Anything is possible, just give it a little time. At several occassions in American history, both the French and Spaniards sided with the natives.
I guess that's why I made the analogy. Although the natives won the battle, they lost the war because ultimately the rest of the Western world favored doing business with the immigrants and not the natives. Community ownership of property lost out to artificial corporate claims to property.
Businesses like doing business with other businesses who claim to own the rights to something, not free-lance developers who share the rights.
As long as we're comparing to American western history, let's take a more comparable example: General Custer.
1. Rumor has it the guy was a lunatic by the time he decided to attack the natives. Check. 2. He and his little army set out to battle against an opponent with a larger head-count. Check. 3. The natives didn't have a choice: Custer was pretty much set on attacking them no matter what they did. Check. 4. The natives were fighting for existence. Custer for glory. Check. 5. The end result was the glorifying of Custer and a signature point in the demise of the Native American population. Let's hope squashing SCO doesn't backfire into some sort of us against them attitude with big business.
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I just hope this "business" sector rolls over and dies a peaceful death. There are more precise ways of finding people who might want to buy a product.
Well, that's why you use the first 30 to get a feel for whether you are dealing with a normal distribution. If not, then yes, you need more, but if so, the additional samples will tell you nothing.
No, they sampled enough folks to make this assessment. They didn't even need that many if it follows a standard distribution, right? 30 would be enough in that case, assuming they are sampling the right target.
Remember, they are just trying to draw a graph of probabilities, not learn every minute unique answer.
Because the limits on resolution can be compensated for with image processing. For example, take a large number of photographs of the same thing, then use the differences to interpolate the real image.
Here's one that isn't in OpenOffice, and probably won't ever be.
It would enormously help my development process to be able to create a document whose tables are dynamically linked from a spreadsheet.
In my case, the spreadsheet is a four column list of requirements (#, name, description, criteria to test). I'd like this to be the origin of all requirements, from which the SRS pulls line items and the build process checks source to confirm that every Req is represented in the object model, and no unaccounted for methods exist.
I can't do it in OpenOffice. I can open the spreadsheet file and pull requirements in the build, but I can't keep the SRS in sync with the requirements spreadsheet automatically to avoid document cruft.
It looks to me that this guy just intended to take gloating picture of getting his new I-Mac, but wasn't sure at what point to stop unpacking it and start trying to get it to run.
Hmmm, do I have to take this green thing with all the little parts out of the white box too?
Slack's in the support car, with a pile of tires in its lap. Presented and accounted for, critical at the right moment, but not really interested in the whole race for market share.
Bah, pay no attention to him. He's looking at linux through corporate eyes.
The way I see it, the Linux distributions out there are members of a bicycling team. Each distro has a different role to play at any given time. Redhat starts a sprint to wear the competitors (create brand recognition). Debian stays back and steady in case RH crashes (to support the user base). Gentoo attacks on an uphill, pulls Debian (consolidates the lessons learned from other distros and helps them keep up). Suse and Mandrake offer protection to the contenders on the team (making commercial software vendors warm up to support Linux).
This guy just can't tell which team is winning, Linux or Microsoft. He's used to Microsoft's go-it-alone-one-gorilla-on-a-tricyle approach. So one of Linux' cyclists is gaining fast on his Gorilla, and the others seem to be holding back and doing completely different things.
So basically he's saying he's afraid of bicycles. Or something like that.
Yeah, I read Lance Armstrong's books over the past couple of days. So blame my analogy on him.
It isn't intentional ignorance, it is simply that we are in a huge country cut off off from Europe, Africa, and Asia by a lot of water. Proxmimity plays a major role. What goes on in the neighboring states is generally more relevent to the average American's life than what goes on in countries they will likely never come anywhere near.
I rest my case. You don't care about the details in Africa. Hell, even the neighboring states are of questionable impact on your life. So when you choose between political knowledge and COBOL, you intentionally choose COBOL and remain "ignorant" of the other information.
