There have been plenty of people in history who are pacifists for religious reasons who have died for refusing to fight. They managed to make it into the history books, so in a sense they still live on.
More to the point, they made a difference. War isn't always the only solution to a problem.
Now, when the problem is an insane dictator invading his neighbors and imprisoning/torturing/killing hundreds of thousands of people , war is probably the only option.
"Don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you kill them right back!" ~ Mal
I doubt that. Unless you mean "100% of those polled have at least one license deployed". That would make sense, what with MSO being the accepted standard world wide and OOo / StarOffice not being 100% compatible with it.
Most schools I am familiar with (quite a few, as I work for one) use far more free office software--we use Star Office 8--than they use MSO. But everyone has to have MSO to communicate with other organizations that have MSO.
What's the problem pronouncing "ekiga" or "sabayon"? I can tell you that Quicktime and Outlook sound ridiculous in Spanish; still they come from great software companies, so they must be all right, mustn't they?
You didn't read my post, did you? "...if you're going to go to the trouble of translating it to English, it seems to me that it would require relatively little effort to give it an English name as well."
Substitute any other language for "English" and my point still applies. Quicktime and Outlook could have suitable Spanish names.
Microsoft? The ones that have it short and soft? Microsoft Windows? It must be due to the high number of security holes or something like this. Microsoft XP ? That's obviously an emoticon for laughing on your face and showing their tongue... quite a proper name, after all.
Microsoft: Microchips. Software. You figure it out. It's a name typical of early tech companies: mash two terms together into a nonsensical name that isn't difficult to say in the language it was invented in.
Windows: The term given to "those nifty resizable boxes that contain applications inside a GUI-based operating system." They chose to simply call them "windows" and then named the product the same. It makes perfect sense to me.
XP: Part of the annoying trend of the late 1990s and early 2000s where X was thrown into every product name possible, and cryptic lettering was the best way to mark a product as new. Chalk it up to marketing idiocy.
Navision? Admiral Nelson's ability to win naval battles?
It's now called Microsoft Dynamics NAV, so I presume that NAV is an acronym. NAVision would then just be tacking "vision" onto the end of a description of what the product does. Again, lame marketing, but also self-explanatory to those who would be searching for such a product.
Oracle? Read your future on your hand for a nickel? (reading it backwards makes it quite a proper name in Spanish: Elcaro transalates to "The expensive one")
How about "a person considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions."
IBM? NBA? CIA? Boney-M? HP? (Spanish for son-of-a-gun)? Mac OS/X? What's that? Klingon?
International Business Machines National Basketball Assocation Central Intelligence Agency...what? Hewlitt Packard Macintosh Operating System 10.
Welcome to the world where people don't like to say/write more than they have to. Acronyms and abbreviations are popular for well-known products and names; I'm sorry if that is too complicated for you, But that's just the way it is.
As for the topic at hand:
SAY BAY ON SAH BAH YOWN SAH BAY ON SAY BAH YOWN...and quite a few other options. It doesn't lend itself to easy pronunciation. "Microsoft" does.
I don't think the problem is so much that OSS projects aren't named according to their use. I do think they choose bad names at times.
What's the difference between Ekiga or Sabayon and Excel/Outlook/Quicktime? Language. The latter are all easily-pronounced words, even if they aren't descriptive of the product's function. FireFox falls into this category as well; all the Mozilla project names are easy on the tongue. Even Mozilla is straight-forward, if a bit nonsensical.
What a lot of people forget is that the internet is a world-wide thing. Not all distributions are native to an English-speaking nation; I would expect a German product to bear a German name. But if you're going to go to the trouble of translating it to English, it seems to me that it would require relatively little effort to give it an English name as well.
The obvious: you don't *have* to burn it to any media.
It would seem a logical step that if this becomes a standard we might see network-capable DVD players that can play all this media without it being burned.
Seriously. A 22-year-old coming out of college isn't as desirable as a 30-year-old with the same degree; the 30-year-old is more mature and clearly has the work ethic to have gone through school at a later age.
