No, Minix doesn't just happen to sound like Linux, or vice-versa. They both intentionally sound something like "UNIX";)
Linus was Andy's student a long while back. Andy taught (and still teaches? I think) "modern operating systems," and Linus was summarily unimpressed with Minix. Linus had a terminal prog he had written, this and that happened, and tada! Linux was born.
Andy and Linus, as far my understanding goes, don't like each other much. I haven't read anything on their relationship in years though.
wrong. There are a number of people who do not want "digital" music, they want it on a cd (which is digital too, but...meh). They want to play it in their car, their non-mp3-enabled stero, etc.
In fact, this is still most people.
So, that infrastructure has to still be there. There is the simple base cost - once the infrastructure is there, it's there after all. Adding one more cd to the box to ship out doesn't do much to raise that base cost. Printing 10,000 cd's isn't, really, 100 times more expensive than printing 100 cd's would be...it's really only maybe 5-10 times more expensive. Economies of scale, CODB, yada yada, insert economic terms here.
Point being...no. You're wrong. If you buy a cd online, the place you buy it (amazon, whatever) gets their small kickback, but in general...the cd is overwhelmingly cheap to mass-produce and distribute. It's the advertizing and cd production lines that are the issue - that, and a few other things. The cds and labels themselves cost only pennies to get to the music store.
Look again at the original response to my criminally negligent post.
Oh for the love of God... it's * Voilà *, you ignorant fuckwit!
I didn't say it was correct, I said you all needed to find better things to do. All I did was make a silly typo (of the sort not uncommon for dyslexics like myself), and use a poor-man's tic. It is truly not a big deal - certainly not enough to get all angsty over, or enough to become insulting.
I'm not the one trying to justify something here, or say I'm in the right.
wow...I'm going to just cut and paste. Obviously reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, but maybe the second time around you'll see it...
I do speak a little french, and simply transposing the "o" and "i" is not that big of a deal. Not enough to merit correcting in a medium like this, imo.
That tic at the end there is the poor-man's way of putting the accent on.
I think I just found 3 people that need to get laid for the first times in their lives. Why would a viola have that tic at the end? Isn't there enough angst and tension in the world already such that your adding to it is unnecessary?
Violà. Voila'. One has to be copy/pasted, or done with special keyboard mappings. The other can be easily read and understood (as evident by the fact that he, and even you, knew what I was saying). As the second option is easier...
I do speak a little french, and simply transposing the "o" and "i" is not that big of a deal. Not enough to merit correcting in a medium like this, imo.
To the real point - "some of us neither know, not care" should obviously have been "some of us neither know, nor care" - yet that typo didn't get corrected. Gosh, wonder why? Something called self-importance, where 3 "ignorant fuckwit[s]" decide that since they know some silly little thing, that if they see an error, they must insult people. probably stems from being picked on in high school, and/or not having ever been laid.
Now...you were saying? Oh, you're saying you're trolling, with no intention to actually add to the conversation. Well, don't let me stop you...
some of us neither know, not care, where the mappings to special characters are. "à" (copied from your response) isn't on my keyboard. Thanks for your cheerful response, though! It's good to know who the intelligent, positive minds are out there...even if they have to be found through a process of elimination.
actually, it should be pretty easy to check the marine parks, like he said. Go to Seaworld, look in the tanks that are supposed to have them. If they're not there....viola'!
No need to be paranoid? Then why say things like "now imagine..." and talk about going through trash? It's all stuff that could be done, in theory.
So why doesn't this just qualify as paranoia? It's *possible* that my phone at home is bugged, that there is a video camera in my bathroom, and that someone sneaks into my house during the day to put mind controlling substances in my food. But just because something could happen, doesn't mean that it's happening...or even that it's legal (which this wouldn't be). "Paranoia" isn't exempt simply because something is possible...
The only modification I could see them making which would be historically consistent with the FSF's stance is to require that the _javascript_ be under the GPL, since that component is in fact redistributed and does in fact run on the remote user's computer.
The code is just used to generate html, or some other such thing. If we used your interpretation, then if someone modified openoffice, used it to create a document, printed the document out, and then handed it to someone...you're distributing the product of someone else's code, so you have to distribute the source changes. This isn't a bad comparison, either - the situation would be almost identical.
I would never pay for most modern shite that is under the RIAA.
I/might/ be interested in listening to a tiny percentage of it. But even then - I wouldn't be willing to pay for it.
My type of protest though is simply to listen to indy music, music that is older, and...well, sometimes I just pick up one of my guitars and make my own, alone or in one of the several bands I've been in.
I may be tempted from time to time to buy RIAA crap, but...I don't. On the other hand, I also do not download songs and movies, thumbing my nose at them. I just ignore them.
oh, I agree that it's a complicated situation over there.
There's one thing that isn't complicated though, which is that the PRC has never, at any point since it came to power in mainland China in 1949, been in control of Taiwan.
