I was having fun trying to spin the non-commercial use clause on its head until your last paragraph. Unless the purchaser of the program you're selling uses the program for non-commercial use, they're violating the license. So you would only be passing on the crime to your clients.
If your clients only use the code for non-commercial uses, then you could sell them the code and let them compile it. But then you wouldn't have many clients. Companies can write-off the purchase of your code if they use it commercially, but otherwise not.
The only thing Rotor offers is the savings in not having to buy Windows Server 2002 or whatever. And that might not be a savings if Rotor is less featured or stable than the Windows version.
I admire your dauntless openness in posting on Slashdot; it's not easy for free software supporters a lot of the time. That is, unless you're a troll, in which case, you're a really good troll.
However, I urge everyone to consider what.Net/Rotor offers and think about the baggage that comes with it. Like any big company, Microsoft is a many-headed monster, and MS is the biggest. So while David Stutz might be a nice one, realize that you have to deal with all of them.
After compilation, CLI offers no advantages. So CLI is really only useful in Visual Studio, which Microsoft knows is successful because it offers programmers a CONTROLLED (and in the case of CLI, NEUTERED) environment. It puts programmers in their place--at the mercy of the OS (or Rotor on top of an OS). That's a comforting feeling until you want to do something that's not supported or doesn't work well. It's the same problem as Java. This is where Python, Ruby, Lisp, even Perl, C++, and C show their merits.
There are only two groups that.NET really benefits: Microsoft coders (ie. David Stutz) and lazy, stupid software developers. That's my problem with Miguel de Icaza's love of.NET: I can see why he likes it, but I still can't see why I should.
We need innovation, not amalgamation. We need new features and a proliferation of languages, not loss of features and one language.
What's fascinating to me is the dichotomy between how saavy/canny these lawyers are about the technological aspects of the case and their utter denial of basic facts-on-the-ground. In other words, each response includes both a legal rebuttal of the complaints that shows an understanding of the case, and then an aside that dismisses the complaints on other, non-legal grounds that are so pro-Microsoft that I it's hard to imagine anyone with a shred of objectivity writing them.
The final comment (23) is valid as of today (ie. Mozilla, iCab, etc. are as good as IE), but is (purposefully?) lacking in hindsight/forsight. If MS can finally pull of the browser lock-in they have tried before (ActiveX,Windows Media, noncompliant DOM) with.NET/CLR, then the importance of source will become paramount. And don't give me shit that Konqueror can handle ActiveX. I still can't watch streaming ASF videos from hollywoodandvine.com. Of course, if some haughty bastard wants to show me up by explaining how to do it, I will happily eat crow.:)
Bowel humor aside, only someone with a lot of Microsoft stock could see that settlement as fair. BeOS was never going to take over any desktop share, but they were trying to find a niche as an Internet Appliance OS. While they blew that, too, it was obvious they were scared shitless having MS chase them down in a second market on a second platform. I don't think even they saw how cutthroat MS is toward any threat, however nacent. Of course, this was exactly the lesson to be gained from OS/2, Netscape, etc. As long as Be didn't try to do anything that might catch on, MS was willing to let them stick around. But as soon as they tried to beat MS to a new market, the hammer came down. BTW, where is that MS webpad that showed up in Newsweek right when Be, Inc. & others were trying to get the IA market going? Oh, that's right, there is no market until MS says there is, and that's just the way it's going to be from now on.
Who +2ed this asshole. This is a total troll. I had almost the exact same hardware (I actually have a far more obscure motherboard) and BeOS (4.5!) worked great. Unless someone/anyone gives some specifics in their post, who would accept that as credible? This person is either a complete moron, or they are lying through their ass. There is no problem with BeOS and any of that hardware.
I'd so much rather have people post Taco-snot trolls & ascii art than lie like pieces of shit. Actually, sometimes I wish I could filter out all posts except +5 and -1. Of course, none of my own posts would be included, but I could fix that pretty quickly.
