I once read, (many years ago), how Bill was going to give everything away when he was 45(?). I know he gives large sums to charity but I haven't heard much about him giving it ALL away since he got married.
"What Microsoft should do is open up their software, and invest their money in more programmers, but not to do coding, to act as support for the rest of us who do the coding."
I agree that a good SOE version of Windows very rarely crashes. The only way I can deliberately crash my system at work is to dump out large volumes of text to the command prompt from a telnet session. It gets to a certain point and then, blip, the bios screen starts counting ram (no BSOD). I bumped up the default buffers and it seems to be happy now. The main reason for rebooting my machine is the monthly auto update ritual.
Even my 98 box at home will run for several weeks without a reboot (I wish my DSL modem would do the same). Once or twice a year I will get some nasty spyware app at home that can take hours to remove (it used to be weekly before the kids grew up and left home). Windows stability gets a bad wrap due to spyware / virus infections and sometimes immature Linux zelots that don't know the first thing about it (ooooh, I will burn in karma hell for that one).
I think part of it's flakey image also derives from early versions. I started working as a programmer just after Win3.1 came on the scene. Now that was a dog, you had to sacrifice several chickens just to keep it up for 24 hours. Often you would have to delete the sawp files just to get it back up again. However, in that era, anything unix cost an arm and a leg compared to Windows. The PHB's would put up with Windows problems in an effort to minimize costs. Kind of ironic now that a stable Linux is available for free, don't ya think?
Over the last dozen or so years my various mega-corp employers have paid me a total of $1.5M+, (not including inflation), to use thier subscriptions. If I had paid for the subscription myself, I would still be laughing.
Cue the "sold my soul to the devil" replies from the teens in thier basements who can only use one O/S.
Petrol is ~$5.00 per Gallon here, there is no subsidy on vehicles, there is a subsidy on fuel for farm use. We are right up the top of the tree when it comes to CO2 emmissions per head of population. Eighty percent of the population want to join Kyoto, for the last ~20 years I would like to have seen our govt do something...anything...but as another reply states we need radical change and I don't think it will happen until nature imposes it on us.
A few days after the slashdot story I read about Barton and the $11,600,000,000 subsidy to his sugar-daddy thanks partly to the work of Mckintyre and McKitrick. How could this happen, is there anyone in US politcs who is not feathering thier nest with lobby money. Kick the lot of them out of power and replace them with some thinkers or artists or even the village idiot.... oh, umm, forget that bit.
Have a look into the history of why the Irish proudly wear the colour green. Refusing to be intimidated by a label that someone else pinned on you is an excellent tatic if you actually do want to be taken seriously.
There is a name for the attitude you display towards success, it's called the "The tall poppy syndrome". How did you get so cynical? Success in rap (or indeed any success measured in dollars) is similar to getting rich via the drug trade. It all comes under the heading of Capitalisim, the two sub-categories are legal and illeagal.
My (now adult) kids pursuaded me to listen to Emminem years ago. Eminem became successfull because he has talent. I think his lyrics are excellent, he does not sing about "life in the ghetto" nor have I heard him "glorify drug dealing". He is similar to many great song writers of the past, he sings about his life. The talented part is that he does it in such a way that it doesn't matter if you are a "gangsta" in LA or a "comfortable-class" old fart living in a nice unit on the beach in Austrailia, both can relate to what he is saying (the old fart's ears must first be re-tuned to be compatible with the new language). Having said all that, I don't actually buy or play his stuff, but I do like it when it comes on the radio.
People like me (and my kids) hear him in Australia because a record company put him on a CD and radio stations played it, ie: they "marketed" him over here. You need to clam down and take music marketing in it's true perspective. I don't doubt there are alot of scumbags in the record industry, but they are just regular corprate scumbags, they are no match for the scumbags found in say...arms or oil (I'll put a missle in yo ass, mofo!).
"while all the others stay poor and feed the few nouveau-riches by purchasing their albums."
I have been "poor", you don't feed your music "habit" when the kids need food, clothing and a warm bed. That my friend is the basic difference between the two products on offer (Drugs vs Music).
You may be a scientist but you are only one amongst many. The IPCC report was compiled and reviewed by thousands of scientists. Like you they agree it is real (even though 20 years ago many were skeptics), Unlike you they agree it is due to CO2 levels and they agree that man is largeley responsible. Good grief man, they even got GWB himself to give them a qualified endorsement at the G8 summit.
