fitting the door wouldnt be that hard. take a a real door off, inspect the joint and take some measurements... the problem would be how flush it would be, the quality of it, and functional integration like power windows....
to me that's a lot like saying I'm impressed this guy broke his front door and reverse engineered a replacement for it instead of buying a whole new house or door frame.
funny, but I don't seem to see that stopping all the women from majoring in Bio / premed and becoming doctors and lawyers where they could potentially work far more hours than an IT person. You can't always have your cake and eat it too. Maybe your husband will have to get involved too.
And the reason they dont you working from home is exactly what you described you'd do. Perform activities that aren't your job, like cleaning your house and vacumming. From the purposes of the bulk of this discussion IT work has been described as MIS stuff, not software development (which would involve programming.) If you want the same pay and same respect as everyone else you need to be a TEAM player and come to work just like everyone else... Either way how are you going to hear communication over the vacuum? or when you are out of the room dusting? Give me a break, do it when you get home or on the weekend like i have to or hire a maid.
I am all for women in the IT workplace; but don't cry for equality in the same sentence that you ask for EXTRA privelages in. It horribly weakens everything you say and underscores many men's problems with the female employees. Life has a lot of choices and if you choose to have an involved career there are tradeoffs that come with it. The issue you are describing really isn't even remotely unique to IT but applies to working women at large.
There are plenty of companies with very liberal remote working policies, why don't you check one of them out. It's another factor to consider when taking a job, its not always just a question of "coolness" and pay. Benefits are something else you probably had to take into consideration.
My guess is that other big difference is that hospitals and nurses are working aroud the clock. There is a need for them at every time in the day. The IT office doesn't operate like that, and they usually want everyone available at the same core times. Plus I'm sure there were other times where your mom was unavailable when you would have liked to have her because she was working. It's all about trade-offs, compromise and sacrafice.
So as a result, I can blame them. The hours aren't any different then anything else. Unless you want to do parttime work, work at a retail/service establishment or do teaching/nannying of some sort 9-5 is usually going to be business hours.
You'd make it a point to make it to every meeting? I feel like this sentence more than any other epitamizes the entitlement that you exhibit for a right to special treatment. As an employee in a dept. it is EXPECTED that you are at all meetings. It goes without saying but not for you, you're just goint to make a point to make it to all of them... except when they get rescheduled to times which are inconveniant because you are doing something unrelated to work or when they cant reach you about schedules changes, or when you get stuck in traffic going to the meeting.
and if you don't want to be a 24 hour on call IT service person (which in many ways is a just MIS not IT) don't be one. If you want to be an IT consultant be one. Should a federal case be made that its hard to be a mom and be a consultant because 100% travel isn't condusive to being a parent? The entire IT field isn't a 24/7 job, I know because if it were I wouldn't want to be in it either. I like my sleep and my personal time, you don't need to have kids to desire that.
Not really, because the 'cell' patents are held by IBM who developed the cell in conjunction with (and gave license to use) to Sony. So unless I can sue you for infringing on someone else's patent, I'm lost on your confusion. And yes i realize that about the cell, but was simplifying for the post.. either way its not multiple processors so I'm still not sure how that helps them. They use the term processors, not units..
that and the claim from that example seems to basically try to patent any usage of MIMD. "A method for multiple instruction stream-multiple data stream (MIMD) parallel data processing in a computer including a plurality of processors operating in synchronism over a plurality of phases" I dont see how one could do MIMD without a plurality of processors operating in synchronism? That and the fact that this stuff is a day one topic in a parallel programming course at a college suggests that it isn't non-obvious, although i do realize that its difficult to say that about courses in 2006 when this invention was what circa 1996?
This is a load of bs.. First they sued the wrong party, probably because if they know if they sue IBM they will probably get 0wn3d.
Secondly they could still lose because they haven't defended there patent against the billions of other things that do this exact same thing. This is essentially the same 'process' that distributed computing like SETI@Home is using in many ways. Additionally how is what MPI, Mercury and Pthreads do any different. I can't wait to see their patented invalidated because it is insensibly vague, and doesn't actually cover anything patentable.
It is also FUD because it doesn't meet their claims... their first claim is that it is a PLURALITY of PROCESSORS. Not CORES. the cell is ONE processor, multiple cores. I would imagine that would do the trick right there... Seeing as multicore wasnt patented or in existence when this patent was filed I dont see how it could cause a multicore solution to be in violation.
That and the fact that the cell processor is covered by its own set of patents several of which even reference this one (i just did a simple search in google of "Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory" and followed the links)
Proof yet again that our patent system is miserably flawed. It sounds like they have a software patent, whereas the cell is a chip. Secondly IANAL but it pretty much reads like they are trying to claim any attempt at MIMD is a violation of their patent when they reference the existence of MIMD before they begin... This could be entertaining
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but you stated you have a core duo mac. That means you aren't running on a PPC to begin with and inherently have no Altivec either yet your Mac OS X apps seem to run fine there don't they?
I'm not going to pretend to know the ins and outs of macs or OS X for that matter, I've been a x86 (Dos->XP) Windows and Linux user my whole life. But I did enough embedded programming and education on the PPC architecture and x86 to tell you that much.
My guess is to deal with it in a likely similar way to those of us dealing with multiple linux distro boots, combinations of windows and linux, and everything else.
I've never really dabbled with WINE myself, so I can't comment on the part about a "M(ac)INE" but what about virtualization. One idea I got from a colleague is to use the vmware converter to convert your actual partitions into vmware images that use actual hard drive partitions as their 'virtual hard disk'. In this way you could boot into one and load any other OS partition on your machine as a VM. granted there are some performance hits, and i know xgl/aiglx don't run in VM's and I could imagine there are some similar eye candy things that won't work from OS X, but that could certainly be one solution.
Notably I do agree that I wish the VM's didnt have to be realized as such a container in the gui's in the sense that it is all contained within one window. It gets chaotic when you have 4 linux virtual desktops and then on one of them have a linux VM with its own set of additional VD's.
Your point is still stupid and unintelligent. A school recommending that they get off2k7 is going to be read by parents as "you need to buy this" the reality is there is ZERO need for such a reco.. I find it ironic that such a thing would happen when historically its usually been delayed in my experince. At RPI for example they specifically told you not to install XP sp2 until Feb '06, I'm an alum now, but still getting some of the emails I see they still don't recommend Vista. Why? because saying you recommend something will always be interpreted as endorsement. Why do you think it is illegal to recommenderlogin&upasswd=GN3yppL5&unickname=EdelFa ctor19&returnto=%2Flogin.pl%3Fop=changeprefs>
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the real stupidy of it is that microsoft word has been backward compatible with it since at least word95 if not farther back.. the worst case scenario is that you cant save some "advanced" feature that usually is garbage anyhow. Honestly for the academic school kid have there been any remotely major changes to microsoft word in the last decade? my guess, no. I'm not talking about mail merges and fancy forms and all the other random crap that they do I'm talking about how they are used for kids in school.
what do they do? they write straight text word documents. they need spell / grammar check, some auto indenting, footnotes / comments occasionally, word counts, some auto completion, some smart kids utilize track changes, and others will want the thesauraus if they dont own one or want to do it on the web.
under your reasoning we could say that pretty much > 60% of the country has homes or apartments that during their course of living in them haven't been attacked. Should those people then also not pay? Does anyone drive on 90% of the roads? No but they need to be there
Its absurd logic, I don't like what we are spending on defense, I really don't. We routinely pay 100,000 for a 10,000 piece of equipment. But you logic is horribly flawed. Your opponents would likely argue that the fact that you haven't been attacked is proof that your money has been well spent.. which would also be absurd and invalid logical reasoning.
