And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.
btw sorry to tell you this but Napolean was actually tall for his day...
"Two Worlds, One Sun" in 17 languages [including ancient Sumerian and Mayan], and was selected over such historical mottos as one French sundial that reads: "Every hour injures; the last one kills".
I can't imagine why, I mean that second motto is just such an optemistic and inspirational message to send to another world! I mean just repeat it to yourself,"Every hour injures; the last one kills," don't you feel better already?!
I remember seeing an interview once with a man who according to IQ tests was the (or one of the) smartest man currently living. He went on about how he was smarter then Einstein but how no one would hire him without a degree and it was so hard to meet other smart people, etc. He said he was going to write a book that would change how we think about physics or something like that, was a bouncer and frankly from what I heard I probably wouldn't hire him either. It takes more than just brains, it takes the desire to use them and that is what great scientists have. You always hear about the mythical super-genius who doesn't get the great education and suddenly gets it and revolutionizes the world, in reality if they didn't bother learning basic math what makes you thnik they'll bother with string theory.
That's what makes the great scientists, the love of learning, and that's why I think Newton would have made it to Faculty today (assuming he didn't decide to work for a mega-corporation instead). Maybe he wouldn't have flown through school, he could probably find it slow enough to bore him but I feel that modern schooling is dynamic enough from 50 years ago that he would have made it through, remember this is a man who loved to learn, I mean it can't be much less stimulating then 17th century schooling! Now assuming he decides to go into mathematics (or physics) again he goes to university. Now assuming that due to boredom he didn't get great high school marks (I suspect unlikely) Newton wasn't exactly from a poor family and could of probably gone into whatever school he wanted. Once he's in university he's on the path and can pretty much do whatever he wants. If he gets the marks which he could definately do eccentricity would be no obstacle and he would make it into Faculty in no time.
No, they're not, because people don't know that I don't have the money to fight. So NDA's are just a harmless bluff for me and probably everyone else. But in the interests of thoroughness I should use them.
Ummm, about that bluffing concept and the "people don't know" statement, I think you may just made a slight mistake...
On the contrary one of my biggest complaints with the desktop currently is the complete lack of responsiveness when doing any CPU intensive processes and choppy media because I'm doing something else at the same time and it takes too long for the CPU to get back to noatun. The 2.6 kernel will be a significant boost to linux usability on the desktop.
If I buy "XP-Lite upgrade kit", they're probably getting USD 70 or more of the 90-100 I pay. Alternatively, you can sell it for 20 bucks or so on top of the standard XP upgrade kit.
If they're selling an "upgrade kit" then their market would be microscopic. The vast majority of people won't buy software for their 'ancient' computer that barely works now only to extend it's lifespan a couple years by sacrificing functionality. If they're in the mood to spend money on their computer they'd much rather get a flashy new computer that runs all the latest software or some new hardware (RAM, newer CPU) that has a much longer lifespan and makes things other than the window manager run faster then just get an upgrade kit and makes your desktop less flashy.
I really wish they'd make a nice light desktop for Windows XP.
Not gonna happen. Even if it didn't cost them anything, if fact I suspect if they wanted to they could adapt their PDA window manager which I suspect is fairly lightweight. There are two reasons why (I can think of). One is upgrade cycle. Most people who get a new computer do so because their old one gets old and slow. When they buy a new one they also buy a new OS and other software along with it not to mention the other software they buy seperately to go with their new computer. Offering a light WM would allow people to extend their computers life cycle and slow the upgrade cycle, assuming it was free of course but even if it isn't MS would just be taking a slice of their future pie.
Another reason is variety, right now one of MS's biggest advantage is people don't have experience with variety. If they get used to a utilitarian WM without the flashy features they may start to wonder if it wouldn't be easy for someone other then MS to make a good WM and start looking around.
The main rule I've learned about when a corporation gets to be a monopoly is what is good for the corporation is very often not what is good for the consumer.
I'm just thinking of the poor weight sensitive wife* who sit's down, has a couple dogs jump on as well and suddenly gets misidentified as her obese/. geek husband!
*Yes "/.ers have no girlfreind trolls", note that I used 'the' as in singular, I realize there isn't too many!
What's it got to do with Linux though? Data sharing seems to have more to do with databases and web services, neither of which are explicitly Linux oriented traits. It seems to me it's not data, but functionality that's shared in the Linux community.
Depends what you define as data. MP3s? Major Applications? Utilities? Protocols? File formats? Expertise? Source Code? All of those I consider to be types of data. I think it goes without saying that it won't be buisness data but to the fact that a lot of them may be frustrated with money being spent re-inventing the wheel. In this case the tools and associated community are the data.
Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?
I'm not a doctor or a weapons expert but my thought is that a low caliber weapon would be more likely to result in a lingering belly wound and in the end isn't that what really matters?
Reminds me of the time in Junior High when I did a report on Nanotechnology for the science fair. None of the judges seemed to get it when I told them I had a scale model!
Why the need for all the pseudo-intellectual debates on "whither gaming?" If Carmack and whoever else think that there's a demand for simple games, then they should build them. If there really is a strong demand for such games, he/they will make a lot of money (or even more money, in the case of Mr. Carmack). Meanwhile, other developers will make more complex games that appeal to other segments of the market, and make money that way. It's really quite simple.
Isn't the point of these discussions to actually figgure out what people want so they know what they want to produce? What is the point of saying who cares let the market decide when the market will make its decisions based on what people care about and to a certain extent what we talk about in forums like this. I'm sorry if I seem to be taking your post out of context but I got a strong impression that you feel that this discussion is completely pointless because it can all be left to market forces, even if it doesn't have any real effect I don't see any reason why we can't blabber on about it.
ps I see you consider me a foe so I'm not sorry!!:-P
"As he was seeking political favors, a friend of Sen. Orrin Hatch bought a whopping 1,200 copies of Hatch's largely self-produced music CDs, for which Hatch receives $3 to $7 each.
Nice to see how he skirts campaign finance rules.
By my interpretation skirting campaign finance rules would be finding ways to contribute more money than you are allowed to a candidate's campaign. Contributing several thousand dollars directly to the candidate on the other hand would be bribery.
I'm so glad you asked!! Both. vi for quick editing, emacs (NOT xemacs) for coding projects.:q!:q!:q!
So does this mean she won't lose any votes because of her choice of editor? Good thing no one asked her what OS she used though, I don't think there's a safe answer to that question around here!
I for one want a leader with the balls to stand up for what s/he thinks is right.
I do too, I just don't like it when they impose their views on their country. Recently the mayor of Edmonton Bill Smith had a press conference. He was very emotional and went on about how he felt homosexulality was morally wrong and went against everything he was brought up to believe in. He then said it was his duty as mayor to have gay pride parades. Similarly with gay marriages quite a number of officials from the Catholic church said that any politicians who allowed gay marriages would burn in hell. Prime Minister Cretien said that his first duty was as Prime Minister and is in the process of allowing them (well the courts already did that parliment is drafting legislation now, it's a long story). The thing is that in both cases the leader stated their beliefs and stood up for them but did not impose that belief upon their constituents, that's the kind of leader I feel most comfertable with.
Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
It's worded suspiciously but I don't think necessarily means the crashes are due to windows code. Aren't hardware issues responsible for a significant amount of crashes as well? Are they being counted in the 50% that belongs to driver problems and other third party code or are they counted with the windows problems.
If that's so, wouldn't it make sense to hold onto it and make even MORE money? If I were Darl McBride I would hold on to the stock until it had reached it's peak.
Dumping now is a sure sign that something is up.
Not necessarily, note that they are still only selling a small portion of their total stock which could mean either that they realize that they can only unload so much so fast or that they still realize that they may make even MORE money in the future but they would be stupid not to make sure they get SOME (recall if the lawsuit doesn't work SCO is as good as dead and if they didn't sell their stock they would have nothing). Them selling stock isn't proof of the lawsuit being baseless, it's just common sense.
I hate SCO and the lawsuit as much as anyone else but I'm not sure this in itself is direct evidence of a pump & dump scheme. Consider that for the first time in a long time the stock is worth some money, it is possible they just want to cash out a little bit because of the chance something bad might happen. True these actions are perfectly consistent with what they'd do if the lawsuit was bogus but also consider what you would do if the loads of stock you had suddenly shot up in value 1700% and you were suddenly very rich, wouldn't you be tempted to pull it as fast as you could as well? Also it's been pointed out that it is only about 2@ of the insider shares they have, I hate SCO and what they're doing but I think the stock selling thing might be getting a little overblown.
I am thinking that I will buy one if they guarentee that it is required. I would like some legal letter from their CEO (and Ray Noorda) that will guarentee that this is necessary and that this is not a fraud to simply sell stock. I am thinking of 3 little words corporate veil piercing.
I wonder if I start calling on their 800 number How high I can go with this
SCO response: "You have linux, if you don't buy a license we'll sue you right now! How's that for a guarentee? MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
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Please send me a nastygram.
I'm afraid I can't speak for Gator but I can assure you there is no shortage of trolls who are perfectly willing to accomodate your wish.
Actually it's a double /.ing from all the people reloading to watch the counter go up!
