You can't receive an email attachment when using mutt? Sounds like a real piece of shit. Yeah, I'm sure that feature combined with that oh-so-attractive console interface is just wayyyy too much for anyone to handle.
What's so offensive about it? Microsoft paid for the development of it. Sounds like they're saying, "If you to mess around with it, fine, but if you make any money off our hard work and money, you can talk to our licensing department." Sounds a lot more sensible than the GPL.
Basically what it boils down to is this: You can't make any money off code under this license. Then again, the same is true of GPL software, as more and more companies are finding out the hard way. At least Microsoft is being honest about this fact.;-)
Joe Barr's an unstable idiot who is always accusing people of astroturfing or being paid off if they disagree with him. I'm kind of curious why he holds any credibility with the Linux community in the first place, especially after his "asslicker" antics. Trust me, he's definitely not helping the cause of anybody he aligns himself with. He's like a one-man Team OS/2. (Honest question: I know he used to be big into OS/2, was he actually part of Team OS/2?). Old Joe reminds me of what Nicholas Petreley would be like if you fed him cocaine, speed, and cafe lattes continuously over a 48-hour period.
Speaking of which, what happened to Nicholas Petreley? Anyone seen his picture lately? I just saw it today and was wondering if he has cancer. I'm not even close to being a fan of his, but there's no way in Hell I'd ever wish it on the guy.
It's important to keep in mind that this story comes from well-known kook Joe Barr. The fact that it came from his addled brain should definitely have been mentioned in the story summary, since that tells a big part of the story in and of itself. He's an unstable guy who does things like sends emails to company presidents calling them "asslickers" for actually saying something positive about Microsoft. In fact, I get the feeling that's the main reason why Barr's on his jihad against the LinuxToday guy -- for not being harsh enough on Microsoft.
LOL. C'mon, you guys are getting really desperate. Why would Microsoft start bundling any software from Sun? Let me know when you guys start demanding that Sun start bundling IE with Solaris, mmmkay?
They won, but MS can continue to distribute the VM for another 7 years or so.
So what are you saying, they should have to distribute it for another 6 years, 364 days before dropping it? If you're not saying that, then why shouldn't they drop it as soon as possible? Isn't it reasonable to assume that if a company A gets a judge to order company B to cease in desist, but gives them 7 years to do so, that company A would hope that it would happen as soon as possible? Of course. In this case, though, Sun realizes that Java has been a failure on the client and was hoping for as much exposure to Windows users as possible. Too bad.
About C#, it's a cool language, but.NET is the real attack on Sun. As for removing Java, again I remind you that Sun demanded this.
If they want to bundle a Java VM with their OS, they have many options.
Yeah, if they want to. They could give a Piper Cub away with each copy of MS Flight Simulator if they want to. Why should they? What customers care if they have a JVM or not? The only decent site using Java these days is www.afterhourstrading.com, and the sooner they're using Flash/ActiveX/.NET, the better. Sun asked for it, Sun's getting what they asked for, and now all the anti-MS people are crying. They're pissed because Bill Gates outsmarted them yet again.
Do that other crap on your own time instead of when you're on the clock. If your job has any significance whatsoever, and the other things were really important to your job, they'd let you use them. You do the math.
Uh, maybe because it's not a crap engine? Anybody who says they only use Google is instantly flagging themselves as someone who doesn't know dick about web searching, because Google has some big holes in it. It munges stop words within phrases, it can't do stemming (to Google, a "rocket" has no relationship to "rockets"), no wildcard support, and no "or" support come to mind. Try using a metasearch engine like ixquick sometime and you'll see all the stuff that Google misses.
On the topic of searching, anybody who uses IE 5 or above (read: most of Slashdot) who does a lot of searching should check grab the IE Web Accessories (they work for IE6, too) and make use of the Quick Search feature. Instead of going to Google and then searching for "Hungry Hippos", just type in your URL box or Open dialog 'gg "Hungry Hippos"' (without the single quotes), and it'll shoot you to the appropriate results page. Results no good and you want to check AltaVista? Just enter 'av "Hungry Hippos"' and there you are.
