They're trying to find a secure implementation of Windows.
However, Windows seems to be impervious to this. It just lies there with slime oozing between its legs. (Painst an attractive picture of the kind of fucker who spreads viri, worms and other creepy crawlies.)
This litigation is a RICO act violation
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RIAA Sues a Child
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It is a blatant abuse of the statutes. (And it will continue until we find some unsigned band who distributes their music WITHOUT them over the internet and THEY SUE the RIAA, with our help, of course, for depriving them of their business model. Say a band who distributes their music and collect micro-payments over PayPal.)
Any takers? Any band out there? (Maybe an amateur klesmer band. Or maybe an 'eeffin' jug band?) Something so out of the realm of anybody's top-40s playlist that the RIAA's client list, the ones BEHIND the law suits, the ones behind and part of the payola, the corrupt practices, the disposability of artists, the lack of promotion, the scum under the soap.
Most of these people deserve unemployment. Lets give it to them.
While your argument "... We guarantee that you'll be able to run... without it causing you any inventory or tax slip-ups. That will be $2 million, please, up front..." might seem specious, the banking institutions are responsable for millions, billions or trillions of dollars worth of assets and transactions per year.
They are not allowed to take these kinds of 'internal' risks under penalty of prison and fines.
Hence, they try to reduce their costs through off-shoring their development efforts. Who do you think requires all those H1-Bs? It isn't your start-ups or small shops. (They end up requiring them because the talent pool isn't big enough to provide for everybody.) Off-shoring is a way to get talent for a lower price.
While they don't care about the small stuff, a word processor wouldn't be required if a quill pen would do but people are sloppy and need editing, they are required by law to sweat the details of every transaction.
The revolution that allowed ATMs isn't the machines the customer stands at but the processing power of the mainframes and the through-put of the databases that record everything.
I could go on about who actually owns the components of a data base or of a transaction but I'm working on something.
is that the documents in M$ Word are stored an 'core dumps', state maps of the douments at the time they were stored.
There is no way to NOT infect one document with the contents of another opened during the same MS Word work session. Apart from the confidentiality aspects, this can lead to some real legal problems for the user specially when linking or embedding other documents. (Imagine being able to get the contents of a previous document and being able to get to or at the spreadsheets which were used in a confidential document when you're just typing up a letter to your mother after a rough day of litigation. That's why the size of.doc files are so hard to figure out. You have an enormous amount of cruff left in there.)
Okay, I will admit my respect for the actors in the original series, (IV to VI) has increased enormously since I to III came out.
They made a silk purse out of a sow's ear (or Lucas' tin ear for dialog.) I also never thought much for his choice of secondary actors. (Thank [name of deity] Jar Jar Binks was never played by a real human actor. That is definitely NOT something I'd want to put on my resume.)
Lucas made some high tech, high priced kid's movies. But I seriously doubt they actually have any 'legs' to go beyond the existing base. They will never be more than a foot note in film history and most of the film students will study THX rather that the Star Wars swill. Now business students are another thing...
To the managers out there, 10% is acceptable.
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Firefox Momentum Slows
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· Score: 2, Insightful
If a web page can't be displayed by 10% of the people, its no biggie.
The fact that they are 'artsy' types (OS X users) or 'propeller heads' (Linux users) just makes the decision that much easier if you'd selling socks or food or something.
Never underestimate the power of 'saving a buck by screwing somebody' (somebody using the other browsers) when it doesn't really cost them anything.
The sales figures are going up anyway. Or the site is just advertising and that's an expense regardless, and nobody ever got fired for saving a buck.
I've got FireFox installed on all my boxes (1 AMD64 running Linux, 2 Macs running OS X and 1 old Win2k box crawling along,) but that's because I am paranoid and I really don't like IEs pop-ups.
In MS the nerve is not severed (the wire cut) but instead the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve is 'attacked' by the imune system (the wire shredded).
This leaves the transmission of impulses along the nerves subject to analog wire' efects: increased 'noise' causing spasticity (loss of control outgoing) and/or phantom sensation ([sometimes painful] loss of specificity incoming.)
"As a fan of the music industry but not music itself, I wait with great anticipation for the day when we are finally rid of the antiquated notion of personal rights."
