If she were in the U.S.A., she'd probably be a fat ass going to the unemployment office, paying H&R Block for advance loans on her Earned Income Credit welfare check, and using food stamps to buy Capn Crunch and Doritos for her fat ass kid.
So, is it okay to pirate HP:ATSS or HP:ATPS if you're a starving single mother?
No, the "starving" single mother puts down the bag of potato chips and the remote control, takes her damn kid to the library, and reads books to him or her.
Have you ever paid $120 for the newest edition of a college textbook that sucked?
You mean, right after I wrote that $15,000 tuition check? Yeah, college books are the rip-off, man.
Even state schools have been seeing double-digit tuition increases, recently (see South Carolina, for example). I expect, that once again, college educations will be for the elite only.
You know, considering how the economy royally sucks, right now, I would have been at least as well off after going to a two-year school, considering that I would have had no debt coming out of it. Okay, I'll say it: 4-year colleges are overrated.
Look at the facts, if someone can be bothered to scan an entire book and then distribute it with no hope of recognition or reward they must be doing it for the satisfaction of themselves and others enjoying their efforts.
Or, they are all just a bunch of cheap-ass losers...or the book sucked, anyway.
It seems true book fans would rather buy the paperback after four months, than rip off their favorite author with a download. If it turns out that more people prefer to read the downloads and pay nothing, then the author should look in a mirror and realize his or her work wasn't worth it (the "fans" see no need to compensate the author for this work).
1) Why would a "fan" want to consume ripped-off copies of his or her faviorite author's works? (What fraction of Linux or (Free|Open|Net)BSD users have paid for at least one box set?)
2) Isn't the Harry Potter author already a multi-upon-multi millionaire? Has she been knighted or sainted, yet? Personally, because I am not a money addict, if I were a successful author I would release old instances of my work into the public domain. Why? Well, why not?
Even if the Harry Potter books are good (I haven't read any), it seems they are just another commercial monetary black hole, there the singularity of accumulated money is in the author's, publishers', and promoters' pocket books. Sort of like Disney, it seems.
Issac Asimov did some exploration into this general theme in his book Nightfall. While Earth experiences night and day, the planet in this book had three suns, such that at least one was in the sky at all times. However, every 2000 years the suns line up, so one genuine night occurs. The gist of the story is that everyone goes mad, destroys the obvervatory (the messenger of this "nightfall"), lights everything on fire to quench the night, and, essentially, civilization collapses. Oh, and like many of us city folk, the people on this planet see stars for the first time (stars were mentioned only in prophecy to these people).
Imagine what would happen if all the lights in a big city went out. I believe hearing something about this regarding New York City some time back--I also believe hearing of a "baby boom" afterwards...
...most of whom aren't in reality techies, so why would they do techie things at home?
Perhaps the psychology of fetishes and fantasies might apply. A seemingly techno-ignorant administrative assistant by day...steamy-hot Solaris administrator by night...er, maybe not.
So what did you do when you were found with 40g of cocaine and a 12 year old prostitue in your car?
No, Slashdot won't be any help. Go after the expert, Homer Simpson, for a flawless defense:
Just say, "I thought the cop was a prostitute," and you are free to go! Judges are very understanding about these things, at least Judge Judy seems okay.
Geez, I just realized my whole education was provided by FOX:(
Do companies do training, anymore? Or, do they expect everyone to learn everything of relevance on their own time with their own resources or at the expense of a prior employer? Or, are there such a surplus of qualified canidates milling about that even thinking about making a horizontal career change is laughable?
For example, while the author of the article above wanting to learn mainframes is cute, would any company give a damn if he already has several years experience but didn't already learn the ins and outs of mainframes hands-on in a former employer's "enterprise" environment?
It just seems that ground-floor opportunities are a myth. Ugh.
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
Now, I force you to mod down your own sig! Ha, but you must destroy your parent post to do it! Will this paradox bring Slashdot, and perhaps the world as we know it, to a firey end? Will we even know it happened, or will it just vanish in a puff of nothingness...
I also notice that people who drink a couple of glasses of beer each day live longer. I know people who are 80, 90, 100 years old and still drinking, so it must be healthy if people can drink for 100 years with no side effects.
I read an article that mentioned that alchoholics who die of cirrhosis often have very clean arteries. This type of thing is why researchers are wondering if moderate alchohol consumption is actually good for us (enough to help the heart and arteries, but not too much to damage the liver).
