I'd say the majority of people on this site are capable of typing sentences, but not capable or reading sentences if they're contained in a linked article.
That's OK. They're making a poor choice using Sun as an example. Over the next few years the other 22,000 employess of Sun won't have offices either, it has little to do with Cubicles and HR strategy though......
If global warming is BS and we move our economies to cleaner energy, then at worst we spend a bit more and have less smog, less acid rain, and cleaner rivers.
Actually, we spend a TON more for marginal, arguable improvements (see Catalytic Convertor, creating less of a more toxic chemical than the one it filters). The costs are incredible, but you and I can argue about it, since we're not the ones who will end up hungry, unemployed, or homeless because of it.
If global warming isn't BS and we do nothing, then we are left with artificially bad weather, rising seas, droughts, and such along with the large amount of general pollution created.
And if there is a Santa Claus then we'll really regret all that bad stuff we did some day. No point in speculating about this crap. Its not true.
Yes we save some money (though most of the savings are captured by large industries
Who will have saved millions of dollars to use to grow their businesses and hire more employees, maybe even be able to afford another month's pension fund payment.
It makes total difference. Believe it or not, everything in the world does not scale linearly. Social programs are particular sensitive in this area.
that's to do with the composition of the population rather than the size
That's the other problem the composition of the population is decidedly different, and the amount of debt the government is willing to commit is different. This is part of the reason the per-capita national debt of Canada is second in the world only to Italy. Along with the public debt, huge taxes are necessary to keep such a system afloat. Once you pass around $90,000 income in Ontario you're paying almost 50% in Income tax alone. 15% in sales taxes on top of that on damn near everything you buy, no thanks, I'll stay here and pay my $500/month to Aetna.
At that point I take issue with the other statement "Fedora doesn't look so good". Why not? I've got Core-1 and it looks fine. I can't comment on Mozilla since I ditched it long ago for Opera, but it would seem like Fedora would be optimal for the non-business community since it is precisely their input that directs the project.
on the Hitler argument, I understand your reasoning. My point is simply that you don't have to use a Mac to hate one. You can hate how they try to be "artsy", you can hate how Apple insult the intelligence of the viewing audience in their ads, and you can hate them just because you don't want to be associated with their stuck-up snob users who never pass up an opportunity to attempt (poorly) to prove to you that their computer is better than yours.
On the minivan topic, I've seen many more people in minivans come close to causing accidents when attending to their passengers and applying makeup than I've seen SUVs in the same situation. I'm probably what you consider a yuppy owner, but my Navigator is in no way "useless" to me - I can take my kids and all their stuff Skiing in crappy weather, never get stuck, and not have crippling back pain when I get there.
Your last paragraph was great. "reasonable ethical reasons for hating" is a great phrase, as if most Hate in this world has reasonable, ethical reasons!
I don't even dislike Macs, much less hate them. I just don't hold people to as high a standard as you for their opinions. You should be allowed to "think" whatever you want, regardless of what silly terratorial techno-fanboys have to say about it.
Sun is dying because their price/performance is so bad compared to Intel that their superior Solaris operating system, reliability reputation and integration no longer make up for the cost differential. Windows still sucks, but its gotten better and is now considered "good enough" for a lot more enterprise-level tasks than it was a few years back (whether this is good or bad is debatable, whether this is hurting Sun is not). Along with Linux, which is damaging Sun twice as much as Microsoft, and HP, who have a great alternative to Solaris on Sparc with HPUX on Itanium 2 (look at the $$ and performance before flaming me), Sun is dead dead.
They use a search engine or look up a bug on the M$ KB. Same thing in Linux. I have never called M$ in all my years of using Windows. It is much more efficient to find someone else who had the same problem and documented the solution
Right. His point was, when the search engine turns up nothing and you can't find anyone else who had the same problem and documented the solution. With Sun or IBM, you have someone you can call who (eventually) has access to the people who wrote the code causing your problem. Plus corporate management types don't want to hear things like "well, hotboy2117 said we should drop all the tables in the database and reload to fix this problem."
I find that they are concentrating on businesses instead and the fedora project doesn't sound very good You know you can get that business product they are concentrating on for free as well courtesy of the GPL? There are a number of web sites with step by step instructions on how to do it.
Wow, facts with no source. This is a traditional liberal tactic.
Go back to media manipulation, its worked better for you in the past. (Except recently: Let's see "The President is hiding his failed economic policies by directing us to the war in Iraq", oh, wait, the economy is recovering, uh, uh, "The President is hiding his failed Iraq policy by directing us to the growing economy")
Why be embarrased? I hate Adolf Hitler, though I never met him. I hate minivans, but I've never driven one. And many people on/. who hate Windows claim to have never have used it either. Since when do you need personal experience to have an opinion about something?
Yes, but 99/100 of those "drug offenders" are serious offenders. Except for those dug up to appear on MTV shows or 20/20 with.00001 ounce of something in the wrong place at the wrong time, these guys deserve to be there. These are guys caught with massive quantities, or with drugs and weapons offenses, etc. Some of them couldn't be convicted of the 50 other offenses they commited because the system is so skewed to protect the destructive criminal element of society, and the police and investigative forces are so inept and under-funded that they have horrible track record in all areas of enforcement. At $70,000 each, its a great deal, raise taxes if you have to, just don't let them out.
