Last time I've checked, Provo, Utah, was located in the good ol' USA. So, as Novell has acquired SUSE a long time go, I think your comment is way off mark.
This is prejudice against the machines.
Human beings are known for acting based on stereotypes, misbeliefs and preconceptions. How many niggers have been accused just because they were niggers?
At least for a computer system, we could have the hope of true objectivity.
I am not saying it's perfect, I am not saying it's perfect. But at the same time I see no point in dismissing a idea, that could, theoretically finally give us a legal system completely objective. Think about the judges around pushing their political agendas, the policeman with Rambo complex and so on. If you do that, I believe you eventually agree that the idea is not that bad.
Not quite true. The poor are better off now, than what they were 100 years ago. Not as better as it would be desirable, but definitelly better. The worst cases of improvement in the poors' condition are just the case of countries where the politicians fucked everything. Take a look at ethiopia, angola. Their socialist (at least nominal) governments made things even worse.
Just look at statistics: life spectancy, newborn deaths, etc etc... Things are not that good, but the more of capitalism in a society, and whenever corruption doesn's take it's toll, things just get better.
I wonder if the GP has any idea of how nazi his/ser comment sounds.
"Clean up... Something that I classify as trash"
DISCLAIMER: I am not a racist, nazi or any of those things, but acting like a nazi against nazis makes you a nazi also. I am for the law, only the law, not hate.
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I am not exactly a religous type, and I often get irritated with people trying to "convert" me. But at the same time, I feel that people should be free to express their beliefs. If someone strongly believes in God, I think that's reasonable for him/her to express his/her belief that having strong religious bonds are a good thing to improve familiar relationships. Why was Parent modded offtopic? Just because moderator doesn't agree with his/her instance? Looks like censorship to me.
Anyone who would agree to make a $20 million investment based on someone else's ORAL guarantee (e.g. WITHOUT a WRITTEN agreement) is a complete MORON or LIAR.
except when your business is drugs, arms smugling, or..... anti-competitive activities.
Duh.
A Mac is not only a Operating System. Is a computer system. So, the comparison is valid. By the way the Mac is designed you will never have this kind of problems. Because there is ONE mac, not a lot of different machines that happen to use the same OS. Mac OS interface is simple, elegant and coherent and things like spotlight really give it an edge over windows, but it's not only that. The overall computing experience with a Mac is superior, because it's well thought, engineered and predictable. Let me tell you another history. I am a late bloomer, my mother had me when she was on her forties, so, now she is 75 years old. I was never able to make her use a computer for simple things like searching for recipes, talking on skype with me and so on. This is something that I can't explain, it's not even rational for me. But the fact is, after having windows machines for years and failling to show my mon how to accomplish simple tasks like the ones I've mentioned, I've got home with an used iBook. The first time my mon saw it, she wanted it! (the same history goes with my first iPod: "Would you buy me one?" - my mon said ROFL). For a long time I wanted to teach my mon how to use skype. And know it was the time. Surprisingly enough, she felt more confortable with the touchpad than with the mouse (maybe because my mouse is a Microsoft mouse with an horde of buttons and wheels), and the Mac OS was never intimidating for her. She got used to the mouse gestures and things like that, and the overall teaching session went well. Ok, I know I can't explain it rationally, but for me, the Mac is a computer that even my old mom can use and enjoy, and for me, a Windows PC is an evil machine that humiliated my mon the last time I've tried to teach her how to minimally use it.
I work for an IBM customer. I have a machine and a table on a IBM building here on Rio de Janeiro, where I can keep a close eye on the project they are working on for us.
Well, even having a PC there, usually I carry my Ibook with me, so, let me give an example of how Mac and Windows are different:
Task: connecting to wireless network:
MAC iBook ->Airport has detect network XXXXX... do you want to connect to it? "hey guys, what is the passphrase?"..... Connected. online.
