to me this is government intereferance in a sector they should not touch.
Huh? Where are they interfering. From what I read they are talking about using the Linux operating system and developing their own version to support the tasks they plan to use it for. Does it say somewhere that they are planning on preventing private companies within the countries from using Microsoft products?
The governments have to decide to use something. And its generally a good idea to standardize on a platform within an organization, with some execeptions.
That is because every employer in austin looking for tech people knows that if they put an ad in Monster they will get about 10,000 resumes flooding there HR department.
If you think you can properly scan Austin for a tech job in one day, then you probobly won't find a job here. Maybe you are not interested in working for Motorola, Cypress, Applied Materials, Convio, Cirrus Logic, Intel, Vignette, Semantic, Silicon Labs, Apple, Sematech, Broadwing, 3M, Cisco, Dupont, Samsung, Carbomedics, CSC, Prodigy, National Instruments, Ratheon Selectrion, Tokyo Electron, Oracle,
This is why outsourcing is good for the economy. If we all did it, we would all be rich.
American companies are more productive if jobs can be more cheaply done overseas. Americans that work for American companies can make more money if American companies are more productive. You just have to do something that you can do better than 5 guys in India.
If you can't find something that you can do better than someone else who will do it cheaper - then who owes you anything?
Oops... You didn't steal them, since its not criminal and I can still say them, I suppose....
Hmm.. What does this word steal really mean?
The fact is that depriving someone of their property is not a huge factor in the definition of theft. In fact I can deprive someone of their property without stealing it. All I have to do is destroy it. If I throw a rock through my neighbors window she wouldn't call the police and say someone stole her window.
On the other hand if she planted yellow flowers along the front of her lawn and then I did the same thing, she might say that I stole her idea. And I never deprived her of her flowerbed nor did I do anything criminal.
You see, the english language cannot be controlled by dictionaries or American law books. It is controlled by the people who use it. If a pattern of speech is well understood by those who hear it, it will continue to be used.
Its not just massive switches that take advantage of this. I use the Redhat WAF for Java development and the java/xml/xsl seperation is beautiful. Occasionally a JSP is used for something so simple that it is otherwise silly. But keeping all of the real logic in java and all of the display information in xsl is amazingly simplifying.
Then the real advantage comes when you want two different interfaces for the same program. One for a cell phone and another for a desktop web browser. Just make some new xslt's and choose them based on the client string. Any changes made to the business logic does not have to be rewritten.
Its not really about portability and scalability. Its about simplicity. I can have a graphic design person with soem xsl skills write all of the html output against a sample xml dataset and then join it up with the real web app when its done. The designer doesn't know anything about sql queries or permission checking api's. He just makes the output pretty.
Some people don't understand that the seperation is not UI from Business Logic. Its presentation from UI. Business Logic can be seperated from UI as well, for the most part, but they both need to be seperate from presentation.
The government survey of household employment showed a record 136.2 million non-agricultural jobs in December which is up over 1.5 million in 2003. In addition, unemployment claims fell to 347,500 in the four week average through January 10 which indicates that people got jobs. That is consistent with the fast drop in the unemployment rate.
However, there is another statistic which you may be concerned about. The Establishment Survey showed that the number of jobs in non-farm establishments fell by 74,000 in 2003. However, the Establishment survey does not respond very quickly to new businesses and self-employment. It is very often adjust as much as 2 years after its initial publication because of this.
-Jacob
Whose lives are spent enslaved to corporations? I didn't realize that they couldn't walk away. Who's holding a gun to their heads? I'll go and fight for their cause.
But for those who enslave themselves I will not. For once freed from one they will find another. And I will not become their slave.
Hmmm.. So you are saying that they need more of my money? If you want to have money get a job. I know lots of people hiring. I Seriously fear the day that welfare pays as much as minimum wage.
Hmm. If by a few years ago you mean before 1989? I seem to remember people were starving because they couldn't grow enough food. In the US, people call in to radio shows on their cell phones while driving their SUV's to complain about losing a job and at the same time our unemployment rate has been dropping steadily for the lat 8 months:
One other thing that should be pointed out is that the fund manager is not some individual pulling home a 90 Million dollar salary. Most fund managers have research teams and other staff to support the effort of managing the money in the funds.
We already have a system for that, its called Social Security. Although some like to think it sounds less ridiculous when you call it social security instead of "give me some money cause I'm sittin' on my ass all day".
