Notice how this happened after Twitter start giving in to SJWs in the name of "dealing with harassment?"
Legitimate users are being forced off Twitter leaving them with nothing but a horde of toxic SJWs. It's no wonder they're tanking: whatever value was there has been destroyed.
I never used twitter, but since i am one of those people that the "SJWs" would gladly hung from a tree because of my political views, and since as a Greek/European the "anti-racist/discrimination/harassment" laws already provide to them the rope...
the headline accidentally left out a word. Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps, Badly, while Android and iOS can't run Windows Apps at all
In "bold", i added the phrase you accidentally left out - no need to thank me fellow slashdoter!
So you consider something that runs "badly" to be something worth crowing about?
I guess it depends on how badly, doesn't it?
Well, in Greece we have the (rougtly translated) saying "something is better than nothing"!
It seems that what you've "learned from Turks" first and foremost is extreme nationalism bordering on xenophobia.
We Greeks know about extreme nationalism when Turks (and other barbarians - a Greek word!) were still hanging from trees, and thanks to our extreme nationalism we Greeks managed to civilize most barbarians - our extreme nationalism was NOT "xeno-phobic" (a Greek compound word, with the first part -"xeno"- meaning foreign, but also used for "hospitality" - Zeus is called "Xenios Zeus").
You say that you "hate Turks",
I wrote "[...] not only because we dislike Turks (o.k., we even hate them), but because [...]" for a reason you probably don't understand or pretend you don't - but even if i wrote that i/we hate Turks just because we hate them, why that would be "bad"? DO YOU KNOW WHAT TURKS DID TO MY FAMILY AND TO OTHER GREEKS? Do you demand to love them?
and demand apology "from the Turks",
I wrote "[...] They still exist Armenian people who were alive when Turks genicide their families, so some of them could accept the apology of the Turks [...]" as a "pray", while i am not an Armenian but Greek and this was about Armenians, but it's true that i would be happy with an apology from Turks to us Greeks - why you have a problem with apologies from people THAT DID HORRIBLE THINGS?
and go on basically ranting about how Turks are such horrible people whom you will "take measures against".
I wrote "German almost torture themselves with their continues self-critic about their past because they don't want to repeat it (and even Jews accept that they have repent) - Turks... well, we Greeks know about them and take measures agaist the future they still plan for us" because, yes, Turks are "horrible people" AND I PERSONALY (as any capable Greek does) take measures defending ourselves from Turks (here you can pay respect by standing at attention while hearing the names of the Greek heros that died -while i was also serving with them as a marine- when taking measures against the horrible Turks).
Make no mistake boy: I, and most Greeks, know the Turks, and we are not willing to risk our selves and families just because you may get offended by our "nationalism".
You are right, but my -rhetoric- question was about this "transition from a hardware-dependent business to [...] services" - i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago!
They did, but they're not "agile" enough to have realized it yet!
the headline accidentally left out a word. Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps, Badly, while Android and iOS can't run Windows Apps at all
In "bold", i added the phrase you accidentally left out - no need to thank me fellow slashdoter!
Maybe the transition is taking longer than they thought?
That is a logical response, but (since i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago) i think this "fully embraces the cloud and services" means... FULLY (as in "fully NO hardware"!).
[IBM] attempts to transition from a hardware-dependent business to one that more fully embraces the cloud and services
I though that IBM was already mainly a services business...
Which makes sense enough. If you are a services company, getting complex enterprise solution projects up and running is what you get paid for. Agile can help there, even if it is not a magic bullet that will save you from an architecture that looked good on the power point slide but fails at scale, for example.
It is a dirty little secret that complex enterprise solution projects fail more than half the time, often to the tune of 8 figures. Companies do not issue press releases about the money they threw down the toilet on IT, so getting statistics on this kind of thing is difficult unless you delve into the fine details of the quarterly reports.
You are right, but my -rhetoric- question was about this "transition from a hardware-dependent business to [...] services" - i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago!
Sounds like Drew will fit right in with Congress, where we have senators who never sent email sitting on the technology committee. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2...
So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology... cool!
While I'm saddened that Drew has had to "clean up" Fark of its foobies and more aggressively moderate racist photoshop themes and pics, I applaud more tech geeks taking the plunge into politics.
So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology and how to censor people... not cool dude...
Here's hoping for a campaign that's more transparently data-driven by the people being represented than money-driven by shadow financiers.
This "Drew" guy just had his "transparent" Slashvertisement represented like "Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question", when it's about his political campaign actually:
For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
Mister Drew Curtis, i am a Greek, and since this Slashdot's "Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question" is a Slashvertisment* for your political campaign actually, i would liked to ask you: do you understand the irony Sir?
* Slashvertisment:
For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.
I am a Greek (my nationality/ethnicity) - other Greeks are biologicaly and culturaly like me (to a great degree); and different from others, e.g., Chinese, both biologicaly and culturaly.
