Show one virus (actual virus) that managed to do any noticeable harm (not just was uploaded to some hosting service) on Linux. Then shut up because there is no such thing.
Coursera (pronounced COR-sayr-uh), based in Mountain View, Calif., intends to announce that it has received financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates.
The founders said they were not ready to announce a strategy for profitability, but noted that the investment gave them time to develop new ways to generate revenue.
In other words, THERE ARE NO PLANS TO GET ANY KIND OF REVENUE. "Investments" is the only money they are getting. It would be great as schools' internal project, or government-sponsored educational initiative. It may even work as a nonprofit charity until donors will start stuffing their own "courses" in it. But one thing that it is not, is a business.
I repeat -- unions would be squashed like bugs, would accomplish absolutely nothing, and no one would even remember they existed if government never was on their side. All legal protections of the unions, including them being legal in the first place, are entirely inventions of the legal system.
No, but it worked very well as a distraction that made people concentrate on government and not notice greater harm caused by businesses. Dystopian fiction from 80's to this time tried to fix that, but ended up instilling the feeling of inevitability instead of protest.
Resource wars make a lot of sense when small groups of rich control freaks want full control of resource to dangle it in front of the rest of mankind, and others join the fight afraid that one of those control freaks will win.
The only solution is to keep mentally deficient individuals away from power over other people, and this is incompatible with the ideas of "freedom" and "property".
I do wonder what the zombie stories are all about, though...
Effects of advertisement and other forms of brainwashing on motivation, combined with comment on lack of education and culture.
Original zombies were commanded by the masters who "revived" the dead into them, and died again once their purpose is fulfilled. Now all they do is expand their ranks (by infecting others), hate everyone who is not a zombie, crave for something they don't seem to benefit from (brains), and act in the most primitive manner possible.
Iran is a rich Muslim theocracy with some attibutes of a Republic. North Korea is a poverty-stricken pseudo-monarchy with attributes of Stalinism. They are about as likely to be on the speaking terms with each other as Henry Kissinger with Alexander Chikatilo.
Unions are entirely in the mercy of the government. The only reason they accomplished anything is because government protected them and assisted in acquiring members. Whenever government protection wasn't sufficient, unions were busted or taken over by organized crime.
For all intents and purposes unions in US acted as a government's proxy in implementation of Socialist policies because government officials had to always remain anti-Socialist.
Government is the only organization that can have significant power based entirely on people's will to support its power. There are no others -- any organization that has power delegated by the people is by definition a government of those people. Any other powerful organization is guaranteed to be an enemy of the rest of the society, so there is really no choice -- either people are enslaved by the companies, or they develop a sufficiently powerful government to keep companies under control. All slogans about "small government" are a part of the effort to sabotage this process.
You're making things up because they're what you want to believe. The US gov't is about the most powerful one on the planet.
No. It is nominally in control of many things that supposedly give it power. It's still completely under control of people, companies and organizations who pay for election campaigns. In its whole history it couldn't do one simple thing -- institute public finance of everything elections-related. It's corrupt because it rents out its power to every idiot with enough money.
Weak government serves powerful companies. Strong government would serve people if for no other reason then out of pointlessness of serving anyone else.
An interesting choice. But the Android market is too crowded already, I'm not sure how well off they'd be.
That's just STUPID. No matter how "crowded" it is, it is less crowded than whatever market they are going after -- one with very few customers and already more than one vendor. The world can easily accommodate more Android manufacturers as long as they have something valuable to offer, and Nokia still has ability to develop wide range of decent hardware.
But noooo, Microsoft executives (and Elop is a Microsoft executive) can't imagine BEING ANYWHERE IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET, they first make sure no one competes with them, then look around to see if what they are doing makes any sense. This works when company has piles upon piles of cash and a two monopoly-dependent product lines. It doesn't work anywhere else.
This is what "freedom" and "democracy" really mean -- nothing to prevent rich companies and their paid lackeys in government from pulling things like this.
If congressmen had mandatory public election financing (no "democracy" for the rich), and government was strong enough to be able to destroy "copyright industry" (no "freedom", "small government" and other dumb ideas that weaken the government and make it dependent on rich people and companies), no one would ever bother conflating security with rent-seeking and racketeering. The worst you will have to deal with, would be garden variety privacy issues -- ones that actually can be discussed when politicians aren't begging the rich to pay for their election ads.
Now privacy is going to Hell anyway, but on top of this, all parasites are getting a free ride with obscenely expanded copyright enforcement and intimidation of the public.
and the integration with Windows PC's may not have been as good,
You don't integrate a communications device with a PC, you integrate with network services. PC integration made sense for non-networked PDAs, but that ship sailed long ago.
Slashdot Mirror
What the Hell are you talking about?
Show one virus (actual virus) that managed to do any noticeable harm (not just was uploaded to some hosting service) on Linux. Then shut up because there is no such thing.
wars of liberation
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
B W A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A H A ! ! !
No, seriously. A human that can read, still believes that crap.
Which particular courses that you took, you think are "obsolete"?
Coursera (pronounced COR-sayr-uh), based in Mountain View, Calif., intends to announce that it has received financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates.
