SUV are not safer for their drivers--the fatalities/vehicles ratio for SUV are about the same as average. However, what is true is that SUV are definitely less safe for the other drivers. So, since SUV are not safer for their drivers, and increase the risk of other drivers, what is really the advantage of the SUV? On top of that bogus advantage, those vehicles has lousy gas mileage.
Check out the statistics. Do a search for Tom Wenzel.
You can be totally legal, or arguably legal, and can still ride like an ass. This guy rides like an ass.
Overtaking in a turn, into a parking lot with people walking around, maybe grabbing a prime parking spot. Lane splitting and squeezing just to get ahead of a queue that is three vehicle deep. These actions tend to annoy cagers. I am a daily motorcycle rider, and I would have sighed and shook my head if I had seen any rider doing that. He does no one no favor.
Who the hell thinks that Comcast is going to do a surgical strike? What is the criteria? What if your port is accidentally blocked? And you call up Comcast, put on hold for 10 seconds and "Sorry, sir! Our mistake! We'll re-enable it right now!"
It is more like blanket block, 100 minute phone muzak, and "You are spamming! Company policy! Nope, can't do that! You are mistaken, it is not blocked. check your configuration. We only support Windows."
Well, I guess being optimistic is all one can do given the crap that is going around the world these days.
It is true that foreign students in US have more pressure to "make it", since their VISA status (or rather, continuation of) is dependent on their ability to stay in the program.
But I would like to forward the argument that they are smarter. Why? Because they are pretty much the cream of the crop from those countries that could make it here. In the US, there are so many universities that almost any citizen who wants to go to college could do so (in general). But for a foreigner, the competition to get into a US university is fierce, due to many factors (limited spots, limited financial assistance, LOTS of applicants). The schools here get to choose the best foreign prospects. So in general, those foreigners that ended up in the US schools are smarter than the average US students.
XFree has lost the goodwill of the the community. X.org foundation was created out of the goodwill of the community. If, in the future, X.org foundation also lose the goodwill of the community, then the community will create another X2.org foundation. If the community cares enough, of course. Right now, the community cares.
It will be good to keep in mind that the main reason that human dealings can take place is because of goodwill. When goodwill is lacking, usually bad things result.
...the investors know what they are doing is rather unfounded. Otherwise there would not have been a dot bomb where they lost lots of money. It is extremely unlikely that those investors all see something obvious that we have completely missed. In fact, I would say that it is the other way round, that the investors missed something that we know because (1) they know way less about the details of this shenanigan and (2) they are prolly blinded by greed. In other words, investors are mostly lemmings.
And why do you think there is a DISALLOW on/iraq
in the first place? They have nothing to hide/distort, right? I am sure that you nor anyone else will fall for the talkingrealfastattheendofthecaradvertisementsoyoud on'treallycatchthegotchas and go away remembering "Wow! Only $199/mo!" Technically they are speaking the truth, but they are not really motivated for your benefit, eh?
. . . that we still have lots of people who still have some fight in them. Heaven knows we already have too many give-uppers who will bend over at the drop of a dime. OK, Mr. Realistic, bend over now. Ready? Here it comes!!!
After weeks of relentless assault from/. regarding SCO, $CO, SCOned, etc.,:-), and after reading more about it that I should:-):-), and after more information has been disclosed, I have this to say:
Before all this, SCO was going down the tube. (OK, SCO is still going down the tube.) And SCO is not (capable off) doing anything to change that. But there is something SCO's execs can do to make their own lives better. Pump and Dump.
SCO chance of winning this lawsuit is very small. Also, this lawsuit is not about patent or anything like that. RMS nailed it when he said the term intellectual property has been misused by SCO. SCO's lawsuit alleges that IBM destroyed SCO's business/revenue by making Linux competitive in SCO's UnixWare space. That is just is filmsy excuse with which the SCO execs have a starting point to apply smoke and mirror, create FUD with lots of public annoucements. It is not about patent infringement or copyright violation, since IBM owns those code. It is not simply about SCO's market being eroded by linux, since that would mean that SCO failed (fairly) in the free market. So SCO's execs sued IBM under the contract law, accusing IBM of helping SCO's competitor when the contract said that IBM could not do that.
