Stock prices behave very much like unpredictably random motion. To reliably exploit the market you often have to know something the rest of the market doesn't know yet. But acting on insider (not public) knowledge like that is illegal because you're not supposed to cheat at gambling.:)
The last music CD I bought had a visible defect causing severe skipping on every single track. Rather than drive 20 miles back to the store I purchased it from to exchange it for another CD (probably from the same defective batch), I just found a torrent of the album and downloaded it.
I run CentOS on all our poweredge servers. This choice was made after having hardware problems (extreme packet loss) with Slackware and Fedora. One had slow hardware RAID performance initially, but its first "yum update" corrected that entirely.
I don't use antivirus software, at least for anything more than manual scanning, but for reasons other than this. Antivirus makes Windows slow and unstable, sort of like some malware does, except it does it all the time.
I don't get viruses and other malware, because I don't manually install viruses and other malware. People who do need antivirus software.
You give someone local access to your system, and are worried about them reading your user password (Ubuntu has no root password by default), but not worried about them just copying all your files.
I expect that most people will get Vista the same way they got XP, preinstalled. For just twice the price of a retail copy of Windows, you can get a new computer that already has it.
Several people invented the telephone, independently, partly because they all wanted patent-enforced monopolies that could make them rich.
Maybe I'm chasing an impossible dream, but I have to wonder if there's a better way to provide a strong incentive to create ideas and other information other than by placing artificial restrictions on the availability and use of that information. I've got no ideas here.
Never heard of Machi though, and I would have put Chrono Trigger a bit higher.
If it doesn't take an hour of random repetitive turn-based monster battles to walk from one edge of the continent to the other, it's not a game I'm willing to waste my time with.
If you decide not to outsource, that doesn't shield you (and by extension your employees) from global competition. If you outsource, some of them may lose their jobs (or be promoted). If you can't compete, they may all lose their jobs.
Some people just can't stand it unless they can be sure that poor people in other countries will stay poor by not having the chance to compete for their jobs.
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Stock prices behave very much like unpredictably random motion. To reliably exploit the market you often have to know something the rest of the market doesn't know yet. But acting on insider (not public) knowledge like that is illegal because you're not supposed to cheat at gambling. :)
Gambling is a mistake, but I should be allowed to choose to make my own mistakes.
I guess we'll have to stick to stock trading and gambling away our savings in the government's own lotteries.
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I'll never buy DRM-impaired music though. Anti-piracy is the excuse for DRM, not the motive. Not at all.
The last music CD I bought had a visible defect causing severe skipping on every single track. Rather than drive 20 miles back to the store I purchased it from to exchange it for another CD (probably from the same defective batch), I just found a torrent of the album and downloaded it.
I run CentOS on all our poweredge servers. This choice was made after having hardware problems (extreme packet loss) with Slackware and Fedora. One had slow hardware RAID performance initially, but its first "yum update" corrected that entirely.
Unless they don't work, are incompatible, are unavailable, or are for some other reason unsuitable. Then you compile your own.
Lucky you. I always have to hunt down and export all associated registry keys, reimport them, and reregister all the program's dlls.
Someone's using an innovative idea. Lets punish them!
I don't use antivirus software, at least for anything more than manual scanning, but for reasons other than this. Antivirus makes Windows slow and unstable, sort of like some malware does, except it does it all the time.
I don't get viruses and other malware, because I don't manually install viruses and other malware. People who do need antivirus software.
That explains why I needed sudo to read the file. I blindly installed the patch before the news hit slashdot.
Home directories are still world readable by default, so root access is entirely unnecessary if all you want to do is steal other users' information.
If your /etc/shadow has something like "root:*:13039:0:99999:7:::", there's no root password.
The article title isn't entirely correct. There is no root password. But you can set one.
You give someone local access to your system, and are worried about them reading your user password (Ubuntu has no root password by default), but not worried about them just copying all your files.
Looks like someone at Google read your post.
http://www.google.com/mars/
I expect that most people will get Vista the same way they got XP, preinstalled. For just twice the price of a retail copy of Windows, you can get a new computer that already has it.
505 users in favor of the delay, 50 against at last count.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=142536
Dapper is coming along nicely, but there are a number of bugs that might not get the attention they deserve if Dapper is released on schedule.
Their Flight 5 CD is out. It should be quite stable for normal use.
Several people invented the telephone, independently, partly because they all wanted patent-enforced monopolies that could make them rich.
Maybe I'm chasing an impossible dream, but I have to wonder if there's a better way to provide a strong incentive to create ideas and other information other than by placing artificial restrictions on the availability and use of that information. I've got no ideas here.
I like paper, and DRM makes information next to worthless even for my personal, non-pirate use.
Never heard of Machi though, and I would have put Chrono Trigger a bit higher.
If it doesn't take an hour of random repetitive turn-based monster battles to walk from one edge of the continent to the other, it's not a game I'm willing to waste my time with.
Debt consolidation might look just as suspicious, unless they're able to tell that you're just exchanging one debt for another.
Gentoo.org links to cafepress.com which links to cometcursor.com, a red site.
Netscape.com has a yellow download, Netscape.
CultDeadCow.com is green, with a green download. In their defense, nobody downloads and installs BackOrifice from its official homepage by accident.
Looks like it's safe. According to siteadvisor:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tubgirl.com
tubgirl.com
[Green]
We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.
Problem solved.
The problem here is employees checking the "Upload my corporate data to Google's servers" checkbox.
If you decide not to outsource, that doesn't shield you (and by extension your employees) from global competition. If you outsource, some of them may lose their jobs (or be promoted). If you can't compete, they may all lose their jobs.
Some people just can't stand it unless they can be sure that poor people in other countries will stay poor by not having the chance to compete for their jobs.