conventionally in everyday speech a 'calorie' actually refers to a kilocalaorie. i odnt think this guy wporks for hardee's but is making light of the guys dietary habits and the sheer unhelathyness of that burger.
digital radio decks in uk support time shifting. in the uk we love radio esp older ppl. also the bbc offer their own time shift service where you can download the broadcasts off the web. well have it streamed [in horrible real media i presume] but a lot of money is spent advertising this feauture by the beeb.
a/ its not my 1st langauge. b/ i am not much of a typist : P
and i was in a rush this mornin'! no time to proofread or see the trailer
i shuldnt* really contrubte to the noise on slashdot i shuld* raise standards by making better quality posts like you seem to be doing. #rolls eyes#
for instance your deliberate deployment of the olde english 'yea' as opposed to the american 'yeah'and also the spelling of calibre as 'caliber; or should i assume you the perfer terrabyte are not infalliable as your attitude might suggest?
you shoulda* previewed your two line post!.. hell if you cannot proof read your two own line missives in your native language why should i really assume you care or that your opinion matters as much as anyone elses? pedant. however i would doubt the mental faculties of anyone who has read the script of blockbuster movie adaptation of a comic nbook and is excited about it. i am no longer in the business where i have to read movie scripts. but a certian few come my way from old friends.
*i know these are misspelled and i know it will annoy you
UPDATE : seen the trailer it looks awful. nothing on the rushes i saw or the promise. i am sure it is studio jitters trying ot make sure the summer market wqill come.
like they wont?! it IS summer and comic boook movie.
"honey we cant see this.. it looks too much like greek classical drama." [it doesnt] what does through studio execs minds , eh?
sony and the giants want to leave it to the smaller less failure resilient players innovate and therefore to take all the risks.
this will not do.. and its not simply an open source collobarative methodology question.
whilst it can be a valid model [for maybe an engine] it doesnt scale as well for all the copyrioghted./ copylefted unqiue media such as cut scenes. dialogue. writing. music art direction graphic design. and so on.
the uk smal dev market for 8 biut and 16 bit ST/amiga was great
the codemasters literally were sixteen year old innovative coder deisgners in their bedorooms and so on. it can no longer be like this mny more. competition is too great and barrrier of entry too high#
even post open sourced tools etc.
you have valve with a counter example. innovative distribution methods great games and lsowly does it gameplay amazing tech innovations the invention of steam delivery; love it or hate it its a cool thing that may be enable small studios to compete easily not needing a dsitributor. [for windows really as you have red carpet or some custom apt on debian]
im sorry this may sound obvious or redundant as i stoped being gamer when the era of theif 2 and half life was over. half life 2 and thief 3 as well as the splinter cells does make my fingers itch. just not my heart, imagination or brain. which is what the older games did with each iteration.
here we are not going through iterations for refinement. perhaps ion the business models - but that is all.
dvorak is SEEING how the wintel alliance did for win 3.11 --> win95 ---> millenium/XP
MS drove hardware sales and hardware drove upgrades to teh new os iof needed. if hes wrongt; fine. if he's right i can see him not pulling it out if his ass is all.
it is awesome. it is was as clsoe to the shooting script as possible. but that still may mean massive changes. the script itself is lovingly, faithfully written. i only wanted to read the opening scene and before i knew it a couple of hours had gone and i was te the end.
no im not that fat aint-it-cool guy [but i nearly did have geek-gasm]. or the comic book guy out of simpsons.
it looks very special - very psychological. [you admire batman but know you could never be him] chris nolan before production started invited everyone to private screening of bladerunner. and said "this is what i wnat."
he was also said to want to really emphasise how much being a detective batman is. and how much learned at the nbegining and how much more had to learn.
if you think about it batman is like sherlock holmes. with gadgets [although he barely uses any in teh script.]. and kung fu.
it could still be terrible.
oh eyah this is gorgeous. no real flashbacks.
bruce waynes past is his past. and it grows him into what he becomes.
it honestly seems like batman animated series' success in seriousness had a hand in it as well as the backlash to resurrecting the camp knight. i think we owe our thanks here to Tim Burtons ressurection of the dark knight and the psychology of the bruce wayne masquerade. the fantastic writing of knightsend, Knightfall LoTDK, bladerunner and Christopher Nolan.
