what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)
Beause the GPL is exactly the sort of bedtime reading that every 4 1/2 year old wants to hear.
But the rise of fundamentalist Islam in an area that was quite liberal up until about 50 years ago is a result of the west's and particularly the United States intervention in the area. Three things in particular have contributed to this rise:
1. The creation and support of the state of Israel: when Israel was created in 1947 it was done with no regard or consultation of the indigineous population of the region. And the fact is that Israel has been quite belligerent with its neighbours knowing that it can depend on the U.S. to protect it no matter what. 2. The imposition and support of oppressive regimes in the rest of the region: the house of Saud in Saudi Arabia, the Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran, Saddam Hussein in Iran, the Muhammad Ali dynasty in Egypt, etc. 3. The direct support of fundamentalist groups during the cold war in the (possibly mistaken) belief that they were required to ensure that the region did not become communist.
Some of them hate us becasue we are free. Most of them hate us becasue we won't leave them alone.
I had to go to the website's ISP, get the webpage on paper tape, take it back to the computer room, type in the binary codes using only the 1's and 0's on a teletype machine and then read the content from the blinking lights on the front of a PDP-8/E. And when we were finished, the sysadmin would kill us and dance on our graves singing Hallelujah.
They turned to posts which were basically just flamebait, often untrue and contradicting factually the linked sources they gave. I didn't leave, just visited less.
So if you left that site becuase of the above reasons, what are you doing within 100 miles of Slashdot?
And why should they care about being XHTML compliant? Do you think that if you wrote a competitor to YouTube that would be a good advertising slogan? Like it or not, customers don't really care if a website is standards compliant. They just want to see movies.
In the early 90's, the dominant word processor was not MS-Word, it was WordPerfect. They lost their monopoly in word processors by their own missteps (mostly a really bad port to Windows). Microsoft was able to pick up that market not by being standards compliant but instead by offering a superior upgrade path from WordPerfect.
I'm thinking that standards compliance to help developers is probably not on the list of reasons the EU is deciding to go after Microsoft. The major reason they are doing this on behalf of Opera (as opposed to Firefox or Chrome) is that Opera is an EU corporation.
Microsoft didn't destry Netscape. Netscape destroyed Netscape. The gap between Netscape 4.0 and Netscape 6.0 (and there wasn't a 5.0) was about four years. That's what killed Netscape. Microsoft may have taken advantage of the situation but Netscape's demise was self-inflicted.
How do you monitor what your children do online? That is the equivalent of trying to keep track of everyone that your children associate with, everywhere that they go with their friends, everything that they say, etc. It is just not possible to do that, and it never was.
You could try raising them properly, instilling proper values, ensuring there are open lines of communication; you know, try parenting. As for specifically how to stop them from surfing porn on the internet, take the computer out of their room and put it in the living room (or whatever room you habitually hang out in). And make sure the screen is facing out into the room. That way if the little bugger is surfing porn, you can enjoy it too;)
The algorithm for Google PageRank is based on the concept of citations from academia. If I remember correctly, the software was originally meant only to index academic papers and eventually grew to index the whole internet. So its not surprising that it predicts winners so well (depending on how much the Nobel committee weights citations in their decisions).
Just because you don't use a feature directly does not mean that you don't need the feature. If, as you say, the software that you run needs a specific feature then you need that feature.
So other than the keybords it cost almost $10,000 to take down a few pieces of paper with nasty messages on them? Does the price go up just because they use a few four-letter words?
Because that superstar gay propgrammer who currently lives somewhere where gay marriage is legal might not want to move to California. Heck I'm straight (as much as that matters for someone who hangs out on Slashdot) and I'm not sure I'd want to move to some backwater that was so reactionary as to not allow gay marriage.
But on Slashdot insults directed towards Microsoft are always considered insightful. It doesn't matter if they're demonstrably false. Hell it doesn't matter if they're true but a good thing (Bill Gates is the devil because he feeds starving children in Africa).
Because having a bunch of people buying televisions made in China, cars made in Japan and taking vacations in Mexico is going to help the American economy how?
In the mean time, Social Security payments will also have to stop. All government employees will have to take a two month unpaid leave. In fact all government spending will have to stop. That would probably have some effect on the economy but I can't figure what it would be.
