Could you imagine being there when these hundreds of computer geeks attempt such a thing? Yikes! What a complete waste of time...Like going to a computer club meeting but worse by a factor of ten.
Technically all Linux ever was (at the start) was an imitation of Unix by admirers thereof.
Why people like to claim that Linux coders are "creative" or whatever is beyond me. They may have put in some innovations--the same no doubt that have appeared in many OSes since Unix--but they are really just copying something they like.
They didn't move beyond that, as Apple has. And the latest ideas in OS research have been mostly ignored because of the momentum of the Linux hive.
Really the Linux kernel deserves to be replaced by something better, and the middle finger be given to all the corporate advocates of Linux who want to make it the next Big Brother OS.
But at any rate, unless SCO has software patents for Unix then I think their present claims are just more crapola.
Companies are indebted to the society they originate in because that society permitted them to exist, provided educated labor, provided an environment conducive to growth. Companies should therefore pay back that society by employing its people.
Economic liberals who say they should be able to find cheap labor anywhere appear remarkably like the old time slave traders who said workers are replaceable and demanded to be able to make a profit regardless of how unethical doing so is.
It's more unethical than it is immoral since morals derive from religion.
Unless of course the religion is capitalism, in which case screwing over the worker is more pious than providing job security...
But seriously: the situation is quite straightforward. If society nurtures a company, perhaps it to exist in the first place, then that company has is indebted to that society and it should employ its people. This principle has been adopted for centuries.
Economic liberals of course don't want to hear any such talk--they care only about them own greed. They operate by the maxims of the old time slave traders--that profit exists everywhere and workers are replaceable.
It's one thing when a soldier dies because his equipment fails, but I predict that when the first pedestrian gets run over by one of the "robotic" cars the company that makes them will get sued up the wazoo and rightfully taken to the cleaners. Computers should not be everywhere.
Is that it's related to Herpes(TM) (factually true).
Herpes is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
utterly human? what exactly does that mean?
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utterly human? what exactly does that mean?
why do slashbarf writers always have to put too far much emphasis on mundane topics? why do they hype
hype hype rather than just learn how to research and write?
if the topic were actually interesting,
would it not stand on its own?
There's no point in calling it open source if the sources aren't available. And somehow I doubt that yet another big company embracing open source will actually include the sources with the product.
Flash as well as EEPROM accept only a limited number of write cycles, after which you can expect problems. But in casual use e.g. digital cameras this shouldn't be a big issue. The specs for one flash chip that I investigated said it will last up to a minimum of 100,000 write cycles. Personally I keep a lot of my precious data on CompactFlash, so that when I go online I can just pop out the card to prevent crackers from getting the goodies. But about these new flash cards, I'm skeptical...
They're rushing these products to market so fast with new semiconductor technologies, I'm beginning to wonder about reliability. This is storage after all, not a processor: if these data is lost you can't just reboot and start over.
The article was written by someone from the Open Office camp, which I recently had to REMOVE from my computer because it royally screwed up several documents that I tried to open. I will not say how it screwed them up, because I see no reason to support Open Bloatware with bug reports. But I WILL say, CAVEAT EMPTOR.
I hate it when inarticulate, uneducated people try to pretend to be eloquent by substituting "fancy" words for what they meant to say. This article is a perfect example of that. Because they almost always don't know exactly what the fancy words mean: they just found them in a thesaurus and never checked the definition to see whether they are accurate or really even appropriate.
Everybody likes to think himself a visionary, but really it's only the rich and well-connected who get a chance to get books published and present their boring and ineptly-constructed visionary views. Bruce Sterling is such a person.
Not quite. Sensible eating, by which I assume you mean never to excess, is all very well for foods whose effects last a day or two. Caffeine's effects last two weeks. During that period most people crave for more caffeine.
If you had compared it to pot, hash, or some other drug then you may have had a decent argument.
Caffeine has numerous side effects that are negative; the degree to which each effect troubles any one individual varies. These are what researchers have found
in the lab.
