Same Bork, his position is exactly what I would expect from him. He is not a right wing radical revisionist nut like some people in power (Ashcroft, Bush, et al), he is actually a "lets see what the founders intended" kind of conservative. His collaboration with Nixon during Watergate tarred him for life though.
The first three items are relatively unchanged by creating a reservoir.
Reservoirs increase the surface area of the body of water (depth is not important). Also since the flow rate of the system as a whole remains unchanged and the water ends up spending more time in the sytem due to the large reservoir you created. The (absolute) rate of evaporation increases when you make a reservoir.
Decreased agitation is more than offset by the increase in surface area. Agitation actually is another way to increase surface area. So what you lose from agitation you gain by spreading out.
The good news is you still have more water available than you did before.
My point of view regarding Microsoft at this time is that while Microsoft can be a vibrant part of a well planned computing environment, it is currently acting like a weed in a garden.
It's time to do some weeding.
A lot of my objections were not a problem as long as the PC world had DR DOS, IBM DOS, and MS DOS. However when MS Windows killed off OS/2 then MS became a problem. The problem would have been fixable if the original penalties had been imposed on MS. Now it seems we need to get off MS OS's entirely. The various OSS *nix OS's offer an actually better alternative to Windows at this time, and as Apple has demonstrated, Unix can be as user freindly as any other OS.
The Free Software Movement also seems to offer a long term fix to the problem of software monopoly.
BTW has anyone else noticed that the Open Source Software Development method is analogous to peer reviewed scientific publishing?
Finally, a response that isn't a slogan. Believe it or not I actually do recomend MS for some people. That being said, in general you don't know what a program is actually doing unless you can audit the code. The easiest way to do this is to get a hold of the source code. Microsoft would rather chew off their own head than let me do that.
This leads to a certain lack of trust on my part. Combined with their "Trusted Computing Initiative", which means they trust my computer to do what they want, I'm getting really nervous about their software in general. Office 2003 doesn't help.
The main problem I have with Microsoft is the same problem I had with IBM in 1988, it's choking off innovation. If you don't believe me just take a drive to your nearest computer store. Take a look at the number of titles. CompUSA has started selling stereo equipment for crying out loud.
Stocks that pay no dividends are a gamble. More so than other stocks. I've been watching the stock market since 1976.
Be a man you whiney little puke. Write your own games.
How is forcing people to ship and use OSS different? Well for one thing you don't have to pay a fortune for it. For another thing OSS!=Linux. BSD is also OSS, so is FreeDOS. But the important, and critical thing is that both the source code and the necessary compilers are present and operational. This allows you to opt out, see my comment above.
If you don't want to use these powerful utilities , well that's fine, but, you do have the option.
An OS without the source code, compilers, editors, and all necessary utilities to completely rebuild the system software is like a stock that pays no dividends. F***ing Useless.
Just blink for a second Microsoft filing chapter 11 tomorrow.
By the time that happens Linux and BSD (aka OS X), and maybe the Hurd (HAHAHAHA!!, sorry) will have taken over the user space. Any company that is not supporting Unix by then is operating foolishly. The networks they have "built", actually co-opted, will simply shift to the new OS and discover (as Intel and Microsoft did ~15 years ago with regards to IBM) that they didn't really need them anymore.
I remember way back when I first heard about Microsoft DOS. I remember thinking:
What kind of shit is this?!? No compilers? Who cares about interpreted Basic? Where's the source code for this crap? What Do You Mean No Source Code!?!? NO MAN PAGE?!!!!
Now, you were saying something about freedom and choice?
I listen to NPR also. It's the only mass media outlet that actually tries to take a fair look at things. As a result, you will sometimes hear stuff on NPR that the commercial stations would rather kill themselves than broadcast.
A case in point was NPR's recent coverage of Powell's rule changes at the FCC. Since the mass media corporations were in favor of it, and since it was obvious to a retarded rutabega that these changes were not in the public interest the coverage on the commercial stations was best described as INVISIBLE.
One of the critical institutions of a democracy is a free, unfettered, and diverse press. We don't have that anymore. If it wasn't for some local papers, NPR, and the Web we would be toast.
BTW remember the whole ruckus about Diebold that was covered here last month, NPR also covered it that same week. Newsweek just picked up on it, but to their credit they buried the story on page 69 (of 86).
