From an outsider's perspective I'm impressed with this decision and the forsight Apple had in their development of OS X. This is a bold move driven by an understanding of what the customers want... fast, portable computers that run a flexible visually attractive operating system. If this means more apps on Mac (which it seems like it does) then that is just another plus. I applaud Apple, and Steve Jobs for not only talking big but planning ahead and being able to deliver on this initiative (to the developers) within weaks of their announcement. Pretty cool stuff.
I agree. Remote Desktop Protocol is a big plus and I prefer XP's enhanced non-kernel features like better integration w/ Microsoft Office and SharePoint.
Read the whole article and it becomes quite clear what Villasante's intentions are.
"Villasante used his keynote speech earlier in the day to express concerns about the European software industry."
"What I think is that Europe doesn't have a software industry today -- the only one we have today is in America. In the future we may have China or India. We should decide if we will have a European software industry in the future," he said.
"Open source is a complete mess -- many people do lots of different things. There's total confusion today," Villasante said.
Villasante is interested in exploiting the open source software community to weaken the non-EU software companies. His stated goal is to create a European Software industry. He can't just create one out of nothing, but he can begin spreading the idea that big evil companies are exploiting poor programmers all across the world. Once he's sold that, he'll look around and ask rhetorically, "What should we do?... why... I think we need to legislate to protect the poor unorganized software developers from these evil corporations!" Legislation to "protect" open source will have the opposite impact. This is pure buerocratic rhetoric.
One alternative that you didn't mention, is that for "God" to exist, to create beings made of material in this universe, he too must be made of material in this universe... therefore the universe must have existed before "God" existed. So who created that?
This is a view. The other option here is that God could create the universe and be apart from it. A VERY bad analogy, but in the right direction I think, is that I can create software and not be a computer.
I think you're right about keeping an open mind and examining all of the evidence, but as with the rock on Mars, you'd have to have the evidence to examine first.
When you ask if people believe in "life on other planets", you'll get two camps (usually): 1.) The religious nutters who believe God created man once, and broke the mold, and 2.) Abductee nutters who believe aliens are living among us already.
The survey would disprove this stupid assertion. 46% of the churchgoers (religious nutters to you) believe there was life on other planets. 40% of Americans don't believe in life on other planets (which doesn't fit into one your little nutter camps). Of course you were kidding... it wasn't that funny, not offensive really, just not funny.
All kidding aside... life exists elsewhere, its how WE came to exist HERE, in this time.
This begs the question... where did that life come from? We can go w/ a relgious answer, say God or all life is energy, or something like that. I suspect that's a "nutter" answer from your perspective. Another (more scientific?) option would be to say that there are conditions elsewhere more conducive to producing life. Considering our ability to search the universe and our ability to know its history for all of time I suspect this answer will always exist... because we'll never be able to prove that we have exhausted all of the possible locations that life could have started in. There could be another answer that I missed.
That won't happen because beings that are capable of visiting Earth obviously know a helluva lot more than us, enough to abolish religion on their home planet (since religion is obviously filler material to fill in the void left by insufficient knowledge about the universe)
You're cute. Have the aliens told you they abolished religion on their planet? Maybe their religion is simple... maybe you will worship them as god or die, because religion is obviously a powerful controlling mechanism that can use to easily subjegate the unwashed masses.
Yeah, or some day our technology will advance to the point that we can see in great detail across billions and billions of light years and we'll realize that we're sitting in a vast wasteland, a graveyard, of dead civilizations. All imploding on themselves.
Why is it that we alwasy assume that more "advanced" extraterrestrial life has anything even close to our moral structure? What if other life had Hitlers who won? Or came from environments which were so sparsely populated with resources that elimination of weaker memebers of the society is considered to be the right choice?
Maybe only when a planet truly realizes the power of hate is it ready to join the Dark Side.
Your study would be more interesting from an academic (and useful) standpoint but this study was run so that it "... Coincides with National Geographic Channel's World Premiere Special 'Extraterrestrial' meaning this is fur entertainment and publicity purposes only. Now National Geographic will trumpet how "relevant" their new show is, rambling on and on about how many people believe in extraterrestrial life. Pure entertainment folks... move along nothing to see here.
