This sounds like it is not a "killer virus story" per se. You can probably replace "killer virus" with "huge nuke" or "alien invasion" or "giant asteroid" and have the same result (maybe a bit more of a stretch to explain the whole "nobody over puperty survives"-angle, but wth. Of course, once JMS ties it all together, the fact that it was a virus will be integral, and you'll sit in amazement going "Wow! So *thats* what's been going on!" But that's just cuz JMS rocks:-) (I have officially forgiven him for the 5th season of B5. Everybody makes mistakes, and I can move past his).
My point is, this is not an outbreak-clone, but a post-apocalyptic story that uses a virus as the kickoff. I'm waiting anxiously for it to appear on edonkey2k;-)
You don't RC:-) I remember the firesale as well, and it was mentioned that/. *ran* on one of those, as in, it had already been outgrown... (in fact, there was a second unloading that came a little while later, and I didn't get in on either one:-( ). Now, if *I* RC, the multia was the original beast, and everything else grew from there. Maybe Rob can jump on and clarify.
Just a quick reply, but the true figure is "90+ years of copyright is [more] than enough". Everything is in degrees, and I, along with many other/.'ers, think that the current system of copyright law is screwed up. To take the artist's pov, if they are a phenom, and create something (art, music, movie, whatever) when they are 10 years old, in the current system they would be 100 years old before that passed into public domain. Does that seem excessive? When patents expire in 20 years, that is, ideas that can advance the human race are given 20 years of protection, but if you write a short story, you are protected for the rest of your natural life? Do you see the discrepancy? Now that that is agreed upon, it comes down to degrees. Whether I think the artist should get the same years as patent holders or not is irrelevant, and can be discussed in another forum. Combine all that to the fact that when we talk copyright, we aren't actually discussing the artist, but instead the copyright-holder (in almost all cases, that is their label or ditributor), and you see where your correlation between the two topics (artist's being screwed vs. copyright protections) is flawed. If the artist *wasn't* screwed, for the 14/20/whatever # of years they should be protected, then we would both be happy (all 3! the artist would be happier as well).
Nice (and long!) post, short response: yes, the motion blur is horrible. Esp. if you sit anywhere close than the middle rows, the blur almost makes me sick. This is in reference mainly to action films (which, oddly enough, are the main ones I go see). Watching LOTR in the second row, it was a bad thing. Note that this isn't subject to debate: as "horrible" is subjective. Maybe for you it isn't, but when I can watch a movie and have it look as good as it does on my 32" tv w/dvd, I'll shout for joy. Literally. The only reason I go to the theatre is for the scope, and when I just can't wait 6 months for the dvd (like LOTR, for example). Oh, and sometimes the sound is decent, too.
Unfortunetly, I don't know you, so I don't know your background. You might very well be a long-time player in the television industry, with years of experience on how all this works. Well, I'm not and I don't. All I have to base my opinions on is a few interviews (with people like the Tick guy) and previous petitions set up for other, similar shows (Family Guy, The Tick, B5: Crusades, etc). And from every one of those sources, the message is: petitions don't matter. As another poster in this thread pointed out, the Family Guy petition has approx. 10x the number of "signatures" this one does, and I haven't heard even a whisper of "well, we're thinking about it". And finally, if you read my original post, you'll notice that I/implicitly/ acknowledge that the "letter writing" thing *used* to be effective: until it was overplayed. When you get a couple hundred letters *every* time you cancel a scifi/fantasy/geeky show, the ability to sway execs minds diminished. Advertisers will only accept "our neilsens suck but checkout our mailbox!" so many times before they start to yawm and look for other networks.
Now, having said all that, (and with such style!) if you *do* have an "in" on how these things work, and I *am* flat-out wrong, please reply! This sort of things interests me, esp. the whole "behind-the-scenes" angle.
