No fair - the ones sent to Australia were already charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced;
And, IIRC from a visit to the Nottingham "galleries of justice", several of them were sentenced to death and either had the choice of dying or going to live "free" in a tropical Island with sunny weather...
Pure free-market economics assume that the players are making rational informed decisions
One of the reasons why there is a new wave of "non-rational economics" research is that some economists (or researchers related to the field) believe that although in theory what you said is true (and it is in what classic economy and game theory is based on), in reality traders make what seems irrational decisions.
That such decisions are informed or not is still research in progress.
Two compadres where so horney that decided to have sex. They tossed a coin and Compadre A won the first turn to "provide".
In the middle of the...situation... Just when Compadre A was finishing his buisness with Compadre B, Compadre A kissed Compadre B in the back... In that moment, Compadre B jumps out of the bed and shouts angry at Compadre A:
"No kisses Compadre! No Kisses!, don't be a faggot!"... roughly translsated form spanish ohohoho...
if they say that for $400 you OWN it *and* forbid you to do as you please with it, then this is called false advertising. (OTOH, all media companies are doing this... (own it today!))
You do not get it. You own the phone. The service contract contains several constraints. If you agree with such constraints then good for you, if you do not, then go look for another contract (with their respective telephone).
The telephone is yours to hack, crack, spit, throw over a cliff, put on fire or whatever. However, do not expect the company to continue giving you the service if your actions do not abide by the contract.
Again, if you do not like the contract, just do not follow that deal, and find another.
Not that such thing is good (IMHO it is really bad... that is why I just own iNothing, for I do not like being iLocked-down).
What you don't realize is that in 99.9% cases those are vastly improved conditions from anywhere else that individual could be working.
I completely agree with that. Some time ago I read an interview with the CEO (or relative) from one of the biggest electronics manufacturing companies in China (the ones that actually make all the ipods, zunes, mp3s, computers and whatnot). One of the things the commented is that, there was a lot of people trying to enter to work in his company. Because, even though $10 a week (just out of my ass) might be terrible for an American, it isn't as bad for a Chinese.
I even have first hand experience in something similar. About 6 months before I finished my undergraduate degree, I was hired by a small IT company owned by people from the USA in Mexico. They "only" payed me about USD$800 a month, which for people in the USA surely is a pittance. However in Mexico, perceiving MX$8000 a month in your first job *before* graduating is a REALLY good job.
That is one of the reasons I like the BigMac index. In some way, you can appreciate the value of money in the different countries by considering the value of such thing as a BigMac.
Better calling it Ubuntu or Suse or whatever OS, using "Linux" technology.
If you generalize all those systems as "Linux", people will (and they now do) get pissed off because of all the differences between the Linux in they eee (Xandros GUI) and the Linux in their Dell (Gnome) and the Linux in their school (KDE) and whatnot...
Merchandise it as Apple does, "Mac, with Unix tech. inside"... similarly, Ubuntu with "Linux tech inside".
Hey! I write distributed Multi-Agent simulation systems, saving data in SQL and processing it with awk/bash-and-friends to process it in R (including charts). And doing 3D plots with gnuplot...
Of course papers and presentations in latex are a must (isn't beamer just beautiful!)
I'll do Britons did with Australia. I will send all the prisoners who have senetences of 10+ years, from all countries around the world. They would get an all paid single ticket to the moon in ships with places just-about-enough-to-avoid-human-rights-whinning.
They would have to work there on mining whatever other people has posted here, and of course, on conserving and promoting their self-sufficient world (as nothing would be given from the earth unless they are worse than African starving people).
Just by chance I landed In a very old post of yours:) :
Actually I don't ever plan on getting married to anyone. No matter how much I love her. It just doesn't make sense to me. What are the reasons? A sign of commitment? Well dammit I'm living with her and am raising our two children. How much more committed do I need to be?
I actually have two main reasons for never getting married...
outlawing guns will do NOTHING to ensure that the police will be better armed than whoever they're about to encounter. You know, the whole "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" thing. Shit, just look at Mexico (disc. IAAMex), where guns are outlawed, and yet you have all these narcs with granades, AK-47 and whatnot
They actually said what they've been doing in the video: hookers, cocaine and getting level 70 WoW characters. Exactly what I would expect of Duke's R&D staff.... Yeah, in fact, forget the video game.
You do not get the point... it is not that you are going to buy a ps3 to install linux. It is that you have a ps3 and want to install Linux just for the sake of it.
Uuu... I also didn't understand the joke:( could you clarify please?
I do think that is somewhat complicated. Mainly one of the last steps which is how to return to the standard OS by writing some command.
