I'm waiting for the day when it's illegal for me to use a browser that doesn't render the page the way the company intended it to be rendered.
I'm waiting for the day when I can't use a DVD because it's not the way the director intended the movie to be viewed
I'm waiting for the day when the graphic equalizer on my stereo is deemed illegal because it's modifying the music outside of what the producer intended.
I agree that Gator should be destroyed, but I don't like the precidents we're making by taking these steps.
By this logic, Palm OS, Windows XP, and Windows CE are "dead" since they haven't lived up to the hype they've spewed. Lst I checked each one is doing just fine, thank you.
Don't believe the hype, especially the "Linux is Dead" hype.
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I can see it now. "I see you're pulling out Velveeta. Soft, creamy Velveeta is great for macaroni and cheese as well as a nice pasta salad on a warm summer day. wow, isn't that refreshing. Try our other great Kraft products today, like Miracle Whip and... (*shut*)"
Or...
"I see you're running low on Miracle Whip so I've taken the liberty of ordering you a crate. You wouldn't want to run out, now would you?"
And what about people who re-use containers? Would my three bean salad and baked beans be counted has having two Country Crock margarines?
No thanks... I prefer the old fashioned exploration of todays modern refrigerators. "Hmmm... Country Crock... Whoops... that's the three bean salad from... ugh... last fourth of July. Better call Hazmat."
The big problem is there are no ads on NPRs site. Period. (Nor should there be since they pay for the site using public and private contributions). You're actually saving them money by linking deep in their site since they don't have to display all of the intermediary pages. This makes no sense whatsoever.
I think the big difference here is not every single Linux exploit is applicable on all systems. Internet Explorer is on virtually every machine out there. Remember the BIND exploit a while back? That made front page news as well.
Granted it's more fashionable to laugh when it's Microsoft's code, but Linux isn't beyond reproach as well.
As products become more and more sophisticated, it seems they're taking more and more licenses like software products instead of the "It's hardware; do whatever you wish with it, but don't bitch if you break it." I'm waiting for the day when a new microwave comes with the license "You agree to not nuke your cat. You agree not to put metal in the microwave. You agree that violating the previous clauses invalidates your license to use this microwave. Microwave will not operate without a valid license".
It's far more current than the 6.x series. At least they're keeping the nomenclature consistent. 6.0 based off of M16 (or whatever it was named) was a far worse naming strategy than Netscape 7.0 RC1 based off of Mozilla 1.0RC1.
Too bad the primary developer left the MoneyDance project a while back. AppGen is currently debating on the future of the project as we speak, and has been rather mute on what they're planning.
But I second that MoneyDance has been a good product up until this point, with the notable exception of the Java headache it imposes. I'm still looking for a decent way to take my data from MoneyDance and input it into something like GnuCash, but haven't had much luck with it.
Tell that to bands that have lost money on tour. It's very expensive to take any number of musicians out on the road. You have busses, roadies, equipment, lights, people to run the lights, etc. out there. (Trust me; they're not doing it just for the chicks.)
I personally love my dual optical mouse. It's very smooth and quite forgiving of not being completely parallel with the screen. Plus it has a nice "heavy" feel (which can be customized by pulling out the weight inside). The only thing I don't like about it is the rubber on the sides, but other than that, the dual optical is the mouse to beat for me.
he ony issue I saw with TRU/64 (OSF/1 at the time) was DEC wanted $10,000 for the license to use it, and that only bought you a bare bones 2-user license. For the same $10K, you could get yourself VMS. They didn't want to cannibalize their VMS market, so they made their UNIX line suffer in the process. I didn't have many complaints about TRU/64, and I'd safely say it was one of my more favorite commercial UNIX implementations (Sun OS being the one I cut my teeth on and my favorite of them all). HP-UX is a real pain in the ass to develop on because nothing is in a standard location, and their compiler leaves much to be desired. I've never seen a commercial repository for GNU software where you absolutely had to use it to get the software to work until I saw HP-UX.
So long TRU/64! Thanks for the memories!
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Wireless Spam?
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The only spam I've received on my wireless device (knock on particle board) was a spam in the 2000 election from George W. Bush's minions asking me to vote for him. I was so livid in receiving this. He didn't change my voting convictions any, but he sure did piss me off in the whole process.
Those Textronix printers aren't even worth the power to blow their little printheads to bits, let alone for buying ink for. Anyone who hears the words "Phaser III" knows exactly from whence I speak.
If this is how software patents protect innovation, then may I never have a software patent.
I hope this is the catalyst to get software patent reform moving. Unfortunately after the furor of the one-click patent died down, so did the attention on software patents.
This is crap. Nobody in their right mind would ask VCR users to report back how many commercials were skipped, yet Sonic Blue is expected to comply with this from a judge. I'm not a PVR user, but I'm outraged at the sheer lack of respect this judge is demonstrating. I'm sure these numbers will be aggregate numbers, but honestly I think the judge should be given one of these and have his entire viewing habits made public record, including his thieving ways of fast forwarding through commercials.
It's really sad to see her get credit for the musical genius of Kevin Gilbert. While reading through the "Storytellers" liner notes (a VH1 compilation that I got the jewel case from. No disc, though), all of the other artists talk about what they were feeling or what was going through their minds when they wrote their songs... All of them except for Sheryl, who talked about how cool it was to work with Stevie Nicks and be on the cover of Rolling Stone. This is the artist that's going to tell me to stop burning CDs? I think not!
