Perhaps he thinks the time is finally right to repackage James Burke's work with him reaping the rewards. If not, at least he might make enough from the lecture circuit to afford more than one polyester leisure suit; Burke apparently didn't.
[Sarcasm Disclaimer: Yes, I know who Ezra Klein is and I don't believe he's planning on profiting from his rehashing of the history of technological innovation. If anything, he might have a future in the majordomo space.]
I suspect it's mostly a reference to the summary, which used coloring words such as "quietly" in regard to Reagan while simultaneously omitting any mention of Bush.
And really, as someone who's gotten tired of hearing Young Earth Creationists go "well, evolution is just a theory" and having to explain to them "yeah, but theory in science doesn't mean what you think. It means it already made testable predictions and is the best we have".
Since every bastard on slashdot, minus one, seems to be nitpicking you, I thought I'd complete the cadre.
Evolution isn't a theory; it's an observation. Natural Selection is a theory that attempts to explain the observation. Agree? Disagree? Discuss amongst yourselves.
He claimed that Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" created an awakening in him. Something to that effect. Or so the current media reports are claiming. That said, I find it weird that you somehow partition crazy and violent people based upon whether they lay claim to a recognized religious movement or not. Crazy is crazy.
Environmentalism!=Religion It is a science NOT a religion.
I think you're confusing it with Environmental Science. To me, a group that believes it is the noble duty of humans to "save" the planet smacks very much of religion. That's why there's an -ism on the end.
I wonder if the planet can be "saved" merely by accepting Al Gore as its Lord and Savior. What happens to all of us when the Earth gets taken up by the rapture? If there's any chance that the Earth is gonna take along the believers, I might consider carpooling -- you never, couldn't hurt, right?
Okay, so Clinton's ban that Bush renewed isn't the basis for this ruling. That's what I was wondering. I guess had I bothered to ponder it for a moment, I wouldn't have had to ask the question: as I recall, both Clinton's and Bush's bans were executive orders.
"It appears that the interaction of these factors..."
The interactions of these factors? What the hell. Didn't someone actually engineer this thing? It's not like this is some external problem over which Garmen had no control.
I was specifically answering your followup, not realizing you were the OP. My mistake -- sorry about that.
That said, it seems to me that the magical occurrence of 'Ubuntu Everywhere' would absolutely require that Access & Project be available on something other than Windows as a prerequisite. Like you, I've worked in multiple large companies (on the scale of 50k to 130k users) and I agree with your anecdotal evidence -- the bulk of us don't give a shit about Access nor Project. Project mostly, Access somewhat less so [I did work on a project that revolved around Access as the front end to an Oracle back end]. However, the minority of the group that were dependent upon Access and Project were also the people in control of the money... managers. At the end of the day, they're the ones that decide what platform is the "standard". Remember the days (circa 1994) of managers sending out 3 line emails from Outlook using Word format and then demanding that everyone receiving it that couldn't read it [AKA , Unix developer nerds] be switched to Windows?
Combine that with the MCSE trained, (brainwashed?) IT department, and no change is going to occur until the PTB & IT can be convinced that those stinky, ugly, non-Windows machines can run the exact same software as the machines that they're replacing. As someone who has been in a corporate environment, I'm confident that you know, full well, the empire builders that any IT department devolves into. They're all about control for the sake of building up their support budget. I had a Mac G3, bought and paid for by my department, sitting under my desk next to my Dell GXnnn [the ones with the motherboard capacitor fail problems -- if that can even narrows it down -- I think they were 320's] that I video-switched into my Dell CRT. The head of IT happened by on a tour of my department at some point and my G3 caught his eye. He reacted as if a cockroach had just run up his leg: "What's that doing down there?! We've got to get that out of here! We don't support that!" [stomp stomp stomp] It took my technical lead's full force to calm him down and move him away from the area. He was hell bent on making sure that I couldn't use it, even though it was more productive for me than my Windows machine, running Exceed, to connect into our Sun development environment.
