Oh, it does! Just as magically as Windows does. Even more magically: since statistics usually point to less support people being needed to support UNIX-like systems (as in MacOS X, Linux and the BSDs), it stands to reason there are savings to be achieved. Since an important part of the computer maintenance cost rests on paying licences (usually periodically), there will be savings there. I don't know what you were thinking, but it certainly wasn't about savings.
Well, it isn't serious folding money until you have to install it into several thousand computers. Then, even with the volume licences, it gets to be quite serious, methinks. Or, perhaps, you think those $40 billion are going to come from the wallets of people that own, at most 1 or 2 computers.
Preface: Oh, I guess American English is not "English enough". Silly me. And I would love to see the face of any English philology scholar at reading that Webster somehow is "not an authority" on English. Well, let's get to the answer.
I thought "internationalisation" was a term more commonly used in the USA than in the UK. But The Cambridge Dictionary states the term is "internationalization", with "internationalisation" being a UK localism. The Oxford English Dictionary (user login required, BugMeNot is your friend) knows of no "internationalisation", though its references on "internationalization" cite sources both with -z- and -s-. I hope you will agree these two dictionaries' creators know what's spoken in England. Otherwise, please provide your authoritative references.
I think this proves both forms are currently accepted, so we probably should call it a draw. As a native Spanish speaker, I prefer the -z- form, as it looks more like the Spanish internacionalización, but that's my preference.
You may want to check your dictionary. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (American edition, which might be more prone to using -isation) only knows about "internationalization". Yes, I know it's old. Oh, and a Google fight says internationalization sweeps the floor with internationalisation.
Perhaps it is moderated that way because the poster is not "absolutely correct". Read the rest of posts and notice resignation isn't needed. If HSM took the right path, and stopped their illegal harvesting, why shouldn't he be able to keep working at it?
I don't know where winkydink or you work, but where I work, jumping the law is frowned upon. Perhaps yours is a more "permissive" workplace.
So, whether logged in or not, whether on topic or not, the comment makes no sense and borders insult. I don't know if moderating as a Troll is the right one, but it looks much closer to the good one than Flamebait or Offtopic, to name two.
And, pray tell, where is the blackmail? I have read this letter and it just states what HMS was doing and its being illegal. Asking the company to stop doing it, refusing to cooperate on it, and warning on telling the authorities amounts to blackmail now? I guess there's this hidden paragraph where he asks for money or some other compensation. When you find it, please tell me. Until then, your blackmail charge falls flat.
I, myself, prefer the traditional methods: slow skinning by application of boiling oil, salted feet and a goat, etc. You've gotta love the ingenuity of the medieval man;-P
Well, that sounds a lot like the Spanish SGAE (Authors' and Editors' General Society), which will sue right and left when anyone who won't pay them the canon. The "funny" thing about it is that this canon, while supported by law, can only be collected by the "management entity" (legal term that refers to the ones collecting the canon) when the songs belong to their associates. But that doesn't stop the SGAE from stomping on others' rights and asking for a canon anyway.
The latest good news were that someone took the time to go and ask them how to press music CDs without paying a canon (note: Spanish-written link). Now, if I didn't have to resort to abroad providers to get my data CDs/DVDs.
By the way, does anybody else think it's strange that editors and authors belong to the same association? Vertical union, anyone?
Oh, dear, why don't we get two PCs while we're at it? I won't say it's obvious, but it certainly is not such a hassle to dump a small LILO loader sector to a file and add that one to the Windows BOOT.INI file (on Windows NT series systems). If you are using Windows 9x/Me, changing the active particion should be more than enough. But, of course, that is sooo complicated that nobody could tell you over the phone:-)
Note that I don't endorse Windows, but let's "get the facts";-) It's relatively easy to make Windows not run over your Linux/BSD/whatever boot-sectors. Actually, it's not like you really needed a special MBR if you can make it point to your desired boot sector, is it?