It comes with a bunch of sites already programmed (AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek, InfoSeek Ultra, Lycos, MetaCrawler, Magellan, OpenText, WebCrawler, and Yahoo), and you can add your own. Plus you can basically use it for any web query that's looking for a single field — you just stick in %s where the term(s) you're searching for should go. So, in addition to the search engines that I've added (Google, Northern Light, ixquick, and Raging Search), I've also set it to access UPS tracking, the W3C's CSS validator, MSN Dictionary, Google Groups, Netcraft, and the W3C's HTML validator. So, instead of going to Netcraft and entering a site in the textbox, I just do a "nc www.apple.com" and the web server that Apple's using is the next thing I see. ("nc" being my alias for Netcraft).
You can make your own, but just to get you started, here's my own list of custom queries:
css - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=% s&warning=1&profile=css2
di - http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry.asp?search=%s
dj - http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&hl=en&lr=&saf e=off&site=groups
gg - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
ix - http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cat=we b&cmd=process_search&query=%s
nc - http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=%s
nl - http://www.northernlight.com/nlquery.fcg?cb=0&qr=% s&orl=
rs - http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q= %s
val - http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s&doctype=Inlin e
(Hope I didn't mess up the cut-and-paste job — it comes from an email I wrote to some fellow workers lately — and I know this turned into a long post, but this feature really is a great time saver. It's one of those things where you get annoyed whenever you have to use somebody else's computer and they don't have it installed. So, just thought I'd point it out to anyone who might not have tried it before. Oh, and it looks like Slashdot's entering extra spaces into the URLs, so if you want to copy them, make sure to remove the spaces.)
More like an acknowledgment that while Public Enemy used to be mindblowingly awesome, everything that they've written themselves for the past 10 years (everything after Apocalypse '91) has been pure garbage. Can anybody even name 3 songs they've done since then? Hell, I can't even name one.
The subtitle to this article should be, "Please write us some songs that don't suck. Please?"
I'll probably get whacked for pointing this out, but if this is really Open Source music as you say, it just shows Open Source yet again being a dumping ground for dying entities. SGI, Corel, etc., etc., and now Public Enemy. Congrats?
You had some good things to say, but I really have to correct the record on one point that you made, something which was also brought up at the Roundtable:
[T]he motivation behind Free Software, as advocated by Richard Stallman, is to advance humanity as a whole.
Actually, the whole motivation behind Richard Stallman's Free Software crusade is pure jealousy and ego. When fellow workers at MIT started taking the research and actually applying it to produce real products to be used by consumers, and of course making money from it, it really honked RMS off. From Steven Levy's Hackers (emphasis mine):
This was RMS's opportunity for revenge....
Stallman had no illusions that his act would significantly improve the world at large. He had come to accept that the domain around the AI Lab had been permanently polluted. He was out to cause as much damage to the culprit as he could.
[Stallman] retaliated [against the computer scientists who left the MIT AI Lab to form Symbolics] by sabotaging his former colleagues' sophisticated commercial programs for powerful computers, singlehandedly hacking up his own versions and giving them away. "They accused me of costing them millions of dollars," he says. "I hope it's true."
Not really too surprising from someone who has invested so much energy in attacking anybody who says "Linux" without appending "GNU" to the front of it, is it? How many more hours have been wasted by programmers thinking they were serving some noble goal, when in reality they were just feeding Richard Stallman's childish insecurities and ego? Programmers that Stallman would be thrilled to see homeless and begging for change if they ever even think about making a bigger splash than him. Pity.
The SGI Linux system is over 3 times the cost, as you pointed out, but it took the Linux solution double the processors (16 in a clustered system, of course) to beat out the single 8-CPU Windows box by a paltry 60%. Oooo, impressive! Sorry michael, but this guy's essay was embarrassingly simpleminded garbage, and showing it to your boss is likely to get you laughed out of the office. It's already been ripped to shreds by various other posters, so I won't repeat what they've said.
