from an outsiders view, it would seem obama has the popular vote and would make a better president than mccain. having said that, you people elected bush twice, so anything is possible.
there's no way in hell i'd ever visit the USA under the current regime. the same goes for the UK. detain without charge or trail indefinitely, government sponsored theft of your property. fuck that.
does this kind of conversion take into account the pollution generated by the production of all these batteries?
also, i'm not seeing the point of TFA - rich people can afford expensive status symbols? electric cars and plugin charging has been around for a decade or more in this form....
it's the first thing i thought. this might not be about viewing the source to check for security, in fact it can't be - any software is going to have security flaws in it. i think this might end up meaning a chinese special edition, complete with government backdoors. face it, that kind of thing is right up their alley.
they are letting the government look at the source code. it's a fine difference but an important one. it's not like they are handing over the source to the chinese people, a select government department will review code and give it the tick of approval. this is all because the chinese are paranoid as fuck about backdoors and forgien governments, not some kind of endorsement of OSS.
how the fuck is sql server "viral"? maybe i can decode this one, to you if it's from microsoft and it's a great product that's getting acceptance due to it's capabilities, then it's an evil virus. but if it's not then it's just good software? If that's viral then Gates claims of the GPL being viral must also be true.
And since when is it illegitimate that a company buys out another company to acquire their product, simply because they recognize it's potential? this is exactly what google did with youtube, did you decry that move also? the only other reason i can think of that you even mentioned it is because your stuck in some immature "zomg M$ can't code" mindset. MS aren't interested in any of your stupid OSS dick measuring contests.
what about the one cad missed? i bet that person would be pissed off with you? cad systems still aren't as good as 2 eyes, and when your talking life and death that just doesn't cut it.
it boils down to the fact women are better whingers. just as many men get prostate cancer, but more die from it because there aren't the screening services women have.
i can't believe your dribble was marked insightful - oh wait this is/.
MS make plenty of really good products - SQL server, WIN2k3 (check netcraft and see it's uptime is in the top 5),.net and visual studio. They also provide patches and updates to products for free for almost a decade after their original sale - win98 for example went for about 9 years. MS treat their employees VERY well, they also donate a lot of money to charity and run their offices in as environmentally friendly manner as they can.
as far as business practices go they hardly even rate a mention compared to monsters like IBM or AT&T, who both got busted up decades ago for the kind of market manipulation that makes MS look like a corner hotdog stand. i'd rate MS about average on the sneaky stakes, their huge and so everything they do attracts a lot of attention, but they really are very subtle about throwing their weight around when you consider their annual profits are large than the GDP of small countries.
when you look at it rationally they aren't the devil - just a huge company and the throws of change they aren't well prepared for.
spam != anonymous mail or free speech. for a start it's not anonymous by it's very nature - they WANT you to contact them and know who they are. it's also not free speech, because free speech means i'm free not to listen or help you in anyway. spam intrudes on my inbox.
please no more whoring your blog on here, we get too much of it and between the blog posts and the slashvertisments i'm pretty full up on my dribble quota.
winning doesn't care about your tactics or strategy - it's merely the defined measurement of the end of the game. in this case it would be who ever dominates the online apps industry.
here is a guy who doesn't want anyone to write software under any license except his own, and then has the gall to try claim he's all about freedom and choice.
yes he was a pioneer, yes "the cloud" is a terrible buzzword i hate (they used "blogsphere" as well, ack), but ultimately what RMS never gets is that people use software because it does something not because of what it represents. so if MS or google can create the best online apps and some gpl version isn't as good, well google/MS win.
maybe, but the warming trend peaked in the 1930's, well before we were pumping anywhere near the levels of CO2 that we are now. i'm not seeing any kind of relationship here between the popular global warming theory.
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and your existing system better because...?
that's money not property. i get what you are saying though.
from an outsiders view, it would seem obama has the popular vote and would make a better president than mccain. having said that, you people elected bush twice, so anything is possible.
there's no way in hell i'd ever visit the USA under the current regime. the same goes for the UK. detain without charge or trail indefinitely, government sponsored theft of your property. fuck that.
no you retard, this is an asian country, western laws have nothing to do with it.
also, i'm not seeing the point of TFA - rich people can afford expensive status symbols? electric cars and plugin charging has been around for a decade or more in this form....
what do you do on long trips, or when you park your car in the shade? sounds like a real pain in the ass to me
it's the first thing i thought. this might not be about viewing the source to check for security, in fact it can't be - any software is going to have security flaws in it. i think this might end up meaning a chinese special edition, complete with government backdoors. face it, that kind of thing is right up their alley.
they are letting the government look at the source code. it's a fine difference but an important one. it's not like they are handing over the source to the chinese people, a select government department will review code and give it the tick of approval. this is all because the chinese are paranoid as fuck about backdoors and forgien governments, not some kind of endorsement of OSS.
Wrong. you would have probably had apple as the standard. and how open are those guys????? we'd be even worse off....
And since when is it illegitimate that a company buys out another company to acquire their product, simply because they recognize it's potential? this is exactly what google did with youtube, did you decry that move also? the only other reason i can think of that you even mentioned it is because your stuck in some immature "zomg M$ can't code" mindset. MS aren't interested in any of your stupid OSS dick measuring contests.
this is totally trumped up.
what about the one cad missed? i bet that person would be pissed off with you? cad systems still aren't as good as 2 eyes, and when your talking life and death that just doesn't cut it.
it boils down to the fact women are better whingers. just as many men get prostate cancer, but more die from it because there aren't the screening services women have.
businesses aren't going to run a linux desktop just because office is no longer a compatability problem (i'm not convinced ODf will solve that anyway)
MS make plenty of really good products - SQL server, WIN2k3 (check netcraft and see it's uptime is in the top 5), .net and visual studio. They also provide patches and updates to products for free for almost a decade after their original sale - win98 for example went for about 9 years. MS treat their employees VERY well, they also donate a lot of money to charity and run their offices in as environmentally friendly manner as they can.
as far as business practices go they hardly even rate a mention compared to monsters like IBM or AT&T, who both got busted up decades ago for the kind of market manipulation that makes MS look like a corner hotdog stand. i'd rate MS about average on the sneaky stakes, their huge and so everything they do attracts a lot of attention, but they really are very subtle about throwing their weight around when you consider their annual profits are large than the GDP of small countries.
when you look at it rationally they aren't the devil - just a huge company and the throws of change they aren't well prepared for.
spam != anonymous mail or free speech. for a start it's not anonymous by it's very nature - they WANT you to contact them and know who they are. it's also not free speech, because free speech means i'm free not to listen or help you in anyway. spam intrudes on my inbox.
you realize dark matter is simply the generic term applied to that missing mass we can't account for, not an actual explanation for it?
please no more whoring your blog on here, we get too much of it and between the blog posts and the slashvertisments i'm pretty full up on my dribble quota.
yes, lets fuck around with the atmosphere a little more.
winning doesn't care about your tactics or strategy - it's merely the defined measurement of the end of the game. in this case it would be who ever dominates the online apps industry.
yes he was a pioneer, yes "the cloud" is a terrible buzzword i hate (they used "blogsphere" as well, ack), but ultimately what RMS never gets is that people use software because it does something not because of what it represents. so if MS or google can create the best online apps and some gpl version isn't as good, well google/MS win.
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=61b0590f-c5e6-4772-8cd1-2fefe0905363
we aren't currently getting the warmest temperatures of this century, so why has it just started now??
perfect. your afraid of what you don't understand. that kind of attitude has resulted in what exactly all through out history?