After reading the slashdot headline and summary, I thought I would send the story to my brother who has a PS3 and once told me he wanted to install Linux on it. If there was a boot manager it would be OK, however, having to have the keyboard connected and type those commands each time you want to boot on one OS or another, I would advice my brother to leave its PS3 as it is and just buy an eee
The major problem is that all these wonderful programs seem very fragmented. Every program wants you to do things in it's own peculiar way, and whenever you need to fix something, it's always straight to the confusing (albeit powerful) console/CLI.
AAhh that is so true. The major problem is that there are about hundreds of ways to to something (among the different distros, programs, Destop Environments, etc) and the only standard that exists is the console... which end users will NOT use (despite what some slashdoters might dream in their most wet dreams).
I think Mr. Shuttlewort should start promoting standards. I think the way to do it is to agree between several distributions on standards (say, fedora, ubuntu, xandros, linspire, debian, etc, Gnome and KDE too). Once the major players start following established standards, I am shure the odd programmer scratching its itch would have to adhere to it.
It is something akin to the accessibility problem in apps. The language or library *must* enforce that application are accesible by design. Because that way programmers will always create accessible applications (i.e., make Swing forms completely accessible form *inside* the library, or QT forms).
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No fair - the ones sent to Australia were already charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced;
And, IIRC from a visit to the Nottingham "galleries of justice", several of them were sentenced to death and either had the choice of dying or going to live "free" in a tropical Island with sunny weather...
Live gives us so tough choices!
Agree,
Lots of people buy and use WinEdt, even though there are several Latex editors like Kile, Tecnixcenter, texmaker and whatnot.
No, GCC only killed the market for C and C++ compilers
Yeah, and among others, they surely drove Intel out of business...
Oh wait, they are selling a
Intel® Compiler Suite Professional Edition for Linux $1,299
The guy's ranting is similar to Prince ranting because his twenty year old music is not selling.
I'll just mention one program:
http://www.wholetomato.com/
It is still quite expensive ($249), but if it is as good as it was 6 years ago, then it is really worth it.
It is like if the Ucal developers where whinning that Windows killed the market of their MSDos calculator.
Pure free-market economics assume that the players are making rational informed decisions
One of the reasons why there is a new wave of "non-rational economics" research is that some economists (or researchers related to the field) believe that although in theory what you said is true (and it is in what classic economy and game theory is based on), in reality traders make what seems irrational decisions.
That such decisions are informed or not is still research in progress.
Leeeeeeeemoooooooon paaaaaaaaaarrtyyyyyyyy!!!
...situation... Just when Compadre A was finishing his buisness with Compadre B, Compadre A kissed Compadre B in the back...
... roughly translsated form spanish ohohoho...
Two compadres where so horney that decided to have sex. They tossed a coin and Compadre A won the first turn to "provide".
In the middle of the
In that moment, Compadre B jumps out of the bed and shouts angry at Compadre A:
"No kisses Compadre! No Kisses!, don't be a faggot!"
Why oh why oh why does message composition for new accounts default to HTML instead of plain text?
HTML email is evil; it's what makes phishing possible.
Hmmm.... I think I won't recommend you incredimail then.
I agree that threading is important now, but it is (IMNSHO) a technological solution to a social problem. I find hat unfortunate.
:P
And I think that the >>>s where a social solution (done by people) to a technological problem (lack of automatic classification).
Disclaimer: Me is an AI researcher
I guess they wanted to name it like his uncle Peter... but they charged the name according to the number of vocals in it.
if they say that for $400 you OWN it *and* forbid you to do as you please with it, then this is called false advertising. (OTOH, all media companies are doing this ... (own it today!))
You do not get it. You own the phone. The service contract contains several constraints. If you agree with such constraints then good for you, if you do not, then go look for another contract (with their respective telephone).
The telephone is yours to hack, crack, spit, throw over a cliff, put on fire or whatever. However, do not expect the company to continue giving you the service if your actions do not abide by the contract.
Again, if you do not like the contract, just do not follow that deal, and find another.
Not that such thing is good (IMHO it is really bad... that is why I just own iNothing, for I do not like being iLocked-down).
What you don't realize is that in 99.9% cases those are vastly improved conditions from anywhere else that individual could be working.
I completely agree with that. Some time ago I read an interview with the CEO (or relative) from one of the biggest electronics manufacturing companies in China (the ones that actually make all the ipods, zunes, mp3s, computers and whatnot).
One of the things the commented is that, there was a lot of people trying to enter to work in his company. Because, even though $10 a week (just out of my ass) might be terrible for an American, it isn't as bad for a Chinese.
I even have first hand experience in something similar. About 6 months before I finished my undergraduate degree, I was hired by a small IT company owned by people from the USA in Mexico. They "only" payed me about USD$800 a month, which for people in the USA surely is a pittance. However in Mexico, perceiving MX$8000 a month in your first job *before* graduating is a REALLY good job.
