This troll has a point, most Universities have a licensing deal with Microsoft that makes licenses much, much cheaper. So the OS cost should be inconsequential
Here at the University of Illinois, a Windows XP Pro
license costs $90.23 through the M$ Select program.
It's still not negligible.
The recent release of Windows XP illustrates the concept of intelligent design. If Windows XP points to Bill Gates, how much more do the marvelous complexities of DNA point directly to God, the great Intelligent Designer?
Yow!
I'm guessing that our zealous friend chose Windows
XP for this analogy because computer software is
an opaque mystery for him, on the same order as the origin of life. I really don't think that he was trying to compare Bill Gates to God.
Even in a field where no actual cards have been
used for 20 years, the documentation for a lot of
the scientific code that I deal with still uses
the word "card" extensively to mean "line in
input file." The vocabulary just hasn't caught up
with the technology...
It is illegal in the United States for
an employment application to ask whether the
applicant has ever been arrested. The exception
is for positions that are explicitly designated as
security-sensitive.
See, for instance, this page.
Why anyone took the incredibly dry witticism at the end seriously is beyond me. Perhaps I should have used more vermouth.
OK, I'll clarify why I took it seriously.
There are plenty of total morons who post to slashdot
who wouldn't have known that "regenerative aerobraking"
is impossible. I'm very glad to hear that you aren't one of them,
and I apologize for finding you guilty by association.
And just how do you propose to do this???
Your link talks about
regenerative braking with electric and hybird
gasoline/electric automobiles.
To do this with a spacecraft, you would have to
transform the heat generated by friction in the
atmosphere into some form of stored energy.
You won't ever be able to do this with anything
like 100% efficiency, and the weight of whatever
you use to do this conversion will almost
certainly make this a losing proposition.
Radical change in US copyright law regarding software has about as much chance of happening in the next 30 years as legalization of marijuana.
No, I think marijuana legalization (or at least
decriminalization) is much more likely. There's
big money behind preservation and extension of the
copyright laws. There's also big money in the
black market for drugs, but Disney hires lobbyists
and makes political campaign contributions, and
the drug cartels don't.
Interestingly, Switzerland, previously one of the most anti-drug
countries in Europe, decriminalized marijuana
possession recently.
One of the key traits of Microsoft is they do improve their products, they do fix their bugs, they do add new features. Why? Because people pay for these improvements.
No. They do these things because they have competition that threatens to keep
people from buying more of their software in the future.
Congratulations: sticker stock and paperclips
just became "circumvention devices" under the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Expect the
management of your local Office Depot to be hauled in by the FBI next week....
I don't know what analysis tools NuTeV used,
but there is at least some competition to the
mess called CERNLIB these days.
Many "younger" collaborations have switched over
to ROOT, which is mostly a clean break from the past.
Nevertheless, its primary developers are Rene
Brun and Fons Rademakers (familiar names from
the old days), and at least one crucial bit
of code (the MINUIT minimization engine) has been run through f2c and recycled, so it's not
fully independent. Seriously,
it would be very useful if someone were to rewrite MINUIT in an intelligible style.
What happened to the report (see this Slashdot story from Nov. 2) that Alan Cox
would be replaced by Marcelo Tosatti as the
stable release coordinator?
If you are in favor of desecrating Old Glory, you have no business being in this country. Go to Afgahanistan, and join your ideological bedmates.
Have you ever seen anyone burn a flag? Have any of your friends ever seen anyone burn a flag?
Maybe I just live under a rock, but I certainly
haven't.
Free speech concerns aside, this seems like a
solution in search of a nonexistent problem.
Re:apt isn't a pancea
on
KDE 2.2.1 Up
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· Score: 1
Yep.
You can, however, manually download and install
kdelibs3_2.2.1-1.i386.deb and libarts_2.2.1-1.i386.deb from http://incoming.debian.org. After that, apt-get will be your friend again.:-)
The EFF is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation, and contributions to the EFF are tax-deductible.
