All those hundreds of millions pouring into the vaccination industry is getting a bit frightening, even if some of those are dupes. You don't eradicate most diseases by swamping them in vaccine, you eradicate them by improving people's living conditions. By and large, Bill isn't doing that.
Here's some food for thought: Have you caught any fucking POLIO lately? How bout some smallpox? Do you have any idea how many babies die each year because they weren't properly vaccinated? Living conditions is one thing, but to discredit vaccines is ludicrous.
Specifically, to equip them with Windows?
Not like he's putting Linux on them or anything. Jesus, he's trying to help out underdeveloped areas in our own fucking country, and all you can do is be skeptical, like it's all part of his evil plan for world domination. Would you rather have those libraries have no computers and still be checking out books from the sixties? Umm, don't think so.
This may sound a little simplistic, but Billy G. would give a billion away to charity.
$1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school. $750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank. $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America's K-12 education, starting in Washington State. $200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America's poorest communities in an effort to close the "digital divide." $100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world. $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health. $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine. $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation. $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea. $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation. $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.
How will anti-spam legislation defeat all the Asian and African and European spam that dwarfs most of our email boxes? What, sue the ISP demanding that they stop this "allowal of spam transfer?" Oh wait, that sounds familiar.
1) Someone was stupid enough to leave "Allow fast saves" turned on -- it just appends edits to the file to save time on large documents. It does hell for document security though.
2) Someone else was smart enough to run % strings Maccrisken.Letter.doc and post it to Slashdot;-)
You obviously have a twisted view of how the business world works. They designed it, with their resources, and built a worldwide infrastructure around it. Why the f**k should you automatically get rights to it? That's absurd, and so is 100% of this bullshit that Perens and RMS and company babble on about 24 hours a day. That's like saying Panasonic builds a radio and you should automatically get rights to their firmware (excluding the obvious reverse engineering). If it's someone else's product, guess what? You're dealing with a black box... there is absolutely no fucking reason in the world that they should give you the specs on a silver platter. That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my whole life, and so is all this bitching and whining that goes on constantly in the open source community. Let's see if I have this straight:
1) Company X invests millions of dollars designing and developing product Y. 2) Product Y succeeds immensely, costs money to buy (who would have thought?), and makes company X lots of money. 3) The GNU Crew comes along and wants to release a free clone of product Y, but demands that company X give them specs to product Y. (WTF?) They cite blah, blah, blah.
Listen, buddy. If you're so worried about the "Microsoft tax," I invite you to go draft and write up your own file format. And guess what? If it doesn't succeed (it won't) you're SOL. They beat you to it. If you actually think that they owe you something, like say, details of their designed product, well, you can eat my ass. Try approaching Ford and saying that you demand that they give you the designs/blueprints/schematics/secret design processes to their Explorer or Taurus. They will tell you to eff off, I guarantee it.
Hmmm I thought of that, like UUEncode or base64, but I wonder how it would handle vector graphics. Plus, not to mention all the other goodies you can embed into a DOC.
Jesus Christ, it's the same Slashbot BS 50,000 comments over. It's not done to lock people out. That "junk" you mention includes embedded pictures, and other embedded objects. XML can't do that. DOC is more of an object container than anything else.
Will you Linux freaks grow the eff up, or just admit you're jealous? Thanks.
Bzzzt. The reason DOC is so successful and the reason that the battle cries of the "open standards" folks will never succeed to bring down DOC as the #1 document file format is the embedding. You can't embed pictures into RTF, can't embed them into HTML, can't embed them into XML. You need a special binary format. If you want to write your own, be my guest, but DOC works pretty well for now!:)
Who the hell uses Visio, Mr. AC troll. Sure Visio is installed when you install office, but I personally know 0 people who use it.
Perhaps if you worked in an office and had a decent paying job you would know how many millions of people use Visio each and every day. Obviously you've never designed anything (software or hardware) that was beyond trivial. Oh, what's that? Your boss hollering at you to go make some more coffee! Run, run, you open source slut!
