Except for saying "return" instead of "returning", it is grammatically correct. It is a complex construct and requires some intelligence or effort to understand.
The west is infusing money into India's economy but the money isn't really spreading to everyone, just the techno-elite.
/me sighs
I live in India. All Indians don't work for US outsourcing tech companies. In fact, a very small minority of us do. And we did have money before the 'west' started 'infusing money' into our 'economy'. And most people dont give a fuck about outsourcing. Most people aren't even aware of the outsourcing inudstry. And outsourcing hasn't made IT workers rich - it has just put them in the upper middle class. And the poor, lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class and the rich existed in almost the same percentages as now, before IBM created the first PC. Outsourcing is a microscopic part of our economic history.
Or, if you just want to stay in your dream, before the outsourcing industry graced us, we were all snake-charmers riding elephants and we had never seen money or a calculator.
Holy shit! Parent post has a valid point and uses mild terms to convey the point and yet it's been modded down as flamebait! Looks like I underestimated the power of Apple bigots.
With over 200 million songs sold, and Apple controlling over 80% of the hard drive digital audio player market, is this just a case of someone just trying to cash in on Apple's success?
Yup. When Apple sues someone, Apple is right. When someone sues Apple, again Apple is right. This is guy is just trying to make a quick buck, while, when Apple sued Think Secret, Apple was only doing the right thing.
I think you will find that Apple is suing somebody for breaking an NDA somewhere. By your rational, because its Apple, they should let people say whatever they want without being sued?
NDA? What fucking NDA are you talking about??? Why would a website sign an NDA with Apple?
Btw, I don't remember MS or SCO suing somebody for breaking an NDA, normally its an IP rights issue or because some kid has a website like "mikerowsoft.com".
Exactly. MS or SCO sue someone because they stole their source code (not that IBM did, but that's SCO's claim) or someone made a site which can decieve some people. But Aplle is suing someone because they revealed that Aplle will be releasing a cheap computer.
If you're going to troll, you should click "Post Anonymously" and get a clue.
Yup. When Apple is criticised, it's trolling. When MS or SCO is criticised, it's +27 Insightful. Thanks for proving my point!!
Apple is a group of litigating bastards who sue people to death whenever they get the opportunity and it has sued more than MS and more companies than SCO.
Apple is more 'evil' than MS or any other company. There just isnt a notion of it being evil in many people because Apple doesn't have much competition and Apple bigots are doing an excellent job.
Instead of Apple, if Microsoft had done the same thing, all slashdotters would have tied MS to a stake burned it by now. In fact, if any other company had done the same thing, it would have attracted a lot more negative responses from slashdot and everyone else than Apple. This is not the first time Apple is doing something like this. I remember some guy creating that OS X panel thing (whatever it's called) for windows (without taking anything from OS X) and Apple making him take it off the web because it infringed on their IP. I think it was called Yz dock. I guess Apple bigots are the worst.
Read my post again. Especially read the parts about backports and ugrading independent packages. Then, google for the word backport to know its meaning. And then tell me, do you prefer to keep on flaming?
Taking what you are saying a step further, why can't we just have a single distro? No we can't. The different free distros cater for different needs. Gentoo is for putting together a distro from the source. Debian is a distro with virtually all the apps out there and with a lot of ways to install the packages and supports many architectures. Fedora is for new users and people who want the latest eye candy apps. The commercial distros like SuSE and Mandrake *can* be unified but they're just in it for the money and they wont do it. Try convincing them.
Now, why can't we have a single package management system/installation system? Same reasoning - different distros do different things. You can't have a single package management system for both pre-compiled and source code distros without putting extra overhead on one of them. Same thing goes for installation system. And commercial distros just won't do it. Again, try convincing them.
The current debian release (woody) works ABSOLUTELY finely for me. Its very stable. Of course, I can't boast to others about having the latest version of GEyeCandy but I really don't give a shit. If I want the latest version of a particular program I can upgrade it independently (and there are backports from sarge of several important programs available for woody. so you can't complain about X not working). No one is going to need the latest versions of EVERY fucking package in their distro. But in case you do, you can use testing. Its pretty stable. At least it's as stable as all those distros out there whose version numbers cannot be stored in a 32-bit ints.
So now, is HURD so unimportant to slashdot that news related to it is just grouped under some other news? The same slashdot that carries a front page story about even release candidates of the Linux kernel?
Read the literature written by him. He explains everything in them. He can't explain the same (1000 pages long) things over and over again in every fucking interview he gets.
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Oh yeah, I forgot, you should remove the to.
Except for saying "return" instead of "returning", it is grammatically correct. It is a complex construct and requires some intelligence or effort to understand.
hear hear
The west is infusing money into India's economy but the money isn't really spreading to everyone, just the techno-elite.