Consequently, they can't engage in any political lobbying activity at all.
You'd think the press would know better. I live in charlotte,...
Come on, I'd think you would know better: we're talking about the Charlotte Disturber here.
Unless you're looking for NASCAR coverage, read
another newspaper.:-)
(I grew up in Charlotte and still go back occasionally.)
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Random advice: don't call your girlfriend's mom "stupid."
Be careful what you say, buddy. You're starting to sound like a terrorist, and you know what we do to them...
I think you mean that it fixes major problems on these architectures.
Here at the University of Illinois, a Windows XP Pro license costs $90.23 through the M$ Select program. It's still not negligible.
You should definitely not respond to a letter threatening legal action without obtaining legal advice yourself.
Yow!
I'm guessing that our zealous friend chose Windows XP for this analogy because computer software is an opaque mystery for him, on the same order as the origin of life. I really don't think that he was trying to compare Bill Gates to God.
Even in a field where no actual cards have been used for 20 years, the documentation for a lot of the scientific code that I deal with still uses the word "card" extensively to mean "line in input file." The vocabulary just hasn't caught up with the technology...
It is illegal in the United States for an employment application to ask whether the applicant has ever been arrested. The exception is for positions that are explicitly designated as security-sensitive. See, for instance, this page.
With a clearance, many things land you in jail that would otherwise be possible, such as unapproved foreign travel to "sensitive" countries.
OK, I'll clarify why I took it seriously. There are plenty of total morons who post to slashdot who wouldn't have known that "regenerative aerobraking" is impossible. I'm very glad to hear that you aren't one of them, and I apologize for finding you guilty by association.
To do this with a spacecraft, you would have to transform the heat generated by friction in the atmosphere into some form of stored energy. You won't ever be able to do this with anything like 100% efficiency, and the weight of whatever you use to do this conversion will almost certainly make this a losing proposition.
No, I think marijuana legalization (or at least decriminalization) is much more likely. There's big money behind preservation and extension of the copyright laws. There's also big money in the black market for drugs, but Disney hires lobbyists and makes political campaign contributions, and the drug cartels don't.
Interestingly, Switzerland, previously one of the most anti-drug countries in Europe, decriminalized marijuana possession recently.
My understanding is that these companies were previously in the meat/produce irradiation business, so they would already have been licensed for that.
No. They do these things because they have competition that threatens to keep people from buying more of their software in the future.
Congratulations: sticker stock and paperclips
just became "circumvention devices" under the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Expect the
management of your local Office Depot to be hauled in by the FBI next week....
Nevertheless, its primary developers are Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers (familiar names from the old days), and at least one crucial bit of code (the MINUIT minimization engine) has been run through f2c and recycled, so it's not fully independent. Seriously, it would be very useful if someone were to rewrite MINUIT in an intelligible style.
A magnetic stripe recorder can be had for a few hundred dollars, so it's not too hard to create a replica of the "physical ATM card."
Jim Ryan is, of course, now running for governor. Don't forget to point out that you'll remember to vote against him. :-)
What happened to the report (see this Slashdot story from Nov. 2) that Alan Cox would be replaced by Marcelo Tosatti as the stable release coordinator?
Have you ever seen anyone burn a flag? Have any of your friends ever seen anyone burn a flag? Maybe I just live under a rock, but I certainly haven't.
Free speech concerns aside, this seems like a solution in search of a nonexistent problem.
You can, however, manually download and install kdelibs3_2.2.1-1.i386.deb and libarts_2.2.1-1.i386.deb from http://incoming.debian.org. After that, apt-get will be your friend again. :-)
The EFF is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation, and contributions to the EFF are tax-deductible. Consequently, they can't engage in any political lobbying activity at all.
Thanks!
Come on, I'd think you would know better: we're talking about the Charlotte Disturber here. Unless you're looking for NASCAR coverage, read another newspaper. :-)
(I grew up in Charlotte and still go back occasionally.)