You've nailed it. They shouldn't be called the Baby Boomers - they should be called "Bunch of Selfish Bastards".
I'm a parent now myself. When I was a kid, grandma and grandpa did a lot of babysitting. Now I have kids, all the "too cool to be grandparents" won't put in the same hours that their parents did because it infringes on their "leisure time". You only win if you are married to someone who doesn't have western parents, because non-western parents bend over backward to babysit Gen-X's parents. Boomers are too busy standing in line for Rolling Stones tickets to care.
It must be great to be a boomer, having your parent's generation and your children's generation thinking that you are a bunch of selfish turds.
Frogbert has it right. Sit tight. The Australian property market is like Doctoms before the bust. You also don't need interest rate movement to pop the bubble - rising petrol prices mean that many of the people in marginal financial situations in these capital city periphery housing developments are already up the creek. There are going to be a lot of McMansions for sale soon as people realize that regardless of interest rate movement, increasing fuel costs are going to bust their budget.
Well you could say that the experiement was a success - they learned that you probably shouldn't do it that way. The experiment continued until almost everyone could see that this is not the way to do it. If the shuttle program had been cancelled after Challenger, you'd still be getting spaceplane proposals.
Excellent! Now we can spend a whole episode watching Luke go to Toshi station to pick up the power converters.
Another episode watching Luke lust after Camie.
We will finally know how Windy got his name!
(It is interesting that this footage was present on one of the Star Wars CD-ROMS (Behind The Magic) but not included on the DVD)
Of course every year we also get a very special Christmas Episode on Luke! 90210.
Every time Star Wars is mentioned on Slashdot, someone brings up "make the Zahn books into a movie". The Zahn books would make a terrible trilogy. The second and third books weren't that great. The space battles are not that epic. The final lightsaber duel between clone Luke and Mara?
That isn't any way to end a trilogy. The books are good - and after the long drought with no Star Wars, they seemed a lot better than they actually are. They certainly aren't worthy of a trilogy of movies.
This has been driving me nuts for years. In Empire, the falcon's hyperdrive is broken and doesn't work as Han, Leia, Chewie and C3PO attempt to escape Hoth.
The hyperdrive is only repaired on Bespin. Bespin is a whole other star system to Hoth.
How the heck do they get from Hoth to Bespin when they don't have a hyperdrive?
Absolutely - I'm a contract lecturer at an Australian university and this decision makes it more likely that I will get a permanant position!
A significant percentage of my department's income is from overseas students. The US is one of the largest competitors in the market of Chinese/Singapore/India/Malaysian students. As the US gradually withdraws from the higher education market, it can only benefit those institutions that are in direct competition.
Thank you USA!
A great advantage of having lots of little bases everywhere is that it means that there is less of a civilian/military divide and that the military is a part of the community.
Put all the bases in the southern states and this divide will grow significantly greater as people in northern states see military personel as "different". They may already - but at least having members of the military visible in the community makes people see them as part of their community. Take the bases away and they won't.
If people don't view military personel as a part of their community, they won't care so much when they are deployed - and might be willing to vote for deployments that they would otherwise vote against.
Any MSI package can be deployed either to users or computers via Active Directory.
There would be a bit of mucking about involved in creating new MSI packages for each update to software - but this is easier than manually patching a significant number of machines.
I'm surprised that very few open source projects aiming to dominate the Windows desktop release their binaries in.msi format as this would simplify their distribution in AD environments.
Tell me - how does one recognize objectivity on the Internet? It isn't as though there is a formula that you can apply to a text and reach the conclusion "this is objective".
A text may "appear" balanced because it includes select arguments from both sides of an issue - but that doesn't mean that the text is balanced. It is relatively simple to write an argument that appears balanced but is actually quite unbalanced.
An excelleng writer can produce an argument for almost anything that appears objective even to the experienced reader. *Most* slashdotters, having avoided the humanities like the plague during their education, aren't trained enough to perform a proper objective analysis of a text.
I'm betting that you really couldn't tell an objective article praising longhorn from a well written one that wasn't objective.
I dunno - a lot of posters seem to think that you can make money from MS by supporting Windows on Slashdot. That would pay for your iPod pretty quickly.
