Serves them right for using VB in the first place. See, this is why PHB should not, ever, take technicall decitions but only validate the bussiness aspects of them.
Of COURSE it matters. It matters a whole lot. The thing works out of the box and has been doing so for years. Security issues in JVM's are well ironed out.
I do not like the language that much, but the fact is that you can build once, run anywhare and you can do it in GPL now.
I think this is one more nail in microsoft's coffin: they will NEVER dominate the future. There will not be a dominant figure like microsoft was.
God knows what linus did you try. Both ubuntu and mandriva are seamlessly ready to rip dvd's and transcode to your hearts content.
Windows (or macos, for that matter), dont come with ripping software or transcoding posibilities out of the box either: you have to have some expertiese and go out there and download a host of stuff to do it anyhow.
Bullet proof means preinstalled on certified hardware, I guess...
Look at the trends: all non-whitebox servers in the world (worth of mention) are sold linux certified and preinstalled. Dell has certified linux laptops. HP/CQ has a pretty nice list of linux certified laptops (they sell them to ya preinstalle as well).
Man... where do this people come from? Linux is already out there! Go buy a box with it on it and youll never, ever, look back.
Well... you should know that if your mandriva, rhel, sles or ubuntu server goes down for whatever reason, your "phone" support will be there, will probably be oodles better than any kind of local MS shope you may have (linux engies are typically more knowledgable of what the hell breaks, and why did it break, while winnie engies are typically clickmonkeys that are paid to read kb.microsoft.com) and its about 349 USD per year (12x5) or double that for a 24x7 phone support plan. Support includes the software. ALL of the software.
This isnt the 90's okay? Linux distro companies sell support, not linux distros.
You would be surprised. It depends on the market, but it sure is still out there and active in a none to small number of routers and closed blackboxes.
Modern Anglo-Saxon culture is more latin than any kind of anglo or saxon. Specially since anglo and saxon cultures really were not civilized at all when compared with greece or rome.
We need to start understanding, everywhere (im not an american), that WE are the culture of the Roman-Judeo-Christians. That is what we are. That ties all occident together.
Petty differences will have us arguing for ages about the superiority of the occitane "culture" over the, cantabric "culture" in spain, for christ sakes.
While the great china superpower is emerging as an uncontested giant in all of the far east: theyll end up gobbling indochina and japan, mark my words, and we will still be viewing spaniards and scotish as unjoinable cultures when, for christ sakes, they have just as much in common as the korean with the chineese and just as much in common when compared to what, say, the northern chineese provinces have with the southest Cantoneese provinces have in common.
Dont get me wrong. I stand by occident. We are a civilization that encumbers the human individual and i will defend that with my life.
Alas, i think i will HAVE TO defend it with my life. In the years to come, its gonna be us (all of us, from germany to argentina), against whatever block cultures that DO NOT like our values of open dialog and people's right to incide in their government.
Has it occured to you to actually read Kurzwiel? Why do you think its positive to label someone a "crackpot" when he is looking into some possibilities for our evolution.
More on that: how in the hell are we to keep evolving if not through technology? We wont evolve "naturally", i think thats well established, not anymore. Our social system (for ALL of us) has not erm... evolved to be a good evolutive system that rewards the best.
The only way "up" is through a technologicall singularity. I dont think its inevitable though, i think its necessary, desirable.
Racism and culturalism is bad.... for OCCIDENT. Chinesse have NO PROBLEM with being chauvinistic, ultranationalists, kind of like the japaneese.
China is the longest living civilization/culture of earth. I would say that they are the most succesfull example of a civilization that the eyes of the world has ever seen.
In 5k years of empire, they got to fuck arround with most of asia, all the way down to indochina, and all the way to the east till japan.
What they are answering now, comes from a culture that is very, very, very smart. Old. Intelligent.
This only is "plausible deniability" at its best. And kudos to the chinesse,they did it very well.
Repugs stole your elections once, won another by going to an unnecessary war that caused terrorism to grow, not to linger; justified in a damned lie that your powerfull government imposed on the rest of the world (I mean, whos gonna stand in the way of an invading US... you have the most effective army in the history of the world).
And STILL, this mcain guy is really really close and may very well be chosen, by you guys, again, to lead your country; Which, like it or not, means leading -not RULING- the better chunk of the world -> occident.
I have no say, cause im not a voter, but damn, guys... I hope your people understand that we are in the brink of a cultural war, that the US is in the best position to unite occident behind her.
