Damned if I post a reply stating how much I love your post because I cannot post mod points if I happen to get any after this reply. Damned if I do not because I have none and the less I post, the less I get.
This probably seems like a trolling post, but it actually is not. Most of you are just listing things that you learn in a standard Physics course and act like you know everything.
Nuclear companies have nuclear power reactors to put out hydrogen (as a byproduct) ready and good to go, and have had them ready for quite some time. The hold up, in America, is that people are afraid of Nuclear Power, but in a few years as coal rises in cost (it will this winter for example--the cost of the coal has tripled on the East Coast of the U.S., but not the West Coast), there will be a demand for new reactors. However, the reactors that are desired are high energy steam generators, which are NOT the hydrogen power byproduct generators.
The reason being is because they are still fine tuning these hydrogen byproduct generators to not waste so much energy actually creating the hydrogen (costs energy to split from the other molecules, such as H2O), which is a big concern for the power companies, as they want to maximize profit and that means not wasting energy. Sure, you have the hydrogen eventually, but a lot of the energy is just lost in the conversion process.
You are actually going to try to argue that physical pain is emotional pain? It does not matter what order I list it in because the REVERSE was still true when comparing the subset (as you were calling it) IF your idea was true.
If you cut your finger, NERVES send impulses of PAIN to your brain. Your brain tells you, HEY, there is something going on down there. Physical PAIN is a signal, not a dumb fucking emotion.
I really don't care to be honest because if you are so focused on NOT UNDERSTANDING the difference between a signal to the brain and a THOUGHT in the brain, then you are just dumb. You're just pathetic.
What does it have to do with it? It shows that there is not a vast MS problem here and that they would still actually be a victim of piracy.
The IP violation would have merits if this turns out to be intentional. Otherwise, I would to see you say this about some arbitrary package in Linux. You may say it to shut me up, but I think any reasonable person will know you would not do it in a real case. AGAIN, this is not some Microsoft conspiracy. Punative damages are meant to save people/companies from intentional wrong doing at their expense. If every one at MS had a copy of SoundForge intalled through these means, then you would have a very strong case. I would even bet that MS does have a license for this software.
I don't know the circumstances of the gay stuff, and I strongly doubt the whole case was stated here.
Emotional pain is physical pain? Really, that's one hell of an argument. Go argue that one in court. I cannot even believe you had the audacity to make this claim. You just hate Limbaugh and will find ANY reasoning to prove his guilt.
You are suggesting that someone selling STOLEN SOURCE CODE, which he did not even have the competence to steal himself (not that that would make it any more legal) and making a profit off of it is equal to something that for all you know may have been a misunderstanding? I realize OSS fanboys may find this is not a big deal--people sell work they had nothing to do with all the time (Linux), but closed source is closed source so other people cannot mooch and the closed source firm gets all of the profits.
I realize I am playing devil's advocate and someone is likely in the wrong in this MS case, but it is very unlikely that it is MS in the wrong. On the contrary, it is some dimwitted sound file guy and probably an intern.
It would be a cheap exercise because all they have to do is pay for the license and reencode the files.
The next patch could then simply replace (read: remove and then add "new" files) the files.
Probably should go without saying that I would find it surprising if Sony really pushed this. After all, if they were to audit Microsoft, then I am sure Microsoft would return the favor. Then you simply have to look into the chances of finding Sony software versus MS software and the inherent odds associated?
Zarquawi is apparently relatively high up, or at least he is now, in Al Qaeda. If he was not directly fighting US forces in Iraq, then he would probably be plotting some terrorist attacks somewhere in the West. Do you honestly believe that Bin Laden was responding to the first Gulf War when he attacked us in the 80's and 90's? Besides, maybe rescuing another country (Kuwait) with vital interests to our economy (okay, I will say it: OIL) and protecting another at the same time (Saudi Arabia) is not a "decent reason" to you, but it is to me. Sure you can say war for oil all you want, but the difference between how you may say it and how I say it is that when I say it, I mean it in a way that we simply LOST no national interests and saved two countries in the process; the stated reason by the UN was after all to remove the evil dictator from Kuwait, so it is not like this was some vast US conspiracy. You (or your supporters at least) say it as if we gained it. This is Desert Storm by the way.
