You can buy x86 laptops without Windows installed. You are just limiting your choices by not researching.
And did you notice that you are making up rather impossible or improbable senerios to support your arguements? Just as Nazis finding a way to destory ideas without killing anyone, someone inventing a skin color changing machine, or a code against someone with dark hair and blue eyes. Maybe they should teach Klingon at schools just in case Klingons really do exist. Or restrict the sales of sugar to minors just incase they start to snort it.
So should colleges ban exams because they "force" students to do stressful exams even though just attending classes is enough for me to get an education?
And why should your "right" to dress however you want override the employer's right to set a dresscode? Is your right worth more than other people's rights?
That is called "leverage". When return on shareholders' equity is greater than the return on assets, that means that the management is using assets funded by debt to increase the income available for shareholders. This shows that the shareholders are getting best bang per buck.
FYI, you can use rdsesk (uses RDP and the code is GPLed) as the remote desktop client for *NIX systems. I tried it with Slackware 9.1 and it plain works.
I disagree. Also all health experts recommend that you exercise AND change your diet. Even Atkins group recommends that you incorporate exercise with their diet. Problem with lose weight only by dieting is that you also lose muscle mass alone with fat as your body is protecting itself from "starvation" as you are putting in less calories then it being used.
I highly recommend that you watch a movie named "Swingers" (no it's not about sex party involving couples) by Jon Favreau. This movie has perfact examples of what to do and what not to do.
The problem is that for many kids and adults like, watching TV, playing non-physical video games, or drinking at the bar are more fun than exercising, and that's why Americans are getting more obese everyday.
Students need to study to get good grades just as people need to exercise (and watch what they eat) to stay healthy, even if those activites are not considered fun.
I hope that Cisco didn't patent this as we all know that patents are evil. They should allow others to copy their design freely even though it costed them 500 million dollars.
I'm planning on starting a new company using the advices I gained from Slashdotters and call it Slashdotters, Inc.
I have no idea that products or services the company will be selling, but according to the slashdotters, pro-profit companies' main goal is to create jobs, not to make profit. That also means that we'll never lay anyone off no matter what because that'll be a bad thing. As the President/CEO of the company I pledge that EVERYONE in Slashdotters, Inc., including myself, will be paid the same amount of salary of one million dollars per year. That way, the works will not feel that the management is over paid and to make sure that the pay and benefit of the workers come before any profit considerations since we are fro-profit Corporation after all and this will conform with the belief of the slashdotters.
I also pledge that we will never collect any of the customers' data. This will make it hard for us to market our product (when we come up with one) but 100% privacy is our goal that also has higher priority than making a profit. No intelligent slashdotter will ever stand for a for-profit company caring about profits.
At this rate, Slashdotters, Inc. may experience losses for years and thus will not be subject to income taxes. However, a corporation not paying income taxes is not acceptable to the slashdotters and therefore, it will be a policy of Slashdotters, Inc. to overpay its taxes no matter what.
And as the President/CEO of Slashdotters, Inc., I will make sure that every decision either has to be made by myself, or that a 10 page written report be made and sent to myself so that I am aware of EVERYTHING that is going on in the company. It may suck to have to write a 10 page report to buy a box of pens, but according to the slashdotters, I'm responsible for it.
And I also pledge to hire only the Comp Sci majors for the management position. From my own experiences nothing prepares me better for running a company than learning about C++ and Java in my CS classes. Not to mention that games like War/Star Craft, UT/Quake, and AD&D that Slashdotters love is all about teamwork.
So my friends, stop wasting your money on petty stuff like video games, ultra fast computers, phat stereo systems, nice cars (when a Geo Metro or bus will do), or nice housing (if 10 Mexicans can live in a one bedroom apartment, so can you), put your money where your mouth is and invest in the Slashdotters, Inc. Chances are that you'll lose all your money but you'll feel better knowing that you've invested your money went to a company that shares your beliefs rather than going to some rich bastards by buying some useless crap.
***Disclaimer: I may be violating some SEC regulations here but we all know that all the bastards in the government are for big corporations (by not making any profit, Slashdotters, Inc. will never become an evil big corporation) which conspire to keep honest little Mom and Pop operations like Slashdotters, Inc. So please don't report me to the SEC.
