Guillemot... Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Those froggy bastards never sent me my $40 mail-in rebate for the last video card I bought from them almost five years ago.
How many birds are killed daily from flying into glass windows in high-rise buildings?? An office where I used to work was only 4 stories, and I regularly saw birds smacking into it. For a wind array of that size, 3 birds killed a day seems acceptable. I'm willing to bet for every Eagle killed by it, there were about a thousand or so pigeons.
Java is on the retreat??? Wow, I've been gainfully employed as a Java architect for the past five years; it musta' been a fluke. IBM, Oracle, Novell, et al must not know what their doing by investing millions in building their products around the Java platform. Come to think of it, there are sooo many alternatives to Java for enterprise, server-side computing. Thank you for your insight. I'll turn in my resignation and pick up a.Net book tomorrow.
Ummm.... every hear of Green Cards? H-11B visas? The US is just as protective about foreigner's working here as other countries.
You obviously have never seen the janitorial/landscaping/dishwashing workforce that lives in the US southwest. Saying that the US protects against foreign (illegal) immigrants getting jobs is an absolute joke. In most cases, INS turns a blind eye. It's only when a fortune 500 like Wal-Mart engages in this practice that the government takes notice.
Nope, five years for the first Enron exec to be sentenced.
While I agree that legislation needs to be harsher for such white-collar criminals. The notorious days of "Club Fed" ended in the 80's. These guys will get prison time. The question is, will it be proportional to all the hurt they caused.
Darl has apparently violated several clauses in the GPL. Are any of these actionable? Is there a precident for this? I can't imagine a more fitting ending for this than Darl being slapped with a class action lawsuit by kernel contributers (as he's being slapped with his cellmate's schlong, securities fraud==bad). I know Linus wants to avoid this kind of litigation, but a successful suit defending the IP rights of contributers and OSS copyright holders, I feel, can only be good for the GPL.
IMHO, it would be more economical to mandate that car manufacturers put some kind of collision detection hardware in the cars themselves. This seems like an unnecessary taxpayer expense that will be woefully out of date before it's rolled out.
Another problem we may see is that artists on a pay-per-track basis may not produce the same number of tracks as they would normally. It's often the "filler" material on cd's that are the real gems.
I've always had issues with setting a fixed rate per track. A full movie soundtrack may have 30 tracks on one disk, many of which are brief ( 1 minute) segues. In this case, it would cost you twice what it would do purchase the full disk through retail. OTOH, you could grab some progressive rock concept album that has five 15 minute tracks for five bucks. Albiet, a great deal for the consumer, but perhaps not so for the artist.
The only thing different now is that the software is being acquired legally. Before, the Red Army would've just used their pirated Oracle 9 to keep tabs on Democratic Activists.
Instead of making their customers jump through hoops to remove the preinstalled spyware, why don't they grow a pair and forbid the crap from being installed in the first place??? Don't they have some kind of say-so in what gets loaded on their products? Shouldn't they be held accountable for protecting their customers' privacy? As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". It looks like Dell has already determined which side of the line they want to be on.
While I sympathize with Johanson's situation, I can't help but think how the heck he got himself there. I can't imagine a trained, responsible pilot embarking on an "adventure" like this without
Checking the weather report to see what direction the frickin wind is blowing.
Planning for multiple contigencies before bad things happen
Going on mapquest to find out which gas staions are on your route
So what's the cause and what's the effect?? When going out to, say, a nice restaurant, getting ready for me is a very straightforward matter. Dress pants, a nice button down shirt, and a tie if necessary. I, like most males of my species, own a single pair of dress shoes. Getting dressed takes no more than 5 minutes.
My wife, OTOH, can take upwards of two hours trying on different combinations of clothes, shoes and accessories just to determine what she doesn't want to wear. Rest assured, when she does decide, the effect will be stunning. But no less effective had she gone with any dozen of her other combinations.
Women instinctively know that men are more visual. Whether they admit to it or not, the whole "getting ready" ritual and the end result is to exploit (yes, I said "exploit") the fact that men are, well, very simple and predictable when it comes to certain things. We can't turn away from a pretty face, and if you show a little attention or interest, for the most part, we'll be eating out of your hands. If anyone caught the episode of South Park tonight (probabally the most well written one I've seen in years) you had it spelled out perfectly. Show a little skin, bat the eyes and give a little flirt, and most guys will throw their hearts (and wallets) on the line.
I think Yoda's lack of insight in the prequels has already been pretty well summed up: The jedi are losing their ability to use the Force. No jedi is able to forsee the creation of the clone army. Even Yoda said "blind we must be!!" in regards to this. More telling is the fact that a sith master is hiding in plain sight, interacting with the jedi on a daily basis. What I think is interesting is this same lack of foresight is what leads to the downfall of the Emporer. He is able to plan each and every act of the alliance against him, but his foresight is perverted when it comes to Vader and Luke. He has seen that Luke's compassion for Vader will be Luke's undoing. When it turns out that it is in fact Vader's compassion for Luke that is the Emporer's undoing. This probabally feeds into the whole "balance of the force" thing we keep hearing about.
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Guillemot... Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Those froggy bastards never sent me my $40 mail-in rebate for the last video card I bought from them almost five years ago.
