A well known US state, who banned the word and concept of "evolution" from all school text books
The state was Kansas and you have the facts wrong. They simply removed evolution from the state mandated tests, there is no requirement against teaching evolution.
In corporate America, it's practically illegal to do anything with money except distribute it to stockholders as quickly as possible.
Which is a damn good thing really. When I invest in a company I want a return on my money, not it going to whatever touchy feely charity some higher up in the company thinks it should go to. If I want to give money to charity I am more than capable of deciding which ones to give it to, I don't need a company to make a donation by proxy for me.
I don't really object to this Ford thing though becuase as I understand it, this was part of the UAW's renegotion of their contract with Ford, so really its a cost of compensation....
Granted this will alienate their employees, which is a bad thing, but anyone who has every flown NW can tell you morale and service is so bad there that it shouldn't make any difference (morale can't go below zero can it?)
...which is namely that the union that the employees belong to claimed during court proceedings that they did not organize this "sick out", just that a large percentage of their memebers all got sick on the same day and didn't go to work. Northwest sued the union for organizing this event (which was prohibited by the latest union contract), so really this isn't a case corportation playing big brother, its a case of the law proceeding as it should.
Off topic: Man, I fly Northwest probably 40 to 60 times a year. Is there a worse airline?
All helium on earth is primordial and when freed from pockets underground, escapes into space. Earth will soon run out of helium and no process (safey or economically) produces it in bulk. However, Jupiter's got loads of helium to spare.
Oh my goodness, what will we do without helium? How will the novelty balloon industry survive? Funny voices? Gone... We will be forced to liquidate all clowns... hmmm... what are the downsides of this again?
No library carries every book (OK, maybe the Library of Congress), so again, since you didn't answer the question but instead chose to engage in semantic games... if people who run libraries can choose what books to put on their shelves, why can't they control what content comes through their computers?
No I'm wondering why people get all in arms about people complaining about taxpayer money going to subsidize someone's porn surfing habit at a library.
Nobody cares how the software works. Nobody is interested in terms like keyword blocking, overbroad blocking or underblocking, nor even information on effectiveness or First Amendment legal issues. The issue will be decided purely on the basis of emotion. Gigabytes evaporate down to two bits of data: (1) there exists porn; (2) filters block porn. There seems to be nothing more that anyone wants to know.
So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?
Alan Cox won the Unsung Hero award and immediately donated his winnings to the DVD defense fund
Nothing against Alan, and it is nice that he donated his winnings to the DVD guys, but does it really makes sense to have a popular vote for an Unsung Hero? If so, shouldn't the person who comes in last get the award, since almost by definition, an unsung person is largely unknown and will have little chance of winning?
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I don't use windows much, and not at all at home. So this new "technology" isn't of much use to me.
Who cares what operating system you use? You think/. should not have any stories about stuff that won't run on your damn computer?
So what the hell does a hardware company need with a company that provides content? Why does VA think it can run Andover better than Andover? Do VA's shareholders benefit from this?
(Note, these are all rhetorical questions... the answer is, simply, that "Internet companies" have higher stock multiples, and VA will get a nice bump in their stock price with this).
Yes, folks, a man just tried to say that Windows was a technologically supperior product to OS/2. Feel free to start laughing until you can't breath now.
I didn't see the word technical in my post anywhere. Try reading things before you post moron.
Besides no matter how well OS/2 was designed, the fact that it its first serveral iterations it didn't recognize 80% of the hardware out there ensured the markets rightous rejection of the product.
Windows did not win because it was supperior, anymore than homosapiens are supperior to the dinosaurs
Huh? I'd bet on the homospiens over the dinosaur any day of the week.
Linux may have momentum, but so does Windows -- a great deal more, if we look at raw usage numbers.
Do you know what the word momentum means? Are you seriously saying that the rate of growth of Linux is less than that of windows over, say, the past 12 months? If so, you are both foolish and wrong.
Surely you are not arguing that PCs were less open than c 84 - 86 Macs?
But ask the professional production studios and TV stations why they still use Beta...
Great, so Sony has the huge production studio and TV station market, instead of that small, insignificant home market.
. If you've seriously used OS/2 at all, you'll know that when Warp 3 came out, the most common devices and good quality brands were quite well supported. In fact, it's only been recently that WinNT itself has overtaken OS/2 in terms of device driver availability.
Great, by the point Warp 3 came out, the game was over.... most of the ISVs had abandoned development for the platform. Warp could have been the greatest thing since sliced bread and it wouldn't have mattered at that point. Oh, and I never ran OS/2, becuase it wouldn't run on my hardware. (ah, the irony!)
Besides, I don't see device driver availability a drawback to Linux getting this far
Yeah, all the way, to what? 5 % of the market... even OS/2 did better than that in its day...
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Microsoft is trying to turn this entire DoS affair into one gigantic media coup. Is it possible it orchastrated the entire thing?
No, it is not possible and futhermore you sound like an idiot for even suggesting it.
Hey bleeding heart --
if you read the article you will see that is not real cow skin (unfortunately)
A well known US state, who banned the word and concept of "evolution" from all school text books
The state was Kansas and you have the facts wrong. They simply removed evolution from the state mandated tests, there is no requirement against teaching evolution.
In corporate America, it's practically illegal to do anything with money except distribute it to stockholders as quickly as possible.
Which is a damn good thing really. When I invest in a company I want a return on my money, not it going to whatever touchy feely charity some higher up in the company thinks it should go to. If I want to give money to charity I am more than capable of deciding which ones to give it to, I don't need a company to make a donation by proxy for me.
