and we'd be right back to Windows XP with the same problems we had before.
What problems? I run a network of about 80 XP machines. They all run fairly well--aside from the occasional failed Windows Update. Recently someone introduced a Vista laptop to the network. It can't print because the print spooler constantly crashes (with all 5 of the variety of printers on the network), if you plug it in to the network at one site it flat out refuses to talk to anything--even after trying for 45 minutes to get the network center to work, and none of the vbscript scripts I wrote to help automate a few routine admin tasks work--they constantly halt the system and ask if I want to allow the script to do something. Yeah--I logged in as administrator and ran the f*cking script--I really want it to run...in an automated fashion.
Come to think of it--I'd rather be right back to Windows XP with the same 'problems' I had before. The occasional need to wipe and reinstall a system after a year of heavy use.
I'm no Microsoft fan--I'll take some *nix system any day--but when you compare XP to Vista it's like comparing eating dry dog food to having your leg sawed off by a bandsaw. Yeah dry dogfood probably tastes like crap--but I'll take it over having my leg sawed off with a bandsaw.
But, since I brought it up I guess I'll continue it by saying that the comparison to Hitler is not meant to be literal. It's not a one-for-one comparison. It's a statement of hatred. Hitler is dead. There is no point in hating him to a great degree. I hate Bush more than I hate Hitler. Hitler is just a placeholder for [insert someone that deserves to be hated].
My jokeometer is busted--I can't tell if you are trying to make a joke or not.
I consider myself a conservative--but I'm no fan of Bush either. I think he's made some boneheaded decisions, but I'm still hung up on the 'hate Bush' statement. I dislike some of the things he's done--but how can you possibly put him on the level of Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam, etc... The thing in common with the three bad guys being that they murdered innocent people (Hitler tops the list).
How is our president in any way like them? Bush is weak on the border. That doesn't compare to genocide. He's passing some odd environmental laws. Doesn't compare to gassing entire villages of Kurds.
You either have a very broad range of 'hate' or I missed the news story where Bush dropped the nuke on California.
If I feel like referring to Hitler, I substitute Bush or Saddam or Mussolini to avoid a Godwinattack (although Mussolini is a little risky)
WTF? Ok--Saddam because he brutally killed and tortured his own people, he gassed the Kurds, etc... Mussolini I'm only familiar with in passing--so I can't comment there...but Bush? Really?
How can you compare Hitler murdering an estimated 6 million people to Bush?
I don't like some of the stuff Bush has done--but get real. When was the last time Bush ordered his "men in black" to drag you and your family out of your home into the dark of night to put a bullet in your head, rape your wife, torture your daughter, and force your son to throw your body into a pit of other bodies--then shoot him in the head? Are you insane?
I mean, every minor little Windows Update makes my machine reboot. I am so sick of starting up Parallels, having updates immediately run and require a reboot. (But there's no way I'm letting my machine go without the updates.) Yeah, it probably doesn't help that I only load Windows once a month, so there are invariably a bunch of updates waiting. But still...
What's even worse is installing Windows Updates on a production machine, rebooting a few hours later after all the users have gone home--and then having it pop the hell up again with NEW updates.
You are dead on with this. It is not the government's job to legislate morality. My morality is defined by my religious beliefs. If I want to look at porn all day long, that's my choice. It's a decision I must make bringing in to account my beliefs of right and wrong.
Now on the other hand, child pornography is wrong both in my morality and in the legal sense--it's exploiting children who can not defend themselves. It's taking away the rights of an individual to be free and to be safe from harm.
Personally, I'm glad the dude with the child porn is getting what he deserves--but the government did something illegal. We have freedoms in this country that guarantee we won't be searched without a warrant, or without a knowledge of a crime being committed (someone robbed a bank matching my exact description--so they stop me and search my pockets to find lots of money).
But stopping someone without the knowledge of any crime being committed or having a warrant and searching through their effects is bullshit.
While I don't think they are saintly, Google hasn't pulled half of the shady shit Microsoft has. In terms of business ethics, Microsoft is really right up there with the uglier oil companies and tobacco company.
