I must say I'm not happy that an corporation can have the ability to inject their views through the public school systems. Reguardless of the moral and/or legal messages they have, corporations should not more influence on children in public school than organized religion.
Hopefully some of the more intelligent students will see that it is propaganda and organize against this. If enough of them agree and get there parents involved then is should be possible to get this kicked out of the schools.
Yes a niche market but a good market that was not yet saturated. It not just geeks that want to have a cool toy. I got my kit back in 1999 used it for a few months. After I got board with using it in my little apartment I felt I was being lazy using X10 and that I could get my ass off the couch to turn the light on/off. So I gave it to my grandmother who has arthritis. She has a lot of trouble walking and getting up to switch lights and fans on and off so she loved it. I even got her a few extra plugs so she could control more lights. The x10 products were not that expensive for the use she got out of them.
Not if it was third party software makers. I'd love it if windows came bundled with
Mozilla
winzip
winamp
cdex
openoffice
dvd Xcopy
mirc
gaim or trillian
wsftp
vnc
nero
acrobat reader
quicken
photoshop
norton antivirus
ad-aware
sun jvm
It would save me a few hours of downloading and installing software on a new machine
Another notable to the/. crowd
"But when the RIAA goes after a 12-year-old girl or confused pensioner, who are they going to call? Of course the answer could well be leading IP lawyer Fred von Lohmann from the Electronic Frontier Foundation"
Firmware is storage device just like a hard drive is a storage device. Both of them contain software. Also if you had the source code for your linksys you could have it do what ever you wanted.
"How come stupid nenderthal mob guys are so good at crime and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it." - Michael
"They are more experenced at it... we are new to it."
- Samir
I've worked with people from Asia, England, Germany, India, and oursouced projects in Ireland and Brazil. I think my arguement holds true there. Russians and Eastern Europeans are two groups that I haven't worked with yet. However seeing how both regions were oppressed for so long I could see how people from there would act that way.
You missed the point. There is a different culture in america then there is anywhere else in the world. Americans in general, are more agressive, will speak up, and give feedback more than a person from another culture. This is one reason why the US is the strongest economic country in the world.
The author was dead on with his comparison just like if I said Asians are shorter than Europeans. Yes Yao Ming is like 7' 5", but that doesn't mean that the generalization in incorrect.
Correct, for regular credit cards. However for anyone with a visa check card the rules are different. Its something like $50 if reported within 3 days then your liability jumps up to $500. Give your bank a call to get the full details.
Bullshit, there are perfectly valid reasons for a "consumer" to have their own smtp server.
1. No censorship. AOL, other ISP, and blacklist block tons of valid (non-spamming) email servers on the net. With my own server I can choose who I do and do not want to block.
2. As much email storage as I want. Hotmail gives you what? 2MB. If I want to keep all my emails to grandma, I can. I don't have to delete stuff if I don't want to due to a quota. Out of space? Go buy another hard drive.
3. The type of email server I that want. Name an ISP that provides IMAP as a basic service. How about SSL encrypted mail.
4. Security/Privacy - yes email can be sniffed but its much more likely that some asshole admin at AOL reads though your mail.
5. I don't want to advertise for an ISP. Everytime you sent an email from dumbass@aol.com or beerstud23@msn.com you are advertising for them. Geeze would you walk to down the street wearing a shirt saying "Nike" on it?.. er, wait... would you go down the street with a shirt that says Hilary Clinton Rules? Same thing, Anyone with a adelphia.net address like being associated with criminals? Some us choose not to be human billboards.
6. A lot of business class connections still block ports.
The difference being is that the Linux kernel has a QA process. Further the linux distributions also have a QA process. Drivers that "some guy" made, reguardless of how good of a programmer is, may not have a QA process. If the drivers then get pulled into XFree86 than they likely get tested at that point.
Who the hell ever thought up writting cursive anyway. Many people that I know that write in cursive and have hand writting that I can't read. Not the new kiddies that grew up with computers but the older adults. I grew up writting in print because I learn to written from my mother. She wrote in print because she was a nurse and her notes had to be legable to the next nurse that came to take over her shift. I value having people being able to clearly understand what I write rather than how pretty it lokks. Now because of this my hand writting look ugly and down right sloppy but I can read and everyone else can too. If I wanted to be all artsy fartsy about my handwritting I'll get a caligraphy pen and do it right.
I think there are some classes that just can't effectively be taught online. One glaring example is Public Speaking. My college offers it as an online class. I heard they did taped speeches and such. How am I supposed to perfect my "pretend everyone is in their underware" technique with out a public audience in front of me?
Thanks to SCO (Santa Cloneaid Operations) never again will have have to sit through another lame "yea, we saved Christmas" Chritsmas special. SCO will just make lots of Santa clones so even if Santa gets kidnapped on Christmas eve, again, by the evil villian that hates Christmas, we will have lots of other cloned Santas ready to take his place and deliver presents around the world.
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I must say I'm not happy that an corporation can have the ability to inject their views through the public school systems. Reguardless of the moral and/or legal messages they have, corporations should not more influence on children in public school than organized religion.
Hopefully some of the more intelligent students will see that it is propaganda and organize against this. If enough of them agree and get there parents involved then is should be possible to get this kicked out of the schools.
