When this refrigerator sized chunk hits the ground and finally stops rolling, will it open and Indiana Jones falls out?
No, it won't open. It will emit a high-pitched noise near a group of monkeys, causing one of them to pick up a bone and start smashing things while stirring music plays. Sort of like a drummer in a band, only more intelligent.
It then beats up another group of monkeys. Hmmm, yeah, it's exactly like a drummer in a band...
Look at it this way. Your country doesn't have to maintain expensive scientific research centres. You have outsourced your research to America, and made them pick up the tab.
Do you think that they are subtly hinting that downloading free software ("piracy, open source - it's all the same") is "damaging to software innovation"?
They are using the same language of "piracy" as they have done for Open Source and (especially) the GPL: it limits their ability to "innovate" (embrace, extend and extinguish). This is possibly setting the scene to link the two in the minds of ill-informed people like legislators, managers and the general public (in no particular order).
"Piracy" and FOSS are both threats to Microsoft. One is illegal and the other perfectly legal and legitimate. But Microsoft would love to see them linked, and to have FOSS tarred with the brush of "illegal, illegitimate".
My problem with CVS is that I keep confusing it with CSV.
So when discussing file formats I can never remember which acronym I should be using, and keep referring to CSV data files as CVS. Age does that to you.
Git, on the other hand, would distract me with thoughts of the "stupid gits" using it. And bzr just makes me think "bizarre".
Mercurial sounds exotic, engimatic. Maybe I'll upgrade to that.
Slashdot - where some stupid git will subvert the conversation by advising you to choose a SCM based on how bizarre the name is.
The question is not whether comparable PCs cost as much as the Mac.
The question is, does a comparable Mac even exist for a cheap PC.
I can get a usable brand new desktop system unit for about AU$500-600. The Mac Mini, which is less powerful than these, costs about AU$850 for the simplest configuration, and more than AU$1000 for anything decent by way of hard disk space, RAM, and GHz.
Rolls Royces may be wonderful value for money, for all I know. But I don't *need* anything that expensive (and cannot afford it). Same with Macs. They are too expensive when I can get a good enough PC for a much lower price.
Did the people of Shakespeare's time dream in iambic pentameter?
Well, yeah.
Didn't you ever watch Romeo and Juliet? Mercutio has this dream about some fairy and that was all in iambic pentameters.
It would be kind of cool to dream in poetry. I bet it would work a treat for picking up chicks. Though if they were in bed listening to you recite poetry in your sleep I'd reckon you would have made it past the pickup stage.
I don't remember many dreams, but one of the very few that I remember from my childhood and teen years (B&W TV era) was in vivid colour. It involved a lavish ballroom that would have done the Versailles Palace proud.
I am so sick of reading these tech articles with an anti-MS bias to them.
As a developer, isn't the point to write better/more robust code??
No. The point is to avoid market lock-in and stop abusive monopoly from *spreading further*.
If you ignore the politics of the market, you will eventually have no choice of technology. So while you are busy just wanting to look at the technology, Microsoft is busy trying to restrict your choice of technology. If you don't value your freedom, you *will* lose it unless others less blinkered fight the battle for you.
"Why can't our customer base be willing to pay so much for so little?"
Presumably it is the lack of competition in America. Monopoly capitalism can easily lead to higher prices.
In Australia, I can easily choose between several dozen ISPs that service my suburb on the outskirts of Sydney. Their prices for similar services are quite varied (you can buy anywhere from "budget" to "luxury" level of service, depending on your needs and cash flow).
If I don't like one ISP, I can switch to another. Switching ISPs is so common here that the ISPs have set up a system called "fast churn" to enable users to switch quickly. The idea is that you are only offline for about an hour while the telco switches your phone line over to the new ISP.
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When this refrigerator sized chunk hits the ground and finally stops rolling, will it open and Indiana Jones falls out?
No, it won't open. It will emit a high-pitched noise near a group of monkeys, causing one of them to pick up a bone and start smashing things while stirring music plays. Sort of like a drummer in a band, only more intelligent.
It then beats up another group of monkeys. Hmmm, yeah, it's exactly like a drummer in a band...
Look at it this way. Your country doesn't have to maintain expensive scientific research centres. You have outsourced your research to America, and made them pick up the tab.
Then you can steal the results back.
You are getting the good end of the deal.
I, for one, Welcome our new Robotic Overlords.
Hmm. They might be robotic overladies!
At last, a business plan with no ??? step:
1. build a $1billion electric charging grid.
2. charge each customer $1billion to charge their vehicles
3. get two customers
4. profit!!!!!
Can't lose.
All memory of Goatse could be erased! That has to count for SOMETHING.
Provided it was done to the Goatse website administrator.
Perhaps its already happening and no one remembers?
I forgot. What did you post?
The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there
Sort of like an old folks home.
Do you think that they are subtly hinting that downloading free software ("piracy, open source - it's all the same") is "damaging to software innovation"?
