Yes, they would have. My wife uses XP at work, and it would be nice for her to have compatibility "out of the box" for doing work at home. Same with my daughter in high school- their school website (where they do and save a significant amount of work) only works with Windows, grudgingly with Firefox.
Until last month's fiasco, they both just used this one- I was usually gone at work anyhow. So, I have spent a bit of time and effort to get most of the stuff working for them in Linux. It has not been easy, as I'm a Linux n00b-it's been a learning experience that I don't begrudge.
Honestly, I could just tweak the current setup to keep the pirated OS's on their PC's, but I'm not....as I said earlier- I've had enough.
I'll miss some of my games from my XP days, but I can load them on Win98se and take a slight performance hit in the graphics department- no biggy...I don't play the online only multiplayer games, so 98 is not any significant handicap for me.
My wife is a bright gal, and has since learned how to interoperate with MS Office and OpenOffice. Yes, occasionally things are a bit tricky here, but so far, nothing we could not get accomplished.
As for me, I'm not even planning to make a vfat partion to put 98 on- if I bother, it will probably be done in VMWare in Linux, but as of now, that's not on the project list.
So, yeah, 3 sales/upgrades they won't get from me, and no pirated versions either- I have legit copies of Win98se (4), so I'm covered there.
BTW, if I had planned to "keep" the pirated XP installs, I am not stupid enough to post that other than AC. I do know how this website works!
I stated it was an experiment to see "what if", I have just recieved these other two PC's several months ago with 98 installed.
I also hope this does not become a bragging rights battle.
I think the spin on this may have been due to USA traditionally feeling dominate in the "space race" after Apollo 11, not a slur on EU. More to ease the wounded pride I guess.
(disclaimer: I am an American-USA, and grew up with NASA- both my father, then I worked for NASA and "space: the final frontier" as always been a keen interest.
Okay, we followed in your footsteps, and got double resolution pic's. Groundbraeking in itself? Not likely. Helpful towards going to Mars? Probably so- it will be added to all of the data that has been/is being collected by EVERYONE that we share data with.
One thing that used to strike me as odd in most sci-fi I read: the concept of a global based economic and political setup. After some thought, and some more years experience, I concluded that was a deemed necessary state to make the cooperation needed for the plot to work....something to think about?
We are reaching a point where unprecedented cooperation will be needed to solve the problems of true space exploration. If "National Pride" cannot take second place to actual cooperation, then we will stay in this fuedal (by nation/country) state.
So, as an American, let me officially congradulate you all (EU) on an astounding project well done!
Hey, anyway, cut us a little slack- we're a little defensive (read as: gun-shy) since Challenger- that really hurt!:-) (hey, national pride thrives here too!) A lot of work lies ahead, let's get together and get to work!
Here at home, out of my 3 PC's connected to the network and internet, 2 of the 3 PC's are currently running pirated copies of XP and have safely passed WGA and currently get their updates flawlessly via AutoUpdate at MS. The reason that is not 3 out of three, is last month I had to replace my HDD, reinstalled my legit, retail WinXP Pro cd, went to MS updates only to be barred from updates and activation because they determined my retail cd was pirated- have had it running on old HDD for 3 years prior with no problems.
The reason the other two are running pirated XP was an experiment after the legit pirated fiasco on this PC.
I decided I had had enough, booted into FC5, repartioned the drive to all Linux and haven't looked back. Don't care what Vista is like, as I will not even reinstall XP anymore. This weekend, both of the other PC's will get their XP partitions deleted and go back to dual boot Win98se and Ubuntu only. The XP partitions are too small to be more than barely functional, so no sense in trying to leave them running.
Just another vehicle to serve up even more advertising.
FTA: "In exchange, users agree to let PrefPass sites access their pref lists, thus allowing them to customize the experience, as well target advertising to the user."
Of course they are in league with the pirates, otherwise why would they object to this guy "having an unfair advantage" over the rest of the pirates?
FTA:"Our own intellectual property was stolen from us and used to create this tool," said Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney in Microsoft's legal and corporate affairs division. "They obviously had a leg up on any of the other hackers that might be creating circumvention tools from scratch."
See, even MS is concerned that the pirates are all on level ground...er, I mean decks.
Ah, nevermind...I gotta go, things to take care of... Arrrghh! Thar she blows....P2P off teh port bow! Heave to, maties, this one looks like rich plunder!
