Why so defensive? It doesn't say that rep's said there is no meat to the plan.
Look, it's a bad plan. There are people in the US having trouble with Maslow's Heirarchy. You can't eat a computer and companies have more incentive to make this happen than the government. They should leave this one alone - people who have computers can barely use them right now anyway.
There's nothing hypocritical about it. Slashdot is a group of people. Some of them mocked the idea, but some of them didn't.
Gates is one person with an obvious conflict of interest and doesn't seem to realize that outside his high-tech house and country, people have very limited resources to work with.
Everything he suggested would drive the price up. My first computer was clunky and didn't do much. 20 years later I write my own scanner client software because I can make one easier to use than the vendor's software (HP, you suck).
And just like when he said 640 Kb should be enough for everybody back then, he's wrong now as well.
Remember, his company will enter the market later if MIT's model proves successful.
2 reasons: Because these domains are more organized than ours and categorize entities in those countries as subdomains of those countries. The.co distinguishes a company from a government entity. www.hse.gov.uk, northumbria.ac.uk, etc.
2nd, co.us is Colorado. We would have probably ended up with com.us endings had this caught on.
Geography was the only really useful structure I ever saw out of the DNS system. It certainly would have made Google's life easier for google.local to have law.redmond.wa.us instead of lawyersofgreaterwashington.com.
Think if you could set your browser to a certain locality and automatically reduce name completion for the address to your city.
Okay genius. And King of Kings? The tradition of the Pope placing the crown on a King? How about the fact that it is no longer 3rd century BC but the term Lord of Lord's has made it to every cliche' driven church billboard in the SouthEast US at least once. The origin has nothing to do with the use in the US now than with political intent. As another example I give to you the word "Truth".
And reaching a limit of irritation is not close minded hatred. It's a human trait of patience bumping up against the realities of dealing with people who have stopped thinking for themselves and just regurgitate what they are told.
That's just down the street. Maybe I can score a contract to "work" with the CDC "studying" the effect of games on my health. What do you folks think? 10 year study?
Oh, and your "proof" that there are more trees in the US than before is pretty funny. Trees back in the 1800's and 1900's were fewer because they were several feet in diameter, older, large, and more resistent to forest fires. You can pack more small trees in the same space but the canopy is lower, the trees more susceptible to death by fire and the overall lifespan a mere fraction of what existed before.
Read the journals of Lewis and Clark sometime, particularly the section where they were sleeping on top of felled trees in the Columbia River. These things were regurlarly 8 feet in diameter.
Your single-sourced poorly thought out "proof" counts chopsticks and matchsticks as one in the same. The US forests have been wrecked. Get off the plane and spend some time in them...
Calling the Christian god a lord is a political move made by the church to invalidate the authority of true Lords and Kings. "Lord of Lords, King of Kings". No wonder your comment is flamebait - you're touting religious propoganda of a power hungry organization to an educated audience who struggle for self-determination.
This is a disgrace to the true Lords and Kings or any leader of any significance in our history. You invalidate their risks, struggles and courage by waving your hand in the air and suggesting that their efforts are nothing compared to the imaginary focal point of your self-centered religion. There was evil and greed amoung them, but at least they got blamed for it, whereas a natural disaster killing hundreds of thousands of people adorns your god with little criticism if any at all. Despite being the "Lord of Lords".
These constant, offtopic and ignorant religious advertising and hijacking of unrelated jargon and icons has reached a disgusting level. knock it off.
So is this money from the company stockholders or the founders cash? How can a publicly traded company provision such a large amount of money as charity and not incur the wrath of the almighty dollar-watchers?
I could start a lot of profitable initiatives with a billion dollars.
Since when was the purpose of WoW to teach the fundamentals of life and fairness?
Look, it's a video game. It's not a job interview, a checkout line in a grocery store, a pay-scale within a company. It's a video game. Act accordingly.
And if you still insist on trying to learn lessons from it, at least consider all of the lessons. For example, getting used to and interacting with a variety of classes and races without discriminating based on each characters appearance. And that a womans appearance does effect how you treat her. And that age doesn't matter, maturity of mind does.
So... You've submitted all of the details that are factual to Wikipedia, right?
I'd really hate to see this guy go any further if he's in the business of pushing morals on others, then turning around and misusing information about his constituents.
I heard that same complaint about downloading music about 8 years ago. So how many days does it take to get a DVD from Netflix?
The idle time of the average home users broadband connection is more than half a day. For most single middle class or DINKs, it's 8 hours. That's plenty of time to download a flic. And regarding network saturation, it wouldn't take much to make the typical home router support throttling to make room for a web browser or Vonage.
Precaching doesn't take much of a leap and searching for a video from an online application would be much more efficient than driving to a store and viewing a subset.
