that's why we keep reading these stories about an "Electronic Pearl Harbor" and how hard they're working.
Face it, they just want an excuse to spend more money on eavesdropping on civilians on the Net, and this is just their way of making it sound like they're not looking for pr0n.
Does a secretary really need an 800MHz Athlon? Do students? Heck, I've done commercial game development with much, much less than that.
Most of the energy usage is still the monitor, usually 50 percent. Until we see better power conservation there, the CPU is just a small part of the power usage.
...what do you suppose the best industry to invest in would be right now in reference to this problem?
Well, power cells have a high risk factor, so I'd stay away, except for Ballard Power, since they're a long established and proven company. Based in Canada too, so a twofer.
My main bet has been plunking down $10K in Green Mountain Power (GMP), since they have an edge in negotiations, years of experience, and a good P/E compared to the rest of the industry, plus a nice Flow Ratio with hefty cash reserves. They're not growing too fast, but slowly breaking out of a regional (NE) market into a national one (add CA, OR). They have a nice mix of wind and natural gas, and some solar and natural gas, and geothermal and natural gas. They seem to "get" it, and have very very very nice dividends.
Forget conservation, Americans are selfish and especially technology. Only in cities with energy -efficient building codes will this come into play.
OK, once again you've actually bought in to the propaganda from Washington DC (the "unreal" Washington) that there was deregulation.
The only deregulation with any teeth was that allowing the large players to buy out more of the mid and small players. And to merge with equally large players. Paid for by lobbyists. [yes, I own AT&T, Cox, and France Telecom, so trust me on this]
The requirement that colocates were to be required was put in with no regulatory teeth. If US West or AT&T decide they don't have enough space, they don't have to let you colocate in their CO. If they "need" the space for their own growth, you don't get in. If they just can't be bothered, you still don't get to colocate until it's convenient for them. And since DSL and Cable Modems are both unregulated services, they can do this.
What will happen - basically, the big players will continue to triumph and the small and mid players will either be bought out or crushed. And endless committees in Washington DC will do precisely nothing, since they depend on all those fat, juicy bribes we call "PAC donations" and all those nice "bundled, independent" contributions.
And, since you can't be bothered to buttonhole your congressmembers and senators, they'll keep getting away with it.
Have you ever been to California? There aren't as many areas that get winds consistantly strong enough to power wind generators. There are areas that have wind turbines (such as Techapie (sp?--it's at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Mojave)), but the wind we get off the ocean isn't as strong or consistant as the wind the Pacific Northwest gets (note, I'm saying this as a San Diegan who lived in Tacoma for a few years)
Most of my family lives in Santa Barbara and Goleta. I have so many frequent flyer miles I'm at the top level on both United and Alaska from trips to California.
And there are many places which could use wind turbines - is it safer to have oil spills on the coast? I've seen what that does. Modern turbines have light and sound to decrease bird kill a hundred fold - you're thinking the old style like near San Francisco. Modern turbines are small and efficient, about 20-30 feet tall at most.
But just pretending we up here in Washington and Oregon are going to keep shipping you power is laughable - we have our own server farms to feed and you're not getting more of our power, you'll be getting even less than you get now.
>Oh, and those air conditioners? Lose them. Buy a fan and deal with it. Ceiling fans are probably the best.
Heh. You wanna come spend a week at my place here in Austin or my parents' places in Houston next summer? I think a good 5-7 days of the Texas summertime will change your tune. The fastest land animal is not the cheetah, its a no-ac-cuz-it-harms-the-poor-widdle-animals eco-friend running to turn the AC back on..
Actually, I was born in San Antonio, and spent a year when I was 10 in Arlington, back when it wasn't overgrown by Dallas and Fort Worth. I still remember the nosebleeds and headaches from how cold they cranked those air conditioners in Dallas, like they still do, in the buildings. You don't need it to be 65, just 74. If you want to live in the south, adapt.
And when we lived there we had ceiling fans and open layout - it works well if you go with adobe or mason block construction, like all the old buildings from when it was all Mexican.
I'm serious. Up here in Seattle, we get into the 90s before we use the air conditioners to drop down to 78 to 82 - in the south you all chill down to 65 and freeze to death. Learn to deal with it - I spent a week at Burning Man with no air conditioning - most of the world takes siestas in the hot hours, look at Spain for what you should be doing - sleep from 1 to 4, have long lunches under verandas with ceiling fans, then stay up till 11 at night (kids too).
