Why would the gvt. spend tens of thousands of dollars suing me for a car that is only worth a couple grand?
They're using your own money (taxes) to do it. Besides I don't think it costs them tens of thousands to do it. Its probably just a matter of paperwork, filling out the right forms and having a judge sign it. The money goes into local law enforcement coffers usually.
I was at the Smithsonian awhile back, and they had on display the actual executive order that FDR signed to put Japanese-Americans into deterrment camps. I read it, and no where did it say "Go out and put all Japanese-Americans into camps". What it did say, was that military authorities could designate secured areas, and they could then decided who had access to these secured areas. That as all they needed to do what they wanted.
As far as criminal forfeiture goes, under drug laws you can be accused of possession, or distribution, and have all of your property confiscated. This happens before you go to trial. If you are found innocent, or even if they drop charges and never go to trial, they still keep your stuff. You have to sue to get it back, and good luck on ever seeing it again. This is one of the things that those of us against the War on Drugs (WOD) are fighting.
I've installed Windows countless times, and it is a breeze compared to unix. Comparing my first few installs to what I can do now, even my earlier work is satisfactory. Windows doesn't need me to tell it how many megs of RAM my video card has, or how many lines of resolution my monitor has (vertical and horizontal) in order to run. I've tried almost all the flavors of Linux (RedHat, SuSe, Turbo Linux, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware) and only Mandrake would run X-windows on my system. Even then it is clunky in its feel compared to MS.
Unix is nothing more than 32-bit DOS, only MS-DOS is far easier to work with. What good does all this potential that Unix has offer to me if I need to study computer science to make it work?
You're very wrong. When Bell Labs invented the Laser in the early 60's, they didn't know it would be used to play music in the 80's. Or that it would ring up prices in a grocery store.
Geocities is free but you get what you pay for. Pop-up ads, and slow bandwidth. That's why I left and pay $5 a month for a directory account, on a smaller web host. Its suits me fine.
But I don't hold it against the author for using Geocities. As long as it works I suppose.
Please be advised that this story is all about the Red Hat IPO. Red Hat, is a company that produces a distribution of Linux. Linux is a computer operating system, based heavily on Unix. For more information, you might want to check some website on the Linux operating system.
For the past few years, I've been careful to use my work email only for work. Besides the fact its hard enough to manage my personal email without getting it mixed up with work, I don't want to give my employers a tool to screw me with. I don't want to try to explain myself to Mike Wallace and the 60 Minutes cameras over a dumb email I might have sent years earlier. But further back I used work email like a madman, and I seriously doubt my old employer has backup tapes of all their email going back to '94. Their backup system was poor and we'd lose data over a file server crash, routinely. However when I worked at a government installation, I'm sure whatever I wrote will probably outlive me in a archive somewhere.
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I suppose I'll have to start using encryption, but I haven't so far because I don't know how. Doesn't using encryption mean that the people I send mail to have to have deencryption software running? What if they dont? Do I have to become a computer instructor for my non techie friends and teach them how to use PGP. After I learn how to work it?
VHS had a maximum recording time of 8 hours with special tapes. Beta's max recording time was 6 hours. People figured that VHS must therefore be better. How many people record 8 hours on a VHS tape these days? No one I know.
Also Sony controlled licensing on the Beta format. If you wanted Beta VCR that left you with either Sony, Sanyo, or NEC, which manufactured both. JVC had something to do with the VHS format, and there were much more players to choose for VHS, probably better prices too, but I was a youngin when the tape wars were going on.
I use either user@domain.com or root@localhost.com
However, there is a http://www.localhost.com If you go there you get a message saying either your looking for them, or your dns is setup wrong. They must get tons of visitors to their site, 90% are probably there by mistake.
In a TV movie called "Salvage One" with Andy Griffith. He played a junkyard owner who got a hold of some old surplus rockets. He had a friend who did demolitions design the rocket fuel, and another friend who was a computer hacker(this was early 80's, very old school) hack into NASA and steal their navigational mainframe so they could navigate to the moon and back. His mission was to go to the moon, salvage some leftover Apollo parts, and come back. Great Movie
I believe it used to be standard policy to photograph everyone going in and out of the Soviet Embassy. Think about it, if you're a spy you got to meet with your contacts somehow.
Well, up until the mid 1980's you could get most record albums for $5.99 - $8.99 depending on where you shop. Then along came CD's at $15-$18, and people paid more because they were new, and the technology was expensive. The prices of CD's never fell to vinyl, we just got used to paying more. There's no reason why they can't cost a little less.
As long as we're theorizing, why not do away with record companies completely? Artists can make their money giving concerts and selling merchandize, and use mp3s for bringing in the audience in the first place.
