So, who's Longhorn? Blackcomb? I don't know? I feel like Abbot and/or Costello over here.
It's not like the names "2000", "XP", or ".Net" really have much to do with each other either, when you think about it. If you didn't know, how would you say three products named that way were related?
Microsoft's lax approach to product and release naming is the primary reason that everybody has a different answer when asked what ".Net" is. As it turned out, even Microsoft didn't have a very clear idea.
The last time I did it, it wasn't so much the quantity of typing, it was the amount of explanation about installing particular DLL packages in such and such a directory, etc. I'm glad to hear it's better now; it wasn't tough before (I was actually impressed with how straightforward it was); it just gave the impression that to deviate from the carefully-provided install steps might court disaster.
Yeah, installing Mplayer is user friendly in the sense of "type exactly what we say for a half hour and it will likely work", not in the sense of "would you like to play XBill while we install it for you?" It's doable, it just requires a user that is friendly with the command line:)
Why don't you just incorporate the family farm? It's cheap to do, and removes any inheritance related issues since the business is no longer the entire property of one family member or the other. I know people who incorporated just to get tax breaks on school supplies; you can't tell me that a farm worth enough to run into the inheritance tax can't spend one-time cost to incorporate.
You still might have good arguments on the basis of the chain of evidence, though - if the blood wasn't drawn directly by the police or the court, who's to say that it's really yours?
I'd also bitch about doctor-patient privilege (essentially the doctor has handed over sensitive medical information) but I don't imagine that's a defense in court.
Actually, we had laws restricting the actions of the CIA and the FBI. Those are pretty much being thrown out in the aftermath of September 11 because those agencies' excuse was that the law prevented them from coordinating. No one in Congress was smart enough or principled enough to make the case that those laws existed for a reason - to curb the inappropriate surveillance of the citizenry by their government.
Not exactly. It was overturned, and the appeal to the Supreme Court failed. The prosecutor then dismissed the case rather than retrying it. Poindexter is as "not guilty" as Microsoft.
Atheists, on the other hand, are neither patriots nor citizens, according to George Bush Sr. Although there's something to be said for being in the opposite camp from Poindexter and North, no matter whether one is going to hell or not:)
He looks a lot like Stephen King, when you get right down to it. Both of them are excellent storytellers. They definitely shouldn't let King act in any of his own movies, though.
Reverse engineering may be done only if Microsoft allows it in their licenses. Consult a lawyer before you reverse engineer something.
Is this true? Since reverse engineering has been deemed legal in the U.S. in at least some circumstances (Phoenix BIOS, for instance) and it's unlikely that anyone granted a right to reverse engineer in their licenses, it seems strange to state that a license is required to reverse engineer. Is this some new legal doctrine, or just a confusing answer?
Actually, I voted for the other other guys most recently:)
The big problem with the Republicans is that they're inconsistent. They support states rights and increased federalism -- until we're talking about assisted suicide or drug laws. They support smaller government -- unless it's the part of government that pays attention to obscenity, or puts religion in the classroom. And they wrap themselves in the flag the whole time they make these contradictory arguments. Talk about enemies of the nation - I don't see liberal ideologues making death threats against conservatives and calling them enemies of the state, like conservative Ann Coulter did. Liberals may disagree and even hate, but they know better than to let that cloud the issues. Conservatives pick and choose when to apply their values; if they'd just pick an interpretation and stick with it they might actually stand for something for a change.
The Left may be splintered, weak at times, and (due to its orientation towards preserving traditional liberal values like free debate and open mindedness) at times easier to argue into a corner, but they're the only folks really standing up for the values that the U.S. really is founded on, and when you elect them they actually follow through on those values. (Except for the 2nd Amendment, unfortunately - you have to vote for some Libertarians on that score.) True liberals will admit that there's more to the U.S. than flag waving, Christianity, and money; conservatives run on the reductionist platform that that is all that America is. Unfortunately, that platform is very often an easy win, because people are lazy and prefer the simplistic viewpoint. Such is life in a democracy.
All right, I learned something today after researching this. The Nazis got at most 44% of the popular vote in the last parliamentary election, by using propaganda and so forth. It's still a pretty impressive swaying of the will of the people. And since many of the reasons that Hitler was able to do this were problems with the German Republic's Constitution, it still supports my point that a strong judiciary and a respected and well-written Constitution are better protections of civic good than the people themselves.
I expect the Republicans will continue to screw over the nation (don't get me started on the business groups that are already slavering to roll back environmental regulations), just enough so that they'll get thrown out in '04 but the situation will still be salvageable at that time.
Hitler was elected by the people (he said, ending the thread). Unfortunately, a Constitution and a strong judiciary seem to be better bulwarks against totalitarianism than the mere will of the people. The people, for the most part, seem to be easily swayed by events of the moment.
