non-profit means that all profits go right back into the business. they can, in fact must, expand their business. The non-profit part means that their are no owners or CEO's that get more money if the business makes more money. All the money goes back into the services that the company provides. if non-profits weren't allowed to expand, then OSDL's recent announcement that they are going to expand operations in Europe and Asia would be a violation of the law.
Just when I thought we had finally stopped with the overzealous* French bashing here in the US. There's no way that Bush Co. and his corporate masters will not unleash the anti-French/patriotic jingoism after a ruiling like this.
just kidding...mostly...
*I say overzealous because a little French bashing, a la The Onion's "France Surrenders" second headlines in Our Dumb Century is a good thing.
People have been switching to Firefox because it is a superior offering to the dominant product(IE). People can say that Firefox is more secure, has fetures that IE doesn't (built in pop blocker, tabbed browsing), and is smaller and faster. One cannot make such claims vis-a-vis OO.o and MS Office. There is nothing that OO.o offers that Office doesn't, apart from price.
IANAL, either; however, I was in charge of the course reserve collection for a university library for a while, and was charged with writing our copyright policy.
There are no official rules for what constitues fair use. For printed materials (which AP articles are, I would say, even online) the rule of thumb that most people go by is ten percent of the total words of the printed work.
you can't have it both ways... the complaint, as i see it, is that the os has too many bugs, and now a patch is being forced that has just as many, but new, different and exciting, bugs. no one is really complaining about SPs, that they can be downloaded, etc.
as far as having it both ways, what's wrong with wanting a fix for the current bugs without introducing a boatload more? why can't we have both of those?
Yes, but as someone elsewhere in the thread already stated, almost all crashes are software related (that is to say Windows related). Very few crashes otherwise are caused by hardware. I have had one hardware related crash that I have ever dealt with in the last 11-12 years, since I got my first computer.
Makes sense to me. The/. editor trolls the MySQL users, who then rush to MySQL's defense. Then, the next time someone asks the/. editor why they use MySQL, even though it lacks X, Y, and Z, they have a bunch of ready responses in the form of a bunch of +5 Insightful or +5 Informative posts from this thread.
the problem is that many parents don't know anything about computers, and the kids know just enough that the parents don't figure out what the kids are really up to. It's not just parents supervising, it's parents educating themselves as well.
as for me, personally, i live the nightmare of being a teacher in a district where every high schooler is given a laptop and wireless Internet access. Even the kids in the honors and gifted classes use them mostly for IM and personal e-mail. The kids load the things up with so much warez, mp3z, etc. the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA would have a field day. Add to all of that, most of these kids don't already have a computer at home, they come from single parent households with little home supervision, and parents who are not very computer litterate...well, I'll leave all of that as an exercise of the imagination.
No, but the ban, as it exists, does serve to severely limit embryonic stem cell research, to the point that it is essentially an outright ban on new embryonic stem cell research.
How so?
the old stem cell lines are limited. the institutions that have them are not particularly interested in sharing them. if they do, it is at a (high) cost.
stem cells will probably not see a profitable application for a long time, making it very hard to get private funding, making research of new embryonic stem cells virtually impossible to get funding.
any institution (universities, pharmaceuticals, etc.) that receives federal funding cannot begin research on new stem cell lines without losing all of the their federal funding. it's not just a matter of the government not giving out money, but the gov't taking away money if people do this.
Adult stem cell research is much more limited in its applciations than embryonic stem cell research. ASCs are already partially differentiated, making them useful only for a handful of procedures, compared to the neraly limitless potential applications of ESCs.
until we can get that kind of low power consumption on desktop chips? is there something inherent in desktop applications that prevent some chip maker from making a really low-power, high-performance (~1GHz) processor?
I can't speak for all RtL advocates, but I do know that the Catholic Church is very opposed to IVF. I suppose that RtL advocates are just generally smart enough to know to pick their battles. They can tug at people's heartstrings and say "Abortion is killing babies," and get people to agree. It's a harder sell that IVF, which results in a couple with a happy healthy baby (or babies) is in fact also "killing babies."
