Wake up and smell the coffee, the vast majority of the market [anywhere that has the money to make it worthwhile to sell software too] will be hooked up via broadband in the next 5 - 7 years... I know, I know to all of you out there who have the attention span of a fruit fly in heat I may as well tell you that it will happen in the year 4000. But to the rest of the world that is actually right around the corner.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I am quite confident that more and more firms will make there software available via download. No packaging whatsoever.
This of course leads to the problem of getting all of your documentation only viewable on screen, but this will be acceptable because 99.4% of all software documentation is not even suitable to line a birdcage with to begin with.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I have gotten myself into the unfortunate position of attempting to making Microsoft Index Server create a useable index of a poll of data, which is made up of primarily.pdf documents. And to the best of my knowledge Index Server does not support indexing of.pdf's So it appears that I will need to convert these files to something more useable [preferably HTML]. Any suggestion?
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
This is just sad. When a school such as Harvard, which has the largest endowment of any school in the nation would even to stop to consider such petty antics, it speaks poorly for the backbones of our universities in general.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe the next time the Fairfax county [Virginia] police decide to file charges against me for the use of profanity, I can have the case heard by the UN. While they are at it, they could send UN troops to prevent people from cutting each other off on the interstate!
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Does anyone believe, even for a moment, that this will have any more effect to the production and distribution of viruses, than the anti-spam legislation has had on the amount of junk email being distributed? Please... It is further proof that are legislative system is unable to address technical issues effectively.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
You have to remember that these companies are not "against" porn, because without something objectionable then they do not have a business. They do more to hype the existence of "dangerous" information than any other organization because spreading the hysteria that by merely looking up information on pokeman you will be forced to see 7000 porn pictures and the instructions on how to build a thermo-nuclear device, hence you NEED our software.
Follow the money trail, and you will see that yes these companies want to help. Help themselves to your money.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I am glad to hear some good news for a change. It has been a rough year to date with DMCA, the struggles with DeCSS and more recently CPHACK. But I am afraid that it is to early to rejoice, because as the article states
"..., computer source code, though unintelligible to many, is the preferred method of communication among computer programers."
Most people simply do not want to spend the effort to understand. And large companies like Mattel will do their best to bully the minority because they know that they can get away with it.
But maybe with persistence and good luck we may be fortunate enough to bring a bit of common sense back to our legal systems stance toward individual rights on the electronic frontier.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
There will be some cultures that will be very hesitant to take to the internet. We have already seen resistance by some sects of the Jewish faith, and more recently there have been news articles referring to efforts in France to ban use of phrases such as "e-mail", due to a fear that it is watering down there language. Simply take a look at the level of control that China is trying to gain over its populace access to the internet.
But before we go forward and laugh at these groups and those that will surly follow, lets take a moment and look at their fears. Recent history is riddled with stories of cultures that have all but been removed from existence because they got in the way of "progress". In the United States alone we can point to the Native American's and the Inuit's. They have found that there is little to no room for their culture in our "modern" world.
I believe that many will see the internet in much the same way that the native inhabitants of the US saw the settlers. The fear is justified; over time the continuous exposure to dominant foreign cultures will likely erode many of the facets of other cultures that make them unique.
Is this bad? It has the promise of allowing more people to be able to hold a dialog to share ideas and philosophies on a scale that has never before been possible. Yet I have to admit that I can understand the sense of loss that a proud nation may feel as they discover that slowly cease to exist, one keystroke at a time.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
When the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that there will be no real effort to make Open Source software useable for the masses they will take there money and go play elsewhere.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
CA software is a pain in the ass. And they cannot even manage to resolve conflict issues with their own software [Arcserve and Inoculan frequently will not play nicely together].
And their software is by far the worst in the industry when it comes to the process of licensing. It is a nightmare! Tell them to keep this junk to themselves.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
When I woke up this morning I thought that it would be a good news day, with Kevin being released from prison. But when I went to the 2600 site for an update and saw the first injunction I became depressed.
And now the other shoe drops. It seems to me that today we all get to experience a small amount of the insanity that Kevin has lived through every day for the last five years. We are on the verge of watching a decision made for us by a small group of people who lack the ability to understand the technology involved in the question, much less the ramifications of the final decision.
