If I were the 800 pound gorilla I wouldn't have bought then out either... to expensive and way too much paperwork, etc. Plus you have the expensive of taking on the other companies debts and other liabilities.
I don't know about others, but I'm going to college in the fall (U-Wisc for CE)... but then, I've been programmed to go to college since I was about 7. It's a family thing I guess, and I'm lucky for it.
So how do companies like IBM end up inventing so much stuff? Do they just mark $1 billion per year for the research department and tell the research guys to do something cool with it? How does that work?
Dang... if it weren't for his little bit of opinion at the bottem I'd be screaming for a "Karma-whoring -1" moderation option. Actually, I suppose I am.... come on CmdrTaco, please?
Don't worry too much. India generally gets along very well with NATO countries and the US' other friends in the asia/pacific rim area. It's Pakastan, China and North Korea we should be worried about.
Besides, when you do try to correct stupid moderation you lose karma by idiot meta-moderators. The other day I got 5 mod points and decided to use them to fix bad moderation. I lost 3 karma.
Nice dream. Linux will never be as easy as the mac or windows though.
I'm not being anti-linux, this is the plain truth. Linux coders simply cannot make things easy enough for your grandmother to use, primarily because coders' ideas of easy are far different from your grandmother's idea of easy. Open source coders write things for themselves, not their grandparents.
Because some people like to get physical reward (money) for their creations. This is the principal upon which capitalism is based: you do something in order to get something.
Personally, how I license my code depends on how it's used. If I write, say, a unique CGI for a site that adds competitive value for the owner, then it goes under a proprietary license. If I'm writing something that's not all that unique (message board, etc.) then I use something simular to the "beer license".
Native support is nice and all, but if nobody develops for it, it's rather pointless. At least this way Linux can GROW to the point that if an API is developed which runs faster on Linux than DirectX, developers will write games for it.
OS/2 started with a rather large following but then lost it. Linux is starting with (relatively) no following. There's nothing to lose.
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Where are you from anyway? I'm assuming it's the US based on the sorry state of education there.
Hey, don't judge us all based on the comments of a few idiots..... oh wait, nevermind.
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Uh... the atmosphere is 79% nitrogen already. I wouldn't be too worried about that.
The thing I would worry about is the cable catching fire at the point it breaks, but that's a safety issue rather than an environmental one.
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If I were the 800 pound gorilla I wouldn't have bought then out either... to expensive and way too much paperwork, etc. Plus you have the expensive of taking on the other companies debts and other liabilities.
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That's not a programming language problem, that's a lazy programmers problem.
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True, but you can't learn how to program more effectively by browsing a hierarchy of perl modules.
BTW: This two minute posting limit is REALLY annoying!
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Because the profits from those sales generally go to American stockholders. Into your IRA.
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Damn, I picked a good time to go to grad school ;-)
:)
I guess I 'picked' a good time to graduate high school and go to college.
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I don't know about others, but I'm going to college in the fall (U-Wisc for CE)... but then, I've been programmed to go to college since I was about 7. It's a family thing I guess, and I'm lucky for it.
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So how do companies like IBM end up inventing so much stuff? Do they just mark $1 billion per year for the research department and tell the research guys to do something cool with it? How does that work?
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Dang... if it weren't for his little bit of opinion at the bottem I'd be screaming for a "Karma-whoring -1" moderation option. Actually, I suppose I am.... come on CmdrTaco, please?
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Who's going to decrypt the filename? Napster would have to do it since their servers are the ones that perform the searches.
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Al Gore said in a CNN interview in March of 1999, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
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You can read more about it here: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18390,0
Read a newspaper.
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Neither one of those countries can really threaten
Yes, but they will be able to in 10 years.
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Don't worry too much. India generally gets along very well with NATO countries and the US' other friends in the asia/pacific rim area. It's Pakastan, China and North Korea we should be worried about.
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"Maybe I'm just being a little too PC."
:)
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but yeah, you probably are. "Would make the world a lot less crowded" is a blatant joke.
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Learn from your mistakes.
Smart people learn from their mistakes. Smarter people learn from other people's mistakes.
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Besides, when you do try to correct stupid moderation you lose karma by idiot meta-moderators. The other day I got 5 mod points and decided to use them to fix bad moderation. I lost 3 karma.
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I don't think this will be exploited too much
Imagine how bad the california power situation would get if, on some relatively warm day, every air conditioner in the state was turned to 45?
Or, imagine how much money the gas companies would make if every business' furnace was turned to 90 during the night at the same time?
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Something that you do for you, cause you are having fun.
In this case I'd probably beer license it unless it was something that I knew would make me filthy rich... lol.
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Nice dream. Linux will never be as easy as the mac or windows though.
I'm not being anti-linux, this is the plain truth. Linux coders simply cannot make things easy enough for your grandmother to use, primarily because coders' ideas of easy are far different from your grandmother's idea of easy. Open source coders write things for themselves, not their grandparents.
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Because some people like to get physical reward (money) for their creations. This is the principal upon which capitalism is based: you do something in order to get something. Personally, how I license my code depends on how it's used. If I write, say, a unique CGI for a site that adds competitive value for the owner, then it goes under a proprietary license. If I'm writing something that's not all that unique (message board, etc.) then I use something simular to the "beer license".
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you wouldn't mind posting a URL that it can be downloaded from, would you? Otherwise, please email it to me and I'll put it on a server.
Thanks!
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who are you talking about?
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Does anyone honestly believe this??? Besides, if it were really happening, CmdrTaco would be the one posting it.
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Native support is nice and all, but if nobody develops for it, it's rather pointless. At least this way Linux can GROW to the point that if an API is developed which runs faster on Linux than DirectX, developers will write games for it.
OS/2 started with a rather large following but then lost it. Linux is starting with (relatively) no following. There's nothing to lose.
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