Before brenner left the country he passed hundreds of laws dictating all kinds of great stuff for the US. Amongst them was a law saying that an iraqi govt could not repeal those laws.
It's not a democracy if brenner got to make laws that the iraqi govt can't touch.
As for me I'll believe that iraq is a democracy when they join OPEC and try to get the highest price possible for their oil. Till then they will be a private oil reserve of the US.
It must be a bitch to keep a country occupied huh?
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There are much better formats then XML. For starters there is the old style plist files from next/apple. They are just as easy to parse by a machine and very easy to maintain by humans.
The fact is that for any non trivial application configuration will become so complex as to resemble a language (see exim for example). In my opinion those config files should simply be python or ruby or something.
I don't think we have any right to expect other countries to pity us rather then hate us when we so gleefully elect religious fundamentalists to power and then cheer them on as they go around laying waste to every thing good, wise and moral.
"I'm just still wondering where in that description you got that the poster was from the US."
Well lets see now. He is on slashdot where the vast majority of users are American. He speaks in the American idiom. Notice words like "warlords", "tinpot dictators" and such. Amusingly he also says that all third people live nomadic herder lives.
Those words make it obvious to me that he is an American.
"Since you are the bastion of morality here, have you ever spent time in villages where people still use shallow, bug-covered wells or the local stream as their primary source of drinking water? I have. They need clean drinking water."
Why yes. I spent some time in Afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey, as well as japan, south korea, europe, australia and new zealand. I have spent a ton of time traveling all over the world.
Yes there are people who need clean water. Yes there are people starving even here in the US. But you know what, even in afghanistan there is electricity, even in afghanistan there are shcools and telephones, and television and music and YES EVEN FUCKING COMPUTERS. That's especially true for the vast majority of the third world countries that are not savaged by continual war.
The parent ignorant fuck american claims everybody in the third world is starving, thirsty, lives a nomadic herder life and has no need for computers or computer education. FUCK HIM and all the ignorand american fucks like him. Why don't you go to iran or lebanon or turkey and take a look at one of their schools. You'd be amazed that people ate lunch that day, drink clean water and GASP even have electricity in their classrooms.
"Does EVERY fucking article concerning compressed audio have to stick this little jab into each headline?"
Yes it does. This is an open source web site. I come here BECAUSE slashdot (and only slashdot) does that.
I have a choice os billion web sites to choose from and so do you. I chose to come here and read news with open source advocasy in mind. If you don't want to read about open source advocasy I might suggest gotdotnet or a million other web sites which are anti open source or don't give a flying donut about open source.
The parent was your typical ignorant american who thinks people in the third world have no water or food. he thinks people in bolivia, turkey, or bangladesh don't have food to eat or shcools to go to. What's worse he is against trying to bring cheap computing to places because he thinks to himself "what are starving people going to do with computers, we should stop this nonsense right away".
So sorry fuckhead. He IS an ignorant american. If you think that I am "bashing" the US by pointing that out then you need to get over it. Think of it as an opprtunity to educate your fellow citizens that not everybody who lives in a third world country is starving or lacking water OK?
"You say that 'it will not pay to stay with the old fashioned business model that no longer fits'. Does 2.56 billion net profit not count as pay?"
Don't fixate on the amount. Look at the bigger picture. The only reason they made that much was because they cut R&D. Clearly MS is begining to plateau, sure the plateau is high but they are no longer growing like they used to. Why? Most likely due to the fact they are having to cut prices drastically overseas to sell windows. Sooner or later the dimwit CIOs in the US will wake up and demand the same pricing that the taiwanese get.
Also consider the fact that MS makes a substantial portion of it's profits from selling it's own stock, if the stock price stagnates or begins to drop it will create a feedback loop that can spell disaster.
The best is yet to come for MS watchers, it will be interesting to see what MS does to try and convince the investor class that they are still a growth company. My guess is that they will go on an aquisition binge the likes of which the world has never seen. Mark my words in ten years MS will be making less then 20% of it's money of software.
They need to pull an apple. Did you know that the ipod accounts for around a third of apple revenue?
Well it looks like you are all set up. You get to go to the nice schools, pay somebody to drive you around and make fun of the people trying to help the poor.
" Easy. First, get OpenOffice to work properly on a Win2K3 terminal server, It's not real good in a multi-user environment like that (unless I'm doing something wrong - possible)."
