Don't bet on it. There are very good reasons to stay in an area where air travel is cheap, the labor pool is huge, and there are more CEOs per square inch then any other place on the planet (maybe except hong kong).
If you are selling your stuff to businesses you need to shcmooze with them. You need to be able to meet at the ultra chic bar or restaurant to wine and dine the CEO. When you get together you need to be able to talk to him/her in a common vernacular about shared experiences. You can't just pop on a plane from iowa and talk about the mets or the traffic on 82nd.
There is a reason why businesses stay in NY, LA, Chicago or Dallas. Taxes are a just a small part of the whole equation.
Does anybody use outlook for anything other then exchange? Exchange is really lame, it doesn't actually do much, it's outlook that does all the heavy lifting. Exchange without outlook is useless, outlook with without exchange is a giant pig without legs.
OTOH I am glad outlook has after years gotten multiple calender support and RSS feeds just like evolution has. Maybe one day it will be as fast as evolution but I am not holding my breath.
XUL only works in firefox, XAML only works in windows (vista) and probably only in IE.
Other then that the same idea though. If you don't want to tell some of your customers to go away because they chose a different browser or a different operating system then you then you should use a technology that is supported by everybody.
It's a lot worse then you think. Presumably they now have the telephone logs of all reporters. They can cross reference them with the telephone numbers of all the politicians and pinpoint any leaks done via the phone.
"and when the occupant reasonably believes that such other person might use any physical force, no matter how slight, against any occupant."
Right. It's all up to what the shooter believes. Since there is no way to determine what the shooter actually believed at the time of the shooting the stage has made murder legal. You can shoot anybody on your property and then claim that you thought they were going to slap you. Since even if you thought they "might" use "any" force "no matter how slight" it's legal for you to kill them then they have for all intensive purposes given you a blank check to kill anybody you want as long as they are on your property.
Then again maybe the law is more complex then your quotes.
"I can tell at this point that trying to remove your ignorance is a waste of time. I hope for your sake that you never become a victim, but right now you have the victim mentality."
I have lived in NY (in the bad old days), NJ (including newark!), and various other "dangerous" places in the US. I have never ever been held up, mugged, broken into or assaulted in any way. Maybe I am lucky who knows. Oddly enough when I lived in the west in some of the least dangerous parts of the world (wyoming for example) everybody was scared some boogey man was going to break into their house and kill them so they were all armed to the teeth. I always thought that was weird. I think the same applies for colorado.
I heard this in a movie once "By the time you need a gun you have already made a dozen mistakes"
"I also have to say that your posts help Bill Gates much more than mine because you are pretty much the embodiment of a Moronic Linux Zealot stereotype."
Well Mr Gates is a lucky man then. With you protecting him from the likes of me he has nothing to worry about. Go shillboy go. A corporation needs your help! Bill Gates needs you!.
"You are mistaken. The GNU GPL, unlike Microsoft's EULA, does not attempt to enforce anything on the user and therefore can never be enforcable (thank goodness)."
That's a non sequitor. The GPL effects everybody who modifies and then redistributes the code. At that point it takes effect and is a legally binding document.
A while back I looked for an online collaborative book writing software and didn't find one. The closest I came was hieraki which is decent but not really what was looking for.
For internal "corporate" documentation you need to be able to have projects, programs, systems, servers, etc all in a pretty deeply nested structure and each with it's own set of people responsible and with the ability to delegate permissions. Needless to say it needs to be universally searchable.
Oh and one more thing, it needs to be printable.
Zope/Plone could do all of it with a little tweaking but tweaking zope is not for the faint of heart. Zope is one of those things that's immensely poweful but for some odd reason not one product written for zope/plone is nearly as good as products written in php/perl/ruby. Anybody know why that is?
"There's a big difference between a bunch of hippies in a "Local theater group" and IBM/Oracle/Sun/Apple teaming up and colluding to undercut a Microsoft product."
Poor MS, lucky for them they have you to defend them. Go shillboy go!.
"Trying to make a blanket statement about the legality of the GPL either way is stupid. "
Mmmm. GPL gets taken to court, the GPL is upheld by the judge. Repeat four or five times both in the US and in Europe and guess what it seems that the GPL is indeed legally enforcable.
It gets even more complicated when you take into account the billions of fetishes in the world. For some people pictures of people wearing slippers is porn, for others pictures of accidents are porn.
Porn is what happens in your head, not what's on the screen.
There is a trial, there is a verdict. At the end of the verdict the winner can claim "frivolous lawsuit!". At which point there is a three judge panel convened. If the all three judges agree that the suit was frivolous then the loser has to pay all the legal fees for the winner and also compensate for the winner for income lost due to pursuing the lawsuit, interest on any loans thay may have been taken, bank fees from mortgaging the house etc. In addition the lawyers for the losing side are given a warning.
