Will harm *him*, but they'll help, for instance, Oracle.
Both are in "the industry". So to make blanket statements like harm "the industry" fall on deaf ears.
If you want to bitch about patents in a meaningful way, at least show how they do harm, by preventing competition by giving one company an unfair advantage.
Also, it's in my opinion that it's only the frivolous patents that harm the industry. It's not the patent system itself that's wrong, it's the abuses of it. "Security holes" that need patching.
Is iTunes partnering with broadband providers to get new customers?
Because if you sign up for Comcast, you get a free month of Rhapsody. Imagine yourself as Jimbo Customer, introduced to Rhapsody for free (or another service), now you want an mp3 player - what in the world would make you get an iPod, and not something you can use with the service you've already chosen?
iTunes and iPod won't last forever. It's a fad. The more Apple tries to lock down it's little kingdom, the more people will leave. Remove yourself from Jobs reality distortion field for a moment, and you'll see it more clearly.
I wonder how much slashdot gets paid to astroturf for Apple, anyways. I've used an iPod, and I've used many other mp3 players. I honestly don't see the BFD with the iPod. I find that touch-wheel thing annoying, actually.
Of course, I'll get modded down as flamebait, but that's just my opinion. iPods just don't impress me. And the little white headphones are pure garbage, and I defy you to find any audiophile to say otherwise.
I don't know what they're trying to pull, but to me *nix is as legacy a platform as you're going to see.
Which is a good thing. Here's how you market linux to PHB's.
PHB's decomissioned all their old unix systems and bought Windows, thinking it would be newer and better and synergistic, blah blah blah. Instead they get a whole mess of various headaches.
So in comes Mr Pro-Linux Consultant, who says: "Hey, remember the computer system you had before this, you know, the one that just chugged along 24/7 and hardly ever had a hiccup? Would you like to have that again, on cheap, modern commodity hardware?"
It's not: "This is brand new vertacal entergraded synergistic paradigm! ISO! yay!"
Well, Redhat and SuSe are the ones who are actively trying to capture the corporate and government markets. Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Ubunto, etc are not.
We're out of combinations of phonetic sounds. When we make up new words, they sound so fucking retarded, like blog. Say it out loud. Tell me you don't feel like you just lost 100 IQ points.
Why can't we just call them what they are: online diaries/journals?
Why do Americans have to equate work with something bad?
Why is sitting on your ass watching daytime TV and shoving bon bons in your face so coveted? Or sitting playing video games all day?
I like to relax as much as anyone else, I like to play games, but I just couldnt spend day after day doing absolutely nothing useful.
I like feeling like I've accomplished something with my day. I like the stress, it's excitement. It gets my blood racing. I like the reward. I like getting a 12% raise, and being the only person in the company who got a raise this year.
And why's it flaimbait/troll to not be a lazy fuck who constantly cries about how hard it is to work 40 hours a week?
Whatever, obviously slashdot is going to have a very high percentage of slackers.
Speaking of this, I'd love to see a super-bloody-fast hardware accelerated 2D video card, with code and drivers optimized for doing 2D operations - skip the 3D stuff, but
WHY DONT YOU START A "FREE 2D ACCELERATOR" PONZI SCHEME, YOU SPAMMING FUCKWAD?
BTW you are a dumb fuck who doesn't know what he's talking about. A 3D accelerator does everything you listed for 2D graphics. Avalon is finally going to use it.
Nope, I worked at BK when I was 14. I know all about it. I know all the different jobs.
Cashier: People order a hamburger. You push the button with a picture of a hamburger on it. They give you a 5 dollar bill. You push the button with a picture of a 5 dollar bill on it. The machine spits out the correct change. You hand the customer the hamburger. Closest thing to stress here would be when someone would come in and order a "Big Mac".
Drive Through Cashier: Same as above, but you can usually hide a milkshake in the drive through booth, and have a stool to sit on.
Expediter: You look at the reciept. It says hamburger. You get a hamburger and put it in a bag.
Cook (advanced, you had to work 6 months or be 21 or older before you could cook!): You see the word hamburger appear on the screen. You take a patty from the box labelled hamburger, and put it in the hamburger-cooking machine. You then take the patty and put it on a bun, and then move the entire setup to the automatic ketchup dispenser. I guess wrapping the hamburger in foil and putting it under the heatlamps could be pretty stressful.
