Actually, you have to accept the Axiom of Choice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_Choice#Quot es) before it can find your left socks, according to Bertrand Russell. I don't accept it, so I guess you're SOL in my universe.
Code base? They use source code to design processors? The last time I visited a chip design facility (many years ago) they were drawing traces graphically.
IANAL, but I took a business law correspondence class one semester, so I'm almost as good as one.
I notice that Shelkey does not mention "intent" as the fourth requirement of a contract; however, intent is usually assumed in the acceptance, and you'd have to prove duress or the inability to formulate intent (incompetence, drunkenness, etc.) to use it as an escape. IMO, EULAs aren't contracts, they are licenses like the GPL and enforceable under copyright law, not contract law, and would most definitely be considered a contract of adhesion if considered as a contract. BTW, I got an A in that class.
Do they have screenies of Solitaire and Minesweeper? Those are the only two applications most people care about. Oh yeah, and some management types want Office running in the background, I suppose.
Most technology in the classroom actually interferes with the education process. I hate the lecture method, but I hate it even more when the first 15 minutes of the class is spent trying to get the video linkup to work, and the professor is constrained to a small region of the classroom in order to stay on camera, and even worse when they try to display notes, etc., and they have to dumb it down so that it is remotely conveyable.
There's a human dimension that's missing, too; you don't interact with people over a video link the same as you do in person. The only educational reason to take classes vs. simply reading a book and taking a test is to interact with the professor and fellow students. When you weaken that interaction, you diminish the experience. This society is increasingly alienated anyway, so I don't expect many of you to realize that living in front of a computer or TV without real interaction isn't a natural human way of life.
Perhaps you could call them right-wing, if you realize that the Republicans are NOT conservatives, and haven't been since Ronnie "let's run up the largest national debt in history" Reagan. They just like to pose as conservatives as a campaign strategy, since their real agenda wouldn't sell well to the public.
If he's like our Republicans, then yes, his constituents would be easily confused. Very easily. In fact, they think they're voting for conservatives, you know, the fellows who are fiscally responsible, want smaller government, believe in personal responsiblity, and will stop at nothing to keep that queen bitch Hillary and her ugly daughter in their place.
Huh, I find typing "su" just once is less of an inconvenience than continually prepending "sudo". In Ubuntu, I used "sudo su". I would argue that having sudo installed at all is far less secure, since a hacker just needs to hack any of the "wheel" accounts, and the weakest link in any security scheme is the users leaving the doors open (vs. keeping a tight reign on root).
Don't forget to get your Windows 3.1 running on top of FreeDOS in Bochs or Dosbox, in Gnome on Cygwin on XP on VMWare on your OSX Intel iMac, then you can play Solitaire in style. Or, you can invest in a deck of cards, but that's unsupported hardware.
That's the response I expected. Instead, there were several cogent posts prior to this one that clearly explained why Gates's contempt is well placed. Parent should have be modded either funny or flamebait.
Well, corporations are permitted to exist because they are perceived to increase the public good. When they don't, then they have violated their mandate. I've got news for some people, capitalism is not an ethos. It so happens that it seems to be of greater public benefit than competing systems. When you start justifying your means to the detriment of your ends, you've lost your ethical compass, and it's time to recalibrate.
Parent is correct. Greed is boundless. I personally consider the vasty ad market to be a calculated evil that needs to be expunged. Since the cost of ads goes into the product, you end up paying for the right to be manipulated. This is as corrupt as a government that markets its position on debatable public policy. It gives an entity a say in the direction public affairs that has no business but serving the will of its clients.
Peter Molyneux had a good record, too. Yes, Spore is sounding like Black and White--where's the game? Well, I could ask the same question about the Sims, but I've never played it and never will.
Well, I imagine the Nazis weren't responsible for EVERY bad thing that happened in 1930's German, nor responsible for everything bad imputed to them, but that doesn't mean we should feel all warm and fuzzy about Hitler.
The necessity of hand-editing xorg.conf or frankly any.conf file keeps Ubuntu and Linux in general out of the mainstream. Joe Sixpack isn't going to do it. Fundamental things such as video, keyboard, and mouse should work immediately, with sane and functional fallbacks.
A "slippery slope" is usually called when somebody grossly violates a basic principle, but in an innocuous manner, thus opening the door to more flagrant violations of principle (the slope). This is not a logical fallacy; it only appears a fallacy to people who cannot see the underlying principle. A better analogy might be crossing a border with a tank. Going one foot across hardly an invasion makes, but once you've established that you can roll your tank over it any time you like, pretty soon you're rolling that tank to the gates of the capital. Give them an inch, they take a yard.
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As long as there are people in the security chain, they can be bribed or otherwise suborned.
They seemed to have confused Slashdot and Google.
Actually, you have to accept the Axiom of Choice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_Choice#Quot es) before it can find your left socks, according to Bertrand Russell. I don't accept it, so I guess you're SOL in my universe.
...he's taking them in the privacy of his own home.
