The fact that the guy didn't spend the $1 to buy the DVD is more proof that it's a story that's been made up in an attempt to bolster the cause for movie studios to clamp down on these egregious acts! If the guy saw a copy he certainly would have a bought a copy and then had someone look it over in an attempt to determine its origin. It really stinks of FUD and will no doubt be used to sway senators and congressman when it's time to vote on legislation to prevent this from happening in all areas in the delivery of entertainment media.
increase in prices some years ago. The interesting part of the whole story was that no one could ever confirm where this resin factory was, and at some point there was speculation that the factories and the fires were completely made up. It was, I think, a classic example of supply chain manipulation at a time when prices were plummeting. It's amazing what can be done when you put your mind to it. Was it Einstein that said "imagination is more powerful than knowledge".
Just upgraded after using 1.1 and 1.2.* is giving me a lot of problems. But I guess that's progress. I'm surprised at how much worse this version is than 1.1 and I've only used it for about 10 minutes. First time I tried starting nothing happened, I saw lots of mozilla processes but no GUI. Something's definitely funky about this version.
Come on who's posting this stuff? Essentially you're saying that you're okay with the monopoly but they shouldn't abuse it. That's crazy, but I guess that's what a monopoly can do to how people percieve the company. Microsoft can't innovate but they can dominate and they do that well. You try to keep quarter after quarter of growth in a company Microsoft's size and you too will find that you will have to do anything and everything.
You didn't say if you billed them. YOu make it sound as if you did it gratis, free, no charge. That would be a big mistake. Otherwise of course you would do work for your old company if they're going to pay you. As with any contract work the fee charged has to make sense. It has to cover your expenses. Medical, transportation, other administrative overhead costs, the going rate for someone with your expertise. And there's no problem in charging a little more if you're familiar with their network. That's simply supply and demand. Work is work. And if you're currently not working any legal work is fair game. Right?
Since cable companies and their services are classified differently from phone companies and their services they are both regulated differently and that allows them to do these heavy-handed "busts". It's a scary precedent. I would discontinue my service with a company that treats their customers with a visit from the FBI, instead of fixing the problem. Unfortunatley cable companies are a little behind in hiring and keeping people with the tech skills required to handle their latest internet service offerings.
I've gotten so used to going to many sites and realizing that it's been horribly/.'d but the site posting the linux client for this distributed crack is showing a large increase in activity and I have no doubt it's the positive slashdot effect. Look at this link http://www.blisstonia.com/dtc/stats.php and notice that anonymous is in the lead now. When I first looked at this page when this slashdot article appeared stansimmons was leading and the total was around 35%. Cool!!!
This might well be the most amazing repository of images and documents on the planet. They have different sizes of most images. In some cases they have very large (multi-megabyte) TIFF images.
Check this out, these are panorama images: (really beautiful) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pansubjindex1.html
It is really amazing what you can find: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
This is a good link too: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Some are public domain and some are not This link describes the many different copyrights and restrictions: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_c opr.html
It's yours so enjoy it!
Do we need yet another window manager (YAWM)?
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What Happened to 5dwm?
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I have fond memories of the Irix desktop but it wasn't so good that we need YAWM. There are enough to choose from now. Nostalgia isn't the right reason to choose a window manager IMO. The Open source community really needs to focus on fewer projects and make those projects that are popular robust, make them out-perform the alternatives and give them the features that are taken for granted in the mainstream OSs like MacOS X and Windows. Have a look at sourceforge sometime and you'll agree that things are spread too thin. Lots of projects that have never even released any files. Focus on making what's working now better instead of coming up with another new project will help us all.
Then find out what metric(s) are wanted from the testing. Find someone that has worked with the product and knows it well. Find|write a tool that will create the correct interaction with your software. One that gets as close as possible to real production usage. Start playing with the system and see how far and fast you can make it go. Make sure to save lots of data so you can make some conclusions. Write the report (and post URL on slashdot).
you had done this.... Think about it. You were a witness to the CEO doing something unethical. (you did save a copy of the email right?) Good 'ole blackmail (no pun intended) Of course you wouldn't have let on that you had any such intentions and in fact would have been a new buddy for the CEO. You no doubt would get promoted to IT manager and higher. Been given many more such unethical assignments and become well respected by the executive staff. You would have joined the elite realm of the unethical and been rewarded accordingly.
