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Wrong.
Management is part of the firm, but it doesn't own the company. The board of directors is part of the firm, but it doesn't own the company, either. They're both, legally, agents for the owners - the stockholders. A hostile takeover is one in which management and the board (the firm) are opposed - but they can't stop the sale because they work for shareholders, who actually own the company.
A hostile takeover fails if the shareholders refuse to sell what they own, and it succeeds if they agree to sell what they own. You cannot buy the company without approval from the owners.
Except the OS X EULA bars one from legally running it on the hardware. While of questionable legality, is certainly enough to expose any attempted clonemaker to a draining Apple lawsuit.
NTOFS goes back to 1992, which means 12 now. Longhorn, targetted for late 2006, won't have it. That puts WinFS in the next release after Longhorn, which means another four years. So 2010, if everything goes perfectly. Do you buy that everything will go perfectly?
Yes, Microsoft is talking nonsense about doing it in a product refresh. That makes marketing sense right now; it won't make any sense in 2007/8, because of both large customer resistance and the lack of profit. Plus, the diversion of testing resources from Longhorn Server (tenative release 2007) necessary for a new file system to be sent out would cost Microsoft more money.
So, we might see WinFS all of 18 years after NTOFS was first brought up, in the consumer line. Rounding to 20 was poetic license.
Now, if you want to say HURD is the equivalent of WinFS, I'd be inclined to grant the point. But the original goals of the GNU Project are fulfilled by Linux. Except maybe the Chaosnet thing.
Well, COPELAND, Pink, and Taligent were actually killed, not merely indefinitely delayed, and none of them managed to last more than ten years as projects. And the "ORIGINAL goal" of the Gnu project was actually achieved, albeit only with the help of an independent group under Linus Torvalds writing the kernel.
The NT Object Filing System/WinFS, on the other hand, is now 12 years old, but Microsoft is still promising it's coming -- in a few years. Call me crazy, but I think twenty years is a pretty damn long product development cycle.
I've specifically told my preferences to exclude "Politics", yet this showed up on my view of http://slashdot.org/ anyway. So, no, it doesn't keep politics off of anything.
Loser-pays works in practice. It's the horror stories that are purely theoretical.
Loser-pays is in force in the State of Alaska and the countries of Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. That's one U.S. state, and five industrialized democracies that use the same basic English Common Law system as the U.S., and couple it with the Loser-Pays principle.
And yet, with six jursidictions covering over a hundred million people to draw examples from, opponents of loser-pays can only present theoretical problems based on caricatures. If it really had such horrible consequences, why aren't there any examples from Alaska, Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, or New Zealand?
Loser-pays has been thouroughly tested, and it unquestionably works. All else is FUD.
First, an eight-mile-per-gallon improvement in the fleetwide CAFE is literally impossible with current technology, unless you go out and outlaw all vehicles that can have more than four passengers, and eliminate work trucks and the like . . . and unless you outlaw the ones on the roads already, it'd be years before that would even do it.
Second, we probably would import a greater percentage of our oil from the Middle East if fuel economy went up. The cheapest place in the world to extract oil is the Middle East, and the easiest oil in the world to refine is from the Middle East. Any reduction in oli consumption will reduce prices; any reduction in prices would shutter wells that produce the more expensive oil first, and increase the Middle East market share.
Third, since there's a world market for oil, the U.S. simply not importing any from the Middle East would in no way reduce the economic impact of oil shocks in the Middle East. Turmoil in the Middle East reducing the supply of oil to the rest of the world would cause a bid-up in the price of American, Canadian, Mexican, and Venezuelan oil, as the rest of the world tries to buy it in place of Middle Eastern oil.
If anyone today is telling you we can end our economic reliance on Middle Eastern oil in less than 20 years, one of the following four things is true:
They're depending on a huge scientific breakthrough (portable cold fusion, say);
They've discovered a Saudi-sized field of easily accessed petroleum;
I look at a squid or octopus, and I question the claim that evolution in water necessarily favors "the mouth at one end and the anus at the other."
