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Why get geeked about the PS2 and this thinly supported/implemented/considered Basic?* You can buy the Indrema and use the devkits for free... Im willing to bet there will be some serious independent development for the L600 when its available - this Sony Basic crap is a simple effort to thwart UK tax law, shame on the $ony Corporate $WHORES$ who would purposely screw the tax laws in that country... The government should quickly add a clause to the tax laws to fuck Sony back - the bastards.
Who'd have though Sony (the proprietary crap consumer product kings) would do such a thing... puhleeze
*If anyone thinks that this Basic is going to be anything even remotely central to the PS2: Why isn't It being released everywhere? And at PS2 launch?
Here is my 'proposed solution' - as everyone else has one, I thought I'd toss this idea out. Why not extend the Gnutella protocol to include a method to subdivide the existing network. Meaning - instead of randomly collecting other nodes of any type - why not only connect nodes of a certain type say "Warez" or "MP3Z". Now if I have 1.2.3.4-MP3 and I choose to connect to the "MP3" subnet of gnutella I will.
Clients Can query the larger 'unsegmented' net to determine the 'subnetted' network extensions:
5.6.7.8:warez; 9.0.1.2:pron; 3.4.5.6:warez; ect.
This could probably be implemented without breaking the existing clients and network where only Gnutella 'v2' clients would be able to choose a subnet to join. When the "MP3Z" network grows to the breakpoint - someone starts a MP3ZZ network.
As a side note: Has an organization or project formed on any collective level to address these problems? Is there a 'recognized' authority that is guiding the 'official' Gnutella protocol and a reference implementation? Gnutella is a very necessary model to pursue and develop because of the threat to Napster (though OpenNap provides a mechanism to thwart the $RIAA$MPAA$ whores - there is still the problem of having 'servers' to identify and attack (not to mention the problem that Napigator will have when Napster is finally shut down...))
Ok ok - go easy - I often find myself typing copy in bash shells and dir/page/date and other various DCL (VMS) commands in DOS shells and versa-vice. You know what i meant.;)
have AMD machines now and when the dual-Athlon DDR SMP motherboards come out (purr purr) I will be getting another one.
Have you heard of who is going to be offering one of these units? I am looking to do the same when its available and all this 'on again' - 'off again' confusion has me flustered - Does anyone know the "REAL" skinny on the Dual Athlon MoBos?
an additional option for people who want to use their software in terms different from the existing ones, and everybody just comes out and denounces them for giving their customers a choice
This is clearly flamebait, but I'll bite.
What are you talking about 'choice'? If MS was interested in offering 'choice' they would offer a product called UsefullOfficeApps v1.0 which included only about 10% of MSOffice's features and would come standard with their OS - or for $5. They are not offering 'choice' they are AGAIN using their market force to push something on computer users they dont really need - and trying to convince them its in their best interest. Sad.
This sir, is a clear and obvious effort to royally screw people. Simple - Microsoft's ASP initiative (.net) is an effort to extort money from people. MS has learned a lesson from the likes of the CueCat/RIAA/MPAA who do not want to sell you anything, give you anything or let you assume any rights to something you purchase. In the intellectual property based economy of the future - corporatists are getting scared when they realize that citizens presently own things, and are allowed to do as they will with these things... these clueless $whores$ are only concerned with selling you the temporary privilage of being a 'consumer' of their products for a time, never transfer any of their precious IP, and never actually sell you anything. This.net crap is an effort to more tightly control Microsoft IP and further reduce REAL choice. Simple.
you can't create *new* documents, not that you can't continue working on and reading existing ones
Im sure Mr.Bill has thought of us doing: cp c:\mydocu~1\generic.doc ~/generic.doc editing the file so it is absolutely different - then printing - emailing - or the really inventive cp ~/generic.doc ~/my_archived_important_file.doc
Im betting you wont be able to do ANY work with your 'subscription' version of Office 10 after your time is up.
From the article: New domains approved by the board are subject to approval by the Department of Commerce
Nice to see the 'net has become an arm of the American Corporatist army - what the hell does the Commerce industry have to do with it? Maybe thats why you wont see.xxx or.sex they dont have any appeal to major industry - just evil pornography peddlers - g-darn sinners all.
From the FAQ (quoted from you):Kylix open source project are currently under development and will be announced at a later date From the article:will announce, at Comdex in Las Vegas this week, plans to release the source code of its Kylix
WRONG! go back and read the article at Discover (and re-read Katz's article above) If you elect your president by a purely popular vote every vote DOES NOT count - only the people who vote for the (eventual) winner count, everyone elses' vote means nothing. This is the basic problem with plurality voting (as you propose).
