Just change the e-mail address to marketing@yahoo.com. Change the snail-mail to something in North Korea, Iraq, Somalia. Or perhaps something more subtle. Distant towns in Alaska that can only be reached by dogsled when things are frozen? I bet they could use the burning material. Use your imagination. Be creative.
I realize this is a joke, but if you can get statehood for DC, then you would create two senators. The tricky part is that they would both be Democrats because DC is majority Democrat. The Hollywood folks would be on them like bees on honey.
Was anybody else immediately reminded of the old Simon and Garfunkel tune, sounds of silence in particular the line about "people talking without speaking" (the link is a poor transcription).
Once the weight of these new scientists is great enough, there is a violent 'paradigm shift'
AH-HA! So this anti-gravity research is a plot by the old scientists to reduce the weight of the new scientists, and therefore retain their hold on power. Ingenious! I'd better eat more hamburgers to help counter this conspiracy.
S It's an e-meter. It tells you the state of your health, spirit, etc (I don't actually recall what she said) Do you want to try it?
Me Yes.
S OK, hold it like this...
Me Wow. I can make the meter move pretty much any way I like just by gripping it a little more tightly.
S Don't do that.
Me How do you know people aren't doing that subconsciously?
S You have to let go (or something like that). This was accompanied by a look that told me she knew I was a skeptic, she had dealt with us before, didn't really care, and simply wanted to move on to the next sheep. (it's amazing how much can be communicated with just one look sometimes).
The only other time I've ecountered a Scientologist was downtown. He asked me if I wanted to see a free movie. I figured there would be at least a half hour of propoganda with the movie, and I didn't feel like sitting through that so I declined.
The way I see it, Scientology is to the private sector what the lottery is to the public sector--a way to tax stupidity.
Everybody knows you can't protect digital content. Even if they manage to come up with hardware that only provides analog output, it's still hackable. You just need A/D conversion. If they introduce water-marks, it doesn't matter. Even if they vary the output randomly, it doesn't matter because you can run the movie multiple times and determine a "consensus value" for each sample.
Gangsters in Hong Kong will have this technology before they even need it. So, what it all comes down to is punishing the innocent so the guilty can make more money. Again.
If there were no copyrighted EXEs I wouldn't mind that, as long as you could copyright source like books. Then all OS vendors (cough... Microsoft... cough) would have to ship a compiler with the system. It would also encourage the development of a more modern and platform-independant build system. Makefiles and project files both suck. Something XML-based would be nice.
See-bit-puh. Don't see bits. See incomprehensible garbage. Copy protected. Feh. I think I'll read a book. See-bit-puh. See me putter in the garden. See-bit-sputter. Sputter economy, sputter. Dick is a congressman. Dick likes to vote. Dick likes money. See Dick run. See Dick win. See Dick legislate. Legislate, dick, legislate. See Sally jiggle. Jiggle Sally, Jiggle! Dick can see Sally jiggle because I has the V-chip Plus (TM) in his computer.
For those who don't know, 60 Senators voted for unconstitutional campaign finance legislation.
So, nevermind what those 60 senators do. They are traitors and should be removed post-haste! The Declaration of Independance describes our authority to do that, but it doesn't give any legal specifics. I would like to see them removed peacefully, along with the congressman and the president (assuming he doesn't have a last-minute change of heart and veto the bill).
So, what say to gathering at the Capitol? We will bring no arms. We will simply crowd the Capitol and attempt to remove them bare-handed. If our numbers are insufficient to overwhelm the police, we will at least have the satisfaction of having filled the jails and embarrassed these idiots. Hopefully that will be enough. If it isn't, then we will call on those who bear arms to act as the 2nd wave, freeing the prisoners and taking the Capitol until the various states can send new senators and congressman to replace the traitors.
Why are you asking this question? Why aren't you asking "How exactly is istartedi interesting?". I'll tell you why. It's Because RMS is famous and I'm not.
That's enough, but it sort of begs the question "why is he famous?". The answer to that is long and difficult. Some would argue that he isn't famous, and outside the computing community that's true, but only because those outsideers don't realize what an impact the GNU culture has had (for better or worse) on the devices that impact their daily lives.
You could also ask, "at what point did he cross the threshold and become famous?". Was it when he took vengeance on Symbolics? Was it when the GNU project was announced? If he hadn't been at MIT, would anyone have cared? Did the MacArthur grant make him famous? I think pinpointing the exact moment is difficult.
