I have to agree with you on the dangers that young asian women pose to the cardiovascular system. I know one charming young taiwanese lady who would likely cause several thrombosis' per day if she wasn't so darn pleasant, friendly, and down to earth...
I'll add my bit here. Firefox is great on my Linux box with 768MB of RAM, but when running it on my old decrepit win2000 laptop, I find the memory usage renders it useless. The laptop only has 64MB of RAM and Firefox uses ~33MB even when I only have one simple text based page loaded. Mozilla 1.7.2 runs much faster on the same machine as it's memory usage runs from ~5MB to ~16MB depending on how many tabs I have open and how complicated the pages are. I haven't had time to experiment to try to find the cause. Has anyone else noticed this?
This is the essential argument against software patents. When software is written for a digital computer, by definition, a machine with a finite number of states, there are only a certain finite number of ways to solve any particular problem that the computer can be programmed to solve. For this reason, I don't believe that any software can be considered to be an "invention" per se. The actual ic chips used to run it may be considered to be invention as well as the techniques used to design and manufacture them, but not the software that runs on them.
A computer is a tool that we manipulate to get the job done. I think that patenting software written to run on any finite computer system is far too similar to the idea of patenting one's hammer swing when one hasn't modified the hammer in any fashion.
Republicans, Democrats, same thing if you ask me. Both are hopelessly right wing, just like the Canadian Alliance and the modern Liberal party of Canada. Or, the Tories and the modern Labour party in Great Britain. What's up with all the left wing parties taking sharp swings to the right? Soon words like liberal and labour will have no meaning...
This leads to their ultimate goal, that is, to eliminate staff to increase profit margins. A completely electronic inventory and purchasing system would need far fewer clerks to man it, Yes?
So that's how the "real people personalities" work. Guess the crowd at University of Calgary will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!
I agree! Government should always put local industry first. It exists to serve it's constituents, and the employees of local industry are definitely constituents.
I was reading over some of the posts that have been made since mine was, and I've decided to add that I consider the internal development of a governmental IT system to be a valid undertaking. An investment that will see the government independent from demands for paying more money to maintain something that they've supposedly already bought. The only time government should have to fork out more cash is if there's an actual problem to be fixed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Here in Canada, most government departments and agencys are either undertaking, or considering the migration from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 to Windows 2000. I once added up the total cost of Windows NT 4 Workstation licences, NT 4 Server licenses, NT 4 CALs, and MS Office 2000 licenses for the government agency that I worked for (~20000 pcs served by ~500 NT 4 servers) and the figure wasn't pretty. A signifigant portion of the operating costs for many government offices goes to buying access to Microsoft's IP; I would like to see my tax dollars used in a more productive manner. Kudos to Munich and best wishes that their problems will be overcome shortly.
I've always wondered if it would make sense to breed a super strong breed of horse, or ox, or elephant, or similarly strong animals to take on heavy pulling work that we use internal combustion engines to do now. Animals can be relatively clean as their waste products (manure and such) can be used to fertilize the land, and their remains (bones, meat and such) could also be used after they've gone. The plant/herbivore combination is about the most efficient solar power solution we have available to us now... I think that an elephant would do an excellent job of pulling a plow.
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I have to agree with you on the dangers that young asian women pose to the cardiovascular system. I know one charming young taiwanese lady who would likely cause several thrombosis' per day if she wasn't so darn pleasant, friendly, and down to earth...
I'll add my bit here. Firefox is great on my Linux box with 768MB of RAM, but when running it on my old decrepit win2000 laptop, I find the memory usage renders it useless. The laptop only has 64MB of RAM and Firefox uses ~33MB even when I only have one simple text based page loaded. Mozilla 1.7.2 runs much faster on the same machine as it's memory usage runs from ~5MB to ~16MB depending on how many tabs I have open and how complicated the pages are. I haven't had time to experiment to try to find the cause. Has anyone else noticed this?
lp1 on fire.
Good use of the quote!
A computer is a tool that we manipulate to get the job done. I think that patenting software written to run on any finite computer system is far too similar to the idea of patenting one's hammer swing when one hasn't modified the hammer in any fashion.
This has got to be one of the ten most amusing posts that I've read on slashdot! hehheh
Republicans, Democrats, same thing if you ask me. Both are hopelessly right wing, just like the Canadian Alliance and the modern Liberal party of Canada. Or, the Tories and the modern Labour party in Great Britain. What's up with all the left wing parties taking sharp swings to the right? Soon words like liberal and labour will have no meaning...
This leads to their ultimate goal, that is, to eliminate staff to increase profit margins. A completely electronic inventory and purchasing system would need far fewer clerks to man it, Yes?
The "thumbs-up" is not much better as I think Austrailians use it to symbolize the male genitalia in a manner similar to the western "middle-finger".
Nah, we'll just send in a squadron of GU-11s to divebomb it...
Mine? MINE?
Good thing that's a badger... Why? 'Cause if that were a dead polecat, I'd have to trash the place.
So that's how the "real people personalities" work. Guess the crowd at University of Calgary will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!
I compiled 2.4.24 on a P166MMX today with 48MB ram running knoppix with a hdd swap partition, it only took about an hour, not bad really...
I agree! Government should always put local industry first. It exists to serve it's constituents, and the employees of local industry are definitely constituents.
I was reading over some of the posts that have been made since mine was, and I've decided to add that I consider the internal development of a governmental IT system to be a valid undertaking. An investment that will see the government independent from demands for paying more money to maintain something that they've supposedly already bought. The only time government should have to fork out more cash is if there's an actual problem to be fixed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Here in Canada, most government departments and agencys are either undertaking, or considering the migration from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 to Windows 2000. I once added up the total cost of Windows NT 4 Workstation licences, NT 4 Server licenses, NT 4 CALs, and MS Office 2000 licenses for the government agency that I worked for (~20000 pcs served by ~500 NT 4 servers) and the figure wasn't pretty. A signifigant portion of the operating costs for many government offices goes to buying access to Microsoft's IP; I would like to see my tax dollars used in a more productive manner. Kudos to Munich and best wishes that their problems will be overcome shortly.
I've always wondered if it would make sense to breed a super strong breed of horse, or ox, or elephant, or similarly strong animals to take on heavy pulling work that we use internal combustion engines to do now. Animals can be relatively clean as their waste products (manure and such) can be used to fertilize the land, and their remains (bones, meat and such) could also be used after they've gone. The plant/herbivore combination is about the most efficient solar power solution we have available to us now... I think that an elephant would do an excellent job of pulling a plow.
Good show 'ol chaps! The more of this we see the better!
That's the first time I've seen that acronym on slashdot, glad to have you around.
You mean like Visual C++? MSFC? MASM?
The /.ed to hell comment sounds an awful lot like those source comments that were cited above ;)
I fell out of my chair... guess I find frank comments in source code a little "too" humourous...
This is a great idea!
Here's a Shared Source Cravat... C'mon there's gotta be some textile geeks on slashdot who can contribute a Free, as in speech one!