The best comment on that board had to be this one
Marsh is a smart guy, maybe he's just looking for free publicity and his link on high traffic yahoo.com biz news
Not to mention slashdot. I wonder if there are some gullable people out there who are willing to pay extra to not have to worry about SCO suing them over their server.
I know not where it comes from, but I know where it goes. About 500 pieces of it each day, most of it filtered. I have to wonder aloud, with such a deluge, do any of these fools pushing junk actually believe such an onslaught will generate business?
Uh, if it didn't generate revinue, then people wouldn't do it. A huge amount of my spam gets filtered, but not enough for me. (I just updated my baysian filter yesterday, and it works much better now, but spammers aren't stupid and know how to get around filters).
I just wish they would enforce that new law. The federal government took the time to make most harsher state laws moot, and now they arn't even doing anything to enforce their bullshit laws.
By that logic every pharmicist in the United States would be a "monopoly" for selling goods at much cheaper rates to insured customers.
What the hell are you talking about? pharmicists don't sell drugs to insured customers, they sell to the customer's insurance company. They make the same amount of money regardless.
In any event, the "logic" was that Microsoft was a "monopoly" because it had been proven a monopoly by US courts. The monopoly was on Operating systems sold to OEMs, not to customers (who could buy Macs).
Secondly, the idea that Americans can be stuck with the term USians doesn't make sense. After all, that term could just as easily apply to people from the United States of Mexico..
Then why do Mexicans calls us "Estunadu Unidunese", literally "United Statsian"
Its a favorite argument of the anti-outsourcing crowd to claim that all these companies are murdering themselves because their customers are the same as their employers, and if they outsource, the economy will go bad, and the company will lose all the money they save through outsourcing, and then some.
But what they forget is that the economy of the country they are outsourcing to is going to grow, and they can sell their products there. There's also the fact that A) not all their customers are going to lose their jobs, and B) Not all the people who lose their jobs are their customers. In most cases, income lost due to poor consumer confidence won't be more then the amount of money saved by outsourcing.
It should be obvious with the "jobless economy" that it's possible to have a good economy without a strong job market.
Don't like it? then vote for Kerry in November. I'm willing to put up with trade inequity if it means getting rid of bush. A good job market after I graduate collage is just a tasty bonus.
Looking at this on a purely analytical level, this is a bad idea. I mean, how do they plan to enforce it? the 70% figure... how do they measure it? Bytes? Can you cheat the system by writing a 3 line VB script that includes 100 megs of high-res.tiff files?
Obviously, they can't go by lines of code with closed source systems.
Ultimately this could backfire and cause the computer industry there stagnate as
A) companies spend time writing applications that they don't need to write in order to maintain quotas. It would be better for Chinese coders to spend time writing code that actually needs to be written and
B) it means people actually need to worry about software was written. That requires a lot more information and checking. Chinese OEMs, VARs, etc, are going to have to spend a lot of time (read: money) on figuring out where all this code comes from.
Any time you add an "unnatural" regulation, you're creating a lot of expenses beyond what it would cost simply to comply by forcing people to figure out if they're complying.
A "natural" regulation is something like "don't drive over 75mph" or "you must add iodine to salt if you produce it". It's obvious if you're driving over 75, and it's obvious if you're adding iodine to your salt. Pretty much any taxation would be an example of an "unnatural" regulation. It's natural to simply give the person all the money for the job they do, and it takes a lot of work to figure out how much you owe in taxes. And it creates a huge infrastructure (and cost) in collecting and enforcing those taxes.
Of course, it's a gradient, but I'd say this requirement is pretty unnatural. How do they figure OSS with or without some Chinese contributors? What about code from US companies with outsourcing operations in China? It seems like a big mess to me.
One easy way to do it would be to require that 70% of licensing fees go to Chinese companies. It's pretty obvious who you're paying, and it would certainly accelerate the adoption of OSS in the middle kingdom:)
Seriously though, everyone always speculated about PCs running Mac OS or OSX, but the idea of windows running on a Mac (and I mean in native mode, rather then through emulation) seems really weird.
Yeah, porn isn't going to be to bad, but I would bet those kids would be pretty irritated by getting porno popups when they are trying to look at the Lizzy McGuire homepage or whatever. The important thing is that One of the Assholes fucking the internet for everyone got thrown in jail.
That one of the main reasons anti-trust laws came to be was that corporations became so powerful that they could threaten the US government. Standard Oil could rase and lower oil proces at will, all across the US and they used that power to get concessions out of the government.
