That is sterotypical. Any sterotipical *assumption* is stupid as you are taking ideas, not facts into account. (thats what sterotyping is) I'm a Texan, and I don't like Bush (either of them) The last two elections have been garbage to choose from. I do think Bush has awoken from his *trance* that those who brought him to power put him under. (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and their clan) but Bush is still unintelligent. Please god suround him with intelligent people. I don't trust Kerry at all. He just wants to make you afraid, and point at whos the blame. All his ideas include impossibilities. They cost to much money, or have to many contradictions.
For those US haters. American is in it's downfall if something doens't change. But I love this country. The reasoning behind it is how *life* should be. Make your own life. Do not allow others to dictate it.
If I use this service will the *collect* my number and start spamming me? If not now when? I really like the idea, but will they use that *you have personal business with me, so I can nag you at dinner* crap that credit card companies use to call you even though you're on the no call list.
Upset would be an understatement if I started getting spam SMS messages.
While I don't disagree with this, I also thing this is nothing more than a bandaid. The seive that is Internet Explorer is what makes most of this possible. IE gets hijacked and tons of spyway/virus type crap gets installed. I have been banning the use of it at work, but there are some users I just cannot prevent from using it. (my CFO refuses to stop using it?!?!?!?!) When companies are caught doing illegal things, they fine the companies till that *fix* the problem. Well, it's been almost 10 years, and IE has gotten worse not better. The more Microsoft embeds IE into Windows, the more disruptive these virus writers become. They need to mandate MS to separate IE from Windows, and curb it's *automatic usability* features. Fine them till they do it, or force them to remove IE all together and not allow them to make a web browser anymore. (wow wouldn't that break 30 million websites that are IE only hah)
anyway, I'm just ranting because I have to deal with this epidemic daily at work...:(
It won't happen. To make a change like this takes alot of lawyers and money. The only people that have that are big business. Big business doesn't want the change because they want to protect their *IP* They want to sue the next guy to stifle them, and get a windfall profit out of it. Soon when the real lawsuit wars begin and every IBM, Microsoft, Sun... erm. They are all in these lawsuits now. Well, maybe it will never change! Now the question is. Are you a programmer? I have a lawyer! cough up some cash!:)
It's like Mr. Freeze at Six Flags over Texas, (and St. Louis) but Mr Freeze is better as it not only does more, after going forward it returns in reverse on the same track. It does 0-70 in 3.8 seconds via linear induction motors.
Sun workstations were the primary development environment for FOSS from about 1987 till the early 1990's.
What does that have to do with anything? Sun had nothing to do with the programmers choice of workstation.
2) How many copies of Linux and related software were dowdloaded from a "sunsite"?
Yeah maybe, but how many other sites/companies/universities did the same?
3) TCL came from where? and RCU came from where? Point is, they were created for reasons other than FOSS, so whats your point?
4) Java came from where? What does this have to do with FOSS?
5) NFS, as we know it, came from where? Again, whats your point?
6) RPC's, as we know them, came from where? Again, it wasn't created for FOSS. Microsoft created SMB. Do you credit them for bring it to FOSS in Samba? No.
I don't like sun, but I don't bash them unless they deserve it. I will praise them if they do. Sun didn't bring Java to Linux because it was FOSS, they brought it to saturate the market and work on as many platforms as they could.
My point is, don't give them credit for something they don't deserve. Only give credit where credit is due. The Java Desktop? I give Sun credit. StarOffice? I give them credit for polishing OpenOffice, but not the entire project.
Sun isn't anywhere near FOSS friendly. They are just feeding on what *could* help them. They are the Microsoft of the *nix community
Not to mention when things get entered into evidence and are later proven incorrect the ideas implied by what was entered now taint the decision making process.
For instance. I was on a jury and a video of the crime was entered into evidence. That video showed the defendent committing the crime, but it was later stricken from evidence because it was found that it was obtained illegally.
Needless to say, I saw the video. The man was guilty as sin and I knew about it and I couldn't in clear conscience let a man walk because they told me to ignore what I saw.
SCO lawyers argue the information -- namely source code they claim was lifted from AIX and Dynix to bolster the open source Linux kernel -- is necessary in getting a successful ruling.
