Did I say they count for deployment? Did I even IMPLY it?
No, I didn't. However, 10 licenses per MSDN subscription is SHIPPED. Micosoft claims the sales/shipment of 180 million licenses. Among those 180 million Vista licenses, how many are comprised of MSDN, action pack, evaluation, software assurance eligibility (where the licensee does not take advantage of "upgrading" to Vista), and other licenses which might fall under creative accounting?
Or, are you just astroturfing and completely skewing my question?
I've maintained for years that while HDTV is impressive, in the real world use it's overrated. I say this even as I'm buying an LN46A650. Why am I buying a high-end set even though I think HDTV is overrated? Simple. I'm going to connect an HTPC to it and play games in high def, where it actually makes a difference (ever play Viva pinata on SDTV? The text is unreadable). Also if I'm going to finally "invest" in a flat screen, I'm going to get the best model that fits within my budget..
HDTV is impressive. It's gorgeous. It really is. However, it doesn't make bad writing better. It doesn't make 'reality' tv shows watchable. It doesn't make Hogan's Heroes or Fresh Prince any more entertaining, and doesn't make the Ellen show any less annoying. It doesn't make Stargate: SG-1 season 10 suck any less. It certainly doesn't matter much when watching Futurama or The Simpsons. One of my friends just bought a Sammy flat screen, and I joked "WOW, just LOOK at that! That's AMAZING!" -- we were watching The Simpsons. heh.
To make things worse, Comcast over-compresses the HDTV streams, so the 1080 streams may as well be 720p, and the 720p streams may as well be SDTV. The compression artifacts outweigh much of the benefit reaped by going HDTV in the first place, and from what I have seen so far, Verizon FIOS is even worse. Oh sure, they have some channels where the compression artifacts are not present or are unnoticeable, but I've seen too much of it to make HDTV alone a good reason to upgrade to a new TV. That's not to say it's not an improvement over SDTV at all, it's just that it's not all it's hyped up to be.:(
Why am I finally upgrading? I'm getting rid of clutter. I have >20 years' worth of computer hardware hanging around just in case I need it, and while I do often need older parts for repairs, etc. it's not worth the money for me to keep clutter stacked up at home and at the office. In cleaning up the clutter, I want to chuck my CRT television as well since it takes up a huge amount of space. I want to eliminate the 38 million cables and replace it with a handful - one HDMI from the cable box to the receiver, one from the receiver to the TV, and one HDMI cable from the DVD player to the receiver. I'll eliminate at least 12 cables by going all HDMI, getting rid of a huge annoying rat's nest.
Now, As far as blu-ray is concerned (to FINALLY get on topic), at $250-$400 I am not interested. The last time I bought a DVD player at that price it turned out to be a piece of shiat (it was a Sony DVP-S360), and the quality was abysmal compared to a "cheap" (cheap then at about $189.00) Apex AD-600A.
I'll wait it out until Blu-Ray players are in the $75.00 range, then I'll buy a high-end model at $120 or so. In the meanwhile I'll make do by going with an upscaling DVD player after I get my sammy.:)
Blu-Ray vendors: Your prices need to come WAY down if you want massive adoption. Until then, 480p is enough for me.:)
We have MSDN subscriptions for development and testing work. How are MSDN subscriptions counted for the purpose of this PR? Is each subscription counted as 10 Vista licenses since each subscriber can install 10 concurrent instances (for the use of that subscriber)?
How are the Action Pack subscription counted? Are they counted as 10 licenses per subscriber, or as one?
How are evaluations counted?
How are software assurance licenses counted?
I suspect that in addition to the Vista sold/XP installed sales, the number is vastly inflated due to non-retail and non-oem licenses.
I have not had one CD degrade - regardless of type. My Dark Side of the Moon CD still plays perfectly (purchased in 1987) and every CD-R I've made dating back to 1995 that hasn't been physically abused (cracked, scratched on the label side, or whatever) plays perfectly.
Not really. They are commodity goods SOLD (not licensed) off the shelf. Ever notice that every CD and DVD advertisement, store kiosk, or print ad says OWN it on DVD today, or OWN it on CD today?
Copyright law does not work how the MPAA and RIAA would have you believe. Yesterday's/. article is evidence of that. You OWN the copy of that content, and no one can ever take away your legal right to view/read/etc. that content. Even their slick marketing departments know that you OWN it.
