This is just restricting one avenue. One that the individual in question has been proven to not be able to use responsibly. It is NOT removing his rights to say what he wants. There is life outside the internet.
Speech is already restricted in many ways. Yelling "Fire!" for instance.
Quite often, its the same in the States. "You may drive to and from work, or in the capacity of your duties". And to my mind, that is completely wrong.
Get caught drunk driving, and it should be "no driving". Period. No excuses, no 'to and from work'. Figure out a different way to get there. If you can't, well...you shouldn't have driven drunk.
If you have a spouse or kids, forget it. The wife, if she is suffiently geekified, might remember to out-scan every time. But the kids? Not a chance. And their friends, even less.
If my government is installing software on my machine, that effectively occupies a portion of my hard drive and prevents me from storing data there. Thus, property is taken, should I get paid? If so when?
Let's assume that you have a 120GB hard drive, with a street price of $100. Further, let's assume the 'spyware', takes up 500K. "How would you like your 4/100 of a penny, Sir, in cash or check?"
I don't know if i'd use the term 'very restrictive limits'.
Yes,.rtf is the default/only automatic output from Access into a formatted, Word-readable, document. But, as.rtf is a pretty universal format, why not use it (if you are stuck with Office formats)? Word open them seamlessly. Instead of outputting from Access, manipulate Word as an object within Access.
As an exercise, try to create a Word or rtf compatible document from the OOo counterpart to MSAccess. Oh wait...
Don't get me wrong. I like OOo and its open formats as well. While I have not tried to interface MSOffice with Postgres (yet), it can retrieve, and output to, pretty much any ODBC compliant db you wish.
As far as triggering some Office task with a cron job, that is an inherent tool within SQLServer, or for a free, 3rd party tool, there is HAL(HandyAccessLauncher). Runs an Access mdb, whenever you want, with whatever commandline or internal commands you choose. Not perfect, but it does work. I use this to spit out a weekly report to Payroll. I'm sure there are other ways to do the same.
I'm starting to do some testing on something similar with OOo (with a look to replacing MSOffice with OOo for a number of users), but the fact is, that sort of thing is relatively trivial in MSOffice (specifically Excel).
Read from CSV files, Oracle tables (residing on a Linux server), and SQLServer tables, combine into one or more graphs, lists, and charts, user modify if wanted, and one button click output to Powerpoint slides and/or HTML and/or PDF.
Interoperation like this has been a central part of MSOffice for quite a while. A Word MailMerge template can spit out a bunch of 'season's greetings' in no time.
Actually, no. 8kbps is marginal. I used to d/l a lot of stuff from AudiobooksForFree. I think about a year ago, they changed their 'inserted ad' model, to one of vastly reduced bitrate for the free audiobooks. The free ones are mp3's at 8kbps, and are on the edge of unusable. It may be the way they are encoded
I may break down and buy their DVD offerings, with many, many audiobooks for ~$100. They do have a large and eclectic collection.
Consider this: Lots of schools ban cell phones & pagers. So, if the kid drives to school (something I do NOT endorse), s/he would then be forced into a dilema. Parents require the phone for tracking, school bans it. At one point or other, they are going to forget to turn it on, or forget to turn it off. Plus, there is the constant reminder in the back of their mind that they have to turn on their 'tracking device' [DAD IS WATCHING].
Newsflash! Slightly overpriced PC goes on sale in China! What a deal! Barebones PC for only 50% more than you can get one in the US. With the same "OS".
Someone please tell me why this is a) news, b) a good deal?
If these guys have been giving people the game discs and mearly loading the games on as a matter of convience(game on HDD==less hassle), while still giving over the games themselves, then they are completely in the clear.
Yeah, like that happened. 15 games @ $30 ea (minimum) - $450 raw XBox - $100 modchip + labor - $100
$650 total. So not only were they stupid in a legal sense, you want me to think they were also stupid in a financial sense.
No, they were loading the games onto the drive, and including a CD copy prog for the buyer extract them back out to CD.
