If you live in the USA, do you only buy "Made in USA" clothes ?
It's one of several considerations when buying clothes. Like I said, I'm not suggesting people don't buy from HP. I'd like to be sure people know that this is a major outsourcing company and leave it to the individuals to make the decision.
Hmm, last time I called HP for a support issue with a HPUX server, I had a support person that used the words "dude" "Winblows" and "Microsux" quite often. Quite refreshing to hear personaly on the business side =)
"Dude! Let me put down my Big A Mac which I have purchased with my Visa card and copious discretionary income so that I might help you. And if I might say, Microsooks Winblows, sir! I am hating it ev-e-rai bit as much as you, sir! And I am praising Kali ev-e-rai time the thirty living in my home see those fine USA courts are socking it to them entirely on our fine colour tel-o-vision!"
Why is this offtopic? Can any of you fucks even read?
Having "But to get back on the subject" more than half way through the text should have been your clue that something was wrong. This is clue number one in spotting an off-topic post.:)
I feel compelled to remind people that HP is currently one of the leaders in outsourcing tech jobs.
I'm not suggesting you do or don't buy a PC because of that. But I do feel that data point should be out there for US Slashdotters. Your dollar is at an alarming low compared to other currencies, your job market is a shambles, and these actions are arguably not helping things along.
Is LaTeX or one of the other prertty TeX front ends available for Mac? If so, it's more powerful than FrameMaker anyway. A little Aqua loving poured on, and nobody will remember why they wanted Framemaker in the first place.
Wait, so why do you and everyone else I can think of know that it's an addictive narcotic, if they're keeping it a secret? I mean, the damn things already tell you that they can kill you. I'd think that is a bit more important than telling me that they're a narcotic, or addictive.
Show me another narcotic they'll sell to drunks at four in the morning. Show me another narcotic without an abuse recovery program covered by most insurance companies.
But never forget that people want to smoke, and as long as they respect non-smokers, and don't litter (why is the majority of trash on the street from cigarettes?), then let them.
All for it. But how many smokers have you met who've tried and failed to quit? Seems that until the packages warn and acknowledge that it's an addictive narcotic, regular liability laws should apply.
I hope that the EU actually sticks by its guns. That is one thing the US has not done. I hope the EU sticks to a punishment because M$ gets away with it they will only cross that line a little further if they end up getting off.
Both MS and big tobacco were doing just fine after November '04. Seriously, look at the stocks and see who turned upward when it was becoming clear just who we'd have in the whitehouse.
If the election had gone the other way, MS would have actually been punished, and RJ Reynolds and friends would be labeling cigarettes as drugs and paying for people's efforts to quit smoking.
Does anyone else consider it a bit weird that they're using Windows Media Player as bait ? That's a division where there's at least some competition from Quicktime and Realplayer. The browser war was a far more dirty one IMO, and microsoft is STILL making it practically impossible for competitors to integrate their browser properly over IE.
In the US, cases tend to be about protecting businesses. The concern is that MS makes it difficult for other businesses to compete. In the end, it ended up as little more than a slap on the wrist because MS is also a favorite company.
In the EU, I expect the concern is more about citizens/consumers. MS is forcing things like Media Player and their book reader down everybody's throat, which will more directly affect consumers. MS' flavor of DRM is made pervasive through the OS, doing things normal application vendors cannot do, making it more likely that users will end up being forced to use MS products for other commercial activities (buying music, ebooks, etc), driving up prices as there is no competition. Browsers and Java aren't quite so relevant as they don't steer consumer dollars and rights so strongly.
Could they maybe pay this $613 million in old copies of NT 2.0 at full retail and surplus copies of Bob dumped on church lawns? Bill's buddies saw to this in the new administration, and it seems to have worked out exceptionally well for them. Making it tax deductible was a wonderful touch.
Rumor has it MS are forcasting quite a tidy profit if anyone new can ever pool enough cash to afford the source license they made available as part of the settlement. That worked out well for MS too. Really, this whole being-found-guilty thing was a wonderful experience for MS, and they were looking forward to it happening again.
Now -- I have a page with all of my bookmarks, which I serve
off my home Linux box. This is always the first tab in Mozilla (work)
and Konqueror (home). This lets me have the same bookmarks in both
places, nicely arranged in colored category boxes.
At the bottom, I have a form field I can use to have CGI tag extra
URLs onto the page if there's something I want to look at later. The
last ten URLs are remembered, and I manually edit the page to move
them into the sections if I decide to keep the URL.
Previously -- I used to have a page dynamically generated
from my squid* access logs. This was a page of my 25 most-accessed
sites** as well as some manually-entered sites for banking and similar
static stuff. I stopped doing this as it got to be a headache to
constantly add exceptions for ad servers and the likes.
* you probably knew that squid is a web proxy. I use ssh to
port-forward from home to work so I get logs for both places, as well
as being able to keep goatse.cx, lemon party, and penisbird out of the
logs
** counting any number of accesses after the first in an 8hr
period as one access
I also used to include a chart of my company's stock, but that got
to be a whole lot less fun
about 3 months ago.
Wait a second. What is "skittlebrau" to you? Around these parts, skittlebrau is a drink made of dumping a handful of skittles into a 40 oz of Colt 4-5... don't tell me people drink that shit elsewhere?
