Hm, do we have no discovery process since Abramoff plead guilty? In that case we may never know what he was talking about. But he was working for Gates. Did he take a bullet for his boss by pleaing guilty?
it did strike me odd how *incredibly* fast everything was tidied up with a guilty plea in this case. my money was on a convenient stabbing in a holding cell, but this would have been second.
the hard part is getting it all working for a given set of mongrel hardware. i think it would be great if there were a prebuilt MythTV package for an exact set of hardware, so all you'd have to do is buy the identical hardware, assemble it, install the binaries, and you're ready to play.
even better would be different packages for different price-points and performance expectations. eg, if you want to record two shows at once and play back simultaneously, you shell out for one set of hardware and download the corresponding packages.
One with a totally illogical name I cant remember (totem?). Then I got an error saying it didnt have the right codex, so I rebooted into win XP and left ubuntu gathering dust.
jesus, what a sissy. a few minutes on the ubuntu website or the #ubuntu channel on FreeNode would have solved your problem.
Personally I don't understand why universities and schools all over the world aren't switching all their desktops to Linux.
because they get enormous discounts to keep them on windows. at our university, microsoft charges us about 10% of list price. a year or two ago, every employee at our university was given free upgrade to the latest version of windows (i believe that was not only for their university systems but their home systems as well).
microsoft knows that universities with a computer science or engineering school could go linux if they wanted to, so they accept huge cuts to make the cost of software a non-argument.
hey kid, whattaya in for? whadja do, kid? how much time dey give ya here in the commercial world, kid?
my name's microsoft, but in here dey all calls me win-blows. don't worry, i'm gonna look out for ya. here, take dis left-over turkey sammwich i cribbed from da mess hall. it's yours. i want ya ta have it. no strings.
no, really, dat's a cryin shame dey stuck youse in here wid a buncha cash-addicted boneheads like us. cryin shame. but i'm gonna watch your back for ya kid. i'm gonna make it my personal business dat you get outta here in one piece.
look, i got some extra socks from da laundry. clean socks. outta my own pocket. you're gonna be all right, kid, don't worry about it.
an' i got somethin else for ya. i got it taped up under my arm here. you're gonna like dis, kid. ya ever seen one a dese before? it's a SHIV, you goddamn brat! dat's right, now take off yer goddamn pants an' put dis butter on your ass.
shaddap kid, quit yer goddamn cryin. whattaya think, you come in here an' eat a man's sammwich an' take a man's socks fer nothin'? shaddap, i said! you should feel lucky. you see oracle over dere? he don't use no butter! shoulda seen what he did to peoplesoft.
man i hate dese goddamn punks. stupid, goddamn, punks.
Hate to be a downer, but I am sure if you asked my former CIO in a year if he "got the memo" on this, he'd be bewildered and have no idea what you were talking about.
i'm willing to bet CIO's will be looking to limit their personal risk when this directive becomes state law.
I'm a professional, successful scientist, working at a world-class scientific laboratory, doing my best to make an impact on basic energy, climate, and materials science. [...]
(Discussions like this just make me tired. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to keep up a conversation that generates much more heat than light.)
I'm constantly baffled by America's coasting on past glory at the expense of the present.
when i went to germany in the mid-90's and got hassled at a camp-ground by some locals, i turned to them and yelled "yeah, well if it weren't for the USA, you'd all be speaking german right about now!"
For science, the US is in the picture for about the last 70 years, with a huge boost from Hitler getting rid of nearly everybody with a brain in Germany
and there are direct parallels here with current events. there are geneticists moving to countries like the UK and south korea because the environment is more friendly toward science than in the US.
When Queen Isabela demanded that Jews, Sephardim and Muslims, Spanish Moors either convert to Christianity or leave the Iberian Peninsula suffered a massive brain drain. It was mostly Jews and Moors that were educated in the different kingdoms of Iberia, most of which become Spain.
Those philosophers who are reject God but are intellectually honest take this to it's logical conclusion of existentialism and the utter meaninglessness of life.
i might accept "ultimate meaninglessness", but not "utter meaninglessness".
Logically, God exists and life has meaning, or He doesn't and it does not. There is no in-between for a binary condition.
naturally, this depends entirely on your definition of "meaning". i believe god does not exist, but life is meaningful to me.
That's *exactly* the sort of thing we should be teaching our students to watch for - people on any side of an issue who are willing to cheat to make their point.
It also means the government does not have the right to encourage aetheism over religion.
what the religious zealots can't seem to get through their thick skulls is that keeping religion entirely out of government is not advocating atheism; it's just keeping religion entirely out of government.
Seven of the nine U.S. founding fathers denied the divinity of Jesus. There are many other examples of their reluctance towards religion.
right, and remember that they were politicians who had to get a majority of The People on-board with them. just as the current US administration strokes off the religious in exchange for doing what the administration wants on "important" issues, the founding fathers wouldn't have gotten very far if they said "oh, by the way, in our new country, your imaginary sky-daddy can go eff himself."
