices will stabilize at a reasonable rate. The solution: 1) A new label whose primary delivery method is download based. 2) The share holders are the people who purchase the music. 3) The artists are comfortable that they have the general public's support and that they have some hope to earn relatively the same dollars that they did under the money grubbing labels. ( that's the hard part).
You have to be a real hermit to ask about rack mounting these days. Pick up any catalog and you will find hundreds of solutions. What a waste of web space to post this as a headliner questions. Bad slashdot editor, bad!
The links in the article as posted do not work. The destination server appears to be offline.
Some people get so impressed with stupid simple tricks. I think the people on that judging committee had ought to all be fired, then stoned, (puns intended). Evaporative cooling has long been known and used for centuries, even millenia. The only new thing here is using wet sand as a media to hold the evaporative fluid. Most people in the southwest US must be laughing their a$$ess off with this article. "look at those idiots swoon of stuff we have used our whole life!". Evaporative coolers are have been and are still used in the US in warm less humid climates to cool everything up to and including entire homes. See the URL for a heads up on good old 'swamp cooling' in the USA. USA Today Q&A on Swamp Coolers
I am a die hard Tivo user, (I think all TiVo users are actually Die Hard users). My Tivo ship s 30 seconds ahead too with a single button press on the remote. It is not a feature that TiVo ever even mentions or supports, but it is there. You simply have to press SELECT PLAY SELECT 3 0 SELECT on the remote, (providing that you have unlocked the backdoor), Backdoor Unlock Fact Sheet. Then your skip to end button acts as a 30 second skip instead. No need to add software or get out a screw driver. Works Great! Doing it this way, I believe, obsolves the TiVo manufacturer of the liability.
10 bucks is nothing, in my eyes, for someone who is spending 5 bucks a wack for a cup of coffee. They obviously have extra money and are willing to piss it away (that is where it goes after you finish drinking it), why stop them? How about $15?
I think you are really wrong here. MS is out to prove something. They want to show that they can dominate a marketplace by simply providing a better product. They want to show that it doesn't matter if someone else already owns the market, they can still win. You say that teenagers won't stand for big brother type manufactures? I don't think they care, they just want the flashiest game playing experience out there. Simple said they xbox owns that trophy. Now they just need to line up some more game titles to hold on against sony.
Oh really! and that's why Blizzard is sueing individuals for running their own battlenet servers? Gosh, that will never happen, lol.