Um, there's a reason why they started getting sued, and it wasn't because noone was using the program. AFAIR, when Spamtellica started complaining and filing for a lawsuit, Napster already had millions of users worldwide.
MoodWatch(TM) is a new language tool that acts as an emotion monitor for your email that flags aggressive language and calls it to your attention, so that you can concentrate on sex with female zebras. MoodWatch can detect aggressive, demeaning or rude language in the email you send and receive by looking at both individual words and complete phrases.
In a society that spans the entire globe, certain social norms will become apparent, indeed - we are already seeing a differentiation in the norms of internet communication between various parties in that some of the intial rules of engagement that were set up early on in the Internet's mainstream life (early 90s) have been totally replaced.
Be this by newer protocols or newer methods of dealing with current protocols, or indeed different ways of textual communication - not to mention newer technologies which are emerging to take advantage of higher bandwidth rates - we are seeing a paradigm shift towards information-centric communities, not formed by geographical location but rather by shared interest in certain information.
So, why not let the evolution of the internet take place without kludging on anti-flame "technology" and anti-spam "technology"? Indeed, the way to solve this is simple - like a few protocols in the early 90s were replaced because they couldn't measure up, the current email system must be replaced. SMTP and POP3/IMAP are no longer good enough. They must be replaced. Adding extra technology to them is only going to bloat them out.
Who is this Dr Dre character? Is he really a doctor? Doctor of what? Is he a medical doctor or an academic doctor? What role does he play in the Napster/Metallica confrontation?
How are Dr Dre and Metallica linked, and is it some kind of conspiracy to promote the restriction of freedom of university students around the country?
This is not a story to make jokes about. The ramifications of the licensing deals agreed to between MP3.Com and the recording companies could lead to a new era of information distribution methodology. The social impact of such a system would definitely not favour the individual on the side of the fence taken by the vast majority of citizens. What I mean is, while this might look good on the outside, think about what it really means: record labels controlling, what appears to be their content on the outside, could lead to them imposing stricter limitations on what can be done with the content in a newer, more dynamic distribution system. It would basically be like the difference between everyone owning a horse-carriage and being able to travel, and there being a sophisticated monorail system spanning the entire world, with cars big enough for everyone, but having an authenication system only allowing 5% of the world's population into it. Yes, this "deal" makes about as much sense as that.
How can you claim this? It's quite ridiculous and shows that you have very little grasp of the fundamentals of symbiotic market relations. Indeed it could be said that, insofar as the equilibrium of commercial substance qualifiers goes, the cognitive input received by the person is not valid due to his lack of computational ability with regard to the entire scenario in any given situation. In other words, an individual cannot properly analyze the entire situational actuality without help of some form of synthetically modelled reactionary simulation.
I'm sorry to correct you in this harsh way, but you are wrong.
However, you fail to realize that the socio-economic realities of the majority of the world's population dictates an anomoly in the actuality of the statement that the market speculation-tinted view of reality has no impact on the lives of real people, due to the simple fact that they feel the impact of descisions resulting directly from speculation induced by market realizations. From this point of view, the market capital stylization of the world in fact gains substance and could be said to be more "real" than the real world itself.
Now that's an OS and a half. No multiuser support. No remote administration support. (Sure you can telnet in, but can you actualy administer standard products? Uh , no.) Like if I wanted to make a new user for my FTP server under BeOS? How would I do that from my desk at home? Huh huh huh....Ohhhhh, there is no way to. How useless, bleh! With Linux or FreeBSD I *could* do this, even though it's a shame since BeOS's core components are so superior (ie, SMP, multi-graining realtime kernel, BeFS Multi-journalling, etc) Unfortunately, Be concentrates too much on the GUI and not enough on the CLI portion of the UI. bash is great, but it's not great when you can't use it for administering standard services.
I'm merely stating the facts, not trolling. Noone can give me an answer about how to do a randomization in less than 20 lines in Java. I'm not denying that wizards and hackers might like Java and C-like languages, but for ordinary users - like the rest of us, simpler languages would be quite handy.
