With China poised to take over manufacturing of essentially everything, and having to compete on the global market, then at first they won't. By that time, many, if not all of the hard-line communists will have died off, and the more moderate voices in the country will take power.
China is going through major changes, from their old agrarian economy to what will become a socialist-governed capitalist economy. Your 1960's era 'Better dead than red' mentality will either die with the hard-liners of China, or when China turns all of North America into a second-world nation for our arrogance. All without shooting down a sattelite, or raising a weapon.
And as for the death of hundreds of millions of people at the hands of the communists, how about the millions dead at the hand of the Roman Empire, or by the hands of the U.S. in Panama, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe? Unfortunately mass-killings are endemic in ALL forms of government, be it Capitalist, Republic, Communist, Socialist, or Fascist.
Right now I am installing and configuring bogofilter, spamassassin, and antivirus at the gateway. It's going pretty good, but it's a lot of work. At least with bogofilter, you can set up a dummy account to collect forwarded e-mail and automatically add it to the filters. The minus side is that it's a bit of work to get set up properly and catching only spam.
If you need advice, I can at least point you in the right direction (and cheap, all open source software)
I hate to say it, but they are. They're winning because they play dirty, and we can't stoop down to their level. After two weeks of battling an unusual torrent of spam, I'm ready to torture one of the bastards in a week-long live-webcast to serve as a warning to everyone else. It's time to sink below their level, so we can punch them in the nuts without throwing out our backs!
For a once-a-year use program, I could see it working. For everyday programs like Office or Photoshop, it would not. If Intuit gave me a USB keychain with their software, I would use it. Plus you could store your taxes on it for next year. The only way it would be useless is if USB bacame obsolete, but then the program only lasts for one year anyways.
I think that it was the contempt that they showed customers when they had hard-drive failures, did upgrades, or changed machines. They were told in no uncertain terms that they would have to buy another copy of the software, where MS offers a bit more compassion.
Put the activation on an included USB dongle, instead of the hard drive. Easy-to-use product activation, plus a USB drive. Make the drive difficult to reproduce, but operate as a standard drive, and you got happy customers instead of pissed off ones.
Seems to me that when a monitor company, a dual-head graphics card manufacturer and a two-bit university get together to study if multiple monitors are really better, the conclusion has already been reached.
They don't want to tip their entire hand too quickly, and they don't want it biting their stock price (if they still have one) in the ass by inferring that the code is infringing as opposed to is conceivably infringing, making the entire debacle a mea culpa for SGI.
With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete
They won't release the source for XP, but you can probably get a compiled binary. I just wonder if you'll have to re-register every time you change your virtual hardware.
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U.S. invasion of Grenada
U.S. invasion of Haiti
U.S. involvement in Nicuragua
U.S. creation of Panama (formerly a province of Columbia)
Do some research on those countries, and try to stay away from the American history books to do it.
With China poised to take over manufacturing of essentially everything, and having to compete on the global market, then at first they won't. By that time, many, if not all of the hard-line communists will have died off, and the more moderate voices in the country will take power.
China is going through major changes, from their old agrarian economy to what will become a socialist-governed capitalist economy. Your 1960's era 'Better dead than red' mentality will either die with the hard-liners of China, or when China turns all of North America into a second-world nation for our arrogance. All without shooting down a sattelite, or raising a weapon.
And as for the death of hundreds of millions of people at the hands of the communists, how about the millions dead at the hand of the Roman Empire, or by the hands of the U.S. in Panama, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe? Unfortunately mass-killings are endemic in ALL forms of government, be it Capitalist, Republic, Communist, Socialist, or Fascist.
Maybe that's just to shoot down the satellites that the U.S. has over China?
Whats sauce for the goose and all that rot.
Hey, if she's that dumb, ask her out on a date!
That's almost half the Hardy Boys series!
They had to code it as a Microsoft Application. That's why.
Aww, If you explain it too well, he won't try it. Where's the fun in that?
Just NFS mount your /dev directory. Problem solved.
No problem. As long as you're not trying to sell me something :)
A lot at first, then not so much.
People state that they have had a 99% success rate with 0.5% false positives.
Right now I am installing and configuring bogofilter, spamassassin, and antivirus at the gateway. It's going pretty good, but it's a lot of work. At least with bogofilter, you can set up a dummy account to collect forwarded e-mail and automatically add it to the filters. The minus side is that it's a bit of work to get set up properly and catching only spam.
If you need advice, I can at least point you in the right direction (and cheap, all open source software)
Spammers are winning.
I hate to say it, but they are. They're winning because they play dirty, and we can't stoop down to their level. After two weeks of battling an unusual torrent of spam, I'm ready to torture one of the bastards in a week-long live-webcast to serve as a warning to everyone else. It's time to sink below their level, so we can punch them in the nuts without throwing out our backs!
I had to go through steps 5 through 8
5. Screw up the automation process
6. Restore from tape
7. Scramble for two months of data
8. Debug scripts
Moral of the story boys and girls, If you're an idiot, buy a book!
For a once-a-year use program, I could see it working. For everyday programs like Office or Photoshop, it would not.
If Intuit gave me a USB keychain with their software, I would use it. Plus you could store your taxes on it for next year. The only way it would be useless is if USB bacame obsolete, but then the program only lasts for one year anyways.
I think that it was the contempt that they showed customers when they had hard-drive failures, did upgrades, or changed machines. They were told in no uncertain terms that they would have to buy another copy of the software, where MS offers a bit more compassion.
Put the activation on an included USB dongle, instead of the hard drive. Easy-to-use product activation, plus a USB drive. Make the drive difficult to reproduce, but operate as a standard drive, and you got happy customers instead of pissed off ones.
Seems to me that when a monitor company, a dual-head graphics card manufacturer and a two-bit university get together to study if multiple monitors are really better, the conclusion has already been reached.
Yes, I know, but I try not to pick my mentors or stocks by what Googlefight thinks :)
Hopefully it's more like Suprnova.org
He still has a ways to go to win a googlefight.
They don't want to tip their entire hand too quickly, and they don't want it biting their stock price (if they still have one) in the ass by inferring that the code is infringing as opposed to is conceivably infringing, making the entire debacle a mea culpa for SGI.
We'll assume it was porn.
Xine works as well, accepts Windows Codecs, and is as easy to use. The front-end sucks ass tho, so get your keybindings set.
With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete
They won't release the source for XP, but you can probably get a compiled binary. I just wonder if you'll have to re-register every time you change your virtual hardware.