I'll bet the "Apps" division has some (lots of) influence. It's one thing to see and understand what's there. It's quite another to drive the requirements.
This may very well be the case, but as separate companies, answering to separate stock holders, and physically separated from each other, the leverage between "divisions" disappears. They could sign secret pacts and they could have back-room meetings to keep the dream alive, but the DOJ will be watching for this.
Think of an anology: two best friends (male) are out one night and a beautiful, charming, intelligent woman approaches. Both men are interested in this woman and they both could sit politely and talk to her for the evening, but both have more in mind than just conversation. The two men politely suggest a threesome, but Miss Beautiful Charming Intelligent says, "No, thank you." Now the relationship between these two best friends is competitive. They can smile and shake hands in public, but at the end of the day, their relationship with this woman is at the exclusion of the other man.
Thanks for the great information, AC. So let me get this straight, some unsuspecting inventor made the mistake of showing his "whell" mouse to MS, who acted all uninterested like it wasn't a great invention, then, as soon as this guy's out of Bill's office, they rush down the hall with their new found inspiration and create their own knock-off "whell" mouse. Incredible!
If it weren't for all the great links and supporting information that you provided, I wouldn't believe this story at all. I hope this hapless inventor has luck with his new gas pill.
Let's hope Spider Man is more like A Simple Plan than Darkman.
I like camp as much as the next guy, but after a while it would be nice for comic books to be taken seriously. Look at what Burton did for Batman. A legitimate look at an interesting character. True to the source material, dignified, and novel. If Raimi goes camp witht his one, then why not just get Jim Carrey to talk with his ass cheeks while battling Billy Zane in a Doc Octopus costume.
It makes playing Quake very difficult, with 25% packetloss.
Sounds like the system is working very well. University bandwidth isn't wasted between rival dorms. Sucks for you, works well for the people who need the bandwidth.
I got a 61 on the Pat Buchanan scale! Other candidates scored higher, but he could be the President that would satisfy all of my deviant homosexual urges.
Do not meddle in the affairs of literary critics, for they are boring and quick to verbosity.
I'd like to first say that Stallman makes some excellent points in the essay section of this web page. Freedom of information is important, and present copyright laws appear to be curtailing that freedom. However, the fiction portion of this web page is, at best, drivel.
Fiction, by definition, does not require a plot, but it usually helps. Stallman has chosen the genre, yet takes advantage of none of the benefits of fiction, namely: emotional interest in the characters, and tension as those characters struggle. Instead we are treated to what is almost a laundry list of potential crimes and their consequences, all leading up to the glorious "Tycho Uprising" and the ensuing freedom of information. Because, as we all know, information wants to be free. (Sorry, I had to work that in somewhere.)
Dan solves his problem with a little mini-revolution, freeing a tiny portion of information to be shared between himself and his future wife. Touching, but we'll never know. Stallman moves on to the next item on the list. FBI, Microsoft Support, Central Licensing, now on to "the administrators" and potential expulsion. But the punishment is fitting for the crime, or rather the society. Lissa and Dan will not be expelled, but denied access to the information they need to graduate. This is a nice touch. Our future society recognizes the importance of access to information, yet, paradoxically hoardes it where it cannot be used.
In this single detail, Stallman underscores the dilemma society has long been faced with: the interests of the individual at the expense of the society. Nameless faceless corporation (hint: M$) and its fat cat CEO (hint: BG) get rich by hiding information and selling it back to us in cheap (as in quality) maintenance releases. Long suffering society pays this extortion fee just to be able to write emails to Grandma.
The fiction, sadly, is not faithful to the complex reality it attempts to abstract. Stallman reduces the problem to simple black and white. He paints a dismal picture of life in 2047 (and with the robots taking over the world in 2084, there isn't much time!) and then offers the nice pat happy solution of the Tycho Uprising. (I like the name he chose. The data from Tycho Brahe's work allowed other astronomers to draw conclusions about our solar system before the invention of the telescope. An excellent case history of free information benefitting society at large. Though Tycho didn't exactly suffer.)
