I'm not saying that Sony is bad, but Sony is shaping up to be able to control much more of our lives than Mickysoft.
MS has a virtual monopoly on some aspects of PC Software on some platforms. However, that is going to mean less and less as time goes on and history has shown that MS is not very good at branching out. Information is the real power, and all of MS's attempts at grabbing the control of information have not turned out nearly as well as they hoped. MS is already regarded as a company that makes flashy but bloated and buggy software that many people begrudgingly use.
Sony, on the other hand, is a company that has power in MANY areas of our lives, such as almost all consumer electronics, the music we listen to, etc. At least they are still trying to succeed by making kickass products at a slight premium price.
As much as the Playstation 2 might kick ass, I don't want PCs to become obsolete. I like being able to build my own system, which you can't do with a console.
What I'd like to know is a) What does 'IANAL' mean? b) What does 'gg' mean? c) They're not in the Jargon File, but is there some place I can look them up?
P.S. As poor as the Star Wars (especially TPM) dialog is, it's better than a lot of the Sci-Fi out there like Wing Commander *blegh* Now the Fifth Element had some good stuff in it. (Hmmm. Chris Tucker as Anakin Skywalker *ponder*)
At least in California, I believe you are legally required to have either an official ID or a driver's license on you if a cop asks for it, whether you are driving or not. It probably only applies to people of a certain age.
The Matrox G400 Max (don't know if there is a Mac version) has dual head capabilities that work very well. Not exactly low price, but if you're paying over 3,000 for a 22inch monitor, and the usual Apple premium for the G4, you should demand a good graphics card. The ATI Rage 128 isn't bad, but it definitely does not do the G4 justice.
I would like to know if it is easy for video card makers that support DirectX to support QuickDraw 3D RAVE without changing the hardware.
One of the pages there, I think it is page 3, sends Netscrape (Redhat 6.0) into an infinite loop that pegs a PII 400 at 100% CPU until I kill netscape. It's a pity. I wanted to read that article. Guess I'll fire up lynx.
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Actually, you do see such apps written in Delphi. I heard HomeSite was written in Delphi. In fact, Delphi is written in Delphi. While VB and Delphi are often compared against each other, Delphi is actually in a class all of it's own. I don't know of any other RAD product anywhere close to Delphi's quality that can actually generate efficient compiled code.
VB has its advantages, especially when doing some COM stuff, but it doesn't compile to efficient code. If you try to generate a stand-alone executable, then mysteriously the executable grows by the same size as the run-time DLL.
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>>Delphi is such a poor language
As opposed to what? C, C++? Ha! Yes, C/C++ suit some people better than Delphi Object Pascal, but I've found that most people who insult OP have never actually used it. They think since they learned Standard Pascal way back when they know what they're talking about.
Delphi Object Pascal is clear, fast, simple, and can do anything you need it to do. It has some quirks, like a funky if..then..else issue with where to put the semicolons, but they allow Delphi to be a very fast single pass compiler.
The OP that Delphi uses is designed 100% to be a RAD, compiled language. Getting C++ to be a RAD language is a hack. There are other RAD languages out there, but as far as I know, they are all INTERPRETED.
>> cannot easily subclass, say, TPanel and stuff some widgets in and use it once
Maybe YOU can't, but a chimpanzee with "Teach Yourself Delphi 3 in 14 days" probably could.
You say hand-coding a GUI promotes cleaner Object Oriented design than using components with other components on a form (which is a component). How so?
And I don't agree with your reasoning that software written with Delphi is of lower quality than software written with "more spartan tools" (interesting pun there). First of all, there hasn't been any scientific survey of software quality vs how it was developed, so this whole discussion is basically being pulled from our respective asses. Secondly, you're probably thinking of Windows Shareware as Delphi-generated and Linux Open Source as Spartan-generated. The nature of those development models has a lot to do with the quality.
DISCLAIMER: I used to work at Borland with Delphi.
...was near the end. An AOL executive claiming that people stick with AOL for the value of the service, not because of anything else.
