Reflections was at one time a part of the old Psygnosis...DMA Design (now Rockstar) was also part of Psygnosis...
When Reflections and DMA Design were both with Psygnosis, Psygnosis was heavy into the Amiga.
Core Design (later developed Tomb Raider at Eidos) was also once a big Amiga developer...
Wonder if Team 17 will rise again...they seem to be real big with the "Worms" thing...have been since the first one...A Halo-ish version of Alien Breed might be kewl...:)
Yea, but what about OpenText... search.opentext.com used to give a stale, but workable search engine. The company has now since begun to sell their search engine to companies.
I found opentext's search results very relevant at the time...this may have changed with time, but it was still a good search engine...
If you bought anything with meat in it, the FDA has certified that the meat is ok for consumption, they have also made sure that the fruits and vegetables you eat are ok and have been grown with pesticides that won't make you sick and that they are prepared in a sanitary environment. They have assured that the eggs and milk are not bad and have been properly sterilized before they get into your hands.
You might not think that is "added value" and you might think that it doesn't raise your standard of living, but it does.
Wages are relatively higher in the US than in India. That's a fact. If a manager decides to leave jobs in the US instead of outsourcing them, even after he determines it's clearly advantageous to outsource, then he's acting against his shareholder's interests. I characterized that as "artificially maintain[ing]" the US workforce.
But this is clearly turning out to be the opposite of what is happening. Companies are outsourcing without researching the impact and we are seeing pretty much the opposite. I would like to direct you to one of today's Fark Articles on the subject. So, to answer your initial question...
No, there isn't a duty to do that...because there doesn't have to be...the whole thing is just going to end up costing these companies more money in the long run...
Actually, this would raise our standard of living back here.
Oh, enlighten me as to how giving people less money and fewer protections and giving the government less money to do their job helps to raise the standard of living in the US???
What about question 6? (I guess you didn't really answer 1, 2, and 3 either, so whatever)
Umh, what did question 6 have to do with outsourcing??? Ok, I guess I'll say Bush, because if Castro really cared about his country then he would have stepped down from power after the Cuban missile crisis...but you probably have some reason why Castro is more just...and I really want to know what it is...
As for the other questions...
1) I guess I would say that a decision to move a job within the same country can be made for various reasons, but most all of them are perfectly acceptable to me, even greed...so, yes, it can be greed, but it can also be due to needs (for instance when a client moves their primary operations to another state)...none of the offshore outsourcing being done is for this reason...
2) Yes, people in China and India do have a right to make a living...but I would rather it not take food off my neighbor's table.
1. If outsourcing from California to India is "greedy" or otherwise morally wrong in some way, then what about outsourcing from California to, say, Alabama?
Not really, in the case of moving a plant from California to Alabama, moving is an option. Yes, it's not always an option, but it's more of an option than if the job was moved to say India.
2. Do people in India or China have less right to make a living and feed their families than Americans do?
Yes, but to be honest, if it's between my neighbor or someone half a world away being able to put food on the table, I think I would choose my neighbor.
3. In a business, does management have a duty to artificially maintain relatively high wages in the US for equivalent work? Is that a higher duty than their duty to the shareholders?
So do you still beat your wife? It all depends on if you think US wages are artificially high...some companies like Dell have found out the hard way that it cost them more in sales, quality, and customer satisfaction than the difference in wages to outsource helpdesk jobs to other countries.
4. What duty do the workers owe management in return?
Not that it means anything anymore, but I think company loyalty is pretty much the most a worker can give managment besides their absolute best work...
5. Would you support relaxed regulations and tax cuts to help bring the cost of US labor down closer to that of foreign labor?
You mean lower our standard of living to bring jobs back here? No, I wouldn't support a lower standard of living, but rampant outsourcing kind of has that inevitable effect...
Actually bad employer references are kind of a thing of the past. Most employers can only say 2 things if they are called about a former employee...
Yes they worked here and the dates they worked were from X to Y...
