Well if WMD are so evil, why does the US have them: nukes, biological and chemical in vast numbers. The US has killed more innocent people with WMD than anyone else. Did you forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Where exactly do you think most of your IT stuff came from?
Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea. The only US product I have in my house is your crappy TV, which I manage to avoid most of the time. Except the Simpsons maybe, but, of course, that's produced by an Australian company.
As a citizen of the US, I expect my government to do everything in their power to maintain my standard of living (which I acknowledge is superior to that of 90% of the rest of the rest of the world's population
God, you live in a dream world. Why don;t you go the whole hog and get the government to pay you just to exist? Have you considered that the only way to maintain a better standard of living and improve it is through competition, change and efficiency? That would mean that someone like you, obviously unenterprising and expecting others to do your work, would need to get fired.
And lets face it, Americans don;t live better that 90% of the worlds population. They may think so, but since they don't pay any attention to the rest of the world, they don;t realise that the quality of life for much of the rest of the western world is better than theirs. Where I live there is universal health coverage, unemplyment and sickness benefit that doesn;t stop after some arbitary time, less crime (espacial gun crime). Amercia is a brutal place. If you don't have money you're no-one and nothing.
What a load of crap. In Australia IT people get special visas: 4 year, untied to a particular employer. In the UK sponsered visas are pretty liberal. Both visa's are easier to get the American ones.
The fact is you can hop on a plane and work where ever you want, if you bothered to do some investigation.
- We want free open markets, except our agricultural markets - We want to stop maniacal leaders having the option of using weapons of mass distruction, but we'll keep our nukes, thanks. - Competition and free enterprise is the one true way, as long as it doesn't threten our jobs or our standard of living even if we can;t be bothered to get off our fat, lazy arses and work harder and/or innovate.
And by the way, you're either with us or against us, so don;t try and point out our hypocracy, otherwise you'll be in the axis of evil before you know it.
a solution containing underarm sweat from men who had not used deodorant in four weeks.
This solution, if it came from my body, would rednder women unconcious, if it didn't kill them straight up. Even after one day my body odour is so powerful, the American militrary would declare it a weapon of mass destruction. Even thinking of the smell of my unwashed armpit after four week makes me woosy. What are these people thinking?
84. Prior to IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car. To make Linux of necessary quality for use by enterprise customers, it must be re-designed so that Linux also becomes the software equivalent of a luxury car. This re-design is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (1) a high degree of design coordination, (2) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (3) access to UNIX code, methods and concepts; (4) UNIX architectural experience; and (5) a very significant financial investment.
I think SCO missed them most important ingredient, the one they haven't got: a clue.
Face it, whining about minor bugs is now become an art form.
Complaining about bugs may or may not be cool, but complaining about people complaining about bugs becuase it's cool is not cool. I know that I am complaining about someone complaining about people complaining about bugs and I may not be cool, but it would be cool if there were less bugs and people didn't complain about bugs and people didn't complain about people complaining about bugs being cool.
Does your code read like this? Then it's probably got bugs. And that's not cool.
Crazy Trunk: The guy's Windows CE embedded device causes the brake lights (right side) on the trunk to flash at odd intervals. The device is in the rear passenger's right side.
This is Microsoft(tm) Active Saftey(tm) function, which alerts other drivers to the fact that you may be interfering with a Microsoft product and therefore putting your life at risk.
Spitn' Key: The guy inserts his key into the car, lets go, and it falls out for no reason about three seconds later.
This is Microsoft(tm) Trusted Commuting(tm) Initiative functionality. The car detects unauthorised use of the car maker's intellectual property and prevents the driver from taking any unauthorised action. A licence to use the car can be downloaded from the internet.
Phone Dead: The driver's car phone suddenly stops working about 5 seconds after the Windows CE device is powered on.
This is Microsoft(tm) Dial Save(tm) which saves you money on mobile and long distance calls.