I'm in agreement with you as to my sounds of conspiracy-theory in regard to my comments about the loss of VB in Office. I didn't mean to make things sound that way, nor did I realize I was doing so, but you're right: it sounded like a conspiracy. However, if you were in charge of a company that had a product that sold for anywhere from $89 to $250 dollars per seat -- and knew you could get $450 per seat for it just by porting some software-- to a market that pays a premium to buy 10 million computers per year, would you spend the development dollars to make sure that each version was backward compatible, or would you roll a release that didn't work with previous releases while promising that, down the road, it would again be compatible? I don't know about you, but with a market like that, I would throw every resource necessary at it to make sure that I squeezed out every available dollar. The fact that Microsoft doesn't do so is, to me, quite telling.
Again, I don't disagree with your premise of what would happen if Microsoft got squeezed. However, until they get squeezed in the mega-corporation environment, I don't see them getting squeezed to the point of desperation. The business environment is their last bastion, and an incredibly profitable one at that. And the main barrier to that bastion, in my NSHO [as if I needed to state that I'm arrogant], is a full version of Office on a platform other than Windows. I still maintain that Microsoft intentionally cripples, even if by reducing resources and funding to their developers, the Mac Office suite in order to support their Windows hegemony.
f Linux ever became a large enough presence on the desktop in the enterprise or the home, you can almost bet that they'd roll a version of Office for Ubuntu or whatever the "big" Linux distro was. Same as they do with Mac Office...
And therein lies the problem. If MS had been broken into an applications and an OS company, then this would be a no-brainer. However, Office is intentionally limited on the Mac strictly to support Windows' lock on the business market. Mac Office comes with neither Access nor Project -- both of which are deal breakers for the vast majority of businesses (at least by size -- consider that a single F500 company can have upwards of 50,000-75,000 Office licenses, most of which are expected to support Access & Project) and that the mail client (Entourage/POS) is just too different from Outlook to be pragmatic. Top that off with the fact that Mac Office 2008 removed support for VB Macros/Scripting and it's obvious that they've artificially limited it purely to keep Macs from encroaching on Windows in the business market.
The exact same would happen on Linux, even if they did roll Linux Office -- it would be intentionally crippled to make sure that Linux couldn't replace a Windows license in their lucrative business market.
That's not true. MS Office on Mac is a bi-product of MS bailing Apple out and putting Steve Jobs back in power after Apple almost went bankrupt. It was almost like a crutch for Apple, because people had to stop saying, "We don't use Apple because it can't run Office."
You're 100% correct.
Well, other than the part about the origins of Office (it's been on the Mac since before Windows was more than a demo), and MS bailing Apple out (it was a stock agreement that was never executed), and MS putting Jobs back in power (Apple bought NeXT and Jobs was part of the package deal -- or, they bought Jobs and NeXT was part of the package deal -- take your pick), and Apple almost going bankrupt (Apple still had at least $1 billion in cash/liquid assets).
But yeah, other than that, you're right on the money.
Oh, I suppose you could argue that Office on the Mac is a bi-product, what with all the Mac gay jokes and such. But certainly not a byproduct.
Statistically I certainly do use 2-3 times less resources than you, for very comparable quality of life.
Statistically, you're a 16 year old nerd posting from you Mom's basement. Really. How stupid is that? Statistically then, I have access to 2-3 times the resources than you have, which makes for a significantly better quality of life for me. And that's just as stupid.Then again, if you knew anything, you'd know that the irrigation is for farming. Better make sure you don't wear any Pima cotton shirts. While rock and desert plants are the predominant features of landscaping here, the majority of large grassy areas as well as "lakes" use greywater. However, there are certainly people that have lawns and water them. Typically in their backyards.
I wanted to quote some part of what you said. However, in order to be fair to you, and to pick up the best parts, I'd have to quote everything that you said. I agree with you completely.
