it's amusing to see MS in the position of being poached from instead of doing the poaching. i recall way back when, when borland was suing MS for poaching its executives.
it sort of underlines how things have changed in the industry and signals an erosion of MS's leadership/monopoly.
I have doubts about any effort like this working if people can't get their hands on systems of their own. A login with strings attached just isn't all that compelling. With Apple switching to Intel, the prospect of the continued availibility of only-a-little-overpriced, mass-market PPC (ie POWER-ish) systems is fading. Mac systems will be available for some time now, but Apple's Switch casts a pall over the whole affair.
If IBM wants to push their system they may do well to subsidize cheap PPC systems to this particular niche to gain mindshare, familiarity, and visibility with people who may be in a position to drive iseries server purchases later on.
I know they have eval systems, does anyone know what the costs are?
i hear nazi's and child molesters are also for using calculators in our schools. it is because they want to be politically correct. and clearly political correctness requires the use of calculators in our schools.
and posts don't have to be theses, but coherency and logic are kind of nice. even if they are just another tool of leftist idealogues to enslave our great nation.
i think the warning is for folks who might be browsing on handheld systems. i recall someone complaining mightily that a pdf link in a previous story just sort of killed their system.
Government Oppression Merit Badge (sponser: US/China/somecountryyoudon'tlike): Do all of the following: 1. Become a party member 2. Join a mob action intended to silence a group of citizens 3. Burn books which have been found to be 'subversive' 4. Find 6 subversive people in your family or community. 5. Have them sent to work camps.
other badges: Fascism Badge Torture Badge (US Army MP's/former South American regimes/school of the americas). WMD Search Merit Badge Using Fear as a Tool to dominate the citzenry Merit Badge(that one's a little long...think of better name: Better Living through Fear Merit Badge). Internet Censorship Badge (China again!) Regime Change Badge
Foreign Intelligence Merit Badge (CIA/Pentagon) do two of the following: 1. make up shit 2. fact check maybe 3. invade someone's 3rd world ass
hopefully everyone has been offended. if not please take the next 5 minutes to offend yourself.
sad, but true: 90% of murders committed in the US are cold fusion related. much fewer are the murders committed for motives such as robbery, revenge, rage, not paying back your bookie, or randomly.
in fact the only explanation for current murder statistics is the success of cold fusion.
what one labels a number is indeed arbitrary. there would still be patterns though: they arise from the way in which one number is built from other numbers (the properties of the group and its operators addition and multiplication), however if the labels are chosen so that one label has no relationship to another, then you probably won't find any interesting patterns between the labels (since there is no structure to the naming).
of course if the labels don't relate to each other it makes it hard to know if one number is larger or smaller than another, or what the result would be when adding two numbers: everything would have to be memorized.
the way we have chosen to label the numbers is based on their polynomial expansion. this method causes the labels themselves to have interesting relationships to the numbers they represent because of the specific structure that is imposed by the naming scheme (as well as the properties of the group itself).
if the base were different the patterns would just be different i imagine.
i recall an algorithm discovered a while back that would converge to the digits of pi at an arbitrary selected position, but it only worked in certain bases.
secondly, mono is more about enabling developers to use C# and CLR, rather than allowing people to run windows software on *nix, so there isn't the same necessity for bug-for-bug compatibility as there is in samba (where you want to look exactly like a Windows box from the outside).
wonkette is hilarious. you seem to have an issue with leaving the house though. i agree her statement was a non-sequitur, but as you probably realize she was only making fun of you. don't worry, i'm sure your 'web-logging' thing will be very big.
well your comment got past the editors because no one edits comments. the case was dismissed (w/o prejudice) because SCOG failed to plead special damages.
hth.
""" Accordingly, Novell's motion to dismiss SCO's slander of title claim for failure to specifically plead special damages is granted without prejudice. """
and
""" For the reasons stated above, Plaintiff's Motion to Remand is DENIED, and Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is DENIED as to Plaintiff's pleading of falsity and GRANTED as to Plaintiff's pleading of special damages. Plaintiff is granted 30 days from the date of this Order to amend its Complaint to more specifically plead special damages. """
(this is a bit rough, i don't have the time to flesh it out any better or make it shorter)
i agree that when civil disobedience works, it does so because a large section of the power structure wants it to. but i betcha we have different views of what constitutes the power structure.
hmmm if i recall correctly, he was successful in south africa in winning recognition of indian mariages and abolition of the poll tax (on asiatics). (the major criticism of his work in SA was that it wasn't on the behalf of or in cooperation with the (native) african peoples: i have seen him called a racist).