erm why licence something that is willfully obscured to secure revenue? [either form licensees or from end users buying pointless product] professionals already buy photoshop, [although my gf uses the Gimp 30-40% of the time]
not supporting it means they must pay nikon . but not dump photoshop as they use it for many other things and already own it. it wont stop them buying photshop. what it will do is make ppl think twice about 6k camera that doenst operate correctly with software. its not like it runs on film and photshop or nikon capture is an add-on option. why biuy a broken camera?
it was a patented [PHYSICAL technical process ] then it is worth licencsing
you are equating licensing with "protection"
in the mafia sense of the word.
everytime the camera changes they have to relicense? i dont think so.
this is REALLY really lame and i expect this behaviour from phsycial goods manufacturers. everhthing is propriatary with them
their lens mounts, the cable, the protocols.
howevere camera sare the latest example of all things moving into a digital sphere that operates with our computers and they are at once risking alienating digital photgraphers.
to be honest i hate new nikons. they made gerat cameras but now i am defintely buying a canon now.
i used to be a photgrapher and filmmaker now i am amrried to one and study them.
that is an intersting interpretation and an intersting point in itself. however a reverse engineered unencumbered client-replacement is either beneficial to all as a stop gap or diverting effort for the FLOSS to roll their own valid and (r)evolutionary replacement.
-- after all, larry apperently made no money from the free linux clients only loss and his money came from the service he provides in his server software. and maybe more people would've adopted BK and paid for it -- who knows.
tha fact of the matter is ; it is about choice. you are free to hack; you are free to choose what you use and what you do with software. the BK clients did not let you do that. these conditions not ebing met give rise to a favourable ecosystem for reverse engineering or completely new Free replacements.
i/ restrictive licence on what your 'intent' is. ii/ you could only use the official BK client iii/ the free BK client was crippled.
it was a reverse engineer waiting to happen. however, i would have imagined that larry feared 'one good turn deserves another', is that these wily open source hackers would cobble together an ENTIRE replacement.
but thats not my main point.
inspired by your statement i think i would go one further; linus is upstaging even RMS himself by allowing himself to be martyred on restrictive closed source software. by showing that he is fallible like us, capable of sin. he shows anger, and revenge -- all the dark side of the force. we see the error of his non free pragmatism and learn how he atoned for all our non-Free sins. the man is a genius. thank you. i shall never hear an mp3 again!
maybe he got sick of esr talking about how Free is abstract and only novel but Open Source pragmatism like Linus's is what counts.
whatver it was we are now approachoing a new higher plateau of maturity. lets sieze on it.
on a legal note: i don't like mcevoy; he comes accross as arrogant and ethically unsound. is it a gross mischaracterisation by the OSS press?
his products, OTOH, should be put under the microscope for any copyright violations. he sounds so paranoid and fervent taht i am sure he is the sinner "methinks the lady doth protest her [innocence]too much". or the tainted see guilt and shame everywhere.
why would we care about the financial success of any film? let alone the past films of hack michael bay? how would it have any bearing on the new movie? answer: we dont and it does not! we care about the content and quality of a film we may or may not pay to see. so therefore we care if the past performances of michael bay can be reliably extrapolated to predict that his handling of the Transformers movie will be dire. 'bomb' for this user and for me ; is in critical terms only.
hint: do you ever watch a movie and think "wow this movie made a bajillion dollars! woohoo! lots of other people saw this !! i feel great!"
because its not as popular. [? probably ?in open source cheerleader terms] no one cares about the 'good' apple do by releasing code back. even though they arent really 'GPld' into doing it! its not seen as a 'good' and they still keep all their nice toys. [as well they should if they want to/ esp in it benefits them to do so!]
you see?
how many open source developers are shaping the future of the next OS X release? [ i really don't know- it could be thousands of netBSD and freeBSD and openBSD devs -- but the point is i dont know that and i doubt its more than small handful. not that apple needs or cares! ]
but SUSE, redhat, ubuntu, whatvernux 2.0- or any open source package / project *LIBERATED* by ibm/*whateverOpenSourceDarlingCorpoftheMonth?? pe rsonally i know people who are actively helping the 'community' eg i personally am one of those people . and end users? - they can help too - any wya they can.
i am not trying to malign BSDs or apple. i am reporting on the perceptions of others as related to me and my own somewhat idiotic perceptions.
ps these are also the perceptions which inform me and keep me merely as a user of the wonderful freebsd, openbsd and pf, rather than contributing [as opposed to linux.and tbh.. i'm not THAT thrilled with linux distro's. they just leave me content.]
you're an ass unfortunately in the corporate led culture of theUSA the propaganda eventually leeds to worship listen to yourself -- equating the lazy ineffcient, greedy, short sighted corporate mentality with an essential development in mathematics?