I doubt WindowsME was designed with any intention to kill Be. The BeOS was already dead when Be released the Personal Edition, although I'm not sure anybody knew that at the time. But the BeOS had a wonderful bootloader called BootMan, which made Lilo look like the piece o' crap that it is. The problem with ME is that BeOS PE installed (by default) to a "partition" within the fat32 partition (basically a big file of BeOS file format). It did the same thing in Linux. But it had to reboot, and there was something about ME that wouldn't let PE dump DOS/Windows & reboot. Sorry, I've had my daily two glasses of wine, and I'm not at the top of my game. I still think M$ killed any chance of there being a nacent Internet appliance market because they weren't ready to enter it yet. Hence the NewsWeek article on the future M$ webpad right in the middle of the IA infancy--a product we won't see in the market for years.
You might want to try netselect to find the nearest package mirror. The man page for apt-get goes over all the features. I find the much-touted 'apt-get update' -> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to be overkill. For one thing, some packages haven't been put together or mirrored everywhere yet. The ease of apt-get can be deceiving, too. The Mozilla maintainer (Takuo Kitame) split out some of the extra goodies (ie. DOMInspector, JavaScript debugger, etc.) into separate packages, which took me a few days to figure out. Vaya con Dios!
Why use an unordered list for a one-line sig? No-offense. Also, is Tier Networking OpenSRS?
Just to bring this back on topic, I have been trying to get RHIDE running under Debian dosemu+freedos for weeks, and it can't read the filesystem at all. I wanted to use DJGPP to see the differences from GCC. No love.
You are really not doing any good with that attitude. What do you think all the monks said after Gutenberg invented the printing press? I'd imagine it was something like, "Oh, those ugly little books are so shoddy, and they're downright illegible." I don't count my books, but I've got enough already to keep me busy until the day I die. OTOH, I really like e-books. Your disdain might lie in your aesthetics. Because while e-books as objects aren't compelling (they are virtual and intangible), the format works well. After initially being put off by the idea, I've found that I'm a much more efficient reader of an e-book than of the bound version. HTML kicks ass for presenting content. I can read then entire book as one page if I want, and a hyperlinked index is better than anything a printed book can offer.
This works amazingly well with laberinthian computer books. I zoomed through the 900+ page JavaScript Rhino book, whereas the sheer density of the bound version put me off. Granted, that's not pleasure reading, and it is more than a convenience having a browser available while reading about JavaScript. Still, I have read several literary classics on my Palm (Frankenstein, some Mark Twain stuff). Have you even looked at Project Gutenberg? Why, there are six entries for Proust. Can you still not imagine it? I downloaded the complete works of Mark Twain (702K!!! ~25MB unzipped!!). I discovered a lot of material I had never heard of before (Hilarious stuff like "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"), and I have two huge sets (25+ volumes) of Twain's work! So you do disservice both to literature and the WWW with your comment.
Here's the problem: non-indexed PDF and PostScript e-books. This is so not the way to go. These are far inferior to printed books. Some of the e-books I have are PDFs pirated from the publishing industry, before the books had even been properly edited. Also, a fucking text file is a more flexible version than PDF and PS. Then again, I use xpdf and gv, which may lack some 'Find' feature that Adobe or other viewers might have. But I really love Safari. I just wish you could download them, and that they wouldn't try to pad their selections with multiple editions of the same book, outdated books, other crap, etc.
Also, why would Hemingway work & not Faulkner or Melville? It took me months to read Moby Dick, and it sucked to keep having to return it to the library and check it out again. Melville would love the Web, with all of his little digressions.
Your baseball card analogy is only valid in the current era of late Capitalism. Those cards weren't worth sh!t 100 years ago, all kids could do was read the stats. Oddly enough, if you extract the children from Capitalism they do quite nicely. I know parents, uber-Bohemian Harvard types, who wouldn't buy their 8-year-old baseball cards. So he used Photoshop to create his own, which he then traded with his friends. Of course, that's Communist nonsense when the people own the means of production!
It's right here in Newsweek! George Will influencing Bush II! That is the funniest thing I've heard wrt George Will, and my family has a long habit of joking about him. Hell, last week George Will was reviewing _A Beautiful Mind_. Do you think the POTUS should propose more funding for mental health care?
