Five years ago they did a straight-line extrapolation to predict federal budget surpluses as far as the eye can see. I don't see them anymore, do you?
Nobody can foresee the future. There are 10% as many telephone operators now as there were 40 years ago, handling ten times as many calls. Is that a bad thing?
Over that past 40 years I have seen engineers in high demand and engineers stocking grocery shelves. If it's bad now, give it five years and it will be good. If it's good now, give it five years and it will be bad.
That's the way it goes. Everything is not good all the time.
If you blow your brains out during the bad times, you miss the good times that are just around the corner.
This is an honest question from me, in an attempt to understand what goes through the mind of people who seem to think they are "power users" and yet continue to use an operating system developed by amateur programmers in their "spare time".
Uhhhh...
You do realize that OSX is based upon the open source code for BSD UNIX, right?
It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on."
Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.
[In 2003, SCO sued IBM in an action which, among other things, alleged SCO's proprietary control of Linux. The SCO suit rapidly became infamous for the number and magnitude of falsehoods alleged in SCO's filings. In October 2003, SCO's lawyers filed a memorandum in which they actually had the temerity to link to the web version of this entry in furtherance of their claims. Whilst we appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively angelic. --ESR]
My company recently had a Linux server with an open port that was used to spoof email from an eBay seller. We know because we were contacted by the FBI. Needless to say, the server is no longer open.
Here's what the Serbian hackers were/are up to.
They place an ad on eBay for an item at a very attractive price. When they make a sale, they choose a valid credit card number from their list whose owner lives within 100 miles of the buyer. They place an order for the item using the purloined credit card number and have it drop-shipped to the buyer. The purchase meets with the buyer's approval, and he makes payment by PayPal.
A few weeks later the cops arrest the buyer for using a stolen credit card. It takes a while for them to figure out what is going on before the buyer is cleared.
"Guns don't kill people. People WITH GUNS kill people."
Yep, and in the Utopia of Great Britain, where private ownership of handguns is now illegal, the crime rate has skyrocketed. Criminals walk into peoples homes to rape, murder and steal with impunity, secure in the knowledge that it is illegal for their victims to defend themselves.
But don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your self-satisfied ignorance.
Genetically-modified corn was planted in a small field. Soybeans were planted in that field the next growing cycle. Volunteer corn from the previous crop sprung up with the soybeans. The company did not weed out the volunteer corn, and at harvest time a small amount of corn was gathered with the soybeans and eventually mixed with 500 tons of soybeans in a silo.
The modified genes being detected are in the corn kernels, not the soybeans.
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Okay, nobody currently alive can foresee the future.
Since when?
Five years ago they did a straight-line extrapolation to predict federal budget surpluses as far as the eye can see. I don't see them anymore, do you?
Nobody can foresee the future. There are 10% as many telephone operators now as there were 40 years ago, handling ten times as many calls. Is that a bad thing?
Over that past 40 years I have seen engineers in high demand and engineers stocking grocery shelves. If it's bad now, give it five years and it will be good. If it's good now, give it five years and it will be bad.
That's the way it goes. Everything is not good all the time.
If you blow your brains out during the bad times, you miss the good times that are just around the corner.
The fact is that 75% of large software projects FAIL.
It should be no surprise that there are failures by Indian programmers.
"The question you should be asking yourself is, 'How would they know that he was using the stolen computer in the first place?'"
My guess would be from the MAC address of the computer's NIC.
Ranges of MAC addresses are assigned to network device manufacturers much like IP addresses, only they are stored in the device's PROM.
You can change a device's MAC address, but it involves reflashing the PROM.
"This is stupid. If no motherboards adopted trusting computing, it'd be fucking hard to sell Windows."
People buy hardware that runs the software they want to use.
Other than at a garage sale, nobody buys a piece of hardware and then runs around looking to see if there is any software that runs on it.
Uhhhh...
You do realize that OSX is based upon the open source code for BSD UNIX, right?
By that logic, wouldn't it be wise to "err on the side of caution" by outlawing abortion since the possibility exists that fetuses are human beings?
Or does your aversion to error not extend to innocent human lives?
It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on."
I think they just did.
Didn't we already try this with the Exxon-Valdez?
Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.
[In 2003, SCO sued IBM in an action which, among other things, alleged SCO's proprietary control of Linux. The SCO suit rapidly became infamous for the number and magnitude of falsehoods alleged in SCO's filings. In October 2003, SCO's lawyers filed a memorandum in which they actually had the temerity to link to the web version of this entry in furtherance of their claims. Whilst we appreciate the compliment of being treated as an authority, we can return it only by observing that SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves compared to which IBM at its historic worst looked positively angelic. --ESR]
It's the surface tension propteries of the ink, commonly known as capillary action.
It's that one CD that has the problem that will contain the documents proving that you wrote the original source code that SCO is now claiming.
-- Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.
It's the law.
--Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.
My company recently had a Linux server with an open port that was used to spoof email from an eBay seller. We know because we were contacted by the FBI. Needless to say, the server is no longer open.
Here's what the Serbian hackers were/are up to.
They place an ad on eBay for an item at a very attractive price. When they make a sale, they choose a valid credit card number from their list whose owner lives within 100 miles of the buyer. They place an order for the item using the purloined credit card number and have it drop-shipped to the buyer. The purchase meets with the buyer's approval, and he makes payment by PayPal.
A few weeks later the cops arrest the buyer for using a stolen credit card. It takes a while for them to figure out what is going on before the buyer is cleared.
That's what eBay is trying to stop.
No, they don't.
The contract may state that, but it also states all the "expenses" that come out of the percentage.
Courtney Love did the math a few years ago, and it hasn't changed.
SCO and Microsoft BOTH suck.
I think I am finally getting the hang of this!
-- Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.
Piracy was the best thing that ever happened to Microsoft.
Sure, people got to learn Word at home for free, but when they got a job it was Word they wanted to use. That's why WordPerfect died.
Giving MS software away to non-profit organizations will never be as good for MS as piracy was. Ten year olds don't work for non-profits.
...Mickey Mouse to become public domain.
Get real.
Liberal religious dogma.
l ott=bad;
Repeat after me:
abortion=good;
baby=bad;
condom=good;
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hillary_clinton=good;
tax_cut=bad;
Any questions?
"Guns don't kill people. People WITH GUNS kill people."
Yep, and in the Utopia of Great Britain, where private ownership of handguns is now illegal, the crime rate has skyrocketed. Criminals walk into peoples homes to rape, murder and steal with impunity, secure in the knowledge that it is illegal for their victims to defend themselves.
But don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your self-satisfied ignorance.
Where everyone is a suspect (except muslims).
"We've got your number."
...is to blind, deafen and paralyze everyone so we are all equal.
Anything less would be unfair.
The genes did not jump from corn to soybeans.
Genetically-modified corn was planted in a small field. Soybeans were planted in that field the next growing cycle. Volunteer corn from the previous crop sprung up with the soybeans. The company did not weed out the volunteer corn, and at harvest time a small amount of corn was gathered with the soybeans and eventually mixed with 500 tons of soybeans in a silo.
The modified genes being detected are in the corn kernels, not the soybeans.