You have to remember that Msft isn't just the wealthy leaders, it's also mostly a LOT of relatively newbies struggling to put in their 7 years and make a bundle also - that's what keeps them going - and the languishing flatlined stock price isn't helping morale, so, what to do? Pick a scapegoat (FOSS) and wail away. "Keep plugging at that filesystem, we're taking care of those free software communists that're currently hurting our growth numbers but when we're done you'll be able to make a bundle too".
quoth the article "PDI leveraged a lot of the water effects work that the company did last year for Universal Studios' special venue stereoscopic film Shrek 4-D."
Woah - anybody know anything about that? Can we buy a copy? My 3D glasses are ready to go;))
I guess, in the spirit of the GNU GPL, they'll have to come up with something, call it the FDA - a "Full Disclosure Agreement" that you *must* sign before contributing code, stating that you WILL tell everybody about the project and publish your code contribution, sort of a bizarro-world NDA.
I started a bitorrent download Tues. evening and it started out real slow, but by Wednesday morning it was humping along at over 200Mbps - got it installed last night and my cheap raid5 running this morning.
As they say, everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it (I think that saying must be over 100 years old, before worries over CO2 became fashionable). I have magazines from 1927 where nutcases write in, sure that the unusually wet weather we're having is due to all these newfangled radio transmitting stations going up - you can't pump all those kilowatts into the aether w/o some damage to the earth!
Anyway, as someone who has had a hurricane in his back yard and lived to talk about it, what I'm afraid of is what primitive superstitious corrective actions you are going to take to 'fix' the human/earth balance and restore reality to the garden of eden state. If history is any guide it will probably involve pagen sacrifices of virgins into the co2 spewing volcano, much wailing and weeping begging to sun not to go further south than the winter equinox and other such idiotic nonsense - except it will be federally and UN mandated upon otherwise rational beings who know better, all to appease an angry militant band of vegatable chomping gaia worshippers.
The ultimate goal of all this kookiness is impeding US industry and prosperity, pure and simple - a propagande attack from the former Soviet Union couldn't have been better that todays enviros and is behind the same moving of industrial production to better climes offshore that the same folks decry. For some reason a plant in the US is singled out as the sole source of earth's destruction, while the exact same plant in Mexico, China or India is just A-OK with even less pollution controls. For example, production and use of Freon in Mexico goes on unchecked, but now that the US consumer has been hamstrung and pays more for less, suddenly the ozone hole is getting better all the time! Bullocks. Utter bullocks.
between these 'test' penetrations and journalists writing articles is the consequences of failing, i.e., getting caught. If the manager of the store got suspicious of the guy with the pallet of PC's and nabbed him and held him untill police arrive they would just say it was a security check, good job, and go on. However for a real criminal the stakes are much higher, and sometimes they can get nervous and give themselves away, or not have as much chutzpah to begin with.
he laid out in the 1920s the foundations of software."
Software was actually invented by Nikoli Tesla with the numerically controlled Tesla coil, as is clearly laid out in his patent describing 'coil taps by number' used to tune the coil. However historians conviently overlook this fact about the worlds greatest unsung genius.
Unfortunately (did someone mention money grubbing opportunists?) paranoid frenzies attract more attention, thus higher ratings, thus better paying advertising, than the boring facts.
I have a theory that news outlets, US ones anyway, strive to sustain a wartime level of interest at all times. If a hot war isn't in progress, lesser events are amplified in intensity untill they get the same level of interest.
The problem here is that many people today lack basic problem solving skills.
