It's not generally a good idea. It's neat to see that it can be done, but it pretty clearly shouldnt be. The guy is obviouly pretty sharp, but all this doesn is give M$ just a little more ammo in their FUD campaign against Linux and Open Source. "See! They use their OS to do ILLEGAL things, which we are striving to prevent with our new version of Windows XP!"
MBA's in their infinite wisdom are the same people who brought us that oh-so-popular internet bubble. Let it burst in peace, and take all those MBA-weilding morons with it.
We've (geeks) always known the intelligence level of the average MBA holder, now, with everything going down the tubes, maybe the rest of society will figure it out.
This is business as usual for Verizon, remember when they tried to sue 2600 for the domain name thing? Sue first, ask questions later.
AND, having worked for Airtouch (excellent company to work for) when it was bought out by Bell Atlantic (bane of existence, change your name all you want, you're still Bell) This sort of thing is quite normal. The people high up in the chain at Verizon are as much of money grubbing, scum-sucking fools as Larry Ellison. Too bad Covad went bust before they had the chance to bring what ANY of the Baby Bells do to competition in their areas. USWest does it here in AZ, PacBell does it in CA, Verizon does it on the east coast. It's pathetic.
And suprisingly, I did NOT get it from a computer. I got it from riding a mtn bike with bars that were about 3mm too high. Fixed the angle, fixed the problem. Know what else helped? typing on an ergo computer to learn to type with. I never learned to type on one of those archaic keyboards that they have in HS typing class. I'm pretty sure I didn't have full blown CTS, but closer to tendinitis.
However, my wife DOES have CTS, due to many employers refusing to deal with ergonomics. One even fired her for it, right after they refused to to get her an ergo keyboard. I don't want to say who it was or anything, but if you live in Arizona, it's the utility company with "The Power to Make it Happen.(disappear)"
Know what helped that? Not surgery, thats for damn sure. Weekly massage therapy and an hour a night with her arms up to the shoulders in ice water. That is true pain, really. I would definitely suggest holistic methods for getting rid of it thought, you will keep the use of your hands during recovery, and if it doesnt work, at least you don't have 6" scars in your wrists and no use of your arms below the elbows.
You know, I think Jon Katz has been replaced with an incoherent alien. Or maybe not.
When the Columbine Fiasco happened, he put into words what a lot of us geeks who had it rough were feeling at the time, I think everyone would agree on that.
But it's crap like this that just pisses me off. You're preaching to the converted, Jon. Instead of telling us what we already know in the most long winded fashion possible, get your stuff put in a magazine that EVERYONE reads, like, 'Time', 'NewsWeek', etc. Because at this point, you are annoying the s**t outta everyone on here, by not having a point about the same stuff you've been ranting about for 2 years. Reading your writing at this point is like watching a boring Nascar race. Where everyone is watching, but only to see the big 58-car pileup that we know should be coming. But it never does.
Don't get me wrong, Katz is a good writer, and has the ability to string things together very well, which I'll attest can be difficult sometimes. But I think it's time to take some constructive criticism from the readers you are trying to impress.
Technically, the whole article is true, analysts have said all that stuff. MS is still truding on regardless of whether or not they get broken up, and even if they do, does anyone really think MS will comply? probably not. MS is steering the whole consumer and corporate market towards themselves having some sort or control over EVERYTHING.
The part that pisses me off is that it only gets reported because microsoft is, in fact, making money hand over fist. And Open Source is not. Bear in mind, it's not losing money, bad ideas lose money, Open source just doesnt have the phenomenal returns that selling an OS for 500 bucks and office software for 400 bucks does. Linux IS making money, but just because people who sit on stock commitees dont get to line their pockets with our efforts, as they do with buying into M$, they would rather bash Open Source as much as they can.
It also seems apparent that Microsoft has some sort of stake in BusinessWeek as well, doesn't it?:-)
The whole thing seems kinda like the Tortoise and the Hare, I suppose. The Rabbit running like mad to stay in front, the turtle just plodding along as his own pace. But we all know who won THAT race.
How about this: Jack Palance as the chairman, Oto and Fukui-san being played by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. OK, maybe not the SP dudes for those parts, but Jack Palance would really kick ass, his on screen presence would rule.
imagine if you will, the first time someone is using this for a game of quake, and they have say, a seizure.
