Actually, for all you know, Florida's Electoral could vote for whomever they damn well please.
There may be a state law requiring electors to vote for the winning candidate; apparently this is the case in most states. Regardless, there is no reason to value Florida electors particularly; if the count ends up 271/269, a single Bush elector (who had better have an escape vehicle waiting) in *any* state that does not require the electors match the voting could make the electoral count a tie.
You, sir, are why I will never, ever, work as a programmer.
I've been working as an industry (not government) programmer for seven years, and only once have a put in even a longish stretch (less than a month) of long hours. And I've never had a beeper. It's not a universal thing among programmers to work these absurd hours.
What--other than gender stereotypes--says that she should stay at home?
She's got feeding apparatus. At least for the first few months, this is a big issue.
The problem, really, is that we aren't growing up in the world of our parents, where almost every mother stayed home with her young children. Some studies have found that daycare and homecare both work fairly well when there's at least four kids. Fewer, and the kids just aren't getting the socialization opportunities. There's that saying about "It takes an entire village to raise a child", and that's the key, learning from and playing with other children. I know kids who have a stay-at-home mom, and they aren't as social as the ones in daycare. I often wish my daughter had a twin, so she would have a playmate almost all the time with very similar interests.
When people play PS2 games then play dreamcast games, dreamcast wins.
That's as may be, but that doesn't change the financials. According to the Salon article, they lost $204 million last quarter, their fourth straight losing quarter. If the Dreamcast was available for much of that quarter, then they're in serious trouble.
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I work for Microsoft. This has no effect on my intelligence or wisdom.
On Slashdot, however, it probably has negative effects on your Charisma...
How does this phenomenon fit into the expanding universe model?
The earth is not flying away from the sun, you are not flying away from the earth, comets and asteroids periodically come close enough to hit the earth. While on a universal scale, expansion is occurring, locally -- even between galaxies and galactic clusters -- gravity may be pulling things together.
What worries me about Indrema is the sheer cost of their system that they have to overcome. They have the equivalent of a Playstation 2, plus a hard drive, plus more memory, and fewer economies of scale -- they can't rely on their first 500,000 selling out in a flurry. In comparison to a low-end PC like an eMachine, they can have fewer -- or no -- PCI/AGP slots, no floppy, no Windows license, and a smaller case and power supply, but they have a fancier video chip and an MPEG encoder/decoder.
I think most adults are aware of the problems with things like alcohol or smoking, but kids are not.
Most legalization advocates support keeping the prohibition on selling to minors. In the current situation, there's no disincentive for selling to kids.
As for the rest, there's really no reason to believe the other drugs are any better or worse than alcohol. If the drug war was 100% effective, people who abuse drugs would mostly abuse alcohol instead. And the 20,000+ who die at the hands of drunk drivers aren't better off because the person wasn't using cocaine.
Despite how I would like things to turn out, I still find it difficult to believe Indrema can compete...
There seems to be a shared assumption that Indrema has to have equivalent market share with Sega, Sony, et al or else it'll be a crashing failure. I just can't agree.
I work for a company that recently sold for less than 1/40th the market cap of our biggest competitor. Are we a failure? If so, our owner probably isn't crying about his $15 million plus bank account from the sale proceeds, and I wouldn't mind failing on that kind of level.
As long as Indrema can release a product that is useful and cost-effective to a reasonably good-sized group of people, they'll do ok. If it can do TIVO on a budget, MP3 jukeboxing, and a reasonable job as a computer, I know I'd be interested in one.
You're missing a graphics card, DVD, case, modem, and you have a processor at 2/3d the clockspeed. How is this even a close comparison? (Although it makes one wonder how they could make a profit selling this guy.)
Oh, and how do you propose to pay for your open source patents?
With those licensing fees, of course.
It's impractical, but *technically* not impossible. (Which is unfortunate. It's easier to convince someone of an impossibility than an impracticality.)
If Microsoft had taken symlink code from Linux, it would work better than it does. While Windows 2000 has been almost rock-solid for me, it still boggles my mind that we're stuck with drive letters as the primary drive organization and symlinks that are only recognized by a subset of the OS filing operations. There are hard links, but to files only -- not to directories -- and it's not built-in to (the File) Explorer where one might like it.
I really wish Windows folks would steal BSD symbolic linking code; it would make my life much easier.
Finance Open Source projects through licensing fees?
