They weren't originally that way, and still called corporations. They're not that way in most countries.
And "making into a person" is a bit of a stretch. Neither webster's 1913 or wordnet support that definition (the closest is webster's definition 4 - '(Law) (b) A body incorporated; a corporation". What dictionary are you using?
Many of the other 67% didn't see much of an advantage to voting for Kerry.
Personally, I only voted for Kerry because I can't stand Bush. I didn't know anything about Kerry, and wouldn't have voted at all if they weren't also having a vote on raising the price of my cigarettes $8/carton.
Perl often looks like that (although it doesn't have to). Spend a month working in perl and it's clear as glass. Perl's syntax takes some getting used to, but you could say the same of languages like forth or tcl.
They paid $4,028,000,000US in 2004 according to their annual financial report. That's income taxes, not property or anything else, but usually that's the bulk of taxes anyway. See here for the financial statements page (if you're not familiar with corporate reports, it's in the income statement of the 2004 annual report - note numbers re in millions).
Income before taxes was $12,196,000,000, so they paid approximately 33% in income taxes. Assuming the $1.5B tax break is from income taxes, with the supposed tax break they would have paid about 45%. That sounds pretty high though - I'd imagine there's a cap somewhere below that, so probably a lot of that is in other forms of taxes such as property tax and whatnot.
$1.5 billion in tax cuts is pretty significant, if it's true. After all, only $1.7B was paid out in dividends. Not that I agree with the original poster on that point - you're right, the purpose of a corporation is to support its shareholders.
However, I think that the best interests of microsoft's shareholders (as a group) are certainly not the best interests of the OSS community. Corrupt was the wrong word to use, but the general idea that dealing with microsoft is hazardous at best is pretty justifiable. Look at how that worked out for many of their past partners they felt threatened by.
Considering spelling wasn't standardized at all in 1476, and I could easily see "not longer" appearing in Chaucer's work, I think he's following it rather well.
I've never read the Pern series, but I have read the Foundation series (except Foundation and Earth, since it's hard to find) and Dune. H2G2 doesn't belong in the same category as them. Sure, it's science fiction, but that's like comparing an article written in the opinion section of the newspaper with Dave Berry's column.
(Of course, I don't count Dune as science fiction. I read all the original books, and never will again - it's a series about politics that just happens to be in the future. After the first couple of books the 'science' goes out of the fiction.)
Hands down. It's got the plot of a bad porn movie with none of the naked people (which, considering the title, I'm glad of). Of course, it's intentionally bad, which might disqualify it.
(And I didn't make the movie, so don't go callin' me racist.)
Who claimed it was the most secure, bulletproof OS?
There are much, much more secure systems out there than linux. Check out MULTICS sometime. Note that no one uses it anymore, since it requires special hardware to run.
You will never need these features until you find yourself working with massive multiuser machines or classified processing. It's a government project, go figure.
Read up on the SELinux docs on more info, and why the target audience for windows/desktop linux/macos would never care. Most people making claims about linux's security as opposed to other OS's are comparing it to windows, and in terms of vulnerabilities. That's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Steve is also well within his rights to tell the publishers that they'll not sell a damn thing in his bookstores from now on.
That's what sent the little red flag up in my mind. Anyone with more experience want to comment on if this pierces the corporate veil? After all, the apple stores belong to the shareholdes, not Jobs.
I'm unsure on exactly why the "boys in black" would care about nuclear reactors in space.
I mean, nuclear weapons, sure, but reactors? We're not going to declare war on the moon anytime in the next 50 years, and by then we'll have the space elevator so we can put big reactors in space.
According to this link uranium occurs about 4ppm in the earth's crust.
This site seems to agree, although I'm not overly sure how the whole "log" thing works with abundance - it's parts per million, but put into a log scale. Perhaps a geologist would like to comment on that.
Neither one suggests that uranium is the 8th most abundant material in the earth's crust As far as the mantle and core go, who cares? It's not like we'll be able to get to them any time soon.
