And to everyone who talks about kids drawing hopscotch squares around, I say it's apples and oranges. While kids might be technically in violation for drawing squares by their home, it's altogether different to spray stuff all over public thoroughfares by an automated graffiti bicycle, whether it's painting hopscotch squares, advertisements, gang tags, or political speech.
Well, I'm so glad we switched to an annual assurance type plan where we pay an annual fee which gives us the right for all upgrades at no additional cost. Now they have little incentive to bring out upgrades since they will get that revenue stream regardless, no matter what.
erm- this is warped logic. If you are paying a fat annual to microsoft while getting dramatically less versions of their updated software then you sir (or more likely your boss) are/is getting ripped off. You do know that patches and upgrades to microsoft products are free to the general public?
We just got XP and 2003 server rolled out everywhere and I have a feeling we are *way* ahead of most other places.
I am afraid that if you have just rolled out XP and 2003 server everywhere then you are not "ahead" of anybody.
[talking_slowly]Multinational Corporations tend to record profit in offshore tax havens, this revenue falls outside US GNP[/talking_slowly]
(You do realize that corporations are owned by actual people, right?)
Erm- actually they are not, and this is one of the reasons why they are Bad. They are generally held in a complex web of circular ownership by other corporate entities.
It concerns me that corporations dodge taxes. It frankly frightens me that a self confessed "poor person" would suggest that this is ok and we should not tax them anyway.
What you need to understand is that capital has gravity- if you let large amounts of capital collect in one place, that capital will no longer need to sell anything- it will become larger and larger on its own accord.
You think that taxing corporations means higher costs for the consumer? No. Thats what happens if you tax a filling station, a burger bar or a restaurant, not a multinational corporation. We NEED to tax large financial entities just to ensure that they are actually doing something, instead of just getting fatter and fatter simply for existing. We also get money for infrastructure and society. This would be a Good Thing
Maybe you cant quite get your head around these concepts, possibly you have not yet seen how a large corporation operates from the inside
You seem to be a republican- good luck with that. If you think that Bush or any of his cronies give a fuck about guys like you- think again. I'm sure the medal for your services to industry is in the post.
As a fellow poor person, who worked his way through a CS degree (and masters), I have to disagree with you guys.
The problem is not that poor people are spending their money on entertainment systems before neccesities. This is not something I observed the vast majority of my fellow downtrodden doing during my formative years, although I will admit that it did go on to a small extent.
No, the problem is that poor people exist in the first place.
In a civilized western democracy, nobody should be so poor that they do not have access to a PC. This creates a barrier to getting otherwise able bodied and intelligent people into work. Ask yourself this- how many potential doctors and nurses are sitting on your housing project because they dont have the finances to compliment their intelligence?
Welfare should be a safety net, but that net should be high enough to give eveybody a chance to contribute to the greater good, for all our sakes.
You want to moan about the poor leeching your taxes? They dont take nearly as many of your tax dollars as the corporations who avoid trillions (yes- trillions) of dollars of taxes every year.
Heres an idea- why dont working people pay the same tax, corporations pay the tax that the actually owe, and the resulting extra revenue be channeled into making our society a nicer place to live. This would include allowing people the opportunity to have the funds to do something constructive, and find decent employment.
If someone I love gets really sick I want their doctor to be somebody who got his education and employment, because he was intelligent, motivated, interested in medicine, and he then had to compete against EVERY other person with the same interests and abilities.
If someone I love gets really sick I DO NOT want somebody to be looking after them just because he could afford the $100000 to get throught medical school and the academic competition wasnt really up to much.
Higher-end OCR packages with better accuracy, more features, etc. often cost quite a bit more.
OmniPage Pro is a decent package for only slightly more than $100. ReadIris is a really good program, and is reportedly very quick in comparison to some of the others. I imagine this is the reason that it costs $400.
You are, unwittingly perhaps, succumbing to one of the most persuasive, yet oldest sales tactics in the book. Just because one costs $400 and another costs $100, there is absolutely no reason to assume that the former is better than the latter.
I've got their IP addresses and can usually tracert their ISP's - is there an accepted type of letter to send them without seeming like one of the corporate cease-and-desist gnomes?"
