Yep, whenever I need cash I just phone up a large company and ask them for $1,000. Once I've explained that it's peanuts they're always happy to hand it over. I don't see why it shouldn't work for SCO as well.
The point is that $1,000 is a lot less than what Google would have to pay in the ("Bob"-willing) unlikely event of a SCO victory in court.
Then they'd have to shell out what, billions of dollars in license fees?
$1,000 is pretty cheap insurance. (Of course, as mentioned elsewhere it's still a bad idea for Google for other reasons.)
Although we're still a long ways away from mandatory mass transit or fully automated "cars" (a la Minority Report), I still fear that in my lifetime gasoline burning vehicles may be severely restricted in some parts of the world.
This doesn't bother me in principle, except that no one has made a feasible hybrid/alternative motorcycle. Reasonable bikes these days get 50-60 miles per gallon, so it hasn't been a concern, but with "vehicles" like the Honda Insight getting 70+ mpg in the city, bikes may soon need to worry about having a reputation as gas guzzlers.
Anyway, here's to hoping Janklow gets the maximum sentence.
Here's some examples. I'm sure you could poke holes in them, too......Donating this money to a cause that has lots of supporters already--and will get along just fine without your few dollars. Why?
Because I support the cause. (And not all "causes" are altruistic...)
Letting someone cut in front of you in a traffic jam. You'll never see them again, and they won't pay you anything for it. Why?
Only if they ask nicely by way of using their turn signal - this helps reinforce courteous driving, which is more often than not synonymous with safe driving. No warm fuzzies there.
Continuing from your original post...
Love? Learn? Raise children? Why? What do these things get me?
Let's set aside Learn for the purpose of this discussion.
You are genetically programmed to seek out people that make you feel what you call "love". You are genetically programmed to feel intense gratification at the conception as well as the birth and rearing your offspring.
What do these things "get" you? They get you feeling good. You are what is known as a hedonist. Even worse, you are a self-righteous hedonist.
And since you seem to have been left in the dark, you should know that there basically aren't any motivations for having children that aren't 100% selfish.
"But what about all of the sacrifices I've made to raise my kids! How can that possibly be selfish?" you ask. Before you can know the answer to that (and no one who's already had children dares to), you first have to honestly examine why you decided to make a person in your image.
(You mentioned "The Church", so I have to wonder if that means you subscribe to any form of spirituality, in which case your ability to reason has already been compromised beyond all hope. You would spout some drivel like "For the greater glory of God" or some bullshit about "souls".)
The real motivations are typically a feeble attempt at some form of immortality (I live on after I die), a relationship strengthener, and the most widely acknowledged honest reason, "Because I want kids". (But why...)
Raising kids is not a selfless act. You did it for you, and your genes reward you for it every time they do something cute.
But hey, that ship has sailed as far as you're concerned. No chance in hell you're going to backpedal even the slightest bit and acknowledge the selfishness of your actions - you'd lose way too much face.
The things we do "just because". Not because we have to or because they are a means to an end. Just because we think they would be cool to do.
So you popped out some kids because you thought it would be cool to do? Okay, I'm doing some creative editing here, but I think this is a valid representation of your sentiment. You feel that raising children has "intrinsic value" and you state that we do things we believe have "intrinsic value" "just because". Is that really how you would answer if someone asked you why you had children? Because you thought it would be cool? Does that sound very responsible? Regardless of your commitment or your ability to care for the child, this just doesn't seem like a very convincing reason.
To that end I would suspect that to many murderers, violently extinguishing a life has "intrinsic value".
Arbitrarly creating life is just as monsterous as arbitrarily ending it.
Love is a trait that was smiled upon by natural selection. Couples that mate for life (or at least for longer than it takes to hump) have a better chance of raising their offspring to adulthood and thus having their love-prone genes passed on.
Further, one could easily argue that a person does not control whether or not they fall in love - clearly we do have control over whether or not we climb a mountain or go to mars.
A New York Times article explores the possible effects of prolonged radiation exposure in deep space. Surprisingly, very little is known about the subject.
Not to be flippant, but I would imagine it would be similar to the effects of prolonged exposure to radiation on earth, i.e. not good.
