But, only on bottles of Dr. Pepper. I believe that the former has been occurring for decades. There are many contradicting reports, even those that say tobacco is good for you. This administration is 10 fold more open and honest about what is going on then the last one. What are you so pissed about? I would have to guess that you don't actually read anything, that you are being lead by a ring in your nose and you do not know it.
The business model of giving away software truly stinks, and is not in itself a business model. The business model is much more profit oriented then you think. There is software support which can be purchased in a multitude of plans, from per incident to enterprise wide. There are various levels of service and plans. There is money to be made performing customizations/modifications for all types of business. There is money to be made porting software to Linux, Developing device drivers. This is only a few of the examples.
You are a fool to assume both groups of posters are the same. Slashdot always has people on both sides of the fence. Usually the negative opinions speak first and loudest. Believe it or not there are people who do not use, or like Mandrake. I don't.
Now if the company dies, does that mean that the Mandrake distribution dies? GPL code lives forever if the community likes it.
Control is essential, or we will have to give the credit to the Chinese for the rocket propelled chairs they tried to make. If control is included in the definition then you can really count out Pearse. If control is not included then give the credit to the Chinese.
You assume too much. You opinion is wrong, and you are giving examples without statistics. Consider that many dates are accompanied with forced, non-consentual (sometimes violent) sex. Yes, that's what we in the west usually call date rape.
Actually these kinds of marriages are a part of their culture, and they are not trapped as you imply, these marriages actually work. I have several friends (6 couples) who's marriage was set up for them by their families, They all (Husband and Wife) are very happy, and are glad that they didn't have to waste time with dating. This is not human rights violation, it is simply a cultural difference.
They want to install gator from their site. Gator should be considered as the number 1 net criminal. The lie about uninstalling the associated application then gator will automatically uninstall needs to be proven in court. I want a class action law suit against them. I want them to file chapter 13.
Or are you saying as long as you steal from a broadband company it is OK? A $499 - $5000 dollar value is required for a F5. Shoplifters do time even if they needed the food. Life isn't fair. These idiots need jail time. If you are stealing then you need jail time as well. The company is perfectly within its rights to press charges. I think more companies should. I do not like having to subsidize thief's.
You can disagree, But my opinion is not a troll, it is real.
I see you are living the myth. A skilled Linux Guru cost the same as a equally skilled NT admin. Plus the Linux boxes could be a simple custom Knoppix CD that uses remote auth and your home dir is a nfs share. "This is being done fairly regularly now" What are your admin. costs then?
A Gnome or KDE interface is not so foreign that it takes any real time in training. Here is how you start a web browser, here is how you start openoffice.
I know that webmail "Like TWIG" is pretty hard to learn, but I think they would get over it.
A car is a wonderful example. If I have a burnt out headlamp I fix it. I have never really had any real car problems, because I am a good car "admin." I do my maintenance as scheduled. If I have a flat tire, I change it with a spare, and then go to see a tire shop, not the manufacturer. If you have a security problem with windows, do you wait for MS to show up, or do you use another options?
While I do think that the manufacturer is responsible for many of the problems, I do not have time to wait on the side of the road , for the manufacturer to show up and fix my flat tire.
I protect myself, which I can. Nobody can (or even wants to) stop me from using or changing anything on my pc, and a trojan will have problems with a good filewall.
Speaking of windows, I had to run ad-aware on my wife's "completely updated" XP box yesterday. I hate the virus company that makes gain. In fact there are quite a few websites that will install this and simular spyware on your "safe" OS.
I do realize that my firewall will stop gain from talking, but when gain cannot talk to its home it will slow your windows box to the point of being unusable. BTW she has never had any gain supported software installed.
Being able to associate external applications with mailto: and news: I prefer my email client and my newsreader. The corporation, I work for, paid for the email client they use, and would never consider using a browser that would not use their preferred email client. This really affects the usability of the product. They will have to add this feature if they want us to adopt mozilla or Netscape for use in the business world.
The FBI is a field-oriented organization in which FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington, D.C., provides program direction and support services to 56 field offices, approximately 400 satellite offices known as resident agencies, four specialized field installations, and more than 40 foreign liaison posts. The foreign liaison offices, each of which is headed by a Legal Attache or Legal Liaison Officer, work abroad with American and local authorities on criminal matters within FBI jurisdiction.
