In the free software world it's the pirates who try to use commertal software as if it were free (as in beer) and reverse engenear it (free as in speach) and patch it (free as in sidewalk.. ) But it is theft.
In commertal software it's legal to do exactly the same thing to free programs.
The short and simple. Jack writes commertal code Zeek writes free software.
Zeek makes a game Jack makes some changes and sells it Zeek pirates those changes. Jacks the theaf but Zeek gose to jail.
This is becouse Jack os getting paid for Zeeks hard work and Zeek dosen't get to benifit from it. Jack's getting ALL the benifits and NONE of the labor.
That said I do release some of my code in public domain becouse sometimes I do benifit from Jack using my work.
You got amazingly close to the truth and run it over to sound 'reasonable'.
Mac Os X.. ZD isn't giving Linux credit where credit due. It's doing a slight slam on the Mac again. Linux is the number three and will remain number three unless Microsoft or Apple aren't able to compete anymore. This is an attempt to put Linux and Apple as compeditors not allies.
Over the next few months watch for "Linux vs Mac" type press releases.
Linux won't beat MacOs in the GUI. Windows however... Yes I'll agree that open gl has problems ON WINDOWS. To get a halfway decent open gl for the voodoo 3 you need Linux. And Linux has SDL the OS answer to XD. Microsoft has been trying to make Linux 'go away' for a long time. I don't expect them to be magicly successful in this after decades of failure.
But Linux will become #3 in the desktop the day Mac Os X becomes number 1....
How barbaric Re:Not killing your food
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This line comes from ST:TNG. An ambasidor when told the enterprise crew don't kill for food but eat artifically created meat he says "How barbaric"
I thought I was going to need to provide the contrary and say "If it's not killed it's not food" But I'll happly eat tofu if I get enough soy on it. I favor meat and if this works I'm hoping the artifical meat is cheaper. I'm so far on top of thr food chain I can order my dead cow to go. And this will just put me even one notch higher.. Now all the animals can die I'd I'll still be able to order my syth meat 'to go'.
If my VCR broke down I'd get a TiVO. Untill then I have a nice functional VCR. So for me all I want is a glorified VCR and I have a VCR so no biggy untill it wears out. I see no significant issues with PVRs. But for my money buying a new TiVO would be like buying a new VCR.
Ok I know it's a joke. Still some people are actually sereous when saying similar things. (Else it wouldn't be funny) So here is the reality. We are told that public school is better than home schooling as kids learn to interact. Then parents fail to teach kids how to interact. Schools teach how to not get cought while beating up little kids for lunch money. That violence is the way to get through life. Then they pick up the most violent video games, movies, music, t shirts. Watchful parents go bizerk. Neglectful parents tell the news media there darling son always keeped to himself and they don't know what could have possesed him to go on a murder spree.
Public schools do what they were made to do.. teach the basic skills they'll need in every day life. They can not teach morals or ethics. Thats good becouse that stuff has to cone from legal guardians.
I agree. In high school I took a total of three technical classes. First one was 'required' for some bs reasons. 'Data Entry' a glorified typing class by someone who dosen't know how to type. The other two actually knew the subject matter.
Actually it's more like Macs are for users who want a pritty system and actually intend to use the computer for sereous work. Windows is for users who want a pritty system and don't care if it actually dose anything. Linux is for those who'll use anything that works no matter how ugly or complex all that matters is it works. That leaves out the users who want hard clunky ugly computers that don't work. But then I guess any pile of rocks will do that.
People to often go on the strawman argument of "possable = true" It's possable for a CDr maker to knowingly supply pirates that dosen't make it true. And if a company dose suspect a costummer is a pirate do they have a responsability to take action? Ethicly yes legally I'd hope not.
It's just to hard to legally establish suspicion. The retailler may suspect a person is a pirate for having a backwards hat or he may not know the slogon on the kids t shirt "Gotta rip em all RIAA." is a pirates slogen. It's would put everyone in a bad position.
In a similar issue. During the medical pot debate in california a talk show host held a mini debate between a narcotics officer and a legalisation advocate. During the debate the narcotics officer flat out admitted he belived he should be able to search the homes of anyone who was prolegalisation becouse anyone for legalisation MUST be a drug addict.
