They're both dumb.. breaking the law to make a point / make headlines ( / make trouble / make yourself feel powerful ) just isn't a decent way to effect change.
No-one I've ever worked with would say something so ignorant about the hardware engineers who help enable our business, and often get paid more than us to do it.
If you're a private investor and want reliable, easy, predictable returns why not go with a coal/gas fired plant? No politician is going to come along and shut it down because of an accident in Japan, you won't need to deal with protestors looking for any tiny issue to sue over, and you don't need to worry about waste because it just goes straight into the atmosphere! Also it's a much smaller expenditure up-front, because nuclear reactors are much cheaper to build even if they last much longer and are cheaper to run.
The risks of nuclear, from an investors point of view, aren't really about safety risks.
Honey bees are in decline across the world, including the UK, and it has been attributed to everything from pesticides to mites so is probably a combination of things. And I don't know of any drug, FDA approved or otherwise, which turns you into an orangutan..
Perhaps we should take a more serious look at the contents of the article with a bit less hyperbole?
This isn't some new revelation from him as he's being singing this tune for over 30 years now.
Why are you responding to "it's stupid to say that Kazaa being closed-source mistreats someone" with "he's being saying that for years! Don't you know who he is?"
Am I supposed to know what "Agile" is before I read an article rubbishing it, or can I just skip over the concept entirely now?
Whoa whoa whoa.. "Article"? What the hell is an "article"? Am I supposed to be some kind of psychic wizard in charge of marketing at Forbes or something to know what an "article" is? How about an explanation?
This one grabbed my eye, but the article is full of them; I checked the link, and there's no mention of the Melinda Gates Foundation..
Diana Ravich comments on the Gates Foundation's proposed education reforms:
I am also puzzled by the Gates Foundation’s persistent funding of groups that want to privatize public education. I am puzzled by their funding of “astroturf” groups of young teachers who insist that they don’t want any job protections, don’t want to be rewarded for their experience (of which they have little) or for any additional degrees, and certainly don’t want to be represented by a collective bargaining unit.
So she's a teacher who is suspicious of young teachers who don't want to be in unions, and want to be rewarded for performance instead of how long they have been teachers / how many degrees they have?
That's understandable for an elderly teacher with degrees, who is in a powerful union and has many job protections, but there's really no substance to the blog article other than "Gates doesn't know about education".
I also spotted some fear mongering about the initiative to start a "Green Revolution" in Africa (i.e. to bring its farming on par with other places in the word, to reproduce the massive productivity increase it brought in Asia). They talk about affecting the lifestyle of poor farmers, and the risk of genetic patents, but that's a bit narrow-sighted when you're just talking about bringing African agriculture up to standard.
They talk about his investments in blind trusts to sustain the fund, and the way the fund is used to try and lead the way for public money, as if those are bad things. They talk about the use of GlaxoSmithKline to deliver vaccines, reminding us that GSK was recently involved in some scandal, but ignore that drugs and vaccines are what GSK does, and obviously if you want to ramp up production of malaria vaccines you're going to need to involve big pharmaceutical companies.
The whole article seems a bit desperate really.. I'm not sure if it's just a laundry list of vague associations or if it's trying to make some point. Is it questioning Gates' motives? If it is it doesn't make it explicit, it just makes ambiguous jabs.
Or you could write your representative.. not that there's anything to write about yet since there aren't even recommendations yet let alone legislation.
PHP coder: Nice work Zend, now we've got namespaces, anonymous functions, traits, magic quotes are deprecated, there's a new version of the Zend Framework! Your platform isn't perfect, but I like where it's going and I don't need a perfect platform to write solid code.
Windows policy can be set so disable thumbdrives, to protect from thumbdrive propagated malware as well as data leakage. It wouldn't be close to worth it where I work, but some places it is.
Maybe you've just got a really fancy motorcycle or great body protection gear, because I had a motorcycle accident recently with my DroidX where I splashed in a puddle and the battery ejected out with such force that it tore a hole in my denim jeans, before smashing the windscreen of the car behind me.
My Apple battery is in so firmly I have to pay over $100 just to remove it! It's fantastic!
