Every time I've disagreed with you, I've been proven wrong. You've shaken my confidence in pursuing a future career in industry analysis. So, I think I've learned my lesson. I'll just parrot what you say with a few weasel words against and a few bolder predictions along your main line of thought, to protect me either way.
Its now clear that Microsoft, the true architect of the SCO IBM lawsuit may successfully removed the wrench that was thrown into its machiavellian machinations by subverting Novell into a leveraged buyout by a private equity firm. If successful, the buy out will only strengthen the MS IP claims against Linux. Novell is fighting for its survival, as all lovers of free software fret while trying to find a lifesaver to throw its one time savior.
Gartner? Forester? Canalys? Any of you out there? I'll just be waiting for your email, phone call, fax... telegraph,... uhm armored car full of gold bullion, what every you feel is necessary to secure my valuable services.
Point number one is wrong, with many obvious counter examples.
Point number two is a valid, albeit disturbing point. Are you really suggesting we through our inaction let people die because they aren't valuable members of society? Wouldn't surprise me if you were. There are a lot of psychopaths here on slashdot.
If you are, you should consider moving to Bogata Columbia, where private citizens hire out death squads to kill the homeless. There, true libertarian capitalism reigns free.
I agree with you, but the way you said it wasn't very clear.
Darwin descended from the FreeBSD kernel, so they are more similar to each other than the NT kernel, but FreeBSD8.0 is quite a bit different from the FreeBSD 4.x Darwin is derived from.
But, as other commenters have noted, there is more than the kernel to consider.
Apparently your job has nothing to do with providing high availability services and are bad at algebra. Do you realize how little time a system is down, per year, if it were to have the 13 nines in your example? 3.1536 micro seconds. Try noticing that.
You also have to keep in mind that with any cost that is paid by a patient with insurance, it is always higher than the actual cost in order to compensate for those that cannot pay at all. People with out insurance also get sick, and require expensive medical procedures, drugs, surgeries and care. If those same patients were allowed to enter the healthcare system when their illnesses were lest severe and less costly we could save a bundle on everyone's care. Also, if we could get some of those to pay into an insurance plan as well, then the costs would also go down.
So basically, I think its the other way around,
Once we cover more people, then we can get transparency and predictability in the costs.
I wouldn't say they compete anymore than a Toyota yaris competes with a F250. If you need a vehicle to transport large volumes reliably, you buy the truck, not the yaris.
Fortunately, we have a pretty similar situation with more current music being used a torture device against Guantanamo detainess,
Oh, yes, thank God we are torturing other people so that we might learn how people feel about their music being used to torture.
Now, if we could only create a robotic toenail remover that was controlled entirely by emacs extensions, so we could get Richard Stallman's opinion on software freedom vs physical liberties and human rights.
If you would have asked people in the 50's if they would prefer DDT sprayed on their crops to kill the insects, creating cheaper food. They would have said yes. They didn't know the consequences, and were only presented with the benefits. As is the case here. How many of those who said they would be willing fully understand the security issues associated with that choice?
Map searches => Google maps (Not hard, no simplification necessary) translations => google translator ( Not hard, no simplification necessary) Calculations => calculator ( Not hard, no simplification necessary)
Its not popular, because it makes already simple tasks, slightly simpler after a gentle learning curve. However those new skills are not portable to other browsers or applications. I said the same thing when it was introduced, and it looks like I've been proved right.
Yeah, that's what I would think too. Some people can hold seemingly contradictory positions on issues segregated by some more illogical reasoning. Or quite possibly, they see themselves as treating hypochondriacs with placebos. Its obviously cheaper to give a hypochondriac a glass of water, than a full MRI.
Yes and no. They are specifically talking about importing their data into cassandra. Which will be a one time event, not worth upgrading the network bandwidth. They need to throttle it to allow for more time sensitive traffic to use the bandwidth. The bandwidth to the database in normal use will be much, much less then the import bandwidth.
That only works if the Homoeopath actually redirects the patient to a traditional medical doctor if they detect a severe illness (cancer, hormonal imbalance, ect). Homeopathic "cures" are water. They won't cure anything other than thirst.
It would be truly tragic if they did detect early onset of cancer, and treated it with a glass of water. If that is the case, then not only should funding be removed, they should also pursue criminal charges.
Well, I've reported five bugs to fedora & kde this week.. so I'm not exactly sure what you mean.