He hits on some interesting points, but the stilted attempt at science fiction masks the logic and insight. Nothing is lost (and much gained) by skipping the "story" altogether in favor of the Author's Note
you may be legally liable for making it possible for a cyber-terrorist to use your computer to attack someone else, if you do not apply the fix and still leave your Macintosh connected to the Internet.
Leaving an unpatched Mac connected to the internet is like giving a loaded gun to a monkey. Remember there is a "conspiracy to shut down Internet Connections."
But when, John!? When? Christ almighty tell us when this dreaded attack will take place!
Zero-hour is probably New Years Eve, EST.
Somebody's been sniffing the old Maser a bit much lately.
Did he work with Kernighan and Ritchie? If so, I don't think we can rely on him for a disinterested opinion on liscensing issues. Java will crush their petty C like the bug that we all know it is!
No, he's just making a point. Had he practiced X-Treme/.ing, his "posting partner" would have spotted his egregious mathematical error and corrected it.
How are "most other cars" more interchangeable with a Taurus?
The tires, battery, gasoline, etc... all could be used by another car, but that's not how it works, is it? You don't buy a new car and use parts from the old one to keep it running ( in most cases ). You can do this with computers and you can do this with Macs.
Apple has a monopoly on Macs the same way Microsoft has a monoply of Windows. If you want to buy a Mac you have to buy it from Apple (duh!) and if you want to buy Windows you have to buy (ultimately) from Microsoft.
Monopoly has nothing to do with it. The term you are looking for is proprietary hardware or closed platform.
Starting to drift off topic here, but you mentioned one of my favorite books...
One added element in DADOES, it was considered bad citizenship not to own a live animal. It was everyone's duty to own and care for animals, but average people could not afford anything larger than small pets. To prove their citizenship and empathy (read: humanity) people displayed fake animals on the roofs of their houses.
One important fact the article missed, is that the target market for these pets is not necessarily the US. Pets are far more rare and expensive in Japan. Even on a modest income, I could afford acres of land in (rural) America, and stock that land with cheap dogs. In Japan, this would not be possible.
I heard a news story on NPR ( sorry, no link ) that talked about a service that let you rent a dog for the afternoon. You didn't get to take it anywhere, you just walked it around the provided area, but you got to pick the dog you wanted.
Not to say that Americans won't buy this. I would love one, but in Japan, it may actually be a far more practical solution.
I read PG texts on my Palm IIIe all the time, but I have to take the time to download the text, convert it to Palm format, then install. If PG were to take their top X number of downloads and make them conspicuously available to Palm users, it might go a long way to increasing visibility.
The problem is, you may be preaching to the converted. Palm users are tech savvy; tech savvy people are already aware of PG.
It discusses the Lotus Notes bug in SP6. The MS web site says that a hot fix will be available next week.
One of the explanations forwarded by this article, is that SP6 denies access to TCP/IP ports including 1352, which Notes uses, to all non-admin accounts, but the article goes on to say that IIS (I think?) could use that port with no difficulty.
Unconfirmed, but I have heard that SP 6 also prevents Domino (the Lotus Notes Server) from loading as a service.
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I'll bet the "Apps" division has some (lots of) influence. It's one thing to see and understand what's there. It's quite another to drive the requirements.
This may very well be the case, but as separate companies, answering to separate stock holders, and physically separated from each other, the leverage between "divisions" disappears. They could sign secret pacts and they could have back-room meetings to keep the dream alive, but the DOJ will be watching for this.
Think of an anology: two best friends (male) are out one night and a beautiful, charming, intelligent woman approaches. Both men are interested in this woman and they both could sit politely and talk to her for the evening, but both have more in mind than just conversation. The two men politely suggest a threesome, but Miss Beautiful Charming Intelligent says, "No, thank you." Now the relationship between these two best friends is competitive. They can smile and shake hands in public, but at the end of the day, their relationship with this woman is at the exclusion of the other man.