They are using the same language of "piracy" as they have done for Open Source and (especially) the GPL: it limits their ability to "innovate" (embrace, extend and extinguish). This is possibly setting the scene to link the two in the minds of ill-informed people like legislators, managers and the general public (in no particular order).
"Piracy" and FOSS are both threats to Microsoft. One is illegal and the other perfectly legal and legitimate. But Microsoft would love to see them linked, and to have FOSS tarred with the brush of "illegal, illegitimate".
My problem with CVS is that I keep confusing it with CSV.
So when discussing file formats I can never remember which acronym I should be using, and keep referring to CSV data files as CVS. Age does that to you.
Git, on the other hand, would distract me with thoughts of the "stupid gits" using it. And bzr just makes me think "bizarre".
Mercurial sounds exotic, engimatic. Maybe I'll upgrade to that.
Slashdot - where some stupid git will subvert the conversation by advising you to choose a SCM based on how bizarre the name is.
I can honestly say that I have no preference of one over the other; having only just heard of them both by the OP.
What? You've never heard anyone tell you you're a git? Or that your relationships at the office are tantamount to subversion of the management?
And clearly (to answer the OP) it is better to engage in subversion than be a git - it shows you have intelligence.
The question is not whether comparable PCs cost as much as the Mac.
The question is, does a comparable Mac even exist for a cheap PC.
I can get a usable brand new desktop system unit for about AU$500-600. The Mac Mini, which is less powerful than these, costs about AU$850 for the simplest configuration, and more than AU$1000 for anything decent by way of hard disk space, RAM, and GHz.
Rolls Royces may be wonderful value for money, for all I know. But I don't *need* anything that expensive (and cannot afford it). Same with Macs. They are too expensive when I can get a good enough PC for a much lower price.
I misread this as
the color leaches out of your dreams along with rope
I certainly hope it is just you.
Did the people of Shakespeare's time dream in iambic pentameter?
Well, yeah.
Didn't you ever watch Romeo and Juliet? Mercutio has this dream about some fairy and that was all in iambic pentameters.
It would be kind of cool to dream in poetry. I bet it would work a treat for picking up chicks. Though if they were in bed listening to you recite poetry in your sleep I'd reckon you would have made it past the pickup stage.
I don't remember many dreams, but one of the very few that I remember from my childhood and teen years (B&W TV era) was in vivid colour. It involved a lavish ballroom that would have done the Versailles Palace proud.
That had to be "shown" in colour!
I find the theory that the universe and earth are fine tuned for life on this planet a ludicrous example of rectal/cranial inversion.
Well, if the mouth didn't exist, the rectum would not be able to excrete anything. So it is a very good thing that we have a mouth.
So I'd say the mouth was fine tuned for the functioning of the rectum.
What they don't tell you is what the computer did *after* it had spent 11 hours listening to a teenage girl.
I suspect it ran screaming into the night.
I still use Debian Sarge on my current server.
Bad idea. Support for Sarge ended in April, so you haven't been getting any security updates since then, and there are some known weaknesses.
You should upgrade to Etch, ASAP.
Look, just get his IP address and do it for him.
I am so sick of reading these tech articles with an anti-MS bias to them.
As a developer, isn't the point to write better/more robust code??
No. The point is to avoid market lock-in and stop abusive monopoly from *spreading further*.
If you ignore the politics of the market, you will eventually have no choice of technology. So while you are busy just wanting to look at the technology, Microsoft is busy trying to restrict your choice of technology. If you don't value your freedom, you *will* lose it unless others less blinkered fight the battle for you.
I also trust Adobe not to be Microsoft far more than I trust Microsoft not to be Microsoft.
We need competition - not an abusive monopolist with *even more* market power.
I don't care how good Silverlight is, Microsoft must be split up before it is even safe to think about such technology in their hands.
Forget the technology folks, this is ALL about market power.
100 PRINT "Are you really thinking?"
200 PRINT
300 PRINT "Prove it."
400 END
There. I have successfully replaced you with a computer program.
That was easy.
Mind you, it has no bearing whatsoever on the issue. But it was fun. And that is the important thing.
Try taking your watch *off* before you get into the shower.
Interestingly, the wikipedia article only mentions Kernighan for AWK and ditroff. It doesn't even mention that other language that he's known for.
What? Did he invent B?
Not if the last person alive busts him/herself for growing and using marihuana!
So you favour a Meraki-style mesh network?
"Why can't our customer base be willing to pay so much for so little?"
Presumably it is the lack of competition in America. Monopoly capitalism can easily lead to higher prices.
In Australia, I can easily choose between several dozen ISPs that service my suburb on the outskirts of Sydney. Their prices for similar services are quite varied (you can buy anywhere from "budget" to "luxury" level of service, depending on your needs and cash flow).
If I don't like one ISP, I can switch to another. Switching ISPs is so common here that the ISPs have set up a system called "fast churn" to enable users to switch quickly. The idea is that you are only offline for about an hour while the telco switches your phone line over to the new ISP.