I've been using a small mom and pop for the last 5 years, but as the prices keep dropping and limited disk space (50 megs), I decided to find a new one last month.
1and1.com seems ok, best price ive seen, so far fast, and the cheapest server hosting for 49 dollars a month I've seen. Seen their ads in magazines, figured for that good of a price why not try it out.
The plan I went with for 20 a month has 5 domains, 200 subdomains, 3 mysql, web email, 4000 megs disk space (Guess not a real 4gigs;), 100gigs transfer, admin website, and shell account. Everything is automated, i transfered 2 domains and had them up by next morning. They also offer 5 dollar domain registration. I suspect they keep prices low by keeping everything automated, the mysql accounts (On firewalled db servers) had random username/passwords on different db hosts. I havnt tried the webmail or ssl, but they say its include. The only drawback, no irc bots or chat servers. So I cant host a Teamspeak on them, but they might offer it, I need to ask.
I also think you have to be a little technical savey if they are truely automated, you must be your own tech support.
I play on moving some domains from eskimo.com if this goes well for a few months. Im just hosting gamer guilds and forums on them.
Only snag I hit was ADOdb for phpnuke isnt installed by default, and I havnt spent the time to try to get it to install it its own directory.
If anyone has any info on 1and1, please post it, i didnt find much negative feedback on usenet.
Im using ms keyboards and mice on my macs/sparcs and windows boxes. So far, I just like the natural keyboard and mice, works great.
The only problem I've had is ms changed the arrow keys and 6 home/end/etc key layout. I never did care for that.
For the mice, Im trying the new Intellimouse with the sideways scroll, havnt really seen a use for it, and i miss the tactial clicks when scrolling. Too smooth really.
And for using them on the mac, the optional OSX drivers do add some mapping. Just cant browse without middle mouse button and back/foward mapped to the side buttons, how quaint.;)
Lucky I live in Seattle, so we get tons of cheap ms hardware, normally about 15 bux for keyboards and 25 for mice.
I miss the old ms naturals with USB headers in the back, made it easy top sync pda's or plug in cameras. And the cheaper plastic is annoying.
I think 18 months is more time than he deserves, he was stupid yes, but when this young, giving them years to life in prison does nothing but makes citizens fund his imprisonment, and create a useless person that can't give back to society.
If we looked at this at the cost of putting someone in jail for nonviolent crimes, and had him on probation doing community service, community service would win out. He could serve his time while going to school, much better for everyone.
We are not only trying to punish them, but also rehabilitate them. Which by all accounts, using the death penalty as an example, criminals will do criminal activity no matter what the punishment.
Our legal system is broke, and people are paying for it. The cost of law enforcement vs prison is really out of balance. Of course, Texas has turned prison into a money making business, which should show how absurd the whole thing is.
Kids still do stupid stuff, and writing viruses seem to be something kids do. Same as smoking pot, nothing is going to change if we put everyone in prison, other than making a prison state.
Non-violent criminals should be treated different, and then circumstances taken into account. Stealing excluded.
I like the EFF's idea, that copyright is for 20 years, and after that, you only need to pay 1 dollar to extend it each year. That way old copyrights can return to the public. Also make a maximum of 100 years per copyright. Solves most issues, more things return to the public domain that are not used anymore. And people can extend copyrights if used.
I would like a mix, 60 years, and the extension costs more each time. At 60 years, its 100, 61 its 200, then 400, so on, that way it gets increasingly costly per year to keep copyrights. Tts a way to tax the copyrights, after 80 years, unless its a money maker, the owner wouldnt renew.
And on the side, this funds the copyright office to do more indepth reporting and watching for duplicate copyrights or invalid search.
EFF has a good start to handle copyrights, wish they had more political power. I feel sometimes like the EFF is like the ACLU, always in court loosing, or working on the wrong rights. (My perspective anyways..)
Wouldnt asking Slashdot the largest geek forum better than paying a bunch of college kids making phone calls blindly from the phone book?
You want to know what the people are thinking, you goto the people. Slashdot would have a very large userbase of tech users, good place to ask Slashdot.
I heard a statement that I think came from Charles E. Merrill, that he use to walk around the mall to see what people bought, so he knew what to invest in. You goto the people buying and using the product to get information.