The big difference is that, right or wrong, Jobs is still perceived as being the driving force behind innovation at Apple, especially at the detail level. To the public at least, Bill Gates was pulling away from that role since the mid-90s. It was a slow devolution instead of a sudden stop. Do we really believe that Jobs can continue to run Apple until 2024 when he's 69 years old? And that's assuming that he starts moving away from being a hands on micro-manager today which may be constitutionally impossible for him.
The fact that his predictions were true even though he didn't take 9/11 into account just goes to show that the security theatre we've been enduring for the past eight years really has nothing to do with security and is merely a government power grab.
Most companies when faced with having to do layoffs offer buyouts. Those most likely to take a buyout package will be those who can easily find another job. Therefore most companies ending up culling the top 10-20%. From what I've heard (and I have no inside information on this) Microsoft is going to be doing targeted layoffs to counter the effect of the hiring binge they've been on for a few years now.
If you look at the blogs of some of the microsoft employees, Microsoft isn't just using the recession to cut unprofitable product lines, they're also using it to cut people who maybe shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Specifically, layoffs are being used as a way of culling the bottom 10 or 20% of performers in order to improve the overall performance of the company.
Thaty's funny because of all of my clients, the only ones I know of who are even thinking about the Linux desktop are software companies. For other companies its not even on the radar (unless you include the junior tech support guy with no decision making power who nobody takes seriously because he write memos about Linux to the CIO with the salutation "Hey d00d")
I don't think that you and I have the same definition of innovation. Unless your company is creating new protocols and products that compete with the ones that you've mentioned, they're not really innovating in this space. They're using the tools that are available to them (or perhaps not using the tools as you seem to indicate).
If you want to know whether or not you're company is innovating, look at their core business. If it's a manufacturing company are the products you sell an improvement over last years products in a new and substantial way? Does a financial services have new ways of investing or protecting your money (and there will probably be a lot of those in the next little while aimed at protecting investments)? These are where companies are and need to be innovating. There is a whole world out there beyond your computer screen where people are doing things that have nothing to do with information technology but are still innovative. And most of these people are working in large enterprises.
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Of course. Because it's sop much fun to have 6 to 8 of your closest friends crowding around your iPhone all using it at the same time... Oh wait...
what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)
Beause the GPL is exactly the sort of bedtime reading that every 4 1/2 year old wants to hear.
But the rise of fundamentalist Islam in an area that was quite liberal up until about 50 years ago is a result of the west's and particularly the United States intervention in the area. Three things in particular have contributed to this rise:
1. The creation and support of the state of Israel: when Israel was created in 1947 it was done with no regard or consultation of the indigineous population of the region. And the fact is that Israel has been quite belligerent with its neighbours knowing that it can depend on the U.S. to protect it no matter what.
2. The imposition and support of oppressive regimes in the rest of the region: the house of Saud in Saudi Arabia, the Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran, Saddam Hussein in Iran, the Muhammad Ali dynasty in Egypt, etc.
3. The direct support of fundamentalist groups during the cold war in the (possibly mistaken) belief that they were required to ensure that the region did not become communist.
Some of them hate us becasue we are free. Most of them hate us becasue we won't leave them alone.
Right.
I had to go to the website's ISP, get the webpage on paper tape, take it back to the computer room, type in the binary codes using only the 1's and 0's on a teletype machine and then read the content from the blinking lights on the front of a PDP-8/E. And when we were finished, the sysadmin would kill us and dance on our graves singing Hallelujah.
So if you left that site becuase of the above reasons, what are you doing within 100 miles of Slashdot?
Mosaic? Are you kidding?
The only browser that should be allowed is Lynx!!
Do you really want to live in a city designed by a bunch of fifteen year olds whose idea of a great city is lifted from World of Warcraft?
And why should they care about being XHTML compliant? Do you think that if you wrote a competitor to YouTube that would be a good advertising slogan? Like it or not, customers don't really care if a website is standards compliant. They just want to see movies.
In the early 90's, the dominant word processor was not MS-Word, it was WordPerfect. They lost their monopoly in word processors by their own missteps (mostly a really bad port to Windows). Microsoft was able to pick up that market not by being standards compliant but instead by offering a superior upgrade path from WordPerfect.
