Except that those FOSS users that they are targeting probably have deeper pockets than those individual developers.
Except that those FOSS users are not liable if they're merely using, and not selling or distributing, the tech MS talking about. The developers and distro organziations are. Hence them going after Novell earlier. They can try suing end users, but have no legal way to prevail there.
I'd nix #2. Try to get the order to do this install in writing, if they're stupid enough to do that. With luck, you've already had email on the subject. If not, email your boss in a civil way about your "concerns" over the installation he ordered of unlicensed software. If he replies, you've got it. Print it and save it at home. On your own, document everything said to you as soon as it's said, with dates and times.
Then refuse to do it. Worst-case scenario is that they fire you. If they do, then you have an ironclad wrongful dismissal case that any lawyer in that field would be happy to take up. Chances are they'll settle, if their own legal advice is competent, and since they have nothing to bargain with you'll probably do quite well.
If they don't fire you, then get your CV out there ASAP. These are not people you want to be working for. They are not honest business people, and will screw you over the first time it yields them a short-term benefit just as they want to screw over their software vendors.
"Better" in the sense of more appealing to a modern mind? Or "better" in the sense that it uses technology we know from independent evidence they actually possessed?
No. Only a very shallow reading of the books could produce such an opinion, and I'm not talking about the Jacksonian absurdity of making mountains visible from The Shire. (He could easily have modified that line of Bilbo's to avoid that bit of stupidity.)
It's not so much the violence he did to the plot, but the hack job he did with the characters that make his movies so execrable as adaptations. He clearly had little respect for his source, and less understanding.
She didn't add anything in way of writing, and he didn't really discuss his mythology with her for the purposes of development, but she did inspire him. In her younger days, she was the inspiration for the character Luthien.
"Luthien" is carved on her tombstone, and "Beren" on his.
There are fans, and then there are fans. Tolkien didn't really "despise" any of his readers, but he found the enthusiasms of segments of his American fan base somewhat disturbing, in much the same way that Alec Guinness was confounded by the fan reaction to "Star Wars" and his role in it.
I've been thinking this same thing myself. Iceland is going to be energy self-sufficient in another 20 years or so from geothermal energy. Is Iceland more capable than the US? (Not a rhetorical question, unfortunately.) There's enough energy in Yellowstone to make any other source redundant. Yes, it means an unaesthetic energy plant in a National Park, but that seems a small price to pay for no longer spewing tons of carbon into the air every year.
But to answer GP's question more completely: No. Yellowstone is not like a zit.
Because we don't have a shortage of English or History teachers. It's not a bias. It's supply and demand. People with expertise in math and science can find far more lucrative jobs in industry than they can teaching public schools, and without dealing with the kind of idiotic bureaucracy that tends to rule in them, but the same cannot be said of English or history majors. You cannot "increase the complexity of the curriculum" without expertise in the subject matter.
The question at hand is, "What technology would you like to have seen applied in your kindergarten?" "Blocks," and so forth is a perfectly valid answer. What expertise exactly is anyone here supposed to draw on when answering this question, either that way or in the terms you want to see? Your objection to the answers invalidates the entire exercise. If we don't know enough to be qualified to say "blocks", we're not qualified to recommend any particular high-tech doodad as beneficial either.
In any event, you lose your bet. I have young children and I don't "have" them playing with the computer. I tolerate them playing with the computer. The one only wanted to use the computer with educational software in the first place because he got used to it in preschool. Considering that he's autistic -- which is why he was in preschool -- I'd much rather have him engaging in face-to-face social interaction, or exercising any other cognitive skill that he finds difficult. Playing with the computer came very naturally to him.
Remember, the generation before yours survived high school and college without the benefit of graphing calculators, and the generation before that used pencil, paper, and tables. Most of them turned out okay.
Damn straight. I was just about to post my own cranky old man answer when I noticed this post. Learn how to cope with these functions on your own kid, and develop some mathematical intuition along the way. Then maybe you'll learn something instead of relying on machines spoon-feeding you your answers. How the hell else are you going to develop a sense for when it's spitting out one that's wrong -- since you will inevitably make an error inputting a formula or data at some point?
Graph paper, a pencil, and an array of methods you know will serve you far better in the long run.