Before you discount this as pro Microsoft retoric let me assure you that I am not a huge fan of their in the server/serving services arena, but they do make some good multimedia stuff.
Gotta like the atmosphere that the anti-MS Nazis around here have created. Can't just have a post with someone saying anything positive about something Microsoft has done. Naw, gotta satisfy the rabble by bloating it up about 50% with some testimonials about how they actually (really, I promise!) dislike Microsoft. Kewl!
There are a couple of school districts in my area which are strapped for cash. My proposal to a local university is to take GPL'd source code, like GNUmeric or stuff from SEUL, and modify it to suit the particular district's teaching needs. They could make money by selling the software for about half the price of whatever software the district is currently using. Most importantly, they won't release the modified source, so that someone else can't take their source and undercut them on price. Sure, it violates the GPL, but the sales will help the cash-strapped university, and it seems like just about everybody here says it's all right for cash-strapped schools to break any software licenses they feel like anyway.
Hell, if the mods have any sense, they'll run you up to "+5, actually has a clue." Your bit about people here showing their mental ages couldn't have been more true. It's more than obvious that they're just used to being told what to do throughout their lives, rather than having any ounce of their own authority. Otherwise they'd figure out real damn quick why you don't want the grunts installing just any damn thing they want on computers that don't even belong to them.
Could they be held accountable for encouraging ilegal activity?
X10 cams don't take upskirt voyeur shots of Joan Rivers, people take upskirt voyeur shots of Joan Rivers.
And those people should be shot.
Cheers,
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Well, actually pulling you over might not be allowed (I think there might've been constitutional questions about it), so what these states do is have roadblocks specifically to check if people are wearing seatbelts. Which is basically the same thing. In some states this program is called "Click It or Ticket."
In that recent report that said that people on cell phones were more likely to be in accidents, the accident rate for people talking to passengers wasn't all that much lower. How long before passengers are banned from cars, or police start ticketing people for talking?
I still remember when people started pushing for mandatory seat belt laws, dismissing as paranoid nuts anyone who suggested that cops would be pulling drivers over at random to make sure they're wearing seat belts. Well, now that cops are doing exactly that, where are these people now?
Quit asking for the goverment to run everybody's lives for them, they do too much of it already.
Yeah, what the Hell's up with Austin? I was just down there last week and thought it was supposed to be a big tech town. Well, my hotel had ethernet connections, but my phone bill's going to be obnoxious this month because of all the roaming Verizon calls I was making. Oh well, the bars/music were still great, anyway...
Cheers,
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C'mon, where in the song did they mention such vital-to-the-job things such as:
golf clubs
electric dart boards
plastic helmets
squirt guns
"Zoho" wine
I can't really compare the hardships of farmers seeing their family business grow steadily downhill to the things happening with some of these dotcom chuckleheads.
How about doing crossword puzzles? That's how I pass the time while I'm driving.
About the article, it's nuts to blame the economy for guys like this knocking on people's doors. It's more about people getting realistic and seeing that quarter-after-quarter some of these goofy web ideas were losing tons of money. It's about one too many toothpaste.com-like sites getting millions of dollars in VC money before people started to finally get a clue.
John Riccitiello (President of EA) - "It's drop dead sexy."
You sure that wasn't Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers flicks?
About Square, didn't the head of Nintendo angrily say that he wouldn't even allow Square to produce software for the Nintendo machines? I'm not really interested in any Final Fantasy games, but I'm really considering getting a console once the GameCube and X-Box are out there and I can take a look at the games available (the PS2's games don't do much for me so far). I haven't even owned a console since the original NES, but I think one would be pretty sweet hooked up to my home entertainment system. Anyway, that's today's stream of consciousness post...
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You can't receive an email attachment when using mutt? Sounds like a real piece of shit. Yeah, I'm sure that feature combined with that oh-so-attractive console interface is just wayyyy too much for anyone to handle.
