Which will get you nowhere if he knows anything about WoW. You don't 'need' BitTorrent to download the patch. It's just faster that way. My advice, don't try to persuade him him when you have bogus facts. You'll just dig BT users farther in a hole.
At a university, you probably have a high enough density of geeks to have a Linux Users Group (or *BSD, or whatever) with a server and local ISO images/CVS trees.
If someone keeps spending like a madman even though they know they can't afford to buy all the tings they are buying, screw them. They got themselves in that situation. They KNEW they couldn't afford what they were buying.
The problem is, most bankruptcies don't come from people getting over their heads in credit card debt. They come from people having a major medical crisis in the family and running up hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in medical bills, and having to go into bankruptcy from that.
Are other cable companies allowed to lay their own cable in these neighborhoods? If not then they have locked out competition and have an unfair monopoly.
Has the cable company paid the government for the use of public property to run their cables? If not, the public space is being used with no compensation, and being forced to allow other companies to use the lines to service the public may be seen as fair returns to the public for the use of that space.
It seems under either of these conditions, requiring the cable company to rent out some bandwidth to other companies (for a fair usage fee) might be quite reasonable.
Something must be different about the configuration of Office on your machine. I turn it off on any one of the machines here, restart the program, even reboot and restart Word... the buttons are still gone. It sounds like a Word configuration issue rather than an Acrobat issue.
Yes, it does stay off. Close Word. Relaunch Word... still gone. Reboot machine, lanuch Word... still gone. No problems. I didn't have a problem with 6 either. Are you sure some doc or spyware didn't change the default config of Word on your machine?
Great. Why don't we all surf the web on 2x2 pixel displays? Because at some point you just can't display enough content to show the data you want to show in an effective manner. Yes, many pages can be rewritten with css to look better in 'lower' resolutions. But how low do you go before it's just crap? What's the lowest common denominator that you are going to put effort into servicing? Some of the stuff I look at are large data sets. Large spreadsheets. That stuff just isn't great to view on a small resolution screen because you'd constantly have to scroll all over the place to see/remind yourself of what the data was at other points. There are a lot of charts/tables on the net that would be crappy on a 240x320 resolution screen. Not every page is as content-lite as 'a simple sunrise', sorry.
I can honestly say that most websites are painful to view on a 240x320 screen over a GPRS connection(EVDO is expensive/US-only). Have we moved away from 56K-modem-oriented design, only to be pulled back in that direction?"
You might, but I sure won't. I don't want to try to compare various items I'm shopping for on such a tiny screen, etc. etc. I won't buy a device for browsing the web unless it can do at least VGA.
Why demand everyone in the internet re-write the content on all their sites because you are trying to use a bad device to view it? Should boat makers make all their boats tiny because you prefer bailing water with a thimble rather than a bucket? Use the right tool for the job, or don't complain when the wrong tool doesn't work as well as the right one.
"Rig" is used in a lot of places. All the electrophysiolgists I know call their lab equipment their 'rig'. Listen to people who sail, you will find they talk a god bit about their rigging.
From Websters:
n.
1. Nautical. The arrangement of masts, spars, and sails on a sailing vessel.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
3.
a. A truck or tractor.
b. A tractor-trailer.
c. A vehicle with one or more horses harnessed to it.
4. The special apparatus used for drilling oil wells.
5. Western U.S. See saddle.
6. Informal. A costume or an outfit: wore an outlandish rig to the office.
7. Fishing tackle.
I think in this case they are using definition #2.
No, because Hann Barbera gave specific permission for the use in that case (call it advertising in the school). As long as the company has authorized the use, it's ok. If they don't crack down on unauthorized use, that's when they are at risk for losing the trademark.
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He might be thinking about the ants that herd and keep aphids. The take the aphids around to plants the aphids feed on. The ants then milk the aphids for their honeydew (a sugary liquid the aphids produce).
