Even the dumbest programmer does 200 patentable things per day.
Be careful making statements like that. Most things a programmer does in a day are routine, and would be obvious to any practioner of the art. Patents are supposed to be nonobvious, so the dumb programmer's work *should* (but alas, does not in the USPTO's short-sightedness) fail the test.
The problem is that broadband internet connections enable easy piracy. Doom 3 was available for download before it even went on sale. A certain number of those downloads are by people who would have purchased the game, but will save their $60 to buy something else. I don't know about you, but I don't really like seeing jacked video game prices because the publisher has to raise the per-unit prices (due to lower unit sales) to make the same level of profit.
If it ever gets to the point where they have to raise prices to an unacceptably high level to make the PC profitable enough to be "worth their time," they'll say "why mess with the PC" and move to consoles, which have "better" copy protection.
Companies that outsource work are helping to create their own future competitors. There are companies that are being started in India and China based on the experience they gained by outsourcing work. The large IT vendors are outsourcing in the hopes of driving more profits, and they will, until the startups are big enough to say "Hey, we can do everything they can, and we're local!"
The title is multi-meaninged, but it's really about Jedi bouncing back from apparent annhilation:
The Jedi (as in Order) return from apparent oblivion.
Darth Vader is destroyed and replaced by Anakin Skywalker, Jedi, in the same sense that Obi-Wan told Luke that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin.
Even though that's what they call (or called) themselves?
Given the misappropriation of the term on message forums these days, yes.
Relax, Jack. I wasn't necessarily bringing politics into this; just making an apt comparison between obvious liars.
Good. How'd you wind up picking Cheney? There are so many liars in government to choose from.
[i]If you don't know what Neocons are, what members of the Bush administration are Neocons, and how repulsive to actual Constitution-defending, patriotic Americans their proposed policies are,...you're the uneducated one.[/i]
Relax, Dude. I'm quite educated when it comes to politics. The point was that politics shouldn't enter the picture in a message about Gates. The term "NeoCon" used on any forum nowadays has been misappropriated by liberal forum users and applied to anyone who disagrees with their point of view. That's the point behind saying that the use of the term makes the great granparent of this post look like a Democratic fanboi.
The poster's point could have been quite well made simply using a general comparison to politicians. That's why the government slapped M$ on the wrist with a wet noodle.
That would be true, if that's how it were actually used on message boards. That fact of the matter is that the meaning of "NeoCon" has become nothing more than an epithet applied to anyone who might defend *any* policy that a liberal disagees with.
Don't bring Politics into this. He sounds like every politician that continually spouts lies, despite massive evidence to the contrary....also, stop using the word "NeoCon". It just makes you seem like an uneducated Democratic fanboi.
Each candidate used what was expedient for them to use. Although, having looked at some of the code for the Kerry site, it looks like a pretty big mess to me. I don't think the FLOSS community wants the Kerry site being a poster child for Open Source.
as with other flawed "surveys," this one doesn't seem to account for features that are disabled by default, or that can't be exploited if the vunerable package isn't installed.
They didn't really skip versions so much as they changed how they are numbered. Versions are supposed to be m.n (m=major, n=minor) and Sun has been numbering the Java releases as 1.x (minor point releases) when they should have been x.0 (major release). Sun just brought some better clarity to their version numbering.
You'll get no argument from me. Even if my political views aligned with his, I wouldn't like him.
The thing that grates me most is that the people on that side of the fence won't let Florida 2000 go. Gore should have won, and would have won if his supporters knew enough to ask for help to mark their ballots properly, but it has been proven in independent recounts that there is no reason to consider the result in Florida fraudulent. And to top it all off, NIXON had a greater moral backbone than Gore...in the face of obvious (and *provable*) voter fraud in Texas (where JFK had precincts where he got more votes than there were registered voters) and Illinois (Daley, casting the dead vote in Chicago), he felt that it would be less divisive to let JFK have the election than to let the office of the Presidency be tarnished by the mere possibility that the results of the election could be affected by voter fraud...NIXON had more respect for the office of the Presidency than Gore. Gore had less moral integrity than the only man to resign in disgrace from the Presidency. Sheesh.
