Have you ever played golf? It's truly a challenging sport. You need tip-top intelligence to play. It isn't a matter of throwing a large ball to a large teammate who is a mere 20 yards away. No, you're directing a very small projectile to a very small, static target hundreds of yards away using a metallic extension to one's arms. That takes real skill, agility and pure physical strength.
I could go on with the mental aspects of the game, but I believe you have a better respect for golf already.
The concept of "radio", as in the means to relatively easily and affordably address large masses of people, does not revolve around music.
Another very important component is the dispersal of political thought. Indeed, that perhaps overrides the importance of music any day. If it were not for the independence of the current Internet, groups such as the 9/11 truth movement would never have been able to deliver their message to so many people.
Take up an individual sport like running or golf. Those are true sports, because they test an individuals physical talent, agility and endurance, in addition to their mental fortitude. Best of all, they lack the homoerotic comraderie of man-touch-man contact team sports like football and rugby.
I believe he's implying that the rest of the sentence suggests that corporations are cashing in on community projects, therefore eliminating any sort of socialist element.
But then we have something like the Mozilla Corporation, which was formed by the project itself. So we're having socialist, community-based projects drawing from corporate culture. The projects themselves are voluntarily promoting the melding of their socialistic attitudes and practices with those of corporations and Big Business. It's not really a matter of businesses hijacking an existing project and using their financial clout to basically take it over.
The main limiting factor is, like usual, time and resources. A product like Oracle, for instance, has had years upon years of time and millions upon millions of dollars poured into it. While the open source community can produce the mighty fine PostgreSQL, they just don't have the time nor resources to produce a product equivalent to Oracle.
Like it or not, open source projects are constrained by the same factors of production that any other good is constrained by. They can't be avoided, be it an open source project or a commercial, closed-source project.
Perhaps we'd get further if you explained why exactly you fail to understand its use in that sentence.
Put simply, we are seeing a combining of a form of socialism (as displayed by many open source projects) with the practices and philosophies of the corporate world. Hence the term "socialist-corporate". Not very difficult to comprehend, my friend.
We are seeing a very socialist-corporate trend developing in the open source world. Projects that were developed by the community for the shared, collective benefit of the community are now getting involved with corporate shenanigans. Between this Mambo spat and the recently announced Mozilla Corporation, and Linus' trademark licensing of Linux, we are seeing a very real trend developing.
Now, the real question is: is this good for the community? At this point, it is difficult to tell. What may be benign at this point may become very chilling in the near future, especially if intellectual property rights start geting involved.
Now how about catching some of the cheaters in my engineering classes?
Don't worry. They'll be caught in the real world when the buildings they design collapse, or the machine they design breaks apart and kills someone, or when they can't design a functioning 4-bit comparator.
That's not a bad thing at all. It's very good that the police and investigators are forced into building an extremely strong case in such incidents. Strong cases built on real evidence is what true justice is all about.
But what really stops somebody from forging an RFID-enabled chip? It doesn't matter what criteria you use to try to validate the chip: the diameter, the weight, the material, specially-placed holes, ridged edges, RFID, etc. Whatever method is chosen can be easily faked.
If they let these children play games, they should also make sure they keep them away from the GameFAQs.com forums. Frankly, I think such forums are destroying the minds of youth all over the world.
My grandson pointed out to me the horrible grammar and spelling of most young people there. He has decent communication skills, and he found it very funny how poorly some of the fools there wrote. GameFAQs is anti-education: it makes young people stupider.
People coming out of the 1920's education system were far smarter than what the system is producing now. They could actually read, write, and perform mathematics. Imagine that! Today you'll find many university-level students who struggle with such basic tasks.
The strict discipline of the early 20th century gave children only one choice: to learn! And so they did.
Having dealt recently with a doctor from India, I must disagree with you. Part of being a doctor is having excellent communication skills. You must be able to explain to patients in a clear and concise fashion what the problem is, and what steps must be taken to remedy the situation. The doctor I dealt with lacked such skills. While perhaps he was a fantastic doctor, his verbal skills left a very bad impression on me.
Now while there are surely Indian doctors who have an excellent command of the English language and superior communication skills, there are many who do not. And nothing is more frustrating than dealing with a doctor who, even though he or she may be the best surgeon or doctor in the world, cannot communicate efficiently and effectively with patients. It is the bad experiences that people will remember most.