Transmission: This is scary. His car goes from 4th down to 1st gear (auto transmission car) and he nearly gets rear-ended by the SUV behind him
This is Microsoft(tm) Active Compression Braking(tm) which automatically detects the drivers desire to brake suddenly and shifts down several gears to make the whole process effortless.
they got 590,000 hits and over 250,000 page requests during one day. This kind of traffic caused only a 21% average CPU load ... they didn't respond to any of them.
I don't have any argument with the excessive monopoly terms for copyrights being extracted from the lawmakers. The balance is way off.
In the case of IT, maybe 20 years is fair - if I spend 5 years developing a product, why shouldn't I get 20 years protection? Lets say in the case of the original Mac OS, by next year Apple will have almost totally abandoned it - it should revert to public ownership. You might even have a clasue for IP (in the case of IT) that isn't being exploited or developed in which case it reverts to public ownership.
He simply refuses to understand that we are quickly entering into an age where either all information will be controlled or all information will be free.
Right. So all your medical record will be free. And how many times you had a wank last week will be freely posted on Slashdot and be modded up or down. And any military or security information will be available for download. For Christ's sake, get a clue.
His position that intellectual property still has a place in the information age while decrying all it's problems is just that.
IP has a more prominent place in the information age, not less. Without it there would be no information age. It's central to running an economy. Having cheap knock-offs of your designs or technology made by China or whoever is fine for consumers, but who put up the money to create the technology in the first place? Even something like Linux is merly a knockoff of technology created by large corporations who rely on IP to make a profit. And no, the next big breakthrough will most likely not be created by some lone geek in his bedroom, but by groups of researchers being paid for what they do.
You shouldn't have been modded up, but your average moderator looks at the psudeo-revolutionary drivel running out of your gob and thinks that it means something. Sheesh.
Slashdot is increasingly becoming a tool of the guerilla (sp?) marketers. Editors should get a clue on a story before posting it. What do these guys get paid for, anyway?
But back on topic, am I the only one who wouldn't be seen dead driving one of these? It's so geeky in a very uncool way. And since you can't really carry anything on it which you could carry yourself, it screams "lazy prick" and is impractical. I predict after the early adopters, the people who think it's neat and people who collect artifacts of the modern age buy one, the company will quietly go out of business.
The problem is that the people with enough money to buy this sort of stuff most often have the least knowledge or time to put one together. And the time factor is substatial. When it starts flaking out on you intermitently you can't just dump it on the vendor. You have to pull out or replace each bit until you find out whats going on. Ror your average nerd this is no problem since they have lots of time on their hands -pesky things like girlfriends or lives don't sap their tinker time, but for most people they have better things to do.
So yes, you're right, but there is obviously a market for this sort of stuff.
I was drinking out of these cans years ago (like 5 years). Yes, they looked somewhat "cool" becuase of the clear body, but they seemed to have disappeared. Was it becuase the contents tasted like crap? Packaging by itself isn't enough to make a successful product.
Yes, heroin gives you a lovely feeling, no, this feeling is not why people get addicted to heroin.
The physiological effects of heroin will get you into it and keep you going initially, but this fades, and no matter how much you take you will not get the high you were getting when you started. Withdrawls will make you want to keep taking junk, but they alone aren't that powerful. I've heard several junkies say stoping smoking is harder than coming down off junk.
What keeps them taking heroin is the belief they need it to keep going. It's the phycological effects that are far and away the most powerful and pernicous. It's an irrational attachment to the drug. You believe that just as long as you can get another hit, everything will be OK.
Probably the most important factor in someone becoming a junkie is if they have an addictive personality, it gives them a predisposition to the behaviour. Others can take the stuff for a while, stop and never want it again.
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Well if WMD are so evil, why does the US have them: nukes, biological and chemical in vast numbers. The US has killed more innocent people with WMD than anyone else. Did you forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Where exactly do you think most of your IT stuff came from?
Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea. The only US product I have in my house is your crappy TV, which I manage to avoid most of the time. Except the Simpsons maybe, but, of course, that's produced by an Australian company.