Yeah! The day I started smoking--there was a dude from "big tobacco" who came up to my house and handed me a cigarette from a pack that HAD THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING SCRATCHEDOFF!!!11one1!. Tehy are evil!!!!
Whatever. And how the hell are oil companies evil? Because the largest cost of a gallon of gas is STATE AND FEDERAL TAXES.
In fact, here in my state, the government takes more in taxes than the "evil" oil companies make in profit.
One should suspect all companies, as they are built on profit motives, however, Microsoft has a very very shady track record to boot.
OMG! Beware! Companies try to make profit! NO REALLY--I'M SERIOUS!!
Who the fuck would open up a company with the goal of not making money? And what company with the goal of going bankrupt would ever last?
That's what I want--my car dealership to try and lose money when they sell vehicles--that way when I need a new car in 3-4 years, I can't get one because the dealership went bankrupt. And it'd be great if the gas stations in my town went bankrupt--I mean--there's probably 30 gas stations. If they all went bankrupt, it'd be awesome. I couldn't fuel my car....and then one gas station would swoop in and offer high priced gas...and people would have to pay because there's no alternative.
Windows 2000 was the last even slightly useful OS released from MS. As of XP with the activation shit all you get is trouble. I'm a developer and constantly change hardware configs or reinstall. The activation crap pisses me off to no end. I hate having to call Microsoft just because I added a stick of RAM or had to replace a dead hard-drive. Fucking bastards.
<smarmy-microsoft-voice>But that's exactly why we invented eOpen licenses. With our enterprise volume open software assurance licenses you can't get a copy of XP that won't require you to constantly reactivate because you plugged in a new type of USB mouse. Simply buy 5 (yeah--you heard us--*FIVE*) copies of Windows XP under our eOpen license with Software Assurance (and pay us for new copies every 3 years) and you won't be required to constantly reactive. Hell--as an added bonus, we won't require you to remember which product key goes with which CD set. You'll only need one.</smarmy-microsoft-voice>
I love it when Microsoft is fucking you in the ass all the while saying "it's not that bad--we're giving you a discount".
It could be non-selective of the content you are viewing. However, that wouldn't prevent them from using the DNS history profile of the IP requesting the content.
I pitty the poor 8 year-old that connects and gets the IP of the dude who was just surfing for a ton of gay black midget hippo lesbian porn...
Yeah, nobody wants to be rich because they wouldn't be able to afford the taxes. Wait a minute...
Sarcasm doesn't make an argument. Facts do.
Here's an interesting snippet for all you whiny libs out there that think corporations are EVIL:
Over the last three years, Exxon Mobil has paid an average of $27 billion annually in taxes. That's $27,000,000,000 per year, a number so large it's hard to comprehend. Here's one way to put Exxon's taxes into perspective.
According to IRS data for 2004, the most recent year available:
Total number of tax returns: 130 million
Number of Tax Returns for the Bottom 50%: 65 million
Adjusted Gross Income for the Bottom 50%: $922 billion
Total Income Tax Paid by the Bottom 50%: $27.4 billion
Conclusion: In other words, just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people! Further, the tax rate for the bottom 50% is only 3% of adjusted gross income ($27.4 billion / $922 billion), and the tax rate for Exxon was 41% in 2006 ($67.4 billion in taxable income, $27.9 billion in taxes).
So they made about 10 billion in profit last year. Microsoft made around 6 billion.
OMG EVIL! If you still think they are evil, consider that they are supporting roads, housing for people too lazy to work, social programs for the 18 year-old unwed mothers who have 3 kids and no job (and are about to have their 4th by any number of daddies). They support dirtbags like my neighbor who sit home and drink beer all day in their bathrobe while the working-class go out and actually produce. If you want to vilify anyone, it should be the government. What right do they have to take your money, and my money and give it to people who do jack shit.
If Exxon Mobile or Microsoft decided they had enough and just closed up shop or moved out of the country--you can bet it would seriously impact the government. On the flip side, if my neighbor moved out of the country, it would impact exactly dick.
