If this is written rationally, and the state really is prepared to do it, I'd vote against the recall just based on this law, if I lived in California. As it is, I'm thinking I need to move my mail server to California!
...is encased in concrete, wrapped in high explosives with hair-trigger detonators, locked in a vault, and dropped into the sun.
I know the comment I'm replying to is a "funny" remark, but I also know folks who believe it.
Nevermind that a system running only shrunk software on the net is still in danger; I am personally aware of *two* cases where shrink-wrapped software (SWSW?) was shipped *with a virus*. (Not intentionally, of course.) I'm sure there are more. One was *from* a company at which I was employed (I won't go into the details, but I will note that it was a security-related product, and the customer finding the virus was the DOD - it wasn't a happy day for anyone). In the other case, an acquaintance discovered the virus on a CD his company had bought.
They specifically note that the cooling module doesn't have to just be fans, an din fact may well one day be something cooler (sic) like water cooling.
As soon as I realized that the Linux "port" required Wine, I lost interest. Wine is OK, but there's no way I'm going to base our company-wide office suite on it.
So why not use postgresql or mysql? If Adabas is still a traditionally licensed product, why on earth try to include it in a low cost alternative to MS:Office, when there are high quality open source alternatives?
We were already considering evaluating this as our cross-platform solution, or at least as our Linux/Solaris solution to handle these chores well while playing with the folks who use MS tools.
OpenOffice has been waaaay too slow. I've been using gnumeric and abiword, with the odd foray into Impress, since there doesn't seem to be an alternatove. My biggest complaint with abiword (besides needing its own fonts, fixed in 2.0) is that it doesn't import HTML - it treats them as plain text. Brain dead! I looked at TexMaker, which has most of what AbiWord is missing, but it's just ugly as can be, and has some braindead GUI issues, like folders on the right, files on the left. Did I get a broken i18nized version?
Now if only StarOffice included an Outlook-compliant calendar, email and PIM. (We'll still try it, despite not having these.)
So where is the MS Project clone? As of not long ago, Mr. Project still couldn't read or write Ms. Project files...
All I know is that there were news reports of MS-based ATMs being down during the recent MS RPC hole fiasco. I'm talking ABC and CNN here, not News of the Weird.
Windows is an incredibly complex, monolithic app. Even stripping out whatever the heck they plan to strip out, how confident can someone who really understands software QA be with WinATMs?
Not very.
Better provide the ATMs with a way to swallow worm meds!
Years ago - when this practice first started, and when the market was primarily techies - this lawsuit would have made sense. But it's been this way for years, and it's now standard practice. There's no way you can market geek stuff to the average consumer in geek terms - you will lose every time. History has proven this over and over.
Gee, maybe someone should invent shielding for these wires and instruments. I mean, I know that's a difficult concept compared to everything else that goes into desighing an airplane...
I wish this had happened 20 years or so ago. When I was a kid, it was pretty much a given that by now we'd be on the Moon, and probably Mars by now, and that normal folks like us would at least be able to get into space.
Between the lack of real goals after the lunar landings, and the disasters NASA has had to deal with (at least some of which were self-inflicted), we are way behind schedule. Being now in my mid-40s, I doubt I will get into space, much less get to set foot on another planet- although I'm not giving up hope. I don't suppose any of you/.ers has an inertialess drive ready for NASA?
Hopefully we'll begin to see insane amounts of innovation again from NASA. Other than dropping a shuttle on your head, what have they done for you since velcro[tm]?
Just don't get the cheap ones that have only a forwards and back (back/turn) control on the remote control. And spring for rechargeable batteries and a recharger. You'll be glad in the long run.
I really wish this had happened years ago, before the *&^%$ embedded crap was so ubiquitous. But even so, I think it's great for the web. While the clueless side of the marketing departments will still strive to make web sites bloated and useless, they'll at least have to work at it. I have nothing against th etechnologies such as Flash, I simply don't want them embedded in my web pages. There's nothing wrong with "popping up" external apps in such cases.
I hate software patents. All the ones we hear about, at least, are being used to *stifle* innovation - exactly the opposite of what patents were intended to do.
At least this one may do something useful for everyone.
Are you saying that cell phones used in cars *don't* do this now? As a motorcyclist, I decided years ago that was the only explantion for cell phone drivers.
But... this would imply they're all simply idiots!
