Wil Wheaton is the actor who is best known for playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Turns out unlke the character, Wil is quite cool, a linux user, runs a pretty good blog, and supports most of the goals of the EFF.
<conspiracytheory> Aha! Now we know the real reason he was kicked out of the movie! Expect his character to suffer an off-screen, between-movies death. Jack Valenti doesn't like fifth-columnists! </conspiracytheory>
Nice to know that informing and educating people about a legal process can put you in danger of losing your job.
Danger? More like: this poor guy is doomed. His boss surely has him now branded as the guy who is friends to those hippie anarchists. Either they'll fire him in a few weeks on a made-up excuse or he'll be given such sucky assignments he'll want to quit (aka "The Freezer").
On the other hand, if they fire him, he'll be able to speak out. Don't throw away that interview just yet.
This is the company's small contribution to keeping inflation low. Here in Brazil they used yet another technique - toilet paper rolls are 80% as long as what they used to be. Unit price didn't rise => no effect on inflation. Sweet.
At the risk of wandering even further off-topic: Could you please explain to me how a man could not be a willing participant in the process of creating a child?
Easy.
Man & woman have sex. Man used condom. Man throws condom in the trash bin. Man goes to bar to get some drinks. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to man, woman goes to trash bin and...
While the mirror is a good idea, most folks aren't going to download from an unofficial/untrusted source
Not necessarily. Get the MD5 sum from the official site, then the tarball from the unofficial site. If it bunzips like a duck and md5sums like a duck...
Theft is taking something *from someone* That other person actually has to lose something. (No, not "earn less". If you have a lemonade stand and I set up another lemonade stand and compete with you, am I a thief?)
Manager of the Microsoft Lemonade Division says "Hell yes!"
...Apex. Or any other conveniently located electronics manufacturer.
Just imagine a device like this one, same looks, same sound quality etc, but with the following subtle differences:
1) It plays MP3 CDs in addition to audio CDs (in this case copying the files themselves into the HDD instead of encoding);
2) It uses MP3 for encoding. Ogg Vorbis optional.
3) It is actually a small Linux machine with an Ethernet port. You can hack it at will. All of its software is GPL. It also comes with a rescue CD in case you screw up and forget to include the sound chip and network drivers in your latest kernel compilation.
3a.) It has a Samba/NFS server set up by default so you can browse the HDD contents.
I'd work for minimum wage for a company planning to build this.;)
That aside, you don't even need to be a government to take this place out -- a well-placed shaped charge on one of the supports would send this SOB to the bottom of the ocean, and *anyone* with sufficiant knowledge and motivation could do it.
Resorting to violence would be a PR blunder, as someone else has already pointed out. What they can do, however, is sue the pants off (anyone who does business with)^N them. Bye bye, Internet link. Bye bye, revenue. Bye bye, food and water.
Feel free to add any Revelations reference you feel like.
In other news, the fake versions of the sixth and seventh book will be titled "Harry Potter Slay Dragon", and "Harry Potter Steal Dragon Treasure".
The manuscripts were discovered when buyers found that each only contained 2 pages of text, and a lot of blank pages.
Harry: What happen? Teacher: Someone set up us the spell. Harry: Crystal ball turn on. Teacher: It's you! Dragon: How are you gentlemen? Dragon: All your magic are belong to us.
I get the queasies when I see any Western companies kissing the Chinese govt's butt, be them Open Source or anything else. But M$ is special:
Chinese PM: Linux secure, Windows dangelous. Fuck off. Ballmer: But Mr. Chairman, Linux promotes freedom, while we promote tyranny! It's us who are you natural allies!!! Chinese PM: Zounds, you're light! Let's make a deal.
From the antialiasing in those screenshots, doesn't it look like the fonts could use some adjusting? Some lines look thinner than others. Doesn't look like a problem from the antialiasing code, but rather from the font data itself.