And how 'bout if we enforce it with ice-picks through the ears?
They aren't the ones responsable for the homogenized pap you're getting between the ads.
The industry is a process of skipping any need for talent at the front end and going straight to CD with 'a sound' that just suck the life out of the music and makes the musician an irrelevancy (in fact they're an embarrasment to the corporatists. They have the wrong image. They're poor. They don't vote for the right people [people with 'Tin Ears' who don't give a damn about music, but who have... money.])
In about two minutes, after every cell phone walking past goes off, people would figure it out and find a way to fuck with the instalation, fuck with the installer and, finally, wreck the equipment.
The WORST part of "Minority Report" was the store Tom Cruise went into after he got his eyes replaced (and that kept mis-identifying him.)
I just had an idea for a worm or virus that would install itself, run for a day, call everybody in your phone book with a pre-recorded Spam message and go to sleep until the next time it was 'needed.'
Yeech. What an imagination I've got.
The key is 'your phone book.' Then again, it would be trivial to have it email a message containing your phone book to a central location and come up with a map of 'who knows who.'
The problem is that information can be viewed as a property or as communication. Both points of view are correct and both points of view are wrong.
If information cannot be communicated, it doesn't exist. If you have no information to communicate you have no communication, By trying to restrict the communication of information by locking it up, (say, in my case, by saying that articles still belong to the publisher when that publisher has ceased to exist,) they are debasing their own stock.
These two views of information (and media) are at their heart diametrically opposed and working against each other.
The case against Google is a case in point. If information about something is NOT available, then that something might as well not exist. The case against Google will be a Phyrric victory if the authors win since the best means of validating against infringement, typing a phrase into Google and seeing what matches, will be unavailable to those authors. They will be MORE liable to copyright infringement than before. In fact, their copyright, and sales of their materiel, could be usurped when someone else 'comes up' with a seachable version. Who wan't that?
If information about something IS available, then it DOES exist, but it may be restricted (DRMed.)
But it can't be restricted too, uh, restrictively. There are more than one operating system, there are going to be others coming down the pike (Windows, *nix-es, Linux and OS X are NOT the be-all and end-all of computing.)
By making the DRM scheme a single vendor solution, the guy is making a complete fool of himself since he has GIVEN his copyright away. HE should be the one controlling the content, not the vendor.
He is in far more danger than the authors. They only face oblivion. He faces being nickle-and-dimed for all eternity, or until something else comes along which wipes him out as colateral damage. (Microsoft has set itself up to have to win at everything every time and this is clearly impossible.)
I'm am always amazed that people can look an a photomicrograph of a chip and ignore the complexity of the traces.
Yes there are now billions of transistors on a chis, but the real engineering is in the connections of all the transistors.
While the transistors, resistors and capacitors are essential to the functioning of the chips, their combinations into an IC is due to their connections in an IC.
They aren't glamourous, in fact they're existental, to components are conected or they aren't, but those connections are essential. Without them you're left with a few grams of dirty sand.
We have an internet built on disconnected computers when these very machines are marvels of connectivity.
Software is in the same disconnected state. We build modules but we don't build their connections, on the relationships between these modules.
Because Microsoft's implementations could NOT force it on any of their customers (the OEM people who really buy Windows, NOT the end-user or the consumer,) and had some half-assed parallel-serial cable kludge.
And that kludge is all it would have ever remained as in the Windows world because it cost money to redesign the mother boards, money that the OEMs didn't want to spend.
And he thinks he can justify that he deserves money on every CD-blank sold out there and he wants to pour lead into everybody's ears so they can't listen to anything for free ever again.
Its sad really. Fetal alcohol syndrome run rampant through the boardrooms of the world. These people want to charge you for having the capacity for having nerves excited by your tympanic membrane.
Music is merely the least unpleasant noise. The wailing coming from his mouth is much higher in annoyance value.
Microsoft has proved an absolute zero at thinking up anything to do with computers.
Innovation is definitely not their bag. They have bought or stolen everything in their OS, beginning with QDOS and ending with Vista (which is strange considering the number of people on their payroll.)