Side effects of caffeine include:
rapid heartbeat
shortness of breath
dehydration
increased urination
inability to remain attentive
forgetfulness
headaches
sleepiness
anger
stress, burning sensatiion
Anger is perhaps the symptom
I've seen the most in other people. It's
due to the fact that caffeine causes the
adrenal glands to dump their load--you feel
energized by caffeine specifically because you've gotten an adrenaline rush. But andrenaline
also causes anger because it brings on the
"fight or flight" syndrome. Therefore
one of the worst places to work is in a place
with lots of caffine addicts--they tend to get
on each others' nerves.
Caffine causes other
stress hormones to be released. The
net effect is that you end up feeling tired
because you've been feeling stressed out
by caffeine. Most people end up taking
caffeine to deal with caffeine's side effects.
It takes two weeks for caffeine to
completely leave your body.
Why else would the cops make a network available, if not to catch roving laptop users who are doing "illegal" things? Not that the real crimes like bribing politicians ever get punished, but of course fighting real crime is not the COPS' jobs....grumble mutter...
Bay Area people are so pampered and complacent, it amazes me. Smog in Silicon Valley is officially as bad as Los Angeles, the water is polluted by the chip fabs and other manufacturers, and meanwhile some idiot Greens are complaining about a few birds? What the hell?
If you had ever dealt with the clueless doctors in some European countries, you would know that every detail you can give them will help. Some of those people, even if the speak English by some chance, seem like they have degrees from community colleges. Medicine is barely more than a hobby for them.
The fun thing about travel is trying to undertstand people and them trying to understand you. Most people want to learn a little English and many Americans want to learn anything else (other than Spanish of course, which Mexicans have made them think is a peasant language). Anyway, with a machine I think it would be awkward, and it may make the local person feel a little inadequate (I got a PDA, you don't).
A recent article in Science News (a journal) described how one class of flame retardants called PBDEs are more common in the US than in Europe and how blood levels in Americans are on average 10 times higher. It also says there may be a link to ADD, which is also more common in the US. Maybe your next futon should be an organic one?
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Could you imagine being there when these hundreds of computer geeks attempt such a thing? Yikes! What a complete waste of time ...Like going to a computer club meeting but worse by a factor of ten.
Technically all Linux ever was (at the start) was an imitation of Unix by admirers thereof. Why people like to claim that Linux coders are "creative" or whatever is beyond me. They may have put in some innovations--the same no doubt that have appeared in many OSes since Unix--but they are really just copying something they like. They didn't move beyond that, as Apple has. And the latest ideas in OS research have been mostly ignored because of the momentum of the Linux hive. Really the Linux kernel deserves to be replaced by something better, and the middle finger be given to all the corporate advocates of Linux who want to make it the next Big Brother OS. But at any rate, unless SCO has software patents for Unix then I think their present claims are just more crapola.
Companies are indebted to the society they originate in because that society permitted them to exist, provided educated labor, provided an environment conducive to growth. Companies should therefore pay back that society by employing its people.
Economic liberals who say they should be able to find cheap labor anywhere appear remarkably like the old time slave traders who said workers are replaceable and demanded to be able to make a profit regardless of how unethical doing so is.
It's more unethical than it is immoral since
morals derive from religion.
Unless of course the religion is capitalism,
in which case screwing over the worker is
more pious than providing job security...
But seriously: the situation is quite
straightforward. If society nurtures a company,
perhaps it to exist in the first place, then that
company has is indebted to that society and it
should employ its people. This principle has
been adopted for centuries.
Economic liberals of course don't want to hear
any such talk--they care only about them own
greed. They operate by the maxims of the old time
slave traders--that profit exists everywhere
and workers are replaceable.
Corporations: the new socialistic force.
It's one thing when a soldier dies because his equipment fails, but I predict that when the first pedestrian gets run over by one of the "robotic" cars the company that makes them will get sued up the wazoo and rightfully taken to the cleaners. Computers should not be everywhere.
Herpes is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
utterly human? what exactly does that mean? why do slashbarf writers always have to put too far much emphasis on mundane topics? why do they hype hype hype rather than just learn how to research and write? if the topic were actually interesting, would it not stand on its own?
