The real goal of it all is to promote sociopaths who think nothing of watching other people's heads blown off. This motivates people to work, of course, and more importantly, to work alone, as they will become paranoid that it is only a matter of time before someone snaps and starts to destroy those who are near them.
Sex, on the other hand, promotes people to work together, not against one another. They will become distracted by the "squishy fun bits" of the opposite (or same) sex. Eventually everyone would end up romping about doing nothing but having sex.
As you can see, it's much better to have a paranoid individual dreaming of bloodlust as he fiddles around with some useless task for a boss who is the object of his complete hatred than to have a group of lovy-touchy people who will inevitably end up in a huge work-site wide orgy.
I can't believe that you people still bother reading the crap they publish. Everything is about how Microsoft is stealing money from babbies to build a monopoly and is so afraid of Linux. Please people, you're too high on yourselves if you believe that to be true. Wake up, take a look around, and note that a hell of a lot of people use Microsoft products. Are MS products perfect? Not by a long shot. Are they the worst piece of crap created? Well...yes, sometimes. But whatever.
As if the "Microsoft confidential" wasn't tip off that it was fake. -_-
The "powered by emacs" thing at the bottom is NOT irony. Do people even know what irony is nowadays?
Do you? Lets just check this out, shall we?
irony - 3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.
See, the irony of it is, one would expect a web site that boasts 'vi' to use vi, but, in fact, the contray is true - they use emacs. Hence, it is ironic. Thank you for your time.
Oh, and the song Ironic is also ironic. See, one would expect a song called "Ironic" to contain lots of irony. It contains none, and hence is ironic for that reason. *wuvin!*
How is this rellevant at all? He's not hiding the source, he's not publishing the changelog. There isn't anything in the GPL that says the author must make it easy for you to figure out what changed between versions. =p
Either read the article next time, or read the GPL more carefully.
What people apparently don't realize is that Bin Laden is a GUEST of the Taliban; why does this matter, you may ask? Well, according to their religion, they are to protect their guests, even if it that would meant their death.
Yeah, they're not supposed to kill people either, but that didn't seem to stop the others.
1. Isn't opening a Pandora's Box supposed to be a bad thing?
Yes, but Microsoft doesn't have to hide it's position that it just wants to control you. It's been exposed and people still buy from them, so why bother to try to keep up the front?
Come on, it took him 9 days to fix his errors, you think he'd have hd the foresight to create an archival system? He probably doesn't even know what cron is.;)
I don't think it's fair to say that they're going to end up playing catch-up, nor do I think that Ximian is over-extending itself. KDE is, imho, a very nice desktop environment with a lot of very useful tools. Ximian is a little bit more advanced (read: bleeding edge) in some areas, but I don't believe that this makes one particularly better than the other by default. It's still more a choice of your level of comfort and the choice for which is used will most likely turn into a subjective choice for each user, rather than an objective one of which is "better"/"more advanced".
When one corporation sets itself up against the developers of the entire world, how could it not hurt them?
Of course, as you point out, this is Microsoft. A government certified "secure" OS with more holes than swiss cheese. I just wonder when the rest of the world is going to pay attention to what's going on.
Microsoft attacks the terms of the GPL, and yet, it's probably against their EULA to sneeze while you're typing. I don't understand.
Yes, however it could be said it's "your own damned fault" for getting "searched" as you say. The officer is pointing his radar gun at the road and your car goes in front of it. It could be argued that, by driving in front of the officer, you are consenting to the "search".
I don't see how this has anything in common with using an infrared image to determine what's going on inside a house. It would be more likened to standing outside with a directional microphone and pointing it at your window, imho.
And anyway, it hasn't ever been stopped from getting entered in a court of law, so it doesn't look as though the judicial system agrees with your rather broad interpertation for "search".
You obviously didn't read the article. It's a tiny thing you wear in front of your eye, first.
Second, it would be useful, for example, for an executive giving a presentation. The guys who invented it could easily listen in and help point out things on a model that only s/he could see and would boost the confidence of the individuals s/he was presenting the technology to that "everyone" knew much about it.
Finally, you have a lot of work to do as a religious troll. You don't sound confident in God at all. You must tell us not that He didn't know what he was letting us do, but that He let us because He wants to punish the wreched sinners whom live on in the unholy world of the Internet.
It's not a search though. Your car is broadcasting how fast it's going. If an officer is watching the road, and your car is going much faster than everyone else, you are most likely speeding, so the individual deterines how much faster you're going. If there are no other cars, after watching the road for some time, it would be trivial to determine who was going much faster by seeing how much time it took for each car to go between two points.
My point is that although one couldn't tell your exact speed from looking, one could tell that you were speeding. The radar gun is just telling law enforcement exactly how much you were speeding.
However it seems that with open-source, since everything is on a volunteer basis (well ok, not everything...), there tends to be ego's going unchecked in multiple areas, leading to huge "wars" regarding issues, that, in a "normal" company would've been squelched by a single individual's decision.