Next they'll want to study the effects of being shot in the head... IN DEEP SPACE.
But the most important thing about installers is that they are run once. People base entire distribution reviews on the installer, which is just stupid.
Not when your goal is to win converts from Windows.
If they can't install it with confidence (if at all), they certainly won't be able to use it.
Maybe the county should upgrade all of their hardware with Serial ATA controllers and devices. No Master/Slave relationship there. One cable per drive...
I think the part you "snipped" is kind of important.
You have edited his comment so that it seems he is saying that it doesn't take effort to play games at the professional level.
This is not even close to what he wrote. Since you seem determined to misrepresent the author's actual sentiment (or maybe you just misread it and didn't realize that your edit grossly distorts what he wrote?), here is the complete thought:
The reason specatator sports are so popular is that it takes a lot of years of effort and strenuous training to be competetive at professional level. People enjoy these sports vicariously. That is not the case with gaming. Gaming is something people like to take active part in. That's the whole reason games are so popular. It would take lot of years of practise for someone to achieve a professional level 'worth watching' status in games and by then that game would be outdated.
(Emphasis mine.) Please, read it again. You will see that the author stated that IT IS NOT THE CASE THAT PEOPLE ENJOY VIDEO GAMES VICARIOUSLY. The author does NOT state that it is not the case that it takes effort to play at the professional level.
Please, read the comment you are replying to next time. Slashdot thanks you.
Why are computers still being used for simulating nuclear weapons tests?
Are they trying to pack more megatons of destructive force into each warhead? Don't the major world governments have enough quantity to preclude the need for more powerful units?
Or are the tests run to design "safer" and/or more localized implementations? (Awww, looks like Big Brother has a soft spot after all...)
The end of the movie looks like someone polka-dotted the screen, but from the NOAA's website, that's actually the high-charged protons from the CME hitting the camera's lens.
Slashdot Mirror
Mmmm, I'm hungry just thinking about it.
Then they'd have to shell out what, billions of dollars in license fees?
$1,000 is pretty cheap insurance. (Of course, as mentioned elsewhere it's still a bad idea for Google for other reasons.)
US English grammer seems to be lost on low end employees...
I think you mean "grammar".
Although we're still a long ways away from mandatory mass transit or fully automated "cars" (a la Minority Report), I still fear that in my lifetime gasoline burning vehicles may be severely restricted in some parts of the world.
This doesn't bother me in principle, except that no one has made a feasible hybrid/alternative motorcycle. Reasonable bikes these days get 50-60 miles per gallon, so it hasn't been a concern, but with "vehicles" like the Honda Insight getting 70+ mpg in the city, bikes may soon need to worry about having a reputation as gas guzzlers.
Anyway, here's to hoping Janklow gets the maximum sentence.
Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't version numbers follow a fairly predictable pattern?
The guts of 2 + the interface of 3 does NOT equal version 5.
Whatever.
Here's some examples. I'm sure you could poke holes in them, too... ...Donating this money to a cause that has lots of supporters already--and will get along just fine without your few dollars. Why?
Because I support the cause. (And not all "causes" are altruistic...)
Letting someone cut in front of you in a traffic jam. You'll never see them again, and they won't pay you anything for it. Why?
Only if they ask nicely by way of using their turn signal - this helps reinforce courteous driving, which is more often than not synonymous with safe driving. No warm fuzzies there.
Continuing from your original post...
Love? Learn? Raise children? Why? What do these things get me?
Let's set aside Learn for the purpose of this discussion.
You are genetically programmed to seek out people that make you feel what you call "love". You are genetically programmed to feel intense gratification at the conception as well as the birth and rearing your offspring.
What do these things "get" you? They get you feeling good. You are what is known as a hedonist. Even worse, you are a self-righteous hedonist.
And since you seem to have been left in the dark, you should know that there basically aren't any motivations for having children that aren't 100% selfish.
"But what about all of the sacrifices I've made to raise my kids! How can that possibly be selfish?" you ask. Before you can know the answer to that (and no one who's already had children dares to), you first have to honestly examine why you decided to make a person in your image.