P.S. I've always meant to checkout Futurama, but never got around to it, and if it's on the air longer, I would have that chance. But if not, you won't catch me writing a letter to my congressman B-)
Electronic signatures mean jack-diddley. *Nobody* bases decisions on how stuffed an online petition is. The only way of getting their attention at *all* is physically writing a letter, licking a stamp, and sending it to the appropriate P.O. box, Hollywood, CA. Which brings me back to my original point, that the write-in campaign has been done to death. Psuedo-quoting the Tick guy, the studios realize that *every* fantasy/sci-fi show out there has it's fans, and you can be garunteed that they know with a reasonable accuracy how many of those people there are. So a letter from you saying that you like the show just isn't all that impressive. For whatever reason (crappy timeslot, lack of advertising, etc) the show isn't bringing enough eyeballs to the set, and it will be dropped, from *Fox*. IMNSHO, a *much* better campaign would be to pick a network (scifi, comedy-central, whatever) and target *them* with a letter writing campaign, urging them to pick up the show, and treat it right. I just have an incredibly hard time imagining Fox saying "Well, we *did* decide after four years this show just isn't working for us anymore, but now that we recieved a few hundred letters, we'll change our mind!" And, again, I stick by my "few hundred letters" theory. Personal experience tells me that one out of twenty people who sign the electronic petition will also write a letter (actually, that's being very generous, but oh well).
But like the "Tick" guy said in his interview, the whole letter-writing campaign thing has been played to death. Especially when a show has been on the air for four years, you can't exactly expect the network to "just give it a chance to build an audience". If they haven't got their audience already, I'm afraid a couple hundred people writing and saying "but, but, it's cool!" isn't going to change their mind.
It's tough to remember (esp. after Rocky 4 and 5 *gag*) but the original Rocky *was* a great movie. I mean, the great characters, the focus on the interaction between Rocky, Adrian, and the brother, it wasn't just a "fight,lose,train,fight,win" movie. Mainly because Rocky lost! Anyway, IMNSHO, they should have stopped after the first one, definetly after the third, but that doesn't detract from the fact that the original was great.
Oh, and Titanic wasn't as bad as some people try and say it was, but I'm not going to try and defend it either:-)
until kazaa stopped my linux client from working. I was d/ling whole series of television shows that I want to watch, but either 1) don't get the channel or 2) simply can't catch the episodes in the right order through syndication/reruns. That includes Farscape, Red Dwarf, Stargate SG-1, Dark Angel, and others. And the best part was, *every* episode was out there. Now, however, I'm a junkie in search of a fix. I broke down and started installing all the windows p2p stuff on my kids computer, but can't find a single decent replacement to kza.
Morpheus (supposedly the same thing) comes back with much fewer hits than was I was getting, and the connection seems to be worse (dropouts, "connecting" hangs, etc). winmx seems decent, but there is either no results, or the one person that has it is queued up to 11 or 12. Any given gnutella client (bearshare, etc) is plagued with the normal gnutella problems (large bandwidth usage, slow searching, limited results). Jumping on irc (dalnet) is almost useless, as the queues are jam-packed, and you have to sit there all day, just to get in a queue 20 people long. Am I missing something? I'm obviously not the only person interested in getting tv shows off the 'net (the point of the article), so there has to be a resource out there that I'm missing. What is it? And (please oh please), let there be a command-line linux client!! The ability to start screen, kick off a session of kza, go to work, check in on the progress, add some other things, go home, check up on it again, redo some searches, back and forth, was priceless. Bring back kza! Please!
I jumped on the space bandwagon late, and it's really only been recently that I've developed an interest at all. So I'm in a unique position of learning basic facts that others take for granted, at an age where I can appreciate the grandeur. For instance, the fact that there are truly *billions and billions* of stars *just in our galaxy*. That had me reeling for a couple of days... I don't want to ramble, but *man* is space cool. And space icecream is cool, too, I guess:-)
I bought tribes 2 this week, for a lan party going on this Friday. Having bought Unreal Tournament last week, I expected to go home, download the linux installer, and be on my way. No dice, you need to buy the Tribes2 for linux seperately. After some digging around, figuring out that Loki wasn't paid for the port (like UT) but instead paid for the privledge, then cool. That's completely understandable, and so I sell my windows copy to a guy at work (for $10.49, what I paid at Compusa) and went searching for a cheap copy of tribes 2 for linux. *bzzzt*. No such thing. This is a year old game which had an almost simultaneous release (i.e., they've had as long as windows to make a profit). So, even if I can't get it for $10, I can still get it cheaper than the $49 loki is asking, right? Nope. No way, no how. I tried every "online retailer" Loki links to, and if they even had it (only two did) they were for "full retail" (i.e., 4Xs what I paid for my Window's copy). At this point, I am searching the warez channels, cursing the fact that kazaa is dead to linux users, because there is no way in *hell* I'm paying almost $50 + shipping for a game that's a year old. So, in summation, if someone has a *used* copy that I can purchase legitimately, *please* email me. I would *love* to not have to pirate this game. Cuz if not, I'm going to download it and burn it. That's just the way it is....
