It seems to me that your company is going to collapse either way, you'd be better off taking care of yourself and not worrying about your co-workers. If they really are as talented as you say, they'll land on their feet.
As for the company itself? Remember, they'd sack you in a heartbeat if it would make them profitable. Companies are *not* people, they give no loyalty, and they deserve none.
Hopefully, these reductions will be enough to spark the tepid computer market. It is becoming more difficult to sell computers in the U.S. as saturation increases.
To those who are worried about this technology falling into the wrong hands, remember, information and education are the enemies of despotism and the cornerstones of freedom. Encouraging the spread of information will increase the demand for Democracy worldwide.
You are obviously a troll, so I really shouldn't reply, but here goes...
The U.S. computer market is rapidly saturating. It is always more difficult to sell an upgrade than it is to sell to a new user. Computer manufacturers need to be able to sell there wares throughout the world to countries that are less technologically developed in order to stay in business.
Draconian restrictions on computer exports will not stop international criminals from getting their hands on the technology, but it will serve to cripple U.S. computer manufacturers.
Under most circumstances, In the United States you can sue whoever you want, for whatever amount of money you want. But you will have to demonstrate not only that the person or company that you are suing behaved badly but that you were tangibly harmed by it.
Just because you can sue someone, doesn't mean that you will win. You may have your case thrown out, or you may even be counter-sued. Additionally, if you lose, you will have to pay court costs and a lawter. Even if you win, you rarely get exactly what you asked for. If you actually intend to be awarded what you ask for, you will have to demonstrate the damage that was done.
These former Microsoft Employees know that they probably won't win this case, and they also know that even if they did, no judge or jury would award them *nearly* $5 Billion. The goal is not to win the case, but rather to force Microsoft to settle out of court for a few million rather than risk losing much more and being humiliated in public.
The reason they are asking for such a ludicrous amount of money is to generate publicity and embarrass Microsoft into settling.
The Prime Minister of Canada is the leader of fewer people than the Govener of California. It is easy to count 10 million votes. It is a lot harder to count 100 million.
I'm curious what your reasoning here is? I would think they (start menus) are a better idea on a palm computer since they are designed to save space. I haven't extensively used a palm computer with a start menu (WinCE) but it seems like a fine idea to me.
"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein
Never has the principle expressed in the above quote been more clear to me.
In Duval County, Florida (where I live) not all of the presidential candidates fit on one page. As a result, some idiots actually punched holes without turning the page and seeing the other candidates (Gee, where did Al Gore go? I guess he dropped out). These geniuses then bitched that the ballot was too confusing.
In Palm Beach, they tried to fit all the candidates on one page to make it less confusing, but morons there bitched that it was also to confusing. Have you seen the 'disputed' ballot in Palm Beach? They have a picture of it on the CNN.com front-page now. You would have to be a retard to fuck that ballot up.
In a nutshell, these people are complaining that voting in an election with more than two candidates is simply too much for their brains to handle. What they really want is a ballot with only Al Gore and one giant hole to punch.
A lesson can be taken from this experience, an axiom if you will:
There will always be morons in this world who are so stupid that they can fuck anything up, no matter how simple. There is no point in trying to accommodate these shitheads, because they will find a way to screw up no matter how thoughful you are in designing a supposedly 'idiot proof' system.
Perrit's job is *NOT* to determine whether or not Carnivore is "fine and perfectly legal", nor is it make any moral or ethical judgements about Carnivore. He never said he liked Carnivore or endorsed it.
Perrit's job is to verify that the DoJ has accurately represented the functionality of Carnivore and to verify that Carnivore does not collect any more information than the DoJ says it does.
A lot of people misunderstand and underestimate the benefits of AGP. It is not particularly great at making video faster; this is because very few graphics cards actually bother to use the primary function of AGP, texture caching in main memory.
What AGP is very good at is improving total system performance by taking graphics data off the main PCI bus.
The PCI bus is a non-switched fabric bus. All PCI devices have to share the bandwith of the bus and a graphics card can consume almost the entire bus bandwidth. By moving graphics data to the PCI bus, you can significantly improve total system performance. In that sense, it roughly is the equivalent of segmenting a network.
A better fix for this problem would be a switched-fabric main bus, like the kind that high-end workstations use. Unfortunately, that solution is very expensive and AGP is relatively cheap.
Libertarianism is a philosophical and political system that prioritizes individual freedom above common good. It is roughly the opposite of socialism (which prioritizes common good above individual freedom).
I myself am a libertarian, and many people are surprised to find that I have a strong interest in promoting the common good. I make frequent charitable donations and volunteer regularly. Libertarianism does not preclude generosity or compassion.
A libertarian simply believes that it is wrong to demand a human to sacrifice himself for common good or for the government to force you to make sacrifices for others.
"These people should be called what they are, digital grafitti artists with nothing better to do"
Digital Grafitti Artists??? - WTF?
