(as a flock of penquins waddle in the backdrop, armed with M16s and wearing the normal complement of body armor and combat helmets) . ..
I tell you this . . . the Americans invaders are not using Linux. They do not have the intelligence. Their bellies will roast in hell . . . and they will be using Windows 3.1. There are no penguins here in Iraq.
The downside to this is that a few SPAM emails may actually be delivered by your spamhole. Such is the price to pay for tricking the spammer into continued use of your 'open relay'.
Yeah, that and getting your server and/or organization blacklisted when anti-spam services/software check to see if your server is an open relay.
Since Sci Fi movies are realistic predictors of our lives in the future, this obviously won't happen for quite some time (if ever). Otherwise they might have lasted a little longer on the Nostromo.
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson, AKA Happy Dude. The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to: Sad Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power."
I think *you* forgot something. Palestine isn't under occupation. Modern day 'Palistine' is a made up thing. The 'occupied lands' were occupied as a result of aggression against Isreal.
The problem is that Isreal's (political) neighbors don't want peace with Isreal. They want its destruction, and they have the people fooled into thinking thier cause is backed by God.
The people to blame for the plight of the Palestinians are not the Israelis, it's the PLO, Hamas, x Islamic Jihad, etc. They *need* for the people to remain poor and hungry so that the people look to them for support, which gives them strength to carry out their misguided notions.
The RIAA isn't concerned with revenue outlook in the short term. The reason they fear and bully services such as Napster is because they don't want to lose control of distribution. Distribution is the key.
If every artist was able to distribute thier own works, there wouldn't be any need for bloated, crooked companies such as those that the RIAA is composed of. Obviously, the RIAA would gladly sacrifice short term revenue to maintain this control.
So now that Linux is getting a little more popular, AOL/Winamp has decided to start jumping on board, eh? Kind of like the hot girl in high school who completely ignored you, but now that you're older, make a little money, and have beefed out a bit wants to get your number.
I say who cares. We have XMMS, FreeAmp, and a whole host of other players. If your gratitude is based on the fact that WinAmp has better playlist controls, then do us all a favor and write a patch for one of the existing open source players. I'll admit that I haven't actually checked out the link, but are they making the source available? I doubt it, and so I say again, who cares.
"I read the documentation. I read the documentation for Redhat. That's all the documentation you should have to read to
install a *RedHat* distro."
You're right, and if you read and followed the docs, then your sound card was properly configured for *RedHat*. Your problems with *KDE* are a separate matter. Did you read the KDE docs? KDE is an application, and you should be expected to read the docs for that as well.
Maybe some people don't want their windows manager or desktop enviroment making alot of foolish sounds (I, for one, do not. That's why I use Blackbox). Should sound be forced on these people who still want the other features that KDE might provide? I think not.
Things like sound cards it should detect on its own, set up default volumes and just "work". "Ignorance" has nothing to do with it.
Yes, ignorance has nothing to do with it. You are correct. Ignorance could be forgiven. Your problem is laziness, which is for the most part without excuse. Had you taken a few moments to read a bit of documentation, then yes, you should be expected to know that all you need to do is run a simple command.
Instead, you probably immediately peppered newsgroups, discussion forums, and mailing lists with detailed and useful information such as "My sound card isn't working. Please help. I am using KDE."
Debian will outlast any commercial distribution; Debian doesn't need to appease shareholders, just the community that builds it.
And the community that builds and uses it is not as easily appeased as the Red Hat shareholders! That's why Debian is so great. Not meant to troll, but with every passing version of Red Hat it becomes more and more obvious that the motivation behind that distro is purely commercial. It seems like they just want to release a new version so they can sell some more boxes, and damned with the quality of the contents.
Debian on the other hand, takes a 'slow and steady wins the race approach.' And I think that when the Linux-mania smoke clears, Debian will most certainly be at the finish line.
I think that one of the main problems with Corel was that they tried to make things way too much like Windows with their applications. To be fair, I never actually their distro.
For example, with Corel Draw (Linux Version) you hade to run a special version of Wine to get it to work. At least on my machine, that really bogged down resources and made the application (and my system in general when the app was running) run very poorly.
