If it is Oracle, you can be sure that Larry would have an easier time going a year without pay than many of the employees would have going without a raise or bonus.
Of course it seems appropriate that a CEO that is well known for his toys would give one out for Christmas. The odd thing is that his toys are Mig fighters and racing sail boats.
Handing the cops info on a silver platter often seems to annoy them. My sister's purse showed up at a post office a few weeks after it had been stolen. The theives broke the window of the car it had been in and stole everything in the car including several purses (5 people had been in the car), wallets and cellphones. They called the police and a detective came down and said that he was interested in solving the case since it had been happening a lot in that area recently. So sister's purse, cellphone and id turn up at the post office. She brings it home and finds a receipt for gas from a local station with a partial credit card number on it and a timestamp that was about 30 minutes after my sister had discovered her purse was stolen. We checked to make sure that it the number wasn't from her card or any of her friends cards. I called the gas station to verify that they had surveillance tape from that night. They did but would only give it to the polic. I then called the detective and told him that I had a partial cc number and that the gas station would provide him with the complete number and video. He didn't care and seemed surprised that I was incredulous and angry. I just wish I had bothered to track the jerks that did it down myself.
My wife's cousin works in international development and started telling stroies around the table at T-day. She had recently been in India and had mentioned to a minister of such and such how generous Microsoft's recent gifts and investments in India were. He immediately replied, "But you will also notice that many in the government have suddenly dropped their support of Linux." Now she doesn't know much about computers but she immediately understood that this was a gigantic bribe.
It would seem that this 'open source' move is an attempt to silence the remaining critics who say that access to the source is more important than the $$$ that MS is throwing at them.
The sad thing is that this isn't comparable to having the Linux source. Very few will have access to it and those that do will only be able to look at it, rather than being able to modify the OS itself and redistribut it.
Basically the only benefit you get is the ability to look for bugs and trojans to make sure that you aren't being spied on. That is certainly reasonable for a government to want to do, but it is only one of the many benefits of true 'open source'.
can be found here. As you can see, Harriet Klausner has reviewed over 4,000 items, which seem to be mostly books. I challenge you to find a book that she didn't like! Four stars is the lowest score that she has ever given as far as I can tell. She must be on vacation or something because she has only posted two reviews this month. Also, notice that her reviews are all three paragraphs long and the second paragraph tends to start with the word "However". Maybe she is just a book reviewing bot. She certainly doesn't write interesting reviews.
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what exactly is a cone-shaped cylinder? is it related to the pyramid-shaped cube?
Perhaps you can find the answer at www.timecube.com. There you will learn that while a cone-shaped cylinder can turn chickens into dust, the 4 dimensional time cube has the solution to nuclear waste but evil scientists are too stupid to listen.
So you read the whole thing after that? Too bad there isn't an "unreasonable" mod. For now I am stuck with "flamebait", which I think is a terrible mod, but at least they had the courage to avoid "overrated".
I never said that it was a bad thing. All I said was that the article was less than accurate. Should we gloss over his faults? I think that we agree that we shouldn't, yet the article did worse than that. I am a big fan of what he has done but lets admit that he has some issues. Otherwise you'll end up one day with him being presented to a boardroom as "the most reasonable person ever" and then he'll prove otherwise and the person doing the presenting as well as the Free software movement will look silly. Present him as a passionate idealist but don't present him as reasonable, humble, well-groomed, etc. It doesn't do any good to lie about him.
I only got as far as the words "reasonable people" and then I gave up on the article. I have witnessed Stallman's lack of reasonability in person. He is purposely out of touch with aspects of the world that most/.ers take for granted. I am not talking about showers here people, I am talking about modern tech. He is uncompromising, persistent and relentless but reasonable is not a word that applies to him. I appreciate the GPL and the FSF but let's not call RMS reasonable. I would guess that even he doesn't consider himself to be reasonable, and thinks of this as a feature, not a bug.
I have looked around a bit an can find ACs and random people like you saying so, but I don't see any of the/. staff mentioning it. Are you sure or are you making an assumption?
Contrary to what "Bill" might have said he slapped you in the face by mangling your name. I think that despite what he says the two of you are not "in orbit".