Whether it is less than 1% or more than 10% of the population that is gay, depends entirely on the political agenda of the person or organization reporting the statistic.
Not quite, the number reported depends on the political agenda of the reporter. The actual percentage depends on biological, and social factors, and the precise meaning of gay.
Case in point, while the ancient Spartans took male lovers, were they gay? Careful how you answer that, Leonidas is standing next to you with a (sharp) spear. They certainly would have killed someone who is effete. Useless in war you know.
I had heard that statistic also. The more accurate figure is 1% to 3% gay, depending on social acceptance.
The 10% gay figure was based on major metropolitan areas, but turned out to be biased because small groups tend to congregate in cities due to the higer absolute numbers to be found. After all 1% of a million is far more people that 1% of a hundred.
A jig is a specialty tool made to do a particular job in a particular setting and manner. A jig to hold dowels so you can drill a hole in them with your drill press for example. A hammer is not a jig, a hammer is a tool. Usually a jig is optimized to work with one particular tool. Some jigs (such as a dovetail jig for a router) are so useful that people have generalized them and started selling them.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. If I was foolish enough to buy such a thing I would spend considerable time and money to VIOLATE THEIR EULA.
I actually have a woodworking shop in my garage, telling me that I don't own a tool I paid for is theft!
Good! That's the only true test of ability there is in any field. I'm a chemist, the first thing I have a new hire do is titrations, if they can't handle that they are outta there.
I'm sorry, I was unclear. I would hire the one who correctly addressed all the issues in the minimum time. If there were 10 things wrong with the system and one candidate took 2 hours to fix them all, and another candidate took three hours to fix them all and in addition optimized the system for the application we were running. Then I would probably hire the candidate who took the initiative to perform the optimization. The candidate who took two and a half hours and missed stuff would be out of the running.
Actually I like your point of view. A good test would be to put the prospective Sys Admin in a room with a sabotaged computer (a stand alone would do) and say:
Fix it.
Then walk out of the room. If the candidate cannot do it in aspecified amount of time, then too bad. Hire the fastest one.
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True. We must rebuild the Library of Alexandria! And while you're at it kick all those Arab squatters out of Egypt.
Same Bork, his position is exactly what I would expect from him. He is not a right wing radical revisionist nut like some people in power (Ashcroft, Bush, et al), he is actually a "lets see what the founders intended" kind of conservative. His collaboration with Nixon during Watergate tarred him for life though.
HEY! Where's the toxicology data! Stupid stripped down MSDS!
The first three items are relatively unchanged by creating a reservoir.
Reservoirs increase the surface area of the body of water (depth is not important). Also since the flow rate of the system as a whole remains unchanged and the water ends up spending more time in the sytem due to the large reservoir you created. The (absolute) rate of evaporation increases when you make a reservoir.
Decreased agitation is more than offset by the increase in surface area. Agitation actually is another way to increase surface area. So what you lose from agitation you gain by spreading out.
The good news is you still have more water available than you did before.
No this won't increase the algae population. It will stop all air -water gas exchanges and kill everything living in that body of water.
This method was used in ancient days to seal wine casks. Of course back then they used olive oil.
My point of view regarding Microsoft at this time is that while Microsoft can be a vibrant part of a well planned computing environment, it is currently acting like a weed in a garden.
It's time to do some weeding.
A lot of my objections were not a problem as long as the PC world had DR DOS, IBM DOS, and MS DOS. However when MS Windows killed off OS/2 then MS became a problem. The problem would have been fixable if the original penalties had been imposed on MS. Now it seems we need to get off MS OS's entirely. The various OSS *nix OS's offer an actually better alternative to Windows at this time, and as Apple has demonstrated, Unix can be as user freindly as any other OS.
The Free Software Movement also seems to offer a long term fix to the problem of software monopoly.
BTW has anyone else noticed that the Open Source Software Development method is analogous to peer reviewed scientific publishing?
This leads to a certain lack of trust on my part. Combined with their "Trusted Computing Initiative", which means they trust my computer to do what they want, I'm getting really nervous about their software in general. Office 2003 doesn't help.
The main problem I have with Microsoft is the same problem I had with IBM in 1988, it's choking off innovation. If you don't believe me just take a drive to your nearest computer store. Take a look at the number of titles. CompUSA has started selling stereo equipment for crying out loud.
Stocks that pay no dividends are a gamble. More so than other stocks. I've been watching the stock market since 1976.
Big deal, the've been in charge for EONS!
Oh I'm sorry, you meant charged particles didn't you?
How is forcing people to ship and use OSS different? Well for one thing you don't have to pay a fortune for it. For another thing OSS!=Linux. BSD is also OSS, so is FreeDOS. But the important, and critical thing is that both the source code and the necessary compilers are present and operational. This allows you to opt out, see my comment above.
If you don't want to use these powerful utilities , well that's fine, but, you do have the option.
An OS without the source code, compilers, editors, and all necessary utilities to completely rebuild the system software is like a stock that pays no dividends. F***ing Useless.
Since when is the choice of hiring a convicted felon a better choice? Or am I wrong about Microsoft being found guilty of monopolistic practices?
MS Windows XP (microsoft.com)
Current OSS OS's for PC's:
FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
The Hurd (gnu.org)
FreeDOS (freedos.org)
FreeDOS-32 (freedos-32.sourceforge.net)
What was that about choice?
By the time that happens Linux and BSD (aka OS X), and maybe the Hurd (HAHAHAHA!!, sorry) will have taken over the user space. Any company that is not supporting Unix by then is operating foolishly. The networks they have "built", actually co-opted, will simply shift to the new OS and discover (as Intel and Microsoft did ~15 years ago with regards to IBM) that they didn't really need them anymore.
What kind of shit is this?!? No compilers? Who cares about interpreted Basic? Where's the source code for this crap? What Do You Mean No Source Code!?!? NO MAN PAGE?!!!!
Now, you were saying something about freedom and choice?
The Constitutional right of Wealthy and Influential people to steal everything a nobody like you has.
I listen to NPR also. It's the only mass media outlet that actually tries to take a fair look at things. As a result, you will sometimes hear stuff on NPR that the commercial stations would rather kill themselves than broadcast.
A case in point was NPR's recent coverage of Powell's rule changes at the FCC. Since the mass media corporations were in favor of it, and since it was obvious to a retarded rutabega that these changes were not in the public interest the coverage on the commercial stations was best described as INVISIBLE.
One of the critical institutions of a democracy is a free, unfettered, and diverse press. We don't have that anymore. If it wasn't for some local papers, NPR, and the Web we would be toast.
BTW remember the whole ruckus about Diebold that was covered here last month, NPR also covered it that same week. Newsweek just picked up on it, but to their credit they buried the story on page 69 (of 86).
Not quite, the number reported depends on the political agenda of the reporter. The actual percentage depends on biological, and social factors, and the precise meaning of gay.
Case in point, while the ancient Spartans took male lovers, were they gay? Careful how you answer that, Leonidas is standing next to you with a (sharp) spear. They certainly would have killed someone who is effete. Useless in war you know.
The 10% gay figure was based on major metropolitan areas, but turned out to be biased because small groups tend to congregate in cities due to the higer absolute numbers to be found. After all 1% of a million is far more people that 1% of a hundred.
Please don't flame, I'm just passing on info.
A jig is a specialty tool made to do a particular job in a particular setting and manner. A jig to hold dowels so you can drill a hole in them with your drill press for example. A hammer is not a jig, a hammer is a tool. Usually a jig is optimized to work with one particular tool. Some jigs (such as a dovetail jig for a router) are so useful that people have generalized them and started selling them.
I actually have a woodworking shop in my garage, telling me that I don't own a tool I paid for is theft!
Incidently, software EULA's amount to theft also.
Good! That's the only true test of ability there is in any field. I'm a chemist, the first thing I have a new hire do is titrations, if they can't handle that they are outta there.
I'm sorry, I was unclear. I would hire the one who correctly addressed all the issues in the minimum time. If there were 10 things wrong with the system and one candidate took 2 hours to fix them all, and another candidate took three hours to fix them all and in addition optimized the system for the application we were running. Then I would probably hire the candidate who took the initiative to perform the optimization. The candidate who took two and a half hours and missed stuff would be out of the running.
Fix it.
Then walk out of the room. If the candidate cannot do it in aspecified amount of time, then too bad. Hire the fastest one.
Yes. Have you considered medical treatment? I understand that your condition makes you easy to shoot in the dark.
Good, I'm glad we agree. Now why are they (Bush & Co.) trampling our rights to supposedly control these fools?