Yeah, yeah... witty joke. Very cool, strawmanning the principle of reasonability in accessing finite energy resources. Hey flamebait! I'm typing this from an 65W laptop device, though not exactly a naked tree hugger, I'm certainly not riding around 6L volume SUV, single handedly gouging resources and polluting as much as an entire african village. BTW, it's a Mac, so I'm actually cool...
People, please understand... the Linux development effort is not for the satisfaction of corporations or IT Offices. They're not paid for contributing to the kernel, but just do it for the hell of it. There's no metric there except experimentation, taste and beauty. If some company decides to outsource some of its code to the community to share the maintenance cost that's fine; if another one decides to give corporate support to it through a contract that's fine too. But don't blame Linux for not behaving like HP-UX or Windows, it's not the same thing, as far as the vanilla kernel is concerned. If you need backwards compat, 24/7 or enterprise hardware support call an Enterprise Linux provider and ask them to do all the necessary backporting, testing and life-cycle management necessary (and pay for it... there's no free lunch my friends. You thought you managed to screw those damn hippes again!;-) )
you've tried hard, cool. Some even believed we would throw out iPods en masse, after all brown is so hip (billions of flies can't be wrong). But in all honesty, no... I'll stay with my shiny iPod... no matter how hard you try, you've never had a chance with me.
I mean is that a RETURN or a CAPS LOCK? No, no... one thing TP are king is the keyboard and two keys are king on the keyboard: space and the mighty Return. This wheezy blue thing, pale resemblance of the original IBM keyboard is something for HP laptops, not a TP. They pissed on the jewelry...
The go to the Desktop, open the nifty "My Computer" icon, clear the Address: field and type "http://www.slashdot.org", press enter. Boom! you're back to Internet Explorer.
simply removing a filthy icon from the QuickLaunch menu while leaving the whole pile of unsafe, vulnerable infrastructure INTACT, completely BETRAYS the meaning of the word UNINSTALL.
Sheesh... and people talk about Jobs's Reality Distortion Field
Really, is it this important? Err... BlackBerry integration requires a "root" account on the Exchange server in order to poke into users' mailboxes; this stuff is routed out to an external RIM datacenter and then to the BBs. Perhaps those PHBs that live by their BBs don't know it but they might as well use gmail for their classified email.
Of course, that's why there's no sign of advanced civilizations in the universe! They must have fought for their limited resources a long time ago and given the ubiquity of physics and its laws, blown themselves to dust. All that's left is a faint glow in the sky that still hasn't reached our planet. Being a cynical monster won't help you out... listen: humanity's main survival strategy is collaboration, not competition. Guess what? Are you a good hunter, agronomist, plumber, physician, engineer, biologist? Can you perform all of these roles appropriately, or do you need to specialize and count on someone else's skill to keep you alive? It's game theory; play well with the other automata on the checkboard or screw them over and enslave them; how successful is the second strategy? History books tell about a couple dozens psycos and their deeds, humanity as a whole is about some billion people collaborating over the course of time. Given the odds, which is the most successful?
... shit, shit, shit! I don't like the way he looks, he's thin to a point that makes me weary of his health. Given the medical problems he's had I'm getting worried. Come on Steve... stand fast, there's that Os X 10.30 "Lion" WWDC Keynote we're looking forward to.
If you did your job appropriately, termination is the most utterly stupid thing to do. What is with these Corporations, they're as jealous about your soul as a bitchy chick! I trade my labour and skill, not my soul... get real, idiot!
Oh, the shill... and the spinner. Since Napster 1.0 we keep on saying that the net will impose a new distribution model that the *AA are trying to fuck up to protect their predatory, artificial scarcity business model. But wait! It's not them, bastards, that destroy the internet! The socialist hippie dumbasses that want a fair transit medium are damaging the corporate right to profit out of artificially scarce bandwidth! My frineds, what would have been of Microsoft stock if the Hippie Internet hadn't driven MSN Network out of existence (the one you used to find on Windows '95)? Wouldn't we all be happier if we could connect to out local dial-up MSN POP and explore the treats of fenced, mall portals tailored to our consumer needs?
