I forget where I heard this argument, but its actualy rather interesting:
By some people (legaly) carying concealed firearms they are actualy helping others who choose not to cary weapons. This is because a criminal is now less likely to atack because there is a chance that their chosen target is armed, even if the target is in fact unarmed.
When it is illegal to own a gun, the chance of the target being armed greatly drops and the atacker becomes more bold.
Yea, I could see this possibly going the way Australia did with guns:
First they forced everyone to register, then
about a year later they forced everyone to hand over their guns.
they already knew who had what because of the registration.
I think this is completely awesome. Right now I dont run Mac on anything but my iPod because I only have one computer and it dual boots XP and SuSe. now I can have it triple boot and run os X without needing to buy more hardware.
"and hey, what IT department hasn't locked IM along with everything else down anyhow"
I am half the it department at my company. I was trying to get ahold of someone and he hadnt responded to my emails. I noticed he had an msn account, so I signed up for one. we got the problem solved in 30 minutes.
The point is that we dont block everything, because some of it has legitimate uses. It's an innocent-untill-proven-guilty sort of thing.
I used to never like apple, but my opinion of them is starting to change. I dont see their products as superior, but I do consider them acceptable nowdays.
I bought an iPod Photo 60GB. Within a month the thing crashed. And I dont mean crashed, where you hit two buttons and it reboots. (that happened the day i got it.) I mean crashed as in it wont reboot, the battery didnt charge, and winblows didnt recognize it. For all intents and purposes it was an expensive brick.
I sent it back and they fixed it for free, got it back to me in just a few days.
The thing still crashes occasionaly but now the two button reset always does the job.
our school gave us craptops with win 98 to use for school work. as long as we did our work and stayed out of trouble, they didnt really care what we did with the laptops.
we immediately started tweaking with them trying to improve the preformance and stability. removing all the novell software was a great boost to the preformance. upgrading to windoes xp expontntialy increased the stability, but with only 128mb ram, the preformance on xp left something to be desired.
then one of my pals tried windows 2000. it was perfect. stable, but not a ram whore.
redhat also ran prety good, but one of our classes required that we had M$ visual basic, so dual booting was the only choice to run *nix
Yea, i agree with that. My boss keeps records of all his phone conversations. Then when a customer calls back and claims "you said this" he replys "well, lets go listen to it." More often than not, the customer is proven wrong. When my boss was truly at fault, he makes ammends.
Fedoras a decent operating system, I'v used it at times before. but what I'm really interested in is the patent reform.
From the article:
"Red Hat also promises to bolster its work on patent reform. After his discussion on open source licensing on Thursday, Webbink told CRN that many vendors including Red Hat and Nokia are pushing for is patent and copyright reforms because current laws presents obstacles to the open source movement. For its part, Red Hat is working with the European Parliament to modify the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, Red Hat said. In the U.S., Red Hat has called for reform of the patent system to ensure better patent quality."
It looks to me linke Europs really doing better on patent reform than the US. I'm really hoping that we can get our stuff together here stateside before its too late.
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yup.
I forget where I heard this argument, but its actualy rather interesting:
Yea, I could see this possibly going the way Australia did with guns:
First they forced everyone to register, then
about a year later they forced everyone to hand over their guns.
they already knew who had what because of the registration.
FYI, Australia now has insanely high crime rates.
to sum it all up: this is bad
"...secretly prepping a surprise for the rest of the industry"
uh, hate to burst your bubble, but I got this nagging suspicion that somebody from AMD reads slashdot.
I think this is a good thing. I know I personaly will spend less time chatting on the phone if I have slashdot handy.
of course, when I get bored I read slashdot on my phone...
heard of podzila? its basicaly Linux-On-iPod. and like you just said, theres Mac-On-Linux. so the obvious next step is Mac-On-Linux-On-iPod
I think this is completely awesome.
Right now I dont run Mac on anything but my iPod because I only have one computer and it dual boots XP and SuSe.
now I can have it triple boot and run os X without needing to buy more hardware.
This rocks!
"and hey, what IT department hasn't locked IM along with everything else down anyhow"
I am half the it department at my company. I was trying to get ahold of someone and he hadnt responded to my emails. I noticed he had an msn account, so I signed up for one. we got the problem solved in 30 minutes.
The point is that we dont block everything, because some of it has legitimate uses. It's an innocent-untill-proven-guilty sort of thing.
"happy wife, happy life."
"musicologists argue over whether or not the new musical artifact is really 'a performance'"
I say who cares? If it sounds good, and the parent suggests it does, then I'll listen to it.
"That's really the whole deal, ... they fix it without giving you a whole lot of crap about it."
yea, I completely agree. Stuff breaks, but I definately prefer a company that will stand by their products and fix them when they break.
I dont think it was the actual drive on mine, because it still had all my music on it when I got it back.
I bought an iPod Photo 60GB. Within a month the thing crashed. And I dont mean crashed, where you hit two buttons and it reboots. (that happened the day i got it.) I mean crashed as in it wont reboot, the battery didnt charge, and winblows didnt recognize it. For all intents and purposes it was an expensive brick.
I sent it back and they fixed it for free, got it back to me in just a few days.
The thing still crashes occasionaly but now the two button reset always does the job.
Moral of the story: apples good, but not perfect.
"...may be able to survive under special circumstances."
well, heck, you could say that about just about anything.
maby his girlfriends lucky:
<berzerker> my girlfriend is lucky because i enjoy giving oral sex
<Ash> She likes to watch, eh, berzo?
--bash.
In soviet Russia, the Universe simulates YOU!
I, for one, welcome our new Simulated Overlords.
Which one is it that brings in the alien spaceships?
only if your lucky
"25 million megabytes of memory"
man, just when i thought 2 gigs was a lot...
our school gave us craptops with win 98 to use for school work. as long as we did our work and stayed out of trouble, they didnt really care what we did with the laptops.
we immediately started tweaking with them trying to improve the preformance and stability.
removing all the novell software was a great boost to the preformance.
upgrading to windoes xp expontntialy increased the stability, but with only 128mb ram, the preformance on xp left something to be desired.
then one of my pals tried windows 2000. it was perfect. stable, but not a ram whore.
redhat also ran prety good, but one of our classes required that we had M$ visual basic, so dual booting was the only choice to run *nix
I like my playskool interface, thank you very much.
Yea, i agree with that.
My boss keeps records of all his phone conversations.
Then when a customer calls back and claims "you said this" he replys "well, lets go listen to it."
More often than not, the customer is proven wrong. When my boss was truly at fault, he makes ammends.
Fedoras a decent operating system, I'v used it at times before. but what I'm really interested in is the patent reform.
From the article:
"Red Hat also promises to bolster its work on patent reform. After his discussion on open source licensing on Thursday, Webbink told CRN that many vendors including Red Hat and Nokia are pushing for is patent and copyright reforms because current laws presents obstacles to the open source movement. For its part, Red Hat is working with the European Parliament to modify the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, Red Hat said. In the U.S., Red Hat has called for reform of the patent system to ensure better patent quality."
It looks to me linke Europs really doing better on patent reform than the US. I'm really hoping that we can get our stuff together here stateside before its too late.
<Algorithms> DareDevil2002: I am saying I am wishing for stable woody
<PaC> Algorithms: perhaps viagra can help you with that
--bash.
" I want to be able to trust people more. That means I have to be able to throw them further."
--bash.