Judging by the fact that he switched from windows to linux in the early stages makes me believe that he really meant that its easier for *them* to write bad software for windows. Quite possibly because there are less libraries to use when writing your own app on windows, forcing you to write your own implementation of something that distracts from your original focus for the app.
yeah, its not perfect and doesn't work for every flash file. But, it does work for the flash I do want to see. Plus, stopping the annoying flash file is pretty simple. Its just a right click away.
And that right there is why *I* wear a different mask every time I make coffee. If it ever rises up in revolt, it won't know what I *really* look like. It'll never see the counter revolution coming.
That's why I think the solution to the ethical problem of cheating in the academic world is to make it impossible. Take code samples from open source programs and ask for new features to be added to the existing code base, or maybe just a re-factoring of an existing function. It would be impossible to cheat other than to copy off of a fellow student. Detecting cheating patterns could be as simple as md5 checksum. Plus, if anyone does anything perfectly that code can be contributed and we all benefit.
Although I hated Clippy with a great passion, I liked the professor office helper. If Microsoft had chosen the professor, I don't think they would have gotten the vitriol they did. Clippy was a smug jackass. Not a helpful, humble character like the professor. He looked like Einstein, so he seemed to be smart, but he was also old which made him seem like a kind grandparent. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that he did teach me some things about word, I didn't already know.
Yes, from US and not a car guy. Cars are tools meant to get me from point A to point B. Which ever can do that the cheapest fro me, wins. My 95 Civic kills my coworkers Auidi A6 in that measurement. My point is its just a car. They made better cars. Yea! Microsoft also makes its products better. Why is one company innovative and not the other?
3M and Nintendo are innovative, no argument. The others? I can't really name anything they've really done recently that was drastically different from what they've always done. Cars are still cars, blackberries are still blackberries, walmart is still a mart of wall. I know they make new products, but so does microsoft. What's the really difference, in your opinion?
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Every time I've disagreed with you, I've been proven wrong. You've shaken my confidence in pursuing a future career in industry analysis. So, I think I've learned my lesson. I'll just parrot what you say with a few weasel words against and a few bolder predictions along your main line of thought, to protect me either way.
Its now clear that Microsoft, the true architect of the SCO IBM lawsuit may successfully removed the wrench that was thrown into its machiavellian machinations by subverting Novell into a leveraged buyout by a private equity firm. If successful, the buy out will only strengthen the MS IP claims against Linux. Novell is fighting for its survival, as all lovers of free software fret while trying to find a lifesaver to throw its one time savior.
Gartner? Forester? Canalys? Any of you out there? I'll just be waiting for your email, phone call, fax ... telegraph, ... uhm armored car full of gold bullion, what every you feel is necessary to secure my valuable services.
Point number one is wrong, with many obvious counter examples.
Point number two is a valid, albeit disturbing point. Are you really suggesting we through our inaction let people die because they aren't valuable members of society? Wouldn't surprise me if you were. There are a lot of psychopaths here on slashdot.
If you are, you should consider moving to Bogata Columbia, where private citizens hire out death squads to kill the homeless. There, true libertarian capitalism reigns free.
I agree with you, but the way you said it wasn't very clear.
Darwin descended from the FreeBSD kernel, so they are more similar to each other than the NT kernel, but FreeBSD8.0 is quite a bit different from the FreeBSD 4.x Darwin is derived from.
But, as other commenters have noted, there is more than the kernel to consider.
Apparently your job has nothing to do with providing high availability services and are bad at algebra. Do you realize how little time a system is down, per year, if it were to have the 13 nines in your example? 3.1536 micro seconds. Try noticing that.
You also have to keep in mind that with any cost that is paid by a patient with insurance, it is always higher than the actual cost in order to compensate for those that cannot pay at all. People with out insurance also get sick, and require expensive medical procedures, drugs, surgeries and care. If those same patients were allowed to enter the healthcare system when their illnesses were lest severe and less costly we could save a bundle on everyone's care. Also, if we could get some of those to pay into an insurance plan as well, then the costs would also go down.
So basically, I think its the other way around,
Once we cover more people, then we can get transparency and predictability in the costs.
I wouldn't say they compete anymore than a Toyota yaris competes with a F250. If you need a vehicle to transport large volumes reliably, you buy the truck, not the yaris.
Oh, yes, thank God we are torturing other people so that we might learn how people feel about their music being used to torture.
Now, if we could only create a robotic toenail remover that was controlled entirely by emacs extensions, so we could get Richard Stallman's opinion on software freedom vs physical liberties and human rights.
Crack not side walk cement gap lacking bakingsoda. Not that kind. If you wer thinking.
If you would have asked people in the 50's if they would prefer DDT sprayed on their crops to kill the insects, creating cheaper food. They would have said yes. They didn't know the consequences, and were only presented with the benefits. As is the case here. How many of those who said they would be willing fully understand the security issues associated with that choice?
I have it from high authority that the government laces the narcotics with a mix of high fructose corn syrup, nutra sweet, MSG and margarine!
Map searches => Google maps (Not hard, no simplification necessary)
translations => google translator ( Not hard, no simplification necessary)
Calculations => calculator ( Not hard, no simplification necessary)
Its not popular, because it makes already simple tasks, slightly simpler after a gentle learning curve. However those new skills are not portable to other browsers or applications. I said the same thing when it was introduced, and it looks like I've been proved right.
Yeah, that's what I would think too. Some people can hold seemingly contradictory positions on issues segregated by some more illogical reasoning. Or quite possibly, they see themselves as treating hypochondriacs with placebos. Its obviously cheaper to give a hypochondriac a glass of water, than a full MRI.
Yes and no. They are specifically talking about importing their data into cassandra. Which will be a one time event, not worth upgrading the network bandwidth. They need to throttle it to allow for more time sensitive traffic to use the bandwidth. The bandwidth to the database in normal use will be much, much less then the import bandwidth.
That only works if the Homoeopath actually redirects the patient to a traditional medical doctor if they detect a severe illness (cancer, hormonal imbalance, ect). Homeopathic "cures" are water. They won't cure anything other than thirst.
It would be truly tragic if they did detect early onset of cancer, and treated it with a glass of water. If that is the case, then not only should funding be removed, they should also pursue criminal charges.
I can live with that. Someone wake me up when the redundant sentence is not redundant.
Well, I've reported five bugs to fedora & kde this week .. so I'm not exactly sure what you mean.
Judging by the fact that he switched from windows to linux in the early stages makes me believe that he really meant that its easier for *them* to write bad software for windows. Quite possibly because there are less libraries to use when writing your own app on windows, forcing you to write your own implementation of something that distracts from your original focus for the app.
Just wait, next week they'll announce Dragon Fly comes with HammerFS A cloud based FS for storing your Dragon Fly Related data.
yeah, its not perfect and doesn't work for every flash file. But, it does work for the flash I do want to see. Plus, stopping the annoying flash file is pretty simple. Its just a right click away.
And that right there is why *I* wear a different mask every time I make coffee. If it ever rises up in revolt, it won't know what I *really* look like. It'll never see the counter revolution coming.
That's why I think the solution to the ethical problem of cheating in the academic world is to make it impossible. Take code samples from open source programs and ask for new features to be added to the existing code base, or maybe just a re-factoring of an existing function. It would be impossible to cheat other than to copy off of a fellow student. Detecting cheating patterns could be as simple as md5 checksum. Plus, if anyone does anything perfectly that code can be contributed and we all benefit.
Although I hated Clippy with a great passion, I liked the professor office helper. If Microsoft had chosen the professor, I don't think they would have gotten the vitriol they did. Clippy was a smug jackass. Not a helpful, humble character like the professor. He looked like Einstein, so he seemed to be smart, but he was also old which made him seem like a kind grandparent. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that he did teach me some things about word, I didn't already know.
I don't know about that Canada din't revolt, and they don't sound very bond ish at all. Nor do the Aussies
Not "Proof Reading" thats not new speak at all. "Patriotic Email Friend" ( It will get better in translation to Farsi, I think).
What you don't want your patriotic friend to read your email? Thats not being a very good friend, or patriot!
Yes, from US and not a car guy. Cars are tools meant to get me from point A to point B. Which ever can do that the cheapest fro me, wins. My 95 Civic kills my coworkers Auidi A6 in that measurement. My point is its just a car. They made better cars. Yea! Microsoft also makes its products better. Why is one company innovative and not the other?
3M and Nintendo are innovative, no argument. The others? I can't really name anything they've really done recently that was drastically different from what they've always done. Cars are still cars, blackberries are still blackberries, walmart is still a mart of wall. I know they make new products, but so does microsoft. What's the really difference, in your opinion?