Special characters will show up in your source code too!
Who here uses MS junk except at work anyway? Yeah, I made my wife an MS box and I do use it because of driver company extortion, but I use it less and less.
you can write your own Smart Tag filter in about 10 minutes with VB.
Yeah, right. VB 7 or IE 6 or Cosmo's Wig maker, or whatever activeX piece of junk will replace that dll and it's dependencies, and all your tags will be owned. It's all integrated, like you, to the borg that is MS and that is sad.
Jump ship! Run for your lively hood! VB is a big fat C# dead end.
What blither all of this is. See, it's not so bad. It was small unobtrusive, well greased, painless and we pulled it out because you complained. Why should we be all over MS for this blatant piece of arogance?
The images are not free because:
Webcore Labs arbitrairlly limits distribution at it's sole discretion.
Webcore Labs arbitrairlly limits use at it's sole discretion.
The software is not free because:
It may not be used for any purpose, at the discretion of Webcore Labs.
It may not be transfered without Webcore Labs permision.
It almost certianly can not be modified.
It would be unwise to include use any of their images without modification. I prefer to make my own images when I need them or use truely free images.
Prohibition of sale != GPL. Sell what you want, just distribute the source code and don't tell people what they can and can not do with their computers.
Thank you for presenting this piece of their liscence. I don't agree with the way they like to share things.
Sun makes great computational boxes. A 400MHz AMD can give about the same performance as an old spark workstation running at 66MHz. How? I don't really know, but that's the way it works. x86 was always bad with math. Sun's implimentation was always beter. Newer boxes are, of course, much faster and the difference is still there. Anything compatible with x86 will be hampered.
Another thing to consider is code compatibility. I've been working for months to make a large government application work with GNU tools. It's taking worlds of effort, which I will share if no one beats me to it, but that just might be my fault. Most science users consider the usual day of install time under solaris painful. Sun has support to help these people out when all else fails. If it were not for hardware compatibility problems, I would have gotten a copy of this for my x86. NT? You must be kidding me!
They may loose some income from people who want to just run mail and web servers, but that will not kill them. At least, I hope not. I'd hate for their designs to get bought up by people who make blue man adverts.
Historically, VA Linux has generated a significant
majority of its revenues from the sale of its hardware products. VA expects its revenue to significantly decline with the
elimination of the hardware segment.
What? They are going to fire 140 of their most profitible employees? Is there some PHB type who can make sense of this for me?
No, I'm not really sure how they did it because there are no pictures.
Like you, I imagine some sort of anchor point but the system is still dangerous. Once the load is in the air, it's at the mercy of both low level winds and the wind that holds the kite up. A 180 change of wind direction is possible and fluctuations are the norm.
Even if you manage not to squash yourself, you won't be able to build much. It's difficult to control a load hanging from a conventional fixed boom in the wind. It would be next to impossible to control a load hung from a kite. If you can't put your load down where you want it, your structure will follow suit and fall over.
How do you approach your OS/2 users? Does IBM plan to move them to Linux platforms? Will any of the OS/2 goodies, like the presentation manager's link database, move to Linux?
MS is not giving up anything if it does not give up everything! What good is the source to A if it calls and depends on B that can be broken at anytime without warning? I imagine newer MS policies, whenever they arrive, will combine the worst of former practices and older versions of stuff like Apple's or Sun's community liscences.
Flying kites in the forest? Good thinking! By the way, how is our machineless friend going to hold down something that can lift a two ton log? Where did he get the money to build such a kite?
Trying to move small things by kite involves more effort than simple wheeled carts.
Ohhhh, this is such good news here where my supervisor told me that presentations were "standardized" to power point and proceedures are all Word docs. The breeze blowing down the cubicle hallways just became a huricane.
Office IS overtly offensive. It never prints the same document the same way on two machines! Propriatory formats and fonts that constantly change and break things are a huge waste of manpower and money. These problems have been around since Win3.1 days and may never be resolved due to the greedy liscencing methods and business model MS encourages. Super greed => intentional waste. Waste is offensive.
I might not see stuff "standardized" to Win2K after all. Yes!
Bill Gates stole his BASIC code from a dumpster. Most of the world wishes he had left it there. Computers of all types that use his BASIC code STILL don't work.
I don't want one provider of e-mail, or news. I want hundreds. And I don't
want to live in a world where the assumption is the guys who provide your bandwidth are the
ones who provide your services.
Good. Work to preserve the peer sturcture of the internet, where all conections are equal. Demand your right to connect, speak and publish as a peer.
Today in Egypt and other places not so blessed with resources to match their populations, people still build the way they have for centuries. They move concrete and fill one bucket load at a time to it's destination. Off site mixing fails where roads are not good enough or empty enough to move trucks quickly. Conveyor and cranes are difficult to maintain and power. Labor is cheap where people don't eat well.
