I know you can buy a WWII Destroyer for about a quarter million, wonder how much it would cost for an air craft carrier, launch it from Sea:)
Of course, if I'm not mistaken, as an american citizen, you're still governed by our agencies, what ever happened to Oceania?
What programs needed for video input and output?
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This is a very good idea, what programs would be required for recording video input, and outputting it to your TV? The TiVO service would still be great for getting the program information, but we could write it much better, for instance to not record reruns.
Gnucash isn't the only option, I've been using Moneydance for a while now, and am quite happy with it, it's a java app, and will run on many platforms, I heard the author is working on being able to download transactions, although I personally woulnd't use that feature, I've already caught my bank screw up once.
Adding value isn't too difficult, help me find new bands/songs that I like. So... you like Def Leppard and Chicago (don't spam me for my music taste.) well here is a new band you might like to hear...
Does it matter? Attacking the arguer rather than the issue is a logical fallacy. By your argument I should not pay for shareware software because I don't want the author buying junkfood and soda.
This is a poor argument, the icemakers were no longer required. The musicians still are. Admittedly, one part of your argument is good, that we can cut out the middlemen, perhaps we should concentrate our efforts on giving artists ways to produce and sell thier music without the recording industry, rather than pirating music. Which is illegal, and should be, in the society we live in, not everything can be free, the open model doesn't always work. (unless we move completely to a respect based society, which isn't going to happen any time soon).
Release early, release often. Sound familiar? You don't HAVE to upgrade, but it's nice to have the lastest packages available for d/l, instead of having to compile them and mess up package management. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
This is a very good point, obviously from all the posts on here, we are not all "working" while we are at work, so even if we bring work home it might even it out a bit. I do high level tech support for a major Computer company, and I'd say I've got it made, I "work" probably 30 or less hours per week (counting time on calls and time spend on after call work) a lot of that is due to working on Sat and taking maybe 5 calls. But I spend my time doing computer based training or other types of training, so that I can get a good sys admin job. Now I think maybe I should just stay here.
I won't mention most of the books I like, but one that I did not see mentioned was "Minds, Machines, and Evolution" it's a collection of short, I believe by James P Hogan. Most are very thought provoking stories, and easy to read in a night.
Simply use a filter and you preven "them" from tracking you, but better yet, why not randomly change your cookie every so often? I have been trying to figure out if cookies are cached, I think they are, but if you go through and change the number in your cookie everytime you start netscape, you're not only preventing you from tracking you, you're screwing up thier data on other customers.
Alright, I'll admit I replied to this so that I could be near the top, but, instead of just blocking the ads, why not screw up thier database? The database is based off of the number in the cookie, that is how it identifies you, why not change it every 5 minutes, to a new random number, a simple cron job should do the trick, of for the more ambitious, take an active approach and create scripts that actually go out and give them false information.
Even better than blocking the ads, would be corrupting the data that they retrieve. A cron job that randomly changes your cookie for them every 5 minutes, or a proxies that randomly changes it should do the trick.
The most ruthless? If you really belive that you do not know your history well. Take a closer look at the oil, railroad, and industrial titans that brought about all our Monopoly and Labor laws. Children working 12 hour days in factories, slave labor, coal miners, company stores that you would never get out of debt with. While Gates isn't a a saint, I think you need a sense of perspective.
Being as my username is from Startide Rising, I just had to say something. I'm not happy that Startide Rising is going to be made in to a movie, because I choose this name to be obscure and not get in to arguments over it. On topic, while I think Marshall was a great man, the whole idea of making a list is rather pedantic. There are many people that brought us to where we are in this point in history. How can one be more valuable than another. Inventors, scientists, philosophers, military leaders, world leaders and especially mothers and fathers are needed. (ok, so world leaders is debatable). Brin points out that his canditate depended greatly on others, Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, the soldiers, the people that built the military machines.... The list goes on, everyone was needed in some small way.
