Copyright is an abstract concept, not a technology that can be circumvented using aquatic creatures.
The Vorgon recites poetry at your DMCA. Bah, humbug - and so on and so forth.
This all reminds me of that old Dilbert strip when Wally swipes Dilbert's 17" monitor because he (Wally) had never used it.:-)
I'm currently holding on to a full PIII@550 server system from a bankrupted company. The liquidator knows it exists but it's more or less buried in the inventory list. If he asks for it, I'll see if I can buy it, cheap. If he doesn't ask, I won't remind him.
Two wrongs doesn't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
BTW, the concert was quite visibly announced in the third janitor's closet to the left in the basement of EMA/Telstar's Galactic HQ on the far side of Rigel 5. You really need to keep up with the flow of information.
Sure, but that name wouldn't go over well when the CNN anchor tries to report the news that the "OS formerly known as Linux" has surpassed Windows in installed user base a few years from now, now would it?:-)
Formally and technically, you are of course correct. However, the naming issue is more one of marketing and as such Linux has become the name that encompasses not only the original Linus kernel and modules, but entire distributions and bundled application packages. Windows is still Windows if you remove Minesweeper (albeit its usefullness just shrunk by 50%) but people still think of Minesweeper as part of the Windows bundle/offering/package/distro/whatever - not to mention Office, without which Windows would be an empty shell with very little market share. Office can not be said to be a part of the Windows OS by any technical standards, but it IS a crucial part of the MS/Windows marketing machine.
Seriously, the ones that aren't showing profits - are they just too far off in the deserts/whereever to get the crowds in or did they overinvest in the facilities to begin with? I've just seen the profitable ones on TV and kinda assumed all of them made a killing... The faltering ones should really think about going online, in this economy there should be no problem finding geeks willing to hack up their platforms for glass pearls and some mescal juice.
Sometimes, the children have to set right what their fathers did wrong - at least if they have a more evolved sense of ethics and higher moral standards. I can, in a way, understand the settlers seeing the natives as a threat (especially since the government wanted to portray them as such) but that doesn't justify us hanging on to their land and even stealing more for uranium mines and whatnot. BTW, I don't like the Israeli occup... Settling of the Gaza strip and West bank either.
Immaturity? Yeah, like XP's 'mature'... After the third Service Pack, maybe. Thanks for the info.
Anyway, I see 802.11b (why can't someone come up with a reasonable name for this?) and Bluetooth as different solutions to different problems in different situations, albeit with a few overlaps in the middle somewhere.
If you go to shop.microsoft.com and buy a copy of FrontPage 2002 online, you will never see the EULA. What you get is http://shop.microsoft.com/helpdesk/Terms.asp which roughly translated into human-readable form states: "Fsck you, loser. As soon as we get your money, you're on your own!".
I didn't find the EULA anywhere near the Frontpage (www.microsoft.com/frontpage) site either, although they gave me a nice pop quiz on what I thought of their little site. Maybe I shouldn't have told them, they may be in trouble now - the site was maintained by Frontpage and I made some rather disparaging remarks about Microsoft...
Well, no one seems to care that Outlook and IIS are used to distribute evil virii...
Where are the CDC when you need them? I'd like to see'em put a flamethrower to the Redmond campus, Outbreak style. Or maybe a few FAEs. Or are they waiting for the Cascades to do the job for them?
I understand RMS' point here, but a Linux distro is much more than just Linus' kernel and a bunch of GNU stuff on top. It seems unfair to single out GNU/FSF/RMS when KDE, Gnome, XFree, MySQL, sendmail.org/Eric Allman, the ReiserFS, Emacs and LVM people and loads of others are just as well-deserved of a honourable mention. GNU doth not a distro make. If RMS keeps this up, some anal types will start compiling alternates for all the GNU utils... How's that for poetic justice?
I once gave a lecture on modem standards, bandwidth and transmission speeds. I used a leeched copy of MS Office 97 as my yardstick - on a 14.4 modem it would take x days to download while with a 56K you'd be up and violating the EULA within hours.:-)
BTW, I assumed the author meant it would take a week to compile (he probably didn't do the math either - it's scary if he did) and use up 20 gigs of diskspace, but I'm not sure.
Well, there you are then. If you can't leech 802.11 access everywhere (point those antennas out the windows, people! Yes! Windows - out!) just go with the GPRS option and you'll be set.
I've posted this before, but I still want someone to build it: A complete modular portable wireless PC system consisting of a laptop/webpad, a cordless headset (with mike built-in, skull resonance fashion) and a phone/PDA. All of the components talk Bluetooth with each other and all of them work on their own or together with any of the others. The headset would store 30 minutes worth of MP3 or Ogg songs in walk-alone mode or stream them (or radio, or phone-over-IP or whatever) from the phone/PDA (2 hours' worth of storage) or laptop. All of them sync automatically when in range, keep track of friends (a REAL psychic friend's network!) nearby and so on, and so forth. The Star Trek-like comm badge for activating the voice-recognition system is mandatory. Gimme now! I wanna be a gargoyle too!