Rather than screaming "r@cIsm!1!!" whenever somebody points out such problems, perhaps you should be encouraging such doctors to improve their communication skills. Most decent people would gladly recommend a talented Indian doctor who is able to communicate well, without thinking twice about that doctor's race.
IBM did it in a very half-assed sort of way with OS/2. First of all, they never marketed OS/2 properly. Unlike IBM, Sun is actually making some noise about x86 Solaris. Articles and reviews are being written. People are hearing about it, and trying it out. Its market share is growing, even if somewhat slowly at this time.
Also, IBM ended up wasting far too many resources on the OS/2 PPC port. Insiders have described it as one of the main reasons why OS/2 failed. Had the resources been put towards improving OS/2 and its hardware support, perhaps the majority of PC users today would be using OS/2 rather than XP or some other version of Windows.
We're about to see a major war between three very large computing firms: Microsoft with Windows and.NET, Sun with Solaris and Java, and Apple with Mac OS X and Cocoa.
Frankly, I think this desktop/workstation market conflict will make the UNIX Wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s look petty in comparison. In one corner there's Apple, offering extreme multimedia and usability via Mac OS X and Cocoa. Then there's Sun, with the extreme stability of Solaris and Java. And finally Microsoft, with.NET and the marketshare of Windows.
It isn't just a battle over which operating system is better. It also involves three competing development environments involving three separate (yet similar in many ways) languages. I'd like to consider it more of a Systems Stack war. The vendors are competing on their ability to provide a coherent operating system/programming platform composition.
I believe we will really see things heating up in the near future as each system attempts to draw the best features from the other. Windows will obtain the stability and security of Solaris; Mac OS X will obtain the enterprise connectivity of Solaris; Solaris will obtain the multimedia mastery of Mac OS X. We're living in very interesting times, folks!
It wasn't until quite recently that Sun really started pushing Solaris x86 as an option. Before then it was mostly considered the feeble bastard brother of SPARC Solaris. Sure, you could run it somewhat on certain systems, but overall it was quite useless (mainly due to a complete lack of hardware support).
No, Sun couldn't outright "kill" Linux. But they could still turn around and provide a superior desktop/workstation system. Considering they're a corporation, and they have money, they may be able to convince other hardware providers to write Solaris x86 drivers. That is something that Linux mostly has not been able to do until quite recently.
Of course, you could always get a Sun system and have a system that is nearly perfectly integrated.
Ideally, Solaris could take the best of both Windows and Mac OS X in the workstation/desktop market: it could support existing, non-Sun hardware quite well (similar to Windows), while at the same time also being available as a highly integrated and controlled system (similar to Mac OS X).
A "war of agression" from the pespective of America. The Iraqi citizens are in a "war of defence" against the American and British invaders. It's all a matter of perspective. In response to the previous poster's post, it is concerning an American perspective on the situation.
Remember, the citizenry of the US is very different and very separate from those who are actually calling the shots. While the citizens do their little election dance every four years, it makes very little difference. They're choosing between two people from basically the same group. The people running the country do benefit financially from war. They aren't dying; it's the sons and daughters of the American citizenry who are over there right now.
Well, I'm not a fan of Zelda games either. They're just not fun. Perhaps it's the story line more than anything. I can't relate to some young little boy dancing around in some medievel fantasy world with Deku trees and all that. I don't care if he can't find his magical flute. At least a game like Mario 64 is a bit closer to reality. And a game like Goldeneye even more so.
Indeed, any truly competent economist is very worried about the situation. But what can he or she really do or even say? Of course the obvious thing to do would be to suggest stop wasting literally hundreds of billions of dollars on various wars of aggression. But then he or she will be labelled a "terrorist sympathizer" or a "liberal".
Perhaps the problem is that American is innundated with morons. Morons don't understand economics. Morons find it easier to label people as "supporters of terror" than actually improving the situation. A strong economy is earned through hard work, investment and productivity increases. Morons are not particularly interested in such things.
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Have you ever played golf? It's truly a challenging sport. You need tip-top intelligence to play. It isn't a matter of throwing a large ball to a large teammate who is a mere 20 yards away. No, you're directing a very small projectile to a very small, static target hundreds of yards away using a metallic extension to one's arms. That takes real skill, agility and pure physical strength.
