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"I confess my doubts. Thanks to the criticism of the comrades, I have been able to purify my language. I bow in humility to the opinion of my comrades and the Party and am thankful for the opportunity to correct my spelling. You enabled me to repudiate my deviational language. I acknowledge my debt to the selfless leader and the government of the people."
I just tried it out since I hate when Adobe PDF viewer says "would you like to update now or in a little while (your computer is ours anyway - hahaha). You will not even be given the option of 'not at all' - hahaha".
I know someone here is thinking "Well, yea! You gotta keep up with the patchin'". But Adobe would like to infect my machine with flash. I prefer my coffe black and my PDFs as non-executables.
Choice is great. But having a couple great, consistent, stable choices is better than having several hundred ones ranging from excellent to shitty. Variety for its own sake is pointless, from a practical standpoint at least.
Survival of the fittest is as practical and natural as it gets. There is no need for anyone to be involved in removing the "unworthy" distros from the market. The market will take care of this.
I'm sure you do not feel a need to destroy bad paintings even though there are millions out there? You just don't need to buy them. The person who creates a painting probably feels that some value is added to his/her life in the process. Also... there just might be someone crazy enough out there for whom a particularly "bad" painting is perfect. But you, you get to ignore it.
After centuries of enjoying beautiful lead crystal at table, it has recently come under the scrutiny of health authorities, who were testing paint and other products as possible sources of lead poisoning. Preliminary tests have shown that, over time, significant amounts of lead can migrate from lead crystal containers into liquids stored in them.
* One research team measured the amount of lead migration in Port wine that was stored in lead crystal decanters. After two days, lead levels were 89 micrograms; after four months, lead levels were between 2,000 and 5,000 micrograms.
* White wine doubled its lead content within an hour of storage, and tripled it within four hours.
* Brandy stored in lead crystal for five years had lead levels around 20,000 micrograms.
* Any liquid can leach lead from crystal just as effectively as wine and other alcoholic beverages.
To put these numbers into perspective, the EPAâ(TM)s lead standard for drinking water is 50 micrograms per liter.
You where the one asking people to compare Oracle to MySQL.
I can't think of anything - seriously. I'm not trying to troll, fill me in on where MySQL is better than Oracle.
MySQL beats Oracle on price.
I'm sure you are creative enough to come up with many examples where MySQL fails miserably compared to Oracle and I accept that. Just don't think Oracle is the one and only solution for every type of problem out there.
What does MySQL have that Oracle needs or would improve it? I can't think of anything - seriously. I'm not trying to troll, fill me in on where MySQL is better than Oracle.
Can you just imagine all the poor people who are heavily confused about the state of affairs in Soviet Russia after reading slashdot? How were they to know that these things were untrue!?
Wait a minute. This is just a special case of internationalization!
1. Check visitors IP
2. Look up geo-position
3. Serve up localized truth
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
I feel it has a lot more to do with trust in the company and their services than access to the actual source files. Access to the source files is just another way of saying "We know we are excellent, but just to make you more comfortable buying from us, here, have a look for yourself. Should we make a move that is not good for your business, you have the sources and won't be locked in. Should we be bought out by a competitor they can't just withdraw our software from the market since you'd still have the sources and some other company would be more than willing to help you with fixes."
Imagine if Microsoft open sourced all their products. You could then get this software for next to nothing to run your corporate infrastructure. But would you really want to get this software from an unknown guy down the street with all kinds of backdoors preinstalled for your convenience? No because you would be kicked out of your corner office in no time for endangering the business.
Ok. Perhaps you would buy it from a somewhat more repectable source, but for just 20% of Microsofts original price. You would get the same software as that other guy sold, but without the backdoors.
Now some of your competitors would still buy their software directly from Microsoft, paying just 50% of what Microsoft charges today. These competitors are betting their reputation on having the best, most efficient and most stable business infrastructure available. Your competitors trust Microsoft to allways support them and not to do anything against their interests. If these customers need help, Microsoft responds to these needs just like any market oriented business would. In comparison a communist organisation would make up a plan for the future, releasing software according to a fixed schedule, regardless of market needs or the quality of what was released. If Microsoft would not take care of these needs quickly, a number of small and faster software houses would pop up instantly to take care of this need (and a large amount of money).
Microsoft could start selling support packages giving access to their patches instantly, seriously increasing the rate of fixes and patches since they actually make a lot of money from this. They could then let these patches trickle down to less fortunate players after some time, creating excellent good will, still keeping Microsoft in pole position with more trusted and secure software services.
It is my opinion that software copyrights should only be valid for a single digit number of years. Comments are welcome.
