I said compare win9x and linux because someone claimed win98 was better.
Actually i know Win9x, WinNT (and 2k), VMS/VAX, Solaris, Digital Unix, MacOS, DOS (with or without win3.x...ya, i know, whoopie...but at the time..) and some Commadore 64/128 (again, whoopie, but at the time..).
No, actually i've had to do very little to secure my RH6.2 installation. Nor is it slow or buggy. Everything worked fine out of the box, and it handles routing my network packets faster then win98 ever could:)
if you read the article correctly, this last act effectively destroyed the smart cards.
I have a kind of philosophical question here. Was it right (and possibly legal) for DirecTV to physically destroy someone else's property? Yes, it may have been bought at a loss for DirecTV, but in the end, the purchaser still owns it. This seems like DTV took justice into their own hands. Even if you believe in the old 'Eye for an eye', that only gives you a right to punch someone that punched you, not break both of their legs for punching you.
Of course, since I pay for services and end up subsidising people who think they've a right to the same services for free
Thats a load of shit. Do you really think they'd lower their prices if they elminited all theft of thier service? Please, don't be so naive. They'd probably just say 'well, we did it, not more theft. But rising costs....'
Just stay away from GPL code; its not particularly good compared to the alternatives, anyway.
Compare Win98 and Linux. Which one do you say is crappy? Win98 is slow, buggy, and is full of security holes. WinME is even worse. Windows may have more apps, but what good does that do you if they crash (or cause Winxx to crash) half of the time.
Well, maybe if you had my experiences you'd think differently. Twice i have been pulled over for 'running a light' both times were bullshit, and once i've had them harrase me (well, my parents; they sent me off to my aunt's house) when they had no proof but some punk 15yr saying 'my name.' Somehow they cops mangled johnson to my name, and then didn't bother checking their spelling with the suspect. Finally they figured it out, but 'it is the policy not to apologize.' What?? They make a mistake and don't even have the fucking guts to say they're sorry??? Bullshit.
Just about everyday there's one person pulled over, yet you always hear about violence within the city. Maybe if they weren't so busy ticketing people for victumless crimes they could stop real ones.
oh ya, i got pulled over another time for supposed not stopping when turning through a red light. Of course the very first thing he asked was 'have you been drinking?' when he found out i wasn't, he got very mad and starting yelling that i didn't stop at the red light before turning right. It had nothing to do with the fact taht it was 2am and there was a bar closing near the parking lot i was leaving. No he wouldn't have assumed i was drunk (the real reason i was leaving at 2am was b/c my shift at the grocery store in the same parking lot was over.). To prove my point about the tickets being used for revenue; the DA asked if anyone was hurt, and after i said no he reduced the charget to a bad muffler (which i did not have). The fine was the exact same price, but i didn't get any points on my license. Had i not been so nervous i probably could've gotten it dropped when i told my version of the story.
Dude, you ALL would have probably been thrown in jail, at least for one night. And gotten a hefty fine to boot.
75% of cops in the US are major assholes on a power trip. Its 'pull them over, then see what illegal things they're doing, and if they're not, make something up.' There are other stories in this thread about what happens when you're pulled over for a 'traffic violation.' After all, if you break traffic code, you MUST be breaking more important laws.
A purse really is not worth the trouble. As for my daughter. I wouldn't want her living in a society that this database would create. I'd still rather not have the DNA database.
Well, you could have gotten another job to begin with. I didn't apply to CompUSA b/c they wanted all this drugtesting shit, and the ability to hire a PI to follow me around and shit. What?? For a fucking cashier position??? FU CompUSA.
