Note: Many, many more people are killed by dangerous/drunk/stupid drivers in the UK than by murderers, disturbed burglars and demented rapists. Yes, but I have faith that as Englishmen, you'll be able to bring the death toll from murderers, disturbed burglars, and demented rapists up to the number killed on the roads, if not EXCEEDING that number. FOR ENGLAND!
Actually, I do know that, I just don't care. I don't care why people do good things, I'm just glad when they do. I'd even have given Paris Hilton the benefit of the doubt had she come through on her word to help ease the transit from jail to the real world for women. She didn't, so fuck her. As for Bill Gates, I think he's a ruthless business man who will do whatever he can to win the game, but I also genuinely appreciate what he's doing in his charitable ventures, and wish him the best there.
Yeah, you're dead right in what you said. He built up a macho movie image and then used that fame and fortune to help kids in many challenged walks of life. Regardless of what you think of the movies (I was never a fan), his politics (he leans right, I lean left), you have to respect him for being a stand up guy, modest, and never losing sight of what's important, which is making a positive impact on the world. He never went around begging for attention for it either, which is even better in my book.
Also I find it fitting a poster who was bashing Chuck by his films and some internet jokes is telling us to look deeper. Would you like a dust jacket for that book cover, sir?:)
Ok, when FF debuted, 8 bit was IT. The NES was only a couple years old, and a massive hit. Final Fantasy was Square's bet-the-house gamble, and it was a smash hit. It was THE seminal RPG for computing platforms. It solidified game systems and computers as the next great frontier for role playing games, relegating tabletop games to a mere niche in comparison. It singlehandedly saved Square, and yet again made the NES the must-have system. It was one of the top selling games on the top selling system, and changed the game (no pun intended) almost overnight for competitors. How the hell is that obscure?
My first computer was a TRS80, the Model 100, the portable one with a badass 8 line 40char wide screen. I got it free from a friend of my mom's whose company was replacing them after only 2 years with some other portable critter. I loved that thing with a passion.
Actually, when you think of everything a race has to overcome to travel the vastness of interstellar space, once you hjave thos eresoures there's little benefit to smashing puny humans. Water? Plenty of it in comets, etc, and you don't haev to pull it out of a gravity well. Ditto for metals and anything else you'd mine. Food? Well, assuming you biochemistry is compatible (a HUGE assumption), why would you expend insane amounts of energy traversing the stars to get here for food? Expend that on growing it closer to you.
Also, it'll take then most likely centuries at minimum to hear our radio broadcasts. Fear of conquest is even less likely than finding an alien signal currently.
I've been with them for three years, and used several hundreds of gigs of bandwidth in a month. I have a lot of data on disk too. The biggest issue is CPU hungry apps, scripts, etc., when you're using a significant percentage of CPU time on a shared machine.
I'm a Dreamhost customer, and the past couple years they've had a few issues, and some people have taken it as an opportunity to bash the hell out of them. Having used many hosts over the years myself and for customers, I've found them to be on par with, if not a little above many hosts. The biggest difference is DH is HONEST about their issues, on their status blog. When they fuck up, they say so. To me, that's more valuable than a host that makes it self look like it's more stable by lying, such as the parent article's subject. It means when DH tells me something, I can at least trust it's the truth.
My "claim" about kilo related only to the IT industry. I'm sure you understood that, however, and merely attempted to make a straw man. I can't oblige you, however.
You are incorrect in numerous areas. First, originally, HDDs were not using SI units, but the 1024 base we're discussing. Second, HDDs are not the only area there this is also used; memory, flash, tape storage, bandwidth and transmission rates of various buses, and networking connections. Lastly, sensiv\ble people have been using 1024 per K for decades. It's only recently that any attempt to change that has occurred.
It doesn't help that their space agency grew up under Soviet rule, where failure was both inevitable and severely punished. It bred a culture worse than any that ever existed at NASA.
