More nonsense from Gates. I doubt anyone's still listening to him at this point (except US Republicans, who only listen to him because he keeps feeding them megabucks in payo... er, brib... er, campaign contributions [yeah, that's it]).
In short, go fuck yourself.
I'm a Republican, and I sit here typing this message with three computers under the desk. One is a WinXP box, One is running Mandrake 9.2 if i586 and the third is running Mandrake 9.2 for PPC.
Who's listening to gates? PHBs and the suits that they serve.
I think right now the biggest thing I see keeping away commercial developers is the lack of a single binary installation/uninstallation API integrated into the desktop environment.
I couldn't agree more. My biggest problem is related to this, it's dependancy handling. In order to install App X you need XLib, that needs XLib-Devel, that needs XXYLib, that needs XXYLib-Devel, and so on. When you go more than 2 or 3 levels deep in depends it's nigh impossible to install the App you want.
It has a long, long way to go, most of it internal infrastructure issues (the fact we're still using X11 is embarrassing).
Why? X11 isn't perfect, but there are perfectly valid reasons to use it. It's powerful, it's stable and it's well documented.
The idea that our support for Israel was the cause of 9-11 is totally unsupported by the facts.
I suggest you watch the documentary titled "Searching for the roots of 9/11", a reporter travels the middle east asking why people hate the USA; time and time again the answers that he gets start with our unconditional support of Israel.
Osama's major claim (as stated in his declaration of war against the United States in 1996) was the presence of "infidel" troops in the Saudi Arabian peninsula. They were there not to protect Israel, but to protect Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quatar, United Arab Emirates, and the status quo of the oil producing countries from... Saddam Hussein, who had violated 14 UN sanctions since the end of the Gulf War.
BS, our troops were there to protect Israel. Saddam's attack on Kuwait was provoked by Kuwait stealing billions of dollars worth of Iraqi oil. Through April Glaspie, the US made it clear to Saddam that we didn't care if he invaded Kuwait.
The 14 UN sanctions that Iraq violated are nothing compared to the 69 resolutions that Isreal violated. Not to mention the 29 more that were blocked by US vetoes.
The foreign policy of the United States cannot be dictated by foreign psychopaths who dislike our policies, or we would soon have none except total isolation, soon to be followed by our own decimation.
Foreign policy should be dictated by what is best for our country. This alliance with Israel is not.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't think that the Islamists are innocent either. They are to blame for their part in the conflict, what I'm saying is that our unconditional support of one of the parties the conflict is what had painted a bullseye on us.
Bosnia 10,000+ during the first Yugoslavian War, no action during Kosovo (NATO stepped in since they wouldn't), and 5 years later under U.N. management Kosovo still has electical production issues that are *worse* than Iraq's after 8 months.
The UN sided *against* the legitimate Muslim controlled goverment in Kosovo. The UN weapons embargo cost untold lives in that conflict.
I assume you quote Hillary's expression of collectivist socialism to express contempt for it.
You assume correctly.
I am surprised that you appear to be unaware that most of the spectacularly unsuccessful nations which comprise the the UN cling to the same philosophy, that the UN itself regularly espouses it, and this is the real reason why they are so easily corrupted and typically unsuccessful.
This is precisely why I believe that the US should withdraw from the UN, but even a broken clock is right twice per day.
I don't believe than any middle eastern nation should be trusted with nukes. Israel included.
The people who send kids with the express intent to kill civilians are not the moral equivalents of an army which takes every care to not arbitrarily level the place even though they could do so within a matter of minutes.
Israel is the one nation on earth that publicly admits to assassinations. They have stated that PLO officials are fair game for assassination. They are not on the moral high ground either. What we have in the middle east is a street fight, and both sides are in the gutter.
Who cares?, it's not your city that will get nuked when a pschopath who killed 3000 people just for showing up at work decides to take out American Cities until he gets around to yours.
We wouldn't have lost those lives in NYC had it not been for our unconditional support of Israel.
The idea that a state which has not used its weapons of mass destruction on neighbors which have invaded it on multiple occassions needs to be reigned in by the totally corrupt UN just demonstrates the depths of your insanity.
So it's the UN who is corrupt? If the entire world thinks that one nation's conduct is wrong, chances are that the entire world is not mistaken.
I post under my ID (unlike a coward like you) so other deluded idiots who equate a modern democracy with a terrorist run kleptocracy can mod me down. I consider it a privilege to take a hit for truth.
*Ahem* WTF do you think I'm not posting anonymously?
I'm posting without using my karma bonus, but I have nothing to hide.
Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
I make less than $30,000 per year, that $300 was a big help to me. It's a fallacy that only the rich benefit from tax breaks. That was cut basically amounted to a free month of rent.
You're acting like I use the quote in a misleading manner. I am not. Hillary Clinton's history is all the context that any of us needs to understand the quote.
Using an old woman's mental ill health to con her into sex, surely that counts as rape.
I'm not sure that it did count as "rape", I think (I'm not sure, but I think) that under the laws of this state at that time force had to be an element for it to be rape. It may have just been sexual assault.
Maybe their lack of problems comes from the fact that they don't employ sumbarine patents, price fixing, coercion or collusion to keep their position in the market.
They just make a product that's good for its intended purpose and let the marketplace decide.
If only more companies would follow that lead, this would be a better world.
I have no problem whatsoever with religious jews. I think that Judaism is a wonderful, beautiful and noble religion.
Israel is a secular nation. My problem is with secular zionists. They have used the plight and persecution of religious Jews and used it to justify their every atrocity. Arafat and Sharon are both murderers who should be facing tribunals.
The real moral of the story is, if you're a ballistics expert, A) don't tick off your funders, B) don't tick off Israel, and C) learn to take a hint.
If you're anyone on this planet, ballistics expert or not, it's just a bad idea to piss off Israel. It is the one country on the planet that the USA is afraid of.
To disagree with Israel's politics, is to forever brand yourself as an anti-semite.
He was helping Saddam build a big ass gun that could place NBC warheads in downtown Tel Aviv. The Israelis were the only ones who had a reason to kill him. Aside from the USA, no other country on the planet would have cared all that much about it.
Has there been an outbreak of lost elderly people recently?
It's kind of an ongoing thing. That's why people get sent to nursing homes. Some elderly people don't have all of their mental faculties anymore. Some of the elderly need to be cared for, so they don't hurt themselves and so they are not hurt by others.
It was about 5 or 6 years ago, but I remember a case in my area (Western PA) where some guy picked up an elderly woman who had Alzheimer's disease and convinced her that he was her deceased husband then spent the next 4 or 5 hours screwing her brains out. He dropped her off none the worse for wear, but things could have gone a LOT worse.
Something like this will make a nursing home more attractive to the relatives of the people who need this kind of monitoring.
I can't believe it, here on Slashdot everyone (myself included) is applauding the predatory use of patents because for once it can help advance the common good.
Mark this day on your calandars, it's one to remember.
I like to think this is what happened to the original Unreal game. That game was (and still is) amazingly beautiful, but ran like crap on even the high-end systems of the time.
My Monster 3D made Unreal run as smooth as glass on my P-200. Its network code was buggy as hell.
The per-student cost of public education went up significantly a couple decades ago due to a single cause.
Teachers Unions? An explosion in administrators and their salaries?
No society in history has become literate through private education. Private education is a failure.
Society is a secondary concern. I am more concerned with the children who are my responsibility. A GOOD public school will provide an excellent education, so will a GOOD private school.
I have had the feeling since last year that the HL2 source wasn't really stolen.
I have no proof of this, but to me it seems more like Valve needed an excuse for why it wasn't ready on time. Valve hasn't shipped the product after nearly a year since the "theft". Come on now fellas. If the product was really only 3 months from shipping, this would have been a minor setback.
I just got an email from steam asking why I don't connect anymore. I haven't responded yet, but the answer is that I like the Won system. Steam is cumbersome and annoying.
It would be more like this, my business has a HUGE library of movies that have been paid for. I charge someone to come into my coffee shop and while they're there they can peruse my library and watch any movie they wish.
Or I have a huge CD library in my coffee shop and while you drink my coffee you may listen to any of the CDs. One could offer a convincing argument that it's not a public exhibition if only one person at a time is able to view the content.
Movie theaters have contracts that they have to abide by, one of the provisions is not letting people see the movie without a ticket.
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More nonsense from Gates. I doubt anyone's still listening to him at this point (except US Republicans, who only listen to him because he keeps feeding them megabucks in payo... er, brib... er, campaign contributions [yeah, that's it]).
In short, go fuck yourself.
I'm a Republican, and I sit here typing this message with three computers under the desk. One is a WinXP box, One is running Mandrake 9.2 if i586 and the third is running Mandrake 9.2 for PPC.
Who's listening to gates? PHBs and the suits that they serve.
Political parties have nothing to do with it.
LK
Why do I care about unemployment in India? Since the reduction in H1-B visas, too many IT jobs are being oursourced there anyway.
LK
I read that as Gates kills Jobs (Steve)
We can't dream, can't we?