Notice the amount of public annnoucements, interviews, etc., that SCO execs are generating. They do not have to do this at all. Why then? To generate FUD, of course. Why? To pump SCOX up and...
(5)...
(6) Profit!:-)
But only for SCO execs. Anyone else profiting from this pump is purely incidental.
What is going to happen? Simple. SCO execs makes lots of money with the pump and dump. Then when it is shown that the lawsuit has not merit, SCOX tanks. At that time, SCO will be acquired. And the SCO execs let go, with golden parachutes. Who will buy SCO? Since SCO has some pretty impressive IP, they will be bought up by some big fish. And I suspect that big fish will be one or more of: Microsoft, Sun, IP-collecting-cum-lawsuit firms. My conspiracy theory is that the two huge licencees of the SCOsource are into it. One of the licencees is MS as we know. The other licencees is prolly a big tech firm or one of those shadow companies that just buy IP. The UNIX IP will be inherited by one or more of those licencees.
Follow the money. Why does MS want a SCOsource licence? FUD against linux (see how the subtle shift from IBM to linux) and possibly (joint) ownership of the UNIX source. That would give MS a big arm-twisting device against IBM/Sun/your-fav-unix-vendor.
SCO is foobared. SCO will be bought out, no doubt since they don't have any marketing plan/product that can save their collective asses. SCOX will drop in value until SCO gets bought out by someone with an interest in its IP portfolio. The current activity is just SCO exec trying to get as big a piece of pie as they can before SCOX tanks. There is nothing much about ideology or philosophy (so don't get sidetracked;-)--those are just FUD used to accomplished the mission, and the mission is to make as much money (for yourself) as possible.
So, follow the money. Who has to gain from this?:-)
FBI apprehended two suspicious trespassers in the water treatment plant outside the city. The trespassers claimed themselves to be Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. The FBI agent interrogated the trespassers:
FBI agent Smith: What the hell are you two trying to do?!
Osama: Jihad!!!! Jihad!!!! Jeeeeehhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Saddam: We will poison you evil Americans with our WMD! We will detonate this weapon over your water supply and kill you all!
Smith (holding up a bunny suit wrapped in a stick of dynamite): With this?!?
Saddam: YES! My mole in your government has confirmed that this suit in indeed a WMD!!! Die!
Osama: Jeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
As globalization move from silison valley to India to eastern Europe to beyond, leaving a trail of broken dreams which is 90% of those people who were "enriched" and are now looking for jobs. The only 10% who are still getting rich are the execs, the investors, the, surprise, surprise, people who are rich to start with and can absorb any short term misfortune and will only get rich in the long run.
BTW, mod me up as well since my analysis is as good as the parent's.
... if you think carefully (or even casually) about the claim.
The guy is confused (or intentionally spinning) about storage capacity and price. I believe Moore's Law says only about the processing speed. In that case, we replace processing speed with disk capacity, and we extrapolate from the data he gave (which is prolly questionable):
10MB * 2^(18yr / 1.5yr) = 40960MB ~ 40GB
So the disk capacity is not far from Moore's Law (which is not really a law, just an educated guess with observation) prediction.
You can derive all kinds of conclusion when you compare an apple to a chair. It doesn't mean that you cannot compare an apple to a chair, it is how do you validate that conclusion. E.g., if we want to see the relative size of apple v chair, sure, the comparision is valid. But if we want to compare the taste, or the color, well, we need a little more qualification, don't you think?
Sensationalization--works on enough people to be very effective tool in mind control.
You are wrong. GPL does not discriminate against commercial endeavours. It just say you can't take free code and make it unfree. I.e., you get people's contribution for free, so as decency dictates then you should return your contribution. It says this regardless of who you are: commercial entity, GWB, John Smith, McDonalds, Britney Spears, Pfizer, Brett Glass, or me.
