Only give out your regular email address to PEOPLE you communicate with.
Until one of them forwards an email, CCing to all their friends, suddenly an awful lot of people have your address and it gets picked up from somewhere.
I have had to educate several people about (the existence of) BCC
If savvy users (to use the BBC's phrase) switch the other will too - the help will be available.
I use Linux, so with me to rely on for help, so does my father (actually I have very little to do to keep is PC going, his website is another matter.
MS's hold on the market will not disappear overnight, but it is definitely weakening.
My family and friends now know they are more likely to get help from me if they use Linux than if they sue Windows - not that I am boycotting MS or anything, its simply easier to help with what I am more familiar with.
As this is an open standard AND Apple has released the source to their implementation (bottom of the page the "Bonjour" link goes to) it should be supported by just about everything soon.
I assume that they would do exactly what they would do if the software was proprietary.
They will do any one of:
Pay up
Switch
Fight the claim in court
Use their powers as the government to ignore it
Take insurance or demand an indemnity from their supplier when buying software (obviously this should be done before a claim is brought)
I really can not see why you think that this is a problem specific to open source. Governments (and most large corporations) are not going to use a free download for anything critical. They will buy from a supplier and the legal relationships between the customer, the supplier and third parties making patent claims is going to be the same for both open and closed source software.
The only difference using open source might make is that if the supplier pulls the product as a result of the claim, the government can still do a deal with the patent holder and continue deploying and using the product. With closed source the supplier it would have to be replaced more quickly as even urgent updates (such as security updates) could not be done once support for the product was discontinued (OK there might be a deal done, but its a lot less likely as it requires the agreement of three parties rather than two).
Have someone at the school make them sign something that says they will have virus protection and spyware protection on their machines, and that it be kept up to date. Failure to keep the machine clean can result in suspention of service at any time.
So as there are no anti-spyware apps for Linux, Linux is banned from your network, right? I realise the intention is good but be careful of how bureaucrat implement any rules.
Sending a PDF also alerts you to which recruitment companies are editing your CV very heavily - most people can not figure out how to copy text from a PDF.
From the comment I expected you would link to something showing him expressing hatred or loathing, what I found was reasoned argument. I do not agree with everything he says (particularly his defence of US involvement in places like Vietnam) but his arguments are reasonable.
As for homosexuality, does it occur to you that his views are very tolerant by the standards of any time and place other than North America and Western Europe in the last few decades? He expresses no hatred or loathing, on the other hand you do.
Your only problem seems to be that his views differ from yours. If you are suggesting that people should only read books by authors who agree with then that is a terrible idea.It is people like you that have convinced me that the truly intolerant people in this debate are the gay rights crowd.
First, linux requires you to deal with source code. Fine for you techheads out there. Bad for consumers unless it is *invisible* (i.e. just part of the install process that they dont see), and right now it just aint - at least not on all distros.
This is not true on a consumer oriented distro. If a geek oriented distro drequires compiling stuff, well thats OK.
There are even some free (as in speech) PDF readers, xpdf for example
There are also free PDF writers - PDFLatex, the PDF printer for Openoffice, the KDE PDF printers, ps2pdf etc.
I have prefered to circulate documents in PDF ever since a time when I used to get a daily email that usually came as a PDF but would occasionally come as a Word doc, the former looked much more polished.
No Timothy, I am not prepared to pay to post on Slashdot.
That is what you wanted to find out?
Looks like a fair number of people are prepared to pay but not me.
Perhaps this is why blogs, and trackbacks in particular, are a good idea, you can comment on other people's sites but it helps drive traffic back to your own.
Yes, but the principal is still wrong. He is treating shareholders money as his money.
It is inethical to cheat people - saying you did not cheat them of much is no defence.
If people are happy with the MS apps that is usually because they do not know that there are alternatives. Maybe they will be happier with something better? That has been my experience with switching people to Firefox. People switched to Linux have mostly been happier as well.
I am happy to drive a my Hyundai but that does not mean that if someone offered me a BMW for the same price I would have still bought the Hyundai.
In addition Jobs is losing shareholder's money (from the lost sales) to pursue a personal vendetta.
This sounds dangerously close to "fraud on the minority" (it been a long time since I studied the little law I know and it was UK not US law so I would welcome corrections).
It is definitely very poor performance of his fiduciary duty to shareholders and suggests very poor corporate governance.
Symbian? Symbian's a bit crazy. I feel that in order to have progress things need to die. Symbian is actually a rehash of PalmOS
Symbian is not a rehash of PalmOS, it is the latest version of Psion's OS (I think it was called EPOC).
Psion PDAs were very nice in their day - very usable and reliable, but the OS is now mostly used for phones and Symbian seem to be targetting that market. It owned by mobile phone companies and really serves as a shared R & D effort.
Nokia seems to regard Psion as important largely as part of its strategy to stop Microsoft commoditising phones the same way it did PCs.
