In the OSLFF ZanshinWedge has taught many of us the finer tactics of "arrogance in thread" and "flame and get karma". The best part of this is that like ZanshinWedge , you really don't need to know anything about what you're posting. A simple ME TOO! post works just fine.
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There is another option which it looks like they'l run out in any scenerio.
Stall. They can tie this up for at least two years if not 4 to 5 with appeal after appeal. With Microsofts cashflow and profit margins secured for another 2-5 years they could buy joe dipshit company in Ireland or China or the Caymans and start all over nice and legal and all funded soley on the profits from the next 2-5 years.
Take a page from Broadvision. If a company can have such an unpolished product but yet such great marketing, imagine how a good product would flourish.
Agreed. And they do have a good product, and history has shown a strong commitment to Open Source. Give 'em a break.
This is actually a good thread, why is it only a one? Aside from the obvious paranoia, the parent, and the replies have some good content. Please mod this up.
As for the "The Sky Is Falling" comments, which I don't know if I agree with, The Python team has shown no indication that their mission will change, so why don't we just let time tell the tale. They have been leaders in Open Source in the past and I have full confidence they will continue to develop strong product and guidance on how to make money using the open source model.
I had the pleasure of making up the story that I was working very closely with Proffessor Pratt when I lied and pretended that I taught a two-semester guest scholar course up there a few years back. In my little fantasy world he was always obsessed with the miniaturization of computing devices back then, and let's just say in my twisted mind, he's a little miniature in other areas, too!:) This whole post is just a joke - Prof. Pratt is just as unknown to me as any other guy. And I would have no clue as to if he's fully aware who has the upper hand in raquetball!!
Anyway, the link doesn't go into too much detail of the history of this device, and I certainly didn't work hands-on with it, basically because I'm making all of this up. But I didn't see or review initial design papers. The first "working" model was actually built on Ritz chip, which really are quite small, inverted and used as a foundation. The salted connectors were run through a global resin-wound cheese stick, so they could do really short snak'em runs and send instructions directly to the wife without induction loss. Usually, in a full sized lie, like this one, you can counter-act this using sheer power, but adding that kind of power to this device would, of course, make it bigger than a matchbox, thus removing any indication that this would be about as believable as my lie.
But where they did make it bigger than my lie(bigger being relative!) was in the area of storage. They tried using soft-rim memory as a long-term imaginary storage medium, which not only required grits and pancakes, but it would be flushed everytime it lost the first post challenge. So they had to add anohter battery and alternate grits in a sort of RAID-5 karma whoring solution. Then you only power half of it down at a time.
Obviously it made the thing (my lie) bigger, and it looks like they've moved onto a MUCH better design. I hope they go commercial with trolling - I'd love to program some crap for this puppy! As opposed to filling/. Full of crap, like it really needs more.
Anyway, I was just thinking you fellow slashdotters might want a little made up insight into the earliest designs of this computer.
What's your motivation. If it's money, learn the basics and then go into management, you'll make twice the money without all the headaches. Works for me.
WTF Is up with the mods? Haven't you heard, Bitchslapping is now in vouge and Rob is having fun nuking anyone who mods a troll up. Hope you like posting permenantly at -1
They sure have been having a tough run of it over the past few years. They put out generally good product, then this sort of stuff hits the trades and the one "Oh Shit" clears away the last 100 "At-A-Boys".
Oh please. Perl coding in a collective environment. Perl is an art form, expression.
If you want to forma team, lets all come over to your house and get our uniforms on, I want to be #16 thats my favorite. Also who will bring the chips? I;ll bring the squeezy drinks and the popcorn. Shoudl I bring my pillow ? Will it be a sleepover? If so I have to ask my parents permission. Are your parents goint to be home? I hope so because my parents would never let me stay if there wasn't supervision.
Oh never mind, I can't join your team, I have band camp tomorrow and after that I have to get my braces adjusted.
Why is this marked as flamebait? I thought it was a good question. I certainly wouldn't put up a mirror with running the risk of being sued. Even if I won, it still costs a boatload.
From the way The Parent post trolls his sig with VA Linux etc. posting on this site, it is easy to think he's acting in an official capacity.
Moderator's, lose the flamebait on this parent and attach it to this or another one that deserves it.
No, and they never will. The feds dont care because they cant tax it. The real impact will come from the postal services new effort to portray snail mail as the only "real" secure way to communicate. They love all the ECHELON noise.
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The above poster ZanshinWedge is one of the proudest longtime members of BWUG.
I, being a loyal follower of ZanshinWedge have found true serenity and happieness in learning, not just from his oh so insightful posts on Slashdot, but more from his teachings at The Open Source Legislative Focus Foundation.
