has been saying for some time that SETI can't work because the signals will be blocked by interstellar debris and the technology used by another civilization would probably be so advanced as to be indetectible by our level of technology anyway.
He compares us to an ant colony next to a superhighway built by humans. The ants are oblivious - unless we run over them.
Which Bush is he twenty times as rich as? George CIA who is actually running the country or George Numb-Nuts who is taking the orders?
As for supporting troops, George Numb-Nuts has retrograded every pay increase, benefit increase, and US military support function there is. These fucks wouldn't even increase the death benefits to families of US troops killed in combat from a lousy 6K to a lousy 12K.
Not to mention getting a thousand of them killed in Iraq for NOTHING - and threatening to send them to North Korea where FIFTY THOUSAND of them will get killed for NOTHING.
Not that Kerry plans to do any better, I agree. So I suppose in that sense you're correct.
"The bad rep of MBAs comes primarily from the crazy and heady days of the dot com boom"
Ah, no, actually, I read articles years before the dot com boom from CEOs denouncing MBA's as head-in-the-clouds idiots who have no real-world experience.
Not to mention events like the "Bill and Mary show " years ago - young, good-looking MBA becomes protege of CEO. Eventually CEO forced to resign. CEO and MBA get married shortly afterward.
Not only IBM is showing evidence of compatibility issues with XP SP2. Microsoft's own software is also affected. Earlier this week the software vendor released an update for Microsoft CRM 1.2 because SP2 will prevent the original application from running correctly.
So Microsoft only fixed their OWN stuff this week.
Right - you want the state of California to issue an IT license that requires you to be an expert in Windows.
That would be real good for OSS, wouldn't it?
Get a clue - professional licensing of any industry is controlled by people already in that industry and is used to keep everyone else out of that industry.
Besides, if you REALLY tried to license IT professionals based on competence, the entire industry would collapse - just like most industries. Incompetence is the norm, because you only find competence in the top ten percent of anything - and the bell curve says most people fall below that.
You laugh, but back in the day when I was considering becoming a terrorist, I actually considered something like that.
Nothing like ruining this culture's obsessions with "protecting kids" than leaving porn mags around the local schools for the eager tikes to snatch up and hide in their bookbags.
Heh, heh.
"Stunned", my ass. "Stunned" at their good fortune, more likely.
(Of course, goatsex wouldn't be my first choice of material. You have to have SOME taste.)
Tautology. A logical statement in which the conclusion is equivalent to the premise.
The point of pointing out the tautology is exactly my point: service packs are intended to fix things, not break them. You stated that apps that are insecure should be broken. My point is that this is obvious, but that MS service packs tend to break things that are not supposed to break in the course of trying to fix things.
This point clearly eluded your mind which was apparently occupied elsewhere - such as with the desire to demonstrate your erudition and cluelessness.
Sorry, I patented "dipping into the jar" in 1965. It explicitly patents any and all implements used to remove the contents of ANY container by any means other than dumping it into your lap.
My lawyers are using WordPerfect macros right now to prepare our demand letter.
You obviously didn't read the part where it was said no one really knows what percentage of Munich's system will be running VMWare or what percentage of their Windows apps will be needed to be retained.
The fact that Microsoft offered to only install Word on 4,000 machines indicates that at least thirty percent of Munich's machines would not need VMWare to run Office apps. Therefore the 80% figure is completely wrong and was merely Gartner's attempt to FUD the situation - as befits a Microsoft tool, as The Register article clearly pointed out.
In other words, Windows troll, you have proved nothing but that you are just another Windows troll.
Fuck Windows and fuck Microsoft and fuck Bill Gates. (I'll leave off the unnecessary "Fuck you, too.")
Again this is exactly what the free market is intended to do - COMPETITION.
In a world with no legal protection, companies and individuals would merely come up with ideas and sell them to the people who CAN market them effectively, thus spreading those ideas and products into the marketplace faster than a small company can do on its own.
In some cases, people would still form and exploit those ideas themselves and in many cases would still succeed, simply because larger companies frequently are less agile at exploiting market opportunities than smaller companies. This would be especially true in the software business.
In other words, there would be very little different in a world without protection because in most cases today that protection does not exist anyway - except after the fact that such copying had already occurred. As I pointed out, the only thing IP gives you to recourse to coercion AFTER you've already suffered the damage.
