unfortunately you're off by a couple of decades - "meme" first appeared in Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" from 1976. On the up side, that probably means it's back in fashion!
I fail to see how using a proprietary desktop (Sun/Java) gives them much benefit. Sun keep posturing as if they are commited to Open Source, but have yet to back it up by actually opening their source.
So the choice Indonesia has made, while cheaper than Microsoft, leaves them with a similar corporate dependence.
While *.doc may be common, it is in no way standard, since its closed specification has changed with every release of Word.
Unless you can convince everybody to save their documents in *.rtf (Rich Text Format), which is an open standard. I have not had any luck persuading my employers to switch though...
I couldn't disagree more. I HATE "suck up" jobs, and endeavor to find altenative employment if I find myself stuck in one.
There are employers out there who realize that the best way to get productive employees is to let them get on with it.
If you are stuck with a boss who does not know what they are doing, and is riding your ass to cover their own insecurity, you are better off out of there - unless you have sufficient wit to convince them otherwise.
my understanding of the mis-named "Constitution" (mis-named by some former French president trying to improve his image) is that it increases the power of the European Parliment (who keep trying to keep software patents at bay) against the European Commission (the national government representitives who seem only to happy to please the big business lobby). So what was your point again?
Unfortunately there is currently no authority to prosecute NASA for their decades of treating space as their trash can, they have now moved into the realm of vandalism.
Should a pension fund support the decision to send 1000 jobs to India if this would increase shareholders' value?
Suppose your future pension is in that fund. How would you feel if the fund manager took money from your pocket and gave it to those poor underpaid US workers?
What if one of those out-sourced jobs was your childs? Or your own?
Slavery on the European mainland was pretty rare, since there were sufficent peasants available to do that work for subsistence wages. They didn't have voting rights, but in theory they had been freed from surfdom across most of Europe during the middle ages.
It was the plantation system in the "New World" that drove the trading in African slaves, after most of the native Americans had been destroyed by "Old World" diseases.
you're not entitled to their work without fair compensation
I quite agree - if only the RIAA member payed their artists fair compensation. Unless young artists are lucky enough to have access to decent contract lawyers, that is unlikely to happen.
I like to make a point of buying the work of musicians I like, now I'm earning an ok income - preferably at their concerts, where they are less likely to be ripped off by all the middlemen in the business. When I was young and poorer, I would tape from the radio and buy 2nd hand. Only if I was particularly struck by something would I stump up the cash for new material. I fail to see how P2P use by today's young (and presumable poor) differs from my home taping in my youth, except it dramatically improves the range of available music.
Of course the music industry used to winge on about "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC" back then, but it obviously didn't, and the US Supreme Court's Betamax ruling meant we had the law on our side. Of course RIAA and company are busy issuing writs to music uploaders, but has anybody taken them up on their offer of legal action? Or been backed sufficiently to take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary? From what I've read, everybody so far has caved in to the threat.
dubious â' dubiosity
Another class of common construction uses the suffix â-itudeâ(TM) to abstract a quality from just about any adjective or noun. This usage arises especially in cases where mainstream English would perform the same abstraction through â-inessâ(TM) or â-ingnessâ(TM).
Examining the source, it is evident that this curious rendering is caused by his global substitution of non-standard (i.e. not normal US/UK keyboard mapping) paired single-quotes for apostrophes, and a stumpy plus sign (again non-keyboard). This problem does not appear in earlier versions of the jargon file, so you know that he did it on purpose to bork IE.
Slashdot Mirror
is it available in any color other than bath-duck yellow?
Augh!!! my eyes...
unfortunately you're off by a couple of decades - "meme" first appeared in Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" from 1976. On the up side, that probably means it's back in fashion!
I fail to see how using a proprietary desktop (Sun/Java) gives them much benefit. Sun keep posturing as if they are commited to Open Source, but have yet to back it up by actually opening their source.
So the choice Indonesia has made, while cheaper than Microsoft, leaves them with a similar corporate dependence.
Surely anything mentioning RMS should get an automatic (Score:5 Flamebait/Troll)?
that site moved to Italy
That pretty impressive, considering Google wasn't founded until September 1998
That pretty impressive, considering Google wasn't founded until September 1998
While *.doc may be common, it is in no way standard, since its closed specification has changed with every release of Word.