There are occasions when people are accused of being digital criminals based on the os they use.
Wireless cable might be more like WIFI with the streaming video starting at the wifi host not down stream. To protect against 'piracy' you'd have to have a number of incryption technologys. Encrypt the network signal then encrypt the video signal being sent over the network.
Unless the imdustry wakes up and recognises that any protection byond a broudcast tv signal is unrealistic. What I mean is that if ms lu had a tv antana ms lain next door can't use it. Cable and other delivery systems can attempt to prevent recording but it'll never work. VCR, PRV, recording via tv card, etc. If somebody sets up an array of anntanas offering cable service they first must licces as such and pay all appropreat fees. But it's all doable. Legally anyway. It's the technology. Video streaming over the net is failing becouse it's low quality. A number of Internet TV networks went up and have long sence vanished due to a lack of standards and a lack of quality.
I am a zellot. I think Windows is plastic toy tools.. Windows NT is 'real working' kids tools (had a set as a kid and I could actually build stuff with them). But there is quite a road Linux must travle before the mass market user could use it with out hassle.
On the TCO one problem is that version to version compatability is poor with Windows. Win 64, 32,16 and Dos are all slightly diffrent. As such users are forced to dump old applications and hardware for no reason other than it dosen't work with the latest version of Windows. If someone sereously went at it Wine could support the full api for every version of Windows. This would make a switch to Linux an easy way to avoid having to buy new software. But for now Linux dose not have that ability.
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The chirch of Gnu/StarTrek. In that one the all mighty buck is a Farigi and not evil but not to be totally trusted. A good buffer.
GnuCthulu? Umm maybe staying away from ElderGod Linux might be wise.
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Buddism is occasionally mixed with other religions (as it's more philosophy based than deity based) One Christian buddist chirch exsists (so I'm told). Also often Wicca mixes with other religions (it's already paganism coctail) A Zen Wicca coven exsisted a few years back.
All thats needed are to rationally compatable religions. In anchent times mixing religions happened a lot. Bast was marryed to just about every god as she got transplanted into diffrent groups. This btw is why 'you shall have no gods before me' It's basicly the problem of corupting religions as they murge for political reasons.
But Linux and Slackware are compatable enough. All hail GNU/Bob the pequin savor. We want open slack.
On the aside. The chirch of GNU DotCom is corrupted. It's the mix of open sorce and capitalism. The all mighty doller and 'free speach' aren't directly compatable. The GnuBob as a medium between makes a holy trinity that works. All hail GnuBob and his messanger the all mighty doller.
Palm is dying on the PDA front as companys are convenced that Windows is better. But on the cell phone Palm is growing in popularity. This is a repeate of history. Pen tops come in Microsoft pushes out the Pen Windows os on a 'tablet pc' that is entirely too expensive and nowhere near what people wanted. It never makes it into the mass market. Of all the pentop failures PenWin was the biggest.
Palm is successful in transforming the idea into todays pda and succesdfully captures the market. Microsoft eventually creates WinCe to have it trampled. But at lest they got it out. Still it takes years of stagnation of Palm and FUD from Microsoft plus an ecconomic down turn before users actually consider Pocket PCs. The drop in price was key to making this happen. And Linux PDAs are also making a hit. But the road to mass introduction is a long rough one. Palm smartly recognises Palm os must move to the cell phone to survive. Smart cell phones still need to be cheap. After all the hardware the computer needs to be less than $100. Palm os can go there Windows can not. Eventually Microsoft will offer a number of poor designed cell phone oses giving WinCellphones the image of 'expensive defective brick'. People will depict the 1980's brick cell phones as 2003 Win Cells even thow Win phones will be in the ounces vs the bricks pounds. Still all this makes Microsoft look trite to the manager who might not know enough to see WinNT defects but will recognise Win Cell defects and can see for himself that palm os is better. Then Microsoft will forge a high end market where they can sell cellphones. Thats when Linux enters the market and scoops it up. Evetually palm os will die or move into the next big thing. Moving on is the most likely. Then Linux will have a number of sereous compeditors who eventually push windows cell phoned off the market and punch a hole in Linux. Linux and Windows move on to the next big thing. Palm os (or someone else) dose it right. Linux will be off but not by much. Windows in the market will be a joke. Then comes the FUD... and the rebuttles from Slashdot, Business week and many other Tech or business related news entitys. Each new statement by Balmer becomes a mem like 'all your base' to laugh at. "Supper cell delux is the best thing we ever made" - Steve B 'I belive it' - annon Biz week poster.