The Linux M68K project provides a way of getting the latest cutting edge opensource technology on the reliable 680x0 processors. These processors are true classics and should be taken into the next millenium, not only as routers and switches and portable devices - but as desktops as well.
The power for the conversion could be supplied by Nuclear power stations. Despite the FUD (and yes, I use the software industry's acronym for it - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - because that's what it is when Greenie weenies complain about Nuke power stations).
What they don't realize is that fossil fuels are MUCH dirtier than Nuclear power. Nuclear power is dangerous is handled wrongly, but not likely to break down unless something terrible happens because of a mess up. The Nuke stations in South Africa have been going for decades and because of it, South Africa has one of the cheapest electricity rates in the world. And South Africans, after all - they're Africans. Africa isn't a very advanced continent. Imagine what Americans could do if they put their minds to it. There wouldn't be any need for fossil fuel power stations again.
I tried BeOS 5 PE when it came out. I put the image into/beos on my Linux drive and made the disk. Then I booted off the disk and got into BeOS 5. It *did* find everything on my work PC, except for the fact that my sound card didn't work until I installed the 16 SB driver from BeBits.
On my home PC, the thing just didn't cooperate at all. It didn't pick up the Network card, (RealTek 809), there are no drivers for it, and it messed up the graphics quite badly. The mouse cursor looked like a multicoloured block. I have an NVIDIA TNT2. And my sound card didn't work either. I guess that can be fixed, but I can't connect to the network to download the driver...beh.
Anyway, when I tested the thing on my work PC, I didn't find it useful for the "tasks" that BeOS claims it should be good at, at all. Sure, I managed to play 10 MP3's at once, but contrary to popular belief, it DID slow the system down. When I tried to play a video, a 600mb MPG from a CD (which works under Windows), it didn't open it for some reason. It just refused to open large MPG files. (only managed ~6mb MPG files).
Another area where BeOS falls over is management. Sure it's got Telnet and SSH has been ported, but why the heck? I mean, you can't manage the thing remotely at all. The FTP servers and other servers I downloaded relied heavily on the GUI to operate. That's pretty useless.
Also, it doesn't seem to have a decent browser. NetPositive was fast, but couldn't do 80% of the pages on the Net properly. I downloaded Opera and when I when to a Java-enabled site, it crashed the system - yes, crashed it. The version was 3.6(I think). The system slowed down completely at first, btu I did manage to bring up a window and kill the process. However, even though the Opera processes were killed, the system was still too slow to use and I had to reboot it.
It seems like the best thing about BeOS is the GNU bash, and we all know that's from the FSF and can be found on many other OS's. BeOS fans like be-fan over here talk about great things, but deliver very little. Overall, and I'm not trying to put Be down - Linux or FreeBSD are better choices for the desktop. I'm not just saying that as a user who's only used Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, but as one who's used BeOS as well.
BeOS has potential, but Be need to sort out the instability, the lack of applications, (including a good Browser - I know you can get Mozilla for it, but you need to compile it yourself unless you want to use M7), and their management issues, which, for me, are the biggest issues.
Free Software is vital - I'm the first to admit it. Although a lot of what FSF troopers claim is exagerrated, we DO need to have some kidn of control medium for software - big corporations controlling the code that we use for daily business, communications, etc, is NOT a good idea.
But Linux falls apart fundamentally when it comes to actual usage...
In fact, I actually wish more GNU software WAS binary - statically linked binary, preferably. The major thing holding linux/unix down is that when someone tries to install new chuffing software , they often have to deal with the fact that they also need Gtk++4.5.5.6.11p1 or higher, Zlib4.5.6.12.3.4a156-1 or higher, as well as ncurses7.0.1.6.5.2342314-b, and of course Perl5.5.6.6.1....not to mention their libs must be installed in $GTK_HOME_DIR_$#*()$*(#&*($# blah blah blah. Packaging using BSD, RPM, Deb, etc...doesn't even help this fact. It's a mess.