Frankly I wouldn't work for a business that didn't have an approved software policy for company PCs. That is, a company machine can only have software X,Y,Z,AA etc installed. If you d/l and install some J.random.software you have violated company policy and will be delt with by HR or whatever. If you just HAVE to have weatherbug, screensaver X, cursor or whatever, you may apply to the IT dept to research and maybe get it on the approved list. At my last job I absolutely refused to play that game, and the company managers agreed. People who installed software and broke their PC or exposed others on the inside of the firewall to risks were not allowed to get away with it easily. At *best* they would not have a pc to use until I 'get around to it', and THEY were held responsible for lost productivity. But expecting me to rush over to fix THEIR problems for violating rules spelled out in the company handbook was quickly discouraged. It's not a matter of IT being unreasonable or difficult, it's a matter of establishing reasonable policies and sticking by them. 'Playing' on company PCs is no more acceptable than checking out a business vehicle and joyriding around town. Anybody that wants to do that type of thing can use their pc at home and pay someone else to clean it up.
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a generation of people who believe that all those seemingly real people on the Internet are flawless
Playboy et al have been airbrushing out flaws for generations now. Nothing new there.
Good grief - there are so many things that can go wrong, and the next thing you know all your data is erased and people are notified of your death. All because the phone network went down while you were on a trip, or the inet connection dies (happens way too often here).
Most of the stuff I buy, both cheap and expensive, comes from different countries -- Japan, China, Germany, Mexico, etc. Periodically -- oh, horrors! -- I actually go on trips to foreign countries and leave a chunk on money there, paid for hotels, and food, and services, and what not.
OK - trade usually means some kind of 'exchange' of goods. If a majority of locals are buying foreign goods thru Wally Mart, what are the foreigners buying from the local folks? Pfft, software? Insurance? Or is it a net transfer of wealth and capital out of the local area, bit by bit - where every comsumer item that's enjoyed for a few years and then ends up in the landfill is that much less wealth for jobs, roads, schools, hospitals, etc?
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and a complete zero to google.
You have to remember that Msft isn't just the wealthy leaders, it's also mostly a LOT of relatively newbies struggling to put in their 7 years and make a bundle also - that's what keeps them going - and the languishing flatlined stock price isn't helping morale, so, what to do? Pick a scapegoat (FOSS) and wail away. "Keep plugging at that filesystem, we're taking care of those free software communists that're currently hurting our growth numbers but when we're done you'll be able to make a bundle too".
Nevermind - it's a ride at Universal studios w/ spraying water for donkey sneeze, etc.
quoth the article "PDI leveraged a lot of the water effects work that the company did last year for Universal Studios' special venue stereoscopic film Shrek 4-D."
;))
Woah - anybody know anything about that? Can we buy a copy? My 3D glasses are ready to go
I guess, in the spirit of the GNU GPL, they'll have to come up with something, call it the FDA - a "Full Disclosure Agreement" that you *must* sign before contributing code, stating that you WILL tell everybody about the project and publish your code contribution, sort of a bizarro-world NDA.
I started a bitorrent download Tues. evening and it started out real slow, but by Wednesday morning it was humping along at over 200Mbps - got it installed last night and my cheap raid5 running this morning.
As they say, everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it (I think that saying must be over 100 years old, before worries over CO2 became fashionable). I have magazines from 1927 where nutcases write in, sure that the unusually wet weather we're having is due to all these newfangled radio transmitting stations going up - you can't pump all those kilowatts into the aether w/o some damage to the earth!
Anyway, as someone who has had a hurricane in his back yard and lived to talk about it, what I'm afraid of is what primitive superstitious corrective actions you are going to take to 'fix' the human/earth balance and restore reality to the garden of eden state. If history is any guide it will probably involve pagen sacrifices of virgins into the co2 spewing volcano, much wailing and weeping begging to sun not to go further south than the winter equinox and other such idiotic nonsense - except it will be federally and UN mandated upon otherwise rational beings who know better, all to appease an angry militant band of vegatable chomping gaia worshippers.
The ultimate goal of all this kookiness is impeding US industry and prosperity, pure and simple - a propagande attack from the former Soviet Union couldn't have been better that todays enviros and is behind the same moving of industrial production to better climes offshore that the same folks decry. For some reason a plant in the US is singled out as the sole source of earth's destruction, while the exact same plant in Mexico, China or India is just A-OK with even less pollution controls. For example, production and use of Freon in Mexico goes on unchecked, but now that the US consumer has been hamstrung and pays more for less, suddenly the ozone hole is getting better all the time! Bullocks. Utter bullocks.
