This really illustrates how greedy Microsoft is. NetWare specializes in one little segment of the market. It's not enough that MS's crappy OS is on most of the computers around the world, they have to infect the market segment that Novell is currently parasitising.
It not only shows how greedy they are, but also how they are just plain bullies. Timing these claims the way they did is just dirty. I know this is just business, but the claim is hard to justify:
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running.
farming is more dependable, and causes less wear and tear on people, than hunting and gathering.
Farming is more dependable, but it does not cause less wear and tear on people. I fail to see how chasing after a mastodon for an hour or so a week (the hardest labor involved with hunting and gathering) causes more wear and tear on a body than bending over putting seeds in holes for 10-12 hours everyday for an entire season.
Here's an interesting quote from the article:
"(Microsoft) has to inch toward this community style development, otherwise it would be irresponsible to their stock holders," Cunningham said. "What they do and say is in the best interest of their stockholders.... Microsoft has to be more cautious. And IBM has to be more cautious. Even as a developer in the Eclipse foundation there's a certain amount of busy work that a developer has to do, like keeping an intellectual property log and stuff like that. But this is what you have to do."
I thought this was an interesting angle arguing for OSS. I think many times OSS'ers seem too anti-corporate (myself included) to have thought of this angle.
I must say that I lost a very tiny bit of respect for him when he said that he "has nothing but respect for Microsoft", but my respect was pretty high to begin with so he didn't go down too far.
At the very least the tax credit would be an enormous boon to open-source software development. But I think you place way too much faith in the government. It would be somewhat hard though to prove the work that OSS developers do to the IRS. Without some heavy discussion and consideration on the part of the IRS, which seems to go out of it's way to not look into corporate taxes and would rather pick on the little guys because it's easier, this would open up tons of loopholes. I think it's a great idea, but this government is too corrupt and inept to innact in a useful way. Perhaps this will change after 2008, and maybe after mid-term elections, but the Democrats still seem to be trying to out republican the republicans.
What it boils down to for me is that this isn't the right political climate for such a bill right now.
why in the hell is he saying that another season was in the works if he didn't have a contract signed for it? One would muse that the lead voice actor for a television show would wait until the ink has at least dried on his contract before announcing his next venture.
from BillyWest.com:
I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've
died or something.
The only thing microsoft is tough on is stains, though oh so gentle on carpet. Wait, that's Bissel. That's right MS is tough on network administrators.
You could do what my brother did...
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You could do what my brother did and start taking tons of ecstasy and pass out in a puddle of your own vomit on the courthouse lawn. I think that was the secret to his success.
Quote from the SciAm article:
"Her team will now focus on clarifying the mechanisms at work in the North Atlantic by separating out the 75-year natural cycle and climate change. "The last peak was in 1950, the next is in 2025," she adds. "We're only halfway up [the cycle] and we're already 50 percent worse [in terms of storms]. To me, that's a compelling issue that needs to be confronted."
Though no one can yet claim that the 75 year cycle isn't responsible for Katrina et al, Dr. Curry there seems to think that this new data presents the possibillity that Katrina et al cannot be explained by the Atlantic cycle.
This article seems far from conclusive. But it certainly doesn't show evidence of absence in determining whether or not rising sea temperatures are contributing to more deadly hurricanes. I would like to see some more people from the field corroborate (by this I don't mean anecdotal evidence, of which I have plenty myself) this simply because it seems like people are ready to hit the panic button on this matter.
The article itself says more work needs to be done: The link between rising ocean temperatures and overall climate change remains murky because of the overlap between natural cycles and any global warming. "But if you buy the argument that global warming is causing the increase in sea surface temperatures--and everybody seems to be buying this--then it's a pretty small leap to say global warming is causing this increase [in hurricane frequency],"
I've never used opera, but since it seems that this man's death is/. worthy, I'm thinking about trying it. Before I do though, I would like to know what some of the features that set it apart are. Could someone oblige me?
Maybe now I can play Doom 3 with the graphics settings all the way up!
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Americans can't say they're Americans because that word got highjacked by flag waving redknecks that tried NOT to be American a little over a 130 years ago.
Yes the fact that there is more surface area if we add up all the solar bodies does increase the probabillity of the right events happening. But for life to happen elsewhere and then get transported here is where I have the problem. The solar system is mostly empty space, for a special lump of matter containing the beginnings of life to just so happen to impact on a planet that is REALLY good at supporting it seems unlikely. Life is on earth is VERY weird to begin with, (don't believe me go here: http://loom.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/the_wi sdom_of_parasites.php). The fact that the conditions to support life should exist for so long on earth should say something about earth's fertillity as a possible starting point.
