These people are wrong not just from the point of view of an atheist but even as far as the Church history is concerned -- i.e. other Christians regard them as "nutty".
It is true. I am an Orthodox Christian living in Greece and indeed, when we see what American Protestant Christians are preoccupied with we are just appalled. It does look extremely stupid and "nutty" and is mostly harmless except for some cases. One of them is this creationsm bonanza.
It is also, as you say, funny how they consider bible holy and interpret it literally. Every kid here knows that bible is a bunch of notes taken by early church fathers so that future generations would not forget what this Jesus thing was all about.
This interview once again shows that Gates can not possibly have a public carrier. If he runs for office, this interview will be dug up and incriminated against him. Furthermore Gates perfectly fits description of Antichrist. No Christian will ever vote for him.
Bill Gates has no charisma. His public speaking is dull and not interesting; he can not rally the people. He can not withstand criticism: lust look at videos about him on Youtube where he is humiliated; he just sits there trying to smile, he does not even try to crack a joke. Bill Gates has a habit of rocking back and forth like an imbecile when sitting on a chair. Bill Gates has absolutely no chance of being elected.
If we want to chose a president among IT industry executives more prominent persons like Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison come to mind. They are well mannered, charismatic and attractive persons.
if the patent license and royalty payments are between microsoft and the customer, then are the customers in violation of section 7 of the gpl? This could be bad news for SuSE customers...
It can be the case if you buy a SuSE Enterprise Linux Desktop bundled with Microsoft's "covenant". If you use your SuSE Linux to write GPL code Microsoft can now sue you for breach of this "covenant" rather than for patent infringement.
Beware developers. Microsoft aims here at ability of you, as independent developers, to write and distribute code you wrote.
That's no news. Oracle has been cozy with Linux for a long time. When Oracle takes over RedHat or maybe launches it's own distribution, that will be news.
Reminds me of a talk I had with a friend of mine yesterday. He came to me asking advice on new laptop he wants to buy. He chose one from Dell with price aroung $3000.
I pointed to my 1994 Fiat Cinquecento and said: See this car of mine? I bought it for 800 EUR. It is 1500 pounds of metal, it drives me and my family around, it carries my shoppings, we travel, we go to picnics we do everything in this car. You can buy three cars like these with the money you want to pay for your new gaming laptop.
and even mentions Direct Revenue's anti-spyware achievements (the company's installer blasted away competing spyware apps, so that the user's computer wouldn't be overwhelmed with redundant pop-ups)
So there is a war of spyware applications against other spyware applications.
Would be nice to install two spware application with this technology so that they would cancel out each other.
You are right, hese times RedHat has that 'yum' utility that pulls the required RPMs for you, but, previus experiences left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and I am reluctant to go back to RPM-based destribution.
I run Fedora Core (from 2, now at 5) at home. What is this 'RPM Hell' you're talking about?
This one for instance. Maybe it is just me but I tend install non-mainstream odd software that has non-standard library dependences. When I run RPM-based Linux distributions. I download RPM, try to install, then figure out it need a library, I find RPM for the library, try to install but itneeds another library. That another library is installed but, alas, incorrect version, I search for correct version, and so forth...
And your Ubuntu does not use GNOME 2.1x ? That is why it is so "different"...right.
Well, Redhat distributions always created impression like it is just bunch of stuff piled together without giving thought on fine tuning applications to give a feel of a consistent desktop. Especially now, that RedHat admit that Fedora is just a playground for testing packages for Enterprise Server. RedHat will never be a polished desktop distribution. And don't get me started on "RPM hell"...
It's like telling an architect that he needs to learn how to make bricks to be a good architect.
A good architect does need to know how to make bricks to be a good architect! As a good architect nees to know everything about material and processes invilved in construction of a building, so a good programmer needs to know what exactly is happenning inside the compuer when you do this or that.
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Mod him up. This joke made my day.
It is true. I am an Orthodox Christian living in Greece and indeed, when we see what American Protestant Christians are preoccupied with we are just appalled. It does look extremely stupid and "nutty" and is mostly harmless except for some cases. One of them is this creationsm bonanza.
It is also, as you say, funny how they consider bible holy and interpret it literally. Every kid here knows that bible is a bunch of notes taken by early church fathers so that future generations would not forget what this Jesus thing was all about.