Waitasec - you are saying that MS pays people to write posts and moderate on Slashdot? What a cool job! Getting paid to fart about on Slashdot - it sounds like the ultimate job! As you seem to be the expert on this and have inside knowledge - Can you tell me where to sign up?
Every time Star Wars is mentioned on Slashdot, someone brings up "make the Zahn books into a movie".
The Zahn books would make a terrible trilogy. The second and third books weren't that great. The space battles are not that epic. The final lightsaber duel between clone Luke and Mara? That isn't any way to end a trilogy. The books are good - and after the long drought with no Star Wars, they seemed a lot better than they actually are. They certainly aren't worthy of a trilogy of movies.
I've worked as a contract lecturer at an Australian University. Not only did I record my lectures, I made them available on the subject website with my lecture notes (including the world's worst powerpoint slides). My department also keeps an audio library where any student can drop by the office and, in exchange for their student card, borrow the cassette for any of the last semester's lectures.
I tried two versions of Yellowdog Linux, and found that there were issues with X on a DV iMac. For a Mac specific version of Linux, I think that's just odd. Googling found that many other DV iMac owners have experienced the same problem - but there doesn't seem to be any silver bullet solution.
Ubuntu works on a DV iMac straight off the install. Yellowdog might be chasing the Mac-Mini crowd, but someone has done the legwork to ensure that Ubuntu works on the RAGE 128 that ships with the older iMacs.
I agree that 192 MB of RAM isn't enough for run the latter versions of OSX (though it was tolerable enough for 10.0-10.2 for me). Given the choice of paying for more RAM or running Ubuntu without having to change anything, I opted for Ubuntu.
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There's a reason why I can still use a 6 year old mac with the current OS.
I got to 10.3 on a DV iMac (350Mhz, 192 MB ram) which I purchased when 10.0 came out. The experience wasn't all that great, so I shifted to Ubuntu. Linux runs great on an older iMac - the newer versions of OSX do not.
Posting this on Slashdot is just feeding the ADTI troll. Effective advocacy isn't about dealing with every troll lobbed your way.
If these guys really had a legal time bomb they'd use it as a basis litigate. It isn't as though people today ever really show restraint when they think they have a cause (however dodgy) that will stand up in court.
Few experiments are directly replicated unless the original experiment found something really unusual. The reason for this is that it is difficult enough to get funding for novel research, trying to get funding to replicate what someone else has already done is even more difficult. Sure, there are some experiments that you can throw a grad student at - but for the most part, faculties and sponsors want you to find out something new with their dollars. A lot of scientists as well aren't willing to spend years/months following exactly in someone else's footsteps.
If they wrote it, shouldn't they have the right to decide whether it is open or not?
Open Source is about choice. If you are writing a program from scratch, you can choose to license it using a compatible license. It is your choice. There are a large number of benefits to open sourcing your code, but it is ultimately your choice, as the developer, as to whether your original code is open or closed.
If your work is based on open source, this is a different kettle of fish. You have a responsibility to preserve the state of the work that yours is based on.
And it does.
They have to allow people that they don't want to allow to look at some of their code. What the license is about is making sure that those people that look at their code don't go off and make a replica operating system without in some way compensating Microsoft.
Now the fees are high - but it does seem reasonable that if someone builds a competing product based on the fact that they've actually seen the guts of Microsoft's product (rather than building it independently and separately) that Microsoft is in some way compensated for this. The niggling detail is how much compensation is appropriate?
Yes, but the restriction against "doing open source stuff" is very specific. You are only restricted IF you look at the secret stuff. If you reverse engineer - no restrictions apply.
Why should you be able to look at Microsoft's secrets and then build a competing product that does exactly the same thing for free?
Reverse engineering is quite different (no look at the crown jewels) and doesn't apply to this license.
Is it reasonable to force Microsoft to produce a license that is royalty free - or are people concerned about the cost here.
By looking at the article it seems as though Microsoft wants to charge people royalties who create a competing product when those people have looked at Microsoft's secret API. This seems reasonable - why should someone be able to sell a competing product that does the same thing as a domain controller of global catalog server after they've been able to look at Microsoft's secret APIs?
