Why would you harrass and annoy your customers with this nonsense.
The problem here isn't Adobe, it's the LAW. Maybe you should be writing letters to the Congress or raising awareness of the issue outside of the Slashbot crowd.
There is no alternative to PDF out there. PDF is a great technology that has made my job alot easier.
This boycott is a childish waste of time and energy. The fact that no big-name supporters outside of the Open Source or computer worlds have joined make it nothing more than a joke.
Because the writing is on the wall, and the added features that PocketPC's can run are going to wipe palm out.
The ability to control my Oracle instances, lauch a terminal session into a server and use real apps is a big deal, and is something that PalmPilots cannot do.
I don't know about you, but everyone I know who learned C/C++ in a university in the last decade used gcc & emacs. Maybe some probally use Sun or Microsoft tools, but I think that they are the exceptions.
Most game programmers, especially those in 3d games need solid grasp on advanced mathematics. The math community is very similar to the open-source community in terms of collaboration.
What exactly does GNOME have to do with argonomics? The last time I checked, a desktop environment has no bearing whatsoever on soil or plnat sciences.
My only concern is that Ion Storm did not stick to the Open-Source/Free Software roots that gave birth to the gaming community, as well as the Free Software community.
While Thief 3 will be an excellent game, it's adherence to closed-source, proprietary API's like ActiveX and OpenGL threaten the fundamental freedoms that we enjoy as programmers and citizens.
Not only do these proprietary technologies violate the core tenets of liberty, they make it difficult to port the game to platforms other than Win32.
Implementing a game such as Thief 3 using Free GPL'd APIs would be a statement against tyrannany and a big boost to the software for freedom movement. As an added side-effect, Open API's would allow the open-source community to port Thief or any game to platforms as diverse as S/390 and Palm devices.
You are a little too clever for your own good, try reading sometime.
This system is NOT designed to stop a full-scale attack launched by Russia or China. Bush has stated that publicly himself several times.
The missile defense system (which is NOT Star Wars) is designed to defend against a small-scale strike launched by rouge nations such as N. Korea, Iraq, etc. These countries are actively trying to develop long-range missiles, which should be ready in about 10 years.
I was kinda hard on Sun. The tone of the article was absurd though...
"The project is need of someone to step up to the plate as a project lead"
Give me a break... Any fool who volunteers his time to make it easier for IBM & Sun to sell workstations is a complete and total idiot. Where is CmdrTaco & company? They are constant open-source nags/cheerleaders but you see nothing from them but Slashcode. (Which is a slow, bloated piece of shit)
Prima Donnas have a need to control and dominate their environment. It takes time to entrench yourself like that and is difficult to give up.
People who are a total pain in the ass don't get raises as often as others, regardless of their skills. Everyone is replaceable.
And while Linus Torvalds is certainly an excellent programmer, I'd dare say that he spends far more time on his personal project (Linux) than on Transmeta business.
"We've been spoiled. For example, Napster made music free"
What do you mean? The general consensus on Slashdot during the napster debate was that napster was boosting album sales and the people were only downloading music that they bought!
A bunch of maniacs like yourself went on the warpath when spent fuel & rods from a decommisioned reactor passed through a town.
People kept their kids home from school (school is 5000 feet from tracks) others picketed, still others tried to barricade the tracks.
A local "news" station conducted a test where it smashed a locomotive into a brick wall at 80mph...
Guess what happened?
A freight train with specialized boxcars with 4 foot thick lead walls passed through the town. It arrived at it's destination 2 days later.
There are alot of things that pose a real risk to you and your precious children.
-The corner gas station spewing gasoline into the water table.
-Insecticide sprayed by your town to combat mosquitoes. (Your kids play on the lawn the next day without even knowing)
-Highly toxic solvents dumped into your watertable by commerical & industrial enterprises.
-Deadly chemical & biological agents transported by rail on a daily basis.
You don't give a shit about this stuff though. You'd rather harp on about the remote risks associated with transporting nuclear waste, because the image of nuclear destruction in burned into your mind.
-- I hope you enjoy breathing the soot and smoke from "safe" energy generation methods, btw.
Uraninum and Thorium are the most common radioactive materials present in coal ash. Thorium has been linked to higher occurences of various diseases and cancers.
People living near a coal-fired powerplant are subjected to over 250% more radiation than those living near operating nuclear reactors.
Here is a link to an article discussing this issue.
http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/col ma in.html
Unfortunately I cannot find the refrence to the study I quoted before. I believe it was published in the late 70's or early 80's and refrenced coal-fired generation plants built in the 1930's and 40's without scrubbers. (These plants still operate, particulary in the east)
If you read French, there is alot of information about the French Nuclear program that may be of interest. France gets over 70% of it's energy by nuclear breeder reactors, which operate at higher temperatures & pressures than any other reactor in the West. (and are thus subject to greater risk) The French have had no signifigant accidents.
