i *especially* am amazed at the Mac's throbbing shadows when your program opens several dozen windows. The first few windows only deepen the shadow, which is reasonable even if a waste of effort. But at some point, it decides that deepening the shadow would make it too big, so the shadow starts throbbing instead. I haven't tried writing a custom program to open windows at various speeds to see what happens, but I suspect it is not actually decreasing the shadow for each window, rather setting an internal flag to start throbbing the shadow as long as new windows are being opened.
It's very very bizarre to think that someone put so much effort into such a useless animation.
1. People need enough good info to make an informed decision, as the previous poster says.
2. Lawyers are going to get in on the act. It doesn't matter what kind of agreement is signed. All the lawyer has to do is show some lack of good information to win.
Aye, there's the rub. You have a bum leg at age 30, sign up, and ten years later it has to be amputated. Turns out there was some vague info out there ten years ago that under certain rare circumstances involving patients with red hair who ate more candied apples than most, the infusion turned cancerous. You have black hair and eat lots of sundaes with caramel, and claim you should have been told of the possible link to too much sugar.
It's no good arguing about personal responsibility. Maybe the doctor should have dumped a hundred research articles in your lap. Maybe you would have said that's too much, just give me the essentials. The lawyers will step in and screw it up because the boundaries are so vague.
Probably more from McCain. Remember him? Remember how he put his campaign on hold to rush back to DC to help the process? Remember how it fell apart with his help? Remember how calm Obama was and let the current administration do its own thing?
Probably not. Political fanatics of all stripes have short term selective memory.
The Reaganauts claim that the Soviet attempts to match our spending bankrupted them. It probably pushed them a bit faster, but they were so close to the brink anyway that all he really did was trash the US economy. The Reaganauts conveniently forget his massive increase in national debt along with many other inconvenient truths. I remember people getting mortgages in 1988/89 at 21%. That seems so crazy nowadays that most people don't want to believe it, but it happened, it was at the end of his 8 years in charge, and it can't be blamed on anybody else except by hypocrites who credit him for some things and blame Democrats for the rest.
Look at any chart of national debt since WW II and you will find it is Republican presidents who have driven it upwards and Democratic presidents who have lowered it.
Every president from WW II until Reagan steadily lowered the national debt; Reagan cut taxes but not spending and tripled the national debt. Bush I continued the trend. Clinton lowered national debt. Bush II tripled or quadrupled national debt. Obama has only been in office a year, and has just started his first budget, so for you Republican whiners who blame all the recent debt on Obama, dream on -- it is Bush II's debt hands down.
So much for Republican core values of small government, free enterprise, and especially the government getting out of the way of free enterprise to do a job better, cheaper, and without the stifling bureaucracy.
At least that is what Republicans of all stripes say they stand for. In public. Officially.
Pork always wins out, tho.
(Note to Republicans who are incensed by this attack on their imploded view of reality: see the title of this post.)
Lies. If you had read the article, the complaint was that other search-type providers were finding their results lower in the ranking than they should be.
Well, that and rape.
Screwing with competitors' ranking, as alleged by a competitor with a sterling reputation for abusing their monopoly, is hardly in the same league as Microsoft's known shenanigans over the years. But your UID is pretty low, maybe you simply aren't aware of Microsoft's 30+ year history of abusing their position. It goes back to Bill Gates stealing a BASIC interpreter from a dumpster to work on his own BASIC interpreter, then whining that others were stealing his work. Not much has changed since then.
Microsoft earned their reputation the old fashioned way, thru consistent hard work. If they were a person, they'd have been in prison long ago under the 3 zillion strikes law. Their complaint has validity only with naive fools.
I'm sorry, did you really mean to imply that Google is changing standards in trashy ways to lock in their clients? Is google filtering search results to lock out their competitors?
I had no idea Google had started copying Microsoft. I think it much more likely that Microsoft only knows one way to get business, and that's all they can see. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail.
He is a true Microsoft fanboy. Anyone who gushes so thoroughly about how good Microsoft and its products are is simply deluding himself and doesn't have any other experience to compare it with. And everyone knows Microsoft fanboys with no comparative experience are more honest than... well, honest people.
