I don't care if he is "polite", he is an amazing fellow simply because he's OK with being wrong, and puts his ego in 2nd place after technical excellence!
Or did you conveniently forget that it's GNU/Linux? Without Stallman you likely wouldn't have Linux at all.
Without Stallman you likelyy wouldn't have a GNU/Linux. He would have used a different way to get there if possible. He did not state that he had this GNU and wanted to do something with it.
What he did was looking for a way to imitate Minix and then looked at what were the best tools. You do not name your system after your tools. It is House, not HammerAndNail/House.
For example, Airline reservation systems. Or Slashdot. Or anything web-based. Or your Visa card, Mastercard, ATM card. Strange how effective those electronic debit machines are, even though they assume 100% uptime of the Visa/MC/Debit back end systems? What about your phone? Doesn't it assume 100% uptime of the call routers and connection?
Each and every one of them have been down at some point in time, meaning they do NOT assume 100% uptime (anymore).
So I can only agree that asuming 100% uptime is realy bad architecture. Aiming for 100% is another thing.
That way not only will they lure people to the store, they know people will spend more then that one song. Turning a loss, they can taxt deduct, into a profit.
The problem is, how would you do it otherwise? Send everybody a dollar? Perhaps in this case, the best thing would be to deduct 1 dollar of the phonebill.
But seriously, how do you expect companies to solve this? Say they have 5.000.000 customers they have handled wrongly and they get conviceted to pay back 5.000.000 USD if it is a one-off purchase? I know there are poeple who say that each of those customers should get the 1USD brought to them individually in a limo. However if you want to try to be reasonable, you will see that a voucher is the only option as it is illegal to send money by postal service.
there are more very smart men than women, but also more very stupid men. Chess, a game that very smart people excel at, tends to be dominated by men.
Then these smart people must be extremely realy very smart to make it all even, because there are so many stupid men, including almost all of the smart ones.
And why call it cheating? Call it GOD-mode. God doesn't cheat, now does he?
Seriously, if I can boot in 1 second instead of 5, then I will be happy, no matter if you cheated or not. Anything to make it faster for me, the user, is important.
I can not believe that people can not design a paper where you use a pen to fill out a field and then put that through a scanner. It doesn't even have to be able to do OCR. Just determine what people voted. If the machine is not sure, put it aside and let people determine this manually.
This would both speed up the counting, make it easy to use and leave a paper trail and it give Diebold and other the opportunity to sell machines and thus the need to bribe senators and others.
I am a veteran mercenary of the civil war in Nigeria and heard of your problems with spammers. I have worked out a way to solve this. I will just shoot them dead in the head. I will see to it that any financial loss ddone to you is payed in full in your bank account.
Please just give me your bank details, social security number and details and I will see that you get your money and I will see that you will not recieve any spam from that person again.
Because if their auto mechanic goes bankrupt/closes they can always find another one to take their cars to. If their IT service goes bankrupt/closes, you can find another provider, but the data you had is gone.
What would you do with the same data if you would have it on your own server? I assume you would take an incremential backup every 24 hours and if it is very important, even look for an off site solution. Now the data is off site, so why not look for an on site backup solution to back up your data.
If backing up your data is not possible then you did not care for your data.
Email is one of the easiest examples. If you leave all of your email only on Google and never place it local, then you do not mind if it is gone. This is/., so I assume everybody knows the importance of backups. Do not blame somebody else for loosing your data if you don't backup.
And for the first graders. How much would every citizen get if they gave all an equal share of that US$700b if there are 350m people in the USofA. (It also shows the money in a number that makes it understandable for people.)
However this does not solve it for less technical people as they would have no idea what is going on, would have no idea how to solve it and perhaps have not even a clue that there is a problem and that they typed in something wrong.
If I were looking for nekid ladies, this might be help full. If I try to contact my bank it isn't. It could even be dangerous if things I were looking for is something similar to what I get presented as advertisement.
In 'The Stainless Steel Rat' the reason that is given why atheists are better people is because they know that this is the only life people have and will therefore treasure it as they know it is pretty final if you end it.
Religious people believe that even if you kill somebody, they have some sort of second chance, so it won't be that bad for that person if you kill him.
Please do understand that this is from a science fiction writer written in a book that is intended to entertain, not to preach. (e.g. The book also explains why robbing banks is a good thing.) What would the world come to if people (or 'actors') start believing some SF book is "The Word".
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That, plus he knows how to use a shower.
Without Stallman you likelyy wouldn't have a GNU/Linux. He would have used a different way to get there if possible. He did not state that he had this GNU and wanted to do something with it.