"I don't see the relevance of this statement. He is still a physics professor. Even if he has a crazy belief about one thing - let's say, for the sake of argument - that doesn't mean that when he wrote that paper his arguments weren't sound."
It's quite relevant. Negative things tend to taint your reputation.
"According to your logic, if a corporation posts a bogus, made-up environmental impact assessment, and then an environmental group says that their estimates are off by a factor of 1000, the environmental group are automatically offering a "blind guess". You don't even have to look at the evidence. Very convenient."
The environmental group is whoring itself to the press for attention with outrageous statements like that. That's one good reason why the environmental movement today is a monumental failure.
"Maybe, just maybe, NASA's estimate is too low (for political reasons) and Kaku is nearer the truth?"
Why would NASA offer an unreasonable estimate of risk? The political fallout of a large nuclear accident would be quite severe -- NASA would cease to exist as a entity if Cassini irradiated the entire US or world.
In this case NASA has everything to lose and nothing to gain by lying. Some random scientist, on the other hand, stands to gain alot by being right about such an accident and loses nothing by being wrong.
Michio Kaku, you mean the guy who talks about little green men on overnight radio with Art Bell??
Also, the figures you cite are very misleading... Any estimate that can be off by a factor of 100 is not an estimate, but a blind guess.
According to your quote, between 23 and 230,000 people could die if (something bad that you didn't mention) happened.
If the property damage quote is subject to the same accuracy, then over 19 trillion dollars of damage could be done. This is a sum of money larger than the economies of the US, EU, and China combined.
Sounds like a credible source. What does Howard Stern think about it?
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Is there anywhere that I can go and get these comics as e-books? I looked on the newsgroup and didn't see any.
Just no PDF, I'm boycotting Adobe.
I would like to advertise my company as news on the frontpage of slashdot.
How much does it cost, and who should I talk to?
Wow, so a Unix-like operating system without any services running is free of security holes?? Amazing.
I heard the other day that no powered-down Windows NT system has ever been remotely compromised. That's almost as impressive.
Doesn't that make them 'bad'?
Will Katz be writing about how gamers with better computer and Quake skillz are bullying the poor soccer & RPG players???
Why would you harrass and annoy your customers with this nonsense.
The problem here isn't Adobe, it's the LAW. Maybe you should be writing letters to the Congress or raising awareness of the issue outside of the Slashbot crowd.
There is no alternative to PDF out there. PDF is a great technology that has made my job alot easier.
This boycott is a childish waste of time and energy. The fact that no big-name supporters outside of the Open Source or computer worlds have joined make it nothing more than a joke.
That is the most retarded idea that I have ever heard in my life.
It's acutally worse than "Jump to Conclusions" in OfficeSpace.
Because the writing is on the wall, and the added features that PocketPC's can run are going to wipe palm out.
The ability to control my Oracle instances, lauch a terminal session into a server and use real apps is a big deal, and is something that PalmPilots cannot do.
Well, then nobody on Slashdot would care about google, and you would be a "Troll" for professing your love of it.
You see, intellectual property in general and patents in particular are evil and against the orthodoxy of the slashbots.
I stand by my post.
I don't know about you, but everyone I know who learned C/C++ in a university in the last decade used gcc & emacs. Maybe some probally use Sun or Microsoft tools, but I think that they are the exceptions.
Most game programmers, especially those in 3d games need solid grasp on advanced mathematics. The math community is very similar to the open-source community in terms of collaboration.
What exactly does GNOME have to do with argonomics? The last time I checked, a desktop environment has no bearing whatsoever on soil or plnat sciences.
My only concern is that Ion Storm did not stick to the Open-Source/Free Software roots that gave birth to the gaming community, as well as the Free Software community.
While Thief 3 will be an excellent game, it's adherence to closed-source, proprietary API's like ActiveX and OpenGL threaten the fundamental freedoms that we enjoy as programmers and citizens.
Not only do these proprietary technologies violate the core tenets of liberty, they make it difficult to port the game to platforms other than Win32.
Implementing a game such as Thief 3 using Free GPL'd APIs would be a statement against tyrannany and a big boost to the software for freedom movement. As an added side-effect, Open API's would allow the open-source community to port Thief or any game to platforms as diverse as S/390 and Palm devices.
Computer holy-wars have nothing to do with these things you talk about.
IT people in general and skilled programmers in particular are a bunch of arrogant pricks for the most part.
It's hard to not engage in holy wars when everybody knows everything.
You are a little too clever for your own good, try reading sometime.
This system is NOT designed to stop a full-scale attack launched by Russia or China. Bush has stated that publicly himself several times.
The missile defense system (which is NOT Star Wars) is designed to defend against a small-scale strike launched by rouge nations such as N. Korea, Iraq, etc. These countries are actively trying to develop long-range missiles, which should be ready in about 10 years.
You do not have any RIGHTS to privacy under the law, only a reasonable expectation of it.
