I'd like to see more generosity toward what can be shown now. I hate the idea of living in a culture where things slowly move toward everything being made appropriate for children. It's little wonder when people are given a choice they move away from broadcast TV. All entertainment shouldn't be reduced to the lowest common denominator, but there will always be pressure for it to do so.
Ah, I see how this generations favored comedian/political satirist is tech news. You probably shouldn't make this more widely known, though. Pretty soon Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd will battle to the death to have diplomatic envoys have that bridge named after them.
One of the businesses I do contracting for only runs NT4. There was a plan and a budget to upgrade to XP two years ago, but they still haven't done it yet.
I think they've standarized on explorer, but that's okay since most employees are only allowed to access their intranet.
with the stuff coming out of WHATWG canvas, forms2.0, css and SVG, I'd say the browser market is getting interesting again.
the interface is kinda unimportant, back, forward, stop, all the rest is just window dressing anyway.
its easy to shoot yourself in the foot in a large number of languages.Pascal is much less open to the large number of logic errors C offers up on a silver plater.
Displaying content the way that you want to see it was one of the selling points of CSS. The people who worry over the next version of HTML think that more or less all content should be renderable on non-standard devices, mobile phones, page readers for the deaf. Those things are unlikely to respect your formatting suggestions all that well.
I never said that hondas were better than the universe, rather, that specific people can be attributed the development path that led to car. Creation of the universe, however, is something one has to take on faith. I don't have a creationalist viewpoint, and therefore I think it's rather meaningless to wave your hands and say look at how infinately complicated the human body is. How can you say a honda is better than that?
I can't really. Used to be, every bolt of lightening was god's wrath. Now adays, we understand lightening. In the future, perhaps we'll even predict it. Our understanding of the unvierse is more advanced today than it ever has been in history. I think saying that saying some god started the universe somewhere between 15 and 40 billion years ago in just such a way that it would produce us is arrogence. I think saying that we were crafted is even further arrogence. We understand many, but not all of the pathways that led to us.
I'm personally rather tired of people who don't understand the words "Truth," "Theory," and "Fact."
Theories like "I believe that kites fly because the sun is magnetic" come and go. Theories that agree with the available evidence, that predict the natural world, and who stay largely the same over the hundred fastest years of scientific advancement ever... Well, that's evolution for you. Pretty much everything that revolves around atomic energy is theory as well, but, that doesn't mean the US Navy's supercarriers can't actually transverse the ocean.. because all this atomic power stuff, it's just theory, not fact.
Honestly, the message there was "Evolution...is not a fact." Not "Evolution is still only classified as a theory, but it most agrees with the natural world and thus is by far the dominating view of any scientist in relevent fields."
it says in the title "News for nerds." Nerds dig science.
Science has given me Coca-cola and cheep, easy to aquire porn. That's far more than any of the thirty-seven-million gods this world has had since humanity had time to worry about things other than eating and not getting eaten has given me.
We'll talk when some god or another makes a Honda Civic.
Because the intent of the sticker was to deliver the "Evolution is...not a fact" message, not the "Evolution is a theory" message. Plate Techtonics is a theory. Relativity is a theory. Newtons laws of motion also a theory. The creationists want to pound in the "is a theory, not a fact" because they want you to think of it in the same way that The sun is driven across the sky every day in a giant chariot sort of a theory, not a this matches all the available facts sort of theory.
Just because you believe people couldn't possibily live in Australia because they'd fall off the earth doesn't make it true.
And so, if the mailserver is under the GPL, it can't both use this as it stands and still be under the GPL. Are you advocating that any and all Mailservers that are under the GPL switch their license (which would require all contributors to agree) or that they simply don't implement a standard that would ultimately, hopefully, reduce the amount of spam coming into your in box? Or, of course, the third choice, implement it anyway, in volation one one or the other license? Maybe even both. This is a serious and important issue.
well, besides the discovery being limited to facts related to the injunction SCO is requesting only, and they're told to do NO discovery if they know they won't qualify for said. And that the motion to transfer wasn't denied, nothing was done with it. And it's not held for 90 days, but every 90 days they're to report before the judge and give them a status report. Giving SCO the right to limited discovery may be questionable, but if the judge sees them overreaching, he'll just smack them around.
I think they described it more as a brand new theme/work in progress that was still in motion/changing. set in stone is the last thing I got from it, the only thing set in stone was their unwillingness to go back to the old theme.