So will this help out? I doubt it. It sounds unwieldy, dangerous, and impractical.
This thing will kill people who take it seriously. Let's imagine our big block is up and we want to put it down someplace. Contoling loads suspended from modern cranes is difficult enough when the wind blows. A kite has no firm foundation, twice the line to contend with and is utterly dependent on the will of the wisp. I would not want to be under or even around a heavy load lifted by kite.
Power is still needed to control the kite. Even with clever contorls built into the kite for elevation and swing, how do you control radius? It would take lots of work to haul your line in. OK, someone brings a big deisel engine. Great! Now that you have spent all that money, why don't you just buy yourself some angle iron and plate so you can make a boom and a proper crane?
Be careful what you wish for. Do you really want all of those services to be centralized? Let the ISP provide usenet, email and website hosting. Just so long as they do not keep you from doing the same for yourself. I keep all of my mail locally and write it to CD. My mail provider is a small box at the local university. GeoCities and other Advert filled sites just suck, I'm going to serve my own pages as soon as DSL is established in my new house (@home would not allow this). As others have pointed out, local service is faster.
There is only one point where we might agree, and that is that users should not be wasting bandwith exchanging "I Love Lucy" episodes and other mass produced forms of entertainment. When informed of such abuses, ISPs should track down and discontinue service to such people. I knew one person who had programs that continuosly scanned and downloaded all new posts to usenet. It was a total waste, as he did not really care to look at it. His ISP should have noticed this and tossed him off. This way the rest of us can share our original content in peace and speed.
Arguing that these groups serve a legitimate purpose is like arguing a booth on a street corner selling pirated CD's is a boon to the community because they sell matches as well.
Not true. A more fitting analogy is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Your flaw is in 4. The word "playboy" is part of the popular culture from which it was stollen. To say that anything that could be described as "playboy" blongs to the obnoxious magazine and must be set up to distribute that publication is foolish, but that is what the advocates of trademark would have you believe. Likewise, the other terms may not really refer to publications which you are familiar with.
IMHO the short-term solution to binary-USENET's "a full feed is too much to manage"
problem isn't to drop groups, it's for broadband providers to impose upload caps of 100-200M
per day at their own NNTP server on their users. Large files would still be postable - it'd just
take a little longer, and retention and propagation could improve immeasurably for everyone
else.
My ISP won't keep me from uploading the movie I made and want to share, will it? If it does, it's not my ISP.
It may be the best thing for my NT suffering desktop, but that site just kills me. Crannnnnnnnk goes the hard drive until I finally put it out of it's missery.
No, he's not a shill! He just thinks that Linux will not "disrupt" MS's software, that BSD has nothing to do with NT's IP stack, and that you should shore up MS revenues by purchasing an Xbox.
This dude's long winded BS is a waste of time. The above summary and opinion provided to prevent massive time waste.
MS, asside from legislative efforts and attempts to bully hardware makers, does not matter at all. Their software is inferior. Their Xbox is an underpowered waste. Their sun is setting.
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Another response noted that KDE will lauch a browser for it with a middle mouse button.
MS will have to follow the leader to arrive at the worst possible soloution. Your source code will have a purple squiggly line under it like this:
Red Hat
Special characters will show up in your source code too!
Who here uses MS junk except at work anyway? Yeah, I made my wife an MS box and I do use it because of driver company extortion, but I use it less and less.
Yeah, right. VB 7 or IE 6 or Cosmo's Wig maker, or whatever activeX piece of junk will replace that dll and it's dependencies, and all your tags will be owned. It's all integrated, like you, to the borg that is MS and that is sad.
Jump ship! Run for your lively hood! VB is a big fat C# dead end.
What blither all of this is. See, it's not so bad. It was small unobtrusive, well greased, painless and we pulled it out because you complained. Why should we be all over MS for this blatant piece of arogance?
Webcore Labs arbitrairlly limits distribution at it's sole discretion.
Webcore Labs arbitrairlly limits use at it's sole discretion.
The software is not free because:
It may not be used for any purpose, at the discretion of Webcore Labs.
It may not be transfered without Webcore Labs permision.
It almost certianly can not be modified.
It would be unwise to include use any of their images without modification. I prefer to make my own images when I need them or use truely free images.
Prohibition of sale != GPL. Sell what you want, just distribute the source code and don't tell people what they can and can not do with their computers.
Thank you for presenting this piece of their liscence. I don't agree with the way they like to share things.
