(BTW - 'blowmenetsol.com' is still available, if you want it. I only searched through companies other then {evil, scum-sucking} NetSol to see if it was registered...;) )
I happen to use the same fabric the 'flying squirrel' suit makers use, although in a much different application. Several years ago (5-6?) I was told by a sport chute (which is the name of the fabric) and squirrel suit maker that they'd had a mid-air link up between a guy under chute (albeit small) and a guy wearing the 'squirrel suit'. I don't think it unlikely that that someone will make, if not accomplish, a 'squirell suit' landing, before too many years are out.
How many people *confirm* the first guys results with *successful* landings of their own, _that_ will make the difference. All the difference in the world.:)
Good luck to all who try! I hope you have statistically strong results!
It's been +5 years since I bought a CD from a major label, and I know there are many others here who have voted *without* their wallets like I have. (Are you listening, mafIAA??)
I'm surprised that someone with as much exposure to the horror stories as you must have gotten in all your years of/.ing is still buying CD's...
Don't buy things from the music mongers! Support independent artists!!!
If they create a cheap OS (call it "Cheapows") that can do all the things Linux does in order to compete with Linux, then they are... competing with XP and Vista.
What business is going to buy pricey XP or Vista when 'Cheapows' can do the same stuff at a *much* lower price point (it'll have to be, to compete with "free").
Vista was the first m$ OS I'd actually owned since Win98 - it came on my new laptop. I even went through the setup procedures (see Vista setup/3+hrs | Linux/1.25hrs *with xtra apps*), but I haven't used it since, nor will I ever.
Why? Linux runs much faster, and with much better software and extras, than Vista does on this 'native' Vista system (haha). No point in using the substandard OS variety.
Parent: "I can envision this hidden back room, where Republicans and Democrats cast off their pretentions of being "different" and laugh about all this."
They do, it's not hidden. They're called "Senate" and "Congress", but the snickering is reserved for times when the camera is not pointed at them.
From parent: "I take your point, but I simply don't believe that previous administrations were "just as bad". They weren't; the trend has been downward for a while."
Not so, for what it's worth, despite (or more probably, *because of*) what you might see/hear "reported".
I know some insiders, including a good friend in the Secret Service, and I've heard the stories first-hand. Much of the truth about politicians in general, and in this case, the Clintons in particular, *never* gets close to being reported truthfully. The ties between politicians and media, the "favors" swapped back and forth, keep the Truth about the downright nastiness of those folks out of the public eye.
From historical readings, I think it has always been this way, sadly.
I find it interesting that you have such strong political viewpoints about American candidates, being at the remove that you are. I don't have the time in my life to study objectively the political affairs of another nation and its politicians in order to form strong opinions about it/them, and I damned sure don't believe what I read about them in the press, because it is just too obvious that these media companies have an agenda for my thoughts...
From OP: "Think about it, before reacting, for once."
From parent: "In Bush's America..."
So your kneejerk reaction is to criticize the current administration. While completely ignoring the fact that a Clinton Administration is completely capable of doing the exact same BS, for the exact same reasons. In fact, they have, and will - it is well known that the one thing you *don't* want to do is to cross The Hillary, not if you want to keep your sack intact. We saw what happens to folks back when Bill was Prez. Same shit, different Party.
Strawberry, neither of them gives a shit about you and your concerns, not really. They just want you to keep falling for the same bi-partisan media mania bullshit, so that they can both keep getting elected. They love their power at your expense, and if you perpetuate the two party system (by voting for candidates from either party, or by propagating either partys political message of scorn for the other side, like you did in the above post), it will never get any better for you as an individual Citizen. Your Rights, your Powers as a Citizen of the USA, your spending power over the money *you* make will all be in continual decline as long as you are willing to accept the false message of dichotomy that continually comes down from the halls of power, via the channels of information pressed on you by the mass-media kingmakers.
My hopes for my fellow Americans in general: Rid yourself of affiliation with Democrats and Republicans, in thought, word, and deed. Become independent and thoughtful. Don't automatically accept propaganda and political prejudice as Truth. See things for what they are. Demand change, and be willing to work for it. Call to account those folks who are in power up there in DC, and make them do what they say, or kick them out.
They are not there to play politics for their party, they are our elected employees, and should be working for *us*.
Stepping up to the plate and becoming The Boss (as we should) won't be easy, and demands that we open our eyes to the reality of the situation we are in right now.