George Will, William Safire, and William F.Buckley are probably the most prominent conservative editorialists. They all know how to turn a phrase beautifully, but their talent is inextricably intertwined with the partisanship. Enron associates such horrible guilt with Washington, especially Bush, that the only response is for them to yell LOUDEST about how horrible it is. That is all George Will is doing. He would still be defending them if the company had managed to escape bankruptcy.
Our capitalist economy formed by eroding the Founding Fathers ideals for the USA. Remember the Boston Tea Party? That's what they thought of monopolies back then. Bush II has already played its hand in the Microsoft case, what the hell do you think they could do now anyway?
I read Bruce Eckel's explanation in Thinking in Java. He shows that inner classes allow for multiple inheritance of implementations rather than just interfaces, while closures provide a means for callbacks. Somewhat of a hack job on both accounts, but if you can use them then it's a good thing.
Attacking you was pointless, but then so is your response. I didn't see many posts complaining about new Linux gamers, just the opposite. But there is a valid concern about gaining ground by emulating Windows. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
LVS: "Feel my sting, Jon."
JS: "It's hard to feel your sting, Lord Vipor, while you're adjusting your mask."
Microsoft tactlessly calling their marketing campaigns "jihads" OR TexasFury here ascribing that kind of offensiveness to the Linux community's ambivalence about improving gaming by hacking the Windows versions.
SNL's Will Ferrell's GWB: "Don't mess with Texas!"
Crap, I hate to get pedantic on myself, but I meant 680x0. First computer I ever saw Linux on was a 68040. I though my friend had ruined a perfectly good Mac. BTW, don't Palms run on 68000s? I might check out Palm Linux after all.
lowendmac.com has the most insight into this sort of thing, although he's still working with MacII & 68x000s, so it might take a while for the detailed info on OSX to come out. OTOH, he's always talking about his titanium powerbook (& how it's a bit off).
I'm anti-corporation because they foster the very polarity that you & I are experiencing (i.e., manager vs. programmer). So you've gained a position beyond programmer, and now you don't think like a programmer anymore. Programming is all about modes of failure. IOW, computers always fail, you just need to know how. That you blame this on script kiddies, crackers, etc. proves you don't understand this. Take the ILOVEYOU virus: Some kid in the Philipines hacks it & it propagates around the world. Is that the kid's fault of Microsoft's? I take it you would blame the kid. I'm not sifting through your old posts, but as for my bad experience: I left a group of consultants that incorporated and became so desperately greedy that they stole information from competitors in much the same way Brian West did, except with more malicious intent & therefore more discretion. This happens a lot, and the FBI _is_ making an example of Brian White--a bad example. Hell, I'm afraid that if my old company gets caught, they would gladly blame me or another young programmer, when it was the marketing bozos who orchestrated the crime.
Now i have an instruction for you.
An instruction! WTF, are you my manager now? The irony is that you don't phrase anything after this that can be construed as an instruction. Looks like you've made it to PHB.
Didn't Louis Freeh have more control over the FBI and ATF than Janet Reno? Freeh hated the entire Clinton administration, and went way out of his way to instigate investigations into Clinton. How these government figures and agencies interact is always difficult to discern, so, yes, please explain your understanding of it. The opacity of our government should be of great concern to all citizens, but few seem to care. Then again, maybe ignorance IS bliss (or at least oblivious contentment), because those people that do care and find out often commit suicide.
As a corporate IT manager ... Comment:- Im nobodys stooge - I have a mind of my own
Sorry, but your "I'm the adult here" gambit only proves you're somebody's stooge--you define yourself by your job, your class, and not as an individual. You may have a mind of your own, but all of your arguments are from a corporate viewpoint.
The analogy between a web site & a house is wrong and evil. The differences in use, purpose, structure, and value (real, not new economy) should make this obvious.
Now if you will excuse me one of the rottwielers is barking and i think another on[e] of those avon ladies is caught up in the barbed wire.
Your cutesy exit strategy is the classic "Oh, I made my BS argument, now I'll make a joke and go." You're more Corporate Manager than IT.