If you are trying to make a point, it doesn't make sense, since installing conduit is pretty much just as easy as installing wire directly, it doesn't take any more room, and is pretty darn cheap. Plus, the equivilent of a Jefferies tube already exists in most houses. It is called an "attic", and the "crawl space" under the house. Sometimes there are really big ones called "basements".
Both a point and a joke.
Personally, I would love to have jefferies tubes in my house. An attic is used for storing your Christmas ornaments and lights for the 300 days of the year they aren't in-use. The crawl space is...well...good for nothing. And lastly, most cabling is run inside the walls. Yeah--some may be under the house or in the attic--but to get to the plugs, it has to go through the walls.
The big difference between a a jefferies tube and a crawl space however, is that I've never seen a spider the size of a volkswagen in a jefferies tube...
Things are slowly changing in my area because I've noticed over time that now the majority of APs have some form of encryption.
Hmm...maybe that's my doing. A friend and I used to drive around and look for open access points. When we'd find one, we would attempt to connect to machines on the wireless network and look for printers. If we found one, we'd print out a few pages of instructions mentioning their wireless was insecure and how to fix it for the most common devices.
Of course the evil side of me said we should have been printing out goatse...
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of cable. You should have run conduit. That is the only way to future proof a home for data. When I renovated my last home, I ran conduit to every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data cables at all until the house was finished. When The house was done, I just pulled the phone, coax and Ethernet lines to the rooms I wanted. If and when fiber, or a higher quality copper is needed, it i will just be a matter of taping the new cable to the end of the old, and pulling it through.
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of conduit. You should have run jefferies tubes. That is the only way to future proof a home for everything. When I renovated my last home, I ran jefferies tubes between every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data or power cables at all until the house was finished. When the house was done, I just crawled in a jefferies tube and pulled cables to the rooms I wanted. If and when my ODN needs a speed upgrade, it will just be a matter of entering the jefferies tube, reversing the polarity on some colerful widget embedded behind a panel and everything will be just fine.
...but seriously--wouldn't jefferies tubes make working on the utilities a million times easier? (And cost a million times more...)
The directors are supposed to act in the best interests of ALL the shareholders, not just their buddies who stand to make money from all sorts of fees.
Put two people in a room and eventually you'll have a disagreement. When a lot of people disagree, the board holds vote--and people vote with their shares. People vote with how much money they have invested in the company. Then the board goes with whatever the majority of stockholders wants.
Now that's not how it always works--but if you feel you've been slighted, you can always pull your money out and invest somewhere else. Of course if you're like me, most of the board members probably lose the amount of money I have invested in their couch cushions.
or in the personal best interests of the board of directors and their buddies at the banks and underwriters doing the deal, leaving the shareholders with a cropper...
How is that relevant. Why should it matter what someone with a 1% stake in the company thinks? If enough people have controlling shares of the company and they vote to do something, that's what gets done. Kinda like our elections. The candidate with the most votes gets elected. (Yeah, queue Bush jokes and Florida jokes).
What business is it of the Canadian government if a business wants to sell to the United States?
Likewise--it should be no business of the US Government if a business decides to sell to another country. (Countries on the State Departments 'list' excepted.)
The fact that I can post this without boots at my door means that a) we're still in the nascent stages of dictatorship formation and b) I don't live in the US.
kthnx.
You don't live in the US? Wow--way to blow his argument apart...except nowhere did anyone say the US was the only place that had free speech.
I respect the tremendous effort people like the OpenOffice team have put forth, but for millions of people who get their work done or don't by the power and usability of their office suite, the alternatives aren't there yet.
...and seeing as how Microsoft brought work to a halt with the improved ribbon interface and it's required re-learning of how to 'get work done', maybe it would be easier to switch users to the *similar* interface of OpenOffice instead of the totally alien interface of Office 2007.
Every single client of mine that has purchased Office 2007 hated it. When I installed OpenOffice for them and said asked what they thought, they liked it. And then when I told them it was free, they asked if they could return Office 2007.