That's it. The problem is, employers are afraid of law suits from former employees that might get wind that they were the ones that cost them the job. A former employeer can't even tell them if you quit, were fired, laid off, etc...
Now, employers that know little about the law will probably continue to "spill the beans", and if you use a former manager as a reference, then things change...but that's obvious...
Better than apt-get is Synaptic. Synaptic provides the user a nice little GUI that can be linked from the desktop...no need to even type anything...except maybe your root password...
The average user will be much more comfortable in a GUI than a command-line...
On the contrary. I use Linux on the desktop at work and home...the only use for windoze that I have are Photoshop, my photo printer, and games...the Photoshop thing is quickly changing, as GIMP is getting better and hollywood studios are pushing Wine to 100% Photoshop compatability. The printer is a Canon, which has no support in CUPS outside of TurboPrint...and Games are well, games...they don't matter as much in the grand scheme of things, considering that I have a PS2 already...
But, with my experience, Linux on the desktop is MUCH more elegant than Windoze in every way. Under Linux, I have fewer crashes, better performance, and my choice of window managers. On Windoze, I have Windoze and a series of for-pay "hacks" to make my system look different.
As far as ease of use, that's coming. With my system (Fedora Core 1 + Apt-RPM using Synaptic) I can install new software and upgrades at the click of a button. No downloads, no need to check dependencies, not even a need to uninstall the old versions of the software. Under Linux it just works...
There's a quote in someones signature that goes something like "To really screw up Linux you have to work at it...To really screw up Windoze, you have to work ON it..." I think that sums up Linux on the desktop pretty well...
While I belive that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on, I would also say that IBM would never have bought out SCO.
The reason for this is that IBM was once themselves viewed as a monopoly...even so much as to be investigated by the US Gov't...And since SCO owns at least some portion of UNIX as well as making a variant of UNIX, it would be seen as a move to corner the market on UNIX OSes...I'm pretty sure that a few companies like Sun and HP would have something to say about that...
What IBM would do is the same thing they have been doing, keeping the law suit in the courtroom, making very little comments outside of legal procedings and letting SCO dig their own grave.
If you don't realize what we are seeing is that SCO's own comments are comming back to haunt them. The comments that they made at the beginning of the whole thing were way off base and every time someone calls them on it, they look more and more clueless...
No, IBM would have never tried to bury SCO, SCO is doing a good job of that already...
Every other group has a PAC, why doesn't IT have one??? They would be able to lobby congress for the things that WE want and eventually weed out the best candidate for our needs...
This is the only way you get things done in DC...the closest we have to a PAC might be the EFF, but that's not all they do...what we need is a group who's soul designation is to lobby for our needs and our wants.
The only way to get the politicians to listen to us is to put our votes on the line...
Ok, I'll get off of my soap box now...I just thought it might be a good time to mention it considering how much what they do willeffectus...
I don't usually respond to ACs, but this is the reason for only using messages designated as level 20 or higher...the assumption is that a really nasty spammer isn't going to be using a really reliable ISP, because they are (1) too expensive for spam and (2) will be quickly thrown off the network.
You want every little mom & pop company running a 10 year old mail server to register a new domain and reconfigure their box overnight???
Exactly when is this supposed to happen???
For right now, the best solution is to...
1) Block IPs that are causing problems...this can acutally be automated...I'm working on a script at our site that passes all spam identified by spamassassin as a level 20 or higher into a blocklist for our MTA.
2) SpamAssassin...run SA as a service for all users and give them info on how to tailor it to their own preferences...
3) ClamAV...this catches some of the really nasty stuff...the ones that use exploits to "phone home" or run code on the user's machine...
These ARE and will be the only way to stop spam into the forseeable future. The only real way to stop it all would be a redesign of the protocol from the ground-up and that is just not going to happen...SMTP is already too entrenched into the backbone of the internet...it just won't happen...
That's only what you read into the press release. The press release for Full Throttle implied a quality problem, but never came out and said it...
