Or do you believe that when I borrow a DVD from a friend that the 'victim'* is deprived of income?
Potentially, and in some cases actually. I've borrowed movies from a friend and had them on extended loan, instead of buying them. I certainly would have bought them otherwise.
I've just upgraded to Web 2.0.1 So far it seems a bit snappier.
Next week: Web 3.0, it's when you can actually download all of the active content onto local storage and run it while disconnected as something they call "An Application". Wild.
I'm not a blind free-market lover, but what is this article going on about? ISPs who want to offer their customers fast connectivity and decent throughput will preferentially pay for peering with decent backbones that have invested in bandwidth.... even if that means paying a bit more, in my opinion. Therefore there is a financial reward available for provisioning more bandwidth and therefore the market should ensure that it will happen.
It's not as if there is any shortage of dark fibre lying about and wave division multiplexing means that existing circuits can also have additional capacity squeezed out of them.
What this article is really about is the fact that packet-inspection companies are pushing their technologies as a way to let the ISPs offer tiered services based on traffic type. I don't have particular issue with this either, but enough of the 'we're running out of bandwidth' doom and gloom already.
Did the original poster say 'snick your nose into every godamn thing? No he didn't. He said 'be there' which is decent advise. When my kids are old enough to have their own computer - not quite yet at 3 years, they will have their computer in the 'office' where I and my wife also have my machines. We treat it like a shared communal space where people can nip in and out of all the time. I suspect that this will avoid a lot of the 'my kid is just surfing porn' issues.
In terms of introducing them to tech, I'm finding that there are quite a few good, non-violent vaguely educational packages out there, that I have lined up *if* they are interested. Enigmo 2 is great stuff, for example and I really hope that they may be slightly interested in programming, in which case, it's out with the utterly splendid freeware implementation of Logo... both for the Mac.
Blimey, if that's an example of your skill in answering off-kilter questions from people I'm surprised that the press coverage of Wikipedia remains so positive.
I think what you meant to say was "Actually, this interview is unrelated to Slashdot's original request for questions, I'm sure the Slashdot interview will be along in due course".
If you want to consider specifics, you may want to think about the way that the U.S. and British managed to displace a previous democratically elected government in Iran, replacing it with the late Shah, who then attempted to suppress an islamic power-base...
I heard the snippet of inquisition on the radio and regardless of my feelings about Google et al's activities in China, I though the congressman's question deserved an answer which highlighted it's stupidity.
Lantos asks:
Well, IBM complied with legal orders when they cooperated with Nazi Germany. Those were legal orders under the Nazi German system...Do you think that IBM during that period had something to be ashamed of?
The answers should have been: Are you saying that the current Chinese regime and the Nazi regime are equivalently evil? If you are then my answer to you is that not only IBM but the whole of the U.S.A had something to have been ashamed of during that period.
The U.S.A had yet to enter the war despite evidence of what the Nazi's were up to. They had yet to implement full economic sanctions against the Nazis.
If, congressman, you believe that the Nazis and the chinese are comparable, why hasn't the U.S declared full economic sanctions against China, and why hasn't it made illegal for any U.S company to do business with that country? Why have you yet to propose that we declare war against China?
The truth is, because China is not equivalent to Nazi Germany, and your question is nonsensical.
The only OS X security flaw in this case, I think is the lack of a clear visual representation that the newly acquired file is an executable, irrespective of what the icon may attempt to show.
That's a mighty limited dictionary you have there.
From dictionary.com:
sponsor
n. 1. One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation. 2. One who vouches for the suitability of a candidate for admission. 3. A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill. 4. One who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation; a godparent. 5. One that finances a project or an event carried out by another person or group, especially a business enterprise that pays for radio or television programming in return for advertising time.
They joy of finding the odd things you could do by POKEing numbers into the system variables (nicely documented in the manual). I also spent an awful lot of my time using dodges to save memory.
I seem to recall that using a real number in Basic took 4 bytes, so rather than using LET A=A+3 people used stuff like LET A=A+INT PI since that only took 2 bytes.
Also you could make some damn fine music* by placing your transister radio next to your ZX81 while it executed different types of FOR/NEXT loop. The more statements inside the loop, the lower the note. Map different loops to different keys and you've got a synth baby.
I've seen flowers in full bloom frozen in a number of places of clueful one, in Southern Peru and in the Swiss Alps. And your evidence that your particular freezing occurred in "full summer" is...?
