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  1. Re:Sun's commitement? on Sun to Change Java License for Linux · · Score: 1

    except you'll need to spend 2x the money for all the bloated layers j2ee requires. I work for a VAR, java sells hardware, that's for sure. Of course, some of our clients are waking up and realizing they can't afford java anymore. And I love it when benchmarks "proving" java speed are procedural math codes, do some actual oo stuff and you'll see what a pig it truly is.

  2. Re:Per Capita Healthcare Spending on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    nah, we're suffering and dying because we don't exercise, eat too much and with too little nutritional value, and have forced-air HVAC systems that grow and spread fungus, bacteria and parasites.

  3. Re:They mean, WHITE Americans on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because they still think there is a White MAJORITY of people?

    In the USA, that is the case:

    "Nearly 217 million people, or 77.1 percent of the total population, reported as white," http://www.govspot.com/news/reports/population.htm

  4. Re:Disappointed... on McNealy Steps Down as Sun Microsystems CEO · · Score: 1

    ok, I'll bite, what were the comments? all us self-important wisecrackers, trolls, wannabes and whackos of slashdot will adjudicate your case and decide if either schwartz or you be dah man.

  5. Re:ARS is for ARSloch on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    your german teacher will particularly like the subject field for this thread

  6. It's official - Scott to step down as CEO on Sun's Scott McNealy's Days are Numbered? · · Score: 1
  7. ARS is for ARSloch on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Joan Miro himself borrowed and altered some things from other surrealists. Everyone write to president Dr. Theodore Feder at

    Artists Rights Society
    536 Broadway, 5th Floor
    (at Spring St.)
    New York, NY 10012
    Tel: 212-420-9160
    Fax: 212-420-9286

    or drop him a line at tfeder AT arsny DOT com

  8. Re:final solution on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    not really, there's been plenty of events in the past that have wiped out almost all life and there will be plenty more, with or without man. In less than a few hundred million years we'll have natural global warming via Sun's expansion such that even microbes won't be able to live here. So don't worry, in the end you'll get your peaceful earth

  9. Re:Absolute stupidity on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    old style turbines, newer ones kill one to two birds a year. that's plenty good enough for me. and fuck bats.

  10. Re:Finally.... on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 1

    nothing to worry about, other people find extra socks in their laundry, some people both lose and gain socks. Overall there is conservation of sock and sock parity for laundering operations in the universe as a whole, you just happen to have a tending over time to a local minima in the normalized amplitude of your sock probability density function, which is offset by a higher tending value elsewhere. If you have neighbors who own many of the same kinds of pairs of socks and therefore only throw away the one that gets a hole, this is one of the causes of your experiencing local sock parity disruption.

  11. Re:What I want to know is... on CRIA Falling Apart? · · Score: 1

    yeah, even better to ask, how do we make the RIAA fall apart in a similar fashion?

  12. Re:Capitalism at its finest on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    that's even worse, a description that evoke images of nice snuggly mammaries, but the reality is a face, mouth and handful of spikes! now mammilaria spicatus, that would be alot better.

    loop {p "lovin\' ruby"}

  13. Re:Don't. on Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking' · · Score: 1

    that's faulty logic, just because someone (even someone I admire) says this is how managers are influenced doesn't make it true. For those shops that roll their own, applications and the langauge framework are the usual means of determining how a real functioning domain are hosted. And for those that don't, features and functionality determine the hosting provider (what's it going to do for me/my company?)

  14. Re:Capitalism at its finest on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 2, Informative

    um,do you realize what most of those "scientific" names are if you translate the latin? Sacred Lizard, King Tyrant Lizard, Bird Robber, Thunder Lizard, Different Lizard......really heavy intellectual meaning and description there! Using part of a person's name is no worse.

  15. Re:Larry: just retire on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 1

    heh, they want "mo' money", and probably more control over how an OS is configured to run their warez, right now for a big enterprise deal Oracle and OS (as in redhat and SuSE) and filesystem (as in Veritas and Polyserve) and backup (Veritas, Legato, etc.) and SAN (HP, Hitachi, EMC, etc.) and server vendors (IBM, Sun, HP, Dell) get into each other's hair and drive the client nuts trying to tell them how to set things up. As "Enterprise Unix/Linux Engineer" who does implementations/migrations for clients of a hardware reseller I can tell you things get very, very ugly.

  16. Re:Is this even a story?!? on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 1

    well, half of the story didn't happen, but interesting to some of us that oracle is considering their own distro. Some of us are stuck doing alot of things involving Oracle for a living...

  17. Re:oracle tuned on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 1

    Sun sells Linux with its boxes if you really want it. and they are perfecting libraries to allow Linux apps to run on Solaris, in a vm-like partition for isolation if you want it. So Z just see Sun continuing to be an Oracle partner even if an Oracle distro comes out, just as Oracle will still sell Oracle for Windows and all the other major OS.

  18. Re:Larry: just retire on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 1

    eh? have you seen Oracle's financials, profitable making money hand over fist.

  19. Re:yay on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 5, Funny

    hey, that's GNU/Oracle-Novell-SuSE Desktop Linux!! GnoranoveSuSE?

  20. oracle tuned on Oracle Looks At Buying Novell · · Score: 4, Informative

    RedHat and SuSE are the usual "enterprise" distros that have tweaks for running Oracle, but Redhat dominates. wonder how threatened RedHat would be if Oracle bought and pushed SuSE. Oracle has had a problem in the past four years of trying to make integrated features that really were best left to third party, like for example oracle filesystem and oracle clustering, which are shakier and more trouble to admin than 3rd party.

  21. Re:Windows WinPC on Military Investigates Sale of Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    the article did mention that Powerpoint for presentations was popular, so there you go, secret plans on PPT.

  22. Windows WinPC on Military Investigates Sale of Sensitive Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm a little tired of Windows/WinPC's being used for sensitive government purposes, and in general treating all computers the same way a home PC is treated.

  23. Re:Admittedly on Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible · · Score: 2, Insightful

    most students spend more than $450 on their windows machines, and that can get you into a mini-mac

  24. Re:Good News & Bad News on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    that's true for some countries. Anyway, I'm thinking of the only realistic solution to the problem, but many would find it distasteful. But I'll drop a hint, before the British colonized India there was human sacrifice there. And the only reason the U.S. is failing in Iraq is because the effort there is half-assed.

  25. Re:Good News & Bad News on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually, the population growth of the wealthier people is slowing, and going negative even for some whole wealthy countries. It's the poor who continue breeding. There is no "global economic system", countries have economic systems. We PAY for the goods and services of people in other countries, and without our money they would be much worse off. The reason 90% of the people in poverty are in that situation is because of their evil stupid ignorant governments and/or religious leaders.