The average BIRTH rate for the US is 14.7 per 1000 population. Even if there were no deaths of any kind other than those due to vampires Sunnydale's population (birth rate 385 per year) could only support one or two vampires (assuming 150-200 victims per vamp per year). The real total would be lower due to natural deaths and the huge rush of people leaving a town with that number of murders per capita.
Rabbits and foxes are not a good model since humans can and would leave the area as fast as they could. Even Willow wouldn't be enough to keep me around that bloodbath. Probably. Well...
There was no claim in the letter that nothing was wrong.
You mean apart from the bit that says "both Studio Ghibli and Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan believe the quality of the DVD/VHS to be the best and the most faithful in terms of reproducing the original movie under the given circumstances."?
Yes, you're right; I misunderstood. However, that just makes it even less useful. How did they decide the cost of employing Linux people in 3,4 and 5 year's time? I don't expect it to stay at the current level and their argument about management tools must also assume that the Linux situation will not change over the period (or that the rate of improvement will not overtake MS's). That's not a great assumtion with IBM and Sun starting to weigh into the scene.
I read Dune, which a lot of people are picking, and enjoyed it but when I picked up Dune Messiah I got about 10 pages in before thinking "I really don't want to know anything more about these people" and stopped. I really don't think Dune needed a sequel let alone 371 of them (or whatever they're up to now).
BTW my answer is Bester's "Tiger! Tiger!". It's not my all-time favourite book (but it's close) but it is my favourite background.
Thats excellent; now you can permanently rest, having personally solved this problem for the entire world. Publish your results on a website. The world is waiting with baited breath. You will be famous for sure. And after its all finished, you need never speak of it again.
Like you'd care! UFO-nuts are not interested in logic, evidence or reason.
Alien visitors are no more real than all the witches that were burned at the stake in the 16 to 17 hundreds. But there were plenty of "eye-witness" accounts from people that said they flew on broomsticks, curdled milk, or summoned demons. All of it, just like alien spaceships, utter crap.
Any idea how hard it is going to be to retrain a Windows user to use a Linux gui?
It generally takes me about 15 minutes. KDE is so fucking awful because it's designed to let Windows users transfer over quickly. I hate it myself but Windows users can and do use it without knowing that it's not Windows.
where's the Start button
It's in the bottom left where it is under Windows (KDE again).
how do I do this in Koffice?
The answer to that is "Do it in Star/Open Office instead. If you've used MS Office you'll figure it out easily".
I mean we have end users that can't even operate a f**king mouse so migrating them to Linux just sounds like a major headache.
A Linux command line sounds ideal for them!
Seriously, the fact is that for 80% of Windows users Windows is a big fat zero. Set the machine up to start Office and Outlook at boot and they'll never see the desktop. For more specialised users, particularly printers and architects, Linux is a long way off being ready. But how many Windows machines are bought for secitarial work compared to that sort of thing?
So your "explanation" is that its all lies and delusion
Yep. That was my great breakthrough - one day I sat up and thought "The assumption I've always made is that there is some truth to these claims and that the reason I've not found it is that I'm doing something wrong.". Once that assuption is discarded it all makes a lot more sense. It wasn't me that was going wrong when I couldn't find a convincing case, it was the liars and genuinely confused people.
That's why all the photographs are crap and why all the pictures of "aliens" look like people in badly-fitting suits. That's why the aliens act like idiots in all the stories. Because they aren't real! So much simpler than trying to fit all the ridiculous stories with their contradictions and unlikely behaviour into some coherent theory of retarded but advanced aliens spanning the gulf between the stars to wage war on wheat and harass some cows.
You have to do *much* better than that my friend, on every level.
No, I don't. There's no point in going beyond this as the UFO-nuts will never admit defeat. I have personally spent hours debunking everything thrown at me by these people and in the end it's exactly the same as trying to explain evolution to a creationist: faith is always stronger than argument, especially amongst the stupid.
