No, he is perfectly defining his terms: being "friendly" is not the same as being "a friend." I've been on the receiving end of both; the first has a determined purpose to use you and benefit from it; the second may take advantage of you but there is also give and take. You tend to learn who your true friends are when you run out of resources (well, either "true friends" or simply "people who aren't that good at calculating":).
I don't think GP meant port the scripts over; just that Perl and Python are available on Windows to perform the sorts of automation tasks that Exchange and SharePoint are going to need. (I don't think they have already-written Perl scripts to automate Exchange on Linux, in other words.) PowerShell is an option, but I prefer to stick with tools that give me skills that can be applied more broadly.
I suppose that development would make the terrorist organizations better friends of the civilians, if the terrorists use it to get back at the leaders that sent the war to their lands, rather than just indiscriminately blowing up buildings and killing civilians. Of course, I doubt that outcome; they'd likely use these to target bridges and rail lines.
Oh how I cringe when I see that; the book overused the term. By the third time they used it, that is, and then it was all I could do to not set the book on fire, or some better ending than that.
[...] and there were quite a few cases where the vast majority agreed that a judge's reasoning was wrong — but always with the same shrug that there's not much you can do about it.
It reminded me of "exhaust all possibilities before you go under the knife" in medicine (because the knife can bring infection deep down; a pill might make you uncomfortable but will rarely kill you -- so unless your condition is life-threatening, take the pill first). Similarly, exhaust all avenues before going in front of a judge, and I suppose that works for both sides. (The attorneys, of course, make money whoever wins or loses.)
Uh, domains can move from registrar to registrar, crossing state and even country boundaries. I'm not defending their actions, just poking a hole in your reasoning.
Don't do that. Please. Posters who are pushing 'funny' stuff want to be modded funny. We understand the risks. We're brave boys and girls and can handle it.
But it just looks bad when some humorous bit of nonsense is modded +5 Insightful. What happens if somebody just drops in from another board? They're gonna think we're complete idiots.
Or, accept the fact that there is truth in humor, and sometimes truth is insightful.
Personally, I'm not willing to decide where obvious facts of nature stop and inventiveness begins
We are a product of nature. So, it doesn't stop. The existence of patents in this universe is the part that does not fit the physical laws. I agree with your recommendation to get rid of patents.
Patents do, allegedly, promote innovation
I think it can be shown that they retard progress. Perhaps they were useful immediately after their creation, if the environment was so chaotic that business just couldn't get done, and this helped to straighten it out. (I question whether that was the case, though.) But these days, when technology progresses faster and faster each year, patents can make a company spend a great deal more on an alternative (and weaker!) implementation. Society functions best when its actors have the least amount of wasted effort; the patent system helps to create "industrial waste" by having multiple actors repeatedly solve the same equation, rather than sharing their work.
Its obvious they did no testing under realistic conditions.
And how do you test under realistic conditions when those realistic conditions are an enormous, ~10 datacenter system that serves a good percentage of the internet?
You're confusing how long a phone lasts with how long it gets its OS updated. Why should Apple keep updating the software on old phones? As long as your phone is working three years later, why get bent out of shape about it? Should a car company update your two year old car when they introduce new models?
Apple convinced me to upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS4, and now performance is terrible. I'm switching once my contract is over, as I do not care to experience this again in the future, e.g. I get an iPhone 4, and 2 years later upgrade it to iOS6 and have it become an underperformer to convince me to buy the latest shiny.
What it does do, is give the corporation to settle those suits before they turn into a class action suit in which most cases nobody but the attorneys win.
I think you meant to say, "What it does do, is give the corporation the ability to ignore those suits, which thanks to this Supreme Court ruling, will never ever ever again turn into a class action suit." I'm not sure our legislators saw that Mythbusters episode where the frog jumped out...
The kangaroo courts could run amok, and all their decisions could later be invalidated by the actual justice system, at which point the taxpayer will have to compensate the victims of the system en-masse at huge expense.
Once again, the free market finds a way.
Um, the Supreme Court is the "actual justice system", or are you referring to firearms?
Where are the leaders who actually understand how to deal with human beings?
Unfortunately, one of them just typed the parent and likely has absolutely no intention of raking their financial life through the muck in order to improve the system.
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No, he is perfectly defining his terms: being "friendly" is not the same as being "a friend." I've been on the receiving end of both; the first has a determined purpose to use you and benefit from it; the second may take advantage of you but there is also give and take. You tend to learn who your true friends are when you run out of resources (well, either "true friends" or simply "people who aren't that good at calculating" :).
Reminds me of the great quote, "Diplomacy is saying 'nice doggy' until you find a rock."