Insurance is almost always a waste of money on small purchases, such as home electronics, light jewelry, used cars, lawnmowers, etc. The reason manufacturers offer this sort of insurance is that they make loads of money off of premiums, given that almost no one submits claims.
Think about it, the company sells you a piece of paper that says "Extended Warranty". Their cost: a piece of paper, an accountant, and a telephone receptionist. Your cost: a significant portion of the original purchase price. If you never buy small-time insurance, the saved premiums will more than pay for the occasional breakage.
And, yes, a personal computer is a small purchase. If you don't think so, you need to get a cheaper computer, and, then, spend your money on more important things, like your children.
just because the gov't does a lousy job funding the bia does not mean it is not capable and willing of building surveillence state!
Not only that, but imagine how wonderful a surveillence state run by our current government would be! There will be bookkeeping errors, data-entry errors, politicially-motivated errors, and data forged by organized crime. I can't wait for the TIA database to be admittable in court! I really hope Fox or TNN picks up the live coverage! It'll be a blast!
The error report is more than just a ping, it actually contains information on what crashed and sometimes even sends a memory dump.
Any company that cared a lick about security and protecting their proprietary data should block any and all of this "bug report" data from leaving their network.
However, how many crashes on Windows-based machines can be blamed on poorly configured systems? I know that most people I know have about fifteen programs load in their system tray when they boot into Windows.
I beat the crap out of Solaris daily, using up 90%+ of virtual memory occasionally and launching several large programs simultaneously, and it doesn't crash. The only time I have seen Solaris crash (twice in years) was due to having a wrong device driver installed (our fault and easily fixed, BTW).
I dunno how much of this, if any, is Microsoft's fault.
Anytime an application crashes Windows is Microsoft's fault. Anytime Windows crashes on its own is Microsoft's fault, too.
Microsoft should be liable for their negligence over the last decade or more. They should also be tried for psychological damage, as the "break-reboot" cycle is a part of our culture, now.
Another reason for the Government choosing Windows is that they probally already have a majority of their services on windows, and to ask a Four Star General to approve a massive budget to switch away from what works to what might not work will take quite a bit of effort.
Ask that General if he would want to take a ride on an airplane controlled by Windows CE.
What bugs me is that their attitude towards software is so different than their attitude towards hardware. Would they allow an M1 tank be built to standards set by Microsoft's QA department? If so, a small group of Iraqi schoolgirls would have defeated the whole American army with spitwads.
You're missing the point - the systems analyst works for the customer, not as a vendor making a sales pitch. It's the systems analyst who would make the call you talk about, whereby a quick & dirty could do the job just as well.
Even internally, there are very strong motivations for people to drive up the budget of a project. It makes them look good, and, more importantly, it makes them feel important. You'd be suprised how many people are proud-to-tears after spending tens of thousands of dollars of other people's money. If they had spent only $15,000 on a couple rack mount servers, what bragging rights would they have? I'm not convinced that bragging about saving money carries as much weight, unless it is saving money by spending money (the bait and switch!).
You shouldn't ever have to look at or edit the generated scripts. You edit the files that generated the scripts and regenerate them with autoreconf.
Will this stop libtool from wrongly including multiple instances of the same library or looking for.libs subdirectories where there are none???
When libtool breaks, it is freaking impossible to debug it without some sort of super-human power. The new member of the X-Men: a little girl who has an uncanny ability to actually get the GNU build tools working consistently on Solaris.
They told me where I could get the install for the other product they produce: the MKS Toolkit.
I used the MKS Toolkit briefly about two years ago and thought it was pretty good. Perhaps the best part was that its man pages were good enough for me to create makefiles that worked on both Solaris and MKS (basically, I learned how to make near-POSIX-compliant makefiles). Perhaps the other advantage to MKS is that it claims to aim for POSIX compliance, while I assume cygwin would aim for GNU compliance by default, which could be annoying for cross-platform tools.
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...but starving? Very very doubtful.
If she were in the U.S.A., she'd probably be a fat ass going to the unemployment office, paying H&R Block for advance loans on her Earned Income Credit welfare check, and using food stamps to buy Capn Crunch and Doritos for her fat ass kid.
So, is it okay to pirate HP:ATSS or HP:ATPS if you're a starving single mother?
No, the "starving" single mother puts down the bag of potato chips and the remote control, takes her damn kid to the library, and reads books to him or her.
Have you ever paid $120 for the newest edition of a college textbook that sucked?