Don't bash him though, in my opinion the guys a great lot of fun - apparently he has been known to fly his Russian built fighter over Gate's house to piss him off.
Er, no. He said something about that once, but as far as I know he isn't even legaly allowed to fly it in US Airspace. Even if he is, I'm very certan that he's never buzzed Gate's house.
He does seem like a fun guy to party, with though.
Unlike M$, Oracle is about the best database out there. It has some seriously cool tech.
The bigger issue though, is that what Oracle does doesn't really affect us personally in any way. I mean, how many of us are running $10,000+ ERP software on are home desktops. If we use that stuff at all, it's only for work and if it is somewhat annoying, who cares?
Microsoft's largess actually affects our lives, some of us run Windows, or have seen OSs, software and companies we like crushed by them and their mediocrity.
How many of us have a personal love of peoplesoft?
Obviously they weren't counting all the fucking automated attacks out there. I mean, a lot of those worms left machines as open proxies for spammers. If that's not an attack, I don't know what is.
I agree that many people on the right have an obstinate and uneducated viewpoint about stem cell research, but Bush has not made any statements about this, so you're just putting words in his mouth. I like intelligent discussion too, and that means I think we should stop name-calling.
Um, Bush promoted and passed a law banning the use of all but a handfull of stem cell lines. How the hell is that not taking a statement? This was one of the first things he did as president, before 9/11.
It wasn't you, but micheal "sensationalism sells" who gave the story that ridiculous title. When I read it (the headline) I assumed it was just another bunch of wack-jobs like the Ralians again, but in fact this really has nothing to do with actual human cloning except in the eyes of crazy fundies like Bush.
Which brings me to a central complaint I have about Slashdot./. Has so many intelligent posters, and the site does nothing but ignore them. Checkout the diary section on a site like dailykos (warning, hard-core leftism) and you'll see one way that posters can really help make a site work.
There are lots of things Slashdot could do, like allowing people to fact-check a submission (like kuro5hin's edit queue before vote queue), and so many others that could really make this site something special.
But for whatever reason (either out of shear laziness or some kind of desire to maintain power for themselves) the people who run Slashdot have no interest in using the community as anything other then tools to filter comments. Which really sucks, since it seems that those people mostly fall into about the bottom 1/3rd intelligence/knowlageablility bracket of posters on here.
People often use metaphors to describe things like this, which sometimes bugs me because people then get into arguments about the metaphor, which is totally pointless. We are all smart enough to discuss this directly, I should hope.
In any event, I did think of one, and I thought I'd share it with y'all because I have nothing better to do.
It would be like the government contracting out road work to a private company, and then having that company put huge advertising over the signs, or printed right on the road. And then having the CEO going out and saying "It's time someone started making money off infrastructure." When in fact what they are doing is making things worse for everyone else to benefit themselves, and doing it with something that they have only by coincidence, rather then any real work.
ICANN threatened to sue them, and 'revoke' their registry status last time, and they relented. Is there any indication that ICANN intends to do the same thing again? My guess is that Verisign isn't as stupid as SCO and wouldn't go forward with this if they thought they would lose out on what's basically a huge free money engine over this. Have they made a deal with ICANN? Do they think they can win, and own the entire domain system for.COM and.NET, ICANN be damned?
I mean, if they can get away with this, what's to stop them from doing things like shutting out other registrars, etc?
There are about 6-8 million color sensing neurons in the eye, and about 120 million brightness sensing neurons.
I don't know how many discrete imaging elements are in the eye itself, but it hardly matters because the eye moves (involuntarily) to make a smooth image out of a number of samples, or more to the point, a certain sampling duration.
Where did you hear this? That isn't how the eye works at all. You can test this yourself by writing a program to flash a word on the screen for a short amount of time. (like a 30th or 60th of a second. You should still be able to read it.
Not to be cynical, but if you just want something for taking home movies, I wouldn't spend a lot and get something "to last".
Why not, for example, spend $500 today and get something nice, and then $500 a couple years from now when you have kids. By that time, you'll probably be able to buy a High Definition Camcorder for that price. Progress in the digital imaging world is moving forward pretty quickly
I mean, I wouldn't spend that kind of money unless you need all those features now and you probably don't.
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The guy lives in Ireland, which is actualy one of the Outsorcing hotspots. He may well end up writing code for some american company.
The best comment on that board had to be this one Marsh is a smart guy, maybe he's just looking for free publicity and his link on high traffic yahoo.com biz news
Not to mention slashdot. I wonder if there are some gullable people out there who are willing to pay extra to not have to worry about SCO suing them over their server.