This is nonsense. Anyone who is reasonable, and who has read the abundance of high quality cases can only come to the conclusion that Dr. Haisch has come to. If anyone has a better explanation that accounts for all of the evidence, then they need to provide this explanation,
Okay: it's all made up or mistaken. I used to be a real UFO nut and read every report I could find; my girlfriend likewise. Then one day I realised that not a single UFO report was free of odd little logic and coherence gaps. After a while I realised that this is because the reports (other than simple mistakes) are made up by people that are not very good at making things like this up.
It's all tedious thrid rate fantasy when it comes down to it.
Yes, those issues were addressed in the remedy accepted by Judge Kotelly.
Addressed in the sense that she said they weren't important enough to bother doing anything about them.
anti-trust law is intended to protect the market for the interest of consumers. It's purpose is not to protect competitor
Which is odd because that's the opposite from what she did. By allowing the "remedy" to centre around competitors and special boards of industry insiders that are supposed to keep an eye on MS she made sure that the consumer could continue being taxed by MS's monopoly position for years simply due to the need to start yet more action against them if they start abusing the position again. She should have done something that actually forced MS into corrective action now.
Instead she effectively put them on bail and said that if the breech their bail conditions then they'll have to have another bunch of hearings before anything might be done about it (which will, of course, involve round after round of delaying appeals).
The judge might as well have said "you're free to go" on the first day and saved everyone's time and money.
Do you think if nVidia or ATI were forced to open source their chip designs we'd get anything like the rate of progress we've seen over the last three years?
You actually seem to be suggesting that the progress would have been slower! What on Earth makes you think that?
The drivers have a lot of intellectual property in them, nVidia ones in particular
So? Why would third party drivers prevent me from buying an nvidia card? Is it not more likely to encourage me to buy an nvidia card, especially if I'm not using an intel chip?
You are RONG. Go dig out the Berne copyright conventions and talk with a lawyer.
I know all about the Berne convention and I don't need a parasite lawyer to tell me about it, thanks.
I never said that the copyright is transferred automatically during work for hire, but I was implying that I make sure that it is when it's an issue.
The reason for this is...
The reason is that this what governments, after serious bribery by vested interests, have decided. Don't go trying to read any deeper logic into it. Your example of the carpenter demonstrates this: the nail gun is the carpenter's yet the house isn't? There is no logic to that; it's just the way the rules are written and nobody in government gives a shit what you or I think about it unless we have a few million bucks in the bank.
There has been a lot of litigation in this area. Anyone affected _should_ run (not walk) to a good IP attourney.
Getting advice from an attourney is like asking for dating tips from a whore: all the answers seem to involve you paying them money.
Basically, if I pay you to impliment something in software for me you can bet I'll want the source code. No NDA's, no "no distribution" clauses; that code is mine. On the other hand, I wouldn't expect to prevent you to not use the code too.
Code produced internally is a different thing and I wouldn't expect companies to publish in-house code to the rest of the world but I would never accept a binary again unless I had no choice.
Yes, this means that a whole bunch of business models from the dawn of time are obsolete but that's life. I'm not going back to gaslamps and I'm not going back to closed-source.
Intel approached our company with a view to giving us free equipment if we'd make the site use more processor power (Flash, Java etc). I assume they have some sort of deal with MS too. Intel need slow software in these days of fast processors.
The best way to beat an enemy is to learn from them. I can see you haven't done that with MS.
I have. I have learnt that allowing Microsoft to set "standards" is like walking up to a tiger with a plate of raw meat and thinking that it won't eat you too.
Err right. That might be true in the/. Community, but the reality is that the vast majority of people either really don't care.
That's a consumer argument. System sellers, i.e. the phone manufacturers, have seen what happened to IBM when they made the mistake of allowing MS to control the "user experience" and they don't want it to happen to them.
As it happens, Opera is a very good browser anyway. If it was open source it would get more support and would develop faster.