To be honest, it could have been due to a multitude of things...maybe they were threatened with a law suit, maybe they implimented features for a new piece of hardware that never came, maybe they had problems with the rights...or maybe it was even the fact that they didn't see enough of a market for the game...you can bet it probably wasn't qualtity alone that killed Full Throttle.
If the marketing folks really didn't think the game was viable anymore, why not release the game in its current form through their web site???
I mean, if it is so close to completion, they should be able to do a little last-minute debugging (a couple of weeks at most), put it up for sale through mail and state clearly that the game is unfinished and no future patches are planned.
I've found that most folks like to be told how to make their computers more secure and decrease their chances of infection/spyware...
I have made it standard practice to install 3 applications on all Windoze machines that I fix anything on...
1) Install Avast! Home Edition and set it to do automatic updates of both the Core Program and Virus Database. Because most people don't pay for Anti-Virus upgrades after their free trial version runs out...not to mention the fact that Avast! is better than Norton and most for-pay AV apps anyhow...
2) Install Spybot Search & Destroy and make sure that the primary user(s) see what the result of the initial scan is (shock value) with instructions on how to use the app...
3) Install FireFox (no link needed) with the follofing userContent.css...
If they still insist on using IE I will install Google Toolbar and enable popup blocking...
I then proceed to replace any spyware apps with free non-spyware apps (WeatherBug -> Weather Pulse, etc)
As for a firewall, I talked most into buying a wireless router (generally a cheap 802.11b router) to use as a firewall and future network upgrades. I don't think any windoze software firewalls are very good...IPTables is about the ONLY software firewall that I trust...
After doing this, I find that these systems stay fairly clean and have much fewer problems. Not to mention the owners of said machines tend to be much happier afterward.
You might look into just using a bootable Thumbdrive/Jumpdrive to do this with...that's what I use and I've not seen a problem...if you can boot from a USB attached floppy, you should be able to boot from a thumbdrive...
I think it's been said, but you can buy 128MB Lexar USB JumpDrives at WalMart for ~$40...these things are extremely small, hold loads of data, and are even bootable...
It's true that some older systems don't support USB booting, but you don't state that as an issue. I have 2 of them (128MB for personal and 256MB for work) and have converted more than one person from floppies to these little wonders. If $40 is too much, you can even find 32MB versions for ~$15...
They are also much faster than floppies and can be carried around in a pocket without fear of corrupting your data...
Most projects haven't even begun to support XF86 4.4 and since X.org is is based on a release of XF86 4.4 prior to the license change, it is certainly going to be almost as easy to move from XF86 4.3 to X.org as it would be to move to XF86 4.4...
To be honest, the only difference between XF86 4.4 and X.org (that I can tell) at this time is the new XF86 license...
So, as to how all of this will pan out...it will be left to the individual distros and developers. If they see promise and innovation in the X.org project, they will go with it, and on they other hand, the new license shouldn't cause a problem for any distro that already includes Apache...because the change to the XF86 license is pretty much the same thing as the Apache license requires.
Umh, OpenGL is really no different, the only difference is it leaves the hardware developers the job of deciding how to support additional features. As for games in todays market, when you are talking PeeCee, you are talking 2 companies nVidia and ATI. Both have their own proprietary drivers for every card made in the last few years.
OpenGL is perfectly fine, not to mention the fact that the existance of OpenGL apps on Windoze makes it easier to port apps and games...but to be honest, the existance of OpenGL on Linux has nothing to do with games and everything to do with 3D Modeling. OpenGL is just how it's done and the fact that there is legacy hardware support for OpenGL means that it will probably remain the low-level standard for 3D Linux apps.
Not likely...anyhow, that's when you use the propane option. Just back up a trailer and you can flip the switch...keep in mind that these things need to have routine maintenence performed on them after 7 days of operation anyhow. To be honest, it's just not as likely. Sure, something COULD knock out the gas lines, but it's not likely...at least not here. like I said, just use propane...
Around here (North-Eastern US), gas lines are burried at least 6 feet below ground. If something happened that was bad enough to knock out the gas lines, we may have to think about the structural integrity of our building.
