Thing is, the US is backwards in securing workers' rights, mainly because of Americans' distrust of the state as a guaranteer of citizens' rights. In Europe, the 40 hour week is a basic legal right. If you work more, you have the right to overtime. If your company refuses to pay you overtime, you take them to court. If they fire you because of your refusing to work overtime, you take them to court, you win and you get a pretty good settlement agreement.
There was only one job that required me to work 60+ hours a week. It was hilariously mismanaged, had no direction and the CEO aimed for a Steve Jobs like aura that eluded him. I now own my own company and even though I have enormous responsibilities I manage to work 40 hours a week. It's not that hard. You just have to manage your time and be good at making realistic projections.
There was this little thing called "resistence" that the French had. You know, they were actively fighting against the armies occupying their soil and helping UK and allied troops with intelligence on how to hurt the Germans. They also forced the Germans to have a very large military presence in France in order to keep the peace....
I mean, I'm not trolling here, but for fuck's sake, are some people never content? If they give you a free car, will you complain that gas is not free and they have not given you the schematics for the injection system so you can improve it?
No, you are confusing it with the abominable Amstrad made Spectrum +3. The Discovery had 3.5 inch, single sided single density, about 200Kb per disk irc...
The docking bases were called "Interface 1" and were one of the most amazing hardware at the time. I also remember having a huge box housing a 3.5'' drive (oh yes!) and a composite monitor port - Opus Discovery I think it was called. The joys of loading a game in 3 seconds:->
Also, please, Crash was vastly inferior to YS. It was not funny. YS was.
Macs can print on all cups printers. If you have a secure network, try the following in your cupsd.conf:
MaxLogSize 0 MaxJobs 10 Browsing On BrowseProtocols cups BrowseAddress @LOCAL BrowseAllow from All Listen 631 <Location/> Allow from All AuthType None </Location> <Location/admin> AuthType Basic AuthClass System </Location>
Surprise! Your networked printer appears (already configured) in the printer configuration box. Cups is also not officially supported in Macos, but it works. You can of course try to manually configure it but why bother? Just let everyone on your subnet see your printer and manage cupsd properties.
I bought a 386 with 8Mb RAM ten years ago or so for about 1500UKP (about 2700USD at the time). It was an ok machine. Nowadays I can buy a top-of-the-range workstation for much less than that. I can even buy a Powermac for less than 2700USD.
You get what you pay for. Using an ipod is simplicity itself. You find the one song you are looking for using only one hand. You get synchronisation of your music with itunes, the best music cataloguing program there is. You get pretty good quality, pretty good service and a machine that does exactly what it says it does very well, no more, no less. You might be interested in ogg playing, fm radio stations and all that, but 95% of the market is not.
I looked at everything in the market trying to avoid buying an ipod and saving, ultimately, some 70 euros. Know what? It's a bargain at twice as much...
1. Before the Protestants went away from Catholicism, there was something called the Great Schism, which effectively happened because the Frank kings wanted more control of Christiandome. The filioque close (which is ridiculous) was only the pretext.
2. Not all Christians accept the virginity of Mary as a dogma. Orthodox Christians do not, whereas all catholic-derived Christian churches do.
No, you are oversimplyfying the problem, and so it dspeyer. Comparing today's economy with that of the time of Locke and Plato is the first faux pas and one that, actually, leads to all kind of logical leaps of faith. I believe there is a problem among the slashdot illuminati in distinguishing between patents and copyright and all kind of confusion and hilarity therefore ensues. In our case, can you please explain why and how do copyrights exist to serve the public good? We are talking about the work of one person or a group of people and their right to earn a living from their intellectual property. While there are realistic concerns on what happens for example if the copyright holder dies, the fact is that a song is the produce of that person and he or she has the right to earn money off it. It is not the produce of society and, while society might benefit from it, it does not belong to it.
People being against this (realistic in my opinion) viewpoint get their minds stuck in the fact that in some countries copyrights are becoming perpetual and, thus, never pass to the public domain (and, at that point, cease to be the property of anyone, to put it in a simple way). It is quite reasonable to fight this, but instead of doing so, mindless slashbots extrapolate an inexistent right to copy and indiscriminately distribute music because "it is not theft". This argument flies against all logic and is simplistic and ultimately wrong for reasons that are insultingly basic unless, that is, you do not want to understand them.
