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Copy of the pape on my website w/ an FAQ
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Copy of the pape on my website w/ an FAQ
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Re:For the record.
x-box will never exist. i've predicted that it will be killed or fail miserably. they have to get through nintendo and sega to even touch sony. japanese are no pushovers like the wuses in silicon valley. they have nothing to fear from microsoft. plus sega owes microsoft revenge for fucking them like they did!
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unacceptible
first of all, if it's the size of it that's the issue, what's the big deal? anyone familiar with open source knows that teams will evolve around different pieces of it anyway. i don't see what difference staggering it like that makes. i think they are more afraid of their technology being embedded in other operating systems. which is the way it should be anyway!
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you think microsoft hasn't done worse?!?!i think their actions were justified.
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Re:Telco monopolies suck.
you have dealt with a real monopoly until you've dealt with snet. they charge for anything they can pull out of their ass! one time i relieved myself while i was talking on the phone and next month there was a $7.50 PISSING CHARGE ON THE BILL!!! i shit you not (pardon the pun)!
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who will become the grendel khan?!?These large companies will in the very near future be as powerful, if not eventually totally replacing, individual governments, because they have one ability governments don't have: the legal right (ie. no war necessary) to expand worldwide.
in the comic book, grendel, this is exactly what happenned. i remember reading it a few years back and thinking to myself, "this could really happen!". and if you listened to ralph nader's acceptance speech this weekend, you might believe it's already happenning!
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is worldcom really that big??
seems to me that there's relatively lots of competition in telecom. sure they have uunet but so what? internet 2 is coming and there are alot of players there. plus sprint is wireless! what's the big deal?
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Re:They said it's not a Java copy, anyone believeJava doesn't have property-handlers (eg. write functions that are treated as member variables - eg:
a.setName("MyName") would become: a.Name = "MyName" - but it would still go through a function.
ummm.... ever heard of a bean?
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Re:Sounds like another worthless M$ language to mewell this will not come anywhere near killing java. first of all the "virtual machine" will only run on windows. so right there it can't compete. basically what you're getting is a cheap knockoff of java that allows you to compile to windows code. i can do that with symantec and gcc already plus have code i can run on multiple operating system!
under this scheme, i'm basically in theory writing my code in c# on a linux machine to run on windows. but i won't be able to test my code on the box that i coded it on. it's like unnecessary cross-compiling. it's stupid. until i see virtual machine specifications for as many platforms that java has them on (there won't be), i'm not going to lose sleep.
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Re:Where's the DOJ now?It's important to note that the Microsoft action got only possible *BECAUSE* Microsoft has a OS monopoly. The DOJ *CANNOT* prosecute any non-monopoly US company for anticompetitive practices, barring a few very basic practices like price fixing. Rambus is far from being a monopoly in the RAM market. US antitrust laws are so weak that it's scary. Ask the GOP and their 'big business -friendly' antitrust policy why there are no tough pro-compentition laws, and why there are more and more big-business-protecting laws passed like UCITA. Ask the GOP why the budget of the DOJ antitrust division got frozen. (despite much heavier merger activity, the division's budget did not rise accordingly.)
are you forgetting that rambus is back by a monopoly bigger than microsoft itself? if rambus were to try to gain dominance by blocking sdram production, they'd probably go after intel who stands to gain tremendously from any of rambus' success.
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Re:What kind of camera?that girl in the burgundy in the dress is SOOOOOOOOO hot!
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okay, so where is the language specification?if this is a java killer, it's a very bad one! i went to their site and there is nothing on this so called c# that they just launched. no compiler, no language specification, no virtual machince specification, nothing. how do they expect to catch up to java's growth without these? c# will fall c-flat!
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Re:Development can occur on any platformWhere I work our developers use windows boxes because that interface is simple for them.
i'm in a similar situation. for my purposes, i have not found an editor as good as or better than scopeedit for non-windows environments. i've tried various folding editors (ae, fe and a few others) but nothing does the job as well as scopeedit. this (and quicken) has slowed down my move to an all linux box!
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Re:Give MS Visual Studio a Chance!By far, my favorite feature is the popup Intellisense, when you're working with an object or struct and type "." or "->" you get a window with the details of the object at that level. You will quickly get hooked on this feature.
feh! delphi had this YEARS ago.
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cygnus
if you're a win32 programmer it doesn't really make sense to use linux unless you are programming in java, perl, php or using gcc to write code. but other advantages are the bash shell and all the text processing tools. if you're a command line compile kind of guy like i am, i'd suggest cygnus to get the hang of linux based development. i am currently using it but am planning a full transition to all linux since i currently code in java and perl most of the time.
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then what?
so i've got linux installed on my handheld. so what? can i use X on it? probably not. i mean if i could at least run java applets on it, this would be worthwhile but command line linux on a pda with no keyboard doesn't sound like fun!