There's a good post detailing the ClamAV vs. Commercial question...
To paraphrase, ClamAV's database is generally at least a few days ahead of sophos and sometimes weeks...
ClamAV was written from the ground-up to do mail scanning, so it should be better than commercial scanners that try to be everything to everyone...
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Probably because SCO actually hired a lawyer that was worth his salt. A good lawyer would have told Darl to shut up about the whole thing from the start. Problem is, every time Darl opens his mouth, he causes problems down the road. If (read when) the case is shot down, all of his comments can be used against them.
Personally, I don't see this as a patentable advance, but they are claiming that showing a full rendition of the desktop in reduced form is different from showing shaded areas where the windows are.
Umh, if this is so, I think Enlightenment has this one locked down too...
And even if personal data-mining is possible it's no guarantee it will be used. For example, the EZ-TAG scanners on the toll roads you take can easilly compute your average speed between toll booths and issue you a speeding ticket if you were speeding but they don't. Why? Because the toll road comissioners would be voted out of office if they allowed that.
There's an even easier reason why they don't start doing this...drivers would simply start paying at the tolls instead of using the convenience of the scanners...which the.gov wants to encourage, because it means they have to pay one less attendant...I guess they could avoid this by requiring a barcode on all license plates and aiming their equipment at the license plate, but this would be a big expense to the taxpayers...
I would be more concerned what someone finds out when you buy that car (most require a credit check) than the fact that your EZ-PASS can "snitch" on you...
Of course, the big one that concerns me is On-Star. They keep running commercials with people being helped by the On-Star reps, but have you seen the one where the guy locks his keys in the car and the rep unlocks the door...what keeps someone from spoofing the signal or better yet, hooking up with an On-Star rep to unlock a car and steal it...
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Reflections was at one time a part of the old Psygnosis...DMA Design (now Rockstar) was also part of Psygnosis...
:)
When Reflections and DMA Design were both with Psygnosis, Psygnosis was heavy into the Amiga.
Core Design (later developed Tomb Raider at Eidos) was also once a big Amiga developer...
Wonder if Team 17 will rise again...they seem to be real big with the "Worms" thing...have been since the first one...A Halo-ish version of Alien Breed might be kewl...
Yea, but what about OpenText... search.opentext.com used to give a stale, but workable search engine. The company has now since begun to sell their search engine to companies.
I found opentext's search results very relevant at the time...this may have changed with time, but it was still a good search engine...
Archive.org still has the old front page...
If you bought anything with meat in it, the FDA has certified that the meat is ok for consumption, they have also made sure that the fruits and vegetables you eat are ok and have been grown with pesticides that won't make you sick and that they are prepared in a sanitary environment. They have assured that the eggs and milk are not bad and have been properly sterilized before they get into your hands.
You might not think that is "added value" and you might think that it doesn't raise your standard of living, but it does.
Wages are relatively higher in the US than in India. That's a fact. If a manager decides to leave jobs in the US instead of outsourcing them, even after he determines it's clearly advantageous to outsource, then he's acting against his shareholder's interests. I characterized that as "artificially maintain[ing]" the US workforce.
But this is clearly turning out to be the opposite of what is happening. Companies are outsourcing without researching the impact and we are seeing pretty much the opposite. I would like to direct you to one of today's Fark Articles on the subject. So, to answer your initial question...
No, there isn't a duty to do that...because there doesn't have to be...the whole thing is just going to end up costing these companies more money in the long run...
Actually, this would raise our standard of living back here.
Oh, enlighten me as to how giving people less money and fewer protections and giving the government less money to do their job helps to raise the standard of living in the US???
What about question 6? (I guess you didn't really answer 1, 2, and 3 either, so whatever)
Umh, what did question 6 have to do with outsourcing??? Ok, I guess I'll say Bush, because if Castro really cared about his country then he would have stepped down from power after the Cuban missile crisis...but you probably have some reason why Castro is more just...and I really want to know what it is...
As for the other questions...
