Better still is the hero that has some kind of official backing from a kingdom, or government, or whatever who starts out with a knife and a T-shirt, and has to start out exterminating rats or whatever.
Then he has to steal or earn money doing menial tasks to buy equipment.
If this guy is the hope of the world or whatever, you'd think that the king who sent him out could at least equip him as well as the castle guards...
Tough business call. If Google knuckles under to keep their market presence in China then they sacrifice a great deal of the good will and karma they've earned through the "Don't be evil" policy.
Refusing to continue to censor in China will clearly be a short-term loss for Google as it's pretty obvious the Chinese government has zero tolerance for any kind of non-compliance. (Heck, their only way to handle any kind of non-compliance is to imprison and Disappear their own citizens, ex-pulse foreigners and fine or refuse business with foreign corporations.)
However, I argue that if Google holds its ground and swallows the short term loss they will win long term. I fully expect Google and democracy as a whole to outlive Communist China.
On one hand the "West" has a long history of overlooking the contributions of China (and India, and Japan...) to science and culture.
On the other hand the current Chinese administration has absolutely credibility and anyone who is paying attention has seen the results of their attempts to rewrite recent history.
Meanwhile the "Western" governments bend over backwards to avoid offending the worlds fastest growing economy and we go on buying everything they throw at us.
What will the historians be saying one hundred years from now? Will the moral weakness of the "west" be condemned or is China doomed to be the same flash in the pan that the Soviet Union turned out to be?
If the CIA creates a bunch of generic Human Rights websites (read: Honeypot), and Iran hacks them, can the US gov't via the United Nations or Fox News or whatever basically start telling the world that Iran as a gov't is hacking websites?
It would seem they don't need to. The Iranian government seems to be quite happy to tell the world they've done it.
I don't understand the problem here. Why not keep using IE6 for the one application that requires it, but have a modern browser on the same computer for everything else?
You're assuming that the user base is smart enough to be able to know when to use which browser when most of them are still confused about why the the cup holder open button is labled "eject".
Though I would LOVE to know where Whedon intended to go with Shepard Book.
Why, didn't you see the movie?
That ending for Book was unsatisfying... it felt like the two who die are just getting written out on the actors request but left the others available for sequels... felt cheap.
Book's past wouldn't have ever been revealed. He gave up his past life and forgave himself. The guy he used to be was dead and there was no need to speak of him.
Quite likely, you'd only be allowed to learn his past in a final series finale. But my question was not where did he come from, but where is he going.
... would then get shoved into the Sunday midnight slot, then cancelled after 5 episodes. Three years later, you'll buy the series for $25 at Walmart.
Not that we're bitter...
I'm kind of torn on the whole Firefly fiasco, on one hand the best SciFi TV show of all time died in childbirth, on the other hand we have an absolutely amazing work of art: one seasons worth of episodes that are unsullied by the eventual shark-jumping that would have eventually happened.
Though I would LOVE to know where Whedon intended to go with Shepard Book.
Forget about Unix copyrights. No litigation value remaining because of the time they were in the public domain, and the time they were released under the BSD license. Look how far it got SCO.
Yes, but having them is a heck of a lot better than NOT having them. Add in the Novell customer base and an active and popular (in Europe) linux distribution and it looks like a nice package.
Java also has the distinction of being the language used for the only program I have ever seen with a CPU leak: Start it and watch the CPU usage slowly climb over the next few hours (while not actually doing anything, or taking any use input), until it's at 100% about 3 hours later.
I call bullshit on that one, I leave Eclipse running for days on end and never see that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying that this is not a Java issue it must be the application you're using.
Slashdot Mirror
This is Slashdot. How many regulars do you anticipate ever having heirs?
Pffft.... My heirs are on the verge of having heirs... and get off my lawn.
And yes that table makes me salivate... good thing I haven't played D&D since half of you were in diapers.
My fstab is stored in twitter status messages you insensitive clod!
QUICK, PATENT THAT IDEA!
It's to make sure mistakes like Celine Dion are avoided again.
What mistake? We shipped her off to Vegas, it's all part of the plan.
Better still is the hero that has some kind of official backing from a kingdom, or government, or whatever who starts out with a knife and a T-shirt, and has to start out exterminating rats or whatever.
Then he has to steal or earn money doing menial tasks to buy equipment.
If this guy is the hope of the world or whatever, you'd think that the king who sent him out could at least equip him as well as the castle guards...
Sounds like a typical civil service job to me.
a cream to make them bigger which costs only $19.95!
Made from body parts of endangered species... bloody capitalists! Oh wait...
Tough business call. If Google knuckles under to keep their market presence in China then they sacrifice a great deal of the good will and karma they've earned through the "Don't be evil" policy.
