...I'd have pegged the Yes Men all over this story.
As it stands, this may be a cynical business move, or this may be Google finally realizing just who they've been in bed with this whole time, but either way's a win.
Well-written article on the Large Hadron Collider free of any scaremongering and vague references to "some questions have been raised"? Check. Bring in the crazies!
Differences in control schemes will make a difference, possibly eliminating a level playing field. This leads me to two conclusions: either they're going to somehow tweak the Xbox control scheme (and by "tweak", I mean "enable cheating"), or they're going to dumb down the PC control scheme. Odds on favorite: the latter.
I'd like to say that, as a full red-blooded, maple syrup-sweating, moose riding Canuck, I've never been prouder of my country. These sorts of laws always seem good in the panic moments when they're pushed through, but cooler heads will prevail. We've said no to bad, kneejerk legislation, and I'm proud to be a voter.
No, science is science. Science seeks truth by experimentation, examination of evidence, mathematical reasoning and making predictions based on the above. Philosophy seeks truth by coming up with hypothetical questions about reality and bickering over the minutiae therein, splitting into ideological camps not based on any particular differentiation of substance but by mere opposing viewpoints. Science majors go on to invent things, come up with new and refined models of the universe and advance the progress of humanity. Philosophy majors go on to become... philosophy professors. Or unemployed.
This is madness! The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Neuronet eh? I think a group of researchers got a little too much into the Neal Stephenson and William Gibson novels. Wonder if it's going to be open to the public, I've got some Shadowrun hacking fantasies I've been dying to act out.
Last year, I worked for a telemarketer. On Thanksgiving, they gave away turkeys, like good 15 pound turkeys, which is a pretty darned stand-up thing to do. For Christmas they promised all employees in our section a dinner, paid for by the company. The big day comes around, and what do we get? $5.00 certificates for the Italian place in the food court of the mall (the telemarketer's office is in a mall). Bastards.
At my current programming job, they give gifts to employees yearly. The CEO had us all up to his office for snacks and drinks. This year he gave out what I'm wearing now, which is a rather nice bathrobe (company logos, etc., but they had to specially order them), probably worth well over $75.00. Last year, the employees got jackets. Total cost to the company? Maybe a couple of grand. Increase in morale, including myself? Priceless. See, I don't mind being told "No Christmas bonus/gift because we can't spare the money," I'm totally fine with that. But don't insult me if you're going to give me a gift, I appreciate knowing that the company somewhat cares about me, and isn't just placating me with some meaningless token that they probably got on the cheap because they felt the need to placate the employees.
Indeed. Saw it after my post (poster's regret, and all) and thought it was a grand old idea. Now if the OOo team can just officially support that and make that the new version of OOo for Mac, instead of the ugly hack they have going right now, I'll have plenty of hope for the future.
Ah, but the Vista license clearly prevents you from legitimately installing on a virtual machine. So Mac users are getting it at both ends - go buy a copy of Windows to run Office 2007 on, and then go buy a PC when the stores refuse to sell anything other than Vista and Vista doesn't like being put in Parallels or Boot Camp.
Of course, this is attributing conspiracy where simple apathy will suffice ("Why should we bend over backwards to make VBA work for Mac users?"), but the effect is nonetheless there.
Everyone, pool your mod points and give 'em to this guy. I always found it ridiculous that OpenOffice has to run on an X session, it always seemed like a horrible kludge to me, especially getting printing to work. If we can get OpenOffice running natively and smoothly, and soon, we can give Office Mac users a real alternative that's not only free (which is something that Mac users aren't used to), but also high quality and works well enough to easily replace it.
I still run it on my home server, and it still bothers me that I didn't get to finish and polish the bits I was hacking on.
Why not? It's not like Novel owned Hula. Taking the source code home with you is perfectly alright with an open source project. If you want to, you can finish up the remainder of the code on your own. That's what open source is all about! Then, tell us how you did it. The community, and the team that takes up Hula after Novel has unceremoniously dropped it, will thank you.
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That cough sounds nasty. You should have your building checked for asbestos.
...I'd have pegged the Yes Men all over this story. As it stands, this may be a cynical business move, or this may be Google finally realizing just who they've been in bed with this whole time, but either way's a win.
But can they teach a robot to love?
Or you could, you know, trust your kids.
Do parents even do that anymore?
