Not everything can be free. Do you expect to get paid for a days work?
Noone is asking for all the music to be distributed freely. People just want to use their personal private property which they bought and paid for in whatever way they see fit, such as playing their songs on a non-Apple, non-Microsoft platform. What's the problem with that?
And if Apple is forced to end their service because everyone just steals the music, then what will be left with? I will tell you. Microsoft will push a DRM-based protection scheme which is based on hardware and locks out non-Windows users.
I'm sure Microsoft will attempt to push a hardware based scheme anyways. I'm sure it will lock out non-Windows users. So what? Apple's DRM attempts to lock out non-Apple, non-Microsoft users.
Crackheads don't steal VCRs from people because crack is illegal, they steal them because crack is expensive and, being addicted to crack, they are unemployable.
Then throw them in jail for theft. Why they stole it is irrelevant.
If someone steals something to pay for crack, do the same thing you'd do to someone who stole something to pay for a new laptop, or new Nikes, or beer...
I'm kind of suspect of this story. The guy claims he could be making $150,000 above ground as a programmer? Where exactly are these $150k programming jobs, in 2003?
it creates temp tables and primary keys on the fly, automatically sends emails from table lists, checks for consistency, purges tables, etc, etc, etc...
This sounds familiar... like things that are in almost every RDBMS. Minus that sending email thing.
Oh course, IBM would love to see this happen as the premiums would return to hardware, not software.
I don't think the premiums are ever going to return to hardware. Not PC hardware at least. With open source they might shift more towards service/support rather than just the initial sale of the software, which they probably like.
"Maxed out" revolving credit lines (carrying a $4,900 average balance on a $5,000 credit card line) hurts your score significantly (it is viewed as very poor money management skills since you keep the card charged up and pay only (or close to) its minimums every month).
Is having a CC balance that fluctuates around 80%-95% because you make large expenditures but also large payments every month considered the same?
Blocking it at the ISP level is not a real solution. A few years ago I worked for a place that was fed by BBN Planet. We'd get DDoSed every once in a while. BBN planet would apply a filter to their border routers for you to stop the attack, but only for 24 hours. The filters would increase the CPU load on their routers, so they didn't want to have too many in place at once.
And if you're on a smaller ISP the DDoS attack is probably hurting them too, so applying filters there wouldn't help.
Then why is a bachelor's REQUIRED for almost ANY job these days? Why is the human resources person who sits in at interviews and nods NEED A FOUR YEAR DEGREE FOR THAT?
Because employers can afford to be picky. The job market sucks for individuals. It is flooded with candidates. They're using the "degree required" as a way to filter them down. Years of experience are required for almost any job these days too. Back in the dot-com days, you didn't need either. Maybe in the next few years you'll start to see requirements loosen up.
Because university is a self-perpetuating scam, a cult and the biggest fraud and threat to the western world.
Have you ever attended a university?
While we have to put off our lives longer and longer to get more and more papers, other societies are busy at work kicking our asses.
Who are these societies? When I was at the U, more than half of the people in the graduate CS program were Indians. In the CS undergrad program I personnally knew a Brit and a German, and our program isn't that big. 4 of the dept's 9 profs were Asian immigrants (ie, they had PhDs). And it was some no-name state university.
Employers like me because I actually can use my skills to build something, not just repeat stuff I heard in school like a parrot without understanding.
Well someone with a U degree woudln't repeat stuff from school anyway. At a real university they don't teach many directly applicable things anyway. They're not supposed to. That's what tech schools are for, and maybe that's what you're thinking of...
Imagine how many hardcore gang members whould be dealing and making money if pot weren't illegal... probably close to the number that are in for dealing smokes or beer.
The piece of shit phone company in this area, Ameritech or SBC as they are now known, already does something like this.
If you get a busy signal while dialing something, they play an ad for their auto-repeat dialing service which plays right over the top of the busy signal. This of course completely screws up modems' detection of the busy signals.
Linux NEEDS to do something NOW so user-level programs can serve files, and programs can read/write them using the NORMAL open()/close() calls in libc (not use gnome-vfs or anything like this).
FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) provides a simple interface for
userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux
kernel. FUSE also aims to provide a secure method for non
privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem
implementations.
It also isn't the end of the audio CD because burning the songs to CD is the easiest way to convert AAC music to a non-restricted-use format. On anything other than OSX at least.
NAT has absolutely nothing to do with security or firewalls. If you have NAT, it is still possible to get packets to machines behind it by source routing or breaking into your ISP's routers. Furthermore, source addresses can be spoofed which may have security implications.
Things like these are prevented by a firewall. Not NAT.
You are probably creating more of a risk by trying to rely on the obscurity of NAT for security (false sense of security).
You want your local network to have real IP addresses because that is the way it was meant to operate. If it did you wouldn't have to screw around with port forwarding or proxying and remembering which port numbers correspond to which servers (if you have multiple services of the same type).
I think most of us use NAT because ISPs charge ludicrous sums of money to get real IP addresses for broadband or dialup connections.
