Seriously, all we're doing is sustaining her job, which, apparently, consists of testing out new lines of attack against GNU/Linux for her SCOcrosoft overlords.
Let's put a stop to this, she's attacked on a regular basis because she's a shill. Why on earth should anyone pay attention to her whining about it?
Yes, well, if your biggest problems with software development are an inability to deal with brackets or declare variables, you probably shouldn't be coding at all.
1) Grass growing pulls carbon from the air. 2) Grass burning puts carbon back into the air. 3) Net sum: close to zero.
Extracting petroleum from deep under the earth leads to:
1) Petroleum burning puts carbon into the air, carbon which has been sequestered safely underground for perhaps many millions of years. 2) Net sum: Whatever we burn.
The simple fact is that grass growing in the ground is nowhere near analogous to petroleum reserves. Besides, when grass dies, all the carbon usually doesn't stay in the ground. Much of it is extracted and released back into the environment. Some of it winds up in bacteria, some of it winds up back in the atmosphere. The only times that the carbon mass tends to stay trapped is in anaerobic environments, such as peat bogs and such.
The point is that we'd be using a cycle with a far lower net impact on atmospheric carbon emissions than any mined or well-extracted fuel could possibly show.
I don't bloody well WANT to be an employee. Employees are forced to go to more meetings, are paid far less, and have to put up with a lot of crap that I don't deal with.
It's a social contract, essentially. You give up some security in exchange for financial and personal liberty. I made this exchange willingly and freely, and I'd rather not have some group of malcontents lessen the likelihood of it continuing.
Frankly, this may well make life more difficult for those of us who act as contract consultants. They pulled this stuff on Microsoft a few years back, and as a consequence contractors don't GET to stay there for extended periods, they are essentially kicked out and forced to find other employment after a rather short amount of time (a year or eighteen months or something?). I worry about what this means to the rest of the industry.
Actually, with Transgaming's "Point2Play" product, running Windows games under Cedega becomes a simple matter of point & click, just like under Windows. This product helps you manage CD mounting/unmounting, too. It's really a breeze to use.
From TFA: Our cities are decaying and dangerous. The implications for the younger generation are terrifying. But with Linux, we could turn all of that around!
Hey, I'm a big fan of Linux, I'm writing this from Konqueror, but I think he is stretching just a bit, don't you?
My Nikon Coolpix 995 uses specialized batteries, but they certainly don't require in-camera charging. A full charge lasts for literally hundreds of images (in 'fine' mode, about 1Megapixel JPGs). I bought one extra battery and I find the combination more than sufficient for my needs.
After all, whatever your thoughts on the company or their products, one MUST admit that their products 'allow for file sharing' and it's fair to say that reasonable precautions to prevent illegal copying have not been taken.
How about Apple? Or the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley? What about the FSF? I'm pretty sure they have written software that allows for files to be transferred.
In 1964, it would not have been possible to foresee the dot-com boom or bust, nor today's broad societal trends. Similarly today we cannot tell with any certainty at all what the situation will be forty years from today.
I was attempting to convey the meaning of a warning shot, but never stated the caliber or airspeed of the projectile! Think of it as a kid with a pellet gun firing across the bow of an AEGIS destroyer.
It was Maureen O'Gara, a writer without an ounce of credibility or ethics. She's been a huge part of the MicroSCOft campaign against Linux all along, this is just another bow shot.
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If you aren't already using bowl, seat, or rack-mounted, microprocessor-controlled LEDs to do this job, then you aren't demonstrating prior art.
Paranoid? No. In fact, you're behind the times! You've just described the past couple of years in SCO vs. The Civilized World.
Ah, let me think about that for a second...
The answer is: No.
Yeah, I should just shut up or even become a cheerleader for someone with no integrity!
What a great idea!
Seriously, all we're doing is sustaining her job, which, apparently, consists of testing out new lines of attack against GNU/Linux for her SCOcrosoft overlords.
Let's put a stop to this, she's attacked on a regular basis because she's a shill. Why on earth should anyone pay attention to her whining about it?
It's simple.
Anyone can SEE the source code and find out if patents are being violated.
When patent violations are essentially protected by the perpetrator maintaining 'trade secrets', they go unseen and unprosecuted.