Good point. However this is more akin to trusting an MCSE cert to know more about fixing a cars breaks than a back yard macanic.
Profs as a rule know the subject they teach rather well but enough don't that it's hard to trust a single proff won't make a mistake in his field. To make it sting the prof in question wasn't a radio expert so he's like your avrage slashdotter when sighting law. Maybe he knows and maybe he goofed.
Re:Bob forbid that this should ever come to pass.
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In security one of the biggest pains is when some dipstick commits illegal tresspass and insists he's not becouse he found an unfenced side (probably by the sewer ditch) , an open door or a gap in the fence. Basicly 'If I can it's ok' is the excuse. With personal flight not only is it possable to just fly over the gate quite a few will insist that makes it ok for them to do so.
Great plot great writer doomed to fail
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All I could think of when I saw the ad was how bad it would be. Each writer has a certion style. It's hard to stay fresh and on some level there are some elements some writers could never do well. This plot device has a HUGE potental and now forever doomed to be compaired to 'taken'. It's not 'spealbergian'. This is best done on low tech seldom a space ship with more goth stylings. It's gotta go in directions he can't go. Picture a Buffy the vampire slayer where Buffy never gets hurt. Picture a StarTrek where the main cast members die as often as red shirts. (Not becouse the actor wants out but to maintain a certion roll over of reality where everybody dies eventually)
I admit I never saw it but I can't help feel he's jumped to quickly into the dark. He's got experence in the light and cute now he's gotta learn writing all over again if he wants to go this deep.
I had my doupts about my attatude.. still do.. I've never seen how can I know for sure? But if Clive Barker were to make a Smerfs cartoon I'd have no doupt it'd be screwed. Oh well... He'll be able to approch the subject matter later when his gothic stylings have matured... Who knows maybe we'll see a total rewrite with a diffrent title from him.
Oh how cute a review system etc. But I ignore them. Unless I want a good laugh.. A clearly experts only refence reviewed as a must have for all newbies. A Unix programmers guide reviewed as great for NT admin. You usually have to have the book to see whats wrong. I suspect thies people review as a game. They don't know dit about the products they just want to be on the top 10 reviewers list... Like having your name up on a video game console before they unplug it for the day. And once the stink hits I'm sure Amazon will be checking out the review system. Look for review sites that include a voting system and reward quality not quantity. I've used pure review sites to check out stuff however I seldom use those reviews. I found a review for my favoret PDA at the time to be unusually down. But the total review was accurate and detailed every flaw. This would have made me think twice before buying that pda and I did eventually have to upgrade purely out of need of missing features.
I've been unimpressed with all the Linux books for newbies. The expert books are great but if your new to Linux they are also useless. I've not looked at Linux for Dumbies and I have over all been impressed with the dumbies books. The best by far was a booklet made by SCO for Xenix. This is obveously out of print but it was a mini refence.
Probably the best thing is time in the trenches. For exsisting Mac Os X and Linux users thats call up the shell and experement. For Windows users however that's not so easy. But it can be done... Msys is a Unix environment targeted at Windows software develupment. Software dev is easyer from the Unix shell what can I say?
It's very Unix but still running under Windows. Just an app. Not a scary install like Linux as it dosen't threaton to destroy everything in favor of the new os... (Think of an Os install as the Genisis torpedo from Star Trek II.) Spock "It would destroy such life in favor of it's new matrix" In otherwords Installing Linux means never being able to go back to Windows (the old matrix). All your data is gone.. everything... Your not just trying Linux your commiting to it. New users need some asurence that Linux is the way to go.
If they can learn Linux from the safe confines of having never installed it so much the better. Cygwin is annother Unix environment again for software develupment.
Add a good Linux or Unix newbie book and the trasnsition should be smoth. I used Danix to move from Dos to Unix. Unlike the rest Danix is a dos port of Unix commands so as to give Dos that "Unix" feal. The other files in the linked archive are also good for the job.