You obviously have not worked much in the construction field. Everyone knows when you are in a limited access envoirment trying to run/string cable, it will get caught on everything to hamper your efforts- it will even get caught on stuff that isn't there! That's why when I fly, I always carry an extension cord or welding lead on board. If the plane starts to go down, I can toss one end out the window to get caught on something (cloud, maybe?) and halt the plane, or at least me.:-)
All jokes aside, I remember reading several places (that I can't find now to link to for you) they are planning to work from both ends and join at the middle once they get the anchor/base planted. All in all, it will prove to be an interesting engineering problem to work out- if we can. ( I should say when, not if?)
I was wondering about that also. (disclaimer: I'm a n00b and all-unknowing!) When I check my e-mail with either evolution (for my cox.net account) or hotmail, I always see who it is from, who/if it has been cc'd or bcc'd, the subject line, and whether there were attatchments. So, isn't this all stored together at least at one point? With the number of people running Win IE and Outlook, does this null teh whole works at a weak point? G-mail and Google Desktop tied in with the above?
I'm not trying to flame, just asking 'cause I don't know enough to know, only to be suspiciuos. Say it isn't so!
"In the case you mentioned either the administrators worked it out in advance with the donor or the donor (or the donors estate) didn't follow up like they should have." I'm pretty sure it was the latter in my example.
You mak a strong, reasonable argument. Am I mistaken that you mentioned you went to a private school? If not, I wonder what bearing this may have on our discussion. If so, then we both have seen different aspects of our current education system. (disclaimer: I graduated high scholl in 1976, but did not go to college until 1991- I was amazed at the difference!)
I could most easily be wrong about this, but it has been my (limited) experience that each school (on the college/university level) or school board (for that district pertaining to high schools/jr. high) has the say on how the budget is divided up, not obligated by default to honor the donor's wishes. I'll admit that I cannot speak with any authority on this, only what I have seen in my limited acadamia (sp?).
Look, I'm not trying to get in a flamewar, as I perceive you are not either- I appreciate the discussion (rare on/. anymore, it seems!). I actually *love* having that "light bulb go bright in my head" on something I thought I knew about! I also think that it can go the other way too far also- you bring up some valid points about sports being a good way to teach about competition, and it is true that competition drives us in many (some unsuspected) ways in our "real world" adult lives. I can't reasonably argue against your points there, IMHO.
I guess this is what I chalk up as the *pendulum effect*- it will swing back to middle ground someday (I hope!), but until then, I still don't really like the disparity (my perspective) between sports and actual education.
I'm gonna be a hard sell probably, but I.m still not happy with our current culture/society where the donor's feel the need to specify sports over education. I understand that my point of view is based on my interests, thus I am biased, but I can't help but think I am not too far off base with my pendulum analogy.
I give you credit for making me think/rethink- I used to really enjoy playing football in Jr. High and High School, even tho' I had given up on pro sports when Vince Lombardi left the Packers to go to the Redskins-TRAITOR!!.....yeah, so I date myself!
Okay, I'm starting to ramble on here, damn kids on my lawn, and all!
But as a side note (in your favor), I've often wondered what makes sports so popular with the public- could it be that sports and corporate executive battles have replace our species "I'm Ooogh, mighty hunter and slayer of rivals!" instincts/mentality?...I've often wondered about this. Can we fix this, or should we even try? I don't know. On one hand, I feel the need to preserve what I think is good in our makeup (society, mentallity, outlook, etc.), but on the other hand I wonder where we could go by throwing all caution to the wind so to speak, and let nature take it's cours. A difficult tightrope to navigate when I have the time to ponder it.
Again, thanks for a healthy debate- I've enjoyed it!- I'm adding you to my friends list just because of the way you have presented your side. (yes, I know that you feel honored-relax!)
Don't take offense-that last jibe was aimed at my own ego, not you-but I am adding you as friend.
"Bully for the bigger companies that can take the pain, but the point of the original FAQ is that music sales are declining."
My sales are declining also, instead of finding a better way of doing business, then I guess I should just take all airlines, passenger liners, etc. to court to protect my business model.
I have starved lately due to those "pirate" airlines- dammmm them! They unfairly disrupt my Hotair Balloon Trans-Atlantic Commuter Service (TM and patent-pending!) that runs between Souix Falls, S. Dakota to Upper Slobvokia, bi-annually! It's an outrage, I say!