He brags about the money he made when that has nothing to do with his excuse for a mea culpa. It looks more like begging for attention.
He pretends to show how innocent and naive and gullible he is, blogging as a jerk under his real name while keeping his aliases for the serious stuff. Why, he's so innocent and naive, it was the big bad editors at Infoworld and their focus on page views which got him in trouble, not his own actions.
I wonder what the real person is like. I wonder if anyone even knows any more, including his wife and partner. He sounds like he has been deluding himself for 20 years -- the wife and partner, other business associates, his readers, how much less important is it to tel them the truth if he can't even tell himself the truth?
The GPL is not patent friendly. If you distribute GPL code, you have to include royalty free patent licenses to everybody. Or something like that, pardon the vague non-lawyer language, IANAL.
Anyways, if Amazon distributes the GPL's kernel sources with the Kindle, doesn't it now include access to all Microsoft's patents too? And if it can't because Microsoft won't allow it, doesn't this revoke Amazon's license to redistribute GPL code, and thus sell the Kindle?
They probably don't count IBM as a software company, since they sell so much hardware and have so many service contracts. Whereas Microsoft's hardware is pretty small potatoes compared to their software.
That's just a guess. These people love to crank out superlatives but they have to tailor the market pretty narrowly.
The kernel code from Android is crap and very unlikely to be merged as part of the mainstream kernel tree. Google seems to not care, and they wrote it in such a manner that no one else is interested in doing their dirty work for them.
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I know you think you are a god whose word should be blindly taken by the bowing and scraping masses, but I it's not true.
Some evidence is required to back up your otherwise-specious claim.
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Possibly at a local government office known by the colloquial term "library".
i *especially* am amazed at the Mac's throbbing shadows when your program opens several dozen windows. The first few windows only deepen the shadow, which is reasonable even if a waste of effort. But at some point, it decides that deepening the shadow would make it too big, so the shadow starts throbbing instead. I haven't tried writing a custom program to open windows at various speeds to see what happens, but I suspect it is not actually decreasing the shadow for each window, rather setting an internal flag to start throbbing the shadow as long as new windows are being opened.
It's very very bizarre to think that someone put so much effort into such a useless animation.
Don't look now ...
Why the heck not? How else is someone supposed to see a hacked *font*?
1. People need enough good info to make an informed decision, as the previous poster says.
2. Lawyers are going to get in on the act. It doesn't matter what kind of agreement is signed. All the lawyer has to do is show some lack of good information to win.
Aye, there's the rub. You have a bum leg at age 30, sign up, and ten years later it has to be amputated. Turns out there was some vague info out there ten years ago that under certain rare circumstances involving patients with red hair who ate more candied apples than most, the infusion turned cancerous. You have black hair and eat lots of sundaes with caramel, and claim you should have been told of the possible link to too much sugar.
It's no good arguing about personal responsibility. Maybe the doctor should have dumped a hundred research articles in your lap. Maybe you would have said that's too much, just give me the essentials. The lawyers will step in and screw it up because the boundaries are so vague.
LoC for starters.
Probably more from McCain. Remember him? Remember how he put his campaign on hold to rush back to DC to help the process? Remember how it fell apart with his help? Remember how calm Obama was and let the current administration do its own thing?
Probably not. Political fanatics of all stripes have short term selective memory.
The Reaganauts claim that the Soviet attempts to match our spending bankrupted them. It probably pushed them a bit faster, but they were so close to the brink anyway that all he really did was trash the US economy. The Reaganauts conveniently forget his massive increase in national debt along with many other inconvenient truths. I remember people getting mortgages in 1988/89 at 21%. That seems so crazy nowadays that most people don't want to believe it, but it happened, it was at the end of his 8 years in charge, and it can't be blamed on anybody else except by hypocrites who credit him for some things and blame Democrats for the rest.
Look at any chart of national debt since WW II and you will find it is Republican presidents who have driven it upwards and Democratic presidents who have lowered it.
