It's sad that after all the jewish people went through, now they're doing the exact same thing to the muslims.
Yeah -- there was one point (maybe one of the recent troop movements into Hebron) where IDF soldiers were writing id numbers on Palestinian prisoners' arms to keep track of them. WTF is it, don't they study the Holocaust in Israeli schools any more?
Hey, this is Slashdot... we're already fine with that whole groupthink thing, but when you're reviewing and editing our comments, could you do something about dreadful spelling? Thanks!
So: One acre hole in Nevada, or 1 million tons of pollution. Your choice.
How are you going to move all of these discs to that hole? Magic? I'd say some fuel might be expended in the effort... how much does pollution is produced by all the garbage trucks in the US for a year? What's, say, 0.5% of that?
Don't be such a cold war relic. It's socialist swine now.
I think you mean terrorist swine.
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Obviously the TCO factors favour Linux & the Gimp at the moment, and that's unlikely to change until Adobe ports its products to free OSs running on commodity hardware.
It's all very well for you to say what you'll do when that happens, but the fact is that it doesn't look like it's going to. You have two options here -- try and use industry clout to get the ports, or help to improve the GIMP by offering money or time. Whichever one ends up being cheaper and more effective in the long term is the one you should choose.
(Or, of course, Microsoft could release Windows XP++ for free to capitalise on rolling Office license revenue, and movie studios will all use Photoshop on that... but I wouldn't base a business plan on that proposition:)
I think our marketing is geared toward that issue, toward long-term customer value.
That was supposed to be:.... toward long-term shareholder value.
Ah, that's OK, it's only marketing... who out there really believes that any company is really acting in their customers' best interests? Let's face it, we're lucky if their interests coincide with ours.
I firmly believe that the USA *has* landed men on the moon -- but I'm perhaps not quite so sure it happened on the Apollo 11 mission (or even the Apollo 12, 13 missions).
I don't think the Apollo 13 mission landed on the moon, but for other reasons than your proposed cover-up. Unless you think the whole emergency was faked as well?
Fortunately, the net is global and tech-critic.com is registered to some guys in Australia. With some luck the standard US-law based cease-and-desist letter does not bear any significance down under.
Through the wonders of global capitalism, we here in Australia actually have our own Microsoft subsidiary, and I bet they even employ some lawyers as well...
The only ones I ever really enjoyed were the Niven & Pournelle stuff, they maanged to keep things together. I couldn't every really figure out who wrote what.
Niven -- any character more than vaguely interesting; any of the more speculative science.
Pournelle -- crypotofascist rants; individuals standing alone against the onslaught of the socialist hordes.
(Ok, this will probably get modded as a Troll, but then that's my opinion of Pournelle... check his website if you don't believe me.)
I wanted to cry after I read the last line of Chapterhouse Dune, because I knew there would never be anymore, I had read the very last line of the very last dune book.
I seem to recall hearing that CD was patched together from an almost ready version that Herbert had been working on when he died... it certainly reads like it. It's OK, but seems a bit patchy at times.
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It's sad that after all the jewish people went through, now they're doing the exact same thing to the muslims.
Yeah -- there was one point (maybe one of the recent troop movements into Hebron) where IDF soldiers were writing id numbers on Palestinian prisoners' arms to keep track of them. WTF is it, don't they study the Holocaust in Israeli schools any more?
You left out 'using an incomplete and unreleased game'. :)
I didn't realize that growing old was optional!
:)
Well, you can always check out early...
No, neither is beer, even if it is Cooper's Sparkling Ale.
:)
If I can't survive purely on Cooper's, then life no longer has any meaning. So I won't be following your advice in that respect...
Tao of Programming, s3.4.
Also see The Mythical Man Month , by Frederick Brooks.
Hey, this is Slashdot... we're already fine with that whole groupthink thing, but when you're reviewing and editing our comments, could you do something about dreadful spelling? Thanks!
Do we cheat 'em? And how!
:)
I think it's a gag from a Marx Bros. movie.