Manager: Same as above, but you get a different colored shirt.
Once a guy took a shit in the urinal. That was about as stressful as the job got, if you consider stifling grins as you watch customers go into the bathroom, and then come back out 5 seconds later, ghost white with their hair standing on end.
We had a blast listening to the different ways they'd report it too: "ummm it seems as if someone popped a squat in the pisser!" "hey did you know there's a turn in the pee-toilet?" "theres a ummmm... log in the toilet.. No not the sit down toilet, the stand-up one!"
Seriously, if you think McDonalds/Burger King is stress, just apply for welfare now.
We could give you a 33% pay increase. For no reason other than you'd like more time to play.
Or, we could give your job to someone less lazy.
What a bunch of whiners people are these days. Shit, your grandfather probably could only dream of a 40 hour work week.
I find my time at work much more rewarding than sitting on the couch watching daytime TV. I get to accomplish something, I get respect from my peers, I get to spend the day discussing things I find interesting with like-minded people.
Is it stressful having to design, code, install, and support software for police and fire stations? Fuck, yeah. When my pager goes off at 2AM because some dispatching workstation froze in the middle of a natural disaster, and lives could literally be on the line, that's some fucking stress, let me tell you. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
McDonalds can provide you the 30 hour work week you want so bad. Some of us actually like working, even if we don't necessarily like our jobs.
We're indoctrinated with work=hard=stress=bad, play=fun=relaxing=good since we're kids. It's not cool to study hard in school, it's cool to smoke and drink beers out back behind the football field. I'm living proof you can do both.
Want to relieve stress? Just log in to slashdot, politely remind people there that only a fucking moron would spend 500 dollars on an mp3 player, even if it does fit nicely in your anal cavity. Read the replies. Instant stress relief.
Hell, you whiney wimps constantly complain about how stressed out you get clicking "update" under Windows a couple times a month. OOOooooh the hard life of a sysadmin.
Whine. Whine. Whine.
There is no magic bullet. Learn to deal with it. Careers are by their very definition stressful. If you don't feel at least a little stress, you aren't working hard enough. Like the wisdom goes: Work hard, play hard.
If you really want a stress-free work environment, repeat after me: "Would you like to Super Size that for just 49 cents more?"
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Yeah, I'm sure the country will be just wonderful with Hillary Clinton in 2008.
I just can't fucking wait to be ruled by a callous bitch who despises "dirty commoners" (before you mod me troll go look up some of her comments from when she was merely the wife of the Arkansas Attorney General)
She's the Dem's big white hope. She'll save us all.
Yeh, right. Given her as the alternative, I wish Bush could see a third term.
China now has a population of 1.3 billion. That's a lot of mouths to feed. That's a lot of welfare, medical, and other miscellaneous expenses they have to come up with if they want any portion of that 1.3 billion to be above the poverty line.
It's a hell of a logistics problem to say the least.
It's such a problem they have to turn to options like sterilization and one-child-per-family laws.
If you look at the country as a whole, it looks like a powerhouse. If you look at it per capita, it's a joke.
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Will harm *him*, but they'll help, for instance, Oracle.
Both are in "the industry". So to make blanket statements like harm "the industry" fall on deaf ears.
If you want to bitch about patents in a meaningful way, at least show how they do harm, by preventing competition by giving one company an unfair advantage.
Also, it's in my opinion that it's only the frivolous patents that harm the industry. It's not the patent system itself that's wrong, it's the abuses of it. "Security holes" that need patching.
Is iTunes partnering with broadband providers to get new customers?
Because if you sign up for Comcast, you get a free month of Rhapsody. Imagine yourself as Jimbo Customer, introduced to Rhapsody for free (or another service), now you want an mp3 player - what in the world would make you get an iPod, and not something you can use with the service you've already chosen?
iTunes and iPod won't last forever. It's a fad. The more Apple tries to lock down it's little kingdom, the more people will leave. Remove yourself from Jobs reality distortion field for a moment, and you'll see it more clearly.
I wonder how much slashdot gets paid to astroturf for Apple, anyways. I've used an iPod, and I've used many other mp3 players. I honestly don't see the BFD with the iPod. I find that touch-wheel thing annoying, actually.
