It's Linux Global Partners not "Link" as reported. It's the same people that fund Helix and Gnu Cash and a bunch of other stuff.
As a side note, I went to helix.com when I first heard of Helix and wondered why they were talking about Irritable Bowel Syndrome... I just find that funny.
Fandom.com (Hereby refered to as EVIL BAD COMPANY) sent Fandom.tv (Hereby refered to as POOR VICTIM) sent them a cease & desist for domain squatting. This is the part that I don't really understand. If EVIL BAD COMPANY is talking about trademark infringement, it goes into the whole Microsoft Windows[tm] vs Windows (no tm).
I think that POOR VICTIM's best course of action is to tell them to shove it up the EVIL BAD COMPANY corporate ass, perhaps in better terms though.
I still don't understand how POOR VICTIM can really be domain squatting if they actually have a valid website up with relative content. Domain squatting is registering doctor.com and bidding it off to the highest bidder.
Someone has their head so far up their ass it's just going to be nasty. Remember Colgate-Polmolive Vs. ajax.org, same thing.
You are the one that mentioned Sig11. I did not. Whether Anne Marie be Sig11 or not, I merely pointed out the obvious facts that that person who made the above posts was completely bass-ackwards in their reasoning. Which is entirely correct (even the article they "agreed" with, contradicted their statements)
And it is unconventional, if you haven't noticed there are a bunch of GPL-zealots here. I don't do that shit, if you listened to what I said - It is FREE, in all senses - that means you can do with it what you will, it's everyones property. Go put it in your proprietary product.
For Slashdot to accept this they'd have to drop every bandwagon they have jumped on (QT/KDE, GPL License violation witch hunts, etc). I'm not being angry, I'm turning your initial statement back around on you when you didn't stop to consider what the hell I was saying. I, in no way, called Sig11/Anne Marie/whoever mediocre, nor insult them. To go back to my original post, I stated that their post was incorrect (perhaps in a manner you think is wrong, that's your opinion). Now, if telling someone that they are wrong and asking them to stop being so vocally wrong is telling them they are mediocre, then sure.. that's one twisted perspective but I plead guilty. The kicker comes in is that whoever they are, they know they are wrong (it seems so most of the time) but post just to get the karma and the responses. That is my point, I never said they were mediocre (in fact, almost the opposite with one of my opening sentences: You got the game down perfectly.
That is not a sign of mediocrity, and also: you don't actually have your own thoughts but only listen to those with the loudest bullhorn., this goes into the whole karma whoring game. They are saying what the people want to hear, regardless of the truth behind it.
You have a serious problem with perspective, and reasoning it seems. You decided that I was calling him mediocre for whatever reason. Feel free to your own opinion, but you are absolutely wrong.
Perhaps you should really look at what I said, it was no attack - it was a request. And everything I said was factual (they did not read the article, perhaps skimmed it - but to come it at #22 with missing massive points of the article provides very conclusive evidence that they did not in fact read it) So, if you compare this with the guidelines for how to get karma that are all over the place, "Get in clear and early, go with the herd" is what they did. They karma whored. Now that that is proven, where the hell did I attack the person? I merely told them that I didn't want to see their karma whore posts anymore. Are they going to listen? No. I know that, I just wanted to post and nothing more.
So, if you have any chance of saving grace at this moment you will just shut up and walk away, because you do not even understand the start of this thread.
You must be a hellishly mediocre programmer, that you are blind to the good
consequences of unconventional things and see only the bad.
Mhm, you totally missed the part about my free code for everyone for everything if it's written to be free. That's really conventional isn't it.
You must be a hellishly mediocre person if you are blind to what people say and only hear what you want.
Game reviews work wonders man. I usually go off of what a few sites that I have faith in say. If they say, hey it's good - then I trust them usually and buy it. If they say it sucks, I trust them and don't buy it.
Alternate legal method, I just hate all the warez sites.. affiliation with porn is a must for them for some weird reason, and all sorts of other things I just dont want to have to deal with while downloading (illegal) software.
First off, best way to get modded up: I know I'll be modded down, but...
You got the game down perfectly. Unfortunately, your argument is completely assinine. Obviously you didn't read anything at all, and you don't actually have your own thoughts but only listen to those with the loudest bullhorn.
I am a programmer, you are an escort. I give my stuff away for free and encourage it's use where ever (so don't give me that corporate-theft bullshit either). You are talking out your ass, and before you decide to take up a cause why don't you learn about it and stop just karma whoring. You are already at 50, so just shut up and stop polluting slashdot with your idiotic rampages about civil rights.