If the same lawyer loses three "frivolous lawsuit" motions they are disbarred in that state.
Voila!. Easy, far, achievable. It's still a high burden to have three judges rule that something is a silly lawsuit but it's better then nothing. This way the legal profession can keep it's own house clean without resorting to legislation or criminal penalties.
What's the use really? The user isn't going to really describe what went wrong or how, they don't even know what version means or the name of their distribution. Hey it says Dell on my computer, is that the distro?
"The court would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your life was not in mortal danger."
That would be trivial, it's a he said, he said and you just killed the guy. It's you against the picture of a guy with a missing head. As for the civil case I will point at the OJ trial where he was found not guilty in court and had to pay millions in civil court.
As for the palestenians I think that's a real world example of where a determined armed force is able to keep 3.5 million people under their boots living in misery, poverty and destitution despite the fact that they are armed with not only guns but also bombs, rockets, and mortars. The second amendment is outdated. Your guns are useless to end tyranny in any form. The cops will come in, you will die, your family will die if you resist. For another example look at Iraq where a mere 150,000 US troops are occupying a country. They can and do walk into any house they choose and kill any and all occupents in there or take them away to be tortured and detained. All the guns don't help there either.
The second amendment is toothless and meaningless. if it has to carry any weight at all it has to allow nuclear, chemical and bilogical weapons as well as tanks, shoulder fired missiles, and other sophisticated weaponry. Your 45 or shotgun will not prevent tyrany or help you overthrow the govt.
"Maybe were you live your right to defend yourself has been restricted or maybe you don't have a right to even defend yourself and your property but here in Colorado we have a law that allows the use of deadly force and gives immunity from criminal and civil prosecution."
Wow amazing. in colorado you can kill anybody who in inside your house if you think they will break an ashtray and if you think they might punch you.
Fantastic state you live in there. They have made it legal to murder anybody by simply inviting them to your house and then killing them and claiming that they broke in and that you thought they might punch you.
The problem is that people who run windows run the whole MS "stack". They run IE, office, outlook etc. In fact most corporations will not even allow you to load non MS software on your machine.
Just today you had the zero day word virus going around for example.
If you loaded linux (or switched to a mac) you would be much better off because your entire stack gets to be different.
OPen sourcing it may also reduce costs. Perhaps they can devote some of the programmers that are working on java full time to other products which are actually making money for them.
Open sourcing may also increase the number of programmers adopting java and the number of manufacturers of hardware and software (operating systems) distributing java thereby growing the market for Java services. Finally open sourcing java may increase revenue from testing and compliance for those that want to pass the official tests.
I am sure none of those concepts are new to Sun because they have already made the decision to open source netbeans, openoffice, and solaris all of which were either making serious money for them or cost them serious money to buy. The same business decisions apply to Java and solaris.
Look how much open sourcing eclipse helped IBM with that product. Eclipse used to be a very little used program sold by IBM now it's the industry standard in java development and fast becoming the favored development environment of ruby and rails.
According to Sun's management Java does not generate profits for them. Apparently they spend as much if not more maintaining it as they are making form license fees.
"I am shocked that people think it is ok to break in a house."
Great. I am very impressed with your shock. I am amazed by your shock. Oh wait a minute you are shocked at a straw man never mind. Did anybody say it was OK? Besides you I mean.
"If someone breaks into my house the big question is does my roommate detain or kill them with his.357 or do I do it with my.45. They have made the choice that they do not respect my property so I will return that lack of respect. "
Of course you can kill them but what happens once your hard on goes away? You have just shot somebody for the crime of trying to steal your TV. If you were not home they might get a misdemenor or a maybe a light jail sentence but you took it upon yourself to give this guy the death sentence without even a jury or a trial. I guess some living human beings life is worth less to you then your TV. I guess you would rather snuff out somebody then to try and get your TV back by reporting the crime and talking to your insurance company or the police.
I get the feeling that the argument I just laid out doesn't really wash with you. I get the feeling that you are not capable of understanding other peoples pain. To you a human life is worth a TV. Take my TV, I kill you, we are even!.
All I can hope for is that you do actually kill somebody. Then you will find out that it's not so simple as "he was in my house so I shot him". You see it's not really legal to kill people who are in your house. there will be a trial, you will most likely end up in jail with the rest of the murders. At best you will be sued civilly and lose all your pocessions not just your TV.
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Don't bet on it. There are very good reasons to stay in an area where air travel is cheap, the labor pool is huge, and there are more CEOs per square inch then any other place on the planet (maybe except hong kong).
If you are selling your stuff to businesses you need to shcmooze with them. You need to be able to meet at the ultra chic bar or restaurant to wine and dine the CEO. When you get together you need to be able to talk to him/her in a common vernacular about shared experiences. You can't just pop on a plane from iowa and talk about the mets or the traffic on 82nd.