liked the radio broadcasts (kazaa rules!) and turned the BBC crap off after about 1 and 1/2 hours. That drek is unwatchable. This coming from someone who likes Red Dwarf! The special effects are worse than cheesy, the acting wasn't, the costumes were rotten and they seemed to change stuff simply for the sake of changing it. All in all, to say I was dissapointed would be an understatement... Save your money and spend it on that new Holy Grail dvd....
Carillon Information Security Inc. would like to announce the release of
KDirAdm version 0.1
K DIRectory ADMinistrator is a tool for use by Directory Administrators to
manage their LDAP based directory. Using the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and
OpenLDAP toolsets, this application currently has all of the basic
functionality required to browse, add, and delete directory entries. As this
is an initial BETA release, the capability to modify existing entries, as
well as the ability to handle binary directory objects is currently missing.
This is planned for the next release, along with improved password entry
handling and possibly LDAP over SSL support.
KDirAdm is open source software released under the GNU Public License. As
such we encourage anyone to help us in the development of this software.
Specific jobs that need doing at the moment are improving the documentation,
the artwork, and of course, any LDAP wizards that want to help out will be
greatly appreciated.
The homepage for KDirAdm is at:
http://www.carillonis.com/kdiradm
where both source and Debian packages may be obtained.
Comments, suggestions, wishlist items and patches may be sent to
ppatterson@carillonis.com
So, it's "pre-beta" but has that ever stopped a true free software geek before?;-)
Ah, I didn't know that. I guess I'm taking Yorkshire off my "list of places to move to":-P As for the people vs. land, yes of course. However, 4 - 5 times the population is nothing to snear at:-) It still "raises the bar" on what we can fit into the 1/2hour of national news that most americans get per day.
This truly is wandering off topic, but 1) it wouldn't make national news. Hell, it wouldn't even make regional news and 2) he wasn't shot:-) He was stabbed by a "screwdriver-like" weapon. Yes, I'm a 'merkin, but I also have BBC bookmarked because I truly like to expand my borders beyond what's happening in Boise, Idaho;-)
Oh, and 3) part of the reason this wouldn't make national news is because we're so much bigger. IIRC from geography class, the entire British Isles would fit into the state of Idaho, easily. And Idaho isn't all that big, compared to California, Texas, and Alaska. So what makes "national" news generally has to be a bit "bigger". Note that I'm not being condecending, that's just the way it is....
HAND!
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I was figuring that it was a combination of Hacker and Neuromancer, but you are entirely correct, this isn't something "new". However, in the same way that I am *really* looking forward to The Bard's Legacy, a modern game "inspired by" the original Bard's Tale series (as well as other old-school rpg's) I'm interested in checking out this game, just for the gameplay.
Oh, and speaking of Hacker, did you ever beat it? I honestly had a hard time getting past the login screen:-)
My statement still stands: the deBeers is a good example, because the *executives* of the company won't step foot in the US, for fear of being arrested on antitrust charges. Read the following link, near the bottom of the page, the word "arrest" is highlighted. Read the surrounding paragraph.
I doubt if he was in college, that he was an executive of the actual company. AFAIK, it is only the execs that have the "enter the country and get arrested" order. Simply being a member of "the family" is not a crime... Same reason they don't arrest mobster's wives, and prosecute for aiding and abetting.
