Hey, this is important-- there is now *ONE LESS SOURCE* for those who can't get enough Obama-worship. Fortunately, every other known form of media is still choked with it.
That's unlikely to happen. For a competitor to step up and say "Hey! They're helping Iran be ebil!" would be to imply that Iran = Evil, which has a vaguely Bush-y connotation since nowadays we're all about extending "hands instead of fists".
This is where the anti-US slant of modern liberalism hamstrings us; the really *important* liberal issues (like freedom of communication) get ignored, because the people that suppress free speech also hate the United States, and liberal dogma says to fall all over yourself displaying good will toward any self-declared enemies.
We just don't need them anymore. We have better missiles, and better drones.
The only thing we need actualy piloted aircraft for are close-in ground support, where things are too crowded/messy for computers to do a good job. And even then, remotely-piloted drones are taking over.
That's a credible argument against the need for combat pilots, but not so much against the need for military air power. Someone has to maintain and operate the drones and whatnot.
No it's not karma whoring. Read the rest of my posts.
I'm trolling you:D
Yeah, but the mods don't get that. They modded up your troll comment as insightful, and marked down me pointing it out as a troll.
Gotta love slashdot.
Doesn't matter what the content is-- point is you said something critical of the US, so it's insightful; I said something critical of your post, so it's a troll.
No worries, he's just doing the usual "find a way to blame the USA and get free Karma" bit.
I've found that reading the news a few hours later in the day helps with this. The kiddies on the US-bashing bandwagon who mod-up comments like his tend to be among the first on Slashdot; if you wait a while, the grown-ups (who have actual jobs and don't roll in until lunchtime) will mod them back down a bit.
Do you think Europeans rape each other in prison all the time? I think Brits can laugh at the concept, but they don't have a problem with it.
I am a devout and patriot American but I find it my duty to stand up and fix the wrong things it does. No one is perfect, but America's strength has always been that it tries to uphold its ideals. Are you going to call Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. an America-hater because he criticized his government?
No, but I'll call you a troll because you are saying inciteful things that are irrelevant to the discussion.
Your claim is that nobody but Americans joke about prison rape. I was simply pointing out that your claim is absurd, and that the most probable explanation for such a blatant falsehood is that you are karma-whoring using the tried and tested "bash the US, get a cookie" method.
Only people in the United States think it is funny that prisoners are being raped.
Was that just the usual "bash the US for the free mod points" thing, or do you honestly think that nobody in any other nation appreciates crude humor? Amazing.
I've generally found Americans rather tame on dark-and-ugly humor compared to Brits, and the Brits are positively meek compared to the sort of dark humor Russians toss around.
You need to get out a bit more if you really think only Americans could find ironic humor in prisoners assraping one another.
The only time I have the database do the processing is when it's either vastly faster or vastly easier. To put it simply, it's cheap and easy to scale up my webserver farm, and difficult and expensive to scale up my database.
In the real world, developer hours are the most expensive part of most IT projects. You are highly motivated to write code within your comfort zone that will not require heavy maintenance in the future. So yeah, that might mean doing a broad query and doing the sorting/filtering/analysis on the webserver. That puts the heavy lifting in Tomcat/Perl/PHP (and unlike SQL, those languages don't need to have their syntax extensively futzed with when the platform changes because this year's CTO is a Microsoft Fanboy and his predecessor was an Oracle Victim). If the webserver runs slow, fine-- I throw another webserver at it and check the "stateful http session" button on the load-balancer/firewall. Costs me about 5 grand and even gives me other bennies like redundancy. If that saves us a man-week of dev time over the next few years than it's a steal. (Infrastructure load? My boss doesn't care. That's the facilities budget, not IT, and the marginal cost of running one more PE1850 is negligible anyway.)
The problem with Ares is the "pogo problem"-- pretty serious (as in life-threatening) vibrations caused by some interesting harmonics. The SRBs were never meant to fly alone, see.....
Quite a hell of a lot of ballast as such will need to be flown with Ares to compensate for this. Not much has been said about it, but it's a Very Big Deal within NASA and the principle contractors.
