Possibly, but can you name a single instance where SCOTUS didn't back the treaty? Which is sort of the point, as long as SCOTUS can't find a treaty which isn't constitutional it's very much an open question. But, for the time being one has to assume that we can't back out of treaties without everybody else agreeing to it.
Well, how else do you explain Linux' obsession with having a filesystem that nobody else can use?
I've lost enough data over time from those filesystems going down in flames to realize that historically they suck. Now Btrfs and Ext4 are a lot better, but lets be honest about the fact that historically Linux has had serious problems with its filesystems and one has to be kind of wonky to trust it with any important data.
I'm not sure how to interpret that other than NIH, bear in mind that the primary reason for Ext4 is because Ext3 blew chunks and they needed something to fill the gap until Btrfs was finished. But even their, if you're going to create something from scratch, why not create something that's compatible with what other folks are doing? Is it really that important to have a huge interoperability moat around the environment?
I'm not aware of any free presentation software that can handle PowerPoint in an interoperable way at the moment. You can do it with Libreoffice, but mostly if you stay very basic, and even then it doesn't necessarily work right. I'm guessing that Google Presentation is largely the same way.
Honestly, I think it's high time the government cracked down on the fraudulent advertising. I get that the ISPs have limited capacity, but it's fraudulent of them to claim that they can provide it when they're so badly overbooked. Strikes me as a case of unfair competition.
That's not true, we have to adhere to treaties before we adhere to the constitution, that's been pretty well accepted in terms of SCOTUS rulings. Which is unfortunate because it means that things like the WTO can't be undone without signing a new treaty that declares the previous one to be null. Which in practice doesn't happen, which is why the process for signing a treaty is of such importance.
I'd take a look here: Btrfs The main problem I have with it is that there's a large number of filesystems out there and while that's not really a bad thing, it makes interoperability a real headache sometimes. Personally, I'd rather have a somewhat less than perfect filesystem (assuming that it is reliable than a huge variety of specialty filesystems which may or may not be readable under any other OS.
And apart from ZFS suffering from NIH problems as well as the CDDL licensing, I really don't see any compelling reason to add yet another filesystem that does largely the same thing.
I was just wondering when we'd get support for ZFS, now that I can install GRUB2 on FreeBSD. Now, next chance I get, I can reinstall the various OSes on my computer and hopefully create a situation where I can triple boot things.
I'm not sure that I buy that. What's happened is that more adults make it to adulthood and reproduce, I'd be very much surprised if there's less evolution going on. It's more likely that it's just not noticeable due to not knowing where to look. Genetic mutations don't stop just because it's no longer necessary.
To be fair, that school has had a number of other wealthy graduates over the years, hardly just two MS founders. Which is sort of the point, the public school system doesn't generally get to benefit from things like endowments and scholarships. Granted there is no tuition, but there is an increasing amount of supplies that parents are being expected to pay for in order to attend classes. It's technically illegal, but with anti-tax morons refusing to fund education it's more or less inevitable that cuts are made somewhere.
It is, however, the problem is that at the bottom things are quite competitive and unfortunately at this point you really do need a degree for many jobs. What bothers me is how many jobs list a degree as a requirement when everybody knows that they don't need one, they just put it there so that they can toss any applications by applicants that don't have at least one degree.
Well, tough. I say this as somebody that has spent a lot of time tutoring math and science students, and doing things in your head is a really, really bad habit to get into when you're being asked for an exact answer rather than just an estimate. The reason being that if you do make a mistake, there's absolutely no way that you'll ever identify it and the likelihood of getting any partial credit is zero. What's worse is that the teacher then has no means by which to understand where that answer came from unless it's a common mistake.
But, beyond that, it's just good form to write out each step carefully and put a single line through a the numbers if the step was wrong, that way at least you learn something in cases where you make a mistake. That's not going to happen if you're doing things in your head.
Indeed, one of the reasons why WA state and Seattle in particular was on a rise for so long was our highly educated work force, but we do also have cheap electricity to go with it. With the huge cuts to the state schools here, I worry about how much longer that will be the case. Grads tend to stick around where they study if they can find suitable work, and if we're chasing students out of state with high tuition rates and poor support, it will eventually take its toll.
And where are the service cuts to make that work? We've got a 10% sales tax here in WA. (Well, 9.5% in my corner anyways, the general state sales tax is 6.5%) And it's not enough to cover the expenses we have in running our state, and that's with other forms of taxation such as property taxes, gas taxes, liquor taxes etc. So, I'm curious as to how under your plan we're going to be able to keep our state running and the federal government for less money than we're presently paying to run our government.
The problem from all the cheapskates that don't want to pay for government is that they're not typically willing to take cuts to the services they enjoy first, they want to make all those cuts to things that other people enjoy and pocket the savings.
Plus, sales taxes are easily avoidable, a tax of that portion would finally achieve the GOP goal of having the rich pay no taxes whatsoever.
Except that the tax code doesn't encourage that, in fact I'd go so far as to say that it discourages it by offering tax breaks for all sorts of antisocial behavior. For instance corporations like GE can book their losses in the US from foreign operations and offset their gains in the US without having to book profit from international operation, which makes it trivial for them to pay no taxes in the US.
