it should figure out (like IBM, Novell, etc..) how to utilize OSS instead of trying to fight it.
After witnessing the tactics MS uses to dominate its industries, I'd just as soon prefer that they continue trying to fight it (and losing) instead of figuring out how to utilize OSS. I can't imagine anything good that could come of MS jumping on the OSS bandwagon. They're completely unnecessary to the advancement of OSS, and given that the strategy of embrace and extend is so ingrained in their culture, I question whether they could ever sincerely "play nice" with OSS.
.. then duly ignore the stupid American who is trying to tell them how to run their country and go off and do precisely whatever it was that they intended to do before the stupid American started mouthing off.
Unless the stupid American happens to be Microsoft, who is quite fluent in the international language that everyone know$. And I'm not talking about love, smarta$$.
Frankly, I wonder if MS will be reduced to bribes/unrefuseable deals of the sort they used to lure Gross and Hejlsberg in order to prevent foreign governments from defecting to Linux. They already offer major sweetheart pricing/licensing terms to such governments; how long will it be before various governments (and corporations) refuse even that, forcing MS to take whatever next step they deem appropriate?
Really, after so many years in development, the fact that SVG is still not in the main branch by default is really dissapointing.
Is SVG available in *any* browser? Afaik, both IE and Opera require a 3rd party plugin. Seems Mozilla is a lot further along than the competition with this feature.
I'm really curious to see what the American public is going to make of this movie and what they will do next.
How the American public responds is predetermined based on political affiliation. There are I suppose a small number of independents and "swing voters" that doesn't apply to, so I expect they will respond depending on how easily led by one-sided arguments they are. Michael Moore is inflamatory, but not very sophisticated.
Agreed. Adding to that, what exactly is this movie going to be about anyway, driving a tricked out supercar down a highway real fast, avoiding/blowing up bad guys, for 2 hours?
The web is popular because it's easy to create web pages. The semantic web stuff strikes me as something that only someone with a PhD in semantics could love. IMO it violates the KISS principle.
Never fear, Microsoft will soon update Frontpage to generate code in the new semantic language, making it so no one has to think about the actual code they're writing, and bringing web development back to the masses once again. Nevermind that it will have FrontPage Semantic Extensions and be integrated into the Windows kernel...
The premise of the argument was, if ETs exist, there must be immortal ETs, if you subscribe to Roman Catholic religion. I.E. : The reason we are not immortal is that we failed the "test": we ate the apple!
Since it was the tree of knowledge, if those aliens didn't eat from it, then they may be immortal but they'd also be dumb as dirt. There's no way they'd be able to send or receive signals, much less invent and fly around in spaceships (or even create a written language), so don't hold your breath while waiting to meet them. We won't be making contact with such people for very long time...
Where you put them probably depends on where you expect the missiles to come from, and how high their ballistic arc is, if they even have an arc at all (cruise missiles usually don't). Since it's the MTHEL (*Mobile* Tactical High Energy Laser), I imagine you could deploy them anywhere you want - in a screen on the ground near your borders where it can shoot down low-flying cruise-missiles into a deserted desert/field/forest many miles from its urban target, on ships in a body of water between your country and the aggressor country (Persian Gulf), or in airplanes flying a course that allows them to take out missiles at the top of their arc, or even while still ascending off the launch platform. I don't think deployment will be the primary problem faced by this device.
As a counterpoint though, the US education system does exactly what the powers that be need it to do by turning out unquestioning conformists that can be easily placed into low-tech, low-wage positions with a minimal amount of uproar.
For more detailed info on just that, here's an interesting book:
Maybe we should try and just live within our means, even if it does mean not wearing the latest fashions, etc?
Speaking of the latest fashions, why is it that the latest fashion is different from the one of the same season the year before? The fashion industry has done a bang-up job of convincing Americans (especially women, no offense but your fashions tend to change more drastically each year than men's) that we need a new look every year. Of course, to achieve this look we must buy new clothes each season b/c what looked good last season isn't what looks good this season. What a racket...
You mean, Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs? I looked it up on Amazon, and ironically (or not) it's out of print. Go figure...
Employers look for progression in your salary. Going in low and getting a good raise in the first year can really jump start a resume. Leaving without a good raise makes you look bad.
