"I also stopped using condoms, since I limit my activities to my wife. I'm also free from those sorts of infections because I was fortunate in my choice of a partner. This also has a cost, I'm sure that sex with other partners could be enjoyable. I also know that the 'zipperless f*ck' is more common in fiction that in my world, so I'm willing to stick with my spouse. "
It's kinda like 7-11. You have a limited choice, but it's open all night.
It doesn't matter who votes, all that matters is who has the monetary means to afford representation in a court of law. That is the corporations.
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MySQL isn't just providing binaries to the users or SCO's garbage. It's partnered with SCO. That's like sleeping with the crack whore of operating systems, then claiming there is no sex involved.
It all comes down to adaptability. I may sound pessimistic, but I doubt the majority of CS students are very adaptable to anything other than what they have been taught. When it comes right down to it, I see a serious lack of ability to 'blueprint' systems. That takes an intimate knowledge of 'what goes on inside the machine', and how the respective databases are put together. Even on the ever present desktop machine, there's a lack of ability to blueprint the problem. Unfortunately there are a lot of drooling idiots out there in the CS world.
"So in your view everyone in the military is on welfare?"
I'm ex-military, and I'll go ahead and say that it is a form of welfare. The thing that makes it slightly different is that military persons do a job. The similarity is that a lot of them 'stay in the system' (I.E. use VA hospitals, etc...) even after leaving the military.
"The public health staff treating tuberculosis in the indigent too?"
yes
"Proof by assertion? Not even an anecdote?"
None is needed. It's clear that life and business is politics. Those that are more politically astute gain more than those that aren't.
Try to polish it with as much phraseology as you wish, but when you accept tax dollars as your sole means of support, it's welfare.
"Scientists have to work really hard to earn their grant money. It can take weeks or even months to put together a proposal."
Yeah. Get a grant, start working on the next proposal and be supported by the grant money while you do it.
"Proposals are supposed to be judged on scientific merit, but politics has a big influence."
It's politics all the way around. Don't think science has anything to do with it.
"Good proposals can be rejected while totally crappy ones get funded. Research programs can suddenly get cancelled for political reasons, leaving researchers high and dry."
They should all get cancelled.
"Sounds more like out of the workforce and onto welfare to me."
Perhaps you should have spent your time learning something that's applicable in the real world. Either way, you are just sucking off of the tax payer tit.
"Calling government research grants "welfare" is insulting to scientists."
Sure it's insulting. More often than not, the truth hurts.
AOL continually rips it's 'former' customers off. If you call to 'cancel' service you must use the terminology 'terminate' service instead of cancel. The reason for doing this is that 'cancel' doesn't mean the same thing to AOL as it does to everyone else. If a user moves to broadband or dialup, and doesn't COMPLETELY uninstall the software, the software will automatically log itself into AOL and re-activate the account. By all counts this is FRAUD, and could be considered WIRE FRAUD, and so AOL should be hauled in front of the feds on RICO charges.
"Not everybody lives only for money, asshole. Of course, you sound like those ultra-Capitalists who think that absolutely everything should be done for money. "
People don't do it for the money, they do it to get by, pay the bills, and grind to meet the next round of bills. You have two kinds of 'open source' code monkeys. The first are those that work for universities, companies, or are students that are pulling down grants, etc... They receive money, and Open Source for them is just a hobby. The second are people that live in their parents basement, off their parents pocketbook, and have no bills. They don't 'need' money so they don't see why they should do it for money.
"That is one of the most ignorant statements in that post, which is saying a whole fucking lot. The little guy, who has very little money to spend on software, is the one who benefits from FOSS. Because he gets better software for free."
Free software is a lot like somone getting blue prints for a 'free car'. They end up with a vehicle that's made of hand machined parts that aren't exchangable with parts made for other cars made from the same blueprints. It's a lot of work, and only those with time on their hands can have such a vehicle. The rest of us with lives, that work to make money to pay bills, etc... just want it to work.
Perhaps a simply analogy would be if someone received a kit to bake their own bread. They open the kit and they discover they must first grow their own wheat, then grind it, etc...
It's not so much a matter of buying your way through life, etc...
A dollar does not buy today what a dollar did when 'we' (I'm 40) were growing up. Yes, they got paid comparatively less, but what they did get paid went a lot farther than what we get paid now.
The claim of a patent is the claim of an original item. I agree with you that it's not for bragging rights. It's more insidious than that. It's to cement into paper and the 'society' that they are the origin of 'all things computing'.