The FBI has approximately 11,400 Special Agents and over 16,400 other employees who perform professional, administrative, technical, clerical, craft, trade, or maintenance operations. About 9,800 employees are assigned to FBIHQ; nearly 18,000 are assigned to field installations.
So a handfull of agents here is no big deal. Stealing is stealing, bandwidth is not exempt.
That is the big lie. With the exception of a Data Center the productivity limit is the human not the computer, You will not see large jumps in productivity until you can replace the human. Replacing windows NT with XP and office 2000 with 2002 will not increase productivity enough to offset the cost, to say so is to lie. We operate the largest privately owned network in the world, upgrading will cost us several million dollars. This cost will be transferred to our customers.
I like upgrades, I do not like the MS upgrade plan. It is great to know that I can do unlimited upgrades with no licensing cost for software that I prefer.
The MS Tax is when company X, that makes loafs of bread, upgrades their software every three years they incur software and equipment expenses. These expenses will be applied to the cost of bread , which will result in a more expensive loaf of bread at the supermarket.. This MS Tax affects almost all consumer goods. You may argue that the upgrades make things simpler and less expensive. With 20+ years of experience I can honestly say that is an absolute lie.
You would say they need less freedom then they have. The press in the US is generally irresponsible. I remember when they got real irratated on 911 when thay could not broadcast the exact location of Mr. Bush. I remember them being in Waco with the ATF and began a live broadcast 45 minutes before the raid begain. To be in the US press is to love yourself, and all that matters is ratings. If you have a responsible press then give them more freedom, we dont.
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But, only on bottles of Dr. Pepper.
I believe that the former has been occurring for decades. There are many contradicting reports, even those that say tobacco is good for you. This administration is 10 fold more open and honest about what is going on then the last one. What are you so pissed about? I would have to guess that you don't actually read anything, that you are being lead by a ring in your nose and you do not know it.
A gun is a very simple mechanical device. There is nothing in the world that will change that. You might as well use a retna scan for a toaster.
There will be a few lives saved by this, but it will create a new illegal market and bring all of the death involved with that market.
The business model of giving away software truly stinks, and is not in itself a business model. The business model is much more profit oriented then you think. There is software support which can be purchased in a multitude of plans, from per incident to enterprise wide. There are various levels of service and plans. There is money to be made performing customizations/modifications for all types of business. There is money to be made porting software to Linux, Developing device drivers. This is only a few of the examples.
Now if the company dies, does that mean that the Mandrake distribution dies? GPL code lives forever if the community likes it.
Control is essential, or we will have to give the credit to the Chinese for the rocket propelled chairs they tried to make. If control is included in the definition then you can really count out Pearse. If control is not included then give the credit to the Chinese.
You assume too much. You opinion is wrong, and you are giving examples without statistics. Consider that many dates are accompanied with forced, non-consentual (sometimes violent) sex. Yes, that's what we in the west usually call date rape.
Actually these kinds of marriages are a part of their culture, and they are not trapped as you imply, these marriages actually work. I have several friends (6 couples) who's marriage was set up for them by their families, They all (Husband and Wife) are very happy, and are glad that they didn't have to waste time with dating. This is not human rights violation, it is simply a cultural difference.
Then Mozilla would be great. When I click on a mailto or news url it would use the programs I want, not the ones AOL wants.
They want to install gator from their site. Gator should be considered as the number 1 net criminal. The lie about uninstalling the associated application then gator will automatically uninstall needs to be proven in court. I want a class action law suit against them. I want them to file chapter 13.
What do they think of Earthlinks TV adds, which focus on blocking unwanted popup adds.
Or did you go out and buy some Dell stock.
Or are you saying as long as you steal from a broadband company it is OK? A $499 - $5000 dollar value is required for a F5. Shoplifters do time even if they needed the food. Life isn't fair. These idiots need jail time. If you are stealing then you need jail time as well. The company is perfectly within its rights to press charges. I think more companies should. I do not like having to subsidize thief's.
You can disagree, But my opinion is not a troll, it is real.
