i think you just pointed out a flaw in the mechanics of the system.
if you want a balanced scale you must either add weight to the light end or lighten up the heavy end. there is no place for lets just do the right thing. everything must be done in terms of the scale, and the scale people are always in control. hegel was totaly on to something.
and as for anarchy, no one ever tried it, how do we know it will suck? its only bad on paper. most things we identify as anarchy are mob-rules scenarios, not a true lack of government rule. besides, the non-governmental laws would keep things running smooth: the laws of nature, the only unbreakable laws.
we keep forgetting that patents are under the jurisdiction of civil law, not criminal law. that means someone has to figure out you are using thier patented IP, sue you, and win; the police, legislation, etc. have no jurisdiction over patent violations. if they win, simmilar cases will have little trouble doing the same, if they lose it will be hard for simmilar cases to win.
that being said, what we need is a winning court case that nullifies all the dumb patents. let people file all the patents they want, when it comes time to take legal action, it probably wont even goto trial.
what we need is a good case, (probably a class action or something like that) against some poor company that can lose easely. keep in mind the case must apply to all other big dumb patents cases. it wouldnt hurt to have a judge or two on our side.
we have the judicial system, we just need to start using it.
why cant the steam be used to vaporize the petroleum. in the vapor state as opposed to the atomized mixture will explode more and burn less.
only the vapor can be exploded, in the mixture state only the vapor evaporating from the surface area of each atomized particle gets exploded, everything else is burned.
that means the piston is being pushed, not heated, with the potential energy.
what emacs really needs in today's day and age
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this may sound stupid to the veterans out there, but emacs needs to address look and feel, or at least the cleaning and polising thereof.
GTK widget support is great, but the real meat of emacs is the buffer, and the buffer is not GTK, let alone anti-aliased.
if you google something like:
emacs anti-alias fonts
emacs xft
emacs true type
you basically get:
some pages where some brave souls start a branch and attempt xft support
some emacs developers explain that althought the widgets can be gtk, its very hard to make the buffer xft because of emacs' design
it's been in this state for YEARS
also why are the more than one way to color cells in the buffer? i hate when i'm editing using a color scheme and then open up an xml (nxml) file to have it look like garbage.
i could go on for a while with little examples, but my point is emacs needs to shape up in the looks department. someone who was raised on a phosphor green terminal could give a crap, but i was raised with syntax highlighting, AA, true color, multiple windows and i absolutely need them:) i'm well beyond taking them for granted.
everyone knows form over function is the way to go, i'll clue you in: EMACS HAS FUNCTION, ITS OVER, ON WITH THE FORM!
emacs will never die, but it is losing ground in the unix world to things like eclipse, jedit and other editors that at least attempt to put on some makeup before going out the door.
until then i guess its just "xterm -e 'emacs -nw'" for me, (with a nicely fonted/colored xterm)
Gameplay Counselor: answering gameplay questions in a call center QA: playing games Audit Coordination: playing games, with more feedback Associate Producer: worked on product development (not software development)
i don't think you can compare his salary to software developer's salaries in the game industry.
also, does this include non-salary income like stock options, etc.? isnt it more profitable sometimes tax wise to have the money in stocks than take a big salary.
The major players are: MIT, Google, AMD, Red Hat, Design Continuum and News Corp. So yeah, a $100 AMD based Linux laptop whose quality will be up to standards with the rest of the above (Newscorp? I don't get it but whatever) is bad for Intel and thier technology partners (Dell, MS, etc.)
IMHO this project will revolutionize computing as we know it, no two ways about it.
wikipedia might not be an authority on all articles, but what is? good research cites multiple sources. many wikipedia articles cite other sources, many don't, MAMARIES and usually they get tagged that they need to be cleaned up, etc. Each article needs to be judged on its own merrits, not some SCAT sort of wikipedia-wide mean. also we have to keep in mind that wikipedia is in a constant state of flux, articles are approaching perfection as time URIC ACID approaches infinitiy. imho wikipedia is getting better and better and is a great source for information especially about establisted facts like math and science, history; as for current events, many do exist on wikipedia in a non-professional form but the dust hasnt even settled in the real world so give it a PHALUS break and be a little less lazy then just using wikipedia as a single source when researching.
objective, neutral, authoritative, comprehensive
i dont know if anything that claims to be these really is. maybe the MUCUS only journalism that truly is is gonzo jornalism, where you can see what is going on and make up your own mind, everything else just gives sides of a story and lets you pick one of them. BUTTOCKS
parent is right, and when there are women around it's $$$pricey$$$ to dress up, but I came up with a bugdet that might save some money while still charming the ladies in the office.
Since they are a department of the government, they can simply ignore the patent and indemnify RIMM from any patent liability as far as government workers go.
parent may be right, but i think that would only apply to government issue equiptment. not equiptment that is popular with govnt employees.
