I think Red Hat will actually compete well, and survive (if not thrive) in the business market, for the very reasons that you've stated. They have the Red Hat brand name and they're pricing their product to match the corporate "you get what you pay for" philosophy (e.g., $2500 for their Advanced Server software with full support). They're playing to the corporate mindset, and from what I'm reading, they're playing it well.
Well put, which is why I will never use Windows XP, or any other Microsoft OS, on any system I develop. I can only hope that the hardware manufacturers aren't intimidated into making their hardware compatible only with DRM-aware OSes.
It's really a relatively small school without the cutthroat competition of places like Harvard or Stanford. On the one hand, this means you'll have a better chance to pick apart the law. On the other hand, it doesn't have the Harvard or Stanford name.
I'm not a lawyer (ironically) and so I don't know what John Marshall's reputation is in the legal world. The ABA seems to like it.
Me too (and I'm not a dad), but come on, is that a realistic option? I don't think Pennsylvania's action is going to save even one child from being exploited.
This is one of the reasons I patronize WineX. The compatibility isn't 100% but it's good enough to run some of my favorite games, e.g., StarCraft. I'm hoping the Wine folks can take it as far as it can go, to 100% Windows compatibility and then some. Leave the OS and everything else to other people.
Yeah, well the entire surviving literary output of Classical Greece -- a civilization of some small repute -- fits on a single cd [uci.edu].
I'm surprised that they didn't get the complete works of Shakespere, the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, the King James, the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, and the complete works of Douglas Adams on there too.
Seriously.. a CD holds about 670 MB, that's a lot of text. Most people could fit their entire libraries on there if they stuck to ASCII.
The offices are not as one imagines but instead as one dared not hope them to be -- almost movie-set hackerdom with such corporate accoutrements as are absolutely necessary. Here is a big room, plumbing and air ductwork covering much of the ceiling, Brazil-style. In the third of it unencumbered by cubicle dividers arranged to provide both private workspace and openness, there are beanbag chairs, tall stools and cafe tables, and a couch, arranged in no particular fashion. The lights are not on. ("On Fridays we have a group lunch, and one of the teams makes a presentation," the visitor is told. "That's why it's dark.") Here and there, wiring that would be ceiling lights of some sort dangles from the neo-industrial architecture above. They have no bulbs and, strangely, look better that way.
*sigh* reminds me of the place I worked last year before the layoffs hit. I'm miss working there. The work environment was just like this, the people were talented and smart, and the work was challenging and fun. Those were the days.
Another good way is to look at their actions and personality as in "fruits of the spirit". I don't know the exact verse off hand but Paul discusses traits that show when someone is in touch with the holy spirit.
Well, I don't know. The problem here is that different sects of Christianity have very different ideas of what constitutes "fruits of the spirit." Admittedly I'm an outsider formerly on the inside, but to my eyes, none of these sects have an adequate claim to the best set of criteria. (OTOH, I suspect that the people who scream the loudest about having the best criteria, are the same people whose own spiritual fruits have grown rotten.)
I know everybody here likes to bitch and moan about popular music, but the fact is that the recording industry at large probably does have a pretty good handle on what "most people" want.
I agree completely, but don't discount the power of sheer marketing. Britney Speers fits a lot of demographics (teenage girls, dirty old men), but her career is built on carefully researched, very thorough, and rather expensive mass-marketing.
My advice to the band: market the hell out of yourselves. Ani did it, Biafra did it, you can too.
Um try asking a true Christian...and I mean one who believes and is born again, not just someone in title who attends church every Sunday because they want to socialize.
Eventually, someone needs to invent a True-Chrstian-Detector device so that we can sort out the "real believers" from everyone else. Until then, I've only got one way to tell whether someone is a Christian, and that is to ask them:
Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?
If they answer in the affirmative, then I have to take them at their word. Every other standard I've heard of or seen is simply too arbitrary, along the lines of, "whatever I believe is the Christian belief."
Another great idea from Microsoft! I want it to run on my Linux box. Anyone want to write the driver for a remote control receiver? I'll provide the SWIG wrappers and hook it up to my CD-ROM...
When I talk to RIAA lawyers they insist that they and their colleagues with the major labels are staunch defenders of the 1st Amendment. Has this been your experience? Why or why not?
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The dude with Raise The Fist COMMITED A CRIME. He was carrying an unregistered handgun.
Which, assuming that he did carry an unregistered handgun, is a state charge. Why are the feds involved, six months after the fact?
Tre Arrow is a goober. He's that moron that sat on a billboard for many weeks in Portland and our shitty wussy mayor just talked about what a good boy he was instead of doing something about it. He also may have blown up a number of vehicals.
Think about it: this guy's a total hippie. Would a guy who resorts to nonviolent public demonstrations, even dumb ones, and who talks about respect for all life, blow up a bunch of vehicles? To what end?