One *possible* interpretation is that you license the patent for use in non-open-source stuff, and charge fees for that, but give a no-fee license to GPL stuff. Makes no sense for BSD licensing though.
If you're going to be sitting at a desk to use the keyboard, then what's the big benefit of having the keyboard wireless?
I use a Logitech wireless at home, and love it. I don't do huge amounts of typing on that machine at a stretch, so the ergonomics aren't a big problem. For smallish amounts a keyboard on one's lap is fine. The big plus is the lack of cables; I can move the keyboard well off to the side and then pull out the (wired) steering wheel for a li'l "Porsche Unleashed."
Well, you're obviously smart enough to tell the difference between English literature and kiddie porn -- you gave this outrageous example. Don't you think anyone else is capable as well?
Anyone? Yes. Everyone? No. Do a web search on "Romeo Juliet banned books"; I recommend Google. The guidelines here say "child pornography", with absolutely no information on what qualifies as such. Note also that "Romeo and Juliet" contains a double suicide, thus falling even further in violation of these guidelines.
But if I even question that the guidelines might be too vague, and I get dimwits like you libelling me.
I leave you with the following
web site to read. You can skip to the 1990s.
Yeah, we can get rid of this "Romeo and Juliet" filth:
Act 1, Scene 2:
CAPULET
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
--
Then in Act 3, Scene 5, Romeo and the 13 year old Juliet are in bed together.
Unfortunately, due to the pirates, [my CDs] are now worthless, and have no re-sale value.
Secondspin.com seems to do good business buying and selling used CDs. The record companies are still making record profits (if not quite what they might hope for in a booming economy) so some of us must still be buying music.
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Actually, for all you know, Florida's Electoral could vote for whomever they damn well please.
There may be a state law requiring electors to vote for the winning candidate; apparently this is the case in most states. Regardless, there is no reason to value Florida electors particularly; if the count ends up 271/269, a single Bush elector (who had better have an escape vehicle waiting) in *any* state that does not require the electors match the voting could make the electoral count a tie.
Whew! At least he didn't cost Gore Thyme and Basil.
Nah, he's too seasoned a politician for that.
But it certainly spiced up this election, didn't it?
You, sir, are why I will never, ever, work as a programmer.
I've been working as an industry (not government) programmer for seven years, and only once have a put in even a longish stretch (less than a month) of long hours. And I've never had a beeper. It's not a universal thing among programmers to work these absurd hours.
What--other than gender stereotypes--says that she should stay at home?
She's got feeding apparatus. At least for the first few months, this is a big issue.
The problem, really, is that we aren't growing up in the world of our parents, where almost every mother stayed home with her young children. Some studies have found that daycare and homecare both work fairly well when there's at least four kids. Fewer, and the kids just aren't getting the socialization opportunities. There's that saying about "It takes an entire village to raise a child", and that's the key, learning from and playing with other children. I know kids who have a stay-at-home mom, and they aren't as social as the ones in daycare. I often wish my daughter had a twin, so she would have a playmate almost all the time with very similar interests.
When people play PS2 games then play dreamcast games, dreamcast wins.
That's as may be, but that doesn't change the financials. According to the Salon article, they lost $204 million last quarter, their fourth straight losing quarter. If the Dreamcast was available for much of that quarter, then they're in serious trouble.
I work for Microsoft. This has no effect on my intelligence or wisdom.
On Slashdot, however, it probably has negative effects on your Charisma...
How does this phenomenon fit into the expanding universe model?
The earth is not flying away from the sun, you are not flying away from the earth, comets and asteroids periodically come close enough to hit the earth. While on a universal scale, expansion is occurring, locally -- even between galaxies and galactic clusters -- gravity may be pulling things together.
What worries me about Indrema is the sheer cost of their system that they have to overcome. They have the equivalent of a Playstation 2, plus a hard drive, plus more memory, and fewer economies of scale -- they can't rely on their first 500,000 selling out in a flurry. In comparison to a low-end PC like an eMachine, they can have fewer -- or no -- PCI/AGP slots, no floppy, no Windows license, and a smaller case and power supply, but they have a fancier video chip and an MPEG encoder/decoder.
I think most adults are aware of the problems with things like alcohol or smoking, but kids are not.
Most legalization advocates support keeping the prohibition on selling to minors. In the current situation, there's no disincentive for selling to kids.