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I know that. That's the joke: going from one base where there's no difference, to another base where there's still no difference.
What's sad is that I knew I'd have to explain the joke, although I had really hoped that I wouldn't have to.
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ABM is often influenced by how badly you've been screwed over by Microsoft and/or their products in the past. For many people, it's still a rational position, but it's based on more than just the present and future TCO of a product decision. ABM is motivated by using your past experience with Microsoft to predict more accurately the future costs of those choices. Since this is tremendously variable between users, organizations, and products, it's very difficult to quantify and so tends to get labeled as a merely emotional response.
For some people, ABM is an emotional thing without basis in fact. But I think that for many people ABM is an opinion based on experience that's difficult to quantify in dollars and cents, but no less real.
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Wait, strapping a camera to the airframe requires FAA approval, but leaning way out the window with your camera doesn't? That's about even odds on which will fall on a pedestrian first:)
So if the Hudson river were privately owned, it would probably be in great shape right now, rather than being full of PCBs.
The real problem is: how do you preserve the environment on public land that is surrounded by private landowners? The communist answer is not to have private landowners, the democratic system (so far) seems to be environmental legislation in the public good. If you have complete private ownership of public spaces like the beach, your society loses more than it gains. You end up with a lot of very well-preserved private playgrounds. And we haven't even thought about what happens when a private property owner doesn't care about the environmental value of their property, or when the property owner downstream of them doesn't have the funds to sue them for whatever pollution they turned out.
But actually that makes it a more valid protest - that person obviously was an Adobe customer, and now they're calling for a boycott. That's a lot stronger statement than me, a non-Adobe customer, calling for a boycott. The boycott doesn't hurt me, but it possibly would hurt the "Boycott Adobe" site owner. In a sense they were putting their money where their mouths were.
You can contact them, but you'll never hear back, I predict. I was giving them a hard time a while back about restarting Cowboy Bebop right before the last two episodes (although I eventually did catch them on a later run). Their programming choices seem to be very erratic, to say the least, and they're not too interested in what you have to say about it.
Having reacquainted myself with anime over the past year or so of Adult Swim, I guess it's now time to start diving into it for real on DVD.
Maybe it's just me, but most of the Sunday night shows are more stupid than entertaining. But I've never really been one for comedy, though.
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So, who's Longhorn? Blackcomb? I don't know? I feel like Abbot and/or Costello over here.
It's not like the names "2000", "XP", or ".Net" really have much to do with each other either, when you think about it. If you didn't know, how would you say three products named that way were related?
Microsoft's lax approach to product and release naming is the primary reason that everybody has a different answer when asked what ".Net" is. As it turned out, even Microsoft didn't have a very clear idea.
The last time I did it, it wasn't so much the quantity of typing, it was the amount of explanation about installing particular DLL packages in such and such a directory, etc. I'm glad to hear it's better now; it wasn't tough before (I was actually impressed with how straightforward it was); it just gave the impression that to deviate from the carefully-provided install steps might court disaster.
It's sort of like "trusted" from "Trusted Computing" - trust is good, but the trust relationship isn't the one that you think you're getting...
Yeah, installing Mplayer is user friendly in the sense of "type exactly what we say for a half hour and it will likely work", not in the sense of "would you like to play XBill while we install it for you?" It's doable, it just requires a user that is friendly with the command line :)
Why don't you just incorporate the family farm? It's cheap to do, and removes any inheritance related issues since the business is no longer the entire property of one family member or the other. I know people who incorporated just to get tax breaks on school supplies; you can't tell me that a farm worth enough to run into the inheritance tax can't spend one-time cost to incorporate.
You still might have good arguments on the basis of the chain of evidence, though - if the blood wasn't drawn directly by the police or the court, who's to say that it's really yours?
I'd also bitch about doctor-patient privilege (essentially the doctor has handed over sensitive medical information) but I don't imagine that's a defense in court.
Actually, we had laws restricting the actions of the CIA and the FBI. Those are pretty much being thrown out in the aftermath of September 11 because those agencies' excuse was that the law prevented them from coordinating. No one in Congress was smart enough or principled enough to make the case that those laws existed for a reason - to curb the inappropriate surveillance of the citizenry by their government.
Not exactly. It was overturned, and the appeal to the Supreme Court failed. The prosecutor then dismissed the case rather than retrying it. Poindexter is as "not guilty" as Microsoft.
Atheists, on the other hand, are neither patriots nor citizens, according to George Bush Sr. Although there's something to be said for being in the opposite camp from Poindexter and North, no matter whether one is going to hell or not :)
He looks a lot like Stephen King, when you get right down to it. Both of them are excellent storytellers. They definitely shouldn't let King act in any of his own movies, though.
