Man, You're brain has been thoroughly washed. Please change the radio station and listen to some music. And believe me when I tell you this: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O, Michael Savage, etc. are idiots.
Scientists have studied the phenomenon from the ground and from the perspective of the satellite imagery. They have found that the impressive appearance of illumination, is actually reflective. They have been unable to conclude what is the cause of the increase in the frequency of the phenomena. A leading researcher commented as follows: I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all
This is similar in nature to the law that allows the DEA to confiscate property that was purchased with money obtained from, used to transport, manufacture, or market, illegal narcotics. They have taken planes and automobiles without even charging the owners of the equipment with a crime.
"Get more education to qualify for a better job" is good advice to solve your individual microeconomic problem. Creating more jobs for people with all levels of education is a macroeconomic solution to national economic problems.
It shouldn't be too surprising that more people tried to get college degrees in engineering and such, when they saw that getting a middle class lifestyle with just a high school diploma was becoming increasingly unlikely. But I always thought it was misdirected that politicians have encouraged more education to the general population to address the problems of unemployment and low wages. It reminds me of the saying, "if we all stand on our toes, we will all see the parade better."
I won't use Mandriva. You know why? Because I don't like the sound of the name. I would have tried Mandrake before they changed the name but never did. Mandriva sounds like a dribbling or driveling, drooling man. Is this a valid reason for rejecting a distribution?
The pre-installed OS is sometimes called the Microsoft "tax". Here's how you start your protest. Get some like minded friends together, then dress up as Indians, (actually make that Native Americans) and sneak into PC World in the middle of the night. Gather up all the copies of Microsoft Windows and throw them into the nearest harbor. That'll learn 'em. That's how we do it in Boston.
You are unusual. I had a friend who sat on the board of a home association. He told me that the board members agreed they would be willing to pay a landscape company $X to get the landscaping done in the commons. You'd think that $X was the amount of money it was worth to them to get the job done. But no, when they found out that the gardener could do the job in a fraction of the time that they had thought it would take, they began bitching about overpaying him. They insisted that they must renegotiate the landscaper's contract. My friend tried to explain to the other board members that what they were proposing was to "punish him for being efficient". The moral to the story is, when you get done with your work, hide.
It occurred to me that instead of discriminating against Firefox users, webpage developers should work on incorporating product placements into their content. It's an old tactic but it still works. In fact that thought occurred to me just as I was about to light up and enjoy the smooth, mellow taste, of a Chesterfield cigarette. As I watched the smoke curl about I realized that relaxing with a Chesterfield is just the sort of break that a webpage developer needs to manage the day-to-day challenge of coming up with the content that sells those adds.
This is a lot of hogwash. I'm an engineer. I grew up watching Star Trek. It sparked my interest in science. Many scientists and engineers would tell you they loved Star Trek when they were kids and if it wasn't there, they might not have become what they are. It's good to discuss the inaccuracies in SF because it prompts the imagination to think about how things really work.
As an engineer in the present-day workforce, I welcome the lack of competition. As a person who will soon live in a world that will be designed, built, and run, by the next generation, it scares the hell out of me.
Yes, unions played a big role in the solution. So did OSHA, the Davis-Bacon Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the PWA, the Wagner Act, The TVA, and an extremely large list of other government actions. The highest living standards the world had ever seen arose in the latter half of the twentieth century in an environment of unprecedented regulation and government participation in the economy. Infrastructure that the private sector depends upon doesn't build itself. The rules that permit the free market to function well are not themselves a product of the free market.
Yes. Let us return to the good old days of the Robber Barons, free from regulation and unnecessary constraints, when you could make your employees work 18 hours a day for a nickel. The economy was flourishing then because there was little regulation, and no unions, and the smoke that rose from the smoke stacks smelled like money to us from our home in the country. That's the way to prosperity.
Something about Microsoft's pronouncements that Linux developers (or even users) are violating intellectual property rights, brings up the issue of slander, (or libel). If they are saying we're all crooks, they should prove it in a court of law, or keep their mouths shut.
For me, the price of a new MS Windows OS would be less than a day's wages. I wonder what is the price in man-hours for the median-income American? and what is the price of the same in China for a median-income Chinese worker? Is there a correlation between these figures and the likelihood that a user will pirate the software rather than purchase it from a legitimate source?
See the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?". The GM product was pulled from the lease-holders despite strenuous objections from those who drove these vehicles.