With the internet (it's tubes, man!), IP distribution has entered a NEW phase/means of doing business.
The *AA's objections carry as much weight as those horse-drawn carriage style "taxi" services bitching about Checker Marathons (for those NYC'ers...whatever make and model of taxi for the rest) putting them out of business, thus should be outlawed. (hey, this is/., where else could you get a car AND a hot-air balloon commuter service analogy!)
Their control and distribution centric business model is becoming obsolete- instead of adapting and thriving, they want to pull everyone else back into the dark ages. (remember when only priests and nobles were literate?-well, I don't either, but that is what I learned in school, but I am almost that old!)
I don't think I'm trying to pick a fight with you, just the quote I used from your post started this chain of thought. We may be on the same side?!
All joking aside, the past couple of years, not only have I not bought any music cd's from RIAA affiliated sources (nothing has interested me), but I have downloaded several "pirated" cd's that I could not get elsewhere. The copyright limits are way too long anymore (thanks Sonny Bono and Disney!)These "pirated" cd's are no longer available by any other means. I've tried ordering them, checking used cd businesses, etc.- not to be found anywhere but bittorrent, so I downloaded them.
Enough of that, who needs a two week commute to Slobvokia? I'm booking reservations now! Jump on quick, or get left behind!
errr....we're not scheduled to land behind the Hindengerg AGAIN?!?!?! Arrrgh!
I agree with you for the most part, but have to take issue with the percentage of the overall school budget that gets appropriated by the sports department, compared to actual education.
"As many have stated they are based on seprate budgets and athletics (especially football and basket ball) make money and recieve a fair ammount of cash from sponsors and donations."
This seperate budgets you speak of start out in the general budget, then the school's administration assigns it to different departments- this is where I step in to complain so to speak. That and the justification that even you mentioned about how sports can make the school money- the purpose of schools is to educate, not as a recruiting/training camp for the pro's. That attitude is my beef.
As for the donations, etc., yeah- that's fine, but let's stop there. The budgets assigned to the departments (including donations) are arbitrary, and depends on the school how they will be apportioned.
For example: I used to work at Oklahoma State University in the Large Animal Dept. of the Veterinary Med Teaching Hospital. We had a client bequeath 3.2 million $'s to specifically be used by the Food Animal Department for a new surgery suite. The hospital administrator ( a small animal specialist) decided that the Small Animal Department needed an MRI, and a 6th surgery suite- we ended up with $22,000 of our own 3.2 million because the Admin felt there was more money in small animal medicine.
I'm STILL hooked on Fallout and Fallout 2, there's just so many different ways you can go about playing it. IMHO, these two offered a decent balance between open ended play and linear play.
"I guess in the long run MS can depend on "retiring" support on 2003 and XP to force users towards Vista but I dont see nearly the amount of voluntary upgrading as MS seems to expect."
I think this is an important point-good insight, IMHO.
I just had a clent ask about alternatives to WinME (she did not want to pay for XP just to check here email and browse the internet). Her PC (Dell Demension 8200) had ME preinstalled, she had deleted the restore partition somehow thinking it would give her more HDD space, but could not figure out what happened to the storage space she had started with. (yes, it WAS that infested!) I did my best to get her PC useable again, and gave her an Ubuntu Live cd to tryout. Two days later, I get this call from her: "What would it take to install this Ubuntu thingy on my PC?-I really like it!" Needless to say, I went right over and installed Ubuntu for her! w00t!!
I just don't see MS making as much of a killing on Vista that they are expecting/wanting- they have cut too many of the features that were toutewd when it was still Longhorn. (WinFS was the only one I had any interest in) Now it seems that Vista is just WinXP SP3 with eye candy. I would rather see them release most of Vista as SP3 for XP, and use the time to finish Longhorn with all of the hyped features.
If it wasn't for my clients, I would ignore Vista completely, but I guess I'll have to download the "beta" mentioned earler on/. and run it on VMWare so I can help some of my older clents. (not client's age- how long they have been clients!)
Unfortunately, where Vista will get it's foothold is by way of the likes of Dell, eMachines, HP, etc. when Joe Sixpack buys a new PC with Vista preinstalled. This tactic is what got MS to where they are now, and I don't see them slacking off in this department lately.
