This is an excellent example of common reporting practice - in any field.
The name of the game is "Pick the opposit to current thinking" - the trick is if you turn out right - you get herold as a genuis down the road.
When 9 out of 10 times it falls flat on it's face as the pice of tripe it usualy is, most just ignore you and move on. No reall loss.
I especially love the cicular logic "There arn't any "good" applications ( read MS branded ) avalible, therefore it's a waste of time to write for the platform"
I'd love to research and see how many people said the same thing about the choice of windows/mac vs dos programs. Games bring this to mind the most, for years even up to win95 era, games were dos based.
As with all things, it's not applications that will make any platform or operating system - it's the avalibility of games.
Game development has been the driving force behind faster cpu's for years, and with the current vendor community turn around to linux - it's going to drive home linux as a consumer operating system.
Nothing in windows or the latest intel proccessor lets you do "basic office tasks" such as write letters and spread sheads any faster in terms of real use then the old dos programs of the 80s gave us.
What let Billy and thirdparty people the room to give us "feature bloat" was due to gamers pushing the envelope. Now with ID shipping quake shrink wraped for linux, games will be the "killer app" (pun noted).
Some say that without a single entity behind it, linux will flownder under it's own hype - but looks at IBM and os/2 - we don't have one company to crap it up - only capable of holding still long enough to shoot themselvs in the foot - and the community in the head. -- James Michael Keller
Apple can release the source for the player, but not the codecs. It doesn't have the legal rights to do so.
If I recall the hubbub around the time the SW:TPM trailers were comming out, the codec developers were going to give the xanim a binary only module licence - but apple exercised their right in the contract between them and the codec developer to block it. -- James Michael Keller
The point about being denied his rights wasn't about how long he was in custady without trial - people spend years in jail all the time before / durring trials.
He was denied a bail hearing. This is were they can say fine, your a flight risk. Post bond of 5 million dollars. Or for a mass murdering loon, bail is denied. End of story, person goes back to the slamer, pays cash, has friends and family pay, etc.
Kevin never was given this bail hearing, and it's a standard part of the American leagal system. Why? The federal courts have been hevaly regulated by congress, as such have set sentencing and bond rate guides they have to follow. Based on the ACTUAL charges against him, he would have been able to post bond, work on his defence, and easly prove that the majority of the charges against him were bogus or overcharged.
The federal procecutors did what is quite common in organized crime cases - bent the law to be able to procecute. We all love the TV cop shows were the good guys fake some evidence to nap the sick-o-evil crime lord. In this case they "bent" the law quite abit. They let Shimimora - a civilian - use his own set of illigal cellular phone phreaking equipment to track, trace, and record Kevin's calls. Even while Shimmimora was a possible defendet in any case against him when caught as he claimed he had ben hacked.
This would be like the police detective allowing a person who claimed you hit his car in a parking lot, find out where you live, show up with an ak-47, shoot off your locks, kidnap you at gun point and then turn walk into the police station and press charges. Then have the police decline to charge him with possession of an illigal firearm, home invastion, kidnaping, etc. Legaly it's the same. -- James Michael Keller
Yes, and when you MS Lackies stop posting as ACs pigs will fly right?
I really wish/. went the Drudge route - post webserver logs. It's always good to see how much of his trafic is whitehouse.gov.
I'd love to see how much microsoft.com traffic we get here. Seeing as they tried to buy linux.com ( to either sit on it or use it to spout FUD ) -- James Michael Keller
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This is an excellent example of common reporting practice - in any field.
The name of the game is "Pick the opposit to current thinking" - the trick is if you turn out right - you get herold as a genuis down the road.
When 9 out of 10 times it falls flat on it's face as the pice of tripe it usualy is, most just ignore you and move on. No reall loss.
I especially love the cicular logic "There arn't any "good" applications ( read MS branded ) avalible, therefore it's a waste of time to write for the platform"
I'd love to research and see how many people said the same thing about the choice of windows/mac vs dos programs. Games bring this to mind the most, for years even up to win95 era, games were dos based.
As with all things, it's not applications that will make any platform or operating system - it's the avalibility of games.
Game development has been the driving force behind faster cpu's for years, and with the current vendor community turn around to linux - it's going to drive home linux as a consumer operating system.
Nothing in windows or the latest intel proccessor lets you do "basic office tasks" such as write letters and spread sheads any faster in terms of real use then the old dos programs of the 80s gave us.
What let Billy and thirdparty people the room to give us "feature bloat" was due to gamers pushing the envelope. Now with ID shipping quake shrink wraped for linux, games will be the "killer app" (pun noted).
Some say that without a single entity behind it, linux will flownder under it's own hype - but looks at IBM and os/2 - we don't have one company to crap it up - only capable of holding still long enough to shoot themselvs in the foot - and the community in the head.
--
James Michael Keller
If I recall the hubbub around the time the SW:TPM trailers were comming out, the codec developers were going to give the xanim a binary only module licence - but apple exercised their right in the contract between them and the codec developer to block it.
--
James Michael Keller
The point about being denied his rights wasn't about how long he was in custady without trial - people spend years in jail all the time before / durring trials.
He was denied a bail hearing. This is were they can say fine, your a flight risk. Post bond of 5 million dollars. Or for a mass murdering loon, bail is denied. End of story, person goes back to the slamer, pays cash, has friends and family pay, etc.
Kevin never was given this bail hearing, and it's a standard part of the American leagal system. Why? The federal courts have been hevaly regulated by congress, as such have set sentencing and bond rate guides they have to follow. Based on the ACTUAL charges against him, he would have been able to post bond, work on his defence, and easly prove that the majority of the charges against him were bogus or overcharged.
The federal procecutors did what is quite common in organized crime cases - bent the law to be able to procecute. We all love the TV cop shows were the good guys fake some evidence to nap the sick-o-evil crime lord. In this case they "bent" the law quite abit. They let Shimimora - a civilian - use his own set of illigal cellular phone phreaking equipment to track, trace, and record Kevin's calls. Even while Shimmimora was a possible defendet in any case against him when caught as he claimed he had ben hacked.
This would be like the police detective allowing a person who claimed you hit his car in a parking lot, find out where you live, show up with an ak-47, shoot off your locks, kidnap you at gun point and then turn walk into the police station and press charges. Then have the police decline to charge him with possession of an illigal firearm, home invastion, kidnaping, etc. Legaly it's the same.
--
James Michael Keller
Yes, and when you MS Lackies stop posting as ACs pigs will fly right?
/. went the Drudge route - post webserver logs. It's always good to see how much of his trafic is whitehouse.gov.
I really wish
I'd love to see how much microsoft.com traffic we get here. Seeing as they tried to buy linux.com ( to either sit on it or use it to spout FUD )
--
James Michael Keller