Unless you've watched the movie and know the new version is controlled by a central brain able to find loopholes in the First Law. Hey, that would make it as human as some lawyers (which isn't saying much).
Indirectly you are saying the same thing I did. As I said before, DrLZRDMN's comment talks about nVidia (a hardware developer) helping an already existing engine (Crystal Core) in order to make their hardware more attractive. By the way, didn't Id open the Quake engine, too? And the Quake II engine? Even not opening the Quake 3 engine right now has more to do with respecting current licencees than anything else.
As usual, "The Mythical Man-Month" is thrown around to quash dissent:-) It is right on spot as long as the axioms it relies on hold: you have to pay developers, you must get developers up to speed by expending current developer time, and a few others. Then again, when a community grows around a software piece, there's no requirement for them to be working on it day in day out. There's little developer time lost pulling up newbies up to speed, since they can browse the code at leisure and the design issues are usually public and published.
And don't forget DrLZRDMN never talked about a company bent on developing a new engine: we are talking about a hardware vendor helping develop software for its hardware. Suddenly, the fact that they are spending money to help an already existing product loses strength, when you consider said product (Crystal Core in this case) doesn't belong to the company's core business. It buys them cheap development and expensive goodwill. But perhaps that's asking too much from Linux users (we all know we're in it for the gratis component). Yeah sure.
Oh, one last thing: Operating systems, file systems, graphical systems.. they take time and/or money. And yet they have been are still being built. Your point being?
I think art can be incrementally developed. That's why there are things as variations on classical music works. This may require a nucleus to grow from (just like rain).
Sacred cost me €20. It certainly is not as cheap as it could be, but, at that price, I would still have bought it even if it had no copy protection (hell, I could have asked any of my friends for a hacked copy). Even more, now they are offering me FREE updates and extensions. The only thing I dislike is its needing the install CD in the CD drive to boot (well, and it locks up much too often, though that doesn't happen in most of my friends' computers, so I won't blame Arcaron on that).
Do a good enough product at a good enough price, and people enough will buy it. End of story. Or, perhaps, Red Hat, SuSE and other distribution makers are still losing money (not those two, and Mandrakesoft's troubles aren't directly related to their distro, IMO).
I wouldn't be so confident about earthquakes and volcanos. There's these little pesky things called plumes which happen to turn from time to time into hot points, who push through the Earth crust (see Hawaii (and the African Rift?) for examples). Not that I imply you are going to see one popping up in your neighbourhood in your life.
Oh, they didn't then. Perhaps you should update your information a bit. Most everyone with a voice (worker unions too) agree they can't keep going like that for long. That certainty is behind Siemens' menace of moving jobs to Hungary, which forced longer work hours so they would stay. And there's more companies thinking or acting alike (Daimler-Chrysler, for example). Just read the related article in Deutsche Welle.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Remember that if the move to kick Mac games from GameSpy succeeds and the next ones on the crosshairs are Linux gamers.
Asimov: the main characteristic of the religion of science is that it works.
R.A. Salvatore (OK, so I'm talking Dungeons & Dragons here, so what): Illusion can kill you, if you believe in them; reality will kill you, whether you believe it or not.
Arthur C. Clark (IIRC): any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Ok, after the (mostly) needless citing is done, I find it nave to have faith in science. Then again, it seems to be the most powerful metatool we have found. I call it a metatool for it allows you to both create another tools and to refine itself into being an even better tool. Perhaps Chemistry won't solve all mankind's problems, on its own, or perhaps it will, or perhaps solving that will require several sciences combined. I can't see that far. Science may not be the answer to all (because we know the answer is 42 -see Douglas Addams-), but it's the best approximation we have found yet.
The funny thing is, when you are NATed or have incoming connections filtered, you are _still_ able to make outgoing connections. If I can get 100KB/s down and up with only outgoing Bittorrent connections, perhaps there is something else if you can't.
Actually, that wasn't the reason for the IPO (according to a Newsweek report I read some time ago).