No, some things are evil, regardless of perspective. Now, one's perspective might not let them see that an action is evil, but that doesn't mean that the action is not evil. Stalin thought what he was doing was good. From his perspective, it was good, but that doesn't mean that it was. There are some absolutes in this world.
A company that really is only interested in the bottom line and advancing their plans, regardless of what else is happening and who they might hurt, is evil.
with that said, firing this guy doesn't make google evil. From what I can gather, he was a dumbass who was possibly violating an NDA (and whether you like them or not, if you sign one, you need to respect the terms), was a source of conflict internally, and may have said things that the SEC wouldn't have liked.
compare the BeOS file system to the one that Apple is planning on introducing in tiger, or the fabled WinFS that seems to keep on getting pushed further and further into the future.
Actually, WinFS is supposed to replace the file system with a database, which is what BeOS had in it's earliest days, before the guys at Be, Inc. decided that it ate too many resources, and then designed the BFS that Apple is now copying (and don't say they aren't, they hired the original designer of Be's file system to write their new one).
Indeed, the cloned version of the file system has been picked up by another open-source OS (Syllable, I think) for use as their file system.
Umm, you guys have a joint bank account, right? I'm assuming that the payment for her insurance comes out of that account. Why, exactly, do you want her insurance rates to be higher?/me mutters something about gift horses and mouths.
Then we get into replay value. As far as this discussion goes, we need to talk about VHS/DVD costs, not theater costs.
I can listen to some albums (Sgt. Pepper, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Master of Puppets, The Downward Spiral, etc.) dozens of times. I feel like I have gotten my dollars worth out of all those. Of course, this holds true for some video games and movies as well. The question, the becomes, over all, which holds out the best? This is a completely subjective question and depends entirely upon how discriminating we are as consumers. I know I have albums that I don't listen to much, if at all, anymore. Movies and video games, however, the ones that I own are all ones that have a high replay value for me, but that is because I am far more cautious about spending money in these areas. I know if I bought video games or DVDs with the same abandone with which I (used to buy CDs) I would have a whole lot of VGs and DVDs that I never play/watch.
goes to show that perhaps video games are way overpriced and consumers haven't realized it yet the way that they have with CDs./doesn't own a gamecube//or an x-box///or a ps2////or even a ps1/////or even a dreamcast//////still have my old snes///////loves video games.
This is an important point, I think. Most/. articles very often are just the first paragraph of the story that is linked. The couple of stories I've submitted I've tried always to write "such and such reports" at the start, but a lot of people i noticed, don't.
you said that you "almost booked a trip" to see the northern lights, which implies that you didn't book that trip. I'd say that qualifies as more of a "whew" than a "shit".
Now then. This is one of the most insightful ACs i've seen in a while. When I was a kid, we would run around in open fields, climb up into the tree house that the older kids had collectively built, play in the outpost/fort/clubhouse that my friend's dad had built for him, hike through the woods looking for creeks, ponds, animal tracks, etc. My older brother was always playing baseball, basketball, or football (or football, for you brits). We had an Atari 2600, and we would play on it, but we still went outside. We got a NES, but we still went outside. I got a SNES, but I would still go outside, and then, after we got our licenses, go cruising around town. Or we would blow up some illegal fireworks. Or go bowling. Or something.
Sometimes, yes, we would spend hours, even days playing video games, but it was always social. My best friend and I and 4 2-liter bottles of Dr. Pepper, and a RPG rented from blockbuster that had to be back in two days, and damnit! we were going to beat that game. And then, when it was beat, we went outside. We didn't do it again. We didn't put in another one.
[sarcasm]I guess games now are realistic enough that people don't need the real world anymore.[/sarcasm]
Parents need to realize that their children are missing out on a lot if they don't get out there in the world and experince it. I have lots (surprisingly) of fond memories from my childhood and teenage years. Even the ones that involve video games usually don't involve any screenshots.
