The truth of the matter is a person or group of people only have the rights that society as a whole give them. No one has given you any of those "rights" you mention.
You do not have a right to something just because you believe you have a right to it. Hitler thought he had a right to take over the world and kill off all the Jews. Communists thought that their political phillosophy gave them the right to subjugate other nations through force. The Klan believed it had a the right to kill black people. Neo-nazis think they have the right to oppress anyone who is not white. My neighbor thinks he has a right to play his stereo so loud I can't hear my TV. All these groups have one thing in common. They are or were wrong.
Actually, more to the point, they turned out to be wrong. If any of those groups could successfully defend their claims, then they would indeed have those rights. You can argue as you wish as to which rights are inalienable, and which are granted by a consensus of society, but in point of fact, the only rights you have are those you can secure and defend for yourself. Now, as it happens, there are and have been people who have taken it upon themselves to secure certain rights for more than themselves, and to put in place methods to defend those rights. These people are few and far between.
Are you active in your local ACM? If not, join in. There's probably a local Linux Users Group nearby you, find out their meeting times and begin attending. Ask your professors. Ask your guidance counselor. What are your nearby corporations? Are any of them large enough that they would probably have summer internships? Pick up the phone and find out.
Your PR people should not be whackjobs. I mean, come on, this is the standard MO of a 17 year old spammer. At least make him have to run all of his communiques through Legal.
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I think you've missed the point. WoW is based on the Warcraft franchise which is wholly envisioned and developed by Blizzard. It's not a third-party interpretation, and Blizzard can do no wrong, in the minds of the fans. Mostly. Obviously, if Lucas can sh*t on _Star_Wars_, Blizzard could potentially screw over Warcraft, but the benefit of the doubt is given to Blizzard until they do something so utterly insane as to immediately cut any ties of loyalty their fans feel. But the fact remains that Blizzard hasn't, and any introduction of new material by Blizzard is simply an addition, and accepted as correct.
Making a game in order to attract the fans of a particular offering, such as Jordan's _Wheel_of_Time_, say, has to follow the conventions as laid out in the source material or else the risk of alienating those same potential users becomes almost 100%. On the other hand, if you're looking to attract the fanbase of, say, _Star_Trek_, you have a lot more freedom. You either need a large enough space to work in, or a large enough timeline.
I've had good luck using both pokerroom.com and pokerchamps.com. pokerroom.com, of course, is a web applet, and pokerchamps.com's software, although it has problems with the autoupdater routine, works fine under Wine. Stars is still the best place to go to improve your game, though.
Of course, it could be an expert opinion, which, while still subjective, is about the best you can get in a comparison study. IANAP, nor do I have any idea whether the previous poster is either; I neither know nor care what IDEs are available on different platforms, or what their relative merits may be, but if it was an expert opinion, then subjective or not, it does have weight.
I don't know if the long term point is very true. Any large media organization is going to have its faults, but in the case of print journalism, it's not overpriced, it's not maliciously inclined towards its alternative competitors, and it's for the most part factual with very little personal bias applied. There've been a few rather obvious misses to that, but they want to improve. TV journalism has to play the ratings game, the same as any other TV show, but then again, it's fairly priced, and not malicious in intent, except again for a couple of rather obvious cases. Compare that to record and film, and I think that traditional journalism will remain in good standing for a very long time. And, of course, it may be that one day not too far from now, blogging will be considered traditional journalism just the same.
Since Unix is many things to many people, what is wrong for one may not be for another. One of the historical major problems of Unix, splintering, has largely been overcome. Today, Linux, *BSD, and Solaris are the big players, most other versions are end-of-life, unpopular (for/whatever/ reason), or redundant (the bad way, not the good). Code built for one flavor (if F/OSS) is mostly ported to every other flavor, only the commercial software is hit-or-miss whether you'll be able to compile/install natively on another flavor, but it would take being a top decisionmaker somewhere to change that. The technical capabilities of Unix are top-notch, and only getting better. The UI slowly but surely is improving from a low-level user point of view. Securing a Unix machine takes a high level of knowledge, but that holds true across any platform. Either you care enough about security to follow best practices and keep up to date on your patches, or you're a bad person. It's cut-and-dried. Standards are being proposed, discussed, and documented for everything, no complaints there. We could probably do with less feuding, but as long as there's different people, there's different viewpoints.