Sending her business, expanding her audience, when all along she's a Microsoft/SCO shill?
Jesus H. Zeus, let's put a stop to this. Ignore her ravings, maybe she'll disappear.
Yes, well, if your biggest problems with software development are an inability to deal with brackets or declare variables, you probably shouldn't be coding at all.
What a silly picture.
I think you are missing the overall picture here:
1) Grass growing pulls carbon from the air.
2) Grass burning puts carbon back into the air.
3) Net sum: close to zero.
Extracting petroleum from deep under the earth leads to:
1) Petroleum burning puts carbon into the air, carbon which has been sequestered safely underground for perhaps many millions of years.
2) Net sum: Whatever we burn.
The simple fact is that grass growing in the ground is nowhere near analogous to petroleum reserves. Besides, when grass dies, all the carbon usually doesn't stay in the ground. Much of it is extracted and released back into the environment. Some of it winds up in bacteria, some of it winds up back in the atmosphere. The only times that the carbon mass tends to stay trapped is in anaerobic environments, such as peat bogs and such.
The point is that we'd be using a cycle with a far lower net impact on atmospheric carbon emissions than any mined or well-extracted fuel could possibly show.
Doubt it if you wish. In my case it's certainly true.
I don't bloody well WANT to be an employee. Employees are forced to go to more meetings, are paid far less, and have to put up with a lot of crap that I don't deal with.
It's a social contract, essentially. You give up some security in exchange for financial and personal liberty. I made this exchange willingly and freely, and I'd rather not have some group of malcontents lessen the likelihood of it continuing.
Frankly, this may well make life more difficult for those of us who act as contract consultants. They pulled this stuff on Microsoft a few years back, and as a consequence contractors don't GET to stay there for extended periods, they are essentially kicked out and forced to find other employment after a rather short amount of time (a year or eighteen months or something?). I worry about what this means to the rest of the industry.
Actually, with Transgaming's "Point2Play" product, running Windows games under Cedega becomes a simple matter of point & click, just like under Windows. This product helps you manage CD mounting/unmounting, too. It's really a breeze to use.
From TFA:
Our cities are decaying and dangerous. The implications for the younger generation are terrifying. But with Linux, we could turn all of that around!
Hey, I'm a big fan of Linux, I'm writing this from Konqueror, but I think he is stretching just a bit, don't you?
I'm happy to see that he's being compensated, albeit after a bit too much time.
Maybe now he can stop hanging out at The Android's Dungeon.
My Nikon Coolpix 995 uses specialized batteries, but they certainly don't require in-camera charging. A full charge lasts for literally hundreds of images (in 'fine' mode, about 1Megapixel JPGs). I bought one extra battery and I find the combination more than sufficient for my needs.
After all, whatever your thoughts on the company or their products, one MUST admit that their products 'allow for file sharing' and it's fair to say that reasonable precautions to prevent illegal copying have not been taken.
How about Apple? Or the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley? What about the FSF? I'm pretty sure they have written software that allows for files to be transferred.
In 1964, it would not have been possible to foresee the dot-com boom or bust, nor today's broad societal trends. Similarly today we cannot tell with any certainty at all what the situation will be forty years from today.
Or to be more accurate, I sit corrected. :-D
I was attempting to convey the meaning of a warning shot, but never stated the caliber or airspeed of the projectile! Think of it as a kid with a pellet gun firing across the bow of an AEGIS destroyer.
It was Maureen O'Gara, a writer without an ounce of credibility or ethics. She's been a huge part of the MicroSCOft campaign against Linux all along, this is just another bow shot.
In space, noone can hear you ping.
Well, at 8:15 EST Sunday morning for me, panix.com is showing as an 'under construction' parked domain.
I've got it on 15 second auto-refresh, though... Just so I can keep an eye on the status.
IIe? Heh, that was no Mac.
The IIgs kinda/sorta TRIED to be a Mac... Good heavens it was an awful beast for programming graphics!
Too much Doom had me scared in the office.
Too much Quake2 had me strafing around corners (still do this a bit).
Too much Asheron's Call had me jumpy just from being outdoors (what was THAT? Oh, just a log, not a golem).
Too much Liesure Suit Larry, and I... nevermind.