Because, in this case, it is the correct due process of law to directly challenge the law without requiring some poor, dumb schmuck getting arrested for it and ruining his business and life.
It's the State that will be sued, not actually the governor.
I'm afraid that word has certain negative connotations and must thus be considered derogatory when directed at one of our valuable human resources. In the interests of sensitivity our press facing human resources would prefer that you call it "public relations."
We would like to thank you, rewt, for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerly,
Microsoft: Where Restraint of Trade is Freedom to Innovate!
Well, I could give the OSS rebutal to your post, i.e. we're like skilled people trading our output with each other for our mutual benefit which grows software wealth and thus does't particularly violate any laws of economics, but. . .
I rather like your post and have often felt like posting something rather similar.
I'm concerned though. I not only write some of my own software, but if you troll through my old posts you'll find that I also grow my own food and knit my own sweaters. Spin my own yarn too.
Does this mean I have to stop charging to play the fiddle? After all, a girl's gotta make a living.
Heh, he lived through the era where UNIXes established their reputation for security. ..
As did I.
. ..the various UNIXes had a lousy security reputation. ..
I was on 360s and VAXen at the time. It was not unheard of to snigger at UNIX security.
However, all of these systems were designed from the outset to be pefectly network aware, UNIX did harden because it was so designed and the issues of network security were understood before Windows 95 came out, nevermind NT which was supposed to be a next generation VAX, so. . .
Obviously Bill knows he's spouting nonsense. He is not in denial. He is attempting to induce denial in others.
I'm not sure why it is in anyone's power to curb the speech of others on a private or public forum.
So long as we leave out issues of criminal libel it isn't. Speech remains free as in speech, as the government cannot exert any force of prior restraint or post facto criminal prosecution (ok, leaving aside copyright/trademark issues as well. ..let me come in agian).
Speech that is deemed libelous is not, however, free as in beer. You can say it, but it's going to cost you.
Yeah, yeah, I know. God help you if you can't afford to pay to show that your speech wasn't libelous, which is the angle these doctors are using. They're chance in court is nil and they know it.
No doubt in future our paychecks will be simply direct deposited into the accounts of the lawyers.
One of the issues here is not to ask "does it run my app?," but rather to ask "does it do this?"
Often the answer is, "Yes. Yes it does; and here's how."
Since Linux is structured as a workplace for engineers, rather than as a platform for application sales, it uses the "tool" metaphor, rather than the "app" metaphor. It doesn't have a machine that cranks out chairs at the touch of a button. It's got table saws and drill presses and screw drivers, but. . .
it's also got the means to automate the tools to be a machine that cranks out chairs at the touch of a button.
It doesn't have a machine to crank out chairs, it's a machine to crank out machines.
But here's the kicker; we share the machines.
And the tools, which, since they are independant of the "app" are independantly upgradable. You only have one spell checking tool on your system which all of your "apps" share. Only one dictionary to maintain, only one set of commands to learn, and if a better one comes along you just swap it out and every "app" instantly has a better spell checker. Just like buying a better table saw instead of buying a new chair making machine to make squarer cuts, although perhaps drill poorer holes.
But if you ask if a particular "app" has spell checking, from the Windows user point of view the answer will be "no."
The problem is that from a Windows user point of view they don't look like what you expect an "app" to look like, although they perform the same function.
Think function, not app.
But sometimes, you're right, the answer is also,"No, Linux does not perform that function yet, because the function is a Windows app."
Because if you promise a reward for a specified task and reneg you will lose your pigeon.
Say, pecking exactly 1000 times or Christmas bonuses.
But I was speaking to consumer spending which is more like a counting experiment than a work load experiment. The consumer spends a preset amount for the delivery of a promised reward.
Feed a buck into a soda machine and if you don't get your soda you get pissed off, right away.
Feed a buck into a slot machine and don't get a "soda" and you feed in another buck in anticipation that you're "getting closer."
Which still depends on paying off often enough, and in sufficient quantity, to prevent losing your pigeon. You don't want people thinking your slot machines are "unlucky". ..unless, of course, you know you can just replace them with a new pigeon. The "McDonald's Method."
Bottlers work both sides to sell the most soda. They can't sell you soda at all other than on a promise/reward basis, but they can attach the random possibility of getting another soda to the sale.
