I know it happened in Reagan's time with Orlando Letelier getting blown up in Washington D.C.
I had never heard of this, which surprised me. So I looked it up, turns out it was 1976 so you're off by a decade and two presidents, Ford was president in 1976.
The reason I had not heard of this was that I was 7 years old in 1976 and not aware of much outside of cartoons.
And Ubuntu is basically Debian++ which is GPL/Linux++++. What's your point?
If you're looking for inferences, I'd say that Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs some work if he's going to persuade cranky cantankerous Lunix hippies that we actually like and want Unity. By and large, it seems that we don't.
That's my take. It's an interesting UI experiment but I think it's a failure.
lit up with speculation that this is a deliberate move to exclude Mono because of its emulation of Microsoft.NET
No, once apply Occam's Razor and ignore the conspiracy angle it's quite obvious that it's "a deliberate move to exclude Mono because" it sucks dead dingo kidneys.
(Cue the pedants who will argue into the wind about an improper usage of Occam's Razor. a.k.a. Howler Monkeys)
Google has many products that no-one has ever heard of. So whether they merge one unheard of app with another unheard of app, isn't really 'stuff that matters' is it?
You're saying you have not heard of Google Reader or Google+?
And you thought that it would be wise to point this out in public? On Slashdot?
Yup... that three months you spent serving coffee or maintaining your Mom's web site should probably drop off the bottom. I think I can get 12 years on two pages.
First rule of hiring, don't interview people with spelling errors in their resume. Second rule of hiring, don't hire the ones who get as far as interviews who cannot communicate.
I'm not talking about the losers who cannot get jobs, I'm talking about the ones who never seem to be out of one.
Plus, it's a technical manual. Most of the readers have a surprisingly poor grasp of their native language, let alone a second.
Actually, a very high percentage of the techies I know are voracious readers with extensive vocabularies. I would predict that the average computer geek is significantly better at languages than the average guy on the street.
In that case Linux has not been very succesfull after all. The value of this rumor...
I have to assume you are trolling... I use Windows, OSX, Linux and iOS on a daily basis and I can tell you that Windows has been steadily improving. In fact right now I'd argue that Win7 is the best consumer operating system going. (And yes I threw up a little in my mouth saying that...)
... I also discovered that I absolutely loathe coding -- it seems to me to require an attention to detail that only OCDs could tolerate.....
Software development is a lot like music or photography; you can be trained and get a job in a piano bar or doing bad wedding photos, but that doesn't make you Gershwin or Annie Lebowitz.
He's got a patent on tele-presence? Web cams? Virtual meeting rooms? Avatars?
I don't get it... other than the belt, how is this conceptually different from lots of things which have been out there for some time now?
I mean, really, how far back can you go with a movie that has a hologram sitting at the meeting table? Star Wars maybe? Maybe older?
SF goes way, way back. I'm sure that with a little digging we could find a dozen short stories from the 50s or even the 30s.
I seem to recall that H.G. Wells described people attending plays and concerts remotely in "The Sleeper Awakes" which was originally written in 1899 and then revised in 1910.
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Either way I got my laugh for the day.
I know it happened in Reagan's time with Orlando Letelier getting blown up in Washington D.C.
I had never heard of this, which surprised me. So I looked it up, turns out it was 1976 so you're off by a decade and two presidents, Ford was president in 1976.
The reason I had not heard of this was that I was 7 years old in 1976 and not aware of much outside of cartoons.
And Ubuntu is basically Debian++ which is GPL/Linux++++. What's your point?
If you're looking for inferences, I'd say that Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs some work if he's going to persuade cranky cantankerous Lunix hippies that we actually like and want Unity. By and large, it seems that we don't.
That's my take. It's an interesting UI experiment but I think it's a failure.
looks like ubuntu finally dropped off the #1 spot in the rankings on the right hand column
And what surpassed it is Mint, which is basically Ubuntu++
What does that imply?
lit up with speculation that this is a deliberate move to exclude Mono because of its emulation of Microsoft .NET
No, once apply Occam's Razor and ignore the conspiracy angle it's quite obvious that it's "a deliberate move to exclude Mono because" it sucks dead dingo kidneys.