Also, there is no such thing as a defensive patent. If a patent isn't vigorously defended then it will end up being a non-patent (for lack of a better term). In other words, patent infractions must be pursued to keep a patent valid. None of this 16th year last minute barratry to get licensing terms on a patent that's lain undefended for the previous 15 or 16 years.
Highliting (or otherwise bringing attention to) data (numeric or otherwise) has been done since the old DOS days, and probably before. This certainly isn't new, and isn't unique by a stretch of the imagination.
Of course, by filing the patent, they want it to seem that Microsoft is the originator if this technique. If the rules the USPTO seems to apply to software patents were applied to 'real world' patents, you'd see the whole lot of them thrown out on their asses, and the whole office revised from the janitor on up to the chief.
The ARIN record lists a home.com email address, but that redirects to a com.org site (a network solutions domain according to internic). An MX lookup on home.com doesn't return a record, which doesn't surprise me at all. The contact phone number listed is a 604 area code which turns out to be Canadian...
"Region British Columbia
Cities Boston Bar Chilliwack Hope Pemberton Powell River Vancouver "
A search on the Canadian number just returns...
"We're sorry. We did not find a listing for the phone number you entered. The phone number "(604) 313-3412" is a Vancouver, BC based phone number and the registered carrier is TELUS Mobility. However, due to number portability, some numbers have been transferred to a new service provider other than the registered carrier."
Whoever or whatever is holding it doesn't wish to be contacted to the extent that they are willing to falsify ARIN information. I wonder what ARINs policy on that is?
So, Anonymous Coward, what do you suggest the people do? The government has all the firepower, the corporations and banks own everything, even our movement is limited. It's easy to say that something needs to be done without offering any solutions. Especially behind the mask of anonymity.
I can't keep thinking "how convenient." Especially since adware/spyware is coming increasingly under the gaze of the Federal Trade Comission and the Justice Department.
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Of course people love Apple! D00D1 They made the iPOD, and got Bono to sing for it! /sarcasm and satire
HP is just getting rid of a lot of useless, noisy, baggage.
"I also stopped using condoms, since I limit my activities to my wife. I'm also free from those sorts of infections because I was fortunate in my choice of a partner. This also has a cost, I'm sure that sex with other partners could be enjoyable. I also know that the 'zipperless f*ck' is more common in fiction that in my world, so I'm willing to stick with my spouse. "
It's kinda like 7-11. You have a limited choice, but it's open all night.
Of course they both sucked. Nobody will want to watch a movie about unkempt fat guys with stained t-shirts living in their parents basement.
That's what we'll all be making, eventually.
Naw, by espousing a tax it is communist nerdism.
It doesn't matter who votes, all that matters is who has the monetary means to afford representation in a court of law. That is the corporations.
MySQL isn't just providing binaries to the users or SCO's garbage. It's partnered with SCO. That's like sleeping with the crack whore of operating systems, then claiming there is no sex involved.
You will cost them too much. Sure, they want top skill, but they want to pay bottom rung.
It all comes down to adaptability. I may sound pessimistic, but I doubt the majority of CS students are very adaptable to anything other than what they have been taught. When it comes right down to it, I see a serious lack of ability to 'blueprint' systems. That takes an intimate knowledge of 'what goes on inside the machine', and how the respective databases are put together. Even on the ever present desktop machine, there's a lack of ability to blueprint the problem. Unfortunately there are a lot of drooling idiots out there in the CS world.
"So in your view everyone in the military is on welfare?"
I'm ex-military, and I'll go ahead and say that it is a form of welfare. The thing that makes it slightly different is that military persons do a job. The similarity is that a lot of them 'stay in the system' (I.E. use VA hospitals, etc...) even after leaving the military.
"The public health staff treating tuberculosis in the indigent too?"
yes
"Proof by assertion? Not even an anecdote?"
None is needed. It's clear that life and business is politics. Those that are more politically astute gain more than those that aren't.
Try to polish it with as much phraseology as you wish, but when you accept tax dollars as your sole means of support, it's welfare.
"Scientists have to work really hard to earn their grant money. It can take weeks or even months to put together a proposal."
Yeah. Get a grant, start working on the next proposal and be supported by the grant money while you do it.
"Proposals are supposed to be judged on scientific merit, but politics has a big influence."
It's politics all the way around. Don't think science has anything to do with it.
"Good proposals can be rejected while totally crappy ones get funded. Research programs can suddenly get cancelled for political reasons, leaving researchers high and dry."
They should all get cancelled.
"Sounds more like out of the workforce and onto welfare to me."
Perhaps you should have spent your time learning something that's applicable in the real world. Either way, you are just sucking off of the tax payer tit.
"Calling government research grants "welfare" is insulting to scientists."
