When the EU recently gave them 7 days to comply with their order why did Bill and Melinda go meet with the head of the EU to talk about their charitable dealings? When india was talking about using open source why did Bill and Melinda show up in india with a large check for aids prevention?
"Anyway, the way I see it, as long as we can't determine how much effect CO2 has on the earth, we can't effectively combat it. I mean, realistically, if we believed the global warming studies, we should be switching entirely to nuclear power within the next decade, and then bombing the shit out of any country that refuses to do the same. If the global warming proponents are right, the growing economies of India and China are a massive threat to the survival of our whole species. We either get them to stop polluting within the next 10 years, or we have to kill them off in order to preserve as much of our species as possible."
This is the "perfect is the enemy of good" argument. If we can't solve the entire problem then we should take no action at all. Not even a little.
It's a dumb argument. Saying that you don't know the exact degree of risk and beause you can't quantify it to nth degree of certainty you will do absolutely nothing is just insane.
"nd we CAN be certain that the only truly effective ways to combat CO2 pollution would also cause massive global economic disruption, as well as requiring force to implement. So let's do a little more research first, huh?"
Bullshit on all accounts. Oh and by the way I think a little more research has been done. It's just that you refuse to believe it. I don't think more research is going to change your mind. Lucky for us not even bush is that stupid. Even he is starting to come around.
"Will a tripling in global carbon emissions cause a 5 degree rise, or only a.005 degree rise? If the latter, do we really need to be worried about it? "
Has anybody even suggested the latter? I don't mean oil companies I mean actual climatologists.
Also what if "worrying about it" is good for other reasons. For example what if we all concerved our usage, got better insulation, used public transportation more, walked more, bicycled more, carpooled more. How harmful is that?
The american justice system works perfectly for those that designed it. It's a system for and by the rich. The single biggest factor in whether you win or lose a case is how much money you have to spend on it.
Since your bosses are obviously stupid, ignorant, and irrational I would expect them to hand down an edict that all java programs will be eliminated so as not to make any of the employees communist or terrorists.
It would suck so much to work for stupid people like that. I feel for you. Can you tell me what the name of the company is? Just email me privately if you want, I just don't want to own stock in a company who is run by complete idiots like yours. Who know what other kinds of idiotic decisions they are making.
So let me get this straight. Open source works in the US and europe but it won't in india because the indians don't like socialism. You know because open source is communist and all that.
"What I can't understand is why everyone still goes ga-ga over MySQL. It doesn't follow standards for syntax, it doesn't scale for statement complexity, and it's reputation for reliability and recoverability is deservedly bad."
Let me try and explain it to you.
Mysql was first to market (the market of open source database engines) with the features that people really want. Full text indexing, replication, clustering, ODBC drivers, etc.
Now maybe their replication wasn't all that hot but it took five minutes to set up and it worked. It took posgtres years to get a replication solution and even then it's complex and hard to set up.
Maybe other databases have cool features like referential integrity and stored procs but you know what most people didn't care about those. They wanted a web site that could take hits and in order to do that they needed replication. No matter what postgres had until it had replication and full text indexing it just wasn't an option.
I am about to start on a new project and I really want to use postgres but you know what I am not going to. I am going to use mysql because my preliminary tests show that it's faster and I need clustering and replication. Slony only supports master slave, the slonyII wiki hasn't been touched in years. Never mind all the cool stuff postgres has, I can't use it. Too bad because I really like it.
Well the grandparent was +3 too so it looks like things are pretty well balanced.
Honestly, who uses windows when they want things to "just work". Everybody know how much time you have to spend getting things to work and stay working in windows.
New avenue of attack has been opened. Now all code contributed by Novell is suspect. Furthermore novell claims ownership of unix and since they are now in the pocket of MS and have become enemies of open source soon they will launch their own SCO like attack.
Novell is the new SCO. The company will wither, the shareholders will get fucked, the management will become rich as all hell.
"So does every other business. So does my business. They do NOT have a history of aggressively suing patent infringers. In fact, they've started promising that they WILL NOT do this. And, they won't have any grounds to do so with this deal, unless there are some GPL programmers stealing code, which apparently rarely happens."
Ballmer recently promised to sue people who use linux if it's not SUSE. I for one would take that promise seriously.
"We need software that works out of the box, no questions asked. There's little room for error, either as far as time or money goes. Any time spent twiddling with software is money lost. It's that simple."
