IM is more analogous to the telephone than email. The I is for Instant, and no matter how good your email servers are, they'll never be instant. As you can put your phone on hold or unplug it from the cord, if you don't want IM interruptions as another poster talked about, mark yourself as Away or go offline.
Besides that, email is several orders of magnitude more insecure than IM because of all the email viruses, and your anti-virus software is only as good as your last update.
RSS would never have been necessary if websites hadn't made their pages so constipated with ads, graphics, flash, java applets, scripted animated dancing fairies that follow your mouse cursor, etc. Slashdot used to have a text-only version, but they got rid of it, so I have to settle for the arsefeed to get a non-craptified version. If Taco wants to ditch the arsefeed, he needs to give us back the text-only version.
Also one of the previous posters had a wonderful post about the implications for open source, how can you tax something that is free?
Property taxes, including personal property (cars, boats, etc.), are assessed based on the propertys value, not their cost. The state determines its value based on some criteria and thereby calculates the amount of tax regardless of its purchase price. Depending on the difference in assessed value of Free and Open Source software and Closed Source software, I believe this will have a detrimental effect on the adoption of Free and Open Source software by businesses.
The whole idea of taxing property that the taxee, for lack of better term, does not actually own is, on the surface, suspect, and it raises other issues. Can the copyright holder be different from the owner of the object being copyrighted? If so, how can the copyright holder grant rights and privileges to something the holder doesnt own? Would this necessarily affect patents?
I, for one, would not like to have my food regenerating while in my stomach. While one steak would keep me full for a long time, I would eventually explode when my steak regenerates back into the cow it came from. However, if it gets far enough in my digestive tract, that would be one hellacious bowel movement.
Why do people think that everything is different if it's done on a computer?
Because we don't hold the automobile industry liable for automobile accidents. We don't hold the alcoholic beverage industry liable for drunk drivers. We don't hold the firearms industry liable for shootings where people are injured or killed. I personally think we ought to do all the above, but right now we just don't.
Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac's operating system
MacOS (previously known as System whatever-number) has *always* been a GUI. For the sake of argument, so has Windows. This is like saying Iraq is a Middle Eastern version of Iran.
Sorry, Bob. That one sentence blew away any seriousness and credibility your argument had.
Where were the ham radio operators during the London blasts, when the telephone/cell networks were reportedly overloaded and in some cases unusable? In fact, when was the last time ham radio was used in an emergency situation because other modes of communications were down?
Where's anything else? It's one thing to proclaim the death of something; it's another to present a replacement for it. No one has offered a replacement for ham radio, yet they still say it's dead. Does no one see the need for emergency communications in a crisis that's independent of existing networks? I do. I have no opinion on ham radio's existence, but since there's nothing else why don't we just keep it around just in case?
Most websites have so much advertising you can't tell it from the actual content. Some are pretty much all advertising. To paraphrase a quote about TV, the web is pretty much a "vast, pock-marked wasteland."
On another point, nothing on the Internet has ever been free. I pay for access as well as the webmaster, and he may also pay for hosting his website. These expenses are paid regardless of advertising. Advertising revenue only offsets those expenses.
As to the particular FA, this is like spammers claiming that spam blocking will result in the end of email. I see what he's saying from an economic standpoint, but I don't really have any sympathy for him.
Please name one serious, high-profile hacking case (to include authoring viriii & worms) in which the perpetrator was caught and didn't turn out to be a teenager or a still adolescent 20 something.
The only official Korn shell, ksh93, for Windows is from U/WIN. SFU (as opposed to STFU) comes with pdksh; a clone of ksh88 and absolutely NOT the official ksh.
Bash and Korn shell do NOT run on Windows; they run under Cygwin and U/WIN, respectively. In all honesty, Monad doesn't run on Windows but on.NET. The only shells that actually run on Windows are COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE. If you read the available documentation on CMD.EXE, you'd see that it actually can do a lot of the things the Unix shells can. The things it can't do are due to the obvious differences between Unix and Windows.
CableCard in its current incarnation is broken. It only does one-way communication, so you can't use interactive services like Video On Demand, Pay-Per-View, Broadcast Schedules, etc. They should fix *that* first before forcing cable companies to push it to the customers.
GNOME User: I want GNOME to be more user-friendly!
GNOME Developer: You can't handle user-friendliness! Son, we live in a world that has computers, and those computers have to be programmed by people with compilers. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Website Editor? I have more responsibility here than you could possibly fathom. You weep for user-friendliness, and you curse the GNOME Developers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That GNOME's usability, while hard, probably works well enough for most people. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, creates useful software. You don't want the truth. because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me behind that keyboard, you need me behind that keyboard. We use words like "open source", "free software", "community". We use these words as the backbone to a life spent scratching a personal itch. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very software I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I'd prefer you said thank you, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a copy of Linux, and start coding. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
For starters, Jews don't believe in a hell. In Scripture God lays out some foods that are healthy and others that are unhealthy. If we break that law, we are not going to the lakes of burning brimstone; your Christian religionist leaders invented that one.