Joe's ChopShop and Audio Emporium could be a "legit businees model", if in fact Joe had not installed indash DVD players that 'fell of the back of a truck'.
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It's as if you went on a trip to New York City you stop in the middle of Times Square and ask someone "Do they have Taxis here?"
More like, you get to NYC, go to your hotel room, turn on the TV, and then ask..."How do I get to Times Square?". And then you do whatever the hotel TV system tells you. "Here...take our limo! Only $52.95"
The AIM client isn't that bad. No overt/covert 'spyware', except for the ad section at the top. It's not phoning somewhere else with your details.
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If Soulseek automatically d/led a Britney Spears 'song' ont my hard drive, I'd sue them for gross idiocy and abusing my senses.
Those are the restrictions. Live with it. Have an alternate plan set up.
Think of it this way...1 year in jail, and 5 years probation. Or 6 years in jail.
Which would you choose?
Speech is already restricted in many ways. Yelling "Fire!" for instance.
Get caught drunk driving, and it should be "no driving". Period. No excuses, no 'to and from work'. Figure out a different way to get there. If you can't, well...you shouldn't have driven drunk.
The inventory will quickly be useless.
Let's assume that you have a 120GB hard drive, with a street price of $100. Further, let's assume the 'spyware', takes up 500K.
"How would you like your 4/100 of a penny, Sir, in cash or check?"
Thanks. This helps with my prelim OOo research.
Yes,
As an exercise, try to create a Word or rtf compatible document from the OOo counterpart to MSAccess. Oh wait...
As far as triggering some Office task with a cron job, that is an inherent tool within SQLServer, or for a free, 3rd party tool, there is HAL(HandyAccessLauncher). Runs an Access mdb, whenever you want, with whatever commandline or internal commands you choose. Not perfect, but it does work. I use this to spit out a weekly report to Payroll. I'm sure there are other ways to do the same.
Read from CSV files, Oracle tables (residing on a Linux server), and SQLServer tables, combine into one or more graphs, lists, and charts, user modify if wanted, and one button click output to Powerpoint slides and/or HTML and/or PDF.
Interoperation like this has been a central part of MSOffice for quite a while. A Word MailMerge template can spit out a bunch of 'season's greetings' in no time.
Nice suspension, though.
Gotcha. I had not heard of Speex. Thanx.
I may break down and buy their DVD offerings, with many, many audiobooks for ~$100. They do have a large and eclectic collection.
The poor kid is screwed.
Wrongo. Parent of 4, grandparent of 3.
Guilty until proven innocent?
If you give your kid a car that can do 180, then yeah, you should be penalized. Just for stupidity, if nothing else.
Barebones PC for only 50% more than you can get one in the US. With the same "OS".
Someone please tell me why this is a) news, b) a good deal?
As part of on overall system of cross-state checks, a toughening of the actual license might help.
These type of licenses do not completely fix the problem, but they may be one part of a full solution.
Or should we just go back to a types piece of paper, since it doens't fully, all by itself, fix the problem?
This type of license identification and verification might be one way of plugging that loophole.
Yeah, like that happened.
15 games @ $30 ea (minimum) - $450
raw XBox - $100
modchip + labor - $100
$650 total.
So not only were they stupid in a legal sense, you want me to think they were also stupid in a financial sense.
No, they were loading the games onto the drive, and including a CD copy prog for the buyer extract them back out to CD.
Joe's ChopShop and Audio Emporium could be a "legit businees model", if in fact Joe had not installed indash DVD players that 'fell of the back of a truck'.
More like, you get to NYC, go to your hotel room, turn on the TV, and then ask..."How do I get to Times Square?". And then you do whatever the hotel TV system tells you. "Here...take our limo! Only $52.95"
The AIM client isn't that bad. No overt/covert 'spyware', except for the ad section at the top. It's not phoning somewhere else with your details.
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Why not both? Some money for the big risky projects (Mars), and other funds for the possible commercial portion.