I don't know what I'm going to do in November, but I won't be using this film as part of my decision-making process. I'm quite aware of what's been going on, and I don't need a propaganda piece to tell me all the reasons I shouldn't vote for G.W. I'm sure that there will be some ignorant Americans who think the film represents the whole truth.
Which is worse: the absolute certainty that someone will bring a worm-infested PC onto the campus network, or the small likelihood that someone will hack the server that performs these updates? If these network administrators are competent, they are already considering the possibility of hacking and will be logging any attempts to hack that server.
I agree with other posters. If the students weren't running Windows in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue. It also wouldn't be an issue if students had done what they were supposed to do under the first policy.
The U.S. has to support it on principle. Limiting hate speech (by the EU's definition) will start us down a slippery slope where a little freedom will be chipped away here, a little liberty forfeited there, until there's no way to post anything on the internet without the approval of the global thought police.
I don't think it'll play out 100% like Schwarz and Gates claim, but there is definitely a kernel of truth to it. Microsoft is looking to the XBox to become the PC replacement, and most of the big iron vendors are pushing service oriented architectures that will enable asset management to be outsourced. All of these will be subscription-based.
The exceptions will be consumers and companies who buy *cheap* hardware and use *free* (non-subscription) software.
There is a difference between using the truth to advance your point of view and using half-truths, quotes out of context, and outright fabrications to advance your point.
If Mr. Moore had engaged in the former, then I wouldn't have the slightest gripe with him. However, there's ample documentation on the internet to prove that Mr. Moore doesn't let the truth get in the way of his point.
Unfortunately, us Americans get a choice this fall between loser 1 and loser 2.
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They can't prove it based on the major releases of AIX/Dynix, so they want access to every source code version ever to try to prove their case.
...but the cognac glass maker should not prevent me from making my own cognac glasses in case the ones I purchased from them break.
Even the dumbest programmer does 200 patentable things per day.
Be careful making statements like that. Most things a programmer does in a day are routine, and would be obvious to any practioner of the art. Patents are supposed to be nonobvious, so the dumb programmer's work *should* (but alas, does not in the USPTO's short-sightedness) fail the test.
The problem is that broadband internet connections enable easy piracy. Doom 3 was available for download before it even went on sale. A certain number of those downloads are by people who would have purchased the game, but will save their $60 to buy something else. I don't know about you, but I don't really like seeing jacked video game prices because the publisher has to raise the per-unit prices (due to lower unit sales) to make the same level of profit.
If it ever gets to the point where they have to raise prices to an unacceptably high level to make the PC profitable enough to be "worth their time," they'll say "why mess with the PC" and move to consoles, which have "better" copy protection.
Apparently you do, since you were stupid enough to respond.
and I'll jump right on this one to get rid of XFree86.
Adobe Photoshop Album organizes photos based on time, and moreover, the EXIF information in JPEGs makes that particular "invention" blatantly obvious.
Companies that outsource work are helping to create their own future competitors. There are companies that are being started in India and China based on the experience they gained by outsourcing work. The large IT vendors are outsourcing in the hopes of driving more profits, and they will, until the startups are big enough to say "Hey, we can do everything they can, and we're local!"
The title is multi-meaninged, but it's really about Jedi bouncing back from apparent annhilation:
The Jedi (as in Order) return from apparent oblivion.
Darth Vader is destroyed and replaced by Anakin Skywalker, Jedi, in the same sense that Obi-Wan told Luke that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin.
"I am not left-handed."
"I am not left-handed, either."
loathesome, self-serving, reality-ignoring, and corrupt
Terms that can be applied to many members of both wings of the Republicrat party.
Even though that's what they call (or called) themselves?
Given the misappropriation of the term on message forums these days, yes.
Relax, Jack. I wasn't necessarily bringing politics into this; just making an apt comparison between obvious liars.
Good. How'd you wind up picking Cheney? There are so many liars in government to choose from.