How is it with just plain old X? If all you are doing is simple office, email, websurfing etc I just don't see how you could justify the cost of a w3k terminal server system. YOu not only have to pay for the server but you have to pay for each client that connects no matter what they are using to connect with.
The stock market is all about expectations. People don't buy stocks based on what a company is doing, they buy based on their prediction of what the company is going to do.
You laugh but this could be a sign of things to come. If the investors think the market is saturated and the company has no room for growth the sotck might drop or stagnate. Since MS makes a buttload of money selling it's own stock it could be a negative feedback meltdown.
The Apple PR machine keeps putting out the meme that apple is a good citizen in the open source community. This guy wants to counteract some of that professional spin with real world experience of exactly what apple is doing.
He has nothing to be ashamed of.
"but this friction does NOT make Apple a bad open source citizen as has been implied. Nothing about the OS model guarantees that everybody is shiny and happy all the time."
Right. apple does not have to be a good citizen and this guy is saying that they are not. Not everybody has to shiny and ahappy and apple isn't.
Nah. All I expect is for them to stop lying. Nobody has a beef with what apple did. They took some code, forked it and are now not contributing. It's legal, and actually it's the fault of KHTML team for not going with the GPL to begin with. After all GPL would have prevented this.
So all Apple has to do is to stop lying and saying they are helping the KHTML group. Stop lying. Your mom probably taught you that when you were a kid.
" This is embarrassing for the Free Software community. You guys should be more professional. If someone doesn't want to hand over code in nice neat bite-sized packages with comments and documentation and a thank-you note, then shrug it off."
Apple is lying about their contributions to KHTML and it's the open source people who should be embarrased?
YOU should be embarrassed for saying something like that.
I am surprised rsync hasn't been updated to handle large number of files very well. The only other alternative seems to be unison but It looks like it's not even bein developed anymore.
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Geez man you need to get your information from some source other then right wing radio.
Before brenner left the country he passed hundreds of laws dictating all kinds of great stuff for the US. Amongst them was a law saying that an iraqi govt could not repeal those laws.
It's not a democracy if brenner got to make laws that the iraqi govt can't touch.
As for me I'll believe that iraq is a democracy when they join OPEC and try to get the highest price possible for their oil. Till then they will be a private oil reserve of the US.
It must be a bitch to keep a country occupied huh?
There are much better formats then XML. For starters there is the old style plist files from next/apple. They are just as easy to parse by a machine and very easy to maintain by humans.
The fact is that for any non trivial application configuration will become so complex as to resemble a language (see exim for example). In my opinion those config files should simply be python or ruby or something.
I don't think we have any right to expect other countries to pity us rather then hate us when we so gleefully elect religious fundamentalists to power and then cheer them on as they go around laying waste to every thing good, wise and moral.
"I'm just still wondering where in that description you got that the poster was from the US."
Well lets see now. He is on slashdot where the vast majority of users are American. He speaks in the American idiom. Notice words like "warlords", "tinpot dictators" and such. Amusingly he also says that all third people live nomadic herder lives.
Those words make it obvious to me that he is an American.
"Since you are the bastion of morality here, have you ever spent time in villages where people still use shallow, bug-covered wells or the local stream as their primary source of drinking water? I have. They need clean drinking water."
Why yes. I spent some time in Afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey, as well as japan, south korea, europe, australia and new zealand. I have spent a ton of time traveling all over the world.
Yes there are people who need clean water. Yes there are people starving even here in the US. But you know what, even in afghanistan there is electricity, even in afghanistan there are shcools and telephones, and television and music and YES EVEN FUCKING COMPUTERS. That's especially true for the vast majority of the third world countries that are not savaged by continual war.
The parent ignorant fuck american claims everybody in the third world is starving, thirsty, lives a nomadic herder life and has no need for computers or computer education. FUCK HIM and all the ignorand american fucks like him. Why don't you go to iran or lebanon or turkey and take a look at one of their schools. You'd be amazed that people ate lunch that day, drink clean water and GASP even have electricity in their classrooms.
"Does EVERY fucking article concerning compressed audio have to stick this little jab into each headline?"
Yes it does. This is an open source web site. I come here BECAUSE slashdot (and only slashdot) does that.
I have a choice os billion web sites to choose from and so do you. I chose to come here and read news with open source advocasy in mind. If you don't want to read about open source advocasy I might suggest gotdotnet or a million other web sites which are anti open source or don't give a flying donut about open source.
I am trying to do something similar, is there any way I can pick your brains a little?
