Worse, say the program's detractors, is that it rewards those students who parrot the industry line with trips and free DVDs.
Back in the eighties Junior Achievment taught us how to
make money being a pimp. Now they're cutting out the middleman and teaching impressionable children how to whore themselves out for free DVD's.
How ironic that a cease and desist letter is written to stop distribution of software but cease and desist letters are not written for sweat shops or environmental polluters.
Good point. It just goes to show that our government does not represent the people; Instead it represents business interests. I doubt very much that that is what Jefferson and Adams envisioned.
What is really happening is a corporation is using legal means to shut down a free software project in India for the first time and the small project is left defenseless even though they believe that
they are right.
When an employer decides he needs to fill a programming position, what is going to make him want to fill that position in the U.S. rather than overseas?
The U.S. government petered away its manufacturing base by representing the few, the wealthy, and now its blind subservience to the rich threatens to squander our intellectual capital. I would encourage every American who reads this to write to his congressman and senator to express his concern, except that doing so didn't save our factory jobs and it won't save our engineering jobs.
<sarcasm> Personally, I'm going to write to my senator to see if he has any openings for henchmen. After all, its better to be a houseboy than a field slave. I think I may use the immortal words of Homer Simpson in my plea, 'Listen to me, Mister Big-Shot. If you're looking for the kind of employee that takes abuse, and never sticks up for himself, I'M YOUR MAN! You can treat me like dirt, and I'll still kiss your butt and call it ice cream! And if you don't like it, I can change!' I could throw in some comments about Rush Limbaugh being some kind of genius and how sending jobs overseas will make commodities ever cheaper benefiting those Americans who will still have an income source. </sarcasm> Think it'll work?
If it was a video of the mayor's son shooting himself I have no doubt the city would proclaim that some law or police regulation gave them the right to take it down. But in this case they are protecting a police officer from what most people would consider pretty repugnant behaviour.
Named for the audio channel that many airlines use to let passengers listen in on crew conversations during flight, Channel 9
I don't know if I would want to listen in on the crew.
5. Hey dude, got anything to eat? I've really got the muchies right now.
4. Do you smell that?
<sniff>
<sniff>
It's like a burning smell...
3. Dallas Tower, we have a flameout on starboard engine 2.
2. Jesus H. Cripes, Climb! Climb!
And the number one thing you don't want to hear on channel 9:
1. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...
Dan Gillmor gets plenty of repsect from the people who know tech. He's not afraid to go with the right technolgy (he used to be a big OS/2 fan back in the Warp 3 days) bandwagons notwithstanding.
And his point was that Linux can make an old laptop useable again. He's not going to abandon OS x for Linux any time soon when it comes to computers with lots of horsepower - like a G5. You can get Linux has a long way to go to match OS X for spit and polish
I will have to take your word on how much respect Dan gets. I really wouldn't know because I pretty much quit reading these type of columnists years ago due to their irrational and unwavering fealty to Redmond. But if Dan is a man with vision then kudos to him.
His point that Linux can make an old laptop useable again is well taken but I wonder at his statement that he could have loaded XP and all new apps onto his antiquated stinkpad. If it is really as outdated as he hinted then I doubt if XP would have loaded at all. And if it had then once it and those new apps were finally installed and working, it would be so slow as to be unusable. I agree that Linux has a ways to go to match OS X on eye candy and I hope there will always be a place for Apple.
Remember the ads in Minority Report that talked to you as you walk past the displays?
I wonder how long it will be until every page is customized according to your personal tastes. You might receive your issue of Popular Electronics filled with ads for embedded systems and circuit boards while your neighbor receives the same issue but with ads for mini spy cameras and weird sex toys.
Yes but not just the printer. Reason itself gains notoriety due to the shock value. You've never gotten a magazine with your house circled on the cover, have you? Nor has anyone else.
On my Fedora box, if I upgrade glibc to fix a bug, I want *all* my applications to benefit.
Great idea! And if I upgrade glibc introducing a bug, I want *all* my applications to be broken!
Or better yet, some to be broken but some to be fixed! I think the package maintainers can determine which version works best with their apps and 0install can just cache whatever the latest release is.
Because to moderate 'redundant' fairly you would have to look at all comments in the forum to find the repeats and then examine the time that they were posted which doesn't necessarily correlate with which thread they are in.
How can you expect comment posters to have done this already to make sure they aren't being redundant? Only a schizoid could follow a conversation if he is viewing in flat mode, oldest first. In fact maybe that is the cause of some redundant comments.
I only mod redundant when the redundant comment is made in the same thread and when so much time has passed since the original that I know the redundant poster didn't just take longer to compose his reply than the other guy.