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On the contrary, I'm saying Mitchell is exceptionally well suited to managing MoFo because she's been around the Software world for so long. Speed of development has been "slow" due to Mozilla.org's history. First it was merely a name for part of Netscape, then later the redheaded stepchild of AOL. At the time there were complicated power struggles going on overhead tearing at the limited resources, leading to poor management. When MoFo was founded, you see a marked change in how well it was managed. That's when Firefox really came to the fore, and MoFo turned into the nimble competitor it is today. With Mitchell amongst those at the helm, Mofo has become better and faster, not slower as you intimate. The apparently slower pace of development in the 3.0 process is not due to slow development, but to a huge amount of work being done.
Umm, Mitchell has been in a position of authority with respect to Mozilla for nearly a decade now. As the link YOU PROVIDE states, she was with Netscape since 1994. To say she doesn't have the required experience to run a software company is absurd. She helped shape Mozilla,org, and the founding of MoFo, and later MoCo. Second, Google is not Mozilla's sole source of income, but even if it were, the face they're provided with funds to further the development of the product is bad how?
Actually, I remember that.plan update well. John, Paul Steed, and a bunch of others confronted Kevin Cloud and Adrian about their plan to remake Doom, saying that they felt so strongly to either agree to remake it or fire them. Adrian and Kevin were the other two co-owners beside John. Todd is just the business guy, and couldn't fire John if he wanted to.:) Paul Steed, their modeler, got fired in retaliation though for going along with John's mutiny.
Also for-profits have more flexibility in fund raising and how that money is spent. IIRC non-profits have some relatively strict rules about how and when they spend their money. That's why MoFo started MoCo to begin with, they had greater financial flexibility.
Linus called the kernel Linux. Actually, he didn't even come up with the name Linux, as I'm sure you know, but Freax. "Torvalds had already considered the name 'Linux,' but initially dismissed it as too egotistical." Other people called the entire kit Linux, and most everyone uses "Linux" for short. Most people don't say Microsoft Windows, or X.org X Windows, but when we say Windows or X we understand. Regardless, there were better ways RMS could have handled his preference. His people-skills are lacking, and I would think after all this time he would either try to improve that, or find someone to help with it.
As for freedom, I agree. A better way to get that point across would be to accept to be interviewed and make that point to the reporter. It IS an article about the GPL3, the very instrument through which RMS wants to preserve and promote freedom. If you declined 60 Minutes because you felt you didn't have anything significant to contribute (which if the case I might suggest you reconsider, your talents, contributions, and influence are significant, sir), did not wish to comment on the topic, or for logistical reasons, that's understandable. If you declined because you didn't like they name they used for something or the way they referred to something, it's better to have your voice of dissent HEARD, rather than be a footnote. Change only comes when one is willing to get their hands dirty and meet the opposition, rather than remain comfortable in one's Ivory Tower. And as you personally know, you don't have to compromise your principles when you compromise to make progress.
There's no need to be derogatory towards anyone, but RMS is derogatory and every bit as manipulative as the unnamed OSDL gent. Information Week wanted to interview RMS and/or Moglen for their story about the GPLv3. "Stallman declined to be interviewed for this story, citing InformationWeek's refusal to refer to Linux consistently as GNU Linux." I think the biggest reasons that some people are resistant to RMS these days is that his ego is leading him to become incredibly difficult to work and deal with. Right there he declines a golden opportunity to speak to IT people around the world directly through a highly regarded news weekly delivered right to people's desks, all because they wouldn't spell it his way.
He's never been the most flexible of people, and anymore it's his way or the highway. I respect him for his accomplishments: the software he's written and helped write, the FSF and it's huge impact, and the GPL which has had an even larger impact. However the ideas that inspire a movement sometimes become a barrier to that movement's larger success. The FSF and Free Software in general should not be a cult of personality. I think today the Free Software movement has grown larger than RMS, and that to truly coexist, if not completely co-opt corporate software, Free software needs to be more flexible than RMS will allow. Compromise is not a dirty word, it's the key to success, because if you can't even get in the door, you're useless.