It's still doable. Especially if the ISP's were precaching on the subnet.
No you're not. You're trying to tell me that you think you can't call an apple more important than an orange. And once again, Maven 2 will be more significant that the Eclipse IDE. Not the Eclipse framework, not the SWT, not the company that sponsored it, but the IDE.
Wow, that's backwards thinking for you! Why bother leaving the house?
All apple needs to do is upgrade the mac mini to include an ipod video docking station and convince us that we need one in the living room. Download movies from the iTunes video store and play them using the mac mini. If you want to take a movie to a friends house just sync it to the ipod video go to said friends living room with an s-video cable and viola: The ipod is the new DVD media and player all in one. Exactly where they want to be.
All this sneaker-net idea of his would do is slow Blockbusters death at Apple's expense.
You must have misunderstood. I didn't say Maven 2 would replace Eclipse, I said it would be more important.
Coordination with other team members and consistent builds/reporting are far more important than a choice of IDE's.
You tell me which is more important than the other between automake and vi. Make would be a better comparison, and to that I say, make has been far more important than vi. Because it promotes sharing of your project.
If you'd like to generalize, rephrase my words as "your team build process" is more important than "the editor a team member uses".
The *exact* reason I suggested Maven 2 as oppose to Maven 1 is because you jumped on that bandwagon prematurely. You have only yourself to blame for moving from ant to Maven 1. It's a scripting/properties file nightmare!
Maven 2 on the other hand has plugins written in Java like ant and builds faster than your and script. I have over 30 projects building with ant, half at my client, an enterprise level corporation.
This is not a silver bullet. But neither is ant. It's a lot closer to being one as far as build process go though.
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Why so defensive? It doesn't say that rep's said there is no meat to the plan.
Look, it's a bad plan. There are people in the US having trouble with Maslow's Heirarchy. You can't eat a computer and companies have more incentive to make this happen than the government. They should leave this one alone - people who have computers can barely use them right now anyway.
There's nothing hypocritical about it. Slashdot is a group of people. Some of them mocked the idea, but some of them didn't.
Gates is one person with an obvious conflict of interest and doesn't seem to realize that outside his high-tech house and country, people have very limited resources to work with.
Everything he suggested would drive the price up. My first computer was clunky and didn't do much. 20 years later I write my own scanner client software because I can make one easier to use than the vendor's software (HP, you suck).
And just like when he said 640 Kb should be enough for everybody back then, he's wrong now as well.
Remember, his company will enter the market later if MIT's model proves successful.
Hey man, don't knock my little Mexican friends:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10652469/
I prefer to call them land-pirahnas
2 reasons: Because these domains are more organized than ours and categorize entities in those countries as subdomains of those countries. The .co distinguishes a company from a government entity. www.hse.gov.uk, northumbria.ac.uk, etc.
2nd, co.us is Colorado. We would have probably ended up with com.us endings had this caught on.
Geography was the only really useful structure I ever saw out of the DNS system. It certainly would have made Google's life easier for google.local to have law.redmond.wa.us instead of lawyersofgreaterwashington.com.
Think if you could set your browser to a certain locality and automatically reduce name completion for the address to your city.
nah, that's way off. The bandwidth requirements for a voice channel don't justify a QoS layer managing the pipe.
This is just a case of "gee, nice phone connection you got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it".
I would understand for a video conference. But not voice.
Okay genius. And King of Kings? The tradition of the Pope placing the crown on a King? How about the fact that it is no longer 3rd century BC but the term Lord of Lord's has made it to every cliche' driven church billboard in the SouthEast US at least once. The origin has nothing to do with the use in the US now than with political intent. As another example I give to you the word "Truth".
And reaching a limit of irritation is not close minded hatred. It's a human trait of patience bumping up against the realities of dealing with people who have stopped thinking for themselves and just regurgitate what they are told.
close-minded hatred...that's nice.
That's just down the street. Maybe I can score a contract to "work" with the CDC "studying" the effect of games on my health. What do you folks think? 10 year study?
http://www.ajdowntown.com/proof/environment/trees
Oh, and your "proof" that there are more trees in the US than before is pretty funny. Trees back in the 1800's and 1900's were fewer because they were several feet in diameter, older, large, and more resistent to forest fires. You can pack more small trees in the same space but the canopy is lower, the trees more susceptible to death by fire and the overall lifespan a mere fraction of what existed before.
http://www.socminco.com/PG47_files/image011.jpg
Read the journals of Lewis and Clark sometime, particularly the section where they were sleeping on top of felled trees in the Columbia River. These things were regurlarly 8 feet in diameter.
