The problem is when you let those dishoest, unethical employees influence the direction of the company.
Microsoft obviously has. They took the most vile shit from their employees and adopted it as official policy. So you get open source "communists", "cancer", "virus", etc. You also get convictions in federal court:-)
Overall, Microsoft may be the `enemy', but the individual employees certainly aren't.
So you consider Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen just average working people like those working at any other software company?
Where the heck do you think microsoft gets these venemous ideas and methods from, mars? No. "cancer", "communist", "anti-american" comes directly from their employees.
Hilf tries to hide it, but you can easily read through the transparent veneer to see he's been thoroughly programmed as well. He certainly has a lot of the microsoft marketdroid-speak.
Ahh.. but microsoft has offered closed-source binary stuff for linux in the past.
However, it always sucked donkey balls. Not because it was binary (after all, oracle on linux works just fine, as do other many other vendors closed source stuff) but because it was poorly designed, crashy, and just all around pile of doggie poo -- rather par for microsoft software really.
So, yes, it does affect Macs, but those of us who are completeloy paranoid are pretty safe.
So basically that leavs out 99.99% of most mac users, who are novices like all other computer users.
Really, apple dropped the ball with this one. They should have made the default to NOT automatically download WITHOUT ASKING, as it currently does default in safari.
"open safe files" is checked by default. since most computer users are novices... you really expect them to dig through the prefs and find this and disable it?
apple made a huge mistake with this. they should fix it immediately.
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You have a bunch of very odd ideas about Linux and Unix, basic misconceptions which rendered your entire argument fatally flawed.
ls, echo, system(), select(), etc. are all defined in the POSIX standard. Hell, even basic shells, shell syntax, job control, and redirection are defined. Anything which wants to be POSIX standards compliant must implement them.
Your claim that Linux "copies/mimics/re-implements" Unix is about as valid as claiming GCC "copies/mimics/re-implements" microsoft visual c++ because GCC implements ISO 9899:1999 (ANSI C).
What's next, claiming Mozilla copies IE because they both display HTML?
You claimed linux copies, and I pointed out it doesn't. In fact the whole point of Linux is that it doesn't copy or mimic or re-implement (and Linux is often criticized on this basis -- for doing things "differently"). Though SCO would have you believe otherwise.
whining about it because you have a big company that happens to have adopted your program is ridiculous.
rtfa. if you did, you'd realize he's not whining about that. he's complaining that apple is claiming to be the saviour of open source and khtml, that they do so much for khtml and cooperate so excellently with the kde team, and that people apparently believe the lie.
that's what he's upset about -- he's upset that apple is lying, and that people believe apple and they rain shit down on him because of what apple is claiming.
it's still quite easy to find negative comments about products on newegg. so they definitely don't delete all of them. perhaps they only go after the troll posts.
the slugs do not accelerate after they've left the barrel, so parent poster's analogy fails. slugs are not hollwed out pieces of metal with propellant inside which accelerate them as they travel through free airspace.
the case has propellant, but that remains behind. you're not firing brass casings at your target. you're firing metal slugs.
the slugs arent hollowed out pieces of metal with propellant inside them, and they do not accelerate after they've left the barrel, as parent poster's analogy compared to.
unless these are some new fangled rocket propelled slugs i haven't heard about.
i wouldn't want him around my neighborhood sure, but i want you around even less. a pedo is a threat to kids, but you're a threat to everyone. vigilantes are the most dangerous kind of criminal.
your post is being cc'd to humboldt county police and mule creek prison officials.
even if the target absorbs 100% of the kinetic energy of the bullet (eg stops totally), it's still not enough to knock the person over/off their feet/etc. a simple calculation will show it's impossible -- a small piece of metal traveling at eg 1000fps simply does not have enough energy to do it, under any circumstances, period.
so no, how the bullet strikes is not a factor. there isn't enough energy in the moving bullet to push you over or sweep you off your feet, even if it hits bone and stops totally.
Yeah, I will have to see that. I will bet good money that the bullet passes right though the meat (even with a medium powered rifle, it would easily), so hardly any of the energy is absorbed is it?
They also blasted it point blank with a shotgun, pistols, and machine guns. Of every caliber imaginable. Every time, it barely moved.
