I don't care if people want to blow up israelis. Why do you?
BTW. I don't care if people want to blow up hindus, pakistanis, saudis, palestenians or anybody else either. To me they are all of equal value which is to say not much. Why are israelis so important to you? What do they do for you? How do they help you?
It's the wave of the future. We will very soon be able to kill as many people as we want without risking anything. Since the military has proven itself very adept at controlling the media too Americans will soon be able to turn on the TV and watch a nice reality show without all the blood, gore and suffering. Just pictures of tunbling statutes and happy smiling occupied people.
The thing I find facinating is how we as a country have refined what bravery and sacrifice is. It used to be (and still is in most countries) bravery meant you faced your enemy and fought them mano-a-mano and defeated them in the field of honor/battle. We have now defined bravery as flying an ariplane and dropping a bomb on people or remote controlling a drone that shoots missiles into a crowded city.
Nah. I do wish they had included a clause that said "if you use this software you promise to choke any MS executive if and when you encounter them". Oh and also choke the shit out the guy at MS who decided that the active directory client for windows 98 would not process group policies. That guy really needs to be punished.
I don't think they are that worried about the "average desktop user". They are more worried about the corporate desktop. The average user does not pay for windows and does not upgrade on schedule. They either steal windows or get it with their PC and MS makes almost no money from that. Corporations OTOH upgrade like clockwork and are the primary cash cow for MS.
Sun, Suse/Novell, and IBM now have a pretty compelling corporate desktop. Openoffice, Evolution with exchange connector, and mozilla pretty much cover 90% of what a cubicle dweller does every day. Since a lot of corporate software is written in Java this allows a corporation to look at how it can save tens of millions of dollars in licenses and support by deploying linux desktops.
MS is scared shitless of that.
If Mono is successful and can run.NET software out of the box MS is doomed.
I know a guy who got a ticket for jaywalking. On a sunday afternoon on a residential street with no traffic. I am not kidding. If a cop wants to give you a ticket he can. Everybody breaks some law every day.
" First, reforestation was one of the biggest advances as a result of the timber bust."
There is no reforestation. Go look at the forrest service coverage charts. There are postage stamp sized areas in the northeast where an extrememly small percentage of the forests have been replanted but that is more then made up for in the increased logging in the west. That's just in the US, worldwide the problem is much worse.
The FUD that you are repeating came from Rush Limbaugh. He looked at a study done someplace in New Hampshire or connecticut or something which showed that in the last 50 years the forests grew in that region. From this he concluded that there are now more trees worldwide then there were 50 years ago. Because Ruch Limbaugh is an idiot who can not think past his rigid idiology he broadcast this as if it was some sort of a scientific certainty.
You can not interpolate about the worldwide forest covarage by studying a small area over a very small time period. Look at the worldwide forest coverage a thousand years a go and today. That's the real picture.
Reforestation is not happening in US and canada. There are some areas on the ast coast that were raized being replanted but this is more being offset by increased logging in the west. Please look at the forest coverage charts supplied by the US forrest service. They tell you the whole story. You can't look at a small postage sized zone in connecticut and then make an interpolation about the US or the world in general.
Besides which I am looking at the entire planet as whole. There is no way the amount of forest coverage in the world is going up.
It's a serious mistake to look at macro level trends and make decisions based on that. Right now due to subsidization it's cheaper for US companies to buy lumber from Canada. That may cause some areas of the US to logged at slower rates but that does not mean logging worldwide has slowed down.
"So I list quotes from some of the most famous presidents in the history of the United States saying things similar to the "I talk to a higher power"."
They say similar things but it's clear they are talking metaphorically. GW actually believes that God is peaking to him. He actually believes that God got him elected because God wants him to speed the return of jesus.
This guy actually has meetings with evangelicals before deciding on middle east policy so as not the get in the way of the apocalypse.
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We used wood until it became too expensive and then switched to "maufactured" wood products and syntetics. As a consequence the worldwide forest coverage is less then 10% of what it used to be and shows no sign of recovering. In fact deforestation is still going on relentlessly.
