We have to keep in mind that a lot of people don't know anything *but* Windows. To them, Microsoft invented the PC. They don't know what it was like to "pay your dues" and help create the consumer computer market by buying all those primitive 6502 and 6808-based "home computers", often spending thousands of dollars. They would never believe that you could have a working graphical multi-user multi-tasking environment in 128k of ram @ 2 mhz.
To them, Microsoft is just "a natural monopoly". They don't remember Microsoft programs looking for specific mouse drivers to try to determine if they were running Digital Research DOS and then going "OMG YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM IS INCOMPATIBLE!" or other dirty tactics.
Apple is being completely up-front in what they are doing. Google is saying 'trust us, we are not nor ever will be evil'. Microsoft is saying 'just pay us some money for each new computer and then you can do whatever you want'. That Microsoft is clearly the good guy here is pretty sad.
I'm just wondering if the money gained from the crapware that is installed on new computers is enough of a subsidy to offset the Microsoft tax.
For example, if Microsoft charges OEMs $50, but the OEMs also manage to get $50 from crapware installers, then it's a wash when you buy a laptop and wipe it down. If on the other hand, the manufacturer only gets $10 for the crapware, you're out $40.
The ideal situation would be where the manufacturer gets MORE for the crapware than it costs them for the Windows license - then crapware software manufacturers who target Windows are subsidizing your switch to linux.
When it comes to Novell+Microsoft,, there hasn't been much clear thinking making the rounds.
For example, the whole Mono fiasco. de Icaza is a Microsoft fanboy, but that doesn't mean that openSuse is somehow "contaminated" by Mono. Just remove mono-base with teh package manager and it all goes bye-bye. Your machine will continue to work just fine (actually, better than fine since doing so also removes Kerry Beagle, resulting in a much more responsive machine).
Then there's the whole "patents deal" hysteria. What do I care about what Microsoft claims the deal was about? Ultimately, Ballmer is a snake-oil salesman, after all. The deal was more likely made as a back-door way to compensate Novell for the expenses Microsoft indirectly caused by financing the SCO attack against linux, which Novell has been doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the courts - remember, there was talk about piercing the corporate veil wrt the $50 million PIPE deal.
SLED is not opensuse. There may be stuff in SLED (which has proprietary extensions and applications), that needs Microsoft's okay for virtualization to work with Microsoft products. So what? Doesn't affect me, since I can't see any scenario where I would want to run linux instances hosted on a Microsoft server, or Windows instances hosted on a linux server.
You can suggest that a 10" screen is optimal all you want, a tablet that is 8.5x11 inches is optimal.
How about legal-format size - 8.5 x 14 (a 17" laptop is 9 x 14.5) - turn it sideways and it's almost perfect for hd widescreen format viewing without letterboxing. More than one person can look at it at a time, any virtual keyboard could be almost full-sized, and still leave more half the screen in landscape mode, more room for heat dissipation through the housing, for a webcam, usb connectors, flash card readers, multiple hard drives, a real multi-tasking operating system and all the other things the iTampon doesn't have.
I have NEVER rejected a resume from someone because they could write well
I should hope not, though I fail to see what makes that worth mentioning.
Although it can sometimes may make it seem
Huh?
Someone who can't determine what their audience is and communicate appropriately will have a more difficult time advancing in their career than those that can.
s/what/who/;
s/that/who/;
They're people, not things.
(I'm ignoring all the sentences that start with 'And', 'But', 'Or', etc.)
Some may think it is wrong to judge someone based on how they write, but it happens.
Good thing this is slashdot, where that never happens...
Don't worry, you're not alone. From the article:
"You can go back and read Plato and see Socrates talking about the allegations that this generation isn't as not as good as previous ones," he notes.
It wasn't "in the matter". You couldn't "take the energy out of the matter" via E=MC2 and still have the same amount of matter.
And you can't argue that equivalent means "same". It doesn't. It just means "equivalent." Someone steals $15. You search everyone, and you find two people, one with $15 on them, and another with 10 Euros. Just because the 10 Euros is equivalent to the $15 doesn't mean that you suddenly have 2 suspects instead of one. Equivalency isn't the same as identity.
Or to put it into a programming context: Java ".equals()" (same value) is not the same as "==" (identity), or Javascript, "==" (same value) vs "===" (same identity).
A certain amount of matter may be equivalent to a certain amount of energy, but it is not itself that amount of energy - it is matter until it is converted.