This interview once again shows that Gates can not possibly have a public carrier. If he runs for office, this interview will be dug up and incriminated against him. Furthermore Gates perfectly fits description of Antichrist. No Christian will ever vote for him.
Bill Gates has no charisma. His public speaking is dull and not interesting; he can not rally the people. He can not withstand criticism: lust look at videos about him on Youtube where he is humiliated; he just sits there trying to smile, he does not even try to crack a joke. Bill Gates has a habit of rocking back and forth like an imbecile when sitting on a chair. Bill Gates has absolutely no chance of being elected.
If we want to chose a president among IT industry executives more prominent persons like Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison come to mind. They are well mannered, charismatic and attractive persons.
It can be the case if you buy a SuSE Enterprise Linux Desktop bundled with Microsoft's "covenant". If you use your SuSE Linux to write GPL code Microsoft can now sue you for breach of this "covenant" rather than for patent infringement.
Beware developers. Microsoft aims here at ability of you, as independent developers, to write and distribute code you wrote.
Patents expire after 20 years so if Sears Roebuck registered this idea a century ago we would have it in public domain now.
That's no news. Oracle has been cozy with Linux for a long time. When Oracle takes over RedHat or maybe launches it's own distribution, that will be news.
Whoever modded it Redundant did not get the joke. Binary Coded Decimals is a number encoding used in IBM Mainframes. Mod him as Funny.
I pointed to my 1994 Fiat Cinquecento and said: See this car of mine? I bought it for 800 EUR. It is 1500 pounds of metal, it drives me and my family around, it carries my shoppings, we travel, we go to picnics we do everything in this car. You can buy three cars like these with the money you want to pay for your new gaming laptop.
I, for one, welcome our blue crab overlords.
-- Can you imagine blue crabs with laser beams?
-- How about nano blue crabs with laser beams?
NASA hacks Chilean activist hackers' web pages
and by the way, the war in Lebanon must end.
multimedia content distribution system. They are facing uphill battle against giants like Google and iTune.
and even mentions Direct Revenue's anti-spyware achievements (the company's installer blasted away competing spyware apps, so that the user's computer wouldn't be overwhelmed with redundant pop-ups)
So there is a war of spyware applications against other spyware applications. Would be nice to install two spware application with this technology so that they would cancel out each other.
The astronauts would take refuge on the ISS while mission control in Houston attempt to land a damaged Shuttle.
And if ISS is damadged as well? What astronauts would do?
You are right, hese times RedHat has that 'yum' utility that pulls the required RPMs for you, but, previus experiences left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and I am reluctant to go back to RPM-based destribution.
I run Fedora Core (from 2, now at 5) at home. What is this 'RPM Hell' you're talking about?
This one for instance. Maybe it is just me but I tend install non-mainstream odd software that has non-standard library dependences. When I run RPM-based Linux distributions. I download RPM, try to install, then figure out it need a library, I find RPM for the library, try to install but itneeds another library. That another library is installed but, alas, incorrect version, I search for correct version, and so forth...
And your Ubuntu does not use GNOME 2.1x ? That is why it is so "different"...right.
Well, Redhat distributions always created impression like it is just bunch of stuff piled together without giving thought on fine tuning applications to give a feel of a consistent desktop. Especially now, that RedHat admit that Fedora is just a playground for testing packages for Enterprise Server. RedHat will never be a polished desktop distribution. And don't get me started on "RPM hell"...
I switched to Ubuntu and never looked back. RedHat was cool back in 1998. Now, frankly speaking, Fedora looks ugly.
Here goes my karma...
A good architect does need to know how to make bricks to be a good architect! As a good architect nees to know everything about material and processes invilved in construction of a building, so a good programmer needs to know what exactly is happenning inside the compuer when you do this or that.
Learn assembly, you will not regret it!
Yarkstick?
It is a stick of one yark used to measure distances.
I thing you may need to take Ingres off that list. Ingres Corporation (www.ingres.com) now seems to heading towards a MySQL style of license.
So is SAP/DB, which no longer exist. It was sold to MySQL and currently marketed as MySQL MaxDB with the same style of lincense.
Don't know about Firebird though.
Here my carma goes
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