They're also, by the way, great books for brushing up on a foreign language
Yes. That's why I buy the British editions and not those translated into my native American. I had no idea that they called sorcerers "philosophers" in the UK!
The strange thing here is that there's nothing about Russian Orthodox dogma (which is the same as the dogma of every other Eastern Orthodox church) that requires its adherents to take Genesis literally. Some Orthodox writers have gone out of their way to try to explain away the evidence for evolution, but it's really a non-issue in most of the Orthodox world. So this is just weird.
I'm assuming here that the plaintiff is Orthodox just because if you were to randomly select a religious Russian person there's a high probability that's what he or she is. The German last name isn't particularly suggestive, since many Germans immigrated to Russia a very long time ago, including the ruling dynasty. So I'm really curious as to what's behind this.
Technically, the Roman Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks. But more to the point, Alexandria was not the sole repository for Roman technology. It fell out of use in the West due to the general societal collapse that saw the population of Rome fall from about 1,000,000 at its peak to a few thousand early in the Middle Ages. Concrete construction continued for some time in the East, and it was after the burning of the Royal Library at Alexandria that the largest Roman concrete monument was constructed: the largest Christian church in the world for centuries to come. Hagia Sophia was structurally unsound as built, but because of the experimental architecture and not the quality of the concrete. (Its odd exterior appearance is the result of buttressing needed to stabilize it.)
As has already been pointed out, a characteristically Egyptian culture is about half as old as you state here, and for most of their history were not an empire.
The Seventh Crystal by "Saturnine", for Thief 2. Not only is it a well-designed, challenging mission with an immersive, dramatic storyline, atmospheric and spooky setting, and an innovative use of scripted cutscenes, but it contains the single most startling, adrenaline-pounding moment of any level of any game I've ever played.
I was hoping to leave manboobs entirely out of the discussion. And out of sight. Behind very bulky, concealing garments. And strategically placed bags of Chee-tos, if necessary. (We know they'd be handy. Where manboobs abound, Chee-tos cannot be far away.)
But you raise a good point. The Natalie Portman/naked/petrified/grits meme ran its course a long time ago./. is in desperate need for a replacement, but I see none on the horizon. Do you have a specific proposal?
As you move through life, you'll discover that tits are fairly commonplace. Every woman has two. The geeks that actually have a wife/female cohabitator (not to mention those that are women) can see a pair every day. Clothing that adjusts itself is rather more unusual.
It is fortunate for the sake of your blood pressure that you evidently didn't continue to the end, when a model's wrap disappears entirely into her hat.
This is labelled as "funny". It is not funny. It's a symptom of a deadly serious problem in the US that has been getting worse over the past few decades. We are raising a generation of risk-averse cowards. Children learn to cope with risk and pain by dealing with the kind of moderately risky situations and minor injuries that are typical of childhood. Raise them insulated from all that, and they'll start to think they are entitled to a world where they can be perfectly safe at all times. This is not the real world, and they will be utterly unprepared to deal with it. It's already bad enough with all the panic over "terrorism". This can only make it worse.
You should read the rest of the article. A neutron bomb is a kind of fusion bomb, and requires lots of tritrium. I haven't heard anywhere that NK has been manufacturing tritrium.
What we know they have, or have available, is plutonium, with which you make a fission bomb. (You need it for fusion bombs too, but only as a kind of primer for the main fusion reaction.) These are very easy to make as such things go, and I have never before heard of a failed test of one. On balance, it's more likely that it was a chemical explosion than any kind of nuclear explosion.
No, most Americans don't believe these things although I admit it's a too damned close. Hopefully that slight downward trend has continued in more recent years.
More to the point, we don't let popular pseudoscience or religious belief direct the agenda for a part of our space program.
However, the basic point that if China really does become a technological leader, the US will find itself in decline, is very much true. The US needs to get off it's fat collective ass and stop being so anti-intellectual. We can do it -- we've done it before, but it takes a good hard scare to push us into it.
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Except that those FOSS users that they are targeting probably have deeper pockets than those individual developers.
Except that those FOSS users are not liable if they're merely using, and not selling or distributing, the tech MS talking about. The developers and distro organziations are. Hence them going after Novell earlier. They can try suing end users, but have no legal way to prevail there.