No more reality distortion field and Satan himself gets the electric chair!
LK
I think right now the biggest thing I see keeping away commercial developers is the lack of a single binary installation/uninstallation API integrated into the desktop environment.
I couldn't agree more. My biggest problem is related to this, it's dependancy handling. In order to install App X you need XLib, that needs XLib-Devel, that needs XXYLib, that needs XXYLib-Devel, and so on. When you go more than 2 or 3 levels deep in depends it's nigh impossible to install the App you want.
It has a long, long way to go, most of it internal infrastructure issues (the fact we're still using X11 is embarrassing).
Why? X11 isn't perfect, but there are perfectly valid reasons to use it. It's powerful, it's stable and it's well documented.
LK
The idea that our support for Israel was the cause of 9-11 is totally unsupported by the facts.
I suggest you watch the documentary titled "Searching for the roots of 9/11", a reporter travels the middle east asking why people hate the USA; time and time again the answers that he gets start with our unconditional support of Israel.
Osama's major claim (as stated in his declaration of war against the United States in 1996) was the presence of "infidel" troops in the Saudi Arabian peninsula. They were there not to protect Israel, but to protect Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quatar, United Arab Emirates, and the status quo of the oil producing countries from... Saddam Hussein, who had violated 14 UN sanctions since the end of the Gulf War.
BS, our troops were there to protect Israel. Saddam's attack on Kuwait was provoked by Kuwait stealing billions of dollars worth of Iraqi oil. Through April Glaspie, the US made it clear to Saddam that we didn't care if he invaded Kuwait.
The 14 UN sanctions that Iraq violated are nothing compared to the 69 resolutions that Isreal violated. Not to mention the 29 more that were blocked by US vetoes.
The foreign policy of the United States cannot be dictated by foreign psychopaths who dislike our policies, or we would soon have none except total isolation, soon to be followed by our own decimation.
Foreign policy should be dictated by what is best for our country. This alliance with Israel is not.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't think that the Islamists are innocent either. They are to blame for their part in the conflict, what I'm saying is that our unconditional support of one of the parties the conflict is what had painted a bullseye on us.
Bosnia 10,000+ during the first Yugoslavian War, no action during Kosovo (NATO stepped in since they wouldn't), and 5 years later under U.N. management Kosovo still has electical production issues that are *worse* than Iraq's after 8 months.
The UN sided *against* the legitimate Muslim controlled goverment in Kosovo. The UN weapons embargo cost untold lives in that conflict.
I assume you quote Hillary's expression of collectivist socialism to express contempt for it.
You assume correctly.
I am surprised that you appear to be unaware that most of the spectacularly unsuccessful nations which comprise the the UN cling to the same philosophy, that the UN itself regularly espouses it, and this is the real reason why they are so easily corrupted and typically unsuccessful.
This is precisely why I believe that the US should withdraw from the UN, but even a broken clock is right twice per day.
LK
That would be a better thing right?
I don't believe than any middle eastern nation should be trusted with nukes. Israel included.
The people who send kids with the express intent to kill civilians are not the moral equivalents of an army which takes every care to not arbitrarily level the place even though they could do so within a matter of minutes.
Israel is the one nation on earth that publicly admits to assassinations. They have stated that PLO officials are fair game for assassination. They are not on the moral high ground either. What we have in the middle east is a street fight, and both sides are in the gutter.
Who cares?, it's not your city that will get nuked when a pschopath who killed 3000 people just for showing up at work decides to take out American Cities until he gets around to yours.
We wouldn't have lost those lives in NYC had it not been for our unconditional support of Israel.
The idea that a state which has not used its weapons of mass destruction on neighbors which have invaded it on multiple occassions needs to be reigned in by the totally corrupt UN just demonstrates the depths of your insanity.
So it's the UN who is corrupt? If the entire world thinks that one nation's conduct is wrong, chances are that the entire world is not mistaken.
I post under my ID (unlike a coward like you) so other deluded idiots who equate a modern democracy with a terrorist run kleptocracy can mod me down. I consider it a privilege to take a hit for truth.
*Ahem* WTF do you think I'm not posting anonymously?
I'm posting without using my karma bonus, but I have nothing to hide.
LK
Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
I make less than $30,000 per year, that $300 was a big help to me. It's a fallacy that only the rich benefit from tax breaks. That was cut basically amounted to a free month of rent.
You're acting like I use the quote in a misleading manner. I am not. Hillary Clinton's history is all the context that any of us needs to understand the quote.
LK
Using an old woman's mental ill health to con her into sex, surely that counts as rape.