Damn those bushies, for classifying a hummer as a light truck! It's clearly a, uh, sedan? Moped? Nevermind, it's obviously something other than a light truck, because Bush says it's a light truck, and EVERYTHING BUSH SAYS IS WRONG.
Oh wait, Bush is the one who was trying to stop the pollution here? Well then, obviously it was an EVIL KARL-ROVE-FROM-BEYOND-THE-GRAVE GENIUS TACTIC TO ARRANGE THE EPA RULE TO BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE COURTS!
Oh wait, Bush's EPA was the one that made the rule in the first place? Well, it was a decoy to make it LOOK like they care about the environment! yeah!
Yes, yes, it's completely bizarre and sinister that an energy company would be investing in the field of, um, energy.
Oil companies aren't about oil, they are about money. Show them another way to get it and they'll go there. They'll still be around selling petroleum products long after the last oil- or gas- burning power plant has gone by the wayside, and in the meantime they will be happy to trade their knowledge of energy production for your dollars, green or otherwise. Oil is just where most energy comes from right now.
When the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels is well underway, you can bet it won't be some irrelevant industry doing the work; it will be the same one that is doing it now (i.e. the Big Oil and Big Power guys).
Think about it - if you're making a clean break from Windows, would you choose a mature, well established alternative like Linux or MacOSX, or would you choose a completely new, unproven and completely incompatible and unstandardised operating system from Microsoft?
Either you're being sarcastic, or you've never worked in a corporate environment. You'll run what MS says you should run, because you can't be fired for that decision. Anything else is a personal risk to the decision-maker.
App vendors will fall over themselves to support the new OS, so that won't be a problem. So long as the new apps can import the old documents, there will be no issue.
As NT and Vista both demonstrated, MS is *not* afraid of breaking backward compatability at the app level.
How does a derivative work hurt me?
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...freedom -1: The freedom to take someone else's work for free, modify it, and put onerous restrictions on everyone further along the distribution change. Or more succinctly put: the freedom to fuck your neighbour. Which yes, the GPL v2 tries to prevent, and the GPL v3 prevents more successfully.
How is this "fucking your neighbor"? So we write some code, and now a cool new consumer product appears somewhere that I can buy (or not) if I want. I have one more option in my life, which means I am slightly better off than I was before and it COST ME NOTHING.
This is what free software is all about. It's not about trying to stop people from making money, it's about making cool stuff available so that people can have better lives.
I agree. I think the outrage over Tivo is missing the point-- TIVO ISN'T HURTING ANYONE. The availability of the software has enabled the creation of an interesting consumer product, giving all of us the free choice to buy one or not.
If the GPLv3 prevents products like Tivo from appearing, then it's a Bad Thing.
People really need to realize that someone else making money doesn't harm them. This "I want everyone else to suffer" pseudo-socialism is NOT making the world a better place, just a slightly more egalitarian one.
Hey, get a new strategy. You've already used the "assume it applies globally" tactic once in this thread. Free clue: You can say "Your argument fails if you apply it to 100% of the persons involved" about any political discussion.
It's juvenile to have to point this out, but: Most of the Islamist extremists opposing the United States are quite committed to their cause, and are not "conscripted" in any sense of the word. And I have to assume you are trolling, but if you really don't understand the difference between a uniformed army of a recognized government and a guerilla force practicing terror tactics, then arguing with you is rather pointless.
The Helvetica is hard-coded into the system, and is not easily replaced (at least, not according to our desktop support guys, who seem reasonably competent). So our creative folks are building advertisements wanting them to use the Adobe Helvetica, and instead are getting a slightly different font.
Most of us geeks wouldn't care, but it's a pretty big deal to them.
So by your logic, anybody who put on a Nazi uniform (and that was most Germans alive at the time, including the current Pope) is beyond redemption. Good thing we didn't use your logic, because if we had, the guerilla phase of World War II would have extended to this very day.
No-- by my logic, treating the folks in Gitmo (volunteers participating in asymmetrical warfare) as if they were German conscripts might not produce the same results.
The worst part is that once they realize the guy they are holding isn't an eviiiiiil terrorist, they don't release them, because they would speak of the treatment they recieved, so they keep 'em, forever, without charges. Then please explain the hundreds that have been released.
