Counterpoint taken. I erroneously assumed that we (the slashdot crowd) weren't carrying debt and were contributing to a liquidity trap. I imagine the OP made the same mistake... that or they really do believe buying beyond your means helps the economy.
Not really, he didn't explicitly state that the old hard drive had to be thrown out. It could be sold or donated to someone else while you buy a new hard drive.
The broken glass fallacy also fails to take into account that idle money is also not beneficial to the economy as Keynesianism economics describes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Excessive_saving
Of course the 'about turn' happened a long time ago. CodePlex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex) is pretty definitive proof that MS Supports Open Source, at least when it coincides with their business goals.
Probably when they called Linux and open source licenses 'cancer' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer
Now try to find high quality propriety products that are not backed by huge organizations. (Size of the backing organization and license used are different topics; you're trying to mix them and so your conclusion is flawed.)
When I was in California with my wife, we went to The Tech (http://www.thetech.org/) and the Intel museum (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.html)
We found the Tech interesting and wish we had more time to see it (we got there a couple hours before closing), the Intel museum wasn't anything special and could probably be skipped unless you really like looking at old silicon wafers or can't miss the opportunity to wear one of those bunny suits for a photo op.
They are porting everything to use an abstraction layer (I believe called TQ), which they in turn hope to port to QT 4, but it's a long process.
I'm pretty sure it covers the speakers in phones, laptops, and televisions. They all look exactly like loudspeakers to me.
He could be referring to the
FUD. I remember the original slashdot FUD article you're referring to as well. WPF and Silverlight are not all of
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/11/04/silverlight-questions.aspx
People who think they can convey sarcasm in printed text usually do not have the talent to carry it off. It is almost impossible to do in a brief post. People who think sarcasm is clever are not that clever. People who say "you missed the sarcasm" in such a case are merely tiresome.
I picked it up. Perhaps it's cultural but the phrase "Cause you know that make sense" just reeks of sarcasm, and the ellipses makes it even more obvious. - not sarcasm.
By making it a porn site themselves, ala PETA and reap the profits. After all it promotes
A little bit of overkill when X support would still exist. The ongoing kwin project which makes this possible was to abstract the composting from the rest of kwin so that people could choose which compositor to use. The first example is OpenGL ES vs OpenGL 2, which currently has to be compiled separately but in 4.8 will be a runtime option.
(The story is focusing on Martin's KWin talk so I'm addressing that aspect)
Maybe if you're really careful, but a lot of us end up with homes, wives, children, aging relatives, and a ton of other distractions. I fondly look back on when I had as much free time as University.
I believe we call such a system an Air Conditioner, which is exactly what the article was trying to avoid.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
