So, it appears God is in trouble. He is claiming to have invented Man 6000 years ago. (Al Gore made a speech earlier in which he claimed to have invented man and that certain parts of the Bible were based on his and Tipper's love affair.)
However, it now appears that there is prior art, far predating God's claims. While no suit has been filed, experts believe God would lose handily if the originator of the earlier design can be found. God did not return any calls when a message was left with his representatives, the Vatican Cathedral and Boys Ranch (Rome), Beth-Bagel Temple (NYC), LDS Church and Wife Emporium (Salt Lake City).
Noted patent and copyright critic, Richard Stallman, stated that this is exactly why copyright and patent laws are bad, "It is clear that God is in the same group as all other profit hungry capitalist swine, like Bill Gates and that smelly Steve Jobs. Really, man is just an idea, and believe me, I have a few ideas about a few men. Which is why I don't use Google because then most of you would know the sites I'm going to, and that would be embarrassing. But...Where was I? Oh, yeah, God is evil. I'm hearby demanding that the new discoveries be called GNU/Homos. Heh, heh, I said, 'Homo.' But, enough of that, if God thinks he can control me..." We were unable to contact Stallman after the line went dead.
Use Google or Yahoo, go to jail, Gitmo, or if you are in China, your family receives a bill for a single 9mm round.
Thank you, Google and Yahoo, for your crimes against humanity, freedom, and civil rights. But then, the profit motive far outweighs your social contracts. Evil is as evil does.
How about solid roll-back capability? Then if my computer was working properly yesterday and isn't today after the update, I can just roll back to yesterday's OS and wait until the next update.
I do this with XP. Works great. But then, I don't run update in the full blown, update without telling me anything mode. When I installed a few fixes and the system halted, I rolled back. Viola, it worked.
The problem is that MS is under the gun. Sometimes they release too soon, and blam it bites them in the butt.
Of course, there are folks that say, "If they would have designed it properly the first time..." But, you know what, a project the size of an OS, kernal, Office app is very hard to weed out all the problems. So, updates are needed. But, you have to balance the quick release versus good release. Too slow and you get a bunch of wonks screaming about "no fix yet", too fast and those same wonks scream, "broken apps".
Sooo..... would this mean that the Pentagon could *bogart* all of the power when needed
Sounds to me like you've got other things to worry about. Like, where is your next stash is coming from? Is that knock on the door the a friend or a cop? Are the feds monitoring your posts? Do you have enough munchies in the fridge or will you have to make a run for McDonalds?
Or, did your roomy bogart all the roaches you had left in the frisbee on top of the TV?
2) It's a bit slow -- they *really* need to switch from Java runtime to GCJ compiled Java.
Here, Java is the kiss of death for contract projects. We've had enough experience, my boss's boss will review a proposed solution, if the contractor says, "We'll do this in Java", the big man will yell, "Next!"
I overheard some contractors who had just learned of the anti-Java bias and one pops up in the hall way and says, "let's do it in Mono. We've been intending to break into that." I have a feeling they had planned on Java and switched at the last moment.
The Office Geek - You know the guy that reminds of you of the SNL skit. His response is usually, "Have you RTFM?", so we try...
An open source forum - You get 20 replies of, "Just RTFM", and 15 more telling you about other solutions that a friend of your Linux using grandmother found, and 10 replies telling you that you should drop any system that wants to compete with MS. so you try...
The Usenet - You find 300 ads for "Busty Teen Cheerleader Incest with Dogs" and a flamewar about VI and EMACS and the 2 actual replies that say, "RTFM", so you finally go back to...
The manual - Checking to see if you missed anything you find, "This section to be completed soon", and "Please consult the xxx forum and KB for information about this topic, so, since you already tried the forum you go to the...
KB - Only to find "This section to be completed soon."
Yeah, there are a thousand paths up Mount Fuji, and they all lead to the top.
All roads lead to Amber.
