Any technology that can make the moon and Mars habitable would easily make deserts and frozen wastelands on earth habitable first. I think we could triple earth's population before going off planet is a viable alternative.
There is a fundamental flaw in your logic. Either you believe God created the universe or you don't. If you believe that the universe came into being without God's involvement then it stands to reason that God doesn't give a flip about you or your salvation. But you just said you don't believe that. So proceeding from the assumption that you believe that God created YOU (through evolution or otherwise) then you must also reason that God designed you. If God designed you then God must be the author of all science and that is a reasonable hypothesis to present in a classroon or any other setting.
I think you're on to something. I have seen programmers take what should have been a simple 20 line function and turn it into a 1000 line class module because that's the only way they could stay interested in the project.
when I am 45 I will be sipping on a margarita in the bahamas while you are still working 40 hours a week to make rent.
Not likely. While I completely agree with your work ethic I hope you don't really expect to be independently wealthy at 45. Besides, as someone who spent his unemployed days coding you probably would not be happy sitting on the beach all day.
Put on a diving suit and drive to the middle of Death Valley, Ca. Same experience, 1 millionth the cost. Oh yeah, I forgot! Drive really slow so it takes like 2 years to get there.
My programming skills are minimal otherwise I would try myself to fix it...
Only on/. would you be made to feel that you have to say that. You don't have to be a developer to have an opinion about software. I can't design cars but I know a Yugo sucks and I'm not afraid to say it.
Bullshit. The only reason Mark Felt stayed anonymous was to protect his job. If telling something you know about the government isn't more important to you than keeping your job then you should keep your mouth shut. He could have saved the country a lot of pain by coming forward like a man.
First; what difference would a boycott make?
Second; Microsoft can't and won't break existing web apps, and many existing asp/apsx apps don't render properly in anything but IE.
Some of us use our web browser(s) for other things besides reading/. and we want those things to keep working without a re-write.
You're missing the analogy. Saying "Information wants to be free" is like saying "water seeks it's own level" or "hot air wants to go up". The point being that once something is known to any one person it is likely to become known by many more people.
Virtually no one cares. That's why Microsoft is not wasting time trying to pass it. It's an arbitrary academic exercise that doesn't reflect real world experiences.
If they can miss an entire planet in our solar system for decades+, what does this say about everything else they have been telling us about the far reaches of the galaxy let alone the rest of the universe?
Microsoft...could've afforded to invest in thinking up new concepts for the new browser, rather than having reading an article on why people like firefox, and putting that stuff in IE7. 2
MS copied FireFox and you think that they could have come up with something better. Then by extension you must think that Mozilla could come up with something better.
I've got a licensed, genuine version of Windows, but F them for making me jump through hoops to receive continued support. I paid for this and I shouldn't have to keep wasting my time to soothe their paranoid brows.
No you didn't really. They are only blocking new features not security fixes. Unless you are paying an ongoing support contract then MS does not owe you updates forever. Besides, there are no "hoops" to jump through at all. Turn on auto-update and your system gets updated automatically without you doing anything.
Either mac osx and linux are viable desktop os's or they aren't but you can't pretend they are half the time and then pretend ms has no competition the rest of the time.
Home run! You just summed up all that is Slashdot in one sentence.
Unix is very flexible, and it certainly outlive Windows.
That remains to be seen. Right now Windows sales are very strong.
From IDC:
Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems 2004 Vendor Shares: Microsoft Extends Its Dominant Revenue Position
Jul 2005 Doc #33719
"Microsoft has once again extended its revenue position in the operating systems and subsystems market, further distancing itself from the pack," said Al Gillen, research director, System Software at IDC. "The only other platform segment where we see appreciable revenue growth is Linux, but the disparity is significant, with Linux capturing a mere 1% of the market revenue compared to Microsoft's 70% share."
According to Wall Street figures the Microsoft Server and Tools division 2005 sales are up 34% over 2004
They can put all the "micro dots" they want on a document coming out of your printer. If you copy it on a cheap copy machine and then copy the copy, there is no way that any micro dots are getting through. I suspect that the real purpose of the micro dots is to prevent counterfeiting of currency. You can still distribute a modern day Communist Manifesto without the government hunting you down (at least not with micro-dots).
The DOS PC costs more because it's a non-standard build. 99.99% of Dell buyers want a Windows OS. It actually does cost something to build and support non-standard systems. This is why many IT departments use a standard PC model and OS build so they can simply Ghost a drive image to a new PC. Any time you "special order" a product it will cost more.
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Any technology that can make the moon and Mars habitable would easily make deserts and frozen wastelands on earth habitable first. I think we could triple earth's population before going off planet is a viable alternative.
There is a fundamental flaw in your logic. Either you believe God created the universe or you don't. If you believe that the universe came into being without God's involvement then it stands to reason that God doesn't give a flip about you or your salvation. But you just said you don't believe that. So proceeding from the assumption that you believe that God created YOU (through evolution or otherwise) then you must also reason that God designed you. If God designed you then God must be the author of all science and that is a reasonable hypothesis to present in a classroon or any other setting.
