Carter does not pull his punches about Gore's activism, "The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science"
That's about par for the course. The right-wing doesn't argue ideas, they just attack the speaker. It's worked for them so far.
The suit from Microsoft continues with the company-mandated propaganda, "A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two approaches fundamentally incompatible", Muglia said.
How is this a truce? How is this even slightly different from the FUD Microsoft regularly churns out? Is this the new strategy - to portray themselves as reasonable people being unfairly targeted by the open-source community?
Poeple in govt. tend to get lazy and do less and less for more and more pay because they can.
Have you been to a national park lately? Park rangers rock. Republicans have been gutting the federal parks budget for years and the park rangers are as helpful and nice as ever. There are other examples of good government around - the libraries in my city are excellent. You might quit parroting the Reagan line and actually look around at what works.
At a minimum , it was criminal conversion. Now that they have been contacted by the rightful owner, it IS stealing. The rest of us learned very early that you don't keep things that don't belong to you. Some people missed that lesson apparently.
Before you try to decide whether to pay it or not, figure out what the domain name is worth to you. Will that $1500 be a good return on the investment? Isn't there something more worthwhile you can be spending your capital on? If your business model requires you to have this and no other domain name, then you'll have to suck it up and soend the money. Start out with a sub-1000 counteroffer. This is business - if you're going in feeling afraid of looking foolish, then you're going to lose your money. Go in with the attitutde that you can walk away at any moment if the deal doesn't work for you. Remember - they have nothing. That domain name isn't worth jack until they get a buyer. They don't want you to walk away. Give them a chance to take some of your cash off your hands and they'll go for it.
This is the New York Post we're talking about folks. Famous for its headline "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR" and also for extorting money to kill negative stories about people. Don't place too much faith in the veracity of this story.
Sun never said the new license was the final step. Contrarily, they said they are going to progress slowly: "No date has been set for open sourcing Java but Sun is anxious to get more developers involved in the JCP and using NetBeans to get their feedback." What's this bonehead complaining about?
If you're paying any attention to this story beyond simple partisan axe grinding, you'll find that people like Bush's arch-nemises in the house and senate (like Nancy Pelosi) have been briefed on these exact NSA programs since 2001, just weeks after 9/11.
Yes, but the briefings were filled with lies and misinformation.
Moving from C++ to Java is irrelevant. The nut of the problem is your poor software engineering. Moving to Java will not magically solve that and your IT Director is an idiot for thinking it will. You probably already knew that so my pointing it out isn't all that helpful. If your existing C++ architecture is difficult to manage, your new Java architecture will also be difficult to manage. The best thing you can do is to throw everything away. Use your current code as a prototype to illustrate desired end-user functionality but do NOT try to replicate it. Re-write from the ground up and throw away all the mistakes that have been made.
SAG mostly deals with actors, and while it may be an artistic job, it isn't what most people would consider a particularly creative job.
I think you've made my point for me. You're so wrapped up in your dogma that you are seriously trying to argue that acting is not a creative job. Either that or you have absolutely no notion as to what acting is all about. It's not just script memorization.
Oh great - so now let's cherry-pick some isolated incidents to bolster our claims. We can do this all night and I bet you run out before I do. In the meantime, "The heads of America's 500 biggest companies received an aggregate 54% pay raise last year". How much was your pay raise? While at the same time, real average wages have been declining since the early 70s - roughly in unison with the decline of union influence. So the question becomes: who will help you look out for your own self-interest? The CEO whose priority is to pump the stock price for the Board of Directors? Or a democratically-elected union representative? Why is it that smart people can be so dense?
I certainly do not want to belong to an organization where I can only be guaranteed a salary increase across the board next to the same slacker programmer who didn't contribute.
The biggest battle that unions have to fight is the battle against the FUD that the corporations (including corporate-run media) has been putting out. Just read all this misinformation that various posters are spreading based on no actual, firsthand knowledge of what a union does or can do.
But how much do you spend per week on public transportation in SF?
$45 per month for a FastPass, but that's a minor point. The real issue is managing your money. Factoring in my reduced tax bill from itemizing deductions for interest payments, I am actually paying less for housing now than when I was renting. People who complain that they can't afford to buy a house either can't manage their money or expect to live in Pacific Heights.
I own a home in San Francisco and no, I'm not making five times your median income. You can live quite nicely if you don't have to go out and buy whatever shiny new gadget is being advertised on TV. I own a car but rarely drive since public transportation gets me where I want to go. I spend roughly $20 / month on gas. In Ohio, $20 might last a week driving from one mall to another to do my shopping. You just re-prioritize your spending is all.
I realize that awareness is an important issue but, which costs more hiring a programmer to implement the standard or the lawsuit he intends to file if the goverment does not keep it's promise.
When factoring in your costs, don't forget the costs of lost productivity from disabled people who can't do business with the state of Massachusetts. And for what it's worth, it looks like this issue will be resovled shortly. From the article: "IBM's software accessibility team, for instance, put other projects on the back burner in November to make Massachusetts-related work its top priority..."
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Carter does not pull his punches about Gore's activism, "The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science"
That's about par for the course. The right-wing doesn't argue ideas, they just attack the speaker. It's worked for them so far.
The suit from Microsoft continues with the company-mandated propaganda, "A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two approaches fundamentally incompatible", Muglia said.
How is this a truce? How is this even slightly different from the FUD Microsoft regularly churns out? Is this the new strategy - to portray themselves as reasonable people being unfairly targeted by the open-source community?
The Democrates always try and pork barrel funds into their states through surreptitious "park programs"...
Yes, and it's a blessing that the Republicans are in charge because they NEVER try to get their own pork barrel projects passed into law.
Poeple in govt. tend to get lazy and do less and less for more and more pay because they can.
