Control means not living in fear that the BSA (Business Software Alliance) will bring federal marshals to raid your business.
Boy, am I glad he cleared that up. I was worried that goons from the Boy Scouts of America were going to show up and, I dunno, tie knots in my computer or something.
PS Why run this article 4 1/2 hours before the trailer? I knew about it over a week ago, Fox has been advertising the hell out of it. You'd think something this important to/.ers, being delivered for free would have been mentioned sooner. I ReplayTV Sunday nights on Fox[1], so I got it, but if I was counting on/. for this I would have missed it.
[1] - yesterday, I followed the upgrade instructions found
here, and it worked like a charm. I went from 20 GB to 80 GB (an old ReplayTV 2020, which doesn't support captions!), and I didn't follow the instruction that says to delete all content -- I had it copy everything from the old drive to the new one. They say it's not recommended, but it worked -- I have all my old shows, and I also have an 80-hour unit now.
The true value is the sum of that knowledge plus the technology and science we would develop for the trip, which would doubtless be of incalculable financial wealth.
In addition, there's the value that the new technology can bring to the problem of starvation.
If we end up succeeding with nanotechnology in the timeframe it takes to go to Mars (which looks like a very real possibility; I estimate 5-20 years), then we can use nanofactories to produce enough food for everyone -- without the problem of food distribution. We still have the problem of distributing the factories, but that's a one-time problem, not a continual one like starvation is currently.
I got such a kick out of reading this that I figured I'd help everyone laugh;)
You have to understand, the idea of recompiling a kernel is a terrifying idea to me. I've done it a few times, and each times my insides twist around like I'm 12 years old and about to see a girl's breasts for the first time.
A kernel fetish?
Linux was a lot like a girl named Allison that I used to date. She was a hot redhead with large, firm breasts in most of my honors classes.
And in the rest of your classes she had small, droopy breasts? Continuing the breast fantasy... (emphasis mine):
My iPod is the second sexiest thing that fits in my palm.
The first is something large and firm. (Yes, that can be taken several ways.)
And the terminal. Oh, the terminal. The command prompt that all Unix heads are used to. It's the mother's tit, the place where everything starts.
Um... "everything" starts about two feet below that.
For now, I'm just a guy who started loving a penguin, then discovered true love with an Apple.
As I was reading your article, I was thinking, "there's gotta be a better way to get the message out... Not all coders who believe in Microsoft read Slashdot."
And then I remembered something I read about years ago:
http://www.crit.org
. This site allows you to add annotations to other web pages.
So to make sure everything was still working, I attached your above comments to the second link you provided. (I tried the first as well, but since it's a direct link to a Word doc, it wouldn't do it.)
The Crit tools are really cool; it's like adding Slashdot-style commenting to every site! There's no moderation, AFAIK, though.
And history shows us that societies only go one way once they've reached that stage.
I agree with everything you're saying, just wanted to add an aside: who writes the history? The society that supercedes.
I'm actually very worried about our society coming to the stage of "history." The US government is passing weirder and weirder laws, which the people will rebel against, civil disobediently at first.
I liken your "navel gazers" to music industry executives -- they are looking for value in an unnatural way. I mean, against nature. Ideas are not property -- they can be shared, and then we all have them. Giving them away doesn't remove the idea from one's brain.
Including this idea -- I think it's cool that they were able to salvage the satellite, and even cooler that they told us how to do it ourselves.
Online surveys are a complete waste of the bits that they are based on : They don't have equal representation of the cross-section of users (i.e. Ask what you favourite OS and the Linux users tend towards being more motivated than the Windows users), and even non-trolls regularly enter false information.
So instead/. could write a few tools to help gather some of this data. Something could watch which programs you run, and the frequency; different connections you make (http, p2p, ftp, etc.). This could then be used anonymously.
From the parent:
Set up polls to gather non-personal data for marketroids, such as what compiler you use and why, what http server you use and why, etc.
Such a tool could work both on Windows and on Linux, and you'd capture most of the entire audience.
Make the tool open source, so that people are sure there's no funny stuff going on. And you could add security features to it, like firewalling, which would give added value to being a subscriber.
Re:Maybe not legal, but what about PR?
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Abusing the GPL?
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Why would *any* company want to release something that makes them look bad??? What exactly is the advantage they think they will get from this?
One word: Publicity.
How many more people know about
Lindows because of Microsoft's uproar over their name?
There's a saying in marketing: no publicity is bad publicity. (Yes, there are exceptions.)
Specifically we're going to try to keep the questions on the subject of subscriptions.
I just recently got to 25 karma, and I noticed some oddities along the way. Sometimes I would get a score of "2" for my post (on my User Info page), but clicking on the link to the post would show it has a score of "4" or "5"!
Why is karma calculated differently from how it's displayed? I've checked the FAQ but couldn't find an answer for this.