As for the rest, there's really no reason to believe the other drugs are any better or worse than alcohol. If the drug war was 100% effective, people who abuse drugs would mostly abuse alcohol instead. And the 20,000+ who die at the hands of drunk drivers aren't better off because the person wasn't using cocaine.
The police haven't arrived yet.
The police had already arrived, and news of the crime had been broadcast over the news to a potential audience of tens of millions. Try again.
Despite how I would like things to turn out, I still find it difficult to believe Indrema can compete...
There seems to be a shared assumption that Indrema has to have equivalent market share with Sega, Sony, et al or else it'll be a crashing failure. I just can't agree.
I work for a company that recently sold for less than 1/40th the market cap of our biggest competitor. Are we a failure? If so, our owner probably isn't crying about his $15 million plus bank account from the sale proceeds, and I wouldn't mind failing on that kind of level.
As long as Indrema can release a product that is useful and cost-effective to a reasonably good-sized group of people, they'll do ok. If it can do TIVO on a budget, MP3 jukeboxing, and a reasonable job as a computer, I know I'd be interested in one.
You're missing a graphics card, DVD, case, modem, and you have a processor at 2/3d the clockspeed. How is this even a close comparison? (Although it makes one wonder how they could make a profit selling this guy.)
Thank you! I'd web-searched for Windows linking, but everything I found said files only.
Oh, and how do you propose to pay for your open source patents?
With those licensing fees, of course.
It's impractical, but *technically* not impossible. (Which is unfortunate. It's easier to convince someone of an impossibility than an impracticality.)
This patenting of specific functions smacks of Microsoft tactics
Actually it smacks of Rambus tactics, which Intel has recently been decrying. Pot meet kettle?
Whatever you may say about Microsoft, abusive patenting doesn't seem to have been among their sins.
If Microsoft had taken symlink code from Linux, it would work better than it does. While Windows 2000 has been almost rock-solid for me, it still boggles my mind that we're stuck with drive letters as the primary drive organization and symlinks that are only recognized by a subset of the OS filing operations. There are hard links, but to files only -- not to directories -- and it's not built-in to (the File) Explorer where one might like it.
I really wish Windows folks would steal BSD symbolic linking code; it would make my life much easier.
...most Americans probably can't be bothered as long as gas stays under forty cents a liter
Liter? Mah SUV doesn't take dem wimpy French liters, it takes gallons like a real car should.
Only thing that comes in liters is dem big coke bottles.
Finance Open Source projects through licensing fees?
One *possible* interpretation is that you license the patent for use in non-open-source stuff, and charge fees for that, but give a no-fee license to GPL stuff. Makes no sense for BSD licensing though.
I knew someone would try to slip that in... dude, that's a picture of Uranus, or his ... umm... oh never mind.
If you're going to be sitting at a desk to use the keyboard, then what's the big benefit of having the keyboard wireless?
I use a Logitech wireless at home, and love it. I don't do huge amounts of typing on that machine at a stretch, so the ergonomics aren't a big problem. For smallish amounts a keyboard on one's lap is fine. The big plus is the lack of cables; I can move the keyboard well off to the side and then pull out the (wired) steering wheel for a li'l "Porsche Unleashed."
You really have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise I could put up a post stating:
"$10000 to the person who kills Rob Malda".
You just did.
... do you breathe in that thing ?
I'm not so worried about breathing (li'l holes), but DO NOT use it after having the chili special at lunch...
So just come out and say it, Eccles.
FOAD.
Well, you're obviously smart enough to tell the difference between English literature and kiddie porn -- you gave this outrageous example. Don't you think anyone else is capable as well?
Anyone? Yes. Everyone? No. Do a web search on "Romeo Juliet banned books"; I recommend Google. The guidelines here say "child pornography", with absolutely no information on what qualifies as such. Note also that "Romeo and Juliet" contains a double suicide, thus falling even further in violation of these guidelines.
But if I even question that the guidelines might be too vague, and I get dimwits like you libelling me.
I leave you with the following
web site to read. You can skip to the 1990s.
Yeah, we can get rid of this "Romeo and Juliet" filth:
Act 1, Scene 2:
CAPULET
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
--
Then in Act 3, Scene 5, Romeo and the 13 year old Juliet are in bed together.
Unfortunately, due to the pirates, [my CDs] are now worthless, and have no re-sale value.
Secondspin.com seems to do good business buying and selling used CDs. The record companies are still making record profits (if not quite what they might hope for in a booming economy) so some of us must still be buying music.