You seem to be too much concentrated in hating the Kirchners to see anything clear, aren't you? Get over it...
Grupo Clarin is a monopoly, using it's many newspapers and tv channels it manipulates the news at a large scale to push the interests of the (few) tradicional "owners" of the country in detriment of everyone else. And not only that off course, many of it's bussiness practices, current and prior, are much less than pristine. The sooner they are divided in smaller companies the better for Argentina as a whole.
It's sad how gullible en are many of my fellow Argentinians, so credulous, so absent of critical thinking...
tritonman writes: "... Perhaps soon there will be a study to determine that vegetables feel pain as well, then all of the vegans will only be allowed to eat rocks."
That's a sad joke, and it isn't the point at all, off course.
Sadly enough we can't stay alive without killing other living beings to feed us (and many other things, too). But given that we can't avoid killing them, then we *must* try to inflict the least suffering to those we kill, we must be compasionate and keep in mind what we are doing and why we do it...
That's the reason I feel that being vegan it's the right thing: as a explicit way of reminding myself that we must actively try to be the least evil possible. Off course I see it's mostly a symbolic gesture, because even vegetables surely feel pain in some way, but at least I try to do the right thing and also keeps my mind centered in the way things really *are*.
Or to put it in another way: those tasty crabs you are eating are the dead corpses of pitiful sentient beings that had an horrendous dead. If you can't keep yourself from eating then at least try to be minimize their suffering...
Why troll? I mean: it's a *sarcastic* comment... that being: tries to get some kind of twisted humor out of the potential bad outcomes of this kind of policies.
Saying I was happy was the hook, but I supposed you would understand that I meant exactly the opposite. Fanatism is bad anywhere.
Being non-USian I'm very happy with this kind of things, because it means the start of the decline of USA in science and technology. A few years of this and the table will a little more leveled...
It's not being criticised that the edited their own pages, but they did it with the purpose of degrading the quality of the information (ie: vandalic edits).
They could have simply added they own point of views, or add comments on the previous version to explain controversial items and no one would have complained.
The carriers are going to lobby for the laws and regulations they need, and they're going to do the deals they need to do. The new system will be theirs, not ours. The NEA principle--Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it, Anybody can improve it--so familiar to the Free Software and Open Source communities will prove to be a temporary ideal, a geek conceit. Code is not Law. Culture is not Free. From the Big Boys' perspective, code and culture are stuff nobody cares about.
That's nonsense. Compilers routinely do loads of optimisations to better suit the underlying hardware. That's why any linux distro that ships binary packages has many flavors of each important or performance sensitive package (specially the kernel, in Debian you'll find images optimised for 386, 586, 686, k6, k7, etc). Is one of the reasons of the existence of Gentoo, also.
So MS had to make a choise: ship a binary optimized for every possible mix of hw (being the processor the most important factor, but not the only one), which is impossible, or ship images compatible with any recent x86 processor/hw... without being specially optimised for any. That's why hyperthreading performance suffers.
This is an important problem on Windows because most of the time you cannot simply recompile the un-optimised software to suit your hardware, as you can in Linux, etc.
Old as the world: Accuse your adversaries of your own faults... so when they react and say that your's is really that, you can say that they are trying to do what, actually, you are doing.
OpenDoc is an open standard, and MS was invited to join (and they declined saying they didn't saw any customers requests for that standard!). On the other hand, which ones were invited to define the MSOffice files format and how open is that format?
> I mean, really, how is a programmer in the states > supposed to know that a valid spanish word, used > in the spanish version of the program, is an > insult in central america?
The problem is really that centralamericans can't do they own localization (as they can with linux, for example). Microsoft works like the centralized government of the comunist countries... and commits the same type of mistakes.
Of course, the problem is not the poor programmer that would need to know all the world's politics issues and languages and more, the problem is the centralized design and implementation method. On the other hand, in cases like these the open source method shines.
... having the shared objects named as mylib.so.2.3.0 for example? Indeed, isn't this better? Instead of having each installer trying to overwrite every dll in the system, each one copys the one that suits its needs if its not already there o newer. All that not talking about the security issue already posted...
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You seem to be too much concentrated in hating the Kirchners to see anything clear, aren't you? Get over it...
Grupo Clarin is a monopoly, using it's many newspapers and tv channels it manipulates the news at a large scale to push the interests of the (few) tradicional "owners" of the country in detriment of everyone else. And not only that off course, many of it's bussiness practices, current and prior, are much less than pristine. The sooner they are divided in smaller companies the better for Argentina as a whole.
It's sad how gullible en are many of my fellow Argentinians, so credulous, so absent of critical thinking...
I like your signature. Thanks!
tritonman writes: "... Perhaps soon there will be a study to determine that vegetables feel pain as well, then all of the vegans will only be allowed to eat rocks."
That's a sad joke, and it isn't the point at all, off course.