It came to a vote and people with access to even better information than you and I (congress) authorized the president to take action.
Yeah, better information, like how many hundreds of tons of chemical weapons Iraq had, or those mobile chemical weapon factories...
WMD as justification aside, there were four other pillars to the decision: democratization of the region, oil, terrorism and the plight of the Iraqi people.
Where are the WMDs (and in the quantities that they said)?
Where's the democracy? Will there ever be one? Remember a few months back when it was announced that Hillary Rosen was leaving the RIAA to help write intellectual property laws in Iraq? Why is an american media executive writing laws for Iraqis?
And terrorism? That had exactly what to do with Iraq? 9/11 is the best thing that ever happened to the bush administration. Every since they've been able to use "terrorism" as an excuse to do whatever the hell they want.
CR's sports car reviews always make me laugh a little. It seems like in every one of them they always complain about the stiff ride, engine noise and fuel economy.
Driving while seated higher up than in a regular car is helpful; you can see more, especially in the city.
Unless of course everyone else is driving a silly utility vehicle too, and blocking your view.
They are spacious.
Yeah, those lone commuters really need all that space.
Arms race: I'm not sure what the actual stats are, but it certainly seems (viscerally) safer to crash into an SUV while in an SUV as opposed to a Mini. So if everyone else is in an SUV...
I would imagine the actual stats are similar to crashing into a car while in a car. So if everyone else is in a car...
SUVs are well-advertised, and so people feel adventurous or however the commercials tell us to feel. You can't really blame people (if you did, then advertising wouldn't work!).
people feel however the commercials tell them to feel? I agree. That's a fairly accurate statement about most SUV drivers.
Please explain to me why Casper the friendly ghost did not play a role in 9/11? Is there evidence that says he did not?
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Sure they do, they just don't know it. The boss tells them where to live, where to shop, what kind of car to drive, when to eat, when to sleep, what kind of clothes to wear, when to speak, what to say, when to get married, when to have a family, when to go on vacation and when to retire, provided that at some point they don't tell them when to get lost so they can go find another worthless temporary paycheck.
In what counry? Don't know about you, but I get there at 10, I leave at 5, they give me money. And that's about all their is to it.
The html you get from yahoo is trivial compared to the code working behind the scenes which dynamicly generates it. And just because you can see it doesn't mean it is open source. All their html is copyrighted, and no permission to redistribute and modify is given.
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Not everything can be free. Do you expect to get paid for a days work?
Noone is asking for all the music to be distributed freely. People just want to use their personal private property which they bought and paid for in whatever way they see fit, such as playing their songs on a non-Apple, non-Microsoft platform. What's the problem with that?
And if Apple is forced to end their service because everyone just steals the music, then what will be left with? I will tell you. Microsoft will push a DRM-based protection scheme which is based on hardware and locks out non-Windows users.
I'm sure Microsoft will attempt to push a hardware based scheme anyways. I'm sure it will lock out non-Windows users. So what? Apple's DRM attempts to lock out non-Apple, non-Microsoft users.
Crackheads don't steal VCRs from people because crack is illegal, they steal them because crack is expensive and, being addicted to crack, they are unemployable.
Then throw them in jail for theft. Why they stole it is irrelevant.
If someone steals something to pay for crack, do the same thing you'd do to someone who stole something to pay for a new laptop, or new Nikes, or beer...
I'm kind of suspect of this story. The guy claims he could be making $150,000 above ground as a programmer? Where exactly are these $150k programming jobs, in 2003?
The guy makes a statement that criticizes the war, therefore he is a marxist. Sure.
Funny you should mention bullshit generators...
He's since been fired
The PHB, or that guy who actually did something useful?
Uuhhh... transactions in the filesystem don't have anything at all to do with database transactions.
it creates temp tables and primary keys on the fly, automatically sends emails from table lists, checks for consistency, purges tables, etc, etc, etc...
This sounds familiar... like things that are in almost every RDBMS. Minus that sending email thing.
Oh course, IBM would love to see this happen as the premiums would return to hardware, not software.
I don't think the premiums are ever going to return to hardware. Not PC hardware at least. With open source they might shift more towards service/support rather than just the initial sale of the software, which they probably like.
"Maxed out" revolving credit lines (carrying a $4,900 average balance on a $5,000 credit card line) hurts your score significantly (it is viewed as very poor money management skills since you keep the card charged up and pay only (or close to) its minimums every month).
Is having a CC balance that fluctuates around 80%-95% because you make large expenditures but also large payments every month considered the same?
Blocking it at the ISP level is not a real solution. A few years ago I worked for a place that was fed by BBN Planet. We'd get DDoSed every once in a while. BBN planet would apply a filter to their border routers for you to stop the attack, but only for 24 hours. The filters would increase the CPU load on their routers, so they didn't want to have too many in place at once.
And if you're on a smaller ISP the DDoS attack is probably hurting them too, so applying filters there wouldn't help.
Then why is a bachelor's REQUIRED for almost ANY job these days? Why is the human resources person who sits in at interviews and nods NEED A FOUR YEAR DEGREE FOR THAT?