(You mentioned "The Church", so I have to wonder if that means you subscribe to any form of spirituality, in which case your ability to reason has already been compromised beyond all hope. You would spout some drivel like "For the greater glory of God" or some bullshit about "souls".)
The real motivations are typically a feeble attempt at some form of immortality (I live on after I die), a relationship strengthener, and the most widely acknowledged honest reason, "Because I want kids". (But why...)
Raising kids is not a selfless act. You did it for you, and your genes reward you for it every time they do something cute.
But hey, that ship has sailed as far as you're concerned. No chance in hell you're going to backpedal even the slightest bit and acknowledge the selfishness of your actions - you'd lose way too much face.
The things we do "just because". Not because we have to or because they are a means to an end. Just because we think they would be cool to do.
So you popped out some kids because you thought it would be cool to do? Okay, I'm doing some creative editing here, but I think this is a valid representation of your sentiment. You feel that raising children has "intrinsic value" and you state that we do things we believe have "intrinsic value" "just because". Is that really how you would answer if someone asked you why you had children? Because you thought it would be cool? Does that sound very responsible? Regardless of your commitment or your ability to care for the child, this just doesn't seem like a very convincing reason.
To that end I would suspect that to many murderers, violently extinguishing a life has "intrinsic value".
Arbitrarly creating life is just as monsterous as arbitrarily ending it.
Love is a trait that was smiled upon by natural selection. Couples that mate for life (or at least for longer than it takes to hump) have a better chance of raising their offspring to adulthood and thus having their love-prone genes passed on.
Further, one could easily argue that a person does not control whether or not they fall in love - clearly we do have control over whether or not we climb a mountain or go to mars.
Not to be flippant, but I would imagine it would be similar to the effects of prolonged exposure to radiation on earth, i.e. not good.
Next they'll want to study the effects of being shot in the head... IN DEEP SPACE.
It seems I can't see the ad you're describing.
Curse Firebird/AdBlock and my hosts file!
If they can't install it with confidence (if at all), they certainly won't be able to use it.
Want to alleviate traffic and save money without sacrificing the freedom and fun of your own vehicle?
Get a motorcycle!
Cheap liability insurance, great gas mileage, and in California you can legally split the lanes in gridlock traffic.
Sure, it's no good when there's white stuff on the ground, but no one said you have to sell your car/truck/suv.
Even more unclear is which releases of Mac OS X Apple plans to continute to release security fixes for...
Gee, I'll sleep much better tonight.
Maybe the county should upgrade all of their hardware with Serial ATA controllers and devices. No Master/Slave relationship there. One cable per drive...
You have edited his comment so that it seems he is saying that it doesn't take effort to play games at the professional level.
This is not even close to what he wrote. Since you seem determined to misrepresent the author's actual sentiment (or maybe you just misread it and didn't realize that your edit grossly distorts what he wrote?), here is the complete thought:
(Emphasis mine.) Please, read it again. You will see that the author stated that IT IS NOT THE CASE THAT PEOPLE ENJOY VIDEO GAMES VICARIOUSLY. The author does NOT state that it is not the case that it takes effort to play at the professional level.
Please, read the comment you are replying to next time. Slashdot thanks you.
If this case goes before a jury that knows what spam is, I doubt they'll convict him. I surely wouldn't.
(Then again the legal system is a wacky, unpredictable circus.)
https://secure.eff.org/
They're doing important work.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Good to hear the voice of someone who isn't a slashbot.
What about folks who refused to swallow the $129 to go from 10.1 to 10.2? Will they continue to get security fixes?
(Personally I'm disgusted that 10.1.x users will never get Java 1.4.x)
Yeah, you're right... after all, who doesn't own an X-Box?
Why are computers still being used for simulating nuclear weapons tests?
Are they trying to pack more megatons of destructive force into each warhead? Don't the major world governments have enough quantity to preclude the need for more powerful units?
Or are the tests run to design "safer" and/or more localized implementations? (Awww, looks like Big Brother has a soft spot after all...)
Foster's sold in the U.S. is "imported" from Canada...
Uhm, hate to break this to ESR and company, but the Jolly Roger is the traditional hacker emblem...
Don't be fooled, that's the MPAA's anti-piracy measure.