Gates has a bit of a wet fish personality - he's a bit too much of a geek for me to support. Ballmer, on the other hand, would be great. Imagine the debates - Ballmer dances in shouting, "Developers, America, Developers, America". Then when his opponent (Hilary) makes a point that he doesn't like, he just throws a chair at her...
So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything
I think I'm better informed about a raft of things, thanks to modern technology (i.e. the world wide web). I not only know what day it is, I have access to news weather forecasts for the next five days for my local area and technology allows me to keep in touch with my extended family in different countries at little cost, exchanging not only text, but photos and videos too.
My iPod allows me access to music I just would never has been exposed to using the traditional channels and I've sworn off games until Duke Nukem 4Ever is released.
BTW My neighbour is a 5'9" tall male, has sandy hair, blue eyes and dresses like an off duty polo player. His girlfriend is a hot...er that's enough there. Anyway, I know all of this because I see them frequently. When he or she gets an IM client, I'll find out their names...;)
Things must be bad in Hungary if blogger is so desperate he'd vote for Bush. Berlusconi is a virtual oligarch like the "political elite" he seems to be reviling, and that he's lumped Bush, Berlusconi and Merkel with Fortuyn speaks volumes.
Hmm...What if the person being voted for was a Black, Gay, Jewish woman who happened to be Mormon by birth, atheist by conviction and Roman Catholic by..er..night? That's all bases covered right there.
if you're a charity or an educational institution, you pay pence in the pound for the license, compared to what a major bank might pay
Yeah, contact me when private individuals can pay "pence in the pound" too, please. I remember once wanting to upgrade from Win95 to XP, only to find that I couldn't. I had to either pay the "full retail price" for a non-upgrade version, or pay for a "discounted" upgrade to windows 98 and then pay for another "discounted" upgrade from that to XP. Also, since then, I've purchased two machines - in both cases, I've had to pay for windows licences by default instead of choosing windows or another operating system.
As long as they can keep up the elaborate charade where people outside the US will keep taking those pieces of paper for the stuff they build or raw materials they have for sale, they can do all they want to, and even then, contracturally and legally, all they are obliged to do later on is just..print up enough pieces of paper with the corresponding total of digits to "pay off" those bond "debts".
The trouble with printing paper, is inflation and the corresponding currency devaluation. I vaguely recall reading that this happened in the past in the 1970s - didn't the Fed print cash to cover some debt and the net result was a huge hike in the dollar price of oil?
Less taxes now means I can invest and/or save more for later, and at a higher than the government
OK, I'll bite. Government raises money by selling bonds and other treasury instruments. They promise to redeem those bonds within a given time frame in years. They pay interest to the bond holders using tax payers money. They redeem the bond by raising tax to pay the cost of redemption. If a government cuts taxes while increasing spending, they *must* be increasing their indebtedness in order to pay for the rise in spending. That means than further down the road, taxes will have to be raised to pay off that debt. A tax cut now is the equivalent of you reducing payments on the outstanding balance on your credit card, while increasing the your level of indebtedness by spending wildly on that same card. Yes, you're paying less now, but really, that's at the expense of what you'll be repaying in the future. In other words, your reduced payments now are an illusion - just as a tax cut while increasing public spending is an illusion - and a red herring.
Conclusion: slashdot has a liberal bias because slashdot readers are smarter than your average bear...er... elephant.... and are better able to understand reality.
Indeed. And alot of slashdot readers are not USians and a significant proportion of us live in Europe. That might account for the "liberal" bias - if wanting to see the back of Bush and this generation of Republicans really is "liberal". I'm not sure that it is.;)
These people expect prior notice so they can quietly withdraw their funds and leave the little guy to get the shaft. The game is carefully orchestrated and - if you don't play by the rules - you get 12 years in the pokey.
So who were the other players in the enron game then? Did Lay and Skilling stand on Bushes toes, or was it Arnie who lost some jinglers?
They provide maintenance services for dead product lines that have existing service and support contracts for their production systems
Not true for 100% of their products. In 1993, when they acquired the Ingres DBMS system, it was second only to Oracle and was sold to them because the parent company, Ask, got into financial trouble over another product. However, on selling Ingres to CA, the perception immediately was "Ingres is dead" and so, within a year it was effectively dead. It was rebranded as CA-OpenIngres and quietly slipped out of sight. The dregs were released as open source just over 18 months ago, IIRC.
Similar here. I remember using IngresWindows4GL back in 1994 - it was second (in the UK at least) to Oracle. The big four were, Oracle, Ingres, Sybase and Informix. The job market for Ingres pros was on fire but then the company which owned Ingres ran into trouble and sold the product to CA. Within a year, everyone was trying to jump ship or had already jumped and there were hardly any Ingres jobs being advertised.