I'd nix #2. Try to get the order to do this install in writing, if they're stupid enough to do that. With luck, you've already had email on the subject. If not, email your boss in a civil way about your "concerns" over the installation he ordered of unlicensed software. If he replies, you've got it. Print it and save it at home. On your own, document everything said to you as soon as it's said, with dates and times.
Then refuse to do it. Worst-case scenario is that they fire you. If they do, then you have an ironclad wrongful dismissal case that any lawyer in that field would be happy to take up. Chances are they'll settle, if their own legal advice is competent, and since they have nothing to bargain with you'll probably do quite well.
If they don't fire you, then get your CV out there ASAP. These are not people you want to be working for. They are not honest business people, and will screw you over the first time it yields them a short-term benefit just as they want to screw over their software vendors.
"Better" in the sense of more appealing to a modern mind? Or "better" in the sense that it uses technology we know from independent evidence they actually possessed?
No. Only a very shallow reading of the books could produce such an opinion, and I'm not talking about the Jacksonian absurdity of making mountains visible from The Shire. (He could easily have modified that line of Bilbo's to avoid that bit of stupidity.)
It's not so much the violence he did to the plot, but the hack job he did with the characters that make his movies so execrable as adaptations. He clearly had little respect for his source, and less understanding.
Death, destruction, sorrow, suicide, and every protagonist dead or broken at the end? Sounds to me more like opera than anything Hollywood might do.
She didn't add anything in way of writing, and he didn't really discuss his mythology with her for the purposes of development, but she did inspire him. In her younger days, she was the inspiration for the character Luthien.
"Luthien" is carved on her tombstone, and "Beren" on his.
There are fans, and then there are fans. Tolkien didn't really "despise" any of his readers, but he found the enthusiasms of segments of his American fan base somewhat disturbing, in much the same way that Alec Guinness was confounded by the fan reaction to "Star Wars" and his role in it.
I've been thinking this same thing myself. Iceland is going to be energy self-sufficient in another 20 years or so from geothermal energy. Is Iceland more capable than the US? (Not a rhetorical question, unfortunately.) There's enough energy in Yellowstone to make any other source redundant. Yes, it means an unaesthetic energy plant in a National Park, but that seems a small price to pay for no longer spewing tons of carbon into the air every year.
But to answer GP's question more completely: No. Yellowstone is not like a zit.
Because we don't have a shortage of English or History teachers. It's not a bias. It's supply and demand. People with expertise in math and science can find far more lucrative jobs in industry than they can teaching public schools, and without dealing with the kind of idiotic bureaucracy that tends to rule in them, but the same cannot be said of English or history majors. You cannot "increase the complexity of the curriculum" without expertise in the subject matter.
The question at hand is, "What technology would you like to have seen applied in your kindergarten?" "Blocks," and so forth is a perfectly valid answer. What expertise exactly is anyone here supposed to draw on when answering this question, either that way or in the terms you want to see? Your objection to the answers invalidates the entire exercise. If we don't know enough to be qualified to say "blocks", we're not qualified to recommend any particular high-tech doodad as beneficial either.
In any event, you lose your bet. I have young children and I don't "have" them playing with the computer. I tolerate them playing with the computer. The one only wanted to use the computer with educational software in the first place because he got used to it in preschool. Considering that he's autistic -- which is why he was in preschool -- I'd much rather have him engaging in face-to-face social interaction, or exercising any other cognitive skill that he finds difficult. Playing with the computer came very naturally to him.
Remember, the generation before yours survived high school and college without the benefit of graphing calculators, and the generation before that used pencil, paper, and tables. Most of them turned out okay.
Damn straight. I was just about to post my own cranky old man answer when I noticed this post. Learn how to cope with these functions on your own kid, and develop some mathematical intuition along the way. Then maybe you'll learn something instead of relying on machines spoon-feeding you your answers. How the hell else are you going to develop a sense for when it's spitting out one that's wrong -- since you will inevitably make an error inputting a formula or data at some point?
Graph paper, a pencil, and an array of methods you know will serve you far better in the long run.
OK, see that "Funny" mod? It's a joke, son!
They're also, by the way, great books for brushing up on a foreign language
Yes. That's why I buy the British editions and not those translated into my native American. I had no idea that they called sorcerers "philosophers" in the UK!