"U.S. officials said the F-16 pilot made an initial report to his commanders that he and another F-16 had taken enemy ground fire, and he was given permission to mark the target and return for a second look.
During the subsequent fly-over, the pilot requested permission to drop his weapon. A Pentagon official said his superiors denied permission unless the pilot felt he would be acting in self-defense. At that point, the pilot again reported ground fire, invoked his right of self-defense and dropped the laser-guided bomb, military officials said."
Go eat your berries and grubs if it sounds so good. If you actually take the side suggested by the parent post, then I don't expect to see a reply. Since using your computer would apparently conflict with your philosophy. By the way, you should probobly just starve to death. Who knows what kind of damage you would be doing to the environment by depriving it of a few berries and shrubs.
I don't think it's designed for the top of your car. It's designed for placing in huge storage parking lot for fleets of cars. As such, the most important sound consideration is from neighboring businesses and houses. I think that even if it had damaging sound levels at close range, that would be acceptable and just require the use of earphones when you approach it while it is operating. After all, it only runs during big storms. Its not like it would be going off 24/7.
I won't speculate as to how well it works.. I have no Idea.
Right, but say you have known element group a, from which you form new element x and by-product group or known elements b. x and b will contain less energy than a. But it is possible that x is more useful as a fuel...
-jacob
I don't think we can create an energy source in a lab. Basic laws of physics say that we can't get more energy out than we put in. At best we could get an element which allows us to store or deliver energe more efficiently.
What if instead, one of the consoles made their next version run linux. Then all of the console games would be developed on linux and could be easily ported over to run on a regular windows desktop.
Of course that would probobly break the console vendor's business model, because they only make money on the ones that people play on the console.
I am using ndiswrapper too, for a Broadcom mini-PCI card. Works good except that it doesn't support all of the wireless extensions. I can't seem to get a list of networks available, but as long as I know the name, I can connect manually. Its a little bit of a pain, but I like it better than having a second wireless adapter in my pcmcia slot for when I am in linux(90%).
Re:Who cares about Linux
on
Perens on Patents
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Exactly what did the United Nations do with a Billion dollars of aid?
Population Control/Infantacide. Promote Non-Circumvention Laws. Try to Tax the Internet.
Regulating interstate commerce does not have the scope of anything a multistate corporation does. Regulate meens to make uniform. Regulate does not mean control to whatever ends you like. The purpose of Congress' power is to prevent discriminatory trade practices.
For example, if a steam boat operator was attempting to deliver goods along the east coast and New York intended to charge him taxes that are not charged to local Yankee operators. Or if they granted a monopoly on transportation of goods in NY ports and wished to exclude foreign operators, then the congress could pass a law which would override state granted monopolies.
The interstate commerce clause allows us to be one country, instead of a fragmented confederation as we were before. By preventing our states from being unfair to each other, this clause makes the US economy a very singular entity. However, there is no basis for the kinds of abuses such as the Sherman Act or the actions against Bell and Microsoft. I do not love Microsoft, but I do not think that it is the Federal Government's role to tell a company how to sell its products beyond the point of fraud and tax evasion.
I don't think the constitution gives congress the power to make laws against a software company including a web browser with their operating system. I may concede that it could regulate some of the contracts between Microsoft and it's vendors as unfair trade, even though it is not granted by a State Power.
However, ever since 1889, the Supreme court has not done its job in maintaining the meaning of this clause. Just because congress effectively excercises this power today, it does not mean that the constitution granted it.
Ever notice how some people will spend 10 minutes going back and forth to get into a spot and then when they leave, they drive out in one run? If you can drive out of a space without inching back and forth, then you can back into it. Some people just have no sense of angles or distance in reverse.
I don't know how many times I have had a passenger in my full size extended cab chevy pickup tell me that I wasn't going to fit, and then gasp at how close I came to the other cars, and then that I got in in one shot.
A well designed computer program with the right data should be able to steer that prius into a parking spot as little as a 20" longer than the car itself.
Slashdot Mirror
to me this is government intereferance in a sector they should not touch.
Huh? Where are they interfering. From what I read they are talking about using the Linux operating system and developing their own version to support the tasks they plan to use it for. Does it say somewhere that they are planning on preventing private companies within the countries from using Microsoft products?
The governments have to decide to use something. And its generally a good idea to standardize on a platform within an organization, with some execeptions.
