Right, but try to buy a computer from a fairly mainstream OEM without Windows on it, in order to save $100. Can you? I can't think of any off the top of my head that offer to send you a blank hard drive. If they do, I'd assume they certainly nix the support contract, because nobody wants to get a bunch of calls from somebody who can't find drivers for the copy of Solaris 2 they found in their company's garbage pail.
Yeah, I used to consider doing this too, but then I realized, if I'm skimming the article, that I'm just as likely to miss a hugely important clause as I am the definition of "consumer" or whatever legal BS they have in there...
I support dual booting, and in fact did it myself until I unknowingly b0rked windows, despite reinstalls, etc. However, dual booting does not remove you from your microsoft dependency. You still have to pay MS the full price of the software, even if you only run it 1/10 of the time your computer's up. Additionally, based on past actions, I wouldn't be surprised to see microsoft add "features" to their software to make it impossible to dual-boot unless you buy a more expensive edition of the software...very conceivable.
ZDNet has, for a long time, been *very* pro-microsoft in editorial content. This marks a significant change in attitude. (Not by itself; there's been a few pot-shots on there over the past year or so, but it is sort of a culmination of the change).
For example...
Microsoft's relationship to its users is that of the blue whale to krill. Our only purpose is to breed, feed and get squeezed against its giant tongue until every last drop of money is released. There was a slight diminution in the aggressive, monopolistic feeding frenzy last year when, let us not forget, the company was found guilty of abusing its position. Now that Bush is in power, Microsoft is right back in those fertile Antarctic waters. Not only does it act in a way that suggests it doesn't care about the cries of pain from its customers, it barely registers that such cries exist. Now it has 90 percent of the corporate market, it will hunt its users to extinction before it notices anything wrong.
That's incredibly scathing for ZDNet to say about MS (or about any company for that matter, regardless of past opinion.)
As for the advertisement, I suspect that at ZDNet, as at pretty much every single halfway respectable media agency in the world, that advertising is completely separate from content, and that advertising dollars have very little impact on the content, as is shown wonderfully by the juxtaposition of the MS ad and the anti-MS article on the page you saw.
And all that for shipping GPL'd source code? The CD copy costs $2 max, including media and any employee expenses, and they'd be absolutely crazy to spend much more than $5 on shipping...
I don't know if this is the case everywhere, but my high school has taken a very strong stance against plagiarism. We're required to give major papers in on paper as well as in electronic form, so that our teachers can easily run a check with plagiarism.org. The consequences for plagiarism basically reduce to: first offense - 0 for the term, second offense - 0 for the course.
I never really had any desire to rip off other people's work anyway, since I feel that I can write better than the people who give their papers away for free over the internet, but having such punishment is actually a comforting incentive to do one's own work.
Panasonic's Toughbooks claim (and look) to be pretty tough. I'm not sure if they're worth the expense for your dad though. There are a few less-rugged options that I've heard of, but I don't have the links handy. Check/.'s archive, I think there's something recently about them.
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He didn't commit suicide, and didn't die in the bomb blast. But yes, he is dead.
Well, they're certainly not going to use this as a more convincing piece of evidence than a breathalyzer. If this goes off, and then the breathalyzer says the driver has a.02% BAC, then they're not going to say that the monitor was triggered, so the driver must be guilty.
Racial profiling is the exact opposite of randomness. They pull people over because they're black(/hispanic/asian/alaskan native/whatever). Around here (PA), they have sobriety checkpoints, where they stop people (everybody if it's light traffic, or randomly in heavier traffic). It's a very good reason, because every time you go out at night, there's a threat you'll be pulled over and caught if you're driving drunk. If you're sober, you're merely held up for a minute or so and allowed to continue.
If you're using windows, you can also use the menu key on your keyboard (between right control and right windows key, at least on mine). Place your cursor over the link/picture/whatever, and press that button. It bypasses the javascript and brings up the right-click menu for that spot up in a corner.
But then people who wanted just the software would go grab the RPM or other package direct from RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake/whoever for free rather than downloading it from Codeweavers and having to pay.
Actually, the highway patrol planes most often use two lines a known distance apart that stretch across the road. That way they can easily time cars to see if they're speeding and then radio down to patrol cars to pull over the car based on physical description and location.
I have enough faith in the PostgreSQL developers that if the RedHat modifications are bad to not pur them back in the main tree. If the modifications are advantageous however, there's no reason not to port them back into the main core of Postgres.
