Or better yet, a delete/edit function so you can go back and edit your own posts. Everyone has done it. You go and post a message and think of more to add or you just want to delete it entirely. Why not allow deleting/editing your own posts?
Nope. You can dispute it with the FCC and if it's a valid argument the bandwidth will be pulled and reallocated to another mega-corporation with none of your interests in mind as usual.
You organize. You find as many people like yourself that think the same way on the topic and you start petitioning. One person is not going to accomplish anything, but 25,000 will. 25,000 will attract the media attention and spread your word and ideals even farther so suddenly 25,000 becomes 250,000. Then the sheep start to join in on your cause and it swells to 2.5 million. Now you have some real power behind you. Congressmen WILL listen to a million people no matter how much money the enemy you're opposing has. 1 million people is more votes than they are likely to get from advertising using the money they'd get from that wealthy enemy. Hell, even 250,000 may be enough. Anyway, the point is that in America (and I'm sure in Canada) the way to win is to organize a grass-roots campaign and stick with it. It may take 20 years but if you are determined enough and the cause is just, you will prevail.
What on earth does high taxes have to do with being employed?:-) "Hey, they lowered taxes again.. time for another round of layoffs I guess." If anything, lower taxes stimulates the economy and will lead to more jobs. In reality none of what the government matters much since the effects don't usually show themselves until 6 months to a year after they're enacted at which time the economy has already pulled itself out of a recession through good old fashioned capitalism.
As for lightening Supercomputer export restrictions though, maybe at Macworld Steve Jobs will lower the prices so we can afford a G4 "supercomputer" in our house. $1700 is still out of my range when I can build an AMD 1.4GHz box with 512MB of ram and a 60 gig drive for roughly $500. I guess the other $1200 goes to creating that plastic tower case and marketing?
Motorola was so close. If only they hadn't been late with the 68K support chips, we might have avoided the whole x86 era.
I'm afraid you're wrong there. Without the IBM PC clone market taking off and driving down prices through the floor, PCs would still be machines used by businesses and very rich hobbyists rather than ordinary everyday people. Like it or not, the IBM clone industry also helped drive down the prices of those overpriced Macs as well. You can tell recently in very significant design changes. Adopting USB, ATA drives, PCI and AGP buses, standard SDRAM memory, standard SVGA monitors, etc. The Mac went from being a very finicky proprietary system to at least allowing you to change out many of the components with cheap third party parts like you can on a common IBM compatible PC. Now, if Motorola had delivered and Apple had accepted the clones with open arms I think you'd see a very different world today. Mac based systems would probably make up over 60% of the market while Apple itself would be mostly a software company with a few reference machine designs now and then coming out. MacOS X is a nice operating system but you still need to pay a premium for the hardware to run it. I can go out and assemble a tower PC with a 1.4GHz AMD CPU, 512MB of ram, 80GB hard drive, nice video card,etc. for well under $1000 whereas the cheapest and slowest Mac G4 Tower you can get *starts* at $1699. To get the decent model you're talking over $2500. IMHO that prices it out of the hands of most ordinary people which is why they'll never attain more than the 5-10% niche market they hold with die-hard wealthy followers (and the low end iMacs in schools). As for people that say get an iMac, sure.. tell me where I can get a G3 Tower with the same specs as the iMac for the same price or less without the damned built in tiny CRT display and I'd probably get one. How about a G3 cube? They should run a lot less hot than those G4 cubes since they've already demonstrated they can stick them in a display with no fans.
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You know, all we need is a good World War to stir things up over there and this common currency idea will drag all of Europe down with it. Should be funny to watch. Remember guys, just 60 years ago Austria and Germany were marching into France, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and just about any other place they damn well pleased. Just because there's been a level of semi-peace for the last 50 years or so doesn't mean it'll last long. History has shown that the diverse cultural groups of Europe tend to get pissed at each other and wage war every century. I'd say we have less than 50 years until Europe has another major war between states. Good luck until then.
