What is this gopher you are talking about? Is that like a new plugin for my IE internet browser? Can I download MP3s on it since my Napster connection has been down lately?
Nope...Well, maybe as a database server. My current job is to keep aroudn 650 POS servers up and running. Unfortunately, I know a few people that feel their 7+ year old servers are more then fine for what they need. Of course they are the same people or scream when we can't find parts or tell them that their SCO v3.4.2 server isn't supported anymore.
If there is ONE person that has downloaded a song without paying for it, the industry has been damaged by EXACTLY that one song.
But if I'm that ONE person who downloaded that ONE song and I wouldn't have gone out and purchased that CD if I couldn't have downloadeded, they havn't lost business that wasn't going to be there origianlly. Or if I'm that ONE person who downloaded that ONE song, and as a result went out an purchased the CD that I wouldn't have because of it, they have now gained business.
Either way, they can kick and scream and make up laws left and right. They probably won't make even a dent in the P2P scene. We have prison overcrowding already. Are they going to throw several million people in prison. Yes they may/will get the big guys, but for every big guy there is a couple of dozen slightly smaller guys that will take his place.
For me it's not the pot, but the ease of making it. It is easier and quicker for me to toss a box of pasta, dump in the sauce and toss it in the oven for 30 minutes then boiling the water & cooking the pasta, then dumping in the sauce. It just skips a step.
The same people that were worried that people would tape everything they wanted off of the radio.
No. Valenti is head of the MPAA. The RIAA is in charge of protesting the airwaves. Different organization, same idea. They both leave a bad taste in your mouth.
You don't send out 30 million messages a day on a dialup account. That takes some significant (and not so cheap) bandwidth. There was either an article or a message a couple weeks back from a guy who met a spammer through a friend. He had multiple T1 lines. Obviously it is profitable for them, but I wouldn't say that it is even close to $0. Even more if you consider time=money and they have to figure out how to defeat the filters.
Think of it as two objects that are the same in one way or another. In this case they are both black, but it could be to men, two P4 processors, anything really. One starts to make fun of the other one because of the trait that they both have.
It might have started out when being black was a "bad thing". Don't know of the real origins.
"A registry by definition has a monopoly, so they all have a common interest in preserving individual monopolistic practices, so they don't want to be accountable to anybody," Lynn said.
Hmmm....replace registry with ICANN and it still hold true!
Don't look in the coax section by the TVs. Look in the coax section for satellite receivers. It's usually hidden around there. If they have installed sales, you may even be able to buy it in bulk.
Why go through the extra expense and trouble of having 100 pages of channels when you could just have one page and change channels by pressing a button?
Although it wouldn't be unlisted, what you usually can do is put it under a different name for free. Then when anyone calls for Al Coholic, Richard Smoker, or Michael Hunt, you can honestly say they have the wrong number since no one lives here by that name.
Actually, Windows 98 is still supported...for a little bit at least. Donno about NT 4.0 since I don't use it. Windows 2000 may have 9 more months of OEM sales, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be able to find it on store shelves in shrinkwrapped plastic. Support for 2000 will extended beyond just the cutoff date of selling it in stores. Think Windows 95. They just recently cut off all support for it long after you couldn't find it in stores.
Actually, depending on the size of the object (and assuming that a magnet would be attracted to it), 10km/s is no problem. 10km/s is relative to a fixed point. All you would have to to is attach the magnet to an object also going 10km/s for the magnet to latch on, then just slowly brake.
My original argument against the magnet idea is that not everything is attracted to magnets, regardless of how powerful the magnet is.
UTP to fiber converters are also available so old outdated NICs with AUI ports are not required. They are usually a little more expensive (around 140 from Black Box).
I found it amusing that one of the images returned by that link is a picture of the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Kinda fits in with the original interview question.
That is for the e-mail monitoring. If I recall correctly, the mail is downloaded into Norton's "mail server", scanned, then downloaded into Outlook, Eudora, whatever. That line should not effect performance and is used by Norton's to run correctly.
And at the end of the day when the whistle blows, you go home, sit back, and drink a beer. Meanwhile alot of us are still fixing down servers, debugging code, and trying to keep everything running. Not everyone mind you, but some of us. We sometimes don't get weekends. We sometimes work all day just to find out we have to work all night to fix something.
If it is outside labor that you do, you get fresh air (maybe), sunlight, a tan in the summer, and exercise. My current cubical has several firewalls to an anything that looks like sunlight, even then it is only these little tiny windows clear up at the top of the wall that would make basement windows look big.
