In the past the oil industry was a much bigger part of the Texas economy than it is now. It's still a large part, but there is a ton of high-tech stuff all around Texas - Apple is building all of its Mac Pro units in Texas, for example...
They also have a lot of international trade, including a major airport and shipping port too. All of that adds to economic diversity.
they simply found pak'ma'ra toilet habits to be utterly repulsive
Ah, so the pak'ma'ra used German toilets then.
Sliders started the best, but then fell apart. If it could have continued and ended as strong as it started, I would have voted for it over the others.
Have you seen Win10?
The leash has been shortened very significantly compared to Win8 times.
Once a bunch of people spend all that on alcohol and/or drugs, what are you going to do about them?
More importantly, what are you going to do about their kids?
Have you considered that, if it did get past the lawyers, then they are respecting it to the extent the law requires them to?
One thing of note is that this particular acquisition is not DevDiv, it's Azure ML. But Azure ML is, in some ways, even more F/OSS friendly - at least I don't know anyone else in MS running Linux servers in production for user-facing services, and it's where a lot of ex-MSR guys (like, from those labs that were closed) ended up. It's also where all the Python stuff now is.
Then again, after Satya's takeover, there was a strong push from top down to stop treating open source in general and Linux in particular as pariah, in all divisions. In no uncertain language, like "we've been acting stupid about this for a while now and let competitors eat our lunch; time to catch up while we still can". The recent slew of announcements, from
FWIW, I didn't think I'd ever hear a Microsoft lawyer utter the words "GPL is actually kinda cool" while explaining to developers the company's new open source policy in his official capacity. Yet, here we are.
Long and hard? Yes. But this kind of thing makes it worth it (and also shows that, perhaps, it's not quite all that long if you go fast enough).
And Python and R can work together (rpy2), with Python being the glue.
The forked version is still GPL.
There's one other aspect to it that is obvious when you see who the people on MS side talking about this are. It is, effectively, an acquisition by the Azure ML division - the sole purpose of which is to get the "big data" people to come to Azure and pay for burning CPU cycles.
This is the intent of "separate but equal" States at it's core.
That is definitely an advantage of the federal system, but it was not the purpose. The constitution was written that way to prevent the centralized government from becoming too dictatorial. Indeed, if the constitution had given the national government much more power, not all of the states would have joined.
What they propose is not going to happen simply because of this:
He calls for the state government to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data, relying on outside auditors and experts.
Outside auditors doing anything in CA government? We'll see that only when all else is lost, and people are starting to go to prison.
I'd hazard a guess that it'll be priced like all the previous versions. $49-99 for an upgrade copy, and $79-129(oem) and $129-199 for retail.
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