...the dumb things that construction workers do, how about the whole whistling at girls thing? Okay, sure, the guys have tough jobs, I don't envy them. If this helps make their job a little more tolerable, fine, I have no problem with that. But there are three basic rules you'd think they'd follow.
Rule 1: don't whistle when a girl is with her boyfriend. This is probably the least important of the rules, because he's not very likely to be offended. But he might, and it's just not a good risk.
Rule 2: Don't whistle when a girl is with her mother. I mean really, mothers are prudish, easily offended, overly protective of their daughters and often have the know-how to launch harrassment lawsuits.
Rule 3: Don't whistle if she's still in Middle School. That's just sick.
(All three of the above have happened to my girlfriend)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The article is trash of the lowest order. Communist countries did away with the fiction of private property? Bull! That was one of Russia's downfalls. They COULDN'T convince people, despite generations of state controlled propaganda, that communal ownership really existed. They never did away with currency, as they had originally planned to after 10 years, and they never got people to stop believing that they owned property.
Michael really ought to take a philosophy course, or even a political science course, and listen to what people who spend more than 30 seconds thinking about their belief system can come up with.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As other posters have already commented, commercial uses of GPLed software are fully supported. However, Trolltech has Qt under a dual license. You may use the GPL if you don't mind all the restrictions it puts you under, or you may pay them a licensing fee if you want to develop non-free software using Qt.
This way, Trolltech keeps making money off of it, but KDE can be used happily by all.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Someone doesn't read the papers very much, do they? Either that or they subscribe to the Chinese state run papers.
Point of fact 0: You should already know this, and I dearly hope it was just a typo, but the plane was not shot down, collided with a Chinese fighter jet.
Point of fact 1: The collision occured in international airspace.
Point of fact 2: The US had expressed concern numerous times in the past few months about how close the Chinese were flying to our planes (ever see Top Gun? Pilots pull this kind of shit all the time)
Point of fact 3: The propeller-driven E3 is far less manuverable than the Chinese jet fighters, and could not possibly have hit them even if it had tried were they to keep a safe distance.
Point of fact 4: Flying spy planes off the coast of other nations is a well established practice that occured throughout the Cold War, and the Russians did it all the time to America and most of Europe, including, I believe, you Brits, without anyone crashing into anyone, and without the taking of hostages.
Finally, in conclusion, you better hope to whatever power you believe in that America gets those pilots back SOON, because any war between China and America will almost certainly go nuclear. America does not have the ground forces to conquer China (not only would it be a land war in Asia, but it would be a land war against a country with some 6-7x the population of America), and China does not have the air or naval power to reach America with anything other than cruise missiles. Maybe nuclear winter will make the arrogant British less likely to make stupid statements about things they know nothing of.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The breakdown is 22 navy, 1 air force and 1 marine. So what the Hell would you call them? If you say 24 sailors, you're DEFINATELY wrong, because a man from the air force is not a sailor.
Soldier, however, in addition to its precise definition of being a noncom in the army, can also be used as a blanket term for all those in the armed forces. Just like how "man" can be used for all people (a la "mankind"), but its more precise definition just refers to adult males. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, this is a little offtopic, but I thought it was pretty funny:
As many of you may remember, back in the old days commercial jetliners had three crewmembers. Pilot, copilot and radio, iirc. But, due to increasing automation and computer control, they were able to reduce it to two people. Now, things are becoming so automatic that Boeing is planning on reducing the crew requirement on their generation of planes to just a pilot and a dog.
Why a dog?
To bite the pilot's hand if he tries to touch anything.
Whoo, I crack myself up.
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His point was that keeping a mid-tower next to the TV can be a little inconvenient. A nice little console that's completely hackable and totally compatible with his desktop would have been nice.
As an aside, what's with all these windows lovers complaining about biases on/.? Yeah, we're fucking biased as hell, and always have been, so why go here when there are plenty of other sites that don't have our editorial slant?
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People echoed these same sentiments every time an Indrema article was posted. We all wanted it to happen, it would have been awfully nice to have a fully hackable gaming device, but there just was no way that it could compete in the market, and the investors have figured that out.
*sigh* Back to Dreamcast for me.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The two above replies totally misunderstood the parent. He was quoting one of the "bad guys" in Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged is full of bits where the government passes laws so restrictive as to be parodies (but frighteningly realistic parodies) of laws passed in socialist countries. So what Mr. Monkey was saying was the guy learned his advocacy from the type of people Atlas Shrugged was arguing against.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
See ESR's Take My Job, Please essay, and the follow up, Understand My Job, Please. If you don't become a "personality," you will be ignored. The media has to percieve you as important.
