what he should do is create a closed system and pass the water back through the mini-fridge. There-by cooling the water, keeping the room cool, and not having to refill it over and over.
That having been said, take a look at it this way.
He has created something to cool his room down. I'll dare say that none of us had done this previously. So for that, I give him kudos.
It is up to the parents to decide what is right and what is wrong for themselves and their children. It is not up to the State, Federal Government, or any other Social Institution to make that decision.
I cannot change the fact that there are parents out there that should have been neutered and never allowed to spawn. I cannot change the fact that there is a population of people without morals out there. I can limit my childs exposure to that until I feel *I* have sufficiently taught them the difference between right and wrong, morality and immorality, and how to live their lives. That is *MY* job, not the Governments.
While I applaud Utah for attempting to raise their children in a better environment, I believe that attempting to make it legislation was the wrong way to do it.
Their efforts would have been better spent sitting their own kids down and teaching them right and wrong. Or better yet, simply unplugging the computer and making them go outside and play.
...but what do I know, I'm just a parent with kids...
I would love to see the IT/Executive meeting over then one after it has been implemented:
IT: OH NO Mr. CEO, now, we don't filter SPAM anymore. What you do is look at the email and then decide if the email if worth your time or not. If not, then we charge the person who sent it.
CEO: Uh huh. So... Who sent it? How do I tell him it was not worth it, what if the link is broken, and more importantly I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO!!! From now on, it is *your* job to filter all the email the executives of this company.
Getting Gold is not at all difficult, what drives the market are the following 2 things:
- The Auction House, an in-game "eBay like" construct, lets you sell and buy items. For anybody with an eBay addiction, or for those that that want to upgraded their items for that incremental increase in power, this place place will suck your gold dry.
- If you want a Mount (Horse, etc) at L40 when it first becomes available, then you need to collect 90 Gold (minimum). If you want a Superior Mount at L60, thewn you need 900 Gold. These are the two *must have* you-are-an-outcast-if-you-do-not-have-it items in the game.
I am sure the argument can be made for other minor thing, but these are the main 2 reasons the market for Gold is so high.
That, and just like in Life, Money means Power to a lot of people, and they will do whatever it takes to possess it, even if it's only digital.
As good of a thing as this Bill sounds to be, the reality is that you cannot legislate morality, especially on items that are used in the privacy of someones home.
Lets say this bill does pass, what is to stop the oler brother/sister/parent from buying the game for the child? Or as previously stated, from buying it from the Internet?
There will always be parents/guardians that could give a rats ass about how their childen are raised or what they see and do. That is life... unfortunately.
Are you talking the modern Webmaster where their skill sets are limited to the design and content of the website or the Old-School Webmaster (like me) where you were responsible for everything like the OS, the software (Apache, mySQL, Perl, PHP), access (.htaccess, etc.), and the content (HTML, images, etc.)
If you're talking a Modern webmaster, then no, they don't need it. The Server Admin just has to make sure all the directories they are using are owned by the assigned user.
If you're talking Old-School, then yeah, it's pretty much a necessity; sudo at a minimum.
Re:Don't forget to check out the extensions:
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· Score: 2, Informative
They stopped publishing it in the main list for some reason. I've been using it for over a year now and it really pushes the tabbed browsing experince to what it should be. (he updates it often)
- Single window browsing
- Color-tab grouping
- etc.
I'll have to disagre with that point; I don't see Red Hat and all the other Linux OS Server Software companies taking this sitting down.
Nobody has brought up the fact that Red Hat, and others, make a fortune with their Enterprise Server OS. There is an entire industry out there that make software specifically for RH's Enterprise OS. About 2/3'rds of our 900+ server farm has it installed because it is required by the 3rd party softare companies that we work with.
We write our own software, compile own code, build our own kernel's, and run our entire business on those Linux machines.... and I know that we are not the only ones.
So now we have the Linux OS company, the hardware company, the company using/leasing the OS/Hardware, and the 3rd party software companies making a product for those companies adding their voice to ours.
That anti-trust BIOS list just got a lot larger.
Granted, these are all 1U and Blade servers, but the point is, with that much money being generated for OS Licenses and Hardware leases, there is no chance in hell that companies will want to give it up.
Above, it is said, "vote with your dollars and your voice". I will add, "Vote with your IT and Engineering Departments yearly budget."
Maybe a bunch of individual geeks like us will be ignored, but if million dollar Purchase Orders start going to non-DRM companies... well you get the idea.