Assuming, of course, (like most/.ers will), that this guy is automatically completely Guilty (well, the magical word "Rove" was invoked, so he must be, by association...), then I wonder who among those screaming for his head will accept that if he *is* guilty, he has the Right not incriminate himself.
Then again, the Inquisitors won't need the data, they can just torture whatever information they need out of him, in order to help prove that the current Administration is devil-spawn, while the promises of those who oppose it will be fulfilled, and All Will Be Made Right In The World, if only you elect them instead this next time.
No, this isn't a Troll. Think about it, before reacting, for once.
(Cluebat: There ain't no difference between the parties up there - their sole aim is to get and keep power, and the way they do that is by telling a different set of lies about what they'll do in order to get elected. Citation: See "Current Congress".)
Time for a third party. Time for a political Monkeywrench Gang.
I think that part of the reason this whole fiaSCO took so long to play out is just so that SCO *does not stand a chance at appeal*, due to the thoroughness of what has been brought to trial, and how Judge Kimball allowed them to draw themselves out at every opportunity by allowing them to state every reason for everything, and then some.
In short, there won't be anything to appeal *on*. It's all been said, it was all allowed them, they had every chance to make a real case.
They never proved anything substantive.
Nothing.
Good riddance!
PJ has stated basically this same opinion several times (tho' it's been in the years past and I can't cite).
There goes one of the best examples of patent idiocy, no longer able to be used for illustrative purposes when describing to non-techies why we need patent reform.
Too bad, in that sense, but it's about time that one of the most glaring examples of the prevalent idiocy was cleared up.:)
Fear is the #1 way to get a customer to buy a product. Why do you think "FUD" starts with it?
Make 'em fear for their life, or their childrens lives, or of some disease, or 'Act of God', or of, well, anything...
Like patent infringement...
Anyway: Fear sells.
You don't wanna get carpal tunnel? Buy our keyboard/mouse/pad/whatever. Look, here's scientific data to back it up.
Or not!
(Posted by an RSI survivor - but that was from carrying heavily-laden trays of food and such, back in the days when I worked in food service. A wrist brace fixed the problem, and it's never bothered me again.)
If 'they'/we have these things, why take the chance of them getting "outed" when just one of these untested devices fails over a crowd, and is found by one of the very people who it is being used against, people who would *love* to use it to cry "Foul!", and "See how the current power structure sucks!". (Which it does - we need a third political party up there, but I digress...)
I think it more likely that it would be tested far away from a place where it might be discovered accidently for whatever reasn, and then very publicly made known about.
No point in having a spy that the enemy knows about...
Now, maybe they've gone past a testing stage, and are actively deployed. In that case, they are just being *used*, and that is a whole 'nother thing...
On the other hand, there are the Good Things that Novell has done, and does, for GNU/Linux and F/OSS.
On the third hand, there is me, and others like me, that I'm sure wonder about the MPD that Novell exhibits. To whit: I understand and agree that Open-solution based entities should be willing and able to work with proprietary companies. But it seems that in this instance Novell is going about that the completely wrong way, with the completely wrong company.
It's like there is Novell Darkside, and Novell Lightside, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Maybe these are just the actions of a corporation that is so large that the different divisions inside of it are unaware of what others are doing, a la Sony.
Slashdot Mirror
...I wish there was another way of making it.
OK, note to self: week of Feb 12, expect many calls from windows-using clients...
Do you use the Bill Clinton definition, or the Richard Bach version*? ;)
*Which would have the 'I" capitalized, like so: Is.
Oh...
;) )
nevermind.
(BTW - 'blowmenetsol.com' is still available, if you want it. I only searched through companies other then {evil, scum-sucking} NetSol to see if it was registered...
It's not allowing me to access his webpage.
/. traffic... ;) )
(Or maybe his server just melted down from all the
It was a late 2006 video - so it didn't make the list, but is still one of the funniest of all... :)
(No link to Youtube version, since they lamely require registration first...)
Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8572086082639363544&q=monkeyballs&total=584&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
...how does the fact that Flash is proprietary affect it's vulnerability? As in "that's the price you pay..."???
:)
I don't get that part.
But I am crossing my fingers that this will help move designers away from using it.
