No, that would have defeated part of their goal. Using the CueCat software you can scan a can of baked beans. The bar code is then transmitted to the CueCat mother ship, and the mother ship directs you to a the home page of the company that makes baked beans. CueCat collects information about what you're eating (or reading, or whatever) and uses it for marketing and sales. Your scheme would defeat this goal.
I did quite a bit of analysis on her Ph.D. thesis several years ago. A lot of the things she did in it were pretty cool. Unfortunately, some of it was totally bogus. None the less, she often has very interesting things to say. A gratuitous link.
I was at the Data Compression Conference at Snowbird a few weeks ago. Microsoft delivered several papers at this conference. The one that stuck out in my mind the most started like this:
"This is the third year in a row that I've delivered a paper at this conference, and this is the third year in a row that my work is 5% worse than the industry standard."
I work in a split Windows/Linux company. I do all of my work under Linux. I'm more productive when I use it, and it's what my immediate boss wants me to use. I just sent a document out for review. My boss's boss aksed for the document in Word format. He had to settle for a pdf file, a text file, and png files. The receiver didn't have any problems with this.
When someone sends me a.doc file, I ask for it as a.pdf or a.txt file. and 9 out of 10 times this isn't a problem. I don't say "I can't read this so bugger off." I say "I can't read this, but let me tell you what I can read." It makes a world of difference.
Whining about how the world works won't make any positive impacts. Being an advocate for change involves changing the way you live. If everyone took your attitude, Linux would not exist in the first place (although BSD might have taken its place)
I have lived in a world without Microsoft for over 4 months now, and it hasn't made a significant impact on the ease of interacting with the outside world. The real world.
I remember Visio starting out this way. When I was in high school I had a free (beer) copy of Visio. At the time I thought that it was the greatest app in the world. However, it came with very limited stencil sets. If you wanted more, you had to pay for them.
This was the pre-Microsoft Visio. I still miss it (8 years later!). Unfortunately, I couldn't compile Kvisio when I tried a few weeks ago. So I used Tgif instead, and it did everything that I wanted.
I'm looking for a job. I have a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics. I did scientific simulation programming for Johns Hopkins. I am the lead programmer in the research and development group of a failing startup. I'm looking for work, and would love to do scientific programming. You can contact me at pavementfan@operamail.com.
I understand where you're coming from, but you should probably lighten up. You work on Debian because you like it. If you get mad, you probably don't like what you're doing.
And think about this, I envy everyone who has the discipline and skill to contribute to Linux in any form. I appreciate what you do, and wish that I had the skills to. Instead of being angry you should embrace the unique skills that you have and enjoy yourself.
It seems more appropriate to give the Stalin award to companies or people devoted to the enslavement and butchery of other people. Nike sounds like a good candidate to me for the first awards.
>Back on topic: will qt free edition (or xfree86)
>ever be ported to windows 9x?
Probably not in this lifetime. Tolltech is interested in making a profit. They gain visibility through KDE, which they can then use to market their "write one, run anywhere" widget set. You can't blame them for wanting to turn a profit from their work. I'm just happy that KDE users benefit from their work. I love KDE2!
I did the same thing once. I closed an account before a check cleared, and wound up with a $95 debt that sat for four years. One day, when I went to open a checking account in a new town I was red flagged.
Was I annoyed? You betcha. But I was more annoyed at never being given any notice of my debt over four years.
What did I do about it? Simple, I called the back, asked them to send me a statement, and paid it.
Will it follow me? Probably. Do I care? No
I pay my bills, am about to close out two credit cards and a car payment, and make good money. I'm looking at buying a house right now.
Yes, people have their credit trashed (I used to have terrible credit) but it isn't the end of the world. It's usually nothing that honest work can't take care of.
With smaller quantities you have more control over the bean grind, the temperature of the water, and how long the coffee sits on the burners.
If the water is too hot, you burn your coffee, and it won't taste very good.
If you make a lot of coffee, and leave it on continuous heating, you burn the coffee and it won't taste very good.
If you have a big tray of ground, with lots of water gushing over it, you burn the coffee and it won't taste very good.
I'm probably just an effete coffee snob, but I find that any coffee made at work doesn't come close to what I can make at home and throw in a Nissan steel vaccuum thermos.
Useful information here!
If you do brew a large quantity of coffee, put it in termal carafes rather than glass carafes over burners. It makes a huge difference. Wash your equipment regularly. Clean pots and filter trays make better coffee.