RMS demands credit even in the name of Linux. I personally would have had no real resistance to calling it "Linux/GNU" but frankly his insistence on coming first got under my skin. If it weren't for the Linux kernel GNU and the FSF would still be little known oddities, not the highly regarded institutions hundreds of millions of people interact with every day. If RMS was as socially savvy as he is technically inclined, he would do everything he could to bring Linus into the fold, not alienate him. But I fear RMS has raised his vision to a religious quest, and will not allow himself or his vision to be "diluted" by compromise. And that, ultimately, will be his failure.
Not to mention that if as CEO even YOU don't prefer your own company's products, why should anyone else? As CEO it's your job to make sure as many people as possible prefer your product over the competition.
Any electronic device can fall victim to RFI related failures. The question is what kinds of failure will happen under what circumstances. As the other poster said, radios, flashing lights, digital radio computer in the front seat, and possibly less-than-perfectly-trained operators can all be contributing factors.
In some jurisdictions it's done that way, some don't to the blow-test at all, they just take you do the local hospital for a blood test. If you refuse the bloodtest, however, it's an automatic positive on the assumption you want to hide your BAC.
This is surprisingly simple. If it's a copyrightable and you have $45, register the copyright of the work with the US Copyright office (or the copuyright office in your country, I assume you're in the US because I'm an Americentric bastard). Check out http://www.copyright.gov/register/ for forms and details. A registered copyright strengthens your argument of ownership immeasurably. It raises the bar of proof that any opposition must overcome to disprove your ownership. If it's IP, I'm in the camp that it's covered by copyright, and hate IP patents, but if it's patentable like software (grumble grumble) then it's somewhere around $500 to apply to the patent office yourself. If it's that valuable to you that you genuinely fear theft, then $500 is a small price to pay for insurance.
Because there are a lot of people like me who don't want to pay the crazy fees the cableco wants for a digital box and digital service. If they want to save money and bandwidth by delivering my basic cable digitally, I'm fine with that, but don't charge me MORE so they can save money.
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Actually, I do know that, I just don't care. I don't care why people do good things, I'm just glad when they do. I'd even have given Paris Hilton the benefit of the doubt had she come through on her word to help ease the transit from jail to the real world for women. She didn't, so fuck her. As for Bill Gates, I think he's a ruthless business man who will do whatever he can to win the game, but I also genuinely appreciate what he's doing in his charitable ventures, and wish him the best there.
Yeah, you're dead right in what you said. He built up a macho movie image and then used that fame and fortune to help kids in many challenged walks of life. Regardless of what you think of the movies (I was never a fan), his politics (he leans right, I lean left), you have to respect him for being a stand up guy, modest, and never losing sight of what's important, which is making a positive impact on the world. He never went around begging for attention for it either, which is even better in my book.
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Also I find it fitting a poster who was bashing Chuck by his films and some internet jokes is telling us to look deeper. Would you like a dust jacket for that book cover, sir?
Ok, when FF debuted, 8 bit was IT. The NES was only a couple years old, and a massive hit. Final Fantasy was Square's bet-the-house gamble, and it was a smash hit. It was THE seminal RPG for computing platforms. It solidified game systems and computers as the next great frontier for role playing games, relegating tabletop games to a mere niche in comparison. It singlehandedly saved Square, and yet again made the NES the must-have system. It was one of the top selling games on the top selling system, and changed the game (no pun intended) almost overnight for competitors. How the hell is that obscure?
My first computer was a TRS80, the Model 100, the portable one with a badass 8 line 40char wide screen. I got it free from a friend of my mom's whose company was replacing them after only 2 years with some other portable critter. I loved that thing with a passion.
Good point. I, for one, welcome out new space-cabbage-eating breeding-population-collecting overlords!