The reverse engineering clause seems to cover SAMBA and so on - they don't have to pay a license fee because they haven't seen all the secret stuff.
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Had I mod points, I'd mod you up. This is one of the few reasoned and rational responses in this thread.
You've nailed it. They shouldn't be called the Baby Boomers - they should be called "Bunch of Selfish Bastards". I'm a parent now myself. When I was a kid, grandma and grandpa did a lot of babysitting. Now I have kids, all the "too cool to be grandparents" won't put in the same hours that their parents did because it infringes on their "leisure time". You only win if you are married to someone who doesn't have western parents, because non-western parents bend over backward to babysit Gen-X's parents. Boomers are too busy standing in line for Rolling Stones tickets to care. It must be great to be a boomer, having your parent's generation and your children's generation thinking that you are a bunch of selfish turds.
Frogbert has it right. Sit tight. The Australian property market is like Doctoms before the bust. You also don't need interest rate movement to pop the bubble - rising petrol prices mean that many of the people in marginal financial situations in these capital city periphery housing developments are already up the creek. There are going to be a lot of McMansions for sale soon as people realize that regardless of interest rate movement, increasing fuel costs are going to bust their budget.
Well you could say that the experiement was a success - they learned that you probably shouldn't do it that way. The experiment continued until almost everyone could see that this is not the way to do it. If the shuttle program had been cancelled after Challenger, you'd still be getting spaceplane proposals.
Excellent! Now we can spend a whole episode watching Luke go to Toshi station to pick up the power converters. Another episode watching Luke lust after Camie. We will finally know how Windy got his name! (It is interesting that this footage was present on one of the Star Wars CD-ROMS (Behind The Magic) but not included on the DVD) Of course every year we also get a very special Christmas Episode on Luke! 90210.
That isn't any way to end a trilogy. The books are good - and after the long drought with no Star Wars, they seemed a lot better than they actually are. They certainly aren't worthy of a trilogy of movies.
How the heck do they get from Hoth to Bespin when they don't have a hyperdrive?
Absolutely - I'm a contract lecturer at an Australian university and this decision makes it more likely that I will get a permanant position! A significant percentage of my department's income is from overseas students. The US is one of the largest competitors in the market of Chinese/Singapore/India/Malaysian students. As the US gradually withdraws from the higher education market, it can only benefit those institutions that are in direct competition. Thank you USA!
A great advantage of having lots of little bases everywhere is that it means that there is less of a civilian/military divide and that the military is a part of the community. Put all the bases in the southern states and this divide will grow significantly greater as people in northern states see military personel as "different". They may already - but at least having members of the military visible in the community makes people see them as part of their community. Take the bases away and they won't. If people don't view military personel as a part of their community, they won't care so much when they are deployed - and might be willing to vote for deployments that they would otherwise vote against.
Any MSI package can be deployed either to users or computers via Active Directory. There would be a bit of mucking about involved in creating new MSI packages for each update to software - but this is easier than manually patching a significant number of machines. I'm surprised that very few open source projects aiming to dominate the Windows desktop release their binaries in .msi format as this would simplify their distribution in AD environments.
Tell me - how does one recognize objectivity on the Internet? It isn't as though there is a formula that you can apply to a text and reach the conclusion "this is objective". A text may "appear" balanced because it includes select arguments from both sides of an issue - but that doesn't mean that the text is balanced. It is relatively simple to write an argument that appears balanced but is actually quite unbalanced. An excelleng writer can produce an argument for almost anything that appears objective even to the experienced reader. *Most* slashdotters, having avoided the humanities like the plague during their education, aren't trained enough to perform a proper objective analysis of a text. I'm betting that you really couldn't tell an objective article praising longhorn from a well written one that wasn't objective.
I dunno - a lot of posters seem to think that you can make money from MS by supporting Windows on Slashdot. That would pay for your iPod pretty quickly.
Waitasec - you are saying that MS pays people to write posts and moderate on Slashdot? What a cool job! Getting paid to fart about on Slashdot - it sounds like the ultimate job! As you seem to be the expert on this and have inside knowledge - Can you tell me where to sign up?