It's all in your head - in the military I operated at temps from 112 F to -40 F with no heat or air conditioning.
The main point is you don't have to use as much power - you can just set the air conditioner to cool to 72 instead and cut power consumption in half. And build buildings in the south to work with the climate you live in, not some fantasy climate of the north. A glass skyscraper is totally insane in places that spend half the year above 90 F.
Look, up here in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington have built record numbers of wind generation systems, and natural gas turbines are being put in place. We can't make up for the idiotic rate-wheeling experiment that California decided to enter in - the California legislature has to take action yesterday and build environmentally-friendly power plants yesterday.
Don't ask, just do it. Buy up all the wind turbines you can and put them online - modern turbines run about 4.5 to 6.5 cents, only gas turbines are cheaper.
The other thing is - get rid of those WinNT and Win2K boxen! Switch to some decent boxen with good cycle usage like *nix.
Oh, and those air conditioners? Lose them. Buy a fan and deal with it. Ceiling fans are probably the best.
In the Dune mythos, "thinking machines", i.e. robots and computers, are either banned or regarded as an abomination. Neither screen adaptation mentioned this, as far as I can remember.
And why would they? I mean, do you go around every day saying out loud: "It is a good thing that we worship technology and use it - all hail the stealer of privacy, and let none forsake the god of technology for their petty self interests!"
No, it's just how you live. If you were to expound on it, it would have to be a voiceover of an historian, since it is not something you're that conscious of.
Shields - we had the training lessons in both adaptations, although I noticed a much lesser use of shields in combat during the SciFi adaptation.
Chani is one sexy babe!
Yeah, how come no bio or screen credits on intro for her? She had major screen time, and more than upheld her role. I think it's a "just a local actress" phenomenon, where they dis her just because she's not a Yank or a Brit.
Note that in the SciFi adaptation that Chani starts of not being appealing and becomes moreso as the series progresses - also the fact that Paul found the local working girls attractive during the banner-hanging scene so that we knew it wasn't his first infatuation. I found her role quite well done, even if it was a larger one in the Dune movie.
That said, I want to see the European cut - more Chani!
good poke balls: get flourescent red spray paint, flourescent white spray paint, 1 inch thick masking tape, lots of newspaper - lay two layers of newspaper under the paint area, with extra two feet for overspray - tape on newsprint over a top row of CDs (so upper half covered) - tape on newsprint over a bottom row of CDs (so bottom half covered) - spray paint white - now reverse the CDs after drying for 2-6 hours - spray paint red - dry for 12 hours - for best results, spray paint on the SHINY side, unless you want to do two coats.
Used the above for a poke ball tunic for Pokegaard, the Forgotton Demigod of Pokemon, in his avatar of a 9 year old boy, along with some belt pokemon and standard issue poke balls, at the 2000 Burning Man. Attach to a mesh shirt with plastic coat wires (Electroluminescent Wire is best) and try dancing with this at a rave in the desert, with strong strobe UV lights, for best effects.
First, having expensive real estate office space in SF with expensive duplicate staff is a waste. Due to job market, not a bad deal to be cut loose, especially if they let you keep your options.
Second, Open Source does not mean it's good business automatically. You can do Open Source in Spokane, WA, for a lot less per employee than in San Francisco, CA. Price, about a fourth, counting office space and employee costs. Or do it in other parts of the country.
Third, pricing of their stock means little at this point. My personal evaluation is they're worth about $20/share, since I priced them at $40/share at IPO. When it got nuts ($140) I sold, and bought back in at 105 (25 shares), 28 (75 shares), and 22 (200 shares). Sold the 105 shares to declare technical loss and wash out the gains from the original 14 shares I sold at 140. I still think most tech stocks are overpriced by about twice their current market pricing. I will probably buy some more RHAT this month.
Fourth, just because Red Hat is acting like a business doesn't change anything for Corel or VA Linux Systems. The latter is just a box maker, and margins are always slim in that sector. Wake me when all the IPO shares are sold out from expired lockups...
I've always thought they were a pretty hokey idea, dating back from the early days of SF. I recall them popping up in some early Clarke, or perhaps Asimov work.
Hmm, I think it was Vance, used in some of his alternative civilizations. Also used in Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series of works at times.
Basically, what I've seen so far is far superior in terms of a representation of the written work on the small screen than Dune The Movie was.
There are a few exceptions - the stillsuits in the movie were far superior than those in the series, for example.
But, the ornithopters were killer, the acting is much more balanced and believable, the feel is very good. Cinematography, if not quite so epic, is much more believable. And that, alone, makes this a good TV series.
