What I want is the ability to order a laptop void of any OS at all!!!
I came across a bit of tech news, no more than a filler, really: Dell had committed to purchasing 300,000 14 inch wide-screen laptopsa month from a single Chinese supplier.
There is little interest and scant profit in servicing the Geek market.
Don't worry, Wal-mart will never buckle down to pressure from Microsoft.
Linux has become all but invisible at Walmart.com. There are limited prospects for after-market sales in Linux and maintaing a separate Linux inventory doesn't make sense for a mass-market retailer.
It worries me that no one here has given a thought to who may be behind these scams. Organized crime may be behind phishing "Fools rush in" and all that.
There is also a big practical difference between a crime against another criminal (who is unlikely to report or prosecute) and a crime against a non-crimial
The criminal deals with his own kind in his own way. You may want to think about that before you turn vigilante.
Dufus, he asked about copy rights. Not property rights. At the bottom of some copyrighted material do you see a (P)? No, it's (C) because it's C-O-P-Y right
In a modern commercial society, property is most simply defined as a bundle of rights which can be bought and sold, and whose ownership is backed by the power of the state.
In a true capitalist society would patents & copyrights even exist ? I don't believe so, they're incompatible with that philosophy.
Capitalism is based on private investment, trade in goods and services which are not provided by the state, church, or community. You do not get investment where private property rights are not protected.
time has shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that (American) consumers prefer simple, function-specific devices to big clunky overcomplicated do-it-all boxes
The big do-it-all box doesn't seem to have hurt Dell's sales.
The integrated stereo -- now home theater -- system was displacing component audio forty-five years ago. Fisher Model 800-B Receiver (1962)
Camera phone sales are skyrocketing. 36 percent of shipments in 2004, an estimated 55 percent this year, 87 percent in 2009 Restrictions placed on camera phones
One day there won't be a need for "voice actors" just as CGI is replacing actors and 'muppets' (eg Yoda)
CGI doesn't replace the actor. The animator is the actor. The "voice actor" is an actor. Character animation and voice must merge to create a unified performance.
I definately feel safer knowing that DHS is tackling major problems like downloading movies.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was folded into the DHS. Investigations into money laundering. the illegal trade in arts and antiquities, intellectual property crimes with an international dimension, are all part of the job. ICE Internet Home Page
The eight year old Lake Worth Florida girl rescued earlier this week identified her attacker, who promptly confessed. Girl buried alive thanks God for rescue
In a criminal trial, the credibility of a witness is for the jury to decide. A judge will not disallow a child's testimony based on a claim that police elsewhere have rewarded children for claims of sexual abuse. You must make a persuasive showing that this child was psychologically manipulated.
A good storyteller makes the story his own. You will never hear a genuine folk tale told twice the same way, nothing is set in stone, or feels as if it has been written-by-committee.
Microsoft's popular with clueless university admins (and politicians for state schools) because they donate zillions of dollars worth of software.
There isn't a school system, college or university, within ninety miles that hasn't found a ready market for day and evening courses in Microsoft software. This is something employers want. Microsoft has strength at ground level.
Yes, I have always wanted to see with a 45-degree view what there is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean;)
off-shore platforms. ships at sea. a rogue wave, if it could be detected and tracked... the north atlantic is one of the most truely wild and changeable environments on earth.
Please tell us where you work that employees find themselves in a position to require 911 service daily.
a sheltered work program for the disabled. light industrial. all the ordinary risks of accident and fire on the shop floor plus 150 clients who may need emergency medical services, advanced life support, at any moment.
No commercials, new episodes, no network censors. I'll be the first in line
I have to register a dissenting vote here.
Futurama's pop-culture gags were stale. recycled, worn-out.
The Simpsons is built around the dynamic of the family, you care about the family, satire in the Simpsons can be stinging and timely, but it doesn't carry a series for sixteen years.
Futurama's rightful center is Leela and Fry, "two lost souls on the highway of life." Watching Fry grow into an adult relationship with Leela is deeply satisfying and richly comic.
But the temptation has always been to fall back on the easier laughs you can get with Bender.
I like blaming religion for stuff too, but in this case, you can't really pin it on them.
Classical Greek thought was rooted in deductions based on first principles. Think of the elegant abstractions of Euclidean geometry. Archimedes was very much the outsider in his taste for experiment and in learning from the imperfections of the real world.
That makes it all the more striking that Archimedes was known and read in Christian Byzantium for 900 years, 300-1200 AD, and influced the design the great 6th C. church of the Hagia Sophia.
