I've downloaded it about 20 times. Probably 5-8 unique computers. I keep a CD backup for emergency cases (i.e. a computer spyware laden that IE won't work), but for the most part I like getting people the latest/greatest.
The only piece of legislation NASA needs to pass, is legislation that restricts the amount of money goverment contractors can get from a given project. Right now we are getting screwed left and right. We pay too much to companies such as Boeing and Martin Lockheed. They are ripping us off. I don't have the link but there was the article about the Robert Bigelow, Budget hotel owner (less then a year ago) who said that a life-support part he bought from a European producer cost him around 50k, while Lockheed Martin wanted to sell it to him for 10 million (my memory is fuzzy, but someone will correct me i am sure).
1) Having to get a dust devil to pass by the rover
2) The dust devil actually passing by in a way that helps shift the sand away, as opposed to putting more sand in.
Sorta like hitting the engine of a car with a hammer and hoping it will increase the performance. Yes there is a chance it will do that, but most likely it will make things worse. Now where is a chaos mathemitician (Jeff Goldbloom) when you need one?
Well maybe the companies that do sell services for linux based products need to start upselling their software. Show people what the advantage is. Also, if I go to the local computer store, and I see two computers sitting side by side - exactly the same except one is Windows and the other Linux - if I don't see a price difference I need some reason to buy a linux. Windows has a more well known name...now if Linux wants to crack that branding they need to do something - cheaper prices, better advertisement, etc.
My Trillian crashed this morning also, but since I do not have MSN active on it - it could just be Trillian. While I like this app, it is definitly flaky and has given me problems for a long long time - so I would not relate that to MSN servers.
The point is that unfortunately, a novice home user never sees the price of a Windows license as a line item, so there's not much of a way for GNU/Linux to compete on the "free as in beer" angle, and most home users think "programming" is something that people with degrees do, ruling out the "free as in speech" aspect.
Isn't that like saying "Hey I bought a Lexus, and they threw the engine in for free." (if you don't like engine, substitute another necessary car component).
Wow, I never thought I would hear someone from/. say that about Windows....that or you can just take the converse and saythat the store selling the PC is ripping its consumers off, unless the consumers get some benefit for this CD (maybe they get tech support that would not normally be given to someone downloading the software from the website freely).
Who says MS cares about having a Debian Free software Guideline or OSI open source definition? Who says MS plans on making this open source? Free != open source.
If the contract is fair (don't copy, don't distribute, don't reverse engineer) and it is free (you don't have to pay for it) then what's the problem? Why would you or anyone complain (other then just to complain). Where does it say a company has to make their stuff open source, where does it say a company has to accomdate the client? If the company doesn't do what you like - either don't use their product, or use it - your choice.
I am thankful when they give free stuff (i.e. their spyware program)
You are definitly on the light scale, I - on the other hand am on the other scale. While not morbid - i could use to lose about 30-40 lbs. The thing is, I eat less then most people I know. My body is just more efficient (i.e. that sandwhich will give me more energy *fat* then it will you) - now if we were living two hundred years ago or in a war-starved country.... i would be fine, you would be dead...alas we don't so I am fat. But trust me, not by my own choice (i go to the gym three times a week) and avoid pasta (and other carbs) like there is no tomorrow.
Many forms of obesity are through genetic/medical conditions, and it doesn't have to be thyroid. In my example, I truely do eat less then many of my males friends who are thin. My uncle pounds down the cheesesteaks like there is no tomorrow and is thin.
One day you will suffer from having a small frame - medical bills (medicare) will pay for this. It's a group thing - you have to pay for heavier people, but somewhere down the line someone will have to pay for you. It is really close minded, and unfair of you to categorize everyone who is not in the ideal weight group. Someone could just as easily say that your weight problem is due to bolemia or anorexia and I have to pay for your medical problems.
Yea my brother just flew to town on an AirBus, he said he will never do that again (obviously he has to on his return flight home). He said there was barely any space side to side.
*I* am not spilling over, the guy sitting next to me was spilling over. I simply have a tight fit (not comfy). As for my arms, well my arms are decent sized - but they are of the muscular variety - maybe i should stop benching:)
The only people I know of that are comfy are people under 6 feet (apparantly 5'10 or less) and of smaller frame (apparantly 170 or less). What is the national average of people over 5'10 and over 170 lbs)
I also don't understand "I think i should be allowed to carry extra baggage or that fat people should be charged more." WHat does one have to do with the other? I personally do not think fat people should be charged more, just like petite people are not charged less. I just think they need to realize the average weight/height has increased in the past years.
I don't know what the national average is, but they really really need to upgrade. I thought the average height of men was around 6 or 6'1. And well, considering that I always here reports how more then half of america is obese then they should probably up that weight to 200-230.
Do any of the Open source agreements stipulate that the acknowledgement method must be shipped freely? In other words, if company creating software that is OSI, GP1, etc compliant decides that you must mail in the EULA by mail or fax does this null the compliance? Please quote passage.
Then again, you gotta ask - does MS really give a crap about those compliances? No, they are giving it freely and you just need to acknowledge the EULA. It, most likely, will be a web form as that will save MS money.