Down with this failing internet open model! Microsoft was right... let's all go back to BBS... it's the future!
Yeah, long before indians became the favourite IT immigrants of the USA an italian (like that other guy... Fermi... and what about Marconi...) invented the first telephone: Meucci. Now, I admit Italy has a healthy history of shitting on it's best minds, up until this very day!, but please admit it, an italian did it. Not that it cost anyone anything, patents are expired and the people involved are dust but please... we're not only Spaghetti, Pizza & Mandolino (e Mafia e Berlusconi... sigh!)... we're good science too!!!!
... I had the feeling that Brown's novel is a tacky rip off of the other one. Brown's contribution is a, more or less irrelevant, sequence of comedy special cheap tricks and poorly elaborated templates. The most "intense" passages that hold the story together are simple crash courses on the stuff from the other novel which really tangles itself in detailed chronicles.
Both of them are speculations, but one is the equivalent of a McDonald tray, while the other is a trip to an ethnic restaurant. One fills your belly and makes you a bit sick, the other requires a curious, "are these friend ants?!". attitude.
Brown should have at least shared some pocket money with them (instead of dissing the other novel from within its own)
it's a clear case for tcpa! Yay, watch your mega cpu fold as it continuously decrypts images and monitors keystrokes for unlicensed or unapproved use of words and trademarks in your text! Slower than a Norton infection, but the chinese filter will be put to shame. In corporatist west the pc monitors YOU!
In Italy the incumbent's mobile provider has a 20/month flat rate with 512MB cap. Buying another 512MB within the same month assigns a renewable 512 MB bonus for an effective 1.5 GB/month for 40/month. I guess the idiots that devised this plan only thought about mobile video streaming but a smartphone with skype can really rock on this
consider the risk of MSIEzating the VoIP protocol. I seriously don't believe Microsoft isn't going to play the usual proprietarization trick to lock user under their own closed platform and eventually levy its own monopoly tax. In any case the quality of Microsoft 1.0 releases hasn't ever been exactly stellar so while waiting for Microsoft to get it right try this other proprietary platform. After all it's here, now.
Wrong counter argument. Remember those people protesting are economically poor, uneducated outcasts. Think west 100 years ago; remember, you as a country, wiped out native americans and used to hang niggers just for the sake of it, only recently getting part of the habit off. We (EU) had a couple of incidents like nazi, fascists and the jewish holocaust so let's be realistic about middle eastern cleptocracies. Give 'em time, 50 years, to mature a middle class and it'll all be fine.
You want some cheese with that whine? I have to follow other people's choices all the time, yet I don't whine about it. You keep on whining how you dislike MySQL, and then insist that everyone must use your favourite piece of software. You keep on whining how you are forced to use MySQL, and then you insist that everyone must use PostgreSQL. Pot, meet kettle.
I don't care if the rest of the world uses MySQL. I get pissed off when I shop around for a portal or some other web based thingie and that DBMS pops up as a requirement. Messing with the schema dump would be a minor hassle but often the stinking dependancy is hardcoded and sprinkled all across the code. Granted, it's a clear indication that the authors are bad coders but why, for hell's sake, won't people learn to put all the db access behind an interface. The point is that people think: it's LA_M_P, everyone will go M so why bother? Yeah, that's just like MSIEism...
Arguing that large companies all go for MySQL isn't all that strong. Most of PHB are notoriously obtuse, they read the rag ads that's all. I whine against the groupthink; we all used to do when big wigs used to say linux "wasn't ready for corporate". Guess who was right...
Maybe that explains it. maybe that rabid fanboyism and general jihad against everything not related to their favourite piece of software is spreading to PostgreSQL?