There are a thousand avenues of support for OSS, but they all lead to some jackass that says, "RTFM" and the TFM that was never completed, because coders don't give a shit about end user docs.
You know, I've seen regular closed projects look like this. SharePoint 2.0 documentation was notorious for the ".get gets the value of ..set sets the value of." A buddy on the SharePoint team in Redmond told me that internally, they considered SharePoint 2.0 to be the beta of the product.
That said, yeah, I mostly attribute the RTFM attitude to OSS proponents.
And, all of this would be compatible with MS Office, down to a UI switch that would allow the user to choose the MS style interface.
All of this would have MONO programmability for "macros". (Not the half-hearted programmability that MS offers, and sorry OO only pays lip service to.)
You do all of that, my org MIGHT think of switching.
The real problem is they have trademarked the words,"MoveOn" and "MoveOn.Org". Now, how do you talk about, rebut, refute what they say without using it. I will say this, any/.'er is a hypocrit if they criticize Scientology for going after critics but support MoveOn.Org's action. They are further hypocrits if they are anti-copyright and support MoveOn. Just because it is a Republican group going after MoveOn?
It should be noted that most of the science Al Gore uses is junk science or poorly interpreted science. His case, though, is not based on science its based on emotion. Some would say "fear mongering". But, this is the highly politicized "Peace Prize" not one of the Science prizes, where showing your proofs is required.
By now, anyone who claims that there is a scientific concensus on man-caused global warming is either a "kool-aid drinker" or being highly disingenuous.
Yes, global warming is occuring. The cause is far from certain but a lot of evidence is piling up that it's an on-cycle occurance with little to do with man. Yes, polluting is bad, but science shows we've survived numerous heating and cooling cycles ("numerous" as long as you don't believe that we've only been on earth for 6 thousand years).
I'm beginning to believe that the faithful of Holy Church of Global Warming are much like our ancestors. In an effort to stave off the disappearance of the sun in the winter, to keep the dragon/snake/lizzard from eating the sun, to keep floods from the village, we are making blood sacrifices. They had a poor understanding of the underlying science. Those that did understand the science used it to their own advantage. "Priests" showed their power by "blessing" the congregants through the events, and surprise, everyone survived the eclipse, except for a few unfortunate virgins.
With people like Al Gore, and our eco-frauds selling "carbon offsets", acting as the temple priests, they warn us of this great coming catastrophe. Meanwhile, the sacrifice we make is to their pocket books. Money, effort, energy, and electorate good will that could be better spent on feeding the poor, healing the sick, and educating the masses is instead spent on halting a natural process that the world has survived many times before.
Can we live greener? Yes. Should we clean up our backyards? Yes. Can we help emerging nations build clean? Yes, and that will improve their living standards. But, to spend the money and electorate goodwill on halting development will lead to the improvement of the most poor.
People like Al Gore will eventually distract us from our real work, caring for the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the less fortunate. Why? Because we will be too busy "Saving the World", so that we can't save the world.
Still, ease of use, the choice to fall back to a more easy OS to use was XP and not Linux.
I installed Ubuntu on my wife's machine this last week, removing XP. Wrong move. The only thing she really uses is the browser and Office. So, I bit the bullet, installed Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice. She's used to FF. No problem there. Ubuntu, she didn't like the interface and found out that her movie making brother (a world class photog) would send her his latest shows in a format that I have yet to find a Linux solution for. And, OpenOffice? Forgetaboutit.
You want peace or piece in the bedroom, don't switch your wife's OS.
It's a good thing it is competing against OpenOffice. OpenOffice barely competes against MS Office. KOffice would be slaughtered in that arena. This is like the Yankees (real major league) against the Seattle Mariners (third-tier major league) against the Modesto Nuts (triple-A minor league).
Sure, the Mariners (OpenOffice) can put in a good year, but some years, they could be beaten by the Nuts (KOffice), and the Yankees (MS Office) are hated by most, but still trounce the competition most of the time. Hell, half the time, the competition is just in awe to be in their stadium.
