One of the greatest delusions that people have about the Web is that almost all information can be found on it somewhere. What total nonsense.
Stories rot from the Web faster than newspaper print ever has or ever will. All that we're left with is the most recent version or revision, which may have *nothing* to do with what was first written.
If you don't keep copies of your work that appears on the Web, you might as well have thrown them into a fire-place. And, as for everyone else, if you assume for even a moment that what you read on the Web about what happened even in technology news even five years reflects what people really wrote and thought at the time, you're a fool.
It's thanks to delusions like this that, for example, people can argue sincerely that Windows is popular because it's good; and not because Microsoft forced a monopoly on hardware vendors. Almost all the reports of DoJ vs. Microsoft from the time are long gone now. The proof that Microsoft's products are only popular because Microsoft made damn sure that no one else would have a chance to compete against them has vaporized.
The only thing newsworthy about what's happened here is that people think that stories disappearing like this is in any way what-so-ever noteworthy. It happens every day.
You know one does learn to avoid making many mistakes in life--I really cant fly, fire is pretty but it does hurt--by pain.
Besides just the idea of tampering with memory being a *bad* thing, the notion of fooling with one of the fundamental ways we learn strikes me as a really bad idea.
I think the Amazon 1-click patent is crap. But, if you think that 20 kilograms of documents is a big deal you don't have a clue. That's nothing. NOTHING in any serious legal action, much less a PTO action. This reminds me of a Barbie doll saying "Math is hard.!" Wake up kids, law is hard. Deal with it.
I make that point in the story actually. For a business, it actually makes much more sense to use Linux on a UMPC. You can't do a thing with XP Home on a serious network--well, not without breaking security and that rather defeats the 'serious' part--whereas you can use Linux with LDAP and so on without any trouble and with Active Directory with a bit of work.
Oh the irony, for Windows business users, Linux on a UMPC makes more sense than Windows.
Once they caught him at this, this was as automatic as watching someone step up a building and then fall to the ground. You do not mess with the Hatch Act as a govt. employee period. Doing it at work? He was soooo history.
Why buy a PC pre-loaded with Linux? Because while some of us can install Linux while half-asleep and get every driver to work without a moment's thought. Like say, you, me, and 80% of the Slashdot readership, most people can't.
Mind you, most people can't install any operating system, but that's another matter.
Besides, when you buy a system with Windows pre-installed, you're giving money to Microsoft and letting them continue to say that Windows is #1." Of course, if you want to help Microsoft keep up its desktop dictatorship, by all means buy Microsoft.
It seems to be common now for companies' to strip users of all their privileges ASAP. If you think this was bad, be glad you're not be laid-off. I've often many people tell me that they learned they no longer had a job when their sessions were terminated in the middle of the work day.
I have an AT&T DSL connection. I've used it for years. I've also beaten the heck out of it for years with massive downloads, uploads and the like. It has worked fine, until the last few months. Now, whenever I have a P2P Torrent going a day or more, I know my connection is going to lock up completely anywhere from 20 to 28 hours into the process. The only solution is to hard boot my DSL modem. It then happens again, about once a day, until I stop the torrent.
all those of you who find good things to say about the current Cuban government that the same government makes sure that the Cubans can't read your words.
I might not have been become a computer journalism without his influence. Some of the first stories I ever published were 'tech analysis' D&D stories. You wouldn't believe how much a volume a D&D fireball actually takes up in an enclosed area. Well, not until you've been fried by one anyway, or the fine art of bouncing lighting bolts off obstacles.
Beyond that, I can't begin to count the number of hours I spend enjoying first D&D in 1975 and then all the other RPGs that followed it.
D-BUS is great. D-BUS is wonderful. But, DBUS and SOM do entirely different things. DBUS is meant to be a universal IPC (interprocess communication) mechanism for the Linux desktop. See http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4449390454.html for more details. SOM's a set of object libraries. You would use them together. In fact, D-BUS, since both the GNOME and KDE communities have embraced its use, would make an ideal interface for SOM. Or, in other words, DBUS would enable applications to more easily access the power of SOM objects.
