There is a National Do Not Call list if you haven't realized yet, so precedent exists for such restrictions. Asfaik there are also laws against mass automatic phone calls and such.
Since e-mail is not as easily tracked the methods have to be altered but the general idea is the same.
Because companies want to have money and can pay lobbyists to get laws which help them become monopolies.
Patents seem to be a funny thing from what I read, you don't gain anything from getting rid of existing patent laws (you may actually lose in the short term) but you seem to lose from adding new ones. In other words, it's a place where keeping the status quo is a good thing however governments rarely listen to research it seems.
Sigh, it's not fud. Patents exist in Europe for probably anything and if the law get's passed they will become enforceable retroactively. I'm sure a lot of them are for very basic functions of a kernel, such as... let's say modules.
Patents are on what it does not how it does it (not on a specific piece of code), so the only way to get rid of infringing code is to remove that functionality since rewriting the code does jack shit.
Because companies want to have money and can pay lobbyists to get laws which help them become monopolies.
Patents seem to be a funny thing from what I read, you don't gain anything from getting rid of existing patent laws (you may actually lose in the short term) but you seem to lose from adding new ones. In other words, it's a place where keeping the status quo is a good thing however governments rarely listen to research it seems.
In NYC you basically borrow a book from the school for the year, and then return it at the end of the year. So the longer the school reuses them for, the less they pay per year. I think they get new ones once the old ones start falling apart and tape can't hold them togother anymore. These are hardcover books (heavy but decently durable) and while there should be a "class set" so that you don't have to lug the thing to school there usually isn't (guess where they get books from to replace lost/destroyed copies...).
You must have gone to school in a nice place, I think my elementary school in NYC used books that were a decade+ old and my middle school wasn't much better. I then went to a magnet HS but I doubt the regular High Schools have anywhere near new books.
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Actually it seems that two mediocre cards cost more than one big one, and that's not counting the extra motherboard costs.
"As for showing a DL to the DMV, why ask for a DL, why not ID? Because if you go into the police dept to report a traffic incident, they assume you have a DL. And if you don't, you don't fit into their template, and so you're more work. And they don't like that."
They can probably pull up your records and verify that the ID is not fake, etc. It's probably a lot more convenient than having to deal with every possible form of ID there is. Convenience to them = less money to spend and less things that can be abused by assholes. On that note, what other forms of government issued picture ID are there (so far I can think of only passports and military IDs)?
Spimming is faster and easier to say/write than "instant message spamming." Actually why do you object to spimming but not to spamming?
Making new words to express phrases is a natural process which makes it easier to communicate, and the purpose of language is to aid in communication.
I stand corrected, the land use would only be around 200km by 200km and probably around how much roof space we have. Unfortunately that still leaves the problem of making those panels (need to replace them every few decades) and powering things at night.
Are you aware of how many solar panels you'd need? The amount of ecological damage that covering all that land would cause is not trivial. Are you aware of how much pollution the creation of a solar panel creates?
Hydroelectric also destroys the ecosystem where it is built, flooding large areas of land. Environmentalists will eat alive anyone who even attempts to create hydroelectric power plants in the US, asfaik we are actually getting rid of some at this point.
It's been basically shown that Macs are not more powerful than PCs for multimedia (cost wise, high-high end PCs are faster asfaik but the cost is insane). Macs aren't slower either so there is no incentive to switch to PCs, but there is also no incentive to switch to Macs (power wise I mean). In other words: they used Macs in the past and they continue to use Macs since it doesn't really matter.
Have you even seen the ratings, it's not that they began low but that they've been steadily dropping for the last 4 seasons. Lack of viewers my ass, what did a few million people suddenly stop viewing UPN during the run of enterprise? Have you even seen the ratings, it's not that they began low but that they've been steadily dropping for the last 4 seasons. Lack of viewers my ass; did a few million people suddenly stop viewing UPN during the run of enterprise? Well I mean besides those who only watched UPN for enterprise and stopped when they realized it sucked.
...and that is useful to me the average user how?
So you have to:
a) search for exploits that were fixed
b) if you find some then you need to download and install "a non-release" version?
BS. If FF has an update built in then it should use it. I wouldn't mind if it didn't but it does and all it results in is a false sense of security. Also, the fanboys need to shut up about how quickly exploits get patched because until they make it into the update/recommended download it's not really patched for most people.
I don't see what hacking a single player only game has to do with CS, unless you're some moronic CS fanboy who doesn't understand what the word "hacking" means.
Dells are rather cheap and probably will last longer than an el-cheapo beige box. If you don't upgrade too often (700mhz is more than enough for office work right now for example) then it might be cheaper to get a Dell. Also, you need to factor in the time to build and test the machines and potentially troubleshooting time as well(if they are less reliable).
