No, it's like the difference between you running someone over on purpose and you running someone over because they threw themselves in front of your car while you were driving down a major street. Both are the same action, but the intent is different. You'll probably be let go in the latter case (though there will probably be an investigation), but you bet your ass you'll be charged in the former.
If you read the article, it says that SGI used MIPS until 2006.
Furthermore, most hobbyists who use esoteric hardware (and Gentoo is very much a hobby distro; I say this as a Gentoo user) don't have the latest hardware. They use old, weird, quirky stuff.
Hell, I still have my SGI Indy that I bought on eBay.
Sounds like you've never heard of Cavium Networks' Octeon processors.
They're hugely popular in network appliances. OTOH, I haven't heard of many people running Gentoo on them; usually, people just run either Cavium's custom version of Debian or an embedded-specific distro like MontaVista Linux.
Yes, I've used Octeon. There's some geeky fun in using a 16-core MIPS processor that can run different systems on different cores.
You might be interested in being a Product Manager.
Product Managers are the ones who write requirements, work on the roadmap, and decide what will be in the next product.
Product Management (also called Product Line Management, or PLM) is usually part of the marketing department; market analysis is a pretty big part of PLM. After all, if certain features are demanded by your target market, you want them in the roadmap ASAP. If your target market doesn't give a crap about certain features, there's no need to waste engineering resources on them, no matter how cool they sound.
Some technical knowledge is needed for PLM; after all, requirements have to be highly technical by nature, and you need that technical knowledge to be able to effectively write requirements.
A quick trip to Wikipedia shows that eBay is based in San Jose, California. I didn't know San Jose was part of France.
Seriously, how will the French government enforce this ruling? eBay is an American company operating over the Internet. They could just say "sorry, we're not paying" and the French government will be left scratching their heads.
That reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me about his family.
His family comes from a tiny town in Texas. After his father died, his mother decided to sell their huge ranch and move into a smaller house. A developer bought it and decided to name the development after the family in their honor. So the name of the new neighborhood contains their last name, and each street name contains the first name of someone in the family. Pretty nice tribute, actually.
I despise the nanny state and I support gun rights. I also support gay marriage, I want to keep prayer the fuck out of public schools, I despise people who try to force creationism to be taught in science class, I despise the war on drugs, I wish the ERA got ratified, I want to see every anti-discrimination law amended to ban discriminating against gays and transsexuals, etc.
Global warming is a myth invented by socialists for _precisely this reason_. It's a hoax used to justify all forms of government intervention in both business and people's personal lives. It's all a plot by eco-fascists to institute a totalitarian system. And just because I don't give a shit about Godwin's Law, I'll point out that Hitler scapegoated the Jews the same way. Hitler made up the hoax that Jews controlled everything so he had an excuse to establish a totalitarian government; the eco-fascists made up the global warming hoax so they have an excuse to establish a totalitarian government.
It is absolutely none of the government's business if people are obese. It is for this reason that I wouldn't entirely be opposed to businesses overthrowing the government; if the rulers are trying to sell you stuff, they won't be trying to take it away from you.
You live for a century or so, then...BAM! Your body gives out, for some reason or another.
How does it feel, knowing that no matter what you do in life, you will die?
You don't even have to be old. Imagine: you're crossing a street at the light, and all of a sudden, some drunken truck driver runs the light and turns you into roadkill. DYWYPI? Except that in real life, you don't get to roll a new character. You're done.
I'd rather not live a long life living like a monk. If I abstain from all unhealthy things, I might live to be 120, but that will be a miserable, unenjoyable 120 years. I'd rather live 50 years chugging soda, scarfing down junk food, eating lots of red meat, chain-smoking, and getting drunk than live 120 years living like a monk. And living like a monk is no guarantee I'd live long: as in the above paragraph, I could be run over by a drunken truck driver in my 20s regardless of how I live my life. If that happened and I'd lived like a monk, I'd have abstained from everything good in life for no reason whatsoever.
Well, my company never asked me that directly, but the health insurance forms they gave me asked me that.
No, my company didn't write the health insurance forms; the insurance company wrote them, and my company just passed them on. I'm entirely sure no one at my company even read my responses on the forms.
I've gotten used to Opera's changeability so much that I can't stand using a browser where the tabs are on top. The bottom is a _much_ better place for the tab bar. Opera lets me do that. Firefox doesn't.
The fact that you have to download a third-party add-on to even resemble the original functionality shows how little respect the Mozilla Corporation has for its users.
Firefox without extensions is ridiculously barebones. I'm glad I'm an Opera user.
Speaking of stuff that's not in stock Firefox, one of the things about Opera I almost can't do without is Tools->Quick Preferences->Edit Site Preferences. So bloody useful. Oh, and the Cookie Manager in the regular preferences dialog is pretty awesome too.