Every president from WW II until Reagan steadily lowered the national debt; Reagan cut taxes but not spending and tripled the national debt. Bush I continued the trend. Clinton lowered national debt. Bush II tripled or quadrupled national debt. Obama has only been in office a year, and has just started his first budget, so for you Republican whiners who blame all the recent debt on Obama, dream on -- it is Bush II's debt hands down.
So much for Republican core values of small government, free enterprise, and especially the government getting out of the way of free enterprise to do a job better, cheaper, and without the stifling bureaucracy.
At least that is what Republicans of all stripes say they stand for. In public. Officially.
Pork always wins out, tho.
(Note to Republicans who are incensed by this attack on their imploded view of reality: see the title of this post.)
Cuz if they did, it would have been graphiti.
Lies. If you had read the article, the complaint was that other search-type providers were finding their results lower in the ranking than they should be.
Well, that and rape.
Screwing with competitors' ranking, as alleged by a competitor with a sterling reputation for abusing their monopoly, is hardly in the same league as Microsoft's known shenanigans over the years. But your UID is pretty low, maybe you simply aren't aware of Microsoft's 30+ year history of abusing their position. It goes back to Bill Gates stealing a BASIC interpreter from a dumpster to work on his own BASIC interpreter, then whining that others were stealing his work. Not much has changed since then.
Microsoft earned their reputation the old fashioned way, thru consistent hard work. If they were a person, they'd have been in prison long ago under the 3 zillion strikes law. Their complaint has validity only with naive fools.
I'm sorry, did you really mean to imply that Google is changing standards in trashy ways to lock in their clients? Is google filtering search results to lock out their competitors?
I had no idea Google had started copying Microsoft. I think it much more likely that Microsoft only knows one way to get business, and that's all they can see. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail.
Right you are. Ugh I feel dirty. I thought only morons did that! Maybe it is still true ... maybe I am a half-wit!
But usually Godwin's Law is invoked with a comparison to the Nazi's as evil. Here it's a reference to not-Nazi's as not-evil.
My brain hurts.
It also says "Stuff that matters."
You don't matter. Get over it, and then get off /. and leave the rest of us who do matter alone.
tl;dr
Is an extra semi-colon also too long for you? It's "TL;DR" you short sighted sap.
*I* don't.
He is a true Microsoft fanboy. Anyone who gushes so thoroughly about how good Microsoft and its products are is simply deluding himself and doesn't have any other experience to compare it with. And everyone knows Microsoft fanboys with no comparative experience are more honest than ... well, honest people.
He brags about the money he made when that has nothing to do with his excuse for a mea culpa. It looks more like begging for attention.
He pretends to show how innocent and naive and gullible he is, blogging as a jerk under his real name while keeping his aliases for the serious stuff. Why, he's so innocent and naive, it was the big bad editors at Infoworld and their focus on page views which got him in trouble, not his own actions.
I wonder what the real person is like. I wonder if anyone even knows any more, including his wife and partner. He sounds like he has been deluding himself for 20 years -- the wife and partner, other business associates, his readers, how much less important is it to tel them the truth if he can't even tell himself the truth?
The GPL is not patent friendly. If you distribute GPL code, you have to include royalty free patent licenses to everybody. Or something like that, pardon the vague non-lawyer language, IANAL.
Anyways, if Amazon distributes the GPL's kernel sources with the Kindle, doesn't it now include access to all Microsoft's patents too? And if it can't because Microsoft won't allow it, doesn't this revoke Amazon's license to redistribute GPL code, and thus sell the Kindle?
They probably don't count IBM as a software company, since they sell so much hardware and have so many service contracts. Whereas Microsoft's hardware is pretty small potatoes compared to their software.
That's just a guess. These people love to crank out superlatives but they have to tailor the market pretty narrowly.
The kernel code from Android is crap and very unlikely to be merged as part of the mainstream kernel tree. Google seems to not care, and they wrote it in such a manner that no one else is interested in doing their dirty work for them.
I know you think you are a god whose word should be blindly taken by the bowing and scraping masses, but I it's not true.
Some evidence is required to back up your otherwise-specious claim.
Exceptin' Alice.
Isn't Braille already 3d? Isn't that enough?