Now all the marketing droids need is some sort of way to project an image into your brain. (Think: the huge shark/ad at the movie theater in Back to the Future III)
Just walking along, minding your own business and a ninja jumps out and tries to kill you...then fades away to a floating picture for the latest State Farm Insurance offering: Ninja Insurance
Yahoo! threatened Feldman with the termination of all of his Yahoo! services including the revocation of his Yahoo ID
Isn't it great having everything integrated into one easy-to-use service? Pictures, searching, games, dating services, emai--oh fuck--they just canceled everything in my entire life.
Same goes for Google everything. If one company controls all the services you use, all it takes is one idiot at that company to make your life hell.
Let's see, just exactly WHO should be responsible for the banks' security?
The bank is responsible for the bank's security.
I however, am responsible for the security on MY pc--just like I am responsible for buckling up in my vehicle rather than blaming auto manufacturers for not building an intelligent car with a padded bubble for me to ride around in.
The bank secures it's systems, and you are required to secure yours. I don't see what this is news.
Somewhere around 0.9.10 it tipped over from "interesting alpha" to "robust enough to call beta."
Ok--you've convinced me to give it another shot personally.
I'm gonna be psyched if I can get it to run Land of Devastation. I really wish they'd port that over to a multi-player linux-based game. That was too awesome back in 1993...
I thought they did support TLS, but only on IP based virtual hosts because of the way SSL/TLS work... the TLS handshake is done before the server knows which domain name you're connecting to.
Perhaps someone more qualified can answer this, but as I understand it SSL does the handshake before the server knows which domain you are connecting to--making it IP-based. TLS allows you to connect and issue a command that pretty much says "hey I'm connecting to this domain and I want an encrypted connection".
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and we'd be right back to Windows XP with the same problems we had before.
What problems? I run a network of about 80 XP machines. They all run fairly well--aside from the occasional failed Windows Update. Recently someone introduced a Vista laptop to the network. It can't print because the print spooler constantly crashes (with all 5 of the variety of printers on the network), if you plug it in to the network at one site it flat out refuses to talk to anything--even after trying for 45 minutes to get the network center to work, and none of the vbscript scripts I wrote to help automate a few routine admin tasks work--they constantly halt the system and ask if I want to allow the script to do something. Yeah--I logged in as administrator and ran the f*cking script--I really want it to run...in an automated fashion.
Come to think of it--I'd rather be right back to Windows XP with the same 'problems' I had before. The occasional need to wipe and reinstall a system after a year of heavy use.
I'm no Microsoft fan--I'll take some *nix system any day--but when you compare XP to Vista it's like comparing eating dry dog food to having your leg sawed off by a bandsaw. Yeah dry dogfood probably tastes like crap--but I'll take it over having my leg sawed off with a bandsaw.
But, since I brought it up I guess I'll continue it by saying that the comparison to Hitler is not meant to be literal. It's not a one-for-one comparison. It's a statement of hatred. Hitler is dead. There is no point in hating him to a great degree. I hate Bush more than I hate Hitler. Hitler is just a placeholder for [insert someone that deserves to be hated].
My jokeometer is busted--I can't tell if you are trying to make a joke or not.
I consider myself a conservative--but I'm no fan of Bush either. I think he's made some boneheaded decisions, but I'm still hung up on the 'hate Bush' statement. I dislike some of the things he's done--but how can you possibly put him on the level of Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam, etc... The thing in common with the three bad guys being that they murdered innocent people (Hitler tops the list).
How is our president in any way like them? Bush is weak on the border. That doesn't compare to genocide. He's passing some odd environmental laws. Doesn't compare to gassing entire villages of Kurds.
You either have a very broad range of 'hate' or I missed the news story where Bush dropped the nuke on California.
If I feel like referring to Hitler, I substitute Bush or Saddam or Mussolini to avoid a Godwinattack (although Mussolini is a little risky)
WTF? Ok--Saddam because he brutally killed and tortured his own people, he gassed the Kurds, etc... Mussolini I'm only familiar with in passing--so I can't comment there...but Bush? Really?