Because employers can afford to be picky. The job market sucks for individuals. It is flooded with candidates. They're using the "degree required" as a way to filter them down. Years of experience are required for almost any job these days too. Back in the dot-com days, you didn't need either. Maybe in the next few years you'll start to see requirements loosen up.
Because university is a self-perpetuating scam, a cult and the biggest fraud and threat to the western world.
Have you ever attended a university?
While we have to put off our lives longer and longer to get more and more papers, other societies are busy at work kicking our asses.
Who are these societies? When I was at the U, more than half of the people in the graduate CS program were Indians. In the CS undergrad program I personnally knew a Brit and a German, and our program isn't that big. 4 of the dept's 9 profs were Asian immigrants (ie, they had PhDs). And it was some no-name state university.
Employers like me because I actually can use my skills to build something, not just repeat stuff I heard in school like a parrot without understanding.
Well someone with a U degree woudln't repeat stuff from school anyway. At a real university they don't teach many directly applicable things anyway. They're not supposed to. That's what tech schools are for, and maybe that's what you're thinking of...
Imagine how many hardcore gang members whould be dealing and making money if pot weren't illegal... probably close to the number that are in for dealing smokes or beer.
The piece of shit phone company in this area, Ameritech or SBC as they are now known, already does something like this.
If you get a busy signal while dialing something, they play an ad for their auto-repeat dialing service which plays right over the top of the busy signal. This of course completely screws up modems' detection of the busy signals.
Linux NEEDS to do something NOW so user-level programs can serve files, and programs can read/write them using the NORMAL open()/close() calls in libc (not use gnome-vfs or anything like this).
Been there, done that. See FUSE:
It also isn't the end of the audio CD because burning the songs to CD is the easiest way to convert AAC music to a non-restricted-use format. On anything other than OSX at least.
NAT has absolutely nothing to do with security or firewalls. If you have NAT, it is still possible to get packets to machines behind it by source routing or breaking into your ISP's routers. Furthermore, source addresses can be spoofed which may have security implications.
Things like these are prevented by a firewall. Not NAT.
You are probably creating more of a risk by trying to rely on the obscurity of NAT for security (false sense of security).
You want your local network to have real IP addresses because that is the way it was meant to operate. If it did you wouldn't have to screw around with port forwarding or proxying and remembering which port numbers correspond to which servers (if you have multiple services of the same type).
I think most of us use NAT because ISPs charge ludicrous sums of money to get real IP addresses for broadband or dialup connections.
It came to a vote and people with access to even better information than you and I (congress) authorized the president to take action.
Yeah, better information, like how many hundreds of tons of chemical weapons Iraq had, or those mobile chemical weapon factories...
WMD as justification aside, there were four other pillars to the decision: democratization of the region, oil, terrorism and the plight of the Iraqi people.
Where are the WMDs (and in the quantities that they said)?
Where's the democracy? Will there ever be one? Remember a few months back when it was announced that Hillary Rosen was leaving the RIAA to help write intellectual property laws in Iraq? Why is an american media executive writing laws for Iraqis?
And terrorism? That had exactly what to do with Iraq? 9/11 is the best thing that ever happened to the bush administration. Every since they've been able to use "terrorism" as an excuse to do whatever the hell they want.
CR's sports car reviews always make me laugh a little. It seems like in every one of them they always complain about the stiff ride, engine noise and fuel economy.
Driving while seated higher up than in a regular car is helpful; you can see more, especially in the city.
Unless of course everyone else is driving a silly utility vehicle too, and blocking your view.
They are spacious.
Yeah, those lone commuters really need all that space.
Arms race: I'm not sure what the actual stats are, but it certainly seems (viscerally) safer to crash into an SUV while in an SUV as opposed to a Mini. So if everyone else is in an SUV...
I would imagine the actual stats are similar to crashing into a car while in a car. So if everyone else is in a car...
SUVs are well-advertised, and so people feel adventurous or however the commercials tell us to feel. You can't really blame people (if you did, then advertising wouldn't work!).
people feel however the commercials tell them to feel? I agree. That's a fairly accurate statement about most SUV drivers.
Please explain to me why Casper the friendly ghost did not play a role in 9/11? Is there evidence that says he did not?
Sure they do, they just don't know it. The boss tells them where to live, where to shop, what kind of car to drive, when to eat, when to sleep, what kind of clothes to wear, when to speak, what to say, when to get married, when to have a family, when to go on vacation and when to retire, provided that at some point they don't tell them when to get lost so they can go find another worthless temporary paycheck.
In what counry? Don't know about you, but I get there at 10, I leave at 5, they give me money. And that's about all their is to it.
Not to mention that the full Java server stack is open source!
Except a JRE... specifically a complete, up-to-date class library. I know there already are a few open source JVMs.
The html you get from yahoo is trivial compared to the code working behind the scenes which dynamicly generates it. And just because you can see it doesn't mean it is open source. All their html is copyrighted, and no permission to redistribute and modify is given.