I see you are living the myth. A skilled Linux Guru cost the same as a equally skilled NT admin. Plus the Linux boxes could be a simple custom Knoppix CD that uses remote auth and your home dir is a nfs share. "This is being done fairly regularly now" What are your admin. costs then?
A Gnome or KDE interface is not so foreign that it takes any real time in training. Here is how you start a web browser, here is how you start openoffice.
I know that webmail "Like TWIG" is pretty hard to learn, but I think they would get over it.
I havent used windows at home in several years.
#1 reason people stay with Windows: WAREZ
While there may be a few, I do not know a single windows user, who does not steal software. (Use illeagal Copies, never registers winzip etc..)
Call me a troll, call me cranky, just don't call me late for dinner.
A car is a wonderful example. If I have a burnt out headlamp I fix it. I have never really had any real car problems, because I am a good car "admin." I do my maintenance as scheduled. If I have a flat tire, I change it with a spare, and then go to see a tire shop, not the manufacturer. If you have a security problem with windows, do you wait for MS to show up, or do you use another options?
While I do think that the manufacturer is responsible for many of the problems, I do not have time to wait on the side of the road , for the manufacturer to show up and fix my flat tire.
I protect myself, which I can. Nobody can (or even wants to) stop me from using or changing anything on my pc, and a trojan will have problems with a good filewall.
Speaking of windows, I had to run ad-aware on my wife's "completely updated" XP box yesterday. I hate the virus company that makes gain. In fact there are quite a few websites that will install this and simular spyware on your "safe" OS.
I do realize that my firewall will stop gain from talking, but when gain cannot talk to its home it will slow your windows box to the point of being unusable. BTW she has never had any gain supported software installed.
stolem=stolen
Bandwidth is very expensive. You assume the value of the bandwith was cheap? Try around $15,000 (U.S.) for the amount stolem by this group.
Wow I Just downloaded a Hoax named NVIDIA_FreeBSD-1.0-3203.tar.gz
md5sum b982db9e898a0f3a46c2bf9d15c320d2
and I am in the process of installing it.
Being able to associate external applications with mailto: and news: I prefer my email client and my newsreader. The corporation, I work for, paid for the email client they use, and would never consider using a browser that would not use their preferred email client. This really affects the usability of the product. They will have to add this feature if they want us to adopt mozilla or Netscape for use in the business world.
The FBI is a field-oriented organization in which FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington, D.C., provides program direction and support services to 56 field offices, approximately 400 satellite offices known as resident agencies, four specialized field installations, and more than 40 foreign liaison posts. The foreign liaison offices, each of which is headed by a Legal Attache or Legal Liaison Officer, work abroad with American and local authorities on criminal matters within FBI jurisdiction.
The FBI has approximately 11,400 Special Agents and over 16,400 other employees who perform professional, administrative, technical, clerical, craft, trade, or maintenance operations. About 9,800 employees are assigned to FBIHQ; nearly 18,000 are assigned to field installations.
So a handfull of agents here is no big deal. Stealing is stealing, bandwidth is not exempt.
That is the big lie. With the exception of a Data Center the productivity limit is the human not the computer, You will not see large jumps in productivity until you can replace the human. Replacing windows NT with XP and office 2000 with 2002 will not increase productivity enough to offset the cost, to say so is to lie. We operate the largest privately owned network in the world, upgrading will cost us several million dollars. This cost will be transferred to our customers.
I like upgrades, I do not like the MS upgrade plan. It is great to know that I can do unlimited upgrades with no licensing cost for software that I prefer.
The MS Tax is when company X, that makes loafs of bread, upgrades their software every three years they incur software and equipment expenses. These expenses will be applied to the cost of bread , which will result in a more expensive loaf of bread at the supermarket.. This MS Tax affects almost all consumer goods. You may argue that the upgrades make things simpler and less expensive. With 20+ years of experience I can honestly say that is an absolute lie.
You would say they need less freedom then they have. The press in the US is generally irresponsible. I remember when they got real irratated on 911 when thay could not broadcast the exact location of Mr. Bush. I remember them being in Waco with the ATF and began a live broadcast 45 minutes before the raid begain. To be in the US press is to love yourself, and all that matters is ratings. If you have a responsible press then give them more freedom, we dont.