Of course, I'll get modded down as flamebait, but that's just my opinion. iPods just don't impress me. And the little white headphones are pure garbage, and I defy you to find any audiophile to say otherwise.
What the fuck?
I fly first class quite often, and I usually wear jeans/t-shirt or something else "comfortable" on travel days.
Is this fiction, or some kind of flamebait "fight the power" bullshit all the time?
If it's fiction, it isn't very good.
I don't know what they're trying to pull, but to me *nix is as legacy a platform as you're going to see.
Which is a good thing. Here's how you market linux to PHB's.
PHB's decomissioned all their old unix systems and bought Windows, thinking it would be newer and better and synergistic, blah blah blah. Instead they get a whole mess of various headaches.
So in comes Mr Pro-Linux Consultant, who says: "Hey, remember the computer system you had before this, you know, the one that just chugged along 24/7 and hardly ever had a hiccup? Would you like to have that again, on cheap, modern commodity hardware?"
It's not: "This is brand new vertacal entergraded synergistic paradigm! ISO! yay!"
For fuck sakes. Unix is nearly 30 years older than Windows NT.
Statements like this are the reason people troll. Slashdot has become a joke in the true "geek" world.
You are zealot morons who know nothing about computers.
"legacy platforms". Asshats.
Well, Redhat and SuSe are the ones who are actively trying to capture the corporate and government markets. Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Ubunto, etc are not.
Only businesses really give a rats ass about ISO.
This is something only business/government really cares about. IBM et al are all behind Red Hat and SuSe, which are targetting corporate customers.
In short, Debian and Gentoo really don't belong in the corporate world, as they stand now. They're both more hacker-oriented anyways.
As a matter of fact, I'm from Toronto.
Only a fucking moron would take the DVP during rushhour.
cuz the software the comes with them is shit!
And they got sued and barred from using their JVM. They use Sun's now.
Java problems in 2005 are pure Sun baby, noone else to blame.
They don't seem to.
My point was I don't see how they can be a true superpower with that large an impoverished or disenfranchised group.
At least, not for long. It didn't work for the USSR. You gotsta feed the peeps. People get kind of fed up with you when they haven't eaten for awhile.
Think about it, a billion or so pissed and hungry peasants. Who all know Kung Fu.
We're out of combinations of phonetic sounds. When we make up new words, they sound so fucking retarded, like blog. Say it out loud. Tell me you don't feel like you just lost 100 IQ points.
Why can't we just call them what they are: online diaries/journals?
Both.
Why do Americans have to equate work with something bad?
Why is sitting on your ass watching daytime TV and shoving bon bons in your face so coveted? Or sitting playing video games all day?
I like to relax as much as anyone else, I like to play games, but I just couldnt spend day after day doing absolutely nothing useful.
I like feeling like I've accomplished something with my day. I like the stress, it's excitement. It gets my blood racing. I like the reward. I like getting a 12% raise, and being the only person in the company who got a raise this year.
And why's it flaimbait/troll to not be a lazy fuck who constantly cries about how hard it is to work 40 hours a week?
Whatever, obviously slashdot is going to have a very high percentage of slackers.
Speaking of this, I'd love to see a super-bloody-fast hardware accelerated 2D video card, with code and drivers optimized for doing 2D operations - skip the 3D stuff, but
WHY DONT YOU START A "FREE 2D ACCELERATOR" PONZI SCHEME, YOU SPAMMING FUCKWAD?
BTW you are a dumb fuck who doesn't know what he's talking about. A 3D accelerator does everything you listed for 2D graphics. Avalon is finally going to use it.
Coffee is a herbicide? Or are you talking about threat to humans?
I'd always thought coffee grounds made good compost?
I'm getting 4mbits right now.
/. akamai.
You cant
That the 'net has to be segregated into semantic and non-semantic.
Haven't the Jewish people been through enough without this digital persecution?
More proof that michael's a Nazi.
Disgusting.
Your right. More people should have been listening to the bastions of truth at CBS news.
.pdf from 1938 that says that Truman and Hitler were boyfriend and girlfriend!
For example, I have in my posession a
Nope, I worked at BK when I was 14. I know all about it. I know all the different jobs.