TheseLinks both suggest that uranium is certainly not the 8th most abundant element in the crust. although they disagree on if it's potassium or magnesium. Uranium isn't anywhere near those scales, since 4ppm is 0.0004%.
Comments from someone with geology training would be helpful here.
Get more hits for companies who buy their product, thereby increasing revenue for those companies (more exposure), companies buy more microsoft products to keep up with the load.
Meanwhile, companies using apache or iplanet or whatever's out there these days see a drop in revenue.
My opinion? I doubt anyone high up at microsoft ordered it. It's probably some rogue coder (or low-level manager) who came up with it. It's risky if they get caught being anti-competitive so soon after the european ordeal.
You see that a lot in government openings. The thing is, there are ex-fighter pilots who did get at a degree in electrical engineering.
I'm not sure how they'd meet the other requirements, such as work experience, but the education part isn't unrealistic for them. Generally fighter pilots are commissioned right after getting their bachelor's degree and spend their time doing combat training rather than keeping up with their degrees.
Regular command officers often don't have pilot training in the lower ranks. In the upper ranks, it's almost all pilots in the air force (not sure about how the navy works). So the only people I could see meeting the requirements would be someone who got an EE degree, did a stint in the air force/navy, then got out and worked in their actual field for a while. After all, command officers aren't exactly arm-deep in the technical stuff - that's for enlisted folk.
I would have tried for it, myself. Not much chance of getting someone who had all those qualifications. I've found that most of the time having all the qualifications is neigh impossible for those postings anyway. Either they'll hire you (or someone like you), or they never intended to hire in the first place and will appoint someone inside to the position (that's not uncommon).
NT is basically forked OS/2. But it's not like that.
OS/2 was originally a joint IBM/Microsoft project. I've got disks for "Microsoft OS/2 v1.3" around here somewhere. It came in a box with LanManager and looked a lot like NT 3.5. Unfortunately, while the OS/2 disks are fine, some schmuck from my shop had used a couple of the LanManager disks for scratch disks, so I've never gotten to play with the network part of it.
Basically, someone at microsoft got the idea that they could port the windows API to OS/2 - and it worked. When management was told, they took their toys and went home to make windows NT. Really pissed off IBM from what I hear.
What's even better is where the supervisor can remove all access from something from himself, orphaning a section of the tree.
Was a real problem in the 3.x days, from what they told me when I went through air force tech school. You had to rebuild the entire NDS tree to fix it.
DISCLAIMER: I never had a chance to work on it myself, so I dunno. Lucky me was stuck being the only UNIX guy in an NT shop, with nothing but an old I-series HP to keep me company.
Sort of like Terry Pratchett's trolls, whose counting skills went "one, two, lots", but on a larger scale.
Actually, it went "One, Two, Many, Lots". And it worked a bit like the roman numeral system (although they only did that in one book, as far as I know) - five was Lots One, ten was (I think) two Lots Two.
I can't remember exactly which book it was in - it's been a while - but I think it was one of the city watch novels.
Here in the U.S., "yankee" means someone from the union states - i.e. the northeastern states which did not separate from the U.S. during the civil war.
It's used a lot by southerners as a semi-derogatory term - it really depends on context. Southerners often look at "yankees" the same way that northerns look at "rednecks". There's a pretty large cultural difference between the two - historically the northern states did manufacturing and industry, while the southern states were based in agriculture.
Plus there's quite a few people (mostly southerners) who wave rebel flags and wish that the south had won the civil war. When they say "yankee", it's definitely derogatory. A surprising number of my friends fall in this category, since I live in redneck country myself and have the dead cars in my yard to prove it.
Of course, to the British, it's a general term for people in the U.S. In the northeastern U.S., I hear it's people are proud of the name, although I've never lived there so I don't know for sure.
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Doesn't hurt that it seems to me florida is full of retired, rich new yorkers. Ye gods, I hated calls from florida when I worked tech support...
They weren't originally that way, and still called corporations. They're not that way in most countries.
And "making into a person" is a bit of a stretch. Neither webster's 1913 or wordnet support that definition (the closest is webster's definition 4 - '(Law) (b) A body incorporated; a corporation". What dictionary are you using?