***Disclaimer 2: I know that my writing sucks but I refuse to take any business writing classes because according to the slashdotters, taking business classes lowers your intelligence.
Those companies have power only because we as consumers allow them that power. Bottom line is that Mom and Pop stores went out of business because consumers decided to shop at Wal-Mart instead of Mom and Pop stores. Sure, Wal-Mart has cut rate prices, but arguing that consumers are forced to shop at Wal-Mart is like saying that Americans are getting fat because of all those fast food joints.
My friend's dad used to own a video rental place. He ended up closing it because Blockbusters stores were poping up everywhere and he was losing customers. If the customers CHOSE to go to this store instead of the Blockbusters, he would've still be in business no matter how many Blockbusters stores they put in that area.
That's the point I'm trying to make. Life's too short to be serious 100% of time. It's like people complaining that science-fiction movies are not realistic enough.
If patents were abolished like many slashdotters wants them to be, there really would be no reason for companies to spend money on R&D for inventions when a 3rd party can rip them off and produce the same item for less. Granted, there are patent abusers out there, but when used right, patent can give some companies incentives to innovate and license their inventions to others for a fee.
Fedora, like Red Hat series before it, has a lot of GUI tools for workstation and server settings. For example, Fedora's GUI tools for Apache and BIND are similar to the ones found on Windows and are good enough for simple set ups. However, I do find that Slackware feels faster than Red Hat/Fedora.
From reading the article, shouldn't it be that monolithic kernels are faster (but less secure) than microkernels but microkernel can be tweaked to be as fast as monolithic kernels?
I agree with this statement. Back then, GNU people still didn't have a kernel and BSD people were caught in a lawsuit. That left Minix as a contander for a free UNIX clone. He didn't allow it to be a free replacement for UNIX and Linus stepped in. And the rest is history.
Granted, while you cannot get fired for talking about unionizing, most Wal-Mart employees wouldn't dare as they can be replaced for various other (You were three minutes late, you had 10 complaints, etc) reasons. Now if enough consumers boycotted Wal-Mart for their work conditions and shopped at K-Mart or Target, Wal-Mart will change its policies in a heart beat. A good example is Intuit. When Intuit implemented activation feature on TurboTax For 2002, its customers boycotted product and put a hurt on their earnings. Activation feature no longer exists on TurboTax because the consumers refused to put up with that crap.
In this cause, unions go beyond criticizing the company, they are using strike as blackmail to run it. If you are running a business, would you like it if your employees blackmailed you? It'll be like a sys admin telling his boss that he'll shut all the servers down unless they gave him 30 days of vacation per year with 50% pay raise.
You can create a business without any workers. Many giant companies of today are started by individuals or by small group of partners. One personal example would be my uncle. He started a home improvement company, with funding from several average-joe-middle-class people. Now he as assets worth several million dollars. He came from a poor family. In fact, when he came over to US, he was 35 years old and started working as a genitor at an office building. Twenty years later, he owns them (office buildings that is). So go ahead and preach to every one about small chunking owning a huge chuck of wealth. You are just doing disservice to yourself and your children.
If you don't have capital, you can't run a business, and thus, workers will be irreverent. Let say that you want to start a lawn care company. You can't hire the workers first and tell them "Well, I don't have any capital to acquire trucks or lawn mowers, so you'll just have to walk from house to house and pull the grass with your hands. And BTW, I don't have any money to pay you guys so if the customers don't pay, you are SOL.
As for the non-profits goes, where do you think that they get their funding? From owners and workers of for-profit companies.
John Kerry said in a recent interview in the Money Magazine that he doesn't want to lead a party that loves jobs but hates the people who create them.
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You can buy x86 laptops without Windows installed. You are just limiting your choices by not researching.
And did you notice that you are making up rather impossible or improbable senerios to support your arguements? Just as Nazis finding a way to destory ideas without killing anyone, someone inventing a skin color changing machine, or a code against someone with dark hair and blue eyes. Maybe they should teach Klingon at schools just in case Klingons really do exist. Or restrict the sales of sugar to minors just incase they start to snort it.