Well, you know, copyright does NOT exist to promote "the public good". It exists to promote the holder's rights while not being abusive to your own rights. That it does. There is no public interest, especially since art or "art" is not a utility. People can live without music or movies - imagine that.
Also, whether copyright infringement is theft or no is irrelevant. It is a crime, in the same way that rape, kidnapping, burglary and breaking and entering are crimes while, at the same time, not being theft. Your arguments are simplistic and, indeed, wrong.
Well, for those who don't know, "cyber" comes from the greek verb "kyvernein" that is also the root for the word "government". It means, oddly enough "to govern".
"Cyber" has been used in its present (non)sense since some obviously idiotic academic or journalist thought it sounded cool. Other such idiotic words were "Matrix" as a superset of the internet and I, for one, am glad they are dead. Leave them there.
12'' PBs have no PCMCIA slots. Also, yes, it is useless. People in the real world use wireless if they have it. The point being, no cables. If you are forced to be at a table where there is a network connection, the point of a modern laptop is lost.
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You can buy it online at novell.com for 50usd iirc.
Azureus is excellent. It is UPnp aware so it opens the relevant ports on your router without any intervention.
Mandrake is hardly an enterprise-ready desktop.
THAT is NOT a cat!
There was only one job that required me to work 60+ hours a week. It was hilariously mismanaged, had no direction and the CEO aimed for a Steve Jobs like aura that eluded him. I now own my own company and even though I have enormous responsibilities I manage to work 40 hours a week. It's not that hard. You just have to manage your time and be good at making realistic projections.
There was this little thing called "resistence" that the French had. You know, they were actively fighting against the armies occupying their soil and helping UK and allied troops with intelligence on how to hurt the Germans. They also forced the Germans to have a very large military presence in France in order to keep the peace....
Your discourse reminds me of the speed-talking old lady in "Requiem for a Dream"... And not in a good way...
You are wrong.
Make your own music and license it however you want then.
Honestly...
No, you are confusing it with the abominable Amstrad made Spectrum +3. The Discovery had 3.5 inch, single sided single density, about 200Kb per disk irc...
Also, please, Crash was vastly inferior to YS. It was not funny. YS was.
Am I the only one who thought that T'zer was no hottie? That magazine was years ahead of its time, by the way...
Your boss is an idiot.
Common sense? Are you new here?
What is your point?
I looked at everything in the market trying to avoid buying an ipod and saving, ultimately, some 70 euros. Know what? It's a bargain at twice as much...
1. Before the Protestants went away from Catholicism, there was something called the Great Schism, which effectively happened because the Frank kings wanted more control of Christiandome. The filioque close (which is ridiculous) was only the pretext.
2. Not all Christians accept the virginity of Mary as a dogma. Orthodox Christians do not, whereas all catholic-derived Christian churches do.
1984... Seems like yesterday I first read it...
People being against this (realistic in my opinion) viewpoint get their minds stuck in the fact that in some countries copyrights are becoming perpetual and, thus, never pass to the public domain (and, at that point, cease to be the property of anyone, to put it in a simple way). It is quite reasonable to fight this, but instead of doing so, mindless slashbots extrapolate an inexistent right to copy and indiscriminately distribute music because "it is not theft". This argument flies against all logic and is simplistic and ultimately wrong for reasons that are insultingly basic unless, that is, you do not want to understand them.
Also, whether copyright infringement is theft or no is irrelevant. It is a crime, in the same way that rape, kidnapping, burglary and breaking and entering are crimes while, at the same time, not being theft. Your arguments are simplistic and, indeed, wrong.
"Cyber" has been used in its present (non)sense since some obviously idiotic academic or journalist thought it sounded cool. Other such idiotic words were "Matrix" as a superset of the internet and I, for one, am glad they are dead. Leave them there.
12'' PBs have no PCMCIA slots. Also, yes, it is useless. People in the real world use wireless if they have it. The point being, no cables. If you are forced to be at a table where there is a network connection, the point of a modern laptop is lost.
Linux is useless on a powerbook, there are no drivers for Airport Extreme.