Hopefully our friends at the EFF can succeed in pulling us through this, by explaining this to a level that even the judges can understand [not a job that I envy]. In the mean time I would like to show my support by leaving up my mirror site.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Sure, if you do not feel that it is fun any more take your ball and go home. But no that you have had your little fit, maybe you want to act like a grown-up for a little while and take a closer look at the situation.
It is not distributed.net's problem that you cannot access your systems to update information that is no longer valid. Yes they have had some issues as of late, but they have made a real effort to correct them, maybe you should send an e-mail and demand your money back. Oh, that's right you didn't send them any money.
Good luck finding ET.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
While the name Amiga does happen to match up with the Spanish term meaning roughly "female friend". The original marketing brochures that pitched the Amiga claimed that the name came from the combining of Alpha and Omega. The begging and the end, or the last word in Personal Computer Technology.
One hopes that it does not turn out to be the End much to soon after the beginning [for this interesting platform at least].
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I still remember the first time that I saw an Amiga [I believe that it was the A1000 model]. I was blown away! I was still playing around with a C64 and still enjoying every minute of it. That is until I saw the Amiga, at the local computer shop they had a floor model just cycling through a graphics display, and I was amazed, It was the most impressive thing that I had seen from a computer [and it was the better part of a decade before I saw anything that I felt matched that demonstration form the mid-eighties].
After that it was so hard to go back to my trusty old 64, but without the money to buy an Amiga I went back, and hoped that someday I could have a computer that was that cool. Although I was never fortunate to own an Amiga, I feel that for many people like myself it went along ways to show us what was possible.
I hope that this time the Amiga really does get an honest chance at making a return to the limelight. If they can successfully make a machine that is true to the original spirit, I would gladly wait in line to buy one.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else find the Intel Pop-Up ads to be intersting addition to this story?
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
...maybe they can find a way to prevent every link for a /. story from suffering the horrible /. effect...
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Let us hope that the water is of higher quality than what comes out of the tap at my place, because nothing can survive in this stuff....
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Wake up and smell the coffee, the vast majority of the market [anywhere that has the money to make it worthwhile to sell software too] will be hooked up via broadband in the next 5 - 7 years... I know, I know to all of you out there who have the attention span of a fruit fly in heat I may as well tell you that it will happen in the year 4000. But to the rest of the world that is actually right around the corner.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I am quite confident that more and more firms will make there software available via download. No packaging whatsoever.
This of course leads to the problem of getting all of your documentation only viewable on screen, but this will be acceptable because 99.4% of all software documentation is not even suitable to line a birdcage with to begin with.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I have gotten myself into the unfortunate position of attempting to making Microsoft Index Server create a useable index of a poll of data, which is made up of primarily .pdf documents. And to the best of my knowledge Index Server does not support indexing of .pdf's So it appears that I will need to convert these files to something more useable [preferably HTML]. Any suggestion?
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Don't you just hate it when you misplace your hard drive that has the top secret nuclear weapon information on it...
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
This is just sad. When a school such as Harvard, which has the largest endowment of any school in the nation would even to stop to consider such petty antics, it speaks poorly for the backbones of our universities in general.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe the next time the Fairfax county [Virginia] police decide to file charges against me for the use of profanity, I can have the case heard by the UN. While they are at it, they could send UN troops to prevent people from cutting each other off on the interstate!
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Does anyone believe, even for a moment, that this will have any more effect to the production and distribution of viruses, than the anti-spam legislation has had on the amount of junk email being distributed? Please... It is further proof that are legislative system is unable to address technical issues effectively.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
You have to remember that these companies are not "against" porn, because without something objectionable then they do not have a business. They do more to hype the existence of "dangerous" information than any other organization because spreading the hysteria that by merely looking up information on pokeman you will be forced to see 7000 porn pictures and the instructions on how to build a thermo-nuclear device, hence you NEED our software.
Follow the money trail, and you will see that yes these companies want to help. Help themselves to your money.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Most people simply do not want to spend the effort to understand. And large companies like Mattel will do their best to bully the minority because they know that they can get away with it.