We use petrolium products and continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere without understanding what we may be causing. We have eaten away at the ozone layer. We have caused thousands of species to be extinct and thousands more to be stunted and no relief is in site.
We have been eating away at our planet to fuel out insatiable hunger for growth. Sure we will find some other energy source but all that will do is the accelarate the destruction of more land, more ozone, more forests and more animals.
Sooner or later it will all break. Maybe once the plankton die due to pollution or some sort of a threshold will be reached with CO2 who knows.
We are playing with matches in a room full of dynamite. The optimist like you are saying there are plenty of matches left.
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THere are severe consequences of burning all that coal.
Nukes are not a bad idea as long as you can keep terrorists away from them.
Even if the small company wins they stand to lose. Look at EOLAS, they won the case, they got awarded millions and then MS had the patent invalidated (pending). You think the patent office would listen to you or me or EOLAS if we attempted to invalidate an MS patent?
I think Jesse Jackson put it best "Capitalism without capital is just an ism".
"However, this reminded me of this [netbsd.org]. NetBSD's package collection actually has released their pkgsrc collection to both FreeBSD and OpenBSD."
The problem is that pkgsrcs ports collection is not as complete as the freebsd ports collection. It has some extra features but the number of ports is lacking.
If freebsd was to adopt pkgsrc then the development effort would be unified and a more uniform set of ports would be available to everybody.
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I don't care if people want to blow up israelis. Why do you?
BTW. I don't care if people want to blow up hindus, pakistanis, saudis, palestenians or anybody else either. To me they are all of equal value which is to say not much. Why are israelis so important to you? What do they do for you? How do they help you?
It's the wave of the future. We will very soon be able to kill as many people as we want without risking anything. Since the military has proven itself very adept at controlling the media too Americans will soon be able to turn on the TV and watch a nice reality show without all the blood, gore and suffering. Just pictures of tunbling statutes and happy smiling occupied people.
The thing I find facinating is how we as a country have refined what bravery and sacrifice is. It used to be (and still is in most countries) bravery meant you faced your enemy and fought them mano-a-mano and defeated them in the field of honor/battle. We have now defined bravery as flying an ariplane and dropping a bomb on people or remote controlling a drone that shoots missiles into a crowded city.
Nah. I do wish they had included a clause that said "if you use this software you promise to choke any MS executive if and when you encounter them". Oh and also choke the shit out the guy at MS who decided that the active directory client for windows 98 would not process group policies. That guy really needs to be punished.
I don't think they are that worried about the "average desktop user". They are more worried about the corporate desktop. The average user does not pay for windows and does not upgrade on schedule. They either steal windows or get it with their PC and MS makes almost no money from that. Corporations OTOH upgrade like clockwork and are the primary cash cow for MS.
.NET software out of the box MS is doomed.
Sun, Suse/Novell, and IBM now have a pretty compelling corporate desktop. Openoffice, Evolution with exchange connector, and mozilla pretty much cover 90% of what a cubicle dweller does every day. Since a lot of corporate software is written in Java this allows a corporation to look at how it can save tens of millions of dollars in licenses and support by deploying linux desktops.
MS is scared shitless of that.
If Mono is successful and can run
No but all my toold were free.
I know a guy who got a ticket for jaywalking. On a sunday afternoon on a residential street with no traffic. I am not kidding. If a cop wants to give you a ticket he can. Everybody breaks some law every day.
SO that means you didn't have to change your libraries, tools, IDE, operating system or anything else in all that time right?
I didn't think so.
This guy is the president of ADTI. If he is that dumb can you imagine the other 13 people?
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I really have to figure out how to do this scam.
Get money from big corporations
write books they want you to write
profit!!
Bigtime too!
" Well, at least MS is trying to support us game developers, "
You call completely changing the SDK every couple of years supporting you?
" First, reforestation was one of the biggest advances as a result of the timber bust."
There is no reforestation. Go look at the forrest service coverage charts. There are postage stamp sized areas in the northeast where an extrememly small percentage of the forests have been replanted but that is more then made up for in the increased logging in the west. That's just in the US, worldwide the problem is much worse.