Good point, but there's a downside to that, too. If you read the tech journals & job boards, you'd think 7/10 jobs involved J2EE, which is overkill for at least 7/10 jobs out there. Also, in regard to DBs, the job boards make it seem like every company out there uses Oracle. I like Java & Oracle somewhat, but why are there so few jobs for anything else? Lesser M$ technologies are still prevalent, so what's going on with *nix? OTOH, despite all the media hype & astoturfing for.NUT, I don't know anyone working with C# or BizTalk yet. SQLServer2000, MSXML, VisualStudio--Yes. But I would like to stay away from those, too.
The Mary Jane issue is the real kicker. A story came out during his confirmation process about how his two nephews were caught growing (a ton of) pot in their house, and they somehow miraculously avoided any prison time. The reporter found somebody who had done 5-10 years for growing less pot than Ashcroft's kin, and the poor guy was mad as hell--but couldn't do anything about it. The same goes for the whole country, we just let him sit up there & do sh!t like this. Who the hell likes this guy? Oh, that's right, white Christian men. But that's got to be a small minority of the entire country. Reno had her problems (letting Clinton go hog wild in campaign financing; I don't blame her for Waco or Ruby Ridge, and IMHO she did the right thing for Elian Gonzalez), but she was hated much more than Ashcroft.
Wow, this is the same old BS I heard the day after Election Day. Have any of you Bush apologists read or thought about anything since then? The allegation that states quit counting ballots after enough of a margin is established to declare who won the state spread across the country right after Election Day. Every state government came out & said that they count all the ballots, regardless of who won the state. Now they did quit counting in Florida. They also didn't do anything to rectify the ~5,000,000 votes that might have been discarded across the country. But that's irrelevant, right? Move along, nothing to see here.
Where are all the Slashdot Libertarians? The majority of posters during last year's political fracas claimed to be Libertarians, but all the posts I'm reading are reactionary.
America hasn't felt this vulnerable since WWII, but the current politicians' answers are no different than they were in the paranoia of the 50s. There is no need for more massive intelligence, just better organization and focus of the current system.
The Boston Globe has an article showing that the US government knew terrorists were training in US flight schools from as early as 1990. The government just didn't guess what the terrorists might end up doing with their training. That's just plain dumb.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/nation/Off ic ials_aware_in_1998_of_trainingP.shtml
(take out the space)
The NYTimes has an editorial that explains how the Bush administration's requests for more unfettered intelligence is not necessary & won't help. Before all you reactionary types start complaining about the NYTimes being liberal, the editorial page editor is a conservative liked by Bush & William Safire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/opinion/17MON2 .h tml
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I was having fun trying to spin the non-commercial use clause on its head until your last paragraph. Unless the purchaser of the program you're selling uses the program for non-commercial use, they're violating the license. So you would only be passing on the crime to your clients.
If your clients only use the code for non-commercial uses, then you could sell them the code and let them compile it. But then you wouldn't have many clients. Companies can write-off the purchase of your code if they use it commercially, but otherwise not.
The only thing Rotor offers is the savings in not having to buy Windows Server 2002 or whatever. And that might not be a savings if Rotor is less featured or stable than the Windows version.
I admire your dauntless openness in posting on Slashdot; it's not easy for free software supporters a lot of the time. That is, unless you're a troll, in which case, you're a really good troll.
.Net/Rotor offers and think about the baggage that comes with it. Like any big company, Microsoft is a many-headed monster, and MS is the biggest. So while David Stutz might be a nice one, realize that you have to deal with all of them.
.NET really benefits: Microsoft coders (ie. David Stutz) and lazy, stupid software developers. That's my problem with Miguel de Icaza's love of .NET: I can see why he likes it, but I still can't see why I should.
However, I urge everyone to consider what
After compilation, CLI offers no advantages. So CLI is really only useful in Visual Studio, which Microsoft knows is successful because it offers programmers a CONTROLLED (and in the case of CLI, NEUTERED) environment. It puts programmers in their place--at the mercy of the OS (or Rotor on top of an OS). That's a comforting feeling until you want to do something that's not supported or doesn't work well. It's the same problem as Java. This is where Python, Ruby, Lisp, even Perl, C++, and C show their merits.
