Um, what? A post on some guys website, no some guys "blog" is now news? Who is this guy and why should we care what he has to say? His site is slashdotted.
If you believe Wikipedia, just about everything project down there will be "pork barrel", as it is localized spending being footed by the entire population.
Furthermore, just because a company is big, it doesn't mean they're bad or inefficient(though often it can be the case). Companies don't grow to that size by being incompetent and performing poorly (although they sometimes do).
Sure, I'm sure smaller firms could do the same job for less, but thats where lobbyists come in.
What is this actually going to pay for? Their expenses and plane tickets to meet with execs while they try to push BT? Or is there some actual technical innovation that this is going to pay for?
Also noteworthy is that major portals seem to be cooperating with authorities' restrictions
Thats noteworthy? That the big companies in China are complying with Chinese law? I'm speechless.
Kudos for the citizens for finding clever ways to communicate. Its not as if they can just PGP their messages or do anything really suspicious. Just the fact that you're not doing "normal" surfing would probably be enough to raise someones eyebrow.
As soon as I saw that png on Googles website, I KNEW Slashdot would cover it. I thought to myself "Google farted, that sound you hear is a million Slashdotters sniffing."
Seriously, thanks for gmail though. I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
How is this different from the United States where any suggested attempt to overthrow the government, assassinate the leadership, or other movements to change the political system are met with charges of treason?
Umm, because thats against the law in the US? This is NOT what the article is about. Its about stifling the MEDIA, not homicidal extremists.
Furthermore, have you heard of any of the viable 3rd parties? A good deal of them are striving to change the political system, I don't see any of them down at the gallows.
The younger, less experienced folks CAN perform the same tasks. Its called training.
Keep good documentation and any competent person should be able to get up to speed in a decent amount of time. Otherwise send the person to IBM/$PLATFORM training.
Hmm, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
In all seriousness though, there is hardly any original comedy anymore. A lot of comedy (and good comedy at that) is taking well known situations or jokes and referencing them in obscure ways.
Being a huge Simpsons fan, I love seeing Simpsons headlines on Fark or a well-made reference here on Slashdot.
So it seems that after Russia sends the last obligatory shuttle to the space station, we are left the with the options of a.) buying Russian gear to send our own folks or b.) paying the Russians to do it for us?
Whatever, if it saves money, I'm sure the government will do it. I'm pretty sure they can use extra cash wherever they can find it now.
Some people don't need to know what javascript is. They just want to use their computer to type documents and read email. I'd say a good portion of business users need their computers for just that.
As far as sending huge files goes, they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes. People shouldn't be sending large documents through email anyway. A few megs at the MAX. Public drives or a webserver for anything else and the users should be educated on that.
As hokey as it may sound, I think some of it has to do with the attitude or "coolness" surrounding Linux. When people were introduced to Linux, it was this new hip cool thing, and if you didn't know what Linux was, then you were out of the loop! Unix always conjured up images of the old greybeard sitting in the lab tinkering with the machines.
The business world loves to be hip and Linux certainly provided that.
Ding ding ding. You've said the magic word of the decade. Your argument now has immediate credibility, and anyone who disagrees with you is unpatriotic.
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Wow! You mean if customers finally start complaining that their collective anus is bleeding,
Thanks man, its not like I was eating my lunch or anything..
According to this post at Dirson's blog..
Um, what? A post on some guys website, no some guys "blog" is now news? Who is this guy and why should we care what he has to say? His site is slashdotted.
He said that if I paid this year's protection money, he wouldn't break it three more times for the last three years I've been in business.
Sounds like a threat to me. If you don't do X, I'll do Y.
If you believe Wikipedia, just about everything project down there will be "pork barrel", as it is localized spending being footed by the entire population.
Furthermore, just because a company is big, it doesn't mean they're bad or inefficient(though often it can be the case). Companies don't grow to that size by being incompetent and performing poorly (although they sometimes do).
Sure, I'm sure smaller firms could do the same job for less, but thats where lobbyists come in.