Sorry, PCWorld - It *IS* 'awful'... :)
...and send him a C&D letter! ;)
I happen to use the same fabric the 'flying squirrel' suit makers use, although in a much different application. Several years ago (5-6?) I was told by a sport chute (which is the name of the fabric) and squirrel suit maker that they'd had a mid-air link up between a guy under chute (albeit small) and a guy wearing the 'squirrel suit'. I don't think it unlikely that that someone will make, if not accomplish, a 'squirell suit' landing, before too many years are out.
:)
How many people *confirm* the first guys results with *successful* landings of their own, _that_ will make the difference. All the difference in the world.
Good luck to all who try! I hope you have statistically strong results!
Get with the program! (Seriously!)
/.ing is still buying CD's...
It's been +5 years since I bought a CD from a major label, and I know there are many others here who have voted *without* their wallets like I have. (Are you listening, mafIAA??)
I'm surprised that someone with as much exposure to the horror stories as you must have gotten in all your years of
Don't buy things from the music mongers! Support independent artists!!!
Think about it (I already did :) ):
If they create a cheap OS (call it "Cheapows") that can do all the things Linux does in order to compete with Linux, then they are... competing with XP and Vista.
What business is going to buy pricey XP or Vista when 'Cheapows' can do the same stuff at a *much* lower price point (it'll have to be, to compete with "free").
They dug this bed, they have to lie in it.
6 feet under, if Vista is any indication...
...a Linux CD.
:)
Hasta La Vista, Billy!
Vista was the first m$ OS I'd actually owned since Win98 - it came on my new laptop. I even went through the setup procedures (see Vista setup/3+hrs | Linux/1.25hrs *with xtra apps*), but I haven't used it since, nor will I ever.
Why? Linux runs much faster, and with much better software and extras, than Vista does on this 'native' Vista system (haha). No point in using the substandard OS variety.
Parent: "I can envision this hidden back room, where Republicans and Democrats cast off their pretentions of being "different" and laugh about all this."
They do, it's not hidden. They're called "Senate" and "Congress", but the snickering is reserved for times when the camera is not pointed at them.
From parent: "I take your point, but I simply don't believe that previous administrations were "just as bad". They weren't; the trend has been downward for a while."
Not so, for what it's worth, despite (or more probably, *because of*) what you might see/hear "reported".
I know some insiders, including a good friend in the Secret Service, and I've heard the stories first-hand. Much of the truth about politicians in general, and in this case, the Clintons in particular, *never* gets close to being reported truthfully. The ties between politicians and media, the "favors" swapped back and forth, keep the Truth about the downright nastiness of those folks out of the public eye.
From historical readings, I think it has always been this way, sadly.
I find it interesting that you have such strong political viewpoints about American candidates, being at the remove that you are. I don't have the time in my life to study objectively the political affairs of another nation and its politicians in order to form strong opinions about it/them, and I damned sure don't believe what I read about them in the press, because it is just too obvious that these media companies have an agenda for my thoughts...
From OP: "Think about it, before reacting, for once."
From parent: "In Bush's America..."
So your kneejerk reaction is to criticize the current administration. While completely ignoring the fact that a Clinton Administration is completely capable of doing the exact same BS, for the exact same reasons. In fact, they have, and will - it is well known that the one thing you *don't* want to do is to cross The Hillary, not if you want to keep your sack intact. We saw what happens to folks back when Bill was Prez. Same shit, different Party.
Strawberry, neither of them gives a shit about you and your concerns, not really. They just want you to keep falling for the same bi-partisan media mania bullshit, so that they can both keep getting elected. They love their power at your expense, and if you perpetuate the two party system (by voting for candidates from either party, or by propagating either partys political message of scorn for the other side, like you did in the above post), it will never get any better for you as an individual Citizen. Your Rights, your Powers as a Citizen of the USA, your spending power over the money *you* make will all be in continual decline as long as you are willing to accept the false message of dichotomy that continually comes down from the halls of power, via the channels of information pressed on you by the mass-media kingmakers.
My hopes for my fellow Americans in general: Rid yourself of affiliation with Democrats and Republicans, in thought, word, and deed. Become independent and thoughtful. Don't automatically accept propaganda and political prejudice as Truth. See things for what they are. Demand change, and be willing to work for it. Call to account those folks who are in power up there in DC, and make them do what they say, or kick them out.
They are not there to play politics for their party, they are our elected employees, and should be working for *us*.
Stepping up to the plate and becoming The Boss (as we should) won't be easy, and demands that we open our eyes to the reality of the situation we are in right now.
