The words are still there, there is just a dearth of people with the education to make use of them.
Irony has always had a meaning of poetic tragedy, or rather where one attempts to effect a result and actually causes the opposite. i.e. There is irony in the situation. It's never meant coincidence though...
It can be a difficult concept, no wonder Americans have such difficulty when their grasp of the language is so tenuous anyway.
A good example from Ed Byrne about Ms Morissette[1].
There is so much fucking commercial support for Linux that it's funny. And that's 4 minutes googling.
The real problem is the quality of British middle management. Basically they are small minded, empire building sheep which act like lead weights on a company's competitiveness. You want to know why there are so few British world beating companies? It's the "can't do" attitude.
I think it's a feature of the culture of the English, one of the reasons they have to get Scots in at the very top.
It's weeding out a lot of the complete numpties. It's also weeding out a lot of the companies who have absolutely no idea how to manage their I.T. costs effectively.
One of the companies I worked for were spending half a billion dollars a year on their I.T. systems with absolutely no idea why or what was happening to the money. They haven't been making a profit, obviously.
Even less polluting than a hydrogen powered vehicle, the only exhaust is clean air. Ironically, the air is cleaner going out than going in because it has to be filtered before reaching the engine.
It's cos you actually get the performance you would expect from a 348mpg carburator and oddly enough, nobody will buy a car which goes from 0-60 in four and a half hours.
Why? Because the fossil fuels industry is really just a chemistry industry. They don't really care that it's petroleum they're selling to you. As long as it's something that they can sell to you.
Pure hydrogen fuel cells sound like a great idea, no pollution but water.
Except then you come to the problem of storage and transportation and have to spend a truly massive fortune on research and development like this, and, once that's done you also have the job of upgrading the entire energy distribution infrastructure which oddly enough will also be rather expensive.
But hey, go ahead, it's a free market, someone else will come along with much cheaper solution.
And refute his arguments, but also CC the other MEPs for your region with the reply, as I understand it, there are several MEPs for each region.
There are a number of studies which show that software patents don't increase innovation, reduce prices or increase competitiveness. They do the opposite. The MEPs have to be made aware of this.
This one: http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.p df
Explain how software patents will decimate the industry by making even the most trivial action performed by a computer require a license or indeed several licenses from patentees.
Mr Stallman has an example of how even trivial patents will be granted:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/anatomy-trivial-pa te nt.txt
It's probably also worth explaining that several very prominent innovators within the field are opposed to the concept of software patents, one such example is:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt After all that, don't be reasonable and give up, reasonable people do not change the world, only unreasonable people do. Read up on the subject, there is a lot of ammunition out there which shows just how stupid software patents are:
I've tried multiple buckets with popfile/outclass, it gets a significant percentage of the classification correct, but it also gets enough wrong to be a serious pain in the arse when important mails get automatically misclassified into a low priority mailing list folder.
I have it's predecessor and that's a shite PDA too.
Nice big colour screen and can play MP3s which is all very cool and impressive for 5 minutes, but a truly crap user interface, buggy software and excruciatingly limited feature set make it almost useless as a day to day Personal Digital Assistant.
Yeah, and I'm a unix admin and Linux advocate too.
If you're coming from a Palm/Wince, you'll think it's the best thing since sliced bread, if you're coming from a Psion, you'll be beating your head against the nearest brick wall with the badly integrated clunkyness of it.
Seriously, save your dosh, it isn't worth it. Unless you get it in a sale with a big discount.
People seem to think that bigger, faster, more configurable, more features are what quality is about.
It isn't, and it's a cultural problem rather than a technical one.
Fitness for purpose is what quality is about but vendors and purchasers both get this wrong. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is an interesting read on the subject.
Ironically, one of the reason Unix is still around after 30 years despite everything the Digitals, IBMs and Microsofts of the world have tried is that it is a high quality system. The, do one thing well, mantra is almost the definition of quality.
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Jeez. It's no wonder you're getting royally ripped off in America.
Add layers of unnecessary complexity to phone software. Sure, that's the way to do it.
The sane solution is to make the sender pay, just like they do in the rest of the world...
I new the US mobile system was fucked up, but I didn't think it was that bad.
Sure sounds like you're getting royally ripped off.
How dumb is that?
God is a fairy story told to children in order to keep them in line.
Give them wifi, it'll stop the wars, imprison the warlords, plant the seeds, clear the mines, pave the roads and stop the corruption.
You know, the books with words in them.
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The words are still there, there is just a dearth of people with the education to make use of them.
Irony has always had a meaning of poetic tragedy, or rather where one attempts to effect a result and actually causes the opposite. i.e. There is irony in the situation. It's never meant coincidence though...
It can be a difficult concept, no wonder Americans have such difficulty when their grasp of the language is so tenuous anyway.