But of course, your neighbours' kids can't play in their gardens without getting cat shit all over their hands.... 2 kids, one garden, spent a lot of time clearing up shot out of the vegetable patch until I bought an ultrasonic cat scarer.
Really? look more carefully. All the ones you can buy now have a green cross on them - at least in the UK/Europe.
These people are assiduous - back in the late 80's I worked on a technical trade magazine and we had a cartoon illustration with one feature; it was something about network first aid or some such and a red cross was depicted. We received a very nice, but firm letter from their lawyers the next month.
Personally I can think of few trademarks where dilution is more detrimental. The International Committee of the Red Cross need to ensure that when someone sees a red cross on a vehicle they know precisely that this is a Red Cross vehicle and not to bomb the shit out of it.
Turning it into a generic 'first aid' symbol is a Bad Thing.
Let's face it, your managers gave you a perfectly correct answer when they said: ""We've got Windows, it's easier to stick with that."
It *is* always going to be easier to stick with what you have already.
It sounds to me as if the management are quite happy with what they've got, it works well enough and they have some annoying techie lobbying to change half their infrastructure software. Naturally they are going to be floundering around to find ways to get them out of their hair.
So, what are your reasons for wanting the company to switch to Linux, really? Are you a groupie, or are there solid reasons that will translate to the company's bottom line that you can put to them.
The security issue can be defused fairly easily - present some research into.mil adoption of Linux, for example.
But the security issue is probably just a smokescreen. You need some damn good reasons that you can set out cooly and rationally, and hopefully with a spreadsheet attached that will convince them of the advantages. "But it's free" probably won't cut it. Factor in third-party support costs, or in-house support for them so that it is NOT free. That'll make them take you more seriously.
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Or do you believe that when I borrow a DVD from a friend that the 'victim'* is deprived of income?
Potentially, and in some cases actually. I've borrowed movies from a friend and had them on extended loan, instead of buying them. I certainly would have bought them otherwise.
Hope that clear's that up.
I've just upgraded to Web 2.0.1 So far it seems a bit snappier.
Next week: Web 3.0, it's when you can actually download all of the active content onto local storage and run it while disconnected as something they call "An Application". Wild.
They affect the victim in different ways
That's right; one deprives the victim of money or goods, the other deprives the victim of income.
You seem to have read my entire post without spotting that I was talking about being in the same room, not in the same house, town or continent.
Never mind.
I'm not a blind free-market lover, but what is this article going on about? ISPs who want to offer their customers fast connectivity and decent throughput will preferentially pay for peering with decent backbones that have invested in bandwidth.... even if that means paying a bit more, in my opinion. Therefore there is a financial reward available for provisioning more bandwidth and therefore the market should ensure that it will happen.
It's not as if there is any shortage of dark fibre lying about and wave division multiplexing means that existing circuits can also have additional capacity squeezed out of them.
What this article is really about is the fact that packet-inspection companies are pushing their technologies as a way to let the ISPs offer tiered services based on traffic type. I don't have particular issue with this either, but enough of the 'we're running out of bandwidth' doom and gloom already.
Did the original poster say 'snick your nose into every godamn thing? No he didn't. He said 'be there' which is decent advise. When my kids are old enough to have their own computer - not quite yet at 3 years, they will have their computer in the 'office' where I and my wife also have my machines. We treat it like a shared communal space where people can nip in and out of all the time. I suspect that this will avoid a lot of the 'my kid is just surfing porn' issues.
... both for the Mac.
In terms of introducing them to tech, I'm finding that there are quite a few good, non-violent vaguely educational packages out there, that I have lined up *if* they are interested. Enigmo 2 is great stuff, for example and I really hope that they may be slightly interested in programming, in which case, it's out with the utterly splendid freeware implementation of Logo
Blimey, if that's an example of your skill in answering off-kilter questions from people I'm surprised that the press coverage of Wikipedia remains so positive.
I think what you meant to say was "Actually, this interview is unrelated to Slashdot's original request for questions, I'm sure the Slashdot interview will be along in due course".
If you want to consider specifics, you may want to think about the way that the U.S. and British managed to displace a previous democratically elected government in Iran, replacing it with the late Shah, who then attempted to suppress an islamic power-base...
I heard the snippet of inquisition on the radio and regardless of my feelings about Google et al's activities in China, I though the congressman's question deserved an answer which highlighted it's stupidity.
Lantos asks:
Well, IBM complied with legal orders when they cooperated with Nazi Germany. Those were legal orders under the Nazi German system...Do you think that IBM during that period had something to be ashamed of?