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Well, for argument's sake, Texas and New York (as well as all the other states use a common currency. To think Ireland would use a different currency than the rest of the U.K. would seem silly. But hey, that's just me. I never understood why you guys still have a monarchy anyway. That's so 18th century.:-)
"Using television receiving equipment to receive or record broadcast television programmes without the correct license is a criminal offense."
This site has got to be a joke. I can't believe even the socialist Brits would do anything this nuts. Check out their roaming "detector vans".:-) Do the secret police beat down your door and arrest you if you don't have your license up to date? Please, someone tell me this is a joke. A license to watch a TV. hahahaha.
Where ARE they explaining exactly what.NET is? I've never seen a detailed informative description of it. To me it sounds like yet another.VAPOR product. Maybe they should spend less time coming up with cute little names and more time giving them descriptive names..net to me is a TLD name, nothing more. From what I gather it's some kind of programming framework or something for Windoze. Who cares?
"Tend the server farm"? Are you running Windows? Is there something you need to be sitting at work doing to keep them constantly running or else they'll fail? My Sun boxes run fine without anyone there and I know when I get back they'll be humming along just like I left them serving up data. Anyway, that's what terminal servers, serial consoles, and pagers are for.:-)
Well, maybe you surround yourself with too many non-religious people. The rest of us will be spending the day celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus! It's a joyously wonderful day. Yes I know, he wasn't really born on December 25th but it's symbolic. Happy Birthday Jesus!:-)
They'll get a clue and just block IP protocol 50 and 51 and your secure encrypted VPN links are kaput. In fact, I would imagine they'll start doing this very soon now unless you're a "business" customer since as we know, only business customers use VPNs and they should be charged accordingly.;-)
What do you mean "install Windows"? I'm sure my grandmother (god rest her soul) could have stuck the Dell recovery CD in the drive, rebooted, and followed the simple prompts to completely restore her system to factory condition. The point is, on major manufacturer computers there's almost always a recovery CD that does all the work for you. Why would they ever need to install Windows using the original Windows CD? Then you'd have to go and install all your drivers and applications. What a pain in the ass. Even *I* admit I'd rather use the recovery CD to recover my laptop than sit through a boring Windows install.
Well, since I didn't pay anything for Debian GNU/Linux and my system came with a copy of Windows anyway, the only additional cost was $300 for VMWare which is a small price to pay. I guess for a small business it could be a burden but I'm sure they have site license deals for mass buys.
What about people who want to run both Windows AND Linux apps?
I know what you'll say. "Dual Boot!!!"
What about people who want to run both at the same time?
Use VMWare. I've used it since version 1.0 and now at 3.0 it even has USB support. At $300+ it is kind of pricey for the casual user but at work I find it invaluable since I don't have to dual boot to use Office for the occasional Word document I have to edit. Now if only they added really good DirectX support and integrated it tightly with Xfree86 4's support for better 3D access (i.e. Nvidia's graphics drivers are very nice and fast) I could finally wipe Windows from my home system forever and just run Linux and VMware.
I don't expect all of the customizations made by the Chinese to be released publically, but at least they are using Linux.
What? So it's alright for an oppressive communist government to take Linux and modify it without releasing the source code and yet if somebody in the US does it then suddenly every geek on slashdot is up in arms demanding the code? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? If China wants to code in human rights violating bits into the kernel then so be it, but the point of free software is that so all of us can share! Don't you think Iraq, Cuba, and John Ashcroft could use those customizations? Quit being so greedy China!
Why don't you eliminate it yourself? Businesses love when you rip up another business's unsolicited postal spam and put it in their business reply envelopes and mail it to them. Some people like to put garbage in there as well but I think that's a little rude. A torn up letter or two from another company is fine. You can have fun for hours doing this depending on how much mail you get.
THAT is the kind of legislation we need in the USA for e-mail spam. I bet many of these collection companies would love to jump on the bandwagon if it meant making money busting spammers. Then you just sit back and collect your checks.