Well-written article on the Large Hadron Collider free of any scaremongering and vague references to "some questions have been raised"? Check. Bring in the crazies!
He's not. Burn, Doogie, burn!
How did you eat and breathe, and other science facts?
I, for one, welcome our new common sense-endowed judicial overlords.
-$50,000.00. I'll take cash or check.
Starscreamer? Starscreamer?!? Hand in your geek card.
Someone comes up with a really good Shadowrun comment and I have no mod points!
Differences in control schemes will make a difference, possibly eliminating a level playing field. This leads me to two conclusions: either they're going to somehow tweak the Xbox control scheme (and by "tweak", I mean "enable cheating"), or they're going to dumb down the PC control scheme. Odds on favorite: the latter.
Type is void, no returns necessary.
I'd like to say that, as a full red-blooded, maple syrup-sweating, moose riding Canuck, I've never been prouder of my country. These sorts of laws always seem good in the panic moments when they're pushed through, but cooler heads will prevail. We've said no to bad, kneejerk legislation, and I'm proud to be a voter.
Where are my Funny mod points? Damn you, mod point limit!
What came first, Science or Philosophy ?
What came first, medicine men waving sticks with feathers on them to cure a child's demon-caused illness, or penicillin?
No, science is science. Science seeks truth by experimentation, examination of evidence, mathematical reasoning and making predictions based on the above. Philosophy seeks truth by coming up with hypothetical questions about reality and bickering over the minutiae therein, splitting into ideological camps not based on any particular differentiation of substance but by mere opposing viewpoints. Science majors go on to invent things, come up with new and refined models of the universe and advance the progress of humanity. Philosophy majors go on to become... philosophy professors. Or unemployed.
I've got a solution for the biological pressure problem too. It's called a condom. Apply, and listen to your biological pressure at will.
Congress, don't clog the Intertubes!
Neuronet eh? I think a group of researchers got a little too much into the Neal Stephenson and William Gibson novels. Wonder if it's going to be open to the public, I've got some Shadowrun hacking fantasies I've been dying to act out.
Last year, I worked for a telemarketer. On Thanksgiving, they gave away turkeys, like good 15 pound turkeys, which is a pretty darned stand-up thing to do. For Christmas they promised all employees in our section a dinner, paid for by the company. The big day comes around, and what do we get? $5.00 certificates for the Italian place in the food court of the mall (the telemarketer's office is in a mall). Bastards.
At my current programming job, they give gifts to employees yearly. The CEO had us all up to his office for snacks and drinks. This year he gave out what I'm wearing now, which is a rather nice bathrobe (company logos, etc., but they had to specially order them), probably worth well over $75.00. Last year, the employees got jackets. Total cost to the company? Maybe a couple of grand. Increase in morale, including myself? Priceless. See, I don't mind being told "No Christmas bonus/gift because we can't spare the money," I'm totally fine with that. But don't insult me if you're going to give me a gift, I appreciate knowing that the company somewhat cares about me, and isn't just placating me with some meaningless token that they probably got on the cheap because they felt the need to placate the employees.
Indeed. Saw it after my post (poster's regret, and all) and thought it was a grand old idea. Now if the OOo team can just officially support that and make that the new version of OOo for Mac, instead of the ugly hack they have going right now, I'll have plenty of hope for the future.
Ah, but the Vista license clearly prevents you from legitimately installing on a virtual machine. So Mac users are getting it at both ends - go buy a copy of Windows to run Office 2007 on, and then go buy a PC when the stores refuse to sell anything other than Vista and Vista doesn't like being put in Parallels or Boot Camp.
Of course, this is attributing conspiracy where simple apathy will suffice ("Why should we bend over backwards to make VBA work for Mac users?"), but the effect is nonetheless there.
Everyone, pool your mod points and give 'em to this guy. I always found it ridiculous that OpenOffice has to run on an X session, it always seemed like a horrible kludge to me, especially getting printing to work. If we can get OpenOffice running natively and smoothly, and soon, we can give Office Mac users a real alternative that's not only free (which is something that Mac users aren't used to), but also high quality and works well enough to easily replace it.
Why not? It's not like Novel owned Hula. Taking the source code home with you is perfectly alright with an open source project. If you want to, you can finish up the remainder of the code on your own. That's what open source is all about! Then, tell us how you did it. The community, and the team that takes up Hula after Novel has unceremoniously dropped it, will thank you.