I could go on with the mental aspects of the game, but I believe you have a better respect for golf already.
The concept of "radio", as in the means to relatively easily and affordably address large masses of people, does not revolve around music.
Another very important component is the dispersal of political thought. Indeed, that perhaps overrides the importance of music any day. If it were not for the independence of the current Internet, groups such as the 9/11 truth movement would never have been able to deliver their message to so many people.
Take up an individual sport like running or golf. Those are true sports, because they test an individuals physical talent, agility and endurance, in addition to their mental fortitude. Best of all, they lack the homoerotic comraderie of man-touch-man contact team sports like football and rugby.
I believe he's implying that the rest of the sentence suggests that corporations are cashing in on community projects, therefore eliminating any sort of socialist element.
But then we have something like the Mozilla Corporation, which was formed by the project itself. So we're having socialist, community-based projects drawing from corporate culture. The projects themselves are voluntarily promoting the melding of their socialistic attitudes and practices with those of corporations and Big Business. It's not really a matter of businesses hijacking an existing project and using their financial clout to basically take it over.
The main limiting factor is, like usual, time and resources. A product like Oracle, for instance, has had years upon years of time and millions upon millions of dollars poured into it. While the open source community can produce the mighty fine PostgreSQL, they just don't have the time nor resources to produce a product equivalent to Oracle.
Like it or not, open source projects are constrained by the same factors of production that any other good is constrained by. They can't be avoided, be it an open source project or a commercial, closed-source project.
Perhaps we'd get further if you explained why exactly you fail to understand its use in that sentence.
Put simply, we are seeing a combining of a form of socialism (as displayed by many open source projects) with the practices and philosophies of the corporate world. Hence the term "socialist-corporate". Not very difficult to comprehend, my friend.
We are seeing a very socialist-corporate trend developing in the open source world. Projects that were developed by the community for the shared, collective benefit of the community are now getting involved with corporate shenanigans. Between this Mambo spat and the recently announced Mozilla Corporation, and Linus' trademark licensing of Linux, we are seeing a very real trend developing.
Now, the real question is: is this good for the community? At this point, it is difficult to tell. What may be benign at this point may become very chilling in the near future, especially if intellectual property rights start geting involved.
Now how about catching some of the cheaters in my engineering classes?
Don't worry. They'll be caught in the real world when the buildings they design collapse, or the machine they design breaks apart and kills someone, or when they can't design a functioning 4-bit comparator.
That's not a bad thing at all. It's very good that the police and investigators are forced into building an extremely strong case in such incidents. Strong cases built on real evidence is what true justice is all about.
But what really stops somebody from forging an RFID-enabled chip? It doesn't matter what criteria you use to try to validate the chip: the diameter, the weight, the material, specially-placed holes, ridged edges, RFID, etc. Whatever method is chosen can be easily faked.
Better catch those sumbitches!
If they let these children play games, they should also make sure they keep them away from the GameFAQs.com forums. Frankly, I think such forums are destroying the minds of youth all over the world.
My grandson pointed out to me the horrible grammar and spelling of most young people there. He has decent communication skills, and he found it very funny how poorly some of the fools there wrote. GameFAQs is anti-education: it makes young people stupider.
People coming out of the 1920's education system were far smarter than what the system is producing now. They could actually read, write, and perform mathematics. Imagine that! Today you'll find many university-level students who struggle with such basic tasks.
The strict discipline of the early 20th century gave children only one choice: to learn! And so they did.
I've been meaning to get circumcised lately, but I think I'll wait until this procedure is a bit more mature before I subject my manhood to it.
Having dealt recently with a doctor from India, I must disagree with you. Part of being a doctor is having excellent communication skills. You must be able to explain to patients in a clear and concise fashion what the problem is, and what steps must be taken to remedy the situation. The doctor I dealt with lacked such skills. While perhaps he was a fantastic doctor, his verbal skills left a very bad impression on me.
Now while there are surely Indian doctors who have an excellent command of the English language and superior communication skills, there are many who do not. And nothing is more frustrating than dealing with a doctor who, even though he or she may be the best surgeon or doctor in the world, cannot communicate efficiently and effectively with patients. It is the bad experiences that people will remember most.
