I wouldn't trust Apple any farther than I could throw their entire corporate headquarters. They screwed Newton developers pretty hard. The sooner Apple goes out of business and takes Jobs' Reality Distortion Field with them, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I'd be afraid of putting MS Office on my Linux box. Like matter (Linux) and anti-matter (Micros~1, Inc.), I'm afraid there'd be a huge explosion and a terrible mess. Emacs and HTML are quite fine, thanks.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
Yahoo itself is not being sued. As far as I can tell,/. has no means of identifying the real identities of ACs. That doesn't leave the poor company much to go after. Right?
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I've had a brief discussion with Jim at Escient. Here is the gist:
JK>>Anyone could set up a CDDB-like server or service. The issue is that "CDDB" is a trademark of CDDB, Inc. Versions of the CDDB server code have been copyrighted now for over a year. If someone wished to compete with our service, that's OK. Certainly, any application that advertised "CDDB" submissions and routed the submissions anywhere else than our servers would be encroaching on our trademark.
JK>> The protocol is Open Source just like HTTP. What we hold copyrights to is the server code and the aggregation of data.
JK>> Patents will be announced later this year. The CDDB name and logo are trademarked. We hold copyrights to the server code and that database.
It appears they are mainly concerned with the use of the actualy "CDDB" term. Since the name doesn't have a huge amount of brand recognition, it would behoove us to come up with another name, use the GPL'ed protocol and brand it like heck. In the interest of using what we have while building a new protocol, I suggest we simply call the service something else and set up servers elsewhere.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I'm glad they've decided to do this. We've needed a new protocol for a while. They'll be routed around quick fast and in a hurry.
FYI, Escient is located in Carmel, Indiana. This is a very wealthy community full of people who believe in equality as long they can be a little more equal.
Escient's catch phrase on their home page says "We make technology behave."
Bad technology! Go to your room! I don't want to see you out here until you wipe that ugly GUI off your face!
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I'd like to apologize for all the mysogynist dorks in this otherwise enlightened community who feel the need to bring up your gender as if it mattered and then denigrate you as if your gender had anything to do with intelligence or courage. I hope these immature yutzes come out of their hovels some day and learn as much about intelligent, courageous women like Clara Barton, Jane Addams, and Maya Angleou (to name a very few) as they have about yacc and gcc.
You don't have to be an antisocial dweeb with blinders on to be a good hacker. Why don't we prove it?
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
It was Berst, not Petreley. Petreley has actually had some interesting things to say about Linux and OSS/Free Software. Not that I necessarily agree with him, but he at least appears to think things through a bit.
ZD makes money from advertising. Micros~1 advertises a lot. Who would bite the hand that feeds them. I used to enjoy PC Magazine, but I know I was reading Windows journal. As far as credibility, I think it is difficult in general to trust the ad-based commercial media. ZD, Berst, Dvorak, et al included
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
NXT says its see-through speakers have a wider frequency than conventional ones, giving them a deeper bass and a less tinny sound. And they project sound in all directions at once, making it unnecessary, for example, that an audiophile face a stereo speaker to hear music at its clearest.
This makes me a bit skeptical. Even if they project in all directions at once (unlikely with a flat panel?), they still must have a source (esp. at higher frequencies). If they still have a source, then one still must face the speaker for the proper image. By analogy, if I wave my hand in a pool of water, the ripples will project in all directions at once, but my hand is still the one creating the waves.
Also, to get any decent low-end response, the panel would have to be quite large. All they say is "wider frequency," which in audio terms means jack.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I would agree that Katz actually adds little value. I never feel I've learned or experienced anything worthwhile when I read his posts/Wired articles. He does seem to have the same lack of understanding of the hacker culture as, for example, most politicians have of the general culture. I generally read to gain a new perspective I previously had no access to. I don't feel I get that from Katz's writing. I would love to see authors featured here who eloquently encapsulate the hacker experience from the "inside".