Is Slashdot a bad place to ask these questions, no. Its not only a news forum, its a discussion forum, always has been. Its not just News for nerds, its a open forum to discuss these things.
I think with people gathering more data, and data warehousing coming to your house (pics/movies/music/etc). Being able to find your data is the next advance. This is why Microsoft is working on a new file system for longhorn and why Google released a desktop search engine.
As for the GUI, I think its more autocomplete of processes, to reduce manual steps.
The biggest problem I see is forcing interactive moments on a busy user. Nothing is worse in the middle of typing a document and a popup window of some kind, flash in the tool tray until im ready.
And with people multitasking, I dont need a program to tell me its done in the middle of working on something else.
Displaying information while not forcing the user to interact is the next step. We are doing much more than before, multiple programs, multiple tasks, we need to curb the "In your face" attitude of the Gui.
While AI with interactive voice chat would be nice, unless its a virtual lawyer that can answer my questions or a hot stripper, I doubt I'm going to be using voice chat on a operational process.
Voice chat for games is another thing, when your busy, you cant stop to type, talking to the group saves time, and reaction time is quicker.
Of course these are my thoughts and views of current trends. Microsoft research and Cambridge labs are good places to check out. Cambridge ran the research lab that helped oversee VNC and other cool products, under Olivetti and then ATT Labs.
I think there is much more work todo in the modern desktop before we go onto new user input/output methods.
Top hottest things, tabs, info bars, task switching, searching, auto-complete, realtime filtering (spellcheck/etc), history of input, sharing of data with other hard (bluetooth/etc) are IMHO the current impressive new features. And if not new, just easier use or new methods of using the same procedures in a differnt way.
Too bad 2005 isnt going to see many new features, end of year with dual core, new gfx cards, the hardware to take advantage will launch 2006 for new features. But at least with SLI and faster CPUs, this year will be good for gaming until we get there.:)
hilarious! this is the attitude! you consider it stable when "every once and a while AQUA" crashes? isn't that like arguing that windows is stable but it's the explorer that crashes and as such it's not a biggie?
Humm, Once and awhile means monthly not weekly like windows. And aqua doesnt take down the OS when it crashs, just aquadock. I havnt seen a bouncing ball or complete crash since 10.1.
Most crash I've seen are games exiting back to normal desktop, doesnt happen often, but its also the same crash type on windows. I find running WoW in window mode easier now, so i can run chat/webbrowser/IM without issues, Uptime for weeks now.
And for explorer on windows, theres a registery tweak to have explorer shell and explorer browsers to run different instances, so a explorer browser wont restart your gui. That has made windows more stable on a day to day basis, and I wish M$ would make it standard.
So, yes, OSX the OS is rock solid, the GUI can crash, but normally when exiting a game, but only once a month, so yes, thats very stable.
KDE and Gnome crash more, but then i use IceWM and Windowmaker because they are reallly stable.
But nice troll, trying to make it sound like I ssh in daily to reset processes, funny troll.
I only had OSX crash on me when I trying to do stuff like SMB mount from the command line, but its fixed now. Every once and awhile AQUA will crash, I just ssh into the box and kill -9 the process and its back up.
The only time I reboot is for security patchs, but not all need to reboot.
We currently play WoW on it, and underneath I have irssi/squid/vnc running, with multiple ssh sessions.
Running a dual g4, great box, needs a new gfx card, but speed wise, its great. I'd have to say I miss my native vga font for terminals (im oldschool, i like perfect fixedfonts).. But a xwindows workaround is a vga.bdf and rxvt, even colors are correct then. (iTerm is ok, but not even close to putty or konsole)
I also have a gentoo box, a sparc sunblade 100, gentoo is rock solid on it now, still 2.4.x kernel, but very stable.
I'd say if you want a unix workstation, OSX is by far the best.
Biggest downside, home/end doesnt work on command lines in OSX, and other shortcuts, key combos. I wish they would let you pick or customize your settings.
Dual core support on Tyan's Opteron platforms, is a feature we are very much looking forward to providing to all of our current and future customers. Unfortunately while its not possible at this time to directly comment on whether support will be implemented on the S2885, S2895 or other models from Tyan, customers should be pleased to know we are working to ensure compatibility on platforms going forward.