I definitely don't like anti-virus companies or products, but what about Symantec's research into Stuxnet? I think that was original research, and quite comprehensive.
I just think it is funny that MS doesn't seem to realize they are going to create another XP, meaning an OS that people don't want to move off of. XP wasn't all their fault, it was just the first real solid version of Windows most people had used (the first NT based OS for home users), Vista had teething problems initially due to very lazy-ass driver development from many manufacturers, and there was a big smear campaign against it
That was like a bolt of lightening.. You're saying:
XP was a good OS because it was NT-based.
Vista was a bad OS mainly because of bad drivers.
7 was a good OS, helped by people wanting to move from XP.
What depths of thought you must have tapped to gain such understanding.
A new way to copy/move ? Might as well go back to DOS. I will never purchase another Microsoft product again, and will remove all Windows keys from any keyboards before I touch them.
Not exactly. I noticed that look creeping into webcomics and anime long before it was implemented in OS X. Instead of a flat cartoon, you add highlights (especially on the eyes and the hair) and a shadow along one edge to give it a more 3D look. I think the increased use of computers in drawing and animation made it easier for artists to draw over otherwise completed art in order to enhance it.
Not exactly. I noticed that look creeping into 19th century Water Closet signs long before it was implemented in webcomics and anime. Instead of a flat font, you add highlights (especially on the W and the C) and a shadow along the borders to give it a more 3D look. I think the increased use of synthetic dyes made it easier for artists to add darker shades to otherwise limited palettes in order to enhance them.
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MS can cut off their market whenever they want.
How?
They're both dumb.. breaking the law to make a point / make headlines ( / make trouble / make yourself feel powerful ) just isn't a decent way to effect change.
No-one I've ever worked with would say something so ignorant about the hardware engineers who help enable our business, and often get paid more than us to do it.
If you're a private investor and want reliable, easy, predictable returns why not go with a coal/gas fired plant? No politician is going to come along and shut it down because of an accident in Japan, you won't need to deal with protestors looking for any tiny issue to sue over, and you don't need to worry about waste because it just goes straight into the atmosphere! Also it's a much smaller expenditure up-front, because nuclear reactors are much cheaper to build even if they last much longer and are cheaper to run.
The risks of nuclear, from an investors point of view, aren't really about safety risks.
The 3000th frame made me ask the question "I wonder if any of my torrents have finished yet?"
Honey bees are in decline across the world, including the UK, and it has been attributed to everything from pesticides to mites so is probably a combination of things. And I don't know of any drug, FDA approved or otherwise, which turns you into an orangutan..
Perhaps we should take a more serious look at the contents of the article with a bit less hyperbole?
This isn't some new revelation from him as he's being singing this tune for over 30 years now.
Why are you responding to "it's stupid to say that Kazaa being closed-source mistreats someone" with "he's being saying that for years! Don't you know who he is?"
Am I supposed to know what "Agile" is before I read an article rubbishing it, or can I just skip over the concept entirely now?
Whoa whoa whoa.. "Article"? What the hell is an "article"? Am I supposed to be some kind of psychic wizard in charge of marketing at Forbes or something to know what an "article" is? How about an explanation?
African and Indian agricultural workers maintain that the Foundation's philanthropy is environmentally toxic , and undermines vital agricultural development that respects local conditions.
This one grabbed my eye, but the article is full of them; I checked the link, and there's no mention of the Melinda Gates Foundation..
Diana Ravich comments on the Gates Foundation's proposed education reforms:
I am also puzzled by the Gates Foundation’s persistent funding of groups that want to privatize public education. I am puzzled by their funding of “astroturf” groups of young teachers who insist that they don’t want any job protections, don’t want to be rewarded for their experience (of which they have little) or for any additional degrees, and certainly don’t want to be represented by a collective bargaining unit.
So she's a teacher who is suspicious of young teachers who don't want to be in unions, and want to be rewarded for performance instead of how long they have been teachers / how many degrees they have?
That's understandable for an elderly teacher with degrees, who is in a powerful union and has many job protections, but there's really no substance to the blog article other than "Gates doesn't know about education".
