Why do I perceive a scene from Hot Shots here. Loyd Bridges is the MS Manager that the SP2 team comes to:
Team: "Sir, we need to enable a firewall to help mitigate the rash of IE exploits that's plaguing XP. By limiting port exposure due to the many users who have direct connections over broadband, we can limit virus attacks and spyware."
Bridges: "I have no idea what you just said. None. But you do a good job and you're a great soldier, so..Carry on!"
Let's say you're correct. A leap, but let's say it. IT doesn't matter. If global warming is due to a cyclical change, then it's not our fault. That is what this article is saying, no? When faced with facts like this article, you don't even see it. It HAS to be man's fault so Bush can be wrong and your Euro-hip ideals can be right. You are biased and blinded. Oh yeah, and the volcano thing happens true, but hey that gets conservatives off the hook so you couldn't possibly accept it. Try reading something other than propaganda, idiot.
If it IS your primary means of navigation, that's pretty sad. As for ships at sea, I believe they are required to be able to navigate without GPS in order to get a license.
That's only looking at CO2, which is converted to O2 by trees. Given that there's now more standing timber in the U.S. than there was 100 years ago (due to replanting and management, not necessarily virgin timber) I think the CO2 problem is largely a wash. Other harmful emissions are also reduced directly through regulation. This idea that humans are responsible for global warming is completely baseless. I'm proud of my country for not signing the Kyoto Treaty. Unlike the rest of the world we prefer to listen to Bono and Madonna only when they sing. And given that the scientific community is largely split on the cause it would be stupid for us to jump the gun. We already have reductions in place.
I'm not knocking their business strategy so don't get me wrong. My point is when their user base and people in the industry were telling them that their pricing structure looked too much like M$, they didn't listen. I think it's hurting their adoptability, personally. Dell is a possible symptom of that. I have a problem with Red Hat's philosophy towards the community and to me there response to this will be interesting from that perspective. From a business perspective, make money! That's what you should do. Don't mimic M$, is my point.
Users and tech journalists have been pointing this out for the last couple of years. If RH drops their prices they'll look even MORE like M$. Okay, the analogy breaks down in the general sense but M$ did drop prices in other countries when they feared losing market share.
There is no reason to sign the treaty. There are countries who are largely hardly even bound by it (China) and it would put our sovreignty in jeapardy. Besides, through our own regulation we've already cut our emissions by half since about 1972.
How does this get modded Troll? It provides information on the state of public schools in the U.S. which is certainly relevant to the topic, no? You may not like the perspective or even agree, but to mod it Troll is rediculous.
The U.S. public school system is a product of liberalism. We spend far more money than most countries and get little in return. When I lived in K.C. they did a study and determined that with what it cost to send 1 student through the system there they could have put the same student through Harvard and provided him limo service to and from school for his duration. Before people start with stupid remarks about Bush, understand that Democrats controlled Congress and the Senate through the formidable years of the public school system. Furthermore, the teacher's union (who supports Democrats) opposes things like No Child Left Behind, which requires them to meet expectations. Getting a grade is being replaced with getting marks for trying in many schools. This is being documented in many cases. Schools like to complain that NCLB is under funded when the truth is there is a lot of that money untouched by schools.
"People click on (pop-up) ads because they think the system's trying to tell them something," Hallowell said. "The average Firefox user is more aware that they're ads, not system dialogs."
That says it all for me. I have no sympathy for any ad company when they are using these tactics. Disguising an ad as a system dialog box is wrong and dangerous.
I agree with others and don't necessarily believe he meant "all your Linux are belong to Red Hat." I thnk the more interesting story is that he thinks the 3 players are Sun, M$, and Red Hat. I think this is more a way of distributing propaganda than anything else. Sun has seemed to be in campaign mode and if they can burn into the psyche of the public Sun, Microsoft, and Red Hat (oh my!) then they keep themselves in the mix. Negating Novell in this is a huge mistake but it's outside the scope of what they are trying to accomplish with this "story."