The founders said they were not ready to announce a strategy for profitability, but noted that the investment gave them time to develop new ways to generate revenue.
In other words, THERE ARE NO PLANS TO GET ANY KIND OF REVENUE. "Investments" is the only money they are getting.
It would be great as schools' internal project, or government-sponsored educational initiative. It may even work as a nonprofit charity until donors will start stuffing their own "courses" in it. But one thing that it is not, is a business.
I repeat -- unions would be squashed like bugs, would accomplish absolutely nothing, and no one would even remember they existed if government never was on their side. All legal protections of the unions, including them being legal in the first place, are entirely inventions of the legal system.
^^^
Replies to my comment that insist on "cooperation" between Iran and North Korea:
THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN PUBLIC REALLY BELIEVES
No, but it worked very well as a distraction that made people concentrate on government and not notice greater harm caused by businesses.
Dystopian fiction from 80's to this time tried to fix that, but ended up instilling the feeling of inevitability instead of protest.
disenfranchised
The word you were trying to use is "disenchanted".
Media always was biased, but only recently it started to claim that is is objective.
Resource wars make a lot of sense when small groups of rich control freaks want full control of resource to dangle it in front of the rest of mankind, and others join the fight afraid that one of those control freaks will win.
The only solution is to keep mentally deficient individuals away from power over other people, and this is incompatible with the ideas of "freedom" and "property".
I do wonder what the zombie stories are all about, though...
Effects of advertisement and other forms of brainwashing on motivation, combined with comment on lack of education and culture.
Original zombies were commanded by the masters who "revived" the dead into them, and died again once their purpose is fulfilled. Now all they do is expand their ranks (by infecting others), hate everyone who is not a zombie, crave for something they don't seem to benefit from (brains), and act in the most primitive manner possible.
Right, because all enemies of US are related.
Iran is a rich Muslim theocracy with some attibutes of a Republic. North Korea is a poverty-stricken pseudo-monarchy with attributes of Stalinism. They are about as likely to be on the speaking terms with each other as Henry Kissinger with Alexander Chikatilo.
Unions are entirely in the mercy of the government. The only reason they accomplished anything is because government protected them and assisted in acquiring members. Whenever government protection wasn't sufficient, unions were busted or taken over by organized crime.
For all intents and purposes unions in US acted as a government's proxy in implementation of Socialist policies because government officials had to always remain anti-Socialist.
screwed over by an adult that prays
Come on, Catholic priests have nothing to do with this particular instance of abuse.
Probably explores various ways of being a control freak.
Clearly, your idea is that corporate executive positions must be inheritable.
English is not my native language.
Now, what is your excuse for being an idiot?
Government is the only organization that can have significant power based entirely on people's will to support its power. There are no others -- any organization that has power delegated by the people is by definition a government of those people. Any other powerful organization is guaranteed to be an enemy of the rest of the society, so there is really no choice -- either people are enslaved by the companies, or they develop a sufficiently powerful government to keep companies under control. All slogans about "small government" are a part of the effort to sabotage this process.
You're making things up because they're what you want to believe. The US gov't is about the most powerful one on the planet.
No. It is nominally in control of many things that supposedly give it power. It's still completely under control of people, companies and organizations who pay for election campaigns. In its whole history it couldn't do one simple thing -- institute public finance of everything elections-related. It's corrupt because it rents out its power to every idiot with enough money.
Weak government serves powerful companies.
Strong government would serve people if for no other reason then out of pointlessness of serving anyone else.
People who HEARD THE ACRONYM but don't know what it means. That is, the majority of people who heard it.
Do you know what PCMCIA is supposed to mean? SCSI? SIP? JPEG? OLED? CMOS? NUMA? Neither does the majority of people who recognize those "words".
An interesting choice. But the Android market is too crowded already, I'm not sure how well off they'd be.
That's just STUPID. No matter how "crowded" it is, it is less crowded than whatever market they are going after -- one with very few customers and already more than one vendor. The world can easily accommodate more Android manufacturers as long as they have something valuable to offer, and Nokia still has ability to develop wide range of decent hardware.
But noooo, Microsoft executives (and Elop is a Microsoft executive) can't imagine BEING ANYWHERE IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET, they first make sure no one competes with them, then look around to see if what they are doing makes any sense. This works when company has piles upon piles of cash and a two monopoly-dependent product lines. It doesn't work anywhere else.
This is what "freedom" and "democracy" really mean -- nothing to prevent rich companies and their paid lackeys in government from pulling things like this.
If congressmen had mandatory public election financing (no "democracy" for the rich), and government was strong enough to be able to destroy "copyright industry" (no "freedom", "small government" and other dumb ideas that weaken the government and make it dependent on rich people and companies), no one would ever bother conflating security with rent-seeking and racketeering. The worst you will have to deal with, would be garden variety privacy issues -- ones that actually can be discussed when politicians aren't begging the rich to pay for their election ads.
Now privacy is going to Hell anyway, but on top of this, all parasites are getting a free ride with obscenely expanded copyright enforcement and intimidation of the public.
It works because US invaders are on their side.
and the integration with Windows PC's may not have been as good,
You don't integrate a communications device with a PC, you integrate with network services. PC integration made sense for non-networked PDAs, but that ship sailed long ago.