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non-profit means that all profits go right back into the business. they can, in fact must, expand their business. The non-profit part means that their are no owners or CEO's that get more money if the business makes more money. All the money goes back into the services that the company provides. if non-profits weren't allowed to expand, then OSDL's recent announcement that they are going to expand operations in Europe and Asia would be a violation of the law.
Just when I thought we had finally stopped with the overzealous* French bashing here in the US. There's no way that Bush Co. and his corporate masters will not unleash the anti-French/patriotic jingoism after a ruiling like this.
just kidding...mostly...
*I say overzealous because a little French bashing, a la The Onion's "France Surrenders" second headlines in Our Dumb Century is a good thing.
People have been switching to Firefox because it is a superior offering to the dominant product(IE). People can say that Firefox is more secure, has fetures that IE doesn't (built in pop blocker, tabbed browsing), and is smaller and faster. One cannot make such claims vis-a-vis OO.o and MS Office. There is nothing that OO.o offers that Office doesn't, apart from price.
Is that covered by fair use? IANAL.
IANAL, either; however, I was in charge of the course reserve collection for a university library for a while, and was charged with writing our copyright policy.
There are no official rules for what constitues fair use. For printed materials (which AP articles are, I would say, even online) the rule of thumb that most people go by is ten percent of the total words of the printed work.
And yes, I did graduate from college, using these exact same tactics.
Please share with us what college you graduated from, so that I and the wife know not to send any potential offspring there.
you can't have it both ways ...
the complaint, as i see it, is that the os has too many bugs, and now a patch is being forced that has just as many, but new, different and exciting, bugs. no one is really complaining about SPs, that they can be downloaded, etc.
as far as having it both ways, what's wrong with wanting a fix for the current bugs without introducing a boatload more? why can't we have both of those?
Yes, but as someone elsewhere in the thread already stated, almost all crashes are software related (that is to say Windows related). Very few crashes otherwise are caused by hardware. I have had one hardware related crash that I have ever dealt with in the last 11-12 years, since I got my first computer.
Makes sense to me. The /. editor trolls the MySQL users, who then rush to MySQL's defense. Then, the next time someone asks the /. editor why they use MySQL, even though it lacks X, Y, and Z, they have a bunch of ready responses in the form of a bunch of +5 Insightful or +5 Informative posts from this thread.
the problem is that many parents don't know anything about computers, and the kids know just enough that the parents don't figure out what the kids are really up to. It's not just parents supervising, it's parents educating themselves as well.
as for me, personally, i live the nightmare of being a teacher in a district where every high schooler is given a laptop and wireless Internet access. Even the kids in the honors and gifted classes use them mostly for IM and personal e-mail. The kids load the things up with so much warez, mp3z, etc. the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA would have a field day. Add to all of that, most of these kids don't already have a computer at home, they come from single parent households with little home supervision, and parents who are not very computer litterate...well, I'll leave all of that as an exercise of the imagination.
Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage.
That's not very smart.
How so?
until we can get that kind of low power consumption on desktop chips? is there something inherent in desktop applications that prevent some chip maker from making a really low-power, high-performance (~1GHz) processor?
I can't speak for all RtL advocates, but I do know that the Catholic Church is very opposed to IVF. I suppose that RtL advocates are just generally smart enough to know to pick their battles. They can tug at people's heartstrings and say "Abortion is killing babies," and get people to agree. It's a harder sell that IVF, which results in a couple with a happy healthy baby (or babies) is in fact also "killing babies."
No, some things are evil, regardless of perspective. Now, one's perspective might not let them see that an action is evil, but that doesn't mean that the action is not evil. Stalin thought what he was doing was good. From his perspective, it was good, but that doesn't mean that it was. There are some absolutes in this world.