Most of those bits of the tax code ought to be eliminated in favor of something less unwieldy so that people can actually understand what it is that they're doing without need for a professional.
And while we're at it, why doesn't the IRS just fill out our tax forms for us? Given that they already have most of our information in large databases, I see no reason why they can't fill them out like they do in other countries.
Starving the beast is just an excuse to engage in class warfare and take the US back into a previous century. It was never about shrinking the government, it was about ensuring the continued subservience of the lower classes.
No, but we could have made a measured response and actually enlisted the help of other nations when everybody was feeling sorry for us. Hell, even Cuba issued a note of condolence following 9/11. And yet the federal government pissed away all of that goodwill and then some so that the President could be a cowboy and talk tough.
Jefferson wasn't referring to individuals like Osama bin Laden with that quote, he was referring to tyrants like President George W Bush who forget their place and engage in acts of tyranny.
The issue wasn't that MS wanted $15-30 or so for the license, the issue was that the specs required to run any flavor of Windows made the netbooks a lot more expensive and pushed them into the realm of sub notebooks. Just look at pretty much any netbook which has both a Linux and a Windows flavor and you'll see what I mean.
The main reason for netbooks was that they were cheap, ultra mobile and focused on the net, rather than more general purpose tasks.
I've grown to like Virtualbox, but a large part of that is that I have it available on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It's been ages since VMWare has been available in a current version for FreeBSD. Especially considering that I'm just wanting to run a few financial apps and don't need all the extra tools for enterprise work.
It depends on your workflow. Personally, I find that monitors are too large to reasonably use for one task these days, so going half and half and having four things up on two monitors is great. I can monitory my email and system status while I do whatever I'm doing and have one area that tends to collect the icons I actually need to work with.
And it can be really nice to have a list of bug reports, email, the compiler and whatever program you're using to do the work in open side by side.
The problem is that fraud has been rampant on Wall Street for so long that I could probably host all of the honest people that work there in a small house.
I doubt that this was obvious in 1988, but still, I think the question is why the patent is still considered to be valid after all this time, I mean it took them 12 years to get some of these patents through the office, makes me wonder why the system hasn't been fixed to limit those sorts of "mistakes" when filing.
This sounds like a trap to get increased judgments when developers are found to be infringing. IANAL, but don't they increase the damages if the court finds that you've infringed on a patent and you had the audacity to conduct a search before offering your product for sale?
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Possibly, but can you name a single instance where SCOTUS didn't back the treaty? Which is sort of the point, as long as SCOTUS can't find a treaty which isn't constitutional it's very much an open question. But, for the time being one has to assume that we can't back out of treaties without everybody else agreeing to it.
Well, how else do you explain Linux' obsession with having a filesystem that nobody else can use?
I've lost enough data over time from those filesystems going down in flames to realize that historically they suck. Now Btrfs and Ext4 are a lot better, but lets be honest about the fact that historically Linux has had serious problems with its filesystems and one has to be kind of wonky to trust it with any important data.
I'm not sure how to interpret that other than NIH, bear in mind that the primary reason for Ext4 is because Ext3 blew chunks and they needed something to fill the gap until Btrfs was finished. But even their, if you're going to create something from scratch, why not create something that's compatible with what other folks are doing? Is it really that important to have a huge interoperability moat around the environment?
I'm not aware of any free presentation software that can handle PowerPoint in an interoperable way at the moment. You can do it with Libreoffice, but mostly if you stay very basic, and even then it doesn't necessarily work right. I'm guessing that Google Presentation is largely the same way.
Honestly, I think it's high time the government cracked down on the fraudulent advertising. I get that the ISPs have limited capacity, but it's fraudulent of them to claim that they can provide it when they're so badly overbooked. Strikes me as a case of unfair competition.
That's not true, we have to adhere to treaties before we adhere to the constitution, that's been pretty well accepted in terms of SCOTUS rulings. Which is unfortunate because it means that things like the WTO can't be undone without signing a new treaty that declares the previous one to be null. Which in practice doesn't happen, which is why the process for signing a treaty is of such importance.
I'd take a look here: Btrfs The main problem I have with it is that there's a large number of filesystems out there and while that's not really a bad thing, it makes interoperability a real headache sometimes. Personally, I'd rather have a somewhat less than perfect filesystem (assuming that it is reliable than a huge variety of specialty filesystems which may or may not be readable under any other OS.
And apart from ZFS suffering from NIH problems as well as the CDDL licensing, I really don't see any compelling reason to add yet another filesystem that does largely the same thing.
I was just wondering when we'd get support for ZFS, now that I can install GRUB2 on FreeBSD. Now, next chance I get, I can reinstall the various OSes on my computer and hopefully create a situation where I can triple boot things.
On the upside, if the lights go out you'll have to hire an electrician and a network administrator to fix it.
I though Princess Leia was unobtanium.
I'm not sure that I buy that. What's happened is that more adults make it to adulthood and reproduce, I'd be very much surprised if there's less evolution going on. It's more likely that it's just not noticeable due to not knowing where to look. Genetic mutations don't stop just because it's no longer necessary.
To be fair, that school has had a number of other wealthy graduates over the years, hardly just two MS founders. Which is sort of the point, the public school system doesn't generally get to benefit from things like endowments and scholarships. Granted there is no tuition, but there is an increasing amount of supplies that parents are being expected to pay for in order to attend classes. It's technically illegal, but with anti-tax morons refusing to fund education it's more or less inevitable that cuts are made somewhere.
It is, however, the problem is that at the bottom things are quite competitive and unfortunately at this point you really do need a degree for many jobs. What bothers me is how many jobs list a degree as a requirement when everybody knows that they don't need one, they just put it there so that they can toss any applications by applicants that don't have at least one degree.
Well, tough. I say this as somebody that has spent a lot of time tutoring math and science students, and doing things in your head is a really, really bad habit to get into when you're being asked for an exact answer rather than just an estimate. The reason being that if you do make a mistake, there's absolutely no way that you'll ever identify it and the likelihood of getting any partial credit is zero. What's worse is that the teacher then has no means by which to understand where that answer came from unless it's a common mistake.
But, beyond that, it's just good form to write out each step carefully and put a single line through a the numbers if the step was wrong, that way at least you learn something in cases where you make a mistake. That's not going to happen if you're doing things in your head.
Indeed, one of the reasons why WA state and Seattle in particular was on a rise for so long was our highly educated work force, but we do also have cheap electricity to go with it. With the huge cuts to the state schools here, I worry about how much longer that will be the case. Grads tend to stick around where they study if they can find suitable work, and if we're chasing students out of state with high tuition rates and poor support, it will eventually take its toll.
And where are the service cuts to make that work? We've got a 10% sales tax here in WA. (Well, 9.5% in my corner anyways, the general state sales tax is 6.5%) And it's not enough to cover the expenses we have in running our state, and that's with other forms of taxation such as property taxes, gas taxes, liquor taxes etc. So, I'm curious as to how under your plan we're going to be able to keep our state running and the federal government for less money than we're presently paying to run our government.
The problem from all the cheapskates that don't want to pay for government is that they're not typically willing to take cuts to the services they enjoy first, they want to make all those cuts to things that other people enjoy and pocket the savings.
Plus, sales taxes are easily avoidable, a tax of that portion would finally achieve the GOP goal of having the rich pay no taxes whatsoever.
Except that the tax code doesn't encourage that, in fact I'd go so far as to say that it discourages it by offering tax breaks for all sorts of antisocial behavior. For instance corporations like GE can book their losses in the US from foreign operations and offset their gains in the US without having to book profit from international operation, which makes it trivial for them to pay no taxes in the US.
Most of those bits of the tax code ought to be eliminated in favor of something less unwieldy so that people can actually understand what it is that they're doing without need for a professional.
And while we're at it, why doesn't the IRS just fill out our tax forms for us? Given that they already have most of our information in large databases, I see no reason why they can't fill them out like they do in other countries.
Starving the beast is just an excuse to engage in class warfare and take the US back into a previous century. It was never about shrinking the government, it was about ensuring the continued subservience of the lower classes.
No, but we could have made a measured response and actually enlisted the help of other nations when everybody was feeling sorry for us. Hell, even Cuba issued a note of condolence following 9/11. And yet the federal government pissed away all of that goodwill and then some so that the President could be a cowboy and talk tough.
Jefferson wasn't referring to individuals like Osama bin Laden with that quote, he was referring to tyrants like President George W Bush who forget their place and engage in acts of tyranny.
You say that like its a bad thing.
The issue wasn't that MS wanted $15-30 or so for the license, the issue was that the specs required to run any flavor of Windows made the netbooks a lot more expensive and pushed them into the realm of sub notebooks. Just look at pretty much any netbook which has both a Linux and a Windows flavor and you'll see what I mean.
The main reason for netbooks was that they were cheap, ultra mobile and focused on the net, rather than more general purpose tasks.
I've grown to like Virtualbox, but a large part of that is that I have it available on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It's been ages since VMWare has been available in a current version for FreeBSD. Especially considering that I'm just wanting to run a few financial apps and don't need all the extra tools for enterprise work.
It depends on your workflow. Personally, I find that monitors are too large to reasonably use for one task these days, so going half and half and having four things up on two monitors is great. I can monitory my email and system status while I do whatever I'm doing and have one area that tends to collect the icons I actually need to work with.
And it can be really nice to have a list of bug reports, email, the compiler and whatever program you're using to do the work in open side by side.
The problem is that fraud has been rampant on Wall Street for so long that I could probably host all of the honest people that work there in a small house.
I doubt that this was obvious in 1988, but still, I think the question is why the patent is still considered to be valid after all this time, I mean it took them 12 years to get some of these patents through the office, makes me wonder why the system hasn't been fixed to limit those sorts of "mistakes" when filing.
This sounds like a trap to get increased judgments when developers are found to be infringing. IANAL, but don't they increase the damages if the court finds that you've infringed on a patent and you had the audacity to conduct a search before offering your product for sale?