I know, the subject is simply not true. But this the perception out there nonetheless...
She said (and I quote), "these Dell computers are designed for personal use only, as long as you use it for personal use, you can purchase one."
My recent surreal experience went like that (talking to sysadmins in a giant financial company, with thousands of Unix-servers):
Hi, can we, please, have the OpenSSH package added to our Solaris 8 boxes?
No, not OpenSSH — we can put Foo SSH for you, we have a site-wide license for that.
Yeah, but the newer Solaris 10 machines come with OpenSSH, and Foo has some minor incompatibilities with it (scp does not work right)...
Sorry, OpenSSH is GPL-ed, and so we can not use it here.
What? That's double untrue — OpenSSH is BSD-licensed, and even if it were GPLed, there is nothing preventing us from using it — only if we were to modify it, would we run into any license provisions!
Sorry, that's our department's view — talk to such and such... We can disable OpenSSH on the Solaris 10 boxes for you, and install Foo SSH there, if you need the compatibility...
It seems funny that the state best known for it's part in the American revolution has an all democratic house..... Are the Republicans too much like the king....
Corrupted by Catholics — Italians and Irish — would be my guess...
We may be screaming about "Latinos corrupting our culture" (and overburdening our law-enforcement) and passing laws establishing English as the official language, while forgetting those previous waves of immigration, who — while also almost entirely honest — have nonetheless given us the characters like those immortalized in "Godfather" (Italians), "Once Upon in America" (Jews), and "Departed" (Irish).
That's fiction. The Kennedy clan is like an ongoing soap opera cum reality show...
Other poster is right, however. The country and the parties have changed a lot since Governor Gerry of Massachusetts sign the "Salamander" into existence....
It does take them 2-3 days but they always reply back.
That's much too long. In 1 day, the spammer is likely get 90% of all responses, he can hope for...
Always include the headers even when it doesn't matter. They have to justify shutdowns.
They don't need the headers to justify them. Body of the message is sufficient to shut down a spamvertized site (or e-mailbox). Yes, the body can be faked, but so can the headers...
Here are my gripes — why I sold the YHOO-chunk of my portfolio:
The discussion boards. The old implementation sucked, to be sure, but it was better then nothing, and was adding numerous page-views, with well-defined audience for each article. It was dropped last year in favor of the "upcoming new implementation", which is yet to materialize.
The ad-selling needs to be more targeted, Google-like. If they aren't doing it on the discussion boards attached to news-articles (the easiest), where else can they do it?
Hunting spammers, who spamvertize Yahoo!-hosted e-mailboxes and/or sites... The "abuse@yahoo.com" is staffed by morons, who reject the header-less complaints, even when the actionable violation is in the body of the message. The bad, old "not sent through our network" bullshit...
Still requires crazy amounts of energy, and just gets worse the faster you want to go...
Very true, but these are Engineering problems now. We can't solve them now, but nothing says, they are impossible to solve (unlike superluminal travel).
giving us a hard limit that you just won't be moving anything past the speed of light.
The nearest star is just over 4 light years away. Going at "only" 50% of the light speed would get a vessel there in 8 years — without breaking the limit you are talking about...
Do you deserve history? If you think society's history needs to be locked up and served out on a pay-per-view basis, then at least you would be consistent.
There is no relation, sorry. It is called non-sequitur, I think. Then, the very question "do I deserve history" makes no sense... One can know history. One can study it. But it is not something, that can be given or taken away. Do you deserve Physics?
Nor is there anything wrong with "pay-per-view" per se — in my view. It costs plenty, for example, to get good education in all disciplines — History included — without anybody making grave remarks.
And, finally, I refuse to accept the need to have access to the society's entertainment trends as vital to anything but the entertainment industry itself. Big deal...
it's freedom of expression that guarantees the right to copy
Freedom of expression, huh? I think, you are being too creative, extracting the freedom to use other people's creations in your own "expression" from the
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The above quoted 1st Ammendment is not, for example, ever taken to legalize plagiarizm...
if we want to give out grandchildren the music quality they deserve...
