Interesting idea; but it ignores a timeless reality. Ever heard of how to boil a frog? You don't dump it into a pot fully boiling. You put it in cool water and slowly raise the heat. (PETA wackos: I've never actually done this.)
Do you know how to loose credibility? Yell "wolf" at every passing doberman. Yes, Dobermans are inconvienent, but that aren't wolves. I consider stories like this one little boys crying wolf.
Complain about DCMA, SSS*, etc. But checking your backpack? Sheesh!
If they were arresting people for protesting the war or writing critiques of our government, or firing people who "looked" like a terrorist, or prohibited people of certain faiths from flying,... these would be violations of freedoms and rights.
Having your backpack searched -- and not for anything but for weapons, etc. -- is an inconvenience.
These are called REASONABLE searches. Perhaps not before September 11, but definitely afterwards.
I am so tired of hearing about whiners complaining about increased security in the past few weeks since the most horrific attack against our civilians took place on our own soil. Moreover, it appears that someone is contiuing attacking us with biological warfare weapons (through the mail and, possibly, using test runs of crop dusters in Mississippi). Someone was just arrested in Frankfurt with a Bio Suit to protect them from Bio agents and atomic radiation along with bomb making materials. A 1/3 pound of C4 was found with 1000 Feet of blasting cord in a bus station locker.
We are under siege and tensions are high. Put up with the inconveniences.
Save the fight for real rights abuses, not just inconveniences.
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>>When a cartoon Bill Gates got shot and everyone in the theater laughed, I knew Microsoft's days were numbered.
A lot of that is just "Anti-Rich Guy" syndrome, like the sentiment against the rich rail tycoons in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These were the richest men in the country and were villified soundly by the populace.
Of course, just because they were villified didn't mean they WEREN'T on the way out...
And a bunch of de facto standards, such as the desktop application platform, the Internet browser platform, the business collaboration platform (Office+Outlook+Exchange Server)...just to name a few.
This reminds me of a poll I saw at www.systemlogic.net:
> Which OS company will create the most used operating system by 2020?
>
> Linux
> Microsoft
> Other
Microsoft was in the lead at the time too.:(
Microsoft was ahead? Drats! I guess I'll just pack in my fault-tolerant widely-distributed mirrored cluster Linux servers and give it up to the good folks at Redmond. Dang! Well, you gotta listen to those web site polls. Shoot...
so will the main reason people are willing to buy over the Internet -- saving on taxes. Once taxes are factored in with shipping costs it's hard to have a low enough price to beat the guy down the street.
The only Rolex I have personally ever handled was diamond encrusted and valued at approx. $250K. I know, that was a custom job, but I still can't imaging wearing the value of my house on my wrist!
I guarantee that whoever does buy that for his wrist won't be,either.
I live in an old neighborhood - Lakewood, CA - and have ATT Broadband (was Mediaone). At the office, in Irvine, CA, we have PacHell DSL.
I work from home as much as possible to enjoy a stable, fast Internet connection. At the office, we experience service outages every day (when you're ssh'ed into a remote server, you notice EVERY interruption, dammit) and frequent unexplainable slowdowns (can't blame Napster!).
DSL doesn't share between the CO and the home/office, but it does share SOMEWHERE. Today, for example, I downloaded StarOffice for Windows and Linux from Sun. The first Windows download was corrupted (?) and I had to download it again. Then, stupid me, I realized I downloaded 5.2, so I wen back and downloaded 6.0beta of Windows and Linux. These are ~100 each. So, in less than two hours, while working in the foreground, I downloaded over 400MB from Sun. My sustained transfer rate was over 180Kbps. I would never, ever, attempt such a thing during working hours at the office (on the DSL line). Ever. Downloading Windows patches is painfull enough, believe me.
Ping times are incredible on my cable modem. When I had home DSL I was happy to be able to ping 'nearby' IP addresses in 75ms. Same sites for cable are 10ms usually.
At home I run a linux server and have set up an emergency backup of our production and demo sites incase our dedi-hosted sites go down. I would never have thought of trying that with the office PacBell DSL.
I was a subscriber of Metricom's Ricochet until it died. I used my Ricochet modem at the office, rather than subject myself to the horrors of PacBell DSL.
It could be that my older neighboors don't stress the cable system as a younger demographic would. That could explain why I have NEVER detected a "slow time". And I'm on my connection constantly (ask my poor wife!).
The impetus for creating Patch Maker seems to lie in the fact that Mozilla bugs are raging out of control
Wow. And the Republicans call Dan Rather biased! Could the impetus just be to make it easier to make changes? Does it have to be bugs raging out of control?
And, if it is, can it be categorized? Reading the posts of Sept 11, 2001 one can see sharp political disagreements from Slashdot participants who, perhaps only the day before, were in agreement with each other on things technical.
Q: WRS had been funding work on the FreeBSD Handbook, in order to print the second edition in the near future. [ Disclaimer, I'm co-editor of this work, along with your employee, Murray Stokely ] Will WRS continue with plans to print the second edition of the FreeBSD Handbook?
Wind River will encourage any stewards that emerge to take on FreeBSD publication to complete and publish this work.
Typical PR blather in the answer to this question, which properly should have been, "No." Here's a translation/exposition:
Encourage
Morally, not financially, support. As in, "Go for it! [aside: on your own dime]."