Umm, if it was *lifted* from AIX and Dynix and put into Linux, couldn't you find the code in Linux instead of telling IBM to release source code from a closed source product? They said it was *released into Linux* Well, go get it from the Linux tree!?!?!
It's sickening to see the bureaucracy of the US courts drag this out on bull$hit motions, declarations, or any other form of action within the a court.
I think this is good. If it weren't for Three Mile Island there would be a whole lot more nuclear reactors in the US supplying a whole lot more power and we would depend less and less on coal and it's pollutants. Although; I don't believe Three Mile Island was all bad in that you learn from your mistakes, not from you victories. Nuclear energy is far and away better, cleaner, and overall safer in the long run. With nuclear energy being used more heavily more technologies for it's safety will come about and how to contain it's waste.
The building was constructed during the Apollo era and has a roof designed to withstand 105 mph winds, Diller said.
Even newer facilities are at risk. The immense hangar where the space station components are tested and stored prior to launch is designed to withstand 110 mph winds.
The cause of most mistakes are that when taking under consideration the requirements for [insert whatever here] is that someone made an "assumption" rather than supporting all information with facts. When these buildings were built, I'm sure somewhere in the Flordia a hurricane came through with winds in excess of 110mph. What would ever make you think it *is* impossible for one to come through the Space Center? I'm mean you spend billions of dollars and do not protect it from hurricanes on the Flordia coast?
You are only correct to a point. The human imagination can come up with millions of things that can go wrong. There is no way those same people could calculate each possibility thoroughly. That is where super-computers come in. They are to mathematically test those theories through simulations. A peice of foam falling off the hull is only one in an infinite possibilities. The idea is to find a middle ground. NASA employs alot of people, I don't think $160 million for 10k processors that can do the work of 10 million people is to much to ask.
I suggest more on interviewing the candidate. I've seen four year CS degree holders that have absolutely no clue at what they are doing get replaced by high school drop outs. My point is. If you are hiring tech support reps there is no need to require a degree yet so many employers do. If you are hiring a System Admin, or Network admin there is still no reason to have a degree unless they are project leaders designing and developing the core of your business. If this person is going to manage your staff, or your business on more than one aspect, then maybe you want to look for a 4 year (actually more) degree, but you still must be extremely selective. Degrees arn't hard to get. (providing you can afford it) Smart individuals with the right mind set are. It's not good enough to hire a smart individual, he/she must be on the same page. To often you get those who think they are to smart and everyone else is an idiot. Those guys are like cancer to a company.
This tells you how dumb the DMCA law is. It will be used to protect a monopolistic activity. This is like having Ford release a car and say that you can only use Exxon gas. If someone alters their car to accept Shell or some other brand of gas that they are going to sue you. Once you purchase hardware, it should be yours to do with as you please. The same goes for software. You should be able to do anything you want with it once you've purchased it. (accept of course distribute illegal copies) Like when companies sell you a database and tell you that if you run tests on it you can't tell anyone your results. I mean WTF is that?
From what I can tell, bash 3.0 doesn't do anything that 2.x didn't do. Except, no doubt, break every script in my system if I were to install it.
pfft, thats why it's called 3.0. Backwards compatibility is for sluzers. Why do you think we make *upgrades* When we run out of things to tweak on our system we upgrade so we can start the tweak process again. It's called conquering the on-slot of boredom.
I had 20/40 vision in both eyes, now I have 20/20 and 20/25. The surgery isn't bad at all. If you have a habit of touching your eyes you could get yourself in a world of trouble by wrinkling up your cornea. You must give it time to heal and be very careful with it for a while afterwards.
One thing to note. While you can get 20/20 or in some cases 20/15 vision but keep in mind that your vision will never be as sharp as it is when you wear glasses. Now don't get me wrong, you will see 20/20, but the clarity is isn't there. Oh, and you will see what some people call starburst at night when you are driving. Most of that will clear up with time, but it never completely goes away.
Don't fix the problem just add 10k bandaids, workarounds, and limitations to the current functionality so that you don't have to start over. If a product is fundamentally flawed. Why even try to fix it? I think decisions like this just leave companies open to be a punching bag for those companies that don't make the same mistake.
