All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Brought Peace?
Oh. Peace? Shut up!
Yet another example of Linux/Unix folks not having enough sense to unite in their fight against the dark side...
That's funny. All this time I thought the *nix community was focused on developing quality operating systems. Now I learn the community is actually all about the "fight against the dark side".
To tell you the truth I'd suspected this, but here it is from the horse's (penguin's?) mouth...
IIRC Sony is eating the cost for the Dell recall and probably the Apple one too. IANAL but there has to be some sort of liability concern Sony would be facing otherwise.
"I'll respect you in the morning."
"I won't *** in your mouth."
"I'll pull out in time."
The three lines/. users are least likely to utter.
The fourth:
"Wow, MS actually made a pretty useable browser."
1. What defines a bug? Who would police this? The government? Wouldn't this just lead to another "captive agency" like the FDA or Congress (maybe)?
2. How would this not become an advertising/marketing shitfest?
Or how they'll avoid having the warlords get in on secondary redistribution (i.e. "give me the laptops or I'll machete your family and your village").
It isn't that I don't think this is a noble cause (IT literacy is an excellent path out of poverty) but just that introducing an easily resalable commodity into very poor communities will not necessarily end well (although I guess if they sell it for food it would still end well, just not accomplish what was hoped).
Mod this as a troll or a flamebait if you want, but I'll bet this will happen to the laptops, good intentions not withstanding.
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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought Peace? Oh. Peace? Shut up!
How long before .pdf's of the merit badge booklet show up on P2P?
That's funny. All this time I thought the *nix community was focused on developing quality operating systems. Now I learn the community is actually all about the "fight against the dark side".
To tell you the truth I'd suspected this, but here it is from the horse's (penguin's?) mouth...
How dare they adopt popular features like that? Who do they think they are, some sort of business?
That web site is the best argument against intelligent design I've ever seen...
Schools? Libraries?
At my work we have a manager who loves to go tear-assing around the halls on his.
Pisses me off AND looks dumb.
What a combo!
(I just don't "get" the Segway thing, I just don't...)
Lack of election of state and local law enforcement (sheriffs, district attorneys, attorneys general and judges) might be another factor. :(
I fail to see how this is so bad. Or even "censorship", for that matter: this isn't state action.
Stealing something you got for free a GREAT way to encourage this (fairly interesting) new service.
Way to strangle it in its crib!
...that they aren't allowed to do ANYTHING with.
Well, they can listen to it.
Don't know about you but that's usually what I do with my music...
Shitty layout, interesting article.
Locke keeps free people free.
Sony. http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2 972235.html
IIRC Sony is eating the cost for the Dell recall and probably the Apple one too. IANAL but there has to be some sort of liability concern Sony would be facing otherwise.
Make sure you're running the .NET 2.0 beta, mine did the same thing until I did that.
"I'll respect you in the morning." "I won't *** in your mouth." "I'll pull out in time." The three lines /. users are least likely to utter.
The fourth:
"Wow, MS actually made a pretty useable browser."
Interesting argument. Two questions:
1. What defines a bug? Who would police this? The government? Wouldn't this just lead to another "captive agency" like the FDA or Congress (maybe)?
2. How would this not become an advertising/marketing shitfest?
Or how they'll avoid having the warlords get in on secondary redistribution (i.e. "give me the laptops or I'll machete your family and your village"). It isn't that I don't think this is a noble cause (IT literacy is an excellent path out of poverty) but just that introducing an easily resalable commodity into very poor communities will not necessarily end well (although I guess if they sell it for food it would still end well, just not accomplish what was hoped). Mod this as a troll or a flamebait if you want, but I'll bet this will happen to the laptops, good intentions not withstanding.