Except we're not talking about the "bailout loans" on which the US government supposedly is $40B ahead. We're talking about $16T that was created out of thin air by the financial consortium that owns and operates the Federal Reserve (not the U.S. government), which they proceeded to shower upon themselves as a "loan." Nobody reading slashdot has a grasp of how much money that is. Not you, not me, nobody here. It is a truly vast sum. A potentially world-transforming sum. Every politician on the planet could be bought for years on end with but a few single-digit percentage points of that sum.
Not even that. The mobsters and their loyal servants in Congress, the White House, the Dept. of Justice, and all of their various dependencies will continue to successfully pretend none of that happened. Republicans will pretend that Job Creators were protected and Democrats will say and do nothing. The mobsters will continue to accumulate vast wealth, a lot of it apparently created out of thin air.
Here's how to vote next year, if you're in the U.S.
In case you were wondering where a lot of the cash that gets gouged out of your wallet when you buy gas. It goes to mobsters who are so colossally unimaginative and dimwitted that their Big Idea is to carve their initials on the earth. Really, really big ones.
No, more like the same wine as last year (and the year before) that has stopped selling very well so they put it in a differently colored bottle with a cool new label and do a new ad campaign to bump up sales.
Glory Be! This has to be a first! You don't have to go out and replace all of your computing equipment for a Windows upgrade! Unbelievable! Unprecedented!
Now all they have to do is explain why anyone would want to spend a couple hundred dollars on it, and tell us whether we still need to replace all of our existing software.
Yet more colossal irresponsibility and corruption at the Pentagon in the War on Terror scam. Their needs on the last page seem modest. It's hard to believe how they could not have been served by a few tens of millions of dollars in off-the-shelf equipment and manpower over a few years.
Google's vast infrastructure runs on GNU/Linux, and they sponsor the yearly Summer of Code that creates a lot of new FOSS code. They are an open source company, even if they keep their main revenue-producing technology closed.
He didn't steal the code from the other engines (it was open source).
If he refused to disclose that he used open source code then he most likely violated the terms of the open source license and therefore did indeed cheat. Open Source is not the same as Public Domain.
It was a smart move to support one company, one standard, one way of doing things and having IT trained in just one company.
Your own experience shows that this is not so. It seemed like a good decision for all the reasons you mention, but the unixoid world was the one that remained stable and predictable while still experiencing enormous growth. Excluding consumer PCs, unixoid platforms hold by far the lion's share of heavy industrial computing across the board, not Microsoft. You bet wrong because decision makers were duped by fancy ads and wildly optimistic marketing. It is still a foolhardy bet to stake your company's future on the whims and fickleness of Microsoft, which has a vested interest in switching things out on you as frequently as possible in order to maintain their revenue stream.
I congratulate MS on (apparently) switching to an open standard, but I never touch their products if I can avoid it. I do not have any sort of vocation to reinvent the wheel every time they feel the need to drum up some extra cash.
Investing in MS technologies has always been foolhardy. This is just one more episode in a long history of them pulling the rug from beneath their customers' feet in order to make them buy yet another full line of "new" software development tools. It has happened before, it will happen again. It's a suckers' game, and it's baffling how so many people fall into it again and again, especially in the presence of a large, diverse and stable palette of FOSS development tools that evolve in a generally orderly and predictable fashion. Has this ever happened to Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby developers?.
Basing Android development on Java was a mistake. It is GNU/Linux, after all, and people should have used what they pleased to develop under Xfce, Meego, Gnome, KDE, or some other relatively well established GUI. Writing apps with C++/Qt would have been easier than Java, with faster executables and smaller memory footprint.
It isn't. We've traded rule of law for dubious Roman Circus. The crowd loves it. We will pay for it, dearly. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but we will.
Old Mexican proverb: No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague. Something like There is no time that does not pass, no debt that is not paid.
If it still hasn't dawned on some of you that our government is completely controlled by mobsters, this has to give you the final shove. Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. Everything they say is a lie, everything they do is at the behest of powerful, money-soaked lobbyists.
Great. Another overly broad patent to stifle innovation. Now anyone with an electric or alternative fuel vehicle who wants to transmit performance metrics (or even so much as graph them, see claim 6), will have to pay a license. In 2011 it should be obvious to anyone skilled in the art, any art whatsoever, that it is a good idea to transmit data from any device across a data network, any network, to a data processing device of any kind in order to glean useful information. Maybe in 1950 it was a novel idea, but not today.
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix: screws you in one single orifice
Blockbuster: Screws you in all available orifices and attempts to create additional ones
We can all just spend the free money. We'll all be rich!
Ben Bernanke, is that you?
Except we're not talking about the "bailout loans" on which the US government supposedly is $40B ahead. We're talking about $16T that was created out of thin air by the financial consortium that owns and operates the Federal Reserve (not the U.S. government), which they proceeded to shower upon themselves as a "loan." Nobody reading slashdot has a grasp of how much money that is. Not you, not me, nobody here. It is a truly vast sum. A potentially world-transforming sum. Every politician on the planet could be bought for years on end with but a few single-digit percentage points of that sum.