This is the salvation of our economy. We're *still* not over the dot com bust. A wise person will start a HAC (Homeland Absurdity Certified) product line.
I plan to sell HAC box cutters. Heck, you'll even be allowed to carry them onto the plane with you!
Wow. That's a well-crafted piece of literature. Unspecting high school freshmen will one day have to read that and dissect it as part of "US Literature". Assuming the schools can still teach reading by then.
This is great! As a consumer, I'm glad they are protecting my right to see live video on my computer screen of the WhenU company officers and the judge in this case being publicly flogged as idiots. When does the video start?
As depressing as losing Bloom County was, Outland never came close to replacing it for me. It had lots of eye candy, but just wasn't that great a strip, IMO. OTOH, the books have been *awesome*. I reread the "kids' books" almost as often as I reread the books of all the Bloom County strips.
I hope the time away from the comics has helped him get back to the place htat he should be, and the new strip will be as good as Bloom County.
How many sci-fi stories predicted a return to ignorance and fear? The politically approach to technology being taught today, coupled with media sensationalism, is merely helping lead us in that direction.
So, once again, science fiction may have successfully predicted the future. We are well on the way to beooming a planet of anti-technology (and hence anti-science) masses with a small, "elite" group trying to forge ahead. (Those in each group aren't always the nice little stereotypes some folks want them to be, either.)
I hope I'm wrong. But I'm not holding my breath.
[I'm a techno-geek who loves sci-fi *and* fantasy!]
Password rage - I have it. I can't contain it. I feel compelled to go find a rifle and shoot at random vehicles on the highway. Feel free to sue the password industry if I succeed.
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If this is written rationally, and the state really is prepared to do it, I'd vote against the recall just based on this law, if I lived in California. As it is, I'm thinking I need to move my mail server to California!
...is encased in concrete, wrapped in high explosives with hair-trigger detonators, locked in a vault, and dropped into the sun.
I know the comment I'm replying to is a "funny" remark, but I also know folks who believe it.
Nevermind that a system running only shrunk software on the net is still in danger; I am personally aware of *two* cases where shrink-wrapped software (SWSW?) was shipped *with a virus*. (Not intentionally, of course.) I'm sure there are more. One was *from* a company at which I was employed (I won't go into the details, but I will note that it was a security-related product, and the customer finding the virus was the DOD - it wasn't a happy day for anyone). In the other case, an acquaintance discovered the virus on a CD his company had bought.
They specifically note that the cooling module doesn't have to just be fans, an din fact may well one day be something cooler (sic) like water cooling.
Look for the words "Linux Port".
Click there.
Notice it uses Wine.
Port, huh?
[Said with XXX-rated cigar in hand:]
I guess it all depends on what your definition of "port" is.
As soon as I realized that the Linux "port" required Wine, I lost interest. Wine is OK, but there's no way I'm going to base our company-wide office suite on it.
So why not use postgresql or mysql? If Adabas is still a traditionally licensed product, why on earth try to include it in a low cost alternative to MS:Office, when there are high quality open source alternatives?
We were already considering evaluating this as our cross-platform solution, or at least as our Linux/Solaris solution to handle these chores well while playing with the folks who use MS tools.
OpenOffice has been waaaay too slow. I've been using gnumeric and abiword, with the odd foray into Impress, since there doesn't seem to be an alternatove. My biggest complaint with abiword (besides needing its own fonts, fixed in 2.0) is that it doesn't import HTML - it treats them as plain text. Brain dead! I looked at TexMaker, which has most of what AbiWord is missing, but it's just ugly as can be, and has some braindead GUI issues, like folders on the right, files on the left. Did I get a broken i18nized version?
Now if only StarOffice included an Outlook-compliant calendar, email and PIM. (We'll still try it, despite not having these.)
So where is the MS Project clone? As of not long ago, Mr. Project still couldn't read or write Ms. Project files...
All I know is that there were news reports of MS-based ATMs being down during the recent MS RPC hole fiasco. I'm talking ABC and CNN here, not News of the Weird.
Windows is an incredibly complex, monolithic app. Even stripping out whatever the heck they plan to strip out, how confident can someone who really understands software QA be with WinATMs?
Not very.
Better provide the ATMs with a way to swallow worm meds!