My thought would be me to patch any security holes in the mean time, then immediately start from scrach. If that isn't an option, then maybe it's time to get out of the browser business. I don't know, thats just my thoughts on the subject.
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I don't think it's inefficient. I use it. I have an extensive CLI PHP scripting system setup that does it all. It connects to FTP systems downloaded data for updates, runs updates on several databases, generates plain text reports, csv (Excel type reports), and most of all combining it with crontabed called from others systems it allows me to share data between two systems that previously where unable to do so.
This also allows me to move code blocks between different platforms without issue. It also allows some of our beginning programmers to make changes and updates to this systems without having to know 5+ different languages. Most of them took C classes in school and the transition to PHP is fairly easy. We have a online documentation server (php/postgresql) that we also keep a list of no nos for programming in php so alot of those new to php don't make common mistakes. I have found php to be invaluable. Sure it's doesn't fit for every job in you come up with, but it makes system automation a snap.
Anyway, it's made my job much easier. Perl can do everything that CLI PHP can, but it's far less cryptic to those that are new to it which means far less training time and far less debugging on my part after someone new to the language drops syntactic money wrenches into our code or logical errors.
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I just want whatever one else wants. To be happy.
;)
Wow, I think alcohol had something to do with that F'ed up statement.
I just want what everyone else wants. To be happy.
That is sterotypical. Any sterotipical *assumption* is stupid as you are taking ideas, not facts into account. (thats what sterotyping is) I'm a Texan, and I don't like Bush (either of them) The last two elections have been garbage to choose from. I do think Bush has awoken from his *trance* that those who brought him to power put him under. (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and their clan) but Bush is still unintelligent. Please god suround him with intelligent people. I don't trust Kerry at all. He just wants to make you afraid, and point at whos the blame. All his ideas include impossibilities. They cost to much money, or have to many contradictions.
For those US haters. American is in it's downfall if something doens't change. But I love this country. The reasoning behind it is how *life* should be. Make your own life. Do not allow others to dictate it.
I just want whatever one else wants. To be happy.
If I use this service will the *collect* my number and start spamming me? If not now when? I really like the idea, but will they use that *you have personal business with me, so I can nag you at dinner* crap that credit card companies use to call you even though you're on the no call list.
Upset would be an understatement if I started getting spam SMS messages.
While I don't disagree with this, I also thing this is nothing more than a bandaid. The seive that is Internet Explorer is what makes most of this possible. IE gets hijacked and tons of spyway/virus type crap gets installed. I have been banning the use of it at work, but there are some users I just cannot prevent from using it. (my CFO refuses to stop using it?!?!?!?!) When companies are caught doing illegal things, they fine the companies till that *fix* the problem. Well, it's been almost 10 years, and IE has gotten worse not better. The more Microsoft embeds IE into Windows, the more disruptive these virus writers become. They need to mandate MS to separate IE from Windows, and curb it's *automatic usability* features. Fine them till they do it, or force them to remove IE all together and not allow them to make a web browser anymore. (wow wouldn't that break 30 million websites that are IE only hah)
:(
anyway, I'm just ranting because I have to deal with this epidemic daily at work...
It won't happen. To make a change like this takes alot of lawyers and money. The only people that have that are big business. Big business doesn't want the change because they want to protect their *IP* They want to sue the next guy to stifle them, and get a windfall profit out of it. Soon when the real lawsuit wars begin and every IBM, Microsoft, Sun... erm. They are all in these lawsuits now. Well, maybe it will never change! Now the question is. Are you a programmer? I have a lawyer! cough up some cash! :)
You should try the Texas Giant at SFoT. It's been ranked #1 several times and by several different groups/magazines.
http://www.coasterphotos.com/SFOT/texasgiant.htm
It's like Mr. Freeze at Six Flags over Texas, (and St. Louis) but Mr Freeze is better as it not only does more, after going forward it returns in reverse on the same track. It does 0-70 in 3.8 seconds via linear induction motors.
Here is a photo (it's the light blue one, Batman is yellow one behind it)
http://www.coastergallery.com/2001/Freeze01.jpg
Sun workstations were the primary development environment for FOSS from about 1987 till the early 1990's.