In all seriousness, I've been stuck without X a few times (for several weeks at a time), and w3m blows all other text-based browsers out of the water. I used to like links, but w3m has spoiled me too much...
There is very little difference between fascism and communism.
Both ideologies claim that society is greater than the individual. Both ideologies condemn all actions that don't benefit society as a whole. Both ideologies support environmentalism.
The difference? Communism sees society as encompassing all humanity, while fascism sees each state as its own society. Fascism is prone to nationalist posturing, while communism isn't.
Both fascism and communism oppose free-market capitalism. Fascism refers to an ideology called "corporatism", but that has nothing to do with corporations in the modern sense; the "corporations" in corporatism are basically trade guilds. Corporatism is about both putting society under the control of a collective, and tying such collectives into the state. It fits in with the whole "society as a whole" model, with each function of society overseen by its own collective, and all the collectives are part of a larger collective (i.e. the state).
China isn't really fascist; they allow multinational corporations to do business there, which real fascists would condemn. If China was fascist, they wouldn't let even local companies practice unfettered capitalism the way they do. A fascist state wouldn't let Chinese companies pollute as much as they do, nor would they let the companies do things like put lead paint into toys.
Now, I'm not defending fascism in any way. I'm a staunch individualist, and I despise both fascism and communism. My point is that China isn't really any more fascist than they are communist. Well, they do more than their share of hyper-nationalist posturing, but that's about it. China is simply a totalitarian state that tolerates capitalism. The free market is the one exception to China's totalitarian control over their people.
Then pay at least $1200 out of that for a studio apartment (more if you need space for your family). This is one of the reasons I will never live in California. I'm paying $1050/month for a two-story townhouse in Texas. Inflation in CA is insane.
Man, if I made $89k here, I'd really be rolling in the dough.
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No, it's like the difference between you running someone over on purpose and you running someone over because they threw themselves in front of your car while you were driving down a major street. Both are the same action, but the intent is different. You'll probably be let go in the latter case (though there will probably be an investigation), but you bet your ass you'll be charged in the former.
If you read the article, it says that SGI used MIPS until 2006.
Furthermore, most hobbyists who use esoteric hardware (and Gentoo is very much a hobby distro; I say this as a Gentoo user) don't have the latest hardware. They use old, weird, quirky stuff.
Hell, I still have my SGI Indy that I bought on eBay.
Sounds like you've never heard of Cavium Networks' Octeon processors.
They're hugely popular in network appliances. OTOH, I haven't heard of many people running Gentoo on them; usually, people just run either Cavium's custom version of Debian or an embedded-specific distro like MontaVista Linux.
Yes, I've used Octeon. There's some geeky fun in using a 16-core MIPS processor that can run different systems on different cores.
So, does Firefox still phone home by default?
Of course, if Firefox weren't FOSS, it'd rightfully be denounced as spyware, but no, it gets a free pass.
You might be interested in being a Product Manager.
Product Managers are the ones who write requirements, work on the roadmap, and decide what will be in the next product.
Product Management (also called Product Line Management, or PLM) is usually part of the marketing department; market analysis is a pretty big part of PLM. After all, if certain features are demanded by your target market, you want them in the roadmap ASAP. If your target market doesn't give a crap about certain features, there's no need to waste engineering resources on them, no matter how cool they sound.
Some technical knowledge is needed for PLM; after all, requirements have to be highly technical by nature, and you need that technical knowledge to be able to effectively write requirements.
A quick trip to Wikipedia shows that eBay is based in San Jose, California. I didn't know San Jose was part of France.
Seriously, how will the French government enforce this ruling? eBay is an American company operating over the Internet. They could just say "sorry, we're not paying" and the French government will be left scratching their heads.
And for privacy watchdogs, it's a duel threat
En garde!
Wait, you mean Kennedy? The same justice who voted with the majority in Kelo? The same justice who helped eradicate private property in the US?
And in Australia, "root" means "to have sex with".
Gives new meaning to the term "rooting your machine" (technophilia?).
That reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me about his family.
His family comes from a tiny town in Texas. After his father died, his mother decided to sell their huge ranch and move into a smaller house. A developer bought it and decided to name the development after the family in their honor. So the name of the new neighborhood contains their last name, and each street name contains the first name of someone in the family. Pretty nice tribute, actually.
I don't know about you, but I'd like to have a system that's 100% Verdana-free.
100% Arial-free, too. Yes, I can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and Arial just looks garish.
Besides, Luxi fonts are cooler than any of the Windows core fonts :P
Using WIS as a dump stat? Good luck making your Will saves.
The gas required to transport people of differing weights is absolutely negligible. Especially when most cars weigh 4000lbs.
And I find your statement that using less gas will prevent a recession to be rubbish.
I'm fat and proud of it.
Guess what?