Personally I think the reason for all the anti-Americanism is the wild capitalism we export. Making money is the only thing and that causes concern as the old cultural values and communities are slowly being whitewashed with nothing but consumerism
Interesting. From what you've written, I can see that could be a problem. However, I think that given the option of pursuing consumerism, many people will do just that. In China, for instance, nobody cares about democracy except those in Hong Kong who have experienced it. Those that aren't still trapped in a life of serfdom or peasantry are busy making and earning money.
it is very evident that what they are really bringing is shopping malls, KFC, and Gap stores
Which is what people think they want - a comfortable life with posessions they don't need and therapists to tell them why their lives are empty. Which is why democracy is a secondary issue. In Iraq, for instance, instead of dropping bombs, the US should have found a way of dropping Starbucks, KFC and MacDonalds.
OK, fair comment, but I still think your media profile is too low. I mean, I'd vote for you but I don't live in Utah. In fact, I don't even live in the USA.
I wish you all the best on the 7th and hope you get well in excess of a 25% share of the vote.
I think your defensive answers aren't helping you do a very good job of setting out your stall here on Slashdot. Nothing you've said in discussion here makes me want to run outside screaming, "Vote for Pete Ashdown!". Which is a shame, because if you convince enough people, they'll convince other people and at the very least, the general consciousness of who you are and where/why you're running will be raised.
On the point of low profiles, maybe you should do something headline grabbing relation to Hatch, so that whenever his name is mentioned, yours is mentioned too, by association as the challenger who did [fill in the blank].
they have chosen to just rape Redhat of all their hard work, brand it as their own, and cut Redhat out of the profits
Dare I say it, that is exacty what the GPL allows you to do. So long as Oracle make their changes publically available, then there's no problem with taking that approach. That, by definition, is what forking is.
As other posters point out, Red Hat have moved into the middleware space, bringing them into direct competition with Oracle and Oracle is competing very aggressively to protect not only their middleware business, but ultimately, their database business which is their cash cow.
If "Enterprises" decide that there are cost savings to be made using an open source operating system and opensource app servers they might just decide that they should be using open source database servers too. Larry Ellison doesn't care, so long as they (continue to) pay Oracle to do so.
but I think there is a good chance that global phone traffic that is routed through Israeli servers or handled with Israeli software is monitored by the Mossad in some way.
HA HA HA! That's so funny on so many levels that I wish I had some mod points.
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I'd rather vote for Maggie von Thatcher-ofen.
Gates has a bit of a wet fish personality - he's a bit too much of a geek for me to support. Ballmer, on the other hand, would be great. Imagine the debates - Ballmer dances in shouting, "Developers, America, Developers, America". Then when his opponent (Hilary) makes a point that he doesn't like, he just throws a chair at her...
Why does a person of Faith need scientific proof?
Karl Marx was right. Was he? I thought time and trial had proven otherwise.
So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything
;)
I think I'm better informed about a raft of things, thanks to modern technology (i.e. the world wide web). I not only know what day it is, I have access to news weather forecasts for the next five days for my local area and technology allows me to keep in touch with my extended family in different countries at little cost, exchanging not only text, but photos and videos too.
My iPod allows me access to music I just would never has been exposed to using the traditional channels and I've sworn off games until Duke Nukem 4Ever is released.
BTW My neighbour is a 5'9" tall male, has sandy hair, blue eyes and dresses like an off duty polo player. His girlfriend is a hot...er that's enough there. Anyway, I know all of this because I see them frequently. When he or she gets an IM client, I'll find out their names...
Things must be bad in Hungary if blogger is so desperate he'd vote for Bush. Berlusconi is a virtual oligarch like the "political elite" he seems to be reviling, and that he's lumped Bush, Berlusconi and Merkel with Fortuyn speaks volumes.
Hmm...What if the person being voted for was a Black, Gay, Jewish woman who happened to be Mormon by birth, atheist by conviction and Roman Catholic by..er..night? That's all bases covered right there.
Will this give rise to a Japanese version of "All your base are belong to us"?
if you're a charity or an educational institution, you pay pence in the pound for the license, compared to what a major bank might pay
Yeah, contact me when private individuals can pay "pence in the pound" too, please. I remember once wanting to upgrade from Win95 to XP, only to find that I couldn't. I had to either pay the "full retail price" for a non-upgrade version, or pay for a "discounted" upgrade to windows 98 and then pay for another "discounted" upgrade from that to XP. Also, since then, I've purchased two machines - in both cases, I've had to pay for windows licences by default instead of choosing windows or another operating system.
As long as they can keep up the elaborate charade where people outside the US will keep taking those pieces of paper for the stuff they build or raw materials they have for sale, they can do all they want to, and even then, contracturally and legally, all they are obliged to do later on is just ..print up enough pieces of paper with the corresponding total of digits to "pay off" those bond "debts".
The trouble with printing paper, is inflation and the corresponding currency devaluation. I vaguely recall reading that this happened in the past in the 1970s - didn't the Fed print cash to cover some debt and the net result was a huge hike in the dollar price of oil?
