Yes, I noticed. For some reason, after posting, the spaces were all removed. Arggghhh.
And my point, which I think was possibly lost in the formatting error, wasn't that we should have roads INSTEAD of Internet, it's that the poster I was replying to said that free communication was at least as important as roads, and I disagreed, saying I think free roads are more important.
My distinct apologies for poor formatting. That should have read like this:
>>I agree. The information infrastructure (and the freedom thereof) is too important to leave to publically unaccountable entities. Before you respond, think about this: You already pay for your government to build the public freely accessible roads whether you drive on them or not.
Under the perhaps erroneous belief that you are NOT being sarcastic, I'll risk being labeled a non-Geek, and worse Pratical, when I say I'd much rather be able to walk and run and drive freely everywhere and pay for Internet/phone service than the other way around. Physical needs, such as accessing food/bathing supplies, or the very least allowing the services I purchase over the Internet access to my house does come before my ability to comment on Slashdot articles free of charge in my priority scheme.
>>I agree. The information infrastructure (and the freedom thereof) is too important to leave to publically unaccountable entities. Before you respond, think about this: You already pay for your government to build the public freely accessible roads whether you drive on them or not. >Isn't a free and open connection to the Internet at least as important as your roads?
Under the perhaps erroneous belief that you are NOT being sarcastic, I'll risk being labeled a non-Geek, and worse Pratical, when I say I'd much rather be able to walk and run and drive freely everywhere and pay for Internet/phone service than the other way around. Physical needs, such as accessing food/bathing supplies, or the very least allowing the services I purchase over the Internet access to my house does come before my ability to comment on Slashdot articles free of charge in my priority scheme.
I didn't buy turbo tax for just that reason, this year, and switched to HR Block's product, which I didn't like as much.
Pretty cool. Not something you see often these days.
Let's see, you take a collector, put it between the earth and the sun, where it stops light that would hit the Earth anyway, and then convert the light to a different form, thus losing something in the conversion, and beam that light down to earth.
IANAP (I am not a physicist), so can anyone easily debunk what I think is a common-sense version of events?
There's a lot of cases out there, available at shows or on the web, that are cheap and "Mac Like". I got a non-standard look case for $28.00 at a show recently, with a nice powersupply etc.
I know someone's going to hate me, mod me down for this, but here goes:
This weekend, I bought an Asus motherboard (sorry, can't remember model), an AMD 2400+ processor, 512 megs of PC2700 RAM, a case, all necessary fans etc., and an Geforce FX 5200 based AGP card (I know, not the best but a lot better than my Geforce 3Ti) at a show for $405. Add in the 80 gig I stripped out of my old rig, and the CD-RW and floppy, it was probably $500-$525 worth of equipment. Had I wanted XP (which I didn't) it would have been a bit more.
Oh, other necessary post: This is just what the Nazis would do. Someone had to say it. Someone always does.
Odd...
We've have been in our house for 5 years and get several pieces of mail a year for the previous occupants, who formerly got approximately a ton a week. Within weeks it had eased off. I'd say the previous occupant of your building didn't make a foot-print somewhere else, so the direct marketers didn't move their addresses.
I've also seen people who've changed their names have mail track them down, addressed to their old name but at the new address.
Point taken, though. It's not the most effective form of revenge. Do you have another suggestion?
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Whenever I move, within 2 weeks the advertising starts to catch up with me. Within 6 months, I'm inundated at the same rate, by the same companies.
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That was great. I almost fell out of my chair. I'll have to remember that next time I'm at Friend's Meeting. Of course, it'll totally bemuse everyone, but that's OK. That's what I'm for.
Anyone have this guy's address?
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To inundate him with junk mail, of course, and also to hit him up for money. Or just hit him. No, wait, I'm a Quaker. I keep forgetting that...
Tolkien himself, yes, but his estate held onto the rights, and may still have them. I seem to remember that there was some rush to make the movies now.
Many authors of "classics" see them as their legacy to their family.
BTW, I'm NOT arguing for longer copyrights, I think it's a bad thing. I merely was suggesting that for tech publishers, there's few "classics" that'll stand the test of time, so there's no great loss to them to turn it into the public domain.
