No problem!!! We can fix that by creating a Zaurus Emulator that runs the PalmOS emulator and we can just run both on a REALLY speedy laptop... uhm... uh.... Nevermind....
As much as I used to like Netscape, they dumb down the Mozilla browser to the point of irritation. That plus they stuff all that AOL nonsense into the product. Blech!!!
Why do they persist in eroding my rights in order to keep me "safe"?
Every time they decide we need protecting, they strip away yet another preciously gained right. Once they're gone, good luck getting them back.
I propose a new form of energy. We can harness the power of the founding fathers spinning in their graves. Given what's going on these days, we should be able to replace Three Mile Island. The only problem is that we need Sen. Hollings around to craft more legislation.
The whole RealNames thing is basically an extension of AOL's Keyword idea.
The problem is that there are only so many "good" names to go around and soon the whole scheme becomes pretty much worthless since the RealNames are quickly snapped up by companies with deep pockets (assuming they didn't realize the obvious before it was too late). I found just as much value with AOL keywords (I didn't wanna use it... they MADE me!!).
I have to agree... It's great (or so they tell me) that you can get free warez... But ultimately someone has to pay. My rule of thumb is: if you use it, pay for it.
Sometimes a prolonged test drive is needed, but after you find yourself using it on a regular basis, buy it!
At my former place of employment, some of my coworkers spent more time trying to get their shiny new window managers and SPARC versions of Linux going than they did doing anything else.
That's one reason I stuck with boring old SPARC Solaris and CDE (not that CDE isn't SCREAMING to be replaced).
New York (API) - Lucent Technologies today admitted that in addition to errors in recent breakthrough technologies, they have found that major technologies they have been selling for years are apparently impossible. "It's the damnedest thing" said Bob Sharp who is the head of Consumer Technologies, "The whole notion of data communications over fiber is based on something someong just made up without checking to see if it was possible. We plan to cease offering these technologies until we can figure out to make it work."
Bob Dobbs, the Senior Vice-President of Internet Operations at UUNET Technologies expressed concern: "They've been charging us out the wazoo for the past few years for something that apparently doesn't even work. Our legal team is currently negotiating terms of a full refund".
In the meantime, major Internet providers are scrambling to build out their network infrastructure to support CPIP (an recent biology-based transmission protocol) in accordance with RFC1149.
Lucent stock dipped slightly at the news, but investors express full confidence that things would work out in time.
What about a Space lottery? You sell lottery tickets and the grand prize winner gets a space trip (assuming they qualify physically). Runners up get suborbital flights. The profits could fund other space programs.
Finally!! A lottery a self-respecting geek can play without feeling like a mouth-breathing idiot!
Washington (NAPI)- John Ashcruft today warned that al-Qaida terrorists have infiltrated several "Learning Tree" facilities over the past few months and have obtained illicit "MCSE" certificates. "With the imtimate knowledge they now have, no one who runs the Windows Operating System is safe" quavered Professor M. Druel of the University of North Dakota at Hoople. "Given the flaws we were warned of, why didn't we listen to that guy back during the trail?" Linux users (and other users of the soon-to-be banned "open-source" software) spent the days chuckling.
If only they'd expend the same resources getting me decent broadband. I mean, Sheesh... A mile from UUNET and three miles from AOL and all I can get is iDSL.... You'd think we'd have Major bandwidth...
My car is capable of going over a hundred miles an hour. I can also use it to run over hapless pedestrians. Yet I do neither (at least not on purpose)
I own guns. I'm capable of all sorts of mischief. I choose not to.
I own a baseball bat. I don't attack people with it. Sometimes I even hit baseballs with it.
Decss is a nice tool that I can use to store my favorite DVD on my laptop and watch it when I'm on travel without dragging a bunch of extra stuff around. I don't steal movies on DVD... I certainly could, I chose not to.
Just because you can use a tool that has a legitmate purpose to break the law doesn't mean you will do so.
Plus, who has time to download some sucky dvd rip anyway? Life's too short, I'd rather plunk down the $20 or so and have a nice library. It's retarded to spend all that time stealing a movie then pay big bucks for a writable DVD.
I'd happily fill out a bill for my parents to submit. I do all of their tech support anyway, I might as well make some bucks from all those years of helping them.:)
Please don't hate me for saying this:
AOL actually does serve their target audience fairly well. For those who know NOTHING about computers (or those who want to know nothing), AOL is a fairly easy path to the Internet.
It does have some issues as we all know: bad e-mail and silly user interface and obnoxious marketing practices being at the top of the list. I retch every time I have to do anything using the AOL client.
