Maybe like hotmail running linux they will try to port it over to Azure or something.
Hotmail was running on FreeBSD. And when Microsoft took over Hotmail, they had a ton of problems when they tried to move it over to MS-only infrastructure. And then the clean Hotmail UI was replaced by the butt-ugly, commercials-encumbered abomination that Hotmail was up until a few years ago.
It's still an abomination compared to the original Hotmail, by the way. I stopped using it shortly after the MS takeover, and had no reason to look back. I shudder to think what will happen to Skype.
You say desperate, but I'd argue that they have actually demonstrated a high level of creativity. It's not like the traditional routes of drug smuggling are going to stop - the US market is just as well supplied now as it has always been. The submarines, the armoured vehicles etc., are just attempts at finding a better smuggling method.
Psychopaths have zero fear or stress when they tell a lie. (They are otherwise rather fearless - but I won't go into details now.) These ATM machines are wide open for them to pick them apart.
In the first phase it would be not allowed for non-residents (you can be non-Dutch as long as you have a residence permit), but I am 100% sure that the intention is, in the second phase, to make it completely illegal to get cannabis, regardless of residence.
In my two MSc and one PhD curriculas, I met good, bad and excellent professors and TAs - but even the worst of them, implicitly or explicitly, presented a course that required creative thinking. There wasn't one subject that was boring.
I'm listing the worst of the worst of the profs I had, and no... I just don't recall being actually bored during class or while doing the coursework.
I'm not sure what you're driving at Are you saying it's OK for liberal arts to be taught that way?
I have no opinion on that issue. Now please answer my original question, or I'll just assume you invented this shit altogether, and the kind of "teaching" you described exists in only one university: the one in your head.
As for learning, dunno about the rest of you guys but my college education was largely an exercise in bullshit. Repeat what the professor said if you want an A. Disagree with his premises if you want an F. That's not learning. It's regurgitation. Parrots can do that too, and they don't attend college to do it.
Wow - seriously? I want to know the institution of higher education that you have attended, because my college experience was completely different. It was the most fun I have ever had up to that point. I was stimulated to think, to learn new and exciting things all the time. And the same seems to be true for all the other colleges/universities I have had the chance to attend or visit, or get to know pupils of. I have never heard of a college or university of the kind you speak of, and would appreciate it very much if you could tell us where is it that you studied, because it seems like a place out of this world.
Wait - was that math/science/engineering curriculum at all? I can see liberal arts being taught that way...
It's not like they have any choice: Israel has neither natural resources nor appreciable arable land, apart from the one that was "stolen" from the desert and the marshlands. In such situation they had to rely on their most obvious resource - human creativity.
If you think the psychopathic dictators in North Korea use carrots to keep expats loyal, you're crazy. Their families are held hostage - to the extreme. These expats know full well that, should they fail to return, their families will be moved to one of many NK concentration camps (best scenario) or just summarily executed (more likely).
It could easily have to do with MS (or better say, Elop's deal with MS): I sure as hell wouldn't buy a Symbian smartphone, once Elop announced Symbian is on the chopping block. Would you?
This gives the impression that 2.6.40 is more than an incremental update. But 2.6.40 is>/b> an incremental update, so IMHO it should have stayed 2.6.40. Renaming it to 3.0 is just so random.
I thought the Linux community wasn't shy of just minor, incremental updates. If it ain't broke don't fix it, don't rock the boat etc. But I guess the marketing mentality somehow, somewhere, has taken over./looks at Gnome 3.0
The flaw is rooted much deeper. We're not comparing the revenue and industrial strength of companies anymore, we're comparing our expectations. Quite literally. The stock value of a company is tied to the analyst's expectations, not the money they earn. More bluntly, we're comparing whether we will find another idiot to sell those toilet papers to before someone notices their lack of value.
I guess it's obvious that a "honest" company that actually produces and sells goods cannot compete with this.
A couple of years ago I invested in a portfolio of alternative energy companies (top 1 or 2 in solar, wind etc.). ALL of these brought in tons of cash, consistently, quarter after quarter! Since then we had the GUlf of Mexico disaster and Fukushima, and the total amount of extracted oil has certainly not increased. And yet, I am down about 30% on my portfolio value.
After this experience, I learned that there's no point in investing based on fundamentals.
...for scanning all the issues of Popular Science. I love reading those old issues, following the development of science through these magazines. If it weren't for Google, I could have never gotten access to them.
Perhaps if I lived in the US I could find them in some way, but impossible from Europe. Google made it possible for me, and for this I am truly grateful.