Nope, first and foremost I'm a unix geek. Lived off Linux since RH5.1 and got the PostgreSQL syndrome way back. Mac user since OSX because of it's unix goodness
When I started learning SQL I shopped around for a DBMS, tried MySQL, read the criticisms, hated the documentation, found the inconsistencies in the language, hated it for the inexplicable error handling, dumped it. Moved to PostgreSQL, walked through the tutorials, read about ACID, saw that I could do it on PostgreSQL and understand where I'd fail doing the right thing. Had some complaints on quoting in the SQL statements but overall found it comfortable to use opposed to messing around with obscure 'leet d00d gotchas sprinkled around.
Many php script bunches, some quite neat, take MySQL for granted, like many sites do with MSIE. I don't want MySQL lying around my systems so I'm the one that's forced to follow other people's choices! What's so difficult in wrapping dB access behind a facade? Don't want to mess around with PostgreSQL? Fine, I can write and contribute the backend but if the mysqlconnect code is sprinkled around the scripts is it my fault for whining or is it because of poor design?
MySQL bogs down when doing DB tasks, fast when doing pure reads; still slower that a filesystem though so why not just go with filesystem based spools? Those are easy to tar-up while MySQL chokes on it's own schema dumps and doesn't even warn about inconsistent data fields! It substitutes it with default values! It messes with the data and doesn't even tell me about it! Sorry MySQL is a toy, it's only good to discriminate those that know their shit from the wannabees.
- Because MySQL fanboys consistently tout their favourite DBMS praising it for it's supposedly enterprise goodness. - Because MySQL web hosting is everywhere despite it's bugs, it's lack of features, it's violation of elementary SQL statement standards thus frustrating and bogging me down fiddling with the schema while I could do better things. Think MSIE HTML bastardization. - Because often I had to put up with it because some CMS, portal platform I wished to deploy has this damned DBMS hardcoded rather that wrapped in a sane Object to ODBC/SQLdialect mapping - Because all these pains in the ass happen because the common understanding is that since MySQL is the M in LAMP everyone should and will use it, just like sites designed and optimized around MSIE gaping bugs.... and by the way, I'm a Mac user
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Yeah, yeah... witty joke. Very cool, strawmanning the principle of reasonability in accessing finite energy resources. Hey flamebait! I'm typing this from an 65W laptop device, though not exactly a naked tree hugger, I'm certainly not riding around 6L volume SUV, single handedly gouging resources and polluting as much as an entire african village. BTW, it's a Mac, so I'm actually cool...
People, please understand... the Linux development effort is not for the satisfaction of corporations or IT Offices. They're not paid for contributing to the kernel, but just do it for the hell of it. There's no metric there except experimentation, taste and beauty. If some company decides to outsource some of its code to the community to share the maintenance cost that's fine; if another one decides to give corporate support to it through a contract that's fine too. But don't blame Linux for not behaving like HP-UX or Windows, it's not the same thing, as far as the vanilla kernel is concerned. If you need backwards compat, 24/7 or enterprise hardware support call an Enterprise Linux provider and ask them to do all the necessary backporting, testing and life-cycle management necessary (and pay for it... there's no free lunch my friends. You thought you managed to screw those damn hippes again! ;-) )
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Dear Bill,
you've tried hard, cool. Some even believed we would throw out iPods en masse, after all brown is so hip (billions of flies can't be wrong). But in all honesty, no... I'll stay with my shiny iPod... no matter how hard you try, you've never had a chance with me.
Yours,
e
I think the parent post is more like: "since you're into this stuff, is it real or just horseshit"
As far as TM law I don't think it would infringe as it applies to very distinct markets.
??? what ???
I'd call it the em-motive... or e-motive (if it weren't for IBM's probable copyright for e-anything) e
I mean is that a RETURN or a CAPS LOCK? No, no... one thing TP are king is the keyboard and two keys are king on the keyboard: space and the mighty Return. This wheezy blue thing, pale resemblance of the original IBM keyboard is something for HP laptops, not a TP. They pissed on the jewelry...
The go to the Desktop, open the nifty "My Computer" icon, clear the Address: field and type "http://www.slashdot.org", press enter. Boom! you're back to Internet Explorer.
simply removing a filthy icon from the QuickLaunch menu while leaving the whole pile of unsafe, vulnerable infrastructure INTACT, completely BETRAYS the meaning of the word UNINSTALL.