I imagine 20 somethings in not so new cars (ie, college kids) get pulled over quite a bit too. I used to have a sticker in the back window of my not so nice car that said what college i went to. I was pulled over 3 times. One was compounded by me having out of state tags (no, i couldn't be going back to my collge in NY..). Once i got a slightly newer car, i didn't have that sticker anymore, and have only been pulled over once, for running a yellow light. He then got mad b/c he found my 'acting stupid' was 'insulting his intellegance.' (I seemed confused as to why i was pulled over, which i really was). So of course he gave me the ticket, $25 fine + $75 for other shit. A small portion of the ticket went to the Judicial Computer Project. Na, that wouldn't help out a judge at all, would it? Anyway, my point is 20 somethings have a hard time with the cops as well.
He wrote me a $38 ticket for traveling 65 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Dude, i hope you fought that. Please tell me that really didn't stand up...
My final point is this; it seems cops enforce some laws not b/c they are important, but b/c its a source of revenue for the state. Does anyone else find it worrysome that a state is making things illegal to get money? For proof of this, go speeding durning the last week of the month. You'll see about 50 more cops pulling people over.
I always thought the term "bake-off" when applied to software was a particularly egregious malforming of a previously well-understood phrase.
I've asked my friends what they think of when someone says 'bake-off'. They all said a cooking contenst, usually cakes and shit. Not one of them said Pillsbury. I asked, does Pillsbury enter your mind at all when you hear bake off? They all answered no.
Funny you should say that; i've always heard bake off as a baking competition, and i've NEVER heard it associated with pillsury. Not once. Baking in general, yes, but that company...nope. This is the first i've ever heard the two things linked.
Ya know, i never really got this. Stuff like noncompetes is in your employment contract, but it would seem to me once you leave, you are no longer employed, thus the contract is void.
Then buy Windows. Otherwise, you're just a thief. All your attempts at flimsy rationalizations are just that.
I don't want to. Why don't company's make linux versions of what i want? Please explain where the 'theft' is. Most people that 'steal' windows wouldn't buy it if there was no other choice, so what is MS losing? They aren't losing a sale, b/c they wouldn't buy it; and they're not losing anything physical. Its absurd, there is no loss to anyone, how can that be theft?
No, I have it right. You're the one stealing from a company you hate because you aren't able to do what you want with Open Source/Free Software tools. That's not what the movement is about: it's just "GimmeGimmeGimme".
For one you are confusing opensource and free software, they are two different movements, with different goals. If you are too stupid to get that, i'm not going to explain it to you. I buy alot of software; what i buy is reasonably priced. When things are overpriced, 'stealing' it rises. A real example of stealing due to overprice is the rise in the number of driveoffs that gas companies have been experiencing. Gas has gotten to be overpriced, people still need it, and so stealing it becomes more rampant. This is a case though where there is actual theft, as the gas stolen costs the company something.
I don't like MS, i'd rather not use their software, but have to. Why? B/c there is software that i want to use that only runs with windows.
Code it myself? Why should i when someone already did? Not to meantion that i can't steal they're art/audio (i'm mostly talking about games).
You have Open Source all wrong..
Open Source isn't about being free, its about having control over your software, and being able to look at its insides...just like you can your car or toaster.
That year is nothing to worry about. 64-bit machines will be out very shortly, and then the int in the C library will be a 64-bit number, instead of 32. The same thing happened when we went from 16 to 32.
Silly me, of course i know exactly what got updated. Silly me for heeding past experience were NOT rebooting actually made the software not work, or the system crash. Seems to me that 90% of the times i was told to reboot in 98 i also saw
Updating your files, this could take a few minutes..
Completed updating files.
Thank you for pointing out my stupidity at thinking these files were already updated by the installer, and that those lines mean nothing.
Speaking of lusers, don't you have anything better to do then posting to/. at 12am the day before xmas?
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Ah, that is different from cable were you (can) buy the converter box. If that was such the case, then no harm has been done.
I said compare win9x and linux because someone claimed win98 was better.
Actually i know Win9x, WinNT (and 2k), VMS/VAX, Solaris, Digital Unix, MacOS, DOS (with or without win3.x...ya, i know, whoopie...but at the time..) and some Commadore 64/128 (again, whoopie, but at the time..).
Next time, don't speak without knowing...