Actually, when you think of everything a race has to overcome to travel the vastness of interstellar space, once you hjave thos eresoures there's little benefit to smashing puny humans. Water? Plenty of it in comets, etc, and you don't haev to pull it out of a gravity well. Ditto for metals and anything else you'd mine. Food? Well, assuming you biochemistry is compatible (a HUGE assumption), why would you expend insane amounts of energy traversing the stars to get here for food? Expend that on growing it closer to you.
Also, it'll take then most likely centuries at minimum to hear our radio broadcasts. Fear of conquest is even less likely than finding an alien signal currently.
I've been with them for three years, and used several hundreds of gigs of bandwidth in a month. I have a lot of data on disk too. The biggest issue is CPU hungry apps, scripts, etc., when you're using a significant percentage of CPU time on a shared machine.
I'm a Dreamhost customer, and the past couple years they've had a few issues, and some people have taken it as an opportunity to bash the hell out of them. Having used many hosts over the years myself and for customers, I've found them to be on par with, if not a little above many hosts. The biggest difference is DH is HONEST about their issues, on their status blog. When they fuck up, they say so. To me, that's more valuable than a host that makes it self look like it's more stable by lying, such as the parent article's subject. It means when DH tells me something, I can at least trust it's the truth.
My "claim" about kilo related only to the IT industry. I'm sure you understood that, however, and merely attempted to make a straw man. I can't oblige you, however.
You are incorrect in numerous areas. First, originally, HDDs were not using SI units, but the 1024 base we're discussing. Second, HDDs are not the only area there this is also used; memory, flash, tape storage, bandwidth and transmission rates of various buses, and networking connections. Lastly, sensiv\ble people have been using 1024 per K for decades. It's only recently that any attempt to change that has occurred.
It doesn't help that their space agency grew up under Soviet rule, where failure was both inevitable and severely punished. It bred a culture worse than any that ever existed at NASA.
On the contrary, I'm saying Mitchell is exceptionally well suited to managing MoFo because she's been around the Software world for so long. Speed of development has been "slow" due to Mozilla.org's history. First it was merely a name for part of Netscape, then later the redheaded stepchild of AOL. At the time there were complicated power struggles going on overhead tearing at the limited resources, leading to poor management. When MoFo was founded, you see a marked change in how well it was managed. That's when Firefox really came to the fore, and MoFo turned into the nimble competitor it is today. With Mitchell amongst those at the helm, Mofo has become better and faster, not slower as you intimate. The apparently slower pace of development in the 3.0 process is not due to slow development, but to a huge amount of work being done.
Umm, Mitchell has been in a position of authority with respect to Mozilla for nearly a decade now. As the link YOU PROVIDE states, she was with Netscape since 1994. To say she doesn't have the required experience to run a software company is absurd. She helped shape Mozilla,org, and the founding of MoFo, and later MoCo. Second, Google is not Mozilla's sole source of income, but even if it were, the face they're provided with funds to further the development of the product is bad how?
Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer French and Chinese (very different languages) to English? Political reasons, or linguistic ones?
Except the change from sugar to HFCS happened a few years before New Coke. This is just an urban legend.
Actually, I remember that .plan update well. John, Paul Steed, and a bunch of others confronted Kevin Cloud and Adrian about their plan to remake Doom, saying that they felt so strongly to either agree to remake it or fire them. Adrian and Kevin were the other two co-owners beside John. Todd is just the business guy, and couldn't fire John if he wanted to. :) Paul Steed, their modeler, got fired in retaliation though for going along with John's mutiny.
Also for-profits have more flexibility in fund raising and how that money is spent. IIRC non-profits have some relatively strict rules about how and when they spend their money. That's why MoFo started MoCo to begin with, they had greater financial flexibility.
Linus called the kernel Linux. Actually, he didn't even come up with the name Linux, as I'm sure you know, but Freax. "Torvalds had already considered the name 'Linux,' but initially dismissed it as too egotistical." Other people called the entire kit Linux, and most everyone uses "Linux" for short. Most people don't say Microsoft Windows, or X.org X Windows, but when we say Windows or X we understand. Regardless, there were better ways RMS could have handled his preference. His people-skills are lacking, and I would think after all this time he would either try to improve that, or find someone to help with it.