THE REAL issue is two fold: a. You don't like to carry the burden of anyone other than yourself which has a LOT of problems in our society. e.g. Does that mean you don't want to pay tax dollars for public schools once you and any of your kin are done with schooling? Your health argument is the same scenario as car insurance. What about the one day you do need to go to the hospital?
more importantly: b. We as citizens should have and need to find a way to have a more authoritative voice in regards to taxes and where they go. I'm not going to say I want to cut ALL defense funding, but the gov't needs to have some level of accountabillity and reporting in regards to where our money is going and how much of our taxes are going to defense. Companies left and right are being forced to report the details of all sorts of silly things. How about telling us who made the decision to buy ten thousand dollars for one million dollars?
the conflict is societal good vs. personal utility. i can't say its a dillemma i have a solution for, but that dillemma shuoldnt mean we have to shoulder ANYTHING they want to spend money on, because even those who support the cause would disagree with how most of our money is probably being spent.. boston's big dig for example and the 125,000 fireboat that can't be used near a fire because the tanks were too close to the hull which was allegedly a kickback because the PD was getting lots and lots of detail hours... heck my high school had something like a 20,000 defective flag pole.. you heard me right
you miss a large part of the point still and your analogy is broken. Right now there is no BMW of phones in USA. sure there's the iphone and some blackberries but they dont really do anything anyother phone doesn't already do. all the differentiation is in the service currently which is STUPID.
your hyundai accent can't be bought with leather interrior, a bose sounds system, xm radio which you need a seperate subscription for, etc. but there exists another car that does. You have a choice.
I can't go to verizon and buy a phone w/o a camera and lots of stupid features I don't use. Basically you can buy a BMW or you can buy nothing. It's quite sad, a razr without paying a fortune for data plans has the same net functionality as a phone from like 2002. between 2002 and 1998 what changed? they added color... whoop de freaking doo.
When I buy a product such as a phone I expect to be able to use all of its features, not have to pay extra to use features it already has. Do you think BMW owners would be 'OK' with having to a pay an extra service fee of.10 every time they used a manual shifter in the automatic cars; or everytime they accessed the 6th gear... or turned on the radio... etc. NO
but with our phones thats what we have. And a large part of the contributions to this post have noted how outrageous the service charges currently are for US cell phones. The phones are often locked down (ex. verizon who locks out OBEX in bluetooth so that they can try to charge you for the basic ability to store files on your phone, and load your own ringtones.)
and dont get me started on VCAST... oh you want to watch some video? oh you have to sign up for vcast for ~10 a month, and then pay for the right to see a video, and then pay for the airtime used to watch it.
Oh you want text messaging? oh that's extra too.... and we charge you for recieving them too and we don't allow you to prevent yourself from receiving text messages either.
meanwhile elsewhere in the world the rates arent nearly as exhorbitant, and policies are better... like not being charged to recieve a text message..
For the life of me I think its absurd that you are charged for text messages. The bandwidth it takes to send the average message has got to be smaller than that taken by the average telephone call.
Unless you want to get on a small service such as cricket, or take your luck with who carries the Jitterbug, you cant buy the phone you described thats just a phone.
well if you are buying a computer from walmart or target, and you expect a high quality computer you are wasting your time. people who go to walmart for the cheapest piece of crap computer shouldn't expect to get much more than that.
and sadly I don't think much betterof buying it at circuit city.
you want a computer do you? I see a couple good options to get a quality machine that could run Vista Ultimate (not that I'm going to run vista on anysuch machine)
they are:
build it yourself
buy a custom spec'd computer from the maker (i.e. dell, alienware, name of brand here)
it's like going to guitar center and buying one of their crappy $100 squier strats and complaining that its awful compared to a top of the line fender strat. I wouldn't buy either personally, but no shit sherlock.
I can't feel bad about the bad taste in stupid people's mouths. If you bite a sour rotten apple its going to taste bad.
you actually mention the one version that ACTUALLY isn't often found in homes; the server version. Home vs. Professional has only ever been a matter of features and corresponding price with windows. nothing more. It could just have easily been called windows XP and windows XP Elite... or Vista Basic / Standard / Deluxe
the naming scheme makes as much sense as restaurants with fry/drink sizes of medium and large (no small) or the whole tall grande venti crap at $*bux
or if it makes you feel better just pretend they are different versions the same way you can buy a mac that doesnt have the latest os on it.
long story short; if you are gullible and not knowlegable enough to know not to buy vista home basic, and don't have anyone to tell you its a bad idea, then maybe you'll learn something and take a better approach next time
this can't possibly cause your children to be born with ear damage. Go back to high school please. If you get your arm amputated do you expect your children to be born without an arm? Thanks for the illogical reasoning. While I agree that people in general listen to music at volumes much greater than needed (proof positive, there is no need for the volume gained in a car by adding extra amplifiers, unless you "like to listen loud" aka you want to go deaf) there is not a damn thing passed on generation to generation based on the poor listening decisions that you make.
Not that you need any more proof because what you suggest is idiotic, but I'll give you some anyways? my father had a bad ear infection as a child and lost the hearing in his right ear. I, his biological son, have excellent hearing and relative pitch as well.
as for saving your hearing, get a pair of shure in-ear headphones, I love my se310's. They utilize sound ISOLATION not cancellation. I can roll the volume down tremendously on my ipod or whatever because I no longer need to offset background noise; those noises simply don't reach my ears. They are great for flying, i put them in before takeoff (even though they aren't plugged in to music yet silly fcc) and don't have to listen to the jet engines or the silly stewardess tell me how to put on a fucking seatbelt.. funny since you'd have a difficult time not encountering one on the way to the airport..
as for sound quality on ipods, just don't use a shitty bitrate. CD's are 44khz @ 192 kbps. For my digital media I always go to at least 256kbps, but 320 is the best. Sure you get less on the ipod but its not unlike digital cable, do you want 10000 channels of shit, or 500 good ones etc.
as for the dylan comments... that is only remotely true if you go to the length to use a vacuum tube amp and have discerning ears. why not just improve what the CD is, and use either dvd-audio, or use a dvd and increase the quality, say move up from 44khz to a higher sample rate.
trying to make a song sound like it did at a concert or live is an exercise in futility/stupidity unless its a live album. If its recorded in a studio the best you are going to do is transfer the sound exactly as it was recorded in the studio.
what the hell does striving to be something greater than yourself have anything to do with whether or not you believe in god or evolution or the happy watermellon god, answer? nothing.
this is an extremely short sighted statement, because the two things aren't mutually exclusive of one another. I can and do believe in evolution. I can still be religious and have faith. And i dont have to think that I know everything or that I am perfect. There are things that are unknowable.
