France is predominantly nuclear, but Germany? That can't be right. The green party in Germany got all nuclear plants shot down (or scheduled to shut down) and the main energy source now is... wait for it... the much more polluting COAL! Good job, german green party: did you know that a coal plant will discharge into the environmnent twice as much radioactive pollutants per kilowatt-hour, than a nuclear plant? And we haven't even mentioned various other toxic materials, principally sulphur. And of course, CO2, in droves.
You know the general mantra of people who support advertisements (for whatever interest they have)? They say advertisements increase competition and are, therefore, ultimately beneficial to the consumers. Well, I think Google's way is a great implementation of this principle.
The general consensus on the street seemed to be that Microsoft was offering *too much* money... which is why Microsoft stock dropped when the offer was first announced... MS stock dipping on news of takeover talks is hardly an indication that MS offered too much: every time a publicly listed company offers to take over another, their stock will dip, at least a little bit.
You imply intelligence in the stock market whereas there isn't any, nor does it have an inherent rationality.
And that is also my take on this. I look at Hotmail, then I look at Yahoo mail, and the conclusion comes naturally.
But also, the Yahoo search engine is as good as Google's (in pure search, but it doesn't have fancy features as Google Math, though) while Microsofts is in a different - lower - league.
I am also quite fond of Yahoo Groups and Babelfish. So for me, as a customer, this is very good. Sorry I can't muster much concern for shareholders. Perhaps this is good for them, too, in the long term.
Check that it wasn't just a journalist's "modification of reality", or perhaps the Slashdot submitter's. Slashdot is not famous for reliable reporting. At all.
Good point! I don't actually know, but I guess it has to do with Sun's focus on servers lately, and the fact that the customers of their workstations used to be scientific people not very concerned with desktop elegance.
OK now: I did list two of my Linux programming books, so that shoots McBride's (or at least whoever quoted him) argument. But let's not partisanship blind us - there's more Unix programming books than Linux programming. I'm talking "Programming", not system administration or such.
Well, I actually do have a book on how to program Linux: "Beginning Linux Programming" (Matthew and Stones), in all its red glory here on my shelf. Now I don't know whether the summary quoted McBride very well and I don't have much time to investigate right now, but if he did say what he said, that was pretty silly.
I also have the "Teach yourself Linux Programming in 24 hours, did not read it much, though. However, it exists, and more Linux programming literature exists, too.
Because only MS can implement it. Which means, nothing will change and your ooxml documents will still be hostage to MS, which will still force you on the upgrade treadmill.
And even if you completely accept you fate and buy upgrade after upgrade, your old documents may still not be time-proof. For example, MS decided that I should not be able to open my thesis files anymore.
I really don't get the Pidgin devs. For heaven's sake, noone was going to kill your "change font size as you type"-feature. People just wanted to make it an option they can turn off. Me being visually impaired, I can completely understand why this progressively-diminishing font would be bothersome. And I am really not certain that it would be very useful to anyone, even if you could read the smallest fonts, what's the point? But nonetheless, I'm not saying "don't have it work like that", I'm saying allow people to chose. The smart default would be to have it off, I think.
That may be, but believe it or not, in my relatively short Slashdot history, I was always overrated when I wasn't even rated! So I'd end up at 0. Time for it to be replaced with "Incorrect as far as I know."
There's a good lesson here: Listen to your lawyer. If your lawyer says it would be a bad idea for you to testify, it's probably because they know what they are talking about. It's very much a geek thing to want to address every point made by your opponent directly, to leave nothing left unaccounted for. Except that when your rebuttals are weak, you can actually have the opposite effect. Let your lawyer figure out when that is appropriate. I'd like it if people took home another good lesson: don't kill. Simple as that.