Next you'll be arguing that we should be able to eat crude oil because hydrocarbons are equivalent to carbohydrates - they both have carbon and hydrogen and both provide calories of energy.
The FACT that today Avatar surpassed Titanic as biggest grossing movie of all time
The FACT that I haven't watched either of them and have no intention to.
the FACT that the top 10 viewed movies of all time are all american
Absolutely false Bollywood has a lock on the top 10, in both movies and tv shows, in terms of number of viewers.
Also, 8 of the top 10 grossing movies of all time are either joint productions or filmed on location outside the US. That's not "all-American" either. The days of the US Empire are over, in large part thanks to the US for 50 years exporting "dirty" jobs to "lesser countries". Now the only option the US has is to inflate its currency like crazy and hope that nobody notices.
E-brakes are usually referred to as Parking brakes now
They should rename it th iBrake - it does less and costs more than a regular brake. But thanks to the SJ-RDF (Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field) you'll never know that you're careening to your death at 140mph.
I had one that got stuck because of ice accumulation in the cable - the immediate solution to slowing down was just manually lifting the throttle pedal to overcome the friction/stickage caused by the ice.
Turning off the key would have also stopped the engine quite reliably, and immediately.
The long-term solution was simple - a winter front - in this case, just some cardboard to block off most of the radiator during the cold months.
I've also had the throttle cable snap on a motorcycle. The engine immediately went to idle. To limp home, I jammed the throttle partway open; it meant having to slip the clutch more than usual, and no power-shifting through the gears.
The front brakes on your car do 80% of the braking in normla conditions, simply because of weight transfer to the front wheels when you ht the brakes. Otherwise, the rear wheels would lock up, stop braking entirely, and you'd swap ends.
... and manual over-ride for the ABS system as well. Those things are DANGEROUS! I can recover from a 4-wheel lockup on ice - I can't recover when the stupid ABS system won't let me and my only option to regain control is to instead step on the gas.
"which is the equivalent" means you would have to CONVERT it. Your mass is 76kg. not 6.8x10^16J.
Only dumb Americans instantly think that "create" implies "create from nothing -like Gawd!" - the rest of the world realizes that creating something can also mean taking something and converting it to something else by some process, such as "I created this work of art using common materials".
Give it up - you CAN create energy from mass. Lose your cultural Jeebus-land blinkers.
anything more complicated than adding a few numbers, it's easier to open a spreadsheet than to learn how any particular calculator functions.
Not if you use the Google Apps spreadsheet program. It doesn't round by default and gives weird results to some of the simplest math. Play around with it a bit and you'll see.
No can do. I've black-holed anything and everything from google because of their CEO's very public, and very stupid, stand against privacy. Besides, I wouldn't trust my private data to any advertising company. Who would be stupid enough to do that? (I know, there are businesses doing exactly that - which just goes to show how continued exposure to PowerPoint makes you stupid)..
"pent up" or "potential" energy is just that - only potential energy. You can create energy from matter, which is what E=MC2 says. The matter no longer exists after the conversion - it is now energy, or perhaps "potential matter."
The sum of the combination of energy+matter obviously stays constant, according to the same formula; but that is not the same as saying that you cannot create energy from matter - there is less matter, and a corresponding increase in energy. Again, you're confusing equivalence with the actual thing. You might have $15 US dollars, and it might be the equivalent of $10 Euros - but you do NOT have 10 Euros, you have $15 USD.
Similarly, E=MC2 makes the statement of mass-energy equivalence - but it also shows that you CAN convert something from one side of the equation to the other - you can change mass for energy - so energy is created from mass. There is no difference, in this scenario, between "created" and "converted" - there is less mass, and more energy - energy HAS been created from matter.
Only someone growing up in the confines of the retarded US educational system wouldn't know the difference.
The alerts also showed up if a transmitter didn't check in at its scheduled time, so simply swiping a kid or covering the emitter would alert people.
So disable a bunch of them (a little heat or a jab of current in the right place will do it) and people will get used to "damn - another false alarm!).
This is like the CCTV cameras all over Britain - they give a false sense of increased security.
You could make the same argument about cars in a traffic jam - it doesn't change the reality of the situation - that light is NOT a wave, that that is just entrenched wrongful thinking dating back centuries.
no, it's saying that the interface to most of the calculators is a royal pain in the ass, and most people won't be sure that they've gotten the right answer, because they ARE a royal PITA to use - no two are alike beyond the basics.
