From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 12:56:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C260937B401 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.9.8.215] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4JJtsH15972; Sun, 19 May 2002 21:55:54 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <001101c1fef4$6858cd10$0301a8c0@nitedog> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516151801.A47974@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020516172853.A7750@daemon.tisys.org> <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> <20020516220616.A51305@energyhq.homeip.net> <3CE43D08.1FDBF0A3@mindspring.com> <20020517163624.GB9697@hades.hell.gr> <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com> <15589.63655.94078.482179@guru.mired.org> <3CE61284.80ADD241@mindspring.com> <15590.58578.811389.223502@guru.mired.org> <3CE6E8ED.84E431F@mindspring.com> <3CE6F73C.2A8F4EA2@mindspring.com> <001101c1fef4$6858cd10$0301a8c0@nitedog> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:46:08 +0200 To: "Randall Hamilton" , "Terry Lambert" , "Brad Knowles" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: The road ahead? Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Giorgos Keramidas" , "Miguel Mendez" , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:17 AM -0400 2002/05/19, Randall Hamilton wrote: > I would much rather turn off my tv by the remote then climb behind my > entertainment stand and unplug it when im done watching it. That's "using the software". You don't think that the red or green colored button on your remote actually has any physical connection to the power supply of the TV, do you? > same concept > applies to every other device i own. unplugging it is simply a horrid way of > doing it. the general standard is power switches = good. There are hard switches, and "using the software". There's a difference. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message