There are only two groups that
We need innovation, not amalgamation. We need new features and a proliferation of languages, not loss of features and one language.
What's fascinating to me is the dichotomy between how saavy/canny these lawyers are about the technological aspects of the case and their utter denial of basic facts-on-the-ground. In other words, each response includes both a legal rebuttal of the complaints that shows an understanding of the case, and then an aside that dismisses the complaints on other, non-legal grounds that are so pro-Microsoft that I it's hard to imagine anyone with a shred of objectivity writing them.
.NET/CLR, then the importance of source will become paramount. And don't give me shit that Konqueror can handle ActiveX. I still can't watch streaming ASF videos from hollywoodandvine.com. Of course, if some haughty bastard wants to show me up by explaining how to do it, I will happily eat crow.:)
The final comment (23) is valid as of today (ie. Mozilla, iCab, etc. are as good as IE), but is (purposefully?) lacking in hindsight/forsight. If MS can finally pull of the browser lock-in they have tried before (ActiveX,Windows Media, noncompliant DOM) with
Bowel humor aside, only someone with a lot of Microsoft stock could see that settlement as fair. BeOS was never going to take over any desktop share, but they were trying to find a niche as an Internet Appliance OS. While they blew that, too, it was obvious they were scared shitless having MS chase them down in a second market on a second platform. I don't think even they saw how cutthroat MS is toward any threat, however nacent. Of course, this was exactly the lesson to be gained from OS/2, Netscape, etc. As long as Be didn't try to do anything that might catch on, MS was willing to let them stick around. But as soon as they tried to beat MS to a new market, the hammer came down. BTW, where is that MS webpad that showed up in Newsweek right when Be, Inc. & others were trying to get the IA market going? Oh, that's right, there is no market until MS says there is, and that's just the way it's going to be from now on.
Who +2ed this asshole. This is a total troll. I had almost the exact same hardware (I actually have a far more obscure motherboard) and BeOS (4.5!) worked great. Unless someone/anyone gives some specifics in their post, who would accept that as credible? This person is either a complete moron, or they are lying through their ass. There is no problem with BeOS and any of that hardware.
I'd so much rather have people post Taco-snot trolls & ascii art than lie like pieces of shit. Actually, sometimes I wish I could filter out all posts except +5 and -1. Of course, none of my own posts would be included, but I could fix that pretty quickly.
I doubt WindowsME was designed with any intention to kill Be. The BeOS was already dead when Be released the Personal Edition, although I'm not sure anybody knew that at the time. But the BeOS had a wonderful bootloader called BootMan, which made Lilo look like the piece o' crap that it is. The problem with ME is that BeOS PE installed (by default) to a "partition" within the fat32 partition (basically a big file of BeOS file format). It did the same thing in Linux. But it had to reboot, and there was something about ME that wouldn't let PE dump DOS/Windows & reboot. Sorry, I've had my daily two glasses of wine, and I'm not at the top of my game. I still think M$ killed any chance of there being a nacent Internet appliance market because they weren't ready to enter it yet. Hence the NewsWeek article on the future M$ webpad right in the middle of the IA infancy--a product we won't see in the market for years.
You might want to try netselect to find the nearest package mirror. The man page for apt-get goes over all the features. I find the much-touted 'apt-get update' -> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to be overkill. For one thing, some packages haven't been put together or mirrored everywhere yet. The ease of apt-get can be deceiving, too. The Mozilla maintainer (Takuo Kitame) split out some of the extra goodies (ie. DOMInspector, JavaScript debugger, etc.) into separate packages, which took me a few days to figure out. Vaya con Dios!
Why use an unordered list for a one-line sig? No-offense. Also, is Tier Networking OpenSRS?
Just to bring this back on topic, I have been trying to get RHIDE running under Debian dosemu+freedos for weeks, and it can't read the filesystem at all. I wanted to use DJGPP to see the differences from GCC. No love.
