Completely off topic point: In the footer located on the front page of freeinternetpress.com there is a sentence that reads: "Please email editor@freeinternetpress.com there are any questions." I think it is missing an "if". Alternatively, "there are" could be changed to "with"?
BTW, don't take this as a knock - I just noticed it and thought I'd let you know!:o)
Aircraft Type and Registration: Boeing 777-236, G-YMMM No & Type of Engines: 2 Rolls-Royce RB211 Trent 895-17 turbofan engines Year of Manufacture: 2001 Date & Time: 17 January 2008 at 1243 hrs Location: Undershoot RWY 27L, London Heathrow Airport Type of Flight: Commercial Air Transport (passenger) Persons on Board: Crew - 16 Passengers - 136 Injuries: Crew - 4 (minor) Passengers - 1 (serious) Passengers - 8 (minor) Nature of Damage: Substantial Information Source: AAIB Field Investigation
Apologies if I am being stupid but presumably if the copyright is solely US held then the license under which the work is distributed becomes irrelevant (GPL or otherwise) - An Antiguan could simply copy the work and distribute/use it in whatever way they see fit... (or is this what you were getting at?)
Just as an aside, I lived in Malaysia for over 5 years and so have an interest in all things Malaysian. Do you have a link or reference where I can read more on the origins of this behaviour? I'm not disputing your claim - just genuinely interested.
Don't be a simpleton. The total number of US soldier fatalities so far in Iraq stands at 3,860. The estimated total number of deaths from the World Trade Centre attacks is 2,750. For some perspective, 2500 people die EVERY DAY in the US from cancer. There aren't going to be any terrorists blowing up your mall - you should be more worried about what food your wife is buying at the mall for your kids.
Squeezing a few milliseconds here and there using clever optimisation is fine (and worth doing) but isn't the whole objective defeated somewhat as soon as you have to embed adverts from the major ad-delivery networks (which most sites of any size do)?
I have lost countless hours of my life waiting for pages to render while they suck down banner ads from overloaded delivery networks (e.g. Falkag).
Who upgrades their computer 3 times in 5 years? Perhaps gamers and graphics power users but aside form that I would have thought not very many? In my case, a workstation normally lasts me at least 3 years - maybe I'm just a cheap ass?:o)
I'm sorry but your bias is so obvious that you deserve a smack down.
Installing MS Office takes less than a handful of mouse clicks. Are you seriously suggesting that the installation routine for Open Office is faster and easier in any meaningful way? We are presumably talking at best about a couple of less clicks of the mouse.
As far as administration and update headaches go - are you really saying that Windows Update is not on a par with, if not better than, apt-get for system updates? For a start, apt-get doesn't give you short explanatory descriptions for each update - you just have to take it or leave it.
Your point about Linux updating all installed software rather than just the core system is irrelevant for any software compiled from source. Also, have you ever tried to cleanly uninstall/remove applications compiled from source? Most don't come with rollback/uninstall scripts. You are essentially reduced to manually hunting all over the disk for the application's config files, binaries and libraries (unless you carefully monitor the output of config & make). Furthermore, before you suggest that compilation from source is never needed, what happens if your favourite software is packaged for RPM and you run a DEB based distribution - hope that Alien works? These administration/configuration issues simply do not exist on a Windows platform.
Finally, Anti Virus can hardly be considered a headache. One can download and install a free, very capable anti virus application in less than 10 minutes (free.grisoft.com). Once installed you need never have anything further to do with it.
Your assertion, in the context of this topic, that "Even with a "$0" price tag, Windows costs *much* more than Linux." is utter rubbish.
*** Credibility check: I am not an MS fanboy nor am I Linux zealot. I am typing this on a Windows XP workstation from which I manage three other machines: one IBM server running Windows 2003 and two Sun servers running Debian (cli no gui). I'd say I'm fairly well placed to spot uninformed bias.
Essentially, if you enter via http://mail.google.com/ Google remembers this and encrypts only the login process and then reverts back to plain text. If you enter via https://mail.google.com/ your session remains encrypted throughout.
1). I actually get 150 free SMS/month not 100. 2). Forgot to mention that for the first 6 months of the contract everything was doubled i.e. 600 minutes, 300 texts and 10MB download quota.
Just as a technical aside - I have a Sony Ericsson K800i (came free as part of an 18 month contract with "Three" in the UK) and this supports: UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900. The US uses GSM 1900 for it's implementation and my phone works out there.
Also, for all the posters getting excited about the iPhone's EDGE capabilities: EDGE is pathetic, it is capable of 90Kbps max. In the UK (and I believe most of Europe) everything has moved over to 3G ala UMTS which gives a reliable 300-400Kbps.
