Ironically, they also say that they can't compete with Apple, because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system.
Are they admitting that the only way Microsoft can compete with other software manufacturers, is by having access to the operating system's sourcecode, to which other's don't? And is there any doubt left that MS in fact used this unfair advantage against Wordperfect and Lotus?
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Note that at the time of the posting, Cliff's comment was still misspelled, with "higher" instead of "hire". I thought Slashdot editors would restrain from this behind-your-back post-editing.
Discrimination against short people!
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Of course, this behavior could be explained away as economic concerns, as the decision to higher younger (and typically cheaper) employees can directly affect the bottom line.
I am outraged that the widespread discrimination against short folks has taken another, worrying, twist: even in evaluating programming skills!
I concur that some amount of the Palestinian exodus was related to the promises and exhortations of the surrounding Arab states. However, it is delusional to believe that there was no force or pressure applied. If the federal government exhorted Californians to leave their homes temporarily so that they could sweep in and evict the illegal immigrants, can you imagine that any appreciable number would leave?
Incidently, I can. And the reason is, this is exactly the tactic used by serbian military and paramilitary forces in the balkan war (both in croatia and in bosnia): they would say to the serbs to get out so they can bomb the shit out of a certain village. So, all of a sudden, you wonder where'd the serbs go - and that would be a sure sign that the artillery barrage was coming. Unfortunately, this tactic was mostly succesful, in bosnia. (I was born in croatia, but studied in serbia at the time - that was a very strange situation, being on "the other side" of the frontline.)
How about this: the "other life" could be the transcendence to another level of "matrixness", maybe this time the real thing. I am talking about the possibility that Morpheus, Trinity and co. are all actually in a second matrix (so, Zion and the dark, sun-less world are all in this second matrix) and that Neo will be able to get to the next level... to a new life. Maybe the real world, finally?
I have. And I had an interesting discussion on the topic with another slashdotter.
If you think about it, The Architect might actually have interest in presenting Neo with fabrications, if he's not able to control him. Lies are used for control.
In doing so, they resorted to terrorism, and displaced much of the non-Jewish palestinian population.
Only a small minority resorted to terrorism. Jews were organized in disciplined military ranks, mosttly in the Hagana.
However, what hurts me more is your statement, which has been extensively documented as false, about Jews pushing Arabs out of their houses and lands. The truth is that it was the arab leaders that exorted people to leave their homes, under the counsel of egyptian, jordanian, syrian and iraqi military liaisons, as a temporary measure, while their mighty combined army pulverizes the jews. However, this tactic didn't pay out, because the Jews survived the onslaught.
oohhh, and you were _this_ close ---> || but no cigarette: Zion is a synonim of Jerusalem, the "eternal city", the place to which Jews from all over the world are drawing to - in spite of all the conquerers and enslavers that kept them, during the millennia, away from it. You are right that there is such a thing as Mt. Zion (or Sion, most often), but the term "Zionism" refers to the political (and social and religious) movement to bring Jews back to their eternal lighthouse, Jerusalem.
You spelled out my thoughts so clearly. I, too, am wondering why is that journalists (most of the time) take the stance that it's better not stir the shit, i.e. let the bad guys do their things because if we go after them, they might get mad at us, and that's more trouble. I know this is more of a tangent to your thought, but it's related. Thankfully, the US govt. seems to have taken a position of principle, more or less. (disclaimer: I am a european, and quite like it here in finland)
Pretty sad, but there's not much we can do about this. The arab world has been investing shitloads of oil-money into whitewashing history and manipulating the public.
But I'm hopeful that in 30-40 years from now, when that oil will be made irrelevant due to alternative energy technologies, things will change.
Apparently, repeated electricution (even very small shocks) causes, in the long run, chronic impotence. The cause is not known exactly, but if I were you, I would stay clear of this kind of shit.
My guess, based on medical cases of electricution: perhaps in the range of 1-5 mA, maybe 10. If it was more than that, your heart would have gone into fibrilation, and at the very least you would have fainted. More than that, you wouldn't have been able to tell about it on Slashdot.