If nationalities don't make sense to you, it does not mean they are nonsense, because they make sense to others - sophistry (a Greek word by the way!): " 1. a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning. 2. a false argument; sophism.".
"trait" - a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature: bad traits of character
"propaganda" - information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
"murder" - the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law
As a different German, have to say I'd find it much better for the relations if both sides could decide to leave the past in the past, it's only going to make finding a solution harder.
Btw. about that loan part: there are quite a few people in Germany who think it is little enough money and clearly enough calculated that paying it might be the easiest thing to do. However if the German government thinks it won't solve anything but only move the issue to reparations (which you can with enough will calculate up to any value) it's understandable they see no point.
I am btw in the (about 45% if I remember the statistics right) of Germans that do want to help Greece, even if it costs more money.
But only if it's reasonably certain it'll actually help long-term and not just used to short-term prop up things in a way that can never hold! And that confidence unfortunately has not been increased by some of the strange actions of the new government (though I wouldn't blame anyone for voting for them unless they actually believed the promises - if people believed them it would be a sign that too little has changed among the voters).
As i already mentioned to the other German, you Germans can rightly accuse us Greeks for many things (and believe it or not, almost all Greeks admited them, even before any German mentioned them) - but to accuse us as "dishonest" and try to teach us "pacta sunt servanda", when Hitler took a -forced- loan from Greece, repayed some of Germany's debt until the NaZi Germany was defeated, the German state asked Greece twice to wait for the rest of the debt to be payed back to Greece ((once for the reconstruction after WW2 and once more after the reunification of west and east Germany - and Greece was o.k. with that), but Germany finaly decided not to sign a peace treaty between east and west Germany just for avoiding legaly to repay its debt back to Greece... it's a litle too much my friend!
You Germans are not standing in the higher than us Greeks ethical position to lecture Greeks about how the agreements between states stand regardless of goverments, when the honest German in this case is... Hitler! We Greeks recognize our sad state (of our state, and not only!), and -again, believe it or not- admire Germans - but when, instead of giving, we hear lectures from "barbarians" (when we Greeks built Parthenon, you were still hunging from trees - it's a joke... relax!)... something makes us a litle angry.
By the way, i am one of those Greeks (who are the vast majority actually) believing that we should bring Germans to run our state!!! But please don't lecture us... please...
1) The law that was used to prosecute Pamuk was repealed a few years ago. Today, there are quite a few public figures in Turkey who say what was done to the Ottoman Armenians qualifies as a genocide. They may not be popular but there is no legal basis to prosecute them (anymore).
The law still exists - it was "changed" because of E.U. pressure (when Turkey wanted to enter E.U.), but changed back (i admit it was not as harsh as before) when it was clear E.U. was interested in just a "connection" and not a full membership of Turkey. You still can NOT mention DIRECTLY the phrase "Armenian GENOCIDE" (and because it's so "unpopular", even if a law did not existed, you could not mention it publicly!).
2) Mahcupyan clearly stated that what happened in 1915 fits the UN definition of a genocide.
Clearly BUT NOT DIRECTLY (even while he is an Armenian) - and he was ceased the next day from his state position.
3) In addition to the regional privately-owned Kurdish TV channels, the state-owned broadcaster, TRT, has a Kurdish channel (TRT 6, as the previous poster wrote) that broadcasts to the whole country. The private Kurdish channels can broadcast to the whole country through the free-to-air satellite just like other regional and local channels to if it makes business sense for them, no legal restrictions.
The privately-owned Kurdish TV channels broadcast from the region where the Kurds are the vast majority and the Turkish military can not inforce the state's laws or via satelite (mostly from Germany). The TRT 6 channel is just the way of the Turkish state pretends it follows E.U. ethics so the relations would not stop.
4) I think you meant "south-eastern" Turkey. It is legal for the last 4-5 years to teach Kurdish as a second-language in schools, open Kurdish language courses. There is at least one university that has a Kurdish language department.
Yes, sorry... "north/east/south/west" is relative to a Greek like me because... the center of the world is Greece! But the only reason it is "legal" (in some parts of Turkey) the last 4 years (you understand that we are in the second millenium after Christ?) to teach the Kurdish language to Kurds is because a peace treaty with the Kurds was made (and they teached their language to their kids only because they resisted the Turkish army with guns...).
I understand you may be a Turk - i don't want to insult you, and sorry for my tone, but we Greeks know a lot about the "Turkish way" of doing things, and the "Turkish way" of presenting reality. Anyway, i hope better days will come...
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.
Since the whole world knows that we Greeks are proud for our past i would not deny that the Byzantine Empire was "de facto" Greek actually (in the begining we called it "eastern Roman" because "de jure" we were under the Roman's authority, althrough the Romans themselves took pride to be Greeks... "roman arms conquered greek civilization, greek civilization conquered Rome" - or "una fatsa, una ratsa" as we Greeks -and Italians, as this is in Italian- say!).