Can you just imagine what that would look like in the game?
"Dude, check out THAT guy! I've never seen anyone jump side to side that fast before...."
Would certainly make it a bitch to cruise pr0n though, wouldnt it? the screen wont stop moving up and down!:P
A common trait of many of the companies that failed is that they gave away for free or at a loss the very thing they produced that was of greatest value - in the hope that somehow they'd make money selling something else.
So, let me get this straight, a bunch of fanatics that feel that their opinion matters more than anyone else's can "encourage" the murder of people who would perform abortions, and celebrate when one was actually killed is covered by the first amendment as free speech.
BUT, if 2600 links, not provides, but links to information that allows people to read their OWN DVD's on their OWN computers, possibly cutting into a corrupt organization's profits, that information is more dangerous than the threat of violence against doctors. And is not covered by the First Amendment.
This may be a bit of a flame, but the people who made that site deserve to be drug out in the street, shot, tarred, feathered, and forced to go to work in a place that may or may not be bombed that day. It's bullshit. Anti abortion 'activists' need to pull their heads outta their asses and grow the fsck up. End of Story.
I read this article earlier today and didnt think much of it. But just now I am surfing tv, and come to MSNBC, to find them demostrating this very system. And what do they show its technical prowess doing?
That's true, I could start my own 'old sk00l' site about the good old days of the net. But that is not the the point.
The point is that it's sad the see that the Internet has been dumbed down so much by advertisers, dot-bombs, and people selling pet food on a web site, that one of the sites that was there from the beginning, helping everyone find there way around, is now a victim of all those investors who think the the only thing the net is good for is to make a buck.
This is probably a bit OT, but I think its the general consensus among the real internet folk (/.er's)
This Sucks.
Not only for Yahoo, but for me, this pretty much drives a nail into the coffin about how I have felt about the internet as a whole for about 18 mos now. I long for those glory days when Yahoo gave relevant information, banner ads had not even been 'discovered' yet, and the internet was a really useful tool, full of intellectual information.
Then the entrepreneurs came.
And all was lost to The Almighty Buck. Information and usefulness was secondary to how much money your clicks meant to somebody who had no right to earn money off you. I suppose the best thing to do is just to be patient, and wait for the time when all the Sanford Wallace's of the world start to figure out that the internet is much like a library, full of information, and not to be exploited.
Correct me if I am wrong, I havent used Tumbleweed's service, but isnt it doing _exactly_ the same thing as Hotmail? Hotmail has been around since before april 97, I think. One would think that M$ would jump all over this, since you know, they are "the most ripped off company in the world"
I think I may have said this the last time that the case was on the front page. But the New York Times linked to 2600, which had the list, the New York Times, also told that any person could go to yahoo, do a search for DeCSS, and find it that way.
I would love to see any piece of government try to take on the New York Times, for something that they printed. People don't think it's any big deal, just because it's some rag called 2600, and its run by those "evil hacker types". Bush seems to have wasted no time in putting pressure where his funding wants it to be. He's barely been in for a month, and we are pretty close to yet another war with Iraq. And our good buddy Ashcroft, who has "sworn to uphold the law" even if the law was flawed from the start. The DMCA is a royal pieve of horse-doo, and I don't doubt that it will get repealed, but my mind cannot fathom what damage will be done by corporations and our government until that time. A "Salem reverse-engineering Trial"? You can bet your ass, I'll be on the first bus to Canada when that happens, then I won't have to fight in Bush's pointless little war, either.
This is a damn fine idea, but it sure would have been nice to have the judge Kaplan in the DeCSS case. He was so brainwashed by the MPAA, he couldn't have found his ass with both hands, a flashlight and a GPS.
My two bits on this, to add to the letter...
If you use open source software, when something breaks, it's probably going to break just as bad as the closed source software. But with open source, the developers have a vested interest in making sure that fixes show up quickly, and work the first time. Their reputations and credibility in the field are at stake.
However, with closed source software, when it breaks, you wait until they happen to get around to fixing it, which can be a fast as open source, but a faceless corporation is a LOT less likely to take responsiblity for their actions in such a way. Take Ford with the Pinto, and the Chevy Corvair, bad products that their respective companies pushed simply because dealing with the lawsuits of dead drivers' families was cheaper than replacing an $8 part on the offending vehicles. Sure, it may be good business, but its bad practice, and puts the lives of those precious voters at risk.