The BeOS microkernel worked and worked well. The company just wasn't financially viable. VM and QNX each have their niches (mainframes and embedded) where they didn't have to fight off MS. BeOS, not having such a niche tried to get installed on some manufacturers PC's but MS threatened to raise the price for Windows to those manufacturers if they did so, so Be was left to wither.
If you read the robots.txt file, you'll see they block english/news, but the headlines, and part of the story leads (which the news agency is sueing them for displaying) are presented on their main page, above the english/news subdirectories. They didn't disallow search engines to crawl that main page in the robots.txt file, therefore it is fair game. The images might be questionable, but most of the suit looks like garbage.
Why the heck should I be paid because someone else is speeding? They are just going to have to increase my taxes so that they can afford the enforcement to catch the speeders, then pay for more overhead to distribute the money to the non-speeding (but not speeding) citizens. Who then have to pay the money back in taxes to pay for enforcement, to generate more money to give back, loop, loop, loop....
Why add the useless bureaucracy??? Have those who speed directly pay for the enforcement, as it is now. Much less overhead than shuffling the money back and forth and losing it to overhead in the process.
And if you are saying this should be done with MS's fine, who gets the money?
Does Redhat get some?
Does Linus get some?
Does Stallman?
Does some go to Theo and the OpenBSD group?
Does Apple get some if they are complying with open standards?
Does Sun?
How about DragonflyBSD?
How about Joe's Crackhead Linux Distro?
Who decides who all gets the money? Does Joe's Crackhead Distro get the same amount of money that Apple does?
It's a ridiculous concept. You can't be 'fair' with it. The best thing is to let the government use the money for enforcement, etc. 'Giving it to OSS' is just stupid.
There are lots and lots of us *BSD folks out there, and I haven't run into any who were terribly inconvenienced by the default process limits. For most, the defaults are fine. If you do happen to need more, you probably know enough to change the default.
But there is a difference between enforcing standards and subsidizing some 3rd party. If they want to fine someone for not going along with standards, that's great. But why should the fine money be given to OSS developers? Would you want them to give the money to Apple? Sun? IBM? Those companies might obey the standards, should the government hand the fine money over to them? No.
When I get a fine for speeding in my car, the money doesn't go the the little old lady put-putting around on a sunday drive. The government uses it for running the governmnet and enforcing polices, etc. They don't just give it away to 'competitors'.
And if you run some badly coded app that has an unintended fork-bomb included from a screwup in some routine? Your machine freezes. It's not going to happen often, but why let it? Why not set some sane limits, and let the user modify those limits later as they see fit?
And get sued for millions by some guy who got in and accident and somehow covered in battery acid? The major auto manufacturers already factor in what problems with a car to recall by how many deaths/lawsuits they will statistically face from that defect.
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What ever you do, don't cross the streams!
Unless you didn't happen to watch that particular newscast. Geez, a report on the news does NOT excuse deceptive advertising.
Psst. Not all Americans can get broadband. There are still lots that are too far out to get DSL or cable. My parents are among those.
Which will get you nowhere if he knows anything about WoW. You don't 'need' BitTorrent to download the patch. It's just faster that way. My advice, don't try to persuade him him when you have bogus facts. You'll just dig BT users farther in a hole.
At a university, you probably have a high enough density of geeks to have a Linux Users Group (or *BSD, or whatever) with a server and local ISO images/CVS trees.
What? That's not real Swedish?
DUH!!! NO ONE ABOVE 4 YEARS OLD THINKS IT IS REAL SWEDISH.
Is your next insightful fun fact that pigs and frogs can't actually speak english?
And that justs helps out loads when you have to interoperate with the 98% of the rest of world that doesn't use OO.
The problem is, most bankruptcies don't come from people getting over their heads in credit card debt. They come from people having a major medical crisis in the family and running up hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in medical bills, and having to go into bankruptcy from that.
Has the cable company paid the government for the use of public property to run their cables? If not, the public space is being used with no compensation, and being forced to allow other companies to use the lines to service the public may be seen as fair returns to the public for the use of that space.