Sheesh... and people talk about Jobs's Reality Distortion Field
Really, is it this important? Err... BlackBerry integration requires a "root" account on the Exchange server in order to poke into users' mailboxes; this stuff is routed out to an external RIM datacenter and then to the BBs. Perhaps those PHBs that live by their BBs don't know it but they might as well use gmail for their classified email.
Of course, that's why there's no sign of advanced civilizations in the universe! They must have fought for their limited resources a long time ago and given the ubiquity of physics and its laws, blown themselves to dust. All that's left is a faint glow in the sky that still hasn't reached our planet.
Being a cynical monster won't help you out... listen: humanity's main survival strategy is collaboration, not competition. Guess what? Are you a good hunter, agronomist, plumber, physician, engineer, biologist? Can you perform all of these roles appropriately, or do you need to specialize and count on someone else's skill to keep you alive?
It's game theory; play well with the other automata on the checkboard or screw them over and enslave them; how successful is the second strategy? History books tell about a couple dozens psycos and their deeds, humanity as a whole is about some billion people collaborating over the course of time. Given the odds, which is the most successful?
... shit, shit, shit! I don't like the way he looks, he's thin to a point that makes me weary of his health. Given the medical problems he's had I'm getting worried. Come on Steve... stand fast, there's that Os X 10.30 "Lion" WWDC Keynote we're looking forward to.
If you did your job appropriately, termination is the most utterly stupid thing to do. What is with these Corporations, they're as jealous about your soul as a bitchy chick! I trade my labour and skill, not my soul... get real, idiot!
Do you have MS stock invested? If not, rather than defending MS just dip your hand in the wallet and get a Mac... that's an upgrade.
Or you could wait... of course... CNGRTLNS.W95
Oh, the shill... and the spinner. Since Napster 1.0 we keep on saying that the net will impose a new distribution model that the *AA are trying to fuck up to protect their predatory, artificial scarcity business model. But wait! It's not them, bastards, that destroy the internet! The socialist hippie dumbasses that want a fair transit medium are damaging the corporate right to profit out of artificially scarce bandwidth! My frineds, what would have been of Microsoft stock if the Hippie Internet hadn't driven MSN Network out of existence (the one you used to find on Windows '95)? Wouldn't we all be happier if we could connect to out local dial-up MSN POP and explore the treats of fenced, mall portals tailored to our consumer needs?
Down with this failing internet open model! Microsoft was right... let's all go back to BBS... it's the future!
Yeah, long before indians became the favourite IT immigrants of the USA an italian (like that other guy... Fermi... and what about Marconi...) invented the first telephone: Meucci. Now, I admit Italy has a healthy history of shitting on it's best minds, up until this very day!, but please admit it, an italian did it. Not that it cost anyone anything, patents are expired and the people involved are dust but please... we're not only Spaghetti, Pizza & Mandolino (e Mafia e Berlusconi... sigh!)... we're good science too!!!!
... I had the feeling that Brown's novel is a tacky rip off of the other one. Brown's contribution is a, more or less irrelevant, sequence of comedy special cheap tricks and poorly elaborated templates. The most "intense" passages that hold the story together are simple crash courses on the stuff from the other novel which really tangles itself in detailed chronicles.
Both of them are speculations, but one is the equivalent of a McDonald tray, while the other is a trip to an ethnic restaurant. One fills your belly and makes you a bit sick, the other requires a curious, "are these friend ants?!". attitude.
Brown should have at least shared some pocket money with them (instead of dissing the other novel from within its own)
e
it's a clear case for tcpa! Yay, watch your mega cpu fold as it continuously decrypts images and monitors keystrokes for unlicensed or unapproved use of words and trademarks in your text! Slower than a Norton infection, but the chinese filter will be put to shame. In corporatist west the pc monitors YOU!