You accuse of FSF of discriminating against commercial endeavours. Just because the company with self-serving-only interest is not allowed by GPL to take and not give back? That's lame. GPL does not discrimate against commercial endeavours, it does not discriminate. Period. If you want to insist that GPL does discriminates, then, OK, GPL discriminates--it discriminates against everyone equally.
You want a special treatment for commercial companies? Nah, I don't think you want that. What I think you want is a rule that also does not discriminate, but at the same time allow commercial companies to "do their usual business". Unfortunately, given the nature of the kind of commercial companies that you have in mind, this will put everyone else at a disadvantage, because your kind of commercial companies do not share.
GPL is designed so that everyone has access to the same thing, no one can co-opt the code.
In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not just a policy--it's the principle and the purpose.
Yep. Damn right. You are trying to use this quote to support your point, but it only fools those that don't read carefully. Let me translate it for you: We don't want people to steal our code--our code is for everyone equally. It says nothing about discrimination against commercial endeavours. It discriminates against proprietary software, which is not an entity, and certainly not a commercial company. GPL is to preserve the freedom of everyone to access the code. If some commercial entity, or anyone else for that matter, wants to come and take advantage of that code and not give back the advantage, the GPL prevents that.
GPL is the free-est license in the world: it gives you all freedom, except the freedom to take that freedom away. But you don't want to see that, do you?
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The way you portray them, Brian, the FSF comes off worse than PETA.
No, he doesn't. But the way you portray FSF does.
Cheers,
e.
SUV are not safer for their drivers--the fatalities/vehicles ratio for SUV are about the same as average. However, what is true is that SUV are definitely less safe for the other drivers. So, since SUV are not safer for their drivers, and increase the risk of other drivers, what is really the advantage of the SUV? On top of that bogus advantage, those vehicles has lousy gas mileage.
Check out the statistics. Do a search for Tom Wenzel.
Cheers,
e.
I second.
You can still buy guns, you know! Go ahead! Make those low-life pay! We'll be behind you 110%!
Cheers,
e.
My Debian has survived numerous incremental as well as wholesale hardware changes. It started as a 486 33MHz:
Cheers,
e.
You can be totally legal, or arguably legal, and can still ride like an ass. This guy rides like an ass.
Overtaking in a turn, into a parking lot with people walking around, maybe grabbing a prime parking spot. Lane splitting and squeezing just to get ahead of a queue that is three vehicle deep. These actions tend to annoy cagers. I am a daily motorcycle rider, and I would have sighed and shook my head if I had seen any rider doing that. He does no one no favor.
Cheers,
e.
Pronounced INePT?
Who the hell thinks that Comcast is going to do a surgical strike? What is the criteria? What if your port is accidentally blocked? And you call up Comcast, put on hold for 10 seconds and "Sorry, sir! Our mistake! We'll re-enable it right now!"
It is more like blanket block, 100 minute phone muzak, and "You are spamming! Company policy! Nope, can't do that! You are mistaken, it is not blocked. check your configuration. We only support Windows."
Well, I guess being optimistic is all one can do given the crap that is going around the world these days.
CHeers,
e.
ROTFLMAO!
It is true that foreign students in US have more pressure to "make it", since their VISA status (or rather, continuation of) is dependent on their ability to stay in the program.
But I would like to forward the argument that they are smarter. Why? Because they are pretty much the cream of the crop from those countries that could make it here. In the US, there are so many universities that almost any citizen who wants to go to college could do so (in general). But for a foreigner, the competition to get into a US university is fierce, due to many factors (limited spots, limited financial assistance, LOTS of applicants). The schools here get to choose the best foreign prospects. So in general, those foreigners that ended up in the US schools are smarter than the average US students.
Cheers,
e.
Goodwill.
XFree has lost the goodwill of the the community. X.org foundation was created out of the goodwill of the community. If, in the future, X.org foundation also lose the goodwill of the community, then the community will create another X2.org foundation. If the community cares enough, of course. Right now, the community cares.