Their unofficial propoganda programs (the RIAA, MPAA, lobbyist groups, etc.) are trying to change this, but you won't find Sony, Paramount, etc. admitting that they are trying to change the law. They know that you OWN it and that is why they advertise it as such.
Now, works for hire (depending on the contract) and rentals may indeed be licensed, but of course that is contract law and not copyright or right of first sale law.
They keep trying and every time it fails. Look at DivX 10 years ago. It fell flat on its face once people realized that they could lose access to something they are legally entitled to watch - and they did lose that access.
No, it does not. There HAS to be probable cause first, unless one has a court order (search warrant) for each and every specific instance.
Otherwise, what we have is unreasonable search and siezure. I don't know which constitution you have been reading but the one in my country is The Constitution of The united States of America.
Now, I have a lot of ink with much more planned, but I'm not getting tux, beastie, the Microsoft butterfly, or any other tech logos tattooed on my body.
I'd consider wearing a T-shirt or hoodie with tux on it to a Microsoft conference (just to be irritating) if the opportunity arises, but no geek tats for me thanks.
right so your advocating we allow the old days of boot sector viruses?
Easily fixed. With as many [Continue|Cancel] messageboxes as Microsoft has managed to throw into Vista, couldn't they implement just one more?
Attention: The Service Pack wishes to update your master boot record. Allowing it to update the boot sector will third party boot loaders. If you do not know what a boot loader is, you don't have to worry about it.
[Continue] [Cancel]
Microsoft, I just solved your usability issue for you. That'll be $3000 for my consulting fee, please!;)
More screen estate, higher resolution. I actually want two laptops: one Eepc and one 17" laptop. One is obviously ultra-portable and fine for checking email, running diagnostics with wireshark, etc. while on the other you can do real work or play actual games. Sometimes just having a portable desktop/workstation replacement is nice.
Of course considering I prefer to run Linux, gaming would be limited to LBreakout and Supertux.;)
Agreed. All too often moderation is used to bias a discussion. What is so damned hard about maintaining objectivity when moderating posts? Whether you agree with a post or not, if it is well-reasoned and you disagree with it, either mod it up, don't mod it all, or if you disagree vehemently, post a reply. Don't mod down posts for that because that is not the intent of posts.
Posts like "Bush is an idiot!" without real content? Sure, mod them down -- even if you agree with the post. That kind of post adds nothing to the discussion - but even then, that isn't someone trolling. Posting racist crap like the N-word and the GNAA B.S. IS trolling and ought to be modded down without exception.
As the guidelines say: focus on modding up, not down.
Trolltech dual-licenses the libraries. Even if they discontinue the dual licensing, Qt4 and earlier will always be available due to the gpl and can be forked, so that's a red herring.
The truth is that Qt is cleaner, provides better, less limited dialogs, EASIER to use than that damned Gtk file open/save dialog, and just like Gtk is freely available.
I for one cannot stand gnome because the gnome developers' idea of making a system easier to use is to cripple the interface and treat the user like an idiot. The KDE team strives to provide all the functionality but make it intuitive enough that novices can understand it.
I'm using the router-specific build and although later builds up through the general release (DD-WRT v24 (05/24/08) vpn - build 9526 ) have had fewer issues with each build, the problems I'm seeing aren't resolved. If it weren't for the limited bandwidth I'd switch back to the SnapGear (which is enterprise quality) and start using the Buffalo just as a WAP again.
Right now uptime is 3 days, 21:34 but I was away all weekend and aside from sshing in a few times during the weekend and after I got back reading my email and posting here today I haven't used it much. It's the longest uptime I've seen with dd-wrt.
That you do not agree with a position does not mean the person is trolling. If it's based on the first line, fine. But, if you are moderating, you ought to read the entire post (unless it's the eating poop post).
I bought a G125 (NO one around here stocks the WRT54GL) and have had nothing but problems since flashing it. I have problems where it reboots periodically, it drops idle telnet sessions (my SnapGear NEVER dropped connections!) and the pptp client sucks. I didn't have a problem with the frequent reboots with the stock firmware.
The only reason I stick with the G125 is my SnapGear is an older model which is limited to 3.5Mbps on the WAN side. When I ran the SnapGear I never had a single problem with it aside from the limited bandwidth (the pptp connection would stay up for months, the telnet session would remain open for 100+ hours, erc). Ever.
