Is this bizarro world, or is it/.? Or do I repeat myself? I feel compelled to correct this: the _correct_ sentence there is "somebody set up us the bomb."
Ah, so you're saying that rich people are smarter than the rest of us. Thanks for clearing that up. And here I was thinking for all this time that the reason poor people exist in the richest country in the world has something to do with the fact that capitalism requires stratification of wealth.
Considering that he said (more or less, not an exact quote): "_1984_ did not come true", well, did he ever _read_ the thing? How history is manipulated to suit the current regime? That was a major thread in the work.
Of course, they got rid of OS/2 because it wasn't entirely their baby from the get-go, was too stable, and wouldn't have guaranteed the string of frustrated upgrades that users have been forced into buying.
That's not a new thing, either. "Planned obsolescence" is older than MS. But it's very American, I think.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Lucky for Gandhi he didn't live in the USSR. The rule there was: First they give you a show trial, then you confess, then you go break rocks in Siberia.
I agree with you that about the price of Linux, but there's obviously something more there than an operating system. They may have had a need, that their bureaucrats didn't see and open source solution for.
More likely a typical government misallocation of resources.
Well, you touched a nerve justifying anything by analogy with US drug enforcement; you'd want to look to the drug war only if you want a model of how to spend millions of dollars every year, and imprison huge numbers of people, all while making the problem worse.
Ahh, but the War on Drugs really isn't about drugs, now , is it? Who really benefits? Only The State (hear the ominous music).
As well they should (IMO). Cigarette smoking is a huge public health problem, and the costs of that problem are borne by society via the government.
Just another case of a government "solution" (government-funded healthcare) requiring more government "solutions" (government-funded propaganda campaigns and regulations). Have you ever noticed how so many government "solutions" are fixes to problems some earlier government "solution" created? Who benefits?
Text editors, command shells, compiler, linker, debugger, C library, standard Unix tools (grep/awk/diff/etc.), gtk, desktop environment (Gnome)... short of X and the kernel, pretty much everything in a modern "Linux" distribution that I at least consider to be part of the OS comes from GNU. Check the man pages for 'printf', 'tar', and such.
And when you want to "unixfy" your windows box, what do you do? You don't install anything like linux. You install GNU tools!
Yes, but once upon a time Yahoo and Netscape both rocked. Yahoo was by far the best search engine out there, and Netscape was way better than the competition. Both became complacent and then they started sucking. Let's just hope that the same fate does not befall Google.
And if MSN search becomes better than Google (for whatever reasons), why _not_ use it? Will you use Google until you die, no matter how bad it gets?
How is it diagnosed? What tests are given? What is the objective standard by which one is said to be ADHD? Because I'm just starting through this with one of my daughters, and it seems a bit fuzzy to me.
But if dubya wins in 2004, the call to repeal the 22nd Ammendment (Presidential term limits) will start the day after. There were Reagan I fans who were starting to rumble about repealing it.
So what? What is an amendment anyway? A change. The constitution is changeable, there is a stated process to do it (and it's been done a bunch of times, such as imposing the term limit in the first place, the Anti-FDR amendment). How many of you can even conceive of a Constitutional amendment today? Sounds barely possible. NOTE: using the courts to "change" it is a lot easier.
when I was a lad we had to write out our packets using punched cards, in binary, with a blunt pen. And then give them to the computer technician who would put them in a drawer for a week before giving them back to you marked 'spelling mistake on card 53, correct and resubmit'.
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Sounds like reality. Hey, I want to _escape_ reality.
Is a 10th Amendment movement. Too bad most states have sold out like whores for "federal" money.
Is this bizarro world, or is it /.? Or do I repeat myself? I feel compelled to correct this: the _correct_ sentence there is "somebody set up us the bomb."
Oh, never mind!
Nahh, it's because you're dumb, too.
Is that when Netscape 4.5b came out?
Considering that he said (more or less, not an exact quote): "_1984_ did not come true", well, did he ever _read_ the thing? How history is manipulated to suit the current regime? That was a major thread in the work.
My first OS was OS-XY 4.0. It was totally awesome, except that it existed only in my head.
That's not a new thing, either. "Planned obsolescence" is older than MS. But it's very American, I think.
Lucky for Gandhi he didn't live in the USSR. The rule there was: First they give you a show trial, then you confess, then you go break rocks in Siberia.
Think _1984_. Oh, wait, Gates said that it never came true! Such genius.
And those who do know history will find new ways to make mistakes.
It does, but they're interchangeable, so they're replaced without you noticing.
The future isn't over yet. There's still plenty of time.
Yeah, the only thing missing is 'vi' and 'emacs' out of the box.
More likely a typical government misallocation of resources.
Ahh, but the War on Drugs really isn't about drugs, now , is it? Who really benefits? Only The State (hear the ominous music).
Just another case of a government "solution" (government-funded healthcare) requiring more government "solutions" (government-funded propaganda campaigns and regulations). Have you ever noticed how so many government "solutions" are fixes to problems some earlier government "solution" created? Who benefits?
And when you want to "unixfy" your windows box, what do you do? You don't install anything like linux. You install GNU tools!
And if MSN search becomes better than Google (for whatever reasons), why _not_ use it? Will you use Google until you die, no matter how bad it gets?
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"Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie"
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All USBs are equal, only some are more equal than others.
In a government world, things don't _have_ to make sense. They are not subject to free market rules, they just do whatever.
How is it diagnosed? What tests are given? What is the objective standard by which one is said to be ADHD? Because I'm just starting through this with one of my daughters, and it seems a bit fuzzy to me.
So what? What is an amendment anyway? A change. The constitution is changeable, there is a stated process to do it (and it's been done a bunch of times, such as imposing the term limit in the first place, the Anti-FDR amendment). How many of you can even conceive of a Constitutional amendment today? Sounds barely possible. NOTE: using the courts to "change" it is a lot easier.
Oooh. I _remember_ those days.