See but if he does it the legal way (which I do, since I work at a second run theatre), then the MPAA will still scream piracy, because they're making less money. They don't care that you're breaking the law, they care that they're not making $$$, and to them, that's the crime they're suing people over.
That's not spam. Amazon is a valid bookseller. Yes there's the patent issue, but if money's an issue, then $6-7 is a decent difference, especially since it's no extra work to get it from one or the other. Personally, the first thing I did when I saw the B&N price was check the Amazon price. I may check the Borders price too, since there's one near me. Unfortunately, a few dollars is important if you're in college or not making a lot of money.
Yes, I concede the A9 thing was annoying, but let's try some good-faith here.
I'm talking about MAD. IBM sends a little letter to monkey boy saying "hey, you sue linux, we'll consider that an attack on us". MS gets scared, problem solved.
You can't use nukes. I mean, you can't use them to bully someone seriously. If you go to some country and say "I'm gonna nuke you", they won't believe it because of the domestic and international fallout. But an aircraft carrier can be used to land troops, launch covert missions, bomb stuff conventionally, and enforce air superiority. And by "projecting power", he meant being able to take action outside of your home area. This has been hard for countries since WWII, and aircraft carriers are like a portable island in terms of having a fighting base.
Yeah, but minor damage to two of the three big ones beat 2 or 3 sunk out of the five smaller ones. Damage Control is to keep something from destroying the ship. Thus what would be annoying and slightly damaging to the big ships could take the small ships out of the fight, or force them to be scuttled
The sea is a place it's expensive to send sailors. After all, we have to house, feed, and entertain them when they're off duty. Building more housing for sailors increases size, which increases fuel use, and decreases operational range.
Substitute astronaut for sailor in that. Automation will be critical to space flight, for all the reasons it's useful here. Fewer astronauts means fewer people to send to Mars for 3 years, or at least it'll allow those people to get more done. This will make spaceflight cheaper, and it'll increase range, because it's easier to supply ten people for 3 years than it is to supply 15. Less food, less fuel, less money.
So if I make an ad for watches, and aim to sell watches, and my ads contain a girl wearing only my watch, is that OK? I mean, obviously the reason she's nude is to avoid advertising other clothing brands as well. Not to mention to draw focus to the only article of clothing, the watch? Under your system, that'd fly. Just like Victoria's secret and bikini ads are OK now, that'd not get blocked?
the only place it could possibly be relevant (determining whether or not an arbitrary website should be required to use the.xxx TLD) there are going to be existing laws defining what "porn" is in that locality.
Standards on porn/obscenity differ by locality. If something is considered art in one area, and porn in another, what happens when someone hosts that content in the first area, and doesn't use.xxx? Under his standards, he's fine, but under area b's standards, it's a crime.
1) Define porn. Any definition will have to involve questions of artistic merit, like they deal with in other cases.
2) What do you do with hybrid sites? I mean, wikipedia has several graphic illustrations in the human sexuality articles. Does wikipedia have to move fully to.xxx?
Thank you. And I was also talking about "Diggall", which is the only way to see the newer ones when they're first posted, which has more noise than the front page. Most of the front page stuff is at least peripherally interesting, but trying to get to the new stories is hard until they get dugg to the front page, by which point it's been a few hours. I wouldn't use either Slashdot or Digg for breaking news, and Slashdot has much better commentary.
Yes, but when I read both Slashdot and Digg, I only have to look at one/. page, but having looked at the front two pages of Digg a couple of times the last two days, I totally missed that story. Digg may have a lot of these stories first, but sometimes they don't stay on your front page. I have to do that diggall thing, and sort through lots of crap to get to the new stories.
Ok, something's wrong with that. I've had an iBook for like 9 or 10 months, and it's crashed twice. Apparently I have an issue with my Logitech headset and sleep mode. I put it to sleep, wake it up, and remove the headset while it's waking up. Got that "You need to restart" screen in about 10 langauges. The second time, I installed Pathfinder, removed the Finder, and restarted, forgetting that I had set Pathfinder to quit the Finder and launch at startup. So Pathfinder loaded as the Finder, quit, then reloaded, quit, then reloaded, etc... (That one was completely my fault)
Why a commerical offering? I mean, there's already a freeware one. How much extra beyond a Mac and XP is a person going to pay? And all you'd really be doing is providing support to people who try it. Doesn't sound like a great business plan to me.