Excuse me? "...debian is the only perfect destribution"??!? I've been using debian for a few years now (1.x days) and love it to death. But *perfect*? Apart from the various bugs and glitches from packages, the fact that I have to run unstable just to have a decent desktop (kde2.2.2) is *wrong*. And don't get me started on "testing" and how b0rked up that normally is (i'm 0 for 3 in trying to get a working testing system). Talk to Ivan Moore if you want a good rant on how people shouldn't be using testing for real workstations. Getting locked into cyclical traps of "this package depends on that one, but conflicts with another with depends on yet another which conflicts with.." is too common to be ignored. I shouldn't have to use dpkg to clear up messes like that, but I do. I'm a sysad at a company that is looking to switch to linux, and all I need to convince them to go with debian is come up with an automated installer. You'll notice that in the interview, they cover that: it's slated for the release *after* woody. I.e., all we need to do is wait for a year. And don't point me to FAI. It's nice, but I don't want to have to write my own installer, which is basically what you do with it. Mandrake "records" my choices, makes a floppy, and off I go. Don't get me wrong, I use debian for my personal workstation, but we're rolling out mandrake everywhere else...
Anyways, if debian is "perfect", as in it fits your needs with no complaint, more power to you. But for the rest of us, we appreciate the developer's hard work in trying to make a *really* good distrobution even better...
This isn't a new idea, but when are we going to stop calling things by one name? For instance, what makes this more of a digital camera, than a portable web client with video capture capabilities (aside from marketing)? When something can capture video, surf the net, send email, host a website, play videogames, and play mp3s, I call it a pc... I'm not saying that they should immediately switch naming schemes or anything, I'm just interested in where you guys think this is going. Where do you draw the line between a camera with extra features, and a pc with a camera?
p.s. I'm not saying that this particular "camera" can do all those things, I'm theorizing that it will be only a matter of time before they can.
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My point is, this is not an outbreak-clone, but a post-apocalyptic story that uses a virus as the kickoff. I'm waiting anxiously for it to appear on edonkey2k ;-)
in watching Jackie Chan movies :-)
Jackie Chan rocks!
You don't RC :-) I remember the firesale as well, and it was mentioned that /. *ran* on one of those, as in, it had already been outgrown... (in fact, there was a second unloading that came a little while later, and I didn't get in on either one :-( ). Now, if *I* RC, the multia was the original beast, and everything else grew from there. Maybe Rob can jump on and clarify.
Just a quick reply, but the true figure is "90+ years of copyright is [more] than enough". Everything is in degrees, and I, along with many other /.'ers, think that the current system of copyright law is screwed up. To take the artist's pov, if they are a phenom, and create something (art, music, movie, whatever) when they are 10 years old, in the current system they would be 100 years old before that passed into public domain. Does that seem excessive? When patents expire in 20 years, that is, ideas that can advance the human race are given 20 years of protection, but if you write a short story, you are protected for the rest of your natural life? Do you see the discrepancy? Now that that is agreed upon, it comes down to degrees. Whether I think the artist should get the same years as patent holders or not is irrelevant, and can be discussed in another forum. Combine all that to the fact that when we talk copyright, we aren't actually discussing the artist, but instead the copyright-holder (in almost all cases, that is their label or ditributor), and you see where your correlation between the two topics (artist's being screwed vs. copyright protections) is flawed. If the artist *wasn't* screwed, for the 14/20/whatever # of years they should be protected, then we would both be happy (all 3! the artist would be happier as well).
Sorry for the formating, I'm in a hurry...
Nice (and long!) post, short response: yes, the motion blur is horrible. Esp. if you sit anywhere close than the middle rows, the blur almost makes me sick. This is in reference mainly to action films (which, oddly enough, are the main ones I go see). Watching LOTR in the second row, it was a bad thing. Note that this isn't subject to debate: as "horrible" is subjective. Maybe for you it isn't, but when I can watch a movie and have it look as good as it does on my 32" tv w/dvd, I'll shout for joy. Literally. The only reason I go to the theatre is for the scope, and when I just can't wait 6 months for the dvd (like LOTR, for example). Oh, and sometimes the sound is decent, too.
