So let me get this straight. Yahoo bought Flickr, and now Yahoo wants to do something different with Flicker.
If someone does not like what is going on then make a statement with your wallet because that is what business's really listen to. Stop giving them money.
You could however tax them which would make CFLs seem more attractive. The solution to all of life's problems is not just tax them. Sheesh. I realize that this idea is unpopular, but you might want to encourage the manufactures via tax breaks to produce a better product. Boy am I going to get hammered by this, but someone has to say it.
I am personally torn here for several reasons. First off, I hate seeing this type of program in place whether it is Bush or Clinton. Parties don't matter here, it is the principle. The upswing is that it is only used under certain circumstances and those being when a) a court order is issued and b) the ISP for some reason can't isolate the user c) only the probable segment is sweeped and not the whole pipe like the heading leads to.
If any abuses are found, then I would say that the program needs to be shutdown immediately.
Next thing you know, SCO will be claiming that the idea of an OS is theirs and all should license it from them! Sheesh. When will they just stop whining and focusing on their business.
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I just love you Democrats. Actions mean NOTHING to. It is all about talking and feeling.
Wholesale surveillance of US citizens, while prohibited by the constitution, is ok, because it's in the interest of the state.
First off, it wasn't wholesale. The only communication that was monitored meaning read was to and from countries like Iran and such. Please research this.
Second, you make it sound like this was the first time done by a President done during the time of war. Don't get me wrong, Clinton did it far more aggressively but that was the Echelon program, but he was a liberal so that makes it all better.....I guess.
By the way, if you don't believe we are at war for YOUR rights, you are clueless, and you should be glad that Bush is your President because he IS keeping your enemies away from you.
Because if we let the radicals win, it won't matter because they will put us back into the stone ages. Don't believe me, look at the world they have made. The only technology in the Mideast is stuff that the US put there, or they have bought.
My advice, support the war to the logical end which is getting rid of the radicals.
Bundle it all together like a certain software company does, and then have people complain that they are a monopoly because they bundle everything together.
Oh wait, this is/., I am not allowed to be critical of anything non-Microsoft.
To elaborate further. Think about this. How many times have you heard someone say 'Gee, that local cable company is great. I love it!'. Now take that to the next level and that would either be a county or parish. Do you really think that it gets better? Hmmm Now take that to the next level and that would be a state. Gee are we getting better? Now take that to the final level and that would be the federal government. Should I go further?
I do think of myself as a half-full person, but history is history. Federalizing or nationalizing anything is a guaranteed receipt for abuses and failures. Again history has a valuable lesson here.
One last thought here, imagine all of the above in the hands of a dictator.
What it means is that the government is going to take ownership of a company whether the private company what it or not. This also means that the government sets the price of the buyout. The private companies, you know the ones that took the risk setting up the infrastructure our now all but forced out of the picture.
This is not like local utilities and healthcare systems. This is not the best thing for the people of Venezuela. This is being done by a dictator who is lying to the people.
Your statement is one large contradiction. First you hint that societal infrastructure should be nationalized, and then in the next sentence you think that the inefficiencies could be fixed by decentralizing the power (whatever that would mean).
You really need to pick a side and stay with it or just come to grips with reality.
By and large, if you nationalize anything, you are automatically accepting a level of inefficiencies. If you don't agree, you really need to spend some time in economics. If you don't want to spend time going to school then I would suggest that you just look at history.
There is no perfect solution here. The problem is that (a) they won't accept that people die (b) any form of communism (and to a lesser degree socialism) makes some people lazy and others corrupt (c) you were not born with a single right or privilege in this world. If you want something, you need to work hard and sacrifice for it. Once you realize that, you will then be happy because you can achieve anything you wish. Nationalizing, socializing and such don't help or fix anything little alone enhance the human spirit. If anything, it kills it. Don't believe me, just ask anyone who escaped from those types of regimes. Here is a quick list: Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and the list goes on. People die trying to either get themselves away from these types of governments or trying to get their family away.
Just for the record, it wasn't the Republicans who started the war. It was the Muslim extremists who started the war. It is the Muslim extremists who are OK with kill YOU for not converting to their "religion". Now it is your fault for not seeing the situation for what it is.
First off, if you have really contributed to Wiki, then I want to thank you. With that, I really need to ask you something. Do you really feel that a normal person viewing Wiki would somehow give less credence to an article because of an add? Really? Are you sure? Does an add for say Coke or Ford somehow make an article on say the history of hamburgers less credible?
As I respect the goal here, you really need to understand reality. Wiki is consuming resources whether it being disk space or electricity to run. How are those bills being paid? Please think about the reality of the situation. The only reason that Britanica doesn't have ads in them is because you paid a high price for them.