I forsee IBM, at a minimum, taking a stance on this. Their customers will demand that this BIOS be left off their Linux directed hardware, and hopefully by extension, off the laptops and other business machines.
..lets just hope that more Hardware companies than IBM take up the cause... installing Debian on a Thinkpad is such a pain in the arse...
The only thing I can add at this point is an analogy:
Think of it along the lines of IE and HTML; if you don't want to close your tags, say your table td and tr tags, it's fine, the IE browser will do it for you.
Nevermind that it will break most any W3C compliant browser on the planet.
(insert deity here) help the person that gets used to this style of programming and then joins the real world.
How do they plan on enforcing this?
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...for people running Sendmail and a *nix compatable email client, how do "they" plan on enforcing the cost of the stamps?
What is to stop me from having a mail server off US shores to provide my clients with cost-free email access? What is to stop spammers from setting up their own mail servers and forging the stamps? They certainly don't play by the rules right now!
Do they plan on forcing everyone to upgrade their mail clients and server software?
My biggest question, Who are "they". Are "They" the ones who will collect the money for these stamps? Is it M$? The ISP? The Government? Since a transaction is taking place, will there be a tax on the email? (you know the IRS will want their cut).
I run a mail server on a colo for myself and give space/access to my friends for free. Do I now have to charge them? Do I have to pay taxes on that?
Yes, this is a lot of questions, but they a) don't see have been asked yet, and b) don't have answers that I know of.
I am not for spam but I'll be damned if I will start paying for my email as a theory to stop spam when we all know damn well that it won't stop them.
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what he should do is create a closed system and pass the water back through the mini-fridge. There-by cooling the water, keeping the room cool, and not having to refill it over and over.
...now... time to upgrade the cooling unit!
That having been said, take a look at it this way.
He has created something to cool his room down. I'll dare say that none of us had done this previously. So for that, I give him kudos.
It is up to the parents to decide what is right and what is wrong for themselves and their children. It is not up to the State, Federal Government, or any other Social Institution to make that decision.
...but what do I know, I'm just a parent with kids...
I cannot change the fact that there are parents out there that should have been neutered and never allowed to spawn. I cannot change the fact that there is a population of people without morals out there. I can limit my childs exposure to that until I feel *I* have sufficiently taught them the difference between right and wrong, morality and immorality, and how to live their lives. That is *MY* job, not the Governments.
While I applaud Utah for attempting to raise their children in a better environment, I believe that attempting to make it legislation was the wrong way to do it.
Their efforts would have been better spent sitting their own kids down and teaching them right and wrong. Or better yet, simply unplugging the computer and making them go outside and play.
I would love to see the IT/Executive meeting over then one after it has been implemented:
IT: OH NO Mr. CEO, now, we don't filter SPAM anymore. What you do is look at the email and then decide if the email if worth your time or not. If not, then we charge the person who sent it.
CEO: Uh huh. So... Who sent it? How do I tell him it was not worth it, what if the link is broken, and more importantly I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO!!! From now on, it is *your* job to filter all the email the executives of this company.
IT: All 50 of them?
CEO: *grin*
Getting Gold is not at all difficult, what drives the market are the following 2 things:
- The Auction House, an in-game "eBay like" construct, lets you sell and buy items. For anybody with an eBay addiction, or for those that that want to upgraded their items for that incremental increase in power, this place place will suck your gold dry.
- If you want a Mount (Horse, etc) at L40 when it first becomes available, then you need to collect 90 Gold (minimum). If you want a Superior Mount at L60, thewn you need 900 Gold. These are the two *must have* you-are-an-outcast-if-you-do-not-have-it items in the game.
I am sure the argument can be made for other minor thing, but these are the main 2 reasons the market for Gold is so high.
That, and just like in Life, Money means Power to a lot of people, and they will do whatever it takes to possess it, even if it's only digital.
[tinfoilhat]I am sticking to my 5.25" floppy, it's the only reliable way to backup data.[/tinfoilhat]
BAH!!! You kids and your new fangled toys... Punch Cards are the ONLY way to keep data stored securely!!!
*sigh*
I didn't even catch that when I read the caption. Lets hope its' wrong...
((oof, paragraphs would be nice..))
Using Firefox 1.0 on FC2, I have yet to see a single pop-up, even on the sites listed above this post.
Perhaps it's because, under the Advanced Javascript options, the only thinkg I allow it to do is "change Images".
*shrug*
As good of a thing as this Bill sounds to be, the reality is that you cannot legislate morality, especially on items that are used in the privacy of someones home.