Despite the fact that you work for a small company, you will in fact be a corporate cease-and-desist gnome if you send out such a letter. That is unfortunately the price you pay.
I wrote a GIF library in JAVA to display animated gifs on java 1.0 and it was reeeeeeeaaaaaally sloooooooow. It would however not be possible to exploit a buffer overflow on such a decompressor...
Coming from the north of scotland, the main employer in recent years has been north sea oil. Traditionally, work on offshore platforms has yeilded very high financial rewards for people in occupations that would not necessarily be so highly rewarded elsewhere. As the population of northern scotland have gained valuable oil-related skills, they have been called upon to take contacts in "high risk" places, such as Nigeria, Angola, Columbia, and other locations in the middle east, africa, and central america.
Now- heres the rub. You would think that kidnappings, hikackings, and detainment by rougue governments are things that you hear about on the news, yet dont generally happen very often
If you think this, then you are wrong
I can think of at least three things that have happened to people I know in these situations (NOTE: not things I have heard OF, or people I know OF- then we would be here all day). 1) a hijacking of an oil platform off of angola 2) kidnapping in colombia (lasted more than a year) 3) 2 year incarceration by corrupt government officials in nigeria.
However
As a former oil worker myself, I can safely say that the dangers posed by political instability are nothing compared to the health and safety hazards posed in these danger zones. Health and safty in the british sector of the north sea is bad, but health and safety in many parts of the world is basically non existant.
This is far more likely to kill you that political violence, even in a reletively sheltered job such as network engineer,
In a real sense BSD is very much alive and kicking, as BSD is the codebase for Sun Solaris, AIX and MacOS, as well as the *BSDs (netBSD, freeBSD and openBSD)
The main reason that slashdotters say that BSD is dying is that open source BSD projects have not traditionally had the cooperative success that linux has. Although BSD's can be functionally superior to linux in many ways, the manner in which they are maintained has tended to create rifts, branches, and partings of ways among their respective development teams and codebases.
In other words *BSDers tend to be somewhat flamebaitable- thats why linux based slashdotters try to wind them up by shouting BSD IS DEAD at every available opportunity (Windows based slashdotters just sit on the sidelines scratching their heads and saying "whats bsd?")
The author of the article thinks that Safari is the best browser. Safari is a derivative of the open source browser Konqueror. Therefore the parent poster is definately ON topic...
Open source is great and all, but isn't this statement a bit over the top? It almost sounds like he's trying to sell something. Just MHO.
Over the top? not at all...
The first generation internet was open source, and that was precisely why it was widely adopted and subsequently "suceeded". Many "internets" had been tried before but failed basically because they werent free (as in beer) for everybody to use and free (as in freedom) for knowledgable people to make improvements and give back to the community.
the specops website is a pretty blatant pitch for venture capital, and not intended to give information to end users. Has an definate air of dodginess...
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deeply deepy cool
very true
Thanks for your reply. Hope this helps.
It concerns me that corporations dodge taxes. It frankly frightens me that a self confessed "poor person" would suggest that this is ok and we should not tax them anyway.
What you need to understand is that capital has gravity- if you let large amounts of capital collect in one place, that capital will no longer need to sell anything- it will become larger and larger on its own accord.
You think that taxing corporations means higher costs for the consumer? No. Thats what happens if you tax a filling station, a burger bar or a restaurant, not a multinational corporation. We NEED to tax large financial entities just to ensure that they are actually doing something, instead of just getting fatter and fatter simply for existing. We also get money for infrastructure and society. This would be a Good Thing
Maybe you cant quite get your head around these concepts, possibly you have not yet seen how a large corporation operates from the inside
You seem to be a republican- good luck with that. If you think that Bush or any of his cronies give a fuck about guys like you- think again. I'm sure the medal for your services to industry is in the post.
Cant.. stop.. must... type reposte...
As a fellow poor person, who worked his way through a CS degree (and masters), I have to disagree with you guys.
The problem is not that poor people are spending their money on entertainment systems before neccesities. This is not something I observed the vast majority of my fellow downtrodden doing during my formative years, although I will admit that it did go on to a small extent.
