Their creed was "embrace - extend - extinguish". It worked like a charm with open source technologies and technologies developed by small companies. They noticed something caught on, they hopped on the train, claimed it, blew a shitload of money into it, "added" to it so it was no longer compatible with the original stuff, turned their broken design into the de-facto standard by virtue of their market position and finally everyone was "inferior" because they were "incompatible".
And that doesn't work with companies like Apple and Google who themselves play that game, and they really excel at it
Google yes, but Apple? Apple doesn't embrace and extend, it says "we have decided this is what you can have, buy it or get fucked".
I'm proud of my daughter who has the gumption to leave the US with no intention of returning. I'm proud of my sister and her kids who walked into the consulate in Alberta Canada and renounced their American Citizenship.
Kudos to your family members. Your daughter and your sister have more balls between them than all the "I'm considering leaving" armchair warriors.
After instinct subsided my second reaction was "there's no way I would voluntarily remain in a country that treated its own citizens like that". Which, when you think about it, is just the first reaction put a different way.
There are lots of places better. But, speaking on behalf of the rest of the world, we actually like you being this ignorant. Because then you don't leave the USA because you think there are no places better.
Betcha won't though. Posting "I'm considering leaving" on Slashdot is the internet equivalent of a passive-aggressive note on an office fridge. You won't do anything and we all know it.
I read the story and my first reaction was "boo fucking hoo. You were inconvenienced while travelling by air with two computers in your backpack. You are, by any rational standards, one of the richest people on the face of the Earth. Either leave the USA or shut the f*ck up and stop complaining."
With 10,000 Baby Boomers hitting retirement and putting their hands out for social security while simultaneously ceasing to pay income tax the IT job market should be the least of the US's worries.
Actually, often part of a person's court sentence is to attend AA. Yes, I guess they instead accept jail time, but that seems like a false comparison. And yes, it is often mandated that it be AA, not alcohol treatment in general. People have actually tried to attend other, non-AA, non-religious treatments and been told no, you must attend AA.
And that's illegal.
In April 1999 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a court cannot require someone to attend Alcoholics Anonymous because doing so would violate that person's constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Is there a Kickstarter or something where we might donate money to help accelerate the process? Hell, I'll take a bucket and a spade and throw sand myself if it will help.
But using manipulative emotionally-loaded words in public to garner support among a core peer group while marginalising the recipient is how females fight.
Note that she didn't email Linux directly to express her point; she emailed the entire list. This was an exercise in "relational aggression"
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And that it doesn't work anymore.
Their creed was "embrace - extend - extinguish". It worked like a charm with open source technologies and technologies developed by small companies. They noticed something caught on, they hopped on the train, claimed it, blew a shitload of money into it, "added" to it so it was no longer compatible with the original stuff, turned their broken design into the de-facto standard by virtue of their market position and finally everyone was "inferior" because they were "incompatible".
And that doesn't work with companies like Apple and Google who themselves play that game, and they really excel at it
Google yes, but Apple? Apple doesn't embrace and extend, it says "we have decided this is what you can have, buy it or get fucked".
Interesting point of view taking into account all the planned obsolescence in apple products.
Planned obsolescence? Apple products last for ever. I still get productive work done on a Powermac built in 2001.
I'm proud of my daughter who has the gumption to leave the US with no intention of returning. I'm proud of my sister and her kids who walked into the consulate in Alberta Canada and renounced their American Citizenship.
Kudos to your family members. Your daughter and your sister have more balls between them than all the "I'm considering leaving" armchair warriors.
After instinct subsided my second reaction was "there's no way I would voluntarily remain in a country that treated its own citizens like that". Which, when you think about it, is just the first reaction put a different way.
OK then, talk to all your "crazy brothers who believe in invisible superheroes who live in the sky". The label doesn't matter, religious = crazy.
So we have a sob story from a Muzzie who is upset about being delayed.
You misspelled "nigger".
the New Testament says to be peaceful
bahahahahahahahah ahahahah ahaha ahahahahaha hahaa
wait...you actually believe that?
jesus, christians are crazier than I thought.
Can't we just agree that all people who believe in invisible sky fairies are fucking insane and could do anything at any time?
There are lots of places better. But, speaking on behalf of the rest of the world, we actually like you being this ignorant. Because then you don't leave the USA because you think there are no places better.
Please, stay where you are. We like it that way.
I'm considering leaving the country.
Betcha won't though. Posting "I'm considering leaving" on Slashdot is the internet equivalent of a passive-aggressive note on an office fridge. You won't do anything and we all know it.
I read the story and my first reaction was "boo fucking hoo. You were inconvenienced while travelling by air with two computers in your backpack. You are, by any rational standards, one of the richest people on the face of the Earth. Either leave the USA or shut the f*ck up and stop complaining."
With 10,000 Baby Boomers hitting retirement and putting their hands out for social security while simultaneously ceasing to pay income tax the IT job market should be the least of the US's worries.
My first thought too.
He's had three years of solitary confinement in the custody of forces determined to break him.
If he can remember his own name after that I'd be impressed.
The man detained is also Greenwald's PROFESSIONAL partner. He was on a work trip, doing journalism for the Guardian, paid for by the Guardian.
Pffft, your brain doesn't run on oxygen and glucose. It runs on JESUS.
And that's illegal.
In April 1999 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a court cannot require someone to attend Alcoholics Anonymous because doing so would violate that person's constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Under Davies and Moffat Doctor Who has been dominated by the Welsh and the Scots. Two nations filled with an overwhelming love for England.
Karen Gillan was in the same episode, later picked to play Smith's companion.
Eve Myles starred in DW S01E03 before playing a role in Torchwood.
Freema Agyeman was in S02E12-13 before playing Tennant's companion.
He was the best thing on Children of Earth. What a performance!
THIS.
The Slashdot editors were slipping behind in their "posts mentioning Apple" quotas.
IT is really important and users need IT services even though they don't think they do, says IT services company
Than any other instrument to date?
Newsflash atheist, there's this instrument called THE BIBLE. It looks back as far as it's possible to look. 6000 years, right to the beginning.
Yeah, "product scheduled for release this autumn", wtf does that mean?
Still, the USA uses Imperial measurements so it's not exactly hip to, you know, measurements that people can actually understand.
Is there a Kickstarter or something where we might donate money to help accelerate the process? Hell, I'll take a bucket and a spade and throw sand myself if it will help.
But using manipulative emotionally-loaded words in public to garner support among a core peer group while marginalising the recipient is how females fight.
Note that she didn't email Linux directly to express her point; she emailed the entire list. This was an exercise in "relational aggression"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_aggression
Guys aren't wired to have these conflicts. The only way to win this contest is to not play, which is what Linus appears to be doing.