Bug, or feature?
I've always suspected the amount of shares of MSFT in circulation add a 'liquidity network effect', if you will, to decisionmaking at the CTO level.
Is Redmond to IT what Rome is to Christianity?
Put in Office Space, jump to the scene with the little 'going away present'
Get the fax!
Get it again!
Gimme some!
Woo hoo!
Rarely has senseless violence against hardware felt so satisfying...
Huh?
I would readily support a law revoking the Second Amendment rights of any <expletive> convicted of that crap from ever owning or operating a firearm.
Irresponsibility such as that bears crushing.
I've bought Nigel McFarlane's Mozilla and Firefox books (swell tomes, both) but what I'd like to see is a worked example using Python to script Firefox on the client.
Is it possible to do import the Firefox executable directly, or would you need to instantiate an HTTP server, and do everything against 127.0.0.1 ?
Firefox seems like an interesting angle on a lot of cross-platform development, or my name isn't Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus Caesar.
Emacs has widgets.el, which care not a fig whether you're in a terminal or graphical.
"All hail the power of Emacs' name, let vi users prostates fall..."
It all makes sense now. /.ers are worried about TFA actually being downloaded to their machine, diminishing the/. effect and utterly wrecking their cred.
I, for one, think that in Soviet Googlia, cache prefetches you.
Through the 1990s, personal computers based on Microsoft's Windows operating system began to gain a much larger percentage of new computer users than Apple. As a result, Apple fell from controlling 20% of the total personal computer market to 5% by the end of the decade. The company was struggling financially under then-CEO Gil Amelio when on August 6, 1997 Microsoft bought a $150 million non-voting share of the company as a result of a court settlement with Apple (Microsoft has since sold all Apple stock holdings). Perhaps more significantly, Microsoft simultaneously announced its continued support for Mac versions of its office suite, Microsoft Office, and soon created a Macintosh Business Unit. This reversed the earlier trend within Microsoft that resulted in poor Mac versions of their software and has resulted in several award-winning releases.
Although your analysis may well be correct, there is at least a fig leaf in place to ward off the lustful eye of anti-trust regulators...
Now you could say that Sun was the "first mover" with Java, and M$FT was the "second mover" with.NET, but my point is that just because M$FT has been working quietly behind the scenes on something like.NET doesn't mean they aren't innovating.
That is exactly my point..Net is far more evolutionary than revolutionary. Not to say that Anders Hjelsberg isn't 16 times the hacker I'll ever be.
Sure, the.Net momentum is massive, and the C# codebase will only grow faster if Mono ever gains traction in the FOSS world.
TFA article touched on the browser war from the standpoint of MS crushing Netscape on price. Where there article didn't seem to go was into the anxiety in Redmond when they realized that the browser could diminish the importance of the desktop OS in a major way, which is where I was going with the point about Google partnering with Apple (admittedly unlikely, given the personalities in question) or Google rolling a killer Linux distribution (feel the waves of fear emanating from the NorthWest...)
I'm smiling, but not sure I buy all of the assertions in TFA:
Simply put, Google has become a new kind of foe, and that's what has Gates so riled. It has combined software innovation with a brand-new Internet business model--and it wounds Gates' pride that he didn't get there first.
Microsoft, once it owned the bulk of the market, has been a second-mover.
Gates aims for the fat cash hump in the middle of the market distribution.
The real question is, will Google turn this second-mover strategy into a giant suppository?
Microsofties have always been voracious samplers of competitors' products; many used the Netscape browser for years until Microsoft's Internet Explorer was good enough.
Yep. The Google-branded Apple MacIntosh, coming soon to a nightmare near you...
Pre-pimped rigs are a stupid person's way to 'customize' their computer.
Nonsense. It's all marketing, and there is nothing wrong with pimpin' yo' rig, any more than pimpin' yo' ride.
Furthermore, for that person for whom coming up with a gift idea is an absolute !@#$, it's a great source of gift ideas. Now, how does my father in law feel about the Farce? Is it with him?
Did you RTFA? It looked like a collision between Cal Worthington, his dog Spot, Geek Squad, and a bottle of tequila.
I think Mr. Gray, as Lemmy put it, is "Talkin' to the Devil on the batphone all of the time".
Genuinely curious as to your preferable model for behavior.