Years ago - when this practice first started, and when the market was primarily techies - this lawsuit would have made sense. But it's been this way for years, and it's now standard practice. There's no way you can market geek stuff to the average consumer in geek terms - you will lose every time. History has proven this over and over.
The folks suing need a reality check.
Somewhere, on whatever planet Bill is from, it's April Fool's Day.
Gee, maybe someone should invent shielding for these wires and instruments. I mean, I know that's a difficult concept compared to everything else that goes into desighing an airplane...
I wish this had happened 20 years or so ago. When I was a kid, it was pretty much a given that by now we'd be on the Moon, and probably Mars by now, and that normal folks like us would at least be able to get into space.
/.ers has an inertialess drive ready for NASA?
Between the lack of real goals after the lunar landings, and the disasters NASA has had to deal with (at least some of which were self-inflicted), we are way behind schedule. Being now in my mid-40s, I doubt I will get into space, much less get to set foot on another planet- although I'm not giving up hope. I don't suppose any of you
Hopefully we'll begin to see insane amounts of innovation again from NASA. Other than dropping a shuttle on your head, what have they done for you since velcro[tm]?
Just don't get the cheap ones that have only a forwards and back (back/turn) control on the remote control. And spring for rechargeable batteries and a recharger. You'll be glad in the long run.
I really wish this had happened years ago, before the *&^%$ embedded crap was so ubiquitous. But even so, I think it's great for the web. While the clueless side of the marketing departments will still strive to make web sites bloated and useless, they'll at least have to work at it. I have nothing against th etechnologies such as Flash, I simply don't want them embedded in my web pages. There's nothing wrong with "popping up" external apps in such cases.
I hate software patents. All the ones we hear about, at least, are being used to *stifle* innovation - exactly the opposite of what patents were intended to do.
At least this one may do something useful for everyone.
Are you saying that cell phones used in cars *don't* do this now? As a motorcyclist, I decided years ago that was the only explantion for cell phone drivers.
But... this would imply they're all simply idiots!
My favorite mouse is Socrates, my daughter's mouse who is currently loose somewhere in the house.
After that, it would be the first three-button mouse I used on a Sun. Those three buttons made such a difference in productivity...
For everyday use, I still prefer the Logitech Mouseman to anything else around. Except for exercising the cat. Socrates does a better job of that.
This is the salvation of our economy. We're *still* not over the dot com bust. A wise person will start a HAC (Homeland Absurdity Certified) product line.
I plan to sell HAC box cutters. Heck, you'll even be allowed to carry them onto the plane with you!
Invest now before I have all the capital I need!
This sounds like just the ticket.
So where can I buy vellum CDs?
Wow. That's a well-crafted piece of literature. Unspecting high school freshmen will one day have to read that and dissect it as part of "US Literature". Assuming the schools can still teach reading by then.
Meanwhile, I ran the article through Babelfish:
Dear Mr. McBride,
You suck.
With all due respect,
The Open Source Community
...of posting this via the progeny of ARPAnet!
-DARPA-based network junkie
This is great! As a consumer, I'm glad they are protecting my right to see live video on my computer screen of the WhenU company officers and the judge in this case being publicly flogged as idiots. When does the video start?
This sounds like an Outland strip. Are they sure her name isn't Ronald Anne?
As depressing as losing Bloom County was, Outland never came close to replacing it for me. It had lots of eye candy, but just wasn't that great a strip, IMO. OTOH, the books have been *awesome*. I reread the "kids' books" almost as often as I reread the books of all the Bloom County strips.
I hope the time away from the comics has helped him get back to the place htat he should be, and the new strip will be as good as Bloom County.
Now, where can I get a life sized Opus?
How many sci-fi stories predicted a return to ignorance and fear? The politically approach to technology being taught today, coupled with media sensationalism, is merely helping lead us in that direction.
So, once again, science fiction may have successfully predicted the future. We are well on the way to beooming a planet of anti-technology (and hence anti-science) masses with a small, "elite" group trying to forge ahead. (Those in each group aren't always the nice little stereotypes some folks want them to be, either.)
I hope I'm wrong. But I'm not holding my breath.
[I'm a techno-geek who loves sci-fi *and* fantasy!]
Password rage - I have it. I can't contain it. I feel compelled to go find a rifle and shoot at random vehicles on the highway. Feel free to sue the password industry if I succeed.