Refusing to continue to censor in China will clearly be a short-term loss for Google as it's pretty obvious the Chinese government has zero tolerance for any kind of non-compliance. (Heck, their only way to handle any kind of non-compliance is to imprison and Disappear their own citizens, ex-pulse foreigners and fine or refuse business with foreign corporations.)
However, I argue that if Google holds its ground and swallows the short term loss they will win long term. I fully expect Google and democracy as a whole to outlive Communist China.
absolutely credibility
absolutely ZERO credibility
Typed too fast...
On one hand the "West" has a long history of overlooking the contributions of China (and India, and Japan...) to science and culture.
On the other hand the current Chinese administration has absolutely credibility and anyone who is paying attention has seen the results of their attempts to rewrite recent history.
Meanwhile the "Western" governments bend over backwards to avoid offending the worlds fastest growing economy and we go on buying everything they throw at us.
What will the historians be saying one hundred years from now? Will the moral weakness of the "west" be condemned or is China doomed to be the same flash in the pan that the Soviet Union turned out to be?
We Americans need to come up with our own, incompatible, standard for charging vehicles.
No problem dude we already have at least two incompatible charger standards.
SAE J1772 and IEC 62196
For every standard there is an equal, and opposite, standard?
It is no longer politically correct to use the word retards. I think they are to be called Palin-Americans now.
You're thinking of the terms "hillbilly" and "trailer-trash". The politically correct term for Retard is still Republican.
I had to stare at the headline for like 5 seconds before it even parsed. It just didn't seem like a reasonable configuration of words.
Next week: GPLed source code to linux drivers for all MS hardware in a GIT repository.
This should be able to serve over 2000 popunder ads per second.
Blasphemy! It will be OVER 9000!
If the CIA creates a bunch of generic Human Rights websites (read: Honeypot), and Iran hacks them, can the US gov't via the United Nations or Fox News or whatever basically start telling the world that Iran as a gov't is hacking websites?
It would seem they don't need to. The Iranian government seems to be quite happy to tell the world they've done it.
Have any ministers, reverends or priests (even the PEDO ones) been assaulted by bands of roving atheists?
Addressing specifically the last category. No, because atheists don't have the moral character to stand up for kids.
Are atheist groups campaigning en masse to deny rights to homosexuals and legislate bigotry?
No. They're campaigning en masse to deny rights to heterosexuality and legislate the end of marriage and the American nuclear family.
Reaper one to base, deploy the atheist ninjas. We have a hot one.
Maybe the world's governments need to investigate IBM's plan for world domination of sports.
I don't understand the problem here. Why not keep using IE6 for the one application that requires it, but have a modern browser on the same computer for everything else?
You're assuming that the user base is smart enough to be able to know when to use which browser when most of them are still confused about why the the cup holder open button is labled "eject".
Though I would LOVE to know where Whedon intended to go with Shepard Book.
Why, didn't you see the movie?
That ending for Book was unsatisfying... it felt like the two who die are just getting written out on the actors request but left the others available for sequels... felt cheap.
Book's past wouldn't have ever been revealed. He gave up his past life and forgave himself. The guy he used to be was dead and there was no need to speak of him.
Quite likely, you'd only be allowed to learn his past in a final series finale. But my question was not where did he come from, but where is he going.
Firefly fans are, hands down, the most annoying fans ever.
Clearly you've never met an "Idol" fan. *shudder*
... would then get shoved into the Sunday midnight slot, then cancelled after 5 episodes. Three years later, you'll buy the series for $25 at Walmart.
Not that we're bitter...
I'm kind of torn on the whole Firefly fiasco, on one hand the best SciFi TV show of all time died in childbirth, on the other hand we have an absolutely amazing work of art: one seasons worth of episodes that are unsullied by the eventual shark-jumping that would have eventually happened.
Though I would LOVE to know where Whedon intended to go with Shepard Book.
Forget about Unix copyrights. No litigation value remaining because of the time they were in the public domain, and the time they were released under the BSD license. Look how far it got SCO.
Yes, but having them is a heck of a lot better than NOT having them. Add in the Novell customer base and an active and popular (in Europe) linux distribution and it looks like a nice package.
Does no one remember the time when you hit dead bodies with shots and they didn't move or flail around?
Not everyone includes "pretty" in their "good game" equation. Doom can still hold it's own against modern games in terms of actual fun.
Clearly you don't get a kick out of shooting dead bodies and seeing them twitch.
What the hell's wrong with you?
Cyberwar is cyberpeace
Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Ain't that just China in a fucking nutshell.
... we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Java also has the distinction of being the language used for the only program I have ever seen with a CPU leak: Start it and watch the CPU usage slowly climb over the next few hours (while not actually doing anything, or taking any use input), until it's at 100% about 3 hours later.
I call bullshit on that one, I leave Eclipse running for days on end and never see that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying that this is not a Java issue it must be the application you're using.