Two years ago I was a consultant at a company porting a Vax based system to Java. Many of their developers were new to Java and needed constant hand-holding.
After a few weeks of this I made a CD with the JavaDocs and Thinking in Java v2 on it. When they came with a question I would give them the CD and told them to copy it onto their computer. I showed them what the JavaDocs were useful for and showed them how Thinking in Java not only had great examples but explained the hows and whys of the language. This helped them understand how what they were doing made sense in a deeper way than if they had just read the example code.
The book was a big hit. It saved me a ton of time having to explain things and helped those guys become better programmers.
That said, v2 was much better than the beta version that I cut my teeth on way back when. Since it wasn't available in printed form at the time the professor made everbody buy a version she had printed out. Too bad she had repaginated it such that the page numbers in the index no longer mapped to the pages in the book.
I am not saying that we shouldn't have Friends or shows like it. I do think that there is room for a different type of show, a long mini-series if you will, than what we are fed in the US. Imagine the Lord of the Rings done as 20 one-hour episodes, or Cryptonomicon as a 15 episode HBO production.
Here's an advantage. Your car stalls on a railroad track, and won't start. With an automatic, you'd best get out of the car. With a stick, all you need to do is put it in gear and crank. The car will lurch off the tracks.
If it lurches far enough to actually save you then you had better go buy both a new flywheel and starter, since you can bet that your current ones are hosed.
Well, almost. I think that once Boston is finally finish EVERYONE will want their own federally funded underground freeway. Remember, for one a bit more than half the cost of a space station, you too can have one!
And the idea of adding sub-plots that have little to do with the main story strikes me as not that different than the sitcom ideal of keeping a show going when it's doing well.
Actually they did exactly this with 24. If it had been canceled halfway through its run there was an ending prepared.
Also, I picked Friends because it was a easy target but the same can be said of any drama as well. There is no end in sight and no point other than continued survival until it runs out of gas.
In other countries most shows are miniseries. In Brazil for instance, though a show might last 18 months, it has a story arc that will eventaully take it to some end. If the show is very popular then sub-plots will be added to lengthen it. If it is a stinker it will get resolved quickly. But the point of it is to tell a story that ends. Now I am not a big fan of the soap-opera production values or the same show being on everyday at 8 pm, but the idea of a story to be told with a beginning and end is interesting.
Not so in the USA. How many years has Friends been running? Has anything really happened? Not really. Most shows in the USA feel the need to conclude an episode with all issues being resolved so that nothing has changed in the world that has been created. Contrast this with 24. It has a season-long plot and watching the episodes in order is important. Hopefully the popularity of 24 will lead to more shows that are actually going somewhere plot-wise instead of running in place for the whole season, an hour at a time.
I felt that music CDs were cheap during the era of the Cruziero and Cruziero Real (less than US$10), but once the Plano Real went into effect the prices went to US$18 - 20 and stayed there. At the time this was more expensive than in the US. This became a serious obstacle to completing my goal of buying all of Legiao Urbana's albums.
Actually, the name was simply "Galactica 1980" since there was no Battlestar. It was an effort to make use of the popularity of the show from the previous season without incurring the expense of it. Pretty stupid stuff.
Zod got his hand crushed and I think he was then thrown across the room and fell into the pit. Ursula (or whatever the woman's name was) was beaten up by Lois Lane and pushed into the pit. The stupid mute character tried to fly and fell to his death.
Faltou falar das taxas de importação de 70% que ajudam a tornar um importado 3 vezes mais caro do que lá. Um notebook por exemplo, legalmente importado custa R$10.000.
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You neglected to mention the import tarrif of 70% which help make an imported item three times more expensive than there (I assume they mean the USA). A notebook, for example, imported legally, costs R$10,000 (what is that now, US$3,500?).
Wondering how any given movie will end? Here it is:
1. Hero and bad guy will engage in a fight to the death. Hero is the underdog. Bad guy might "cheat" somehow.
2. Hero wins fight fairly, possibly even saving bad guy from certain death. Hero decides to let bad guy live, because killing bad guy would "make me just as bad as him." Nevermind that this makes no sense.