How many copies would "Just For Fun: The Story of the Guy Who Wrote the Original Code, and Still has a Heavy Hand in, Linux" sell? How interested would the media be in reviewing the book, and how much would it do to promote Linux? A little exaggeration is not necessarily bad.
Also, I agree with what the guy above says about him being a revolutionary, not "leader of the revolution." You could argue (I don't want to argue about this, so choose your own names if you disagree) that Thomas Paine was less important to the American Revolution than George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. However, he was still a revolutionary.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Dr. Richard ("Rick") F. Rashid previously served as the director of Microsoft Research, where he focused on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors.
So, I would say the answer is probably "yes."
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but didn't make a big enough issue out of it, so I'll reiterate: you don't download betas. You get them shipped to you. Therefore, location really does matter. It would be ludicrous for them to spend $20,000 plus customs charges shipping 1000 betas to Europe when it would cost them less than $3,500 to ship those all to domestic locations (costs $3.50 to ship from one coast to the other, most will cost less).
If they couldn't get enough beta testers in the US, maybe you'd have a point, but since they always get too many applications anyway, it'd be silly to go through any extra expense for the sake of getting even MORE applications.
Sorry had to do that... man Europeans who always think we're trying to fuck them for no apparent reason can piss me off:)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
He's torn between a somewhat sub par interface (he didn't say "it's a piece of shit," he just said it didn't seem quite as slick) and the flexibility of open source. In particular, he mentions ps, which I agree would probably be exceptionally useful for limited memory handhelds, but not the sort of thing that palm or WinCE is likely to provide any time soon, as it would intimidate new users.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No worries mate, it hooks up fine with Outlook (or so they claim, I haven't tried it), so people can move their data over no problem. They'll probably appeal more to linux loving geeks than to the mainstream, but they haven't totally ignored the population at large.
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Not worth asking, as companies can almost never comment on pending court cases, for fear of saying something that can be used against them. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Maybe the price would go up for the first dozen years, but once companies are paying billions of dollars a year for the copyright (which didn't take very long under that scheme), they simply can't sell a large enough number of copies at a high enough price. As time goes by, sales of older things falls, and the price the companies have to pay to hold on to them rises, so sooner or later the two will cross.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
...you make equivalently more money. Or if you're not making more money, then you should let the copyrights on some of the dogs expire, because you're not making money on it anyway.
I think powers of 2 would probably be better than powers of 3, because copyrights originally lasted for 24 years, and that seems fairly reasonable.
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Even those who don't appreciate, say, 2001 or Clockwork Orange, enjoy The Shining. Or Spartacus. Or Full Metal Jacket. The only reason Kubrick ever goes unrecognized, I think, is that few people realize that all those movies are made by the same guy.
Genius is not always unrecognized.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah, I know, confusing terms. "Watermarking" as used by the MPAA means bits that are impossible to copy. "Watermarking" as used by the warez sorts means those little icons people stick in the corners of the movies they rip so you know who made them. I was referring to the latter.
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Rule 1: don't whistle when a girl is with her boyfriend. This is probably the least important of the rules, because he's not very likely to be offended. But he might, and it's just not a good risk.
Rule 2: Don't whistle when a girl is with her mother. I mean really, mothers are prudish, easily offended, overly protective of their daughters and often have the know-how to launch harrassment lawsuits.
Rule 3: Don't whistle if she's still in Middle School. That's just sick.
(All three of the above have happened to my girlfriend)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Michael really ought to take a philosophy course, or even a political science course, and listen to what people who spend more than 30 seconds thinking about their belief system can come up with.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This way, Trolltech keeps making money off of it, but KDE can be used happily by all.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Keep the pockets unzipped. Then, put the washers in and zip them.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, so either they run on EST, or CDT. Since the two are the same, it really doesn't matter, does it? :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Point of fact 0: You should already know this, and I dearly hope it was just a typo, but the plane was not shot down, collided with a Chinese fighter jet. Point of fact 1: The collision occured in international airspace.
Point of fact 2: The US had expressed concern numerous times in the past few months about how close the Chinese were flying to our planes (ever see Top Gun? Pilots pull this kind of shit all the time)
Point of fact 3: The propeller-driven E3 is far less manuverable than the Chinese jet fighters, and could not possibly have hit them even if it had tried were they to keep a safe distance.
