I find it interesting how O'Reilly is apparently having his half of the conversation in a public place. I wonder if those folks in the background are aware that they're a few feet away from a conversation between two luminaries talking about what could be one of the more important issues in the internet era.
Probably not, They're probably talking about last night's episode of 'Who Wants to be a Millionare'.
I suggest you donate it to the 'Bruce Perens takes a road trip to Vegas with a bunch of hookers and blows his money on cheap liquor and blackjack' fund. I think this is an enviable charity, with a long history of supporting the Linux and open source community.
For those interested in the ancient art of reading, Greg Egan wrote an excellent Science Fiction book on this very topic called 'Permutation City'. (It should be available through your favorite bookseller)
The basic plot is that a guy makes a copy of himself, and the copy isn't to happy about being a copy. An Excellent read.
Looks likes someone has solved GNU's problem of free (as in beer) and free (as in speech). Simply append each use of the word 'free' with either 'beer' or 'speech' and voila! No confusion.
This certainly sounds bogus to me. Convenient that he's using a new Email address, thereby making him unverifiable. And, Oh yeah, First thing I do when I'm done getting grilled by The Man for 6-7 hours? I Email Slashdot.
Some companies use priority mail. I know back in the day CDNow mailed a lot of their CDs first class if you didn't pay for an upgrade. I'm not sure what they do know, I haven't used them for a while.
I have to argue that the post office is really going anywhere soon. While they might not be sending "Hey, How you doing?" letters as much as they used to, they (along with UPS, etc.) as benefiting from the internet boom along with the rest of us. Someone's got to get all those books from Amazon out to us, and somebody's got to deliver me the money orders from Ebay bids.
Why don't ever see reviews for books where the reviewer says that the book was horrid? It seems we only get reviews where the reviewer is heaping the books with praise.:)
Are there any less textbook-like books on the subject out there? I'm interested, but don't have the time to invest in trying to decipher a book of this stature.
I don't know, 404 errors are pretty funny. Especially the ones that have lots of graphics, therefore making it look like the page is loading, but instead you get a page that says, "This page has loaded to tell you that the page you wanted is never going to load."
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I find it interesting how O'Reilly is apparently having his half of the conversation in a public place. I wonder if those folks in the background are aware that they're a few feet away from a conversation between two luminaries talking about what could be one of the more important issues in the internet era.
Probably not, They're probably talking about last night's episode of 'Who Wants to be a Millionare'.
I suggest you donate it to the 'Bruce Perens takes a road trip to Vegas with a bunch of hookers and blows his money on cheap liquor and blackjack' fund. I think this is an enviable charity, with a long history of supporting the Linux and open source community.
For those interested in the ancient art of reading, Greg Egan wrote an excellent Science Fiction book on this very topic called 'Permutation City'. (It should be available through your favorite bookseller)
The basic plot is that a guy makes a copy of himself, and the copy isn't to happy about being a copy. An Excellent read.
Looks likes someone has solved GNU's problem of free (as in beer) and free (as in speech). Simply append each use of the word 'free' with either 'beer' or 'speech' and voila! No confusion.
Next, I would like some beer, for free(beer).
This certainly sounds bogus to me. Convenient that he's using a new Email address, thereby making him unverifiable. And, Oh yeah, First thing I do when I'm done getting grilled by The Man for 6-7 hours? I Email Slashdot.
Oh well, It would be nice to have some proof as to the legitimacy of the above article. Imagine if it's a scam?
Some companies use priority mail. I know back in the day CDNow mailed a lot of their CDs first class if you didn't pay for an upgrade. I'm not sure what they do know, I haven't used them for a while.
I have to argue that the post office is really going anywhere soon. While they might not be sending "Hey, How you doing?" letters as much as they used to, they (along with UPS, etc.) as benefiting from the internet boom along with the rest of us. Someone's got to get all those books from Amazon out to us, and somebody's got to deliver me the money orders from Ebay bids.
Bloody palm? Maybe you should get a band aid?
How is this system any different than a policeman hiding on the side of the road using a radar gun to monitor your speed?
Now, Granted, I don't think the government should be allowed to _control_ your speed. But, The only difference that I see is that it's more efficient.
Why don't ever see reviews for books where the reviewer says that the book was horrid? It seems we only get reviews where the reviewer is heaping the books with praise. :)
Are there any less textbook-like books on the subject out there? I'm interested, but don't have the time to invest in trying to decipher a book of this stature.
I don't know, 404 errors are pretty funny. Especially the ones that have lots of graphics, therefore making it look like the page is loading, but instead you get a page that says, "This page has loaded to tell you that the page you wanted is never going to load."