As for freedom, I agree. A better way to get that point across would be to accept to be interviewed and make that point to the reporter. It IS an article about the GPL3, the very instrument through which RMS wants to preserve and promote freedom. If you declined 60 Minutes because you felt you didn't have anything significant to contribute (which if the case I might suggest you reconsider, your talents, contributions, and influence are significant, sir), did not wish to comment on the topic, or for logistical reasons, that's understandable. If you declined because you didn't like they name they used for something or the way they referred to something, it's better to have your voice of dissent HEARD, rather than be a footnote. Change only comes when one is willing to get their hands dirty and meet the opposition, rather than remain comfortable in one's Ivory Tower. And as you personally know, you don't have to compromise your principles when you compromise to make progress.
There's no need to be derogatory towards anyone, but RMS is derogatory and every bit as manipulative as the unnamed OSDL gent. Information Week wanted to interview RMS and/or Moglen for their story about the GPLv3. "Stallman declined to be interviewed for this story, citing InformationWeek's refusal to refer to Linux consistently as GNU Linux." I think the biggest reasons that some people are resistant to RMS these days is that his ego is leading him to become incredibly difficult to work and deal with. Right there he declines a golden opportunity to speak to IT people around the world directly through a highly regarded news weekly delivered right to people's desks, all because they wouldn't spell it his way.
He's never been the most flexible of people, and anymore it's his way or the highway. I respect him for his accomplishments: the software he's written and helped write, the FSF and it's huge impact, and the GPL which has had an even larger impact. However the ideas that inspire a movement sometimes become a barrier to that movement's larger success. The FSF and Free Software in general should not be a cult of personality. I think today the Free Software movement has grown larger than RMS, and that to truly coexist, if not completely co-opt corporate software, Free software needs to be more flexible than RMS will allow. Compromise is not a dirty word, it's the key to success, because if you can't even get in the door, you're useless.
RMS demands credit even in the name of Linux. I personally would have had no real resistance to calling it "Linux/GNU" but frankly his insistence on coming first got under my skin. If it weren't for the Linux kernel GNU and the FSF would still be little known oddities, not the highly regarded institutions hundreds of millions of people interact with every day. If RMS was as socially savvy as he is technically inclined, he would do everything he could to bring Linus into the fold, not alienate him. But I fear RMS has raised his vision to a religious quest, and will not allow himself or his vision to be "diluted" by compromise. And that, ultimately, will be his failure.
Not to mention that if as CEO even YOU don't prefer your own company's products, why should anyone else? As CEO it's your job to make sure as many people as possible prefer your product over the competition.
Any electronic device can fall victim to RFI related failures. The question is what kinds of failure will happen under what circumstances. As the other poster said, radios, flashing lights, digital radio computer in the front seat, and possibly less-than-perfectly-trained operators can all be contributing factors.
In some jurisdictions it's done that way, some don't to the blow-test at all, they just take you do the local hospital for a blood test. If you refuse the bloodtest, however, it's an automatic positive on the assumption you want to hide your BAC.
This is surprisingly simple. If it's a copyrightable and you have $45, register the copyright of the work with the US Copyright office (or the copuyright office in your country, I assume you're in the US because I'm an Americentric bastard). Check out http://www.copyright.gov/register/ for forms and details. A registered copyright strengthens your argument of ownership immeasurably. It raises the bar of proof that any opposition must overcome to disprove your ownership. If it's IP, I'm in the camp that it's covered by copyright, and hate IP patents, but if it's patentable like software (grumble grumble) then it's somewhere around $500 to apply to the patent office yourself. If it's that valuable to you that you genuinely fear theft, then $500 is a small price to pay for insurance.
Because there are a lot of people like me who don't want to pay the crazy fees the cableco wants for a digital box and digital service. If they want to save money and bandwidth by delivering my basic cable digitally, I'm fine with that, but don't charge me MORE so they can save money.