I don't know about anyone else, but the last time I used AgentOfLucifer at a friend's house, a 56K connection was slower than my local 33K connection and the speeds were very inconsistent. That seemed to be the case whenever I see AOL being used. I don't call that value. Especially since you can't get an e-mail without numbers in it, they sell your e-mails to spammers, and they saturate you with more advertisements than any other area of the internet I've ever seen. The interface of AOL is pure and simple designed to get you to spend money, not really to get you onto the internet.
USB isn't really important, it's just damn convenient for desktop computers. Let's see you unplug that PS/2 keyboard and plug in another keyboard while your computer is running.
USB lets you plug in a device and just use it while the computer is running.
The main advantage of USB I see in Windows is that you can connect new hardware without having to restart the computer as much!
I agree wholeheartedly with 1-3 above. However, if I didn't, I wouldn't want the government or anyone else telling me I should raise my children that way. As I said in my previous post, I have every right to make sure any daughter I have never dates until she's 18, but she'd be damn pissed at me! It's been said many times in many ways,
What goes around comes around. Ye reap what ye sow. Ye karma su karma.
By the way, no matter what some people preach, small children are NOT responsible enough to guide themselves. It takes a good parent to realize when they are, but in the end it is only the parent's choice when to relax the control.
Hey, who said you were the one to make the law for your kids?
Oh, only mankind's entire evolutionary history, as well as some other species.
There are definitely some parents who do not give their children enough freedom, but that's their decision.
If your kid is intelligent and mature enough, it should be his/her choice. Your opinion on the maturity of that child is one among many. If Katz disagrees with you, that should matter too.
It is my choice whether he is intelligent and mature enough in the first place. My opinion on the matter and that of my wife are what will determine what freedoms we give our child. If a stranger decides that we are wrong and our child is mature enough to watch South Park even if we have said he isn't, then that person is going to be dealing with two very angry parents. If his opinion on how my children should be raised differs from mine, he can bring it up with me.
I'm not saying that parents should have no say, just that this position of "libertarianism once you reach 17, total control beforehand" is a little bit inconsistent
Libertarianism as a political philosophy has no direct effect on family policies. I want the government and bureaucrats to stop telling me how I should raise MY children. Of course, "Ye karma, su karma" and "ye reap what ye sow". If I am too controlling of my child, he may grow up to hate me, lack social skills, or lack initiative and independance. Still, as a parent, it's my choice.
As for shoving my "moral bullshit" down my children's throught... I'm a parent, that's my job. Where should they be getting their moral's from? TV? Friends?
Why numbers at all? It might be abused by telemarketers, but I would like "phone numbers" to be YourFirstName.YourLastName@YourStreetAddress YourCity [YourState]|YourZipCode or maybe just your e-mail address for privacy reasons.
It would still be possible to get a wrong number, but at least when you ask for Joe, someone named Joe would live there.
No, it's nowhere near the same. Let's not forget that internet realestate doesn't really exist. It's just a concept.
If someone buys land, then they have something they can use. If someone invests in a company, then they have a part of the company and a say in the workings of that company.
The only reason cyber-squatters buy up domain names is to make a quick buck off of the people that could actually use them. (There are exceptions, like failed bussinesses selling their domains).
There are people who just buy land and sell it for a profit to someone who needs it more. They're called middlemen and they make things more expensive. At least where middlemen are involved, the previous owner is compensated and there's always some other land that can be bought.
I say, if you don't use a domain for 6 months, you lose it.
P.S. Don't say there's always another domain that can be bought. ponton.com, thepontonfamily.com, thepontons.com & most permutations of those were already taken last time I looked. Not only that, but I couldn't even use the domain as I wanted. They would give me the priveledge of having an e-mail address with my own family name in the domain for only $5 dollars a month.
It looks so damn similar that a non-computer person wouldn't know the difference. From a reasonable distance, people can't tell the difference. You've pointed out many technical differences and they are all 100% irrelevant to this lawsuit. You are thinking from a technical point of view, which is not the subject of this lawsuit. This lawsuit is about artistic design and design trademark.
It's as if someone made an exact replica of a Dodge Viper, put in a natural gas engine and changed all the Dodge emblems. They then name it the Hodge Rattler. While there are many examples of rip-offs like this that don't get any lawsuits, there are many that do.