An economy without corporations is like physics without calculus.
your point has some merit. ' coroprations have acheived alot in addition to massive, unreal bizarre levsl of profit.' so what?
it wasnt corporatins that cured polio, put men on the moon. indeed, in something massive like the apollo missions, corprations where insturmental in fluidly being able to mobilise specialised knowledge.. but the corps did not create tat knowledge. they were just the efficient and appopriate vector.
for isntance, it is pharma-corps who are helping destroy your 'healthcare system' billions sunk into advertising nearly as much as into R&D, much more thah manufacturing!
really who needs to advertise cancer/ aids drugs? if the didnt then most drugs would be 400% chepaer at the least and would compete based on merit and trial results.
look at GM technology.. alot of it just is not useful/ competitive by any stretch of the imagination. so in your capitalist, corporate utopia these failed projects would die and go away?
yet it is these same white elephants and hobby horses being rammed down our thraots by corporate consensus or govt acquiescence. why? because the corps over the last 30 years sank trillions of dollars around the world into it and neeed to make back the money squandered, blindly, greedily.. that investment -- they will over time -- their is no doubt the technology is powerful and useful if applied correctly.. but that is not enough... they wnat their moeny know -- from taxpayers.. via wasteful governemnt contracts.
it sounds to me that in your worship, you excuse their excesses and destrcution of your fine and great country. corporations in an economy are like cattle on a farm [there are alot of diffrent attitudes to farming and some map well in this analogy to real life socio-economic systems - ie communism capitalism], they have ot be managed and regulated, the farmer benefits from their continued existence,wellbeing, effort and cost into maintaining them[eg tax breaks to encourage good responsible behaviour, the costs of aking them to court or fining them for pollution etc] but it seems here in the west the cattle took over and now produce nothing for the farmer; constantly beat the farnmer's wife for her milk and rape his daughter. deep down, haoratio alger, you know you shan't win. you'll never become flithy rich like you dream of; just enough to get by day to day lugging rocks on the work farm for the cattle's entertainment, nothing more.
i think the qualities they saw as negative in tony blair, world leader/ politician who had made unpopular decisions and done questionable things come across as extremely positive in an extrenely wealthy midde aged man.
the doodles are probably mind maps of some kind ot help him concentrate and stay focussed when it his turn to speak, by the looks of it. alos they oook concerned and nervous, as man who is concerned baout the world
ever since i read the open letter to hobyists i have hated this mean. ever since i used his software i have despised this man.
i think it is very plausible that the new [ last 10-6 years] mellow rich bill is different from the old borg evil bill! #we should focus on what he hopes to do in the future . software, socially and politically -- if inly keep an eye on him. i do belive i saw 'world domination' as one of the items. seriously
this still puts MS win xp in the shade as it is software you PAY for tat sells in its htousands who wont put buyilt in Mpeg2 playback codec into it. its just nasty . its not as if the yare scared of anti trust or monopoly accusations.
after spending £160 on XP you cant even play a dvd! without either WAREZing or paying anpother 20 quid! disgusting.
power if nightmares.it is an amazing and non hysterical work. it seems written by a politics professor with an excellent reoutation. just the facts. khutub vs strauss.
absolutley brilliant.
na dit even fosuses briefly on bin laden without being obssessed by him. showing him as the true man on the sidelines.
unless MS decides to port Windows to PPC, which is about as me being declared King of England.
well if longhorn eventually becomes a collection of APIs and emulation layers that run on top of somthing like vanilla.netBSD 4.0 or anything else they choose you will see it run on PPC, and any other processor MS sees fit to advance their business.
didnt they also buy an emulation specialist company recently? arent they famed for making sure they dont break backwards compatibilty when its in their business interests?
