Yes. Do you think that CD-R and CD-RW technologies came out at the same time? CD-R technology was available several years before CD-RWs, so at that time it was CD-R or nothing.
Uhh..I thought that the Zapruder film, the fact that bullet took an upward, not a downward trajectory, and eyewitness testimony have already trounced on the Warren Commission's findings that Oswald was the lone gunman in Dallas that shot Kennedy.
But I guess this just adds one more piece of evidence for the federal government to completely ignore.
FWIW, I don't buy either creation story. My post was indeed intended as a joke as the *smirk* at the bottom indicates. In any respect, if you read the linked article, whether there are 1 or 2 creation stories in Genesis is a debate even amongst Rabbis and Christian Ministers. I don't know what the official stance of the Pope is today, but wayyyy back along time ago when I was still a boy in Catholic school, the official stance of the Roman Catholic Church was that there are two creation stories in Genesis.
Note that I'm not religious in the sense that most Christians would use today, nor am I any longer a Christian.
however, some of the higher level stuff of cosmology strikes me as a little too far out there to be called completely science. it is in many ways an intersection of philosophy, and math, and astronomy, and even religion
i think of cosmology as a sort of soft science, like sociology
Cosmology has been the study of scientists for millenia, though. Aristotle, Einstein, Heisenberg, Hawking -- they all at someone point pondered the mysteries surrounding the beginnings and development of the universe. Solved, though? No way. I agree with you there!
Almost 3 hours, huh? That's pretty good! I wonder how much of this stuff is common sense, though. For example, killing beagled is pretty obvious because of what it does -- it constantly indexes stuff in the background, consuming power through HDD and CPU cycles.
C'mon what are we talking about here, a few minutes? AFAIK, better power savings comes through a good acpi config, which I don't see a whole lot of discussion on.
It could mean as much as an hour or two, depending. The less the CPU sleeps, the more power it consumes. The more the HDD gets accessed, the more power it consumes. ACPI doesn't buy you much if your CPU is constantly running at full clock and your HDD is always spinning.
Those EULAs apply to Amazon Unbox, Amazon's VOD service that runs on TiVO. Who knows if you'll even be required to use a special client program to access Amazon's online store?
I've read the response on your gripe site. It's very insightful and informative content. You cite the appropriate text from the U.S. codified law and everything -- the only thing you missed was the case law surrounding the treble damages and attorney's fees that I think pretty much invalidates Mazur's final statement, but then again since you aren't a lawyer, you probably don't have access to things like Westlaw. (But note that IANAL, either).
This is a web page. There are about a billion of them in existence, and about a billion people viewing the web pages. Anyone can pay to have access to the internet. Anyone can get free or very cheap space to put up their own web pages. We are accusing these men of doing just that to incite hatred... blah blah blah.
Exactly. I've worked with people that age and older. I know one guy who's around that age and knows x86 assembler, C and Java. It's not age, it's definitely interest. That being said, people in the older age brackets tend to have less interest because they had little or, in most cases, no exposure to computing technology when they were younger. It just turns out that the 60s-ish gentleman had worked as a mainframe operator back in the day.
After talking with lawyers and paralegals that I know personally, I think that most geeks would have a natural talent for law. At the very least, they have a talent for legal research, as witnessed by the stuff that happens on Groklaw
Which version? There were two. The first edition didn't make hardly a mention of the Internet at all, while companies like Netscape were already capitalizing on the Net. So it didn't quite occur to Gates the first time he wrote the book (in 1994 no less) that the Internet would become important at all. So, yes, I very much agree with you, albeit for different reasons.
I never said that Dell was going to 'jump' to Ubuntu. What I said was that Dell will be offering both Windows XP and Ubuntu as other options besides Vista. Why don't you try reading my posts before replying to them in such an inflammatory manner?
With business down and customers leaving, we had more than a few choices at our disposal. We were invited by one company to sue the beneficiaries of open source. We declined. We could join another and sue our customers. That seemed suicidal. We were offered the choice to scuttle Solaris, and resell someone else's operating system. We declined.
It seems like Jonathan Schwartz is alluding to Microsoft and SCO here, but he seems to be referencing a third company as well. Any ideas?
You didn't read the rest of my post, did you? Taken out of context, you're right. But when you put it back in context, you'll see that actual Dell customers are demanding XP and Ubuntu out of Dell. And they're not all geeks.
Ok, so let's assume the split is something like 39,995,000 OEM sales and 5,000 retail. So what?