I did not buy his book. I have recently decided to read the bible cover-to-cover (not necessarily in order) and memorize the Tao Te Ching (so I can truly forget it) as my spiritual reading goals. I did buy OpenSources (wonder whether the/. effect happened there also - I haven't seen any posts from the editors of that tome on how they hacked the net yet) because I believe that spirituality is in what one does and not what one says. Those 14 people are walking the walk (some talking quite a bit, too).
I suppose it's best summed up by the sig I've been using lately.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
I couldn't find much detail on this. It doesn't sound like the data is encrypted. If not, will it be enforced in hardware? How will a system know it's been copied "once?" Sounds like, as usual, the emperor has no clothes.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
The article suggested that sites that have MP3s for download often have previews of what various MP3 players look like so you can decide which one to use before downloading. How idiotic. Selling software on form instead of function. "You know, I'd love a beowulf cluster, but it is kinda ugly..."
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
You should turn off CNN once in a while...
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While there is plenty of fundamentalism here on/., you needn't pick on Islam as a whacky (sic) religion. There are plenty of fundamental Christians, Jews, Hindus, and even Buddhists that are certifably "whacky" also. Please leave Muslims out of this.
A bit more on topic, I like GNOME because of its purported ORB-based architecture. I would expect it to take a while longer to mature, but it should be really spiff. KDE looks nice. I wonder if its architecture is as sophisticated.
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
This would be THE SHIT. I am a geek. My wife is not. We have years of legacy data in Quicken (and Word...) I knew I had a good chance on the Word, Excel stuff with StarOffice or KOffice, but slim chance on Quicken. If they release this (and it uses the same file format), I can run Linux only on my PC (now dual-boot to WinNT) and she can run Win95 on hers. Woohoo! Go Intuit!
Jason Dufair "Those who know don't have the words to tell
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't trust Apple any farther than I could throw their entire corporate headquarters. They screwed Newton developers pretty hard. The sooner Apple goes out of business and takes Jobs' Reality Distortion Field with them, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I was able to "Deactivate Boxes", save and then uncheck "Deactivate Boxes." Now I have boxes and boxes and boxes...
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I'd be afraid of putting MS Office on my Linux box. Like matter (Linux) and anti-matter (Micros~1, Inc.), I'm afraid there'd be a huge explosion and a terrible mess. Emacs and HTML are quite fine, thanks.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Yahoo itself is not being sued. As far as I can tell, /. has no means of identifying the real identities of ACs. That doesn't leave the poor company much to go after. Right?
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
It won't work. I submit my three (possibly slanderous) posts and then wipe my cookies file. Voila! Three more posts.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Good choice for the inaugural CD. I'll be indexing all the CDs in my office today - about 30 or so. Good luck.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I've had a brief discussion with Jim at Escient. Here is the gist:
JK>>Anyone could set up a CDDB-like server or service. The issue is that "CDDB" is a trademark of CDDB, Inc. Versions of the CDDB server code have been copyrighted now for over a year. If someone wished to compete with our service, that's OK. Certainly, any application that advertised "CDDB" submissions and routed the submissions anywhere else than our servers would be encroaching on our trademark.
JK>> The protocol is Open Source just like HTTP. What we hold copyrights to is the server code and the aggregation of data.
JK>> Patents will be announced later this year. The CDDB name and logo are trademarked. We hold copyrights to the server code and that database.
It appears they are mainly concerned with the use of the actualy "CDDB" term. Since the name doesn't have a huge amount of brand recognition, it would behoove us to come up with another name, use the GPL'ed protocol and brand it like heck. In the interest of using what we have while building a new protocol, I suggest we simply call the service something else and set up servers elsewhere.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I'm glad they've decided to do this. We've needed a new protocol for a while. They'll be routed around quick fast and in a hurry.
FYI, Escient is located in Carmel, Indiana. This is a very wealthy community full of people who believe in equality as long they can be a little more equal.
Escient's catch phrase on their home page says "We make technology behave."