If I understand it right, if I statically compile against a GPL library, that makes my app GPL'd. But I can compile against a shared object and it will not affect which licenses I can release under because I am only referencing GPL'd code rather than incorporating that code into my application. But with this 0install system I could use shared libraries and include those GPL'd libraries in the same directory along with their source and basically get the same convenience that I would by compiling statically? No more library version, dependency heck for my users? And the library authors who released under GPL still get what they want by allowing Free access for everyone to their code? And the only drawback seems to be additional disk space and bandwidth usage which continue to get cheaper and cheaper. That sounds pretty sweet!
I don't know if anyone remembers, but a fellow named Tom Gold -- part respected physicist, part alleged nutcase -- wrote a book a while back (can't find it on Google) about the Earth's core being made in part of non-biologically-originated hydrocarbons. His most recent one postulates that there is a fair amount of bacterial life down in the nether regions of the earth's crust.
We know there is life at least several kilometers down in solid rock. This is proven from core samples taken to that depth. We don't know how the organisms got that deep or whether some as yet undiscovered strain creates hydrocarbon chains from whatever raw materials are in the water in the cavities of that rock. We know of some organisms that can live on sulphur which may have seeped down in the cracks but how do you make oil from sulpher? Also the metabolism of such an organism has to be extremely slow or it would run out of food and die before fresh nutrients filtered down to it. However, IANAG nor am I a biologist so I'll wait for the experts to find proof.
I wonder though if Tom Gold has thought about this:
the kudzu plant
was brought to the Southern US states from Japan I believe to stop erosion. However its native environment was cold and not as hospitable. Now kudzu grows like mad in most southern states. It can grow 1-2 feet in a single day! It's literally out of control. Now imagine bringing up a microbe which is used to living in an anemic environment. It uses every iota of chemical energy it can derive from its surroundings to multiply at least once before it dies or its species would have died out eons ago. Its waste is hydrocarbons. What would happen if it got loose on the surface? Our world might seem like a never-ending banquet to it. It could be the bacterial kudzu from Hell. I'm not too worried about it, but it would make a good sci-fi novel, eh?
Outgassing stopped 4B years ago?
on
Methane on Mars?
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
He added: "It's difficult to imagine that primordial methane [from geological activity] would continue outgassing for four billion years [the age of Mars]. This looks very intriguing."
Is he assuming that geological activity stopped 4 billion years ago? I believe it used to be assumed that Mars core had cooled to a solid state long ago, but a
NASA release
just last year concluded that the core is indeed still molten. But maybe the crust has cooled so much and become so thick that there are no plate tectonics to break the surface and release primordial hydrocarbons.
Maybe it won't do wonders for its name recognition but it might do wonders for marketshare if they release a whole Firefox Customization Kit. I think small ISP's and Marketing departments everywhere would jump on it.
Black see under 200 m (measured 20 years ago, now the border is shallower due to pollution) has 0% oxygen and more then 0.5 H2S
That is interesting. What is the cause of the hydrogen sulfide? I know the area is geologically active. Is the H2S being released from black smokers or something similar? If so, what was the previously existing lake like, could it have supported a diverse eco-system?
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Back in the eighties Junior Achievment taught us how to make money being a pimp. Now they're cutting out the middleman and teaching impressionable children how to whore themselves out for free DVD's.
Good point. It just goes to show that our government does not represent the people; Instead it represents business interests. I doubt very much that that is what Jefferson and Adams envisioned.
A voice crackles through the calm airwaves of LEO...
Houston: (beep) International Space Station, we are showing an attitude control problem on our sensors. Can you confirm?
(Two astronauts pressed against the walls of the station by centrifugal force)
Astronaut 1: Whoo yeah baby, all right! Crank it up Charlie!
Astronaut 2: (turns dial to max) Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
in a nutshell.
The U.S. government petered away its manufacturing base by representing the few, the wealthy, and now its blind subservience to the rich threatens to squander our intellectual capital. I would encourage every American who reads this to write to his congressman and senator to express his concern, except that doing so didn't save our factory jobs and it won't save our engineering jobs.
<sarcasm> Personally, I'm going to write to my senator to see if he has any openings for henchmen. After all, its better to be a houseboy than a field slave. I think I may use the immortal words of Homer Simpson in my plea, 'Listen to me, Mister Big-Shot. If you're looking for the kind of employee that takes abuse, and never sticks up for himself, I'M YOUR MAN! You can treat me like dirt, and I'll still kiss your butt and call it ice cream! And if you don't like it, I can change!' I could throw in some comments about Rush Limbaugh being some kind of genius and how sending jobs overseas will make commodities ever cheaper benefiting those Americans who will still have an income source. </sarcasm> Think it'll work?
I like their 11th Commandment Contest.
One of the runners-up was Thou Shalt Not Shag Sheep Unless Fully Welsh.
You don't happen to work for John Ashcroft do you?
No? Thank God!
If it was a video of the mayor's son shooting himself I have no doubt the city would proclaim that some law or police regulation gave them the right to take it down. But in this case they are protecting a police officer from what most people would consider pretty repugnant behaviour.
I don't know if I would want to listen in on the crew.