Oh, wait, this sounds exactly like what employers do; and you lay off senior staff because you have made them the most explicit promises you can't reneg on without losing your pigeon. The worker you replace with will work harder because the senior person existed, in anticipation of someday extracting those same promises from you. . .
Or tits on a bull/boar. I fully acknowledge the shoulders of the giants that came before me.
However, these phrases simply mean something without use, that serve no function whatsoever, like, say, a GOSUB routine that never gets called. That wouldn't be tits on a squid though.
Because, inspired by George Lucas, tits on a squid does not merely refer to mammary glands that don't work. By "tits" I mean "hooters."
Air bags, Angel Cakes, Bazongas, Betty Boops, Blouse Bunnies, Cupcakes, Fun Bags, Grand Tetons, Grapefruits, Hand Warmers, Headlights, Love Bubbles, Macaroons, Sweater Kittens, Warheads. . .
In short; Boobies.
Boars may have tits, but they don't have boobies. George Lucas' squids have boobies.
And like George Lucas' squid boobies it's very important that the boobies are actually boobies, otherwise they wouldn't work as an attractor.
The tits on a Realdoll(tm) aren't at all the same thing as tits on a Teddy Bear. The tits on a Realdoll are boobies and function as such. ..or, ummmmm, so I'm told.
Camera in a cell phone, XML support in a relational database manager. ..tits on a squid, geek attractors that fool you into not thinking of them as just hunks of rubber, or something slimier. But they "work" as designed, or they wouldn't "work" at all.
Because if you can be induced to buy the boobies, you've bought the squid.
KFG
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Well, I see that if you Google on "tits on a squid" my original use is all that shows up, so I guess it's "mine." I promise not to sue anyone who uses it though, unless they put an "i" or a "G" in front of it. I admit it, I could use 35 mil, and I'd settle for dollars or euros, not pounds.
The NY Times can substitue the politically correct euphemism "Feminine mammilian secondary sexual characteristics superimposed onto a coleoidean companion," or "Fmsscsoacc" for a snappy and easily pronouncable acronym.
It's not really a replacement for "jump the shark" though. It means something a bit different from a differenct point of view.
It refers to adding a powerful attractor to something that isn't otherwise very attractive; and may even be innately repulsive, but whose actual value and usfulness is, ummmm, "questionable."
And to a certain extent it'll work too, especially as displayed on the sales floor the squid is all dressed up in a Wonderbra(tm) and a tight blouse unbuttoned just so. The instinctual response to reach out and fondle will be very strong.
Of course, sooner or later, after you get it home and out of the shrink wrap, you'll start to realize you're getting all hot and bothered by feeling up a squid, at least if you've reached the primate level of evolution. That still leaves the problem with management.
"Jump the shark" is the "consumer" point of view phrase for an attractor having lost its attractiveness.
B.F. Skinner already coined the phrase for this from the marketers point of view. He noted that you could train a pigeon to do extrordinary things, so long as you never broke the task/reward cycle. If you did that the pigeon in question would simply ignore all further attempts to train it to do anything at all.
He called this "losing your pigeon."
How apropos.
KFG
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. ..requiring 95% of its user base to relearn everything they already know. ..
Don't be silly. Everyone knows the reason not to change to OpenOffice is to avoid retraining.
. ..did I just describe the state of word processors, or the state of enterprise software in general?
They're starting to run out of chrome and tailfins. Now they're starting to put tits on the squid.
No plastics. They can hold a static charge. They are hard, noisy and slippery. Shit dropped on 'em bounces and slides around, assuming it doesn't break.
Wood is quiet, shock absorbing, has a bit of friction to keep things in place and is antistatic.
Wood is safer and just plain more pleasant to work on.
An oil and wax surface gives it cleanability. I skip it where the customer will never see the surface, as it degrades some of the advantages of wood. A well oiled and waxed surface won't leave crap on anything. The downside is that requires a certain amount of maintenence.
Laminate surfaces are low maintenence. They suck at everything else, including their supposed sanitation advantage. I don't even like them in my kitchen. They're for people who think that translucent icons are an advance in GUI technology.
Well, actually, windstorms. Might seem a bit of nitpicking, especially if you live there, but the difference really is significant.
Remember though that their dykes protect a huges chunk of their country. ..
Built on two, two, two river deltas.
I'm aware of the issues that the Netherlands face, they don't, after all, call it The Netherlands for nothing. I've seen it. I think the "reclaiming" of the Zuider Zee may not have been the wisest move in history.