Does dragging a file from the gnome file manager into a KDE app's file chooser box work (or vice versa)? Can you swallow a Gnome app on the KDE panel or vv.? Can you drag and drop text between a Gnome and KDE app?
I think that is what the previous poster was reffering to, not that you can't run KDE apps under Gnome and vv.
You have just supported Apple's case, actually. >> Lot of people like the design of the iMac EXACTLY! This rip-off isn't just a stylish PC, it's an exact rip-off of the iMac. Apple has spent a ton of money on advertising to make people dream of this little colorful plastic toy. Daewoo and the E-Power wouldn't have to spend a penny on advertising, since customers would walk into the store, recognize the distinctive shape of the iMac, the computer of their non-poweruser dreams, and buy it. There are a lot of stores out there that didn't even sell Macs until the iMac. If they could sell this imitation instead, they would.
The iMac is an innovation. The innovation is that a computer can be so attractive as to possess the minds of non-computer people to the extent that they start liking computers. When the iMac first came out, something like 80% of the people who bought it were people who had never owned a computer before. The PC makers have never been able to touch that kind of design appeal. They've made some ugly beige all-in-ones and they've made some sleek black or blue or marble boxes, but they're just not yummy like the iMac.
Would I ever buy an iMac or recommend one to anyone I cared about? Nope. I think it is underpowered and overpriced. Still, the iMac should be a lesson to the computer industry, especially the linux crowd. We, as computer geeks, have different priorities than 90% of the customers out there (in numbers, not $$$).
IIS uses ISAPI DLL's as a higher performance option than CGI's. The DLL handles webrequests and is only loaded once, thereby saving a lot of overhead since you don't need to start a new process.
I've used them. Damn annoying to debug since you basically need to shutdown the webserver and restart it before you can try a new version of the DLL. Also, bad ISAPI DLL's can easily bring down your webserver. -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
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8. As described in one of the better books, and hinted at in the movies, the other Jedi in the room through them off. Say the light side is a positive charge and the dark side is a negative charge. When you put the two close together, it appears to be a neutral charge. This is how Yoda remained hidden all those years. The cave where Luke fought himself was the location of a battle between Yoda and an equally powerful dark jedi. By staying on Degoba, Yoda was undetectable to the emperor.
Obi-Wan was on Tatooine, a hive of scum and villainy. Also, he was never a master, just a knight. There are also rumors that old Ben Kenobi is actually a clone of Obi-Wan.
Hence, when the senator is among all those jedi mourning the loss of one of their own, in the aftermath of a war, their sensors can't really pick him up. -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
So what if you have a page with IMG SRC="http://someothersever.com/yahoosucks.gif" -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
So what if you have a page with ? Do they own that content? Can they censor something that is not on their server? What if the IMG SRC returned a random gif that occaisonally was objectionable to Yahoo policy?
Sheesh. If I liked BS, wasn't really a very good programmer but liked computers anyhow, and loved pissing people off, I'd have gotten into internet law instead of computer programming. I bet it's a field that grows faster than the industry as a whole. -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
A friend of mine met her fiance here in the U.S. He is English and never had trouble getting a visa anywhere. They got married in England, and suddenly he can't get even a tourist visa to the U.S. They must be afraid of all those damn foreigners who come over and work I guess.
If it's a global marketplace, and Nike can have their shoes made by underpaid workers in any country, why isn't it a global workplace where a worker can work in any country? This country needs to attract talent, not stifle it. Other countries already have us beat on the low-end.
P.S. Guess that explains the spelling;o) -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
Well, somebody who came from the same knowledge I did (no Linux GUI programming experience), and became an expert would be better at teaching ME how to use them.
I'll skim before I buy. -- "I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
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>> I love Sony and Linux as much as anyone else
I'm not saying that Sony is bad, but Sony is shaping up to be able to control much more of our lives than Mickysoft.
MS has a virtual monopoly on some aspects of PC Software on some platforms. However, that is going to mean less and less as time goes on and history has shown that MS is not very good at branching out. Information is the real power, and all of MS's attempts at grabbing the control of information have not turned out nearly as well as they hoped. MS is already regarded as a company that makes flashy but bloated and buggy software that many people begrudgingly use.