So is the default install of RedHat!
:)
No, actually i've had to do very little to secure my RH6.2 installation. Nor is it slow or buggy. Everything worked fine out of the box, and it handles routing my network packets faster then win98 ever could
if you read the article correctly, this last act effectively destroyed the smart cards.
I have a kind of philosophical question here. Was it right (and possibly legal) for DirecTV to physically destroy someone else's property? Yes, it may have been bought at a loss for DirecTV, but in the end, the purchaser still owns it. This seems like DTV took justice into their own hands. Even if you believe in the old 'Eye for an eye', that only gives you a right to punch someone that punched you, not break both of their legs for punching you.
Of course, since I pay for services and end up subsidising people who think they've a right to the same services for free
Thats a load of shit. Do you really think they'd lower their prices if they elminited all theft of thier service? Please, don't be so naive. They'd probably just say 'well, we did it, not more theft. But rising costs....'
When he steals bread to feed his family.
:)
Before you say 'we're talking about tv' though, you just said A theif.
Just stay away from GPL code; its not particularly good compared to the alternatives, anyway.
Compare Win98 and Linux. Which one do you say is crappy? Win98 is slow, buggy, and is full of security holes. WinME is even worse. Windows may have more apps, but what good does that do you if they crash (or cause Winxx to crash) half of the time.
Well, maybe if you had my experiences you'd think differently. Twice i have been pulled over for 'running a light' both times were bullshit, and once i've had them harrase me (well, my parents; they sent me off to my aunt's house) when they had no proof but some punk 15yr saying 'my name.' Somehow they cops mangled johnson to my name, and then didn't bother checking their spelling with the suspect. Finally they figured it out, but 'it is the policy not to apologize.' What?? They make a mistake and don't even have the fucking guts to say they're sorry??? Bullshit.
Just about everyday there's one person pulled over, yet you always hear about violence within the city. Maybe if they weren't so busy ticketing people for victumless crimes they could stop real ones.
oh ya, i got pulled over another time for supposed not stopping when turning through a red light. Of course the very first thing he asked was 'have you been drinking?' when he found out i wasn't, he got very mad and starting yelling that i didn't stop at the red light before turning right. It had nothing to do with the fact taht it was 2am and there was a bar closing near the parking lot i was leaving. No he wouldn't have assumed i was drunk (the real reason i was leaving at 2am was b/c my shift at the grocery store in the same parking lot was over.). To prove my point about the tickets being used for revenue; the DA asked if anyone was hurt, and after i said no he reduced the charget to a bad muffler (which i did not have). The fine was the exact same price, but i didn't get any points on my license. Had i not been so nervous i probably could've gotten it dropped when i told my version of the story.
Dude, you ALL would have probably been thrown in jail, at least for one night. And gotten a hefty fine to boot.
75% of cops in the US are major assholes on a power trip. Its 'pull them over, then see what illegal things they're doing, and if they're not, make something up.' There are other stories in this thread about what happens when you're pulled over for a 'traffic violation.' After all, if you break traffic code, you MUST be breaking more important laws.
A purse really is not worth the trouble. As for my daughter. I wouldn't want her living in a society that this database would create. I'd still rather not have the DNA database.
heh...this is what i see, before your sample gets tested.
update [dna_table]
set dna = crime_scene_dna
where name = 'Some shleap we brought in and want to nail this on'
That'd take, what, 1ns to do?
don't like it but what can I do?
Well, you could have gotten another job to begin with. I didn't apply to CompUSA b/c they wanted all this drugtesting shit, and the ability to hire a PI to follow me around and shit. What?? For a fucking cashier position??? FU CompUSA.
Now, imagine if you were black...