If it is inside work, you probably get to move around. See different things. I have pretty much the same view every hour I work.
You chose your job. It was not decided at your birth. If you don't like doing manual labor, find a different job. Go back to school if you don't have a degree. Do rag on us because we chose this career for ourselves. Just as you think that our life is so easy doesn't mean it is. Just my $.02.
Yes and No. 200GB doesn't look like it is commercially obtainable by mear mortals unless you have a hard drive engineer and really deep pockets. 180GB is though...Seagate makes that SCSI drive. Pricewatch lists it at $999. Give 'em a few months and they should have a 200GB model out.
No arguments here. The idea that you are REQUIRED to pay a dealership to reset the light is silly and not necessary. I don't know about newer cars, but the pre-OBD-II GM vehicles would trigger the light and remain on until the negative terminal of the battery was pulled for 30 seconds or so. This I think was ideal since it would still remind our 80 year old aunt Ethels to have the car serviced, but us shade tree mechanics could still reset it.
Why should I buy AutoCAD when I can just draw pictures in MS Paint? Because AutoCAD was specificly designed for detailed engineering/architectural/etc drawings and Paint wasn't. Why should I pay for a Linux maintance contract from RedHat when I could maybe find an answer somewhere on the internet? Because I don't want answeres that might work. I'm paying for a solution and they will work with me to find it.
If this scanner was just a serial interface, then yes $6000 would be a racket. But it is not. It's more then just a serial interface. It's support. It's updates to the codes. Its the man-hours that went into designing the interface, the ruggedized housing, the database of codes. Its the programming to graph everything in a coherent manner instead of just displaying the values in a table and making you figure out what they all mean. A mechanic doesn't want to sit down looking at 5 different data sets to try and diagnose a problem. He wants something that he can plug in, turn on, and it just work. That is what costs $6000.
Simplifing it down to "justs accepts and displays a short serial tranfer of data" is like saying the linux kernel is "just 0's and 1's in a combination." Yes they are both true, but it's a little bit more complex then that.
This is not about getting regular service though. I'm a shade tree mechanic. I can replace 6 spark plugs, an air cleaner and a PCV valve (a typical "tune-up" these days) for a lot less then $60. Even if I do the "tune-up" religiously I will always get the little service light. The manufacturer assumes that I will never work on the car so they just set up the light to come on every 60,000 miles whether it is needed or not.
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What is this gopher you are talking about? Is that like a new plugin for my IE internet browser? Can I download MP3s on it since my Napster connection has been down lately?
Nope...Well, maybe as a database server. My current job is to keep aroudn 650 POS servers up and running. Unfortunately, I know a few people that feel their 7+ year old servers are more then fine for what they need. Of course they are the same people or scream when we can't find parts or tell them that their SCO v3.4.2 server isn't supported anymore.
But if I'm that ONE person who downloaded that ONE song and I wouldn't have gone out and purchased that CD if I couldn't have downloadeded, they havn't lost business that wasn't going to be there origianlly. Or if I'm that ONE person who downloaded that ONE song, and as a result went out an purchased the CD that I wouldn't have because of it, they have now gained business.
Either way, they can kick and scream and make up laws left and right. They probably won't make even a dent in the P2P scene. We have prison overcrowding already. Are they going to throw several million people in prison. Yes they may/will get the big guys, but for every big guy there is a couple of dozen slightly smaller guys that will take his place.
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For me it's not the pot, but the ease of making it. It is easier and quicker for me to toss a box of pasta, dump in the sauce and toss it in the oven for 30 minutes then boiling the water & cooking the pasta, then dumping in the sauce. It just skips a step.
You guys watch too much South Park.
You don't send out 30 million messages a day on a dialup account. That takes some significant (and not so cheap) bandwidth. There was either an article or a message a couple weeks back from a guy who met a spammer through a friend. He had multiple T1 lines. Obviously it is profitable for them, but I wouldn't say that it is even close to $0. Even more if you consider time=money and they have to figure out how to defeat the filters.
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Think of it as two objects that are the same in one way or another. In this case they are both black, but it could be to men, two P4 processors, anything really. One starts to make fun of the other one because of the trait that they both have.
It might have started out when being black was a "bad thing". Don't know of the real origins.
Don't look in the coax section by the TVs. Look in the coax section for satellite receivers. It's usually hidden around there. If they have installed sales, you may even be able to buy it in bulk.
Why go through the extra expense and trouble of having 100 pages of channels when you could just have one page and change channels by pressing a button?
