Brave Sir William ran away, He wouldn't run Linux today. When blue screens reared their ugly heads, He could have run Redhat instead. Yes, brave Sir William hit ctrl-alt-delete Gallantly, not admitting defeat, And knowing Open Source can't be beat, He bravely uses lawyers to cheat, Bravest of the brave, Sir William.
Bravely bold Sir William rode forth from Redmond WA. He was not afraid to crash, Oh brave Sir William. He was not at all afraid to lose data in nasty ways, Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir William!
He was not in the least bit scared to be smashed in the face with a pie Or to have his PC lock up on stage during a product demo, To have his Passport account stolen and sold on eBay And his systems all hacked and Win-Nuked, brave Sir William!
His hard drive infected with worms And his clusters lost and FAT table not found And his registry a mess and files corrupt And his personal mail forwarded to all And his pass--
I fear that 30% of this 69% sample group probably doesn't even know how to use Google to find Web sites, USENET postings, pictures, news articles, etc.
This brings up an interesting question: Could an on-line community be used to design and test completely new forms of government or economic systems? Would Karl Marx have modified his theories if he had been able to test them in a virtual world before publishing them?
We all know that
our favorite republic, which we like to call a democracy, is overall the best system yet to be implemented. But is it the absolute best? Does it give too much power to the rich? Would it work better if corporations had not been granted personhood? What if employment was abolished and every citizen earned his living as though he were running his own business with the product being his own labor or creative ideas?
As MMORPG's get more complex and people's participation in the virtual world becomes ubiqitous, these types of questions can be answered. Look at
A Tale in the Desert as an example of something moving in that direction but also try to imagine what will be in another ten years.
I disagree. Animals are essentially limitless resources when managed wisely so they make up a middle ground that isn't accounted for by your theory. I have heard that meme before; that ideas are unlimited and therefore non-rivalrous resources, and I think it is obvious that that conception doesn't work in the world we live in. In an ideal world where that was the accepted mode there could be no patents and no copyright. These practices have sped progress and I doubt if any reasonable person would dispute that. The problem that we are seeing with patent and copyright is not that they exist but that the holders of these time-limited monopolies have slowly over the course of a couple centuries gained time-unlimited monopolies which destroyed the original intent of the laws. I think you should examine that meme more carefully before you repeat it again.
Good analogy. BSD is free like the Dodo bird was free. They're free take one. Walk over and grab one and throw it in a boiling pot. Now they're extinct. But GPL is free like the Bald Eagle. Try to grab one of those and see how much hand you have left when you pull it back. It's the kind of Freedom that protects itself.
'The state of Massachusetts has moved away from specifying that open source software be given preferential treatment over proprietary systems. Instead, they have chosen to focus on software that provides the best value and flexibility.'
it's incredibly unlikely that we'll find a planet even remotely similar to Earth.
It's already been found. Earth's twin is on the exact opposite side of the sun from Earth. That's why it has never been observed. It is inhabited by aliens who dress like japanese businessmen and Gamera sometimes flys there to rescue children kidnapped by flying saucers before their brains can be eaten.
Get with the program.
The title says the Earth is changing its spin, but then the text says what is changing is the Earth's orbit around the Sun. So which is it?
Possible explanations include the tides, weather and changes in the Earth's core, he said.
I can see how these things could affect the spin around the Earths axis. For example, melting glaciers would tend to speed up the spin because of the mass getting closer to the Earth's center like a skater pulling her arms in. But how can they affect the rotation around the Sun?
All personal computers can sit on a desktop. That is not what determines which models fall into that category. The term "desktop market" is shorthand for "corporate desktop market" which did not exist until IBM released the PC. Yes, a few brave souls were running Visicalc on Apple II's in a business environment but the numbers were miniscule compared to what was about to happen. Once the clone makers started competing with each other to offer the lowest price IBM-compatible, an entire industry sprang up around the architecture. You can't say that about those other models with the possible exception of the Apple II. But it was never really accepted by corporate America.
I believe the phrase you're looking for is 'op-ed' as in 'opinion-editorial'.
Yes "Opt-ed" is what you do when you reply to a spammer to say you do not want to receive any more offers of penis enlargement pills. You have "opt-ed" into receiving offers for dozens of other products such as viagra and farmsex porn.
Convert the whole internet to tokenring, then we could all filter anything we find objectionable. Never mind that ping latency would be measured in geological time.
The Microsoft monopoly had next to nothing to do with MS-DOS being distributed with IBM PC's. It wasn't until Windows 3 and Windows 95 that Microsoft's monopoly was cemented. Before that, there were just another compnay producing another operating system which ran on some of the computers people bought.
Now I'm not sure if you're a troll or just a young know-it-all since your knowledge of the industry seems to begin with and center around MS Windows. I assure you that MS-DOS had a monopoly marketshare of the IBM compatible market right from the start.
Bill Gates was born with alot of money, and I am sure it made his life easier in some abstract way
ROTFL. In some abstract way, huh? I can tell from your last paragraph that Gates is your hero. That explains why you cling to those outdated Microsoft marketing lines. I bet if the antitrust case were still in Judge Jackson's courtroom you would still be arguing that Microsoft doesn't even have a monopoly. Cheers.
- IBM gave Gates a monopoly back in the early eighties lock, stock, and barrel
They gave them a monopoly by developing OS2, a competing operating system? Aside from that strange statement, you are in general correct.
Wow dude. You should read up on the history of PC's. OS/2 was written in the late eighties. It was a collaboration between IBM and Microsoft. Windows NT is a fork of the source code of OS/2. Anywho, my point was that the IBM PC was offered out of the box only with DOS. If you wanted one of the other 2 OS's that would run on it you had to send the original DOS disks through the mail and wait for months for IBM to send you CP/M or the other one (I forgot what it was). Meanwhile the unbelievably expensive electronic adding machine which you stuck your professional neck out to buy sits unusable on a table while co-workers also vying for the next promotion slide knives in your back. Got the picture yet? IBM undercut Apples price on hardware and effectively caused 99.9% of buyers to use DOS giving Gates a monopoly in the early eighties.
And he did it starting from scratch - something which is almost unheard of.
You really don't know, do you? Please read
the truth. If being born with a million dollar trust fund in 1955 (back when a decent single family house was going for a few thousand) is 'starting from scratch' then how about giving me a little of that scratch?
I never said Gates was a poor businessman. That remains to be seen. But only an absolute idiot could lose the fortune that had been plopped in his lap.
I'm sure you already realize AC that comparing OSS to Communism is merely a way for one class of people, the bourgeios, to control another, the proletariat, and to alienate them from their labor power. 'Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production includes not only the production of food or manufactured goods, it includes the production of ideas as well (this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests).'
I don't have time to think about this further because I am putting in overtime so I can buy a cell phone with a color screen and custom ringtones. Once I have one of those then everyone will see how important I am and then *I* will be the boss!
IBM gave Gates a monopoly back in the early eighties lock, stock, and barrel. Anyone *except* a business *imbecile* could grow an OS monopoly into a software monopoly which is exactly why IBM was prevented by an anti-trust order from bundling their own hardware and software together.
With two monopolies in hand then who couldn't take over the server market and (if not for Linux and the GPL) eventually take over the Palm market and the phone market and the set-top box market and the game console market and someday even the mainframe market.
IANAA (I am not an accountant) but I believe that "tax deductible" usually means that the amount is to be deducted from the taxable income. So a corporation paying 30% taxes would still be giving 70% of any donation directly from their bottom line. However, the tax code is so complicated and there are so many loopholes and other deductions that few corporations or wealthy persons pay much in taxes (as a ratio of income) compared to middle class workers anyway.
all it takes is an updated library of cooking times for a given SKU, pegged to the specific wattage of your unit and updated at night like a TiVo program guide.
I think the updating would not be necessary. It would be trivial to encode desired wattage, length of cycle, pauses, additional heating cycles into one barcode. The hardest part would be to get a referendum of microwave oven manufacturers to agree to the same system.
which yields approximately 20 Mb/s each way, or about the capacity of a DS3 line.