Dual cores are such a major upgrade, why buy any SMP motherboard when 2 months it cant support the next generation SMP cpus...
Does this also mean it comes with Thunderbird to replace the mail?
I like the idea of Mozilla as a whole suite of applications, that way you dont have to install multiple applications, when web+email are the 2 more popular applications. To each his own I guess, Thunderbird is rather nice and works with my exchange server (imap).
Also.
In the next betas, you will be able to copy all the CDs packages on your hard drive, so that you will not need the CDs anymore afterwards to install a new package with urpmi or rpmdrake. Moreover the installation will allow to boot from a USB key (if you cannot boot with a CD), and to save the packages selection on a USB key.
Nice, I actually took my cdrom out of my linux box but it has a USB port. Handy, now to test usb booting.:)
I became a felon for doing my job with a bit too much enthusiasm.
He used normal security techniques of auditing passwords, he never used the passwords in a dishonest way, and he was authorized to work with the systems. The passwords never left Intel's computers, he didnt actually "HACK" or steal access.
He should of been fired if Intel had an issue, but Oregons law basically make things like using someones xbox without written permission a felony.
Just because a company doesnt like the way you go about doing your jobs shouldnt make you a criminal.
But 'da street' is no place for our game design gods. The kids are atheists nowadays.
Ahem, there are lots of indy game designers that keep making new games, but dont burn out. They grow up, make it a life long career, and know how to balance life and work. (Unless you work for EA which means you have no life...)
One example is the company that released Airburst Extreme, Strange Flavor. They are the largest indy game company at MacWorld releasing 6 new games. They are listed on Apple.com as the most popular game. (Before World of Warcraft came out...) How many years since the original Airburst, 10 years?
Maybe Indie markets should get together and make an association to help sell games and fight EA. An example of how this helps, IGA, Independent Grocers of Association gives supermarkets around the world have the same buying power as Walmart. They need the same buying power to compete against the larger chains. They can buy the same products and get better discounts with the associations help.
If your business is being ran out, or bought out by a larger corporation, maybe its time to form some association so you can stay independent and maintain your business presence.
It will be interesting to see how mergers and buyouts change the world in the next 10 years, and how smaller companies react.
Virtually all criminal law is the legislation of someone's morality.
Whoa! I'll have to call bullshit on that.
The laws you listed are person on person crime. Laws that ban what you read/watch/think/listen/smoke/drink/sex/etc with, are morality laws. Regulation are for protective purposes only, mercury in fish, smoking, drinking, etc.
Of course, you can over regulate too, my state does this on Alchol, the Washington state runs the liqour stores, and places a higher sin tax on a limited selection. We keep trying to get through our state congress to privatize stores, so people can have more choices, and more locations. And of course make more taxes. But the common excuse to keep the state monopoly, "For the children, kids will have easier access", which is a utter lie.
Lucky Costco and a few others are sueing, as they have to buy from higher expensive state ran middlemen. Get the state out of business.
I guess thats conservative on business, and liberal on morals. Guess you can be both.;)
After reading that Judgement, its point perfect on how our constitution protected us.
They federal prosecutors tried to ban all "Obscene" matrial for the safety of the childen. But the courts threw that out, since the sites have authentication for adults. And a persons privacy in their home is protected. Replace "Obscene" with "Religous" or "Political" and it comes down to free speech.
My favorite part of the courts response.
If a statue is unconsitutional as applied, the government may continue to enforce the statue in different circumstances under which it is not unconsitutional. If a statue is unconsitutional on its face, the government may not enforce the statue under any circumstances.
Now I wonder if the Judges are conservative or liberal...
While I understand that an artist doesnt want his music used without their permission, sampling has provided such a wealth of music that it would be a great loss. Both are important issues.
I guess theres also a copyright extension issue, as music has too long of a copyright to enter the public domain, where you can sample the entire song legally.
I guess I'd allow sampling without copying the entire song, how you gauge that would be hard.
Actually Step 2 is get Fink or Darwin ports for the applications. While Fink has been pretty good in the past, I've switched to darwinports as its more tested, and multi-platform. Darwinports also has less compile issues on popular ports.