And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.
btw sorry to tell you this but Napolean was actually tall for his day...
UNIX geeks don't smell bad enough already!
"Two Worlds, One Sun" in 17 languages [including ancient Sumerian and Mayan], and was selected over such historical mottos as one French sundial that reads: "Every hour injures; the last one kills".
I can't imagine why, I mean that second motto is just such an optemistic and inspirational message to send to another world! I mean just repeat it to yourself,"Every hour injures; the last one kills," don't you feel better already?!
I remember seeing an interview once with a man who according to IQ tests was the (or one of the) smartest man currently living. He went on about how he was smarter then Einstein but how no one would hire him without a degree and it was so hard to meet other smart people, etc. He said he was going to write a book that would change how we think about physics or something like that, was a bouncer and frankly from what I heard I probably wouldn't hire him either. It takes more than just brains, it takes the desire to use them and that is what great scientists have. You always hear about the mythical super-genius who doesn't get the great education and suddenly gets it and revolutionizes the world, in reality if they didn't bother learning basic math what makes you thnik they'll bother with string theory.
That's what makes the great scientists, the love of learning, and that's why I think Newton would have made it to Faculty today (assuming he didn't decide to work for a mega-corporation instead). Maybe he wouldn't have flown through school, he could probably find it slow enough to bore him but I feel that modern schooling is dynamic enough from 50 years ago that he would have made it through, remember this is a man who loved to learn, I mean it can't be much less stimulating then 17th century schooling! Now assuming he decides to go into mathematics (or physics) again he goes to university. Now assuming that due to boredom he didn't get great high school marks (I suspect unlikely) Newton wasn't exactly from a poor family and could of probably gone into whatever school he wanted. Once he's in university he's on the path and can pretty much do whatever he wants. If he gets the marks which he could definately do eccentricity would be no obstacle and he would make it into Faculty in no time.
No, they're not, because people don't know that I don't have the money to fight. So NDA's are just a harmless bluff for me and probably everyone else. But in the interests of thoroughness I should use them.
Ummm, about that bluffing concept and the "people don't know" statement, I think you may just made a slight mistake...
On the contrary one of my biggest complaints with the desktop currently is the complete lack of responsiveness when doing any CPU intensive processes and choppy media because I'm doing something else at the same time and it takes too long for the CPU to get back to noatun. The 2.6 kernel will be a significant boost to linux usability on the desktop.
If I buy "XP-Lite upgrade kit", they're probably getting USD 70 or more of the 90-100 I pay. Alternatively, you can sell it for 20 bucks or so on top of the standard XP upgrade kit.
If they're selling an "upgrade kit" then their market would be microscopic. The vast majority of people won't buy software for their 'ancient' computer that barely works now only to extend it's lifespan a couple years by sacrificing functionality. If they're in the mood to spend money on their computer they'd much rather get a flashy new computer that runs all the latest software or some new hardware (RAM, newer CPU) that has a much longer lifespan and makes things other than the window manager run faster then just get an upgrade kit and makes your desktop less flashy.
I really wish they'd make a nice light desktop for Windows XP.
Not gonna happen. Even if it didn't cost them anything, if fact I suspect if they wanted to they could adapt their PDA window manager which I suspect is fairly lightweight. There are two reasons why (I can think of). One is upgrade cycle. Most people who get a new computer do so because their old one gets old and slow. When they buy a new one they also buy a new OS and other software along with it not to mention the other software they buy seperately to go with their new computer. Offering a light WM would allow people to extend their computers life cycle and slow the upgrade cycle, assuming it was free of course but even if it isn't MS would just be taking a slice of their future pie.
Another reason is variety, right now one of MS's biggest advantage is people don't have experience with variety. If they get used to a utilitarian WM without the flashy features they may start to wonder if it wouldn't be easy for someone other then MS to make a good WM and start looking around.
The main rule I've learned about when a corporation gets to be a monopoly is what is good for the corporation is very often not what is good for the consumer.
I'm just thinking of the poor weight sensitive wife* who sit's down, has a couple dogs jump on as well and suddenly gets misidentified as her obese /. geek husband!
*Yes "/.ers have no girlfreind trolls", note that I used 'the' as in singular, I realize there isn't too many!
Grrr, stupid PHP!
Good software !== no bugs ever.
Just like good posts don't require logical operators that actually exist.
you are a MAJOR geek.
*sniff*
thank you
that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me!
What's it got to do with Linux though? Data sharing seems to have more to do with databases and web services, neither of which are explicitly Linux oriented traits. It seems to me it's not data, but functionality that's shared in the Linux community.
Depends what you define as data. MP3s? Major Applications? Utilities? Protocols? File formats? Expertise? Source Code?
