Is that anything like Guinness? If so, I must try some (though it looks like you've had a few already yourself;-)
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I get a kick out of St. Patty's day when laymen refer to green beer in the most literal sense.
In a lager brewing process the post-fermented wort is sometimes referred to as "green beer", which is the beer before a secondary fermentation process commences (conditioning, lagering, etc.)
As a side note it would be interesting to know how many tech-geeks extend their geektitude into the realm of brewing or zymurgy?
Yes, Digital Restrictions Management (as I borrow from Stallman) are my sole reason for avoiding eBooks. Besides that, eBooks don't really give me any real advantage over regular books, aside from, potentially, the ability to search large volumes of text (that is if the publisher gives me permission to). In my views the small technological advantages do not win over the basic freedoms I value so highly.
I may not have more rights with regular books, but at least I know I have rights that can't be taken away at the publisher's whim.
I have, however bought eBooks, but only those that come in forms that freely allow me to do as I please with them (such as PDF files).
Perhaps my feelings are inspired by Stallman's article that appeared in ACM about 10 years ago, The Right To Read
It would be nice if there were documented evidence of large enterprise migrations to Linux for the desktop. I work in an I.S. capacity for a very large health care organization, (7B/year, >10,000 employees), recently the head of Information Systems has been hitting up our group to find ways to reduce costs. I wanted to point to the obvious use of using alternative operating systems but at this point too much of our infrastructure depends on niche software, such as Remedy and PVCS Tracker for tracking large projects and I.S. requests.
Additionally there is a very heavy use of MS-Office, especially Word and Excel. It would be valuable to see what the large-scale effect of drop-replacing an alternative Office product such as OO.o has on an a large business -- especially with regards to training.
I think IBM's idea of migrating in piecemeal is a good one.
I had to sound like a broken record (no pun intended), but bad karma is a bitch. Sony declared war on the consumer with the BMI spyware fiasco, and as far as I care I feel nothing but malice and schadenfreud towards Sony corp.
AOL obstensibly became spam crusaders when it cut into their bottom line. What was the #1 thing their users complained about two years ago? First most, pop-up and banner ads on AOL's sign-in screens--and secondly, the volume of spam had increased exponentially over the years. This poll was taken because the amount of customers leaving AOL were significant and measurable.
If these problem return customers will simply move to alternate providers. That's how it works. The service provider field is already extremely competitive, let nature simply take its course.
O'Riordan previously made a transcript of the January 16th first presentation on the GPLv3 which consists of 70 minutes of Eben Moglen, with 20 minutes worth of interruptions from Stallman.
Is that meant to sound like a bad thing? I hope not, if you're touching the GPL, I'd hope it's progenitor would interrupt you if you make a potential error;-)
Judge Wells told Darl to be quiet!! He was there, and he was talking to one of SCO's lawyers. Shortly into the second portion of the hearing, while Darl was busy Googling and talking to Mark James, Judge Wells asked him to be quiet, that she knows he wants to talk (presumedly to Mark James), but to just pay attention.
Wikipedia describes propoganda as a type of message designed to influence the opinions of people, rather than impartially providing information.
In my view, whether that is necessarily a good thing or not depends on the overall intention. For political reasons it is not a good thing because opinions do not have to be based on facts, they are, after all, just opinions. Conversely, look at what data is used by the average American populace when deciding on a political candidate -- very little, most American's vote based on their personal feelings towards a particular candidate and not on the issues, raw data or even facts.
So, is it effective? Yes. Is that good? Unfortunately, no.
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Since you get a kick out of it I'll be sure and continue to refer to it as "Patty's" then.
Is that anything like Guinness? If so, I must try some (though it looks like you've had a few already yourself ;-)
I get a kick out of St. Patty's day when laymen refer to green beer in the most literal sense.
In a lager brewing process the post-fermented wort is sometimes referred to as "green beer", which is the beer before a secondary fermentation process commences (conditioning, lagering, etc.)
As a side note it would be interesting to know how many tech-geeks extend their geektitude into the realm of brewing or zymurgy?
When the FCC enforces standards of decency they're just thinking of the chilren ... yeah, that's it.
to those who also possess 40 billion dollars.