Okay, then by that logic, Mandrake should never have based their own distribution off the Red Hat version, opting to instead, start completely from scratch. Luckily for Mandrake, they didn't follow your logic.
Whoa there buddy. That was pretty clear sarcasm. He was highlighting the absurdity in RedHat's decision to (maybe, we don't know whether they have or not) start from scratch and build their own database system.
I saw this movie, and thought it was funny. Damn funny. One of the major moral lessons of the movie is that capitalism/greed/etc. are bad. This fits in the the cutesy public Disney image, but a glimpse at the corporate side provides laughable irony. Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World is a short book, but quite interesting about the corporate greed that is Disney. At a few points during the movie, I found myself laughing out loud due to this irony.
Additionally, there were quite a few glaring plot inconsistencies. As they're going through the underground highway, one scene shows the team driving along in their expedition vehicles. In the next, they are all struggling over steep cliffs with no vehicles in sight. The next scene shows them back in their vehicles as if nothing had happened. The trucks are later driven over a rickety wooden bridge that was wide enough only for a person.
Milo, the linguist, could read Atlantian fluently. (An intersting note, Atlantian in the film is just modern English with different characters, as is evident during a few of the translations, despite the hogwash Milo throws around about it being a root language or a mix of multiple.) However, none of the Atlantians could read a word/letter/whatever of their own language...they had become reliant on oral communication. Their culture was dying, and Milo saved it.
When the princess is captured and taken, and the king dies, the next in succession is Milo. How this happens is unknown, the King just says it as if it were preordained and Atlantian law provided that the next in succession was some scrawny surface-dweller who led an invading and pillaging party to their city.
I saw the movie Friday night (opening night). Including my friend and me, there were maybe 15 people in a normal-sized theater that fits maybe 300-400. I suppose that was a result of the Sixers' game being on (I'm about 30 mins. outside of Philadelphia) but that struck me as a little odd.
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, but I don't completely regret seeing it.
Let's see...how many times has a ValueJet crashed recently? I can remember one. How many times has a NASA project failed recently? I think it's safe to say more than once.
Sure, no manned project in recent history has gone horribly wrong, but that isn't to say that they've had a perfect record; indeed, they've had their share of disasters.
Of course, NASA ain't perfect, but it's still more to be trusted than companies that need to reduce costs
There's part of the problem. NASA *does* need to reduce costs, because it's receiving less funding than it might have. Funding that once would have gone to space exploration is being spent elsewhere, as the American public's interests and focus change.
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Yep, there is a ways to go until we hit the wall, but ti's there nonetheless. It's not a technological barrier to be broken, it's just a barrier that's there. After the hypothetical ad you described, the only place to go would be fetishes, but one fetish may delight one person while totally disgusting another, making it stupid for advertisers to use them.
I suppose any game could be simplified to this point and mocked. I don't claim to see any more to the game than you, but apparently the game as you see it is pretty addictive. Blizzard has made a lot of money, and others have wasted a lot of time trying to level up and get to fighting the bigger monsters. I'd bet that many people reached the end and then deleted it, but many more reached the end, then reached the end on the other two difficulties, then reached the end of all the hardcore difficulties, then tried to challenge themselves by crippling their characters in some way, then... The thing is, they took a rather short, linear game, and squeezed so much fun (to them) out of it. Blizzard is certainly doing SOMETHING right...
Just as society has become desensitized (inarguably to a degree) to violence through movies, news, etc. (media), I think now we're beginning to become greatly desensitized to sex. Sex in advertising is like a drug addiction. As we begin to see and tolerate more of it, it requires nakeder people doing more outlandish things to attract our attention. Eventually it will hit a wall, as humans can only get so naked and provocative.
However, with the glut of sexuality in advertising and media these days, truly good advertisements stand out more. I was recently driving down a road that I know is generally littered with billboards of suggestive women promoting products. From a recent trip, I remember only one advertisement, for the Philadelphia Daily News. It just had white text on a red background saying, "The truth hurts. And we're sadists." Now, about a week later, that is the only advertisement that sticks in my mind. A couple decades ago, sex was the next big shocker, the next big thing, but now it's passe.
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Right, but try to buy a computer from a fairly mainstream OEM without Windows on it, in order to save $100. Can you? I can't think of any off the top of my head that offer to send you a blank hard drive. If they do, I'd assume they certainly nix the support contract, because nobody wants to get a bunch of calls from somebody who can't find drivers for the copy of Solaris 2 they found in their company's garbage pail.