But the Byzantine (/Greek) Empire was certainly NOT known for "propaganda and murder" (which i would not refuse that may have happened in some -small- degree), and this is not the opinion of only the Greeks, but -in my knowledge- of most non-Greeks scholars also.
By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
No it's not (even the Nobel prise winner Orhan Pamuk was prosecuted).
Recently an advisor to the â minister Etyen Mahcupyan, himself of Armenian descent wrote in his daily column that it's an undeniable fact if we accept UN definition.
He did not mentioned directly the Armenian genocide (and he was ceased as an advisor the next fucking day!).
Kurds are also able to teach their language, even the government have a Kurdish TV channel. (TRT 6)
No, they can NOT teach and broadcast their language (they do it only in nothern-easten Turkey, where they are the vast majority and the Turkish military can not force the Turkish laws - and for not "loosing face", the Turkish goverment says that it permits them to do it there experimentaly!)
I didn't read the rest of your post since it looks you need a big update on Turkey.
Your "updates" are false Sir (and i am very well updated about Turkey) - you may need to read the rest of my post, especialy the quote "... and lied like a Turk when he said it." (Mark Twain)
it seems though that you greeks have learned a lot from the turks. in terms of lying. propaganda and outright murder.
"europe" actually is a hellhole of violence, not a source of civilization.
before you ask, i am german.
Unfortunatly we Greeks learned a lot from the Turks (from the fall of Constantinople and for almost 4 centuries after, we struggled to get liberated from them): for what you Germans usually accuse us rightly (evading taxes, misusing the state for personal advantages, e.t.c.) we Greeks use Turkish words (it's not that we don't have Greek words for that, we just know they are wrong and ashamed to use the Greek ones - actually for all such negative behaviour we use Turkish words!) - but "lying. propaganda and outright murder", why Sir?
I understand that we Greeks are not in the level we should be based on our history (in Greece we tell between joking and being serious that to balance the negative influence of 4 centuries of Turkish occupation we should had let the -NaZi- Germany to occupy us for about a decade!), but i don't think we Greeks are known for "propaganda and murder" - maybe you are angry about our current Greece-Germany relation, and because of our debt to you (that i recognize), but remember this: Hitler took a forced loan from the occupied Greece, he repayed some of the -NaZi- Germany's debt back to Greece, then he was defeated. the non-Nazi Germany asked Greece to wait until Germany is rebuild for paying back the rest of the debt, then it asked Greece to wait more until the reunification of Germany, then... when the reunification of Germany happend, west Germany and east Germany did not signed a peace treaty between them only because that would had legaly force them to repay back to Greece the forced loan it took from Greece (the one Hitler payed normaly until his defeat!).
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
In Germany is illegal to deny the Jewish genocide... in Turkey is illegal to accept the Armenian's genocide!
Every Armenian, with Greeks (who also suffered horribly), Assyrians, Kurds (who still can't teach their language in Turkish schools or publish/broadcast it), e.t.c., honors the 100 years from the Armenian genocide (about 1,5 millions victims), not only because we dislike Turks (o.k., we even hate them), but because forgetting about it will make us again victims: Hitler once said to his officials about the Jews "but who remembers the Armenians...".
German almost torture themselves with their continues self-critic about their past because they don't want to repeat it (and even Jews accept that they have repent) - Turks... well, we Greeks know about them and take measures agaist the future they still plan for us.
They still exist Armenian people who were alive when Turks genicide their families, so some of them could accept the apology of the Turks - but i doubt if ever happens from a nation that make it illegal to even mention the Armenian genocide (warning: you will go to jail if you mention it in Turkey - actually you may be non Turk, mention it outside Turkey, never visit Turkey, and still be convicted from the Turkish "justice"!).
"... and lied like a Turk when he said it." - Mark Twain
As a Christian i don't consider anyone as "a-theist" because "Theos" exist with/in everyone - but even as just a Greek, and even accepting the neologism "the-ist", "a-theist" still has a problematic meaning of, not just "not believing" but "without God" (that's what happens when "-religious- atheist" define themselves... they need God even for that!).
Correct me if I'm wrong (I don't speak Greek), but doesn't "atheist" mean without gods generally, rather than just without Yahweh specifically? You wouldn't say pre-Christian Greeks who believed in the Greek pantheon were atheist?
Well... it's complicated!
The term "atheist", derived from Greek "a-theos" (with "a-" meaning "without"), means in Greek "someone without God" (singular - and there is no way to make it mean "Gods" as in plural) - the polytheism of my ancient ancestors is not understood right from most non-Greeks (and many Greeks): we had the notion of The God "The Theos" (the unknown), and from there an "ideo-latry" (as in "idea", not idolatry as in "idol") with myths about "Zeus" (and before him his father Cronus and mother Rhea - "gods" themselves, not superior or inferior to their child) and other lesser or equal to "Zeus" ("Zeus" was "first among equals" in Olympus actually) "gods" that had human characteristics - our polytheistic mythology is an ideo-latric description of the human character actualy (where those "gods", e.g., Zeus, had the role of more than humans but less than "The God"), used in tragedy and comedy, with our actual theology (i.e., the serious stuff about "The God" ) present in philosophy. The Greek Orthodox Christian Church (something like the Roman Catholic, with few differences), in which i belong, honors some of our famous philosophers (e.g., Socrates, Platon, Aristotelis - and some even older that we Greeks consider the "fundation" of Hellenism) as "before Christ Christians", exactly because they described "The God" (the one the Jewish may name "Yahweh", but Greeks-Christians consider "beyond name").
I must also note that, based on the ancient Greek theology/philosophy (but even based on Olympic mythology also), an "atheist" did not even existed as a word with the meaning of "not believing in God" (someone may was disrespectful to God, or temporary -as a condition inflicted by God to disrespectful!- "blind and deaf") but most importantly could NOT exist logicaly (because... well, that is something everyone must thing by himself!).
Sorry for my lengthy (and late, because my "bad/terrible"/. "karma" limits the number of my allowed replies) answer that i am afraid it does not answer your question! In any case i think it's good that some people (like you), regardless of their beliefs, are a bit more careful and interested about the meaning of those term.
An "a-patheist" is translated from Greek as someone without ("a-") "pathos" (a word with the meanings of "strong emotion/feeling/passion", but also of -positive or negative- "experience" and even "suffering", because of "strong emotion/feeling/passion" or, in the case of God issues, sin - the "-theist" neologistic part is just one more convenient but suspect on etymological grounds in this neologism case). So, logicaly (and based on Christian beliefs also), someone without "pathos" will "consider the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life" - and as a Christian is important for my belief (Greek Orthodox) to overcome the sinful "pathos" (that make me need Christ) and join God's "pathos" (i.e., join God).
We Greeks use the term not only for God related issues.
an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life.
Although this neologism is suspect on etymological grounds, one could only hope that this word will become more popular and overtake the various misuses or imprecise uses of "agnosticism" for example.
As a Greek and Christian i agree with you (with many reservations, but still you are much more correct). An "a-patheist" is translated from Greek as someone without ("a-") "pathos" (a word with the meanings of "strong emotion/feeling/passion", but also of -positive or negative- "experience" and even "suffering", because of "strong emotion/feeling/passion" or sin - the "-theist" neologistic part is just one more convenient but suspect on etymological grounds in this neologism case). So, logicaly (and based on Christian beliefs also), someone without "pathos" will "consider the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life" - and as a Christian is important for my belief (Greek Orthodox) to overcome the sinful "pathos" (that make me need Christ) and join God's "pathos" (i.e., join God).
For the record, "agnostic" (literally "lacking knowledge") in the traditional sense doesn't mean "I don't know" nor "I don't care," but rather is a positive philosophical belief that it is impossible to know for certain whether god(s) exist, e.g., because of the impossibility of collecting appropriate evidence or the nature of knowledge/deities/the universe/whatever.
Very problematic term this "agnostic" because it is translated from Greek as just someone without knowledge. And it is also problematic because agnostics very often mistakenly are categorized as people that don't believe in God but an agnostic may believe in God (there is belief -in God- either with or without knowledge), and most if not all Christians are agnostics to an extend (based on their "pathos", as in "experience" - of God) because God does not reveal to us fully, and does it in different ways and degree to each one.
"I believe" = theism
"I don't believe" = (strong) atheism
"I don't care" = apatheism
"I don't know" = weak atheism (aka "negative" or "soft" atheism)
"I can't know" or "No one knows" = agnosticism
"I don't know, and I don't care" = apatheistic atheism
"I don't give a crap, and nobody could ever know anyway" = strong agnostic apatheism
Hmmm... being both Greek and Christian i consider ALL terms very problematic!
As a Christian i don't consider anyone as "a-theist" because "Theos" exist with/in everyone - but even as just a Greek, and even accepting the neologism "the-ist", "a-theist" still has a problematic meaning of, not just "not believing" but "without God" (that's what happens when "-religious- atheist" define themselves... they need God even for that!).
Since i already mentioned the other problematic terms ("apatheist", "agnostic"), i hope more people will at least think more about those terms, like you did (regardless of your beliefs, which i don't even know, i congratulate you... for your Greek!). And if those opposing God ever need some help from us Greeks and/or Christians to define themselves, we will give it to them!
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Notice how this happened after Twitter start giving in to SJWs in the name of "dealing with harassment?"
Legitimate users are being forced off Twitter leaving them with nothing but a horde of toxic SJWs. It's no wonder they're tanking: whatever value was there has been destroyed.
