Is that on one of the Solaris install CDs? Or is it just available from sunfreeware?
A couple years back, I worked at a mid-size datacenter that used Sun boxes almost exclusively (Solaris 2.6 and 7), and as far as I remember, we had to manually install bash (meaning, there wasn't an option during install to install it).
Count on it: A-Rod failed to steal Nomar's job, so now he's gunning for Jeter's. $252 mil can't buy you class.
Sounds like a sourpuss Red Sox fan, to me. And no, I'm not a Yankees fan at all, but I've kept up with this whole trade and if there's anyone to blame, its the genius running the Red Sox. They had the opportunity to get Rodriguez and fucked it up. And in sports, if someone's job gets "stolen", its simply because whoever "stole" it could perform it that much better. If Jeter ends up losing his job, it has nothing to do with Rodriguez's class; it will have everything to do with Jeter's ability.
Bad law (applied to) bad people is just like multiplying two negatives to equal a positive, right?
Negative. While it sounds enticing at first, the end result will be that bad law also being applied to "good" people. Just like bad people, bad laws cause harm to everyone, good or bad.
No, really, just be honest like you already have been. The people interviewing you are human too, and they can understand bad luck like anyone else. Just put your best qualities far enough out there and layoffs like this shouldn't even be a factor to the interviewer.
And don't forget IRDA and PCCARD on portables. The typical Mac fan's respone is: who needs them. In fact, for Mac fans if anything isn't available on a Mac it must be that nobody really needs it...
For one, PowerBooks do have PCCard slots. I'm fairly sure they don't have IrDA ports, but that is definitely one thing I definitely don't need--I've owned 6 laptops, 5 of which were PC laptops with IrDA ports, and never ever used an IrDA port on any of them.
At some point, manufacturers have to decide which ports to include and not include on their machines. I ended up becoming a Apple fan partly because it was the company not wasting space with parallel, serial, and all these other useless (to me) ports.
Programs such as StreamRipper32 already make it trivial to save shoutcast radio streams to mp3 files; I imagine this effect will be duplicated fairly quickly to save these streams.
Like someone else said, people are always going to find a way to get shit for free. The key to getting around this is making the stream radio quality. Ok, so people can save it, but do they really want to? At the same time, it is enough quality to give someone a good preview of the song.
they should sell these things in airports and the $7 wouldn't seem like a big deal at all.
That's the entire problem. At the airport, where people can expect to be gouged for basically everything, $7 for a disposable movie sounds about right. But these discs weren't an airport-only thing, so the majority of consumers that came across them did so in places they werent expecting to be gouged so badly (grocery stores, video stores, etc). In essence, if these discs are going for $7 at the airport, they should be going for $4 (maaaaybe $5 tops) everywhere else or people will just turn their noses up at them.
One of the main reasons I never listen to the radio is because I can't stand the quality of the audio. As well, when I got my iPod, I tried 3 different FM transmitters before giving up on them because of quality issues.
Note that I'm definitely not saying TCP/IP is the correct way to do this--I'm just saying that FM definitely isn't.
Why should people have to *pay* to receive corporate advertising?
Why should the websites that these people are seeing the ads on be forced to develop and support a website free of charge? Those sites have to pay the bills somehow, and for many, ads are the way to go. That sucks if your internet connection makes it such that larger ads cost you more. If that's the case, get your news/entertainment/what-have-you from a site that doesn't use such large ads.
Remember the outcome of the clueless cop's crusade against Steve Jackson Games?
Yah, actually. Quoting from SJ Games' own account of the whole thing, "a federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees to the game company, ruling that the raid had been careless, illegal, and completely unjustified."
So yah, of course it sucks big time. And your original machines are very likely gone forever. But, if you were really victimized, you do have recourse. And in that case, I'd definitely rather have monetary compensation than the computers that were seized and are out-of-date now.
If Apple had made the Mac expandable using some kind of external bus (something the Apple II and Commodore 64 and CP/M systems and PCs all did), there would have been a supply of external disks that would have allowed it to compete with the PC.
In the article, they specifically mention that the original Mac had a port in the back to connect an external disk. I know very little of the original Mac, so it's not like I could confirm, but I can't imagine they'd just make it up.