5. Hey dude, got anything to eat? I've really got the muchies right now.
4. Do you smell that? <sniff> <sniff> It's like a burning smell...
3. Dallas Tower, we have a flameout on starboard engine 2.
2. Jesus H. Cripes, Climb! Climb!
And the number one thing you don't want to hear on channel 9:
1. Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...
new newsgroup:
nttp//alt.binary.pictures.employed.indian.brunette
And his point was that Linux can make an old laptop useable again. He's not going to abandon OS x for Linux any time soon when it comes to computers with lots of horsepower - like a G5. You can get Linux has a long way to go to match OS X for spit and polish
I will have to take your word on how much respect Dan gets. I really wouldn't know because I pretty much quit reading these type of columnists years ago due to their irrational and unwavering fealty to Redmond. But if Dan is a man with vision then kudos to him.
His point that Linux can make an old laptop useable again is well taken but I wonder at his statement that he could have loaded XP and all new apps onto his antiquated stinkpad. If it is really as outdated as he hinted then I doubt if XP would have loaded at all. And if it had then once it and those new apps were finally installed and working, it would be so slow as to be unusable. I agree that Linux has a ways to go to match OS X on eye candy and I hope there will always be a place for Apple.
The other 30% is porn and cookies.
Remember the ads in Minority Report that talked to you as you walk past the displays?
I wonder how long it will be until every page is customized according to your personal tastes. You might receive your issue of Popular Electronics filled with ads for embedded systems and circuit boards while your neighbor receives the same issue but with ads for mini spy cameras and weird sex toys.
Yes but not just the printer. Reason itself gains notoriety due to the shock value. You've never gotten a magazine with your house circled on the cover, have you? Nor has anyone else.
Great idea! And if I upgrade glibc introducing a bug, I want *all* my applications to be broken! Or better yet, some to be broken but some to be fixed! I think the package maintainers can determine which version works best with their apps and 0install can just cache whatever the latest release is.
Because to moderate 'redundant' fairly you would have to look at all comments in the forum to find the repeats and then examine the time that they were posted which doesn't necessarily correlate with which thread they are in.
How can you expect comment posters to have done this already to make sure they aren't being redundant? Only a schizoid could follow a conversation if he is viewing in flat mode, oldest first. In fact maybe that is the cause of some redundant comments.
I only mod redundant when the redundant comment is made in the same thread and when so much time has passed since the original that I know the redundant poster didn't just take longer to compose his reply than the other guy.
If I understand it right, if I statically compile against a GPL library, that makes my app GPL'd. But I can compile against a shared object and it will not affect which licenses I can release under because I am only referencing GPL'd code rather than incorporating that code into my application. But with this 0install system I could use shared libraries and include those GPL'd libraries in the same directory along with their source and basically get the same convenience that I would by compiling statically? No more library version, dependency heck for my users? And the library authors who released under GPL still get what they want by allowing Free access for everyone to their code? And the only drawback seems to be additional disk space and bandwidth usage which continue to get cheaper and cheaper. That sounds pretty sweet!
Seems kind of intimidating!
Yes, as in: 'Look Pal, I want my money back and I won't take no for an answer!'
The article is about Microsoft. What, were you afraid it might be a picture of Bill Goatse?
We know there is life at least several kilometers down in solid rock. This is proven from core samples taken to that depth. We don't know how the organisms got that deep or whether some as yet undiscovered strain creates hydrocarbon chains from whatever raw materials are in the water in the cavities of that rock. We know of some organisms that can live on sulphur which may have seeped down in the cracks but how do you make oil from sulpher? Also the metabolism of such an organism has to be extremely slow or it would run out of food and die before fresh nutrients filtered down to it. However, IANAG nor am I a biologist so I'll wait for the experts to find proof.
I wonder though if Tom Gold has thought about this: the kudzu plant was brought to the Southern US states from Japan I believe to stop erosion. However its native environment was cold and not as hospitable. Now kudzu grows like mad in most southern states. It can grow 1-2 feet in a single day! It's literally out of control. Now imagine bringing up a microbe which is used to living in an anemic environment. It uses every iota of chemical energy it can derive from its surroundings to multiply at least once before it dies or its species would have died out eons ago. Its waste is hydrocarbons. What would happen if it got loose on the surface? Our world might seem like a never-ending banquet to it. It could be the bacterial kudzu from Hell. I'm not too worried about it, but it would make a good sci-fi novel, eh?
Maybe it won't do wonders for its name recognition but it might do wonders for marketshare if they release a whole Firefox Customization Kit. I think small ISP's and Marketing departments everywhere would jump on it.
Now go to your dad and give him his usual after-shitting rimjob, please.
I always wondered what Microsofties thought about in their spare time. Now I know.
That is interesting. What is the cause of the hydrogen sulfide? I know the area is geologically active. Is the H2S being released from black smokers or something similar? If so, what was the previously existing lake like, could it have supported a diverse eco-system?