I think you'll find that for vegetarians, this stuff is a non-starter -- it's still meat. The fact that it's a lab experiment is even creepier.
ethical vegetarians don't eat meat because of the horrible animal suffering that's involved. i think a lot of them might give it a try if the cruelty (hell, sentience even) were taken out of the equation.
You might say this in jest, but I'd be interested in hearing what ethical vegetarians think about eating cruelty-free meat.
14-15 years ago, when i first stopped eating meat, i would have been all over this. my objections to eating meat were ethical, and if i could have continued to eat meat without the ethical implications, i certainly would have done so.
these days i don't really want meat any more. my reaction to it is similar to encountering spoiled milk.
nonetheless, i do still eat soy meat replacements, so i guess i would at least consider this stuff if it were produced cruelty-free.
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hmm, for me, 2000 was the year of desktop linux.
it did strike me odd how *incredibly* fast everything was tidied up with a guilty plea in this case. my money was on a convenient stabbing in a holding cell, but this would have been second.
what the fuck was abramoff doing for microsoft? mowing the grounds of the redmond campus?
even better would be different packages for different price-points and performance expectations. eg, if you want to record two shows at once and play back simultaneously, you shell out for one set of hardware and download the corresponding packages.
so, symantec, sucking microsoft's cock didn't keep them out of your market? and now you want to un-suck it?
jesus, what a sissy. a few minutes on the ubuntu website or the #ubuntu channel on FreeNode would have solved your problem.
because they get enormous discounts to keep them on windows. at our university, microsoft charges us about 10% of list price. a year or two ago, every employee at our university was given free upgrade to the latest version of windows (i believe that was not only for their university systems but their home systems as well).
microsoft knows that universities with a computer science or engineering school could go linux if they wanted to, so they accept huge cuts to make the cost of software a non-argument.
just a little more attention to your spellering and your grammarishness and you'll have the complete package.
Ga- Ji, Berrrri Bim- Ba- Klandiri....!
my name's microsoft, but in here dey all calls me win-blows. don't worry, i'm gonna look out for ya. here, take dis left-over turkey sammwich i cribbed from da mess hall. it's yours. i want ya ta have it. no strings.
no, really, dat's a cryin shame dey stuck youse in here wid a buncha cash-addicted boneheads like us. cryin shame. but i'm gonna watch your back for ya kid. i'm gonna make it my personal business dat you get outta here in one piece.
look, i got some extra socks from da laundry. clean socks. outta my own pocket. you're gonna be all right, kid, don't worry about it.
an' i got somethin else for ya. i got it taped up under my arm here. you're gonna like dis, kid. ya ever seen one a dese before? it's a SHIV, you goddamn brat! dat's right, now take off yer goddamn pants an' put dis butter on your ass.
shaddap kid, quit yer goddamn cryin. whattaya think, you come in here an' eat a man's sammwich an' take a man's socks fer nothin'? shaddap, i said! you should feel lucky. you see oracle over dere? he don't use no butter! shoulda seen what he did to peoplesoft.
man i hate dese goddamn punks. stupid, goddamn, punks.
i'm willing to bet CIO's will be looking to limit their personal risk when this directive becomes state law.
ahhh, grasshoppah, you have yet to face my Flying Chairs stance!
next time she's blowing you, feel along the top of her head for horns.
well, get to work on that. chop-chop.
when i went to germany in the mid-90's and got hassled at a camp-ground by some locals, i turned to them and yelled "yeah, well if it weren't for the USA, you'd all be speaking german right about now!"
they're working on the sweet-n-sour gun now.
pretty much every-fucking-thing?
and there are direct parallels here with current events. there are geneticists moving to countries like the UK and south korea because the environment is more friendly toward science than in the US.
so *that* explains bull-fighting.
i might accept "ultimate meaninglessness", but not "utter meaninglessness".
Logically, God exists and life has meaning, or He doesn't and it does not. There is no in-between for a binary condition.
naturally, this depends entirely on your definition of "meaning". i believe god does not exist, but life is meaningful to me.
That's *exactly* the sort of thing we should be teaching our students to watch for - people on any side of an issue who are willing to cheat to make their point.
heh.
what the religious zealots can't seem to get through their thick skulls is that keeping religion entirely out of government is not advocating atheism; it's just keeping religion entirely out of government.
right, and remember that they were politicians who had to get a majority of The People on-board with them. just as the current US administration strokes off the religious in exchange for doing what the administration wants on "important" issues, the founding fathers wouldn't have gotten very far if they said "oh, by the way, in our new country, your imaginary sky-daddy can go eff himself."
not that i would have had a problem with that.
ethical vegetarians don't eat meat because of the horrible animal suffering that's involved. i think a lot of them might give it a try if the cruelty (hell, sentience even) were taken out of the equation.
14-15 years ago, when i first stopped eating meat, i would have been all over this. my objections to eating meat were ethical, and if i could have continued to eat meat without the ethical implications, i certainly would have done so.
these days i don't really want meat any more. my reaction to it is similar to encountering spoiled milk.
nonetheless, i do still eat soy meat replacements, so i guess i would at least consider this stuff if it were produced cruelty-free.
microsoft innovates again!