I'm again amazed at the/. moderation system. This gets modded up to +5, now it's at 0-Flamebait (even though there are no flamebait modifiers shown in the list). It looks like the moderation system is [unintentionally] set up to reward lunatics who want to mod an article into oblivion.
The thing is, if they market another service well enough (and it does come down to marketing) and that service has the content, then they will get exactly what they want - more than one service selling prime content and therefore a competitive market for selling content meaning better margin for them.
Quite the opposite- you're forgetting where the market is. If they open it up to competition between end providers, it will drive the price, and therefore their margin, down as the two providers compete. This can only be good.
You can run FreeBSD or Linux on the "expensive" Apple machine as well. Heck, you can also run Vista on one, if you must!
Thanks to Parallels, I run Ubuntu (just installed and I like it), FreeBSD, XP, 98, and Minix 3 under Mac OS X. It really rocks when doing web development to be able to boot Windows 98 and make work-arounds for the IE6 suckitude- while at the lake. I am very happy with my Mac.
Last time I went to an NLUG meeting, 6 of the 7 laptops were MacBooks. Among fellow Rails developers, it's like 90% or more. Apple is definitely on to something.
The freedom we enjoy today is not the result of religion. It is the result of freethinkers and the weakening of religions stranglehold on society.
Without arguing your point, I would simply like to know how you can reconcile that statement with the fact that an atheistic ideology (communism) was responsible for the death of 60M-100M in the last century and the enslavement of nearly half the world's population.
I would like to blame drug prohibition and such on my fellow Christians in this country, but it's an untenable position given that the same drugs are outlawed in China and Russia. Similarly, China has some of the strictest anti-porn laws in the world.
It's a simplistic attitude to think that religion in and of itself is the culprit. But it's just human nature, with religion being the excuse. To believe otherwise is to ignore history.
It also doesn't help that the email in the article ends with a cross-eyed loony rant about oil companies and car companies being responsible for ruining the planet.
SCO possibly sold something to Microsoft and Sun that they didn't own, which is fraud. I'm not sure exactly what the agreements were (some vague unix licenses), but Sun and Microsoft might be able to sue them for that in addition to criminal charges.
Of course, I believe that Sun and Microsoft really didn't buy anything, they were just funneling money to SCO.
This is where I stopped reading. SpamCop requires proof in the form of the spam email itself. What other proof of spamminess could there be?
That's a good start, but having a piece of text doesn't tell you if it's spam or not. I mean, some stuff is obviously spam, sure. But I get a lot of really nice looking emails that advertise legitimate businesses or "newsletters" that are polished, and, well, they're spam. But they look just like the newsletters that I get which aren't spam.
I've asked around, and a lot of people will simply report stuff as spam because they're too lazy to unsubscribe from something to which they have subscribed. That's the chink in SpamCop's armor.
I still believe in the SpamCop model, but there has to be a way for someone falsely accused to get out of it and the fraudulent report must be punished. To simply charge the victim $20 in a case like that is, simply put, fraud.
Net worth of the company and cash on hand are two different things.
No shit, Sherlock. The "net worth" of Microsoft, if we can define it by market cap, is $285,660,000,000.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT
You're telling me stockholders don't mind when you lose half a billion dollars?
1% of cash on hand is nothing, and has no long-term effect on share price.
If stockholders jump ship, how much more money do you lose?
None. With a mass selling, the stock price may dip, but it'll come back. A company doesn't lose money when their stock price falls, although the management may lose net-worth if they're heavily invested in the stock.
The EU also made Microsoft pay a half-billion dollar fine, which hurts no matter who you are.
Last I looked, Microsoft had about $50,000,000,000 cash on hand. To put it into perspective, you have $50 in your pocket and I ask for a couple of quarters.
We knew three years ago that this organization was an al Qaeda front group for laundering money in the US, so why does Wired keep calling it a "charity"? Put the name into Google for more information.
I'm not supporting warrantless wiretapping, but I'm not supporting al Qaeda, either.
"I forgot to mention in my last letter that this "George Bush" is a single paraplegic grandmother who is raising her own grandkids with her social security checks."
