This means making MSFT money, while supporting BSD. Then taking that MSFT money, not putting it _into_ BSD (the whole free thing that we keep chatting about) but _also_ not putting it into MSFT.
Seems cheaper then just buying their stock and holding it in a brokerage account you won't let your friends see now that you're wondering what'll happen to Red Hat's valuations.
Microsoft's money is so green even the Government doesn't know how they do it. Sounds like a plum to me, even _with_ reservations about working for MSFT, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and turn 'em around from the inside since they're hiring you _specifically_ because you aren't an MSFT fan.
Then again, I don't suppose Einstein woulda worked for Germany no matter what they'd paid him, so... there you go.
So, the government's gonna vote itself a huge budget and then use only free software? Sounds about right.
But wait, what if Doom or Quake are free? Can government officials use them?
Brazil seems to be having some minor software weirdness today. Can you say "we finally got a reported down here that understands portugese and the internet at the same time?" Good, I knew you could.
Face it: wouldn't you want to experiment with Zero-G lovemaking if you had a chance to do so - and you had a willing partner available whose curiosity quotient was as high as yours?
Well of course we would, don't be ridiculous.
Then again, Face it: wouldn't most slashdot readers like to experiment with _any_ lovemaking, if they had the chance to do so - and a willing partner whose curiosity quotient was as high as theirs?
AOL hasn't folded ICQ into their messaging system for two reasons: 1) their internal instant message client has been around since AOL 1.0 or before and those that haven't upgraded to more recent versions could be out of luck 2) they sell virtual real estate at the top of their standalone app.
While theoretically, AOL could translate ICQ messages on their way through, even the naming conventions are radically different.
Sure, standards would be great, but don't look to AOL to implement them anytime soon.
The theory of weightlifting (that's where people who generally don't read/. pick up heavy things and put them back down again, often paying for the privilege of even _touching_ the heavy things...) is the more of it you do, the bigger your muscles become. By analogy, the more work you do in a given field, the more mental-strength you should receive.
Except the former was tested on lab rats. Was the latter? Did they give some Lab Rats jobs in MIS and others jobs collecting Ratty garbage just to see which ones would have bigger brains and bigger muscles at the end of the month?
And this surprises people, why? Who can't remember High school, where the brainy kids got smarter and the jockey kids got bigger, because the former group sat at home coding all day, trying to hack local banks, and functionally learning how to avoid better mousetraps, while the jockey types were lifting weights.
What's going to be the next _massive_ revelation? Reading/. makes nerds more aware of the news?
Ok, so we're aware that the company is doing really really well under Jobs. Stock is at its highest price ever. Loads of new users, based on the iConcept.
But those of us who've used Macs for more than just six months feel left out. No more easter eggs, engineering credits, or... what else? This makes Apple Products more like any other company's, takes it out of the realm of "hey, Apple is just more fun" and makes it an actual competitor, or at least, so the theory goes by the iCeo.
My take? It's a sad day of passing, but I'd rather Apple produce stronger product, and maintain that then go under like they've threatened to do so many times before.
Then again, I fail to see how something as small as EE or EngCreds would threaten a computer manufacturer w/%8 marketshare. I'm not stupid, just blindingly obtuse on this one.
File this under "Jobs Thinks He's Got A Good Thing Going And Now Wants To Make Sure Nothing Messes It Up"
As with every democracy (even the representative democracies) the US has a problem on its recently re-bloodied hands: how do you serve the minority when majority rules? The short answer is: usually, you don't.
In high schools across the country, students are ritually ostracized, ignored and avoided by their peers, supposed mentors and potential friends, because they dress differently, they listen to different music or they have the wrong color skin. This is not news.
The Slashdot community (can I call us that?) is in a bit of an uproar, because "Hey, those guys over there in Colorado, that's us... or could be if we lost it... not saying that we'd blow people up or anything, but jesus, it'd be nice to get some revenge on these jerks who've been mercilessly picking on me since they developed muscles and I learned to code." Not that slashdotters would actually go out and do anything violent. We've got better things to do. Like watch freshmeat update. Or daytrade. But still, we can understand.
So teachers get worried. Because, after all, many of their middle school students are already more intelligent than they are. Not in all cases certainly, but after all, those who can, do, those who can't teach, right? Obviously overgeneralized, but you get the picture. When you have to send your eigth grade student over to the local college to get math tutoring, you have to worry that maybe the kid, without guidance, will be a bit of a danger. Because it's not a far jump from learning math to learning physics to learning chemistry to making bombs. Especially with such easy access to violent images in the media, not to mention the sex and violence they learn in Sunday school from the bible.