None of this really matters, but it seems like people really want to believe that life isn't just a random arrangement of matter that could by chance form complex replicators. People keep finding ways to mystify it away from material causailty. They end up doing this in absurd ways. This goes for people who believe in evolution too. They anthropomorphize evolution saying things like "evolution wants this or that". The simple fact is that the universe, evolution included, does not have the capacity to want anything or to care about anything, or to say "man that's weird, I better not make the universe that way". Life originating on earth is weird, life originating anywhere is weird. Just because it's weird doen't mean that we should indulge in gross speculation. We know life exists. We know that earth is the only planet we've studied with complex organisms (and so far any organisms at all!).
Look, as an evolutionary biologist, it's hard to get funding at all. Spreading crazy ideas makes it harder for the most probable ideas to get funding.
Panspermia is just a dodge. For some reason people can't believe that here on earth, where life as we know it has done better by far than anyother place that we know of, could possibly have been where life originated. The probabillity of life evolving somewhere else and then being magically whisped away to earth is even MORE improbable than life originating here. Just because something that we know has happened is improbable doesn't mean we have to completely throw all of the most probable scenarios for it to happen out the window.
Bacteria survived several years on the lens cap of a camera left on the moon. It's resilient stuff!
What else would you expect from the economist?
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The economist frequently mistakes responsibillity for discipline and constraint for authoratarian policing. Every project needs constraints. If I were to sit down and write a song without constraining by some mood and some form of theory it would sound like shit and no one would listen to it. Open source provides the right constraints in order to have an end product that's not a phillip glass or john cage composition. The fact is, corporate environments OVER police. Corporate policing gave us brittany spears and matchbox20.
Evolution requires selection. Without selection all you have is mutation. I don't think we're experiencing natural selection at the moment. But we might be experiencing sexual selection. A hundred years from now the only people that will be left are strict Catholics.
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Somehow, in some way this proves that Microsoft sucks.
This really illustrates how greedy Microsoft is. NetWare specializes in one little segment of the market. It's not enough that MS's crappy OS is on most of the computers around the world, they have to infect the market segment that Novell is currently parasitising.
It not only shows how greedy they are, but also how they are just plain bullies. Timing these claims the way they did is just dirty. I know this is just business, but the claim is hard to justify:
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running.
farming is more dependable, and causes less wear and tear on people, than hunting and gathering.
Farming is more dependable, but it does not cause less wear and tear on people. I fail to see how chasing after a mastodon for an hour or so a week (the hardest labor involved with hunting and gathering) causes more wear and tear on a body than bending over putting seeds in holes for 10-12 hours everyday for an entire season.
Here's an interesting quote from the article: ... Microsoft has to be more cautious. And IBM has to be more cautious. Even as a developer in the Eclipse foundation there's a certain amount of busy work that a developer has to do, like keeping an intellectual property log and stuff like that. But this is what you have to do."
"(Microsoft) has to inch toward this community style development, otherwise it would be irresponsible to their stock holders," Cunningham said. "What they do and say is in the best interest of their stockholders.
I thought this was an interesting angle arguing for OSS. I think many times OSS'ers seem too anti-corporate (myself included) to have thought of this angle.
I must say that I lost a very tiny bit of respect for him when he said that he "has nothing but respect for Microsoft", but my respect was pretty high to begin with so he didn't go down too far.
At the very least the tax credit would be an enormous boon to open-source software development. But I think you place way too much faith in the government. It would be somewhat hard though to prove the work that OSS developers do to the IRS. Without some heavy discussion and consideration on the part of the IRS, which seems to go out of it's way to not look into corporate taxes and would rather pick on the little guys because it's easier, this would open up tons of loopholes. I think it's a great idea, but this government is too corrupt and inept to innact in a useful way. Perhaps this will change after 2008, and maybe after mid-term elections, but the Democrats still seem to be trying to out republican the republicans.
What it boils down to for me is that this isn't the right political climate for such a bill right now.
Every company will put linux on a machine and have the user use bugzilla. Then they'll try to claim the tax credit.
why in the hell is he saying that another season was in the works if he didn't have a contract signed for it? One would muse that the lead voice actor for a television show would wait until the ink has at least dried on his contract before announcing his next venture.
from BillyWest.com: I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've died or something.
Isn't it obvious? He has a brain slug!