I corrected the typo in this summary. See following:
"Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the provider any more, but consumers can expect to continue to deal with unpublished usage caps and limited bandwidth. It is all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become on average 60 times faster than existing networks. According to the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University's School of Physics, the scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world."
Oh, and addition to the obvious typo in the article, I fixed an incorrect its/it's situation.
But seriously - when have advances in the internet infrastructure benefited the customer's bottom line in recent years? As it is fibre is supposed to be available to every address in the US but the telcos pocketed the grants and fees without providing what they were contractually obligated to -- AND consumer costs have increased.
That was not the first time the US has shot down a satellite. There is at least one other time, back in the 1980s when an F-15 was used to shoot another satellite down. From the linked article:
"The United States last shot down a satellite in 1985, using a missile fired from an F-15 fighter jet at an altitude of about 80,000 feet."
Also check out the F-15 Eagle article on Wikipedia:
From January 1984 to September 1986, two F-15As were used as launch platforms for the ASM-135 anti-satellite (ASAT) missile. The F-15As (76-0086 and 77-0084) were modified to carry one ASM-135 on the centerline station with extra equipment within a special centerline pylon.[32] The launch aircraft executed a Mach 1.22, 3.8 g climb at 65Â to release the ASAT missile at an altitude of 38,100 feet (11.6 km). The flight computer was updated to control the zoom-climb and missile release. The third test flight involved a retired communications satellite in a 345 statute mile (555 km) orbit, which was successfully destroyed by kinetic energy. The pilot, USAF Major Wilbert D. "Doug" Pearson, became the only pilot to destroy a satellite.[33][34]
The ASAT missile was designed to be a standoff anti-satellite weapon, with the F-15A acting as a first stage. The Soviet Union could interpret a U.S. rocket launch with a spy satellite loss, but an F-15 carrying an ASAT would blend in among hundreds of F-15 flights. The ASAT program involved five test launches; however, the missile was not known to have entered service. The program was officially terminated in 1988.[32]
Agreed - I'll second the recommendation for Moon Secure. Moon Secure is Free/Open Source and uses the same signature database as ClamAV, which for the user means that it is the most frequently updated signature database available.:)
I've been using it for a couple of months now, and so far so good. The only "problem" with it is they have not implemented a way to disable realtime scanning (necessary for some Microsoft Live games, such as Viva Pinata) so you need to use the services control panel (or a batch file) to disable the realtime scanning engine.
It is the least bloated antivirus package out there. In fact I don't think it even integrates with email clients - you need to download ClamWin for that.
...and if it's serious enough to impact your long-term health, you should get those "hormonal/glandular issues" looked at. If the doctor says, "there's nothing we can do about it", fine...
Try curing CAH. The symptoms right now, if you eat the required diet to keep the adrenal glands going, is to eat lots of high-cholesterol, high-electrolyte foods, which leads to weight gain. However, leaving the adrenals unchecked leads to other problems (heart problems) and throws off one's hormones, leading to weight gain. Today's western medicine treatments are to remove the adrenal glands (which, yes, you guessed it - lead to weight gain, and heart problems), or to take cortisol, which, yep! Taking that steroid leads to weight gain.
Me? I just started atkins. it's high enough in cholesterol that it should keep my adrenals happy, high enough in potassium and calcium (thanks to cheese!) and sodium to keep my electrolytes up, and the carbs down. Hopefully I'll be able to shed 50lbs.
But yes, there are glandular and hormonal issues which cannot be treated, or where the treatment causes more problems than the original symptoms.
I begged my parents for the Radio Trash-marketed 160-in-one and 200-in-one kits and had lots of fun with those. The instruction books explained the concepts and even touched on a little theory.
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I unashamedly admit that I deprived BSA members of profits, and at least weekly encourage clients to do the same.
I encourage the use of BSA-profit-depriving alternatives such as:
* Linux rather than Windows
* The OpenOffice.org and OxygenOffice suites rather than Microsoft Office
* Thunderbird or Evolution+Lightning rather than Outlook
* Moon Secure rather than the buggy, resource-hogging Symantec antivirus
* Scalix, Zimbra, or even good old Postfix rather than Exchange
* Mozilla Firefox rather than the insecure MSIE
* Spybot S&D rather than commercial (OK this one is freeware not F/OSS but proprietary/free as in beer is great when the payware solutions suck!)