This is the first I've heard of this because I've been real busy. But what I want to know is why SCO is doing this. Why do they hate open sourcers so much that they would pay for a DS-3 just to clog thousands of poor linux users meager bandwidth? Oh, Darl! What profiteth you from this nefarious scheme?
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Yes, in part. To whatever extent they have invested in a company they own that much of the company. That's how the stock market works.
Brave Sir William ran away,
He wouldn't run Linux today.
When blue screens reared their ugly heads,
He could have run Redhat instead.
Yes, brave Sir William hit ctrl-alt-delete
Gallantly, not admitting defeat,
And knowing Open Source can't be beat,
He bravely uses lawyers to cheat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir William.
Bravely bold Sir William rode forth from Redmond WA.
He was not afraid to crash, Oh brave Sir William.
He was not at all afraid to lose data in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir William!
He was not in the least bit scared to be smashed in the face with a pie
Or to have his PC lock up on stage during a product demo,
To have his Passport account stolen and sold on eBay
And his systems all hacked and Win-Nuked, brave Sir William!
His hard drive infected with worms
And his clusters lost and FAT table not found
And his registry a mess and files corrupt
And his personal mail forwarded to all
And his pass--
(with apologies to Monty Python)
Read this eWeek interview.
Let's just hope that the technology is practical enough to be upscaled to larger vehicles like SUV's!
USENET? What's that? I get my porn from pop-ups!
We all know that our favorite republic, which we like to call a democracy, is overall the best system yet to be implemented. But is it the absolute best? Does it give too much power to the rich? Would it work better if corporations had not been granted personhood? What if employment was abolished and every citizen earned his living as though he were running his own business with the product being his own labor or creative ideas?
As MMORPG's get more complex and people's participation in the virtual world becomes ubiqitous, these types of questions can be answered. Look at A Tale in the Desert as an example of something moving in that direction but also try to imagine what will be in another ten years.
I disagree. Animals are essentially limitless resources when managed wisely so they make up a middle ground that isn't accounted for by your theory. I have heard that meme before; that ideas are unlimited and therefore non-rivalrous resources, and I think it is obvious that that conception doesn't work in the world we live in. In an ideal world where that was the accepted mode there could be no patents and no copyright. These practices have sped progress and I doubt if any reasonable person would dispute that. The problem that we are seeing with patent and copyright is not that they exist but that the holders of these time-limited monopolies have slowly over the course of a couple centuries gained time-unlimited monopolies which destroyed the original intent of the laws. I think you should examine that meme more carefully before you repeat it again.
Good analogy. BSD is free like the Dodo bird was free. They're free take one. Walk over and grab one and throw it in a boiling pot. Now they're extinct. But GPL is free like the Bald Eagle. Try to grab one of those and see how much hand you have left when you pull it back. It's the kind of Freedom that protects itself.
'Nuff said.
It's already been found. Earth's twin is on the exact opposite side of the sun from Earth. That's why it has never been observed. It is inhabited by aliens who dress like japanese businessmen and Gamera sometimes flys there to rescue children kidnapped by flying saucers before their brains can be eaten. Get with the program.
I thought it looked more like Fred Flintstone's bowling ball.
Possible explanations include the tides, weather and changes in the Earth's core, he said.
I can see how these things could affect the spin around the Earths axis. For example, melting glaciers would tend to speed up the spin because of the mass getting closer to the Earth's center like a skater pulling her arms in. But how can they affect the rotation around the Sun?
All personal computers can sit on a desktop. That is not what determines which models fall into that category. The term "desktop market" is shorthand for "corporate desktop market" which did not exist until IBM released the PC. Yes, a few brave souls were running Visicalc on Apple II's in a business environment but the numbers were miniscule compared to what was about to happen. Once the clone makers started competing with each other to offer the lowest price IBM-compatible, an entire industry sprang up around the architecture. You can't say that about those other models with the possible exception of the Apple II. But it was never really accepted by corporate America.