That's fine and dandy until you get pulled over for speeding. The cops in my area couldn't care less if you were "just keeping up with the traffic" while they're writing you a ticket. I tried that excuse when I used to speed.:-)
That's a great idea! I don't know why your post was marked as a troll but let's be honest, how many times have we all been driving down the highway only to see some maniac come out of nowhere and zoom around you not even bothering to signal? The only thing I can do is pray there is a cop sitting around the corner waiting with their radar but it never seems to happen. I'm really tired of driving the speed limit when 95% of the rest of the drivers on the road pass you. It creates a hazard to not only me but to everyone else. Why even bother fining people anyway? $100 or $200 isn't going to stop someone from speeding. How about a mandatory 3-strikes law for speeders? 3rd strike and you lose your license permanently.
Definitely. Just go grab the openssh (non-portable version) from openssh.com and compile it. It's made for OpenBSD for christ sakes. It compiles very easily.:-)
Or you can just use PuTTY which is distributed under the MIT license and includes the complete source code. $0 for non-commercial use and $0 for commercial use. $0 for a site license, and $0 for a developer license to integrate it into your product.
Umm, the intellectual property that Cisco used has long since been mutated into something that doesn't even resemble the original code. Sorry, I think you're beating a dead horse here. 15 years ago maybe you could have made that argument, but not today.
Not really. There has been a boatload of SDRAM on the market but even some of the older 72 pin simms are cheap. $17 for a 64 meg simm isn't too bad if you're really cheap which is what you can find them for on pricewatch.com. Now, if your primary workstation in a business is still a 386, 486 or even a classic Pentium you've got bigger problems. Someone in accounting apparently neglected to figure in the cost of replacing those old beasts. Anyone that thinks computers are just something you buy and they work forever without any need to be upgraded deserves to go out of business. Consider a 3 year refresh cycle for all the systems as a minimum. Anything older will probably cost more to repair if it breaks than its worth.
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Or better yet, a delete/edit function so you can go back and edit your own posts. Everyone has done it. You go and post a message and think of more to add or you just want to delete it entirely. Why not allow deleting/editing your own posts?
Nope. You can dispute it with the FCC and if it's a valid argument the bandwidth will be pulled and reallocated to another mega-corporation with none of your interests in mind as usual.
You organize. You find as many people like yourself that think the same way on the topic and you start petitioning. One person is not going to accomplish anything, but 25,000 will. 25,000 will attract the media attention and spread your word and ideals even farther so suddenly 25,000 becomes 250,000. Then the sheep start to join in on your cause and it swells to 2.5 million. Now you have some real power behind you. Congressmen WILL listen to a million people no matter how much money the enemy you're opposing has. 1 million people is more votes than they are likely to get from advertising using the money they'd get from that wealthy enemy. Hell, even 250,000 may be enough. Anyway, the point is that in America (and I'm sure in Canada) the way to win is to organize a grass-roots campaign and stick with it. It may take 20 years but if you are determined enough and the cause is just, you will prevail.
What on earth does high taxes have to do with being employed? :-) "Hey, they lowered taxes again.. time for another round of layoffs I guess." If anything, lower taxes stimulates the economy and will lead to more jobs. In reality none of what the government matters much since the effects don't usually show themselves until 6 months to a year after they're enacted at which time the economy has already pulled itself out of a recession through good old fashioned capitalism.
As for lightening Supercomputer export restrictions though, maybe at Macworld Steve Jobs will lower the prices so we can afford a G4 "supercomputer" in our house. $1700 is still out of my range when I can build an AMD 1.4GHz box with 512MB of ram and a 60 gig drive for roughly $500. I guess the other $1200 goes to creating that plastic tower case and marketing?
Motorola was so close. If only they hadn't been late with the 68K support chips, we might have avoided the whole x86 era.