Besides, after being a successful composer and inventor of the eponymous keyboard layout, he can afford to rest on his laurels.
Code base? They use source code to design processors? The last time I visited a chip design facility (many years ago) they were drawing traces graphically.
Maybe the Chinese will sell us their used bicycles.
IANAL, but I took a business law correspondence class one semester, so I'm almost as good as one.
I notice that Shelkey does not mention "intent" as the fourth requirement of a contract; however, intent is usually assumed in the acceptance, and you'd have to prove duress or the inability to formulate intent (incompetence, drunkenness, etc.) to use it as an escape. IMO, EULAs aren't contracts, they are licenses like the GPL and enforceable under copyright law, not contract law, and would most definitely be considered a contract of adhesion if considered as a contract. BTW, I got an A in that class.
Do they have screenies of Solitaire and Minesweeper? Those are the only two applications most people care about. Oh yeah, and some management types want Office running in the background, I suppose.
Most technology in the classroom actually interferes with the education process. I hate the lecture method, but I hate it even more when the first 15 minutes of the class is spent trying to get the video linkup to work, and the professor is constrained to a small region of the classroom in order to stay on camera, and even worse when they try to display notes, etc., and they have to dumb it down so that it is remotely conveyable.
There's a human dimension that's missing, too; you don't interact with people over a video link the same as you do in person. The only educational reason to take classes vs. simply reading a book and taking a test is to interact with the professor and fellow students. When you weaken that interaction, you diminish the experience. This society is increasingly alienated anyway, so I don't expect many of you to realize that living in front of a computer or TV without real interaction isn't a natural human way of life.
Perhaps you could call them right-wing, if you realize that the Republicans are NOT conservatives, and haven't been since Ronnie "let's run up the largest national debt in history" Reagan. They just like to pose as conservatives as a campaign strategy, since their real agenda wouldn't sell well to the public.
If he's like our Republicans, then yes, his constituents would be easily confused. Very easily. In fact, they think they're voting for conservatives, you know, the fellows who are fiscally responsible, want smaller government, believe in personal responsiblity, and will stop at nothing to keep that queen bitch Hillary and her ugly daughter in their place.
Huh, I find typing "su" just once is less of an inconvenience than continually prepending "sudo". In Ubuntu, I used "sudo su". I would argue that having sudo installed at all is far less secure, since a hacker just needs to hack any of the "wheel" accounts, and the weakest link in any security scheme is the users leaving the doors open (vs. keeping a tight reign on root).
The word they were looking for is "culpable".
It's in the Bible! Better start working at night, I guess.
I believe gambling is supposed to apply to games of chance, not inevitable certainties.
Don't forget to get your Windows 3.1 running on top of FreeDOS in Bochs or Dosbox, in Gnome on Cygwin on XP on VMWare on your OSX Intel iMac, then you can play Solitaire in style. Or, you can invest in a deck of cards, but that's unsupported hardware.
That's the response I expected. Instead, there were several cogent posts prior to this one that clearly explained why Gates's contempt is well placed. Parent should have be modded either funny or flamebait.
Well, corporations are permitted to exist because they are perceived to increase the public good. When they don't, then they have violated their mandate. I've got news for some people, capitalism is not an ethos. It so happens that it seems to be of greater public benefit than competing systems. When you start justifying your means to the detriment of your ends, you've lost your ethical compass, and it's time to recalibrate.
Parent is correct. Greed is boundless. I personally consider the vasty ad market to be a calculated evil that needs to be expunged. Since the cost of ads goes into the product, you end up paying for the right to be manipulated. This is as corrupt as a government that markets its position on debatable public policy. It gives an entity a say in the direction public affairs that has no business but serving the will of its clients.
...on finding a lawyer. I hear most of them end up downstairs.
Peter Molyneux had a good record, too. Yes, Spore is sounding like Black and White--where's the game? Well, I could ask the same question about the Sims, but I've never played it and never will.
Well, I imagine the Nazis weren't responsible for EVERY bad thing that happened in 1930's German, nor responsible for everything bad imputed to them, but that doesn't mean we should feel all warm and fuzzy about Hitler.
Oops, I went there. I lose.
The necessity of hand-editing xorg.conf or frankly any .conf file keeps Ubuntu and Linux in general out of the mainstream. Joe Sixpack isn't going to do it. Fundamental things such as video, keyboard, and mouse should work immediately, with sane and functional fallbacks.
Silly fool, in the future, Big Brother will have invented the light bulb, just like he invented the toilet, television, and rat face-cages.
A "slippery slope" is usually called when somebody grossly violates a basic principle, but in an innocuous manner, thus opening the door to more flagrant violations of principle (the slope). This is not a logical fallacy; it only appears a fallacy to people who cannot see the underlying principle. A better analogy might be crossing a border with a tank. Going one foot across hardly an invasion makes, but once you've established that you can roll your tank over it any time you like, pretty soon you're rolling that tank to the gates of the capital. Give them an inch, they take a yard.