Diomedea exulans has the largest wingspan, capable of spending several months aloft hunting the ocean and never touching land. They don't weigh as much as the Steller's but they are big. But they are exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe one got very lost. Possibly blown off course by a hurricane. Maybe the russians have been busy with genetic experimentation. Or perhaps it's a Chernobyl migrant.
f128 is function of the size of the pinhole. It could be made worse or better. The physics could be played with, I didn't say it was easy
and it may not be cheap. But it's solar-powered. They might need to use some fiber optic technology as well as lenses and/or mirrors.
Try a camera obscura, it's perfectly suited for a solar vehicle. It's light, it requires no electric power source, it's solar-powered and you can control the image size.
You'd have to use a few mirrors to get the image the way you want and where you want it and you'd have to create a small viewing box. No big deal and should be the cheapest way to go.
In case you're wondering a camera obscura (latin for dark room) is more well known as a pin hole camera. Anyway it may not be easy to devise one for your apllication but it would be worth looking into. (no pun intended)
>Corporations will most likely argue that, because >of sites like Internal Memos, companies need to >keep a tighter grip on the information that flows >in and out of their companies. But attempting to >spying on private e-mail??
Paprikash, I say!
I think you're logic is flawed here. You're assuming that leaks occur predominantly via email. But everyone knows that email is unsafe. Maybe there are people stupid enough or that just don't care if they are caught. I bet most use their own secure method to post. ssh to your own box and then upload later from home.
Maybe internalmemos will post a graph showing percentage from real companies vs. ISPs. (although that may not prove anything since the net has become "blurred")
And as for spying on personal email, it's no longer personal once the bits are traveling over their "wire".
Maybe I missed it but they should start off by analyzing the inks used and the paper used.
That should give them a great starting point.
The analysis should include some form of dating.
I was really surprised to hear of this manuscript and that it has not been deciphered.
Redhat is doing the right thing here.
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KDE Gets The Hat
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What will the KDE crew do now? Make their own linux distro? KDE is good, I like and use it but we need to remember that the "desktop" is the current battleground not which desktop. The challenger
is linux and the defender is Windows. (Mac OS X is gaining fast and may end up sealing the fate of the linux desktop) So forget about gnome
vs. kde and redhat this or redhat that. Ease of use and a seamless interface to the web, etc. are the keys to success.
How did this guy arrive at his conclusions? The study is so far from being comprehensive that it cries out to be tossed into the dustbin.
As others here have said the reasons are many for the decline in sales. I haven't bought a new CD in years. I do buy used CDs occasionally.
I remember when CDs first came out and everyone
balked at the high price. The record co. said well they're expensive now but they will get cheaper. Guess what? They didn't get much cheaper. Initially the cost of the blank media was high but economy of scale brought the prices down for blank media. But the CD prices remained
high. My point is that the record companies are
mostly used to the old ways.
Another reason I don't buy much is that I already have a LOT of music. I don't need much more. And if I do buy I'm very choosy.
Another reason (as someone else pointed out) I'm sick of the tactics they're using to increase profits. What better way to let them know how we feel than to hit them where it hurts. The wallet!
Hard to tell what's beta and what's not with KDE.... Tab-browsing's a nice thing to have but mozilla has that already. Why do the KDE folks put so much energy into Konqueror when mozilla is already very good and stable? There are other parts of KDE that would benefit from some extra effort. Konqueror is just not worth all the effort it's given.
Slashdot Mirror
The fact that the guy didn't spend the $1 to buy the DVD is more proof that it's a story that's been made up in an attempt to bolster the cause for movie studios to clamp down on these egregious acts! If the guy saw a copy he certainly would have a bought a copy and then had someone look it over in an attempt to determine its origin. It really stinks of FUD and will no doubt be used to sway senators and congressman when it's time to vote on legislation to prevent this from happening in all areas in the delivery of entertainment media.
increase in prices some years ago. The interesting part of the whole story was that no one could ever confirm where this resin factory was, and at some point there was speculation that the factories and the fires were completely made up. It was, I think, a classic example of supply chain manipulation at a time when prices were plummeting. It's amazing what can be done when you put your mind to it. Was it Einstein that said "imagination is more powerful than knowledge".
