nah - I'd argue that KDE is interested in building a desktop that is well integrated into a number of different OS's - that necessarily means they often need to do stuff themselves so that it works in places other than Linux. Redhat is just one corner of the KDE universe
to be fair in NZ a doctor has a BMedSci or some similar (I forget the exact designation), not an actual doctorate (a medical degree there is not done in postgrad but entered directly from a special undergrad track).
'Security' in the sense of 'protecting you from all the evil stuff out there' will cost a lot, and probably continue to cost more and more. 'Security' in the sense of 'protecting the RIAA from you' will be built in, free and compulsory
Of course once M$ has a biz plan where customers pay extra for security the incentive to no fix (or even leave in) security bugs will be tempting...
'DEP' obviously has his own agenda which doesn't seem to have much to do with open source - he seem's to have got it in for all the KDE developers because some of them have used their 1st ammendment rights and expoused personal opinions that disagree with his
If Co$ claims they own my writing I'll have to go sue them for plagarism:-).....
Want to get your own back against Co$ientology for their continuing censorship of the net? This thanksgiving when you're with your family (or whoever) bring up the subject... tell them:
Scientology believes people are haunted by space aliens
They don't tell new recruits until they are well inside the cult and have spent more than $300,000 with them
They are abusive to their members and run prison labor camps in some of their facilities
Some people have died
If they know anyone who's getting interested in Scientology bthere's a place of the net where you can find this stuff out - just search on Google
In a bout of microsoft driven pseudo-angts they say: "The specifics of the deal Sun Microsystems has made are shocking: Sun will "donate" copies of their StarOffice 6.0 productivity suite to the Ministries of Education on just about every continent except for Antarctica. "
of course selling penguins to Antartica is lost cause and even Sun wouldn't try that....
Your reference starts with a section "Trial by jury in civil cases" which in the 3rd paragraph contains the following which I would argue sais basicly what I did above:
"The Amendment has for its primary purpose the preservation of ''the common law distinction between the province of the court and that of the jury, whereby, in the absence of express or implied consent to the contrary, issues of law are resolved by the court and issues of fact are to be determined by the jury under appropriate instructions by the court.' "
if M$ can get away with it they won't update '97 - they want all those users to buy the latest Office (and XP to go with it) if they possibly can.
They're treading a fine line here - by not upgrading they provide another reason to push their customers to spend money with them... but at the same time there's that risk of alienating them too - it looks like a "can't win" situation but that's not true - it's more like a "can't not offend some customers" situation - in reality if 10% jump and upgrade they probably win big - and the 10% they really pissed off probably wouldn't have anyway.
Of course if the 10% who swore they wouldn't buy M$ again go and upgrade to Linux then long term we all win:-)
For the non-US readers - very simply (nothing really is in law) the idea is that the court has two things to decide - "findings of fact" and "findings of law" - if there is disagreement on the facts you go to trial, witnesses etc, to figure what's "true". If you agree on the facts then the judge can just rule on the law "is what's happening, based on the facts, illegal".
It's a great way to short-circuit an expensive long trial.... if you win...
sure there are lots around the coast where the fish are - but none make it inland up to the Pole - this was my point. Antartica is a really big place - I suspect all the penguins at the pole are stuffed toys
OK - I did stage lighting in high-school - 240v almost never kills you unless you get it across the heart - gives you a hell of a kick, but seldom kills - you just have to remember whenever working withg exposed wires keep one hand in your back pocket (be it 110 or 240v).
A simple rule to remember: "it's the volts that jolts and the mils that kills". In other words worry more about how the return current will flow.
The US 120v system has always struck me a terrible waste of money spent in wiring - all that copper must be an invisible drag on the national economy - Romex is the most horrible stuff to pull (for those unfamiliar it contains heavy solid copper wires) in 220v systems people use thinner, flexible stranded wires that are much more easier to deal with. Remember power = V**2/R so you can get away with 1/4 the resistance at twice the voltage for the same power wastage
umm.... there are no penguins at the South Pole (at the coast maybe...)
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"lifetime warranty"refers to the lifetime of the card - when it breaks the warranty runs out
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The M$ booth was pretty cheap - more like one of those you see from a struggling startup - it was against a 'wall' rather than in the center of the show (maybe they felt safer with their backs against the wall:-) and was about twice the size of the.org booths (KDE, FSF, Gnome etc). They had a fishbowl for biz cards to get an xbox and a blackboardish sort of display in the background promoting (as far as I could tell) ksh (I suspect they were really trying to establish their linux street creds).