legacy expertise + emulation expertise + netbsd + longhorn buzzwords
= far fetched windows predictions
my prediction is that the above will be a natural progression for windows which will then mature to become a half way viable platform for developers.
however that obviously assish speculation and its more likely they choose me as queen of england in your stead!
also i see them selling slim start up CDs with boot strap device probing code on a plain bsd kernel
as everyone will have broadband -- for home users
then their servers will compile code gentoo style as well as userland apps as you make your choices in the installer.
this will be 'to stem piracy' although i odnt see how and i dont think they care unless they are serious about making china buy windows.
as corps and businesses will need a source base or whatver to installs as they need as well as pre installs on brand new dells and what have you i cant see it working ot fight piracy.
but this will move MS harder away form shrink wrap
and towrads subscription based services for updates and add on apps. which i am sure they want.
you heard it here first!
i just dont need a dumb blog for me to spout off wild predictions i use the comment form on slashdot!
sorry for being off topic but all this junk just ocurred ot me. it was your on the mark ppc comment that sparked it!
your fault
of a moderately sized college class.....or
other cross-social-barrier settings.
i'm sorry? how is college a 'cross-social-barrier' environment? in england it CERTAINLY is not one
and college in uk = up to* US$2600 per year in fees for wealthy/comfortable people [the poor get fees waived - ie * it is means tested on a sliding scale of income] which one can opt to get an up to $8000 dollar loan at near interst free [relative to natural inflation] loan to pay for costs PER YEAR!!!! please dont be delusional but college is a place if priveledge.
a dmv line in USA is probably sound as cars are cheap and under regulated there but still a million miles away from college USA
ps thusly is still considered a disputed/contraversial mauled adverb although you use it without an adverb aplication.
i dont want t be mean but if my students ever used 'thusly' to sound clever -- I would, to use your venacular, academically whale on them! After all i take them seriuosly, but i would want others to do so.
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your office is next to the weed lab?!
what happend to wildstorm studios? apart form mcfarlane thats the only thing i enjoyed about image.
lush. also the clourinng was done with non traidtionally. i think they led the way ahead of dc and marvek back then.
um actually - i believe he does.
he is using the term in the classical sense in regards to the current political legal climate.
maybe you should go look it up , sweetie.
err did he take an instruction in the MB game 'Guess Who?'
"is he wearing glasses?"
"no"
"okay we can eliminate the glasses wearers"
conventionally in everyday speech a 'calorie' actually refers to a kilocalaorie.
i odnt think this guy wporks for hardee's but is making light of the guys dietary habits and the sheer unhelathyness of that burger.
hence "or two but you might pass out"
digital radio decks in uk support time shifting. in the uk we love radio esp older ppl.
also the bbc offer their own time shift service where you can download the broadcasts off the web.
well have it streamed [in horrible real media i presume]
but a lot of money is spent advertising this feauture by the beeb.
thanks.
a/ its not my 1st langauge.
.. hell if you cannot proof read your two own line missives in your native language why should i really assume you care or that your opinion matters as much as anyone elses? pedant.
b/ i am not much of a typist : P
and i was in a rush this mornin'! no time to proofread or see the trailer
i shuldnt* really contrubte to the noise on slashdot
i shuld* raise standards by making better quality posts
like you seem to be doing.
#rolls eyes#
for instance your deliberate deployment of the olde english 'yea' as opposed to the american 'yeah'and also the spelling of calibre as 'caliber; or should i assume you the perfer terrabyte are not infalliable as your attitude might suggest?
you shoulda* previewed your two line post!
however i would doubt the mental faculties of anyone who has read the script of blockbuster movie adaptation of a comic nbook and is excited about it.
i am no longer in the business where i have to read movie scripts. but a certian few come my way from old friends.
*i know these are misspelled and i know it will annoy you
UPDATE : seen the trailer it looks awful.
nothing on the rushes i saw or the promise. i am sure it is studio jitters trying ot make sure the
summer market wqill come.
like they wont?! it IS summer and comic boook movie.
"honey we cant see this.. it looks too much like greek classical drama." [it doesnt] what does through studio execs minds , eh?
not the same?
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
for once he is right.