I never used twitter, but since i am one of those people that the "SJWs" would gladly hung from a tree because of my political views, and since as a Greek/European the "anti-racist/discrimination/harassment" laws already provide to them the rope...
the headline accidentally left out a word. Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps, Badly, while Android and iOS can't run Windows Apps at all
In "bold", i added the phrase you accidentally left out - no need to thank me fellow slashdoter!
So you consider something that runs "badly" to be something worth crowing about? I guess it depends on how badly, doesn't it?
Well, in Greece we have the (rougtly translated) saying "something is better than nothing"!
It seems that what you've "learned from Turks" first and foremost is extreme nationalism bordering on xenophobia.
We Greeks know about extreme nationalism when Turks (and other barbarians - a Greek word!) were still hanging from trees, and thanks to our extreme nationalism we Greeks managed to civilize most barbarians - our extreme nationalism was NOT "xeno-phobic" (a Greek compound word, with the first part -"xeno"- meaning foreign, but also used for "hospitality" - Zeus is called "Xenios Zeus").
You say that you "hate Turks",
I wrote "[...] not only because we dislike Turks (o.k., we even hate them), but because [...]" for a reason you probably don't understand or pretend you don't - but even if i wrote that i/we hate Turks just because we hate them, why that would be "bad"? DO YOU KNOW WHAT TURKS DID TO MY FAMILY AND TO OTHER GREEKS? Do you demand to love them?
and demand apology "from the Turks",
I wrote "[...] They still exist Armenian people who were alive when Turks genicide their families, so some of them could accept the apology of the Turks [...]" as a "pray", while i am not an Armenian but Greek and this was about Armenians, but it's true that i would be happy with an apology from Turks to us Greeks - why you have a problem with apologies from people THAT DID HORRIBLE THINGS?
and go on basically ranting about how Turks are such horrible people whom you will "take measures against".
I wrote "German almost torture themselves with their continues self-critic about their past because they don't want to repeat it (and even Jews accept that they have repent) - Turks... well, we Greeks know about them and take measures agaist the future they still plan for us" because, yes, Turks are "horrible people" AND I PERSONALY (as any capable Greek does) take measures defending ourselves from Turks (here you can pay respect by standing at attention while hearing the names of the Greek heros that died -while i was also serving with them as a marine- when taking measures against the horrible Turks).
Make no mistake boy: I, and most Greeks, know the Turks, and we are not willing to risk our selves and families just because you may get offended by our "nationalism".
It wasn't the tweet that caused the sell off, it was the poor Q1 numbers.
But maybe the poor Q1 numbers was because of twitter... hmmm?
They did, but they're not "agile" enough to have realized it yet!
Hey... show some respect boy: Founded: June 16, 1911; 103 years ago
YOU left out the word "both", as in [while Android and iOS can't run ^both^ Windows Apps at all]
Not anymore... read more about it here: http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...
the headline accidentally left out a word. Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps, Badly, while Android and iOS can't run Windows Apps at all
In "bold", i added the phrase you accidentally left out - no need to thank me fellow slashdoter!
Maybe the transition is taking longer than they thought?
That is a logical response, but (since i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago) i think this "fully embraces the cloud and services" means... FULLY (as in "fully NO hardware"!).
[IBM] attempts to transition from a hardware-dependent business to one that more fully embraces the cloud and services
I though that IBM was already mainly a services business...
Which makes sense enough. If you are a services company, getting complex enterprise solution projects up and running is what you get paid for. Agile can help there, even if it is not a magic bullet that will save you from an architecture that looked good on the power point slide but fails at scale, for example.
It is a dirty little secret that complex enterprise solution projects fail more than half the time, often to the tune of 8 figures. Companies do not issue press releases about the money they threw down the toilet on IT, so getting statistics on this kind of thing is difficult unless you delve into the fine details of the quarterly reports.
You are right, but my -rhetoric- question was about this "transition from a hardware-dependent business to [...] services" - i am almost sure that IBM has stoped being a "hardware-dependent business" a long time ago!
Sounds like Drew will fit right in with Congress, where we have senators who never sent email sitting on the technology committee. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2...
So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology... cool!
While I'm saddened that Drew has had to "clean up" Fark of its foobies and more aggressively moderate racist photoshop themes and pics, I applaud more tech geeks taking the plunge into politics.
So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology and how to censor people... not cool dude...
Here's hoping for a campaign that's more transparently data-driven by the people being represented than money-driven by shadow financiers.
This "Drew" guy just had his "transparent" Slashvertisement represented like "Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question", when it's about his political campaign actually:
For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
[IBM] attempts to transition from a hardware-dependent business to one that more fully embraces the cloud and services
I though that IBM was already mainly a services business...
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By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.
I am a Greek (my nationality/ethnicity) - other Greeks are biologicaly and culturaly like me (to a great degree); and different from others, e.g., Chinese, both biologicaly and culturaly.