It's a pity that so many here seem only to recall him for his hate-filled tirades. Yes, for the last decades of his life he was filled with venom. He was, I believe, quite insane. It's not only a matter of his public statements. He turned on his supporters and friends as well.
But, and it's an important but, he also created some of the finest games of chess to ever have been played. To my mind, they are every bit as great as other works of art.
He also, by winning the world championship, fostered an entire generation of American chess players.
I know. I'm one of them. His play up to, and including beating Spassky for the crown, inspired me into becoming a serious player. While I never became a master--darn it!--I also never would have fallen as deeply in love with the game as I did. Today, I play chess for fun and very rarely play in tournaments, but when I play well, when I read over a game and I can see the beauty of the contest of ideas over the board, then I realize I still owe a debt of gratitude to Fisher.
I am sorry for him, and for us, that his last decades were spend in the squalor of madness. On his best days, he really was chess' greatest player.
Good-bye Mr. Fisher. I wish it could have turned out otherwise.
> "working as a team" -- meaning you see the people every day, you meet with the people face to face, you drop by their desks when you have questions, and so on.
And, how is this productive? When I'm in the office, People drop by to chat... when I'm trying to get work done. People stop to ask questions, which then turn into half-an-hour conversations about how the Giants beat the Cowboys. Etc. Etc.
OK, so there's a lot of good comes from being social. OTOH, at a home office, I'm 'social' on IM and e-mail: when I have time for it. At the office, I have to be social even if I do have deadlines looming.
For me, at least, I am far more productive at a home office, than I ever would be in the business office. And, more to the point, my 'team' gets more production from me.
With 24 or so computers in the house, I still keep my now 30+ year old Dietzgen Polymath 1733 at my desk for quick math work. Like an abacus, if you really know how to use a slide rule, you can do basic math much faster than most people hammering on a calculator or PC numberpad.
As a journalist, we're always being asked to sign BS NDAs. Most of us refuse to sign ones far milder than this idiotic one. After all, in the end we always find our what the big secret is anyway. If you're not good at being snoopy, what are you doing as a reporter anyway?
The Real scandal is described here:
All of those invited to the event were given an NDA to sign before going on that 5-star, all-expense-paid trip to Singapore. Hidden in that piece of legal boilerplate were some sneaky clauses. Yeah, don't we just love those clauses. This is what Don found in that NDA:
Excuse me? If I went on any "5-star, all-expense paid trip to Singapore" at a vendor's expense I'm going to be--and I would deserve to be--fired in less time than it took me to write this note.
The Register link did just refer to my 2004 story. By the by, Dan Ravicher, who's been traveling in Europe since this whole thing blew up, tells me his position hasn't changed a bit since then. What a surprise, eh?
These translators will then be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source, and will submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. Thus, all OpenOffice.org end users will eventually be able to share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org,
If only a handful of developers move to the GPL3, and that looks to be the case, it's the GPL3 that won't matter. Yes, some of their code, most noticeably gcc, will be GPL3. But again, so what? It's also under the GPL2, Linus and other practical open-source developers will keep using the old version and fork their own.
Perens et. al seem to have forgotten that you can't stop Novell, or anyone else, from using GPL2 code.
Slashdot Mirror
"I've yet to find out much about the technical workings of Unite,"
There's no mystery. Opera's Unite servers are proxy servers.
Steven
Google is in the clear here.
This is tempest in a tea-cup stuff.
Steven
One of the greatest delusions that people have about the Web is that almost all information can be found on it somewhere. What total nonsense.
Stories rot from the Web faster than newspaper print ever has or ever will. All that we're left with is the most recent version or revision, which may have *nothing* to do with what was first written.
If you don't keep copies of your work that appears on the Web, you might as well have thrown them into a fire-place. And, as for everyone else, if you assume for even a moment that what you read on the Web about what happened even in technology news even five years reflects what people really wrote and thought at the time, you're a fool.
