The GP was refering to people that hunt for fun. He said nothing about people that hunt for need or that use the kill for their own consumption.
As for the NRA it may be a legal organization in the US, but they are seen as nutcases in many places, and for many good reasons (their extreme views about gun ownership are ayathollic and confrontational, so it should be no surprise if some people find them disagreeable).
London, Hamburg, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Paris, Barcelona, Cape Town, heck, even Windhoek, etc.
And nowadays in big corporations everywhere you see the same thing. When I worked in Warsaw there were Indian, Chinese, English, German, Polish and of course yours truly (Mexican), in Kula Lumpur there were Malays (Muslim), Thai (Buddhist), Chinese, varied westerners, Iranians, Indian, all working happily without undue complications.
Your comment sounds terribly parochial to be frank, you guys in the US need to get out of your country a bit more.
Bar extremist regimes (Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea) where people are separated in purpose for religious, ethnic or ideological reasons, in most civilized places (normally democracies) you will see hot spots where peaceful coexistence is the norm.
Are there any specific products that Sun sells that IBM doesn't have equivalents of? Sun has some good products, but I'm not sure IBM is after any specific products rather than just buying customers in certain segments and getting rid of some competition as a bonus at a fairly good price.
Storage, based on ZFS and Dtrace. It is so mindbogglingly beautiful and elegant that it may change how data is handled.
The other way: get driver in CD. Install. Hope it works. If it doesn't pray the manufacturer will help you, otherwise you are screwed.
The Linux way: ensure that hardware support comes out of the box for supported hardware. The user install Linux and if the hardware is supported the user has to do nothing at all. If the hardware is not supported the blame is firmly in the manufacturer which could not care less about letting others make their hardware usable.
If such model makes Linux popular or not I don;t care. What I know is that I can use older computers today with Linux that will not support other OSs and for which there will be no drivers.
Sorry, but I fail to see why Linux should move to be inferior in order to fulfil the lower expectations of users.
If people chose never to adopt Linux that is fine, Linux was never launched with the intention of be "marketed", anybody else making arguments on this regard simply does not understand the philosophy and aims of Linux and FOSS in general.
Evolution by natural selection explains how life transforms and adapts.
Most importantly it follows mathematical formulas that predict how traits change in populations, this means no god is required.
That you don't feel your faith threatened by this is most unusual, since Evolution removes from the hands of gods any involvement about how life changes.
Evolution negates divinity. Darwin knew this, most biologists know this, heck, most religious people know this, which is why they struggle to divide the material from the spiritual in a bane attempt to keep an important role for gods as drivers of things.
The lobbying industry in the US has perpetuated a legalized system of bribery that would be impossible in countries like Mexico, Malaysia or Singapore.
And the corruption of the financial elite in rich countries is pretty much equivalent to the one of politicians in third world countries.
And we would reach them if growth continued to be exponential.
It is very lucky for us that as soon as people are more educated an affluent the prefer to have fewer children, if this wasn't the case there is no amount of technology that would save us from an exponential rate of growth . It is physically impossible.
Large swathes of Europeans are descendants of people that have come from elsewhere. Check an history book, honestly. Huns, Mongols (who reached as far as Austria), you name it.
Spain and the Balkans in particular had Muslim (Arab, Turkish) rulers and populations for centuries.
Even in England people have black ancestors dating back to the Roman Empire, or do you think the Roman Legionaries that came from Africa didn't have a chance to intermingle with the fair ladies of the far away Roman province of Brittania?
Talking of ethnicity is misguided, talk about culture and you may have a point.
Some of the most creative people I have had the pleasure to work with have been Chinese and Indian.
All these supposedly Western (or do you really mean USian?) traits are just propaganda (and here I use the word after really thinking what I am saying).
The power elite in the US has willed the general populace to believe that the US is special and that the gifts of creativity and invention are somehow inherent to the US.
Of course what is not explained is that the US is built by immigrants, which is to say that the US actually innovates squat but relies on innovators going to the US in order to take advantage of an environment where certainly creativity is promoted, but not exclusive to any place in particular.
Keep believing this nonsense and stereotyping such big swathes of people. They have strength in numbers, even if you were correct (you aren't) thousands of people would escape the strictures of their educational system in order to develop their ideas.