Rather than screaming "r@cIsm!1!!" whenever somebody points out such problems, perhaps you should be encouraging such doctors to improve their communication skills. Most decent people would gladly recommend a talented Indian doctor who is able to communicate well, without thinking twice about that doctor's race.
Indeed. That is why I said, and I quote, ".. SPARC and M68K based, for the most part, ..".
Sun has provided excellent workstations for well over 15 years. Except they have been SPARC and M68K based, for the most part, rather than i386 PCs.
IBM did it in a very half-assed sort of way with OS/2. First of all, they never marketed OS/2 properly. Unlike IBM, Sun is actually making some noise about x86 Solaris. Articles and reviews are being written. People are hearing about it, and trying it out. Its market share is growing, even if somewhat slowly at this time.
Also, IBM ended up wasting far too many resources on the OS/2 PPC port. Insiders have described it as one of the main reasons why OS/2 failed. Had the resources been put towards improving OS/2 and its hardware support, perhaps the majority of PC users today would be using OS/2 rather than XP or some other version of Windows.
KDE has a significant hold in Europe. Moreso than GNOME at this time. But that's not unusual, considering that KDE was initially developed in Germany.
v ade-europe.html
See this article from May 2005 for more info:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73035/gnome-set-to-in
We're about to see a major war between three very large computing firms: Microsoft with Windows and .NET, Sun with Solaris and Java, and Apple with Mac OS X and Cocoa.
.NET and the marketshare of Windows.
Frankly, I think this desktop/workstation market conflict will make the UNIX Wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s look petty in comparison. In one corner there's Apple, offering extreme multimedia and usability via Mac OS X and Cocoa. Then there's Sun, with the extreme stability of Solaris and Java. And finally Microsoft, with
It isn't just a battle over which operating system is better. It also involves three competing development environments involving three separate (yet similar in many ways) languages. I'd like to consider it more of a Systems Stack war. The vendors are competing on their ability to provide a coherent operating system/programming platform composition.
I believe we will really see things heating up in the near future as each system attempts to draw the best features from the other. Windows will obtain the stability and security of Solaris; Mac OS X will obtain the enterprise connectivity of Solaris; Solaris will obtain the multimedia mastery of Mac OS X. We're living in very interesting times, folks!
It wasn't until quite recently that Sun really started pushing Solaris x86 as an option. Before then it was mostly considered the feeble bastard brother of SPARC Solaris. Sure, you could run it somewhat on certain systems, but overall it was quite useless (mainly due to a complete lack of hardware support).
No, Sun couldn't outright "kill" Linux. But they could still turn around and provide a superior desktop/workstation system. Considering they're a corporation, and they have money, they may be able to convince other hardware providers to write Solaris x86 drivers. That is something that Linux mostly has not been able to do until quite recently.
Of course, you could always get a Sun system and have a system that is nearly perfectly integrated.
Ideally, Solaris could take the best of both Windows and Mac OS X in the workstation/desktop market: it could support existing, non-Sun hardware quite well (similar to Windows), while at the same time also being available as a highly integrated and controlled system (similar to Mac OS X).
A "war of agression" from the pespective of America. The Iraqi citizens are in a "war of defence" against the American and British invaders. It's all a matter of perspective. In response to the previous poster's post, it is concerning an American perspective on the situation.
Remember, the citizenry of the US is very different and very separate from those who are actually calling the shots. While the citizens do their little election dance every four years, it makes very little difference. They're choosing between two people from basically the same group. The people running the country do benefit financially from war. They aren't dying; it's the sons and daughters of the American citizenry who are over there right now.
Well, I'm not a fan of Zelda games either. They're just not fun. Perhaps it's the story line more than anything. I can't relate to some young little boy dancing around in some medievel fantasy world with Deku trees and all that. I don't care if he can't find his magical flute. At least a game like Mario 64 is a bit closer to reality. And a game like Goldeneye even more so.
Indeed, any truly competent economist is very worried about the situation. But what can he or she really do or even say? Of course the obvious thing to do would be to suggest stop wasting literally hundreds of billions of dollars on various wars of aggression. But then he or she will be labelled a "terrorist sympathizer" or a "liberal".
Perhaps the problem is that American is innundated with morons. Morons don't understand economics. Morons find it easier to label people as "supporters of terror" than actually improving the situation. A strong economy is earned through hard work, investment and productivity increases. Morons are not particularly interested in such things.