Over the years I spent a goodly bit on my//e's system. Transwarp, 10 MEG HD, 1 MEG of RAM on my 80 col card. Now even though the base//gs system had a lot of things built into it such that some of my hardware would be obsolete the handwriting was already on the wall for the// series.
I kept my//e around for some time and it did ok but I eventually had to turn to the PC. It had the feel of a real hackers box rather than the handholding you got with a Mac and didn't cost an arm and a leg to boot.
Well that's all water under the bridge at this point and I'm happy to see Apple doing well but now they are up against Linux/BSD for the hackers market and of course MS will not go quietly.
If you want to get into abuse of a system then I think the argument can be made that since the parent post in question added the sig in to the body of the comment it is no longer a sig in the proper sense. A proper sig can be disabled as was noted. Who's abusing what here?
Since there is already a system built to try and prevent moderation abuse, meta-moderation, and none to prevent anyone from posting their sig in the body of a comment I would suggest that the abuse here was made by the sig rather than the moderation.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management's reluctance to introduce products like Apple's iPod, mainly because the Sony had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.
You mean the Apple iPod that has had DRM it from day 1? Wow, I guess they really just want to move to a better DRM format.
Whenever theres an article by Perens or RMS or these other blowhards, I cringe a little bit, and hope my boss doesn't read them.
I think most of what you say is very valid but right here you lost me a bit.
The OSS movement is not alone in having some more extreme members. I'll take RMS any day over Ballmer jumping around like a monkey screaming, "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
I think having a black screen helps much better. Not only does it make finding your cursor much easier it's much easier on the eyes.
Of course I'm having to look at a mostly white screen right now as I type this message because of/.s theme but on any page I design I always use a black background.
It's morons like you that the RIAA love. You still don't get the difference between theft and copyright infringement do you?
See there is this thing called physical property that involves tangible things. Like say for example a CD sitting on your desk. Now if I walk in and take that CD off your desk and never return it that is theft.
Stay with me here because this is where it gets tricky. If say I take that CD off your desk, copy it, and then put it right back where it was. That is not theft, it's copyright infringement. You never lost any physical property, see the difference?
We have different words for different things for a reason. I realize that to some people it's such a bother to get them all right but lets try here on/. at least to appear smart enough to try.
As the TelCo's start rolling out TV service it's no real surprise to me that they want to get into the PVR game too. And not because they think it's going to earn them money directly, no rather it's once again about control.
PVR boxes like TiVo, as I'm sure we all know, can be hacked up to all sorts of neat things that have been driving the content providers nuts. So it's only logical that Cable/TelCo providers start offering their own PVR boxes that are firmly locked down to prevent those nasty hackers from doing anything that they don't want with them.
While I think everyone can agree that while your on the clock you should be accountable for your actions it should also be recognized that we are talking about human beings here. And while it seems to have become an antiquated notion I believe that humans should not be held to machine like standards.
That's the risk here in tracking the movement of humans in a human world down to the second. One only need look at a company like EA to see the type of abuse that can happen when this type of mentality becomes prevalent. And it's not just EA that does this, I'm sure everyone can relate to someone in management who would prefer everyone to act like good little robots rather than the human beings we are.
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In large projects there are often people who have production systems that would incur large costs if they were forced to do a major rev upgrade.
Of course before OSS this was never an issue as people didn't have a choice but as people now do, thanks largely in part to the ability of OSS project heads to put a few "free" developers on a older rev for maintenance, large OSS projects often maintain older revs for the sake of the users..
You really need look no further than the Linux Kernel to see another example of this in action.
Your point about social influences as a whole are true, I guess. It does seem like men are supposed to be the dumber of the sexes by a margin (if you watch any television, that is. e.g., Everybody Loves Raymond).
I think that it's become accepted that a "dumb shallow guy" is funny and so when dealing with TV sitcoms thats all your going to get. (Also look out for the "wacky but forgetful professor" who lurks around as well. e.g. 5th Rock From The Sun)
However in a lot of more thoughtful media the men still hold the title for being the "smart ones" while the women are supposed fade demurely into the background and look sexy. It is very rare indeed to see a forceful intelligent woman get to play the lead such as in Contact but as you pointed out I think writers in general have less subject matter to go on even from a historical standpoint.
It is just the fact of history that women have not had the opportunities and or desire to pursue fields that more technical in nature. And this is reflected in most of todays shallow media.
[I am a published principal author and presentor of a fusion reactor design (presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Topic of Fusion Energy in Salt Lake City), so I have a tiny bit of credibility. I got out of the field specifically because of the 15-year carrot-on-a-stick paradox.]
Dell is, and has always been, a very conservative company. Look how long they have stayed with Intel even though AMD has had a superior price/performance ratio for years now.
