Microsoft "cooperates" with an established competitor
Microsoft embraces and extends established standard (TRON OS)
Microsoft cuts ties with competitor and/or drops support for the standard
Since WinCE uptake has been slow for embedded devices, this plan will "cut 'em off at the pass" by inserting.NET between the low-level OS and user-level apps..NET is the new "OS".
If I remember the "Summer of Shark Attacks" correctly, there were actually FEWER shark attacks that year. Only the number of attacks reported in the news increased.
does that mean that if I sit in the caboose of the train, I will never actually reach my destination? no wonder those caboose tickets were so much cheaper..
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I think this is a good moral. If your startup company requires secrecy, luck, and the "very best" engineers, then maybe you business plan is not a very good one. A good business plan is one that can be implemented above-board by hard working, but not necessarily superstar people and still whether a few strokes of bad luck. Now that would be a solid company..
Think about it. They've continually pushed back the release date of Longhorn, at least three times now, to my recollection. The screenshots they have leaked out, whether they are true or not haven't produced any vote of confidence from the various geeks I've seen comment about it online.
Even if many geeks don't like the "user centric" features in the leaked Longhorn screenshots, the screenshots still give GNOME and KDE developers a lot to think about. They are accused of simply stealing Apple's and Microsoft's GUI ideas. Maybe GNOME and KDE can now steal Microsoft's GUI ideas before Microsoft even releases them in a product!!!;-)
The only problem I had with Arjan's linux-2.6.0-test RPMs was that my touchpad stopped working on my Dell laptop. Apparently there is a new (not in Linus' tree) Synaptics device driver that fixes the problem, but the simpler workaround is simply to add the following kernel boot parameter: psmouse_noext=1
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Microsoft Accelerator for Six Sigma is an integrated set of products and services customized for Six Sigma practitioners. The accelerator can help Six Sigma project teams more effectively manage a large number of projects, more easily track their financial impact, optimize and track resources, and electronically share knowledge gathered across the enterprise.
I was able to use my Dell laptop's touchpad with Linux 2.6.0-test4 without using the -mm tree or applying the new Synaptics driver from XFree86 people. Just add the following kernel boot parameter: psmouse_noext=1
Like the other guy, I want to know when your destructors get called? Plus not every system allows you to override global new and delete operators (e.g. the Symbian cell phone OS).
This is an IBM PS/2 Keyboard with model number KB-7953. This keyboard has been modified over an entire summer so that every square shaped key has been replaced with an 'X' key.
Every character key, almost all the keys on the numpad, the cursors, all of the function keys, and all of the numeric have been replaced. Only the tab, caps-lock, left and right shift, ctrl and alt, windows, return, and backspace keys remain. These keys remain only because they aren't the same size as the 'X' key. All in all, there are 86 keys replaced.
History: This keyboard is unique! To make a keyboard similar to it you would need 86 keyboards, just as I did.
I work with a company that recycles used computer equipment. We resell computers, laptops, monitors, and some other parts, but smaller things such as mice and keyboards we usually throw away. Over the course of this past summer, I've kept my eye out for keyboards similar to this one. Slowly but surely, I'd pry the 'X' key off one keyboard after another. Eventually, this was created.
To make the keyboard even more unusual, to replace the actual 'X' key originally on the keyboard I used an 'X' key from a black IBM keyboard of the same size.
It should be noted that the keys on this come from many used keyboards, and as such some are a bit dirty. There are two keys that occasionally stick (where the '4' and '+' normally would be). The keyboard is in good and working condition, but is being sold as-is, with no expressed or implied warranty. You can, by all means, still use this keyboard to type. Only they keys have been replaced.
You could be the hit of a LAN party!
I'm hoping there is someone out there in Internet land that finds this as amusing as I do. It's a friggin' keyboard with lots of 'X' keys! What's not to love? Hell, I might just keep it for myself. Ah, man, this keyboard makes me laugh just looking at it. But by all means -- don't just look, bid! You could very well own it.
Dan, the author of the Parrot VM, has a bet with Pythong's Guido van Rossum. Dan bet Guido that Parrot can execute pure Python bytecode faster than the Python interpreter can. The battle will be decided at OSCON 2004 in Portland, OR. He sounds pretty confident:
"Boys and girls, let's get this straight. I'm only going to say this once. Parrot is an order of magnitude faster than perl 5 doing equivalent things. Without enabling any extraordinary measures. You know how Python's performance rates against Perl 5. Do the math."
yes, I was the original poster. I came to libertarianism from the Left/Greens, so personal freedoms are slightly more important to me than freedoms for "Big Business". That's why I can't bring myself to vote Republican. I gave up on the Left/Greens because they don't recognize how an efficient, competitive market can be used to create good.
I won't vote for the Libertarian Party presidential candidate because I would rather get Bush out of office. I will vote for other LP candidates.
As you pointed out, tax cuts without spending cuts (or with spending increases we have now) are actually tax INCREASES for future generations.
Regarding Republican spending, here is a news article about a USA Today study that shows that Republican-controlled state legislatures spent more than Democrat-controlled state legislatures from 1997-2002. If the state with a Republican-controlled state legislature also had a Republican governor, then they spend even more. most frugal combination: a Republican legislature and a Democratic governor.