Where is this sense of entitlement coming from? I deserve free (or low cost) entertainment. My grandchildren deserve music quality... WTF? Is there something in the Constitution, that I missed?
the support will likely come from Venezuelans themselves
I'm an active FreeBSD contributor. In my over ten years of involvement with the project, I can't recall a single person from Venezuella.
Maybe, they are all in the Linux camp — preferring the Bolivarian GPL over the capitalist BSD or something. But somehow I doubt, there is enough Linux expertise in Venezuella to support an "IT industry", that could possibly supply the rest of Latin America with computers.
My other point — about the inherent misguidedness of the government doing this sort of thing — still stands too. Germans could've pulled something like this off (see Volkswagen, etc.), but it was not pretty — and it was not purely governmental either...
This project will not take off (other than as a way to buy a cheap computer to install pirated Windows on), and when the oil price comes back down, it will collapse with the rest of the unfortunate country.
Government direction can be a good thing. Government intervention will never be.
This project is doomed from the start — take the pink glasses off for a second, and imagine the US government trying anything like it. This very forum would've been all mad about it — and justifiably so.
For example, consider the expected quality of support. We all complain about the poor Indians, who can't properly troubleshoot Dell computer problems. That's with English being the official language in India.
Now imagine the Chinese supporting these "Bolivarian computers". In Spanish...
Studies have shown that people who drive and talk are many times more likely to have an accident.
Studies have shown, there is no global warming... What are the studies mentioned here, please? The only result, that I'm aware of, mentioned the increase in risk of about 10%. It may be more than that in reality, but I doubt, it is more than 300%, which would be required to qualify for the "many times more likely" ("many" ought to be more than 3)...
Simply put, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the Johannes Gutenberg of the Internet.
Although widely believed to be such a person, Tim can only be called "the inventor of WWW", if we really need to identify a name with each concept — he didn't think of anything, not immediately obvious to anyone skilled in the art. Even then, we should be crediting the inventors of Hypertext, which existed long before Tim's work — if we can identify them, that is. The hypertext system, which Tim built at CERN, did not even use multiple servers.
His simple invention, and his polite, modest manner should make him the IT icon of our time.
Yes, manners and politeness would certainly help anyone. Being brilliant goes a long way too. But there was nothing, for which a patent could justifiably be issued — and only that qualifies as "invention" in my opinion.
What IS appalling is the fact that the Mexicans, Thais or Uzbeks (Fuck you, Assholes!)
Bigoted racists are the number one assholes, dimwit. You are among them...
Indeed, it is true we have birth rights, and they're called the Bill of Rights.
And the King of England had His birthright to rule us... But the Bill of Rights says nothing about our right to a job — any job — much less one, that's better-paying than a Thai's...
So no, the FCPA is practically on-paper only. Corporations obviously thumb their collective noses at it if they plainly justify it in their orientation PowerPoint slides.
It is all in comparision... Other Western countries don't have an FCPA-like law even on paper. And no, it is not an "on-paper only" law — there were and are prosecutions under the act. Here are some lawyers describing themselves as experts on defending against such prosecutions, for example...
Will google and yahoo be able to ever bribe the communist party enough?
No — especially since our particular brand of Capitalism makes all bribery illegal — including that of foreign governments.
Corporations are good at and are judged on making money. Aiding human rights is nowhere in the picture. Until the lawmakers pass some kind of FCPA-2.0 — which would outlaw cooperation with oppressing regimes the same way FCPA outlaws bribery — no corporation will shoot itself in the stomach by doing it alone.
I rarely call for new legislation, but Game Theory strongly calls for this one... An excellent opportunity for the new Congress to distinguish itself — but, somehow, I'm sceptical.
What if something happens? The first thing that is said is there was no crew anywhere around to assist. Yeah, no shit -- they got fired to save a few bucks.
Thank you very much for the perfect illustration — of pro-union bogus rhethorics.