I can guarantee that they expected Baath party members to fight against the US military with urbanized, guerilla style tactics. What they, and no one else predicted was a massive wave of people from OTHER COUNTRIES (lets be specific, Muslim extremist countries that see it as a HOLY WAR). Sure, everyone expects a few neighboring countries to have sympathizers, but not hundreds of martyrs.
That "thin" evidence was backed up even by people opposed to the war and NO ONE doubted it at the time, except the UN that believed sanctions that involved the inspectors giving a plan to the Iraqi government WELL BEFORE visiting any site (and oil for food... and tons of money) were working. There were no random visits allowed; how can you trust that, especially when we witness trucks taking things from these facilities whenever the inspectors were set to arrive? Not to mention on a daily basis they illegally shot missiles up at our US and UK pilots. This was not something you could just shrug off considering Russia was in the process of selling them a much more advanced AA missile system (great friends... and definitely trustworthy when they said not to invade Iraq, even when THEIR intel cited him as having WMDs).
Lets also go into the idea of terrorists seizing on our invasion of Iraq as us fighting them (Muslims). Did they ever have trouble with this idea? I don't remember too well (sarcasm), but were we in Iraq when the USS Cole was attacked? Or maybe the embassy bombings? What is wrong with this picture?
These people are willing to strap a bomb to themselves, or a child, in order to kill us. They even kill innocents, which they have been given permission to do by their Mullahs to do. Tell me how YOU would fix that? Building a bridge is not going to help if you are not a Muslim and they are taught to kill non-Muslims (I am not arguing if that is validly part of their religion). Putting in democracy is a start.
The article said the boss was actually far more devoted to work than he was. The only problem is that they just spend their time as slave drivers that expect the impossible.
Obviously that's not the best of working conditions, but you sometimes have good managers and sometimes bad managers. Apparently EA has more than its fair share of bad managers (probably because whoever hires them requires that style--that is the source of the problem).
The same thing occurs with companies without management. No one would work. You may shoot back that "small businesses don't have management," but if whoever wants to try that argument would stop and think, then they would realize that the small business owner is usually a manager AND worker. That is generally the difference between big and small business. On the small end, the managers will be getting their hands just as dirty as you, AND be working longer, harder hours.
With all of this said, I am actually surprised that this clash against EA did not come sooner. Their products have been slipping in quality for quite some time, and with the very short development cycles this MUST have been expected. Or am I just the only one that can put two-and-two together on Slashdot (and every other conservative;))?
Finally, I am not a fan of EA and I would not mind seeing them topple from the top. Especially since they got rid of Westwood Studios. Personally though, I do firmly believe the employees are as much to blame as the higher-ups (the people not so much in the know about individual development projects, or specifically the slave driving [assuming they do not know]). If you are too stupid to stand up for what is right, and stand up to being ridden into unachievable goals, then you are just as much at fault as those doing the ordering. This falls directly in line with the idea behind legally disobeying an order in the military.
Who knows what happened? It could be files they bought from somewhere else for all we know.
MS audits can be painful to companies that illegally copy these, but there is a difference from one random sound file editor compared to an entire company/corporation intentionally using pirated software.
How will they make this error right? Spend $350 on a license. Voila.
The thing about Limbaugh is that his drug abuse made the news because the prosecutors against him got a hold of his medical records through currently "questionable" or even illegal means. That is the news in that case. Otherwise, if you look into his problem, it is not something he did to have fun or simply because he could. Rather (not Dan Rather...), it was an addiction to pain killers for guess what, pain!? TONS of people get hooked to medicine. There is a huge difference between that and your local crackheads.
