Since email is typically just stashed on a server somewhere, information and knowledge can accumulate for years before some nosy IT monkey decides to cap off everyone's mailbox limit.
IM, it seems to me, just doesn't have the permanency and longevity that email does.
The biggest difference here is that Microsoft wants to use the simple input panel rather than the extensible one.
While the architecture of XMPP allows for theoretically broader support of handwriting recognition systems, you rarely need more than two on any given system (your native language and English).
I have a feeling Microsoft will win this small battle.
Shouldn't the naming of a chemical be up to a standards body to decide? Take the primary color Squant as an example of the wrongheadedness of letting something's discoverer name it.
But the main point is that ISPs have common carrier status and can be no more liable for copyright infringement than the phone company can for the playing of music over the telephone.
It is important to note here that the U.S. government through its agency NASA has officially thrown support to the adherents of evolution.
If there is no evolution, then there is no chance that life would exist anywhere else in the universe because it would have had to have been Created only here. The New Testament of the Bible (in which most Creationists readily and eagerly believe) repeatedly claims that there is only one Son of God and that only through Him is salvation possible. This would mean that if by some chance that there were lifeforms elsewhere in the galaxy that they would have to be perfect beings or destined for Hell. Since a loving God wouldn't create beings guaranteed to spend eternity in the flames of Hades, it stands to reason that God would have only created Life here on Earth (where, again, He sent His Son).
But with NASA supporting the search for ET life, the government has implicitly thumbed its nose at the Creationists.
When you make a movie while mesmerized by the gee-whiz factor of what you can do with computers, you inevitably leave out the most important part of the movie: Storytelling.
Look at films like Final Fantasy, SW1&2, or even LoTR (flame on!). The directors went overboard with the graphics and the story suffered as a result. In FF, the CG was the story. In SW1&2 it is debatable whether Lucas had any story to tell in the first place. And in LoTR, so much time was spent showing battle after battle, landscape after landscape, hokey special effect after hokey special effect, that it took 3 and a half hours to tell one third of a 2 hour movie.
But considering the current crop of crappy movies out, CG or not, I doubt very much that there is a genuinely original storyteller/director out there getting his work into theaters.
No one cares about you and your puny little life and conversations. But you would certainly care if someone was planning on blowing up your train station or office building.
That's why they do this. To find out who is planning to do bad things that hurt lots of people. They certainly don't care that you are having a fight with your wife and calling your girlfriend to make arrangements to stay over tonight.
It continues to amaze me that people look at the iBook as some kind of zenith of hardware design when it is bigger, heavier, and has only one mouse button compared to the Windows-based alternatives. I guess if you are comparing the Apple to an IBM or Dell laptop you'd have a point but with all sorts of more stylishly designed laptops than those available you'd be hard pressed to claim that Apple is leading in the field.
With their carcasses split in two and the blood boiling on the hot Texas highway, the stench of these evolutionary wrong turns rotting is enough to make a man wish his face were torn off so that he wouldn't have to smell the dead critter.
Good luck on not crashing and burning, Armadillo Aerospace!
So this is one of those "look into the crystal ball" articles. A quick look at the numbers show that Linux adoption is levelling off, as are all server OSs across the board (with Solaris and BSD (is dying!)) actually decreasing in market share).
So you've got two technologies that are succeeding here, WiFi and VoIP. And you've got one that's doing okay, Linux.
It's certainly not 1998 and Linux is the new hot thing. It is 2003 and it is the old OS with a good rep. It hasn't lived up to all of its hype (it still sucks as a desktop OS despite your mama's running of it at home), but it has nicely fit a niche in server software that was completely dominated by some big names like IBM and Sun previously. That's not too bad.
And the government system of going with the lowest bidder is bound to cause some problems as the more expensive engineers would no doubt bring better experience and know how with them. When you bring in the inexperienced because they are cheap, you frequently end up spending more in the long run than if you had paid for the expertise up front.
It's like they say, you get what you pay for. Cheap prices are only cheap if your time has no value.
Nice to hear the OSS folks owning up to what their real agenda is.
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I'm not saying you're a homophobe, but your "solution" would at some point entail quarantining infected vectors. This would mean that if someone were to claim AIDS as an epidemic (which some already do) then millions of infected people would need to be separated from the uninfected population. Considering the demographics of AIDS infection, it is clear that large numbers of gay men would necessarily need to have their lives disrupted in order to meet quarantine requirements.
Also if we consider that AIDS is a non-curable disease, there is really no chance for the infected to ever come out of quarantine, thus leaving them in an apartheid-esque state of submission.
The most important thing is to raise health standards globally so that people are more able to ward off disease as they encounter it. Starting with something as easy as implementing U.S. poultry and livestock cleanliness standards to certain asian countries' food processing industries would go a long way in fighting off outbreaks of flu-like viruses.
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A truck pulls up and the driver falls out covered in his own mucus.
In the passenger seat the driver's wife and child are dead.
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Since email is typically just stashed on a server somewhere, information and knowledge can accumulate for years before some nosy IT monkey decides to cap off everyone's mailbox limit.
IM, it seems to me, just doesn't have the permanency and longevity that email does.
Mostly it's trying to round up a posse to go eat lunch or sending little I (heart) U messages to the cute intern.
Sometimes I play Hexic with the wife who is at home.
But in the 1% that is actually relevant to my job, it's usually some pretty serious stuff.
I find that skipping the programs to get to the commercials to be more interesting than the other way around.
Fuck You.
Who's there to vote for anymore?
But it doesn't seem to be very important data, regardless of whether it is skewed towards Apache or IIS.