Before you start screaming that only stupid users would need actually binaries and everyone should be compiling everything from source, think about the fact that some people have little patience of such things and some actually have other stuff to do besides sitting there downloading new software for hours because their 1 program that they wanted requires 50 additional packages.
Sure, Universtiy degrees are great for a lot of things, but just because someone has one, don't instantly think they're ultra-smart. I think that might be what's happening at NASA and a lot of places.
I know a guy who had his BS(with Honours) in Computer Science. He's very shrill and if anyone questions whether he knows something or not, he screams: "I did C++ and Java and compiler theory and advanced blah blah blah!!!" One day I turned around to him and said: "Funny thing that you can do C++, but you manage to fuck up a simple shell script every week." It's true, he regulary manages to crash his firewall, he can't seem to get to grips with putting a motherboard in properly (always shorts them out), he can't really do much of anything... It seems that now that he has his HONOURS degree, he feels that he doesn't need to learn or do anything ever again. I have to go to his company's offices and fix their firewall, at least once every 2 weeks.
I'm not saying that all University graduates are like this, what I am saying is that it's really dim to show bias towards someone because they have a degree. Candidates should be measured on what they know and what they can do, rather than what a peice of paper says about them. Because degrees, in the end, don't always mean their holders are smarter than people without degrees.
It's not bloated and it's not slow. Unless you're trying to run it on a 386 SX with 4 mb of RAM, it's fine. I'm running Windows 98 and M16 and it has never crashed and it runs extremely fast. So shut up. Go spread FUD elsewhere. No one, cept maybe the total Mircosofties, are interested in your FUD meistering. Haven't you got anything better to do than spread FUD about other peoples' creations? Mozilla is an excellent peice of software. As for the "sites that only work under IE", that's not Mozilla's fault. That's the web designers' fault. They're either Microsofties, or braindead and using some "pretty" web designer like FrontPage or Dreamwave 3000.
No, this is incorrect. I don't think you realize just how incorrect you are - The real Steve Woston doesn't even post on Slashdot. His homesite is in my sig, and he speaks out about the Slashdot Woston scandal on it. Please, don't use the name Woston in vain - he's done nothing to deserve it and the impostors that post under his name on Slashdot are doing nothing for the name "Woston". Thanks.
That's strange, because I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on an MMX200, 64mb RAM, 4gb HDD, all IDE machine, and it's very stable. Very slow, but I don't suppose Win2000 and IE 5.5 would be very fast on it, if they'd run at all:) Took about 30 seconds to bring up this posting form...about 40 seconds for/.'s site, and to start it up (/package/mozilla)...well, hehe...eep....a few minutes at least. Anyways, it's not unstable. I've been running it since M14 and despite a few glitches, it's been stable. I convinced a co-worker to install it on his WinBox...he used it for a while and then told me it crashed when he opened multiple instances. I went to check his settings, and didn't find anything wrong with the Mozilla itself, I opened 20 windows and it never crashed. I think that IE lovers just make excuses about Mozilla crashing because the fact is that they don't want to change to something "They don't know." Or "That's not their preferred enviroment." Can't see why.
Thank you for being mature and asking this question. The real Steve Woston is not a game programmer, but he is a programmer. He doesn't work for J-J-J-J-JJulius games, either. He works for a small firm writing computer manuals in South Africa. At first he was surprised that posts started appearing on Slashdot bearing his name, and slightly amused, but as the troll started making more and more incredibly stupid posts, it began to get not-so-funny.
The Real Steve Woston's website is here, and states what he thinks about this situation. Moderators, please be mature and don't moderate this down, because this is a real person, and I'm pretty sure if you were being impersonated on Slashdot, someone signing weird posts with your name, you wouldn't want it to happen and you would want it spoken out against. Thanks, and please moderate wisely.
"Steve", you are clearly a fake. Please don't impersonate the real Steve Woston in this manner by posting ridiculously. He is very upset over this whole issue, and frankly I'm saddened that something like this could get so far out of hand.
Folks, read what the Real Steve Woston has to say about this person.