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"GIVE US BETTER AI!" Yeah, like it's that easy.
Most of the graphics we have today, were at one time in this same category "of yeah that's easy". If you were to say in the days of Commander Keen, "I want a 3D game where you can run around multi-story levels hunting various types of bad guys and have realistic lightining effects and I want to be able to play with my friends who live 1000 miles from me" you could have said the same thing. The point is that adding better AI can be evolutionary and it doesn't have to be true "AI"... the enemy characters don't actually need to have self realization and contemplate whether what they're doing is good or bad... they just need to have more complex alogrythms that allow them to cooperate, or take advantage of the terrain around them. It shouldn't be that hard to program a simple alorythm that says, when under fire and there is a door near by, take cover or call for backup. Start with simple behaviors like this, and continue to build the AI engines and over time you'll have truly sophisticated AI that will kick the crap out of you every single time.
They could add a booth at the end of the security lines selling your picture to you, just like they do at the theme parks at then end of rollercoasters.
There is a chance that some perv would get the job as x-ray screener, but that's a chance you take in any position (ask someone you know who has worked at a fast food restaurant what kind of nasty stuff goes on there).
I worked at McDonalds in small rural community in Tennessee (several years ago). Although there are a lot of stories about all of the disgusting things that go on in fast food restaurants (shoes in boiling grease, semen in mayo, spit, etc.) I never saw anything even close to that actually happening. The stories make for good urban legends though.
the intrinsic security of a home network on private address space sharing a single (protected) internet connection is eliminated.
A stateful firewall on the router (not too uncommon) that, by default only allows outgoing connections would do the trick. Any additional functions could easily be requested for a single IP or a range of IPs using a web-based GUI.
There is always error, it's unavoidable. However, considering the budget that was used to conduct this polling
Budget has nothing to do with the statistical accuracy of the report or the value that the report provides. The question here (and the question that is being asked) is how flawed is this report and what is the margin of error. It may not be completely useless, but using this report as proof of a trend for the entire Linux community should only be made with heavy qualification.
You're right... the rovers could have sex and in time hope to breed a mighty race of rovers which could then pull out the one that's stuck.
Yo yo... and mabye their progeny could evolve some kick ass spinnahs. It's one thing to drive around mars, but fo' real... yuh need to be drivin' in style kid.
You sound dumb. You are probably the son of a rich family. You probably don't have any real skills except counting your families money. I feel sorry for you.
I am dumb, you've found me out. I am only good at counting the billions and billions of dollars that have been in my family for ages and ages. Oddly enough earned through our foreign Chinese mining operations.
Now... to be a little bit more serious, although you don't really deserve a response. Companies want to get a job done, they want to do it for a set quality at the absolute lowest possible cost. If someone in Albany can do it equally as well as someone in New York City, they will pay the person in Albany not New York City. Now if there is some reason that they absolutely must hire someone in New York City then they'll go ahead and hire the person in New York and understand that as a cost of doing business. For many jobs we're finding that you don't have to located in any one particular place to do the work.
The standard of living that people have come to expect is in question. The labor market is growing rapidly as technology and education spreads which means the labor supply is increasing and driving down the costs of labor.
Don't bother thinking about any of this too hard though, because you're feeling sorry for me and that makes me feel really good... almost as good as counting all of this unearned money. Let me go back to counting that.
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will it use Intel chips?
From an outsider's perspective I'm impressed with this decision and the forsight Apple had in their development of OS X. This is a bold move driven by an understanding of what the customers want... fast, portable computers that run a flexible visually attractive operating system. If this means more apps on Mac (which it seems like it does) then that is just another plus. I applaud Apple, and Steve Jobs for not only talking big but planning ahead and being able to deliver on this initiative (to the developers) within weaks of their announcement. Pretty cool stuff.
I agree. Remote Desktop Protocol is a big plus and I prefer XP's enhanced non-kernel features like better integration w/ Microsoft Office and SharePoint.