/. mangled my post. All price rates are in EURO
In Italy the incumbent's mobile provider has a 20 /month flat rate with 512MB cap. Buying another 512MB within the same month assigns a renewable 512 MB bonus for an effective 1.5 GB/month for 40 /month. I guess the idiots that devised this plan only thought about mobile video streaming but a smartphone with skype can really rock on this
consider the risk of MSIEzating the VoIP protocol. I seriously don't believe Microsoft isn't going to play the usual proprietarization trick to lock user under their own closed platform and eventually levy its own monopoly tax. In any case the quality of Microsoft 1.0 releases hasn't ever been exactly stellar so while waiting for Microsoft to get it right try this other proprietary platform. After all it's here, now.
Wrong counter argument. Remember those people protesting are economically poor, uneducated outcasts. Think west 100 years ago; remember, you as a country, wiped out native americans and used to hang niggers just for the sake of it, only recently getting part of the habit off. We (EU) had a couple of incidents like nazi, fascists and the jewish holocaust so let's be realistic about middle eastern cleptocracies. Give 'em time, 50 years, to mature a middle class and it'll all be fine.
I don't care if the rest of the world uses MySQL. I get pissed off when I shop around for a portal or some other web based thingie and that DBMS pops up as a requirement. Messing with the schema dump would be a minor hassle but often the stinking dependancy is hardcoded and sprinkled all across the code. Granted, it's a clear indication that the authors are bad coders but why, for hell's sake, won't people learn to put all the db access behind an interface. The point is that people think: it's LA_M_P, everyone will go M so why bother? Yeah, that's just like MSIEism...
Arguing that large companies all go for MySQL isn't all that strong. Most of PHB are notoriously obtuse, they read the rag ads that's all. I whine against the groupthink; we all used to do when big wigs used to say linux "wasn't ready for corporate". Guess who was right...
Maybe that explains it. maybe that rabid fanboyism and general jihad against everything not related to their favourite piece of software is spreading to PostgreSQL?
Nope, first and foremost I'm a unix geek. Lived off Linux since RH5.1 and got the PostgreSQL syndrome way back. Mac user since OSX because of it's unix goodness
When I started learning SQL I shopped around for a DBMS, tried MySQL, read the criticisms, hated the documentation, found the inconsistencies in the language, hated it for the inexplicable error handling, dumped it. Moved to PostgreSQL, walked through the tutorials, read about ACID, saw that I could do it on PostgreSQL and understand where I'd fail doing the right thing. Had some complaints on quoting in the SQL statements but overall found it comfortable to use opposed to messing around with obscure 'leet d00d gotchas sprinkled around.
Many php script bunches, some quite neat, take MySQL for granted, like many sites do with MSIE. I don't want MySQL lying around my systems so I'm the one that's forced to follow other people's choices! What's so difficult in wrapping dB access behind a facade? Don't want to mess around with PostgreSQL? Fine, I can write and contribute the backend but if the mysqlconnect code is sprinkled around the scripts is it my fault for whining or is it because of poor design?
MySQL bogs down when doing DB tasks, fast when doing pure reads; still slower that a filesystem though so why not just go with filesystem based spools? Those are easy to tar-up while MySQL chokes on it's own schema dumps and doesn't even warn about inconsistent data fields! It substitutes it with default values! It messes with the data and doesn't even tell me about it! Sorry MySQL is a toy, it's only good to discriminate those that know their shit from the wannabees.
- Because MySQL fanboys consistently tout their favourite DBMS praising it for it's supposedly enterprise goodness. ... and by the way, I'm a Mac user
- Because MySQL web hosting is everywhere despite it's bugs, it's lack of features, it's violation of elementary SQL statement standards thus frustrating and bogging me down fiddling with the schema while I could do better things. Think MSIE HTML bastardization.
- Because often I had to put up with it because some CMS, portal platform I wished to deploy has this damned DBMS hardcoded rather that wrapped in a sane Object to ODBC/SQLdialect mapping
- Because all these pains in the ass happen because the common understanding is that since MySQL is the M in LAMP everyone should and will use it, just like sites designed and optimized around MSIE gaping bugs.