My plan gives me unlimited internet surfing, 5MB download to phone quota, 300 free minutes any network any time and 100 free SMS messages for USD $60/month (don't forget the high exchange rate atm) and as I signed up for 18 months I got the phone for free.
Any ideas on where these luminaries have disbanded to? Am I missing out on a great underground tech site that the script kiddies and Ruby evangelists have yet to destroy? I'd hate it if I was...
An interesting post - especially the common link to the abolitionist movement of which I was unaware.
Regarding moral judgement - I said I didn't understand their motives and sense of authority. This is different from opposing them. As you rightly say, I do believe each man's moral judgements are his own to make and that ultimately one only has authority to judge one's self.
Why should religion equate to authority? Also, why should your interpretation of morality be used as a vehicle to change the behaviour of others? Morality is subjective and ultimately an internal judgement on how to conduct your life and your interactions with others. I have never understood why the 19th century christian missionaries in Africa assumed it was ok to rampage around the continent actively imposing their world view on the locals.
As you can see, I'm not religious but I think, to borrow a phrase, I have a pretty good moral compass. My guiding mantra is simply to do as you would be done by and all my moral judgements and decisions follow on from this. It works for me.
In my experience, man seems always to be searching for meaning. I don't think human kind is capable of living in an utopia of endless bounty - we would all end up in an asylum (at least I would).
Personally, I'm not particularly interested in making my life easier. What drives me is the overwhelming desire to be owned by no man. I want freedom of choice, freedom of experience and freedom of thought. My life is the pursuit of these three ideals, literally and philosphically.
At our company we have a special extension we use for all suspected marketing calls, known affectionately as extension 101.
This extension is hooked up to a CD player and is programmed to auto answer incoming calls. One of our audio guys has mixed up a CD containing endless "on hold" muzack and promotional messages for our company and this is left to play repeatedly in the CD player.
End result - all unsolicited calls get responded with a "I'll just connect you to the person responsible for that department" and are then transferred to extension 101 where they remain until they hang up. The best bit is that a red LED lights up on the line the marketer has called in on (indicating line in use), making it possible to time how long they spend listening to the 101 CD before disconnecting. The record so far is just over 18 minutes:o)
I suppose if you wanted to be even more devious you could set extension 101 to divert to a premium rate number and make a bit of extra cash for every minute the dumb marketer stays listening to the 101 CD - this is probably illegal though (as most fun things are)...
As per the subject, both these companies offer virtual machine instances at close to hosting company prices. You get root access to your own dedicated box, static IPs, a rnage of distros (Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD etc.) and an unfiltered net connection.
I have been a happy Bytemark customer for almost 2 years now - I use their basic VM package and run successfully run qmail, tinydns, pureftpd and apache from it. I have heard good things about slicehost and if I was in the market for an additional VM I would try them as their offerings are based around Xen rather than User-Mode Linux.
I work for an air charter agency in the UK but we operate globaly and put a number of domestic US charters together for our American clients.
Currently, the cost per person of chartering an aircraft is very roughly in line with your high-end business class fare on a scheduled carrier. As an example, a return flight from Port Columbus Intl., Columbus (OH) to Orlando International, Orlando (FL) would cost apprx. USD $1,840 per person in a King Air 200 (based on 7 passengers travelling) and USD $2,660 per person in a Citation II jet (based on 8 travelling).
However, the general aviation world is gearing up for what many people predict to be the dawn of a new age in aircraft charter, the introduction of the VLJ or 'Very Light Jet'. These new style jets are due to come in to service at the end of this year and they have been designed from the ground up for the specific role of air taxi. They are massively more efficient than existing aircraft in their class (4 to 5 seater light jets) and take advantage of all the advancements in material sciences, airframe design and fuels consumption that have been achieved over the last decade or so. It is predicted that these VLJs will open up the air charter market to the middle classes and SMEs. You will no longer need to be a high net worth individual or work for a Fortune 500 in order to afford to regularly fly in them. For more information, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Light_Jet/. Cessna, Embraer, Eclipse and even Honda are all entering this market.
By the end of 2007 air charter in the US should be a lot more viable for people who are fed up with airlines and major airports.
If you have any skill whatsoever you should, at the very least, be feeding your ie5/ie6 specific hacks via a seperate style sheet. Therefore, simply alter your xhtml code to use conditional statements (if you were clever this should be a two second job and involve simply altering one include file) and then spend an hour or two converting your hacks to valid css rules - job done, where's the problem?
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Nicely done!
Thanks for a very informative post.
:o)
Completely off topic point:
In the footer located on the front page of freeinternetpress.com there is a sentence that reads: "Please email editor@freeinternetpress.com there are any questions." I think it is missing an "if". Alternatively, "there are" could be changed to "with"?
BTW, don't take this as a knock - I just noticed it and thought I'd let you know!
