The only jobs that open source will kill are Microsoft jobs and jobs tied into the Microsoft monopoly.
If he thinks that having a corporation makes jobs as opposed to having people who can accomplish the same thing without a corporation behind them, then perhaps it is Microsoft that should be the one to die off. (As we all pray every day).
I hope Gates makes more founded arguements next time, perhaps he will suggest that open source causes starvation or maybe malaria outbreaks.
I have nothing else to add. Thank you for your time.
Why wouldn't NASA just hire people to run the satellite and manage it themselves?
I don't see the advantage of having a computer run it. Hopefully NASA equips it with a "Metric Conversion Module".
I would much rather see someone crammed inside of this thing running the priorities with levers or some kind of cat or dog running on a treadball with a probe telling it to meow or bark , 1 bark is priority 1
Yeah but just because the government won't let people do it officially, doesn't mean people won't do it. Everyone breaks the law every day in some insignificant or significant way. I think it is funny how they are stripping American children away from rocketry and telling them it's a thing a terrorist would do. If terrorists wanted to, they would start a rocketry club and would not give two shits that it wasn't legal, they are TERRORISTS. These laws are to prevent US citizens from playing with rockets, it has nothing to do with terrorism.
If a terrorist wanted to fire a rocket coated in anthrax through downtown New York for instance, I'm sure he wouldn't go "Dammit, if they hadn't passed that law about illegal model rocketry I would have done it for sure".
I am sick of seeing the USA government gamble away it's future and the future of their next generation to appease the oil cabinet of the present. It's time for a change, not just because of this, but because these kinds of policies won't go away any time soon. I'm glad election is this year.
But it sucks for the kids and rocket enthusiasts, sure Bush is talking about going to Mars and going to the Moon again, then he strips the country of model rocketry almost saying "Sure we can go there, but don't ever hope any of you can."
Any kid that was interested in space will have to test out rocket simulations as opposed to real physical experiments. Which is a shame for NASA and every young wannabe astronaut/rocket scientist.
I always feel at home in front of my computer screen, gives me the only feeling of complete satisfaction to have an enviroment completely suited to my needs and procrastination:)
I can completely sympathize with the way this man must have thought although he appeared to be a lot more disciplined with his time than me, it is sad to see another lost geek:(
I feel this will affect a very small crowd of people, and the only information being stored is the name and year of birth. Other information is stored on the company that invented this "great" idea. Now, does this mean the staff and bar owner will be on the computer as well? Or is this just for patrons only?
I don't really like the idea of anyone knowing any extra information about me, but I can live with a few hooligans not being allowed it because when they swiped their card it said "Drunk out of his mind picking fights in the line, never allowed back".
Besides, I'm sure this will have it's benefits, they can use the computers to randomly select winners that are in the club.
But will people leaving clubs have to swipe their card on the way out too?
This system is a good example of how technology can be used to improve security in an otherwise insecure area.
The first LOTR Movie was coming out and everyone said how the pictures of the characters in their heads would be better in every way than the movie production. But personally, other than the characters in my head I would have chosen the ones from the movie.
Give it time, if it sucks, we will all bash it later together as a big family.
But there is always hope that you might enjoy the movie, reserve your judgement for after when you are either looking for the directors house to set ablaze or speed dialing your 4 friends and 6 different emergency functions to tell everyone you know about the movie. (A PARAGRAPHICAL SENTENCE)
Making money, and preventing other people from stealing "their" money. So you have to wonder if this online purchasing is just another way for the RIAA to line its pockets.. or if they just need to have stupid laws for everything people seem to enjoy.
Damn laws.. I have mp3s, from cds and I'm a criminal, why don't they use the money to go shoot some terrorists or something important..
Those artists all still make more money than I do, so I don't see how pissing someone off like me is going to benefit the RIAA or our suffering economy. I mean shit sorry we all cant afford 20$ music cds and we are all cheap. BUt some of us have bills.
