I guess you either missed the entire case or didn't understand the least bit of it. The DOJ's case was not about Microsoft's practices with IE being bad from a technology point of view, but it was shown that, as you pointed out to be a problem, their business practices were illegal because it was unfair competion to Netscape.
I agree. I would first like to see humans able te `create' life from these simple compounds. If we, with all our knowledge of this `obvious' process cannot enforce the rare circumstances under which life developes, how are nature's probabalistic chances then?
To me, Linux is a very viable platform to graphically:
- read my emails
- play games
- browse the web
- listen to mp3's (visualization plugins)
- watch tv
So please let me be this nuts, to use Linux for all this.
Oh yeah, and there's also my academic use of tools such as
- Mathematica
- R
- Octave/Matlab
- GNUplot
- Scilab
- (La)TeX/Postscript
But those are naturally of lesser importance...
According the theory of Autodynamics (http://www.autodynamics.org/) black holes, being objects with infinite mass in a singularity, don't exist. Very dense object with enough mass to prevent light from escaping can exist however. This doesn't seem to be in conflict with the new data which the/.-story is about.
Though the Autodynamics website is quite chaotic it's certainly an interesting read. Don't we all want to believe that the lightspeed-barrie is just bogus. On the other hand, I always tend to immediately believe some scientific-looking talk claiming that something is this way (or another way)
I am aware of the fact that it is not a robot performing the surgery in this case, but I do think that it might happen in the future. Ok, maybe not near future... but I can already see the comments of the people from the 23rd century when they discuss being operated by a `human'.
"Can you imagine? You yourself, try to hold your hand streched and still. Would you have someone with that kind of `precision' perform surgery on you? Well, I sure as [orwellian censorship in the future] don't."
"Yeah, I'd rather be operated by a robot running Windows 2004 than by a human..."
[slight sarcasm]
You don't understand. He doesn't need to be forced to share the money to build and maintain roads and such because he wants that. It's the sharing of his money to benefit any other people than himself which annoys him.
I guess I don't need roads since I don't have a car and since I have never been involved in a crime scene or a fire, I don't want to pay for those services either.
Yeah! How are we supposed to stay motivated without any propoganda about how much better the quality is of the software we as a community can produce, as opposed to the most powerful software company in the entire universe???
I want to read that Microsoft is stupid. Can't you all just take that into account the next time you try to review something objectively?
btw; I do not speak for myself, but on behalf of my boss, my cat, my girlfriend and off course... all the intellectually challenged slashdotters.
On a more serious note: I am truely fighting myself not to bonk my head on the doorpost every time my flatmates tell me how much better Windows(recent/future version) is because it has fading everthings...
Isn't the patent on nuking in either US' or Russian hands? If the French or the Brittish would try and deploy those tactics they would be sued their pants off...
Well, there is an obvious advantage of using Linux (or Free/Net/Open-BSD for that matter) and that is that it's open source.
The first time I tried Linux it was because complete hate towards Microsoft products and their instability and seemingly userfriendly, but completely disabling the "power-user", software. When I slowly made the complete transition I got to understand and experience the real advantage of Linux over Microsoft: open source. It's just the whole development proces with forces the programmer to think, which in general leads to better software. (or at least to software we can fix because we've got the source). It's promoting better competition and in the end the user takes it all.
That's why I (and many other slashdotters) don't see a future for "competition" such as QNX. It may be superior, but if we ain't getting the source, they aren't getting to run our hardware. At least not mine.
I have not selected a single option in the topics in my profile to be excluded. I get ask slashdot questions, but some of them just don't appear as all the other stories do, on the main page. The only way I can find them is through the "older stuff" page and these stories consequently don't get more than 10 reactions, thus this must be true for almost 100% of the slashdot public.
Okay, this is totally off-topic, but howcome can these articles appear in "older stuff" that don't appear on the front page? Does nobody ever notice @ Slashdot that hardly anyone contributes to these discussions?
This is just weird....
btw; I don't have any mobile devices, but I reckon it would probably be nive to have the ability to remote login on your server with your Yopy...
I thought it was a known fact that MS-users are never really satisfied and that is why they keep upgrading.
Seriously, I see it all the time. All the Windows user close to me, they all periodically upgrade their hardware and OS and are actually never satiesfied, except when they're watching DivX movies or listening Metallica MP3's.
Well, if you put it that way... I guess the sick en handicapped shouldn't be a burden to us as well. And the babies of the young mothers you mentioned, they probably deserve a miserable (or no) life as well. Further more, the people who get sick or injured during their jobs, they have no right at a decent life either I guess... at least according to you.
Not everybody has the same potential as others. Intelligence for instance isn't a quality one has any decision-making in. Would it be fair to let those less-fortunate have a miserable life, so you can have more money than you can usefully spend?
The increase in "luck" that a person experiences who can buy a computer (133 Mhz Pentium) doesn't compare to the small increase of your feeling of "luck" when you buy a fourth 950 Mhz Athlon for your personal LAN which you share with your pet and girlfriend who doesn't care for computers at all, just for the diamonds you buy her.
