I won't do this, because I disapprove more strongly of the business practises of Lexmark than I care about landfills.
If they are making their profit on the consumables, and losing on the printers, then the answer (if they win a monopoly on the consumables) is for everybody to buy another brand of printer made by somebody not trying to follow the same corrupt business model.
If there are no alternative suppliers, the answer is for people to keep buying the loss-making printers, so that the companies lose the most money possible.
I hope that the case is sorted out so that alternative Lexmark-compatible cartridges can be bought at a reasonable price, and printers are sold at a sustainable price.
Then your argument for being kind to landfills will be acceptable.
Stars supported by photon pressure do not exist so far as I know.
Take a look out of the window - there's one about 93 million miles away.
You're confusing pre-and post-supernova behaviour. Chandrashekar's work relates to what keeps stars up after a supernova event - indeed, when the Sun does go pop, Chandrashekar's physics will come into play and the Sun will become a white dwarf supported by electron pressure.
Photon pressure does indeed keep the Sun from collapsing for the moment - it's the effect of all those gamma rays bouncing off the nuclei within the Sun that creates the pressure.
But if the universe was created by God and if what the Bible says is true about people who have handicaps of some sort (that they will glorify God because of it), then there is reason to love them and have compassion upon them.
That's two really, really big ifs.
I prefer to take them at their merits, as fellow human beings.
What about homosexuals?
If homosexuality was proved to have a genetic cause, would you take the same attitude?
I think not,
and I'm happier to treat my fellow man as an equal based on agnosticism than the rantings of some Judean cavemen.
2. Given a great deal of effort, I produce neat, fast, robust C/C++ code (including UI stuff) that has no memory leaks, buffer overflows, or other problems.
3. If I can do it, bearing in mind I'm primarily a networks guy, how is C/C++ 'really, really hard for people to learn'?
The author seems to think that programming should be intuitive, and compile immediately.
From the articles and links, it seems that Daubert does indeed err on the side of the defendant - the complaint seems to be that plaintiffs (vexatious or not, according to how you view them) are not being allowed to introduce spurious / tendentious science into the proceedings.
This is a good thing, but it needs to be applied carefully, otherwise the defendants (particularly large corporations) will be able to exclude all unfavourable evidence from consideration.
It's healthy, for example, to introduce a degree of scepticism into the reliability of partial fingerprints, or to allow DNA numerology to be questioned.
It's not healthy to exclude small studies of the toxic effects of various chemicals, though this ca nbe addressed in the judges summing up (if they have them in the US - I'm a Brit).
This looks like a fair principle to me, so long as it is applied intelligently.
trotters and scratchings - two of the finest things known to man.
If you've never had a plate of pied de porc (French style pigs knuckles) with some Freedom fries to coat with the unctuous sticky juices, you've never lived.
And rinds (scratchings here in the UK) are the best accompaniment to a beer ever invented.
I'll agree about the McDonalds, though - they're all lips and udders.
It's OK if you've got loads of bandwidth, but it's hardly an optimal solution.
Equally, the central mail store isn't a great idea over a WAN.
The only reason I can see for central storage of emails is for backup, which can just as easily be sorted with a mailbox into which everything is dumped on receipt.
I see some of my other comments have been modded down - it looks like the pro-M$ mods are on toight.
In proper, sociable societies, musicians make music for fun, and get free drinks / food for their efforts.
To paraphrase Harry Enfield, though -
If that Robbie Williams turned up at my wedding, and started to croon, I'd say Oy, Williams - what do you think you're doing? Crooning like Sinatra's all well and good, but you're shit - go back to Stoke and die.
Email is email - SMTP/POP3 provide a perfectly good delivery service.
Perhaps you are thinking of calendaring - it's true that a straight SMTP/POP3 server won't do this.
Equally, a mailserver doesn't typically corrupt its own data or require frequent reboots.
Even on Microsoft products, it would be possible (with SQL Server and MAPI) to make a calendaring solution that doesn't rely on Exchange, though fitting this to the Outlook client may need some cleverness.
VB programmers really, really should keep it to themselves.
the only reason we were still using Novell servers was to support Groupwise
You mean that all the file and print had moved to Microsoft, and you didn't notice it was worse, slower, less easy to manage, more prone to crashes and generally shit?
WTF did your IT dept do all day? Were they constantly cosseting the NT boxes, or did nobody in your company ever open a shitload of files and kill the NT servers?