The parent was your typical ignorant american who thinks people in the third world have no water or food. he thinks people in bolivia, turkey, or bangladesh don't have food to eat or shcools to go to. What's worse he is against trying to bring cheap computing to places because he thinks to himself "what are starving people going to do with computers, we should stop this nonsense right away".
So sorry fuckhead. He IS an ignorant american. If you think that I am "bashing" the US by pointing that out then you need to get over it. Think of it as an opprtunity to educate your fellow citizens that not everybody who lives in a third world country is starving or lacking water OK?
"You say that 'it will not pay to stay with the old fashioned business model that no longer fits'. Does 2.56 billion net profit not count as pay?"
Don't fixate on the amount. Look at the bigger picture. The only reason they made that much was because they cut R&D. Clearly MS is begining to plateau, sure the plateau is high but they are no longer growing like they used to. Why? Most likely due to the fact they are having to cut prices drastically overseas to sell windows. Sooner or later the dimwit CIOs in the US will wake up and demand the same pricing that the taiwanese get.
Also consider the fact that MS makes a substantial portion of it's profits from selling it's own stock, if the stock price stagnates or begins to drop it will create a feedback loop that can spell disaster.
The best is yet to come for MS watchers, it will be interesting to see what MS does to try and convince the investor class that they are still a growth company. My guess is that they will go on an aquisition binge the likes of which the world has never seen. Mark my words in ten years MS will be making less then 20% of it's money of software.
They need to pull an apple. Did you know that the ipod accounts for around a third of apple revenue?
Well it looks like you are all set up. You get to go to the nice schools, pay somebody to drive you around and make fun of the people trying to help the poor.
Nice.
" Easy. First, get OpenOffice to work properly on a Win2K3 terminal server, It's not real good in a multi-user environment like that (unless I'm doing something wrong - possible)."
How is it with just plain old X? If all you are doing is simple office, email, websurfing etc I just don't see how you could justify the cost of a w3k terminal server system. YOu not only have to pay for the server but you have to pay for each client that connects no matter what they are using to connect with.
Typical ignorant american who thinks everybody outside of the US is scratching at the ground digging up roots to eat.
Maybe this means they won't use the word "communist" so often.
The stock market is all about expectations. People don't buy stocks based on what a company is doing, they buy based on their prediction of what the company is going to do.
You laugh but this could be a sign of things to come. If the investors think the market is saturated and the company has no room for growth the sotck might drop or stagnate. Since MS makes a buttload of money selling it's own stock it could be a negative feedback meltdown.
The Apple PR machine keeps putting out the meme that apple is a good citizen in the open source community. This guy wants to counteract some of that professional spin with real world experience of exactly what apple is doing.
He has nothing to be ashamed of.
"but this friction does NOT make Apple a bad open source citizen as has been implied. Nothing about the OS model guarantees that everybody is shiny and happy all the time."
Right. apple does not have to be a good citizen and this guy is saying that they are not. Not everybody has to shiny and ahappy and apple isn't.
They are making empty gestures. They are giving back useless code.
You miss the point. You are all in rage about something that hasn't ahppened.
Like I said, I got a bridge to sell you, you and your cohorts believe any old thing any wingnut has to tell you.
Dude you are willing to givem money to defeat clinton who hasn't even announced she is running yet?
I got a bridge to sell you!
Nah. All I expect is for them to stop lying. Nobody has a beef with what apple did. They took some code, forked it and are now not contributing. It's legal, and actually it's the fault of KHTML team for not going with the GPL to begin with. After all GPL would have prevented this.
So all Apple has to do is to stop lying and saying they are helping the KHTML group. Stop lying. Your mom probably taught you that when you were a kid.
" This is embarrassing for the Free Software community. You guys should be more professional. If someone doesn't want to hand over code in nice neat bite-sized packages with comments and documentation and a thank-you note, then shrug it off."
Apple is lying about their contributions to KHTML and it's the open source people who should be embarrased?
YOU should be embarrassed for saying something like that.
I am surprised rsync hasn't been updated to handle large number of files very well. The only other alternative seems to be unison but It looks like it's not even bein developed anymore.
How is rsync on windows? Especially on giant files like 30 to 50 gigs.
Anybody have any experience with that?
The difference is between actual and meaningful co-operation and rhetoric.
The main complaint is that apple is going around saying how much they help KHTML but it's a lie. They don't help all that much.
No, I want to be able to scan the headlines without actually going to the site.