There's no point in calling it open source if the sources aren't available. And somehow I doubt that yet another big company embracing open source will actually include the sources with the product.
Flash as well as EEPROM accept only a limited number of write cycles, after which you can expect problems. But in casual use e.g. digital cameras this shouldn't be a big issue. The specs for one flash chip that I investigated said it will last up to a minimum of 100,000 write cycles. Personally I keep a lot of my precious data on CompactFlash, so that when I go online I can just pop out the card to prevent crackers from getting the goodies. But about these new flash cards, I'm skeptical...
They're rushing these products to market so fast with new semiconductor technologies, I'm beginning to wonder about reliability. This is storage after all, not a processor: if these data is lost you can't just reboot and start over.
We're not speaking French, you know!
The article was written by someone from the Open Office camp, which I recently had to REMOVE from my computer because it royally screwed up several documents that I tried to open. I will not say how it screwed them up, because I see no reason to support Open Bloatware with bug reports. But I WILL say, CAVEAT EMPTOR.
I hate it when inarticulate, uneducated people try to pretend to be eloquent by substituting "fancy" words for what they meant to say. This article is a perfect example of that. Because they almost always don't know exactly what the fancy words mean: they just found them in a thesaurus and never checked the definition to see whether they are accurate or really even appropriate.
Everybody likes to think himself a visionary, but really it's only the rich and well-connected who get a chance to get books published and present their boring and ineptly-constructed visionary views. Bruce Sterling is such a person.
If you had compared it to pot, hash, or some other drug then you may have had a decent argument.
Side effects of caffeine include:
Anger is perhaps the symptom I've seen the most in other people. It's due to the fact that caffeine causes the adrenal glands to dump their load--you feel energized by caffeine specifically because you've gotten an adrenaline rush. But andrenaline also causes anger because it brings on the "fight or flight" syndrome. Therefore one of the worst places to work is in a place with lots of caffine addicts--they tend to get on each others' nerves.
Caffine causes other stress hormones to be released. The net effect is that you end up feeling tired because you've been feeling stressed out by caffeine. Most people end up taking caffeine to deal with caffeine's side effects.
It takes two weeks for caffeine to completely leave your body.
I've seen cops lie to avoid being punished for doing illegal things.
I've seen cops treat women badly; and non-white cops are often racist against white people.
I've seen cops gleefully follow orders when the local power structure decides it's going to do unethical things in the open.
Cops are not to be admired. They lie, they cheat, they victimize the powerless and they love, oh how they love, to serve whoever has power.
Why else would the cops make a network available, if not to catch roving laptop users who are doing "illegal" things? Not that the real crimes like bribing politicians ever get punished, but of course fighting real crime is not the COPS' jobs....grumble mutter...
Bay Area people are so pampered and complacent, it amazes me. Smog in Silicon Valley is officially as bad as Los Angeles, the water is polluted by the chip fabs and other manufacturers, and meanwhile some idiot Greens are complaining about a few birds? What the hell?
If you had ever dealt with the clueless doctors in some European countries, you would know that every detail you can give them will help. Some of those people, even if the speak English by some chance, seem like they have degrees from community colleges. Medicine is barely more than a hobby for them.
The fun thing about travel is trying to undertstand people and them trying to understand you. Most people want to learn a little English and many Americans want to learn anything else (other than Spanish of course, which Mexicans have made them think is a peasant language). Anyway, with a machine I think it would be awkward, and it may make the local person feel a little inadequate (I got a PDA, you don't).
Libre? Oh, right. Well if you give it to ME freely I will give away for zero dollars. There is no such thing as "libre" free software.
There are other reasons to hate Canada, you know. Please don't oversimplify.
A recent article in Science News (a journal) described how one class of flame retardants called PBDEs are more common in the US than in Europe and how blood levels in Americans are on average 10 times higher. It also says there may be a link to ADD, which is also more common in the US. Maybe your next futon should be an organic one?