Well you got to admit it's a good defence when the RIAA's lawyers are saying that open source people are obviously Communist Wierdoes. you could just say look at all of these films we've reviewed How could we have watched these and be UnAmerican?
. America is just a different culture -- it IS more violent here. I don't know why. But it isn't the guns.
so a drunken argument can escalate how far in the US and how far in the UK, and you see no link between death rates, cultural violence and the posession of guns, Are you intentionally blind?
No he's practicing, and when he get's good enough at one of the games, he's going to chalenge George to a game. He'll put up Iraq as his stake, If George put's up California. Whatever happen's It'll permanently alter the balance it the electoral college
In some cases this isn't an advantage. Look for example at household goods. We see that a vast majority are built with planned obsalecence. About ten years ago the BBC did a history series on household goods which I unfortunately cannot remember the title of. The two presenters spent much of their time ripping apart washing machines, fridges etc. and then showing you how they worked and how the design had changed during the years. (and some of the time building Huge sculptures out of them. At one point they did say that Every household item now had less lifespan than it's counterpart from ten years ago, apart from the Television, Which was now far longer lasting and more reliable.
Surely the states have much more important things to worry about than wether they get to design the ballot papers?
Surely Florida voters should be much more concerned that a large part of their state is due to dissapear underwater in the next century. This piece of states rights campaigning is at best irrelevent and at worst somewhat pathetic.
Re:I've got one of these running already.
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I may be paranoid, but how do we know that you're not an evil spammer trawling for our email addresses? Invite us to your site and the next thing we know we have half a ton of the rubish in our inboxes
Actually a lot of us are bothered it seems that a reasonable percentage of you are going to vote for a man who would loose a battle of wits with a pot plant. You're going to give him controll of all those missiles pointed at the rest of the world now why shouldn't we be bothered, after all he makes Regan look bright and that's something I didn't think I'd see soon.
It all comes down to the fact that If you sort it out with the sysadmin first and work with them then they are far more likely to say yes to the install than if they just happen to find your machine sitting on the network. especially if you have made a small mistake in the install script that screws up the local segment. If you have talked first and IT feels that they are partners in testing new equipment on the network (without them having to take time from all the other pressing jobs that people want them to do right now.) then they are generally going to describe you as 'helping in security testing' when a network segment dissapears and a selection of your collegues suddenly start shouting because things are not going well in their electronic workspace.If however they don't know about it then they will be out for blood
Some IT people are NAZI's and you won't get anywhere with this approach, but then you know that If they find you running unauthorised software on their system then they are the ones who are going to hand you over to management with a large sign that says 'kick me' taped to your back.
Speaking as a sysadmin If I know that someone is running an exotic OS variant on a section of the network then When things go wrong I can get the service up and running for the rest of my users that much quicker. We fairly often get the idea from users that we just think the network is run for our benefit, I have yet to meet a sysadmin who thinks this way. from the sysadmin's point of view the major problem is the individual user who is of the opinion that the entire system is run for their benefit.
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Couldn't agree more. I once managed to hold down a job for a magnificent 14 minutes Things started badly when everyone at the table with me got up one at a time and yelled their days achivements at the top of their lungs to the boss. When he then stood up and said 'we will now sing the company song' and everyone 'cept me got up and took him seriously I think in his mind I was halfway out the door. the thing that really did it was that I finally described my days work as 'enlightening' in a tone that was (hopefully) dripping with irony. By the time I'd returned to my house he'd already phoned to say that he didn't think that I really fitted in with the company.
Dear sir, It has come to my attention that the internet contains a 'black hole simulator.'We have had many complaints about violence in films and video games leading to children becoming murderes and increasing the level of violence in our society. If this Black hole simulator is allowed to exist we will soon be overwhelmed by a wave of mad scientists, willing to attempt to create a black hole in their workshops. We are already seeing Genetically modified food crops, how long before they are raiding the graveyards for spare parts. Yours
It's not the fact that people are trainable that is important, It's more the fact that they have spent three years working without detailed instructions that is important.
You can say go and set up this system for me and you don't have to hold their hand through every stage in the process, They are used to working out each what they need to do to complete the task rather than you having to tell them every detail of the process.
No for you to add the pirate bit to the end you'd have to storm the record company exec's luxury yacht, Burn it, sink it, and make off with all of his women and whatever gold coinage he had aboard.