Have you been to a national park lately? Park rangers rock. Republicans have been gutting the federal parks budget for years and the park rangers are as helpful and nice as ever. There are other examples of good government around - the libraries in my city are excellent. You might quit parroting the Reagan line and actually look around at what works.
Why stop there? Why don't we just kill people who are no longer productive? After all, they aren't profitable and profits are all that matters, right?
So, I suppose this isn't technically stealing, ...
At a minimum , it was criminal conversion. Now that they have been contacted by the rightful owner, it IS stealing.
The rest of us learned very early that you don't keep things that don't belong to you. Some people missed that lesson apparently.
Towns is coming off looking like a petulant child, IMHO.
Petulant childishness? In the linux community? Who woulda thunk?
Can you, for example, please point out where the forced-labor camps in the US are?
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Before you try to decide whether to pay it or not, figure out what the domain name is worth to you. Will that $1500 be a good return on the investment? Isn't there something more worthwhile you can be spending your capital on? If your business model requires you to have this and no other domain name, then you'll have to suck it up and soend the money. Start out with a sub-1000 counteroffer. This is business - if you're going in feeling afraid of looking foolish, then you're going to lose your money. Go in with the attitutde that you can walk away at any moment if the deal doesn't work for you.
Remember - they have nothing. That domain name isn't worth jack until they get a buyer. They don't want you to walk away. Give them a chance to take some of your cash off your hands and they'll go for it.
This is the New York Post we're talking about folks. Famous for its headline "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR" and also for extorting money to kill negative stories about people. Don't place too much faith in the veracity of this story.
As long as the American public wants to be able to start wars on a whim, it's gonna cost you.
1.a A rumor of criminal activity isn't sufficient for criminal conviction in a court of law....
Which is why the Republicans in the current administration are bypassing the courts - just too inconvenient.
Sun never said the new license was the final step. Contrarily, they said they are going to progress slowly:
"No date has been set for open sourcing Java but Sun is anxious to get more developers involved in the JCP and using NetBeans to get their feedback."
What's this bonehead complaining about?
If you're paying any attention to this story beyond simple partisan axe grinding, you'll find that people like Bush's arch-nemises in the house and senate (like Nancy Pelosi) have been briefed on these exact NSA programs since 2001, just weeks after 9/11.
Yes, but the briefings were filled with lies and misinformation.
Moving from C++ to Java is irrelevant. The nut of the problem is your poor software engineering. Moving to Java will not magically solve that and your IT Director is an idiot for thinking it will. You probably already knew that so my pointing it out isn't all that helpful. If your existing C++ architecture is difficult to manage, your new Java architecture will also be difficult to manage. The best thing you can do is to throw everything away. Use your current code as a prototype to illustrate desired end-user functionality but do NOT try to replicate it. Re-write from the ground up and throw away all the mistakes that have been made.
So Java will never be able to make the pundits happy.
You spelled 'pundits' wrong. It's 'o-b-s-e-s-s--i-v-e f-a-n-b-o-y'.
SAG mostly deals with actors, and while it may be an artistic job, it isn't what most people would consider a particularly creative job.
I think you've made my point for me. You're so wrapped up in your dogma that you are seriously trying to argue that acting is not a creative job. Either that or you have absolutely no notion as to what acting is all about. It's not just script memorization.
Here's some more FUD for your pipe. True story...
Oh great - so now let's cherry-pick some isolated incidents to bolster our claims. We can do this all night and I bet you run out before I do.
In the meantime, "The heads of America's 500 biggest companies received an aggregate 54% pay raise last year". How much was your pay raise? While at the same time, real average wages have been declining since the early 70s - roughly in unison with the decline of union influence.
So the question becomes: who will help you look out for your own self-interest? The CEO whose priority is to pump the stock price for the Board of Directors? Or a democratically-elected union representative?
Why is it that smart people can be so dense?
Yeah, I can't stand those people who make unssupported statements aimed at discrediting those who disagree with them.
You're absolutely right! Thanks for setting me straight on that with your well-documented reasoning.
Unions fundamentally don't work when dealing with a highly heterogeneous, creativity-driven workplace.
Does the Screen Actors Guild know about this?
I certainly do not want to belong to an organization where I can only be guaranteed a salary increase across the board next to the same slacker programmer who didn't contribute.
The biggest battle that unions have to fight is the battle against the FUD that the corporations (including corporate-run media) has been putting out. Just read all this misinformation that various posters are spreading based on no actual, firsthand knowledge of what a union does or can do.
But how much do you spend per week on public transportation in SF?
$45 per month for a FastPass, but that's a minor point. The real issue is managing your money. Factoring in my reduced tax bill from itemizing deductions for interest payments, I am actually paying less for housing now than when I was renting. People who complain that they can't afford to buy a house either can't manage their money or expect to live in Pacific Heights.
Who is "you"? If you know something and can back it up, then post it. Otherwise, STFU.
How the hell can you guys afford to live there?
I own a home in San Francisco and no, I'm not making five times your median income. You can live quite nicely if you don't have to go out and buy whatever shiny new gadget is being advertised on TV. I own a car but rarely drive since public transportation gets me where I want to go. I spend roughly $20 / month on gas. In Ohio, $20 might last a week driving from one mall to another to do my shopping. You just re-prioritize your spending is all.
I realize that awareness is an important issue but, which costs more hiring a programmer to implement the standard or the lawsuit he intends to file if the goverment does not keep it's promise.
When factoring in your costs, don't forget the costs of lost productivity from disabled people who can't do business with the state of Massachusetts.
And for what it's worth, it looks like this issue will be resovled shortly. From the article:
"IBM's software accessibility team, for instance, put other projects on the back burner in November to make Massachusetts-related work its top priority..."