Joel is a guy who considers himself to be one of the best developers alive and yet has been working on the same bug tracking software for 5 years.
I think you're on to something. I have seen programmers take what should have been a simple 20 line function and turn it into a 1000 line class module because that's the only way they could stay interested in the project.
when I am 45 I will be sipping on a margarita in the bahamas while you are still working 40 hours a week to make rent.
Not likely. While I completely agree with your work ethic I hope you don't really expect to be independently wealthy at 45. Besides, as someone who spent his unemployed days coding you probably would not be happy sitting on the beach all day.
Put on a diving suit and drive to the middle of Death Valley, Ca.
Same experience, 1 millionth the cost. Oh yeah, I forgot! Drive really slow so it takes like 2 years to get there.
That's called "thinking outside the box" and it isn't appreciated here. I wish I could mod you up.
My programming skills are minimal otherwise I would try myself to fix it...
/. would you be made to feel that you have to say that. You don't have to be a developer to have an opinion about software. I can't design cars but I know a Yugo sucks and I'm not afraid to say it.
Only on
Bullshit. The only reason Mark Felt stayed anonymous was to protect his job. If telling something you know about the government isn't more important to you than keeping your job then you should keep your mouth shut. He could have saved the country a lot of pain by coming forward like a man.
could they have bought with the money they spent on PPC's?
First; what difference would a boycott make? /. and we want those things to keep working without a re-write.
Second; Microsoft can't and won't break existing web apps, and many existing asp/apsx apps don't render properly in anything but IE.
Some of us use our web browser(s) for other things besides reading
You're missing the analogy. Saying "Information wants to be free" is like saying "water seeks it's own level" or "hot air wants to go up". The point being that once something is known to any one person it is likely to become known by many more people.
Virtually no one cares. That's why Microsoft is not wasting time trying to pass it. It's an arbitrary academic exercise that doesn't reflect real world experiences.
Most users don't care about the OS
Right! So tell me again why a MS Office user wants to switch to Linux. You just said all she cares about is the application.
I think I'll be sticking to Linux, where groups like Debian will remove software because it comes under a license that's too restrictive.
So if/when a large portion of the Internet requires DRM will you simple no longer participate?
If they can miss an entire planet in our solar system for decades+, what does this say about everything else they have been telling us about the far reaches of the galaxy let alone the rest of the universe?
Microsoft...could've afforded to invest in thinking up new concepts for the new browser, rather than having reading an article on why people like firefox, and putting that stuff in IE7. 2
MS copied FireFox and you think that they could have come up with something better. Then by extension you must think that Mozilla could come up with something better.
Our next responsibility is to try very very hard not to contaminate Mars with Earth-life
Why? I'd like to contaminate it with several million acres of hardwood forest and another several million of prarie grasses. Now that would be cool.
I've got a licensed, genuine version of Windows, but F them for making me jump through hoops to receive continued support. I paid for this and I shouldn't have to keep wasting my time to soothe their paranoid brows.
No you didn't really. They are only blocking new features not security fixes. Unless you are paying an ongoing support contract then MS does not owe you updates forever. Besides, there are no "hoops" to jump through at all. Turn on auto-update and your system gets updated automatically without you doing anything.
Either mac osx and linux are viable desktop os's or they aren't but you can't pretend they are half the time and then pretend ms has no competition the rest of the time.
Home run! You just summed up all that is Slashdot in one sentence.
Unix is very flexible, and it certainly outlive Windows.
That remains to be seen. Right now Windows sales are very strong.
From IDC:
Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems 2004 Vendor Shares: Microsoft Extends Its Dominant Revenue Position
Jul 2005 Doc #33719
"Microsoft has once again extended its revenue position in the operating systems and subsystems market, further distancing itself from the pack," said Al Gillen, research director, System Software at IDC. "The only other platform segment where we see appreciable revenue growth is Linux, but the disparity is significant, with Linux capturing a mere 1% of the market revenue compared to Microsoft's 70% share."
According to Wall Street figures the Microsoft Server and Tools division 2005 sales are up 34% over 2004
Orbiting mirrors. http://www.aeronautics.ru/mir06.htm http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~browndp/web4d.html
"Umm," RTFA. It only works on COLOR printers and copiers.
They can put all the "micro dots" they want on a document coming out of your printer. If you copy it on a cheap copy machine and then copy the copy, there is no way that any micro dots are getting through. I suspect that the real purpose of the micro dots is to prevent counterfeiting of currency. You can still distribute a modern day Communist Manifesto without the government hunting you down (at least not with micro-dots).
The DOS PC costs more because it's a non-standard build. 99.99% of Dell buyers want a Windows OS. It actually does cost something to build and support non-standard systems. This is why many IT departments use a standard PC model and OS build so they can simply Ghost a drive image to a new PC. Any time you "special order" a product it will cost more.