My point was people shouldn't choose between skills that employ them and understanding of the world around them. They should choose between that understanding and the spoon fed crap from the televisions and radios.
The names are the simplest part of the experience of getting hit by a tropical cyclone. It's minimum requirements for knowing what an impact it has on the country. So it is important, kinda like the first step on a long walk:P
And that's my point. A little work, and you now know it's in Africa. So the only reasons a person doesn't know things about other countries on other continents is of their own making.
Americans should collectively throw out their televisions and regain their lives.
It *is* intentional ignorance. The information is out there. The Internet exists. We can't hide behind the whole "cut off" crap any more. Hell, phone calls to India run about 6 cents per minute. Hell some of them are free, just call a support 800 number for Sallie Mae Loan Servicing.
Case and point: Name the last 3 tropical cyclones that Mexico and the rest of Central America have had to deal with. You can't can you, without looking it up. And they are our neighbors.
The real problem is there is profit in our isolation. Ignorant people can be controlled. Look at our school systems. 12 years of teaching and you can't immediately tell me where Djibouti is.
And as for neighboring states and their relevance: Get a sheet of paper, right down your neighboring states, then write down the names of their Representatives and Senators. Governors? Counties?
Sometimes, as an Open Source Software developer, I wonder if anyone out there is actually noticing the contributions I make to the software they're running.
Does somebody need a hug???? Come'er! We'll give you one, but it'll be sloppy, overwhelming, we'll argue the whole time we're giving it, and then we'll vanish.
Please, please please go back and read what I wrote. I said "can you seriously say you are in the right", not "you don't have the right". Everyone can complain about anything, but only some people are right^H^H^H^H^Hcorrect in doing so. And it's not just exchange of money. It's money, time, talent or retesting.
Like I said. If you continue reading by keyword ("right", "money", "complain"), I expect your next response to say it's ridiculous to suggest that all development projects be compensated in Pesetas!
Take another look; I'm not limiting the userbase to those who code. I said "if you have any time & talent". It doesn't take programming skills to retest, i.e., rerun the app and see if the problem is still there.
You might not like how the developer is behaving under the pressure, and you might complain, but can you seriously say you are in the right to do so, since you haven't paid him a Peseta to work on the project? If you don't have time yourself, and you won't pay him for the feature, try saying this to yourself, "I hope he takes care of it in the next release".
Promises are broken all the time. Sourceforge is full of stalled projects which would have been very beneficial. Most of them are from people who had good intentions.
And the STFU was directed to one person, so don't take it personally unless you are one in the same.
No, you're wrong on two fronts. First, the virus is working correctly by wrecking the machine, so my original response doesn't apply. Second, I didn't accept the virus, it was surrupticiously installed on my computer.
Stabbing me with a knife isn't the same as having a table of them and saying I can have one if I choose.
No, there is no double standard. You're looking at the wrong metric. Microsoft charges for their software. I've never in my life cut a check to X.Org (although I shall soon - and decide how much myself).
When a company charges for a product or service and it is defective, you try to return it, report the bug, and complain about the problem on discussion groups.
When a volunteer gives you a product for free and it is defective, you let the person know what's wrong, offer to retest it if they try to fix it, and if you have any time & talent to draw on, you offer to fix the problem and send in a patch. You NEVER, EVER complain. The worst you have the right to say is "I hope they take care of it in the next release".
Other than that, in response to your last sentence, on behalf of everyone whose ever given software away for free, STFU.
The last 30 years have defined modern terrorism for the US.
Terrorism is a symptom of something else. What might that be genius?
atheist or not practice any religion
You must work in the department of redundancy department.
