He has been involved with philanthropy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest for 20 years, largely through his Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, handing out more than $1 billion in grants and funding for local projects.[1]
Last year he pledged his remaining wealth (USD13.5B) to charity.
Allen has been a philanthropist since Gates was at the height of his douchebaggery. You... you're just an ass.
Gates was always ruthless, egotistical, and manipulative in his dealings with others -- possibly even sociopathic. His recent change is just Robber Baron Guilt playing itself out like it always does. No one wants to go down in history the way he was going to go. You've got to distract the public, donchaknow?
People have been singing this tune for years. The government didn't decide to move for years, just as it didn't move on MS until long after the monopoly was cemented and the action did no good. Government is slow and predictable that way.
As far as I know, it's not fashionable to hate on Apple. In fact, the numbers are better than ever. Maybe on Slashdot, yeah, but we don't hold a lot of sway with governments, or more of the world would be running on FOSS.
Apple, Sony, Nintendo, printer manufacturers, and any other company that appears to lock competitors out of interoperability (specifically allowed by the DMCA) using DRM should be investigated and punished if the allegations are true. This has been my position (and the position of a large number of Slashdotters) for years, and is one of our major arguments against DRM. Does that statement make me objective in your eyes? Good. It should. We have to start somewhere. Apple seems as good a place as any.
You should read the "Newbies Guide to Publishing" blog, where there are often guest authors who have never had a traditional publishing deal and who are selling enough books to go full time. It's not the way you think.
When the average apartment is something like 32m^2, the population's a little dense to put solar on the roofs and expect much from it. That, and the fact that the apartments are so small because there's so little land (to pul wind farms on).
But since we're talking about 5-20 messages per months, what good would splitting the list do? I realize that devs are over over-subscribed (which is why I pointed out the extreme low volume in my original post), but this is a particularly important list for GNOME core devs to be subscribed to. That they feel it's not important says a lot about their commitment to cross-desktop.
Ummm, the market price for webmail is free. There are exceptions and the "free" services are generally fremium, but that doesn't change the fact that consumers expect the service to be free. It's not dumping if ad revenue covers the cost.
Why isn't every serious GNOME dev subscribed to the XDG mailing list? Heck, I am, and I'm not even a real developer. Heck, it's not even high volume, having fewer than twenty posts a month.
Perhaps most the most telling thing about your summary is that you don't understand that "freedesktop.org is not a standards body," which is clearly stated on the FD.o website. It helps with inter-desktop collaborations through specifications and their hosting. The process is very open and devs are welcome to contribute, fork, and modify specifications. You said "Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t understand how GNOME works," but apparently, GNOME doesn't understand how FD.o works. "The log in your own eye..." and all that.
They get the computer + $15,000. In other words, the computer's value pales in comparison to the award money. I don't think people are doing it for hardware: my guess is that they choose the easiest one to crack, and go for that. Mac wet down first. Win/IE went minutes later. No one even showed up to pwn Chrome, despite Google offering $20,000 extra cash.
Fifteen-year-olds (boys or girls) should be expected to know that when you give all your stuff to someone you barely know, you take a risk. It's life, not technology.
I'll articulate that it's extremely rare for the police to break down doors over a lost phone, unless lawyers report it as stolen.
Wagstaffe [the San Mateo County DA] said that an outside counsel for Apple, along with Apple engineer Powell, called the District Attorney’s office on Wednesday or Thursday of last week to report a theft had occurred and they wanted it investigated. The District Attorney’s office then referred them to the Rapid Enforcement and Allied Computer Team, or REACT, a multi-jurisdictional, high-tech crime task force that operates under the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office.
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He has been involved with philanthropy in the U.S. Pacific Northwest for 20 years, largely through his Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, handing out more than $1 billion in grants and funding for local projects.[1]
Last year he pledged his remaining wealth (USD13.5B) to charity.
Allen has been a philanthropist since Gates was at the height of his douchebaggery. You ... you're just an ass.
Gates was always ruthless, egotistical, and manipulative in his dealings with others -- possibly even sociopathic. His recent change is just Robber Baron Guilt playing itself out like it always does. No one wants to go down in history the way he was going to go. You've got to distract the public, donchaknow?