Your trollish comment reminded me of this wonderful business adage.
Apathy - If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us. - E.L. Kersten, Ph.D.
Read the whole article and it becomes quite clear what Villasante's intentions are.
"Villasante used his keynote speech earlier in the day to express concerns about the European software industry."
"What I think is that Europe doesn't have a software industry today -- the only one we have today is in America. In the future we may have China or India. We should decide if we will have a European software industry in the future," he said.
"Open source is a complete mess -- many people do lots of different things. There's total confusion today," Villasante said.
Villasante is interested in exploiting the open source software community to weaken the non-EU software companies. His stated goal is to create a European Software industry. He can't just create one out of nothing, but he can begin spreading the idea that big evil companies are exploiting poor programmers all across the world. Once he's sold that, he'll look around and ask rhetorically, "What should we do?... why... I think we need to legislate to protect the poor unorganized software developers from these evil corporations!" Legislation to "protect" open source will have the opposite impact. This is pure buerocratic rhetoric.
P.S. I am not the guy whose account I am posting this under. I just live in his house.
I am not the guy whose account I am posting this under. I just 0wnz h1s l1nux b0x3n.
One alternative that you didn't mention, is that for "God" to exist, to create beings made of material in this universe, he too must be made of material in this universe... therefore the universe must have existed before "God" existed. So who created that?
This is a view. The other option here is that God could create the universe and be apart from it. A VERY bad analogy, but in the right direction I think, is that I can create software and not be a computer.
I think you're right about keeping an open mind and examining all of the evidence, but as with the rock on Mars, you'd have to have the evidence to examine first.
When you ask if people believe in "life on other planets", you'll get two camps (usually): 1.) The religious nutters who believe God created man once, and broke the mold, and 2.) Abductee nutters who believe aliens are living among us already.
The survey would disprove this stupid assertion. 46% of the churchgoers (religious nutters to you) believe there was life on other planets. 40% of Americans don't believe in life on other planets (which doesn't fit into one your little nutter camps). Of course you were kidding... it wasn't that funny, not offensive really, just not funny.
All kidding aside... life exists elsewhere, its how WE came to exist HERE, in this time.
This begs the question... where did that life come from? We can go w/ a relgious answer, say God or all life is energy, or something like that. I suspect that's a "nutter" answer from your perspective. Another (more scientific?) option would be to say that there are conditions elsewhere more conducive to producing life. Considering our ability to search the universe and our ability to know its history for all of time I suspect this answer will always exist... because we'll never be able to prove that we have exhausted all of the possible locations that life could have started in. There could be another answer that I missed.
I guarantee many humans would start worshiping Alpha Centaurians right after they are found.
I'm sure they already have.
That won't happen because beings that are capable of visiting Earth obviously know a helluva lot more than us, enough to abolish religion on their home planet (since religion is obviously filler material to fill in the void left by insufficient knowledge about the universe)
You're cute. Have the aliens told you they abolished religion on their planet? Maybe their religion is simple... maybe you will worship them as god or die, because religion is obviously a powerful controlling mechanism that can use to easily subjegate the unwashed masses.
I'll ante up my $.01 too.
Yeah, or some day our technology will advance to the point that we can see in great detail across billions and billions of light years and we'll realize that we're sitting in a vast wasteland, a graveyard, of dead civilizations. All imploding on themselves.
Why is it that we alwasy assume that more "advanced" extraterrestrial life has anything even close to our moral structure? What if other life had Hitlers who won? Or came from environments which were so sparsely populated with resources that elimination of weaker memebers of the society is considered to be the right choice?
Maybe only when a planet truly realizes the power of hate is it ready to join the Dark Side.
Your study would be more interesting from an academic (and useful) standpoint but this study was run so that it "... Coincides with National Geographic Channel's World Premiere Special 'Extraterrestrial' meaning this is fur entertainment and publicity purposes only. Now National Geographic will trumpet how "relevant" their new show is, rambling on and on about how many people believe in extraterrestrial life. Pure entertainment folks... move along nothing to see here.
"GIVE US BETTER AI!" Yeah, like it's that easy.