Also, isn't there an MS - Europe office you can send forms to?
Since this is a completely new design how are the seats spaced? Currently, i have ZERO leg room (i am 6'3"). My legs are always jammed into the seat in front of me (even when in the upright). I MUST sit at an exit row, or be in the isle column and have my feet stick out in the row (uncomfortable with the arm rests). The width of the chairs are tight for me (i weight 250). The last time I flew, the guy next to me - his "love handles" were spilling over the arm rest - which made it uncomfy for me.
So did they build this plane in mind for us bigger (taller and wider) folk. 6'3"+ is not that uncommon. Neither are heavier people.
It costs you 50 euros to send a letter from Europe to Redmond? Damn you get ROBBED. It costs me a couple bucks to send a letter from Philadelphia to Israel. Or were you talking priority overnight Fedex? In that case it will cost me about $3000 to have a private courier hand deliver it to Bill G himself.
As for the "it cannot be sublicensed" --- boo hoo. I already acknowledged this - if someone wants their own copy, they can also register. Chances are there will be a free online submission form.
To be "really free" does not need it to be a "automatically" granted license. It can be "really free" but you just have to agree to the licensing terms. As long as you do not have to give up any monetary goods it is free. All they are asking (presumably) is that you follow a few rules: don't reverse engineer, don't give it away, don't sell it. (more or less).
At least with this registration method people like you can't say "well i didn't click the 'I accept' button to the EULA, my dog must have stepped on the mouse."
With the exception of beta, when was windows ever free? Who knows --- they might just surprise us and change.
If they model this like Adobe (free readers, but pay-writers) then it would be ok. If they did free readers for everyone, free writers for consumers but pay writers for corporate now that would be awesome.
LOL! I did that once for a teacher. He gave me extra credit, and gave me three days to do the assigment correctly (it was a three day project anyhow). He was one of the better teachers.
Anyone who took CS141 can tell you this is one of the first things taught. One of my teachers went so far that 25% of your grade (for that programming project) was based on your comments and your flow chart.
Well if he is a stupid, arrogant, sob he is probably too high strung up on his h4x0r abilities to realize what is going on. He probably thought the other guy was challenging his skillz and all that crap.
Anger clouds judgement and all that other Yoda crap.
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I've downloaded it about 20 times. Probably 5-8 unique computers. I keep a CD backup for emergency cases (i.e. a computer spyware laden that IE won't work), but for the most part I like getting people the latest/greatest.
The only piece of legislation NASA needs to pass, is legislation that restricts the amount of money goverment contractors can get from a given project. Right now we are getting screwed left and right. We pay too much to companies such as Boeing and Martin Lockheed. They are ripping us off. I don't have the link but there was the article about the Robert Bigelow, Budget hotel owner (less then a year ago) who said that a life-support part he bought from a European producer cost him around 50k, while Lockheed Martin wanted to sell it to him for 10 million (my memory is fuzzy, but someone will correct me i am sure).
We are getting highway robbed.
Well you run into two problems (that i can see).
1) Having to get a dust devil to pass by the rover
2) The dust devil actually passing by in a way that helps shift the sand away, as opposed to putting more sand in.
Sorta like hitting the engine of a car with a hammer and hoping it will increase the performance. Yes there is a chance it will do that, but most likely it will make things worse. Now where is a chaos mathemitician (Jeff Goldbloom) when you need one?
You do realize, for something to be marked "overrated -1" it has to at least be rated by someone positively.
Well maybe the companies that do sell services for linux based products need to start upselling their software. Show people what the advantage is. Also, if I go to the local computer store, and I see two computers sitting side by side - exactly the same except one is Windows and the other Linux - if I don't see a price difference I need some reason to buy a linux. Windows has a more well known name...now if Linux wants to crack that branding they need to do something - cheaper prices, better advertisement, etc.
1,000 unique /. users per day...each returning 1,000 times.
Yea well it may be able to handle 70 million, but can it handle the /. users?
My Trillian crashed this morning also, but since I do not have MSN active on it - it could just be Trillian. While I like this app, it is definitly flaky and has given me problems for a long long time - so I would not relate that to MSN servers.
The point is that unfortunately, a novice home user never sees the price of a Windows license as a line item, so there's not much of a way for GNU/Linux to compete on the "free as in beer" angle, and most home users think "programming" is something that people with degrees do, ruling out the "free as in speech" aspect.
Isn't that like saying "Hey I bought a Lexus, and they threw the engine in for free." (if you don't like engine, substitute another necessary car component).
Wow, I never thought I would hear someone from /. say that about Windows....that or you can just take the converse and saythat the store selling the PC is ripping its consumers off, unless the consumers get some benefit for this CD (maybe they get tech support that would not normally be given to someone downloading the software from the website freely).
Who says MS cares about having a Debian Free software Guideline or OSI open source definition? Who says MS plans on making this open source? Free != open source.