Thanks for the great information, AC. So let me get this straight, some unsuspecting inventor made the mistake of showing his "whell" mouse to MS, who acted all uninterested like it wasn't a great invention, then, as soon as this guy's out of Bill's office, they rush down the hall with their new found inspiration and create their own knock-off "whell" mouse. Incredible!
If it weren't for all the great links and supporting information that you provided, I wouldn't believe this story at all. I hope this hapless inventor has luck with his new gas pill.
King Aelfred war meine hlafward!
Let's hope Spider Man is more like A Simple Plan than Darkman.
I like camp as much as the next guy, but after a while it would be nice for comic books to be taken seriously. Look at what Burton did for Batman. A legitimate look at an interesting character. True to the source material, dignified, and novel. If Raimi goes camp witht his one, then why not just get Jim Carrey to talk with his ass cheeks while battling Billy Zane in a Doc Octopus costume.
Normally I don't flame for grammar and spelling, but the man's name was Edgar Allan Poe. If it's going to be on every post, you should get it right.
It makes playing Quake very difficult, with 25% packetloss.
Sounds like the system is working very well. University bandwidth isn't wasted between rival dorms. Sucks for you, works well for the people who need the bandwidth.
Just a note, one of the most interesting spellings of that word that I have seen. Do Germans pronounce it cloige?
Previous results of Geller lawsuits.
have to? non sequitur.
No. Just a grammatical error. In fact, pointing out his error as a non sequitur is more of a non sequitur than the alleged non sequitur itself.
I got a 61 on the Pat Buchanan scale! Other candidates scored higher, but he could be the President that would satisfy all of my deviant homosexual urges.
Do not meddle in the affairs of literary critics, for they are boring and quick to verbosity.
I'd like to first say that Stallman makes some excellent points in the essay section of this web page. Freedom of information is important, and present copyright laws appear to be curtailing that freedom. However, the fiction portion of this web page is, at best, drivel.
Fiction, by definition, does not require a plot, but it usually helps. Stallman has chosen the genre, yet takes advantage of none of the benefits of fiction, namely: emotional interest in the characters, and tension as those characters struggle. Instead we are treated to what is almost a laundry list of potential crimes and their consequences, all leading up to the glorious "Tycho Uprising" and the ensuing freedom of information. Because, as we all know, information wants to be free. (Sorry, I had to work that in somewhere.)
Dan solves his problem with a little mini-revolution, freeing a tiny portion of information to be shared between himself and his future wife. Touching, but we'll never know. Stallman moves on to the next item on the list. FBI, Microsoft Support, Central Licensing, now on to "the administrators" and potential expulsion. But the punishment is fitting for the crime, or rather the society. Lissa and Dan will not be expelled, but denied access to the information they need to graduate. This is a nice touch. Our future society recognizes the importance of access to information, yet, paradoxically hoardes it where it cannot be used.
In this single detail, Stallman underscores the dilemma society has long been faced with: the interests of the individual at the expense of the society. Nameless faceless corporation (hint: M$) and its fat cat CEO (hint: BG) get rich by hiding information and selling it back to us in cheap (as in quality) maintenance releases. Long suffering society pays this extortion fee just to be able to write emails to Grandma.
The fiction, sadly, is not faithful to the complex reality it attempts to abstract. Stallman reduces the problem to simple black and white. He paints a dismal picture of life in 2047 (and with the robots taking over the world in 2084, there isn't much time!) and then offers the nice pat happy solution of the Tycho Uprising. (I like the name he chose. The data from Tycho Brahe's work allowed other astronomers to draw conclusions about our solar system before the invention of the telescope. An excellent case history of free information benefitting society at large. Though Tycho didn't exactly suffer.)
He hits on some interesting points, but the stilted attempt at science fiction masks the logic and insight. Nothing is lost (and much gained) by skipping the "story" altogether in favor of the Author's Note
IMHO, one of the lamest pieces of "sci-fi" in existence.