I know not where it comes from, but I know where it goes. About 500 pieces of it each day, most of it filtered. I have to wonder aloud, with such a deluge, do any of these fools pushing junk actually believe such an onslaught will generate business?
Uh, if it didn't generate revinue, then people wouldn't do it. A huge amount of my spam gets filtered, but not enough for me. (I just updated my baysian filter yesterday, and it works much better now, but spammers aren't stupid and know how to get around filters).
I just wish they would enforce that new law. The federal government took the time to make most harsher state laws moot, and now they arn't even doing anything to enforce their bullshit laws.
It's really fucking irritating.
By that logic every pharmicist in the United States would be a "monopoly" for selling goods at much cheaper rates to insured customers.
What the hell are you talking about? pharmicists don't sell drugs to insured customers, they sell to the customer's insurance company. They make the same amount of money regardless.
In any event, the "logic" was that Microsoft was a "monopoly" because it had been proven a monopoly by US courts. The monopoly was on Operating systems sold to OEMs, not to customers (who could buy Macs).
The greater the deficit the less that future taxes will go for bullshit.
Better to go to bullshit now then to absolutly nothing later.
Secondly, the idea that Americans can be stuck with the term USians doesn't make sense. After all, that term could just as easily apply to people from the United States of Mexico..
Then why do Mexicans calls us "Estunadu Unidunese", literally "United Statsian"
Its a favorite argument of the anti-outsourcing crowd to claim that all these companies are murdering themselves because their customers are the same as their employers, and if they outsource, the economy will go bad, and the company will lose all the money they save through outsourcing, and then some.
But what they forget is that the economy of the country they are outsourcing to is going to grow, and they can sell their products there. There's also the fact that A) not all their customers are going to lose their jobs, and B) Not all the people who lose their jobs are their customers. In most cases, income lost due to poor consumer confidence won't be more then the amount of money saved by outsourcing.
It should be obvious with the "jobless economy" that it's possible to have a good economy without a strong job market.
Don't like it? then vote for Kerry in November. I'm willing to put up with trade inequity if it means getting rid of bush. A good job market after I graduate collage is just a tasty bonus.
Looking at this on a purely analytical level, this is a bad idea. I mean, how do they plan to enforce it? the 70% figure... how do they measure it? Bytes? Can you cheat the system by writing a 3 line VB script that includes 100 megs of high-res .tiff files?
:)
Obviously, they can't go by lines of code with closed source systems.
Ultimately this could backfire and cause the computer industry there stagnate as
A) companies spend time writing applications that they don't need to write in order to maintain quotas. It would be better for Chinese coders to spend time writing code that actually needs to be written and
B) it means people actually need to worry about software was written. That requires a lot more information and checking. Chinese OEMs, VARs, etc, are going to have to spend a lot of time (read: money) on figuring out where all this code comes from.
Any time you add an "unnatural" regulation, you're creating a lot of expenses beyond what it would cost simply to comply by forcing people to figure out if they're complying.
A "natural" regulation is something like "don't drive over 75mph" or "you must add iodine to salt if you produce it". It's obvious if you're driving over 75, and it's obvious if you're adding iodine to your salt. Pretty much any taxation would be an example of an "unnatural" regulation. It's natural to simply give the person all the money for the job they do, and it takes a lot of work to figure out how much you owe in taxes. And it creates a huge infrastructure (and cost) in collecting and enforcing those taxes.
Of course, it's a gradient, but I'd say this requirement is pretty unnatural. How do they figure OSS with or without some Chinese contributors? What about code from US companies with outsourcing operations in China? It seems like a big mess to me.
One easy way to do it would be to require that 70% of licensing fees go to Chinese companies. It's pretty obvious who you're paying, and it would certainly accelerate the adoption of OSS in the middle kingdom
Macs Running windows!?
That's just obscene!
(btw, have some pr0n)
Seriously though, everyone always speculated about PCs running Mac OS or OSX, but the idea of windows running on a Mac (and I mean in native mode, rather then through emulation) seems really weird.
Yeah, porn isn't going to be to bad, but I would bet those kids would be pretty irritated by getting porno popups when they are trying to look at the Lizzy McGuire homepage or whatever. The important thing is that One of the Assholes fucking the internet for everyone got thrown in jail.
It's not a felony to register domain names, it's a felony to use those domain names to mislead people into looking at porn.
That one of the main reasons anti-trust laws came to be was that corporations became so powerful that they could threaten the US government. Standard Oil could rase and lower oil proces at will, all across the US and they used that power to get concessions out of the government.