in any event, the belief of the origins of man have little to nothing to neccesarily do with your belief of who you are where you are going and what you are capable of. if you cant recognize that then you just have a whole lot more room for improvement than everybody else. I can't stand how every single person who argues how we need to believe in creation rationalizes the statment by saying "but we need our christian values" "but you need to believe that you aren't perfect and the you can better yourself" "but you have to believe everything i do or you are a sinner"
its such bull. none of these things have anything to do with one another. even the devoid statement "christian values" is a piece of crap. Values such as honesty, trustworthyness, honor, compassion, and etc are common morales of human societies. They exist independantly of any religion and most of them existed long before christianity, so stop trying to tell us how important these things are in relation to one another.
does it bother anyone else besides me that any company can say that they won't allow games to be made for their system if the rating exceeds X? what is the point, and how is this not illegal censorship. If the game companies won't allow such a rating, then why have a rating system in the first place. I also love how THEY can make them, just not third parties. Decision on whether to buy a game based on its ratings should be left to the buyers, much like movies. If walmart doesn't want to carry it, fine. I'll buy it somewhere else.
here's a better idea, instead of targeting the game platforms and industry, target the people who are respobnsible for the games reaching underage kids (as deemed by their sometimes appropriate, often moronic parents) the STORES.
you don't fine budweiser when jonnny teenager gets busted for drinking underage, you bust him and possibly his provider if you catch them. Go bust the stores who sell games to underage kids ignoring the ratings, and the moron parents who ignore the ratings and by games rated inappropriate for their 7 year old kid. If they can't read the box then they probably shouldn't be either a. buying anything or b. be parents.
this might just cause me to buy a 360, not because i want this game, or because i want an AO game, but because the dev's should have the freedom to produce whatever game they think will sell. If i like it i'll buy it. leave your morality for your family please, I am intelligent enough to have my own set of ethics and morals.
How is this informative? This is a classic example of a "NO YOUR WRONG Listen to me... by the way you are right" post. They seem to be the current rage on/.
The writer states "LGPL does not allow you to statically link the code" which is incorrect.. They personally say so "This cannot be done with a statically linked executable (unless you're also distributing linkable object files)."
Why are people so eager to state "ooo ooo you're wrong" when they don't even go on to say that the person was indeed wrong. Do you really think that by talking long enough before admitting someone else was right that people think you are intelligent and correct (although sadly the +4 says otherwise)
This is what julesh SHOULD have said: "While it is correct that you can statically link your code, you can only do so if you provide the statically linked object files. This allows others to relink their code and thereby satisfy the requirements of the LGPL"
Its shorter, sweeter, and that would actually have been informative. When the first thing you utter is "you can't do this" is contradicted by your post wherein you admit you can, then you are not informative. I have mod points but would rather point this out than modding and posting AC.
of course this is basically what someone replied with, which magically was also +4 informative.. How its informative w/o providing any new information other than rephrasing a previous post is beyond me. It's a very basic premise of commenting and english writing, your main point should be made pretty much first and immediately, and the rest of your text should come to support it. yes there is a large variance with forums, but its a waste of our time if your post opens with "this is proof that x=1" and then you spend some number of lines on the (flawed proof) before finally saying and indeed x=1 unless you noticed that it doesn't because x=2. Save us some time, save yourself sometime, and figure out what your point is and make that first.
thats so much common sense i want to vomit.. ever notice how the point of school is to learn concepts and methods, not the answers to problems.
i.e. you don't learn that 2+2=4 you learn how to ADD you don't learn that the force of gravity is -9.8 m/s^2 you learn the laws of mechanics and how to apply them you don't learn a language by learning several sentences. You learn the grammatical strucutre how to conjugate verbs etc
why the heck would computer skills be any different? you don't learn Visual Studio you learn how to program in various languages.
heck at my middle school we learned most of those skills on mac's, and in clarisworks which furthered the whole APPLICATION doesnt matter thing.
a spreadsheet is a spreadsheet, be it 1-2-3, excel, clarisworks, oofice, etc the same goes for word processing, and databases (ok a little less so there...) and just about everything else.
in essence its the difference between memorization and learning. Do you learn to memorize a book or do you learn to actually read english (and it or whatever language its written in)
yeah, but even if he could SEE and PRESS the button, it still might not be valid. IANAL but many shrink wrap EULA's and licenses have been ruled invalid. Just because they tell you you can't sue them doesn't mean that you can't. There are various rights and protections you have that they can't take away simply by saying "we are taking this right away from you"
If you didn't commit a crime, your legal fees would be extremely minimal.. chances are you are guilty and need expensive lawyers to find a way around your guilt.
If you are guilty, 3K is a dandy price to pay instead of possibly going to jail or having to report that you were convicted of copyright infringement (which it basically never comes to because no one really prefers that and you end up paying anyways). I'm not saying pay them hush money, I'm saying IF YOU did indeed violate the law and you committed the crime, it isnt hush money, its you paying them up because you fucked up.
Think about it this way. If I came into your home with a baseball bat and broke all of your valuables chances are you would sue me. You would offer me some amount of money to pay, in exchange you would drop any charges and refuse to press charges and shield me from any legal reprocusions.
What you describe is actually A LOT closer to blackmail... from wikipedia: "Extortion is distinguished from blackmail. In blackmail, the blackmailer threatens to do something which would be legal or normally allowed unless paid money or property."
here's a better example, let's say that you don't pay your taxes. The IRS tracks you down, you are given two options, pay the money you owe plus the fines and interest as specified by tax law, or go to jail. Is that extortion too?
Even better, lets say you steal something from my store. I offer to not prosecute you for stealing if you return the item and apologize; or better, you pay for the item or return it and pay the monetary value that it lost because you stole it (technically I can't sell it as new after you stole it) If you get caught shoplifting at stores, best buy for example i've heard stories about this from some unitellignet college pals, they were given an option, return everything leave the store and never come back or face criminal charges.
Is it extortion? or is it their right because you broke the law? I tend to say here that its your own damn fault. Grow up and take some responsibility. If you can't do the time (or pay the fine) don't commit the crime.
the way you decribe it any transaction involving money is extortion. you can pay me for these items that you want from my store, or i can break your knees or i could sue you. blah blah
WAKE UP. if you actually didn't do anything wrong then you probably don't need a 50K lawyer, if you're that certain dont settle and go to criminal court and get a public defender i guess.
I agree whole heartedly with you. A further point in your favor: they are selling Vista(tm?) PC's as in a PC that has Vista on it.
PC = Hardware Vista = Software
here is proof: my favorite foolproof test hypothesis. Q: "What's the difference between hardware and software?" A: "You can kick hardware"
Can I kick a Vista PC (a PC preloaded/sold/running Vista) YES, and boy is it fun... but thats for a different post
Can I kick Vista? Sadly no. But if we could you know that we would. and seeing as there isn't anyones foot up vista's rear end I'd say its un-kickable *** for more fun proofs see the end
I don't care what they say Vista can do. IT IS SOFTWARE. does it exist only in a digital format contained in computer memory, disk storage, or a medium such as CD/DVD? Yeah that means it is software. Vista is an operating system, no more no less (give or take the fluff and bloat they fill it with aka applications which by golly are more software)
They may or may not have registered it as a trademark in other fields, but as a matter of discussion of what it actually is there is a clear answer.