The ROC had a silly policy where it tried to get the international community to consider China a province of Taiwan still, despite the loss of the civil war, but...PRC has never...I repeat...been in control of Taiwan. They had forces there for a year or so at the request of the UN to keep the Japanese out, but...that's not the same. When Russia put forces in East Germany to keep them at bay, that didn't make East Germany a Russian province.
Yes, it's a complicated issue. But the ONLY reason so many countries are afraid to say that Taiwan is independent (which they used to do freely, until the 70's) is because China has a lot more people, and the world expects China to become an economic powerhouse. Rather than be cut off economicly, and potentially even piss off a future military super-power, people no longer recognize Taiwan's independence.
A girl is standing in front of you, and is scared of the 7' tall, 500lbs man behind her. She is asking you to defend her. Do you? Or do you tell the man "well, have fun! She's obviously yours and all" simply because he's so damn big?
That's what is happening here. It has little to nothing to do with whether or not Taiwan is soveriegn. It has everything to do with no one wanting to piss off China.
The ROC controlled Taiwan and China starting in 1912. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, China had a civil war. In 1949 the PRC beat out the ROC in mainland China, and the ROC retreated to Taiwan, where it had ruled since 1912.
Which is to say, the government that controls Taiwan has been in continuous control of Taiwan since 1912. The current government of China has only existed since 1949. In 1950, Truman recognized Taiwan's independence from China - China, at the time, being only *one year old*.
This has nothing to do with being a "breakaway region" or whatever else your anti-American professors have taught you. Taiwan is *older than* China.
I'm not leaving out details, I'm answering a very specific claim. When 2/5 of the historical justices had no prior judicial experience, it's disingenuous to claim that not being a prior judge is what is the problem.
As for leaving out details, you seem to have not mentioned in your listing of her experience that she was head of the Texas Bar Association. Minor detail, to be sure;)
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ah yes, that's right...well, it's been years since I cared. All seemed a bit silly to me, even if it did have great results.
But in the end, the answer is "coincidence," as they are both independently trying to sound like UNIX.
Check out some history of Andy and Linus.
;)
No, Minix doesn't just happen to sound like Linux, or vice-versa. They both intentionally sound something like "UNIX"
Linus was Andy's student a long while back. Andy taught (and still teaches? I think) "modern operating systems," and Linus was summarily unimpressed with Minix. Linus had a terminal prog he had written, this and that happened, and tada! Linux was born.
Andy and Linus, as far my understanding goes, don't like each other much. I haven't read anything on their relationship in years though.
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:P your geek creds are hereby revoked.
duh..
wrong. There are a number of people who do not want "digital" music, they want it on a cd (which is digital too, but...meh). They want to play it in their car, their non-mp3-enabled stero, etc.
In fact, this is still most people.
So, that infrastructure has to still be there. There is the simple base cost - once the infrastructure is there, it's there after all. Adding one more cd to the box to ship out doesn't do much to raise that base cost. Printing 10,000 cd's isn't, really, 100 times more expensive than printing 100 cd's would be...it's really only maybe 5-10 times more expensive. Economies of scale, CODB, yada yada, insert economic terms here.
Point being...no. You're wrong. If you buy a cd online, the place you buy it (amazon, whatever) gets their small kickback, but in general...the cd is overwhelmingly cheap to mass-produce and distribute. It's the advertizing and cd production lines that are the issue - that, and a few other things. The cds and labels themselves cost only pennies to get to the music store.
yes.
wait, no.
wait...crap! Can't use yahoo, what with the whole China bit. Who's left now other than those 3?
wow, you came back to this old thread, just to post that AC?
Slow day for ya?
Look again at the original response to my criminally negligent post.
Oh for the love of God... it's * Voilà *, you ignorant fuckwit!
I didn't say it was correct, I said you all needed to find better things to do. All I did was make a silly typo (of the sort not uncommon for dyslexics like myself), and use a poor-man's tic. It is truly not a big deal - certainly not enough to get all angsty over, or enough to become insulting.
I'm not the one trying to justify something here, or say I'm in the right.
wow...I'm going to just cut and paste. Obviously reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, but maybe the second time around you'll see it...
I do speak a little french, and simply transposing the "o" and "i" is not that big of a deal. Not enough to merit correcting in a medium like this, imo.
read again.
viola'
That tic at the end there is the poor-man's way of putting the accent on.
I think I just found 3 people that need to get laid for the first times in their lives. Why would a viola have that tic at the end? Isn't there enough angst and tension in the world already such that your adding to it is unnecessary?
Violà. Voila'. One has to be copy/pasted, or done with special keyboard mappings. The other can be easily read and understood (as evident by the fact that he, and even you, knew what I was saying). As the second option is easier...
I do speak a little french, and simply transposing the "o" and "i" is not that big of a deal. Not enough to merit correcting in a medium like this, imo.
To the real point - "some of us neither know, not care" should obviously have been "some of us neither know, nor care" - yet that typo didn't get corrected. Gosh, wonder why? Something called self-importance, where 3 "ignorant fuckwit[s]" decide that since they know some silly little thing, that if they see an error, they must insult people. probably stems from being picked on in high school, and/or not having ever been laid.