Stewards
An unpaid volunteer; this term is used to appeal to ones altruism; see
Sucker
that emerge
The current arrangement is finished, something else will have to be arranged without our intervention (thus, "emerge" as if spontaneous)
complete and publish
As far as we're concerned, this project is aborted. Have a nice day.
Wind River: a fitting moniker for a company whose committment has dried up and blown away.
The tellers at Washington Mutual run some flavor of Linux with KDE. I've seen this at every branch in LA / Orange County I've visited. Sorry, don't have a number, though.
The "Washington" in Washington Mutual refers to their home state, BTW.
Mac MSIE5 does indeed rock, but I have noticed that it chokes, and badly, on big HTML pages.
I don't have a Mac (though I work next to two graphic designers with a few Macs each [when one chokes, they reboot it and continue working on the next one until it chokes and then the first one has com back up...really painful to watch]) but your experience sounds exactly like mine with Mozilla 0.94 on RedHat 7.1 (2.4.3-12)... When I know it's a big page I switch to Konqueror to have a chance to view it in my lifetime. I wonder if the choking has to do with closer adherence to W3C standards and mal-designed table formatting...
Note that filing for protection from creditors while reorganizing is not the same as hanging up a big "closed" sign...
Technically, correct. But so were similar statements regarding Metricom (Richochet) and a host of other circling floatsam around the drain of the new economy.
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Complain about DCMA, SSS*, etc. But checking your backpack? Sheesh!
If they were arresting people for protesting the war or writing critiques of our government, or firing people who "looked" like a terrorist, or prohibited people of certain faiths from flying, ... these would be violations of freedoms and rights.
Having your backpack searched -- and not for anything but for weapons, etc. -- is an inconvenience.
These are called REASONABLE searches. Perhaps not before September 11, but definitely afterwards.
We are under siege and tensions are high. Put up with the inconveniences.
Save the fight for real rights abuses, not just inconveniences.
>>When a cartoon Bill Gates got shot and everyone in the theater laughed, I knew Microsoft's days were numbered.
A lot of that is just "Anti-Rich Guy" syndrome, like the sentiment against the rich rail tycoons in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These were the richest men in the country and were villified soundly by the populace.
Of course, just because they were villified didn't mean they WEREN'T on the way out...
And a bunch of de facto standards, such as the desktop application platform, the Internet browser platform, the business collaboration platform (Office+Outlook+Exchange Server)...just to name a few.
so will the main reason people are willing to buy over the Internet -- saving on taxes. Once taxes are factored in with shipping costs it's hard to have a low enough price to beat the guy down the street.
BTW, my house is for sale and is listed at $100 short of $250,000.
(sorry)
-1 Troll, -1 Flamebait
I work from home as much as possible to enjoy a stable, fast Internet connection. At the office, we experience service outages every day (when you're ssh'ed into a remote server, you notice EVERY interruption, dammit) and frequent unexplainable slowdowns (can't blame Napster!).
DSL doesn't share between the CO and the home/office, but it does share SOMEWHERE. Today, for example, I downloaded StarOffice for Windows and Linux from Sun. The first Windows download was corrupted (?) and I had to download it again. Then, stupid me, I realized I downloaded 5.2, so I wen back and downloaded 6.0beta of Windows and Linux. These are ~100 each. So, in less than two hours, while working in the foreground, I downloaded over 400MB from Sun. My sustained transfer rate was over 180Kbps. I would never, ever, attempt such a thing during working hours at the office (on the DSL line). Ever. Downloading Windows patches is painfull enough, believe me.
Ping times are incredible on my cable modem. When I had home DSL I was happy to be able to ping 'nearby' IP addresses in 75ms. Same sites for cable are 10ms usually.
At home I run a linux server and have set up an emergency backup of our production and demo sites incase our dedi-hosted sites go down. I would never have thought of trying that with the office PacBell DSL.
I was a subscriber of Metricom's Ricochet until it died. I used my Ricochet modem at the office, rather than subject myself to the horrors of PacBell DSL.
It could be that my older neighboors don't stress the cable system as a younger demographic would. That could explain why I have NEVER detected a "slow time". And I'm on my connection constantly (ask my poor wife!).
Given the choice, I'll choose cable everytime.
Excellent resources, thanks. This is a full answer to the question.
They were upset the Russians got the first sale.
Wow. And the Republicans call Dan Rather biased! Could the impetus just be to make it easier to make changes? Does it have to be bugs raging out of control?
Disgusting excuse for a "journalist".
Some would say that Slashdot exists to vindicate trolls...
I'm kidding
Shut up.
Maybe we should give up and make a The Next Generation distribution - "boldly going where no user has had to go since 1981".
Just kidding
And, if it is, can it be categorized? Reading the posts of Sept 11, 2001 one can see sharp political disagreements from Slashdot participants who, perhaps only the day before, were in agreement with each other on things technical.
Wind River: a fitting moniker for a company whose committment has dried up and blown away.
I didn't realize that 1800 to 2000 C was relatively cool .
The "Washington" in Washington Mutual refers to their home state, BTW.
Eyestrain? How about neck strain??
If I had mod points...this would be +1 Funny. For whoever modded this to -1 Offtopic needs to fear metamod...