That's an over-simplification in the case of IBM; their consultancy arm makes more revenue (NOT profit) than the whole of Microsoft. They do hardware too but in recent years that has been seen as a method of increasing demand for their consultancy, which includes bespoke software.
If you recall, IBM got their asses handed to them on a plate in the commodity x86 marketplace by Compaq and others
But what they learnt from that is that allowing someone else to control the OS is madness. Since they can't get everyone else to use AIX it might make more sense for them to switch to Linux (or any Free OS, but Linux is probably the best option for them now) so that no one controls the OS.
I assume that you've heard the old joke "IBM and Microsoft got together to run a goldmine; Microsoft got the gold, IBM got the shaft".
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Well, that gets my vote.
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Rabbits and foxes are not a good model since humans can and would leave the area as fast as they could. Even Willow wouldn't be enough to keep me around that bloodbath. Probably. Well...
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You mean apart from the bit that says "both Studio Ghibli and Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan believe the quality of the DVD/VHS to be the best and the most faithful in terms of reproducing the original movie under the given circumstances."?
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They'd be able to fire Congress!!!? Fantastic!
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Yes, you're right; I misunderstood. However, that just makes it even less useful. How did they decide the cost of employing Linux people in 3,4 and 5 year's time? I don't expect it to stay at the current level and their argument about management tools must also assume that the Linux situation will not change over the period (or that the rate of improvement will not overtake MS's). That's not a great assumtion with IBM and Sun starting to weigh into the scene.
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I also wonder how rough Windows 2000 was in 1997! Could it be that these figures are made up!?
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BTW my answer is Bester's "Tiger! Tiger!". It's not my all-time favourite book (but it's close) but it is my favourite background.
Favourite series: Asimov's robots/empire/foundation set.
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Like you'd care! UFO-nuts are not interested in logic, evidence or reason.
Alien visitors are no more real than all the witches that were burned at the stake in the 16 to 17 hundreds. But there were plenty of "eye-witness" accounts from people that said they flew on broomsticks, curdled milk, or summoned demons. All of it, just like alien spaceships, utter crap.
TWW
It generally takes me about 15 minutes. KDE is so fucking awful because it's designed to let Windows users transfer over quickly. I hate it myself but Windows users can and do use it without knowing that it's not Windows.
where's the Start button
It's in the bottom left where it is under Windows (KDE again).
how do I do this in Koffice?
The answer to that is "Do it in Star/Open Office instead. If you've used MS Office you'll figure it out easily".
I mean we have end users that can't even operate a f**king mouse so migrating them to Linux just sounds like a major headache.
A Linux command line sounds ideal for them!
Seriously, the fact is that for 80% of Windows users Windows is a big fat zero. Set the machine up to start Office and Outlook at boot and they'll never see the desktop. For more specialised users, particularly printers and architects, Linux is a long way off being ready. But how many Windows machines are bought for secitarial work compared to that sort of thing?
TWW
Yep. That was my great breakthrough - one day I sat up and thought "The assumption I've always made is that there is some truth to these claims and that the reason I've not found it is that I'm doing something wrong.". Once that assuption is discarded it all makes a lot more sense. It wasn't me that was going wrong when I couldn't find a convincing case, it was the liars and genuinely confused people.
That's why all the photographs are crap and why all the pictures of "aliens" look like people in badly-fitting suits. That's why the aliens act like idiots in all the stories. Because they aren't real! So much simpler than trying to fit all the ridiculous stories with their contradictions and unlikely behaviour into some coherent theory of retarded but advanced aliens spanning the gulf between the stars to wage war on wheat and harass some cows.
You have to do *much* better than that my friend, on every level.
No, I don't. There's no point in going beyond this as the UFO-nuts will never admit defeat. I have personally spent hours debunking everything thrown at me by these people and in the end it's exactly the same as trying to explain evolution to a creationist: faith is always stronger than argument, especially amongst the stupid.
