People who give answers like these probably don't even know what Linux is, or only know about it by name and figure that it has too little marketshare to bother with.
I'm not completely sure if he was being sarcastic about them being rerouted to the PR department or not. I could see that actually happening, but I figure it's much more likely the developers were worried about saying something they weren't supposed to, and Taco's comparing them to PR people.
They're probably worried that either 1. the developers will say something to embarrass them or 2. the developers will say something violating their non-disclosure agreements. Maybe both, I can't know for sure.
Assuming they actually managed to create a working government, they'd end up being the bitch of whatever major country they were off the shore of, ESPECIALLY if it was China.
It wouldn't exactly take an uber-leet submarine to cut cables and fiber-optic links.
If the cables just happened to "break" somewhere, would Vanuatu even have the resources to fix them?
The latest? Try one from months ago...I ended up removing SASSER from my brother's business laptop not too long ago. It seems he hadn't used that particular one online for several months, and didn't see anything wrong with hooking it up to the Internet without patching it.
It lasted about fifteen minutes.
Based on my experience with earlier Windows versions, I'd say it'll run slower on the same hardware with service packs. You can run Windows 2000 on a Pentium 1 as long as you don't patch it (not recommended).
Honestly, though, I don't think many people will be assuming that it'll get faster. The vast majority will either sigh and get by with XP or lower (if they don't have money, or buy new computers (if they have money). More of the techical-minded (not all of them, but more than there are now) will switch to other operating systems.
They aren't even close to winning the server. Maybe they can convince most of the non-techies that they won the server, but they didn't.
They're WAY behind on the web, in any way I can interpret it...Apache beats IIS both by functionality and marketshare, Google beats them on search engines and email...Maybe Microsoft has a prettier website?
I've done that three or four times with people selling used computers. Every time, their response has been "I just want to get rid of it so it stops taking up space in my closet." One time the person told me they'd just give it to me if I donated a few dollars to a charity fund they happened to be running.
If it was something that doesn't degenerate in value so quickly with age (and get replaced by those who have money even before it degenerates), I might be suspicious, but with a computer? Not likely. Given that it was eBay, I probably would have written down their information, but I wouldn't have sweated over buying it.
He may not have written a whole lot of code, but I'd say the community has benefitted a lot from his essays.
Though he's far from "normal", he has enough social skills not to start talking about having nasal sex with dead flowers with people he's trying to convert. The best coders often don't make the best spokesmen.
Your post criticizing the people attacking the tobacco industry made sense. This one doesn't.
The laws aren't what really matters, it's what's right (if the person is moral), or what's most profitable (if the person is greedy). Criticisms of corporations are generated by moral outrage or envy, not litigiousness. Of course, someone who criticizes a corporation out of envy may pretend to be doing so for moral reasons, but I digress.
Google and Apple get raked over the coals all the time, just generally by different people than those who attack Microsoft. It's not all groupthink, there are factions, as well as people who think outside or between the factions. This isn't a schizophrenic's blog, many people post here.
That's exactly what it is...It's a "virtual pet" that responds to voice commands and gives your kid the feeling of having a pet without all that troublesome work and responsibility.
Your bag's under the seat.
The real theory of Intelligent Design doesn't eliminate evolution. It actually proposes (hell, should I just say "proposed" at this point?) that evolution didn't stem only from random mutations, but from some that seem to have been encouraged.
Unfortunately, seven-day-Creationists have corrupted the term worse than the words "communist" and "hacker" combined.
A period of a thousand years is long enough for the Cro-Magnon, with their superior abilities and traits, to become more numerous than the Neanderthals. At that point the Neanderthals were either killed off or crossbred with the Cro-Magnon. Over time, most of the Neanderthal genes in the offspring probably faded.
By that logic, Germany and Italy would be completely screwed. Especially the latter, since they'd have to pay the descendants of the Celts who suffered so much under their oppression two thousand years ago.
Even if you were right, denying reparations wouldn't be bigotry unless it stemmed from hatred of the race the reparations were going to be given to.
He didn't say that blacks didn't deserve representation. He said that the ACLU shouldn't concentrate on flagship issues like reparations for slavery or homosexual marriage, and that they shouldn't concentrate on minorities to the detriment of the majority.
There's a difference.
I know that was a joke, but I wish more people would actually share that sort of thing on peer to peer networks. Being able to get audio records from a conference from eMule or BT, for example, would be great...Even if the conference has a site (like HOPE does) with records, being able to grab them off of p2p would let people get them quicker and maybe even expose them to folks who wouldn't have heard about them otherwise...
"Overrated?" It was at score 1, not even "rated". If you think it's a troll or flamebait, MOD IT AS TROLL OR FLAMEBAIT. If you're right in moderating it as such, you don't have to worry about getting nailed in metamoderation...or is that what you're afraid of?
Thinking that giving blacks "reparations" for slavery that occurred about 150 years ago is bullshit is hardly bigotry. Most older blacks that I talk to about it feel that it's just young people trying to get something for nothing.
The ACLU does do a lot of things for legitimate causes, you just don't hear as much about them. For some reason making sure kids have decent bathroom facilities at a school doesn't catch as many eyes as fringe blacks wanting reparations or queers wanting to get legally married.
Once they realize that, we'll be fighting to keep that ability in F/OSS operating systems. They'll try to make the protection mandatory, and ban or severely discourage the use of operating systems that don't support it.
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People who give answers like these probably don't even know what Linux is, or only know about it by name and figure that it has too little marketshare to bother with.