* ASSP rather than Symantec's crappy spam filter - which after an automatic update deleted every single email attachment in my Exchange Info Store years ago, which prompted my moving almost everything at the office back to Linux. ASSP blocks more spam, incurs fewer false positives, plus it's FREE/OSS! I implement ASSP for clients running both Windows and Linux mail servers.
That isn't to say I am opposed to buying software, nor is open source software a solution for everyone. I pay for my Linux distributions, I buy Crossover Office and Zend Studio, and I just bought a Windows game. There is an intern at one of my clients wanting to get everyone on open source across the board, and was asking me why I didn't do it. I pointed him to the fact that QCAD is 2D-only, PythonCAD is weak, other CAD solutions on Linux are immature, incomplete, incompatible (no LISP), or in planning stages, plus there would be HUGE training issues. Also, they NEED M$ office for some of the programs they need to run, and several engineering programs they use "might" run under wine, but there is no way the execs would approve of the training cost. We're planning a Linux server for them for some time sheet/project billing software, but there is no realistic way they can dump Windows. As it is, I have OOo.org, Firefox, PDF Creator (no more "pirating" Distiller), 7 Zip (no more "pirating" Winzip!), Filezilla (No more "pirating" WS_FTP), and various other F/OSS and freeware programs deployed there. When I pointed that all out he saw the reality of it: F/OSS is not the BFH that works for every solution, but when it can be used, it should be.
In the architecture industry there are few alternatives to AutoCAD or DesignCAD, both of which require Windows.
Also, for syncing up PDAs, smartphones, etc. nothing beats Windows and Exchange+Outlook.
There isn't a good affordable alternative to Quickbooks - and none that I know of that run on Linux.
You're a gamer? CVS Cedega, Cedega, and Crossover Games may play a lot of games, but not all. Like Microsoft Live games? Linux is probably not the best solution for you.
I recommend F/OSS solutions whenever possible, because it's best for the client, it's best for the F/OSS community (exposure), and it helps keep the market forces (read: Microsoft) keep their prices in check.
Note: I meant persecute before any grammar nazis respond. Unjust prosecution is persecution. My hating Bush or wishing you'd just choke on a pretzel and not have anyone there to help you does not make me a criminal. Passing a law which prohibits my holding a low opinion of our worst president ever would be unjust.
I have a problem with hate crimes, by the way. What violent crime is not rooted in hatred to begin with? If you hate blacks, jews, whites, gays, or whatever, and assault or murder one based on that, you've committed assault or murder. If you hate women and you rape one, you've committed sexual assault. Hatred should be treated as merely the motive supporting prosecution of the criminal charges; not be a crime in and of itself. So, I suppose we already have laws which allow persecution on the books.
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Did I say they count for deployment? Did I even IMPLY it?
No, I didn't. However, 10 licenses per MSDN subscription is SHIPPED. Micosoft claims the sales/shipment of 180 million licenses. Among those 180 million Vista licenses, how many are comprised of MSDN, action pack, evaluation, software assurance eligibility (where the licensee does not take advantage of "upgrading" to Vista), and other licenses which might fall under creative accounting?
Or, are you just astroturfing and completely skewing my question?
HDTV is overrated.
I've maintained for years that while HDTV is impressive, in the real world use it's overrated. I say this even as I'm buying an LN46A650. Why am I buying a high-end set even though I think HDTV is overrated? Simple. I'm going to connect an HTPC to it and play games in high def, where it actually makes a difference (ever play Viva pinata on SDTV? The text is unreadable). Also if I'm going to finally "invest" in a flat screen, I'm going to get the best model that fits within my budget..
HDTV is impressive. It's gorgeous. It really is. However, it doesn't make bad writing better. It doesn't make 'reality' tv shows watchable. It doesn't make Hogan's Heroes or Fresh Prince any more entertaining, and doesn't make the Ellen show any less annoying. It doesn't make Stargate: SG-1 season 10 suck any less. It certainly doesn't matter much when watching Futurama or The Simpsons. One of my friends just bought a Sammy flat screen, and I joked "WOW, just LOOK at that! That's AMAZING!" -- we were watching The Simpsons. heh.