In the end I guess that either you have not a single person surrounding you that has it a little bit difficult (in any way, not necessarily financially) or you just don't care about other people. That's fine with me, but I I do.
btw; wouldn't al those inferior people, who keep making al those wrong decisions, putting such a large burden on you, be less of a burden if they were dead? (No you don't? So you do care for other people... ah sorry for wrongfully accusing you)
Heh, yeah, the "higher taxes" thing worked oh-so-well for Mondale in '84. You think they'd learn....
I don't want to start a "my country is better than yours"-discussion here, but the system proposed by this man has effectively been in use in the Netherlands for many years and is known to work very well. Everybody who earns above about US$ 42,000 has to pay 60% in taxes. People who earn less than about US$ 6,000 pay no taxes. Compared to the US there's no real poverty here. Anybody who wants to study at a university can. Nobody needs to live on the street here. Not just anybody can buy of own a gun here. Drug addicts aren't put away in jail, but are treated.
Off course not everybody here is totally happy about this, so some of them move to Belgium. In general however we feel that the US system is downright neglecting part of it's population.
Reading all these comments I just had to get this of my chest: using open source software in the field of medicine is not about running existing open source projects on medical appliances, but using the power of the open source model.
Since medicine is largely goverment funded there is no need to exclusively use existing open source software. There's money available. People can be _hired_ to create open source software. This way all the benefits of open source still apply plus the extra benefit of support. It would just be a requirement that software used in medical environments needs te be open source, so more eyeballs can potentially catch problems and not a requirement that the software is created by individuals who have no experience in designing (almost) failsafe/bugless software.
It's his choice. If he thinks it's a joke he would probably not accept this offer. If he does then I guess he prefers to be the loser that you like to call him (or other people for that matter who do what they really like for (relatively) little money)
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Moreover, the photons don't even travel at 300.000 km/s since it's no vacuum in fiberglass
I guess you either missed the entire case or didn't understand the least bit of it. The DOJ's case was not about Microsoft's practices with IE being bad from a technology point of view, but it was shown that, as you pointed out to be a problem, their business practices were illegal because it was unfair competion to Netscape.
As it happens BBC's `Horizon' last night was completely devoted to the theory you just described/pasted. It was a nice program.
I agree. I would first like to see humans able te `create' life from these simple compounds. If we, with all our knowledge of this `obvious' process cannot enforce the rare circumstances under which life developes, how are nature's probabalistic chances then?
To me, Linux is a very viable platform to graphically:
...
- read my emails
- play games
- browse the web
- listen to mp3's (visualization plugins)
- watch tv
So please let me be this nuts, to use Linux for all this.
Oh yeah, and there's also my academic use of tools such as
- Mathematica
- R
- Octave/Matlab
- GNUplot
- Scilab
- (La)TeX/Postscript
But those are naturally of lesser importance
--
Matthijs
This outcome is just as rigged as we believed the mindcraft-results to be a few years ago. Only this time the research was sponsored by G. W. Bush ...
...
There goes your money, colliding 10 kilometers above earth with a virtual nothing
I always prefer e^(2*pi*i)-1=0.
That equation contains and links 0,1,2,e,pi and i. Maybe the original poster meant this as well, but he just dropped the 2 accicentally.
According the theory of Autodynamics (http://www.autodynamics.org/) black holes, being objects with infinite mass in a singularity, don't exist. Very dense object with enough mass to prevent light from escaping can exist however. This doesn't seem to be in conflict with the new data which the /.-story is about.
Though the Autodynamics website is quite chaotic it's certainly an interesting read. Don't we all want to believe that the lightspeed-barrie is just bogus. On the other hand, I always tend to immediately believe some scientific-looking talk claiming that something is this way (or another way)
I am aware of the fact that it is not a robot performing the surgery in this case, but I do think that it might happen in the future. Ok, maybe not near future ... but I can already see the comments of the people from the 23rd century when they discuss being operated by a `human'.
..."
..."
"Can you imagine? You yourself, try to hold your hand streched and still. Would you have someone with that kind of `precision' perform surgery on you? Well, I sure as [orwellian censorship in the future] don't."
"Yeah, I'd rather be operated by a robot running Windows 2004 than by a human
"He he
[slight sarcasm]
You don't understand. He doesn't need to be forced to share the money to build and maintain roads and such because he wants that. It's the sharing of his money to benefit any other people than himself which annoys him.
I guess I don't need roads since I don't have a car and since I have never been involved in a crime scene or a fire, I don't want to pay for those services either.
Actually I just read a few minutes ago that it is out ;-!
I tried to tcpdump -i lo, but nothing shows up. I checked that it works if I ping. Maybe I should turn something on explicitly for this to work?
Yeah! How are we supposed to stay motivated without any propoganda about how much better the quality is of the software we as a community can produce, as opposed to the most powerful software company in the entire universe???
... all the intellectually challenged slashdotters.
...
I want to read that Microsoft is stupid. Can't you all just take that into account the next time you try to review something objectively?
btw; I do not speak for myself, but on behalf of my boss, my cat, my girlfriend and off course
On a more serious note: I am truely fighting myself not to bonk my head on the doorpost every time my flatmates tell me how much better Windows(recent/future version) is because it has fading everthings
Isn't the patent on nuking in either US' or Russian hands? If the French or the Brittish would try and deploy those tactics they would be sued their pants off ...
Well, there is an obvious advantage of using Linux (or Free/Net/Open-BSD for that matter) and that is that it's open source.
The first time I tried Linux it was because complete hate towards Microsoft products and their instability and seemingly userfriendly, but completely disabling the "power-user", software. When I slowly made the complete transition I got to understand and experience the real advantage of Linux over Microsoft: open source. It's just the whole development proces with forces the programmer to think, which in general leads to better software. (or at least to software we can fix because we've got the source). It's promoting better competition and in the end the user takes it all.
That's why I (and many other slashdotters) don't see a future for "competition" such as QNX. It may be superior, but if we ain't getting the source, they aren't getting to run our hardware. At least not mine.
Thank you. That is a clear explanation.
I have not selected a single option in the topics in my profile to be excluded. I get ask slashdot questions, but some of them just don't appear as all the other stories do, on the main page. The only way I can find them is through the "older stuff" page and these stories consequently don't get more than 10 reactions, thus this must be true for almost 100% of the slashdot public.
Okay, this is totally off-topic, but howcome can these articles appear in "older stuff" that don't appear on the front page? Does nobody ever notice @ Slashdot that hardly anyone contributes to these discussions?
....
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This is just weird
btw; I don't have any mobile devices, but I reckon it would probably be nive to have the ability to remote login on your server with your Yopy
The link doesn't seem to reflect to the information, you were hoping for. This does.
...
Totally off-topic, but certainly interesting stuff
I thought it was a known fact that MS-users are never really satisfied and that is why they keep upgrading.
Seriously, I see it all the time. All the Windows user close to me, they all periodically upgrade their hardware and OS and are actually never satiesfied, except when they're watching DivX movies or listening Metallica MP3's.
Well, if you put it that way ... I guess the sick en handicapped shouldn't be a burden to us as well. And the babies of the young mothers you mentioned, they probably deserve a miserable (or no) life as well. Further more, the people who get sick or injured during their jobs, they have no right at a decent life either I guess ... at least according to you.
... ah sorry for wrongfully accusing you)
Not everybody has the same potential as others. Intelligence for instance isn't a quality one has any decision-making in. Would it be fair to let those less-fortunate have a miserable life, so you can have more money than you can usefully spend?
The increase in "luck" that a person experiences who can buy a computer (133 Mhz Pentium) doesn't compare to the small increase of your feeling of "luck" when you buy a fourth 950 Mhz Athlon for your personal LAN which you share with your pet and girlfriend who doesn't care for computers at all, just for the diamonds you buy her.
In the end I guess that either you have not a single person surrounding you that has it a little bit difficult (in any way, not necessarily financially) or you just don't care about other people. That's fine with me, but I I do.
btw; wouldn't al those inferior people, who keep making al those wrong decisions, putting such a large burden on you, be less of a burden if they were dead? (No you don't? So you do care for other people
Heh, yeah, the "higher taxes" thing worked oh-so-well for Mondale in '84. You think they'd learn....
I don't want to start a "my country is better than yours"-discussion here, but the system proposed by this man has effectively been in use in the Netherlands for many years and is known to work very well. Everybody who earns above about US$ 42,000 has to pay 60% in taxes. People who earn less than about US$ 6,000 pay no taxes. Compared to the US there's no real poverty here. Anybody who wants to study at a university can. Nobody needs to live on the street here. Not just anybody can buy of own a gun here. Drug addicts aren't put away in jail, but are treated.
Off course not everybody here is totally happy about this, so some of them move to Belgium. In general however we feel that the US system is downright neglecting part of it's population.
So Plex86 boots Linux, which runs VMware, which boots Windows, but Plex86 doesn't boot Windows.
... don't you think ;-?
Kind a paradoxical
Reading all these comments I just had to get this of my chest: using open source software in the field of medicine is not about running existing open source projects on medical appliances, but using the power of the open source model.
Since medicine is largely goverment funded there is no need to exclusively use existing open source software. There's money available. People can be _hired_ to create open source software. This way all the benefits of open source still apply plus the extra benefit of support. It would just be a requirement that software used in medical environments needs te be open source, so more eyeballs can potentially catch problems and not a requirement that the software is created by individuals who have no experience in designing (almost) failsafe/bugless software.
It's his choice. If he thinks it's a joke he would probably not accept this offer. If he does then I guess he prefers to be the loser that you like to call him (or other people for that matter who do what they really like for (relatively) little money)