OSX is not cutting into their bread and butter like Linux is. Linux has poised itself to take over the datacenter with its SMP support and Oracle and IBM backing. It is poised to take over the CAD systems with its clustering ability. It is poised to take over the e-mail servers with the exchange replacements already mentioned here(the names elude me right now). The fact that Linux is setting itself up as the 'middleware' of all OSes is really what makes it so dangerous. When you buy an NT server, you buy NT workstations. When you buy an Apple server, you buy Apple workstations. When you buy a linux server, you buy whatever the hell you want.
In all reality, I do not pirate that much music. A lot of the stuff I download is either foreign soundtracks, indie stuff released by the artists, or covers by just-breaking-out bands. I would rather go to 30 clubs and see small bands than pay for one Metallica concert with the same amount of cash.
I am completely for anyone making money by selling something that people want. I am just getting really scared that law has been shifted from the courts to the corporations. The sweeping powers of the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA are snowballing, and guilty until proven innocent by jury or cash is the rule. I enjoy my rights, and try to make certain everyone elses rights are not infringed by my own. I just wish that more people shared my point of view.
Being broke and virtuous don't have to go hand in hand, do they? Please tell me that they don't.
If Don Cervesi is still alive, I am NOT welcome in Italy.
But yeah, Italy, Germany, and Hong Kong are all looking pretty nice anymore. Hey, that's funny. Someone fleeing from the tyranny of the U.S. to Germany.
From Aruba.com re: their government. You will find that Aruba is a very safe, stable and friendly Dutch island within the kingdom of the Netherlands.
They live off of tourism and banking. They produce their own electricity (albeit coal fired). They are close enough to S. America that you can make a good run for it should you need to. They are located outside of the hurricane belt, have two seasons (summer and more summer), and have a sufficiently large white population that a cracker like me would not feel out of place or construed as a 'White Devil'. Anyone farmiliar with Dutch law?
The problem with laws, especially copyright laws, is that they are so convoluted that anything is technically illegal, should a lawyer of sufficient calibre get you in their sights. What it all boils down to is that if you have enough power, you can do whatever you want, as long as you are not too high profile about it. If GWB shot a person in the White House, not only would he get away with it, he could use the taxpayers money to get the stain out of the carpet, and pay a thousand times the going rate. If he shot a second one a week later, then we'd start asking what the hell he's running around with a gun for.
Verizon says that they can wire the state for $X. Legislators say 'We can't give you $X, but we can cut you a tax break' With $X cut off their expenses, Verizion stock raises. Options are cashed. Resultant stock is sold for hefty profit. Dot-com bubble bursts. PA is left rubbing its ass, Verizon scales back, C*o's laugh all the way to the bank. Verizon management states that it is impossible to do what they promised because the (choose one or more): A)Economy B)Lack of infrastructure C)Technology did not keep pace D)Management found out what Fiber actually is E)Hackers F)Lack of demand G)Sunspots
(Editors note: This comment is purely speculation, and should be treated as such by all parties currently or previosly employed by Verizon, its subsidiaries, or anyone in a position to sue my ass off.)
Welcome to the biggest junior high, fuck the establishment, I'm stickin' it to the man by swapping songs and uncapping my cable modem, elitist prep-school in existance.
I just have to hold out a little bit longer! The economy's going to pick up, and we'll all be riding on the edge of the dot-com bubble again. We'll all be millionaires! And then, Cisco 7000's for everyone!
Not to shamelessly plug any website other than my own, but USB007.com has 32 meg chains for $16 bucks on single to 3 orders, plus they do corporate logos and preload software! I've sent the link to my promotions guy, I suggest everyone do the same. "Hey, you want something with our logo on it that the guys will always use and tell their friends? Boy Have I got the product for you!" (So I graduated with a minor in marketspeak. Kill me.)
The Hindenburg had less to do with the fall of commercial blimp travel than the fact that blimp travel pretty much sucks. It's slow, costly, and limited in the number of passengers it can have.
In rebuttal, ever hear of a boat called the Titanic? That tiny mishap got more press than the Hindenburg, and we have cruise ships to this day. I'd rather plummet to my death than freeze in the ocean, yed you'd never get me on a blimp, and I'd take a cruise any day.
GTA:Vice City We were running the motorcycles into parking structures to see how far we could throw ourselves. Unfortunately, that game doesn't port well to real life.
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OSX is not cutting into their bread and butter like Linux is. Linux has poised itself to take over the datacenter with its SMP support and Oracle and IBM backing. It is poised to take over the CAD systems with its clustering ability. It is poised to take over the e-mail servers with the exchange replacements already mentioned here(the names elude me right now).
The fact that Linux is setting itself up as the 'middleware' of all OSes is really what makes it so dangerous. When you buy an NT server, you buy NT workstations. When you buy an Apple server, you buy Apple workstations. When you buy a linux server, you buy whatever the hell you want.
That is why it is so dangerous.
Or slipped off the stage into the front row.
There goes MS's board of Directors. Next week the interns sit up front.
Also, do we really need the hyperlink to www.microsoft.com in the article? I think we all know how to get there by now.