The FUD that you are repeating came from Rush Limbaugh. He looked at a study done someplace in New Hampshire or connecticut or something which showed that in the last 50 years the forests grew in that region. From this he concluded that there are now more trees worldwide then there were 50 years ago. Because Ruch Limbaugh is an idiot who can not think past his rigid idiology he broadcast this as if it was some sort of a scientific certainty.
You can not interpolate about the worldwide forest covarage by studying a small area over a very small time period. Look at the worldwide forest coverage a thousand years a go and today. That's the real picture.
It also sounds exactly like Eiffel.
This industried ability to continually re-invent the wheel never ceases to amaze me.
Let's go back to lisp and smalltalk every frikken language since then is just a rewrite of one or the other anyway.
Of course not. OTOH a few well placed terrorists could force a meltdown or simply explode the place causing massive damage and radiation.
To me a nuclear plant is placing too many eggs in one basket. Knock one out and you cause massive problems.
Reforestation is not happening in US and canada. There are some areas on the ast coast that were raized being replanted but this is more being offset by increased logging in the west. Please look at the forest coverage charts supplied by the US forrest service. They tell you the whole story. You can't look at a small postage sized zone in connecticut and then make an interpolation about the US or the world in general.
Besides which I am looking at the entire planet as whole. There is no way the amount of forest coverage in the world is going up.
It's a serious mistake to look at macro level trends and make decisions based on that. Right now due to subsidization it's cheaper for US companies to buy lumber from Canada. That may cause some areas of the US to logged at slower rates but that does not mean logging worldwide has slowed down.
"So I list quotes from some of the most famous presidents in the history of the United States saying things similar to the "I talk to a higher power"."
They say similar things but it's clear they are talking metaphorically. GW actually believes that God is peaking to him. He actually believes that God got him elected because God wants him to speed the return of jesus.
This guy actually has meetings with evangelicals before deciding on middle east policy so as not the get in the way of the apocalypse.
One word for ya.
"Terrorist"
Your optimism is unfounded.
We used wood until it became too expensive and then switched to "maufactured" wood products and syntetics. As a consequence the worldwide forest coverage is less then 10% of what it used to be and shows no sign of recovering. In fact deforestation is still going on relentlessly.
We use petrolium products and continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere without understanding what we may be causing. We have eaten away at the ozone layer. We have caused thousands of species to be extinct and thousands more to be stunted and no relief is in site.
We have been eating away at our planet to fuel out insatiable hunger for growth. Sure we will find some other energy source but all that will do is the accelarate the destruction of more land, more ozone, more forests and more animals.
Sooner or later it will all break. Maybe once the plankton die due to pollution or some sort of a threshold will be reached with CO2 who knows.
We are playing with matches in a room full of dynamite. The optimist like you are saying there are plenty of matches left.
THere are severe consequences of burning all that coal.
Nukes are not a bad idea as long as you can keep terrorists away from them.
Even if the small company wins they stand to lose. Look at EOLAS, they won the case, they got awarded millions and then MS had the patent invalidated (pending). You think the patent office would listen to you or me or EOLAS if we attempted to invalidate an MS patent?
I think Jesse Jackson put it best "Capitalism without capital is just an ism".
Yes but it's not the same. I miss the ports.
"However, this reminded me of this [netbsd.org]. NetBSD's package collection actually has released their pkgsrc collection to both FreeBSD and OpenBSD."
The problem is that pkgsrcs ports collection is not as complete as the freebsd ports collection. It has some extra features but the number of ports is lacking.
If freebsd was to adopt pkgsrc then the development effort would be unified and a more uniform set of ports would be available to everybody.
"According to the project page it's "on the verge of booting to single-user mode"."
Well La Di Fucking Da.
Don't you find it odd that Apple Mac OS X is based on freebsd but freebsd does not run on it? I do.
When are freebsd, openbsd, and netbsd adopt the one true ports system? Is there any logical reason to have three different source based ports systems?
Where is the PPC port? I am amazed that I can't install freebsd on my mac.
He says people who wear two different types of clothes should be exiled.
God really cares about weird shit.
It's very important to realize that god does not say homosexuals should not be married. He says homosexuals should be killed.