The US has cajoled with far worst dictators than Castro (Mobutu of Zaire, Suharto of Indonesia, Hussein of Irak, Pinochet of Chile, the aprtheid regime in South Africa).
Nobody, and here I mean nobody, has any moral high ground from where to lecture other people.
Embargoes have consistently probed that only harm the plain people, so poor sods get hit by the dictator and then they get some more from the kind US goverment trying to "liberate" them, in the meantime the elites in both places enjoy life to the fullest.
In theory subsidiaries of any company trading in the US should not trade with Cuba.
In practice they trade but simply are not necessarily forced to report back to the main office in the US (there are I am sure many legal and accounting tricks to facilitate this).
In a company I used to work for (whose HQ are in the US) we , completely legally under Mexican law, used to sell services to Cuba.
Also many small time business people export goods to Cuba from the Yucatan peninsula (computers included).
He is one of the most articulate politicians of the last century. You may fully disagree with him, but you can't challenge much his consistency.
He is educated and cultivated, when he talks to friends he prefers to talk about literature, poetry and movies than about politics. He would put to shame most other world politicians on a debate or discussion, and very often does when given a chance.
His ideology may be unrealistic but it is not irrational. Christianity is also irrational but follows a dogma. In general nobody calls the pope nuts for this reason.
The failure to encourage Cuba to become a democracy has a lot to do with the underestimation of the capacity of Fidel Castro as a politician.
Cuba would perhaps be a democratic country today if successive US goverments would have treated Fidel Castro as the able politician he is and offered him a dignified way out of his isolationism.
I thought companies were created to organize people to produce useful goods and services.
I don't know in which planet it would be morally acceptable to be a bunch of social parasites making money out of the loopholes of a porous legal system.
When the new pope talked about moral relativism I am sure he had in mind this kind of attitude, not having the balls to condemn something obviously morally unnacceptable: these people are deceiving willfully others.
Those are words that have no place in a discussion about evolutionary theory.
You are chosing a bias and wishing evolution will work on that direction.
Fool.
Evolution happens without a purpose, it is a gene replication mechanism, it does not aim for "worthy" individuals (nor "unworthy" ones, whatever way you care to define either group).
Tarantella is immensili more customizable, you can lunch applications from any platform in yout Tarantella desktop and you would never know they are programs running on top of different architectures.
VNC is great but it does not have the same level of customization.
As mantainer of the kernel, an OSS application, he his (or should not allow himself to be) under any commercial pressure.
He is suppossesd to be taking the best technical decissions. If the SCM tool to continue kernel Dev did not exist, then he should have lead to find the correct tool. Stalling development of the kernel could have been a great incentive to concentrate everybody's minds.
The ones with commercial pressures are the likes of Red Hat, Novell(Suse), perhaps IBM and others. They can always fork the kernel, use whatever tools they need (commercial or otherwise) and then give back as they have to under the GPL.
Once the correct tool is available the Linus could have integrated commercialy sponsored changes back into the reference kernel.
Linux is working because in general people are being sensible about developing under the GPL. It is completely insane that you get this far licensing under the GPL and then, when the going gets a bit rough, you use a closed source solution, which in reality is not necessary because there is (or should not be) commercial pressure to fix things.
... he own his popularity, prominence and way of live on a big measure to the work of people that promote OSS.
At least for an elemental respect for the people that have been in the good and bad times all these years Linus could take an infomred approach to OSS issues.
That is why people keep using the consistent look of the following user interface:
c:\>
And surely you are going to tell us now that people migrating from Windows 95 or 98 to WindowsXP do it because the user interface is consistent. And it matters to them of course (like if the poor sods had any say in the matter).
But the pigs and other domestic animals eat the eggs which the dodo lied on the ground because there were no animals predating on them in their natural habitat.
But big GM companies will make you believe they know all the unintended consequences of introducing new species in the ecosystem....
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That means you can't use the damn thing for more than 20 minutes a day. The music and video would drain the battery in no time.
One needs substantially bigger batteries, big power efficent RAM caches.
Yeah, you need a media player like the ones from Archos, to do the work properly.
But is that a PDA work? Not in my opinion.
Pot, kettle, etc.
The US has cajoled with far worst dictators than Castro (Mobutu of Zaire, Suharto of Indonesia, Hussein of Irak, Pinochet of Chile, the aprtheid regime in South Africa).
Nobody, and here I mean nobody, has any moral high ground from where to lecture other people.
Embargoes have consistently probed that only harm the plain people, so poor sods get hit by the dictator and then they get some more from the kind US goverment trying to "liberate" them, in the meantime the elites in both places enjoy life to the fullest.
Wakey, wakey, wakey!
In theory subsidiaries of any company trading in the US should not trade with Cuba.
In practice they trade but simply are not necessarily forced to report back to the main office in the US (there are I am sure many legal and accounting tricks to facilitate this).
