For me, the "apology" doesn't sound heartfelt at all. It is easily written, doesn't cost much and makes good PR. It may be a smart and cheap move for the CEO, but it doesn't impress me. However, using the word solution - even in quotation marks - is impudent. One could call it "intrusion" or "encroachment" - maybe - but dispossessing people of something they paid for, because you made a mistake is not even near something you could call a "solution".
I know why I never wanted this DRM-ridden Kindle, now even more than before, but if something like this would happen to me I would be really really pissed.
When will they ever learn that DRM just means defective by design?
Ssssshhhh, facts spoil the fun. The original blog post -however - claims that the IP address they tracked is indeed the master server, that it is located in UK and is running on Windows 2003 Server Operating System. So on the basis of that post, the UK would have to be regarded as the source. It would be interesting to see whether this claim can be verified or at least substantiated, but it seems to be more supported by facts than any other claim I heard.
They could have just invested in Canonical and Ubuntu, rather than try to reinvent the wheel.
Why Canonical and not any other Linux company, I mean (K/X/Ed)Ubuntu is great, (most of my computers run Kubuntu or Xubuntu), but Google has a particular objective: directing as many as possible users to Google products, this is clearly not the goal of Canonical.
And besides, diversity is good, the goal is not to supersede one monoculture with another - Ok, Google is not the first address as far as diversity is concerned, but still.
Another window manager just dilutes the current pool of people trying to do KDE and Gnome.
It's not that the two are the only players in the FLOSS field, and probably they are not even the best for the specific requirements of netbooks. Fluxbox, Enlightment, or even something like Sugar are much more lightweight and might be better for the functions required. Or even Google has something new and exciting to offer. Anyways, I even doubt that the KDE and Gnome guys actually wouldn't appreciate other ideas being tested.
Yes, for academic papers, the iRex Digital Reader 1000S seems to be the best, but 699 EUR is quite a bit of money, and I'm not sure the size of the screen is good enough for two column texts, as you find it in many scientific journals.
I never had the chance to check a 1000S myself, but a friend of mine has a iRex iLiad and it's really a nice piece of technology but clearly no good, when it comes to pdfs.
Indeed it is! It changes colour - neet - and - of all colours - it turns pink, OMG! Additionally it functions as a pocket heater, who on earth could think it is a bug.
Well, with a population of ca. 157,000 (in 2005) and the fact that the suicides are listed by "suicides per 100,000 people per year", I think the fact that there is 0.0 male and 1.8 female suicides in 1987(!) - which basically means there was probably only one suicide in that year and it happened to be a woman - we can safely say: the data is insufficient to make a valid statement about the distribution.
Ab Initio Determination of Light Hadron Masses
S. Dürr, Z. Fodor, J. Frison, C. Hoelbling, R. Hoffmann, S. D. Katz, S. Krieg, T. Kurth, L. Lellouch, T. Lippert, K. K. Szabo, G. Vulvert
Science 21 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5905, pp. 1224 - 1227
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163233
As much on slashdot this is self-referential, i.e. "this community" = Slashdot, and if you take this frame of reference "March 1997, before this community existed" is indeed correct:
# July 1997 - shortlived forerunner to Slashdot, called "Chips & Dips"
# September 1997 - Slashdot is created.
"I for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords."
Why would you do that? Why would you put a classic reply in your summary of the article and rob some poster of a 5 Funny rating? You're just mean.
In soviet Slashdot, summaries do the lame meme jokes (and thus rob the 5 Funny ratings from you).
Sorry, couldn't resist, I hereby donate all my funny ratings to charity and hand in my geek card.
Please forgive me commenting on a moderation, but who am I flaimbaiting here?
Sorry, but we Germans have earned quite a reputation of going large-scale berzerk in the last centuries and every neighbouring country of us has suffered from it. Every sane German knows this and won't argue about this. And, I think, I hope, we changed much of our political attitude during the last sixty years. Making fun of our inglorious history may very well classify for bad taste - and bad jokes doubly so - but how can it be flamebait?
Yes, in Africa and large parts of Asian mobile phone networks are not only popular, they are frequently more widespread than the good ol' telephonbe net. It is apparently easier to cover a remote area with a GSM infrastructure and to maintain the facilities than with telephone cables.
I know several remote villages in India, were you can make a mobile phone call (at least after climbing on a small hill), but the villages have neither phone connections nor electricity nor sanitary equipment.
Yep, it's a translation of an expression you'll find on automatically generated letters that are legally binding but do not carry the signature of the issuer or sender. The phrase is weird even to Germans and it is used here clearly to mock bureaucratic language usage.
Apartment block, row house, don't take me to seriously here. Nevertheless, all the small attacks on one's privacy over the last 15 years, as a sum, give me the creeps.
The guys who sell the hoodie also have nice stickers one can put into restaurant or roadhouse toilet cabins:
For reasons of hygiene, this toilet is monitored by video.
So my personal ROBOT.TXT for Streetview would be this hoodie? It says:
No pictures!
I object to any recording, storage, broadcast, and other use of my image.
This imprint on this garment is machine-made, therefore no signature is required.
If Google and other goggling companies would respect that I would wear it. I would also add an barcode or DataMatrix to it and the front side of my house if that is what is needed so that they can read and respect it.
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For me, the "apology" doesn't sound heartfelt at all. It is easily written, doesn't cost much and makes good PR. It may be a smart and cheap move for the CEO, but it doesn't impress me. However, using the word solution - even in quotation marks - is impudent. One could call it "intrusion" or "encroachment" - maybe - but dispossessing people of something they paid for, because you made a mistake is not even near something you could call a "solution".
