Here is Australia when our first plastic $5 note came out people pretty soon worked out that a little bit of sweat and a minute or two or smudging and the picture of the queen would come right off. I think in the end the government did a recall on the notes (someone can correct me on that).
Being in favour of a republic I personally did my duty and scrubbed the queen of my notes.
They need to go somewhere MS really doesn't want to.. like Linux. Make a cross-platform suite that works in Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Force MS to legitimize Linux on the desktop, or give the market to you.
I believe the product is called StarOffice with an OS version called OpenOffice. You may have heard of it.
TAYLOR: Yes. It's not just as easy as taking out the existing HTTP server in Windows server and making it a separate product tomorrow. It is not that simple.
It would have been if they had left the web server a separate product. Aim to monopolize web server market... but shoot's itself in the foot it seems.
From our experience Interbase needs a lot of baby sitting.
Our databases would be less than a gig but any time it did a sweep it would take up one whole processor and go bye byes for an exteneded period of time. In fairness to Interbase, we were using the Borland Database Engine as well which was a cause for most of our database headaches but I would not recommend Interbase in a large production environment.
I thought the best thing about Interbase were the GUI admin tools (IBExpert in particular).
Totally agree. Like it or not, the RIAA do have the backing of copyright laws. What is the EFF suppose to argue in court? That the copyright laws should be changed and in light of the required changes to said laws we should win this case here before you your Honour?
So I for one am glad the EFF is not trying to take the RIAA to court because it would be a total waste of resources.
It is true what you say about GOTOs but we program in high level languages which give us the opportunity to describe loops in terms of 'while', 'do while' and 'for' that are much easier to use and understand.
eg. for (int i = 0; i arraySize; ++i)
You know immediately that the loop will be processed for each element in some array. Please show me how using GOTOs is more elegant.
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You have amazing insight into how I act for someone who does not know me. People are free to pay their respects as they see fit. It just so happens that many people do like to go to the grave site as it is often a quiet place with few people around. It's not like we invite crowds or the media everytime we go to the grave site.
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I said pay respects, not commune.
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Was you granddad Ned Flanders?
Better than having Homer Simpson as my granddad.
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Well my granddad never touched alcohol, nor did he beat up on his wife and my family can go and pay their respects at his grave site at any time.
Reducing him and many others to the equal of garbage is disrespectful to say the least.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says: Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
Wrong. There are implied freedoms that the High Court has interpretted from the Constitution. Our Constitution was never meant to be a Bill of Rights so they are not spelled out explicitly but as you can see from the US Bill of Rights, anything can be interpretted for your own benefit (a well formed militia can be a Joe Average in Hickville, Alabama these days).
Name me one country between Iraq and Australia that is a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention and is politically stable. Oh and don't worry about being fooled into thinking they're lawbreakers, Howard and Ruddock have decieved many people. If they were infact breaking the law then we'd lock them up in jail. At least there are better conditions in jail. They are asylum seekers, not illegal immigrants, just like the people at Guatanamo Bay are P.O.Ws not enemy combatants.
Oh and don't forget to sing the revised version of our anthem. Instead of "For those who've come across the seas we've boundless plains to share" it now goes "For those who've come across the seas we could not really care".
The Howard government is trying to reduce their legal rights as much as possible
Too right. Ruddock did all he could as Immigration Minister to keep the refugees locked up and now he is trying all he can as the Attorney General to do the same. He blames the refugees for clogging up the High Court when it is really his fault for not allowing them any other avenue of appeal for decisions handed down by the Immigration Tribunal. Section 75(5) of the Constitution will always give someone the right to appeal an administrative decision at the High Court so that is where the refugees are being forced to go. If Ruddock was serious about freeing up the High Court he should stop forcing refugees into having the High Court as their only avenue of appeal.
I learned C, C++ and assembler while at university, and came out with the ability to jump into anything. Give me any language and I can guarantee I'll be churning out useful code in a VERY short amount of time.
I'm in a similar position. Started with C++ and have since picked up Delphi, Java, PHP and other scripting languages without a problem. But don't get too cocky. We have both found picking up similar languages no problem but I will guarentee that you WON'T be churning out useful code in LISP in a short time.
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But I'm suing them for breach of GPL cause I GPL'ed the line
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and they've used it everywhere.
...it has targeted for lawsuits, but it has said the first two will be aimed at companies that hold Unix licenses.
So they'll sue them and then say, "and while you're at it why not switch to SCO Unix. Have a nice day."
Whatever business school McBride went to must be laying pretty low at the moment.