I imagine 20 somethings in not so new cars (ie, college kids) get pulled over quite a bit too. I used to have a sticker in the back window of my not so nice car that said what college i went to. I was pulled over 3 times. One was compounded by me having out of state tags (no, i couldn't be going back to my collge in NY..). Once i got a slightly newer car, i didn't have that sticker anymore, and have only been pulled over once, for running a yellow light. He then got mad b/c he found my 'acting stupid' was 'insulting his intellegance.' (I seemed confused as to why i was pulled over, which i really was). So of course he gave me the ticket, $25 fine + $75 for other shit. A small portion of the ticket went to the Judicial Computer Project. Na, that wouldn't help out a judge at all, would it? Anyway, my point is 20 somethings have a hard time with the cops as well.
He wrote me a $38 ticket for traveling 65 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Dude, i hope you fought that. Please tell me that really didn't stand up...
My final point is this; it seems cops enforce some laws not b/c they are important, but b/c its a source of revenue for the state. Does anyone else find it worrysome that a state is making things illegal to get money? For proof of this, go speeding durning the last week of the month. You'll see about 50 more cops pulling people over.
I always thought the term "bake-off" when applied to software was a particularly egregious malforming of a previously well-understood phrase.
I've asked my friends what they think of when someone says 'bake-off'. They all said a cooking contenst, usually cakes and shit. Not one of them said Pillsbury. I asked, does Pillsbury enter your mind at all when you hear bake off? They all answered no.
Funny you should say that; i've always heard bake off as a baking competition, and i've NEVER heard it associated with pillsury. Not once. Baking in general, yes, but that company...nope. This is the first i've ever heard the two things linked.
or sued later by the company you left.
Ya know, i never really got this. Stuff like noncompetes is in your employment contract, but it would seem to me once you leave, you are no longer employed, thus the contract is void.
Then buy Windows. Otherwise, you're just a thief. All your attempts at flimsy rationalizations are just that.
I don't want to. Why don't company's make linux versions of what i want? Please explain where the 'theft' is. Most people that 'steal' windows wouldn't buy it if there was no other choice, so what is MS losing? They aren't losing a sale, b/c they wouldn't buy it; and they're not losing anything physical. Its absurd, there is no loss to anyone, how can that be theft?
No, I have it right. You're the one stealing from a company you hate because you aren't able to do what you want with Open Source/Free Software tools. That's not what the movement is about: it's just "GimmeGimmeGimme".
For one you are confusing opensource and free software, they are two different movements, with different goals. If you are too stupid to get that, i'm not going to explain it to you. I buy alot of software; what i buy is reasonably priced. When things are overpriced, 'stealing' it rises. A real example of stealing due to overprice is the rise in the number of driveoffs that gas companies have been experiencing. Gas has gotten to be overpriced, people still need it, and so stealing it becomes more rampant. This is a case though where there is actual theft, as the gas stolen costs the company something.
I don't like MS, i'd rather not use their software, but have to. Why? B/c there is software that i want to use that only runs with windows.
Code it myself? Why should i when someone already did? Not to meantion that i can't steal they're art/audio (i'm mostly talking about games).
You have Open Source all wrong..
Open Source isn't about being free, its about having control over your software, and being able to look at its insides...just like you can your car or toaster.
Odd, i'm running the latest windows, and it will be fine if its not on the internet.
That year is nothing to worry about. 64-bit machines will be out very shortly, and then the int in the C library will be a 64-bit number, instead of 32. The same thing happened when we went from 16 to 32.
Well if you had two identical cars you could. Do i have to pay to watch a movie i bought on two different tvs?
It would seem to me that giving freedom of speech would require the freedom to be an audiance. Otherwise, freedom of speech is worthless.
Where may i get one of these mythical regionfree dvd players?
Silly me, of course i know exactly what got updated. Silly me for heeding past experience were NOT rebooting actually made the software not work, or the system crash. Seems to me that 90% of the times i was told to reboot in 98 i also saw
/. at 12am the day before xmas?
Updating your files, this could take a few minutes..
Completed updating files.
Thank you for pointing out my stupidity at thinking these files were already updated by the installer, and that those lines mean nothing.
Speaking of lusers, don't you have anything better to do then posting to