Jeez - Novell has been (for the last 12 years at least) and will continue to be the king of file and print - NT is a fair application server, so long as the applications are well written (SQL Server - yes, Exchange - no.)
I'd love to see a decent OSS Exchange replacement, but I'd be equally happy to see a stable Exchange equivalent for Windows, so I don't have to drive all over the place repairing the Exchange boxes that inevitably fuck up and corrupt their own data.
If you're scrapping Windows, move to a mix of Novell and Linux, and use the new Novell tools to manage permissions, etc.
AD is and always will be a crock of shit compared to NDS - it only appeared after Novell gave the NDS source code to Microsoft to do with as they will, after all.
The calendaring thing is the major sticking point - it's good for the secretaries who (in the final analysis) look after the asshats that make the decisions.
Windows is dying on it's arse in the server market, and no amount of bluster about AD is going to change that.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Good \Good\, n.
1. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.
There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? --Ps. iv. 6.
It's obviously been a noun since the time of King James 1 (or 6 if you're a Jock), so stop beating up on the guy just beacuse he knows more English than you do.
How are there 'trade secrets' in released binaries?
If the binaries run on a processor, then the 'trade secrets' are in fact public knowledge (they may be in machine code, which makes them more obscure, but they have been shipped as part of the product, and are therefore public).
Trade secrets, as they apply in most patents, relate to secrets involved in producing the final product, not to properties of the product that may be revealed or inferred through inspection.
This is yet another reason why the concept of the software patent is inherently absurd, and why it is time for technically competent people to sit down with some smart lawyers to devise a sensible framework for the protection of software.
I'm not against people being rewarded for their efforts, but the current regime is becoming too ludicrous to have any respect, respect being fundamental to the acceptance of law.
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I won't do this, because I disapprove more strongly of the business practises of Lexmark than I care about landfills.
If they are making their profit on the consumables, and losing on the printers, then the answer (if they win a monopoly on the consumables) is for everybody to buy another brand of printer made by somebody not trying to follow the same corrupt business model.
If there are no alternative suppliers, the answer is for people to keep buying the loss-making printers, so that the companies lose the most money possible.
I hope that the case is sorted out so that alternative Lexmark-compatible cartridges can be bought at a reasonable price, and printers are sold at a sustainable price.
Then your argument for being kind to landfills will be acceptable.
Si vous croyez qu'on peut tener un brevet pour traduction des MI, vous etes un plus gros connard que j'ai pensee.
Encoule toi, voleur!
Take a look out of the window - there's one about 93 million miles away.
You're confusing pre-and post-supernova behaviour. Chandrashekar's work relates to what keeps stars up after a supernova event - indeed, when the Sun does go pop, Chandrashekar's physics will come into play and the Sun will become a white dwarf supported by electron pressure.
Photon pressure does indeed keep the Sun from collapsing for the moment - it's the effect of all those gamma rays bouncing off the nuclei within the Sun that creates the pressure.
IANAP, but I do know the difference.
That's two really, really big ifs.
I prefer to take them at their merits, as fellow human beings.
What about homosexuals?
If homosexuality was proved to have a genetic cause, would you take the same attitude?
I think not, and I'm happier to treat my fellow man as an equal based on agnosticism than the rantings of some Judean cavemen.
1. I am shite at coding.
2. Given a great deal of effort, I produce neat, fast, robust C/C++ code (including UI stuff) that has no memory leaks, buffer overflows, or other problems.
3. If I can do it, bearing in mind I'm primarily a networks guy, how is C/C++ 'really, really hard for people to learn'?
The author seems to think that programming should be intuitive, and compile immediately.
If I can do it, anyone can.
This is a good thing, but it needs to be applied carefully, otherwise the defendants (particularly large corporations) will be able to exclude all unfavourable evidence from consideration.
It's healthy, for example, to introduce a degree of scepticism into the reliability of partial fingerprints, or to allow DNA numerology to be questioned.
It's not healthy to exclude small studies of the toxic effects of various chemicals, though this ca nbe addressed in the judges summing up (if they have them in the US - I'm a Brit).
This looks like a fair principle to me, so long as it is applied intelligently.
But...
if they last forever, how come you need a stash? ;/
Make sure it's the real Polish manufactured stuff though - there are other factories, and the taste just isn't right.
Mmmmmmmmm...
trotters and scratchings - two of the finest things known to man.