You make some valid observations regarding file sharing with your friends and colleagues on MS Word and hardware working out of the box as being the blocks to widespread desktop Linux adoption. But here's the part you're not getting: When you ask, "If EA wanted to make a game for linux, for which of the 30+ distros should they build it?", My answer to that is, it doesn't matter which distro they test it on. I should be able to run it on my distro (and probably I can). If the linux community is complying with some standards for interoperability, then it won't help for them to pool their resources. In fact it would be counterproductive. Working on separate distros, they compete with different approaches to solving problems. The best solutions make it back into the mainstream distributions. It's an evolutionary process of ideas, (memes), rather than a centrally controlled selection process. The video card driver problem you mentioned: The answer again, should be just one version of the driver. And for that matter, Invidia wouldn't even have to write it themselves. I'm sure there would be volunteers in the linux community who would write it for them, if they open the hardware specifications for them to do it. In reality the standards are also evolving. So to be practical, if I were writing some Linux programs, I would test them on a few distributions. If it works on Debian, Redhat, and Slackware, then it will probably work on all of them. But this is not more costly development than the various versions of Windows would require.
Your quote sums up nicely exactly why I fear living out my older years in a world run by a generation that was raised to accept as inevitable that their parents, school teachers, the government, etc. could read their diaries, look over their shoulder while they're on the internet, equip their vehicles with tracking devices, listen in on their phone calls, and watch them with webcams every minute of their lives, for their "protection". My generation is teaching the one after it that they should have no reasonable expectation of privacy. We shouldn't be surprised later in life when our rooms in nursing homes are equipped with webcams to watch every move we make.
"If you were on the jury and the victim had beaten the thief to death... would you convict? I'm not sure I would."
A lot of people here have responded harshly to you for this stance. I'd bet that socio-economic status of the people who are so judging you is such that they are unlikely to be the victims of theft, and that if they were, the loss would be more a temporary inconvenience than a genuine permanent property loss. Ask the same question in a part of the world where there are many poor uninsured people and they would agree with you that beating the thief to death was too lenient a punishment.
I live in Las Vegas, NV and worked for many years in the casinos. Things are changing now, but for many years you had to obtain a sheriff's card to work in any capacity in a casino. Getting the sheriff's card involved paying the county to fingerprint you and place your picture and prints on file. A few years ago they changed the law so that only the gaming employees needed the card. The law changed not because people objected to being printed and cataloged. They just didn't want to pay that $20+ and wait in line at the sheriff's office every few years.
It's partly generational. Many from my father's generation, the WWII vets, would have fought hard to make sure this wouldn't happen. They remembered the way Nazi's used National ID's. As time passes, fewer people will be able to remember it directly and resistance to the idea will wane away.
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Man, You're brain has been thoroughly washed. Please change the radio station and listen to some music. And believe me when I tell you this: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O, Michael Savage, etc. are idiots.
Maybe now that they've had some success on this front, they can pursue suppressing the "round-earth theory" in Earth Science, and Geography classes.
Scientists have studied the phenomenon from the ground and from the perspective of the satellite imagery. They have found that the impressive appearance of illumination, is actually reflective. They have been unable to conclude what is the cause of the increase in the frequency of the phenomena.
A leading researcher commented as follows:
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
This is similar in nature to the law that allows the DEA to confiscate property that was purchased with money obtained from, used to transport, manufacture, or market, illegal narcotics. They have taken planes and automobiles without even charging the owners of the equipment with a crime.
"Get more education to qualify for a better job" is good advice to solve your individual microeconomic problem.
Creating more jobs for people with all levels of education is a macroeconomic solution to national economic problems.
It shouldn't be too surprising that more people tried to get college degrees in engineering and such, when they saw that getting a middle class lifestyle with just a high school diploma was becoming increasingly unlikely. But I always thought it was misdirected that politicians have encouraged more education to the general population to address the problems of unemployment and low wages. It reminds me of the saying, "if we all stand on our toes, we will all see the parade better."
I won't use Mandriva. You know why? Because I don't like the sound of the name. I would have tried Mandrake before they changed the name but never did. Mandriva sounds like a dribbling or driveling, drooling man. Is this a valid reason for rejecting a distribution?
I don't care if they know what I read. I'm just relieved to know that they are protecting us from gay foot-tapping Senators in airport restrooms.
The pre-installed OS is sometimes called the Microsoft "tax". Here's how you start your protest. Get some like minded friends together, then dress up as Indians, (actually make that Native Americans) and sneak into PC World in the middle of the night. Gather up all the copies of Microsoft Windows and throw them into the nearest harbor. That'll learn 'em. That's how we do it in Boston.
You are unusual. I had a friend who sat on the board of a home association. He told me that the board members agreed they would be willing to pay a landscape company $X to get the landscaping done in the commons. You'd think that $X was the amount of money it was worth to them to get the job done. But no, when they found out that the gardener could do the job in a fraction of the time that they had thought it would take, they began bitching about overpaying him. They insisted that they must renegotiate the landscaper's contract. My friend tried to explain to the other board members that what they were proposing was to "punish him for being efficient". The moral to the story is, when you get done with your work, hide.
