Who in the WORLD would mistake Taiwan for the People's Republic of China? Every time the world sees "The People's Republic of..." as a prefix for a country name that country is usually known for mass killing, slavery, and starvation of their own people. Why would any sane country want to be known as that?
Lets all not get so excited. This is actually the empirical method in action. Its up to the NASA microbiologists to defend their findings, if the findings are bonafide they've got nothing to worry about. This is really nothing new in science, some one finds something new, the skeptics come in and tear it apart, the finder defends his findings, some other researcher duplicates the findings, then NOBEL PRIZE. Just give NASA some more time to either verify or become a laughing stock. Its up to them. Nothing to see here, really.
I assume you realize you don't really need to use upper case in those db commands. I'm not aware of a db interpreter that demands case as part of its syntax. Its just a stupid convention that's been around since the days of caseless ttys
and main frame data bases (remember DB/2?). Your stuck in a little bit of a rut. That said, I don't agree with taking away choice either. Still, I'm a little annoyed by your comment. Gotta have case in sql, huh??? sure...
Hah, McNealey's blaming FOSS for his own management shortcomings. The bad thing is people not in the industry (not in IT and more in Financials) will read this crap and come to the conclusion that FOSS == BAD for Business. I think its more a case of McNealy == BAD for business.
If you don't like your deal, switch employers. But don't cheat your employer and then tell me its some kind of right. If your stuck flipping burgers or some what, or some other menial job; get trained and get a real one. Believe me, if employers really value your skills, they are much less likely to screw you. If your ENTIRE life has been spent slacking and now your out on your own and can't afford to slack, don't come whining to me that your bosses are screwing your in your minimum wage job; they don't HAVE a legal reason to employ you and pay you top dollar while you sit in the back room smoking dope with your loser friends. Stop smoking the dope, get trained, get a real job, stop slacking off. I think you'll find people are not going to try to screw you as much.
"Are we going to loose something as home users... Yes. just as the small business lost out when they in essence downgraded from mainframes to Desktops... "
Small business 'lost out' when computing power grew by factors and at the same time became factors affordable and smaller? How in the world did ANYONE lose out on that deal? Except mainframe manufacturers?
I read that they were going to go through some re-branding pain some time ago although the reasons were not clear, at least to me. But I hardly think this qualifies as signs that KDE is going away.
Your objections are nothing new, they're as old as prostitution. What's new is the technology. You're asking that an act a 5 year old child can can commit be as illegal as counterfeiting. A child can distribute 1 million copies of a copy written work with the push of a button. There's a disconnect somewhere. People aren't going to stop distributing or copying copy written work unless you (or the people are are arguing for) make the detection & penalties for distribution so egregious that it makes sense not to, and clearly, that's not going to happen, unless the government gets truly insane. If you can see knocking in people's doors and dragging people (and children) to our already crowded jails for this infringement then I guess you have a case. Otherwise, I recommend you face reality and realize the business model of selling media with some copy written content on it is no longer a viable business model. It just isn't.
"Second, if the tenants destroy your property creating a meth lab, the government would not reimburse you."
Yeah, I don't think the government normally reimburses landlords whose properties are destroyed by meth lab fires. Still, rental laws are quote strongly on the side of the renters. There's not a lot the owner can do to control the use of his properties for illegal reasons. Landlords are certainly NOT allowed to spy on their tenants or make more than what I'm sure are a specified number of surprise visits.
Not only was the guy a bank robber, he was stockpiling explosives. Wow, talk about the road less traveled... Hey, he was probably just into fishing with grenades. And robbing banks, well, he was out of work...
"Apple is doing precisely what I want any company I entrust with my data to do: refuse sharing it."
Right, any corp with brains at the helm would sell it. I have a hard time believing that Apple would actually do the right thing and lock it away, if they are, kudos to them.
"Right, because running a webserver is cheaper than waiting 60 seconds to download a file. *eye roll*
Roll your eyes all you want, in the online world, waiting 60 seconds is a pain in the ass. And its not just the 60 seconds. For most of these worthless services you get the one shot. After that download, you need to wait an additional hour to d/l a second file. I'm not doing that. I'm glad you're so patient.
