Yeah except that a hostile takeover by the prc would leave taiwain in ruins, and all the smart one would have GTFU (got the freak out) a couple weeks before
Plus, the chinese would pull a Mao on the remaining Taiwanese and there'd be casualties in the millions.
This, by the way, would mark the beginning of the end for china. The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash. Which means they would have to crack down internally and block foreign media. This would bring back the good old days of communistic-nationalism.
They will not invade taiwan, because they can't.
And they know it. The only way they can get it back is too cozy up with us and lull us into giving it back to them.
Of course, they don't realize what tenatious little bastards we are.
The other problem is that if they try and fail, Taiwan will declare independance and there is nothing anyone in PRC will be able to say.
If the employees own my thoughts, they had best be careful of all sorts of lawsuits because a lot of the junk floating up there is not PC by a long shot.
This opened a can of worms: you have to think something before you can say it: thus, by extension, they own anything you say.
You think that just because bouncy ballmer announces competition the google team will get all frazzled? They've been competing with the likes of MS for 5 years now (and putting the boots on to deliver the proverbial kick in the pants).
I just think that ballmer is saying this to appease skittish shareholders.
Then I asked myself to look at this as an exercise in business management.
I saw that what the parent said just might be the long-term microsoft strategy.
Think about it. You can go to wikipedia and see a ton of aircraft manufacturers over the years in nearly every country. Now, however, there are but a few, because the cost of entry (complexity of the aircrafts, security, licensing, and upfront costs) are staggering.
The same thing applies to software. I love the ADO thingy, yet, it's microsoft-only, and I had to aquire a license (although free but with restrictions) in order to use it at all. The alternative is to use SQL statements, or use a different toolkit (like python's DB api).
But I like ADO!, Why can't they allow me to use it to do what I want?
The more inventions they "create" and protect with patents, the less I can do without living in the MS world.
I say: Thow off the seductive velvety gautlet that garrots your neck ever so slowly and march in the mud to the land of the 'nix. Let the air you breathe and the software you write be free as the wind, so that eagles may soar in it. Let your shoulders grow wide and inviting for others to stand on without feeling violated by your "restrictive terms". Let there be freedom of expression, in thought, in writing, and in software, the very essence of the working mind laid out logically, plain to see by all.
I fear for them who come after us, for they will look back on our generation and see pioneers who were swallowed up by corporate greed. They will see men of ingenuity who fell for the lies of the salesmen. They will ask themselves how millions of people smart enough to program computers could be stupid enough to believe that patents will protect, and copyright will grant rights. Patents and copyright protect only money, not ideas.
When I hear that a {cr|h}acker has taken down some corporate system, I cannot stop myself from thinking about the minutemen who ambushed the British army columns near Boston. What were they thinking? That they could win against the best equipped, best trained, best funded military in the world? And for what? For this elusive idea that men are born free and equal? How was that going to stop the british musket fire? Well, it was human flesh that stopped british fire. And when that flesh had fallen off under the surgeon's knife or on the field of battle, another came to replace it, and another, until at last the odious and oppressive occupier had left the shores of our fair land.
Software developers, unite! Let not the suits who sit smug in the salons sipping bourbon served by sultry waitresses in sequin dresses steal the fruit of your labor and make you slaves to their rapacious desires for wealth and power. Let them not pay you off with bribes of options and gifts of bonuses, knowing that they invade your very private thought and seek to own the very mind you now possess. Let them not own, throught legal wranglings and trappings, the means of your livelihood, the tools of your trade, the passion of your hears! For they will, in the Almighty Name of Profitability, reduce your contribution to mankind to a mere direct-deposited pittance.
My fellow geeks and coders, men are alive in this world today who live in ease and comfort at our expense. We can let them continue to live off our hard work, or we can take back what's ours and let them get their own damn job.
Academia is probably the hardest thing in the world to move, so I wouldn't worry about it. Just get W 80 billion dollars in donations and have the chinese gov't print 1300 million wikiguides and academia will fall into step.
If there's a real nuclear war, I doubt seriously there will be any people left over, in any way shape or form (even historians, the twisted little ones with gnarly teeth, nyaaah, nyaaaah...Oh, sorry)).
Even if they did, what are they gonna do with the tape reel? Wait another 8000 years for the ice age to subside, invent electricity, and oh, surprise, rediscover nuclear energy before they get advanced enought to create the tape drive needed to read the tapes...
I say send them to the moonbase data center. True disaster recovery.
(heck, there's a greate idead in there somewhere. store your data on the moon.)