Sony, on the other hand, is a company that has power in MANY areas of our lives, such as almost all consumer electronics, the music we listen to, etc. At least they are still trying to succeed by making kickass products at a slight premium price.
As much as the Playstation 2 might kick ass, I don't want PCs to become obsolete. I like being able to build my own system, which you can't do with a console.
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What I'd like to know is
a) What does 'IANAL' mean?
b) What does 'gg' mean?
c) They're not in the Jargon File, but is there some place I can look them up?
P.S. As poor as the Star Wars (especially TPM) dialog is, it's better than a lot of the Sci-Fi out there like Wing Commander *blegh*
Now the Fifth Element had some good stuff in it. (Hmmm. Chris Tucker as Anakin Skywalker *ponder*)
At least in California, I believe you are legally required to have either an official ID or a driver's license on you if a cop asks for it, whether you are driving or not. It probably only applies to people of a certain age.
The Matrox G400 Max (don't know if there is a Mac version) has dual head capabilities that work very well. Not exactly low price, but if you're paying over 3,000 for a 22inch monitor, and the usual Apple premium for the G4, you should demand a good graphics card. The ATI Rage 128 isn't bad, but it definitely does not do the G4 justice.
I would like to know if it is easy for video card makers that support DirectX to support QuickDraw 3D RAVE without changing the hardware.
One of the pages there, I think it is page 3, sends Netscrape (Redhat 6.0) into an infinite loop that pegs a PII 400 at 100% CPU until I kill netscape. It's a pity. I wanted to read that article. Guess I'll fire up lynx.
Actually, you do see such apps written in Delphi. I heard HomeSite was written in Delphi. In fact, Delphi is written in Delphi. While VB and Delphi are often compared against each other, Delphi is actually in a class all of it's own. I don't know of any other RAD product anywhere close to Delphi's quality that can actually generate efficient compiled code.
VB has its advantages, especially when doing some COM stuff, but it doesn't compile to efficient code. If you try to generate a stand-alone executable, then mysteriously the executable grows by the same size as the run-time DLL.
>>Delphi is such a poor language
As opposed to what? C, C++? Ha! Yes, C/C++ suit some people better than Delphi Object Pascal, but I've found that most people who insult OP have never actually used it. They think since they learned Standard Pascal way back when they know what they're talking about.
Delphi Object Pascal is clear, fast, simple, and can do anything you need it to do. It has some quirks, like a funky if..then..else issue with where to put the semicolons, but they allow Delphi to be a very fast single pass compiler.
The OP that Delphi uses is designed 100% to be a RAD, compiled language. Getting C++ to be a RAD language is a hack. There are other RAD languages out there, but as far as I know, they are all INTERPRETED.
>> cannot easily subclass, say, TPanel and stuff some widgets in and use it once
Maybe YOU can't, but a chimpanzee with "Teach Yourself Delphi 3 in 14 days" probably could.
You say hand-coding a GUI promotes cleaner Object Oriented design than using components with other components on a form (which is a component). How so?
And I don't agree with your reasoning that software written with Delphi is of lower quality than software written with "more spartan tools" (interesting pun there). First of all, there hasn't been any scientific survey of software quality vs how it was developed, so this whole discussion is basically being pulled from our respective asses. Secondly, you're probably thinking of Windows Shareware as Delphi-generated and Linux Open Source as Spartan-generated. The nature of those development models has a lot to do with the quality.
DISCLAIMER: I used to work at Borland with Delphi.
What's the deal with the trash can and recycle bin anyhow? I'd rather just throw things into "the void".
But I guess that wouldn't be "user friendly" since people are already used to trash cans and recycle bins. Here comes another windows clone.
...was near the end. An AOL executive claiming that people stick with AOL for the value of the service, not because of anything else.