Only the point blank shotgun blast managed to move it any noticeable amount. And even then it was like barely nudging someone with your index finger.
intel pretty much bet the farm on ia64 and it's hurting them.
in order for ia64 to be successful they made a number of huge assumptions about where techology was going to go in the next decade. they also made partnerships to deliver operating systems and software for the architecture. in order for ia64 to be successful, every single one of them needed to pan out. instead what happened is not a single one of them panned out. none of the research required for ia64 was successful, and the partnerships evaporated.
so now, intel is left with an enormously expensive design which is unable to live up to a single one of its design goals. it is not cost effective, and it's not even a good performer.
A lot of what intel has been doing for the past couple years has been completely reactionary responses to AMD products. The "EE" edition CPUs, em64t, and now the dualcore CPUs.
But in each case it was made pretty obvious that the products were hastily designed (if you could call them "designed" at all), and performed poorly compared to the competition.
I think part of this is due to the loss of resources from the hurricane-sucking ia64 mess. Intel is spending far too much on beating the ia64 dead horse, and it's hurting their core markets.
Sooner or later the shareholders are going to demand a change. It will be interesting to see if they finally let ia64 die.
Linux doesnt "copy" unix (after all, what is "unix"?) Linux implements the POSIX spec. That POSIX happens to look very unix-y is just a happy coincidence.
Linux diverges significantly from "unix", something BSDers are quick and very vocal to point out.
It is quite easy to show where companies like apple have made significant innovations. Not so easy with microsoft.
jobs and mcnealy don't care. gates cares, desperately and you can see it clearly demonstrated from his public rants.
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If there is anything unique about gates, it's his obsessive desire to possess and dominate everything. Jobs and McNealy are content to do a few things well. But gates won't be content until he rules it all. Everything. The whole world.
Its quite funny to see linux, ipod, google, etc drive bill into fits of rage.
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The problem is when you let those dishoest, unethical employees influence the direction of the company.
:-)
Microsoft obviously has. They took the most vile shit from their employees and adopted it as official policy. So you get open source "communists", "cancer", "virus", etc. You also get convictions in federal court
Overall, Microsoft may be the `enemy', but the individual employees certainly aren't.
So you consider Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen just average working people like those working at any other software company?
Where the heck do you think microsoft gets these venemous ideas and methods from, mars? No. "cancer", "communist", "anti-american" comes directly from their employees.
Hilf tries to hide it, but you can easily read through the transparent veneer to see he's been thoroughly programmed as well. He certainly has a lot of the microsoft marketdroid-speak.
I'm a dev on Longhorn
My sincere condolences.
Ahh.. but microsoft has offered closed-source binary stuff for linux in the past.
However, it always sucked donkey balls. Not because it was binary (after all, oracle on linux works just fine, as do other many other vendors closed source stuff) but because it was poorly designed, crashy, and just all around pile of doggie poo -- rather par for microsoft software really.
So, yes, it does affect Macs, but those of us who are completeloy paranoid are pretty safe.
So basically that leavs out 99.99% of most mac users, who are novices like all other computer users.
Really, apple dropped the ball with this one. They should have made the default to NOT automatically download WITHOUT ASKING, as it currently does default in safari.
"open safe files" is checked by default. since most computer users are novices... you really expect them to dig through the prefs and find this and disable it?
apple made a huge mistake with this. they should fix it immediately.
You have a bunch of very odd ideas about Linux and Unix, basic misconceptions which rendered your entire argument fatally flawed.
ls, echo, system(), select(), etc. are all defined in the POSIX standard. Hell, even basic shells, shell syntax, job control, and redirection are defined. Anything which wants to be POSIX standards compliant must implement them.
Your claim that Linux "copies/mimics/re-implements" Unix is about as valid as claiming GCC "copies/mimics/re-implements" microsoft visual c++ because GCC implements ISO 9899:1999 (ANSI C).
What's next, claiming Mozilla copies IE because they both display HTML?
You claimed linux copies, and I pointed out it doesn't. In fact the whole point of Linux is that it doesn't copy or mimic or re-implement (and Linux is often criticized on this basis -- for doing things "differently"). Though SCO would have you believe otherwise.