Well, it didn't have a working video card. It was a slightly (.16 GHz) faster processor, but didn't have a working video card driver. So anything that would have otherwise been put on the graphics card processor landed on the CPU
Obviously the turtleneck was a shade of gray or brown totally indistingushable from black with the naked eye, but different enough to avoid some sort of copyright lawsuit.
Well, if all they're missing is a video driver, they're still OK for XP and non-graphics programs. I mean, really, once they have all the drivers worked out, it'll work, as long as the drivers and the CSM hack aren't buggy. Within 6 months, I bet this'll be 100% worked out. I mean, a MBP or iMac uses most of the same parts as a PC, so it's just a question of adapting and locating drivers.
Where in the world do you work that your company would allow you to (a) choose your hardware, and (b) have any say in what OS is installed? Pretty much everywhere I've ever worked, these decisions are made by IT for funding, legal, and technical reasons.
You contradicted yourself. "His company" is prescribing certain software for use, because of funding, legal, and technical reasons, that's the brand of software his company's IT department decided is best, just like your IT department. Your post assumes that everyone heads, or at least works in, their IT department. Which leaves a lot of jobs unfilled, doesn't it?
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How much money do you save getting FreeDOS as your operating system?
64 bit Vista will eventually have EFI. There is no promise of EFI in the initial roll out in January (or whenever it get released)
See but if he does it the legal way (which I do, since I work at a second run theatre), then the MPAA will still scream piracy, because they're making less money. They don't care that you're breaking the law, they care that they're not making $$$, and to them, that's the crime they're suing people over.
So there was this goat, right? One night... [please visit my blog for the rest!]
the linked blog - "Oy!"
So RMS tripped over a goat?
Oh, my mistake. I thought it was the straight link to the page. Sorry about that. Mod me (and him) down then.
That's not spam. Amazon is a valid bookseller. Yes there's the patent issue, but if money's an issue, then $6-7 is a decent difference, especially since it's no extra work to get it from one or the other. Personally, the first thing I did when I saw the B&N price was check the Amazon price. I may check the Borders price too, since there's one near me. Unfortunately, a few dollars is important if you're in college or not making a lot of money.
Yes, I concede the A9 thing was annoying, but let's try some good-faith here.
I'm talking about MAD. IBM sends a little letter to monkey boy saying "hey, you sue linux, we'll consider that an attack on us". MS gets scared, problem solved.
Don't some of those expire soon? I mean, patents are, what? 17 years? 1991 release of Windows 3.1 + 17 years is like 2008, right?
Also, couldn't IBM and Novell just step in and nail Microsoft on about a thousand patents?
What would you suggest? I use text edit mostly, but I need an full suite every once in a while if I want anything more than AppleWorks can do.
A lot of that might be your applications. I use Thunderbird instead of Mail, and it's faster. OO.o beats NeoOffice, and Adium is faster than AIM.
Why do you think so-called "rogue states" like Iran and N.Korea are apparently actively seeking nuclear weapons programs?
Because we all know they're ruled by people who'd use nuclear weapons, but I can't say the same for the British and French.
You can't use nukes. I mean, you can't use them to bully someone seriously. If you go to some country and say "I'm gonna nuke you", they won't believe it because of the domestic and international fallout. But an aircraft carrier can be used to land troops, launch covert missions, bomb stuff conventionally, and enforce air superiority. And by "projecting power", he meant being able to take action outside of your home area. This has been hard for countries since WWII, and aircraft carriers are like a portable island in terms of having a fighting base.
Yeah, but minor damage to two of the three big ones beat 2 or 3 sunk out of the five smaller ones. Damage Control is to keep something from destroying the ship. Thus what would be annoying and slightly damaging to the big ships could take the small ships out of the fight, or force them to be scuttled
The sea is a place it's expensive to send sailors. After all, we have to house, feed, and entertain them when they're off duty. Building more housing for sailors increases size, which increases fuel use, and decreases operational range.