Microsoft has proved unbeatable at reacting. They don't think of anything but but that. They have their antennas out feeling/looking for any financially successful product out there and seeing how they can take it away.
Its very depressing to witness such stullifying behavior.
They only have one book, you're supposed to memorize it but not interpret it as that is reserved to a particular cadre of intellectuals.
You don't "need" anything else.
Why do you think Mullah Omar was against everything that even smacked of education?
Ignorant people, really dirt-poor, ignorant people were the only kind who would put up with his trying to tell them how to do anything and everything; from when to plant their crops, (they had a fall back in case of extinction from starvation: "It is the Will of Allah!") to what hand to use to wipe their own asses (assuming they hadn't cut if off.)
There are bad actions and bad thoughts, but no bad words.
Substituting other words in order to get past the thought police is ultimately futile.
Their objection is to the thought itself, and then only in permissable contexts. (Remember Lenny Bruce?)
The contexts are in the arena of permitted knowledge and reflect a power structure in their minds.
And YOU don't have the power (no one does.) Though they will repeat a particular word "ad nauseum" in their condemnation of you for using a particular word, THEY don't have the power either.
It is a reflection of a particular mind set wich empowers words, like "evolution" and "birth control," far beyond the actual utterance of the sound. These people are against thought itself.
Beware of these people. They are Osama Bin Laden wanna-bes in their attitudes toward thought. Silly, superstitious souls who believe in the power of uterances. (They are the ones who actually believe in demons, angels, and Chthlu myths.)
They are uninterested in your own thoughts except in preventing you from having any. They feel that if they stomp out the words, they stomp out the thoughts.
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They're trying to find a secure implementation of Windows.
However, Windows seems to be impervious to this. It just lies there with slime oozing between its legs. (Painst an attractive picture of the kind of fucker who spreads viri, worms and other creepy crawlies.)
It is a blatant abuse of the statutes. (And it will continue until we find some unsigned band who distributes their music WITHOUT them over the internet and THEY SUE the RIAA, with our help, of course, for depriving them of their business model. Say a band who distributes their music and collect micro-payments over PayPal.)
Any takers? Any band out there? (Maybe an amateur klesmer band. Or maybe an 'eeffin' jug band?) Something so out of the realm of anybody's top-40s playlist that the RIAA's client list, the ones BEHIND the law suits, the ones behind and part of the payola, the corrupt practices, the disposability of artists, the lack of promotion, the scum under the soap.
Most of these people deserve unemployment. Lets give it to them.
Some how, the English of the post made me think of a computer speaking Jar Jar Bink's dialog. GOD! THE HUMANITY!!
I mean where does it end? (Really!)
While your argument "... We guarantee that you'll be able to run ... without it causing you any inventory or tax slip-ups. That will be $2 million, please, up front..." might seem specious, the banking institutions are responsable for millions, billions or trillions of dollars worth of assets and transactions per year.
They are not allowed to take these kinds of 'internal' risks under penalty of prison and fines.
Hence, they try to reduce their costs through off-shoring their development efforts. Who do you think requires all those H1-Bs? It isn't your start-ups or small shops. (They end up requiring them because the talent pool isn't big enough to provide for everybody.) Off-shoring is a way to get talent for a lower price.
While they don't care about the small stuff, a word processor wouldn't be required if a quill pen would do but people are sloppy and need editing, they are required by law to sweat the details of every transaction.
The revolution that allowed ATMs isn't the machines the customer stands at but the processing power of the mainframes and the through-put of the databases that record everything.
I could go on about who actually owns the components of a data base or of a transaction but I'm working on something.
is that the documents in M$ Word are stored an 'core dumps', state maps of the douments at the time they were stored.
.doc files are so hard to figure out. You have an enormous amount of cruff left in there.)
There is no way to NOT infect one document with the contents of another opened during the same MS Word work session. Apart from the confidentiality aspects, this can lead to some real legal problems for the user specially when linking or embedding other documents. (Imagine being able to get the contents of a previous document and being able to get to or at the spreadsheets which were used in a confidential document when you're just typing up a letter to your mother after a rough day of litigation. That's why the size of
Okay, I will admit my respect for the actors in the original series, (IV to VI) has increased enormously since I to III came out.
