Not necessarily the case. One of our applications depend on the istring class provided with IBM's compiler... Except that they're no longer supporting it and we don't have the resources or manpower to fix it immediately. You can end up using features proprietary to a certain flavor of UNIX if you're not careful.
"Here is a good graph showing national debt as % of gdp. We are not any worse off then we were in the '90s or the '60s."
Funny... What I see there is a period of stability between 1965 and 1980, with a substantial ramping up of the debt throughout the 80's (Reagan, anyone?) which doesn't start turning around until the late 90's (took quite a bit of work to slow that train down, I imagine...). We see a couple years of decline, and then starting in 2000, the growth starts up again at its 1980-1990 rate, except this time from the 60% mark instead of the 40% mark in 1980.
Now. We saw the percentage jump 20 points from 40% over two decades starting in 1980, got it fought to a standstill, and now it's headed back up again from 60%. I'd say we're a hell of a lot worse off than in the 60's.
1) Ad hominem. Thank you for playing, we have some wonderful consolation prizes for you.
2) Ad hominem directed at me quoting poster I was responding to. I won't stoop to the level of describing in any great detail the level of brilliance displayed.
"That money then goes to U.S. workers who spend it, supporting everyone from salespeople to restaurant workers to truck drivers.
Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. If all the money we are supposedly spending on the poor actually ended up in the hands of the poor, we could put each and every poor family in America into ritsy hotel rooms, complete with room service for their meals. The overwhelming majority of the money collected by our government in the name of assisting the lower class is pissed away in ways that do almost nothing to impove the lives of those who actually need help."
Worse, as stated in the article... Money to purchase goods and services is going to companies that are increasingly outsourcing labor overseas. So a portion of it isn't going to U.S. workers at all, and that portion is steadily growing...
calÂdeÂra n. - A large crater formed by volcanic explosion or by collapse of a volcanic cone.
(Adapted from dictionary.com)
This story has been going on for a couple of months now... Has anyone yet remarked on how apt and prescient that name was? SCO is certainly headed for a cratering after collapsing...
Which brings up a question... How is a tinfoil hat supposed to protect your brain when signals run up and down your spinal cord all the time? Wouldn't it act as an antenna and transmit mind-control signals right under your shiny protective equipment?
Solution 1: Tinfoil Bodysuit. It'd have to have complete coverage with no gaps, though. No peeking or breathing!
Solution 2: Keep the tinfoil hat, sever the spinal cord...
"If the US Government wants to put in place the most pro-innovation, pro-investment, deregulatory, and democratic spectrum policy regime, it should do everything possible to promote open spectrum."
That's a really big if. Too big for me to swallow, really. Republicans aren't for true deregulation of anything. They're for removal of regulation that prevents the rich from getting richer and could care less about the rest of it. Monopolistic ownership of portions of the spectrum works just fine for that.
Ow. I don't like the implications of that one bit. Is that seriously how Palladium is supposed to work? Wouldn't Visual Studio.NET/Palladium have to have the private key to encrypt the critical portion of programs? I guess that answers how one would digitally sign a binary, but...
Ya know, I was going to email this off to my mom (a quilter by hobby) as one more demonstration of the evils of the DMCA. So, you tell me. Shall I risk insulting my own mother by letting her read this comment, or let her stay blissfully ignorant about this story? Hmmm?
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Wow. Thought that Mr. Bungle wasn't fit for radio broadcast... They actually have songs that the FCC wouldn't have a cow about?
I'm disappointed though... I want to know what other books people who ordered this book were interested in... *chuckle*
Yeah, but how many of us would recognize Darl McBride if we ran across an un-captioned picture of him...?
Not necessarily the case. One of our applications depend on the istring class provided with IBM's compiler... Except that they're no longer supporting it and we don't have the resources or manpower to fix it immediately. You can end up using features proprietary to a certain flavor of UNIX if you're not careful.
So all you have to do is have your virus forewarn the fuse script in the same manner to nullify it's utility, yes?
Tech: Have you tried rebooting the computer?
Skipped a few digits, though, din't they?
My question is, there was 707 and 727... Was there a 717?
Yeah, but you read that as KPH, didn't you? *grin* Hard not do drive "faster" when your unit of measurement is shorter by half...