That is quite true, you don't pay delaware sales tax unless the point of sale takes place in Delaware. In the case of shipping, this occurs when the UPS guy hands the package to you. On smaller scale the same thing happens in counties, I sell PC to homes and businesses, if they come to me and pick it up then I may my county sales tax, if I deliver to another county, then I pay that counties sales tax (and pass this payment on to the customer of course) The point is you don't pay sales tax twice. The problems here aren't so much wether it's right or wrong, as sales tax does go to good causes (at least that's what my politician tells me:/ The question is how to do it. Do you place the burden on the consumer or the business. a lot of people don't realize this, but you are required to pay sales tax on mail order items, but it's not often enforced, except for businesses, as they have more accurate records. If I buy a printer from a vendor for my own use, I have to pay sales tax on it.
As a former TCI employee I can assure you that the cable companies have had a lot of pains getting the infrastructure set up. The cable techs haven't changed much in the past 10 years, but the technology they are dealing with is barely in the grasp of most engineers. Until the connection right to your house is fiber, there will be interference problems, and even then, are there enough highly skilled techs to handle it.
I stopped using Amazon when they introduced purchasing circles, unlike other items, the books you read say a lot about you and anyone could develop a fairly good profile of you from them. I look for books on Amazon (the comments are great) and go to the local bookstore, and pay cash. I remember a while back the trend was to look local, and purchase from Amazon for the price. maybe that is reversing.
Perhaps Corel and Stormix can assist with the development of new tools for debian package management, such as the GUI or new version of dselect. Or other Debian specific packages. I like the idea of Debian, but it's currently too far out of date for me to use.
I think this hits on the key Microsoft Monopoly, and the solution. Office is not compatable with other products. A simple mandate that all government documents are writting in an open standard format would do a lot toward breaking that monopoly. And aleviate one of the biggest headaches of being a Linux or other OS user.
Has anyone ever read a book called "Voyage from Yesteryear" by James P. Hogan. The people in the book basically have a way of dealing with people that make unreasonable demands, ignore them. Get the beta code, feel free to redistribute it if you wish (although not the Corel proprietary bits) and let them worry about it if they like. Oh wait, the rest is just debian, so why get it from the Corel CD?
The point is, no one would want to distribute it, so it's sort of a moot point. However, it is against the OS Creed of post early and post often, but in the end that only hurts Corel.
Who backs the GPL? Isn't that a bit like asking who backs the copyright laws? The GPL is just a license, it is up to the individual developers to enforce it. However, why not just ignore this obvious form letter for thier beta software and redistribute it as you please, let Corel have to go on the offensive if they so wish.
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I use ICQ, but I wouldn't touch AOL. The link between the two is very thin.
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Of course, if I'm not mistaken, as an american citizen, you're still governed by our agencies, what ever happened to Oceania?
This is a very good idea, what programs would be required for recording video input, and outputting it to your TV? The TiVO service would still be great for getting the program information, but we could write it much better, for instance to not record reruns.
Gnucash isn't the only option, I've been using Moneydance for a while now, and am quite happy with it, it's a java app, and will run on many platforms, I heard the author is working on being able to download transactions, although I personally woulnd't use that feature, I've already caught my bank screw up once.
Writing it out is Conspiracy to commit murder, and sending it to him is a threat, don't remember what it's called, but it is illegal.
Adding value isn't too difficult, help me find new bands/songs that I like. So... you like Def Leppard and Chicago (don't spam me for my music taste.) well here is a new band you might like to hear...
Does it matter? Attacking the arguer rather than the issue is a logical fallacy. By your argument I should not pay for shareware software because I don't want the author buying junkfood and soda.
This is a poor argument, the icemakers were no longer required. The musicians still are. Admittedly, one part of your argument is good, that we can cut out the middlemen, perhaps we should concentrate our efforts on giving artists ways to produce and sell thier music without the recording industry, rather than pirating music. Which is illegal, and should be, in the society we live in, not everything can be free, the open model doesn't always work. (unless we move completely to a respect based society, which isn't going to happen any time soon).
Release early, release often. Sound familiar? You don't HAVE to upgrade, but it's nice to have the lastest packages available for d/l, instead of having to compile them and mess up package management. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I believe there is one called Linux-Kontor, but not very far along. From the Gnucash website, it's intended for business use as well.
This is a very good point, obviously from all the posts on here, we are not all "working" while we are at work, so even if we bring work home it might even it out a bit. I do high level tech support for a major Computer company, and I'd say I've got it made, I "work" probably 30 or less hours per week (counting time on calls and time spend on after call work) a lot of that is due to working on Sat and taking maybe 5 calls. But I spend my time doing computer based training or other types of training, so that I can get a good sys admin job. Now I think maybe I should just stay here.