Yeah, I used to consider doing this too, but then I realized, if I'm skimming the article, that I'm just as likely to miss a hugely important clause as I am the definition of "consumer" or whatever legal BS they have in there...
I support dual booting, and in fact did it myself until I unknowingly b0rked windows, despite reinstalls, etc. However, dual booting does not remove you from your microsoft dependency. You still have to pay MS the full price of the software, even if you only run it 1/10 of the time your computer's up. Additionally, based on past actions, I wouldn't be surprised to see microsoft add "features" to their software to make it impossible to dual-boot unless you buy a more expensive edition of the software...very conceivable.
ZDNet has, for a long time, been *very* pro-microsoft in editorial content. This marks a significant change in attitude. (Not by itself; there's been a few pot-shots on there over the past year or so, but it is sort of a culmination of the change).
For example...
Microsoft's relationship to its users is that of the blue whale to krill. Our only purpose is to breed, feed and get squeezed against its giant tongue until every last drop of money is released. There was a slight diminution in the aggressive, monopolistic feeding frenzy last year when, let us not forget, the company was found guilty of abusing its position. Now that Bush is in power, Microsoft is right back in those fertile Antarctic waters. Not only does it act in a way that suggests it doesn't care about the cries of pain from its customers, it barely registers that such cries exist. Now it has 90 percent of the corporate market, it will hunt its users to extinction before it notices anything wrong.
That's incredibly scathing for ZDNet to say about MS (or about any company for that matter, regardless of past opinion.)
As for the advertisement, I suspect that at ZDNet, as at pretty much every single halfway respectable media agency in the world, that advertising is completely separate from content, and that advertising dollars have very little impact on the content, as is shown wonderfully by the juxtaposition of the MS ad and the anti-MS article on the page you saw.
And all that for shipping GPL'd source code? The CD copy costs $2 max, including media and any employee expenses, and they'd be absolutely crazy to spend much more than $5 on shipping...
I'm sure with that much power, you could find a way to emulate x86 without too much noticeable performance loss in hosting games :)
I don't know if this is the case everywhere, but my high school has taken a very strong stance against plagiarism. We're required to give major papers in on paper as well as in electronic form, so that our teachers can easily run a check with plagiarism.org. The consequences for plagiarism basically reduce to: first offense - 0 for the term, second offense - 0 for the course.
I never really had any desire to rip off other people's work anyway, since I feel that I can write better than the people who give their papers away for free over the internet, but having such punishment is actually a comforting incentive to do one's own work.
But the l33t h4x0rz who pirate Win2K are often just as likely to grab 2K server as 2K professional, because it's l33ter and it costs more...
Panasonic's Toughbooks claim (and look) to be pretty tough. I'm not sure if they're worth the expense for your dad though. There are a few less-rugged options that I've heard of, but I don't have the links handy. Check /.'s archive, I think there's something recently about them.
He didn't commit suicide, and didn't die in the bomb blast. But yes, he is dead.
Well, they're certainly not going to use this as a more convincing piece of evidence than a breathalyzer. If this goes off, and then the breathalyzer says the driver has a .02% BAC, then they're not going to say that the monitor was triggered, so the driver must be guilty.
Racial profiling is the exact opposite of randomness. They pull people over because they're black(/hispanic/asian/alaskan native/whatever). Around here (PA), they have sobriety checkpoints, where they stop people (everybody if it's light traffic, or randomly in heavier traffic). It's a very good reason, because every time you go out at night, there's a threat you'll be pulled over and caught if you're driving drunk. If you're sober, you're merely held up for a minute or so and allowed to continue.
If you're using windows, you can also use the menu key on your keyboard (between right control and right windows key, at least on mine). Place your cursor over the link/picture/whatever, and press that button. It bypasses the javascript and brings up the right-click menu for that spot up in a corner.
Yeah, the IR ports on all Visors that I've seen (I haven't seen an edge, and I don't know whether it's still there) are on the left side.
But then people who wanted just the software would go grab the RPM or other package direct from RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake/whoever for free rather than downloading it from Codeweavers and having to pay.
Actually, the highway patrol planes most often use two lines a known distance apart that stretch across the road. That way they can easily time cars to see if they're speeding and then radio down to patrol cars to pull over the car based on physical description and location.
I have enough faith in the PostgreSQL developers that if the RedHat modifications are bad to not pur them back in the main tree. If the modifications are advantageous however, there's no reason not to port them back into the main core of Postgres.
