That might be part of it, but it was called "windy city" because that was a very good trait for a city to have. The city even helped popularize that title. When you have the pollution and smells that result from having a lot of people (before modern sewers and waste management) and industry (before tall smokestacks) in close proximity, wind to blow that away is most welcome.
At least that's what I heard from the History Channel.
You know what else this could mean? No plug-ins. Microsoft probably has the clout to just remove plugin capability from MSIE and then tell those who made plugins (the plugins that they like, at least) that now they must hand them over to MS so that they will instead be builtin to the browser itself. It sounds like that wouldn't solve the problem for Java applets, but it would for everthing else.
We never had that happen, but once a cleaning person plugged a vacuum cleaner into one of the wall sockets wired into the UPS (which were bright red, but not otherwise marked as special), which evidentally isn't quite the kind of load a battery backup is expecting, so it shut down everything.
Great. Whether SCO has any case whatsoever the press concerning this story is one of the biggest threats to Linux and open source adoption in corporations in quite some time. While OSI documents like Halloween 9 are useful, they probably won't get quoted. When ESR, especially when he explicitly is writing as the president of the OSI like in this article, posts an immature rant like this it does more harm than good by providing SCO and reporters covering the story with quotable examples of immaturity and complete lack of tact. Imagine a CNN article on the subject pulling out
"I'm in at least semi-regular communication with most of the people and organizations who are causing you problems right now."
followed by
"Take that offer while you still can, Mr. McBride. So far your so-called 'evidence' is crap; you'd better climb down off your high horse before we shoot that sucker entirely out from under you."
which could easily be a mob threat. Do you want your boss to see this in the press?
Or
"Was this what you wanted out of life, to end up imitating the doomed villain in a cheesy B movie? Tell me, does that dark helmet fit comfortably? Are all the minions cringing in proper form? "No, Mr. Torvalds, I expect you to die!" I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all."
...does that cast Linux and open source in the proper light for widespread adoption in your Fortune 500 company?
We don't have official press releases or public relations departments for the Linux and open source community as a whole. I'm not saying there should be and ESR has the right, president of OSI or not, to make any comment he wishes. I just think that this type of thing does more harm than good.
I didn't intend to imply that economics should be the deciding factor. My view is that this type of research should be done, and should be much less restricted than it currently is. My thought was that the economic factor would be something which could play a much more significant role in the argument in the future than it does right now.
Probably, but perhaps this will have the opposite effect. When it is clear that a country like China, who already has a significant impact on the economy of the US, is able to make advances in the embryonic stem cell area that we aren't due to regulations, that could end up being a strong argument to relax restrictions in the US. Probably not in the short term, but when and if stem cell related treatments become mainstream and if it turns out that embryonic stem cells are the only/best/cheapest/something way to go then we'll have to see whether voters will elect officials who will make it possible for that research and treatment to be done here in the US.
That's fine with me, and certainly makes me feel less guilty about doing it;) My beef is never (well, almost never) with the tech support person but rather with the time it takes to get to talk with that person.
Back in the day (you should be able to determine timeframe soon), I had to call Gateway 2000 tech support to get some information on our spiffy new 386/16. Now, they were pretty good when you finally got them on the phone, but until then one usually had to wait for at least 30 minutes. On one occasion, I ended up having to wait over an hour, which put me in a rather hostile mood. When the support person asked me what my problem was, I asked them to hang on for a second.
I put them on hold, went downstairs, had dinner, watched some TV, and then finally moseyed back up stairs about half an hour later. To my great surprise, they were still sitting there on the line and we got my problem solved.
Now of course I only made the situation worse, wasted other people's time, etc, and that's not something I'd do today after being in a tech support-like position myself and having friends who have had similar tech support roles.
Absolutely. In my life I've been a model RIAA consumer, having bought hundreds of CDs new from retail stores out of the 600 or so that I own. This year I've bought at least three times as many CD/DVDA/SACDs this year thanks to being able to hear music beforehand, especially with new bands. But I've still only bought about 25 CDs in the past 5 years.
At the same time, there are two I probably would have purchased but didn't based on being able to hear it first.