If you've never had a plate of pied de porc (French style pigs knuckles) with some Freedom fries to coat with the unctuous sticky juices, you've never lived.
And rinds (scratchings here in the UK) are the best accompaniment to a beer ever invented.
I'll agree about the McDonalds, though - they're all lips and udders.
Some of the 'luncheon meat' products may be MRM, but so far as I know SPAM is still made from real meat.
Always a great way to start a long haul to distant sites, followed by an earnest discussion of winter wheat prices or the plight of the dairy farmer.
It used to wake me up for rowing at uni, too.
Telling the truth about Israel's WMDs was just the last straw.
Some validation for my theory that Rumsfeldt is Strangelove reincarnate!
It's OK if you've got loads of bandwidth, but it's hardly an optimal solution.
Equally, the central mail store isn't a great idea over a WAN.
The only reason I can see for central storage of emails is for backup, which can just as easily be sorted with a mailbox into which everything is dumped on receipt.
I see some of my other comments have been modded down - it looks like the pro-M$ mods are on toight.
Where have you been, while I criss-cross the country fixing fucked-up Exchange installations?
It's not FUD, it's experience.
And don't get me started about VB 'programmers'.
To paraphrase Harry Enfield, though -
If that Robbie Williams turned up at my wedding, and started to croon, I'd say Oy, Williams - what do you think you're doing? Crooning like Sinatra's all well and good, but you're shit - go back to Stoke and die.
But that's just me.
What utter bollocks.
Email is email - SMTP/POP3 provide a perfectly good delivery service.
Perhaps you are thinking of calendaring - it's true that a straight SMTP/POP3 server won't do this.
Equally, a mailserver doesn't typically corrupt its own data or require frequent reboots.
Even on Microsoft products, it would be possible (with SQL Server and MAPI) to make a calendaring solution that doesn't rely on Exchange, though fitting this to the Outlook client may need some cleverness.
VB programmers really, really should keep it to themselves.
You mean that all the file and print had moved to Microsoft, and you didn't notice it was worse, slower, less easy to manage, more prone to crashes and generally shit?
WTF did your IT dept do all day? Were they constantly cosseting the NT boxes, or did nobody in your company ever open a shitload of files and kill the NT servers?
Jeez - Novell has been (for the last 12 years at least) and will continue to be the king of file and print - NT is a fair application server, so long as the applications are well written (SQL Server - yes, Exchange - no.)
I'd love to see a decent OSS Exchange replacement, but I'd be equally happy to see a stable Exchange equivalent for Windows, so I don't have to drive all over the place repairing the Exchange boxes that inevitably fuck up and corrupt their own data.
If you're scrapping Windows, move to a mix of Novell and Linux, and use the new Novell tools to manage permissions, etc.
AD is and always will be a crock of shit compared to NDS - it only appeared after Novell gave the NDS source code to Microsoft to do with as they will, after all.
The calendaring thing is the major sticking point - it's good for the secretaries who (in the final analysis) look after the asshats that make the decisions.
Windows is dying on it's arse in the server market, and no amount of bluster about AD is going to change that.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]
Good \Good\, n.
1. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.
There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?
--Ps. iv. 6.
It's obviously been a noun since the time of King James 1 (or 6 if you're a Jock), so stop beating up on the guy just beacuse he knows more English than you do.
If the binaries run on a processor, then the 'trade secrets' are in fact public knowledge (they may be in machine code, which makes them more obscure, but they have been shipped as part of the product, and are therefore public).
Trade secrets, as they apply in most patents, relate to secrets involved in producing the final product, not to properties of the product that may be revealed or inferred through inspection.
This is yet another reason why the concept of the software patent is inherently absurd, and why it is time for technically competent people to sit down with some smart lawyers to devise a sensible framework for the protection of software.
I'm not against people being rewarded for their efforts, but the current regime is becoming too ludicrous to have any respect, respect being fundamental to the acceptance of law.
It's actually quite impressive, though our local rocketeer (see link) looks to be a bit ahead of these guys.
The procedure to produce all valid statements in a formal system also produces these undecidable statements.
It's still true that all true statements are produced by this mechanical procedure, so my point holds.
It is only conjecture that the Continuum hypothesis is unprovable, btw.
I admit I wasn't as clear as I might have been, but it was about 2AM when I wrote the post, and I was a little drunk.