You are really not doing any good with that attitude. What do you think all the monks said after Gutenberg invented the printing press? I'd imagine it was something like, "Oh, those ugly little books are so shoddy, and they're downright illegible." I don't count my books, but I've got enough already to keep me busy until the day I die. OTOH, I really like e-books. Your disdain might lie in your aesthetics. Because while e-books as objects aren't compelling (they are virtual and intangible), the format works well. After initially being put off by the idea, I've found that I'm a much more efficient reader of an e-book than of the bound version. HTML kicks ass for presenting content. I can read then entire book as one page if I want, and a hyperlinked index is better than anything a printed book can offer.
This works amazingly well with laberinthian computer books. I zoomed through the 900+ page JavaScript Rhino book, whereas the sheer density of the bound version put me off. Granted, that's not pleasure reading, and it is more than a convenience having a browser available while reading about JavaScript. Still, I have read several literary classics on my Palm (Frankenstein, some Mark Twain stuff). Have you even looked at Project Gutenberg? Why, there are six entries for Proust. Can you still not imagine it? I downloaded the complete works of Mark Twain (702K!!! ~25MB unzipped!!). I discovered a lot of material I had never heard of before (Hilarious stuff like "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"), and I have two huge sets (25+ volumes) of Twain's work! So you do disservice both to literature and the WWW with your comment.
Here's the problem: non-indexed PDF and PostScript e-books. This is so not the way to go. These are far inferior to printed books. Some of the e-books I have are PDFs pirated from the publishing industry, before the books had even been properly edited. Also, a fucking text file is a more flexible version than PDF and PS. Then again, I use xpdf and gv, which may lack some 'Find' feature that Adobe or other viewers might have. But I really love Safari. I just wish you could download them, and that they wouldn't try to pad their selections with multiple editions of the same book, outdated books, other crap, etc.
Also, why would Hemingway work & not Faulkner or Melville? It took me months to read Moby Dick, and it sucked to keep having to return it to the library and check it out again. Melville would love the Web, with all of his little digressions.
Your baseball card analogy is only valid in the current era of late Capitalism. Those cards weren't worth sh!t 100 years ago, all kids could do was read the stats. Oddly enough, if you extract the children from Capitalism they do quite nicely. I know parents, uber-Bohemian Harvard types, who wouldn't buy their 8-year-old baseball cards. So he used Photoshop to create his own, which he then traded with his friends. Of course, that's Communist nonsense when the people own the means of production!
It's right here in Newsweek! George Will influencing Bush II! That is the funniest thing I've heard wrt George Will, and my family has a long habit of joking about him. Hell, last week George Will was reviewing _A Beautiful Mind_. Do you think the POTUS should propose more funding for mental health care?
George Will, William Safire, and William F.Buckley are probably the most prominent conservative editorialists. They all know how to turn a phrase beautifully, but their talent is inextricably intertwined with the partisanship. Enron associates such horrible guilt with Washington, especially Bush, that the only response is for them to yell LOUDEST about how horrible it is. That is all George Will is doing. He would still be defending them if the company had managed to escape bankruptcy.
Our capitalist economy formed by eroding the Founding Fathers ideals for the USA. Remember the Boston Tea Party? That's what they thought of monopolies back then. Bush II has already played its hand in the Microsoft case, what the hell do you think they could do now anyway?
I read Bruce Eckel's explanation in Thinking in Java. He shows that inner classes allow for multiple inheritance of implementations rather than just interfaces, while closures provide a means for callbacks. Somewhat of a hack job on both accounts, but if you can use them then it's a good thing.
Attacking you was pointless, but then so is your response. I didn't see many posts complaining about new Linux gamers, just the opposite. But there is a valid concern about gaining ground by emulating Windows. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
LVS: "Feel my sting, Jon."
JS: "It's hard to feel your sting, Lord Vipor, while you're adjusting your mask."
Microsoft tactlessly calling their marketing campaigns "jihads" OR TexasFury here ascribing that kind of offensiveness to the Linux community's ambivalence about improving gaming by hacking the Windows versions.