From the Copeland FAQ:
you may be legally liable for making it possible for a cyber-terrorist to use your computer to attack someone else, if you do not apply the fix and still leave your Macintosh connected to the Internet.
Leaving an unpatched Mac connected to the internet is like giving a loaded gun to a monkey. Remember there is a "conspiracy to shut down Internet Connections."
But when, John!? When? Christ almighty tell us when this dreaded attack will take place!
Zero-hour is probably New Years Eve, EST.
Somebody's been sniffing the old Maser a bit much lately.
Did he work with Kernighan and Ritchie? If so, I don't think we can rely on him for a disinterested opinion on liscensing issues. Java will crush their petty C like the bug that we all know it is!
No, he's just making a point. Had he practiced X-Treme /.ing, his "posting partner" would have spotted his egregious mathematical error and corrected it.
Does "posting partner" sound dirty?
If the "point" of Frankenstein could be packaged in a nice, neat, little /. post, then Mary Shelly wouldn't have had to write it.
The novel is a novel because it needed to be. She couldn't have told the story, or made the "point" as well with less words, or in a lesser art form.
And since you asked, The Stand means nothing to me.
How are "most other cars" more interchangeable with a Taurus?
The tires, battery, gasoline, etc... all could be used by another car, but that's not how it works, is it? You don't buy a new car and use parts from the old one to keep it running ( in most cases ). You can do this with computers and you can do this with Macs.
Apple has a monopoly on Macs the same way Microsoft has a monoply of Windows. If you want to buy a Mac you have to buy it from Apple (duh!) and if you want to buy Windows you have to buy (ultimately) from Microsoft.
Monopoly has nothing to do with it. The term you are looking for is proprietary hardware or closed platform.
Starting to drift off topic here, but you mentioned one of my favorite books...
One added element in DADOES, it was considered bad citizenship not to own a live animal. It was everyone's duty to own and care for animals, but average people could not afford anything larger than small pets. To prove their citizenship and empathy (read: humanity) people displayed fake animals on the roofs of their houses.
This book is so good it makes me want to cry.
One important fact the article missed, is that the target market for these pets is not necessarily the US. Pets are far more rare and expensive in Japan. Even on a modest income, I could afford acres of land in (rural) America, and stock that land with cheap dogs. In Japan, this would not be possible.
I heard a news story on NPR ( sorry, no link ) that talked about a service that let you rent a dog for the afternoon. You didn't get to take it anywhere, you just walked it around the provided area, but you got to pick the dog you wanted.
Not to say that Americans won't buy this. I would love one, but in Japan, it may actually be a far more practical solution.
Engage in attention-seeking behavior, and don't accept criticism.
Well, the profile fits Katz at least. It might not catch potential murderers, but it may help us find and contain future "journalists".
I support Katz profiling!
What futures does Slashdot forcast when Quantum Computing becomes a reality?
Ubiquitous spell checking... I hope.
The Palm computing platform is the big plus
I read PG texts on my Palm IIIe all the time, but I have to take the time to download the text, convert it to Palm format, then install. If PG were to take their top X number of downloads and make them conspicuously available to Palm users, it might go a long way to increasing visibility.
The problem is, you may be preaching to the converted. Palm users are tech savvy; tech savvy people are already aware of PG.
Still, it would help me. Start with Shakespeare.
PC Week article
It discusses the Lotus Notes bug in SP6. The MS web site says that a hot fix will be available next week.
One of the explanations forwarded by this article, is that SP6 denies access to TCP/IP ports including 1352, which Notes uses, to all non-admin accounts, but the article goes on to say that IIS (I think?) could use that port with no difficulty.
Unconfirmed, but I have heard that SP 6 also prevents Domino (the Lotus Notes Server) from loading as a service.
(I like the saying "Big trees from little acorns grow.")
I like saying, "Big trees grow from little acorns." That way, I don't sound like Chief Nokahoma.
Go Braves!
Or it could just be another SORE that U can't C.