Also I was going to frivlously suggest using a "hot geek chick" the way beer ads use super modles to sell beer. "Drink beer and date a super modle" "Use Linux and date a hot geek chick"
But being realistic people aren't going to switch to Linux in order to date hot chicks. I honnestly could not think of a dumber reason.
Still ammusing to think of Cat teaching Linux... Yummm.
My mother is planning to do talk radio over the internet soon. I was recomending she do it in mp3 and ogg. Now however I'll change that to RealMedia and ogg. But I'll recomend she be ready to drop RealMedia.. I already suggested this of mp3 and ogg. Why? Real has no small history of stranding users. While Internet media started on Unix (With internet radio projects) and MacOs (With CuSeeme net confrencing) Real has chousen to make clients for Windows only. This sense of fickleness dose not go unnoticed. The last time I looked the current Linux client was one version behind the 'current' and still in beta. This sort of thing is why I was refusing to recomend Real Media. I'm sure I'm not alone in seeing this. With the spyware mistake many are probably going to see RealMedia as "Yet annother Windows format" As there is no assurence that anyone not using Windows could use it.
Q: Ever used a Tablet PC? A: Yes but it was called a pen top at the time. Q: Know anything about the tablet pc? A: Microsofts third try a making a pen based system. Pen Windows: Windows modifyed to run on a pen top... But makes no practical use of the fact. WinCE: New os for a low end business system. Only just now making a dent in the PDA market as Palm os makers move into the mobile internet market.
Tablet PC: Windows XP. Looks like Microsoft repeated the first mistake... Make the os fit the job. They also repeated the second but only becouse it's not a mistake anymore. Low cost... The market wants power not cheap.. And third but yet again not a problem anymore. Size.. we want pocket sized pen tops... PDAs... we don't want PDAs anymore..
But the question is.. is this a product looking for a market? If not the pocket pc could be pritty cool. If so... it's still pritty cool. I'd get one..
I wanted to respond to a thread on the preveous story but it's gone into archive mode.
Basicly it's a suggestion "Hay let's update the standard to secure email" "We have the standard larg ISPs just won't use it"
Actually it's a combo of issues. Secure email uses encryption technology that was illegal to export. Hah.. Secure athentication for incomming and outgoing email. Most email software don't support it. The restrictions are gone but the software is intenched. Email devices and preinstalled software generally don't support it. MAPS tried to force ISPs to fix this. Orbs as well. But the defect is nessisary to support custummers around the world. It would be nice if however sendmail permitted setting or disabling secure email on a user by user basis. (Fluffy and Joe are insecure so if sender clames to be fluffy or joe then go ahead else send nothing if not secure.)
If he wins he opens the door for "Spam as harrasment" lawsutes. If he loses this opens the door for an industry of spamming spammers. I want to sell spam target lists of spammers to postal mass marketers who can spam the spammers offering postal service.
I think it's becouse of how much impact the jerks have. Jerk programmers have very little impact. "If you don't use my favoret computer software and/or hardware your a moron" and not taken too sereously to boot. There are a select few of any group who think they know better than anyone. Such people seldom get anyplace. A homeless jerk ends up in jail quickly. A doctor becomes his cell mate. Enron... Jerk programmers are called pizza delivery guys. BAFH actually do know better else they wouldn't be admin. (and if they don't they'd face a cracker who dose) Jerk lawers are rare. But if you've ever meet one in person you'll see em dripping with "I'm a lawer, bow before your god pittiful mortal lest I smite you with a lawsute." Such people get just deserts as the BAR hates that 'hollyer than thou' attadue that jerks have.
Thats why lawers get ripped so much. You just see the loud mouth freaks spamming the world and seldom meet the majority.
With patents being extended to being forever I'm going to guess that Oog the Cave Salesmen is going to sue for his patent.
Sales has been about trying to hyponotise people into buying your product. Otherwise we'd just have "Windows: It works" "Linux: It works better. so say IBM" "Macintosh: It's easy and powerful" "Solarus: It's better than the rest" "Nintendo: Videogames"
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In the free software world it's the pirates who try to use commertal software as if it were free (as in beer) and reverse engenear it (free as in speach) and patch it (free as in sidewalk.. )
But it is theft.
