TV repairmen were originally regulated (just like most other occupations) for two main reasons:
1. Existing repairmen wanted to make it harder for newcomers to compete with them. That's the primary reason for occupational licensing.
2. The State wanted some extra cash. That's usually a secondary reason to get them to go along with #1 above. May be the main reason for this expansion.
"Safety" is usually the excuse given to the public when they ask why they can't just arrange for anyone otherwise qualified to fix their stuff. If you stop and consider that the "license" (like most occupational licensing, although you will find some exceptions where they make a really hard and arbitrary test to be judged by those already in the business in order to better limit competition) doesn't actually require any firm proof of safety or skill, it becomes clear that "safety" can't possibly be the primary objective of the license.
Of course, it is interesting to see a bunch of slashdotters actually taking a pro-microsoft stance on something. Must be getting pretty chilly for the devil about now...
The problem is that you just get the base OS, which isn't any better than say, FreeBSD, but not too much worse either, but you don't get the GUI, which after all is the difference (from FreeBSD, Linux, whatever) that you'd want from Apple in the first place.
To balance that out, whoever is in charge of their Internet is now explaining to his boss how the Americans have rallied the world to create a Denial-Of-Service attack against their nation's first website through their super-secret weapon, the "Slashdot effect!"
Since he built the plane, the FAA considers this mod to be original equipment.
But really, who cares if the guy uses a wifi antenna that high? To planes refuse to fly near ground-based radio station towers because they are afraid of interference? Didn't think so.
But just think, you get all the government you can eat.
It's like a socialist buffet!
And people wonder why they get paid 40% less in Canada and many people up there want to head south for better paying jobs and better medical care.... -- Oreck Reviews
You may see some of the "upgraded" drives for sale on Ebay. A word to the wise, don't buy them, even if it seems cheap. Who will you complain to when it doesn't work right?
As afay says, Just get the newer one new. It'll be cheaper in the long run.
The basic problem being that MAC and individual IP addresses can be changed on a whim in many networks, how about just a general indicator/record for netblocks?
People could complain about an IP, but have the complaints automatically assigned as knocks against the ARIN the IP falls in.
Core BGP routers could be set to a particular threshold level of complaints, after which they'd drop their routes to that ARIN for a set period of time, in some sort of back-off protocol.
Of course, this doesn't solve the distributed zombie client complaint record generating problem, but I can't be expected to have all the ideas....
The real news is that Oracle must have made their pricing attractive enough that they could afford to run it on smaller boxes. The real reason people aren't using big clusters of little Linux boxes to run Oracle isn't technical, it's because Oracle prices by the number of CPUs, regardless of speed or performance. With the Oracle license being the largest part of the hardware/software cost, that drives people to big powerful machines instead of a big cluster of less powerful, but cheaper overall machines.
They expect a lot of this growth to be due to world-wide PC sales expansion, which is where organized piracy and government Linux users will hit them the hardest, so the numbers may be more difficult to achieve than they think.
Just because his job requires him to interact with windows, doesn't mean that he considers it "right" for himself.
Too many times when using a windows client I've had to sftp files to my FreeBSD box in order to use some tools on them that just don't have native windows versions and then sftp the results back. Running windows in a VM-type setup would sure make that process a lot easier, for example.
Exactly. With Windows, a new OS release seems to mean you need to upgrade your computer. The history for Macs seems to be more like a new OS release allowing you to use your older computer a little longer.
Slashdot Mirror
TV repairmen were originally regulated (just like most other occupations) for two main reasons:
1. Existing repairmen wanted to make it harder for newcomers to compete with them. That's the primary reason for occupational licensing.
2. The State wanted some extra cash. That's usually a secondary reason to get them to go along with #1 above. May be the main reason for this expansion.
"Safety" is usually the excuse given to the public when they ask why they can't just arrange for anyone otherwise qualified to fix their stuff. If you stop and consider that the "license" (like most occupational licensing, although you will find some exceptions where they make a really hard and arbitrary test to be judged by those already in the business in order to better limit competition) doesn't actually require any firm proof of safety or skill, it becomes clear that "safety" can't possibly be the primary objective of the license.
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General Houseware
It was actually windowsupdateNOW.com.
Of course, it is interesting to see a bunch of slashdotters actually taking a pro-microsoft stance on something. Must be getting pretty chilly for the devil about now...
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Dust Devil Reviews
Photoshop is too complicated to count.
"Paint" is probably more like an etch-a-sketch.