If MS wants a pass on this, then in scenarios where they find one sleazy, stupid person in a company was duping the company in question by pirating software under their noses, MS should allow them to simply purchase the licenses. In company wide conspiracies to avoid paying for their licenses, then MS should continue on plowing away.
I have never heard of huge problems with MS when one license was found in question, but I have heard of cases where hundreds of licenses were in question.
> Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this?
Look into "marketing" . The really sad thing is that people will probably like this... just like the whole ad campaign idea where you NEVER see the product being advertised.
I am sure Zarquawi would be a pig farmer had we not done anything, but well, he is a full bloomed terrorist now, and we are fighting him THERE, not here.
Maybe your idea of "standing tall" includes doing nothing, or maybe sending a few tomahawk missiles as a response (that did nothing, but also "attacked innocents" according to the rest of the world), but real men's idea are linked directly with fighting for what is right.
The poster did not mention the openness of the license AND there were no obvious references to success stories for this database to reasonably compete with Oracle OR SQL Server.
"Oracle's technology is still far superior, and they still dominate this industry and have taken clustering to larger level where you can scale multiple nodes," Yuhanna said.
It does not put much faith in me when the VP of Ingres development says that about their own product.
1) It was brought up by mentioning Abu Ghraib. I was trying to maybe give you an idea of what you're looking at, other than what we saw blasted on TV. While it was sick for us, their culture does that stuff all the time (though for fun, and not for torture).
2) That's not torture. Those are scare tactics. These people were put under MENTAL stress and it was either we do THAT or we beat them PHYSICALLY. No bodily harm came of it. Note that humiliating the prisoners is NOT under that list. That is the only contested part of the entire debacle and that is where the MPs went wrong.
3)
"Some could compare it to bin Laden's moral certainty that calls for innocent slaughter."
I guess you're one of those people that just speaks for other people?
"I knew it was a mistake to 'go it alone'"
How do you go it alone, yet list other countries? Italy came, Spain had come (showed the terrorist's whose in charge on 3/11), Phillipines had come (they're the main reason hostages are used to try to force governments out of Iraq now, because they did what they were told).
"Alone we open ourselves up to charges of "War for Oil", which, given the fact that the President and Vice President are both from the Oil Industry, is a reasonable charge."
I love how you throw that last part in there. You must be a politician. Anyway, lets say I am a former butcher that turns animal vet, does that mean I have ulterior motives everytime I help an animal? My little war for meat? If it was a fruitful charge, then maybe it would have been one in the first Gulf War (as it was charged then)? Or maybe, just maybe, the U.S. would be the ones taking and selling the oil by now?
"The growing violence in Iraq makes it clear that Muslim extremists think we're occupiers."
Not really. They're Muslim extremists, we're infidels. Tell Zarqawi we're leaving next week and see if he cares.
In other words, if we had elections in late 2003, we'd be home by now.
Have you seen how long it took to get elections in Afghanistan? They were done right. People were registered and able to vote (though apparently maybe a little more technology is necessary to stop that multiple voting thing, but then again, we have that problem here). That's what is happening over there. Did you ever think the General was just unrealistic? Also, did you ever consider the link you gave me is the most biased news agency AGAINST Bush in the world (aside from maybe the Arab networks)? Do you honestly think we'd be out of Iraq, had we already had elections? We won't be out of there in January, assuming the elections go through, just like we are still in Afghanistan hunting the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Occupiers generally do not HELP the local communities and help build a free, democratic government. Maybe it would be helpful if our military was not there, but if they weren't neither would a democracy and THAT is what the extremists are afraid of... well, that, and the Marines.
4) I don't think Anne Coulter kills babies.