I've heard of services that bring in a fresh pile of pots in filters in the morning, and take the dirty ones away to be cleaned in industrial dishwashers. They also leave beans and filters. This gives a company an almost endless supply of coffee, without having to worry about the mess left behind.
Fine, have it dump the contents into a file on your hard drive, then use another program to upload the values (maybe DeCDDB?), and delete the file on your hard drive. No database, no liscensing problems, and you can let CDDB burn in it's own greed.
You have a valid point. However, I downloaded both then bought YDL based on using both of them. Yes, I did buy YDL, no bullshit here. One of the great things about Linux is you can try before you buy. I know the PPC "buy me" distro is different, but if the evaluation distro is so crappy why would I want to buy it?
I downloaded the LinuxPPC 2000 free version to try it out (as an upgrade to PPC 99). On the whole: it blew chunks. It didn't come with any useful software, the the installation process left a lot to be desired. It comes with a graphical X installer, and the classic Red Hat installer. Both were buggy and nonintuitive.
Now compare that to YDL CS 1.2. It also uses the Red Hat installer, but it is much more stable. The installation documentation rocked, and you can download all of their fully working, complete ISO images. It detected my hardware fairly well, and configuration was easy. It also looks like their update program (YUP) is easy to use. I wouldn't know since my employer has a badass firewall set up (no ftp in or out except through special machines). It would be nice if the YDL people made it possible to update through HTTP protocols.
Really, they are both very similar, but Yellow Dog has definitely put quite a bit of thought into their distribution. It has what you need on the main CD, and what you want on the tasty morsels CD.
On an important note, configuring X sucked with both distros.
My test platform was a PPC 8600/200 with 80 mb of RAM and a 2 gig hard drive, dual booting between Linux and OS 9. I'm installing YDL on a blue G3 later on this week.
The president of the IOC was a high ranking fascist official in world war II. This is not an organization that subscribes to higher morals, truth, and spirit. This is a corrupt, money grubbing, back stabbing, self serving entity that would see you bankrupt and dead rather than lose a single dollar.
Personally, I don't give a rats ass about the olympics. I would rather be out participating in a sport than watching it in some tramped up production put on by scoundrels.
I am an independent, not for profit contractor who reviews technical specifications. After I did a full analysis of a system, showing some of its strengths and weaknesses the company whose product I was reviewing fired off some powerpoint slides with nonsensical analysis in response. After poking around, I managed to call up the entire data set used to generate their analysis, and found that their work was a coarse representatin of my own findings. I cleaned up their work and sent out a new memo clearly explaining the results.
The company was pissed off with me, but the group that was contracting them was so impressed by my analysis that we landed an extension of our review contract.
128-bit encryption does not make a secure server-client relationship. The data also needs to be encrypted and protected on the server. I baffles me that supposedly tech oriented companies can't figure this out.
Any time you give your credit card out over the internet you need to make sure that you trust the company that you are dealing with. Is it any suprise that Real Networks, a closed source, litigous, profit hungry company, didn't protect their customers? After all, they already paid for their upgrades, so it was time to move on to the next round of suckers.
Hey, the L.A. Times printing an editorial by a MPAA bigwig, with no prior notice to the EFF (all hail pro-bono lawyers) or any of the sites in question? No chance to reply in a side by side column? The L.A. times has a recent history of allowing advertisers to dictate content( http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/50/news-rappleye.sh tml and http://www.revenews.com/advice/revenue/latimes.htm l ), and I am speculating that this is yet another special article. In a newspaper that horrifies it's own editors and writies, can you expect any fair handedness or truth?
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No, that would have defeated part of their goal. Using the CueCat software you can scan a can of baked beans. The bar code is then transmitted to the CueCat mother ship, and the mother ship directs you to a the home page of the company that makes baked beans. CueCat collects information about what you're eating (or reading, or whatever) and uses it for marketing and sales. Your scheme would defeat this goal.
It's running NetBSD!
I did quite a bit of analysis on her Ph.D. thesis several years ago. A lot of the things she did in it were pretty cool. Unfortunately, some of it was totally bogus. None the less, she often has very interesting things to say. A gratuitous link.
When someone sends me a .doc file, I ask for it as a .pdf or a .txt file. and 9 out of 10 times this isn't a problem. I don't say "I can't read this so bugger off." I say "I can't read this, but let me tell you what I can read." It makes a world of difference.
