AOL's faux pas here was attaching personal information to the queries themselves: once that per-user identifier was attached all bets were off.
Well, that, and not sanitizing the queries themselves--they should have at least tried to scrub any personal information in the queries as well--apparently people will stick all sorts of things into a search box!
So what if he is a sick freak--he sounds like the stereotypical rotten.com user and/or slashdot crapflooder. Personally I'd much rather have my psychopaths spending their time in their parent's basements searching the internet for pictures of death and human waste than actually out there participating it.
VMWare wants a closed source interface, Xen wants an open source interface--what's to discuss, really? I'd love to see them hash it out on the LKML as proposed (and watch VMWare get flamed)...:)
What's not to like? The only thing I'm not too fond of is that they're using what looks like a really bad Mercator projection, instead of, say, a Peters Projection. Of course it didn't make that much difference when North America was the only thing on the map--now it does make a difference.
Also, would it have killed them to include some other major cities in the world, capitals maybe? Oh well, that's easy enough to do, so they'll probably do it. Or, given their current all-or-nothing approach, maybe they'll just map the whole world!:)
Since when did/. become "News for Star Wars fanboys"?
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Check out gtk-webcore; their browser (osb-browser) is incomplete, but the renderer is great. I was able to load Google Maps with it and zoom in, something I haven't managed to do on konqueror. There's also atlantis, which seems to use gtk-webcore--I haven't tried it yet.
So... if Apple's code is so hard to work with, how did these people get it working? And using gtk, no less! Sorry folks--I'm no Apple fan, but Apple definitely *is* releasing code, and it *isn't* unusable.
About Linspire and some of the other "Debian-based" distros; Mandrake and SuSE both forked from RedHat, and they both use RPM. The survey doesn't seem to be making any finer distinctions for all of the "Debian-based" distros--it just seems to be a throw-away line to assuage the egos of the many Debian fans on their messageboard.
'course, I couldn't care less--not only does this 'survey' seem entirely bogus, but I use Gentoo anyhow!:)
Despite its apparent fall from first-place grace, there's a silver lining to the Debian cloud, considering that it has increasingly become the basis of a host of other popular distributions including KNOPPIX, Libranet, Linspire, MEPIS, Ubuntu, and Xandros, to mention a few. In fact, if we were to combine all the Debian-derived distro's in our survey into a single entry, the Debian-based group would end up right back at the top of the pack. (Specifically, the group would receive 14.8 + 4.6 + 3.2 + 1.5 = 24.1 percent.)
Of course, if you combined just the top three (RedHat-based) distributions, the group would receive 17.6 + 17.5 + 15 = 50.1 percent.
So... what was your point again? Oh yeah. Being a Debian apologist, gotcha.
Also that post sounds like it's about an ex parte motion brought forth by IBM, but this clearly says it's SCO's ex parte motion, so maybe that text is just wrong. However it does appear to link to some long and boring diatribe about the right lawsuit, so I imagine people will mod it up anyhow, leaving both of us no more informed than we were before.
Oh yeah, and no doubt some $3 crack is involved as well.
As for 'ex parte'... um... the parte is over? Let's get this parte started? No... wait... aha.
Ex parte refers to a motion or petition by or for one party. An ex parte judicial proceeding is on where the opposing party has not received notice nor is present.
Some would argue that the two go together, but yeah, Java (and even a Sun-compatible JVM) encompasses a lot, more than just a program that executes bytecode. Good job bringing up Jikes (and Jikes RVM) though, that's a good example of how IBM is helping the open source Java folks (never mind that they also have a fully functional closed source JVM, with complete, compatible and proprietary libraries).
Now I hate Java just as much as the next guy, (well probably moreso, but anyhow...) but I've compiled and used OpenOffice 1.x many times, and let me tell you--Java is not the problem. OpenOffice is *already* enormous and bloated and slow. It also already requires Java just to build the darn thing, or at least it did when I built it. Whether it depends more or less on Java, I don't care as long as it gets at least two of smaller, less bloated, faster...
