...a couple of days from now, propping up a table in coffee house in Seattle. The barista was quoted, "The guy was trying to his phone to do something, anything. Then he figured out it would stop the table from wobbling. We haven't moved since it's doing a great job..."
This comes about as GPL zealots decided that freedom isn't free enough. BSD freedom consists of Freedom: retain this license and this copyright. Follow those rules and you can do what ever you want.
I'll start taking them seriously when their "ready for the enterprise" operating system stops putting icons called "My Computer" and "My Network Places" on the "Desktop."
Yup, I drove past them everyday to my job just down the frontage road from 'em. I guess that's why I bought one. I associated PC's with Northgate.
386/20 with 2M RAM and a 40M HD that lasted me six years (of course by then it had an 80387, 8M RAM and an additional 170M HD). The sales guy offered to upgrade me to a 100M drive for $300 more.
I am writing this with a OmniKey 101 from my first computer which has long since died. I take this keyboard from job to job and it's really funny to see the look of the "kids" that look at for the first time.
Weighin' in at over three pounds, tactile, removable keys (not that it's ever been cleaned...) and it sounds like an M-60 in full auto when I'm furiously typing.
I love this thing.
By the way, does anyone know of a old-style keyboard connector to USB changer? I have a feeling that my PS/2 connector is about to out moded...
Look, I have to ride herd on a pile of MS servers, just now more 2k than NT. We've built a damn good business using the these machines. We've stretched the things to their limits of the with some of the processes that we have implemented. We've discovered deep bugs and pushed MS to fix 'em. We have a functioning, stable business that relies on this OS.
This is where MS *always* makes it greatest mistake. They desire to become respected in the Enterprise market, yet these idiots cannot put a leash on their marketing department.
Hint to Microsoft: If you want to be taken seriously, stop changing your OS's willy-nilly. IBM supports OS's and hardware for years after they've gone past their prime. Why? Because their customers still use them. Businesses are built using your software as a tool to get work done. Now just because you decide that hammers are out of vogue, you cannot force everybody to switch over to pneumatic nail-guns. This "ok, ok, ok, we're serious now. We've come up with a great new way to do X" shit has got to stop. DDE, OLE, OCX, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, COM+..NET and now not.NET.
You know, it is possible to run a network with their tools (quiet down, I work for people who have made this decision and pay me to implement it), but for cryin' out loud, business processes change slowly if at all and once that you realize that marketing won't sway established systems to change at the drop of a hat, the sooner that you will find customers that will stick with you for the long haul.
That is until you get greedy and start gouging on licenses...
In that environment, companies have turned to Linux and other open-source software programs, seeing them as cheap but adequate alternatives. Around half of the 1 million corporate computers in the United States that run the Unix operating system are candidates for migration to Linux, according to Ballmer â" a significant challenge to Microsoft, which has set its own sights on winning over those customers for its Windows operating system.
Cheap but adequate? WTF?
(MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
Oh yeah. Thanks. Forgot about that.
Not that License v6 has anything to do with them losing customers. Expensive lock-in is not a way to endear anyone with brains enough to find an alternative...
She's the head of a cartel, sorta like the Bud Selig is the head of pro baseball. Yeah, she's one of 'em, but think of it this way, she's riding herd on some of the greediest bastard companies on the planet. Would you want the job of dealing with greedy, ignorant, technophobe lawyer-accountant creatures? A whole room full of them?
I sure as hell don't.
The music industry used to be lead by quirky, single-minded folk, people that acutally had a clue about music. That's all but changed now. Now you've got lawyers and accountants deciding what is good for the music company. These are a collection of people that are so used to "the way we do things" that they are virtually incapable of doing anything different.
So, since these people don't know any different, they have hired a spokesperson to be a front for them. We don't really know what Hillary thinks, but with constant exposure to the toxic atmosphere at the level she's working at, perhaps some of it has changed her. I'm not saying that she's innocent, not at all, but remember this, she's the head of a consortium. There are many different opinions and we don't know what the discussions are about, just what is finally decided.
