An outfit in Seattle called "Think Geek" is marketing a t-shirt emblazoned across the front of which are the words "I Hate Jack Thompson." That kind of tells us where they are on the subject of me.
The parent company is an outfit called Penny Arcade.
Out of the blue? What are you smoking? He's been painting a huge gamer-target on his head for quite a while now, and didn't need PA to point to the target either. I'm sure he was getting harassment from gamers for his idiocy well before PA started in on this round.
That doesn't mean that the harassment is "OK" it just means that 1) it isn't Gabe & Tycho's creation and 2) he has lowered protections against speech anyway given that he's made himself a public figure.
Oh please, anything Belkin makes that requires electricity is a piece of shit. I've had their hubs fail, their KVMs fail, and I have heard iPod owners complaining about their attachments too. And I don't mean fail after years of use, I mean fail either immediately or within 6 months.
You're misreading it. There are consignment operators on eBay. "I'll sell it for you and take a cut". THOSE people have to be licensed. YOU, the SELLER or BUYER does not. This is a lot of flap and a ridiculous headline over next to nothing. Should third-party sellers be licensed? Maybe not, but it's hardly trying to make everyone who sells on eBay a licensed auctioneer.
1) Ya'll need to read (or re-read) Zen & the Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance. Despite the slashdot crowd's gadget lust, the general culture has been turning against science and technology for about 30+ years now--at least for anything that requires "understanding" to operate.
2) Speaking of which, I remember the exact same complaints about losing our scientific and mathematical edge against Japan and Russia and Europe from when I was in school, which was in the first half of that 30 years, not the latter half;-)
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple
I thought the easier and more acceptable solution was to press SHIFT as you inserted the CD and then rip with your favorite software. Hell, maybe even iTunes could handle it from there.
Not having seen \{} notation before but presuming that it means find all the files and substitute them at once, I see two potential problems: 1) I think/dev/null is more likely to exist than this option I've never seen before:-) and 2) grep's command line may hit some length limit if you find too many files or your path structure is too deep. At this point I'd just as likely use xargs, which can limit the length of the command line. Actually (no one expects the spanish inquisition!) I see a third potential problem: 3) what if your find only finds one file? You have no way to know that implicitly from the command itself.
The tricky bit is that adding/dev/null means I will always see the filename in the output; otherwise grepping against one file only returns the matched strings.
Given that he talked about the irish woman in third person, and himself later on in first person, you're either blind or willfully misconstruing his comment.
File location was an example of one type of knowledge, it's hardly the full spectrum of important information out there.
I do support for Sun, and if I had a dollar for every time I had some admin tell me the equivalent of "these settings are in/etc/system because some guru in the mists of time put them there and I'm afraid to take them out" I'd be a very wealthy man (and probably not working for Sun any longer:-)).
Ah, the magic of retroactive editing. It said not one damn thing about Red Hat when I read the summary. Nice that they couldn't bother to put it in as "UPDATE" or anything.
you can scrape all the stuff off the internet in a similar fashion..
(a royal bitch to set up- and it's all trash if your bank changes it's layout)
And which part of "automatically" and "more than simple spreadsheeting" are you claiming that this contradicts? I have no time or interest in writing and maintaining custom scraper code when I can buy a new version of quicken every 4 years that does just fine for me. No, I don't see the need to buy it every year like they'd want me to, but it's easily worth $15/year not to have to maintain it all myself.
Sunray doesn't do X over the network. It's not an X-terminal, despite the obvious comparisons. I use one every day at work, and a local sunray server is essentially indistinguishible from being on the console.
Um....Zander has been at Motorola for some years now. Jonathan Scwartz is the current President.
As for Sunray, I suspect that the day of a Sunray or something similar IN the home may not be terribly far away....if we can ever get a Sunray server that actually does all the things a winders PC does today. I know lots of people tout the Gimp, but I can't live without Photoshop. I haven't seen any open source equivalent to Quicken that I like as much, and can use as seamlessly. And then there's Half-Life 2:-)
I do know people who work for Sun whose families only do web browsing and email, and they've actually set up Sunray servers successfully. But they're pretty rare in the general population...
He doesn't want the market to decide, he wants his organization to decide. Just like they fixed the prices of CDs oh so many years ago. I can't imagine the labels have had a sudden free-market conversion experience.
Otherwise, they'd create a free market and let the invisible hand price them down to the $.25 a song that more people would find reasonable.
You're the one who said that ripping CDs you own is a copyright violation. If the RIAA agreed with you, they'd be using their strongarm tactics on every manufacturer of MP3 players that weren't DRM locked. The DMCA would outlaw such things. Etc.
As for your ASSERTION based on ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that most people distribute the MP3's they rip, I don't know what planet you live on, but everyone I know who owns one of those same MP3 players rips their CDs and only a handful bother with P2P virus spreading applications. So, rather than rely on my anectdote or your anectdote, why don't you find some real data?