The Archimedes Palimpsest rested somewhere in the libraries of Constantinople for 200 years before being erased in the years of chaos which followed the sacking of the city in the Fourth Crusade of 1204 Archimedes Palimpsest.
You could forgive the surviving scriptoriums for thinking that the civilizing influence of their prayer books was more urgently needed than instruction in higher mathematics.
I think you have pretty well summed up why no one is chomping at the bit to host Freenet or Tor. If you can't define and limit your exposure, the risk is not acceptable. If free speech is the rallying cry, but the trade in child pornography the reality, you can make a principled decision to opt out.
They would have to compromise too many nodes to make it worthwhile.
I am not convinced that 100 nodes would be out of reach of the FBI, which has co-ordinated the investigation and arrest of hundreds of suspects and fugitives in a single campaign. But, if even as few as ten nodes are compromised, who will trust the remaining ninety?
'cept that it wouldn't be deliberate at all in this case...
But it can become deliberate if you continue to obstruct an investigation after being warned of the danger. You can't "take the fifth," defy a search warrant, if there is reason to believe that criminal traffic is being routed through your node, or relevant information stored on your hard drive.
To put this in perspective, traditonal goatskin parchment currently sells for about $17 USD a square foot. Pergamena
Take goatskins ( 1 ) and stand them in water for a day and a night. Take them and wash them till the water runs clear ( 2 ). Take an entirely new bath and place therein old lime (calcem non recentem) and water mixing well together to for a thick cloudy liquor. Place the skins into this, folding them on the flesh side. Move them with a pole two or three times each day, leaving them for eight days (and twice as long in winter) ( 3 ).
Next you must withdraw the skins and unhair them ( 4 ). Pour off the contents of the bath and repeat the process using the same quantities, placing the skins in the lime liquor, and moving them once each day over eight days as before ( 5 ).
Then take them out and wash them well until the water runs quite clean ( 6 ). Place them in another bath with clean water and leave them for two days ( 7 ).
Then take them out, attach the cords and tie them to the circular frame ( 8 ). Dry, then shave them with a sharp knife, after which, leave for two days out of the sun...( 9 ) moisten with water and rub the flesh side with powdered pumice ( 10 ). After two days wet it again by sprinkling with a little water and fully clean the flesh side with pumice so as to make it quite wet again ( 11 ). Then tighten up the cords, equalise the tension so that the sheet will become permanent. Once the sheets are dry, nothing further remains to be done ( 12 ). Parchment, the recipe
The article only accounts for 63%. That leaves 37% as either testing Linux or deploying it. And the annual figures for server sales seem to show increasing Linux sales>
The question is whether that 37% is simply migrating from Unix to Linux on the server.
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I came across a bit of tech news, no more than a filler, really: Dell had committed to purchasing 300,000 14 inch wide-screen laptops a month from a single Chinese supplier.
There is little interest and scant profit in servicing the Geek market.
It would be pretty hard to find someone in the market for a laptop who hasn't touched a keyboard and has no experience with Windows.
Linux has become all but invisible at Walmart.com.
There are limited prospects for after-market sales in Linux and maintaing a separate Linux inventory doesn't make sense for a mass-market retailer.
It worries me that no one here has given a thought to who may be behind these scams. Organized crime may be behind phishing "Fools rush in" and all that.
The criminal deals with his own kind in his own way. You may want to think about that before you turn vigilante.
In a modern commercial society, property is most simply defined as a bundle of rights which can be bought and sold, and whose ownership is backed by the power of the state.
Capitalism is based on private investment, trade in goods and services which are not provided by the state, church, or community.
You do not get investment where private property rights are not protected.
The big do-it-all box doesn't seem to have hurt Dell's sales.
The integrated stereo -- now home theater -- system was displacing component audio forty-five years ago. Fisher Model 800-B Receiver (1962)
Camera phone sales are skyrocketing. 36 percent of shipments in 2004, an estimated 55 percent this year, 87 percent in 2009 Restrictions placed on camera phones
CGI doesn't replace the actor. The animator is the actor. The "voice actor" is an actor. Character animation and voice must merge to create a unified performance.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was folded into the DHS.