Yes a niche market but a good market that was not yet saturated. It not just geeks that want to have a cool toy. I got my kit back in 1999 used it for a few months. After I got board with using it in my little apartment I felt I was being lazy using X10 and that I could get my ass off the couch to turn the light on/off. So I gave it to my grandmother who has arthritis. She has a lot of trouble walking and getting up to switch lights and fans on and off so she loved it. I even got her a few extra plugs so she could control more lights. The x10 products were not that expensive for the use she got out of them.
gosh I hope not since X10 likely has prior art over any X11 patents
I have the same high CPU usage here, PIII 733Mhz with 256MB. Never this bad with winamp
Me and Tony are doing very well in the waste Management Business
Not if it was third party software makers. I'd love it if windows came bundled with
Mozilla
winzip
winamp
cdex
openoffice
dvd Xcopy
mirc
gaim or trillian
wsftp
vnc
nero
acrobat reader
quicken
photoshop
norton antivirus
ad-aware
sun jvm
It would save me a few hours of downloading and installing software on a new machine
Another notable to the /. crowd
"But when the RIAA goes after a 12-year-old girl or confused pensioner, who are they going to call? Of course the answer could well be leading IP lawyer Fred von Lohmann from the Electronic Frontier Foundation"
But Imagine how much more of a problem spam would be now if there had not been a push years ago to stop open relaying.
It would also heavily affect the nice people that run email list servers like CERT.
You are already paying tax and regulatory fees for your cable and DSL lines. Why should you have to pay them again for VoIP?
Firmware is storage device just like a hard drive is a storage device. Both of them contain software. Also if you had the source code for your linksys you could have it do what ever you wanted.
No PIM (Outlook)
You can buy outlook separate for under $100. Outlook plus the cost of Staroffice is still way less that the full office package.
"How come stupid nenderthal mob guys are so good at crime and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it." - Michael "They are more experenced at it... we are new to it." - Samir
I've worked with people from Asia, England, Germany, India, and oursouced projects in Ireland and Brazil. I think my arguement holds true there. Russians and Eastern Europeans are two groups that I haven't worked with yet. However seeing how both regions were oppressed for so long I could see how people from there would act that way.
You missed the point. There is a different culture in america then there is anywhere else in the world. Americans in general, are more agressive, will speak up, and give feedback more than a person from another culture. This is one reason why the US is the strongest economic country in the world. The author was dead on with his comparison just like if I said Asians are shorter than Europeans. Yes Yao Ming is like 7' 5", but that doesn't mean that the generalization in incorrect.
Correct, for regular credit cards. However for anyone with a visa check card the rules are different. Its something like $50 if reported within 3 days then your liability jumps up to $500. Give your bank a call to get the full details.
Bullshit, there are perfectly valid reasons for a "consumer" to have their own smtp server.
1. No censorship. AOL, other ISP, and blacklist block tons of valid (non-spamming) email servers on the net. With my own server I can choose who I do and do not want to block.
2. As much email storage as I want. Hotmail gives you what? 2MB. If I want to keep all my emails to grandma, I can. I don't have to delete stuff if I don't want to due to a quota. Out of space? Go buy another hard drive.
3. The type of email server I that want. Name an ISP that provides IMAP as a basic service. How about SSL encrypted mail.
4. Security/Privacy - yes email can be sniffed but its much more likely that some asshole admin at AOL reads though your mail.
5. I don't want to advertise for an ISP. Everytime you sent an email from dumbass@aol.com or beerstud23@msn.com you are advertising for them. Geeze would you walk to down the street wearing a shirt saying "Nike" on it?.. er, wait... would you go down the street with a shirt that says Hilary Clinton Rules? Same thing, Anyone with a adelphia.net address like being associated with criminals? Some us choose not to be human billboards.
6. A lot of business class connections still block ports.
True, but if its a game that is in anyway related to a movie or TV show that theory go right out the window
I don't think that have gone that far yet with Windows in general. They did make this statement about IIS though.
The difference being is that the Linux kernel has a QA process. Further the linux distributions also have a QA process. Drivers that "some guy" made, reguardless of how good of a programmer is, may not have a QA process. If the drivers then get pulled into XFree86 than they likely get tested at that point.
Who the hell ever thought up writting cursive anyway. Many people that I know that write in cursive and have hand writting that I can't read. Not the new kiddies that grew up with computers but the older adults. I grew up writting in print because I learn to written from my mother. She wrote in print because she was a nurse and her notes had to be legable to the next nurse that came to take over her shift. I value having people being able to clearly understand what I write rather than how pretty it lokks. Now because of this my hand writting look ugly and down right sloppy but I can read and everyone else can too. If I wanted to be all artsy fartsy about my handwritting I'll get a caligraphy pen and do it right.
I think there are some classes that just can't effectively be taught online. One glaring example is Public Speaking. My college offers it as an online class. I heard they did taped speeches and such. How am I supposed to perfect my "pretend everyone is in their underware" technique with out a public audience in front of me?
Tony Danza of course!!!
Can you imagine how much more spam would be relayed through insecured asian mail servers if they had access to twice as many IP addresses.
Thanks to SCO (Santa Cloneaid Operations) never again will have have to sit through another lame "yea, we saved Christmas" Chritsmas special. SCO will just make lots of Santa clones so even if Santa gets kidnapped on Christmas eve, again, by the evil villian that hates Christmas, we will have lots of other cloned Santas ready to take his place and deliver presents around the world.