You mean, right after I wrote that $15,000 tuition check? Yeah, college books are the rip-off, man.
Even state schools have been seeing double-digit tuition increases, recently (see South Carolina, for example). I expect, that once again, college educations will be for the elite only.
You know, considering how the economy royally sucks, right now, I would have been at least as well off after going to a two-year school, considering that I would have had no debt coming out of it. Okay, I'll say it: 4-year colleges are overrated.
...based on the memory of two or three of the principal actors, with much filling from other popular works.
There's that analog hole, again... Okay, here's the only sure-fire way to stop piracy: KILL EVERYONE. See, it's so simple.
Look at the facts, if someone can be bothered to scan an entire book and then distribute it with no hope of recognition or reward they must be doing it for the satisfaction of themselves and others enjoying their efforts.
Or, they are all just a bunch of cheap-ass losers...or the book sucked, anyway.
It seems true book fans would rather buy the paperback after four months, than rip off their favorite author with a download. If it turns out that more people prefer to read the downloads and pay nothing, then the author should look in a mirror and realize his or her work wasn't worth it (the "fans" see no need to compensate the author for this work).
1) Why would a "fan" want to consume ripped-off copies of his or her faviorite author's works? (What fraction of Linux or (Free|Open|Net)BSD users have paid for at least one box set?)
2) Isn't the Harry Potter author already a multi-upon-multi millionaire? Has she been knighted or sainted, yet? Personally, because I am not a money addict, if I were a successful author I would release old instances of my work into the public domain. Why? Well, why not?
Even if the Harry Potter books are good (I haven't read any), it seems they are just another commercial monetary black hole, there the singularity of accumulated money is in the author's, publishers', and promoters' pocket books. Sort of like Disney, it seems.
Issac Asimov did some exploration into this general theme in his book Nightfall. While Earth experiences night and day, the planet in this book had three suns, such that at least one was in the sky at all times. However, every 2000 years the suns line up, so one genuine night occurs. The gist of the story is that everyone goes mad, destroys the obvervatory (the messenger of this "nightfall"), lights everything on fire to quench the night, and, essentially, civilization collapses. Oh, and like many of us city folk, the people on this planet see stars for the first time (stars were mentioned only in prophecy to these people).
Imagine what would happen if all the lights in a big city went out. I believe hearing something about this regarding New York City some time back--I also believe hearing of a "baby boom" afterwards...
What is this "night" that you speak of?
...most of whom aren't in reality techies, so why would they do techie things at home?
Perhaps the psychology of fetishes and fantasies might apply. A seemingly techno-ignorant administrative assistant by day...steamy-hot Solaris administrator by night...er, maybe not.
...congressional lobbyists and unregulated soft money.
...they leverage their monopoly to prevent PC manufacturers from shipping competing products, etc.
...without generating enough of an incentive for adoption of alternative energy.
Well, ultimately, this is the fault of apathetic (and pathetic, for that matter) voters.
There are emerging manufacturers (those sold by Wal-Mart, for example) who don't have baggage with Microsoft. History need not repeat itself.
I'm sure the MAFIA would agree with you.
A free market still needs the police. Part of maintaining civil order is preventing murder and coersion.
One would hope they couldn't keep this up forever. Odds are at least a few American businessmen would pay attention to history and capitalize on that.
So what did you do when you were found with 40g of cocaine and a 12 year old prostitue in your car?
:(
No, Slashdot won't be any help. Go after the expert, Homer Simpson, for a flawless defense:
Just say, "I thought the cop was a prostitute," and you are free to go! Judges are very understanding about these things, at least Judge Judy seems okay.
Geez, I just realized my whole education was provided by FOX
Do companies do training, anymore? Or, do they expect everyone to learn everything of relevance on their own time with their own resources or at the expense of a prior employer? Or, are there such a surplus of qualified canidates milling about that even thinking about making a horizontal career change is laughable?
For example, while the author of the article above wanting to learn mainframes is cute, would any company give a damn if he already has several years experience but didn't already learn the ins and outs of mainframes hands-on in a former employer's "enterprise" environment?
It just seems that ground-floor opportunities are a myth. Ugh.
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
Now, I force you to mod down your own sig! Ha, but you must destroy your parent post to do it! Will this paradox bring Slashdot, and perhaps the world as we know it, to a firey end? Will we even know it happened, or will it just vanish in a puff of nothingness...
I also notice that people who drink a couple of glasses of beer each day live longer. I know people who are 80, 90, 100 years old and still drinking, so it must be healthy if people can drink for 100 years with no side effects.