Actually, your age may play to your advantage. Most people I know would rather hire a 30-year-old straight out of college than a 22-year-old. The older candidate would have a more solid work history, would have developed a good work ethic (espeicially since they probably put themselves through college), and is more likely to have relevant experience. You might find yourself a little bit behind those who graduate early financially; so what if the kid six years younger than you makes the same money? You probably won't be retiring until you're close to 70, there's plenty of time to make your money.
I can't say that this is the funniest thing I've ever read on/., but it is the first to actually make me laugh out loud. What a day to not have any mod points:(
I don't need nor desire the "government" to hold my hand. I think the "government" has a lot better things they should be worrying about.
I don't see where this is anything close to hand-holding. You aren't being forced to do anything, the government isn't doing it for you, and if you don't do it, they aren't going to come after you. There's nothing wrong with a PSA that encourages people to secure their computers.
And if you really need a reason for it all, it costs tax dollars to deal with things like identity theft and stolen information. By encouraging people to secure their systems, the government may reap a long-term benefit of lower expenses and increased revenue without raising taxes.
It's not their fault; they probably just picked the first word in the dictionary that hadn't already been put in front of "Technologies" by some other company.
You can't kill them with the g-gun and a soda can. I'm just talking about throwing it when you are just holding it.
I've loaded up the game with the super g-gun to play with. You do it by first loading a map where it is given to you, using the all weapons cheat, and then loading an earlier map, if I remember correctly. One of the more interesting side-effects of this is that scripted NPCs are duplicated when you grab them, so that you're holding the NPC with the gun, but their script continues working like it should. I made a rather large pile of Barneys that way.
(at least, that used to happen. I notice it doesn't work on episode 1, so it may have been fixed in a recent update to HL2.)
An empty garage is just a money hole for the city.
A garage full of trapped vehicles means other cities are less willing to buy your product. It means the citizens are going to resist any further business being done with your company. It is detrimental to your business.
Yeah, the city has a three year contract with them now, but what do you think will happen at the end of those three years? More than likely, the city now has a plan to phase out this robotic parking garage in favor of something less risky...like a traditional garage.
Screw-ups like this hurt the consumers, they hurt the city, the hurt the company, and they impede the advancement of technology that is helping to reduce problems like urban sprawl AND making things more convenient.
Called "Tag" or something like that. They used suction darts fired from real guns (not sure how that works) but it was pretty much the same concept. Hunt someone down, kill them, get their target. Play on until you're the last man standing.
(of course in the movie one guy started actually killing everyone else, and much stupidity ensued)
It's not a payment method, it's a subscription for flat-rate shipping. I find it quite creative, and very useful for those who buy a lot more books than I do. That said, it's not an invention, and shouldn't be protected by patent law.
What we need is something like a short-term copyright/patent where a "minor innovation" is protected for a short period of time so that its creators can get some benefit from being the first to do it. 6-12 months would be sufficient for Amazon to establish this program as being "theirs" and make it obvious that anyone else who does it later is an imitator.
Not entirely. We have learned that some things just don't work the same on both, and trying to do both at once is a disaster.
FPS have to be dumbed down for console play. Overbearing auto aim, turning speed limits, limited control options, deeply-nested graphical menus for issuing complex commands because you only have a dozen buttons at most. If you did a simultaneous, identical release on both console and PC with a FPS, the PC version would be an utter flop because it was so crippled compared with other gams.
RTS is obviously virtually impossible with current consoles. Even the Wii isn't suited for it.
A game like spore should benefit greatly from the mouse. I don't see where character design would be nearly as easy or fun with a console controller; again, even the Wii's remote will probably lack the finesse.
"Most people" and "Most people who will be playing Spore" are two very different groups....and if you think "most people" are still using Windows 98 or ME, you're sadly out of touch. ME has become almost noexistent over the years due to its thankfully short lifespan, and 98SE is now unsupported, meaning that those last few people clinging to it will drop it as soon as unpatched vulnerabilities start presenting themselves.
...until the ban all you cards from tournaments or introduce rules that essentially ruin entire collections.