I don't think your analysis is correct. When people attack creationism, it's because it's pseudoscience which is actively being sold as science, and they are attempting to force it into science class. This is dangerous indeed, and gets people very upset. This is the background for the attacks. The anger that religious fundamentalists are trying to destroy science and force their religion on everyone else.
I understand those feelings and perhaps I would have reacted differently had it been in my country. However...
I know that creationism is flawed and needs all kinds of crutches to make its way, but I also know that the proponents of creationism are not a homogenous group. Calling them names will never win anyone over, but I believe logical respectfull arguing will.
No, because accepting science makes logical and rational sense. On a purely empirical basis, it makes sense to accept science because so far, it has worked brilliantly.
I'm not sure if you are joking, but if not let me state that there is nothing wrong with defending something strongly, as long as you do it for the right reason.
My critique was that many people on this site choose to attack creationism, not because it is wrong, but because the great majority seems to be taunting the creationists and you would not want to be on the wrong side of that would you!
In my opinion, religion is simply belief without logical questioning. The people who support science like a religion, might just as easily be religius if the majority of people here where.
I'd like to point out that just because there are two sides, doesn't mean there are two sets of extremists.
Quite true. Still, perhaps you can agree with me that some people on this site support science almost like a religion.
And before anyone supporting sience like a religion starts calling me a creationist, let me state:
I'm on "your side", but you need some impulse control.
As an example, Flat Earthers. Am I an extremist for believing in a spherical earth? Obviously my views are diametrically opposed to theirs.
I love your geometrical humor and I feel urged to tell this antipodal joke: It doesn't matter if the earth is flat or round and there is no reason why you could not keep your diametrically opposed position with regards to the Flat Earthers on a circular flat earth. The only thing that matters is how earth is flattened.
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"I confess my doubts. Thanks to the criticism of the comrades, I have been able to purify my language. I bow in humility to the opinion of my comrades and the Party and am thankful for the opportunity to correct my spelling. You enabled me to repudiate my deviational language. I acknowledge my debt to the selfless leader and the government of the people."
I'd suggest Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.
Well, if it would have been written in LISP, it would only have taken 4 lines.
Complaints about GOTO statement concidered harmful.
10 decimal delinquents
You can have two: Buck Rogers and Uncle Buck.
World Day Against Software Patents is your birthday? Why on earth did you choose to call it that?
(Anyway, congratulations and don't eat too much cake)
Its only 3 in the afternoon!!
Early bird catches the worm
Sumatra PDF looks really nice!
I just tried it out since I hate when Adobe PDF viewer says "would you like to update now or in a little while (your computer is ours anyway - hahaha). You will not even be given the option of 'not at all' - hahaha".
I know someone here is thinking "Well, yea! You gotta keep up with the patchin'". But Adobe would like to infect my machine with flash. I prefer my coffe black and my PDFs as non-executables.
Choice is great. But having a couple great, consistent, stable choices is better than having several hundred ones ranging from excellent to shitty. Variety for its own sake is pointless, from a practical standpoint at least.
Survival of the fittest is as practical and natural as it gets. There is no need for anyone to be involved in removing the "unworthy" distros from the market. The market will take care of this.
I'm sure you do not feel a need to destroy bad paintings even though there are millions out there? You just don't need to buy them. The person who creates a painting probably feels that some value is added to his/her life in the process. Also... there just might be someone crazy enough out there for whom a particularly "bad" painting is perfect. But you, you get to ignore it.
READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.
In 44 turns, you have achieved a score of, um, oh, call it 5 out of 1773 points.
This gives you the rank of Sandusky Stablehand.
What if MC Chocolate Cake is the name of my new Hip Hop alter ego?
I'd suggest McRIAA for extra media exposure.
Peter Paul Koch's excellent quirksmode.org
You make a valid point.
I was just trying to defend R2.0's good idea of actually comparing plastics to glass instead of just assuming glass is ok for everything.
Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!
No, but crystal glas can cause other diseases.
After centuries of enjoying beautiful lead crystal at table, it has recently come under the scrutiny of health authorities, who were testing paint and other products as possible sources of lead poisoning. Preliminary tests have shown that, over time, significant amounts of lead can migrate from lead crystal containers into liquids stored in them.
* One research team measured the amount of lead migration in Port wine that was stored in lead crystal decanters. After two days, lead levels were 89 micrograms; after four months, lead levels were between 2,000 and 5,000 micrograms.
* White wine doubled its lead content within an hour of storage, and tripled it within four hours.
* Brandy stored in lead crystal for five years had lead levels around 20,000 micrograms. * Any liquid can leach lead from crystal just as effectively as wine and other alcoholic beverages.