They made a silk purse out of a sow's ear (or Lucas' tin ear for dialog.) I also never thought much for his choice of secondary actors. (Thank [name of deity] Jar Jar Binks was never played by a real human actor. That is definitely NOT something I'd want to put on my resume.)
Lucas made some high tech, high priced kid's movies. But I seriously doubt they actually have any 'legs' to go beyond the existing base. They will never be more than a foot note in film history and most of the film students will study THX rather that the Star Wars swill. Now business students are another thing...
If a web page can't be displayed by 10% of the people, its no biggie.
The fact that they are 'artsy' types (OS X users) or 'propeller heads' (Linux users) just makes the decision that much easier if you'd selling socks or food or something.
Never underestimate the power of 'saving a buck by screwing somebody' (somebody using the other browsers) when it doesn't really cost them anything.
The sales figures are going up anyway. Or the site is just advertising and that's an expense regardless, and nobody ever got fired for saving a buck.
I've got FireFox installed on all my boxes (1 AMD64 running Linux, 2 Macs running OS X and 1 old Win2k box crawling along,) but that's because I am paranoid and I really don't like IEs pop-ups.
But that's just me.
In MS the nerve is not severed (the wire cut) but instead the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve is 'attacked' by the imune system (the wire shredded).
This leaves the transmission of impulses along the nerves subject to analog wire' efects: increased 'noise' causing spasticity (loss of control outgoing) and/or phantom sensation ([sometimes painful] loss of specificity incoming.)
I have some stake in the outcome of this.
"As a fan of the music industry but not music itself, I wait with great anticipation for the day when we are finally rid of the antiquated notion of personal rights."
And how 'bout if we enforce it with ice-picks through the ears?
They aren't the ones responsable for the homogenized pap you're getting between the ads.
... money.])
The industry is a process of skipping any need for talent at the front end and going straight to CD with 'a sound' that just suck the life out of the music and makes the musician an irrelevancy (in fact they're an embarrasment to the corporatists. They have the wrong image. They're poor. They don't vote for the right people [people with 'Tin Ears' who don't give a damn about music, but who have
Fuck all the soul-less bastards.
In about two minutes, after every cell phone walking past goes off, people would figure it out and find a way to fuck with the instalation, fuck with the installer and, finally, wreck the equipment.
The WORST part of "Minority Report" was the store Tom Cruise went into after he got his eyes replaced (and that kept mis-identifying him.)
I just had an idea for a worm or virus that would install itself, run for a day, call everybody in your phone book with a pre-recorded Spam message and go to sleep until the next time it was 'needed.'
Yeech. What an imagination I've got.
The key is 'your phone book.' Then again, it would be trivial to have it email a message containing your phone book to a central location and come up with a map of 'who knows who.'
is that you ban the opinions on the words as well.
You ban the opinions that democracy is not right for China at this particular time in its history.
You ban the opinions that the Falun Gong are a bunch of deluded nuts who are being used for various purposes.
There are several sides, including the gummints, to every story.
http://www.prisonsoup.com/
http://www.dance-industries.com/home.php
That should give you some leads.
The problem is that information can be viewed as a property or as communication. Both points of view are correct and both points of view are wrong.
If information cannot be communicated, it doesn't exist. If you have no information to communicate you have no communication, By trying to restrict the communication of information by locking it up, (say, in my case, by saying that articles still belong to the publisher when that publisher has ceased to exist,) they are debasing their own stock.
These two views of information (and media) are at their heart diametrically opposed and working against each other.
The case against Google is a case in point. If information about something is NOT available, then that something might as well not exist. The case against Google will be a Phyrric victory if the authors win since the best means of validating against infringement, typing a phrase into Google and seeing what matches, will be unavailable to those authors. They will be MORE liable to copyright infringement than before. In fact, their copyright, and sales of their materiel, could be usurped when someone else 'comes up' with a seachable version. Who wan't that?
If information about something IS available, then it DOES exist, but it may be restricted (DRMed.)
But it can't be restricted too, uh, restrictively. There are more than one operating system, there are going to be others coming down the pike (Windows, *nix-es, Linux and OS X are NOT the be-all and end-all of computing.)
