It's guilty when proven guilty, and MS have been found guilty enough times, in and out of court.
Convicted abuser of a monopoly position Breaking windows for competitors products Holding back on interopability docs Special funding related to the SCO debacle GPL is "viral" Claims like "Linux breaches loads of our patents"
MAYBE, but how many people "believe" in it without testing it?
(Interestingly how many "testers" falsify the results? Is that answer a belief?)
For all practical purposes most things come down to belief, and for the few that DO the tests they have to believe that they did it right and that their peers (doing the review) and sucking up.
My mum was a computer programmer designing lenses using Fortran. My sister was a PHD doing original research in high temperature ceramic super conductors.
They both find raising a family to be fulfilling.
From my own point of view I'm glad my mum preferred staying at home and teaching and caring for me.
I don't understand how when men make the best of having to go to work, and even get used to it that loads of women suddenly get excited and think that they're missing out on something.
Any anyway, there isn't enough upper management and board room positions for all women even if there weren't "glass ceilings" and who cares that much about upper management and directors anyway? Home is much better.
Sam; having gone into work early so he can go home early and have dinner with his children.
In cold countries, anyone who has thermostatically controlled heating may end up saving NOTHING even if they turn the device right off.
The heat NOT generated by the now OFF devices will be generated by the central heating when the thermostat kicks in sooner.
Successful campaigns for low energy light bulbs and other low energy devices mean that it often isn't worth the time it takes to say "turn it off", there's much worse waste to target.
Perl was originally intended.... yes but Perl isn't THAT language any more, a version 0.5 need tells little about a version 5.10 language, have a look at Perl is now intended...
You are being too picky, you sound like a PHB: "put more colours on the website, put more words on the website".
You think the web sites lack colour and bulk. That scares me.
I don't know which perl websites you look at but I find the perl doc websites I look at have plenty of information, and I've used perl and php for years.
php has a lot of user comments on the php website because there's lots of people who keep getting it wrong. Perhaps the perl docs are just better...
As for the OT; it says everything. We don't "waste time managing a file structure" we use a file structure to mean things. This just suggests that you don't mean anything by your file structures.
My laptop blew it's mind when I booted the linux partition of my laptop, started vmware and booted the linux partition of my laptop. It fsck'd itself pretty badly at that point.
Now my vmware has a floppy disk image with grub to make sure it can only boot windows.
to pick on your.sig:
'The Christian concept of "free will" is the same free will that a mugger gives you in a dark alley at 3 AM.'
i.e. "I won't destroy you if you give you your money"
as a Christian I don't recognize that. Humans are already neck deep in it; the concept of "free will" that I recognize is the same free will that a rescue helicopter gives you in a flood, or a US marine gives you in an evacuation.
However I won't dispute that many so-called Christians seem to be on the take for money, but thats not Christianity, thats priest-craft and it goes beyond Christianity, even beyond religion.
And if you [ go under a bus / get blown up / fall out with your customer / get overwhelmed ] all your customers will bitterly wish that they had gone with godaddy.
I had a friend do what you did and he totally frazzed out under the stress, his "micro" business went under.
One of my associates, his customer, had to go to the hosting company and pay them so he could get his servers out; but before that it was a mad drive across country to find the guy who had just dropped off the map.
You're too lazy, just like they were, you want (yourself?) and others to act on someone elses information that you can't be bothered to confirm, and then have them harassed.
Thats the kind of behaviour that gets (got) the wrong person and ruins their life.
That argument is usually put to the religionists as "you are deluding yourself", to the flying saucer-ites as "mass hysteria" but now its a straw man...
"I am ignorant of those things which can not be proved or not based in fact. I purposefully ignore them because they are nonsene, i.e. not real."
in which you claim to know that things you are ignorant of are not real; thats more audacious than the religionists claims which is that you/can/ know that it is real when you know what it is.
In 6th form college I finally got hold of the advanced programmers guide where I could even intercept CTRL-BRK to re-install my vectors.
I wrote a 3 way "talk" program based on a VAX talk program I saw.
We'd control a speech synthesiser from across the room and use the cmoputer to chat up girls who somehow knew the crowd of geeky boys in the corner were behind it all, and went along with it any way.
My last attempt before I left was to turn Acornsoft Maze into a networked multiplayer game, but my skills were too poor then. Skilz! Gah!
I also reverse engineered the econet password file, grassed up some students with naughty admin privileges and got granted them myself.
My high school, though, had the cheaper e-net. I went back to visit once and needed to login as the teacher. To find his password I wrote a BASIC program to dump the disk DMA buffer and then tried to login and watched as his entry was read from the password file and then read his password. It never occured to me that in a decent system this would NOT work as the password would be hashed. But it wasn't hashed and I got in. A wiser man would never have tried.
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Exactly.
I don't see how FSF can care about the difference between
* fixed firmware
* firmware for extra hardware in a FLASH chip to be uploaded when there is new firmware
* firmware or just uploaded on power on
If they care about the third then they should care about the first, but they don't seem to...
Sam
It's guilty when proven guilty, and MS have been found guilty enough times, in and out of court.
Convicted abuser of a monopoly position
Breaking windows for competitors products
Holding back on interopability docs
Special funding related to the SCO debacle
GPL is "viral"
Claims like "Linux breaches loads of our patents"
etc etc
Sam
MAYBE, but how many people "believe" in it without testing it?
(Interestingly how many "testers" falsify the results? Is that answer a belief?)
For all practical purposes most things come down to belief, and for the few that DO the tests they have to believe that they did it right and that their peers (doing the review) and sucking up.
Sam
My mum was a computer programmer designing lenses using Fortran.
My sister was a PHD doing original research in high temperature ceramic super conductors.
They both find raising a family to be fulfilling.