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I think these cosmic topologists are going to have to kick this theory around for a while before they achieve their goals.
The strange thing here is that there's nothing about Russian Orthodox dogma (which is the same as the dogma of every other Eastern Orthodox church) that requires its adherents to take Genesis literally. Some Orthodox writers have gone out of their way to try to explain away the evidence for evolution, but it's really a non-issue in most of the Orthodox world. So this is just weird.
I'm assuming here that the plaintiff is Orthodox just because if you were to randomly select a religious Russian person there's a high probability that's what he or she is. The German last name isn't particularly suggestive, since many Germans immigrated to Russia a very long time ago, including the ruling dynasty. So I'm really curious as to what's behind this.
Technically, the Roman Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks. But more to the point, Alexandria was not the sole repository for Roman technology. It fell out of use in the West due to the general societal collapse that saw the population of Rome fall from about 1,000,000 at its peak to a few thousand early in the Middle Ages. Concrete construction continued for some time in the East, and it was after the burning of the Royal Library at Alexandria that the largest Roman concrete monument was constructed: the largest Christian church in the world for centuries to come. Hagia Sophia was structurally unsound as built, but because of the experimental architecture and not the quality of the concrete. (Its odd exterior appearance is the result of buttressing needed to stabilize it.)
As has already been pointed out, a characteristically Egyptian culture is about half as old as you state here, and for most of their history were not an empire.
On first glance I read the award as "Cosplay Medal" and I could only imagine that he had worn a particularly fine Dalek costume to a con or something.
Formatting doesn't overwrite all the sectors on the disk; it just marks them as available. In many cases, it's possible to re-create the file system.
Neither. Do you have any idea how much downloaded porn is on that thing?
The Seventh Crystal by "Saturnine", for Thief 2. Not only is it a well-designed, challenging mission with an immersive, dramatic storyline, atmospheric and spooky setting, and an innovative use of scripted cutscenes, but it contains the single most startling, adrenaline-pounding moment of any level of any game I've ever played.
I was hoping to leave manboobs entirely out of the discussion. And out of sight. Behind very bulky, concealing garments. And strategically placed bags of Chee-tos, if necessary. (We know they'd be handy. Where manboobs abound, Chee-tos cannot be far away.)
But you raise a good point. The Natalie Portman/naked/petrified/grits meme ran its course a long time ago. /. is in desperate need for a replacement, but I see none on the horizon. Do you have a specific proposal?
As you move through life, you'll discover that tits are fairly commonplace. Every woman has two. The geeks that actually have a wife/female cohabitator (not to mention those that are women) can see a pair every day. Clothing that adjusts itself is rather more unusual.
It is fortunate for the sake of your blood pressure that you evidently didn't continue to the end, when a model's wrap disappears entirely into her hat.
This is labelled as "funny". It is not funny. It's a symptom of a deadly serious problem in the US that has been getting worse over the past few decades. We are raising a generation of risk-averse cowards. Children learn to cope with risk and pain by dealing with the kind of moderately risky situations and minor injuries that are typical of childhood. Raise them insulated from all that, and they'll start to think they are entitled to a world where they can be perfectly safe at all times. This is not the real world, and they will be utterly unprepared to deal with it. It's already bad enough with all the panic over "terrorism". This can only make it worse.
You should read the rest of the article. A neutron bomb is a kind of fusion bomb, and requires lots of tritrium. I haven't heard anywhere that NK has been manufacturing tritrium.
What we know they have, or have available, is plutonium, with which you make a fission bomb. (You need it for fusion bombs too, but only as a kind of primer for the main fusion reaction.) These are very easy to make as such things go, and I have never before heard of a failed test of one. On balance, it's more likely that it was a chemical explosion than any kind of nuclear explosion.
No, most Americans don't believe these things although I admit it's a too damned close. Hopefully that slight downward trend has continued in more recent years.
More to the point, we don't let popular pseudoscience or religious belief direct the agenda for a part of our space program.
However, the basic point that if China really does become a technological leader, the US will find itself in decline, is very much true. The US needs to get off it's fat collective ass and stop being so anti-intellectual. We can do it -- we've done it before, but it takes a good hard scare to push us into it.