I understand that, but I think that there's less sacrafice on their part than say someone who has Tolkein, or Alice Walker in their copyright stable. Novels have a much longer readablity period. And you can always re-print classics. A few people might be interested in a re-print of a 1980's computer manual, for instance, just as a fun look at what things were like back then, but I think it's unlikely to be profitable. On the other hand, if you have a novel for the 1980's, put a new cover on it to jazz up the look and you might still have some readers.
Since much of their material is somewhat time-sensitive anyway, in that it addresses systems that are constantly evolving and therefore most people are going to want to get the latest version. Nicely symbolic, though, I guess.
.8 * 35 does indeed equal 28, however he said 80% of his "school" uses it, and then that 35 people were in his "class". Assuming only one more like sized class, that's at least 56 people.
So, I have a question: WineX runs in Linux. Will it work on a Linux port on a Mac machine? Or any other platform that's not x86?
I ask because, though I'm a Windows guy, I do a lot of gaming with a Mac friend, who mostly has to use my other comps for most non-Blizzard games that we play. The WineX site lists the sysreqs in terms of x86 compatibility. Anyone know?
Look, I'm no huge Clinton fan, but you can't take all credit for the economy away from him. The economy grew by leaps and bounds during his presidency, due in part to the people he put into office to shepard it along, and the support that he gave them, particularly his secratary of the treasury. That's a pretty huge thing. What happens as soon as he leaves? The Republicans do all the things they did in the 80's to lead us into slow growth and massive unemployement.
Like I said, I'm no big fan of his. He was certainly a corporate shill, like all the rest of the politicians in Washington (except Barbara Lee and a handful of others) But compared to the massive for-sale sign the Bush administration has put on the country, it's nothing.
I'm pretty sure the original poster was making a joke. If you vote by secret ballet, you're concealing your identity. Clearly, no one votes by phone, at least not in a real election.
Don't worry, we'll invade Canada too. I think that harboring violators of the DMCA means you're funding terrorists. Or was it weapons of mass destruction? I'm not sure, but once the smiling faces of Canadians are seen tumbling statues of Letterman, it won't matter. Another liberated country. I think there's some oil in the Canada somewhere, isn't there. What, this mike is on?
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Yes, I noticed. For some reason, after posting, the spaces were all removed. Arggghhh. And my point, which I think was possibly lost in the formatting error, wasn't that we should have roads INSTEAD of Internet, it's that the poster I was replying to said that free communication was at least as important as roads, and I disagreed, saying I think free roads are more important.
My distinct apologies for poor formatting. That should have read like this: >>I agree. The information infrastructure (and the freedom thereof) is too important to leave to publically unaccountable entities. Before you respond, think about this: You already pay for your government to build the public freely accessible roads whether you drive on them or not. Under the perhaps erroneous belief that you are NOT being sarcastic, I'll risk being labeled a non-Geek, and worse Pratical, when I say I'd much rather be able to walk and run and drive freely everywhere and pay for Internet/phone service than the other way around. Physical needs, such as accessing food/bathing supplies, or the very least allowing the services I purchase over the Internet access to my house does come before my ability to comment on Slashdot articles free of charge in my priority scheme.
>>I agree. The information infrastructure (and the freedom thereof) is too important to leave to publically unaccountable entities. Before you respond, think about this: You already pay for your government to build the public freely accessible roads whether you drive on them or not. >Isn't a free and open connection to the Internet at least as important as your roads? Under the perhaps erroneous belief that you are NOT being sarcastic, I'll risk being labeled a non-Geek, and worse Pratical, when I say I'd much rather be able to walk and run and drive freely everywhere and pay for Internet/phone service than the other way around. Physical needs, such as accessing food/bathing supplies, or the very least allowing the services I purchase over the Internet access to my house does come before my ability to comment on Slashdot articles free of charge in my priority scheme.
Pound foolish.
I didn't buy turbo tax for just that reason, this year, and switched to HR Block's product, which I didn't like as much. Pretty cool. Not something you see often these days.
Let's see, you take a collector, put it between the earth and the sun, where it stops light that would hit the Earth anyway, and then convert the light to a different form, thus losing something in the conversion, and beam that light down to earth. IANAP (I am not a physicist), so can anyone easily debunk what I think is a common-sense version of events?
There's a lot of cases out there, available at shows or on the web, that are cheap and "Mac Like". I got a non-standard look case for $28.00 at a show recently, with a nice powersupply etc.