Their polder system is more intelligently thought out and managed than our own unrestrained suburban sprawl "system" though.
We don't even understand global warning 100% yet, now we want to do this?
Oh, I don't know. I think I understand it pretty well. The sun does it. To prevent hurricanes just put out the sun. This may raise some side issues, but I'm sure that sometime in the future technology will be able to deal with those.
. ..don't build a city below water level. ..
On the delta of one of the world's great flooding rivers in the hurricane belt. It's the confluence of the three factors that really causeses the trouble. We're not likely to see similar events in the Netherlands or Death Valley.
I wrote a post about the similar problems faced by Bangledesh a few years ago. Since the problems faced by that country are largely geographical in origin the world can send them aid year after year for all eternity and nothing will ever change. Of course there the problem is also political. In the old days, when the country was simply a region of India, the peasanst would come down from the hills in the spring, plant their rice, go back up hill when flood season started, and come back to harvest the rice when the floods had receded. Now they've placed an international frontier right where the high ground starts.
The Big Easy doesn't have that problem. It exists where it exists for perfectly legitimate reasons and will be rebuilt because it has to be, but most of the people in the area aren't there for that reason and the people who are should go uphill when the prevailing conditions make such a wise move.
Doctor, it hurts my city when the volcano blows up. . .
There is a simpler, easier, and more cost effective way of dealing with the above than putting out the volcano.
Slashdot Mirror
Because, in this case, it is the correct due process of law to directly challenge the law without requiring some poor, dumb schmuck getting arrested for it and ruining his business and life.
It's the State that will be sued, not actually the governor.
KFG
12. When you cut and paste your troll from an email use Preview to make sure it's formated correctly.
KFG
Dear Mr. 66,
I'm afraid that word has certain negative connotations and must thus be considered derogatory when directed at one of our valuable human resources. In the interests of sensitivity our press facing human resources would prefer that you call it "public relations."
We would like to thank you, rewt, for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerly,
Microsoft: Where Restraint of Trade is Freedom to Innovate!
KFG
Well, I could give the OSS rebutal to your post, i.e. we're like skilled people trading our output with each other for our mutual benefit which grows software wealth and thus does't particularly violate any laws of economics, but. . .
I rather like your post and have often felt like posting something rather similar.
I'm concerned though. I not only write some of my own software, but if you troll through my old posts you'll find that I also grow my own food and knit my own sweaters. Spin my own yarn too.
Does this mean I have to stop charging to play the fiddle? After all, a girl's gotta make a living.
KFG
Heh, he lived through the era where UNIXes established their reputation for security. . .
.the various UNIXes had a lousy security reputation. . .
As did I.
. .
I was on 360s and VAXen at the time. It was not unheard of to snigger at UNIX security.
However, all of these systems were designed from the outset to be pefectly network aware, UNIX did harden because it was so designed and the issues of network security were understood before Windows 95 came out, nevermind NT which was supposed to be a next generation VAX, so. . .
Obviously Bill knows he's spouting nonsense. He is not in denial. He is attempting to induce denial in others.
KFG
You say motto, I say slogan.
.let me come in again.
You say Do No Evil, I say I disagree with that. . .
No, wait, I meant. .
KFG
I'm not sure why it is in anyone's power to curb the speech of others on a private or public forum.
.let me come in agian).
So long as we leave out issues of criminal libel it isn't. Speech remains free as in speech, as the government cannot exert any force of prior restraint or post facto criminal prosecution (ok, leaving aside copyright/trademark issues as well. .
Speech that is deemed libelous is not, however, free as in beer. You can say it, but it's going to cost you.
Yeah, yeah, I know. God help you if you can't afford to pay to show that your speech wasn't libelous, which is the angle these doctors are using. They're chance in court is nil and they know it.
No doubt in future our paychecks will be simply direct deposited into the accounts of the lawyers.
KFG
KFG
I see. You're not dead yet, sire.
KFG
One of the issues here is not to ask "does it run my app?," but rather to ask "does it do this?"
Often the answer is, "Yes. Yes it does; and here's how."
Since Linux is structured as a workplace for engineers, rather than as a platform for application sales, it uses the "tool" metaphor, rather than the "app" metaphor. It doesn't have a machine that cranks out chairs at the touch of a button. It's got table saws and drill presses and screw drivers, but. . .
it's also got the means to automate the tools to be a machine that cranks out chairs at the touch of a button.