Every time Star Wars is mentioned on Slashdot, someone brings up "make the Zahn books into a movie". The Zahn books would make a terrible trilogy. The second and third books weren't that great. The space battles are not that epic. The final lightsaber duel between clone Luke and Mara? That isn't any way to end a trilogy. The books are good - and after the long drought with no Star Wars, they seemed a lot better than they actually are. They certainly aren't worthy of a trilogy of movies.
I've worked as a contract lecturer at an Australian University. Not only did I record my lectures, I made them available on the subject website with my lecture notes (including the world's worst powerpoint slides). My department also keeps an audio library where any student can drop by the office and, in exchange for their student card, borrow the cassette for any of the last semester's lectures.
I tried two versions of Yellowdog Linux, and found that there were issues with X on a DV iMac. For a Mac specific version of Linux, I think that's just odd. Googling found that many other DV iMac owners have experienced the same problem - but there doesn't seem to be any silver bullet solution. Ubuntu works on a DV iMac straight off the install. Yellowdog might be chasing the Mac-Mini crowd, but someone has done the legwork to ensure that Ubuntu works on the RAGE 128 that ships with the older iMacs.
I agree that 192 MB of RAM isn't enough for run the latter versions of OSX (though it was tolerable enough for 10.0-10.2 for me). Given the choice of paying for more RAM or running Ubuntu without having to change anything, I opted for Ubuntu.
There's a reason why I can still use a 6 year old mac with the current OS. I got to 10.3 on a DV iMac (350Mhz, 192 MB ram) which I purchased when 10.0 came out. The experience wasn't all that great, so I shifted to Ubuntu. Linux runs great on an older iMac - the newer versions of OSX do not.
Perhaps the original poster meant the new improved "Reseen" Warhammer - which looks a lot nicer than the original one.
Posting this on Slashdot is just feeding the ADTI troll. Effective advocacy isn't about dealing with every troll lobbed your way. If these guys really had a legal time bomb they'd use it as a basis litigate. It isn't as though people today ever really show restraint when they think they have a cause (however dodgy) that will stand up in court.
Few experiments are directly replicated unless the original experiment found something really unusual. The reason for this is that it is difficult enough to get funding for novel research, trying to get funding to replicate what someone else has already done is even more difficult. Sure, there are some experiments that you can throw a grad student at - but for the most part, faculties and sponsors want you to find out something new with their dollars. A lot of scientists as well aren't willing to spend years/months following exactly in someone else's footsteps.
Open Source is about choice. If you are writing a program from scratch, you can choose to license it using a compatible license. It is your choice. There are a large number of benefits to open sourcing your code, but it is ultimately your choice, as the developer, as to whether your original code is open or closed.
If your work is based on open source, this is a different kettle of fish. You have a responsibility to preserve the state of the work that yours is based on.
And it does. They have to allow people that they don't want to allow to look at some of their code. What the license is about is making sure that those people that look at their code don't go off and make a replica operating system without in some way compensating Microsoft. Now the fees are high - but it does seem reasonable that if someone builds a competing product based on the fact that they've actually seen the guts of Microsoft's product (rather than building it independently and separately) that Microsoft is in some way compensated for this. The niggling detail is how much compensation is appropriate?
Yes, but the restriction against "doing open source stuff" is very specific. You are only restricted IF you look at the secret stuff. If you reverse engineer - no restrictions apply. Why should you be able to look at Microsoft's secrets and then build a competing product that does exactly the same thing for free? Reverse engineering is quite different (no look at the crown jewels) and doesn't apply to this license.
Is it reasonable to force Microsoft to produce a license that is royalty free - or are people concerned about the cost here.
By looking at the article it seems as though Microsoft wants to charge people royalties who create a competing product when those people have looked at Microsoft's secret API. This seems reasonable - why should someone be able to sell a competing product that does the same thing as a domain controller of global catalog server after they've been able to look at Microsoft's secret APIs?
The reverse engineering clause seems to cover SAMBA and so on - they don't have to pay a license fee because they haven't seen all the secret stuff.