To put these numbers into perspective, the EPAâ(TM)s lead standard for drinking water is 50 micrograms per liter.
I can't think of anything - seriously. I'm not trying to troll, fill me in on where MySQL is better than Oracle.
MySQL beats Oracle on price.
I'm sure you are creative enough to come up with many examples where MySQL fails miserably compared to Oracle and I accept that. Just don't think Oracle is the one and only solution for every type of problem out there.
What does MySQL have that Oracle needs or would improve it? I can't think of anything - seriously. I'm not trying to troll, fill me in on where MySQL is better than Oracle.
Price?
Ok, let's truth rate (True or False answers only) the following sentence in this post:
"This sentence is false."
I'd have to give it 3 trues out of 5 possible.
Can you just imagine all the poor people who are heavily confused about the state of affairs in Soviet Russia after reading slashdot? How were they to know that these things were untrue!?
Wait a minute. This is just a special case of internationalization!
1. Check visitors IP
2. Look up geo-position
3. Serve up localized truth
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
I feel it has a lot more to do with trust in the company and their services than access to the actual source files. Access to the source files is just another way of saying "We know we are excellent, but just to make you more comfortable buying from us, here, have a look for yourself. Should we make a move that is not good for your business, you have the sources and won't be locked in. Should we be bought out by a competitor they can't just withdraw our software from the market since you'd still have the sources and some other company would be more than willing to help you with fixes."
Imagine if Microsoft open sourced all their products. You could then get this software for next to nothing to run your corporate infrastructure. But would you really want to get this software from an unknown guy down the street with all kinds of backdoors preinstalled for your convenience? No because you would be kicked out of your corner office in no time for endangering the business.
Ok. Perhaps you would buy it from a somewhat more repectable source, but for just 20% of Microsofts original price. You would get the same software as that other guy sold, but without the backdoors.
Now some of your competitors would still buy their software directly from Microsoft, paying just 50% of what Microsoft charges today. These competitors are betting their reputation on having the best, most efficient and most stable business infrastructure available. Your competitors trust Microsoft to allways support them and not to do anything against their interests. If these customers need help, Microsoft responds to these needs just like any market oriented business would. In comparison a communist organisation would make up a plan for the future, releasing software according to a fixed schedule, regardless of market needs or the quality of what was released. If Microsoft would not take care of these needs quickly, a number of small and faster software houses would pop up instantly to take care of this need (and a large amount of money).
Microsoft could start selling support packages giving access to their patches instantly, seriously increasing the rate of fixes and patches since they actually make a lot of money from this. They could then let these patches trickle down to less fortunate players after some time, creating excellent good will, still keeping Microsoft in pole position with more trusted and secure software services.
It is my opinion that software copyrights should only be valid for a single digit number of years. Comments are welcome.
And they value the companies more because a fancy dinner party and sponsorship for the party convention is worth much more..
Don't forget the strippers.
I don't think your analysis is correct. When people attack creationism, it's because it's pseudoscience which is actively being sold as science, and they are attempting to force it into science class. This is dangerous indeed, and gets people very upset. This is the background for the attacks. The anger that religious fundamentalists are trying to destroy science and force their religion on everyone else.
I understand those feelings and perhaps I would have reacted differently had it been in my country. However...
I know that creationism is flawed and needs all kinds of crutches to make its way, but I also know that the proponents of creationism are not a homogenous group. Calling them names will never win anyone over, but I believe logical respectfull arguing will.
No, because accepting science makes logical and rational sense. On a purely empirical basis, it makes sense to accept science because so far, it has worked brilliantly.
Agreed.
I'm not sure if you are joking, but if not let me state that there is nothing wrong with defending something strongly, as long as you do it for the right reason.
My critique was that many people on this site choose to attack creationism, not because it is wrong, but because the great majority seems to be taunting the creationists and you would not want to be on the wrong side of that would you!
In my opinion, religion is simply belief without logical questioning. The people who support science like a religion, might just as easily be religius if the majority of people here where.
I'd like to point out that just because there are two sides, doesn't mean there are two sets of extremists.
Quite true. Still, perhaps you can agree with me that some people on this site support science almost like a religion.
And before anyone supporting sience like a religion starts calling me a creationist, let me state:
I'm on "your side", but you need some impulse control.
As an example, Flat Earthers. Am I an extremist for believing in a spherical earth? Obviously my views are diametrically opposed to theirs.
I love your geometrical humor and I feel urged to tell this antipodal joke:
It doesn't matter if the earth is flat or round and there is no reason why you could not keep your diametrically opposed position with regards to the Flat Earthers on a circular flat earth. The only thing that matters is how earth is flattened.