What he did was looking for a way to imitate Minix and then looked at what were the best tools. You do not name your system after your tools. It is House, not HammerAndNail/House.
One must ask why they have more run ins with the law. Perhaps because they can't defend themselves.
Each and every one of them have been down at some point in time, meaning they do NOT assume 100% uptime (anymore).
So I can only agree that asuming 100% uptime is realy bad architecture. Aiming for 100% is another thing.
They could even change who shot first.
Why must I select no if there is no network connection? Why must I opt-out?
I stand corrected; http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Is-it-Legal-to-Send-Cash-Overnight-/1007980
I would love to, but who to trust ...
http://www.favreau.info/misc/14-points-fascism.php and the original http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2
Scary.
That way not only will they lure people to the store, they know people will spend more then that one song. Turning a loss, they can taxt deduct, into a profit.
The problem is, how would you do it otherwise? Send everybody a dollar? Perhaps in this case, the best thing would be to deduct 1 dollar of the phonebill.
But seriously, how do you expect companies to solve this? Say they have 5.000.000 customers they have handled wrongly and they get conviceted to pay back 5.000.000 USD if it is a one-off purchase? I know there are poeple who say that each of those customers should get the 1USD brought to them individually in a limo. However if you want to try to be reasonable, you will see that a voucher is the only option as it is illegal to send money by postal service.
Any other solutions?
Then these smart people must be extremely realy very smart to make it all even, because there are so many stupid men, including almost all of the smart ones.
Take a movie that they understand. With dinosaurs. "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
http://xkcd.com/456/
Teachers. Blowing. Kids.
Somehow this sounds all wrong.
And why call it cheating? Call it GOD-mode. God doesn't cheat, now does he?
Seriously, if I can boot in 1 second instead of 5, then I will be happy, no matter if you cheated or not. Anything to make it faster for me, the user, is important.
I can not believe that people can not design a paper where you use a pen to fill out a field and then put that through a scanner. It doesn't even have to be able to do OCR. Just determine what people voted. If the machine is not sure, put it aside and let people determine this manually.
This would both speed up the counting, make it easy to use and leave a paper trail and it give Diebold and other the opportunity to sell machines and thus the need to bribe senators and others.
Everybody wins.
Hello,
I am a veteran mercenary of the civil war in Nigeria and heard of your problems with spammers. I have worked out a way to solve this. I will just shoot them dead in the head. I will see to it that any financial loss ddone to you is payed in full in your bank account.
Please just give me your bank details, social security number and details and I will see that you get your money and I will see that you will not recieve any spam from that person again.
What would you do with the same data if you would have it on your own server? I assume you would take an incremential backup every 24 hours and if it is very important, even look for an off site solution.
Now the data is off site, so why not look for an on site backup solution to back up your data.
If backing up your data is not possible then you did not care for your data.
Email is one of the easiest examples. If you leave all of your email only on Google and never place it local, then you do not mind if it is gone. This is /., so I assume everybody knows the importance of backups. Do not blame somebody else for loosing your data if you don't backup.
The same that happens when the only offline copy of my critical data goes away if I don't have cloud computing.
The fact that people think backups are not needed is the problem, not the place where you put your data.
And for the first graders. How much would every citizen get if they gave all an equal share of that US$700b if there are 350m people in the USofA. (It also shows the money in a number that makes it understandable for people.)
http://www.opendns.com/
However this does not solve it for less technical people as they would have no idea what is going on, would have no idea how to solve it and perhaps have not even a clue that there is a problem and that they typed in something wrong.
If I were looking for nekid ladies, this might be help full. If I try to contact my bank it isn't. It could even be dangerous if things I were looking for is something similar to what I get presented as advertisement.
Curl is your friend for this.
In 'The Stainless Steel Rat' the reason that is given why atheists are better people is because they know that this is the only life people have and will therefore treasure it as they know it is pretty final if you end it.
Religious people believe that even if you kill somebody, they have some sort of second chance, so it won't be that bad for that person if you kill him.
Please do understand that this is from a science fiction writer written in a book that is intended to entertain, not to preach. (e.g. The book also explains why robbing banks is a good thing.) What would the world come to if people (or 'actors') start believing some SF book is "The Word".
Go to http://maps.google.com/, scrollover more in the map and select photos
If people start to drive more efficiently, doesn't that mean that it worked, even if it didn't work in the way we would think it would?
I mean, if a placebo takes away my pain to me it works, even though you say it is just imagination. To me the result is importand.