Are you ashamed of your sword? Does it embarass you when an opponent laughs at the size of it? There is a solution! In no time at all, you can be wielding a massive zweihander, slaying tons of opponents. You'll be the toast of the party.
Because sometimes you need a bigger hunk of....steel.
As much as I would like to rub the RIAA face in the dirt with this one, the issue is really much much bigger than just the RIAA. Wal-Mart is a ruthless competitor that rivals, if not surpasses, that ruthless competitor in Redmond. They have such retailing clout that when they make you an offer, you have no choice but to take or suffer the perilous consequences.
The difference between Microsoft and Walmart being, of course, that Walmart--while trying to turn as much profit as possible--does it by selling as cheaply as possible, with liberal return policies, and (for the most part) friendly people.
Vlasic pickles is one fine example of their ruthlessness. Wal-Mart basically forced Vlasic to make the big size containers with more pickles in them than most humans should eat within a reasonable amount of time. Wal-Mart basically forced a price structure on them too with this giant jar of pickles. As a result, you the consumer have a choice. Pay for the giant jar and end up throwing away the vast majority of the pickles, or buy the more expensive jar in the grocery store. Joe Consumer buys the giant jar with the rockbottom price. As a result, Wal-Mart has now forced Vlasic to cannibalize themselves and they end up having to file bankruptcy.
AT&T runs on Unix. Everybody needing to perform technical tasks either has multiple machines to run Windows and Unix, or one machine along the order of a SunBlade with a SunPCI card in it. These 70,000 desktops are for everybody else. Whether it's a bargaining strategy or not, Windows is not the main OS deployed by AT&T, and it never will be. Internal email is Exchange, and one of the ticketing systems is Windows-specific. Those are the two big things, and if Linux or MacOS X has acceptable clients, they've got a shot at the prize. And let's face it, AT&T does not exactly need to play games to get bargaining position, so I'm pretty sure it's legitimate.
There's an advertisement against the use of hydrogen. You may recall it. The Hindenburg? Granted, safety precautions these days would probably prevent something like that from occurring again, but there's still too many people who shy away from the thought of it. Give it another generation of publicly educated youth, though.
On the other hand, it's equivalent to the difference between first class and bulk mail postage. You pay for speed. If you absolutely need something up there five minutes ago, there's a cost. If you can wait nine days, everything's fine. But nobody wants to wait for things today. So costs will still be what the market will bear, with the mitigating factor that a privatized space-payload delivery and competing organizations will drive the costs down to sane levels.
I have been enormously pleased with how well the No-Call list has worked. But I'm not so sure how well a No-Email list will work, for the simple fact that, although telemarketing firms are generally businesses with valid addresses and contactable management, spammers are slimy invertebrates who've learned to work a mass-mailer on their basement computer. I'm willing to give it a go, though. I wouldn't even mind if the state takes a cut of any settlement I reach. I'd let 'em have a grand out of the $5k, give my lawyer another $3k, and keep a measly thou for myself.
What I would like to see, is an RFID in a tire, along with a small amount of explosive and an RF detonator. That way, when someone acts like a nitwit in traffic, you can blow their tires. If you like, you can even warn them before you do it.
And the name of the domain, and I'll tell you who has the better claim to it. How's that?
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The whole idea of requiring phone company A to allow phone company B to sell "service" over phone company A's lines is ludicrous. Just let them both run their own lines.
Okay, the thing is, the phone network which is in place now has taken about 100 years to build. Along with the time involved, it has taken an amount of money that, if converted and expressed solely in 2002 dollars, would be a sum so large that it is incomprehensible. Oh, you might think you can comprehend it, and you may be able to express it mathematically, but in real terms it's a useless value. No one can afford it.
This is simply a matter of a company asking for a bail-out. The fact that it's a linux distro is simply tugging on your heartstrings, in the hopes that the plea will tug on your purse-strings.
What this all boils down to is you have to decide how many chances you feel Mandrake should get. How many times will you give money to an entity that, although they make a nice product, seems incapable of balancing gains and expenditures. This is merely a business decision, one which occurs daily. The strong survive, the weak die out.
I guess it's possible that EA could one day be the biggest media company in the world. Until they open their first theme park, though, I'm going to leave them off the list of contenders.