Also nice you can run X apps in a -rootless display in mac by default. I even run VNC with Xquartz on the OSX box, i havnt used my linux box since ive bought the dual cpu mac.
The neighbor should counter-sue Monsanto for damage to his land, tresspassing, interfereance with commerce, dumping, and anything else they can.
Unless people stand up and counter-sue, they have a hard time. You cant just defend yourself, you have to attack them back and get them where it hurts, the pocket book. (Same goes for cities that use violence against peaceful protestors, they wont stop if they dont pay.
So, hopefully everyone has a son or daughter that is going to lawschool, because this is only going to get worse.
As my first recommendation, MP3 support should be installed by default.
That *EXACTLY* the reason I left Redhat. They started taking out things I use on a daily basis. If I have to look for programs on users websites, and also re-compile my own programs, why am I using that distro?
Fedora had too many problems, driver detection, missing librarys, broken programs, xwindows configuration wasnt even on the same level as SuSE or Mandrake.
Now I use Gentoo and Mandrake, depending on the hardware. Fedora just doesnt offer anything special and is lacking too many things to use it. I used SuSE Sparc port for almost 2 years before Gentoo's Sparc was stable enough to move too. (I perfer Linux over NetBSD, but NetBSD has great hardware support)
But thats me, I'm sure some Redhat die hard will take offense. I'm just stating my view, and reasons I dont use it anymore, and I don't see a reason to go back. I'll install it, look around at the config files, kick the tires type install, but I doubt I'll ever switch back to it.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been using a small mom and pop for the last 5 years, but as the prices keep dropping and limited disk space (50 megs), I decided to find a new one last month.
;), 100gigs transfer, admin website, and shell account. Everything is automated, i transfered 2 domains and had them up by next morning. They also offer 5 dollar domain registration. I suspect they keep prices low by keeping everything automated, the mysql accounts (On firewalled db servers) had random username/passwords on different db hosts. I havnt tried the webmail or ssl, but they say its include.
1and1.com seems ok, best price ive seen, so far fast, and the cheapest server hosting for 49 dollars a month I've seen. Seen their ads in magazines, figured for that good of a price why not try it out.
The plan I went with for 20 a month has 5 domains, 200 subdomains, 3 mysql, web email, 4000 megs disk space (Guess not a real 4gigs
The only drawback, no irc bots or chat servers. So I cant host a Teamspeak on them, but they might offer it, I need to ask.
I also think you have to be a little technical savey if they are truely automated, you must be your own tech support.
I play on moving some domains from eskimo.com if this goes well for a few months. Im just hosting gamer guilds and forums on them.
Only snag I hit was ADOdb for phpnuke isnt installed by default, and I havnt spent the time to try to get it to install it its own directory.
If anyone has any info on 1and1, please post it, i didnt find much negative feedback on usenet.
There was a slashdot article about Intel buying licensing from Nvidia so they could produce SLI motherboards. Looks like VIA isnt waiting around.
I thought this year might be void of some good hardware, but a dual core Intel board with sli might be be real in Q205. Nice.
Im using ms keyboards and mice on my macs/sparcs and windows boxes. So far, I just like the natural keyboard and mice, works great.
;)
The only problem I've had is ms changed the arrow keys and 6 home/end/etc key layout. I never did care for that.
For the mice, Im trying the new Intellimouse with the sideways scroll, havnt really seen a use for it, and i miss the tactial clicks when scrolling. Too smooth really.
And for using them on the mac, the optional OSX drivers do add some mapping. Just cant browse without middle mouse button and back/foward mapped to the side buttons, how quaint.
Lucky I live in Seattle, so we get tons of cheap ms hardware, normally about 15 bux for keyboards and 25 for mice.
I miss the old ms naturals with USB headers in the back, made it easy top sync pda's or plug in cameras. And the cheaper plastic is annoying.
I think 18 months is more time than he deserves, he was stupid yes, but when this young, giving them years to life in prison does nothing but makes citizens fund his imprisonment, and create a useless person that can't give back to society.
If we looked at this at the cost of putting someone in jail for nonviolent crimes, and had him on probation doing community service, community service would win out. He could serve his time while going to school, much better for everyone.