Although it wouldn't be unlisted, what you usually can do is put it under a different name for free. Then when anyone calls for Al Coholic, Richard Smoker, or Michael Hunt, you can honestly say they have the wrong number since no one lives here by that name.
Actually, Windows 98 is still supported...for a little bit at least. Donno about NT 4.0 since I don't use it. Windows 2000 may have 9 more months of OEM sales, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be able to find it on store shelves in shrinkwrapped plastic. Support for 2000 will extended beyond just the cutoff date of selling it in stores. Think Windows 95. They just recently cut off all support for it long after you couldn't find it in stores.
Actually, depending on the size of the object (and assuming that a magnet would be attracted to it), 10km/s is no problem. 10km/s is relative to a fixed point. All you would have to to is attach the magnet to an object also going 10km/s for the magnet to latch on, then just slowly brake.
My original argument against the magnet idea is that not everything is attracted to magnets, regardless of how powerful the magnet is.
UTP to fiber converters are also available so old outdated NICs with AUI ports are not required. They are usually a little more expensive (around 140 from Black Box).
I found it amusing that one of the images returned by that link is a picture of the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Kinda fits in with the original interview question.
That is for the e-mail monitoring. If I recall correctly, the mail is downloaded into Norton's "mail server", scanned, then downloaded into Outlook, Eudora, whatever. That line should not effect performance and is used by Norton's to run correctly.
And at the end of the day when the whistle blows, you go home, sit back, and drink a beer. Meanwhile alot of us are still fixing down servers, debugging code, and trying to keep everything running. Not everyone mind you, but some of us. We sometimes don't get weekends. We sometimes work all day just to find out we have to work all night to fix something.
If it is outside labor that you do, you get fresh air (maybe), sunlight, a tan in the summer, and exercise. My current cubical has several firewalls to an anything that looks like sunlight, even then it is only these little tiny windows clear up at the top of the wall that would make basement windows look big.
If it is inside work, you probably get to move around. See different things. I have pretty much the same view every hour I work.
You chose your job. It was not decided at your birth. If you don't like doing manual labor, find a different job. Go back to school if you don't have a degree. Do rag on us because we chose this career for ourselves. Just as you think that our life is so easy doesn't mean it is. Just my $.02.
Yes and No. 200GB doesn't look like it is commercially obtainable by mear mortals unless you have a hard drive engineer and really deep pockets. 180GB is though...Seagate makes that SCSI drive. Pricewatch lists it at $999. Give 'em a few months and they should have a 200GB model out.
No arguments here. The idea that you are REQUIRED to pay a dealership to reset the light is silly and not necessary. I don't know about newer cars, but the pre-OBD-II GM vehicles would trigger the light and remain on until the negative terminal of the battery was pulled for 30 seconds or so. This I think was ideal since it would still remind our 80 year old aunt Ethels to have the car serviced, but us shade tree mechanics could still reset it.
The VIN is fake but can anyone tell me where the vehicle was made and by who? .
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22:27:12.907: Vin: 6H8VTK69FYL581365
It was made by Holden's Motor Company in Australia around 2000 in Elizabeth...maybe. I'm not too sure about the city.
Why should I buy AutoCAD when I can just draw pictures in MS Paint? Because AutoCAD was specificly designed for detailed engineering/architectural/etc drawings and Paint wasn't. Why should I pay for a Linux maintance contract from RedHat when I could maybe find an answer somewhere on the internet? Because I don't want answeres that might work. I'm paying for a solution and they will work with me to find it.
If this scanner was just a serial interface, then yes $6000 would be a racket. But it is not. It's more then just a serial interface. It's support. It's updates to the codes. Its the man-hours that went into designing the interface, the ruggedized housing, the database of codes. Its the programming to graph everything in a coherent manner instead of just displaying the values in a table and making you figure out what they all mean. A mechanic doesn't want to sit down looking at 5 different data sets to try and diagnose a problem. He wants something that he can plug in, turn on, and it just work. That is what costs $6000.
Simplifing it down to "justs accepts and displays a short serial tranfer of data" is like saying the linux kernel is "just 0's and 1's in a combination." Yes they are both true, but it's a little bit more complex then that.
This is not about getting regular service though. I'm a shade tree mechanic. I can replace 6 spark plugs, an air cleaner and a PCV valve (a typical "tune-up" these days) for a lot less then $60. Even if I do the "tune-up" religiously I will always get the little service light. The manufacturer assumes that I will never work on the car so they just set up the light to come on every 60,000 miles whether it is needed or not.