My colleague's IBM Thinkpad running windows -> Complicated and absurdely ugly wizard-style dialog asking bazzillions of technical details... he asks for help... "I don't know what all those questions mean"... "but, hey, you've connected right?" "hum, yes... but I am using a mac, it just asked for the passphrase", "(*)!"
Somehow we manage to find the correct parameters, reboot. he is online.
So, do you really think someone that has a Mac will switch to windows just because, he, err.... experienced windows?
think again.
The only thing I see on bootcamp is that you can run windows games on a mac. It's just a convenience. but even a seasoned windows user will find hard to come back to windows after a little time of Mac OS usage. "Hey, where are my mouse gestures? where is spotlight?"
Well, I am a brazilian, never had travelled to the US at that time, had no american friends (at that time, also), and didn't know a single person that has died on Sep 11th. Yet, it struck me with a feeling of personal loss and it definitelly changed my views on life. I remember walking as a zoombie on Rio de Janeiro streets and trying to be close to people I love. For me, and for all the folks I knew that were not stupid pseudo-leftist dumb-asses 9/11 was as close and as real as if someone droped a nuke on Rio de Janeiro.
Just because you're a cold guy that could never feel anything for people beyond your closed circle, it doesn't mean everybody acts the same.
Basically they think that the greatest evil is the US military themselves, as they are the only military force that would probably comply with the license, given the advanced reach of the law in the US. They surelly know that groups like al-qaeda are not going to be restrained by the GPL, so, they are clearly stating that it's not a problem for them.
I am not saying that they endorse Al-Qaeda, but that they sincerelly believe that if the US didn't exist, there wouldn't be an Al-Qaeda after all because, for them, the Al-Qaeda and alikes are just a reaction to american abuse.
I don't agree with them. But they are entitled to believe whatever they want, and act according to their belief, until, of course, the day the other side wins.
My opinion is that they either qualify as idiot-savants (very unlikely), or that they are trying to impress some pacifist girls in their universities to increase their reproductive success ratio (this is my bet).
Actually, that's why Microsoft quit using that system for Windows. After they ran all project simulations, they came to the conclusion that Windows 2666* would not cut very well into the christian market, so, they renamed it to vista, which is a farsi word that means "delivery to fscking far away".
*(The actual target date for vista delivery among MS project managers)
Open Source projects are not based on everybody deciding about everything. They are based on merit. All decisions are done by a handfull of people that proved that they have the skills to do the best decisions.
Of course, all of it depends on the project creator(s) being able to share his power and being able to understand which contributors should have a say for the well being of the project.
Not much different from a healthy "closed-source" company. And as much as there are unhealthy "closed-source" companies (and there's a lot of degrees between healthy/unhealthy) there is also a lot of Open Source projects with pointy-headed bosses, with the added anti-bonus that those pointy-headed bosses think they are Alice.
Can't they just block everything on their firewalls and add only the hosts or domains the professors formally request to have access allowed?
Is it that complicated?
Yes, you are right, and I managed to confuse the gas. It was PEPPER gas, not mustard, the kind used by police against crowds. Anyway, it was thrown INSIDE of my property, at my dog, which was 8 months old at the time (what explains why he was barking that much).
While it's a fact that there were more to USSR than Russia, it's a historical fact that the imbalance of power always looked more like a Russian Empire than anything else, Stalin was a Georgian, but in fact his ways of power always strived for the russification of the soviet empire. Said that, It's hard to see how can you say that Russia is not very different from, say, US, Germany, France or UK when it comes to democracy. In recent times he replaced several electoral laws, eliminating direct vote for governors, changed the parliamentary elections process to a somewhat indirect one that extends his powers and minimizes the opposition. Not to mention the reprobable involvement in the sovereign affairs of Ukraine on their last election, with even a presumable attemp to murder Yuschenko. Not to mention, the imprisonenment of Khodorkovsky. Just for a comparison, at US you can question the government over things like the NSA's wiretaps, but in current Russia, things like that are just business as usual. Based on reality, your arguments that standards of democracy in Russia are not different from the norm look rather misinformed.
