Just because he was worth that sum of money doesn't mean he has that much in liquid assets.
If he sells his MS shares to liquidise his wort, so he can donate, he will be worth less, and have less money to give to charity.
I want you to take into account all your assets, your car, your house, etc, and give 8% of that to charity.
unless you are different to Gates and dont have any assets, it should bbe a significant amount.
I dont think i would straight up hand out 8% of my income to charity, let alone 8% of how much I'm worth.
But I can see where you are coming from, 6.5 billion dollars is an insignificant amount of money. Lets not give him any more money, he isn't going to put it to good use.
I was just about to bring that up. If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
I come from rural Australia, and the last thing we need is less rain, because the clouds are spread too thin.
How do you know he hasn't done anything?
How do you know he hasn't started coding a video editor, but jus had trouble getting it working.
How do you know that he hasn't contributed to one of the projects out there, but doesn't consider it up to his standards yet. Such as profesionals who need CYMK and need a linux replacement for photoshop. People say the GIMP is good enough all the time, photoshop is a photo editor, you can't claim GMIP is when it can't even split the colours needed for printing. I mean... for fucks sake, when will you fanboys realise that some linux programs JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH?
Maybe he isn't a coder, has found nothing that even looks promising, so had nothing to contibute to?
ahh, yes. SFU is the thing I was thinking of, but couldn't remember.
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just base their next OS on a compatible freely available Unix system
Why this obsession with UNIX?
There are plenty of other OS's they could base thier OS off, maybe even VMS.
Unix is far from perfect, I want choice but when Linux fanboys here choice they think it must be a choice which distribution you use, because Linux is the only choice.
Back to the line about VMS, because NT was built by a bunch of ex-DEC guys, the NT Kernel isn't that bad.
I mean, they could always port GNU userland over to the NT kernel, but dont MS already do that (or something similar) in their UNIX resource thing, which you can download.
'you can give a man some grain, and he can feed his family for a day, but give him seeds and tools and he can do so for a lifetime'.
Well, since grain and seed is basically the same thing, that statment doesnt really work. Maybe if you had said 'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and feed him for his lifetime". Unless he wanted to fish in Lake Victoria, because he would be pushed out by the commercial fishing companies.
Maybe you should have said "Build a man a fire, keep him warm for a night; set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life".
In my experience (looking at GM canola) I can tell you the GM is used to make roundup resistant crops. Roundup being the broadacre herbicide used for many, many years already.
Roundup was only used to kill the plants _before_ you planted your crops, after you planted you would have to use different selective herbicides to continue to keep the weeds out. Selective herbicides are often less effective and different types will need to be used to kill different types of weeds.
So as you can see the farmers will probably use less herbicides and these are herbicides that are currently being used, not new ones.
For example, what happens when cross fertilization causes other plant organisms to also gain herbicide resistance? Do you know the answer?
And now you see why this type of GM is IMO useless. There are lots of weeds out there that have already built a resistance to roundup because it is gods choice for killing weeds and wasn't/isn't rotated enough.
When the weeds get the resistance it will not be really different from what is happening right now without the resistance.
You think the fact that you can mute a Mac makes it better than Vista? Maybe you didnt read this line: Users would be able to avoid hearing it by manually turning down the speaker volume
I think MS probably got this idea from looking at Macs, which doesn't make the idea any better.
here. "Three tracking stations were receiving the signals simultaneously. They were CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope, the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station outside Canberra, and NASA's Goldstone station in California."
"During the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality images. When they switched to the Parkes pictures, they were of such superior quality, that NASA remained with the Parkes TV pictures for the remainder of the 21/2-hour telecast."
There was no power failure, it was high winds. I wasn't alive at the time, but I do know a little bit of the history of Parkes (i was born 30km south of there, and spent the first 18 years of my life in the region).
And it doesnt look look aussies who lost the tapes, the national archives in the US appear to have lost them.
You're missing the friggin' point.
Ubuntu *is* a Gnome distro.
This is a problem. Gnome is ugly in our eyes.
Your problem, not mine. If you don't want Gnome, don't use ubuntu. It's that simple.
because I as a user do not want it.
But there are plenty out there who do. Your personal opinion is not going to decide if Gnome is successful on the desktop or not.
And I cannot stand the Gnome imperialism.
And I cannot stand the KDE imperialism.
I accidentally stumbled onto my new philosophy:
"If you can't fix it, fuck it"
I swear I didn't intentionaly loose all that guys emails. I mean, all he wanted to get his PAB back, it should't have been that hard, right? Oh well, someone can fix my mess. Oh, his addressbook is still missing, too.
Everytime you see an article about SkyOS on OSnews you see a bunch of people bitch about it being closed source, and that having open source apps ported to it isnt in the "spirt" of open source.
These coments are very frustrating, and they make you not want to be an open source advocate, if you are going to sound like these wankers.
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Just because he was worth that sum of money doesn't mean he has that much in liquid assets.
If he sells his MS shares to liquidise his wort, so he can donate, he will be worth less, and have less money to give to charity.
I want you to take into account all your assets, your car, your house, etc, and give 8% of that to charity.
unless you are different to Gates and dont have any assets, it should bbe a significant amount.