I say branch off into medical-sounding terms and let the PharmaCorps earn their money:
The Paxallum Processor The Pronicum Processor The Fasolam Processor The Azeron Processor The Rodanex Processor The Trachno Processor The Fibrilen Processor The Emenat Processor The Vicolen Processor
Phone companies charge by the second, and they have worked out who pays for what (some calls you pay for (you call them), some call they pay for (they call you)).
Down to the second.
you want a declaration?
on
IT, Be Free!
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· Score: 3, Interesting
We the People of Earth, understanding that information technology is an extension of the Human Mind, and seeking equality between men, hereby proclaim:
That all technology which is used to transfer knowledge and information shall be made available to all people without prejudice, at no cost, that no barriers to aquisition of this technology shall be erected, and that all such existing barriers shall immediately be removed.
Let it be understood by all that we are clear in our purpose, strong in our resolve, and determined to reach our goal.
Now, quite unrealistic you say? Methinks the signers of the Declaration of Independence had little hope that the King of England would say "Oh, but of course.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah except that a hostile takeover by the prc would leave taiwain in ruins, and all the smart one would have GTFU (got the freak out) a couple weeks before
Plus, the chinese would pull a Mao on the remaining Taiwanese and there'd be casualties in the millions.
This, by the way, would mark the beginning of the end for china. The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash. Which means they would have to crack down internally and block foreign media. This would bring back the good old days of communistic-nationalism.
They will not invade taiwan, because they can't.
And they know it. The only way they can get it back is too cozy up with us and lull us into giving it back to them.
Of course, they don't realize what tenatious little bastards we are.
The other problem is that if they try and fail, Taiwan will declare independance and there is nothing anyone in PRC will be able to say.
And they know that too.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2004-03-22 -fortune-500-list_x.htm
look under number 181
Woodland Hills, California. It's in the greater Los Angeles Area, in the San Fernando valley.
Look it up...
Yeah.
I work at healthnet in woodland hills.
We have a job posting (july 14) and are still 2 people short.
And I mean SHORT!!!
So look it up on monster, apply.
Use Jedit.
The line-wrap feature is killer.
Put line numbers in the giutter
it prints to printer with line-wrap.
use code-to-html plugin for pretty web output
code your code without worrying about all that.
If the employees own my thoughts, they had best be careful of all sorts of lawsuits because a lot of the junk floating up there is not PC by a long shot.
This opened a can of worms: you have to think something before you can say it: thus, by extension, they own anything you say.
You think about that...
Yeah, but what about those he had developed _prior_ to working at that company?
It aint over till it's over.
from 65 to 68 (three years) Vietnam looked like we were winning. Then Tet came along...
You're right that there's no real alternative to Access in 'nix land.
/me ducks
The most expensive thing in MS Office is not Access, it's the price./n
>Of course, carving the texts in stone would make their chances of surviving a nuclear war even larger.
:-)
Isn't that what the Egyptians did?
>after a few million years another intelligent species might evolve, and they might also be interested about the life in the distant past.
If they're anything like us, they'll not care. We would obviously seem inferior since we exterminated ourselves.
>When the world's largest most profitable [software company]>military targets you, you would probably take notice too.
There's no guarantee they're gonna win. (Vietnam, Iraq, etc)
yeah. like it wasn't one before.
You think that just because bouncy ballmer announces competition the google team will get all frazzled? They've been competing with the likes of MS for 5 years now (and putting the boots on to deliver the proverbial kick in the pants).
I just think that ballmer is saying this to appease skittish shareholders.
Can't they make everybody level 60 with all artifacts and everything to begin with?
Like Carey in "Whose line is it anyway?": "Everybody gets a million points"
Oh, I see, the whole point of the game is to find the stuff and get the experience.
I see.
They're screwed. They are spoiling the children with faster and better toys.
Whatever happened to the days of 1d4 magic missiles?
Is this what corporate recruiting has come to? A love-fest?
As the artist forerly known as Prince, and now known as prince again would say: "Party like it's 1999". (dot com ref for the dense)
Oh, but it *is* ok. The court in Norway exhonerated him of all charges..
At first I saw a troll in all his glory.
Then I asked myself to look at this as an exercise in business management.
I saw that what the parent said just might be the long-term microsoft strategy.
Think about it. You can go to wikipedia and see a ton of aircraft manufacturers over the years in nearly every country. Now, however, there are but a few, because the cost of entry (complexity of the aircrafts, security, licensing, and upfront costs) are staggering.
The same thing applies to software.
