"Although I'd look at it differently. I see it as people fighting to get the power so they are the ones getting the corporate attentions."
You'd be wrong and the grandparent would be right. If all excercises of power by a politician then it's the one who bought the politician who has the power, not the politician. Politicians are merely corporate whores, the corps make them, buy them, and own them. Sometimes they even trade them.
"Granted, they would take a hit in OS sales, but that isn't their cash cow anyway."
Perhaps in your world, in the real world over half their income is OS sales. Even MS Office sales are dwarfed by their OS sales. Think about it, MS gets $100-200 OS tax on every PC with windows preinstalled sold in the world. Almost every pc sold comes with windows preinstalled...
"they're augmenting a customer solution with open source products where their own proprietary software is lacking (they need an OS stack on which to run websphere, for example)."
Yeah, they had that before supporting open source, they called it AIX.
Of course IBM and other COPORATIONS are not aiding open source for their health. Corporations exist and drive toward a single aim, making money. IBM has spent sums of billions promoting open source software and releasing open source software because they feel there is more money to be made with an open platform than a proprietary one, even their own.
IBM has financed and developed dozens of open source projects to add value to linux, both IBM and the open source community have reaped the benefits. THAT is why IBM is considered to be supporting open source, because they are churning out code and are opening interfaces, not because someone is stupid enough to believe ANY corporation is altruistic.
"(objectivity being in short supply in this environment)"
Objectivity defined as sharing YOUR viewpoint, which is in the minority among those educated on the subject. Right?
"spare me the Linux banter about samba and OpenOffice.org, it's not the same"
Unfortunately that perspective seems to be shared by that minority who feels Microsoft products have signficant value. As near as I can tell, your group seems to oddly equate value to sameness. Personally I don't see "it's not the same" as negative.
"But at the workgroup level, they're a competitor and everyone just has to deal with that."
At the workgroup level they have a monopoly which they vigorously protect. It is PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a competitor to create a collaborative suite that integrates as smoothly with the system as office, not because MS programmers are genuis, but because they don't share the basic interfaces needed to create one. Needless to say, this means they can monopolize almost any application in the desktop market this way and it's anti-competative.
In short, Microsoft doesn't compete in the workgroup or the desktop markets, it's practices insure market competition CANNOT exist. This is where linux comes in, because it evolves and exists without dependence on the market.
In terms of merit, the only edge MS has is ease of use. Most of this is false merit, it's simply software designed for the technically ignorant and embraced by the same. But in a few areas their software is easier to use without a significant cost in actual function.
These areas are being polished up by the open source world now and this is a large part of the focus today. It's a fairly safe bet that these areas simply won't exist much longer.
"enterprise level services such as public web services, e-mail, border security"
Since when are web servers, email servers, and firewalls enterprise level services? These are commonly run by home users! Almost every "workgroup level" network connects to the internet and runs these "enterprise level" services.
P.S. Samba surely takes significantly more work to setup. After setup it's just as easy to administrate and performances signficantly better in almost every respect. The same can roughly be said about all things linux/open source versus windows.
There orbit itself is one factor which could potentially change between now and the impact date. Orbital mechanics could well change within 25yrs along with any other of our theories.
However, the more likely cause would be impact with something else large enough to alter the asteroid's orbit.
I should hope not, the entire point of my post is that there is NOTHING unique about the photoshop UI. It's a sellout and conformist piece of work that emulates other apps.
unique = bad when talking about a software interface and the gimp interface is unique.
Unique is bad because every piece which is unique is additional learning curve and time required to get into the app.
Considering what gimp is, this interface should be a sellout conformist look that is something my grandmother will find similar to every other program she's ever used.
True SCO doesn't have anything, but the court does, it has precident. If they settle then no precident is set and they are open to this sort of lawsuit in the future. If they take it all the way, then all the verdicts in their favor set precident.
Since it is highly unlikely SCO will appeal and since IBM lawyers are in-house and drawing salary either way, this would actually be fairly cheap and fairly powerful precident. Not the least of which will be the first court certified validation of the GPL (it's never needed to be tested in court, one of the SCO claims is that it's not valid).
Nope, don't know anyone who ever did for a Narcotic either. Hell most crack addicts I've known wouldn't either. I have known women who've gotten down on their knees for a smoke though.