It's thanks to delusions like this that, for example, people can argue sincerely that Windows is popular because it's good; and not because Microsoft forced a monopoly on hardware vendors. Almost all the reports of DoJ vs. Microsoft from the time are long gone now. The proof that Microsoft's products are only popular because Microsoft made damn sure that no one else would have a chance to compete against them has vaporized.
The only thing newsworthy about what's happened here is that people think that stories disappearing like this is in any way what-so-ever noteworthy. It happens every day.
Steven
You know one does learn to avoid making many mistakes in life--I really cant fly, fire is pretty but it does hurt--by pain.
Besides just the idea of tampering with memory being a *bad* thing, the notion of fooling with one of the fundamental ways we learn strikes me as a really bad idea.
Soma anyone?
Steven
I think the Amazon 1-click patent is crap. But, if you think that 20 kilograms of documents is a big deal you don't have a clue. That's nothing. NOTHING in any serious legal action, much less a PTO action. This reminds me of a Barbie doll saying "Math is hard.!" Wake up kids, law is hard. Deal with it.
Steven
I make that point in the story actually. For a business, it actually makes much more sense to use Linux on a UMPC. You can't do a thing with XP Home on a serious network--well, not without breaking security and that rather defeats the 'serious' part--whereas you can use Linux with LDAP and so on without any trouble and with Active Directory with a bit of work.
Oh the irony, for Windows business users, Linux on a UMPC makes more sense than Windows.
Steven
Once they caught him at this, this was as automatic as watching someone step up a building and then fall to the ground. You do not mess with the Hatch Act as a govt. employee period. Doing it at work? He was soooo history.
Steven
Why buy a PC pre-loaded with Linux? Because while some of us can install Linux while half-asleep and get every driver to work without a moment's thought. Like say, you, me, and 80% of the Slashdot readership, most people can't.
Mind you, most people can't install any operating system, but that's another matter.
Besides, when you buy a system with Windows pre-installed, you're giving money to Microsoft and letting them continue to say that Windows is #1." Of course, if you want to help Microsoft keep up its desktop dictatorship, by all means buy Microsoft.
Steven
It seems to be common now for companies' to strip users of all their privileges ASAP. If you think this was bad, be glad you're not be laid-off. I've often many people tell me that they learned they no longer had a job when their sessions were terminated in the middle of the work day.
Welcome to the work-world of the 21st century.
Steven
http://www.practical-tech.com/
http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn
May put a copyright cop in Zume? Guys it's been there since day one. Microsoft was sticking DRM into its PlaysForSure crap before Zume even existed.
Steven
I have an AT&T DSL connection. I've used it for years. I've also beaten the heck out of it for years with massive downloads, uploads and the like. It has worked fine, until the last few months. Now, whenever I have a P2P Torrent going a day or more, I know my connection is going to lock up completely anywhere from 20 to 28 hours into the process. The only solution is to hard boot my DSL modem. It then happens again, about once a day, until I stop the torrent.
Coincidence? I think not.
Steven
all those of you who find good things to say about the current Cuban government that the same government makes sure that the Cubans can't read your words.
Interesting eh?
Steven
I might not have been become a computer journalism without his influence. Some of the first stories I ever published were 'tech analysis' D&D stories. You wouldn't believe how much a volume a D&D fireball actually takes up in an enclosed area. Well, not until you've been fried by one anyway, or the fine art of bouncing lighting bolts off obstacles.
Beyond that, I can't begin to count the number of hours I spend enjoying first D&D in 1975 and then all the other RPGs that followed it.
Good-bye Gary.
Steven
D-BUS is great. D-BUS is wonderful. But, DBUS and SOM do entirely different things. DBUS is meant to be a universal IPC (interprocess communication) mechanism for the Linux desktop. See http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4449390454.html for more details. SOM's a set of object libraries. You would use them together. In fact, D-BUS, since both the GNOME and KDE communities have embraced its use, would make an ideal interface for SOM. Or, in other words, DBUS would enable applications to more easily access the power of SOM objects.
