Mod me -1 pedantic, but it only prevents the quartering of soldiers in private homes "without the consent of the Owner".
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Awesome. I'm really looking forward to the Pandora Ape and the GPS Ape, but you'll have to excuse my cynicism regarding the effectiveness of the Baby Monitor Ape.
They updated the summary. My cached (igoogle) summary doesn't include the word Ubuntu: "An anonymous reader writes to mention that Mark Shuttleworth has announced the next release in their horrible alliterative family, 'Karmic Koala'."
Adding Ubuntu "their horrible alliterative Ubuntu family" made it more clear.
Awesome: "the faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
Really? I'm looking at a mirror now and I see blue, flesh colour, brown, and hazel. No silver. How can you tell it's silver if you can't see the colour?
Invisible unicorns? Sure. Pink unicorns? No problem. But invisible pink unicorns? Now you're just making stuff up -- everyone knows that invisible doesn't have a colour.
I went through the whole TN-1 / H1-B / Advance Parole process to get my permanent residency and I'm always amazed at the backlash on slashdot against foreign workers.
The way I see it, competition is global and every country should want the best "players" on their team. If I'm not working for an American company, paying American taxes, buying American products and eating in American restaurants, do you think I wouldn't be in software engineering? I'd just be working for a foreign company, paying foreign taxes, etc etc. I'd either be taking a job from an American as an offshore worker, or contributing to a competitor of an American company, which in no way makes America healthier.
Ditch the petty protectionism argument. Trust me, you're better off with me working here in America.
Kind of makes my last 72 hours look pretty useless.
1. Woke up 2. Breakfast 3. Went to work 4. Read slashdot 5. Lunch 6. Did a little work. 7. Read slashdot. 8. Drove home from work 9. Dinner 10. Slept 11. Woke up 12. Breakfast 13. Went to work 14. Read slashdot 15. Lunch 16. Did a little work. 17. Read slashdot. 18. Drove home from work 19. Dinner 20. Slept 21. Woke up 22. Breakfast 23. Went to work 24. Read slashdot 25. Lunch 26. Did a little work. 27. Read slashdot.
I agree 100% with your criticism of the parent post, but I disagree with your premise that the restriction is inherently a bad thing. There is a time and place for licensed content.
For example, look at the FIFA World Cup or Tour De France or Olympics or some other major international sporting event. A likely distribution model is that a broadcaster in every country will pay a lot of money to present the event in their country. If one of the broadcasters decides to distribute it for free (ad based maybe), it wouldn't be fair to the broadcasters in the other countries unless there was a geographical restriction to viewership. Granted, there might be another distribution model that resolves this issue, but I think my example is a good case for content licensing.
Like speed limits in most of America. Let's make every citizen a criminal and choose which ones we want to target. We need fewer laws, more strongly enforced.
Also what everyone seems to be missing. You brake incredibly quickly, whereas most cars will take 5 to 10 seconds to get from 60 to 80 miles/hour and at least several seconds to gain even 10 miles/hour once you are at highway speed. Not exactly effective for avoiding an accident.
(sorry, no reference on the acceleration stats, just basing it on experience. Mea culpa if anyone has stats stating otherwise.)
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I think a comment like that needs to be backed by some references.
Mod me -1 pedantic, but it only prevents the quartering of soldiers in private homes "without the consent of the Owner".
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Awesome. I'm really looking forward to the Pandora Ape and the GPS Ape, but you'll have to excuse my cynicism regarding the effectiveness of the Baby Monitor Ape.
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You're a troll and/or apple fanboy, but I'll bite. Since when has Slashdot been known for giving m$ free passes?
Shockingly, there have only been 5 mayors since 1950. Loyal city.
You had to bring Mr. Webster in for this? Like bringing a gun to a knife fight, no?
"The potential for evil in the Google has only been questioned for a year or so"
I remember the potential for evil being questioned with the initial release of gmail 5 years ago.
Oh the irony: "Some of us aren't fortunate enough to be able to afford Microsoft software. The wife's Mac OS X..."
They updated the summary. My cached (igoogle) summary doesn't include the word Ubuntu: "An anonymous reader writes to mention that Mark Shuttleworth has announced the next release in their horrible alliterative family, 'Karmic Koala'."
Adding Ubuntu "their horrible alliterative Ubuntu family" made it more clear.
How did you come to the conclusion that autism/vaccination linkers are of the liberal persuasion?
Awesome: "the faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
Really? I'm looking at a mirror now and I see blue, flesh colour, brown, and hazel. No silver. How can you tell it's silver if you can't see the colour?
Invisible unicorns? Sure. Pink unicorns? No problem. But invisible pink unicorns? Now you're just making stuff up -- everyone knows that invisible doesn't have a colour.
As an aside, what colour is a mirror?
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Agreed. The best part of electric cars is the decoupling of power production and power consumption.
I went through the whole TN-1 / H1-B / Advance Parole process to get my permanent residency and I'm always amazed at the backlash on slashdot against foreign workers.
The way I see it, competition is global and every country should want the best "players" on their team. If I'm not working for an American company, paying American taxes, buying American products and eating in American restaurants, do you think I wouldn't be in software engineering? I'd just be working for a foreign company, paying foreign taxes, etc etc. I'd either be taking a job from an American as an offshore worker, or contributing to a competitor of an American company, which in no way makes America healthier.
Ditch the petty protectionism argument. Trust me, you're better off with me working here in America.
Kind of makes my last 72 hours look pretty useless.
1. Woke up
2. Breakfast
3. Went to work
4. Read slashdot
5. Lunch
6. Did a little work.
7. Read slashdot.
8. Drove home from work
9. Dinner
10. Slept
11. Woke up
12. Breakfast
13. Went to work
14. Read slashdot
15. Lunch
16. Did a little work.
17. Read slashdot.
18. Drove home from work
19. Dinner
20. Slept
21. Woke up
22. Breakfast
23. Went to work
24. Read slashdot
25. Lunch
26. Did a little work.
27. Read slashdot.
No, it's P. It's like R but it's missing a leg!
While I question the validity of youtube as a source for research material, this dude is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GgkB9Cs18I
I agree 100% with your criticism of the parent post, but I disagree with your premise that the restriction is inherently a bad thing. There is a time and place for licensed content.
For example, look at the FIFA World Cup or Tour De France or Olympics or some other major international sporting event. A likely distribution model is that a broadcaster in every country will pay a lot of money to present the event in their country. If one of the broadcasters decides to distribute it for free (ad based maybe), it wouldn't be fair to the broadcasters in the other countries unless there was a geographical restriction to viewership. Granted, there might be another distribution model that resolves this issue, but I think my example is a good case for content licensing.
Like speed limits in most of America. Let's make every citizen a criminal and choose which ones we want to target. We need fewer laws, more strongly enforced.
Also what everyone seems to be missing. You brake incredibly quickly, whereas most cars will take 5 to 10 seconds to get from 60 to 80 miles/hour and at least several seconds to gain even 10 miles/hour once you are at highway speed. Not exactly effective for avoiding an accident.
(sorry, no reference on the acceleration stats, just basing it on experience. Mea culpa if anyone has stats stating otherwise.)
Agreed. I grew up in the mountains of British Columbia. I always had the best snow tires I could afford. Nobody I know had chains.
And that's not even including the drugs.
Only because the people with Linux experience and the people with condom experience are disjoint sets.
Arrr matey. And it be easy to type with me hook.