**** Bonus proofs Statement: If I can't kick Vista than it isn't hardware. Given: Vista is either hardware or software Given: I can't kick Vista.: (m.p.) Vista is not hardware -> Vista is Software
proof by contradiction is much more enjoyable here: vista = hardware if hardware -> kickable(Vista) if kickable(Vista) -> E(x) : Kicks(x, Vista) but !E(x) : FootInRearEnd(x, Vista):-\ Contradiction: Vista != Hardware
IANAL As much as I hate the RIAA and its tactics, you can't compare it to mafia tactics. There is a large difference between extortion and legal settlements. Namely that they are "legal."
We can all agree that we don't like that the RIAA what they are doing, and more over that they have the right to do what they are doing. What we can have a problem and a legal complaint with (IANAL) is the manner in which they go about it. Just as police have to follow certain measures in gathering evidence and performing searches, isn't or shouldn't the RIAA be bound by the same standards. Shouldn't they be held to the same standard of beyond a shadow of a doubt guilt if they seek damages under criminal charges of violating the copyright laws?
I hate it I do, but the reality is that they are not extorting you. If you enter into any legal case there is always possibility of settlement. You can take the settlement or you can go to court. That isn't extortion in itself. However the broader scheme of them suing everyone and their uncle's brother without any basis or any real proof is becoming problematic. Frankly I wish I understood or there was a good posting on the legal process involved with copyright violations. And then such a posting should be made available to people.
What would be great to see is someone start an RIAA defense page and get it slashdotted or otherwise made known so that people could go there and post their experiences (legal ones, not that they generally hate them) with the RIAA. Start up some support for filing silly motions and movement to dismiss tye things as quickly as the RIAA is Filing its motions.
Just as even guilty criminals are acquitted because of errors in process regarding arrest/collection of evidence/collection of statements/unlawful search/etc the same should go for 'music pirates.'
The only party for whom the extortion allegation would be somewhat valid for is for their attack on the ISP's and the Universities and Colleges, not the end 'law breakers' Accountability needs to start with them, and they need to start demanding legitimate warrants before offering up records, and to eliminate storage of data that they shouldn't be storing.
As an aside I wonder how many RIAA employees / family / relatives have been targetted by the RIAA's campaign against piracy as compared to how many of them engage in it. They can argue that they have the copyright holders permission except I doubt that they actually do.
for starters you are incredibly wrong about your initial beliefs about the raid5 capacity. At RAID5 with 3x500GB drives your capacity IS NOT 1.5TB in fact it probably wont even be 1TB. RAID redundancy is achieved by (at this level) striping of the data across the drives. When you expand to 3 1TB drives you will again NOT have 3TB of storage. RAID = Redundant Array Intelligent/Inexpensive Disks. (depends who you ask) The operative word here is REDUNDANT. At any level other than RAID0 (which is RAID only technically by name) redundancy and math and the laws of physics state that you can't possibly achieve the max storage resulting from their initial summation without redundancy.
I can't tell you what the best answer is. I'm still looking myself. I do think however that instead of starting out by trying to say "here are some various options and different ways to configure them with these resulting tradeoff's" we take a slightly more directed approach.
What is it that you want, what features do you want, what is important, what isn't. What backup stuff do you require, what kind of filesystems do you want to run. what network accessibility do you need, remote access? how critical is speed. (the one note that i would insert here is that you can always keep a seperate additional drive through a different connection to achieve the high speed that you might need.
I'm also buillding a system right now as my desktop that put me through the end of high school and all of college is finally next to dead. This is what I am looking for / needs I want to address: storage of lots of media that I'd like to be able to access from both windows and linux.. yes I'm sorry but I am still migrating off of it, there are a couple of things I need it for but thats what my old barely alive pc is relegated to. That said I have a windows laptop (this one is planned to become linux as soon as i can transfer everything off of it) I keep in my living room for quick access to whatever while I watch tv. I do have a spare T30 laptop that is running gentoo/ubuntoo on it that I am going to turn into a mythTV/dvr box if i can find something to plug into a pcmcia slot for capture(good luck i know..) otherwise its already to go as a mythtv.
the biggest thing is that I don't always want to have my desktop running if possible just to access the files on its hard drives. maybe thats dumb, but if I'm just browsing some stuff from my laptop on the couch after a night of work id like to be able to access my files. Yes linux is stable and I could leave it perpetually running all the time, but try as I might the little green guy on my shoulder says that doing so would be wasting a lot of power running a big fancy computer all day long so that i dont have to go upstairs to turn it on when i want to access a couple of files... something tells me that since wakeonlan never really seemed to get off the ground for consumers i'm going to probably end up putting all storage into that machine and making it both a file server and "fun box"
I make macros also to shorten up things I do commonly, like refactoring a variable name i dont want to type alt-x replace-string... everytime
one of the best things about emacs is the means with which they provide for you to create your own crazy shortcuts and macros, and then use those to create further crazy ones. its like meta-macroing or something
Thats horrible but comical encryption. Pure usage of a Substitution cipher is "next to" useless. Even a vignere, or the infamous "enigma machine" can be cracked pretty quickly these days. interesting idea tho... to make it one step easier, don't grab the dvorak keyboard. Just go to control panel (on windows, onlinux its in system prefs somewhere if you're in a gui) and change the keyboard layout to dvorak. You can map the keyboard change to a key such as left shift alt and switch back and forth at ease. Then yuo don't have to blindfold yourself which is nice. plus its a lot easier for the other person to do if they dont have a dvorak keyboard. they just type in your message as they see it.
Is that no one wants to hand anyone person all of the neccessary things to verify your identity. think about it. Do you really want to give the company an SS#, address, email, phone, birth cert, etc. To get a digital certificate of some sort?
Especially in light of the TJMAX and credit card company break in, as much as I personally have faith in Verisign and such, no one wants to give someone ultimate identification power. And I don't think the solution will ever be a "one stop shop" thing.
Basically we are going to have to expand upon the key signing initiatives that exist currently through digital certs, and make them less expensive. Then you could have your bank sign your cert, your employer sign it, your friends sign it, etc. Each additional signature adds more "trust" but trust will never be 100% absolute I don't think. Just as we have fake id's in the real world, they will exist here to.
The problem is how to hide the big red button from the idiot; because inevitbaly there will be a button, and as we all know there are plenty of idiots out there.
I have googled it before, and I've tried that very product before and had no luck with it. And frankly I'm not interested in a web services based solution, or some big fancy bloated addon to VS that microsoft wants me to pay them a crapload of money for. I simply don't need or want it. I grew up using academic versions of it, and now that academia is over and my only real (legal) option for developing my own stuff using VS is to pay them the thousand plus dollars they want for it. Which is utter crap because we all know that the only ones paying that price gouge are indep. dev's. Large companies get huge volume licensing discounts, and often also get free copies.