That happened when the Mirage set came out. Tourney rules were changed, cards were banned, phasing was introduced, and an entire generation of M:TG players threw in the towel because we didn't care to rebuild everything we had becaust WotC decided to change things up on us.
As I understand it, the funny mod doesn't affect karma. If you want to give someone good karma for a funny post, you have to use insightful or interesting....or they could have seen through the humor to a little snipe I took at the claims Apple makes in their commercials.
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I doubt that. Unless you mean "100% of those polled have at least one license deployed". That would make sense, what with MSO being the accepted standard world wide and OOo / StarOffice not being 100% compatible with it.
Most schools I am familiar with (quite a few, as I work for one) use far more free office software--we use Star Office 8--than they use MSO. But everyone has to have MSO to communicate with other organizations that have MSO.
Perhaps they're not aware of the fact taht bombarding baby formula or breast milk with energy (like in a microwave) ruins it. There's a bright idea...
He wasn't always like he is now.
I wonder if piracy can get your hand cut off there...
You didn't read my post, did you? "...if you're going to go to the trouble of translating it to English, it seems to me that it would require relatively little effort to give it an English name as well."
Substitute any other language for "English" and my point still applies. Quicktime and Outlook could have suitable Spanish names.
Microsoft: Microchips. Software. You figure it out. It's a name typical of early tech companies: mash two terms together into a nonsensical name that isn't difficult to say in the language it was invented in.
Windows: The term given to "those nifty resizable boxes that contain applications inside a GUI-based operating system." They chose to simply call them "windows" and then named the product the same. It makes perfect sense to me.
XP: Part of the annoying trend of the late 1990s and early 2000s where X was thrown into every product name possible, and cryptic lettering was the best way to mark a product as new. Chalk it up to marketing idiocy.
It's now called Microsoft Dynamics NAV, so I presume that NAV is an acronym. NAVision would then just be tacking "vision" onto the end of a description of what the product does. Again, lame marketing, but also self-explanatory to those who would be searching for such a product.
How about "a person considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions."
International Business Machines
National Basketball Assocation
Central Intelligence Agency
Hewlitt Packard
Macintosh Operating System 10.
Welcome to the world where people don't like to say/write more than they have to. Acronyms and abbreviations are popular for well-known products and names; I'm sorry if that is too complicated for you, But that's just the way it is.
As for the topic at hand:
SAY BAY ON
SAH BAH YOWN
SAH BAY ON
SAY BAH YOWN
I don't think the problem is so much that OSS projects aren't named according to their use. I do think they choose bad names at times.
What's the difference between Ekiga or Sabayon and Excel/Outlook/Quicktime? Language. The latter are all easily-pronounced words, even if they aren't descriptive of the product's function. FireFox falls into this category as well; all the Mozilla project names are easy on the tongue. Even Mozilla is straight-forward, if a bit nonsensical.
What a lot of people forget is that the internet is a world-wide thing. Not all distributions are native to an English-speaking nation; I would expect a German product to bear a German name. But if you're going to go to the trouble of translating it to English, it seems to me that it would require relatively little effort to give it an English name as well.
The obvious: you don't *have* to burn it to any media.
It would seem a logical step that if this becomes a standard we might see network-capable DVD players that can play all this media without it being burned.
Seriously. A 22-year-old coming out of college isn't as desirable as a 30-year-old with the same degree; the 30-year-old is more mature and clearly has the work ethic to have gone through school at a later age.
Actually, your age may play to your advantage. Most people I know would rather hire a 30-year-old straight out of college than a 22-year-old. The older candidate would have a more solid work history, would have developed a good work ethic (espeicially since they probably put themselves through college), and is more likely to have relevant experience. You might find yourself a little bit behind those who graduate early financially; so what if the kid six years younger than you makes the same money? You probably won't be retiring until you're close to 70, there's plenty of time to make your money.
I can't say that this is the funniest thing I've ever read on /., but it is the first to actually make me laugh out loud. What a day to not have any mod points :(
I don't need nor desire the "government" to hold my hand.
I think the "government" has a lot better things they should be worrying about.