I just wish the RIAA would go about this a different way, than kicking in the door, waving the four four.
Boats, Planes, Trains, Automobiles, every mode of transportation when it was initially introduced had catastrophes of varying proportions. It is difficult to suggest that only the 1-2% of the worlds population should be the ones to do all the risk taking and privatized space travel.
It will be the poor people with ambition to get to outer space that actually have the best results.
But hey, this is America, ruled by the all mighty dollar and how can we dispute what a millionaire in space says?
One day we'll have a space station, and a few centuries from now we'll all be beaming aboard space ships and going around the galaxy with solar sails.
I'm sure I'll be long dead before I get the chance to go to outer space, but it makes me happy that some millionaire will get to do it simply because his daddy was rich./sarcasm
After he saw back to the future a few times and thought hey the delorean would make a great car not only for time travel but perpetual motion!
After all these years I thought perpetual motion was a myth, little did I know it would only take a DeLorean to accomplish this great feat of impossibility.
Are they still in business?
Do they know what mister Tilley does with their cars?
And if Tilley is right, and he does have a secret to energy such as he's claiming, there's no way we'll ever get it since our economy is largely based on the sale of oil. Not to mention the USAs entire government (Republican) gets large amounts of cash for oil. It is not in their interests to have any kind of alternative energy. This may sound like a 'wild, crazy, conspiracy' theory, but if we had the right kind of motivation all across congress and the world we'd have an alternative energy for practical use within 5 years.
It's just nobody profits from a reusable resource, and with oil everybody profits. Except the consumer.
It must be great to sell oil, and go to the gas station and get practically free gas. I'm sure GWB has his own gas stations. Haha. And his own car lanes, but anyways power to alternative energy sources, but perpetual motion? Sounds doubtful.
my tinfoil hat back on! the world isnt a safe place for us anymore, they will know we bought our pants from a store and that we wear them and like those kinds of pants. we are doomed. i can only hope they dont find out what kind of beer i like and alert me to its precense, such events can lead only to drunken catastrophe!
if anything these new founded improvements will just cost alot of money to implement but it will be easier to do inventory with 1000s of unique bar codes. im sure it will be.
i just hope i am not followed home by someone with an rfid scanner who wants my pants! "THEY SIZE IS RIGHT TOO"
anyways i cant think of anything else so if you liked this then reply and tell me how great of a person i am and i will reward you with a wink
The money comes from defence contractors looking for new cool ways to kill, maim, or destroy. Hopefully we get more positive scientific advancements rather than a destructive force witnessed for a millionth of a second during an event that only theoretically happened.
Everyone in Canada put together. I bet in Canada though the percantage of p2p users is alot higher since more of us can read!
Yeah, we know all your schools are still like Saved By the Bell.
I never make a serious post, but really how seriously can you take an article that assumes to have known how many p2p users are out there?
I think there are probably more people using private servers or private channels (see irc) to obtain illicit data "STEALING".
I don't believe its stealing but corporate America and likewise those golden lined suit wearing CEOs believe they own everything, including ideas.
But hey the world we live in sucks, nobody wants to change it so we can just complain on a webpage that probably has more intelligence than the USA congress, but probably alot less productivity.
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The only jobs that open source will kill are Microsoft jobs and jobs tied into the Microsoft monopoly.
If he thinks that having a corporation makes jobs as opposed to having people who can accomplish the same thing without a corporation behind them, then perhaps it is Microsoft that should be the one to die off. (As we all pray every day).
I hope Gates makes more founded arguements next time, perhaps he will suggest that open source causes starvation or maybe malaria outbreaks.
I have nothing else to add.
Thank you for your time.
Why wouldn't NASA just hire people to run the satellite and manage it themselves?
I don't see the advantage of having a computer run it. Hopefully NASA equips it with a "Metric Conversion Module".