I read an article that mentioned that alchoholics who die of cirrhosis often have very clean arteries. This type of thing is why researchers are wondering if moderate alchohol consumption is actually good for us (enough to help the heart and arteries, but not too much to damage the liver).
Insurance is almost always a waste of money on small purchases, such as home electronics, light jewelry, used cars, lawnmowers, etc. The reason manufacturers offer this sort of insurance is that they make loads of money off of premiums, given that almost no one submits claims.
Think about it, the company sells you a piece of paper that says "Extended Warranty". Their cost: a piece of paper, an accountant, and a telephone receptionist. Your cost: a significant portion of the original purchase price. If you never buy small-time insurance, the saved premiums will more than pay for the occasional breakage.
And, yes, a personal computer is a small purchase. If you don't think so, you need to get a cheaper computer, and, then, spend your money on more important things, like your children.
This is actually a dick swinging contest
Who wins? The person with the highest frequency or the highest wavelength?
just because the gov't does a lousy job funding the bia does not mean it is not capable and willing of building surveillence state!
Not only that, but imagine how wonderful a surveillence state run by our current government would be! There will be bookkeeping errors, data-entry errors, politicially-motivated errors, and data forged by organized crime. I can't wait for the TIA database to be admittable in court! I really hope Fox or TNN picks up the live coverage! It'll be a blast!
The error report is more than just a ping, it actually contains information on what crashed and sometimes even sends a memory dump.
Any company that cared a lick about security and protecting their proprietary data should block any and all of this "bug report" data from leaving their network.
However, how many crashes on Windows-based machines can be blamed on poorly configured systems? I know that most people I know have about fifteen programs load in their system tray when they boot into Windows.
I beat the crap out of Solaris daily, using up 90%+ of virtual memory occasionally and launching several large programs simultaneously, and it doesn't crash. The only time I have seen Solaris crash (twice in years) was due to having a wrong device driver installed (our fault and easily fixed, BTW).
I dunno how much of this, if any, is Microsoft's fault.
Anytime an application crashes Windows is Microsoft's fault. Anytime Windows crashes on its own is Microsoft's fault, too.
Microsoft should be liable for their negligence over the last decade or more. They should also be tried for psychological damage, as the "break-reboot" cycle is a part of our culture, now.
Because the whales on American beaches don't count!
Another reason for the Government choosing Windows is that they probally already have a majority of their services on windows, and to ask a Four Star General to approve a massive budget to switch away from what works to what might not work will take quite a bit of effort.
Ask that General if he would want to take a ride on an airplane controlled by Windows CE.
What bugs me is that their attitude towards software is so different than their attitude towards hardware. Would they allow an M1 tank be built to standards set by Microsoft's QA department? If so, a small group of Iraqi schoolgirls would have defeated the whole American army with spitwads.
You're missing the point - the systems analyst works for the customer, not as a vendor making a sales pitch. It's the systems analyst who would make the call you talk about, whereby a quick & dirty could do the job just as well.
Even internally, there are very strong motivations for people to drive up the budget of a project. It makes them look good, and, more importantly, it makes them feel important. You'd be suprised how many people are proud-to-tears after spending tens of thousands of dollars of other people's money. If they had spent only $15,000 on a couple rack mount servers, what bragging rights would they have? I'm not convinced that bragging about saving money carries as much weight, unless it is saving money by spending money (the bait and switch!).
You shouldn't ever have to look at or edit the generated scripts. You edit the files that generated the scripts and regenerate them with autoreconf.
.libs subdirectories where there are none???
Will this stop libtool from wrongly including multiple instances of the same library or looking for
When libtool breaks, it is freaking impossible to debug it without some sort of super-human power. The new member of the X-Men: a little girl who has an uncanny ability to actually get the GNU build tools working consistently on Solaris.
Use NFS for the systems that count and Samba for the systems that don't. I don't know about Mac OS 9, but, of course, there's always FTP.
They told me where I could get the install for the other product they produce: the MKS Toolkit.
I used the MKS Toolkit briefly about two years ago and thought it was pretty good. Perhaps the best part was that its man pages were good enough for me to create makefiles that worked on both Solaris and MKS (basically, I learned how to make near-POSIX-compliant makefiles). Perhaps the other advantage to MKS is that it claims to aim for POSIX compliance, while I assume cygwin would aim for GNU compliance by default, which could be annoying for cross-platform tools.