Put another way, while the US was busy innovating the Chinese were busy working hard and saving for a rainy day, as a result China has the US by the proverbial short curly ones in the economic field.
If people are as short-sighted as you are believing Chinese and Indians are not creative, then you are ignoring thousands of years of history and actual knowledge of the global job market at your peril.
Oh wait, Apple want to sell their own proprietary headphones at Apple prices (i.e. several times more than a standard equivalent providing the same function elsewhere) or to sell licenses to accessories manufacturers.
My bad. I should not get into Apple's plans of flogging the consumer during an economic depression.
"Security is only a problem with nefarious things are intended. "
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
When you open a vector attack for a benevolent application, you are opening a new vector attack that can be abused.
In simple terms, opening access to a "good" application means that you have to do all kinds of reconfiguration to ensure your environment remains clean.
I share the pain of the original poster on this regard...
I don't understand Mr Negroponte. His natural allies would be the geeks moving the wheels of Linux.
The project would save substantial amounts of money and would provide a flexible, extensible machine for children to wander and learn.
In Windows you are straight-jacked to do whatever the licenses you are given allow you to do, and you have to pay for the privilege and enjoy it. It is like paying for a bad tempered dominatrix...
Many companies and institutions are using web based applications.
For once MS was right about something: when they killed Netscape they were making sure the threat to the importance of the OS as the work environment of choice will go away.
I think they have failed, big moves like this (and many others that remain unknown to the general public because big companies don't publicize this kind of stuss in general terms) give full credence to the model where the web browser is king.
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The GP was refering to people that hunt for fun. He said nothing about people that hunt for need or that use the kill for their own consumption.
As for the NRA it may be a legal organization in the US, but they are seen as nutcases in many places, and for many good reasons (their extreme views about gun ownership are ayathollic and confrontational, so it should be no surprise if some people find them disagreeable).
London, Hamburg, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Paris, Barcelona, Cape Town, heck, even Windhoek, etc.
And nowadays in big corporations everywhere you see the same thing. When I worked in Warsaw there were Indian, Chinese, English, German, Polish and of course yours truly (Mexican), in Kula Lumpur there were Malays (Muslim), Thai (Buddhist), Chinese, varied westerners, Iranians, Indian, all working happily without undue complications.
Your comment sounds terribly parochial to be frank, you guys in the US need to get out of your country a bit more.
Bar extremist regimes (Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea) where people are separated in purpose for religious, ethnic or ideological reasons, in most civilized places (normally democracies) you will see hot spots where peaceful coexistence is the norm.
BIOS password protected, disable boot from anywhere but the internal disk.
Where are you guys working???
Are there any specific products that Sun sells that IBM doesn't have equivalents of? Sun has some good products, but I'm not sure IBM is after any specific products rather than just buying customers in certain segments and getting rid of some competition as a bonus at a fairly good price.
Storage, based on ZFS and Dtrace. It is so mindbogglingly beautiful and elegant that it may change how data is handled.
The only thing that Sun CEO back then asked was to use their own software (Star Office) instead of PowerPoint.
A very reasonable request.
The other way: get driver in CD. Install. Hope it works. If it doesn't pray the manufacturer will help you, otherwise you are screwed.
The Linux way: ensure that hardware support comes out of the box for supported hardware. The user install Linux and if the hardware is supported the user has to do nothing at all. If the hardware is not supported the blame is firmly in the manufacturer which could not care less about letting others make their hardware usable.
If such model makes Linux popular or not I don;t care. What I know is that I can use older computers today with Linux that will not support other OSs and for which there will be no drivers.
Sorry, but I fail to see why Linux should move to be inferior in order to fulfil the lower expectations of users.
If people chose never to adopt Linux that is fine, Linux was never launched with the intention of be "marketed", anybody else making arguments on this regard simply does not understand the philosophy and aims of Linux and FOSS in general.
Catholicism does not accept other beliefs.
Particular priests or regional dioceses are more pragmatic of course, and turn a blind eye to what is seen in the general Church as pagan rituals.
Evolution by natural selection explains how life transforms and adapts.
Most importantly it follows mathematical formulas that predict how traits change in populations, this means no god is required.