I would much rather see someone crammed inside of this thing running the priorities with levers or some kind of cat or dog running on a treadball with a probe telling it to meow or bark , 1 bark is priority 1
Yeah but just because the government won't let people do it officially, doesn't mean people won't do it. Everyone breaks the law every day in some insignificant or significant way. I think it is funny how they are stripping American children away from rocketry and telling them it's a thing a terrorist would do. If terrorists wanted to, they would start a rocketry club and would not give two shits that it wasn't legal, they are TERRORISTS. These laws are to prevent US citizens from playing with rockets, it has nothing to do with terrorism.
If a terrorist wanted to fire a rocket coated in anthrax through downtown New York for instance, I'm sure he wouldn't go "Dammit, if they hadn't passed that law about illegal model rocketry I would have done it for sure".
I am sick of seeing the USA government gamble away it's future and the future of their next generation to appease the oil cabinet of the present. It's time for a change, not just because of this, but because these kinds of policies won't go away any time soon. I'm glad election is this year.
But it sucks for the kids and rocket enthusiasts, sure Bush is talking about going to Mars and going to the Moon again, then he strips the country of model rocketry almost saying "Sure we can go there, but don't ever hope any of you can."
Any kid that was interested in space will have to test out rocket simulations as opposed to real physical experiments. Which is a shame for NASA and every young wannabe astronaut/rocket scientist.
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I always feel at home in front of my computer screen, gives me the only feeling of complete satisfaction to have an enviroment completely suited to my needs and procrastination :)
:(
I can completely sympathize with the way this man must have thought although he appeared to be a lot more disciplined with his time than me, it is sad to see another lost geek
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I feel this will affect a very small crowd of people, and the only information being stored is the name and year of birth. Other information is stored on the company that invented this "great" idea. Now, does this mean the staff and bar owner will be on the computer as well? Or is this just for patrons only?
I don't really like the idea of anyone knowing any extra information about me, but I can live with a few hooligans not being allowed it because when they swiped their card it said "Drunk out of his mind picking fights in the line, never allowed back".
Besides, I'm sure this will have it's benefits, they can use the computers to randomly select winners that are in the club.
But will people leaving clubs have to swipe their card on the way out too?
This system is a good example of how technology can be used to improve security in an otherwise insecure area.
The first LOTR Movie was coming out and everyone said how the pictures of the characters in their heads would be better in every way than the movie production. But personally, other than the characters in my head I would have chosen the ones from the movie.
Give it time, if it sucks, we will all bash it later together as a big family.
But there is always hope that you might enjoy the movie, reserve your judgement for after when you are either looking for the directors house to set ablaze or speed dialing your 4 friends and 6 different emergency functions to tell everyone you know about the movie. (A PARAGRAPHICAL SENTENCE)
I LOVE YOU
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all those beowulf clusters of computers for the rendering farms. Wow, that sure would be exciting. L0TR is much better than LOTR.
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This was a charade to get Bush into power to get more oil for more money, yadayada, circle of life in the industrial age.
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Anyone with any kind of intelligence can see that all these "little" events lead to something bigger.
Read the last few stories about this electronic voting scam in the past few days at
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-Yeah Im a troll but i have a trolly opinion
When every freakin' story is slashdotted before I can even view the media?
YOU SPOONY BARD!!
Damn the GNAA!
Making money, and preventing other people from stealing "their" money. So you have to wonder if this online purchasing is just another way for the RIAA to line its pockets.. or if they just need to have stupid laws for everything people seem to enjoy.
Damn laws.. I have mp3s, from cds and I'm a criminal, why don't they use the money to go shoot some terrorists or something important..
Those artists all still make more money than I do, so I don't see how pissing someone off like me is going to benefit the RIAA or our suffering economy. I mean shit sorry we all cant afford 20$ music cds and we are all cheap.
BUt some of us have bills.
I just wish the RIAA would go about this a different way, than kicking in the door, waving the four four.
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A time when I cared less about an article.
