Hm.... Let me see, you are talking about the people that:
- were slave owners, and not intending on giving them freedom
- wanted nothing more than the rights of a free Englishman
- made sure that only the wealthy ran the country
When you invoke the ideals of "The Founding Fathers of the United States of America", you should remember what those ideals were. And I am guessing here, US would get a constitutional amendment undoing universal suffrage, allowing slavery and giving voting powers to the wealthiest.
Creators and inventors see a hostile environment for profiting off their works, so they stop investing in creating and inventing. Film at 11.
Basic science is not "inventing" things. It's about breaking the frontiers, literally. Even in a "friendly" environment the investments returns are delayed by decades in basic sciences. Most of these companies(when you are talking about pharma) want their ROI yesterday(sometimes literally taking people's lives as hostage). Therefore they do not do basic science research.
My problem is with the whole hypocrisy. The government represents the real state of the peoples minds, most of the time, even in non democratic countries.
Now, would you be OK with your retirement fund investing into fusion reactor research? The tech will be ready for commercial use only in 40 years. I bet, the answer is No. So start from yourselves.
Now America is at least as overregulated as Europe, so why would anyone want to do basic research there?
Now where is that thing called THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER situated? And who financed it? Don't be so prejudiced on the state of European basic science. Check how many of the US Nobel prize winners were born and educated in Europe. In US professors get higher salaries, than in Europe.
Other point, is that some basic sciences are beginning to cross into the domains of massive religious mentality.
Yeah, flash works full screen for me too. Tested on Ubuntu 8.04 x64 and 9.04 x86 with nVidia, ATI and Intel hardware.
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
the market has shown that people are willing to pay that much for the OS
Mac OS X market is like that, maybe. But Windows is definitely not like it. And "most people" want a, completely, vertically integrated piece of machinery. Almost no one(statistically speaking) buys Windows OS updates or retail packages these days.
bringing expertise for inexpensive mobile devices into said market
When did Nokia build "inexpensive mobile devices"?!?!?!?!?! They lack the "inexpensive" part.
Compared most other, their devices are one of the most expensive devices out there.
What it's all about is someone in Manila can be paid for a year on a couple months of my salary, they have no expectations of pensions, private health care, etc.
They probably have universal health care and universal pension system, that is why they do not expect the employer of handling that.
Even it wasn't Slashdotted, it would not help me dialing 911, since Nokia and a bunch of us are in Europe, where 112 is THE number, you insensitive clod!
I use Dia for network topology and network model diagrams. While most of my colleagues use Visio. I understand, that Visio is easier to use. But I have not seen any critically important items where I just had to use Visio, unless I needed to export existing digrams into PNG.
don't require expensive proprietary compilers or IDE's
Java or C# require expensinve compilers!?!?! When did you come out of deep freeze?
Most Good Java IDE's are free and other IDE's and VisualStudio are not that expensive.
I don't want to blast Microsoft here, but this is slashdot so...
Have you not seen the facts? Microsoft has to reinvent itself to work that fast, a few months is an impossible schedule to port Win7 to ARM. I may be mistaken, if WinCE shares enough code-base with Win7, witch I doubt, it will take at least one year. And imagine the outcry, if Microsoft does not test out Win7 well enough?
A) How was that modded Funny!?!?!
B) Nowhere does he say that the return rate is high, or higher than Windows. In fact he stated quite clearly, that return rates are similar.
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Life saving drugs are an entitlement.
Hm.... Let me see, you are talking about the people that:
- were slave owners, and not intending on giving them freedom
- wanted nothing more than the rights of a free Englishman
- made sure that only the wealthy ran the country
When you invoke the ideals of "The Founding Fathers of the United States of America", you should remember what those ideals were. And I am guessing here, US would get a constitutional amendment undoing universal suffrage, allowing slavery and giving voting powers to the wealthiest.
Basic science is not "inventing" things. It's about breaking the frontiers, literally. Even in a "friendly" environment the investments returns are delayed by decades in basic sciences. Most of these companies(when you are talking about pharma) want their ROI yesterday(sometimes literally taking people's lives as hostage). Therefore they do not do basic science research.
My problem is with the whole hypocrisy. The government represents the real state of the peoples minds, most of the time, even in non democratic countries.
Now, would you be OK with your retirement fund investing into fusion reactor research? The tech will be ready for commercial use only in 40 years. I bet, the answer is No. So start from yourselves.
Now where is that thing called THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER situated? And who financed it? Don't be so prejudiced on the state of European basic science. Check how many of the US Nobel prize winners were born and educated in Europe. In US professors get higher salaries, than in Europe.
Other point, is that some basic sciences are beginning to cross into the domains of massive religious mentality.
Yeah, flash works full screen for me too. Tested on Ubuntu 8.04 x64 and 9.04 x86 with nVidia, ATI and Intel hardware.
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
Mac OS X market is like that, maybe. But Windows is definitely not like it. And "most people" want a, completely, vertically integrated piece of machinery. Almost no one(statistically speaking) buys Windows OS updates or retail packages these days.
When did Nokia build "inexpensive mobile devices"?!?!?!?!?! They lack the "inexpensive" part.
Compared most other, their devices are one of the most expensive devices out there.
Financial Times reports the price range to be 500-800 Euros.That is a huge price for that piece of hardware.
They probably have universal health care and universal pension system, that is why they do not expect the employer of handling that.
Even it wasn't Slashdotted, it would not help me dialing 911, since Nokia and a bunch of us are in Europe, where 112 is THE number, you insensitive clod!
Well, GPL does not force you to contribute back to the community. It only forces to distribute the source code with the binary version under itself.
Well, sometimes when it's very bad the only thing left is to go crazy and find everything funny. :)
Ironically I am listening soundtrack of Fallout 3
Imagine the scene: The patent bites a programmer's fingers off when (s)he tries to implement a patented feature?
Hm.. Nice final destination - The White House lawn
Ah, young grasshopper. You are not aware of the mixed paradigm programming languages then. See OCaml, that is object/function oriented lang.
That is definitely an overstatement. The performance hit is not huge, it's not even big.
Now, if you want a language with truely different syntax, try erlang.
Why only 5? Why not 7? We seem to love that number. Even Win7, sounds better with 7 in it :)
I use Dia for network topology and network model diagrams. While most of my colleagues use Visio. I understand, that Visio is easier to use. But I have not seen any critically important items where I just had to use Visio, unless I needed to export existing digrams into PNG.
Maybe lack of knowledge of russian civilian airliners, but definitely not ethnocentrism. (I am russian)
Java or C# require expensinve compilers!?!?! When did you come out of deep freeze?
Most Good Java IDE's are free and other IDE's and VisualStudio are not that expensive.
Maybe he meant high performance?
I don't want to blast Microsoft here, but this is slashdot so...
Have you not seen the facts? Microsoft has to reinvent itself to work that fast, a few months is an impossible schedule to port Win7 to ARM. I may be mistaken, if WinCE shares enough code-base with Win7, witch I doubt, it will take at least one year. And imagine the outcry, if Microsoft does not test out Win7 well enough?
And we will finally have fast Java GUI applications! (ARM Cortex-A8 has hardware acceleration for Java)
Wee ID did manage to get good games with excellent performance a number of times.
They have a protective plastic cup over their "sensitive" area. So we have hard time making it hurt by kicking....
A) How was that modded Funny!?!?!
B) Nowhere does he say that the return rate is high, or higher than Windows. In fact he stated quite clearly, that return rates are similar.