People forget that all science fiction requires that the viewer suspends disbelief. This acheived it; the movie did not. I'm not saying the acting is better, it's just more balanced, more in tune with the written work it's based on.
But hey, what do I know, I'm just a lifetime member of Cinema Seattle, and watch a few hundred international films every year.
Yes, starting a small business is the easiest way to do this, especially a consulting one.
Note that you will be limited to working 35 hours a week, and must comply with all labor laws, even if it's your firm. This is not a joke, and you will suffer severe penalties if they hear you pulled off three late night coding sessions in a row. Since you're not French, they'll probably jail you to make a point. If you're American, they will also mock you for it.
You can get a special passport if you own a business there. This allows you to work more easily.
Remember, the French invented the bureaucracy and we take the word for it from them. Don't try to cut corners - this is not Italy where you can just bribe your way out of regulations.
Hey, concept! If Seattle imposed traffic fines based on your income/wealth, we could pay for the Monorail by just one cop pulling over Gates, Allan, or Bezos for a traffic infraction.
Cool!
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Why no VA stock?
Sold it.
Just like I sold RHAT when it got nuts and bought it back when it dropped to it's current levels.
I mean, c'mon, this is neither insightful nor interesting. Besides, Super NES is so last century. Get with the program, Jon, we only care about the Silver and Gold carts for Gameboy Color, and how to get a haircut for your character. That, plus whether or not Pikachu could take on the new characters.
And, as is highly likely, you haven't the faintest idea what I'm talking about, it just goes to show that you're regurgitating something we knew about millenia ago.
Man, I thought this was supposed to be News for Nerds, not Old Tales Of People Who Think They're Writers....
Heck, even _thinking_ about trying to remove the watermark is probably illegal
Well, they'll have to arrest everyone who posted on this thread, then.
Meantime, I think I'll go do something more useful than help RIAA pretend that SDMI is nigh-invulnerable, and go protest the WTO here in Seattle. Time to do some Christmas shopping at Westlake!
From what I have seen, it's all about toolkits and class libraries. In the end, you have to choose a User Interface. It can be stdio, or it might be iostream; it could be MFC or Qt, but it's pointless to do any computation if you never present the results to human beings
It's called an include file. And conditional compilation using standard define variables. It's easy, you just have to admit there's not just one way to present things to people and the whole world doesn't do the same thing as you.
Let's face it, SDMI is not the Bruce Willis of watermarking schemes. But, the RIAA wants people to believe that it's nigh-invulnerable, so it's not in their interest to admit that every single one of their tests has been broken, shattered, and held up to the light to show the large bullet holes in it.
But you won't read about this in the media, since they are controlled by the same companies which comprise RIAA, so they don't want you to know that it's a stupid idea, badly implemented, that will just make it harder for consumers to do what they have the right to do anyway.
This raises a good point. When I took a C++ course at NSCC, it was platform-neutral. Yes, even in Seattle.
While most of us may see C# as an attempt to make a platform-dependent C++/Java hybrid, perhaps the problem really is that MSFT is only offering MSFT-centric courses. If they were to take off their marketing-myopic eyeglasses, they might see that helping some course writers to develop non-MSFT-centric courses in C# would actually encourage development with the language.
It's impossible to enforce it. *IF* a closed source product were to illegally include GPL code in it, how would anyone ever find out about it? The only way to ever find out would be to look at the source, and it's closed.
Which was one of the funny things about MS-DOS when it first came out, it was obviously ripped off from CP/M, right down to the internal names and variables, when you examined the binary with a disassembler.
Don't think, just because MSFT legal tells programmers not to use Open Source, they won't use Open Source. It works, it's been hacked to high performance, and it's a lot better than the usual MSFT spaghetti code. When you need code that won't fail, are you really going to reinvent the wheel, when they already built the best wheel there is and you just have to "borrow" the code and pretend it's yours...
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Seriously, who cares what MSFT or Sun thinks? Let's ignore them, just like we did with Linux, and build something that works ourselves.
And then start to use it.
They will have to comply with our standards.
that's why we keep reading these stories about an "Electronic Pearl Harbor" and how hard they're working.
Face it, they just want an excuse to spend more money on eavesdropping on civilians on the Net, and this is just their way of making it sound like they're not looking for pr0n.
Does a secretary really need an 800MHz Athlon? Do students? Heck, I've done commercial game development with much, much less than that.
