Yes, and if they want to have a positive, intelligent and relaxed exchange on the question of the human condition and the various answers supplied, I would enjoy talking to them.
The tricky part is discussing that which concerns you ultimately while remaining dispassionate and respectful of the fact that you are unlikely to persuade anyone in any direction on these matters.
liberals 'could be expected to more readily accept new... religious ideas.'
I'll admit publicly that, while quite ecumenical and tolerant towards others, I don't really think there have been any new religious ideas of significant value in, say, 2,000-ish years.
On the contrary, when you look at that New Testament in depth, most of the ideas put forth were not terribly new, but were actually pointers to older ideas.
One highly subjective, criminally over-simplified take on the whole liberal/conservative question is: it boils down to one of modeling society. If you want "one big family" then you lean to the left, and want more socialized policies. If you question whether people scale well and want more individual responsibility and less safety net, then you might prefer conservative policies.
I'm looking forward to further research that correlates liberal/conservative preference with population density. It seems that the more urbanized people are, the greater the comfort level with shifting responsibility/authority to the government. Good news, bad news: who can say?
I dunno. I figure Miguel is a smart fellow who is managing to do well for himself and support free software simultaneously.
When the time and market is right, Redmond will push a.Net-ified version of MS Office, with obscured assemblies the run fine on Mono.
Project vomit while you may, if it keeps gives Redmond life beyond Vesta, then Miguel may be doing us all a little favor.
Dude, SDBMS was replaces by PDBMS, the Presentation Database Management System. Not only did the datasets get smaller, so they would be legible on a slide, but they now have spiffy transitions.
When used to display something like a project Gantt chart, PDBMS has the additional benefit of decoupling from the data, because you know those notional dates are going nowhere save to the right.
PDBMS also has way more swell hardcopy options than SDBMS.
When you are sufficiently Tufte, you'll upgrade from that wimpy SDBMS.
OSS projects progress by the input and enthusiasm of the users.
Be sure that your definition of "input" extends to cold, hard cash, and "users" also includes companies.
A variety of companies in one market, say, CPUs and motherboards, might avoid significant cost by sponsoring a consortium to write a kernel that scales across architectures and configurations. Linux is an example. The trick is to find an HMFIC with enough technical skill and managerial talent to keep the wheels on the bus.
The only competition that truly exists in OSS is the competition of ideas.
Ideas are indeed important, but service also carries weight. If not, then companies would not exist to sell admin services for PostGreSQL, for example.
In summary, though proprietary vendors may cringe, OSS is not solely a hobby for teenagers and hippies. It is a no-kidding business force.
As is so often the case, government action reflects the will of the people.
Most don't care to be bothered with any of the details of technology.
The information superhighway is just another road, to be ignored unless the bridge goes out from under them.
Many would choose OOXML over ODF because the longer acronym is probably better, no?
At least you used the word extradited in the proper context.
Furthermore, you seem to imply that extradition treaties are a one-way street. I'm reasonably certain that if you commit a crime in the EU, and your flesh happens to be in the US, you'll be turned over upon arrest here.
Governments have been colluding like that for a many a year now.
Of course, there are times when governments do engage in a bit of "urinary struggle" over individuals, too.
Yes, but the jurisdiction of US law doesn't stretch to Scandinavia.
Domestically, one could summarize the DoJ (irrespective of administration in power) as saying to Redmond: "Stop, or I will say 'stop' again."
Yeah, and they've a whole closet full of lawsuits to follow, because you know those guys are a bunch of Packrats:
Spare a thought for poor Polaris Packrat, or more importantly, their users. Fantastic Contact Manager in the DOS days, and they even successfully negotiated their way to their first Windows version - no small undertaking. Then they released their networkable version for Windows. Disaster struck! They had to, ala Firestone, recall their products...
I know what the verb and preposition mean independently, I'm just not sure that the two words, together, are bound in/. for any case, particularly sexual ones.
No, something about "Movin' to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches" sounded lika a purely dadaist statement about repairing to a rustic locale for fruit consumption.
Guess my lack of sophistication got the better of me there.
I hope this movie captures the sheer childlike fun of the cartoons.
I want a flick that does for movies what "Peaches" by TPOTUSOA did for rock'n'roll: offer a brief escape from the standard sex/drugs/violence routine.