It doesn't have a machine to crank out chairs, it's a machine to crank out machines.
But here's the kicker; we share the machines.
And the tools, which, since they are independant of the "app" are independantly upgradable. You only have one spell checking tool on your system which all of your "apps" share. Only one dictionary to maintain, only one set of commands to learn, and if a better one comes along you just swap it out and every "app" instantly has a better spell checker. Just like buying a better table saw instead of buying a new chair making machine to make squarer cuts, although perhaps drill poorer holes.
But if you ask if a particular "app" has spell checking, from the Windows user point of view the answer will be "no."
The problem is that from a Windows user point of view they don't look like what you expect an "app" to look like, although they perform the same function.
Think function, not app.
But sometimes, you're right, the answer is also,"No, Linux does not perform that function yet, because the function is a Windows app."
Just not as often as most people think.
KFG
There has to be something else here, this just doesnt make buisness sense.
Subscribers are not the customer. They are the product.
Follow the money.
KFG
. . .we could just get one of those idiots to walk off a cliff...
Doesn't work. The followers just walk to the edge of the cliff and then talk about walking off, ad infinitum.
See Kurt Cobain and the top post.
KFG
Because if you promise a reward for a specified task and reneg you will lose your pigeon.
.unless, of course, you know you can just replace them with a new pigeon. The "McDonald's Method."
Say, pecking exactly 1000 times or Christmas bonuses.
But I was speaking to consumer spending which is more like a counting experiment than a work load experiment. The consumer spends a preset amount for the delivery of a promised reward.
Feed a buck into a soda machine and if you don't get your soda you get pissed off, right away.
Feed a buck into a slot machine and don't get a "soda" and you feed in another buck in anticipation that you're "getting closer."
Which still depends on paying off often enough, and in sufficient quantity, to prevent losing your pigeon. You don't want people thinking your slot machines are "unlucky". .
Bottlers work both sides to sell the most soda. They can't sell you soda at all other than on a promise/reward basis, but they can attach the random possibility of getting another soda to the sale.
Oh, wait, this sounds exactly like what employers do; and you lay off senior staff because you have made them the most explicit promises you can't reneg on without losing your pigeon. The worker you replace with will work harder because the senior person existed, in anticipation of someday extracting those same promises from you. . .
Getting layed off.
Oh, wait. . .
KFG
See the post immediately above your own. The black helicopters will be arriving shortly.
Have a nice trip and enjoy the Caribbean.
KFG
By hundreds of years, as does 'nipples on men' itself, which at times recurs as a great theological question.
KFG
Hey guys, I've got an idea, why don't we just get the barbarians to guard the gates of Rome?
KFG
Or tits on a bull/boar. I fully acknowledge the shoulders of the giants that came before me.
.or, ummmmm, so I'm told.
.tits on a squid, geek attractors that fool you into not thinking of them as just hunks of rubber, or something slimier. But they "work" as designed, or they wouldn't "work" at all.
However, these phrases simply mean something without use, that serve no function whatsoever, like, say, a GOSUB routine that never gets called. That wouldn't be tits on a squid though.
Because, inspired by George Lucas, tits on a squid does not merely refer to mammary glands that don't work. By "tits" I mean "hooters."
Air bags, Angel Cakes, Bazongas, Betty Boops, Blouse Bunnies, Cupcakes, Fun Bags, Grand Tetons, Grapefruits, Hand Warmers, Headlights, Love Bubbles, Macaroons, Sweater Kittens, Warheads. . .
In short; Boobies.
Boars may have tits, but they don't have boobies. George Lucas' squids have boobies.
And like George Lucas' squid boobies it's very important that the boobies are actually boobies, otherwise they wouldn't work as an attractor.
The tits on a Realdoll(tm) aren't at all the same thing as tits on a Teddy Bear. The tits on a Realdoll are boobies and function as such. .
Camera in a cell phone, XML support in a relational database manager. .
Because if you can be induced to buy the boobies, you've bought the squid.
KFG
Well, I see that if you Google on "tits on a squid" my original use is all that shows up, so I guess it's "mine." I promise not to sue anyone who uses it though, unless they put an "i" or a "G" in front of it. I admit it, I could use 35 mil, and I'd settle for dollars or euros, not pounds.
The NY Times can substitue the politically correct euphemism "Feminine mammilian secondary sexual characteristics superimposed onto a coleoidean companion," or "Fmsscsoacc" for a snappy and easily pronouncable acronym.