Unfortunetly, I don't know you, so I don't know your background. You might very well be a long-time player in the television industry, with years of experience on how all this works. Well, I'm not and I don't. All I have to base my opinions on is a few interviews (with people like the Tick guy) and previous petitions set up for other, similar shows (Family Guy, The Tick, B5: Crusades, etc). And from every one of those sources, the message is: petitions don't matter. As another poster in this thread pointed out, the Family Guy petition has approx. 10x the number of "signatures" this one does, and I haven't heard even a whisper of "well, we're thinking about it". And finally, if you read my original post, you'll notice that I /implicitly/ acknowledge that the "letter writing" thing *used* to be effective: until it was overplayed. When you get a couple hundred letters *every* time you cancel a scifi/fantasy/geeky show, the ability to sway execs minds diminished. Advertisers will only accept "our neilsens suck but checkout our mailbox!" so many times before they start to yawm and look for other networks.
Now, having said all that, (and with such style!) if you *do* have an "in" on how these things work, and I *am* flat-out wrong, please reply! This sort of things interests me, esp. the whole "behind-the-scenes" angle.
P.S. I've always meant to checkout Futurama, but never got around to it, and if it's on the air longer, I would have that chance. But if not, you won't catch me writing a letter to my congressman B-)
[This is in reply to both you and the AC]
Electronic signatures mean jack-diddley. *Nobody* bases decisions on how stuffed an online petition is. The only way of getting their attention at *all* is physically writing a letter, licking a stamp, and sending it to the appropriate P.O. box, Hollywood, CA. Which brings me back to my original point, that the write-in campaign has been done to death. Psuedo-quoting the Tick guy, the studios realize that *every* fantasy/sci-fi show out there has it's fans, and you can be garunteed that they know with a reasonable accuracy how many of those people there are. So a letter from you saying that you like the show just isn't all that impressive. For whatever reason (crappy timeslot, lack of advertising, etc) the show isn't bringing enough eyeballs to the set, and it will be dropped, from *Fox*. IMNSHO, a *much* better campaign would be to pick a network (scifi, comedy-central, whatever) and target *them* with a letter writing campaign, urging them to pick up the show, and treat it right. I just have an incredibly hard time imagining Fox saying "Well, we *did* decide after four years this show just isn't working for us anymore, but now that we recieved a few hundred letters, we'll change our mind!" And, again, I stick by my "few hundred letters" theory. Personal experience tells me that one out of twenty people who sign the electronic petition will also write a letter (actually, that's being very generous, but oh well).
But like the "Tick" guy said in his interview, the whole letter-writing campaign thing has been played to death. Especially when a show has been on the air for four years, you can't exactly expect the network to "just give it a chance to build an audience". If they haven't got their audience already, I'm afraid a couple hundred people writing and saying "but, but, it's cool!" isn't going to change their mind.
*shrug* Sorry, but that's the way it is...
It's tough to remember (esp. after Rocky 4 and 5 *gag*) but the original Rocky *was* a great movie. I mean, the great characters, the focus on the interaction between Rocky, Adrian, and the brother, it wasn't just a "fight,lose,train,fight,win" movie. Mainly because Rocky lost! Anyway, IMNSHO, they should have stopped after the first one, definetly after the third, but that doesn't detract from the fact that the original was great.
:-)
Oh, and Titanic wasn't as bad as some people try and say it was, but I'm not going to try and defend it either
Every one that I download. What was your point?
until kazaa stopped my linux client from working. I was d/ling whole series of television shows that I want to watch, but either 1) don't get the channel or 2) simply can't catch the episodes in the right order through syndication/reruns. That includes Farscape, Red Dwarf, Stargate SG-1, Dark Angel, and others. And the best part was, *every* episode was out there. Now, however, I'm a junkie in search of a fix. I broke down and started installing all the windows p2p stuff on my kids computer, but can't find a single decent replacement to kza.