(...) virtual machines can be made more efficient as they are intentionally abstract. e.g. in the JVM, you know what is code and what isn't, so you can translate blocks of code into native machine code and run that directly instead of interpreting every instruction.
Isn't that called JIT? Also, if I remember correctly, didn't the first version of Java come without this? (and were therefore unspeakably slow?)
Here's a clue Moby - maybe you're not selling as many records because you suck. You're like the MPAA or the RIAA - always blaming someone else and you're especially vicious when you don't have any evidence.
Am I the only one who feels this "universal piracy excuse" thing is going too far? Next someone will launch a CD consisting of a 1-hour-long belch, and then complain that sales are low due to piracy. Then Fritz Hollings takes the cue and suggests we need laws more draconian than the tame CBDTPA.
IBM may be removing active support, but if they use Linux-compatible HW &| release driver specs, that's almost as good! Isn't it?
Yes... unless the reason was Microsoft went there and said, "either you stop this Linux nonsense or we rescind your OEM contract and your laptops suddenly cost $150 more".
Of course, IBM's response could be just dropping the laptop businnes altogether, as some people have speculated here already.
Slashdot Mirror
"Gee, officer, our server just had a fatal crash last week."
Or:
"Gee, officer, the warehouse where we hold our pile of DVD-Rs with traffic logs just caught fire!"
Or:
"What the...? Someone seems to have demagnetized our entire pile of backup HDs! I'm shocked, just shocked!"
What now? Mandatory data reliability? Or will you just have to hand your logs to the Gestapo every Tuesday?
Wil Wheaton is the actor who is best known for playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Turns out unlke the character, Wil is quite cool, a linux user, runs a pretty good blog, and supports most of the goals of the EFF.
<conspiracytheory>
Aha! Now we know the real reason he was kicked out of the movie! Expect his character to suffer an off-screen, between-movies death. Jack Valenti doesn't like fifth-columnists!
</conspiracytheory>
Nice to know that informing and educating people about a legal process can put you in danger of losing your job.
Danger? More like: this poor guy is doomed. His boss surely has him now branded as the guy who is friends to those hippie anarchists. Either they'll fire him in a few weeks on a made-up excuse or he'll be given such sucky assignments he'll want to quit (aka "The Freezer").
On the other hand, if they fire him, he'll be able to speak out. Don't throw away that interview just yet.
This is the company's small contribution to keeping inflation low. Here in Brazil they used yet another technique - toilet paper rolls are 80% as long as what they used to be. Unit price didn't rise => no effect on inflation. Sweet.
At the risk of wandering even further off-topic: Could you please explain to me how a man could not be a willing participant in the process of creating a child?
Easy.
Man & woman have sex. Man used condom.
Man throws condom in the trash bin.
Man goes to bar to get some drinks.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to man, woman goes to trash bin and...
It HAS happened.
How many days anal-retentive VP Kent Ferson has left at HP?
While the mirror is a good idea, most folks aren't going to download from an unofficial/untrusted source
Not necessarily. Get the MD5 sum from the official site, then the tarball from the unofficial site. If it bunzips like a duck and md5sums like a duck...
Make that 1979.
I saw the movie when I was 13, and the Jesusness of the lion did impress me a lot.
Theft is taking something *from someone* That other person actually has to lose something. (No, not "earn less". If you have a lemonade stand and I set up another lemonade stand and compete with you, am I a thief?)
Manager of the Microsoft Lemonade Division says "Hell yes!"
I see it differently:
Spam == miracle diet
Business using spam == fat gullible self-esteem-deficient poor bastard
The considerable amount of spam-promoting spam made me think of it in these terms.
Ask yourself this question: "Would you rather drive a Ferrari in a prison, or Honda Civic out in the city"
Rubens Barrichello chose the first option. And no, I don't think Michael Schumacher's initials are a coincidence.
My complaint is this: Why aren't distro's packaging ximian gnome as the default gnome distro?
There's this, but I don't know if anybody made a RH 7.3 version.