But in spite of all the problems, most people just don't want to know about dialers, and modem strings or DNS servers. AOL just got a bit hamfisted with the AOL 5.0 install...
The whor^H^H^H^HSenator from SC is not to be trusted to ANYTHING in the publics interest. He did a nice job naming it though, Orwellian doublespeak at its best. Even fooled some/.ers.
These days, even the party of Bill Clinton seems willing to trade our rights for a few campaign bucks.
They picked that name because it sounded like Linux-flavored windows. Why would you suggest that penises have anything to do with it? Anyone can use the term "windows" anyway, it's been in use for years. They (micro$oft) belatedly tried to grab the name after they realized they left it untrademarked for 7 years.
Sometimes, It's the sheer joy of having people use and enjoy what they've created.
The one big question I have is:
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How does one prove ownership of a particular property? And... How can Creative Commons prove that to users wary of something "too good to be true"?
What better way to sow the seeds of confustion is for someone masquarading as some obscure/forgotten author or artist (such as MC Hammer) and "giving" their works to the world. I wonder how long Creative Commons would exist after one of those little trojan horses was delivered? Not that the RIAA would EVER do anything like that.
I'll bet that proving ownership will ultimately prove to be too burdonsome.
A few years back, I worked for a small company that was developing a cell phone localization technology. We had a patent on one of the primary means of locating an unmodified phone (worked rather well too). The problem was that while we were developing the technology, we had to beat people over the head at the same time to make them see how valuable the idea was.
Nowdays, the FCC and all the carriers are still trudging towards the goal of fully implementing E911 and we ended up having to sell out to a competitor having spent too many resources building the market. sigh.:)
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No problem!!! We can fix that by creating a Zaurus Emulator that runs the PalmOS emulator and we can just run both on a REALLY speedy laptop... uhm... uh.... Nevermind....
You'd think that advertisers would get a clue.
Before I bought my Tivo, I was taping shows. I fast forwarded through commercials then too. Nothing has changed in that regard for most people.
If a commercial catches my eye while I'm fast-forwarding, I'll actually go back and watch it (usually if it has sufficient babe-content).
I think that the music and television industry's current "Greed Fest" is going to come back and bite them in the ass.
Don't forget:
Sim Cannon Fodder
Sim Where's my sea sock?
Sim Mess Cook
Sim Don't ask, Don't tell
As much as I used to like Netscape, they dumb down the Mozilla browser to the point of irritation. That plus they stuff all that AOL nonsense into the product. Blech!!!
Why do they persist in eroding my rights in order to keep me "safe"?
Every time they decide we need protecting, they strip away yet another preciously gained right. Once they're gone, good luck getting them back.
I propose a new form of energy. We can harness the power of the founding fathers spinning in their graves. Given what's going on these days, we should be able to replace Three Mile Island. The only problem is that we need Sen. Hollings around to craft more legislation.
The whole RealNames thing is basically an extension of AOL's Keyword idea.
The problem is that there are only so many "good" names to go around and soon the whole scheme becomes pretty much worthless since the RealNames are quickly snapped up by companies with deep pockets (assuming they didn't realize the obvious before it was too late). I found just as much value with AOL keywords (I didn't wanna use it... they MADE me!!).
I have to agree... It's great (or so they tell me) that you can get free warez... But ultimately someone has to pay. My rule of thumb is: if you use it, pay for it.
Sometimes a prolonged test drive is needed, but after you find yourself using it on a regular basis, buy it!
At my former place of employment, some of my coworkers spent more time trying to get their shiny new window managers and SPARC versions of Linux going than they did doing anything else.
That's one reason I stuck with boring old SPARC Solaris and CDE (not that CDE isn't SCREAMING to be replaced).
New York
(API) - Lucent Technologies today admitted that in addition to errors in recent breakthrough technologies, they have found that major technologies they have been selling for years are apparently impossible. "It's the damnedest thing" said Bob Sharp who is the head of Consumer Technologies, "The whole notion of data communications over fiber is based on something someong just made up without checking to see if it was possible. We plan to cease offering these technologies until we can figure out to make it work."
Bob Dobbs, the Senior Vice-President of Internet Operations at UUNET Technologies expressed concern: "They've been charging us out the wazoo for the past few years for something that apparently doesn't even work. Our legal team is currently negotiating terms of a full refund".
In the meantime, major Internet providers are scrambling to build out their network infrastructure to support CPIP (an recent biology-based transmission protocol) in accordance with RFC1149.
Lucent stock dipped slightly at the news, but investors express full confidence that things would work out in time.
What about a Space lottery? You sell lottery tickets and the grand prize winner gets a space trip (assuming they qualify physically). Runners up get suborbital flights. The profits could fund other space programs.