I'm afraid you're wrong there. Without the IBM PC clone market taking off and driving down prices through the floor, PCs would still be machines used by businesses and very rich hobbyists rather than ordinary everyday people. Like it or not, the IBM clone industry also helped drive down the prices of those overpriced Macs as well. You can tell recently in very significant design changes. Adopting USB, ATA drives, PCI and AGP buses, standard SDRAM memory, standard SVGA monitors, etc. The Mac went from being a very finicky proprietary system to at least allowing you to change out many of the components with cheap third party parts like you can on a common IBM compatible PC. Now, if Motorola had delivered and Apple had accepted the clones with open arms I think you'd see a very different world today. Mac based systems would probably make up over 60% of the market while Apple itself would be mostly a software company with a few reference machine designs now and then coming out. MacOS X is a nice operating system but you still need to pay a premium for the hardware to run it. I can go out and assemble a tower PC with a 1.4GHz AMD CPU, 512MB of ram, 80GB hard drive, nice video card,etc. for well under $1000 whereas the cheapest and slowest Mac G4 Tower you can get *starts* at $1699. To get the decent model you're talking over $2500. IMHO that prices it out of the hands of most ordinary people which is why they'll never attain more than the 5-10% niche market they hold with die-hard wealthy followers (and the low end iMacs in schools). As for people that say get an iMac, sure.. tell me where I can get a G3 Tower with the same specs as the iMac for the same price or less without the damned built in tiny CRT display and I'd probably get one. How about a G3 cube? They should run a lot less hot than those G4 cubes since they've already demonstrated they can stick them in a display with no fans.
You know, all we need is a good World War to stir things up over there and this common currency idea will drag all of Europe down with it. Should be funny to watch. Remember guys, just 60 years ago Austria and Germany were marching into France, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and just about any other place they damn well pleased. Just because there's been a level of semi-peace for the last 50 years or so doesn't mean it'll last long. History has shown that the diverse cultural groups of Europe tend to get pissed at each other and wage war every century. I'd say we have less than 50 years until Europe has another major war between states. Good luck until then.
Well, for argument's sake, Texas and New York (as well as all the other states use a common currency. To think Ireland would use a different currency than the rest of the U.K. would seem silly. But hey, that's just me. I never understood why you guys still have a monarchy anyway. That's so 18th century. :-)
"Using television receiving equipment to receive or record broadcast television programmes without the correct license is a criminal offense."
:-) Do the secret police beat down your door and arrest you if you don't have your license up to date? Please, someone tell me this is a joke. A license to watch a TV. hahahaha.
This site has got to be a joke. I can't believe even the socialist Brits would do anything this nuts. Check out their roaming "detector vans".
Where ARE they explaining exactly what .NET is? I've never seen a detailed informative description of it. To me it sounds like yet another .VAPOR product. Maybe they should spend less time coming up with cute little names and more time giving them descriptive names. .net to me is a TLD name, nothing more. From what I gather it's some kind of programming framework or something for Windoze. Who cares?
"Tend the server farm"? Are you running Windows? Is there something you need to be sitting at work doing to keep them constantly running or else they'll fail? My Sun boxes run fine without anyone there and I know when I get back they'll be humming along just like I left them serving up data. Anyway, that's what terminal servers, serial consoles, and pagers are for. :-)
Well, maybe you surround yourself with too many non-religious people. The rest of us will be spending the day celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus! It's a joyously wonderful day. Yes I know, he wasn't really born on December 25th but it's symbolic. Happy Birthday Jesus! :-)
They'll get a clue and just block IP protocol 50 and 51 and your secure encrypted VPN links are kaput. In fact, I would imagine they'll start doing this very soon now unless you're a "business" customer since as we know, only business customers use VPNs and they should be charged accordingly. ;-)
What do you mean "install Windows"? I'm sure my grandmother (god rest her soul) could have stuck the Dell recovery CD in the drive, rebooted, and followed the simple prompts to completely restore her system to factory condition. The point is, on major manufacturer computers there's almost always a recovery CD that does all the work for you. Why would they ever need to install Windows using the original Windows CD? Then you'd have to go and install all your drivers and applications. What a pain in the ass. Even *I* admit I'd rather use the recovery CD to recover my laptop than sit through a boring Windows install.