That depends on the show. Why is it stealing when it comes from bittorrent but not stealing when I record it? Pay channels, I'll give you, but getting a copy of Father of the Pride because I don't want to put it on tape would seem fair use, after all it was broadcast to me. It's not my responsibility to pay for it, the advertisers to. I don't pay for it when I turn my TV to the channel.
You're obviously a programmer. Technical knowledge doesn't always equate to programming. In fact, I'd say programming often doesn't equate to technical knowledge. On one of my past jobs, I'd get calls from programmers about an OS issue. I'd askt hem basic troubleshooting questions about their configuration. "I dunno, that's the OS" or "I dunno, that's hardware." I realize that's becoming less the case these days (and UNIX and Linux platform programmers are definitely an exception) but it happens, I imagine. I'd consider my technical knowledge pretty good but I can't program in C or any other serious language.
If you're a citizen of this country and you don't know what you're getting into, then you're a moron. There are countless veterans who you can go to and talk to about it. There are plenty of films that chronicle pretty closely what happens. This is not the twenties and thirties when you had Uncle Sam telling you "I Want You!" and pictures of GI's flying planes. Too much information is available now and has been available. Yes, the ads put the best spin on it, but only an idiot can say, "I had no idea!" Further, training techniques have been softened considerably in the past 20 years and some say to the detriment. I'm not saying that some abuses aren't present but too many soldiers re-join and talk about how great it's been for them to paint things as you have.
Well, if life has evolved here can we not assume it's been evolving there? Then again, maybe it's finished evolving. Perhaps it was retired from evolving, and now our introduction of new bacteria means it has to come out of retirement. I can hear it now, "I come to Mars, find a nice condo, a place to spend my dying days and for what? Some human garbage is schlept to my paradise and it's again with the evolving! Evolving, schmevolving! I just wanna sleep already!"...it could happen....
I think DC could have probably played this out to the end just as easily as IBM seems to be able to. DC was smart in that they just didn't have any of SCO's products running in production, as I understand it. It was almost the equivilent of the BSA auditing you for unlicensed M$ products and finding out you're a Linux shop. Oh, and all M$ products sitting on a shelf are in their original boxes and amount to old copies of WFW and MS-DOS 3.2.
"Personally, I'd rather take the chance that a few spies might infiltrate the government and not risk a 1984 Big Brother scenario."
You should take a deep breath, that's insane. Look, the military has a completely different system of government, if you will, in that you sacrifice some personal liberties once you join. Yet, that hasn't spilled into society in general (on scale). Why should we believe this couldn't be kept separate?
I think if you want to build an ongoing series like the BOnd films you have to have some continuity. I'm not sure if the gap between the last film and this one will woo viewers to an ongoing adventure series with various "Indy's."
I don't see how everything being open is any better than everything being closed. I think for some utilities, being closed-source makes sense. I wouldn't want vital defense applications being "opened." However, I wouldn't want my Government keeping all data on a "closed source" OS either. I think there are places for everything.
In socialist and communist countries where the state owns the corporation do you think this would be punished? Oh you might have the head of the company dealt with, but would people really get compensated. Not likely. How soon people forget the lessons of cold-war era Easter Block nations.
The article doesn't really mention the Thinkpads. Theoretically, they could keep that business. Laptops are as radically different from desktops as servers are.
Yeah, the U.S. should sign this yet China is exept. Whose most likely to put in place emissions reductions? The U.S. has already cut it's emissions in half over the last 30 years or so. BTW, this thread is about Europe's summer but I suppose that's our fault too.
Yeah because the rich catch disease because they're irresponsible but the vast number of HIV victims in third-world countries caught it through no fault of their own. This is pretty deplorable logic. Please leave your disdain for the more fortunate for arguments they might actually have relevance to.
I hope this does lead to a vaccine and to a cure. Further, you will likely find it's the charity of the more fortunate that will make this available to the less.
Okay, I've posted it below but just to summarize, it does not work very well. If you add an item, it does fairly well. Deleting items doesn't and editting an item often does nothing. Why is this a priority? Because if you want to customize your menu you will run into problems. This should be one of the more simple things to do and it's buggy.