Sadly enough we can't stay alive without killing other living beings to feed us (and many other things, too). But given that we can't avoid killing them, then we *must* try to inflict the least suffering to those we kill, we must be compasionate and keep in mind what we are doing and why we do it...
That's the reason I feel that being vegan it's the right thing: as a explicit way of reminding myself that we must actively try to be the least evil possible. Off course I see it's mostly a symbolic gesture, because even vegetables surely feel pain in some way, but at least I try to do the right thing and also keeps my mind centered in the way things really *are*.
Or to put it in another way: those tasty crabs you are eating are the dead corpses of pitiful sentient beings that had an horrendous dead. If you can't keep yourself from eating then at least try to be minimize their suffering...
http://www.tonymcfadden.net/tpmvendors.html/
Why troll? I mean: it's a *sarcastic* comment... that being: tries to get some kind of twisted humor out of the potential bad outcomes of this kind of policies.
Saying I was happy was the hook, but I supposed you would understand that I meant exactly the opposite. Fanatism is bad anywhere.
Cheers!
Och
Being non-USian I'm very happy with this kind of things, because it means the start of the decline of USA in science and technology. A few years of this and the table will a little more leveled...
Cheers!
Och
(Sarcastic mood. Sorry)
It's not being criticised that the edited their own pages, but they did it with the purpose of degrading the quality of the information (ie: vandalic edits).
They could have simply added they own point of views, or add comments on the previous version to explain controversial items and no one would have complained.
Lengthly but quite on topic:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8673
The carriers are going to lobby for the laws and regulations they need, and they're going to do the deals they need to do. The new system will be theirs, not ours. The NEA principle--Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it, Anybody can improve it--so familiar to the Free Software and Open Source communities will prove to be a temporary ideal, a geek conceit. Code is not Law. Culture is not Free. From the Big Boys' perspective, code and culture are stuff nobody cares about.
That's us: Nobody.
That's nonsense. Compilers routinely do loads of optimisations to better suit the underlying hardware. That's why any linux distro that ships binary packages has many flavors of each important or performance sensitive package (specially the kernel, in Debian you'll find images optimised for 386, 586, 686, k6, k7, etc). Is one of the reasons of the existence of Gentoo, also.
So MS had to make a choise: ship a binary optimized for every possible mix of hw (being the processor the most important factor, but not the only one), which is impossible, or ship images compatible with any recent x86 processor/hw... without being specially optimised for any. That's why hyperthreading performance suffers.
This is an important problem on Windows because most of the time you cannot simply recompile the un-optimised software to suit your hardware, as you can in Linux, etc.
(sorry for my bad english)
"...locked-in formats like OpenDocument..."
Old as the world: Accuse your adversaries of your own faults... so when they react and say that your's is really that, you can say that they are trying to do what, actually, you are doing.
OpenDoc is an open standard, and MS was invited to join (and they declined saying they didn't saw any customers requests for that standard!). On the other hand, which ones were invited to define the MSOffice files format and how open is that format?
> I mean, really, how is a programmer in the states
> supposed to know that a valid spanish word, used
> in the spanish version of the program, is an
> insult in central america?
The problem is really that centralamericans can't do they own localization (as they can with linux, for example). Microsoft works like the centralized government of the comunist countries... and commits the same type of mistakes.
Of course, the problem is not the poor programmer that would need to know all the world's politics issues and languages and more, the problem is the centralized design and implementation method. On the other hand, in cases like these the open source method shines.
The cybernetic poet reminds me of a short story of Stanislaw Lem: "The electrobard of Trurl". Quite similar concepts indded!
5% of what? didn't you asked that yourself? Let's see...
The article says that:
(a) win2k3 it has 185k sites total now.
(b) it has doubled the number of sites.
(c) 5% of the new sites were taken from Linux.
The article does not say:
(a) how many web sites exists now (so you can't now that is actually nearly nothing...)
So, that impresive 5% is: the 5% of the 50% of the (nearly nothing) 185k... Not so impressive, really...
Moreover, having a big delta on a little number is not that difficult, because any little modification is a big percentage of the previous quantity.
Conclusion: please, be serious...
Please keep your troops between your borders. We don't need any such "help". Thank you.
We have that:
e rvices/info rmation/company/factsheet.html
(1) SCO is suing IBM.
(2) SCO is part of the UnitedLinux effort.
(4) IBM is one of the owners of SuSE [1].
(3) SuSE is part of UnitedLinux, too.
They seem love each other like a family...
[1] from SuSE website (look into the "investors" section):
http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/s
Take a look in this interview
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http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/04/2310251
I've found it very clear regarding to the reason to use shared objects or dlls instead of static linking.
... having the shared objects named as mylib.so.2.3.0 for example? Indeed, isn't this better? Instead of having each installer trying to overwrite every dll in the system, each one copys the one that suits its needs if its not already there o newer. All that not talking about the security issue already posted...