Now, if you combined that with removal of the legal status of corporations, you would have a society of SMALLER companies doing all this - not the big corporations like IBM. It is the favored legal status of corporations that have allowed huge corporations to grow and dominate industries.
But I don't expect anyone to comprehend how the free market should work, because most of you have been brainwashed to believe the current state of affairs is the only one possible.
Because nowhere near 25% of the morons voting in these elections could possibly comprehend either the Green or Libertarian positions, and if they did comprehend them, their stupid prejudices would prevent them from agreeing with them.
Bush alone has 65 million fundies voting for him (except the ones who don't like Cheney using the word "fuck" in Congress.)
There are a LOT more morons in the US than you believe. Proof? They vote Democrat and Republican in every election.
How you going to change that?
The Greens and Libertarians think they can use "reason and education".
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Check back with me when anybody in those parties gets a clue about how primate elections are conducted and won.
What's wrong with them? a) They're politicians (by definition). b) Couldn't possibly do anything if they GOT elected because they have no parties with seats in the Congress. c) The odds of their parties GETTING seats in Congress are miniscule. d) They're politicians. (Yes, I remember a) above.)
"If you don't vote, however, you really have no right to complain about the way things work."
Au contraire, mon frere!
Since I don't vote, I'm the only one NOT RESPONSIBLE for how things work - and therefore the only one who CAN complain.
Your stupid reasoning is brayed about by every clown who has no clue how the system actually works.
Democracy, my ass! First of all, as anyone knows, this is a republic, not a democracy. Secondly, anybody with a clue knows that the fixed, two-party, only-he-who-sells-his-ass-to-the-most-rich-guys-ge ts-nominated system is as far from a democracy as Idi Amin.
As we anarchists say, "Don't vote - it only encourages them."
And "If voting could change the system, it would be illegal." (Or simply impossible a la Diebold!)
And "No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected."
Especially read the part about how Microsoft offered to sell only Word to Munich for 4,000 machines because at least thirty percent of workstations don't use anything else according to Microsoft's own experience (and by the way, Munich runs Windows 95, 98 and NT, not Windows 3.1.)
Both people who come up with ideas and people who can distribute those ideas are necessary in a free market.
But you have no clue what a free market is, right?
"Other companies can compete, by coming up with their own version...but they can't just copy the sme thing."
Companies do NOT "just copy the same thing" - not even Hong Kong copycats do that for the most part. They may make an exact duplicate of a Seiko watch, but they either use inferior parts or they simply save the money spent on marketing by letting Seiko rev up demand. In either case, it is irrelevant because Seiko still makes money on their watches because a) they are genuine Seiko, and b) they still do their own marketing. Seiko is in no danger of being put out of business by some Hong Kong copycat. They may lose a few percentage points of profit but only to people who couldn't afford a Seiko (or don't care one way or the other) anyway.
The problem with you IP apologists is you really have no clue how much counterfeiting is done in the business world ANYWAY. In one case I read about, a US company which manufactured clothing found out that a Hong Kong company was putting out an "exact" copy of inferior quality. Rather than sue the Chinese, the US company bought them out and then released the SAME product as their "bargain brand"!
This is how business actually works, contrary to the theoretical notions that patents somehow protect anyone or guarantee anyone a living or that counterfeiting will destroy people's livelihoods.
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has been saying for some time that SETI can't work because the signals will be blocked by interstellar debris and the technology used by another civilization would probably be so advanced as to be indetectible by our level of technology anyway.
He compares us to an ant colony next to a superhighway built by humans. The ants are oblivious - unless we run over them.
Which Bush is he twenty times as rich as? George CIA who is actually running the country or George Numb-Nuts who is taking the orders?
As for supporting troops, George Numb-Nuts has retrograded every pay increase, benefit increase, and US military support function there is. These fucks wouldn't even increase the death benefits to families of US troops killed in combat from a lousy 6K to a lousy 12K.
Not to mention getting a thousand of them killed in Iraq for NOTHING - and threatening to send them to North Korea where FIFTY THOUSAND of them will get killed for NOTHING.
Not that Kerry plans to do any better, I agree. So I suppose in that sense you're correct.
"The bad rep of MBAs comes primarily from the crazy and heady days of the dot com boom"
Ah, no, actually, I read articles years before the dot com boom from CEOs denouncing MBA's as head-in-the-clouds idiots who have no real-world experience.