Say, you wouldn't happen to be capable of figuring out *when* exactly it was discovered that the Middle East had such vast oil resources, would you? Oh, and when exactly was the first viable 4 stroke engine around to turn the vast resources into money? 1885, Daimler's 4 stroke engine. So the earliest it would have done them any good is 120 years nimrod, not 200. The patent fights in the West killed off all that time you silly twit. Now go google for middle-east oil discoveries. Probably slowed a bit by the West's tendency to send crusades their way.
And one last thing master-of-idiocy, how is it that not believing any religion is more common in the US for young people than anything, when the majority of young people in the US are Christian?
You sir, suck on all fronts. You are also obviously hallucinating about sheep given how you keep *coming* back to them. So head back to your farm and satisfy your withdrawals.
Yes shortsighted. The Jewish struggle to reclaim Palestine on behalf of their religious ancestors and Britains support of that by handing the land to them after the first world wars did more to create the problems of today then anything you can recall in your lifetime.
Yes flamebait. Your choice of words is obviously inflammatory. BTW, I'm an atheist, so no sheep here. You're thinking of the flock that surrounds me here in the states.
Yes braindead. I am keenly aware of more significant currents in the world than those you speak of. If you're going to declare the need for action, at least swim in the correct direction.
Yes deprived of the lessons of history. History isn't just the last 30 years. You need to look back at least to 1914. And the changes of the 50's. And the real reasons for the 2nd World War.
Yes reactively unintelligent. There is nothing liberal about me. I'm not a globalist, or a communist. I belong to no party. Never said we couldn't attack someone based on ethnicity.
And Darwin wasn't wrong you simpleton. Go crawl back in your own hole.
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This from the website when you click "what will it sound like":
This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
So I'm guessing it's a whooshing noise, with the crinkle of paper bills clearly audible.
The real problem in China has nothing to do with the space programs precision in retrieving equipment from orbit.
It's the mail service; the flyer explaining to the house owner that they were intending to land the capsule in his courtyard hadn't been received yet.
Anything is possible, just give it a little time. At several occassions in American history, both the French and Spaniards sided with the natives.
I guess that's why I made the analogy. Although the natives won the battle, they lost the war because ultimately the rest of the Western world favored doing business with the immigrants and not the natives. Community ownership of property lost out to artificial corporate claims to property.
Businesses like doing business with other businesses who claim to own the rights to something, not free-lance developers who share the rights.
As long as we're comparing to American western history, let's take a more comparable example: General Custer.
1. Rumor has it the guy was a lunatic by the time he decided to attack the natives. Check.
2. He and his little army set out to battle against an opponent with a larger head-count. Check.
3. The natives didn't have a choice: Custer was pretty much set on attacking them no matter what they did. Check.
4. The natives were fighting for existence. Custer for glory. Check.
5. The end result was the glorifying of Custer and a signature point in the demise of the Native American population. Let's hope squashing SCO doesn't backfire into some sort of us against them attitude with big business.
Just have a group of other cars follow it around with mirrors pointing more light on the solar panels.
Problem solved.
We're sorry. You're call did not go through. Please piss off and never try your call again.
I just hope this "business" sector rolls over and dies a peaceful death. There are more precise ways of finding people who might want to buy a product.
Carpet-bombers, be damned!
Well, that's why you use the first 30 to get a feel for whether you are dealing with a normal distribution. If not, then yes, you need more, but if so, the additional samples will tell you nothing.
No, they sampled enough folks to make this assessment. They didn't even need that many if it follows a standard distribution, right? 30 would be enough in that case, assuming they are sampling the right target.
Remember, they are just trying to draw a graph of probabilities, not learn every minute unique answer.
So was it just me, or did Kerry slip up at one point and refer to Iraq as Israel?
Something to the effect of "it's important for Isreal, it's important for the U.S, it's important..."
Was I just in need of sleep or what?
Tivo users, I wanna know!
Because the limits on resolution can be compensated for with image processing. For example, take a large number of photographs of the same thing, then use the differences to interpolate the real image.
Why not? Nature left the entire planet covered in dirt. Why can't we leave a few stamped impressions of tire tracks.
