What are they going to do, put the sqeeze on IBM by owning SUSE? With YAST GPL'd now, exactly how far would that get them? It doesn't seem to me that suse really has any commodity components left that are all that worth controlling. The actual novell stuff might be better, but suse doesn't seem worth it.
" Shame the Tolkein estate didn't have editorial control over those dreadful films."
Yet I believe that Suess's wife had a good deal of control over both the Grinch and Cat in the Hat, so you never can tell.
Not to mention the wonderful things the Herbert family is doing with Dune.
Estates are run by people. Some are greedy, others are altruistic. Perhaps a bus will hit Lucas and the Estate will choose to release Star Wars (the real one) on DVD.
If I was one of those guys who doesn't know there's anything but windows (who's to say I'm not?). This van strategy, like a lot of recent MS plans, would only serve to remind me that there is competition. Why would the undisputed leader of the software world need a van tour? Because they're afraid of something, i'd think.
The guys in the precinct are still filing their paperwork with a typewriter and carbon paper! There are tons of ways to use technology to improve the way a PD runs, this seems like something of an uneven distribution of screen realestate.
So why can't we say totalitarian, or dictatorship or just plain bad. Using the word communist to mean those things really isn't fair to communism. There have been countless bad capitalist governments too.
But the centigrade degrees are bigger. There are only a hundred of them between boiling and freezing while the F's have 180 making them just over half the size, and giving you more prescision for a number of everyday tasks. I have enough trouble with my home thermostats without having to figure out if I want the temperature 31 degrees or 31.8.
I also would prefer less bugs. right now, i push enter and the text on the screen scrolls down. it's convenient, but i think less could be more fun if it had a few surprises.
That's just not true. The difference is that my windows copy of Tribes 2 was useless in linux, instead I had to buy the loki version for another 40 bucks. Both quake and ut have linux binaries for the windows game that are free. To me that amounts to a wallet-load less linux friendly.
That book's reviews on Amazon provide either more evidence of a vast Leftwing conspiracy, or to quote one review it's "not worth the paper it's printed on."
Say I'm supposed to meet a friend for a movie. He never shows. I call to find out what's going on and leave a message; "Where are you?". In the background, a slice of dialog for the movie gets recorded. Do I do time? Does my friend?
And Orwell would be just as wrong as Darl. It FOSS may be collectivism, but it's by no means forced. I do not live in fear that my neighbors will rat me out to the FSF for secretly creating proprietary code. In Soviet Russia. Communism was the only game in town. In the world of software, you can keep your dirty hands off the GPL'd code and write whatever you want, and guess what...it's yours to license as you please. Nobody puts a gun to your head. Nobody gets grabbed in the middle of the night and sent to the GULAGS to work on the 2.6 kernel. A lot of nutjobs wrote a lot of good books. Am I supposed to spend my days worrying what side of the GPL Hemmingway or Dickens might come down on?
Is microsoft indemnifying its customers against problems like this? I know that indemnity has been a big keyword of theirs lately and I'd just like to be certain that I can get indemnified if something like this happens. I mean, that's the advantage of going with a big, closed source company right? It's the indemnity.
The palantir doesn't really have to be included either. None of it does. Everybody can just march off to gondor for a 45 minute fight scene. They'll do what they did in TTT and change the whole theme to be something completely different.
Picture this: The movie is about working together. After they race to Gondor it's all about waiting to see if 'coalition forces' of dwarves and elves show up to save the day.
Not to mention, that they'll need at least 30 minutes to resolve the love story subplot that's wasted so much time in the two previous films. Where can I get a liv-less phantom edit.
Come on. All that happens is gandalf breaks his staff and expels him from the wizarding club. The only important plot element is wormtongue throwing the palantir out the window. They have to leave plenty of room for liv tyler dream sequences because that's what the fans want... am I right?
Yes, but with a media that treats elections as game of red versus blue, getting the votes counted fast is much more important than getting it done right. Americans won't wait two weeks for a basketball score, and it just doesn't seem like an election if we can't see the tearful concession speech over the final swig of beer and last congealed nacho. Instant replays just slow the game down, they gotta go.
I think the best voting system would be sticking it to a robot prostitute that looks like your candidate. It's perfect because they'll be sticking it to you for the next four years.
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What are they going to do, put the sqeeze on IBM by owning SUSE? With YAST GPL'd now, exactly how far would that get them? It doesn't seem to me that suse really has any commodity components left that are all that worth controlling. The actual novell stuff might be better, but suse doesn't seem worth it.
seppuku.
That's funny, most of the people I meet on the internet seem to speak asshole fluently.