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Dear Judith,
I'd like to apologize for all the mysogynist dorks in this otherwise enlightened community who feel the need to bring up your gender as if it mattered and then denigrate you as if your gender had anything to do with intelligence or courage. I hope these immature yutzes come out of their hovels some day and learn as much about intelligent, courageous women like Clara Barton, Jane Addams, and Maya Angleou (to name a very few) as they have about yacc and gcc.
You don't have to be an antisocial dweeb with blinders on to be a good hacker. Why don't we prove it?
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
(stands up in a small room of scraggly hackers) Hi. My name's Jason. I'm a /. junkie.
I'm glad, at least, that I'm a junkie of a LinuxWorld award-winning site.
What does S.u.S.E. stand for anyway? I always pronounced it soose
Rob, et. al. - how did you decide on Slashdot as a name? (as opposed to, say, slashtilde or slashdotdot or root)
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
It was Berst, not Petreley. Petreley has actually had some interesting things to say about Linux and OSS/Free Software. Not that I necessarily agree with him, but he at least appears to think things through a bit.
ZD makes money from advertising. Micros~1 advertises a lot. Who would bite the hand that feeds them. I used to enjoy PC Magazine, but I know I was reading Windows journal. As far as credibility, I think it is difficult in general to trust the ad-based commercial media. ZD, Berst, Dvorak, et al included
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
From the article
This makes me a bit skeptical. Even if they project in all directions at once (unlikely with a flat panel?), they still must have a source (esp. at higher frequencies). If they still have a source, then one still must face the speaker for the proper image. By analogy, if I wave my hand in a pool of water, the ripples will project in all directions at once, but my hand is still the one creating the waves.
Also, to get any decent low-end response, the panel would have to be quite large. All they say is "wider frequency," which in audio terms means jack.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
IT appears that this is another article looking for an excuse to exist by the Micros~1 media mouthpiece, Ziff-Davis.
This'll be hot news next month in Dvorak's Inside Scoop (or whatever it's called) article.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I would agree that Katz actually adds little value. I never feel I've learned or experienced anything worthwhile when I read his posts/Wired articles. He does seem to have the same lack of understanding of the hacker culture as, for example, most politicians have of the general culture. I generally read to gain a new perspective I previously had no access to. I don't feel I get that from Katz's writing. I would love to see authors featured here who eloquently encapsulate the hacker experience from the "inside".
I did not buy his book. I have recently decided to read the bible cover-to-cover (not necessarily in order) and memorize the Tao Te Ching (so I can truly forget it) as my spiritual reading goals. I did buy OpenSources (wonder whether the /. effect happened there also - I haven't seen any posts from the editors of that tome on how they hacked the net yet) because I believe that spirituality is in what one does and not what one says. Those 14 people are walking the walk (some talking quite a bit, too).
I suppose it's best summed up by the sig I've been using lately.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
* UU
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
NARAS
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Back to toking on my virual glass dick...
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
(heading to the trenches now...)
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
I couldn't find much detail on this. It doesn't sound like the data is encrypted. If not, will it be enforced in hardware? How will a system know it's been copied "once?" Sounds like, as usual, the emperor has no clothes.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
The article suggested that sites that have MP3s for download often have previews of what various MP3 players look like so you can decide which one to use before downloading. How idiotic. Selling software on form instead of function. "You know, I'd love a beowulf cluster, but it is kinda ugly..."
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
While there is plenty of fundamentalism here on /., you needn't pick on Islam as a whacky (sic) religion. There are plenty of fundamental Christians, Jews, Hindus, and even Buddhists that are certifably "whacky" also. Please leave Muslims out of this.
A bit more on topic, I like GNOME because of its purported ORB-based architecture. I would expect it to take a while longer to mature, but it should be really spiff. KDE looks nice. I wonder if its architecture is as sophisticated.
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
This would be THE SHIT. I am a geek. My wife is not. We have years of legacy data in Quicken (and Word...) I knew I had a good chance on the Word, Excel stuff with StarOffice or KOffice, but slim chance on Quicken. If they release this (and it uses the same file format), I can run Linux only on my PC (now dual-boot to WinNT) and she can run Win95 on hers. Woohoo! Go Intuit!
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell