Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945) led Italy from 1922 to 1943. He created a Fascist state through the use of state terror and propaganda. Using his charisma, total control of the media, and intimidation of political rivals, he disassembled the existing democratic government system.
... sound familiar?
Well, then we are all save. Since Bush clearly lacks charisma...
All you have to do to switch to Windows is buy a new PC. They all come with it installed out of the box.
This made me thinking of my girlfriend, who bought a computer (that was 1 year before I met her), thinking all she'd need was allready installed with Windows-XP. She was then very surprised that there was no app to write a decent letter.
So I there I had allready an opportunity to tell her the merrits of Open-Source. I installed Open-Office and later switched her to Linux alltogether.
Hey a pro-Java Comment which gets modded up on slashdot... got to comment on it.
I programmed Java full-time some years ago. I was pretty excited with all the things to come. Java had everything to be a great success. But Sun butched it several times. First mistake, sucky Java implementation by Netscape. Second, fast but crashy AWT. Third slow as molasses Swing (too many classes to load in startup). If it wouldn't be for the Server-side, Java would be long gone. Today there are only 2 Good Java Applications on the Desktop that I'm aware of: Eclipse and Azureus (and well the map24.com map-applet). Everything else is server-stuff, which is a serious thing (as in NON-Toy) but still not what it could have been.
I wish Java and its libraries would have been open-sourced. I but I guess Sun is too jealous and greedy to do that.
How do you explain that it is legal and okay to "scan" copyrighted webpages and copy them on result-lists then? Where is the difference between copyrighted books?
I don't think you are wrong about what copyright protects, but you don't know all about its exceptions.
Outsourceing doesn't yield poor quality because people are stupid, but because outsourced projects are hard (harder than the CEOs might think) to manage.
I don't think the mozilla team has begun supporting Firefox because they can't manage both. I'd like to know (link?) why do you think that is the case.
Where is the garantee that opera will be supported in 5 or 10 years? OSS existed long before any "professional organization" began to support it. Even though I agree that money can accelerate the progess of OSS, I don't think it's actually *needed*.
I agree that a dedicated team of paied professionals will produce a better polished application in a shorter time than some oss-developers who have to work in their spare time.
But assuming that Closed-Sourced Products have a more longevity is something you got to explain to me. OSS will continue to evolve as long as *someone* is wiling to pick it up and programm some more on it. Updates to Closed-Sourced Software will vanish as soon as the business holding the IP sees no more need make them.
Don't forget that patching isn't optional, regardless what OS you are running. I wouldn't trust any unpatched system.
Even though Linux is probably saner build than many closed-source OSs it isn't really the pinacle of security (even though I think it's save enough). Linus Torvalds has said it something about it when they changed the policy on their mailing-list early this year. I'm affraid I can't find the link right now.
Changing Windows 3.1 so it would show an error-dialog when started from DR-DOS is evil in my book. From then on they lost my trust and I guess I wasn't the only one.
Seriously, you are responsible for whatever happens with the gun. You are required to put ammo and gun in a seperate place and can be punished if you dont. As far as "locking" is concerned, I guess this is allways a good idea. As far as I remember, looking the ammo is enough. But I might be wrong.
The only emergengy case where opens the sealed ammo can is the general mobilisation (i.e. we go to war). We can only use the gun for training purposes which only the military department is allowed to conduct, but those are many if one is interested in training more than the bare minimum.
The judge would need to figure such thing out. But I guess it must be a very special case where your military gun is the very last resort to deviate a very direct life-threatening situation. I don't recall any such case happening here in switzerland. As a civilist you'd better grab *anything* but the army-gun else you *will* get in trouble afterwards. Alas I can't find the passage in the reglement, which should be somewhere at http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/5.html (at least, for the german-speaking among us)
As soon as you have your rifle, you need to exercise its usage regularly. Additionally you need to reach a certain score, else you need redo the training. What good is a rifle at home if you don't know how to use it in case of war? You can't go in a store and buy ammunition. It's regulated like all weapons here. At the "Teen Rifle Competition" you get the ammo for the training on site. You have to shoot the ammo on site. Each round is counted. Severe punishment awaits those who try to sneak even a single round out of the site.