Finally!! A lottery a self-respecting geek can play without feeling like a mouth-breathing idiot!
Washington
(NAPI)- John Ashcruft today warned that al-Qaida terrorists have infiltrated several "Learning Tree" facilities over the past few months and have obtained illicit "MCSE" certificates. "With the imtimate knowledge they now have, no one who runs the Windows Operating System is safe" quavered Professor M. Druel of the University of North Dakota at Hoople. "Given the flaws we were warned of, why didn't we listen to that guy back during the trail?" Linux users (and other users of the soon-to-be banned "open-source" software) spent the days chuckling.
Yet another reason not to use them. geez....
If only they'd expend the same resources getting me decent broadband. I mean, Sheesh... A mile from UUNET and three miles from AOL and all I can get is iDSL.... You'd think we'd have Major bandwidth...
My car is capable of going over a hundred miles an hour. I can also use it to run over hapless pedestrians. Yet I do neither (at least not on purpose)
I own guns. I'm capable of all sorts of mischief. I choose not to.
I own a baseball bat. I don't attack people with it. Sometimes I even hit baseballs with it.
Decss is a nice tool that I can use to store my favorite DVD on my laptop and watch it when I'm on travel without dragging a bunch of extra stuff around. I don't steal movies on DVD... I certainly could, I chose not to.
Just because you can use a tool that has a legitmate purpose to break the law doesn't mean you will do so.
Plus, who has time to download some sucky dvd rip anyway? Life's too short, I'd rather plunk down the $20 or so and have a nice library. It's retarded to spend all that time stealing a movie then pay big bucks for a writable DVD.
I'd happily fill out a bill for my parents to submit. I do all of their tech support anyway, I might as well make some bucks from all those years of helping them. :)
Please don't hate me for saying this:
AOL actually does serve their target audience fairly well. For those who know NOTHING about computers (or those who want to know nothing), AOL is a fairly easy path to the Internet.
It does have some issues as we all know: bad e-mail and silly user interface and obnoxious marketing practices being at the top of the list. I retch every time I have to do anything using the AOL client.
But in spite of all the problems, most people just don't want to know about dialers, and modem strings or DNS servers. AOL just got a bit hamfisted with the AOL 5.0 install...
Basically, AOL is the McDonalds of the Internet.
Trent did the right thing.
/.ers.
The whor^H^H^H^HSenator from SC is not to be trusted to ANYTHING in the publics interest. He did a nice job naming it though, Orwellian doublespeak at its best. Even fooled some
These days, even the party of Bill Clinton seems willing to trade our rights for a few campaign bucks.
What's the world coming to?
Because of plundering and damage to irreplacable texts, the Library of Congress should follow suit and digitize major portions of their collection.
hehehehhhh.... he said cuniform.... (shut up, Beavis)
I hope they do. But their legal department would probably kill that idea.
AOLTW would probably sue them.
Sounds too much like Elmer Fudd saying "Linux".
They picked that name because it sounded like Linux-flavored windows.
Why would you suggest that penises have anything to do with it?
Anyone can use the term "windows" anyway, it's been in use for years.
They (micro$oft) belatedly tried to grab the name after they realized they left it untrademarked for 7 years.
Sounds lovely, but now useful can it be? Sounds like nice thing to hack though.
I believe the point is that people can give their stuff away if they WANT to.
Heck, people have to eat... Selling access to his creative works is not inconsistant with his goal with Creative Commons.
Ever hear of GNU?
Ever hear of Linux?
Ever look at Mp3.com?
Lots of people giving their stuff away.
Sometimes, It's the sheer joy of having people use and enjoy what they've created.
How does one prove ownership of a particular property? And... How can Creative Commons prove that to users wary of something "too good to be true"?
What better way to sow the seeds of confustion is for someone masquarading as some obscure/forgotten author or artist (such as MC Hammer) and "giving" their works to the world. I wonder how long Creative Commons would exist after one of those little trojan horses was delivered? Not that the RIAA would EVER do anything like that.
I'll bet that proving ownership will ultimately prove to be too burdonsome.
I'm getting a bit sick of all of the industry friendly spectrum giveaw^H^H^H^H^H^Hauctions. How about a bit of spectrum for wireless broadband?
A few years back, I worked for a small company that was developing a cell phone localization technology. We had a patent on one of the primary means of locating an unmodified phone (worked rather well too). The problem was that while we were developing the technology, we had to beat people over the head at the same time to make them see how valuable the idea was.
:)
Nowdays, the FCC and all the carriers are still trudging towards the goal of fully implementing E911 and we ended up having to sell out to a competitor having spent too many resources building the market. sigh.