Investigations into money laundering. the illegal trade in arts and antiquities, intellectual property crimes with an international dimension, are all part of the job. ICE Internet Home Page
The eight year old Lake Worth Florida girl rescued earlier this week identified her attacker, who promptly confessed. Girl buried alive thanks God for rescue
In a criminal trial, the credibility of a witness is for the jury to decide. A judge will not disallow a child's testimony based on a claim that police elsewhere have rewarded children for claims of sexual abuse. You must make a persuasive showing that this child was psychologically manipulated.
A good storyteller makes the story his own. You will never hear a genuine folk tale told twice the same way, nothing is set in stone, or feels as if it has been written-by-committee.
But not the last. The Telnet BBS Guide lists about 100 active dial-up, and 400 Telnet BBS services.
There isn't a school system, college or university, within ninety miles that hasn't found a ready market for day and evening courses in Microsoft software. This is something employers want.
Microsoft has strength at ground level.
We also know how employable an MCSE can be in the 'real world.'
off-shore platforms. ships at sea. a rogue wave, if it could be detected and tracked... the north atlantic is one of the most truely wild and changeable environments on earth.
an uploader who cannot produce a license to distribute is dead in the water.
the court will find nothing in dispute that warrants a trial of fact and the case will be decided on the record as a matter of law.
with damages assessed according to a formula that will be more painful than any pre-trial settlement.
a sheltered work program for the disabled. light industrial. all the ordinary risks of accident and fire on the shop floor plus 150 clients who may need emergency medical services, advanced life support, at any moment.
I have to register a dissenting vote here.
Futurama's pop-culture gags were stale. recycled, worn-out.
The Simpsons is built around the dynamic of the family, you care about the family, satire in the Simpsons can be stinging and timely, but it doesn't carry a series for sixteen years.
Futurama's rightful center is Leela and Fry, "two lost souls on the highway of life." Watching Fry grow into an adult relationship with Leela is deeply satisfying and richly comic.
But the temptation has always been to fall back on the easier laughs you can get with Bender.
Classical Greek thought was rooted in deductions based on first principles. Think of the elegant abstractions of Euclidean geometry. Archimedes was very much the outsider in his taste for experiment and in learning from the imperfections of the real world.
That makes it all the more striking that Archimedes was known and read in Christian Byzantium for 900 years, 300-1200 AD, and influced the design the great 6th C. church of the Hagia Sophia.
The Archimedes Palimpsest rested somewhere in the libraries of Constantinople for 200 years before being erased in the years of chaos which followed the sacking of the city in the Fourth Crusade of 1204 Archimedes Palimpsest.
You could forgive the surviving scriptoriums for thinking that the civilizing influence of their prayer books was more urgently needed than instruction in higher mathematics.
I think you have pretty well summed up why no one is chomping at the bit to host Freenet or Tor. If you can't define and limit your exposure, the risk is not acceptable. If free speech is the rallying cry, but the trade in child pornography the reality, you can make a principled decision to opt out.
I am not convinced that 100 nodes would be out of reach of the FBI, which has co-ordinated the investigation and arrest of hundreds of suspects and fugitives in a single campaign. But, if even as few as ten nodes are compromised, who will trust the remaining ninety?
But it can become deliberate if you continue to obstruct an investigation after being warned of the danger.
You can't "take the fifth," defy a search warrant, if there is reason to believe that criminal traffic is being routed through your node, or relevant information stored on your hard drive.
Take goatskins ( 1 ) and stand them in water for a day and a night. Take them and wash them till the water runs clear ( 2 ). Take an entirely new bath and place therein old lime (calcem non recentem) and water mixing well together to for a thick cloudy liquor. Place the skins into this, folding them on the flesh side. Move them with a pole two or three times each day, leaving them for eight days (and twice as long in winter) ( 3 ). Next you must withdraw the skins and unhair them ( 4 ). Pour off the contents of the bath and repeat the process using the same quantities, placing the skins in the lime liquor, and moving them once each day over eight days as before ( 5 ). Then take them out and wash them well until the water runs quite clean ( 6 ). Place them in another bath with clean water and leave them for two days ( 7 ). Then take them out, attach the cords and tie them to the circular frame ( 8 ). Dry, then shave them with a sharp knife, after which, leave for two days out of the sun...( 9 ) moisten with water and rub the flesh side with powdered pumice ( 10 ). After two days wet it again by sprinkling with a little water and fully clean the flesh side with pumice so as to make it quite wet again ( 11 ). Then tighten up the cords, equalise the tension so that the sheet will become permanent. Once the sheets are dry, nothing further remains to be done ( 12 ). Parchment, the recipe
The question is whether that 37% is simply migrating from Unix to Linux on the server.