It is sad to see that political correctness has taken such a strong hold with young people. Apparently a generation of Heinlen reading uber-geeks is being replaced by a new generation of nerdy socialists. Doh!
The reason Debian was not reveiwed was because the software is so old it doesn't suffer from the tested vunerabilities. It is very difficult to compare a two-year old distro to a current one.
Default installs do matter! I agree, it would take a bad admin to install a distro and leave it at that, but even if you very carefully analyze an installation, you may miss holes they could have fixed in the first place.
CmdrTaco didn't write that. If you read closely, you'll find that that was written by someone named Griffjon. To my knowledge, CmdrTaco really *does* hate Microsoft.
This is typical Linux-user hubris. If it is Open Source, it must be better right? Wrong.
1. SQL Server has transactions, MySQL does not. 2. SQL Server has FKs, MySQL does not. 3. SQL Server has row-level-locking, MySQL does not. 4. SQL Server has triggers, MySQL does not. 5. SQL Server has compiled SPROCs, MySQL does not.
MySQL is NOT and enterprise grade RDBMS. It does not even compare to SQL Server. If you are trying to get SQL Server removed from your company in favor or MySQL, you are jeopardizing critical business data. I would never trust any data stored in a database without transactions or FK constraints.
1. You definitely don't have to bribe Yahoo to get in. My site, Rings-Online.com got in the first time in only two weeks. The trick is that your site needs to be good. They typically pass over crap sites.
2. Google crushes AltaVista like a grape. AltaVista almost never returns relevant results no matter how much you tweak your search.
If you haven't tried Google yet, you really are doing yourself a disservice, it is so good, I actually started using search engines again.
Slashdot Mirror
This is sorta like a .zip file and a zip drive. I know the difference, but my mom is still confused :>
DIVX was an attempt to make copy-protected DVDs. Divx is an MPEG4 related codec for making .mpg files.
I can only assume that the team who developed the Divx codec hadn't heard of DIVX when the developed it. Either that or they are evil bastards.
Actually, if you read the article you'd notice that the Itanium doesn't support RAMBUS, it only works with PC100 and PC1600/DDR memory.
It seems to me that your company is going to collapse either way, you'd be better off taking care of yourself and not worrying about your co-workers. If they really are as talented as you say, they'll land on their feet.
As for the company itself? Remember, they'd sack you in a heartbeat if it would make them profitable. Companies are *not* people, they give no loyalty, and they deserve none.
Hopefully, these reductions will be enough to spark the tepid computer market. It is becoming more difficult to sell computers in the U.S. as saturation increases.
To those who are worried about this technology falling into the wrong hands, remember, information and education are the enemies of despotism and the cornerstones of freedom. Encouraging the spread of information will increase the demand for Democracy worldwide.
You are obviously a troll, so I really shouldn't reply, but here goes...
The U.S. computer market is rapidly saturating. It is always more difficult to sell an upgrade than it is to sell to a new user. Computer manufacturers need to be able to sell there wares throughout the world to countries that are less technologically developed in order to stay in business.
Draconian restrictions on computer exports will not stop international criminals from getting their hands on the technology, but it will serve to cripple U.S. computer manufacturers.
Wired already *has* run a follow-up article about the 2.4 kernel. Which makes you look like an imbecile.
Wired Article
Under most circumstances, In the United States you can sue whoever you want, for whatever amount of money you want. But you will have to demonstrate not only that the person or company that you are suing behaved badly but that you were tangibly harmed by it.
Just because you can sue someone, doesn't mean that you will win. You may have your case thrown out, or you may even be counter-sued. Additionally, if you lose, you will have to pay court costs and a lawter. Even if you win, you rarely get exactly what you asked for. If you actually intend to be awarded what you ask for, you will have to demonstrate the damage that was done.
These former Microsoft Employees know that they probably won't win this case, and they also know that even if they did, no judge or jury would award them *nearly* $5 Billion. The goal is not to win the case, but rather to force Microsoft to settle out of court for a few million rather than risk losing much more and being humiliated in public.
The reason they are asking for such a ludicrous amount of money is to generate publicity and embarrass Microsoft into settling.
As the seasons pass
DotComGuy sits in his house...
God, what a huge fag.
When I was in San Diego, I was aghast at how expensive housing there was. Houses were approximately 200% more expensive than in Flordia where I live.
The Prime Minister of Canada is the leader of fewer people than the Govener of California. It is easy to count 10 million votes. It is a lot harder to count 100 million.
Good point. The Rama series went downhill fast after they got that fruit Gentry Lee involved.
I'm curious what your reasoning here is? I would think they (start menus) are a better idea on a palm computer since they are designed to save space. I haven't extensively used a palm computer with a start menu (WinCE) but it seems like a fine idea to me.
Never has the principle expressed in the above quote been more clear to me.