I find it amusing that you quoted filmmakers in the same manner as hippies. The thing about hippies is that they are usually brain dead morons that enjoy imposing their ideas onto me, but think I should have no right to refute them, or even make a few crude remarks. True, maybe it's crude of me (go figure), but they, you, do not have to listen just as I do not have to listen to you. The difference? I know what is being done, why it is being done and actually how it is being done. I will never learn anything useful from a hippy. Plus, looking back on my post, I don't see me demonizing people. I see myself criticizing stupid people, and maybe even labeling them as stupid, but that is just me not being politically correct, or maybe, just maybe, that is me being mean. But I am not demonizing.
The installer does not work 100% of the time.
It took two tries to get it to install completely and then finally after that it didn't work with PHPMyAdmin (though obviously not the fault of MySQL), I gave up and went back to 4.0 (Note: I am a database admin, but the people that will use it afterwards are not, so they cannot use the command line).
huh. Well what do ya know. What was the writer talking about with the linking of the other nuclear related stuff. This has nothing to do with that, excluding the sponsor.
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The obvious intent was to slap MS in the face. I was returning the favor.
Long story short, I love your post.
Thank you for pointing out Linux is perfect. http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/eol/
Nuclear companies have nuclear power reactors to put out hydrogen (as a byproduct) ready and good to go, and have had them ready for quite some time. The hold up, in America, is that people are afraid of Nuclear Power, but in a few years as coal rises in cost (it will this winter for example--the cost of the coal has tripled on the East Coast of the U.S., but not the West Coast), there will be a demand for new reactors. However, the reactors that are desired are high energy steam generators, which are NOT the hydrogen power byproduct generators.
The reason being is because they are still fine tuning these hydrogen byproduct generators to not waste so much energy actually creating the hydrogen (costs energy to split from the other molecules, such as H2O), which is a big concern for the power companies, as they want to maximize profit and that means not wasting energy. Sure, you have the hydrogen eventually, but a lot of the energy is just lost in the conversion process.
If you cut your finger, NERVES send impulses of PAIN to your brain. Your brain tells you, HEY, there is something going on down there. Physical PAIN is a signal, not a dumb fucking emotion.
I really don't care to be honest because if you are so focused on NOT UNDERSTANDING the difference between a signal to the brain and a THOUGHT in the brain, then you are just dumb. You're just pathetic.
Boohoo, it hurts to have a Slashdotter tell me to go fuck myself when he just makes stuff up.
I was suggesting I'd take your word on the repercussions of the law. This is also where I called you a liar. Excuse the earlier sarcasm.
The IP violation would have merits if this turns out to be intentional. Otherwise, I would to see you say this about some arbitrary package in Linux. You may say it to shut me up, but I think any reasonable person will know you would not do it in a real case. AGAIN, this is not some Microsoft conspiracy. Punative damages are meant to save people/companies from intentional wrong doing at their expense. If every one at MS had a copy of SoundForge intalled through these means, then you would have a very strong case. I would even bet that MS does have a license for this software.
I don't know the circumstances of the gay stuff, and I strongly doubt the whole case was stated here.
Emotional pain is physical pain? Really, that's one hell of an argument. Go argue that one in court. I cannot even believe you had the audacity to make this claim. You just hate Limbaugh and will find ANY reasoning to prove his guilt.
You are suggesting that someone selling STOLEN SOURCE CODE, which he did not even have the competence to steal himself (not that that would make it any more legal) and making a profit off of it is equal to something that for all you know may have been a misunderstanding? I realize OSS fanboys may find this is not a big deal--people sell work they had nothing to do with all the time (Linux), but closed source is closed source so other people cannot mooch and the closed source firm gets all of the profits.
I realize I am playing devil's advocate and someone is likely in the wrong in this MS case, but it is very unlikely that it is MS in the wrong. On the contrary, it is some dimwitted sound file guy and probably an intern.
The next patch could then simply replace (read: remove and then add "new" files) the files.
Probably should go without saying that I would find it surprising if Sony really pushed this. After all, if they were to audit Microsoft, then I am sure Microsoft would return the favor. Then you simply have to look into the chances of finding Sony software versus MS software and the inherent odds associated?