Some useful information about the aircraft (not verified by me - taken from http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=309337):
Initial Report AAIB Ref: EW/C2008/01/01 Accident
Aircraft Type and Registration: Boeing 777-236, G-YMMM
No & Type of Engines: 2 Rolls-Royce RB211 Trent 895-17 turbofan engines
Year of Manufacture: 2001
Date & Time: 17 January 2008 at 1243 hrs
Location: Undershoot RWY 27L, London Heathrow Airport
Type of Flight: Commercial Air Transport (passenger)
Persons on Board: Crew - 16
Passengers - 136
Injuries: Crew - 4 (minor)
Passengers - 1 (serious)
Passengers - 8 (minor)
Nature of Damage: Substantial
Information Source: AAIB Field Investigation
Apologies if I am being stupid but presumably if the copyright is solely US held then the license under which the work is distributed becomes irrelevant (GPL or otherwise) - An Antiguan could simply copy the work and distribute/use it in whatever way they see fit... (or is this what you were getting at?)
Just as an aside, I lived in Malaysia for over 5 years and so have an interest in all things Malaysian. Do you have a link or reference where I can read more on the origins of this behaviour? I'm not disputing your claim - just genuinely interested.
Don't be a simpleton. The total number of US soldier fatalities so far in Iraq stands at 3,860. The estimated total number of deaths from the World Trade Centre attacks is 2,750. For some perspective, 2500 people die EVERY DAY in the US from cancer. There aren't going to be any terrorists blowing up your mall - you should be more worried about what food your wife is buying at the mall for your kids.
Squeezing a few milliseconds here and there using clever optimisation is fine (and worth doing) but isn't the whole objective defeated somewhat as soon as you have to embed adverts from the major ad-delivery networks (which most sites of any size do)?
I have lost countless hours of my life waiting for pages to render while they suck down banner ads from overloaded delivery networks (e.g. Falkag).
That was beautiful
Who upgrades their computer 3 times in 5 years? Perhaps gamers and graphics power users but aside form that I would have thought not very many? In my case, a workstation normally lasts me at least 3 years - maybe I'm just a cheap ass? :o)
I'm sorry but your bias is so obvious that you deserve a smack down.
Installing MS Office takes less than a handful of mouse clicks. Are you seriously suggesting that the installation routine for Open Office is faster and easier in any meaningful way? We are presumably talking at best about a couple of less clicks of the mouse.
As far as administration and update headaches go - are you really saying that Windows Update is not on a par with, if not better than, apt-get for system updates? For a start, apt-get doesn't give you short explanatory descriptions for each update - you just have to take it or leave it.
Your point about Linux updating all installed software rather than just the core system is irrelevant for any software compiled from source. Also, have you ever tried to cleanly uninstall/remove applications compiled from source? Most don't come with rollback/uninstall scripts. You are essentially reduced to manually hunting all over the disk for the application's config files, binaries and libraries (unless you carefully monitor the output of config & make). Furthermore, before you suggest that compilation from source is never needed, what happens if your favourite software is packaged for RPM and you run a DEB based distribution - hope that Alien works? These administration/configuration issues simply do not exist on a Windows platform.
Finally, Anti Virus can hardly be considered a headache. One can download and install a free, very capable anti virus application in less than 10 minutes (free.grisoft.com). Once installed you need never have anything further to do with it.
Your assertion, in the context of this topic, that "Even with a "$0" price tag, Windows costs *much* more than Linux." is utter rubbish.
*** Credibility check:
I am not an MS fanboy nor am I Linux zealot. I am typing this on a Windows XP workstation from which I manage three other machines: one IBM server running Windows 2003 and two Sun servers running Debian (cli no gui). I'd say I'm fairly well placed to spot uninformed bias.
That is the correct behaviour.
Essentially, if you enter via http://mail.google.com/ Google remembers this and encrypts only the login process and then reverts back to plain text. If you enter via https://mail.google.com/ your session remains encrypted throughout.
Couple of modifications (should have previewed):
1). I actually get 150 free SMS/month not 100.
2). Forgot to mention that for the first 6 months of the contract everything was doubled i.e. 600 minutes, 300 texts and 10MB download quota.
Just as a technical aside - I have a Sony Ericsson K800i (came free as part of an 18 month contract with "Three" in the UK) and this supports: UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900. The US uses GSM 1900 for it's implementation and my phone works out there.
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Also, for all the posters getting excited about the iPhone's EDGE capabilities: EDGE is pathetic, it is capable of 90Kbps max. In the UK (and I believe most of Europe) everything has moved over to 3G ala UMTS which gives a reliable 300-400Kbps.
My plan gives me unlimited internet surfing, 5MB download to phone quota, 300 free minutes any network any time and 100 free SMS messages for USD $60/month (don't forget the high exchange rate atm) and as I signed up for 18 months I got the phone for free.