If they had made an actual Linux version, then the story might have been different. The same reasoning applies to all the Corel applications for Linux that I tried. If I want to run a Windows application, I'll hop onto a Windows box. I realize that they took this approach to increase the ease and speed at which applications could be ported, but if it makes the community that much less likely to use your product (and especially in the face of alternatives such as GIMP or StarOffice) then what's the point?
There is, of course, also the matter of Corel's somewhat less than whole-hearted embrace of the Open Source theory, but that has been adequately covered in other posts
That wouldn't be too unusual for those folks. In the 17:3 issue of 2600 they posted a scan of a letter from the MPAA asking for "permission to use the '2600 The Hacker Quarterly Magazine' as a backgound setdressing/prop," and the letter was written, of course, on the same letterhead they used to tell 2600 that they were suing them.
I don't think that a fee-based subscription model could possibly work. There are just too many free alternatives for people to pay $5/month. OpenNap servers, Gnutella (although nearly unusable as of late), etc. are all free.
Free beats $5/month everytime and any day of the week.
If AOL successfully shuts down the AIM clones you can bet your bottom [local currency] that they'll start shutting down ICQ clones next!
That's exactly what I was thinking as soon as I saw this article. I think that maybe some people don't realize (or have forgotten), that AOL is "in charge of" ICQ now.
Right, but I meant what about those of us who are *wearing* the shirts. Are we to be sued as well if we go and score a burger while wearing the shirt? Obviously not, but my point is that this whole thing is just getting to be completely ridiculous.
I haven't seen the dead trees version of the NYT article that had a picture of the T-shirt, but somebody else may have.... Was the code readable?
Yeah, it's readable, but I just tried to scan the back of the shirt. It doesn't come out very well (@ 100 dpi anyway). You can definately see the code if the shirt is being worn though. I'd say it's about a 12 or 14 pt font.
So I guess this means that the DeCSS T-shirts from Copyleft are next. The MPAA will probably start going door to door, hunting us like dogs, searching through our closets, and hauling us off to jail when they find our beloved DeCSS attire.
What if I post a greatly enlarged picture of the T-shirt on my site? Or maybe a link to such a picture?
When Kenny says, "If they don't use human beings these movies are in danger of looking like Disney cartoons . . .," I have to agree. I mean, look at Episode I. With Jar Jar and Watto flitting about, the movie really had a "cartoony" aspect about it at times.
As an aside . . .
Do you think Jar Jar would have been more tolerable if he had been played by a human actor?
-B
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(as a flock of penquins waddle in the backdrop, armed with M16s and wearing the normal complement of body armor and combat helmets) . . .
I tell you this . . . the Americans invaders are not using Linux. They do not have the intelligence. Their bellies will roast in hell . . . and they will be using Windows 3.1. There are no penguins here in Iraq.
The question is how much I can rely on my configuration being preserved . . .
You can't even rely on that between dist-upgrades when you're already using Debian! ;-)
Tricksey penguinses . . . we told you they were false. They stole it from us . . . They stole it and we wants it back. Gollum, gollum.
The downside to this is that a few SPAM emails may actually be delivered by your spamhole. Such is the price to pay for tricking the spammer into continued use of your 'open relay'.
Yeah, that and getting your server and/or organization blacklisted when anti-spam services/software check to see if your server is an open relay.Since Sci Fi movies are realistic predictors of our lives in the future, this obviously won't happen for quite some time (if ever). Otherwise they might have lasted a little longer on the Nostromo.
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson, AKA Happy Dude. The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to: Sad Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power."
I think *you* forgot something. Palestine isn't under occupation. Modern day 'Palistine' is a made up thing. The 'occupied lands' were occupied as a result of aggression against Isreal.
The problem is that Isreal's (political) neighbors don't want peace with Isreal. They want its destruction, and they have the people fooled into thinking thier cause is backed by God.
The people to blame for the plight of the Palestinians are not the Israelis, it's the PLO, Hamas, x Islamic Jihad, etc. They *need* for the people to remain poor and hungry so that the people look to them for support, which gives them strength to carry out their misguided notions.
Whew! It's only a microorganism . . . they're only responsible for more deaths than everything else on the planet combined.
Remember . . . it's usually the little stuff that gets you.
Videos are killing the radio stars
P2P is crushing music sales
VCRs are hurting movie sales
Why is this claim anymore credible?