I'm pretty sure he was talking about reprocessing it so that it can be used for fuel, not to reduce its radioactivity.
The open-source drivers for these cards are now fairly fast and super stable on Linux. I suggest you take a look.
People have been singing this tune for years. The government didn't decide to move for years, just as it didn't move on MS until long after the monopoly was cemented and the action did no good. Government is slow and predictable that way.
As far as I know, it's not fashionable to hate on Apple. In fact, the numbers are better than ever. Maybe on Slashdot, yeah, but we don't hold a lot of sway with governments, or more of the world would be running on FOSS.
Apple, Sony, Nintendo, printer manufacturers, and any other company that appears to lock competitors out of interoperability (specifically allowed by the DMCA) using DRM should be investigated and punished if the allegations are true. This has been my position (and the position of a large number of Slashdotters) for years, and is one of our major arguments against DRM. Does that statement make me objective in your eyes? Good. It should. We have to start somewhere. Apple seems as good a place as any.
(Or alternately, you can't put media from your iTunes library on an MP3 player unless it's a special device made by the manufacturer.)
Really? This makes no sense. Please elaborate. I've never used an iPod and only used iTunes once to initialize an iPad for my school.
You should read the "Newbies Guide to Publishing" blog, where there are often guest authors who have never had a traditional publishing deal and who are selling enough books to go full time. It's not the way you think.
When the average apartment is something like 32m^2, the population's a little dense to put solar on the roofs and expect much from it. That, and the fact that the apartments are so small because there's so little land (to pul wind farms on).
Who was responsible for employing and retaining these less than apt people?
A people-skills person, obviously.
But since we're talking about 5-20 messages per months, what good would splitting the list do? I realize that devs are over over-subscribed (which is why I pointed out the extreme low volume in my original post), but this is a particularly important list for GNOME core devs to be subscribed to. That they feel it's not important says a lot about their commitment to cross-desktop.
Ummm, the market price for webmail is free. There are exceptions and the "free" services are generally fremium, but that doesn't change the fact that consumers expect the service to be free. It's not dumping if ad revenue covers the cost.
Why isn't every serious GNOME dev subscribed to the XDG mailing list? Heck, I am, and I'm not even a real developer. Heck, it's not even high volume, having fewer than twenty posts a month.
Perhaps most the most telling thing about your summary is that you don't understand that "freedesktop.org is not a standards body," which is clearly stated on the FD.o website. It helps with inter-desktop collaborations through specifications and their hosting. The process is very open and devs are welcome to contribute, fork, and modify specifications. You said "Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t understand how GNOME works," but apparently, GNOME doesn't understand how FD.o works. "The log in your own eye ..." and all that.
Cash prize ($35K for Chrome) that dwarfs the cost of the hardware = you being wrong
Unfortunately, you might run into AppArmor after getting that overflow.
They get the computer + $15,000. In other words, the computer's value pales in comparison to the award money. I don't think people are doing it for hardware: my guess is that they choose the easiest one to crack, and go for that. Mac wet down first. Win/IE went minutes later. No one even showed up to pwn Chrome, despite Google offering $20,000 extra cash.
Get real. It's not about the hardware.
I hope you showed him Meebo.
You move the legacy apps to a server or two and still save money.
Fifteen-year-olds (boys or girls) should be expected to know that when you give all your stuff to someone you barely know, you take a risk. It's life, not technology.
Thirteen years ... and I'm still tilting at the same windmills. ;)
We (I'm from the U.S.) aren't officially at war with anyone. How could he be aiding an enemy that doesn't exist?
I'll articulate that it's extremely rare for the police to break down doors over a lost phone, unless lawyers report it as stolen.
Wagstaffe [the San Mateo County DA] said that an outside counsel for Apple, along with Apple engineer Powell, called the District Attorney’s office on Wednesday or Thursday of last week to report a theft had occurred and they wanted it investigated. The District Attorney’s office then referred them to the Rapid Enforcement and Allied Computer Team, or REACT, a multi-jurisdictional, high-tech crime task force that operates under the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office.
Once the iPad2 is out, your price is going to be a lot lower.
Which is probably the case, though we'll never know, and makes him both pedantic and trollish for arguing minutiae instead of the OP's point..