CNET quick guide to mobile/cell phone speeds: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3504_7-5664933-5.htm
Any ideas on where these luminaries have disbanded to? Am I missing out on a great underground tech site that the script kiddies and Ruby evangelists have yet to destroy? I'd hate it if I was...
An interesting post - especially the common link to the abolitionist movement of which I was unaware.
Regarding moral judgement - I said I didn't understand their motives and sense of authority. This is different from opposing them. As you rightly say, I do believe each man's moral judgements are his own to make and that ultimately one only has authority to judge one's self.
Why should religion equate to authority? Also, why should your interpretation of morality be used as a vehicle to change the behaviour of others? Morality is subjective and ultimately an internal judgement on how to conduct your life and your interactions with others. I have never understood why the 19th century christian missionaries in Africa assumed it was ok to rampage around the continent actively imposing their world view on the locals. As you can see, I'm not religious but I think, to borrow a phrase, I have a pretty good moral compass. My guiding mantra is simply to do as you would be done by and all my moral judgements and decisions follow on from this. It works for me.
In my experience, man seems always to be searching for meaning. I don't think human kind is capable of living in an utopia of endless bounty - we would all end up in an asylum (at least I would).
Personally, I'm not particularly interested in making my life easier. What drives me is the overwhelming desire to be owned by no man. I want freedom of choice, freedom of experience and freedom of thought. My life is the pursuit of these three ideals, literally and philosphically.
We called it 101 after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_101 and also a popular late night TV program in the UK called "Room 101".
:o)
However, courtesy of your superb suggestion our office now has two short codes to the CD
lmao - genius!
I haven't been sent to India (yet...)
LOL - Good point!
At our company we have a special extension we use for all suspected marketing calls, known affectionately as extension 101.
:o)
This extension is hooked up to a CD player and is programmed to auto answer incoming calls. One of our audio guys has mixed up a CD containing endless "on hold" muzack and promotional messages for our company and this is left to play repeatedly in the CD player.
End result - all unsolicited calls get responded with a "I'll just connect you to the person responsible for that department" and are then transferred to extension 101 where they remain until they hang up. The best bit is that a red LED lights up on the line the marketer has called in on (indicating line in use), making it possible to time how long they spend listening to the 101 CD before disconnecting. The record so far is just over 18 minutes
I suppose if you wanted to be even more devious you could set extension 101 to divert to a premium rate number and make a bit of extra cash for every minute the dumb marketer stays listening to the 101 CD - this is probably illegal though (as most fun things are)...
As per the subject, both these companies offer virtual machine instances at close to hosting company prices. You get root access to your own dedicated box, static IPs, a rnage of distros (Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD etc.) and an unfiltered net connection.
I have been a happy Bytemark customer for almost 2 years now - I use their basic VM package and run successfully run qmail, tinydns, pureftpd and apache from it. I have heard good things about slicehost and if I was in the market for an additional VM I would try them as their offerings are based around Xen rather than User-Mode Linux.
www.bytemark.co.uk
www.slicehost.com
I work for an air charter agency in the UK but we operate globaly and put a number of domestic US charters together for our American clients.
Currently, the cost per person of chartering an aircraft is very roughly in line with your high-end business class fare on a scheduled carrier. As an example, a return flight from Port Columbus Intl., Columbus (OH) to Orlando International, Orlando (FL) would cost apprx. USD $1,840 per person in a King Air 200 (based on 7 passengers travelling) and USD $2,660 per person in a Citation II jet (based on 8 travelling).
However, the general aviation world is gearing up for what many people predict to be the dawn of a new age in aircraft charter, the introduction of the VLJ or 'Very Light Jet'. These new style jets are due to come in to service at the end of this year and they have been designed from the ground up for the specific role of air taxi. They are massively more efficient than existing aircraft in their class (4 to 5 seater light jets) and take advantage of all the advancements in material sciences, airframe design and fuels consumption that have been achieved over the last decade or so. It is predicted that these VLJs will open up the air charter market to the middle classes and SMEs. You will no longer need to be a high net worth individual or work for a Fortune 500 in order to afford to regularly fly in them. For more information, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Light_Jet/. Cessna, Embraer, Eclipse and even Honda are all entering this market.
By the end of 2007 air charter in the US should be a lot more viable for people who are fed up with airlines and major airports.
Quit your whining.
If you have any skill whatsoever you should, at the very least, be feeding your ie5/ie6 specific hacks via a seperate style sheet. Therefore, simply alter your xhtml code to use conditional statements (if you were clever this should be a two second job and involve simply altering one include file) and then spend an hour or two converting your hacks to valid css rules - job done, where's the problem?