We are not only trying to punish them, but also rehabilitate them. Which by all accounts, using the death penalty as an example, criminals will do criminal activity no matter what the punishment.
Our legal system is broke, and people are paying for it. The cost of law enforcement vs prison is really out of balance. Of course, Texas has turned prison into a money making business, which should show how absurd the whole thing is.
Kids still do stupid stuff, and writing viruses seem to be something kids do. Same as smoking pot, nothing is going to change if we put everyone in prison, other than making a prison state.
Non-violent criminals should be treated different, and then circumstances taken into account. Stealing excluded.
I like the EFF's idea, that copyright is for 20 years, and after that, you only need to pay 1 dollar to extend it each year. That way old copyrights can return to the public. Also make a maximum of 100 years per copyright. Solves most issues, more things return to the public domain that are not used anymore. And people can extend copyrights if used.
I would like a mix, 60 years, and the extension costs more each time. At 60 years, its 100, 61 its 200, then 400, so on, that way it gets increasingly costly per year to keep copyrights. Tts a way to tax the copyrights, after 80 years, unless its a money maker, the owner wouldnt renew.
And on the side, this funds the copyright office to do more indepth reporting and watching for duplicate copyrights or invalid search.
EFF has a good start to handle copyrights, wish they had more political power. I feel sometimes like the EFF is like the ACLU, always in court loosing, or working on the wrong rights. (My perspective anyways..)
Wouldnt asking Slashdot the largest geek forum better than paying a bunch of college kids making phone calls blindly from the phone book?
You want to know what the people are thinking, you goto the people. Slashdot would have a very large userbase of tech users, good place to ask Slashdot.
I heard a statement that I think came from Charles E. Merrill, that he use to walk around the mall to see what people bought, so he knew what to invest in. You goto the people buying and using the product to get information.
Is Slashdot a bad place to ask these questions, no. Its not only a news forum, its a discussion forum, always has been. Its not just News for nerds, its a open forum to discuss these things.
I think with people gathering more data, and data warehousing coming to your house (pics/movies/music/etc). Being able to find your data is the next advance. This is why Microsoft is working on a new file system for longhorn and why Google released a desktop search engine.
:)
As for the GUI, I think its more autocomplete of processes, to reduce manual steps.
The biggest problem I see is forcing interactive moments on a busy user. Nothing is worse in the middle of typing a document and a popup window of some kind, flash in the tool tray until im ready.
And with people multitasking, I dont need a program to tell me its done in the middle of working on something else.
Displaying information while not forcing the user to interact is the next step. We are doing much more than before, multiple programs, multiple tasks, we need to curb the "In your face" attitude of the Gui.
While AI with interactive voice chat would be nice, unless its a virtual lawyer that can answer my questions or a hot stripper, I doubt I'm going to be using voice chat on a operational process.
Voice chat for games is another thing, when your busy, you cant stop to type, talking to the group saves time, and reaction time is quicker.
Of course these are my thoughts and views of current trends. Microsoft research and Cambridge labs are good places to check out. Cambridge ran the research lab that helped oversee VNC and other cool products, under Olivetti and then ATT Labs.
I think there is much more work todo in the modern desktop before we go onto new user input/output methods.
Top hottest things, tabs, info bars, task switching, searching, auto-complete, realtime filtering (spellcheck/etc), history of input, sharing of data with other hard (bluetooth/etc) are IMHO the current impressive new features. And if not new, just easier use or new methods of using the same procedures in a differnt way.
Too bad 2005 isnt going to see many new features, end of year with dual core, new gfx cards, the hardware to take advantage will launch 2006 for new features. But at least with SLI and faster CPUs, this year will be good for gaming until we get there.
hilarious! this is the attitude!
you consider it stable when "every once and a while AQUA" crashes? isn't that like arguing that windows is stable but it's the explorer that crashes and as such it's not a biggie?
Humm, Once and awhile means monthly not weekly like windows. And aqua doesnt take down the OS when it crashs, just aquadock. I havnt seen a bouncing ball or complete crash since 10.1.
Most crash I've seen are games exiting back to normal desktop, doesnt happen often, but its also the same crash type on windows.
I find running WoW in window mode easier now, so i can run chat/webbrowser/IM without issues, Uptime for weeks now.
