Who would pay $100 to see a movie when they can see it later in the day for $6.75? I suppose it's not as bad as quitting your job to camp out in front of the theater two months in advance.
Copyrights last 10 years, but with unlimited free 10 year extensions during the life of the author. If he or she doesn't care to apply for an extension, the work enters the public domain. Works for hire and transferred works have a 50 year limit.
It only took them two years. I'm sure they kept her so long because of immense ad revenue generated by all the angry OSS supporters who felt the need to read every offensive article.
While the article was in the "mysterious future", I clicked on it, skimmed the article, then clicked "printer friendly version" and closed the window with the original browser friendly page. The printer friendly version never came up and the original page was no longer accessible because in those few seconds the article went live on slashdot and the server was knocked out. I guess I'll just have to search my cache or find a mirror.
It's all about the machines on the end. A couple hundred thousand people will now have a portion of their outgoing email silently dropped with no error message. If my IP was added to SPEWS, I'd blame SPEWS, and its users. I've known companies that were royally screwed over by emotionally unstable blacklist maintainers with big egos who thought it was a good idea to teach an ISP a lesson by punishing the users who are locked into their internet service.
I sincerely believe that EVERY ISP who's users are purposely and unfairly blacklisted would be doing the right thing to sue the blacklist into the ground.
So rather than ban 16000 individual IP's, they figured, "hey, a 60 to 1 false positive rate isn't so bad, lets just block a million IP's worth of subnets."
I guess I must have aspergers++. The doctors actually had a lot of trouble diagnosing me, and decided to go with an a la carte selection of mental disorders, including tourette's, ADD, aspergers, and a couple others I don't remember. I was messed up.
I got a server from Dell with two 250gb Maxtor MaxLine II drives. Within 9 months, one of the drives failed. The next week, the other drive failed. This was in the middle of winter so I doubt heat was an issue.
I searched online, and found that _everyone_ has been having trouble with this model of drive, with it often failing like clockwork within the first year, though it had a 3 year warranty.
Since it was under warranty, I quickly got two replacement drives from Dell, this time from Western Digital.
During my troubles, I found a nice website called storagereview.com. Though you need to register an account to reach it, they have a survey of every major model of hard disk with thousands of reviews and percentile ratings for each model. The Maxtor MaxLine II drives I had were rated in the 3rd percentile (making them nearly the worst drives every created). Your model scores in the 23rd percentile, still pretty awful. Looking at the storagereview reliability ratings, just about every manufacturer ships at least a few lemon models, not just WD or Maxtor.
You'd probably do well to consider scsi for servers, if only because it seems that many sata drives marketed for server use are really of desktop quality. Also be sure that you keep your servers adequately cooled with good airflow reaching the drives, as it seems that the models of drives that fail most often tend to do so because they run hotter than other models. And when possible, favor older models of hard disks with a high reliability track record on storagereview or similar sites.
I knew it. I tracked her down like 6 months ago but wasn't sure enough it was her to post it. She's a really great girl. I have a lot of respect for her.
I guess life is a lot easier if you have two PC's at your desk. On my right side is a new PC with Ubuntu Hoary. On my left is an older (but well-upgraded) PC with XP Pro. Usually the XP system is turned off, unless I need to transfer something or play a game.
Microsoft is rich. They could give away everything they make for free for 20-50 years before going bankrupt. But for the moment, they're not even hurting. Their profits are still increasing every quarter, and most of their company isn't even focused on their core products. They're working on tons of research projects, most of which will never see the light of day outside of Microsoft's headquarters. They can scale back as much as is needed to protect their margins going into the future. Companies like Red Hat do pretty well earning only 1/300th the revenue that Microsoft brings in. Microsoft isn't going anywhere for a long long time.
I remember having to pay $200 for the academic copy of MS Office. That's not a very small fraction. At that price it is a big issue.
Office skills are pretty interchangeable. Someone who learned on OpenOffice isn't going to be clueless if you set them in front of a system running MS Office. OpenOffice won't work if they need to learn Access, Outlook, VBA, or some of the more advanced features of Excel, but aside from Outlook which I doubt requires formal training most jobs won't demand that much.
All spreadsheets and word processors are basically the same, give or take a few minor features and keyboard shortcuts. Excel's solver is pretty nice, but most people don't learn about it anyway.
What is cheapest may very well be best for the pupil. What they don't spend on software they can spend on something else.
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to withhold pay when an employee leaves, at least where I live. It says so on a poster in our break room detailing several state and federal employment regulations.
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I thought we were talking about the holier than thou admins who bring their light sabres to work and spend all day reading slashdot.
Who would pay $100 to see a movie when they can see it later in the day for $6.75? I suppose it's not as bad as quitting your job to camp out in front of the theater two months in advance.
You cannot change the laws of physics.
The male monkeys kept injuring themselves.
"Sorry - too much users on the system. Try again later !"
