If drugs are vastly overpriced and drug companies truly spend more on marketing than R&D, then why doesn't some group of concerned scientists start their own (private) non-profit drug company?
Is a dyed in the wool big spender who'll only grow the government
but Bush's Republican white house and Republican congress have increased defense and non-defense spending WAY MORE than Clinton did in his eight years. A Republican congress can't say no to a Repubulican president (and vice versa). But do you think a Republican congress would let a Democratic president pay spending increases? NO WAY! Political deadlock is the ONLY viable (short term) solution for liberty-minded voters.:\
1. If you live in a swing state, vote for Kerry. A Democratic white house will be deadlocked by the Republican congress. Political deadlock is the least-worst real-world option for liberty-minded folks. Studies of state and federal budgets have shown that a Democratic president/governor with a Republican senate spend the least and a Republican president/governor with a Republican senate spend the MOST!
2. If you do not live in a swing state, vote for the Libertarian Party candidate. In the 2004 Presidential election, in particular, even the mainstream media have identified the Libertarian Party as a possible Republican spoiler (ala Nader). Elections are won and lost by a tiny 1% sliver of "centrist" swing voters, not a party's "base". Just like Democrats take African Americans' votes for granted, the GOP takes Libertarian votes for granted. We should let the Democrats and the GOP recognize that Libertarian swing votes are up for grabs... for the right price.:)
SGI had the same problem with the Apache group. SGI greatly improved the performance of Apache 1.2, but their patches were so "dirty", the Apache group rejected them. SGI ignored the Apache group's feedback and whined that their improvements where ignored, when in actuality, SGI ignored the Apache community.
Note that sales taxes are regressive, meaning poor people pay MORE than rich people. In Quebec, the federal+provincial sales tax is about 15%. A poor person and rich person both pay $15 in sales tax on a $100 purchase. However, the poor person's $15 is a much higher percentage of their salary.
yes, Microsoft's MSDN search is so bad, I use Google with site:msdn.microsoft.com to search MSDN for my Win32 API questions. Microsoft should be embarrased..
Are people really running around trailing all of the code from all of the gigs they've had and just randomly incorporating it into other things? That just seems rather disconcerting to me.
but then new version of MSVC++ would not be able to compile code for old versions of Windows. Most Win32 APIs are both backwards AND forwards compatible.
Why should the user have to manually insert A HREF tags? Slashdot should automatically detect URLs and add the appropriate A HREF tag, just like Microsoft Outlook does to URLs in emails. This is not that hard..
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Why doesn't Promise abstract their cross-platform code from the Linux and Windows device driver "glue" code? Then they could just port the Linux and Windows specific code once and all their device drivers' platform-independent code should "just work". (but keep your fingers crossed anyways);)
I know Linus does not like cross-platform wrapper crap code in his kernel, but there is nothing preventing Promise from doing this outside the Linus tree or wrapping the Linux device driver API around the Windows device driver model.
My biggest TB complaint is that invoking the spell checker takes WAY too long. On Windows, if I press F7 to spell check an email, TB freezes for 10-20 seconds. And the "no words misspelled" dialog looks too similar to the "here is a misspelled word" dialog. When I see one of these dialogs, I have to spend 5-10 seconds scrutinizing the dialog's small print to determine if I misspelled a word or if everything is OK.:(
Mac OS X uses the Mach kernel with a FreeBSD layer above it. This means that much of Apples work on the Mach kernel is irrelevant to FreeBSD. Mach is a microkernel, which was of course derived from BSD Unix, but it was forked so long ago that few similarities remain.
Technically, Mac OS X's "xnu" kernel is not a microkernel with a BSD server process. The BSD emulation runs within the kernel address space for better performance.
yes, Windows NT has had SMP support since 1988, when NT development began. NT also had an O(1) process scheduler since 1988, but Linux likes to accept credit for this "invention" 15 years later..
but OpenBSD still looks bad for not "eating their own dogfood" on openbsd.org. What is Microsoft ran microsoft.com on Solaris servers? Remember the bad press Microsoft when they still ran hotmail.com on FreeBSD servers?
but if the transition is too difficult, then users will simply choose not to change systems. They would keep using XFree86 or the pre-EGCS gcc, for example.
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If drugs are vastly overpriced and drug companies truly spend more on marketing than R&D, then why doesn't some group of concerned scientists start their own (private) non-profit drug company?
so you are saying that Indian engineers are able to do the same work in the same amount of time for less money because of automation?
This is the best proposal for a safer, easier voting system I have ever heard.
I just wanted to thank you for your Operation: HAMMERTIME! This is a vital mission.