There, *now* they'll be interested in pursuing this one.
I would love to create a new "self-checkout" system like the ones that I see at Kroger and Publix. I think the ones out there right now suck. The only reason that I don't is that I know it would be a patent nightmare, and I doubt any of the patents are for stuff that is "inobvious". But I don't have time or money to fight it in court for years.
We have to admit at some point that patents very very rarely actually perform the intended use, which is to spur innovation. Instead, companies are using goofy patents on obvious stuff to stifle competition, particularly from smaller upstarts. It's like opposite day. But it never ends.
michael-chaneys-computer:~ mdchaney$ strings 1-06\ Mother.m4a [lot's of snippage, just pulling out the obvious] nameMichael Chaney data Mother data Pink Floyd "aART data Pink Floyd data The Wall gnre data
trkn data disk data $data 2000-04-25T07:00:00Z pgap data (apID
data mdchaney@mac.com cprt data
Digital Remaster (P) 1994 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Pink Floyd Music Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd
So, it has my name and the id that I use with iTunes (mdchaney@mac.com) along with the standard metadata that one might find in a song. If I stick it into iTunes on another machine, and bring up the info box, it says:
He's founder of the Yankee Group. Yep, since the didiot is completely disgraced at this point, they're pulling out the big guns. Well, at least the bigger guns.
He says nothing in the article, and doesn't really understand what he's talking about. Just like a certain underling.
This is really apples & oranges. The typist with 93% accuracy will produce a document with some typos, and I can tell you from years of reading/. that typos are easily "corrected" by the reader if the typist doesn't catch them. Even at that, spell checkers catch quite a few of them, too.
That's very different from "your analysis" turning into "urinalysis". Here, the spelling is correct but the words are completely wrong, and trying to figure out what is really meant will take a much longer reading of it.
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I'm again amazed at the /. moderation system. This gets modded up to +5, now it's at 0-Flamebait (even though there are no flamebait modifiers shown in the list). It looks like the moderation system is [unintentionally] set up to reward lunatics who want to mod an article into oblivion.
to find out how this is George Bush's fault...
Quite the opposite- you're forgetting where the market is. If they open it up to competition between end providers, it will drive the price, and therefore their margin, down as the two providers compete. This can only be good.
Thanks to Parallels, I run Ubuntu (just installed and I like it), FreeBSD, XP, 98, and Minix 3 under Mac OS X. It really rocks when doing web development to be able to boot Windows 98 and make work-arounds for the IE6 suckitude- while at the lake. I am very happy with my Mac.
Last time I went to an NLUG meeting, 6 of the 7 laptops were MacBooks. Among fellow Rails developers, it's like 90% or more. Apple is definitely on to something.
The real question is how did it get to +5, then drop back to +3 without anyone modding it again?
Without arguing your point, I would simply like to know how you can reconcile that statement with the fact that an atheistic ideology (communism) was responsible for the death of 60M-100M in the last century and the enslavement of nearly half the world's population.
I would like to blame drug prohibition and such on my fellow Christians in this country, but it's an untenable position given that the same drugs are outlawed in China and Russia. Similarly, China has some of the strictest anti-porn laws in the world.
It's a simplistic attitude to think that religion in and of itself is the culprit. But it's just human nature, with religion being the excuse. To believe otherwise is to ignore history.
It also doesn't help that the email in the article ends with a cross-eyed loony rant about oil companies and car companies being responsible for ruining the planet.
Whaddya wanna bet he drives a car, too?
They're also investing in a new line of viagra processors, which promise longer up-time.
some grainy security cam video shows up on liveleak with three guys in a pickup truck backing into the place and grabbing the rock?
SCO possibly sold something to Microsoft and Sun that they didn't own, which is fraud. I'm not sure exactly what the agreements were (some vague unix licenses), but Sun and Microsoft might be able to sue them for that in addition to criminal charges.
Of course, I believe that Sun and Microsoft really didn't buy anything, they were just funneling money to SCO.
Me:
FreeBSD
Lighttpd
Postgres
Rails
FLPR?