Also, I hope they take some of the higher-rated questions from this article so they can answer them, interview-style, for those of us who will not have access to IRC at that time.
As ElcomSoft have pointed out, under Russian law, making a copy is explictly required, and as eBook's aren't copyable, then in Russian law it's Adobe who are in the wrong.
I live in Hong Kong and because of them I can¦t get e-mail through to some of my family and friends.
Is it possible to get a Hotmail or Yahoo account to communicate with family and friends?
(I know the government erected "The Great Firewall of China" so it may not be as easy as I think -- hence the question.)
What's interesting is this is yet another instance in which government policy moves industry out of the country. Although Yahoo and Hotmail don't make (much?) money from subscribers.
Does anybody on Slashdot use the service?
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Modem Accelerators?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Does anybody on Slashdot use the service?
I do, and I like it.
I've had one-way cable, ADSL, and two-way cable. The new house does not have broadband, and there's no planned arrival date from either the cable company (AT&T) or Bellsouth. I can get ISDN, which is about twice as fast as what I currently have, for a ridiculous amount. Or I can get satellite, which is $70 a month but installation is almost $1,000.
So any way to increase my current speed is welcomed, and their service does the trick. I haven't measured it with a stopwatch, but the pages load faster.
This, the country that works to keep free thought and communication away from their citizens?:confused:
I find it very amusing. They tried erecting "The Great Firewall of China" and now the world is erecting their own firewall -- not to keep information out of China, but to keep SPAM in.
I'm not sure when the Firewall will come down, but I'm fairly certain the admins will do as much as they can, quickly, to stop the SPAM problem.
What's amazing is since you posted about 12 hours ago, the network has increased to about 280,000 clients.
I posted that two days ago, and the graph is now 500,000 clients!
Interesting "bait and switch" tactic. On whose part -- Morpheus' or Sharmans'?
obConspiracy: the Morpheus creators fully intended to release their code into the Gnutella framework one day. Just think of the mind of someone who would want to code a P2P application.
Is this really newsworthy? The dissolution is really just a formality after everything went to Palm.
It is to me. The news tells me "you have 11 days to get in on the settlement." Of course it's a long shot, but... Microsoft has already been declared guilty.
Re:A silly business model doomed Be to failure
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Everyone was, at that time, aware of the "chicken and egg" problem: a new platform has no software, so no users will migrate to it, so nobody will write software, etc. This problem had doomed every new platform. Everyone was aware of it. Be decided to forge ahead anyway, while offering no solution to this problem whatsoever.
Microsoft actually had a good answer for that problem. They made the "Designed for Window 95" sticker requirements include that the program ran correctly on Windows NT.
By the time they released Windows XP, most programs could already run.
This is, of course, completely tangent to their guilt.
In accordance with the plan of dissolution, after payment in full of all claims finally determined to be due, Be will make distributions of any remaining assets (including assets acquired after the record date), if any, only to stockholders of record as of the record date.
Maybe I'm jinxing myself, but I'm calling my stockbroker tomorrow. We've only got 11 days to grab a piece of the ultimate setttlement.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought he was $6 mil and not entirely 100%.
Mary Jane did the radioactive dating.
There's a "youthful indiscretions" reference in there as well...
AFAIK (IANAL) ISTR TMTOWTDI. FWIW, YMMV; TIA.
First way
Second way
Third way
Boy, am I glad he cleared that up. I was worried that goons from the Boy Scouts of America were going to show up and, I dunno, tie knots in my computer or something.
No, you're the loof.
(It's Fox-related: Fez, from That 70s Show.)
PS Why run this article 4 1/2 hours before the trailer? I knew about it over a week ago, Fox has been advertising the hell out of it. You'd think something this important to /.ers, being delivered for free would have been mentioned sooner. I ReplayTV Sunday nights on Fox[1], so I got it, but if I was counting on /. for this I would have missed it.
[1] - yesterday, I followed the upgrade instructions found here , and it worked like a charm. I went from 20 GB to 80 GB (an old ReplayTV 2020, which doesn't support captions!), and I didn't follow the instruction that says to delete all content -- I had it copy everything from the old drive to the new one. They say it's not recommended, but it worked -- I have all my old shows, and I also have an 80-hour unit now.
In addition, there's the value that the new technology can bring to the problem of starvation.
If we end up succeeding with nanotechnology in the timeframe it takes to go to Mars (which looks like a very real possibility; I estimate 5-20 years), then we can use nanofactories to produce enough food for everyone -- without the problem of food distribution. We still have the problem of distributing the factories, but that's a one-time problem, not a continual one like starvation is currently.
A kernel fetish?
And in the rest of your classes she had small, droopy breasts? Continuing the breast fantasy... (emphasis mine):
The first is something large and firm. (Yes, that can be taken several ways.)
