Another threat of this tax is that it will repress consumption.
You misspelled "encourage savings". If anything people will have more disposible income due to a) lowered tax rates for most people and b) lack of withholding from your paycheck will give you a great deal more "take home pay"
The API's you program against were mostly written by creative people with taste and community feedback; not by committees with deadlines, backwards compatibility requirements, an internal review only, and a narrow Microsoft mindset
Hahahaha.. you mean like LibC? You mean like the STL? You mean like all the stuff that comes with C++ these days? You mean like SQL? YOu mean like OpenGL? You mean like X?
Come on, every API these days are written by committee, with the exception of maybe PERL (and if you look at PERL, you know it)
Apparently some of the managers were getting really sick of the BSOD. The techs installed Linux on their machines one night, and most of them didnt even notice.
Riiiiiiight.... back away from the keyboard man...
Weren't they like "Where is Word?" "Hey, why can't I read my email in Outlook anymore?" "What's this damn penguin?"
God its sad crap like this get's marked as insightful from the crack smoking moderators around here.
The saddest part about the whole piracy debacle is that it is simply too late to really do away with some of the companies that sustain themselves by selling intelectual property
No, the saddest part is that its too late to go back in time and stop the parents / cousins of people who can't get it through their minds not to steal other peoples work from playing hide the salami.
Its kinda sad that that copyright law didn't evolve with the times.
Actually, copyright has evolved quite a bit over the years. Helps if you actually read the article.
But now we have to pay hundreds of dollars for some pieces of plastic that do crazy shit when you shine lasers at them.
Really? You do? Who is making you do this? Some guy with a gun to your head? Really, if you don't like it, don't buy the damn software.. how hard is that?
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. Different jobs.. different tools.
Hmmm... you must have missed the sign over the door when you came in. It says PERL for everything.
And good ol' capitalism supplies the answer.. someone comes up with a way to "clean up" the mess. Face it, if the problem ever gets big enough, companies will trip over themselves to buy these things to clean up the areas around their satellites / spacecraft, as the cost is peanuts compared to catastrophic vehicle loss.
Acutally, if we would just privatize orbits around the earth this problem would go away as well. Externalities tend to occur when you have common goods (like orbits) that go unowned, so no one has a vested intersted in keeping them clear of debris. Sell of orbit slots, or something similar, and the market will take care of everything (and you don't have to waste my tax dollars on it, which is a plus. And it will piss of the liberals, another plus.)
You know, the best thing about the various versions of MS Money are that they will synch with your brokerage / bank account. You can download you statements and clear them against you account within the program, make sure your balances are accurate, etc... Does anyone know if it is possible or could be implemented in Gnucash?
What a bunch of crap. That's like saying Ford has a monopoly in the Ford Mustang market because they don't let other people license the design for their cars.
There are no end of entrients in the IM market... MS, Yahoo, Tribal Voice all come to mind without thinking about it very hard.
Besides, Mr. Anti trust lawyer, there is nothing magical that says a) if you have over 50% market share you are a monopoly and b) there is nothing illegal about being a monopoly per se.
So let me get this right.. I have an essentially private network (AOL), build a tool that I never claim is open (AIM), and then I get government pressure to let other people use it? Why? AOL's competitors don't have any "right" to interoperate with AIM, they didn't spend any money developing it, didn't build up the infrastructure, didn't send out a bajillion CDs to get people to use it, but now they want to leverage it. Why does crap like this happen? What ever happened to private property rights in this country?
a. Writing HTML is too expensive. Web-authoring tools should use the lowest common denominator, which are the W3C standards for HTML. I don't blame you for using Frontpage, I blame tools for using bad HTML.
Bah, if you are so concerned about the guy with the 286, no graphics, and a 1200 baud accoustic coupled modem, put the information on your gopher site.... hahahahahaha...
Richard Stallman (a man with whom I disagree on a great many topics) said it best: He had heard so many good things about Perl, and wanted to learn the language, but when he started looking for online tutorials, the ones he found were far and few in between, and not to mention of very low quality. Everybody kept telling him to buy the (O'Reilly) "books", but he wanted online stuff, stuff that just wasn't available.
I think the proper "free" response to this is to say.. "What do you want for free?" If you don't like it write your own documentation...
So, I'd say Linux has been doing fine in my family room for 3 ro 4 months now.
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Ah, the true beauty of open source development. You aren't paying for it, so you have no right to complain when projects are never completed... you should just do it yourself. What? You already have a job? You would gladly pay for a browser if only they would finish it? Too bad...
Somebody is going to do a great deconstruction of the process the Mozilla went through and produce a great software development book along the lines of The Mythical Man Month... they can call it How Not To Run A Software Development Project
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No thanks, I already have a job.
I'm not saying Mozilla is taking forever...
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...but the US put a man on the moon in the time it taking for this thing to be finished.
How about this for a slogan: Mozilla is the Daiktana of browsers?
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Another threat of this tax is that it will repress consumption.
You misspelled "encourage savings". If anything people will have more disposible income due to a) lowered tax rates for most people and b) lack of withholding from your paycheck will give you a great deal more "take home pay"
There are at least three languages to handle any problem space. Adding yet another to the mix is really silly.
Hell Pascal is turing complete. I therefore suggest everyone program everything in pascal forever. Thank you.
I've also notice that some people post the long boring lists during quickies discussions.
