Similarly, the hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology says that "one cannot comb the hair on a ball smooth". This fact is immediately convincing to most people, even though they might not recognize the more formal statement of the theorem, that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on the sphere.
I am now gagging for an opportunity start making crap up about nonvanishing continuous tangent vectors the next time hairy balls come up in conversation.
You should try working for a large financial corp. They lock your machine down _and_ block access to web mail and other sites. Its their way of the highway as part of security/confidentiality/behaviour control .
Whats interesting, and quite damming in its own way, is that the test systems had to have extra memory included because of the requirements of a certain other browser.
If memory serves, didnt some student write a seach and index/catalog tool to allow easy 'stealing' of music, deployed it on the campus network and was promptly creamed in court?
Quite a few unfortunately if the experience of TheServerSide.com is anything to go by. Also you can expect to see rails enthusiasts injecting comments like 'This is so much easier in Rails, I only had to think about it and the scaffolding automatically provided an implementation using only two variables, a semi colon and 3 whitespaces.' in any discussion of web development technology.
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When the dark suits turn up on my doorstep with an arrest warrant on charges of attempting to crack confidential government sites I can be pretty sure my machine has been rooted.
getting non-techies excited over the idea of running from a Live CD
Normal people dont get excited about operating systems. PC's are either tools or toys to them. Getting another operating systems is about as exciting as changing the wash cycle in their dishwasher for most people.
Article rambles all over the place, seems more to be pleading for reader to look at previous articles by author rather than make its higly convoluted point. Reads like a lot of sour grapes about historical irrelevance so I assume the author is just looking for hits by trying to be inflamatory.
Of course, if Java had been an open standard for the past 10 years, there'd be dozens of independent implementations right now
I love statements like this. The specs for the language have been available since day one. There are a couple of very good alternative implementations (free as in beer) and some very mediocre OSS attempts. Its been a constant source of amusement to me that for all the 'we have all the best developers etc etc etc' the 'community' has harped on at Sun for years to open source because basically they have been unable to produce a comparable implementation on their own. It's for this reason I think Sun opening Java fully will make sod all difference, just as opening Solaris made sod all difference (yes different licence but very much a case of 'ta we'll just cherry pick the good stuff like dtrace and port it to linux').
Joe Vista user reading that explanation is going to quit half way through wondering wtf this lunatic is babbling about and probably thinking the author must have sadly neglected as a child to be so angry about something that works fine for Joe at home.
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Thats a C&D. The guy was not sued, just informed politely he was infringing and provided with an alternative approach when he asked.
over patent infringement? Actual cases and not the 'OMG they might sue us' screeching please.
I am now gagging for an opportunity start making crap up about nonvanishing continuous tangent vectors the next time hairy balls come up in conversation.
is a tad disingenuous now isn't it.
A fat sweaty bearded geek sitting in his parents basement scoffing pizza and jolt while on a raid with his guild is a security issue how exactly?
etc.
You should try working for a large financial corp. They lock your machine down _and_ block access to web mail and other sites. Its their way of the highway as part of security/confidentiality/behaviour control .
Whats interesting, and quite damming in its own way, is that the test systems had to have extra memory included because of the requirements of a certain other browser.
If memory serves, didnt some student write a seach and index/catalog tool to allow easy 'stealing' of music, deployed it on the campus network and was promptly creamed in court?
And yes I am too lazy to look it up.
Quite a few unfortunately if the experience of TheServerSide.com is anything to go by. Also you can expect to see rails enthusiasts injecting comments like 'This is so much easier in Rails, I only had to think about it and the scaffolding automatically provided an implementation using only two variables, a semi colon and 3 whitespaces.' in any discussion of web development technology.
Maybe thats why they called it Mongrel.
When the dark suits turn up on my doorstep with an arrest warrant on charges of attempting to crack confidential government sites I can be pretty sure my machine has been rooted.
Normal people dont get excited about operating systems. PC's are either tools or toys to them. Getting another operating systems is about as exciting as changing the wash cycle in their dishwasher for most people.
JBoss, the 'professional open source' company are notorious for astroturfing on Java forums.
Sounds like someone at the lab has a hot date lined up......
Article rambles all over the place, seems more to be pleading for reader to look at previous articles by author rather than make its higly convoluted point. Reads like a lot of sour grapes about historical irrelevance so I assume the author is just looking for hits by trying to be inflamatory.
Personally I subscribe to Professor Hawkings theory of a donut shaped universe.
An Opera user sounding like a Firefox zealot.
"Click here to speak to one of our representatives now"
Should attract a lot of impulse buyers.
I agree.
Soul collection is down 15% since RMS started banging on about Vista.
Someone shut him up please (I can make it worth your while).
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Joe Vista user reading that explanation is going to quit half way through wondering wtf this lunatic is babbling about and probably thinking the author must have sadly neglected as a child to be so angry about something that works fine for Joe at home.
cos I always want to have that extra bit from my machines.
You have to respond 'Mouse' to the question:
"Are you a man or mouse?"
for the injection to be successful, otherwise you just develop a serious cheese addiction.