That you don't feel your faith threatened by this is most unusual, since Evolution removes from the hands of gods any involvement about how life changes.
Evolution negates divinity. Darwin knew this, most biologists know this, heck, most religious people know this, which is why they struggle to divide the material from the spiritual in a bane attempt to keep an important role for gods as drivers of things.
Just ask her to tell you about anything she finds strange or distressing, talk to her about it openly and draw conclusions together.
In other words educate her.
The lobbying industry in the US has perpetuated a legalized system of bribery that would be impossible in countries like Mexico, Malaysia or Singapore.
And the corruption of the financial elite in rich countries is pretty much equivalent to the one of politicians in third world countries.
And we would reach them if growth continued to be exponential.
It is very lucky for us that as soon as people are more educated an affluent the prefer to have fewer children, if this wasn't the case there is no amount of technology that would save us from an exponential rate of growth . It is physically impossible.
Ethnicity does not exist. Get over it.
Large swathes of Europeans are descendants of people that have come from elsewhere. Check an history book, honestly. Huns, Mongols (who reached as far as Austria), you name it.
Spain and the Balkans in particular had Muslim (Arab, Turkish) rulers and populations for centuries.
Even in England people have black ancestors dating back to the Roman Empire, or do you think the Roman Legionaries that came from Africa didn't have a chance to intermingle with the fair ladies of the far away Roman province of Brittania?
Talking of ethnicity is misguided, talk about culture and you may have a point.
So apologize please.
I wasn't born in Europe and I am European now.
So what kind of bullshit are you trying to promote there?
And frankly what you are saying is bollocks.
Some of the most creative people I have had the pleasure to work with have been Chinese and Indian.
All these supposedly Western (or do you really mean USian?) traits are just propaganda (and here I use the word after really thinking what I am saying).
The power elite in the US has willed the general populace to believe that the US is special and that the gifts of creativity and invention are somehow inherent to the US.
Of course what is not explained is that the US is built by immigrants, which is to say that the US actually innovates squat but relies on innovators going to the US in order to take advantage of an environment where certainly creativity is promoted, but not exclusive to any place in particular.
Keep believing this nonsense and stereotyping such big swathes of people. They have strength in numbers, even if you were correct (you aren't) thousands of people would escape the strictures of their educational system in order to develop their ideas.
Put another way, while the US was busy innovating the Chinese were busy working hard and saving for a rainy day, as a result China has the US by the proverbial short curly ones in the economic field.
If people are as short-sighted as you are believing Chinese and Indians are not creative, then you are ignoring thousands of years of history and actual knowledge of the global job market at your peril.
Have some responsibility for beenies sakes ...
Then let the user buy his own headphones.
Oh wait, Apple want to sell their own proprietary headphones at Apple prices (i.e. several times more than a standard equivalent providing the same function elsewhere) or to sell licenses to accessories manufacturers.
My bad. I should not get into Apple's plans of flogging the consumer during an economic depression.
You clearly haven't looked at how white is Obama's cabinet.
But lets pick up in one of the secondary posts assigned by Obama and then bring the dead horse of "political correctness" into the arena.
I left my basement last century, you insensitive youngling cod.
"Security is only a problem with nefarious things are intended. "
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
When you open a vector attack for a benevolent application, you are opening a new vector attack that can be abused.
In simple terms, opening access to a "good" application means that you have to do all kinds of reconfiguration to ensure your environment remains clean.
I share the pain of the original poster on this regard ...
I don't understand Mr Negroponte. His natural allies would be the geeks moving the wheels of Linux.
The project would save substantial amounts of money and would provide a flexible, extensible machine for children to wander and learn.
In Windows you are straight-jacked to do whatever the licenses you are given allow you to do, and you have to pay for the privilege and enjoy it. It is like paying for a bad tempered dominatrix ...
... than they have been so far...
At last when compared against the whole market.
Make no mistake, this is great news, but it is by no means the final blow against MS's dominance in the desktop.
Many companies and institutions are using web based applications.
For once MS was right about something: when they killed Netscape they were making sure the threat to the importance of the OS as the work environment of choice will go away.
I think they have failed, big moves like this (and many others that remain unknown to the general public because big companies don't publicize this kind of stuss in general terms) give full credence to the model where the web browser is king.
This tired canard yet again...