1.5 hours of pure, guiltless escape-ism, that's what I want.
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The tricky part is discussing that which concerns you ultimately while remaining dispassionate and respectful of the fact that you are unlikely to persuade anyone in any direction on these matters.
How so? Same chromosomes.
Unless you're taking the Nurture side in the Nature/Nurture debate.
On the contrary, when you look at that New Testament in depth, most of the ideas put forth were not terribly new, but were actually pointers to older ideas.
One highly subjective, criminally over-simplified take on the whole liberal/conservative question is: it boils down to one of modeling society. If you want "one big family" then you lean to the left, and want more socialized policies. If you question whether people scale well and want more individual responsibility and less safety net, then you might prefer conservative policies.
I'm looking forward to further research that correlates liberal/conservative preference with population density. It seems that the more urbanized people are, the greater the comfort level with shifting responsibility/authority to the government.
Good news, bad news: who can say?
I dunno. I figure Miguel is a smart fellow who is managing to do well for himself and support free software simultaneously. .Net-ified version of MS Office, with obscured assemblies the run fine on Mono.
When the time and market is right, Redmond will push a
Project vomit while you may, if it keeps gives Redmond life beyond Vesta, then Miguel may be doing us all a little favor.
Surveying the responses while in the ~10 range, the news value of this story seems related to the "Dead Parrot Sketch".
I thought Zed was dead. Does SCO==Zed?
Dude, SDBMS was replaces by PDBMS, the Presentation Database Management System. Not only did the datasets get smaller, so they would be legible on a slide, but they now have spiffy transitions.
When used to display something like a project Gantt chart, PDBMS has the additional benefit of decoupling from the data, because you know those notional dates are going nowhere save to the right.
PDBMS also has way more swell hardcopy options than SDBMS.
When you are sufficiently Tufte, you'll upgrade from that wimpy SDBMS.
A variety of companies in one market, say, CPUs and motherboards, might avoid significant cost by sponsoring a consortium to write a kernel that scales across architectures and configurations. Linux is an example. The trick is to find an HMFIC with enough technical skill and managerial talent to keep the wheels on the bus.
Ideas are indeed important, but service also carries weight. If not, then companies would not exist to sell admin services for PostGreSQL, for example.
In summary, though proprietary vendors may cringe, OSS is not solely a hobby for teenagers and hippies. It is a no-kidding business force.
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Won't a new one tear us,
Unless they first
Have Ballmer chair us,
Great documentation--
Now that could scare us.
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Jesus cures the blindness of an absolute nobody.
Who is this pope, and who again is it that he claims to serve?
Most don't care to be bothered with any of the details of technology.
The information superhighway is just another road, to be ignored unless the bridge goes out from under them.
Many would choose OOXML over ODF because the longer acronym is probably better, no?
Ballmer, in the temple, with the chair.
At least you used the word extradited in the proper context.
Furthermore, you seem to imply that extradition treaties are a one-way street. I'm reasonably certain that if you commit a crime in the EU, and your flesh happens to be in the US, you'll be turned over upon arrest here.
Governments have been colluding like that for a many a year now.
Of course, there are times when governments do engage in a bit of "urinary struggle" over individuals, too.
Yes, but the jurisdiction of US law doesn't stretch to Scandinavia.
Domestically, one could summarize the DoJ (irrespective of administration in power) as saying to Redmond: "Stop, or I will say 'stop' again."
Read George RR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire". You never know who's gonna bite it, or how.
I thought of a cheap pun on blackmail and dogs, but even vaguely racist jokes suck, so I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
This can be true in a passive sense, when a good manager acts as a blast shield to protect the team from things such as
I always heard "poked my finger down inside / make a little room for an ant to hide" but then, what do I know?
No, something about "Movin' to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches" sounded lika a purely dadaist statement about repairing to a rustic locale for fruit consumption.
Guess my lack of sophistication got the better of me there.
I use "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega in situations such as this.
I hope this movie captures the sheer childlike fun of the cartoons.
I want a flick that does for movies what "Peaches" by TPOTUSOA did for rock'n'roll: offer a brief escape from the standard sex/drugs/violence routine.
1.5 hours of pure, guiltless escape-ism, that's what I want.