Interesting point. Do you actually put your salary progression on your resume? I never would have considered that...
I can just imagine it now, finally having enough space on my email account to never delete messages again, and even keep project files i move around in their own directory so I can access them anywhere.
I wonder if filling up that storage space with photos rather than text-based email will affect their key-word advertising ability. I assume that part of the reason for offering a whole gig of storage space is so that users will store a whole gig of potential key-words on Google's system, allowing Google to sell more targeted advertising. But it's not like they can search the content of photos and sell advertising based on what the picture is about. Of course, there probably won't be many people with such a high image:text content ratio in their email, but I still wonder...
Good question. I've been using 1.7a on WinXP Pro for several months now, just upgraded to 1.7b, and have yet to crash it once. Talk about thoroughness and attention to detail, take a lesson MS!
Do you have any idea how many seats the liberals hold
Please enlighten an ignorant American; in Canada, where do "Liberals" fall on the political spectrum (left, right, etc.), and what other labels you guys use to define your politicians?
PS - I suspect you might already know, but in America, Conservative = right (Republican), Liberal = left (Democrat). There's also Libertarian, but that gets a little more complicated (generally favor minimal govt. intervention both economically and socially except in the protection of civil liberties, laissez-faire capitalism, and no entangling foreign alliances)
If MS open sourced all their apps, there would STILL be a large "we hate MS" movement on slashdot... mostly from people that haven't used windows since Windows98.
Yes, and if you haven't read Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's original Finding of Fact in the MS antitrust case, do so and you'll better understand why the/. crowd will never trust MS's intentions.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
*cough*bullshit*cough*. Should read:
THE POLIBURO STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
it should figure out (like IBM, Novell, etc..) how to utilize OSS instead of trying to fight it.
After witnessing the tactics MS uses to dominate its industries, I'd just as soon prefer that they continue trying to fight it (and losing) instead of figuring out how to utilize OSS. I can't imagine anything good that could come of MS jumping on the OSS bandwagon. They're completely unnecessary to the advancement of OSS, and given that the strategy of embrace and extend is so ingrained in their culture, I question whether they could ever sincerely "play nice" with OSS.
.. then duly ignore the stupid American who is trying to tell them how to run their country and go off and do precisely whatever it was that they intended to do before the stupid American started mouthing off.
Unless the stupid American happens to be Microsoft, who is quite fluent in the international language that everyone know$. And I'm not talking about love, smarta$$. Frankly, I wonder if MS will be reduced to bribes/unrefuseable deals of the sort they used to lure Gross and Hejlsberg in order to prevent foreign governments from defecting to Linux. They already offer major sweetheart pricing/licensing terms to such governments; how long will it be before various governments (and corporations) refuse even that, forcing MS to take whatever next step they deem appropriate?
Really, after so many years in development, the fact that SVG is still not in the main branch by default is really dissapointing.
Is SVG available in *any* browser? Afaik, both IE and Opera require a 3rd party plugin. Seems Mozilla is a lot further along than the competition with this feature.
I'm really curious to see what the American public is going to make of this movie and what they will do next.
How the American public responds is predetermined based on political affiliation. There are I suppose a small number of independents and "swing voters" that doesn't apply to, so I expect they will respond depending on how easily led by one-sided arguments they are. Michael Moore is inflamatory, but not very sophisticated.
Agreed. Adding to that, what exactly is this movie going to be about anyway, driving a tricked out supercar down a highway real fast, avoiding/blowing up bad guys, for 2 hours?
The web is popular because it's easy to create web pages. The semantic web stuff strikes me as something that only someone with a PhD in semantics could love. IMO it violates the KISS principle.
Never fear, Microsoft will soon update Frontpage to generate code in the new semantic language, making it so no one has to think about the actual code they're writing, and bringing web development back to the masses once again. Nevermind that it will have FrontPage Semantic Extensions and be integrated into the Windows kernel...
...exactly what "local filesystem image search" will return.
Finally, a way to effectively search through my gigabytes of pr0n!
Just imagine the embedded text and (soon) image ads returned with your search results...
The premise of the argument was, if ETs exist, there must be immortal ETs, if you subscribe to Roman Catholic religion. I.E. : The reason we are not immortal is that we failed the "test": we ate the apple!