Sony:
The good news, you don't have to recompense me for the malware-infected CD's you sold on the market.
The bad news, it's due to the fact that I don't buy music anymore. I can do without you, I hope you're fine without my money.
Yes, Digital Restrictions Management (as I borrow from Stallman) are my sole reason for avoiding eBooks. Besides that, eBooks don't really give me any real advantage over regular books, aside from, potentially, the ability to search large volumes of text (that is if the publisher gives me permission to). In my views the small technological advantages do not win over the basic freedoms I value so highly.
I may not have more rights with regular books, but at least I know I have rights that can't be taken away at the publisher's whim.
I have, however bought eBooks, but only those that come in forms that freely allow me to do as I please with them (such as PDF files).
Perhaps my feelings are inspired by Stallman's article that appeared in ACM about 10 years ago, The Right To Read
It would be nice if there were documented evidence of large enterprise migrations to Linux for the desktop. I work in an I.S. capacity for a very large health care organization, (7B/year, >10,000 employees), recently the head of Information Systems has been hitting up our group to find ways to reduce costs. I wanted to point to the obvious use of using alternative operating systems but at this point too much of our infrastructure depends on niche software, such as Remedy and PVCS Tracker for tracking large projects and I.S. requests.
Additionally there is a very heavy use of MS-Office, especially Word and Excel. It would be valuable to see what the large-scale effect of drop-replacing an alternative Office product such as OO.o has on an a large business -- especially with regards to training.
I think IBM's idea of migrating in piecemeal is a good one.
Sorry, I digress. What I really meant to say was "But, does it have a flight simulator?"
[ed: Go Badgers]
mushroom! mushroom!
Those who would give up essential chatting for temporary safety from malware, deserve neither.
I had to sound like a broken record (no pun intended), but bad karma is a bitch. Sony declared war on the consumer with the BMI spyware fiasco, and as far as I care I feel nothing but malice and schadenfreud towards Sony corp.
It takes 6 months to data-mine and cache all of google's data.
AOL obstensibly became spam crusaders when it cut into their bottom line. What was the #1 thing their users complained about two years ago? First most, pop-up and banner ads on AOL's sign-in screens--and secondly, the volume of spam had increased exponentially over the years. This poll was taken because the amount of customers leaving AOL were significant and measurable.
If these problem return customers will simply move to alternate providers. That's how it works. The service provider field is already extremely competitive, let nature simply take its course.
Except they should have called it "MeFirst!".
They'll have an Intranet. I hope they enjoy their Intranet.
I hope they move the Chinese off shore spam-hosting to the new and improved Intranet as well.
O'Riordan previously made a transcript of the January 16th first presentation on the GPLv3 which consists of 70 minutes of Eben Moglen, with 20 minutes worth of interruptions from Stallman.
;-)
Is that meant to sound like a bad thing? I hope not, if you're touching the GPL, I'd hope it's progenitor would interrupt you if you make a potential error
Judge Wells told Darl to be quiet!! He was there, and he was talking to one of SCO's lawyers. Shortly into the second portion of the hearing, while Darl was busy Googling and talking to Mark James, Judge Wells asked him to be quiet, that she knows he wants to talk (presumedly to Mark James), but to just pay attention.
SLAPPED DOWN!
"We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah,' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant target for abuse."
Now that this hit slashdot, that will change.
Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaints
That's good, the other ones were getting stale.
Does this mean that all users from Wallah-Wallah, Washington and Tallahassee, Florida are prohibited from having accurate Yahoo! profiles?
When you ban the word "Allah", it means you can't say "Fuck Allah".
*blinks*
Wikipedia describes propoganda as a type of message designed to influence the opinions of people, rather than impartially providing information.
In my view, whether that is necessarily a good thing or not depends on the overall intention. For political reasons it is not a good thing because opinions do not have to be based on facts, they are, after all, just opinions. Conversely, look at what data is used by the average American populace when deciding on a political candidate -- very little, most American's vote based on their personal feelings towards a particular candidate and not on the issues, raw data or even facts.
So, is it effective? Yes. Is that good? Unfortunately, no.
When China does it... it's communism.
When a western country does it, it's for homeland security.
Prostitutes have an association.
*blinks*
Will they have to watch the Don't Copy That Floppy video?