In commertal software it's legal to do exactly the same thing to free programs.
The short and simple.
Jack writes commertal code
Zeek writes free software.
Zeek makes a game Jack makes some changes and sells it Zeek pirates those changes.
Jacks the theaf but Zeek gose to jail.
This is becouse Jack os getting paid for Zeeks hard work and Zeek dosen't get to benifit from it. Jack's getting ALL the benifits and NONE of the labor.
That said I do release some of my code in public domain becouse sometimes I do benifit from Jack using my work.
You got amazingly close to the truth and run it over to sound 'reasonable'.
Mac Os X.. ZD isn't giving Linux credit where credit due. It's doing a slight slam on the Mac again.
Linux is the number three and will remain number three unless Microsoft or Apple aren't able to compete anymore.
This is an attempt to put Linux and Apple as compeditors not allies.
Over the next few months watch for "Linux vs Mac" type press releases.
Linux won't beat MacOs in the GUI. Windows however...
Yes I'll agree that open gl has problems ON WINDOWS.
To get a halfway decent open gl for the voodoo 3 you need Linux.
And Linux has SDL the OS answer to XD.
Microsoft has been trying to make Linux 'go away' for a long time. I don't expect them to be magicly successful in this after decades of failure.
But Linux will become #3 in the desktop the day Mac Os X becomes number 1....
This line comes from ST:TNG.
An ambasidor when told the enterprise crew don't kill for food but eat artifically created meat he says "How barbaric"
I thought I was going to need to provide the contrary and say "If it's not killed it's not food"
But I'll happly eat tofu if I get enough soy on it.
I favor meat and if this works I'm hoping the artifical meat is cheaper.
I'm so far on top of thr food chain I can order my dead cow to go.
And this will just put me even one notch higher.. Now all the animals can die I'd I'll still be able to order my syth meat 'to go'.
If my VCR broke down I'd get a TiVO. Untill then I have a nice functional VCR.
So for me all I want is a glorified VCR and I have a VCR so no biggy untill it wears out.
I see no significant issues with PVRs. But for my money buying a new TiVO would be like buying a new VCR.
Ok I know it's a joke. Still some people are actually sereous when saying similar things.
(Else it wouldn't be funny)
So here is the reality.
We are told that public school is better than home schooling as kids learn to interact.
Then parents fail to teach kids how to interact.
Schools teach how to not get cought while beating up little kids for lunch money. That violence is the way to get through life.
Then they pick up the most violent video games, movies, music, t shirts.
Watchful parents go bizerk. Neglectful parents tell the news media there darling son always keeped to himself and they don't know what could have possesed him to go on a murder spree.
Public schools do what they were made to do.. teach the basic skills they'll need in every day life.
They can not teach morals or ethics.
Thats good becouse that stuff has to cone from legal guardians.
I agree.
In high school I took a total of three technical classes.
First one was 'required' for some bs reasons. 'Data Entry' a glorified typing class by someone who dosen't know how to type.
The other two actually knew the subject matter.
Actually it's more like Macs are for users who want a pritty system and actually intend to use the computer for sereous work.
Windows is for users who want a pritty system and don't care if it actually dose anything.
Linux is for those who'll use anything that works no matter how ugly or complex all that matters is it works.
That leaves out the users who want hard clunky ugly computers that don't work. But then I guess any pile of rocks will do that.
People to often go on the strawman argument of "possable = true"
It's possable for a CDr maker to knowingly supply pirates that dosen't make it true.
And if a company dose suspect a costummer is a pirate do they have a responsability to take action?
Ethicly yes legally I'd hope not.
It's just to hard to legally establish suspicion. The retailler may suspect a person is a pirate for having a backwards hat or he may not know the slogon on the kids t shirt "Gotta rip em all RIAA." is a pirates slogen.
It's would put everyone in a bad position.
In a similar issue.
During the medical pot debate in california a talk show host held a mini debate between a narcotics officer and a legalisation advocate.
During the debate the narcotics officer flat out admitted he belived he should be able to search the homes of anyone who was prolegalisation becouse anyone for legalisation MUST be a drug addict.
There are occasions when people are accused of being digital criminals based on the os they use.
Wireless cable might be more like WIFI with the streaming video starting at the wifi host not down stream.