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fitting the door wouldnt be that hard. take a a real door off, inspect the joint and take some measurements... the problem would be how flush it would be, the quality of it, and functional integration like power windows....
to me that's a lot like saying I'm impressed this guy broke his front door and reverse engineered a replacement for it instead of buying a whole new house or door frame.
funny, but I don't seem to see that stopping all the women from majoring in Bio / premed and becoming doctors and lawyers where they could potentially work far more hours than an IT person. You can't always have your cake and eat it too. Maybe your husband will have to get involved too.
And the reason they dont you working from home is exactly what you described you'd do. Perform activities that aren't your job, like cleaning your house and vacumming. From the purposes of the bulk of this discussion IT work has been described as MIS stuff, not software development (which would involve programming.) If you want the same pay and same respect as everyone else you need to be a TEAM player and come to work just like everyone else... Either way how are you going to hear communication over the vacuum? or when you are out of the room dusting? Give me a break, do it when you get home or on the weekend like i have to or hire a maid.
I am all for women in the IT workplace; but don't cry for equality in the same sentence that you ask for EXTRA privelages in. It horribly weakens everything you say and underscores many men's problems with the female employees. Life has a lot of choices and if you choose to have an involved career there are tradeoffs that come with it. The issue you are describing really isn't even remotely unique to IT but applies to working women at large.
There are plenty of companies with very liberal remote working policies, why don't you check one of them out. It's another factor to consider when taking a job, its not always just a question of "coolness" and pay. Benefits are something else you probably had to take into consideration.
My guess is that other big difference is that hospitals and nurses are working aroud the clock. There is a need for them at every time in the day. The IT office doesn't operate like that, and they usually want everyone available at the same core times. Plus I'm sure there were other times where your mom was unavailable when you would have liked to have her because she was working. It's all about trade-offs, compromise and sacrafice.
So as a result, I can blame them. The hours aren't any different then anything else. Unless you want to do parttime work, work at a retail/service establishment or do teaching/nannying of some sort 9-5 is usually going to be business hours.
You'd make it a point to make it to every meeting? I feel like this sentence more than any other epitamizes the entitlement that you exhibit for a right to special treatment. As an employee in a dept. it is EXPECTED that you are at all meetings. It goes without saying but not for you, you're just goint to make a point to make it to all of them... except when they get rescheduled to times which are inconveniant because you are doing something unrelated to work or when they cant reach you about schedules changes, or when you get stuck in traffic going to the meeting.
and if you don't want to be a 24 hour on call IT service person (which in many ways is a just MIS not IT) don't be one. If you want to be an IT consultant be one. Should a federal case be made that its hard to be a mom and be a consultant because 100% travel isn't condusive to being a parent? The entire IT field isn't a 24/7 job, I know because if it were I wouldn't want to be in it either. I like my sleep and my personal time, you don't need to have kids to desire that.
Not really, because the 'cell' patents are held by IBM who developed the cell in conjunction with (and gave license to use) to Sony. So unless I can sue you for infringing on someone else's patent, I'm lost on your confusion. And yes i realize that about the cell, but was simplifying for the post.. either way its not multiple processors so I'm still not sure how that helps them. They use the term processors, not units..
that and the claim from that example seems to basically try to patent any usage of MIMD. "A method for multiple instruction stream-multiple data stream (MIMD) parallel data processing in a computer including a plurality of processors operating in synchronism over a plurality of phases"
I dont see how one could do MIMD without a plurality of processors operating in synchronism? That and the fact that this stuff is a day one topic in a parallel programming course at a college suggests that it isn't non-obvious, although i do realize that its difficult to say that about courses in 2006 when this invention was what circa 1996?
This is a load of bs.. First they sued the wrong party, probably because if they know if they sue IBM they will probably get 0wn3d.
Secondly they could still lose because they haven't defended there patent against the billions of other things that do this exact same thing. This is essentially the same 'process' that distributed computing like SETI@Home is using in many ways. Additionally how is what MPI, Mercury and Pthreads do any different. I can't wait to see their patented invalidated because it is insensibly vague, and doesn't actually cover anything patentable.
It is also FUD because it doesn't meet their claims... their first claim is that it is a PLURALITY of PROCESSORS. Not CORES. the cell is ONE processor, multiple cores. I would imagine that would do the trick right there... Seeing as multicore wasnt patented or in existence when this patent was filed I dont see how it could cause a multicore solution to be in violation.
That and the fact that the cell processor is covered by its own set of patents several of which even reference this one (i just did a simple search in google of "Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory" and followed the links)
Proof yet again that our patent system is miserably flawed. It sounds like they have a software patent, whereas the cell is a chip. Secondly IANAL but it pretty much reads like they are trying to claim any attempt at MIMD is a violation of their patent when they reference the existence of MIMD before they begin... This could be entertaining
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but you stated you have a core duo mac. That means you aren't running on a PPC to begin with and inherently have no Altivec either yet your Mac OS X apps seem to run fine there don't they?
I'm not going to pretend to know the ins and outs of macs or OS X for that matter, I've been a x86 (Dos->XP) Windows and Linux user my whole life. But I did enough embedded programming and education on the PPC architecture and x86 to tell you that much.
My guess is to deal with it in a likely similar way to those of us dealing with multiple linux distro boots, combinations of windows and linux, and everything else.
I've never really dabbled with WINE myself, so I can't comment on the part about a "M(ac)INE" but what about virtualization. One idea I got from a colleague is to use the vmware converter to convert your actual partitions into vmware images that use actual hard drive partitions as their 'virtual hard disk'. In this way you could boot into one and load any other OS partition on your machine as a VM. granted there are some performance hits, and i know xgl/aiglx don't run in VM's and I could imagine there are some similar eye candy things that won't work from OS X, but that could certainly be one solution.
Notably I do agree that I wish the VM's didnt have to be realized as such a container in the gui's in the sense that it is all contained within one window. It gets chaotic when you have 4 linux virtual desktops and then on one of them have a linux VM with its own set of additional VD's.
Your point is still stupid and unintelligent. A school recommending that they get off2k7 is going to be read by parents as "you need to buy this" the reality is there is ZERO need for such a reco.. I find it ironic that such a thing would happen when historically its usually been delayed in my experince. At RPI for example they specifically told you not to install XP sp2 until Feb '06, I'm an alum now, but still getting some of the emails I see they still don't recommend Vista. Why? because saying you recommend something will always be interpreted as endorsement. Why do you think it is illegal to recommenderlogin&upasswd=GN3yppL5&unickname=EdelFa ctor19&returnto=%2Flogin.pl%3Fop=changeprefs>
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the real stupidy of it is that microsoft word has been backward compatible with it since at least word95 if not farther back.. the worst case scenario is that you cant save some "advanced" feature that usually is garbage anyhow. Honestly for the academic school kid have there been any remotely major changes to microsoft word in the last decade? my guess, no. I'm not talking about mail merges and fancy forms and all the other random crap that they do I'm talking about how they are used for kids in school.
what do they do? they write straight text word documents. they need spell / grammar check, some auto indenting, footnotes / comments occasionally, word counts, some auto completion, some smart kids utilize track changes, and others will want the thesauraus if they dont own one or want to do it on the web.
under your reasoning we could say that pretty much > 60% of the country has homes or apartments that during their course of living in them haven't been attacked. Should those people then also not pay?