I also spotted some fear mongering about the initiative to start a "Green Revolution" in Africa (i.e. to bring its farming on par with other places in the word, to reproduce the massive productivity increase it brought in Asia). They talk about affecting the lifestyle of poor farmers, and the risk of genetic patents, but that's a bit narrow-sighted when you're just talking about bringing African agriculture up to standard.
They talk about his investments in blind trusts to sustain the fund, and the way the fund is used to try and lead the way for public money, as if those are bad things. They talk about the use of GlaxoSmithKline to deliver vaccines, reminding us that GSK was recently involved in some scandal, but ignore that drugs and vaccines are what GSK does, and obviously if you want to ramp up production of malaria vaccines you're going to need to involve big pharmaceutical companies.
The whole article seems a bit desperate really.. I'm not sure if it's just a laundry list of vague associations or if it's trying to make some point. Is it questioning Gates' motives? If it is it doesn't make it explicit, it just makes ambiguous jabs.
Or you could write your representative .. not that there's anything to write about yet since there aren't even recommendations yet let alone legislation.
Python has *always* been obviously better than PHP (or perl, etc.)
Article author: I know right? I mean PHP is like a toolbox .. with a hammer .. that has no hammer on it .. and the nails are made of wood!
Meanwhile: PHP coder: *design design* *code code* Hey look, it's Facebook / Wikipedia / phpBB / phpMyAdmin / WordPress / Drupal / etc / etc !
PHP coder: Nice work Zend, now we've got namespaces, anonymous functions, traits, magic quotes are deprecated, there's a new version of the Zend Framework! Your platform isn't perfect, but I like where it's going and I don't need a perfect platform to write solid code.
The guy who did Jobs' liver transplant got Jobs' house at a great price just before the transplant went through, via a shell company.
Windows policy can be set so disable thumbdrives, to protect from thumbdrive propagated malware as well as data leakage. It wouldn't be close to worth it where I work, but some places it is.
Maybe you've just got a really fancy motorcycle or great body protection gear, because I had a motorcycle accident recently with my DroidX where I splashed in a puddle and the battery ejected out with such force that it tore a hole in my denim jeans, before smashing the windscreen of the car behind me.
My Apple battery is in so firmly I have to pay over $100 just to remove it! It's fantastic!
A software company making a mistake? Yeah, right..
I definitely don't like anti-virus companies or products, but what about Symantec's research into Stuxnet? I think that was original research, and quite comprehensive.
You're like, totally harshing my buzz man..
I am "absofarkinglutely" "equally as WTF".
Marijuana. Not even once.
Cops, drug dealers, "assholes", and "plastic companies" are conspiring to keep marijuana illegal?
SpaceX has loads of NASA people and technology, and couldn't exist except as a NASA contractor backed by NASA.
YES! I thought the best new feature this year was Emacs getting COBOL scripting support, but then this comes along!
I just think it is funny that MS doesn't seem to realize they are going to create another XP, meaning an OS that people don't want to move off of. XP wasn't all their fault, it was just the first real solid version of Windows most people had used (the first NT based OS for home users), Vista had teething problems initially due to very lazy-ass driver development from many manufacturers, and there was a big smear campaign against it
That was like a bolt of lightening.. You're saying:
What depths of thought you must have tapped to gain such understanding.
A new way to copy/move ? Might as well go back to DOS. I will never purchase another Microsoft product again, and will remove all Windows keys from any keyboards before I touch them.
Why must things CHANGE?!
Not exactly. I noticed that look creeping into webcomics and anime long before it was implemented in OS X. Instead of a flat cartoon, you add highlights (especially on the eyes and the hair) and a shadow along one edge to give it a more 3D look. I think the increased use of computers in drawing and animation made it easier for artists to draw over otherwise completed art in order to enhance it.
Not exactly. I noticed that look creeping into 19th century Water Closet signs long before it was implemented in webcomics and anime. Instead of a flat font, you add highlights (especially on the W and the C) and a shadow along the borders to give it a more 3D look. I think the increased use of synthetic dyes made it easier for artists to add darker shades to otherwise limited palettes in order to enhance them.
I really like it. It looks nice. I wish Microsoft were keeping it in Windows 8 and am surprised they're dropping it.
I know it's not cool to admit liking something non-functional, but there you are, and I expect others feel the same way.