If the contract is fair (don't copy, don't distribute, don't reverse engineer) and it is free (you don't have to pay for it) then what's the problem? Why would you or anyone complain (other then just to complain). Where does it say a company has to make their stuff open source, where does it say a company has to accomdate the client? If the company doesn't do what you like - either don't use their product, or use it - your choice.
I am thankful when they give free stuff (i.e. their spyware program)
You are definitly on the light scale, I - on the other hand am on the other scale. While not morbid - i could use to lose about 30-40 lbs. The thing is, I eat less then most people I know. My body is just more efficient (i.e. that sandwhich will give me more energy *fat* then it will you) - now if we were living two hundred years ago or in a war-starved country .... i would be fine, you would be dead...alas we don't so I am fat. But trust me, not by my own choice (i go to the gym three times a week) and avoid pasta (and other carbs) like there is no tomorrow.
Many forms of obesity are through genetic/medical conditions, and it doesn't have to be thyroid. In my example, I truely do eat less then many of my males friends who are thin. My uncle pounds down the cheesesteaks like there is no tomorrow and is thin.
One day you will suffer from having a small frame - medical bills (medicare) will pay for this. It's a group thing - you have to pay for heavier people, but somewhere down the line someone will have to pay for you. It is really close minded, and unfair of you to categorize everyone who is not in the ideal weight group. Someone could just as easily say that your weight problem is due to bolemia or anorexia and I have to pay for your medical problems.
Yea my brother just flew to town on an AirBus, he said he will never do that again (obviously he has to on his return flight home). He said there was barely any space side to side.
*I* am not spilling over, the guy sitting next to me was spilling over. I simply have a tight fit (not comfy). As for my arms, well my arms are decent sized - but they are of the muscular variety - maybe i should stop benching :)
The only people I know of that are comfy are people under 6 feet (apparantly 5'10 or less) and of smaller frame (apparantly 170 or less). What is the national average of people over 5'10 and over 170 lbs)
130 lbs? do you mean 230?
I also don't understand "I think i should be allowed to carry extra baggage or that fat people should be charged more." WHat does one have to do with the other? I personally do not think fat people should be charged more, just like petite people are not charged less. I just think they need to realize the average weight/height has increased in the past years.
I don't know what the national average is, but they really really need to upgrade. I thought the average height of men was around 6 or 6'1. And well, considering that I always here reports how more then half of america is obese then they should probably up that weight to 200-230.
Do any of the Open source agreements stipulate that the acknowledgement method must be shipped freely? In other words, if company creating software that is OSI, GP1, etc compliant decides that you must mail in the EULA by mail or fax does this null the compliance? Please quote passage.
Then again, you gotta ask - does MS really give a crap about those compliances? No, they are giving it freely and you just need to acknowledge the EULA. It, most likely, will be a web form as that will save MS money.
Also, isn't there an MS - Europe office you can send forms to?
Since this is a completely new design how are the seats spaced? Currently, i have ZERO leg room (i am 6'3"). My legs are always jammed into the seat in front of me (even when in the upright). I MUST sit at an exit row, or be in the isle column and have my feet stick out in the row (uncomfortable with the arm rests). The width of the chairs are tight for me (i weight 250). The last time I flew, the guy next to me - his "love handles" were spilling over the arm rest - which made it uncomfy for me.
So did they build this plane in mind for us bigger (taller and wider) folk. 6'3"+ is not that uncommon. Neither are heavier people.
It costs you 50 euros to send a letter from Europe to Redmond? Damn you get ROBBED. It costs me a couple bucks to send a letter from Philadelphia to Israel. Or were you talking priority overnight Fedex? In that case it will cost me about $3000 to have a private courier hand deliver it to Bill G himself.
As for the "it cannot be sublicensed" --- boo hoo. I already acknowledged this - if someone wants their own copy, they can also register. Chances are there will be a free online submission form.
To be "really free" does not need it to be a "automatically" granted license. It can be "really free" but you just have to agree to the licensing terms. As long as you do not have to give up any monetary goods it is free. All they are asking (presumably) is that you follow a few rules: don't reverse engineer, don't give it away, don't sell it. (more or less).
At least with this registration method people like you can't say "well i didn't click the 'I accept' button to the EULA, my dog must have stepped on the mouse."
Will Snoop Dog fly the plane also?
Still, you have to admit - someone who teaches themself a language, even BASIC, who can get it to work properly for 20 years is pretty good.
With the exception of beta, when was windows ever free? Who knows --- they might just surprise us and change.
If they model this like Adobe (free readers, but pay-writers) then it would be ok. If they did free readers for everyone, free writers for consumers but pay writers for corporate now that would be awesome.
LOL! I did that once for a teacher. He gave me extra credit, and gave me three days to do the assigment correctly (it was a three day project anyhow). He was one of the better teachers.
Anyone who took CS141 can tell you this is one of the first things taught. One of my teachers went so far that 25% of your grade (for that programming project) was based on your comments and your flow chart.
Well if he is a stupid, arrogant, sob he is probably too high strung up on his h4x0r abilities to realize what is going on. He probably thought the other guy was challenging his skillz and all that crap.
Anger clouds judgement and all that other Yoda crap.