Remember when everything MS made was activesomething? Then everything they made was something.net. Now everything they make will be somethinglive or livesomething.
Maybe next it will be somethingdead.
I have this theory. It goes like this. In the halls of MS there are vending machines which dispense free LSD and all MS employees eat a few tabs every day. This theory explains zune, rebranding everything every three years, fifty thousand data access libraries, and error messages such as "there is no message for this error".
They had no choice but to go after enron. Even then they took forever and slapped a few people on the wrist. Lay conveniently and mysteriously died while in europe and was buried there. His body never came back to the states.
I typed it on my laptop which is sitting right next to my treo and ipod. There are more mobiles in the world then there are desktops. The big market is on cell phones.
We are talking about enterprises who run novell or unix here not your mom and pop for whom SQL server or exchange is good enough. These people were never MS customers on the server space in the first place. They chose systems based on scalibity and stability which both unix and novell are well known for.
The vast majority of those customers are switching to linux. Again I am not talking about your mom and pop businesses here, I am talking about banks and people who run oracle or DB/2 and who are not willing to step down to the level of SQL server.
I don't know about your aunt but my dad uses linux and he is 72. He used to use windows. When he has a problem he does the same thing he always did, call me. It's just that now he calls me a lot less.
"It doesn't matter what Microsoft "makes clear", they are simply spreading FUD, and so are you."
I don't know about that. Steve Ballmer just a few days ago all but promised to sue people who use linux unless they are using SUSE. I would take a statement from the CEO of MS more seriously then what some flunky said a few years ago.
MS has patents on.NET. They just recently promised to sue people who violate those patents. I would stay away from mono, MS could sue you just for using it.
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The problem is that clear channel refused to play their songs altogether. If the consumer wanted to listen to them they didn't have that choice.
I have one question.
When the EU recently gave them 7 days to comply with their order why did Bill and Melinda go meet with the head of the EU to talk about their charitable dealings? When india was talking about using open source why did Bill and Melinda show up in india with a large check for aids prevention?
Was all that just a coinky dink?
"When will Firefox's automation capabilities match those of IE?"
It's always had it. Look up XUL some day. The entire browser is written in xul.
"Anyway, the way I see it, as long as we can't determine how much effect CO2 has on the earth, we can't effectively combat it. I mean, realistically, if we believed the global warming studies, we should be switching entirely to nuclear power within the next decade, and then bombing the shit out of any country that refuses to do the same. If the global warming proponents are right, the growing economies of India and China are a massive threat to the survival of our whole species. We either get them to stop polluting within the next 10 years, or we have to kill them off in order to preserve as much of our species as possible."
This is the "perfect is the enemy of good" argument. If we can't solve the entire problem then we should take no action at all. Not even a little.
It's a dumb argument. Saying that you don't know the exact degree of risk and beause you can't quantify it to nth degree of certainty you will do absolutely nothing is just insane.
"nd we CAN be certain that the only truly effective ways to combat CO2 pollution would also cause massive global economic disruption, as well as requiring force to implement. So let's do a little more research first, huh?"
Bullshit on all accounts. Oh and by the way I think a little more research has been done. It's just that you refuse to believe it. I don't think more research is going to change your mind. Lucky for us not even bush is that stupid. Even he is starting to come around.
"Will a tripling in global carbon emissions cause a 5 degree rise, or only a .005 degree rise? If the latter, do we really need to be worried about it? "
Has anybody even suggested the latter? I don't mean oil companies I mean actual climatologists.
Also what if "worrying about it" is good for other reasons. For example what if we all concerved our usage, got better insulation, used public transportation more, walked more, bicycled more, carpooled more. How harmful is that?
The american justice system works perfectly for those that designed it. It's a system for and by the rich. The single biggest factor in whether you win or lose a case is how much money you have to spend on it.
Since your bosses are obviously stupid, ignorant, and irrational I would expect them to hand down an edict that all java programs will be eliminated so as not to make any of the employees communist or terrorists.
It would suck so much to work for stupid people like that. I feel for you. Can you tell me what the name of the company is? Just email me privately if you want, I just don't want to own stock in a company who is run by complete idiots like yours. Who know what other kinds of idiotic decisions they are making.
So let me get this straight. Open source works in the US and europe but it won't in india because the indians don't like socialism. You know because open source is communist and all that.