Putin's Russia, by any standards, is not what could be called a democracy. The kind of things that russian government does right now makes NSA actions sound pretty mild in comparison.
Against reality your post is utterly non-sensical and prejudicious.
I had a similar problem. My neighbor is a Cop and he threw mustard gas over the fence to make my dog stop barking. My mother noticed the smell, I came out, threatening to call the police, he appeared armed and uniformized.
Too bad I live in a third world country were I can't expect too much from the legal system. So I had to cool heads down and since then my dog is always inside, and I never let him in the yard except for some short periods.
I could have filled a complaint? Yeah, but then I could have been misteriosly shoot in the head when coming late from office.
Please remember that here the pro-gun-control guns have winned the batle a long time ago, So I can't even carry a handgun on my car to have at least a minimum level of defense. And since 2004 is utterly to have a gun at home, at least as a last line of defense. Only criminals and abusive police officers have that kind of right, not law-abidding citizens.
So, the only solution? move to a larger property, with 3 metters high walls, and a yard bigger enough to keep me away (and safe) from any neighbors.
And that's the world we get when those guys so concerned about vigilantism make the rules.
Sorry if you are not a Software Engineer and work for an old-fashioned company that requires not only your soul, but also your body presence at the office.
But before you jump into conclusions let me suggest you to google about telecommuting.
That's probably the reason the author talked about the poor souls who have to face traffic jams everyday.
In Soviet Russia (Or, sadly, here in Brasil) they would actually kill anyone who videotaped their misdeeds and would put some drugs in your car and a gun in your hand to justify it.
And no, this not meant to be funny.
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Last time I've checked, Provo, Utah, was located in the good ol' USA. So, as Novell has acquired SUSE a long time go, I think your comment is way off mark.
This is prejudice
against the machines. Human beings are known for acting based on stereotypes, misbeliefs and preconceptions. How many niggers have been accused just because they were niggers? At least for a computer system, we could have the hope of true objectivity. I am not saying it's perfect, I am not saying it's perfect. But at the same time I see no point in dismissing a idea, that could, theoretically finally give us a legal system completely objective. Think about the judges around pushing their political agendas, the policeman with Rambo complex and so on. If you do that, I believe you eventually agree that the idea is not that bad.
Not quite true. The poor are better off now, than what they were 100 years ago. Not as better as it would be desirable, but definitelly better. The worst cases of improvement in the poors' condition are just the case of countries where the politicians fucked everything. Take a look at ethiopia, angola. Their socialist (at least nominal) governments made things even worse. Just look at statistics: life spectancy, newborn deaths, etc etc... Things are not that good, but the more of capitalism in a society, and whenever corruption doesn's take it's toll, things just get better.
I wonder if the GP has any idea of how nazi his/ser comment sounds. "Clean up... Something that I classify as trash" DISCLAIMER: I am not a racist, nazi or any of those things, but acting like a nazi against nazis makes you a nazi also. I am for the law, only the law, not hate.
I am not exactly a religous type, and I often get irritated with people trying to "convert" me. But at the same time, I feel that people should be free to express their beliefs. If someone strongly believes in God, I think that's reasonable for him/her to express his/her belief that having strong religious bonds are a good thing to improve familiar relationships.
Why was Parent modded offtopic? Just because moderator doesn't agree with his/her instance? Looks like censorship to me.
Anyone who would agree to make a $20 million investment based on someone else's ORAL guarantee (e.g. WITHOUT a WRITTEN agreement) is a complete MORON or LIAR. except when your business is drugs, arms smugling, or..... anti-competitive activities. Duh.
Because they have no other choice once microsoft decides to look at them?
my Microsoft mouse has 4 buttons and a scroll wheel besides scrolling also tilts and can be clicked. for a mouse, yes, I qualify it as an horde.