If nationalities don't make sense to you, it does not mean they are nonsense, because they make sense to others - sophistry (a Greek word by the way!): " 1. a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning. 2. a false argument; sophism.".
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As a different German, have to say I'd find it much better for the relations if both sides could decide to leave the past in the past, it's only going to make finding a solution harder. Btw. about that loan part: there are quite a few people in Germany who think it is little enough money and clearly enough calculated that paying it might be the easiest thing to do. However if the German government thinks it won't solve anything but only move the issue to reparations (which you can with enough will calculate up to any value) it's understandable they see no point. I am btw in the (about 45% if I remember the statistics right) of Germans that do want to help Greece, even if it costs more money. But only if it's reasonably certain it'll actually help long-term and not just used to short-term prop up things in a way that can never hold! And that confidence unfortunately has not been increased by some of the strange actions of the new government (though I wouldn't blame anyone for voting for them unless they actually believed the promises - if people believed them it would be a sign that too little has changed among the voters).
As i already mentioned to the other German, you Germans can rightly accuse us Greeks for many things (and believe it or not, almost all Greeks admited them, even before any German mentioned them) - but to accuse us as "dishonest" and try to teach us "pacta sunt servanda", when Hitler took a -forced- loan from Greece, repayed some of Germany's debt until the NaZi Germany was defeated, the German state asked Greece twice to wait for the rest of the debt to be payed back to Greece ((once for the reconstruction after WW2 and once more after the reunification of west and east Germany - and Greece was o.k. with that), but Germany finaly decided not to sign a peace treaty between east and west Germany just for avoiding legaly to repay its debt back to Greece... it's a litle too much my friend!
You Germans are not standing in the higher than us Greeks ethical position to lecture Greeks about how the agreements between states stand regardless of goverments, when the honest German in this case is... Hitler! We Greeks recognize our sad state (of our state, and not only!), and -again, believe it or not- admire Germans - but when, instead of giving, we hear lectures from "barbarians" (when we Greeks built Parthenon, you were still hunging from trees - it's a joke... relax!)... something makes us a litle angry.
By the way, i am one of those Greeks (who are the vast majority actually) believing that we should bring Germans to run our state!!! But please don't lecture us... please...
1) The law that was used to prosecute Pamuk was repealed a few years ago. Today, there are quite a few public figures in Turkey who say what was done to the Ottoman Armenians qualifies as a genocide. They may not be popular but there is no legal basis to prosecute them (anymore).
The law still exists - it was "changed" because of E.U. pressure (when Turkey wanted to enter E.U.), but changed back (i admit it was not as harsh as before) when it was clear E.U. was interested in just a "connection" and not a full membership of Turkey. You still can NOT mention DIRECTLY the phrase "Armenian GENOCIDE" (and because it's so "unpopular", even if a law did not existed, you could not mention it publicly!).
2) Mahcupyan clearly stated that what happened in 1915 fits the UN definition of a genocide.
Clearly BUT NOT DIRECTLY (even while he is an Armenian) - and he was ceased the next day from his state position.
3) In addition to the regional privately-owned Kurdish TV channels, the state-owned broadcaster, TRT, has a Kurdish channel (TRT 6, as the previous poster wrote) that broadcasts to the whole country. The private Kurdish channels can broadcast to the whole country through the free-to-air satellite just like other regional and local channels to if it makes business sense for them, no legal restrictions.
The privately-owned Kurdish TV channels broadcast from the region where the Kurds are the vast majority and the Turkish military can not inforce the state's laws or via satelite (mostly from Germany). The TRT 6 channel is just the way of the Turkish state pretends it follows E.U. ethics so the relations would not stop.
4) I think you meant "south-eastern" Turkey. It is legal for the last 4-5 years to teach Kurdish as a second-language in schools, open Kurdish language courses. There is at least one university that has a Kurdish language department.
Yes, sorry... "north/east/south/west" is relative to a Greek like me because... the center of the world is Greece! But the only reason it is "legal" (in some parts of Turkey) the last 4 years (you understand that we are in the second millenium after Christ?) to teach the Kurdish language to Kurds is because a peace treaty with the Kurds was made (and they teached their language to their kids only because they resisted the Turkish army with guns...).
I understand you may be a Turk - i don't want to insult you, and sorry for my tone, but we Greeks know a lot about the "Turkish way" of doing things, and the "Turkish way" of presenting reality. Anyway, i hope better days will come...
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.
Since the whole world knows that we Greeks are proud for our past i would not deny that the Byzantine Empire was "de facto" Greek actually (in the begining we called it "eastern Roman" because "de jure" we were under the Roman's authority, althrough the Romans themselves took pride to be Greeks... "roman arms conquered greek civilization, greek civilization conquered Rome" - or "una fatsa, una ratsa" as we Greeks -and Italians, as this is in Italian- say!).