Don't bash him though, in my opinion the guys a great lot of fun - apparently he has been known to fly his Russian built fighter over Gate's house to piss him off.
Er, no. He said something about that once, but as far as I know he isn't even legaly allowed to fly it in US Airspace. Even if he is, I'm very certan that he's never buzzed Gate's house.
He does seem like a fun guy to party, with though.
Unlike M$, Oracle is about the best database out there. It has some seriously cool tech.
The bigger issue though, is that what Oracle does doesn't really affect us personally in any way. I mean, how many of us are running $10,000+ ERP software on are home desktops. If we use that stuff at all, it's only for work and if it is somewhat annoying, who cares?
Microsoft's largess actually affects our lives, some of us run Windows, or have seen OSs, software and companies we like crushed by them and their mediocrity.
How many of us have a personal love of peoplesoft?
I would think there would be a huge diffrence between an "artistic expression" of a cover, and doing a cover for a commercial to sell something.
Damint people, is the distinction really that difficult?!
Obviously they weren't counting all the fucking automated attacks out there. I mean, a lot of those worms left machines as open proxies for spammers. If that's not an attack, I don't know what is.
I agree that many people on the right have an obstinate and uneducated viewpoint about stem cell research, but Bush has not made any statements about this, so you're just putting words in his mouth. I like intelligent discussion too, and that means I think we should stop name-calling.
Um, Bush promoted and passed a law banning the use of all but a handfull of stem cell lines. How the hell is that not taking a statement? This was one of the first things he did as president, before 9/11.
Retard.
It wasn't you, but micheal "sensationalism sells" who gave the story that ridiculous title. When I read it (the headline) I assumed it was just another bunch of wack-jobs like the Ralians again, but in fact this really has nothing to do with actual human cloning except in the eyes of crazy fundies like Bush.
/. Has so many intelligent posters, and the site does nothing but ignore them. Checkout the diary section on a site like dailykos (warning, hard-core leftism) and you'll see one way that posters can really help make a site work.
Which brings me to a central complaint I have about Slashdot.
There are lots of things Slashdot could do, like allowing people to fact-check a submission (like kuro5hin's edit queue before vote queue), and so many others that could really make this site something special.
But for whatever reason (either out of shear laziness or some kind of desire to maintain power for themselves) the people who run Slashdot have no interest in using the community as anything other then tools to filter comments. Which really sucks, since it seems that those people mostly fall into about the bottom 1/3rd intelligence/knowlageablility bracket of posters on here.
People often use metaphors to describe things like this, which sometimes bugs me because people then get into arguments about the metaphor, which is totally pointless. We are all smart enough to discuss this directly, I should hope.
In any event, I did think of one, and I thought I'd share it with y'all because I have nothing better to do.
It would be like the government contracting out road work to a private company, and then having that company put huge advertising over the signs, or printed right on the road. And then having the CEO going out and saying "It's time someone started making money off infrastructure." When in fact what they are doing is making things worse for everyone else to benefit themselves, and doing it with something that they have only by coincidence, rather then any real work.
ICANN threatened to sue them, and 'revoke' their registry status last time, and they relented. Is there any indication that ICANN intends to do the same thing again? My guess is that Verisign isn't as stupid as SCO and wouldn't go forward with this if they thought they would lose out on what's basically a huge free money engine over this. Have they made a deal with ICANN? Do they think they can win, and own the entire domain system for .COM and .NET, ICANN be damned?
I mean, if they can get away with this, what's to stop them from doing things like shutting out other registrars, etc?
On how far away you are. And unless it's 3d, you won't be fooling anyone.
There are about 6-8 million color sensing neurons in the eye, and about 120 million brightness sensing neurons.
I don't know how many discrete imaging elements are in the eye itself, but it hardly matters because the eye moves (involuntarily) to make a smooth image out of a number of samples, or more to the point, a certain sampling duration.
Where did you hear this? That isn't how the eye works at all. You can test this yourself by writing a program to flash a word on the screen for a short amount of time. (like a 30th or 60th of a second. You should still be able to read it.
Someone should really tell Nintendo and Sony! Hell, Nintendo has been violating this patent for decades!
Not to be cynical, but if you just want something for taking home movies, I wouldn't spend a lot and get something "to last".
Why not, for example, spend $500 today and get something nice, and then $500 a couple years from now when you have kids. By that time, you'll probably be able to buy a High Definition Camcorder for that price. Progress in the digital imaging world is moving forward pretty quickly
I mean, I wouldn't spend that kind of money unless you need all those features now and you probably don't.