Well, of course BeelzeBush the AntiClinton is personally responsible for everything that ever went wrong, including Ishtar.
I was just seeing if he could link in Haliburton or Harken into the smear.
Address:
TRO Inc. (The Richmond Organization)
266 West 37th Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10018
The JibJab piece used a Woodie Guthrie song to poke fun at both Bush and Kerry, in a fairly even-handed way, as I recall.
Maybe you could follow-up with a little more detail as to how you identify TRO, Inc. with the "Bush Camp", sir.
Electing the right people to government (people who care about "the little guy") is really the best way.
Ah, but Ghandi is more the exception than the rule, no?
I wouldn't accuse any of the politicians on either side of the aisle of caring for much besides re-election.
Well, if y'all goin' for the pure-Java solution, y'all obviously do the BIOS and bootleg^Wbootloader in Java, too.
I mean, C is just portable Assembler, right? If C is the source of all them evil buffer overflows, I reckon that means Assembler's got 'em, too?
Heck: me an' Jethro wuz wonderin' how these here computers ever got far enough along for the Sun to 'shine and the Java to perk.
Yep. I reckon only them city slickers with all their fancy talk do anything but Java anymore, buncha used car salesmen.
if a big enough number of common people were to take an interest
One thing I hope to see (maybe around Web3.0 or so) is automated systems to pull in proposed legislation, slice it, dice it, analyze and index it, and make it accessible to the commoners.
Fact is, no one human is capable of deciphering more than a tiny fraction of the legislation oozing its way through that giant large intestine we call government. However, it's all the law of the land, and the politicians are adept at sliding in all manner of monkey business.
An advanced look at the congress-critter reaction to these developments has been provided by McCain: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4988774556 612877612&q=mccain+streisand&total=12&start=0&num= 10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
I'm not arguing in favor of software patents by any means: they're a refined form of highway robbery, IMHO.
The point I'm making is that every interest is "special" in the eye of its proponent.
There is a good news story to be had about rule of law and political process, about which all can be happy.
The bad news has to do with the lumpenproletariat who can't be bothered to weigh in.
Hence these guys are going to crawl back under their rock and try to make themselves forgotten until after the next elections.
In a word: politics.
A small group of people float an opinion. They will of the people is expressed. There is nothing immoral or unethical or illegal about the outcome. What's not to like?
Granted, the majority finds the idea of software patents abhorrent, but the majority might feel the same about my Motorhead collection.
The WMB pattern is really a specialization of the traditional whore_my_product pattern.
Specializations of the WMP pattern invoke a whore_method() call, with returns along the lines of:
Cheesy sex tape leak
Customs bust while travelling
Messy divorce, with optional taped calls to children
Wardrobe malfunction
Altercation with police, typically un-sober
Provocative language directed at another media/political personality
Endorsement of whacky fad (911-truther, Holocaust denier, global warming radicalism)
The whore_method() takes no arguments initially, but always throws a very public exception, littering the cable news stack with arguments.
In the absence of actual news, natural disasters, or death-porn, these arguments can reverberate on the cable news stack for weeks, becoming tedious.
The quality of the product varies inversely to the tastelessness of the whore_method(): real artists just deliver the goods.
everyone hated it for a few days and then got used to it.
s/got used to it/reverted to 'classic' interface/
Objectively, if you had never used any prior version, the new stuff might make more sense.
However, the switching cost of figuring out where they, for example, they squirreled away the interface for changing an environment variable, is too high. "Retro or NO!," say I.
The logical second step would be to Open Source their offerings, so developers can enhance them without fear.
While I can agree on some gentle pressure over time, keep in mind that being overly pushy can be self-defeating.
The river erodes the mountain a particle at a time.
You can come through with a tidal wave, if you want results by the next election, but there will be side effects.
Keep working at it, but mind the side-effects.
You may not be cynical enough.
Does MicroSoft need to have Forrester throw out the occasional counter-argument to head off some anti-trust allegation? That is the more paranoid question.
And the reason for rebelling against observation is the difference between the words 'acute' and 'chronic'.
If a crime's been committed, I've got no problem a) explaining myself, and b) offering information that might help see justice served.
In the absence of an acute event like a crime, chronic quizzing amounts to a denial of service attack on life itself. In particular, when the DOS involves filling out a bunch of forms. Paperwork was invented in Hell by Satan, who gives it to governments due to the fire hazard. OK, I just made that up; it's more an expression of my feeling about doing paperwork than anything theological, mind you.
If the name 'paq8hp12' falls out of some tree in the forest, and no one here can tell the difference in the state of the tree/paq8hp12 system, does gravity exist?
Your existing newtorks are built upon relatively simple, freely available protocols.
Any hypothetical or actual throughput you think you'll gain from sexing up the infrastructure will come at the cost of lots of pain. Buggy code, code with bugs inserted for nefarious purposes...
I hope that there will always be "plain old networks" available. If a company wants to come up with some slick product and sell it to the sheep, fine. That's capitalism. I just wont have much compassion during the winter, when the sheep are asking WTF their wool went.
What is the point of retaining the 2.6?
Why not just call the thing "22"?
This has the advantage of putting the kernel in the same version neighborhood as GNU/Emacs.
Oh, wait...being too close to GNU/Emacs's version number might bring development to a crawl.
Never mind.