....Because companies don't just think about what will happen in the next 5 minutes. It's hard to make profit when all your customers are leaving for competitors that offer better service.
This is not some communists state with a single company per industry but a mostly capitalistic market with this amazing thing called "competition." Just like animal species corporations need to both expand and evolve to survive since anything static gets killed by something which isn't.
Do you remember AltaVista? They use to be the search engine to use, haven't heard of them in a while have we? Ebay doesn't want to end up like that because some new company made a better product and lured its customers away.
As for no worry about competition: there is tons of competition and saying it's too small to worry about is plain dumb. By the time it becomes big enough to cut into their profits it's too late because customers will be jumping ship and not looking back, and by the time they finally stop the flow there won't be much left.
Actually doing that takes intelligence, so I'm not calling them stupid but rather quite clever. I know of one case where this happened and it' really a rather efficient tactic as the only real solution is to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. As for me, I'm never planning on being a pure programmer or pure anything really so I'm hopefully diversified enough not to be outsourced (or am able to find a niche market).
As for using OSS code: sure however if it's GPL then legally they'd need to release what they write as well (and closed source companies don't like that). Of course I doubt anyone would realize it for quite a while if they started putting OSS code into closed source applications.
That is what my HS did and then they found out that they missed some things (forgot to shadow linux passwords for example), new bugs showed up, etc. Software needs updates for example. In addition, people bypass security if it's for example "easier" and you need to deal with that, and also deal with potential holes (like tracking down the guy who hijacked the principal's account). Also, you need to look for potential break-ins because you can't be sure every hole is plugged.
However, it works fine as long as people don't actively try to get around it, and even then it works as long as you don't have too many intelligent people doing so. My HS may have in retrospect been a bad example as it had both for some reason. In general I do agree that a good setup can go a long way however it's not a "holy grail" of some sort and real effort is still needed.
Also, you're assuming that there is time to set up good security, if you get handed an insecure network and tons of support tickets than this may not be that easy to do.
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And of telemarketing calls.
There is a National Do Not Call list if you haven't realized yet, so precedent exists for such restrictions. Asfaik there are also laws against mass automatic phone calls and such.
Since e-mail is not as easily tracked the methods have to be altered but the general idea is the same.
It seems that you are disagreeing with yourself.
Because companies want to have money and can pay lobbyists to get laws which help them become monopolies.
... let's say modules.
Patents seem to be a funny thing from what I read, you don't gain anything from getting rid of existing patent laws (you may actually lose in the short term) but you seem to lose from adding new ones. In other words, it's a place where keeping the status quo is a good thing however governments rarely listen to research it seems.
Sigh, it's not fud. Patents exist in Europe for probably anything and if the law get's passed they will become enforceable retroactively. I'm sure a lot of them are for very basic functions of a kernel, such as
Patents are on what it does not how it does it (not on a specific piece of code), so the only way to get rid of infringing code is to remove that functionality since rewriting the code does jack shit.
Because companies want to have money and can pay lobbyists to get laws which help them become monopolies.
Patents seem to be a funny thing from what I read, you don't gain anything from getting rid of existing patent laws (you may actually lose in the short term) but you seem to lose from adding new ones. In other words, it's a place where keeping the status quo is a good thing however governments rarely listen to research it seems.
In NYC you basically borrow a book from the school for the year, and then return it at the end of the year. So the longer the school reuses them for, the less they pay per year. I think they get new ones once the old ones start falling apart and tape can't hold them togother anymore. These are hardcover books (heavy but decently durable) and while there should be a "class set" so that you don't have to lug the thing to school there usually isn't (guess where they get books from to replace lost/destroyed copies...).
You must have gone to school in a nice place, I think my elementary school in NYC used books that were a decade+ old and my middle school wasn't much better. I then went to a magnet HS but I doubt the regular High Schools have anywhere near new books.
Actually it seems that two mediocre cards cost more than one big one, and that's not counting the extra motherboard costs.
"As for showing a DL to the DMV, why ask for a DL, why not ID? Because if you go into the police dept to report a traffic incident, they assume you have a DL. And if you don't, you don't fit into their template, and so you're more work. And they don't like that."
They can probably pull up your records and verify that the ID is not fake, etc. It's probably a lot more convenient than having to deal with every possible form of ID there is. Convenience to them = less money to spend and less things that can be abused by assholes. On that note, what other forms of government issued picture ID are there (so far I can think of only passports and military IDs)?
Retraining workers (and admins) to use Linux is expensive. If they know Linux already then it's another story.