Sadly,/. doesn't have a pragmatic way of becoming friends with others. By that, I mean that I can't chat with you in a private forum within the/. environment. However, I'll do the bare minimum and add you as a friend. Based upon my moderation preferences, at least you'll bubble up through my filters. I suspect that we would be friends in RL. Who knows, we might already be friends in RL.
If you don't mind, I'll follow your obfuscated email and chat that way. Let me know if that's cool. I'm at g2r3a5m7b11y@gmail.com (remove five of Riemann's and Erdos's favorite integers).
We also do it with landfill off gassing. It takes a fairly sizable landfill, but the gas is going into the atmosphere anyways, may as well trap it and burn it.
It's interesting that you mention that. It reminds me that we racist, wasteful, redneck, white bred 'Zonies' (none of these are my personal adjectives, but I've heard every one of them too many times to keep track), have a number of these systems in place. In addition to the landfill methane capture systems (which, last I checked, were somewhat experimental -- although the provided link isn't the only system in place), the solar projects, and the algal oil reactor (which, apparently, died along with GreenFuel Tech -- although the summer heat, based upon my own research, may have played a factor in the Arizona trial), we also have a small scale hydroelectric system put in place by the Salt River Project (SRP).
The desert area around Phoenix has an extensive irrigation system in place. Many of our canals are laid upon the same canals that the Hohokam people laid their canals. The water comes from (primarily) a series of reservoirs on the Salt River. These are mostly fed by snowmelt from the White Mountains (more proof of our white bred heritage). SRP has added small hydroelectric generators to multiple areas where a higher canal feeds into a lower canal. Granted, they do have pumping stations that move from lower areas to higher, so the entire system isn't completely gravity fed. However, it's nice to see them adding the equivalent of a regenerative braking system to their infrastructure.
Anti-taxation. Pro-Constitution. Gosh. The insanity.
If that was the extent of the positions that the vocal mouthpieces of the Tea Party movement tended to take, I daresay they'd be substantially less controversial.
The problem with the vocal mouthpieces is that they are specifically chosen by the opposition in order to paint the whole movement. This happens to any group that is a threat to the establishment. When "vocal" is equivalent to "reported", then it's easy to create controversy.
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I have to wonder if Mr. Klein just got done watching the following series from the late 1970's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
Perhaps he thinks the time is finally right to repackage James Burke's work with him reaping the rewards. If not, at least he might make enough from the lecture circuit to afford more than one polyester leisure suit; Burke apparently didn't.
[Sarcasm Disclaimer: Yes, I know who Ezra Klein is and I don't believe he's planning on profiting from his rehashing of the history of technological innovation. If anything, he might have a future in the majordomo space.]
I suspect it's mostly a reference to the summary, which used coloring words such as "quietly" in regard to Reagan while simultaneously omitting any mention of Bush.
So, I take it some poor robot suffered a surprising and horrific death and had also signed his donor card? I'm guessing the donor was Fe+.
Since every bastard on slashdot, minus one, seems to be nitpicking you, I thought I'd complete the cadre.
Evolution isn't a theory; it's an observation. Natural Selection is a theory that attempts to explain the observation. Agree? Disagree? Discuss amongst yourselves.
Awesome. Thanks. I was hoping someone would make that connection.
He claimed that Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" created an awakening in him. Something to that effect. Or so the current media reports are claiming. That said, I find it weird that you somehow partition crazy and violent people based upon whether they lay claim to a recognized religious movement or not. Crazy is crazy.
I think you're confusing it with Environmental Science. To me, a group that believes it is the noble duty of humans to "save" the planet smacks very much of religion. That's why there's an -ism on the end.
I wonder if the planet can be "saved" merely by accepting Al Gore as its Lord and Savior. What happens to all of us when the Earth gets taken up by the rapture? If there's any chance that the Earth is gonna take along the believers, I might consider carpooling -- you never, couldn't hurt, right?
They taste suspiciously like chicken.
option-command-esc
You've seen a MacBook do a silent reboot when plugged into a secondary monitor?