Lets say this bill does pass, what is to stop the oler brother/sister/parent from buying the game for the child? Or as previously stated, from buying it from the Internet?
There will always be parents/guardians that could give a rats ass about how their childen are raised or what they see and do. That is life... unfortunately.
I own a small business, so believe me when I tell you that the government is already getting enough of my money.
We do not need another back-door tax shoved down our throats when they are already pissing away money left and right on stupid stuff.
Better yet, have the Senators give up a chunk of their unnecessarily high salary and pay some out-of-work-guy to do the recycling.
There ya go, issue solved.
They can't even predict what the weather will be like this weekend.
How are we expected to believe then with forcast that far out?
Are you talking the modern Webmaster where their skill sets are limited to the design and content of the website or the Old-School Webmaster (like me) where you were responsible for everything like the OS, the software (Apache, mySQL, Perl, PHP), access (.htaccess, etc.), and the content (HTML, images, etc.)
If you're talking a Modern webmaster, then no, they don't need it. The Server Admin just has to make sure all the directories they are using are owned by the assigned user.
If you're talking Old-School, then yeah, it's pretty much a necessity; sudo at a minimum.
The *best* Tab Browsing extensions are located here: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/xpi/tabextensions_en. xpi
They stopped publishing it in the main list for some reason. I've been using it for over a year now and it really pushes the tabbed browsing experince to what it should be. (he updates it often)
- Single window browsing
- Color-tab grouping
- etc.
but this could be the end for OSS.
..lets just hope that more Hardware companies than IBM take up the cause... installing Debian on a Thinkpad is such a pain in the arse...
I'll have to disagre with that point; I don't see Red Hat and all the other Linux OS Server Software companies taking this sitting down.
Nobody has brought up the fact that Red Hat, and others, make a fortune with their Enterprise Server OS. There is an entire industry out there that make software specifically for RH's Enterprise OS. About 2/3'rds of our 900+ server farm has it installed because it is required by the 3rd party softare companies that we work with.
We write our own software, compile own code, build our own kernel's, and run our entire business on those Linux machines.... and I know that we are not the only ones.
So now we have the Linux OS company, the hardware company, the company using/leasing the OS/Hardware, and the 3rd party software companies making a product for those companies adding their voice to ours.
That anti-trust BIOS list just got a lot larger.
Granted, these are all 1U and Blade servers, but the point is, with that much money being generated for OS Licenses and Hardware leases, there is no chance in hell that companies will want to give it up.
Above, it is said, "vote with your dollars and your voice". I will add, "Vote with your IT and Engineering Departments yearly budget."
Maybe a bunch of individual geeks like us will be ignored, but if million dollar Purchase Orders start going to non-DRM companies... well you get the idea.
I forsee IBM, at a minimum, taking a stance on this. Their customers will demand that this BIOS be left off their Linux directed hardware, and hopefully by extension, off the laptops and other business machines.
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Don't like Windows(tm)? Go to Shell! -me
Most of us know where this line is located.
yup...
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
Exactly, you nailed it on the head!
The only thing I can add at this point is an analogy:
Think of it along the lines of IE and HTML; if you don't want to close your tags, say your table td and tr tags, it's fine, the IE browser will do it for you.
Nevermind that it will break most any W3C compliant browser on the planet.
(insert deity here) help the person that gets used to this style of programming and then joins the real world.
...for people running Sendmail and a *nix compatable email client, how do "they" plan on enforcing the cost of the stamps?
What is to stop me from having a mail server off US shores to provide my clients with cost-free email access? What is to stop spammers from setting up their own mail servers and forging the stamps? They certainly don't play by the rules right now!
Do they plan on forcing everyone to upgrade their mail clients and server software?
My biggest question, Who are "they". Are "They" the ones who will collect the money for these stamps? Is it M$? The ISP? The Government? Since a transaction is taking place, will there be a tax on the email? (you know the IRS will want their cut).
I run a mail server on a colo for myself and give space/access to my friends for free. Do I now have to charge them? Do I have to pay taxes on that?
Yes, this is a lot of questions, but they a) don't see have been asked yet, and b) don't have answers that I know of.
I am not for spam but I'll be damned if I will start paying for my email as a theory to stop spam when we all know damn well that it won't stop them.
Have you looked at a Veritas Cluster? (VCS) The company I work for uses it and we have found it to be very stable.
Show me a single instance where SPEWS has removed an IP from it's list?