As a citizen of the US, I expect my government to do everything in their power to maintain my standard of living (which I acknowledge is superior to that of 90% of the rest of the rest of the world's population
God, you live in a dream world. Why don;t you go the whole hog and get the government to pay you just to exist? Have you considered that the only way to maintain a better standard of living and improve it is through competition, change and efficiency? That would mean that someone like you, obviously unenterprising and expecting others to do your work, would need to get fired.
And lets face it, Americans don;t live better that 90% of the worlds population. They may think so, but since they don't pay any attention to the rest of the world, they don;t realise that the quality of life for much of the rest of the western world is better than theirs. Where I live there is universal health coverage, unemplyment and sickness benefit that doesn;t stop after some arbitary time, less crime (espacial gun crime). Amercia is a brutal place. If you don't have money you're no-one and nothing.
You really outght to wake the fuck up...
What a load of crap. In Australia IT people get special visas: 4 year, untied to a particular employer. In the UK sponsered visas are pretty liberal. Both visa's are easier to get the American ones.
The fact is you can hop on a plane and work where ever you want, if you bothered to do some investigation.
It's called American hypocracy:
- We want free open markets, except our agricultural markets
- We want to stop maniacal leaders having the option of using weapons of mass distruction, but we'll keep our nukes, thanks.
- Competition and free enterprise is the one true way, as long as it doesn't threten our jobs or our standard of living even if we can;t be bothered to get off our fat, lazy arses and work harder and/or innovate.
And by the way, you're either with us or against us, so don;t try and point out our hypocracy, otherwise you'll be in the axis of evil before you know it.
Other male fluids do this as well.
And on any part of their face, too.
a solution containing underarm sweat from men who had not used deodorant in four weeks.
This solution, if it came from my body, would rednder women unconcious, if it didn't kill them straight up. Even after one day my body odour is so powerful, the American militrary would declare it a weapon of mass destruction. Even thinking of the smell of my unwashed armpit after four week makes me woosy. What are these people thinking?
From the article:
These modes are set for each segment of code on a per-segment basis by means of two bits in the segment's code segment descriptor.
So you just get your compiler to generate two segments. You'd have to figure out how to call one or the other, but there is the basis for it.
Will this help me find matching socks?
No, but you will be able to instantly catalogue your odd socks.
I think SCO missed them most important ingredient, the one they haven't got: a clue.
Man, I hate posts like that.
So your're complaining about my complaining about people complaining about people complaining about bugs being cool...
Face it, whining about minor bugs is now become an art form.
Complaining about bugs may or may not be cool, but complaining about people complaining about bugs becuase it's cool is not cool. I know that I am complaining about someone complaining about people complaining about bugs and I may not be cool, but it would be cool if there were less bugs and people didn't complain about bugs and people didn't complain about people complaining about bugs being cool.
Does your code read like this? Then it's probably got bugs. And that's not cool.
(1) Consult do-not-email list ...
(2) find open relay outside of law's juristriction
(3)
(4) Profit!
an ET-face with an accompanying encoded CD-disc
...
So did someone read off what was encoded on the disc with ET? I bet it reads something like this:
Microsoft End-User Licence Agreement
(1) This licence entitles you to limited-use rights to this crop circle
You've got it all wrong. These are features:
Crazy Trunk: The guy's Windows CE embedded device causes the brake lights (right side) on the trunk to flash at odd intervals. The device is in the rear passenger's right side.
This is Microsoft(tm) Active Saftey(tm) function, which alerts other drivers to the fact that you may be interfering with a Microsoft product and therefore putting your life at risk.
Spitn' Key: The guy inserts his key into the car, lets go, and it falls out for no reason about three seconds later.
This is Microsoft(tm) Trusted Commuting(tm) Initiative functionality. The car detects unauthorised use of the car maker's intellectual property and prevents the driver from taking any unauthorised action. A licence to use the car can be downloaded from the internet.
Phone Dead: The driver's car phone suddenly stops working about 5 seconds after the Windows CE device is powered on.
This is Microsoft(tm) Dial Save(tm) which saves you money on mobile and long distance calls.