And for explorer on windows, theres a registery tweak to have explorer shell and explorer browsers to run different instances, so a explorer browser wont restart your gui. That has made windows more stable on a day to day basis, and I wish M$ would make it standard.
So, yes, OSX the OS is rock solid, the GUI can crash, but normally when exiting a game, but only once a month, so yes, thats very stable.
KDE and Gnome crash more, but then i use IceWM and Windowmaker because they are reallly stable.
But nice troll, trying to make it sound like I ssh in daily to reset processes, funny troll.
I only had OSX crash on me when I trying to do stuff like SMB mount from the command line, but its fixed now. Every once and awhile AQUA will crash, I just ssh into the box and kill -9 the process and its back up.
The only time I reboot is for security patchs, but not all need to reboot.
We currently play WoW on it, and underneath I have irssi/squid/vnc running, with multiple ssh sessions.
Running a dual g4, great box, needs a new gfx card, but speed wise, its great. I'd have to say I miss my native vga font for terminals (im oldschool, i like perfect fixedfonts).. But a xwindows workaround is a vga.bdf and rxvt, even colors are correct then. (iTerm is ok, but not even close to putty or konsole)
I also have a gentoo box, a sparc sunblade 100, gentoo is rock solid on it now, still 2.4.x kernel, but very stable.
I'd say if you want a unix workstation, OSX is by far the best.
Biggest downside, home/end doesnt work on command lines in OSX, and other shortcuts, key combos. I wish they would let you pick or customize your settings.
Dual core support on Tyan's Opteron platforms, is a feature we are very much looking forward to providing to all of our current and future customers. Unfortunately while its not possible at this time to directly comment on whether support will be implemented on the S2885, S2895 or other models from Tyan, customers should be pleased to know we are working to ensure compatibility on platforms going forward.
Dual cores are such a major upgrade, why buy any SMP motherboard when 2 months it cant support the next generation SMP cpus...
Does this also mean it comes with Thunderbird to replace the mail?
:)
I like the idea of Mozilla as a whole suite of applications, that way you dont have to install multiple applications, when web+email are the 2 more popular applications. To each his own I guess, Thunderbird is rather nice and works with my exchange server (imap).
Also.
In the next betas, you will be able to copy all the CDs packages on your hard drive, so that you will not need the CDs anymore afterwards to install a new package with urpmi or rpmdrake. Moreover the installation will allow to boot from a USB key (if you cannot boot with a CD), and to save the packages selection on a USB key.
Nice, I actually took my cdrom out of my linux box but it has a USB port. Handy, now to test usb booting.
After mergers you have to lay people off, thats the sad fact. The big problem is when EA just buys companies for the rights to a game.
Thats why people hate EA, they are putting people out of work just for the rights to videogames.
Take your company public, EA could buy it out from you, and own everything you work for.
I think Schwartz said it best.
I became a felon for doing my job with a bit too much enthusiasm.
He used normal security techniques of auditing passwords, he never used the passwords in a dishonest way, and he was authorized to work with the systems. The passwords never left Intel's computers, he didnt actually "HACK" or steal access.
He should of been fired if Intel had an issue, but Oregons law basically make things like using someones xbox without written permission a felony.
Just because a company doesnt like the way you go about doing your jobs shouldnt make you a criminal.
You can read more about it here. Lightlink
How about.
ps -ef vs. ps -xa
They opensourced Dtrace tool, but are the probe points needed in the kernel also an opensourced? Are there such things as probe point patents?
Now if you want to use dtrace, you have to patch the kernel. Just wondering if both sides are opensourced, since one without the other is useless.
But 'da street' is no place for our game design gods. The kids are atheists nowadays.
Ahem, there are lots of indy game designers that keep making new games, but dont burn out. They grow up, make it a life long career, and know how to balance life and work. (Unless you work for EA which means you have no life...)
One example is the company that released Airburst Extreme, Strange Flavor. They are the largest indy game company at MacWorld releasing 6 new games. They are listed on Apple.com as the most popular game. (Before World of Warcraft came out...) How many years since the original Airburst, 10 years?