Is a dyed in the wool big spender who'll only grow the government
but Bush's Republican white house and Republican congress have increased defense and non-defense spending WAY MORE than Clinton did in his eight years. A Republican congress can't say no to a Repubulican president (and vice versa). But do you think a Republican congress would let a Democratic president pay spending increases? NO WAY! Political deadlock is the ONLY viable (short term) solution for liberty-minded voters.
My pragmatic Libertarian voting philosophy is:
1. If you live in a swing state, vote for Kerry. A Democratic white house will be deadlocked by the Republican congress. Political deadlock is the least-worst real-world option for liberty-minded folks. Studies of state and federal budgets have shown that a Democratic president/governor with a Republican senate spend the least and a Republican president/governor with a Republican senate spend the MOST!
2. If you do not live in a swing state, vote for the Libertarian Party candidate. In the 2004 Presidential election, in particular, even the mainstream media have identified the Libertarian Party as a possible Republican spoiler (ala Nader). Elections are won and lost by a tiny 1% sliver of "centrist" swing voters, not a party's "base". Just like Democrats take African Americans' votes for granted, the GOP takes Libertarian votes for granted. We should let the Democrats and the GOP recognize that Libertarian swing votes are up for grabs... for the right price.
SGI had the same problem with the Apache group. SGI greatly improved the performance of Apache 1.2, but their patches were so "dirty", the Apache group rejected them. SGI ignored the Apache group's feedback and whined that their improvements where ignored, when in actuality, SGI ignored the Apache community.
Note that sales taxes are regressive, meaning poor people pay MORE than rich people. In Quebec, the federal+provincial sales tax is about 15%. A poor person and rich person both pay $15 in sales tax on a $100 purchase. However, the poor person's $15 is a much higher percentage of their salary.
Try Vancouver. Most films pretend it is New York, anyway.
I read that the film industry uses Vancouver as "San Francisco North" and Toronto as "New York North".
I just visited Quebec. Their sales tax is about 15%!
Was Napster never NOT beta?
In case anyone is too lazy, here is a direct link to Tektonic's network stats page: http://www.tektonic.net/network.htm
yes, Microsoft's MSDN search is so bad, I use Google with site:msdn.microsoft.com to search MSDN for my Win32 API questions. Microsoft should be embarrased..
Oil from tar sands has an EROEI of about 1.5, so you waste 2 barrels for every 3 you get to guzzle.
3 - 2 = 1.5 ??
2 + 2 = 5
Are people really running around trailing all of the code from all of the gigs they've had and just randomly incorporating it into other things? That just seems rather disconcerting to me.
yes, but that would explain a lot...
Does gay male porn also turn women into sex objects?
but then new version of MSVC++ would not be able to compile code for old versions of Windows. Most Win32 APIs are both backwards AND forwards compatible.
Why should the user have to manually insert A HREF tags? Slashdot should automatically detect URLs and add the appropriate A HREF tag, just like Microsoft Outlook does to URLs in emails. This is not that hard..
Why doesn't Promise abstract their cross-platform code from the Linux and Windows device driver "glue" code? Then they could just port the Linux and Windows specific code once and all their device drivers' platform-independent code should "just work". (but keep your fingers crossed anyways)
I know Linus does not like cross-platform wrapper crap code in his kernel, but there is nothing preventing Promise from doing this outside the Linus tree or wrapping the Linux device driver API around the Windows device driver model.
My biggest TB complaint is that invoking the spell checker takes WAY too long. On Windows, if I press F7 to spell check an email, TB freezes for 10-20 seconds. And the "no words misspelled" dialog looks too similar to the "here is a misspelled word" dialog. When I see one of these dialogs, I have to spend 5-10 seconds scrutinizing the dialog's small print to determine if I misspelled a word or if everything is OK.
Mac OS X uses the Mach kernel with a FreeBSD layer above it. This means that much of Apples work on the Mach kernel is irrelevant to FreeBSD. Mach is a microkernel, which was of course derived from BSD Unix, but it was forked so long ago that few similarities remain.
Technically, Mac OS X's "xnu" kernel is not a microkernel with a BSD server process. The BSD emulation runs within the kernel address space for better performance.
yes, Windows NT has had SMP support since 1988, when NT development began. NT also had an O(1) process scheduler since 1988, but Linux likes to accept credit for this "invention" 15 years later..
but OpenBSD still looks bad for not "eating their own dogfood" on openbsd.org. What is Microsoft ran microsoft.com on Solaris servers? Remember the bad press Microsoft when they still ran hotmail.com on FreeBSD servers?
but if the transition is too difficult, then users will simply choose not to change systems. They would keep using XFree86 or the pre-EGCS gcc, for example.
what's worse? a tax and spend liberal or a borrow and spend neocon?
I think a borrow and spend neocon is worse because WE have to pay interest on THEIR accumulating debt.