Transmission: This is scary. His car goes from 4th down to 1st gear (auto transmission car) and he nearly gets rear-ended by the SUV behind him
This is Microsoft(tm) Active Compression Braking(tm) which automatically detects the drivers desire to brake suddenly and shifts down several gears to make the whole process effortless.
Microsoft - We'll Decide Where You Go Today(tm)
they got 590,000 hits and over 250,000 page requests during one day. This kind of traffic caused only a 21% average CPU load ... they didn't respond to any of them.
... it's not exactly a knee jerk reaction...
I don't have any argument with the excessive monopoly terms for copyrights being extracted from the lawmakers. The balance is way off.
In the case of IT, maybe 20 years is fair - if I spend 5 years developing a product, why shouldn't I get 20 years protection? Lets say in the case of the original Mac OS, by next year Apple will have almost totally abandoned it - it should revert to public ownership. You might even have a clasue for IP (in the case of IT) that isn't being exploited or developed in which case it reverts to public ownership.
He simply refuses to understand that we are quickly entering into an age where either all information will be controlled or all information will be free.
Right. So all your medical record will be free. And how many times you had a wank last week will be freely posted on Slashdot and be modded up or down. And any military or security information will be available for download. For Christ's sake, get a clue.
His position that intellectual property still has a place in the information age while decrying all it's problems is just that.
IP has a more prominent place in the information age, not less. Without it there would be no information age. It's central to running an economy. Having cheap knock-offs of your designs or technology made by China or whoever is fine for consumers, but who put up the money to create the technology in the first place? Even something like Linux is merly a knockoff of technology created by large corporations who rely on IP to make a profit. And no, the next big breakthrough will most likely not be created by some lone geek in his bedroom, but by groups of researchers being paid for what they do.
You shouldn't have been modded up, but your average moderator looks at the psudeo-revolutionary drivel running out of your gob and thinks that it means something. Sheesh.
I agree with you - they're not "geek" as in nerdy cool. I was using geek in its most pejorative sense as in silly, stupid or daffy.
Slashdot is increasingly becoming a tool of the guerilla (sp?) marketers. Editors should get a clue on a story before posting it. What do these guys get paid for, anyway?
But back on topic, am I the only one who wouldn't be seen dead driving one of these? It's so geeky in a very uncool way. And since you can't really carry anything on it which you could carry yourself, it screams "lazy prick" and is impractical. I predict after the early adopters, the people who think it's neat and people who collect artifacts of the modern age buy one, the company will quietly go out of business.
The problem is that the people with enough money to buy this sort of stuff most often have the least knowledge or time to put one together. And the time factor is substatial. When it starts flaking out on you intermitently you can't just dump it on the vendor. You have to pull out or replace each bit until you find out whats going on. Ror your average nerd this is no problem since they have lots of time on their hands -pesky things like girlfriends or lives don't sap their tinker time, but for most people they have better things to do.
So yes, you're right, but there is obviously a market for this sort of stuff.
I was drinking out of these cans years ago (like 5 years). Yes, they looked somewhat "cool" becuase of the clear body, but they seemed to have disappeared. Was it becuase the contents tasted like crap? Packaging by itself isn't enough to make a successful product.
The secret is this: heroin is fucking great.
Yes, heroin gives you a lovely feeling, no, this feeling is not why people get addicted to heroin.
The physiological effects of heroin will get you into it and keep you going initially, but this fades, and no matter how much you take you will not get the high you were getting when you started. Withdrawls will make you want to keep taking junk, but they alone aren't that powerful. I've heard several junkies say stoping smoking is harder than coming down off junk.
What keeps them taking heroin is the belief they need it to keep going. It's the phycological effects that are far and away the most powerful and pernicous. It's an irrational attachment to the drug. You believe that just as long as you can get another hit, everything will be OK.
Probably the most important factor in someone becoming a junkie is if they have an addictive personality, it gives them a predisposition to the behaviour. Others can take the stuff for a while, stop and never want it again.