Um the apple deal for me because only Apple could rip you off in such a stylish manner whilst making you feel good about saving the environment at the same time. Selling on ebay is such a distainfully common thing to do.
Sorry mindlessly eating and reproducing until there are no resouces left and you die only qualify as a very limited form of life for most people (unless you are a very fat woman obsessed with having babies).
Yes, that's pretty much what life is. The next stage is to add something that consumes the bacteria.
Right, cos it always works out so well when we introduce new species to an enviroment here on earth. Life as we know it evolved from a massively complex series of interdependencies here on earth, not from chucking a few bacteria and bacteria eating creatures together and hoping for the best. Obviously its not necessary to recreate the entire evolutionary process to terraform mars but there is a lot more to it that 2 parts bacteria, one part oxygen 3 parts water if it is to be sustainable.
And this is why we need a proper ticketing and validation system, including using ticket conductors an all space flights to prevent these freeloading micro organisms taking advantage of our space travel. Saying its not cold enough here on earth at this time of the solar cycle is no excuse to just secretly jump on the next moon mission that come along.
If you need to get off planet do it under your own power ya grubby little micro cheapskates.
I love this 'seed mars with life' statement. Putting bacteria up there is not seeding the planet with life, its seeding it with little eating machines with no guarantee they will do anything except consume all the resources they can.
Two things. The JVM distributed with windows has nothing to do with MS and everything to do with SUN. SUN had a great chance to promote Java after the lawsuit which they completely missed and not so much shot themselves in the foot as fired a howitzer at their lower appendages by forcing MS to stick to the old VM.
Second, there in nothing on gods green earth stopping you from downloading one of a variety of VM's and runtimes.
A lot of companies I have visited recently still use Win2000 as their main desktop, have not yet and are unlikely to move to XP and will probably wait for a stable longhorn before changing. Given thats a couple of years away I think MS will have to support it by popular demand for a bit longer than they would like too.
Yes because patents have proved absolutely devastating to software development, and totally killed of OSS in the countries this official is saying Europe should emulate.
on my new super reliable built in redundancy 2 molecule switch, soon I shall be rich beyond my wildest drea.., shit where did I put it on the table again....
And as OS races to catch up with this new Photoshop feature can you imagine some of the freaks that will be created at people struggle with the GIMPs interface. Now I understand why they called it gimp.
Mock away but a lot of people find it more that a little stupid that just about every new Firefox release, however minor breaks existing extensions. Its really not a very clever way to treat an extension interface.
I think he was really referring to IBM who have been very very clever in their use of OS. It has allowed them to attack their competitors by targeting OS projects that suit IBM and weaken their competiton. Witness the decision (based on financial reasons) by Borland to use Eclipse as their core platform. This is most likely the beginning of the end for Borland and IBM has one less competitor in the J2EE market.
IBM now exert tremendous influence over several mainstream OS J2EE projects and the polarisation of the market into niche player and corporate giant has already begun.
Clearly someone with mod has no no concept of what flamebait really is or what moderation actually means. Gowens points are prefectly valid, Google have done nothing, let me repeat that, nothing groundbreaking. What they have done is taken some old ideas and implemented them very well. The double standards round here though are amazing.
Just imagine MS produced a web accelerator which recorded personally identifable information about you and made unrequested downloads to your machine. The poor slashbots would struggle to post such would be their apoplexy. If Google do it, thats fine though.
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I know you are joking but you have point. If I was a senior exec at Nokia right now I might be thinking 'well fuck you stallman you ungrateful cunt' as I call the legal dept and ask them to start looking into potential patent infrinments of FOSS.
I think the community as a whole would be better served if Mr Stallman could just say, thanks Nokia for making a step in the right direction but theres a way to go yet. Provoking them pointlessly and making absolutely absurd analogies is only going to come back and bite you in the end.
Its like the US, slow to anger but watch out when they pick the big stick up cos someone is getting it royally.
PS. If you can present me with a copy of a real threat letter that was sent by a patent holder to a free software developer, that would be useful.
So its pretty safe to say then that FOSS is not exactly being swamped with patent infringment claims, no matter how massively Mr Stallman like to exaggerate the 'threat'. So his point, other than FUD is what exactly?
I remember as a youth almost causing myself severe injury on my first trip to the US when while channel hopping I heard a commentator seriously describe bowlers as 'professional athletes'. There was considerable pain and a damp patch in my pants 15 mins later after the laughter induced spasms had subsided.
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Um the apple deal for me because only Apple could rip you off in such a stylish manner whilst making you feel good about saving the environment at the same time. Selling on ebay is such a distainfully common thing to do.
Sorry mindlessly eating and reproducing until there are no resouces left and you die only qualify as a very limited form of life for most people (unless you are a very fat woman obsessed with having babies).
