Trouble is, you can't just go and download cisco updates... Even if you own their harware, they make it difficult to download anything... You need a support contract and valid account to download most stuff, and their website is absolutely horrendous to navigate.
It's pretty stupid, just about every other vendor makes the updates freely downloadable.
Cisco is where they are because they monetize everything.
It may sound funny, but I once heated a 1 bedroom, 700 sq. foot apartment with a PowerMac quad core, 6 mac minis, and an AMD Athlon machine. Used them to do 3D rendering for fun. Granted, utilities were included in the rent, so I didn't feel the need to conserve.
Now that I pay the utilities, only two of the mac minis stay on when I'm not using them.
Way back in the Dark Ages I ran a big multinode BBS (some sixteen nodes), and in the winter the heat coming off all those machines was very welcome. People used to notice how pleasantly warm it was in my basement (which is where my office and all the computers were located.) My gas bill went down, my electric bill went up.
True, but in this case I think the State is defining "fairness" in terms of who is paying tax. In your scenario, the b&m stores pay sales tax, and the online stores don't... ergo, unfair. You're talking about fairness to the consumer, and the State couldn't care less about that.
Well, if this outfit truly manages to achieve that one dollar per watt figure, it will cause something of a revolution in solar applications. Furthermore, if they can do a buck a watt, odds are that with increased production they can do much, much better.
If an investment of ten grand can buy me ten kW's worth of solar panels (not counting ancillary physical plant and energy storage) I'd consider putting up a small solar farm. Hell, forget the storage system: just buy a synchronized inverter and feed it back into the grid. Let the power company buy it from you.
In fact theres not very many Jewish physicists, because of the risk of accidently entangling yourself with a passing insect or even a flamboyantly gay bosun.
I think you meant to say boson. If not...
Hellooooo thailor!
No, I believe he was referring to the "Higgs Bosom."
Goddamn tax-intoxicated politicians, on the other hand, are far more likely to cause a heart attack.
Where I live, taxes will pay for that. Free health care -- those bloodsucking leeches!
Health care is never free. Whether you're talking government-run socialized medical systems (ala Germany or Canada) or those based upon private insurance like the U.S., the money comes from somewhere. The term "free health care" is a misnomer. You probably look down on the United States because it doesn't offer "free" health care to anyone, by heavily taxing everyone else. That works in some places (more or less) but would be highly unlikely to work here. The reality is, though, that there's plenty of "free" health care in America: it's just not available to those who provide the bulk of the funds.
I'm an American, so I'm fortunate that my taxes go to pay for "free" health care to those who can't work, won't work, or are in my country illegally. Believe me, there's plenty of "free" health care in the United States. Unfortunately, little to none of it is available to me as a gainfully-employed U.S. citizen who pays his taxes on time and in full, so it comes out of my salary instead. I get screwed on both ends, and medical care is only one of the many ways that the government burns my tax dollars.
So you'll forgive me if I'm a little bitter about the way my government(s) handle my money. They're not very good at it, and I really don't see that giving them even more of my hard-earned cash will help.
He and other state officials say it is a matter of fairness
That is such bullshit. If you want to make it "fair", eliminate the sales tax on brick & mortar operations.
What? That wouldn't be fair to the State you say? Well, how about you find some fiscal responsibility so you won't need so much tax revenue in the first place. If you want to talk about fairness, that would be a far better place to start than simply finding another taxation opportunity.
Bloodsucking leeches, all of them. Although I'm not really being fair to the leech. At least that little bloodsucker will give you an effective anticoagulant in exchange for a bit of your circulatory fluid, maybe help prevent a heart attack or a stroke. Goddamn tax-intoxicated politicians, on the other hand, are far more likely to cause a heart attack.
Most of me wishes TPB will wipe the floor with the vile scum that are the plaintiffs. But really, I know that if TPB win, things will just get worse as the plaintiffs will seek to defend their revolting monopolies in ever more extreme ways elsewhere. They'll be like Agent Smith: just bringing in more and more lawyers.
So you're saying that our only hope is Keanu Reeves?
Hacking websites is illegal (Unathorized access etc.).