But the Byzantine (/Greek) Empire was certainly NOT known for "propaganda and murder" (which i would not refuse that may have happened in some -small- degree), and this is not the opinion of only the Greeks, but -in my knowledge- of most non-Greeks scholars also.
By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
It's legal to accept Armenian genocide in Turkey.
No it's not (even the Nobel prise winner Orhan Pamuk was prosecuted).
Recently an advisor to the â minister Etyen Mahcupyan, himself of Armenian descent wrote in his daily column that it's an undeniable fact if we accept UN definition.
He did not mentioned directly the Armenian genocide (and he was ceased as an advisor the next fucking day!).
Kurds are also able to teach their language, even the government have a Kurdish TV channel. (TRT 6)
No, they can NOT teach and broadcast their language (they do it only in nothern-easten Turkey, where they are the vast majority and the Turkish military can not force the Turkish laws - and for not "loosing face", the Turkish goverment says that it permits them to do it there experimentaly!)
I didn't read the rest of your post since it looks you need a big update on Turkey.
Your "updates" are false Sir (and i am very well updated about Turkey) - you may need to read the rest of my post, especialy the quote "... and lied like a Turk when he said it." (Mark Twain)
it seems though that you greeks have learned a lot from the turks. in terms of lying. propaganda and outright murder.
"europe" actually is a hellhole of violence, not a source of civilization.
before you ask, i am german.
Unfortunatly we Greeks learned a lot from the Turks (from the fall of Constantinople and for almost 4 centuries after, we struggled to get liberated from them): for what you Germans usually accuse us rightly (evading taxes, misusing the state for personal advantages, e.t.c.) we Greeks use Turkish words (it's not that we don't have Greek words for that, we just know they are wrong and ashamed to use the Greek ones - actually for all such negative behaviour we use Turkish words!) - but "lying. propaganda and outright murder", why Sir?
I understand that we Greeks are not in the level we should be based on our history (in Greece we tell between joking and being serious that to balance the negative influence of 4 centuries of Turkish occupation we should had let the -NaZi- Germany to occupy us for about a decade!), but i don't think we Greeks are known for "propaganda and murder" - maybe you are angry about our current Greece-Germany relation, and because of our debt to you (that i recognize), but remember this: Hitler took a forced loan from the occupied Greece, he repayed some of the -NaZi- Germany's debt back to Greece, then he was defeated. the non-Nazi Germany asked Greece to wait until Germany is rebuild for paying back the rest of the debt, then it asked Greece to wait more until the reunification of Germany, then... when the reunification of Germany happend, west Germany and east Germany did not signed a peace treaty between them only because that would had legaly force them to repay back to Greece the forced loan it took from Greece (the one Hitler payed normaly until his defeat!).
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
In Germany is illegal to deny the Jewish genocide... in Turkey is illegal to accept the Armenian's genocide!
Every Armenian, with Greeks (who also suffered horribly), Assyrians, Kurds (who still can't teach their language in Turkish schools or publish/broadcast it), e.t.c., honors the 100 years from the Armenian genocide (about 1,5 millions victims), not only because we dislike Turks (o.k., we even hate them), but because forgetting about it will make us again victims: Hitler once said to his officials about the Jews "but who remembers the Armenians...".
German almost torture themselves with their continues self-critic about their past because they don't want to repeat it (and even Jews accept that they have repent) - Turks... well, we Greeks know about them and take measures agaist the future they still plan for us.
They still exist Armenian people who were alive when Turks genicide their families, so some of them could accept the apology of the Turks - but i doubt if ever happens from a nation that make it illegal to even mention the Armenian genocide (warning: you will go to jail if you mention it in Turkey - actually you may be non Turk, mention it outside Turkey, never visit Turkey, and still be convicted from the Turkish "justice"!).
"... and lied like a Turk when he said it." - Mark Twain
As a Christian i don't consider anyone as "a-theist" because "Theos" exist with/in everyone - but even as just a Greek, and even accepting the neologism "the-ist", "a-theist" still has a problematic meaning of, not just "not believing" but "without God" (that's what happens when "-religious- atheist" define themselves... they need God even for that!).
Correct me if I'm wrong (I don't speak Greek), but doesn't "atheist" mean without gods generally, rather than just without Yahweh specifically? You wouldn't say pre-Christian Greeks who believed in the Greek pantheon were atheist?
Well... it's complicated!