I despise the nanny state and I support gun rights. I also support gay marriage, I want to keep prayer the fuck out of public schools, I despise people who try to force creationism to be taught in science class, I despise the war on drugs, I wish the ERA got ratified, I want to see every anti-discrimination law amended to ban discriminating against gays and transsexuals, etc.
By that logic, every food is poison.
Drinking too much WATER will kill you. Should water be labelled as poison then?
Oh wait, you're a crazy leftist who will do anything to tear down "teh c0rporat1onz!!!one!!"; logic doesn't apply to you. Never mind.
Except that food with trans fats tastes better.
Have you read the Bad Astonomy rant about trans fat being removed from food? Yeah, trans fat gives a noticable taste benefit, and people notice when they're removed.
Global warming is a myth invented by socialists for _precisely this reason_. It's a hoax used to justify all forms of government intervention in both business and people's personal lives. It's all a plot by eco-fascists to institute a totalitarian system. And just because I don't give a shit about Godwin's Law, I'll point out that Hitler scapegoated the Jews the same way. Hitler made up the hoax that Jews controlled everything so he had an excuse to establish a totalitarian government; the eco-fascists made up the global warming hoax so they have an excuse to establish a totalitarian government.
It is absolutely none of the government's business if people are obese. It is for this reason that I wouldn't entirely be opposed to businesses overthrowing the government; if the rulers are trying to sell you stuff, they won't be trying to take it away from you.
Guess what? Life is a stealthy killer.
You live for a century or so, then...BAM! Your body gives out, for some reason or another.
How does it feel, knowing that no matter what you do in life, you will die?
You don't even have to be old. Imagine: you're crossing a street at the light, and all of a sudden, some drunken truck driver runs the light and turns you into roadkill. DYWYPI? Except that in real life, you don't get to roll a new character. You're done.
I'd rather not live a long life living like a monk. If I abstain from all unhealthy things, I might live to be 120, but that will be a miserable, unenjoyable 120 years. I'd rather live 50 years chugging soda, scarfing down junk food, eating lots of red meat, chain-smoking, and getting drunk than live 120 years living like a monk. And living like a monk is no guarantee I'd live long: as in the above paragraph, I could be run over by a drunken truck driver in my 20s regardless of how I live my life. If that happened and I'd lived like a monk, I'd have abstained from everything good in life for no reason whatsoever.
I don't support any excise taxes, either on junk food or on cigarettes.
Read my signature.
Well, my company never asked me that directly, but the health insurance forms they gave me asked me that.
No, my company didn't write the health insurance forms; the insurance company wrote them, and my company just passed them on. I'm entirely sure no one at my company even read my responses on the forms.
So is Opera.
I've gotten used to Opera's changeability so much that I can't stand using a browser where the tabs are on top. The bottom is a _much_ better place for the tab bar. Opera lets me do that. Firefox doesn't.
The fact that you have to download a third-party add-on to even resemble the original functionality shows how little respect the Mozilla Corporation has for its users.
Firefox without extensions is ridiculously barebones. I'm glad I'm an Opera user.
Speaking of stuff that's not in stock Firefox, one of the things about Opera I almost can't do without is Tools->Quick Preferences->Edit Site Preferences. So bloody useful. Oh, and the Cookie Manager in the regular preferences dialog is pretty awesome too.
What, no w3m?
In all seriousness, I've been stuck without X a few times (for several weeks at a time), and w3m blows all other text-based browsers out of the water. I used to like links, but w3m has spoiled me too much...
There is very little difference between fascism and communism.
Both ideologies claim that society is greater than the individual. Both ideologies condemn all actions that don't benefit society as a whole. Both ideologies support environmentalism.
The difference? Communism sees society as encompassing all humanity, while fascism sees each state as its own society. Fascism is prone to nationalist posturing, while communism isn't.
Both fascism and communism oppose free-market capitalism. Fascism refers to an ideology called "corporatism", but that has nothing to do with corporations in the modern sense; the "corporations" in corporatism are basically trade guilds. Corporatism is about both putting society under the control of a collective, and tying such collectives into the state. It fits in with the whole "society as a whole" model, with each function of society overseen by its own collective, and all the collectives are part of a larger collective (i.e. the state).
China isn't really fascist; they allow multinational corporations to do business there, which real fascists would condemn. If China was fascist, they wouldn't let even local companies practice unfettered capitalism the way they do. A fascist state wouldn't let Chinese companies pollute as much as they do, nor would they let the companies do things like put lead paint into toys.
Now, I'm not defending fascism in any way. I'm a staunch individualist, and I despise both fascism and communism. My point is that China isn't really any more fascist than they are communist. Well, they do more than their share of hyper-nationalist posturing, but that's about it. China is simply a totalitarian state that tolerates capitalism. The free market is the one exception to China's totalitarian control over their people.
Man, if I made $89k here, I'd really be rolling in the dough.