Wrong. There was no "destop market" before IBM rolled out their PC. Only IBM had the legitimacy to create it.
Yes "Opt-ed" is what you do when you reply to a spammer to say you do not want to receive any more offers of penis enlargement pills. You have "opt-ed" into receiving offers for dozens of other products such as viagra and farmsex porn.
Convert the whole internet to tokenring, then we could all filter anything we find objectionable. Never mind that ping latency would be measured in geological time.
Leave the kitchen lights on all night long!
Now I'm not sure if you're a troll or just a young know-it-all since your knowledge of the industry seems to begin with and center around MS Windows. I assure you that MS-DOS had a monopoly marketshare of the IBM compatible market right from the start.
Bill Gates was born with alot of money, and I am sure it made his life easier in some abstract way
ROTFL. In some abstract way, huh? I can tell from your last paragraph that Gates is your hero. That explains why you cling to those outdated Microsoft marketing lines. I bet if the antitrust case were still in Judge Jackson's courtroom you would still be arguing that Microsoft doesn't even have a monopoly. Cheers.
They gave them a monopoly by developing OS2, a competing operating system? Aside from that strange statement, you are in general correct.
Wow dude. You should read up on the history of PC's. OS/2 was written in the late eighties. It was a collaboration between IBM and Microsoft. Windows NT is a fork of the source code of OS/2. Anywho, my point was that the IBM PC was offered out of the box only with DOS. If you wanted one of the other 2 OS's that would run on it you had to send the original DOS disks through the mail and wait for months for IBM to send you CP/M or the other one (I forgot what it was). Meanwhile the unbelievably expensive electronic adding machine which you stuck your professional neck out to buy sits unusable on a table while co-workers also vying for the next promotion slide knives in your back. Got the picture yet? IBM undercut Apples price on hardware and effectively caused 99.9% of buyers to use DOS giving Gates a monopoly in the early eighties.
And he did it starting from scratch - something which is almost unheard of.
You really don't know, do you? Please read the truth. If being born with a million dollar trust fund in 1955 (back when a decent single family house was going for a few thousand) is 'starting from scratch' then how about giving me a little of that scratch?
I never said Gates was a poor businessman. That remains to be seen. But only an absolute idiot could lose the fortune that had been plopped in his lap.
I'm sure you already realize AC that comparing OSS to Communism is merely a way for one class of people, the bourgeios, to control another, the proletariat, and to alienate them from their labor power. 'Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production includes not only the production of food or manufactured goods, it includes the production of ideas as well (this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests).'
I don't have time to think about this further because I am putting in overtime so I can buy a cell phone with a color screen and custom ringtones. Once I have one of those then everyone will see how important I am and then *I* will be the boss!
Gates a business genius? Puh-lease
IBM gave Gates a monopoly back in the early eighties lock, stock, and barrel. Anyone *except* a business *imbecile* could grow an OS monopoly into a software monopoly which is exactly why IBM was prevented by an anti-trust order from bundling their own hardware and software together.
With two monopolies in hand then who couldn't take over the server market and (if not for Linux and the GPL) eventually take over the Palm market and the phone market and the set-top box market and the game console market and someday even the mainframe market.
IANAA (I am not an accountant) but I believe that "tax deductible" usually means that the amount is to be deducted from the taxable income. So a corporation paying 30% taxes would still be giving 70% of any donation directly from their bottom line. However, the tax code is so complicated and there are so many loopholes and other deductions that few corporations or wealthy persons pay much in taxes (as a ratio of income) compared to middle class workers anyway.
I think the updating would not be necessary. It would be trivial to encode desired wattage, length of cycle, pauses, additional heating cycles into one barcode. The hardest part would be to get a referendum of microwave oven manufacturers to agree to the same system.
This is the first I've heard of this because I've been real busy. But what I want to know is why SCO is doing this. Why do they hate open sourcers so much that they would pay for a DS-3 just to clog thousands of poor linux users meager bandwidth? Oh, Darl! What profiteth you from this nefarious scheme?