... or is "Liberty Alliance" is an odd choice of words coming from the likes of McNealy?
"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology.
"Get over it."
You thought Hailstorm was scary? Just wait until Scott McNealy (or is it McCarthy?) gets his hands on your data.
Yeah, that's right kids... when it's pro-Microsoft, Gartner are paid shills. When it's critical of Microsoft, Gartner are an unbiased research agency deserving of our undivided attention.
Cheyney wanting a full-scale invasion isn't entirely unexpected;
But that wasn't the only gift that Dick Cheney had for Norman Schwarzkopf. Having figured out that the general was being too cautious with his fourth combat command in three decades of soldiering, Cheney got his staff busy and began presenting Schwarzkopf with his own ideas about how to fight the Iraqis: What if we parachute the 82nd Airborne into the far western part of Iraq, hundreds of miles from Kuwait and totally cut off from any kind of support, and seize a couple of missile sites, then line up along the highway and drive for Baghdad? Schwarzkopf charitably describes the plan as being "as bad as it could possibly be... But despite our criticism, the western excursion wouldn't die: three times in that week alone Powell called with new variations from Cheney's staff. The most bizarre involved capturing a town in western Iraq and offering it to Saddam in exchange for Kuwait." (Throw in a Pete Rose rookie card?) None of this Walter Mitty posturing especially surprised Schwarzkopf, who points out that he'd already known Cheney as "one of the fiercest cold warriors in Congress."
And so, of course, you already know what Dick Cheney -- fierce cold warrior, vigorous advocate of the earliest and bravest possible attack, a man not afraid to take bold action with the lives of other men -- did during the Vietnam war, when he was just the right age to open his personal pandour's box and go put some of that martial ferocity into direct practice: He took five years worth of deferments, four as a student and one as a soon-to-be-father, and avoided serving in the military altogether. Which is not to say that he wasn't fiercely in favor of the whole sick mess.
Certainly the erstwhile fierce cold warrior feels a deep connection with the young men who went to Vietnam in his place. At the mostly sunny Republican nominating rally, last month, Cheney spoke movingly of his reaction to the somber sight of the graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Every time he choppered into Washington past the military burial ground, Cheney said, he looked upon "its gentle slopes and crosses row on row. I never once made that trip," he added, "without being reminded how enormously fortunate we all are to be Americans." See for yourself: The graves at Arlington National Cemetery are marked with blocky granite headstones - row on row of them.
However, If you want to stand atop the still warm corpses heaped onto the aftermath of a tragedy, loudly proclaiming your own selfish agenda, feel free. You'll probably get posted to the front page at Slashdot.
Falwell, ESR, and RMS. They've all made opportunistic comments in the aftermath of the WTC disaster. It's disgusting.
Raymond, the libertarian open-source guru, known for his love of firearms, suggested that if the passengers of the hijacked jets had had guns the four-plane tragedy might have been prevented: "We have learned today that trying to keep civilian weapons out of airplanes and other areas vulnerable to terrorist attack is not the answer either -- indeed, it is arguable that the lawmakers who disarmed all the non-terrorists on those four airplanes, leaving them no chance to stop the hijackers, bear part of the moral responsibility for this catastrophe."
The story about this took less than five minutes to be rejected by the editors. Apparently when your stock is circling the drain, a member of the Board of Directors saying something like that isn't something you necessarily want publicised.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Raymond, the libertarian open-source guru, known for his love of firearms,
suggested that if the passengers of the hijacked jets had had guns the four-plane tragedy might
have been prevented: "We have learned today that trying to keep civilian weapons out of airplanes
and other areas vulnerable to terrorist attack is not the answer either -- indeed, it is arguable
that the lawmakers who disarmed all the non-terrorists on those four airplanes, leaving them no
chance to stop the hijackers, bear part of the moral responsibility for this
catastrophe."
The story about this took less than five minutes to be rejected by the editors. Apparently when
your stock is circling the drain, a member of the Board of Directors saying something like that
isn't something you necessarily want publicised.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Raymond, the libertarian open-source guru, known for his love of firearms, suggested that if the passengers of the hijacked jets had had guns the four-plane tragedy might have been prevented: "We have learned today that trying to keep civilian weapons out of airplanes and other areas vulnerable to terrorist attack is not the answer either -- indeed, it is arguable that the lawmakers who disarmed all the non-terrorists on those four airplanes, leaving them no chance to stop the hijackers, bear part of the moral responsibility for this catastrophe."