Now try to get your head around the question of what happened to the building elevator personnel...
How dare we replace the qualified professionals and entrust the opening (and closing!) of the elevator doors to the sensors and computers?
The same stupid non-arguments: What if there is a malfunction? What if somebody is raped in the elevator — it happened, you know?.. "Oh, I just don't feel safe anymore" — a lady would complain to a sympathetic journalist. And, your own: "what if something happens and the operator is not there?"
Well, guess what, it is not happening often enough to justify the cost (which you dismiss as "few bucks"). Keeping the human operators does not provide enough value.
Now add to this, that a machine can actually do a better job opening and closing the doors and announcing stops — machines are always better at repetative mundane tasks — and the argument for keeping the door operators becomes a purely luddite one.
Removing the drivers is next. Stand aside, dimwit, you are slowing progress.
its hardware and OS are the same as a Mac's, are they not?
No, not even remotely. The hardware is completely unlike any other apple product
Khm, for some reason I thought, it is going to be a "real computer" — with some funky power-efficient, but compatible CPU. That's the root of my confusion...
God, could all the folks who know nothing about programming please just shut the hell up?
Yes, yes, that would be helpful. But it does not apply to any of the participants of this conversation, does it...
Software Development Kit. I think, a functional compiler with libraries is enough. But iPhone has that (its hardware and OS are the same as a Mac's, are they not?), and yet critics contend, it does not have "SDK"...
I think our government has corrupted itself with the granting and enforcing of monopolies in this area.
Yes, long ago — when granting monopoly to AT&T...
It was inevitable that Verizion would skimp on copper to fund their build-out of FIOS. The suprise is that so few people seem to care, or even know, how badly we're being screwed.
But even if we are underserved, the increase in FIOS (fiber!) penetration over copper is a good thing... It is a superior technology, what's wrong with Verizon preferring it?
I don't know where all the anti-union rhetoric comes from, but I suspect it comes from unions having better contracts with better benefits
A trade union is a monopoly. A trust concerning itself with (mostly — anti-competitive) efforts towards maintaining and ever increasing the prices of its members product (labor).
Nobody likes monopolies — the sooner you are busted with RICO and other anti-trust laws, the better. Your corruption and violence have made you far less likable, than most corporations are or deserve to be.
Those, who have grown up in a Soviet Union and similar countries, have particular dislike for trade unions — workers' solidarity, May 1st, class warfare... As far as I am concerned, for example, your sorry Socialist union-official neck belongs on a lamp-post... Nothing personal.
Those (truly) poor, who wish to immigrate to this country to work, are appalled by your arguing, that Americans are, somehow (by birthright?), entitled to better jobs, than Mexicans or Thais or Uzbeks.
And all — including the natively born and raised Americans — still remember the crookery surrounding the name "Hoffa", and the recent NYC-transit strike. We are all wondering, for example, why using the electronic EZ-Pass is only $0.5 cheaper, than going through a unionized toll-collector (EZ-Pass would've fazed those bums out, so extra is being collected for your undeserved pensions). Etc.
I do strongly dislike Microsoft. But:
it is possible to not buy them;
they don't slash anybody's tires;
they don't beat the competition up on the street;
.
Much like the Luddite's of the past, you tend to stand in the way of progress — except now you phrase yourself differently. Instead of the honest "this will eliminate my job", you are lying: "it is not safe" (witness the union opposition against automated subway trains, for example).
Got the idea, on where the subject comes from, yet?
Slashdot Mirror
I know, the subject is simply not true. But this the perception out there nonetheless...
My recent surreal experience went like that (talking to sysadmins in a giant financial company, with thousands of Unix-servers):
How do you like that?
Corrupted by Catholics — Italians and Irish — would be my guess...
We may be screaming about "Latinos corrupting our culture" (and overburdening our law-enforcement) and passing laws establishing English as the official language, while forgetting those previous waves of immigration, who — while also almost entirely honest — have nonetheless given us the characters like those immortalized in "Godfather" (Italians), "Once Upon in America" (Jews), and "Departed" (Irish).