[i]If you don't know what Neocons are, what members of the Bush administration are Neocons, and how repulsive to actual Constitution-defending, patriotic Americans their proposed policies are, ...you're the uneducated one.[/i]
Relax, Dude. I'm quite educated when it comes to politics. The point was that politics shouldn't enter the picture in a message about Gates. The term "NeoCon" used on any forum nowadays has been misappropriated by liberal forum users and applied to anyone who disagrees with their point of view. That's the point behind saying that the use of the term makes the great granparent of this post look like a Democratic fanboi.
The poster's point could have been quite well made simply using a general comparison to politicians. That's why the government slapped M$ on the wrist with a wet noodle.
That would be true, if that's how it were actually used on message boards. That fact of the matter is that the meaning of "NeoCon" has become nothing more than an epithet applied to anyone who might defend *any* policy that a liberal disagees with.
Don't bring Politics into this. He sounds like every politician that continually spouts lies, despite massive evidence to the contrary. ...also, stop using the word "NeoCon". It just makes you seem like an uneducated Democratic fanboi.
IE can use it. Here is a JavaScript-based example of how to enable alpha transparency in IE 5.5 or better.
Each candidate used what was expedient for them to use. Although, having looked at some of the code for the Kerry site, it looks like a pretty big mess to me. I don't think the FLOSS community wants the Kerry site being a poster child for Open Source.
as with other flawed "surveys," this one doesn't seem to account for features that are disabled by default, or that can't be exploited if the vunerable package isn't installed.
They didn't really skip versions so much as they changed how they are numbered. Versions are supposed to be m.n (m=major, n=minor) and Sun has been numbering the Java releases as 1.x (minor point releases) when they should have been x.0 (major release). Sun just brought some better clarity to their version numbering.
You'll get no argument from me. Even if my political views aligned with his, I wouldn't like him.
The thing that grates me most is that the people on that side of the fence won't let Florida 2000 go. Gore should have won, and would have won if his supporters knew enough to ask for help to mark their ballots properly, but it has been proven in independent recounts that there is no reason to consider the result in Florida fraudulent. And to top it all off, NIXON had a greater moral backbone than Gore...in the face of obvious (and *provable*) voter fraud in Texas (where JFK had precincts where he got more votes than there were registered voters) and Illinois (Daley, casting the dead vote in Chicago), he felt that it would be less divisive to let JFK have the election than to let the office of the Presidency be tarnished by the mere possibility that the results of the election could be affected by voter fraud...NIXON had more respect for the office of the Presidency than Gore. Gore had less moral integrity than the only man to resign in disgrace from the Presidency. Sheesh.
I don't know what I'm going to do in November, but I won't be using this film as part of my decision-making process. I'm quite aware of what's been going on, and I don't need a propaganda piece to tell me all the reasons I shouldn't vote for G.W. I'm sure that there will be some ignorant Americans who think the film represents the whole truth.
Which is worse: the absolute certainty that someone will bring a worm-infested PC onto the campus network, or the small likelihood that someone will hack the server that performs these updates? If these network administrators are competent, they are already considering the possibility of hacking and will be logging any attempts to hack that server.
I agree with other posters. If the students weren't running Windows in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue. It also wouldn't be an issue if students had done what they were supposed to do under the first policy.
The U.S. has to support it on principle. Limiting hate speech (by the EU's definition) will start us down a slippery slope where a little freedom will be chipped away here, a little liberty forfeited there, until there's no way to post anything on the internet without the approval of the global thought police.
I don't think it'll play out 100% like Schwarz and Gates claim, but there is definitely a kernel of truth to it. Microsoft is looking to the XBox to become the PC replacement, and most of the big iron vendors are pushing service oriented architectures that will enable asset management to be outsourced. All of these will be subscription-based.
The exceptions will be consumers and companies who buy *cheap* hardware and use *free* (non-subscription) software.
There is a difference between using the truth to advance your point of view and using half-truths, quotes out of context, and outright fabrications to advance your point.
If Mr. Moore had engaged in the former, then I wouldn't have the slightest gripe with him. However, there's ample documentation on the internet to prove that Mr. Moore doesn't let the truth get in the way of his point.
Unfortunately, us Americans get a choice this fall between loser 1 and loser 2.