"Some guy who had something to do with something important shares a typical opinion"
Karma to burn.
Now I wont get lost in my own city, what a relief.
802.1Y and 802.1Z
I prefer the depth of 802.1Z however!
Boats, Planes, Trains, Automobiles, every mode of transportation when it was initially introduced had catastrophes of varying proportions. It is difficult to suggest that only the 1-2% of the worlds population should be the ones to do all the risk taking and privatized space travel.
It will be the poor people with ambition to get to outer space that actually have the best results.
But hey, this is America, ruled by the all mighty dollar and how can we dispute what a millionaire in space says?
One day we'll have a space station, and a few centuries from now we'll all be beaming aboard space ships and going around the galaxy with solar sails.
I'm sure I'll be long dead before I get the chance to go to outer space, but it makes me happy that some millionaire will get to do it simply because his daddy was rich./sarcasm
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But do you really need to punish someone for something they didnt even do?
This is ridiculous.
In Microsoft operating systems..
Serious question, not a troll!
*oooga*
After he saw back to the future a few times and thought hey the delorean would make a great car not only for time travel but perpetual motion!
After all these years I thought perpetual motion was a myth, little did I know it would only take a DeLorean to accomplish this great feat of impossibility.
Are they still in business?
Do they know what mister Tilley does with their cars?
And if Tilley is right, and he does have a secret to energy such as he's claiming, there's no way we'll ever get it since our economy is largely based on the sale of oil. Not to mention the USAs entire government (Republican) gets large amounts of cash for oil. It is not in their interests to have any kind of alternative energy. This may sound like a 'wild, crazy, conspiracy' theory, but if we had the right kind of motivation all across congress and the world we'd have an alternative energy for practical use within 5 years.
It's just nobody profits from a reusable resource, and with oil everybody profits. Except the consumer.
It must be great to sell oil, and go to the gas station and get practically free gas. I'm sure GWB has his own gas stations. Haha. And his own car lanes, but anyways power to alternative energy sources, but perpetual motion? Sounds doubtful.
G'day ladies.
my tinfoil hat back on!
the world isnt a safe place for us anymore, they will know we bought our pants from a store and that we wear them and like those kinds of pants. we are doomed. i can only hope they dont find out what kind of beer i like and alert me to its precense, such events can lead only to drunken catastrophe!
if anything these new founded improvements will just cost alot of money to implement but it will be easier to do inventory with 1000s of unique bar codes. im sure it will be.
i just hope i am not followed home by someone with an rfid scanner who wants my pants! "THEY SIZE IS RIGHT TOO"
anyways i cant think of anything else so if you liked this then reply and tell me how great of a person i am and i will reward you with a wink
The matrix movie released into newgroups recently?
The money comes from defence contractors looking for new cool ways to kill, maim, or destroy. Hopefully we get more positive scientific advancements rather than a destructive force witnessed for a millionth of a second during an event that only theoretically happened.
:)
I am hoping for a planetary atmosphere renewer
But hey I think I just play too much MOO2.
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mod it up, ill fill your cup
And watch it blue screen and plummet into the ground.
"Hit any key to continue..."
*Zoooooooom*
Booom
Yes the sound effects needed
I use ugly punctuation and styling to offend as many as possible.
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Ive read in months, must be very slow at the slashdot hamster wheel.
Everyone in Canada put together. I bet in Canada though the percantage of p2p users is alot higher since more of us can read!
Yeah, we know all your schools are still like Saved By the Bell.
I never make a serious post, but really how seriously can you take an article that assumes to have known how many p2p users are out there?
I think there are probably more people using private servers or private channels (see irc) to obtain illicit data "STEALING".
I don't believe its stealing but corporate America and likewise those golden lined suit wearing CEOs believe they own everything, including ideas.
But hey the world we live in sucks, nobody wants to change it so we can just complain on a webpage that probably has more intelligence than the USA congress, but probably alot less productivity.
-CHEERS
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