Punctuated equilibrium theory is easily explained by the tendency of large mutations to be extremely disadvantageous. When a large advantageous mutation comes along, it tends to wipe everything else out.
I think what you're talking about is rather a _protocol_ change to X, which falls outside the bounds of merely drawing a button on the screen.
It'd be indescribably badass to have X forward a request for a button to the _window manager_, which would then draw a themed button in all its glory.
This would give us the capability to have the nice matching widget set that we envy in the Big Corporate OSes. It'd also reduce render time over a network, since you'd be sending only a few bytes instead of the myriad draw commands to make a menu happen.
Way back when, Bernie wanted to put his brand spanking new Worldcom building right in the middle of downtown Jackson. Back then, downtown Jackson was a dump. He was planning to revitalize the entire area, create corporate housing for employees, and put a really huge building right in the middle of the area.
Except that huge building went six inches over the sidewalk. So he had to get permission to build his building from the city council. Keep in mind that this would have been great for Jackson, which despite being the capital is po'. The city council denied his petition, attempting to hold out for more money. Clinton made an offer, he told the Jackson city council to screw themselves, and now downtown Jackson is still a dump.
Incidently, it's much more expensive now to live in Clinton - property values skyrocketed.
I've been working there for about two years, entering almost exactly when the internet boom ended. I've had great middle managers (don't hear that very often, eh?), but as has been mentioned, political concerns from higher up can and do take precedence over technical common sense.
EDS is satan, and has ruined a lot of my joy working there. Rampantly contracting has been a bad decision, viewed from the trenches. It's certainly caused more problems than its solved.
From my experience (YMMV), if you can perform, you'll keep your job, and get your 5% raise. If you can't perform and/or make yourself useful, you'll be cut out during the wheat/chaff seperation process.
And I've heard what MCI used to be like... Every meeting catered, free food, equipment, intradepartmental tournaments... you people were spoiled rotten, which is why MCI was $500 mil in the hole, which is why Worldcom could buy MCI. You didn't think of the expense then, so spare us the sob stories.
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
Allow users to delete data from their hard drive??? What a utterly novel concept.
Windows XP can help reverse the 11.3 percent slump in world computer sales since September 11.
Because the new operating system was so big that people needed to go out and buy a new computer. Hardware is advancing faster than the ability of software to slow it down to unusable levels (which is what gets most people to buy hardware)
Gates told the Associated Press: "It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
Because, moron, as has been repeatedly pointed out among the clueful, computers aren't cars
features Madonna's "Ray of Light" as its theme tune
Shoulda tried "Material Girl". I can't believe they got Picard to do a promo, though.
Of when Crab and Tortise were involved in a phonograph player duel, where Crab was on a quest to find a phonograph upon which any sounds could be played, and Tortise kept making "This cannot be played on Phonograph X" records.
The entire reason to have a corporation is to limit your liability. Corporations were invented so that companies wouldn't be liable to the families of employees for their employees dying during their hazardous jobs.
If this single principle of limited liability were taken out, we wouldn't have many corporations left. What corporation can hold to actual, real ethical integrity?
From my experience in the legislature, they don't read hand-written or typed letters, either. They get bags of letters every day, which are read by his office aides. Then the aides tell them what their constituencies think about particular matters.
When you elect someone, you're electing their whole staff, not just the point man.
To have something in your right hand or on (in) your forehead meant, in ye ancient times, to know something and be able to instantly recall it at a moments' notice, much like a SSN, no?.
Some orthodox Jews took a passage from the Old Testement literally and have little scriptures literally tied to themselves.
Actually, it has nothing to do with how fast objects are moving away from us. The light is going through space (yes, that invisible substrate) which is expanding.
For an example of how this works, draw a wave on a large rubber band. Stretch the rubber band, the frequency of the wave decreases.
Anyway, it says in the article that the red color is probably because elements besides hydrogen hadn't been invented at the time.
Ultima I was extraordinary, and I loved playing it. I'm looking forward to seeing the remake.
But...
Are there so few new ideas in the world that we have to pick up the old ones? This reminds me of the horrific trend in the music scene of doing teeny-bopper remixes of 80's and early 90's tunes.
Skyscrapers are made intentionally flexible. Otherwise, the force of the wind snaps them in to. Crystals are inflexible almost by definition.
Crystals tend to shatter under conditions of sudden, point sources of heat. The heated bits expand, the unheated bits don't. Boom. I killed a glass dish that way while learning to cook.
A single crystalline structure as big as the WTC would have simply shattered when the plane hit it, due to simple impact force.