Quite honestly, your entire comment sounded like one of those complaint websites--pretty much a "it happened to me so it must be happening to everyone AND they must be doing it on purpose!" kinda whine.
If some company had screwed me out of $1000, I wouldn't be on the phone with a lawyer, I would be down at the courthouse spending $35 to file my small claims court case. The small claims limit in Nevada is $5000 (although I'm not sure how close this is to that of other states), which I imagine would cover the amount that was "ripped off" from most paypal "victims". And beyond that, I'd have a hard time believing that someone who was ripped off of more than $5000 in such an open-and-shut manner would have any problem getting a lawyer to take the case on contingency.
I have no problem with people speaking out when they feel they've been ripped off. In fact, it is an obvious necessity. However, I do have a problem with people who convey their belief that, "well, company X has done me wrong, so company X must be doing everyone wrong and no one, not even company X's satisified customers, should ever do business with them again!".
Point taken, but it doesn't change my point at all. Maybe pokes a hole in my example, but thats about it. My real point was that paypal must have far more satisfied customers than unsatisfied customers. Something tells me that if "millions" had really been "ripped off" by paypal, something more than a few websites with user complaints would have come of the whole problem.
At the cost of $2 per day, 5 million dollars wil sustain almost 7,000 refugees/famine victims in less privileged regions of the world for a whole year. I say let the rocket 'depart' since its no longer being used. We can keep the videos, the working diagrams, etc. and generations of the future can 'reconstruct' the rocket through virtual reality whenever they feel the need. That's merely my opinion, though.
Now now, the last thing we need around here is a practical suggestion like that.
In fact, according to the history channel's show Modern Marvels, the only human-produced sound louder than a Saturn V at lift-off is the detonation of an atomic bomb.
It is a historical irony that space exploration takes second place to mass destruction in decibel output, though. Perhaps that says something about human nature?
To me, it says that when we're gonna murder hundreds of thousands of people practically all at once, we couldn't give a shit less how loud the boom is.
Their FAQ says they use Paypal, and everyone knows how horrible Paypal is. After reading all the horror stories who's really stupid enough to give Paypal their credit card number anyway? If similar stories were written about a brand of car there would be a massive recall and government investigation, amazing how Paypal still manages to sneak by.
Just like everything else, the people not happy with something are going to be a lot more vocal than the people happy with something. I've used paypal on and off for a few years now, and know several others that have as well, and none of us have had a single problem. Something tells me that paypal has far more satisfied customers than unsatisfied customers.
...., but I cannot see a single real scenario where this truly makes a problem for anyone.
The only problem it creates for me is that it slows the application down. I'll be sticking to PS7 because it has a definite speed advantage and PS8 doesn't seem to offer many compelling reasons to upgrade. And from the forums I've read, I'm not the only one. So I guess, in the end, the only people this could really make a problem for is Adobe.
Things like movies on demand where you can order them and play them whenever you want on your cable box are whats going to happen in the near future.
This is already happening here in Las Vegas, as well as other places I'm sure. Cox Cable has what they call "Cox In Demand" on their digital cable system, which is just a particular channel that gives you a pretty little interface that lets you browse through their movie catalog. I think it costs the same as PPV ($4 IIRC), but you can pick any movie you want from their catalog to watch immediately.
Unfortunately (as was hinted at in another comment), The Big 5, acting as one, still control the material; yes, we have more middlemen ('outlets') to sell it to John Q. Public, but the middlemen have no choice in supply. Hence, 'consumers' (the term the DOJ used) still don't have any true choice.
Well, duh? How would it work where is more choice in supply for the middlemen? Another layer of leeches in the music supply chain to drive up the cost of my CD? And while you could say they have no choice for the same music, retailers are more than entitled to carry non-RIAA music, so they obviously at least have a choice in music selection. And because of this, it seems to me that John Q. Public actually has more choice, since he is now more likely to find the music of an independent artist and/or label because of these middlemen/retailers.
If one manufacturer had a monopoly on car batteries, yet I can buy said batteries from Target, Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware, and a few other stores, do I really have a choice? Is there any significant change to the monopoly status?