So, ok, now that we're agreed that we aren't necessarily talking about a technical issue here. Again, what's the problem. That "Java isn't open source"? Well why don't you ask IBM to open up a JVM for you. Or, better yet, write your own! Java is widely used, readily available, and actually pretty darn open as these things go.
So what's the problem. Ideology? Zealotry? Arcane license disputes? Well, it's nothing that'll get in the way of me and my word processor. Just wake me up if it gets larger, more bloated, slower...:)
In other news, there's a George W. Bush in Escondido, CA; it's also interesting to note that the president's full name isn't "George W. Bush", and both georgewbush.info and georgewbush.tv seem to return search engine results (which oddly don't seem to relate to the 'George W. Bush' in Escondido, CA--must be some sneaky bias in the search engine results!)
now... did you have a point, or do you just like to ramble on about nit-picky partisan bullshit that's entirely unrelated to cybersquatting regulations?
(a) How do you know he wasn't talking about a $2,000 mac? (b) For $600, you could get a... um... 1.42Ghz G4-based mac mini with no monitor, 256MB SDRAM, 32MB video card, 80GB HD, combo drive... aka, something equivalent to the PC I bought from parts a few years ago, for a similar price... (c) For $2,000, you could get quite a bit more than a 2GHz Pentium; heck, you'd be hard-pressed to find a PC that costs that much these days. Maybe combined with a nice big monitor I guess.:) (d) Have a nice day!
I heard OSC talking about this years ago... at the time, I believe he had written a script, was circulating it, wanted Jake Lloyd (Anakin) to play Ender, (he assured us that Jake was actually a very bright kid and a good actor despite what we might think from having seen Episode I) but at that point nothing was really definite. He just sounded optimistic about finally getting it done.
Does anyone else remember the end of Sneakers? Because that's what this reminds me of. I'm just thinking about the potential news headlines...
"Wells-Fargo reportedly went bankrupt yesterday. Company spokesman: 'The money... it just disappeared...' In other news, the EFF is reporting record donations!"
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Well, that, and not sanitizing the queries themselves--they should have at least tried to scrub any personal information in the queries as well--apparently people will stick all sorts of things into a search box!
So what if he is a sick freak--he sounds like the stereotypical rotten.com user and/or slashdot crapflooder. Personally I'd much rather have my psychopaths spending their time in their parent's basements searching the internet for pictures of death and human waste than actually out there participating it.
VMWare wants a closed source interface, Xen wants an open source interface--what's to discuss, really? I'd love to see them hash it out on the LKML as proposed (and watch VMWare get flamed)... :)
Precisely--and depending on the situation, I'd imagine that a lot of what is created on the fly could then be cached and re-used as well.
Not only is pb a prime number in base 36, it's also 911 in base 10!
A: No.
What's not to like? The only thing I'm not too fond of is that they're using what looks like a really bad Mercator projection, instead of, say, a Peters Projection. Of course it didn't make that much difference when North America was the only thing on the map--now it does make a difference.
:)
Also, would it have killed them to include some other major cities in the world, capitals maybe? Oh well, that's easy enough to do, so they'll probably do it. Or, given their current all-or-nothing approach, maybe they'll just map the whole world!
Check out gtk-webcore; their browser (osb-browser) is incomplete, but the renderer is great. I was able to load Google Maps with it and zoom in, something I haven't managed to do on konqueror. There's also atlantis, which seems to use gtk-webcore--I haven't tried it yet.
So... if Apple's code is so hard to work with, how did these people get it working? And using gtk, no less! Sorry folks--I'm no Apple fan, but Apple definitely *is* releasing code, and it *isn't* unusable.
About Linspire and some of the other "Debian-based" distros; Mandrake and SuSE both forked from RedHat, and they both use RPM. The survey doesn't seem to be making any finer distinctions for all of the "Debian-based" distros--it just seems to be a throw-away line to assuage the egos of the many Debian fans on their messageboard.