No, the problem is that poor people exist in the first place.
In a civilized western democracy, nobody should be so poor that they do not have access to a PC. This creates a barrier to getting otherwise able bodied and intelligent people into work. Ask yourself this- how many potential doctors and nurses are sitting on your housing project because they dont have the finances to compliment their intelligence?
Welfare should be a safety net, but that net should be high enough to give eveybody a chance to contribute to the greater good, for all our sakes.
You want to moan about the poor leeching your taxes? They dont take nearly as many of your tax dollars as the corporations who avoid trillions (yes- trillions) of dollars of taxes every year.
Heres an idea- why dont working people pay the same tax, corporations pay the tax that the actually owe, and the resulting extra revenue be channeled into making our society a nicer place to live. This would include allowing people the opportunity to have the funds to do something constructive, and find decent employment.
If someone I love gets really sick I want their doctor to be somebody who got his education and employment, because he was intelligent, motivated, interested in medicine, and he then had to compete against EVERY other person with the same interests and abilities.
If someone I love gets really sick I DO NOT want somebody to be looking after them just because he could afford the $100000 to get throught medical school and the academic competition wasnt really up to much.
Discuss...
Will you need to have windows to run this software?
You are, unwittingly perhaps, succumbing to one of the most persuasive, yet oldest sales tactics in the book. Just because one costs $400 and another costs $100, there is absolutely no reason to assume that the former is better than the latter.
Despite the fact that you work for a small company, you will in fact be a corporate cease-and-desist gnome if you send out such a letter. That is unfortunately the price you pay.
how very, very, very, very, very, very, very true
I wrote a GIF library in JAVA to display animated gifs on java 1.0 and it was reeeeeeeaaaaaally sloooooooow. It would however not be possible to exploit a buffer overflow on such a decompressor...
"Where there's a hit, there's a writ"
Det er ikke så vanskelig å lære norsk. Det som er vanskelig er å betale 56kr for en pils.
Now- heres the rub. You would think that kidnappings, hikackings, and detainment by rougue governments are things that you hear about on the news, yet dont generally happen very often
If you think this, then you are wrong
I can think of at least three things that have happened to people I know in these situations (NOTE: not things I have heard OF, or people I know OF- then we would be here all day). 1) a hijacking of an oil platform off of angola 2) kidnapping in colombia (lasted more than a year) 3) 2 year incarceration by corrupt government officials in nigeria.
However
As a former oil worker myself, I can safely say that the dangers posed by political instability are nothing compared to the health and safety hazards posed in these danger zones. Health and safty in the british sector of the north sea is bad, but health and safety in many parts of the world is basically non existant.
This is far more likely to kill you that political violence, even in a reletively sheltered job such as network engineer,
erm... cant we do this already? on the nokia n-gage for example?
define "real world"
The main reason that slashdotters say that BSD is dying is that open source BSD projects have not traditionally had the cooperative success that linux has. Although BSD's can be functionally superior to linux in many ways, the manner in which they are maintained has tended to create rifts, branches, and partings of ways among their respective development teams and codebases.
In other words *BSDers tend to be somewhat flamebaitable- thats why linux based slashdotters try to wind them up by shouting BSD IS DEAD at every available opportunity (Windows based slashdotters just sit on the sidelines scratching their heads and saying "whats bsd?")
The author of the article thinks that Safari is the best browser. Safari is a derivative of the open source browser Konqueror. Therefore the parent poster is definately ON topic...
Over the top? not at all...
The first generation internet was open source, and that was precisely why it was widely adopted and subsequently "suceeded". Many "internets" had been tried before but failed basically because they werent free (as in beer) for everybody to use and free (as in freedom) for knowledgable people to make improvements and give back to the community.
Having said that, I am a computer engineer, and an avid club cyclist.
As for martial arts, I am not aware of geeks who indulge in this...
the specops website is a pretty blatant pitch for venture capital, and not intended to give information to end users. Has an definate air of dodginess...
I can only conclude that some moderators are indeed 'avin a laaaaawf
for the love of god, stop misusing spreadsheets/excel as databases- They are for calculating numbers, not creating lists of things!!!!!!