Red Hat was providing a distro for free, and you are complaining that they are not going to support that install for you for life. You have absolutely no reason to even make such a comment.
This I guess will just show my age, but I am soooo OK with this. Email should be just text, period. I personally believe that people should spend more time using complete sentences which includes punctuation and correct capitalization.
I guess I should get back to chiseling my notes on stone slabs now.....
That is where you are incorrect. The GPL does not cover the use of dynamic libraries. If Novells code does not link against the.so (either static or dynamic), and then the.so is loaded manually at runtime, the GPL is not violated. You might not like it, but it is true.
If this weren't the case, then the Linux kernel would be in violation.
You really need to rephrase that statement. The patent system did make the person get sick. The patent system didn't put them in a third world country run by governments that rape the country. The patent system is not the cause of the problem here.
First off, a CS degree is not an engineering degree. I say this because I have an engineering degree. This might come off as snooty, but it is the truth. One major difference is in the problem solving area. As a student, you are taught to not just solve the problem but to understand the circumstances to the problem which will lead you to find the best solution WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT. I put that in caps for a reason. Think about it for a second. To solve a problem many times in life, you don't have an unlimited pool of 'parts' to choose from so the secret is to use what you have effectively.
The second difference is that we are taught to keep the big picture in mind while delving into the details. This might sound trivial and stupid but what makes the difference many times. I say this with 12+ years of experience.
While in college, I had several friends going for their CS degree so I am quite aware of the requirements of that degree. The difficulty is high compared to many degrees, but it doesn't match the difficulty of an actual engineering degree. I will give you an example, in my intro class the instructor told each individual to look around you because the person in front of you and on both sides most likely won't graduate with the same degree you will. He was right.
I hear you on this one brother. My situation is slightly different than yours in that I have a Electrical Engineering degree, but all of my developmental experience is self-taught mainly. What I find funny is that the people coming out of school with a CS degree are not taught the fundamentals like writing clean and maintainable code. The last being more important in that typically close to 50% of the total cost of a project is support. Most companies just don't whim sickly abandon working code and just rewrite when the mode strikes.
The last topic that just kills me is the use of source control. Personally I consider source control to be just as valuable as compiler. I don't know how many times I have had to mentor junior people the value and need of source control. Oh well, I will get off my soap box now.
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So let me get this straight. Yahoo bought Flickr, and now Yahoo wants to do something different with Flicker.
If someone does not like what is going on then make a statement with your wallet because that is what business's really listen to. Stop giving them money.
I am personally torn here for several reasons. First off, I hate seeing this type of program in place whether it is Bush or Clinton. Parties don't matter here, it is the principle. The upswing is that it is only used under certain circumstances and those being when a) a court order is issued and b) the ISP for some reason can't isolate the user c) only the probable segment is sweeped and not the whole pipe like the heading leads to.
If any abuses are found, then I would say that the program needs to be shutdown immediately.
Next thing you know, SCO will be claiming that the idea of an OS is theirs and all should license it from them! Sheesh. When will they just stop whining and focusing on their business.
I just love you Democrats. Actions mean NOTHING to. It is all about talking and feeling.
First off, it wasn't wholesale. The only communication that was monitored meaning read was to and from countries like Iran and such. Please research this.
Second, you make it sound like this was the first time done by a President done during the time of war. Don't get me wrong, Clinton did it far more aggressively but that was the Echelon program, but he was a liberal so that makes it all better.....I guess.
By the way, if you don't believe we are at war for YOUR rights, you are clueless, and you should be glad that Bush is your President because he IS keeping your enemies away from you.
Because if we let the radicals win, it won't matter because they will put us back into the stone ages. Don't believe me, look at the world they have made. The only technology in the Mideast is stuff that the US put there, or they have bought.
My advice, support the war to the logical end which is getting rid of the radicals.
Bundle it all together like a certain software company does, and then have people complain that they are a monopoly because they bundle everything together.
/., I am not allowed to be critical of anything non-Microsoft.
Oh wait, this is
The FISA court setup is at-best shaking if you were to actually read up on it, but hey that is not the /. way.
To elaborate further. Think about this. How many times have you heard someone say 'Gee, that local cable company is great. I love it!'.
Now take that to the next level and that would either be a county or parish. Do you really think that it gets better? Hmmm
Now take that to the next level and that would be a state. Gee are we getting better?
Now take that to the final level and that would be the federal government. Should I go further?
I do think of myself as a half-full person, but history is history. Federalizing or nationalizing anything is a guaranteed receipt for abuses and failures. Again history has a valuable lesson here.
One last thought here, imagine all of the above in the hands of a dictator.