(Cue the pedants who will argue into the wind about an improper usage of Occam's Razor. a.k.a. Howler Monkeys)
Sue them! That's the American way! Or do Le Québécois not think they are in North America?
In Montreal you just hire an ex-Sicilian or the Hells Angels to break their legs while the cops look the other way.
Nonsense, by 1994 it was already a two horse race and with a bunch of wannabes sitting on the sidelines.
You *could* fly from Van to Ottawa and rent a car... Boston is only a 10h drive from here.
Montreal would be a better option.
Seriously, does anyone believe false rumors like this when the Chinese foreign ministry said that they "protect the freedom of expression of citizens in China,"?
We have always been a war with Eastasia.
Google has many products that no-one has ever heard of. So whether they merge one unheard of app with another unheard of app, isn't really 'stuff that matters' is it?
You're saying you have not heard of Google Reader or Google+?
And you thought that it would be wise to point this out in public? On Slashdot?
Honestly?
And it cannot do that if from day to day it is worth large amounts different.
Wise this is.
Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
It is also forbidden by the dominant religion in the U.S.
Religious people are often hypocrites...
Hmmm.... you might be on to something there, there seems to be a pattern of behavior but I just can't figure it out....
Yup... that three months you spent serving coffee or maintaining your Mom's web site should probably drop off the bottom. I think I can get 12 years on two pages.
First rule of hiring, don't interview people with spelling errors in their resume. Second rule of hiring, don't hire the ones who get as far as interviews who cannot communicate.
I'm not talking about the losers who cannot get jobs, I'm talking about the ones who never seem to be out of one.
Quand on est même pas capable de faire la différence entre une copie écrite et un droit de copie, on se la ferme.
Where the heck did you learn to speak French like that? It's sure isn't Parisian.
Plus, it's a technical manual. Most of the readers have a surprisingly poor grasp of their native language, let alone a second.
Actually, a very high percentage of the techies I know are voracious readers with extensive vocabularies. I would predict that the average computer geek is significantly better at languages than the average guy on the street.
In that case Linux has not been very succesfull after all. The value of this rumor...
I have to assume you are trolling... I use Windows, OSX, Linux and iOS on a daily basis and I can tell you that Windows has been steadily improving. In fact right now I'd argue that Win7 is the best consumer operating system going. (And yes I threw up a little in my mouth saying that...)
I once told a microsoft tech rep that the purpose of Linux was to make Windows better.
... I also discovered that I absolutely loathe coding -- it seems to me to require an attention to detail that only OCDs could tolerate. ....
Software development is a lot like music or photography; you can be trained and get a job in a piano bar or doing bad wedding photos, but that doesn't make you Gershwin or Annie Lebowitz.
...some fans say that the best Star Trek film ever made
was "Master and Commander the far side of the world." a film set during the Napoleonic Wars.
No that was the best movie adaptation of a Hornblower ripoff.
I am fascinated by the idea of Windows 7 as a peripheral, perhaps you could explain your idea in further detail?
t the version of the patent system presented on Slashdot is fictional.
It goes with our fictional news, fictional politics and fictional economy.
He's got a patent on tele-presence? Web cams? Virtual meeting rooms? Avatars?
I don't get it ... other than the belt, how is this conceptually different from lots of things which have been out there for some time now?
I mean, really, how far back can you go with a movie that has a hologram sitting at the meeting table? Star Wars maybe? Maybe older?
SF goes way, way back. I'm sure that with a little digging we could find a dozen short stories from the 50s or even the 30s.
I seem to recall that H.G. Wells described people attending plays and concerts remotely in "The Sleeper Awakes" which was originally written in 1899 and then revised in 1910.
Ever seen anyone do it?
Yes, but only about three times in 15 years.
Very true, they're most certainly not on Slashdot trolling anonymously.