Note the hidden assumption of serial MCSEs in your logic.
You can put your MSCEs in parallel for good justice.
If the population of China were all MCSEs...
Microsoft's utterances have an effect similar to Greenspan's mumblings and Buffet's flatus.
Which is a shame; will the market ever mature to the point where actual product, not hints and wishful thinking, matter?
Furthermore, with commodity processors, building a compile farm shan't be too difficult.
Although, if I hadn't dallied with Linux From Scratch for a while, Gentoo would've been Genzero for me. It's just not for the FNG.
We're making the decision it's going to be OpenOffice, the browser it's going to be Mozilla, the email client it's going to be Evolution, the IM client it's going to be Gaim.
One of teh roxorz things about Mozilla is that for a hard drive configuration like
a NTFS WinXP | Linux (boot, swap, user) a -----------| a -----------* a ----------/'\ a ---------/'''\ a -------FAT 32 "DMZ"
It is possible to park the mozilla email files in the DMZ partition, so that you can use the same tools irrespective of operating system.
This is a killer feature: why should your operating system be in the way any more than the BIOS?
Thus, until Evolution undergoes the requiered genetic changes to compile under 'Doze, I shan't pay't heed.
Aside: all these lameness filters make doing a simple diagram a right PITA. If they actually kept out the regrettable stuff, they might be a help. Then again, I probably wouldn't want to see/. without them.
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Emacs has vi modes.
I don't think vi can emulate Emacs.
Therefore, Emacs seemed the wiser route, IMHO.
See now, you just killed off a humorous hypothreadical skit entitled "The Four Yorkshiremen Get Their Gentoo On."
I hope you inadvertantly enter the door marked "Abuse" when searching for the Argument Clinic and never find your way out, you insensitive clod!
I realize I'm pretty wierd, but I've used my 48gx as an alarm clock for years.
As the fiancee is German, the conversion features are a great way out of the Imperial Unit penalty box.
And, I've got the references to code the thing, though I admit that I haven't had occasion since udergraduate days.
I wouldn't expect to see a PDA even kinda do what a dedicated calculator can, although the idea of a smarter PDA might be a strong argument for a Linux-based unit, assuming it really supported C/C++ work...
That said, I wouldn't feel confident putting anything 'interesting' on a PDA holding the phone numbers and calendar. Who in the audience is sufficiently confident that they're going to risk being without their contact data at a critical moment because of a wee bug in some code that was 'almost there'?
Oh, you yourself will, in ten years, when you realize that it's all veneer.
The three things that matter are power, power, and power, though not necessarily in that order.
Who, under the age of about 50 or so, is pro-Social Security?
You or I would be jailed in an eyeblink for running such a ponzi scheme. I guess when your flatus is the law of the land, and the system reinforces intellectual cowardice, the sacred beefness of Social Security isn't hard to see.
I'm a little surprised that the AARP isn't coming out against gay marriage. While I couldn't possibly have less personal interest in the sexuality of others (sweetheart notwithstanding), Social Security is predicated upon at least a replacement birthrate. Witness the European agony. Surprised that there aren't calls to sew seed where it has some potential...
Oh, wait; I'm questioning orthodoxy... *ducks*
It'll all be one big joke again, until everyone gets an "oh shit" look on their face as Ventura's numbers rise.
See now, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
OK, so Jesse Ventura would be Perot redux, albeit with a less annoying accent.
What matters is that these outsider types are about the only feedback loop left to give a signal to the Big Two.
If we want to talk structural problems, we need to talk about the total lack of incentivisation in the system for actual leadership and long-term thinking.
Piling on, I would still like to understand the difference between the Demicans and the Republocrats.
One party strives for power, the other lusts after it, near I can tell.
Both are meatpuppets for rich interests, while feigning populism.
Gimme Jesse the Body in '08.
Then there was the scanner that worked well with Lose2000, but, having no signed driver, failed it under LoseXP.
Perfectly good hardware, no love.
I'm not advocating that the manufacture be obligated to keep current drivers for older hardware. The economics argue against it on a variety of levels.
However, since I was pissed off, I didn't buy another one from that vendor, so they cut off their spite to face their nose.
OTOH, my USB ethernet device isn't the most stable under 2.6.x.
Sometimes you're the dog; sometimes you're the fire hydrant...
C++ has been getting functional of late, if you're into Boost.
Perhaps there is something to this bit about all roads leading to Lisp.
I'm curious to see how well Parrot, Python, and Boost::Python will get along, myself...
Yes, the real effect of F/OSS is to offer MS the competition it otherwise cannot feel.
The left coast tax cut should help business the way the right coast tax cuts have helped the individual.
K3B is also the only application I've seen that can burn a DVD.iso when it's time for the big fat backup.
Others may exist as well, but K3B made the full-day Gentoo compile worth it, and spared me from booting Doze just to do backups.
w00t!
And, how many holes are legitimate coding cock-ups? How many holes are are configuration oopses caused by ignorant/overworked admins?
I would say that you can effect security hole in any OS, just as you can write FORTRAN in any language.
I wouldn't call IBM a bunch of dummies.
They wouldn't charge that price if they didn't think a market existed. No one is dropping that kind of loot for hardware (OK, maybe the government) so I would expect to see a lot of software and services and support fleshing out that kind of deal.
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Note the hidden assumption of serial MCSEs in your logic.
You can put your MSCEs in parallel for good justice.
If the population of China were all MCSEs...
