Sure, because canada never taxes anything! Tax free everything in canada! Beer is so cheap! Cigarettes and gasoline too!
I just hope they don't come up with the idea of "taxing" goods as they're shipped across the border. That's such a shitty idea I'd probably call it a "doody".
..nice to know that IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL
No, IBMs lawyers are quite decidedly on the side of IBM. If IBMs linux experiment fails, all bets are off.
I still remember when IBM was the big evil. I remember the geeks cheering when MSFT crushed OS/2 to secure Windows' place on the desktop. Hooray! No more IBM monopoly!
That is, of course, not to say that I dont find every bit of minutia about this nerd hissy fit absofuckinglutely enthralling.
Hence the low gas indicator comes on, and you can probably still travel 20 miles or so to the nearest station.
Of course, everyone on this whole thread missed the point that low batteries is only ONE cause of these things flipping over. Turning or accelerating suddenly can make it happen to.
So, why not wheelie bars, like on a dragster, front and back. That way when the whiz-bang technology fails, you have a common sense mechanical backup.
Why can't they have something on front and back, like the wheelie bar on a dragster, to keep them from tipping completely and sending the rider sprawling in case of a failure?
All the software and gyroscopes and magic technology is fine and good, but it's nice to have common sense as your backup system.
But none are marketed to elderly/disabled as safe, untippable alternatives to a wheelchair, are they?
If I bought a motorcycle that wasnt supposed to flip over, and it did, they should recall that too. Oh wait, they did, you don't see to many three wheelers these days.
When I submit a post with mozilla firebird, the submitted page comes up blank. It's all formatted with slashdots ugly bars and whatnot, but there's no text. I cant tell if my post got through or not.
It did work up until a day or two or three ago, I haven't changed firebird, so I can only assume CowboyKneel has his propellor hat on again, fixin' somethin' that ain't broke.
Noone else has mentioned it. I assume everyone else, despite their rhetoric, uses IE.
I have to write and debug code all day. I want the "making folders on desktop with left mouse button" job. I'm sure you're very productive, I bet you got a billion folders there by now!
He probably could have been fine if he didnt mention his employer and job title in the report to lend himself credibility. A "these opinions are not..." disclaimer doesn't mean shit.
Dude used his employers name to lend credibility to his report.
Even if you add the disclaimer that "these our my opinions", mentioning your employer and position says "and I know what I'm talking about because these guys pay me big bucks!"
Most employment is at will. You can be fired just because your boss thinks your funny looking (unless you're a minority or homosexual then you get to sue).
If you use microsoft you're one of the terrorists! If you drive an SUV you're one of the terrorists! If you chew chicklets instead of trident, you're one of the terrorists! If you use Kazaa you're one of the terrorists! If you smoke marijuana you're one of the terrorists!
Everyone taking their little personal agendas, tacking terrorist or threat to national security to it, and flapping their arms trying to get attention.
It was a stupid unobjective 'msft is ghey' rant. Perhaps it's true to you because you're a zealot too. Doesn't change the fact that this guy made his employers look foolish, so out he goes.
We've even had more stories about OSS being insecure in the last couple of weeks than MS ones. Doesn't matter. MS is teh ghey!
The guy did something stupid and got fired. You don't cross the boss, noone owes you employment. Especially not in this climate. There's a million people to take his place, and do the job without letting their politics or ideologies get in the way.
This guys not some superhero whistleblower. Just a blowhard who let his politics cost him his job.
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Sure, because canada never taxes anything! Tax free everything in canada! Beer is so cheap! Cigarettes and gasoline too!
I just hope they don't come up with the idea of "taxing" goods as they're shipped across the border. That's such a shitty idea I'd probably call it a "doody".
Delaware has no sales tax either.
I have already patented the process of crippling e-commerce through patents.
Sincerely yours,
Jeff Bezos
Don't do it, it's a trick.
They have a steel chair!
Stupid refs!
assuming it's accurate
That's a mighty big assumption for the New York Times.
If the democrats were in power, bet your bottom dollar they'd be singing a whole different tune.
Consider the source.
IMO the Enquirer has more credibility than the NYT.
They probably just want to twist the story until it's somehow Bush's fault.
POSIX doesnt have a common binary interface, or does it? It's a confusing spec with all those different levels of compliance and whatnot.
Though this is just Ransom's hindsight. He had absolutely no direction for the company while he was at the helm.
..nice to know that IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL
No, IBMs lawyers are quite decidedly on the side of IBM. If IBMs linux experiment fails, all bets are off.
I still remember when IBM was the big evil. I remember the geeks cheering when MSFT crushed OS/2 to secure Windows' place on the desktop. Hooray! No more IBM monopoly!
That is, of course, not to say that I dont find every bit of minutia about this nerd hissy fit absofuckinglutely enthralling.
Hence the low gas indicator comes on, and you can probably still travel 20 miles or so to the nearest station.