Whining about how the world works won't make any positive impacts. Being an advocate for change involves changing the way you live. If everyone took your attitude, Linux would not exist in the first place (although BSD might have taken its place)
I have lived in a world without Microsoft for over 4 months now, and it hasn't made a significant impact on the ease of interacting with the outside world. The real world.
This was the pre-Microsoft Visio. I still miss it (8 years later!). Unfortunately, I couldn't compile Kvisio when I tried a few weeks ago. So I used Tgif instead, and it did everything that I wanted.
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And think about this, I envy everyone who has the discipline and skill to contribute to Linux in any form. I appreciate what you do, and wish that I had the skills to. Instead of being angry you should embrace the unique skills that you have and enjoy yourself.
Thanks.
It seems more appropriate to give the Stalin award to companies or people devoted to the enslavement and butchery of other people. Nike sounds like a good candidate to me for the first awards.
>Back on topic: will qt free edition (or xfree86) >ever be ported to windows 9x? Probably not in this lifetime. Tolltech is interested in making a profit. They gain visibility through KDE, which they can then use to market their "write one, run anywhere" widget set. You can't blame them for wanting to turn a profit from their work. I'm just happy that KDE users benefit from their work. I love KDE2!
Was I annoyed? You betcha. But I was more annoyed at never being given any notice of my debt over four years.
What did I do about it? Simple, I called the back, asked them to send me a statement, and paid it.
Will it follow me? Probably. Do I care? No
I pay my bills, am about to close out two credit cards and a car payment, and make good money. I'm looking at buying a house right now.
Yes, people have their credit trashed (I used to have terrible credit) but it isn't the end of the world. It's usually nothing that honest work can't take care of.
But maybe I'm not being reactonary enough.
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With smaller quantities you have more control over the bean grind, the temperature of the water, and how long the coffee sits on the burners.
If the water is too hot, you burn your coffee, and it won't taste very good.
If you make a lot of coffee, and leave it on continuous heating, you burn the coffee and it won't taste very good.
If you have a big tray of ground, with lots of water gushing over it, you burn the coffee and it won't taste very good.
I'm probably just an effete coffee snob, but I find that any coffee made at work doesn't come close to what I can make at home and throw in a Nissan steel vaccuum thermos.
Useful information here! If you do brew a large quantity of coffee, put it in termal carafes rather than glass carafes over burners. It makes a huge difference. Wash your equipment regularly. Clean pots and filter trays make better coffee.
I've heard of services that bring in a fresh pile of pots in filters in the morning, and take the dirty ones away to be cleaned in industrial dishwashers. They also leave beans and filters. This gives a company an almost endless supply of coffee, without having to worry about the mess left behind.
Good Luck!
Laplace
As everyone knows, elementary chaos theory states that all robots must eventually turn on their human masters!
Fine, have it dump the contents into a file on your hard drive, then use another program to upload the values (maybe DeCDDB?), and delete the file on your hard drive. No database, no liscensing problems, and you can let CDDB burn in it's own greed.
Now compare that to YDL CS 1.2. It also uses the Red Hat installer, but it is much more stable. The installation documentation rocked, and you can download all of their fully working, complete ISO images. It detected my hardware fairly well, and configuration was easy. It also looks like their update program (YUP) is easy to use. I wouldn't know since my employer has a badass firewall set up (no ftp in or out except through special machines). It would be nice if the YDL people made it possible to update through HTTP protocols.
Really, they are both very similar, but Yellow Dog has definitely put quite a bit of thought into their distribution. It has what you need on the main CD, and what you want on the tasty morsels CD.
On an important note, configuring X sucked with both distros.
My test platform was a PPC 8600/200 with 80 mb of RAM and a 2 gig hard drive, dual booting between Linux and OS 9. I'm installing YDL on a blue G3 later on this week.
flame on
Why is it that no software project can be a project unless it incorporates at least five different tasks, one of which must be reading mail?
Personally, I don't give a rats ass about the olympics. I would rather be out participating in a sport than watching it in some tramped up production put on by scoundrels.
But, that is just my humble opinion.
The company was pissed off with me, but the group that was contracting them was so impressed by my analysis that we landed an extension of our review contract.
Any time you give your credit card out over the internet you need to make sure that you trust the company that you are dealing with. Is it any suprise that Real Networks, a closed source, litigous, profit hungry company, didn't protect their customers? After all, they already paid for their upgrades, so it was time to move on to the next round of suckers.
--Laplace
meteoroid: a rock from from space that is in space
meteor: a rock from space that is in the atmosphere
meteorite: a rock from space that has landed on the earth
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