Ya, and I respect Britney Spears' artistic integrity. They're meat puppets. That's like praising a paralegal for correcting the punctuation in a contract that her boss drew up. Sure, someone has to do it, but pretty much anyone could.
IME, lead programmers tend to believe that they write 70% of the game themselves. It's a role that requires a certain amount of Messiah and/or Martyr Complex.
I assume that ol' Pimpson here published his original draft as by-nc-nd, but that the edits that he received came with no such restrictions themselves. I say "assume" in the full knowledge that I may be making both of the contributors and me.
Actually, what I really assume is that he doesn't really give a Goddamn about licensing, and is just using Slashdot to pimp the sweat of other peoples' brows. But then I'm kind of a dick that way.
Try standing next to Brian Haw and saying that about Gordo. Actually, try saying it in any public place. Plod can and will bag you under section 5 for doing anything that they don't like, including doing nothing. Perhaps you meant "prosecuted" or "convicted" rather than "arrested".
That's jive! Look, in this new "research", Greenpeace have produced actual photographs of professional scienticians doing complicated scientician stuff. You're not going to tell me that someone wearing white cotton gloves doesn't know what they're talking about, surely?
There's an argument to be made for (re-)introducing predators to limit the numbers of destructive prey species. Scotland is currently considering re-introducing wolves to keep deer numbers down, for example. I wouldn't say that it's a strong argument, since the wolves will likely prefer something slower and dumber, like sheep or parking wardens, but it can be advanced.
Suuure you're going to find a spare drive to install a new OS in order to install a VM to run a UI that won't run natively on any hardware that you can buy. Even if you lived in a region in which Negroponte graciously condescended to sell you a "$100" laptop for $400, delivery would be "when we feel like it, you ungrateful capitalist swine" and support would be nil.
Don't get me wrong, I too like the idea of OLPC, and it's good that it's (arguably) driving down prices, form factor and power consumption of bottom end portables, but OLPC has done nearly everything possible to shoot itself in the foot, even to the extent of grafting on new feet when it runs out of targets. Installing Sugar now would be an exercise in futility; it's a dead OS. Actually developing anything for it... well, some people still developer for RISC OS, so I guess it takes all sorts.
It's not really surprising. Sugar is, well, niche. Really niche. Would you actually choose to install it on your *nix machine? Maybe for laughs, but to actually use it for daily tasks? To choose it as a development environment and target? Never going to happen. Sugar is on life support now. Welcome to RiscOS's world.
It's perfect simple. Now that OLPC has decided to see other UI vendors on the side, Sugar is also free to "move on", to a park bench, where it will lie huddled under a pile of OLPC manuals, swigging Sterno from a brown paper bag.
Sugar is dead. XO/Linux is dead. XO/XP is the only viable platform, as most neutral observers concluded from day 1. The bulk purchasers of the XO don't want to teach their countrys' children to "learn", just want to turn them into productive MS/Office(tm) drones. Sugar was never going to deliver on that.
Just because the US and Canada are too deeply invested in Microsoft to even think of using anything else, doesn't mean the rest of the world is the same way.
It's a shame those bloody ignorant Sambos didn't subscribe to your newsletter, because apparently they disagree.
Oh, and anything that you've heard about the nightmare of balancing load and frequency from unreliable sources, and the perfect shitstorm that occurs if the wind suddenly drops just as demand peaks? That's all lies too, spread by BUSHITLAR.
Some trademarks becomes so familiar that all similar products are known by the trademark name: think Coke and Hoover for example
"Known" in informal usage is one thing. Actually marketed that way is quite another. Would you expect to see Pepsi brand "coke" or Dyson brand "hoovers" being advertised?
If you allow your trademark to become a generic term, then eventually you may lose the protection it provides. Trademarks are defend-it-or-lose-it. I say may lose because AFAIK this particular principle, of using a trademarked term as a generic term in a commercial search, is a new legal area. So at least we know that a lot of lawyers will make a lot of money out of it. Which is nice.
Cool! What tracks do you race on, and in what categories?
I ask because the "skills" you described are only "above average" if you're racing on a track. For most growns ups in the real world, they're utterly irrelevant to motoring. As a biker, I'd like to say:
Please don't weave all over the fucking road as you try to find an ideal "racing line" that will shave 50 milliseconds off your trip to buy some cigarettes and Jack Daniels for mommy.
The only skill that matters a Goddamn is looking in your blind spot every time before making a move. Every. Time. Since you didn't mention observational skills, I assume that you actually suck more than a Thai hooker saving up for his sex change.
Thank you for your time and attention. I'm sure it's far more than you pay to other road users.
The primary day-to-day strategic concern of most 'charities' is making money, which this publicity also helps with. Actually furthering their cause is an incidental bonus.
How many people are required to maintain tracks, signals, locomotives and rolling stock, compared to roads? Per ton/mile of cargo would be ideal.
What's that? You don't have those figures? Then how the hell can you make any sort of value judgement about the carbon requirement of rail versus road?
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Ya, and I respect Britney Spears' artistic integrity. They're meat puppets. That's like praising a paralegal for correcting the punctuation in a contract that her boss drew up. Sure, someone has to do it, but pretty much anyone could.
