I think this bill was intended to fail, probably to embarrass republicans.
95% of it is proposing apple pie, the flag, and mom, but the the last bit about allowing ex convicts to vote is perfect fuel for the republican spin doctors who would want to shoot it down.
The people who proposed this bill are seasoned politicians and had to know this so I am concluding it is designed to bait the republicans into voting it down.
So many people think because they have a notepad, a whistle or a hat that they can push people around.
It is unfortunate that he couldn't break the law so this issue could have ended up in court, in public, where his defense lawyer could of demanded to see a copy of the law.
Maybe there is no law and the airlines thought they could make people do whatever, just because they are the airlines.
Good point.
The fact that women often get paid less then men might explain why MS is encouraging Canadian girls to go into IT when MS is off shoring many of its other jobs.
For the ones that MS can't send out of the country they can at least get a "discount" by hiring women.
Wow. I went into I.T. just before it became a dot.com gold rush. I found it and still find it ( despite my present job ) very absorbing.
Welcome to planet Earth, not everyone finds everyone else's interests interesting.
I guess that makes sense, before I.T. became an everday term very few people found in interesting enough to pursue.
I can see tech savy students not wanting to go into I.T. because of the dwindling job prospects.
Why work that hard for something you only find tolerable when your job might be given away at some point?
Why is microsoft encouraging Canadian girls to go into I.T. when microsoft and many firms are outsourcing their I.T. jobs overseas?
What is in it for microsoft, let alone the girl's career prospects?
With all of the suffering going on in the world ( tsunami ? ), the political battles in IT which effect us here on slashdot, and all of the good things that could be done in the US these people get off their ass to save a TV show ?
You do not publicly criticize your current employer by name and expect your current employer to remain your current employer.
Geeze, I thought Google was into hiring smart people.
Second rule, if you are a firm concerned about your public image you do not openly fire people for criticizing you. There are more tactful and less damaging ways to deal with them.
Geeze, I thought Google was into hiring smart people.
I don't think that will happen until Apache is as easy to set up and manage as IIS ( the same tired idea for why a lot of windows software persists in the face of backend superior, but front end unfinished OSS ).
I know nothing about networking or web servers. I remember years ago several jobs back that I could point and click my way to getting IIS set up and running on my local machine. From what I heard about Apache that is not possible.
I had another job working in the same office as some hardcore networking guys. These guys knew everything about unix, mac, and windows. They could even script and program on all 3. They chose Apache, but from their comments ( polite and not ) I got the impression that Apache is not easy to deal with.
There are still people in OSS who think only brain dead dead, non enthusiast end users want things easy. That is not true, people who work in IT want things easy too.
Until all major OSS software realizes and implements that idea M$ will always have a place
I'll stop using google when someone else makes a news site similar to theirs, but without a right wing bias built into the search routine.
I'm not all that keen with them for censoring news on their Chinese site at the request of the PRC government
And that's happening. Mobile phones and other platforms are increasingly becoming the important terminals. And thus the server side is becoming really important. That's where Linux is holding its own well.
Really?
I heard that for years then a few months ago someone mentioned the % of the server market that goes to linux. It was fairly small.
Is the share of linux the same size or greater then the combined share of the various *nixes?
If not MS has not lost its hold on the server market.
I will be a revolution when the market share of windows begins declining in the double digits.
No wait, wake me when *nix can play games like Far Cry, Doom 3, Sims, etc. without running some shitbox emulator first.
There are many computer users and there are many computer enthusiasts who could care less about computer games.
FWIW, it might have been better to ask to be woken up when you can get extension hardware for your computer that comes with software that will run on glx
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I have seen headlines about the linux revolution for a few years now.
I use linux at home and love it.
Wake me up when linux breaks double digit market share in the desktop world and then we can call it a revolution
These guys weren't randomly standing in line telling lawyer jokes. They purposely and continually go to courts and heckle the lawyers.
Yes, but the article and the authorities left out HOW these guys were violating anyone's rights or interfering with the operation of the court..........the justification for arresting them.
They got arrested for the very thing they are fighting against.....authorities bending the law and truncating people's rights to their own ends.
They weren't preventing anyone from using the court
What they did do was personally offend a lawyer and perhaps a judge.
However, the first amendment doesn't care about offending people. KKK & neo-nazi marches are allowed in Jewish neighborhoods.
The only difference here is that the people who took personal offense had the opportunity to abuse their power.......which these guys, as their goal..successfully pointed out.
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I think this bill was intended to fail, probably to embarrass republicans.