It will be good to keep in mind that the main reason that human dealings can take place is because of goodwill. When goodwill is lacking, usually bad things result.
Cheers,
e.
...literally. 8^)
Cheers,
e.
...the investors know what they are doing is rather unfounded. Otherwise there would not have been a dot bomb where they lost lots of money. It is extremely unlikely that those investors all see something obvious that we have completely missed. In fact, I would say that it is the other way round, that the investors missed something that we know because (1) they know way less about the details of this shenanigan and (2) they are prolly blinded by greed. In other words, investors are mostly lemmings.
Cheers,
e.
And why do you think there is a DISALLOW on /iraq
in the first place? They have nothing to hide/distort, right? I am sure that you nor anyone else will fall for the talkingrealfastattheendofthecaradvertisementsoyoud on'treallycatchthegotchas and go away remembering "Wow! Only $199/mo!" Technically they are speaking the truth, but they are not really motivated for your benefit, eh?
Cheers,
e.
. . . that we still have lots of people who still have some fight in them. Heaven knows we already have too many give-uppers who will bend over at the drop of a dime. OK, Mr. Realistic, bend over now. Ready? Here it comes!!!
Cheers,
e.
Linux was not even mentioned! Maybe you are the one with the inferiority complex? A case of the, um, blackboard calling the chalk black? :-D
Cheers,
After weeks of relentless assault from /. regarding SCO, $CO, SCOned, etc., :-), and after reading more about it that I should :-) :-), and after more information has been disclosed, I have this to say:
Before all this, SCO was going down the tube. (OK, SCO is still going down the tube.) And SCO is not (capable off) doing anything to change that. But there is something SCO's execs can do to make their own lives better. Pump and Dump.
SCO chance of winning this lawsuit is very small. Also, this lawsuit is not about patent or anything like that. RMS nailed it when he said the term intellectual property has been misused by SCO. SCO's lawsuit alleges that IBM destroyed SCO's business/revenue by making Linux competitive in SCO's UnixWare space. That is just is filmsy excuse with which the SCO execs have a starting point to apply smoke and mirror, create FUD with lots of public annoucements. It is not about patent infringement or copyright violation, since IBM owns those code. It is not simply about SCO's market being eroded by linux, since that would mean that SCO failed (fairly) in the free market. So SCO's execs sued IBM under the contract law, accusing IBM of helping SCO's competitor when the contract said that IBM could not do that.
Notice the amount of public annnoucements, interviews, etc., that SCO execs are generating. They do not have to do this at all. Why then? To generate FUD, of course. Why? To pump SCOX up and ...
:-)
(5)...
(6) Profit!
But only for SCO execs. Anyone else profiting from this pump is purely incidental.
What is going to happen? Simple. SCO execs makes lots of money with the pump and dump. Then when it is shown that the lawsuit has not merit, SCOX tanks. At that time, SCO will be acquired. And the SCO execs let go, with golden parachutes. Who will buy SCO? Since SCO has some pretty impressive IP, they will be bought up by some big fish. And I suspect that big fish will be one or more of: Microsoft, Sun, IP-collecting-cum-lawsuit firms. My conspiracy theory is that the two huge licencees of the SCOsource are into it. One of the licencees is MS as we know. The other licencees is prolly a big tech firm or one of those shadow companies that just buy IP. The UNIX IP will be inherited by one or more of those licencees.
Follow the money. Why does MS want a SCOsource licence? FUD against linux (see how the subtle shift from IBM to linux) and possibly (joint) ownership of the UNIX source. That would give MS a big arm-twisting device against IBM/Sun/your-fav-unix-vendor.
SCO is foobared. SCO will be bought out, no doubt since they don't have any marketing plan/product that can save their collective asses. SCOX will drop in value until SCO gets bought out by someone with an interest in its IP portfolio. The current activity is just SCO exec trying to get as big a piece of pie as they can before SCOX tanks. There is nothing much about ideology or philosophy (so don't get sidetracked ;-)--those are just FUD used to accomplished the mission, and the mission is to make as much money (for yourself) as possible.