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Kirby Reviews
The problem is that you just get the base OS, which isn't any better than say, FreeBSD, but not too much worse either, but you don't get the GUI, which after all is the difference (from FreeBSD, Linux, whatever) that you'd want from Apple in the first place.
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Kirby Reviews
So instead of spending time writing scripts and configuring your make files, you spend that time configuring Maven?
Got it.
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Kirby Reviews
To balance that out, whoever is in charge of their Internet is now explaining to his boss how the Americans have rallied the world to create a Denial-Of-Service attack against their nation's first website through their super-secret weapon, the "Slashdot effect!"
Good thing his boss doesn't read English.
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Kirby Reviews
Since he built the plane, the FAA considers this mod to be original equipment.
But really, who cares if the guy uses a wifi antenna that high? To planes refuse to fly near ground-based radio station towers because they are afraid of interference? Didn't think so.
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Oreck Reviews
It'll be a toss up if I can get my new home theatre setup before HL2 comes out.
I mean, who wouldn't want to play it on a 133" screen with 6.1 THX surround sound while sitting in a recliner with a cup-holder?
The race is on!
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Oreck Reviews
After it's called Phoenix, should it be called the browser formerly known as ashes?
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Oreck Reviews
But just think, you get all the government you can eat.
It's like a socialist buffet!
And people wonder why they get paid 40% less in Canada and many people up there want to head south for better paying jobs and better medical care....
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Oreck Reviews
You may see some of the "upgraded" drives for sale on Ebay. A word to the wise, don't buy them, even if it seems cheap. Who will you complain to when it doesn't work right?
As afay says, Just get the newer one new. It'll be cheaper in the long run.
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Kirby Reviews
I'd tell you which stick was the best, but I don't remember. Must have picked the wrong one for my new brain mod....
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Kirby Reviews
The basic problem being that MAC and individual IP addresses can be changed on a whim in many networks, how about just a general indicator/record for netblocks?
People could complain about an IP, but have the complaints automatically assigned as knocks against the ARIN the IP falls in.
Core BGP routers could be set to a particular threshold level of complaints, after which they'd drop their routes to that ARIN for a set period of time, in some sort of back-off protocol.
Of course, this doesn't solve the distributed zombie client complaint record generating problem, but I can't be expected to have all the ideas....
I know.
I was just telling the questioner how to make sure the feature was preserved in the new version.
You wouldn't want the new version to be less feature-rich than RC2, would you?
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Kirby Reviews
"Wouldn't you rather be the bigger person?"
Nope. Too many years of sitting in front of a computer all day have already made me the "bigger person".
I'm personally tired of IE criticizing me.
Now it's going to get "extremely critical" at my vulnerabilities?
I just can't take it anymore....
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Kirby Reviews
Yes, just install it and select the option to overwrite all existing partitions, assuming you want the "Break XP" option.
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Kirby Reviews
No they won't, because they've structured the stock offering so that the stock purchasers:
1. Get no control at all. The current ownership retains voting control.
2. Get no dividends back. In the prospective they essentially promise no dividends, ever.
So what do you get with your Google stock? The right to try to sell it to some other sucker later on.
I can't attend. Anyone willing to at least send me the demo of the event so I can play the first few levels?
The real news is that Oracle must have made their pricing attractive enough that they could afford to run it on smaller boxes. The real reason people aren't using big clusters of little Linux boxes to run Oracle isn't technical, it's because Oracle prices by the number of CPUs, regardless of speed or performance. With the Oracle license being the largest part of the hardware/software cost, that drives people to big powerful machines instead of a big cluster of less powerful, but cheaper overall machines.
They expect a lot of this growth to be due to world-wide PC sales expansion, which is where organized piracy and government Linux users will hit them the hardest, so the numbers may be more difficult to achieve than they think.
Haven't they been selling Redhat on servers for years?
Just because his job requires him to interact with windows, doesn't mean that he considers it "right" for himself.
Too many times when using a windows client I've had to sftp files to my FreeBSD box in order to use some tools on them that just don't have native windows versions and then sftp the results back. Running windows in a VM-type setup would sure make that process a lot easier, for example.
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Kirby Reviews
Exactly. With Windows, a new OS release seems to mean you need to upgrade your computer. The history for Macs seems to be more like a new OS release allowing you to use your older computer a little longer.
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Kirby Reviews
Maybe we can encourage Bethesda to include a decent editor, something like Neverwinter Nights, but better, of course.
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Kirby Reviews