Not to me. I've been drinking a lot of coffee and pissing in the fjords.
But wait a week or to until it's good for you again.
The biggest difference here is that Microsoft wants to use the simple input panel rather than the extensible one.
While the architecture of XMPP allows for theoretically broader support of handwriting recognition systems, you rarely need more than two on any given system (your native language and English).
I have a feeling Microsoft will win this small battle.
You were once kids too. Games aren't going to warp their minds if their minds aren't already warped by you, their parents.
Shouldn't the naming of a chemical be up to a standards body to decide? Take the primary color Squant as an example of the wrongheadedness of letting something's discoverer name it.
But the main point is that ISPs have common carrier status and can be no more liable for copyright infringement than the phone company can for the playing of music over the telephone.
It is important to note here that the U.S. government through its agency NASA has officially thrown support to the adherents of evolution.
If there is no evolution, then there is no chance that life would exist anywhere else in the universe because it would have had to have been Created only here. The New Testament of the Bible (in which most Creationists readily and eagerly believe) repeatedly claims that there is only one Son of God and that only through Him is salvation possible. This would mean that if by some chance that there were lifeforms elsewhere in the galaxy that they would have to be perfect beings or destined for Hell. Since a loving God wouldn't create beings guaranteed to spend eternity in the flames of Hades, it stands to reason that God would have only created Life here on Earth (where, again, He sent His Son).
But with NASA supporting the search for ET life, the government has implicitly thumbed its nose at the Creationists.
It's about time, if you ask me.
When you make a movie while mesmerized by the gee-whiz factor of what you can do with computers, you inevitably leave out the most important part of the movie: Storytelling.
Look at films like Final Fantasy, SW1&2, or even LoTR (flame on!). The directors went overboard with the graphics and the story suffered as a result. In FF, the CG was the story. In SW1&2 it is debatable whether Lucas had any story to tell in the first place. And in LoTR, so much time was spent showing battle after battle, landscape after landscape, hokey special effect after hokey special effect, that it took 3 and a half hours to tell one third of a 2 hour movie.
But considering the current crop of crappy movies out, CG or not, I doubt very much that there is a genuinely original storyteller/director out there getting his work into theaters.
Perhaps his "morality" persuades him to use something other than a product made by a "known criminal"?
Get off the web and learn how to paint. The countryside is beckoning.
No one cares about you and your puny little life and conversations. But you would certainly care if someone was planning on blowing up your train station or office building.
That's why they do this. To find out who is planning to do bad things that hurt lots of people. They certainly don't care that you are having a fight with your wife and calling your girlfriend to make arrangements to stay over tonight.
Sharp Mebius Muramasa It is smaller and lighter than Apple's brick. It runs on Transmeta so you can get geek points too.
Panasonic Let's Note Again, smaller and lighter than Apple's iBrick.
It continues to amaze me that people look at the iBook as some kind of zenith of hardware design when it is bigger, heavier, and has only one mouse button compared to the Windows-based alternatives. I guess if you are comparing the Apple to an IBM or Dell laptop you'd have a point but with all sorts of more stylishly designed laptops than those available you'd be hard pressed to claim that Apple is leading in the field.
With their carcasses split in two and the blood boiling on the hot Texas highway, the stench of these evolutionary wrong turns rotting is enough to make a man wish his face were torn off so that he wouldn't have to smell the dead critter.
Good luck on not crashing and burning, Armadillo Aerospace!
So this is one of those "look into the crystal ball" articles. A quick look at the numbers show that Linux adoption is levelling off, as are all server OSs across the board (with Solaris and BSD (is dying!)) actually decreasing in market share).
So you've got two technologies that are succeeding here, WiFi and VoIP. And you've got one that's doing okay, Linux.
It's certainly not 1998 and Linux is the new hot thing. It is 2003 and it is the old OS with a good rep. It hasn't lived up to all of its hype (it still sucks as a desktop OS despite your mama's running of it at home), but it has nicely fit a niche in server software that was completely dominated by some big names like IBM and Sun previously. That's not too bad.
And the government system of going with the lowest bidder is bound to cause some problems as the more expensive engineers would no doubt bring better experience and know how with them. When you bring in the inexperienced because they are cheap, you frequently end up spending more in the long run than if you had paid for the expertise up front.
It's like they say, you get what you pay for. Cheap prices are only cheap if your time has no value.
Like what SCO alleges was done to their code?
Nice to hear the OSS folks owning up to what their real agenda is.
I'm not saying you're a homophobe, but your "solution" would at some point entail quarantining infected vectors. This would mean that if someone were to claim AIDS as an epidemic (which some already do) then millions of infected people would need to be separated from the uninfected population. Considering the demographics of AIDS infection, it is clear that large numbers of gay men would necessarily need to have their lives disrupted in order to meet quarantine requirements.
Also if we consider that AIDS is a non-curable disease, there is really no chance for the infected to ever come out of quarantine, thus leaving them in an apartheid-esque state of submission.
The most important thing is to raise health standards globally so that people are more able to ward off disease as they encounter it. Starting with something as easy as implementing U.S. poultry and livestock cleanliness standards to certain asian countries' food processing industries would go a long way in fighting off outbreaks of flu-like viruses.
A truck pulls up and the driver falls out covered in his own mucus.
In the passenger seat the driver's wife and child are dead.
This isn't the end, it's just the beginning.
Are you going to go build your own router?
Are you going to comb through the code only to find that it's not that much different from the other code you never look at?
Face it, if it some source is vital to your company staying competitive, it isn't going to be GPL'd.