Quantum has had solid state drives for almost 4 years now. They pioneered the field and their scsi SSD's blow the doors off anything out there. And with an added benefit, it's native scsi, no special drivers needed, access times in the 50ns range, as opposed to the standard 5-7ms for even Cheetah drives.
Now, if I could only get my last 4 bosses to read and comprehend it.
Fortunately, I am now working at a place where this sort of behavior is encouraged. Do your work, work as hard as you need to to get the job done, and work as much as you need to stay sane. We have almost daily Nerf Wars in the office, even the sales people join in sometimes. We have fun, and everyone is striving to learn and absorb more information, which when it all boils down, that's what the 'hacker ethic' is all about anyway.
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It's not generally a good idea. It's neat to see that it can be done, but it pretty clearly shouldnt be. The guy is obviouly pretty sharp, but all this doesn is give M$ just a little more ammo in their FUD campaign against Linux and Open Source. "See! They use their OS to do ILLEGAL things, which we are striving to prevent with our new version of Windows XP!"
We've (geeks) always known the intelligence level of the average MBA holder, now, with everything going down the tubes, maybe the rest of society will figure it out.
AND, having worked for Airtouch (excellent company to work for) when it was bought out by Bell Atlantic (bane of existence, change your name all you want, you're still Bell) This sort of thing is quite normal. The people high up in the chain at Verizon are as much of money grubbing, scum-sucking fools as Larry Ellison. Too bad Covad went bust before they had the chance to bring what ANY of the Baby Bells do to competition in their areas. USWest does it here in AZ, PacBell does it in CA, Verizon does it on the east coast. It's pathetic.
However, my wife DOES have CTS, due to many employers refusing to deal with ergonomics. One even fired her for it, right after they refused to to get her an ergo keyboard. I don't want to say who it was or anything, but if you live in Arizona, it's the utility company with "The Power to Make it Happen.(disappear)"
Know what helped that? Not surgery, thats for damn sure. Weekly massage therapy and an hour a night with her arms up to the shoulders in ice water. That is true pain, really. I would definitely suggest holistic methods for getting rid of it thought, you will keep the use of your hands during recovery, and if it doesnt work, at least you don't have 6" scars in your wrists and no use of your arms below the elbows.
When the Columbine Fiasco happened, he put into words what a lot of us geeks who had it rough were feeling at the time, I think everyone would agree on that.
But it's crap like this that just pisses me off. You're preaching to the converted, Jon. Instead of telling us what we already know in the most long winded fashion possible, get your stuff put in a magazine that EVERYONE reads, like, 'Time', 'NewsWeek', etc. Because at this point, you are annoying the s**t outta everyone on here, by not having a point about the same stuff you've been ranting about for 2 years. Reading your writing at this point is like watching a boring Nascar race. Where everyone is watching, but only to see the big 58-car pileup that we know should be coming. But it never does.
Don't get me wrong, Katz is a good writer, and has the ability to string things together very well, which I'll attest can be difficult sometimes. But I think it's time to take some constructive criticism from the readers you are trying to impress.
Flame away, boys!
The part that pisses me off is that it only gets reported because microsoft is, in fact, making money hand over fist. And Open Source is not. Bear in mind, it's not losing money, bad ideas lose money, Open source just doesnt have the phenomenal returns that selling an OS for 500 bucks and office software for 400 bucks does. Linux IS making money, but just because people who sit on stock commitees dont get to line their pockets with our efforts, as they do with buying into M$, they would rather bash Open Source as much as they can.
It also seems apparent that Microsoft has some sort of stake in BusinessWeek as well, doesn't it? :-)
The whole thing seems kinda like the Tortoise and the Hare, I suppose. The Rabbit running like mad to stay in front, the turtle just plodding along as his own pace. But we all know who won THAT race.
"Dude, check out THAT guy! I've never seen anyone jump side to side that fast before...."
Would certainly make it a bitch to cruise pr0n though, wouldnt it? the screen wont stop moving up and down! :P
It's time to fight fire with marshmallows.