Does anyone drive on 90% of the roads? No but they need to be there
Its absurd logic, I don't like what we are spending on defense, I really don't. We routinely pay 100,000 for a 10,000 piece of equipment. But you logic is horribly flawed. Your opponents would likely argue that the fact that you haven't been attacked is proof that your money has been well spent.. which would also be absurd and invalid logical reasoning.
THE REAL issue is two fold:
a. You don't like to carry the burden of anyone other than yourself which has a LOT of problems in our society. e.g. Does that mean you don't want to pay tax dollars for public schools once you and any of your kin are done with schooling? Your health argument is the same scenario as car insurance. What about the one day you do need to go to the hospital?
more importantly:
b. We as citizens should have and need to find a way to have a more authoritative voice in regards to taxes and where they go. I'm not going to say I want to cut ALL defense funding, but the gov't needs to have some level of accountabillity and reporting in regards to where our money is going and how much of our taxes are going to defense. Companies left and right are being forced to report the details of all sorts of silly things. How about telling us who made the decision to buy ten thousand dollars for one million dollars?
the conflict is societal good vs. personal utility. i can't say its a dillemma i have a solution for, but that dillemma shuoldnt mean we have to shoulder ANYTHING they want to spend money on, because even those who support the cause would disagree with how most of our money is probably being spent.. boston's big dig for example and the 125,000 fireboat that can't be used near a fire because the tanks were too close to the hull which was allegedly a kickback because the PD was getting lots and lots of detail hours... heck my high school had something like a 20,000 defective flag pole.. you heard me right
you miss a large part of the point still and your analogy is broken. Right now there is no BMW of phones in USA. sure there's the iphone and some blackberries but they dont really do anything anyother phone doesn't already do. all the differentiation is in the service currently which is STUPID.
.10 every time they used a manual shifter in the automatic cars; or everytime they accessed the 6th gear... or turned on the radio... etc. NO
your hyundai accent can't be bought with leather interrior, a bose sounds system, xm radio which you need a seperate subscription for, etc. but there exists another car that does. You have a choice.
I can't go to verizon and buy a phone w/o a camera and lots of stupid features I don't use. Basically you can buy a BMW or you can buy nothing. It's quite sad, a razr without paying a fortune for data plans has the same net functionality as a phone from like 2002. between 2002 and 1998 what changed? they added color... whoop de freaking doo.
When I buy a product such as a phone I expect to be able to use all of its features, not have to pay extra to use features it already has. Do you think BMW owners would be 'OK' with having to a pay an extra service fee of
but with our phones thats what we have. And a large part of the contributions to this post have noted how outrageous the service charges currently are for US cell phones. The phones are often locked down (ex. verizon who locks out OBEX in bluetooth so that they can try to charge you for the basic ability to store files on your phone, and load your own ringtones.)
and dont get me started on VCAST... oh you want to watch some video? oh you have to sign up for vcast for ~10 a month, and then pay for the right to see a video, and then pay for the airtime used to watch it.
Oh you want text messaging? oh that's extra too.... and we charge you for recieving them too and we don't allow you to prevent yourself from receiving text messages either.
meanwhile elsewhere in the world the rates arent nearly as exhorbitant, and policies are better... like not being charged to recieve a text message..
For the life of me I think its absurd that you are charged for text messages. The bandwidth it takes to send the average message has got to be smaller than that taken by the average telephone call.
Unless you want to get on a small service such as cricket, or take your luck with who carries the Jitterbug, you cant buy the phone you described thats just a phone.
Secret Squirrel would be proud. Question is do they get the a high tech sidekick too? and is pay in acorns or what?
well if you are buying a computer from walmart or target, and you expect a high quality computer you are wasting your time. people who go to walmart for the cheapest piece of crap computer shouldn't expect to get much more than that. and sadly I don't think much betterof buying it at circuit city. you want a computer do you? I see a couple good options to get a quality machine that could run Vista Ultimate (not that I'm going to run vista on anysuch machine) they are: build it yourself buy a custom spec'd computer from the maker (i.e. dell, alienware, name of brand here) it's like going to guitar center and buying one of their crappy $100 squier strats and complaining that its awful compared to a top of the line fender strat. I wouldn't buy either personally, but no shit sherlock. I can't feel bad about the bad taste in stupid people's mouths. If you bite a sour rotten apple its going to taste bad. you actually mention the one version that ACTUALLY isn't often found in homes; the server version. Home vs. Professional has only ever been a matter of features and corresponding price with windows. nothing more. It could just have easily been called windows XP and windows XP Elite... or Vista Basic / Standard / Deluxe the naming scheme makes as much sense as restaurants with fry/drink sizes of medium and large (no small) or the whole tall grande venti crap at $*bux or if it makes you feel better just pretend they are different versions the same way you can buy a mac that doesnt have the latest os on it. long story short; if you are gullible and not knowlegable enough to know not to buy vista home basic, and don't have anyone to tell you its a bad idea, then maybe you'll learn something and take a better approach next time
this can't possibly cause your children to be born with ear damage. Go back to high school please. If you get your arm amputated do you expect your children to be born without an arm? Thanks for the illogical reasoning. While I agree that people in general listen to music at volumes much greater than needed (proof positive, there is no need for the volume gained in a car by adding extra amplifiers, unless you "like to listen loud" aka you want to go deaf) there is not a damn thing passed on generation to generation based on the poor listening decisions that you make.
Not that you need any more proof because what you suggest is idiotic, but I'll give you some anyways? my father had a bad ear infection as a child and lost the hearing in his right ear. I, his biological son, have excellent hearing and relative pitch as well.
as for saving your hearing, get a pair of shure in-ear headphones, I love my se310's. They utilize sound ISOLATION not cancellation. I can roll the volume down tremendously on my ipod or whatever because I no longer need to offset background noise; those noises simply don't reach my ears. They are great for flying, i put them in before takeoff (even though they aren't plugged in to music yet silly fcc) and don't have to listen to the jet engines or the silly stewardess tell me how to put on a fucking seatbelt.. funny since you'd have a difficult time not encountering one on the way to the airport..
as for sound quality on ipods, just don't use a shitty bitrate. CD's are 44khz @ 192 kbps. For my digital media I always go to at least 256kbps, but 320 is the best. Sure you get less on the ipod but its not unlike digital cable, do you want 10000 channels of shit, or 500 good ones etc.
as for the dylan comments... that is only remotely true if you go to the length to use a vacuum tube amp and have discerning ears. why not just improve what the CD is, and use either dvd-audio, or use a dvd and increase the quality, say move up from 44khz to a higher sample rate.
trying to make a song sound like it did at a concert or live is an exercise in futility/stupidity unless its a live album. If its recorded in a studio the best you are going to do is transfer the sound exactly as it was recorded in the studio.
what the hell does striving to be something greater than yourself have anything to do with whether or not you believe in god or evolution or the happy watermellon god, answer? nothing.
this is an extremely short sighted statement, because the two things aren't mutually exclusive of one another. I can and do believe in evolution. I can still be religious and have faith. And i dont have to think that I know everything or that I am perfect. There are things that are unknowable.
in any event, the belief of the origins of man have little to nothing to neccesarily do with your belief of who you are where you are going and what you are capable of. if you cant recognize that then you just have a whole lot more room for improvement than everybody else. I can't stand how every single person who argues how we need to believe in creation rationalizes the statment by saying "but we need our christian values" "but you need to believe that you aren't perfect and the you can better yourself" "but you have to believe everything i do or you are a sinner"
its such bull. none of these things have anything to do with one another. even the devoid statement "christian values" is a piece of crap. Values such as honesty, trustworthyness, honor, compassion, and etc are common morales of human societies. They exist independantly of any religion and most of them existed long before christianity, so stop trying to tell us how important these things are in relation to one another.
does it bother anyone else besides me that any company can say that they won't allow games to be made for their system if the rating exceeds X? what is the point, and how is this not illegal censorship. If the game companies won't allow such a rating, then why have a rating system in the first place.