-JacobThat is because every employer in austin looking for tech people knows that if they put an ad in Monster they will get about 10,000 resumes flooding there HR department.
If you think you can properly scan Austin for a tech job in one day, then you probobly won't find a job here. Maybe you are not interested in working for Motorola, Cypress, Applied Materials, Convio, Cirrus Logic, Intel, Vignette, Semantic, Silicon Labs, Apple, Sematech, Broadwing, 3M, Cisco, Dupont, Samsung, Carbomedics, CSC, Prodigy, National Instruments, Ratheon Selectrion, Tokyo Electron, Oracle,
Do you realize that you are a genious?
This is why outsourcing is good for the economy. If we all did it, we would all be rich.
American companies are more productive if jobs can be more cheaply done overseas. Americans that work for American companies can make more money if American companies are more productive. You just have to do something that you can do better than 5 guys in India.
If you can't find something that you can do better than someone else who will do it cheaper - then who owes you anything?
-Jacob
Hey - You stole the words right out of my mouth..
Oops... You didn't steal them, since its not criminal and I can still say them, I suppose....
Hmm.. What does this word steal really mean?
The fact is that depriving someone of their property is not a huge factor in the definition of theft. In fact I can deprive someone of their property without stealing it. All I have to do is destroy it. If I throw a rock through my neighbors window she wouldn't call the police and say someone stole her window.
On the other hand if she planted yellow flowers along the front of her lawn and then I did the same thing, she might say that I stole her idea. And I never deprived her of her flowerbed nor did I do anything criminal.
You see, the english language cannot be controlled by dictionaries or American law books. It is controlled by the people who use it. If a pattern of speech is well understood by those who hear it, it will continue to be used.
-Jacob
Its not just massive switches that take advantage of this. I use the Redhat WAF for Java development and the java/xml/xsl seperation is beautiful. Occasionally a JSP is used for something so simple that it is otherwise silly. But keeping all of the real logic in java and all of the display information in xsl is amazingly simplifying.
Then the real advantage comes when you want two different interfaces for the same program. One for a cell phone and another for a desktop web browser. Just make some new xslt's and choose them based on the client string. Any changes made to the business logic does not have to be rewritten.
Its not really about portability and scalability. Its about simplicity. I can have a graphic design person with soem xsl skills write all of the html output against a sample xml dataset and then join it up with the real web app when its done. The designer doesn't know anything about sql queries or permission checking api's. He just makes the output pretty.
Some people don't understand that the seperation is not UI from Business Logic. Its presentation from UI. Business Logic can be seperated from UI as well, for the most part, but they both need to be seperate from presentation.
-Jacob
Why in the world would you install KDE? Most people who run Gentoo actually want their machine to be responsive. -Jacob
The government survey of household employment showed a record 136.2 million non-agricultural jobs in December which is up over 1.5 million in 2003. In addition, unemployment claims fell to 347,500 in the four week average through January 10 which indicates that people got jobs. That is consistent with the fast drop in the unemployment rate. However, there is another statistic which you may be concerned about. The Establishment Survey showed that the number of jobs in non-farm establishments fell by 74,000 in 2003. However, the Establishment survey does not respond very quickly to new businesses and self-employment. It is very often adjust as much as 2 years after its initial publication because of this. -Jacob
Whose lives are spent enslaved to corporations?
I didn't realize that they couldn't walk away. Who's holding a gun to their heads?
I'll go and fight for their cause.
But for those who enslave themselves I will not.
For once freed from one they will find another.
And I will not become their slave.
I realize it has failed. There was no way for it not to have. It failed the very day it was enacted.
I was just trying to poke and jab at it.
-Jacob
Hmmm.. So you are saying that they need more of my money? If you want to have money get a job. I know lots of people hiring. I Seriously fear the day that welfare pays as much as minimum wage.
-Jacob
Hmm. If by a few years ago you mean before 1989? I seem to remember people were starving because they couldn't grow enough food. In the US, people call in to radio shows on their cell phones while driving their SUV's to complain about losing a job and at the same time our unemployment rate has been dropping steadily for the lat 8 months:
2003 06 6.3
2003 07 6.2
2003 08 6.1
2003 09 6.1
2003 10 6.0
2003 11 5.9
2003 12 5.7
2004 01 5.6
One other thing that should be pointed out is that the fund manager is not some individual pulling home a 90 Million dollar salary. Most fund managers have research teams and other staff to support the effort of managing the money in the funds.