Since it was the tree of knowledge, if those aliens didn't eat from it, then they may be immortal but they'd also be dumb as dirt. There's no way they'd be able to send or receive signals, much less invent and fly around in spaceships (or even create a written language), so don't hold your breath while waiting to meet them. We won't be making contact with such people for very long time...
On a more serious note,
It's just that i've made it freely available provided you follow some simple rules.
You've made it so it can't be stolen, expropriated, or co-opted by any other person or organization.
I don't see how companies saving money is going to lead to the end of the American way anyhow.
Uh, since when is saving money the American way?
(Ducks...)
Where you put them probably depends on where you expect the missiles to come from, and how high their ballistic arc is, if they even have an arc at all (cruise missiles usually don't). Since it's the MTHEL (*Mobile* Tactical High Energy Laser), I imagine you could deploy them anywhere you want - in a screen on the ground near your borders where it can shoot down low-flying cruise-missiles into a deserted desert/field/forest many miles from its urban target, on ships in a body of water between your country and the aggressor country (Persian Gulf), or in airplanes flying a course that allows them to take out missiles at the top of their arc, or even while still ascending off the launch platform. I don't think deployment will be the primary problem faced by this device.
The aim of this effort is to explore the possibilities of placing textbooks online -- effectively giving them away.
So, how long before we start seeing Ebay banner ads in our free e-textbooks?
As a counterpoint though, the US education system does exactly what the powers that be need it to do by turning out unquestioning conformists that can be easily placed into low-tech, low-wage positions with a minimal amount of uproar.
For more detailed info on just that, here's an interesting book:
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Maybe we should try and just live within our means, even if it does mean not wearing the latest fashions, etc?
Speaking of the latest fashions, why is it that the latest fashion is different from the one of the same season the year before? The fashion industry has done a bang-up job of convincing Americans (especially women, no offense but your fashions tend to change more drastically each year than men's) that we need a new look every year. Of course, to achieve this look we must buy new clothes each season b/c what looked good last season isn't what looks good this season. What a racket...
the email thing hasn't really taken off
Maybe that's because it's still in Beta and not open to the general public yet.
and you should also read Writing Solid Code
You mean, Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs? I looked it up on Amazon, and ironically (or not) it's out of print. Go figure...
Employers look for progression in your salary. Going in low and getting a good raise in the first year can really jump start a resume. Leaving without a good raise makes you look bad.
Interesting point. Do you actually put your salary progression on your resume? I never would have considered that...
But then again, brain cells are 10^7-10^8 times as energy efficient as silicon chips. Yup, 10-100 million.
If that's the case, shouldn't we be able to overclock our brains by ungodly amounts without a Peltier cooler or the like?
I can just imagine it now, finally having enough space on my email account to never delete messages again, and even keep project files i move around in their own directory so I can access them anywhere.
I wonder if filling up that storage space with photos rather than text-based email will affect their key-word advertising ability. I assume that part of the reason for offering a whole gig of storage space is so that users will store a whole gig of potential key-words on Google's system, allowing Google to sell more targeted advertising. But it's not like they can search the content of photos and sell advertising based on what the picture is about. Of course, there probably won't be many people with such a high image:text content ratio in their email, but I still wonder...
Good question. I've been using 1.7a on WinXP Pro for several months now, just upgraded to 1.7b, and have yet to crash it once. Talk about thoroughness and attention to detail, take a lesson MS!
Do you have any idea how many seats the liberals hold
Please enlighten an ignorant American; in Canada, where do "Liberals" fall on the political spectrum (left, right, etc.), and what other labels you guys use to define your politicians?
PS - I suspect you might already know, but in America, Conservative = right (Republican), Liberal = left (Democrat). There's also Libertarian, but that gets a little more complicated (generally favor minimal govt. intervention both economically and socially except in the protection of civil liberties, laissez-faire capitalism, and no entangling foreign alliances)
If MS open sourced all their apps, there would STILL be a large "we hate MS" movement on slashdot... mostly from people that haven't used windows since Windows98.
/. crowd will never trust MS's intentions.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
Yes, and if you haven't read Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's original Finding of Fact in the MS antitrust case, do so and you'll better understand why the
or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?
Uhm... does that really require an answer?
Yes