It was suprisingly packed - I had to take my eggs home, couldn't get a clear shot at all
I think it depends on the manufacturer/model - my (older) Dell 7100 has a small sliding door on the back (no screws) that gives access to the AGP slot - replacing the card is probably a 3 minute process. (same with system SDRAM).
while I mostly agree with much of what you say - I have to disagree - if you've done the startup thing enough times you know what to negotiate for - and have the contacts to get into a startup early enough to get a big chunk (you know one of those single digit employee number sorts of things - as an engineer I've got way more than 1% a couple of times) - you also know that if you're moderately successfull dilution will occur, the VCs will get there's and chances are it WILL fail. You probably also know when to bail and when to actually pay for stock up front (the tax consequences, AMT and all that stuff)
One of the sad things about the whole dot-com thing was how incredibly naive people were - when there were people all around them who'd been down this road before
I've worked a number of startups over the past 20 years - most were moderately successfull, one went public - but like the stock market I've always considered it a risky long-term investment that will one day hopefully pay off.
The basic problem is that to eventually be a public company you need to be of a certain size - N shares times $15/share. Why go public - because you need to be able to pay off the VCs and the founders (all those engineers who worked their butts off for 3 years with the hope of making it big).
This model for building a tech company has been basicly the only way to create a company here in the US since the 60s - the VCs understand how it works, the execs, the engineers all know how it works. Most of these companys die - maybe 2 out of 10 live to go public - it's the risk you take building a startup - it's also effects the scale of things the VCs try for - they need those 10-20% of BIG successes to pay for all the investments that fail. The basic business model for people starting this sort of company is "we will build a company that's worth something and sell it on the stock market". You make money from an ever increasing stock price.
Of course it's not the only way to build a company you can start a small company and grow it slowly financing it out of profit - this is really hard to do (I know I've tried:-) - but not impossible - I've known a number of people who've built such companies - you have a completely different model for your business "we will sell the stuff we make and take home part of the profits". You make money from your profits.
The big advantage of the DIY company is that you can stop growing at any point. Besides, because you're living directly off your profits you don't have to grow for ever to keep making money - you can stop at $1M or $5M or wherever you're comfortable. The big downside is you're probably spending your own (very real) money, not some VCs.
actually that's my point - there really is no universally acknowledged name that actually represents just the citizens of the USA (outside the US 'yank' probably comes closest) - there are lot's of United States in America
If your version of history, where there were people in dozens of countries calling themselves "Americans" before those evil Yankees commandeered the name for themselves, had any truth to it, then you'd be right.
You completely miss my point - this is not a historical view - there ARE now (at this very time) people in dozens of countries who consider themselves "Americans" - just like the French also consider themselves "Europeans" - don't ask a Thai or Somali who they think are "Americans" - ask a Columbian
Actually youtr mention of Columbians is very relevant - I'd never really thought about this issue before I met some Columbians at a conference - it was they who pointed out quite indignently that they too were Americans and they resented the USian's taking this word as their own.
Maybe another way of thinking about it is that people can belong to geographical entities larger their country - be it "European", "Caribean", "Asian", "Australasian" (like me), "American" (or even "North/South/Central American").
BTW - if I really wanted to troll this issue I'd point out that "United States of America" could well describe any country in the Americas that consists of a bunch of local states - Brazil, Mexico, Canada etc - all those countries have their own unique names that describe the whole while the US only has a description of its politics (kind of like saying "a dozen coke cans" to describe a bunch of sodas).
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nah - I'd argue that KDE is interested in building a desktop that is well integrated into a number of different OS's - that necessarily means they often need to do stuff themselves so that it works in places other than Linux. Redhat is just one corner of the KDE universe
'Doctor' is an honorific
ummm ... this is only the media apocalypse .... and napster and kazaa are waay ahead of you ....
that story's getting close to an urban legend (doesn't mean it didn't happen) - I was told a varient in high schoiol in New Zealand 30 years ago
Of course once M$ has a biz plan where customers pay extra for security the incentive to no fix (or even leave in) security bugs will be tempting ...
'DEP' obviously has his own agenda which doesn't seem to have much to do with open source - he seem's to have got it in for all the KDE developers because some of them have used their 1st ammendment rights and expoused personal opinions that disagree with his
of course .... and when your laptop power supply is running low just pop that call button ....
If Co$ claims they own my writing I'll have to go sue them for plagarism :-) .....