I also love how THEY can make them, just not third parties. Decision on whether to buy a game based on its ratings should be left to the buyers, much like movies. If walmart doesn't want to carry it, fine. I'll buy it somewhere else.
here's a better idea, instead of targeting the game platforms and industry, target the people who are respobnsible for the games reaching underage kids (as deemed by their sometimes appropriate, often moronic parents) the STORES.
you don't fine budweiser when jonnny teenager gets busted for drinking underage, you bust him and possibly his provider if you catch them. Go bust the stores who sell games to underage kids ignoring the ratings, and the moron parents who ignore the ratings and by games rated inappropriate for their 7 year old kid. If they can't read the box then they probably shouldn't be either a. buying anything or b. be parents.
this might just cause me to buy a 360, not because i want this game, or because i want an AO game, but because the dev's should have the freedom to produce whatever game they think will sell. If i like it i'll buy it. leave your morality for your family please, I am intelligent enough to have my own set of ethics and morals.
How is this informative? This is a classic example of a "NO YOUR WRONG Listen to me... by the way you are right" post. They seem to be the current rage on /.
The writer states "LGPL does not allow you to statically link the code" which is incorrect.. They personally say so "This cannot be done with a statically linked executable (unless you're also distributing linkable object files)."
Why are people so eager to state "ooo ooo you're wrong" when they don't even go on to say that the person was indeed wrong. Do you really think that by talking long enough before admitting someone else was right that people think you are intelligent and correct (although sadly the +4 says otherwise)
This is what julesh SHOULD have said:
"While it is correct that you can statically link your code, you can only do so if you provide the statically linked object files. This allows others to relink their code and thereby satisfy the requirements of the LGPL"
Its shorter, sweeter, and that would actually have been informative. When the first thing you utter is "you can't do this" is contradicted by your post wherein you admit you can, then you are not informative. I have mod points but would rather point this out than modding and posting AC.
of course this is basically what someone replied with, which magically was also +4 informative.. How its informative w/o providing any new information other than rephrasing a previous post is beyond me. It's a very basic premise of commenting and english writing, your main point should be made pretty much first and immediately, and the rest of your text should come to support it. yes there is a large variance with forums, but its a waste of our time if your post opens with "this is proof that x=1" and then you spend some number of lines on the (flawed proof) before finally saying and indeed x=1 unless you noticed that it doesn't because x=2. Save us some time, save yourself sometime, and figure out what your point is and make that first.
thats so much common sense i want to vomit..
ever notice how the point of school is to learn concepts and methods, not the answers to problems.
i.e. you don't learn that 2+2=4 you learn how to ADD
you don't learn that the force of gravity is -9.8 m/s^2
you learn the laws of mechanics and how to apply them
you don't learn a language by learning several sentences. You learn the grammatical strucutre how to conjugate verbs etc
why the heck would computer skills be any different?
you don't learn Visual Studio
you learn how to program in various languages.
heck at my middle school we learned most of those skills on mac's, and in clarisworks which furthered the whole APPLICATION doesnt matter thing.
a spreadsheet is a spreadsheet, be it 1-2-3, excel, clarisworks, oofice, etc
the same goes for word processing, and databases (ok a little less so there...) and just about everything else.
in essence its the difference between memorization and learning. Do you learn to memorize a book or do you learn to actually read english (and it or whatever language its written in)
yeah, but even if he could SEE and PRESS the button, it still might not be valid. IANAL but many shrink wrap EULA's and licenses have been ruled invalid. Just because they tell you you can't sue them doesn't mean that you can't. There are various rights and protections you have that they can't take away simply by saying "we are taking this right away from you"
If you didn't commit a crime, your legal fees would be extremely minimal.. chances are you are guilty and need expensive lawyers to find a way around your guilt.
If you are guilty, 3K is a dandy price to pay instead of possibly going to jail or having to report that you were convicted of copyright infringement (which it basically never comes to because no one really prefers that and you end up paying anyways). I'm not saying pay them hush money, I'm saying IF YOU did indeed violate the law and you committed the crime, it isnt hush money, its you paying them up because you fucked up.
Think about it this way. If I came into your home with a baseball bat and broke all of your valuables chances are you would sue me. You would offer me some amount of money to pay, in exchange you would drop any charges and refuse to press charges and shield me from any legal reprocusions.
What you describe is actually A LOT closer to blackmail... from wikipedia:
"Extortion is distinguished from blackmail. In blackmail, the blackmailer threatens to do something which would be legal or normally allowed unless paid money or property."
here's a better example, let's say that you don't pay your taxes. The IRS tracks you down, you are given two options, pay the money you owe plus the fines and interest as specified by tax law, or go to jail. Is that extortion too?
Even better, lets say you steal something from my store. I offer to not prosecute you for stealing if you return the item and apologize; or better, you pay for the item or return it and pay the monetary value that it lost because you stole it (technically I can't sell it as new after you stole it) If you get caught shoplifting at stores, best buy for example i've heard stories about this from some unitellignet college pals, they were given an option, return everything leave the store and never come back or face criminal charges.
Is it extortion? or is it their right because you broke the law? I tend to say here that its your own damn fault. Grow up and take some responsibility. If you can't do the time (or pay the fine) don't commit the crime.
the way you decribe it any transaction involving money is extortion. you can pay me for these items that you want from my store, or i can break your knees or i could sue you. blah blah
WAKE UP. if you actually didn't do anything wrong then you probably don't need a 50K lawyer, if you're that certain dont settle and go to criminal court and get a public defender i guess.
I agree whole heartedly with you. A further point in your favor: they are selling Vista(tm?) PC's
.: (m.p.) Vista is not hardware
:-\
as in a PC that has Vista on it.
PC = Hardware
Vista = Software
here is proof: my favorite foolproof test hypothesis.
Q: "What's the difference between hardware and software?"
A: "You can kick hardware"
Can I kick a Vista PC (a PC preloaded/sold/running Vista)
YES, and boy is it fun... but thats for a different post
Can I kick Vista?
Sadly no. But if we could you know that we would. and seeing as there isn't anyones foot up vista's rear end I'd say its un-kickable
*** for more fun proofs see the end
I don't care what they say Vista can do. IT IS SOFTWARE. does it exist only in a digital format contained in computer memory, disk storage, or a medium such as CD/DVD? Yeah that means it is software. Vista is an operating system, no more no less (give or take the fluff and bloat they fill it with aka applications which by golly are more software)
They may or may not have registered it as a trademark in other fields, but as a matter of discussion of what it actually is there is a clear answer.