So, follow the money. Who has to gain from this? :-)
Cheers, and get back to work, yes, YOU!,
e.
Monday, Jun 9, 2003, Los Angeles,
FBI apprehended two suspicious trespassers in the water treatment plant outside the city. The trespassers claimed themselves to be Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. The FBI agent interrogated the trespassers:
FBI agent Smith: What the hell are you two trying to do?!
Osama: Jihad!!!! Jihad!!!! Jeeeeehhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Saddam: We will poison you evil Americans with our WMD! We will detonate this weapon over your water supply and kill you all!
Smith (holding up a bunny suit wrapped in a stick of dynamite): With this?!?
Saddam: YES! My mole in your government has confirmed that this suit in indeed a WMD!!! Die!
Osama: Jeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Cheers,
e.
How about this:
As globalization move from silison valley to India to eastern Europe to beyond, leaving a trail of broken dreams which is 90% of those people who were "enriched" and are now looking for jobs. The only 10% who are still getting rich are the execs, the investors, the, surprise, surprise, people who are rich to start with and can absorb any short term misfortune and will only get rich in the long run.
BTW, mod me up as well since my analysis is as good as the parent's.
Cheers,
e.
8^)
You must be talking about schools in the good olde USofA then? 8^)
Cheers,
e.
... if you think carefully (or even casually) about the claim.
The guy is confused (or intentionally spinning) about storage capacity and price. I believe Moore's Law says only about the processing speed. In that case, we replace processing speed with disk capacity, and we extrapolate from the data he gave (which is prolly questionable):
10MB * 2^(18yr / 1.5yr) = 40960MB ~ 40GB
So the disk capacity is not far from Moore's Law (which is not really a law, just an educated guess with observation) prediction.
You can derive all kinds of conclusion when you compare an apple to a chair. It doesn't mean that you cannot compare an apple to a chair, it is how do you validate that conclusion. E.g., if we want to see the relative size of apple v chair, sure, the comparision is valid. But if we want to compare the taste, or the color, well, we need a little more qualification, don't you think?
Sensationalization--works on enough people to be very effective tool in mind control.
Cheers,
e.
With the GPL, you place restrictions on the use of your code, ...
Yes, the restriction is that you cannot place any further restriction on it.
Cheers,
e.
my axe. Tra-la-la-la-la.
You are wrong. GPL does not discriminate against commercial endeavours. It just say you can't take free code and make it unfree. I.e., you get people's contribution for free, so as decency dictates then you should return your contribution. It says this regardless of who you are: commercial entity, GWB, John Smith, McDonalds, Britney Spears, Pfizer, Brett Glass, or me.
You accuse of FSF of discriminating against commercial endeavours. Just because the company with self-serving-only interest is not allowed by GPL to take and not give back? That's lame. GPL does not discrimate against commercial endeavours, it does not discriminate. Period. If you want to insist that GPL does discriminates, then, OK, GPL discriminates--it discriminates against everyone equally.
You want a special treatment for commercial companies? Nah, I don't think you want that. What I think you want is a rule that also does not discriminate, but at the same time allow commercial companies to "do their usual business". Unfortunately, given the nature of the kind of commercial companies that you have in mind, this will put everyone else at a disadvantage, because your kind of commercial companies do not share. GPL is designed so that everyone has access to the same thing, no one can co-opt the code.
In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not just a policy--it's the principle and the purpose.
Yep. Damn right. You are trying to use this quote to support your point, but it only fools those that don't read carefully. Let me translate it for you: We don't want people to steal our code--our code is for everyone equally . It says nothing about discrimination against commercial endeavours. It discriminates against proprietary software, which is not an entity, and certainly not a commercial company. GPL is to preserve the freedom of everyone to access the code. If some commercial entity, or anyone else for that matter, wants to come and take advantage of that code and not give back the advantage, the GPL prevents that.
GPL is the free-est license in the world: it gives you all freedom, except the freedom to take that freedom away. But you don't want to see that, do you?
Cheers,
e.