:)
'course, I couldn't care less--not only does this 'survey' seem entirely bogus, but I use Gentoo anyhow!
So... what was your point again? Oh yeah. Being a Debian apologist, gotcha.
Of course, it's the first result for microsoft search.
Oddly enough, the second result is Google's Microsoft Search, which I also didn't know about...
You're mcc, and we love you.
:)
Also that post sounds like it's about an ex parte motion brought forth by IBM, but this clearly says it's SCO's ex parte motion, so maybe that text is just wrong. However it does appear to link to some long and boring diatribe about the right lawsuit, so I imagine people will mod it up anyhow, leaving both of us no more informed than we were before.
Oh yeah, and no doubt some $3 crack is involved as well.
Cheers
As for 'ex parte'... um... the parte is over? Let's get this parte started? No... wait... aha.
But, y'know, they couldn't just say that.
Therefore, I have no idea what you just said.
And, sadly, I read Groklaw too. D'oh!
"the factors that led to the console's eventual decline"
Speak for yourself buddy, I'm still trying to beat Spy Hunter!
Some would argue that the two go together, but yeah, Java (and even a Sun-compatible JVM) encompasses a lot, more than just a program that executes bytecode. Good job bringing up Jikes (and Jikes RVM) though, that's a good example of how IBM is helping the open source Java folks (never mind that they also have a fully functional closed source JVM, with complete, compatible and proprietary libraries).
Now I hate Java just as much as the next guy, (well probably moreso, but anyhow...) but I've compiled and used OpenOffice 1.x many times, and let me tell you--Java is not the problem. OpenOffice is *already* enormous and bloated and slow. It also already requires Java just to build the darn thing, or at least it did when I built it. Whether it depends more or less on Java, I don't care as long as it gets at least two of smaller, less bloated, faster...
:)
So, ok, now that we're agreed that we aren't necessarily talking about a technical issue here. Again, what's the problem. That "Java isn't open source"? Well why don't you ask IBM to open up a JVM for you. Or, better yet, write your own! Java is widely used, readily available, and actually pretty darn open as these things go.
So what's the problem. Ideology? Zealotry? Arcane license disputes? Well, it's nothing that'll get in the way of me and my word processor. Just wake me up if it gets larger, more bloated, slower...
In other news, there's a George W. Bush in Escondido, CA; it's also interesting to note that the president's full name isn't "George W. Bush", and both georgewbush.info and georgewbush.tv seem to return search engine results (which oddly don't seem to relate to the 'George W. Bush' in Escondido, CA--must be some sneaky bias in the search engine results!)
now... did you have a point, or do you just like to ramble on about nit-picky partisan bullshit that's entirely unrelated to cybersquatting regulations?
(a) How do you know he wasn't talking about a $2,000 mac? ... um... 1.42Ghz G4-based mac mini with no monitor, 256MB SDRAM, 32MB video card, 80GB HD, combo drive... aka, something equivalent to the PC I bought from parts a few years ago, for a similar price... :)
(b) For $600, you could get a
(c) For $2,000, you could get quite a bit more than a 2GHz Pentium; heck, you'd be hard-pressed to find a PC that costs that much these days. Maybe combined with a nice big monitor I guess.
(d) Have a nice day!
I heard OSC talking about this years ago... at the time, I believe he had written a script, was circulating it, wanted Jake Lloyd (Anakin) to play Ender, (he assured us that Jake was actually a very bright kid and a good actor despite what we might think from having seen Episode I) but at that point nothing was really definite. He just sounded optimistic about finally getting it done.
My how times haven't changed.
Does anyone else remember the end of Sneakers? Because that's what this reminds me of. I'm just thinking about the potential news headlines...
"Wells-Fargo reportedly went bankrupt yesterday. Company spokesman: 'The money... it just disappeared...'
In other news, the EFF is reporting record donations!"
I wonder if he owns the trademark to that "Dragon's Lair" logo too... hmmm... :)
... and purple horseshoes.