Keep it, damned! In a few years it will be worth more than the new one. It's how these things go: the original Jaguar E-type is the most coveted one, the original "breadbox" Commodore 64 is the one that has some value, unlike the newer Commodore 64-II (flat box), The Apple 1 motherboard is much more valuable than any Apple II, and the original Apple II is more valuable than the IIc or IIgs, and finally, the Sinclair Zx-80 is MUCH more valuable than the newer ZX-81. Etc etc etc....
Newer and improved technical goods almost always have less value as collectible items, than the models that entered the market.
I see you mentioned your VIC-20 not being networked. See if this will help any. I guess you only have to figure out how to run uIP on it:-] which would be possible with an appropriate RAM expansion, which would be an interesting project by itself... hmmm... no really, this idea came to my just while I was typing this.
Does she have no formal EE training? I was deeply impressed by her capabilities (I think she featured on Slashdot some time ago, that's when I saw her work).
Where's the coding or practical experience? She might have, or she might not. I didn't argue either way. I countered your unsubstantiated claim that she is just "a writer".
Do you actually know anything about Laura DiDio? She has been a very knowledgeable network systems journalist. I'd say it takes brains and knowledge to analyze network management systems the way she did.
While I know of the 9" monochrome monitor, and can accept that there may have been a 12" color monitor, I can't even start imagining that there was a 5" model for the Apple IIc! Any chance you could point me to a picture on the 'net? How about you taking a picture of your setup yourself, and put it somewhere in cyberspace?
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Actually, I can think of one worse: chicken-masturbator escalation engineer. "When nothing else makes 'em cum."
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Ironically, they also say that they can't compete with Apple, because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system.
Are they admitting that the only way Microsoft can compete with other software manufacturers, is by having access to the operating system's sourcecode, to which other's don't? And is there any doubt left that MS in fact used this unfair advantage against Wordperfect and Lotus?
Note that at the time of the posting, Cliff's comment was still misspelled, with "higher" instead of "hire". I thought Slashdot editors would restrain from this behind-your-back post-editing.
Of course, this behavior could be explained away as economic concerns, as the decision to higher younger (and typically cheaper) employees can directly affect the bottom line.
I am outraged that the widespread discrimination against short folks has taken another, worrying, twist: even in evaluating programming skills!
I concur that some amount of the Palestinian exodus was related to the promises and exhortations of the surrounding Arab states. However, it is delusional to believe that there was no force or pressure applied. If the federal government exhorted Californians to leave their homes temporarily so that they could sweep in and evict the illegal immigrants, can you imagine that any appreciable number would leave?
Incidently, I can. And the reason is, this is exactly the tactic used by serbian military and paramilitary forces in the balkan war (both in croatia and in bosnia): they would say to the serbs to get out so they can bomb the shit out of a certain village. So, all of a sudden, you wonder where'd the serbs go - and that would be a sure sign that the artillery barrage was coming.
Unfortunately, this tactic was mostly succesful, in bosnia. (I was born in croatia, but studied in serbia at the time - that was a very strange situation, being on "the other side" of the frontline.)
How about this: the "other life" could be the transcendence to another level of "matrixness", maybe this time the real thing. I am talking about the possibility that Morpheus, Trinity and co. are all actually in a second matrix (so, Zion and the dark, sun-less world are all in this second matrix) and that Neo will be able to get to the next level... to a new life. Maybe the real world, finally?
I have. And I had an interesting discussion on the topic with another slashdotter.
If you think about it, The Architect might actually have interest in presenting Neo with fabrications, if he's not able to control him. Lies are used for control.
In doing so, they resorted to terrorism, and displaced much of the non-Jewish palestinian population.
Only a small minority resorted to terrorism. Jews were organized in disciplined military ranks, mosttly in the Hagana.
However, what hurts me more is your statement, which has been extensively documented as false, about Jews pushing Arabs out of their houses and lands. The truth is that it was the arab leaders that exorted people to leave their homes, under the counsel of egyptian, jordanian, syrian and iraqi military liaisons, as a temporary measure, while their mighty combined army pulverizes the jews. However, this tactic didn't pay out, because the Jews survived the onslaught.
