Seriously, at an average of 5 songs I like per album, that's 1500 albums! For comparison's sake, I know a guy who's been buying CDs since the 80's and has a very large collection - 600+ CDs. Hell, 7500 songs takes about 30,000 minutes to play - that's 20 days of continuous music! I gues the point is this: filling up a large amount of space with 128Kbps mp3s isn't a reasonable benchmark. Reasonable usage is.
Microsoft's service is akin to buying 12 songs per month on Apple's service, except that, should you stop paying, you have nothing.
However, the reasoning behind keeping justices for life doesn't apply to professors.
You say that when Bush 43 is basing his appointments to advisory posts based primarily on political stance and an unpopular view caused the dixie chicks to endure a boycott? you sure about that?
many states have a large Ohmish popylation that has no power or RUNNING WATER.
Well, I assume you mean Amish (Ohmish is kind of hard to reconcile with no Ohms). The Amish are probably grandfathered in - they've been around for awhile. You'd still have trouble starting your own luddite house.
I have since graduated with an equally worthless degree in History. At least writing papers about things that happened 300+ years ago is useful;)
Sure it is. The point is to get people to stop making the same mistakes. You know the old saying: "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat the 11th grade".
Re:No thanks. (Score:3)
by Lumpy (12016) on Thursday May 22, @10:33AM (#6014949)
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Electricity is required for a minimum standard of living.
really? so all those people in africa are dead then?
you can live with much MUCH less. it's how many luxuries you want that requires your electricity..
How did this get modded insightful? It's fairly obvious that the original poster was referring to legal requirements, not absolute needs. Besides, it doesn't matter if you can live without electricity and running water - try it in the US and you risk having your building condemned.
If government let the market handle everything, there'd be no point to bribing government officials, so that money would go somewhere else, namely, to trying to stay ahead of the competition.
If we let the market handle everything, there'd be no need for bribing the government. Corporations would do whatever they wanted to, and we'd be working 12 hours a day for starvation wages. That's the problem with the Randite pipedream - it has as little to do with reality as Communism.
Microsoft doesn't have the time to spend going through every possible software scenario and interaction, or every possible hardware configuration.
Or rather, MS doesn't want to spend the time to properly design the system to limit possible interactions between the various subsystems and then test those because they'd make less money. That said, I haven't had Win2k crash on except for the (very) occasional driver BSOD and bad hardware. Explorer likes to crash and I have no idea why, but the OS stays up.
Even if you are running a super-stripped down linux kernel in console mode on an Itanium, you can still get out of memory errors if someone behaves rudely with malloc().
It's not crashing if you handle the error gracefully. Sure, the app crashes, but the system remains stable. Now, if you run an embedded system of some sort, you'll be writing that app, and being rude with malloc() is a no-no.
Do you really think that if pennies disappeared, all the stuff you buy would keep its non-divisible-by-five price and the rounding to the nearest nickel would happen at the cash register?
Yes. Just because you don't have pennies doesn't mean everything is valued in $.05 increments.
The only reason this worked in france is that they have a nasty VAT tax system where the end price includes all taxes.
Irrelevant. I can price my stuff with VAT included here as well.
And what if you're paying by check or credit/debit card? Do they still round the price up/down?
Geez, Sparky, lay off the sendmail.cf - that's for masochists. Everyone else uses m4. 6 lines of simple macros with human-readable names is easier to maintain, too.
"Tragic accidents" like this can be avoided by liberal use of the death penalty. Estabilsh draconian capital felony sentencing guidelines (i.e., if you commit a capital felony, you've got five years from sentencing to prove innocence or your dead). If individuals of this sort are executed, then it is logical to assume that that individual shan't commit another capital offense.
Yeah, because this has worked so well in Israel/Palestine.
I guess some companies aren't savvy enough to realize that employees -- particularly IT employees -- don't necessarily need to be at their desks to do your job.
It's not that. Rather, companies think that if they don't have you around to look at, they may as well have someone else in another timezone who charges $5/hr.
Actually, yes. (i was really really bored, and it was a crappy drive anyway, and well, i was curious). Then again, it was a pretty good bulk eraser meant for 1/4 inch tape. I also said a 5# (pound) magnet. That would be a speaker magnet about 2inches thick, and about 8 inches or more in diameter. We sell car audio, I see those alot. I haven't trashed a drive with the magnet, but have used it to trash tapes. The bulk eraser does a better, more thorough job.
You trashed the drive heads, so the disk is now inoperable. It's a fair bet that quite a bit of data remains on the platters, and that can be recovered, usually for $1000 or less.
I can build a solar collector that generates more energy than it requires, but it won't be a fancy photoelectric film. No, it'll be a polished mirror folded around a water pipe, with a steam turbine at one end.
Ok then, what shall we do in 10 years when OpenOffice is the de-facto standard and it comes pre-installed on every machine and has 99% of the market. In that case OpenOffice's price will almost certainly "stifle competition." What shall we do then?
Download the source, make whatever modifications I like, and install it wherever I like, just like today. It's GPL, baby!
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are we supposed to believe EACH employee is getting that much crap to deal with and respond to?
That sounds like the crap a personal assistant has to deal with. I know that if I were to do all that, I'd never write any code.
Seriously, at an average of 5 songs I like per album, that's 1500 albums! For comparison's sake, I know a guy who's been buying CDs since the 80's and has a very large collection - 600+ CDs. Hell, 7500 songs takes about 30,000 minutes to play - that's 20 days of continuous music! I gues the point is this: filling up a large amount of space with 128Kbps mp3s isn't a reasonable benchmark. Reasonable usage is.
Microsoft's service is akin to buying 12 songs per month on Apple's service, except that, should you stop paying, you have nothing.