Be afraid, you stupid fuck. Be very afraid.
Not even that. The mobsters and their loyal servants in Congress, the White House, the Dept. of Justice, and all of their various dependencies will continue to successfully pretend none of that happened. Republicans will pretend that Job Creators were protected and Democrats will say and do nothing. The mobsters will continue to accumulate vast wealth, a lot of it apparently created out of thin air.
Here's how to vote next year, if you're in the U.S.
In case you were wondering where a lot of the cash that gets gouged out of your wallet when you buy gas. It goes to mobsters who are so colossally unimaginative and dimwitted that their Big Idea is to carve their initials on the earth. Really, really big ones.
White people are living proof that Africans fucked Neanderthals.
Sorry, couldn't help it. That was a silver platter if ever I saw one. I'm "white," BTW, whatever that means.
The phrase nether tulalips popped into my head for no reason.
CPUs haven't gained in power since before Windows 7 came out due to the current limits of silicone.
So CPUs need big fake tits to be more powerful?
No, more like the same wine as last year (and the year before) that has stopped selling very well so they put it in a differently colored bottle with a cool new label and do a new ad campaign to bump up sales.
Glory Be! This has to be a first! You don't have to go out and replace all of your computing equipment for a Windows upgrade! Unbelievable! Unprecedented!
Now all they have to do is explain why anyone would want to spend a couple hundred dollars on it, and tell us whether we still need to replace all of our existing software.
Dude, they spent almost $3B (as far as we know). Surely the AC etc. could have fit in that budget.
Or modern day commercial "supercomputers" and clusters. These people are a budgetary black hole. They should be shut down.
Yet more colossal irresponsibility and corruption at the Pentagon in the War on Terror scam. Their needs on the last page seem modest. It's hard to believe how they could not have been served by a few tens of millions of dollars in off-the-shelf equipment and manpower over a few years.
Google's vast infrastructure runs on GNU/Linux, and they sponsor the yearly Summer of Code that creates a lot of new FOSS code. They are an open source company, even if they keep their main revenue-producing technology closed.
He didn't steal the code from the other engines (it was open source).
If he refused to disclose that he used open source code then he most likely violated the terms of the open source license and therefore did indeed cheat. Open Source is not the same as Public Domain.
It was a smart move to support one company, one standard, one way of doing things and having IT trained in just one company.
Your own experience shows that this is not so. It seemed like a good decision for all the reasons you mention, but the unixoid world was the one that remained stable and predictable while still experiencing enormous growth. Excluding consumer PCs, unixoid platforms hold by far the lion's share of heavy industrial computing across the board, not Microsoft. You bet wrong because decision makers were duped by fancy ads and wildly optimistic marketing. It is still a foolhardy bet to stake your company's future on the whims and fickleness of Microsoft, which has a vested interest in switching things out on you as frequently as possible in order to maintain their revenue stream.
I congratulate MS on (apparently) switching to an open standard, but I never touch their products if I can avoid it. I do not have any sort of vocation to reinvent the wheel every time they feel the need to drum up some extra cash.
Investing in MS technologies has always been foolhardy. This is just one more episode in a long history of them pulling the rug from beneath their customers' feet in order to make them buy yet another full line of "new" software development tools. It has happened before, it will happen again. It's a suckers' game, and it's baffling how so many people fall into it again and again, especially in the presence of a large, diverse and stable palette of FOSS development tools that evolve in a generally orderly and predictable fashion. Has this ever happened to Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby developers?.
Do you expect app developers to recompile for different phones?
Yes, a very real and practical part of using Qt libraries. It would be a minor obstacle.
It would have been the Year of the Linux Desktop! Um, on a phone.
I know, I know. Have you had a look at Qt? It compares quite favorably.
Basing Android development on Java was a mistake. It is GNU/Linux, after all, and people should have used what they pleased to develop under Xfce, Meego, Gnome, KDE, or some other relatively well established GUI. Writing apps with C++/Qt would have been easier than Java, with faster executables and smaller memory footprint.
It isn't. We've traded rule of law for dubious Roman Circus. The crowd loves it. We will pay for it, dearly. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but we will.
Old Mexican proverb: No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague. Something like There is no time that does not pass, no debt that is not paid.
If it still hasn't dawned on some of you that our government is completely controlled by mobsters, this has to give you the final shove. Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. Everything they say is a lie, everything they do is at the behest of powerful, money-soaked lobbyists.
Shake the system:
Peace and Freedom Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
Vote for any of the above. Mix and match. Vote randomly. Just stop voting for the Mobster Parties.
Great. Another overly broad patent to stifle innovation. Now anyone with an electric or alternative fuel vehicle who wants to transmit performance metrics (or even so much as graph them, see claim 6), will have to pay a license. In 2011 it should be obvious to anyone skilled in the art, any art whatsoever, that it is a good idea to transmit data from any device across a data network, any network, to a data processing device of any kind in order to glean useful information. Maybe in 1950 it was a novel idea, but not today.
Gaah! No! No! No!