Call 911 and hear/see an ad from an injury lawyer.
Because they're using all that Microsoft IP without paying for it....
(it's a joke)
Do you even know what a "demagogue" is?
That's a good start, but having a piece of text doesn't tell you if it's spam or not. I mean, some stuff is obviously spam, sure. But I get a lot of really nice looking emails that advertise legitimate businesses or "newsletters" that are polished, and, well, they're spam. But they look just like the newsletters that I get which aren't spam.
I've asked around, and a lot of people will simply report stuff as spam because they're too lazy to unsubscribe from something to which they have subscribed. That's the chink in SpamCop's armor.
I still believe in the SpamCop model, but there has to be a way for someone falsely accused to get out of it and the fraudulent report must be punished. To simply charge the victim $20 in a case like that is, simply put, fraud.
No shit, Sherlock. The "net worth" of Microsoft, if we can define it by market cap, is $285,660,000,000.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT
1% of cash on hand is nothing, and has no long-term effect on share price.
None. With a mass selling, the stock price may dip, but it'll come back. A company doesn't lose money when their stock price falls, although the management may lose net-worth if they're heavily invested in the stock.
Last I looked, Microsoft had about $50,000,000,000 cash on hand. To put it into perspective, you have $50 in your pocket and I ask for a couple of quarters.
That doesn't hurt.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/07/terror/m ain621621.shtml
We knew three years ago that this organization was an al Qaeda front group for laundering money in the US, so why does Wired keep calling it a "charity"? Put the name into Google for more information.
I'm not supporting warrantless wiretapping, but I'm not supporting al Qaeda, either.
Everybody know him, he doesn't need record labels. He really doesn't. He understands that.
I would imagine that the record labels are actually more fearful of other artists like him coming to this realization.
what versions of Windows will it run?
"I forgot to mention in my last letter that this "George Bush" is a single paraplegic grandmother who is raising her own grandkids with her social security checks."
There, *now* they'll be interested in pursuing this one.
I would love to create a new "self-checkout" system like the ones that I see at Kroger and Publix. I think the ones out there right now suck. The only reason that I don't is that I know it would be a patent nightmare, and I doubt any of the patents are for stuff that is "inobvious". But I don't have time or money to fight it in court for years.
We have to admit at some point that patents very very rarely actually perform the intended use, which is to spur innovation. Instead, companies are using goofy patents on obvious stuff to stifle competition, particularly from smaller upstarts. It's like opposite day. But it never ends.
There's no reason to speculate:
michael-chaneys-computer:~ mdchaney$ strings 1-06\ Mother.m4a
[lot's of snippage, just pulling out the obvious]
nameMichael Chaney
data
Mother
data
Pink Floyd
"aART
data
Pink Floyd
data
The Wall
gnre
data
trkn
data
disk
data
$data
2000-04-25T07:00:00Z
pgap
data
(apID
data
mdchaney@mac.com
cprt
data
Digital Remaster (P) 1994 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Pink Floyd Music Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd
So, it has my name and the id that I use with iTunes (mdchaney@mac.com) along with the standard metadata that one might find in a song. If I stick it into iTunes on another machine, and bring up the info box, it says:
Purchased by: Michael Chaney
Account Name: mdchaney@mac.com
Purchase Date: 5/30/07 5:37PM
right on the summary page.
I guess I just don't get what the big deal is. How is this "hiding"?
He's founder of the Yankee Group. Yep, since the didiot is completely disgraced at this point, they're pulling out the big guns. Well, at least the bigger guns.
He says nothing in the article, and doesn't really understand what he's talking about. Just like a certain underling.
Nothing to see here....
This is really apples & oranges. The typist with 93% accuracy will produce a document with some typos, and I can tell you from years of reading /. that typos are easily "corrected" by the reader if the typist doesn't catch them. Even at that, spell checkers catch quite a few of them, too.
That's very different from "your analysis" turning into "urinalysis". Here, the spelling is correct but the words are completely wrong, and trying to figure out what is really meant will take a much longer reading of it.
To answer the question, it's not ready.