"If they opened up the archives, their website would instantly become *A LOT* more useful."
Sigh. But not to this crowd, who can't be bothered with reading beyond the headlines. From the FA:
Starting on Wednesday, access to the archives will be available for free back to 1987, and as well as stories before 1923, which are in the public domain, Schiller said.
And what happens to the paper ballot? It gets fed into a scanner running software. That's the place to steal the election, when the votes are counted not when they are cast.
> 4. Drive to the post office to buy stamps of the correct denomination, since it changed since the last time I bought stamps > 5. Find the nearest drop point (which are getting scarcer, judging by this article)
Um, since you were already at the post office at step 4, maybe you might want to just mail the letter there?
Oh for heaven's sake! That is so misleading. The large waveform that is shown is an earthquake in the Philippine Islands that is over 100 times larger than the nuke (magnitude 6 as opposed to 4) and 9 hours _later_. The nuke is buried in the background noise about halfway up the page. The only seismic station the GSN (global seismic network) that recording anything significant is MDJ in China:
I can't believe no one has mentioned Firefox yet. The Clint Eastwood flick where he is tapped to steal the latest Soviet jet that is controlled by thought, and he is the man because he knows Russian?
The reason Windows is the dominate operating system in the solar system is because it allows the so-called neanderthols to accomplish a lot, without really understanding the hows or whys. The fact that this is also the source of a myriad of other problems is really pretty irrelevant from a strictly business point of view. Microsoft is a hugely successful company because of this approach, so it should not come as a surprise that "a lot of MS policy is dictated by these neanderthols".
I think the point the "teenage" respondents are trying to make is that this idea sounds about as absurd as making it illegal to put books next to a xerox machine. The person who xeroxes the books is the one who is breaking the law not the person who stored the books there. This rule also requires a level of sophistication on the part of the user that I don't think exists. Most people don't understand "the net" and I would wager that many users are sharing files unknowingly. It is OK to leave the doors to your house wide open (stupid, but legal). The person who steals stuff/files/whatever is the thief, not you.
I don't understand all the "why would I need this?" comments. I think the interesting point is not that this is "better" than current technology but that it presents some interesting possibilities. Sure, you may not want to watch TV sitting at your desk in front of your computer when you have a big screen in the living room. But, connect your cable modem to a wireless access point and all of a sudden you have wireless TV. Sort of like broadcast TV but with the selection of cable channels. And I don't buy any "waste of bandwidth" arguments either, since bandwith is constantly improving. Of course, TV by its very content is a waste of bandwidth:-), but that's not the point.
TV on a computer using a simple video card means you will have to connect the card to the cable. But,if your cable modem is connected to a wireless access point then you can watch TV anywhere on your notebook. Pretty cool concept, I think.
Oh that's just BS. Janitors require skills, just not ones that need a lot of time to develop. SW engineers can, and are, replaced as easily as janitors. That is why outsourcing of programming jobs is proving so successful.
Just because something could be useful doesn't mean that it should be implemented, particularily when privacy can be compromised. I mean really, how man unknown corpses or murdered wives are out there waiting to be identified/found?
a shameless ploy to gain market share? That's what companies are supposed to do! Give the customer what they want and need. What is "shameless" about that?
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Scandavian education isn't free.
Sigh.
Education should be FREE
Sigh.
"What a lot of people don't understand here in the US is that Putin is really effing popular in Russia."
And you know that is true, how?
"If they opened up the archives, their website would instantly become *A LOT* more useful."
Sigh. But not to this crowd, who can't be bothered with reading beyond the headlines. From the FA:
Starting on Wednesday, access to the archives will be available for free back to 1987, and as well as stories before 1923, which are in the public domain, Schiller said.
With respect to
"The BSD folks would love to have a BSD-licensed drop-in replacement for GCC"
could somebody provide a reference to verify that "the BSD folks" do in fact have such a desire?
Thanks!
And what happens to the paper ballot? It gets fed into a scanner running software. That's the place to steal the election, when the votes are counted not when they are cast.
Because this software is older than than guy who taught your undergrad compsci class.
> 4. Drive to the post office to buy stamps of the correct denomination, since it changed since the last time I bought stamps
> 5. Find the nearest drop point (which are getting scarcer, judging by this article)
Um, since you were already at the post office at step 4, maybe you might want to just mail the letter there?
Oh for heaven's sake! That is so misleading. The large waveform that is shown is an earthquake in the Philippine Islands that is over 100 times larger than the nuke (magnitude 6 as opposed to 4) and 9 hours _later_. The nuke is buried in the background noise about halfway up the page. The only seismic station the GSN (global seismic network) that recording anything significant is MDJ in China:
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http://www.iris.washington.edu/cgi-bin/wilberII_E
I can't believe no one has mentioned Firefox yet. The Clint Eastwood flick where he is tapped to steal the latest Soviet jet that is controlled by thought, and he is the man because he knows Russian?
The reason Windows is the dominate operating system in the solar system is because it allows the so-called neanderthols to accomplish a lot, without really understanding the hows or whys. The fact that this is also the source of a myriad of other problems is really pretty irrelevant from a strictly business point of view. Microsoft is a hugely successful company because of this approach, so it should not come as a surprise that "a lot of MS policy is dictated by these neanderthols".
Or to put it another way, do you really want to give your credit card information to these guys?
I think the point the "teenage" respondents are trying to make is that this idea sounds about as absurd as making it illegal to put books next to a xerox machine. The person who xeroxes the books is the one who is breaking the law not the person who stored the books there. This rule also requires a level of sophistication on the part of the user that I don't think exists. Most people don't understand "the net" and I would wager that many users are sharing files unknowingly. It is OK to leave the doors to your house wide open (stupid, but legal). The person who steals stuff/files/whatever is the thief, not you.
Yes, it is very likely that programmers over 40 were largely self-taught, but that certainly does not mean that they are not programmers.
RTFA (it's really short) and you'll see the the answer to your question.
Sigh. This does not mean the times are a' changing. I didn't see any mention of how many Mac users bought Windows this year.
wow! dissed an entire generation. pretty amazing.
I don't understand all the "why would I need this?" comments. I think the interesting point is not that this is "better" than current technology but that it presents some interesting possibilities. Sure, you may not want to watch TV sitting at your desk in front of your computer when you have a big screen in the living room. But, connect your cable modem to a wireless access point and all of a sudden you have wireless TV. Sort of like broadcast TV but with the selection of cable channels. And I don't buy any "waste of bandwidth" arguments either, since bandwith is constantly improving. Of course, TV by its very content is a waste of bandwidth :-), but that's not the point.
> because that not what the net is about.
Wanna bet?
TV on a computer using a simple video card means you will have to connect the card to the cable. But,if your cable modem is connected to a wireless access point then you can watch TV anywhere on your notebook. Pretty cool concept, I think.
Oh that's just BS. Janitors require skills, just not ones that need a lot of time to develop. SW engineers can, and are, replaced as easily as janitors. That is why outsourcing of programming jobs is proving so successful.
Just because something could be useful doesn't mean that it should be implemented, particularily when privacy can be compromised. I mean really, how man unknown corpses or murdered wives are out there waiting to be identified/found?
Hmmm. If Microsoft considers OpenOffice a sufficiently mature product that it warrants a comparison, then I guess it is time for me to compare.
a shameless ploy to gain market share? That's what companies are supposed to do! Give the customer what they want and need. What is "shameless" about that?
Gives us a link that shows you know what you are talking about.