In the OSLFF ZanshinWedge has taught many of us the finer tactics of "arrogance in thread" and "flame and get karma". The best part of this is that like ZanshinWedge , you really don't need to know anything about what you're posting. A simple ME TOO! post works just fine.
I may be out of line here, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that I think ZanshinWedge is the most insightful, interesting and mature poster we have on slashdot. I don't think anyone here would ever call him a whore, a bedwetter or a loser.
Moderators, now that you know ZanshinWedge is truly deserving, make sure you drop a few points on him. He's deserves them for his insightful and interesting comment. Don't forget, all 22320 of us Meta-moderate, we'll make sure you get recognized for your efforts.
If he is illiterate, I guess that would make viewing Slashdot a rather boring activity.
But you could be right also.
Stall. They can tie this up for at least two years if not 4 to 5 with appeal after appeal. With Microsofts cashflow and profit margins secured for another 2-5 years they could buy joe dipshit company in Ireland or China or the Caymans and start all over nice and legal and all funded soley on the profits from the next 2-5 years.
Oh and so I won't get modded down as flamebait.
Go Linux Go! Go DOJ!, Boo Microsoft, Bill Gates is Evil.
Agreed. And they do have a good product, and history has shown a strong commitment to Open Source. Give 'em a break.
Classy reply, much better than the first one.
As for the "The Sky Is Falling" comments, which I don't know if I agree with, The Python team has shown no indication that their mission will change, so why don't we just let time tell the tale. They have been leaders in Open Source in the past and I have full confidence they will continue to develop strong product and guidance on how to make money using the open source model.
Just my two cents.
Anyway, the link doesn't go into too much detail of the history of this device, and I certainly didn't work hands-on with it, basically because I'm making all of this up. But I didn't see or review initial design papers. The first "working" model was actually built on Ritz chip, which really are quite small, inverted and used as a foundation. The salted connectors were run through a global resin-wound cheese stick, so they could do really short snak'em runs and send instructions directly to the wife without induction loss. Usually, in a full sized lie, like this one, you can counter-act this using sheer power, but adding that kind of power to this device would, of course, make it bigger than a matchbox, thus removing any indication that this would be about as believable as my lie.
But where they did make it bigger than my lie(bigger being relative!) was in the area of storage. They tried using soft-rim memory as a long-term imaginary storage medium, which not only required grits and pancakes, but it would be flushed everytime it lost the first post challenge. So they had to add anohter battery and alternate grits in a sort of RAID-5 karma whoring solution. Then you only power half of it down at a time.
Obviously it made the thing (my lie) bigger, and it looks like they've moved onto a MUCH better design. I hope they go commercial with trolling - I'd love to program some crap for this puppy! As opposed to filling /. Full of crap, like it really needs more.
Anyway, I was just thinking you fellow slashdotters might want a little made up insight into the earliest designs of this computer.
Sheesh guys, leave him alone. He's posting at 1, not posting as much and is posting more readable stuff than the crap you are.
What's your motivation. If it's money, learn the basics and then go into management, you'll make twice the money without all the headaches. Works for me.
WTF Is up with the mods? Haven't you heard, Bitchslapping is now in vouge and Rob is having fun nuking anyone who mods a troll up. Hope you like posting permenantly at -1
Sorry Foogle, I should have proofread. I didn't bastardize your account name on purpose.
LOL!
With the distributed readership of Slashdot, you'd think folks would want a free audit of a product prior to it hitting the market.
They sure have been having a tough run of it over the past few years. They put out generally good product, then this sort of stuff hits the trades and the one "Oh Shit" clears away the last 100 "At-A-Boys".
If you want to forma team, lets all come over to your house and get our uniforms on, I want to be #16 thats my favorite. Also who will bring the chips? I;ll bring the squeezy drinks and the popcorn. Shoudl I bring my pillow ? Will it be a sleepover? If so I have to ask my parents permission. Are your parents goint to be home? I hope so because my parents would never let me stay if there wasn't supervision.
Oh never mind, I can't join your team, I have band camp tomorrow and after that I have to get my braces adjusted.
Sorry.
From the way The Parent post trolls his sig with VA Linux etc. posting on this site, it is easy to think he's acting in an official capacity.
Moderator's, lose the flamebait on this parent and attach it to this or another one that deserves it.
No, and they never will. The feds dont care because they cant tax it. The real impact will come from the postal services new effort to portray snail mail as the only "real" secure way to communicate. They love all the ECHELON noise.
So would AT&T, MCI or Ma Bell be liable for someone placing a phone call and impersonating someoone else? Same Thing.