Cheers,
And you guys call Windows/Mac users dumb? Priceless.
The fact that he actually considers that anybody would want Linux's scheduler code is a screamer, too. :)
Cheers,
What's so offensive about it? Microsoft paid for the development of it. Sounds like they're saying, "If you to mess around with it, fine, but if you make any money off our hard work and money, you can talk to our licensing department." Sounds a lot more sensible than the GPL.
Basically what it boils down to is this: You can't make any money off code under this license. Then again, the same is true of GPL software, as more and more companies are finding out the hard way. At least Microsoft is being honest about this fact. ;-)
Cheers,
Joe Barr's an unstable idiot who is always accusing people of astroturfing or being paid off if they disagree with him. I'm kind of curious why he holds any credibility with the Linux community in the first place, especially after his "asslicker" antics. Trust me, he's definitely not helping the cause of anybody he aligns himself with. He's like a one-man Team OS/2. (Honest question: I know he used to be big into OS/2, was he actually part of Team OS/2?). Old Joe reminds me of what Nicholas Petreley would be like if you fed him cocaine, speed, and cafe lattes continuously over a 48-hour period.
Speaking of which, what happened to Nicholas Petreley? Anyone seen his picture lately? I just saw it today and was wondering if he has cancer. I'm not even close to being a fan of his, but there's no way in Hell I'd ever wish it on the guy.
Cheers,
It's important to keep in mind that this story comes from well-known kook Joe Barr. The fact that it came from his addled brain should definitely have been mentioned in the story summary, since that tells a big part of the story in and of itself. He's an unstable guy who does things like sends emails to company presidents calling them "asslickers" for actually saying something positive about Microsoft. In fact, I get the feeling that's the main reason why Barr's on his jihad against the LinuxToday guy -- for not being harsh enough on Microsoft.
Cheers,
doesnt forbid M$ bundling suns 2.x JVM instead
LOL. C'mon, you guys are getting really desperate. Why would Microsoft start bundling any software from Sun? Let me know when you guys start demanding that Sun start bundling IE with Solaris, mmmkay?
Cheers,
They won, but MS can continue to distribute the VM for another 7 years or so.
So what are you saying, they should have to distribute it for another 6 years, 364 days before dropping it? If you're not saying that, then why shouldn't they drop it as soon as possible? Isn't it reasonable to assume that if a company A gets a judge to order company B to cease in desist, but gives them 7 years to do so, that company A would hope that it would happen as soon as possible? Of course. In this case, though, Sun realizes that Java has been a failure on the client and was hoping for as much exposure to Windows users as possible. Too bad.
About C#, it's a cool language, but .NET is the real attack on Sun. As for removing Java, again I remind you that Sun demanded this.
If they want to bundle a Java VM with their OS, they have many options.
Yeah, if they want to. They could give a Piper Cub away with each copy of MS Flight Simulator if they want to. Why should they? What customers care if they have a JVM or not? The only decent site using Java these days is www.afterhourstrading.com, and the sooner they're using Flash/ActiveX/.NET, the better. Sun asked for it, Sun's getting what they asked for, and now all the anti-MS people are crying. They're pissed because Bill Gates outsmarted them yet again.
Cheers,
Do that other crap on your own time instead of when you're on the clock. If your job has any significance whatsoever, and the other things were really important to your job, they'd let you use them. You do the math.
Cheers,
It's really nice to see a Katz story which is actually shorter than the Unabomber Manifesto. Way to go!
Cheers,
Uh, maybe because it's not a crap engine? Anybody who says they only use Google is instantly flagging themselves as someone who doesn't know dick about web searching, because Google has some big holes in it. It munges stop words within phrases, it can't do stemming (to Google, a "rocket" has no relationship to "rockets"), no wildcard support, and no "or" support come to mind. Try using a metasearch engine like ixquick sometime and you'll see all the stuff that Google misses.