Almost every smoker I know has smoked a butt out of public ashtray or off the ground in a parking lot at some point.
I know several who will stop in the middle of meal, stop eating and go smoke a cigerette.
Pretty much all smokers will stand outside when it's pouring, snowing, hailing, or just plain 30 below.
After going without Nicotine for 72hrs a smoker goes into condition similar to an extremely high fever. You have chills and it feels like little pinpricks all over your body, often vomitting comes at this point. After that every part of you SCREAMS I WANT A GODDAMN CIGERETTE again and again like a broken record for the next month non-stop. You get the chills and pinpricks thing two or three times a day.
After a month you start to have moments when you get your mind off of it, and as time goes on they are spaced farther and farther apart. After 10yrs or so you only feel a craving 3 or 4 times a year.
Unless you consider that the implementors are the only users the implementors are actually concerned with and thus they are their own highest priority.
While someone who is new to the program is not the person to judge which is the better program in terms of functionality, they are EXACTLY the ones who determine which has a more intuitive interface.
Anyone who is already used to another tool is biased when it comes to the interface of a new program to replace that tool.
Neither DevC++ or VS.NET is worth a shit, they are both overbloated nonsense.
As a former smoker, I can tell you never were one and thus should be silent on this issue since your talking out your ass.
Smokers continue to smoke because it is an addicition akin to that of the strongest narcotic drugs. Unless your counting teenagers, nobody smokes because they want to, they smoke because their addicted and quitting is something much harder than anything a non-smoker is ever likely to endure.
I consider a proprietary API synonymous with proprietary hardware. I don't care about access to the actual schematics for the hardware itself, I care if the hardware has an interface which is accessible via open standards.
Congratulations Mr. Obvious welcome to a world in which sarcasm exists.
My point is that if human readable text and graphics can be burned into the label side without hurting the data portion of the disc, then obviously the laser could be burning computer readable data instead of human readable.
Since human readable data leaves a bigger footprint than the tiny pits which constitute computer readable data this will be true each every time.
Web developers are not dreamweaver monkeys. Web developers are web developers, they write code.
Dreamweaver monkey's are web designers. They are visual types who can't handle even a simple code like html (which is why they are using an html editor rather than a text editor). Web developers are programmers who happen to work with web based applications. Two different animals.
Shell access is no more a security risk than gui access.
The risk isn't in letting a student have access to a *nix system or a cli, the risk is in letting a student have physical access to a system. At least on a *nix system you have full accountability and real security.
If your allowing students access to windows systems that can't really be locked down, why would you deny them access to non-server linux systems?
For instance, you could implement a new liberal arts class. The classwork would be p0rn production that could be streamed on demand to d0rm tv's and computers.
Anoter benefit of the program is that cheerleaders could enroll in the class, this eases the enourmous burden placed on them to keep up with both their extracurricular activities and classes. By integrating aerobics into a class which factors into their GPA you've done them a huge favor IMHO.
To really keep up with the times, you could also stream these feeds live to students enrolled in distance and online courses via the internet.
I think your both wrong, a woman wants a man who makes her feel secure. You don't have to be buff or athletic, but you need strength in your personality... and then you need money and fame:P
Fuel cells can't be used by existing vehicles, so no, they aren't viable anytime in the near future.
Existing vehicles COULD be converted for a couple hundred bucks in the shop to use hydrogen if it were readily available. That makes hydrogen as a combustion fuel viable now.
On the other hand, this possibility is never mentioned by the mainstream media. That tells me that the oil companies have bought radio silence on this issue. It also tells me that if someone did try to make it happen, there would be ten pounds of red tape slapped on the issue immediately. This would also require the gas stations to offer hydrogen and almost all gas stations are owned by oil companies.
Currently the simplest method of using hyrdogen to POWER A CAR which is the subject at hand, is to inject it into the fuel line and BURN it in the engine.
Until we are using entirely electric cars, hydrogen as used in cars IS a combustion fuel.
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"Although I'd look at it differently. I see it as people fighting to get the power so they are the ones getting the corporate attentions."
You'd be wrong and the grandparent would be right. If all excercises of power by a politician then it's the one who bought the politician who has the power, not the politician. Politicians are merely corporate whores, the corps make them, buy them, and own them. Sometimes they even trade them.