While having ways to sample part of a song like many online retailers have had for years is nice, it really doesn't do anything for me. The sound quality is bad, you don't get to hear the whole song, nor can you hear the whole album as it was meant to be heard. The first 30 seconds of the first 5 songs in an album just doesn't cut it. It's like test driving a car but you only get to sit in the passenger seat and change gears, fiddle with the radio, and adjust your seat.
Does anyone have a source for DVD sales figures? I'd be curious to see how their sales compare with CD sales. It wasn't until DVDs started to become common in the last couple years that we had a cheap way to buy high quality movies that would last a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some correlation there, too.
On the first, it would be interesting to know whether those who have received organs are eligable to give organs themselves. I'm not doctor, but I would imagine that there's no chance they'd try to retransplant an organ to another after the original recipient's death. Transplantation isn't a trivial thing (to perform or receive), so I'd imagine that receiving transplanted organs might make your own original organs less healthy or at least less desirable as transplant organs, but I really have nothing to base that on other than a hunch.
Rose-Hulman has been requiring laptops and having wired ethernet in nearly every classroom since 1995, the year before I got there. They've since added wireless which I believe gets the rooms that weren't able to be wired easily.
While I saw and was part of some of the type of on-topic conversing going on back then, it wasn't a large part of the usage of the laptops. Aside from where they were explicitly used as part of the lecture, I used mine for about 1/2 on and 1/2 off topic.
For instance, during math and science classes it was very useful to be able to do and play around with complex calculations quickly while a lecture was going on. The ability to do bits of research in realtime helped too. And yes, some real-time conversing on the subject.
I guess some of my usage fell in-between on and off topic. Things like working on homework for that or other classes, being able to do little bits of work on projects as you happen to think of things during classes, speaking with or emailing team members, that kind of thing. Education related, but not necessarily related to the topic at hand.
As for off-topic, that ranged from emails to web surfing to playing network games with other people in that and other classrooms around you. 95% of that probably happens in the first quarter of school, though. That kind of goofing off drops off pretty quickly as the novelty wears off and as you realize just how much you're paying for that time. Many (probably most) of the profs were too intense to be able to do other things anyway.
I've recently learned that my high school will begin requiring/providing laptops in this coming school year. The whole campus is already bathed in 802.11b goodness. It will be interested to see how *that* turns out...
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This probably won't help the MSIE stagnation problem at all.
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A big question there is what the TV-OUT quality is going to be....
That might be part of it, but it was called "windy city" because that was a very good trait for a city to have. The city even helped popularize that title. When you have the pollution and smells that result from having a lot of people (before modern sewers and waste management) and industry (before tall smokestacks) in close proximity, wind to blow that away is most welcome.
At least that's what I heard from the History Channel.
Hey, you got that fortune too? I thought that cookie's advice was meant just for me!
You know what else this could mean? No plug-ins. Microsoft probably has the clout to just remove plugin capability from MSIE and then tell those who made plugins (the plugins that they like, at least) that now they must hand them over to MS so that they will instead be builtin to the browser itself. It sounds like that wouldn't solve the problem for Java applets, but it would for everthing else.
YAY CHINA!
Wait, that doesn't sound right...
We never had that happen, but once a cleaning person plugged a vacuum cleaner into one of the wall sockets wired into the UPS (which were bright red, but not otherwise marked as special), which evidentally isn't quite the kind of load a battery backup is expecting, so it shut down everything.
The best part is that many of them, especially the older more advanced models, are self powered. Actually, no electricity is needed at all!
Yes, it is a term used to describe a flawed entry in a bilingual dictionary. See: schadenfreude
Actually, Webster and other dictionaries do think schadenfreude is an English word taken from German, but what do they know?
followed by
which could easily be a mob threat. Do you want your boss to see this in the press?
Or
We don't have official press releases or public relations departments for the Linux and open source community as a whole. I'm not saying there should be and ESR has the right, president of OSI or not, to make any comment he wishes. I just think that this type of thing does more harm than good.
All very good points. Thanks.
I didn't intend to imply that economics should be the deciding factor. My view is that this type of research should be done, and should be much less restricted than it currently is. My thought was that the economic factor would be something which could play a much more significant role in the argument in the future than it does right now.
How about a nice game of chess?