I don't think GP meant port the scripts over; just that Perl and Python are available on Windows to perform the sorts of automation tasks that Exchange and SharePoint are going to need. (I don't think they have already-written Perl scripts to automate Exchange on Linux, in other words.) PowerShell is an option, but I prefer to stick with tools that give me skills that can be applied more broadly.
Um, "automatition?" (Bart has a breast fetish?)
Powershell is great, but not what I would call a great GUI test tool.
For that, use AutoIt.
I suppose that development would make the terrorist organizations better friends of the civilians, if the terrorists use it to get back at the leaders that sent the war to their lands, rather than just indiscriminately blowing up buildings and killing civilians. Of course, I doubt that outcome; they'd likely use these to target bridges and rail lines.
So it's still British Petroleum to you, too?
On the gripping hand, [...]
Oh how I cringe when I see that; the book overused the term. By the third time they used it, that is, and then it was all I could do to not set the book on fire, or some better ending than that.
[...] and there were quite a few cases where the vast majority agreed that a judge's reasoning was wrong — but always with the same shrug that there's not much you can do about it.
It reminded me of "exhaust all possibilities before you go under the knife" in medicine (because the knife can bring infection deep down; a pill might make you uncomfortable but will rarely kill you -- so unless your condition is life-threatening, take the pill first). Similarly, exhaust all avenues before going in front of a judge, and I suppose that works for both sides. (The attorneys, of course, make money whoever wins or loses.)
child porn is always illegal to create, possess, or even attempt to obtain.
What porn actors don't have parents? (Yes, I am willfully misunderstanding.)
Pa pa l'americano.
Can it be blocked?
9. Did you install a rootkit?
Uh, domains can move from registrar to registrar, crossing state and even country boundaries. I'm not defending their actions, just poking a hole in your reasoning.
How wealthy and how small is this "wealthy ruling class".
50% of US dollars; 1% of US population.
Don't do that. Please. Posters who are pushing 'funny' stuff want to be modded funny. We understand the risks. We're brave boys and girls and can handle it. But it just looks bad when some humorous bit of nonsense is modded +5 Insightful. What happens if somebody just drops in from another board? They're gonna think we're complete idiots.
Or, accept the fact that there is truth in humor, and sometimes truth is insightful.
Oh cool, PBF comics is back online. (Yeah, I'm likely really late to that party, I remember when they disappeared something less than 5 years ago...)
we make mistakes then to live in false security.
Yeah, I know it was a typo, but that's the way I view us behaving...
Personally, I'm not willing to decide where obvious facts of nature stop and inventiveness begins
We are a product of nature. So, it doesn't stop. The existence of patents in this universe is the part that does not fit the physical laws. I agree with your recommendation to get rid of patents.
Patents do, allegedly, promote innovation
I think it can be shown that they retard progress. Perhaps they were useful immediately after their creation, if the environment was so chaotic that business just couldn't get done, and this helped to straighten it out. (I question whether that was the case, though.) But these days, when technology progresses faster and faster each year, patents can make a company spend a great deal more on an alternative (and weaker!) implementation. Society functions best when its actors have the least amount of wasted effort; the patent system helps to create "industrial waste" by having multiple actors repeatedly solve the same equation, rather than sharing their work.
Its obvious they did no testing under realistic conditions.
And how do you test under realistic conditions when those realistic conditions are an enormous, ~10 datacenter system that serves a good percentage of the internet?
Like in Contact: you build two of them.
You're confusing how long a phone lasts with how long it gets its OS updated. Why should Apple keep updating the software on old phones? As long as your phone is working three years later, why get bent out of shape about it? Should a car company update your two year old car when they introduce new models?
Apple convinced me to upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS4, and now performance is terrible. I'm switching once my contract is over, as I do not care to experience this again in the future, e.g. I get an iPhone 4, and 2 years later upgrade it to iOS6 and have it become an underperformer to convince me to buy the latest shiny.
What it does do, is give the corporation to settle those suits before they turn into a class action suit in which most cases nobody but the attorneys win.
I think you meant to say, "What it does do, is give the corporation the ability to ignore those suits, which thanks to this Supreme Court ruling, will never ever ever again turn into a class action suit." I'm not sure our legislators saw that Mythbusters episode where the frog jumped out...
The kangaroo courts could run amok, and all their decisions could later be invalidated by the actual justice system, at which point the taxpayer will have to compensate the victims of the system en-masse at huge expense.
Once again, the free market finds a way.
Um, the Supreme Court is the "actual justice system", or are you referring to firearms?
Where are the leaders who actually understand how to deal with human beings?
Unfortunately, one of them just typed the parent and likely has absolutely no intention of raking their financial life through the muck in order to improve the system.