There are however lots and lots of half-baked arguments about it's current and future implications. The fact that since 2000 world grain production has not met demand is worrying. The fact that we have used half of the planets grain stores in the last five years to keep up with demand is even more worrying. If the trend continues humanity will run out of grain reserves ~2010. When that happens the shit will really hit the fan.
I live in Australia,(a large grain exporter), we have been in a record breaking drought for years (like many other countries), our major cities have been on permenent water restrictions for a few years now. It hardly ever rains anymore and when it does we get six months worth in a couple of days. The seasons are changing so much that the birds and the bees are all out of whack and come into the suburbs looking for food and water. This is what I have seen happening with my own eyes over the last 15yrs or so. But hey, let's not listen to the overwhelming majority of scientists who are giving us very sound reasons for the things I see. In the proud tradition of "fair and balanced", let's listen to the ultra-minority and watch civilization go down the shitter.
"Also peer review is no substitute for replication and full data and analysis audits, which is what McIntyre and McKitrick did."
A non peer-reviewed replication of a non peer-reviewed paper has as much weight as my "say so", ie: Worthless.
I'm not astroturfing. I have no connection with the energy industry or the researchers.
McIntyre and McKitrick have been funded to the tune of over $500,000 by ExxonMobil. Ok, maybe I went overboard with the astroturf.
"I just enjoy exposing and correcting bullshit such as yours."
Ditto, but now you are just repeating the chant and cloaking yourself in gobble-de-gook. Let me know when the crap you speak actually gets published in Nature or any other peer-reviewed journal.
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I once read, (many years ago), how Bill was going to give everything away when he was 45(?). I know he gives large sums to charity but I haven't heard much about him giving it ALL away since he got married.
"What Microsoft should do is open up their software, and invest their money in more programmers, but not to do coding, to act as support for the rest of us who do the coding."
I think IBM has that bussiness sewn up already.
By the time it is usefull for shipping it will be underwater anyway.
To quote Monty Python, "I fart in your general direction".
With a name like "Hans" surely it must be Danish, but what happens when the big meltdown puts it below sea level?
Excellent points. Considering the rate of Artic melting, perhaps Canada should go back and plant a flag with a somewhat taller flagpole?
You may have something there, TFA states it's the size of a football field.
A cowardly troll if ever I saw one.
The island is the size of a football field, one explosion would settle the argument.
I agree that a good SOE version of Windows very rarely crashes. The only way I can deliberately crash my system at work is to dump out large volumes of text to the command prompt from a telnet session. It gets to a certain point and then, blip, the bios screen starts counting ram (no BSOD). I bumped up the default buffers and it seems to be happy now. The main reason for rebooting my machine is the monthly auto update ritual.
Even my 98 box at home will run for several weeks without a reboot (I wish my DSL modem would do the same). Once or twice a year I will get some nasty spyware app at home that can take hours to remove (it used to be weekly before the kids grew up and left home). Windows stability gets a bad wrap due to spyware / virus infections and sometimes immature Linux zelots that don't know the first thing about it (ooooh, I will burn in karma hell for that one).
I think part of it's flakey image also derives from early versions. I started working as a programmer just after Win3.1 came on the scene. Now that was a dog, you had to sacrifice several chickens just to keep it up for 24 hours. Often you would have to delete the sawp files just to get it back up again. However, in that era, anything unix cost an arm and a leg compared to Windows. The PHB's would put up with Windows problems in an effort to minimize costs. Kind of ironic now that a stable Linux is available for free, don't ya think?
Over the last dozen or so years my various mega-corp employers have paid me a total of $1.5M+, (not including inflation), to use thier subscriptions. If I had paid for the subscription myself, I would still be laughing.
Cue the "sold my soul to the devil" replies from the teens in thier basements who can only use one O/S.
"How much did your MSDN subscription was again?"
I have given you too much credit, it also looks like you really are clueless when it comes to the written word.
I don't have a subscription, it was a joke moron.
That may be what they meant, but I doubt it. If anything, the use of "those" applies to the "early thoughts".
"Any early thoughts, MSDN subscribers?"
Do those actually read Slashdot?
Yes. Also, they know how to construct a sentence.
Petrol is ~$5.00 per Gallon here, there is no subsidy on vehicles, there is a subsidy on fuel for farm use. We are right up the top of the tree when it comes to CO2 emmissions per head of population. Eighty percent of the population want to join Kyoto, for the last ~20 years I would like to have seen our govt do something...anything...but as another reply states we need radical change and I don't think it will happen until nature imposes it on us.