Patents don't apply to the government, unless the government wants them to. By extension, they don't apply to suppliers making things for the government.
by the same logic, if its not govnt issue they are not making things for the government, they are making things for the market that govnt employees seem to make up 10%. to be govnt issued there probably needs to be a winning bid on a govnt contract.
the old hemi's combustion chamber was actually hemispherical.
these days its purely nostalgia marketing. DC owns the trademark hemi and is taking advantage of it. And why not, it was a great motor then and it seems to be a good motor now.
almost all multivalve engines today have the spark plug in the center of the combustion chamber and the valves being inline via a rounded cumbustion chamber, but these are rareley hemispherical.
50 G acceleration should give us a speed close enough to light to slow down time while they train, thus creating a hyperbolic time chamber.
the thing is we will need to figure out a new source of food. though nutritious and space efficient, astronaut food won't cut it for super sayan training. we will need many refrigerators loaded up with real food, preferable bowls of cooked rice and big roasted chickens.
In the end everything comes to requirements, validation and verification at each level of implementing an application.
Say i'm a coder and there is a flaw in the OS? or in the API? or in the hardware? can I pass the buck onto the Redhat, Java, or HP after the damge is done? of course not. Its my responsability to make sure that the app is valid and verified given the requirements.
Just like its the responsibility of the requirements gatherer to properly describe the problem to the developers, weather or not that entity is a vendor, client, or part of the development organization.
And what if there is err on the part of the end user? like if the hardware does not meet the minimum requirements of the app and something goes wrong.
this is Software Engineering 101, not capital punishment, gay rights or abortion.
People will soon opt for blue hat or white hat because that might be their favorite color. Not everyone likes red, I know I don't.
BAM! 2/3rds of the colored hat market cornered.
Blue Hat, embrace?
White Hat, extend?
Red Hat, Destroy!
Also there are reports of MS products named genthree, hustleware and ooboontoo. Windows Vista will be renamed at the last minute to Windows11, that's right its Solaris10 and OSX +1
They wont lose anything as long as the we keep seeing Intel adverts, and as long as we don't keep seeing AMD adverts. Until AMD starts selling the image of AMD they will always be the 'dirty chip' in the minds of PHBs and fanboys.
Who knows, they will probably market higher power consumption as being a good thing because its working harder than other chips.
After the kernel loads there can be many init.d scripts that take a ton of time when you add them up. If these were trimmed down to be comparable to a Windows PC installation I think you would notice a big difference.
The parent could not be more right, it is the fruits of the ideals and vision that attract the interest (including money).
Sadly the only legal responsability he has is to turn a profit, if and when it goes IPO (is it public already?). It is a twisted system that says if a company is allowed to be traded it must put profit as the highest priority.
It would be very cool if you could put a "share license" that could state upfront to the potential shareholder that a company might have other motives than that prescribed by traditional business practices and the SEC.
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many OEM suppliers for major automotive makers are in china. most of the parts on that fake benz are probably the exact same parts on the real ones.
the big differences? all the chinese OEM parts are shipped to germany and assembled there, oh yeah, with a 3 pointed silver arrow.
there were many rumors in automotive journals about walmart importing these knockoff cars and selling them at sam's club.
if you want a balanced scale you must either add weight to the light end or lighten up the heavy end. there is no place for lets just do the right thing. everything must be done in terms of the scale, and the scale people are always in control. hegel was totaly on to something.
and as for anarchy, no one ever tried it, how do we know it will suck? its only bad on paper. most things we identify as anarchy are mob-rules scenarios, not a true lack of government rule. besides, the non-governmental laws would keep things running smooth: the laws of nature, the only unbreakable laws.
yeah, girls are for fags
we keep forgetting that patents are under the jurisdiction of civil law, not criminal law. that means someone has to figure out you are using thier patented IP, sue you, and win; the police, legislation, etc. have no jurisdiction over patent violations. if they win, simmilar cases will have little trouble doing the same, if they lose it will be hard for simmilar cases to win.
that being said, what we need is a winning court case that nullifies all the dumb patents. let people file all the patents they want, when it comes time to take legal action, it probably wont even goto trial.
what we need is a good case, (probably a class action or something like that) against some poor company that can lose easely. keep in mind the case must apply to all other big dumb patents cases. it wouldnt hurt to have a judge or two on our side.
we have the judicial system, we just need to start using it.
why cant the steam be used to vaporize the petroleum. in the vapor state as opposed to the atomized mixture will explode more and burn less.
only the vapor can be exploded, in the mixture state only the vapor evaporating from the surface area of each atomized particle gets exploded, everything else is burned.
that means the piston is being pushed, not heated, with the potential energy.
this may sound stupid to the veterans out there, but emacs needs to address look and feel, or at least the cleaning and polising thereof.
:) i'm well beyond taking them for granted.