And there were no wolf-like quadripedal land carnivores of importance during the Mesozoic, while there have been no balanced-tail bipedal land carnivores since then. Convergence is rather dependent on a significant degree of similarity in the first place.
Oh, gods, yes. Though we could preserve more of the original word choices with something like "That letter speaks volumes about how children should feel about themselves."
But his original, while bad, is at least nominally correct grammar. Word had no buisness making the sentence worse by trying to screw up the number agreement of "letter says". Word is mostly going to have bad style thrown at it (consider how often it's used in internal buisness communication); if its response is to suggest incorrect grammar, it's worse than useless.
Um, yes, we're ignoring it, but because it's a small point. Gilligan's Island is a framing device for looking at a fiat currency that went up in value when the backing government was overthrown.
Magic is never used by good mortals in C.S. Lewis's books, except in the case of Merlin in That Hideous Strength -- and even there, Merlin's use of magic is depicted as something that placed his soul in jeopardy, only to be saved when he turns himself over to angelic beings as a vessel for their power.
Certainly, specific items of power are used by good mortals, when given to them as a gift, while Aslan sometimes uses poer directly. The analogy is miraculous gifts and Divine intervention.
Now, let's look at Harry Potter and his friends. Is their approach more like the Holy Spirit descending on the Apostles and granting them the power to heal, or Simon the Magician asking to be taught how to perform those miracles? Like being handed a healing cordial by Santa Claus, or by studying to learn the Deplorable Word? Like being given an apple of life by Aslan, or like carefully separating and purifying magic dust to create rings to travel by? Like letting an angel posess you and work through you, or learning the secrets of making things obey your will?
No, they haven't pierced the tinfoil hat barrier. They've exploited the aluminum-foil hat amplifiers. When's the last time you saw actual tin foil?
Remember, the only defenses against rays designed to control carbon-based lifeforms and silicon-based computers are the metals of the same Periodic Table Group -- lead and tin.
Why do you think they've eliminated leaded gas, leaded paint, and anything else with lead under the claim that it'll cause mental defects? Of course they can make anybody protected from their rays appear to be stupid or insane in the eyes of those they can control; the unprotected have their judgments changed by the rays!
Now, while They have mostly eliminated lead from consumer products, you can still get tin-bassed solder at your Wal-Mart or similar stores. Get it, melt it, use it. The mind you save will be your own!
Do not substitute aluminum-based defenses. Aluminum is an amplifier. Why do you think fuel economy standards have been passed for cars? To save gas? No! To make automakers substitute increasing amounts of lightweight mind-ray-amplifying aluminum for heavy steel!
Ever wonder why people who drink lots of cheap beer seem so stupid? Why the government lets soda systematically eat away at the markets for milk and joice? It's simple! Aluminum cans put aluminum into the drink and into the body, making you easier to control!
Remember, there's only one sure defense against mind-control rays -- tin. Get it and use it!
If we use the conventional performance-doubles-every-eighteen-months estimate, your computer today is going to be about 64 times faster than an equivalent one in 1995, so of course anything designed to run "acceptably" then is going to be kickass fast today. Even with a virtualization layer.
OO.o is competing with the feature set of Office 2003, not Office 95, so of course it's going to be slower; Office 2003 would run like a dog on your system as well.
The 100th Meridian is roughly where that light line is, and the 100th Meridian has long been recognized as more-or-less marks several transitions. First, the rainfall drops to less than 20 inches a year; that makes it low-density ranching land instead of higher-density farming land. Second, the altitude climbs over 2000 feet. Third, the percentage of Federally-owned land climbs from near-zero east of the line to a third or more west of it.
Some people actually buy newspapers so they can search the classifieds, or the Sunday bundled glossy ads that tell them what's on sale. That seems to satisfy your "otherwise", and thus demolish your definition.
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And it completed an infinite loop in under five seconds.
Hell, we've long since given up on any hope of objectivity,[ grammar, spelling, reasonable color schemes,] or fact-checking, not posting redundant stories is all we have left.
Wrong.
Management is part of the firm, but it doesn't own the company. The board of directors is part of the firm, but it doesn't own the company, either. They're both, legally, agents for the owners - the stockholders. A hostile takeover is one in which management and the board (the firm) are opposed - but they can't stop the sale because they work for shareholders, who actually own the company.