Sorry to say this, but you suck at comparisons. You are comparing the relations of a city in the UK to the UK govt., with that of a EU country to the EU central institutions. Well guess what, a EU country can freely decide not to be member of the EU. Not only that, but any country in the EU can decide whether or not to use the common currency, or their military association, their visa restrictions, or their foreign policy in general. These are just some examples, hopefully putting into some perspective the pointlessness of your comparison.
I'm definitely putting _them_ on my must-see list for when I visit the USA next time (dunno when that'll be, but it will happen). I am particularly interested in the UAVs, but I doubt the exhibit will still be up by the time I'll get over to yankeeland. I'll definitely try to come by the end of the year, though.
No, there are several viable alternatives. For example, Russia has Buran spaceship. They just cost way too much. "They just cost way too much" is another way to say "they're not viable".
Got it. Didn't know about MS' latest quarterly statement, I thought they did rather well, but it's interesting to hear their growth didn't match the PC market growth.
Mod up parent! These are serious concerns, should not be swept under the rug. As much as I dislike the design of the Shuttle, it's the only one capable of carrying that sort of heavy payload to the ISS' orbit (LEO).
Because MS just cannot NOT do something about it. Without a stranglehold on the OS market, MS just can't compete. And -52 million is quite a dent in the marketshare, methinks, for a country like Brazil.
In any case, interesting times ahead. Pass the popcorn, thnk you.
Give it some time - it's still growing, and while there are some adjustments to be made, the situation is far from catastrophic for its stage of development. After all, there's a number of people contributing to it, and hopefully as processes and community contacts improve, the contributors will increase in number. You have to take into consideration that it's a huge chunk of code and some people are still just lurking to find their place under the sun (no pun intended).
OpenSolaris is an interesting operating system, I don't doubt it'll grow in popularity among developers, however slowly. As I said, give it some time, we have only just begun.
I have known Finland and Finns for almost 10 years - though I don't know the specifics of this project, I have a strong faith in the finnish high-tech (did you know atomic layer deposition was developed in Finland? And then there's Nokia, and a lot of nanotech research, and their contribution to the ESA and...) plus Finns are quite pedantic, and I mean this in the best possible way. Part of Nokia's success is definitely down to this scholarly approach to technological projects.
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France is predominantly nuclear, but Germany? That can't be right. The green party in Germany got all nuclear plants shot down (or scheduled to shut down) and the main energy source now is... wait for it... the much more polluting COAL! Good job, german green party: did you know that a coal plant will discharge into the environmnent twice as much radioactive pollutants per kilowatt-hour, than a nuclear plant? And we haven't even mentioned various other toxic materials, principally sulphur. And of course, CO2, in droves.
You know the general mantra of people who support advertisements (for whatever interest they have)? They say advertisements increase competition and are, therefore, ultimately beneficial to the consumers. Well, I think Google's way is a great implementation of this principle.
Google: keep it up, I'm rooting for you.
lastminute.com and Auto Trader: FY.
You imply intelligence in the stock market whereas there isn't any, nor does it have an inherent rationality.
And that is also my take on this. I look at Hotmail, then I look at Yahoo mail, and the conclusion comes naturally.
But also, the Yahoo search engine is as good as Google's (in pure search, but it doesn't have fancy features as Google Math, though) while Microsofts is in a different - lower - league.
I am also quite fond of Yahoo Groups and Babelfish. So for me, as a customer, this is very good. Sorry I can't muster much concern for shareholders. Perhaps this is good for them, too, in the long term.
It's why Hitler was so successful. It's amazing how easily one's conscience conforms to the more profitable/useful/practical side.
Check that it wasn't just a journalist's "modification of reality", or perhaps the Slashdot submitter's. Slashdot is not famous for reliable reporting. At all.
Good point! I don't actually know, but I guess it has to do with Sun's focus on servers lately, and the fact that the customers of their workstations used to be scientific people not very concerned with desktop elegance.
OK now: I did list two of my Linux programming books, so that shoots McBride's (or at least whoever quoted him) argument. But let's not partisanship blind us - there's more Unix programming books than Linux programming. I'm talking "Programming", not system administration or such.