To protect against 'piracy' you'd have to have a number of incryption technologys.
Encrypt the network signal then encrypt the video signal being sent over the network.
Unless the imdustry wakes up and recognises that any protection byond a broudcast tv signal is unrealistic.
What I mean is that if ms lu had a tv antana ms lain next door can't use it.
Cable and other delivery systems can attempt to prevent recording but it'll never work. VCR, PRV, recording via tv card, etc.
If somebody sets up an array of anntanas offering cable service they first must licces as such and pay all appropreat fees.
But it's all doable. Legally anyway. It's the technology. Video streaming over the net is failing becouse it's low quality. A number of Internet TV networks went up and have long sence vanished due to a lack of standards and a lack of quality.
Well he's in the united states so it's free as in lunch.
"No such thing as a free lunch"
I am a zellot. I think Windows is plastic toy tools.. Windows NT is 'real working' kids tools (had a set as a kid and I could actually build stuff with them).
But there is quite a road Linux must travle before the mass market user could use it with out hassle.
On the TCO one problem is that version to version compatability is poor with Windows. Win 64, 32,16 and Dos are all slightly diffrent.
As such users are forced to dump old applications and hardware for no reason other than it dosen't work with the latest version of Windows.
If someone sereously went at it Wine could support the full api for every version of Windows.
This would make a switch to Linux an easy way to avoid having to buy new software. But for now Linux dose not have that ability.
The chirch of Gnu/StarTrek.
In that one the all mighty buck is a Farigi and not evil but not to be totally trusted.
A good buffer.
GnuCthulu? Umm maybe staying away from ElderGod Linux might be wise.
Buddism is occasionally mixed with other religions (as it's more philosophy based than deity based)
One Christian buddist chirch exsists (so I'm told).
Also often Wicca mixes with other religions (it's already paganism coctail) A Zen Wicca coven exsisted a few years back.
All thats needed are to rationally compatable religions.
In anchent times mixing religions happened a lot. Bast was marryed to just about every god as she got transplanted into diffrent groups.
This btw is why 'you shall have no gods before me' It's basicly the problem of corupting religions as they murge for political reasons.
But Linux and Slackware are compatable enough. All hail GNU/Bob the pequin savor. We want open slack.
On the aside. The chirch of GNU DotCom is corrupted.
It's the mix of open sorce and capitalism. The all mighty doller and 'free speach' aren't directly compatable.
The GnuBob as a medium between makes a holy trinity that works.
All hail GnuBob and his messanger the all mighty doller.
Palm is dying on the PDA front as companys are convenced that Windows is better.
But on the cell phone Palm is growing in popularity.
This is a repeate of history.
Pen tops come in Microsoft pushes out the Pen Windows os on a 'tablet pc' that is entirely too expensive and nowhere near what people wanted.
It never makes it into the mass market.
Of all the pentop failures PenWin was the biggest.
Palm is successful in transforming the idea into todays pda and succesdfully captures the market.
Microsoft eventually creates WinCe to have it trampled. But at lest they got it out.
Still it takes years of stagnation of Palm and FUD from Microsoft plus an ecconomic down turn before users actually consider Pocket PCs. The drop in price was key to making this happen.
And Linux PDAs are also making a hit.
But the road to mass introduction is a long rough one.
Palm smartly recognises Palm os must move to the cell phone to survive.
Smart cell phones still need to be cheap. After all the hardware the computer needs to be less than $100. Palm os can go there Windows can not.
Eventually Microsoft will offer a number of poor designed cell phone oses giving WinCellphones the image of 'expensive defective brick'. People will depict the 1980's brick cell phones as 2003 Win Cells even thow Win phones will be in the ounces vs the bricks pounds.
Still all this makes Microsoft look trite to the manager who might not know enough to see WinNT defects but will recognise Win Cell defects and can see for himself that palm os is better.
Then Microsoft will forge a high end market where they can sell cellphones. Thats when Linux enters the market and scoops it up. Evetually palm os will die or move into the next big thing. Moving on is the most likely.
Then Linux will have a number of sereous compeditors who eventually push windows cell phoned off the market and punch a hole in Linux.