...Apex. Or any other conveniently located electronics manufacturer.
;)
Just imagine a device like this one, same looks, same sound quality etc, but with the following subtle differences:
1) It plays MP3 CDs in addition to audio CDs (in this case copying the files themselves into the HDD instead of encoding);
2) It uses MP3 for encoding. Ogg Vorbis optional.
3) It is actually a small Linux machine with an Ethernet port. You can hack it at will. All of its software is GPL. It also comes with a rescue CD in case you screw up and forget to include the sound chip and network drivers in your latest kernel compilation.
3a.) It has a Samba/NFS server set up by default so you can browse the HDD contents.
I'd work for minimum wage for a company planning to build this.
Outlawing blasphemy? Doesn't it go against EUHRC rules?
That aside, you don't even need to be a government to take this place out -- a well-placed shaped charge on one of the supports would send this SOB to the bottom of the ocean, and *anyone* with sufficiant knowledge and motivation could do it.
Resorting to violence would be a PR blunder, as someone else has already pointed out. What they can do, however, is sue the pants off (anyone who does business with)^N them. Bye bye, Internet link. Bye bye, revenue. Bye bye, food and water.
Feel free to add any Revelations reference you feel like.
In other news, the fake versions of the sixth and seventh book will be titled "Harry Potter Slay Dragon", and "Harry Potter Steal Dragon Treasure".
The manuscripts were discovered when buyers found that each only contained 2 pages of text, and a lot of blank pages.
Harry: What happen?
Teacher: Someone set up us the spell.
Harry: Crystal ball turn on.
Teacher: It's you!
Dragon: How are you gentlemen?
Dragon: All your magic are belong to us.
to be continued...
I get the queasies when I see any Western companies kissing the Chinese govt's butt, be them Open Source or anything else. But M$ is special:
Chinese PM: Linux secure, Windows dangelous. Fuck off.
Ballmer: But Mr. Chairman, Linux promotes freedom, while we promote tyranny! It's us who are you natural allies!!!
Chinese PM: Zounds, you're light! Let's make a deal.
There will be. Shortly. Bet on it.
Now I had a truly malevolent idea. What if someone hacks into that MSNBC article and puts the tourist-guy'ed version there? (mwahahaha!)
From the antialiasing in those screenshots, doesn't it look like the fonts could use some adjusting? Some lines look thinner than others. Doesn't look like a problem from the antialiasing code, but rather from the font data itself.
Maybe he should move to another country. Perhaps find a job at SuSE or Conectiva. ;)
(...) virtual machines can be made more efficient as they are intentionally abstract. e.g. in the JVM, you know what is code and what isn't, so you can translate blocks of code into native machine code and run that directly instead of interpreting every instruction.
Isn't that called JIT? Also, if I remember correctly, didn't the first version of Java come without this? (and were therefore unspeakably slow?)
How about the fact that it's intended to associate copying with illegal? I for one don't like that imagery
Here in Brazil some computer stores have a Microsoft poster on the wall which says, "COPYING SOFTWARE IS A CRIME!"
I kid you not.
Here's a clue Moby - maybe you're not selling as many records because you suck. You're like the MPAA or the RIAA - always blaming someone else and you're especially vicious when you don't have any evidence.
Am I the only one who feels this "universal piracy excuse" thing is going too far? Next someone will launch a CD consisting of a 1-hour-long belch, and then complain that sales are low due to piracy. Then Fritz Hollings takes the cue and suggests we need laws more draconian than the tame CBDTPA.
IBM may be removing active support, but if they use Linux-compatible HW &| release driver specs, that's almost as good! Isn't it?
Yes... unless the reason was Microsoft went there and said, "either you stop this Linux nonsense or we rescind your OEM contract and your laptops suddenly cost $150 more".
Of course, IBM's response could be just dropping the laptop businnes altogether, as some people have speculated here already.
Good point because of this: Postgres has referential integrity, mySQL has not.