There is a reason why businesses stay in NY, LA, Chicago or Dallas. Taxes are a just a small part of the whole equation.
Does anybody use outlook for anything other then exchange? Exchange is really lame, it doesn't actually do much, it's outlook that does all the heavy lifting. Exchange without outlook is useless, outlook with without exchange is a giant pig without legs.
OTOH I am glad outlook has after years gotten multiple calender support and RSS feeds just like evolution has. Maybe one day it will be as fast as evolution but I am not holding my breath.
Openlazlo exists, the other two don't. I would say that's a slight advantage for openlazlo.
Another problem is that flex requires the latest version of flash.
Only flash though right? Lazlo now also supports HTML and AJAX.
XUL only works in firefox, XAML only works in windows (vista) and probably only in IE.
Other then that the same idea though. If you don't want to tell some of your customers to go away because they chose a different browser or a different operating system then you then you should use a technology that is supported by everybody.
I would say you are lying.
It's a lot worse then you think. Presumably they now have the telephone logs of all reporters. They can cross reference them with the telephone numbers of all the politicians and pinpoint any leaks done via the phone.
Stew on that for a bit.
Leave it to MS to parner the MTV which hasn't had anything to with music for years now.
Who goes to MTV for music anyway?
Sad but you might be right.
"and when the occupant reasonably believes that such other person might use any physical force, no matter how slight, against any occupant."
Right. It's all up to what the shooter believes. Since there is no way to determine what the shooter actually believed at the time of the shooting the stage has made murder legal. You can shoot anybody on your property and then claim that you thought they were going to slap you. Since even if you thought they "might" use "any" force "no matter how slight" it's legal for you to kill them then they have for all intensive purposes given you a blank check to kill anybody you want as long as they are on your property.
Then again maybe the law is more complex then your quotes.
"I can tell at this point that trying to remove your ignorance is a waste of time. I hope for your sake that you never become a victim, but right now you have the victim mentality."
I have lived in NY (in the bad old days), NJ (including newark!), and various other "dangerous" places in the US. I have never ever been held up, mugged, broken into or assaulted in any way. Maybe I am lucky who knows. Oddly enough when I lived in the west in some of the least dangerous parts of the world (wyoming for example) everybody was scared some boogey man was going to break into their house and kill them so they were all armed to the teeth. I always thought that was weird. I think the same applies for colorado.
I heard this in a movie once "By the time you need a gun you have already made a dozen mistakes"
"I also have to say that your posts help Bill Gates much more than mine because you are pretty much the embodiment of a Moronic Linux Zealot stereotype."
Well Mr Gates is a lucky man then. With you protecting him from the likes of me he has nothing to worry about. Go shillboy go. A corporation needs your help! Bill Gates needs you!.
"You are mistaken. The GNU GPL, unlike Microsoft's EULA, does not attempt to enforce anything on the user and therefore can never be enforcable (thank goodness)."
That's a non sequitor. The GPL effects everybody who modifies and then redistributes the code. At that point it takes effect and is a legally binding document.
A while back I looked for an online collaborative book writing software and didn't find one. The closest I came was hieraki which is decent but not really what was looking for.
For internal "corporate" documentation you need to be able to have projects, programs, systems, servers, etc all in a pretty deeply nested structure and each with it's own set of people responsible and with the ability to delegate permissions. Needless to say it needs to be universally searchable.
Oh and one more thing, it needs to be printable.
Zope/Plone could do all of it with a little tweaking but tweaking zope is not for the faint of heart. Zope is one of those things that's immensely poweful but for some odd reason not one product written for zope/plone is nearly as good as products written in php/perl/ruby. Anybody know why that is?
"There's a big difference between a bunch of hippies in a "Local theater group" and IBM/Oracle/Sun/Apple teaming up and colluding to undercut a Microsoft product."
Poor MS, lucky for them they have you to defend them. Go shillboy go!.
"Trying to make a blanket statement about the legality of the GPL either way is stupid. "
Mmmm. GPL gets taken to court, the GPL is upheld by the judge. Repeat four or five times both in the US and in Europe and guess what it seems that the GPL is indeed legally enforcable.
Sucks for MS (and you) but great for us.
It gets even more complicated when you take into account the billions of fetishes in the world. For some people pictures of people wearing slippers is porn, for others pictures of accidents are porn.
Porn is what happens in your head, not what's on the screen.
Here is how it could be better.
There is a trial, there is a verdict. At the end of the verdict the winner can claim "frivolous lawsuit!". At which point there is a three judge panel convened. If the all three judges agree that the suit was frivolous then the loser has to pay all the legal fees for the winner and also compensate for the winner for income lost due to pursuing the lawsuit, interest on any loans thay may have been taken, bank fees from mortgaging the house etc. In addition the lawyers for the losing side are given a warning.