Cashier: People order a hamburger. You push the button with a picture of a hamburger on it. They give you a 5 dollar bill. You push the button with a picture of a 5 dollar bill on it. The machine spits out the correct change. You hand the customer the hamburger. Closest thing to stress here would be when someone would come in and order a "Big Mac".
Drive Through Cashier: Same as above, but you can usually hide a milkshake in the drive through booth, and have a stool to sit on.
Expediter: You look at the reciept. It says hamburger. You get a hamburger and put it in a bag.
Cook (advanced, you had to work 6 months or be 21 or older before you could cook!): You see the word hamburger appear on the screen. You take a patty from the box labelled hamburger, and put it in the hamburger-cooking machine. You then take the patty and put it on a bun, and then move the entire setup to the automatic ketchup dispenser. I guess wrapping the hamburger in foil and putting it under the heatlamps could be pretty stressful.
Manager: Same as above, but you get a different colored shirt.
Once a guy took a shit in the urinal. That was about as stressful as the job got, if you consider stifling grins as you watch customers go into the bathroom, and then come back out 5 seconds later, ghost white with their hair standing on end.
We had a blast listening to the different ways they'd report it too: "ummm it seems as if someone popped a squat in the pisser!" "hey did you know there's a turn in the pee-toilet?" "theres a ummmm... log in the toilet.. No not the sit down toilet, the stand-up one!"
Seriously, if you think McDonalds/Burger King is stress, just apply for welfare now.
Sure, we could do that.
We could give you a 33% pay increase. For no reason other than you'd like more time to play.
Or, we could give your job to someone less lazy.
What a bunch of whiners people are these days. Shit, your grandfather probably could only dream of a 40 hour work week.
I find my time at work much more rewarding than sitting on the couch watching daytime TV. I get to accomplish something, I get respect from my peers, I get to spend the day discussing things I find interesting with like-minded people.
Is it stressful having to design, code, install, and support software for police and fire stations? Fuck, yeah. When my pager goes off at 2AM because some dispatching workstation froze in the middle of a natural disaster, and lives could literally be on the line, that's some fucking stress, let me tell you. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
McDonalds can provide you the 30 hour work week you want so bad. Some of us actually like working, even if we don't necessarily like our jobs.
We're indoctrinated with work=hard=stress=bad, play=fun=relaxing=good since we're kids. It's not cool to study hard in school, it's cool to smoke and drink beers out back behind the football field. I'm living proof you can do both.
Want to relieve stress? Just log in to slashdot, politely remind people there that only a fucking moron would spend 500 dollars on an mp3 player, even if it does fit nicely in your anal cavity. Read the replies. Instant stress relief.
He missed a comma and some parentheses, that was a list, not a range.
Ie; (26%, -40%)
A whopping 66% variance!
I dunno. Either that or he's using the new math.
26%-90% find taking a shit to be stressful.
Hell, you whiney wimps constantly complain about how stressed out you get clicking "update" under Windows a couple times a month. OOOooooh the hard life of a sysadmin.
Whine. Whine. Whine.
There is no magic bullet. Learn to deal with it. Careers are by their very definition stressful. If you don't feel at least a little stress, you aren't working hard enough. Like the wisdom goes: Work hard, play hard.
If you really want a stress-free work environment, repeat after me: "Would you like to Super Size that for just 49 cents more?"
Yeah, I'm sure the country will be just wonderful with Hillary Clinton in 2008.
I just can't fucking wait to be ruled by a callous bitch who despises "dirty commoners" (before you mod me troll go look up some of her comments from when she was merely the wife of the Arkansas Attorney General)
She's the Dem's big white hope. She'll save us all.
Yeh, right. Given her as the alternative, I wish Bush could see a third term.
It ain't a lead-pipe cinch.
China now has a population of 1.3 billion. That's a lot of mouths to feed. That's a lot of welfare, medical, and other miscellaneous expenses they have to come up with if they want any portion of that 1.3 billion to be above the poverty line.
It's a hell of a logistics problem to say the least.
It's such a problem they have to turn to options like sterilization and one-child-per-family laws.
If you look at the country as a whole, it looks like a powerhouse. If you look at it per capita, it's a joke.
Wasn't that, at least sort-of, the notion behind QuakeWorld? You'd kind of hop from server to server, basically like a giant ass distributed map?
It could work.