I'm not a speech major, nor do I portray one in my corporation, but I believe one of the key rules of delivering a speech or an interview is:
Know your audience.
I think saying "this ain't right" in this forum is appropriate. Would you have taken him more seriously if he had said "We need to change this. This isn't correct, and has never been correct. How can we leverage this into a positive win-win situation, while minimizing detrimental side effects and still maintain a positive outcome?"
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I'm waiting for the day when I can't use a DVD because it's not the way the director intended the movie to be viewed
I'm waiting for the day when the graphic equalizer on my stereo is deemed illegal because it's modifying the music outside of what the producer intended.
I agree that Gator should be destroyed, but I don't like the precidents we're making by taking these steps.
Don't believe the hype, especially the "Linux is Dead" hype.
Or...
"I see you're running low on Miracle Whip so I've taken the liberty of ordering you a crate. You wouldn't want to run out, now would you?"
And what about people who re-use containers? Would my three bean salad and baked beans be counted has having two Country Crock margarines?
No thanks... I prefer the old fashioned exploration of todays modern refrigerators. "Hmmm... Country Crock... Whoops... that's the three bean salad from... ugh... last fourth of July. Better call Hazmat."
Sorry boss... I did those TPS reports you wanted, but unfortunately I used them to do my laundry last night.
The big problem is there are no ads on NPRs site. Period. (Nor should there be since they pay for the site using public and private contributions). You're actually saving them money by linking deep in their site since they don't have to display all of the intermediary pages. This makes no sense whatsoever.
What I want to know is where they got that black iMac LCD. If I had the cash, that's what I'd want rather than that white iMac LCD.
I think I heard about this "Public Domain". It only applies to things that were created before the 20th Century, right? :)
Funny, I thought Pan was the Pimp Ass Newsreader. or maybe they're thinking of the pan flute instead.
Granted it's more fashionable to laugh when it's Microsoft's code, but Linux isn't beyond reproach as well.
As products become more and more sophisticated, it seems they're taking more and more licenses like software products instead of the "It's hardware; do whatever you wish with it, but don't bitch if you break it." I'm waiting for the day when a new microwave comes with the license "You agree to not nuke your cat. You agree not to put metal in the microwave. You agree that violating the previous clauses invalidates your license to use this microwave. Microwave will not operate without a valid license".
It's pretty damn impressive. I think we've seen yet another advance in GUI technology from Apple.
It's far more current than the 6.x series. At least they're keeping the nomenclature consistent. 6.0 based off of M16 (or whatever it was named) was a far worse naming strategy than Netscape 7.0 RC1 based off of Mozilla 1.0RC1.
But I second that MoneyDance has been a good product up until this point, with the notable exception of the Java headache it imposes. I'm still looking for a decent way to take my data from MoneyDance and input it into something like GnuCash, but haven't had much luck with it.
Tell that to bands that have lost money on tour. It's very expensive to take any number of musicians out on the road. You have busses, roadies, equipment, lights, people to run the lights, etc. out there. (Trust me; they're not doing it just for the chicks.)
Um... no. Touring costs big bucks. No money = no tour. No CD sales = no money.
I personally love my dual optical mouse. It's very smooth and quite forgiving of not being completely parallel with the screen. Plus it has a nice "heavy" feel (which can be customized by pulling out the weight inside). The only thing I don't like about it is the rubber on the sides, but other than that, the dual optical is the mouse to beat for me.
So long TRU/64! Thanks for the memories!
The only spam I've received on my wireless device (knock on particle board) was a spam in the 2000 election from George W. Bush's minions asking me to vote for him. I was so livid in receiving this. He didn't change my voting convictions any, but he sure did piss me off in the whole process.
Those Textronix printers aren't even worth the power to blow their little printheads to bits, let alone for buying ink for. Anyone who hears the words "Phaser III" knows exactly from whence I speak.
I hope this is the catalyst to get software patent reform moving. Unfortunately after the furor of the one-click patent died down, so did the attention on software patents.
This is crap. Nobody in their right mind would ask VCR users to report back how many commercials were skipped, yet Sonic Blue is expected to comply with this from a judge. I'm not a PVR user, but I'm outraged at the sheer lack of respect this judge is demonstrating. I'm sure these numbers will be aggregate numbers, but honestly I think the judge should be given one of these and have his entire viewing habits made public record, including his thieving ways of fast forwarding through commercials.
This shouldn't be a surprise coming from a network built by a man who made his money in billboards.
It'll also make sure you're wearing clean underwear, brushing your teeth before going to bed, and washing your neck and behind your ears.
It's really sad to see her get credit for the musical genius of Kevin Gilbert. While reading through the "Storytellers" liner notes (a VH1 compilation that I got the jewel case from. No disc, though), all of the other artists talk about what they were feeling or what was going through their minds when they wrote their songs... All of them except for Sheryl, who talked about how cool it was to work with Stevie Nicks and be on the cover of Rolling Stone. This is the artist that's going to tell me to stop burning CDs? I think not!
Know your audience.
I think saying "this ain't right" in this forum is appropriate. Would you have taken him more seriously if he had said "We need to change this. This isn't correct, and has never been correct. How can we leverage this into a positive win-win situation, while minimizing detrimental side effects and still maintain a positive outcome?"
I think you have your answer...