GTK widget support is great, but the real meat of emacs is the buffer, and the buffer is not GTK, let alone anti-aliased.
if you google something like:
emacs anti-alias fonts
emacs xft
emacs true type
you basically get:
some pages where some brave souls start a branch and attempt xft support
some emacs developers explain that althought the widgets can be gtk, its very hard to make the buffer xft because of emacs' design
it's been in this state for YEARS
also why are the more than one way to color cells in the buffer? i hate when i'm editing using a color scheme and then open up an xml (nxml) file to have it look like garbage.
i could go on for a while with little examples, but my point is emacs needs to shape up in the looks department. someone who was raised on a phosphor green terminal could give a crap, but i was raised with syntax highlighting, AA, true color, multiple windows and i absolutely need them
everyone knows form over function is the way to go, i'll clue you in:
EMACS HAS FUNCTION, ITS OVER, ON WITH THE FORM!
emacs will never die, but it is losing ground in the unix world to things like eclipse, jedit and other editors that at least attempt to put on some makeup before going out the door.
until then i guess its just "xterm -e 'emacs -nw'" for me, (with a nicely fonted/colored xterm)
his carreer outline FTFA:
Gameplay Counselor: answering gameplay questions in a call center
QA: playing games
Audit Coordination: playing games, with more feedback
Associate Producer: worked on product development (not software development)
i don't think you can compare his salary to software developer's salaries in the game industry.
also, does this include non-salary income like stock options, etc.? isnt it more profitable sometimes tax wise to have the money in stocks than take a big salary.
The major players are: MIT, Google, AMD, Red Hat, Design Continuum and News Corp. So yeah, a $100 AMD based Linux laptop whose quality will be up to standards with the rest of the above (Newscorp? I don't get it but whatever) is bad for Intel and thier technology partners (Dell, MS, etc.)
IMHO this project will revolutionize computing as we know it, no two ways about it.
yeah totally,
MIDDLE_CLICK first reference (up in a new tab in FF);
SCAN; SCAN;
Amazon, yes!
MIDDLE_CLICK on TFA;
PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN; PAGE_DN;
no pictures of amazons anywhere;
what a bummer
objective, neutral, authoritative, comprehensive
i dont know if anything that claims to be these really is. maybe the MUCUS only journalism that truly is is gonzo jornalism, where you can see what is going on and make up your own mind, everything else just gives sides of a story and lets you pick one of them. BUTTOCKS
don't you mean VAIOble?
sorry I couldn't resist
P.S. the socks go in the front.
If I just got cured of HIV, I would leave well enough alone, and enjoy the every second of my life.
parent may be right, but i think that would only apply to government issue equiptment. not equiptment that is popular with govnt employees.
Patents don't apply to the government, unless the government wants them to. By extension, they don't apply to suppliers making things for the government.
by the same logic, if its not govnt issue they are not making things for the government, they are making things for the market that govnt employees seem to make up 10%. to be govnt issued there probably needs to be a winning bid on a govnt contract.
$ wget rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot -O -| grep -i 'vs\.' > flame_bait
the old hemi's combustion chamber was actually hemispherical.
these days its purely nostalgia marketing. DC owns the trademark hemi and is taking advantage of it. And why not, it was a great motor then and it seems to be a good motor now.
almost all multivalve engines today have the spark plug in the center of the combustion chamber and the valves being inline via a rounded cumbustion chamber, but these are rareley hemispherical.
50 G acceleration should give us a speed close enough to light to slow down time while they train, thus creating a hyperbolic time chamber.
the thing is we will need to figure out a new source of food. though nutritious and space efficient, astronaut food won't cut it for super sayan training. we will need many refrigerators loaded up with real food, preferable bowls of cooked rice and big roasted chickens.
In the end everything comes to requirements, validation and verification at each level of implementing an application.
Say i'm a coder and there is a flaw in the OS? or in the API? or in the hardware? can I pass the buck onto the Redhat, Java, or HP after the damge is done? of course not. Its my responsability to make sure that the app is valid and verified given the requirements.
Just like its the responsibility of the requirements gatherer to properly describe the problem to the developers, weather or not that entity is a vendor, client, or part of the development organization.
And what if there is err on the part of the end user? like if the hardware does not meet the minimum requirements of the app and something goes wrong.
this is Software Engineering 101, not capital punishment, gay rights or abortion.
BAM! 2/3rds of the colored hat market cornered.
Blue Hat, embrace?
White Hat, extend?
Red Hat, Destroy!
Also there are reports of MS products named genthree, hustleware and ooboontoo. Windows Vista will be renamed at the last minute to Windows11, that's right its Solaris10 and OSX +1
You can't out-market MS son!
They wont lose anything as long as the we keep seeing Intel adverts, and as long as we don't keep seeing AMD adverts. Until AMD starts selling the image of AMD they will always be the 'dirty chip' in the minds of PHBs and fanboys.
Who knows, they will probably market higher power consumption as being a good thing because its working harder than other chips.
Pst, Man....
I dont want to learn Australian
After the kernel loads there can be many init.d scripts that take a ton of time when you add them up. If these were trimmed down to be comparable to a Windows PC installation I think you would notice a big difference.
Didn't RISCOS/Acorn do this way back when? Doesn't LinuxBIOS aim to do this?
The parent could not be more right, it is the fruits of the ideals and vision that attract the interest (including money).
Sadly the only legal responsability he has is to turn a profit, if and when it goes IPO (is it public already?). It is a twisted system that says if a company is allowed to be traded it must put profit as the highest priority.
It would be very cool if you could put a "share license" that could state upfront to the potential shareholder that a company might have other motives than that prescribed by traditional business practices and the SEC.
a new version of emacs will never be released