I know someone's going to hate me, mod me down for this, but here goes: This weekend, I bought an Asus motherboard (sorry, can't remember model), an AMD 2400+ processor, 512 megs of PC2700 RAM, a case, all necessary fans etc., and an Geforce FX 5200 based AGP card (I know, not the best but a lot better than my Geforce 3Ti) at a show for $405. Add in the 80 gig I stripped out of my old rig, and the CD-RW and floppy, it was probably $500-$525 worth of equipment. Had I wanted XP (which I didn't) it would have been a bit more. Oh, other necessary post: This is just what the Nazis would do. Someone had to say it. Someone always does.
Odd... We've have been in our house for 5 years and get several pieces of mail a year for the previous occupants, who formerly got approximately a ton a week. Within weeks it had eased off. I'd say the previous occupant of your building didn't make a foot-print somewhere else, so the direct marketers didn't move their addresses. I've also seen people who've changed their names have mail track them down, addressed to their old name but at the new address. Point taken, though. It's not the most effective form of revenge. Do you have another suggestion?
Whenever I move, within 2 weeks the advertising starts to catch up with me. Within 6 months, I'm inundated at the same rate, by the same companies.
That was great. I almost fell out of my chair. I'll have to remember that next time I'm at Friend's Meeting. Of course, it'll totally bemuse everyone, but that's OK. That's what I'm for.
To inundate him with junk mail, of course, and also to hit him up for money. Or just hit him. No, wait, I'm a Quaker. I keep forgetting that...
Tolkien himself, yes, but his estate held onto the rights, and may still have them. I seem to remember that there was some rush to make the movies now. Many authors of "classics" see them as their legacy to their family. BTW, I'm NOT arguing for longer copyrights, I think it's a bad thing. I merely was suggesting that for tech publishers, there's few "classics" that'll stand the test of time, so there's no great loss to them to turn it into the public domain.
I understand that, but I think that there's less sacrafice on their part than say someone who has Tolkein, or Alice Walker in their copyright stable. Novels have a much longer readablity period. And you can always re-print classics. A few people might be interested in a re-print of a 1980's computer manual, for instance, just as a fun look at what things were like back then, but I think it's unlikely to be profitable. On the other hand, if you have a novel for the 1980's, put a new cover on it to jazz up the look and you might still have some readers.
Since much of their material is somewhat time-sensitive anyway, in that it addresses systems that are constantly evolving and therefore most people are going to want to get the latest version. Nicely symbolic, though, I guess.
According to most slashdot posters: MSFT
Thanks for your response. I wish it weren't so. Sigh.
.8 * 35 does indeed equal 28, however he said 80% of his "school" uses it, and then that 35 people were in his "class". Assuming only one more like sized class, that's at least 56 people.
So, I have a question: WineX runs in Linux. Will it work on a Linux port on a Mac machine? Or any other platform that's not x86? I ask because, though I'm a Windows guy, I do a lot of gaming with a Mac friend, who mostly has to use my other comps for most non-Blizzard games that we play. The WineX site lists the sysreqs in terms of x86 compatibility. Anyone know?
Or a great night on the town for 10% of us.
Wow. How did they do that without risking the security of the process? As if that's as much a problem in Canada as it is in the U.S.
Look, I'm no huge Clinton fan, but you can't take all credit for the economy away from him. The economy grew by leaps and bounds during his presidency, due in part to the people he put into office to shepard it along, and the support that he gave them, particularly his secratary of the treasury. That's a pretty huge thing. What happens as soon as he leaves? The Republicans do all the things they did in the 80's to lead us into slow growth and massive unemployement. Like I said, I'm no big fan of his. He was certainly a corporate shill, like all the rest of the politicians in Washington (except Barbara Lee and a handful of others) But compared to the massive for-sale sign the Bush administration has put on the country, it's nothing.
Thus proving that, yes indeed, every discussion leads back to the Nazis.
I'm pretty sure the original poster was making a joke. If you vote by secret ballet, you're concealing your identity. Clearly, no one votes by phone, at least not in a real election.
Don't worry, we'll invade Canada too. I think that harboring violators of the DMCA means you're funding terrorists. Or was it weapons of mass destruction? I'm not sure, but once the smiling faces of Canadians are seen tumbling statues of Letterman, it won't matter. Another liberated country. I think there's some oil in the Canada somewhere, isn't there. What, this mike is on?