Most of the graphics we have today, were at one time in this same category "of yeah that's easy". If you were to say in the days of Commander Keen, "I want a 3D game where you can run around multi-story levels hunting various types of bad guys and have realistic lightining effects and I want to be able to play with my friends who live 1000 miles from me" you could have said the same thing. The point is that adding better AI can be evolutionary and it doesn't have to be true "AI"... the enemy characters don't actually need to have self realization and contemplate whether what they're doing is good or bad... they just need to have more complex alogrythms that allow them to cooperate, or take advantage of the terrain around them. It shouldn't be that hard to program a simple alorythm that says, when under fire and there is a door near by, take cover or call for backup. Start with simple behaviors like this, and continue to build the AI engines and over time you'll have truly sophisticated AI that will kick the crap out of you every single time.
They could add a booth at the end of the security lines selling your picture to you, just like they do at the theme parks at then end of rollercoasters.
There is a chance that some perv would get the job as x-ray screener, but that's a chance you take in any position (ask someone you know who has worked at a fast food restaurant what kind of nasty stuff goes on there).
I worked at McDonalds in small rural community in Tennessee (several years ago). Although there are a lot of stories about all of the disgusting things that go on in fast food restaurants (shoes in boiling grease, semen in mayo, spit, etc.) I never saw anything even close to that actually happening. The stories make for good urban legends though.
the intrinsic security of a home network on private address space sharing a single (protected) internet connection is eliminated.
A stateful firewall on the router (not too uncommon) that, by default only allows outgoing connections would do the trick. Any additional functions could easily be requested for a single IP or a range of IPs using a web-based GUI.
I don't see ISPs handing out IPv6 addresses for free to your average home user.
Could be, at least at first, but all it will take is on or two ISPs to offer virtually unlimited IPv6 addresses and the trend will change.
Not to mention the patented Bat Shark Repellant.
Double-sided DVD? Isn't it actually cheaper to produce two single sided DVDs?
This is Smokey and the Bandit that we're talking about here. I say spare no expense!
There is always error, it's unavoidable. However, considering the budget that was used to conduct this polling
Budget has nothing to do with the statistical accuracy of the report or the value that the report provides. The question here (and the question that is being asked) is how flawed is this report and what is the margin of error. It may not be completely useless, but using this report as proof of a trend for the entire Linux community should only be made with heavy qualification.
Investors must be hoping that SCO will like that new IBM server so much they'll run the rest of their business on it.
That's 80 GB of source code, and almost a million pages of correspondence, which IBM scanned and provided on CD.
The "almost a million pages of correspondence" is what went on the CD. Not 80 GB of source code.
Hell, Tigers have a longer history with the term, and I'd hate to meet their lawyer in court...
They're gggrreeaat! - Tony
You're right... the rovers could have sex and in time hope to breed a mighty race of rovers which could then pull out the one that's stuck.
Yo yo... and mabye their progeny could evolve some kick ass spinnahs. It's one thing to drive around mars, but fo' real... yuh need to be drivin' in style kid.
You sound dumb. You are probably the son of a rich family. You probably don't have any real skills except counting your families money. I feel sorry for you.
I am dumb, you've found me out. I am only good at counting the billions and billions of dollars that have been in my family for ages and ages. Oddly enough earned through our foreign Chinese mining operations.
Now... to be a little bit more serious, although you don't really deserve a response. Companies want to get a job done, they want to do it for a set quality at the absolute lowest possible cost. If someone in Albany can do it equally as well as someone in New York City, they will pay the person in Albany not New York City. Now if there is some reason that they absolutely must hire someone in New York City then they'll go ahead and hire the person in New York and understand that as a cost of doing business. For many jobs we're finding that you don't have to located in any one particular place to do the work.
The standard of living that people have come to expect is in question. The labor market is growing rapidly as technology and education spreads which means the labor supply is increasing and driving down the costs of labor.
Don't bother thinking about any of this too hard though, because you're feeling sorry for me and that makes me feel really good... almost as good as counting all of this unearned money. Let me go back to counting that.