BSD may be more free in an ideological sense but, in the real world, it is important to have a license that is more business friendly (for software companies). A license that allows your comptitors to get a free ride on your work is not.
An they need the testing lcoations as GMAT surprisingly widely used outside the US, a lot of British MBAs and similar degrees require it (which is why I did it).
You just do not get it, let me explain.
Free trade is good, the gains outweigh the losses to any given economy. You do not even need to worry about PPP wages etc to prove this.
but,
if I am the person losing the clearly for me the losses outweigh the gains.
Therefore to the/. audience making shoes in Indonesia is good (they get cheaper shoes), writing software in South Asia is bad (their incomes are threatened). Therefore the competition MUST be somehow unfair. No amount of ebing rational is going to change their minds.
OK I could have phrased that better. The original Star Wars films were kids films an adult could enjoy, the new ones are kids films ONLY a child can enjoy.
Maybe Lucas set out to create a film that was PG13 to win back his adult audience - it sends a strong message that this is not a kids film as Episode I definitely was.
It certainly seems to have got the writer of the article to be more positive about it.
Amortisation is a way of allocating the cost of capital equipment to the time it is used rather than the time is is bought. it is not dependent on when the cash payments are made.
If the cost is not being amortised then there ought to be some other way in which the cost of fixed assets is being charged to the project - unless government bodies accounts are even less meaningful than I thought...
As for your other point it does not matter if the charge is monthly or annual, there is still a regular charge.
If you were not already moderated five I would mod you up.
UK were recently bouncing mail from GMail and British Telecom because they were blacklisted. I failed to receive a lot of mail I wanted.
Similarly Sri Lanka Telecom have been blacklisted in the past, again a lot of false positives (block about half of a whole country's email addresses, what a good idea)
If you send from a blacklisted IP most ISPs (at least in Britain) simply silently lose the incoming mail, so, very often, you do not even know that your email is getting though.
You are right RBLs are just vigilantes and I wish i could opt-out of UK2's use of them. Does anyone know of any decent service that does not use blacklisting?
We all know Mysql is not Oracle, or even Postgres.
It is undoubtedly a good thing that the securities trading and depositary apps that I used to work on (not as a developer btw) used Oracle rather than MySQL
On the other hand I see no problem with my blog using MySQL.
Maybe the right way to think of MySQL is not as something like Postgres without data integrity features, but as a something that fits in somewhere between the likes of Postgres and things like SQLite.
The only time that I ever heard anyone suggest MySQL for a financial application it was a fairly lightweight one and and the idea was rejected pretty quickly anyway. Unfortunately I do not think anyone present even gave a thought to Postgres and its like but went with Oracle (as usual).
I suspect MySQL does restrict the use of FOSS DBs because it has so much mind share that when people consider OSS DBs they think of MySQL and if MySQL is not suitable they pick a proprietary DB instead.
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Until one of them forwards an email, CCing to all their friends, suddenly an awful lot of people have your address and it gets picked up from somewhere.
I have had to educate several people about (the existence of) BCC
Something must be done. This is something. Therefore ee must do it
I use Linux, so with me to rely on for help, so does my father (actually I have very little to do to keep is PC going, his website is another matter.
MS's hold on the market will not disappear overnight, but it is definitely weakening.
My family and friends now know they are more likely to get help from me if they use Linux than if they sue Windows - not that I am boycotting MS or anything, its simply easier to help with what I am more familiar with.
As this is an open standard AND Apple has released the source to their implementation (bottom of the page the "Bonjour" link goes to) it should be supported by just about everything soon.
- Pay up
- Switch
- Fight the claim in court
- Use their powers as the government to ignore it
- Take insurance or demand an indemnity from their supplier when buying software (obviously this should be done before a claim is brought)
I really can not see why you think that this is a problem specific to open source. Governments (and most large corporations) are not going to use a free download for anything critical. They will buy from a supplier and the legal relationships between the customer, the supplier and third parties making patent claims is going to be the same for both open and closed source software.The only difference using open source might make is that if the supplier pulls the product as a result of the claim, the government can still do a deal with the patent holder and continue deploying and using the product. With closed source the supplier it would have to be replaced more quickly as even urgent updates (such as security updates) could not be done once support for the product was discontinued (OK there might be a deal done, but its a lot less likely as it requires the agreement of three parties rather than two).
So as there are no anti-spyware apps for Linux, Linux is banned from your network, right? I realise the intention is good but be careful of how bureaucrat implement any rules.
Sending a PDF also alerts you to which recruitment companies are editing your CV very heavily - most people can not figure out how to copy text from a PDF.
From the comment I expected you would link to something showing him expressing hatred or loathing, what I found was reasoned argument. I do not agree with everything he says (particularly his defence of US involvement in places like Vietnam) but his arguments are reasonable. As for homosexuality, does it occur to you that his views are very tolerant by the standards of any time and place other than North America and Western Europe in the last few decades? He expresses no hatred or loathing, on the other hand you do. Your only problem seems to be that his views differ from yours. If you are suggesting that people should only read books by authors who agree with then that is a terrible idea.It is people like you that have convinced me that the truly intolerant people in this debate are the gay rights crowd.