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Hey, this is important-- there is now *ONE LESS SOURCE* for those who can't get enough Obama-worship. Fortunately, every other known form of media is still choked with it.
That's unlikely to happen. For a competitor to step up and say "Hey! They're helping Iran be ebil!" would be to imply that Iran = Evil, which has a vaguely Bush-y connotation since nowadays we're all about extending "hands instead of fists". This is where the anti-US slant of modern liberalism hamstrings us; the really *important* liberal issues (like freedom of communication) get ignored, because the people that suppress free speech also hate the United States, and liberal dogma says to fall all over yourself displaying good will toward any self-declared enemies.
Greatest thing I have ever seen on youtube. It's even better than the monkey who smells his own butt.
... can mean only one thing: INVASION.
We just don't need them anymore. We have better missiles, and better drones.
The only thing we need actualy piloted aircraft for are close-in ground support, where things are too crowded/messy for computers to do a good job. And even then, remotely-piloted drones are taking over.
That's a credible argument against the need for combat pilots, but not so much against the need for military air power. Someone has to maintain and operate the drones and whatnot.
Well, that explains a lot about women....
If you want dark, crank your gamma accordingly. Some of us like to actually see the game we're playing.
No it's not karma whoring. Read the rest of my posts.
I'm trolling you :D
Yeah, but the mods don't get that. They modded up your troll comment as insightful, and marked down me pointing it out as a troll.
Gotta love slashdot.
Doesn't matter what the content is-- point is you said something critical of the US, so it's insightful; I said something critical of your post, so it's a troll.
No worries, he's just doing the usual "find a way to blame the USA and get free Karma" bit.
:-D)
I've found that reading the news a few hours later in the day helps with this. The kiddies on the US-bashing bandwagon who mod-up comments like his tend to be among the first on Slashdot; if you wait a while, the grown-ups (who have actual jobs and don't roll in until lunchtime) will mod them back down a bit.
(He says at 8:54 AM local...
Do you think Europeans rape each other in prison all the time? I think Brits can laugh at the concept, but they don't have a problem with it.
I am a devout and patriot American but I find it my duty to stand up and fix the wrong things it does. No one is perfect, but America's strength has always been that it tries to uphold its ideals. Are you going to call Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. an America-hater because he criticized his government?
No, but I'll call you a troll because you are saying inciteful things that are irrelevant to the discussion.
Your claim is that nobody but Americans joke about prison rape. I was simply pointing out that your claim is absurd, and that the most probable explanation for such a blatant falsehood is that you are karma-whoring using the tried and tested "bash the US, get a cookie" method.
Whomever tagged this Kucinich is my hero forever. Genius, that. I'm still laughing....
Only people in the United States think it is funny that prisoners are being raped.
Was that just the usual "bash the US for the free mod points" thing, or do you honestly think that nobody in any other nation appreciates crude humor? Amazing.
I've generally found Americans rather tame on dark-and-ugly humor compared to Brits, and the Brits are positively meek compared to the sort of dark humor Russians toss around.
You need to get out a bit more if you really think only Americans could find ironic humor in prisoners assraping one another.
The only time I have the database do the processing is when it's either vastly faster or vastly easier. To put it simply, it's cheap and easy to scale up my webserver farm, and difficult and expensive to scale up my database.
In the real world, developer hours are the most expensive part of most IT projects. You are highly motivated to write code within your comfort zone that will not require heavy maintenance in the future. So yeah, that might mean doing a broad query and doing the sorting/filtering/analysis on the webserver. That puts the heavy lifting in Tomcat/Perl/PHP (and unlike SQL, those languages don't need to have their syntax extensively futzed with when the platform changes because this year's CTO is a Microsoft Fanboy and his predecessor was an Oracle Victim). If the webserver runs slow, fine-- I throw another webserver at it and check the "stateful http session" button on the load-balancer/firewall. Costs me about 5 grand and even gives me other bennies like redundancy. If that saves us a man-week of dev time over the next few years than it's a steal. (Infrastructure load? My boss doesn't care. That's the facilities budget, not IT, and the marginal cost of running one more PE1850 is negligible anyway.)