Many of the other 67% didn't see much of an advantage to voting for Kerry.
Personally, I only voted for Kerry because I can't stand Bush. I didn't know anything about Kerry, and wouldn't have voted at all if they weren't also having a vote on raising the price of my cigarettes $8/carton.
Perl often looks like that (although it doesn't have to). Spend a month working in perl and it's clear as glass. Perl's syntax takes some getting used to, but you could say the same of languages like forth or tcl.
They paid $4,028,000,000US in 2004 according to their annual financial report. That's income taxes, not property or anything else, but usually that's the bulk of taxes anyway. See here for the financial statements page (if you're not familiar with corporate reports, it's in the income statement of the 2004 annual report - note numbers re in millions).
Income before taxes was $12,196,000,000, so they paid approximately 33% in income taxes. Assuming the $1.5B tax break is from income taxes, with the supposed tax break they would have paid about 45%. That sounds pretty high though - I'd imagine there's a cap somewhere below that, so probably a lot of that is in other forms of taxes such as property tax and whatnot.
$1.5 billion in tax cuts is pretty significant, if it's true. After all, only $1.7B was paid out in dividends. Not that I agree with the original poster on that point - you're right, the purpose of a corporation is to support its shareholders.
However, I think that the best interests of microsoft's shareholders (as a group) are certainly not the best interests of the OSS community. Corrupt was the wrong word to use, but the general idea that dealing with microsoft is hazardous at best is pretty justifiable. Look at how that worked out for many of their past partners they felt threatened by.
Considering spelling wasn't standardized at all in 1476, and I could easily see "not longer" appearing in Chaucer's work, I think he's following it rather well.
Like this?
I've never read the Pern series, but I have read the Foundation series (except Foundation and Earth, since it's hard to find) and Dune. H2G2 doesn't belong in the same category as them. Sure, it's science fiction, but that's like comparing an article written in the opinion section of the newspaper with Dave Berry's column.
(Of course, I don't count Dune as science fiction. I read all the original books, and never will again - it's a series about politics that just happens to be in the future. After the first couple of books the 'science' goes out of the fiction.)
Worst movie of all time:
Gayniggers from Outer Space
Hands down. It's got the plot of a bad porn movie with none of the naked people (which, considering the title, I'm glad of). Of course, it's intentionally bad, which might disqualify it.
(And I didn't make the movie, so don't go callin' me racist.)
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Who claimed it was the most secure, bulletproof OS?
There are much, much more secure systems out there than linux. Check out MULTICS sometime. Note that no one uses it anymore, since it requires special hardware to run.
You will never need these features until you find yourself working with massive multiuser machines or classified processing. It's a government project, go figure.
Read up on the SELinux docs on more info, and why the target audience for windows/desktop linux/macos would never care. Most people making claims about linux's security as opposed to other OS's are comparing it to windows, and in terms of vulnerabilities. That's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Steve is also well within his rights to tell the publishers that they'll not sell a damn thing in his bookstores from now on.
That's what sent the little red flag up in my mind. Anyone with more experience want to comment on if this pierces the corporate veil? After all, the apple stores belong to the shareholdes, not Jobs.
They expect to have their funding approved and rejected over and over again.
Hence, the liver metaphor seems to work best.
I'm unsure on exactly why the "boys in black" would care about nuclear reactors in space.
I mean, nuclear weapons, sure, but reactors? We're not going to declare war on the moon anytime in the next 50 years, and by then we'll have the space elevator so we can put big reactors in space.
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We have to find it first!
Sorry, had to say it.
According to this link uranium occurs about 4ppm in the earth's crust.
This site seems to agree, although I'm not overly sure how the whole "log" thing works with abundance - it's parts per million, but put into a log scale. Perhaps a geologist would like to comment on that.
Neither one suggests that uranium is the 8th most abundant material in the earth's crust As far as the mantle and core go, who cares? It's not like we'll be able to get to them any time soon.
These Links both suggest that uranium is certainly not the 8th most abundant element in the crust. although they disagree on if it's potassium or magnesium. Uranium isn't anywhere near those scales, since 4ppm is 0.0004%.