**** Bonus proofs
Statement: If I can't kick Vista than it isn't hardware.
Given: Vista is either hardware or software
Given: I can't kick Vista
-> Vista is Software
proof by contradiction is much more enjoyable here:
vista = hardware
if hardware -> kickable(Vista)
if kickable(Vista) -> E(x) : Kicks(x, Vista)
but !E(x) : FootInRearEnd(x, Vista)
Contradiction: Vista != Hardware
IANAL
As much as I hate the RIAA and its tactics, you can't compare it to mafia tactics. There is a large difference between extortion and legal settlements. Namely that they are "legal."
We can all agree that we don't like that the RIAA what they are doing, and more over that they have the right to do what they are doing. What we can have a problem and a legal complaint with (IANAL) is the manner in which they go about it. Just as police have to follow certain measures in gathering evidence and performing searches, isn't or shouldn't the RIAA be bound by the same standards. Shouldn't they be held to the same standard of beyond a shadow of a doubt guilt if they seek damages under criminal charges of violating the copyright laws?
I hate it I do, but the reality is that they are not extorting you. If you enter into any legal case there is always possibility of settlement. You can take the settlement or you can go to court. That isn't extortion in itself. However the broader scheme of them suing everyone and their uncle's brother without any basis or any real proof is becoming problematic. Frankly I wish I understood or there was a good posting on the legal process involved with copyright violations. And then such a posting should be made available to people.
What would be great to see is someone start an RIAA defense page and get it slashdotted or otherwise made known so that people could go there and post their experiences (legal ones, not that they generally hate them) with the RIAA. Start up some support for filing silly motions and movement to dismiss tye things as quickly as the RIAA is Filing its motions.
Just as even guilty criminals are acquitted because of errors in process regarding arrest/collection of evidence/collection of statements/unlawful search/etc the same should go for 'music pirates.'
The only party for whom the extortion allegation would be somewhat valid for is for their attack on the ISP's and the Universities and Colleges, not the end 'law breakers' Accountability needs to start with them, and they need to start demanding legitimate warrants before offering up records, and to eliminate storage of data that they shouldn't be storing.
As an aside I wonder how many RIAA employees / family / relatives have been targetted by the RIAA's campaign against piracy as compared to how many of them engage in it. They can argue that they have the copyright holders permission except I doubt that they actually do.
for starters you are incredibly wrong about your initial beliefs about the raid5 capacity. At RAID5 with 3x500GB drives your capacity IS NOT 1.5TB in fact it probably wont even be 1TB. RAID redundancy is achieved by (at this level) striping of the data across the drives. When you expand to 3 1TB drives you will again NOT have 3TB of storage. RAID = Redundant Array Intelligent/Inexpensive Disks. (depends who you ask) The operative word here is REDUNDANT. At any level other than RAID0 (which is RAID only technically by name) redundancy and math and the laws of physics state that you can't possibly achieve the max storage resulting from their initial summation without redundancy.
/ubuntoo on it that I am going to turn into a mythTV /dvr box if i can find something to plug into a pcmcia slot for capture(good luck i know..) otherwise its already to go as a mythtv.
I can't tell you what the best answer is. I'm still looking myself. I do think however that instead of starting out by trying to say "here are some various options and different ways to configure them with these resulting tradeoff's" we take a slightly more directed approach.
What is it that you want, what features do you want, what is important, what isn't. What backup stuff do you require, what kind of filesystems do you want to run. what network accessibility do you need, remote access? how critical is speed. (the one note that i would insert here is that you can always keep a seperate additional drive through a different connection to achieve the high speed that you might need.
I'm also buillding a system right now as my desktop that put me through the end of high school and all of college is finally next to dead. This is what I am looking for / needs I want to address: storage of lots of media that I'd like to be able to access from both windows and linux.. yes I'm sorry but I am still migrating off of it, there are a couple of things I need it for but thats what my old barely alive pc is relegated to. That said I have a windows laptop (this one is planned to become linux as soon as i can transfer everything off of it) I keep in my living room for quick access to whatever while I watch tv. I do have a spare T30 laptop that is running gentoo
the biggest thing is that I don't always want to have my desktop running if possible just to access the files on its hard drives. maybe thats dumb, but if I'm just browsing some stuff from my laptop on the couch after a night of work id like to be able to access my files. Yes linux is stable and I could leave it perpetually running all the time, but try as I might the little green guy on my shoulder says that doing so would be wasting a lot of power running a big fancy computer all day long so that i dont have to go upstairs to turn it on when i want to access a couple of files... something tells me that since wakeonlan never really seemed to get off the ground for consumers i'm going to probably end up putting all storage into that machine and making it both a file server and "fun box"
for #1, right your own freaking macro for it.
... everytime
I make macros also to shorten up things I do commonly, like refactoring a variable name
i dont want to type alt-x replace-string
one of the best things about emacs is the means with which they provide for you to create your own crazy shortcuts and macros, and then use those to create further crazy ones. its like meta-macroing or something
dude, obviously he built the wall with all of his bricks. :-p
Thats horrible but comical encryption. Pure usage of a Substitution cipher is "next to" useless. Even a vignere, or the infamous "enigma machine" can be cracked pretty quickly these days. interesting idea tho... to make it one step easier, don't grab the dvorak keyboard. Just go to control panel (on windows, onlinux its in system prefs somewhere if you're in a gui) and change the keyboard layout to dvorak. You can map the keyboard change to a key such as left shift alt and switch back and forth at ease. Then yuo don't have to blindfold yourself which is nice. plus its a lot easier for the other person to do if they dont have a dvorak keyboard. they just type in your message as they see it.
Is that no one wants to hand anyone person all of the neccessary things to verify your identity. think about it. Do you really want to give the company an SS#, address, email, phone, birth cert, etc. To get a digital certificate of some sort?
Especially in light of the TJMAX and credit card company break in, as much as I personally have faith in Verisign and such, no one wants to give someone ultimate identification power. And I don't think the solution will ever be a "one stop shop" thing.
Basically we are going to have to expand upon the key signing initiatives that exist currently through digital certs, and make them less expensive. Then you could have your bank sign your cert, your employer sign it, your friends sign it, etc. Each additional signature adds more "trust" but trust will never be 100% absolute I don't think. Just as we have fake id's in the real world, they will exist here to.
The problem is how to hide the big red button from the idiot; because inevitbaly there will be a button, and as we all know there are plenty of idiots out there.
I have googled it before, and I've tried that very product before and had no luck with it. And frankly I'm not interested in a web services based solution, or some big fancy bloated addon to VS that microsoft wants me to pay them a crapload of money for. I simply don't need or want it. I grew up using academic versions of it, and now that academia is over and my only real (legal) option for developing my own stuff using VS is to pay them the thousand plus dollars they want for it. Which is utter crap because we all know that the only ones paying that price gouge are indep. dev's. Large companies get huge volume licensing discounts, and often also get free copies.