3. After havin his life spared by hero, bad guy makes one last effort to kill hero, and ends up falling to his own death. This satisfies the viewer's need for justice without getting the hero's hands dirty.
B&tB and the Lion King both end this way. So does Spiderman, more or less. The crappy J Lo movie "Enough" did, as did a recent Tommy Lee Jones & Judd sister movie. I now go into movies expecting them to end this way.
Contrast this with Superman 2, in which Superman, after rendering General Zod and the gang powerless, kills Zod and watches in glee as the others die. Way to go Supes! Of course if he had a nuke-proof phantom zone handy he probably would have put them in that.
If this is my last post ever then it is because I have pissed off the Hollywood writers mafia by revealing their secret and they are coming to get me! Good-bye everyone, I'll miss ya!
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Of course it seems appropriate that a CEO that is well known for his toys would give one out for Christmas. The odd thing is that his toys are Mig fighters and racing sail boats.
Handing the cops info on a silver platter often seems to annoy them. My sister's purse showed up at a post office a few weeks after it had been stolen. The theives broke the window of the car it had been in and stole everything in the car including several purses (5 people had been in the car), wallets and cellphones. They called the police and a detective came down and said that he was interested in solving the case since it had been happening a lot in that area recently. So sister's purse, cellphone and id turn up at the post office. She brings it home and finds a receipt for gas from a local station with a partial credit card number on it and a timestamp that was about 30 minutes after my sister had discovered her purse was stolen. We checked to make sure that it the number wasn't from her card or any of her friends cards. I called the gas station to verify that they had surveillance tape from that night. They did but would only give it to the polic. I then called the detective and told him that I had a partial cc number and that the gas station would provide him with the complete number and video. He didn't care and seemed surprised that I was incredulous and angry. I just wish I had bothered to track the jerks that did it down myself.
It would seem that this 'open source' move is an attempt to silence the remaining critics who say that access to the source is more important than the $$$ that MS is throwing at them.
The sad thing is that this isn't comparable to having the Linux source. Very few will have access to it and those that do will only be able to look at it, rather than being able to modify the OS itself and redistribut it.
Basically the only benefit you get is the ability to look for bugs and trojans to make sure that you aren't being spied on. That is certainly reasonable for a government to want to do, but it is only one of the many benefits of true 'open source'.
can be found here. As you can see, Harriet Klausner has reviewed over 4,000 items, which seem to be mostly books. I challenge you to find a book that she didn't like! Four stars is the lowest score that she has ever given as far as I can tell. She must be on vacation or something because she has only posted two reviews this month. Also, notice that her reviews are all three paragraphs long and the second paragraph tends to start with the word "However". Maybe she is just a book reviewing bot. She certainly doesn't write interesting reviews.
Perhaps you can find the answer at www.timecube.com. There you will learn that while a cone-shaped cylinder can turn chickens into dust, the 4 dimensional time cube has the solution to nuclear waste but evil scientists are too stupid to listen.
Unless I was in Utah, where that sorta thing goes on all the time.
What? There are no cabs in Utah!
So you read the whole thing after that? Too bad there isn't an "unreasonable" mod. For now I am stuck with "flamebait", which I think is a terrible mod, but at least they had the courage to avoid "overrated".
I never said that it was a bad thing. All I said was that the article was less than accurate. Should we gloss over his faults? I think that we agree that we shouldn't, yet the article did worse than that. I am a big fan of what he has done but lets admit that he has some issues. Otherwise you'll end up one day with him being presented to a boardroom as "the most reasonable person ever" and then he'll prove otherwise and the person doing the presenting as well as the Free software movement will look silly. Present him as a passionate idealist but don't present him as reasonable, humble, well-groomed, etc. It doesn't do any good to lie about him.
Thanks for pointing that out. Those Cubans are real copycats, aren't they?
I only got as far as the words "reasonable people" and then I gave up on the article. I have witnessed Stallman's lack of reasonability in person. He is purposely out of touch with aspects of the world that most /.ers take for granted. I am not talking about showers here people, I am talking about modern tech. He is uncompromising, persistent and relentless but reasonable is not a word that applies to him. I appreciate the GPL and the FSF but let's not call RMS reasonable. I would guess that even he doesn't consider himself to be reasonable, and thinks of this as a feature, not a bug.