The story about this took less than five minutes to be rejected by the editors. Apparently when your stock is circling the drain, a member of the Board of Directors saying something like that isn't something you necessarily want publicised.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Raymond, the libertarian open-source guru, known for his love of firearms, suggested that if the passengers of the hijacked jets had had guns the four-plane tragedy might have been prevented: "We have learned today that trying to keep civilian weapons out of airplanes and other areas vulnerable to terrorist attack is not the answer either -- indeed, it is arguable that the lawmakers who disarmed all the non-terrorists on those four airplanes, leaving them no chance to stop the hijackers, bear part of the moral responsibility for this catastrophe."
The story about this took less than five minutes to be rejected by the editors. Apparently when your stock is circling the drain, a member of the Board of Directors saying something like that isn't something you necessarily want publicised.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
If I had to deal with the kinds of techs he described in his article, I'd be pretty pessimistic about the future as well;
Speedie, preparing for a business trip, turned her laptop over to a technician to get some dialup software installed. When he returned the machine, Windows was gone -- along with all Microsoft applications and Speedie's work files. Outraged, she complained, and when her boss (that would be me) confronted the technician -- a stringy little guy in a black trailer-trash T-shirt -- he simply stared back and smiled."
Zealots like these are the people killing Linux on the desktop. Is it any wonder so many companies don't take Linux (or its users) seriously? Would you hire a self-confessed Linux advocate having read this story? He might go crazy and delete all your files...
I guess there is a need for less power consumption but w/15" screens, DVDs playing away on long flights, and god knows what else, is it really neceesary?
If you're on a long-haul flight, and you're in cattle-class, then power conservation is definitely an issue. But if you're in business class (or better), most airlines have power outlets available so you can plug-in, insert a DVD and not care about battery life:-)
Remember 3Dfx? They sat on their asses while Nvidia devoured their market share with newer, prettier technology. Palm warehouses are packed with handhelds they can't sell, PocketPC manufacturers can't keep up with demand.
Palm doesn't need to match the PocketPC feature-for-feature, but they do need to give the Palm a major overhaul. The device looked great in 1996, but seriously, if you were a Windows user looking to buy a handheld today, the familiar UI (and desktop integration) of PocketPCs are mighty tempting.
I'll probably get World of Warcraft (just like I did Warcraft and Starcraft before it) for the pure fact that they do PC Warhammer gamers better than Games Workshop:-)
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How about they actually prove they're open source (by, say, releasing something under license) before soliciting donations?
Yeah, that's great. Sun and RealNetworks are the most trustworthy companies around. They'd never use the system for evil.
Yeah, that's right kids... when it's pro-Microsoft, Gartner are paid shills. When it's critical of Microsoft, Gartner are an unbiased research agency deserving of our undivided attention.
I don't see any white crosses. Maybe you're thinking of the other Arlington National Cemetery? :-P
As if having cell networks three years behind the rest of the world wasn't bad enough...
Yeah, they're doing such a good job that the Young and Buckley are offloading shares as fast as they can.
... Gaul bladder?
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Of course it's offtopic, God forbid Slashdot editorial abuse is exposed.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Think air rage is bad now? Try arming those drunk businessmen and see what happens.
Zealots like these are the people killing Linux on the desktop. Is it any wonder so many companies don't take Linux (or its users) seriously? Would you hire a self-confessed Linux advocate having read this story? He might go crazy and delete all your files...
Palm doesn't need to match the PocketPC feature-for-feature, but they do need to give the Palm a major overhaul. The device looked great in 1996, but seriously, if you were a Windows user looking to buy a handheld today, the familiar UI (and desktop integration) of PocketPCs are mighty tempting.
Get cracking.
StarOffice is free. That's kind of the point.
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I'll probably get World of Warcraft (just like I did Warcraft and Starcraft before it) for the pure fact that they do PC Warhammer gamers better than Games Workshop :-)