She could have been a voice that reasoned for change in the industry and is stepping down because of disgust (good for you, write up a tell-all!), or she was forced out because her ideas were unpopular -- either not strict enough (God help the music-buying public), or too strict (there be the winds of change a-blowin', good for us).
I want to see who they pick as a replacement to see what is going on in the heads behind the mouth. Then we'll learn something. Until then, don't be too quick to cheer her departure.
Radio has become something that has ceased to matter in my world. In an attempt to make sure that everything is palatable, they (radio and the record industry) have made sure that it all sounds the same.
So now it has become monopolized and irrelevant, unacessible and dull. Now they want to do something about it.
Too late. Perhaps, they can look into the RIAA's heavy-handed tactics while they're at it.
Nope. Beethoven's Third Symphony (that fat G chord at the beginning) was pretty much the shot that started the romantic era (at least musically). His Ninth was a benchmark symphony for decades, causing many composer's fits in trying to compare theirs to that.
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(sings)
Mem'ries,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were...
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm926456064/tt0069372
...a couple of days from now, propping up a table in coffee house in Seattle. The barista was quoted, "The guy was trying to his phone to do something, anything. Then he figured out it would stop the table from wobbling. We haven't moved since it's doing a great job..."
Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in Traffic.
...but do they lift and separate?
that when I read a Dvorak article, all I hear is "You kids get off my lawn!" and nothing else?
This comes about as GPL zealots decided that freedom isn't free enough. BSD freedom consists of Freedom: retain this license and this copyright. Follow those rules and you can do what ever you want.
Whatever. You. Want. Baby mulching machines included. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/ipf/Attic/ipf.c
The GPL is not free. Free+conditions is not free++, but free-- or, more accurately, (symbol: less than) free.
I appreciate the work done, but I don't care for the zealotry. You can't dictate freedom.
I'm writing this on a four year old G4 Tibook that continues to run and run and run...
I may never buy a new laptop again at this rate. Or, at least until OS X doesn't work on PPC chips.
Then, I'll just run OpenBSD...
the AMT (Advanced Management Technology) is the truly frightening bit. Big Brother visits your computer:
6 &w=2
A Swedish ASIC designer explains:
http://strombergson.com/kryptoblog/?p=311
(A rough) translation:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=11830201643010
...in Saddam Hussein's last election, he got 100% of the vote.
especially the plugin for outlook. Saves me much hassle throughout the week.
We've added a complete command shell!
I'll start taking them seriously when their "ready for the enterprise" operating system stops putting icons called "My Computer" and "My Network Places" on the "Desktop."
Yup, I drove past them everyday to my job just down the frontage road from 'em. I guess that's why I bought one. I associated PC's with Northgate.
386/20 with 2M RAM and a 40M HD that lasted me six years (of course by then it had an 80387, 8M RAM and an additional 170M HD). The sales guy offered to upgrade me to a 100M drive for $300 more.
"No way. I'll never use all of that..."
Go figure.
I am writing this with a OmniKey 101 from my first computer which has long since died. I take this keyboard from job to job and it's really funny to see the look of the "kids" that look at for the first time.
Weighin' in at over three pounds, tactile, removable keys (not that it's ever been cleaned...) and it sounds like an M-60 in full auto when I'm furiously typing.
I love this thing.
By the way, does anyone know of a old-style keyboard connector to USB changer? I have a feeling that my PS/2 connector is about to out moded...
Look, I have to ride herd on a pile of MS servers, just now more 2k than NT. We've built a damn good business using the these machines. We've stretched the things to their limits of the with some of the processes that we have implemented. We've discovered deep bugs and pushed MS to fix 'em. We have a functioning, stable business that relies on this OS.
.NET and now not .NET.