the whole point of his non-violent resistance was to get the british on his side...to convert them, and make continuation of their occupation unprofitable. the british needed the indian people (to perform society's normal chores, prepare exports, etc); gandhi hoped to take the indian people away from them by simply getting a large group of people to not cooperate with the government. and i agree there were certainly many other factors at play which lead to indian independence.
he really can't be faulted for people wanting their heros to be perfect. real life is much less decisive than one would hope.
saying political power grows out of violence/martial power is a simplification: political power grows out of a majority of the will of a group of people (including the government and people...note that one group is usually larger numerically, but the government has more at its disposal concentrated in fewer people making it more efficient to act. the power they do wield though is in terms of resources and people, and this is also their achilles heel; the people must ultimately consent to be governed: using violence to extract consent works up to a point, but has diminishing returns. disinformation is probably a better method). i can think of a good number of situations when violence to effect a change didn't succeed, and merely balkanized the parties (name me some.).
another complication is the fact that people and the government are not wholly separate, they are part of a society and the views of the whole can and do change (unless you think the illuminati and the trilateral commission control everything according to a plan formalated 1000's of years ago). moreover people are generally not rational beings (not even with respect to their own greed and self-preservation), so appeals to justice and emotion and natural rights (like gandhi's) can work. (if you want to be cynical then reword it as 'so appeals to emotion are another avenue of attack').
the real world is complicated. that's all.
saying types of political power come from violence or military power doesn't bother me, but saying that it simply comes from that isn't realistic and it is a model which will limit your ability to act and react against others.
"""there are too many, they can't get us all" is not a valid way to go about changing things, especially when the penalties are harsh like the penalties for FCC violations.""
1. actually it kind of is. it's one of the reasons civil disobedience can work.
2. ohhh harsh FCC penalties...it's a good thing the FCC wasn't in charge of the Tiananmen crackdown. it would have been so much worse.
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it's amusing to see MS in the position of being poached from instead of doing the poaching. i recall way back when, when borland was suing MS for poaching its executives.
it sort of underlines how things have changed in the industry and signals an erosion of MS's leadership/monopoly.
maybe i can finally get a new video card!
yay, i turned out to be right this time (see other replies). that said, you are correct in believing i have no idea what i'm talking about.
I have doubts about any effort like this working if people can't get their hands on systems of their own. A login with strings attached just isn't all that compelling. With Apple switching to Intel, the prospect of the continued availibility of only-a-little-overpriced, mass-market PPC (ie POWER-ish) systems is fading. Mac systems will be available for some time now, but Apple's Switch casts a pall over the whole affair.
If IBM wants to push their system they may do well to subsidize cheap PPC systems to this particular niche to gain mindshare, familiarity, and visibility with people who may be in a position to drive iseries server purchases later on.
I know they have eval systems, does anyone know what the costs are?
Or maybe it wouldn't help; it'd still be nice.
i hear nazi's and child molesters are also for using calculators in our schools. it is because they want to be politically correct. and clearly political correctness requires the use of calculators in our schools.
and posts don't have to be theses, but coherency and logic are kind of nice. even if they are just another tool of leftist idealogues to enslave our great nation.
Bondage and Discipline
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http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/bondage-and-di
i think the warning is for folks who might be browsing on handheld systems. i recall someone complaining mightily that a pdf link in a previous story just sort of killed their system.
iirc.
how about
Government Oppression Merit Badge (sponser: US/China/somecountryyoudon'tlike):
Do all of the following:
1. Become a party member
2. Join a mob action intended to silence a group of citizens
3. Burn books which have been found to be 'subversive'
4. Find 6 subversive people in your family or community.
5. Have them sent to work camps.
other badges:
Fascism Badge
Torture Badge (US Army MP's/former South American regimes/school of the americas).
WMD Search Merit Badge
Using Fear as a Tool to dominate the citzenry Merit Badge(that one's a little long...think of better name: Better Living through Fear Merit Badge).
Internet Censorship Badge (China again!)
Regime Change Badge
Foreign Intelligence Merit Badge (CIA/Pentagon)
do two of the following:
1. make up shit
2. fact check maybe
3. invade someone's 3rd world ass
hopefully everyone has been offended. if not please take the next 5 minutes to offend yourself.
you're right!
sad, but true: 90% of murders committed in the US are cold fusion related. much fewer are the murders committed for motives such as robbery, revenge, rage, not paying back your bookie, or randomly.
in fact the only explanation for current murder statistics is the success of cold fusion.
what one labels a number is indeed arbitrary. there would still be patterns though: they arise from the way in which one number is built from other numbers (the properties of the group and its operators addition and multiplication), however if the labels are chosen so that one label has no relationship to another, then you probably won't find any interesting patterns between the labels (since there is no structure to the naming).