It's not really a replacement for "jump the shark" though. It means something a bit different from a differenct point of view.
It refers to adding a powerful attractor to something that isn't otherwise very attractive; and may even be innately repulsive, but whose actual value and usfulness is, ummmm, "questionable."
And to a certain extent it'll work too, especially as displayed on the sales floor the squid is all dressed up in a Wonderbra(tm) and a tight blouse unbuttoned just so. The instinctual response to reach out and fondle will be very strong.
Of course, sooner or later, after you get it home and out of the shrink wrap, you'll start to realize you're getting all hot and bothered by feeling up a squid, at least if you've reached the primate level of evolution. That still leaves the problem with management.
"Jump the shark" is the "consumer" point of view phrase for an attractor having lost its attractiveness.
B.F. Skinner already coined the phrase for this from the marketers point of view. He noted that you could train a pigeon to do extrordinary things, so long as you never broke the task/reward cycle. If you did that the pigeon in question would simply ignore all further attempts to train it to do anything at all.
He called this "losing your pigeon."
How apropos.
KFG
. . .requiring 95% of its user base to relearn everything they already know. . .
.did I just describe the state of word processors, or the state of enterprise software in general?
Don't be silly. Everyone knows the reason not to change to OpenOffice is to avoid retraining.
. .
They're starting to run out of chrome and tailfins. Now they're starting to put tits on the squid.
KFG
No plastics. They can hold a static charge. They are hard, noisy and slippery. Shit dropped on 'em bounces and slides around, assuming it doesn't break.
Wood is quiet, shock absorbing, has a bit of friction to keep things in place and is antistatic.
Wood is safer and just plain more pleasant to work on.
An oil and wax surface gives it cleanability. I skip it where the customer will never see the surface, as it degrades some of the advantages of wood. A well oiled and waxed surface won't leave crap on anything. The downside is that requires a certain amount of maintenence.
Laminate surfaces are low maintenence. They suck at everything else, including their supposed sanitation advantage. I don't even like them in my kitchen. They're for people who think that translucent icons are an advance in GUI technology.
KFG
. . .every radical nut with a shoulder launch missile.
Around here we just call them "arrows."
KFG
Well, enjoy your Snow Palace then. :)
KFG
Other, more productive countries take your jobs.
Which is why we're sending your job to China. Enjoy your Epcot Center. What goes around, comes around.
Mors ante servitum.
KFG
Google on Romulus and Remus.
KFG
I know you'd show up. :)
.
.
. . . Actually hurricanes. .
Well, actually, windstorms. Might seem a bit of nitpicking, especially if you live there, but the difference really is significant.
Remember though that their dykes protect a huges chunk of their country. .
Built on two, two, two river deltas.
I'm aware of the issues that the Netherlands face, they don't, after all, call it The Netherlands for nothing. I've seen it. I think the "reclaiming" of the Zuider Zee may not have been the wisest move in history.
Their polder system is more intelligently thought out and managed than our own unrestrained suburban sprawl "system" though.
KFG
We don't even understand global warning 100% yet, now we want to do this?
.don't build a city below water level. . .
Oh, I don't know. I think I understand it pretty well. The sun does it. To prevent hurricanes just put out the sun. This may raise some side issues, but I'm sure that sometime in the future technology will be able to deal with those.
. .
On the delta of one of the world's great flooding rivers in the hurricane belt. It's the confluence of the three factors that really causeses the trouble. We're not likely to see similar events in the Netherlands or Death Valley.
I wrote a post about the similar problems faced by Bangledesh a few years ago. Since the problems faced by that country are largely geographical in origin the world can send them aid year after year for all eternity and nothing will ever change. Of course there the problem is also political. In the old days, when the country was simply a region of India, the peasanst would come down from the hills in the spring, plant their rice, go back up hill when flood season started, and come back to harvest the rice when the floods had receded. Now they've placed an international frontier right where the high ground starts.
The Big Easy doesn't have that problem. It exists where it exists for perfectly legitimate reasons and will be rebuilt because it has to be, but most of the people in the area aren't there for that reason and the people who are should go uphill when the prevailing conditions make such a wise move.
Doctor, it hurts my city when the volcano blows up. . .
There is a simpler, easier, and more cost effective way of dealing with the above than putting out the volcano.
KFG