I know why I never wanted this DRM-ridden Kindle, now even more than before, but if something like this would happen to me I would be really really pissed.
When will they ever learn that DRM just means defective by design?
Ssssshhhh, facts spoil the fun. The original blog post -however - claims that the IP address they tracked is indeed the master server, that it is located in UK and is running on Windows 2003 Server Operating System. So on the basis of that post, the UK would have to be regarded as the source. It would be interesting to see whether this claim can be verified or at least substantiated, but it seems to be more supported by facts than any other claim I heard.
Wau Holland once said – long ago – that he liked binary technology because there's only high, low, and broken.
No, it's the PFUWU-ML (People's Front of Unpatched Windows Users - Microsoft Legacy).
Why Canonical and not any other Linux company, I mean (K/X/Ed)Ubuntu is great, (most of my computers run Kubuntu or Xubuntu), but Google has a particular objective: directing as many as possible users to Google products, this is clearly not the goal of Canonical.
And besides, diversity is good, the goal is not to supersede one monoculture with another - Ok, Google is not the first address as far as diversity is concerned, but still.
It's not that the two are the only players in the FLOSS field, and probably they are not even the best for the specific requirements of netbooks. Fluxbox, Enlightment, or even something like Sugar are much more lightweight and might be better for the functions required. Or even Google has something new and exciting to offer. Anyways, I even doubt that the KDE and Gnome guys actually wouldn't appreciate other ideas being tested.
Yes, for academic papers, the iRex Digital Reader 1000S seems to be the best, but 699 EUR is quite a bit of money, and I'm not sure the size of the screen is good enough for two column texts, as you find it in many scientific journals.
I never had the chance to check a 1000S myself, but a friend of mine has a iRex iLiad and it's really a nice piece of technology but clearly no good, when it comes to pdfs.
Indeed it is! It changes colour - neet - and - of all colours - it turns pink, OMG! Additionally it functions as a pocket heater, who on earth could think it is a bug.
Helmut? RODL (roll on desk laughing), you saved my day, thanks. The picture as such reminds me of a sticker back from the 80s
That'd be a Nimbus 2001.
I don't know, but surely he is behind all this.
I thought a open source coffee maker would be running on Java
NetBSD, NetBSD - like your toaster...
Well, with a population of ca. 157,000 (in 2005) and the fact that the suicides are listed by "suicides per 100,000 people per year", I think the fact that there is 0.0 male and 1.8 female suicides in 1987(!) - which basically means there was probably only one suicide in that year and it happened to be a woman - we can safely say: the data is insufficient to make a valid statement about the distribution.
This is an excellent point. No American football player has used his feet since the NFL adopted hoverchairs into the rules in 1974.
If that is enough foot for you, I really want to see the American handball team.
Also on Yahoo, but with a horrible headline. Anyway both just reproduce the AFP text.
The original article seems to be this:
As much on slashdot this is self-referential, i.e. "this community" = Slashdot, and if you take this frame of reference "March 1997, before this community existed" is indeed correct:
"I for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords." Why would you do that? Why would you put a classic reply in your summary of the article and rob some poster of a 5 Funny rating? You're just mean.
In soviet Slashdot, summaries do the lame meme jokes (and thus rob the 5 Funny ratings from you).
Sorry, couldn't resist, I hereby donate all my funny ratings to charity and hand in my geek card.
Yeah, but why does he use this unscientific and highly religiously charged word? As if consciousness wouldn't be enough of a problematic notion.
We don't know what consciousness is and calling it an emerging property is not really much of a progress.
Please forgive me commenting on a moderation, but who am I flaimbaiting here?
Sorry, but we Germans have earned quite a reputation of going large-scale berzerk in the last centuries and every neighbouring country of us has suffered from it. Every sane German knows this and won't argue about this. And, I think, I hope, we changed much of our political attitude during the last sixty years. Making fun of our inglorious history may very well classify for bad taste - and bad jokes doubly so - but how can it be flamebait?
But then, the small scale of the atrocity strikes me rather Ungerman, sorry for the taste, I'm German too.
And just for the record, a quotation, attribute, of Margret Thatcher after a German football (soccer) victory:
I cherish your slashdot bashing but here the BBC is the sensationalist:
Nah, it's NetBSD, the Jedi ones, I mean. Although the older ones are probably Lisp boxen.
Yes, in Africa and large parts of Asian mobile phone networks are not only popular, they are frequently more widespread than the good ol' telephonbe net. It is apparently easier to cover a remote area with a GSM infrastructure and to maintain the facilities than with telephone cables.
I know several remote villages in India, were you can make a mobile phone call (at least after climbing on a small hill), but the villages have neither phone connections nor electricity nor sanitary equipment.
Yep, it's a translation of an expression you'll find on automatically generated letters that are legally binding but do not carry the signature of the issuer or sender. The phrase is weird even to Germans and it is used here clearly to mock bureaucratic language usage.
Apartment block, row house, don't take me to seriously here. Nevertheless, all the small attacks on one's privacy over the last 15 years, as a sum, give me the creeps.
The guys who sell the hoodie also have nice stickers one can put into restaurant or roadhouse toilet cabins:
For reasons of hygiene, this toilet is monitored by video.
Someday we'll be there...
No pictures!
I object to any recording, storage, broadcast, and other use of my image.
This imprint on this garment is machine-made, therefore no signature is required.
If Google and other goggling companies would respect that I would wear it. I would also add an barcode or DataMatrix to it and the front side of my house if that is what is needed so that they can read and respect it.
Ok, then the link please.