With Novell having it's own plans for SUSE I don't think that would be an option. I don't see them switching to an out of country distro like Mandrake or Turbo. And after that your into "hacker" distros like Slack or Gentoo which is basically out of the question.
The other issue at hand here is cost: the average life span of a spy satellite is about 3.5 or 4 years. The optics start to fog over due to radiation from the sun, and on something as precise as a spy satellite, that's a big deal.
I think this is an excellent point. Exactly what is going to be the total cost of this plan? It sounds like it would be, no pun intended, astronomical.
I would venture to guess that rather than putting 100 satellites up they put a few up and tell the people that they have 100. How are they going to know different anyway?
Music industry wake up. Nobody likes you or your product. Get with the times or die. When the first cars arrived I bet the horse industry held similar pleas and nobody cared back then either.
As a matter of fact...
In England at the time of the automobiles debut the horse and carriage industry was so dismayed that they forced a law though parliament that required anyone who was driving an automobile at the time to have someone walking in front carrying a red lantern.
Of course the law itself was cloaked in a lot of sanctimonious bs about safety. But obviously it's real reason was clear, to make the option of driving an automobile so horribly inconvenient that nobody would buy them.
Well obviously this set England's own automotive technology back and eventually was repealed after it became clear that the automobile was here to stay. Still goes to show that history has a way of repeating itself.
I'm pretty sure that the "USAians" term comes from K5 as I've seen endless threads there about such nonsence.
It is rather annoying but it does provide some insite into a posters though process when used which can be helpful in seeing what they really might mean.
It seems that no matter where you live that some shopping carts always end up on the side of the road somewhere or something along those lines.
Now as others in this thread have pointed out this whole deal has basically nothing to do with the customers experience and everything to do about filling up more databases to sell to manufactures.
My question is will the cost of a) buying and maintaining, b) preventing theft/vandalism, and c) ensuring that they give accurate data be enough to cover whatever profit margin they hope to obtain?
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Over the years I spent a goodly bit on my //e's system. Transwarp, 10 MEG HD, 1 MEG of RAM on my 80 col card. Now even though the base //gs system had a lot of things built into it such that some of my hardware would be obsolete the handwriting was already on the wall for the // series.
//e around for some time and it did ok but I eventually had to turn to the PC. It had the feel of a real hackers box rather than the handholding you got with a Mac and didn't cost an arm and a leg to boot.
I kept my
Well that's all water under the bridge at this point and I'm happy to see Apple doing well but now they are up against Linux/BSD for the hackers market and of course MS will not go quietly.
If you want to get into abuse of a system then I think the argument can be made that since the parent post in question added the sig in to the body of the comment it is no longer a sig in the proper sense. A proper sig can be disabled as was noted. Who's abusing what here?
Since there is already a system built to try and prevent moderation abuse, meta-moderation, and none to prevent anyone from posting their sig in the body of a comment I would suggest that the abuse here was made by the sig rather than the moderation.
That would be the Apple iPod that had MP3 from day 1, Mr Thicky.
Thats yoshi_mon to you Mr. Basil Brush.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management's reluctance to introduce products like Apple's iPod, mainly because the Sony had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.
You mean the Apple iPod that has had DRM it from day 1? Wow, I guess they really just want to move to a better DRM format.
Whenever theres an article by Perens or RMS or these other blowhards, I cringe a little bit, and hope my boss doesn't read them.
I think most of what you say is very valid but right here you lost me a bit.
The OSS movement is not alone in having some more extreme members. I'll take RMS any day over Ballmer jumping around like a monkey screaming, "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Of course because Disney is involved everyone is a little worried, and I don't blame them, but I think that a good remake can be done.
Witness the recent remake of Battlestar Galactica and how nearly everyone who has seen it says that they are doing a killer job.
I don't doubt that doing justice to Tron will be hard but I've got more faith in this project than what is going to be come of Hitchhikers.
I think having a black screen helps much better. Not only does it make finding your cursor much easier it's much easier on the eyes.
/.s theme but on any page I design I always use a black background.
Of course I'm having to look at a mostly white screen right now as I type this message because of
You know I was sorely tempted to mod you down just for using the words "Fox News" and "journalistic integrity" in the same sentence.
Someone mod this asshat down.
/. at least to appear smart enough to try.
It's morons like you that the RIAA love. You still don't get the difference between theft and copyright infringement do you?
See there is this thing called physical property that involves tangible things. Like say for example a CD sitting on your desk. Now if I walk in and take that CD off your desk and never return it that is theft.
Stay with me here because this is where it gets tricky. If say I take that CD off your desk, copy it, and then put it right back where it was. That is not theft, it's copyright infringement. You never lost any physical property, see the difference?
We have different words for different things for a reason. I realize that to some people it's such a bother to get them all right but lets try here on
As the TelCo's start rolling out TV service it's no real surprise to me that they want to get into the PVR game too. And not because they think it's going to earn them money directly, no rather it's once again about control.