This is where MS *always* makes it greatest mistake. They desire to become respected in the Enterprise market, yet these idiots cannot put a leash on their marketing department.
Hint to Microsoft: If you want to be taken seriously, stop changing your OS's willy-nilly. IBM supports OS's and hardware for years after they've gone past their prime. Why? Because their customers still use them. Businesses are built using your software as a tool to get work done. Now just because you decide that hammers are out of vogue, you cannot force everybody to switch over to pneumatic nail-guns. This "ok, ok, ok, we're serious now. We've come up with a great new way to do X" shit has got to stop. DDE, OLE, OCX, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, COM+.
You know, it is possible to run a network with their tools (quiet down, I work for people who have made this decision and pay me to implement it), but for cryin' out loud, business processes change slowly if at all and once that you realize that marketing won't sway established systems to change at the drop of a hat, the sooner that you will find customers that will stick with you for the long haul.
That is until you get greedy and start gouging on licenses...
Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half assed. That's the American way.
personal.inet.fi/taide/karjalainen/homer.html
Cube door!
In that environment, companies have turned to Linux and other open-source software programs, seeing them as cheap but adequate alternatives. Around half of the 1 million corporate computers in the United States that run the Unix operating system are candidates for migration to Linux, according to Ballmer â" a significant challenge to Microsoft, which has set its own sights on winning over those customers for its Windows operating system.
Cheap but adequate? WTF?
(MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
Oh yeah. Thanks. Forgot about that.
Not that License v6 has anything to do with them losing customers. Expensive lock-in is not a way to endear anyone with brains enough to find an alternative...
now that's a coherent road map if ever i've seen one...
Look how things have turned out; Conservatives want the government to handle our lives and the Liberals want the Government out or lives.
Strange days, indeed.
Truly. Building KDE or XFree pales in comparison.
And, Oi!, the dependencies!
Just pray it's included with your distro. I've _never_ gotten it to work from packages...
She's the head of a cartel, sorta like the Bud Selig is the head of pro baseball. Yeah, she's one of 'em, but think of it this way, she's riding herd on some of the greediest bastard companies on the planet. Would you want the job of dealing with greedy, ignorant, technophobe lawyer-accountant creatures? A whole room full of them?
I sure as hell don't.
The music industry used to be lead by quirky, single-minded folk, people that acutally had a clue about music. That's all but changed now. Now you've got lawyers and accountants deciding what is good for the music company. These are a collection of people that are so used to "the way we do things" that they are virtually incapable of doing anything different.
So, since these people don't know any different, they have hired a spokesperson to be a front for them. We don't really know what Hillary thinks, but with constant exposure to the toxic atmosphere at the level she's working at, perhaps some of it has changed her. I'm not saying that she's innocent, not at all, but remember this, she's the head of a consortium. There are many different opinions and we don't know what the discussions are about, just what is finally decided.
She could have been a voice that reasoned for change in the industry and is stepping down because of disgust (good for you, write up a tell-all!), or she was forced out because her ideas were unpopular -- either not strict enough (God help the music-buying public), or too strict (there be the winds of change a-blowin', good for us).
I want to see who they pick as a replacement to see what is going on in the heads behind the mouth. Then we'll learn something. Until then, don't be too quick to cheer her departure.
When? In another ten years when they figure out a filesystem?
Radio has become something that has ceased to matter in my world. In an attempt to make sure that everything is palatable, they (radio and the record industry) have made sure that it all sounds the same.
So now it has become monopolized and irrelevant, unacessible and dull. Now they want to do something about it.
Too late. Perhaps, they can look into the RIAA's heavy-handed tactics while they're at it.
Though I'm not holding my breath...
BZZZZZZT!
Nope. Beethoven's Third Symphony (that fat G chord at the beginning) was pretty much the shot that started the romantic era (at least musically). His Ninth was a benchmark symphony for decades, causing many composer's fits in trying to compare theirs to that.