"Post-Postscript: According to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of CNET, SCO confirmed today (04 March) that this memo is legitimate." reads the end of the article linked. Perhaps...
Really, read my other post. I realized the subject was stupid and I'm afraid no one will read it because of that. I'm a grad student in international economics and this was just what I've been writing / reading about.
Certainly. China, apparently, isn't very good at producing software.
A quick Economics lecture so you understand:
China produces textiles and cheap plastic toys because it's most cost effective for them to do so. If they could make more money making software some would. So now the government will put a quota limiting imports and thus (supply and demand) the price will go up. This artifically makes producing software profitable more so than what they have the comparative advantage in (what they can produce cheaper than the US can and thus trade for software from Redmond). When the government forces their citizens to make things they aren't quite efficient at it costs more money and makes China poorer.
They are a labor-centric society, perhaps they have the extra manpower to take 2 hours getting ALSA working and should just run Linux.
Heh; I use my anti-lock brakes all the time, ususally when no one is around - not because of bad road conditions or traffic, I just drive like an idiot when nobody is around to hurt (hit).
Oh, oh... (not sarcasm) I didn't mean to give the impression that I was anti-US or scolding it at all. It is the big kid on the block, it knows what is best for it and international stability and it makes choices... and I stand behind them.
Those misguided individuals are violating international law and should be stopped, as should the countries that harbor them.
This isn't offtopic, the parent is, I'm just on-topic responding to it.
I had the distinct impression that the original space charters drawn up made weapons and war in space against international law. Then again the US often ignores these things (and who's gonna' do anything about it, eh?). Hrmmm.
Words. Try saying something before slugging someone. Look at the other comments left; I'm not the only one who disagrees with your immedate use of violence as a solution.
I believe in war, I just require my government to try peace talks and a blodless resolution first.
Ah, yes; violence is the solution to everything. Did you learn that in middle school? Perhaps the high school football playing bullies that picked ot you.
Two wrongs don't make a right; perhaps he was having a bad conversation and didn't handle it quite too well; that could just as easily been a conversation with a live person, perhaps the eye contact would have made him even less aware of the little girl.
Oh, and I'll put $50 on the fact you are a democrat; you write sensationally, appealing to bullshit bleeding-heart stories rather than facts.
Yeah... I suppose my mother does that. When she calls me on my cellphone she feels the need to yell at a volume correlatively loud to how far away I am.
I speak just as loud as I do when I am talking to the person next to me and my pickup must be good enough that my conversation parteners never ask me to speak up.
Ah, first the war on drugs, the war on poverty then the war on terror.
I see we've solved those issues to now have the time to wage war on those annoying annoying people on cellphones.
I think those people who are complaining must be the people who don't get enough cell calls and feel left out. Amusing as it would be I'll break the fingers of the first person cellphone jamming I see.
Why is it socially acceptable to talk to people but as soon as the person is separated by a bit of technology is it considered obnoxious and socially unacceptable?
hrmmm... if I had any mod points I'd give you an insightful for that.
So it all comes back to M$ again as the root of evil. Which makes sense, a company's objective is to maxamize shareholder wealth and M$ certainly does that. Killing Netscape (not that it wasn't worse than IE at the time) is just a step in the direction of market share...
I guess if the lead browser is avalible in another OS it'd be easier to switch away from Windows as well. Hrmmm...
I'm going to wash my car then go rock climbing. (I'm a college student).
It's a good browser with stability, speed and some cool features. So is Opera. It's cross platform. So is Opera.
Opera may be a bit behind on OS X but it was independantly tested as being the world's fastest rendering browser. It sticks to interdational standards like superglue and your fingers.
Is the reason it gets nowhere near the press Mozilla does that Opera is not open source? What are your thoughts on this one?
The company released it's IPO intensions a few days ago (Initial Public Offering; it's "going public" or starting to sell shares of stock to make shareholders the owners). I personally am very excited. I think it's a margainally better product than Moz and that makes it best in the world, IMHO.
I'm sorry but there is simply nothing good about this piece of software. It's sucked since version one and sucks progressively more as time goes on. As a matter of fact Microsoft's wmv and wma kicks the shit out of it and that's saying something.
I installed "V10" today and unchecked EVERYTHING about internet connections, update checkers, shortcuts, file associations etc and the damn thing still did it anyway. I eventually copied it to my gentoo box and mplayer handled it fine besides not being able to queue or fast forward. God I HATE RM shit. Gaa!
