Well, it was a joke, but I do believe that they would spend that kind of cash to get RMS or Linus Torvalds. Rasmus, no. Of course, we all know that RMS cannot be defeated by ninjas, and Torvalds sleeps with nunchucks.
A few years ago Yahoo accidentally posted their phpinfo() code for a few minutes. I've still got the page saved, but I'm certain that most of it is outdated by now.
Actually, I'd bet that the only reason that MS is buying Yahoo is to finally get Rasmus Lerdorf working for them. You know, since they can't exactly get Linus or RMS very easily.
Charles Simonyi, (formerly of Microsoft), has donated $20 million, and Bill Gates (also formerly of Microsoft if memory serves) $10 million to help build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile. Yeah, but will the LSST run Linux? Huh?
This is why I paid $10 for In Rainbows, and I don't even know the name of the latest Metallica album. I refuse to listen to music by those who shit on their fans (performers or managers) and U2 just got off my list. Thank God Trent Reznor is sane.
They can justify the cost because we continue to reward them with lots of our dollars. And because to lower the price would be to have low-price SMS compete with high-priced voice calls.
Just put your drug deals, k1dd13 pr0n, and terrorist plans in a file called attorneyconfidential.doc. What's wrong with attorneyconfidential.odf? Not everyone has MS Office, you insensitive clod!
...even though I want to. I read the first page, then saw that it is six full pages, with no Print function. Six pages with about 1:4 content:advertising space. No thanks. I hate C|Net for pioneering the ideas of a paragraph a page, and I won't read Phoronix for the same reason. They will get my ad impressions (and I always click interesting ads on interesting content, to help the webmasters who write the content) when they stop forcing it upon me. It's crap like this that leads to Adblock.
I've only ever downloaded the latest Fedora or Kubuntu with BT. So, yeah, I'm kind of green. Would you believe my entire computer (OS, apps, files) are all legal? I'm the only one I know...
For every torrent on PB there are ten users? I find that unbelievable. That means that only one out of ten (maximum) are sharing new content, which seems very low for Bittorrent. Of course, one should hope that the majority are seeding the rest of files, but I still find it to be a lopsided economy when over 90% of users are not contributing content.
This is obviously an excuse to track people's movements, before the RDIF chips get planted in everyone's ass. The "counter-terrorism" bit is the same excuse they've always used.
And who will pay for this equipment in the phone? Will the government subsidize the phones? Where will the sensors fit in ever-smaller cellphones?
All the talk about upsetting the ecosystem has left out one tiny important detail: with less human deaths, there will be more humans. That might sound all nice and cheery at first, but what will those humans eat? Will they need foreign aid for food, shelter, and medicine?
Maybe instead of making sure that there are more humans, we should concentrate our efforts on improving the lives of the humans that we can.
When your clients are paying 5 to 6 figures per site you do what they say. I couldn't agree with you more.
They say make it work in IE and you make it work in IE, standards be damned. That's where the problem is. Did the client say "make sure that the site is NOT standards compliant. If you could not write a site that works in IE _and_ is standards compliant, then what are they paying you 6 figures for? Did you even make a point of explaining to them that making the site standards compliant now would save them another 6 figures down the road when they don't have to rewrite it?
I'm happy you can afford to ignore the browser with the largest market share, I can't even though I wish I could. I know that I am in a privledged position in that I don't have to answer to anybody. I also respect that not everybody is in that position. However, I do expect a professional to educate his customer, and to do what is in the better interest of the profession.
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Well, it was a joke, but I do believe that they would spend that kind of cash to get RMS or Linus Torvalds. Rasmus, no. Of course, we all know that RMS cannot be defeated by ninjas, and Torvalds sleeps with nunchucks.
A few years ago Yahoo accidentally posted their phpinfo() code for a few minutes. I've still got the page saved, but I'm certain that most of it is outdated by now.
Actually, I'd bet that the only reason that MS is buying Yahoo is to finally get Rasmus Lerdorf working for them. You know, since they can't exactly get Linus or RMS very easily.
This is why I paid $10 for In Rainbows, and I don't even know the name of the latest Metallica album. I refuse to listen to music by those who shit on their fans (performers or managers) and U2 just got off my list. Thank God Trent Reznor is sane.
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...but I'm not sure its focus won't move to one that is less useful for KDE. I've never seen a triple negative before. What's the rule on that?I had to pkill Firefox on Ubuntu with only two other tabs open and 2GB RAM. I'm making that the homepage on the university Wondows computers tomorrow.
...even though I want to. I read the first page, then saw that it is six full pages, with no Print function. Six pages with about 1:4 content:advertising space. No thanks. I hate C|Net for pioneering the ideas of a paragraph a page, and I won't read Phoronix for the same reason. They will get my ad impressions (and I always click interesting ads on interesting content, to help the webmasters who write the content) when they stop forcing it upon me. It's crap like this that leads to Adblock.
I measure /. in waking hours, not traffic. So it's closer to 60%. I should really go tell the wife that I miss... love her.
I've only ever downloaded the latest Fedora or Kubuntu with BT. So, yeah, I'm kind of green. Would you believe my entire computer (OS, apps, files) are all legal? I'm the only one I know...
For every torrent on PB there are ten users? I find that unbelievable. That means that only one out of ten (maximum) are sharing new content, which seems very low for Bittorrent. Of course, one should hope that the majority are seeding the rest of files, but I still find it to be a lopsided economy when over 90% of users are not contributing content.
Google is not running every ActiveX control and .exe that is comes across. I should imagine that they only need to protect against SQL injection.
So long as you are not using an operating system that is named after the most easily broken part of the house, you should be safe.
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This is obviously an excuse to track people's movements, before the RDIF chips get planted in everyone's ass. The "counter-terrorism" bit is the same excuse they've always used.
And who will pay for this equipment in the phone? Will the government subsidize the phones? Where will the sensors fit in ever-smaller cellphones?
All the talk about upsetting the ecosystem has left out one tiny important detail: with less human deaths, there will be more humans. That might sound all nice and cheery at first, but what will those humans eat? Will they need foreign aid for food, shelter, and medicine?
Maybe instead of making sure that there are more humans, we should concentrate our efforts on improving the lives of the humans that we can.
"Kinder" as "nicer" or "kinder" as in "children"? Won't somebody think of the OH FUCK IT!