Any developer who puts the username and password in a URL should be shot. And any user who sees their password in the URL in plainsight and doesn't complain, or stop using the services, shouldn't be allowed near a computer to begin with.
My school does this (well, did... they've increated their bandwidth now so it's free reign). If you go over your 24-hour cap, the router drops your packets and reduces your overall bandwidth for your IP address.
* sysctl.c: changed ++i to ++joe in honor of myself [Joe Orton]
* sysctl.c: fuck you guys, ++i is better [Justin Erenkrantz]
* sysctl.c: changed i += 1 to i++ for better performance [Graham Leggett]
* sysctl.c: changed i = i + 1 to i += 1 [Ian Holsman]
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It's interesting that the previous translation used the word "rhydd" (used above in the imperative form "rhyddha") for "free", since it means "free as in speech", as opposed to "for no cost" ("am ddim" - lit, "for nothing").
Oh, I used the GNU/Welsh translator! I hope that clears things up.
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Rhyddha broadband? Rhyddha wireless broadband? Hon could bod ddod at 'n fawr arfer , 'n arbennig achos 'n bendew 'n drefol gwynebau. 'i hefyd 'n ddrwg a 'n gynifer ISPs i mewn Gogledd Amerig, Yr ydy yn cwffio wardriving whilst overseas hymddangosa at bod a non - ddeillia.
If anyone wants to assist in pronouncing that other than "it sounds like you're trying to talk after stuffing an entire jelly donut into your mouth," be my guest.:)
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It still doesn't solve the age-old problem of still needing a throat full of phlegm to pronounce the name of any town/city in Wales.
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All those hundreds of millions pouring into the vaccination industry is getting a bit frightening, even if some of those are dupes. You don't eradicate most diseases by swamping them in vaccine, you eradicate them by improving people's living conditions. By and large, Bill isn't doing that.
Here's some food for thought: Have you caught any fucking POLIO lately? How bout some smallpox? Do you have any idea how many babies die each year because they weren't properly vaccinated? Living conditions is one thing, but to discredit vaccines is ludicrous.
Specifically, to equip them with Windows?
Not like he's putting Linux on them or anything. Jesus, he's trying to help out underdeveloped areas in our own fucking country, and all you can do is be skeptical, like it's all part of his evil plan for world domination. Would you rather have those libraries have no computers and still be checking out books from the sixties? Umm, don't think so.
I'd be a little more creative, like Dean Kamen the Segway guy. Buy your own island, then secede from the union. Boom! your own country!
This may sound a little simplistic, but Billy G. would give a billion away to charity.
$1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.
$750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
$350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America's K-12 education, starting in Washington State.
$200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America's poorest communities in an effort to close the "digital divide."
$100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
$50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
$50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
$50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
$50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
$40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
$28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
$25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
$25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.
How will anti-spam legislation defeat all the Asian and African and European spam that dwarfs most of our email boxes? What, sue the ISP demanding that they stop this "allowal of spam transfer?" Oh wait, that sounds familiar.
You are correct. I misunderstood the context of the conversation, but nevertheless the evidence is there.
Two things:
;-)
1) Someone was stupid enough to leave "Allow fast saves" turned on -- it just appends edits to the file to save time on large documents. It does hell for document security though.
2) Someone else was smart enough to run % strings Maccrisken.Letter.doc and post it to Slashdot
Well, AMD once put the Intel Jingle on a board... Oh wait...
You obviously have a twisted view of how the business world works. They designed it, with their resources, and built a worldwide infrastructure around it. Why the f**k should you automatically get rights to it? That's absurd, and so is 100% of this bullshit that Perens and RMS and company babble on about 24 hours a day. That's like saying Panasonic builds a radio and you should automatically get rights to their firmware (excluding the obvious reverse engineering). If it's someone else's product, guess what? You're dealing with a black box... there is absolutely no fucking reason in the world that they should give you the specs on a silver platter. That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my whole life, and so is all this bitching and whining that goes on constantly in the open source community. Let's see if I have this straight:
1) Company X invests millions of dollars designing and developing product Y.
2) Product Y succeeds immensely, costs money to buy (who would have thought?), and makes company X lots of money.