/me sighs
I live in India. All Indians don't work for US outsourcing tech companies. In fact, a very small minority of us do. And we did have money before the 'west' started 'infusing money' into our 'economy'. And most people dont give a fuck about outsourcing. Most people aren't even aware of the outsourcing inudstry. And outsourcing hasn't made IT workers rich - it has just put them in the upper middle class. And the poor, lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class and the rich existed in almost the same percentages as now, before IBM created the first PC. Outsourcing is a microscopic part of our economic history.
Or, if you just want to stay in your dream, before the outsourcing industry graced us, we were all snake-charmers riding elephants and we had never seen money or a calculator.
Holy shit! Parent post has a valid point and uses mild terms to convey the point and yet it's been modded down as flamebait! Looks like I underestimated the power of Apple bigots.
Well, looks like you're the one with issues... obsessed with defending Apple...
Apple did sue Think Secret, you pussy eating fucktard. put on your bi-focals and read this (assuming that you can read).
OK, which moron modded parent as informative?
he described anyone who doesn't support ever-increasing intellectual property laws as "communists".
No. He didn't say that anyone who doesn't support 'IP' laws is a communist. He said that communists don't support 'IP' laws. There's a difference.
Every dentist is a doctor. But every doctor is not a dentist.
With over 200 million songs sold, and Apple controlling over 80% of the hard drive digital audio player market, is this just a case of someone just trying to cash in on Apple's success?
Yup. When Apple sues someone, Apple is right. When someone sues Apple, again Apple is right. This is guy is just trying to make a quick buck, while, when Apple sued Think Secret, Apple was only doing the right thing.
I think you will find that Apple is suing somebody for breaking an NDA somewhere. By your rational, because its Apple, they should let people say whatever they want without being sued?
NDA? What fucking NDA are you talking about??? Why would a website sign an NDA with Apple?
Btw, I don't remember MS or SCO suing somebody for breaking an NDA, normally its an IP rights issue or because some kid has a website like "mikerowsoft.com".
Exactly. MS or SCO sue someone because they stole their source code (not that IBM did, but that's SCO's claim) or someone made a site which can decieve some people. But Aplle is suing someone because they revealed that Aplle will be releasing a cheap computer.
If you're going to troll, you should click "Post Anonymously" and get a clue.
Yup. When Apple is criticised, it's trolling. When MS or SCO is criticised, it's +27 Insightful. Thanks for proving my point!!
Yup. When Apple does it, it's just the right thing to do. But when MS or SCO does it, it's because they are evil. Amen, fanboy.
In fact, Apples litigates more than MS.
Apple is more 'evil' than MS or any other company. There just isnt a notion of it being evil in many people because Apple doesn't have much competition and Apple bigots are doing an excellent job.
Amen.
Instead of Apple, if Microsoft had done the same thing, all slashdotters would have tied MS to a stake burned it by now. In fact, if any other company had done the same thing, it would have attracted a lot more negative responses from slashdot and everyone else than Apple. This is not the first time Apple is doing something like this. I remember some guy creating that OS X panel thing (whatever it's called) for windows (without taking anything from OS X) and Apple making him take it off the web because it infringed on their IP. I think it was called Yz dock. I guess Apple bigots are the worst.
Solaris runs on x86 too.
Point well taken.
Read my post again. Especially read the parts about backports and ugrading independent packages. Then, google for the word backport to know its meaning. And then tell me, do you prefer to keep on flaming?
Taking what you are saying a step further, why can't we just have a single distro? No we can't. The different free distros cater for different needs. Gentoo is for putting together a distro from the source. Debian is a distro with virtually all the apps out there and with a lot of ways to install the packages and supports many architectures. Fedora is for new users and people who want the latest eye candy apps. The commercial distros like SuSE and Mandrake *can* be unified but they're just in it for the money and they wont do it. Try convincing them.
Now, why can't we have a single package management system/installation system? Same reasoning - different distros do different things. You can't have a single package management system for both pre-compiled and source code distros without putting extra overhead on one of them. Same thing goes for installation system. And commercial distros just won't do it. Again, try convincing them.
RTFA.
IIRC, ubuntu uses the new debian-installer.
The current debian release (woody) works ABSOLUTELY finely for me. Its very stable. Of course, I can't boast to others about having the latest version of GEyeCandy but I really don't give a shit. If I want the latest version of a particular program I can upgrade it independently (and there are backports from sarge of several important programs available for woody. so you can't complain about X not working). No one is going to need the latest versions of EVERY fucking package in their distro. But in case you do, you can use testing. Its pretty stable. At least it's as stable as all those distros out there whose version numbers cannot be stored in a 32-bit ints.
So now, is HURD so unimportant to slashdot that news related to it is just grouped under some other news? The same slashdot that carries a front page story about even release candidates of the Linux kernel?
Even the upper middle class existed before the tech boom. In a considerable size.
Read the literature written by him. He explains everything in them. He can't explain the same (1000 pages long) things over and over again in every fucking interview he gets.