Mod parent up: +1, Bullshit
I would expect them to perform vendor quality acceptance testing. It's that nasty QA part of the engineering equation that tends to get ignored.
Okay, so Clinton's ban that Bush renewed isn't the basis for this ruling. That's what I was wondering. I guess had I bothered to ponder it for a moment, I wouldn't have had to ask the question: as I recall, both Clinton's and Bush's bans were executive orders.
So does this originate with the Clinton ban on stem cell research or does it precede it?
"It appears that the interaction of these factors..."
The interactions of these factors? What the hell. Didn't someone actually engineer this thing? It's not like this is some external problem over which Garmen had no control.
Oh, please don't encourage my pedantry. ;)
Safe deposit boxes. Meaning, boxes inside a safe (vault) where you deposit things.
I was specifically answering your followup, not realizing you were the OP. My mistake -- sorry about that.
That said, it seems to me that the magical occurrence of 'Ubuntu Everywhere' would absolutely require that Access & Project be available on something other than Windows as a prerequisite. Like you, I've worked in multiple large companies (on the scale of 50k to 130k users) and I agree with your anecdotal evidence -- the bulk of us don't give a shit about Access nor Project. Project mostly, Access somewhat less so [I did work on a project that revolved around Access as the front end to an Oracle back end]. However, the minority of the group that were dependent upon Access and Project were also the people in control of the money... managers. At the end of the day, they're the ones that decide what platform is the "standard". Remember the days (circa 1994) of managers sending out 3 line emails from Outlook using Word format and then demanding that everyone receiving it that couldn't read it [AKA , Unix developer nerds] be switched to Windows?
Combine that with the MCSE trained, (brainwashed?) IT department, and no change is going to occur until the PTB & IT can be convinced that those stinky, ugly, non-Windows machines can run the exact same software as the machines that they're replacing. As someone who has been in a corporate environment, I'm confident that you know, full well, the empire builders that any IT department devolves into. They're all about control for the sake of building up their support budget. I had a Mac G3, bought and paid for by my department, sitting under my desk next to my Dell GXnnn [the ones with the motherboard capacitor fail problems -- if that can even narrows it down -- I think they were 320's] that I video-switched into my Dell CRT. The head of IT happened by on a tour of my department at some point and my G3 caught his eye. He reacted as if a cockroach had just run up his leg: "What's that doing down there?! We've got to get that out of here! We don't support that!" [stomp stomp stomp] It took my technical lead's full force to calm him down and move him away from the area. He was hell bent on making sure that I couldn't use it, even though it was more productive for me than my Windows machine, running Exceed, to connect into our Sun development environment.
I'm in agreement with you as to my sounds of conspiracy-theory in regard to my comments about the loss of VB in Office. I didn't mean to make things sound that way, nor did I realize I was doing so, but you're right: it sounded like a conspiracy. However, if you were in charge of a company that had a product that sold for anywhere from $89 to $250 dollars per seat -- and knew you could get $450 per seat for it just by porting some software-- to a market that pays a premium to buy 10 million computers per year, would you spend the development dollars to make sure that each version was backward compatible, or would you roll a release that didn't work with previous releases while promising that, down the road, it would again be compatible? I don't know about you, but with a market like that, I would throw every resource necessary at it to make sure that I squeezed out every available dollar. The fact that Microsoft doesn't do so is, to me, quite telling.
Again, I don't disagree with your premise of what would happen if Microsoft got squeezed. However, until they get squeezed in the mega-corporation environment, I don't see them getting squeezed to the point of desperation. The business environment is their last bastion, and an incredibly profitable one at that. And the main barrier to that bastion, in my NSHO [as if I needed to state that I'm arrogant], is a full version of Office on a platform other than Windows. I still maintain that Microsoft intentionally cripples, even if by reducing resources and funding to their developers, the Mac Office suite in order to support their Windows hegemony.