I love the ADO thingy, yet, it's microsoft-only, and I had to aquire a license (although free but with restrictions) in order to use it at all. The alternative is to use SQL statements, or use a different toolkit (like python's DB api).
But I like ADO!, Why can't they allow me to use it to do what I want?
The more inventions they "create" and protect with patents, the less I can do without living in the MS world.
I say: Thow off the seductive velvety gautlet that garrots your neck ever so slowly and march in the mud to the land of the 'nix. Let the air you breathe and the software you write be free as the wind, so that eagles may soar in it. Let your shoulders grow wide and inviting for others to stand on without feeling violated by your "restrictive terms". Let there be freedom of expression, in thought, in writing, and in software, the very essence of the working mind laid out logically, plain to see by all.
I fear for them who come after us, for they will look back on our generation and see pioneers who were swallowed up by corporate greed. They will see men of ingenuity who fell for the lies of the salesmen. They will ask themselves how millions of people smart enough to program computers could be stupid enough to believe that patents will protect, and copyright will grant rights. Patents and copyright protect only money, not ideas.
When I hear that a {cr|h}acker has taken down some corporate system, I cannot stop myself from thinking about the minutemen who ambushed the British army columns near Boston. What were they thinking? That they could win against the best equipped, best trained, best funded military in the world? And for what? For this elusive idea that men are born free and equal? How was that going to stop the british musket fire? Well, it was human flesh that stopped british fire. And when that flesh had fallen off under the surgeon's knife or on the field of battle, another came to replace it, and another, until at last the odious and oppressive occupier had left the shores of our fair land.
Software developers, unite! Let not the suits who sit smug in the salons sipping bourbon served by sultry waitresses in sequin dresses steal the fruit of your labor and make you slaves to their rapacious desires for wealth and power. Let them not pay you off with bribes of options and gifts of bonuses, knowing that they invade your very private thought and seek to own the very mind you now possess. Let them not own, throught legal wranglings and trappings, the means of your livelihood, the tools of your trade, the passion of your hears! For they will, in the Almighty Name of Profitability, reduce your contribution to mankind to a mere direct-deposited pittance.
My fellow geeks and coders, men are alive in this world today who live in ease and comfort at our expense. We can let them continue to live off our hard work, or we can take back what's ours and let them get their own damn job.
Sig Out!
No, but it's akin to replacing all bicycles with motorcycles and realizing to late that there's a lot more pollution.
/.
"Ubiquitous broadband is a pipe dream" --Me at
Yeah, especially if the extra people are LFBs (Lunix fanboys) getting paid in soda and pizza (hold the vegis)
Academia is probably the hardest thing in the world to move, so I wouldn't worry about it. Just get W 80 billion dollars in donations and have the chinese gov't print 1300 million wikiguides and academia will fall into step.
Wouldn't know... I just pulled all these names out of my ass...
Oh wait...
If there's a real nuclear war, I doubt seriously there will be any people left over, in any way shape or form (even historians, the twisted little ones with gnarly teeth, nyaaah, nyaaaah...Oh, sorry)).
Even if they did, what are they gonna do with the tape reel? Wait another 8000 years for the ice age to subside, invent electricity, and oh, surprise, rediscover nuclear energy before they get advanced enought to create the tape drive needed to read the tapes...
I say send them to the moonbase data center. True disaster recovery.
(heck, there's a greate idead in there somewhere. store your data on the moon.)
I say branch off into medical-sounding terms and let the PharmaCorps earn their money:
The Paxallum Processor
The Pronicum Processor
The Fasolam Processor
The Azeron Processor
The Rodanex Processor
The Trachno Processor
The Fibrilen Processor
The Emenat Processor
The Vicolen Processor
I could go on... (really, i could)...
> to charge by the minute instead of the month.
Phone companies charge by the second, and they have worked out who pays for what (some calls you pay for (you call them), some call they pay for (they call you)).
Down to the second.
We the People of Earth, understanding that information technology is an extension of the Human Mind, and seeking equality between men, hereby proclaim:
That all technology which is used to transfer knowledge and information shall be made available to all people without prejudice, at no cost, that no barriers to aquisition of this technology shall be erected, and that all such existing barriers shall immediately be removed.
Let it be understood by all that we are clear in our purpose, strong in our resolve, and determined to reach our goal.
Now, quite unrealistic you say? Methinks the signers of the Declaration of Independence had little hope that the King of England would say "Oh, but of course.
I would see a game running a whorehouse. That would be more fun. Especially if it included virtual cameras of the bedrooms... Eh!