The sad thing is, all of this discussion is just preaching to the choir-the major influence (as usual) is "teh lusers"
P.S. To mollify the mad modders, we are all "teh lusers" outside our respective fields of expertise-ie: in an office enviorment I would be "teh luser", as I've done almost exclusively construction work most of my life- I doubt I could operate a copier withou having to ask for help fer christ's sake! (yes, this has happened to me before)
A poster on the linked page (http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000097) gave the best possible reply, IMHO: "How does it help? Submitted by Bozikins (not verified) on Wed, 2006-09-20 17:58.
Why is it beneficial to anyone that a new operating system will require 100,000 new jobs to support it - couldn't they be better employed improving the human condition? Should we consider the parable of the broken Windows mentioned elsewhere ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_brok en_window") to be significant? "
If your not familiar with the broken window parable, follow the wiki link-perfect reply! I was not aware of the broken window parable until just a few minutes ago, thus fell enlightened;It is a good day for me!
Good reply! To add to that, by his same argument, the *AA would not have a leg to stand on regarding the reash of filesharing lawsuits currently in court, and results of these cases (and lawsuits against Kazaa, etc.) certainly say otherwise.
I don't know anything about cPanel- I'll gladly take your word on it, but I was more focused on the IE vector of attack, yet again. An exploit using cPanel to attack IE on my *nix boxes is gonna be one confused, helpless puppy!
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Yes, they would have. My wife uses XP at work, and it would be nice for her to have compatibility "out of the box" for doing work at home. Same with my daughter in high school- their school website (where they do and save a significant amount of work) only works with Windows, grudgingly with Firefox.
Until last month's fiasco, they both just used this one- I was usually gone at work anyhow. So, I have spent a bit of time and effort to get most of the stuff working for them in Linux. It has not been easy, as I'm a Linux n00b-it's been a learning experience that I don't begrudge.
Honestly, I could just tweak the current setup to keep the pirated OS's on their PC's, but I'm not....as I said earlier- I've had enough.
I'll miss some of my games from my XP days, but I can load them on Win98se and take a slight performance hit in the graphics department- no biggy...I don't play the online only multiplayer games, so 98 is not any significant handicap for me.
My wife is a bright gal, and has since learned how to interoperate with MS Office and OpenOffice. Yes, occasionally things are a bit tricky here, but so far, nothing we could not get accomplished.
As for me, I'm not even planning to make a vfat partion to put 98 on- if I bother, it will probably be done in VMWare in Linux, but as of now, that's not on the project list.
So, yeah, 3 sales/upgrades they won't get from me, and no pirated versions either- I have legit copies of Win98se (4), so I'm covered there.
BTW, if I had planned to "keep" the pirated XP installs, I am not stupid enough to post that other than AC.
I do know how this website works!
I stated it was an experiment to see "what if", I have just recieved these other two PC's several months ago with 98 installed.
In other words, Go Away, Troll!
Yeah, I've checked out Cydonia several times, but have lost my whole squad every time-damm aliens!
Next time I'm going to Cydonia with 18 of my best squaddies, 2 hover tanks with blaster launchers, and several psi amps...I'll show 'em, by garsh!
I also hope this does not become a bragging rights battle.
:-) (hey, national pride thrives here too!) A lot of work lies ahead, let's get together and get to work!
I think the spin on this may have been due to USA traditionally feeling dominate in the "space race" after Apollo 11, not a slur on EU. More to ease the wounded pride I guess.
(disclaimer: I am an American-USA, and grew up with NASA- both my father, then I worked for NASA and "space: the final frontier" as always been a keen interest.
Okay, we followed in your footsteps, and got double resolution pic's.
Groundbraeking in itself? Not likely. Helpful towards going to Mars? Probably so- it will be added to all of the data that has been/is being collected by EVERYONE that we share data with.
One thing that used to strike me as odd in most sci-fi I read: the concept of a global based economic and political setup. After some thought, and some more years experience, I concluded that was a deemed necessary
state to make the cooperation needed for the plot to work....something to think about?
We are reaching a point where unprecedented cooperation will be needed to solve the problems of true space exploration. If "National Pride" cannot take second place to actual cooperation, then we will stay in this fuedal (by nation/country) state.
So, as an American, let me officially congradulate you all (EU) on an astounding project well done!
Hey, anyway, cut us a little slack- we're a little defensive (read as: gun-shy) since Challenger- that really hurt!
