Hmmm...now the decision to make is, do I argue with this guy? What if I win the argument and he decides to get married or have kids? And then what happens when they look back on the discussion archives and realize that I convinced him to put them through that? Nope, better go read the next post.
I was sure that I read somewhere that the price of the software isn't an important factor in the total package, and thus the free-ness of Linux was irrelevant. Let's see, what company was it that was saying that over and over?
..I think posting like that is fun, and reading a well done one is fun. Although I do like it when they put the continuation... at the front so I know I was supposed to read the subject.
If you want anyone to see this, you should get an account and log in. I would wager that most people don't read stuff at moderation level 0, where you posts are because they are anonymous.
>>They obviously publish articles written by people with their head up their asses. Honestly, just what is Mr. J. Bradford DeLong thinking? To characterize Project Gutenberg as a failure is just imbecilic. From PG's own pages, 203 ebooks were released in October 2002. 1975 new books in 2002 (1240 in 2001). It's a lot of work to produce even one book, and PG is churning them out at a pretty good clip for an entirely volunteer effort.
Reread that last clause: "PG is churning them out at a pretty good clip for an entirely volunteer effort." That's my point. The social engineering task is immense. 1240 books a year is a *very* good clip for an entirely volunteer effort.
But I want the Universal Online Free Library of Humanity. I want it last year. I am greedy.
...if people would still be getting their hands hacked off in Sierra Leone if we spend a tenth of the time we spend on this trying to solve problems that matter.
another way to dispel that myth (if it exists) is to read the marketing page. I remember seeing a headline about a "rash of diaper fires" in landfills or something. wsj is a great publication.
Of course he couldn't start WW II by whistling into a telephone... for crying out loud!
That's hard to argue with--it's still debatable, in fact, what did start WWII, although many agree that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were too hard on the Germans.
lease don't send this question to Mitnick, it will only confirm to him the utter ignorance of/.
Anyone who hasn't already noticed that is too stupid to interview.
When this came out in 2001, James Gosling showed a copy of it at his keynote at JavaOne. They sold out every copy they had at the show, and the Effective Java talk later that day/week, was so packed you couldn't even get it. Great book.
While I appreciate your comment, I want to humbly submit that, this being slashdot, you might have used a subject line more in line with the way the editors pick headlines. For example, instead of the mundane-but-descriptive subject "This book is great", you should have used something like:
"Dangerous book leads to shortages and overcrowding":)
And the sequel, told from the bad guys POV:
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This is obviously an attempt to embarrass the Chinese. Look at the timing--they have a big announcement about sending up and recovering an unmanned rocket equipped with life support, but no humans yet. So what does the swaggering west do? "Hey, look, even our spiders can go to space!"
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I don't know, stuff like this is pretty convincing--how much do you think this
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cleanup cost?
Yeah, like the airplanes hitting the wtc did us a great service...
from what I hear what you want is Babylon 5...
Hmmm...now the decision to make is, do I argue with this guy? What if I win the argument and he decides to get married or have kids? And then what happens when they look back on the discussion archives and realize that I convinced him to put them through that? Nope, better go read the next post.
You forgot to sign it:
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"Love, Po's first wife"
my head explodes every time I fail to divert the little'ns' attention and switch off the television before the Barney song plays.
lol. Maybe you could come up with some combination of the hard diskus, the bi-athlon and the hand ball ref, too...
...I didn't even know the International Olympic Committee had a c compiler.
(yeah, yeah, ObReinterpretedAcronymComment, I know)
I was sure that I read somewhere that the price of the software isn't an important factor in the total package, and thus the free-ness of Linux was irrelevant. Let's see, what company was it that was saying that over and over?
Is it...ahhCHOO ... cold in here ... ah-ah-ah-CHOO ..or is it just AHCHOO me?
If only all their work was in the public domain, you could make up such a front end yourself! :)
..I think posting like that is fun, and reading a well done one is fun. Although I do like it when they put the continuation ... at the front so I know I was supposed to read the subject.
If you want anyone to see this, you should get an account and log in. I would wager that most people don't read stuff at moderation level 0, where you posts are because they are anonymous.
Yeah, well, you can have them as soon as they get done working on my pet projects.
...now you're saying take both the red and the blue pills?
...if people would still be getting their hands hacked off in Sierra Leone if we spend a tenth of the time we spend on this trying to solve problems that matter.
I think you meant moof, there, buddy. As in, if he doesn't run, the dogcow will!
maybe 32k is the size of the games... :)
another way to dispel that myth (if it exists) is to read the marketing page. I remember seeing a headline about a "rash of diaper fires" in landfills or something. wsj is a great publication.
That's hard to argue with--it's still debatable, in fact, what did start WWII, although many agree that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were too hard on the Germans.
Anyone who hasn't already noticed that is too stupid to interview.
When this came out in 2001, James Gosling showed a copy of it at his keynote at JavaOne. They sold out every copy they had at the show, and the Effective Java talk later that day/week, was so packed you couldn't even get it. Great book.
:)
While I appreciate your comment, I want to humbly submit that, this being slashdot, you might have used a subject line more in line with the way the editors pick headlines. For example, instead of the mundane-but-descriptive subject "This book is great", you should have used something like:
"Dangerous book leads to shortages and overcrowding"
Killin' People
Make them all read Slashdot at -1.
This is obviously an attempt to embarrass the Chinese. Look at the timing--they have a big announcement about sending up and recovering an unmanned rocket equipped with life support, but no humans yet. So what does the swaggering west do? "Hey, look, even our spiders can go to space!"
LOL!
Funny is even funnier when the moderators don't get it.
Hint, to those who modded the parent down: "Moore's" sounds like "S'mores".