Most people don't *have* a webserver, and wouldn't know how to get one, and wouldn't know how to run it if they had one, and wouldn't want one even if they did know all that."
You know what I say to them? Fuck 'em. Your in the digital age now, figure some shit out. Get a LAMP stack with an auto-installer these are available for both windows and Linux, and hey! its a one-click install.
That still too much work? Get a Dropbox account or one of the myriad other services. Free, no waiting, you can publish a file on the web for nothing and I'm still not waiting 60 seconds to download one file.
No excuses for these pay services. You might like them, but your a fool. There are alternatives. So fuck off.
I guess this justifies the howls of laughter my friends and I gave after reading another post on/. earlier in the week wherein a poster described his process for using ie in a sandbox environment that included "IE Protected Mode" that he believed protected him from virii and fishers. One of my mates even said some one would find a new flaw that would render his setup useless. Damned if that guy wasn't right.
Rapidshare and all these other pay storage sites suck. So much easier to simply store crap you want to distribute to others on your own web server. I'm really annoyed when some one says "Here, grab this file" and then hands me a rapidshare link. I'm usually inclined to ignore it. I'm not waiting 60 seconds to get a file some one has invited me to or pay the toll to be a "premium user." If I do that then I need to buy subscriptions every such site my idiot friends use (and there are a lot) and I'm just not going to do that. Do me a favor: have a file you want me to have? Just stick it on your web server.
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Who in the WORLD would mistake Taiwan for the People's Republic of China? Every time the world sees "The People's Republic of..." as a prefix for a country name that country is usually known for mass killing, slavery, and starvation of their own people. Why would any sane country want to be known as that?
Lets all not get so excited. This is actually the empirical method in action. Its up to the NASA microbiologists to defend their findings, if the findings are bonafide they've got nothing to worry about. This is really nothing new in science, some one finds something new, the skeptics come in and tear it apart, the finder defends his findings, some other researcher duplicates the findings, then NOBEL PRIZE. Just give NASA some more time to either verify or become a laughing stock. Its up to them. Nothing to see here, really.
I assume you realize you don't really need to use upper case in those db commands. I'm not aware of a db interpreter that demands case as part of its syntax. Its just a stupid convention that's been around since the days of caseless ttys and main frame data bases (remember DB/2?). Your stuck in a little bit of a rut. That said, I don't agree with taking away choice either. Still, I'm a little annoyed by your comment. Gotta have case in sql, huh??? sure...
...and that's all I have to say.
Hah, McNealey's blaming FOSS for his own management shortcomings. The bad thing is people not in the industry (not in IT and more in Financials) will read this crap and come to the conclusion that FOSS == BAD for Business. I think its more a case of McNealy == BAD for business.
"I would consider China "freer", but they haven't waged war with just about everything like the US."
No, the Chinese prefer to simply bludgeon their own (Tibet, Tienanmen Square, and constantly threatening war over Taiwan...)
If you don't like your deal, switch employers. But don't cheat your employer and then tell me its some kind of right. If your stuck flipping burgers or some what, or some other menial job; get trained and get a real one. Believe me, if employers really value your skills, they are much less likely to screw you. If your ENTIRE life has been spent slacking and now your out on your own and can't afford to slack, don't come whining to me that your bosses are screwing your in your minimum wage job; they don't HAVE a legal reason to employ you and pay you top dollar while you sit in the back room smoking dope with your loser friends. Stop smoking the dope, get trained, get a real job, stop slacking off. I think you'll find people are not going to try to screw you as much.
6 cores for $235??? AND at 3.3G? Sign me up.
Yeah, trying to keep productivity up and lower costs by rooting out people in your org who don't want to work is such a horrible thing.
"Are we going to loose something as home users... Yes. just as the small business lost out when they in essence downgraded from mainframes to Desktops... "
Small business 'lost out' when computing power grew by factors and at the same time became factors affordable and smaller? How in the world did ANYONE lose out on that deal? Except mainframe manufacturers?