Linux and Windows move on to the next big thing. Palm os (or someone else) dose it right. Linux will be off but not by much. Windows in the market will be a joke.
Then comes the FUD... and the rebuttles from Slashdot, Business week and many other Tech or business related news entitys.
Each new statement by Balmer becomes a mem like 'all your base' to laugh at.
"Supper cell delux is the best thing we ever made" - Steve B
'I belive it' - annon Biz week poster.
Good point.
However this is more akin to trusting an MCSE cert to know more about fixing a cars breaks than a back yard macanic.
Profs as a rule know the subject they teach rather well but enough don't that it's hard to trust a single proff won't make a mistake in his field.
To make it sting the prof in question wasn't a radio expert so he's like your avrage slashdotter when sighting law. Maybe he knows and maybe he goofed.
In security one of the biggest pains is when some dipstick commits illegal tresspass and insists he's not becouse he found an unfenced side (probably by the sewer ditch) , an open door or a gap in the fence.
Basicly 'If I can it's ok' is the excuse.
With personal flight not only is it possable to just fly over the gate quite a few will insist that makes it ok for them to do so.
All I could think of when I saw the ad was how bad it would be.
Each writer has a certion style. It's hard to stay fresh and on some level there are some elements some writers could never do well.
This plot device has a HUGE potental and now forever doomed to be compaired to 'taken'.
It's not 'spealbergian'. This is best done on low tech seldom a space ship with more goth stylings.
It's gotta go in directions he can't go.
Picture a Buffy the vampire slayer where Buffy never gets hurt.
Picture a StarTrek where the main cast members die as often as red shirts.
(Not becouse the actor wants out but to maintain a certion roll over of reality where everybody dies eventually)
I admit I never saw it but I can't help feel he's jumped to quickly into the dark.
He's got experence in the light and cute now he's gotta learn writing all over again if he wants to go this deep.
I had my doupts about my attatude.. still do.. I've never seen how can I know for sure?
But if Clive Barker were to make a Smerfs cartoon I'd have no doupt it'd be screwed.
Oh well... He'll be able to approch the subject matter later when his gothic stylings have matured...
Who knows maybe we'll see a total rewrite with a diffrent title from him.
Oh how cute a review system etc.
But I ignore them.
Unless I want a good laugh..
A clearly experts only refence reviewed as a must have for all newbies.
A Unix programmers guide reviewed as great for NT admin.
You usually have to have the book to see whats wrong.
I suspect thies people review as a game. They don't know dit about the products they just want to be on the top 10 reviewers list...
Like having your name up on a video game console before they unplug it for the day.
And once the stink hits I'm sure Amazon will be checking out the review system.
Look for review sites that include a voting system and reward quality not quantity.
I've used pure review sites to check out stuff however I seldom use those reviews.
I found a review for my favoret PDA at the time to be unusually down.
But the total review was accurate and detailed every flaw. This would have made me think twice before buying that pda and I did eventually have to upgrade purely out of need of missing features.
I've been unimpressed with all the Linux books for newbies. The expert books are great but if your new to Linux they are also useless.
I've not looked at Linux for Dumbies and I have over all been impressed with the dumbies books.
The best by far was a booklet made by SCO for Xenix. This is obveously out of print but it was a mini refence.
Probably the best thing is time in the trenches. For exsisting Mac Os X and Linux users thats call up the shell and experement.
For Windows users however that's not so easy. But it can be done...
Msys is a Unix environment targeted at Windows software develupment.
Software dev is easyer from the Unix shell what can I say?
It's very Unix but still running under Windows. Just an app. Not a scary install like Linux as it dosen't threaton to destroy everything in favor of the new os...
(Think of an Os install as the Genisis torpedo from Star Trek II.)
Spock "It would destroy such life in favor of it's new matrix"
In otherwords Installing Linux means never being able to go back to Windows (the old matrix).
All your data is gone.. everything...
Your not just trying Linux your commiting to it.
New users need some asurence that Linux is the way to go.
If they can learn Linux from the safe confines of having never installed it so much the better.
Cygwin is annother Unix environment again for software develupment.
Add a good Linux or Unix newbie book and the trasnsition should be smoth.
I used Danix to move from Dos to Unix.
Unlike the rest Danix is a dos port of Unix commands so as to give Dos that "Unix" feal.