Diplomacy, from my standpoint (an outsider, what a surprise), should be on your mind. If the US cant get her head out of her ass and start thinking as the leader of occident it once was, we are ALL doomed to long term China domination and the subsecuent cultural death of the democratic ideals shared by all occident.
A good place to start is recognizing that democracy is not just an american trait, its an occidental vocation that affected every single country in occident. Having said this, the whole world recognizes that US democracy is clearly a great working model of a modern Republic.
Another good place to start is in the recovery of the language. GWB hollered to the world that he was spreading "liberty" in Asia by carpet bombing bagdahd. You see, the word liberty should never be tied to such stupid and mindless violence.
You let this asshole hijack the precepts that your forefathers died to preserve: take it back. Liberty means freedom, for ALL. The right to be rich, for ALL. The right to assembly, for ALL.
Liberty does not mean "im going to kill your children for oil, justified in that people that DRESS like you, and share your RELIGION, shot a couple of buildings down in Manhattan".
Take it back, you guys. Take your country back. Democracy is at great peril everywhere.
Interestingly enough, sartori disavows the internet as well, basicaly because you need to be sapient before you can clasify the information provided by it BEFORE you get on with it. Else, the internet fucks up your cognitive learning process.
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Democracy is only as good as the law that makes it be respected.
No one should be allowed to sell votes, and noone should be allowed to buy them.
I mean, guys, this is modern democracy 101. America invented the rules. This is a good thing.
Now, had they had the same spirit in bushes questioned election, we would be in a different world now.
THAT is irritating.
Well... if its so hard to prove (and such a little and simple hipothesys), perhaps is just plain not true and thats that.
Of course, now we need to get into proving THAT.
Serves them right for using VB in the first place. See, this is why PHB should not, ever, take technicall decitions but only validate the bussiness aspects of them.
Of COURSE it matters. It matters a whole lot. The thing works out of the box and has been doing so for years. Security issues in JVM's are well ironed out.
I do not like the language that much, but the fact is that you can build once, run anywhare and you can do it in GPL now.
I think this is one more nail in microsoft's coffin: they will NEVER dominate the future. There will not be a dominant figure like microsoft was.
This is a brave new day.
You have no idea how funny does that name sound to a bilingual latin american.
God knows what linus did you try. Both ubuntu and mandriva are seamlessly ready to rip dvd's and transcode to your hearts content.
Windows (or macos, for that matter), dont come with ripping software or transcoding posibilities out of the box either: you have to have some expertiese and go out there and download a host of stuff to do it anyhow.
So whats the diff?
Id just say dont blame it on the devs. Its the damned Microsoft Marketing Machine what fucks everything up.
Hell, I even remember when they were a software company.
My friend, I think you overlook an evident fact: OSX is actually BETTER and FASTER than what OS9 was.
Now vista, compared to XP.... ill let you finish this one.
....and they can pry my corporate copy of XP from my cold dead hands. The Voice From Redmond: "Be carefull what you wish for, Mr. Mordok."Bullet proof means preinstalled on certified hardware, I guess...
Look at the trends: all non-whitebox servers in the world (worth of mention) are sold linux certified and preinstalled. Dell has certified linux laptops. HP/CQ has a pretty nice list of linux certified laptops (they sell them to ya preinstalle as well).
Man... where do this people come from? Linux is already out there! Go buy a box with it on it and youll never, ever, look back.
Well... you should know that if your mandriva, rhel, sles or ubuntu server goes down for whatever reason, your "phone" support will be there, will probably be oodles better than any kind of local MS shope you may have (linux engies are typically more knowledgable of what the hell breaks, and why did it break, while winnie engies are typically clickmonkeys that are paid to read kb.microsoft.com) and its about 349 USD per year (12x5) or double that for a 24x7 phone support plan. Support includes the software. ALL of the software.
This isnt the 90's okay? Linux distro companies sell support, not linux distros.
You would be surprised. It depends on the market, but it sure is still out there and active in a none to small number of routers and closed blackboxes.
Thats only for XP home isnt it? And thats a dog of an Os. Even more so than vista home.
I have to recognize that your argument is inexpugnable.
Kudos to you, sir.
Modern Anglo-Saxon culture is more latin than any kind of anglo or saxon. Specially since anglo and saxon cultures really were not civilized at all when compared with greece or rome.
