I find that, for music, a good soultion would be to download the stuff off the 'net, and then, after a whole album from a certain band is full, send them, say, $5-$10 and tell them to give some of that to the record company.
Er. 32k probably referred to kelvins (hint: it's pretty cold). So the solution is to use a lot of MS software and hope the machine heats up to a boiling point:)
Simple. Just move the radio to the back seat, and lend it to the client for the time of the ride, and let them listen to it. The customer is the one paying, so no commercial activity there in that sense.
I'm sure at this point MS will start regretting not having invested enough time (=money) into lobbying in Europe. After all, who cares about some ass-backwards place beyond the big blue ocean? Isn't the world flat, anyway?
I would imagine (in my hopeful mind), that even if they had (and what little they have), they wouldn't have such an impact in EU affairs.. after all, EU doesn't get money out of their revenue and there are quite a few countries at least open-minded about open sourcing stuff (Germany as the biggest player there, of course).
I'm not expecting much from the US case -although it might be a good thing that the judge is taking this long to decide (probably trying to figure out whether BilG's last pair of pants are to go to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross *fingers crossed*). I'm far more hopeful in the EU case, although I suppose people aren't that different here. We just have a better system.)
Why do people keep on thinking that publishing stuff like this on/., Newsforge or any other 'geeky' medium is going to do anyone any good? We all know the truth already.
What needs to be done is to get some mainstream media attention. This means printed word, and TV. And no, I don't mean 'Linux magazine' or 'TechTV', I mean 'New York Times' and 'CNN'.
There're just too little geeks, at least too little of the ones who actually do anything about this.
Two propositions:
Copy down the address to the article. Sure, it's written by RMS, sure, there're a lot of hypotheticals, sure, it's a bit rough around the edges, but it's no worse propaganda than what the 'other side' feeds people. Now.. after you have the address in store, start mailing everyone you know, stating the article contains something you feel is very important, and ask them to read it, and if they think it's important, mail it to all of their friends. Spam? Not if it's from someone you know who's not selling anything.
Did you notice RMS gave full rights to use the article anywhere as long as it was hold intact? Start mailing it to newspaper editors and TV companies..
Time to do something, namely, get the punters aware of things other than their virtual bellybuttons.
Although not referring specifically to the Mallinson case, he added it may be necessary to "weed out"
employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour.
Hm, sounds like ms. Mallinson has a job opening at Microsoft as soon as they get rid of all the wussies.
Hey, I resent you calling it a necessity! No, wait, requisite!
I live in the bloody cold part of northern Europe where we have to train our CPUs to accommodate to the climate by applying liquid hydrogen on them from when they are just wee little baby CPUs in order for them to work later in life, and you know what? I don't need an SUV.. in fact, I don't even need a car. I just use public transportation and rely on the good folks at the road administration to get up early in the morning and plough everything they can.
So, we win on all counts, we consume less resources and get to employ plough folks.
Besides, how often does it snow in California?
I've actually witnessed this thingy live in action, and must say it looked much better than in the pictures -although it's still not quite on the same iceberg with traditional contrivances for visual information.
The 'new' part about this is indeed the system to keep the fog smooth enough to be able to make it useful, as some bright individuals have already deducted, not the idea of projecting video on fog..
You are neglecting the fact that patches, by definition, are used to 'patch' things up, i.e., to fix something that is broken -okay, so patches can also be used to enhance performance and such, but the point carries across, I hope.
However, the article (which was written based on a hypothesis), doesn't really specify what the new security services would be.. if MS starts offering for example antiviral software and security consultation, this might be reasonable (well, as reasonable as anything they do).
The point to argue is rather whether the OS should already display all of this functionality.. certainly things patches are applied for, bugs in code and such should definitely be fixed, but the matter on the more external matters isn't quite as clear.
I, for one, consider security to be one of the core functions of an OS, and, in fact, it IS stated in most of the abstracts/declarations of the operating systems. They promise reliable, robust and (often) easy to use engines for your computer.. and honestly, an insecure computer is d) none of the above.
What should and shouldn't be the responsibilities can and will be argued as long as anyone argues about what should and shouldn't be a responsibility of the OS:)
1) OSDN gets money from Microsoft
2) No-one on this site will actually care about the ad (in the sense of migrating over).
Conclusion: MS loses money, OSDN gets some, and everyone is happy:)
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Aren't .357 Mags made just revolvers? With 6 shots?
The only logical conclusion is that Gandalf hadn't read the books and didn't know all this shit. Idiot.
It's called a 'monogram'.
I find that, for music, a good soultion would be to download the stuff off the 'net, and then, after a whole album from a certain band is full, send them, say, $5-$10 and tell them to give some of that to the record company.
Smattering = smatter.
English Speaking = English-speaking.
"I tend to disagree with that comment--"
You get the comment a lot, then?
"because with all the anti-american sentiment that floats around here that most people are foreigners(Canadians included)"
Oh, the prejudiced foreigners. I'm sure everyone is suitably sorry to have tread on your mighty country.
"You go anywhere and people speak English because we are big tourists."
No, they speak English because the tourists don't speak any other languages.
"The US is not in proximity with other countries so we do not have the necessity or luck of having to learn another langauge."
French. Spanish. Hawaiian.
"--bordered next to each other--Easy to learn another langauge."
Unfortunately agains common beliefs, being in motion doesn't make you learn faster.
