The big Linux folks are being way to quiet. Why don't we hear IBM, SuSE, Red Hat et all. Screaming at SCO or at least putting out their own press releases.
Because there isn't anything to scream about! SCO has so far made vague allegations with NO specifics, and nothing else. The only thing that CAN be done is to say "It's not true. Wait until trial." which is what IBM et al. have already done.
What bank do you use? Many of the banks in my area have reduced teller hours to the point where most working people can't use them. Some have instituted fees for seeing an actual person.
Banks in East Tennessee seem to be doing exactly the opposite. A year ago, I COULDN'T go to the bank--the weekday banker's hours of 9am-3pm, and the proximity of the closest branch (10 miles) made it impossible for me to visit the bank during work hours, and the bank had NO saturday hours--I was forced to use the ATMs for normal tasks, and take off work in order to visit a loan officer, or whatever.
Now my bank is open until 3pm on Saturday, and the weekday hours are from 9am to 6pm, making me able to hit the bank on the way home from work. Other local banks have followed suit. They have not instutitued any additional fees in this period.
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With all the delays and all with Doom III, I'm surprised that Doom IV would be placed on the slate so soon afterward.
You've got a point when you're talking about one of those multi-megabyte monsters loaded down with hires images, but, come on, this thing is like 130kb. Even at 56k speeds, it loads quickly.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
Paul McCartney disagrees with you--he's said that the only songs on that albumn that NEED to be on that albumn are the title track and the reprise. Any of the other songs could have been on other albumns, and replaced with other tracks, and the albumn itself would have lost nothing.
I mean, really, how exactly does "Within you, Without You" relate to "A day in the Life?"
Every kid in the US gets taught the bill of rights and why they're all important
Well, they're taught why SOME of them are important, anyway. But most courses taught to elementary and high school students teach that the 2nd, 9th, and 10th are meaningless / don't exist.
Is this one way to penetrate Linux server markets and make some money of out it? So even if you switch from Windows to Linux, you might still be paying to MS one way or another.
BitDefender has a version of their AV suite that runs on linux, and is even free (as in beer) for commercial use (unlike just about every other linux AV scanner.)
Now you won't have to give your money to MS--or anyone else for that matter.
Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'?"
"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
"The third 'right'? -- the 'pursuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."
You should read that page more closely. These switches don't provide power over ethernet, they use it. They still require the expensive upstream switch unless you want a power supply for your wall jack.
You should read the parent more closely. His problem is he already HAS the expensive upstream switch, and runs into problems when he needs to place multiple IP phones at a single drop location. The 3com switches require power over ethernet, yes, but they also support passthrough to whatever devices are connected to them.
In short, they're perfect for the parent poster's application.
It can be annoying because if you want to run several phones on one drop, they need power supplies if you don't want to use an expensive inline power capable switch.
They're basically four-port switches that you mount in place of your normal wall jack. They cost about a hundred bucks, support power over ethernet, and there's even a managed version.
There was an instance about two months ago of a man whose apartment was on fire running into the burning building to save his dog. The fire department had the police arrest him.
The FD did not want to enter the building because it was too hot/dangerous, and wanted to let the hoses cool things down a bit at first (a perfectly sane decision, IMHO, since there was no human life at stake.) The pet owner didn't like that idea, so took matters into his own hands.
The reason for his arrest is he "put the lives of firefighters and others at risk" by his "reckless" actions.
Not EXACTLY what the original poster was talking about, but fairly close.
Why are the machines so bad? They don't really mistreat the humans, at least no more than humans mistreat each other. Informed cooperation between man and machine could lead to a new golden age.
So slavery is okay as long as the master does not treat his slaves poorly? Or, better yet, that both master and slave prosper from the arangement?
I've been up all night so this probably has holes in it, but what do you think of the overall process?
FWIW, I agree with you--I think your solution (which is almost identical to one I've thought about in the past) is probably the best solution to a real problem.
I think the biggest hole in it though is the number you take home. We have a secret ballot for a reason--someone can put pressure on you to vote a certain way, but only YOU know how you actually voted. With a receipt that has a RECORD of your vote, the someone who is pressuring you can demand to see your barcode and lookup the results themselves.
I can't think of any sensible way around this, save to do it the way they handle blood donations (i.e. you get TWO barcodes, one of which prodvides the real results, and the other returns entirely opposite results, and only you know which is real and which is fake.)
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....and downloading Free Software.
Is this a sneaky way of preventing the wholesale adoption of Free and Open Source software?
The quantity of tinfoil you must be using in that hat of yours almost makes me want to go out and buy stock in Alcoa...
The big Linux folks are being way to quiet. Why don't we hear IBM, SuSE, Red Hat et all. Screaming at SCO or at least putting out their own press releases.
Because there isn't anything to scream about! SCO has so far made vague allegations with NO specifics, and nothing else. The only thing that CAN be done is to say "It's not true. Wait until trial." which is what IBM et al. have already done.
How can a layman ever know if he is breaking the law if an attorney can't even say when a "line has been crossed"?
What's worse is that the attorneys in question are the ones responsible for actually ENFORCING the law.
What bank do you use? Many of the banks in my area have reduced teller hours to the point where most working people can't use them. Some have instituted fees for seeing an actual person.