I challenge you to reply to this post and defend yourself like a man. Admit that you are impersonating Steve Woston, the real Steve Woston. I don't know if you just randomly chose his name, but the fact is there is a real Steve Woston, and your Slashdot game has gone far enough. I challenge you to counter the evidence I have put before you - the Real Steve Woston's website.
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Um, there's a reason why they started getting sued, and it wasn't because noone was using the program. AFAIR, when Spamtellica started complaining and filing for a lawsuit, Napster already had millions of users worldwide.
MoodWatch(TM) is a new language tool that acts as an emotion monitor for your email that flags aggressive language and calls it to your attention, so that you can concentrate on sex with female zebras. MoodWatch can detect aggressive, demeaning or rude language in the email you send and receive by looking at both individual words and complete phrases.
I think that sums it up nicely.In a society that spans the entire globe, certain social norms will become apparent, indeed - we are already seeing a differentiation in the norms of internet communication between various parties in that some of the intial rules of engagement that were set up early on in the Internet's mainstream life (early 90s) have been totally replaced.
Be this by newer protocols or newer methods of dealing with current protocols, or indeed different ways of textual communication - not to mention newer technologies which are emerging to take advantage of higher bandwidth rates - we are seeing a paradigm shift towards information-centric communities, not formed by geographical location but rather by shared interest in certain information.So, why not let the evolution of the internet take place without kludging on anti-flame "technology" and anti-spam "technology"? Indeed, the way to solve this is simple - like a few protocols in the early 90s were replaced because they couldn't measure up, the current email system must be replaced. SMTP and POP3/IMAP are no longer good enough. They must be replaced. Adding extra technology to them is only going to bloat them out.
Who is this Dr Dre character? Is he really a doctor? Doctor of what? Is he a medical doctor or an academic doctor? What role does he play in the Napster/Metallica confrontation?
How are Dr Dre and Metallica linked, and is it some kind of conspiracy to promote the restriction of freedom of university students around the country?All these questions must be answered.
This is not a story to make jokes about. The ramifications of the licensing deals agreed to between MP3.Com and the recording companies could lead to a new era of information distribution methodology. The social impact of such a system would definitely not favour the individual on the side of the fence taken by the vast majority of citizens. What I mean is, while this might look good on the outside, think about what it really means: record labels controlling, what appears to be their content on the outside, could lead to them imposing stricter limitations on what can be done with the content in a newer, more dynamic distribution system. It would basically be like the difference between everyone owning a horse-carriage and being able to travel, and there being a sophisticated monorail system spanning the entire world, with cars big enough for everyone, but having an authenication system only allowing 5% of the world's population into it. Yes, this "deal" makes about as much sense as that.
I'm sorry to correct you in this harsh way, but you are wrong.
However, you fail to realize that the socio-economic realities of the majority of the world's population dictates an anomoly in the actuality of the statement that the market speculation-tinted view of reality has no impact on the lives of real people, due to the simple fact that they feel the impact of descisions resulting directly from speculation induced by market realizations. From this point of view, the market capital stylization of the world in fact gains substance and could be said to be more "real" than the real world itself.
Just an observation.BeOS, BeOS, BeOS.
Now that's an OS and a half. No multiuser support. No remote administration support. (Sure you can telnet in, but can you actualy administer standard products? Uh , no.) Like if I wanted to make a new user for my FTP server under BeOS? How would I do that from my desk at home? Huh huh huh....Ohhhhh, there is no way to. How useless, bleh! With Linux or FreeBSD I *could* do this, even though it's a shame since BeOS's core components are so superior (ie, SMP, multi-graining realtime kernel, BeFS Multi-journalling, etc) Unfortunately, Be concentrates too much on the GUI and not enough on the CLI portion of the UI. bash is great, but it's not great when you can't use it for administering standard services.No, that's not hard. Try implementing it in the real world.
I'm merely stating the facts, not trolling. Noone can give me an answer about how to do a randomization in less than 20 lines in Java. I'm not denying that wizards and hackers might like Java and C-like languages, but for ordinary users - like the rest of us, simpler languages would be quite handy.