.. and its not simply an open source collobarative methodology question.
sony and the giants want to leave it to the smaller less failure resilient players innovate and therefore to take all the risks.
this will not do
whilst it can be a valid model [for maybe an engine] it doesnt scale as well for all the copyrioghted./ copylefted unqiue media such as cut scenes.
dialogue.
writing.
music
art direction
graphic design.
and so on.
the uk smal dev market for 8 biut and 16 bit ST/amiga was great
the codemasters literally were sixteen year old innovative coder deisgners in their bedorooms and so on.
it can no longer be like this mny more.
competition is too great and barrrier of entry too high#
even post open sourced tools etc.
you have valve with a counter example.
innovative distribution methods
great games and lsowly does it gameplay
amazing tech innovations
the invention of steam delivery; love it or hate it
its a cool thing that may be enable small studios to compete easily not needing a dsitributor. [for windows really as you have red carpet or some custom apt on debian]
im sorry this may sound obvious or redundant
as i stoped being gamer when the era of theif 2 and half life was over.
half life 2 and thief 3 as well as the splinter cells does make my fingers itch.
just not my heart, imagination or brain.
which is what the older games did with each iteration.
here we are not going through iterations for refinement. perhaps ion the business models - but that is all.
dvorak is SEEING how the wintel alliance did for win 3.11 --> win95 ---> millenium/XP
MS drove hardware sales and hardware drove upgrades to teh new os iof needed.
if hes wrongt; fine. if he's right i can see him not pulling it out if his ass is all.
i ahve read the script.
.
it is awesome. it is was as clsoe to the shooting script as possible. but that still may mean massive changes.
the script itself is lovingly, faithfully written.
i only wanted to read the opening scene and before i knew it a couple of hours had gone and i was te the end.
no im not that fat aint-it-cool guy [but i nearly did have geek-gasm].
or the comic book guy out of simpsons.
it looks very special - very psychological.
[you admire batman but know you could never be him]
chris nolan before production started invited everyone to private screening of bladerunner.
and said "this is what i wnat."
he was also said to want to really emphasise how much being a detective batman is. and how much learned at the nbegining and how much more had to learn.
if you think about it batman is like sherlock holmes. with gadgets
[although he barely uses any in teh script.].
and kung fu.
it could still be terrible.
oh eyah this is gorgeous. no real flashbacks.
bruce waynes past is his past. and it grows him into what he becomes
it honestly seems like batman animated series' success in seriousness had a hand in it as well as the backlash to resurrecting the camp knight.
i think we owe our thanks here to Tim Burtons ressurection of the dark knight and the psychology of the bruce wayne masquerade.
the fantastic writing of knightsend, Knightfall LoTDK, bladerunner and Christopher Nolan.
users in a trap.
erm why licence something that is willfully obscured to secure revenue? [either form licensees or from end users buying pointless product]
professionals already buy photoshop, [although my gf uses the Gimp 30-40% of the time]
not supporting it means they must pay nikon . but not dump photoshop as they use it for many other things and already own it. it wont stop them
buying photshop.
what it will do is make ppl think twice about 6k camera that doenst operate correctly with software. its not like it runs on film and photshop or nikon capture is an add-on option.
why biuy a broken camera?
it was a patented [PHYSICAL technical process ] then it is worth licencsing
you are equating licensing with "protection"
in the mafia sense of the word.
everytime the camera changes they have to relicense? i dont think so.
this is REALLY really lame and i expect this behaviour from phsycial goods manufacturers. everhthing is propriatary with them
their lens mounts, the cable, the protocols.
howevere camera sare the latest example of all things moving into a digital sphere that operates with our computers and they are at once risking alienating digital photgraphers.
to be honest i hate new nikons.
they made gerat cameras but now i am defintely buying a canon now.
i used to be a photgrapher and filmmaker
now i am amrried to one and study them.
that is an intersting interpretation and an intersting point in itself. however a reverse engineered unencumbered client-replacement is either beneficial to all as a stop gap or diverting effort for the FLOSS to roll their own valid and (r)evolutionary replacement.