Banks in East Tennessee seem to be doing exactly the opposite. A year ago, I COULDN'T go to the bank--the weekday banker's hours of 9am-3pm, and the proximity of the closest branch (10 miles) made it impossible for me to visit the bank during work hours, and the bank had NO saturday hours--I was forced to use the ATMs for normal tasks, and take off work in order to visit a loan officer, or whatever.
Now my bank is open until 3pm on Saturday, and the weekday hours are from 9am to 6pm, making me able to hit the bank on the way home from work. Other local banks have followed suit. They have not instutitued any additional fees in this period.
With all the delays and all with Doom III, I'm surprised that Doom IV would be placed on the slate so soon afterward.
That's Quake IV, not Doom IV.
You've got a point when you're talking about one of those multi-megabyte monsters loaded down with hires images, but, come on, this thing is like 130kb. Even at 56k speeds, it loads quickly.
I agree this solves the problem for the user, but how exactly does this "make them pay?"
less than one person to test bottled water.
Is he missing an arm, or something?
I'm going to claim the patent for Baked Bread.
Wow! That's the best idea since sliced.... err, never mind.
I just have this vision of an arrest suspect who's AOL branded phone browser starts to chirrup; "You've got bail! You've got bail!"
All that, and the internet too. No wonder it's number 1!
The companies (particularly the large ones) that are RIAA members all act in unison, in lockstep.
That must explain why Sony (an RIAA member that produces music) also produces things like MP3 players.
Companies like Sony can't even get their own divisions to "act in lockstep," much less do so with their competitors.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
Paul McCartney disagrees with you--he's said that the only songs on that albumn that NEED to be on that albumn are the title track and the reprise. Any of the other songs could have been on other albumns, and replaced with other tracks, and the albumn itself would have lost nothing.
I mean, really, how exactly does "Within you, Without You" relate to "A day in the Life?"
Every kid in the US gets taught the bill of rights and why they're all important
Well, they're taught why SOME of them are important, anyway. But most courses taught to elementary and high school students teach that the 2nd, 9th, and 10th are meaningless / don't exist.
All 50 US states have their own 2ld, which uses the state's postal abbreviation. co.us is the state of Colorado (see here.)
(If you lot would only use .co.us like you should've in the first place, most of this stuff wouldn't be a problem!)
Only if the US Fred is based in the state of Colorado would that be the correct location for the Fred Company to host their domain...
Is this one way to penetrate Linux server markets and make some money of out it? So even if you switch from Windows to Linux, you might still be paying to MS one way or another.
BitDefender has a version of their AV suite that runs on linux, and is even free (as in beer) for commercial use (unlike just about every other linux AV scanner.)
Now you won't have to give your money to MS--or anyone else for that matter.
Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'?"
"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
"The third 'right'? -- the 'pursuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."
--Robert Anson Heinlein, Starship Troopers.
"The King" means he is the one and only king.
:)
When did Elvis enter into this?
You should read that page more closely. These switches don't provide power over ethernet, they use it. They still require the expensive upstream switch unless you want a power supply for your wall jack.
You should read the parent more closely. His problem is he already HAS the expensive upstream switch, and runs into problems when he needs to place multiple IP phones at a single drop location. The 3com switches require power over ethernet, yes, but they also support passthrough to whatever devices are connected to them.
In short, they're perfect for the parent poster's application.
Wake me up when they invent wireless power.
:)
If you're looking for wireless power, this will knock your socks off!
It can be annoying because if you want to run several phones on one drop, they need power supplies if you don't want to use an expensive inline power capable switch.
Have you looked at these?
They're basically four-port switches that you mount in place of your normal wall jack. They cost about a hundred bucks, support power over ethernet, and there's even a managed version.
***SPOILER****
Taking into consideration, it makes the death of all of those people at the end more real.
The fleet was massacred, but they weren't exactly defending the front gates. Zion is still there, at least for the time being.
Want to show a case proving this? Even vaguely?
There was an instance about two months ago of a man whose apartment was on fire running into the burning building to save his dog. The fire department had the police arrest him.
The FD did not want to enter the building because it was too hot/dangerous, and wanted to let the hoses cool things down a bit at first (a perfectly sane decision, IMHO, since there was no human life at stake.) The pet owner didn't like that idea, so took matters into his own hands.
The reason for his arrest is he "put the lives of firefighters and others at risk" by his "reckless" actions.
Not EXACTLY what the original poster was talking about, but fairly close.
Why are the machines so bad? They don't really mistreat the humans, at least no more than humans mistreat each other. Informed cooperation between man and machine could lead to a new golden age.
So slavery is okay as long as the master does not treat his slaves poorly? Or, better yet, that both master and slave prosper from the arangement?
I've been up all night so this probably has holes in it, but what do you think of the overall process?
FWIW, I agree with you--I think your solution (which is almost identical to one I've thought about in the past) is probably the best solution to a real problem.
I think the biggest hole in it though is the number you take home. We have a secret ballot for a reason--someone can put pressure on you to vote a certain way, but only YOU know how you actually voted. With a receipt that has a RECORD of your vote, the someone who is pressuring you can demand to see your barcode and lookup the results themselves.
I can't think of any sensible way around this, save to do it the way they handle blood donations (i.e. you get TWO barcodes, one of which prodvides the real results, and the other returns entirely opposite results, and only you know which is real and which is fake.)