SNL's Will Ferrell's GWB: "Don't mess with Texas!"
Crap, I hate to get pedantic on myself, but I meant 680x0. First computer I ever saw Linux on was a 68040. I though my friend had ruined a perfectly good Mac. BTW, don't Palms run on 68000s? I might check out Palm Linux after all.
lowendmac.com has the most insight into this sort of thing, although he's still working with MacII & 68x000s, so it might take a while for the detailed info on OSX to come out. OTOH, he's always talking about his titanium powerbook (& how it's a bit off).
Didn't Louis Freeh have more control over the FBI and ATF than Janet Reno? Freeh hated the entire Clinton administration, and went way out of his way to instigate investigations into Clinton. How these government figures and agencies interact is always difficult to discern, so, yes, please explain your understanding of it. The opacity of our government should be of great concern to all citizens, but few seem to care. Then again, maybe ignorance IS bliss (or at least oblivious contentment), because those people that do care and find out often commit suicide.
The analogy between a web site & a house is wrong and evil. The differences in use, purpose, structure, and value (real, not new economy) should make this obvious.
Your cutesy exit strategy is the classic "Oh, I made my BS argument, now I'll make a joke and go." You're more Corporate Manager than IT.Good point, but there's a downside to that, too. If you read the tech journals & job boards, you'd think 7/10 jobs involved J2EE, which is overkill for at least 7/10 jobs out there. Also, in regard to DBs, the job boards make it seem like every company out there uses Oracle. I like Java & Oracle somewhat, but why are there so few jobs for anything else? Lesser M$ technologies are still prevalent, so what's going on with *nix? OTOH, despite all the media hype & astoturfing for .NUT, I don't know anyone working with C# or BizTalk yet. SQLServer2000, MSXML, VisualStudio--Yes. But I would like to stay away from those, too.
The Mary Jane issue is the real kicker. A story came out during his confirmation process about how his two nephews were caught growing (a ton of) pot in their house, and they somehow miraculously avoided any prison time. The reporter found somebody who had done 5-10 years for growing less pot than Ashcroft's kin, and the poor guy was mad as hell--but couldn't do anything about it. The same goes for the whole country, we just let him sit up there & do sh!t like this. Who the hell likes this guy? Oh, that's right, white Christian men. But that's got to be a small minority of the entire country. Reno had her problems (letting Clinton go hog wild in campaign financing; I don't blame her for Waco or Ruby Ridge, and IMHO she did the right thing for Elian Gonzalez), but she was hated much more than Ashcroft.
I need a detailed answer, what's up with this lazy-ass 12-word answer? 8^
Six of that, half dozen of the other.Wow, this is the same old BS I heard the day after Election Day. Have any of you Bush apologists read or thought about anything since then? The allegation that states quit counting ballots after enough of a margin is established to declare who won the state spread across the country right after Election Day. Every state government came out & said that they count all the ballots, regardless of who won the state. Now they did quit counting in Florida. They also didn't do anything to rectify the ~5,000,000 votes that might have been discarded across the country. But that's irrelevant, right? Move along, nothing to see here.
Where are all the Slashdot Libertarians? The majority of posters during last year's political fracas claimed to be Libertarians, but all the posts I'm reading are reactionary.
f ic ials_aware_in_1998_of_trainingP.shtml
2 .h tml
America hasn't felt this vulnerable since WWII, but the current politicians' answers are no different than they were in the paranoia of the 50s. There is no need for more massive intelligence, just better organization and focus of the current system.
The Boston Globe has an article showing that the US government knew terrorists were training in US flight schools from as early as 1990. The government just didn't guess what the terrorists might end up doing with their training. That's just plain dumb.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/nation/Of
(take out the space)
The NYTimes has an editorial that explains how the Bush administration's requests for more unfettered intelligence is not necessary & won't help. Before all you reactionary types start complaining about the NYTimes being liberal, the editorial page editor is a conservative liked by Bush & William Safire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/opinion/17MON
Gore 50,996,116
Bush 50,456,169
If you're from another country (or under 18) I could understand your ignorance, but otherwise...