This is not true on a consumer oriented distro. If a geek oriented distro drequires compiling stuff, well thats OK.
There are also free PDF writers - PDFLatex, the PDF printer for Openoffice, the KDE PDF printers, ps2pdf etc.
I have prefered to circulate documents in PDF ever since a time when I used to get a daily email that usually came as a PDF but would occasionally come as a Word doc, the former looked much more polished.
No Timothy, I am not prepared to pay to post on Slashdot.
That is what you wanted to find out?
Looks like a fair number of people are prepared to pay but not me.
Perhaps this is why blogs, and trackbacks in particular, are a good idea, you can comment on other people's sites but it helps drive traffic back to your own.
Thats unfair to communists: perhaps Stalinism would be a better description.
Yes, but the principal is still wrong. He is treating shareholders money as his money. It is inethical to cheat people - saying you did not cheat them of much is no defence.
If people are happy with the MS apps that is usually because they do not know that there are alternatives. Maybe they will be happier with something better? That has been my experience with switching people to Firefox. People switched to Linux have mostly been happier as well.
I am happy to drive a my Hyundai but that does not mean that if someone offered me a BMW for the same price I would have still bought the Hyundai.
In addition Jobs is losing shareholder's money (from the lost sales) to pursue a personal vendetta. This sounds dangerously close to "fraud on the minority" (it been a long time since I studied the little law I know and it was UK not US law so I would welcome corrections). It is definitely very poor performance of his fiduciary duty to shareholders and suggests very poor corporate governance.
Symbian is not a rehash of PalmOS, it is the latest version of Psion's OS (I think it was called EPOC).
Psion PDAs were very nice in their day - very usable and reliable, but the OS is now mostly used for phones and Symbian seem to be targetting that market. It owned by mobile phone companies and really serves as a shared R & D effort.
Nokia seems to regard Psion as important largely as part of its strategy to stop Microsoft commoditising phones the same way it did PCs.
BSD may be more free in an ideological sense but, in the real world, it is important to have a license that is more business friendly (for software companies). A license that allows your comptitors to get a free ride on your work is not.
An they need the testing lcoations as GMAT surprisingly widely used outside the US, a lot of British MBAs and similar degrees require it (which is why I did it).
You just do not get it, let me explain. Free trade is good, the gains outweigh the losses to any given economy. You do not even need to worry about PPP wages etc to prove this. but, if I am the person losing the clearly for me the losses outweigh the gains. Therefore to the /. audience making shoes in Indonesia is good (they get cheaper shoes), writing software in South Asia is bad (their incomes are threatened). Therefore the competition MUST be somehow unfair. No amount of ebing rational is going to change their minds.
OK I could have phrased that better. The original Star Wars films were kids films an adult could enjoy, the new ones are kids films ONLY a child can enjoy.
Maybe Lucas set out to create a film that was PG13 to win back his adult audience - it sends a strong message that this is not a kids film as Episode I definitely was.
It certainly seems to have got the writer of the article to be more positive about it.
If the cost is not being amortised then there ought to be some other way in which the cost of fixed assets is being charged to the project - unless government bodies accounts are even less meaningful than I thought...
As for your other point it does not matter if the charge is monthly or annual, there is still a regular charge.
If you were not already moderated five I would mod you up. UK were recently bouncing mail from GMail and British Telecom because they were blacklisted. I failed to receive a lot of mail I wanted. Similarly Sri Lanka Telecom have been blacklisted in the past, again a lot of false positives (block about half of a whole country's email addresses, what a good idea) If you send from a blacklisted IP most ISPs (at least in Britain) simply silently lose the incoming mail, so, very often, you do not even know that your email is getting though. You are right RBLs are just vigilantes and I wish i could opt-out of UK2's use of them. Does anyone know of any decent service that does not use blacklisting?
In which case it will be amortised
through appropriated funds or budgeted yearly as a cost for payments to foreign ground stations.
In which case there is still a monthly charge of a similar size
It is undoubtedly a good thing that the securities trading and depositary apps that I used to work on (not as a developer btw) used Oracle rather than MySQL
On the other hand I see no problem with my blog using MySQL.
Maybe the right way to think of MySQL is not as something like Postgres without data integrity features, but as a something that fits in somewhere between the likes of Postgres and things like SQLite.
The only time that I ever heard anyone suggest MySQL for a financial application it was a fairly lightweight one and and the idea was rejected pretty quickly anyway. Unfortunately I do not think anyone present even gave a thought to Postgres and its like but went with Oracle (as usual).
I suspect MySQL does restrict the use of FOSS DBs because it has so much mind share that when people consider OSS DBs they think of MySQL and if MySQL is not suitable they pick a proprietary DB instead.