Love him, hate him, love what he stands for, hate what he stands for. Regardless, I don't think there is any arguing that he is an important figure.
Re:Its funny our attitude about success...
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They got:
1st people to die in space.
However, there might be some dispute about whether or not they were actually in space. At any rate, the capsule was high enough so that when a faulty valve caused them to lose presure, there was not enough oxygen to sustain life.
Then there was the sheer scale of some of their disasters. You think the Apollo-1 disaster and the shuttle were the result of arrogance? Picture a senior engineer and dozens of workers gathered around a rocket loaded with fuel known to be dangerous. Naturally it exploded, killed all, and devestated the program. Many of those gathered 'round faced an agonizing decision: risk the explosion, or risk being labeled as cowards and possibly being purged.
Prepare to see the quality of HP products plummet. Prepare to see a slow death of niche imaging products
Prepare to see competitors move in with better products and/or take up the slack. Although unless they are a big competitor I agree that they won't be able to subsidize niche products. I don't know what these niche products are, but perhaps they could be sold to some other company.
Prepare to see layoffs of otherwise securely employed folks. Rah rah, share value.
Prepare to see a flood of early retirements from HP. A significant number of them could have the smarts and/or the money to start their own companies. They are likely to be people who miss "the garage" if Compaq suitizes the company too much. They could create some interesting stuff.
The heat incinerated herds of reindeer and charred tens of thousands of evergreens across hundreds of square moles.
I guess the comet/asteroid/whatever didn't bother to get permission from Greenpeace. Also, I bet those square moles were pissed. What did the cool moles do?
In all seriousness, how long did it take the herds to recover? Probably not that long. This certainly should put all the arguments over Alaskan drilling into perspective.
The people who choose the GPL for their software do so because they don't care about making money but they don't want anyone else to make money
Almost. You just need to add from software sales on the end.
GPL'd software makes plenty of money for distributors, consultants, and businesses that run servers.
A lot of people fail to make the distinction. What if there were a strong GPL community for music? Then musicians would allow the RIAA to distribute without ever signing them, and they wouldn't allow other musicians to cover their tunes under contract.
I get a real kick out of people who whine about the RIAA's contracts, but think IBM using Linux is great for programmers.
No, it wouldn't satisfy them at all. I proposed something like this several years ago to help speed the development of my VRML software. IIRC, I was going to let it go after I made $50,000. I got two responses. One said my proposal was "disturbing" and was "not what it was all about" and the other asked "why I was holding the software hostage". (I briefly considered using the ransom note font in an ad campaign as a humorous take on the whole affair).
I learned a few things from this: Regular shareware customers don't care about Free Software. Free Software advocates care about nothing else, and get royally pissed if you suggest anything else. Also, there is a hard core group of people that I like to call "the insatiables". By definition, doing business with an insatiable will always cost you money. If you have an insatiable customer, the best thing to do is terminate his services and/or recall your sales people. The insatiables are relatively rare (I worked in CR for a year and I think I dealth with 2 of them) but the Free Software community naturally attracts more insatiables. They think they have found Nirvanna when they get Free Software, but then they complain that it doesn't get released fast enough or compete well enough with payware product-X. It's because they're insatiables. There is absolutely no point in ever trying to satisfy them.
The real problems come if the US decides to give the technology to some 3rd party. We might want to give them Mark-3 smart bombs, but we might not want to give them the ability to develop their own Mark-4 smart bombs. Therefore, DO NOT include GPL'd code in a product if you can foresee that we might want to give binary-only versions of it to another country. Since you can't predict such actions, my conclusion is that you shouldn't include GPL code in any such project. Heck, this is a defense project! Clean-room the whole thing from the ground up. Go nuts. Spend billions.
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Just change the e-mail address to marketing@yahoo.com. Change the snail-mail to something in North Korea, Iraq, Somalia. Or perhaps something more subtle. Distant towns in Alaska that can only be reached by dogsled when things are frozen? I bet they could use the burning material. Use your imagination. Be creative.
I realize this is a joke, but if you can get statehood for DC, then you would create two senators. The tricky part is that they would both be Democrats because DC is majority Democrat. The Hollywood folks would be on them like bees on honey.