How many birds are killed daily from flying into glass windows in high-rise buildings?? An office where I used to work was only 4 stories, and I regularly saw birds smacking into it. For a wind array of that size, 3 birds killed a day seems acceptable. I'm willing to bet for every Eagle killed by it, there were about a thousand or so pigeons.
Java is on the retreat??? Wow, I've been gainfully employed as a Java architect for the past five years; it musta' been a fluke. IBM, Oracle, Novell, et al must not know what their doing by investing millions in building their products around the Java platform. Come to think of it, there are sooo many alternatives to Java for enterprise, server-side computing. Thank you for your insight. I'll turn in my resignation and pick up a .Net book tomorrow.
Right here
You obviously have never seen the janitorial/landscaping/dishwashing workforce that lives in the US southwest. Saying that the US protects against foreign (illegal) immigrants getting jobs is an absolute joke. In most cases, INS turns a blind eye. It's only when a fortune 500 like Wal-Mart engages in this practice that the government takes notice.
Nope, five years for the first Enron exec to be sentenced. While I agree that legislation needs to be harsher for such white-collar criminals. The notorious days of "Club Fed" ended in the 80's. These guys will get prison time. The question is, will it be proportional to all the hurt they caused.
Darl has apparently violated several clauses in the GPL. Are any of these actionable? Is there a precident for this? I can't imagine a more fitting ending for this than Darl being slapped with a class action lawsuit by kernel contributers (as he's being slapped with his cellmate's schlong, securities fraud==bad). I know Linus wants to avoid this kind of litigation, but a successful suit defending the IP rights of contributers and OSS copyright holders, I feel, can only be good for the GPL.
You can't forget "Crimson Tide"
Directive 4: Any attempt to arrest an executive employeee of OCP results in shutdown.
IMHO, it would be more economical to mandate that car manufacturers put some kind of collision detection hardware in the cars themselves. This seems like an unnecessary taxpayer expense that will be woefully out of date before it's rolled out.
Another problem we may see is that artists on a pay-per-track basis may not produce the same number of tracks as they would normally. It's often the "filler" material on cd's that are the real gems.
I've always had issues with setting a fixed rate per track. A full movie soundtrack may have 30 tracks on one disk, many of which are brief ( 1 minute) segues. In this case, it would cost you twice what it would do purchase the full disk through retail. OTOH, you could grab some progressive rock concept album that has five 15 minute tracks for five bucks. Albiet, a great deal for the consumer, but perhaps not so for the artist.
The only thing different now is that the software is being acquired legally. Before, the Red Army would've just used their pirated Oracle 9 to keep tabs on Democratic Activists.
Perhaps the Iraq operation wouldn't be such a clusterfuck today if Clinton hadn't cut our military in half.
Just because it's contraversial, doesn't make it flamebait. If either of these situations occurred, I bet we wouldn't be in the shit we're in now!!!
Instead of making their customers jump through hoops to remove the preinstalled spyware, why don't they grow a pair and forbid the crap from being installed in the first place??? Don't they have some kind of say-so in what gets loaded on their products? Shouldn't they be held accountable for protecting their customers' privacy? As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". It looks like Dell has already determined which side of the line they want to be on.
Well, if on the flight home, his co-pilot starts wainling Tekeli-li!! Tekeli-li!!, I'd say he's pretty much screwed.
My wife, OTOH, can take upwards of two hours trying on different combinations of clothes, shoes and accessories just to determine what she doesn't want to wear. Rest assured, when she does decide, the effect will be stunning. But no less effective had she gone with any dozen of her other combinations.
Women instinctively know that men are more visual. Whether they admit to it or not, the whole "getting ready" ritual and the end result is to exploit (yes, I said "exploit") the fact that men are, well, very simple and predictable when it comes to certain things. We can't turn away from a pretty face, and if you show a little attention or interest, for the most part, we'll be eating out of your hands. If anyone caught the episode of South Park tonight (probabally the most well written one I've seen in years) you had it spelled out perfectly. Show a little skin, bat the eyes and give a little flirt, and most guys will throw their hearts (and wallets) on the line.
I wonder what key we'll have to hold down to disable this new brainstorm.
Where is your server farm?
Outside the main building in the Data Center
You'll never make it in time!!! Slashdot is very... *very*... dangerous
Ahh, apparently some mods fit the description I've put forth....
Or maybe: Let the bytes flow through you!
Victory you say? Master Kenobi, not victory! The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.
Why do I have the feeling you're going to be the death of me
For a mechanic, you seem to do an awful lot of thinking
That sounds a lot like a dictatorship to me.
Well, if it works!
Wipe them out! All of them!
These could be easily plugged in and modified to the topic at hand.
I think Yoda's lack of insight in the prequels has already been pretty well summed up: The jedi are losing their ability to use the Force. No jedi is able to forsee the creation of the clone army. Even Yoda said "blind we must be!!" in regards to this. More telling is the fact that a sith master is hiding in plain sight, interacting with the jedi on a daily basis. What I think is interesting is this same lack of foresight is what leads to the downfall of the Emporer. He is able to plan each and every act of the alliance against him, but his foresight is perverted when it comes to Vader and Luke. He has seen that Luke's compassion for Vader will be Luke's undoing. When it turns out that it is in fact Vader's compassion for Luke that is the Emporer's undoing. This probabally feeds into the whole "balance of the force" thing we keep hearing about.
Back to the Future had Dwarves and Elves???