October rules.
Even if this is not a Yankee year. It most certainly wasn't the Mariners'.
And you're somewhat correct (in that fighters do both offense and defense), but a total "jerk" about it. Which make you an A S S H O L E.
I made the necessary caveats.
But, as a former USAF MTI (drill instructor to uninitiated) I do so revel in the title A S S H O L E I was a campaign hat wearing professional asshole.
The interesting thing about stealth technology however, is that it is almost exclusively used for aggression rather than defense if you play your strategy according to tradition.
Bullshit!
Stealth is not "exclusively" nor "almost exclusively" for aggression, unless you watch too much "Star Trek". The ability to put fighters in the air as a defensive measure and keep their presence unknown or harder to find means they will live longer to defend. D E F E N D or D Fucking Fend.
Fighters have always been primarily about defense, bombers have been offense. Yes, fighters defend bomber groups, but most of the time they are designed to go out, meet the invaders, and take them down, i.e., the other guys' bombers or attack aircraft.
Our ability to hide our defenders until they strike is paramount. It works in poker, boxing, chess, capture the flag, etc.
So, you were "almost" right. Which, makes you W R O N G.
So the plan goes:
1. Patent comic book style device
2. Subtract expenses from revenue
3. Profit
Hmmm.
You F O O L!!!! You actually named step 2. Do you realize the consequences of such an action? The Universe could end. Entropy could accelerate. Look, it's already begun. Why? Why did you do such a thing? Were you not thinking of the children?
But, I thought Linux was more secure and that Linux user's were more security aware. Now you are saying...Oh, I see, the Microsoft hate is so strong you can't see your own lies.
He's apparently never heard of the comma. The article is frustrating to read.
its a if everyone who ever instant messaged were students of ee cummings with a bad lsd and grammer trip thrown and we are all reading 2 page long sentences written by faulkner because our english teachers said he was one of the worlds greatest writers when all we wanted to do was pass with some semblance of knowing what the class was about so we could get on with our technical careers and forget that we were subjected to the torture of keats and poe while would have rather been reading the articles in playboy right like that is what the magazine is for cause dude i go to the web and read news papers and never look at pr0n because my boss would kill me as i try to hammer out code for his new gizmo gadget toy of a phone that can do everything but place a decent call on a decent cell service even though the prices are so freaking high you would think that there quality would be fantastic and right now im thinking that someone is looking for a hidden message in all this but there is no message i didnt bury paul and im am not a knight in satans service but i do own a jack russel terrier and that is one wired dog and is only out done by my border collie thank god weve got a miniature schnauzer now that is a dog that is even tempered and is happy just sitting in the room looking at me staring at me penetrating my brain with those ineffable eyes leaving me wonder what he is thinking what is that dog looking at damn the cat just knocked down my wifes roses and is now eating their leaves
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So, it appears God is in trouble. He is claiming to have invented Man 6000 years ago. (Al Gore made a speech earlier in which he claimed to have invented man and that certain parts of the Bible were based on his and Tipper's love affair.)
However, it now appears that there is prior art, far predating God's claims. While no suit has been filed, experts believe God would lose handily if the originator of the earlier design can be found. God did not return any calls when a message was left with his representatives, the Vatican Cathedral and Boys Ranch (Rome), Beth-Bagel Temple (NYC), LDS Church and Wife Emporium (Salt Lake City).
Noted patent and copyright critic, Richard Stallman, stated that this is exactly why copyright and patent laws are bad, "It is clear that God is in the same group as all other profit hungry capitalist swine, like Bill Gates and that smelly Steve Jobs. Really, man is just an idea, and believe me, I have a few ideas about a few men. Which is why I don't use Google because then most of you would know the sites I'm going to, and that would be embarrassing. But...Where was I? Oh, yeah, God is evil. I'm hearby demanding that the new discoveries be called GNU/Homos. Heh, heh, I said, 'Homo.' But, enough of that, if God thinks he can control me..." We were unable to contact Stallman after the line went dead.