What does that have to do with anything? Sun had nothing to do with the programmers choice of workstation.
2) How many copies of Linux and related software were dowdloaded from a "sunsite"?
Yeah maybe, but how many other sites/companies/universities did the same?
3) TCL came from where?
and RCU came from where? Point is, they were created for reasons other than FOSS, so whats your point?
4) Java came from where?
What does this have to do with FOSS?
5) NFS, as we know it, came from where?
Again, whats your point?
6) RPC's, as we know them, came from where?
Again, it wasn't created for FOSS. Microsoft created SMB. Do you credit them for bring it to FOSS in Samba? No.
I don't like sun, but I don't bash them unless they deserve it. I will praise them if they do. Sun didn't bring Java to Linux because it was FOSS, they brought it to saturate the market and work on as many platforms as they could.
My point is, don't give them credit for something they don't deserve. Only give credit where credit is due. The Java Desktop? I give Sun credit. StarOffice? I give them credit for polishing OpenOffice, but not the entire project.
Sun isn't anywhere near FOSS friendly. They are just feeding on what *could* help them. They are the Microsoft of the *nix community
Not to mention when things get entered into evidence and are later proven incorrect the ideas implied by what was entered now taint the decision making process.
For instance. I was on a jury and a video of the crime was entered into evidence. That video showed the defendent committing the crime, but it was later stricken from evidence because it was found that it was obtained illegally.
Needless to say, I saw the video. The man was guilty as sin and I knew about it and I couldn't in clear conscience let a man walk because they told me to ignore what I saw.
SCO lawyers argue the information -- namely source code they claim was lifted from AIX and Dynix to bolster the open source Linux kernel -- is necessary in getting a successful ruling.
Umm, if it was *lifted* from AIX and Dynix and put into Linux, couldn't you find the code in Linux instead of telling IBM to release source code from a closed source product? They said it was *released into Linux* Well, go get it from the Linux tree!?!?!
It's sickening to see the bureaucracy of the US courts drag this out on bull$hit motions, declarations, or any other form of action within the a court.
I think this is good. If it weren't for Three Mile Island there would be a whole lot more nuclear reactors in the US supplying a whole lot more power and we would depend less and less on coal and it's pollutants. Although; I don't believe Three Mile Island was all bad in that you learn from your mistakes, not from you victories. Nuclear energy is far and away better, cleaner, and overall safer in the long run. With nuclear energy being used more heavily more technologies for it's safety will come about and how to contain it's waste.
The building was constructed during the Apollo era and has a roof designed to withstand 105 mph winds, Diller said.
Even newer facilities are at risk. The immense hangar where the space station components are tested and stored prior to launch is designed to withstand 110 mph winds.
The cause of most mistakes are that when taking under consideration the requirements for [insert whatever here] is that someone made an "assumption" rather than supporting all information with facts. When these buildings were built, I'm sure somewhere in the Flordia a hurricane came through with winds in excess of 110mph. What would ever make you think it *is* impossible for one to come through the Space Center? I'm mean you spend billions of dollars and do not protect it from hurricanes on the Flordia coast?
You are only correct to a point. The human imagination can come up with millions of things that can go wrong. There is no way those same people could calculate each possibility thoroughly. That is where super-computers come in. They are to mathematically test those theories through simulations. A peice of foam falling off the hull is only one in an infinite possibilities. The idea is to find a middle ground. NASA employs alot of people, I don't think $160 million for 10k processors that can do the work of 10 million people is to much to ask.
I suggest more on interviewing the candidate. I've seen four year CS degree holders that have absolutely no clue at what they are doing get replaced by high school drop outs. My point is. If you are hiring tech support reps there is no need to require a degree yet so many employers do. If you are hiring a System Admin, or Network admin there is still no reason to have a degree unless they are project leaders designing and developing the core of your business. If this person is going to manage your staff, or your business on more than one aspect, then maybe you want to look for a 4 year (actually more) degree, but you still must be extremely selective. Degrees arn't hard to get. (providing you can afford it) Smart individuals with the right mind set are. It's not good enough to hire a smart individual, he/she must be on the same page. To often you get those who think they are to smart and everyone else is an idiot. Those guys are like cancer to a company.