I think Guy Who Says 'Previously On Heroes' Wishes He Was Guy Who Says 'Previously On Lost' sums it up nicely.
IME, lead programmers tend to believe that they write 70% of the game themselves. It's a role that requires a certain amount of Messiah and/or Martyr Complex.
Meesa no wait for poodoo reviews! Meesa gonna give bigsa clink-clink to franchise rightawaysa! What could go wrongsa?
I assume that ol' Pimpson here published his original draft as by-nc-nd, but that the edits that he received came with no such restrictions themselves. I say "assume" in the full knowledge that I may be making both of the contributors and me.
Actually, what I really assume is that he doesn't really give a Goddamn about licensing, and is just using Slashdot to pimp the sweat of other peoples' brows. But then I'm kind of a dick that way.
Try standing next to Brian Haw and saying that about Gordo. Actually, try saying it in any public place. Plod can and will bag you under section 5 for doing anything that they don't like, including doing nothing. Perhaps you meant "prosecuted" or "convicted" rather than "arrested".
Do you always ignore requirements when designing a solution, or are you making a special exception in this case?
That's jive! Look, in this new "research", Greenpeace have produced actual photographs of professional scienticians doing complicated scientician stuff. You're not going to tell me that someone wearing white cotton gloves doesn't know what they're talking about, surely?
There's an argument to be made for (re-)introducing predators to limit the numbers of destructive prey species. Scotland is currently considering re-introducing wolves to keep deer numbers down, for example. I wouldn't say that it's a strong argument, since the wolves will likely prefer something slower and dumber, like sheep or parking wardens, but it can be advanced.
La Forge is a hack. We all know where he stole that idea from.
Sure, I'd love a couple. What's your unit price and estimated delivery time?
Suuure you're going to find a spare drive to install a new OS in order to install a VM to run a UI that won't run natively on any hardware that you can buy. Even if you lived in a region in which Negroponte graciously condescended to sell you a "$100" laptop for $400, delivery would be "when we feel like it, you ungrateful capitalist swine" and support would be nil.
Don't get me wrong, I too like the idea of OLPC, and it's good that it's (arguably) driving down prices, form factor and power consumption of bottom end portables, but OLPC has done nearly everything possible to shoot itself in the foot, even to the extent of grafting on new feet when it runs out of targets. Installing Sugar now would be an exercise in futility; it's a dead OS. Actually developing anything for it... well, some people still developer for RISC OS, so I guess it takes all sorts.
It's not really surprising. Sugar is, well, niche. Really niche. Would you actually choose to install it on your *nix machine? Maybe for laughs, but to actually use it for daily tasks? To choose it as a development environment and target? Never going to happen. Sugar is on life support now. Welcome to RiscOS's world.
It's perfect simple. Now that OLPC has decided to see other UI vendors on the side, Sugar is also free to "move on", to a park bench, where it will lie huddled under a pile of OLPC manuals, swigging Sterno from a brown paper bag.
Sugar is dead. XO/Linux is dead. XO/XP is the only viable platform, as most neutral observers concluded from day 1. The bulk purchasers of the XO don't want to teach their countrys' children to "learn", just want to turn them into productive MS/Office(tm) drones. Sugar was never going to deliver on that.
Looser.
It's a shame those bloody ignorant Sambos didn't subscribe to your newsletter, because apparently they disagree.
SILENCE, DISBELIEVER.
Oh, and anything that you've heard about the nightmare of balancing load and frequency from unreliable sources, and the perfect shitstorm that occurs if the wind suddenly drops just as demand peaks? That's all lies too, spread by BUSHITLAR.
Ballmer has called their bluff and now Yahoo! are begging like Jonesing crack whores for a hit of Microsoft's money stick.
Epic fail, Yang. EPIC FAIL.
"Known" in informal usage is one thing. Actually marketed that way is quite another. Would you expect to see Pepsi brand "coke" or Dyson brand "hoovers" being advertised?
If you allow your trademark to become a generic term, then eventually you may lose the protection it provides. Trademarks are defend-it-or-lose-it. I say may lose because AFAIK this particular principle, of using a trademarked term as a generic term in a commercial search, is a new legal area. So at least we know that a lot of lawyers will make a lot of money out of it. Which is nice.
Cool! What tracks do you race on, and in what categories?
I ask because the "skills" you described are only "above average" if you're racing on a track. For most growns ups in the real world, they're utterly irrelevant to motoring. As a biker, I'd like to say:
Thank you for your time and attention. I'm sure it's far more than you pay to other road users.
The primary day-to-day strategic concern of most 'charities' is making money, which this publicity also helps with. Actually furthering their cause is an incidental bonus.
You need to grow a moustache, or change your sneakers.
You have no idea. Congratulations: you are a zealot.
They're getting people to pay them to beta test their junk? Insert M$/WhackO$ jibe here.
Plus, you can only pop her noob cherry once.
How many people are required to maintain tracks, signals, locomotives and rolling stock, compared to roads? Per ton/mile of cargo would be ideal.
What's that? You don't have those figures? Then how the hell can you make any sort of value judgement about the carbon requirement of rail versus road?