I have looked around a bit an can find ACs and random people like you saying so, but I don't see any of the /. staff mentioning it. Are you sure or are you making an assumption?
Contrary to what "Bill" might have said he slapped you in the face by mangling your name. I think that despite what he says the two of you are not "in orbit".
Your friend,
John
Wasn't that telescope destroyed in Goldeneye? How are they still using it?
After a few weeks of this I made a CD with the JavaDocs and Thinking in Java v2 on it. When they came with a question I would give them the CD and told them to copy it onto their computer. I showed them what the JavaDocs were useful for and showed them how Thinking in Java not only had great examples but explained the hows and whys of the language. This helped them understand how what they were doing made sense in a deeper way than if they had just read the example code.
The book was a big hit. It saved me a ton of time having to explain things and helped those guys become better programmers.
That said, v2 was much better than the beta version that I cut my teeth on way back when. Since it wasn't available in printed form at the time the professor made everbody buy a version she had printed out. Too bad she had repaginated it such that the page numbers in the index no longer mapped to the pages in the book.
I am not saying that we shouldn't have Friends or shows like it. I do think that there is room for a different type of show, a long mini-series if you will, than what we are fed in the US. Imagine the Lord of the Rings done as 20 one-hour episodes, or Cryptonomicon as a 15 episode HBO production.
If it lurches far enough to actually save you then you had better go buy both a new flywheel and starter, since you can bet that your current ones are hosed.
Well, almost. I think that once Boston is finally finish EVERYONE will want their own federally funded underground freeway. Remember, for one a bit more than half the cost of a space station, you too can have one!
Actually they did exactly this with 24. If it had been canceled halfway through its run there was an ending prepared.
Also, I picked Friends because it was a easy target but the same can be said of any drama as well. There is no end in sight and no point other than continued survival until it runs out of gas.
Not so in the USA. How many years has Friends been running? Has anything really happened? Not really. Most shows in the USA feel the need to conclude an episode with all issues being resolved so that nothing has changed in the world that has been created. Contrast this with 24. It has a season-long plot and watching the episodes in order is important. Hopefully the popularity of 24 will lead to more shows that are actually going somewhere plot-wise instead of running in place for the whole season, an hour at a time.
Too late! I already have all of them... But thanks for the link.
So what does a music CD cost in Brazil now?
Actually, the name was simply "Galactica 1980" since there was no Battlestar. It was an effort to make use of the popularity of the show from the previous season without incurring the expense of it. Pretty stupid stuff.
Zod got his hand crushed and I think he was then thrown across the room and fell into the pit. Ursula (or whatever the woman's name was) was beaten up by Lois Lane and pushed into the pit. The stupid mute character tried to fly and fell to his death.
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You neglected to mention the import tarrif of 70% which help make an imported item three times more expensive than there (I assume they mean the USA). A notebook, for example, imported legally, costs R$10,000 (what is that now, US$3,500?).
Wondering how any given movie will end? Here it is:
1. Hero and bad guy will engage in a fight to the death. Hero is the underdog. Bad guy might "cheat" somehow.
2. Hero wins fight fairly, possibly even saving bad guy from certain death. Hero decides to let bad guy live, because killing bad guy would "make me just as bad as him." Nevermind that this makes no sense.
3. After havin his life spared by hero, bad guy makes one last effort to kill hero, and ends up falling to his own death. This satisfies the viewer's need for justice without getting the hero's hands dirty.
B&tB and the Lion King both end this way. So does Spiderman, more or less. The crappy J Lo movie "Enough" did, as did a recent Tommy Lee Jones & Judd sister movie. I now go into movies expecting them to end this way.
Contrast this with Superman 2, in which Superman, after rendering General Zod and the gang powerless, kills Zod and watches in glee as the others die. Way to go Supes! Of course if he had a nuke-proof phantom zone handy he probably would have put them in that.
If this is my last post ever then it is because I have pissed off the Hollywood writers mafia by revealing their secret and they are coming to get me! Good-bye everyone, I'll miss ya!
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