This isn't minutiae.
whining about it because you have a big company that happens to have adopted your program is ridiculous.
rtfa. if you did, you'd realize he's not whining about that. he's complaining that apple is claiming to be the saviour of open source and khtml, that they do so much for khtml and cooperate so excellently with the kde team, and that people apparently believe the lie.
that's what he's upset about -- he's upset that apple is lying, and that people believe apple and they rain shit down on him because of what apple is claiming.
it's still quite easy to find negative comments about products on newegg. so they definitely don't delete all of them. perhaps they only go after the troll posts.
the slugs do not accelerate after they've left the barrel, so parent poster's analogy fails. slugs are not hollwed out pieces of metal with propellant inside which accelerate them as they travel through free airspace.
the case has propellant, but that remains behind. you're not firing brass casings at your target. you're firing metal slugs.
the slugs arent hollowed out pieces of metal with propellant inside them, and they do not accelerate after they've left the barrel, as parent poster's analogy compared to.
unless these are some new fangled rocket propelled slugs i haven't heard about.
i wouldn't want him around my neighborhood sure, but i want you around even less. a pedo is a threat to kids, but you're a threat to everyone. vigilantes are the most dangerous kind of criminal.
your post is being cc'd to humboldt county police and mule creek prison officials.
...until I see an ewok and gungan slaughter.
I want to see ewok rugs and gungan leather handbags.
Until then, lucas has much to answer for.
even if the target absorbs 100% of the kinetic energy of the bullet (eg stops totally), it's still not enough to knock the person over/off their feet/etc. a simple calculation will show it's impossible -- a small piece of metal traveling at eg 1000fps simply does not have enough energy to do it, under any circumstances, period.
so no, how the bullet strikes is not a factor. there isn't enough energy in the moving bullet to push you over or sweep you off your feet, even if it hits bone and stops totally.
thats nice except bullets dont ignite and accelerate in mid air. last time i checked, bullets werent rockets -- they were solid chunks of metal.
thats not "mimicing unix". that's implementing the open POSIX specifications.
/bin/ls and /bin/echo or that they were 'part of linux'. i am quite sure its possible to have 'linux' without them.
i wasnt aware linus wrote
So when does Linux do it then?
newton's third law says this doesn't happen. in order to knock someone over, the officer firing the gun would have to be knocked over as well.
Yeah, I will have to see that. I will bet good money that the bullet passes right though the meat (even with a medium powered rifle, it would easily), so hardly any of the energy is absorbed is it?
They also blasted it point blank with a shotgun, pistols, and machine guns. Of every caliber imaginable. Every time, it barely moved.
Only the point blank shotgun blast managed to move it any noticeable amount. And even then it was like barely nudging someone with your index finger.
Remind me which part of the linux kernel mimics microsoft functionality?
openoffice != linux kernel
intel pretty much bet the farm on ia64 and it's hurting them.
in order for ia64 to be successful they made a number of huge assumptions about where techology was going to go in the next decade. they also made partnerships to deliver operating systems and software for the architecture. in order for ia64 to be successful, every single one of them needed to pan out. instead what happened is not a single one of them panned out. none of the research required for ia64 was successful, and the partnerships evaporated.
so now, intel is left with an enormously expensive design which is unable to live up to a single one of its design goals. it is not cost effective, and it's not even a good performer.
A lot of what intel has been doing for the past couple years has been completely reactionary responses to AMD products. The "EE" edition CPUs, em64t, and now the dualcore CPUs.
But in each case it was made pretty obvious that the products were hastily designed (if you could call them "designed" at all), and performed poorly compared to the competition.
I think part of this is due to the loss of resources from the hurricane-sucking ia64 mess. Intel is spending far too much on beating the ia64 dead horse, and it's hurting their core markets.
Sooner or later the shareholders are going to demand a change. It will be interesting to see if they finally let ia64 die.
Linux doesnt "copy" unix (after all, what is "unix"?) Linux implements the POSIX spec. That POSIX happens to look very unix-y is just a happy coincidence.
Linux diverges significantly from "unix", something BSDers are quick and very vocal to point out.
It is quite easy to show where companies like apple have made significant innovations. Not so easy with microsoft.
jobs and mcnealy don't care. gates cares, desperately and you can see it clearly demonstrated from his public rants.
If there is anything unique about gates, it's his obsessive desire to possess and dominate everything. Jobs and McNealy are content to do a few things well. But gates won't be content until he rules it all. Everything. The whole world.
Its quite funny to see linux, ipod, google, etc drive bill into fits of rage.