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Re:ksh is evil once you've used bash...If you are using SCO, it defaults to ksh, and you probably also have sh and csh. Korn shell offers plenty of flexibility, but I can see how some people would not like it, espesially if they are not comfortable with vi commands
oh man, i so hate ksh! they won't let me use bash either!
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Re:QuestionThe way I understand it is that record companies basically serve as a bank where musicians can get a loan to produce and market an album. This basically how Lars Ulrich explained it. Now, when the album goes on sale, all the money made from sales goes to pay the record company first, and the artist doesn't see a penny until the loan is paid back. What I want to know is this: What happens if the album doesn't sell enough to cover the loan? Does the artist still own it? Are they beholden to the record company to produce more albums? What happens?
in most cases, the record company owns the material regardless of whether or not it's paid back.
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Re:Mp3.com now a radio stationMp3.com thought it was rediculous to pay-per-play fees that the radio stations must do. They contended that this was JUST a way for users to listen to their music any way that they want. (anywhere any time). If they can play their music in their car via tape/CD, or listen at work on CD-ROM drives, why not simply allow them to play their music at any computer.
the record industry constantly contradicts itself with its physical property vs intellectually property stance. on one hand, they say you are paying for the license, but yet if you want to return your scratched cd for the cost of the media, you can't do that. now they want mp3 for essentially a license that the user already has. they can't have it both ways! well what is it? am i paying for the license or the disc?!?!
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Re:Thank God for AOL
too bad i don't have moderator access because i really laughed my ass off on this one!
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Re:Java excecution speed actually goodYou are a moron. You must be thinking of DJGPP or something. I routinely have 5k executables for fairly good size programs.
if you're saying you do this without optimizations then you are either full of shit or you're not programming win32 applications.
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Re:What I think...It is also multiplatform... we all know about that.
this is important with regards to server-side java. i build on my nt station and just drop in the jars on the production hp-ux server. I LOVE THAT. plus the fact that i can use my classes across various different application servers is a big plus. we're using the same business logic that we use as our gui client application. they say java doesn't live up to the hype but it definitely lives up to the portability and scalability hype! java is very powerful in this arena. i plan to use it for years to come.
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Re:Java excecution speed actually goodYeah, this is really hard to believe. Last time I did anything with Cygwin on Windows (compile Jikes!) the Cygwin binary was much slower than the MSVC one.
i think that's because you have to do all the optimizations yourself in cygwin! have you seen the size of the binaries it makes?!?! that's why i switched to free borland c++!
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Re:Java excecution speed actually goodeven C is much faster in terms of compile-run-test cycles
use jikes. i disagree anyway.
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Aren't are jails crowded enough?
It's bad enough that our jails are so full of consenual criminal that rapists, murders, and other deviants get to go free in less than four years. Now we're going to add to the overcrowding!?!?! Intellectual property is going to lead to very oppressive laws if it is not stopped!
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i believe this is the same guy...who not too long ago called the internet a fad and likened it to the "cb radio of the 90s". now all of the sudden he's here refusing to pay the price for his ignorance. if i were a record company, i would have tried to secure first mover advantage by turning my whole catalog into mp3 and then opening up a killer site with artist and fan participation and MORE MERCHANDISE. all you'd have to do to have full access to the catalog was pay 19.95 a month. and as more and more things like stereos, car stereos, and television got internet aware, i'd have made a KILLING. that's what i would have done.
i'm not even saying that this would have worked but that's one approach off the top of my head. what pisses me off about these companies is that none of them are fighting this off with CREATIVITY. none of them are trying to create incentives to buy the "real thing". there are plenty and none of these companies are even emphasizing them. they just want to fight a corporate war over their own consumers like they do against other companies. this will spell their doom. mp3 is the recording industry's vietnam.
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Re:Wow. That was a fucking cool interview.Last week, I got a fan letter. Someone liked my music. That was fucking awesome. I am also nowhere near making any sort of a living at this.
as dead republican i was able to push about 150 tapes over the internet. i actually got a few letters and was reviewed in gajoob. this was about four years ago and before mp3.
anyway, my point is, i was able to sell alot more tapes over the internet than i could have in "real life". i do see legitimate bands who havent gotten a fair shake from the major labels seeing this as an opportunity to get heard. it worked for me and i never played out. not like 150 makes me a star but to me it was an acheivement.
alot of bands don't realize the potential and still chase these slave masters because they see it as the only way. but i think word of mouth and internet distribution will take alot of them farther than any record company ever could.
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Re:AtheOS FAQ and mirrored screenshotshow can i get that font? that's sweet! what's it called?
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about 70 years too late!!
oh great! NOW they decide to stand up to the nazis!! where were they in the 1930s??