The only thing microsoft is tough on is stains, though oh so gentle on carpet. Wait, that's Bissel. That's right MS is tough on network administrators.
You could do what my brother did and start taking tons of ecstasy and pass out in a puddle of your own vomit on the courthouse lawn. I think that was the secret to his success.
Quote from the SciAm article: "Her team will now focus on clarifying the mechanisms at work in the North Atlantic by separating out the 75-year natural cycle and climate change. "The last peak was in 1950, the next is in 2025," she adds. "We're only halfway up [the cycle] and we're already 50 percent worse [in terms of storms]. To me, that's a compelling issue that needs to be confronted." Though no one can yet claim that the 75 year cycle isn't responsible for Katrina et al, Dr. Curry there seems to think that this new data presents the possibillity that Katrina et al cannot be explained by the Atlantic cycle.
This article seems far from conclusive. But it certainly doesn't show evidence of absence in determining whether or not rising sea temperatures are contributing to more deadly hurricanes. I would like to see some more people from the field corroborate (by this I don't mean anecdotal evidence, of which I have plenty myself) this simply because it seems like people are ready to hit the panic button on this matter. The article itself says more work needs to be done:
The link between rising ocean temperatures and overall climate change remains murky because of the overlap between natural cycles and any global warming. "But if you buy the argument that global warming is causing the increase in sea surface temperatures--and everybody seems to be buying this--then it's a pretty small leap to say global warming is causing this increase [in hurricane frequency],"
Wait a minute, playboy has articles?
I've never used opera, but since it seems that this man's death is /. worthy, I'm thinking about trying it. Before I do though, I would like to know what some of the features that set it apart are. Could someone oblige me?
Maybe now I can play Doom 3 with the graphics settings all the way up!
Americans can't say they're Americans because that word got highjacked by flag waving redknecks that tried NOT to be American a little over a 130 years ago.
Green beer is a perfectly cromulant tradition.
Yes the fact that there is more surface area if we add up all the solar bodies does increase the probabillity of the right events happening. But for life to happen elsewhere and then get transported here is where I have the problem. The solar system is mostly empty space, for a special lump of matter containing the beginnings of life to just so happen to impact on a planet that is REALLY good at supporting it seems unlikely. Life is on earth is VERY weird to begin with, (don't believe me go here: http://loom.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/the_wi sdom_of_parasites.php). The fact that the conditions to support life should exist for so long on earth should say something about earth's fertillity as a possible starting point.
None of this really matters, but it seems like people really want to believe that life isn't just a random arrangement of matter that could by chance form complex replicators. People keep finding ways to mystify it away from material causailty. They end up doing this in absurd ways. This goes for people who believe in evolution too. They anthropomorphize evolution saying things like "evolution wants this or that". The simple fact is that the universe, evolution included, does not have the capacity to want anything or to care about anything, or to say "man that's weird, I better not make the universe that way". Life originating on earth is weird, life originating anywhere is weird. Just because it's weird doen't mean that we should indulge in gross speculation. We know life exists. We know that earth is the only planet we've studied with complex organisms (and so far any organisms at all!).
Look, as an evolutionary biologist, it's hard to get funding at all. Spreading crazy ideas makes it harder for the most probable ideas to get funding.
Dude, that was just cheap.
As a non-moderator, it is good to see that the moderators care about this kind of thing.
Celebrate your ignorance!!!
Panspermia is just a dodge. For some reason people can't believe that here on earth, where life as we know it has done better by far than anyother place that we know of, could possibly have been where life originated. The probabillity of life evolving somewhere else and then being magically whisped away to earth is even MORE improbable than life originating here. Just because something that we know has happened is improbable doesn't mean we have to completely throw all of the most probable scenarios for it to happen out the window.
Wouldn't it be something if everyone stopped dodging the most likely possibillity that life started on this planet?
Bacteria survived several years on the lens cap of a camera left on the moon. It's resilient stuff!
The economist frequently mistakes responsibillity for discipline and constraint for authoratarian policing. Every project needs constraints. If I were to sit down and write a song without constraining by some mood and some form of theory it would sound like shit and no one would listen to it. Open source provides the right constraints in order to have an end product that's not a phillip glass or john cage composition. The fact is, corporate environments OVER police. Corporate policing gave us brittany spears and matchbox20.
Evolution requires selection. Without selection all you have is mutation. I don't think we're experiencing natural selection at the moment. But we might be experiencing sexual selection. A hundred years from now the only people that will be left are strict Catholics.