Just upgraded after using 1.1 and 1.2.* is giving me
a lot of problems. But I guess that's progress. I'm surprised at how much worse this version is than 1.1 and I've only used it for about 10 minutes. First time I tried starting nothing happened, I saw lots of mozilla processes but no GUI. Something's definitely funky about this version.
Right from the i4i website:
Quote-
No proprietary word processing interface; it's Microsoft Word
* Your end-users can continue to generate content in the same environment they always
-end quote
But this is complete BS. MS word is not proprietary? Yes all end-users are using word.
Most of the tech writers I know abhor MS Word. I really don't like MS word either. It's annoying in that it attempts to be "smart".
Not to bag too hard on i4i, but making preposterous claims doesn't help the product IMO.
You may want to augment this search by adding a keyboard that automatically places the "u" after "q"
U TF -8&q=quiet+keyboard+with+tactile+feel&btnG=Google+ Search
like in "quiet"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
Come on who's posting this stuff? Essentially you're saying that you're okay with the monopoly but they shouldn't abuse it. That's crazy, but I guess that's what a monopoly can do to how people percieve the company. Microsoft can't innovate but they can dominate and they do that well. You try to keep quarter after quarter of growth in a company Microsoft's size and you too will find that you will have to do anything and everything.
You didn't say if you billed them. YOu make it sound as if you did it gratis, free, no charge. That would be a big mistake. Otherwise of course you would do work for your old company if they're going to pay you. As with any contract work the fee charged has to make sense. It has to cover your expenses. Medical, transportation, other administrative overhead costs, the going rate for someone with your expertise. And there's no problem in charging a little more if you're familiar with their network. That's simply supply and demand. Work is work. And if you're currently not working any legal work is fair game. Right?
>How does this become a Federal crime?
Since cable companies and their services are classified differently from phone companies and their services they are both regulated differently and that allows them to do these heavy-handed "busts". It's a scary precedent. I would discontinue my service with a company that treats their customers with a visit from the FBI, instead of fixing the problem. Unfortunatley cable companies are a little behind in hiring and keeping people with the tech skills required to handle their latest internet service offerings.
I've gotten so used to going to many sites and realizing that it's been horribly /.'d but the site posting the linux client for this distributed crack is showing a large increase in activity and I have no doubt it's the positive slashdot effect. Look at this link http://www.blisstonia.com/dtc/stats.php and notice that anonymous is in the lead now. When I first looked at this page when this slashdot article appeared stansimmons was leading and the total was around 35%. Cool!!!
This might well be the most amazing repository of images and documents on the planet.
c opr.html
They have different sizes of most images. In some cases they have very large (multi-megabyte) TIFF images.
Check this out, these are panorama images: (really beautiful) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pansubjindex1.html
It is really amazing what you can find: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
This is a good link too:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Some are public domain and some are not
This link describes the many different copyrights and restrictions:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_
It's yours so enjoy it!
I have fond memories of the Irix desktop but it wasn't so good that we need YAWM. There are enough to choose from now. Nostalgia isn't the right reason to choose a window manager IMO. The Open source community really needs to focus on fewer projects and make those projects that are popular robust, make them out-perform the alternatives and give them the features that are taken for granted in the mainstream OSs like MacOS X and Windows. Have a look at sourceforge sometime and you'll agree that things are spread too thin. Lots of projects that have never even released any files. Focus on making what's working now better instead of coming up with another new project will help us all.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/2 3/210222
'nuff said....
Then find out what metric(s) are wanted from the testing. Find someone that has worked with the product and knows it well. Find|write a tool that will create the correct interaction with your software. One that gets as close as possible to real production usage. Start playing with the system and see how far and fast you can make it go.
Make sure to save lots of data so you can make some conclusions. Write the report (and post URL on slashdot).
you had done this.... Think about it. You were a witness to the CEO doing something unethical. (you did save a copy of the email right?) Good 'ole blackmail (no pun intended) Of course you wouldn't have let on that you had any such intentions and in fact would have been a new buddy for the CEO. You no doubt would get promoted to IT manager and higher. Been given many more such unethical assignments and become well respected by the executive staff. You would have joined the elite realm of the unethical and been rewarded accordingly.
