Any electronic marking device that isn't removed when I buy the item is an outrageous violation of the privacy of my home. I can understand tags being used to prevent shoplifted, or to somehow safeguard against tampering, but they really need to be removed by the store at purchase, easily removeable by the end consumer, or at least able to be turned off in such a way that they cannot be turned on again remotely.
Because companies either hire people who don't know what they're doing for peanuts or techies who do know what they're doing who hate their job and are again paid peanuts. On the customer end, the customer often doesn't know how to ask good questions even when the tech support guy knows how to listen to good questions. I once had a tech support guy for compuserve in '95 or '96 who didn't know what a directory was. He only knew them as "folders".
The problem is that more often than not, Open Source software is produced by geeks for no pay. They do it because they want certain functionality that they can't get from another program, at least not without having to pay or use an M$ operating system. So they code it themselves. Documentation and a user interface that appeals to non-techies isn't always high on their list of priorities since those are things that other people are interested in, not things that they are. Why should they chew up their spare time doing work for free for people who will probably complain more than they will express gratitude?
Simple: set up all the mailboxes so that they have retina scanners to find out who the mailer is and a printer in the slot to put a proper barcode on the envelope. Sure, the price of stamps would go up to about $3.50 for a first class letter, but most people use email anyway.
No, that just makes you a reasonably intelligent person who doesn't like to engage in small-talk. Or, at worst, it means that you have a somewhat abrasive personlity. Depends on how you respond to people trying to engage in smalltalk. Pulling out a LART would indicate the latter.
The whole point of SCO's lawsuit from the beginning has been to use it as a platform to spread its propaganda. SCO wants to hoodwink business users into either paying SCO an exorbitant liscensing fee for Linux, as if they owned it, or into going back to a traditional, SCO-derived Unix solution. Their attempt to abrogate the GPL and make Linux their own is nothing short of theft. The really discouraging thing is that, even if they fail, which they most likely will, the heads of SCO will walk away with padded pockets.
You got more karma out of the deal than me. Your message explaining that you, apparently the K5 person who posted what I reposted here, got two informatives. I only got one, but I got two funnies which don't count towards karma, but did make my message score higher than yours (4 vs. 3). So I think you got your cut.:-)
Obscenity is not considered free speech as protected under the first amendment. Therefore it is left to the state and local level to decide if and how to regulate obscenity, as obscenity is judged by the local community standards.
NOOOO! Don't say that SCO is dying! That will just make them live for a long, long time. Whenever "it's official" that something is dying (on/.), that means we're stuck with it for a looong time.
Because Diebold knows that if you use paper, you don't really need them at all. The silly political types might decide that paper alone is good enough when there is a budget crunch and Florida is just a distant memory.
Before, it was whoever had the best campaign and the most money that won. Will elections in the 21st century be determined by whoever has the best crackers?
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Any electronic marking device that isn't removed when I buy the item is an outrageous violation of the privacy of my home. I can understand tags being used to prevent shoplifted, or to somehow safeguard against tampering, but they really need to be removed by the store at purchase, easily removeable by the end consumer, or at least able to be turned off in such a way that they cannot be turned on again remotely.
Yes! That's a perfect assessment! I might even put something like that in my sig, if you don't mind.
Because companies either hire people who don't know what they're doing for peanuts or techies who do know what they're doing who hate their job and are again paid peanuts. On the customer end, the customer often doesn't know how to ask good questions even when the tech support guy knows how to listen to good questions. I once had a tech support guy for compuserve in '95 or '96 who didn't know what a directory was. He only knew them as "folders".
What do you expect from a /. Q&A segment about the future of anything. The future is undecided.
I think that we are all hoping that that won't be a persistent annoyance.
The problem is that more often than not, Open Source software is produced by geeks for no pay. They do it because they want certain functionality that they can't get from another program, at least not without having to pay or use an M$ operating system. So they code it themselves. Documentation and a user interface that appeals to non-techies isn't always high on their list of priorities since those are things that other people are interested in, not things that they are. Why should they chew up their spare time doing work for free for people who will probably complain more than they will express gratitude?
Simple: set up all the mailboxes so that they have retina scanners to find out who the mailer is and a printer in the slot to put a proper barcode on the envelope. Sure, the price of stamps would go up to about $3.50 for a first class letter, but most people use email anyway.
Exactly right. I just hope that it doesn't end like the OJ trial, i.e., with a serious miscarriage of justice.
No, that just makes you a reasonably intelligent person who doesn't like to engage in small-talk. Or, at worst, it means that you have a somewhat abrasive personlity. Depends on how you respond to people trying to engage in smalltalk. Pulling out a LART would indicate the latter.
I think I prefer the introverted computer geek.
The whole point of SCO's lawsuit from the beginning has been to use it as a platform to spread its propaganda. SCO wants to hoodwink business users into either paying SCO an exorbitant liscensing fee for Linux, as if they owned it, or into going back to a traditional, SCO-derived Unix solution. Their attempt to abrogate the GPL and make Linux their own is nothing short of theft. The really discouraging thing is that, even if they fail, which they most likely will, the heads of SCO will walk away with padded pockets.
"No web site is configured at this address."
/. was on the way.
Looks like he hid his website when he heard
You got more karma out of the deal than me. Your message explaining that you, apparently the K5 person who posted what I reposted here, got two informatives. I only got one, but I got two funnies which don't count towards karma, but did make my message score higher than yours (4 vs. 3). So I think you got your cut. :-)
Unless you have a really pathetic resolution.
Obscenity is not considered free speech as protected under the first amendment. Therefore it is left to the state and local level to decide if and how to regulate obscenity, as obscenity is judged by the local community standards.
BSD is still alive and kicking. It retains a very large share on the server market, including running on Yahoo's servers.
I hope they didn't. The deserve to lose a lot of money after pulling crap like this.
He's a witch! BURN HIM!
NOOOO! Don't say that SCO is dying! That will just make them live for a long, long time. Whenever "it's official" that something is dying (on /.), that means we're stuck with it for a looong time.
For a legal, SCO Linux kernel (copied from K5):
/usr/src/v er/CSSA-2003-020.0/SRPMS/linux -2.4.13-21S.src.rpm
"cd
mkdir silly_sco
wget ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Ser
rpm2cpio linux-2.4.13-21S.src.rpm > sco.cpio
cpio -i --file sco.cpio
bzip2 -d linux-2.4.13.tar.bz2
tar -xf linux-2.4.13.tar
You'll find the license agreement in linux/COPYING
Compile, install, enjoy."
Better dump that SCO stock now, lest you lose your shirts.
Maybe now we will see the tide turn in the FUD-war that SCO has been waging against Linux.
Because Diebold knows that if you use paper, you don't really need them at all. The silly political types might decide that paper alone is good enough when there is a budget crunch and Florida is just a distant memory.
By having a /.er present at compile time?
Before, it was whoever had the best campaign and the most money that won. Will elections in the 21st century be determined by whoever has the best crackers?