The term "atheist", derived from Greek "a-theos" (with "a-" meaning "without"), means in Greek "someone without God" (singular - and there is no way to make it mean "Gods" as in plural) - the polytheism of my ancient ancestors is not understood right from most non-Greeks (and many Greeks): we had the notion of The God "The Theos" (the unknown), and from there an "ideo-latry" (as in "idea", not idolatry as in "idol") with myths about "Zeus" (and before him his father Cronus and mother Rhea - "gods" themselves, not superior or inferior to their child) and other lesser or equal to "Zeus" ("Zeus" was "first among equals" in Olympus actually) "gods" that had human characteristics - our polytheistic mythology is an ideo-latric description of the human character actualy (where those "gods", e.g., Zeus, had the role of more than humans but less than "The God"), used in tragedy and comedy, with our actual theology (i.e., the serious stuff about "The God" ) present in philosophy. The Greek Orthodox Christian Church (something like the Roman Catholic, with few differences), in which i belong, honors some of our famous philosophers (e.g., Socrates, Platon, Aristotelis - and some even older that we Greeks consider the "fundation" of Hellenism) as "before Christ Christians", exactly because they described "The God" (the one the Jewish may name "Yahweh", but Greeks-Christians consider "beyond name").
I must also note that, based on the ancient Greek theology/philosophy (but even based on Olympic mythology also), an "atheist" did not even existed as a word with the meaning of "not believing in God" (someone may was disrespectful to God, or temporary -as a condition inflicted by God to disrespectful!- "blind and deaf") but most importantly could NOT exist logicaly (because... well, that is something everyone must thing by himself!).
Sorry for my lengthy (and late, because my "bad/terrible" /. "karma" limits the number of my allowed replies) answer that i am afraid it does not answer your question! In any case i think it's good that some people (like you), regardless of their beliefs, are a bit more careful and interested about the meaning of those term.
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An "a-patheist" is translated from Greek as someone without ("a-") "pathos" (a word with the meanings of "strong emotion/feeling/passion", but also of -positive or negative- "experience" and even "suffering", because of "strong emotion/feeling/passion" or, in the case of God issues, sin - the "-theist" neologistic part is just one more convenient but suspect on etymological grounds in this neologism case). So, logicaly (and based on Christian beliefs also), someone without "pathos" will "consider the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life" - and as a Christian is important for my belief (Greek Orthodox) to overcome the sinful "pathos" (that make me need Christ) and join God's "pathos" (i.e., join God). We Greeks use the term not only for God related issues.
an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life.
Although this neologism is suspect on etymological grounds, one could only hope that this word will become more popular and overtake the various misuses or imprecise uses of "agnosticism" for example.
As a Greek and Christian i agree with you (with many reservations, but still you are much more correct). An "a-patheist" is translated from Greek as someone without ("a-") "pathos" (a word with the meanings of "strong emotion/feeling/passion", but also of -positive or negative- "experience" and even "suffering", because of "strong emotion/feeling/passion" or sin - the "-theist" neologistic part is just one more convenient but suspect on etymological grounds in this neologism case). So, logicaly (and based on Christian beliefs also), someone without "pathos" will "consider the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life" - and as a Christian is important for my belief (Greek Orthodox) to overcome the sinful "pathos" (that make me need Christ) and join God's "pathos" (i.e., join God).
For the record, "agnostic" (literally "lacking knowledge") in the traditional sense doesn't mean "I don't know" nor "I don't care," but rather is a positive philosophical belief that it is impossible to know for certain whether god(s) exist, e.g., because of the impossibility of collecting appropriate evidence or the nature of knowledge/deities/the universe/whatever.
Very problematic term this "agnostic" because it is translated from Greek as just someone without knowledge. And it is also problematic because agnostics very often mistakenly are categorized as people that don't believe in God but an agnostic may believe in God (there is belief -in God- either with or without knowledge), and most if not all Christians are agnostics to an extend (based on their "pathos", as in "experience" - of God) because God does not reveal to us fully, and does it in different ways and degree to each one.
"I believe" = theism
"I don't believe" = (strong) atheism
"I don't care" = apatheism
"I don't know" = weak atheism (aka "negative" or "soft" atheism)
"I can't know" or "No one knows" = agnosticism
"I don't know, and I don't care" = apatheistic atheism
"I don't give a crap, and nobody could ever know anyway" = strong agnostic apatheism
Hmmm... being both Greek and Christian i consider ALL terms very problematic!
As a Christian i don't consider anyone as "a-theist" because "Theos" exist with/in everyone - but even as just a Greek, and even accepting the neologism "the-ist", "a-theist" still has a problematic meaning of, not just "not believing" but "without God" (that's what happens when "-religious- atheist" define themselves... they need God even for that!).
Since i already mentioned the other problematic terms ("apatheist", "agnostic"), i hope more people will at least think more about those terms, like you did (regardless of your beliefs, which i don't even know, i congratulate you... for your Greek!). And if those opposing God ever need some help from us Greeks and/or Christians to define themselves, we will give it to them!
the most important idea is atheism
And just in case you wonder, the seventh most important idea is (or is it?)... Ice Bucket Challenge!
Well, maybe it's not importance that we deal with...
I can't accuse you for ruining the joke because it was already a bad joke my friend!