It's funny how the "well above standard speed" of the drives was used as the excuse for coming up with the number. Maybe Chevrolet could make the claim that a Corvette is the equivalent of three standard cars because it has a much faster top speed.
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Actually, more to the point, they turned out to be wrong. If any of those groups could successfully defend their claims, then they would indeed have those rights. You can argue as you wish as to which rights are inalienable, and which are granted by a consensus of society, but in point of fact, the only rights you have are those you can secure and defend for yourself. Now, as it happens, there are and have been people who have taken it upon themselves to secure certain rights for more than themselves, and to put in place methods to defend those rights. These people are few and far between.
Are you active in your local ACM? If not, join in. There's probably a local Linux Users Group nearby you, find out their meeting times and begin attending. Ask your professors. Ask your guidance counselor. What are your nearby corporations? Are any of them large enough that they would probably have summer internships? Pick up the phone and find out.
Experience negative health benefits from children.
I know mine drive me crazy.
Your PR people should not be whackjobs. I mean, come on, this is the standard MO of a 17 year old spammer. At least make him have to run all of his communiques through Legal.
I think you've missed the point. WoW is based on the Warcraft franchise which is wholly envisioned and developed by Blizzard. It's not a third-party interpretation, and Blizzard can do no wrong, in the minds of the fans. Mostly. Obviously, if Lucas can sh*t on _Star_Wars_, Blizzard could potentially screw over Warcraft, but the benefit of the doubt is given to Blizzard until they do something so utterly insane as to immediately cut any ties of loyalty their fans feel. But the fact remains that Blizzard hasn't, and any introduction of new material by Blizzard is simply an addition, and accepted as correct.
Making a game in order to attract the fans of a particular offering, such as Jordan's _Wheel_of_Time_, say, has to follow the conventions as laid out in the source material or else the risk of alienating those same potential users becomes almost 100%. On the other hand, if you're looking to attract the fanbase of, say, _Star_Trek_, you have a lot more freedom. You either need a large enough space to work in, or a large enough timeline.
I've had good luck using both pokerroom.com and pokerchamps.com. pokerroom.com, of course, is a web applet, and pokerchamps.com's software, although it has problems with the autoupdater routine, works fine under Wine. Stars is still the best place to go to improve your game, though.
Of course, it could be an expert opinion, which, while still subjective, is about the best you can get in a comparison study. IANAP, nor do I have any idea whether the previous poster is either; I neither know nor care what IDEs are available on different platforms, or what their relative merits may be, but if it was an expert opinion, then subjective or not, it does have weight.
And it's just like the old debate about if a tree falls in a forest...I have these modpoints, but it's April 1st...
Yes, and we could call it something like BattleBots or Robot Wars.
I don't know if the long term point is very true. Any large media organization is going to have its faults, but in the case of print journalism, it's not overpriced, it's not maliciously inclined towards its alternative competitors, and it's for the most part factual with very little personal bias applied. There've been a few rather obvious misses to that, but they want to improve. TV journalism has to play the ratings game, the same as any other TV show, but then again, it's fairly priced, and not malicious in intent, except again for a couple of rather obvious cases. Compare that to record and film, and I think that traditional journalism will remain in good standing for a very long time. And, of course, it may be that one day not too far from now, blogging will be considered traditional journalism just the same.
Since Unix is many things to many people, what is wrong for one may not be for another. One of the historical major problems of Unix, splintering, has largely been overcome. Today, Linux, *BSD, and Solaris are the big players, most other versions are end-of-life, unpopular (for /whatever/ reason), or redundant (the bad way, not the good). Code built for one flavor (if F/OSS) is mostly ported to every other flavor, only the commercial software is hit-or-miss whether you'll be able to compile/install natively on another flavor, but it would take being a top decisionmaker somewhere to change that. The technical capabilities of Unix are top-notch, and only getting better. The UI slowly but surely is improving from a low-level user point of view. Securing a Unix machine takes a high level of knowledge, but that holds true across any platform. Either you care enough about security to follow best practices and keep up to date on your patches, or you're a bad person. It's cut-and-dried. Standards are being proposed, discussed, and documented for everything, no complaints there. We could probably do with less feuding, but as long as there's different people, there's different viewpoints.