Linux is fast, stable, and I can write books/programs with equal ease. I don't have to worry about reboots. I don't give Microsoft money. I can look at the source. I can get it for bandwidth costs. I can improve it if it doesn't do something I want it to. Your question is rather like asking why use an electric razor when you could shave perfectly well with a rusty skillsaw. Linux just makes sense.
Umm, hello? When have media companies ever been interested in the advancement of technology. If it wasn't something that was specifically their hands only, they've resisted everything. Radio, tapes, CDs, DVDs, VCRs (didn't thank wanker at the head of th MPAA say something about it destroying civilization as we knew it) MP3 players. Maybe they liked TV, since they figured 28 minutes of advertising could profitably pay for two minutes of content. bah. When the revolution comes, the heads of big media should swing just after the Lawyers and the heads of organized religion.
I'm not sure this is a good idea for Microsoft- Linux has both itertia an mindshare, I doubt MS can catch up- witness Apache. They may gain some of the market share, but I really don't think they'd ever be able to dominate it. Apache has twice the market share of IIS even though both of them came out at the same time. It wouldn't be good from a Marketing perspective if it's life was basically stuck as the *other* option. *shrug* What are they going to say? We're Microsoft, we have the most powerful market position in Desktop operating systems on the planet, and, oh, by the way, looking to do some high performance computing? We'll, look no further, my friend, We've got a SOLID 2% of the market share in HPC. We're not going anywhere..
yeah right. It'll take 'em years to start hitting Linux's numbers. When they do, the linux people will go huh, and figure out WHY, and then they'll be playing catch up again.
He takes the few pieces of information people actually recall from the news, skew them, then he rewrites history to fit his views. A documentary is based on facts, what he has it a reasonably long rant where he tries to convience you of his views by stringing together events and quotes out of context to make you believe the particular acid that is his view. His works are works of fiction - based on facts roughly as consistantly as anything you see that comes out of Holywood that says "Based on..."
Just think Lawnmower man and you can see how far someone can drift using "Based on."
It's important until it's over.
The article isn't really correct though, IBM is saying SCO hasn't presented evidence we violated copyright after being compeled to do so by the court, twice.
They're NOT asking for a dismissal. They're asking to be found in their favor. They're saying, if SCO doesn't give evidence now, find for us, because they have no evidence, but even if they DO give evidence, find for us, because they were compelled to twice, they've had over a year, so you should find for us anyway, because they defied two seperate court orders and should be punished.
SO.. it's more than the article says, and it's pretty much obvious from reading IBM's filing.
Strange you should say this, because two seperate people's cell phones went off when I was watching van helsing, and a few other people had various things that beeped. As a geek, I've got a lot of things that beep, but none of mine do when I am at a movie.
Screw public safety, I think property owners should be able to set up "no call zones." I don't mind the cell phones being able to get messages, but they shouldn't be able to ring, nor should you be able to talk on them at certain places-- especially at movies. Perhaps it IS important for someone to get in contact with you, but I think you could at least go into the lobby to actually talk to them. Until you can bitmask out the features you don't want in your venue (which unfortunately, probably could never be "trigger bomb") There will be a place for cell phone blockers.
More importantly, the question should be, which future is more livable, a future in which those who attack are assured survival or one where those who attack are assured destruction. There's a very good reason why the civilized world doesn't give in to terrorists demands. If someone comes up to you and says, "I'll shoot you if you don't give me $100 bucks", if you give him the hundred bucks, next time he needs money, he knows where to go. That is broadly applicable. Any nuclear capible nation, since basically the begining of the nuclear age has had to go by one rule. If you nuke us, we'll use everything we have against you. The reason there wasn't a nuclear war in the last 50 years was because both sides new that one small nuclear weapon used anywhere would get a 100% reponse. The equation hasn't changed, it's just got more dangerous, because there are people in power who really don't care if their nation gets turned into glass, so long as they live. Giving in to demands only makes them have new demands. Pull out of one country and pretty soon they're asking to leave whichever one is your own. War is never the answer, but war is a diplomatic tool- it's quite often, no matter how much you might want to deny it, part of the answer, or part of the path that leads to the answer. Denying that it pointless so long as the other side is willing to use it against you.
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I'd like to see more generosity toward what can be shown now. I hate the idea of living in a culture where things slowly move toward everything being made appropriate for children. It's little wonder when people are given a choice they move away from broadcast TV. All entertainment shouldn't be reduced to the lowest common denominator, but there will always be pressure for it to do so.