I'm thinking that standards compliance to help developers is probably not on the list of reasons the EU is deciding to go after Microsoft. The major reason they are doing this on behalf of Opera (as opposed to Firefox or Chrome) is that Opera is an EU corporation.
Microsoft didn't destry Netscape. Netscape destroyed Netscape. The gap between Netscape 4.0 and Netscape 6.0 (and there wasn't a 5.0) was about four years. That's what killed Netscape. Microsoft may have taken advantage of the situation but Netscape's demise was self-inflicted.
I think you're confusing Microsoft with Google.
You could try raising them properly, instilling proper values, ensuring there are open lines of communication; you know, try parenting. As for specifically how to stop them from surfing porn on the internet, take the computer out of their room and put it in the living room (or whatever room you habitually hang out in). And make sure the screen is facing out into the room. That way if the little bugger is surfing porn, you can enjoy it too ;)
The algorithm for Google PageRank is based on the concept of citations from academia. If I remember correctly, the software was originally meant only to index academic papers and eventually grew to index the whole internet. So its not surprising that it predicts winners so well (depending on how much the Nobel committee weights citations in their decisions).
Just because you don't use a feature directly does not mean that you don't need the feature. If, as you say, the software that you run needs a specific feature then you need that feature.
So other than the keybords it cost almost $10,000 to take down a few pieces of paper with nasty messages on them? Does the price go up just because they use a few four-letter words?
Because that superstar gay propgrammer who currently lives somewhere where gay marriage is legal might not want to move to California. Heck I'm straight (as much as that matters for someone who hangs out on Slashdot) and I'm not sure I'd want to move to some backwater that was so reactionary as to not allow gay marriage.
But on Slashdot insults directed towards Microsoft are always considered insightful. It doesn't matter if they're demonstrably false. Hell it doesn't matter if they're true but a good thing (Bill Gates is the devil because he feeds starving children in Africa).
I don't think SCO will die in 2009. Perhaps a better assessment would be "finally realize they died years ago".
Because having a bunch of people buying televisions made in China, cars made in Japan and taking vacations in Mexico is going to help the American economy how?
In the mean time, Social Security payments will also have to stop. All government employees will have to take a two month unpaid leave. In fact all government spending will have to stop. That would probably have some effect on the economy but I can't figure what it would be.
The big difference is that, right or wrong, Jobs is still perceived as being the driving force behind innovation at Apple, especially at the detail level. To the public at least, Bill Gates was pulling away from that role since the mid-90s. It was a slow devolution instead of a sudden stop. Do we really believe that Jobs can continue to run Apple until 2024 when he's 69 years old? And that's assuming that he starts moving away from being a hands on micro-manager today which may be constitutionally impossible for him.
The fact that his predictions were true even though he didn't take 9/11 into account just goes to show that the security theatre we've been enduring for the past eight years really has nothing to do with security and is merely a government power grab.
Not really.
Most companies when faced with having to do layoffs offer buyouts. Those most likely to take a buyout package will be those who can easily find another job. Therefore most companies ending up culling the top 10-20%. From what I've heard (and I have no inside information on this) Microsoft is going to be doing targeted layoffs to counter the effect of the hiring binge they've been on for a few years now.
If you look at the blogs of some of the microsoft employees, Microsoft isn't just using the recession to cut unprofitable product lines, they're also using it to cut people who maybe shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Specifically, layoffs are being used as a way of culling the bottom 10 or 20% of performers in order to improve the overall performance of the company.
Thaty's funny because of all of my clients, the only ones I know of who are even thinking about the Linux desktop are software companies. For other companies its not even on the radar (unless you include the junior tech support guy with no decision making power who nobody takes seriously because he write memos about Linux to the CIO with the salutation "Hey d00d")
I don't think that you and I have the same definition of innovation. Unless your company is creating new protocols and products that compete with the ones that you've mentioned, they're not really innovating in this space. They're using the tools that are available to them (or perhaps not using the tools as you seem to indicate).
If you want to know whether or not you're company is innovating, look at their core business. If it's a manufacturing company are the products you sell an improvement over last years products in a new and substantial way? Does a financial services have new ways of investing or protecting your money (and there will probably be a lot of those in the next little while aimed at protecting investments)? These are where companies are and need to be innovating. There is a whole world out there beyond your computer screen where people are doing things that have nothing to do with information technology but are still innovative. And most of these people are working in large enterprises.