Unless you can convince everybody to save their documents in *.rtf (Rich Text Format), which is an open standard. I have not had any luck persuading my employers to switch though...
I wish the Windows default open/save dialog had a file treeview on it. Navigating via the drop down or "common places" is SLOW.
I couldn't disagree more. I HATE "suck up" jobs, and endeavor to find altenative employment if I find myself stuck in one.
There are employers out there who realize that the best way to get productive employees is to let them get on with it.
If you are stuck with a boss who does not know what they are doing, and is riding your ass to cover their own insecurity, you are better off out of there - unless you have sufficient wit to convince them otherwise.
You realize that GNU HURD has been vaporware longer than Duke Nukem Forever?
Linux - the OS for people who miss the fun of getting DOS games working...
I suspect he was being sarcastic, as Longhorn has yet to include any useful new features, and this is of questionable usefulness.
..." though, which will no doubt cause much confusion and broken links :)
They have removed the prefix "My
So the first Linux script-kids will be from New Zealand.
Woo-hoo, go Kiwis!
my understanding of the mis-named "Constitution" (mis-named by some former French president trying to improve his image) is that it increases the power of the European Parliment (who keep trying to keep software patents at bay) against the European Commission (the national government representitives who seem only to happy to please the big business lobby). So what was your point again?
In my experience, many coders who don't know what they are doing claim to be following the spec...
Unfortunately there is currently no authority to prosecute NASA for their decades of treating space as their trash can, they have now moved into the realm of vandalism.
Is there no saving us from this delinquent?
Nah, unless you run Windows on a Cray, it still sucks ass.
NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.
you misspelled odors.
Should a pension fund support the decision to send 1000 jobs to India if this would increase shareholders' value?
Suppose your future pension is in that fund. How would you feel if the fund manager took money from your pocket and gave it to those poor underpaid US workers?
What if one of those out-sourced jobs was your childs? Or your own?
Slavery on the European mainland was pretty rare, since there were sufficent peasants available to do that work for subsistence wages. They didn't have voting rights, but in theory they had been freed from surfdom across most of Europe during the middle ages.
It was the plantation system in the "New World" that drove the trading in African slaves, after most of the native Americans had been destroyed by "Old World" diseases.
you're not entitled to their work without fair compensation
I quite agree - if only the RIAA member payed their artists fair compensation. Unless young artists are lucky enough to have access to decent contract lawyers, that is unlikely to happen.
I like to make a point of buying the work of musicians I like, now I'm earning an ok income - preferably at their concerts, where they are less likely to be ripped off by all the middlemen in the business. When I was young and poorer, I would tape from the radio and buy 2nd hand. Only if I was particularly struck by something would I stump up the cash for new material. I fail to see how P2P use by today's young (and presumable poor) differs from my home taping in my youth, except it dramatically improves the range of available music.
Of course the music industry used to winge on about "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC" back then, but it obviously didn't, and the US Supreme Court's Betamax ruling meant we had the law on our side. Of course RIAA and company are busy issuing writs to music uploaders, but has anybody taken them up on their offer of legal action? Or been backed sufficiently to take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary? From what I've read, everybody so far has caved in to the threat.
Quick check my address book for folks using hotmail... wow, I don't know anybody that stupid. What a relief!
Hey, great analogy!
:)
On the other hand I came here for the security versus slupee flame-fest
It is Friday, after all...
Harleys may have been cheap back then, but they were also slightly less reliable than Eastern-Bloc bikes.
Although I once knew of an Eatern-Bloc bike which would occasionally start in reverse!
A glorious sample from the parents link:
dubious â' dubiosity Another class of common construction uses the suffix â-itudeâ(TM) to abstract a quality from just about any adjective or noun. This usage arises especially in cases where mainstream English would perform the same abstraction through â-inessâ(TM) or â-ingnessâ(TM).
Examining the source, it is evident that this curious rendering is caused by his global substitution of non-standard (i.e. not normal US/UK keyboard mapping) paired single-quotes for apostrophes, and a stumpy plus sign (again non-keyboard). This problem does not appear in earlier versions of the jargon file, so you know that he did it on purpose to bork IE.