What it means is that the government is going to take ownership of a company whether the private company what it or not. This also means that the government sets the price of the buyout. The private companies, you know the ones that took the risk setting up the infrastructure our now all but forced out of the picture.
This is not like local utilities and healthcare systems. This is not the best thing for the people of Venezuela. This is being done by a dictator who is lying to the people.
Your statement is one large contradiction. First you hint that societal infrastructure should be nationalized, and then in the next sentence you think that the inefficiencies could be fixed by decentralizing the power (whatever that would mean).
You really need to pick a side and stay with it or just come to grips with reality.
By and large, if you nationalize anything, you are automatically accepting a level of inefficiencies. If you don't agree, you really need to spend some time in economics. If you don't want to spend time going to school then I would suggest that you just look at history.
There is no perfect solution here. The problem is that (a) they won't accept that people die (b) any form of communism (and to a lesser degree socialism) makes some people lazy and others corrupt (c) you were not born with a single right or privilege in this world. If you want something, you need to work hard and sacrifice for it. Once you realize that, you will then be happy because you can achieve anything you wish. Nationalizing, socializing and such don't help or fix anything little alone enhance the human spirit. If anything, it kills it. Don't believe me, just ask anyone who escaped from those types of regimes. Here is a quick list: Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and the list goes on. People die trying to either get themselves away from these types of governments or trying to get their family away.
Just for the record, it wasn't the Republicans who started the war. It was the Muslim extremists who started the war. It is the Muslim extremists who are OK with kill YOU for not converting to their "religion". Now it is your fault for not seeing the situation for what it is.
Would you please stop making rash comments about my code....oh wait....never mind.
You comment went from informative to paranoid quite quickly. Gee once again the US is the bad guy.
First off, if you have really contributed to Wiki, then I want to thank you.
With that, I really need to ask you something. Do you really feel that a normal person viewing Wiki would somehow give less credence to an article because of an add? Really? Are you sure? Does an add for say Coke or Ford somehow make an article on say the history of hamburgers less credible?
As I respect the goal here, you really need to understand reality. Wiki is consuming resources whether it being disk space or electricity to run. How are those bills being paid? Please think about the reality of the situation. The only reason that Britanica doesn't have ads in them is because you paid a high price for them.
You sir are a complete and utter JACK-ASS!
Red Hat was providing a distro for free, and you are complaining that they are not going to support that install for you for life. You have absolutely no reason to even make such a comment.
This I guess will just show my age, but I am soooo OK with this. Email should be just text, period. I personally believe that people should spend more time using complete sentences which includes punctuation and correct capitalization.
I guess I should get back to chiseling my notes on stone slabs now.....
That is where you are incorrect. The GPL does not cover the use of dynamic libraries. If Novells code does not link against the .so (either static or dynamic), and then the .so is loaded manually at runtime, the GPL is not violated. You might not like it, but it is true.
If this weren't the case, then the Linux kernel would be in violation.
First off, a CS degree is not an engineering degree. I say this because I have an engineering degree. This might come off as snooty, but it is the truth. One major difference is in the problem solving area. As a student, you are taught to not just solve the problem but to understand the circumstances to the problem which will lead you to find the best solution WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT. I put that in caps for a reason. Think about it for a second. To solve a problem many times in life, you don't have an unlimited pool of 'parts' to choose from so the secret is to use what you have effectively.
The second difference is that we are taught to keep the big picture in mind while delving into the details. This might sound trivial and stupid but what makes the difference many times. I say this with 12+ years of experience.
While in college, I had several friends going for their CS degree so I am quite aware of the requirements of that degree. The difficulty is high compared to many degrees, but it doesn't match the difficulty of an actual engineering degree. I will give you an example, in my intro class the instructor told each individual to look around you because the person in front of you and on both sides most likely won't graduate with the same degree you will. He was right.
You make it sound like we are the sole reason for its demise. It is sad, but guess what species have come and gone over that last few bazillion years.
I hear you on this one brother. My situation is slightly different than yours in that I have a Electrical Engineering degree, but all of my developmental experience is self-taught mainly. What I find funny is that the people coming out of school with a CS degree are not taught the fundamentals like writing clean and maintainable code. The last being more important in that typically close to 50% of the total cost of a project is support. Most companies just don't whim sickly abandon working code and just rewrite when the mode strikes.
The last topic that just kills me is the use of source control. Personally I consider source control to be just as valuable as compiler. I don't know how many times I have had to mentor junior people the value and need of source control. Oh well, I will get off my soap box now.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up!
The people of Iraq who have been terrorized by Saddam and crew need to know that he will NEVER come back again.
Tim
His conviction has nothing to do with Iran. Did you read the charges? It has to do with the blood-bath that he ordered against his own people.
Please come back to reality.