Only problem is, is that it takes something like this to get ESR and RMS in the same room by choice. :-)
With the big Open Source guns coming out together, though, Linux, et al. definitely stand a chance against the behemoth.
Sound anything like, oh say, IE?!
I'm sure Bill's little head woulda just popped if someone had painted "Peace/Love/Linux" on the Microsoft moniker in front of the building. *grin*
BUT, if 2600 links, not provides, but links to information that allows people to read their OWN DVD's on their OWN computers, possibly cutting into a corrupt organization's profits, that information is more dangerous than the threat of violence against doctors. And is not covered by the First Amendment.
This may be a bit of a flame, but the people who made that site deserve to be drug out in the street, shot, tarred, feathered, and forced to go to work in a place that may or may not be bombed that day. It's bullshit. Anti abortion 'activists' need to pull their heads outta their asses and grow the fsck up. End of Story.
Playing Solitaire.
The point is that it's sad the see that the Internet has been dumbed down so much by advertisers, dot-bombs, and people selling pet food on a web site, that one of the sites that was there from the beginning, helping everyone find there way around, is now a victim of all those investors who think the the only thing the net is good for is to make a buck.
This Sucks.
Not only for Yahoo, but for me, this pretty much drives a nail into the coffin about how I have felt about the internet as a whole for about 18 mos now. I long for those glory days when Yahoo gave relevant information, banner ads had not even been 'discovered' yet, and the internet was a really useful tool, full of intellectual information.
Then the entrepreneurs came.
And all was lost to The Almighty Buck. Information and usefulness was secondary to how much money your clicks meant to somebody who had no right to earn money off you. I suppose the best thing to do is just to be patient, and wait for the time when all the Sanford Wallace's of the world start to figure out that the internet is much like a library, full of information, and not to be exploited.
Correct me if I am wrong, I havent used Tumbleweed's service, but isnt it doing _exactly_ the same thing as Hotmail? Hotmail has been around since before april 97, I think. One would think that M$ would jump all over this, since you know, they are "the most ripped off company in the world"
I would love to see any piece of government try to take on the New York Times, for something that they printed. People don't think it's any big deal, just because it's some rag called 2600, and its run by those "evil hacker types". Bush seems to have wasted no time in putting pressure where his funding wants it to be. He's barely been in for a month, and we are pretty close to yet another war with Iraq. And our good buddy Ashcroft, who has "sworn to uphold the law" even if the law was flawed from the start. The DMCA is a royal pieve of horse-doo, and I don't doubt that it will get repealed, but my mind cannot fathom what damage will be done by corporations and our government until that time. A "Salem reverse-engineering Trial"? You can bet your ass, I'll be on the first bus to Canada when that happens, then I won't have to fight in Bush's pointless little war, either.
I was hoping it was a mini statue of either Mike D, MCA, or Adrock, I like them beasties.
This is a damn fine idea, but it sure would have been nice to have the judge Kaplan in the DeCSS case. He was so brainwashed by the MPAA, he couldn't have found his ass with both hands, a flashlight and a GPS.
and it happens to be MY birthday as well.
However, with closed source software, when it breaks, you wait until they happen to get around to fixing it, which can be a fast as open source, but a faceless corporation is a LOT less likely to take responsiblity for their actions in such a way. Take Ford with the Pinto, and the Chevy Corvair, bad products that their respective companies pushed simply because dealing with the lawsuits of dead drivers' families was cheaper than replacing an $8 part on the offending vehicles. Sure, it may be good business, but its bad practice, and puts the lives of those precious voters at risk.
I have one question tho, did he have a social life before he started? because you can bet he didn't have much of one after it.... :-)
Quantum has had solid state drives for almost 4 years now. They pioneered the field and their scsi SSD's blow the doors off anything out there. And with an added benefit, it's native scsi, no special drivers needed, access times in the 50ns range, as opposed to the standard 5-7ms for even Cheetah drives.
Let's see if they have the balls to go after this library.
Fortunately, I am now working at a place where this sort of behavior is encouraged. Do your work, work as hard as you need to to get the job done, and work as much as you need to stay sane. We have almost daily Nerf Wars in the office, even the sales people join in sometimes. We have fun, and everyone is striving to learn and absorb more information, which when it all boils down, that's what the 'hacker ethic' is all about anyway.