On the topic of searching, anybody who uses IE 5 or above (read: most of Slashdot) who does a lot of searching should check grab the IE Web Accessories (they work for IE6, too) and make use of the Quick Search feature. Instead of going to Google and then searching for "Hungry Hippos", just type in your URL box or Open dialog 'gg "Hungry Hippos"' (without the single quotes), and it'll shoot you to the appropriate results page. Results no good and you want to check AltaVista? Just enter 'av "Hungry Hippos"' and there you are.
It comes with a bunch of sites already programmed (AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek, InfoSeek Ultra, Lycos, MetaCrawler, Magellan, OpenText, WebCrawler, and Yahoo), and you can add your own. Plus you can basically use it for any web query that's looking for a single field — you just stick in %s where the term(s) you're searching for should go. So, in addition to the search engines that I've added (Google, Northern Light, ixquick, and Raging Search), I've also set it to access UPS tracking, the W3C's CSS validator, MSN Dictionary, Google Groups, Netcraft, and the W3C's HTML validator. So, instead of going to Netcraft and entering a site in the textbox, I just do a "nc www.apple.com" and the web server that Apple's using is the next thing I see. ("nc" being my alias for Netcraft).
You can make your own, but just to get you started, here's my own list of custom queries:
css - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=% s&warning=1&profile=css2s f e=off&site=groupse b&cmd=process_search&query=%s% s&orl== %sn e
di - http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry.asp?search=%
dj - http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&hl=en&lr=&sa
gg - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
ix - http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cat=w
nc - http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=%s
nl - http://www.northernlight.com/nlquery.fcg?cb=0&qr=
rs - http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q
val - http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s&doctype=Inli
(Hope I didn't mess up the cut-and-paste job — it comes from an email I wrote to some fellow workers lately — and I know this turned into a long post, but this feature really is a great time saver. It's one of those things where you get annoyed whenever you have to use somebody else's computer and they don't have it installed. So, just thought I'd point it out to anyone who might not have tried it before. Oh, and it looks like Slashdot's entering extra spaces into the URLs, so if you want to copy them, make sure to remove the spaces.)
Cheers,
Coincidentally, that's the number one question being asked by VA Linux stockholders these days...
Cheers,
More like an acknowledgment that while Public Enemy used to be mindblowingly awesome, everything that they've written themselves for the past 10 years (everything after Apocalypse '91) has been pure garbage. Can anybody even name 3 songs they've done since then? Hell, I can't even name one.
The subtitle to this article should be, "Please write us some songs that don't suck. Please?"
I'll probably get whacked for pointing this out, but if this is really Open Source music as you say, it just shows Open Source yet again being a dumping ground for dying entities. SGI, Corel, etc., etc., and now Public Enemy. Congrats?
Cheers,
You had some good things to say, but I really have to correct the record on one point that you made, something which was also brought up at the Roundtable:
Actually, the whole motivation behind Richard Stallman's Free Software crusade is pure jealousy and ego. When fellow workers at MIT started taking the research and actually applying it to produce real products to be used by consumers, and of course making money from it, it really honked RMS off. From Steven Levy's Hackers (emphasis mine):
And later, in Forbes (www.forbes.com/forbes/98/0810/6203094a.htm):Not really too surprising from someone who has invested so much energy in attacking anybody who says "Linux" without appending "GNU" to the front of it, is it? How many more hours have been wasted by programmers thinking they were serving some noble goal, when in reality they were just feeding Richard Stallman's childish insecurities and ego? Programmers that Stallman would be thrilled to see homeless and begging for change if they ever even think about making a bigger splash than him. Pity.
Cheers,
The SGI Linux system is over 3 times the cost, as you pointed out, but it took the Linux solution double the processors (16 in a clustered system, of course) to beat out the single 8-CPU Windows box by a paltry 60%. Oooo, impressive! Sorry michael, but this guy's essay was embarrassingly simpleminded garbage, and showing it to your boss is likely to get you laughed out of the office. It's already been ripped to shreds by various other posters, so I won't repeat what they've said.