A hostile takeover fails if the shareholders refuse to sell what they own, and it succeeds if they agree to sell what they own. You cannot buy the company without approval from the owners.
Except the OS X EULA bars one from legally running it on the hardware. While of questionable legality, is certainly enough to expose any attempted clonemaker to a draining Apple lawsuit.
NTOFS goes back to 1992, which means 12 now. Longhorn, targetted for late 2006, won't have it. That puts WinFS in the next release after Longhorn, which means another four years. So 2010, if everything goes perfectly. Do you buy that everything will go perfectly?
Yes, Microsoft is talking nonsense about doing it in a product refresh. That makes marketing sense right now; it won't make any sense in 2007/8, because of both large customer resistance and the lack of profit. Plus, the diversion of testing resources from Longhorn Server (tenative release 2007) necessary for a new file system to be sent out would cost Microsoft more money.
So, we might see WinFS all of 18 years after NTOFS was first brought up, in the consumer line. Rounding to 20 was poetic license.
Read the announcement. No mention of kernel architecture. Nor is there any in the Manifesto.
Now, if you want to say HURD is the equivalent of WinFS, I'd be inclined to grant the point. But the original goals of the GNU Project are fulfilled by Linux. Except maybe the Chaosnet thing.
Um, no, it wasn't. HURD was not specified in the original project goals. The goal was a free UNIX-like operating system, full stop.
Well, COPELAND, Pink, and Taligent were actually killed, not merely indefinitely delayed, and none of them managed to last more than ten years as projects. And the "ORIGINAL goal" of the Gnu project was actually achieved, albeit only with the help of an independent group under Linus Torvalds writing the kernel.
The NT Object Filing System/WinFS, on the other hand, is now 12 years old, but Microsoft is still promising it's coming -- in a few years. Call me crazy, but I think twenty years is a pretty damn long product development cycle.
I've specifically told my preferences to exclude "Politics", yet this showed up on my view of http://slashdot.org/ anyway. So, no, it doesn't keep politics off of anything.
Loser pays works great in theory
Loser-pays works in practice. It's the horror stories that are purely theoretical.
Loser-pays is in force in the State of Alaska and the countries of Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. That's one U.S. state, and five industrialized democracies that use the same basic English Common Law system as the U.S., and couple it with the Loser-Pays principle.
And yet, with six jursidictions covering over a hundred million people to draw examples from, opponents of loser-pays can only present theoretical problems based on caricatures. If it really had such horrible consequences, why aren't there any examples from Alaska, Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, or New Zealand?
Loser-pays has been thouroughly tested, and it unquestionably works. All else is FUD.
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America.
Yet.
First, an eight-mile-per-gallon improvement in the fleetwide CAFE is literally impossible with current technology, unless you go out and outlaw all vehicles that can have more than four passengers, and eliminate work trucks and the like . . . and unless you outlaw the ones on the roads already, it'd be years before that would even do it.
Second, we probably would import a greater percentage of our oil from the Middle East if fuel economy went up. The cheapest place in the world to extract oil is the Middle East, and the easiest oil in the world to refine is from the Middle East. Any reduction in oli consumption will reduce prices; any reduction in prices would shutter wells that produce the more expensive oil first, and increase the Middle East market share.
Third, since there's a world market for oil, the U.S. simply not importing any from the Middle East would in no way reduce the economic impact of oil shocks in the Middle East. Turmoil in the Middle East reducing the supply of oil to the rest of the world would cause a bid-up in the price of American, Canadian, Mexican, and Venezuelan oil, as the rest of the world tries to buy it in place of Middle Eastern oil.
If anyone today is telling you we can end our economic reliance on Middle Eastern oil in less than 20 years, one of the following four things is true:
I look at a squid or octopus, and I question the claim that evolution in water necessarily favors "the mouth at one end and the anus at the other."
And there were no wolf-like quadripedal land carnivores of importance during the Mesozoic, while there have been no balanced-tail bipedal land carnivores since then. Convergence is rather dependent on a significant degree of similarity in the first place.