Given the obvious thought and length of these answers, I can see why it took so long for this interview to come back :)
For some reason, I get the feeling the DNA just doesn't like to write that much. (Where is A Salmon of Doubt, damn it!)
Meanwhile, Amiga remains the Rasputin of platforms. It just won't die!
Amiga is the Rasputin of platforms, in that its been dead for quite a while now.
You probably didn't ground yourself and blew something out when fiddling with the motherboards.
Come on Occam's razor...
The API's you program against were mostly written by creative people with taste and community feedback; not by committees with deadlines, backwards compatibility requirements, an internal review only, and a narrow Microsoft mindset
Hahahaha.. you mean like LibC? You mean like the STL? You mean like all the stuff that comes with C++ these days? You mean like SQL? YOu mean like OpenGL? You mean like X?
Come on, every API these days are written by committee, with the exception of maybe PERL (and if you look at PERL, you know it)
Excitement abounds in the "smart pet" industry, but will it ever be applied to humans?"
Who would want a smart human as a pet?
Maybe VALinux can get into this niche market, now that Dell and Big Blue are going to kill their previous niche market.
Apparently some of the managers were getting really sick of the BSOD. The techs installed Linux on their machines one night, and most of them didnt even notice.
Riiiiiiight.... back away from the keyboard man...
Weren't they like "Where is Word?" "Hey, why can't I read my email in Outlook anymore?" "What's this damn penguin?"
Thank goodness.
Not that I needed another reason to vote for Bush, but it never hurts.
God its sad crap like this get's marked as insightful from the crack smoking moderators around here.
The saddest part about the whole piracy debacle is that it is simply too late to really do away with some of the companies that sustain themselves by selling intelectual property
No, the saddest part is that its too late to go back in time and stop the parents / cousins of people who can't get it through their minds not to steal other peoples work from playing hide the salami.
Its kinda sad that that copyright law didn't evolve with the times.
Actually, copyright has evolved quite a bit over the years. Helps if you actually read the article.
But now we have to pay hundreds of dollars for some pieces of plastic that do crazy shit when you shine lasers at them.
Really? You do? Who is making you do this? Some guy with a gun to your head? Really, if you don't like it, don't buy the damn software.. how hard is that?
. Different jobs.. different tools.
Hmmm... you must have missed the sign over the door when you came in. It says PERL for everything.
And good ol' capitalism supplies the answer.. someone comes up with a way to "clean up" the mess. Face it, if the problem ever gets big enough, companies will trip over themselves to buy these things to clean up the areas around their satellites / spacecraft, as the cost is peanuts compared to catastrophic vehicle loss.
Acutally, if we would just privatize orbits around the earth this problem would go away as well. Externalities tend to occur when you have common goods (like orbits) that go unowned, so no one has a vested intersted in keeping them clear of debris. Sell of orbit slots, or something similar, and the market will take care of everything (and you don't have to waste my tax dollars on it, which is a plus. And it will piss of the liberals, another plus.)
You know, the best thing about the various versions of MS Money are that they will synch with your brokerage / bank account. You can download you statements and clear them against you account within the program, make sure your balances are accurate, etc... Does anyone know if it is possible or could be implemented in Gnucash?
To bad Ted Nelson never delivered a working version of anything in his life.
I belive that prior art applies to implmentations...
What a bunch of crap. That's like saying Ford has a monopoly in the Ford Mustang market because they don't let other people license the design for their cars.
There are no end of entrients in the IM market... MS, Yahoo, Tribal Voice all come to mind without thinking about it very hard.
Besides, Mr. Anti trust lawyer, there is nothing magical that says a) if you have over 50% market share you are a monopoly and b) there is nothing illegal about being a monopoly per se.
So let me get this right.. I have an essentially private network (AOL), build a tool that I never claim is open (AIM), and then I get government pressure to let other people use it? Why? AOL's competitors don't have any "right" to interoperate with AIM, they didn't spend any money developing it, didn't build up the infrastructure, didn't send out a bajillion CDs to get people to use it, but now they want to leverage it. Why does crap like this happen? What ever happened to private property rights in this country?
a. Writing HTML is too expensive. Web-authoring tools should use the lowest common denominator, which are the W3C standards for HTML. I don't blame you for using Frontpage, I blame tools for using bad HTML.
Bah, if you are so concerned about the guy with the 286, no graphics, and a 1200 baud accoustic coupled modem, put the information on your gopher site.... hahahahahaha...
Richard Stallman (a man with whom I disagree on a great many topics) said it best: He had heard so many good things about Perl, and wanted to learn the language, but when he started looking for online tutorials, the ones he found were far and few in between, and not to mention of very low quality. Everybody kept telling him to buy the (O'Reilly) "books", but he wanted online stuff, stuff that just wasn't available.
I think the proper "free" response to this is to say.. "What do you want for free?" If you don't like it write your own documentation...
When you own your own company, you are more than free to hire all the convicted felons you want.
So, I'd say Linux has been doing fine in my family room for 3 ro 4 months now.
Ah, the true beauty of open source development. You aren't paying for it, so you have no right to complain when projects are never completed... you should just do it yourself. What? You already have a job? You would gladly pay for a browser if only they would finish it? Too bad...
Somebody is going to do a great deconstruction of the process the Mozilla went through and produce a great software development book along the lines of The Mythical Man Month... they can call it How Not To Run A Software Development Project
No thanks, I already have a job.
...but the US put a man on the moon in the time it taking for this thing to be finished.
How about this for a slogan: Mozilla is the Daiktana of browsers?