Want to get your own back against Co$ientology for their continuing censorship of the net? This thanksgiving when you're with your family (or whoever) bring up the subject ... tell them:
lower range, houses with chicken-wire in the walls, still limited by the speed of your cable modem/DSL ....
of course selling penguins to Antartica is lost cause and even Sun wouldn't try that ....
"The Amendment has for its primary purpose the preservation of ''the common law distinction between the province of the court and that of the jury, whereby, in the absence of express or implied consent to the contrary, issues of law are resolved by the court and issues of fact are to be determined by the jury under appropriate instructions by the court.' "
They're treading a fine line here - by not upgrading they provide another reason to push their customers to spend money with them ... but at the same time there's that risk of alienating them too - it looks like a "can't win" situation but that's not true - it's more like a "can't not offend some customers" situation - in reality if 10% jump and upgrade they probably win big - and the 10% they really pissed off probably wouldn't have anyway.
Of course if the 10% who swore they wouldn't buy M$ again go and upgrade to Linux then long term we all win :-)
It's a great way to short-circuit an expensive long trial .... if you win ...
IANAL etc
sure there are lots around the coast where the fish are - but none make it inland up to the Pole - this was my point. Antartica is a really big place - I suspect all the penguins at the pole are stuffed toys
A simple rule to remember: "it's the volts that jolts and the mils that kills". In other words worry more about how the return current will flow.
The US 120v system has always struck me a terrible waste of money spent in wiring - all that copper must be an invisible drag on the national economy - Romex is the most horrible stuff to pull (for those unfamiliar it contains heavy solid copper wires) in 220v systems people use thinner, flexible stranded wires that are much more easier to deal with. Remember power = V**2/R so you can get away with 1/4 the resistance at twice the voltage for the same power wastage
umm .... there are no penguins at the South Pole (at the coast maybe ...)
"lifetime warranty"refers to the lifetime of the card - when it breaks the warranty runs out
It was suprisingly packed - I had to take my eggs home, couldn't get a clear shot at all
I think it depends on the manufacturer/model - my (older) Dell 7100 has a small sliding door on the back (no screws) that gives access to the AGP slot - replacing the card is probably a 3 minute process. (same with system SDRAM).
actually the patch is in CVS - should be in the 3.0.3 bug fix release available at the start of next week
One of the sad things about the whole dot-com thing was how incredibly naive people were - when there were people all around them who'd been down this road before
I've worked a number of startups over the past 20 years - most were moderately successfull, one went public - but like the stock market I've always considered it a risky long-term investment that will one day hopefully pay off.
This model for building a tech company has been basicly the only way to create a company here in the US since the 60s - the VCs understand how it works, the execs, the engineers all know how it works. Most of these companys die - maybe 2 out of 10 live to go public - it's the risk you take building a startup - it's also effects the scale of things the VCs try for - they need those 10-20% of BIG successes to pay for all the investments that fail. The basic business model for people starting this sort of company is "we will build a company that's worth something and sell it on the stock market". You make money from an ever increasing stock price.
Of course it's not the only way to build a company you can start a small company and grow it slowly financing it out of profit - this is really hard to do (I know I've tried :-) - but not impossible - I've known a number of people who've built such companies - you have a completely different model for your business "we will sell the stuff we make and take home part of the profits". You make money from your profits.
The big advantage of the DIY company is that you can stop growing at any point. Besides, because you're living directly off your profits you don't have to grow for ever to keep making money - you can stop at $1M or $5M or wherever you're comfortable. The big downside is you're probably spending your own (very real) money, not some VCs.
actually that's my point - there really is no universally acknowledged name that actually represents just the citizens of the USA (outside the US 'yank' probably comes closest) - there are lot's of United States in America
You completely miss my point - this is not a historical view - there ARE now (at this very time) people in dozens of countries who consider themselves "Americans" - just like the French also consider themselves "Europeans" - don't ask a Thai or Somali who they think are "Americans" - ask a Columbian
Maybe another way of thinking about it is that people can belong to geographical entities larger their country - be it "European", "Caribean", "Asian", "Australasian" (like me), "American" (or even "North/South/Central American").
BTW - if I really wanted to troll this issue I'd point out that "United States of America" could well describe any country in the Americas that consists of a bunch of local states - Brazil, Mexico, Canada etc - all those countries have their own unique names that describe the whole while the US only has a description of its politics (kind of like saying "a dozen coke cans" to describe a bunch of sodas).