Not to mention events like the "Bill and Mary show " years ago - young, good-looking MBA becomes protege of CEO. Eventually CEO forced to resign. CEO and MBA get married shortly afterward.
Gates was never a pimply-faced nerd.
He was a money-greedy rich kid from day one.
Paul Allen was the nerd.
Barcodes? I don't understand.
Barcodes are standardized. There are tons of programs, including freeware, that read and write barcodes. There's even a KDE-based barcode program.
I know because I just helped implement barcodes on student ID cards at City College of San Francisco.
Quote from the same article:
Not only IBM is showing evidence of compatibility issues with XP SP2. Microsoft's own software is also affected. Earlier this week the software vendor released an update for Microsoft CRM 1.2 because SP2 will prevent the original application from running correctly.
So Microsoft only fixed their OWN stuff this week.
Right - you want the state of California to issue an IT license that requires you to be an expert in Windows.
That would be real good for OSS, wouldn't it?
Get a clue - professional licensing of any industry is controlled by people already in that industry and is used to keep everyone else out of that industry.
Besides, if you REALLY tried to license IT professionals based on competence, the entire industry would collapse - just like most industries. Incompetence is the norm, because you only find competence in the top ten percent of anything - and the bell curve says most people fall below that.
tactical flashlight mounts?
Must be a really "realistic" game.
You laugh, but back in the day when I was considering becoming a terrorist, I actually considered something like that.
Nothing like ruining this culture's obsessions with "protecting kids" than leaving porn mags around the local schools for the eager tikes to snatch up and hide in their bookbags.
Heh, heh.
"Stunned", my ass. "Stunned" at their good fortune, more likely.
(Of course, goatsex wouldn't be my first choice of material. You have to have SOME taste.)
Right On!
Hack the Mouse PC!
Boycott Disney movies (shouldn't be too hard - there isn't any nudity in them, right?)
Disney and Microsoft - up there with Exxon and Enron as the most disgusting companies on Earth.
Osama bin Laden buys $50 million stake in Microsoft.
Verbose, too.
Logical? Hah!
Tautology. A logical statement in which the conclusion is equivalent to the premise.
The point of pointing out the tautology is exactly my point: service packs are intended to fix things, not break them. You stated that apps that are insecure should be broken. My point is that this is obvious, but that MS service packs tend to break things that are not supposed to break in the course of trying to fix things.
This point clearly eluded your mind which was apparently occupied elsewhere - such as with the desire to demonstrate your erudition and cluelessness.
Heh, heh...let's see /. get out of this one...
Reminds me of the guy in San Francisco who was interviewed on the street by a local TV station running a story on why people hate lawyers.
He said it was because lawyers were lying, cheating, back-stabbing, no-good, whatever, I don't remember the exact words.
They asked him what he did for a living.
He said, "I'm a lawyer."
A couple of weeks later, they did a follow-up story. It seems this guy was just out of law school and was looking for a job with a local law firm.
He got a ton of offers from local law firms after his ten second spot in the original interview.
Sorry, I patented "dipping into the jar" in 1965. It explicitly patents any and all implements used to remove the contents of ANY container by any means other than dumping it into your lap.
My lawyers are using WordPerfect macros right now to prepare our demand letter.
The home of corruption since Huey Long.
Fucking morons.
PC techs don't do TV repair - a TV is a "field replaceable unit". Fuck 'em.
If they pass the law, let every PC repair person in the state - corporate and freelance - go on strike for a month.
The state would collapse in a week.
See what I mean when I say the state is nothing but an extortion/protection racket?
This is referred to as a "tautology".
The sun also rises in the East.
Next obvious statement.
Bush announces (last year) that "we found WMDs in Iraq".
You obviously didn't read the part where it was said no one really knows what percentage of Munich's system will be running VMWare or what percentage of their Windows apps will be needed to be retained.
The fact that Microsoft offered to only install Word on 4,000 machines indicates that at least thirty percent of Munich's machines would not need VMWare to run Office apps. Therefore the 80% figure is completely wrong and was merely Gartner's attempt to FUD the situation - as befits a Microsoft tool, as The Register article clearly pointed out.
In other words, Windows troll, you have proved nothing but that you are just another Windows troll.