In a company I used to work for (whose HQ are in the US) we , completely legally under Mexican law, used to sell services to Cuba.
Also many small time business people export goods to Cuba from the Yucatan peninsula (computers included).
The emargo is there, but is a bit porous.
He is one of the most articulate politicians of the last century. You may fully disagree with him, but you can't challenge much his consistency.
He is educated and cultivated, when he talks to friends he prefers to talk about literature, poetry and movies than about politics. He would put to shame most other world politicians on a debate or discussion, and very often does when given a chance.
His ideology may be unrealistic but it is not irrational. Christianity is also irrational but follows a dogma. In general nobody calls the pope nuts for this reason.
The failure to encourage Cuba to become a democracy has a lot to do with the underestimation of the capacity of Fidel Castro as a politician.
Cuba would perhaps be a democratic country today if successive US goverments would have treated Fidel Castro as the able politician he is and offered him a dignified way out of his isolationism.
The US have done so with far worst dictators.
I thought companies were created to organize people to produce useful goods and services.
I don't know in which planet it would be morally acceptable to be a bunch of social parasites making money out of the loopholes of a porous legal system.
When the new pope talked about moral relativism I am sure he had in mind this kind of attitude, not having the balls to condemn something obviously morally unnacceptable: these people are deceiving willfully others.
What a lame reply. Honestly.
Those are words that have no place in a discussion about evolutionary theory.
You are chosing a bias and wishing evolution will work on that direction.
Fool.
Evolution happens without a purpose, it is a gene replication mechanism, it does not aim for "worthy" individuals (nor "unworthy" ones, whatever way you care to define either group).
Then I am sure you will be delighted to point us to a few of the thousends, no, millions, of websites showing us such well stablished ,er, facts.
I thought you died in that bunker in Berlin 60 years ago.
Oh boy, you are alive and well, your ideas will live forever....
Tarantella is immensili more customizable, you can lunch applications from any platform in yout Tarantella desktop and you would never know they are programs running on top of different architectures.
VNC is great but it does not have the same level of customization.
You can hardly blame BT for that.
So the sleepy Monday caveat applies neatly to you.
It is not competition bashing competition.
It is the competition coming to its rivals for help.
... is perfectly wise thing to do, specially if the bridge you are burning is not the only one if town.
I don't understand why people are so concerned about burning bridges. Do they all live in a town with only one of them or what?
Wasting resources on such things.
That is the damage that frivolous lawsuits cause: they entertain resources in unproductive activities that coulb be channeled in R&D for example.
Lame.
We all kow photographers are born with equipment worth 15000 bucks.
The other guy put valid points forward.
You respond to none.
Toughtful argumentation is not bashing.
As mantainer of the kernel, an OSS application, he his (or should not allow himself to be) under any commercial pressure.
He is suppossesd to be taking the best technical decissions. If the SCM tool to continue kernel Dev did not exist, then he should have lead to find the correct tool. Stalling development of the kernel could have been a great incentive to concentrate everybody's minds.
The ones with commercial pressures are the likes of Red Hat, Novell(Suse), perhaps IBM and others. They can always fork the kernel, use whatever tools they need (commercial or otherwise) and then give back as they have to under the GPL.
Once the correct tool is available the Linus could have integrated commercialy sponsored changes back into the reference kernel.
Linux is working because in general people are being sensible about developing under the GPL. It is completely insane that you get this far licensing under the GPL and then, when the going gets a bit rough, you use a closed source solution, which in reality is not necessary because there is (or should not be) commercial pressure to fix things.
... he own his popularity, prominence and way of live on a big measure to the work of people that promote OSS.
At least for an elemental respect for the people that have been in the good and bad times all these years Linus could take an infomred approach to OSS issues.
... she is chavtastic...
That is why people keep using the consistent look of the following user interface:
c:\>
And surely you are going to tell us now that people migrating from Windows 95 or 98 to WindowsXP do it because the user interface is consistent. And it matters to them of course (like if the poor sods had any say in the matter).
Creationists and idiots (sorry) are always demanding proof.
When they get one, they shoose to ignore it, for unfathomable reasons.
I all honesty I admire people trying to put them straight.
It is a hopeless, thankless task of which they will reap no benefits.
... Evolution needs Natural Selction. It is the meachnism it uses.
The bugs that are uglier are like that because a few genes here and there changed.
i.e. DNA changed.
Duh!
The meat was bad for human consumption.
....
But the pigs and other domestic animals eat the eggs which the dodo lied on the ground because there were no animals predating on them in their natural habitat.
But big GM companies will make you believe they know all the unintended consequences of introducing new species in the ecosystem
The "Middle East" is actually called East Asia by many Asians themselves.
Science debunks many religious myths, but this interjection of yours is nonsense.