Of course, everyone on this whole thread missed the point that low batteries is only ONE cause of these things flipping over. Turning or accelerating suddenly can make it happen to.
So, why not wheelie bars, like on a dragster, front and back. That way when the whiz-bang technology fails, you have a common sense mechanical backup.
Why can't they have something on front and back, like the wheelie bar on a dragster, to keep them from tipping completely and sending the rider sprawling in case of a failure?
All the software and gyroscopes and magic technology is fine and good, but it's nice to have common sense as your backup system.
But none are marketed to elderly/disabled as safe, untippable alternatives to a wheelchair, are they?
If I bought a motorcycle that wasnt supposed to flip over, and it did, they should recall that too. Oh wait, they did, you don't see to many three wheelers these days.
These are being marketed as tools for the elderly and others, as an untippable, safe alternative to a wheelchair.
It isnt so much that they can tip over, but the fact that they're not supposed to.
Power steering/power breaks work so long as your battery has a charge (key in "on" position).
This can happen if the rider speeds up abruptly, encounters an obstacle, or continues to ride after receiving a low-battery alert.
Sounds like Segways just dont work.
Still, if you were stupid enough to plunk down that much coin on a scooter, you deserve what you get.
/. is the only site that firebird or even regular mozilla does not render correctly.
/. correctly is IE.
In fact, the only browser to render
Irony or incompetence? YOU BE TEH JUDEG!
When I submit a post with mozilla firebird, the submitted page comes up blank. It's all formatted with slashdots ugly bars and whatnot, but there's no text. I cant tell if my post got through or not.
It did work up until a day or two or three ago, I haven't changed firebird, so I can only assume CowboyKneel has his propellor hat on again, fixin' somethin' that ain't broke.
Noone else has mentioned it. I assume everyone else, despite their rhetoric, uses IE.
Is this unit going to be compatible with N-Gage games?
A variety of N-gage compatible phones - and a cheaper game only device with no phone attached.
That's the only thing that could prevent N-gage being stillborn, imo.
Can I have your job?
I have to write and debug code all day. I want the "making folders on desktop with left mouse button" job. I'm sure you're very productive, I bet you got a billion folders there by now!
``We need to try to provide some balance on these issues, and this seemed a little one-sided,'' CXO spokeswoman Karen Fogerty said.
Sounds like more of a lopsided rant than a subjective report.
Vibe wont run my KKK ads either. Shame on them for silencing free speech!
(Note: I'm not in the KKK just making a point)
Whistleblowers lose their jobs too.
Choose one: your politics, or your job.
That's life.
He probably could have been fine if he didnt mention his employer and job title in the report to lend himself credibility. A "these opinions are not..." disclaimer doesn't mean shit.
Dude used his employers name to lend credibility to his report.
Even if you add the disclaimer that "these our my opinions", mentioning your employer and position says "and I know what I'm talking about because these guys pay me big bucks!"
Most employment is at will. You can be fired just because your boss thinks your funny looking (unless you're a minority or homosexual then you get to sue).
Yeah. Everythings a threat to national security.
If you use microsoft you're one of the terrorists! If you drive an SUV you're one of the terrorists! If you chew chicklets instead of trident, you're one of the terrorists! If you use Kazaa you're one of the terrorists! If you smoke marijuana you're one of the terrorists!
Everyone taking their little personal agendas, tacking terrorist or threat to national security to it, and flapping their arms trying to get attention.
It was a stupid unobjective 'msft is ghey' rant. Perhaps it's true to you because you're a zealot too. Doesn't change the fact that this guy made his employers look foolish, so out he goes.
We've even had more stories about OSS being insecure in the last couple of weeks than MS ones. Doesn't matter. MS is teh ghey!
The guy did something stupid and got fired. You don't cross the boss, noone owes you employment. Especially not in this climate. There's a million people to take his place, and do the job without letting their politics or ideologies get in the way.
This guys not some superhero whistleblower. Just a blowhard who let his politics cost him his job.
There's a big differnce between an academic and sound treatise, and a politically motivated zealot's rant.
Most people can be terminated at will. Maybe they didn't want a politically motivated basher working for them.
I doubt MS got the guy fired. Why? It would just lead to these conspiracy theories, and it's not like it could stop the guy from writing papers.
He'll probably just do it full time now. He can move in with RMS and Stallman.
This is, by and large, a left-leaning forum.
So, when you read this, everyone jumps to conclusions about smog and cars and whatnot.
Perhaps, the weather varies less because of all the buildings which act as a windblock, trapping the air rather than replacing it with cooler air?
Try not to jump to conclusions.
Sounds like bunk science. Assuming a cause/effect link.
Extrapolating a conclusion from a data set that consists of one element. I rolled a six, therefore every time you roll a die you get six!
Perhaps there was 3-4% less cloud cover for those 4 days, because of perfectly normal weather patterns?
Did you, perchance, read it from a reputable source of scientific information, or a greenpeace pamphlet or NY times bitchpiece?