How can you compare Hitler murdering an estimated 6 million people to Bush?
I don't like some of the stuff Bush has done--but get real. When was the last time Bush ordered his "men in black" to drag you and your family out of your home into the dark of night to put a bullet in your head, rape your wife, torture your daughter, and force your son to throw your body into a pit of other bodies--then shoot him in the head? Are you insane?
I mean, every minor little Windows Update makes my machine reboot. I am so sick of starting up Parallels, having updates immediately run and require a reboot. (But there's no way I'm letting my machine go without the updates.) Yeah, it probably doesn't help that I only load Windows once a month, so there are invariably a bunch of updates waiting. But still...
What's even worse is installing Windows Updates on a production machine, rebooting a few hours later after all the users have gone home--and then having it pop the hell up again with NEW updates.
Since when is "loose morals" an illegal act?
You are dead on with this. It is not the government's job to legislate morality. My morality is defined by my religious beliefs. If I want to look at porn all day long, that's my choice. It's a decision I must make bringing in to account my beliefs of right and wrong.
Now on the other hand, child pornography is wrong both in my morality and in the legal sense--it's exploiting children who can not defend themselves. It's taking away the rights of an individual to be free and to be safe from harm.
Personally, I'm glad the dude with the child porn is getting what he deserves--but the government did something illegal. We have freedoms in this country that guarantee we won't be searched without a warrant, or without a knowledge of a crime being committed (someone robbed a bank matching my exact description--so they stop me and search my pockets to find lots of money).
But stopping someone without the knowledge of any crime being committed or having a warrant and searching through their effects is bullshit.
While I don't think they are saintly, Google hasn't pulled half of the shady shit Microsoft has. In terms of business ethics, Microsoft is really right up there with the uglier oil companies and tobacco company.
...and then one gas station would swoop in and offer high priced gas...and people would have to pay because there's no alternative.
Yeah! The day I started smoking--there was a dude from "big tobacco" who came up to my house and handed me a cigarette from a pack that HAD THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING SCRATCHEDOFF!!!11one1!. Tehy are evil!!!!
Whatever. And how the hell are oil companies evil? Because the largest cost of a gallon of gas is STATE AND FEDERAL TAXES.
In fact, here in my state, the government takes more in taxes than the "evil" oil companies make in profit.
One should suspect all companies, as they are built on profit motives, however, Microsoft has a very very shady track record to boot.
OMG! Beware! Companies try to make profit! NO REALLY--I'M SERIOUS!!
Who the fuck would open up a company with the goal of not making money? And what company with the goal of going bankrupt would ever last?
That's what I want--my car dealership to try and lose money when they sell vehicles--that way when I need a new car in 3-4 years, I can't get one because the dealership went bankrupt. And it'd be great if the gas stations in my town went bankrupt--I mean--there's probably 30 gas stations. If they all went bankrupt, it'd be awesome. I couldn't fuel my car.
You really are an idiot. Go read a book.
Windows 2000 was the last even slightly useful OS released from MS. As of XP with the activation shit all you get is trouble. I'm a developer and constantly change hardware configs or reinstall. The activation crap pisses me off to no end. I hate having to call Microsoft just because I added a stick of RAM or had to replace a dead hard-drive. Fucking bastards.
<smarmy-microsoft-voice>But that's exactly why we invented eOpen licenses. With our enterprise volume open software assurance licenses you can't get a copy of XP that won't require you to constantly reactivate because you plugged in a new type of USB mouse. Simply buy 5 (yeah--you heard us--*FIVE*) copies of Windows XP under our eOpen license with Software Assurance (and pay us for new copies every 3 years) and you won't be required to constantly reactive. Hell--as an added bonus, we won't require you to remember which product key goes with which CD set. You'll only need one.</smarmy-microsoft-voice>
I love it when Microsoft is fucking you in the ass all the while saying "it's not that bad--we're giving you a discount".
I wrote the whole thing in mod_perl inside of 8 hours.
Oh yeah--well I wrote mine in mod_python inside of 4 hours...