This is a problem in the "real world" as well - nobody uses most of the functions on their fancy non-virtual calculators because it's a real PITA to figure them out.
They may be considered as equivalent (which is what the formula says), but that does not mean they are the same, same as one glass of beer may be equivalent to one shot of vodka.
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... or it's not something that occurs naturally in nature - it's our first verifiable alien artifact - a Cylon base ship hull fragment ,,,
If you read the article, you'd see that they wrote a program to convert the php - they didn't do it by hand.
There's an article here about kickback against the whole idea that the world would miss Microsoft.
We have to keep in mind that a lot of people don't know anything *but* Windows. To them, Microsoft invented the PC. They don't know what it was like to "pay your dues" and help create the consumer computer market by buying all those primitive 6502 and 6808-based "home computers", often spending thousands of dollars. They would never believe that you could have a working graphical multi-user multi-tasking environment in 128k of ram @ 2 mhz.
To them, Microsoft is just "a natural monopoly". They don't remember Microsoft programs looking for specific mouse drivers to try to determine if they were running Digital Research DOS and then going "OMG YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM IS INCOMPATIBLE!" or other dirty tactics.
I'm just wondering if the money gained from the crapware that is installed on new computers is enough of a subsidy to offset the Microsoft tax.
For example, if Microsoft charges OEMs $50, but the OEMs also manage to get $50 from crapware installers, then it's a wash when you buy a laptop and wipe it down. If on the other hand, the manufacturer only gets $10 for the crapware, you're out $40.
The ideal situation would be where the manufacturer gets MORE for the crapware than it costs them for the Windows license - then crapware software manufacturers who target Windows are subsidizing your switch to linux.
1. "unanticipated", not "unantipicated".
2. "privilege escalation" or "privilege elevation", not "security excursion."
Let me guess ... you went to Simon Fraser. University ...
When it comes to Novell+Microsoft,, there hasn't been much clear thinking making the rounds.
For example, the whole Mono fiasco. de Icaza is a Microsoft fanboy, but that doesn't mean that openSuse is somehow "contaminated" by Mono. Just remove mono-base with teh package manager and it all goes bye-bye. Your machine will continue to work just fine (actually, better than fine since doing so also removes Kerry Beagle, resulting in a much more responsive machine).
Then there's the whole "patents deal" hysteria. What do I care about what Microsoft claims the deal was about? Ultimately, Ballmer is a snake-oil salesman, after all. The deal was more likely made as a back-door way to compensate Novell for the expenses Microsoft indirectly caused by financing the SCO attack against linux, which Novell has been doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the courts - remember, there was talk about piercing the corporate veil wrt the $50 million PIPE deal.
SLED is not opensuse. There may be stuff in SLED (which has proprietary extensions and applications), that needs Microsoft's okay for virtualization to work with Microsoft products. So what? Doesn't affect me, since I can't see any scenario where I would want to run linux instances hosted on a Microsoft server, or Windows instances hosted on a linux server.
How about legal-format size - 8.5 x 14 (a 17" laptop is 9 x 14.5) - turn it sideways and it's almost perfect for hd widescreen format viewing without letterboxing. More than one person can look at it at a time, any virtual keyboard could be almost full-sized, and still leave more half the screen in landscape mode, more room for heat dissipation through the housing, for a webcam, usb connectors, flash card readers, multiple hard drives, a real multi-tasking operating system and all the other things the iTampon doesn't have.
THAT would sell.
How soon people forget ... "Embrace, extend, extinguish."
The total number of clients is not what they seem to think - a client might have 1,000 - 5,000 machines, thus taking hundreds or thousands of certs.
Did you go to Simon F. Uni?
I should hope not, though I fail to see what makes that worth mentioning.
Huh?
s/what/who/;
s/that/who/;
They're people, not things.
(I'm ignoring all the sentences that start with 'And', 'But', 'Or', etc.)
Good thing this is slashdot, where that never happens ...
Don't worry, you're not alone. From the article:
It wasn't "in the matter". You couldn't "take the energy out of the matter" via E=MC2 and still have the same amount of matter.
And you can't argue that equivalent means "same". It doesn't. It just means "equivalent." Someone steals $15. You search everyone, and you find two people, one with $15 on them, and another with 10 Euros. Just because the 10 Euros is equivalent to the $15 doesn't mean that you suddenly have 2 suspects instead of one. Equivalency isn't the same as identity.