Microsoft's utterances have an effect similar to Greenspan's mumblings and Buffet's flatus.
Which is a shame; will the market ever mature to the point where actual product, not hints and wishful thinking, matter?
Furthermore, with commodity processors, building a compile farm shan't be too difficult.
Although, if I hadn't dallied with Linux From Scratch for a while, Gentoo would've been Genzero for me. It's just not for the FNG.
It is possible to park the mozilla email files in the DMZ partition, so that you can use the same tools irrespective of operating system.
This is a killer feature: why should your operating system be in the way any more than the BIOS?
Thus, until Evolution undergoes the requiered genetic changes to compile under 'Doze, I shan't pay't heed.
Aside: all these lameness filters make doing a simple diagram a right PITA. If they actually kept out the regrettable stuff, they might be a help. Then again, I probably wouldn't want to see
Emacs has vi modes.
I don't think vi can emulate Emacs.
Therefore, Emacs seemed the wiser route, IMHO.
Oh, it keeps reasonable time. Batteries go on in a way your laptop would find enviable. But it's definitely not for the heavy sleeper.
Really. Microsoft Foundation Classes are so much more educational. We should all take some.
See now, you just killed off a humorous hypothreadical skit entitled "The Four Yorkshiremen Get Their Gentoo On."
I hope you inadvertantly enter the door marked "Abuse" when searching for the Argument Clinic and never find your way out, you insensitive clod!
I realize I'm pretty wierd, but I've used my 48gx as an alarm clock for years.
As the fiancee is German, the conversion features are a great way out of the Imperial Unit penalty box.
And, I've got the references to code the thing, though I admit that I haven't had occasion since udergraduate days.
I wouldn't expect to see a PDA even kinda do what a dedicated calculator can, although the idea of a smarter PDA might be a strong argument for a Linux-based unit, assuming it really supported C/C++ work...
That said, I wouldn't feel confident putting anything 'interesting' on a PDA holding the phone numbers and calendar. Who in the audience is sufficiently confident that they're going to risk being without their contact data at a critical moment because of a wee bug in some code that was 'almost there'?
Merely an instance of the power ABC.
Oh, you yourself will, in ten years, when you realize that it's all veneer.
The three things that matter are power, power, and power, though not necessarily in that order.
Who, under the age of about 50 or so, is pro-Social Security?
You or I would be jailed in an eyeblink for running such a ponzi scheme. I guess when your flatus is the law of the land, and the system reinforces intellectual cowardice, the sacred beefness of Social Security isn't hard to see.
I'm a little surprised that the AARP isn't coming out against gay marriage. While I couldn't possibly have less personal interest in the sexuality of others (sweetheart notwithstanding), Social Security is predicated upon at least a replacement birthrate. Witness the European agony. Surprised that there aren't calls to sew seed where it has some potential...
Oh, wait; I'm questioning orthodoxy... *ducks*
It'll all be one big joke again, until everyone gets an "oh shit" look on their face as Ventura's numbers rise.
See now, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
OK, so Jesse Ventura would be Perot redux, albeit with a less annoying accent.
What matters is that these outsider types are about the only feedback loop left to give a signal to the Big Two.
If we want to talk structural problems, we need to talk about the total lack of incentivisation in the system for actual leadership and long-term thinking.
Seriously. Grandparent post needs to differentiate between business and theology.
Where is that Godfather quote about not hating the enemy?
Piling on, I would still like to understand the difference between the Demicans and the Republocrats.
One party strives for power, the other lusts after it, near I can tell.
Both are meatpuppets for rich interests, while feigning populism.
Gimme Jesse the Body in '08.
Then there was the scanner that worked well with Lose2000, but, having no signed driver, failed it under LoseXP.
Perfectly good hardware, no love.
I'm not advocating that the manufacture be obligated to keep current drivers for older hardware. The economics argue against it on a variety of levels.
However, since I was pissed off, I didn't buy another one from that vendor, so they cut off their spite to face their nose.
OTOH, my USB ethernet device isn't the most stable under 2.6.x.
Sometimes you're the dog; sometimes you're the fire hydrant...
(X)Emacs.
M-x ecb-activate
M-x hs-minor-mode
No desktop? No problem.
Other OS? No problem.
Wanted simple keyboard shortcuts? See Meatloaf song...
Isn't that bulleted statement due to Churchill?
C++ has been getting functional of late, if you're into Boost.
Perhaps there is something to this bit about all roads leading to Lisp.
I'm curious to see how well Parrot, Python, and Boost::Python will get along, myself...
Yes, the real effect of F/OSS is to offer MS the competition it otherwise cannot feel.
The left coast tax cut should help business the way the right coast tax cuts have helped the individual.
Disk?
I never saw that pig in a pen smaller than dozen-disks.
And Orifice 4.3 weighed in around 30...
Jolt
K3B is also the only application I've seen that can burn a DVD .iso when it's time for the big fat backup.
Others may exist as well, but K3B made the full-day Gentoo compile worth it, and spared me from booting Doze just to do backups.
w00t!
And, how many holes are legitimate coding cock-ups? How many holes are are configuration oopses caused by ignorant/overworked admins?
I would say that you can effect security hole in any OS, just as you can write FORTRAN in any language.
I wouldn't call IBM a bunch of dummies.
They wouldn't charge that price if they didn't think a market existed. No one is dropping that kind of loot for hardware (OK, maybe the government) so I would expect to see a lot of software and services and support fleshing out that kind of deal.