That's not a very solid analogy, however. The "Big 5" don't have a monopoly on music. While a particular label may have a monopoly on a particular artist, this is about all that exists (and, IMO, isn't necessarily a bad thing; see above).
I think the DOJ is wearing the wrong kind of glasses, metaphorically speaking.
In this instance, I think they hit the nail on the head. The online music situation is nothing like it was a couple years ago when this inquiry was started. What they may want to look into now, however, is how labels are able to sign artists to such long and convoluted contracts. Making that situation better may actually lessen the stronghold of the 'Big 5' on more mainstream music.
These 'reject' chips are being sold as the Athlon 64 3000+. The chips in the Emachines box you linked to are the Athlon 64 3200+. Same clock speed, the 3200+ just has twice the cache over the 3000+.
Try pulling a bulb and see if it still works (small lights not big ones)
I have several strings of small lights strung all over my house, and I know of a handful of bulbs that don't work, yet everything else is fine. I've even intentionally bought the cheapest light sets for the past 3-4 years, and not a single one has been wired in series. However, my parents did have a couple strings several years ago (~8yrs) that were wired as you say. The cheapo lights I got this year were something like $8 for a box of 450. At this price, you might wanna try some out.
The precious energy that humankind dearly needs sometimes goes waste. Wars have been fought over it and thousands of people wait in lines for fuel/gas etc. So while some might be just burning away that energy in 200,000 lights, others are starved of that energy!
Yah, because if I don't run my Christmas lights tonight, the energy situation on the other side of the globe is going to improve. Right.
Atlanta is dived in half by I-85, and it really creates a huge split in the communities of the city.
Here in Vegas, the valley where the city sits is divided in half 2 ways--southwest to northeast by I-15 and southeast to northwest by US-95. At every point along the freeways I can think of, the communities on one side of the freeway are no different from the communities on the other side. Obviously Vegas has its distinct communities like any other (fairly) large city, but I don't think the freeways have ever played any role in where/how those communities form.
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Is that on one of the Solaris install CDs? Or is it just available from sunfreeware?
A couple years back, I worked at a mid-size datacenter that used Sun boxes almost exclusively (Solaris 2.6 and 7), and as far as I remember, we had to manually install bash (meaning, there wasn't an option during install to install it).
Count on it: A-Rod failed to steal Nomar's job, so now he's gunning for Jeter's. $252 mil can't buy you class.
Sounds like a sourpuss Red Sox fan, to me. And no, I'm not a Yankees fan at all, but I've kept up with this whole trade and if there's anyone to blame, its the genius running the Red Sox. They had the opportunity to get Rodriguez and fucked it up. And in sports, if someone's job gets "stolen", its simply because whoever "stole" it could perform it that much better. If Jeter ends up losing his job, it has nothing to do with Rodriguez's class; it will have everything to do with Jeter's ability.
Bad law (applied to) bad people is just like multiplying two negatives to equal a positive, right?
Negative. While it sounds enticing at first, the end result will be that bad law also being applied to "good" people. Just like bad people, bad laws cause harm to everyone, good or bad.
Lie.
No, really, just be honest like you already have been. The people interviewing you are human too, and they can understand bad luck like anyone else. Just put your best qualities far enough out there and layoffs like this shouldn't even be a factor to the interviewer.
And don't forget IRDA and PCCARD on portables. The typical Mac fan's respone is: who needs them. In fact, for Mac fans if anything isn't available on a Mac it must be that nobody really needs it...
For one, PowerBooks do have PCCard slots. I'm fairly sure they don't have IrDA ports, but that is definitely one thing I definitely don't need--I've owned 6 laptops, 5 of which were PC laptops with IrDA ports, and never ever used an IrDA port on any of them.
At some point, manufacturers have to decide which ports to include and not include on their machines. I ended up becoming a Apple fan partly because it was the company not wasting space with parallel, serial, and all these other useless (to me) ports.
Programs such as StreamRipper32 already make it trivial to save shoutcast radio streams to mp3 files; I imagine this effect will be duplicated fairly quickly to save these streams.
Like someone else said, people are always going to find a way to get shit for free. The key to getting around this is making the stream radio quality. Ok, so people can save it, but do they really want to? At the same time, it is enough quality to give someone a good preview of the song.
they should sell these things in airports and the $7 wouldn't seem like a big deal at all.