Fuck Windows and fuck Microsoft and fuck Bill Gates. (I'll leave off the unnecessary "Fuck you, too.")
Have a nice day.
Again this is exactly what the free market is intended to do - COMPETITION.
In a world with no legal protection, companies and individuals would merely come up with ideas and sell them to the people who CAN market them effectively, thus spreading those ideas and products into the marketplace faster than a small company can do on its own.
In some cases, people would still form and exploit those ideas themselves and in many cases would still succeed, simply because larger companies frequently are less agile at exploiting market opportunities than smaller companies. This would be especially true in the software business.
In other words, there would be very little different in a world without protection because in most cases today that protection does not exist anyway - except after the fact that such copying had already occurred. As I pointed out, the only thing IP gives you to recourse to coercion AFTER you've already suffered the damage.
Now, if you combined that with removal of the legal status of corporations, you would have a society of SMALLER companies doing all this - not the big corporations like IBM. It is the favored legal status of corporations that have allowed huge corporations to grow and dominate industries.
But I don't expect anyone to comprehend how the free market should work, because most of you have been brainwashed to believe the current state of affairs is the only one possible.
Impossible.
Why?
Because nowhere near 25% of the morons voting in these elections could possibly comprehend either the Green or Libertarian positions, and if they did comprehend them, their stupid prejudices would prevent them from agreeing with them.
Bush alone has 65 million fundies voting for him (except the ones who don't like Cheney using the word "fuck" in Congress.)
There are a LOT more morons in the US than you believe. Proof? They vote Democrat and Republican in every election.
How you going to change that?
The Greens and Libertarians think they can use "reason and education".
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Check back with me when anybody in those parties gets a clue about how primate elections are conducted and won.
What's wrong with them?
a) They're politicians (by definition).
b) Couldn't possibly do anything if they GOT elected because they have no parties with seats in the Congress.
c) The odds of their parties GETTING seats in Congress are miniscule.
d) They're politicians. (Yes, I remember a) above.)
"If you don't vote, however, you really have no right to complain about the way things work."
e ts-nominated system is as far from a democracy as Idi Amin.
Au contraire, mon frere!
Since I don't vote, I'm the only one NOT RESPONSIBLE for how things work - and therefore the only one who CAN complain.
Your stupid reasoning is brayed about by every clown who has no clue how the system actually works.
Democracy, my ass! First of all, as anyone knows, this is a republic, not a democracy. Secondly, anybody with a clue knows that the fixed, two-party, only-he-who-sells-his-ass-to-the-most-rich-guys-g
As we anarchists say, "Don't vote - it only encourages them."
And "If voting could change the system, it would be illegal." (Or simply impossible a la Diebold!)
And "No matter who you vote for, the government gets elected."
as more civil liberties are ripped away.
As usual.
Try reading this.
Then read this.
Especially read the part about how Microsoft offered to sell only Word to Munich for 4,000 machines because at least thirty percent of workstations don't use anything else according to Microsoft's own experience (and by the way, Munich runs Windows 95, 98 and NT, not Windows 3.1.)
Then you can apologize to me.
Completely wrong.
Both people who come up with ideas and people who can distribute those ideas are necessary in a free market.
But you have no clue what a free market is, right?
"Other companies can compete, by coming up with their own version...but they can't just copy the sme thing."
Companies do NOT "just copy the same thing" - not even Hong Kong copycats do that for the most part. They may make an exact duplicate of a Seiko watch, but they either use inferior parts or they simply save the money spent on marketing by letting Seiko rev up demand. In either case, it is irrelevant because Seiko still makes money on their watches because a) they are genuine Seiko, and b) they still do their own marketing. Seiko is in no danger of being put out of business by some Hong Kong copycat. They may lose a few percentage points of profit but only to people who couldn't afford a Seiko (or don't care one way or the other) anyway.
The problem with you IP apologists is you really have no clue how much counterfeiting is done in the business world ANYWAY. In one case I read about, a US company which manufactured clothing found out that a Hong Kong company was putting out an "exact" copy of inferior quality. Rather than sue the Chinese, the US company bought them out and then released the SAME product as their "bargain brand"!
This is how business actually works, contrary to the theoretical notions that patents somehow protect anyone or guarantee anyone a living or that counterfeiting will destroy people's livelihoods.