I dont think i would straight up hand out 8% of my income to charity, let alone 8% of how much I'm worth.
But I can see where you are coming from, 6.5 billion dollars is an insignificant amount of money. Lets not give him any more money, he isn't going to put it to good use.
*cough* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_foundation#Act
I was just about to bring that up. If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
I come from rural Australia, and the last thing we need is less rain, because the clouds are spread too thin.
How do you know he hasn't started coding a video editor, but jus had trouble getting it working.
How do you know that he hasn't contributed to one of the projects out there, but doesn't consider it up to his standards yet.
Such as profesionals who need CYMK and need a linux replacement for photoshop. People say the GIMP is good enough all the time, photoshop is a photo editor, you can't claim GMIP is when it can't even split the colours needed for printing. I mean... for fucks sake, when will you fanboys realise that some linux programs JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH?
Maybe he isn't a coder, has found nothing that even looks promising, so had nothing to contibute to?
I can use OWA + web browser to view my exchange mail.
yeah, but in our country a vote for an independant isn't necesarily a wasted vote, as long as the indies get the balance of power.
ahh, yes. SFU is the thing I was thinking of, but couldn't remember.
There are plenty of other OS's they could base thier OS off, maybe even VMS.
Unix is far from perfect, I want choice but when Linux fanboys here choice they think it must be a choice which distribution you use, because Linux is the only choice.
Back to the line about VMS, because NT was built by a bunch of ex-DEC guys, the NT Kernel isn't that bad.
I mean, they could always port GNU userland over to the NT kernel, but dont MS already do that (or something similar) in their UNIX resource thing, which you can download.
Maybe you should have said "Build a man a fire, keep him warm for a night; set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life".
I wish I had mod points. ;)
In my experience (looking at GM canola) I can tell you the GM is used to make roundup resistant crops. Roundup being the broadacre herbicide used for many, many years already.
Roundup was only used to kill the plants _before_ you planted your crops, after you planted you would have to use different selective herbicides to continue to keep the weeds out. Selective herbicides are often less effective and different types will need to be used to kill different types of weeds.
So as you can see the farmers will probably use less herbicides and these are herbicides that are currently being used, not new ones.
For example, what happens when cross fertilization causes other plant organisms to also gain herbicide resistance? Do you know the answer?
And now you see why this type of GM is IMO useless. There are lots of weeds out there that have already built a resistance to roundup because it is gods choice for killing weeds and wasn't/isn't rotated enough.
When the weeds get the resistance it will not be really different from what is happening right now without the resistance.
But there are plenty of good substitutes
Why would you run aero without AA? .ini files on the desktop is a pain
But i do agree that seeing
You think the fact that you can mute a Mac makes it better than Vista? Maybe you didnt read this line:
Users would be able to avoid hearing it by manually turning down the speaker volume
I think MS probably got this idea from looking at Macs, which doesn't make the idea any better.
Bah, IE4 was a GOD compared to NS4. Why is this Insightful?
You want him to use gentoo... without an internet connection?
I can see you gentoo fanboys put a lot of thought into your comments.
here. "Three tracking stations were receiving the signals simultaneously. They were CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope, the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station outside Canberra, and NASA's Goldstone station in California."
"During the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality images. When they switched to the Parkes pictures, they were of such superior quality, that NASA remained with the Parkes TV pictures for the remainder of the 21/2-hour telecast."
There was no power failure, it was high winds. I wasn't alive at the time, but I do know a little bit of the history of Parkes (i was born 30km south of there, and spent the first 18 years of my life in the region).
And it doesnt look look aussies who lost the tapes, the national archives in the US appear to have lost them.
Tuniac
You're missing the friggin' point.
Ubuntu *is* a Gnome distro.
This is a problem. Gnome is ugly in our eyes.
Your problem, not mine. If you don't want Gnome, don't use ubuntu. It's that simple.
because I as a user do not want it.
But there are plenty out there who do. Your personal opinion is not going to decide if Gnome is successful on the desktop or not.
And I cannot stand the Gnome imperialism.
And I cannot stand the KDE imperialism.
Because that would be sacreligious
I'm a V8 man myself, but the rotary is a great motor, to rip it out and throw a heavy 8 in is a waste of time.
No, they aren't.
try Tuniac
I accidentally stumbled onto my new philosophy:
"If you can't fix it, fuck it"
I swear I didn't intentionaly loose all that guys emails. I mean, all he wanted to get his PAB back, it should't have been that hard, right? Oh well, someone can fix my mess. Oh, his addressbook is still missing, too.
My company has.
:)
. nsf/Announcements/F6D59D505180FE52CA2570AF000227D9
they sent out a big list of labels that were banned.
god, it felt good.
here is there press statement from where they took over our office a few weeks ago
http://www.kaz-group.com/web/kazgroup/kazgroupweb
our office being the department of defence
Everytime you see an article about SkyOS on OSnews you see a bunch of people bitch about it being closed source, and that having open source apps ported to it isnt in the "spirt" of open source.
These coments are very frustrating, and they make you not want to be an open source advocate, if you are going to sound like these wankers.