It could be non-selective of the content you are viewing. However, that wouldn't prevent them from using the DNS history profile of the IP requesting the content.
I pitty the poor 8 year-old that connects and gets the IP of the dude who was just surfing for a ton of gay black midget hippo lesbian porn...
Yeah, nobody wants to be rich because they wouldn't be able to afford the taxes. Wait a minute...
Sarcasm doesn't make an argument. Facts do.
Here's an interesting snippet for all you whiny libs out there that think corporations are EVIL:
Over the last three years, Exxon Mobil has paid an average of $27 billion annually in taxes. That's $27,000,000,000 per year, a number so large it's hard to comprehend. Here's one way to put Exxon's taxes into perspective.
According to IRS data for 2004, the most recent year available:
Total number of tax returns: 130 million
Number of Tax Returns for the Bottom 50%: 65 million
Adjusted Gross Income for the Bottom 50%: $922 billion
Total Income Tax Paid by the Bottom 50%: $27.4 billion
Conclusion: In other words, just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people! Further, the tax rate for the bottom 50% is only 3% of adjusted gross income ($27.4 billion / $922 billion), and the tax rate for Exxon was 41% in 2006 ($67.4 billion in taxable income, $27.9 billion in taxes).
This dude makes a great point.
So they made about 10 billion in profit last year. Microsoft made around 6 billion.
OMG EVIL! If you still think they are evil, consider that they are supporting roads, housing for people too lazy to work, social programs for the 18 year-old unwed mothers who have 3 kids and no job (and are about to have their 4th by any number of daddies). They support dirtbags like my neighbor who sit home and drink beer all day in their bathrobe while the working-class go out and actually produce. If you want to vilify anyone, it should be the government. What right do they have to take your money, and my money and give it to people who do jack shit.
If Exxon Mobile or Microsoft decided they had enough and just closed up shop or moved out of the country--you can bet it would seriously impact the government. On the flip side, if my neighbor moved out of the country, it would impact exactly dick.
If you are trying to make a point, it doesn't make sense, since installing conduit is pretty much just as easy as installing wire directly, it doesn't take any more room, and is pretty darn cheap. Plus, the equivilent of a Jefferies tube already exists in most houses. It is called an "attic", and the "crawl space" under the house. Sometimes there are really big ones called "basements".
Both a point and a joke.
Personally, I would love to have jefferies tubes in my house. An attic is used for storing your Christmas ornaments and lights for the 300 days of the year they aren't in-use. The crawl space is...well...good for nothing. And lastly, most cabling is run inside the walls. Yeah--some may be under the house or in the attic--but to get to the plugs, it has to go through the walls.
The big difference between a a jefferies tube and a crawl space however, is that I've never seen a spider the size of a volkswagen in a jefferies tube...
Things are slowly changing in my area because I've noticed over time that now the majority of APs have some form of encryption.
Hmm...maybe that's my doing. A friend and I used to drive around and look for open access points. When we'd find one, we would attempt to connect to machines on the wireless network and look for printers. If we found one, we'd print out a few pages of instructions mentioning their wireless was insecure and how to fix it for the most common devices.
Of course the evil side of me said we should have been printing out goatse...
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of cable. You should have run conduit. That is the only way to future proof a home for data. When I renovated my last home, I ran conduit to every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data cables at all until the house was finished. When The house was done, I just pulled the phone, coax and Ethernet lines to the rooms I wanted. If and when fiber, or a higher quality copper is needed, it i will just be a matter of taping the new cable to the end of the old, and pulling it through.
...but seriously--wouldn't jefferies tubes make working on the utilities a million times easier? (And cost a million times more...)
Unfortunately, you made a fundamental, but common mistake. You cannot future proof your home by running any kind of conduit. You should have run jefferies tubes. That is the only way to future proof a home for everything. When I renovated my last home, I ran jefferies tubes between every room. It was pretty cool in that I didn't run any data or power cables at all until the house was finished. When the house was done, I just crawled in a jefferies tube and pulled cables to the rooms I wanted. If and when my ODN needs a speed upgrade, it will just be a matter of entering the jefferies tube, reversing the polarity on some colerful widget embedded behind a panel and everything will be just fine.