Don't make it sound like the planet was a pristine horticulture mecca. It's dirt. It can't get any dirtier.
Here's one that isn't in OpenOffice, and probably won't ever be.
It would enormously help my development process to be able to create a document whose tables are dynamically linked from a spreadsheet.
In my case, the spreadsheet is a four column list of requirements (#, name, description, criteria to test). I'd like this to be the origin of all requirements, from which the SRS pulls line items and the build process checks source to confirm that every Req is represented in the object model, and no unaccounted for methods exist.
I can't do it in OpenOffice. I can open the spreadsheet file and pull requirements in the build, but I can't keep the SRS in sync with the requirements spreadsheet automatically to avoid document cruft.
It looks to me that this guy just intended to take gloating picture of getting his new I-Mac, but wasn't sure at what point to stop unpacking it and start trying to get it to run.
Hmmm, do I have to take this green thing with all the little parts out of the white box too?
Slack's in the support car, with a pile of tires in its lap. Presented and accounted for, critical at the right moment, but not really interested in the whole race for market share.
Bah, pay no attention to him. He's looking at linux through corporate eyes.
The way I see it, the Linux distributions out there are members of a bicycling team. Each distro has a different role to play at any given time. Redhat starts a sprint to wear the competitors (create brand recognition). Debian stays back and steady in case RH crashes (to support the user base). Gentoo attacks on an uphill, pulls Debian (consolidates the lessons learned from other distros and helps them keep up). Suse and Mandrake offer protection to the contenders on the team (making commercial software vendors warm up to support Linux).
This guy just can't tell which team is winning, Linux or Microsoft. He's used to Microsoft's go-it-alone-one-gorilla-on-a-tricyle approach. So one of Linux' cyclists is gaining fast on his Gorilla, and the others seem to be holding back and doing completely different things.
So basically he's saying he's afraid of bicycles. Or something like that.
Yeah, I read Lance Armstrong's books over the past couple of days. So blame my analogy on him.
From the original post:
It isn't intentional ignorance, it is simply that we are in a huge country cut off off from Europe, Africa, and Asia by a lot of water. Proxmimity plays a major role. What goes on in the neighboring states is generally more relevent to the average American's life than what goes on in countries they will likely never come anywhere near.
I rest my case. You don't care about the details in Africa. Hell, even the neighboring states are of questionable impact on your life. So when you choose between political knowledge and COBOL, you intentionally choose COBOL and remain "ignorant" of the other information.
My point was people shouldn't choose between skills that employ them and understanding of the world around them. They should choose between that understanding and the spoon fed crap from the televisions and radios.
The names are the simplest part of the experience of getting hit by a tropical cyclone. It's minimum requirements for knowing what an impact it has on the country. So it is important, kinda like the first step on a long walk
And that's my point. A little work, and you now know it's in Africa. So the only reasons a person doesn't know things about other countries on other continents is of their own making.
Americans should collectively throw out their televisions and regain their lives.
It *is* intentional ignorance. The information is out there. The Internet exists. We can't hide behind the whole "cut off" crap any more. Hell, phone calls to India run about 6 cents per minute. Hell some of them are free, just call a support 800 number for Sallie Mae Loan Servicing.
Case and point: Name the last 3 tropical cyclones that Mexico and the rest of Central America have had to deal with. You can't can you, without looking it up. And they are our neighbors.
The real problem is there is profit in our isolation. Ignorant people can be controlled. Look at our school systems. 12 years of teaching and you can't immediately tell me where Djibouti is.
And as for neighboring states and their relevance: Get a sheet of paper, right down your neighboring states, then write down the names of their Representatives and Senators. Governors? Counties?
Sometimes, as an Open Source Software developer, I wonder if anyone out there is actually noticing the contributions I make to the software they're running.