Now...you were saying? Oh, you're saying you're trolling, with no intention to actually add to the conversation. Well, don't let me stop you...
Normally I don't post stuff "About" Slashdot here since I find meta naval gazing very boring...
Good to know that what is of interest to the readers is important, instead of just what interests the editors...
some of us neither know, not care, where the mappings to special characters are. "à" (copied from your response) isn't on my keyboard. Thanks for your cheerful response, though! It's good to know who the intelligent, positive minds are out there...even if they have to be found through a process of elimination.
actually, it should be pretty easy to check the marine parks, like he said. Go to Seaworld, look in the tanks that are supposed to have them. If they're not there....viola'!
yeah, not really sure what the writer was thinking. One can cluster boards built with *any* processor out there. Can even mix and match.
Hasn't Beowulf been out there long enough for people to understand this?
No need to be paranoid? Then why say things like "now imagine..." and talk about going through trash? It's all stuff that could be done, in theory.
So why doesn't this just qualify as paranoia? It's *possible* that my phone at home is bugged, that there is a video camera in my bathroom, and that someone sneaks into my house during the day to put mind controlling substances in my food. But just because something could happen, doesn't mean that it's happening...or even that it's legal (which this wouldn't be). "Paranoia" isn't exempt simply because something is possible...
and wheels weren't "invented," they evolved from cut wood and stone.
yeah.
He spoke on that already.
The only modification I could see them making which would be historically consistent with the FSF's stance is to require that the _javascript_ be under the GPL, since that component is in fact redistributed and does in fact run on the remote user's computer.
The code is just used to generate html, or some other such thing. If we used your interpretation, then if someone modified openoffice, used it to create a document, printed the document out, and then handed it to someone...you're distributing the product of someone else's code, so you have to distribute the source changes. This isn't a bad comparison, either - the situation would be almost identical.
I would never pay for most modern shite that is under the RIAA.
/might/ be interested in listening to a tiny percentage of it. But even then - I wouldn't be willing to pay for it.
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My type of protest though is simply to listen to indy music, music that is older, and...well, sometimes I just pick up one of my guitars and make my own, alone or in one of the several bands I've been in.
I may be tempted from time to time to buy RIAA crap, but...I don't. On the other hand, I also do not download songs and movies, thumbing my nose at them. I just ignore them.
VtM doesn't do that. We just dor rock-paper-scissors ;)
I think rpgs are fun. Hell, I'm so much of a dork I've actually been an officer in the Camarilla (a LARP group) for years.
That being said, my first question: what's an RTS?
Second question: after reading the entire review, taking in every detail, I'm left wondering...have you ever actually seen a girl? Ever?
I do predict China having a change of sorts in 15-20 years, but I don't expect it to be peaceful. We'll see.
oh, I agree that it's a complicated situation over there.
There's one thing that isn't complicated though, which is that the PRC has never, at any point since it came to power in mainland China in 1949, been in control of Taiwan.
The ROC had a silly policy where it tried to get the international community to consider China a province of Taiwan still, despite the loss of the civil war, but...PRC has never...I repeat...been in control of Taiwan. They had forces there for a year or so at the request of the UN to keep the Japanese out, but...that's not the same. When Russia put forces in East Germany to keep them at bay, that didn't make East Germany a Russian province.
Yes, it's a complicated issue. But the ONLY reason so many countries are afraid to say that Taiwan is independent (which they used to do freely, until the 70's) is because China has a lot more people, and the world expects China to become an economic powerhouse. Rather than be cut off economicly, and potentially even piss off a future military super-power, people no longer recognize Taiwan's independence.
A girl is standing in front of you, and is scared of the 7' tall, 500lbs man behind her. She is asking you to defend her. Do you? Or do you tell the man "well, have fun! She's obviously yours and all" simply because he's so damn big?
That's what is happening here. It has little to nothing to do with whether or not Taiwan is soveriegn. It has everything to do with no one wanting to piss off China.
lemme state it a bit more clearly...
The ROC controlled Taiwan and China starting in 1912. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, China had a civil war. In 1949 the PRC beat out the ROC in mainland China, and the ROC retreated to Taiwan, where it had ruled since 1912.
Which is to say, the government that controls Taiwan has been in continuous control of Taiwan since 1912. The current government of China has only existed since 1949. In 1950, Truman recognized Taiwan's independence from China - China, at the time, being only *one year old*.
This has nothing to do with being a "breakaway region" or whatever else your anti-American professors have taught you. Taiwan is *older than* China.
as I said, China has no more claim to authority over Taiwan than Taiwan has over China.
ah ha! Yes, you are quire correct. Sortof. ;)
;)
I'm not leaving out details, I'm answering a very specific claim. When 2/5 of the historical justices had no prior judicial experience, it's disingenuous to claim that not being a prior judge is what is the problem.
As for leaving out details, you seem to have not mentioned in your listing of her experience that she was head of the Texas Bar Association. Minor detail, to be sure
The original Justice John Marshall was considered the greatest SCOTUS Justice of all time, and he had no prior experience.
Should I go forward from there?