My initial response to TheIndex, dont quit your day job fellas.
After 3 sample searches, while one of my nick that returns many results on most other "top search engines" returns none on TheIndex.
Searching for another search engine (google) returns 89 results, while the top hit does not even have the string "google" in the content, while it has the google affiliate box on the page this is not what I was looking for. The biggest penalty is this site: http://icannot.org which does not have the string "google" in the content, display or embedded in the HTML. Anywhere. Violates point 3 of their read me first , that states all terms must be in the article.. Now maybe their cache is old. Either way it's wrong.
3rd search was for an arbitrary string "motorcycles". While the search took quite a bit of time (maybe slashdot has something to do with this) most of the sites had nothing to do with motorcycles. A lot of them had to do with bicycles. Nice idea, the synonym engine -- too bad it doesn't work.
If you said "I went to the great mall", while there are plenty of great malls in the world, the great mall is in Minnesota.
And if you said we went to the great mall in Nevada, you would be incorrect - as the great mall is in minnesota. While California does have a "the great mall" as well, you could even say "the great mall of California" because it is still a place. When you use 'the' in front of a name of something, you are giving it a specific instance.
Your example of the closest example of a * would still serve the case, as the closest example of badlands would probably be in arizona or utah (depending upon your location in nevada) - as nevada doesn't even have any inspecific badlands. All nevada has is deserts really. (Using the badlands definition of Barren land characterized by roughly eroded ridges, peaks, and mesas.)
Unfortunately, if you just said, "We went through some bad lands of Nevada" that would be correct. But if you said, "We went through the bad lands of Nevada" it sounds as though you went to a place. Such as, I went to the mall. Badlands is also defined as a plural noun, but in a context specific case (the badlands) it is defined as:
A heavily eroded arid region of southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska. The Badlands National Monument in
South Dakota was established in 1939 to protect the area's colorful rock formations and prehistoric fossils.
dictionary.com is my friend, should be yours too.
You can't say we went to the badlands, unless you are talking about he ones in South Dakota - other wise you just went to badlands.
Out of my hours on hold with Pac Bell DSL support I can tell you that each and everyone of their support personnel are grossly unqualified to do their job.
I know what the problem is, yet they dont even understand when I tell them what the routing problem is. It's not like it's a hard problem.. Most of these people dont even understand what a router is, I know this because I was told that "Windows is a great router!" the other day, and then the same lady asked, "How does your Eww-nucks" (funniest mispronounciation) work for you?
Case in point, most tech support people are stupid because they think it's an easy job. The good people have to pick up the flack from the idiots, and also the irate customers who just had to deal with one of the idiot support people.
The same tech support building I worked at also had Apple tech support (about 400 people in that center) - if the queue times reached over 1 hour most of the people would wait for 3 minutes of silence (if the customer didn't hang up) then release. Because it "cleared the queue" -- those who stayed on the lines had to deal with people yelling about being cut off an hour ago.
You are the exact type of person I am talking about. You know why I was able to keep my call times down? Because I was doing support and nothing more. I was down to business. If someone ranted to me, I would tell them I'm not there to listen to their rant, but to fix their problem. You know what? 99% of the people I talked to appreciated that and stopped and we got their problem fixed. It is not a shit job, it is one of the easiest jobs in the world. Go to some African country and watch the jobs that most of the younger people have and tell me that it's still shit. The reason why it's a shit job for you is because you are a wus. That's the bottom line -- it's work, it's not supposed to be fun. Unfortunately the massive amount of pansies in tech support caused a insurgence of bad management to control the pansies as well as the disgruntled attitude customers get. If you pansies never went into tech support, then customers would feel a lot better about calling and wouldn't yell.
If it is a real problem, and you can reproduce it - that is what callbacks are for. Don't keep a person on the line just so you can tell them you don't know. If I was your lead I would have fired your ass for having a customer on the line and you not knowing the solution.
Yeah, I originally started without the alcohol, then thought "Hey, if I coat it with something flammable it would be even more cool!" - I swear the offspring sone "Pyro" is about me.
I've only burnt one microwave doing it, since I have found a good balance. What happens is the sparks from the metal will ignite the alcohol and you get a nice little blue flame from it mixed with sparks. Very pretty.
If you use to high of proof alcohol the flame will be mostly invisible though, which I learn with some 151 (waste of a shot if ya ask me).