My view is that there are some basic rules and obligations for any intelligence operating among other intelligences which establish their mutual relationship. Christianity attempts to address this issue, but it lacks internal logic and consistency (perheaps because it was concocted out of haphazard collection of pre-existing dogmas and beliefs).
I submit that, in either case, there is an assertion of a context for inter-relationship between intelligences, and at some point, every view engages in hand-waving, whether or not such is labeled 'faith'.
The irony is that, the more you read what Jesus actually is recorded as saying, the less 'New' you see in the New Testament.
Utilitarian argument has a lot in common in some places with the Christan one, because I believe that in essence, Christ was attempting to perform this sort of social engineering project to make everyone better off.
Again, that is certainly a viewpoint, but I'd offer that some trees on the fringe may have been mistaken for the forest.:) The Good News excels this viewpoint by a couple of orders of magnitude, but I wear my bias on my sleeve.
As to "after-life", sicence is simply not qualified to answer certain questions, sometimes because they are simply posed incorrectly (such as "How kind is color Blue?").
My favorite question along these lines is, 'what preceded the Big Bang'.
Science is about the implementation, the Bible is a requirements document. "After-life"? Yeah, I specialize in not being overly anxious about it. The two things I anticipate are:
-Closure on these endless arguments
-Unambiguous answers to questions I cannot fathom, like, from whence came the idea for transcendental numbers?
Justice for all the lawyers and politicians may be briefly entertaining, as well.
Calls for justice have to be handled cautiously, though. I think it's in Proverbs somewhere about "whoever digs a pit shall fall therein"...
I agree that this is one view, and, also, that if you can disprove the New Testament, that all His followers are wishful thinkers par excellance
His (already somewhat naive and ill-thought-out) teachings were perverted and mis-used as soon as they left his mouth
Genuinely curious as to your preferable model for behavior. Christianity (especially 1John) explicitly rejects the idea that it is a 'magic wand' for the individual; the derivative of sin w.r.t. time for the individual should be negative, but anyone claiming to achieve perfection while mortal is clearly not IAW REF(A).
Sad case testimony to human naivete, stupidity, lust for power and greed.
OK, the messengers are mortal (which I do not mean as a toss-off).
OTOH, I like Tillich: "Man is existentially estranged from the essential goodness of creation in God's image", which isn't meaningful if you're assuming an atheistic position, I suppose.
As I was trying to get at in my first post; without some sort of theistic model, i.e. a purely mechanical view of reality, I'm still not seeing the differnce between virtue and anarchy. The utilitarian argument seems weak; when the heart stops, so what?
A relevant passage is the parable of the talents (large denominations of money in those days) at the end of the Gospel of Matthew.
People are given 5, 2 and 1 "large" to invest for the boss.
At review time, the first two had doubled the cash.
Mr. Singleton sat on his booty, successfully returning the loot intact, for which he is crushed:
28" 'Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
I think the conversation a bit of a distraction. Hugh Ross has some interesting harmonization of creationism/evolution.
My take: the Genesis account is a true "abstract" of the "paper" that is creation. I admit a deep personal need to believe in an order to reality; the alternative to such a reason, IMHO is a pure nihilism. Natural Born Killers, why not?
As far as the original article goes, exactly which church the government is establishing as a state religion (which is what I thought the Constitution was actually proscribing) is unclear. I guess something vaguely Judeo-Christian (where does Islam fall on this?)
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Bug, or feature?
I've always suspected the amount of shares of MSFT in circulation add a 'liquidity network effect', if you will, to decisionmaking at the CTO level.
Is Redmond to IT what Rome is to Christianity?
I heard from Someone Who Would Know that they could forego all income and pay all their staff at full salary for at least three years.
Put in Office Space, jump to the scene with the little 'going away present'
Get the fax!
Get it again!
Gimme some!
Woo hoo!
Rarely has senseless violence against hardware felt so satisfying...
I would readily support a law revoking the Second Amendment rights of any <expletive> convicted of that crap from ever owning or operating a firearm.
Irresponsibility such as that bears crushing.
Boiling frogs is sport for little boys, but it's death for the frogs.
Yes, Melinda, your hubby ships substandard software.
I've bought Nigel McFarlane's Mozilla and Firefox books (swell tomes, both) but what I'd like to see is a worked example using Python to script Firefox on the client.
Is it possible to do import the Firefox executable directly, or would you need to instantiate an HTTP server, and do everything against 127.0.0.1 ?
Firefox seems like an interesting angle on a lot of cross-platform development, or my name isn't Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus Caesar.
Emacs has widgets.el, which care not a fig whether you're in a terminal or graphical.
"All hail the power of Emacs' name, let vi users prostates fall..."
Slowing things down?
Cor, you're looky!
At my job, they overshot slowing things down, and now we're all moving in reverse!
(He apparently read TFA...FAT chance, indeed)
It all makes sense now.
/.ers are worried about TFA actually being downloaded to their machine, diminishing the /. effect and utterly wrecking their cred.
I, for one, think that in Soviet Googlia, cache prefetches you .
The jargon file entry is mildly interesting:o me-our-new-X-overlords.html
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/I/I-for-one-welc
I agree with your agreement, but will only go as far as medium rare WRT done-ness.
I dunno, but the fact that Novell, a bitter rival of Redmond, is driving Mono could impact the amount of cheering MicroSoft does...
Sure, the
TFA article touched on the browser war from the standpoint of MS crushing Netscape on price.
Where there article didn't seem to go was into the anxiety in Redmond when they realized that the browser could diminish the importance of the desktop OS in a major way, which is where I was going with the point about Google partnering with Apple (admittedly unlikely, given the personalities in question) or Google rolling a killer Linux distribution (feel the waves of fear emanating from the NorthWest...)
Microsoft, once it owned the bulk of the market, has been a second-mover.
Gates aims for the fat cash hump in the middle of the market distribution.
The real question is, will Google turn this second-mover strategy into a giant suppository?
Yep. The Google-branded Apple MacIntosh, coming soon to a nightmare near you...
On wonders if there will be a git interface at some point...
Only if the tires are Thunderstone FirePhoenix's.
Thank you! Please don't confuse the tip jar with the spitoon...
Interstate Explorer
Furthermore, for that person for whom coming up with a gift idea is an absolute !@#$, it's a great source of gift ideas. Now, how does my father in law feel about the Farce? Is it with him?
Did you RTFA? It looked like a collision between Cal Worthington, his dog Spot, Geek Squad, and a bottle of tequila.
I think Mr. Gray, as Lemmy put it, is "Talkin' to the Devil on the batphone all of the time".
The irony is that, the more you read what Jesus actually is recorded as saying, the less 'New' you see in the New Testament.
Again, that is certainly a viewpoint, but I'd offer that some trees on the fringe may have been mistaken for the forest.
My favorite question along these lines is, 'what preceded the Big Bang'.
Science is about the implementation, the Bible is a requirements document. "After-life"? Yeah, I specialize in not being overly anxious about it. The two things I anticipate are:
-Closure on these endless arguments
-Unambiguous answers to questions I cannot fathom, like, from whence came the idea for transcendental numbers?
Justice for all the lawyers and politicians may be briefly entertaining, as well.
Calls for justice have to be handled cautiously, though. I think it's in Proverbs somewhere about "whoever digs a pit shall fall therein"...
Genuinely curious as to your preferable model for behavior. Christianity (especially 1John) explicitly rejects the idea that it is a 'magic wand' for the individual; the derivative of sin w.r.t. time for the individual should be negative, but anyone claiming to achieve perfection while mortal is clearly not IAW REF(A).
OK, the messengers are mortal (which I do not mean as a toss-off).
OTOH, I like Tillich: "Man is existentially estranged from the essential goodness of creation in God's image", which isn't meaningful if you're assuming an atheistic position, I suppose.
As I was trying to get at in my first post; without some sort of theistic model, i.e. a purely mechanical view of reality, I'm still not seeing the differnce between virtue and anarchy. The utilitarian argument seems weak; when the heart stops, so what?
People are given 5, 2 and 1 "large" to invest for the boss.
At review time, the first two had doubled the cash.
Mr. Singleton sat on his booty, successfully returning the loot intact, for which he is crushed:
I think the conversation a bit of a distraction. Hugh Ross has some interesting harmonization of creationism/evolution.
My take: the Genesis account is a true "abstract" of the "paper" that is creation. I admit a deep personal need to believe in an order to reality; the alternative to such a reason, IMHO is a pure nihilism. Natural Born Killers, why not?
As far as the original article goes, exactly which church the government is establishing as a state religion (which is what I thought the Constitution was actually proscribing) is unclear. I guess something vaguely Judeo-Christian (where does Islam fall on this?)