TWW
Okay: it's all made up or mistaken. I used to be a real UFO nut and read every report I could find; my girlfriend likewise. Then one day I realised that not a single UFO report was free of odd little logic and coherence gaps. After a while I realised that this is because the reports (other than simple mistakes) are made up by people that are not very good at making things like this up.
It's all tedious thrid rate fantasy when it comes down to it.
TWW
Pulling the release is handling the bugs better than MS!
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Addressed in the sense that she said they weren't important enough to bother doing anything about them.
anti-trust law is intended to protect the market for the interest of consumers. It's purpose is not to protect competitor
Which is odd because that's the opposite from what she did. By allowing the "remedy" to centre around competitors and special boards of industry insiders that are supposed to keep an eye on MS she made sure that the consumer could continue being taxed by MS's monopoly position for years simply due to the need to start yet more action against them if they start abusing the position again. She should have done something that actually forced MS into corrective action now.
Instead she effectively put them on bail and said that if the breech their bail conditions then they'll have to have another bunch of hearings before anything might be done about it (which will, of course, involve round after round of delaying appeals).
The judge might as well have said "you're free to go" on the first day and saved everyone's time and money.
TWW
Hey, it worked for Vladd the Impaler!
TWW
You actually seem to be suggesting that the progress would have been slower! What on Earth makes you think that?
The drivers have a lot of intellectual property in them, nVidia ones in particular
So? Why would third party drivers prevent me from buying an nvidia card? Is it not more likely to encourage me to buy an nvidia card, especially if I'm not using an intel chip?
TWW
I know all about the Berne convention and I don't need a parasite lawyer to tell me about it, thanks.
I never said that the copyright is transferred automatically during work for hire, but I was implying that I make sure that it is when it's an issue.
The reason for this is...
The reason is that this what governments, after serious bribery by vested interests, have decided. Don't go trying to read any deeper logic into it. Your example of the carpenter demonstrates this: the nail gun is the carpenter's yet the house isn't? There is no logic to that; it's just the way the rules are written and nobody in government gives a shit what you or I think about it unless we have a few million bucks in the bank.
There has been a lot of litigation in this area. Anyone affected _should_ run (not walk) to a good IP attourney.
Getting advice from an attourney is like asking for dating tips from a whore: all the answers seem to involve you paying them money.
TWW
Code produced internally is a different thing and I wouldn't expect companies to publish in-house code to the rest of the world but I would never accept a binary again unless I had no choice.
Yes, this means that a whole bunch of business models from the dawn of time are obsolete but that's life. I'm not going back to gaslamps and I'm not going back to closed-source.
TWW
When I pay a plumber to put a new bath in I don't expect him to get paid again by the person that I sell the house on to.
If you want the code back, pay the owner for it. DUH!
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I have. I have learnt that allowing Microsoft to set "standards" is like walking up to a tiger with a plate of raw meat and thinking that it won't eat you too.
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Mozilla was a software project from hell; open source is not a panacea.
TWW
That's a consumer argument. System sellers, i.e. the phone manufacturers, have seen what happened to IBM when they made the mistake of allowing MS to control the "user experience" and they don't want it to happen to them.
As it happens, Opera is a very good browser anyway. If it was open source it would get more support and would develop faster.
TWW
That's an over-simplification in the case of IBM; their consultancy arm makes more revenue (NOT profit) than the whole of Microsoft. They do hardware too but in recent years that has been seen as a method of increasing demand for their consultancy, which includes bespoke software.
If you recall, IBM got their asses handed to them on a plate in the commodity x86 marketplace by Compaq and others
But what they learnt from that is that allowing someone else to control the OS is madness. Since they can't get everyone else to use AIX it might make more sense for them to switch to Linux (or any Free OS, but Linux is probably the best option for them now) so that no one controls the OS.
I assume that you've heard the old joke "IBM and Microsoft got together to run a goldmine; Microsoft got the gold, IBM got the shaft".
TWW