By making the DRM scheme a single vendor solution, the guy is making a complete fool of himself since he has GIVEN his copyright away. HE should be the one controlling the content, not the vendor.
He is in far more danger than the authors. They only face oblivion. He faces being nickle-and-dimed for all eternity, or until something else comes along which wipes him out as colateral damage. (Microsoft has set itself up to have to win at everything every time and this is clearly impossible.)
I'm am always amazed that people can look an a photomicrograph of a chip and ignore the complexity of the traces.
Yes there are now billions of transistors on a chis, but the real engineering is in the connections of all the transistors.
While the transistors, resistors and capacitors are essential to the functioning of the chips, their combinations into an IC is due to their connections in an IC.
They aren't glamourous, in fact they're existental, to components are conected or they aren't, but those connections are essential. Without them you're left with a few grams of dirty sand.
We have an internet built on disconnected computers when these very machines are marvels of connectivity.
Software is in the same disconnected state. We build modules but we don't build their connections, on the relationships between these modules.
Because Microsoft's implementations could NOT force it on any of their customers (the OEM people who really buy Windows, NOT the end-user or the consumer,) and had some half-assed parallel-serial cable kludge.
And that kludge is all it would have ever remained as in the Windows world because it cost money to redesign the mother boards, money that the OEMs didn't want to spend.
And he thinks he can justify that he deserves money on every CD-blank sold out there and he wants to pour lead into everybody's ears so they can't listen to anything for free ever again.
Its sad really. Fetal alcohol syndrome run rampant through the boardrooms of the world. These people want to charge you for having the capacity for having nerves excited by your tympanic membrane.
Music is merely the least unpleasant noise. The wailing coming from his mouth is much higher in annoyance value.
Microsoft has proved an absolute zero at thinking up anything to do with computers.
Innovation is definitely not their bag. They have bought or stolen everything in their OS, beginning with QDOS and ending with Vista (which is strange considering the number of people on their payroll.)
Microsoft has proved unbeatable at reacting. They don't think of anything but but that. They have their antennas out feeling/looking for any financially successful product out there and seeing how they can take it away.
Its very depressing to witness such stullifying behavior.
these people are anti-media.
They only have one book, you're supposed to memorize it but not interpret it as that is reserved to a particular cadre of intellectuals.
You don't "need" anything else.
Why do you think Mullah Omar was against everything that even smacked of education?
Ignorant people, really dirt-poor, ignorant people were the only kind who would put up with his trying to tell them how to do anything and everything; from when to plant their crops, (they had a fall back in case of extinction from starvation: "It is the Will of Allah!") to what hand to use to wipe their own asses (assuming they hadn't cut if off.)
there are NO BAD WORDS.
There are bad actions and bad thoughts, but no bad words.
Substituting other words in order to get past the thought police is ultimately futile.
Their objection is to the thought itself, and then only in permissable contexts. (Remember Lenny Bruce?)
The contexts are in the arena of permitted knowledge and reflect a power structure in their minds.
And YOU don't have the power (no one does.) Though they will repeat a particular word "ad nauseum" in their condemnation of you for using a particular word, THEY don't have the power either.
It is a reflection of a particular mind set wich empowers words, like "evolution" and "birth control," far beyond the actual utterance of the sound. These people are against thought itself.
Beware of these people. They are Osama Bin Laden wanna-bes in their attitudes toward thought. Silly, superstitious souls who believe in the power of uterances. (They are the ones who actually believe in demons, angels, and Chthlu myths.)
They are uninterested in your own thoughts except in preventing you from having any. They feel that if they stomp out the words, they stomp out the thoughts.
I fire it up and the darn thing us swishes through the boot.
Apache, MySQL and all the devices are up and running in less time than my Win2k box takes to show me that Win2K is finlly loading my user setings.
Atlantic city. The motto shoulde read "Welcome to New Jersey quarantine. Now you can't go home."
"Eating the mice", explained the late Gerald McBoingboing, "was the safest way of disposing of them once they had escaped the confines of the lab."
Mr McBoingboing then started a bloody coughing fit and, collapsing like the WTC towers, expired.