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Well, of course BeelzeBush the AntiClinton is personally responsible for everything that ever went wrong, including Ishtar.
I was just seeing if he could link in Haliburton or Harken into the smear.
Here a news article link the the JibJab affair: http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/commentary/wastle
Here is some more information on The Richmond Organization: http://www.mpa.org/directories/music_publishers/s
The JibJab piece used a Woodie Guthrie song to poke fun at both Bush and Kerry, in a fairly even-handed way, as I recall.
Maybe you could follow-up with a little more detail as to how you identify TRO, Inc. with the "Bush Camp", sir.
I wouldn't accuse any of the politicians on either side of the aisle of caring for much besides re-election.
How, socialist?
Commitment to getting off the dead butt and exerting effort to earn something is what capitalism is all about, no?
Because freedom requires commitment and effort.
And secretary, Private Palomino. Can you hear them in the distance? "Palomino! Palomino! Palomino!"
but, but, but...it'll be SOA wonderful!!
Well, if y'all goin' for the pure-Java solution, y'all obviously do the BIOS and bootleg^Wbootloader in Java, too.
I mean, C is just portable Assembler, right? If C is the source of all them evil buffer overflows, I reckon that means Assembler's got 'em, too?
Heck: me an' Jethro wuz wonderin' how these here computers ever got far enough along for the Sun to 'shine and the Java to perk.
Yep. I reckon only them city slickers with all their fancy talk do anything but Java anymore, buncha used car salesmen.
There are still some left, but they are of the high-mobility variety.
Fact is, no one human is capable of deciphering more than a tiny fraction of the legislation oozing its way through that giant large intestine we call government. However, it's all the law of the land, and the politicians are adept at sliding in all manner of monkey business.
An advanced look at the congress-critter reaction to these developments has been provided by McCain: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=498877455
The other point I wanted to make is that, while opposing the ideas one finds abhorrent, it's important to remain dispassionate:
"Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgment."--The Godfather.
Which wisdom seems lost on some:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-guru9j
I'm not arguing in favor of software patents by any means: they're a refined form of highway robbery, IMHO.
The point I'm making is that every interest is "special" in the eye of its proponent.
There is a good news story to be had about rule of law and political process, about which all can be happy.
The bad news has to do with the lumpenproletariat who can't be bothered to weigh in.
A small group of people float an opinion. They will of the people is expressed. There is nothing immoral or unethical or illegal about the outcome. What's not to like?
Granted, the majority finds the idea of software patents abhorrent, but the majority might feel the same about my Motorhead collection.
Specializations of the WMP pattern invoke a whore_method() call, with returns along the lines of:
- Cheesy sex tape leak
- Customs bust while travelling
- Messy divorce, with optional taped calls to children
- Wardrobe malfunction
- Altercation with police, typically un-sober
- Provocative language directed at another media/political personality
- Endorsement of whacky fad (911-truther, Holocaust denier, global warming radicalism)
The whore_method() takes no arguments initially, but always throws a very public exception, littering the cable news stack with arguments.In the absence of actual news, natural disasters, or death-porn, these arguments can reverberate on the cable news stack for weeks, becoming tedious.
The quality of the product varies inversely to the tastelessness of the whore_method(): real artists just deliver the goods.
Objectively, if you had never used any prior version, the new stuff might make more sense.
However, the switching cost of figuring out where they, for example, they squirreled away the interface for changing an environment variable, is too high. "Retro or NO!," say I.
The river erodes the mountain a particle at a time.
You can come through with a tidal wave, if you want results by the next election, but there will be side effects.
Keep working at it, but mind the side-effects.
Yeah, but does Mammoth turn into Van Halen? That is the question.
You may not be cynical enough.
Does MicroSoft need to have Forrester throw out the occasional counter-argument to head off some anti-trust allegation?
That is the more paranoid question.
And the reason for rebelling against observation is the difference between the words 'acute' and 'chronic'.
If a crime's been committed, I've got no problem a) explaining myself, and b) offering information that might help see justice served.
In the absence of an acute event like a crime, chronic quizzing amounts to a denial of service attack on life itself. In particular, when the DOS involves filling out a bunch of forms. Paperwork was invented in Hell by Satan, who gives it to governments due to the fire hazard. OK, I just made that up; it's more an expression of my feeling about doing paperwork than anything theological, mind you.
Meine frau is von Deutschland. Learning to speak German has given me a taste for retro syntax.
If the name 'paq8hp12' falls out of some tree in the forest, and no one here can tell the difference in the state of the tree/paq8hp12 system, does gravity exist?
Your existing newtorks are built upon relatively simple, freely available protocols.
Any hypothetical or actual throughput you think you'll gain from sexing up the infrastructure will come at the cost of lots of pain. Buggy code, code with bugs inserted for nefarious purposes...
I hope that there will always be "plain old networks" available. If a company wants to come up with some slick product and sell it to the sheep, fine. That's capitalism. I just wont have much compassion during the winter, when the sheep are asking WTF their wool went.
Brings but a shrug
Merely be not a thug
When cutting the rug
Burma Shave
What is the point of retaining the 2.6?
Why not just call the thing "22"? This has the advantage of putting the kernel in the same version neighborhood as GNU/Emacs.
Oh, wait...being too close to GNU/Emacs's version number might bring development to a crawl.
Never mind.
2.6.22 certainly has the scalability, but does it hate itself sufficiently?