-- after all, larry apperently made no money from the free linux clients only loss and his money came from the service he provides in his server software. and maybe more people would've adopted BK and paid for it -- who knows.
tha fact of the matter is ; it is about choice. you are free to hack; you are free to choose what you use and what you do with software.
the BK clients did not let you do that.
these conditions not ebing met give rise to a favourable ecosystem for reverse engineering or completely new Free replacements.
i/ restrictive licence on what your 'intent' is.
ii/ you could only use the official BK client
iii/ the free BK client was crippled.
it was a reverse engineer waiting to happen.
however, i would have imagined that larry feared 'one good turn deserves another', is that these wily open source hackers would cobble together an ENTIRE replacement.
but thats not my main point.
inspired by your statement i think i would go one further; linus is upstaging even RMS himself by allowing himself to be martyred on restrictive closed source software. by showing that he is fallible like us, capable of sin. he shows anger, and revenge -- all the dark side of the force.
we see the error of his non free pragmatism and learn how he atoned for all our non-Free sins.
the man is a genius. thank you.
i shall never hear an mp3 again!
maybe he got sick of esr talking about how Free is abstract and only novel but Open Source pragmatism like Linus's is what counts.
whatver it was we are now approachoing a new higher plateau of maturity. lets sieze on it.
on a legal note: i don't like mcevoy; he comes accross as arrogant and ethically unsound.
is it a gross mischaracterisation by the OSS press?
his products, OTOH, should be put under the microscope for any copyright violations. he sounds so paranoid and fervent taht i am sure he is the sinner "methinks the lady doth protest her [innocence]too much".
or the tainted see guilt and shame everywhere.
thanks,
che
why would we care about the financial success of any film? let alone the past films of hack michael bay? how would it have any bearing on the new movie?
answer: we dont and it does not!
we care about the content and quality of a film we may or may not pay to see.
so therefore we care if the past performances of michael bay can be reliably extrapolated to predict that his handling of the Transformers movie will be dire.
'bomb' for this user and for me ; is in critical terms only.
hint: do you ever watch a movie and think "wow this movie made a bajillion dollars! woohoo! lots of other people saw this !! i feel great!"
because its not as popular. [? probably ?in open source cheerleader terms]
e rsonally i know people who are actively helping
no one cares about the 'good'
apple do by releasing code back. even though they arent
really 'GPld' into doing it!
its not seen as a 'good' and they still keep all their nice toys. [as well they should if they want to/ esp in it benefits them to do so!]
you see?
how many open source developers are shaping the future of the next OS X release? [ i really don't know- it could be thousands of netBSD and freeBSD and openBSD devs -- but the point is i dont know that and i doubt its more than small handful. not that apple needs or cares! ]
but SUSE, redhat, ubuntu, whatvernux 2.0- or any open source package / project *LIBERATED* by ibm/*whateverOpenSourceDarlingCorpoftheMonth??
p
the 'community' eg i personally am one of those people . and end users? - they can help too - any wya they can.
i am not trying to malign BSDs or apple. i am reporting on the perceptions of others as related to me and my own somewhat idiotic perceptions.
ps these are also the perceptions which inform me and keep me merely as a user of the wonderful freebsd, openbsd and pf, rather than contributing [as opposed to linux.and tbh.. i'm not THAT thrilled with linux distro's. they just leave me content.]
unfortunately in the corporate led culture of theUSA the propaganda eventually leeds to worship
listen to yourself -- equating the lazy ineffcient, greedy, short sighted corporate mentality with an essential development in mathematics?
your point has some merit.
' coroprations have acheived alot in addition to massive, unreal bizarre levsl of profit.'
so what?
it wasnt corporatins that cured polio, put men on the moon.
indeed, in something massive like the apollo missions, corprations where insturmental in fluidly being able to mobilise specialised knowledge.. but the corps did not create tat knowledge. they were just the efficient and appopriate vector.
for isntance, it is pharma-corps who are helping destroy your 'healthcare system' billions sunk into advertising nearly as much as into R&D, much more thah manufacturing!
really who needs to advertise cancer/ aids drugs?
if the didnt then most drugs would be 400% chepaer at the least and would compete based on merit and trial results.
look at GM technology.. alot of it just is not useful/ competitive by any stretch of the imagination. so in your capitalist, corporate utopia these failed projects would die and go away?
yet it is these same white elephants and hobby horses being rammed down our thraots by corporate consensus or govt acquiescence.
