See Spazimodo's comment above for the security risks involved in using Adobe's proprietary comment.
The argument you're making - that ppl will switch for pragmatic rather than philosophical reasons - is an old one. The free software community will counter with the argument that their philosophical reasons are entirely pragmatic. Ours is simply more long term pragmatic thinking. The benefits of the founding of the Free Software Foundation 25 years ago are increasingly showing manifest benefits today. Why do you have an issue with people expressing broader and longer term thinking?
Hey, don't even try to beat cricket for slowness. Yes, a test match only runs five days. But when a side tours another country they will play a test match series. Often this will be five matches. This will extend over a couple of months. Australia and England have been playing these test match series for over 100 years. They are called The Ashes. Currently Australia leads 31 to 28.
A five day test match can be an enthralling story to follow as it slowly develops. Immense concentration is needed throughout those five days. Lapses of concentration can result in the advantage quickly moving to the other side. In this way cricket is a gruelling psychological test that just happens to require high level sporting ability.
If you are concerned about this legal action and the federal government's plans for compulsory filtering, you might like to consider supporting Electronic Frontiers Australia, either by joining or donating.
My answer is simple. Just change schedules rather than the clock during the seasons.
We live in a post-industrial society. The majority of people have the personal flexibility to change their work start and end times through the year. For workplaces which still run on an industrial model and for schools I suggest they simply have a summer start time and winter start time.
Articles linked to by Slashdot are in an uncertain state of existence until one reader actually goes to RTFA and this uncertainty state collapses. Oftentimes, this never happens.
Our previous consideration on the production of radiant energy from the stars indicates that such production of radiant energy is only possible where the second law of thermodynamics is followed, that is, in a positive section of the universe. In a negative section of the universe the reverse process must take place; namely, space is full of radiant energy, presumably produced in the positive section of space, and the stars use this radiant energy to build up a higher level of heat. All radiant energy in that section of space would tend to be absorbed by the stars, which would thus constitute perfectly black bodies; and very little radiant energy would be produced in that section of space, but would mostly come from beyond the boundary surface. What little radiant energy would be produced in the negative section of space would be pseudo-teleologically directed only towards stars which have enough activity to absorb it, and no radiant energy, or almost none, would actually leave the negative section of space. The peculiarity of the boundary surface between the positive and negative sections of space, then, is, that practically all light that crosses it, crosses it in one direction, namely, from the positive side to the negative side. If we were on the positive side, as seems to be the case, then we could not see beyond such surface, though we might easily have gravitational or other evidence of bodies existing beyond that surface.
Furthermore, just as in the positive section of space, light is given out uniformly in all directions, so, in the negative section, light must be absorbed by a star equally from all directions. Thus, to any star in the negative section, light must come in about the same amount from all directions; and, since most of this light comes from the positive sections, it follows that the negative sections must be completely surrounded by positive sections and must therefore be finite in all directions. By reversing this (since we have seen that all physical laws are reversible), it follows that any positive section must also be finite in all directions, and be completely surrounded by negative sections. We thus find the universe to be made up of a number of what we may call bricks, alternately positive and negative, all of approximately the same volume; a sort of three-dimensional checkerboard, the positive spaces counting as white (giving out light), and the negative spaces as black (absorbing light).
Thus what we see is simply the white space that we are in. The surrounding black spaces are invisible, and in addition, absorb the light from the white spaces beyond, so that even those cannot be seen, and, if we judge from the distribution of light in the sky, we get an idea merely of the size and shape of our special white space.
I agree with your analysis of the target demographic - the middle-aged, mediocre multitude.
However, the danger for MS is that this ad won't appeal to the younger demographic. It has no 'cool' factor. And if MS loses this demographic and they increasingly "don't do Windows", who will the target demographic turn to when the inevitable problems that arise when running a Windows PC need fixing?
What Google is interested in is increasing the capability of the average browser in order to allow them to serve up more robust web-based content for more revenue.
I agree, and the use of the BSD style license twigged me to this. They want to make their code maximally palatable for other projects. MS, as we have seen in the past, has no problems with integrating BSD style licensed code.
I was basically two persons: one 14 year old girl watching youtube, facebook, and uploading hundreds of photographs; while I run a programming business downloading software and uploading text files.
Well, at least now we have one data point for the typical bandwith usage of a small Russian mafia operation.
If you invest in the stock market thinking Canonical will be the next Microsoft you're almost certainly wrong, but hopefully this means that in a few years Linux is a market share you can not ignore.