We need to start understanding, everywhere (im not an american), that WE are the culture of the Roman-Judeo-Christians. That is what we are. That ties all occident together.
Petty differences will have us arguing for ages about the superiority of the occitane "culture" over the, cantabric "culture" in spain, for christ sakes.
While the great china superpower is emerging as an uncontested giant in all of the far east: theyll end up gobbling indochina and japan, mark my words, and we will still be viewing spaniards and scotish as unjoinable cultures when, for christ sakes, they have just as much in common as the korean with the chineese and just as much in common when compared to what, say, the northern chineese provinces have with the southest Cantoneese provinces have in common.
Dont get me wrong. I stand by occident. We are a civilization that encumbers the human individual and i will defend that with my life.
Alas, i think i will HAVE TO defend it with my life. In the years to come, its gonna be us (all of us, from germany to argentina), against whatever block cultures that DO NOT like our values of open dialog and people's right to incide in their government.
Has it occured to you to actually read Kurzwiel? Why do you think its positive to label someone a "crackpot" when he is looking into some possibilities for our evolution.
More on that: how in the hell are we to keep evolving if not through technology? We wont evolve "naturally", i think thats well established, not anymore. Our social system (for ALL of us) has not erm... evolved to be a good evolutive system that rewards the best.
The only way "up" is through a technologicall singularity. I dont think its inevitable though, i think its necessary, desirable.
And shove it.
Wanna use GPL? Comply.
So there, how is that for negotiating.
What part of textbook mcarthism did you get this from?
UNderestimating an enemy is stupid. Underestimating the eldest civilization on earth, borders on the insane.
HURRAY.
Kudos Red Hat guys, you keep going. In the end, the decent shall prevail.
Im all behind you guys.
Racism and culturalism is bad.... for OCCIDENT. Chinesse have NO PROBLEM with being chauvinistic, ultranationalists, kind of like the japaneese.
China is the longest living civilization/culture of earth. I would say that they are the most succesfull example of a civilization that the eyes of the world has ever seen.
In 5k years of empire, they got to fuck arround with most of asia, all the way down to indochina, and all the way to the east till japan.
What they are answering now, comes from a culture that is very, very, very smart. Old. Intelligent.
This only is "plausible deniability" at its best. And kudos to the chinesse,they did it very well.
Repugs stole your elections once, won another by going to an unnecessary war that caused terrorism to grow, not to linger; justified in a damned lie that your powerfull government imposed on the rest of the world (I mean, whos gonna stand in the way of an invading US... you have the most effective army in the history of the world).
And STILL, this mcain guy is really really close and may very well be chosen, by you guys, again, to lead your country; Which, like it or not, means leading -not RULING- the better chunk of the world -> occident.
I have no say, cause im not a voter, but damn, guys... I hope your people understand that we are in the brink of a cultural war, that the US is in the best position to unite occident behind her.
Diplomacy, from my standpoint (an outsider, what a surprise), should be on your mind. If the US cant get her head out of her ass and start thinking as the leader of occident it once was, we are ALL doomed to long term China domination and the subsecuent cultural death of the democratic ideals shared by all occident.
A good place to start is recognizing that democracy is not just an american trait, its an occidental vocation that affected every single country in occident. Having said this, the whole world recognizes that US democracy is clearly a great working model of a modern Republic.
Another good place to start is in the recovery of the language. GWB hollered to the world that he was spreading "liberty" in Asia by carpet bombing bagdahd. You see, the word liberty should never be tied to such stupid and mindless violence.
You let this asshole hijack the precepts that your forefathers died to preserve: take it back. Liberty means freedom, for ALL. The right to be rich, for ALL. The right to assembly, for ALL.
Liberty does not mean "im going to kill your children for oil, justified in that people that DRESS like you, and share your RELIGION, shot a couple of buildings down in Manhattan".
Take it back, you guys. Take your country back. Democracy is at great peril everywhere.
Interestingly enough, sartori disavows the internet as well, basicaly because you need to be sapient before you can clasify the information provided by it BEFORE you get on with it. Else, the internet fucks up your cognitive learning process.
I do not agree with him on that stance.
I thought 007 WAS what the british took for pr0n!
Monopoly Leveraging Bi0tch3s From Outer Sussex
Its a monopoly from hell. Its like if Sony owned MaBell (and she still existed).
Virgin: youre just a bunch of oligopolistic freaking fucks.