Well said. I was getting ready to reply similarly when I saw you beat me to it.
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OSx86 Cracked Again
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Undeniable my ass. So-called "piracy" (i.e. sharing of information) is all but unethical -in fact, i find it *highly* ethical, and I find anything that hurts it highly unethical.
So you just want that copy of OSX-x86 because it represents free information? You will what, examine the coding and disseminate the ideas which it spawns? Or you will use it to surf the web, listen to music, play games, burn CDs, and various other day-to-day tasks that involve using it as a tool instead of just 'information'?
If the former, you have my apologies for jumping to conclusions. If the latter, don't hide behind 'ethical information sharing' -- it's still stealing.
We kill the trees!
Dr. Osborn said that in such places, the amount of growth is limited by how warm the summer is. If it is warmer, the tree growth is greater and the tree ring is wider. Colder years have the opposite effect. Each year provides only one tree ring. "So counting back the rings can give the precise date to when each ring actually grew," he said.
Does anyone else detect a whiff of irony, given the purpose of the study?
The article also said: research was undertaken to help determine whether recent warming is a natural phenomenon, part of the normal long-term fluctuations of temperatures that have been observed around the world, or something whose intensity makes it without precedent.
Now what doesn't amke sense to me is that they say "yes, it has been this warm (and warmer) before.... BUT this somehow proves that it's human activity making it warm this time."
That's funny, 'cause when I try that site I get "Warning: main(/var/www/html/includes/page-test.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in/var/www/html/index.php on line 5". I wonde rhow many browsers report this kind of error. Hard to get listeners to justify ad revenue if the corporate browser refuses to parse the php page.
If management will believe all of the FUD out there, over what their [skilled & knowledgeable] employess tell them, then chances are that they are that petty.
Don't worry about the personal opinions of upper management, since they shouldn't be making those technical level decisions, and they should know that.
Follow this advice, and also, don't worry about getting a bonus this year.
I think you're right, but here's what I think the problem is from MS perspective. There's an entire industry built around antivirus/protection rackets. Billions of dollars. If they start to include this product for free (never mind fix the root cause of the issue, that ain't gonna happen) as they really SHOULD do, even though most consumers would not cry "monopoly", the competitors would. And loudly.
They've stuck themselves between a rock and a hard place.
Acomparison between Mozilla's time to patch and MS's isn't necessarily apt. After all, since their browser can't be separated from the OS, they clearly must regression test the entire Windows platform with every IE patch.
Wow. ...according to sources who... It is believed that from here, Google plans to link up... It was also reported in November that Google was... Google has long been rumoured to be.... The technology industry has also been alive with talk that Google... ....industry insiders fear that... ..it is is theoretically possible for them to.... Should Google successfully launch....
Holy crap. That was amazing -- this article took no less than three unsubstantiated rumors, at least two lines of speculation, two "insiders" and combined them to be a story! Now that's journalism!
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Well said. I was getting ready to reply similarly when I saw you beat me to it.
Undeniable my ass. So-called "piracy" (i.e. sharing of information) is all but unethical -in fact, i find it *highly* ethical, and I find anything that hurts it highly unethical.
So you just want that copy of OSX-x86 because it represents free information? You will what, examine the coding and disseminate the ideas which it spawns? Or you will use it to surf the web, listen to music, play games, burn CDs, and various other day-to-day tasks that involve using it as a tool instead of just 'information'?
If the former, you have my apologies for jumping to conclusions. If the latter, don't hide behind 'ethical information sharing' -- it's still stealing.
We kill the trees! Dr. Osborn said that in such places, the amount of growth is limited by how warm the summer is. If it is warmer, the tree growth is greater and the tree ring is wider. Colder years have the opposite effect. Each year provides only one tree ring. "So counting back the rings can give the precise date to when each ring actually grew," he said.
Does anyone else detect a whiff of irony, given the purpose of the study?
The article also said: research was undertaken to help determine whether recent warming is a natural phenomenon, part of the normal long-term fluctuations of temperatures that have been observed around the world, or something whose intensity makes it without precedent.
Now what doesn't amke sense to me is that they say "yes, it has been this warm (and warmer) before.... BUT this somehow proves that it's human activity making it warm this time."
Seriously, UMDs are cool and all, but it'd be much more newsworthy if they were bundling WMDs.
Impressive. Most of them (at time of posting) were under 10 minutes left 'til close, with no bids.
That's funny, 'cause when I try that site I get "Warning: main(/var/www/html/includes/page-test.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/index.php on line 5". I wonde rhow many browsers report this kind of error. Hard to get listeners to justify ad revenue if the corporate browser refuses to parse the php page.
If management will believe all of the FUD out there, over what their [skilled & knowledgeable] employess tell them, then chances are that they are that petty.
Don't worry about the personal opinions of upper management, since they shouldn't be making those technical level decisions, and they should know that.
Follow this advice, and also, don't worry about getting a bonus this year.
I thgouht the 'sitting unbid' comment was flamebait, but he's actually right.
Eh? Who's on first?
I think you're right, but here's what I think the problem is from MS perspective. There's an entire industry built around antivirus/protection rackets. Billions of dollars. If they start to include this product for free (never mind fix the root cause of the issue, that ain't gonna happen) as they really SHOULD do, even though most consumers would not cry "monopoly", the competitors would. And loudly.
They've stuck themselves between a rock and a hard place.
I don't know about you, but I kill people because I love them.
they've been cheating for years.
For example...
It's inside-out day! Flamebait comments get modded as Insightful, and Insightful comments get modded as Flamebait!
Who needs X-ray glasses when we have HD vision? Twice the resolution!
Judging by replies, perhaps my intended sarcasm wasn't apparent...
Acomparison between Mozilla's time to patch and MS's isn't necessarily apt. After all, since their browser can't be separated from the OS, they clearly must regression test the entire Windows platform with every IE patch.
Bleh. Who wants a gelded aircraft?
This is news?
Wow.
...according to sources who... ....
....industry insiders fear that...
..it is is theoretically possible for them to....
It is believed that from here, Google plans to link up...
It was also reported in November that Google was...
Google has long been rumoured to be
The technology industry has also been alive with talk that Google...
Should Google successfully launch....
Holy crap. That was amazing -- this article took no less than three unsubstantiated rumors, at least two lines of speculation, two "insiders" and combined them to be a story! Now that's journalism!
Bah. Don't be so literal :P
a malfunctioning self-destruct procedure during a space shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center
/that/ particular feature?
Now how does one test
But is that unreasonable? Me, I'd just take my business somewhere else... like Comcast Dry Cleaning.
That's all well and good for grammer nazis, but how do you recognize the grammar nazis?