A good example from Ed Byrne about Ms Morissette[1].
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=622
[1] I'm making Ms Morissette an honourary American due to her lack of understanding of irony.
to live with.
People read fiction for the same reason they watch movies.
Plenty of companies provide support for Linux:
m /software/linux/support.html/ us/en/dhs/topics/linux_linuxho me.htm: //www.suse.de/de/business/services/support/: //www.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/
http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/
http://wwws.sun.co
http://www.dell.com
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
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I mean... Fucking please...
There is so much fucking commercial support for Linux that it's funny. And that's 4 minutes googling.
The real problem is the quality of British middle management. Basically they are small minded, empire building sheep which act like lead weights on a company's competitiveness. You want to know why there are so few British world beating companies? It's the "can't do" attitude.
I think it's a feature of the culture of the English, one of the reasons they have to get Scots in at the very top.
It's good that the I.T. industry is in recession.
It's weeding out a lot of the complete numpties. It's also weeding out a lot of the companies who have absolutely no idea how to manage their I.T. costs effectively.
One of the companies I worked for were spending half a billion dollars a year on their I.T. systems with absolutely no idea why or what was happening to the money. They haven't been making a profit, obviously.
But then, I am not advocating hydrogen either...
Like this one:
http://www.cyber-media.com/aircar/
Even less polluting than a hydrogen powered vehicle, the only exhaust is clean air. Ironically, the air is cleaner going out than going in because it has to be filtered before reaching the engine.
It's cos you actually get the performance you would expect from a 348mpg carburator and oddly enough, nobody will buy a car which goes from 0-60 in four and a half hours.
Why? Because the fossil fuels industry is really just a chemistry industry. They don't really care that it's petroleum they're selling to you. As long as it's something that they can sell to you.
And therefore more difficult to handle than a liquid.
So that's another argument against methane.
Like methanol.
Pure hydrogen fuel cells sound like a great idea, no pollution but water.
Except then you come to the problem of storage and transportation and have to spend a truly massive fortune on research and development like this, and, once that's done you also have the job of upgrading the entire energy distribution infrastructure which oddly enough will also be rather expensive.
But hey, go ahead, it's a free market, someone else will come along with much cheaper solution.
And refute his arguments, but also CC the other MEPs for your region with the reply, as I understand it, there are several MEPs for each region.
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There are a number of studies which show that software patents don't increase innovation, reduce prices or increase competitiveness. They do the opposite. The MEPs have to be made aware of this.
This one:
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.
Explain how software patents will decimate the industry by making even the most trivial action performed by a computer require a license or indeed several licenses from patentees.
Mr Stallman has an example of how even trivial patents will be granted:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/anatomy-trivial-p
It's probably also worth explaining that several very prominent innovators within the field are opposed to the concept of software patents, one such example is:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt
After all that, don't be reasonable and give up, reasonable people do not change the world, only unreasonable people do. Read up on the subject, there is a lot of ammunition out there which shows just how stupid software patents are:
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.rese
If you want to spend your life chained to a desk, go for it. I have better things to do.
I've just been migrated to Notes from Outlook. Not a happy bunny till I discovered how powerful it is with stuff like agents.
The only thing I'm missing now is a spam classification tool like popfile for notes.
I've tried multiple buckets with popfile/outclass, it gets a significant percentage of the classification correct, but it also gets enough wrong to be a serious pain in the arse when important mails get automatically misclassified into a low priority mailing list folder.
I have it's predecessor and that's a shite PDA too.
Nice big colour screen and can play MP3s which is all very cool and impressive for 5 minutes, but a truly crap user interface, buggy software and excruciatingly limited feature set make it almost useless as a day to day Personal Digital Assistant.
Yeah, and I'm a unix admin and Linux advocate too.
If you're coming from a Palm/Wince, you'll think it's the best thing since sliced bread, if you're coming from a Psion, you'll be beating your head against the nearest brick wall with the badly integrated clunkyness of it.
Seriously, save your dosh, it isn't worth it. Unless you get it in a sale with a big discount.
No, you can't. I've seen the systems and they are pathetic in comparison to a £200 tivo.
It's like buying a replica ferrari, it may look like a good idea but it doesn't have the performance.
People seem to think that bigger, faster, more configurable, more features are what quality is about.
It isn't, and it's a cultural problem rather than a technical one.
Fitness for purpose is what quality is about but vendors and purchasers both get this wrong. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is an interesting read on the subject.
Ironically, one of the reason Unix is still around after 30 years despite everything the Digitals, IBMs and Microsofts of the world have tried is that it is a high quality system. The, do one thing well, mantra is almost the definition of quality.
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrhhhhhhgggghh...
*SOB*
I don't know, is it just me?