OK, I assumed you were making the strong case that life originated on Earth. Instead you were making, or have retreated to making, the weaker case that life originated somewhere. But even that cannot be proved.
Even if you accept the hypothesis of the Big Bang origin of the universe, you cannot prove that life did not exist in the universe from the very first millisecond. And thus life would always have existed.
We know of one place that life exists. We do not know, and probably can never know, one place of origin of life, even if there was such an event.
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If you dice with the devil...
You missed Windows NT 4.0, which is the last stop I made on the Microsoft Train to Grand Central.
See Spazimodo's comment above for the security risks involved in using Adobe's proprietary comment.
The argument you're making - that ppl will switch for pragmatic rather than philosophical reasons - is an old one. The free software community will counter with the argument that their philosophical reasons are entirely pragmatic. Ours is simply more long term pragmatic thinking. The benefits of the founding of the Free Software Foundation 25 years ago are increasingly showing manifest benefits today. Why do you have an issue with people expressing broader and longer term thinking?
I'm confused. Who's Rick? Is he his brother, his brother in law, or his brother's secret gay lover?
Anyone got a plot and cast of characters summary?
Very well written comment containing points I wanted to make. Thanks.
Usage of affect vs. effect.
(Not to mention the omission of an apostrophe and misplacement of the definite article in the second half of the coordination conjunction.)
Hey, don't even try to beat cricket for slowness. Yes, a test match only runs five days. But when a side tours another country they will play a test match series. Often this will be five matches. This will extend over a couple of months. Australia and England have been playing these test match series for over 100 years. They are called The Ashes. Currently Australia leads 31 to 28.
A five day test match can be an enthralling story to follow as it slowly develops. Immense concentration is needed throughout those five days. Lapses of concentration can result in the advantage quickly moving to the other side. In this way cricket is a gruelling psychological test that just happens to require high level sporting ability.
If you are concerned about this legal action and the federal government's plans for compulsory filtering, you might like to consider supporting Electronic Frontiers Australia, either by joining or donating.
Hey, it worked for Australia!
My answer is simple. Just change schedules rather than the clock during the seasons.
We live in a post-industrial society. The majority of people have the personal flexibility to change their work start and end times through the year. For workplaces which still run on an industrial model and for schools I suggest they simply have a summer start time and winter start time.
Changing the clock is simply bizarre.
Definitely or indefinitely.
Articles linked to by Slashdot are in an uncertain state of existence until one reader actually goes to RTFA and this uncertainty state collapses. Oftentimes, this never happens.
Reminds me of some writing by William James Sidis, published in 1925.
William James Sidis, The Animate and the Inanimate
Thanks Slashdotters for the good questions.
Thank you Harald for the detailed answers and all the work you have done for Free Software.
Thank you Slashdot for providing the forum.
I agree with your analysis of the target demographic - the middle-aged, mediocre multitude.
However, the danger for MS is that this ad won't appeal to the younger demographic. It has no 'cool' factor. And if MS loses this demographic and they increasingly "don't do Windows", who will the target demographic turn to when the inevitable problems that arise when running a Windows PC need fixing?
I agree, and the use of the BSD style license twigged me to this. They want to make their code maximally palatable for other projects. MS, as we have seen in the past, has no problems with integrating BSD style licensed code.
My apology. Ubuntu couldn't handle the 7-zip file and I made that assumption (confusing it with RAR I think).
And without the proprietary zip container here.
Both copies of the comic (on Google Blogoscoped and on Google Books) appear to be getting very heavy traffic.
You can find a torrent here.
Well, at least now we have one data point for the typical bandwith usage of a small Russian mafia operation.
Chickens are also fed a smaller version of these, just after birth.
It's called a chick magnet.
Only wish I could buy shares in Canonical.
Actually, after I posted that comment, I reflected on exactly your point, that we have a built-in gyroscope.
I admire your enthusiasm for skateboarding.
No gyroscopes.
OK, I assumed you were making the strong case that life originated on Earth. Instead you were making, or have retreated to making, the weaker case that life originated somewhere. But even that cannot be proved.
Even if you accept the hypothesis of the Big Bang origin of the universe, you cannot prove that life did not exist in the universe from the very first millisecond. And thus life would always have existed.
We know of one place that life exists. We do not know, and probably can never know, one place of origin of life, even if there was such an event.
We know of no such thing. Many scientists assume that life originated on Earth. There is no proof. Unless you know something I don't?