So if the content providers have this level of control, then they can do they same as they do on game consoles? Subsidise the hardware and make the profits back on the software? Then just to push the paranoia up that touch further seeing as they seem to think they can licence everything to us rather than sell it to us the next step is to provide licences with the hardware (probably on the grounds that they've got software written onto the hardware.) then if we use 'unaproved' software (read open source) then they won't be getting their dollar here and there through our using their net based software so they can come and take our hardware back for breaking their licence conditions?
Is it me or am I just being driven to paranoia by these people?
So will quantum computers follow Moore's law only if we don't look at them whilst were developing them? if we sit down and develop every possible 20 atom computer? will the only one that we are left with be the one that works?
but if they don't kick him off under their terms of service, it would provide all sorts of legal ammunition to those people who think they have been kicked off unfairly in the mettalica case. It would appear that they are applying their rules in a biassed way so their legal situation would get more twisted than it already is
but when you've got a family or something, you're treading on unsteady ground. Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes (but to a lesser extent with cigs).
So what they do is send me an individual PGP key for my vote, let me vote using it so they know it's me and not anyone else, then if I didn't vote the right way come round and kick my door in demanding that I give them the key under the new RIP bill. seeing as i can't provide it I get carted off and miss the next set of elections in two years time. isn't it wonderful to see a police state sprouting before your eyes
Another program on the BBC about the public records office had one of their archivists saying that the biggest problem was not recently created systems, the ammount of space on new technology always exceeded the ammount of space on the older technology to such an extent that it was relatively simple to keep an up to date copy of the records. They reckon the big problem for records is earlier in the century, with the take up of the telephone, with the novelty of that there is a vastly reduced ammount of official paperwork for the historian.
Slashdot Mirror
At that speed it'll shatter Icebergs
Well you got to admit it's a good defence when the RIAA's lawyers are saying that open source people are obviously Communist Wierdoes.
you could just say look at all of these films we've reviewed How could we have watched these and be UnAmerican?
. America is just a different culture -- it IS more violent here. I don't know why. But it isn't the guns.
so a drunken argument can escalate how far in the US and how far in the UK, and you see no link between death rates, cultural violence and the posession of guns, Are you intentionally blind?
No he's practicing, and when he get's good enough at one of the games, he's going to chalenge George to a game. He'll put up Iraq as his stake, If George put's up California. Whatever happen's It'll permanently alter the balance it the electoral college
In some cases this isn't an advantage. Look for example at household goods. We see that a vast majority are built with planned obsalecence. About ten years ago the BBC did a history series on household goods which I unfortunately cannot remember the title of. The two presenters spent much of their time ripping apart washing machines, fridges etc. and then showing you how they worked and how the design had changed during the years. (and some of the time building Huge sculptures out of them. At one point they did say that Every household item now had less lifespan than it's counterpart from ten years ago, apart from the Television, Which was now far longer lasting and more reliable.
Yes and the average speed of cars in the cities runs at about 8 MPH during rush hour periods.
Surely the states have much more important things to worry about than wether they get to design the ballot papers?
Surely Florida voters should be much more concerned that a large part of their state is due to dissapear underwater in the next century. This piece of states rights campaigning is at best irrelevent and at worst somewhat pathetic.
I may be paranoid, but how do we know that you're not an evil spammer trawling for our email addresses? Invite us to your site and the next thing we know we have half a ton of the rubish in our inboxes
Actually a lot of us are bothered it seems that a reasonable percentage of you are going to vote for a man who would loose a battle of wits with a pot plant. You're going to give him controll of all those missiles pointed at the rest of the world now why shouldn't we be bothered, after all he makes Regan look bright and that's something I didn't think I'd see soon.
It all comes down to the fact that If you sort it out with the sysadmin first and work with them then they are far more likely to say yes to the install than if they just happen to find your machine sitting on the network. especially if you have made a small mistake in the install script that screws up the local segment. If you have talked first and IT feels that they are partners in testing new equipment on the network (without them having to take time from all the other pressing jobs that people want them to do right now.) then they are generally going to describe you as 'helping in security testing' when a network segment dissapears and a selection of your collegues suddenly start shouting because things are not going well in their electronic workspace.If however they don't know about it then they will be out for blood
Some IT people are NAZI's and you won't get anywhere with this approach, but then you know that If they find you running unauthorised software on their system then they are the ones who are going to hand you over to management with a large sign that says 'kick me' taped to your back.