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Was Metallica Corporation paid by the RIAA???
think about it. we all know that metallica corporation does not make the majority of its money through album sales. especially not the last two or three pitiful ones (s&m was OKAY but they could have done away with all the load and reload crap on it). it just makes no sense for them to fight so hard to keep mp3s off the internet. they really have no vested stake in doing so. in fact, it would be great for them for their music to spread around the world just as it was great for them when their underground tape spread around the world. none of this makes sense... until you put two and two together. it's the riaa who has the most to gain from all this and the most to lose if musicians actually break free from their clutches and start to promote themselves in more creative (and likely more effective) ways. god forbid that these groups start developing DIRECT relationships with their fans and start learning things like incremental sales. god forbid licensing revenues for commericial and movies go directly to the creators. luckily (for the riaa), they saw that metallica was quite content sucking the dick of corporate america and very ignorant of all of these possibilities. so the riaa offers them cash to file suit against napster (god forbid metallica make money by creating QUALITY heavy metal again). now the riaa has a high profile act saying that napster is uncool and gives its campaign legitimacy. nice idea but it's a losing battle. fans are going to trade napster or no napster and all metallica is doing is making some short term cash while cutting its longevity short. i can't say that i'll miss them. ever since load, i've been hoping something would put them out of their misery. they sound so sad. at least there's a chance for that! --
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Re:Flash Animation about Metallica vs. Napster
I couldn't get to that one but there's another one here. By the way, is there any way to save a flash animation?
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Re:Except the cost isn't minimal
what i can't wait to see is a security analysis of kerberos, even if it does break the license. you are allowed to discuss it with other people that have seen the license so there's a work around. but i would really love to see what someone like scheiner has to say about it.
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Re:Excellent pointThank you for illustrating my point about the public's ignorance. Outlook does not execute random code either. Outlook sees the ILOVEYOU trojan as a data attachment, just like a jpeg file. The code only executes if the user double-clicks on it to run it, and ignores a warning message about running untrusted code.
in preview mode, a word document could have run automatically. i'm not sure if ILOVEYOU could have but it's very easy to write code that will automatically execute embedded code. activex with the settings that microsoft wants you to have can also run system code!
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Re:software packages with compatible formatsSay for an example you have 3 different Word Processors with the same file format. You've just trippled your training budget for Word processors. Your tech support staff now has to support 3 times as many products
this nonsense argument always bugs me. if there were choices between interfaces, most people would pick the one that's easiest to use. a company can easily say this is the interface we support while allowing other interfaces. which by the way, is exactly what i do now. the company has its standard but i use the products i work better with. since i can produce compatible files, they never know the difference.
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Re:Why not even htmlIt's called size you dude. For every HTML tag on a page you need at least 7 bytes, you have two ', one / and at least two letters. In a binary document format you have only a single byte to specify a text format and then one to end it, two bytes is alot better than a minimum of 7. If you were typing up a really neat looking many-page document that you need to send over a network, every byte you save on size is less monet it costs to transmit the document. For one person on a fat pipe it isn't that big a deal but with lots of people the pipe gets alot smaller. Word doesn't exactly save space but a well designed binary format would save alot of space.
considering that a minimum word document is 19k, i think your point is moot!
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What Metallica Corporation is forgetting is....that they will be competing with thousands of other artist that will allow their music to be distributed freely. even if they were successful in removing their stuff of the napster network, they'd only succeed in limiting their exposure to a potential fanbase.
sure, you can argue they are protecting their intellectual property and maybe you're right. personally, i think they are just being lazy. there are ways to make incremental money off of your fanbase even if you're not making money off of your music. for instance, licensing (i.e. the use of your song in a movie, commercial, or tv show), merchandising (t-shirts, books, videos), and shows. if their art is as good as they think it is, they should have no problem figuring out how to make money off of it. trying to fight this losing battle is a waste of their time.
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Re:How could anyone imagine...?Second, QNX is not the undisputed king of the embedded market. There is a whole bunch of embedded OSes and QNX is just one medium-big fish in a pond. Besides, that particular pond already has a so-far-not-very-big great white swimming in it: Windows CE. Despite being a flop on handhelds, WinCE is doing very well in the embedded market. From what I've heard it's actually a decent OS (which has nothing to do with suitability of Windows GUI to handhelds).
Wind River Systems would disagree with you on qnx being the undisputed king of embedded. they just bought their second place competitor and are the market leader in embedded operating systems.
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Worst movie ever!I can't believe I waited 15 years for that total piece of drek. I don't know what's worse... that or Blair Witch!
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stampede sucked anyway!
very buggy installation.... critical libraries and header files were missing out of the base set... and i ran into a bunch of other incompatibilities. after that i just gave up and went with suse! it's too bad because i really liked the idea of stampede.... too bad it didn't work out.
