Um, so what? China has had access to the source code for a while now, MS' way of keeping them away from Linux. (Unless that changed) Anyone in the U.S. who wanted teh source could hop on over to the local Academic Alliance affiliated school and sneak in and burn the source from there.
Pretty much the only ones who don't have access to the Windows source code are the people who don't want it.
Then again, maybe this story is like patents: boring idea == yawn boring idea over network == teh r0xx0rz!
It's not mandatory, but on the last few days of class we go around exhorting *everyone* to please please please go to the website, you're the ones paying thousands of dollars for this, your opinion matters, blahbblahblah.
Since we switched to website evaluations, we've gotten 75% feedback (at least on the last two classes that I was a TA for)
Nope, anonymity is the only way to get feedback from students. Our school provides anonymous evaluationsn for our Professors:
raises/promotions + firings + who teaches what + "Do we offer this class next semester" are all based on anonymous evaluation. Otherwise kids are too scared to say anything because they're afraid of reprisal, and we never get the feedback we need.
Your "drop the hammer on the other foot" idea is intriguing though, I'd love to see something like that
Microsoft wants to compete w/ google. They want it bad, like they wanted in on the video game market. And look where that got us: Halo, pretty much anything connected to xbox live, cheap Linux servers... it turned out pretty good for us, eh?
Google knows Microsoft is coming, and they know the only way to win is to be better, so don't you worry about a thing. (if Microsoft buys google out, it's officially time to panic)
Um, it never stopped. Try this: call up the FBI, tell them that coworker you don't like has been distributing "subversive literature" (use those words exactly), give them the address of your company, then hang up. Doesn't matter if your coworker is a choir boy who's never been in trouble w/ the law before, he will be picked up and his family will be paid a visit by gun-toting agents.
Alternatively, you can take a close look at the weapons of mass destruction they just found in Texas. Plans to lob chemical bombs capable of killing hundreds of people in under a minute all over the country foiled by the local police, but it still took forever to get the FBI involved. You see John Ashcroft touting this as a victory in the war on terror? Now if those guys had been Muslim, "Whoo boy, we nailed us some brown-skin folk!! Yeeeeeeehaw!"
The FBI has plenty of things to do that would be worth their while and would be worth the amount of money that we pay them, but they're far too busy doing dirty work for the people in charge to give a damn.
The angry black man has a definite point, but see, there was this tiny thing called the integrated circuit, built because we couldn't put vacuum tubes in orbit. Now I know a rising tide has a tendency to swamp the smaller boats, but in this case I think it lifted all of us where we can call it a good thing.
NASA is not the problem here. Please observe NASA's budget compared to the military's budget.
I know you're joking and all, but I refuse to believe that the same government that went to war w/ Iraq when the entire world was telling us he didn't pose a threat to anyone is somehow magically competent enough to conceal proof of alien intelligence from us.
If you don't survive the culling, it's a safe bet the rest of us didn't either.
Greg Palast was the same guy who blew the lid off of the Florida 2000 election, where Republicans systematically prevented thousands of black Americans from voting.
Sadly, no one listened to him at the time. I hope that Gates is following in the tradition of the rich giving generously, but if anyone's going to uncover the truth, it's Palast.
Well, I don't engage in promiscuous sex, so I don't have any STDs. Therefore, this whole "AIDS" thing everyone keeps referring to really doesn't seem to be a problem.
Remember last year, when they had that ditzy bitch write up a reasonably complete wtf of the Davos Forum and emailed it to someone else, only it got leaked to everyone? Do they have anyone doing that this year? Is Cheney still spreading lies that have been thoroughly and repeatedly refuted and is anyone calling him out on it?
No, I'm saying your source can't be trusted for objective analysis because they're just a mouthpiece for a PR firm. Would you trust the Gartner Group for an insightful look at Linux's TCO?
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I totally second the recommendation for Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's "Linked".
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Wasn't John Lott from the American Enterprise Institute outed for this (writing reviews for himself) just recently?
Um, so what? China has had access to the source code for a while now, MS' way of keeping them away from Linux. (Unless that changed) Anyone in the U.S. who wanted teh source could hop on over to the local Academic Alliance affiliated school and sneak in and burn the source from there.
Pretty much the only ones who don't have access to the Windows source code are the people who don't want it.
Then again, maybe this story is like patents:
boring idea == yawn
boring idea over network == teh r0xx0rz!