To make things worse, Comcast over-compresses the HDTV streams, so the 1080 streams may as well be 720p, and the 720p streams may as well be SDTV. The compression artifacts outweigh much of the benefit reaped by going HDTV in the first place, and from what I have seen so far, Verizon FIOS is even worse. Oh sure, they have some channels where the compression artifacts are not present or are unnoticeable, but I've seen too much of it to make HDTV alone a good reason to upgrade to a new TV. That's not to say it's not an improvement over SDTV at all, it's just that it's not all it's hyped up to be. :(
Why am I finally upgrading? I'm getting rid of clutter. I have >20 years' worth of computer hardware hanging around just in case I need it, and while I do often need older parts for repairs, etc. it's not worth the money for me to keep clutter stacked up at home and at the office. In cleaning up the clutter, I want to chuck my CRT television as well since it takes up a huge amount of space. I want to eliminate the 38 million cables and replace it with a handful - one HDMI from the cable box to the receiver, one from the receiver to the TV, and one HDMI cable from the DVD player to the receiver. I'll eliminate at least 12 cables by going all HDMI, getting rid of a huge annoying rat's nest.
Now, As far as blu-ray is concerned (to FINALLY get on topic), at $250-$400 I am not interested. The last time I bought a DVD player at that price it turned out to be a piece of shiat (it was a Sony DVP-S360), and the quality was abysmal compared to a "cheap" (cheap then at about $189.00) Apex AD-600A.
I'll wait it out until Blu-Ray players are in the $75.00 range, then I'll buy a high-end model at $120 or so. In the meanwhile I'll make do by going with an upscaling DVD player after I get my sammy. :)
Blu-Ray vendors: Your prices need to come WAY down if you want massive adoption. Until then, 480p is enough for me. :)
We have MSDN subscriptions for development and testing work. How are MSDN subscriptions counted for the purpose of this PR? Is each subscription counted as 10 Vista licenses since each subscriber can install 10 concurrent instances (for the use of that subscriber)?
How are the Action Pack subscription counted? Are they counted as 10 licenses per subscriber, or as one?
How are evaluations counted?
How are software assurance licenses counted?
I suspect that in addition to the Vista sold/XP installed sales, the number is vastly inflated due to non-retail and non-oem licenses.
Drink recycled water. It's good for the environment, and okay for you. ;)
heh.
Seriously though I'll keep trusting the natural rain cycle or distillation myself, not a filtering process.
I have not had one CD degrade - regardless of type. My Dark Side of the Moon CD still plays perfectly (purchased in 1987) and every CD-R I've made dating back to 1995 that hasn't been physically abused (cracked, scratched on the label side, or whatever) plays perfectly.
Not really. They are commodity goods SOLD (not licensed) off the shelf. Ever notice that every CD and DVD advertisement, store kiosk, or print ad says OWN it on DVD today, or OWN it on CD today?
Copyright law does not work how the MPAA and RIAA would have you believe. Yesterday's /. article is evidence of that. You OWN the copy of that content, and no one can ever take away your legal right to view/read/etc. that content. Even their slick marketing departments know that you OWN it.
Their unofficial propoganda programs (the RIAA, MPAA, lobbyist groups, etc.) are trying to change this, but you won't find Sony, Paramount, etc. admitting that they are trying to change the law. They know that you OWN it and that is why they advertise it as such.
Now, works for hire (depending on the contract) and rentals may indeed be licensed, but of course that is contract law and not copyright or right of first sale law.
They keep trying and every time it fails. Look at DivX 10 years ago. It fell flat on its face once people realized that they could lose access to something they are legally entitled to watch - and they did lose that access.
No, it does not. There HAS to be probable cause first, unless one has a court order (search warrant) for each and every specific instance.
Otherwise, what we have is unreasonable search and siezure. I don't know which constitution you have been reading but the one in my country is The Constitution of The united States of America.
Unlimited means without limit, right?
This policy will change as soon as a customer takes them to court for false advertising/fraud.
Now, I have a lot of ink with much more planned, but I'm not getting tux, beastie, the Microsoft butterfly, or any other tech logos tattooed on my body.
I'd consider wearing a T-shirt or hoodie with tux on it to a Microsoft conference (just to be irritating) if the opportunity arises, but no geek tats for me thanks.
Easily fixed. With as many [Continue|Cancel] messageboxes as Microsoft has managed to throw into Vista, couldn't they implement just one more?
Microsoft, I just solved your usability issue for you. That'll be $3000 for my consulting fee, please! ;)
Scribus?
re: Why do you assume bigger is better?