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Why do I perceive a scene from Hot Shots here. Loyd Bridges is the MS Manager that the SP2 team comes to:
Team: "Sir, we need to enable a firewall to help mitigate the rash of IE exploits that's plaguing XP. By limiting port exposure due to the many users who have direct connections over broadband, we can limit virus attacks and spyware."
Bridges: "I have no idea what you just said. None. But you do a good job and you're a great soldier, so..Carry on!"
Isn't this art usually practiced by an attorney? Ah, but this judge probably was an attorney.
Let's say you're correct. A leap, but let's say it. IT doesn't matter. If global warming is due to a cyclical change, then it's not our fault. That is what this article is saying, no? When faced with facts like this article, you don't even see it. It HAS to be man's fault so Bush can be wrong and your Euro-hip ideals can be right. You are biased and blinded. Oh yeah, and the volcano thing happens true, but hey that gets conservatives off the hook so you couldn't possibly accept it. Try reading something other than propaganda, idiot.
If it IS your primary means of navigation, that's pretty sad. As for ships at sea, I believe they are required to be able to navigate without GPS in order to get a license.
That's only looking at CO2, which is converted to O2 by trees. Given that there's now more standing timber in the U.S. than there was 100 years ago (due to replanting and management, not necessarily virgin timber) I think the CO2 problem is largely a wash. Other harmful emissions are also reduced directly through regulation. This idea that humans are responsible for global warming is completely baseless. I'm proud of my country for not signing the Kyoto Treaty. Unlike the rest of the world we prefer to listen to Bono and Madonna only when they sing. And given that the scientific community is largely split on the cause it would be stupid for us to jump the gun. We already have reductions in place.
I'm not knocking their business strategy so don't get me wrong. My point is when their user base and people in the industry were telling them that their pricing structure looked too much like M$, they didn't listen. I think it's hurting their adoptability, personally. Dell is a possible symptom of that. I have a problem with Red Hat's philosophy towards the community and to me there response to this will be interesting from that perspective. From a business perspective, make money! That's what you should do. Don't mimic M$, is my point.
Users and tech journalists have been pointing this out for the last couple of years. If RH drops their prices they'll look even MORE like M$. Okay, the analogy breaks down in the general sense but M$ did drop prices in other countries when they feared losing market share.
There is no reason to sign the treaty. There are countries who are largely hardly even bound by it (China) and it would put our sovreignty in jeapardy. Besides, through our own regulation we've already cut our emissions by half since about 1972.
How does this get modded Troll? It provides information on the state of public schools in the U.S. which is certainly relevant to the topic, no? You may not like the perspective or even agree, but to mod it Troll is rediculous.
The U.S. public school system is a product of liberalism. We spend far more money than most countries and get little in return. When I lived in K.C. they did a study and determined that with what it cost to send 1 student through the system there they could have put the same student through Harvard and provided him limo service to and from school for his duration. Before people start with stupid remarks about Bush, understand that Democrats controlled Congress and the Senate through the formidable years of the public school system. Furthermore, the teacher's union (who supports Democrats) opposes things like No Child Left Behind, which requires them to meet expectations. Getting a grade is being replaced with getting marks for trying in many schools. This is being documented in many cases. Schools like to complain that NCLB is under funded when the truth is there is a lot of that money untouched by schools.
"People click on (pop-up) ads because they think the system's trying to tell them something," Hallowell said. "The average Firefox user is more aware that they're ads, not system dialogs."
That says it all for me. I have no sympathy for any ad company when they are using these tactics. Disguising an ad as a system dialog box is wrong and dangerous.
I agree with others and don't necessarily believe he meant "all your Linux are belong to Red Hat." I thnk the more interesting story is that he thinks the 3 players are Sun, M$, and Red Hat. I think this is more a way of distributing propaganda than anything else. Sun has seemed to be in campaign mode and if they can burn into the psyche of the public Sun, Microsoft, and Red Hat (oh my!) then they keep themselves in the mix. Negating Novell in this is a huge mistake but it's outside the scope of what they are trying to accomplish with this "story."