PVR boxes like TiVo, as I'm sure we all know, can be hacked up to all sorts of neat things that have been driving the content providers nuts. So it's only logical that Cable/TelCo providers start offering their own PVR boxes that are firmly locked down to prevent those nasty hackers from doing anything that they don't want with them.
While I think everyone can agree that while your on the clock you should be accountable for your actions it should also be recognized that we are talking about human beings here. And while it seems to have become an antiquated notion I believe that humans should not be held to machine like standards.
That's the risk here in tracking the movement of humans in a human world down to the second. One only need look at a company like EA to see the type of abuse that can happen when this type of mentality becomes prevalent. And it's not just EA that does this, I'm sure everyone can relate to someone in management who would prefer everyone to act like good little robots rather than the human beings we are.
The scary thing is it works.
In large projects there are often people who have production systems that would incur large costs if they were forced to do a major rev upgrade.
Of course before OSS this was never an issue as people didn't have a choice but as people now do, thanks largely in part to the ability of OSS project heads to put a few "free" developers on a older rev for maintenance, large OSS projects often maintain older revs for the sake of the users..
You really need look no further than the Linux Kernel to see another example of this in action.
Your point about social influences as a whole are true, I guess. It does seem like men are supposed to be the dumber of the sexes by a margin (if you watch any television, that is. e.g., Everybody Loves Raymond).
I think that it's become accepted that a "dumb shallow guy" is funny and so when dealing with TV sitcoms thats all your going to get. (Also look out for the "wacky but forgetful professor" who lurks around as well. e.g. 5th Rock From The Sun)
However in a lot of more thoughtful media the men still hold the title for being the "smart ones" while the women are supposed fade demurely into the background and look sexy. It is very rare indeed to see a forceful intelligent woman get to play the lead such as in Contact but as you pointed out I think writers in general have less subject matter to go on even from a historical standpoint.
It is just the fact of history that women have not had the opportunities and or desire to pursue fields that more technical in nature. And this is reflected in most of todays shallow media.
First the children.
Next the convicts.
Then those in public service.
And finally everyone else.
[I am a published principal author and presentor of a fusion reactor design (presented at the 8th Topical Meeting on the Topic of Fusion Energy in Salt Lake City), so I have a tiny bit of credibility. I got out of the field specifically because of the 15-year carrot-on-a-stick paradox.]
What exactly is that?!
Dell is, and has always been, a very conservative company. Look how long they have stayed with Intel even though AMD has had a superior price/performance ratio for years now.
With Novell having it's own plans for SUSE I don't think that would be an option. I don't see them switching to an out of country distro like Mandrake or Turbo. And after that your into "hacker" distros like Slack or Gentoo which is basically out of the question.
If your going to use a K5 artical as the basis for your post you could at least link it.
It's really not Firefox specific. Any browser can take advantage of plink really.
The other issue at hand here is cost: the average life span of a spy satellite is about 3.5 or 4 years. The optics start to fog over due to radiation from the sun, and on something as precise as a spy satellite, that's a big deal.
I think this is an excellent point. Exactly what is going to be the total cost of this plan? It sounds like it would be, no pun intended, astronomical.
I would venture to guess that rather than putting 100 satellites up they put a few up and tell the people that they have 100. How are they going to know different anyway?
Music industry wake up. Nobody likes you or your product. Get with the times or die. When the first cars arrived I bet the horse industry held similar pleas and nobody cared back then either.
As a matter of fact...
In England at the time of the automobiles debut the horse and carriage industry was so dismayed that they forced a law though parliament that required anyone who was driving an automobile at the time to have someone walking in front carrying a red lantern.
Of course the law itself was cloaked in a lot of sanctimonious bs about safety. But obviously it's real reason was clear, to make the option of driving an automobile so horribly inconvenient that nobody would buy them.
Well obviously this set England's own automotive technology back and eventually was repealed after it became clear that the automobile was here to stay. Still goes to show that history has a way of repeating itself.
I'm pretty sure that the "USAians" term comes from K5 as I've seen endless threads there about such nonsence.
It is rather annoying but it does provide some insite into a posters though process when used which can be helpful in seeing what they really might mean.
If it wasn't for this equation, your cell phone wouldn't work.
If it wasn't for the laws of nature things wouldn't work. The mathematical formulas are our way of expressing them.
It seems that no matter where you live that some shopping carts always end up on the side of the road somewhere or something along those lines.
Now as others in this thread have pointed out this whole deal has basically nothing to do with the customers experience and everything to do about filling up more databases to sell to manufactures.
My question is will the cost of a) buying and maintaining, b) preventing theft/vandalism, and c) ensuring that they give accurate data be enough to cover whatever profit margin they hope to obtain?
Our current president has a DUI conviction on his record and that didn't stop him.