He reads TFA, that means he should get an offtopic or redundant mod. Sheesh, some people never get it right!
"Granted, they would take a hit in OS sales, but that isn't their cash cow anyway."
Perhaps in your world, in the real world over half their income is OS sales. Even MS Office sales are dwarfed by their OS sales. Think about it, MS gets $100-200 OS tax on every PC with windows preinstalled sold in the world. Almost every pc sold comes with windows preinstalled...
"they're augmenting a customer solution with open source products where their own proprietary software is lacking (they need an OS stack on which to run websphere, for example)."
Yeah, they had that before supporting open source, they called it AIX.
Of course IBM and other COPORATIONS are not aiding open source for their health. Corporations exist and drive toward a single aim, making money. IBM has spent sums of billions promoting open source software and releasing open source software because they feel there is more money to be made with an open platform than a proprietary one, even their own.
IBM has financed and developed dozens of open source projects to add value to linux, both IBM and the open source community have reaped the benefits. THAT is why IBM is considered to be supporting open source, because they are churning out code and are opening interfaces, not because someone is stupid enough to believe ANY corporation is altruistic.
"(objectivity being in short supply in this environment)"
Objectivity defined as sharing YOUR viewpoint, which is in the minority among those educated on the subject. Right?
"spare me the Linux banter about samba and OpenOffice.org, it's not the same"
Unfortunately that perspective seems to be shared by that minority who feels Microsoft products have signficant value. As near as I can tell, your group seems to oddly equate value to sameness. Personally I don't see "it's not the same" as negative.
"But at the workgroup level, they're a competitor and everyone just has to deal with that."
At the workgroup level they have a monopoly which they vigorously protect. It is PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a competitor to create a collaborative suite that integrates as smoothly with the system as office, not because MS programmers are genuis, but because they don't share the basic interfaces needed to create one. Needless to say, this means they can monopolize almost any application in the desktop market this way and it's anti-competative.
In short, Microsoft doesn't compete in the workgroup or the desktop markets, it's practices insure market competition CANNOT exist. This is where linux comes in, because it evolves and exists without dependence on the market.
In terms of merit, the only edge MS has is ease of use. Most of this is false merit, it's simply software designed for the technically ignorant and embraced by the same. But in a few areas their software is easier to use without a significant cost in actual function.
These areas are being polished up by the open source world now and this is a large part of the focus today. It's a fairly safe bet that these areas simply won't exist much longer.
"enterprise level services such as public web services, e-mail, border security"
Since when are web servers, email servers, and firewalls enterprise level services? These are commonly run by home users! Almost every "workgroup level" network connects to the internet and runs these "enterprise level" services.
P.S. Samba surely takes significantly more work to setup. After setup it's just as easy to administrate and performances signficantly better in almost every respect. The same can roughly be said about all things linux/open source versus windows.
If the unit which needs the fuel does the stopping and loading up, that unit is autonomous.
unless it hits water
There orbit itself is one factor which could potentially change between now and the impact date. Orbital mechanics could well change within 25yrs along with any other of our theories.
However, the more likely cause would be impact with something else large enough to alter the asteroid's orbit.
I should hope not, the entire point of my post is that there is NOTHING unique about the photoshop UI. It's a sellout and conformist piece of work that emulates other apps.
unique = bad when talking about a software interface and the gimp interface is unique.
Unique is bad because every piece which is unique is additional learning curve and time required to get into the app.
Considering what gimp is, this interface should be a sellout conformist look that is something my grandmother will find similar to every other program she's ever used.
Translation, gimp should clone the Photoshop UI.
Of course of course, far be it from me to claim that there is a shortage of complete fscking idiots in the world ;)
True SCO doesn't have anything, but the court does, it has precident. If they settle then no precident is set and they are open to this sort of lawsuit in the future. If they take it all the way, then all the verdicts in their favor set precident.
Since it is highly unlikely SCO will appeal and since IBM lawyers are in-house and drawing salary either way, this would actually be fairly cheap and fairly powerful precident. Not the least of which will be the first court certified validation of the GPL (it's never needed to be tested in court, one of the SCO claims is that it's not valid).
Nope, don't know anyone who ever did for a Narcotic either. Hell most crack addicts I've known wouldn't either. I have known women who've gotten down on their knees for a smoke though.