Use Google or Yahoo, go to jail, Gitmo, or if you are in China, your family receives a bill for a single 9mm round.
Thank you, Google and Yahoo, for your crimes against humanity, freedom, and civil rights. But then, the profit motive far outweighs your social contracts. Evil is as evil does.
Note: There was no sarcasm intended.
Wrong, Sparky. "REACTIVE" is the word. But, thank you for playing. Johnny will tell you what your consolation prize is...Tell him what he won, Johnny!
Johnny: A dictionary...Now, look that up in your Funk and Wagnel.
Can we have someone post something to the effect "that if MS weren't so evil, they'd encrypt the drive already and we wouldn't have this problem"?
For gods' sake, people, this is /., if you don't post about how this is MS evil doing, entropy will set in.
Yeah, I installed TruCrypt today so I could encrypt my drive yesterday.
Uh, dude, I think you mean "reactive".
Hey, people, so far, in reading the comment sections, I have yet to see a single anti-MS rant. Can we get it together and start bashing MS?
I love this, rather than discuss the real issues, /. can't even talk about other computers without bashing MS.
I do this with XP. Works great. But then, I don't run update in the full blown, update without telling me anything mode. When I installed a few fixes and the system halted, I rolled back. Viola, it worked.
The problem is that MS is under the gun. Sometimes they release too soon, and blam it bites them in the butt.
Of course, there are folks that say, "If they would have designed it properly the first time..." But, you know what, a project the size of an OS, kernal, Office app is very hard to weed out all the problems. So, updates are needed. But, you have to balance the quick release versus good release. Too slow and you get a bunch of wonks screaming about "no fix yet", too fast and those same wonks scream, "broken apps".
You can have it:
But, you can only choose 2 of the above.
Sounds to me like you've got other things to worry about. Like, where is your next stash is coming from? Is that knock on the door the a friend or a cop? Are the feds monitoring your posts? Do you have enough munchies in the fridge or will you have to make a run for McDonalds?
Or, did your roomy bogart all the roaches you had left in the frisbee on top of the TV?
Here, Java is the kiss of death for contract projects. We've had enough experience, my boss's boss will review a proposed solution, if the contractor says, "We'll do this in Java", the big man will yell, "Next!"
I overheard some contractors who had just learned of the anti-Java bias and one pops up in the hall way and says, "let's do it in Mono. We've been intending to break into that." I have a feeling they had planned on Java and switched at the last moment.
You know, I've seen regular closed projects look like this. SharePoint 2.0 documentation was notorious for the ".get gets the value of . .set sets the value of ." A buddy on the SharePoint team in Redmond told me that internally, they considered SharePoint 2.0 to be the beta of the product.
That said, yeah, I mostly attribute the RTFM attitude to OSS proponents.
How about a complete system?
Open Office System would include:
And, all of this would be compatible with MS Office, down to a UI switch that would allow the user to choose the MS style interface.
All of this would have MONO programmability for "macros". (Not the half-hearted programmability that MS offers, and sorry OO only pays lip service to.)
You do all of that, my org MIGHT think of switching.
The real problem is they have trademarked the words,"MoveOn" and "MoveOn.Org". Now, how do you talk about, rebut, refute what they say without using it. I will say this, any /.'er is a hypocrit if they criticize Scientology for going after critics but support MoveOn.Org's action. They are further hypocrits if they are anti-copyright and support MoveOn. Just because it is a Republican group going after MoveOn?
And since he has NO chance of winning, your support means...
It should be noted that most of the science Al Gore uses is junk science or poorly interpreted science. His case, though, is not based on science its based on emotion. Some would say "fear mongering". But, this is the highly politicized "Peace Prize" not one of the Science prizes, where showing your proofs is required.
By now, anyone who claims that there is a scientific concensus on man-caused global warming is either a "kool-aid drinker" or being highly disingenuous.
