Utter nonsense. When i had dealings with the police as a victim, i had a nice introduction into the typewriting skills of theirs. A sentence without an error was outweighted by 1:50 by those having one or more in them. This is not some predisposed thing against the police, but it is my experience. All they need is a simple form with spellchecking, not MS Office or StarOffice since they need to fill in forms anyway! (They have forms for certain incidents where they just need to fill in the details, don't tell me you need MS Office for that!)
Assimilate ('Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning "to render similar"') != copy.
Microsoft finds something, then assimilates it: makes a "standard" similar to the original, but different in details, making it impossible to use both properly. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
F/OSS on the other hand like the Ferengi (partly) without money: a huge market of ideas.
The correct solution would be (like i'm doing in perl) is to throw a 500 - internal server error and log the error into a server log. That way at least they would be forced to fix their site aswell.
Actually i believe the main reason they used Linux vs. BSD is that apart from all the pros for BSD, BSD does NOT scale well, admittedly so. Google has a huge array of servers, they need scalability almost as much as the ability to modify stuff.
Why do i have the feeling that this Pentagon step is more about PR than about hard science?
It reminds me of some bbc comedy spoof of the SAS secrets or something about that military elite force: "Hey look! We're surviving! Oh boy we're gonna so much survive now!"
In real life it doesn't work like that. In real life serious shitting-our-pants-from-sputnik education reforms work.
"They are free to charge as much as they like for their movies/music/software."
You're right that the current situation looks like this, however i don't think that this is appropriate all the time. The "you don't have to buy it" works if the buyer and seller are on the same level, like on ebay, but honestly it's just not working in today's economy, for multiple reasons, like for example vendor contracts, and mostly sheer ignorance by the buyers.
The condition he described is the ideal: when a virus doesn't have enough platform to spread! I had written it before, that if taken 10 shit operating system vs one operating system no matter how good it is, we would end up better with ten bad one. That's just virology. A few years ago i had a very interesting course about it at university. It is also interesting to note that windows is around 50% as a platform atm for viruses, because of the incompatibility issues between windows versions. God save us from having a bigger platform of windows systems, because that would amplify the spread of viruses tenfold.
"No one has any obligation to talk with any member of the press, period."
Maybe with one notable exeption: governments. If governments would start to favor certain newspapers and blacklisting others, it would be highly inappropriate.
...apart from calling them absolute universal morons, none seems quite fitting.
It seems as if noone is concerned about facts anyway. Next week they may want to protest against the weather or that *SHOCK AND HORROR* they are teaching things about the human reproduction process in a biology class.
This is a completely innocent practice, people and companies do that all the time (making polite suggestions based on some stone-hard facts or at least recommending a product).
I believe that your comparison is not really accurate, a better example would be making a polite suggestion to the costumer that the pumps work better with a <insert recommended car> here instead of trying to fill a buggy pulling horse with fuel.
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Utter nonsense. When i had dealings with the police as a victim, i had a nice introduction into the typewriting skills of theirs. A sentence without an error was outweighted by 1:50 by those having one or more in them. This is not some predisposed thing against the police, but it is my experience. All they need is a simple form with spellchecking, not MS Office or StarOffice since they need to fill in forms anyway! (They have forms for certain incidents where they just need to fill in the details, don't tell me you need MS Office for that!)
I guess the saying goes like: "Beware Greeks even though are bearing gifts"
MS does not donate, they invest: be it PR or else.
Assimilate ('Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning "to render similar"') != copy.
Microsoft finds something, then assimilates it: makes a "standard" similar to the original, but different in details, making it impossible to use both properly. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
F/OSS on the other hand like the Ferengi (partly) without money: a huge market of ideas.
Actually both are kind of wrong.
The correct solution would be (like i'm doing in perl) is to throw a 500 - internal server error and log the error into a server log. That way at least they would be forced to fix their site aswell.
Actually i believe the main reason they used Linux vs. BSD is that apart from all the pros for BSD, BSD does NOT scale well, admittedly so. Google has a huge array of servers, they need scalability almost as much as the ability to modify stuff.
...with bad grammer.
Windows Vista and Longhorn mark the threshold of our next wave of innovation.
Isn't Longhorn == Vista?
Why do i have the feeling that this Pentagon step is more about PR than about hard science?
It reminds me of some bbc comedy spoof of the SAS secrets or something about that military elite force: "Hey look! We're surviving! Oh boy we're gonna so much survive now!"
In real life it doesn't work like that. In real life serious shitting-our-pants-from-sputnik education reforms work.
"They are free to charge as much as they like for their movies/music/software."
You're right that the current situation looks like this, however i don't think that this is appropriate all the time. The "you don't have to buy it" works if the buyer and seller are on the same level, like on ebay, but honestly it's just not working in today's economy, for multiple reasons, like for example vendor contracts, and mostly sheer ignorance by the buyers.
organized crime: monopolies and artificially inflated prices?
Two wrongs doesn't make a right (i know, three lefts do), but those corporations have no moral ground to talk about lost profits.
He also fails to pass virology 101.
The condition he described is the ideal: when a virus doesn't have enough platform to spread! I had written it before, that if taken 10 shit operating system vs one operating system no matter how good it is, we would end up better with ten bad one. That's just virology. A few years ago i had a very interesting course about it at university. It is also interesting to note that windows is around 50% as a platform atm for viruses, because of the incompatibility issues between windows versions. God save us from having a bigger platform of windows systems, because that would amplify the spread of viruses tenfold.
Cue the stupid french jokes, it's really not funny.
I'm not french and it still escapes me why the french get bashed so much here by americans.
"No one has any obligation to talk with any member of the press, period."
Maybe with one notable exeption: governments. If governments would start to favor certain newspapers and blacklisting others, it would be highly inappropriate.
...apart from calling them absolute universal morons, none seems quite fitting.
It seems as if noone is concerned about facts anyway. Next week they may want to protest against the weather or that *SHOCK AND HORROR* they are teaching things about the human reproduction process in a biology class.
IF it consists of multiple files then there is, just priotize the first part of it ahead.
Yeah because the existing ones were abducted by aliens overnight, right?
Actually i was about to post about the same thing when i noticed your comment.
Something must be broken, i mean, the IE7 article had almost zero moderation and it was an article with 800+ comments!
Then by the same logic you would need to boycott your very own insightful or informative comments because they also do not exist yet.
As someone mentioned earlier, only the CVS version passes ACID2 at the moment...
I don't agree.
This is a completely innocent practice, people and companies do that all the time (making polite suggestions based on some stone-hard facts or at least recommending a product).
I believe that your comparison is not really accurate, a better example would be making a polite suggestion to the costumer that the pumps work better with a <insert recommended car> here instead of trying to fill a buggy pulling horse with fuel.
Or you could use torrrents...
Then think long term and try to educate your users in some way; small notices here and there, a page telling about what are standards for, etc.
There is a difference between an interpreter or source code being broken. Although i'd certainly welcome /. improving on these matters aswell anyway.
And no, don't say Linux - I don't have enough time to learn it well enough to use it as a desktop machine on a daily basis.
Are you sure? Why don't you give (Ku)|(U)buntu a try? You might be pleasantly surprised...
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