May be illegal. The New World Order hasn't become quite that all-encompassing yet. It gets even more complicated when you're cracking a site in another country.
Indexing, linking and storing the result of mathematical operations isn't.
Depends upon where you are. The laws of various countries are still struggling to figure out how to deal with the Internet. By and large they're not doing a very good job of it, that's true.
I have no idea what the original intention of copyright was in the TPB's part of the world (Europe has a different view of such matters, although we're trying to "harmonize" ourselves with the EU for some reason) but here in the United States it goes like this:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Because while we _should_ be evaluating the products based on their individual merits, liking the guy actually makes you like his products too, and hating him makes you find more faults in his products.
Does that include John W. "Try my product!" Scherer of Video Professor fame? I can't stand that dipstick, and I wouldn't "try his product" for that reason alone.
Your irony counter is illegally parked not-on-slashdot. Please move it, or I'll have it towed in here;-)... I love Canadians, especially when on strike;)
The true irony is that your original comment eventually earned a +5 Funny... and your complaint was modded Flamebait.
Slashdot Mirror
... especially considering I sometimes see Flash banner ads on Slashdot.
That's very odd ... for some reason, I do not.
When you venture off into the scarier parts of the net, adblock is mandatory.
That, or if you just mistype a domain name to a popular site and get nailed by a drive-by.
I'm proud to be in the 1% of people who haven't been penetrated by Flash.
Likewise. I have several machines that would cheerfully do their part to lower Flash's penetration statistics.
Trouble is, you can't just go and download cisco updates... Even if you own their harware, they make it difficult to download anything... You need a support contract and valid account to download most stuff, and their website is absolutely horrendous to navigate. It's pretty stupid, just about every other vendor makes the updates freely downloadable.
Cisco is where they are because they monetize everything.
Just b/c someone was asleep at the switch and let a bug slip into routers, doesn't mean the internet is better with just switches.
Duh. PP's not talking about switches. He's talking about *hubs*.
Yeah, passive hubs at that.
His blood's all over that chair. Where have you been all day?
Atlantean royalty.
Huh ... looks like some Wisconsin State officials are in this thread. I just got mod-bombed.
It may sound funny, but I once heated a 1 bedroom, 700 sq. foot apartment with a PowerMac quad core, 6 mac minis, and an AMD Athlon machine. Used them to do 3D rendering for fun. Granted, utilities were included in the rent, so I didn't feel the need to conserve.
Now that I pay the utilities, only two of the mac minis stay on when I'm not using them.
Way back in the Dark Ages I ran a big multinode BBS (some sixteen nodes), and in the winter the heat coming off all those machines was very welcome. People used to notice how pleasantly warm it was in my basement (which is where my office and all the computers were located.) My gas bill went down, my electric bill went up.
True, but in this case I think the State is defining "fairness" in terms of who is paying tax. In your scenario, the b&m stores pay sales tax, and the online stores don't ... ergo, unfair. You're talking about fairness to the consumer, and the State couldn't care less about that.
Well, if this outfit truly manages to achieve that one dollar per watt figure, it will cause something of a revolution in solar applications. Furthermore, if they can do a buck a watt, odds are that with increased production they can do much, much better.
If an investment of ten grand can buy me ten kW's worth of solar panels (not counting ancillary physical plant and energy storage) I'd consider putting up a small solar farm. Hell, forget the storage system: just buy a synchronized inverter and feed it back into the grid. Let the power company buy it from you.
In fact theres not very many Jewish physicists, because of the risk of accidently entangling yourself with a passing insect or even a flamboyantly gay bosun.
I think you meant to say boson. If not...
Hellooooo thailor!
No, I believe he was referring to the "Higgs Bosom."
Wow, look at the photon torpedos on THAT babe!
Phasers on fun, Mr. Sulu!
Goddamn tax-intoxicated politicians, on the other hand, are far more likely to cause a heart attack.
Where I live, taxes will pay for that. Free health care -- those bloodsucking leeches!