Are you ashamed of your sword? Does it embarass you when an opponent laughs at the size of it? There is a solution! In no time at all, you can be wielding a massive zweihander, slaying tons of opponents. You'll be the toast of the party.
Because sometimes you need a bigger hunk of....steel.
The difference between Microsoft and Walmart being, of course, that Walmart--while trying to turn as much profit as possible--does it by selling as cheaply as possible, with liberal return policies, and (for the most part) friendly people.
Vlasic pickles is one fine example of their ruthlessness. Wal-Mart basically forced Vlasic to make the big size containers with more pickles in them than most humans should eat within a reasonable amount of time. Wal-Mart basically forced a price structure on them too with this giant jar of pickles. As a result, you the consumer have a choice. Pay for the giant jar and end up throwing away the vast majority of the pickles, or buy the more expensive jar in the grocery store. Joe Consumer buys the giant jar with the rockbottom price. As a result, Wal-Mart has now forced Vlasic to cannibalize themselves and they end up having to file bankruptcy.
Wait.........Pickles go bad?
AT&T runs on Unix. Everybody needing to perform technical tasks either has multiple machines to run Windows and Unix, or one machine along the order of a SunBlade with a SunPCI card in it. These 70,000 desktops are for everybody else. Whether it's a bargaining strategy or not, Windows is not the main OS deployed by AT&T, and it never will be. Internal email is Exchange, and one of the ticketing systems is Windows-specific. Those are the two big things, and if Linux or MacOS X has acceptable clients, they've got a shot at the prize. And let's face it, AT&T does not exactly need to play games to get bargaining position, so I'm pretty sure it's legitimate.
There's an advertisement against the use of hydrogen. You may recall it. The Hindenburg? Granted, safety precautions these days would probably prevent something like that from occurring again, but there's still too many people who shy away from the thought of it. Give it another generation of publicly educated youth, though.
On the other hand, it's equivalent to the difference between first class and bulk mail postage. You pay for speed. If you absolutely need something up there five minutes ago, there's a cost. If you can wait nine days, everything's fine. But nobody wants to wait for things today. So costs will still be what the market will bear, with the mitigating factor that a privatized space-payload delivery and competing organizations will drive the costs down to sane levels.
I know this will come as a shock, but it's different when you're doing it with someone else.
I have been enormously pleased with how well the No-Call list has worked. But I'm not so sure how well a No-Email list will work, for the simple fact that, although telemarketing firms are generally businesses with valid addresses and contactable management, spammers are slimy invertebrates who've learned to work a mass-mailer on their basement computer. I'm willing to give it a go, though. I wouldn't even mind if the state takes a cut of any settlement I reach. I'd let 'em have a grand out of the $5k, give my lawyer another $3k, and keep a measly thou for myself.
What I would like to see, is an RFID in a tire, along with a small amount of explosive and an RF detonator. That way, when someone acts like a nitwit in traffic, you can blow their tires. If you like, you can even warn them before you do it.
And the name of the domain, and I'll tell you who has the better claim to it. How's that?
n theevento ffavorablerulingthatanythingatallwillhappentoprocu reforyouthedomainnameinquestionbutthanksforyourcas hsucker
The Fine Print:(Please squint really hard for effect)
Paymentforservicesinnowayguaranteeseveni
Okay, the thing is, the phone network which is in place now has taken about 100 years to build. Along with the time involved, it has taken an amount of money that, if converted and expressed solely in 2002 dollars, would be a sum so large that it is incomprehensible. Oh, you might think you can comprehend it, and you may be able to express it mathematically, but in real terms it's a useless value. No one can afford it.
This is simply a matter of a company asking for a bail-out. The fact that it's a linux distro is simply tugging on your heartstrings, in the hopes that the plea will tug on your purse-strings.
What this all boils down to is you have to decide how many chances you feel Mandrake should get. How many times will you give money to an entity that, although they make a nice product, seems incapable of balancing gains and expenditures. This is merely a business decision, one which occurs daily. The strong survive, the weak die out.
I guess it's possible that EA could one day be the biggest media company in the world. Until they open their first theme park, though, I'm going to leave them off the list of contenders.
It's funny how the "well above standard speed" of the drives was used as the excuse for coming up with the number. Maybe Chevrolet could make the claim that a Corvette is the equivalent of three standard cars because it has a much faster top speed.