Another cool trick is to get a bowl with about a shot in it and break the CD (multiple CD's work best) into little pieces (careful with this part.. they shatter very easily, best to mix with a plastic bag) and dump the pieces into the bowl.
Microwave for about 10 seconds, looks even cooler.
I think ths is slightly more risky however, I've had pieces shoot out of the bowl a few times.
I used to do tech support, supporting 4 different accounts simultaneously. All these people bitching about how stressful it is to take 30 calls a day are on crack.
That is an average of 15 minutes per call with 2 15 minute breaks in an 8 hour day. I'm sorry, but come on and get real. I never had to worry about my stress levels or take health breaks. It's an easy job, you sit at your chair and talk to stupid people. Most of the time the call is
Tech support is not for people who can't handle being yelled at though. But, that's in the job description. Those people who have to complain and cry over it should go be florists or something.
I was average 40-50 calls a day, in an 8 hour time period. I had very high scores on success rates and was promoted into being the lead tech, and every person under me was the same because I told them the same thing I said above. Those who didn't like it got transferred or quit. Dont work in tech support if you can't handle it, but dont expect sympathy. That is like a police officer getting pissed off about having to write tickets because it makes him feel bad.
In defense of anti-D&D'ers, I grew up in a small town with a few D&D'ers that were hardcore. These guys also played MUDs if they weren't playing D&D.
Each one of them, with the exception of 1 (in a group of 20) had some serious problems with reality. The funniest of them was a kid (about 16 at the time) who tried to cast a spell on a guy who was sizably bigger (why i'm not sure.. I dont even know if he had a reason) - after the spell casting he shouted something about how he had some special token and couldn't be harmed, then punches the guy. Well, he didn't last more than a few seconds, and ended up bleeding on the ground thereafter. It was funny, but somewhat sad. The most messed guy used to flash freeze rats (not sure of the method of it) and then break them or use them as displays. He also used to speak Klingonese (or so he said, no one actually verified this) and dress up as a star trek character for fun (no reason).
The problem isn't video games.
Whatever happened to just plain crazy?
My main point was how they get money for licensing linux to embedded manufactures, as stated in the article. I know about their revenue stream from the GCC support (which I think is very sound).
Besides the Red Hat Network, which Patel said could prove highly successful, he noted Red Hat's entry into the embedded-systems
market. RedHat is licensing Linux distribution to firms such as Hitachi, Ericsson and Motorola for use in handheld devices, mobile
phones, and pagers. "This is a stable revenue stream that's not going away, Patel said.
How do they license Linux for use in the embedded devices. Aside from the obvious alternatives (pocketlinux,ucLinux) why would a manufacturer rely on Red Hat to provide something that is already in existence, in which Red Hat really has no claims to 'license' a kernel that they don't own. As far as the distribution goes, if they are licensing it to commercial vendors for embedded systems is there any packages for the at-home hackers on this system?
I think that Red Hat does have a sound product, the company does seem somewhat strange. I still do not understand their primary source of long term revenue, perhaps I never will.
The stock had been way overvalued, he said, thanks to overly enthusiastic investors who "believed Red Hat was going to overtake
Microsoft. They don't believe that now."
Thankfully he at least said that. Best part of the article summed up right there.
Yeah - the fremen eyes were annoying, but I wasn't sure if it was intentional or if that was just a "Hmm.. this is gonna take too much".
I think I would have prefered to have seen a less detailed worm and a more detailed harvester so they at least matched. That was my main beef, is the lack of consistency between scenes.
And yes.. Paul & Jessica running looks exceptionally silly - but the Harkonnen / Atreides chase after that was pretty cool I thought. They did a really good job with the explosions from their spinning missiles.
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As a side note, I went to helix.com when I first heard of Helix and wondered why they were talking about Irritable Bowel Syndrome... I just find that funny.
It's already in a dictionary.
I think that POOR VICTIM's best course of action is to tell them to shove it up the EVIL BAD COMPANY corporate ass, perhaps in better terms though.
I still don't understand how POOR VICTIM can really be domain squatting if they actually have a valid website up with relative content. Domain squatting is registering doctor.com and bidding it off to the highest bidder.
Someone has their head so far up their ass it's just going to be nasty. Remember Colgate-Polmolive Vs. ajax.org, same thing.