The power for the conversion could be supplied by Nuclear power stations. Despite the FUD (and yes, I use the software industry's acronym for it - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - because that's what it is when Greenie weenies complain about Nuke power stations).
What they don't realize is that fossil fuels are MUCH dirtier than Nuclear power. Nuclear power is dangerous is handled wrongly, but not likely to break down unless something terrible happens because of a mess up. The Nuke stations in South Africa have been going for decades and because of it, South Africa has one of the cheapest electricity rates in the world. And South Africans, after all - they're Africans. Africa isn't a very advanced continent. Imagine what Americans could do if they put their minds to it. There wouldn't be any need for fossil fuel power stations again.I tried BeOS 5 PE when it came out. I put the image into /beos on my Linux drive and made the disk. Then I booted off the disk and got into BeOS 5. It *did* find everything on my work PC, except for the fact that my sound card didn't work until I installed the 16 SB driver from BeBits.
On my home PC, the thing just didn't cooperate at all. It didn't pick up the Network card, (RealTek 809), there are no drivers for it, and it messed up the graphics quite badly. The mouse cursor looked like a multicoloured block. I have an NVIDIA TNT2. And my sound card didn't work either. I guess that can be fixed, but I can't connect to the network to download the driver...beh.Anyway, when I tested the thing on my work PC, I didn't find it useful for the "tasks" that BeOS claims it should be good at, at all. Sure, I managed to play 10 MP3's at once, but contrary to popular belief, it DID slow the system down. When I tried to play a video, a 600mb MPG from a CD (which works under Windows), it didn't open it for some reason. It just refused to open large MPG files. (only managed ~6mb MPG files).
Another area where BeOS falls over is management. Sure it's got Telnet and SSH has been ported, but why the heck? I mean, you can't manage the thing remotely at all. The FTP servers and other servers I downloaded relied heavily on the GUI to operate. That's pretty useless.Also, it doesn't seem to have a decent browser. NetPositive was fast, but couldn't do 80% of the pages on the Net properly. I downloaded Opera and when I when to a Java-enabled site, it crashed the system - yes, crashed it. The version was 3.6(I think). The system slowed down completely at first, btu I did manage to bring up a window and kill the process. However, even though the Opera processes were killed, the system was still too slow to use and I had to reboot it.
It seems like the best thing about BeOS is the GNU bash, and we all know that's from the FSF and can be found on many other OS's. BeOS fans like be-fan over here talk about great things, but deliver very little. Overall, and I'm not trying to put Be down - Linux or FreeBSD are better choices for the desktop. I'm not just saying that as a user who's only used Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, but as one who's used BeOS as well.BeOS has potential, but Be need to sort out the instability, the lack of applications, (including a good Browser - I know you can get Mozilla for it, but you need to compile it yourself unless you want to use M7), and their management issues, which, for me, are the biggest issues.
Not robot vehicles.
Free Software is vital - I'm the first to admit it. Although a lot of what FSF troopers claim is exagerrated, we DO need to have some kidn of control medium for software - big corporations controlling the code that we use for daily business, communications, etc, is NOT a good idea.
But Linux falls apart fundamentally when it comes to actual usage...In fact, I actually wish more GNU software WAS binary - statically linked binary, preferably. The major thing holding linux/unix down is that when someone tries to install new chuffing software , they often have to deal with the fact that they also need Gtk++4.5.5.6.11p1 or higher, Zlib4.5.6.12.3.4a156-1 or higher, as well as ncurses7.0.1.6.5.2342314-b, and of course Perl5.5.6.6.1....not to mention their libs must be installed in $GTK_HOME_DIR_$#*()$*(#&*($# blah blah blah. Packaging using BSD, RPM, Deb, etc...doesn't even help this fact. It's a mess.
Before you start screaming that only stupid users would need actually binaries and everyone should be compiling everything from source, think about the fact that some people have little patience of such things and some actually have other stuff to do besides sitting there downloading new software for hours because their 1 program that they wanted requires 50 additional packages.Sure, Universtiy degrees are great for a lot of things, but just because someone has one, don't instantly think they're ultra-smart. I think that might be what's happening at NASA and a lot of places.
I know a guy who had his BS(with Honours) in Computer Science. He's very shrill and if anyone questions whether he knows something or not, he screams: "I did C++ and Java and compiler theory and advanced blah blah blah!!!" One day I turned around to him and said: "Funny thing that you can do C++, but you manage to fuck up a simple shell script every week." It's true, he regulary manages to crash his firewall, he can't seem to get to grips with putting a motherboard in properly (always shorts them out), he can't really do much of anything... It seems that now that he has his HONOURS degree, he feels that he doesn't need to learn or do anything ever again. I have to go to his company's offices and fix their firewall, at least once every 2 weeks.I'm not saying that all University graduates are like this, what I am saying is that it's really dim to show bias towards someone because they have a degree. Candidates should be measured on what they know and what they can do, rather than what a peice of paper says about them. Because degrees, in the end, don't always mean their holders are smarter than people without degrees.
It's not bloated and it's not slow. Unless you're trying to run it on a 386 SX with 4 mb of RAM, it's fine. I'm running Windows 98 and M16 and it has never crashed and it runs extremely fast. So shut up. Go spread FUD elsewhere. No one, cept maybe the total Mircosofties, are interested in your FUD meistering. Haven't you got anything better to do than spread FUD about other peoples' creations? Mozilla is an excellent peice of software. As for the "sites that only work under IE", that's not Mozilla's fault. That's the web designers' fault. They're either Microsofties, or braindead and using some "pretty" web designer like FrontPage or Dreamwave 3000.
No, this is incorrect. I don't think you realize just how incorrect you are - The real Steve Woston doesn't even post on Slashdot. His homesite is in my sig, and he speaks out about the Slashdot Woston scandal on it. Please, don't use the name Woston in vain - he's done nothing to deserve it and the impostors that post under his name on Slashdot are doing nothing for the name "Woston". Thanks.
That's strange, because I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on an MMX200, 64mb RAM, 4gb HDD, all IDE machine, and it's very stable. Very slow, but I don't suppose Win2000 and IE 5.5 would be very fast on it, if they'd run at all :) Took about 30 seconds to bring up this posting form...about 40 seconds for /.'s site, and to start it up (/package/mozilla) ...well, hehe...eep....a few minutes at least. Anyways, it's not unstable. I've been running it since M14 and despite a few glitches, it's been stable. I convinced a co-worker to install it on his WinBox...he used it for a while and then told me it crashed when he opened multiple instances. I went to check his settings, and didn't find anything wrong with the Mozilla itself, I opened 20 windows and it never crashed. I think that IE lovers just make excuses about Mozilla crashing because the fact is that they don't want to change to something "They don't know." Or "That's not their preferred enviroment." Can't see why.
How does it compare to, say, CNN or CNBC?
Thank you for being mature and asking this question. The real Steve Woston is not a game programmer, but he is a programmer. He doesn't work for J-J-J-J-JJulius games, either. He works for a small firm writing computer manuals in South Africa. At first he was surprised that posts started appearing on Slashdot bearing his name, and slightly amused, but as the troll started making more and more incredibly stupid posts, it began to get not-so-funny.
The Real Steve Woston's website is here, and states what he thinks about this situation. Moderators, please be mature and don't moderate this down, because this is a real person, and I'm pretty sure if you were being impersonated on Slashdot, someone signing weird posts with your name, you wouldn't want it to happen and you would want it spoken out against. Thanks, and please moderate wisely.Steve Woston's website.
Folks, read what the Real Steve Woston has to say about this person.
I challenge you to reply to this post and defend yourself like a man. Admit that you are impersonating Steve Woston, the real Steve Woston. I don't know if you just randomly chose his name, but the fact is there is a real Steve Woston, and your Slashdot game has gone far enough. I challenge you to counter the evidence I have put before you - the Real Steve Woston's website.