The world's largest OEM, Dell, has begun selling PCs with Windows XP again and will soon offer PCs with Ubuntu pre-loaded. These separate, but related incidents come on the heals of complaints from Dell customers who wanted a choice after they had tried Windows Vista and discovered it sucks.
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Yes. Do you think that CD-R and CD-RW technologies came out at the same time? CD-R technology was available several years before CD-RWs, so at that time it was CD-R or nothing.
Nah. I saw him Kalamazoo, MI! I swear!
Uhh..I thought that the Zapruder film, the fact that bullet took an upward, not a downward trajectory, and eyewitness testimony have already trounced on the Warren Commission's findings that Oswald was the lone gunman in Dallas that shot Kennedy.
But I guess this just adds one more piece of evidence for the federal government to completely ignore.
In Soviet Russia, vikings, reindeer, the Aurora Borealis, cute blond girls and torrent websites use YOU!!!
FWIW, I don't buy either creation story. My post was indeed intended as a joke as the *smirk* at the bottom indicates. In any respect, if you read the linked article, whether there are 1 or 2 creation stories in Genesis is a debate even amongst Rabbis and Christian Ministers. I don't know what the official stance of the Pope is today, but wayyyy back along time ago when I was still a boy in Catholic school, the official stance of the Roman Catholic Church was that there are two creation stories in Genesis.
Note that I'm not religious in the sense that most Christians would use today, nor am I any longer a Christian.
Almost 3 hours, huh? That's pretty good! I wonder how much of this stuff is common sense, though. For example, killing beagled is pretty obvious because of what it does -- it constantly indexes stuff in the background, consuming power through HDD and CPU cycles.
This has been well-settled for 6,000 years. God created the world in 7 days! Says so right in Genesis, chapter 1.
*smirk*
It could mean as much as an hour or two, depending. The less the CPU sleeps, the more power it consumes. The more the HDD gets accessed, the more power it consumes. ACPI doesn't buy you much if your CPU is constantly running at full clock and your HDD is always spinning.
minor clarification: I didn't mean to imply that it only runs on TiVO; of course it runs on PCs too.
Those EULAs apply to Amazon Unbox, Amazon's VOD service that runs on TiVO. Who knows if you'll even be required to use a special client program to access Amazon's online store?
I've read the response on your gripe site. It's very insightful and informative content. You cite the appropriate text from the U.S. codified law and everything -- the only thing you missed was the case law surrounding the treble damages and attorney's fees that I think pretty much invalidates Mazur's final statement, but then again since you aren't a lawyer, you probably don't have access to things like Westlaw. (But note that IANAL, either).
No, no, no...it's tubes! The Intarweb is tubes!
Exactly. I've worked with people that age and older. I know one guy who's around that age and knows x86 assembler, C and Java. It's not age, it's definitely interest. That being said, people in the older age brackets tend to have less interest because they had little or, in most cases, no exposure to computing technology when they were younger. It just turns out that the 60s-ish gentleman had worked as a mainframe operator back in the day.
After talking with lawyers and paralegals that I know personally, I think that most geeks would have a natural talent for law. At the very least, they have a talent for legal research, as witnessed by the stuff that happens on Groklaw
Steve Jobs himself recently said that most leaks are intentional. So no.
Which version? There were two. The first edition didn't make hardly a mention of the Internet at all, while companies like Netscape were already capitalizing on the Net. So it didn't quite occur to Gates the first time he wrote the book (in 1994 no less) that the Internet would become important at all. So, yes, I very much agree with you, albeit for different reasons.
I never said that Dell was going to 'jump' to Ubuntu. What I said was that Dell will be offering both Windows XP and Ubuntu as other options besides Vista. Why don't you try reading my posts before replying to them in such an inflammatory manner?
A Ford Excursion with a 6.8L V10 engine.
Yeah, but weren't they just patting themselves on the back about Vista being the fastest-selling OS ever? ;)
It seems like Jonathan Schwartz is alluding to Microsoft and SCO here, but he seems to be referencing a third company as well. Any ideas?
Is it just me or was that a reference to Cat's Cradle?
You didn't read the rest of my post, did you? Taken out of context, you're right. But when you put it back in context, you'll see that actual Dell customers are demanding XP and Ubuntu out of Dell. And they're not all geeks.
The world's largest OEM, Dell, has begun selling PCs with Windows XP again and will soon offer PCs with Ubuntu pre-loaded. These separate, but related incidents come on the heals of complaints from Dell customers who wanted a choice after they had tried Windows Vista and discovered it sucks.
40 million licenses != 40 million Vista users.