And it is unconventional, if you haven't noticed there are a bunch of GPL-zealots here. I don't do that shit, if you listened to what I said - It is FREE, in all senses - that means you can do with it what you will, it's everyones property. Go put it in your proprietary product.
For Slashdot to accept this they'd have to drop every bandwagon they have jumped on (QT/KDE, GPL License violation witch hunts, etc). I'm not being angry, I'm turning your initial statement back around on you when you didn't stop to consider what the hell I was saying. I, in no way, called Sig11/Anne Marie/whoever mediocre, nor insult them. To go back to my original post, I stated that their post was incorrect (perhaps in a manner you think is wrong, that's your opinion). Now, if telling someone that they are wrong and asking them to stop being so vocally wrong is telling them they are mediocre, then sure.. that's one twisted perspective but I plead guilty. The kicker comes in is that whoever they are, they know they are wrong (it seems so most of the time) but post just to get the karma and the responses. That is my point, I never said they were mediocre (in fact, almost the opposite with one of my opening sentences: You got the game down perfectly.
That is not a sign of mediocrity, and also: you don't actually have your own thoughts but only listen to those with the loudest bullhorn., this goes into the whole karma whoring game. They are saying what the people want to hear, regardless of the truth behind it.
You have a serious problem with perspective, and reasoning it seems. You decided that I was calling him mediocre for whatever reason. Feel free to your own opinion, but you are absolutely wrong.
Perhaps you should really look at what I said, it was no attack - it was a request. And everything I said was factual (they did not read the article, perhaps skimmed it - but to come it at #22 with missing massive points of the article provides very conclusive evidence that they did not in fact read it) So, if you compare this with the guidelines for how to get karma that are all over the place, "Get in clear and early, go with the herd" is what they did. They karma whored. Now that that is proven, where the hell did I attack the person? I merely told them that I didn't want to see their karma whore posts anymore. Are they going to listen? No. I know that, I just wanted to post and nothing more.
So, if you have any chance of saving grace at this moment you will just shut up and walk away, because you do not even understand the start of this thread.
Mhm, you totally missed the part about my free code for everyone for everything if it's written to be free. That's really conventional isn't it.
You must be a hellishly mediocre person if you are blind to what people say and only hear what you want.
Alternate legal method, I just hate all the warez sites.. affiliation with porn is a must for them for some weird reason, and all sorts of other things I just dont want to have to deal with while downloading (illegal) software.
I know I'll be modded down, but...
You got the game down perfectly. Unfortunately, your argument is completely assinine. Obviously you didn't read anything at all, and you don't actually have your own thoughts but only listen to those with the loudest bullhorn.
I am a programmer, you are an escort. I give my stuff away for free and encourage it's use where ever (so don't give me that corporate-theft bullshit either). You are talking out your ass, and before you decide to take up a cause why don't you learn about it and stop just karma whoring. You are already at 50, so just shut up and stop polluting slashdot with your idiotic rampages about civil rights.
IP is bad.
http://207.202.129.66/cgi-bin/search?words=theinde x+sucks
After 3 sample searches, while one of my nick that returns many results on most other "top search engines" returns none on TheIndex.
Searching for another search engine (google) returns 89 results, while the top hit does not even have the string "google" in the content, while it has the google affiliate box on the page this is not what I was looking for. The biggest penalty is this site: http://icannot.org which does not have the string "google" in the content, display or embedded in the HTML. Anywhere. Violates point 3 of their read me first , that states all terms must be in the article.. Now maybe their cache is old. Either way it's wrong.
3rd search was for an arbitrary string "motorcycles". While the search took quite a bit of time (maybe slashdot has something to do with this) most of the sites had nothing to do with motorcycles. A lot of them had to do with bicycles. Nice idea, the synonym engine -- too bad it doesn't work.
And if you said we went to the great mall in Nevada, you would be incorrect - as the great mall is in minnesota. While California does have a "the great mall" as well, you could even say "the great mall of California" because it is still a place. When you use 'the' in front of a name of something, you are giving it a specific instance. Your example of the closest example of a * would still serve the case, as the closest example of badlands would probably be in arizona or utah (depending upon your location in nevada) - as nevada doesn't even have any inspecific badlands. All nevada has is deserts really. (Using the badlands definition of Barren land characterized by roughly eroded ridges, peaks, and mesas.)
I dont want to work either.
You can't say we went to the badlands, unless you are talking about he ones in South Dakota - other wise you just went to badlands.
I was chilling in new york California in the palo alto district of San Diego.