'Zionists', referring I'm sure to Mt. Zion...
oohhh, and you were _this_ close ---> || but no cigarette: Zion is a synonim of Jerusalem, the "eternal city", the place to which Jews from all over the world are drawing to - in spite of all the conquerers and enslavers that kept them, during the millennia, away from it. You are right that there is such a thing as Mt. Zion (or Sion, most often), but the term "Zionism" refers to the political (and social and religious) movement to bring Jews back to their eternal lighthouse, Jerusalem.
You spelled out my thoughts so clearly. I, too, am wondering why is that journalists (most of the time) take the stance that it's better not stir the shit, i.e. let the bad guys do their things because if we go after them, they might get mad at us, and that's more trouble. I know this is more of a tangent to your thought, but it's related.
Thankfully, the US govt. seems to have taken a position of principle, more or less. (disclaimer: I am a european, and quite like it here in finland)
Pretty sad, but there's not much we can do about this. The arab world has been investing shitloads of oil-money into whitewashing history and manipulating the public.
But I'm hopeful that in 30-40 years from now, when that oil will be made irrelevant due to alternative energy technologies, things will change.
slashdot should be so lucky as to have editors with opposable thumbs
Why do you say that? You are being unjust: monkeys do have opposable thumbs.
Yeah, and Microsoft never really intended to introduce the iLoo.... expecially not in UK.
Apparently, repeated electricution (even very small shocks) causes, in the long run, chronic impotence. The cause is not known exactly, but if I were you, I would stay clear of this kind of shit.
My guess, based on medical cases of electricution: perhaps in the range of 1-5 mA, maybe 10. If it was more than that, your heart would have gone into fibrilation, and at the very least you would have fainted. More than that, you wouldn't have been able to tell about it on Slashdot.
Yes, you are right. But I'm still holding out for the time when my three front-loading NES-es will make me filthy rich ;)))
Keep it, damned! In a few years it will be worth more than the new one. It's how these things go: the original Jaguar E-type is the most coveted one, the original "breadbox" Commodore 64 is the one that has some value, unlike the newer Commodore 64-II (flat box), The Apple 1 motherboard is much more valuable than any Apple II, and the original Apple II is more valuable than the IIc or IIgs, and finally, the Sinclair Zx-80 is MUCH more valuable than the newer ZX-81. Etc etc etc....
Newer and improved technical goods almost always have less value as collectible items, than the models that entered the market.
I see you mentioned your VIC-20 not being networked. See if this will help any. :-] which would be possible with an appropriate RAM expansion, which would be an interesting project by itself... hmmm... no really, this idea came to my just while I was typing this.
I guess you only have to figure out how to run uIP on it
BTW, are you the HW hacker type?
Does she have no formal EE training? I was deeply impressed by her capabilities (I think she featured on Slashdot some time ago, that's when I saw her work).
She's an intimidatingly talented geekgirl.
Where's the coding or practical experience?
She might have, or she might not. I didn't argue either way. I countered your unsubstantiated claim that she is just "a writer".
Do you actually know anything about Laura DiDio? She has been a very knowledgeable network systems journalist. I'd say it takes brains and knowledge to analyze network management systems the way she did.
5000 / 1999761 == 0.0025%
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That's wrong. It's 0.25%
assuming that 1999761 ~= 2000000
5000/2000000 = 5/2000 = 1/4 %
= 0.25 %
That's two orders of magnitude bigger.
While I know of the 9" monochrome monitor, and can accept that there may have been a 12" color monitor, I can't even start imagining that there was a 5" model for the Apple IIc! Any chance you could point me to a picture on the 'net? How about you taking a picture of your setup yourself, and put it somewhere in cyberspace?
Actually, I can think of one worse: chicken-masturbator escalation engineer. "When nothing else makes 'em cum."
Ah, but my all-time-favourite, and very apropos for lots of situations: "I told you that the chicken was organised!!"
It's obvious that those are fond memories from your childhood - the monitor of the Apple IIc is 9", not 12" :o)