Was anybody else immediately reminded of the old Simon and Garfunkel tune, sounds of silence in particular the line about "people talking without speaking" (the link is a poor transcription).
FortKnox, somebody moderated your first post as Redundant. Thank-you and the moderator for giving me my daily giggle.
OK... I'm malfunctioning. I just realized he attached multiple keys. Time to catch some sleep.
According to an email from Lucky Green
That key of his seems awfully long. Sure enough, when I pasted it into a text file it was 46 kilobytes!!!
There must be something else in there besides the 2048-bit key, but what? Is the first part the public key, and the rest the encrypted message?
Once the weight of these new scientists is great enough, there is a violent 'paradigm shift'
AH-HA! So this anti-gravity research is a plot by the old scientists to reduce the weight of the new scientists, and therefore retain their hold on power. Ingenious! I'd better eat more hamburgers to help counter this conspiracy.
Me What's that?
S It's an e-meter. It tells you the state of your health, spirit, etc (I don't actually recall what she said) Do you want to try it?
Me Yes.
S OK, hold it like this...
Me Wow. I can make the meter move pretty much any way I like just by gripping it a little more tightly.
S Don't do that.
Me How do you know people aren't doing that subconsciously?
S You have to let go (or something like that). This was accompanied by a look that told me she knew I was a skeptic, she had dealt with us before, didn't really care, and simply wanted to move on to the next sheep. (it's amazing how much can be communicated with just one look sometimes).
The only other time I've ecountered a Scientologist was downtown. He asked me if I wanted to see a free movie. I figured there would be at least a half hour of propoganda with the movie, and I didn't feel like sitting through that so I declined.
The way I see it, Scientology is to the private sector what the lottery is to the public sector--a way to tax stupidity.
Everybody knows you can't protect digital content. Even if they manage to come up with hardware that only provides analog output, it's still hackable. You just need A/D conversion. If they introduce water-marks, it doesn't matter. Even if they vary the output randomly, it doesn't matter because you can run the movie multiple times and determine a "consensus value" for each sample.
Gangsters in Hong Kong will have this technology before they even need it. So, what it all comes down to is punishing the innocent so the guilty can make more money. Again.
If there were no copyrighted EXEs I wouldn't mind that, as long as you could copyright source like books. Then all OS vendors (cough... Microsoft... cough) would have to ship a compiler with the system. It would also encourage the development of a more modern and platform-independant build system. Makefiles and project files both suck. Something XML-based would be nice.
See-bit-puh. Don't see bits. See incomprehensible garbage. Copy protected. Feh. I think I'll read a book. See-bit-puh. See me putter in the garden. See-bit-sputter. Sputter economy, sputter. Dick is a congressman. Dick likes to vote. Dick likes money. See Dick run. See Dick win. See Dick legislate. Legislate, dick, legislate. See Sally jiggle. Jiggle Sally, Jiggle! Dick can see Sally jiggle because I has the V-chip Plus (TM) in his computer.
...if they used it to run a simulation of climate and discovered that the Science Grid was responsable for global warming.
(insert your comments about how hot Company X's chips run below)
We have only 40 Senators. The rest are traitors.
For those who don't know, 60 Senators voted for unconstitutional campaign finance legislation.
So, nevermind what those 60 senators do. They are traitors and should be removed post-haste! The Declaration of Independance describes our authority to do that, but it doesn't give any legal specifics. I would like to see them removed peacefully, along with the congressman and the president (assuming he doesn't have a last-minute change of heart and veto the bill).
So, what say to gathering at the Capitol? We will bring no arms. We will simply crowd the Capitol and attempt to remove them bare-handed. If our numbers are insufficient to overwhelm the police, we will at least have the satisfaction of having filled the jails and embarrassed these idiots. Hopefully that will be enough. If it isn't, then we will call on those who bear arms to act as the 2nd wave, freeing the prisoners and taking the Capitol until the various states can send new senators and congressman to replace the traitors.
can you imagine spending hours of your time every day trying to convince people that the sky is blue?
The trouble is, people keep telling him that the sky can be grey, white, or almost black. Yet he refuses to believe them.
Your question answers itself.
Why are you asking this question? Why aren't you asking "How exactly is istartedi interesting?". I'll tell you why. It's Because RMS is famous and I'm not.