Oh, gods, yes. Though we could preserve more of the original word choices with something like "That letter speaks volumes about how children should feel about themselves."
But his original, while bad, is at least nominally correct grammar. Word had no buisness making the sentence worse by trying to screw up the number agreement of "letter says". Word is mostly going to have bad style thrown at it (consider how often it's used in internal buisness communication); if its response is to suggest incorrect grammar, it's worse than useless.
Um, yes, we're ignoring it, but because it's a small point. Gilligan's Island is a framing device for looking at a fiat currency that went up in value when the backing government was overthrown.
Nah, any consumer AMD system from HP is a DECAthlon.
I prefer NetTime, even though it's out of active development. Small, light, open source, and supports up to five servers for cross-checks.
You're confusing the TSR 2nd edition and the WOTC/Hasbro 3rd edition. Demons and devils were added back in for 3rd Edition.
The difference?
Magic is never used by good mortals in C.S. Lewis's books, except in the case of Merlin in That Hideous Strength -- and even there, Merlin's use of magic is depicted as something that placed his soul in jeopardy, only to be saved when he turns himself over to angelic beings as a vessel for their power.
Certainly, specific items of power are used by good mortals, when given to them as a gift, while Aslan sometimes uses poer directly. The analogy is miraculous gifts and Divine intervention.
Now, let's look at Harry Potter and his friends. Is their approach more like the Holy Spirit descending on the Apostles and granting them the power to heal, or Simon the Magician asking to be taught how to perform those miracles? Like being handed a healing cordial by Santa Claus, or by studying to learn the Deplorable Word? Like being given an apple of life by Aslan, or like carefully separating and purifying magic dust to create rings to travel by? Like letting an angel posess you and work through you, or learning the secrets of making things obey your will?
No, they haven't pierced the tinfoil hat barrier. They've exploited the aluminum-foil hat amplifiers. When's the last time you saw actual tin foil?
Remember, the only defenses against rays designed to control carbon-based lifeforms and silicon-based computers are the metals of the same Periodic Table Group -- lead and tin.
Why do you think they've eliminated leaded gas, leaded paint, and anything else with lead under the claim that it'll cause mental defects? Of course they can make anybody protected from their rays appear to be stupid or insane in the eyes of those they can control; the unprotected have their judgments changed by the rays!
Now, while They have mostly eliminated lead from consumer products, you can still get tin-bassed solder at your Wal-Mart or similar stores. Get it, melt it, use it. The mind you save will be your own!
Do not substitute aluminum-based defenses. Aluminum is an amplifier. Why do you think fuel economy standards have been passed for cars? To save gas? No! To make automakers substitute increasing amounts of lightweight mind-ray-amplifying aluminum for heavy steel!
Ever wonder why people who drink lots of cheap beer seem so stupid? Why the government lets soda systematically eat away at the markets for milk and joice? It's simple! Aluminum cans put aluminum into the drink and into the body, making you easier to control!
Remember, there's only one sure defense against mind-control rays -- tin. Get it and use it!
If we use the conventional performance-doubles-every-eighteen-months estimate, your computer today is going to be about 64 times faster than an equivalent one in 1995, so of course anything designed to run "acceptably" then is going to be kickass fast today. Even with a virtualization layer.
OO.o is competing with the feature set of Office 2003, not Office 95, so of course it's going to be slower; Office 2003 would run like a dog on your system as well.
Yes, the light line is real.
The 100th Meridian is roughly where that light line is, and the 100th Meridian has long been recognized as more-or-less marks several transitions. First, the rainfall drops to less than 20 inches a year; that makes it low-density ranching land instead of higher-density farming land. Second, the altitude climbs over 2000 feet. Third, the percentage of Federally-owned land climbs from near-zero east of the line to a third or more west of it.
Some people actually buy newspapers so they can search the classifieds, or the Sunday bundled glossy ads that tell them what's on sale. That seems to satisfy your "otherwise", and thus demolish your definition.
Cheapskate. You could at least have made the IOU for 2,046 megabytes . . .
West Africa, south of Algeria and east of Mauritania.
Can I have a hard one now?