I don't know about anyone else, but the last time I used AgentOfLucifer at a friend's house, a 56K connection was slower than my local 33K connection and the speeds were very inconsistent. That seemed to be the case whenever I see AOL being used. I don't call that value. Especially since you can't get an e-mail without numbers in it, they sell your e-mails to spammers, and they saturate you with more advertisements than any other area of the internet I've ever seen. The interface of AOL is pure and simple designed to get you to spend money, not really to get you onto the internet.
USB isn't really important, it's just damn convenient for desktop computers. Let's see you unplug that PS/2 keyboard and plug in another keyboard while your computer is running.
USB lets you plug in a device and just use it while the computer is running.
The main advantage of USB I see in Windows is that you can connect new hardware without having to restart the computer as much!
I agree wholeheartedly with 1-3 above. However, if I didn't, I wouldn't want the government or anyone else telling me I should raise my children that way. As I said in my previous post, I have every right to make sure any daughter I have never dates until she's 18, but she'd be damn pissed at me! It's been said many times in many ways,
What goes around comes around.
Ye reap what ye sow.
Ye karma su karma.
By the way, no matter what some people preach, small children are NOT responsible enough to guide themselves. It takes a good parent to realize when they are, but in the end it is only the parent's choice when to relax the control.
Are your parents too strict with you?
Hey, who said you were the one to make the law for your kids?
Oh, only mankind's entire evolutionary history, as well as some other species.
There are definitely some parents who do not give their children enough freedom, but that's their decision.
If your kid is intelligent and mature enough, it should be his/her choice. Your opinion on the maturity of that child is one among many. If Katz disagrees with you, that should matter too.
It is my choice whether he is intelligent and mature enough in the first place. My opinion on the matter and that of my wife are what will determine what freedoms we give our child. If a stranger decides that we are wrong and our child is mature enough to watch South Park even if we have said he isn't, then that person is going to be dealing with two very angry parents. If his opinion on how my children should be raised differs from mine, he can bring it up with me.
I'm not saying that parents should have no say, just that this position of "libertarianism once you reach 17, total control beforehand" is a little bit inconsistent
Libertarianism as a political philosophy has no direct effect on family policies. I want the government and bureaucrats to stop telling me how I should raise MY children. Of course, "Ye karma, su karma" and "ye reap what ye sow". If I am too controlling of my child, he may grow up to hate me, lack social skills, or lack initiative and independance. Still, as a parent, it's my choice.
As for shoving my "moral bullshit" down my children's throught...
I'm a parent, that's my job. Where should they be getting their moral's from? TV? Friends?
Why numbers at all?
It might be abused by telemarketers, but I would like "phone numbers" to be YourFirstName.YourLastName@YourStreetAddress YourCity [YourState]|YourZipCode
or maybe just your e-mail address for privacy reasons.
It would still be possible to get a wrong number, but at least when you ask for Joe, someone named Joe would live there.
No, it's nowhere near the same. Let's not forget that internet realestate doesn't really exist. It's just a concept.
If someone buys land, then they have something they can use. If someone invests in a company, then they have a part of the company and a say in the workings of that company.
The only reason cyber-squatters buy up domain names is to make a quick buck off of the people that could actually use them. (There are exceptions, like failed bussinesses selling their domains).
There are people who just buy land and sell it for a profit to someone who needs it more. They're called middlemen and they make things more expensive. At least where middlemen are involved, the previous owner is compensated and there's always some other land that can be bought.
I say, if you don't use a domain for 6 months, you lose it.
P.S. Don't say there's always another domain that can be bought. ponton.com, thepontonfamily.com, thepontons.com & most permutations of those were already taken last time I looked. Not only that, but I couldn't even use the domain as I wanted. They would give me the priveledge of having an e-mail address with my own family name in the domain for only $5 dollars a month.
rip-off != clone
Here, I'll say it simply so you can get it.
It looks so damn similar that a non-computer person wouldn't know the difference. From a reasonable distance, people can't tell the difference. You've pointed out many technical differences and they are all 100% irrelevant to this lawsuit. You are thinking from a technical point of view, which is not the subject of this lawsuit. This lawsuit is about artistic design and design trademark.
It's as if someone made an exact replica of a Dodge Viper, put in a natural gas engine and changed all the Dodge emblems. They then name it the Hodge Rattler. While there are many examples of rip-offs like this that don't get any lawsuits, there are many that do.