Yes, but I don't believe that a flame war is completely bad. Mind you, calling people names is generally useless, but if it gets a bunch of people involved, looking at an area that a problem is thought to exist, it will, in the end, produce better code.
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It's to block the MLB satellites. It also makes my head look bigger so they won't be able to tell what size baseball cap I wear.
The real goal of it all is to promote sociopaths who think nothing of watching other people's heads blown off. This motivates people to work, of course, and more importantly, to work alone, as they will become paranoid that it is only a matter of time before someone snaps and starts to destroy those who are near them.
Sex, on the other hand, promotes people to work together, not against one another. They will become distracted by the "squishy fun bits" of the opposite (or same) sex. Eventually everyone would end up romping about doing nothing but having sex.
As you can see, it's much better to have a paranoid individual dreaming of bloodlust as he fiddles around with some useless task for a boss who is the object of his complete hatred than to have a group of lovy-touchy people who will inevitably end up in a huge work-site wide orgy.
I can't believe that you people still bother reading the crap they publish. Everything is about how Microsoft is stealing money from babbies to build a monopoly and is so afraid of Linux. Please people, you're too high on yourselves if you believe that to be true. Wake up, take a look around, and note that a hell of a lot of people use Microsoft products. Are MS products perfect? Not by a long shot. Are they the worst piece of crap created? Well...yes, sometimes. But whatever.
As if the "Microsoft confidential" wasn't tip off that it was fake. -_-
Where does XP fit in there, smart guy?
The "powered by emacs" thing at the bottom is NOT irony.
Do people even know what irony is nowadays?
Do you? Lets just check this out, shall we?
irony - 3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.
See, the irony of it is, one would expect a web site that boasts 'vi' to use vi, but, in fact, the contray is true - they use emacs. Hence, it is ironic. Thank you for your time.
Oh, and the song Ironic is also ironic. See, one would expect a song called "Ironic" to contain lots of irony. It contains none, and hence is ironic for that reason. *wuvin!*
How true...
The project's page here has pictures and links.
For the curious, here's Lockheed' page about the Athena rocket.
It won't be up there for that long. It's in LEO, and so, drag will bring it back into the atmosphere within a few years.
Either read the article next time, or read the GPL more carefully.
Yeah, they're not supposed to kill people either, but that didn't seem to stop the others.
Yes, but Microsoft doesn't have to hide it's position that it just wants to control you. It's been exposed and people still buy from them, so why bother to try to keep up the front?
I know! Look at how offensive and inappropriate "American Pie", "Jump" and "Only the Good Die Young" are, in light of these events. *rolls eyes*
Yes, Linux is so inconvenient. I mean, it's not like a kindergartner could ever figure it out! Besides, Windows is much more S e c u r e anyway.
A beowolf cluster of lawers? Wouldn't that yeild the Micro$oft legal team?
Cool. I assume GEO satellites since LEO would be much less than the few thousand miles it is from Russia to VA. ;)
Net->floppy->intermediate box->new floppy->target
Check at each step and clear the intermediate box each time to have the most protection from back doors. That is the route for the paranoid.
Come on, it took him 9 days to fix his errors, you think he'd have hd the foresight to create an archival system? He probably doesn't even know what cron is. ;)
Huh? There's more to the Internet than warez, free music, and pr0n? Where?
I don't think it's fair to say that they're going to end up playing catch-up, nor do I think that Ximian is over-extending itself. KDE is, imho, a very nice desktop environment with a lot of very useful tools. Ximian is a little bit more advanced (read: bleeding edge) in some areas, but I don't believe that this makes one particularly better than the other by default. It's still more a choice of your level of comfort and the choice for which is used will most likely turn into a subjective choice for each user, rather than an objective one of which is "better"/"more advanced".
Of course, as you point out, this is Microsoft. A government certified "secure" OS with more holes than swiss cheese. I just wonder when the rest of the world is going to pay attention to what's going on.
Microsoft attacks the terms of the GPL, and yet, it's probably against their EULA to sneeze while you're typing. I don't understand.
I don't see how this has anything in common with using an infrared image to determine what's going on inside a house. It would be more likened to standing outside with a directional microphone and pointing it at your window, imho.
And anyway, it hasn't ever been stopped from getting entered in a court of law, so it doesn't look as though the judicial system agrees with your rather broad interpertation for "search".
Second, it would be useful, for example, for an executive giving a presentation. The guys who invented it could easily listen in and help point out things on a model that only s/he could see and would boost the confidence of the individuals s/he was presenting the technology to that "everyone" knew much about it.
Finally, you have a lot of work to do as a religious troll. You don't sound confident in God at all. You must tell us not that He didn't know what he was letting us do, but that He let us because He wants to punish the wreched sinners whom live on in the unholy world of the Internet.
My point is that although one couldn't tell your exact speed from looking, one could tell that you were speeding. The radar gun is just telling law enforcement exactly how much you were speeding.
Yes, but I don't believe that a flame war is completely bad. Mind you, calling people names is generally useless, but if it gets a bunch of people involved, looking at an area that a problem is thought to exist, it will, in the end, produce better code.
Wait...that's a galaxy, isn't it? My bad.