...Hell, I'm begining to sound like an anarchist now....
Good I have turned another to the cause:)
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...There is nothing contradictory about open scientific debate and Christianity.....
Tell that to Galileo, a man who was persecuted by the Church for speaking the truth, religion is about control just like politics, maybe, one day, if we are lucky, we will be free.
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Good points, and I will stick to IP. It is interesting to note that the Encyclopædia Britannica has gone online and the Oxford English Disctionary goes online for all next year, IP is becoming less important as the means to deliver, disemminate and manipulate it. Those who think they have some kind of protection through patents will find that there is always a way round it, just like the Net routes around damage so do the new ebusinesses route around bad IP laws. If you want to survive you must constantly out innovate the competition, if not, you're a Dodo.
"Thou shalt not build a program that BSoDs or contains any other Showstopper"
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Just a little caveat for you, with caller ID, and the ability to switch off phones, especially mobiles, people are making more complex choices about who they speak to and when, so they are not so much interupt driven (IRQs anyone??), maybe it would make a good thesis for some sociologist, anyone interested?
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...I know that the Internet scares the bejeezus out of my dad, who is an old-school telco-head...
Well over here in the UK telco costs for us are high, per minute charging for calls, ADSL not out of the trial stage, and look at how we are loosing to the North Americans, fear is keeping them back and so keeping the rest of the country back so the best people are leaving. So would you rather be at the bottom of the heap and have the older generation feel more comfortable about themselves, or would you like to be at the front of the pack, forging the future?
Yes there has been an upsurge in China and the former Eastern Bloc countries, they havent had the decades of open scientific debate and all the books that we have over here to help explain the science to the masses, I would suspect that A Brief History of Time has sold far far less in those countries than in the Western world. Just look at the religious and ethnic hatred in Bosnia, they have been 50 years behind, hopefully this will change soon so we can all live nice peaceful lives.
This is not an attempt at flamebait before you start marking me down. Organised religion has been dying as more of the world / universe has been explained by science, chipping away constantly at the foundations of God(s). The Church wants to survive and so it attempting to make what it is saying more relevant by setting itself up as an arbitar of what is a GOOD THING(TM) and what is a BAD THING(TM), this is an agenda for themselves, not what is best for the future of us all.
Come over to the UK, where it is more socially acceptable to be a geek / nerd / eccentric / weird, we have lots of famous people who are not in the least bit normal, and we love it.
Whats wrong with blowing things up? Many of us made explosives when we were kids, its a really fun way to explore chemistry, but I would never use the knowledge against anyone.
What is a dysfunctional home? Divorce? Low income? etc? Truth be told, seriously dysfunctional homes where abuse takes place usually only become evident when the children are older and end up in therapy to deal with their issues. Oh and if you know about the early days of many of the large computer comnpanies many of the people involved were smoking dope, and many still do, better than being put on Prozac or Ridolin etc. BTW one of my friends was prescribed opiates by a doctor wrongly and is now an addict, but hes still a damn fine programmer and human being.
If you have seen ray traced graphics and compared them to the current crop of 3D graphics accelerators then you will realise there is a huge difference in quality, and it will take many years for you to have that level of graphics in realtime, maybe then it will end up as an integrated part, I would guess we are 5 to 10 years away from that.
Maybe anyone who gets interviewed on/. should have to agree to answer the questions, thats the whole point of an interview, if we want a general screed from JP then we go to AntiOnline, no point putting on/. a regurgitated version of that site, you might as well just link/. homepage to AntiOnline and be done with it.
I did a search for info on the supposed author and could not find any, and considering this woman author is supposed to be post grad etc, my best guess is some nameless model on the cover and the book is written by a guy to make some money, sorry if it sounds cynical, but I've seen so much BS like this before.
I agree we need some standardisation in the mating signals dept. I'll just whip up a duel ISO / ANSI proposal, we can call the oversight body the Open Sexual Signals Group (OSSG), I think we need to be quick before M$ gets in with a proprientry version as it gives a new meaning to embrace and extend. When I am finished on the draft, comments from/. for ISO 9669 (AKA Prodix 1.0) will be gratefully accepted. This has been a comic announcement....
Lawyer: Yes your honour, my client did give away the first gram of heroine for free, and in doing so helped the consumer, obviously this is n important innovation in this market for the next millenium and my client was first and so should be congratulated, perhaps an honoury degree, or maybe meeting with some world leaders?
I saw that and my first reaction was, hmm, it took until paragraph 408 to say something positive about MS, that sounds very bad, and only one paragraph at that, out of the entire document, very, very bad news for MS.
And I almost forgot, of course if I were an MS employee with options I would exercise them Monday and sell them off immediately, this could have implications as in the earlier/. article on MS finances.
...anyone serious about investing will buy and hold for a long period of time - say 10 to 15 years or more...
A good percentage of daily volume is now daytraders who are looking for short-term gain, I expect many of them to be shorting MS and buying Puts (optins to sell), this has the potential to get ugly if they do.
Stock market dealers are in the main herd creatures, and if they hear something really bad, they can all jump off a cliff like lemmings, just look at all the stock market crashes, eventually prices go back to a more reasonable level after a huge overshoot downwards, by Monday they will be all a lot less panicked and the market may drop a bit, but it is unlikely to fall through the floor. To my mind Judge Jackson has exercised good judgement, even in after hours trading, which by its nature is of much less volume MS dropped about 5%.
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...Hell, I'm begining to sound like an anarchist now....
:)
Good I have turned another to the cause
...There is nothing contradictory about open scientific debate and Christianity.....
Tell that to Galileo, a man who was persecuted by the Church for speaking the truth, religion is about control just like politics, maybe, one day, if we are lucky, we will be free.