" 45% of the US speaks spanish I beleive."
No, it's 95%. Of the latino group.
"Italian women are all Harry"
I don't even want to go there.
</tongue>
Er. 32k probably referred to kelvins (hint: it's pretty cold). So the solution is to use a lot of MS software and hope the machine heats up to a boiling point :)
No. Oxymoron is something that contradicts itself ("The empty hallway was bustling with students").
Reference to an examination of the logical fallacies of the thesis of (the) God existing.
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnibenevolent
Pick two.
Simple. Just move the radio to the back seat, and lend it to the client for the time of the ride, and let them listen to it. The customer is the one paying, so no commercial activity there in that sense.
...
"May I have your address?"
"Are you asking me out?"
"Er."
"Well, then you don't need to know."
They don't need MS software. They need MS hardware, in the form of the tablet PC.
How many average consumers know what Linux or Mac OSX are? How many will know if MS is screwing them over? How many will have a choice?
I'm sure at this point MS will start regretting not having invested enough time (=money) into lobbying in Europe. After all, who cares about some ass-backwards place beyond the big blue ocean? Isn't the world flat, anyway?
.)
I would imagine (in my hopeful mind), that even if they had (and what little they have), they wouldn't have such an impact in EU affairs.. after all, EU doesn't get money out of their revenue and there are quite a few countries at least open-minded about open sourcing stuff (Germany as the biggest player there, of course).
I'm not expecting much from the US case -although it might be a good thing that the judge is taking this long to decide (probably trying to figure out whether BilG's last pair of pants are to go to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross *fingers crossed*). I'm far more hopeful in the EU case, although I suppose people aren't that different here. We just have a better system
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What needs to be done is to get some mainstream media attention. This means printed word, and TV. And no, I don't mean 'Linux magazine' or 'TechTV', I mean 'New York Times' and 'CNN'.
There're just too little geeks, at least too little of the ones who actually do anything about this.
Two propositions:
- Copy down the address to the article. Sure, it's written by RMS, sure, there're a lot of hypotheticals, sure, it's a bit rough around the edges, but it's no worse propaganda than what the 'other side' feeds people. Now.. after you have the address in store, start mailing everyone you know, stating the article contains something you feel is very important, and ask them to read it, and if they think it's important, mail it to all of their friends. Spam? Not if it's from someone you know who's not selling anything.
- Did you notice RMS gave full rights to use the article anywhere as long as it was hold intact? Start mailing it to newspaper editors and TV companies..
Time to do something, namely, get the punters aware of things other than their virtual bellybuttons.Hm, sounds like ms. Mallinson has a job opening at Microsoft as soon as they get rid of all the wussies.
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..I think this is a clear proof that RMS just keeps getting scarier and scarier.. :)
It truly seems that MS has 'alienated' a lot of the computer-folks, as it becomes apparent that said computer-folks should now aquire a Passport.
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A really sneaky way to go about solving the problem follows:
E
$ r00t machine
Ush: command not found: r00t
*meanwhile, in the Secret Command Centre*
#QUEER#COMMAND##INVESTIGATE##
$ owNz0rz machine
owNz0rz: unknown parameter machine
*SCC*
###THERE#MIGHT#BE#SOMETHING#GOING#ON##
$ owNz0rz r00t
Ush: j00 owNz0r d4 r00t!
*SCC*
#####ALARM#ALARM#####
$
Ush: Someone trying to use 'alarm()', authorize? n0
Ush: Killing alarming process.
$ 1337
Alright, so I'll tone down my ingenious self-ridicule for the next post so everyone'll get the point. The quoted sentence was supposed to be funny :P
Hey, I resent you calling it a necessity! No, wait, requisite!
I live in the bloody cold part of northern Europe where we have to train our CPUs to accommodate to the climate by applying liquid hydrogen on them from when they are just wee little baby CPUs in order for them to work later in life, and you know what? I don't need an SUV.. in fact, I don't even need a car. I just use public transportation and rely on the good folks at the road administration to get up early in the morning and plough everything they can.
So, we win on all counts, we consume less resources and get to employ plough folks.
Besides, how often does it snow in California?
I've actually witnessed this thingy live in action, and must say it looked much better than in the pictures -although it's still not quite on the same iceberg with traditional contrivances for visual information.
The 'new' part about this is indeed the system to keep the fog smooth enough to be able to make it useful, as some bright individuals have already deducted, not the idea of projecting video on fog..
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You are neglecting the fact that patches, by definition, are used to 'patch' things up, i.e., to fix something that is broken -okay, so patches can also be used to enhance performance and such, but the point carries across, I hope.
:)
However, the article (which was written based on a hypothesis), doesn't really specify what the new security services would be.. if MS starts offering for example antiviral software and security consultation, this might be reasonable (well, as reasonable as anything they do).
The point to argue is rather whether the OS should already display all of this functionality.. certainly things patches are applied for, bugs in code and such should definitely be fixed, but the matter on the more external matters isn't quite as clear.
I, for one, consider security to be one of the core functions of an OS, and, in fact, it IS stated in most of the abstracts/declarations of the operating systems. They promise reliable, robust and (often) easy to use engines for your computer.. and honestly, an insecure computer is d) none of the above.
What should and shouldn't be the responsibilities can and will be argued as long as anyone argues about what should and shouldn't be a responsibility of the OS
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