The only way this could have been Bill is if he was drunk and actively trying to sound like a patronizing jackass to his team.
The patronizing jackass part is accurate; what's missing him telling them to get it fixed by the end of the day. AFAIK, he doesn't do pointless whinges.
Do you not understand the GPL because you're retarded, or simply because you're too lazy to read it? Actually, it could easily be both.
You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
The traditional view is that the company is doing you a favour by paying you to do your hobby. Until you've got your name on a published title, you're a nobody.
Sure, I hear the transmission loss over rainbows is negligible. The guys who balance the load on the grid? You are the nightmare that stalks their dreams.
Well, try not to feel too bad. I'd probably feel pretty mad too if I didn't have an answer to the question of what provides the on-demand backup. It's doubtless very emasculating to feel just sure that there must be an answer, without having any idea what it is. Anyway, if you ever come up with one, the people whose job it is to actually keep the lights on would just love to hear from you.
Also, you can power an entire metropolis by hugging a rainbow, if you just wish hard enough!
When the sky clouds over, are you going to sit in your own filth in the dark, like a Frenchman? No, you - and your neighbours and the the schools and hospitals - are going to start drawing from the grid.
In your dolphin-friendly future, where is that on-demand power going to magically appear from? No Star Trek technobabble: what's going to provide enough completely reliable power every cycle of every second of every minute of every day to keep the lights on and the intartubes pumping?
My 2K is licensed. When I upgrade, a single copy of it goes on the new box, legally. No nags, no registration bollocks. It doesn't have to be like it is with XP and Vista.
So, the advice from Microsoft is to allow Vista to just automatically escalate your privileges?
Sigh.
I actually like UAC, and I'd recommend that most users just leave it on and suck up the increasingly infrequent nags. Perhaps it's a motorcycling thing; you give a final look over your shoulder before every maneuver, even though 99% of the time there's nothing there. It's the 1% that's going to kill you.
Also: I hear that Asians write really efficient code because of their little fingers. And black guys? They could write great code, if only Whitey would stop keeping them down.
we are very well aware of his background and experience and realize that he is one most knowledgeable general analysts in Silicon Valley today and we learned over the years that there's always a good reason why he has certain opinion.
Fair enough. I mean, if he were just making uninformed guesses, then he'd be right half the time, so I guess there really is something informing his "analyses". Being paid to espouse it would be a "good reason" to have an opinion.
Why do news organizations keep turning to a tool like him for quotes?
Because like any fugly bar skank, he's so desperate for attention that he'll do all the work. "Journalists" are just as lazy and incompetent as the rest of us.
The laugh being that those folks who bought an XO on the Get One "Give" One scam[1] paid $400 for a single unit.
[1] The profit from the $400 per-unit price just went into OLPC's coffers. Their intention is to use it to give away a unit, eventually. If they survive long enough.
It's not a lie, it's a strategy to receive compliments. Clearly Chinese men have issues with very low self esteem. I wonder what that could be based on?
If the weather is wrong, or if your crops get hit by disease, planting two crops instead of one means you'll probably have something left instead of nothing.
Yes, about that: do we really want to break out our horses and buggies every time it rains early or late and we have a switchgrass crop failure? Great news for buggy whip makers, not so hot for the rest of us.
From the description, the content on his site may be seen as embarrassing and in poor taste, but you have to do far more than post nudie pictures your site to be brought up on obscenity charges.
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The patronizing jackass part is accurate; what's missing him telling them to get it fixed by the end of the day. AFAIK, he doesn't do pointless whinges.
Do you not understand the GPL because you're retarded, or simply because you're too lazy to read it? Actually, it could easily be both.
Mongo.
The traditional view is that the company is doing you a favour by paying you to do your hobby. Until you've got your name on a published title, you're a nobody.
And if I wasn't poor and ugly, I'd be dating Alyson Hannigan. Life's a bitch, isn't it?
Fewer, not less. And we're back to pedantry again.
Sure, I hear the transmission loss over rainbows is negligible. The guys who balance the load on the grid? You are the nightmare that stalks their dreams.
Well, try not to feel too bad. I'd probably feel pretty mad too if I didn't have an answer to the question of what provides the on-demand backup. It's doubtless very emasculating to feel just sure that there must be an answer, without having any idea what it is. Anyway, if you ever come up with one, the people whose job it is to actually keep the lights on would just love to hear from you.
Such as? Points will be deducted for any answer containing "dilithium".
Also, you can power an entire metropolis by hugging a rainbow, if you just wish hard enough!
When the sky clouds over, are you going to sit in your own filth in the dark, like a Frenchman? No, you - and your neighbours and the the schools and hospitals - are going to start drawing from the grid.
In your dolphin-friendly future, where is that on-demand power going to magically appear from? No Star Trek technobabble: what's going to provide enough completely reliable power every cycle of every second of every minute of every day to keep the lights on and the intartubes pumping?
Well?
My 2K is licensed. When I upgrade, a single copy of it goes on the new box, legally. No nags, no registration bollocks. It doesn't have to be like it is with XP and Vista.
The frequency of the nags decreases with time. It nags you when it needs to. Ignore it and DIE; it's a free country, after all.
I'd imagine that if he's got a half decent lawyer that he'll never have to work again.
Congratulations. I've had to reboot my 2K machine precisely no times in 5 months. Perhaps you could upgrade to that?
So, the advice from Microsoft is to allow Vista to just automatically escalate your privileges?
Sigh.
I actually like UAC, and I'd recommend that most users just leave it on and suck up the increasingly infrequent nags. Perhaps it's a motorcycling thing; you give a final look over your shoulder before every maneuver, even though 99% of the time there's nothing there. It's the 1% that's going to kill you.
"go back"? I'm still waiting for a compelling reason to upgrade from 2K to XP. Seriously.
I think you'll find that you mean erotic versions of Star Trek where all the characters are furries, like Kirk is an ocelot or something. And the author puts a furry version of themself as the star of the story.
Also: I hear that Asians write really efficient code because of their little fingers. And black guys? They could write great code, if only Whitey would stop keeping them down.
I think you deserve some sort of award for an old school hijacking of the discussion. You've really raised the bar here.
Money quote:
Fair enough. I mean, if he were just making uninformed guesses, then he'd be right half the time, so I guess there really is something informing his "analyses". Being paid to espouse it would be a "good reason" to have an opinion.
Because like any fugly bar skank, he's so desperate for attention that he'll do all the work. "Journalists" are just as lazy and incompetent as the rest of us.
[1] The profit from the $400 per-unit price just went into OLPC's coffers. Their intention is to use it to give away a unit, eventually. If they survive long enough.
Say, what is Jack Thompson up to these days?
It's not a lie, it's a strategy to receive compliments. Clearly Chinese men have issues with very low self esteem. I wonder what that could be based on?
Yes, about that: do we really want to break out our horses and buggies every time it rains early or late and we have a switchgrass crop failure? Great news for buggy whip makers, not so hot for the rest of us.
Two words:
Goat. Porn.