My uni has 50%+ Macs in the dorm comp labs (rest was Windows) and a lot of Linux/Unix/Solaris in the various labs around campus.
Well it will teach them which options to select in order to make the system not work.
Spimming is faster and easier to say/write than "instant message spamming." Actually why do you object to spimming but not to spamming? Making new words to express phrases is a natural process which makes it easier to communicate, and the purpose of language is to aid in communication.
Two words: Freedom Fries ... I guess "French Fries" wasn't American enough so we had to make our own word.
Because the power didn't actually go out?
Because computers can't beat 10 year olds in Go. It's kinda amusing really.
I stand corrected, the land use would only be around 200km by 200km and probably around how much roof space we have. Unfortunately that still leaves the problem of making those panels (need to replace them every few decades) and powering things at night.
Are you aware of how many solar panels you'd need? The amount of ecological damage that covering all that land would cause is not trivial. Are you aware of how much pollution the creation of a solar panel creates?
Hydroelectric also destroys the ecosystem where it is built, flooding large areas of land. Environmentalists will eat alive anyone who even attempts to create hydroelectric power plants in the US, asfaik we are actually getting rid of some at this point.
It's been basically shown that Macs are not more powerful than PCs for multimedia (cost wise, high-high end PCs are faster asfaik but the cost is insane). Macs aren't slower either so there is no incentive to switch to PCs, but there is also no incentive to switch to Macs (power wise I mean). In other words: they used Macs in the past and they continue to use Macs since it doesn't really matter.
Have you even seen the ratings, it's not that they began low but that they've been steadily dropping for the last 4 seasons. Lack of viewers my ass, what did a few million people suddenly stop viewing UPN during the run of enterprise? Have you even seen the ratings, it's not that they began low but that they've been steadily dropping for the last 4 seasons. Lack of viewers my ass; did a few million people suddenly stop viewing UPN during the run of enterprise?
Well I mean besides those who only watched UPN for enterprise and stopped when they realized it sucked.
...and that is useful to me the average user how? So you have to: a) search for exploits that were fixed b) if you find some then you need to download and install "a non-release" version? BS. If FF has an update built in then it should use it. I wouldn't mind if it didn't but it does and all it results in is a false sense of security. Also, the fanboys need to shut up about how quickly exploits get patched because until they make it into the update/recommended download it's not really patched for most people.
I don't see what hacking a single player only game has to do with CS, unless you're some moronic CS fanboy who doesn't understand what the word "hacking" means.
Dells are rather cheap and probably will last longer than an el-cheapo beige box. If you don't upgrade too often (700mhz is more than enough for office work right now for example) then it might be cheaper to get a Dell. Also, you need to factor in the time to build and test the machines and potentially troubleshooting time as well(if they are less reliable).
....Because companies don't just think about what will happen in the next 5 minutes. It's hard to make profit when all your customers are leaving for competitors that offer better service.
This is not some communists state with a single company per industry but a mostly capitalistic market with this amazing thing called "competition." Just like animal species corporations need to both expand and evolve to survive since anything static gets killed by something which isn't.
Do you remember AltaVista? They use to be the search engine to use, haven't heard of them in a while have we? Ebay doesn't want to end up like that because some new company made a better product and lured its customers away.
As for no worry about competition: there is tons of competition and saying it's too small to worry about is plain dumb. By the time it becomes big enough to cut into their profits it's too late because customers will be jumping ship and not looking back, and by the time they finally stop the flow there won't be much left.
Actually doing that takes intelligence, so I'm not calling them stupid but rather quite clever. I know of one case where this happened and it' really a rather efficient tactic as the only real solution is to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. As for me, I'm never planning on being a pure programmer or pure anything really so I'm hopefully diversified enough not to be outsourced (or am able to find a niche market).
As for using OSS code: sure however if it's GPL then legally they'd need to release what they write as well (and closed source companies don't like that). Of course I doubt anyone would realize it for quite a while if they started putting OSS code into closed source applications.
That is what my HS did and then they found out that they missed some things (forgot to shadow linux passwords for example), new bugs showed up, etc. Software needs updates for example. In addition, people bypass security if it's for example "easier" and you need to deal with that, and also deal with potential holes (like tracking down the guy who hijacked the principal's account). Also, you need to look for potential break-ins because you can't be sure every hole is plugged.
However, it works fine as long as people don't actively try to get around it, and even then it works as long as you don't have too many intelligent people doing so. My HS may have in retrospect been a bad example as it had both for some reason. In general I do agree that a good setup can go a long way however it's not a "holy grail" of some sort and real effort is still needed.
Also, you're assuming that there is time to set up good security, if you get handed an insecure network and tons of support tickets than this may not be that easy to do.