Anything living in there SHOULD be killed before it rises up to feast on the flesh of men!
is this just a hip way to repackage missile defense testing so that nobody gets mad?
Kazaa doesn't steal music, people do...
You can take my limewire from my cold dead hands...
Not to mention awesome statistics like... More music gets stolen every day by bootlegging operations than by p2p users.
Fun Stuff!
Let's just cut to the fucking chase and outlaw music altogether. That's what my parents always did; if you can't play nice, we're taking the toys.
" Shame the Tolkein estate didn't have editorial control over those dreadful films." Yet I believe that Suess's wife had a good deal of control over both the Grinch and Cat in the Hat, so you never can tell. Not to mention the wonderful things the Herbert family is doing with Dune. Estates are run by people. Some are greedy, others are altruistic. Perhaps a bus will hit Lucas and the Estate will choose to release Star Wars (the real one) on DVD.
If I was one of those guys who doesn't know there's anything but windows (who's to say I'm not?). This van strategy, like a lot of recent MS plans, would only serve to remind me that there is competition. Why would the undisputed leader of the software world need a van tour? Because they're afraid of something, i'd think.
The guys in the precinct are still filing their paperwork with a typewriter and carbon paper! There are tons of ways to use technology to improve the way a PD runs, this seems like something of an uneven distribution of screen realestate.
So why can't we say totalitarian, or dictatorship or just plain bad. Using the word communist to mean those things really isn't fair to communism. There have been countless bad capitalist governments too.
But the centigrade degrees are bigger. There are only a hundred of them between boiling and freezing while the F's have 180 making them just over half the size, and giving you more prescision for a number of everyday tasks. I have enough trouble with my home thermostats without having to figure out if I want the temperature 31 degrees or 31.8.
I also would prefer less bugs. right now, i push enter and the text on the screen scrolls down. it's convenient, but i think less could be more fun if it had a few surprises.
That's just not true. The difference is that my windows copy of Tribes 2 was useless in linux, instead I had to buy the loki version for another 40 bucks. Both quake and ut have linux binaries for the windows game that are free. To me that amounts to a wallet-load less linux friendly.
The redistribution part of the gpl kinda puts a pin in getting too rich though doesn't it?
That book's reviews on Amazon provide either more evidence of a vast Leftwing conspiracy, or to quote one review it's "not worth the paper it's printed on."
Ever been to the Phoenix area? If starbucks and burgers are an earthlike environment, consider it terraformed.
lindeezy? Lindiddley?
Say I'm supposed to meet a friend for a movie. He never shows. I call to find out what's going on and leave a message; "Where are you?". In the background, a slice of dialog for the movie gets recorded. Do I do time? Does my friend?
And Orwell would be just as wrong as Darl. It FOSS may be collectivism, but it's by no means forced. I do not live in fear that my neighbors will rat me out to the FSF for secretly creating proprietary code. In Soviet Russia. Communism was the only game in town. In the world of software, you can keep your dirty hands off the GPL'd code and write whatever you want, and guess what...it's yours to license as you please. Nobody puts a gun to your head. Nobody gets grabbed in the middle of the night and sent to the GULAGS to work on the 2.6 kernel. A lot of nutjobs wrote a lot of good books. Am I supposed to spend my days worrying what side of the GPL Hemmingway or Dickens might come down on?
Is microsoft indemnifying its customers against problems like this? I know that indemnity has been a big keyword of theirs lately and I'd just like to be certain that I can get indemnified if something like this happens. I mean, that's the advantage of going with a big, closed source company right? It's the indemnity.
The palantir doesn't really have to be included either. None of it does. Everybody can just march off to gondor for a 45 minute fight scene. They'll do what they did in TTT and change the whole theme to be something completely different. Picture this: The movie is about working together. After they race to Gondor it's all about waiting to see if 'coalition forces' of dwarves and elves show up to save the day. Not to mention, that they'll need at least 30 minutes to resolve the love story subplot that's wasted so much time in the two previous films. Where can I get a liv-less phantom edit.
Come on. All that happens is gandalf breaks his staff and expels him from the wizarding club. The only important plot element is wormtongue throwing the palantir out the window. They have to leave plenty of room for liv tyler dream sequences because that's what the fans want... am I right?
Yes, but with a media that treats elections as game of red versus blue, getting the votes counted fast is much more important than getting it done right. Americans won't wait two weeks for a basketball score, and it just doesn't seem like an election if we can't see the tearful concession speech over the final swig of beer and last congealed nacho. Instant replays just slow the game down, they gotta go. I think the best voting system would be sticking it to a robot prostitute that looks like your candidate. It's perfect because they'll be sticking it to you for the next four years.
Could you use VMWare for outlook and the internet while the "real" os is only connected internally?