A company that really is only interested in the bottom line and advancing their plans, regardless of what else is happening and who they might hurt, is evil.
with that said, firing this guy doesn't make google evil. From what I can gather, he was a dumbass who was possibly violating an NDA (and whether you like them or not, if you sign one, you need to respect the terms), was a source of conflict internally, and may have said things that the SEC wouldn't have liked.
PS3 will provide graphics indistinguishable from movies.
Didn't they say nearly the same thing about the PS2 in the months leading up to its release?
compare the BeOS file system to the one that Apple is planning on introducing in tiger, or the fabled WinFS that seems to keep on getting pushed further and further into the future.
Actually, WinFS is supposed to replace the file system with a database, which is what BeOS had in it's earliest days, before the guys at Be, Inc. decided that it ate too many resources, and then designed the BFS that Apple is now copying (and don't say they aren't, they hired the original designer of Be's file system to write their new one).
Indeed, the cloned version of the file system has been picked up by another open-source OS (Syllable, I think) for use as their file system.
Umm, you guys have a joint bank account, right? I'm assuming that the payment for her insurance comes out of that account. Why, exactly, do you want her insurance rates to be higher? /me mutters something about gift horses and mouths.
Then we get into replay value. As far as this discussion goes, we need to talk about VHS/DVD costs, not theater costs.
I can listen to some albums (Sgt. Pepper, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Master of Puppets, The Downward Spiral, etc.) dozens of times. I feel like I have gotten my dollars worth out of all those. Of course, this holds true for some video games and movies as well. The question, the becomes, over all, which holds out the best? This is a completely subjective question and depends entirely upon how discriminating we are as consumers. I know I have albums that I don't listen to much, if at all, anymore. Movies and video games, however, the ones that I own are all ones that have a high replay value for me, but that is because I am far more cautious about spending money in these areas. I know if I bought video games or DVDs with the same abandone with which I (used to buy CDs) I would have a whole lot of VGs and DVDs that I never play/watch.
goes to show that perhaps video games are way overpriced and consumers haven't realized it yet the way that they have with CDs. /doesn't own a gamecube //or an x-box ///or a ps2 ////or even a ps1 /////or even a dreamcast //////still have my old snes ///////loves video games.
SCO can no longer afford e-mail. They're spending every available dime on lawyers.
This is an important point, I think. Most /. articles very often are just the first paragraph of the story that is linked. The couple of stories I've submitted I've tried always to write "such and such reports" at the start, but a lot of people i noticed, don't.
Flamebait?
you said that you "almost booked a trip" to see the northern lights, which implies that you didn't book that trip. I'd say that qualifies as more of a "whew" than a "shit".
whr can i g3t sum t13 f00d?
First: MOD PARENT UP!
Now then. This is one of the most insightful ACs i've seen in a while. When I was a kid, we would run around in open fields, climb up into the tree house that the older kids had collectively built, play in the outpost/fort/clubhouse that my friend's dad had built for him, hike through the woods looking for creeks, ponds, animal tracks, etc. My older brother was always playing baseball, basketball, or football (or football, for you brits). We had an Atari 2600, and we would play on it, but we still went outside. We got a NES, but we still went outside. I got a SNES, but I would still go outside, and then, after we got our licenses, go cruising around town. Or we would blow up some illegal fireworks. Or go bowling. Or something.
Sometimes, yes, we would spend hours, even days playing video games, but it was always social. My best friend and I and 4 2-liter bottles of Dr. Pepper, and a RPG rented from blockbuster that had to be back in two days, and damnit! we were going to beat that game. And then, when it was beat, we went outside. We didn't do it again. We didn't put in another one.
[sarcasm]I guess games now are realistic enough that people don't need the real world anymore.[/sarcasm]
Parents need to realize that their children are missing out on a lot if they don't get out there in the world and experince it. I have lots (surprisingly) of fond memories from my childhood and teenage years. Even the ones that involve video games usually don't involve any screenshots.