1) I guess I would say that a decision to move a job within the same country can be made for various reasons, but most all of them are perfectly acceptable to me, even greed...so, yes, it can be greed, but it can also be due to needs (for instance when a client moves their primary operations to another state)...none of the offshore outsourcing being done is for this reason...
2) Yes, people in China and India do have a right to make a living...but I would rather it not take food off my neighbor's table.
1. If outsourcing from California to India is "greedy" or otherwise morally wrong in some way, then what about outsourcing from California to, say, Alabama?
Not really, in the case of moving a plant from California to Alabama, moving is an option. Yes, it's not always an option, but it's more of an option than if the job was moved to say India.
2. Do people in India or China have less right to make a living and feed their families than Americans do?
Yes, but to be honest, if it's between my neighbor or someone half a world away being able to put food on the table, I think I would choose my neighbor.
3. In a business, does management have a duty to artificially maintain relatively high wages in the US for equivalent work? Is that a higher duty than their duty to the shareholders?
So do you still beat your wife? It all depends on if you think US wages are artificially high...some companies like Dell have found out the hard way that it cost them more in sales, quality, and customer satisfaction than the difference in wages to outsource helpdesk jobs to other countries.
4. What duty do the workers owe management in return?
Not that it means anything anymore, but I think company loyalty is pretty much the most a worker can give managment besides their absolute best work...
5. Would you support relaxed regulations and tax cuts to help bring the cost of US labor down closer to that of foreign labor?
You mean lower our standard of living to bring jobs back here? No, I wouldn't support a lower standard of living, but rampant outsourcing kind of has that inevitable effect...
Actually bad employer references are kind of a thing of the past. Most employers can only say 2 things if they are called about a former employee...
Yes they worked here and the dates they worked were from X to Y...
That's it. The problem is, employers are afraid of law suits from former employees that might get wind that they were the ones that cost them the job. A former employeer can't even tell them if you quit, were fired, laid off, etc...
Now, employers that know little about the law will probably continue to "spill the beans", and if you use a former manager as a reference, then things change...but that's obvious...
Better than apt-get is Synaptic. Synaptic provides the user a nice little GUI that can be linked from the desktop...no need to even type anything...except maybe your root password...
The average user will be much more comfortable in a GUI than a command-line...
On the contrary. I use Linux on the desktop at work and home...the only use for windoze that I have are Photoshop, my photo printer, and games...the Photoshop thing is quickly changing, as GIMP is getting better and hollywood studios are pushing Wine to 100% Photoshop compatability. The printer is a Canon, which has no support in CUPS outside of TurboPrint...and Games are well, games...they don't matter as much in the grand scheme of things, considering that I have a PS2 already...
But, with my experience, Linux on the desktop is MUCH more elegant than Windoze in every way. Under Linux, I have fewer crashes, better performance, and my choice of window managers. On Windoze, I have Windoze and a series of for-pay "hacks" to make my system look different.
As far as ease of use, that's coming. With my system (Fedora Core 1 + Apt-RPM using Synaptic) I can install new software and upgrades at the click of a button. No downloads, no need to check dependencies, not even a need to uninstall the old versions of the software. Under Linux it just works...
There's a quote in someones signature that goes something like "To really screw up Linux you have to work at it...To really screw up Windoze, you have to work ON it..." I think that sums up Linux on the desktop pretty well...
While I belive that SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on, I would also say that IBM would never have bought out SCO.
The reason for this is that IBM was once themselves viewed as a monopoly...even so much as to be investigated by the US Gov't...And since SCO owns at least some portion of UNIX as well as making a variant of UNIX, it would be seen as a move to corner the market on UNIX OSes...I'm pretty sure that a few companies like Sun and HP would have something to say about that...
What IBM would do is the same thing they have been doing, keeping the law suit in the courtroom, making very little comments outside of legal procedings and letting SCO dig their own grave.
If you don't realize what we are seeing is that SCO's own comments are comming back to haunt them. The comments that they made at the beginning of the whole thing were way off base and every time someone calls them on it, they look more and more clueless...