All the way from Fresno?!?!2 22)
Wow, that's truly a breakthrough! (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/27/1332
*ducks and runs*
Here at home, out of my 3 PC's connected to the network and internet, 2 of the 3 PC's are currently running pirated copies of XP and have safely passed WGA and currently get their updates flawlessly via AutoUpdate at MS. The reason that is not 3 out of three, is last month I had to replace my HDD, reinstalled my legit, retail WinXP Pro cd, went to MS updates only to be barred from updates and activation because they determined my retail cd was pirated- have had it running on old HDD for 3 years prior with no problems.
The reason the other two are running pirated XP was an experiment after the legit pirated fiasco on this PC.
I decided I had had enough, booted into FC5, repartioned the drive to all Linux and haven't looked back.
Don't care what Vista is like, as I will not even reinstall XP anymore. This weekend, both of the other PC's will get their XP partitions deleted and go back to dual boot Win98se and Ubuntu only. The XP partitions are too small to be more than barely functional, so no sense in trying to leave them running.
So here is 3 sales/upgrades that MS won't get.
Moderaters must be asleep at the wheel to let this one pass unscathed!
LOL! Kudos for that good chuckle.
Heh, add Dual Quad SLI, then maybe I can get 600fps in Tux^H^H^H PPracer!
Just another vehicle to serve up even more advertising.
FTA: "In exchange, users agree to let PrefPass sites access their pref lists, thus allowing them to customize the experience, as well target advertising to the user."
I'll stick with BugMeNot, thank you.
Of course they are in league with the pirates, otherwise why would they object to this guy "having an unfair advantage" over the rest of the pirates?
FTA:"Our own intellectual property was stolen from us and used to create this tool," said Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney in Microsoft's legal and corporate affairs division. "They obviously had a leg up on any of the other hackers that might be creating circumvention tools from scratch."
See, even MS is concerned that the pirates are all on level ground...er, I mean decks.
Ah, nevermind...I gotta go, things to take care of...
Arrrghh! Thar she blows....P2P off teh port bow! Heave to, maties, this one looks like rich plunder!
It's sad that you even had to explain this to him. Kind of lends more weight to your argument from where I sit.
You obviously have not worked much in the construction field. Everyone knows when you are in a limited access envoirment trying to run/string cable, it will get caught on everything to hamper your efforts- it will even get caught on stuff that isn't there! :-)
That's why when I fly, I always carry an extension cord or welding lead on board. If the plane starts to go down, I can toss one end out the window to get caught on something (cloud, maybe?) and halt the plane, or at least me.
All jokes aside, I remember reading several places (that I can't find now to link to for you) they are planning to work from both ends and join at the middle once they get the anchor/base planted. All in all, it will prove to be an interesting engineering problem to work out- if we can. ( I should say when, not if?)
LOL!
"Flowers For Algernon" was required reading(and a field trip to see the movie) when I was in school. Thanks for the good flashback.
And yet, I feel somewhat diminished now- I was on my way to post something like:
Is this why I crave cheese and fear electrical shock when I get lost in a building?
But now, sadly it seems to have lost some of it's imagined punch. *sigh*
But, good job sir!
I was wondering about that also.
(disclaimer: I'm a n00b and all-unknowing!)
When I check my e-mail with either evolution (for my cox.net account) or hotmail, I always see who it is from, who/if it has been cc'd or bcc'd, the subject line, and whether there were attatchments.
So, isn't this all stored together at least at one point?
With the number of people running Win IE and Outlook, does this null teh whole works at a weak point?
G-mail and Google Desktop tied in with the above?
I'm not trying to flame, just asking 'cause I don't know enough to know, only to be suspiciuos.
Say it isn't so!
How can I get you as "middle-man" or mediator?
BTW-I have REALLY high tolerances, and REALLY expensive tastes!
LOL!
I like yer style!
"In the case you mentioned either the administrators worked it out in advance with the donor or the donor (or the donors estate) didn't follow up like they should have."
/. anymore, it seems!). I actually *love* having that "light bulb go bright in my head" on something I thought I knew about! I also think that it can go the other way too far also- you bring up some valid points about sports being a good way to teach about competition, and it is true that competition drives us in many (some unsuspected) ways in our "real world" adult lives. I can't reasonably argue against your points there, IMHO.
I'm pretty sure it was the latter in my example.