More screen estate, higher resolution. I actually want two laptops: one Eepc and one 17" laptop. One is obviously ultra-portable and fine for checking email, running diagnostics with wireshark, etc. while on the other you can do real work or play actual games. Sometimes just having a portable desktop/workstation replacement is nice.
Of course considering I prefer to run Linux, gaming would be limited to LBreakout and Supertux. ;)
Agreed. All too often moderation is used to bias a discussion. What is so damned hard about maintaining objectivity when moderating posts? Whether you agree with a post or not, if it is well-reasoned and you disagree with it, either mod it up, don't mod it all, or if you disagree vehemently, post a reply. Don't mod down posts for that because that is not the intent of posts.
Posts like "Bush is an idiot!" without real content? Sure, mod them down -- even if you agree with the post. That kind of post adds nothing to the discussion - but even then, that isn't someone trolling. Posting racist crap like the N-word and the GNAA B.S. IS trolling and ought to be modded down without exception.
As the guidelines say: focus on modding up, not down.
Trolltech dual-licenses the libraries. Even if they discontinue the dual licensing, Qt4 and earlier will always be available due to the gpl and can be forked, so that's a red herring.
The truth is that Qt is cleaner, provides better, less limited dialogs, EASIER to use than that damned Gtk file open/save dialog, and just like Gtk is freely available.
I for one cannot stand gnome because the gnome developers' idea of making a system easier to use is to cripple the interface and treat the user like an idiot. The KDE team strives to provide all the functionality but make it intuitive enough that novices can understand it.
I'm using the router-specific build and although later builds up through the general release (DD-WRT v24 (05/24/08) vpn - build 9526 ) have had fewer issues with each build, the problems I'm seeing aren't resolved. If it weren't for the limited bandwidth I'd switch back to the SnapGear (which is enterprise quality) and start using the Buffalo just as a WAP again.
Right now uptime is 3 days, 21:34 but I was away all weekend and aside from sshing in a few times during the weekend and after I got back reading my email and posting here today I haven't used it much. It's the longest uptime I've seen with dd-wrt.
How is this a troll?
That you do not agree with a position does not mean the person is trolling. If it's based on the first line, fine. But, if you are moderating, you ought to read the entire post (unless it's the eating poop post).
I bought a G125 (NO one around here stocks the WRT54GL) and have had nothing but problems since flashing it. I have problems where it reboots periodically, it drops idle telnet sessions (my SnapGear NEVER dropped connections!) and the pptp client sucks. I didn't have a problem with the frequent reboots with the stock firmware.
The only reason I stick with the G125 is my SnapGear is an older model which is limited to 3.5Mbps on the WAN side. When I ran the SnapGear I never had a single problem with it aside from the limited bandwidth (the pptp connection would stay up for months, the telnet session would remain open for 100+ hours, erc). Ever.
I corrected the typo in this summary. See following:
"Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the provider any more, but consumers can expect to continue to deal with unpublished usage caps and limited bandwidth. It is all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become on average 60 times faster than existing networks. According to the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University's School of Physics, the scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world."
Oh, and addition to the obvious typo in the article, I fixed an incorrect its/it's situation.
But seriously - when have advances in the internet infrastructure benefited the customer's bottom line in recent years? As it is fibre is supposed to be available to every address in the US but the telcos pocketed the grants and fees without providing what they were contractually obligated to -- AND consumer costs have increased.
O RLY?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/20/satellite.shootdown/index.html
That was not the first time the US has shot down a satellite. There is at least one other time, back in the 1980s when an F-15 was used to shoot another satellite down. From the linked article:
Also check out the F-15 Eagle article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle#Satellite_killer
that's okay, they calculated the power requirements using a Pentium chip. 0`:-)
Agreed - I'll second the recommendation for Moon Secure. Moon Secure is Free/Open Source and uses the same signature database as ClamAV, which for the user means that it is the most frequently updated signature database available. :)
I've been using it for a couple of months now, and so far so good. The only "problem" with it is they have not implemented a way to disable realtime scanning (necessary for some Microsoft Live games, such as Viva Pinata) so you need to use the services control panel (or a batch file) to disable the realtime scanning engine.
It is the least bloated antivirus package out there. In fact I don't think it even integrates with email clients - you need to download ClamWin for that.