But maybe with persistence and good luck we may be fortunate enough to bring a bit of common sense back to our legal systems stance toward individual rights on the electronic frontier.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I am sure that a company that is so far in the hole has enough write off's as it is to have no tax responsibilities.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Here is yet another mirror site.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
There will be some cultures that will be very hesitant to take to the internet. We have already seen resistance by some sects of the Jewish faith, and more recently there have been news articles referring to efforts in France to ban use of phrases such as "e-mail", due to a fear that it is watering down there language. Simply take a look at the level of control that China is trying to gain over its populace access to the internet.
But before we go forward and laugh at these groups and those that will surly follow, lets take a moment and look at their fears. Recent history is riddled with stories of cultures that have all but been removed from existence because they got in the way of "progress". In the United States alone we can point to the Native American's and the Inuit's. They have found that there is little to no room for their culture in our "modern" world.
I believe that many will see the internet in much the same way that the native inhabitants of the US saw the settlers. The fear is justified; over time the continuous exposure to dominant foreign cultures will likely erode many of the facets of other cultures that make them unique.
Is this bad? It has the promise of allowing more people to be able to hold a dialog to share ideas and philosophies on a scale that has never before been possible. Yet I have to admit that I can understand the sense of loss that a proud nation may feel as they discover that slowly cease to exist, one keystroke at a time.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
When the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that there will be no real effort to make Open Source software useable for the masses they will take there money and go play elsewhere.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Well, maybe they could print it out for him. He could spend the three years of parole manually decrypting the data.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
CA software is a pain in the ass. And they cannot even manage to resolve conflict issues with their own software [Arcserve and Inoculan frequently will not play nicely together].
And their software is by far the worst in the industry when it comes to the process of licensing. It is a nightmare! Tell them to keep this junk to themselves.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
The person who gets sued by the most money grubbing organizations wins.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
When I woke up this morning I thought that it would be a good news day, with Kevin being released from prison. But when I went to the 2600 site for an update and saw the first injunction I became depressed.
And now the other shoe drops. It seems to me that today we all get to experience a small amount of the insanity that Kevin has lived through every day for the last five years. We are on the verge of watching a decision made for us by a small group of people who lack the ability to understand the technology involved in the question, much less the ramifications of the final decision.
Hopefully our friends at the EFF can succeed in pulling us through this, by explaining this to a level that even the judges can understand [not a job that I envy]. In the mean time I would like to show my support by leaving up my mirror site.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
And I thought that cable television was a vast waste land...
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Sure, if you do not feel that it is fun any more take your ball and go home. But no that you have had your little fit, maybe you want to act like a grown-up for a little while and take a closer look at the situation.
It is not distributed.net's problem that you cannot access your systems to update information that is no longer valid. Yes they have had some issues as of late, but they have made a real effort to correct them, maybe you should send an e-mail and demand your money back. Oh, that's right you didn't send them any money.
Good luck finding ET.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
So you guys do read something other than tech manuals...8)
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
While the name Amiga does happen to match up with the Spanish term meaning roughly "female friend". The original marketing brochures that pitched the Amiga claimed that the name came from the combining of Alpha and Omega. The begging and the end, or the last word in Personal Computer Technology.
One hopes that it does not turn out to be the End much to soon after the beginning [for this interesting platform at least].
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
I still remember the first time that I saw an Amiga [I believe that it was the A1000 model]. I was blown away! I was still playing around with a C64 and still enjoying every minute of it. That is until I saw the Amiga, at the local computer shop they had a floor model just cycling through a graphics display, and I was amazed, It was the most impressive thing that I had seen from a computer [and it was the better part of a decade before I saw anything that I felt matched that demonstration form the mid-eighties].
After that it was so hard to go back to my trusty old 64, but without the money to buy an Amiga I went back, and hoped that someday I could have a computer that was that cool. Although I was never fortunate to own an Amiga, I feel that for many people like myself it went along ways to show us what was possible.
I hope that this time the Amiga really does get an honest chance at making a return to the limelight. If they can successfully make a machine that is true to the original spirit, I would gladly wait in line to buy one.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut