Microsoft see OSS as a threat: that's their problem, not ours. OSS has never been - and never should be - in the business to compete with anyone. OSS is here to produce better software. Period. If distributions like RedHat or IBM want to go toe-to-toe against MS, that's their problem.
Really, any press release or fluff from OSS collaborators should be ignored. Any OS release should be examined for goodness - copied - then ignored. Any attempts to say that OSS is here to "wipe-out" MS should be ignored. OSS can never do that. Those people who whinge about OSS *not* competing with word, access, oh, get a life.
superman doesn't exist How do you know? Do you have proof? Ah, come this way, my fine sir. I have a most interesting bridge that has just come up for sale. You might be interested?
Everyone assumes a level playing field, that is, everything is *hunky-dory* with the way things stand, but given that statistically talent must spread across both sexes, it ain't. We get put in these boxes with labels and it's hard to break out. Never has been, and never will be, unless changed are forced through. CS misses out on a lot of talent because of the way things are currently pre-ordained. I would say the real changes should happen in the primary and secondary layers of education. By the time we get to tertiary education, the molds are set.
Logic has little to do with taste. The problem is that those "carefully selected teaser bits" invariably suck. The committee of good taste within NBC (and most media companies) don't have a fucking clue about what will make the water-cooler or the playground the next day. Nobody does. That's why letting viewers clip what they want, let them decide what the best bits of a show are, could be such a win - and was, for a time there. However, doing this takes a whole heap of faith and a jump in the dark; a young companies vision and gain. What you describe here is the caution of the aged, and lawyers were born old. It won't win you any internets.
2. lazy sunday's youtube success doubtlessly brought some fame back to SNL. however, to start as that as a premise and then argue that ergo snl/viacom should not care if the funniest bits of their shows are put onto the internet en masse by anonymous users is completely disingenious. more realistically, it makes sense from SNL's / the network's standpoint to be against random copyright infringing posts of clips from their show but to put carfully selected teaser bits up that may encourage viewers to their television show, where they actually make money through advertising. and this is exactly what they do.
I want the full unexpurgated Last Exile - which I can only (legitimately) get as a set of Region 1 discs from Amazon.com. As I live in the UK, I can do one of the following:
1. buy a multi-region DVD player (which I don't want) 2. Futz with my brand new MacBooks region settings [1] 3. Buy each volume separately. 4. Download a torrent.
3. is a possibility but more expensive than 1, esp as Euro-DVDs have a hefty mark-up charge over the US, which I'm beginning to think is a bit of a con. Have a guess which one I'm doing.
[1] BTW, why do Apple and the PC makers bow down to the content players in this hideous way?
IIRC, most of the wikipedia vandalism is done during school-hours. So, I'm ambivalent: the kids lose a great source of back-ground info (and I happen to believe that it's one of the greatest) which is balanced by it potentially becoming more reliable.
Oh I agree we can have extradition treaties... but not one with such imbalance. Usually, there's a quid pro quo either side. A two way thing as between friends and allies. Not this time. We're acting almost as if we were an extension of the US govt. Yo, Blair! Get down with that grovelling!
Oh, and well we're at, whilst our steel industry was being hammered by US protectionism, whose soldiers were dieing in Afghanistan? Yeah, that's right. Ours. And you wonder why there's so much US hate going on?
No it should not. There are other means of repaying debts like that without screwing your own citizens. I'd like to think our government was in it for us, rather than selling us down the river. Indeed, using soldier's lives to buy America's friendship - as Blair admitted in an interview - that's crap all to do with the sentimental drivel of the 2WW now is it? Oh, and what about our "independant nuclear deterrent": try targeting *that* at New York and see how "independant" we are.
Bend Over, Grease Up, old boy. Blair couldn't give a fuck about liberty or the discomfiture of his voters.
I guess he lives in Cambridge - probably (and this is just a guess) - on or near Sturton or Gwydir Street. I wonder if he's referring to the Chinese on Norfolk Street?
The traffic in Cambridge is a nightmare, mostly because it's a medeival city trying to act all 21st century and failing. There's a lot of activism at the planning level by highly educated and articulate people who know their rights, damnit. Not sure if this is helping.
... only an insightful mod of +1 is keeping the corpse alive. An funny mod of +2 is keeping me from going zombie on the mother-fucking slashdot editors, although if I see some flame-bait out there...
FTR, my opinion of lawyers wasn't that high to begin with. But spreading lies and deceit about birth control that's beyond tacky, it's sick, pond-life. Long live the Christian States of America.
During the intervening war-years, French fascism became very popular, with writers like Celine - a brain-damaged survivor of WW1 - thumping the drum wrt anti-semitism. In many ways, the French nation, after the vengeance of the Versailles Treaty (a double vengeance, doing duty for vengeance of loss during the Franco-Prussian war), was very attuned and keen on fascism. They really didn't want to fight the Germans in more than one way. The annointment of Petain as head of Vichy France seemed to underline the force of French (political) cynicism accumulated from the survivors of the 1WW.
That's only partly true with the famous fascist riots in Paris in 34 however one must not forget that in 36 the french elected the "front populaire" which was a coalition from center-left to left (without communists) to be in charge and the prime minister of the time was Leon BLUM which as his name indicates is jewish, so France was quite far from a right-wing antisemitic country at this time. Ah, I'd forgotten about Blum. The book I read claimed that he was treated atrociously whilst in power, though. I'll dig out the quote. I was under the impression that fascism had a greater hold in France than it did in England, although that could be a mis-representation from the Vichy years.
So even if it is true that the french fascists were very active in the period from 32 to 35 afterwards they quickly faded away only to get back in charge in 40 with the government of Petain "the winner of Verdun" and another useless general, your part about WW1 is excellent...and especially on the fact that the french "fighting spirit" was drowned in blod in Verdun and other places, I think that alltogether US losses in WW2 are around 60,000, French losses in Verdun were over 1,000,000 and German ones slightly more... Thankyou. Wasn't the battle of Verdun known as "the meat-grinder"? I can't remember the French.
On a related note, "Le chagrin et le pitie" is a brilliant documentary. It shows who fought, who collobarated. I wouldn't throw the epitaph "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" at the farmers in the resistance; tough as nails. I was astonished at the French upper-class guy who volunteered for the SS.
The Russians - the people who really won the 2WW - counted their 2WW casualties in millions. as in 10 million.
I think the French lost about 15% of their work-eligible men during the 1WW, nearly in the most brutal way possible, quite a lot of the bodies never to be recovered. I think the French nation as a whole did not recover from WW1 to fight WW2. The French Army during the WW1 had a good fighting record, even if Les bleus were under-paid and ill-equipped. At most times, a French general was in charge of the Allies; they did the best with what they had, and over-came a lot of obstacles. Like the British, fighting colonial wars hadn't really prepared them for fighting modern wars. The French survivors came out of the 1WW bitter and cynical from being fed into one too many meat-grinder with little reward at the end of the day but for the General's benefit (see Kubrick's Paths of Glory). A general who sat in the Chateau miles away.
During the intervening war-years, French fascism became very popular, with writers like Celine - a brain-damaged survivor of WW1 - thumping the drum wrt anti-semitism. In many ways, the French nation, after the vengeance of the Versailles Treaty (a double vengeance, doing duty for vengeance of loss during the Franco-Prussian war), was very attuned and keen on fascism. They really didn't want to fight the Germans in more than one way. The annointment of Petain as head of Vichy France seemed to underline the force of French (political) cynicism accumulated from the survivors of the 1WW.
The French euphemism for death is "disparu" - dissappeared - and it's not surprising in this context of where Frenchment went abroad to fight, never to return. The difference with the 1WW was that they disappeared - literally - on their own homeland.
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This is a joke? /me checks calendar - it's not April 1st. It just feels like it.