You mak a strong, reasonable argument. Am I mistaken that you mentioned you went to a private school?
If not, I wonder what bearing this may have on our discussion. If so, then we both have seen different aspects of our current education system. (disclaimer: I graduated high scholl in 1976, but did not go to college until 1991- I was amazed at the difference!)
I could most easily be wrong about this, but it has been my (limited) experience that each school (on the college/university level) or school board (for that district pertaining to high schools/jr. high) has the say on how the budget is divided up, not obligated by default to honor the donor's wishes. I'll admit that I cannot speak with any authority on this, only what I have seen in my limited acadamia (sp?).
Look, I'm not trying to get in a flamewar, as I perceive you are not either- I appreciate the discussion (rare on
I guess this is what I chalk up as the *pendulum effect*- it will swing back to middle ground someday (I hope!), but until then, I still don't really like the disparity (my perspective) between sports and actual education.
I'm gonna be a hard sell probably, but I.m still not happy with our current culture/society where the donor's feel the need to specify sports over education. I understand that my point of view is based on my interests, thus I am biased, but I can't help but think I am not too far off base with my pendulum analogy.
I give you credit for making me think/rethink- I used to really enjoy playing football in Jr. High and High School, even tho' I had given up on pro sports when Vince Lombardi left the Packers to go to the Redskins-TRAITOR!!.....yeah, so I date myself!
Okay, I'm starting to ramble on here, damn kids on my lawn, and all!
But as a side note (in your favor), I've often wondered what makes sports so popular with the public- could it be that sports and corporate executive battles have replace our species "I'm Ooogh, mighty hunter and slayer of rivals!" instincts/mentality?...I've often wondered about this. Can we fix this, or should we even try? I don't know. On one hand, I feel the need to preserve what I think is good in our makeup (society, mentallity, outlook, etc.), but on the other hand I wonder where we could go by throwing all caution to the wind so to speak, and let nature take it's cours. A difficult tightrope to navigate when I have the time to ponder it.
Again, thanks for a healthy debate- I've enjoyed it!- I'm adding you to my friends list just because of the way you have presented your side. (yes, I know that you feel honored-relax!)
Don't take offense-that last jibe was aimed at my own ego, not you-but I am adding you as friend.
"Bully for the bigger companies that can take the pain, but the point of the original FAQ is that music sales are declining."
/., where else could you get a car AND a hot-air balloon commuter service analogy!)
My sales are declining also, instead of finding a better way of doing business, then I guess I should just take all airlines, passenger liners, etc. to court to protect my business model.
I have starved lately due to those "pirate" airlines- dammmm them! They unfairly disrupt my Hotair Balloon Trans-Atlantic Commuter Service (TM and patent-pending!) that runs between Souix Falls, S. Dakota to Upper Slobvokia, bi-annually! It's an outrage, I say!
With the internet (it's tubes, man!), IP distribution has entered a NEW phase/means of doing business.
The *AA's objections carry as much weight as those horse-drawn carriage style "taxi" services bitching about Checker Marathons (for those NYC'ers...whatever make and model of taxi for the rest) putting them out of business, thus should be outlawed.
(hey, this is
Their control and distribution centric business model is becoming obsolete- instead of adapting and thriving, they want to pull everyone else back into the dark ages. (remember when only priests and nobles were literate?-well, I don't either, but that is what I learned in school, but I am almost that old!)
I don't think I'm trying to pick a fight with you, just the quote I used from your post started this chain of thought. We may be on the same side?!
All joking aside, the past couple of years, not only have I not bought any music cd's from RIAA affiliated sources (nothing has interested me), but I have downloaded several "pirated" cd's that I could not get elsewhere. The copyright limits are way too long anymore (thanks Sonny Bono and Disney!)These "pirated" cd's are no longer available by any other means. I've tried ordering them, checking used cd businesses, etc.- not to be found anywhere but bittorrent, so I downloaded them.
Enough of that, who needs a two week commute to Slobvokia? I'm booking reservations now! Jump on quick, or get left behind!
errr....we're not scheduled to land behind the Hindengerg AGAIN?!?!?! Arrrgh!
I agree with you for the most part, but have to take issue with the percentage of the overall school budget that gets appropriated by the sports department, compared to actual education.
"As many have stated they are based on seprate budgets and athletics (especially football and basket ball) make money and recieve a fair ammount of cash from sponsors and donations."
