The motives of the MS critic run the gamut.
Some are pro-Linux as you say.
Others are pro-BSD.
Still others are equally proprietary, from the OS X community for example.
What unites them? The ABM Treaty: Anything But Microsoft.
What part of "level playing field" and "conformance to standards developed in the traditional manner" (e.g. not the OOXML SUV-flanking movement) seems odd, biased, or unreasonable, Your Anonymity?
Screw the furniture. Threaten not to use their products, and you've got their attention. Recall, there had been civilization prior to the advent of the cell phone...
The appeals to fear are not intellectual.
You can't build a house on the binary image of the magic algorithms: it ain't property.
The beautiful double negative "intellectual property" makes a nice fig leaf for all this.
The fact that tax dollars were spent to produce it all (I presume) is just bonus.
DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
IMHO (and RMS's opinion) non-free software is unethical
You may be right, but your and RMS's opinion (and I've actually enjoyed a lengthy email discussion with the fellow on the topic) would benefit from a thorough, theoretical development of the concept of ethics.
AFAICS, the various charges of "unethical" and "communist" are just the bleating of goats.
The various licensing regimes (if not always the business practices behind them) seem rather amoral to me. The exist, and have their adherents. The adherents have their motives for supporting their preferred licenses. How exactly we rate one as "ethical" and another as "unethical" remains unclear. I like the GPL. It makes great common sense to me. I respect the rights of others to have their own opinion, and yawn in the general direction of the FSF when they overdrive what amounts to a fine common-sense argument.
OK, I'm not talking about simple bounds-checking. I'm talking about about analyzing "did that command make sense", at which point I think you may agree that my second point makes better sense.
if the remote software were able to reject commands deemed likely to cause mission failure.
The kind of AI it would need to effect this would be horrendous, and probably suck more juice than they really want the hardware sucking.
Now, if they gave each command to a terrestrial version of the hardware, and saw how the command played out, the engineers running the mission might have a chance to say "oops, let's not bother to send that one..."
Finally got my wife onto FF after her new Vista laptop had some horrible crash problems with IE7 and Skype.
Something about code well-written enough not to care about the OS seems to make the code more robust...
You have to be happy with the whole concept of resource leveling.
In the UK, large taxes are taken out, and redistributed throughout the system. There is some arguable notion of equality and fairness.
We pay less in the US in taxes, and more at the hospital, and have insurance rates that are kinda hideous, but provides possibly better service.
How are we supposed to argue the superiority of either system?
While I'm not exactly opposed to the idea of everyone having health care access, in the abstract, I'm certainly unhappy with the concept of setting the federal government up as the gatekeeper. The US government has repeatedly demonstrated that it couldn't manage two nuns in one minute of silent prayer.
Foreign policy
Environment
Retirement (Social Security)
Income tax
How, pray tell, am I to work up any confidence in the federal government on healthcare?
I applaud Massachusetts for voting in their state-level system. Clearly the way to go:
Small enough to be manageable
Close enough to the voters to be responsive.
Leaves 49 other choices if you're dissatisfied with the policy.
The inevitable data leak doesn't compromise the entire country.
Explain to me again why I want still more federal government scope creep? I might give you economies of scale, but you could mitigate that with regional buying cosortia.
Shag the fed.
Pinstriped sharks do really suck.
(GEICO cavemen who've run amok.)
With Gucci-ed highwaymen, I'll have no truck.
Fixing that fur requires no luck: Burma Shave
Recalls an old Steven Wright joke about owning only two VHS tapes, Dr. Strangelove and Little Dorrit. Said he would watch a few seconds of one, eject the tape, watch a few seconds of the other, and so on. If he timed it right, he could achieve the effect of having Slim Pickins arguing with a young girl over whether or not to nuke the world.
Exit question: does this methodology seem more rational than contemporary US policymaking approaches? It certainly has the virtue of classical technology employment...
Concur. To drop an example, I like the fact that LiveJournal has a slightly exclusive feel. Quite a bit of actual dialogue going on. /. occasionally lets in a bit of information, but is more often a source of belly laughs.
Clearly you haven't been around the Beltway.
Your little script makes no mention of Service Oriented Architecture.
If you're not buzzword-compliant, how can you be meaningful?
OK, it's about the publicity.
This 'outing' seems to be the ultimate Fake post.
He's either a) bored, b) worried about legal heat, or c) got better ideas in mind.
Has been a great blog, though. I loved the occasional cheesecake photo with the impassioned denunciation of female exploitation.
Oh, things will muddle along, from a purely governmental POV.
It's the demographics that are worrisome in the next decade or three.
Then again, maybe the Brussels Journal has too much starch in its metaphorical underwear.
You know, the advent of the internet really makes these considerations of which country you're in relatively less important. No one exceeds one heartbeat from death; enjoy where you are.
Slashdot Mirror
The motives of the MS critic run the gamut.
Some are pro-Linux as you say.
Others are pro-BSD.
Still others are equally proprietary, from the OS X community for example.
What unites them? The ABM Treaty: Anything But Microsoft.