I'm not completely sure if he was being sarcastic about them being rerouted to the PR department or not. I could see that actually happening, but I figure it's much more likely the developers were worried about saying something they weren't supposed to, and Taco's comparing them to PR people.
They're probably worried that either 1. the developers will say something to embarrass them or 2. the developers will say something violating their non-disclosure agreements. Maybe both, I can't know for sure.
Kinda reminds me of something I'd see on G4 instead of Slashdot, but that's what you gotta expect from PR. Way to go, bureaucracy.
Assuming they actually managed to create a working government, they'd end up being the bitch of whatever major country they were off the shore of, ESPECIALLY if it was China.
It wouldn't exactly take an uber-leet submarine to cut cables and fiber-optic links. If the cables just happened to "break" somewhere, would Vanuatu even have the resources to fix them?
Were going streaking to Vanatu! Who will join me!?
...Good luck crossing most of the Pacific naked. Guess I'll take a ship.
Neal Stephenson. I figured he based the data-haven island off of a mixture of similar places in the real world...Sealand, Vanuatu, et cetera.
The latest? Try one from months ago...I ended up removing SASSER from my brother's business laptop not too long ago. It seems he hadn't used that particular one online for several months, and didn't see anything wrong with hooking it up to the Internet without patching it. It lasted about fifteen minutes.
Based on my experience with earlier Windows versions, I'd say it'll run slower on the same hardware with service packs. You can run Windows 2000 on a Pentium 1 as long as you don't patch it (not recommended). Honestly, though, I don't think many people will be assuming that it'll get faster. The vast majority will either sigh and get by with XP or lower (if they don't have money, or buy new computers (if they have money). More of the techical-minded (not all of them, but more than there are now) will switch to other operating systems.
They aren't even close to winning the server. Maybe they can convince most of the non-techies that they won the server, but they didn't. They're WAY behind on the web, in any way I can interpret it...Apache beats IIS both by functionality and marketshare, Google beats them on search engines and email...Maybe Microsoft has a prettier website?
I've done that three or four times with people selling used computers. Every time, their response has been "I just want to get rid of it so it stops taking up space in my closet." One time the person told me they'd just give it to me if I donated a few dollars to a charity fund they happened to be running. If it was something that doesn't degenerate in value so quickly with age (and get replaced by those who have money even before it degenerates), I might be suspicious, but with a computer? Not likely. Given that it was eBay, I probably would have written down their information, but I wouldn't have sweated over buying it.
He may not have written a whole lot of code, but I'd say the community has benefitted a lot from his essays.
Though he's far from "normal", he has enough social skills not to start talking about having nasal sex with dead flowers with people he's trying to convert. The best coders often don't make the best spokesmen.
Your post criticizing the people attacking the tobacco industry made sense. This one doesn't. The laws aren't what really matters, it's what's right (if the person is moral), or what's most profitable (if the person is greedy). Criticisms of corporations are generated by moral outrage or envy, not litigiousness. Of course, someone who criticizes a corporation out of envy may pretend to be doing so for moral reasons, but I digress. Google and Apple get raked over the coals all the time, just generally by different people than those who attack Microsoft. It's not all groupthink, there are factions, as well as people who think outside or between the factions. This isn't a schizophrenic's blog, many people post here.
That's exactly what it is...It's a "virtual pet" that responds to voice commands and gives your kid the feeling of having a pet without all that troublesome work and responsibility. Your bag's under the seat.
The real theory of Intelligent Design doesn't eliminate evolution. It actually proposes (hell, should I just say "proposed" at this point?) that evolution didn't stem only from random mutations, but from some that seem to have been encouraged. Unfortunately, seven-day-Creationists have corrupted the term worse than the words "communist" and "hacker" combined.
A period of a thousand years is long enough for the Cro-Magnon, with their superior abilities and traits, to become more numerous than the Neanderthals. At that point the Neanderthals were either killed off or crossbred with the Cro-Magnon. Over time, most of the Neanderthal genes in the offspring probably faded.
By that logic, Germany and Italy would be completely screwed. Especially the latter, since they'd have to pay the descendants of the Celts who suffered so much under their oppression two thousand years ago. Even if you were right, denying reparations wouldn't be bigotry unless it stemmed from hatred of the race the reparations were going to be given to.
He didn't say that blacks didn't deserve representation. He said that the ACLU shouldn't concentrate on flagship issues like reparations for slavery or homosexual marriage, and that they shouldn't concentrate on minorities to the detriment of the majority. There's a difference.
I know that was a joke, but I wish more people would actually share that sort of thing on peer to peer networks. Being able to get audio records from a conference from eMule or BT, for example, would be great...Even if the conference has a site (like HOPE does) with records, being able to grab them off of p2p would let people get them quicker and maybe even expose them to folks who wouldn't have heard about them otherwise...
"Overrated?" It was at score 1, not even "rated". If you think it's a troll or flamebait, MOD IT AS TROLL OR FLAMEBAIT. If you're right in moderating it as such, you don't have to worry about getting nailed in metamoderation...or is that what you're afraid of?
Thinking that giving blacks "reparations" for slavery that occurred about 150 years ago is bullshit is hardly bigotry. Most older blacks that I talk to about it feel that it's just young people trying to get something for nothing.
The ACLU does do a lot of things for legitimate causes, you just don't hear as much about them. For some reason making sure kids have decent bathroom facilities at a school doesn't catch as many eyes as fringe blacks wanting reparations or queers wanting to get legally married.
Once they realize that, we'll be fighting to keep that ability in F/OSS operating systems. They'll try to make the protection mandatory, and ban or severely discourage the use of operating systems that don't support it.
That's why there are Army/Navy Surplus stores.