Since when has the right to profit been a fundamental right anywhere in the world? You might not make the same amount of profit, or you might make even more profit.
I _buy_ stuff because I think it is the right thing to do, even digital stuff. However, I refuse to buy DRM encumbered media.
If you don't like digital media, don't publish in that format. I will continue to buy books, and CDs and other things I find useful, as long as they are in an unencumbered format.
I release my code under the GPL and BSD licenses. It doesn't matter much to me if you use my code or not. If you find a bug, let me know so that I can fix it.
All that is great, unless your opponent is willing to die to destroy you.
Remember, they just need a nuke, or a bacterium, or an airplane, or a rumour. Explode a nuke or two in Antartica under the ice shelf, and you have the worlds most dangerous WMD. Explode one in the Pacific, at the bottom of the ocean and you could trigger off an earthquake.
Send a few over in suitcases and explode thek at the airport itself. Nothing like a few kilograms of depleted Uranium or Plutonium in the air to kill people.
You know, they could actually let the school lease a bus with a driver, and charge fees for specific distances to use the bus. We had that and it worked fine. School buses would service specific routes and the parents would drop the kids off and pick them up. at the stop.
And then you have multiple types of vadas. Not all of which are made of rice.
Hell, if you ask me, idli is the odd one out, because oil/ghee is used in the preparation of the other three items, while idlis are merely steamed rice cakes.
The average salary is around $390/month, the kids down at the local fast food joint here in the US make more money than that. Sure the cost of living is a little lower over there, but things like books, computers etc, still cost the same or more than they do here.
Actually, the cost of living is way lower. By about an order of magnitude. Bangalore is expensive, and you can live comfortably here on about 400 USD/month. Purchasing power parity makes a huge difference. You hear about Bangalore, but Chennai and Hyderabad are even cheaper, have better infrastructure and are growing.
Books are usually available in Indian editions, which cost about 1/5x that in the US.
Computers cost about the same, and desktops are pretty strong sellers. The major difference is that the average Indian will buy a cheap Acer laptop for 700 USD instead of an equivalent powerbook for a slightly higher price.
I was referring to pure speed. Both battery backed RAM and RAID0 give you pure performance gains.
If you want reliability as well, battery backed RAM, RAID01 or RID 10 would be a preferred choice.
We run RAID 5 for NFS mounted mail stores, and RAID1 on the frontend MXes. What we have though is a split between outbound SMTP gateways, IMAP servers, mail stores, POP3 servers, webmail servers, frontend proxies, MX servers, optional A/V scanning. Lots of little boxes and horizontal scaling.
We handle over a million messages a minute on our inbound MTA farm (25 boxes). This does not include mail being sent by our users, webmail, pop3 or imap traffic.
FWIW, mail is primarily a disk function. Use lots of fast SCSI disks in RAID 0 for maximum speed (or battery backed RAMdisk for the queue, incredible performance gain).
That is just fine. With all the outsourcing, you might find that there are no advertisers (Is that good or bad?).
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That works. Doesn't help for people who deal with a lot of mailing lists, and have to allow for offlist replies. Oh, and if you expect me to fill up a web form to communicate with you, you are mistaken.
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The response of spammers to better filters has been to send more spam. You might not see it in your inbox, but you _will_ see it in increased usage fees.
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Uh, I pay for my books. While some people may find ebooks more comfortable, I find paper better for reading.
If the authors do not want the books to be published digitally, they should just say so in their publishing contracts.
Since when has the right to profit been a fundamental right anywhere in the world? You might not make the same amount of profit, or you might make even more profit.
:).
I _buy_ stuff because I think it is the right thing to do, even digital stuff. However, I refuse to buy DRM encumbered media.
If you don't like digital media, don't publish in that format. I will continue to buy books, and CDs and other things I find useful, as long as they are in an unencumbered format.
I release my code under the GPL and BSD licenses.
It doesn't matter much to me if you use my code or not. If you find a bug, let me know so that I can fix it.
