After the last 8 (12... 16....) years of expanding surveillance, reduction of gov't oversight, etc, NOW they think of this? I mean I get that the current bandwagon is that this is the end times, but everything they're looking at protecting themselves from has been rolling this way for years...
We've actually gotten to the point where a company selling a game that isn't DRM laden crap is news? I mean I get the whole "it's not good enough to stand on it's own so lets make money from the lawyers" jig (well, I don't agree with it, but I understand that some game companies are thinly veiled law firms). But someone selling something that isn't just a license to follow an agreement that can be changed at any time, is news? Ick!
Have you ever tried writing Kanji? Or used a Kanji dictionary to find the correct symbol? It makes English, and it's "every rule has an exception" methods seem simple:-)
Yeah, I mean this is completely not like real books... Can you imagine in real life if you could just send a book to someone and NOT charge them the full list price on the cover, sending the appropriate share to the publisher so they can kick a few cents back to the author!?!?
Oh wait...................
Oh really? how many disruptive changes (changed API's, ABI's, etc) have there been to the 2.4 kernel in the last few releases? How many subsystems scheduled for and removed? How many in the 2.6 series? Depending on what stable means in your environment, 2.4 has been much more stable, and 2.6 has been a lot more like a development series (which it should... I mean that's where they are doing the development:-)
There's a cure for auto accidents, too, called the M1 Abrams tank. Mileage sucks, maintenance sucks, cost sucks, but by god, if we only let those people drive who could afford Abrams, why, we'd cut deaths from auto accidents down to almost zero.
heh, until you run into the OTHER guys M1, then we're back to square one.:)
Oh if only I had a nickel for everytime I heard a horror story start with that phrase. Telus and their resellers like Interbaun, offer up tech support and service that makes you realize how smart feces flinging monkeys are. I mean at least the monkeys actually fling poo, Interbaun, for a 4 month period couldn't get more then 65% of thier packets in our out of their network. The response from both Interbaun and Telus was thousands of words amounting to an image of someone trying to pick there nose, missing, stabing themselves in the eye and going "Ahhh, durrrr."
And yes, Shaw does kick ass as far as home and small business links go. They aren't perfect (nobody is), but they get it right most of the time. That might be somewhat colored by the fact that I switched from Telus, but at least I'd trust Shaw to be able to find their own ass with a GPS and two hands.
if you want to argue for liberalism in road rule interpretation then do that, but most developed countries have a system where you have to follow the rules to the letter and it tends to work.
Yeah, cause zero Tolerance policies work so well... Why bother treating any one like a human being when you can just blindly enforce laws. I mean really... there's never any middle ground in any argument, no leway, nothing that should ever be excepted, heck, who needs judges, lets just find a way of automating enforcement and punishment! (Okay, I'll stop before the sarcasam detector explodes!)
But steel loses a LOT of it's strength long before it's molten. Many buildings have taken more physical punishment, but few have had that much fuel burn inside of them for that long.
Interesting... This is pretty much what Canada does already... They tax the media (CD-R's) to support the music industry (sorry way to jaded to say the musicians) and don't go after people who download MP3's.
They also gave out strlcpy(3), but the glibc crew decided to go with the weaker more broken strncpy, making many people reimpliment it themselves. Unfortunatly egos won out over common sense.
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After the last 8 (12... 16....) years of expanding surveillance, reduction of gov't oversight, etc, NOW they think of this? I mean I get that the current bandwagon is that this is the end times, but everything they're looking at protecting themselves from has been rolling this way for years...
Oh sure, I tout my wood and all *I* get is a restraining order...
Worse yet, I think the Americans were involved with it to!
Just in case we want to kill off all the apes when we kill off the humans (for profit?) ? :)
We've actually gotten to the point where a company selling a game that isn't DRM laden crap is news? I mean I get the whole "it's not good enough to stand on it's own so lets make money from the lawyers" jig (well, I don't agree with it, but I understand that some game companies are thinly veiled law firms). But someone selling something that isn't just a license to follow an agreement that can be changed at any time, is news? Ick!
Really? How about something new crazy like a pen?