Health care is never free. Whether you're talking government-run socialized medical systems (ala Germany or Canada) or those based upon private insurance like the U.S., the money comes from somewhere. The term "free health care" is a misnomer. You probably look down on the United States because it doesn't offer "free" health care to anyone, by heavily taxing everyone else. That works in some places (more or less) but would be highly unlikely to work here. The reality is, though, that there's plenty of "free" health care in America: it's just not available to those who provide the bulk of the funds.
I'm an American, so I'm fortunate that my taxes go to pay for "free" health care to those who can't work, won't work, or are in my country illegally. Believe me, there's plenty of "free" health care in the United States. Unfortunately, little to none of it is available to me as a gainfully-employed U.S. citizen who pays his taxes on time and in full, so it comes out of my salary instead. I get screwed on both ends, and medical care is only one of the many ways that the government burns my tax dollars.
So you'll forgive me if I'm a little bitter about the way my government(s) handle my money. They're not very good at it, and I really don't see that giving them even more of my hard-earned cash will help.
He and other state officials say it is a matter of fairness
That is such bullshit. If you want to make it "fair", eliminate the sales tax on brick & mortar operations.
What? That wouldn't be fair to the State you say? Well, how about you find some fiscal responsibility so you won't need so much tax revenue in the first place. If you want to talk about fairness, that would be a far better place to start than simply finding another taxation opportunity.
Bloodsucking leeches, all of them. Although I'm not really being fair to the leech. At least that little bloodsucker will give you an effective anticoagulant in exchange for a bit of your circulatory fluid, maybe help prevent a heart attack or a stroke. Goddamn tax-intoxicated politicians, on the other hand, are far more likely to cause a heart attack.
Most of me wishes TPB will wipe the floor with the vile scum that are the plaintiffs. But really, I know that if TPB win, things will just get worse as the plaintiffs will seek to defend their revolting monopolies in ever more extreme ways elsewhere. They'll be like Agent Smith: just bringing in more and more lawyers.
So you're saying that our only hope is Keanu Reeves?
Christ. We are so screwed.
Hacking websites is illegal (Unathorized access etc.).
May be illegal. The New World Order hasn't become quite that all-encompassing yet. It gets even more complicated when you're cracking a site in another country.
Indexing, linking and storing the result of mathematical operations isn't.
Depends upon where you are. The laws of various countries are still struggling to figure out how to deal with the Internet. By and large they're not doing a very good job of it, that's true.
Hang on, I'm confused. Was the shit about some shit more shit than the other shit, or was the first shit's shit the most shit?
George Carlin, is that you? Oh yeah, that's right ...
Do you have a link to what was the original intent of copyright?
Here you go: The United States Constitution
I have no idea what the original intention of copyright was in the TPB's part of the world (Europe has a different view of such matters, although we're trying to "harmonize" ourselves with the EU for some reason) but here in the United States it goes like this:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
better than they're. or there.
Dude, we're talking The Pirate Bay here ... it's thar!.
Personally, English is my zeroth language.
There speaks a software engineer. Either that, or you were born zero-based.
Because while we _should_ be evaluating the products based on their individual merits, liking the guy actually makes you like his products too, and hating him makes you find more faults in his products.
Does that include John W. "Try my product!" Scherer of Video Professor fame? I can't stand that dipstick, and I wouldn't "try his product" for that reason alone.
Same as any other dog - biscuits, slow cats and the taste of its own genitals.
We need to be able to mod to +10 Funny ... had me in stitches this one.
No shit. Another poster suggested a "+5 Fucking Epic" mod recently.
That's the first Slashdot post in some time that got me to laugh out loud.
"Cease fire boys, we got 'em where we want 'em!"
Or as Captain Kirk once said, "We have them just where they want us."
To whomever modded me flambait:
Your irony counter is illegally parked not-on-slashdot. Please move it, or I'll have it towed in here ;-) ... I love Canadians, especially when on strike ;)
The true irony is that your original comment eventually earned a +5 Funny ... and your complaint was modded Flamebait.
You should be more patient.
Thanks, I just lost my MSI Wind after I spewed a mouthful of water onto the keyboard.
Yeah, he got me too. Russotto earned that +5 Funny.