To me, Quake 1, 2, and 3 were the most over-rated games in computer gaming history. I'll take Doom and good 2D any day over Quake and its 3D. After all, your looking at it on a 2D computer screen.
After I beat Doom2 on its hardest level, I would go back in in God-mode, and incite fights between the various monsters, stand back and watch them fight like Gladiators. Oh such fun the Doom AI. Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, and Hexen were the only 1st person shoot'ems that I ever loved.
> one's marketability is highest right after college and decreases geometrically thereafter.
which planet are you living on?
I assume its the planet earth like the rest of us. The article didn't say jobs in tech support or network design, they were speaking about software programming. The Washington Post had an article a few months back saying the same thing. That most hot programmers are perceived as being young. Some places figure when a guy gets to be in his mid 30's he should be in management already, and not still programming. Its a perception thing that isn't based on good management or common sense.
There's a new stereotype where all the hot programmers are young guys in their 20's, have a attitude, bleach their hair, are body pierced, and go raving in their spare time.
I had the Motion 771 and DirectX 3 worked fine on it. I later moved up from 95 to NT Workstation which didn't support anything higher than DirectX3 so I don't know if the higher versions were supported.
Yes, the Revolution IV, and some other models too.
(rant)I wasn't impressed when 3d cards entered the marketplace. PC Manufacturers started putting 3d cards from good name companies (Diamond, Mattrox, etc) in their mainstream offerings, but the things you needed 3d for (games like Quake, Hexen II, etc.) mostly required a specific chip (3dfx) that was hard to find to say the least. And why should I buy a seperate 3d card, when I've already paid for one anyway. And why should I have to run the output of my video card into another video card, and tie up a pci slot? Huh? Answer me that! (/rant)
But OEM's stopped using #9 and went with Mattrox and Diamond and others because they had better numbers. But I had a #9 Motion 771 with 2 megs of VRAM which served me well for 3 years. The 3d card wars are still hot and we'll see what comes in the future.
In Dec '95 I ordered my first PC, and paid an extra $110 to get a 64-bit video card with 2 megs of VRAM, instead of the 32-bit card with 1 meg of DRAM. As it turned out I got the Motion 771 from #9. That card kicked ass, and it did so for a long time. When I started to outgrow and upgrade components on my PC (monitor, hard drive, modem, memory) my #9 card never fell short of my demands.
For a long time there, #9 was one of the few (at least to my knowledge, in the general market) to offer VRAM, when everyone else was doing tricks with WRAM, EDO-DRAM, etc. WRAM, as I was told only did its magic under Windows, and VRAM could outperform it under DOS applications. This was important to me, since I was very heavily into Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem, etc. I loved those classic DOS games, and never liked Quake or the new "3d" ones.
Later I did buy a Voodoo card for $30 bucks in '98 to see what 3d was all about, but wasn't that impressed. Yeah I could actually play Quake2 if I wanted, but Id Software sucked after Doom2 so you can keep your 3d.
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Why would the gvt. spend tens of thousands of dollars suing me for a car that is only worth a couple grand?
They're using your own money (taxes) to do it. Besides I don't think it costs them tens of thousands to do it. Its probably just a matter of paperwork, filling out the right forms and having a judge sign it. The money goes into local law enforcement coffers usually.
I was at the Smithsonian awhile back, and they had on display the actual executive order that FDR signed to put Japanese-Americans into deterrment camps. I read it, and no where did it say "Go out and put all Japanese-Americans into camps". What it did say, was that military authorities could designate secured areas, and they could then decided who had access to these secured areas. That as all they needed to do what they wanted.
As far as criminal forfeiture goes, under drug laws you can be accused of possession, or distribution, and have all of your property confiscated. This happens before you go to trial. If you are found innocent, or even if they drop charges and never go to trial, they still keep your stuff. You have to sue to get it back, and good luck on ever seeing it again. This is one of the things that those of us against the War on Drugs (WOD) are fighting.
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Unix is nothing more than 32-bit DOS, only MS-DOS is far easier to work with. What good does all this potential that Unix has offer to me if I need to study computer science to make it work?
The Fox should be in charge of the chicken.coop
You're very wrong. When Bell Labs invented the Laser in the early 60's, they didn't know it would be used to play music in the 80's. Or that it would ring up prices in a grocery store.
To be fair, Gore might not be much better than Bush anyway, so that's why I'm going to vote for Nader
But I don't hold it against the author for using Geocities. As long as it works I suppose.
Please be advised that this story is all about the Red Hat IPO. Red Hat, is a company that produces a distribution of Linux. Linux is a computer operating system, based heavily on Unix. For more information, you might want to check some website on the Linux operating system.
