Bill Gates has left the campus but he still owns a large number of shares. About 857,499,336, says Yahoo Finance.
Microsaur stock is still a good value with over 80% of the market using its products. The shareholders are not interested in ideals that don't create stock value.
El Presidente Generalisimo Lanzero de SillÃnes Ballmero (408,252,990 shares) represents these people. He's the kind of leader that the shareholders want... They just wish he wasn't such an embarrassment. (As erratic and blustery as Khrushchev, but dances like a monkey instead of banging his shoe on the table.)
If the company can cut costs by having individual software enthusiasts give away bug fixes to Microsaur on the company's terms, of course they will do that... and call it "open source".
I agree. I bought a couple of Palm IIIxe devices because they are reliable and use rechargeable, non-proprietary batteries. As someone else noted, there are many great apps available for this device, and even with just the stock Calendar, To Do list and Note attachments, I keep myself organized nicely.
Palm dumped its PDA customers to go after "smart phones", didn't win the latter market, and didn't cultivate the former market. Now they are fooked.
I've been using Wine for a long time and its ability to run applications such as Framemaker, Photoshop, uTorrent and some other useful abandonware (Delrina Perform, anyone?) has improved my productivity significantly. Thanks for your hard work... and yes, I sent money!
I see Wine as the only serious option for rapid cross-platform development (Linux/OS X/Windows). Now that the API is stable(r), is this how you'd like to see Wine evolve?
I'm excited to see Wine working in OS X on the Intel Macs. I have however run into problems in this configuration that I don't see with the same applications using Wine on Linux.
However, a couple of years ago I took the stick out of my ass You went to a tough school, I guess.
Like it or not, popular (mis)use has expanded the definition of "irony". Is that really SO bad? Sorry, "expanding the definition of a word" is not the same as "not knowing what the hell one is talking about". Perhaps if we'd all just quack like ducks there would be world peace.
Did I miss the memo about the English language having achieved perfection and no further linguistic evolution was to be permitted? Was that the same memo that said that having mush for brains is great fun and aren't we proud of President Shrub?
Anyone else find it ironic that this story about runaway development projects came right after the story on the release of wine 1.0? Sir, it is not ironic at all, unless Alanis Morissette is your English tutor.
In any case, the project to which Mr Webster refers is clearly Microsoft Windows Vista.
you know he's dead if he doesn't emerge out of a vat of acid/flaming wreckage/terrific, seemingly unsurvivable explosion to attack his nemesis one last time.
I am sure that as soon as owners of Volkswagens are made aware of the origin of the company they will immediately abandon their vehicles at the roadside.
it will not be technical hurdles that "kill" the Internet, it will be lawyers and legislators, mark my words I know it is habitual Slashdottery to blame lawyers and legislators, but these are just... people, just you and I and our neighbours.
A people, a culture (yes, I will use the word) must want freedom. If people are too lazy to want freedom, if they will not defend their rights when their rights are threatened (or removed in PLAIN SIGHT) by dictators, "corporate citizens" and other interested parties, then they don't deserve their constitution... and they deserve the consequences.
Thousands of developers have put very hard work into building software used by millions of people and companies, yet only a fraction of these developers are rewarded financially. And those thousands of developers are paid a fraction of what the high-rolling executives are making. The developers' final reward is to see their jobs leave on a flight for an overseas destination.
Open source is satisfying for developers because they are doing ~what they like~ and ~what interests them~.
In contrast with fixing bugs for 10 years in a cubicle while listening to feudal management aristocrats squabble, periodically announce their delusional plans for market conquest, and garner obscene bonuses as a reward for their ineffectual nonsense.
Microsaur is unhappy watching a faster, more agile creature eat its eggs.
"We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see (CHORUS)
(Ooh give you up) (Ooh give you up) (Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give (give you up) (Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give (give you up)
We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it"
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Yes, the irony of my post appears to have been missed. (o:
Banks are protected from their mistakes by the US Federal Reserve.