That's the entire problem. At the airport, where people can expect to be gouged for basically everything, $7 for a disposable movie sounds about right. But these discs weren't an airport-only thing, so the majority of consumers that came across them did so in places they werent expecting to be gouged so badly (grocery stores, video stores, etc). In essence, if these discs are going for $7 at the airport, they should be going for $4 (maaaaybe $5 tops) everywhere else or people will just turn their noses up at them.
Proud owner of 5 money suckers + 1 wife.
Wouldn't that be 6 money suckers?
One of the main reasons I never listen to the radio is because I can't stand the quality of the audio. As well, when I got my iPod, I tried 3 different FM transmitters before giving up on them because of quality issues.
Note that I'm definitely not saying TCP/IP is the correct way to do this--I'm just saying that FM definitely isn't.
Why should people have to *pay* to receive corporate advertising?
Why should the websites that these people are seeing the ads on be forced to develop and support a website free of charge? Those sites have to pay the bills somehow, and for many, ads are the way to go. That sucks if your internet connection makes it such that larger ads cost you more. If that's the case, get your news/entertainment/what-have-you from a site that doesn't use such large ads.
Remember the outcome of the clueless cop's crusade against Steve Jackson Games?
Yah, actually. Quoting from SJ Games' own account of the whole thing, "a federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees to the game company, ruling that the raid had been careless, illegal, and completely unjustified."
So yah, of course it sucks big time. And your original machines are very likely gone forever. But, if you were really victimized, you do have recourse. And in that case, I'd definitely rather have monetary compensation than the computers that were seized and are out-of-date now.
If Apple had made the Mac expandable using some kind of external bus (something the Apple II and Commodore 64 and CP/M systems and PCs all did), there would have been a supply of external disks that would have allowed it to compete with the PC.
In the article, they specifically mention that the original Mac had a port in the back to connect an external disk. I know very little of the original Mac, so it's not like I could confirm, but I can't imagine they'd just make it up.
Quite honestly, your entire comment sounded like one of those complaint websites--pretty much a "it happened to me so it must be happening to everyone AND they must be doing it on purpose!" kinda whine.
If some company had screwed me out of $1000, I wouldn't be on the phone with a lawyer, I would be down at the courthouse spending $35 to file my small claims court case. The small claims limit in Nevada is $5000 (although I'm not sure how close this is to that of other states), which I imagine would cover the amount that was "ripped off" from most paypal "victims". And beyond that, I'd have a hard time believing that someone who was ripped off of more than $5000 in such an open-and-shut manner would have any problem getting a lawyer to take the case on contingency.
I have no problem with people speaking out when they feel they've been ripped off. In fact, it is an obvious necessity. However, I do have a problem with people who convey their belief that, "well, company X has done me wrong, so company X must be doing everyone wrong and no one, not even company X's satisified customers, should ever do business with them again!".
Point taken, but it doesn't change my point at all. Maybe pokes a hole in my example, but thats about it. My real point was that paypal must have far more satisfied customers than unsatisfied customers. Something tells me that if "millions" had really been "ripped off" by paypal, something more than a few websites with user complaints would have come of the whole problem.
At the cost of $2 per day, 5 million dollars wil sustain almost 7,000 refugees/famine victims in less privileged regions of the world for a whole year. I say let the rocket 'depart' since its no longer being used. We can keep the videos, the working diagrams, etc. and generations of the future can 'reconstruct' the rocket through virtual reality whenever they feel the need. That's merely my opinion, though.
Now now, the last thing we need around here is a practical suggestion like that.
In fact, according to the history channel's show Modern Marvels, the only human-produced sound louder than a Saturn V at lift-off is the detonation of an atomic bomb.
It is a historical irony that space exploration takes second place to mass destruction in decibel output, though. Perhaps that says something about human nature?
To me, it says that when we're gonna murder hundreds of thousands of people practically all at once, we couldn't give a shit less how loud the boom is.
Their FAQ says they use Paypal, and everyone knows how horrible Paypal is. After reading all the horror stories who's really stupid enough to give Paypal their credit card number anyway? If similar stories were written about a brand of car there would be a massive recall and government investigation, amazing how Paypal still manages to sneak by.