Here is Australia when our first plastic $5 note came out people pretty soon worked out that a little bit of sweat and a minute or two or smudging and the picture of the queen would come right off. I think in the end the government did a recall on the notes (someone can correct me on that).
Being in favour of a republic I personally did my duty and scrubbed the queen of my notes.
And then how long until Winamp will support Ogg as a standard file format (no plugin required). Musicmatch already supports Ogg too.
Yeah converting Mp3s to Oggs is going to make for some crap quality audio files but you gotta start somewhere.
They need to go somewhere MS really doesn't want to.. like Linux. Make a cross-platform suite that works in Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Force MS to legitimize Linux on the desktop, or give the market to you.
I believe the product is called StarOffice with an OS version called OpenOffice. You may have heard of it.
It would have been if they had left the web server a separate product. Aim to monopolize web server market ... but shoot's itself in the foot it seems.
My guess is no. This would not fall under the 'appropriate' column.
From our experience Interbase needs a lot of baby sitting.
Our databases would be less than a gig but any time it did a sweep it would take up one whole processor and go bye byes for an exteneded period of time. In fairness to Interbase, we were using the Borland Database Engine as well which was a cause for most of our database headaches but I would not recommend Interbase in a large production environment.
I thought the best thing about Interbase were the GUI admin tools (IBExpert in particular).
Totally agree. Like it or not, the RIAA do have the backing of copyright laws. What is the EFF suppose to argue in court? That the copyright laws should be changed and in light of the required changes to said laws we should win this case here before you your Honour?
So I for one am glad the EFF is not trying to take the RIAA to court because it would be a total waste of resources.
I don't have my credit card number on me right now but I've got a Nigerian friend who has my account details. You can ask him for them if you want.
I think Jobs was probably referring to just the movie animation industry in which case it is not too far fetched as sweeping statements go.
It is true what you say about GOTOs but we program in high level languages which give us the opportunity to describe loops in terms of 'while', 'do while' and 'for' that are much easier to use and understand.
eg. for (int i = 0; i arraySize; ++i)
You know immediately that the loop will be processed for each element in some array. Please show me how using GOTOs is more elegant.
You have amazing insight into how I act for someone who does not know me. People are free to pay their respects as they see fit. It just so happens that many people do like to go to the grave site as it is often a quiet place with few people around. It's not like we invite crowds or the media everytime we go to the grave site.
I said pay respects, not commune.
Better than having Homer Simpson as my granddad.
Well my granddad never touched alcohol, nor did he beat up on his wife and my family can go and pay their respects at his grave site at any time.
Reducing him and many others to the equal of garbage is disrespectful to say the least.
You know you're a slashdotter when you can't help but pick up on other people's spelling mistakes.
I read it as "SCO UNIX (R) is a cucumber"
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says: Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again."
You know you're a slashdotter when:
You search through issues of Peoeple and Sports Illustrated to find a copy of Photonics Spectra.
Wrong. There are implied freedoms that the High Court has interpretted from the Constitution. Our Constitution was never meant to be a Bill of Rights so they are not spelled out explicitly but as you can see from the US Bill of Rights, anything can be interpretted for your own benefit (a well formed militia can be a Joe Average in Hickville, Alabama these days).
And additionally the Indonesian army is mainly trained in defensive procedures, not offensive. We should know cause we train them.
And would the US not come to New Zealands aid if attacked by a raging flock of fury penguins. I think not!
Name me one country between Iraq and Australia that is a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention and is politically stable. Oh and don't worry about being fooled into thinking they're lawbreakers, Howard and Ruddock have decieved many people. If they were infact breaking the law then we'd lock them up in jail. At least there are better conditions in jail. They are asylum seekers, not illegal immigrants, just like the people at Guatanamo Bay are P.O.Ws not enemy combatants.
Oh and don't forget to sing the revised version of our anthem. Instead of "For those who've come across the seas we've boundless plains to share" it now goes "For those who've come across the seas we could not really care".
Too right. Ruddock did all he could as Immigration Minister to keep the refugees locked up and now he is trying all he can as the Attorney General to do the same. He blames the refugees for clogging up the High Court when it is really his fault for not allowing them any other avenue of appeal for decisions handed down by the Immigration Tribunal. Section 75(5) of the Constitution will always give someone the right to appeal an administrative decision at the High Court so that is where the refugees are being forced to go. If Ruddock was serious about freeing up the High Court he should stop forcing refugees into having the High Court as their only avenue of appeal.
I'm in a similar position. Started with C++ and have since picked up Delphi, Java, PHP and other scripting languages without a problem. But don't get too cocky. We have both found picking up similar languages no problem but I will guarentee that you WON'T be churning out useful code in LISP in a short time.