It worked on the 4th try though. Got a full working desktop.
That DMCA also passed with a unanimous vote, at least in the Senate, and with only a single voice of opposition in the House.
Copyrights last 10 years, but with unlimited free 10 year extensions during the life of the author. If he or she doesn't care to apply for an extension, the work enters the public domain. Works for hire and transferred works have a 50 year limit.
It only took them two years. I'm sure they kept her so long because of immense ad revenue generated by all the angry OSS supporters who felt the need to read every offensive article.
While the article was in the "mysterious future", I clicked on it, skimmed the article, then clicked "printer friendly version" and closed the window with the original browser friendly page. The printer friendly version never came up and the original page was no longer accessible because in those few seconds the article went live on slashdot and the server was knocked out. I guess I'll just have to search my cache or find a mirror.
It's all about the machines on the end. A couple hundred thousand people will now have a portion of their outgoing email silently dropped with no error message. If my IP was added to SPEWS, I'd blame SPEWS, and its users. I've known companies that were royally screwed over by emotionally unstable blacklist maintainers with big egos who thought it was a good idea to teach an ISP a lesson by punishing the users who are locked into their internet service.
I sincerely believe that EVERY ISP who's users are purposely and unfairly blacklisted would be doing the right thing to sue the blacklist into the ground.
So rather than ban 16000 individual IP's, they figured, "hey, a 60 to 1 false positive rate isn't so bad, lets just block a million IP's worth of subnets."
I guess I must have aspergers++. The doctors actually had a lot of trouble diagnosing me, and decided to go with an a la carte selection of mental disorders, including tourette's, ADD, aspergers, and a couple others I don't remember. I was messed up.
I still struggle with speech, but nowadays people I meet just assume I have a very strong and unusual accent.
I got a server from Dell with two 250gb Maxtor MaxLine II drives. Within 9 months, one of the drives failed. The next week, the other drive failed. This was in the middle of winter so I doubt heat was an issue.
I searched online, and found that _everyone_ has been having trouble with this model of drive, with it often failing like clockwork within the first year, though it had a 3 year warranty.
Since it was under warranty, I quickly got two replacement drives from Dell, this time from Western Digital.
During my troubles, I found a nice website called storagereview.com. Though you need to register an account to reach it, they have a survey of every major model of hard disk with thousands of reviews and percentile ratings for each model. The Maxtor MaxLine II drives I had were rated in the 3rd percentile (making them nearly the worst drives every created). Your model scores in the 23rd percentile, still pretty awful. Looking at the storagereview reliability ratings, just about every manufacturer ships at least a few lemon models, not just WD or Maxtor.
You'd probably do well to consider scsi for servers, if only because it seems that many sata drives marketed for server use are really of desktop quality. Also be sure that you keep your servers adequately cooled with good airflow reaching the drives, as it seems that the models of drives that fail most often tend to do so because they run hotter than other models. And when possible, favor older models of hard disks with a high reliability track record on storagereview or similar sites.
I knew it. I tracked her down like 6 months ago but wasn't sure enough it was her to post it. She's a really great girl. I have a lot of respect for her.
I guess Linux is ready for grandma.
That's if they are unable to cut back their expenses.
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Linux isn't easy.
Neither is Windows when you hit a snag. Linux is at least 100% configurable from the command line.
I'd probably end up using a free downstream build called CentWin, or stick to Debian variants.
I guess life is a lot easier if you have two PC's at your desk. On my right side is a new PC with Ubuntu Hoary. On my left is an older (but well-upgraded) PC with XP Pro. Usually the XP system is turned off, unless I need to transfer something or play a game.
Microsoft is rich. They could give away everything they make for free for 20-50 years before going bankrupt. But for the moment, they're not even hurting. Their profits are still increasing every quarter, and most of their company isn't even focused on their core products. They're working on tons of research projects, most of which will never see the light of day outside of Microsoft's headquarters. They can scale back as much as is needed to protect their margins going into the future. Companies like Red Hat do pretty well earning only 1/300th the revenue that Microsoft brings in. Microsoft isn't going anywhere for a long long time.
I remember having to pay $200 for the academic copy of MS Office. That's not a very small fraction. At that price it is a big issue.
Office skills are pretty interchangeable. Someone who learned on OpenOffice isn't going to be clueless if you set them in front of a system running MS Office. OpenOffice won't work if they need to learn Access, Outlook, VBA, or some of the more advanced features of Excel, but aside from Outlook which I doubt requires formal training most jobs won't demand that much.
All spreadsheets and word processors are basically the same, give or take a few minor features and keyboard shortcuts. Excel's solver is pretty nice, but most people don't learn about it anyway.
What is cheapest may very well be best for the pupil. What they don't spend on software they can spend on something else.
How could they afford the Macs but not the upgrades?
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to withhold pay when an employee leaves, at least where I live. It says so on a poster in our break room detailing several state and federal employment regulations.