You can do that now: Get a GPRS phone with Bluetooth, pay the Man for the data subscription, get a Bluetooth PCMCIA card for your laptop and you're off. Sure, it's more like 2.6G, but you're unlikely to spot the difference without heavy file transfers and you can just take a walk around the block while the pr0n downloads. Exercise while having fun!
Can you imagine my delight when I saw the Bluetooth stuff in the 2.4.8 kernel xconfig? I don't have the hardware yet, but just seeing it in there gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling that nothing from Redmond ever has come close to providing. *thinks back* Well, OK, the Shell Preview for NT 3.51 was pretty close... Anyone know if XP has any Bluetooth stuff included? I seem to recall they gave Firewire a bit of a miss, maybe they did the same with BT?
Nimda uses several tactics to spread, some of which have been released as patches from MS. But, how can you expect J. Random Luser to apply the patches unless MS tells him to? MS should be forced to issue recalls, much like the automobile industry does. They sold the people broken software and should be held responsible for fixing it. This means issuing immediate security alerts to their registered customers, follow-ups and free tech support for implementing the fixes.
Incidentally, most of MS' CORPNET was down the other day due too many MS internal boxen being infected. Serves them right, I say.:-)
I wonder if Prestonia will be the same disaster as Estonia (the passenger ferry)...
The naming of new products is getting more and more difficult, I read that Honda had launched a new compact car named Fitta. Nothing wrong with that, except it means 'cunt' in Swedish.:-)
Problem: Security check-points at the airport are a joke
Not everywhere. Once, when flying from Britain to Sweden, I was frisked by a fairly large gentleman. I thanked him for it and he gave me the oddest look. I was thankful that he (and in a broader sense the airline and Stanstead security) took my and the other passenger's safety seriously but he probably just thought that I was gay and liked having muscular security guards feeling me up.:-)
OTOH, I have travelled with my Leatherman PSTII many times - in a Boeing 767 over the WTC. Way, way over (Icelandair's BWI-KEF-ARN route and back goes almost straight over Manhattan), but still.
Once, a pair of fast-thinking flight attendants defused a nasty situation with a drunk US serviceman going home from Keflavik - he made two runs for the cockpit before they subdued him. If that kind of incident haven't made them seal off the cockpits, maybe this tragedy will.
Good idea. Remember how adamant Microsoft was that all of their products should be named Microsoft Word, Microsoft Internet Explorer and so on to build name recognition? This seems like a very good time to adhere to Waggener-Edstrom's recommendations. Let's start with renaming Code Red to Microsoft Code Red, Visual Basic to Microsoft Vicious Basic and VBScript to Microsoft Virus Build Script.:-)
I already have several Logitech cordless mice and keyboards and apart from changing the batteries twice a year, this is not a problem. I'd like to find AAA-size rechargeables, though... My electrical toothbrush has a magnetic induction recharge system and I think this could be a good idea for the mice too - at the end of the day, just put it in the cradle (which also acts as the transciever) and it recharges. Since a fully charged set of AAA batteries lasts six months, it wouldn't be a disaster if you forgot to put it to sleep a few nights either.
Oh, and one of the main design goals of Bluetooth was to lower the energy comsumption compared to other solutions like Logitech's and the 802.11b.
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Copyright is an abstract concept, not a technology that can be circumvented using aquatic creatures.
The Vorgon recites poetry at your DMCA. Bah, humbug - and so on and so forth.
I'm currently holding on to a full PIII@550 server system from a bankrupted company. The liquidator knows it exists but it's more or less buried in the inventory list. If he asks for it, I'll see if I can buy it, cheap. If he doesn't ask, I won't remind him.
Two wrongs doesn't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
BTW, the concert was quite visibly announced in the third janitor's closet to the left in the basement of EMA/Telstar's Galactic HQ on the far side of Rigel 5. You really need to keep up with the flow of information.
Sure, but that name wouldn't go over well when the CNN anchor tries to report the news that the "OS formerly known as Linux" has surpassed Windows in installed user base a few years from now, now would it? :-)
So, what's in a name? Whatever we bundle in it.
Seriously, the ones that aren't showing profits - are they just too far off in the deserts/whereever to get the crowds in or did they overinvest in the facilities to begin with? I've just seen the profitable ones on TV and kinda assumed all of them made a killing... The faltering ones should really think about going online, in this economy there should be no problem finding geeks willing to hack up their platforms for glass pearls and some mescal juice.