That depends on the show. Why is it stealing when it comes from bittorrent but not stealing when I record it? Pay channels, I'll give you, but getting a copy of Father of the Pride because I don't want to put it on tape would seem fair use, after all it was broadcast to me. It's not my responsibility to pay for it, the advertisers to. I don't pay for it when I turn my TV to the channel.
You're obviously a programmer. Technical knowledge doesn't always equate to programming. In fact, I'd say programming often doesn't equate to technical knowledge. On one of my past jobs, I'd get calls from programmers about an OS issue. I'd askt hem basic troubleshooting questions about their configuration. "I dunno, that's the OS" or "I dunno, that's hardware." I realize that's becoming less the case these days (and UNIX and Linux platform programmers are definitely an exception) but it happens, I imagine. I'd consider my technical knowledge pretty good but I can't program in C or any other serious language.
If you're a citizen of this country and you don't know what you're getting into, then you're a moron. There are countless veterans who you can go to and talk to about it. There are plenty of films that chronicle pretty closely what happens. This is not the twenties and thirties when you had Uncle Sam telling you "I Want You!" and pictures of GI's flying planes. Too much information is available now and has been available. Yes, the ads put the best spin on it, but only an idiot can say, "I had no idea!" Further, training techniques have been softened considerably in the past 20 years and some say to the detriment. I'm not saying that some abuses aren't present but too many soldiers re-join and talk about how great it's been for them to paint things as you have.
Well, if life has evolved here can we not assume it's been evolving there? Then again, maybe it's finished evolving. Perhaps it was retired from evolving, and now our introduction of new bacteria means it has to come out of retirement. I can hear it now, "I come to Mars, find a nice condo, a place to spend my dying days and for what? Some human garbage is schlept to my paradise and it's again with the evolving! Evolving, schmevolving! I just wanna sleep already!" ...it could happen....
I think DC could have probably played this out to the end just as easily as IBM seems to be able to. DC was smart in that they just didn't have any of SCO's products running in production, as I understand it. It was almost the equivilent of the BSA auditing you for unlicensed M$ products and finding out you're a Linux shop. Oh, and all M$ products sitting on a shelf are in their original boxes and amount to old copies of WFW and MS-DOS 3.2.
"Personally, I'd rather take the chance that a few spies might infiltrate the government and not risk a 1984 Big Brother scenario."
You should take a deep breath, that's insane. Look, the military has a completely different system of government, if you will, in that you sacrifice some personal liberties once you join. Yet, that hasn't spilled into society in general (on scale). Why should we believe this couldn't be kept separate?
I think if you want to build an ongoing series like the BOnd films you have to have some continuity. I'm not sure if the gap between the last film and this one will woo viewers to an ongoing adventure series with various "Indy's."
I don't see how everything being open is any better than everything being closed. I think for some utilities, being closed-source makes sense. I wouldn't want vital defense applications being "opened." However, I wouldn't want my Government keeping all data on a "closed source" OS either. I think there are places for everything.
In socialist and communist countries where the state owns the corporation do you think this would be punished? Oh you might have the head of the company dealt with, but would people really get compensated. Not likely. How soon people forget the lessons of cold-war era Easter Block nations.
The article doesn't really mention the Thinkpads. Theoretically, they could keep that business. Laptops are as radically different from desktops as servers are.
Yeah, the U.S. should sign this yet China is exept. Whose most likely to put in place emissions reductions? The U.S. has already cut it's emissions in half over the last 30 years or so. BTW, this thread is about Europe's summer but I suppose that's our fault too.
Yeah because the rich catch disease because they're irresponsible but the vast number of HIV victims in third-world countries caught it through no fault of their own. This is pretty deplorable logic. Please leave your disdain for the more fortunate for arguments they might actually have relevance to.
I hope this does lead to a vaccine and to a cure. Further, you will likely find it's the charity of the more fortunate that will make this available to the less.
Okay, I've posted it below but just to summarize, it does not work very well. If you add an item, it does fairly well. Deleting items doesn't and editting an item often does nothing. Why is this a priority? Because if you want to customize your menu you will run into problems. This should be one of the more simple things to do and it's buggy.