Try curing CAH. The symptoms right now, if you eat the required diet to keep the adrenal glands going, is to eat lots of high-cholesterol, high-electrolyte foods, which leads to weight gain. However, leaving the adrenals unchecked leads to other problems (heart problems) and throws off one's hormones, leading to weight gain. Today's western medicine treatments are to remove the adrenal glands (which, yes, you guessed it - lead to weight gain, and heart problems), or to take cortisol, which, yep! Taking that steroid leads to weight gain.
Me? I just started atkins. it's high enough in cholesterol that it should keep my adrenals happy, high enough in potassium and calcium (thanks to cheese!) and sodium to keep my electrolytes up, and the carbs down. Hopefully I'll be able to shed 50lbs.
But yes, there are glandular and hormonal issues which cannot be treated, or where the treatment causes more problems than the original symptoms.
But then, you probably know everything. ;)
I begged my parents for the Radio Trash-marketed 160-in-one and 200-in-one kits and had lots of fun with those. The instruction books explained the concepts and even touched on a little theory.
I unashamedly admit that I deprived BSA members of profits, and at least weekly encourage clients to do the same.
I encourage the use of BSA-profit-depriving alternatives such as:
* Linux rather than Windows
* The OpenOffice.org and OxygenOffice suites rather than Microsoft Office
* Thunderbird or Evolution+Lightning rather than Outlook
* Moon Secure rather than the buggy, resource-hogging Symantec antivirus
* Scalix, Zimbra, or even good old Postfix rather than Exchange
* Mozilla Firefox rather than the insecure MSIE
* Spybot S&D rather than commercial (OK this one is freeware not F/OSS but proprietary/free as in beer is great when the payware solutions suck!)
* ASSP rather than Symantec's crappy spam filter - which after an automatic update deleted every single email attachment in my Exchange Info Store years ago, which prompted my moving almost everything at the office back to Linux. ASSP blocks more spam, incurs fewer false positives, plus it's FREE/OSS! I implement ASSP for clients running both Windows and Linux mail servers.
That isn't to say I am opposed to buying software, nor is open source software a solution for everyone. I pay for my Linux distributions, I buy Crossover Office and Zend Studio, and I just bought a Windows game. There is an intern at one of my clients wanting to get everyone on open source across the board, and was asking me why I didn't do it. I pointed him to the fact that QCAD is 2D-only, PythonCAD is weak, other CAD solutions on Linux are immature, incomplete, incompatible (no LISP), or in planning stages, plus there would be HUGE training issues. Also, they NEED M$ office for some of the programs they need to run, and several engineering programs they use "might" run under wine, but there is no way the execs would approve of the training cost. We're planning a Linux server for them for some time sheet/project billing software, but there is no realistic way they can dump Windows. As it is, I have OOo.org, Firefox, PDF Creator (no more "pirating" Distiller), 7 Zip (no more "pirating" Winzip!), Filezilla (No more "pirating" WS_FTP), and various other F/OSS and freeware programs deployed there. When I pointed that all out he saw the reality of it: F/OSS is not the BFH that works for every solution, but when it can be used, it should be.
In the architecture industry there are few alternatives to AutoCAD or DesignCAD, both of which require Windows.
Also, for syncing up PDAs, smartphones, etc. nothing beats Windows and Exchange+Outlook.
There isn't a good affordable alternative to Quickbooks - and none that I know of that run on Linux.
You're a gamer? CVS Cedega, Cedega, and Crossover Games may play a lot of games, but not all. Like Microsoft Live games? Linux is probably not the best solution for you.
I recommend F/OSS solutions whenever possible, because it's best for the client, it's best for the F/OSS community (exposure), and it helps keep the market forces (read: Microsoft) keep their prices in check.
Note: I meant persecute before any grammar nazis respond. Unjust prosecution is persecution. My hating Bush or wishing you'd just choke on a pretzel and not have anyone there to help you does not make me a criminal. Passing a law which prohibits my holding a low opinion of our worst president ever would be unjust.
I have a problem with hate crimes, by the way. What violent crime is not rooted in hatred to begin with? If you hate blacks, jews, whites, gays, or whatever, and assault or murder one based on that, you've committed assault or murder. If you hate women and you rape one, you've committed sexual assault. Hatred should be treated as merely the motive supporting prosecution of the criminal charges; not be a crime in and of itself. So, I suppose we already have laws which allow persecution on the books.