Fuel cells? Bleh. They're a new and expensive, unreliable and largly an academic item. Now look at internal combustion engines; They're well understood, reliable, and relitivly cheap.
Isn't giving up your ability to carry a silly little bag worth it knowing that you won't be blown up by a hidden bomb.
Nope. I will carry a bag with me and be secure in its contents wherever I goddamn please. I pay damn good money every goddamn year to make sure I don't have to worry. Unfortunatly, the morons I give my money to are more interested in fucking spying on everyone than making me safe.
"Gee, lets continue to sell fertilizer and fuel oil to cash customers, even though we just had a building blown up with it! Even though these guys need a license to store it, we won't require a license nor even proof of identity to buy it! Oh, but we better spend a few more billion tapping everyones email. Oh, and after you get done reviewing everyone's cell phone conversations for the words "The Eagle Is Blue, Mustafa" you might want to look into stopping the sale of anthrax to nations on the known hostile list. Just make sure you get all the cell calls first, mmkay? Oh, and if you get any more phone sex calls like that last batch, save em for the office party on Friday."
Oh, and I can't just stop paying them. How's that for a contractual fuckup??!?!
File permissions *do* protect copyright. If I write code, and stick it on a free server in Finland, and chmod it all to hell so everyone else can't see it's existance, I've taken reasonable technical steps to protect non-disclosure of my IP. Now Joe BlowHax0r comes along, axploits the bug, and *my* reasonable technical effort is screwed. Oh, and the DMCA too.
What always seems to surprise me is the total lack of 'talking'.
"Gee, I'd really like to use SpamFooOODBMSRTC in my project. But Alas! It is GPL and I'm stuck to BSD!"
Why not drop the developer/company an email?
"Hey! I've got this great FourthGenerationDiscoBobulatingDooHickey! It would work great with your SpamFooOODBMSRTC!! How can we arrange to do it? Can you grant me a different license that would work? Y'know, dual licensing? Is there some way I can add or use an exposed API and not need to redistribute your source? Can I get some old source under a different license? Mabye you can just promise, as copyright holder, not to sue my ass off?? I promise I will give you the changes I make under whatever your license is."
I don't see why you couldn't just pick up an old laptop.
1. You have 12v/6v, so you can run an inverter. No more battery life prob.
2. If you're wanting a damn PC, it's probably a closed cabin or plastic sleeved or similar. It'll be fine, aside from mebbe squeezing some silicone around the inside of the case where it meets the screen (thin, and let it dry first!) and around the case seams. Or a nice thick bit of poly over the keys.
3. Vibration.. Hmmm.. I've had laptop drives stand months and months in car trunks running. I've seen standard Toshiba laptop makes used for data collection on mining equipment. You'll be fine.
Adobe doesn't make the only pdf viewer, y'know. Besides, we're a *nix-centered site. More of us (are supposed to) have pdf2*** or Acrobat installed then Microsoft Word.
Nope.. You can't sue Apple, nor Microsoft. Or haven't you been reading your EULA?
Open Source is no more of a liabiliy than the "big boys"
Oh, and your warranty? Disclaims all 'consequential damage'. The most you can get IBM for is the price of the hard drive. MS and Apple will not opay you a cent.
Don't think about it like that. We're just reinforcing the millenia old rule that says 'If your product costs $25 to make, don't sell it to the public for a hair under $40 or you deserve the lynching your creditors are going to give you.'
Ebay doesn't make you pay to bid and lose. Neulevel does, from $2-15.
On Ebay, you win if you are the highest bidder. Neulevel plans on randomly assigning them.
One you have to pay to even get in the game, and it is a game of chance. The other is free to enter, and is not random. That's how they're different.
Why is a lottery illegal? Well, they're pretty much illegal by default. It's a form of gambling, after all, and you need a gambling license. Or leave of the state(s) involved, which you're not going to get because they already have their little monopoly 'tax on people who are bad at math'.
A friends company rolled out VPN and global email for all their sales reps.
One fellow in NV and one fellow in Backwoods, Alberta, Canada ended up with AOL, despite the fact it wouldn't work with the VPN, because even after exhaustive searching the only dialup access offered with a local number was AOL.
Sigh. It took the FBI a *month* to ask for the warrant. It took them almost a month to hear the unsubstantiated rumour from France that he 'may have been associated with members of an Algerian terrorist group'. That's like saying they should follow me around just because I might know a couple of the same guys Terry Nichols did, and the fact I own a couple books on explosives. They had no hard evidence. If he were a US citizen, he would not be in custody, and they wouldn't have even had his laptop.
Say they did get the FISA warrant, we all know how slow the FBI moves. They wouldn't have even gotten around to searching the hard drive by the time the WTC was hit.