You're 18, You get told don't steal, you steal, you get a suspended sentence. At your hearing you're told not to steal and given a warning that next time will be worse. You know you're not supposed to steal, but you do it again. By this time, you're pretty good, so if you've been caught twice, you've done it like twenty times, but you get caught, so you're before the judge again, he says you've got a real problem and he's going to put you away for a few months to "learn your lesson". When you get out, you're told not to screw up again, you tell the bench you are fully aware that if you continue this behavior, you'll likely spend the rest of your life in jail. They insist you think about how serious this is, that your behaviour is incongruent with our society and only you have the power to change your destiny. By this point in your criminal career, the nation's taxpayers have spent thousands of dollars to pay for counselors, parole officers, and psychologists who do their best to monitor your situation and help you out. You steal again and are sent up the river for what amounts to forever. Somehow, I don't feel sorry for you. Its still better than what you deserve.
Us, right?
You, me, Jesus Christ, and just about anyone the nanomachines can find a trace of (if all that nano-gook comes to be some time in the next 10000 years). Sending teams of self-replicating machines to dig for genetic material would be trivial. Nanomachines could brute-force human cloning in days if ol' Ray is correct in his assumptions about their abilities. Once they've got it licked, they'll be able to rebuild anyone a-la-5th element with any bit of DNA they can find and probably have a damn good alogrithm for fudging the missing bits (so maybe not "you" but someone who looks a LOT like you:).
Then after that.........Oh, crap, I just spilled the water on the carpet again.
It is this same liberty that allows the DMCA to make felt tip markers illegal becuase they circumvent a copyright-protection scheme
meant
It is the ability to own items that change stoplights that allows the DMCA to make felt tip markers illegal becuase they circumvent a copyright-protection scheme
There are versions now that have this. Unfashionable as it is, reading the article would inform you of that. The encryption models cost 10 times as much and most towns can't afford them.
the only restricition on how presidential electors vote is that they can't vote for both a presidential and vice presidential candidate that are both from their own home state.
Also, the electors from a state all are required to vote for the same candidate. I believe this rule was resultant from the 1972 election when one state was won by McGovern but an elector from that state refused to cast his ballot for him and voted for Nixon instead.
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Perhaps even better, because of the more powerful TCP/IP stack.
Racer X, knowing he can never tell Speed that he is really his brother, nods knowingly, putting his FreeBSD disk in the trunk, and drives off into the sunset.........
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I saw a product with a virtual mouth on a web site years ago, oddly, it could not sing.
I'd say the majority of people on this site are capable of typing sentences, but not capable or reading sentences if they're contained in a linked article.
That's OK. They're making a poor choice using Sun as an example. Over the next few years the other 22,000 employess of Sun won't have offices either, it has little to do with Cubicles and HR strategy though......
In the book he un-compacted it.
Actually, we spend a TON more for marginal, arguable improvements (see Catalytic Convertor, creating less of a more toxic chemical than the one it filters). The costs are incredible, but you and I can argue about it, since we're not the ones who will end up hungry, unemployed, or homeless because of it.
If global warming isn't BS and we do nothing, then we are left with artificially bad weather, rising seas, droughts, and such along with the large amount of general pollution created.
And if there is a Santa Claus then we'll really regret all that bad stuff we did some day. No point in speculating about this crap. Its not true.
Yes we save some money (though most of the savings are captured by large industries
Who will have saved millions of dollars to use to grow their businesses and hire more employees, maybe even be able to afford another month's pension fund payment.
It makes total difference. Believe it or not, everything in the world does not scale linearly. Social programs are particular sensitive in this area.
that's to do with the composition of the population rather than the size
That's the other problem the composition of the population is decidedly different, and the amount of debt the government is willing to commit is different. This is part of the reason the per-capita national debt of Canada is second in the world only to Italy. Along with the public debt, huge taxes are necessary to keep such a system afloat. Once you pass around $90,000 income in Ontario you're paying almost 50% in Income tax alone. 15% in sales taxes on top of that on damn near everything you buy, no thanks, I'll stay here and pay my $500/month to Aetna.
At that point I take issue with the other statement "Fedora doesn't look so good". Why not? I've got Core-1 and it looks fine. I can't comment on Mozilla since I ditched it long ago for Opera, but it would seem like Fedora would be optimal for the non-business community since it is precisely their input that directs the project.
If it was so easily documented, he should have provided sources. Since none of what he said was true, he did not.
on the Hitler argument, I understand your reasoning. My point is simply that you don't have to use a Mac to hate one. You can hate how they try to be "artsy", you can hate how Apple insult the intelligence of the viewing audience in their ads, and you can hate them just because you don't want to be associated with their stuck-up snob users who never pass up an opportunity to attempt (poorly) to prove to you that their computer is better than yours. On the minivan topic, I've seen many more people in minivans come close to causing accidents when attending to their passengers and applying makeup than I've seen SUVs in the same situation. I'm probably what you consider a yuppy owner, but my Navigator is in no way "useless" to me - I can take my kids and all their stuff Skiing in crappy weather, never get stuck, and not have crippling back pain when I get there. Your last paragraph was great. "reasonable ethical reasons for hating" is a great phrase, as if most Hate in this world has reasonable, ethical reasons! I don't even dislike Macs, much less hate them. I just don't hold people to as high a standard as you for their opinions. You should be allowed to "think" whatever you want, regardless of what silly terratorial techno-fanboys have to say about it.