Evidently simple quotation marks aren't good enough. I shall write that down in my book of Life's Lessons.
"Here is a good graph showing national debt as % of gdp. We are not any worse off then we were in the '90s or the '60s."
Funny... What I see there is a period of stability between 1965 and 1980, with a substantial ramping up of the debt throughout the 80's (Reagan, anyone?) which doesn't start turning around until the late 90's (took quite a bit of work to slow that train down, I imagine...). We see a couple years of decline, and then starting in 2000, the growth starts up again at its 1980-1990 rate, except this time from the 60% mark instead of the 40% mark in 1980.
Now. We saw the percentage jump 20 points from 40% over two decades starting in 1980, got it fought to a standstill, and now it's headed back up again from 60%. I'd say we're a hell of a lot worse off than in the 60's.
"You are a vulgar little man, aren't you?"
1) Ad hominem. Thank you for playing, we have some wonderful consolation prizes for you.
2) Ad hominem directed at me quoting poster I was responding to. I won't stoop to the level of describing in any great detail the level of brilliance displayed.
"That money then goes to U.S. workers who spend it, supporting everyone from salespeople to restaurant workers to truck drivers.
Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. If all the money we are supposedly spending on the poor actually ended up in the hands of the poor, we could put each and every poor family in America into ritsy hotel rooms, complete with room service for their meals. The overwhelming majority of the money collected by our government in the name of assisting the lower class is pissed away in ways that do almost nothing to impove the lives of those who actually need help."
Worse, as stated in the article... Money to purchase goods and services is going to companies that are increasingly outsourcing labor overseas. So a portion of it isn't going to U.S. workers at all, and that portion is steadily growing...
"Yeah. Call it evolution in action (kudos to Niven)"
Add Pournelle and Barnes. Oath of Fealty was co-authored by all three.
calÂdeÂra n. - A large crater formed by volcanic explosion or by collapse of a volcanic cone.
(Adapted from dictionary.com)
This story has been going on for a couple of months now... Has anyone yet remarked on how apt and prescient that name was? SCO is certainly headed for a cratering after collapsing...
This citizen of the U.S. would grant a further +1 insightful if he had mods at the moment.
"One important thing to remember is that this is Saudi it isn't Islamic or Arab."
More specifically, look into Wahabi extremism in connection with the Saudi government...
*chuckle* Yeah... Flashed on the following situation the other day:
Eric S. Raymond and Bill Gates get in a brawl... Richard Stallman walks up and says "Good, bad, I'm the one with the GNU."
*shakes head* I need help.
Which brings up a question... How is a tinfoil hat supposed to protect your brain when signals run up and down your spinal cord all the time? Wouldn't it act as an antenna and transmit mind-control signals right under your shiny protective equipment?
Solution 1: Tinfoil Bodysuit. It'd have to have complete coverage with no gaps, though. No peeking or breathing!
Solution 2: Keep the tinfoil hat, sever the spinal cord...
Call me cynical, but I thought that the money goal was just an indirect method of meeting the sex goal...
"If the US Government wants to put in place the most pro-innovation, pro-investment, deregulatory, and democratic spectrum policy regime, it should do everything possible to promote open spectrum."
That's a really big if. Too big for me to swallow, really. Republicans aren't for true deregulation of anything. They're for removal of regulation that prevents the rich from getting richer and could care less about the rest of it. Monopolistic ownership of portions of the spectrum works just fine for that.
Well, he's "a man who's not afraid to act on [his] convictions". Problem is, his convictions are dead freaking wrong...
It's like trying to argue a bear out of shitting in the woods.
Ow. I don't like the implications of that one bit. Is that seriously how Palladium is supposed to work? Wouldn't Visual Studio .NET/Palladium have to have the private key to encrypt the critical portion of programs? I guess that answers how one would digitally sign a binary, but...
Damn, dude. Preview. You dropped a "p" somewhere in there, and really threw off the whole comment...
Argh. Way to stitch together such a horrible patchwork of puns.
Ya know, I was going to email this off to my mom (a quilter by hobby) as one more demonstration of the evils of the DMCA. So, you tell me. Shall I risk insulting my own mother by letting her read this comment, or let her stay blissfully ignorant about this story? Hmmm?