I for one, am sick of all these Anglo-centric/. stories. Come on, not everybody is a Brit around here!
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But they haven't quit yet - they're playing in my town tonight...
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Obviously, send in the hippies! Once Phish wraps up their tour, I'm sure they'll need something to do.
Seriously, though, of course corporations are picking up most of the work. Don't forget, however, that federal procurement rules also carve out a portion of bids for small businesses. I saw a recent TV news story that claimed roughly $500 million in contracts have been given out already to small businesses engaged in the Iraq rebuilding effort.
Don't forget tendons and ligaments as well - some of the steroid discussion around Major League Baseball has been that you can tell which players are shooting up based on the recurring injuries they seem to incur...
The whole certification issue has been discussed here many times before (whether they are worthwhile or not), but it is particularly worrysome when different vendors start using different terms for roughly the same thing.
Besides, when I see that new Red Hat title, I can't help but think of George Castanza saying that...
Newspaper stories might be more polished, but I haven't noticed them being any more accurate.
While bashing the journalistic media is a favorite pasttime, Slashdot doesn't even remotely approach journalistic standards in terms of story publishing. Just because the editors get paid doesn't make them professional journalists, they're more like discussion facilitators than anything else.
Your post sounds somewhat contradictory. If you think the world is too caught up in war and greed, then commercial space flight isn't a farfetched idea at all. In the near term, there are great rewards in store for commercial providers of orbit-level space flight, and in the long term, well, who knows what the possibilities might be???
Interestingly, this/. article shows up as a headline on Google News. It's pretty scary when/. stories show up alongside actual professional journalism...
You have to remember that most of those goodies arrive after a lawmaker leaves office, in the form of cushy consulting jobs, or positions on corporate boards that require little if any actual work.
I've still got a JPS t-shirt from one of the Detroit races back then. Of course, it's a weee bit small for me these days. But it's still cool! No matter what my wife says...
Probably the greatest F1 race I ever saw was in Spain I believe, when Senna had the first active suspension system in his Lotus. He was basically able to complete the race with fewer stops for tires because the suspension reduced tire wear, whereas Nigel Mansell (sp?) got a fresh set of rubber with about 20 laps to go, and started setting record lap times trying to catch up to Senna. It came down the final lap, and after a great battle between the two, Senna won by a fraction of a second.
It was a great (and rare) example of different technological approaches playing out wheel-to-wheel for the victory, right alongside the personal battle between the drivers.
Perhaps this speaks more to the founder's views of Linux Today readers than anything else. I would think tuxors would be thrilled to be siphoning some funds from MS in this manner...
There are still other ways for manufacturers to lock business into their dealerships. My father-in-law drives a Jetta with a horrible radio, and was told by an independent shop that a certain key is required (?) to remove the radio from the dash, and that he'd have to go to the dealer for that.
Not only is he on his own to replace the piece of $hit radio and antenna built into his car, but he gets to pay dealer premium just to take the crap out! Has anybody else heard of this? It was news to me...
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I for one, am sick of all these Anglo-centric /. stories. Come on, not everybody is a Brit around here!
But they haven't quit yet - they're playing in my town tonight...
Obviously, send in the hippies! Once Phish wraps up their tour, I'm sure they'll need something to do.
Seriously, though, of course corporations are picking up most of the work. Don't forget, however, that federal procurement rules also carve out a portion of bids for small businesses. I saw a recent TV news story that claimed roughly $500 million in contracts have been given out already to small businesses engaged in the Iraq rebuilding effort.
Don't forget tendons and ligaments as well - some of the steroid discussion around Major League Baseball has been that you can tell which players are shooting up based on the recurring injuries they seem to incur...
The whole certification issue has been discussed here many times before (whether they are worthwhile or not), but it is particularly worrysome when different vendors start using different terms for roughly the same thing.
Besides, when I see that new Red Hat title, I can't help but think of George Castanza saying that...
Hey, we've got a new guy in the office whose name is (no kidding) William Wacker. I guess his father must have been Richard...
Newspaper stories might be more polished, but I haven't noticed them being any more accurate.
While bashing the journalistic media is a favorite pasttime, Slashdot doesn't even remotely approach journalistic standards in terms of story publishing. Just because the editors get paid doesn't make them professional journalists, they're more like discussion facilitators than anything else.
Your post sounds somewhat contradictory. If you think the world is too caught up in war and greed, then commercial space flight isn't a farfetched idea at all. In the near term, there are great rewards in store for commercial providers of orbit-level space flight, and in the long term, well, who knows what the possibilities might be???
Interestingly, this /. article shows up as a headline on Google News. It's pretty scary when /. stories show up alongside actual professional journalism...
You have to remember that most of those goodies arrive after a lawmaker leaves office, in the form of cushy consulting jobs, or positions on corporate boards that require little if any actual work.
I've still got a JPS t-shirt from one of the Detroit races back then. Of course, it's a weee bit small for me these days. But it's still cool! No matter what my wife says...
Probably the greatest F1 race I ever saw was in Spain I believe, when Senna had the first active suspension system in his Lotus. He was basically able to complete the race with fewer stops for tires because the suspension reduced tire wear, whereas Nigel Mansell (sp?) got a fresh set of rubber with about 20 laps to go, and started setting record lap times trying to catch up to Senna. It came down the final lap, and after a great battle between the two, Senna won by a fraction of a second.
It was a great (and rare) example of different technological approaches playing out wheel-to-wheel for the victory, right alongside the personal battle between the drivers.
Don't cross the streams!
So now are they singing, "Michael Hasselhof uber alles?"
If you look here, the story looks more like:
Sun goes down
Sun goes down
Sun goes down
Sun hits the bottom and slides along...
Does it make the labels wrong simply because that's not the label he chose himself?
I think the real problem is a severe allergy to the sticky stuff on the inside of the label...
What is especially stupid about this is that infected machines don't just impact their user, but also anybody else out there.
If they actually think they'll get a single dime of extra revenue from this decision, they're nuts...
Regarding your sig - there may be no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and and "E", so throw ME the damn ball!
Perhaps this speaks more to the founder's views of Linux Today readers than anything else. I would think tuxors would be thrilled to be siphoning some funds from MS in this manner...
Exactly - as soon as they come out with a console that can play Nethack, maybe I'll be interested...
Certainly these latest statements from Scott McNealy would seem to indicate that Java isn't going open-source anytime soon...
I thought that was SCO's vision statment...
There go them dang Russkies again, commercializing everything first!
There are still other ways for manufacturers to lock business into their dealerships. My father-in-law drives a Jetta with a horrible radio, and was told by an independent shop that a certain key is required (?) to remove the radio from the dash, and that he'd have to go to the dealer for that.
Not only is he on his own to replace the piece of $hit radio and antenna built into his car, but he gets to pay dealer premium just to take the crap out! Has anybody else heard of this? It was news to me...
And who said Open Source can't be financially rewarding...