This is a really boneheaded move. According to the article, they had already told customers it would be available for free, and now are changing their minds.
Charging for it is fine, releasing it for free is fine. But if you promise customers one thing, don't change your mind all of a sudden and leave them out in the cold. That's just going to alienate customers, and blathering about "we think we have added a lot more value" won't help you.
No kidding. I always thought he was incredible, but my respect for him has increased considerably from reading the links people posted. I literally jumped up from my chair when I saw this: "His method for rapid global travel necessitated the construction of a stationary elevated ring that would encircle the rotating earth like a donut." I'm positive I saw this proposed (linked from/.?) along with other similar ideas presented as "new and innovative".
I don't even own a VCR right now... A TiVo would be nice for recording stuff, but a VCR would be good to rent stuff I can't get on DVD. Choices, choices...
Or I could just go down to Fry's and drool in their home theater section for a couple hours...
You know what? I don't care any more. This kind of stuff is just ridiculous, and somebody needs to have the guts to make some serious waves, if only for a moment.
oh man... you exactly described an idea I thought up a few days ago, and am planning to implement this week. check my site for details soon... this garbage is getting out of hand, and for once i am deliberately going to step in the FBI's way.
Now everyone can make their own choice, instead of worrying about the new "standard"... *cough*GNOME*cough*
Note: I happen to like GTK better than Qt, but I think the KDE guys have a better attitude than GNOME. And I avoid all "desktop environments" since they're too bloated and enforce too much of a system-wide look for me. (A WM, an Emacs, and 20 terminals, and I'm happy...)
But why were you even running ftpd? If you didn't use it, it should have been disabled. If you did, you should have kept it up to date. Remember, the less crap in your inetd.conf, the easier it is to keep your system up-to-date.
Are any of you as obsessive as I am about getting each and every screw back in?
Yeah, but I lose half of them half the time, and then spend a while frantically obsessing where they might have gone and gently shaking the unit to make sure there aren't any screws stuck inside... I need to buy one of those toolkits with the screw holder.
"Must take apart anything electronic"... That's so true. I just bought a DVD player, and for some reason a disk got stuck in the tray. Now, the place I bought it is just a few blocks from my apartment, so I could easily have taken it back for service, but instead I just whipped out a screwdriver and started opening it up.
I don't know if opening a DVD player will void the warranty, but I honestly didn't care that much. And it wasn't so much the disk or the player that I was concerned about; I was just suddenly filled with excitement that I had an excuse to see the inside of my new toy. It was at this point that I realized Wow, I bet most people wouldn't be doing this.
(Of course, can't be.co because of coloradoe, and can't be.com becuase of confusion with the TLD)
Sure you could. Just tell people that if they want the global "COM" TLD, they need to type ".com." instead of just ".com". DNS was made to do this, remember...
The www would probably not exist in the form most people acknowledge it (I'm not talking about computer gurus, I mean the
average joe who would be scared to tears at the thought of spending countless hours using something like lynx or Gopher to browse)
Just because a pair of languages are compatible does not mean that a person can learn the second one quickly. I can translate LISP
to C, but this doesn't mean that having written LISP for fifty years will make learning C easy.
True, but once you learn more than one, preferably embodying different coding styles (procedural, functional, object-oriented), you will be able to learn a new one very easily, because most languages are pretty much the same as the other ones. Personally, I feel that I have transcended the languages enough to navigate the raw actions of the underlying machine. It's like The Matrix. (Wow, I love relating stuff to that movie!)
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Charging for it is fine, releasing it for free is fine. But if you promise customers one thing, don't change your mind all of a sudden and leave them out in the cold. That's just going to alienate customers, and blathering about "we think we have added a lot more value" won't help you.
The man was a genius. End of story.
Heh. New toy.
Or I could just go down to Fry's and drool in their home theater section for a couple hours...
Hmm... Could you just pull up a Telnet client and connect to localhost?
You know what? I don't care any more. This kind of stuff is just ridiculous, and somebody needs to have the guts to make some serious waves, if only for a moment.
oh man... you exactly described an idea I thought up a few days ago, and am planning to implement this week. check my site for details soon... this garbage is getting out of hand, and for once i am deliberately going to step in the FBI's way.
Gnus lets you do this for Slashdot...
Nice... You almost got me... =)
Note: I happen to like GTK better than Qt, but I think the KDE guys have a better attitude than GNOME. And I avoid all "desktop environments" since they're too bloated and enforce too much of a system-wide look for me. (A WM, an Emacs, and 20 terminals, and I'm happy...)
Prolog and Lisp are both incredibly beautiful and useful languages, and people who don't like them should be kicked in the shins. Hard.
now that I'm back in California for my new job, I can go to things like this...
But why were you even running ftpd? If you didn't use it, it should have been disabled. If you did, you should have kept it up to date. Remember, the less crap in your inetd.conf, the easier it is to keep your system up-to-date.
Yeah, but I lose half of them half the time, and then spend a while frantically obsessing where they might have gone and gently shaking the unit to make sure there aren't any screws stuck inside... I need to buy one of those toolkits with the screw holder.
I don't know if opening a DVD player will void the warranty, but I honestly didn't care that much. And it wasn't so much the disk or the player that I was concerned about; I was just suddenly filled with excitement that I had an excuse to see the inside of my new toy. It was at this point that I realized Wow, I bet most people wouldn't be doing this.
Just thought I'd share... =)
(Don't blame me... Slashdot is screwing up my links!)
Sure you could. Just tell people that if they want the global "COM" TLD, they need to type ".com." instead of just ".com". DNS was made to do this, remember...
And the world would be a happier place.
Write the source on the outside of the missile.
Um... Now I'm thirsty. I'm going to get a Mountain Dew.
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True, but once you learn more than one, preferably embodying different coding styles (procedural, functional, object-oriented), you will be able to learn a new one very easily, because most languages are pretty much the same as the other ones. Personally, I feel that I have transcended the languages enough to navigate the raw actions of the underlying machine. It's like The Matrix. (Wow, I love relating stuff to that movie!)
That's not new. Befunge already does that.
I have a demoronised mirror of the MPAA brief on my site.
Er... MPAA. I'm still thinking about the Napster trial. =)