Speaking as a sysadmin If I know that someone is running an exotic OS variant on a section of the network then When things go wrong I can get the service up and running for the rest of my users that much quicker. We fairly often get the idea from users that we just think the network is run for our benefit, I have yet to meet a sysadmin who thinks this way. from the sysadmin's point of view the major problem is the individual user who is of the opinion that the entire system is run for their benefit.
So are they laughing at us or fighting us?
Couldn't agree more. I once managed to hold down a job for a magnificent 14 minutes Things started badly when everyone at the table with me got up one at a time and yelled their days achivements at the top of their lungs to the boss. When he then stood up and said 'we will now sing the company song' and everyone 'cept me got up and took him seriously I think in his mind I was halfway out the door. the thing that really did it was that I finally described my days work as 'enlightening' in a tone that was (hopefully) dripping with irony. By the time I'd returned to my house he'd already phoned to say that he didn't think that I really fitted in with the company.
Some firms just aren't worth working for.
From a letter to a congessman
Dear sir,
It has come to my attention that the internet contains a 'black hole simulator.'We have had many complaints about violence in films and video games leading to children becoming murderes and increasing the level of violence in our society. If this Black hole simulator is allowed to exist we will soon be overwhelmed by a wave of mad scientists, willing to attempt to create a black hole in their workshops. We are already seeing Genetically modified food crops, how long before they are raiding the graveyards for spare parts.
Yours
xxxxxxxxxx
Names changed to protect the Insane
It's not the fact that people are trainable that is important, It's more the fact that they have spent three years working without detailed instructions that is important.
You can say go and set up this system for me and you don't have to hold their hand through every stage in the process, They are used to working out each what they need to do to complete the task rather than you having to tell them every detail of the process.
Two large Geezers who come round and say
'You have an option, stop or we break your legs'
lets face it, the government is more efficent at collecting money than any corporation you can name.
First time I've seen Government efficiency held up as an example in these forums
No for you to add the pirate bit to the end you'd have to storm the record company exec's luxury yacht, Burn it, sink it, and make off with all of his women and whatever gold coinage he had aboard.
So if the content providers have this level of control, then they can do they same as they do on game consoles?
Subsidise the hardware and make the profits back on the software?
Then just to push the paranoia up that touch further seeing as they seem to think they can licence everything to us rather than sell it to us the next step is to provide licences with the hardware (probably on the grounds that they've got software written onto the hardware.) then if we use 'unaproved' software (read open source) then they won't be getting their dollar here and there through our using their net based software so they can come and take our hardware back for breaking their licence conditions?
Is it me or am I just being driven to paranoia by these people?
So will quantum computers follow Moore's law only if we don't look at them whilst were developing them?
if we sit down and develop every possible 20 atom computer? will the only one that we are left with be the one that works?
New Farts, In the UK try William Hague he was 40 by the time he was 16
but if they don't kick him off under their terms of service, it would provide all sorts of legal ammunition to those people who think they have been kicked off unfairly in the mettalica case. It would appear that they are applying their rules in a biassed way so their legal situation would get more twisted than it already is
but when you've got a family or something, you're treading on unsteady ground. Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes (but to a lesser extent with cigs).
BAN ALL DRUGS (but not mine please)
We don't put people in jail for having AIDS, do we?
Don't go giving these people ideas.
So what they do is send me an individual PGP key for my vote, let me vote using it so they know it's me and not anyone else, then if I didn't vote the right way come round and kick my door in demanding that I give them the key under the new RIP bill. seeing as i can't provide it I get carted off and miss the next set of elections in two years time. isn't it wonderful to see a police state sprouting before your eyes
at last I see why they need the new powers
Another program on the BBC about the public records office had one of their archivists saying that the biggest problem was not recently created systems, the ammount of space on new technology always exceeded the ammount of space on the older technology to such an extent that it was relatively simple to keep an up to date copy of the records.
They reckon the big problem for records is earlier in the century, with the take up of the telephone, with the novelty of that there is a vastly reduced ammount of official paperwork for the historian.