What's strange is that it was around the time the story leaked about the existence of an x86 version of OS X at Apple.
Diomedea exulans has the largest wingspan, capable
of spending several months aloft hunting the ocean
and never touching land. They don't weigh as much as the Steller's but they are big. But they are
exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe one got very lost. Possibly blown off course by a hurricane. Maybe the russians have been busy with genetic experimentation. Or perhaps it's a Chernobyl migrant.
f128 is function of the size of the pinhole. It could be made worse or better.
The physics could be played with, I didn't say it was easy
and it may not be cheap. But it's solar-powered. They might need
to use some fiber optic technology as well as lenses and/or mirrors.
Try a camera obscura, it's perfectly suited for
a solar vehicle. It's light, it requires no electric power source,
it's solar-powered and you can control the image size.
You'd have to use a few mirrors to get the image
the way you want and where you want it and you'd
have to create a small viewing box. No big deal
and should be the cheapest way to go.
In case you're wondering a camera obscura (latin
for dark room) is more well known as a pin hole
camera. Anyway it may not be easy to devise one for your
apllication but it would be worth looking into.
(no pun intended)
> Ireland's better for having fun doing other things > while drinking beer
I did say hiking and beer drinking! =^)
I agree about Germany, my god Oktoberfest is the most complete chaos one can witness this side of the galaxy.
>Corporations will most likely argue that, because
>of sites like Internal Memos, companies need to
>keep a tighter grip on the information that flows
>in and out of their companies. But attempting to
>spying on private e-mail??
Paprikash, I say!
I think you're logic is flawed here. You're assuming that
leaks occur predominantly via email.
But everyone knows that email is unsafe.
Maybe there are people stupid enough or that just don't care
if they are caught.
I bet most use their own
secure method to post.
ssh to your own box and then upload later from
home.
Maybe internalmemos will post a graph showing
percentage from real companies vs. ISPs.
(although that may not prove anything since
the net has become "blurred")
And as for spying on personal email,
it's no longer personal once the bits are traveling over
their "wire".
This is not new insight, right?
Hiking and beer drinking....
Ireland is thee place for beer drinking, it's
not a passtime it's a way of life.
Maybe I missed it but they should start off
by analyzing the inks used and the paper used.
That should give them a great starting point.
The analysis should include some form of dating.
I was really surprised to hear of this manuscript
and that it has not been deciphered.
What will the KDE crew do now? Make their own
linux distro? KDE is good, I like and use it but
we need to remember that the "desktop" is the current
battleground not which desktop. The challenger
is linux and the defender is Windows.
(Mac OS X is gaining fast and may end up sealing
the fate of the linux desktop) So forget about gnome
vs. kde and redhat this or redhat that. Ease of use and a
seamless interface to the web, etc. are the keys to success.
How did this guy arrive at his conclusions?
The study is so far from being comprehensive
that it cries out to be tossed into the dustbin.
As others here have said the reasons are many
for the decline in sales. I haven't bought a new
CD in years. I do buy used CDs occasionally.
I remember when CDs first came out and everyone
balked at the high price. The record co. said well
they're expensive now but they will get
cheaper. Guess what? They didn't get much
cheaper. Initially the cost of the blank media
was high but economy of scale brought the prices
down for blank media. But the CD prices remained
high. My point is that the record companies are
mostly used to the old ways.
Another reason I don't buy much is that I already
have a LOT of music. I don't need much more. And
if I do buy I'm very choosy.
Another reason (as someone else pointed out) I'm
sick of the tactics they're using to increase
profits. What better way to let them know how we
feel than to hit them where it hurts. The wallet!
For some good music try theirs:
Guggaqwan
Hard to tell what's beta and what's not with KDE....
Tab-browsing's a nice thing to have but mozilla has that already. Why do the KDE
folks put so much energy into Konqueror when mozilla is already very good and stable?
There are other parts of KDE that would benefit from some extra effort. Konqueror is
just not worth all the effort it's given.