95% of it is proposing apple pie, the flag, and mom, but the the last bit about allowing ex convicts to vote is perfect fuel for the republican spin doctors who would want to shoot it down.
The people who proposed this bill are seasoned politicians and had to know this so I am concluding it is designed to bait the republicans into voting it down.
So many people think because they have a notepad, a whistle or a hat that they can push people around.
It is unfortunate that he couldn't break the law so this issue could have ended up in court, in public, where his defense lawyer could of demanded to see a copy of the law.
Maybe there is no law and the airlines thought they could make people do whatever, just because they are the airlines.
I'm one of those people who likes my browser integrated with mail client.
So far the extensions to hook firefox to thunderbird have not been all that great on linux.
Plus instead of waiting for the browser to load you now wait for the browser and the client.........so I stick with Mozilla.
Here is another place to read about this: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=118
Wow. I went into I.T. just before it became a dot.com gold rush. I found it and still find it ( despite my present job ) very absorbing. Welcome to planet Earth, not everyone finds everyone else's interests interesting. I guess that makes sense, before I.T. became an everday term very few people found in interesting enough to pursue. I can see tech savy students not wanting to go into I.T. because of the dwindling job prospects. Why work that hard for something you only find tolerable when your job might be given away at some point?
Why is microsoft encouraging Canadian girls to go into I.T. when microsoft and many firms are outsourcing their I.T. jobs overseas? What is in it for microsoft, let alone the girl's career prospects?
With all of the suffering going on in the world ( tsunami ? ), the political battles in IT which effect us here on slashdot, and all of the good things that could be done in the US these people get off their ass to save a TV show ?
Insert lament about whiny liberals crying about truth, science, and freedom of speech from short sighted right wing tax cut reactionary here....>
You do not publicly criticize your current employer by name and expect your current employer to remain your current employer.
Geeze, I thought Google was into hiring smart people.
Second rule, if you are a firm concerned about your public image you do not openly fire people for criticizing you. There are more tactful and less damaging ways to deal with them.
Geeze, I thought Google was into hiring smart people.
I know nothing about networking or web servers. I remember years ago several jobs back that I could point and click my way to getting IIS set up and running on my local machine. From what I heard about Apache that is not possible.
I had another job working in the same office as some hardcore networking guys. These guys knew everything about unix, mac, and windows. They could even script and program on all 3. They chose Apache, but from their comments ( polite and not ) I got the impression that Apache is not easy to deal with.
There are still people in OSS who think only brain dead dead, non enthusiast end users want things easy. That is not true, people who work in IT want things easy too.
Until all major OSS software realizes and implements that idea M$ will always have a place
Can GLX fans expect to see a usuable GNU/Hurd distro before the next full release of Debian?
The article didn't seem to mention more then generalities about possible legal fine points.
Anyone know what the big changes are, if there are any?
True, and they will already have the fingerprints of those who dared vote against them.
That, combined with the Patriot Act will probably get you an orange jumpsuit and a meal a day in Guantanamo.
Welcome to the christian taliban and the red states of America.
We might have gotten 0% fraud for that
If it wasn't for that Apple would be where microsoft is now.
I'll stop using google when someone else makes a news site similar to theirs, but without a right wing bias built into the search routine. I'm not all that keen with them for censoring news on their Chinese site at the request of the PRC government
I heard that for years then a few months ago someone mentioned the % of the server market that goes to linux. It was fairly small.
Is the share of linux the same size or greater then the combined share of the various *nixes?
If not MS has not lost its hold on the server market.
I will be a revolution when the market share of windows begins declining in the double digits.
FWIW, it might have been better to ask to be woken up when you can get extension hardware for your computer that comes with software that will run on glx
I have seen headlines about the linux revolution for a few years now.
I use linux at home and love it.
Wake me up when linux breaks double digit market share in the desktop world and then we can call it a revolution
How about letting developers play with their pet projects on company time that is left over after meeting a dealine early( reasonably set deadline )?
It might have the serendiptious benefit of developers not wasting time surfing the net if they know it can recycled into something more rewarding.
They got arrested for the very thing they are fighting against.....authorities bending the law and truncating people's rights to their own ends.
They weren't preventing anyone from using the court
What they did do was personally offend a lawyer and perhaps a judge.
However, the first amendment doesn't care about offending people. KKK & neo-nazi marches are allowed in Jewish neighborhoods.
The only difference here is that the people who took personal offense had the opportunity to abuse their power.......which these guys, as their goal..successfully pointed out.
I would like Mozilla to be themable under the KDE so it looks like other kde apps.
I'll second this
What is wrong with just using find on *nix or MS's search tool that comes with windoze?