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What's amusing is that the terrorists probably consider themselves the "real" Muslims, and others are just pansy pretenders who are too afraid for their lives to give them up to Allah in holy surrender to the jihad.
I think his point was that the cell phone conversations were already being recorded. After all, you can't record a conversation after the fact. Therefore, it's regular procedure and probably has been for a long time.
I'm having a strange reaction to the information, myself.
I'll tell you why the USA is so thoroughly hated...
The success of the powerful awakens the fear, avarice, and greed of the covetous and weak. That's why.
Before I get marked -1, Flamebait, consider that everyone else has the same opportunity to become a superpower, but they just can't get it together long enough. If the middle east would stop fighting each other and unite, that would be a force to fear.
My wife and I live in Colorado. We called the main hospital to see about donating blood, and they were booked until October 15th. Fortunately, there was another, smaller hospital that could fit us in next week. The nation might actually end up with a surplus...
I'd say it was pretty obvious how Open Source is compatible with business...
Basically, your business has to be service oriented rather than product oriented. Despite what most people in the technical industry think, lusers do not want programs - they want capabilities. They don't even really want to use the damn machine in the corner of their cubicle, and the best thing a programmer can do is to make it as pleasant an experience as possible.
Where was I? Oh, yeah. AOL gives their software out for free (though, sadly, only as in beer), yet charges for a service. This is reasonable and sane, and has made them lots of money and market share. Contrast with.NET and you'll be a little more educated.
To sum up, unless you're Stallman (who, he says, gets paid to add features to GNU programs), or Linus (who has a service-oriented position), you're not going to make any money writing Open Source for the world. But you can use Open Source software to solve problems, and that is where you can get yer business. Especially since it's a lot more fun to work on something because you need it.
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Punctuated equilibrium theory is easily explained by the tendency of large mutations to be extremely disadvantageous. When a large advantageous mutation comes along, it tends to wipe everything else out.
Nothing terribly new there.
I think what you're talking about is rather a _protocol_ change to X, which falls outside the bounds of merely drawing a button on the screen.
It'd be indescribably badass to have X forward a request for a button to the _window manager_, which would then draw a themed button in all its glory.
This would give us the capability to have the nice matching widget set that we envy in the Big Corporate OSes. It'd also reduce render time over a network, since you'd be sending only a few bytes instead of the myriad draw commands to make a menu happen.
Typical installation for Slackware 8.0: /usr/bin | wc -l
$ ls -l
902
Er... no
Way back when, Bernie wanted to put his brand spanking new Worldcom building right in the middle of downtown Jackson. Back then, downtown Jackson was a dump. He was planning to revitalize the entire area, create corporate housing for employees, and put a really huge building right in the middle of the area.
Except that huge building went six inches over the sidewalk. So he had to get permission to build his building from the city council. Keep in mind that this would have been great for Jackson, which despite being the capital is po'. The city council denied his petition, attempting to hold out for more money. Clinton made an offer, he told the Jackson city council to screw themselves, and now downtown Jackson is still a dump.
Incidently, it's much more expensive now to live in Clinton - property values skyrocketed.
I've been working there for about two years, entering almost exactly when the internet boom ended. I've had great middle managers (don't hear that very often, eh?), but as has been mentioned, political concerns from higher up can and do take precedence over technical common sense.
EDS is satan, and has ruined a lot of my joy working there. Rampantly contracting has been a bad decision, viewed from the trenches. It's certainly caused more problems than its solved.
From my experience (YMMV), if you can perform, you'll keep your job, and get your 5% raise. If you can't perform and/or make yourself useful, you'll be cut out during the wheat/chaff seperation process.
And I've heard what MCI used to be like... Every meeting catered, free food, equipment, intradepartmental tournaments... you people were spoiled rotten, which is why MCI was $500 mil in the hole, which is why Worldcom could buy MCI. You didn't think of the expense then, so spare us the sob stories.
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
Allow users to delete data from their hard drive??? What a utterly novel concept.
Windows XP can help reverse the 11.3 percent slump in world computer sales since September 11.
Because the new operating system was so big that people needed to go out and buy a new computer. Hardware is advancing faster than the ability of software to slow it down to unusable levels (which is what gets most people to buy hardware)
Gates told the Associated Press: "It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
Because, moron, as has been repeatedly pointed out among the clueful, computers aren't cars
features Madonna's "Ray of Light" as its theme tune
Shoulda tried "Material Girl". I can't believe they got Picard to do a promo, though.
I guess "Give me liberty or give me death" just took a flying leap off the philosophical cliff.
The DA, pretty obviously, wouldn't say such a thing. Instead, s/he'd say something like:
DA: The Linux operating system is pretty popular, is it not?