And therein lies the problem. If MS had been broken into an applications and an OS company, then this would be a no-brainer. However, Office is intentionally limited on the Mac strictly to support Windows' lock on the business market. Mac Office comes with neither Access nor Project -- both of which are deal breakers for the vast majority of businesses (at least by size -- consider that a single F500 company can have upwards of 50,000-75,000 Office licenses, most of which are expected to support Access & Project) and that the mail client (Entourage/POS) is just too different from Outlook to be pragmatic. Top that off with the fact that Mac Office 2008 removed support for VB Macros/Scripting and it's obvious that they've artificially limited it purely to keep Macs from encroaching on Windows in the business market.
The exact same would happen on Linux, even if they did roll Linux Office -- it would be intentionally crippled to make sure that Linux couldn't replace a Windows license in their lucrative business market.
You're 100% correct.
Well, other than the part about the origins of Office (it's been on the Mac since before Windows was more than a demo), and MS bailing Apple out (it was a stock agreement that was never executed), and MS putting Jobs back in power (Apple bought NeXT and Jobs was part of the package deal -- or, they bought Jobs and NeXT was part of the package deal -- take your pick), and Apple almost going bankrupt (Apple still had at least $1 billion in cash/liquid assets).
But yeah, other than that, you're right on the money.
Oh, I suppose you could argue that Office on the Mac is a bi-product, what with all the Mac gay jokes and such. But certainly not a byproduct.
Statistically, you're a 16 year old nerd posting from you Mom's basement. Really. How stupid is that? Statistically then, I have access to 2-3 times the resources than you have, which makes for a significantly better quality of life for me. And that's just as stupid.Then again, if you knew anything, you'd know that the irrigation is for farming. Better make sure you don't wear any Pima cotton shirts. While rock and desert plants are the predominant features of landscaping here, the majority of large grassy areas as well as "lakes" use greywater. However, there are certainly people that have lawns and water them. Typically in their backyards.
Let me guess: your girlfriend makes you take the stairs instead of the elevator. You're so green.
I wanted to quote some part of what you said. However, in order to be fair to you, and to pick up the best parts, I'd have to quote everything that you said. I agree with you completely.
Sadly, /. doesn't have a pragmatic way of becoming friends with others. By that, I mean that I can't chat with you in a private forum within the /. environment. However, I'll do the bare minimum and add you as a friend. Based upon my moderation preferences, at least you'll bubble up through my filters. I suspect that we would be friends in RL. Who knows, we might already be friends in RL.
If you don't mind, I'll follow your obfuscated email and chat that way. Let me know if that's cool. I'm at g2r3a5m7b11y@gmail.com (remove five of Riemann's and Erdos's favorite integers).
It's interesting that you mention that. It reminds me that we racist, wasteful, redneck, white bred 'Zonies' (none of these are my personal adjectives, but I've heard every one of them too many times to keep track), have a number of these systems in place. In addition to the landfill methane capture systems (which, last I checked, were somewhat experimental -- although the provided link isn't the only system in place), the solar projects, and the algal oil reactor (which, apparently, died along with GreenFuel Tech -- although the summer heat, based upon my own research, may have played a factor in the Arizona trial), we also have a small scale hydroelectric system put in place by the Salt River Project (SRP).
The desert area around Phoenix has an extensive irrigation system in place. Many of our canals are laid upon the same canals that the Hohokam people laid their canals. The water comes from (primarily) a series of reservoirs on the Salt River. These are mostly fed by snowmelt from the White Mountains (more proof of our white bred heritage). SRP has added small hydroelectric generators to multiple areas where a higher canal feeds into a lower canal. Granted, they do have pumping stations that move from lower areas to higher, so the entire system isn't completely gravity fed. However, it's nice to see them adding the equivalent of a regenerative braking system to their infrastructure.
The problem with the vocal mouthpieces is that they are specifically chosen by the opposition in order to paint the whole movement. This happens to any group that is a threat to the establishment. When "vocal" is equivalent to "reported", then it's easy to create controversy.