Most of the energy usage is still the monitor, usually 50 percent. Until we see better power conservation there, the CPU is just a small part of the power usage.
...what do you suppose the best industry to invest in would be right now in reference to this problem?
Well, power cells have a high risk factor, so I'd stay away, except for Ballard Power, since they're a long established and proven company. Based in Canada too, so a twofer.
My main bet has been plunking down $10K in Green Mountain Power (GMP), since they have an edge in negotiations, years of experience, and a good P/E compared to the rest of the industry, plus a nice Flow Ratio with hefty cash reserves. They're not growing too fast, but slowly breaking out of a regional (NE) market into a national one (add CA, OR). They have a nice mix of wind and natural gas, and some solar and natural gas, and geothermal and natural gas. They seem to "get" it, and have very very very nice dividends.
Forget conservation, Americans are selfish and especially technology. Only in cities with energy -efficient building codes will this come into play.
OK, once again you've actually bought in to the propaganda from Washington DC (the "unreal" Washington) that there was deregulation.
The only deregulation with any teeth was that allowing the large players to buy out more of the mid and small players. And to merge with equally large players. Paid for by lobbyists. [yes, I own AT&T, Cox, and France Telecom, so trust me on this]
The requirement that colocates were to be required was put in with no regulatory teeth. If US West or AT&T decide they don't have enough space, they don't have to let you colocate in their CO. If they "need" the space for their own growth, you don't get in. If they just can't be bothered, you still don't get to colocate until it's convenient for them. And since DSL and Cable Modems are both unregulated services, they can do this.
What will happen - basically, the big players will continue to triumph and the small and mid players will either be bought out or crushed. And endless committees in Washington DC will do precisely nothing, since they depend on all those fat, juicy bribes we call "PAC donations" and all those nice "bundled, independent" contributions.
And, since you can't be bothered to buttonhole your congressmembers and senators, they'll keep getting away with it.
Have you ever been to California? There aren't as many areas that get winds consistantly strong enough to power wind generators. There are areas that have wind turbines (such as Techapie (sp?--it's at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Mojave)), but the wind we get off the ocean isn't as strong or consistant as the wind the Pacific Northwest gets (note, I'm saying this as a San Diegan who lived in Tacoma for a few years)
Most of my family lives in Santa Barbara and Goleta. I have so many frequent flyer miles I'm at the top level on both United and Alaska from trips to California.
And there are many places which could use wind turbines - is it safer to have oil spills on the coast? I've seen what that does. Modern turbines have light and sound to decrease bird kill a hundred fold - you're thinking the old style like near San Francisco. Modern turbines are small and efficient, about 20-30 feet tall at most.
But just pretending we up here in Washington and Oregon are going to keep shipping you power is laughable - we have our own server farms to feed and you're not getting more of our power, you'll be getting even less than you get now.
Out of curiousity, where are these record numbers of wind turbines located?
Near Portland, mostly. Along Rattlsnake Ridge.
This is California we're talking about. Environmental concerns aren't exactly a high priority.
You mean, weren't. When people get electric bills that are 5 times higher than last year, that will change fast.
>Oh, and those air conditioners? Lose them. Buy a fan and deal with it. Ceiling fans are probably the best.
Heh. You wanna come spend a week at my place here in Austin or my parents' places in Houston next summer? I think a good 5-7 days of the Texas summertime will change your tune. The fastest land animal is not the cheetah, its a no-ac-cuz-it-harms-the-poor-widdle-animals eco-friend running to turn the AC back on..
Actually, I was born in San Antonio, and spent a year when I was 10 in Arlington, back when it wasn't overgrown by Dallas and Fort Worth. I still remember the nosebleeds and headaches from how cold they cranked those air conditioners in Dallas, like they still do, in the buildings. You don't need it to be 65, just 74. If you want to live in the south, adapt.
And when we lived there we had ceiling fans and open layout - it works well if you go with adobe or mason block construction, like all the old buildings from when it was all Mexican.
I'm serious. Up here in Seattle, we get into the 90s before we use the air conditioners to drop down to 78 to 82 - in the south you all chill down to 65 and freeze to death. Learn to deal with it - I spent a week at Burning Man with no air conditioning - most of the world takes siestas in the hot hours, look at Spain for what you should be doing - sleep from 1 to 4, have long lunches under verandas with ceiling fans, then stay up till 11 at night (kids too).
It's all in your head - in the military I operated at temps from 112 F to -40 F with no heat or air conditioning.
