Redhat isn't trying to replace Microsoft where it doesn't make sense. If you hire RHAT consultants to come redesign your company's network, they aren't going to make a hard sell to get rid of windows on the desktop, or exchange, etc.
RHAT are profiteers in the same way that most OSS developers are: their "need" is to make money. This is perfectly acceptable.
Allow those shmoe users to use Windows. It is sexier and easier for them. This is not a problem for Linux because it is not a problem for Linus, Cox, and the gang.
I think you might be surprised to find that most OSS and FS developers do their work because they want to create software that fits needs. "Beating Microsoft" may or may not be a side effect.
If my belief means I refuse my patients blood transfusions, or fail to mention they are a possible treatment for some condition, then I obviously shouldn't be a practising doctor.
That is, I assume, exactly what this professor is implying. If someone does not believe in evolution, then they will be likely to make poor judgments as a doctor. They have already made an error in decision making in a scientific matter due to religious fanaticism. That's a pretty clear indication, isn't it?
"A biology student may need to understand the theory of evolution and be able to explain it. But a state-run university has no business telling students what they should or should not believe in," Ralph Boyd Jr., assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement.
Right. For example, it would be completely beyond the pail were a state-run university to require that medical students believe in... medicine.
Everything else in Japan and especially in Tokyo is expensive. But Internet is as cheap as you can imagine.
Aren't one of those extremely expensive things... phone lines? I'm sure if SBC was charging $400/mo on my POTSS line, they might have some capital to throw around on DSL service.
I hate comcast as much as the next guy, but the self-install kit for my cable modem came with instructions for Mac OS 9, and they walked me through doing it for Mac OS X over the phone. They also helped where they could while I set up a wireless basestation so I could share my connex. The dude on the phone didn't seem to mind me connecting a linux machine, either, although he couldn't help me.
Fair enough. They also aren't going to go public with information from such a wiretap unless it's allowed under treaty with Pakistan. But yes, I see how that is sideways to your point about the Bill of Rights.
No one has ever suggested, for example, that the CIA needs a warrant to eavesdrop on a foreign national in a foreign country.
They don't need a warrant because it is known to be illegal. They don't need a warrant because they will not get caught. Otherwise, they'd go to a foreign prison.
Spying isn't legal, smart guy.
Your second point is dead on, however. Theo has freedom of speech. He is not guaranteed to be funded to speak... on the government's dime.
I'm sorry, if you define multi-button mice as leaving "the realm of Apple-style GUIs", then so is modifying anything on your system or on your dock.
Get a fricking $15 mouse, drag your home directory and your application directory into your dock. Drag *everything* else out that you don't use constantly, and make the dock as big as possible. Now you've got a *huge* target (so Fitts can relax), and it barely moves around at all.
Personally, I have an iBook, so I do everything with a ctrl-click, but it feels completely effortless. Between a well-configured dock and column view in the finder, there's nothing I do to access files that doesn't happen at light speeds. Dunno what y'all are complaining about.
Even better, right click on it. With the Applications directory and my Home directory both in the dock, I almost never use the finder. And I only have five applications in my dock. It looks hellof slick, and works even slicker.
It's mostly a GUI innovation, and is unrelated to hierarchical storage. The same document might be in several piles if its content is related to all of those piles.
If it's really slick, it might be one of the best things about MacOS X. If it's lame, it'll change or get forgotten.
One (totally legal) system for creating enforceable patents is to patent the combination of several existing methods. The only reason this might be easily defeated is if it was obviously valuable to combine those technologies.
This shit happens all the time, and patents like this are an example of why it's bad.
Um. Internet2 has some basis in existing standards in that it uses all of those existing standards. It's just like the regular internet except that there's fewer people and more bandwidth.
Please. Everyone should make basic errors in logical reasoning in their submissions, that way, we'll never talk about anything else. Slashdot will be ruined. My evil plans will come to fruition! Ah ha ha ha ha HA HA HA!
He says that the reason Neo (and the others) have superhuman powers in the matrix is because they figure out ways to use their interface in unpredicted ways and use otherwise agent-only APIs to the avatar software.
That makes sense for Morpheus, Trinity, et al. They have superhuman powers that are comparable to the agents. However, it is said that the agents, finally, are limited by certain physical rules, and the reason that Neo is special is that he is not limited by those same rules. He can rewrite the matrix.
There are ten million different perfectly acceptable software-design explanations for these mechanics. However, the author has described none of them. If he's using special APIs, then the agents would be able to do the same shit.
Perhaps he can change code in the virtual machine (hehe. pun.). Perhaps he can change source. Perhaps he realized that the matrix was using strcpy() for a root-level process. Like I said, there are ten million different ways to explain this. But the author is wrong, and exhibits a simple failure to understand the actual movie.
The problem with Kazaa isn't that the files aren't online. It's that you can't see them all. If everyone put every song they owned online on Kazaa, it would become completely useless to me: millions of miles of Britney, no Müm in sight.
I make a lot of money. I have very low expenses. Giant piles of expendable income are sitting right here waiting to be exploited.
If songs were a quarter (or a nickel!), I'd spend a fortune. Kazaa would never see me again. If songs are a dollar, I might never sign up. Even if most people use the blackmarket for IP, they'd still make a fuck of a lot more money. Because of people like me.
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Redhat isn't trying to replace Microsoft where it doesn't make sense. If you hire RHAT consultants to come redesign your company's network, they aren't going to make a hard sell to get rid of windows on the desktop, or exchange, etc.
RHAT are profiteers in the same way that most OSS developers are: their "need" is to make money. This is perfectly acceptable.
Allow those shmoe users to use Windows. It is sexier and easier for them. This is not a problem for Linux because it is not a problem for Linus, Cox, and the gang.
Again, who has a problem?
Not good enough.
For who?
I think you might be surprised to find that most OSS and FS developers do their work because they want to create software that fits needs. "Beating Microsoft" may or may not be a side effect.
If my belief means I refuse my patients blood transfusions, or fail to mention they are a possible treatment for some condition, then I obviously shouldn't be a practising doctor.
That is, I assume, exactly what this professor is implying. If someone does not believe in evolution, then they will be likely to make poor judgments as a doctor. They have already made an error in decision making in a scientific matter due to religious fanaticism. That's a pretty clear indication, isn't it?
Right. For example, it would be completely beyond the pail were a state-run university to require that medical students believe in... medicine.
Not to mention:
"Could we be that lucky?"
Approx. 8 million (+5, Insightful) comments in stories past have pointed out that:
NO, MORON, WE WILL NOT BE THAT LUCKY.
Everything else in Japan and especially in Tokyo is expensive. But Internet is as cheap as you can imagine.
Aren't one of those extremely expensive things... phone lines? I'm sure if SBC was charging $400/mo on my POTSS line, they might have some capital to throw around on DSL service.
"My real name is Francis. But if any one of you homos calls me Francis...I'll kill you."
"Lighten up, Francis."
That's the quote from the movie "Stripes", but it's also in an Anne Lamott book, iirc.
I hate comcast as much as the next guy, but the self-install kit for my cable modem came with instructions for Mac OS 9, and they walked me through doing it for Mac OS X over the phone. They also helped where they could while I set up a wireless basestation so I could share my connex. The dude on the phone didn't seem to mind me connecting a linux machine, either, although he couldn't help me.
Fair enough. They also aren't going to go public with information from such a wiretap unless it's allowed under treaty with Pakistan. But yes, I see how that is sideways to your point about the Bill of Rights.
Lighten up, Francis.
No one has ever suggested, for example, that the CIA needs a warrant to eavesdrop on a foreign national in a foreign country.
They don't need a warrant because it is known to be illegal. They don't need a warrant because they will not get caught. Otherwise, they'd go to a foreign prison.
Spying isn't legal, smart guy.
Your second point is dead on, however. Theo has freedom of speech. He is not guaranteed to be funded to speak... on the government's dime.
Doesn't Redhat have more money in the bank than SCO's market capitalization?
Good point. I wonder what happens if you short a company by more shares than actually exist?
I'm sorry, if you define multi-button mice as leaving "the realm of Apple-style GUIs", then so is modifying anything on your system or on your dock.
Get a fricking $15 mouse, drag your home directory and your application directory into your dock. Drag *everything* else out that you don't use constantly, and make the dock as big as possible. Now you've got a *huge* target (so Fitts can relax), and it barely moves around at all.
Personally, I have an iBook, so I do everything with a ctrl-click, but it feels completely effortless. Between a well-configured dock and column view in the finder, there's nothing I do to access files that doesn't happen at light speeds. Dunno what y'all are complaining about.
Whoa. No, but thanks. I had no idea.
Even better, right click on it. With the Applications directory and my Home directory both in the dock, I almost never use the finder. And I only have five applications in my dock. It looks hellof slick, and works even slicker.
It's mostly a GUI innovation, and is unrelated to hierarchical storage. The same document might be in several piles if its content is related to all of those piles.
If it's really slick, it might be one of the best things about MacOS X. If it's lame, it'll change or get forgotten.
That's not an aversion to capitalism, it's an aversion to giving away money. That's one of the best parts of capitalism.
Unix had a GUI in 1984?
One (totally legal) system for creating enforceable patents is to patent the combination of several existing methods. The only reason this might be easily defeated is if it was obviously valuable to combine those technologies.
This shit happens all the time, and patents like this are an example of why it's bad.
Um. Internet2 has some basis in existing standards in that it uses all of those existing standards. It's just like the regular internet except that there's fewer people and more bandwidth.
Um. I'm going to venture a guess:
Anything by Hunter Thompson?
Please. Everyone should make basic errors in logical reasoning in their submissions, that way, we'll never talk about anything else. Slashdot will be ruined. My evil plans will come to fruition! Ah ha ha ha ha HA HA HA!
He says that the reason Neo (and the others) have superhuman powers in the matrix is because they figure out ways to use their interface in unpredicted ways and use otherwise agent-only APIs to the avatar software.
That makes sense for Morpheus, Trinity, et al. They have superhuman powers that are comparable to the agents. However, it is said that the agents, finally, are limited by certain physical rules, and the reason that Neo is special is that he is not limited by those same rules. He can rewrite the matrix.
There are ten million different perfectly acceptable software-design explanations for these mechanics. However, the author has described none of them. If he's using special APIs, then the agents would be able to do the same shit.
Perhaps he can change code in the virtual machine (hehe. pun.). Perhaps he can change source. Perhaps he realized that the matrix was using strcpy() for a root-level process. Like I said, there are ten million different ways to explain this. But the author is wrong, and exhibits a simple failure to understand the actual movie.
Your explanation allows for Neo's super-powers much better than the linked article.
The problem with Kazaa isn't that the files aren't online. It's that you can't see them all. If everyone put every song they owned online on Kazaa, it would become completely useless to me: millions of miles of Britney, no Müm in sight.
I make a lot of money. I have very low expenses. Giant piles of expendable income are sitting right here waiting to be exploited.
If songs were a quarter (or a nickel!), I'd spend a fortune. Kazaa would never see me again. If songs are a dollar, I might never sign up. Even if most people use the blackmarket for IP, they'd still make a fuck of a lot more money. Because of people like me.