Ah, yes. The real world. That medium in which I hire and fire your butt in realtime, versus fragging your butt on a 500ms delay. Thats right! I'm confusing Quake with reality again! Damnit. Guess I shouldn't have hit the twat from HR with a grenade this morning.. Thanks for reminding me!
As much as I beleive that Microsoft writes shit code: You sir, are right.
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It's not MS fault this happened
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Just so happens more people are writing them for MS
Gee, why do you think that is? They don't exactly have a monopoly on the server market. Saying they have 30% is a error in their favour.
*gasp*
Do you think it's because they write a hole-riddled bit of software?? If 70% of the market is someone elses, and yet 100% of the exploits that make the news are written for MS, that does not bode well even in the most conservative analysis.
*gasp*
Now, if they did write a hole-ridden bit of shit, that does make it their fault! Damn, the logic train just keeps going... And just like MS, the verdict of the logic train ain't in your favour.
Despite the fact that I thought we were patched and secured, the Nimda worm hit our servers.
Oops indeed! All of Nimda's exploits were old. You had what? Five months? At a total cost of $25,000?? Damn, I hope you have some money put away, because if you were one of my employees, you'd be working at half pay to reimburse the company for your negligence. That's on a good day. On a bad day, you'd be fired, and I'd call Legal to have them sue your ass once it cleared the doorstep on your way to the unemployment line.
Rule 1: If you're an NT admin, you have to stay on top of *EVERY* patch. You don't patch, your company loses money because of your negligence. If you don't patch, you deserve to lose your job.
Now, if you're one of those companies that has lost a lot of 'good men' to rule 1, perhaps you should not use Microsoft products? Perhaps they're not everything the Microsoft rep told you they would be...
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Fuel cells? Bleh. They're a new and expensive, unreliable and largly an academic item. Now look at internal combustion engines; They're well understood, reliable, and relitivly cheap.
Just make the goddamn engine run on hydrogen.
Apple also sold rebranded AIX (Read: IBM's Unix) boxes as servers.
Isn't giving up your ability to carry a silly little bag worth it knowing that you won't be blown up by a hidden bomb.
Nope. I will carry a bag with me and be secure in its contents wherever I goddamn please. I pay damn good money every goddamn year to make sure I don't have to worry. Unfortunatly, the morons I give my money to are more interested in fucking spying on everyone than making me safe.
"Gee, lets continue to sell fertilizer and fuel oil to cash customers, even though we just had a building blown up with it! Even though these guys need a license to store it, we won't require a license nor even proof of identity to buy it! Oh, but we better spend a few more billion tapping everyones email. Oh, and after you get done reviewing everyone's cell phone conversations for the words "The Eagle Is Blue, Mustafa" you might want to look into stopping the sale of anthrax to nations on the known hostile list. Just make sure you get all the cell calls first, mmkay? Oh, and if you get any more phone sex calls like that last batch, save em for the office party on Friday."
Oh, and I can't just stop paying them. How's that for a contractual fuckup??!?!
File permissions *do* protect copyright. If I write code, and stick it on a free server in Finland, and chmod it all to hell so everyone else can't see it's existance, I've taken reasonable technical steps to protect non-disclosure of my IP. Now Joe BlowHax0r comes along, axploits the bug, and *my* reasonable technical effort is screwed. Oh, and the DMCA too.
ignore the many other benchmarks that show WinXP performs as good if not better than 2k.
I have yet to see any other comprehensive benchmark. The only people saying it's faster are Microsoft, and they've yet to release hard numbers.
Yeah, it has problems. If you can't work out a license change, no big deal. Never hurts to ask or offer, tho.
What always seems to surprise me is the total lack of 'talking'.
"Gee, I'd really like to use SpamFooOODBMSRTC in my project. But Alas! It is GPL and I'm stuck to BSD!"
Why not drop the developer/company an email?
"Hey! I've got this great FourthGenerationDiscoBobulatingDooHickey! It would work great with your SpamFooOODBMSRTC!! How can we arrange to do it? Can you grant me a different license that would work? Y'know, dual licensing? Is there some way I can add or use an exposed API and not need to redistribute your source? Can I get some old source under a different license? Mabye you can just promise, as copyright holder, not to sue my ass off?? I promise I will give you the changes I make under whatever your license is."
I don't see why you couldn't just pick up an old laptop.
1. You have 12v/6v, so you can run an inverter. No more battery life prob.
2. If you're wanting a damn PC, it's probably a closed cabin or plastic sleeved or similar. It'll be fine, aside from mebbe squeezing some silicone around the inside of the case where it meets the screen (thin, and let it dry first!) and around the case seams. Or a nice thick bit of poly over the keys.