Just like everything else, the people not happy with something are going to be a lot more vocal than the people happy with something. I've used paypal on and off for a few years now, and know several others that have as well, and none of us have had a single problem. Something tells me that paypal has far more satisfied customers than unsatisfied customers.
...., but I cannot see a single real scenario where this truly makes a problem for anyone.
The only problem it creates for me is that it slows the application down. I'll be sticking to PS7 because it has a definite speed advantage and PS8 doesn't seem to offer many compelling reasons to upgrade. And from the forums I've read, I'm not the only one. So I guess, in the end, the only people this could really make a problem for is Adobe.
Things like movies on demand where you can order them and play them whenever you want on your cable box are whats going to happen in the near future.
This is already happening here in Las Vegas, as well as other places I'm sure. Cox Cable has what they call "Cox In Demand" on their digital cable system, which is just a particular channel that gives you a pretty little interface that lets you browse through their movie catalog. I think it costs the same as PPV ($4 IIRC), but you can pick any movie you want from their catalog to watch immediately.
no problem. We are in charge.. they can't sue all of us.
Ha! Good one! We are talking about the same RIAA, right?
Ask that 12yr old girl or that 78yr old grandma if they think the RIAA can't sue all of us.
Unfortunately (as was hinted at in another comment), The Big 5, acting as one, still control the material; yes, we have more middlemen ('outlets') to sell it to John Q. Public, but the middlemen have no choice in supply. Hence, 'consumers' (the term the DOJ used) still don't have any true choice.
Well, duh? How would it work where is more choice in supply for the middlemen? Another layer of leeches in the music supply chain to drive up the cost of my CD? And while you could say they have no choice for the same music, retailers are more than entitled to carry non-RIAA music, so they obviously at least have a choice in music selection. And because of this, it seems to me that John Q. Public actually has more choice, since he is now more likely to find the music of an independent artist and/or label because of these middlemen/retailers.
If one manufacturer had a monopoly on car batteries, yet I can buy said batteries from Target, Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware, and a few other stores, do I really have a choice? Is there any significant change to the monopoly status?
That's not a very solid analogy, however. The "Big 5" don't have a monopoly on music. While a particular label may have a monopoly on a particular artist, this is about all that exists (and, IMO, isn't necessarily a bad thing; see above).
I think the DOJ is wearing the wrong kind of glasses, metaphorically speaking.
In this instance, I think they hit the nail on the head. The online music situation is nothing like it was a couple years ago when this inquiry was started. What they may want to look into now, however, is how labels are able to sign artists to such long and convoluted contracts. Making that situation better may actually lessen the stronghold of the 'Big 5' on more mainstream music.
These 'reject' chips are being sold as the Athlon 64 3000+. The chips in the Emachines box you linked to are the Athlon 64 3200+. Same clock speed, the 3200+ just has twice the cache over the 3000+.
Try pulling a bulb and see if it still works (small lights not big ones)
I have several strings of small lights strung all over my house, and I know of a handful of bulbs that don't work, yet everything else is fine. I've even intentionally bought the cheapest light sets for the past 3-4 years, and not a single one has been wired in series. However, my parents did have a couple strings several years ago (~8yrs) that were wired as you say. The cheapo lights I got this year were something like $8 for a box of 450. At this price, you might wanna try some out.
The precious energy that humankind dearly needs sometimes goes waste. Wars have been fought over it and thousands of people wait in lines for fuel/gas etc. So while some might be just burning away that energy in 200,000 lights, others are starved of that energy!
Yah, because if I don't run my Christmas lights tonight, the energy situation on the other side of the globe is going to improve. Right.
Atlanta is dived in half by I-85, and it really creates a huge split in the communities of the city.
Here in Vegas, the valley where the city sits is divided in half 2 ways--southwest to northeast by I-15 and southeast to northwest by US-95. At every point along the freeways I can think of, the communities on one side of the freeway are no different from the communities on the other side. Obviously Vegas has its distinct communities like any other (fairly) large city, but I don't think the freeways have ever played any role in where/how those communities form.