Another thing to consider is code compatibility. I've been working for months to make a large government application work with GNU tools. It's taking worlds of effort, which I will share if no one beats me to it, but that just might be my fault. Most science users consider the usual day of install time under solaris painful. Sun has support to help these people out when all else fails. If it were not for hardware compatibility problems, I would have gotten a copy of this for my x86. NT? You must be kidding me!
They may loose some income from people who want to just run mail and web servers, but that will not kill them. At least, I hope not. I'd hate for their designs to get bought up by people who make blue man adverts.
Yahoo sez:
Historically, VA Linux has generated a significant majority of its revenues from the sale of its hardware products. VA expects its revenue to significantly decline with the elimination of the hardware segment.
What? They are going to fire 140 of their most profitible employees? Is there some PHB type who can make sense of this for me?
Like you, I imagine some sort of anchor point but the system is still dangerous. Once the load is in the air, it's at the mercy of both low level winds and the wind that holds the kite up. A 180 change of wind direction is possible and fluctuations are the norm.
Even if you manage not to squash yourself, you won't be able to build much. It's difficult to control a load hanging from a conventional fixed boom in the wind. It would be next to impossible to control a load hung from a kite. If you can't put your load down where you want it, your structure will follow suit and fall over.
How do you approach your OS/2 users? Does IBM plan to move them to Linux platforms? Will any of the OS/2 goodies, like the presentation manager's link database, move to Linux?
MS is not giving up anything if it does not give up everything! What good is the source to A if it calls and depends on B that can be broken at anytime without warning? I imagine newer MS policies, whenever they arrive, will combine the worst of former practices and older versions of stuff like Apple's or Sun's community liscences.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and billy gates hates pac man.
Trying to move small things by kite involves more effort than simple wheeled carts.
Office IS overtly offensive. It never prints the same document the same way on two machines! Propriatory formats and fonts that constantly change and break things are a huge waste of manpower and money. These problems have been around since Win3.1 days and may never be resolved due to the greedy liscencing methods and business model MS encourages. Super greed => intentional waste. Waste is offensive.
I might not see stuff "standardized" to Win2K after all. Yes!
If I had enough people for a bucket brigade, I'd make a bucket brigade. Flying enough small kites to be useful would not be practical!
Bill Gates stole his BASIC code from a dumpster. Most of the world wishes he had left it there. Computers of all types that use his BASIC code STILL don't work.
Good. Work to preserve the peer sturcture of the internet, where all conections are equal. Demand your right to connect, speak and publish as a peer.
So will this help out? I doubt it. It sounds unwieldy, dangerous, and impractical.
This thing will kill people who take it seriously. Let's imagine our big block is up and we want to put it down someplace. Contoling loads suspended from modern cranes is difficult enough when the wind blows. A kite has no firm foundation, twice the line to contend with and is utterly dependent on the will of the wisp. I would not want to be under or even around a heavy load lifted by kite.
Power is still needed to control the kite. Even with clever contorls built into the kite for elevation and swing, how do you control radius? It would take lots of work to haul your line in. OK, someone brings a big deisel engine. Great! Now that you have spent all that money, why don't you just buy yourself some angle iron and plate so you can make a boom and a proper crane?
There is only one point where we might agree, and that is that users should not be wasting bandwith exchanging "I Love Lucy" episodes and other mass produced forms of entertainment. When informed of such abuses, ISPs should track down and discontinue service to such people. I knew one person who had programs that continuosly scanned and downloaded all new posts to usenet. It was a total waste, as he did not really care to look at it. His ISP should have noticed this and tossed him off. This way the rest of us can share our original content in peace and speed.
Not true. A more fitting analogy is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Your flaw is in 4. The word "playboy" is part of the popular culture from which it was stollen. To say that anything that could be described as "playboy" blongs to the obnoxious magazine and must be set up to distribute that publication is foolish, but that is what the advocates of trademark would have you believe. Likewise, the other terms may not really refer to publications which you are familiar with.
No! He means flauta. Deep fat fried pages of holy law with a tasty bean or meat filling topped off with sour cream and guacamole.
My ISP won't keep me from uploading the movie I made and want to share, will it? If it does, it's not my ISP.
Never judge a book by its cover.
It may be the best thing for my NT suffering desktop, but that site just kills me. Crannnnnnnnk goes the hard drive until I finally put it out of it's missery.
This dude's long winded BS is a waste of time. The above summary and opinion provided to prevent massive time waste.
MS, asside from legislative efforts and attempts to bully hardware makers, does not matter at all. Their software is inferior. Their Xbox is an underpowered waste. Their sun is setting.
Yes, I hate that word too. Try example, idea, model, mors, principle, patern, standard or world view instead.
Postgre looks good to me.
The company that makes the box will be happy to do that, but it's hard to imagine direct economic competitors helping each other out directly.
I'd think OpenBSD, but not on a Sony box.