Good points, and I will stick to IP. It is interesting to note that the Encyclopædia Britannica has gone online and the Oxford English Disctionary goes online for all next year, IP is becoming less important as the means to deliver, disemminate and manipulate it. Those who think they have some kind of protection through patents will find that there is always a way round it, just like the Net routes around damage so do the new ebusinesses route around bad IP laws. If you want to survive you must constantly out innovate the competition, if not, you're a Dodo.
Maybe we should add a new commandment :-
"Thou shalt not build a program that BSoDs or contains any other Showstopper"
Just a little caveat for you, with caller ID, and the ability to switch off phones, especially mobiles, people are making more complex choices about who they speak to and when, so they are not so much interupt driven (IRQs anyone??), maybe it would make a good thesis for some sociologist, anyone interested?
...I know that the Internet scares the bejeezus out of my dad, who is an old-school telco-head...
Well over here in the UK telco costs for us are high, per minute charging for calls, ADSL not out of the trial stage, and look at how we are loosing to the North Americans, fear is keeping them back and so keeping the rest of the country back so the best people are leaving. So would you rather be at the bottom of the heap and have the older generation feel more comfortable about themselves, or would you like to be at the front of the pack, forging the future?
Yes there has been an upsurge in China and the former Eastern Bloc countries, they havent had the decades of open scientific debate and all the books that we have over here to help explain the science to the masses, I would suspect that A Brief History of Time has sold far far less in those countries than in the Western world. Just look at the religious and ethnic hatred in Bosnia, they have been 50 years behind, hopefully this will change soon so we can all live nice peaceful lives.
This is not an attempt at flamebait before you start marking me down. Organised religion has been dying as more of the world / universe has been explained by science, chipping away constantly at the foundations of God(s). The Church wants to survive and so it attempting to make what it is saying more relevant by setting itself up as an arbitar of what is a GOOD THING(TM) and what is a BAD THING(TM), this is an agenda for themselves, not what is best for the future of us all.
Come over to the UK, where it is more socially acceptable to be a geek / nerd / eccentric / weird, we have lots of famous people who are not in the least bit normal, and we love it.
Whats wrong with blowing things up? Many of us made explosives when we were kids, its a really fun way to explore chemistry, but I would never use the knowledge against anyone.
What is a dysfunctional home? Divorce? Low income? etc? Truth be told, seriously dysfunctional homes where abuse takes place usually only become evident when the children are older and end up in therapy to deal with their issues. Oh and if you know about the early days of many of the large computer comnpanies many of the people involved were smoking dope, and many still do, better than being put on Prozac or Ridolin etc. BTW one of my friends was prescribed opiates by a doctor wrongly and is now an addict, but hes still a damn fine programmer and human being.
Now if it was Dope Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco, it would be DAFT.... This is an announcement by a lightbulb of surrealists....
If you have seen ray traced graphics and compared them to the current crop of 3D graphics accelerators then you will realise there is a huge difference in quality, and it will take many years for you to have that level of graphics in realtime, maybe then it will end up as an integrated part, I would guess we are 5 to 10 years away from that.
Maybe anyone who gets interviewed on /. should have to agree to answer the questions, thats the whole point of an interview, if we want a general screed from JP then we go to AntiOnline, no point putting on /. a regurgitated version of that site, you might as well just link /. homepage to AntiOnline and be done with it.
I did a search for info on the supposed author and could not find any, and considering this woman author is supposed to be post grad etc, my best guess is some nameless model on the cover and the book is written by a guy to make some money, sorry if it sounds cynical, but I've seen so much BS like this before.
I agree we need some standardisation in the mating signals dept. I'll just whip up a duel ISO / ANSI proposal, we can call the oversight body the Open Sexual Signals Group (OSSG), I think we need to be quick before M$ gets in with a proprientry version as it gives a new meaning to embrace and extend. When I am finished on the draft, comments from /. for ISO 9669 (AKA Prodix 1.0) will be gratefully accepted. This has been a comic announcement....
Ahhh... so thats what the pedistal is for....
PS no attempts a Venus de Milo phlease!
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perhaps MS should change "freedom to innovate" to "freedom to bloat"??
Lawyer: Yes your honour, my client did give away the first gram of heroine for free, and in doing so helped the consumer, obviously this is n important innovation in this market for the next millenium and my client was first and so should be congratulated, perhaps an honoury degree, or maybe meeting with some world leaders?
I saw that and my first reaction was, hmm, it took until paragraph 408 to say something positive about MS, that sounds very bad, and only one paragraph at that, out of the entire document, very, very bad news for MS.
No, a large body of work on user interface agents existed before "Bob", MS was the first large scale test in the user community.
And I almost forgot, of course if I were an MS employee with options I would exercise them Monday and sell them off immediately, this could have implications as in the earlier /. article on MS finances.
...anyone serious about investing will buy and hold for a long period of time - say 10 to 15 years or more...
A good percentage of daily volume is now daytraders who are looking for short-term gain, I expect many of them to be shorting MS and buying Puts (optins to sell), this has the potential to get ugly if they do.
Stock market dealers are in the main herd creatures, and if they hear something really bad, they can all jump off a cliff like lemmings, just look at all the stock market crashes, eventually prices go back to a more reasonable level after a huge overshoot downwards, by Monday they will be all a lot less panicked and the market may drop a bit, but it is unlikely to fall through the floor. To my mind Judge Jackson has exercised good judgement, even in after hours trading, which by its nature is of much less volume MS dropped about 5%.
Also MS is currently spending millions lobbying for a cut in the DOJs budget, talk about nasty tactics.