Point of fact 4: Flying spy planes off the coast of other nations is a well established practice that occured throughout the Cold War, and the Russians did it all the time to America and most of Europe, including, I believe, you Brits, without anyone crashing into anyone, and without the taking of hostages.
Finally, in conclusion, you better hope to whatever power you believe in that America gets those pilots back SOON, because any war between China and America will almost certainly go nuclear. America does not have the ground forces to conquer China (not only would it be a land war in Asia, but it would be a land war against a country with some 6-7x the population of America), and China does not have the air or naval power to reach America with anything other than cruise missiles. Maybe nuclear winter will make the arrogant British less likely to make stupid statements about things they know nothing of.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Soldier, however, in addition to its precise definition of being a noncom in the army, can also be used as a blanket term for all those in the armed forces. Just like how "man" can be used for all people (a la "mankind"), but its more precise definition just refers to adult males.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Just a random guess, but given that your post got a timestamp of 4:30 as well, maybe they're on Central Time.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, I'm no NASA engineer, but would attaching zipper pockets to their suits to allow people to "put things down" in zero g be so difficult?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
All programming is done through their unique Gesture Command(tm) system :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As many of you may remember, back in the old days commercial jetliners had three crewmembers. Pilot, copilot and radio, iirc. But, due to increasing automation and computer control, they were able to reduce it to two people. Now, things are becoming so automatic that Boeing is planning on reducing the crew requirement on their generation of planes to just a pilot and a dog.
Why a dog?
To bite the pilot's hand if he tries to touch anything.
Whoo, I crack myself up.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As an aside, what's with all these windows lovers complaining about biases on /.? Yeah, we're fucking biased as hell, and always have been, so why go here when there are plenty of other sites that don't have our editorial slant?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
*sigh* Back to Dreamcast for me.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The two above replies totally misunderstood the parent. He was quoting one of the "bad guys" in Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged is full of bits where the government passes laws so restrictive as to be parodies (but frighteningly realistic parodies) of laws passed in socialist countries. So what Mr. Monkey was saying was the guy learned his advocacy from the type of people Atlas Shrugged was arguing against.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
How many copies would "Just For Fun: The Story of the Guy Who Wrote the Original Code, and Still has a Heavy Hand in, Linux" sell? How interested would the media be in reviewing the book, and how much would it do to promote Linux? A little exaggeration is not necessarily bad.
Also, I agree with what the guy above says about him being a revolutionary, not "leader of the revolution." You could argue (I don't want to argue about this, so choose your own names if you disagree) that Thomas Paine was less important to the American Revolution than George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. However, he was still a revolutionary.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So, I would say the answer is probably "yes."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If they couldn't get enough beta testers in the US, maybe you'd have a point, but since they always get too many applications anyway, it'd be silly to go through any extra expense for the sake of getting even MORE applications.
Sorry had to do that... man Europeans who always think we're trying to fuck them for no apparent reason can piss me off :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
He's torn between a somewhat sub par interface (he didn't say "it's a piece of shit," he just said it didn't seem quite as slick) and the flexibility of open source. In particular, he mentions ps, which I agree would probably be exceptionally useful for limited memory handhelds, but not the sort of thing that palm or WinCE is likely to provide any time soon, as it would intimidate new users.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No worries mate, it hooks up fine with Outlook (or so they claim, I haven't tried it), so people can move their data over no problem. They'll probably appeal more to linux loving geeks than to the mainstream, but they haven't totally ignored the population at large.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Not worth asking, as companies can almost never comment on pending court cases, for fear of saying something that can be used against them.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Maybe the price would go up for the first dozen years, but once companies are paying billions of dollars a year for the copyright (which didn't take very long under that scheme), they simply can't sell a large enough number of copies at a high enough price. As time goes by, sales of older things falls, and the price the companies have to pay to hold on to them rises, so sooner or later the two will cross.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I think powers of 2 would probably be better than powers of 3, because copyrights originally lasted for 24 years, and that seems fairly reasonable.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Actually, Einstein called it the second biggest mistake of his life. The biggest, he said, was coming up with the theoretical basis for atomic bombs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Genius is not always unrecognized.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yeah, I know, confusing terms. "Watermarking" as used by the MPAA means bits that are impossible to copy. "Watermarking" as used by the warez sorts means those little icons people stick in the corners of the movies they rip so you know who made them. I was referring to the latter.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.