Or to put it into a programming context: Java ".equals()" (same value) is not the same as "==" (identity), or Javascript, "==" (same value) vs "===" (same identity).
A certain amount of matter may be equivalent to a certain amount of energy, but it is not itself that amount of energy - it is matter until it is converted.
Next you'll be arguing that we should be able to eat crude oil because hydrocarbons are equivalent to carbohydrates - they both have carbon and hydrogen and both provide calories of energy.
The FACT that I haven't watched either of them and have no intention to.
Absolutely false Bollywood has a lock on the top 10, in both movies and tv shows, in terms of number of viewers.
Also, 8 of the top 10 grossing movies of all time are either joint productions or filmed on location outside the US. That's not "all-American" either. The days of the US Empire are over, in large part thanks to the US for 50 years exporting "dirty" jobs to "lesser countries". Now the only option the US has is to inflate its currency like crazy and hope that nobody notices.
They should rename it th iBrake - it does less and costs more than a regular brake. But thanks to the SJ-RDF (Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field) you'll never know that you're careening to your death at 140mph.
I had one that got stuck because of ice accumulation in the cable - the immediate solution to slowing down was just manually lifting the throttle pedal to overcome the friction/stickage caused by the ice.
Turning off the key would have also stopped the engine quite reliably, and immediately.
The long-term solution was simple - a winter front - in this case, just some cardboard to block off most of the radiator during the cold months.
I've also had the throttle cable snap on a motorcycle. The engine immediately went to idle. To limp home, I jammed the throttle partway open; it meant having to slip the clutch more than usual, and no power-shifting through the gears.
So we're going to install Molly guards?
The front brakes on your car do 80% of the braking in normla conditions, simply because of weight transfer to the front wheels when you ht the brakes. Otherwise, the rear wheels would lock up, stop braking entirely, and you'd swap ends.
... and manual over-ride for the ABS system as well. Those things are DANGEROUS! I can recover from a 4-wheel lockup on ice - I can't recover when the stupid ABS system won't let me and my only option to regain control is to instead step on the gas.
"which is the equivalent" means you would have to CONVERT it. Your mass is 76kg. not 6.8x10^16J.
Only dumb Americans instantly think that "create" implies "create from nothing -like Gawd!" - the rest of the world realizes that creating something can also mean taking something and converting it to something else by some process, such as "I created this work of art using common materials".
Give it up - you CAN create energy from mass. Lose your cultural Jeebus-land blinkers.
Just go to the site :-)
No can do. I've black-holed anything and everything from google because of their CEO's very public, and very stupid, stand against privacy. Besides, I wouldn't trust my private data to any advertising company. Who would be stupid enough to do that? (I know, there are businesses doing exactly that - which just goes to show how continued exposure to PowerPoint makes you stupid)..
"pent up" or "potential" energy is just that - only potential energy. You can create energy from matter, which is what E=MC2 says. The matter no longer exists after the conversion - it is now energy, or perhaps "potential matter."
The sum of the combination of energy+matter obviously stays constant, according to the same formula; but that is not the same as saying that you cannot create energy from matter - there is less matter, and a corresponding increase in energy. Again, you're confusing equivalence with the actual thing. You might have $15 US dollars, and it might be the equivalent of $10 Euros - but you do NOT have 10 Euros, you have $15 USD.
Similarly, E=MC2 makes the statement of mass-energy equivalence - but it also shows that you CAN convert something from one side of the equation to the other - you can change mass for energy - so energy is created from mass. There is no difference, in this scenario, between "created" and "converted" - there is less mass, and more energy - energy HAS been created from matter.
Only someone growing up in the confines of the retarded US educational system wouldn't know the difference.
So disable a bunch of them (a little heat or a jab of current in the right place will do it) and people will get used to "damn - another false alarm!).
This is like the CCTV cameras all over Britain - they give a false sense of increased security.
You could make the same argument about cars in a traffic jam - it doesn't change the reality of the situation - that light is NOT a wave, that that is just entrenched wrongful thinking dating back centuries.
no, it's saying that the interface to most of the calculators is a royal pain in the ass, and most people won't be sure that they've gotten the right answer, because they ARE a royal PITA to use - no two are alike beyond the basics.
This is a problem in the "real world" as well - nobody uses most of the functions on their fancy non-virtual calculators because it's a real PITA to figure them out.
They may be considered as equivalent (which is what the formula says), but that does not mean they are the same, same as one glass of beer may be equivalent to one shot of vodka.
Simple test - how many volts-amps do you weigh?