In reality, the point is mocking about Gore and his ideas to make people thing that they ideas are ridiculous just because they come from him. Like when Charles Darwin was caracterized as a monkey when people started fighting the Evolution theory; it was easier to discredit Darwin with those jokes than rebating the scientific arguments.
If the article was just a link to the video, your post would be true. Someone would click the link, see the video and think that it was funny and (at a subconscient level) see Gore as a political who cannot be trusted (because the depiction of the video gets to the mind, even if realizing it is a joke, because it shows that people does not like him and are very vocal about it).
But if you link to this video while telling the whole story, then the user does not see a video mocking Gore, he/she sees a video created to deceive them, created by a firm and falsely posted as Jhon Doe... as the receptiveness of the people changes, the thing that they see differs completely.
One retail WinXP (PRO!) licence (at microsoft.com, 300$) x 70.000 PCs = 21.000.000 $ (probably the 18.000.000)
BUT:
Buying OEM is cheaper than retail.
You probably don't need to switch all your OS (the W2000 works still fine).
Working at the public administration in Spain, I have been offered a 25%off just for buying 5 licences.
I think that it will be easy, when buying 70.000 licences, to improve a little the deal. Of course, as this project has been working for a couple years, Microsoft had to be beaten because any other result (justified or not) would mean that someone had to say that he was wrong... So, the better the numbers, the more "justified" the solution already accepted was.
Of course, zealots might prefer to believe a politic in an electoral year and think that anyone who just tells people to think a little about it is "malicious"... that's the main advantage of being a zealot, it makes easy to do not need to think a lot about things...
BTW, if you work for the Spanish Administration maybe you can tell me how things run at your workplace, I that do I tell you how things run at my workplace....
Apart from the fact that your code is the worst that you can write when using RegEx in Java (as pointed by another post, RTFApi doc if you want to use Java properly), it amuses me that you are complaining that Java (a language designed for using strong OO and being multiplatform) is slower than Perl (a language designed for processing regular expressions).
You could have said also that the Fire Department sucks because they are not good at catching burglars, or that the Police Department is full of losers because they can not put down a fire. Myself, I will keep using the FD to deal with fire and the PD to deal with crimes.
Well, I usually just text my regexp (Java or Perl) in a mini program with just the regexp and the strings to match and when I decide it is the right one I just copy it. Unless it offers some additional help (like a message telling "we didn't accept String "myStringToCheck" because the third character could have been only "s"; the parser was processing the "mys+" element).
It is just that you should not use a fork to hammer a nail.
Balancing parentheses was just the first example my teacher told the class when explaining that regular expressions were not suited for everything and that sometimes you had to use grammars.
Do you think that you if you buy Windows for 70.000 PCs the cost is 70000*retail prize of windows? Of course not, you call the Microsoft Iberica and get a deal. I'm noy saying that it would be less than 198.000, but I'm not saying either that the man who issued the report has included also the money spent in training the users and tech support for the change. Not that I want to start the TCO controversy, buy I just want to put things in perspective.
Also, another considerations when looking at the report:
This is a electoral year in many regions in Spain (maybe the politicians are a little prone to exagerate what they have done??).
Even if it is not an electoral issue, think of this scenario: The head of the department wants to write the report and asks to "the who really knows" the numbers. He says something like "well, the development has been 100.000 and installing will be 98.000, and then the others expenses in formation that we cannot calculate well. In the Windows side, if we had bought 70.000 licenses without OEM, discounts or deals, it would have been 20.000.000, but if we had negotiated a deal it could have been for 2.000.000". Then the head of the department compares the best scenario of Linux against the worst scenario of Windows, to boost to his chiefs that he had got savings for 19.800.000, instead of 1.800.000 or less.
We already have tolls in some highways. If the highway from city A to city B is 100 kms long, we do not need a satellite to tell us that a car that went from A to B has run from 100 kms... maybe in USA it is different, but here in Europe that ride would be always of 100kms.