Steven
eWEEK already did it with a different list of ads earlier this week.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Super-Tech-Ads/
Steven
It's a pity that so many here seem only to recall him for his hate-filled tirades. Yes, for the last decades of his life he was filled with venom. He was, I believe, quite insane. It's not only a matter of his public statements. He turned on his supporters and friends as well.
But, and it's an important but, he also created some of the finest games of chess to ever have been played. To my mind, they are every bit as great as other works of art.
He also, by winning the world championship, fostered an entire generation of American chess players.
I know. I'm one of them. His play up to, and including beating Spassky for the crown, inspired me into becoming a serious player. While I never became a master--darn it!--I also never would have fallen as deeply in love with the game as I did. Today, I play chess for fun and very rarely play in tournaments, but when I play well, when I read over a game and I can see the beauty of the contest of ideas over the board, then I realize I still owe a debt of gratitude to Fisher.
I am sorry for him, and for us, that his last decades were spend in the squalor of madness. On his best days, he really was chess' greatest player.
Good-bye Mr. Fisher. I wish it could have turned out otherwise.
Steven
> "working as a team" -- meaning you see the people every day, you meet with the people face to face, you drop by their desks when you have questions, and so on.
And, how is this productive? When I'm in the office, People drop by to chat... when I'm trying to get work done. People stop to ask questions, which then turn into half-an-hour conversations about how the Giants beat the Cowboys. Etc. Etc.
OK, so there's a lot of good comes from being social. OTOH, at a home office, I'm 'social' on IM and e-mail: when I have time for it. At the office, I have to be social even if I do have deadlines looming.
For me, at least, I am far more productive at a home office, than I ever would be in the business office. And, more to the point, my 'team' gets more production from me.
Your workage may vary.
Steven
With 24 or so computers in the house, I still keep my now 30+ year old Dietzgen Polymath 1733 at my desk for quick math work. Like an abacus, if you really know how to use a slide rule, you can do basic math much faster than most people hammering on a calculator or PC numberpad.
Steven
Daredevil and Zatoichi did it.
Steven
As a journalist, we're always being asked to sign BS NDAs. Most of us refuse to sign ones far milder than this idiotic one. After all, in the end we always find our what the big secret is anyway. If you're not good at being snoopy, what are you doing as a reporter anyway?
The Real scandal is described here:
All of those invited to the event were given an NDA to sign before going on that 5-star, all-expense-paid trip to Singapore. Hidden in that piece of legal boilerplate were some sneaky clauses. Yeah, don't we just love those clauses. This is what Don found in that NDA:
Excuse me? If I went on any "5-star, all-expense paid trip to Singapore" at a vendor's expense I'm going to be--and I would deserve to be--fired in less time than it took me to write this note.
Steven
The Register link did just refer to my 2004 story. By the by, Dan Ravicher, who's been traveling in Europe since this whole thing blew up, tells me his position hasn't changed a bit since then. What a surprise, eh?
Steven
http://www.linux-watch.com/
Heh. I've never had less than 20 in my home at any one time for more then a decade. The current count is 24.
And, yes, I use all of them.
And, yes, I could use more. For example, I don't have an Intel-based Mac or a recent SPARC box.
Steven
These translators will then be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source, and will submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. Thus, all OpenOffice.org end users will eventually be able to share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org,
For more see:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5248375481.html
Steven
Who cares about the GPL3? In case you've forgotten Linus doesn't want the GPL3 and neither do the rest of the serious kernel developers.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9955615279.html
If only a handful of developers move to the GPL3, and that looks to be the case, it's the GPL3 that won't matter. Yes, some of their code, most noticeably gcc, will be GPL3. But again, so what? It's also under the GPL2, Linus and other practical open-source developers will keep using the old version and fork their own.
Perens et. al seem to have forgotten that you can't stop Novell, or anyone else, from using GPL2 code.
Steven
between the ages of 13 and the player's age when he has his first, long-term relationship.
Steven