Okay, then by that logic, Mandrake should never have based their own distribution off the Red Hat version, opting to instead, start completely from scratch. Luckily for Mandrake, they didn't follow your logic.
Whoa there buddy. That was pretty clear sarcasm. He was highlighting the absurdity in RedHat's decision to (maybe, we don't know whether they have or not) start from scratch and build their own database system.
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I saw this movie, and thought it was funny. Damn funny. One of the major moral lessons of the movie is that capitalism/greed/etc. are bad. This fits in the the cutesy public Disney image, but a glimpse at the corporate side provides laughable irony. Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World is a short book, but quite interesting about the corporate greed that is Disney. At a few points during the movie, I found myself laughing out loud due to this irony.
Additionally, there were quite a few glaring plot inconsistencies. As they're going through the underground highway, one scene shows the team driving along in their expedition vehicles. In the next, they are all struggling over steep cliffs with no vehicles in sight. The next scene shows them back in their vehicles as if nothing had happened. The trucks are later driven over a rickety wooden bridge that was wide enough only for a person.
Milo, the linguist, could read Atlantian fluently. (An intersting note, Atlantian in the film is just modern English with different characters, as is evident during a few of the translations, despite the hogwash Milo throws around about it being a root language or a mix of multiple.) However, none of the Atlantians could read a word/letter/whatever of their own language...they had become reliant on oral communication. Their culture was dying, and Milo saved it.
When the princess is captured and taken, and the king dies, the next in succession is Milo. How this happens is unknown, the King just says it as if it were preordained and Atlantian law provided that the next in succession was some scrawny surface-dweller who led an invading and pillaging party to their city.
I saw the movie Friday night (opening night). Including my friend and me, there were maybe 15 people in a normal-sized theater that fits maybe 300-400. I suppose that was a result of the Sixers' game being on (I'm about 30 mins. outside of Philadelphia) but that struck me as a little odd.
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, but I don't completely regret seeing it.
Let's see...how many times has a ValueJet crashed recently? I can remember one. How many times has a NASA project failed recently? I think it's safe to say more than once.
Sure, no manned project in recent history has gone horribly wrong, but that isn't to say that they've had a perfect record; indeed, they've had their share of disasters.
Of course, NASA ain't perfect, but it's still more to be trusted than companies that need to reduce costs
There's part of the problem. NASA *does* need to reduce costs, because it's receiving less funding than it might have. Funding that once would have gone to space exploration is being spent elsewhere, as the American public's interests and focus change.
As supported by the SPAM FAQ, SPAM stands for "Shoulder of Pork and Ham." The name was decided upon through a contest, in which Kenneth Daigneau, the brother of Hormel's vice president submitted the winning entry.
Well, I suppose they didn't anticipate the flood...it's gone 404 now.
Yep, there is a ways to go until we hit the wall, but ti's there nonetheless. It's not a technological barrier to be broken, it's just a barrier that's there. After the hypothetical ad you described, the only place to go would be fetishes, but one fetish may delight one person while totally disgusting another, making it stupid for advertisers to use them.
I suppose any game could be simplified to this point and mocked. I don't claim to see any more to the game than you, but apparently the game as you see it is pretty addictive. Blizzard has made a lot of money, and others have wasted a lot of time trying to level up and get to fighting the bigger monsters. I'd bet that many people reached the end and then deleted it, but many more reached the end, then reached the end on the other two difficulties, then reached the end of all the hardcore difficulties, then tried to challenge themselves by crippling their characters in some way, then... The thing is, they took a rather short, linear game, and squeezed so much fun (to them) out of it. Blizzard is certainly doing SOMETHING right...
Just as society has become desensitized (inarguably to a degree) to violence through movies, news, etc. (media), I think now we're beginning to become greatly desensitized to sex. Sex in advertising is like a drug addiction. As we begin to see and tolerate more of it, it requires nakeder people doing more outlandish things to attract our attention. Eventually it will hit a wall, as humans can only get so naked and provocative.
However, with the glut of sexuality in advertising and media these days, truly good advertisements stand out more. I was recently driving down a road that I know is generally littered with billboards of suggestive women promoting products. From a recent trip, I remember only one advertisement, for the Philadelphia Daily News. It just had white text on a red background saying, "The truth hurts. And we're sadists." Now, about a week later, that is the only advertisement that sticks in my mind. A couple decades ago, sex was the next big shocker, the next big thing, but now it's passe.