Some Libertarians agree that Democrats and Republicans both create bigger government, but at least Republicans SAY they want small government. But if you ignore party rhetoric and simply look at results:
- Democrats spend LESS and want to INCREASE personal/social freedoms - Republicans spend MORE and want to DECREASE personal/social freedoms
Actions speak louder than words, so I will probably vote Democrat in 2004.
I don't understand why many Libertarians vote Republican. Republicans are neither fiscal nor social libertarians. The Republican party is full of religious fundamentalists and Big Brothers. It has now been documented that Republicans spend MORE than Democrats. So why would a libertarian vote Republican?
Libertarians (and I consider myself to be one), please look beyond the Republican party in 2004!
I live in California. PG&E has plans to build two new power plants near central California (i.e. the boonies). The local Sierra Club is having a hissyfit because the power plants would be "near" some protected park lands. So apparently, the Sierra Club does not want power plants build in these three places: protected park lands, the boonies, or (presumably) near cities. So where would they like their new power plants to be built?
The above Bible passage is often misinterpreted to suggest that it empowers tyrants, etc
If other people so easily misinterpret passages from the Bible (such as the above), then how do you know YOU are not also misinterpreting it? I'm sure those other people felt they had the correct interpretation.
that's convenient that you can pick and choose which parts of the Bible you "have" to obey. Aren't all the anti-homosexual laws from Leviticus? Would that mean that modern Christianity (not being under Old Testament law) should have no problem with homosexuality today?
iRATE is an interesting idea, but it needs a lot of work. It has a poor UI. You can't even jump to the middle of a song.
And most of the music sucks. I've found a few songs I've rated 10/10, but I rate most songs 0/10 or 2/10. And their playlist shuffle algorithm sucks. If you rate a song better than average, it will be repeated VERY often. It's played some songs that I rated 10/10 three times IN A ROW.
I would be curious to learn more about their server-side "matchmaker" algorithms. I looked at their Java code in Sourceforge and it is poorly organized. They don't use a SQL database backend. The entire catalog (tens of thousands of songs) are stored in XML and require O(n^2) algorithms for comparing each song.
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good point. The story sounds familiar:
Since WinCE uptake has been slow for embedded devices, this plan will "cut 'em off at the pass" by inserting
Distributing a Chinese-modified Linux to billions of Chinese citizens would probably count as distribution under the GPL. China should just use BSD.
help desk? Are you sure this wasn't some type of geek-fetish help-desk/phone-sex hotline and he was masturbating while talking to you?
If I remember the "Summer of Shark Attacks" correctly, there were actually FEWER shark attacks that year. Only the number of attacks reported in the news increased.
The suspicious and massive power cuts of the summer are, I suspect, caused by time travellers leaving en masse, before the end.
does that mean that if I sit in the caboose of the train, I will never actually reach my destination? no wonder those caboose tickets were so much cheaper..
I think this is a good moral. If your startup company requires secrecy, luck, and the "very best" engineers, then maybe you business plan is not a very good one. A good business plan is one that can be implemented above-board by hard working, but not necessarily superstar people and still whether a few strokes of bad luck. Now that would be a solid company..
Linux is a drug. Beware of its effects!
Think about it. They've continually pushed back the release date of Longhorn, at least three times now, to my recollection. The screenshots they have leaked out, whether they are true or not haven't produced any vote of confidence from the various geeks I've seen comment about it online.
Even if many geeks don't like the "user centric" features in the leaked Longhorn screenshots, the screenshots still give GNOME and KDE developers a lot to think about. They are accused of simply stealing Apple's and Microsoft's GUI ideas. Maybe GNOME and KDE can now steal Microsoft's GUI ideas before Microsoft even releases them in a product!!!
The only problem I had with Arjan's linux-2.6.0-test RPMs was that my touchpad stopped working on my Dell laptop. Apparently there is a new (not in Linus' tree) Synaptics device driver that fixes the problem, but the simpler workaround is simply to add the following kernel boot parameter: psmouse_noext=1
Microsoft has a new product called the "Microsoft Accelerator for Six Sigma":
Microsoft Accelerator for Six Sigma is an integrated set of products and services customized for Six Sigma practitioners. The accelerator can help Six Sigma project teams more effectively manage a large number of projects, more easily track their financial impact, optimize and track resources, and electronically share knowledge gathered across the enterprise.
I was able to use my Dell laptop's touchpad with Linux 2.6.0-test4 without using the -mm tree or applying the new Synaptics driver from XFree86 people. Just add the following kernel boot parameter: psmouse_noext=1
Like the other guy, I want to know when your destructors get called? Plus not every system allows you to override global new and delete operators (e.g. the Symbian cell phone OS).
but what if the marketers are using the following keyboard they bought on eBay?
IBM PS/2 Keyboard -- All X keys
This is an IBM PS/2 Keyboard with model number KB-7953. This keyboard has been modified over an entire summer so that every square shaped key has been replaced with an 'X' key.