That was my question really. I didn't know if this was "lobbying" money or tech money.
What is this actually going to pay for? Their expenses and plane tickets to meet with execs while they try to push BT? Or is there some actual technical innovation that this is going to pay for?
Sheesh, you could play a drinking game with that summary. One swig per mention of the word 'blog'. Lets see who passes out first shall we?
How can we have a villain who looks like he just hit puberty?
"I'd take over the city right now...but I have to stop at CVS for Clearasil first"
Also noteworthy is that major portals seem to be cooperating with authorities' restrictions
Thats noteworthy? That the big companies in China are complying with Chinese law? I'm speechless.
Kudos for the citizens for finding clever ways to communicate. Its not as if they can just PGP their messages or do anything really suspicious. Just the fact that you're not doing "normal" surfing would probably be enough to raise someones eyebrow.
As soon as I saw that png on Googles website, I KNEW Slashdot would cover it. I thought to myself "Google farted, that sound you hear is a million Slashdotters sniffing."
Seriously, thanks for gmail though. I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
From the article, StarOffice is based on the OpenOffice.org source code, and is very much like OpenOffice.org 2.0, with a few enhancements
I thought OpenOffice was originally based on StarOffice?
I posted there. I wonder what happened
What if he gets hit by a bus? What would happen then?
Is there a hierarchy of maintainers (like the succession to President) or what?
Seems to me they should have at least 2 people at that spot so its not completely a single point of failure.
How is this different from the United States where any suggested attempt to overthrow the government, assassinate the leadership, or other movements to change the political system are met with charges of treason?
Umm, because thats against the law in the US? This is NOT what the article is about. Its about stifling the MEDIA, not homicidal extremists.
Furthermore, have you heard of any of the viable 3rd parties? A good deal of them are striving to change the political system, I don't see any of them down at the gallows.
The younger, less experienced folks CAN perform the same tasks. Its called training.
Keep good documentation and any competent person should be able to get up to speed in a decent amount of time. Otherwise send the person to IBM/$PLATFORM training.
Bah, anyone knows that if you've ever handled a penny, the governments got your DNA. Why do you think they keep them in circulation?
Hmm, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
In all seriousness though, there is hardly any original comedy anymore. A lot of comedy (and good comedy at that) is taking well known situations or jokes and referencing them in obscure ways.
Being a huge Simpsons fan, I love seeing Simpsons headlines on Fark or a well-made reference here on Slashdot.
Anyone else find it humorous that a guy named timecop is complaining about the time it takes to open an app?
So it seems that after Russia sends the last obligatory shuttle to the space station, we are left the with the options of a.) buying Russian gear to send our own folks or b.) paying the Russians to do it for us?
Whatever, if it saves money, I'm sure the government will do it. I'm pretty sure they can use extra cash wherever they can find it now.
Some people don't need to know what javascript is. They just want to use their computer to type documents and read email. I'd say a good portion of business users need their computers for just that.
As far as sending huge files goes, they still don't need to know the differences between file sizes. People shouldn't be sending large documents through email anyway. A few megs at the MAX. Public drives or a webserver for anything else and the users should be educated on that.
I'm sure someone applied the same argument to guns when they were first invented (well actually, people STILL do).
Its a tool and it can be used for good or bad purposes. The good almost always outweighs the bad.
As hokey as it may sound, I think some of it has to do with the attitude or "coolness" surrounding Linux. When people were introduced to Linux, it was this new hip cool thing, and if you didn't know what Linux was, then you were out of the loop! Unix always conjured up images of the old greybeard sitting in the lab tinkering with the machines.
The business world loves to be hip and Linux certainly provided that.
Does anyone have any real world experience with either DWR or JSON? I'm curious to hear what others think.
See Bruce Schneiers article on The Fallacy of Cracking Contests
Ding ding ding. You've said the magic word of the decade. Your argument now has immediate credibility, and anyone who disagrees with you is unpatriotic.
Thanks for playing!