Sure it's insulting. More often than not, the truth hurts.
AOL continually rips it's 'former' customers off. If you call to 'cancel' service you must use the terminology 'terminate' service instead of cancel. The reason for doing this is that 'cancel' doesn't mean the same thing to AOL as it does to everyone else. If a user moves to broadband or dialup, and doesn't COMPLETELY uninstall the software, the software will automatically log itself into AOL and re-activate the account. By all counts this is FRAUD, and could be considered WIRE FRAUD, and so AOL should be hauled in front of the feds on RICO charges.
Looks like it's off welfare and into the workforce for you.
"Not everybody lives only for money, asshole. Of course, you sound like those ultra-Capitalists who think that absolutely everything should be done for money. "
People don't do it for the money, they do it to get by, pay the bills, and grind to meet the next round of bills. You have two kinds of 'open source' code monkeys. The first are those that work for universities, companies, or are students that are pulling down grants, etc... They receive money, and Open Source for them is just a hobby. The second are people that live in their parents basement, off their parents pocketbook, and have no bills. They don't 'need' money so they don't see why they should do it for money.
"That is one of the most ignorant statements in that post, which is saying a whole fucking lot. The little guy, who has very little money to spend on software, is the one who benefits from FOSS. Because he gets better software for free."
Free software is a lot like somone getting blue prints for a 'free car'. They end up with a vehicle that's made of hand machined parts that aren't exchangable with parts made for other cars made from the same blueprints. It's a lot of work, and only those with time on their hands can have such a vehicle. The rest of us with lives, that work to make money to pay bills, etc... just want it to work.
Perhaps a simply analogy would be if someone received a kit to bake their own bread. They open the kit and they discover they must first grow their own wheat, then grind it, etc...
Speaking of Duke Nukem... When is the source for Duke Nukem Forever going to be released?
Oh wait...
I prefer Ajax over Comet any day.
It's not so much a matter of buying your way through life, etc...
A dollar does not buy today what a dollar did when 'we' (I'm 40) were growing up. Yes, they got paid comparatively less, but what they did get paid went a lot farther than what we get paid now.
The claim of a patent is the claim of an original item. I agree with you that it's not for bragging rights. It's more insidious than that. It's to cement into paper and the 'society' that they are the origin of 'all things computing'.
Also, there is no such thing as a defensive patent. If a patent isn't vigorously defended then it will end up being a non-patent (for lack of a better term). In other words, patent infractions must be pursued to keep a patent valid. None of this 16th year last minute barratry to get licensing terms on a patent that's lain undefended for the previous 15 or 16 years.
Highliting (or otherwise bringing attention to) data (numeric or otherwise) has been done since the old DOS days, and probably before. This certainly isn't new, and isn't unique by a stretch of the imagination.
Of course, by filing the patent, they want it to seem that Microsoft is the originator if this technique. If the rules the USPTO seems to apply to software patents were applied to 'real world' patents, you'd see the whole lot of them thrown out on their asses, and the whole office revised from the janitor on up to the chief.
Sounds like the damn military.
It's a company, and rules can be bent, OR management can get bent.
The ARIN record lists a home.com email address, but that redirects to a com.org site (a network solutions domain according to internic). An MX lookup on home.com doesn't return a record, which doesn't surprise me at all. The contact phone number listed is a 604 area code which turns out to be Canadian...
"Region
British Columbia
Cities
Boston Bar
Chilliwack
Hope
Pemberton
Powell River
Vancouver "
A search on the Canadian number just returns...
"We're sorry. We did not find a listing for the phone number you entered.
The phone number "(604) 313-3412" is a Vancouver, BC based phone number and the registered carrier is TELUS Mobility. However, due to number portability, some numbers have been transferred to a new service provider other than the registered carrier."
Whoever or whatever is holding it doesn't wish to be contacted to the extent that they are willing to falsify ARIN information. I wonder what ARINs policy on that is?
Five bucks says that the 'outfit' in Las Vegas has Scientology ties.
So, Anonymous Coward, what do you suggest the people do? The government has all the firepower, the corporations and banks own everything, even our movement is limited. It's easy to say that something needs to be done without offering any solutions. Especially behind the mask of anonymity.
It looks like to me that Sunbelt is trying to cover up Scientology involvement in CWS from the link http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net -abuse.email/browse_frm/thread/5548a6300756d6a0/0f ac1b5d8ff3f14e#0fac1b5d8ff3f14e supplied earlier in the thread.
I can't keep thinking "how convenient." Especially since adware/spyware is coming increasingly under the gaze of the Federal Trade Comission and the Justice Department.