All of those I consider to be types of data. I think it goes without saying that it won't be buisness data but to the fact that a lot of them may be frustrated with money being spent re-inventing the wheel. In this case the tools and associated community are the data.
Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?
I'm not a doctor or a weapons expert but my thought is that a low caliber weapon would be more likely to result in a lingering belly wound and in the end isn't that what really matters?
Reminds me of the time in Junior High when I did a report on Nanotechnology for the science fair. None of the judges seemed to get it when I told them I had a scale model!
Why the need for all the pseudo-intellectual debates on "whither gaming?" If Carmack and whoever else think that there's a demand for simple games, then they should build them. If there really is a strong demand for such games, he/they will make a lot of money (or even more money, in the case of Mr. Carmack). Meanwhile, other developers will make more complex games that appeal to other segments of the market, and make money that way. It's really quite simple.
:-P
Isn't the point of these discussions to actually figgure out what people want so they know what they want to produce? What is the point of saying who cares let the market decide when the market will make its decisions based on what people care about and to a certain extent what we talk about in forums like this. I'm sorry if I seem to be taking your post out of context but I got a strong impression that you feel that this discussion is completely pointless because it can all be left to market forces, even if it doesn't have any real effect I don't see any reason why we can't blabber on about it.
ps I see you consider me a foe so I'm not sorry!!
"As he was seeking political favors, a friend of Sen. Orrin Hatch bought a whopping 1,200 copies of Hatch's largely self-produced music CDs, for which Hatch receives $3 to $7 each.
Nice to see how he skirts campaign finance rules.
By my interpretation skirting campaign finance rules would be finding ways to contribute more money than you are allowed to a candidate's campaign. Contributing several thousand dollars directly to the candidate on the other hand would be bribery.
I'm so glad you asked!! Both. vi for quick editing, emacs (NOT xemacs) for coding projects. :q!:q!:q!
So does this mean she won't lose any votes because of her choice of editor?
Good thing no one asked her what OS she used though, I don't think there's a safe answer to that question around here!
I for one want a leader with the balls to stand up for what s/he thinks is right.
I do too, I just don't like it when they impose their views on their country. Recently the mayor of Edmonton Bill Smith had a press conference. He was very emotional and went on about how he felt homosexulality was morally wrong and went against everything he was brought up to believe in. He then said it was his duty as mayor to have gay pride parades. Similarly with gay marriages quite a number of officials from the Catholic church said that any politicians who allowed gay marriages would burn in hell. Prime Minister Cretien said that his first duty was as Prime Minister and is in the process of allowing them (well the courts already did that parliment is drafting legislation now, it's a long story). The thing is that in both cases the leader stated their beliefs and stood up for them but did not impose that belief upon their constituents, that's the kind of leader I feel most comfertable with.
Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company's reporting tool, revealed that "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
It's worded suspiciously but I don't think necessarily means the crashes are due to windows code. Aren't hardware issues responsible for a significant amount of crashes as well? Are they being counted in the 50% that belongs to driver problems and other third party code or are they counted with the windows problems.
If that's so, wouldn't it make sense to hold onto it and make even MORE money? If I were Darl McBride I would hold on to the stock until it had reached it's peak.
Dumping now is a sure sign that something is up.
Not necessarily, note that they are still only selling a small portion of their total stock which could mean either that they realize that they can only unload so much so fast or that they still realize that they may make even MORE money in the future but they would be stupid not to make sure they get SOME (recall if the lawsuit doesn't work SCO is as good as dead and if they didn't sell their stock they would have nothing). Them selling stock isn't proof of the lawsuit being baseless, it's just common sense.
I hate SCO and the lawsuit as much as anyone else but I'm not sure this in itself is direct evidence of a pump & dump scheme. Consider that for the first time in a long time the stock is worth some money, it is possible they just want to cash out a little bit because of the chance something bad might happen. True these actions are perfectly consistent with what they'd do if the lawsuit was bogus but also consider what you would do if the loads of stock you had suddenly shot up in value 1700% and you were suddenly very rich, wouldn't you be tempted to pull it as fast as you could as well? Also it's been pointed out that it is only about 2@ of the insider shares they have, I hate SCO and what they're doing but I think the stock selling thing might be getting a little overblown.
I am thinking that I will buy one if they guarentee that it is required. I would like some legal letter from their CEO (and Ray Noorda) that will guarentee that this is necessary and that this is not a fraud to simply sell stock.
I am thinking of 3 little words
corporate veil piercing.
I wonder if I start calling on their 800 number How high I can go with this
SCO response: "You have linux, if you don't buy a license we'll sue you right now! How's that for a guarentee? MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"