It should also be a lesson to all you married folks out there that feel you should help your spouse break jail... even you aren't clear of the line of fire. I am sure you can apply this metaphor to friend-of-the-quiet-guy-at-the-post-office and such, but this is so screwed up, my reality detector is going nuts.
I'll take a stab at it, though, someone is bound to try and correct me.
I would categorize cloud computing as derivative of grid computing, if you will. You throw some crap at the beast, but unlike grid computing, there can be many independent cells working completely disconnected from the rest, possibly even unaware of them or even unable to communicate between one another.
Like the clouds in the sky, they don't need to be connected or aware of each other for it to rain.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor", I muttered, tapping at my chamber door... only this, and nothing more.
Ok. I HAVE to bite this one in the butt. After trying ALL of the recent "light weight" distros on my fathers Pentium II 300 w/256 MB of ram, DSL, Xubuntu, etc ALL FAILED miserably on it. 5 minute boot times, sluggish response, you name it. It wasn't usable. Oddly enough, I threw Slackware 4.0 on it and it ran great, while Slackware 12 did not. Maybe it is the 2.6 kernel... I haven't a clue. But there isn't an up to date distro that will run sufficiently as a desktop on such hardware. Period.
If this is going to shutdown the newsgroups, it is a semi-clever ploy to curb piracy... disguised as a "think of the children" scenario. I always enjoyed getting what warez I do grab from my ISPs hosted newsgroups, because unlike something like bittorrent, it is my ISP that is in fact "making available". Since there are actual legitimate (though very few nowadays) reasons for the existence of Usenet, they can't just turn it off. Instead, they give the world a bleeding heart story, while the RIAA and the likes line the pockets of these people.
I don't think Viacom's goal was to go after the viewers anyway. They need the logs to prove damage of the video uploaders... "See, he uploaded 4 episodes of Spongebob which was viewed 41 million times in total. That is 41 million sales we lost!"
To be honest I'm more likely to "forget" my pass and then I have to go and temporary one from the lovely girls in premises (I'm not stupid you know).
Oh, really? Aren't you the one who is making excuses to see the girls, who know you are making up excuses to see them, because there is apparently no other hope of you interacting with a female any other way?
There's this thing called "time value of money" that, simply, a dollar today is worth FAR more than the promise of a dollar tomorrow. You can't say that "shareholder value" is subjective because Yahoo MIGHT turn themselves around and they MIGHT be successful and they MIGHT then be worth more in the future than Microsoft offered today.
This is just a stockholder version of "Wasteful Spending". You would rather throw away your CRT TV go out and buy a brand new LCD TV with inferior color, when the CRT has better color representation and only costs $20 to fix. Or even better, firing your PHP developer because you want to move to Ruby and find it "better" to just hire a new guy with Ruby experience than to train the old PHP guy.
Part of ANY business, public or not, is to sustain life. To keep going. To keep on earning money. The bid from Microsoft was a gun to the forehead. Giving in to the demands of the mugger would have gotten them shot and killed. Instead they fought back and are alive for the time being. The same certainly can't be said if they accepted Microsoft's offer.
What if EVERY business just aimed after the "quick buck" of the day.
Grocery stores selling their milk at such a price that they won't have any more for a week... then they have no more milk to sell anyone else. People stop going there because they would have to go to another store anyway to get milk.
You sir, want to cut in line, because your there to pay for your crap and get out as fast as you can. Think about the fallout if everyone had that mentality. This isn't an ideal. This is what NEEDS to happen if the system is to survive. Everyone selling out to their competitor just to make a quick buck will leave only a very few people controlling everything.
The only "proof" I need is right in front of your face. How many "No" votes became a "Yes"? What are the chances that ALL of these entities just got a clue all of a sudden, in Microsoft's favor? The evidence may be circumstantial, but this isn't a court of law, buddy. I can and will connect the dots. If I see a thugish looking black man sticks a TV in his car, peels out, when moments later the store owner comes out yelling "THIEF!", guess who I am going to peg for being a thief...
Don't be an idiot and turn your head just because they covered their tracks. You still know they ran over us all.
"Better for the shareholders" is a subjective term. To YOU, you think selling out and making the board a quick wad of cash was "Better for the shareholders". The thing is, Microsoft loves to buy and completely wreck successful companies. I think, from a business point of view, that selling out to Microsoft would mean the death march for Yahoo. You and I don't know what Yahoo has up their sleeve. They have been taking some new and interesting paths lately. It may be that it is "Better for the shareholders" to ride the new wave and see where it takes them.
At this point, it isn't about OOXML specifically anymore. It is how the ISO was manipulated and bought so completely right in front of the world. It is ISO under scrutiny now, not OOXML.
How many of you out there have had a mouse that ended up getting a tumor? Or perhaps a rat?
The problem with extending aging, as you can see with these rodents, is eventually they all get cancer. This is because their life in the hands of a caring human being can be MUCH longer, relatively, than if they were out scurrying in a forest somewhere. Maybe you can extend general human life, but you are going to start seeing a lot more cancer and a lot more Alzheimer's.
Also, black holes are still a "theory". Hell, YOU existing is just a "theory". As far as I am concerned, this is all a dream created by a machine that I am hooked into, by a race of robots, so that they can learn what it is to be more human
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It should also be a lesson to all you married folks out there that feel you should help your spouse break jail... even you aren't clear of the line of fire. I am sure you can apply this metaphor to friend-of-the-quiet-guy-at-the-post-office and such, but this is so screwed up, my reality detector is going nuts.
I'll take a stab at it, though, someone is bound to try and correct me.
I would categorize cloud computing as derivative of grid computing, if you will. You throw some crap at the beast, but unlike grid computing, there can be many independent cells working completely disconnected from the rest, possibly even unaware of them or even unable to communicate between one another.