Comments from someone with geology training would be helpful here.
Get more hits for companies who buy their product, thereby increasing revenue for those companies (more exposure), companies buy more microsoft products to keep up with the load.
Meanwhile, companies using apache or iplanet or whatever's out there these days see a drop in revenue.
My opinion? I doubt anyone high up at microsoft ordered it. It's probably some rogue coder (or low-level manager) who came up with it. It's risky if they get caught being anti-competitive so soon after the european ordeal.
Musicians often work their asses off for little money at all. Most have day jobs just to make ends meet.
Sure, the guys on top might get good money for little work, but they're by far the exception.
You see that a lot in government openings. The thing is, there are ex-fighter pilots who did get at a degree in electrical engineering.
I'm not sure how they'd meet the other requirements, such as work experience, but the education part isn't unrealistic for them. Generally fighter pilots are commissioned right after getting their bachelor's degree and spend their time doing combat training rather than keeping up with their degrees.
Regular command officers often don't have pilot training in the lower ranks. In the upper ranks, it's almost all pilots in the air force (not sure about how the navy works). So the only people I could see meeting the requirements would be someone who got an EE degree, did a stint in the air force/navy, then got out and worked in their actual field for a while. After all, command officers aren't exactly arm-deep in the technical stuff - that's for enlisted folk.
I would have tried for it, myself. Not much chance of getting someone who had all those qualifications. I've found that most of the time having all the qualifications is neigh impossible for those postings anyway. Either they'll hire you (or someone like you), or they never intended to hire in the first place and will appoint someone inside to the position (that's not uncommon).
NTFS basically a forked OS/2 filesystem
NT is basically forked OS/2. But it's not like that.
OS/2 was originally a joint IBM/Microsoft project. I've got disks for "Microsoft OS/2 v1.3" around here somewhere. It came in a box with LanManager and looked a lot like NT 3.5. Unfortunately, while the OS/2 disks are fine, some schmuck from my shop had used a couple of the LanManager disks for scratch disks, so I've never gotten to play with the network part of it.
Basically, someone at microsoft got the idea that they could port the windows API to OS/2 - and it worked. When management was told, they took their toys and went home to make windows NT. Really pissed off IBM from what I hear.
What's even better is where the supervisor can remove all access from something from himself, orphaning a section of the tree.
Was a real problem in the 3.x days, from what they told me when I went through air force tech school. You had to rebuild the entire NDS tree to fix it.
DISCLAIMER: I never had a chance to work on it myself, so I dunno. Lucky me was stuck being the only UNIX guy in an NT shop, with nothing but an old I-series HP to keep me company.
Did they ever find a way around that problem?
Bite my red-hot glowing ass.
Wait a minute... Red-hot glowing ass?
I'll be right back!
A few feet of lead would do the trick. Let's just melt you up some...
Sort of like Terry Pratchett's trolls, whose counting skills went "one, two, lots", but on a larger scale.
Actually, it went "One, Two, Many, Lots". And it worked a bit like the roman numeral system (although they only did that in one book, as far as I know) - five was Lots One, ten was (I think) two Lots Two.
I can't remember exactly which book it was in - it's been a while - but I think it was one of the city watch novels.
Here in the U.S., "yankee" means someone from the union states - i.e. the northeastern states which did not separate from the U.S. during the civil war.
It's used a lot by southerners as a semi-derogatory term - it really depends on context. Southerners often look at "yankees" the same way that northerns look at "rednecks". There's a pretty large cultural difference between the two - historically the northern states did manufacturing and industry, while the southern states were based in agriculture.
Plus there's quite a few people (mostly southerners) who wave rebel flags and wish that the south had won the civil war. When they say "yankee", it's definitely derogatory. A surprising number of my friends fall in this category, since I live in redneck country myself and have the dead cars in my yard to prove it.
Of course, to the British, it's a general term for people in the U.S. In the northeastern U.S., I hear it's people are proud of the name, although I've never lived there so I don't know for sure.