Is this true? Since reverse engineering has been deemed legal in the U.S. in at least some circumstances (Phoenix BIOS, for instance) and it's unlikely that anyone granted a right to reverse engineer in their licenses, it seems strange to state that a license is required to reverse engineer. Is this some new legal doctrine, or just a confusing answer?
Actually, I voted for the other other guys most recently :)
The big problem with the Republicans is that they're inconsistent. They support states rights and increased federalism -- until we're talking about assisted suicide or drug laws. They support smaller government -- unless it's the part of government that pays attention to obscenity, or puts religion in the classroom. And they wrap themselves in the flag the whole time they make these contradictory arguments. Talk about enemies of the nation - I don't see liberal ideologues making death threats against conservatives and calling them enemies of the state, like conservative Ann Coulter did. Liberals may disagree and even hate, but they know better than to let that cloud the issues. Conservatives pick and choose when to apply their values; if they'd just pick an interpretation and stick with it they might actually stand for something for a change.
The Left may be splintered, weak at times, and (due to its orientation towards preserving traditional liberal values like free debate and open mindedness) at times easier to argue into a corner, but they're the only folks really standing up for the values that the U.S. really is founded on, and when you elect them they actually follow through on those values. (Except for the 2nd Amendment, unfortunately - you have to vote for some Libertarians on that score.) True liberals will admit that there's more to the U.S. than flag waving, Christianity, and money; conservatives run on the reductionist platform that that is all that America is. Unfortunately, that platform is very often an easy win, because people are lazy and prefer the simplistic viewpoint. Such is life in a democracy.
All right, I learned something today after researching this. The Nazis got at most 44% of the popular vote in the last parliamentary election, by using propaganda and so forth. It's still a pretty impressive swaying of the will of the people. And since many of the reasons that Hitler was able to do this were problems with the German Republic's Constitution, it still supports my point that a strong judiciary and a respected and well-written Constitution are better protections of civic good than the people themselves.
Is this like Schroedinger's Cat again? First we don't know if he's dead (position indeterminate), now we don't know what his spin is?
Favorite line from the book:
"Resh-PECK-O-Biggle!" -- a very drunk Puddlegum
I expect the Republicans will continue to screw over the nation (don't get me started on the business groups that are already slavering to roll back environmental regulations), just enough so that they'll get thrown out in '04 but the situation will still be salvageable at that time.
Hitler was elected by the people (he said, ending the thread). Unfortunately, a Constitution and a strong judiciary seem to be better bulwarks against totalitarianism than the mere will of the people. The people, for the most part, seem to be easily swayed by events of the moment.
I know that. That's the joke: going from one base where there's no difference, to another base where there's still no difference.
What's sad is that I knew I'd have to explain the joke, although I had really hoped that I wouldn't have to.
ABM is often influenced by how badly you've been screwed over by Microsoft and/or their products in the past. For many people, it's still a rational position, but it's based on more than just the present and future TCO of a product decision. ABM is motivated by using your past experience with Microsoft to predict more accurately the future costs of those choices. Since this is tremendously variable between users, organizations, and products, it's very difficult to quantify and so tends to get labeled as a merely emotional response.
For some people, ABM is an emotional thing without basis in fact. But I think that for many people ABM is an opinion based on experience that's difficult to quantify in dollars and cents, but no less real.
Wait, I think he meant octal.
Wait, strapping a camera to the airframe requires FAA approval, but leaning way out the window with your camera doesn't? That's about even odds on which will fall on a pedestrian first :)
So if the Hudson river were privately owned, it would probably be in great shape right now, rather than being full of PCBs.
The real problem is: how do you preserve the environment on public land that is surrounded by private landowners? The communist answer is not to have private landowners, the democratic system (so far) seems to be environmental legislation in the public good. If you have complete private ownership of public spaces like the beach, your society loses more than it gains. You end up with a lot of very well-preserved private playgrounds. And we haven't even thought about what happens when a private property owner doesn't care about the environmental value of their property, or when the property owner downstream of them doesn't have the funds to sue them for whatever pollution they turned out.
But actually that makes it a more valid protest - that person obviously was an Adobe customer, and now they're calling for a boycott. That's a lot stronger statement than me, a non-Adobe customer, calling for a boycott. The boycott doesn't hurt me, but it possibly would hurt the "Boycott Adobe" site owner. In a sense they were putting their money where their mouths were.
You can contact them, but you'll never hear back, I predict. I was giving them a hard time a while back about restarting Cowboy Bebop right before the last two episodes (although I eventually did catch them on a later run). Their programming choices seem to be very erratic, to say the least, and they're not too interested in what you have to say about it.
Having reacquainted myself with anime over the past year or so of Adult Swim, I guess it's now time to start diving into it for real on DVD.
Maybe it's just me, but most of the Sunday night shows are more stupid than entertaining. But I've never really been one for comedy, though.
...Fear will keep them in line?