The answer is: 10,000 lawsuits in a gigantic SCO like silhouette.
The funniest thing I see is watching people get anal about other people getting anal about buying gaming equipment because of a game...
Hey, whats it matter to you if Darrin wants to drop $1,300 on a new PC because of a game.
Anal is as Anal does. Fight the clingons around your anus.
They should switch it to that big chiseled stone :"ID" that used to pound into the screen at the begining of Quake 3
This tells you how dumb the DMCA law is. It will be used to protect a monopolistic activity. This is like having Ford release a car and say that you can only use Exxon gas. If someone alters their car to accept Shell or some other brand of gas that they are going to sue you. Once you purchase hardware, it should be yours to do with as you please. The same goes for software. You should be able to do anything you want with it once you've purchased it. (accept of course distribute illegal copies) Like when companies sell you a database and tell you that if you run tests on it you can't tell anyone your results. I mean WTF is that?
From what I can tell, bash 3.0 doesn't do anything that 2.x didn't do. Except, no doubt, break every script in my system if I were to install it.
:P
pfft, thats why it's called 3.0. Backwards compatibility is for sluzers. Why do you think we make *upgrades* When we run out of things to tweak on our system we upgrade so we can start the tweak process again. It's called conquering the on-slot of boredom.
Start your apt-get Engines,
emerge break-my-system.1.4.3
rpm -Uvh break-X.org-3.2.5.rpm
etc, etc, etc
Woohoo!!
Wow, I need to slow down on the coffee!
signing off...
logout
Doh, thats what I get for not previewing my post. :(
This should be from the "If-you-can't-with dazzle-them-brilliance-baffle-them-with-bullshit" department.
O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding.
If the source is open how can there be no chance in finding bugs or whatever else they wish to put in the source?
This is clearly FUD to protect their market from the steam-roller known as FOSS. Security through obscurity is already proven faulty.
I had 20/40 vision in both eyes, now I have 20/20 and 20/25. The surgery isn't bad at all. If you have a habit of touching your eyes you could get yourself in a world of trouble by wrinkling up your cornea. You must give it time to heal and be very careful with it for a while afterwards.
One thing to note. While you can get 20/20 or in some cases 20/15 vision but keep in mind that your vision will never be as sharp as it is when you wear glasses. Now don't get me wrong, you will see 20/20, but the clarity is isn't there. Oh, and you will see what some people call starburst at night when you are driving. Most of that will clear up with time, but it never completely goes away.
My opinion? I would do it again without question.
Don't fix the problem just add 10k bandaids, workarounds, and limitations to the current functionality so that you don't have to start over. If a product is fundamentally flawed. Why even try to fix it? I think decisions like this just leave companies open to be a punching bag for those companies that don't make the same mistake.
My thought would be me to patch any security holes in the mean time, then immediately start from scrach. If that isn't an option, then maybe it's time to get out of the browser business. I don't know, thats just my thoughts on the subject.
I don't think it's inefficient. I use it. I have an extensive CLI PHP scripting system setup that does it all. It connects to FTP systems downloaded data for updates, runs updates on several databases, generates plain text reports, csv (Excel type reports), and most of all combining it with crontabed called from others systems it allows me to share data between two systems that previously where unable to do so.
This also allows me to move code blocks between different platforms without issue. It also allows some of our beginning programmers to make changes and updates to this systems without having to know 5+ different languages. Most of them took C classes in school and the transition to PHP is fairly easy. We have a online documentation server (php/postgresql) that we also keep a list of no nos for programming in php so alot of those new to php don't make common mistakes. I have found php to be invaluable. Sure it's doesn't fit for every job in you come up with, but it makes system automation a snap.
Anyway, it's made my job much easier. Perl can do everything that CLI PHP can, but it's far less cryptic to those that are new to it which means far less training time and far less debugging on my part after someone new to the language drops syntactic money wrenches into our code or logical errors.
Patenting the data that constitutes a weather forecast is like trying to patent water.
;)
Don't even think about infringing on my water patent. I will go SCO on your ass in a heartbeat!!!