Alan: Yes, it is.
DA: About how popular would you say Linux is?
Alan: There are probably a few million people using it now.
DA: And corporations?
Alan: Many do, yes.
DA: Did you, Alan Cox, distribute information regarding the security functions of the Linux operating system?
Alan: Yes, I did as part of the normal Changelog procedure common in Open Source.
DA: This information could be used to circumvent security measures, could it not?
Alan: Yes, it could.
DA: So you knowingly and willfully distributed information that could be used for the circumvention of millions of computers?
...
It'd probably go downhill real fast from that.
Of when Crab and Tortise were involved in a phonograph player duel, where Crab was on a quest to find a phonograph upon which any sounds could be played, and Tortise kept making "This cannot be played on Phonograph X" records.
The entire reason to have a corporation is to limit your liability. Corporations were invented so that companies wouldn't be liable to the families of employees for their employees dying during their hazardous jobs.
If this single principle of limited liability were taken out, we wouldn't have many corporations left. What corporation can hold to actual, real ethical integrity?
From my experience in the legislature, they don't read hand-written or typed letters, either. They get bags of letters every day, which are read by his office aides. Then the aides tell them what their constituencies think about particular matters.
When you elect someone, you're electing their whole staff, not just the point man.
To have something in your right hand or on (in) your forehead meant, in ye ancient times, to know something and be able to instantly recall it at a moments' notice, much like a SSN, no?.
Some orthodox Jews took a passage from the Old Testement literally and have little scriptures literally tied to themselves.
Er... this is Slashdot we're talking on here...
Actually, it has nothing to do with how fast objects are moving away from us. The light is going through space (yes, that invisible substrate) which is expanding.
For an example of how this works, draw a wave on a large rubber band. Stretch the rubber band, the frequency of the wave decreases.
Anyway, it says in the article that the red color is probably because elements besides hydrogen hadn't been invented at the time.
Well, computer crime _is_ crime, by definition. If it weren't a crime, it wouldn't be computer crime, now would it?
All the same, so is a little kid stealing a candy bar from a grocery store. Life imprisonment? Terrorism? Geez...
Good thing the U.S. has a judicial branch to help sort things out.
Ultima I was extraordinary, and I loved playing it. I'm looking forward to seeing the remake.
But...
Are there so few new ideas in the world that we have to pick up the old ones? This reminds me of the horrific trend in the music scene of doing teeny-bopper remixes of 80's and early 90's tunes.
CNN and MSNBC have a LOT of money, with personnel that work in shifts and get paid exorbantly high salaries.
Slashdot is run by a few truly elite guys, running on a relatively tiny budget and substandard equipment.
Kudos to the slashteam.
Er... problems with that...
Skyscrapers are made intentionally flexible. Otherwise, the force of the wind snaps them in to. Crystals are inflexible almost by definition.
Crystals tend to shatter under conditions of sudden, point sources of heat. The heated bits expand, the unheated bits don't. Boom. I killed a glass dish that way while learning to cook.
A single crystalline structure as big as the WTC would have simply shattered when the plane hit it, due to simple impact force.
Otherwise they wouldn't be so bloody dangerous.
I'm having a strange reaction to the information, myself.
The success of the powerful awakens the fear, avarice, and greed of the covetous and weak. That's why.
Before I get marked -1, Flamebait, consider that everyone else has the same opportunity to become a superpower, but they just can't get it together long enough. If the middle east would stop fighting each other and unite, that would be a force to fear.
My wife and I live in Colorado. We called the main hospital to see about donating blood, and they were booked until October 15th. Fortunately, there was another, smaller hospital that could fit us in next week. The nation might actually end up with a surplus...
Of course, _After_ you've researched the problem, you may feel free to indulge in mindless panic all you wish.
No thanks.
You'll be allowed to jump off the ground as high as you can.
Basically, your business has to be service oriented rather than product oriented. Despite what most people in the technical industry think, lusers do not want programs - they want capabilities. They don't even really want to use the damn machine in the corner of their cubicle, and the best thing a programmer can do is to make it as pleasant an experience as possible.
Where was I? Oh, yeah. AOL gives their software out for free (though, sadly, only as in beer), yet charges for a service. This is reasonable and sane, and has made them lots of money and market share. Contrast with .NET and you'll be a little more educated.
To sum up, unless you're Stallman (who, he says, gets paid to add features to GNU programs), or Linus (who has a service-oriented position), you're not going to make any money writing Open Source for the world. But you can use Open Source software to solve problems, and that is where you can get yer business. Especially since it's a lot more fun to work on something because you need it.