Sun is dying because their price/performance is so bad compared to Intel that their superior Solaris operating system, reliability reputation and integration no longer make up for the cost differential. Windows still sucks, but its gotten better and is now considered "good enough" for a lot more enterprise-level tasks than it was a few years back (whether this is good or bad is debatable, whether this is hurting Sun is not). Along with Linux, which is damaging Sun twice as much as Microsoft, and HP, who have a great alternative to Solaris on Sparc with HPUX on Itanium 2 (look at the $$ and performance before flaming me), Sun is dead dead.
Right. His point was, when the search engine turns up nothing and you can't find anyone else who had the same problem and documented the solution. With Sun or IBM, you have someone you can call who (eventually) has access to the people who wrote the code causing your problem. Plus corporate management types don't want to hear things like "well, hotboy2117 said we should drop all the tables in the database and reload to fix this problem."
Not that there's anything wrong with that.....
I find that they are concentrating on businesses instead and the fedora project doesn't sound very good
You know you can get that business product they are concentrating on for free as well courtesy of the GPL? There are a number of web sites with step by step instructions on how to do it.
Wow, facts with no source. This is a traditional liberal tactic. Go back to media manipulation, its worked better for you in the past. (Except recently: Let's see "The President is hiding his failed economic policies by directing us to the war in Iraq", oh, wait, the economy is recovering, uh, uh, "The President is hiding his failed Iraq policy by directing us to the growing economy")
Why be embarrased? I hate Adolf Hitler, though I never met him. I hate minivans, but I've never driven one. And many people on /. who hate Windows claim to have never have used it either. Since when do you need personal experience to have an opinion about something?
Yes, but 99/100 of those "drug offenders" are serious offenders. Except for those dug up to appear on MTV shows or 20/20 with .00001 ounce of something in the wrong place at the wrong time, these guys deserve to be there. These are guys caught with massive quantities, or with drugs and weapons offenses, etc. Some of them couldn't be convicted of the 50 other offenses they commited because the system is so skewed to protect the destructive criminal element of society, and the police and investigative forces are so inept and under-funded that they have horrible track record in all areas of enforcement. At $70,000 each, its a great deal, raise taxes if you have to, just don't let them out.
You're 18, You get told don't steal, you steal, you get a suspended sentence. At your hearing you're told not to steal and given a warning that next time will be worse. You know you're not supposed to steal, but you do it again. By this time, you're pretty good, so if you've been caught twice, you've done it like twenty times, but you get caught, so you're before the judge again, he says you've got a real problem and he's going to put you away for a few months to "learn your lesson". When you get out, you're told not to screw up again, you tell the bench you are fully aware that if you continue this behavior, you'll likely spend the rest of your life in jail. They insist you think about how serious this is, that your behaviour is incongruent with our society and only you have the power to change your destiny. By this point in your criminal career, the nation's taxpayers have spent thousands of dollars to pay for counselors, parole officers, and psychologists who do their best to monitor your situation and help you out. You steal again and are sent up the river for what amounts to forever. Somehow, I don't feel sorry for you. Its still better than what you deserve.
Us, right? You, me, Jesus Christ, and just about anyone the nanomachines can find a trace of (if all that nano-gook comes to be some time in the next 10000 years). Sending teams of self-replicating machines to dig for genetic material would be trivial. Nanomachines could brute-force human cloning in days if ol' Ray is correct in his assumptions about their abilities. Once they've got it licked, they'll be able to rebuild anyone a-la-5th element with any bit of DNA they can find and probably have a damn good alogrithm for fudging the missing bits (so maybe not "you" but someone who looks a LOT like you :).
Then after that.........Oh, crap, I just spilled the water on the carpet again.
It is this same liberty that allows the DMCA to make felt tip markers illegal becuase they circumvent a copyright-protection scheme
meant
It is the ability to own items that change stoplights that allows the DMCA to make felt tip markers illegal becuase they circumvent a copyright-protection scheme
There are versions now that have this. Unfashionable as it is, reading the article would inform you of that. The encryption models cost 10 times as much and most towns can't afford them.
I heard NBD was dying......
Also, the electors from a state all are required to vote for the same candidate. I believe this rule was resultant from the 1972 election when one state was won by McGovern but an elector from that state refused to cast his ballot for him and voted for Nixon instead.
The corrected version of this message appears below:
Racer X, knowing he can never tell Speed that he is really his brother, nods knowingly, putting his FreeBSD disk in the trunk, and drives off into the sunset.........
Yes you do. You obviously don't drive the LIE very often.......
So having three copies of the the data is really, really, redundant, I get the theory. Too bad the controllers he's talking about don't support this.