That's fiction. The Kennedy clan is like an ongoing soap opera cum reality show...
Other poster is right, however. The country and the parties have changed a lot since Governor Gerry of Massachusetts sign the "Salamander" into existence....
That's much too long. In 1 day, the spammer is likely get 90% of all responses, he can hope for...
They don't need the headers to justify them. Body of the message is sufficient to shut down a spamvertized site (or e-mailbox). Yes, the body can be faked, but so can the headers...
Here are my gripes — why I sold the YHOO-chunk of my portfolio:
Very true, but these are Engineering problems now. We can't solve them now, but nothing says, they are impossible to solve (unlike superluminal travel).
The nearest star is just over 4 light years away. Going at "only" 50% of the light speed would get a vessel there in 8 years — without breaking the limit you are talking about...
There is no relation, sorry. It is called non-sequitur, I think. Then, the very question "do I deserve history" makes no sense... One can know history. One can study it. But it is not something, that can be given or taken away. Do you deserve Physics?
Nor is there anything wrong with "pay-per-view" per se — in my view. It costs plenty, for example, to get good education in all disciplines — History included — without anybody making grave remarks.
And, finally, I refuse to accept the need to have access to the society's entertainment trends as vital to anything but the entertainment industry itself. Big deal...
Freedom of expression, huh? I think, you are being too creative, extracting the freedom to use other people's creations in your own "expression" from the
The above quoted 1st Ammendment is not, for example, ever taken to legalize plagiarizm...
Where is this sense of entitlement coming from? I deserve free (or low cost) entertainment. My grandchildren deserve music quality... WTF? Is there something in the Constitution, that I missed?
I'm an active FreeBSD contributor. In my over ten years of involvement with the project, I can't recall a single person from Venezuella.
Maybe, they are all in the Linux camp — preferring the Bolivarian GPL over the capitalist BSD or something. But somehow I doubt, there is enough Linux expertise in Venezuella to support an "IT industry", that could possibly supply the rest of Latin America with computers.
My other point — about the inherent misguidedness of the government doing this sort of thing — still stands too. Germans could've pulled something like this off (see Volkswagen, etc.), but it was not pretty — and it was not purely governmental either...
This project will not take off (other than as a way to buy a cheap computer to install pirated Windows on), and when the oil price comes back down, it will collapse with the rest of the unfortunate country.
Government direction can be a good thing. Government intervention will never be.
This project is doomed from the start — take the pink glasses off for a second, and imagine the US government trying anything like it. This very forum would've been all mad about it — and justifiably so.
For example, consider the expected quality of support. We all complain about the poor Indians, who can't properly troubleshoot Dell computer problems. That's with English being the official language in India.
Now imagine the Chinese supporting these "Bolivarian computers". In Spanish...
Studies have shown, there is no global warming... What are the studies mentioned here, please? The only result, that I'm aware of, mentioned the increase in risk of about 10%. It may be more than that in reality, but I doubt, it is more than 300%, which would be required to qualify for the "many times more likely" ("many" ought to be more than 3)...
Although widely believed to be such a person, Tim can only be called "the inventor of WWW", if we really need to identify a name with each concept — he didn't think of anything, not immediately obvious to anyone skilled in the art. Even then, we should be crediting the inventors of Hypertext, which existed long before Tim's work — if we can identify them, that is. The hypertext system, which Tim built at CERN, did not even use multiple servers.
Yes, manners and politeness would certainly help anyone. Being brilliant goes a long way too. But there was nothing, for which a patent could justifiably be issued — and only that qualifies as "invention" in my opinion.
Just putting it into perspective... There are abuses, and there are other abuses...
Bigoted racists are the number one assholes, dimwit. You are among them...
And the King of England had His birthright to rule us... But the Bill of Rights says nothing about our right to a job — any job — much less one, that's better-paying than a Thai's...