From my own point of view I'm glad my mum preferred staying at home and teaching and caring for me.
I don't understand how when men make the best of having to go to work, and even get used to it that loads of women suddenly get excited and think that they're missing out on something.
Any anyway, there isn't enough upper management and board room positions for all women even if there weren't "glass ceilings" and who cares that much about upper management and directors anyway? Home is much better.
Sam; having gone into work early so he can go home early and have dinner with his children.
The mosquito only needs one patch of skin to spring a leak. Full body armour stops that.
If you don't wear full body armour, expect a leak
In cold countries, anyone who has thermostatically controlled heating may end up saving NOTHING even if they turn the device right off.
The heat NOT generated by the now OFF devices will be generated by the central heating when the thermostat kicks in sooner.
Successful campaigns for low energy light bulbs and other low energy devices mean that it often isn't worth the time it takes to say "turn it off", there's much worse waste to target.
Sam
Perl was originally intended.... yes but Perl isn't THAT language any more, a version 0.5 need tells little about a version 5.10 language, have a look at Perl is now intended...
Sam
You are being too picky, you sound like a PHB: "put more colours on the website, put more words on the website".
You think the web sites lack colour and bulk. That scares me.
I don't know which perl websites you look at but I find the perl doc websites I look at have plenty of information, and I've used perl and php for years.
php has a lot of user comments on the php website because there's lots of people who keep getting it wrong. Perhaps the perl docs are just better...
As for the OT; it says everything. We don't "waste time managing a file structure" we use a file structure to mean things. This just suggests that you don't mean anything by your file structures.
Take a look at tbook http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/
I don't think its what YOU want but it may be of interest to many readers.
Sam
Bah! thats nothing!
My laptop blew it's mind when I booted the linux partition of my laptop, started vmware and booted the linux partition of my laptop. It fsck'd itself pretty badly at that point.
Now my vmware has a floppy disk image with grub to make sure it can only boot windows.
Sam
to pick on your .sig:
'The Christian concept of "free will" is the same free will that a mugger gives you in a dark alley at 3 AM.'
i.e. "I won't destroy you if you give you your money"
as a Christian I don't recognize that. Humans are already neck deep in it; the concept of "free will" that I recognize is the same free will that a rescue helicopter gives you in a flood, or a US marine gives you in an evacuation.
However I won't dispute that many so-called Christians seem to be on the take for money, but thats not Christianity, thats priest-craft and it goes beyond Christianity, even beyond religion.
Now back to the regularly scheduled program...
Nonsense.
I know a company that pays non-employees to write open source GPL3 software for them.
The payer does not get to decide if/when/how it becomes open, the author retains the rights.
The payer receives a conveyance/distribution of the GPL3 code from the author.
Sam
And if you [ go under a bus / get blown up / fall out with your customer / get overwhelmed ] all your customers will bitterly wish that they had gone with godaddy.
I had a friend do what you did and he totally frazzed out under the stress, his "micro" business went under.
One of my associates, his customer, had to go to the hosting company and pay them so he could get his servers out; but before that it was a mad drive across country to find the guy who had just dropped off the map.
Sam
And its not an electrONICS question either.
It is an electrICAL engineering question though.
Maybe someone is dumb, but you and your brother have failed to make the case that it is the new hires.
Sam
You're too lazy, just like they were, you want (yourself?) and others to act on someone elses information that you can't be bothered to confirm, and then have them harassed.
Thats the kind of behaviour that gets (got) the wrong person and ruins their life.
Sam
Good grief, they are not christians in any sense, but power mongering opportunists who will ride any wave to success.
They may call themselves christian at the time, but would Christ? Or would he say "I never knew you, depart from me ye workers of iniquity"?
Most actual Christians don't think Christianity is a club where the spouting the party line saves (unlike politics).
Sam
it was though, a perfectly cromulent word.
The difficulty is defining God, just like defining love.
It is a common human trait to assign the same label to different ideas.
When I see atheists reject the notion of God I often have to agree with the rejection of the notion they reject.
Sam
That argument is usually put to the religionists as "you are deluding yourself", to the flying saucer-ites as "mass hysteria" but now its a straw man...
You've described love, but not proved it.
/can/ know that it is real when you know what it is.
Your last statement is most telling:
"I am ignorant of those things which can not be proved or not based in fact. I purposefully ignore them because they are nonsene, i.e. not real."
in which you claim to know that things you are ignorant of are not real; thats more audacious than the religionists claims which is that you
Sam
If, of course, you can believe your senses.
Sam
You nicely mixed "soldier" with "military" there.
A soldier might lose some rights, but the military is bound by it; it protects citizens by so binding the military and government.
Sam
The USA sounds more and more like China every day.
Bush can't spy on his people so he gets their military to do it for him!
Sam
Maybe thats why the *AA are scared.
People aren't paying attention and still finding what they want.
Sam
In 6th form college I finally got hold of the advanced programmers guide where I could even intercept CTRL-BRK to re-install my vectors.
I wrote a 3 way "talk" program based on a VAX talk program I saw.
We'd control a speech synthesiser from across the room and use the cmoputer to chat up girls who somehow knew the crowd of geeky boys in the corner were behind it all, and went along with it any way.
My last attempt before I left was to turn Acornsoft Maze into a networked multiplayer game, but my skills were too poor then. Skilz! Gah!
I also reverse engineered the econet password file, grassed up some students with naughty admin privileges and got granted them myself.
My high school, though, had the cheaper e-net. I went back to visit once and needed to login as the teacher. To find his password I wrote a BASIC program to dump the disk DMA buffer and then tried to login and watched as his entry was read from the password file and then read his password. It never occured to me that in a decent system this would NOT work as the password would be hashed. But it wasn't hashed and I got in. A wiser man would never have tried.
Sam