The main point is you don't have to use as much power - you can just set the air conditioner to cool to 72 instead and cut power consumption in half. And build buildings in the south to work with the climate you live in, not some fantasy climate of the north. A glass skyscraper is totally insane in places that spend half the year above 90 F.
Look, up here in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington have built record numbers of wind generation systems, and natural gas turbines are being put in place. We can't make up for the idiotic rate-wheeling experiment that California decided to enter in - the California legislature has to take action yesterday and build environmentally-friendly power plants yesterday.
Don't ask, just do it. Buy up all the wind turbines you can and put them online - modern turbines run about 4.5 to 6.5 cents, only gas turbines are cheaper.
The other thing is - get rid of those WinNT and Win2K boxen! Switch to some decent boxen with good cycle usage like *nix.
Oh, and those air conditioners? Lose them. Buy a fan and deal with it. Ceiling fans are probably the best.
In the Dune mythos, "thinking machines", i.e. robots and computers, are either banned or regarded as an abomination. Neither screen adaptation mentioned this, as far as I can remember.
And why would they? I mean, do you go around every day saying out loud: "It is a good thing that we worship technology and use it - all hail the stealer of privacy, and let none forsake the god of technology for their petty self interests!"
No, it's just how you live. If you were to expound on it, it would have to be a voiceover of an historian, since it is not something you're that conscious of.
Shields - we had the training lessons in both adaptations, although I noticed a much lesser use of shields in combat during the SciFi adaptation.
Chani is one sexy babe!
Yeah, how come no bio or screen credits on intro for her? She had major screen time, and more than upheld her role. I think it's a "just a local actress" phenomenon, where they dis her just because she's not a Yank or a Brit.
Note that in the SciFi adaptation that Chani starts of not being appealing and becomes moreso as the series progresses - also the fact that Paul found the local working girls attractive during the banner-hanging scene so that we knew it wasn't his first infatuation. I found her role quite well done, even if it was a larger one in the Dune movie.
That said, I want to see the European cut - more Chani!
great coasters,
...
nice candle holders for an outside table,
good poke balls: get flourescent red spray paint, flourescent white spray paint, 1 inch thick masking tape, lots of newspaper - lay two layers of newspaper under the paint area, with extra two feet for overspray - tape on newsprint over a top row of CDs (so upper half covered) - tape on newsprint over a bottom row of CDs (so bottom half covered) - spray paint white - now reverse the CDs after drying for 2-6 hours - spray paint red - dry for 12 hours - for best results, spray paint on the SHINY side, unless you want to do two coats.
Used the above for a poke ball tunic for Pokegaard, the Forgotton Demigod of Pokemon, in his avatar of a 9 year old boy, along with some belt pokemon and standard issue poke balls, at the 2000 Burning Man. Attach to a mesh shirt with plastic coat wires (Electroluminescent Wire is best) and try dancing with this at a rave in the desert, with strong strobe UV lights, for best effects.
they also make cool bead curtains
OK, let's crunch the numbers, then.
...
First, having expensive real estate office space in SF with expensive duplicate staff is a waste. Due to job market, not a bad deal to be cut loose, especially if they let you keep your options.
Second, Open Source does not mean it's good business automatically. You can do Open Source in Spokane, WA, for a lot less per employee than in San Francisco, CA. Price, about a fourth, counting office space and employee costs. Or do it in other parts of the country.
Third, pricing of their stock means little at this point. My personal evaluation is they're worth about $20/share, since I priced them at $40/share at IPO. When it got nuts ($140) I sold, and bought back in at 105 (25 shares), 28 (75 shares), and 22 (200 shares). Sold the 105 shares to declare technical loss and wash out the gains from the original 14 shares I sold at 140. I still think most tech stocks are overpriced by about twice their current market pricing. I will probably buy some more RHAT this month.
Fourth, just because Red Hat is acting like a business doesn't change anything for Corel or VA Linux Systems. The latter is just a box maker, and margins are always slim in that sector. Wake me when all the IPO shares are sold out from expired lockups
I've always thought they were a pretty hokey idea, dating back from the early days of SF. I recall them popping up in some early Clarke, or perhaps Asimov work.
Hmm, I think it was Vance, used in some of his alternative civilizations. Also used in Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series of works at times.
Yeah, isn't it great!?!
... and buy some ornithopter models to glue together with my son.
I've already put my pre-order in for the Dune Commemorative Dinner Plate series, gold-trimmed, with sunken Dune lettering on the rim.