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The parent company is an outfit called Penny Arcade.
No kidding. So PA owns Think Geek? Yeah, right.
That doesn't mean that the harassment is "OK" it just means that 1) it isn't Gabe & Tycho's creation and 2) he has lowered protections against speech anyway given that he's made himself a public figure.
Oh please, anything Belkin makes that requires electricity is a piece of shit. I've had their hubs fail, their KVMs fail, and I have heard iPod owners complaining about their attachments too. And I don't mean fail after years of use, I mean fail either immediately or within 6 months.
The Steve, forgetting what made the Apple I & Apple II a success? The ability for third parties to add hardware?
You're misreading it. There are consignment operators on eBay. "I'll sell it for you and take a cut". THOSE people have to be licensed. YOU, the SELLER or BUYER does not. This is a lot of flap and a ridiculous headline over next to nothing. Should third-party sellers be licensed? Maybe not, but it's hardly trying to make everyone who sells on eBay a licensed auctioneer.
2) Speaking of which, I remember the exact same complaints about losing our scientific and mathematical edge against Japan and Russia and Europe from when I was in school, which was in the first half of that 30 years, not the latter half ;-)
Ees a joke. Look carefully at the "photo" showing the wiring of the nano to the HD. Can you say "sloppy photoshop"?
I thought the easier and more acceptable solution was to press SHIFT as you inserted the CD and then rip with your favorite software. Hell, maybe even iTunes could handle it from there.
I do support for a vendor. I have no say on whether GNU gets installed on the systems I work with.
Because those are GNU specific, and 90% of the systems I work on don't have them. All *nix systems support my version.
Hm, that sounds like a gnu-ism. I work on a lot of non-gnu systems.
Not having seen \{} notation before but presuming that it means find all the files and substitute them at once, I see two potential problems: 1) I think /dev/null is more likely to exist than this option I've never seen before :-) and 2) grep's command line may hit some length limit if you find too many files or your path structure is too deep. At this point I'd just as likely use xargs, which can limit the length of the command line. Actually (no one expects the spanish inquisition!) I see a third potential problem: 3) what if your find only finds one file? You have no way to know that implicitly from the command itself.
Given that he talked about the irish woman in third person, and himself later on in first person, you're either blind or willfully misconstruing his comment.
I do support for Sun, and if I had a dollar for every time I had some admin tell me the equivalent of "these settings are in /etc/system because some guru in the mists of time put them there and I'm afraid to take them out" I'd be a very wealthy man (and probably not working for Sun any longer :-)).
How many replies were there? Mine was about the third or fourth, discounting anything under 1.
Ah, the magic of retroactive editing. It said not one damn thing about Red Hat when I read the summary. Nice that they couldn't bother to put it in as "UPDATE" or anything.
But this is slashdot fer cryin out loud. NOBODY reads the article before opening their yaps!
What, Joe's Special Distro? All the SuSE and RedHat machines I've ever run were rock solid. They weren't running SAP, mind you, but still.....
And which part of "automatically" and "more than simple spreadsheeting" are you claiming that this contradicts? I have no time or interest in writing and maintaining custom scraper code when I can buy a new version of quicken every 4 years that does just fine for me. No, I don't see the need to buy it every year like they'd want me to, but it's easily worth $15/year not to have to maintain it all myself.
Sunray doesn't do X over the network. It's not an X-terminal, despite the obvious comparisons. I use one every day at work, and a local sunray server is essentially indistinguishible from being on the console.
Um....Zander has been at Motorola for some years now. Jonathan Scwartz is the current President.
As for Sunray, I suspect that the day of a Sunray or something similar IN the home may not be terribly far away....if we can ever get a Sunray server that actually does all the things a winders PC does today. I know lots of people tout the Gimp, but I can't live without Photoshop. I haven't seen any open source equivalent to Quicken that I like as much, and can use as seamlessly. And then there's Half-Life 2 :-)
I do know people who work for Sun whose families only do web browsing and email, and they've actually set up Sunray servers successfully. But they're pretty rare in the general population...
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He doesn't want the market to decide, he wants his organization to decide. Just like they fixed the prices of CDs oh so many years ago. I can't imagine the labels have had a sudden free-market conversion experience.
Otherwise, they'd create a free market and let the invisible hand price them down to the $.25 a song that more people would find reasonable.
You're the one who said that ripping CDs you own is a copyright violation. If the RIAA agreed with you, they'd be using their strongarm tactics on every manufacturer of MP3 players that weren't DRM locked. The DMCA would outlaw such things. Etc.
As for your ASSERTION based on ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that most people distribute the MP3's they rip, I don't know what planet you live on, but everyone I know who owns one of those same MP3 players rips their CDs and only a handful bother with P2P virus spreading applications. So, rather than rely on my anectdote or your anectdote, why don't you find some real data?