It occurred to me that instead of discriminating against Firefox users, webpage developers should work on incorporating product placements into their content. It's an old tactic but it still works. In fact that thought occurred to me just as I was about to light up and enjoy the smooth, mellow taste, of a Chesterfield cigarette. As I watched the smoke curl about I realized that relaxing with a Chesterfield is just the sort of break that a webpage developer needs to manage the day-to-day challenge of coming up with the content that sells those adds.
You went to the refrigerator to get a beer while the commercial was on. You are a thief.
This is a lot of hogwash. I'm an engineer. I grew up watching Star Trek. It sparked my interest in science. Many scientists and engineers would tell you they loved Star Trek when they were kids and if it wasn't there, they might not have become what they are. It's good to discuss the inaccuracies in SF because it prompts the imagination to think about how things really work.
As an engineer in the present-day workforce, I welcome the lack of competition. As a person who will soon live in a world that will be designed, built, and run, by the next generation, it scares the hell out of me.
Yes, unions played a big role in the solution. So did OSHA, the Davis-Bacon Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the PWA, the Wagner Act, The TVA, and an extremely large list of other government actions. The highest living standards the world had ever seen arose in the latter half of the twentieth century in an environment of unprecedented regulation and government participation in the economy. Infrastructure that the private sector depends upon doesn't build itself. The rules that permit the free market to function well are not themselves a product of the free market.
Yes. Let us return to the good old days of the Robber Barons, free from regulation and unnecessary constraints, when you could make your employees work 18 hours a day for a nickel. The economy was flourishing then because there was little regulation, and no unions, and the smoke that rose from the smoke stacks smelled like money to us from our home in the country. That's the way to prosperity.
Something about Microsoft's pronouncements that Linux developers (or even users) are violating intellectual property rights, brings up the issue of slander, (or libel). If they are saying we're all crooks, they should prove it in a court of law, or keep their mouths shut.
For me, the price of a new MS Windows OS would be less than a day's wages.
I wonder what is the price in man-hours for the median-income American? and what is the price of the same in China for a median-income Chinese worker? Is there a correlation between these figures and the likelihood that a user will pirate the software rather than purchase it from a legitimate source?
See the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?". The GM product was pulled from the lease-holders despite strenuous objections from those who drove these vehicles.
You make some valid observations regarding file sharing with your friends and colleagues on MS Word and hardware working out of the box as being the blocks to widespread desktop Linux adoption. But here's the part you're not getting: When you ask, "If EA wanted to make a game for linux, for which of the 30+ distros should they build it?", My answer to that is, it doesn't matter which distro they test it on. I should be able to run it on my distro (and probably I can). If the linux community is complying with some standards for interoperability, then it won't help for them to pool their resources. In fact it would be counterproductive. Working on separate distros, they compete with different approaches to solving problems. The best solutions make it back into the mainstream distributions. It's an evolutionary process of ideas, (memes), rather than a centrally controlled selection process. The video card driver problem you mentioned: The answer again, should be just one version of the driver. And for that matter, Invidia wouldn't even have to write it themselves. I'm sure there would be volunteers in the linux community who would write it for them, if they open the hardware specifications for them to do it. In reality the standards are also evolving. So to be practical, if I were writing some Linux programs, I would test them on a few distributions. If it works on Debian, Redhat, and Slackware, then it will probably work on all of them. But this is not more costly development than the various versions of Windows would require.
Your quote sums up nicely exactly why I fear living out my older years in a world run by a generation that was raised to accept as inevitable that their parents, school teachers, the government, etc. could read their diaries, look over their shoulder while they're on the internet, equip their vehicles with tracking devices, listen in on their phone calls, and watch them with webcams every minute of their lives, for their "protection". My generation is teaching the one after it that they should have no reasonable expectation of privacy. We shouldn't be surprised later in life when our rooms in nursing homes are equipped with webcams to watch every move we make.
"If you were on the jury and the victim had beaten the thief to death... would you convict? I'm not sure I would."
A lot of people here have responded harshly to you for this stance.
I'd bet that socio-economic status of the people who are so judging you is such that they are unlikely to be the victims of theft, and that if they were, the loss would be more a temporary inconvenience than a genuine permanent property loss.
Ask the same question in a part of the world where there are many poor uninsured people and they would agree with you that beating the thief to death was too lenient a punishment.
Didn't read the Article, just responding to the post title.
Kaching! Get me Alan Shore.
I live in Las Vegas, NV and worked for many years in the casinos. Things are changing now, but for many years you had to obtain a sheriff's card to work in any capacity in a casino. Getting the sheriff's card involved paying the county to fingerprint you and place your picture and prints on file. A few years ago they changed the law so that only the gaming employees needed the card. The law changed not because people objected to being printed and cataloged. They just didn't want to pay that $20+ and wait in line at the sheriff's office every few years.
It's partly generational. Many from my father's generation, the WWII vets, would have fought hard to make sure this wouldn't happen. They remembered the way Nazi's used National ID's. As time passes, fewer people will be able to remember it directly and resistance to the idea will wane away.