A Mac is not only a Operating System. Is a computer system. So, the comparison is valid. By the way the Mac is designed you will never have this kind of problems. Because there is ONE mac, not a lot of different machines that happen to use the same OS.
Mac OS interface is simple, elegant and coherent and things like spotlight really give it an edge over windows, but it's not only that. The overall computing experience with a Mac is superior, because it's well thought, engineered and predictable.
Let me tell you another history. I am a late bloomer, my mother had me when she was on her forties, so, now she is 75 years old. I was never able to make her use a computer for simple things like searching for recipes, talking on skype with me and so on.
This is something that I can't explain, it's not even rational for me. But the fact is, after having windows machines for years and failling to show my mon how to accomplish simple tasks like the ones I've mentioned, I've got home with an used iBook. The first time my mon saw it, she wanted it! (the same history goes with my first iPod: "Would you buy me one?" - my mon said ROFL).
For a long time I wanted to teach my mon how to use skype. And know it was the time. Surprisingly enough, she felt more confortable with the touchpad than with the mouse (maybe because my mouse is a Microsoft mouse with an horde of buttons and wheels), and the Mac OS was never intimidating for her. She got used to the mouse gestures and things like that, and the overall teaching session went well. Ok, I know I can't explain it rationally, but for me, the Mac is a computer that even my old mom can use and enjoy, and for me, a Windows PC is an evil machine that humiliated my mon the last time I've tried to teach her how to minimally use it.
I work for an IBM customer. I have a machine and a table on a IBM building here on Rio de Janeiro, where I can keep a close eye on the project they are working on for us. Well, even having a PC there, usually I carry my Ibook with me, so, let me give an example of how Mac and Windows are different: Task: connecting to wireless network: MAC iBook ->Airport has detect network XXXXX... do you want to connect to it? "hey guys, what is the passphrase?" ..... Connected. online.
My colleague's IBM Thinkpad running windows -> Complicated and absurdely ugly wizard-style dialog asking bazzillions of technical details... he asks for help... "I don't know what all those questions mean"... "but, hey, you've connected right?" "hum, yes... but I am using a mac, it just asked for the passphrase", "(*)!"
Somehow we manage to find the correct parameters, reboot. he is online.
So, do you really think someone that has a Mac will switch to windows just because, he, err.... experienced windows?
think again.
The only thing I see on bootcamp is that you can run windows games on a mac. It's just a convenience. but even a seasoned windows user will find hard to come back to windows after a little time of Mac OS usage. "Hey, where are my mouse gestures? where is spotlight?"
Well, I am a brazilian, never had travelled to the US at that time, had no american friends (at that time, also), and didn't know a single person that has died on Sep 11th. Yet, it struck me with a feeling of personal loss and it definitelly changed my views on life. I remember walking as a zoombie on Rio de Janeiro streets and trying to be close to people I love. For me, and for all the folks I knew that were not stupid pseudo-leftist dumb-asses 9/11 was as close and as real as if someone droped a nuke on Rio de Janeiro. Just because you're a cold guy that could never feel anything for people beyond your closed circle, it doesn't mean everybody acts the same.
Basically they think that the greatest evil is the US military themselves, as they are the only military force that would probably comply with the license, given the advanced reach of the law in the US. They surelly know that groups like al-qaeda are not going to be restrained by the GPL, so, they are clearly stating that it's not a problem for them. I am not saying that they endorse Al-Qaeda, but that they sincerelly believe that if the US didn't exist, there wouldn't be an Al-Qaeda after all because, for them, the Al-Qaeda and alikes are just a reaction to american abuse. I don't agree with them. But they are entitled to believe whatever they want, and act according to their belief, until, of course, the day the other side wins. My opinion is that they either qualify as idiot-savants (very unlikely), or that they are trying to impress some pacifist girls in their universities to increase their reproductive success ratio (this is my bet).