No, IBM would have never tried to bury SCO, SCO is doing a good job of that already...
Every other group has a PAC, why doesn't IT have one??? They would be able to lobby congress for the things that WE want and eventually weed out the best candidate for our needs...
This is the only way you get things done in DC...the closest we have to a PAC might be the EFF, but that's not all they do...what we need is a group who's soul designation is to lobby for our needs and our wants.
The only way to get the politicians to listen to us is to put our votes on the line...
Ok, I'll get off of my soap box now...I just thought it might be a good time to mention it considering how much what they do will effect us...
I don't usually respond to ACs, but this is the reason for only using messages designated as level 20 or higher...the assumption is that a really nasty spammer isn't going to be using a really reliable ISP, because they are (1) too expensive for spam and (2) will be quickly thrown off the network.
You want every little mom & pop company running a 10 year old mail server to register a new domain and reconfigure their box overnight???
Exactly when is this supposed to happen???
For right now, the best solution is to...
1) Block IPs that are causing problems...this can acutally be automated...I'm working on a script at our site that passes all spam identified by spamassassin as a level 20 or higher into a blocklist for our MTA.
2) SpamAssassin...run SA as a service for all users and give them info on how to tailor it to their own preferences...
3) ClamAV...this catches some of the really nasty stuff...the ones that use exploits to "phone home" or run code on the user's machine...
These ARE and will be the only way to stop spam into the forseeable future. The only real way to stop it all would be a redesign of the protocol from the ground-up and that is just not going to happen...SMTP is already too entrenched into the backbone of the internet...it just won't happen...
That's only what you read into the press release. The press release for Full Throttle implied a quality problem, but never came out and said it...
To be honest, it could have been due to a multitude of things...maybe they were threatened with a law suit, maybe they implimented features for a new piece of hardware that never came, maybe they had problems with the rights...or maybe it was even the fact that they didn't see enough of a market for the game...you can bet it probably wasn't qualtity alone that killed Full Throttle.
If the marketing folks really didn't think the game was viable anymore, why not release the game in its current form through their web site???
I mean, if it is so close to completion, they should be able to do a little last-minute debugging (a couple of weeks at most), put it up for sale through mail and state clearly that the game is unfinished and no future patches are planned.
It's interesting to note that LucasArts also recently canceled Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels...another game that was clearly close to completion...
The real question should be, why is LucasArts canceling projects so close to their completion dates???
I've found that most folks like to be told how to make their computers more secure and decrease their chances of infection/spyware...
I have made it standard practice to install 3 applications on all Windoze machines that I fix anything on...
1) Install Avast! Home Edition and set it to do automatic updates of both the Core Program and Virus Database. Because most people don't pay for Anti-Virus upgrades after their free trial version runs out...not to mention the fact that Avast! is better than Norton and most for-pay AV apps anyhow...
2) Install Spybot Search & Destroy and make sure that the primary user(s) see what the result of the initial scan is (shock value) with instructions on how to use the app...
3) Install FireFox (no link needed) with the follofing userContent.css...
If they still insist on using IE I will install Google Toolbar and enable popup blocking...
I then proceed to replace any spyware apps with free non-spyware apps (WeatherBug -> Weather Pulse, etc)
As for a firewall, I talked most into buying a wireless router (generally a cheap 802.11b router) to use as a firewall and future network upgrades. I don't think any windoze software firewalls are very good...IPTables is about the ONLY software firewall that I trust...
After doing this, I find that these systems stay fairly clean and have much fewer problems. Not to mention the owners of said machines tend to be much happier afterward.
You might look into just using a bootable Thumbdrive/Jumpdrive to do this with...that's what I use and I've not seen a problem...if you can boot from a USB attached floppy, you should be able to boot from a thumbdrive...
I think it's been said, but you can buy 128MB Lexar USB JumpDrives at WalMart for ~$40...these things are extremely small, hold loads of data, and are even bootable...