Morpheus (supposedly the same thing) comes back with much fewer hits than was I was getting, and the connection seems to be worse (dropouts, "connecting" hangs, etc). winmx seems decent, but there is either no results, or the one person that has it is queued up to 11 or 12. Any given gnutella client (bearshare, etc) is plagued with the normal gnutella problems (large bandwidth usage, slow searching, limited results). Jumping on irc (dalnet) is almost useless, as the queues are jam-packed, and you have to sit there all day, just to get in a queue 20 people long. Am I missing something? I'm obviously not the only person interested in getting tv shows off the 'net (the point of the article), so there has to be a resource out there that I'm missing. What is it? And (please oh please), let there be a command-line linux client!! The ability to start screen, kick off a session of kza, go to work, check in on the progress, add some other things, go home, check up on it again, redo some searches, back and forth, was priceless. Bring back kza! Please!
/whine mode off....
I jumped on the space bandwagon late, and it's really only been recently that I've developed an interest at all. So I'm in a unique position of learning basic facts that others take for granted, at an age where I can appreciate the grandeur. For instance, the fact that there are truly *billions and billions* of stars *just in our galaxy*. That had me reeling for a couple of days... I don't want to ramble, but *man* is space cool. And space icecream is cool, too, I guess :-)
I bought tribes 2 this week, for a lan party going on this Friday. Having bought Unreal Tournament last week, I expected to go home, download the linux installer, and be on my way. No dice, you need to buy the Tribes2 for linux seperately. After some digging around, figuring out that Loki wasn't paid for the port (like UT) but instead paid for the privledge, then cool. That's completely understandable, and so I sell my windows copy to a guy at work (for $10.49, what I paid at Compusa) and went searching for a cheap copy of tribes 2 for linux. *bzzzt*. No such thing. This is a year old game which had an almost simultaneous release (i.e., they've had as long as windows to make a profit). So, even if I can't get it for $10, I can still get it cheaper than the $49 loki is asking, right? Nope. No way, no how. I tried every "online retailer" Loki links to, and if they even had it (only two did) they were for "full retail" (i.e., 4Xs what I paid for my Window's copy). At this point, I am searching the warez channels, cursing the fact that kazaa is dead to linux users, because there is no way in *hell* I'm paying almost $50 + shipping for a game that's a year old. So, in summation, if someone has a *used* copy that I can purchase legitimately, *please* email me. I would *love* to not have to pirate this game. Cuz if not, I'm going to download it and burn it. That's just the way it is....
liked the radio broadcasts (kazaa rules!) and turned the BBC crap off after about 1 and 1/2 hours. That drek is unwatchable. This coming from someone who likes Red Dwarf! The special effects are worse than cheesy, the acting wasn't, the costumes were rotten and they seemed to change stuff simply for the sake of changing it. All in all, to say I was dissapointed would be an understatement... Save your money and spend it on that new Holy Grail dvd....
Weird, as this came in just yesterday on kde-pim:
;-)
Carillon Information Security Inc. would like to announce the release of
KDirAdm version 0.1
K DIRectory ADMinistrator is a tool for use by Directory Administrators to
manage their LDAP based directory. Using the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and
OpenLDAP toolsets, this application currently has all of the basic
functionality required to browse, add, and delete directory entries. As this
is an initial BETA release, the capability to modify existing entries, as
well as the ability to handle binary directory objects is currently missing.
This is planned for the next release, along with improved password entry
handling and possibly LDAP over SSL support.
KDirAdm is open source software released under the GNU Public License. As
such we encourage anyone to help us in the development of this software.
Specific jobs that need doing at the moment are improving the documentation,
the artwork, and of course, any LDAP wizards that want to help out will be
greatly appreciated.
The homepage for KDirAdm is at:
http://www.carillonis.com/kdiradm
where both source and Debian packages may be obtained.
Comments, suggestions, wishlist items and patches may be sent to
ppatterson@carillonis.com
So, it's "pre-beta" but has that ever stopped a true free software geek before?
Ah, I didn't know that. I guess I'm taking Yorkshire off my "list of places to move to" :-P As for the people vs. land, yes of course. However, 4 - 5 times the population is nothing to snear at :-) It still "raises the bar" on what we can fit into the 1/2hour of national news that most americans get per day.