The RIAA isn't concerned with revenue outlook in the short term. The reason they fear and bully services such as Napster is because they don't want to lose control of distribution. Distribution is the key.
If every artist was able to distribute thier own works, there wouldn't be any need for bloated, crooked companies such as those that the RIAA is composed of. Obviously, the RIAA would gladly sacrifice short term revenue to maintain this control.
I say who cares. We have XMMS, FreeAmp, and a whole host of other players. If your gratitude is based on the fact that WinAmp has better playlist controls, then do us all a favor and write a patch for one of the existing open source players. I'll admit that I haven't actually checked out the link, but are they making the source available? I doubt it, and so I say again, who cares.
. . . when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
That is without a doubt the funniest thing I have read all day. Thanks for the laugh.
You're right, and if you read and followed the docs, then your sound card was properly configured for *RedHat*. Your problems with *KDE* are a separate matter. Did you read the KDE docs? KDE is an application, and you should be expected to read the docs for that as well.
Maybe some people don't want their windows manager or desktop enviroment making alot of foolish sounds (I, for one, do not. That's why I use Blackbox). Should sound be forced on these people who still want the other features that KDE might provide? I think not.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
Yes, ignorance has nothing to do with it. You are correct. Ignorance could be forgiven. Your problem is laziness, which is for the most part without excuse. Had you taken a few moments to read a bit of documentation, then yes, you should be expected to know that all you need to do is run a simple command.
Instead, you probably immediately peppered newsgroups, discussion forums, and mailing lists with detailed and useful information such as "My sound card isn't working. Please help. I am using KDE."
-B
benjones@superutility.net
And the community that builds and uses it is not as easily appeased as the Red Hat shareholders! That's why Debian is so great. Not meant to troll, but with every passing version of Red Hat it becomes more and more obvious that the motivation behind that distro is purely commercial. It seems like they just want to release a new version so they can sell some more boxes, and damned with the quality of the contents.
Debian on the other hand, takes a 'slow and steady wins the race approach.' And I think that when the Linux-mania smoke clears, Debian will most certainly be at the finish line.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
For example, with Corel Draw (Linux Version) you hade to run a special version of Wine to get it to work. At least on my machine, that really bogged down resources and made the application (and my system in general when the app was running) run very poorly.
If they had made an actual Linux version, then the story might have been different. The same reasoning applies to all the Corel applications for Linux that I tried. If I want to run a Windows application, I'll hop onto a Windows box. I realize that they took this approach to increase the ease and speed at which applications could be ported, but if it makes the community that much less likely to use your product (and especially in the face of alternatives such as GIMP or StarOffice) then what's the point? There is, of course, also the matter of Corel's somewhat less than whole-hearted embrace of the Open Source theory, but that has been adequately covered in other posts
-B
benjones@superutility.net
That wouldn't be too unusual for those folks. In the 17:3 issue of 2600 they posted a scan of a letter from the MPAA asking for "permission to use the '2600 The Hacker Quarterly Magazine' as a backgound setdressing/prop," and the letter was written, of course, on the same letterhead they used to tell 2600 that they were suing them.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
Waiting on .deb . . .
-B
benjones@superutility.net
Free beats $5/month everytime and any day of the week.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
That's exactly what I was thinking as soon as I saw this article. I think that maybe some people don't realize (or have forgotten), that AOL is "in charge of" ICQ now.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
Right, but I meant what about those of us who are *wearing* the shirts. Are we to be sued as well if we go and score a burger while wearing the shirt? Obviously not, but my point is that this whole thing is just getting to be completely ridiculous.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
Yeah, it's readable, but I just tried to scan the back of the shirt. It doesn't come out very well (@ 100 dpi anyway). You can definately see the code if the shirt is being worn though. I'd say it's about a 12 or 14 pt font.
-B
benjones@superutility.net
What if I post a greatly enlarged picture of the T-shirt on my site? Or maybe a link to such a picture?
-B
benjones@superutility.net
When Kenny says, "If they don't use human beings these movies are in danger of looking like Disney cartoons . . . ," I have to agree. I mean, look at Episode I. With Jar Jar and Watto flitting about, the movie really had a "cartoony" aspect about it at times.
As an aside . . .
Do you think Jar Jar would have been more tolerable if he had been played by a human actor?
-B
-B
benjones@superutility.net