It's true that some older systems don't support USB booting, but you don't state that as an issue. I have 2 of them (128MB for personal and 256MB for work) and have converted more than one person from floppies to these little wonders. If $40 is too much, you can even find 32MB versions for ~$15...
They are also much faster than floppies and can be carried around in a pocket without fear of corrupting your data...
Most projects haven't even begun to support XF86 4.4 and since X.org is is based on a release of XF86 4.4 prior to the license change, it is certainly going to be almost as easy to move from XF86 4.3 to X.org as it would be to move to XF86 4.4...
To be honest, the only difference between XF86 4.4 and X.org (that I can tell) at this time is the new XF86 license...
So, as to how all of this will pan out...it will be left to the individual distros and developers. If they see promise and innovation in the X.org project, they will go with it, and on they other hand, the new license shouldn't cause a problem for any distro that already includes Apache...because the change to the XF86 license is pretty much the same thing as the Apache license requires.
Umh, OpenGL is really no different, the only difference is it leaves the hardware developers the job of deciding how to support additional features. As for games in todays market, when you are talking PeeCee, you are talking 2 companies nVidia and ATI. Both have their own proprietary drivers for every card made in the last few years.
OpenGL is perfectly fine, not to mention the fact that the existance of OpenGL apps on Windoze makes it easier to port apps and games...but to be honest, the existance of OpenGL on Linux has nothing to do with games and everything to do with 3D Modeling. OpenGL is just how it's done and the fact that there is legacy hardware support for OpenGL means that it will probably remain the low-level standard for 3D Linux apps.
Lots, but I'll start with 2...
Dynamic RAM disk: Just stick whatever you wanted into RAM: and as long as you had memory, it was resized whenever it was needed...
Recoverable RAM Disk (RAD): A RAM disk that could survive a reboot...also could be made bootable...
Not likely...anyhow, that's when you use the propane option. Just back up a trailer and you can flip the switch...keep in mind that these things need to have routine maintenence performed on them after 7 days of operation anyhow. To be honest, it's just not as likely. Sure, something COULD knock out the gas lines, but it's not likely...at least not here. like I said, just use propane...
Around here (North-Eastern US), gas lines are burried at least 6 feet below ground. If something happened that was bad enough to knock out the gas lines, we may have to think about the structural integrity of our building.
There's a good post detailing the ClamAV vs. Commercial question...
To paraphrase, ClamAV's database is generally at least a few days ahead of sophos and sometimes weeks...
ClamAV was written from the ground-up to do mail scanning, so it should be better than commercial scanners that try to be everything to everyone...
Probably because SCO actually hired a lawyer that was worth his salt. A good lawyer would have told Darl to shut up about the whole thing from the start. Problem is, every time Darl opens his mouth, he causes problems down the road. If (read when) the case is shot down, all of his comments can be used against them.
Personally, I don't see this as a patentable advance, but they are claiming that showing a full rendition of the desktop in reduced form is different from showing shaded areas where the windows are. Umh, if this is so, I think Enlightenment has this one locked down too...
And even if personal data-mining is possible it's no guarantee it will be used. For example, the EZ-TAG scanners on the toll roads you take can easilly compute your average speed between toll booths and issue you a speeding ticket if you were speeding but they don't. Why? Because the toll road comissioners would be voted out of office if they allowed that.
.gov wants to encourage, because it means they have to pay one less attendant...I guess they could avoid this by requiring a barcode on all license plates and aiming their equipment at the license plate, but this would be a big expense to the taxpayers...
There's an even easier reason why they don't start doing this...drivers would simply start paying at the tolls instead of using the convenience of the scanners...which the
I would be more concerned what someone finds out when you buy that car (most require a credit check) than the fact that your EZ-PASS can "snitch" on you...
Of course, the big one that concerns me is On-Star. They keep running commercials with people being helped by the On-Star reps, but have you seen the one where the guy locks his keys in the car and the rep unlocks the door...what keeps someone from spoofing the signal or better yet, hooking up with an On-Star rep to unlock a car and steal it...