What part of "level playing field" and "conformance to standards developed in the traditional manner" (e.g. not the OOXML SUV-flanking movement) seems odd, biased, or unreasonable, Your Anonymity?
Civilization, or lack thereof, has been a constant quite independent of technology.
Screw the furniture. Threaten not to use their products, and you've got their attention. Recall, there had been civilization prior to the advent of the cell phone...
I've found you can find happiness in slavery.--Reznor
No, the proper quote here is from Caddyshack:
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
The appeals to fear are not intellectual.
You can't build a house on the binary image of the magic algorithms: it ain't property.
The beautiful double negative "intellectual property" makes a nice fig leaf for all this.
The fact that tax dollars were spent to produce it all (I presume) is just bonus.
DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!
AFAICS, the various charges of "unethical" and "communist" are just the bleating of goats.
The various licensing regimes (if not always the business practices behind them) seem rather amoral to me. The exist, and have their adherents. The adherents have their motives for supporting their preferred licenses. How exactly we rate one as "ethical" and another as "unethical" remains unclear.
I like the GPL. It makes great common sense to me. I respect the rights of others to have their own opinion, and yawn in the general direction of the FSF when they overdrive what amounts to a fine common-sense argument.
C-octothorp
Stroustrup is an academic. Blowing by petty details for pedagogical reasons is a time-honored device.
OK, I'm not talking about simple bounds-checking. I'm talking about about analyzing "did that command make sense", at which point I think you may agree that my second point makes better sense.
Now, if they gave each command to a terrestrial version of the hardware, and saw how the command played out, the engineers running the mission might have a chance to say "oops, let's not bother to send that one..."
I'm waiting for the research to show that high-fructose corn syrup wreaks havoc with the human system, in the long term.
Finally got my wife onto FF after her new Vista laptop had some horrible crash problems with IE7 and Skype.
Something about code well-written enough not to care about the OS seems to make the code more robust...
In the UK, large taxes are taken out, and redistributed throughout the system. There is some arguable notion of equality and fairness.
We pay less in the US in taxes, and more at the hospital, and have insurance rates that are kinda hideous, but provides possibly better service.
How are we supposed to argue the superiority of either system?
While I'm not exactly opposed to the idea of everyone having health care access, in the abstract, I'm certainly unhappy with the concept of setting the federal government up as the gatekeeper. The US government has repeatedly demonstrated that it couldn't manage two nuns in one minute of silent prayer.
- Foreign policy
- Environment
- Retirement (Social Security)
- Income tax
How, pray tell, am I to work up any confidence in the federal government on healthcare?I applaud Massachusetts for voting in their state-level system. Clearly the way to go:
- Small enough to be manageable
- Close enough to the voters to be responsive.
- Leaves 49 other choices if you're dissatisfied with the policy.
- The inevitable data leak doesn't compromise the entire country.
Explain to me again why I want still more federal government scope creep? I might give you economies of scale, but you could mitigate that with regional buying cosortia.Shag the fed.
Pinstriped sharks do really suck.
(GEICO cavemen who've run amok.)
With Gucci-ed highwaymen, I'll have no truck.
Fixing that fur requires no luck:
Burma Shave
The lawsuit sham,
Of Sam I Am.
Whose moon's green cheese,
Mere eggs and ham.
Stay smooth and avoid the scam:
Burma Shave
Recalls an old Steven Wright joke about owning only two VHS tapes, Dr. Strangelove and Little Dorrit. Said he would watch a few seconds of one, eject the tape, watch a few seconds of the other, and so on. If he timed it right, he could achieve the effect of having Slim Pickins arguing with a young girl over whether or not to nuke the world.
Exit question: does this methodology seem more rational than contemporary US policymaking approaches? It certainly has the virtue of classical technology employment...
Networking, Workgroups: it was all a BSODden nightmare...
Oh, if only the Beltway had contained the tumor!
No, the beaurocratic blight occupies a triangle stretching from Baltimore to Fredricksburg to Dulles.
Concur. To drop an example, I like the fact that LiveJournal has a slightly exclusive feel. Quite a bit of actual dialogue going on.
/. occasionally lets in a bit of information, but is more often a source of belly laughs.
Clearly you haven't been around the Beltway.
Your little script makes no mention of Service Oriented Architecture.
If you're not buzzword-compliant, how can you be meaningful?
OK, it's about the publicity.
This 'outing' seems to be the ultimate Fake post.
He's either a) bored, b) worried about legal heat, or c) got better ideas in mind.
Has been a great blog, though. I loved the occasional cheesecake photo with the impassioned denunciation of female exploitation.
Nein--Inch Nails!
In Czarist Russia, *Nix-olas clusters you!
Oh, things will muddle along, from a purely governmental POV.
It's the demographics that are worrisome in the next decade or three.
Then again, maybe the Brussels Journal has too much starch in its metaphorical underwear.
You know, the advent of the internet really makes these considerations of which country you're in relatively less important. No one exceeds one heartbeat from death; enjoy where you are.