Like the clouds in the sky, they don't need to be connected or aware of each other for it to rain.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor", I muttered, tapping at my chamber door... only this, and nothing more.
It's still a hunk of silicon.
I didn't know you swung that way. Give me a call later.
Why did you throw away your old 286-based PC?
You don't know me very well. I didn't.
Ahhhh. I look forward to the days when the sweet smell of gasoline is replaced by the smell of burning electronics.
And why exactly would you throw it away?
Ok. I HAVE to bite this one in the butt. After trying ALL of the recent "light weight" distros on my fathers Pentium II 300 w/256 MB of ram, DSL, Xubuntu, etc ALL FAILED miserably on it. 5 minute boot times, sluggish response, you name it. It wasn't usable. Oddly enough, I threw Slackware 4.0 on it and it ran great, while Slackware 12 did not. Maybe it is the 2.6 kernel... I haven't a clue. But there isn't an up to date distro that will run sufficiently as a desktop on such hardware. Period.
If this is going to shutdown the newsgroups, it is a semi-clever ploy to curb piracy... disguised as a "think of the children" scenario. I always enjoyed getting what warez I do grab from my ISPs hosted newsgroups, because unlike something like bittorrent, it is my ISP that is in fact "making available". Since there are actual legitimate (though very few nowadays) reasons for the existence of Usenet, they can't just turn it off. Instead, they give the world a bleeding heart story, while the RIAA and the likes line the pockets of these people.
I heard the same about your mom
I don't think Viacom's goal was to go after the viewers anyway. They need the logs to prove damage of the video uploaders... "See, he uploaded 4 episodes of Spongebob which was viewed 41 million times in total. That is 41 million sales we lost!"
I've patched programs stored in a DB without knowing the DB admin password, just by hexediting the DB files.
Worst. Idea. Ever.
You should be ashamed of yourself, not proud.
EGA mode
To be honest I'm more likely to "forget" my pass and then I have to go and temporary one from the lovely girls in premises (I'm not stupid you know).
Oh, really? Aren't you the one who is making excuses to see the girls, who know you are making up excuses to see them, because there is apparently no other hope of you interacting with a female any other way?
There's this thing called "time value of money" that, simply, a dollar today is worth FAR more than the promise of a dollar tomorrow. You can't say that "shareholder value" is subjective because Yahoo MIGHT turn themselves around and they MIGHT be successful and they MIGHT then be worth more in the future than Microsoft offered today.
This is just a stockholder version of "Wasteful Spending". You would rather throw away your CRT TV go out and buy a brand new LCD TV with inferior color, when the CRT has better color representation and only costs $20 to fix. Or even better, firing your PHP developer because you want to move to Ruby and find it "better" to just hire a new guy with Ruby experience than to train the old PHP guy.
Part of ANY business, public or not, is to sustain life. To keep going. To keep on earning money. The bid from Microsoft was a gun to the forehead. Giving in to the demands of the mugger would have gotten them shot and killed. Instead they fought back and are alive for the time being. The same certainly can't be said if they accepted Microsoft's offer.
What if EVERY business just aimed after the "quick buck" of the day.
Grocery stores selling their milk at such a price that they won't have any more for a week... then they have no more milk to sell anyone else. People stop going there because they would have to go to another store anyway to get milk.
You sir, want to cut in line, because your there to pay for your crap and get out as fast as you can. Think about the fallout if everyone had that mentality. This isn't an ideal. This is what NEEDS to happen if the system is to survive. Everyone selling out to their competitor just to make a quick buck will leave only a very few people controlling everything.
The only "proof" I need is right in front of your face. How many "No" votes became a "Yes"? What are the chances that ALL of these entities just got a clue all of a sudden, in Microsoft's favor? The evidence may be circumstantial, but this isn't a court of law, buddy. I can and will connect the dots. If I see a thugish looking black man sticks a TV in his car, peels out, when moments later the store owner comes out yelling "THIEF!", guess who I am going to peg for being a thief...
Don't be an idiot and turn your head just because they covered their tracks. You still know they ran over us all.
"Better for the shareholders" is a subjective term. To YOU, you think selling out and making the board a quick wad of cash was "Better for the shareholders". The thing is, Microsoft loves to buy and completely wreck successful companies. I think, from a business point of view, that selling out to Microsoft would mean the death march for Yahoo. You and I don't know what Yahoo has up their sleeve. They have been taking some new and interesting paths lately. It may be that it is "Better for the shareholders" to ride the new wave and see where it takes them.
At this point, it isn't about OOXML specifically anymore. It is how the ISO was manipulated and bought so completely right in front of the world. It is ISO under scrutiny now, not OOXML.
Ironic you bring this up when thedailywtf.com posted this little bit today.
How many of you out there have had a mouse that ended up getting a tumor? Or perhaps a rat?
The problem with extending aging, as you can see with these rodents, is eventually they all get cancer. This is because their life in the hands of a caring human being can be MUCH longer, relatively, than if they were out scurrying in a forest somewhere. Maybe you can extend general human life, but you are going to start seeing a lot more cancer and a lot more Alzheimer's.
"Google's blogger claims, "And, yes, it is very fast -- at least an order of magnitude faster than XML."
That is just because they aren't using enough XML!
Uh... this isn't completely true. Two year degrees at places like 'Devry' and ' Technical Institute' are usually degrees in "Computer Programming".
A 386SX with 640KB of memory.
Just wait until the first backdoor-so-that-the-govt-can-fight-terrorism is found... "doom" doesn't even begin to explain fallout.
Also, black holes are still a "theory". Hell, YOU existing is just a "theory". As far as I am concerned, this is all a dream created by a machine that I am hooked into, by a race of robots, so that they can learn what it is to be more human