Well, since I didn't pay anything for Debian GNU/Linux and my system came with a copy of Windows anyway, the only additional cost was $300 for VMWare which is a small price to pay. I guess for a small business it could be a burden but I'm sure they have site license deals for mass buys.
What about people who want to run both Windows AND Linux apps?
I know what you'll say. "Dual Boot!!!"
What about people who want to run both at the same time?
Use VMWare. I've used it since version 1.0 and now at 3.0 it even has USB support. At $300+ it is kind of pricey for the casual user but at work I find it invaluable since I don't have to dual boot to use Office for the occasional Word document I have to edit. Now if only they added really good DirectX support and integrated it tightly with Xfree86 4's support for better 3D access (i.e. Nvidia's graphics drivers are very nice and fast) I could finally wipe Windows from my home system forever and just run Linux and VMware.
I don't expect all of the customizations made by the Chinese to be released publically, but at least they are using Linux.
What? So it's alright for an oppressive communist government to take Linux and modify it without releasing the source code and yet if somebody in the US does it then suddenly every geek on slashdot is up in arms demanding the code? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? If China wants to code in human rights violating bits into the kernel then so be it, but the point of free software is that so all of us can share! Don't you think Iraq, Cuba, and John Ashcroft could use those customizations? Quit being so greedy China!
Why don't you eliminate it yourself? Businesses love when you rip up another business's unsolicited postal spam and put it in their business reply envelopes and mail it to them. Some people like to put garbage in there as well but I think that's a little rude. A torn up letter or two from another company is fine. You can have fun for hours doing this depending on how much mail you get.
THAT is the kind of legislation we need in the USA for e-mail spam. I bet many of these collection companies would love to jump on the bandwagon if it meant making money busting spammers. Then you just sit back and collect your checks.
That's fine and dandy until you get pulled over for speeding. The cops in my area couldn't care less if you were "just keeping up with the traffic" while they're writing you a ticket. I tried that excuse when I used to speed. :-)
That's a great idea! I don't know why your post was marked as a troll but let's be honest, how many times have we all been driving down the highway only to see some maniac come out of nowhere and zoom around you not even bothering to signal? The only thing I can do is pray there is a cop sitting around the corner waiting with their radar but it never seems to happen. I'm really tired of driving the speed limit when 95% of the rest of the drivers on the road pass you. It creates a hazard to not only me but to everyone else. Why even bother fining people anyway? $100 or $200 isn't going to stop someone from speeding. How about a mandatory 3-strikes law for speeders? 3rd strike and you lose your license permanently.
Definitely. Just go grab the openssh (non-portable version) from openssh.com and compile it. It's made for OpenBSD for christ sakes. It compiles very easily. :-)
Or you can just use PuTTY which is distributed under the MIT license and includes the complete source code. $0 for non-commercial use and $0 for commercial use. $0 for a site license, and $0 for a developer license to integrate it into your product.
Umm, the intellectual property that Cisco used has long since been mutated into something that doesn't even resemble the original code. Sorry, I think you're beating a dead horse here. 15 years ago maybe you could have made that argument, but not today.
Not really. There has been a boatload of SDRAM on the market but even some of the older 72 pin simms are cheap. $17 for a 64 meg simm isn't too bad if you're really cheap which is what you can find them for on pricewatch.com. Now, if your primary workstation in a business is still a 386, 486 or even a classic Pentium you've got bigger problems. Someone in accounting apparently neglected to figure in the cost of replacing those old beasts. Anyone that thinks computers are just something you buy and they work forever without any need to be upgraded deserves to go out of business. Consider a 3 year refresh cycle for all the systems as a minimum. Anything older will probably cost more to repair if it breaks than its worth.
I know, I know. Mod me down. I had to say it.