And as for a toll "for each kilometer a vehicle runs, in any road", we have taxes on gas for serve to mean a cost per kilometer/type of vehicle.
Really, Chinese government does not need complicated plots to do this. If they want to throw someone to the street, or even the jail, due that he wears (for example) pink socks, they do not need to create faked documents. They would just say that wearing pink socks means disrespect for the government and bust him, with the subject having no means to oppose.
I know I am a little late, but to avoid people becoming paranoid because they saw the core, here is a link to a review of the "science" behind the movie (the web refers to it as the worse sci-fi movie in the scientific aspect).
[http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html]
Note that shopping centers are private property, and yet we assume we can enter and move about freely. Sure, they can ask us to leave, but we work under the assumption that since the door is open, we are free to enter
Shoppings centers are public spaces that are private property. Usually (as far as I know, and at least in my country) the owner can not ask to leave without a good reason (bad behaviour, being drunk or likewise). If your assumption was true, nothing would stop bussiness to being "white only" (or whatever only) by just asking all people of other races to leave.
A little offtopic, but I wanted to remember that ownership does not grant automatically every possible right.
Yes... all of the illegal aliens go straight into midwest universities. That's why the illness is developing there, and not in the cities / neighbourhoods with more aliens, isn't it?
Nice biassed theory, don't let reality stop you from quoting it...
According to Asimov's "Counting the eons" (a little outdated, but easy to read), the proportion is of 3+E9 neutrinos for each nucleons. The neutrinos are uniformily distributed, where nucleons are mainly in space. This number made him calculate that, if they had a mass of 40eV (as some experiments at his time did show), neutrinos would be the 99% of mass of the universe, and will make the difference between it ending in a "big crunch" or expanding infinitely.
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No, there is a panoramic view of the cowboy universe.
For those that didn't see it, it's a Futurama reference.
In reality, the point is mocking about Gore and his ideas to make people thing that they ideas are ridiculous just because they come from him. Like when Charles Darwin was caracterized as a monkey when people started fighting the Evolution theory; it was easier to discredit Darwin with those jokes than rebating the scientific arguments.
If the article was just a link to the video, your post would be true. Someone would click the link, see the video and think that it was funny and (at a subconscient level) see Gore as a political who cannot be trusted (because the depiction of the video gets to the mind, even if realizing it is a joke, because it shows that people does not like him and are very vocal about it).
But if you link to this video while telling the whole story, then the user does not see a video mocking Gore, he/she sees a video created to deceive them, created by a firm and falsely posted as Jhon Doe... as the receptiveness of the people changes, the thing that they see differs completely.
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Ok, numbers you want...
One retail WinXP (PRO!) licence (at microsoft.com, 300$) x 70.000 PCs = 21.000.000 $ (probably the 18.000.000)
BUT:
Buying OEM is cheaper than retail.
You probably don't need to switch all your OS (the W2000 works still fine).
Working at the public administration in Spain, I have been offered a 25%off just for buying 5 licences.
I think that it will be easy, when buying 70.000 licences, to improve a little the deal. Of course, as this project has been working for a couple years, Microsoft had to be beaten because any other result (justified or not) would mean that someone had to say that he was wrong... So, the better the numbers, the more "justified" the solution already accepted was.
Of course, zealots might prefer to believe a politic in an electoral year and think that anyone who just tells people to think a little about it is "malicious"... that's the main advantage of being a zealot, it makes easy to do not need to think a lot about things...
BTW, if you work for the Spanish Administration maybe you can tell me how things run at your workplace, I that do I tell you how things run at my workplace....
Apart from the fact that your code is the worst that you can write when using RegEx in Java (as pointed by another post, RTFApi doc if you want to use Java properly), it amuses me that you are complaining that Java (a language designed for using strong OO and being multiplatform) is slower than Perl (a language designed for processing regular expressions).
You could have said also that the Fire Department sucks because they are not good at catching burglars, or that the Police Department is full of losers because they can not put down a fire. Myself, I will keep using the FD to deal with fire and the PD to deal with crimes.