"What I can't understand is why everyone still goes ga-ga over MySQL. It doesn't follow standards for syntax, it doesn't scale for statement complexity, and it's reputation for reliability and recoverability is deservedly bad."
Let me try and explain it to you.
Mysql was first to market (the market of open source database engines) with the features that people really want. Full text indexing, replication, clustering, ODBC drivers, etc.
Now maybe their replication wasn't all that hot but it took five minutes to set up and it worked. It took posgtres years to get a replication solution and even then it's complex and hard to set up.
Maybe other databases have cool features like referential integrity and stored procs but you know what most people didn't care about those. They wanted a web site that could take hits and in order to do that they needed replication. No matter what postgres had until it had replication and full text indexing it just wasn't an option.
I am about to start on a new project and I really want to use postgres but you know what I am not going to. I am going to use mysql because my preliminary tests show that it's faster and I need clustering and replication. Slony only supports master slave, the slonyII wiki hasn't been touched in years. Never mind all the cool stuff postgres has, I can't use it. Too bad because I really like it.
Well the grandparent was +3 too so it looks like things are pretty well balanced.
Honestly, who uses windows when they want things to "just work". Everybody know how much time you have to spend getting things to work and stay working in windows.
New avenue of attack has been opened. Now all code contributed by Novell is suspect. Furthermore novell claims ownership of unix and since they are now in the pocket of MS and have become enemies of open source soon they will launch their own SCO like attack.
Novell is the new SCO. The company will wither, the shareholders will get fucked, the management will become rich as all hell.
Linus hates the FSF and the GPL he probably welcomes this threat from MS.
At best he is embarrassed that he was been proven wrong again.
"So does every other business. So does my business. They do NOT have a history of aggressively suing patent infringers. In fact, they've started promising that they WILL NOT do this. And, they won't have any grounds to do so with this deal, unless there are some GPL programmers stealing code, which apparently rarely happens."
Ballmer recently promised to sue people who use linux if it's not SUSE. I for one would take that promise seriously.
"We need software that works out of the box, no questions asked. There's little room for error, either as far as time or money goes. Any time spent twiddling with software is money lost. It's that simple."
I hope to god you are not using MS software then.
How come SCO never got a lot of business?
Maybe your whole theory is just crap.
I don't think novell owned caldera, they owned unix for a while (maybe still do) but I don't think they ever owned SCO.
I do agree with the whole inbred thing though. I guess that's what happens when you set up shop in a tiny community in utah.
Remember when everything MS made was activesomething? Then everything they made was something.net. Now everything they make will be somethinglive or livesomething.
Maybe next it will be somethingdead.
I have this theory. It goes like this. In the halls of MS there are vending machines which dispense free LSD and all MS employees eat a few tabs every day. This theory explains zune, rebranding everything every three years, fifty thousand data access libraries, and error messages such as "there is no message for this error".
Those people are on serious drugs for sure.
They had no choice but to go after enron. Even then they took forever and slapped a few people on the wrist. Lay conveniently and mysteriously died while in europe and was buried there. His body never came back to the states.
The justice dept is run by the white house and there is no way in hell this white house is going to go after any corporation let alone MS.
I typed it on my laptop which is sitting right next to my treo and ipod. There are more mobiles in the world then there are desktops. The big market is on cell phones.
We are talking about enterprises who run novell or unix here not your mom and pop for whom SQL server or exchange is good enough. These people were never MS customers on the server space in the first place. They chose systems based on scalibity and stability which both unix and novell are well known for.
The vast majority of those customers are switching to linux. Again I am not talking about your mom and pop businesses here, I am talking about banks and people who run oracle or DB/2 and who are not willing to step down to the level of SQL server.
Ballmer promised to sue. I think it's safe to presume that the company will sue after the CEO says they are going to.
I don't know about your aunt but my dad uses linux and he is 72. He used to use windows. When he has a problem he does the same thing he always did, call me. It's just that now he calls me a lot less.
Ruby on rails, django, spring, hibernate, and a thousand others.
"It doesn't matter what Microsoft "makes clear", they are simply spreading FUD, and so are you."
.NET. They just recently promised to sue people who violate those patents. I would stay away from mono, MS could sue you just for using it.
I don't know about that. Steve Ballmer just a few days ago all but promised to sue people who use linux unless they are using SUSE. I would take a statement from the CEO of MS more seriously then what some flunky said a few years ago.
MS has patents on