Everybody knows you never go full retard.
I read that they were going to go through some re-branding pain some time ago although the reasons were not clear, at least to me. But I hardly think this qualifies as signs that KDE is going away.
I wonder if the Russians are working on a make-up remover anti-satellite?
Your objections are nothing new, they're as old as prostitution. What's new is the technology. You're asking that an act a 5 year old child can can commit be as illegal as counterfeiting. A child can distribute 1 million copies of a copy written work with the push of a button. There's a disconnect somewhere. People aren't going to stop distributing or copying copy written work unless you (or the people are are arguing for) make the detection & penalties for distribution so egregious that it makes sense not to, and clearly, that's not going to happen, unless the government gets truly insane. If you can see knocking in people's doors and dragging people (and children) to our already crowded jails for this infringement then I guess you have a case. Otherwise, I recommend you face reality and realize the business model of selling media with some copy written content on it is no longer a viable business model. It just isn't.
"Second, if the tenants destroy your property creating a meth lab, the government would not reimburse you."
Yeah, I don't think the government normally reimburses landlords whose properties are destroyed by meth lab fires. Still, rental laws are quote strongly on the side of the renters. There's not a lot the owner can do to control the use of his properties for illegal reasons. Landlords are certainly NOT allowed to spy on their tenants or make more than what I'm sure are a specified number of surprise visits.
Not only was the guy a bank robber, he was stockpiling explosives. Wow, talk about the road less traveled... Hey, he was probably just into fishing with grenades. And robbing banks, well, he was out of work...
"It has never been about security and has NEVER been about making people feel secure.
There, fixed that for ya.
"Apple is doing precisely what I want any company I entrust with my data to do: refuse sharing it."
Right, any corp with brains at the helm would sell it. I have a hard time believing that Apple would actually do the right thing and lock it away, if they are, kudos to them.
I think I should have been modded up just for the sheer number of tangential replies I've received.
"Right, because running a webserver is cheaper than waiting 60 seconds to download a file. *eye roll*
Roll your eyes all you want, in the online world, waiting 60 seconds is a pain in the ass. And its not just the 60 seconds. For most of these worthless services you get the one shot. After that download, you need to wait an additional hour to d/l a second file. I'm not doing that. I'm glad you're so patient.
Most people don't *have* a webserver, and wouldn't know how to get one, and wouldn't know how to run it if they had one, and wouldn't want one even if they did know all that."
You know what I say to them? Fuck 'em. Your in the digital age now, figure some shit out. Get a LAMP stack with an auto-installer these are available for both windows and Linux, and hey! its a one-click install. That still too much work? Get a Dropbox account or one of the myriad other services. Free, no waiting, you can publish a file on the web for nothing and I'm still not waiting 60 seconds to download one file. No excuses for these pay services. You might like them, but your a fool. There are alternatives. So fuck off.
I guess this justifies the howls of laughter my friends and I gave after reading another post on /. earlier in the week wherein a poster described his process for using ie in a sandbox environment that included "IE Protected Mode" that he believed protected him from virii and fishers. One of my mates even said some one would find a new flaw that would render his setup useless. Damned if that guy wasn't right.
And if your rather nervous about continuing to support the Microsoft Monopoly there's Avira, which I've been using for years for free.
More reasons (as if I didn't have enough already) to point at Kentucky and laugh hysterically.
Still; democracy dies by degree; death by 1000 tiny cuts.
Rapidshare and all these other pay storage sites suck. So much easier to simply store crap you want to distribute to others on your own web server. I'm really annoyed when some one says "Here, grab this file" and then hands me a rapidshare link. I'm usually inclined to ignore it. I'm not waiting 60 seconds to get a file some one has invited me to or pay the toll to be a "premium user." If I do that then I need to buy subscriptions every such site my idiot friends use (and there are a lot) and I'm just not going to do that. Do me a favor: have a file you want me to have? Just stick it on your web server.