If the same lawyer loses three "frivolous lawsuit" motions they are disbarred in that state.
Voila!. Easy, far, achievable. It's still a high burden to have three judges rule that something is a silly lawsuit but it's better then nothing. This way the legal profession can keep it's own house clean without resorting to legislation or criminal penalties.
THe simple bug report form:
Describe what went wrong: It doesn't work.
[submit]
What's the use really? The user isn't going to really describe what went wrong or how, they don't even know what version means or the name of their distribution. Hey it says Dell on my computer, is that the distro?
"The court would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your life was not in mortal danger."
That would be trivial, it's a he said, he said and you just killed the guy. It's you against the picture of a guy with a missing head. As for the civil case I will point at the OJ trial where he was found not guilty in court and had to pay millions in civil court.
As for the palestenians I think that's a real world example of where a determined armed force is able to keep 3.5 million people under their boots living in misery, poverty and destitution despite the fact that they are armed with not only guns but also bombs, rockets, and mortars. The second amendment is outdated. Your guns are useless to end tyranny in any form. The cops will come in, you will die, your family will die if you resist. For another example look at Iraq where a mere 150,000 US troops are occupying a country. They can and do walk into any house they choose and kill any and all occupents in there or take them away to be tortured and detained. All the guns don't help there either.
The second amendment is toothless and meaningless. if it has to carry any weight at all it has to allow nuclear, chemical and bilogical weapons as well as tanks, shoulder fired missiles, and other sophisticated weaponry. Your 45 or shotgun will not prevent tyrany or help you overthrow the govt.
"Maybe were you live your right to defend yourself has been restricted or maybe you don't have a right to even defend yourself and your property but here in Colorado we have a law that allows the use of deadly force and gives immunity from criminal and civil prosecution."
Wow amazing. in colorado you can kill anybody who in inside your house if you think they will break an ashtray and if you think they might punch you.
Fantastic state you live in there. They have made it legal to murder anybody by simply inviting them to your house and then killing them and claiming that they broke in and that you thought they might punch you.
Or maybe the law is more complex then that huh?
The problem is that people who run windows run the whole MS "stack". They run IE, office, outlook etc. In fact most corporations will not even allow you to load non MS software on your machine.
Just today you had the zero day word virus going around for example.
If you loaded linux (or switched to a mac) you would be much better off because your entire stack gets to be different.
OPen sourcing it may also reduce costs. Perhaps they can devote some of the programmers that are working on java full time to other products which are actually making money for them.
Open sourcing may also increase the number of programmers adopting java and the number of manufacturers of hardware and software (operating systems) distributing java thereby growing the market for Java services. Finally open sourcing java may increase revenue from testing and compliance for those that want to pass the official tests.
I am sure none of those concepts are new to Sun because they have already made the decision to open source netbeans, openoffice, and solaris all of which were either making serious money for them or cost them serious money to buy. The same business decisions apply to Java and solaris.
Look how much open sourcing eclipse helped IBM with that product. Eclipse used to be a very little used program sold by IBM now it's the industry standard in java development and fast becoming the favored development environment of ruby and rails.
Sun also doesn't make a JVM for PPC. It's pretty much intel only for sun. You have to go to IBM for the rest.
According to Sun's management Java does not generate profits for them. Apparently they spend as much if not more maintaining it as they are making form license fees.
"I am shocked that people think it is ok to break in a house."
.357 or do I do it with my .45. They have made the choice that they do not respect my property so I will return that lack of respect. "
Great. I am very impressed with your shock. I am amazed by your shock. Oh wait a minute you are shocked at a straw man never mind. Did anybody say it was OK? Besides you I mean.
"If someone breaks into my house the big question is does my roommate detain or kill them with his
Of course you can kill them but what happens once your hard on goes away? You have just shot somebody for the crime of trying to steal your TV. If you were not home they might get a misdemenor or a maybe a light jail sentence but you took it upon yourself to give this guy the death sentence without even a jury or a trial. I guess some living human beings life is worth less to you then your TV. I guess you would rather snuff out somebody then to try and get your TV back by reporting the crime and talking to your insurance company or the police.
I get the feeling that the argument I just laid out doesn't really wash with you. I get the feeling that you are not capable of understanding other peoples pain. To you a human life is worth a TV. Take my TV, I kill you, we are even!.
All I can hope for is that you do actually kill somebody. Then you will find out that it's not so simple as "he was in my house so I shot him". You see it's not really legal to kill people who are in your house. there will be a trial, you will most likely end up in jail with the rest of the murders. At best you will be sued civilly and lose all your pocessions not just your TV.