Now I just have to find the website for the action figures
Basically, what I've seen so far is far superior in terms of a representation of the written work on the small screen than Dune The Movie was.
There are a few exceptions - the stillsuits in the movie were far superior than those in the series, for example.
But, the ornithopters were killer, the acting is much more balanced and believable, the feel is very good. Cinematography, if not quite so epic, is much more believable. And that, alone, makes this a good TV series.
People forget that all science fiction requires that the viewer suspends disbelief. This acheived it; the movie did not. I'm not saying the acting is better, it's just more balanced, more in tune with the written work it's based on.
But hey, what do I know, I'm just a lifetime member of Cinema Seattle, and watch a few hundred international films every year.
Categorizing them by characteristics $80,000
... priceless
Realizing that an underfunded NASA won't send anything out that way before 2010
Yes, starting a small business is the easiest way to do this, especially a consulting one.
Note that you will be limited to working 35 hours a week, and must comply with all labor laws, even if it's your firm. This is not a joke, and you will suffer severe penalties if they hear you pulled off three late night coding sessions in a row. Since you're not French, they'll probably jail you to make a point. If you're American, they will also mock you for it.
You can get a special passport if you own a business there. This allows you to work more easily.
Remember, the French invented the bureaucracy and we take the word for it from them. Don't try to cut corners - this is not Italy where you can just bribe your way out of regulations.
Have fun!
Hey, concept! If Seattle imposed traffic fines based on your income/wealth, we could pay for the Monorail by just one cop pulling over Gates, Allan, or Bezos for a traffic infraction.
Cool!
Why no VA stock?
Sold it.
Just like I sold RHAT when it got nuts and bought it back when it dropped to it's current levels.
I mean, c'mon, this is neither insightful nor interesting. Besides, Super NES is so last century. Get with the program, Jon, we only care about the Silver and Gold carts for Gameboy Color, and how to get a haircut for your character. That, plus whether or not Pikachu could take on the new characters.
....
And, as is highly likely, you haven't the faintest idea what I'm talking about, it just goes to show that you're regurgitating something we knew about millenia ago.
Man, I thought this was supposed to be News for Nerds, not Old Tales Of People Who Think They're Writers
Heck, even _thinking_ about trying to remove the watermark is probably illegal
Well, they'll have to arrest everyone who posted on this thread, then.
Meantime, I think I'll go do something more useful than help RIAA pretend that SDMI is nigh-invulnerable, and go protest the WTO here in Seattle. Time to do some Christmas shopping at Westlake!
From what I have seen, it's all about toolkits and class libraries. In the end, you have to choose a User Interface. It can be stdio, or it might be iostream; it could be MFC or Qt, but it's pointless to do any computation if you never present the results to human beings
It's called an include file. And conditional compilation using standard define variables. It's easy, you just have to admit there's not just one way to present things to people and the whole world doesn't do the same thing as you.
Let's face it, SDMI is not the Bruce Willis of watermarking schemes. But, the RIAA wants people to believe that it's nigh-invulnerable, so it's not in their interest to admit that every single one of their tests has been broken, shattered, and held up to the light to show the large bullet holes in it.
But you won't read about this in the media, since they are controlled by the same companies which comprise RIAA, so they don't want you to know that it's a stupid idea, badly implemented, that will just make it harder for consumers to do what they have the right to do anyway.
Kind of like Bush - big hat, no cattle.
This raises a good point. When I took a C++ course at NSCC, it was platform-neutral. Yes, even in Seattle.
...
While most of us may see C# as an attempt to make a platform-dependent C++/Java hybrid, perhaps the problem really is that MSFT is only offering MSFT-centric courses. If they were to take off their marketing-myopic eyeglasses, they might see that helping some course writers to develop non-MSFT-centric courses in C# would actually encourage development with the language.
Oh, wait, forgot about Bill G's ego.
Never mind
It's impossible to enforce it. *IF* a closed source product were to illegally include GPL code in it, how would anyone ever find out about it? The only way to ever find out would be to look at the source, and it's closed.
...
Which was one of the funny things about MS-DOS when it first came out, it was obviously ripped off from CP/M, right down to the internal names and variables, when you examined the binary with a disassembler.
Don't think, just because MSFT legal tells programmers not to use Open Source, they won't use Open Source. It works, it's been hacked to high performance, and it's a lot better than the usual MSFT spaghetti code. When you need code that won't fail, are you really going to reinvent the wheel, when they already built the best wheel there is and you just have to "borrow" the code and pretend it's yours