Assuming, of course, (like most /.ers will), that this guy is automatically completely Guilty (well, the magical word "Rove" was invoked, so he must be, by association...), then I wonder who among those screaming for his head will accept that if he *is* guilty, he has the Right not incriminate himself.
Then again, the Inquisitors won't need the data, they can just torture whatever information they need out of him, in order to help prove that the current Administration is devil-spawn, while the promises of those who oppose it will be fulfilled, and All Will Be Made Right In The World, if only you elect them instead this next time.
No, this isn't a Troll. Think about it, before reacting, for once.
(Cluebat: There ain't no difference between the parties up there - their sole aim is to get and keep power, and the way they do that is by telling a different set of lies about what they'll do in order to get elected. Citation: See "Current Congress".)
Time for a third party. Time for a political Monkeywrench Gang.
Chances of that happening: Slim, to None.
Forecast: Same political shit, different day.
Sigh.
I think that part of the reason this whole fiaSCO took so long to play out is just so that SCO *does not stand a chance at appeal*, due to the thoroughness of what has been brought to trial, and how Judge Kimball allowed them to draw themselves out at every opportunity by allowing them to state every reason for everything, and then some.
In short, there won't be anything to appeal *on*. It's all been said, it was all allowed them, they had every chance to make a real case.
They never proved anything substantive.
Nothing.
Good riddance!
PJ has stated basically this same opinion several times (tho' it's been in the years past and I can't cite).
Those people would be IBM's Nazgul and the Novell equivalent, primarily. And of course me, and thousands of other Linux users...
Grind 'em fine, Nazgul and Novell, grind 'em *very* fine.
Yes, I do - as you can read in my post. The newer format loses the ability to see the number of emails in the tab. Older version, it works.
:)
Again, reread my post, it might come clear to you.
HAND
In a tab using Firefox, in the "older" version, I see "Gmail - Inbox", and, if I have new mail, a number indicating the new mail(s), like so:
:)
"Inbox - Gmail(3)".
Very convenient! Love it!
However, with the "newer" interface, the tab title looks like so:
"Gmail - Inbox..."
which denotes the newer way this is handled:
"Gmail - Inbox - yourusername@gmail.com"
thus hiding from me whether or not I actually have any new email, and how many.
Google - please put the "older" way back into place, and I'll start using the "newer" interface.
Thanks!
There goes one of the best examples of patent idiocy, no longer able to be used for illustrative purposes when describing to non-techies why we need patent reform.
:)
Too bad, in that sense, but it's about time that one of the most glaring examples of the prevalent idiocy was cleared up.
Fear is the #1 way to get a customer to buy a product. Why do you think "FUD" starts with it?
Make 'em fear for their life, or their childrens lives, or of some disease, or 'Act of God', or of, well, anything...
Like patent infringement...
Anyway: Fear sells.
You don't wanna get carpal tunnel? Buy our keyboard/mouse/pad/whatever. Look, here's scientific data to back it up.
Or not!
(Posted by an RSI survivor - but that was from carrying heavily-laden trays of food and such, back in the days when I worked in food service. A wrist brace fixed the problem, and it's never bothered me again.)
Think about it:
If 'they'/we have these things, why take the chance of them getting "outed" when just one of these untested devices fails over a crowd, and is found by one of the very people who it is being used against, people who would *love* to use it to cry "Foul!", and "See how the current power structure sucks!". (Which it does - we need a third political party up there, but I digress...)
I think it more likely that it would be tested far away from a place where it might be discovered accidently for whatever reasn, and then very publicly made known about.
No point in having a spy that the enemy knows about...
Now, maybe they've gone past a testing stage, and are actively deployed. In that case, they are just being *used*, and that is a whole 'nother thing...
Yes, exactly.
;) It'd be a huge bonus if they could write good code... :D
(BTW - Ever wished that you had a completely neutered Watchmaker or two? I have. And do.
Until they started 'Tribbling', that is...)
On the one hand, there is the M$ deal.
On the other hand, there are the Good Things that Novell has done, and does, for GNU/Linux and F/OSS.
On the third hand, there is me, and others like me, that I'm sure wonder about the MPD that Novell exhibits. To whit: I understand and agree that Open-solution based entities should be willing and able to work with proprietary companies. But it seems that in this instance Novell is going about that the completely wrong way, with the completely wrong company.
It's like there is Novell Darkside, and Novell Lightside, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Maybe these are just the actions of a corporation that is so large that the different divisions inside of it are unaware of what others are doing, a la Sony.