Um... "everything" starts about two feet below that.
American Pie 3, anyone?
And then I remembered something I read about years ago: http://www.crit.org . This site allows you to add annotations to other web pages.
So to make sure everything was still working, I attached your above comments to the second link you provided. (I tried the first as well, but since it's a direct link to a Word doc, it wouldn't do it.)
The Crit tools are really cool; it's like adding Slashdot-style commenting to every site! There's no moderation, AFAIK, though.
Don't forget BeOS is currently at 10 cents a share. There's one week left before they delist, so if you want in on the settlement, start buying.
Clarkson?
I agree with everything you're saying, just wanted to add an aside: who writes the history? The society that supercedes.
I'm actually very worried about our society coming to the stage of "history." The US government is passing weirder and weirder laws, which the people will rebel against, civil disobediently at first.
I liken your "navel gazers" to music industry executives -- they are looking for value in an unnatural way. I mean, against nature. Ideas are not property -- they can be shared, and then we all have them. Giving them away doesn't remove the idea from one's brain.
Including this idea -- I think it's cool that they were able to salvage the satellite, and even cooler that they told us how to do it ourselves.
If you, like me, are on dial-up and would rather be linked to the entire article on one page, click here .
Amazon is keeping the one-click patent, but they are allowing B&N to file and accept the two-click patent.
B&N can then go after the infringers. And cut similar deals, introducing the three-click patent.
No, I'm not sick of it yet.
So instead /. could write a few tools to help gather some of this data. Something could watch which programs you run, and the frequency; different connections you make (http, p2p, ftp, etc.). This could then be used anonymously.
From the parent:
Such a tool could work both on Windows and on Linux, and you'd capture most of the entire audience.
Make the tool open source, so that people are sure there's no funny stuff going on. And you could add security features to it, like firewalling, which would give added value to being a subscriber.
One word: Publicity.
How many more people know about Lindows because of Microsoft's uproar over their name?
There's a saying in marketing: no publicity is bad publicity. (Yes, there are exceptions.)
I just recently got to 25 karma, and I noticed some oddities along the way. Sometimes I would get a score of "2" for my post (on my User Info page), but clicking on the link to the post would show it has a score of "4" or "5"!
Why is karma calculated differently from how it's displayed? I've checked the FAQ but couldn't find an answer for this.
Also, I hope they take some of the higher-rated questions from this article so they can answer them, interview-style, for those of us who will not have access to IRC at that time.
Hmm... I wonder if this stuff could be used for other purposes besides crowd control? Perhaps lubrication, to reduce wear and tear on moving parts...
(Yes, there's a sexual reference in there if you look hard enough. ;-)
ElcomSoft should sue Adobe under Russian law.
Is it possible to get a Hotmail or Yahoo account to communicate with family and friends?
(I know the government erected "The Great Firewall of China" so it may not be as easy as I think -- hence the question.)
What's interesting is this is yet another instance in which government policy moves industry out of the country. Although Yahoo and Hotmail don't make (much?) money from subscribers.
I do, and I like it.
I've had one-way cable, ADSL, and two-way cable. The new house does not have broadband, and there's no planned arrival date from either the cable company (AT&T) or Bellsouth. I can get ISDN, which is about twice as fast as what I currently have, for a ridiculous amount. Or I can get satellite, which is $70 a month but installation is almost $1,000.
So any way to increase my current speed is welcomed, and their service does the trick. I haven't measured it with a stopwatch, but the pages load faster.
The service I'm using is ProxyConn .
They offer a free week trial, so if you're really interested in the service, give it a try!
I find it very amusing. They tried erecting "The Great Firewall of China" and now the world is erecting their own firewall -- not to keep information out of China, but to keep SPAM in.
I'm not sure when the Firewall will come down, but I'm fairly certain the admins will do as much as they can, quickly, to stop the SPAM problem.
I posted that two days ago, and the graph is now 500,000 clients!
Interesting "bait and switch" tactic. On whose part -- Morpheus' or Sharmans'?
obConspiracy: the Morpheus creators fully intended to release their code into the Gnutella framework one day. Just think of the mind of someone who would want to code a P2P application.
It is to me. The news tells me "you have 11 days to get in on the settlement." Of course it's a long shot, but ... Microsoft has already been declared guilty.
Microsoft actually had a good answer for that problem. They made the "Designed for Window 95" sticker requirements include that the program ran correctly on Windows NT.
By the time they released Windows XP, most programs could already run.
This is, of course, completely tangent to their guilt.
Maybe I'm jinxing myself, but I'm calling my stockbroker tomorrow. We've only got 11 days to grab a piece of the ultimate setttlement.
Please submit the code! If you are good enough to fix something like that, it would be great to have you contributing. ;-)