Ah, I see how this generations favored comedian/political satirist is tech news. You probably shouldn't make this more widely known, though. Pretty soon Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd will battle to the death to have diplomatic envoys have that bridge named after them.
the entire article should be -1 Troll.
One of the businesses I do contracting for only runs NT4. There was a plan and a budget to upgrade to XP two years ago, but they still haven't done it yet. I think they've standarized on explorer, but that's okay since most employees are only allowed to access their intranet.
with the stuff coming out of WHATWG canvas, forms2.0, css and SVG, I'd say the browser market is getting interesting again. the interface is kinda unimportant, back, forward, stop, all the rest is just window dressing anyway.
its easy to shoot yourself in the foot in a large number of languages.Pascal is much less open to the large number of logic errors C offers up on a silver plater.
Displaying content the way that you want to see it was one of the selling points of CSS. The people who worry over the next version of HTML think that more or less all content should be renderable on non-standard devices, mobile phones, page readers for the deaf. Those things are unlikely to respect your formatting suggestions all that well.
I never said that hondas were better than the universe, rather, that specific people can be attributed the development path that led to car. Creation of the universe, however, is something one has to take on faith. I don't have a creationalist viewpoint, and therefore I think it's rather meaningless to wave your hands and say look at how infinately complicated the human body is. How can you say a honda is better than that?
I can't really. Used to be, every bolt of lightening was god's wrath. Now adays, we understand lightening. In the future, perhaps we'll even predict it. Our understanding of the unvierse is more advanced today than it ever has been in history. I think saying that saying some god started the universe somewhere between 15 and 40 billion years ago in just such a way that it would produce us is arrogence. I think saying that we were crafted is even further arrogence. We understand many, but not all of the pathways that led to us.
I'm personally rather tired of people who don't understand the words "Truth," "Theory," and "Fact."
Theories like "I believe that kites fly because the sun is magnetic" come and go. Theories that agree with the available evidence, that predict the natural world, and who stay largely the same over the hundred fastest years of scientific advancement ever... Well, that's evolution for you. Pretty much everything that revolves around atomic energy is theory as well, but, that doesn't mean the US Navy's supercarriers can't actually transverse the ocean.. because all this atomic power stuff, it's just theory, not fact.
Honestly, the message there was "Evolution...is not a fact." Not "Evolution is still only classified as a theory, but it most agrees with the natural world and thus is by far the dominating view of any scientist in relevent fields."
it says in the title "News for nerds." Nerds dig science.
Science has given me Coca-cola and cheep, easy to aquire porn. That's far more than any of the thirty-seven-million gods this world has had since humanity had time to worry about things other than eating and not getting eaten has given me.
We'll talk when some god or another makes a Honda Civic.
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Because the intent of the sticker was to deliver the "Evolution is...not a fact" message, not the "Evolution is a theory" message. Plate Techtonics is a theory. Relativity is a theory. Newtons laws of motion also a theory. The creationists want to pound in the "is a theory, not a fact" because they want you to think of it in the same way that The sun is driven across the sky every day in a giant chariot sort of a theory, not a this matches all the available facts sort of theory. Just because you believe people couldn't possibily live in Australia because they'd fall off the earth doesn't make it true.
Nuclear wastes are heavy metals... heavy metals in the enviroment are a bad thing.
You don't understand, if a programmer is bored, he almost has to do something completely useless.
didn't they announce that that was a 7 figure deal?
And so, if the mailserver is under the GPL, it can't both use this as it stands and still be under the GPL. Are you advocating that any and all Mailservers that are under the GPL switch their license (which would require all contributors to agree) or that they simply don't implement a standard that would ultimately, hopefully, reduce the amount of spam coming into your in box? Or, of course, the third choice, implement it anyway, in volation one one or the other license? Maybe even both. This is a serious and important issue.
well, besides the discovery being limited to facts related to the injunction SCO is requesting only, and they're told to do NO discovery if they know they won't qualify for said. And that the motion to transfer wasn't denied, nothing was done with it. And it's not held for 90 days, but every 90 days they're to report before the judge and give them a status report. Giving SCO the right to limited discovery may be questionable, but if the judge sees them overreaching, he'll just smack them around.