The directors are supposed to act in the best interests of ALL the shareholders, not just their buddies who stand to make money from all sorts of fees.
Put two people in a room and eventually you'll have a disagreement. When a lot of people disagree, the board holds vote--and people vote with their shares. People vote with how much money they have invested in the company. Then the board goes with whatever the majority of stockholders wants.
Now that's not how it always works--but if you feel you've been slighted, you can always pull your money out and invest somewhere else. Of course if you're like me, most of the board members probably lose the amount of money I have invested in their couch cushions.
or in the personal best interests of the board of directors and their buddies at the banks and underwriters doing the deal, leaving the shareholders with a cropper ...
How is that relevant. Why should it matter what someone with a 1% stake in the company thinks? If enough people have controlling shares of the company and they vote to do something, that's what gets done. Kinda like our elections. The candidate with the most votes gets elected. (Yeah, queue Bush jokes and Florida jokes).
What business is it of the Canadian government if a business wants to sell to the United States?
Likewise--it should be no business of the US Government if a business decides to sell to another country. (Countries on the State Departments 'list' excepted.)
The fact that I can post this without boots at my door means that a) we're still in the nascent stages of dictatorship formation and b) I don't live in the US.
kthnx.
You don't live in the US? Wow--way to blow his argument apart...except nowhere did anyone say the US was the only place that had free speech.
By then the speeds will be fast enough that you can use toes as a measuring stick.
...and even later, my penis size.
I'm careful of what i download and i never run as Root.
But root is my account...
LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR FISH
I have a luxury couch and an old luxury TV the fish could use...
I respect the tremendous effort people like the OpenOffice team have put forth, but for millions of people who get their work done or don't by the power and usability of their office suite, the alternatives aren't there yet.
...and seeing as how Microsoft brought work to a halt with the improved ribbon interface and it's required re-learning of how to 'get work done', maybe it would be easier to switch users to the *similar* interface of OpenOffice instead of the totally alien interface of Office 2007.
Every single client of mine that has purchased Office 2007 hated it. When I installed OpenOffice for them and said asked what they thought, they liked it. And then when I told them it was free, they asked if they could return Office 2007.
Now all the marketing droids need is some sort of way to project an image into your brain. (Think: the huge shark/ad at the movie theater in Back to the Future III)
Just walking along, minding your own business and a ninja jumps out and tries to kill you...then fades away to a floating picture for the latest State Farm Insurance offering: Ninja Insurance
Yahoo! threatened Feldman with the termination of all of his Yahoo! services including the revocation of his Yahoo ID
Isn't it great having everything integrated into one easy-to-use service? Pictures, searching, games, dating services, emai--oh fuck--they just canceled everything in my entire life.
Same goes for Google everything. If one company controls all the services you use, all it takes is one idiot at that company to make your life hell.
Let's see, just exactly WHO should be responsible for the banks' security?
The bank is responsible for the bank's security.
I however, am responsible for the security on MY pc--just like I am responsible for buckling up in my vehicle rather than blaming auto manufacturers for not building an intelligent car with a padded bubble for me to ride around in.
The bank secures it's systems, and you are required to secure yours. I don't see what this is news.
Somewhere around 0.9.10 it tipped over from "interesting alpha" to "robust enough to call beta."
Ok--you've convinced me to give it another shot personally.
I'm gonna be psyched if I can get it to run Land of Devastation. I really wish they'd port that over to a multi-player linux-based game. That was too awesome back in 1993...
I thought they did support TLS, but only on IP based virtual hosts because of the way SSL/TLS work... the TLS handshake is done before the server knows which domain name you're connecting to.
Perhaps someone more qualified can answer this, but as I understand it SSL does the handshake before the server knows which domain you are connecting to--making it IP-based. TLS allows you to connect and issue a command that pretty much says "hey I'm connecting to this domain and I want an encrypted connection".