Printed books have been around for thousands of years. They aren't going anywhere.
How many ebooks have you read???
I was kinda hard on Sun. The tone of the article was absurd though...
"The project is need of someone to step up to the plate as a project lead"
Give me a break... Any fool who volunteers his time to make it easier for IBM & Sun to sell workstations is a complete and total idiot. Where is CmdrTaco & company? They are constant open-source nags/cheerleaders but you see nothing from them but Slashcode. (Which is a slow, bloated piece of shit)
Sun Microsystems needs an experienced developer to lead a team of volunteers in porting Sun's OpenOffice application to Mac OS 10.
The candidate will be compensated soley by free Sun t-shirts, mousepads and mugs. No salary or fringe benefits are available.
Prima Donnas have a need to control and dominate their environment. It takes time to entrench yourself like that and is difficult to give up.
People who are a total pain in the ass don't get raises as often as others, regardless of their skills. Everyone is replaceable.
And while Linus Torvalds is certainly an excellent programmer, I'd dare say that he spends far more time on his personal project (Linux) than on Transmeta business.
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The Slashdot mantra has always been "information wants to be free" or "FUCK RIAA".
Now that their shit company is going down the tubes, Slashdots 'moral crusade' takes a second fiddle to cash.
Bunch of hypocrites.
"We've been spoiled. For example, Napster made music free"
What do you mean? The general consensus on Slashdot during the napster debate was that napster was boosting album sales and the people were only downloading music that they bought!
Do you mean people were stealing?
Take a Valium and chill.
A bunch of maniacs like yourself went on the warpath when spent fuel & rods from a decommisioned reactor passed through a town.
People kept their kids home from school (school is 5000 feet from tracks) others picketed, still others tried to barricade the tracks.
A local "news" station conducted a test where it smashed a locomotive into a brick wall at 80mph...
Guess what happened?
A freight train with specialized boxcars with 4 foot thick lead walls passed through the town. It arrived at it's destination 2 days later.
There are alot of things that pose a real risk to you and your precious children.
-The corner gas station spewing gasoline into the water table.
-Insecticide sprayed by your town to combat mosquitoes. (Your kids play on the lawn the next day without even knowing)
-Highly toxic solvents dumped into your watertable by commerical & industrial enterprises.
-Deadly chemical & biological agents transported by rail on a daily basis.
You don't give a shit about this stuff though. You'd rather harp on about the remote risks associated with transporting nuclear waste, because the image of nuclear destruction in burned into your mind.
-- I hope you enjoy breathing the soot and smoke from "safe" energy generation methods, btw.
Uraninum and Thorium are the most common radioactive materials present in coal ash. Thorium has been linked to higher occurences of various diseases and cancers.
l ma in.html
People living near a coal-fired powerplant are subjected to over 250% more radiation than those living near operating nuclear reactors.
Here is a link to an article discussing this issue.
http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/co
Unfortunately I cannot find the refrence to the study I quoted before. I believe it was published in the late 70's or early 80's and refrenced coal-fired generation plants built in the 1930's and 40's without scrubbers. (These plants still operate, particulary in the east)
If you read French, there is alot of information about the French Nuclear program that may be of interest. France gets over 70% of it's energy by nuclear breeder reactors, which operate at higher temperatures & pressures than any other reactor in the West. (and are thus subject to greater risk) The French have had no signifigant accidents.
"I don't see the relevance of this statement. He is still a physics professor. Even if he has a crazy belief about one thing - let's say, for the sake of argument - that doesn't mean that when he wrote that paper his arguments weren't sound."
It's quite relevant. Negative things tend to taint your reputation.
"According to your logic, if a corporation posts a bogus, made-up environmental impact assessment, and then an environmental group says that their estimates are off by a factor of 1000, the environmental group are automatically offering a "blind guess". You don't even have to look at the evidence. Very convenient."
The environmental group is whoring itself to the press for attention with outrageous statements like that. That's one good reason why the environmental movement today is a monumental failure.
"Maybe, just maybe, NASA's estimate is too low (for political reasons) and Kaku is nearer the truth?"
Why would NASA offer an unreasonable estimate of risk? The political fallout of a large nuclear accident would be quite severe -- NASA would cease to exist as a entity if Cassini irradiated the entire US or world.
In this case NASA has everything to lose and nothing to gain by lying. Some random scientist, on the other hand, stands to gain alot by being right about such an accident and loses nothing by being wrong.
Michio Kaku, you mean the guy who talks about little green men on overnight radio with Art Bell??
Also, the figures you cite are very misleading... Any estimate that can be off by a factor of 100 is not an estimate, but a blind guess.
According to your quote, between 23 and 230,000 people could die if (something bad that you didn't mention) happened.
If the property damage quote is subject to the same accuracy, then over 19 trillion dollars of damage could be done. This is a sum of money larger than the economies of the US, EU, and China combined.
Sounds like a credible source. What does Howard Stern think about it?