So should colleges ban exams because they "force" students to do stressful exams even though just attending classes is enough for me to get an education?
And why should your "right" to dress however you want override the employer's right to set a dresscode? Is your right worth more than other people's rights?
That is called "leverage". When return on shareholders' equity is greater than the return on assets, that means that the management is using assets funded by debt to increase the income available for shareholders. This shows that the shareholders are getting best bang per buck.
FYI, you can use rdsesk (uses RDP and the code is GPLed) as the remote desktop client for *NIX systems. I tried it with Slackware 9.1 and it plain works.
If you are going to exclude the MS Java crap, why are you using MS VC++ crap for C++ incompatibility?
I disagree. Also all health experts recommend that you exercise AND change your diet. Even Atkins group recommends that you incorporate exercise with their diet. Problem with lose weight only by dieting is that you also lose muscle mass alone with fat as your body is protecting itself from "starvation" as you are putting in less calories then it being used.
I highly recommend that you watch a movie named "Swingers" (no it's not about sex party involving couples) by Jon Favreau. This movie has perfact examples of what to do and what not to do.
The problem is that for many kids and adults like, watching TV, playing non-physical video games, or drinking at the bar are more fun than exercising, and that's why Americans are getting more obese everyday.
Students need to study to get good grades just as people need to exercise (and watch what they eat) to stay healthy, even if those activites are not considered fun.
I hope that Cisco didn't patent this as we all know that patents are evil. They should allow others to copy their design freely even though it costed them 500 million dollars.
Just make the font size smaller!
I don't think that Cisco takes food stamps as a form of payment.
I install, fix, and maintain servers for a company and they give me an office, money, days off, and benefits for it.
I'm planning on starting a new company using the advices I gained from Slashdotters and call it Slashdotters, Inc.
I have no idea that products or services the company will be selling, but according to the slashdotters, pro-profit companies' main goal is to create jobs, not to make profit. That also means that we'll never lay anyone off no matter what because that'll be a bad thing. As the President/CEO of the company I pledge that EVERYONE in Slashdotters, Inc., including myself, will be paid the same amount of salary of one million dollars per year. That way, the works will not feel that the management is over paid and to make sure that the pay and benefit of the workers come before any profit considerations since we are fro-profit Corporation after all and this will conform with the belief of the slashdotters.
I also pledge that we will never collect any of the customers' data. This will make it hard for us to market our product (when we come up with one) but 100% privacy is our goal that also has higher priority than making a profit. No intelligent slashdotter will ever stand for a for-profit company caring about profits.
At this rate, Slashdotters, Inc. may experience losses for years and thus will not be subject to income taxes. However, a corporation not paying income taxes is not acceptable to the slashdotters and therefore, it will be a policy of Slashdotters, Inc. to overpay its taxes no matter what.
And as the President/CEO of Slashdotters, Inc., I will make sure that every decision either has to be made by myself, or that a 10 page written report be made and sent to myself so that I am aware of EVERYTHING that is going on in the company. It may suck to have to write a 10 page report to buy a box of pens, but according to the slashdotters, I'm responsible for it.
And I also pledge to hire only the Comp Sci majors for the management position. From my own experiences nothing prepares me better for running a company than learning about C++ and Java in my CS classes. Not to mention that games like War/Star Craft, UT/Quake, and AD&D that Slashdotters love is all about teamwork.
So my friends, stop wasting your money on petty stuff like video games, ultra fast computers, phat stereo systems, nice cars (when a Geo Metro or bus will do), or nice housing (if 10 Mexicans can live in a one bedroom apartment, so can you), put your money where your mouth is and invest in the Slashdotters, Inc. Chances are that you'll lose all your money but you'll feel better knowing that you've invested your money went to a company that shares your beliefs rather than going to some rich bastards by buying some useless crap.
***Disclaimer: I may be violating some SEC regulations here but we all know that all the bastards in the government are for big corporations (by not making any profit, Slashdotters, Inc. will never become an evil big corporation) which conspire to keep honest little Mom and Pop operations like Slashdotters, Inc. So please don't report me to the SEC.