Less taxes now means I can invest and/or save more for later, and at a higher than the government
OK, I'll bite. Government raises money by selling bonds and other treasury instruments. They promise to redeem those bonds within a given time frame in years. They pay interest to the bond holders using tax payers money. They redeem the bond by raising tax to pay the cost of redemption. If a government cuts taxes while increasing spending, they *must* be increasing their indebtedness in order to pay for the rise in spending. That means than further down the road, taxes will have to be raised to pay off that debt. A tax cut now is the equivalent of you reducing payments on the outstanding balance on your credit card, while increasing the your level of indebtedness by spending wildly on that same card. Yes, you're paying less now, but really, that's at the expense of what you'll be repaying in the future. In other words, your reduced payments now are an illusion - just as a tax cut while increasing public spending is an illusion - and a red herring.
Have a look at this page on wikipedia.
Conclusion: slashdot has a liberal bias because slashdot readers are smarter than your average bear...er... elephant.... and are better able to understand reality.
;)
Indeed. And alot of slashdot readers are not USians and a significant proportion of us live in Europe. That might account for the "liberal" bias - if wanting to see the back of Bush and this generation of Republicans really is "liberal". I'm not sure that it is.
These people expect prior notice so they can quietly withdraw their funds and leave the little guy to get the shaft. The game is carefully orchestrated and - if you don't play by the rules - you get 12 years in the pokey.
So who were the other players in the enron game then? Did Lay and Skilling stand on Bushes toes, or was it Arnie who lost some jinglers?
They provide maintenance services for dead product lines that have existing service and support contracts for their production systems
Not true for 100% of their products. In 1993, when they acquired the Ingres DBMS system, it was second only to Oracle and was sold to them because the parent company, Ask, got into financial trouble over another product. However, on selling Ingres to CA, the perception immediately was "Ingres is dead" and so, within a year it was effectively dead. It was rebranded as CA-OpenIngres and quietly slipped out of sight. The dregs were released as open source just over 18 months ago, IIRC.
So, the next piece of research will be telling us that people who live in warmer climates have a shorter average lifespan, right?
Similar here. I remember using IngresWindows4GL back in 1994 - it was second (in the UK at least) to Oracle. The big four were, Oracle, Ingres, Sybase and Informix. The job market for Ingres pros was on fire but then the company which owned Ingres ran into trouble and sold the product to CA. Within a year, everyone was trying to jump ship or had already jumped and there were hardly any Ingres jobs being advertised.
...I can claim to be calling from Nigeria if you wish!
The only launch title that would make me buy a console is Duke Nukem 4Ever. Sadly, console launch and DNF seem to be mutually exclusive.
Personally I think the reason for all the anti-Americanism is the wild capitalism we export. Making money is the only thing and that causes concern as the old cultural values and communities are slowly being whitewashed with nothing but consumerism
Interesting. From what you've written, I can see that could be a problem. However, I think that given the option of pursuing consumerism, many people will do just that. In China, for instance, nobody cares about democracy except those in Hong Kong who have experienced it. Those that aren't still trapped in a life of serfdom or peasantry are busy making and earning money.
it is very evident that what they are really bringing is shopping malls, KFC, and Gap stores
Which is what people think they want - a comfortable life with posessions they don't need and therapists to tell them why their lives are empty. Which is why democracy is a secondary issue. In Iraq, for instance, instead of dropping bombs, the US should have found a way of dropping Starbucks, KFC and MacDonalds.
OK, fair comment, but I still think your media profile is too low. I mean, I'd vote for you but I don't live in Utah. In fact, I don't even live in the USA.
I wish you all the best on the 7th and hope you get well in excess of a 25% share of the vote.
I think your defensive answers aren't helping you do a very good job of setting out your stall here on Slashdot. Nothing you've said in discussion here makes me want to run outside screaming, "Vote for Pete Ashdown!". Which is a shame, because if you convince enough people, they'll convince other people and at the very least, the general consciousness of who you are and where/why you're running will be raised.
On the point of low profiles, maybe you should do something headline grabbing relation to Hatch, so that whenever his name is mentioned, yours is mentioned too, by association as the challenger who did [fill in the blank].
Woah, a political candidate who posts to Slashdot. Never seen that before..
You have - unless you're new here!
There was that techie girl who was running for California Governor in the race that Schwarzenegger won. Not Mary Carey, the other one.
Funneeee. Wish I had mod points, for the third time in 4 days.
they have chosen to just rape Redhat of all their hard work, brand it as their own, and cut Redhat out of the profits
Dare I say it, that is exacty what the GPL allows you to do. So long as Oracle make their changes publically available, then there's no problem with taking that approach. That, by definition, is what forking is.
As other posters point out, Red Hat have moved into the middleware space, bringing them into direct competition with Oracle and Oracle is competing very aggressively to protect not only their middleware business, but ultimately, their database business which is their cash cow. If "Enterprises" decide that there are cost savings to be made using an open source operating system and opensource app servers they might just decide that they should be using open source database servers too. Larry Ellison doesn't care, so long as they (continue to) pay Oracle to do so.
but I think there is a good chance that global phone traffic that is routed through Israeli servers or handled with Israeli software is monitored by the Mossad in some way.
HA HA HA! That's so funny on so many levels that I wish I had some mod points.