You have encountered this? Really. Interesting, and probably lying, or just overstated.
I will take your word for it? Or I'll just assume you copy MS software and probably do drugs.
I can guarantee that they expected Baath party members to fight against the US military with urbanized, guerilla style tactics. What they, and no one else predicted was a massive wave of people from OTHER COUNTRIES (lets be specific, Muslim extremist countries that see it as a HOLY WAR). Sure, everyone expects a few neighboring countries to have sympathizers, but not hundreds of martyrs.
That "thin" evidence was backed up even by people opposed to the war and NO ONE doubted it at the time, except the UN that believed sanctions that involved the inspectors giving a plan to the Iraqi government WELL BEFORE visiting any site (and oil for food... and tons of money) were working. There were no random visits allowed; how can you trust that, especially when we witness trucks taking things from these facilities whenever the inspectors were set to arrive? Not to mention on a daily basis they illegally shot missiles up at our US and UK pilots. This was not something you could just shrug off considering Russia was in the process of selling them a much more advanced AA missile system (great friends... and definitely trustworthy when they said not to invade Iraq, even when THEIR intel cited him as having WMDs).
Lets also go into the idea of terrorists seizing on our invasion of Iraq as us fighting them (Muslims). Did they ever have trouble with this idea? I don't remember too well (sarcasm), but were we in Iraq when the USS Cole was attacked? Or maybe the embassy bombings? What is wrong with this picture?
These people are willing to strap a bomb to themselves, or a child, in order to kill us. They even kill innocents, which they have been given permission to do by their Mullahs to do. Tell me how YOU would fix that? Building a bridge is not going to help if you are not a Muslim and they are taught to kill non-Muslims (I am not arguing if that is validly part of their religion). Putting in democracy is a start.
Obviously that's not the best of working conditions, but you sometimes have good managers and sometimes bad managers. Apparently EA has more than its fair share of bad managers (probably because whoever hires them requires that style--that is the source of the problem).
The same thing occurs with companies without management. No one would work. You may shoot back that "small businesses don't have management," but if whoever wants to try that argument would stop and think, then they would realize that the small business owner is usually a manager AND worker. That is generally the difference between big and small business. On the small end, the managers will be getting their hands just as dirty as you, AND be working longer, harder hours.
With all of this said, I am actually surprised that this clash against EA did not come sooner. Their products have been slipping in quality for quite some time, and with the very short development cycles this MUST have been expected. Or am I just the only one that can put two-and-two together on Slashdot (and every other conservative ;))?
Finally, I am not a fan of EA and I would not mind seeing them topple from the top. Especially since they got rid of Westwood Studios. Personally though, I do firmly believe the employees are as much to blame as the higher-ups (the people not so much in the know about individual development projects, or specifically the slave driving [assuming they do not know]). If you are too stupid to stand up for what is right, and stand up to being ridden into unachievable goals, then you are just as much at fault as those doing the ordering. This falls directly in line with the idea behind legally disobeying an order in the military.
MS audits can be painful to companies that illegally copy these, but there is a difference from one random sound file editor compared to an entire company/corporation intentionally using pirated software.
How will they make this error right? Spend $350 on a license. Voila.
The thing about Limbaugh is that his drug abuse made the news because the prosecutors against him got a hold of his medical records through currently "questionable" or even illegal means. That is the news in that case. Otherwise, if you look into his problem, it is not something he did to have fun or simply because he could. Rather (not Dan Rather...), it was an addiction to pain killers for guess what, pain!? TONS of people get hooked to medicine. There is a huge difference between that and your local crackheads.
If MS wants a pass on this, then in scenarios where they find one sleazy, stupid person in a company was duping the company in question by pirating software under their noses, MS should allow them to simply purchase the licenses. In company wide conspiracies to avoid paying for their licenses, then MS should continue on plowing away.
I have never heard of huge problems with MS when one license was found in question, but I have heard of cases where hundreds of licenses were in question.