We already have a system for that, its called Social Security. Although some like to think it sounds less ridiculous when you call it social security instead of "give me some money cause I'm sittin' on my ass all day".
From CNN:
"U.S. officials said the F-16 pilot made an initial report to his commanders that he and another F-16 had taken enemy ground fire, and he was given permission to mark the target and return for a second look.
During the subsequent fly-over, the pilot requested permission to drop his weapon. A Pentagon official said his superiors denied permission unless the pilot felt he would be acting in self-defense. At that point, the pilot again reported ground fire, invoked his right of self-defense and dropped the laser-guided bomb, military officials said."
Go eat your berries and grubs if it sounds so good. If you actually take the side suggested by the parent post, then I don't expect to see a reply. Since using your computer would apparently conflict with your philosophy. By the way, you should probobly just starve to death. Who knows what kind of damage you would be doing to the environment by depriving it of a few berries and shrubs.
I don't think it's designed for the top of your car. It's designed for placing in huge storage parking lot for fleets of cars. As such, the most important sound consideration is from neighboring businesses and houses. I think that even if it had damaging sound levels at close range, that would be acceptable and just require the use of earphones when you approach it while it is operating. After all, it only runs during big storms. Its not like it would be going off 24/7.
I won't speculate as to how well it works.. I have no Idea.
GadgetGuys
Shameless Plug, But then, we aren't actually selling anything.
Right, but say you have known element group a, from which you form new element x and by-product group or known elements b. x and b will contain less energy than a. But it is possible that x is more useful as a fuel... -jacob
I don't think we can create an energy source in a lab. Basic laws of physics say that we can't get more energy out than we put in. At best we could get an element which allows us to store or deliver energe more efficiently.
-Jacob
I meant run on a linux desktop.... bad slip up.. I'll probably get lots of slack for that one.
What if instead, one of the consoles made their next version run linux. Then all of the console games would be developed on linux and could be easily ported over to run on a regular windows desktop.
Of course that would probobly break the console vendor's business model, because they only make money on the ones that people play on the console.
-Jacob
I am using ndiswrapper too, for a Broadcom mini-PCI card. Works good except that it doesn't support all of the wireless extensions. I can't seem to get a list of networks available, but as long as I know the name, I can connect manually. Its a little bit of a pain, but I like it better than having a second wireless adapter in my pcmcia slot for when I am in linux(90%).
Exactly what did the United Nations do with a Billion dollars of aid?
Population Control/Infantacide.
Promote Non-Circumvention Laws.
Try to Tax the Internet.
Regulating interstate commerce does not have the scope of anything a multistate corporation does. Regulate meens to make uniform. Regulate does not mean control to whatever ends you like. The purpose of Congress' power is to prevent discriminatory trade practices. For example, if a steam boat operator was attempting to deliver goods along the east coast and New York intended to charge him taxes that are not charged to local Yankee operators. Or if they granted a monopoly on transportation of goods in NY ports and wished to exclude foreign operators, then the congress could pass a law which would override state granted monopolies. The interstate commerce clause allows us to be one country, instead of a fragmented confederation as we were before. By preventing our states from being unfair to each other, this clause makes the US economy a very singular entity. However, there is no basis for the kinds of abuses such as the Sherman Act or the actions against Bell and Microsoft. I do not love Microsoft, but I do not think that it is the Federal Government's role to tell a company how to sell its products beyond the point of fraud and tax evasion. I don't think the constitution gives congress the power to make laws against a software company including a web browser with their operating system. I may concede that it could regulate some of the contracts between Microsoft and it's vendors as unfair trade, even though it is not granted by a State Power. However, ever since 1889, the Supreme court has not done its job in maintaining the meaning of this clause. Just because congress effectively excercises this power today, it does not mean that the constitution granted it.
Ever notice how some people will spend 10 minutes going back and forth to get into a spot and then when they leave, they drive out in one run? If you can drive out of a space without inching back and forth, then you can back into it. Some people just have no sense of angles or distance in reverse.
I don't know how many times I have had a passenger in my full size extended cab chevy pickup tell me that I wasn't going to fit, and then gasp at how close I came to the other cars, and then that I got in in one shot.
A well designed computer program with the right data should be able to steer that prius into a parking spot as little as a 20" longer than the car itself.