The other files in the linked archive are also good for the job.
Also I was going to frivlously suggest using a "hot geek chick" the way beer ads use super modles to sell beer.
"Drink beer and date a super modle"
"Use Linux and date a hot geek chick"
But being realistic people aren't going to switch to Linux in order to date hot chicks. I honnestly could not think of a dumber reason.
Still ammusing to think of Cat teaching Linux... Yummm.
My mother is planning to do talk radio over the internet soon.
I was recomending she do it in mp3 and ogg.
Now however I'll change that to RealMedia and ogg.
But I'll recomend she be ready to drop RealMedia.. I already suggested this of mp3 and ogg.
Why? Real has no small history of stranding users. While Internet media started on Unix (With internet radio projects) and MacOs (With CuSeeme net confrencing) Real has chousen to make clients for Windows only.
This sense of fickleness dose not go unnoticed.
The last time I looked the current Linux client was one version behind the 'current' and still in beta.
This sort of thing is why I was refusing to recomend Real Media.
I'm sure I'm not alone in seeing this. With the spyware mistake many are probably going to see RealMedia as "Yet annother Windows format" As there is no assurence that anyone not using Windows could use it.
Q: Ever used a Tablet PC?
A: Yes but it was called a pen top at the time.
Q: Know anything about the tablet pc?
A: Microsofts third try a making a pen based system.
Pen Windows: Windows modifyed to run on a pen top...
But makes no practical use of the fact.
WinCE: New os for a low end business system.
Only just now making a dent in the PDA market as Palm os makers move into the mobile internet market.
Tablet PC: Windows XP.
Looks like Microsoft repeated the first mistake... Make the os fit the job.
They also repeated the second but only becouse it's not a mistake anymore.
Low cost... The market wants power not cheap..
And third but yet again not a problem anymore.
Size.. we want pocket sized pen tops... PDAs... we don't want PDAs anymore..
But the question is.. is this a product looking for a market?
If not the pocket pc could be pritty cool.
If so... it's still pritty cool.
I'd get one..
I wanted to respond to a thread on the preveous story but it's gone into archive mode.
Basicly it's a suggestion "Hay let's update the standard to secure email"
"We have the standard larg ISPs just won't use it"
Actually it's a combo of issues.
Secure email uses encryption technology that was illegal to export. Hah.. Secure athentication for incomming and outgoing email.
Most email software don't support it.
The restrictions are gone but the software is intenched.
Email devices and preinstalled software generally don't support it.
MAPS tried to force ISPs to fix this. Orbs as well.
But the defect is nessisary to support custummers around the world.
It would be nice if however sendmail permitted setting or disabling secure email on a user by user basis.
(Fluffy and Joe are insecure so if sender clames to be fluffy or joe then go ahead else send nothing if not secure.)
If he wins he opens the door for "Spam as harrasment" lawsutes.
If he loses this opens the door for an industry of spamming spammers.
I want to sell spam target lists of spammers to postal mass marketers who can spam the spammers offering postal service.
I think it's becouse of how much impact the jerks have.
Jerk programmers have very little impact. "If you don't use my favoret computer software and/or hardware your a moron" and not taken too sereously to boot.
There are a select few of any group who think they know better than anyone. Such people seldom get anyplace.
A homeless jerk ends up in jail quickly.
A doctor becomes his cell mate.
Enron...
Jerk programmers are called pizza delivery guys.
BAFH actually do know better else they wouldn't be admin.
(and if they don't they'd face a cracker who dose)
Jerk lawers are rare. But if you've ever meet one in person you'll see em dripping with "I'm a lawer, bow before your god pittiful mortal lest I smite you with a lawsute."
Such people get just deserts as the BAR hates that 'hollyer than thou' attadue that jerks have.
Thats why lawers get ripped so much.
You just see the loud mouth freaks spamming the world and seldom meet the majority.
With patents being extended to being forever I'm going to guess that Oog the Cave Salesmen is going to sue for his patent.
Sales has been about trying to hyponotise people into buying your product.
Otherwise we'd just have "Windows: It works" "Linux: It works better. so say IBM" "Macintosh: It's easy and powerful" "Solarus: It's better than the rest" "Nintendo: Videogames"