Your single-sourced poorly thought out "proof" counts chopsticks and matchsticks as one in the same. The US forests have been wrecked. Get off the plane and spend some time in them...
Calling the Christian god a lord is a political move made by the church to invalidate the authority of true Lords and Kings. "Lord of Lords, King of Kings". No wonder your comment is flamebait - you're touting religious propoganda of a power hungry organization to an educated audience who struggle for self-determination.
This is a disgrace to the true Lords and Kings or any leader of any significance in our history. You invalidate their risks, struggles and courage by waving your hand in the air and suggesting that their efforts are nothing compared to the imaginary focal point of your self-centered religion. There was evil and greed amoung them, but at least they got blamed for it, whereas a natural disaster killing hundreds of thousands of people adorns your god with little criticism if any at all. Despite being the "Lord of Lords".
These constant, offtopic and ignorant religious advertising and hijacking of unrelated jargon and icons has reached a disgusting level. knock it off.
And you don't have to listen to them yap to the person next to them about how their cell phone isn't working.
Perhaps, but the writhing in agony and screaming may get old.
No, in a life threatening situation, or with soliciting for sex, it's enough for the money to exchange hands and the intentions to be understood.
Whether you see it or not, just remember, the outcome is in your hands.
I'm certain yours is a suggestion brought out by personal experience. Pun Intended.
yeah, but most people switch factions at some point to try out the other sides features. A great life lesson indeed.
So is this money from the company stockholders or the founders cash? How can a publicly traded company provision such a large amount of money as charity and not incur the wrath of the almighty dollar-watchers?
I could start a lot of profitable initiatives with a billion dollars.
Since when was the purpose of WoW to teach the fundamentals of life and fairness?
Look, it's a video game. It's not a job interview, a checkout line in a grocery store, a pay-scale within a company. It's a video game. Act accordingly.
And if you still insist on trying to learn lessons from it, at least consider all of the lessons. For example, getting used to and interacting with a variety of classes and races without discriminating based on each characters appearance. And that a womans appearance does effect how you treat her. And that age doesn't matter, maturity of mind does.
So... You've submitted all of the details that are factual to Wikipedia, right?
I'd really hate to see this guy go any further if he's in the business of pushing morals on others, then turning around and misusing information about his constituents.
I heard that same complaint about downloading music about 8 years ago. So how many days does it take to get a DVD from Netflix?
The idle time of the average home users broadband connection is more than half a day. For most single middle class or DINKs, it's 8 hours. That's plenty of time to download a flic. And regarding network saturation, it wouldn't take much to make the typical home router support throttling to make room for a web browser or Vonage.
Precaching doesn't take much of a leap and searching for a video from an online application would be much more efficient than driving to a store and viewing a subset.
It's still doable. Especially if the ISP's were precaching on the subnet.
No you're not. You're trying to tell me that you think you can't call an apple more important than an orange. And once again, Maven 2 will be more significant that the Eclipse IDE. Not the Eclipse framework, not the SWT, not the company that sponsored it, but the IDE.
Wow, that's backwards thinking for you! Why bother leaving the house?
All apple needs to do is upgrade the mac mini to include an ipod video docking station and convince us that we need one in the living room. Download movies from the iTunes video store and play them using the mac mini. If you want to take a movie to a friends house just sync it to the ipod video go to said friends living room with an s-video cable and viola: The ipod is the new DVD media and player all in one. Exactly where they want to be.
All this sneaker-net idea of his would do is slow Blockbusters death at Apple's expense.
The paranoid should not be using a public repository. Set up your own Maven proxy:
http://maven-proxy.codehaus.org/
Then, tar a local repository with known good md5's and commit that with your project.
You must have misunderstood. I didn't say Maven 2 would replace Eclipse, I said it would be more important.
Coordination with other team members and consistent builds/reporting are far more important than a choice of IDE's.
You tell me which is more important than the other between automake and vi. Make would be a better comparison, and to that I say, make has been far more important than vi. Because it promotes sharing of your project.
If you'd like to generalize, rephrase my words as "your team build process" is more important than "the editor a team member uses".
Your link is outdated and referring to Maven 1. And I agree with it. Maven 2 is far better - in fact it's a complete rewrite.
You should try it out again. It's time. Everyone knows the landscape changes constantly.
The *exact* reason I suggested Maven 2 as oppose to Maven 1 is because you jumped on that bandwagon prematurely. You have only yourself to blame for moving from ant to Maven 1. It's a scripting/properties file nightmare!
Maven 2 on the other hand has plugins written in Java like ant and builds faster than your and script. I have over 30 projects building with ant, half at my client, an enterprise level corporation.
This is not a silver bullet. But neither is ant. It's a lot closer to being one as far as build process go though.