Just cause you dont capitalize something doesn't make it correct and less stupid.
Note to moderators:
Do not moderate this as offtopic, as it is quite on topic, dealing with michaels lack of research into the "badlands of nevada".
thought crossed my mind ;)
I know what the problem is, yet they dont even understand when I tell them what the routing problem is. It's not like it's a hard problem.. Most of these people dont even understand what a router is, I know this because I was told that "Windows is a great router!" the other day, and then the same lady asked, "How does your Eww-nucks" (funniest mispronounciation) work for you?
Case in point, most tech support people are stupid because they think it's an easy job. The good people have to pick up the flack from the idiots, and also the irate customers who just had to deal with one of the idiot support people.
The same tech support building I worked at also had Apple tech support (about 400 people in that center) - if the queue times reached over 1 hour most of the people would wait for 3 minutes of silence (if the customer didn't hang up) then release. Because it "cleared the queue" -- those who stayed on the lines had to deal with people yelling about being cut off an hour ago.
If it is a real problem, and you can reproduce it - that is what callbacks are for. Don't keep a person on the line just so you can tell them you don't know. If I was your lead I would have fired your ass for having a customer on the line and you not knowing the solution.
I've only burnt one microwave doing it, since I have found a good balance. What happens is the sparks from the metal will ignite the alcohol and you get a nice little blue flame from it mixed with sparks. Very pretty.
If you use to high of proof alcohol the flame will be mostly invisible though, which I learn with some 151 (waste of a shot if ya ask me).
Another cool trick is to get a bowl with about a shot in it and break the CD (multiple CD's work best) into little pieces (careful with this part.. they shatter very easily, best to mix with a plastic bag) and dump the pieces into the bowl.
Microwave for about 10 seconds, looks even cooler. I think ths is slightly more risky however, I've had pieces shoot out of the bowl a few times.
Dont sue me for trying it and setting your house on fire, it's not my fault. It just looks rather cool.
That is an average of 15 minutes per call with 2 15 minute breaks in an 8 hour day. I'm sorry, but come on and get real. I never had to worry about my stress levels or take health breaks. It's an easy job, you sit at your chair and talk to stupid people. Most of the time the call is Tech support is not for people who can't handle being yelled at though. But, that's in the job description. Those people who have to complain and cry over it should go be florists or something.
I was average 40-50 calls a day, in an 8 hour time period. I had very high scores on success rates and was promoted into being the lead tech, and every person under me was the same because I told them the same thing I said above. Those who didn't like it got transferred or quit. Dont work in tech support if you can't handle it, but dont expect sympathy. That is like a police officer getting pissed off about having to write tickets because it makes him feel bad.
#23, gets modded as redundant for posting a mirror. Damn, I love slashdot sometimes.
Each one of them, with the exception of 1 (in a group of 20) had some serious problems with reality. The funniest of them was a kid (about 16 at the time) who tried to cast a spell on a guy who was sizably bigger (why i'm not sure.. I dont even know if he had a reason) - after the spell casting he shouted something about how he had some special token and couldn't be harmed, then punches the guy. Well, he didn't last more than a few seconds, and ended up bleeding on the ground thereafter. It was funny, but somewhat sad. The most messed guy used to flash freeze rats (not sure of the method of it) and then break them or use them as displays. He also used to speak Klingonese (or so he said, no one actually verified this) and dress up as a star trek character for fun (no reason).
The problem isn't video games.
Whatever happened to just plain crazy?
How do they license Linux for use in the embedded devices. Aside from the obvious alternatives (pocketlinux,ucLinux) why would a manufacturer rely on Red Hat to provide something that is already in existence, in which Red Hat really has no claims to 'license' a kernel that they don't own. As far as the distribution goes, if they are licensing it to commercial vendors for embedded systems is there any packages for the at-home hackers on this system?
I think that Red Hat does have a sound product, the company does seem somewhat strange. I still do not understand their primary source of long term revenue, perhaps I never will.
The stock had been way overvalued, he said, thanks to overly enthusiastic investors who "believed Red Hat was going to overtake Microsoft. They don't believe that now." Thankfully he at least said that. Best part of the article summed up right there.
I think I would have prefered to have seen a less detailed worm and a more detailed harvester so they at least matched. That was my main beef, is the lack of consistency between scenes.
And yes.. Paul & Jessica running looks exceptionally silly - but the Harkonnen / Atreides chase after that was pretty cool I thought. They did a really good job with the explosions from their spinning missiles.