Hi Mr Dvorak, looks like you've just found an exciting new thing: Slashdot!! are you going to talk about it tomorrow?
Actually, that's why Microsoft quit using that system for Windows. After they ran all project simulations, they came to the conclusion that Windows 2666* would not cut very well into the christian market, so, they renamed it to vista, which is a farsi word that means "delivery to fscking far away". *(The actual target date for vista delivery among MS project managers)
Open Source projects are not based on everybody deciding about everything. They are based on merit. All decisions are done by a handfull of people that proved that they have the skills to do the best decisions. Of course, all of it depends on the project creator(s) being able to share his power and being able to understand which contributors should have a say for the well being of the project. Not much different from a healthy "closed-source" company. And as much as there are unhealthy "closed-source" companies (and there's a lot of degrees between healthy/unhealthy) there is also a lot of Open Source projects with pointy-headed bosses, with the added anti-bonus that those pointy-headed bosses think they are Alice.
Ohoh... Should I reconsider going to OOPSLA on october? ;-)
Can't they just block everything on their firewalls and add only the hosts or domains the professors formally request to have access allowed? Is it that complicated?
Yes, you are right, and I managed to confuse the gas. It was PEPPER gas, not mustard, the kind used by police against crowds. Anyway, it was thrown INSIDE of my property, at my dog, which was 8 months old at the time (what explains why he was barking that much).
While it's a fact that there were more to USSR than Russia, it's a historical fact that the imbalance of power always looked more like a Russian Empire than anything else, Stalin was a Georgian, but in fact his ways of power always strived for the russification of the soviet empire.
Said that, It's hard to see how can you say that Russia is not very different from, say, US, Germany, France or UK when it comes to democracy. In recent times he replaced several electoral laws, eliminating direct vote for governors, changed the parliamentary elections process to a somewhat indirect one that extends his powers and minimizes the opposition. Not to mention the reprobable involvement in the sovereign affairs of Ukraine on their last election, with even a presumable attemp to murder Yuschenko.
Not to mention, the imprisonenment of Khodorkovsky.
Just for a comparison, at US you can question the government over things like the NSA's wiretaps, but in current Russia, things like that are just business as usual.
Based on reality, your arguments that standards of democracy in Russia are not different from the norm look rather misinformed.
Putin's Russia, by any standards, is not what could be called a democracy. The kind of things that russian government does right now makes NSA actions sound pretty mild in comparison. Against reality your post is utterly non-sensical and prejudicious.
I had a similar problem. My neighbor is a Cop and he threw mustard gas over the fence to make my dog stop barking. My mother noticed the smell, I came out, threatening to call the police, he appeared armed and uniformized. Too bad I live in a third world country were I can't expect too much from the legal system. So I had to cool heads down and since then my dog is always inside, and I never let him in the yard except for some short periods. I could have filled a complaint? Yeah, but then I could have been misteriosly shoot in the head when coming late from office. Please remember that here the pro-gun-control guns have winned the batle a long time ago, So I can't even carry a handgun on my car to have at least a minimum level of defense. And since 2004 is utterly to have a gun at home, at least as a last line of defense. Only criminals and abusive police officers have that kind of right, not law-abidding citizens. So, the only solution? move to a larger property, with 3 metters high walls, and a yard bigger enough to keep me away (and safe) from any neighbors. And that's the world we get when those guys so concerned about vigilantism make the rules.
Sorry if you are not a Software Engineer and work for an old-fashioned company that requires not only your soul, but also your body presence at the office. But before you jump into conclusions let me suggest you to google about telecommuting. That's probably the reason the author talked about the poor souls who have to face traffic jams everyday.
In Soviet Russia (Or, sadly, here in Brasil) they would actually kill anyone who videotaped their misdeeds and would put some drugs in your car and a gun in your hand to justify it. And no, this not meant to be funny.
AOL is a dinossaur now. Their market doesn't exist anymore and they stuck upon their past until it was too late.