In Duval County, Florida (where I live) not all of the presidential candidates fit on one page. As a result, some idiots actually punched holes without turning the page and seeing the other candidates (Gee, where did Al Gore go? I guess he dropped out). These geniuses then bitched that the ballot was too confusing.
In Palm Beach, they tried to fit all the candidates on one page to make it less confusing, but morons there bitched that it was also to confusing. Have you seen the 'disputed' ballot in Palm Beach? They have a picture of it on the CNN.com front-page now. You would have to be a retard to fuck that ballot up.
In a nutshell, these people are complaining that voting in an election with more than two candidates is simply too much for their brains to handle. What they really want is a ballot with only Al Gore and one giant hole to punch.
A lesson can be taken from this experience, an axiom if you will:
There will always be morons in this world who are so stupid that they can fuck anything up, no matter how simple. There is no point in trying to accommodate these shitheads, because they will find a way to screw up no matter how thoughful you are in designing a supposedly 'idiot proof' system.
-Bruno
Perrit's job is *NOT* to determine whether or not Carnivore is "fine and perfectly legal", nor is it make any moral or ethical judgements about Carnivore. He never said he liked Carnivore or endorsed it.
Perrit's job is to verify that the DoJ has accurately represented the functionality of Carnivore and to verify that Carnivore does not collect any more information than the DoJ says it does.
Bruno
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
Al Gore - March 9, 1999 in an interview with CNN
How the hell can this be taken out of context? Al Gore was in high school when the Internet was created!
I don't think you read his post well at all. He is complaining that in X, you cannot paste/replace text like you can in Windows.
In Windows:
- select some text
- press ctrl+c to copy
- select some other text
- press ctrl+v to paste the first item *over* the second item, replacing it
this acts like a replace feature.Yes! C is in fact the God of programming languages. And like God, C is old and dead.
A lot of people misunderstand and underestimate the benefits of AGP. It is not particularly great at making video faster; this is because very few graphics cards actually bother to use the primary function of AGP, texture caching in main memory.
What AGP is very good at is improving total system performance by taking graphics data off the main PCI bus.
The PCI bus is a non-switched fabric bus. All PCI devices have to share the bandwith of the bus and a graphics card can consume almost the entire bus bandwidth. By moving graphics data to the PCI bus, you can significantly improve total system performance. In that sense, it roughly is the equivalent of segmenting a network.
A better fix for this problem would be a switched-fabric main bus, like the kind that high-end workstations use. Unfortunately, that solution is very expensive and AGP is relatively cheap.
Libertarianism is a philosophical and political system that prioritizes individual freedom above common good. It is roughly the opposite of socialism (which prioritizes common good above individual freedom).
I myself am a libertarian, and many people are surprised to find that I have a strong interest in promoting the common good. I make frequent charitable donations and volunteer regularly. Libertarianism does not preclude generosity or compassion.
A libertarian simply believes that it is wrong to demand a human to sacrifice himself for common good or for the government to force you to make sacrifices for others.
Brian Woodring"These people should be called what they are, digital grafitti artists with nothing better to do"
Digital Grafitti Artists??? - WTF?
It is sad to see that political correctness has taken such a strong hold with young people. Apparently a generation of Heinlen reading uber-geeks is being replaced by a new generation of nerdy socialists. Doh!
-Bruno
Did you even read the article?!
The reason Debian was not reveiwed was because the software is so old it doesn't suffer from the tested vunerabilities. It is very difficult to compare a two-year old distro to a current one.
Default installs do matter! I agree, it would take a bad admin to install a distro and leave it at that, but even if you very carefully analyze an installation, you may miss holes they could have fixed in the first place.
CmdrTaco didn't write that. If you read closely, you'll find that that was written by someone named Griffjon. To my knowledge, CmdrTaco really *does* hate Microsoft.
Brian Woodring
This is typical Linux-user hubris. If it is Open Source, it must be better right? Wrong.
1. SQL Server has transactions, MySQL does not.
2. SQL Server has FKs, MySQL does not.
3. SQL Server has row-level-locking, MySQL does not.
4. SQL Server has triggers, MySQL does not.
5. SQL Server has compiled SPROCs, MySQL does not.
MySQL is NOT and enterprise grade RDBMS. It does not even compare to SQL Server. If you are trying to get SQL Server removed from your company in favor or MySQL, you are jeopardizing critical business data. I would never trust any data stored in a database without transactions or FK constraints.
1. You definitely don't have to bribe Yahoo to get in. My site, Rings-Online.com got in the first time in only two weeks. The trick is that your site needs to be good. They typically pass over crap sites.
2. Google crushes AltaVista like a grape. AltaVista almost never returns relevant results no matter how much you tweak your search.
If you haven't tried Google yet, you really are doing yourself a disservice, it is so good, I actually started using search engines again.
Brian Woodring
Rings-Online.com
No sweat. Just remember, your local jeweler will screw you to the wall.
They feed on ignorance, we try to educate our customers.
Brian Woodring
Rings-Online.com