As for Ujaama: we'll see how that turns out later.
Dude, have you even read the Republic? His proposed system of government is more like Feudalism than modern Democratic Republicanism.
As far as the Greeks go: they were for the most part kingdoms or tyrranies, with Athens being the democratic exception. The Athenians did not have a representative democracy; they had a direct democracy, one citizen one vote. They voted on everything, including whom to ostracize!
31 Aug 2002: Venezuela explodes in utter chaos as Microsoft (and Microsoft's lackey, Apple) shuts down every computer running Windows or MacOS, remotely.
1 Sept 2002: Bloodless CIA-backed coup overthrows Venezuelan government, establishes military dictatorship. Computers "myseriously" work again.
2 Sept 2002: Open source advocates in Venezuela government "disappear." Pro-Microsoft death squads hunt down and execute their first Linux users. Penguinistas counter with violent reprisals, distribute Linux boxes to peasants, natives.
Hey, it would fit the historical pattern.
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Your free speech rights have clearly not been abridged, nor are they in danger - or you wouldn't have been able to write what you just wrote, because you'd face imprisonment and execution within days.
The government appears to be doing this, although the time they take to wait is longer than mere days, and executions are not involved, at least yet. I point you to three specific cases:
Tre Arrow, an outspoken environmental activist and former Congressional candidate in Oregon, is being charged with two counts of arson in connection with environmental terrorist activity. However, he does not fit the profile of the typical ELF terrorist: he's older, not in school, and very, very public in his activities. He also typically uses nonviolent tactics.
Raise The Fist webmaster Sherman Austin is being indicted by the feds for circulating bomb-making literature and carrying an unregistered handgun. These charges came down six months after federal prosecutors told him there would probably be no charges filed.
All of these charges were filed within two weeks of each other.
I will grant that this is not conclusive evidence of a pattern of political prosecutions of critics of the Bush administration. What I am saying, however, is that we need to be wary of how the government is prosecuting its War On Terror. We need to make sure Ashcroft doesn't engage in political prosecutions, by watching these trials, and the trials of other outspoken activists, very carefully.
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Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty? The issue comes up time and time again. Is it something that is taught in schools in the USA?
Nope. The usual party line is that the Greeks invented Democracy, Freedom, and Liberty; and that the Americans re-established it after getting sick and tired of Monarchy.
That's the party line anyway. The reality is probably more complex, involving a mix of Masonic ideals, romantic ideals about the Greeks and Romans, and English corporate traditions.
I do think it's safe to say that The American Revolution inspired (or was one of the inspirations for) the French Revolution, which laid the foundation for the spread of Liberal Democratic ideals throughout the world. At least, that's my rather provincial, and admittedly somewhat chauvanistic, take on the matter.
Of course, what's going on now, IMO, is laying the foundation for the spread of tyrrany throughout the world.
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I think Red Hat will actually compete well, and survive (if not thrive) in the business market, for the very reasons that you've stated. They have the Red Hat brand name and they're pricing their product to match the corporate "you get what you pay for" philosophy (e.g., $2500 for their Advanced Server software with full support). They're playing to the corporate mindset, and from what I'm reading, they're playing it well.
If it doesn't matter, why should I blow $30 on the extra 64 MB of video RAM?
Well put, which is why I will never use Windows XP, or any other Microsoft OS, on any system I develop. I can only hope that the hardware manufacturers aren't intimidated into making their hardware compatible only with DRM-aware OSes.
Heh. There's people who love the law, and then there's people who love to make money off of the law...
John Marshall is basically well known for two things: Trial Advocacy and Computer Law. I think they have one of the first programs dedicated to computers and the law in the country. They have a computer law journal and recently hosted the American Bar Association's first conference on computer crime. They also host the American Bar Association Mock Trial Competition every year.
It's really a relatively small school without the cutthroat competition of places like Harvard or Stanford. On the one hand, this means you'll have a better chance to pick apart the law. On the other hand, it doesn't have the Harvard or Stanford name.
I'm not a lawyer (ironically) and so I don't know what John Marshall's reputation is in the legal world. The ABA seems to like it.
Hope this helps.
I personally think we'd be better off trying the Drop Dead Diet .. same results as Atkins, only a lot quicker.
Why are you dating a girlfriend who doesn't like porn?
Me too (and I'm not a dad), but come on, is that a realistic option? I don't think Pennsylvania's action is going to save even one child from being exploited.
Just my opinion.
I'm surprised that they didn't get the complete works of Shakespere, the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, the King James, the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, and the complete works of Douglas Adams on there too.
Seriously .. a CD holds about 670 MB, that's a lot of text. Most people could fit their entire libraries on there if they stuck to ASCII.