I just pick one or two (of my six) classes per semester to buy the books for and concentrate on reading, studying and doing HW for. Mostly the accounting, finance ones. Marketing, philosophy, social dance, etc... One really doesn't need to read to discuss. Especially in Philosophy it really helps with the bullshit skills (major importance later in life esp. w/ a business degree;)). So one or two books and maybe a course packet or two runs 70 - 160 bucks; not too too bad.
I am taking an international economics class and according to the Heckscher-Ohlin model the reason Americans make higher wages is because capital (by that I mean anything EXCEPT labor) is abundant and Indians make far less because capital (same definition) is scarce. It's as simple as that; google for a quick Heckscher-Ohlin model and you won't have to ask these questions any longer!
I was gonna make one of these!! Well, I don't have a school grant so I didn't, but mine was going to drive itself along sidewalks and use multi-colored spray chalk. Cool high-dpi sidewalk murals and the like, you know? I'd roll along on two robot controlled wheels and the print head would scoot left and right.
Do you think about drinking coffee / dew when you are masturbating? I didn't think so.
Really though, what causes the headaches (my most hated withdrawl symptom) is the capalaries in your head constricting back a bit after the caffine caused dialation and thus the headache (same w/ other headaches, just not caused by caffine).
Sex (and thus masturbation) releases natural chemicals that can reverse some of those effects.
If the damned article read that the windfarm killed 22,000 babies in the last 20 years it'd be a big deal but you guys have to let shit like this go. Removal of habitats kills many many more birds of the rare variety described and walmart doesn't give a shit either./.'ers should each build a big birdhouse for said species and save more from the lack of habitat.
Boy, I'm glad that computers don't have their (hands?) in reporting news; it'd be terrible to get rid of all that slant in the media this way and that. I mean who wants fair, equitable stories?! You read the NYT to ra ra for the Bleeding Heart shit, or if you're a heartless republican the Journal is for you. Now how would they sell if they just told the facts as they were and left interpretation up to the readers?!
Well, at least Slashdot will always be biased, thank god for that.
Slashdot Mirror
"Post-Postscript: According to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of CNET, SCO confirmed today (04 March) that this memo is legitimate." reads the end of the article linked. Perhaps...
GrokLaw's page says "The GrokLaw site is under a DoS attack. We're waiting till the attack is over.\nWe don't know who's behind the attacs."
I have a feeling they just don't understand the slashdot effect. Then again they apparently can't speak English so well...
Anonymous Coward, ;)
My MBA is my practical degree... a little theory goes a long way to explain it though
Really, read my other post. I realized the subject was stupid and I'm afraid no one will read it because of that. I'm a grad student in international economics and this was just what I've been writing / reading about.
Certainly. China, apparently, isn't very good at producing software.
A quick Economics lecture so you understand:
China produces textiles and cheap plastic toys because it's most cost effective for them to do so. If they could make more money making software some would. So now the government will put a quota limiting imports and thus (supply and demand) the price will go up. This artifically makes producing software profitable more so than what they have the comparative advantage in (what they can produce cheaper than the US can and thus trade for software from Redmond). When the government forces their citizens to make things they aren't quite efficient at it costs more money and makes China poorer.
They are a labor-centric society, perhaps they have the extra manpower to take 2 hours getting ALSA working and should just run Linux.
This is really cool; do other cities use this as well?
Heh; I use my anti-lock brakes all the time, ususally when no one is around - not because of bad road conditions or traffic, I just drive like an idiot when nobody is around to hurt (hit).
I run Apache under Win 95 - It's so easy to crack it's no fun so no one bothers.
Seriously though I'm glad the gist of the comments around here are "fun with statistics" and the like; that is certainly correct.
Oh, oh... (not sarcasm) I didn't mean to give the impression that I was anti-US or scolding it at all. It is the big kid on the block, it knows what is best for it and international stability and it makes choices... and I stand behind them.
Those misguided individuals are violating international law and should be stopped, as should the countries that harbor them.
This isn't offtopic, the parent is, I'm just on-topic responding to it.
I had the distinct impression that the original space charters drawn up made weapons and war in space against international law. Then again the US often ignores these things (and who's gonna' do anything about it, eh?). Hrmmm.
Words. Try saying something before slugging someone. Look at the other comments left; I'm not the only one who disagrees with your immedate use of violence as a solution.
I believe in war, I just require my government to try peace talks and a blodless resolution first.
Ah, yes; violence is the solution to everything. Did you learn that in middle school? Perhaps the high school football playing bullies that picked ot you.
Two wrongs don't make a right; perhaps he was having a bad conversation and didn't handle it quite too well; that could just as easily been a conversation with a live person, perhaps the eye contact would have made him even less aware of the little girl.