I'm not sure that it did count as "rape", I think (I'm not sure, but I think) that under the laws of this state at that time force had to be an element for it to be rape. It may have just been sexual assault.
LK
Maybe their lack of problems comes from the fact that they don't employ sumbarine patents, price fixing, coercion or collusion to keep their position in the market.
They just make a product that's good for its intended purpose and let the marketplace decide.
If only more companies would follow that lead, this would be a better world.
LK
I want my position to be clear.
I have no problem whatsoever with religious jews. I think that Judaism is a wonderful, beautiful and noble religion.
Israel is a secular nation. My problem is with secular zionists. They have used the plight and persecution of religious Jews and used it to justify their every atrocity. Arafat and Sharon are both murderers who should be facing tribunals.
LK
But I read it just for the articles.
Damn, and all this time I thought people were going to pr0n sites because they like to jerk off.
LK
Mossad's motto is "By way of deception, thou shalt do war", how can anyone ever take anything said by Mossad seriously?
LK
The real moral of the story is, if you're a ballistics expert, A) don't tick off your funders, B) don't tick off Israel, and C) learn to take a hint.
If you're anyone on this planet, ballistics expert or not, it's just a bad idea to piss off Israel. It is the one country on the planet that the USA is afraid of.
To disagree with Israel's politics, is to forever brand yourself as an anti-semite.
LK
I bet an Israeli Mossad agent killed him!
No shit.
He was helping Saddam build a big ass gun that could place NBC warheads in downtown Tel Aviv. The Israelis were the only ones who had a reason to kill him. Aside from the USA, no other country on the planet would have cared all that much about it.
LK
Has there been an outbreak of lost elderly people recently?
It's kind of an ongoing thing. That's why people get sent to nursing homes. Some elderly people don't have all of their mental faculties anymore. Some of the elderly need to be cared for, so they don't hurt themselves and so they are not hurt by others.
It was about 5 or 6 years ago, but I remember a case in my area (Western PA) where some guy picked up an elderly woman who had Alzheimer's disease and convinced her that he was her deceased husband then spent the next 4 or 5 hours screwing her brains out. He dropped her off none the worse for wear, but things could have gone a LOT worse.
Something like this will make a nursing home more attractive to the relatives of the people who need this kind of monitoring.
LK
This is the best news I've heard all day.
I can't believe it, here on Slashdot everyone (myself included) is applauding the predatory use of patents because for once it can help advance the common good.
Mark this day on your calandars, it's one to remember.
LK
Theft and Leak are not the same words.
LK
I like to think this is what happened to the original Unreal game. That game was (and still is) amazingly beautiful, but ran like crap on even the high-end systems of the time.
My Monster 3D made Unreal run as smooth as glass on my P-200. Its network code was buggy as hell.
LK
Certain types of humour require a higher level of intelligence and cultural sophistication to appreciate.
Death-"I am death"
Englishman-"Well, come on in Mr Death"
That's sophistication? It's just not funny.
LK
I've forced myself to sit through a couple of Monty Python films, and I can honestly say that I've found 10 minutes of each of them to be funny.
Maybe it's just that British humor doesn't appeal to me.(But I used to LOVE Benny Hill)
Dunno...
LK
The per-student cost of public education went up significantly a couple decades ago due to a single cause.
Teachers Unions? An explosion in administrators and their salaries?
No society in history has become literate through private education. Private education is a failure.
Society is a secondary concern. I am more concerned with the children who are my responsibility. A GOOD public school will provide an excellent education, so will a GOOD private school.
LK
I have had the feeling since last year that the HL2 source wasn't really stolen.
I have no proof of this, but to me it seems more like Valve needed an excuse for why it wasn't ready on time. Valve hasn't shipped the product after nearly a year since the "theft". Come on now fellas. If the product was really only 3 months from shipping, this would have been a minor setback.
Something doesn't smell quite right here.
LK
Am I alone among Slashdotters in not being addicted to first person shooters?
No, there are 4 moderators who agree with you.
LK
I just got an email from steam asking why I don't connect anymore. I haven't responded yet, but the answer is that I like the Won system. Steam is cumbersome and annoying.
LK
It would be more like this, my business has a HUGE library of movies that have been paid for. I charge someone to come into my coffee shop and while they're there they can peruse my library and watch any movie they wish.
Or I have a huge CD library in my coffee shop and while you drink my coffee you may listen to any of the CDs. One could offer a convincing argument that it's not a public exhibition if only one person at a time is able to view the content.
Movie theaters have contracts that they have to abide by, one of the provisions is not letting people see the movie without a ticket.
LK