Swiss Teen Rifle Competition is a sport. It is of course meant to increase shootings skill for the future soldiers. How could a country train all able men (and women if they want) to defend their country and not encourage training shooting skills? This would be bigotry.
If guns in personal possesion are such a problem, how do places like Switzerland, where there are more guns per household than in the US manage to have less violent crime? [...] And, of course, violent criminals there know that there is a strong possibility of getting shot down like a dog while being a violent criminal: that has a wonderful impact on career choice.
I'm Swiss and you are wrong on the second account of your argument. The first part might be right. Because every male citizen automatically serves in the military and all them need to have their gun and ammo at home. So because of that we got a lot of guns per household.
The second argument is wrong, because if you open up the ammo-can without an order, you go straight to jail. The gun and the ammunition can only be used in case of war. I can't be used as you deem necessary.
Still sometimes someone gets insane grabs his gun threatens to kill his family and himself. Thankfully, this happens very rarly. Thankfully most parents hide their guns and ammo well and in a separate place, so I can't remember when an accident with kids finding this stuff and hurting themself happend.
Still, we are discussing, if we really need the risks involved having a gun at home.
I have seen something related. I work with lots of engineers. Most want to be told what to do. They seem to want to put a high level of thinking on a very focused task. When the thinking becomes broad, they tend shy away.
I'm a computer engineer. I a did a manager course 2 years ago. It was pretty hard to get into the mind of how a manager solves a problem with almost no information.
On one exercice we had to estimate the development time of a system with only a few informations and a lot of confusing cruft. I thought it was impossible to do, there were too many uncertainities. But my colleagues which allready did some project managment just looked at the specs said something like "not under a 3 months". I asked him how he could be certain. He said he wasn't certain, but he managed a similar project and could derive from it. He could even estimate how far his estimation could be off. The course went on for a year and at the end I understood that thinking broad is learnable as much as focusing on a single problem and digging in deep.
One just needs to understand that broad thinking isn't the same as deep thinking. And that both needs to be learned and exerciced.
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Well, the next logical step for mircosoft will be to "suggest" Apple to include Activation and AGA (Apple Genuine Advantage) too..
Slash has the posting speed just about right and the subject matter is spot on.
Yeah, and in case you still missed an article. A dupe comes to the rescue.
CheersWell, then we are all save. Since Bush clearly lacks charisma...
This made me thinking of my girlfriend, who bought a computer (that was 1 year before I met her), thinking all she'd need was allready installed with Windows-XP. She was then very surprised that there was no app to write a decent letter.
So I there I had allready an opportunity to tell her the merrits of Open-Source. I installed Open-Office and later switched her to Linux alltogether.
Hey a pro-Java Comment which gets modded up on slashdot... got to comment on it.
I programmed Java full-time some years ago. I was pretty excited with all the things to come. Java had everything to be a great success. But Sun butched it several times. First mistake, sucky Java implementation by Netscape. Second, fast but crashy AWT. Third slow as molasses Swing (too many classes to load in startup). If it wouldn't be for the Server-side, Java would be long gone. Today there are only 2 Good Java Applications on the Desktop that I'm aware of: Eclipse and Azureus (and well the map24.com map-applet). Everything else is server-stuff, which is a serious thing (as in NON-Toy) but still not what it could have been.
I wish Java and its libraries would have been open-sourced. I but I guess Sun is too jealous and greedy to do that.
Herbie out.
Wrong. It's perfectly ok to be anonymous, as long as you don't do any business over your website. But I agree with the rest.
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I don't think you are wrong about what copyright protects, but you don't know all about its exceptions.
Pretty amazing this got moded as Insightful and not as Funny. Is it common among Slashdotters to pay for sex?