Did ever occur the thought to you that your company went down because of this environment?
More likely it went down because all the companies that loved our product decided not to buy until the economy improved.
*sigh* reminds me of the place I worked last year before the layoffs hit. I'm miss working there. The work environment was just like this, the people were talented and smart, and the work was challenging and fun. Those were the days.
The D&D genre will survive, at the very least because Hackmaster is still out there. Granted, it's extreme power gaming, but it's fun in small doses.
Another good way is to look at their actions and personality as in "fruits of the spirit". I don't know the exact verse off hand but Paul discusses traits that show when someone is in touch with the holy spirit.
Well, I don't know. The problem here is that different sects of Christianity have very different ideas of what constitutes "fruits of the spirit." Admittedly I'm an outsider formerly on the inside, but to my eyes, none of these sects have an adequate claim to the best set of criteria. (OTOH, I suspect that the people who scream the loudest about having the best criteria, are the same people whose own spiritual fruits have grown rotten.)
I agree completely, but don't discount the power of sheer marketing. Britney Speers fits a lot of demographics (teenage girls, dirty old men), but her career is built on carefully researched, very thorough, and rather expensive mass-marketing.
My advice to the band: market the hell out of yourselves. Ani did it, Biafra did it, you can too.
Eventually, someone needs to invent a True-Chrstian-Detector device so that we can sort out the "real believers" from everyone else. Until then, I've only got one way to tell whether someone is a Christian, and that is to ask them:
If they answer in the affirmative, then I have to take them at their word. Every other standard I've heard of or seen is simply too arbitrary, along the lines of, "whatever I believe is the Christian belief."
This could be fun!
When I talk to RIAA lawyers they insist that they and their colleagues with the major labels are staunch defenders of the 1st Amendment. Has this been your experience? Why or why not?
Which, assuming that he did carry an unregistered handgun, is a state charge. Why are the feds involved, six months after the fact?
Tre Arrow is a goober. He's that moron that sat on a billboard for many weeks in Portland and our shitty wussy mayor just talked about what a good boy he was instead of doing something about it. He also may have blown up a number of vehicals.
Think about it: this guy's a total hippie. Would a guy who resorts to nonviolent public demonstrations, even dumb ones, and who talks about respect for all life, blow up a bunch of vehicles? To what end?
As for Ujaama: we'll see how that turns out later.
As far as the Greeks go: they were for the most part kingdoms or tyrranies, with Athens being the democratic exception. The Athenians did not have a representative democracy; they had a direct democracy, one citizen one vote. They voted on everything, including whom to ostracize!
30 Aug 2002: Venezuela switches to open source.
31 Aug 2002: Venezuela explodes in utter chaos as Microsoft (and Microsoft's lackey, Apple) shuts down every computer running Windows or MacOS, remotely.
1 Sept 2002: Bloodless CIA-backed coup overthrows Venezuelan government, establishes military dictatorship. Computers "myseriously" work again.
2 Sept 2002: Open source advocates in Venezuela government "disappear." Pro-Microsoft death squads hunt down and execute their first Linux users. Penguinistas counter with violent reprisals, distribute Linux boxes to peasants, natives.
Hey, it would fit the historical pattern.
Your free speech rights have clearly not been abridged, nor are they in danger - or you wouldn't have been able to write what you just wrote, because you'd face imprisonment and execution within days.
The government appears to be doing this, although the time they take to wait is longer than mere days, and executions are not involved, at least yet. I point you to three specific cases:
All of these charges were filed within two weeks of each other.
I will grant that this is not conclusive evidence of a pattern of political prosecutions of critics of the Bush administration. What I am saying, however, is that we need to be wary of how the government is prosecuting its War On Terror. We need to make sure Ashcroft doesn't engage in political prosecutions, by watching these trials, and the trials of other outspoken activists, very carefully.
Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty? The issue comes up time and time again. Is it something that is taught in schools in the USA?
Nope. The usual party line is that the Greeks invented Democracy, Freedom, and Liberty; and that the Americans re-established it after getting sick and tired of Monarchy.
That's the party line anyway. The reality is probably more complex, involving a mix of Masonic ideals, romantic ideals about the Greeks and Romans, and English corporate traditions.
I do think it's safe to say that The American Revolution inspired (or was one of the inspirations for) the French Revolution, which laid the foundation for the spread of Liberal Democratic ideals throughout the world. At least, that's my rather provincial, and admittedly somewhat chauvanistic, take on the matter.
Of course, what's going on now, IMO, is laying the foundation for the spread of tyrrany throughout the world.
The US is(was?) a Republic, as the ancient Greeks were.
I think you mean the Romans.
(Yes, I'm a yank bastard.)
I'm sure it'll come to that sometime in the next couple of weeks, after these speeches of his bomb out.