The reason was they would have to present their accounting books to the Administration, since they have gone over some profit limit (or something like that). The funny thing is, if they really wanted to keep the company out of Wall Street's hands, they could have just incorporated it (I think that's the term for a private society-owned company -the Spanish term is sociedad limitada-) and they would probably get the best of both worlds: a known company with known stock value, yet not publicly sold and bought.
Excuse me if my writing isn't too good, but my knowledge of economic English terms is quite scarce.
Errmm... aren't we talking television over IP here? If it's only a one way transfer (a la streaming), latency isn't so important: what do I care if I get the video with a 20 secs delay from the source? It's not like I am going to answer, right?
Please be so kind to tell me if (and why) I am mistaken.
...The project managers will do all the tedious work surround programming, such as documentation, attend meetings, debugging, research, and even participating in social activities.
At last! Now my manager goes to those social events", I can really get to play^H^H^H^Hcode freely:-)
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Oh, it does! Just as magically as Windows does. Even more magically: since statistics usually point to less support people being needed to support UNIX-like systems (as in MacOS X, Linux and the BSDs), it stands to reason there are savings to be achieved. Since an important part of the computer maintenance cost rests on paying licences (usually periodically), there will be savings there. I don't know what you were thinking, but it certainly wasn't about savings.
Keep trying, you can even get to writing sensible trolls.
Well, it isn't serious folding money until you have to install it into several thousand computers. Then, even with the volume licences, it gets to be quite serious, methinks. Or, perhaps, you think those $40 billion are going to come from the wallets of people that own, at most 1 or 2 computers.
I thought "internationalisation" was a term more commonly used in the USA than in the UK. But The Cambridge Dictionary states the term is "internationalization", with "internationalisation" being a UK localism. The Oxford English Dictionary (user login required, BugMeNot is your friend) knows of no "internationalisation", though its references on "internationalization" cite sources both with -z- and -s-. I hope you will agree these two dictionaries' creators know what's spoken in England. Otherwise, please provide your authoritative references.
I think this proves both forms are currently accepted, so we probably should call it a draw. As a native Spanish speaker, I prefer the -z- form, as it looks more like the Spanish internacionalización, but that's my preference.
You may want to check your dictionary. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (American edition, which might be more prone to using -isation) only knows about "internationalization". Yes, I know it's old. Oh, and a Google fight says internationalization sweeps the floor with internationalisation.
I don't know where winkydink or you work, but where I work, jumping the law is frowned upon. Perhaps yours is a more "permissive" workplace.
So, whether logged in or not, whether on topic or not, the comment makes no sense and borders insult. I don't know if moderating as a Troll is the right one, but it looks much closer to the good one than Flamebait or Offtopic, to name two.
And, pray tell, where is the blackmail? I have read this letter and it just states what HMS was doing and its being illegal. Asking the company to stop doing it, refusing to cooperate on it, and warning on telling the authorities amounts to blackmail now? I guess there's this hidden paragraph where he asks for money or some other compensation. When you find it, please tell me. Until then, your blackmail charge falls flat.
I, myself, prefer the traditional methods: slow skinning by application of boiling oil, salted feet and a goat, etc. You've gotta love the ingenuity of the medieval man ;-P
The latest good news were that someone took the time to go and ask them how to press music CDs without paying a canon (note: Spanish-written link). Now, if I didn't have to resort to abroad providers to get my data CDs/DVDs.
By the way, does anybody else think it's strange that editors and authors belong to the same association? Vertical union, anyone?
Note that I don't endorse Windows, but let's "get the facts" ;-) It's relatively easy to make Windows not run over your Linux/BSD/whatever boot-sectors. Actually, it's not like you really needed a special MBR if you can make it point to your desired boot sector, is it?
Unless you've watched the movie and know the new version is controlled by a central brain able to find loopholes in the First Law. Hey, that would make it as human as some lawyers (which isn't saying much).
