You're right. Everywhere you go, you see soldiers, mainly 18-21 year-olds, with rifles on their backs.
And yes, I think the Palestinians feel that they have something worth dying for. My guess is that most potential terrorists who come to the US end up enjoying themselves a bit too much to go through with their plans.
There will never be peace between people who have been warring for thousands of years.
I think it's more like 100 years.
Weren't Britain and France at war for hundreds of years?
Have you ever heard any palestenian or israeli ever have a conversation about this subject without reeling off all the wrongdoings the evil others did in the past?
I asked an Israeli woman what she thought about the settlements in the W. Bank. All she said was "Why would anyone want to live there?"
This is pure conjecture. American society didn't fall apart after Pearl Harbor. And I don't see mass emigration from NYC, even though it's an obvious target of terrorists.
Right. So you walk into a coffee shop and order a cup of coffee, even though you don't happen to see its price listed anywhere. As you're sipping it, they hand you a bill for $30.
No kidding. We had "Working Assets" as our long-distance company, and my daughter talked to her friend in Spain a couple times. They sent the call through some scam company that charged over $3/minute.
Great points, but it gets even better: You don't have to buy the land, just lease parts of it. There are farmers in E. Oregon who lease unproductive parts of their land for wind-towers, and they can still farm the rest.
I don't think the situation is totally a matter of money. CEO's didn't like the fact that during the boom, some techy nerds could actually afford homes in their neighborhoods, or drive the same BMW's that they were driving.
Not all regular users use Itunes or have an Ipod. Just because an app that you use isn't on Linux doesn't mean it isn't ready for lots of other people.
For me, Linux became a usable desktop the day KDE 1 became available.
Seems to me, that's the advertisers' problem, not the customer's.
It's like my strategy for buying computer games: I wait until they've been out 2-3 years, then buy them for $10 or less from the bargain bins. If all customers did this, I doubt if the game companies could continue in business. Does that make what I do immoral?
To a large extent, I think advertisers have already done a lot to keep people looking, in that they've made TV spots far more appealing and entertaining than they used to be. Sometimes a Target ad, with its music and pretty girls, is better than the show that it's sponsoring.
Compare MS to ATT, when the latter had a monopoly on the phone system. ATT may have been just as ruthless, but the phone system always worked. And if anything broke, they would fix it for free.
Ruthlessness is more easily forgiven than incompetence.
You say that certain skills are no longer valuable, but I think you're confusing 'skills' with 'knowledge'. My experience is that a talented C++ programmer who has never seen Java will, with 3-4 weeks, be a far better and more productive Java programmer than a mediocre person who has been doing it for years.
Critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to learn new skills independently never go out of fashion.
I remember back around 1984, working for a company that made dedicated 'word processor' boxes. When the IBM PC came out, it was obvious to most of us that our whole industry was a dinosaur that was about to go extinct. But our marketing execs. kept insisting that we were fine, since '90% of the time, PC's are only used for word-processing, and we can give them better support'.
That might be fine in a business, but not so good at home. The only reason my wife or kids use our Windows machine, as opposed to the two Linux boxes, is so they can run Windows software (mostly games) or browse web sites that require IE plugins. If the machine were 'locked down', what good would it be?
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You're right. Everywhere you go, you see soldiers, mainly 18-21 year-olds, with rifles on their backs.
And yes, I think the Palestinians feel that they have something worth dying for. My guess is that most potential terrorists who come to the US end up enjoying themselves a bit too much to go through with their plans.
There will never be peace between people who have been warring for thousands of years.
I think it's more like 100 years.
Weren't Britain and France at war for hundreds of years?
Have you ever heard any palestenian or israeli ever have a conversation about this subject without reeling off all the wrongdoings the evil others did in the past?
I asked an Israeli woman what she thought about the settlements in the W. Bank. All she said was "Why would anyone want to live there?"
This is pure conjecture. American society didn't fall apart after Pearl Harbor. And I don't see mass emigration from NYC, even though it's an obvious target of terrorists.
Right. So you walk into a coffee shop and order a cup of coffee, even though you don't happen to see its price listed anywhere. As you're sipping it, they hand you a bill for $30.
No kidding. We had "Working Assets" as our long-distance company, and my daughter talked to her friend in Spain a couple times. They sent the call through some scam company that charged over $3/minute.
I get the feeling you've never used Blender...
Hostile takeover: It's when you're playing an RPG and you kill all the inhabitants of a town or dungeon, so you have it all to yourself.
I believe that most games are written in C++, and have been for several years.
Great points, but it gets even better: You don't have to buy the land, just lease parts of it. There are farmers in E. Oregon who lease unproductive parts of their land for wind-towers, and they can still farm the rest.
Sending out millions of junk-mail CD packs?
Come to think of it... where's the money?
And where are my groupies?
What about the people who would have had heart attacks out of frustration with Windows? Perhaps Linus has saved lives.
Easy solution: "Fix" their problems by wiping off Windows and installing Linux.
Then they'll either be happy with the stability, or so annoyed that they'll never bother you again.
I don't think the situation is totally a matter of money. CEO's didn't like the fact that during the boom, some techy nerds could actually afford homes in their neighborhoods, or drive the same BMW's that they were driving.
Has there been an attempt to get Apple to create an offical Linux version of iTunes? Any response from them?
Not all regular users use Itunes or have an Ipod. Just because an app that you use isn't on Linux doesn't mean it isn't ready for lots of other people.
For me, Linux became a usable desktop the day KDE 1 became available.
Seems to me, that's the advertisers' problem, not the customer's.
It's like my strategy for buying computer games: I wait until they've been out 2-3 years, then buy them for $10 or less from the bargain bins. If all customers did this, I doubt if the game companies could continue in business. Does that make what I do immoral?
To a large extent, I think advertisers have already done a lot to keep people looking, in that they've made TV spots far more appealing and entertaining than they used to be. Sometimes a Target ad, with its music and pretty girls, is better than the show that it's sponsoring.
Compare MS to ATT, when the latter had a monopoly on the phone system. ATT may have been just as ruthless, but the phone system always worked. And if anything broke, they would fix it for free.
Ruthlessness is more easily forgiven than incompetence.
True, but they might not like it much either if you spend all your time with them and don't bring in any money.
You say that certain skills are no longer valuable, but I think you're confusing 'skills' with 'knowledge'. My experience is that a talented C++ programmer who has never seen Java will, with 3-4 weeks, be a far better and more productive Java programmer than a mediocre person who has been doing it for years.
Critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to learn new skills independently never go out of fashion.
I thought it was the name of a LucasArts game, like "Zak McCracken".
The Linux (originally Unix) virus comes as an email:
"This is a Linux virus. Please forward this email to 6 of your friends. Then delete all the files you care about."
I remember back around 1984, working for a company that made dedicated 'word processor' boxes. When the IBM PC came out, it was obvious to most of us that our whole industry was a dinosaur that was about to go extinct. But our marketing execs. kept insisting that we were fine, since '90% of the time, PC's are only used for word-processing, and we can give them better support'.
That might be fine in a business, but not so good at home. The only reason my wife or kids use our Windows machine, as opposed to the two Linux boxes, is so they can run Windows software (mostly games) or browse web sites that require IE plugins. If the machine were 'locked down', what good would it be?