This seperate budgets you speak of start out in the general budget, then the school's administration assigns it to different departments- this is where I step in to complain so to speak. That and the justification that even you mentioned about how sports can make the school money- the purpose of schools is to educate, not as a recruiting/training camp for the pro's. That attitude is my beef.
As for the donations, etc., yeah- that's fine, but let's stop there.
The budgets assigned to the departments (including donations) are arbitrary, and depends on the school how they will be apportioned.
For example: I used to work at Oklahoma State University in the Large Animal Dept. of the Veterinary Med Teaching Hospital. We had a client bequeath 3.2 million $'s to specifically be used by the Food Animal Department for a new surgery suite. The hospital administrator ( a small animal specialist) decided that the Small Animal Department needed an MRI, and a 6th surgery suite- we ended up with $22,000 of our own 3.2 million because the Admin felt there was more money in small animal medicine.
I hear you!
I'm STILL hooked on Fallout and Fallout 2, there's just so many different ways you can go about playing it.
IMHO, these two offered a decent balance between open ended play and linear play.
LOL! The Self Cleaning Accident Site Technology (TM)
What will they think of next?
But it should be a boon (boom?) for the glaziers, a few of these going off around the neighborhood is bound to break a few windows.
"I guess in the long run MS can depend on "retiring" support on 2003 and XP to force users towards Vista but I dont see nearly the amount of voluntary upgrading as MS seems to expect."
/. and run it on VMWare so I can help some of my older clents. (not client's age- how long they have been clients!)
I think this is an important point-good insight, IMHO.
I just had a clent ask about alternatives to WinME (she did not want to pay for XP just to check here email and browse the internet). Her PC (Dell Demension 8200) had ME preinstalled, she had deleted the restore partition somehow thinking it would give her more HDD space, but could not figure out what happened to the storage space she had started with. (yes, it WAS that infested!)
I did my best to get her PC useable again, and gave her an Ubuntu Live cd to tryout. Two days later, I get this call from her:
"What would it take to install this Ubuntu thingy on my PC?-I really like it!"
Needless to say, I went right over and installed Ubuntu for her! w00t!!
I just don't see MS making as much of a killing on Vista that they are expecting/wanting- they have cut too many of the features that were toutewd when it was still Longhorn. (WinFS was the only one I had any interest in)
Now it seems that Vista is just WinXP SP3 with eye candy. I would rather see them release most of Vista as SP3 for XP, and use the time to finish Longhorn with all of the hyped features.
If it wasn't for my clients, I would ignore Vista completely, but I guess I'll have to download the "beta" mentioned earler on
Unfortunately, where Vista will get it's foothold is by way of the likes of Dell, eMachines, HP, etc. when Joe Sixpack buys a new PC with Vista preinstalled. This tactic is what got MS to where they are now, and I don't see them slacking off in this department lately.
The sad thing is, all of this discussion is just preaching to the choir-the major influence (as usual) is "teh lusers"
P.S. To mollify the mad modders, we are all "teh lusers" outside our respective fields of expertise-ie: in an office enviorment I would be "teh luser", as I've done almost exclusively construction work most of my life- I doubt I could operate a copier withou having to ask for help fer christ's sake! (yes, this has happened to me before)
A poster on the linked page (http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000097) gave the best possible reply, IMHO:
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"How does it help?
Submitted by Bozikins (not verified) on Wed, 2006-09-20 17:58.
Why is it beneficial to anyone that a new operating system will require 100,000 new jobs to support it - couldn't they be better employed improving the human condition? Should we consider the parable of the broken Windows mentioned elsewhere ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_bro
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If your not familiar with the broken window parable, follow the wiki link-perfect reply!
I was not aware of the broken window parable until just a few minutes ago, thus fell enlightened;It is a good day for me!
Good reply!
To add to that, by his same argument, the *AA would not have a leg to stand on regarding the reash of filesharing lawsuits currently in court, and results of these cases (and lawsuits against Kazaa, etc.) certainly say otherwise.
Yeah, I'm thinking the same.
Kind of like being stranded in the desert and making Koolaide to drink to conserve water.
I don't know anything about cPanel- I'll gladly take your word on it, but I was more focused on the IE vector of attack, yet again.
An exploit using cPanel to attack IE on my *nix boxes is gonna be one confused, helpless puppy!