Indirectly you are saying the same thing I did. As I said before, DrLZRDMN's comment talks about nVidia (a hardware developer) helping an already existing engine (Crystal Core) in order to make their hardware more attractive. By the way, didn't Id open the Quake engine, too? And the Quake II engine? Even not opening the Quake 3 engine right now has more to do with respecting current licencees than anything else.
And don't forget DrLZRDMN never talked about a company bent on developing a new engine: we are talking about a hardware vendor helping develop software for its hardware. Suddenly, the fact that they are spending money to help an already existing product loses strength, when you consider said product (Crystal Core in this case) doesn't belong to the company's core business. It buys them cheap development and expensive goodwill. But perhaps that's asking too much from Linux users (we all know we're in it for the gratis component). Yeah sure.
Oh, one last thing: Operating systems, file systems, graphical systems.. they take time and/or money. And yet they have been are still being built. Your point being?
I think art can be incrementally developed. That's why there are things as variations on classical music works. This may require a nucleus to grow from (just like rain).
Sacred cost me €20. It certainly is not as cheap as it could be, but, at that price, I would still have bought it even if it had no copy protection (hell, I could have asked any of my friends for a hacked copy). Even more, now they are offering me FREE updates and extensions. The only thing I dislike is its needing the install CD in the CD drive to boot (well, and it locks up much too often, though that doesn't happen in most of my friends' computers, so I won't blame Arcaron on that).
Do a good enough product at a good enough price, and people enough will buy it. End of story. Or, perhaps, Red Hat, SuSE and other distribution makers are still losing money (not those two, and Mandrakesoft's troubles aren't directly related to their distro, IMO).
I wouldn't be so confident about earthquakes and volcanos. There's these little pesky things called plumes which happen to turn from time to time into hot points, who push through the Earth crust (see Hawaii (and the African Rift?) for examples). Not that I imply you are going to see one popping up in your neighbourhood in your life.
*slaps gellenburg, who is tied to a chair, with a glove*
*starts to ponder and starts laughing so much he keels over*
Gotta love those Monty Python sketches.
Oh, they didn't then. Perhaps you should update your information a bit. Most everyone with a voice (worker unions too) agree they can't keep going like that for long. That certainty is behind Siemens' menace of moving jobs to Hungary, which forced longer work hours so they would stay. And there's more companies thinking or acting alike (Daimler-Chrysler, for example). Just read the related article in Deutsche Welle.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Remember that if the move to kick Mac games from GameSpy succeeds and the next ones on the crosshairs are Linux gamers.
Ok, after the (mostly) needless citing is done, I find it nave to have faith in science. Then again, it seems to be the most powerful metatool we have found. I call it a metatool for it allows you to both create another tools and to refine itself into being an even better tool. Perhaps Chemistry won't solve all mankind's problems, on its own, or perhaps it will, or perhaps solving that will require several sciences combined. I can't see that far. Science may not be the answer to all (because we know the answer is 42 -see Douglas Addams-), but it's the best approximation we have found yet.
The funny thing is, when you are NATed or have incoming connections filtered, you are _still_ able to make outgoing connections. If I can get 100KB/s down and up with only outgoing Bittorrent connections, perhaps there is something else if you can't.
The reason was they would have to present their accounting books to the Administration, since they have gone over some profit limit (or something like that). The funny thing is, if they really wanted to keep the company out of Wall Street's hands, they could have just incorporated it (I think that's the term for a private society-owned company -the Spanish term is sociedad limitada-) and they would probably get the best of both worlds: a known company with known stock value, yet not publicly sold and bought.
Excuse me if my writing isn't too good, but my knowledge of economic English terms is quite scarce.
Please be so kind to tell me if (and why) I am mistaken.
Yup. Still there.
(Note to self: do not climb to trees looking for better WiFi access)
At last! Now my manager goes to those social events", I can really get to play^H^H^H^Hcode freely :-)