Almost every smoker I know has smoked a butt out of public ashtray or off the ground in a parking lot at some point.
I know several who will stop in the middle of meal, stop eating and go smoke a cigerette.
Pretty much all smokers will stand outside when it's pouring, snowing, hailing, or just plain 30 below.
After going without Nicotine for 72hrs a smoker goes into condition similar to an extremely high fever. You have chills and it feels like little pinpricks all over your body, often vomitting comes at this point. After that every part of you SCREAMS I WANT A GODDAMN CIGERETTE again and again like a broken record for the next month non-stop. You get the chills and pinpricks thing two or three times a day.
After a month you start to have moments when you get your mind off of it, and as time goes on they are spaced farther and farther apart. After 10yrs or so you only feel a craving 3 or 4 times a year.
Unless you consider that the implementors are the only users the implementors are actually concerned with and thus they are their own highest priority.
While someone who is new to the program is not the person to judge which is the better program in terms of functionality, they are EXACTLY the ones who determine which has a more intuitive interface.
.NET is worth a shit, they are both overbloated nonsense.
Anyone who is already used to another tool is biased when it comes to the interface of a new program to replace that tool.
Neither DevC++ or VS
As a former smoker, I can tell you never were one and thus should be silent on this issue since your talking out your ass.
Smokers continue to smoke because it is an addicition akin to that of the strongest narcotic drugs. Unless your counting teenagers, nobody smokes because they want to, they smoke because their addicted and quitting is something much harder than anything a non-smoker is ever likely to endure.
I consider a proprietary API synonymous with proprietary hardware. I don't care about access to the actual schematics for the hardware itself, I care if the hardware has an interface which is accessible via open standards.
Congratulations Mr. Obvious welcome to a world in which sarcasm exists.
My point is that if human readable text and graphics can be burned into the label side without hurting the data portion of the disc, then obviously the laser could be burning computer readable data instead of human readable.
Since human readable data leaves a bigger footprint than the tiny pits which constitute computer readable data this will be true each every time.
Seriously, who would buy proprietary discs, proprietary software, AND a proprietary burner, just to avoid buying a 50 cent sharpie?
" I think the CD format requires the reflective layer be a certain distance from the laser"
If so, the technology in this article which uses the laser to burn on the label side is an awefully bad idea.
Web developers are not dreamweaver monkeys. Web developers are web developers, they write code.
Dreamweaver monkey's are web designers. They are visual types who can't handle even a simple code like html (which is why they are using an html editor rather than a text editor). Web developers are programmers who happen to work with web based applications. Two different animals.
Shell access is no more a security risk than gui access.
The risk isn't in letting a student have access to a *nix system or a cli, the risk is in letting a student have physical access to a system. At least on a *nix system you have full accountability and real security.
If your allowing students access to windows systems that can't really be locked down, why would you deny them access to non-server linux systems?
For instance, you could implement a new liberal arts class. The classwork would be p0rn production that could be streamed on demand to d0rm tv's and computers.
Anoter benefit of the program is that cheerleaders could enroll in the class, this eases the enourmous burden placed on them to keep up with both their extracurricular activities and classes. By integrating aerobics into a class which factors into their GPA you've done them a huge favor IMHO.
To really keep up with the times, you could also stream these feeds live to students enrolled in distance and online courses via the internet.
I think your both wrong, a woman wants a man who makes her feel secure. You don't have to be buff or athletic, but you need strength in your personality... and then you need money and fame :P
Fuel cells can't be used by existing vehicles, so no, they aren't viable anytime in the near future.
Existing vehicles COULD be converted for a couple hundred bucks in the shop to use hydrogen if it were readily available. That makes hydrogen as a combustion fuel viable now.
On the other hand, this possibility is never mentioned by the mainstream media. That tells me that the oil companies have bought radio silence on this issue. It also tells me that if someone did try to make it happen, there would be ten pounds of red tape slapped on the issue immediately. This would also require the gas stations to offer hydrogen and almost all gas stations are owned by oil companies.
Currently the simplest method of using hyrdogen to POWER A CAR which is the subject at hand, is to inject it into the fuel line and BURN it in the engine.
Until we are using entirely electric cars, hydrogen as used in cars IS a combustion fuel.