So teachers run scared of their students, who can, in many cases, out-think them, certainly outnumber them and with a bit of weaponry, could destroy them. Small wonder that that they trample students civil rights in the name of protecting themselves and other students. Small wonder that they pawn intelligent students off on psychiatrists, guidance counselors and the schools principal (Remember, the principal should be your pal... or treat him like a member of your family... an older brother...) when any student shows promise, or interest in something not specifically in the curriculum.
A fascination with war could be interpreted in two ways: if the kid is a jock, he's a West Point cadet, if he's abnormally intelligent, he's Oppenheimer, pursuing a "sweet technology" at the Trinity site.
How do you balance your fear of those who are more able than you with your duty to them as a teacher? Here's a thought: punish students who pick on other students, instead of ordering the students who get picked on to go to counseling.
You want solutions: don't turn to parents, who have turned absentee-landlord. Maybe it's time to up teachers salaries, so we can get teachers that are more able to cope with gifted and ostracized students. Perhaps looking to a President nicknamed "Bubba" is the wrong thing to do when dealing with the rights of the oppressed? Maybe it's time for corporations to send their techies out to do some one on one, or one on groups with gifted students? Show them that at the end of the tunnel is a paycheck, if not a light. Maybe it's time to stop handwringing and ask the "misfits" what it is exactly we'd like, why we hate four years of life and how we could make it better. Because you certainly won't see teachers reproaching the football team for locking the chess club in lockers and setting fire to the swim teams clothing. But you will be sent home for wearing a trenchcoat.
Because many of us can understand the hatred that wells up in the pit of the stomache when the opposite sex laughs at your advances, the media gives you no voice and your peers and mentors all view you askance because you have been cursed with intelligence, or view the world slightly differently, or have acne, or god forbid, are of a race not the majority. Those of us who have made it through the gauntlet of high school, getting marginalized, ignored and offended, could take some of these marginalized kids, and help them.
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Can we just think about this for a second?
This means making MSFT money, while supporting BSD. Then taking that MSFT money, not putting it _into_ BSD (the whole free thing that we keep chatting about) but _also_ not putting it into MSFT.
Seems cheaper then just buying their stock and holding it in a brokerage account you won't let your friends see now that you're wondering what'll happen to Red Hat's valuations.
Microsoft's money is so green even the Government doesn't know how they do it. Sounds like a plum to me, even _with_ reservations about working for MSFT, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and turn 'em around from the inside since they're hiring you _specifically_ because you aren't an MSFT fan.
Then again, I don't suppose Einstein woulda worked for Germany no matter what they'd paid him, so... there you go.
So, the government's gonna vote itself a huge budget and then use only free software? Sounds about right.
But wait, what if Doom or Quake are free? Can government officials use them?
Brazil seems to be having some minor software weirdness today. Can you say "we finally got a reported down here that understands portugese and the internet at the same time?" Good, I knew you could.
Coke Addled Gun Wielding Psychos don't kill people, Video Games Kill People.
Score one for the perenially stupid.
Well of course we would, don't be ridiculous.
Then again, Face it: wouldn't most slashdot readers like to experiment with _any_ lovemaking, if they had the chance to do so - and a willing partner whose curiosity quotient was as high as theirs?
Right, so some of us don't work on *nix boxes.
everybuddy doesn't support us.
AOL hasn't folded ICQ into their messaging system for two reasons: 1) their internal instant message client has been around since AOL 1.0 or before and those that haven't upgraded to more recent versions could be out of luck 2) they sell virtual real estate at the top of their standalone app.
While theoretically, AOL could translate ICQ messages on their way through, even the naming conventions are radically different.
Sure, standards would be great, but don't look to AOL to implement them anytime soon.
The theory of weightlifting (that's where people who generally don't read /. pick up heavy things and put them back down again, often paying for the privilege of even _touching_ the heavy things...) is the more of it you do, the bigger your muscles become. By analogy, the more work you do in a given field, the more mental-strength you should receive.
/. makes nerds more aware of the news?
Except the former was tested on lab rats. Was the latter? Did they give some Lab Rats jobs in MIS and others jobs collecting Ratty garbage just to see which ones would have bigger brains and bigger muscles at the end of the month?