I hesitate to call Gates a true philanthropist, as I remember how he was highly criticized by others for not doing much. Finally he started doing more philanthropy, but it took a lot of public humiliation to get him to. Perhaps I'm wrong, but the way it all came about it looks like Gates is just giving away money to save face, not because he truly believes in or cares about any of the causes he gives to.
If a man is serving charities in a meaningful way, it's absolute rubbish to question his motives. You can accomplish no good by doing this, so drop it -- please.
Want to really annoy your competition ? Do the same thing actually on a google search page - just make it "search" 1000 times for words that bring up your competitions 'adwords' box, then "click" the adwords link.
Presumably Google has something that filters excessive traffic by IPs not known to be proxies for places like AOL.
The problem comes in when there are all these databases of open web proxies and code in CPAN for accessing and using those.:/
It is unfathomable to me that someone would block incoming traffic to an article on their website
Consider an inbound link from a weblog-news site like Slashdot. It may not net you very many new readers, but it can render the site unusable for your daily readers, causing many of them to break their daily readership pattern and start looking elsewhere.
People are such creatures of habit when it comes to things like daily news. Having a site unavailable even one day probably dents readership measurably.
That perhaps the reason for that is that there are multiple versions of kernels, and not everyone installs the same kernel? Also, the packages at the top are one of a kind (like adduser.... who is not going have adduser? And cron?)
You're helping to explain why it's a failure yet you sound like you think you're contradicting me, son.
People don't vote. Pop contest just looks at what you have installed.
That said, don't bother burning 4 CDs, 7 CDs, however many the next is. Just burn the first CD and source everything off the net. Debian's good for that, and it's less of a headache. If you have a bunch of systems set up, use a web proxy with a big cache for the installs.
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I'm not suggesting you do or don't buy a PC because of that. But I do feel that data point should be out there for US Slashdotters. Your dollar is at an alarming low compared to other currencies, your job market is a shambles, and these actions are arguably not helping things along.
Is LaTeX or one of the other prertty TeX front ends available for Mac? If so, it's more powerful than FrameMaker anyway. A little Aqua loving poured on, and nobody will remember why they wanted Framemaker in the first place.
Show me another narcotic they'll sell to drunks at four in the morning. Show me another narcotic without an abuse recovery program covered by most insurance companies.
All for it. But how many smokers have you met who've tried and failed to quit? Seems that until the packages warn and acknowledge that it's an addictive narcotic, regular liability laws should apply.
Plz plz plz let there be a market in justice importing?
Both MS and big tobacco were doing just fine after November '04. Seriously, look at the stocks and see who turned upward when it was becoming clear just who we'd have in the whitehouse.
If the election had gone the other way, MS would have actually been punished, and RJ Reynolds and friends would be labeling cigarettes as drugs and paying for people's efforts to quit smoking.
In the US, cases tend to be about protecting businesses. The concern is that MS makes it difficult for other businesses to compete. In the end, it ended up as little more than a slap on the wrist because MS is also a favorite company.
In the EU, I expect the concern is more about citizens/consumers. MS is forcing things like Media Player and their book reader down everybody's throat, which will more directly affect consumers. MS' flavor of DRM is made pervasive through the OS, doing things normal application vendors cannot do, making it more likely that users will end up being forced to use MS products for other commercial activities (buying music, ebooks, etc), driving up prices as there is no competition. Browsers and Java aren't quite so relevant as they don't steer consumer dollars and rights so strongly.
Rumor has it MS are forcasting quite a tidy profit if anyone new can ever pool enough cash to afford the source license they made available as part of the settlement. That worked out well for MS too. Really, this whole being-found-guilty thing was a wonderful experience for MS, and they were looking forward to it happening again.
Wish I could find the spyware that keeps doing that to me. :(
At the bottom, I have a form field I can use to have CGI tag extra URLs onto the page if there's something I want to look at later. The last ten URLs are remembered, and I manually edit the page to move them into the sections if I decide to keep the URL.
Previously -- I used to have a page dynamically generated from my squid* access logs. This was a page of my 25 most-accessed sites** as well as some manually-entered sites for banking and similar static stuff. I stopped doing this as it got to be a headache to constantly add exceptions for ad servers and the likes.
* you probably knew that squid is a web proxy. I use ssh to port-forward from home to work so I get logs for both places, as well as being able to keep goatse.cx, lemon party, and penisbird out of the logs
** counting any number of accesses after the first in an 8hr period as one access
I also used to include a chart of my company's stock, but that got to be a whole lot less fun about 3 months ago.
~Darl
Pages and pages of "data" culminating in the punchline of Scott McNealy flailing about and screaming "I am God here!"
Please tell me I can use XModMap or similar for this.
You now owe Darl your allegience, $690, and a straight face when he makes press releases saying silly things about IBM and Groklaw.
~Darl
The problem comes in when there are all these databases of open web proxies and code in CPAN for accessing and using those. :/
You can find articles about the fellow by looking at the top Google hits for "moron," "fucktard," and "what the hell were you thinking?"
There are also programs available which let you selectively disable refer[r]ers [god I hate htp].
People are such creatures of habit when it comes to things like daily news. Having a site unavailable even one day probably dents readership measurably.
~Darl
That said, don't bother burning 4 CDs, 7 CDs, however many the next is. Just burn the first CD and source everything off the net. Debian's good for that, and it's less of a headache. If you have a bunch of systems set up, use a web proxy with a big cache for the installs.