Well, I actually do have a book on how to program Linux: "Beginning Linux Programming" (Matthew and Stones), in all its red glory here on my shelf. Now I don't know whether the summary quoted McBride very well and I don't have much time to investigate right now, but if he did say what he said, that was pretty silly.
I also have the "Teach yourself Linux Programming in 24 hours, did not read it much, though. However, it exists, and more Linux programming literature exists, too.
Because only MS can implement it. Which means, nothing will change and your ooxml documents will still be hostage to MS, which will still force you on the upgrade treadmill.
And even if you completely accept you fate and buy upgrade after upgrade, your old documents may still not be time-proof. For example, MS decided that I should not be able to open my thesis files anymore.
I really don't get the Pidgin devs. For heaven's sake, noone was going to kill your "change font size as you type"-feature. People just wanted to make it an option they can turn off.
Me being visually impaired, I can completely understand why this progressively-diminishing font would be bothersome. And I am really not certain that it would be very useful to anyone, even if you could read the smallest fonts, what's the point? But nonetheless, I'm not saying "don't have it work like that", I'm saying allow people to chose. The smart default would be to have it off, I think.
That may be, but believe it or not, in my relatively short Slashdot history, I was always overrated when I wasn't even rated! So I'd end up at 0. Time for it to be replaced with "Incorrect as far as I know."
Sorry to say this, but you suck at comparisons. You are comparing the relations of a city in the UK to the UK govt., with that of a EU country to the EU central institutions. Well guess what, a EU country can freely decide not to be member of the EU. Not only that, but any country in the EU can decide whether or not to use the common currency, or their military association, their visa restrictions, or their foreign policy in general. These are just some examples, hopefully putting into some perspective the pointlessness of your comparison.
I'm definitely putting _them_ on my must-see list for when I visit the USA next time (dunno when that'll be, but it will happen). I am particularly interested in the UAVs, but I doubt the exhibit will still be up by the time I'll get over to yankeeland. I'll definitely try to come by the end of the year, though.
Other geek-friendly places to see?
Actualy "Overrated" for me is always an unfair moderation. And I metamoderate accordingly.
Got it. Didn't know about MS' latest quarterly statement, I thought they did rather well, but it's interesting to hear their growth didn't match the PC market growth.
Mod up parent! These are serious concerns, should not be swept under the rug. As much as I dislike the design of the Shuttle, it's the only one capable of carrying that sort of heavy payload to the ISS' orbit (LEO).
No troll, serious question: can Outlook run with Wine, on Linux? Has anyone tried this?
What would that get MS, though? Only a very fleeting PR without long-term consequence. Unless I missunderstood what you meant?
Because MS just cannot NOT do something about it. Without a stranglehold on the OS market, MS just can't compete. And -52 million is quite a dent in the marketshare, methinks, for a country like Brazil.
In any case, interesting times ahead. Pass the popcorn, thnk you.
Give it some time - it's still growing, and while there are some adjustments to be made, the situation is far from catastrophic for its stage of development. After all, there's a number of people contributing to it, and hopefully as processes and community contacts improve, the contributors will increase in number. You have to take into consideration that it's a huge chunk of code and some people are still just lurking to find their place under the sun (no pun intended).
OpenSolaris is an interesting operating system, I don't doubt it'll grow in popularity among developers, however slowly. As I said, give it some time, we have only just begun.
I have known Finland and Finns for almost 10 years - though I don't know the specifics of this project, I have a strong faith in the finnish high-tech (did you know atomic layer deposition was developed in Finland? And then there's Nokia, and a lot of nanotech research, and their contribution to the ESA and...) plus Finns are quite pedantic, and I mean this in the best possible way. Part of Nokia's success is definitely down to this scholarly approach to technological projects.
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And the PS2 had a Linux distro made for it - by Sony.