3) The GNU Crew comes along and wants to release a free clone of product Y, but demands that company X give them specs to product Y. (WTF?) They cite blah, blah, blah.
Listen, buddy. If you're so worried about the "Microsoft tax," I invite you to go draft and write up your own file format. And guess what? If it doesn't succeed (it won't) you're SOL. They beat you to it. If you actually think that they owe you something, like say, details of their designed product, well, you can eat my ass. Try approaching Ford and saying that you demand that they give you the designs/blueprints/schematics/secret design processes to their Explorer or Taurus. They will tell you to eff off, I guarantee it.
Hmmm I thought of that, like UUEncode or base64, but I wonder how it would handle vector graphics. Plus, not to mention all the other goodies you can embed into a DOC.
a fucking crayon and some napkins
Is that what the open source visual design solution is nowadays?
Jesus Christ, it's the same Slashbot BS 50,000 comments over. It's not done to lock people out. That "junk" you mention includes embedded pictures, and other embedded objects. XML can't do that. DOC is more of an object container than anything else.
Will you Linux freaks grow the eff up, or just admit you're jealous? Thanks.
Bzzzt. The reason DOC is so successful and the reason that the battle cries of the "open standards" folks will never succeed to bring down DOC as the #1 document file format is the embedding. You can't embed pictures into RTF, can't embed them into HTML, can't embed them into XML. You need a special binary format. If you want to write your own, be my guest, but DOC works pretty well for now! :)
Who the hell uses Visio, Mr. AC troll. Sure Visio is installed when you install office, but I personally know 0 people who use it.
Perhaps if you worked in an office and had a decent paying job you would know how many millions of people use Visio each and every day. Obviously you've never designed anything (software or hardware) that was beyond trivial. Oh, what's that? Your boss hollering at you to go make some more coffee! Run, run, you open source slut!
Any developer who puts the username and password in a URL should be shot. And any user who sees their password in the URL in plainsight and doesn't complain, or stop using the services, shouldn't be allowed near a computer to begin with.
See parent comment aboot Slashcode.
My school does this (well, did... they've increated their bandwidth now so it's free reign). If you go over your 24-hour cap, the router drops your packets and reduces your overall bandwidth for your IP address.
You two should hook up. Don't try and tell me she's not stoned in that picture.
Don't tell me Ellen Feiss has a slashdot account...
Why is that bad? Are YOU going to dive into the code and make it "better?" Please.
Not as glitzy as WinXP's "Add/Remove Programs" but it's uncluttered and seemingly easy to use. Finally a step in the right direction.
According to RMS, that's not even a valid phrase in the English language.
Yeah, just look at these major changes:
Changelog for sysctl(8):
* sysctl.c: changed ++j to j++ [Brian Pane]
* sysctl.c: changed ++i to ++joe in honor of myself [Joe Orton]
* sysctl.c: fuck you guys, ++i is better [Justin Erenkrantz]
* sysctl.c: changed i += 1 to i++ for better performance [Graham Leggett]
* sysctl.c: changed i = i + 1 to i += 1 [Ian Holsman]
It's interesting that the previous translation used the word "rhydd" (used above in the imperative form "rhyddha") for "free", since it means "free as in speech", as opposed to "for no cost" ("am ddim" - lit, "for nothing").
Oh, I used the GNU/Welsh translator! I hope that clears things up.
Rhyddha broadband? Rhyddha wireless broadband? Hon could bod ddod at 'n fawr arfer , 'n arbennig achos 'n bendew 'n drefol gwynebau. 'i hefyd 'n ddrwg a 'n gynifer ISPs i mewn Gogledd Amerig, Yr ydy yn cwffio wardriving whilst overseas hymddangosa at bod a non - ddeillia.
:)
If anyone wants to assist in pronouncing that other than "it sounds like you're trying to talk after stuffing an entire jelly donut into your mouth," be my guest.
It still doesn't solve the age-old problem of still needing a throat full of phlegm to pronounce the name of any town/city in Wales.
Office 97 was released in January 1997. So yeah, longer than 5 years.