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This basically shows Microsoft is out of touchThis basically shows how out of touch with reality Microsoft is. First of all, they need to lobby the candidate most likely to win, and that is Al Gore whether you like it or not. It would take a MAJOR CRASH in the stock market for Al Gore to lose. Otherwise, he's a shoe-in.
Secondly, they pick a man who's basically been labelled as an extremist lumped in with the likes of Pat Buchanan and David Duke and expect public support.
Let's not ignore that it's totally blatant. They're nuts if they think this is going to help them in any way!
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It works both waysI basically wrote this page after a company called Asimba told me I could no longer link to their pages:
http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto/ejercisio/asimba.html
They told me i couldn't link to them since I had pornography on another page. The funny thing is that it's probably one of the lamest pornography pages on the 'net. But anyway, I removed the link not because they threatened me but because a company this clueless doesn't deserve the benefits associated with being on the net. The net is the ultimate in free customer referral. If they don't want customers passed on to them, fine. Let them rot in hell. I do just fine with my healthy quarterly Amazon checks!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
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It works both waysI basically wrote this page after a company called Asimba told me I could no longer link to their pages:
http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto/ejercisio/asimba.html
They told me i couldn't link to them since I had pornography on another page. The funny thing is that it's probably one of the lamest pornography pages on the 'net. But anyway, I removed the link not because they threatened me but because a company this clueless doesn't deserve the benefits associated with being on the net. The net is the ultimate in free customer referral. If they don't want customers passed on to them, fine. Let them rot in hell. I do just fine with my healthy quarterly Amazon checks!
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J Perry Fecteau, 5-time Mr. Internet
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It works both waysI basically wrote this page after a company called Asimba told me I could no longer link to their pages:
http://w3.nai.net/~perfecto/ejercisio/asimba.html
They told me i couldn't link to them since I had pornography on another page. The funny thing is that it's probably one of the lamest pornography pages on the 'net. But anyway, I removed the link not because they threatened me but because a company this clueless doesn't deserve the benefits associated with being on the net. The net is the ultimate in free customer referral. If they don't want customers passed on to them, fine. Let them rot in hell. I do just fine with my healthy quarterly Amazon checks!
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Re:It's a bit more complicated than that.
ummmm.... if someone buys of the ticketmaster site, doesn't ticketmaster make money??? what is their problem?
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Re:GPL harmful for the programmers?
actually it just hit me! doesn't this mean that we as programmers can demand the software from mattel since it is under gpl? can't "we" now sue mattel for the source code. they are preventing us from obtaining the source code with their actions, a clear violation of the gpl!
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Re:Oh, don't make me go there.I love how everytime some company besides Microsoft does something it's this big innovative thing. But Microsoft has been doing this for quite a while already through transpoint which is an obviously superior design and execution.
ummmmm.... i don't see anywhere where it shows you your money bill like yahoo and paytrust do! microsoft's expedia is very good though.
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Re:PayTrust is doing what Quicken and banks shouldi forgot to add why i think banks suck for online banking and paytrust doesn't. one of my main beefs with banks' online banking is that they withdraw the money before the check clears. if you're check doesn't reach its destination, you have to go through tons of gymnastics to get the issue resolved. first you have to explain to your biller what happenned and then you have to prove to your bank that the money didn't reach its destination which was a headache because the ones i dealt with didnt even have immediate access to that information (perhaps they were paying someone else to handle it)! the process could take as long as two weeks! after three times of going through this i went back to writing checks by hand.
then along came paytrust, who takes your bills in, allows you to view it online and approve the payment. but the best part is that they don't withdraw your money until the check clears which means they probably issue a check with your routing information for the ones they mail. but like i said for $7 its worth it. i can't stand sitting down writing checks licking envelops hoping i have enough stamps etc etc etc. like i said banks should have thought of this first. this girl tells me in spain, you get your bills sent to the bank... is that true?
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PayTrust is doing what Quicken and banks should
have started doing a long time ago. They give you a tool to actually manage your bills online. I use Quicken religiously but it frustrates me that I can't truly use it on the web. I like that I can go to a website click on the bills I want to pay and be done with it. MAJOR time saver! For $6.95, it's totally worth it! I'd pay an extra few bucks to have it manage my checkbook as well!
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ARE THEY FUCKING NUTS?!?!?
or are they just trying to shut down business on the internet? affliate programs are win/win systems for both the webmaster and the company. i think it's pretty obvious that people should be rewarded for sending people a company's way. i make about $50 a quarter from various affiliate programs on my site. it's not much but i say every little bit helps. can't clickthroughs be consider prior use?? how about the fact that other people accepted payment for directing traffic to others' sites. this seems like a bogus patent to me. sorry for rambling on but i'm PISSED!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."