Substitute astronaut for sailor in that. Automation will be critical to space flight, for all the reasons it's useful here. Fewer astronauts means fewer people to send to Mars for 3 years, or at least it'll allow those people to get more done. This will make spaceflight cheaper, and it'll increase range, because it's easier to supply ten people for 3 years than it is to supply 15. Less food, less fuel, less money.
So if I make an ad for watches, and aim to sell watches, and my ads contain a girl wearing only my watch, is that OK? I mean, obviously the reason she's nude is to avoid advertising other clothing brands as well. Not to mention to draw focus to the only article of clothing, the watch? Under your system, that'd fly. Just like Victoria's secret and bikini ads are OK now, that'd not get blocked?
the only place it could possibly be relevant (determining whether or not an arbitrary website should be required to use the .xxx TLD) there are going to be existing laws defining what "porn" is in that locality.
.xxx? Under his standards, he's fine, but under area b's standards, it's a crime.
Standards on porn/obscenity differ by locality. If something is considered art in one area, and porn in another, what happens when someone hosts that content in the first area, and doesn't use
There are two issues that I see with .xxx
.xxx?
1) Define porn. Any definition will have to involve questions of artistic merit, like they deal with in other cases.
2) What do you do with hybrid sites? I mean, wikipedia has several graphic illustrations in the human sexuality articles. Does wikipedia have to move fully to
Thank you. And I was also talking about "Diggall", which is the only way to see the newer ones when they're first posted, which has more noise than the front page. Most of the front page stuff is at least peripherally interesting, but trying to get to the new stories is hard until they get dugg to the front page, by which point it's been a few hours. I wouldn't use either Slashdot or Digg for breaking news, and Slashdot has much better commentary.
Yes, but when I read both Slashdot and Digg, I only have to look at one /. page, but having looked at the front two pages of Digg a couple of times the last two days, I totally missed that story. Digg may have a lot of these stories first, but sometimes they don't stay on your front page. I have to do that diggall thing, and sort through lots of crap to get to the new stories.
Ok, something's wrong with that. I've had an iBook for like 9 or 10 months, and it's crashed twice. Apparently I have an issue with my Logitech headset and sleep mode. I put it to sleep, wake it up, and remove the headset while it's waking up. Got that "You need to restart" screen in about 10 langauges. The second time, I installed Pathfinder, removed the Finder, and restarted, forgetting that I had set Pathfinder to quit the Finder and launch at startup. So Pathfinder loaded as the Finder, quit, then reloaded, quit, then reloaded, etc... (That one was completely my fault)
Why a commerical offering? I mean, there's already a freeware one. How much extra beyond a Mac and XP is a person going to pay? And all you'd really be doing is providing support to people who try it. Doesn't sound like a great business plan to me.
Well, it didn't have a working video card. It was a slightly (.16 GHz) faster processor, but didn't have a working video card driver. So anything that would have otherwise been put on the graphics card processor landed on the CPU
Obviously the turtleneck was a shade of gray or brown totally indistingushable from black with the naked eye, but different enough to avoid some sort of copyright lawsuit.
Well, if all they're missing is a video driver, they're still OK for XP and non-graphics programs. I mean, really, once they have all the drivers worked out, it'll work, as long as the drivers and the CSM hack aren't buggy. Within 6 months, I bet this'll be 100% worked out. I mean, a MBP or iMac uses most of the same parts as a PC, so it's just a question of adapting and locating drivers.
Where in the world do you work that your company would allow you to (a) choose your hardware, and (b) have any say in what OS is installed? Pretty much everywhere I've ever worked, these decisions are made by IT for funding, legal, and technical reasons.
You contradicted yourself. "His company" is prescribing certain software for use, because of funding, legal, and technical reasons, that's the brand of software his company's IT department decided is best, just like your IT department. Your post assumes that everyone heads, or at least works in, their IT department. Which leaves a lot of jobs unfilled, doesn't it?