Sun has invested truckloads of money and man-hours into Gnome, adopted it as the default Solaris UI. I don't follow things very carefully regarding Gnome and Sun(/oracle) lately, so it may be that Solaris doesn't use Gnome animore, I don't know, but after all the investments that Sun made into Gnome, I would be surprised if it would be so easy to just make it for Linux. There's lots of code to support other platforms, in Gnome.
Not that I would mind, to be honest. I couldn't stand Gnome back in the 1.x days (it was really a lump of caca), and for a brief period I thought that it may become a usable GUI - but with the "novel ideas" of Gnome 3.x, I really don't care animore. Becoming Linux-only is just a tiny step towards further irrelevance.
Witnesses say several thousand Syrian army troops, flanked by special forces, shot their way into the southern city of Daraa before dawn Monday, causing numerous casualties. Tanks reportedly began the assault, shelling the city as they moved in from four sides.
Welcome to the world of politics. The West intervened in Libya because Gaddafi somehow [1] managed to alienate everybody (who counts) in the world. He had no friends left. OTOH, Syria is allied with Iran. And while China isn't exactly a friend of North Korea, they'd still object to Western intervention so close to home (as they did 60 years ago).
It has nothing to do with double standards or hypocrisy. It's all about choosing the battles you can win and avoiding those you'll lose, so you can fight another time.
Even though nobody reads this thread anymore, I want to go on record: what you said is true, but just because Syria has powerful allies, as does North Korea, the powers that be, or whoever represents a sizeable chunk of world opinion, should at least state that the only reason we do jack shit about the people killed in Syria and the hundreds of thousands (millions?) starved and hundreds of thousands imprisoned, tortured and murdered in concentration camps in NK, is because of the allies and means that those countries have, not because it is OK what they do. This statement would be of extreme importance. The way things are now, we are giving tacit approval to the murders of innocent people on a massive scale.
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Maybe like hotmail running linux they will try to port it over to Azure or something.
Hotmail was running on FreeBSD. And when Microsoft took over Hotmail, they had a ton of problems when they tried to move it over to MS-only infrastructure. And then the clean Hotmail UI was replaced by the butt-ugly, commercials-encumbered abomination that Hotmail was up until a few years ago.
It's still an abomination compared to the original Hotmail, by the way. I stopped using it shortly after the MS takeover, and had no reason to look back. I shudder to think what will happen to Skype.
You say desperate, but I'd argue that they have actually demonstrated a high level of creativity. It's not like the traditional routes of drug smuggling are going to stop - the US market is just as well supplied now as it has always been. The submarines, the armoured vehicles etc., are just attempts at finding a better smuggling method.
Psychopaths have zero fear or stress when they tell a lie. (They are otherwise rather fearless - but I won't go into details now.) These ATM machines are wide open for them to pick them apart.
In the first phase it would be not allowed for non-residents (you can be non-Dutch as long as you have a residence permit), but I am 100% sure that the intention is, in the second phase, to make it completely illegal to get cannabis, regardless of residence.
In my two MSc and one PhD curriculas, I met good, bad and excellent professors and TAs - but even the worst of them, implicitly or explicitly, presented a course that required creative thinking. There wasn't one subject that was boring.
I'm listing the worst of the worst of the profs I had, and no... I just don't recall being actually bored during class or while doing the coursework.
Unfortunately, the new Dutch govt vowed to make selling pot illegal, even to Dutch citizens.
Was the situation you described standard MO among professors, or just a few bad apples?
I'm not sure what you're driving at Are you saying it's OK for liberal arts to be taught that way?
I have no opinion on that issue.
Now please answer my original question, or I'll just assume you invented this shit altogether, and the kind of "teaching" you described exists in only one university: the one in your head.
As for learning, dunno about the rest of you guys but my college education was largely an exercise in bullshit. Repeat what the professor said if you want an A. Disagree with his premises if you want an F. That's not learning. It's regurgitation. Parrots can do that too, and they don't attend college to do it.
Wow - seriously? I want to know the institution of higher education that you have attended, because my college experience was completely different. It was the most fun I have ever had up to that point. I was stimulated to think, to learn new and exciting things all the time. And the same seems to be true for all the other colleges/universities I have had the chance to attend or visit, or get to know pupils of. I have never heard of a college or university of the kind you speak of, and would appreciate it very much if you could tell us where is it that you studied, because it seems like a place out of this world.
Wait - was that math/science/engineering curriculum at all? I can see liberal arts being taught that way...
Maybe I can put your mind to rest.
It's not like they have any choice: Israel has neither natural resources nor appreciable arable land, apart from the one that was "stolen" from the desert and the marshlands. In such situation they had to rely on their most obvious resource - human creativity.
