The city I live in has made it illegal to rid bicycles on the sidewalk in the downtown area near the college campus. I am forced to ride in the street in the most heavily trafficked area of town.
The government needs to make sure they can clean up the situation promptly. Eminent domain works out very nicely when there isn't anyone there to challenge it.
Money is not a physical good. Money can be created out of nothing and can disappear back to nothing. Technical people never understand this. They don't study economics, and they don't understand economics.
Since you understand that the economy is just a big game, perhaps you also understand that the rules of the game have been constructed in such a way that it cannot continue forever. When the current system fails, we will have an opportunity to establish a new reason to do things, rather than the current system in which greed is the primary motive. The burden of the current system is coming ever more apparent as the system has funneled more and more wealth to fewer and fewer people.
Humanity existed before the concept of money appeared and it will continue to exist after the idea passes into history.
If Microsoft was in the OS business instead of generating a cash cow both for themselves and the software companies that play according to their rules
Boohoo. Microsoft doesn't care about your business anymore than you care about their business. They aren't your friends. It's all about money, money, money... and they are much better at making it than you are.
Greed, envy, and blame-shifting: the foundations of the business world.
I was going to say "Won't somebody think of the children." but then I thought maybe that is the problem. Some people are thinking too much about the children.
Is this a mistake? "This was a cooperative or 'non-preemptive' multitasking"..... "Windows 3.0 could run multiple DOS sessions preemptively". I think you meant cooperatively in the last sentence?
No, DOS program were actually ran in separate virtual machines when Windows 3.0 was running in 386 Enhanced mode. Preemptive is correct.
Even today, Windows 7 can run 16-bit code (scarily, 16-bit code can bypass security checks). You can turn off 16-bit support, if you research it.
The 64bit version of Vista and 7 cannot run 16bit code, actually. (Can't run the installer for Command & Conquer, for example) Wine now supports that part of the Windows legacy better than Windows itself.
You post has drawn a lot of flak because Slashdotters are an egotistical bunch who think they are smart enough to beat the system, but they are mistaken.
The reality is the current system benefits the big players and shits on everyone else. It's a rigged game, but the big guys want the little people to think it's fair so they'll continue to play.
Like you said, the casino that is Wall Street adds absolutely nothing of real value to society. It is simply a way to redistribute wealth from those who have less to those who have more, while telling those who have less that they could "make it big" if only they tried a little harder.
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The city I live in has made it illegal to rid bicycles on the sidewalk in the downtown area near the college campus. I am forced to ride in the street in the most heavily trafficked area of town.
I hate it, but it's the law.
The government needs to make sure they can clean up the situation promptly. Eminent domain works out very nicely when there isn't anyone there to challenge it.
I start to wonder if its worth it to wait that long.
I'm very sure the answer is "no".
No, you've got it backwards. It is Microsoft who are on a jihad against all things non-MS.
Embrace, extend, extinguish... remember?
80m.
Slashdot ate your mu?
In case you haven't noticed, the editors are fond of sneaking Idle articles into the other sections... samzenpus, especially.
It's not street legal in the USA.
Checks and balances. This is what Congress does when the White House tries to overstep its Constitutional authority.
The issue today seems to be that all three branches regularly overstep their Constitutional authority.
It will fall to the American people to check and balance the system.
Money is not a physical good. Money can be created out of nothing and can disappear back to nothing. Technical people never understand this. They don't study economics, and they don't understand economics.
Since you understand that the economy is just a big game, perhaps you also understand that the rules of the game have been constructed in such a way that it cannot continue forever. When the current system fails, we will have an opportunity to establish a new reason to do things, rather than the current system in which greed is the primary motive. The burden of the current system is coming ever more apparent as the system has funneled more and more wealth to fewer and fewer people.
Humanity existed before the concept of money appeared and it will continue to exist after the idea passes into history.
If Microsoft was in the OS business instead of generating a cash cow both for themselves and the software companies that play according to their rules
Boohoo. Microsoft doesn't care about your business anymore than you care about their business. They aren't your friends. It's all about money, money, money... and they are much better at making it than you are.
Greed, envy, and blame-shifting: the foundations of the business world.
People who bought XP in 2008 were not getting XP SP0, but XP SP3... which is supported until 2014.
Don't let that important detail slip by.
I was going to say "Won't somebody think of the children." but then I thought maybe that is the problem. Some people are thinking too much about the children.
"Won't somebody please link to the children?"
*ducks*
We have usb-creator on Ubuntu. It's been part of the default install since 9.04, IIRC.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
Installing from USB is certainly the way to go.
That doctrine is actually much more modern than most people would guess, having been issued in 1870.
Isohunt never had its own tracker... which is why its demise is no great loss.
There is also a version of winfile for Vista.
Interesting link... thanks. :)
If you wonder where the anti-Microsoft FUD comes from, it comes from people like me who still remember this stuff.
You don't remember as well as you think you do... read the article you linked to. That code was not present in the production release.
Enhanced mode was in 3.0, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0#Memory_modes
The change in memory modes was that Real mode was removed from 3.1
Is this a mistake? "This was a cooperative or 'non-preemptive' multitasking"..... "Windows 3.0 could run multiple DOS sessions preemptively". I think you meant cooperatively in the last sentence?
No, DOS program were actually ran in separate virtual machines when Windows 3.0 was running in 386 Enhanced mode. Preemptive is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0#Memory_modes
Why are you assuming he didn't pay for his VM?
Even today, Windows 7 can run 16-bit code (scarily, 16-bit code can bypass security checks). You can turn off 16-bit support, if you research it.
The 64bit version of Vista and 7 cannot run 16bit code, actually. (Can't run the installer for Command & Conquer, for example) Wine now supports that part of the Windows legacy better than Windows itself.
You post has drawn a lot of flak because Slashdotters are an egotistical bunch who think they are smart enough to beat the system, but they are mistaken.
The reality is the current system benefits the big players and shits on everyone else. It's a rigged game, but the big guys want the little people to think it's fair so they'll continue to play.
Like you said, the casino that is Wall Street adds absolutely nothing of real value to society. It is simply a way to redistribute wealth from those who have less to those who have more, while telling those who have less that they could "make it big" if only they tried a little harder.
The article specified the earlier (but still recent) estimate with weird units:
320 million cubic miles + 5 Gulf of Mexicos
and
320 million cubic miles + 500 Great Lakes(s)
Check that user's name a bit more carefully. :)
fantastic testimonial!