I don't really object to this Ford thing though becuase as I understand it, this was part of the UAW's renegotion of their contract with Ford, so really its a cost of compensation....
Well, they did get a search warrent...
Granted this will alienate their employees, which is a bad thing, but anyone who has every flown NW can tell you morale and service is so bad there that it shouldn't make any difference (morale can't go below zero can it?)
...which is namely that the union that the employees belong to claimed during court proceedings that they did not organize this "sick out", just that a large percentage of their memebers all got sick on the same day and didn't go to work. Northwest sued the union for organizing this event (which was prohibited by the latest union contract), so really this isn't a case corportation playing big brother, its a case of the law proceeding as it should.
Off topic: Man, I fly Northwest probably 40 to 60 times a year. Is there a worse airline?
All helium on earth is primordial and when freed from pockets underground, escapes into space. Earth will soon run out of helium and no process (safey or economically) produces it in bulk. However, Jupiter's got loads of helium to spare.
Oh my goodness, what will we do without helium? How will the novelty balloon industry survive? Funny voices? Gone... We will be forced to liquidate all clowns... hmmm... what are the downsides of this again?
No library carries every book (OK, maybe the Library of Congress), so again, since you didn't answer the question but instead chose to engage in semantic games... if people who run libraries can choose what books to put on their shelves, why can't they control what content comes through their computers?
Sorry, but "majority rules" is no excuse for taking away people's rights.
Oh, and a library doesn't have the right to decide what it wants to put on its shelves? If so, can't it decide what it wants to put on its computers?
No I'm wondering why people get all in arms about people complaining about taxpayer money going to subsidize someone's porn surfing habit at a library.
Nobody cares how the software works. Nobody is interested in terms like keyword blocking, overbroad blocking or underblocking, nor even information on effectiveness or First Amendment legal issues. The issue will be decided purely on the basis of emotion. Gigabytes evaporate down to two bits of data: (1) there exists porn; (2) filters block porn. There seems to be nothing more that anyone wants to know.
So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?
...guy who used to be with Wired. I mean, they got close to IPOing at least twice and never quite mananged to cash in. Probably just jealous.
Bullshit.... show me two worthwhile AC comments in the history of slashdot and I will be amazed.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Yeah, if you are some script kiddie doing things you shouldn't.... otherwise, what's the big deal?
So, what, are you suggesting the government is behind this?
hahahahahahahaha... whew...
And as a follow up, do you think there is a bigger prick on the internet than Bruce Perens?
Alan Cox won the Unsung Hero award and immediately donated his winnings to the DVD defense fund
Nothing against Alan, and it is nice that he donated his winnings to the DVD guys, but does it really makes sense to have a popular vote for an Unsung Hero? If so, shouldn't the person who comes in last get the award, since almost by definition, an unsung person is largely unknown and will have little chance of winning?
I don't use windows much, and not at all at home. So this new "technology" isn't of much use to me.
/. should not have any stories about stuff that won't run on your damn computer?
Who cares what operating system you use? You think
Get over yourself.
So what the hell does a hardware company need with a company that provides content? Why does VA think it can run Andover better than Andover? Do VA's shareholders benefit from this?
(Note, these are all rhetorical questions... the answer is, simply, that "Internet companies" have higher stock multiples, and VA will get a nice bump in their stock price with this).
From the commentary..
It's sort of funny to see Time reporting on a lawsuit against their parent company.
No more funny than seeing inaccurate commentary on slashdot.
AOL doesn't own TW yet....
Yeah, I'll get to that after I finish up my program that determines if a given program terminates or not.
When is the obfuscated PERL contest?
Oh wait, it pretty much all looks that way...
Hmm... do I really want to do my hacking, word processing, work from home, etc.. in my living room?
Yes, folks, a man just tried to say that Windows was a technologically supperior product to OS/2. Feel free to start laughing until you can't breath now.
I didn't see the word technical in my post anywhere. Try reading things before you post moron.
Besides no matter how well OS/2 was designed, the fact that it its first serveral iterations it didn't recognize 80% of the hardware out there ensured the markets rightous rejection of the product.
Windows did not win because it was supperior, anymore than homosapiens are supperior to the dinosaurs
Huh? I'd bet on the homospiens over the dinosaur any day of the week.
Linux may have momentum, but so does Windows -- a great deal more, if we look at raw usage numbers.
Do you know what the word momentum means? Are you seriously saying that the rate of growth of Linux is less than that of windows over, say, the past 12 months? If so, you are both foolish and wrong.
PC's were cheaper, but not more open.
Surely you are not arguing that PCs were less open than c 84 - 86 Macs?
But ask the professional production studios and TV stations why they still use Beta...
Great, so Sony has the huge production studio and TV station market, instead of that small, insignificant home market.
. If you've seriously used OS/2 at all, you'll know that when Warp 3 came out, the most common devices and good quality brands were quite well supported. In fact, it's only been recently that WinNT itself has overtaken OS/2 in terms of device driver availability.
Great, by the point Warp 3 came out, the game was over.... most of the ISVs had abandoned development for the platform. Warp could have been the greatest thing since sliced bread and it wouldn't have mattered at that point.
Oh, and I never ran OS/2, becuase it wouldn't run on my hardware. (ah, the irony!)
Besides, I don't see device driver availability a drawback to Linux getting this far
Yeah, all the way, to what? 5 % of the market... even OS/2 did better than that in its day...