Microsoft see OSS as a threat: that's their problem, not ours. OSS has never been - and never should be - in the business to compete with anyone. OSS is here to produce better software. Period. If distributions like RedHat or IBM want to go toe-to-toe against MS, that's their problem.
Really, any press release or fluff from OSS collaborators should be ignored. Any OS release should be examined for goodness - copied - then ignored. Any attempts to say that OSS is here to "wipe-out" MS should be ignored. OSS can never do that. Those people who whinge about OSS *not* competing with word, access, oh, get a life.
Maybe a sense of humour implant is neccessary? After all, materials scientists can have roffles too!
Isn't this Karl Rove's perpetual Republican party? Particularly something about State's Attorneys?
Duh, it's in the article. You havn't read the article? Ah, you *can't be new here.
Everyone assumes a level playing field, that is, everything is *hunky-dory* with the way things stand, but given that statistically talent must spread across both sexes, it ain't. We get put in these boxes with labels and it's hard to break out. Never has been, and never will be, unless changed are forced through. CS misses out on a lot of talent because of the way things are currently pre-ordained. I would say the real changes should happen in the primary and secondary layers of education. By the time we get to tertiary education, the molds are set.
2. lazy sunday's youtube success doubtlessly brought some fame back to SNL. however, to start as that as a premise and then argue that ergo snl/viacom should not care if the funniest bits of their shows are put onto the internet en masse by anonymous users is completely disingenious. more realistically, it makes sense from SNL's / the network's standpoint to be against random copyright infringing posts of clips from their show but to put carfully selected teaser bits up that may encourage viewers to their television show, where they actually make money through advertising. and this is exactly what they do.
1. Post clip on youtube
2. Millions watch it
3. Viewing figures go up
4. Advertisers, uh, advertise on your program.
5. Profit
Once lawyers start running the company, kiss goodbye to profits and future.
I want the full unexpurgated Last Exile - which I can only (legitimately) get as a set of Region 1 discs from Amazon.com. As I live in the UK, I can do one of the following:
1. buy a multi-region DVD player (which I don't want)
2. Futz with my brand new MacBooks region settings [1]
3. Buy each volume separately.
4. Download a torrent.
3. is a possibility but more expensive than 1, esp as Euro-DVDs have a hefty mark-up charge over the US, which I'm beginning to think is a bit of a con. Have a guess which one I'm doing.
[1] BTW, why do Apple and the PC makers bow down to the content players in this hideous way?
IIRC, most of the wikipedia vandalism is done during school-hours. So, I'm ambivalent: the kids lose a great source of back-ground info (and I happen to believe that it's one of the greatest) which is balanced by it potentially becoming more reliable.
They were not destroyed. See other references in the replies to this article.
Also, two wrongs do not make a right. I thought conservatives were big on morals? Apparently not.
tank cleaners would be at a premium then
MS is guilty as charged by a legally constituted court, the court's penalty is to hand over their IP. WTF has socialism got to do with it?
Oh I agree we can have extradition treaties ... but not one with such imbalance. Usually, there's a quid pro quo either side. A two way thing as between friends and allies. Not this time. We're acting almost as if we were an extension of the US govt. Yo, Blair! Get down with that grovelling!
Oh, and well we're at, whilst our steel industry was being hammered by US protectionism, whose soldiers were dieing in Afghanistan? Yeah, that's right. Ours. And you wonder why there's so much US hate going on?
No it should not. There are other means of repaying debts like that without screwing your own citizens. I'd like to think our government was in it for us, rather than selling us down the river. Indeed, using soldier's lives to buy America's friendship - as Blair admitted in an interview - that's crap all to do with the sentimental drivel of the 2WW now is it? Oh, and what about our "independant nuclear deterrent": try targeting *that* at New York and see how "independant" we are.
Bend Over, Grease Up, old boy. Blair couldn't give a fuck about liberty or the discomfiture of his voters.
I guess he lives in Cambridge - probably (and this is just a guess) - on or near Sturton or Gwydir Street. I wonder if he's referring to the Chinese on Norfolk Street?