However, the reasoning behind keeping justices for life doesn't apply to professors.
You say that when Bush 43 is basing his appointments to advisory posts based primarily on political stance and an unpopular view caused the dixie chicks to endure a boycott? you sure about that?
He won't win though
He might. Burglars have successfully sued homeowners for falling through a roof and injuring themselves whilst breaking into said house.
many states have a large Ohmish popylation that has no power or RUNNING WATER.
Well, I assume you mean Amish (Ohmish is kind of hard to reconcile with no Ohms). The Amish are probably grandfathered in - they've been around for awhile. You'd still have trouble starting your own luddite house.
I have since graduated with an equally worthless degree in History. At least writing papers about things that happened 300+ years ago is useful ;)
Sure it is. The point is to get people to stop making the same mistakes. You know the old saying: "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat the 11th grade".
Re:No thanks. (Score:3) by Lumpy (12016) on Thursday May 22, @10:33AM (#6014949) (http://www.your-website-sucks.com/) Electricity is required for a minimum standard of living. really? so all those people in africa are dead then? you can live with much MUCH less. it's how many luxuries you want that requires your electricity..
How did this get modded insightful? It's fairly obvious that the original poster was referring to legal requirements, not absolute needs. Besides, it doesn't matter if you can live without electricity and running water - try it in the US and you risk having your building condemned.
If government let the market handle everything, there'd be no point to bribing government officials, so that money would go somewhere else, namely, to trying to stay ahead of the competition.
If we let the market handle everything, there'd be no need for bribing the government. Corporations would do whatever they wanted to, and we'd be working 12 hours a day for starvation wages. That's the problem with the Randite pipedream - it has as little to do with reality as Communism.
AAH! You cracked Endor! Now where will the poor Ewoks live?
,i>It's still there because we can't get it out without destroying the building.
This sounds like a job for the M1 Incendiary safe destroyer!
Microsoft doesn't have the time to spend going through every possible software scenario and interaction, or every possible hardware configuration.
Or rather, MS doesn't want to spend the time to properly design the system to limit possible interactions between the various subsystems and then test those because they'd make less money. That said, I haven't had Win2k crash on except for the (very) occasional driver BSOD and bad hardware. Explorer likes to crash and I have no idea why, but the OS stays up.
Even if you are running a super-stripped down linux kernel in console mode on an Itanium, you can still get out of memory errors if someone behaves rudely with malloc().
It's not crashing if you handle the error gracefully. Sure, the app crashes, but the system remains stable. Now, if you run an embedded system of some sort, you'll be writing that app, and being rude with malloc() is a no-no.
I work for a rather large aerospace corp whose name name starts with a B, and we still do not have a real linux road map.
Might it have something to do with that large software comapny whose name starts with an M that lives just down the road?
Do you really think that if pennies disappeared, all the stuff you buy would keep its non-divisible-by-five price and the rounding to the nearest nickel would happen at the cash register?
Yes. Just because you don't have pennies doesn't mean everything is valued in $.05 increments.
The only reason this worked in france is that they have a nasty VAT tax system where the end price includes all taxes.
Irrelevant. I can price my stuff with VAT included here as well.
And what if you're paying by check or credit/debit card? Do they still round the price up/down?
No, this is only for cash.
What the HELL!? This is a thread about IP rights, not g*n c*ntr*l! Argue about whether banning guns is even remotely a sane idea some other place!
just destroy the damn box before you get the supeona. As long as you haven't been served its not illegal.
Yes it is, so long as it is reasonable to assume you will be served. This is part of what Arthur Andersen got in trouble for.
Geez, Sparky, lay off the sendmail.cf - that's for masochists. Everyone else uses m4. 6 lines of simple macros with human-readable names is easier to maintain, too.
One buys quite a few individual items every day
Speak for yourself. I buy those items in groups of around 10 or 20, so adding $.02 to a $20 bill doesn't add up al lthat fast.
"Tragic accidents" like this can be avoided by liberal use of the death penalty. Estabilsh draconian capital felony sentencing guidelines (i.e., if you commit a capital felony, you've got five years from sentencing to prove innocence or your dead). If individuals of this sort are executed, then it is logical to assume that that individual shan't commit another capital offense.
Yeah, because this has worked so well in Israel/Palestine.
Because retailers would round _upwards_.
Yeah, that $.02 would really kill me.
It is wrong to kill
Obviously not. If someone is trying to kill me, I am well within my rights to kill him first. It is only murder that is wrong.
I guess some companies aren't savvy enough to realize that employees -- particularly IT employees -- don't necessarily need to be at their desks to do your job.
It's not that. Rather, companies think that if they don't have you around to look at, they may as well have someone else in another timezone who charges $5/hr.
Actually, yes. (i was really really bored, and it was a crappy drive anyway, and well, i was curious). Then again, it was a pretty good bulk eraser meant for 1/4 inch tape. I also said a 5# (pound) magnet. That would be a speaker magnet about 2inches thick, and about 8 inches or more in diameter. We sell car audio, I see those alot. I haven't trashed a drive with the magnet, but have used it to trash tapes. The bulk eraser does a better, more thorough job.
You trashed the drive heads, so the disk is now inoperable. It's a fair bet that quite a bit of data remains on the platters, and that can be recovered, usually for $1000 or less.
I can build a solar collector that generates more energy than it requires, but it won't be a fancy photoelectric film. No, it'll be a polished mirror folded around a water pipe, with a steam turbine at one end.
Ok then, what shall we do in 10 years when OpenOffice is the de-facto standard and it comes pre-installed on every machine and has 99% of the market. In that case OpenOffice's price will almost certainly "stifle competition." What shall we do then?
Download the source, make whatever modifications I like, and install it wherever I like, just like today. It's GPL, baby!