of course if the labels don't relate to each other it makes it hard to know if one number is larger or smaller than another, or what the result would be when adding two numbers: everything would have to be memorized.
the way we have chosen to label the numbers is based on their polynomial expansion. this method causes the labels themselves to have interesting relationships to the numbers they represent because of the specific structure that is imposed by the naming scheme (as well as the properties of the group itself).
if the base were different the patterns would just be different i imagine.
i recall an algorithm discovered a while back that would converge to the digits of pi at an arbitrary selected position, but it only worked in certain bases.
but i might have just been dreaming. ymmv etc.
first, their is a published spec.
secondly, mono is more about enabling developers to use C# and CLR, rather than allowing people to run windows software on *nix, so there isn't the same necessity for bug-for-bug compatibility as there is in samba (where you want to look exactly like a Windows box from the outside).
(see i used the correct form of ur). arguing for purism in the english language is the moral equivalent of teaching creation science to lemurs.
wonkette is hilarious. you seem to have an issue with leaving the house though. i agree her statement was a non-sequitur, but as you probably realize she was only making fun of you. don't worry, i'm sure your 'web-logging' thing will be very big.
well now that you bring up the whole bush-is-teh-suck thing. bush is indeed teh suck.
but i dunno, your comment seems a bit off topic for this article since it has nothing to do with bush at all.
did they leave a message?
that's nothing compared to soviet russia....
i think you might have missed a memo or two.
1997 called; they want their joke back.
clearly you need 4 reset buttons as well in that case.
it doesn't involve a mainframe?
bad idea: the plastic grass would probably be harder to cut than real grass.
well your comment got past the editors because no one edits comments. the case was dismissed (w/o prejudice) because SCOG failed to plead special damages.
hth.
"""
Accordingly, Novell's motion to dismiss SCO's slander of title claim for failure to specifically plead special damages is granted without prejudice.
"""
and
"""
For the reasons stated above, Plaintiff's Motion to Remand is DENIED, and Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is DENIED as to Plaintiff's pleading of falsity and GRANTED as to Plaintiff's pleading of special damages. Plaintiff is granted 30 days from the date of this Order to amend its Complaint to more specifically plead special damages.
"""
now i have to change the codes on all my nuclear weapons :<
(this is a bit rough, i don't have the time to flesh it out any better or make it shorter)
i agree that when civil disobedience works, it does so because a large section of the power structure wants it to. but i betcha we have different views of what constitutes the power structure.
hmmm if i recall correctly, he was successful in south africa in winning recognition of indian mariages and abolition of the poll tax (on asiatics). (the major criticism of his work in SA was that it wasn't on the behalf of or in cooperation with the (native) african peoples: i have seen him called a racist).
the whole point of his non-violent resistance was to get the british on his side...to convert them, and make continuation of their occupation unprofitable. the british needed the indian people (to perform society's normal chores, prepare exports, etc); gandhi hoped to take the indian people away from them by simply getting a large group of people to not cooperate with the government. and i agree there were certainly many other factors at play which lead to indian independence.
he really can't be faulted for people wanting their heros to be perfect. real life is much less decisive than one would hope.
saying political power grows out of violence/martial power is a simplification: political power grows out of a majority of the will of a group of people (including the government and people...note that one group is usually larger numerically, but the government has more at its disposal concentrated in fewer people making it more efficient to act. the power they do wield though is in terms of resources and people, and this is also their achilles heel; the people must ultimately consent to be governed: using violence to extract consent works up to a point, but has diminishing returns. disinformation is probably a better method). i can think of a good number of situations when violence to effect a change didn't succeed, and merely balkanized the parties (name me some.).
another complication is the fact that people and the government are not wholly separate, they are part of a society and the views of the whole can and do change (unless you think the illuminati and the trilateral commission control everything according to a plan formalated 1000's of years ago). moreover people are generally not rational beings (not even with respect to their own greed and self-preservation), so appeals to justice and emotion and natural rights (like gandhi's) can work. (if you want to be cynical then reword it as 'so appeals to emotion are another avenue of attack').
the real world is complicated. that's all.
saying types of political power come from violence or military power doesn't bother me, but saying that it simply comes from that isn't realistic and it is a model which will limit your ability to act and react against others.
"""there are too many, they can't get us all" is not a valid way to go about changing things, especially when the penalties are harsh like the penalties for FCC violations.""
1. actually it kind of is. it's one of the reasons civil disobedience can work.
2. ohhh harsh FCC penalties...it's a good thing the FCC wasn't in charge of the Tiananmen crackdown. it would have been so much worse.