That's enough, but it sort of begs the question "why is he famous?". The answer to that is long and difficult. Some would argue that he isn't famous, and outside the computing community that's true, but only because those outsideers don't realize what an impact the GNU culture has had (for better or worse) on the devices that impact their daily lives.
You could also ask, "at what point did he cross the threshold and become famous?". Was it when he took vengeance on Symbolics? Was it when the GNU project was announced? If he hadn't been at MIT, would anyone have cared? Did the MacArthur grant make him famous? I think pinpointing the exact moment is difficult.
Love him, hate him, love what he stands for, hate what he stands for. Regardless, I don't think there is any arguing that he is an important figure.
They got:
1st people to die in space.
However, there might be some dispute about whether or not they were actually in space. At any rate, the capsule was high enough so that when a faulty valve caused them to lose presure, there was not enough oxygen to sustain life.
Then there was the sheer scale of some of their disasters. You think the Apollo-1 disaster and the shuttle were the result of arrogance? Picture a senior engineer and dozens of workers gathered around a rocket loaded with fuel known to be dangerous. Naturally it exploded, killed all, and devestated the program. Many of those gathered 'round faced an agonizing decision: risk the explosion, or risk being labeled as cowards and possibly being purged.
Will this make it harder to see Northern Lights in Canada, and easier to see them in Siberia?
Prepare to see the quality of HP products plummet. Prepare to see a slow death of niche imaging products
Prepare to see competitors move in with better products and/or take up the slack. Although unless they are a big competitor I agree that they won't be able to subsidize niche products. I don't know what these niche products are, but perhaps they could be sold to some other company.
Prepare to see layoffs of otherwise securely employed folks. Rah rah, share value.
Prepare to see a flood of early retirements from HP. A significant number of them could have the smarts and/or the money to start their own companies. They are likely to be people who miss "the garage" if Compaq suitizes the company too much. They could create some interesting stuff.
The heat incinerated herds of reindeer and charred tens of thousands of evergreens across hundreds of square moles.
I guess the comet/asteroid/whatever didn't bother to get permission from Greenpeace. Also, I bet those square moles were pissed. What did the cool moles do?
In all seriousness, how long did it take the herds to recover? Probably not that long. This certainly should put all the arguments over Alaskan drilling into perspective.
I can see at least sqrt(-1) problems with that.
The people who choose the GPL for their software do so because they don't care about making money but they don't want anyone else to make money
Almost. You just need to add from software sales on the end.
GPL'd software makes plenty of money for distributors, consultants, and businesses that run servers.
A lot of people fail to make the distinction. What if there were a strong GPL community for music? Then musicians would allow the RIAA to distribute without ever signing them, and they wouldn't allow other musicians to cover their tunes under contract.
I get a real kick out of people who whine about the RIAA's contracts, but think IBM using Linux is great for programmers.
No, it wouldn't satisfy them at all. I proposed something like this several years ago to help speed the development of my VRML software. IIRC, I was going to let it go after I made $50,000. I got two responses. One said my proposal was "disturbing" and was "not what it was all about" and the other asked "why I was holding the software hostage". (I briefly considered using the ransom note font in an ad campaign as a humorous take on the whole affair).
I learned a few things from this: Regular shareware customers don't care about Free Software. Free Software advocates care about nothing else, and get royally pissed if you suggest anything else. Also, there is a hard core group of people that I like to call "the insatiables". By definition, doing business with an insatiable will always cost you money. If you have an insatiable customer, the best thing to do is terminate his services and/or recall your sales people. The insatiables are relatively rare (I worked in CR for a year and I think I dealth with 2 of them) but the Free Software community naturally attracts more insatiables. They think they have found Nirvanna when they get Free Software, but then they complain that it doesn't get released fast enough or compete well enough with payware product-X. It's because they're insatiables. There is absolutely no point in ever trying to satisfy them.
The real problems come if the US decides to give the technology to some 3rd party. We might want to give them Mark-3 smart bombs, but we might not want to give them the ability to develop their own Mark-4 smart bombs. Therefore, DO NOT include GPL'd code in a product if you can foresee that we might want to give binary-only versions of it to another country. Since you can't predict such actions, my conclusion is that you shouldn't include GPL code in any such project. Heck, this is a defense project! Clean-room the whole thing from the ground up. Go nuts. Spend billions.
Although, if the binary is in a bomb
And you thought copy-protected CD-ROMs were bad.
A shovel, you say? Daft!