Read more about it here: Desecration of the Qur'an at Guantánamo Bay
You should visit the site from this guys.
Okay, the page wasn't updated in a while. But I still think it's funny :)
Outsourceing doesn't yield poor quality because people are stupid, but because outsourced projects are hard (harder than the CEOs might think) to manage.
ROFL. This gave me a good laugh. I shall name this the analogie-ladder. :)
I don't think the mozilla team has begun supporting Firefox because they can't manage both. I'd like to know (link?) why do you think that is the case.
Where is the garantee that opera will be supported in 5 or 10 years? OSS existed long before any "professional organization" began to support it. Even though I agree that money can accelerate the progess of OSS, I don't think it's actually *needed*.
But assuming that Closed-Sourced Products have a more longevity is something you got to explain to me. OSS will continue to evolve as long as *someone* is wiling to pick it up and programm some more on it.
Updates to Closed-Sourced Software will vanish as soon as the business holding the IP sees no more need make them.
Sex will sell anything.
Even though Linux is probably saner build than many closed-source OSs it isn't really the pinacle of security (even though I think it's save enough).
Linus Torvalds has said it something about it when they changed the policy on their mailing-list early this year. I'm affraid I can't find the link right now.
Changing Windows 3.1 so it would show an error-dialog when started from DR-DOS is evil in my book. From then on they lost my trust and I guess I wasn't the only one.
TFA mentions tremors, but no tumors. I guess someone here misstyped this one and/or doesn't know the difference.
Seriously, you are responsible for whatever happens with the gun. You are required to put ammo and gun in a seperate place and can be punished if you dont. As far as "locking" is concerned, I guess this is allways a good idea. As far as I remember, looking the ammo is enough. But I might be wrong.
The only emergengy case where opens the sealed ammo can is the general mobilisation (i.e. we go to war). We can only use the gun for training purposes which only the military department is allowed to conduct, but those are many if one is interested in training more than the bare minimum.
The judge would need to figure such thing out. But I guess it must be a very special case where your military gun is the very last resort to deviate a very direct life-threatening situation. I don't recall any such case happening here in switzerland. As a civilist you'd better grab *anything* but the army-gun else you *will* get in trouble afterwards. Alas I can't find the passage in the reglement, which should be somewhere at http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/5.html (at least, for the german-speaking among us)
Swiss Teen Rifle Competition is a sport. It is of course meant to increase shootings skill for the future soldiers. How could a country train all able men (and women if they want) to defend their country and not encourage training shooting skills? This would be bigotry.
I'm Swiss and you are wrong on the second account of your argument. The first part might be right. Because every male citizen automatically serves in the military and all them need to have their gun and ammo at home. So because of that we got a lot of guns per household.
The second argument is wrong, because if you open up the ammo-can without an order, you go straight to jail. The gun and the ammunition can only be used in case of war. I can't be used as you deem necessary.
Still sometimes someone gets insane grabs his gun threatens to kill his family and himself. Thankfully, this happens very rarly. Thankfully most parents hide their guns and ammo well and in a separate place, so I can't remember when an accident with kids finding this stuff and hurting themself happend.
Still, we are discussing, if we really need the risks involved having a gun at home.
I'm a computer engineer. I a did a manager course 2 years ago. It was pretty hard to get into the mind of how a manager solves a problem with almost no information.
On one exercice we had to estimate the development time of a system with only a few informations and a lot of confusing cruft. I thought it was impossible to do, there were too many uncertainities. But my colleagues which allready did some project managment just looked at the specs said something like "not under a 3 months". I asked him how he could be certain. He said he wasn't certain, but he managed a similar project and could derive from it. He could even estimate how far his estimation could be off. The course went on for a year and at the end I understood that thinking broad is learnable as much as focusing on a single problem and digging in deep.
One just needs to understand that broad thinking isn't the same as deep thinking. And that both needs to be learned and exerciced.