I think they described it more as a brand new theme/work in progress that was still in motion/changing. set in stone is the last thing I got from it, the only thing set in stone was their unwillingness to go back to the old theme.
those are odd things to keep you using Linux, especially the hardware devises windows interfaces part.
Linux is fast, stable, and I can write books/programs with equal ease. I don't have to worry about reboots. I don't give Microsoft money. I can look at the source. I can get it for bandwidth costs. I can improve it if it doesn't do something I want it to. Your question is rather like asking why use an electric razor when you could shave perfectly well with a rusty skillsaw. Linux just makes sense.
Umm, hello? When have media companies ever been interested in the advancement of technology. If it wasn't something that was specifically their hands only, they've resisted everything. Radio, tapes, CDs, DVDs, VCRs (didn't thank wanker at the head of th MPAA say something about it destroying civilization as we knew it) MP3 players. Maybe they liked TV, since they figured 28 minutes of advertising could profitably pay for two minutes of content. bah. When the revolution comes, the heads of big media should swing just after the Lawyers and the heads of organized religion.
I'm not sure this is a good idea for Microsoft- Linux has both itertia an mindshare, I doubt MS can catch up- witness Apache. They may gain some of the market share, but I really don't think they'd ever be able to dominate it. Apache has twice the market share of IIS even though both of them came out at the same time. It wouldn't be good from a Marketing perspective if it's life was basically stuck as the *other* option. *shrug* What are they going to say? We're Microsoft, we have the most powerful market position in Desktop operating systems on the planet, and, oh, by the way, looking to do some high performance computing? We'll, look no further, my friend, We've got a SOLID 2% of the market share in HPC. We're not going anywhere.. yeah right. It'll take 'em years to start hitting Linux's numbers. When they do, the linux people will go huh, and figure out WHY, and then they'll be playing catch up again.
He takes the few pieces of information people actually recall from the news, skew them, then he rewrites history to fit his views. A documentary is based on facts, what he has it a reasonably long rant where he tries to convience you of his views by stringing together events and quotes out of context to make you believe the particular acid that is his view. His works are works of fiction - based on facts roughly as consistantly as anything you see that comes out of Holywood that says "Based on..." Just think Lawnmower man and you can see how far someone can drift using "Based on."
It's important until it's over. The article isn't really correct though, IBM is saying SCO hasn't presented evidence we violated copyright after being compeled to do so by the court, twice. They're NOT asking for a dismissal. They're asking to be found in their favor. They're saying, if SCO doesn't give evidence now, find for us, because they have no evidence, but even if they DO give evidence, find for us, because they were compelled to twice, they've had over a year, so you should find for us anyway, because they defied two seperate court orders and should be punished. SO.. it's more than the article says, and it's pretty much obvious from reading IBM's filing.
Strange you should say this, because two seperate people's cell phones went off when I was watching van helsing, and a few other people had various things that beeped. As a geek, I've got a lot of things that beep, but none of mine do when I am at a movie. Screw public safety, I think property owners should be able to set up "no call zones." I don't mind the cell phones being able to get messages, but they shouldn't be able to ring, nor should you be able to talk on them at certain places-- especially at movies. Perhaps it IS important for someone to get in contact with you, but I think you could at least go into the lobby to actually talk to them. Until you can bitmask out the features you don't want in your venue (which unfortunately, probably could never be "trigger bomb") There will be a place for cell phone blockers.
More importantly, the question should be, which future is more livable, a future in which those who attack are assured survival or one where those who attack are assured destruction. There's a very good reason why the civilized world doesn't give in to terrorists demands. If someone comes up to you and says, "I'll shoot you if you don't give me $100 bucks", if you give him the hundred bucks, next time he needs money, he knows where to go. That is broadly applicable. Any nuclear capible nation, since basically the begining of the nuclear age has had to go by one rule. If you nuke us, we'll use everything we have against you. The reason there wasn't a nuclear war in the last 50 years was because both sides new that one small nuclear weapon used anywhere would get a 100% reponse. The equation hasn't changed, it's just got more dangerous, because there are people in power who really don't care if their nation gets turned into glass, so long as they live. Giving in to demands only makes them have new demands. Pull out of one country and pretty soon they're asking to leave whichever one is your own. War is never the answer, but war is a diplomatic tool- it's quite often, no matter how much you might want to deny it, part of the answer, or part of the path that leads to the answer. Denying that it pointless so long as the other side is willing to use it against you.