Does dragging a file from the gnome file manager into a KDE app's file chooser box work (or vice versa)? Can you swallow a Gnome app on the KDE panel or vv.? Can you drag and drop text between a Gnome and KDE app?
I think that is what the previous poster was reffering to, not that you can't run KDE apps under Gnome and vv.
Nope, the french beat them at that.
The Citroen is the only car I've ever seen that reminds me of Jerry Lewis.
...and your point is?
You have just supported Apple's case, actually.
>> Lot of people like the design of the iMac
EXACTLY! This rip-off isn't just a stylish PC, it's an exact rip-off of the iMac. Apple has spent a ton of money on advertising to make people dream of this little colorful plastic toy. Daewoo and the E-Power wouldn't have to spend a penny on advertising, since customers would walk into the store, recognize the distinctive shape of the iMac, the computer of their non-poweruser dreams, and buy it. There are a lot of stores out there that didn't even sell Macs until the iMac. If they could sell this imitation instead, they would.
The iMac is an innovation. The innovation is that a computer can be so attractive as to possess the minds of non-computer people to the extent that they start liking computers. When the iMac first came out, something like 80% of the people who bought it were people who had never owned a computer before. The PC makers have never been able to touch that kind of design appeal. They've made some ugly beige all-in-ones and they've made some sleek black or blue or marble boxes, but they're just not yummy like the iMac.
Would I ever buy an iMac or recommend one to anyone I cared about? Nope. I think it is underpowered and overpriced. Still, the iMac should be a lesson to the computer industry, especially the linux crowd. We, as computer geeks, have different priorities than 90% of the customers out there (in numbers, not $$$).
IIS uses ISAPI DLL's as a higher performance option than CGI's. The DLL handles webrequests and is only loaded once, thereby saving a lot of overhead since you don't need to start a new process.
I've used them. Damn annoying to debug since you basically need to shutdown the webserver and restart it before you can try a new version of the DLL. Also, bad ISAPI DLL's can easily bring down your webserver.
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"I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
8. As described in one of the better books, and hinted at in the movies, the other Jedi in the room through them off. Say the light side is a positive charge and the dark side is a negative charge. When you put the two close together, it appears to be a neutral charge. This is how Yoda remained hidden all those years. The cave where Luke fought himself was the location of a battle between Yoda and an equally powerful dark jedi. By staying on Degoba, Yoda was undetectable to the emperor.
Obi-Wan was on Tatooine, a hive of scum and villainy. Also, he was never a master, just a knight. There are also rumors that old Ben Kenobi is actually a clone of Obi-Wan.
Hence, when the senator is among all those jedi mourning the loss of one of their own, in the aftermath of a war, their sensors can't really pick him up.
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"I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
>> So what if you have a page with ?
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So what if you have a page with
IMG SRC="http://someothersever.com/yahoosucks.gif"
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"I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
So what if you have a page with ? Do they own that content? Can they censor something that is not on their server? What if the IMG SRC returned a random gif that occaisonally was objectionable to Yahoo policy?
Sheesh. If I liked BS, wasn't really a very good programmer but liked computers anyhow, and loved pissing people off, I'd have gotten into internet law instead of computer programming. I bet it's a field that grows faster than the industry as a whole.
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"I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack
No kidding.
;o)
A friend of mine met her fiance here in the U.S. He is English and never had trouble getting a visa anywhere. They got married in England, and suddenly he can't get even a tourist visa to the U.S. They must be afraid of all those damn foreigners who come over and work I guess.
If it's a global marketplace, and Nike can have their shoes made by underpaid workers in any country, why isn't it a global workplace where a worker can work in any country? This country needs to attract talent, not stifle it. Other countries already have us beat on the low-end.
P.S. Guess that explains the spelling
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Who better?
Well, somebody who came from the same knowledge I did (no Linux GUI programming experience), and became an expert would be better at teaching ME how to use them.
I'll skim before I buy.
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"I got it running, grabbed a rocket launcher, and fired down a hallway." --John Carmack