The answers should have been:
Are you saying that the current Chinese regime and the Nazi regime are equivalently evil? If you are then my answer to you is that not only IBM but the whole of the U.S.A had something to have been ashamed of during that period.
The U.S.A had yet to enter the war despite evidence of what the Nazi's were up to. They had yet to implement full economic sanctions against the Nazis.
If, congressman, you believe that the Nazis and the chinese are comparable, why hasn't the U.S declared full economic sanctions against China, and why hasn't it made illegal for any U.S company to do business with that country? Why have you yet to propose that we declare war against China?
The truth is, because China is not equivalent to Nazi Germany, and your question is nonsensical.
First time for long time that a post has made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
Now, where did I leave that stapler.
The only OS X security flaw in this case, I think is the lack of a clear visual representation that the newly acquired file is an executable, irrespective of what the icon may attempt to show.
Hopefully Apple can fix this up fairly easily.
Bold text? That's so pre-Quartz Xtreme.
:-)
Clearly executables should throb transparent, or jig about or ripple when you mouse over them or some-such.
That's a mighty limited dictionary you have there.
From dictionary.com:
sponsor
n.
1. One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation.
2. One who vouches for the suitability of a candidate for admission.
3. A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill.
4. One who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation; a godparent.
5. One that finances a project or an event carried out by another person or group, especially a business enterprise that pays for radio or television programming in return for advertising time.
Ah yes,
They joy of finding the odd things you could do by POKEing numbers into the system variables (nicely documented in the manual). I also spent an awful lot of my time using dodges to save memory.
I seem to recall that using a real number in Basic took 4 bytes, so rather than using LET A=A+3 people used stuff like LET A=A+INT PI since that only took 2 bytes.
Also you could make some damn fine music* by placing your transister radio next to your ZX81 while it executed different types of FOR/NEXT loop. The more statements inside the loop, the lower the note. Map different loops to different keys and you've got a synth baby.
Happy days.
* I lie, it was dreadful.
1. When was the last time Google stopped working?
Just now, when I was in a taxi and there was no wireless coverage.
I shall now smite myself for apostrophe misuse. >oww
You're logic is compelling. It is good to know that I owned the Harry Potter books before JK Rowling wrote them.
Sad that 1. and 3. Appear to be directly contradictory. Can't have it both ways, can you?
I've seen flowers in full bloom frozen in a number of places of clueful one, in Southern Peru and in the Swiss Alps. And your evidence that your particular freezing occurred in "full summer" is...?
But of course, your neighbours' kids can't play in their gardens without getting cat shit all over their hands. ... 2 kids, one garden, spent a lot of time clearing up shot out of the vegetable patch until I bought an ultrasonic cat scarer.
Someone else who mistakes 'climate' for 'weather'. To be expected, I suppose.
Fascinating. Thanks for that. I wonder if J&J got in with a U.S. trademark before the ICRC
Really? look more carefully. All the ones you can buy now have a green cross on them - at least in the UK/Europe.
These people are assiduous - back in the late 80's I worked on a technical trade magazine and we had a cartoon illustration with one feature; it was something about network first aid or some such and a red cross was depicted. We received a very nice, but firm letter from their lawyers the next month.
Personally I can think of few trademarks where dilution is more detrimental. The International Committee of the Red Cross need to ensure that when someone sees a red cross on a vehicle they know precisely that this is a Red Cross vehicle and not to bomb the shit out of it.
Turning it into a generic 'first aid' symbol is a Bad Thing.
Let's face it, your managers gave you a perfectly correct answer when they said: ""We've got Windows, it's easier to stick with that."
.mil adoption of Linux, for example.
It *is* always going to be easier to stick with what you have already.
It sounds to me as if the management are quite happy with what they've got, it works well enough and they have some annoying techie lobbying to change half their infrastructure software. Naturally they are going to be floundering around to find ways to get them out of their hair.
So, what are your reasons for wanting the company to switch to Linux, really? Are you a groupie, or are there solid reasons that will translate to the company's bottom line that you can put to them.
The security issue can be defused fairly easily - present some research into
But the security issue is probably just a smokescreen. You need some damn good reasons that you can set out cooly and rationally, and hopefully with a spreadsheet attached that will convince them of the advantages. "But it's free" probably won't cut it. Factor in third-party support costs, or in-house support for them so that it is NOT free. That'll make them take you more seriously.
Duke Nukem Forever is being designed so it will only run on Windows Vienna.