I won't mention most of the books I like, but one that I did not see mentioned was "Minds, Machines, and Evolution" it's a collection of short, I believe by James P Hogan. Most are very thought provoking stories, and easy to read in a night.
Simply use a filter and you preven "them" from tracking you, but better yet, why not randomly change your cookie every so often? I have been trying to figure out if cookies are cached, I think they are, but if you go through and change the number in your cookie everytime you start netscape, you're not only preventing you from tracking you, you're screwing up thier data on other customers.
Alright, I'll admit I replied to this so that I could be near the top, but, instead of just blocking the ads, why not screw up thier database? The database is based off of the number in the cookie, that is how it identifies you, why not change it every 5 minutes, to a new random number, a simple cron job should do the trick, of for the more ambitious, take an active approach and create scripts that actually go out and give them false information.
Even better than blocking the ads, would be corrupting the data that they retrieve. A cron job that randomly changes your cookie for them every 5 minutes, or a proxies that randomly changes it should do the trick.
The most ruthless? If you really belive that you do not know your history well. Take a closer look at the oil, railroad, and industrial titans that brought about all our Monopoly and Labor laws. Children working 12 hour days in factories, slave labor, coal miners, company stores that you would never get out of debt with. While Gates isn't a a saint, I think you need a sense of perspective.
Being as my username is from Startide Rising, I just had to say something. I'm not happy that Startide Rising is going to be made in to a movie, because I choose this name to be obscure and not get in to arguments over it. On topic, while I think Marshall was a great man, the whole idea of making a list is rather pedantic. There are many people that brought us to where we are in this point in history. How can one be more valuable than another. Inventors, scientists, philosophers, military leaders, world leaders and especially mothers and fathers are needed. (ok, so world leaders is debatable). Brin points out that his canditate depended greatly on others, Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, the soldiers, the people that built the military machines.... The list goes on, everyone was needed in some small way.
That is quite true, you don't pay delaware sales tax unless the point of sale takes place in Delaware. In the case of shipping, this occurs when the UPS guy hands the package to you. On smaller scale the same thing happens in counties, I sell PC to homes and businesses, if they come to me and pick it up then I may my county sales tax, if I deliver to another county, then I pay that counties sales tax (and pass this payment on to the customer of course) The point is you don't pay sales tax twice. The problems here aren't so much wether it's right or wrong, as sales tax does go to good causes (at least that's what my politician tells me :/ The question is how to do it. Do you place the burden on the consumer or the business. a lot of people don't realize this, but you are required to pay sales tax on mail order items, but it's not often enforced, except for businesses, as they have more accurate records. If I buy a printer from a vendor for my own use, I have to pay sales tax on it.
As a former TCI employee I can assure you that the cable companies have had a lot of pains getting the infrastructure set up. The cable techs haven't changed much in the past 10 years, but the technology they are dealing with is barely in the grasp of most engineers. Until the connection right to your house is fiber, there will be interference problems, and even then, are there enough highly skilled techs to handle it.
I stopped using Amazon when they introduced purchasing circles, unlike other items, the books you read say a lot about you and anyone could develop a fairly good profile of you from them. I look for books on Amazon (the comments are great) and go to the local bookstore, and pay cash. I remember a while back the trend was to look local, and purchase from Amazon for the price. maybe that is reversing.
Perhaps Corel and Stormix can assist with the development of new tools for debian package management, such as the GUI or new version of dselect. Or other Debian specific packages. I like the idea of Debian, but it's currently too far out of date for me to use.
I think this hits on the key Microsoft Monopoly, and the solution. Office is not compatable with other products. A simple mandate that all government documents are writting in an open standard format would do a lot toward breaking that monopoly. And aleviate one of the biggest headaches of being a Linux or other OS user.
The point is, no one would want to distribute it, so it's sort of a moot point. However, it is against the OS Creed of post early and post often, but in the end that only hurts Corel.
Who backs the GPL? Isn't that a bit like asking who backs the copyright laws? The GPL is just a license, it is up to the individual developers to enforce it. However, why not just ignore this obvious form letter for thier beta software and redistribute it as you please, let Corel have to go on the offensive if they so wish.