That's one damn big game of Ultimate. :)
So: One acre hole in Nevada, or 1 million tons of pollution. Your choice.
How are you going to move all of these discs to that hole? Magic? I'd say some fuel might be expended in the effort... how much does pollution is produced by all the garbage trucks in the US for a year? What's, say, 0.5% of that?
Not in America, Commie swine!
Don't be such a cold war relic. It's socialist swine now.
I think you mean terrorist swine.
Obviously the TCO factors favour Linux & the Gimp at the moment, and that's unlikely to change until Adobe ports its products to free OSs running on commodity hardware.
:)
It's all very well for you to say what you'll do when that happens, but the fact is that it doesn't look like it's going to. You have two options here -- try and use industry clout to get the ports, or help to improve the GIMP by offering money or time. Whichever one ends up being cheaper and more effective in the long term is the one you should choose.
(Or, of course, Microsoft could release Windows XP++ for free to capitalise on rolling Office license revenue, and movie studios will all use Photoshop on that... but I wouldn't base a business plan on that proposition
Neal Stephenson does have a web page; it's devoted to telling people to leave him the damn hell alone. :)
I think our marketing is geared toward that issue, toward long-term customer value.
.... toward long-term shareholder value.
That was supposed to be:
Ah, that's OK, it's only marketing... who out there really believes that any company is really acting in their customers' best interests? Let's face it, we're lucky if their interests coincide with ours.
That's odd -- usually the military is referred to as "The Man" and it's when you go against it that you get screwed. :]
So people can consume more things, more quickly, thus leading to even more gloabl warming and less ice! Wonderful!
... and people call me paranoid for preferring cash.
I just argue that I don't want to be helping the people who do these things one bit more than I absolutely have to.
FYI, If you do that you can use the MS filemanager if you are stuck in on a web site.
You may not have noticed that the original poster is using MacOSX.
You mean Tom Hanks really did go into space? :-)
:)
I'm not a fan... I think they should leave him up there with Lance Bass.
(Really, that was just a backhanded way of pointing out that it's pretty common knowledge that XIII didn't make it.)
missle capabilities
:)
How can I be sure you're not Dubya posting behind a pseudonym? After all, that's how he pronounces "missile"...
I firmly believe that the USA *has* landed men on the moon -- but I'm perhaps not quite so sure it happened on the Apollo 11 mission (or even the Apollo 12, 13 missions).
I don't think the Apollo 13 mission landed on the moon, but for other reasons than your proposed cover-up. Unless you think the whole emergency was faked as well?
Be careful... I'm sure that must violate some clause in there. :)
Even worse are the people who get active dogs - heelers and such - and then keep them cooped up inside small backyards. This is pure hell for a dog.
:)
Yeah, especially the people behind me with the huge labrador in the small concrete backyard that won't bloody stop barking. Bastards.
A 'lifestyle' TV program here had the perfect solution... don't poison the dogs, invite the owners over for a BBQ and poison them instead.
Fortunately, the net is global and tech-critic.com is registered to some guys in Australia. With some luck the standard US-law based cease-and-desist letter does not bear any significance down under.
Through the wonders of global capitalism, we here in Australia actually have our own Microsoft subsidiary, and I bet they even employ some lawyers as well...
The only ones I ever really enjoyed were the Niven & Pournelle stuff, they maanged to keep things together. I couldn't every really figure out who wrote what.
Niven -- any character more than vaguely interesting; any of the more speculative science.
Pournelle -- crypotofascist rants; individuals standing alone against the onslaught of the socialist hordes.
(Ok, this will probably get modded as a Troll, but then that's my opinion of Pournelle... check his website if you don't believe me.)
I wanted to cry after I read the last line of Chapterhouse Dune, because I knew there would never be anymore, I had read the very last line of the very last dune book.
I seem to recall hearing that CD was patched together from an almost ready version that Herbert had been working on when he died... it certainly reads like it. It's OK, but seems a bit patchy at times.