Yes, global warming is occuring. The cause is far from certain but a lot of evidence is piling up that it's an on-cycle occurance with little to do with man. Yes, polluting is bad, but science shows we've survived numerous heating and cooling cycles ("numerous" as long as you don't believe that we've only been on earth for 6 thousand years).
I'm beginning to believe that the faithful of Holy Church of Global Warming are much like our ancestors. In an effort to stave off the disappearance of the sun in the winter, to keep the dragon/snake/lizzard from eating the sun, to keep floods from the village, we are making blood sacrifices. They had a poor understanding of the underlying science. Those that did understand the science used it to their own advantage. "Priests" showed their power by "blessing" the congregants through the events, and surprise, everyone survived the eclipse, except for a few unfortunate virgins.
With people like Al Gore, and our eco-frauds selling "carbon offsets", acting as the temple priests, they warn us of this great coming catastrophe. Meanwhile, the sacrifice we make is to their pocket books. Money, effort, energy, and electorate good will that could be better spent on feeding the poor, healing the sick, and educating the masses is instead spent on halting a natural process that the world has survived many times before.
Can we live greener? Yes. Should we clean up our backyards? Yes. Can we help emerging nations build clean? Yes, and that will improve their living standards. But, to spend the money and electorate goodwill on halting development will lead to the improvement of the most poor.
People like Al Gore will eventually distract us from our real work, caring for the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the less fortunate. Why? Because we will be too busy "Saving the World", so that we can't save the world.
Still, ease of use, the choice to fall back to a more easy OS to use was XP and not Linux.
I installed Ubuntu on my wife's machine this last week, removing XP. Wrong move. The only thing she really uses is the browser and Office. So, I bit the bullet, installed Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice. She's used to FF. No problem there. Ubuntu, she didn't like the interface and found out that her movie making brother (a world class photog) would send her his latest shows in a format that I have yet to find a Linux solution for. And, OpenOffice? Forgetaboutit.
You want peace or piece in the bedroom, don't switch your wife's OS.
It's a good thing it is competing against OpenOffice. OpenOffice barely competes against MS Office. KOffice would be slaughtered in that arena. This is like the Yankees (real major league) against the Seattle Mariners (third-tier major league) against the Modesto Nuts (triple-A minor league).
Sure, the Mariners (OpenOffice) can put in a good year, but some years, they could be beaten by the Nuts (KOffice), and the Yankees (MS Office) are hated by most, but still trounce the competition most of the time. Hell, half the time, the competition is just in awe to be in their stadium.
October rules.
Even if this is not a Yankee year. It most certainly wasn't the Mariners'.
I made the necessary caveats.
But, as a former USAF MTI (drill instructor to uninitiated) I do so revel in the title A S S H O L E I was a campaign hat wearing professional asshole.
Bullshit!
Stealth is not "exclusively" nor "almost exclusively" for aggression, unless you watch too much "Star Trek". The ability to put fighters in the air as a defensive measure and keep their presence unknown or harder to find means they will live longer to defend. D E F E N D or D Fucking Fend.
Fighters have always been primarily about defense, bombers have been offense. Yes, fighters defend bomber groups, but most of the time they are designed to go out, meet the invaders, and take them down, i.e., the other guys' bombers or attack aircraft.
Our ability to hide our defenders until they strike is paramount. It works in poker, boxing, chess, capture the flag, etc.
So, you were "almost" right. Which, makes you W R O N G.
You F O O L !!!! You actually named step 2. Do you realize the consequences of such an action? The Universe could end. Entropy could accelerate. Look, it's already begun. Why? Why did you do such a thing? Were you not thinking of the children?
Great, that and global warming.
But, I thought Linux was more secure and that Linux user's were more security aware. Now you are saying...Oh, I see, the Microsoft hate is so strong you can't see your own lies.
How much do you want to bet that "unnamed customers" are synonymous with "various federal and state police agencies, DOD, and NSA"?
Takers?
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