Buggy whip manufacturers can meet the car
Oh, I don't know. 10 fps is pretty slow. I prefer a nice 70 fps.
Flash is _not_ cross platform. Lots of operating system/hardware ombos without a flash player.
The point of HTML is that it _is_ cross platform, and standardised (FSVO standardised)
All that is great, unless your opponent is willing to die to destroy you.
Remember, they just need a nuke, or a bacterium, or an airplane, or a rumour. Explode a nuke or two in Antartica under the ice shelf, and you have the worlds most dangerous WMD. Explode one in the Pacific, at the bottom of the ocean and you could trigger off an earthquake.
Send a few over in suitcases and explode thek at the airport itself. Nothing like a few kilograms of depleted Uranium or Plutonium in the air to kill people.
You mean, the whole TCPA, Palladium thing?
You know, they could actually let the school lease a bus with a driver, and charge fees for specific distances to use the bus. We had that and it worked fine. School buses would service specific routes and the parents would drop the kids off and pick them up. at the stop.
See the qmail license. You cannot modify and distribute qmail, and you cannot distribute binaries.
I am a BOFH at a very large email hoster. We use Postfix. It scales up very well, and is rock solid.
BTW, those graphs are pretty small compared to our numbers.
KDE and GNOME are too memory heavy. I _dont_ need 3D acceleration. I need RAM for my applications and development tools.
IMO, a good desktop should not require more than 64 MB of RAM to run snappily.
And then you have multiple types of vadas. Not all of which are made of rice.
Hell, if you ask me, idli is the odd one out, because oil/ghee is used in the preparation of the other three items, while idlis are merely steamed rice cakes.
The r* protocols are insecure! You should be using SAmen instead.
Not by much. About one or two percent on average. The large exchange rate shift was in 1998-99, right after the bust started.
The average salary is around $390/month, the kids down at the local fast food joint here in the US make more money than that. Sure the cost of living is a little lower over there, but things like books, computers etc, still cost the same or more than they do here.
Actually, the cost of living is way lower. By about an order of magnitude. Bangalore is expensive, and you can live comfortably here on about 400 USD/month. Purchasing power parity makes a huge difference. You hear about Bangalore, but Chennai and Hyderabad are even cheaper, have better infrastructure and are growing.
Books are usually available in Indian editions, which cost about 1/5x that in the US.
Computers cost about the same, and desktops are pretty strong sellers. The major difference is that the average Indian will buy a cheap Acer laptop for 700 USD instead of an equivalent powerbook for a slightly higher price.
I was referring to pure speed. Both battery backed RAM and RAID0 give you pure performance gains.
If you want reliability as well, battery backed RAM, RAID01 or RID 10 would be a preferred choice.
We run RAID 5 for NFS mounted mail stores, and RAID1 on the frontend MXes. What we have though is a split between outbound SMTP gateways, IMAP servers, mail stores, POP3 servers, webmail servers, frontend proxies, MX servers, optional A/V scanning. Lots of little boxes and horizontal scaling.
Unless you wanted to boot Windows.
Unix on a small scale is expensive. As the scale of operations increases, Windows gets more and more expensive.
Unix admins scale better.
We handle over a million messages a minute on our inbound MTA farm (25 boxes). This does not include mail being sent by our users, webmail, pop3 or imap traffic.
FWIW, mail is primarily a disk function. Use lots of fast SCSI disks in RAID 0 for maximum speed (or battery backed RAMdisk for the queue, incredible performance gain).
"Food of the Gods" is a H.G. Wells novel
That is just fine. With all the outsourcing, you might find that there are no advertisers (Is that good or bad?).
That works. Doesn't help for people who deal with a lot of mailing lists, and have to allow for offlist replies. Oh, and if you expect me to fill up a web form to communicate with you, you are mistaken.
How much more are you willing to pay for that?
The response of spammers to better filters has been to send more spam. You might not see it in your inbox, but you _will_ see it in increased usage fees.
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Simple! Just raise the temperature to two hundred and thirty three degrees Celcius.