Probably, but perhaps this will have the opposite effect. When it is clear that a country like China, who already has a significant impact on the economy of the US, is able to make advances in the embryonic stem cell area that we aren't due to regulations, that could end up being a strong argument to relax restrictions in the US. Probably not in the short term, but when and if stem cell related treatments become mainstream and if it turns out that embryonic stem cells are the only/best/cheapest/something way to go then we'll have to see whether voters will elect officials who will make it possible for that research and treatment to be done here in the US.
A couple big 'if's, but it could happen.
I'm sure he was just defending his intellectual property...
just ask nixon
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;) My beef is never (well, almost never) with the tech support person but rather with the time it takes to get to talk with that person.
That's fine with me, and certainly makes me feel less guilty about doing it
Back in the day (you should be able to determine timeframe soon), I had to call Gateway 2000 tech support to get some information on our spiffy new 386/16. Now, they were pretty good when you finally got them on the phone, but until then one usually had to wait for at least 30 minutes. On one occasion, I ended up having to wait over an hour, which put me in a rather hostile mood. When the support person asked me what my problem was, I asked them to hang on for a second.
I put them on hold, went downstairs, had dinner, watched some TV, and then finally moseyed back up stairs about half an hour later. To my great surprise, they were still sitting there on the line and we got my problem solved.
Now of course I only made the situation worse, wasted other people's time, etc, and that's not something I'd do today after being in a tech support-like position myself and having friends who have had similar tech support roles.
But damn it felt good to do it once, at least.
Absolutely. In my life I've been a model RIAA consumer, having bought hundreds of CDs new from retail stores out of the 600 or so that I own. This year I've bought at least three times as many CD/DVDA/SACDs this year thanks to being able to hear music beforehand, especially with new bands. But I've still only bought about 25 CDs in the past 5 years.
At the same time, there are two I probably would have purchased but didn't based on being able to hear it first.
While having ways to sample part of a song like many online retailers have had for years is nice, it really doesn't do anything for me. The sound quality is bad, you don't get to hear the whole song, nor can you hear the whole album as it was meant to be heard. The first 30 seconds of the first 5 songs in an album just doesn't cut it. It's like test driving a car but you only get to sit in the passenger seat and change gears, fiddle with the radio, and adjust your seat.
Does anyone have a source for DVD sales figures? I'd be curious to see how their sales compare with CD sales. It wasn't until DVDs started to become common in the last couple years that we had a cheap way to buy high quality movies that would last a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some correlation there, too.
Sorry, but that really isn't impressive at all compared to the Aerial Robotics Competition. They fly themselves!
I'm in absolute agreement on your second point.
On the first, it would be interesting to know whether those who have received organs are eligable to give organs themselves. I'm not doctor, but I would imagine that there's no chance they'd try to retransplant an organ to another after the original recipient's death. Transplantation isn't a trivial thing (to perform or receive), so I'd imagine that receiving transplanted organs might make your own original organs less healthy or at least less desirable as transplant organs, but I really have nothing to base that on other than a hunch.
So you're saying these are good batteries to power your electric getaway car?
It's PEOPLE!
Rose-Hulman has been requiring laptops and having wired ethernet in nearly every classroom since 1995, the year before I got there. They've since added wireless which I believe gets the rooms that weren't able to be wired easily.
While I saw and was part of some of the type of on-topic conversing going on back then, it wasn't a large part of the usage of the laptops. Aside from where they were explicitly used as part of the lecture, I used mine for about 1/2 on and 1/2 off topic.
For instance, during math and science classes it was very useful to be able to do and play around with complex calculations quickly while a lecture was going on. The ability to do bits of research in realtime helped too. And yes, some real-time conversing on the subject.
I guess some of my usage fell in-between on and off topic. Things like working on homework for that or other classes, being able to do little bits of work on projects as you happen to think of things during classes, speaking with or emailing team members, that kind of thing. Education related, but not necessarily related to the topic at hand.
As for off-topic, that ranged from emails to web surfing to playing network games with other people in that and other classrooms around you. 95% of that probably happens in the first quarter of school, though. That kind of goofing off drops off pretty quickly as the novelty wears off and as you realize just how much you're paying for that time. Many (probably most) of the profs were too intense to be able to do other things anyway.
I've recently learned that my high school will begin requiring/providing laptops in this coming school year. The whole campus is already bathed in 802.11b goodness. It will be interested to see how *that* turns out...