And this surprises people, why? Who can't remember High school, where the brainy kids got smarter and the jockey kids got bigger, because the former group sat at home coding all day, trying to hack local banks, and functionally learning how to avoid better mousetraps, while the jockey types were lifting weights.
What's going to be the next _massive_ revelation? Reading
Stock Hits 100.
Apple Faithful crushed by success of company.
Ok, so we're aware that the company is doing really really well under Jobs. Stock is at its highest price ever. Loads of new users, based on the iConcept.
But those of us who've used Macs for more than just six months feel left out. No more easter eggs, engineering credits, or... what else? This makes Apple Products more like any other company's, takes it out of the realm of "hey, Apple is just more fun" and makes it an actual competitor, or at least, so the theory goes by the iCeo.
My take? It's a sad day of passing, but I'd rather Apple produce stronger product, and maintain that then go under like they've threatened to do so many times before.
Then again, I fail to see how something as small as EE or EngCreds would threaten a computer manufacturer w/%8 marketshare. I'm not stupid, just blindingly obtuse on this one.
File this under "Jobs Thinks He's Got A Good Thing Going And Now Wants To Make Sure Nothing Messes It Up"
Not because I respect the parents, but because they tend to get upset when people take their 13 years old anywhere.
As with every democracy (even the representative democracies) the US has a problem on its recently re-bloodied hands: how do you serve the minority when majority rules? The short answer is: usually, you don't.
In high schools across the country, students are ritually ostracized, ignored and avoided by their peers, supposed mentors and potential friends, because they dress differently, they listen to different music or they have the wrong color skin. This is not news.
The Slashdot community (can I call us that?) is in a bit of an uproar, because "Hey, those guys over there in Colorado, that's us... or could be if we lost it... not saying that we'd blow people up or anything, but jesus, it'd be nice to get some revenge on these jerks who've been mercilessly picking on me since they developed muscles and I learned to code." Not that slashdotters would actually go out and do anything violent. We've got better things to do. Like watch freshmeat update. Or daytrade. But still, we can understand.
So teachers get worried. Because, after all, many of their middle school students are already more intelligent than they are. Not in all cases certainly, but after all, those who can, do, those who can't teach, right? Obviously overgeneralized, but you get the picture. When you have to send your eigth grade student over to the local college to get math tutoring, you have to worry that maybe the kid, without guidance, will be a bit of a danger. Because it's not a far jump from learning math to learning physics to learning chemistry to making bombs. Especially with such easy access to violent images in the media, not to mention the sex and violence they learn in Sunday school from the bible.
So teachers run scared of their students, who can, in many cases, out-think them, certainly outnumber them and with a bit of weaponry, could destroy them. Small wonder that that they trample students civil rights in the name of protecting themselves and other students. Small wonder that they pawn intelligent students off on psychiatrists, guidance counselors and the schools principal (Remember, the principal should be your pal... or treat him like a member of your family... an older brother...) when any student shows promise, or interest in something not specifically in the curriculum.
A fascination with war could be interpreted in two ways: if the kid is a jock, he's a West Point cadet, if he's abnormally intelligent, he's Oppenheimer, pursuing a "sweet technology" at the Trinity site.
How do you balance your fear of those who are more able than you with your duty to them as a teacher? Here's a thought: punish students who pick on other students, instead of ordering the students who get picked on to go to counseling.
You want solutions: don't turn to parents, who have turned absentee-landlord. Maybe it's time to up teachers salaries, so we can get teachers that are more able to cope with gifted and ostracized students. Perhaps looking to a President nicknamed "Bubba" is the wrong thing to do when dealing with the rights of the oppressed? Maybe it's time for corporations to send their techies out to do some one on one, or one on groups with gifted students? Show them that at the end of the tunnel is a paycheck, if not a light. Maybe it's time to stop handwringing and ask the "misfits" what it is exactly we'd like, why we hate four years of life and how we could make it better. Because you certainly won't see teachers reproaching the football team for locking the chess club in lockers and setting fire to the swim teams clothing. But you will be sent home for wearing a trenchcoat.
Because many of us can understand the hatred that wells up in the pit of the stomache when the opposite sex laughs at your advances, the media gives you no voice and your peers and mentors all view you askance because you have been cursed with intelligence, or view the world slightly differently, or have acne, or god forbid, are of a race not the majority. Those of us who have made it through the gauntlet of high school, getting marginalized, ignored and offended, could take some of these marginalized kids, and help them.