Actually, there is no *Christian* hell, either. That's entirely out of the heads of John Milton and/or Dante Alighieri. Satan's alive and well on planet Earth, or so I've been told.
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IM is more analogous to the telephone than email. The I is for Instant, and no matter how good your email servers are, they'll never be instant. As you can put your phone on hold or unplug it from the cord, if you don't want IM interruptions as another poster talked about, mark yourself as Away or go offline.
Besides that, email is several orders of magnitude more insecure than IM because of all the email viruses, and your anti-virus software is only as good as your last update.
No ads. No graphics. No crap I don't want.
RSS would never have been necessary if websites hadn't made their pages so constipated with ads, graphics, flash, java applets, scripted animated dancing fairies that follow your mouse cursor, etc. Slashdot used to have a text-only version, but they got rid of it, so I have to settle for the arsefeed to get a non-craptified version. If Taco wants to ditch the arsefeed, he needs to give us back the text-only version.
Property taxes, including personal property (cars, boats, etc.), are assessed based on the propertys value, not their cost. The state determines its value based on some criteria and thereby calculates the amount of tax regardless of its purchase price. Depending on the difference in assessed value of Free and Open Source software and Closed Source software, I believe this will have a detrimental effect on the adoption of Free and Open Source software by businesses.
The whole idea of taxing property that the taxee, for lack of better term, does not actually own is, on the surface, suspect, and it raises other issues. Can the copyright holder be different from the owner of the object being copyrighted? If so, how can the copyright holder grant rights and privileges to something the holder doesnt own? Would this necessarily affect patents?
That's OK. Have fun renting your garments, wailing and gnashing your teeth as you burn for eternity in hell, heretic scum.
By the way, Merry Christmas.
Unless you're reading this at work, you already pay for the content when you pay your ISP every month.
I, for one, would not like to have my food regenerating while in my stomach. While one steak would keep me full for a long time, I would eventually explode when my steak regenerates back into the cow it came from. However, if it gets far enough in my digestive tract, that would be one hellacious bowel movement.
Same way that Java is "open". The specs have been published so that anyone and their family pet can create and/or render PDF. e.g. GhostScript.
Not really. I does not build on Tiger, and has not been updated to do so. I should not have to do Microsoft's job for them.
Mono would be great if it was properly documented.
Sir, step away from the keyboard, get up, go outside and get some fresh air...preferably in the middle of a large field during a severe thunderstorm.
Sorry, Bob. That one sentence blew away any seriousness and credibility your argument had.
Where's anything else? It's one thing to proclaim the death of something; it's another to present a replacement for it. No one has offered a replacement for ham radio, yet they still say it's dead. Does no one see the need for emergency communications in a crisis that's independent of existing networks? I do. I have no opinion on ham radio's existence, but since there's nothing else why don't we just keep it around just in case?
Most websites have so much advertising you can't tell it from the actual content. Some are pretty much all advertising. To paraphrase a quote about TV, the web is pretty much a "vast, pock-marked wasteland."
On another point, nothing on the Internet has ever been free. I pay for access as well as the webmaster, and he may also pay for hosting his website. These expenses are paid regardless of advertising. Advertising revenue only offsets those expenses.
As to the particular FA, this is like spammers claiming that spam blocking will result in the end of email. I see what he's saying from an economic standpoint, but I don't really have any sympathy for him.
The only official Korn shell, ksh93, for Windows is from U/WIN. SFU (as opposed to STFU) comes with pdksh; a clone of ksh88 and absolutely NOT the official ksh.
Bash and Korn shell do NOT run on Windows; they run under Cygwin and U/WIN, respectively. In all honesty, Monad doesn't run on Windows but on .NET. The only shells that actually run on Windows are COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE. If you read the available documentation on CMD.EXE, you'd see that it actually can do a lot of the things the Unix shells can. The things it can't do are due to the obvious differences between Unix and Windows.
Mother
Tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean
What they say
Mother
Oh, it's Dantzig? Never listened to him.
First Terri Schiavo, then the Pope, now Star Trek. The trifecta is complete. "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."
CableCard in its current incarnation is broken. It only does one-way communication, so you can't use interactive services like Video On Demand, Pay-Per-View, Broadcast Schedules, etc. They should fix *that* first before forcing cable companies to push it to the customers.
GNOME Developer: You want attention?
GNOME User: I think I'm entitled.
GNOME Developer: You want attention?
GNOME User: I want GNOME to be more user-friendly!
GNOME Developer: You can't handle user-friendliness! Son, we live in a world that has computers, and those computers have to be programmed by people with compilers. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Website Editor? I have more responsibility here than you could possibly fathom. You weep for user-friendliness, and you curse the GNOME Developers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That GNOME's usability, while hard, probably works well enough for most people. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, creates useful software. You don't want the truth. because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me behind that keyboard, you need me behind that keyboard. We use words like "open source", "free software", "community". We use these words as the backbone to a life spent scratching a personal itch. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very software I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I'd prefer you said thank you, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a copy of Linux, and start coding. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Oops, wrong website.
Talk about not eating your own dogfood?
for the accompanying banner-ad. When did /. become a shill for Sun?