North Carolina has one of the most rapidly growing economies of any state. Did you forget Red Hat lives here? Also, ten of the past twelve computer purchases I have made in the last year have been located in North Carolina, and that was a complete accident. Now, I already have to pay sales tax on products I buy over the Internet from companies located in North Carolina. What they are trying to tax is purchasess made by North Carolinians outside of the state, which is a bummer.
I use BSD and Linux, so what am I? Linux is great for my desktop, but probably not for anyone elses. I think a lot of people don't understand that. Most users have enough trouble with the Start button under Windows 95 that I wouldn't even want to support Linux where I work. Just my 2 cents.
I doubt Microsoft is looking to port software. or are looking to generate FUD. It is no big surprise that NT/W2K cannot handle a site as massive as Hotmail, and even management would be stupid to think otherwise. I think they are using FreeBSD just to avoid the press coverage that they actually went and bought a commercial Unix/competing product (such as Solaris), and figure FreeBSD is the lesser of two evils.
The only way Amazon can survive is to continue to grow. As Bezos said in the article, he wants to start selling electronics and software. But the problem with selling electronics over the internet is that most people aren't sure of exactly what they want before they buy it. I want to walk into a store, compare several models, and then decide what to purchase. Also, I've saved hundreds of dollars making deals with salesman, not something I would be able to do with a web page. I think books are a perfect product to sell over the internet, because you can read the description of a book literally. But unfortunately with most products, you have to take everything said about it with a grain of salt, and you can only rely on your own judgement based on actually seeing it in action.
It was rather hard to make out the translation, but what I find interesting is what is said in the last paragraph:
The State, as fomentador being of the technological development and the democrátização of the access the new technologies for the society, cannot be to steal its responsibility to prioritize the use of open programs or " free software / open source ". E if small, the average and great companies multinationals already are adopting opened programs, thus preventing the payment of hundreds of million of dollar in licensing of programs, because it would have the State, with a infinity of devoid social causes of features, to continue buying, and expensive, the programs of market.
As far as my interpretation of this goes, it looks like they are trying to make the Governments use of technology free, not necessarily the peoples. The aim of this law is to replace all proprietary software with free software, cited here as GNU/Linux, and make all software developed for the Government free as well.
As I have noticed with all other toys/gadgets with electric motors and such, they all have one thing in common: the sound of a 1950's vacuum cleaner with a dying motor. Now, has Sony made any technological breakthroughs in noise reduction? This is a serious question, but if they have not, I think I would prefer to have a root canal than have one of these things around.
Can be attributed to the very large genetic diversity in wolves, as well as inbreeding. There was a documentary about this the other night, and it described most types of dogs today being products of years of inbreeding and breeding with other types of dogs. However, the early forms of this specialized breeding relied on the huge genetic diversity of wolves, though wolves don't look too much different than eachother, carry radically different traits in different parts of the world.
I think most geeks already know about what Amazon is doing and are already avoiding their site. However, I think for this boycott to have any success, you will need the support of the common consumer. But I guarantee you, if you walked up to a random person and explained this to them, they would answer: "I'll buy wherever its cheap." Therefore, let us all send emails to Amazon stating that we will only purchase our books from www.barnesandnoble.com, to which they will respond with "Oh."
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North Carolina has one of the most rapidly growing economies of any state. Did you forget Red Hat lives here? Also, ten of the past twelve computer purchases I have made in the last year have been located in North Carolina, and that was a complete accident. Now, I already have to pay sales tax on products I buy over the Internet from companies located in North Carolina. What they are trying to tax is purchasess made by North Carolinians outside of the state, which is a bummer.
And yeah, I'll tell them how much I've spent in online purchases. I'll place it right next to that video where pigs fly out of my ass.
I use BSD and Linux, so what am I? Linux is great for my desktop, but probably not for anyone elses. I think a lot of people don't understand that. Most users have enough trouble with the Start button under Windows 95 that I wouldn't even want to support Linux where I work. Just my 2 cents.
I doubt Microsoft is looking to port software. or are looking to generate FUD. It is no big surprise that NT/W2K cannot handle a site as massive as Hotmail, and even management would be stupid to think otherwise. I think they are using FreeBSD just to avoid the press coverage that they actually went and bought a commercial Unix/competing product (such as Solaris), and figure FreeBSD is the lesser of two evils.
The only way Amazon can survive is to continue to grow. As Bezos said in the article, he wants to start selling electronics and software. But the problem with selling electronics over the internet is that most people aren't sure of exactly what they want before they buy it. I want to walk into a store, compare several models, and then decide what to purchase. Also, I've saved hundreds of dollars making deals with salesman, not something I would be able to do with a web page. I think books are a perfect product to sell over the internet, because you can read the description of a book literally. But unfortunately with most products, you have to take everything said about it with a grain of salt, and you can only rely on your own judgement based on actually seeing it in action.
Right from the submission, and also in the article, FREE as in free speech.
It was rather hard to make out the translation, but what I find interesting is what is said in the last paragraph:
The State, as fomentador being of the technological development and the democrátização of the access the new technologies for the society, cannot be to steal its responsibility to prioritize the use of open programs or " free software / open source ". E if small, the average and great companies multinationals already are adopting opened programs, thus preventing the payment of hundreds of million of dollar in licensing of programs, because it would have the State, with a infinity of devoid social causes of features, to continue buying, and expensive, the programs of market.
As far as my interpretation of this goes, it looks like they are trying to make the Governments use of technology free, not necessarily the peoples. The aim of this law is to replace all proprietary software with free software, cited here as GNU/Linux, and make all software developed for the Government free as well.
As I have noticed with all other toys/gadgets with electric motors and such, they all have one thing in common: the sound of a 1950's vacuum cleaner with a dying motor. Now, has Sony made any technological breakthroughs in noise reduction? This is a serious question, but if they have not, I think I would prefer to have a root canal than have one of these things around.
It looks like the real URL for the pictures is: http://kurt.andover.net/bazar/fsf
or http://kurt.andover.net/bazaar/fsf, but note they won't be up for another hour or so.
Also, ZDTV will be broadcasting the awards here: http://www.zdtv.com/radio on Thursday, Dec 16 2:00pm http://www.zdtv.com/radio
My next door neighbor has a half Chow Chow, half wolf. Very scary animal, completely black. It eats rabbits and squirrels.
Can be attributed to the very large genetic diversity in wolves, as well as inbreeding. There was a documentary about this the other night, and it described most types of dogs today being products of years of inbreeding and breeding with other types of dogs. However, the early forms of this specialized breeding relied on the huge genetic diversity of wolves, though wolves don't look too much different than eachother, carry radically different traits in different parts of the world.
I think most geeks already know about what Amazon is doing and are already avoiding their site. However, I think for this boycott to have any success, you will need the support of the common consumer. But I guarantee you, if you walked up to a random person and explained this to them, they would answer: "I'll buy wherever its cheap." Therefore, let us all send emails to Amazon stating that we will only purchase our books from www.barnesandnoble.com, to which they will respond with "Oh."