This is news for nerds, stuff that matters.
You want to know why this is on slashdot? Because its about the RedHat IPO. If that isn't news for nerds I don't know what is.
For the past few years, I've been careful to use my work email only for work. Besides the fact its hard enough to manage my personal email without getting it mixed up with work, I don't want to give my employers a tool to screw me with. I don't want to try to explain myself to Mike Wallace and the 60 Minutes cameras over a dumb email I might have sent years earlier. But further back I used work email like a madman, and I seriously doubt my old employer has backup tapes of all their email going back to '94. Their backup system was poor and we'd lose data over a file server crash, routinely. However when I worked at a government installation, I'm sure whatever I wrote will probably outlive me in a archive somewhere.
Good question, this gives pause to think. But what encryption products does Microsoft make?
Yes its true
I suppose I'll have to start using encryption, but I haven't so far because I don't know how. Doesn't using encryption mean that the people I send mail to have to have deencryption software running? What if they dont? Do I have to become a computer instructor for my non techie friends and teach them how to use PGP. After I learn how to work it?
Also Sony controlled licensing on the Beta format. If you wanted Beta VCR that left you with either Sony, Sanyo, or NEC, which manufactured both. JVC had something to do with the VHS format, and there were much more players to choose for VHS, probably better prices too, but I was a youngin when the tape wars were going on.
However, there is a http://www.localhost.com If you go there you get a message saying either your looking for them, or your dns is setup wrong. They must get tons of visitors to their site, 90% are probably there by mistake.
I remember one where they went to a remote Pacific Island to pick up a Japanese soldier who didn't know WWII was over.
In a TV movie called "Salvage One" with Andy Griffith. He played a junkyard owner who got a hold of some old surplus rockets. He had a friend who did demolitions design the rocket fuel, and another friend who was a computer hacker(this was early 80's, very old school) hack into NASA and steal their navigational mainframe so they could navigate to the moon and back. His mission was to go to the moon, salvage some leftover Apollo parts, and come back. Great Movie
I believe it used to be standard policy to photograph everyone going in and out of the Soviet Embassy. Think about it, if you're a spy you got to meet with your contacts somehow.
As long as we're theorizing, why not do away with record companies completely? Artists can make their money giving concerts and selling merchandize, and use mp3s for bringing in the audience in the first place.
After I beat Doom2 on its hardest level, I would go back in in God-mode, and incite fights between the various monsters, stand back and watch them fight like Gladiators. Oh such fun the Doom AI. Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, and Hexen were the only 1st person shoot'ems that I ever loved.
which planet are you living on?
I assume its the planet earth like the rest of us. The article didn't say jobs in tech support or network design, they were speaking about software programming. The Washington Post had an article a few months back saying the same thing. That most hot programmers are perceived as being young. Some places figure when a guy gets to be in his mid 30's he should be in management already, and not still programming. Its a perception thing that isn't based on good management or common sense.
There's a new stereotype where all the hot programmers are young guys in their 20's, have a attitude, bleach their hair, are body pierced, and go raving in their spare time.
I know I am!
I'm also thinking it might make slashdot load a little faster.
I had the Motion 771 and DirectX 3 worked fine on it. I later moved up from 95 to NT Workstation which didn't support anything higher than DirectX3 so I don't know if the higher versions were supported.
(rant)I wasn't impressed when 3d cards entered the marketplace. PC Manufacturers started putting 3d cards from good name companies (Diamond, Mattrox, etc) in their mainstream offerings, but the things you needed 3d for (games like Quake, Hexen II, etc.) mostly required a specific chip (3dfx) that was hard to find to say the least. And why should I buy a seperate 3d card, when I've already paid for one anyway. And why should I have to run the output of my video card into another video card, and tie up a pci slot? Huh? Answer me that!
(/rant)
But OEM's stopped using #9 and went with Mattrox and Diamond and others because they had better numbers. But I had a #9 Motion 771 with 2 megs of VRAM which served me well for 3 years. The 3d card wars are still hot and we'll see what comes in the future.
For a long time there, #9 was one of the few (at least to my knowledge, in the general market) to offer VRAM, when everyone else was doing tricks with WRAM, EDO-DRAM, etc. WRAM, as I was told only did its magic under Windows, and VRAM could outperform it under DOS applications. This was important to me, since I was very heavily into Doom, Doom2, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem, etc. I loved those classic DOS games, and never liked Quake or the new "3d" ones.
Later I did buy a Voodoo card for $30 bucks in '98 to see what 3d was all about, but wasn't that impressed. Yeah I could actually play Quake2 if I wanted, but Id Software sucked after Doom2 so you can keep your 3d.