It is all in comparision... Other Western countries don't have an FCPA-like law even on paper. And no, it is not an "on-paper only" law — there were and are prosecutions under the act. Here are some lawyers describing themselves as experts on defending against such prosecutions, for example...
No — especially since our particular brand of Capitalism makes all bribery illegal — including that of foreign governments.
Corporations are good at and are judged on making money. Aiding human rights is nowhere in the picture. Until the lawmakers pass some kind of FCPA-2.0 — which would outlaw cooperation with oppressing regimes the same way FCPA outlaws bribery — no corporation will shoot itself in the stomach by doing it alone.
I rarely call for new legislation, but Game Theory strongly calls for this one... An excellent opportunity for the new Congress to distinguish itself — but, somehow, I'm sceptical.
Thank you very much for the perfect illustration — of pro-union bogus rhethorics.
Now try to get your head around the question of what happened to the building elevator personnel...
How dare we replace the qualified professionals and entrust the opening (and closing!) of the elevator doors to the sensors and computers?
The same stupid non-arguments: What if there is a malfunction? What if somebody is raped in the elevator — it happened, you know?.. "Oh, I just don't feel safe anymore" — a lady would complain to a sympathetic journalist. And, your own: "what if something happens and the operator is not there?"
Well, guess what, it is not happening often enough to justify the cost (which you dismiss as "few bucks"). Keeping the human operators does not provide enough value.
Now add to this, that a machine can actually do a better job opening and closing the doors and announcing stops — machines are always better at repetative mundane tasks — and the argument for keeping the door operators becomes a purely luddite one.
Removing the drivers is next. Stand aside, dimwit, you are slowing progress.
I'm glad, a comment praising self-enrichment is not modded down on Slashdot...
Khm, for some reason I thought, it is going to be a "real computer" — with some funky power-efficient, but compatible CPU. That's the root of my confusion...
Yes, yes, that would be helpful. But it does not apply to any of the participants of this conversation, does it...
Just a compiler and the standard libraries...
Yes, long ago — when granting monopoly to AT&T...
I don't notice it either, really. By 2004 the majority of US Internet users were using broadband.
But even if we are underserved, the increase in FIOS (fiber!) penetration over copper is a good thing... It is a superior technology, what's wrong with Verizon preferring it?
A trade union is a monopoly. A trust concerning itself with (mostly — anti-competitive) efforts towards maintaining and ever increasing the prices of its members product (labor).
Nobody likes monopolies — the sooner you are busted with RICO and other anti-trust laws, the better. Your corruption and violence have made you far less likable, than most corporations are or deserve to be.
Those, who have grown up in a Soviet Union and similar countries, have particular dislike for trade unions — workers' solidarity, May 1st, class warfare... As far as I am concerned, for example, your sorry Socialist union-official neck belongs on a lamp-post... Nothing personal.
Those (truly) poor, who wish to immigrate to this country to work, are appalled by your arguing, that Americans are, somehow (by birthright?), entitled to better jobs, than Mexicans or Thais or Uzbeks.
And all — including the natively born and raised Americans — still remember the crookery surrounding the name "Hoffa", and the recent NYC-transit strike. We are all wondering, for example, why using the electronic EZ-Pass is only $0.5 cheaper, than going through a unionized toll-collector (EZ-Pass would've fazed those bums out, so extra is being collected for your undeserved pensions). Etc.
I do strongly dislike Microsoft. But:
- it is possible to not buy them;
- they don't slash anybody's tires;
- they don't beat the competition up on the street;
.Much like the Luddite's of the past, you tend to stand in the way of progress — except now you phrase yourself differently. Instead of the honest "this will eliminate my job", you are lying: "it is not safe" (witness the union opposition against automated subway trains, for example).
Got the idea, on where the subject comes from, yet?
Same is true about vi, I think :-)
But I suspect unions even more. Most likely, they are concerned about the jobs of their members, who maintain the copper networks.
My guess is, those involved with FIOS are either non-unionized at all, or are much younger and thus not as dear to the union bosses.