This truly is wandering off topic, but 1) it wouldn't make national news. Hell, it wouldn't even make regional news and 2) he wasn't shot :-) He was stabbed by a "screwdriver-like" weapon. Yes, I'm a 'merkin, but I also have BBC bookmarked because I truly like to expand my borders beyond what's happening in Boise, Idaho ;-)
Oh, and 3) part of the reason this wouldn't make national news is because we're so much bigger. IIRC from geography class, the entire British Isles would fit into the state of Idaho, easily. And Idaho isn't all that big, compared to California, Texas, and Alaska. So what makes "national" news generally has to be a bit "bigger". Note that I'm not being condecending, that's just the way it is....
HAND!
I was figuring that it was a combination of Hacker and Neuromancer, but you are entirely correct, this isn't something "new". However, in the same way that I am *really* looking forward to The Bard's Legacy, a modern game "inspired by" the original Bard's Tale series (as well as other old-school rpg's) I'm interested in checking out this game, just for the gameplay.
:-)
Oh, and speaking of Hacker, did you ever beat it? I honestly had a hard time getting past the login screen
My statement still stands: the deBeers is a good example, because the *executives* of the company won't step foot in the US, for fear of being arrested on antitrust charges. Read the following link, near the bottom of the page, the word "arrest" is highlighted. Read the surrounding paragraph.
:-)
Article from the Economist Newspaper.
So no, that doesn't mean the minute any cartel boss steps into the US, they are arrested. Only the deBeers
I doubt if he was in college, that he was an executive of the actual company. AFAIK, it is only the execs that have the "enter the country and get arrested" order. Simply being a member of "the family" is not a crime... Same reason they don't arrest mobster's wives, and prosecute for aiding and abetting.
had better be willing to go to jail for his beliefs, in Russia, for an indefinite amount of time. Because otherwise, stfu.
Excuse me? "...debian is the only perfect destribution"??!? I've been using debian for a few years now (1.x days) and love it to death. But *perfect*? Apart from the various bugs and glitches from packages, the fact that I have to run unstable just to have a decent desktop (kde2.2.2) is *wrong*. And don't get me started on "testing" and how b0rked up that normally is (i'm 0 for 3 in trying to get a working testing system). Talk to Ivan Moore if you want a good rant on how people shouldn't be using testing for real workstations. Getting locked into cyclical traps of "this package depends on that one, but conflicts with another with depends on yet another which conflicts with.." is too common to be ignored. I shouldn't have to use dpkg to clear up messes like that, but I do. I'm a sysad at a company that is looking to switch to linux, and all I need to convince them to go with debian is come up with an automated installer. You'll notice that in the interview, they cover that: it's slated for the release *after* woody. I.e., all we need to do is wait for a year. And don't point me to FAI. It's nice, but I don't want to have to write my own installer, which is basically what you do with it. Mandrake "records" my choices, makes a floppy, and off I go. Don't get me wrong, I use debian for my personal workstation, but we're rolling out mandrake everywhere else...
Anyways, if debian is "perfect", as in it fits your needs with no complaint, more power to you. But for the rest of us, we appreciate the developer's hard work in trying to make a *really* good distrobution even better...
Please actually read my posts before replying. If you look really, really, hard, you'll notice that I was saying people *aren't* brainless sheep.
"American consumerism has shown that people will buy ANYTHING no matter the value if marketed enough."
Point of my post: marketing isn't enough, it also needs value.
So, what did I miss?
This isn't a new idea, but when are we going to stop calling things by one name? For instance, what makes this more of a digital camera, than a portable web client with video capture capabilities (aside from marketing)? When something can capture video, surf the net, send email, host a website, play videogames, and play mp3s, I call it a pc... I'm not saying that they should immediately switch naming schemes or anything, I'm just interested in where you guys think this is going. Where do you draw the line between a camera with extra features, and a pc with a camera?
p.s. I'm not saying that this particular "camera" can do all those things, I'm theorizing that it will be only a matter of time before they can.