Does somebody need a hug???? Come'er! We'll give you one, but it'll be sloppy, overwhelming, we'll argue the whole time we're giving it, and then we'll vanish.
Please, please please go back and read what I wrote. I said "can you seriously say you are in the right", not "you don't have the right". Everyone can complain about anything, but only some people are right^H^H^H^H^Hcorrect in doing so. And it's not just exchange of money. It's money, time, talent or retesting.
Like I said. If you continue reading by keyword ("right", "money", "complain"), I expect your next response to say it's ridiculous to suggest that all development projects be compensated in Pesetas!
Take another look; I'm not limiting the userbase to those who code. I said "if you have any time & talent". It doesn't take programming skills to retest, i.e., rerun the app and see if the problem is still there.
You might not like how the developer is behaving under the pressure, and you might complain, but can you seriously say you are in the right to do so, since you haven't paid him a Peseta to work on the project? If you don't have time yourself, and you won't pay him for the feature, try saying this to yourself, "I hope he takes care of it in the next release".
Promises are broken all the time. Sourceforge is full of stalled projects which would have been very beneficial. Most of them are from people who had good intentions.
And the STFU was directed to one person, so don't take it personally unless you are one in the same.
No, you're wrong on two fronts. First, the virus is working correctly by wrecking the machine, so my original response doesn't apply. Second, I didn't accept the virus, it was surrupticiously installed on my computer.
Stabbing me with a knife isn't the same as having a table of them and saying I can have one if I choose.
No, there is no double standard. You're looking at the wrong metric. Microsoft charges for their software. I've never in my life cut a check to X.Org (although I shall soon - and decide how much myself).
When a company charges for a product or service and it is defective, you try to return it, report the bug, and complain about the problem on discussion groups.
When a volunteer gives you a product for free and it is defective, you let the person know what's wrong, offer to retest it if they try to fix it, and if you have any time & talent to draw on, you offer to fix the problem and send in a patch. You NEVER, EVER complain. The worst you have the right to say is "I hope they take care of it in the next release".
Other than that, in response to your last sentence, on behalf of everyone whose ever given software away for free, STFU.
The last 30 years have defined modern terrorism for the US.
Terrorism is a symptom of something else. What might that be genius?
atheist or not practice any religion
You must work in the department of redundancy department.
Say, you wouldn't happen to be capable of figuring out *when* exactly it was discovered that the Middle East had such vast oil resources, would you? Oh, and when exactly was the first viable 4 stroke engine around to turn the vast resources into money? 1885, Daimler's 4 stroke engine. So the earliest it would have done them any good is 120 years nimrod, not 200. The patent fights in the West killed off all that time you silly twit. Now go google for middle-east oil discoveries. Probably slowed a bit by the West's tendency to send crusades their way.
And one last thing master-of-idiocy, how is it that not believing any religion is more common in the US for young people than anything, when the majority of young people in the US are Christian?
You sir, suck on all fronts. You are also obviously hallucinating about sheep given how you keep *coming* back to them. So head back to your farm and satisfy your withdrawals.
Yes shortsighted. The Jewish struggle to reclaim Palestine on behalf of their religious ancestors and Britains support of that by handing the land to them after the first world wars did more to create the problems of today then anything you can recall in your lifetime.
Yes flamebait. Your choice of words is obviously inflammatory. BTW, I'm an atheist, so no sheep here. You're thinking of the flock that surrounds me here in the states.
Yes braindead. I am keenly aware of more significant currents in the world than those you speak of. If you're going to declare the need for action, at least swim in the correct direction.
Yes deprived of the lessons of history. History isn't just the last 30 years. You need to look back at least to 1914. And the changes of the 50's. And the real reasons for the 2nd World War.
Yes reactively unintelligent. There is nothing liberal about me. I'm not a globalist, or a communist. I belong to no party. Never said we couldn't attack someone based on ethnicity.
And Darwin wasn't wrong you simpleton. Go crawl back in your own hole.