If you think the psychopathic dictators in North Korea use carrots to keep expats loyal, you're crazy. Their families are held hostage - to the extreme. These expats know full well that, should they fail to return, their families will be moved to one of many NK concentration camps (best scenario) or just summarily executed (more likely).
It could easily have to do with MS (or better say, Elop's deal with MS): I sure as hell wouldn't buy a Symbian smartphone, once Elop announced Symbian is on the chopping block. Would you?
This gives the impression that 2.6.40 is more than an incremental update. But 2.6.40 is>/b> an incremental update, so IMHO it should have stayed 2.6.40. Renaming it to 3.0 is just so random.
I thought the Linux community wasn't shy of just minor, incremental updates. If it ain't broke don't fix it, don't rock the boat etc. But I guess the marketing mentality somehow, somewhere, has taken over. /looks at Gnome 3.0
Asterix and Obelix killing Microsoft would be fun and enjoyable indeed.
The flaw is rooted much deeper. We're not comparing the revenue and industrial strength of companies anymore, we're comparing our expectations. Quite literally. The stock value of a company is tied to the analyst's expectations, not the money they earn. More bluntly, we're comparing whether we will find another idiot to sell those toilet papers to before someone notices their lack of value.
I guess it's obvious that a "honest" company that actually produces and sells goods cannot compete with this.
A couple of years ago I invested in a portfolio of alternative energy companies (top 1 or 2 in solar, wind etc.). ALL of these brought in tons of cash, consistently, quarter after quarter! Since then we had the GUlf of Mexico disaster and Fukushima, and the total amount of extracted oil has certainly not increased. And yet, I am down about 30% on my portfolio value.
After this experience, I learned that there's no point in investing based on fundamentals.
...for scanning all the issues of Popular Science. I love reading those old issues, following the development of science through these magazines. If it weren't for Google, I could have never gotten access to them.
Perhaps if I lived in the US I could find them in some way, but impossible from Europe. Google made it possible for me, and for this I am truly grateful.
Ah, good point. I've overlooked the Itanium - good catch.
Pointing out the elephant in the room is not a religion - it is common sense.
Sun has invested truckloads of money and man-hours into Gnome, adopted it as the default Solaris UI. I don't follow things very carefully regarding Gnome and Sun(/oracle) lately, so it may be that Solaris doesn't use Gnome animore, I don't know, but after all the investments that Sun made into Gnome, I would be surprised if it would be so easy to just make it for Linux. There's lots of code to support other platforms, in Gnome.
Not that I would mind, to be honest. I couldn't stand Gnome back in the 1.x days (it was really a lump of caca), and for a brief period I thought that it may become a usable GUI - but with the "novel ideas" of Gnome 3.x, I really don't care animore. Becoming Linux-only is just a tiny step towards further irrelevance.
But yes, Microsoft has experience with mulitplattform OS': Windows NT ran on Alpha and other architectures.
And so did Windows 2000, but were not released (AFAIK). I used to have MSDN CD sets with beta versions of Win2K for non-x86 platforms.
Well, I hate Unity desktop and I am a parent :) I hope my opinion counts for a +1 Informative.
Not exactly the same thing. The Syrian army just started using tanks THIS WEEK.
Lie.
Witnesses say several thousand Syrian army troops, flanked by special forces, shot their way into the southern city of Daraa before dawn Monday, causing numerous casualties. Tanks reportedly began the assault, shelling the city as they moved in from four sides.
Another source.
Welcome to the world of politics. The West intervened in Libya because Gaddafi somehow [1] managed to alienate everybody (who counts) in the world. He had no friends left. OTOH, Syria is allied with Iran. And while China isn't exactly a friend of North Korea, they'd still object to Western intervention so close to home (as they did 60 years ago).
It has nothing to do with double standards or hypocrisy. It's all about choosing the battles you can win and avoiding those you'll lose, so you can fight another time.
Even though nobody reads this thread anymore, I want to go on record: what you said is true, but just because Syria has powerful allies, as does North Korea, the powers that be, or whoever represents a sizeable chunk of world opinion, should at least state that the only reason we do jack shit about the people killed in Syria and the hundreds of thousands (millions?) starved and hundreds of thousands imprisoned, tortured and murdered in concentration camps in NK, is because of the allies and means that those countries have, not because it is OK what they do. This statement would be of extreme importance. The way things are now, we are giving tacit approval to the murders of innocent people on a massive scale.
Three letters: O,I,L.
This is probably the most quotable Anonymous Coward post I've ever read.
The NATO ain't going to intervene in Syria, "screw those guys!".