Cheers,
Before you discount this as pro Microsoft retoric let me assure you that I am not a huge fan of their in the server/serving services arena, but they do make some good multimedia stuff.
Gotta like the atmosphere that the anti-MS Nazis around here have created. Can't just have a post with someone saying anything positive about something Microsoft has done. Naw, gotta satisfy the rabble by bloating it up about 50% with some testimonials about how they actually (really, I promise!) dislike Microsoft. Kewl!
Cheers,
There are a couple of school districts in my area which are strapped for cash. My proposal to a local university is to take GPL'd source code, like GNUmeric or stuff from SEUL, and modify it to suit the particular district's teaching needs. They could make money by selling the software for about half the price of whatever software the district is currently using. Most importantly, they won't release the modified source, so that someone else can't take their source and undercut them on price. Sure, it violates the GPL, but the sales will help the cash-strapped university, and it seems like just about everybody here says it's all right for cash-strapped schools to break any software licenses they feel like anyway.
Cheers,
Hell, if the mods have any sense, they'll run you up to "+5, actually has a clue." Your bit about people here showing their mental ages couldn't have been more true. It's more than obvious that they're just used to being told what to do throughout their lives, rather than having any ounce of their own authority. Otherwise they'd figure out real damn quick why you don't want the grunts installing just any damn thing they want on computers that don't even belong to them.
Cheers,
Could they be held accountable for encouraging ilegal activity?
X10 cams don't take upskirt voyeur shots of Joan Rivers, people take upskirt voyeur shots of Joan Rivers.
And those people should be shot.
Cheers,
Well, actually pulling you over might not be allowed (I think there might've been constitutional questions about it), so what these states do is have roadblocks specifically to check if people are wearing seatbelts. Which is basically the same thing. In some states this program is called "Click It or Ticket."
Cheers,
In that recent report that said that people on cell phones were more likely to be in accidents, the accident rate for people talking to passengers wasn't all that much lower. How long before passengers are banned from cars, or police start ticketing people for talking?
I still remember when people started pushing for mandatory seat belt laws, dismissing as paranoid nuts anyone who suggested that cops would be pulling drivers over at random to make sure they're wearing seat belts. Well, now that cops are doing exactly that, where are these people now?
Quit asking for the goverment to run everybody's lives for them, they do too much of it already.
Cheers,
Yeah, what the Hell's up with Austin? I was just down there last week and thought it was supposed to be a big tech town. Well, my hotel had ethernet connections, but my phone bill's going to be obnoxious this month because of all the roaming Verizon calls I was making. Oh well, the bars/music were still great, anyway...
Cheers,
C'mon, where in the song did they mention such vital-to-the-job things such as:
- golf clubs
- electric dart boards
- plastic helmets
- squirt guns
- "Zoho" wine
I can't really compare the hardships of farmers seeing their family business grow steadily downhill to the things happening with some of these dotcom chuckleheads.Cheers,
How about doing crossword puzzles? That's how I pass the time while I'm driving.
About the article, it's nuts to blame the economy for guys like this knocking on people's doors. It's more about people getting realistic and seeing that quarter-after-quarter some of these goofy web ideas were losing tons of money. It's about one too many toothpaste.com-like sites getting millions of dollars in VC money before people started to finally get a clue.
Cheers,
I always wondered why Richard Gere always received special interest from the MI5 whenever he travelled to the UK.
Cheers,
John Riccitiello (President of EA) - "It's drop dead sexy."
You sure that wasn't Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers flicks?
About Square, didn't the head of Nintendo angrily say that he wouldn't even allow Square to produce software for the Nintendo machines? I'm not really interested in any Final Fantasy games, but I'm really considering getting a console once the GameCube and X-Box are out there and I can take a look at the games available (the PS2's games don't do much for me so far). I haven't even owned a console since the original NES, but I think one would be pretty sweet hooked up to my home entertainment system. Anyway, that's today's stream of consciousness post...
Cheers,