That is one of the reasons I like the BigMac index. In some way, you can appreciate the value of money in the different countries by considering the value of such thing as a BigMac.
Better calling it Ubuntu or Suse or whatever OS, using "Linux" technology.
If you generalize all those systems as "Linux", people will (and they now do) get pissed off because of all the differences between the Linux in they eee (Xandros GUI) and the Linux in their Dell (Gnome) and the Linux in their school (KDE) and whatnot...
Merchandise it as Apple does, "Mac, with Unix tech. inside"... similarly, Ubuntu with "Linux tech inside".
Hey! I write distributed Multi-Agent simulation systems, saving data in SQL and processing it with awk/bash-and-friends to process it in R (including charts). And doing 3D plots with gnuplot...
Of course papers and presentations in latex are a must (isn't beamer just beautiful!)
Oh yeah, get off my lawn!
But I am not that old =oP
Is it me, or the poll is giving me the finger?
The government doesn't shut down websites. They bomb them after proving they have WMDs
There, I fixed it for you.
I'll do Britons did with Australia. I will send all the prisoners who have senetences of 10+ years, from all countries around the world. They would get an all paid single ticket to the moon in ships with places just-about-enough-to-avoid-human-rights-whinning.
They would have to work there on mining whatever other people has posted here, and of course, on conserving and promoting their self-sufficient world (as nothing would be given from the earth unless they are worse than African starving people).
Kind of like how Google Maps will deliver a higher res map when you zoom in; but this is happening much faster.
Kind of like what happens when you use Google earth very close (i.e., in-situ) to where the servers with the data are stored.
Hi Garret,
:) :
:)
Just by chance I landed In a very old post of yours
Actually I don't ever plan on getting married to anyone. No matter how much I love her. It just doesn't make sense to me. What are the reasons? A sign of commitment? Well dammit I'm living with her and am raising our two children. How much more committed do I need to be?
I actually have two main reasons for never getting married...
Things change a lot as one gets older I guess =oP
BTW, I liked your albuma a lot
Their entire business model relies on users publically posting the content to be brokered.
... of course, being AOL, they should be sued just for lulz...
They should sue AOL.
Their entire business model relies on users sending emails between one another. (by promoting email as part of their paid service)
They are deffinitely helping in the dissemination of kiddie porn!
and one huge reason for that is in the event that they DO need to rebel against their government.
I'd love to see that happen. Mr. Bhtooefr bearing his shotgun goes all angry shooting againstan Bush's M1 Abrams.
Keep the faith amigo!
outlawing guns will do NOTHING to ensure that the police will be better armed than whoever they're about to encounter. You know, the whole "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" thing.
Shit, just look at Mexico (disc. IAAMex), where guns are outlawed, and yet you have all these narcs with granades, AK-47 and whatnot
They actually said what they've been doing in the video: hookers, cocaine and getting level 70 WoW characters. Exactly what I would expect of Duke's R&D staff....
Yeah, in fact, forget the video game.
Instead of spending atleast 400-450$ on a PS3,
You do not get the point... it is not that you are going to buy a ps3 to install linux. It is that you have a ps3 and want to install Linux just for the sake of it.
Uuu... I also didn't understand the joke :( could you clarify please?
I do think that is somewhat complicated. Mainly one of the last steps which is how to return to the standard OS by writing some command.
After reading the slashdot headline and summary, I thought I would send the story to my brother who has a PS3 and once told me he wanted to install Linux on it. If there was a boot manager it would be OK, however, having to have the keyboard connected and type those commands each time you want to boot on one OS or another, I would advice my brother to leave its PS3 as it is and just buy an eee
The major problem is that all these wonderful programs seem very fragmented. Every program wants you to do things in it's own peculiar way, and whenever you need to fix something, it's always straight to the confusing (albeit powerful) console/CLI.
AAhh that is so true. The major problem is that there are about hundreds of ways to to something (among the different distros, programs, Destop Environments, etc) and the only standard that exists is the console... which end users will NOT use (despite what some slashdoters might dream in their most wet dreams).
I think Mr. Shuttlewort should start promoting standards. I think the way to do it is to agree between several distributions on standards (say, fedora, ubuntu, xandros, linspire, debian, etc, Gnome and KDE too). Once the major players start following established standards, I am shure the odd programmer scratching its itch would have to adhere to it.
It is something akin to the accessibility problem in apps. The language or library *must* enforce that application are accesible by design. Because that way programmers will always create accessible applications (i.e., make Swing forms completely accessible form *inside* the library, or QT forms).
xtracto
anon 'cuase i've modded