Yes, that's pretty much what life is. The next stage is to add something that consumes the bacteria.
Right, cos it always works out so well when we introduce new species to an enviroment here on earth. Life as we know it evolved from a massively complex series of interdependencies here on earth, not from chucking a few bacteria and bacteria eating creatures together and hoping for the best. Obviously its not necessary to recreate the entire evolutionary process to terraform mars but there is a lot more to it that 2 parts bacteria, one part oxygen 3 parts water if it is to be sustainable.
And this is why we need a proper ticketing and validation system, including using ticket conductors an all space flights to prevent these freeloading micro organisms taking advantage of our space travel. Saying its not cold enough here on earth at this time of the solar cycle is no excuse to just secretly jump on the next moon mission that come along.
If you need to get off planet do it under your own power ya grubby little micro cheapskates.
I love this 'seed mars with life' statement. Putting bacteria up there is not seeding the planet with life, its seeding it with little eating machines with no guarantee they will do anything except consume all the resources they can.
You kids will put you in the cheapest, crapiest retirement home they can when they find out they are only getting your Debian CDs.
Two things. The JVM distributed with windows has nothing to do with MS and everything to do with SUN. SUN had a great chance to promote Java after the lawsuit which they completely missed and not so much shot themselves in the foot as fired a howitzer at their lower appendages by forcing MS to stick to the old VM.
Second, there in nothing on gods green earth stopping you from downloading one of a variety of VM's and runtimes.
When translated it said 'I'm smarter then the average neanderthal Boo-boo'
A lot of companies I have visited recently still use Win2000 as their main desktop, have not yet and are unlikely to move to XP and will probably wait for a stable longhorn before changing. Given thats a couple of years away I think MS will have to support it by popular demand for a bit longer than they would like too.
Yes because patents have proved absolutely devastating to software development, and totally killed of OSS in the countries this official is saying Europe should emulate.
on my new super reliable built in redundancy 2 molecule switch, soon I shall be rich beyond my wildest drea.., shit where did I put it on the table again....
Its called stupidity and be thankful for it, if bad guys didnt fuck up law enforcement would catch no one.
Is it ?? Is it?? Tell me, I dont know what to think now after all the anti flash vitriol.
And as OS races to catch up with this new Photoshop feature can you imagine some of the freaks that will be created at people struggle with the GIMPs interface. Now I understand why they called it gimp.
Somebody set us up ze bomb
Indulging in buggery with something 21" long is bound to cause an injury.
Damn I always imagined Google would have legions of tiny googlenauts or elves to do this sort of thing.
Mock away but a lot of people find it more that a little stupid that just about every new Firefox release, however minor breaks existing extensions. Its really not a very clever way to treat an extension interface.
I think he was really referring to IBM who have been very very clever in their use of OS. It has allowed them to attack their competitors by targeting OS projects that suit IBM and weaken their competiton. Witness the decision (based on financial reasons) by Borland to use Eclipse as their core platform. This is most likely the beginning of the end for Borland and IBM has one less competitor in the J2EE market.
IBM now exert tremendous influence over several mainstream OS J2EE projects and the polarisation of the market into niche player and corporate giant has already begun.
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Clearly someone with mod has no no concept of what flamebait really is or what moderation actually means. Gowens points are prefectly valid, Google have done nothing, let me repeat that, nothing groundbreaking. What they have done is taken some old ideas and implemented them very well. The double standards round here though are amazing.
Just imagine MS produced a web accelerator which recorded personally identifable information about you and made unrequested downloads to your machine. The poor slashbots would struggle to post such would be their apoplexy. If Google do it, thats fine though.
I call them right cross and uppercut
I know you are joking but you have point. If I was a senior exec at Nokia right now I might be thinking 'well fuck you stallman you ungrateful cunt' as I call the legal dept and ask them to start looking into potential patent infrinments of FOSS.
I think the community as a whole would be better served if Mr Stallman could just say, thanks Nokia for making a step in the right direction but theres a way to go yet. Provoking them pointlessly and making absolutely absurd analogies is only going to come back and bite you in the end.
Its like the US, slow to anger but watch out when they pick the big stick up cos someone is getting it royally.
PS. If you can present me with a copy of a real threat letter that was sent by a patent holder to a free software developer, that would be useful.
So its pretty safe to say then that FOSS is not exactly being swamped with patent infringment claims, no matter how massively Mr Stallman like to exaggerate the 'threat'. So his point, other than FUD is what exactly?
You misspelt your name Godwin.
I remember as a youth almost causing myself severe injury on my first trip to the US when while channel hopping I heard a commentator seriously describe bowlers as 'professional athletes'. There was considerable pain and a damp patch in my pants 15 mins later after the laughter induced spasms had subsided.