why? because the corps over the last 30 years sank trillions of dollars around the world into it and neeed to make back the money squandered, blindly, greedily.. that investment -- they will over time -- their is no doubt the technology is powerful and useful if applied correctly
it sounds to me that in your worship, you excuse their excesses and destrcution of your fine and great country.
corporations in an economy are like cattle on a farm [there are alot of diffrent attitudes to farming and some map well in this analogy to real life socio-economic systems - ie communism capitalism], they have ot be managed and regulated, the farmer benefits from their continued existence,wellbeing, effort and cost into maintaining them[eg tax breaks to encourage good responsible behaviour, the costs of aking them to court or fining them for pollution etc] but it seems here in the west
the cattle took over and now produce nothing for the farmer; constantly beat the farnmer's wife for her milk and rape his daughter.
deep down, haoratio alger, you know you shan't win.
you'll never become flithy rich like you dream of; just enough to get by day to day lugging rocks on the work farm for the cattle's entertainment, nothing more.
becayuse you cant play dvds. wordpad sucks. etc
..is wow.
dont be so quick to dismiss it.
hwo is really intels competitor amd or ibm?
amd for now. but i bm may displace both once x86 completely dies.
i think the qualities they saw as negative in tony blair, world leader/ politician who had made unpopular decisions and done questionable things come across as extremely positive in an extrenely wealthy midde aged man.
the doodles are probably mind maps of some kind ot help him concentrate and stay focussed when it his turn to speak, by the looks of it. alos they oook concerned and nervous, as man who is concerned baout the world
ever since i read the open letter to hobyists i have hated this mean. ever since i used his software i have despised this man.
i think it is very plausible that the new [ last 10-6 years] mellow rich bill is different from the old borg evil bill!
#we should focus on what he hopes to do in the future . software, socially and politically -- if inly keep an eye on him. i do belive i saw 'world domination' as one of the items. seriously
this still puts MS win xp in the shade as it is software you PAY for tat sells in its htousands
who wont put buyilt in Mpeg2 playback codec into it.
its just nasty . its not as if the yare scared of anti trust or monopoly accusations.
after spending £160 on XP you cant even play a dvd!
without either WAREZing or paying anpother 20 quid!
disgusting.
maybe theye were doing some reasarch for the conference? : /
power if nightmares.it is an amazing and non hysterical work.
it seems written by a politics professor with an excellent reoutation.
just the facts.
khutub vs strauss.
absolutley brilliant.
na dit even fosuses briefly on bin laden without being obssessed by him. showing him as the true man on the sidelines.
funnnyyyyy.
wish i had mod points
legacy expertise + emulation expertise + netbsd + longhorn buzzwords = far fetched windows predictions
my prediction is that the above will be a natural progression for windows which will then mature to become a half way viable platform for developers. however that obviously assish speculation and its more likely they choose me as queen of england in your stead! also i see them selling slim start up CDs with boot strap device probing code on a plain bsd kernel as everyone will have broadband -- for home users then their servers will compile code gentoo style as well as userland apps as you make your choices in the installer. this will be 'to stem piracy' although i odnt see how and i dont think they care unless they are serious about making china buy windows. as corps and businesses will need a source base or whatver to installs as they need as well as pre installs on brand new dells and what have you i cant see it working ot fight piracy. but this will move MS harder away form shrink wrap and towrads subscription based services for updates and add on apps. which i am sure they want. you heard it here first! i just dont need a dumb blog for me to spout off wild predictions i use the comment form on slashdot! sorry for being off topic but all this junk just ocurred ot me. it was your on the mark ppc comment that sparked it! your fault
i'm sorry? how is college a 'cross-social-barrier' environment? in england it CERTAINLY is not one
and college in uk = up to* US$2600 per year in fees for wealthy/comfortable people [the poor get fees waived - ie * it is means tested on a sliding scale of income] which one can opt to get an up to $8000 dollar loan at near interst free [relative to natural inflation] loan to pay for costs PER YEAR!!!! please dont be delusional but college is a place if priveledge.
a dmv line in USA is probably sound as cars are cheap and under regulated there but still a million miles away from college USA
ps thusly is still considered a disputed/contraversial mauled adverb although you use it without an adverb aplication.
i dont want t be mean but if my students ever used 'thusly' to sound clever -- I would, to use your venacular, academically whale on them! After all i take them seriuosly, but i would want others to do so.