User: ishpeck

Let evolution take its place. . .

On: Will The DOJ Split Microsoft In Three?

If IE is going to die, so be it. It won't break my heart. The best browser will be the one that survives in the end. I have no place on my hard disk nor should there be any place on the market fo such inferiority.

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  When I get in a programming mode
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Re:patents on living things are good

On: IP And Genetics: Genetic Copyleft?

That's the geek's way of saying: "I own your firstborn child!" in a fiendish voice, right?

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  When I get in a programming mode
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Re:Copyrighting Existing Genetic Structures . . .

On: IP And Genetics: Genetic Copyleft?

They won't try to copyright the tomato. They're just going to try and copyright a certain kind of tomato that they created in their laboratory.

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  When I get in a programming mode
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I own you all!

On: IP And Genetics: Genetic Copyleft?

BWAHAHAHAHA! I have the copyright to human DNA! That means I own you all! And every time you have sex, you've gotta pay me royalties!

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NEW CONCEPT! Open source agriculture. Plants with GNU genes. Yeehaw! That means we can plant anything we want and not have to worry about EULA's anymore!

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When opening a package of seeds. . . ". . . By opening this package, you agree to ther terms specified in Farmer Dan's END GARDENER LICENSE AGREEMENT that gives you the right to plant these seeds in only one garden and not to modify or distribute them in any way. . . ."

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I'm currently working on a copyright for Oxygen so you all have to pay me to breathe! BWAHAHAHAHA!

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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Re:Forsight...

On: What are Your Programming Goals?

> Time should be spent writting routines
> (libraries) that allow developers to deploy
> accross multiple platforms, with a
> re-compile or even less. We are getting
> closer, but we aren't as far as we COULD be.

Aren't you thinking of Java?

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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

My Programming Goals. . . .

On: What are Your Programming Goals?

I'm not sure if I want to be a programmer as my profession. I'd like to be a network administrator and develop GNU software in my spare time. That way, I can write code for the love of code and nothing else.

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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

If you're in it for the money, go for it!

On: In Depth Look At Red Hat Certification

I, for one, don't feel the burning desire to be "certified" in being a Linux Admin. I administer to the needs of my own little network here solely for the purpose of increasing the effeciency at which I develop the software I use.

I'm not saying "DON'T CERTIFY, IT'S USELESS!" Because some companies don't want to go to the trouble of finding out whether or not you're qualified---they just want to see a piece of paper that implies that you might be. So if you admin for money, get it---it may help.

• I love to sit and write code
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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Re:Certification

On: In Depth Look At Red Hat Certification

Certification does not determine one's ability as much as it does one's commitment. I know pleanty of people who are technically able to be administrators in various fields but lack the determination to actually be a realiable employee.

Still, I agree that certification should not be the deciding factor in choosing an applicant.

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  When I get in a programming mode
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Do all these terms matter?

On: On Usage of "Hacker vs. Cracker"

Who cares what they're called? (Hackers, crackers, phreakers, pirates, BBS SysOps, unofficial politicians, Native Americans (Not Indians), etc.) It's what they do that defines them.

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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Look, everybody! I got Windows Source code!

On: Windows Source Code Proposal Confirmed

'QBasic Windows '98
'By Bill Gates 'n' company. . . .
10 CLS
20 IF CPU > 486 THEN SLEEP 10
30 PRINT "MICROSOFT WINDOWS IS NOW BOOTING"
40 SLEEP 20
50 IF INKEY$ <> "" THEN
60 COLOR 15, 1
70 CLS
80 LOCATE 18, 3
90 PRINT "SYSTEM IS BUSY"
100 END IF
110 GOTO 40

• I love to sit and write code
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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Re:Solutions

On: Shut Down Metallica, Not Napster

After having just emerged from reading the entire constitution and a good handful of the amendments, I'm feeling a bit saturated with this legal stuff. . . .

While I agree with your proposals, I have to question the reasonability of the last suggestion. . . .

I agree that we should start our own information exchange community. I personally feel uneasy using anything that's put on a site with the .com extension---commercial organizations are bound to "buckle" under any preassure that jeapordizes their income. If we create an information exchange system based solely on the exchange of information and not created as a means of generating revenue, that community is less likely to be abolished when the question of money arises.

In the mean time, I suggest we boycott Metallica (though their incentives are understandable, their actions are intollerable. . . as in, unforgivable? The Unforgiven? :> ) and Napster all together---this ice is just too thin for even a light skater to consider.

• I love to sit and write code
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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Re:It's open source

On: Advertising in Your Boot Sequence?

Yeah! And if not having them bothers you, you can add them! :)

• I love to sit and write code
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  When I get in a programming mode
  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

re: revenge of the Linux nerds

On: Athlons Sold Out

A while back, a friend of mine asked me which system to get (this was before the 1gHz systems were out), and I told him to get the Athalon. Afer bizjapping about it for a while, he finally concluded that he wanted to get the Intel chip. . . . but he failed to see the point. We get anything but Pentium chips because we don't like intel. . . . . some humans don't understand the meaning of the word boycott.

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  I love to sit and write code
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  Compile and run
  It is so much fun

Re:Simple Answer to all of this...

On: RMS On eBooks

Something that you'll find prominent in the technology worlds is that simple is not always the emphasis. Sometimes, it's the cost efectiveness that matters most, or sometimes, it's just plain laziness on the developer's part. . . . Anyway, my personal opinion is that every piece of electronic information should be free (GNU or something like that) . . . but this world won't stand for that.

Just forget all this CISC crap!

On: The Dual 1GHz Pentium III Myth

I personally am tired of the i386 architecture all together. All we need is cheeper alpha systems.