3. Vibration.. Hmmm.. I've had laptop drives stand months and months in car trunks running. I've seen standard Toshiba laptop makes used for data collection on mining equipment. You'll be fine.
Adobe doesn't make the only pdf viewer, y'know. Besides, we're a *nix-centered site. More of us (are supposed to) have pdf2*** or Acrobat installed then Microsoft Word.
Nope.. You can't sue Apple, nor Microsoft. Or haven't you been reading your EULA?
Open Source is no more of a liabiliy than the "big boys"
Oh, and your warranty? Disclaims all 'consequential damage'. The most you can get IBM for is the price of the hard drive. MS and Apple will not opay you a cent.
Why DVD?
Because I can pull 20M/s sustained from my DVD drive and only 4.5K/s from the network.
I can take free shit from stupid people!
Don't think about it like that. We're just reinforcing the millenia old rule that says 'If your product costs $25 to make, don't sell it to the public for a hair under $40 or you deserve the lynching your creditors are going to give you.'
Or Avaya/Lucent.. Last I heard, theirs ran a true blue Unix..
I take it you've never owned a Dell?
Hey now! No making fun of the Avanti on my watch..
I still think that car was cute.
How is it different?
Ebay doesn't make you pay to bid and lose. Neulevel does, from $2-15.
On Ebay, you win if you are the highest bidder. Neulevel plans on randomly assigning them.
One you have to pay to even get in the game, and it is a game of chance. The other is free to enter, and is not random. That's how they're different.
Why is a lottery illegal? Well, they're pretty much illegal by default. It's a form of gambling, after all, and you need a gambling license. Or leave of the state(s) involved, which you're not going to get because they already have their little monopoly 'tax on people who are bad at math'.
As of late 1999, I can confirm there were.
A friends company rolled out VPN and global email for all their sales reps.
One fellow in NV and one fellow in Backwoods, Alberta, Canada ended up with AOL, despite the fact it wouldn't work with the VPN, because even after exhaustive searching the only dialup access offered with a local number was AOL.
AOL is still the only 'local' 'ISP' in quite a few places, even here in the USA.
Sigh. It took the FBI a *month* to ask for the warrant. It took them almost a month to hear the unsubstantiated rumour from France that he 'may have been associated with members of an Algerian terrorist group'. That's like saying they should follow me around just because I might know a couple of the same guys Terry Nichols did, and the fact I own a couple books on explosives. They had no hard evidence. If he were a US citizen, he would not be in custody, and they wouldn't have even had his laptop.
Say they did get the FISA warrant, we all know how slow the FBI moves. They wouldn't have even gotten around to searching the hard drive by the time the WTC was hit.
Good luck finding work in the real world
Ah, yes. The real world. That medium in which I hire and fire your butt in realtime, versus fragging your butt on a 500ms delay. Thats right! I'm confusing Quake with reality again! Damnit. Guess I shouldn't have hit the twat from HR with a grenade this morning.. Thanks for reminding me!
As much as I beleive that Microsoft writes shit code: You sir, are right.
It's not MS fault this happened
snip!
Just so happens more people are writing them for MS
Gee, why do you think that is? They don't exactly have a monopoly on the server market. Saying they have 30% is a error in their favour.
*gasp*
Do you think it's because they write a hole-riddled bit of software?? If 70% of the market is someone elses, and yet 100% of the exploits that make the news are written for MS, that does not bode well even in the most conservative analysis.
*gasp*
Now, if they did write a hole-ridden bit of shit, that does make it their fault! Damn, the logic train just keeps going... And just like MS, the verdict of the logic train ain't in your favour.
Wouldn't this script, if widely employed, bring forth massive tidal waves of email as well?
Please! As a patched NT admin, let the unpatched be DOS'ed off the face of the planet.
Despite the fact that I thought we were patched and secured, the Nimda worm hit our servers.
Oops indeed! All of Nimda's exploits were old. You had what? Five months? At a total cost of $25,000?? Damn, I hope you have some money put away, because if you were one of my employees, you'd be working at half pay to reimburse the company for your negligence. That's on a good day. On a bad day, you'd be fired, and I'd call Legal to have them sue your ass once it cleared the doorstep on your way to the unemployment line.
Rule 1: If you're an NT admin, you have to stay on top of *EVERY* patch. You don't patch, your company loses money because of your negligence. If you don't patch, you deserve to lose your job.
Now, if you're one of those companies that has lost a lot of 'good men' to rule 1, perhaps you should not use Microsoft products? Perhaps they're not everything the Microsoft rep told you they would be...
It's an anticorrosive.