The problem with Ares is the "pogo problem"-- pretty serious (as in life-threatening) vibrations caused by some interesting harmonics. The SRBs were never meant to fly alone, see.....
Quite a hell of a lot of ballast as such will need to be flown with Ares to compensate for this. Not much has been said about it, but it's a Very Big Deal within NASA and the principle contractors.
Damn those bushies, for classifying a hummer as a light truck! It's clearly a, uh, sedan? Moped? Nevermind, it's obviously something other than a light truck, because Bush says it's a light truck, and EVERYTHING BUSH SAYS IS WRONG.
Oh wait, Bush is the one who was trying to stop the pollution here? Well then, obviously it was an EVIL KARL-ROVE-FROM-BEYOND-THE-GRAVE GENIUS TACTIC TO ARRANGE THE EPA RULE TO BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE COURTS!
Oh wait, Bush's EPA was the one that made the rule in the first place? Well, it was a decoy to make it LOOK like they care about the environment! yeah!
Yes, yes, it's completely bizarre and sinister that an energy company would be investing in the field of, um, energy.
Oil companies aren't about oil, they are about money. Show them another way to get it and they'll go there. They'll still be around selling petroleum products long after the last oil- or gas- burning power plant has gone by the wayside, and in the meantime they will be happy to trade their knowledge of energy production for your dollars, green or otherwise. Oil is just where most energy comes from right now.
When the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels is well underway, you can bet it won't be some irrelevant industry doing the work; it will be the same one that is doing it now (i.e. the Big Oil and Big Power guys).
How is it possible that the string "breast" does not appear on that page? Are the wikipedias watching a different show than the rest of us?
Think about it - if you're making a clean break from Windows, would you choose a mature, well established alternative like Linux or MacOSX, or would you choose a completely new, unproven and completely incompatible and unstandardised operating system from Microsoft?
Either you're being sarcastic, or you've never worked in a corporate environment. You'll run what MS says you should run, because you can't be fired for that decision. Anything else is a personal risk to the decision-maker.
App vendors will fall over themselves to support the new OS, so that won't be a problem. So long as the new apps can import the old documents, there will be no issue.
As NT and Vista both demonstrated, MS is *not* afraid of breaking backward compatability at the app level.
...freedom -1: The freedom to take someone else's work for free, modify it, and put onerous restrictions on everyone further along the distribution change. Or more succinctly put: the freedom to fuck your neighbour. Which yes, the GPL v2 tries to prevent, and the GPL v3 prevents more successfully.
How is this "fucking your neighbor"? So we write some code, and now a cool new consumer product appears somewhere that I can buy (or not) if I want. I have one more option in my life, which means I am slightly better off than I was before and it COST ME NOTHING.
This is what free software is all about. It's not about trying to stop people from making money, it's about making cool stuff available so that people can have better lives.
I agree. I think the outrage over Tivo is missing the point-- TIVO ISN'T HURTING ANYONE. The availability of the software has enabled the creation of an interesting consumer product, giving all of us the free choice to buy one or not.
If the GPLv3 prevents products like Tivo from appearing, then it's a Bad Thing.
People really need to realize that someone else making money doesn't harm them. This "I want everyone else to suffer" pseudo-socialism is NOT making the world a better place, just a slightly more egalitarian one.
Hans, is that you?
Hey, get a new strategy. You've already used the "assume it applies globally" tactic once in this thread. Free clue: You can say "Your argument fails if you apply it to 100% of the persons involved" about any political discussion.
It's juvenile to have to point this out, but: Most of the Islamist extremists opposing the United States are quite committed to their cause, and are not "conscripted" in any sense of the word. And I have to assume you are trolling, but if you really don't understand the difference between a uniformed army of a recognized government and a guerilla force practicing terror tactics, then arguing with you is rather pointless.
The Helvetica is hard-coded into the system, and is not easily replaced (at least, not according to our desktop support guys, who seem reasonably competent). So our creative folks are building advertisements wanting them to use the Adobe Helvetica, and instead are getting a slightly different font.
Most of us geeks wouldn't care, but it's a pretty big deal to them.
No-- by my logic, treating the folks in Gitmo (volunteers participating in asymmetrical warfare) as if they were German conscripts might not produce the same results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp