You got it right;) The message of those eco-whacko Leftists is: Minimize your footprint. Reduce your energy consumption. Reduce your soil consumption. Reduce your area consumption. Be more efficient. Be more productive with your resources. Turn out more bang for the bucks. Oh wait. That's not eco-whacko. That's purely capitalistic: Get more out of your investment. Produce more with less.
They can do the same, it's just harder. Remember the times when you were doing OS coding with PEEK and POKE on a C= 64;)
There is something called Turing equivalent, so every language you can implement an universal Turing machine in is able to implement every other Turing machine. For this you basicly need three instructions: Increase Field, Decrease Field and Jump, if last operation yield NULL as result. Of course you can limit a language by other means, sandboxing for instance, but this limit is not part of the language, rather a limit of the actual environment.
No. Gluck was an bohemian-austrian composer. There is nothing to say against "viel Gluck" per se, but you are surely meaning: "Viel Glueck". The u-umlaut gets transcribed to 'ue' if not available, according to the Duden (german official orthography), Vol I pp. 105.
Sometimes it's just something called "capillar force" (a side effect of the surface tension of the liquids, which causes liquids to get sucked into fine tubes).
For example, what sports cars do you have in your garage? Ferrari or Porsche I'd assume.
I have a car built by Matra, which is branded Renault. So according to my papers I am driving something else than the brand tells me.
And what's the brand of your kitchen sink?
With kitchen installations it gets complicated. Often the different brands are selling the same utility for the same job. Dishwashers in Europe are often built by Electrolux, but sold as Whirlpool, Siemens, Bosch, AEG... Ovens often leave a Siemens facility, and then they are branded Whirlpool, Siemens, Bosch, AEG... Same with floppy disks. There was one facility, which produced some 70% of all worldwide sales of floppydisks. But no brand ever reached more than 20% of the market.
Should we have let Iran win? Or just fight them ourselves so we don't have to give Iraq weapons?
No, you couldn't. The iranian revolution put an end to the Shah's regime, which was installed by the U.S., after the democratically elected gouvernment of Mowadeq was toppled in 1956, because it opposed U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Nah - they'd be obligated to release their SMB source code for every future version of Windows.
No, they are not. If they hire the developpers and not the code, then the developpers surely can write a new SAMBA implementation and release it under any license they like.
Of course, MS would have to hire all SAMBA developpers (or omit all code supplied by people not hired by MS).
There's got to be more economic incentive to provide a service that works for everyone than there is to provide a service that only works for some people.
Actually no. Many products which don't solve an immediate problem or satisfy a basic need, only sell if not everyone has access to them.
It's the old principle: People buy things that a) are necessary b) are useful c) are comfortable d) cause envy by the neighbours. Sometimes a service loose its marketability after it is provided to everyone.
It is quite easy to predict stellar positions. Only recently we got the number crunching capabilities to be at least able to predict the weather for the next two days pretty close.
I'll start worrying about the accuracy of asteroid collision prediction after they manage to figure out how to predict rain 3 days from now with better than 70% accuracy.
On the other hand we are able to predict the position of a lot of stellar objects far into the future with a quite astonishing precision. And people were able to do so already 3000 years ago, for instance in a region that is now called Iraq.
If an astronomer tells me, that the collision of a specified object with Earth within the next 50 years has a probability of X, I believe him more than a meterologist who tells me, that it will rain with the probability of X in the next 5 hours.
Actually, according to current german law, you persecute a soldier for following orders, which are illegal.
German law distinguishes three types of orders: Legal orders, formally legal orders which are against human dignity, and illegal orders. A soldier can be (and in an ideal world will be) persecuted for following illegal orders. He is entitled to complain about formally legal orders which are against his or others human dignity (and again in an ideal world the source of the order will be persecuted) even though he has to follow them for the moment.
So as I see it: Even if you don't agree to your company's ethic, you are working for the company, so in a moral way you are making the company's ethic your own. Don't argue with financial needs. All servants to morally questionable entities had financial needs as their primary excuse. Just imagine how many tyrannies would have been doomed from the beginning if people weren't dropping their ethics because they had families to support.
(As an post scriptum: When I was grown up I left my morally questionable country at the first opportunity. It broke down in the same year because hundred of thousands of my compatriotes did the same.)
You are right, though. The RIAA would blame declining sales on piracy. It's a no-win situation.
But if you don't buy music, and the copy protection schemes are somehow working (thus blocking out legitimate CD players) and the piracy rates as measured by the consulting companies are dropping, then the argument with the Piracy Kills Music sounds somewhat hollow.
Just buying laws doesn't sell music, and the companies forming RIAA are still mostly in the business to sell music. Buying law costs money and doesn't generate revenue.
Hm... in the electric locomotives here around. At least the newer ones (built after 1980) are fully solid state. We are talking 4x500kW here;) (Of course, no one cares about the signal/noice ratio as long as the blind power keeps low).
You should have just said on a Mac. It's the only OS with a desktop environment that can even begin to claim the same level of usability as Windows.
D'oh, thats somehow the reverse from what I always experienced... Windows now slowly grows into a desktop environment that compares in some parts with the usability of the long line of Mac OSses.
No, according to the Duden (German's Webster or Oxford dictionary) it's "Kaese" (because umlaut-a gets translated to 'ae' if no umlauts are available. Historically the umlaut-a was an 'a' with a small 'e' on top. This got later reduced to two dots due to the sloth of the writers.). 'Kaes' is a regionally used pronounciation for 'Kaese', mostly used in the southern parts of Germany. 'Dr Kaes is gesse' = 'Der Kaese ist gegessen' = 'The cheese has been eaten' is a hessian proverb for 'It's too late now'.
Gas provides what you want from an oven: Instant heat, when you want it, and instant off, whenever necessary (for instance, if you are cooking milk;) ). And a fine heat regulation, which takes effect immediately. No long cooling periods, you always see which cooking place is on, which one off. No long scrubbing and cleaning of burnt in food at the cooking plates.
Yes, gas is poisonous, and it can create an explosive mixture, if not watched closely. But all gas ovens I used recently had a bi metal switch, which closed the camshaft from the incoming pipe whenever the oven was cool, e.g. whenever no flame was burning. So the only way to poison yourself with gas was blocking the camshaft.
There is still something to say: People not used to the instand heat of a gas oven often overestimate the time necessary for a pot to heat. If you are cooking with gas, always stay at the oven. Otherwise the food may burn during your absent:)
They would put themselves out of business in less than a year at that rate.
They did. So what? There was a statistic available that the average computer manufacturer in Germany had a lifespan of about 11 month in the early Nineties. If you look at the top 5 german PC manufacturers from 1992 (VOBIS, ESCom, Comtech, Siemens and Pyramid), none of them exists anymore.
Yes, the SIEMENS brand still exists, but Siemens doesn't sell their own computers anymore. They sold their computer assembling business to Fujitsu, and they now sell Fujitsu-Siemens branded computers. The other Siemens PC brand (Siemens-Nixdorf) has completely vanished.
So... uhm, you are full of shit.
Just for stating facts?
OS/2 had issues running on non-IBM hardware, too. Remember that? I doubt it, because your whole post reeks of making shit up.
It had issues when you were installing it at your own. But the VOBIS computers came preinstalled with OS/2, so the hardware issues were already solved. Once in time, OS/2 made up for 30% of all IBM-compatible PC-OS-sales in Germany.
Because the original case is not about the code itself, but about IBM allegedly infringing on the licensing conditions for AIX. SCO states that with IBM releasing code to the Linux kernel which was written for AIX and thus covered by the Unix license, IBM infringed on the contract.
SCO states that IBM had to protect not only the licensed source code but also the code IBM wrote to make a derivative work from the source code.
Personal computing was pushed by the Commodore PET, by Apple's II and successors and by the hundreds and thousands of companies building IBM compatible personal computers.
And why were the "hundreds and thousands of companies" (nice exaggeration, btw) building all of them? To run Microsoft software.
In Germany were I live we had at one time (about 1991) more than 250 companies assembling their own IBM compatible computers. So "hundreds and thousands" is to be taken litterally.
And even though they were using software compatible to Microsoft products, many of them rather installed DR DOS. The market leader in Germany at the time, VOBIS, moved to OS/2 3.0 and Warp instead of Windows 3.1. And we students were busily trading MS Word 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 because the university's computer for printing had MS Word installed. Most of the more experienced computer users used TeX and LaTeX instead though.
Almost every programmer in the world should thank Microsoft for pushing personal computing, because we wouldn't have a job otherwise.
Personal computing was pushed by the Commodore PET, by Apple's II and successors and by the hundreds and thousands of companies building IBM compatible personal computers.
And by Microsoft when they looked away when students used their pirated version of MS Works or MS Word.
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You got it right ;)
The message of those eco-whacko Leftists is: Minimize your footprint. Reduce your energy consumption. Reduce your soil consumption. Reduce your area consumption. Be more efficient. Be more productive with your resources. Turn out more bang for the bucks. Oh wait. That's not eco-whacko. That's purely capitalistic: Get more out of your investment. Produce more with less.
They can do the same, it's just harder. Remember the times when you were doing OS coding with PEEK and POKE on a C= 64 ;)
There is something called Turing equivalent, so every language you can implement an universal Turing machine in is able to implement every other Turing machine. For this you basicly need three instructions: Increase Field, Decrease Field and Jump, if last operation yield NULL as result.
Of course you can limit a language by other means, sandboxing for instance, but this limit is not part of the language, rather a limit of the actual environment.
No. Gluck was an bohemian-austrian composer. There is nothing to say against "viel Gluck" per se, but you are surely meaning: "Viel Glueck". The u-umlaut gets transcribed to 'ue' if not available, according to the Duden (german official orthography), Vol I pp. 105.
Sorry. In German it's "Kapillarkraft", and I just transcribed it into English ;)
Sometimes it's just something called "capillar force" (a side effect of the surface tension of the liquids, which causes liquids to get sucked into fine tubes).
For example, what sports cars do you have in your garage? Ferrari or Porsche I'd assume.
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I have a car built by Matra, which is branded Renault. So according to my papers I am driving something else than the brand tells me.
And what's the brand of your kitchen sink?
With kitchen installations it gets complicated. Often the different brands are selling the same utility for the same job. Dishwashers in Europe are often built by Electrolux, but sold as Whirlpool, Siemens, Bosch, AEG... Ovens often leave a Siemens facility, and then they are branded Whirlpool, Siemens, Bosch, AEG...
Same with floppy disks. There was one facility, which produced some 70% of all worldwide sales of floppydisks. But no brand ever reached more than 20% of the market.
Btw: My kitchen sink is called EMSEN
Should we have let Iran win? Or just fight them ourselves so we don't have to give Iraq weapons?
No, you couldn't. The iranian revolution put an end to the Shah's regime, which was installed by the U.S., after the democratically elected gouvernment of Mowadeq was toppled in 1956, because it opposed U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Nah - they'd be obligated to release their SMB source code for every future version of Windows.
No, they are not. If they hire the developpers and not the code, then the developpers surely can write a new SAMBA implementation and release it under any license they like.
Of course, MS would have to hire all SAMBA developpers (or omit all code supplied by people not hired by MS).
But IBM countersued for Copyright Infringement and violation of the license.
Dubnium called after the russian city of Dubna, where the largest nuclear research center of the former Soviet Union and now Russia lies.
Diese Unterschrift ist durch German Kopie-kontrolliert. Ubersetzung zu Englisch ist eine DMCA-Verletzung.
Your implementation of the German Signature Encoding (GSE) is broken. It should read:
Diese Unterschrift ist durch das deutsche Urheberrecht geschuetzt. Die Uebersetzung ins Englische verstoesst gegen den DMCA.
There's got to be more economic incentive to provide a service that works for everyone than there is to provide a service that only works for some people.
Actually no. Many products which don't solve an immediate problem or satisfy a basic need, only sell if not everyone has access to them.
It's the old principle: People buy things that a) are necessary b) are useful c) are comfortable d) cause envy by the neighbours. Sometimes a service loose its marketability after it is provided to everyone.
Thanks for supporting my point :)
It is quite easy to predict stellar positions. Only recently we got the number crunching capabilities to be at least able to predict the weather for the next two days pretty close.
I'll start worrying about the accuracy of asteroid collision prediction after they manage to figure out how to predict rain 3 days from now with better than 70% accuracy.
On the other hand we are able to predict the position of a lot of stellar objects far into the future with a quite astonishing precision. And people were able to do so already 3000 years ago, for instance in a region that is now called Iraq.
If an astronomer tells me, that the collision of a specified object with Earth within the next 50 years has a probability of X, I believe him more than a meterologist who tells me, that it will rain with the probability of X in the next 5 hours.
Actually, according to current german law, you persecute a soldier for following orders, which are illegal.
German law distinguishes three types of orders: Legal orders, formally legal orders which are against human dignity, and illegal orders.
A soldier can be (and in an ideal world will be) persecuted for following illegal orders. He is entitled to complain about formally legal orders which are against his or others human dignity (and again in an ideal world the source of the order will be persecuted) even though he has to follow them for the moment.
So as I see it: Even if you don't agree to your company's ethic, you are working for the company, so in a moral way you are making the company's ethic your own. Don't argue with financial needs. All servants to morally questionable entities had financial needs as their primary excuse. Just imagine how many tyrannies would have been doomed from the beginning if people weren't dropping their ethics because they had families to support.
(As an post scriptum: When I was grown up I left my morally questionable country at the first opportunity. It broke down in the same year because hundred of thousands of my compatriotes did the same.)
You are right, though. The RIAA would blame declining sales on piracy. It's a no-win situation.
But if you don't buy music, and the copy protection schemes are somehow working (thus blocking out legitimate CD players) and the piracy rates as measured by the consulting companies are dropping, then the argument with the Piracy Kills Music sounds somewhat hollow.
Just buying laws doesn't sell music, and the companies forming RIAA are still mostly in the business to sell music. Buying law costs money and doesn't generate revenue.
Hm... in the electric locomotives here around. At least the newer ones (built after 1980) are fully solid state. We are talking 4x500kW here ;) (Of course, no one cares about the signal/noice ratio as long as the blind power keeps low).
You should have just said on a Mac. It's the only OS with a desktop environment that can even begin to claim the same level of usability as Windows.
D'oh, thats somehow the reverse from what I always experienced... Windows now slowly grows into a desktop environment that compares in some parts with the usability of the long line of Mac OSses.
No, according to the Duden (German's Webster or Oxford dictionary) it's "Kaese" (because umlaut-a gets translated to 'ae' if no umlauts are available. Historically the umlaut-a was an 'a' with a small 'e' on top. This got later reduced to two dots due to the sloth of the writers.). 'Kaes' is a regionally used pronounciation for 'Kaese', mostly used in the southern parts of Germany. 'Dr Kaes is gesse' = 'Der Kaese ist gegessen' = 'The cheese has been eaten' is a hessian proverb for 'It's too late now'.
Interestingly though "mistkaes" means something like dung cheese in German ;)
I definitely recommend cooking with a gas oven.
;) ). And a fine heat regulation, which takes effect immediately. No long cooling periods, you always see which cooking place is on, which one off. No long scrubbing and cleaning of burnt in food at the cooking plates.
:)
Gas provides what you want from an oven: Instant heat, when you want it, and instant off, whenever necessary (for instance, if you are cooking milk
Yes, gas is poisonous, and it can create an explosive mixture, if not watched closely. But all gas ovens I used recently had a bi metal switch, which closed the camshaft from the incoming pipe whenever the oven was cool, e.g. whenever no flame was burning. So the only way to poison yourself with gas was blocking the camshaft.
There is still something to say: People not used to the instand heat of a gas oven often overestimate the time necessary for a pot to heat. If you are cooking with gas, always stay at the oven. Otherwise the food may burn during your absent
They would put themselves out of business in less than a year at that rate.
They did. So what? There was a statistic available that the average computer manufacturer in Germany had a lifespan of about 11 month in the early Nineties. If you look at the top 5 german PC manufacturers from 1992 (VOBIS, ESCom, Comtech, Siemens and Pyramid), none of them exists anymore.
Yes, the SIEMENS brand still exists, but Siemens doesn't sell their own computers anymore. They sold their computer assembling business to Fujitsu, and they now sell Fujitsu-Siemens branded computers. The other Siemens PC brand (Siemens-Nixdorf) has completely vanished.
So... uhm, you are full of shit.
Just for stating facts?
OS/2 had issues running on non-IBM hardware, too. Remember that? I doubt it, because your whole post reeks of making shit up.
It had issues when you were installing it at your own. But the VOBIS computers came preinstalled with OS/2, so the hardware issues were already solved. Once in time, OS/2 made up for 30% of all IBM-compatible PC-OS-sales in Germany.
Because the original case is not about the code itself, but about IBM allegedly infringing on the licensing conditions for AIX. SCO states that with IBM releasing code to the Linux kernel which was written for AIX and thus covered by the Unix license, IBM infringed on the contract.
SCO states that IBM had to protect not only the licensed source code but also the code IBM wrote to make a derivative work from the source code.
And why were the "hundreds and thousands of companies" (nice exaggeration, btw) building all of them? To run Microsoft software.
In Germany were I live we had at one time (about 1991) more than 250 companies assembling their own IBM compatible computers. So "hundreds and thousands" is to be taken litterally.
And even though they were using software compatible to Microsoft products, many of them rather installed DR DOS. The market leader in Germany at the time, VOBIS, moved to OS/2 3.0 and Warp instead of Windows 3.1. And we students were busily trading MS Word 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 because the university's computer for printing had MS Word installed. Most of the more experienced computer users used TeX and LaTeX instead though.
Almost every programmer in the world should thank Microsoft for pushing personal computing, because we wouldn't have a job otherwise.
Personal computing was pushed by the Commodore PET, by Apple's II and successors and by the hundreds and thousands of companies building IBM compatible personal computers.
And by Microsoft when they looked away when students used their pirated version of MS Works or MS Word.