Maybe Indie markets should get together and make an association to help sell games and fight EA. An example of how this helps, IGA, Independent Grocers of Association gives supermarkets around the world have the same buying power as Walmart. They need the same buying power to compete against the larger chains. They can buy the same products and get better discounts with the associations help.
If your business is being ran out, or bought out by a larger corporation, maybe its time to form some association so you can stay independent and maintain your business presence.
It will be interesting to see how mergers and buyouts change the world in the next 10 years, and how smaller companies react.
Virtually all criminal law is the legislation of someone's morality.
;)
Whoa! I'll have to call bullshit on that.
The laws you listed are person on person crime. Laws that ban what you read/watch/think/listen/smoke/drink/sex/etc with, are morality laws. Regulation are for protective purposes only, mercury in fish, smoking, drinking, etc.
Of course, you can over regulate too, my state does this on Alchol, the Washington state runs the liqour stores, and places a higher sin tax on a limited selection. We keep trying to get through our state congress to privatize stores, so people can have more choices, and more locations. And of course make more taxes. But the common excuse to keep the state monopoly, "For the children, kids will have easier access", which is a utter lie.
Lucky Costco and a few others are sueing, as they have to buy from higher expensive state ran middlemen. Get the state out of business.
I guess thats conservative on business, and liberal on morals. Guess you can be both.
After reading that Judgement, its point perfect on how our constitution protected us.
They federal prosecutors tried to ban all "Obscene" matrial for the safety of the childen. But the courts threw that out, since the sites have authentication for adults. And a persons privacy in their home is protected. Replace "Obscene" with "Religous" or "Political" and it comes down to free speech.
My favorite part of the courts response.
If a statue is unconsitutional as applied, the government may continue to enforce the statue in different circumstances under which it is not unconsitutional. If a statue is unconsitutional on its face, the government may not enforce the statue under any circumstances.
Now I wonder if the Judges are conservative or liberal...
While I understand that an artist doesnt want his music used without their permission, sampling has provided such a wealth of music that it would be a great loss. Both are important issues.
I guess theres also a copyright extension issue, as music has too long of a copyright to enter the public domain, where you can sample the entire song legally.
I guess I'd allow sampling without copying the entire song, how you gauge that would be hard.
Interesting indeed.
iWork doesnt have a spreadsheet. Maybe so Microsoft wont dump MS Office support on OSX.
I'd still use Openoffice over iWork.
Step 2: There is no step 2!
Actually Step 2 is get Fink or Darwin ports for the applications. While Fink has been pretty good in the past, I've switched to darwinports as its more tested, and multi-platform. Darwinports also has less compile issues on popular ports.
Also nice you can run X apps in a -rootless display in mac by default. I even run VNC with Xquartz on the OSX box, i havnt used my linux box since ive bought the dual cpu mac.
We bought the last 3 copies at the Compusa in Kirkland Washington today. :) They had about 12 already paid for waiting for pick up.
No ETA on new shipment, so must be true.
The neighbor should counter-sue Monsanto for damage to his land, tresspassing, interfereance with commerce, dumping, and anything else they can.
Unless people stand up and counter-sue, they have a hard time. You cant just defend yourself, you have to attack them back and get them where it hurts, the pocket book. (Same goes for cities that use violence against peaceful protestors, they wont stop if they dont pay.
So, hopefully everyone has a son or daughter that is going to lawschool, because this is only going to get worse.
As my first recommendation, MP3 support should be installed by default.
That *EXACTLY* the reason I left Redhat. They started taking out things I use on a daily basis. If I have to look for programs on users websites, and also re-compile my own programs, why am I using that distro?
Fedora had too many problems, driver detection, missing librarys, broken programs, xwindows configuration wasnt even on the same level as SuSE or Mandrake.
Now I use Gentoo and Mandrake, depending on the hardware. Fedora just doesnt offer anything special and is lacking too many things to use it. I used SuSE Sparc port for almost 2 years before Gentoo's Sparc was stable enough to move too. (I perfer Linux over NetBSD, but NetBSD has great hardware support)
But thats me, I'm sure some Redhat die hard will take offense. I'm just stating my view, and reasons I dont use it anymore, and I don't see a reason to go back. I'll install it, look around at the config files, kick the tires type install, but I doubt I'll ever switch back to it.