Well, I usually just text my regexp (Java or Perl) in a mini program with just the regexp and the strings to match and when I decide it is the right one I just copy it. Unless it offers some additional help (like a message telling "we didn't accept String "myStringToCheck" because the third character could have been only "s"; the parser was processing the "mys+" element).
It is just that you should not use a fork to hammer a nail.
Balancing parentheses was just the first example my teacher told the class when explaining that regular expressions were not suited for everything and that sometimes you had to use grammars.
Also, another considerations when looking at the report:
This is a electoral year in many regions in Spain (maybe the politicians are a little prone to exagerate what they have done??).
Even if it is not an electoral issue, think of this scenario: The head of the department wants to write the report and asks to "the who really knows" the numbers. He says something like "well, the development has been 100.000 and installing will be 98.000, and then the others expenses in formation that we cannot calculate well. In the Windows side, if we had bought 70.000 licenses without OEM, discounts or deals, it would have been 20.000.000, but if we had negotiated a deal it could have been for 2.000.000". Then the head of the department compares the best scenario of Linux against the worst scenario of Windows, to boost to his chiefs that he had got savings for 19.800.000, instead of 1.800.000 or less.
I think they will be more pissed by the strong accent the (North)Americans have when talking in hindi
My right hand is cut, you insensitive clod!!
And I always did prefer the left one!
Sorry?
We already have tolls in some highways. If the highway from city A to city B is 100 kms long, we do not need a satellite to tell us that a car that went from A to B has run from 100 kms... maybe in USA it is different, but here in Europe that ride would be always of 100kms.
And as for a toll "for each kilometer a vehicle runs, in any road", we have taxes on gas for serve to mean a cost per kilometer/type of vehicle.
I hate /. for being so Swedish-centric :-)
Only you can prevent Grey Goo
If you suspect someone you know is part or works for the Grey Goo, just tell the police.
Grey Gooers! Man, woman or child, Captain America watches you!!
Well, but think that the US has already performed industrial and commercial espionage too agains EU and Japan, using the Echelon data.
Really, Chinese government does not need complicated plots to do this. If they want to throw someone to the street, or even the jail, due that he wears (for example) pink socks, they do not need to create faked documents. They would just say that wearing pink socks means disrespect for the government and bust him, with the subject having no means to oppose.
I know I am a little late, but to avoid people becoming paranoid because they saw the core, here is a link to a review of the "science" behind the movie (the web refers to it as the worse sci-fi movie in the scientific aspect). [http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html]
Note that shopping centers are private property, and yet we assume we can enter and move about freely. Sure, they can ask us to leave, but we work under the assumption that since the door is open, we are free to enter
Shoppings centers are public spaces that are private property. Usually (as far as I know, and at least in my country) the owner can not ask to leave without a good reason (bad behaviour, being drunk or likewise). If your assumption was true, nothing would stop bussiness to being "white only" (or whatever only) by just asking all people of other races to leave.
A little offtopic, but I wanted to remember that ownership does not grant automatically every possible right.
Yes... all of the illegal aliens go straight into midwest universities. That's why the illness is developing there, and not in the cities / neighbourhoods with more aliens, isn't it?
Nice biassed theory, don't let reality stop you from quoting it...
It would have been humour if he would have encrypted all of the sentence!
You convinced me, please tell me, where can I buy one of these wonderful SGIs! :P
... until the animals can reply your questions!
According to Asimov's "Counting the eons" (a little outdated, but easy to read), the proportion is of 3+E9 neutrinos for each nucleons. The neutrinos are uniformily distributed, where nucleons are mainly in space. This number made him calculate that, if they had a mass of 40eV (as some experiments at his time did show), neutrinos would be the 99% of mass of the universe, and will make the difference between it ending in a "big crunch" or expanding infinitely.
Only if you already had filled suit against them in the "the music is too loud" suit...