I don't see where this is anything close to hand-holding. You aren't being forced to do anything, the government isn't doing it for you, and if you don't do it, they aren't going to come after you. There's nothing wrong with a PSA that encourages people to secure their computers.
And if you really need a reason for it all, it costs tax dollars to deal with things like identity theft and stolen information. By encouraging people to secure their systems, the government may reap a long-term benefit of lower expenses and increased revenue without raising taxes.
You wouldn't happen to be user 497812358, would you?
...but does it run Linux?
It's not their fault; they probably just picked the first word in the dictionary that hadn't already been put in front of "Technologies" by some other company.
You can't kill them with the g-gun and a soda can. I'm just talking about throwing it when you are just holding it.
I've loaded up the game with the super g-gun to play with. You do it by first loading a map where it is given to you, using the all weapons cheat, and then loading an earlier map, if I remember correctly. One of the more interesting side-effects of this is that scripted NPCs are duplicated when you grab them, so that you're holding the NPC with the gun, but their script continues working like it should. I made a rather large pile of Barneys that way.
(at least, that used to happen. I notice it doesn't work on episode 1, so it may have been fixed in a recent update to HL2.)
The game is much better if you throw the can at the guard instead of throwing it away.
An empty garage is just a money hole for the city.
A garage full of trapped vehicles means other cities are less willing to buy your product. It means the citizens are going to resist any further business being done with your company. It is detrimental to your business.
Yeah, the city has a three year contract with them now, but what do you think will happen at the end of those three years? More than likely, the city now has a plan to phase out this robotic parking garage in favor of something less risky...like a traditional garage.
Screw-ups like this hurt the consumers, they hurt the city, the hurt the company, and they impede the advancement of technology that is helping to reduce problems like urban sprawl AND making things more convenient.
Called "Tag" or something like that. They used suction darts fired from real guns (not sure how that works) but it was pretty much the same concept. Hunt someone down, kill them, get their target. Play on until you're the last man standing.
(of course in the movie one guy started actually killing everyone else, and much stupidity ensued)
It's not a payment method, it's a subscription for flat-rate shipping. I find it quite creative, and very useful for those who buy a lot more books than I do. That said, it's not an invention, and shouldn't be protected by patent law.
What we need is something like a short-term copyright/patent where a "minor innovation" is protected for a short period of time so that its creators can get some benefit from being the first to do it. 6-12 months would be sufficient for Amazon to establish this program as being "theirs" and make it obvious that anyone else who does it later is an imitator.
Not entirely. We have learned that some things just don't work the same on both, and trying to do both at once is a disaster.
FPS have to be dumbed down for console play. Overbearing auto aim, turning speed limits, limited control options, deeply-nested graphical menus for issuing complex commands because you only have a dozen buttons at most. If you did a simultaneous, identical release on both console and PC with a FPS, the PC version would be an utter flop because it was so crippled compared with other gams.
RTS is obviously virtually impossible with current consoles. Even the Wii isn't suited for it.
A game like spore should benefit greatly from the mouse. I don't see where character design would be nearly as easy or fun with a console controller; again, even the Wii's remote will probably lack the finesse.
"Most people" and "Most people who will be playing Spore" are two very different groups. ...and if you think "most people" are still using Windows 98 or ME, you're sadly out of touch. ME has become almost noexistent over the years due to its thankfully short lifespan, and 98SE is now unsupported, meaning that those last few people clinging to it will drop it as soon as unpatched vulnerabilities start presenting themselves.
Why are they filing it in Lufkin, Texas? I grew up there...I doubt they'll find a jury they like.
Looney Toons' portable hole, of course.
...until the ban all you cards from tournaments or introduce rules that essentially ruin entire collections.
That happened when the Mirage set came out. Tourney rules were changed, cards were banned, phasing was introduced, and an entire generation of M:TG players threw in the towel because we didn't care to rebuild everything we had becaust WotC decided to change things up on us.
As I understand it, the funny mod doesn't affect karma. If you want to give someone good karma for a funny post, you have to use insightful or interesting. ...or they could have seen through the humor to a little snipe I took at the claims Apple makes in their commercials.