....Ill say it anyway. In the uk we dont seems to get rebate offers, if they did i would be the kind of guy to make sure i got them all! never ever give up! I do remember a deal where if you bought a computer for about 800 quid (~1600 bucks) if you remembered to mail in the rebate 4 years later you would get all your money back, but you had to remember within a two week period after the four years!
... Oracle is a rubbish dinosaur that hasnt aged all that well. DB/400 (and its ancestors) is older but better why? coz IBM said if it dont do what you want, work round to it. Oracle said, ok we'll patch it. MySQL is excellent for what it is, a website database server so i dont think they have to worry too much I cant see many php developers going to the trouble of using oracle.
I know this is a silly point but.......
The RIAA has been missing a trick for years, radio has been broadcasting free music which you can record and keep and never pay for. and its been going on for years! theres millions and millions of ppl for the riaa to sue for listening to music they didnt pay a penny!
The fact that iTunes is a big success should say something. If the RIAA embraced the new technology instead of demonizing it they would make loads more money.
its a well known fact that artists make their money from concerts and other performances etc (advertisings, drinking pepsi (although i never actually saw wacko drink a single can of it) etc).
Im gonna set up a new record company, signup artists and distrubute (promote) their music via bit torrent, radio tv etc. and then send them on world tours etc. anyone?
Let me start by saying that the gardian is a very poncy pretensous newspaper for people who watch channel 4 (appologies to our american cousins who probably wont know what I mean here, peeps in the UK will know what im talking about). Journalists
have to write stories in a way that makes them appealling enough to read, in order to do that they have to exagerate a bit, trouble is they do it with the science bit too. They also have to sensationalise stories and end up misleading ppl. For example MMR.
...manufacturers, they sell cars despite knowing the fact their customers could (and sometimes do) use them to ram raid shops, getaway from cops and drive by shootings (but they do the same to gun manufacturers on that score) etc. the point is how can you be responsible for another persons actions even if you gave them the means they still made the choice to comit the crime
This morning I went to the USPTO and patented the will to live so you all owe me money now
I think the pto staff that make the decision on these things should be qualified in computers somehow
Only on/. can an article about developer responsibility turn into a debate about the correct uasage of english;)
I believe aslong as the reader understands then its good enough use of english. thats worked for the americans for years!
Speak english proper like what i does init
I think this would be ok if the gps function was limited to emegency use only or when the user chose and not when the government do lol (besides they have had spy satelites and radio stations that are able to intercept all transmissions in the world anyway. which they have been doing since the 60s)
What linux really needs i something a bit like the Milk marketig board here in the UK. All the companies and individuals should pool together to fund marketing into why linux is so much better. Maybe we can have linux tv adverts rather than those shit abstract M$ ones we get.
A Leason in marketing
There once was a leading brand of soap powder than had about 80% of the market the brand owners decided they didnt need to market it anymore so they stoped. Within a year their market share was down to 20%! proof human beings are sheep!
Slashdot Mirror
....Ill say it anyway. In the uk we dont seems to get rebate offers, if they did i would be the kind of guy to make sure i got them all! never ever give up! I do remember a deal where if you bought a computer for about 800 quid (~1600 bucks) if you remembered to mail in the rebate 4 years later you would get all your money back, but you had to remember within a two week period after the four years!
...come on microsoft, give in
Does that mean it will still take billion year to crack it?
I do enjoy a truly pathetic copyrestriction system, don't you?
Yeah i wonder how much sony paid who ever put it together?
What will microsoft do in the uk, since its not been sold here since 1996!!!!
At the risk of starting a flame war....
... Oracle is a rubbish dinosaur that hasnt aged all that well. DB/400 (and its ancestors) is older but better why? coz IBM said if it dont do what you want, work round to it. Oracle said, ok we'll patch it. MySQL is excellent for what it is, a website database server so i dont think they have to worry too much I cant see many php developers going to the trouble of using oracle.
I know this is a silly point but....... The RIAA has been missing a trick for years, radio has been broadcasting free music which you can record and keep and never pay for. and its been going on for years! theres millions and millions of ppl for the riaa to sue for listening to music they didnt pay a penny! The fact that iTunes is a big success should say something. If the RIAA embraced the new technology instead of demonizing it they would make loads more money. its a well known fact that artists make their money from concerts and other performances etc (advertisings, drinking pepsi (although i never actually saw wacko drink a single can of it) etc). Im gonna set up a new record company, signup artists and distrubute (promote) their music via bit torrent, radio tv etc. and then send them on world tours etc. anyone?
By the way, all that was sarcasm.
;)
My god was it really????
Did you ever see "conspiracy theory"?
Or are the labels "communist" & "fascist" just a red herring, and you can label their essential characteristics as "power-hungry"?
its been said on more than one occasion that if you go far enough left or right you appear out at the other end.
Let me start by saying that the gardian is a very poncy pretensous newspaper for people who watch channel 4 (appologies to our american cousins who probably wont know what I mean here, peeps in the UK will know what im talking about). Journalists have to write stories in a way that makes them appealling enough to read, in order to do that they have to exagerate a bit, trouble is they do it with the science bit too. They also have to sensationalise stories and end up misleading ppl. For example MMR.
yeah the only nation in the world where you can have two inaugurations (do something for the first time)
...manufacturers, they sell cars despite knowing the fact their customers could (and sometimes do) use them to ram raid shops, getaway from cops and drive by shootings (but they do the same to gun manufacturers on that score) etc. the point is how can you be responsible for another persons actions even if you gave them the means they still made the choice to comit the crime
refilling cartrages is not just about saving money its environmetal issues too. personally i belive there should be a printer that just takes ink!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look at that cute tyranasurus rex
This morning I went to the USPTO and patented the will to live so you all owe me money now I think the pto staff that make the decision on these things should be qualified in computers somehow
Only on /. can an article about developer responsibility turn into a debate about the correct uasage of english ;)
I believe aslong as the reader understands then its good enough use of english. thats worked for the americans for years!
Speak english proper like what i does init
I think this would be ok if the gps function was limited to emegency use only or when the user chose and not when the government do lol (besides they have had spy satelites and radio stations that are able to intercept all transmissions in the world anyway. which they have been doing since the 60s)
blue gene can spill 138 cups of tea a second wow!
Selling on the internet ha ha ha ;)
What linux really needs i something a bit like the Milk marketig board here in the UK. All the companies and individuals should pool together to fund marketing into why linux is so much better. Maybe we can have linux tv adverts rather than those shit abstract M$ ones we get.
A Leason in marketing
There once was a leading brand of soap powder than had about 80% of the market the brand owners decided they didnt need to market it anymore so they stoped. Within a year their market share was down to 20%! proof human beings are sheep!
and i will rebuild you pc for you!
Blimey bit extreme to buy a new pc! lol
"bittorrent is shit."
eh? only a representative of the MPAA could come out with something like that!
"and DVD players are common now." you mean cheap enough for mail men to afford them? lol
or will they cut their noses off to spite their faces? (i.e. or spend loads of money on the extra bandwidth they need).