Oh, and I'll put $50 on the fact you are a democrat; you write sensationally, appealing to bullshit bleeding-heart stories rather than facts.
Yeah... I suppose my mother does that. When she calls me on my cellphone she feels the need to yell at a volume correlatively loud to how far away I am.
I speak just as loud as I do when I am talking to the person next to me and my pickup must be good enough that my conversation parteners never ask me to speak up.
Ah, first the war on drugs, the war on poverty then the war on terror.
I see we've solved those issues to now have the time to wage war on those annoying annoying people on cellphones.
I think those people who are complaining must be the people who don't get enough cell calls and feel left out. Amusing as it would be I'll break the fingers of the first person cellphone jamming I see.
Why is it socially acceptable to talk to people but as soon as the person is separated by a bit of technology is it considered obnoxious and socially unacceptable?
hrmmm... if I had any mod points I'd give you an insightful for that.
So it all comes back to M$ again as the root of evil. Which makes sense, a company's objective is to maxamize shareholder wealth and M$ certainly does that. Killing Netscape (not that it wasn't worse than IE at the time) is just a step in the direction of market share...
I guess if the lead browser is avalible in another OS it'd be easier to switch away from Windows as well. Hrmmm...
I'm going to wash my car then go rock climbing. (I'm a college student).
It's a good browser with stability, speed and some cool features. So is Opera. It's cross platform. So is Opera.
Opera may be a bit behind on OS X but it was independantly tested as being the world's fastest rendering browser. It sticks to interdational standards like superglue and your fingers.
Is the reason it gets nowhere near the press Mozilla does that Opera is not open source? What are your thoughts on this one?
The company released it's IPO intensions a few days ago (Initial Public Offering; it's "going public" or starting to sell shares of stock to make shareholders the owners). I personally am very excited. I think it's a margainally better product than Moz and that makes it best in the world, IMHO.
I'm sorry but there is simply nothing good about this piece of software. It's sucked since version one and sucks progressively more as time goes on. As a matter of fact Microsoft's wmv and wma kicks the shit out of it and that's saying something.
I installed "V10" today and unchecked EVERYTHING about internet connections, update checkers, shortcuts, file associations etc and the damn thing still did it anyway. I eventually copied it to my gentoo box and mplayer handled it fine besides not being able to queue or fast forward. God I HATE RM shit. Gaa!
I just pick one or two (of my six) classes per semester to buy the books for and concentrate on reading, studying and doing HW for. Mostly the accounting, finance ones. Marketing, philosophy, social dance, etc... One really doesn't need to read to discuss. Especially in Philosophy it really helps with the bullshit skills (major importance later in life esp. w/ a business degree ;)). So one or two books and maybe a course packet or two runs 70 - 160 bucks; not too too bad.
I am taking an international economics class and according to the Heckscher-Ohlin model the reason Americans make higher wages is because capital (by that I mean anything EXCEPT labor) is abundant and Indians make far less because capital (same definition) is scarce. It's as simple as that; google for a quick Heckscher-Ohlin model and you won't have to ask these questions any longer!
I was gonna make one of these!! Well, I don't have a school grant so I didn't, but mine was going to drive itself along sidewalks and use multi-colored spray chalk. Cool high-dpi sidewalk murals and the like, you know? I'd roll along on two robot controlled wheels and the print head would scoot left and right.
Wow, this site is screaming fast for just being slashdotted. I get half a MB/s downloading the movies!
Do you think about drinking coffee / dew when you are masturbating? I didn't think so.
Really though, what causes the headaches (my most hated withdrawl symptom) is the capalaries in your head constricting back a bit after the caffine caused dialation and thus the headache (same w/ other headaches, just not caused by caffine).
Sex (and thus masturbation) releases natural chemicals that can reverse some of those effects.
If the damned article read that the windfarm killed 22,000 babies in the last 20 years it'd be a big deal but you guys have to let shit like this go. Removal of habitats kills many many more birds of the rare variety described and walmart doesn't give a shit either. /.'ers should each build a big birdhouse for said species and save more from the lack of habitat.
Boy, I'm glad that computers don't have their (hands?) in reporting news; it'd be terrible to get rid of all that slant in the media this way and that. I mean who wants fair, equitable stories?! You read the NYT to ra ra for the Bleeding Heart shit, or if you're a heartless republican the Journal is for you. Now how would they sell if they just told the facts as they were and left interpretation up to the readers?!
Well, at least Slashdot will always be biased, thank god for that.
Yeah; that's quite interesting really. The cleartype font system could be an interesting model to fix up linux desktop font issues too.
FAT is worthless though... everyone and their brother reversed engineered it already. NTFS or their new journaling FS on the other hand...