The traffic in Cambridge is a nightmare, mostly because it's a medeival city trying to act all 21st century and failing. There's a lot of activism at the planning level by highly educated and articulate people who know their rights, damnit. Not sure if this is helping.
... only an insightful mod of +1 is keeping the corpse alive. An funny mod of +2 is keeping me from going zombie on the mother-fucking slashdot editors, although if I see some flame-bait out there ...
probably. Let them figure it out. Duh!
It mentions the LA times, yet links to the Baltimore Sun. Heres the link:
LA times
FTR, my opinion of lawyers wasn't that high to begin with. But spreading lies and deceit about birth control that's beyond tacky, it's sick, pond-life. Long live the Christian States of America.
I wonder if this comment would have been made if the aircraft had been made by Boeing?
Why is this "interesting"?
Look at the OpenAjax HUB:
http://ejohn.org/blog/thoughts-on-openajax/
This is clearly an attempt to wrest control of Ajax from the spotty oiks out there who made Ajax a success whilst Ms dropped the ball.
"Open" my arse. Open in the sense of this dungeon door is open, walk right in. Bring your wallet with you!
the source? manager or salesman on a laptop, betcha pound to a penny ...
That's only partly true with the famous fascist riots in Paris in 34 however one must not forget that in 36 the french elected the "front populaire" which was a coalition from center-left to left (without communists) to be in charge and the prime minister of the time was Leon BLUM which as his name indicates is jewish, so France was quite far from a right-wing antisemitic country at this time. Ah, I'd forgotten about Blum. The book I read claimed that he was treated atrociously whilst in power, though. I'll dig out the quote. I was under the impression that fascism had a greater hold in France than it did in England, although that could be a mis-representation from the Vichy years. So even if it is true that the french fascists were very active in the period from 32 to 35 afterwards they quickly faded away only to get back in charge in 40 with the government of Petain "the winner of Verdun" and another useless general, your part about WW1 is excellent...and especially on the fact that the french "fighting spirit" was drowned in blod in Verdun and other places, I think that alltogether US losses in WW2 are around 60,000, French losses in Verdun were over 1,000,000 and German ones slightly more... Thankyou. Wasn't the battle of Verdun known as "the meat-grinder"? I can't remember the French.
On a related note, "Le chagrin et le pitie" is a brilliant documentary. It shows who fought, who collobarated. I wouldn't throw the epitaph "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" at the farmers in the resistance; tough as nails. I was astonished at the French upper-class guy who volunteered for the SS.
The Russians - the people who really won the 2WW - counted their 2WW casualties in millions. as in 10 million.
I think the French lost about 15% of their work-eligible men during the 1WW, nearly in the most brutal way possible, quite a lot of the bodies never to be recovered. I think the French nation as a whole did not recover from WW1 to fight WW2. The French Army during the WW1 had a good fighting record, even if Les bleus were under-paid and ill-equipped. At most times, a French general was in charge of the Allies; they did the best with what they had, and over-came a lot of obstacles. Like the British, fighting colonial wars hadn't really prepared them for fighting modern wars. The French survivors came out of the 1WW bitter and cynical from being fed into one too many meat-grinder with little reward at the end of the day but for the General's benefit (see Kubrick's Paths of Glory). A general who sat in the Chateau miles away.
During the intervening war-years, French fascism became very popular, with writers like Celine - a brain-damaged survivor of WW1 - thumping the drum wrt anti-semitism. In many ways, the French nation, after the vengeance of the Versailles Treaty (a double vengeance, doing duty for vengeance of loss during the Franco-Prussian war), was very attuned and keen on fascism. They really didn't want to fight the Germans in more than one way. The annointment of Petain as head of Vichy France seemed to underline the force of French (political) cynicism accumulated from the survivors of the 1WW.
The French euphemism for death is "disparu" - dissappeared - and it's not surprising in this context of where Frenchment went abroad to fight, never to return. The difference with the 1WW was that they disappeared - literally - on their own homeland.