It's not mandatory, but on the last few days of class we go around exhorting *everyone* to please please please go to the website, you're the ones paying thousands of dollars for this, your opinion matters, blahbblahblah.
Since we switched to website evaluations, we've gotten 75% feedback (at least on the last two classes that I was a TA for)
So how big are penguin brains?
Nope, anonymity is the only way to get feedback from students. Our school provides anonymous evaluationsn for our Professors:
raises/promotions + firings + who teaches what + "Do we offer this class next semester" are all based on anonymous evaluation. Otherwise kids are too scared to say anything because they're afraid of reprisal, and we never get the feedback we need.
Your "drop the hammer on the other foot" idea is intriguing though, I'd love to see something like that
Bush II - 8 percent spending increase
Clinton - 2 percent spending increase
Bush I - 4 percent spending increase
Carter - 2 percent spending increase
What the hell? Didn't you just say you were a history teacher?
No one cares about these: technology, company culture or internal standards.
Everyone cares about these: profits.
Yay free market capitalism! Whoo!
What Mr. AC is describing is the "XCOPY install" thingee that Microsoft wants your .NET Windows Forms apps to conform to.
It gets better, I had to google in order to double-check the lyrics, and I came across this.
I quote: "the cheddar breed jealousy 'specially if that man fucked up, get your ass stuck up."
Too expensive.
Too expensive, but we'll be sure to run commercials about how we're working hard to clean up the environment.
Only if the customer wants to pay for it.
Don't worry, free-market capitalism will solve everything. All you have to do is get the government to stop taxing and stop regulating.
Microsoft wants to compete w/ google. They want it bad, like they wanted in on the video game market. And look where that got us: Halo, pretty much anything connected to xbox live, cheap Linux servers... it turned out pretty good for us, eh?
Google knows Microsoft is coming, and they know the only way to win is to be better, so don't you worry about a thing. (if Microsoft buys google out, it's officially time to panic)
Um, it never stopped. Try this: call up the FBI, tell them that coworker you don't like has been distributing "subversive literature" (use those words exactly), give them the address of your company, then hang up. Doesn't matter if your coworker is a choir boy who's never been in trouble w/ the law before, he will be picked up and his family will be paid a visit by gun-toting agents.
Alternatively, you can take a close look at the weapons of mass destruction they just found in Texas. Plans to lob chemical bombs capable of killing hundreds of people in under a minute all over the country foiled by the local police, but it still took forever to get the FBI involved. You see John Ashcroft touting this as a victory in the war on terror? Now if those guys had been Muslim, "Whoo boy, we nailed us some brown-skin folk!! Yeeeeeeehaw!"
The FBI has plenty of things to do that would be worth their while and would be worth the amount of money that we pay them, but they're far too busy doing dirty work for the people in charge to give a damn.
This was discussed by George Paine in Your bank account, your liberties.
The angry black man has a definite point, but see, there was this tiny thing called the integrated circuit, built because we couldn't put vacuum tubes in orbit. Now I know a rising tide has a tendency to swamp the smaller boats, but in this case I think it lifted all of us where we can call it a good thing.
NASA is not the problem here. Please observe NASA's budget compared to the military's budget.
I know you're joking and all, but I refuse to believe that the same government that went to war w/ Iraq when the entire world was telling us he didn't pose a threat to anyone is somehow magically competent enough to conceal proof of alien intelligence from us.
If you don't survive the culling, it's a safe bet the rest of us didn't either.
Greg Palast was the same guy who blew the lid off of the Florida 2000 election, where Republicans systematically prevented thousands of black Americans from voting.
Sadly, no one listened to him at the time. I hope that Gates is following in the tradition of the rich giving generously, but if anyone's going to uncover the truth, it's Palast.
This will suffice, never mind. Can someone please delete the above comment ^^;;
Well, I don't engage in promiscuous sex, so I don't have any STDs. Therefore, this whole "AIDS" thing everyone keeps referring to really doesn't seem to be a problem.
Remember last year, when they had that ditzy bitch write up a reasonably complete wtf of the Davos Forum and emailed it to someone else, only it got leaked to everyone? Do they have anyone doing that this year? Is Cheney still spreading lies that have been thoroughly and repeatedly refuted and is anyone calling him out on it?
Am I the only person who didn't hear Bush address the need to invade Mars during last night's State of the Union speech?
No, I'm saying your source can't be trusted for objective analysis because they're just a mouthpiece for a PR firm. Would you trust the Gartner Group for an insightful look at Linux's TCO?