Sometimes, the children have to set right what their fathers did wrong - at least if they have a more evolved sense of ethics and higher moral standards. I can, in a way, understand the settlers seeing the natives as a threat (especially since the government wanted to portray them as such) but that doesn't justify us hanging on to their land and even stealing more for uranium mines and whatnot. BTW, I don't like the Israeli occup... Settling of the Gaza strip and West bank either.
Anyway, I see 802.11b (why can't someone come up with a reasonable name for this?) and Bluetooth as different solutions to different problems in different situations, albeit with a few overlaps in the middle somewhere.
I didn't find the EULA anywhere near the Frontpage (www.microsoft.com/frontpage) site either, although they gave me a nice pop quiz on what I thought of their little site. Maybe I shouldn't have told them, they may be in trouble now - the site was maintained by Frontpage and I made some rather disparaging remarks about Microsoft...
Where are the CDC when you need them? I'd like to see'em put a flamethrower to the Redmond campus, Outbreak style. Or maybe a few FAEs. Or are they waiting for the Cascades to do the job for them?
I understand RMS' point here, but a Linux distro is much more than just Linus' kernel and a bunch of GNU stuff on top. It seems unfair to single out GNU/FSF/RMS when KDE, Gnome, XFree, MySQL, sendmail.org/Eric Allman, the ReiserFS, Emacs and LVM people and loads of others are just as well-deserved of a honourable mention. GNU doth not a distro make. If RMS keeps this up, some anal types will start compiling alternates for all the GNU utils... How's that for poetic justice?
Just give it up - GNU's not Linux.
BTW, I assumed the author meant it would take a week to compile (he probably didn't do the math either - it's scary if he did) and use up 20 gigs of diskspace, but I'm not sure.
I've posted this before, but I still want someone to build it: A complete modular portable wireless PC system consisting of a laptop/webpad, a cordless headset (with mike built-in, skull resonance fashion) and a phone/PDA. All of the components talk Bluetooth with each other and all of them work on their own or together with any of the others. The headset would store 30 minutes worth of MP3 or Ogg songs in walk-alone mode or stream them (or radio, or phone-over-IP or whatever) from the phone/PDA (2 hours' worth of storage) or laptop. All of them sync automatically when in range, keep track of friends (a REAL psychic friend's network!) nearby and so on, and so forth. The Star Trek-like comm badge for activating the voice-recognition system is mandatory. Gimme now! I wanna be a gargoyle too!
That would typically take at least a week and over 20gig total, but it is worthwhile to do.
A week? Well, maybe it's time for that vacation...
Can you imagine my delight when I saw the Bluetooth stuff in the 2.4.8 kernel xconfig? I don't have the hardware yet, but just seeing it in there gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling that nothing from Redmond ever has come close to providing. *thinks back* Well, OK, the Shell Preview for NT 3.51 was pretty close... Anyone know if XP has any Bluetooth stuff included? I seem to recall they gave Firewire a bit of a miss, maybe they did the same with BT?
USA out of America! :-)
What do you want to patch today?
Incidentally, most of MS' CORPNET was down the other day due too many MS internal boxen being infected. Serves them right, I say. :-)
The Apollo archive has lots of MPEG video clips as well.
The naming of new products is getting more and more difficult, I read that Honda had launched a new compact car named Fitta. Nothing wrong with that, except it means 'cunt' in Swedish. :-)
Not everywhere. Once, when flying from Britain to Sweden, I was frisked by a fairly large gentleman. I thanked him for it and he gave me the oddest look. I was thankful that he (and in a broader sense the airline and Stanstead security) took my and the other passenger's safety seriously but he probably just thought that I was gay and liked having muscular security guards feeling me up. :-)
OTOH, I have travelled with my Leatherman PSTII many times - in a Boeing 767 over the WTC. Way, way over (Icelandair's BWI-KEF-ARN route and back goes almost straight over Manhattan), but still.
Once, a pair of fast-thinking flight attendants defused a nasty situation with a drunk US serviceman going home from Keflavik - he made two runs for the cockpit before they subdued him. If that kind of incident haven't made them seal off the cockpits, maybe this tragedy will.
I agree with most of your other points, though.
Good idea. Remember how adamant Microsoft was that all of their products should be named Microsoft Word, Microsoft Internet Explorer and so on to build name recognition? This seems like a very good time to adhere to Waggener-Edstrom's recommendations. Let's start with renaming Code Red to Microsoft Code Red, Visual Basic to Microsoft Vicious Basic and VBScript to Microsoft Virus Build Script. :-)
But if they can't trust their own people, why did they hire them in the first place?
Oh, and one of the main design goals of Bluetooth was to lower the energy comsumption compared to other solutions like Logitech's and the 802.11b.
They're working hard to fix that, aren't they? :-/