A few days after the slashdot story I read about Barton and the $11,600,000,000 subsidy to his sugar-daddy thanks partly to the work of Mckintyre and McKitrick. How could this happen, is there anyone in US politcs who is not feathering thier nest with lobby money. Kick the lot of them out of power and replace them with some thinkers or artists or even the village idiot .... oh, umm, forget that bit.
-including the "tip"- funniest line I've seen all day.
Have a look into the history of why the Irish proudly wear the colour green. Refusing to be intimidated by a label that someone else pinned on you is an excellent tatic if you actually do want to be taken seriously.
That's nice, but I think the GP was suggesting going back to resurect the Saturn V because he (wrongly) assumed it to be safer.
There is a name for the attitude you display towards success, it's called the "The tall poppy syndrome". How did you get so cynical? Success in rap (or indeed any success measured in dollars) is similar to getting rich via the drug trade. It all comes under the heading of Capitalisim, the two sub-categories are legal and illeagal.
My (now adult) kids pursuaded me to listen to Emminem years ago. Eminem became successfull because he has talent. I think his lyrics are excellent, he does not sing about "life in the ghetto" nor have I heard him "glorify drug dealing". He is similar to many great song writers of the past, he sings about his life. The talented part is that he does it in such a way that it doesn't matter if you are a "gangsta" in LA or a "comfortable-class" old fart living in a nice unit on the beach in Austrailia, both can relate to what he is saying (the old fart's ears must first be re-tuned to be compatible with the new language). Having said all that, I don't actually buy or play his stuff, but I do like it when it comes on the radio.
People like me (and my kids) hear him in Australia because a record company put him on a CD and radio stations played it, ie: they "marketed" him over here. You need to clam down and take music marketing in it's true perspective. I don't doubt there are alot of scumbags in the record industry, but they are just regular corprate scumbags, they are no match for the scumbags found in say...arms or oil (I'll put a missle in yo ass, mofo!).
"while all the others stay poor and feed the few nouveau-riches by purchasing their albums."
I have been "poor", you don't feed your music "habit" when the kids need food, clothing and a warm bed. That my friend is the basic difference between the two products on offer (Drugs vs Music).
"are drummers not musicians?"
Reminds me of the old joke....
Q. What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A. A Drummer.
You may be a scientist but you are only one amongst many. The IPCC report was compiled and reviewed by thousands of scientists. Like you they agree it is real (even though 20 years ago many were skeptics), Unlike you they agree it is due to CO2 levels and they agree that man is largeley responsible. Good grief man, they even got GWB himself to give them a qualified endorsement at the G8 summit.
There are however lots and lots of half-baked arguments about it's current and future implications. The fact that since 2000 world grain production has not met demand is worrying. The fact that we have used half of the planets grain stores in the last five years to keep up with demand is even more worrying. If the trend continues humanity will run out of grain reserves ~2010. When that happens the shit will really hit the fan.
I live in Australia,(a large grain exporter), we have been in a record breaking drought for years (like many other countries), our major cities have been on permenent water restrictions for a few years now. It hardly ever rains anymore and when it does we get six months worth in a couple of days. The seasons are changing so much that the birds and the bees are all out of whack and come into the suburbs looking for food and water. This is what I have seen happening with my own eyes over the last 15yrs or so. But hey, let's not listen to the overwhelming majority of scientists who are giving us very sound reasons for the things I see. In the proud tradition of "fair and balanced", let's listen to the ultra-minority and watch civilization go down the shitter.
"Also peer review is no substitute for replication and full data and analysis audits, which is what McIntyre and McKitrick did."
A non peer-reviewed replication of a non peer-reviewed paper has as much weight as my "say so", ie: Worthless.
I'm not astroturfing. I have no connection with the energy industry or the researchers.
McIntyre and McKitrick have been funded to the tune of over $500,000 by ExxonMobil. Ok, maybe I went overboard with the astroturf.
"I just enjoy exposing and correcting bullshit such as yours."
Ditto, but now you are just repeating the chant and cloaking yourself in gobble-de-gook. Let me know when the crap you speak actually gets published in Nature or any other peer-reviewed journal.
"Are these hydrogen cars poisoning the planet?"
No, our current economic system is killing the planet. (Don't look at me, I don't have the answer).