I actually agree with the poster you replied too, but I do not have any mod points to mark your post as funny. That gave me a good laugh.
You could make your signature more nerdy by changing it to "three long days."
> Can someone please point me to the place where they give jobs like this out, to come up with incredibly stupid ideas like this? Look into "marketing" . The really sad thing is that people will probably like this... just like the whole ad campaign idea where you NEVER see the product being advertised.
Hey, hey, someone got the joke.
I guess it doesn't bother you that Zarquawi is not from Iraq.
You call destroying them fear?
I am sure Zarquawi would be a pig farmer had we not done anything, but well, he is a full bloomed terrorist now, and we are fighting him THERE, not here.
Maybe your idea of "standing tall" includes doing nothing, or maybe sending a few tomahawk missiles as a response (that did nothing, but also "attacked innocents" according to the rest of the world), but real men's idea are linked directly with fighting for what is right.
At least it shows they are not storing the password in the cookie. Of course, that's a good and bad thing.
Only if it is not Microsoft. Right Slashdot?
Not if you bought it at the start! Nothing poor about it!
2) That's not torture. Those are scare tactics. These people were put under MENTAL stress and it was either we do THAT or we beat them PHYSICALLY. No bodily harm came of it. Note that humiliating the prisoners is NOT under that list. That is the only contested part of the entire debacle and that is where the MPs went wrong.
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I guess you're one of those people that just speaks for other people? How do you go it alone, yet list other countries? Italy came, Spain had come (showed the terrorist's whose in charge on 3/11), Phillipines had come (they're the main reason hostages are used to try to force governments out of Iraq now, because they did what they were told).I love how you throw that last part in there. You must be a politician. Anyway, lets say I am a former butcher that turns animal vet, does that mean I have ulterior motives everytime I help an animal? My little war for meat? If it was a fruitful charge, then maybe it would have been one in the first Gulf War (as it was charged then)? Or maybe, just maybe, the U.S. would be the ones taking and selling the oil by now?Not really. They're Muslim extremists, we're infidels. Tell Zarqawi we're leaving next week and see if he cares.Have you seen how long it took to get elections in Afghanistan? They were done right. People were registered and able to vote (though apparently maybe a little more technology is necessary to stop that multiple voting thing, but then again, we have that problem here). That's what is happening over there. Did you ever think the General was just unrealistic? Also, did you ever consider the link you gave me is the most biased news agency AGAINST Bush in the world (aside from maybe the Arab networks)? Do you honestly think we'd be out of Iraq, had we already had elections? We won't be out of there in January, assuming the elections go through, just like we are still in Afghanistan hunting the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Occupiers generally do not HELP the local communities and help build a free, democratic government. Maybe it would be helpful if our military was not there, but if they weren't neither would a democracy and THAT is what the extremists are afraid of... well, that, and the Marines.4) I don't think Anne Coulter kills babies.
I find it amusing that you quoted filmmakers in the same manner as hippies. The thing about hippies is that they are usually brain dead morons that enjoy imposing their ideas onto me, but think I should have no right to refute them, or even make a few crude remarks. True, maybe it's crude of me (go figure), but they, you, do not have to listen just as I do not have to listen to you. The difference? I know what is being done, why it is being done and actually how it is being done. I will never learn anything useful from a hippy. Plus, looking back on my post, I don't see me demonizing people. I see myself criticizing stupid people, and maybe even labeling them as stupid, but that is just me not being politically correct, or maybe, just maybe, that is me being mean. But I am not demonizing.
The installer does not work 100% of the time. It took two tries to get it to install completely and then finally after that it didn't work with PHPMyAdmin (though obviously not the fault of MySQL), I gave up and went back to 4.0 (Note: I am a database admin, but the people that will use it afterwards are not, so they cannot use the command line).
huh. Well what do ya know. What was the writer talking about with the linking of the other nuclear related stuff. This has nothing to do with that, excluding the sponsor.