Have you ever tried writing Kanji? Or used a Kanji dictionary to find the correct symbol? It makes English, and it's "every rule has an exception" methods seem simple :-)
Classically a scanner and possibly OCR...
Good thing that contract expired the moment they were fired then! :)
Yeah, I mean this is completely not like real books... Can you imagine in real life if you could just send a book to someone and NOT charge them the full list price on the cover, sending the appropriate share to the publisher so they can kick a few cents back to the author!?!? Oh wait...................
lol, yeah, cause finding another machine to compile (or cross-compile) on is SUCH an inconvenience... </sarcasm>
No compilers on a server just make it harder to fix, harder to maintain, etc.
For each dollar a customer pays for your product, how much does your company get?
Now for each dollar a customer pays for a CD, how much does the Artist make?
And in the words of Forbes, Investors Abandon SCO
2.4 is *NOT* more stable than 2.6.
Oh really? how many disruptive changes (changed API's, ABI's, etc) have there been to the 2.4 kernel in the last few releases? How many subsystems scheduled for and removed? How many in the 2.6 series? Depending on what stable means in your environment, 2.4 has been much more stable, and 2.6 has been a lot more like a development series (which it should ... I mean that's where they are doing the development :-)
The pvr-350 works great as a TV-out using IVTV!
4% CPU usage on a VIA EPIA M10000 watching live TV through the PVR-350 (in & out)
Heh, they can have my Haapauge PVR-350 when they pry it out of my cold dead hands.
So hows that working out for you?
Wait, I'm supposed to take usability advice from a website that puts all the text in the center 16th of my screen? Pot, Kettle, black!
Dell buys in bulk, and thusly gets special prices
Ah yes, the old, "We lose money on each copy we sell, but we'll make it up in volume!" strategy.
Not getting bulk rates Are not getting advertiser discounts Getting a version of Windows that allows you to install on three computers.
Right, when you don't get the bulk discount on FreeDOS it costs nearly twice as much... Those BASTARDS!
There's a cure for auto accidents, too, called the M1 Abrams tank. Mileage sucks, maintenance sucks, cost sucks, but by god, if we only let those people drive who could afford Abrams, why, we'd cut deaths from auto accidents down to almost zero.
heh, until you run into the OTHER guys M1, then we're back to square one. :)
Telus on the other hand...
Oh if only I had a nickel for everytime I heard a horror story start with that phrase. Telus and their resellers like Interbaun, offer up tech support and service that makes you realize how smart feces flinging monkeys are. I mean at least the monkeys actually fling poo, Interbaun, for a 4 month period couldn't get more then 65% of thier packets in our out of their network. The response from both Interbaun and Telus was thousands of words amounting to an image of someone trying to pick there nose, missing, stabing themselves in the eye and going "Ahhh, durrrr."
And yes, Shaw does kick ass as far as home and small business links go. They aren't perfect (nobody is), but they get it right most of the time. That might be somewhat colored by the fact that I switched from Telus, but at least I'd trust Shaw to be able to find their own ass with a GPS and two hands.
if you want to argue for liberalism in road rule interpretation then do that, but most developed countries have a system where you have to follow the rules to the letter and it tends to work.
Yeah, cause zero Tolerance policies work so well... Why bother treating any one like a human being when you can just blindly enforce laws. I mean really... there's never any middle ground in any argument, no leway, nothing that should ever be excepted, heck, who needs judges, lets just find a way of automating enforcement and punishment! (Okay, I'll stop before the sarcasam detector explodes!)But steel loses a LOT of it's strength long before it's molten. Many buildings have taken more physical punishment, but few have had that much fuel burn inside of them for that long.
Interesting... This is pretty much what Canada does already... They tax the media (CD-R's) to support the music industry (sorry way to jaded to say the musicians) and don't go after people who download MP3's.
They also gave out strlcpy(3) , but the glibc crew decided to go with the weaker more broken strncpy, making many people reimpliment it themselves. Unfortunatly egos won out over common sense.
Actually... see the recient discussion in Debian-devel, or just watch the experimental pool, they should be there a few days or less