Brian did that one last December already.
between these 'test' penetrations and journalists writing articles is the consequences of failing, i.e., getting caught. If the manager of the store got suspicious of the guy with the pallet of PC's and nabbed him and held him untill police arrive they would just say it was a security check, good job, and go on. However for a real criminal the stakes are much higher, and sometimes they can get nervous and give themselves away, or not have as much chutzpah to begin with.
How about, " The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but readers of ArsTechnica can beat the rush and see it early!"
pc unix is a true democratic force that just won't be owned - one is reminded of King Canute commanding the waves of the ocean to stop.
Well, if you re-arrange the letters of his name it spells "one cohort", as well as "oh, toe corn!"
he laid out in the 1920s the foundations of software."
Software was actually invented by Nikoli Tesla with the numerically controlled Tesla coil, as is clearly laid out in his patent describing 'coil taps by number' used to tune the coil. However historians conviently overlook this fact about the worlds greatest unsung genius.
Alan Turing also suffered from corns on his toes, which definitely shows an anti corn-on-the-toes bias in the news media since it is rarely mentioned.
Unfortunately (did someone mention money grubbing opportunists?) paranoid frenzies attract more attention, thus higher ratings, thus better paying advertising, than the boring facts.
I have a theory that news outlets, US ones anyway, strive to sustain a wartime level of interest at all times. If a hot war isn't in progress, lesser events are amplified in intensity untill they get the same level of interest.
we need warp engines, and photon torpedoes!
Ohhh, a new entry for the crontab
The problem here is that many people today lack basic problem solving skills.
Frankly I wouldn't work for a business that didn't have an approved software policy for company PCs. That is, a company machine can only have software X,Y,Z,AA etc installed. If you d/l and install some J.random.software you have violated company policy and will be delt with by HR or whatever. If you just HAVE to have weatherbug, screensaver X, cursor or whatever, you may apply to the IT dept to research and maybe get it on the approved list. At my last job I absolutely refused to play that game, and the company managers agreed. People who installed software and broke their PC or exposed others on the inside of the firewall to risks were not allowed to get away with it easily. At *best* they would not have a pc to use until I 'get around to it', and THEY were held responsible for lost productivity. But expecting me to rush over to fix THEIR problems for violating rules spelled out in the company handbook was quickly discouraged. It's not a matter of IT being unreasonable or difficult, it's a matter of establishing reasonable policies and sticking by them. 'Playing' on company PCs is no more acceptable than checking out a business vehicle and joyriding around town. Anybody that wants to do that type of thing can use their pc at home and pay someone else to clean it up.
a generation of people who believe that all those seemingly real people on the Internet are flawless
Playboy et al have been airbrushing out flaws for generations now. Nothing new there.
Don't forget the prime directive of show business: "Always leave them wanting more".
IOW, you never give away everything, always hold something back for later.
Not rf from plasma, but audio
That's why I never purchase my microprocessors from early American colonists, those butchers.
Actually, I want a hi-tech solar powered no-moving parts tombstone with an mp3 player reading my final diary out thru a small crystal speaker forever.
Good grief - there are so many things that can go wrong, and the next thing you know all your data is erased and people are notified of your death. All because the phone network went down while you were on a trip, or the inet connection dies (happens way too often here).
Most of the stuff I buy, both cheap and expensive, comes from different countries -- Japan, China, Germany, Mexico, etc. Periodically -- oh, horrors! -- I actually go on trips to foreign countries and leave a chunk on money there, paid for hotels, and food, and services, and what not.
OK - trade usually means some kind of 'exchange' of goods. If a majority of locals are buying foreign goods thru Wally Mart, what are the foreigners buying from the local folks? Pfft, software? Insurance? Or is it a net transfer of wealth and capital out of the local area, bit by bit - where every comsumer item that's enjoyed for a few years and then ends up in the landfill is that much less wealth for jobs, roads, schools, hospitals, etc?