It seems under either of these conditions, requiring the cable company to rent out some bandwidth to other companies (for a fair usage fee) might be quite reasonable.
Something must be different about the configuration of Office on your machine. I turn it off on any one of the machines here, restart the program, even reboot and restart Word... the buttons are still gone. It sounds like a Word configuration issue rather than an Acrobat issue.
Yes, it does stay off. Close Word. Relaunch Word... still gone. Reboot machine, lanuch Word... still gone. No problems. I didn't have a problem with 6 either. Are you sure some doc or spyware didn't change the default config of Word on your machine?
You can hid it in 7 as well (right-click on the toolbar, uncheck 'PDFMaker 7'). No problems. This is a non-story.
The problem is with the device.
You might, but I sure won't. I don't want to try to compare various items I'm shopping for on such a tiny screen, etc. etc. I won't buy a device for browsing the web unless it can do at least VGA.
Why demand everyone in the internet re-write the content on all their sites because you are trying to use a bad device to view it? Should boat makers make all their boats tiny because you prefer bailing water with a thimble rather than a bucket? Use the right tool for the job, or don't complain when the wrong tool doesn't work as well as the right one.
From Websters:
n.
1. Nautical. The arrangement of masts, spars, and sails on a sailing vessel.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
3.
a. A truck or tractor.
b. A tractor-trailer.
c. A vehicle with one or more horses harnessed to it.
4. The special apparatus used for drilling oil wells.
5. Western U.S. See saddle.
6. Informal. A costume or an outfit: wore an outlandish rig to the office.
7. Fishing tackle.
I think in this case they are using definition #2.
No, because Hann Barbera gave specific permission for the use in that case (call it advertising in the school). As long as the company has authorized the use, it's ok. If they don't crack down on unauthorized use, that's when they are at risk for losing the trademark.
He might be thinking about the ants that herd and keep aphids. The take the aphids around to plants the aphids feed on. The ants then milk the aphids for their honeydew (a sugary liquid the aphids produce).
The BeOS microkernel worked and worked well. The company just wasn't financially viable. VM and QNX each have their niches (mainframes and embedded) where they didn't have to fight off MS. BeOS, not having such a niche tried to get installed on some manufacturers PC's but MS threatened to raise the price for Windows to those manufacturers if they did so, so Be was left to wither.
If you read the robots.txt file, you'll see they block english/news, but the headlines, and part of the story leads (which the news agency is sueing them for displaying) are presented on their main page, above the english/news subdirectories. They didn't disallow search engines to crawl that main page in the robots.txt file, therefore it is fair game. The images might be questionable, but most of the suit looks like garbage.
Why add the useless bureaucracy??? Have those who speed directly pay for the enforcement, as it is now. Much less overhead than shuffling the money back and forth and losing it to overhead in the process.
And if you are saying this should be done with MS's fine, who gets the money?
Does Redhat get some?
Does Linus get some?
Does Stallman?
Does some go to Theo and the OpenBSD group?
Does Apple get some if they are complying with open standards?
Does Sun?
How about DragonflyBSD?
How about Joe's Crackhead Linux Distro?
Who decides who all gets the money? Does Joe's Crackhead Distro get the same amount of money that Apple does?
It's a ridiculous concept. You can't be 'fair' with it. The best thing is to let the government use the money for enforcement, etc. 'Giving it to OSS' is just stupid.
There are lots and lots of us *BSD folks out there, and I haven't run into any who were terribly inconvenienced by the default process limits. For most, the defaults are fine. If you do happen to need more, you probably know enough to change the default.
When I get a fine for speeding in my car, the money doesn't go the the little old lady put-putting around on a sunday drive. The government uses it for running the governmnet and enforcing polices, etc. They don't just give it away to 'competitors'.
And if you run some badly coded app that has an unintended fork-bomb included from a screwup in some routine? Your machine freezes. It's not going to happen often, but why let it? Why not set some sane limits, and let the user modify those limits later as they see fit?
Barney Calhoun is qualified as well. Blue-Shift.
The risk isn't worth the $1/week.