Every character key, almost all the keys on the numpad, the cursors, all of the function keys, and all of the numeric have been replaced. Only the tab, caps-lock, left and right shift, ctrl and alt, windows, return, and backspace keys remain. These keys remain only because they aren't the same size as the 'X' key. All in all, there are 86 keys replaced.
History:
This keyboard is unique! To make a keyboard similar to it you would need 86 keyboards, just as I did.
I work with a company that recycles used computer equipment. We resell computers, laptops, monitors, and some other parts, but smaller things such as mice and keyboards we usually throw away. Over the course of this past summer, I've kept my eye out for keyboards similar to this one. Slowly but surely, I'd pry the 'X' key off one keyboard after another. Eventually, this was created.
To make the keyboard even more unusual, to replace the actual 'X' key originally on the keyboard I used an 'X' key from a black IBM keyboard of the same size.
It should be noted that the keys on this come from many used keyboards, and as such some are a bit dirty. There are two keys that occasionally stick (where the '4' and '+' normally would be). The keyboard is in good and working condition, but is being sold as-is, with no expressed or implied warranty. You can, by all means, still use this keyboard to type. Only they keys have been replaced.
You could be the hit of a LAN party!
I'm hoping there is someone out there in Internet land that finds this as amusing as I do. It's a friggin' keyboard with lots of 'X' keys! What's not to love? Hell, I might just keep it for myself. Ah, man, this keyboard makes me laugh just looking at it. But by all means -- don't just look, bid! You could very well own it.
Dan, the author of the Parrot VM, has a bet with Pythong's Guido van Rossum. Dan bet Guido that Parrot can execute pure Python bytecode faster than the Python interpreter can. The battle will be decided at OSCON 2004 in Portland, OR. He sounds pretty confident:
"Boys and girls, let's get this straight. I'm only going to say this once. Parrot is an order of magnitude faster than perl 5 doing equivalent things. Without enabling any extraordinary measures. You know how Python's performance rates against Perl 5. Do the math."
Dan's blog entry about the bet: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000139.ht
yes, I was the original poster. I came to libertarianism from the Left/Greens, so personal freedoms are slightly more important to me than freedoms for "Big Business". That's why I can't bring myself to vote Republican. I gave up on the Left/Greens because they don't recognize how an efficient, competitive market can be used to create good.
I won't vote for the Libertarian Party presidential candidate because I would rather get Bush out of office. I will vote for other LP candidates.
As you pointed out, tax cuts without spending cuts (or with spending increases we have now) are actually tax INCREASES for future generations.
Regarding Republican spending, here is a news article about a USA Today study that shows that Republican-controlled state legislatures spent more than Democrat-controlled state legislatures from 1997-2002. If the state with a Republican-controlled state legislature also had a Republican governor, then they spend even more. most frugal combination: a Republican legislature and a Democratic governor.
"USA Today Study: GOP state legislatures beat Democrats in spending"
Some Libertarians agree that Democrats and Republicans both create bigger government, but at least Republicans SAY they want small government. But if you ignore party rhetoric and simply look at results:
- Democrats spend LESS and want to INCREASE personal/social freedoms
- Republicans spend MORE and want to DECREASE personal/social freedoms
Actions speak louder than words, so I will probably vote Democrat in 2004.
I don't understand why many Libertarians vote Republican. Republicans are neither fiscal nor social libertarians. The Republican party is full of religious fundamentalists and Big Brothers. It has now been documented that Republicans spend MORE than Democrats. So why would a libertarian vote Republican?
Libertarians (and I consider myself to be one), please look beyond the Republican party in 2004!
is the USA literally the ONLY country that does not use the metric system? dammmmmn..
I live in California. PG&E has plans to build two new power plants near central California (i.e. the boonies). The local Sierra Club is having a hissyfit because the power plants would be "near" some protected park lands. So apparently, the Sierra Club does not want power plants build in these three places: protected park lands, the boonies, or (presumably) near cities. So where would they like their new power plants to be built?
More than offset by the huge gas taxes you pay at the pump.
As compared to European gas taxes?
don't forget J.Lo:
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The above Bible passage is often misinterpreted to suggest that it empowers tyrants, etc
If other people so easily misinterpret passages from the Bible (such as the above), then how do you know YOU are not also misinterpreting it? I'm sure those other people felt they had the correct interpretation.
that's convenient that you can pick and choose which parts of the Bible you "have" to obey. Aren't all the anti-homosexual laws from Leviticus? Would that mean that modern Christianity (not being under Old Testament law) should have no problem with homosexuality today?
iRATE is an interesting idea, but it needs a lot of work. It has a poor UI. You can't even jump to the middle of a song.
And most of the music sucks. I've found a few songs I've rated 10/10, but I rate most songs 0/10 or 2/10. And their playlist shuffle algorithm sucks. If you rate a song better than average, it will be repeated VERY often. It's played some songs that I rated 10/10 three times IN A ROW.
I would be curious to learn more about their server-side "matchmaker" algorithms. I looked at their Java code in Sourceforge and it is poorly organized. They don't use a SQL database backend. The entire catalog (tens of thousands of songs) are stored in XML and require O(n^2) algorithms for comparing each song.