Any company that survives without making money as long as Sun has is a wonder to me.
Bill Gates has left the campus but he still owns a large number of shares. About 857,499,336, says Yahoo Finance.
Microsaur stock is still a good value with over 80% of the market using its products. The shareholders are not interested in ideals that don't create stock value.
El Presidente Generalisimo Lanzero de SillÃnes Ballmero (408,252,990 shares) represents these people. He's the kind of leader that the shareholders want... They just wish he wasn't such an embarrassment. (As erratic and blustery as Khrushchev, but dances like a monkey instead of banging his shoe on the table.)
If the company can cut costs by having individual software enthusiasts give away bug fixes to Microsaur on the company's terms, of course they will do that... and call it "open source".
Why bother with a PDA when smart phones do everything just as well.
"Smart phones" do not do everything just as well. The input ergonomics of all smart phones is bad. Thumb-typing and one-finger pecking are a misery.
Palm did fail... to innovate and win in the smart phone market while keeping its customer base happy.
I agree. I bought a couple of Palm IIIxe devices because they are reliable and use rechargeable, non-proprietary batteries. As someone else noted, there are many great apps available for this device, and even with just the stock Calendar, To Do list and Note attachments, I keep myself organized nicely.
Palm dumped its PDA customers to go after "smart phones", didn't win the latter market, and didn't cultivate the former market. Now they are fooked.
Research TVants and Sopcast.
I've been using Wine for a long time and its ability to run applications such as Framemaker, Photoshop, uTorrent and some other useful abandonware (Delrina Perform, anyone?) has improved my productivity significantly. Thanks for your hard work... and yes, I sent money!
I see Wine as the only serious option for rapid cross-platform development (Linux/OS X/Windows).
Now that the API is stable(r), is this how you'd like to see Wine evolve?
I'm excited to see Wine working in OS X on the Intel Macs. I have however run into problems in this configuration that I don't see with the same applications using Wine on Linux.
What are the challenges for Wine on OS X/Intel?
In any case, the project to which Mr Webster refers is clearly Microsoft Windows Vista.
you know he's dead if he doesn't emerge out of a vat of acid/flaming wreckage/terrific, seemingly unsurvivable explosion to attack his nemesis one last time.
would find a way for us to suffocate ourselves while keeping gasoline cheap at the pumps!
I am sure that as soon as owners of Volkswagens are made aware of the origin of the company they will immediately abandon their vehicles at the roadside.
The always clever Stanislaw Lem wrote a book called "Peace On Earth" in which world peace is achieved... by moving the war to the moon.
A people, a culture (yes, I will use the word) must want freedom. If people are too lazy to want freedom, if they will not defend their rights when their rights are threatened (or removed in PLAIN SIGHT) by dictators, "corporate citizens" and other interested parties, then they don't deserve their constitution... and they deserve the consequences.
Open source is satisfying for developers because they are doing ~what they like~ and ~what interests them~.
In contrast with fixing bugs for 10 years in a cubicle while listening to feudal management aristocrats squabble, periodically announce their delusional plans for market conquest, and garner obscene bonuses as a reward for their ineffectual nonsense.
Microsaur is unhappy watching a faster, more agile creature eat its eggs.
This is not vaporware. Microsoft has been multitouching my wallet since the early 1990s.
Google may parse messages, but Google offers HTTPS. If you're at work sending e-mail and you should use encryption.
Yahoo and Hotmail do not offer HTTPS.
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The only problem I saw on Linux was the growth of the "urlclassifier3.sqlite" file. When it grew over 20 MB, it was necessary to delete it.
Were there other problems? Because apart from the above, I used the last beta every day on Ubuntu, MS Windows, and OS X and had no problems.
Read aloud, with unexpectedly mature voice:
"We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see (CHORUS)
(Ooh give you up)
(Ooh give you up)
(Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give
(give you up)
(Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give
(give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it"
There's plenty of pr0n on the Web showing this kind of purity.
Merriam me no Websters and Bartleby me no Scriveners, Sir!
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