***Disclaimer 2: I know that my writing sucks but I refuse to take any business writing classes because according to the slashdotters, taking business classes lowers your intelligence.
Those companies have power only because we as consumers allow them that power. Bottom line is that Mom and Pop stores went out of business because consumers decided to shop at Wal-Mart instead of Mom and Pop stores. Sure, Wal-Mart has cut rate prices, but arguing that consumers are forced to shop at Wal-Mart is like saying that Americans are getting fat because of all those fast food joints.
My friend's dad used to own a video rental place. He ended up closing it because Blockbusters stores were poping up everywhere and he was losing customers. If the customers CHOSE to go to this store instead of the Blockbusters, he would've still be in business no matter how many Blockbusters stores they put in that area.
That's the point I'm trying to make. Life's too short to be serious 100% of time. It's like people complaining that science-fiction movies are not realistic enough.
You are so right. In fact, if the software companies where run by the slashdot crowd, GUIs will be banned in favor of CLI.
If patents were abolished like many slashdotters wants them to be, there really would be no reason for companies to spend money on R&D for inventions when a 3rd party can rip them off and produce the same item for less. Granted, there are patent abusers out there, but when used right, patent can give some companies incentives to innovate and license their inventions to others for a fee.
Sorry, MS already patented the fusion power.
I think perhaps you don't grasp the fundamentals of what a joke really means.
My work still gets junk faxes so I'm pretty sure that they won't mind calling your cell phones once they buy the list from the carriers.
I guess you'll only be getting a score of 5/6 for you post then.
Fedora, like Red Hat series before it, has a lot of GUI tools for workstation and server settings. For example, Fedora's GUI tools for Apache and BIND are similar to the ones found on Windows and are good enough for simple set ups. However, I do find that Slackware feels faster than Red Hat/Fedora.
From reading the article, shouldn't it be that monolithic kernels are faster (but less secure) than microkernels but microkernel can be tweaked to be as fast as monolithic kernels?
I agree with this statement. Back then, GNU people still didn't have a kernel and BSD people were caught in a lawsuit. That left Minix as a contander for a free UNIX clone. He didn't allow it to be a free replacement for UNIX and Linus stepped in. And the rest is history.
Granted, while you cannot get fired for talking about unionizing, most Wal-Mart employees wouldn't dare as they can be replaced for various other (You were three minutes late, you had 10 complaints, etc) reasons. Now if enough consumers boycotted Wal-Mart for their work conditions and shopped at K-Mart or Target, Wal-Mart will change its policies in a heart beat. A good example is Intuit. When Intuit implemented activation feature on TurboTax For 2002, its customers boycotted product and put a hurt on their earnings. Activation feature no longer exists on TurboTax because the consumers refused to put up with that crap.
In this cause, unions go beyond criticizing the company, they are using strike as blackmail to run it. If you are running a business, would you like it if your employees blackmailed you? It'll be like a sys admin telling his boss that he'll shut all the servers down unless they gave him 30 days of vacation per year with 50% pay raise.
You can create a business without any workers. Many giant companies of today are started by individuals or by small group of partners. One personal example would be my uncle. He started a home improvement company, with funding from several average-joe-middle-class people. Now he as assets worth several million dollars. He came from a poor family. In fact, when he came over to US, he was 35 years old and started working as a genitor at an office building. Twenty years later, he owns them (office buildings that is). So go ahead and preach to every one about small chunking owning a huge chuck of wealth. You are just doing disservice to yourself and your children.
If you don't have capital, you can't run a business, and thus, workers will be irreverent. Let say that you want to start a lawn care company. You can't hire the workers first and tell them "Well, I don't have any capital to acquire trucks or lawn mowers, so you'll just have to walk from house to house and pull the grass with your hands. And BTW, I don't have any money to pay you guys so if the customers don't pay, you are SOL.
As for the non-profits goes, where do you think that they get their funding? From owners and workers of for-profit companies.
John Kerry said in a recent interview in the Money Magazine that he doesn't want to lead a party that loves jobs but hates the people who create them.