This article is shaping up to be pretty funny.
RELEASE THE ZEALOTS!
Mr. Torvalds, Mr. Cox, Mr. Stallman.
I lay the blame solely on you!
(Good Job, and thanks for everything!)
In all reality, I do not pirate that much music. A lot of the stuff I download is either foreign soundtracks, indie stuff released by the artists, or covers by just-breaking-out bands. I would rather go to 30 clubs and see small bands than pay for one Metallica concert with the same amount of cash.
I am completely for anyone making money by selling something that people want. I am just getting really scared that law has been shifted from the courts to the corporations. The sweeping powers of the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA are snowballing, and guilty until proven innocent by jury or cash is the rule.
I enjoy my rights, and try to make certain everyone elses rights are not infringed by my own.
I just wish that more people shared my point of view.
Being broke and virtuous don't have to go hand in hand, do they? Please tell me that they don't.
But logging/monitoring off the server isn't that hard or resource intensive. And what's stopping them from putting up their own server?
If Don Cervesi is still alive, I am NOT welcome in Italy.
But yeah, Italy, Germany, and Hong Kong are all looking pretty nice anymore.
Hey, that's funny. Someone fleeing from the tyranny of the U.S. to Germany.
From Aruba.com re: their government.
You will find that Aruba is a very safe, stable and friendly Dutch island within the kingdom of the Netherlands.
They live off of tourism and banking. They produce their own electricity (albeit coal fired). They are close enough to S. America that you can make a good run for it should you need to. They are located outside of the hurricane belt, have two seasons (summer and more summer), and have a sufficiently large white population that a cracker like me would not feel out of place or construed as a 'White Devil'.
Anyone farmiliar with Dutch law?
The problem with laws, especially copyright laws, is that they are so convoluted that anything is technically illegal, should a lawyer of sufficient calibre get you in their sights.
What it all boils down to is that if you have enough power, you can do whatever you want, as long as you are not too high profile about it. If GWB shot a person in the White House, not only would he get away with it, he could use the taxpayers money to get the stain out of the carpet, and pay a thousand times the going rate. If he shot a second one a week later, then we'd start asking what the hell he's running around with a gun for.
Then you had better have a hell of a lot of receipts.
And a good lawyer.
Preferably on a small, non-US influenced island someplace warm?
Want to let a room?
Cliffnotes version:
Verizon says that they can wire the state for $X.
Legislators say 'We can't give you $X, but we can cut you a tax break'
With $X cut off their expenses, Verizion stock raises. Options are cashed. Resultant stock is sold for hefty profit.
Dot-com bubble bursts.
PA is left rubbing its ass, Verizon scales back, C*o's laugh all the way to the bank.
Verizon management states that it is impossible to do what they promised because the (choose one or more):
A)Economy
B)Lack of infrastructure
C)Technology did not keep pace
D)Management found out what Fiber actually is
E)Hackers
F)Lack of demand
G)Sunspots
(Editors note: This comment is purely speculation, and should be treated as such by all parties currently or previosly employed by Verizon, its subsidiaries, or anyone in a position to sue my ass off.)
Welcome to the biggest junior high, fuck the establishment, I'm stickin' it to the man by swapping songs and uncapping my cable modem, elitist prep-school in existance.
You must be new here.
I just have to hold out a little bit longer! The economy's going to pick up, and we'll all be riding on the edge of the dot-com bubble again. We'll all be millionaires! And then, Cisco 7000's for everyone!
Then I don't get fancy new gear!
I have 5 25xx's and 2 1601's sitting on my desk until I can get enough ram to run the new fixes.
I really should just pull them out of service, but hey, they work.
I thought all gamers hated campers?
Not to shamelessly plug any website other than my own, but USB007.com has 32 meg chains for $16 bucks on single to 3 orders, plus they do corporate logos and preload software! I've sent the link to my promotions guy, I suggest everyone do the same.
"Hey, you want something with our logo on it that the guys will always use and tell their friends? Boy Have I got the product for you!"
(So I graduated with a minor in marketspeak. Kill me.)
The Hindenburg had less to do with the fall of commercial blimp travel than the fact that blimp travel pretty much sucks. It's slow, costly, and limited in the number of passengers it can have.
In rebuttal, ever hear of a boat called the Titanic?
That tiny mishap got more press than the Hindenburg, and we have cruise ships to this day. I'd rather plummet to my death than freeze in the ocean, yed you'd never get me on a blimp, and I'd take a cruise any day.
I'm trying to talk the Promotions guy into giving these away with our logo on them. I figure that the 64 Meg ones can't be that expensive in bulk.
Well, 1 out of 2 isn't bad.
GTA:Vice City
We were running the motorcycles into parking structures to see how far we could throw ourselves. Unfortunately, that game doesn't port well to real life.
If only we had known that sooner...
Playboy in Space? Gotta be cheaper and more fun
At least there's no need for pushup bras.
Uhhm, do you own a car?
How many private planes were crashed during the barnstorming era? How many commercial planes are there today?
Your argument is flawed.
Now taking bets on the Kessel run.
2-1 on the guy with the wookie.