There will certainly be allot of debate take place about how to change the present electoral system in the USA as a result of this mess. Please dont let this opportunity for REAL change pass you by, send a letter to your elected officials demanding the following 3 things (if your Canadian, just #1 & #2):
1) Stop electing people using Plurality and switch to Borda Voting - which is best suited to reaching consensus, which is what we want isnt it?
2) All 3rd party money should be stripped from all politics - arent you people tired of watching your politicians selling legislation and accepting bribes, money for your campaign in exchange for favour is nothing more than a bribe, what the hell are we thinking...
3) Toss out this silly EC idea* - allow each state to split its electoral college votes based on 'ridings' where each vote comes from, ie. divide Florida up in 25 'ridings' and allow each small area to elect the candidate that best speaks to that smaller region, maybe the candidate will have something that appeals to them more specifically. This smaller region can have a greater say in what is relevant specifically to them.
REAL-BASIC CHANGES ARE NECESSARY and with this mess, some changes are going to take place - PLEASE make the right choices and REALLY fix the problems...
*and for every person who is now going to say "we live in a Republic not a Democracy - because Democracy doesnt work - blah blah" give your head a shake... you had a Republic in a time when it took 3 weeks to send a letter to someone in Washington it wasnt technically feasible to govern such a large area with a democratic system... CHANGE IS GOOD stop thinking of your 'Forefathers' as infallible Gods and your 'Constitution' as their bible... BUILD A BETTER SYSTEM - RAISE YOUR EXPECTATIONS - CONTINUOUS IMPROVMENT SHOULD BE THE GOAL
That would be relevant if you werent listening to MP3s via the $0.02 tinny-speaker via the copper phonelines. I dont think HI-FI/quality output is necessary when the weakest link in the system is definatley out of there control...
12" or so Touch TFT
ONboard everything type PC strapped on the back (ala IOpener)
Linux Supported Hardware
Wireless keyboard
1 10/100bt ethernet
USB/Firewire if you feel generous
So I can strap it on the wall in the kitchen, the foyer, the bathroom and the garage. Cant it be seen that their is a market for such a device - a terminal class PC with touch TFT up front...
"You hereby grant us permission to download Game-related files to you. You also grant us permission to access, extract and upload(i) Game-related data as part of the patching process and (ii)data relating to any program that we, in our reasonable discretion,determine interferes with the proper operation of EverQuest."
I am a former EQ player.. I no longer have an account on Verant's servers. I also do not wish do conceed to their License change - am I therefore able to receive a refund for this product that I purchased? It is 'no longer the same' product now that they have altered a 'all or nothing' license to use this product.
How the heck are Verant and the like getting away with this type of behaviour? Aren't there laws against this kind of crap? Like fraud, or theft or some such thing?
The world doesnt work that way because of people like your Father. The success or failure of your Fathers business is so mind-numbingly unimportant. If your Fathers and the other bicycles shops decided to co-operate, maybe form a collective of bicycle shop owners/merchants maybe they could ALL enjoy success. Being 'successful' does not mean being a ruthless prick of a business person.
If you believe in evolution - I do.
you believe in competition. - I do.
I believe that the desire to perform more efficiently, more optimally to be successful can be brought about by competition. You are foolish to believe that competition brings efficiency and to interfere in the unending pursuit of profit would impede this efficiency, you probably also believe that if business is made accountable to the citizens of the planet that we wont enjoy as high a standard of living - that this prosperity is a product of this uncontrolled profiteering. Both are constructs sold to you by the propaganda machine.You can be responsible and efficient and prosperous. Corporatists would like you to believe that they are altruistic entities; only interested in providing for the people of your country, that if you demand accountability your country will be driven into a dark-deep depression. ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE Uncontrolled, unadulterated corporate control of all things in the economy is a terrible result of a system controlled by the same greedy corporatists who strive to take what they can for themselves instead of allowing citizens to enjoy the benefits of human-knowledge and productivity.
For the everyday Joe, competition is wonderful.
No, for wealthy business moguls competition in the current American culture is wonderful - they ware able to pollute the democratic system and enslave (quite literally) the citizens of the country. Via the WTO, IMF, World Bank American business is trying to become the next imperial world master. Americans will find it quite surprising how they really live if they cared to look beyond their borders and see how the rest of the world lives - and the way Americans are pitied because you are enslaved by corporate taskmasters. Do you know what labour laws are like outside of the USA? Do you know how little time off Americans get? How low the standard of living is on the world scale? Do you know that America is the most dangerous and violent country in the world? Do you know how you are brainwashed day in-day out to think the way you do - that information about the rest of the world and its policies are very actively kept from you. Did you know that the 'land of the free' are some of the most oppressed people in the world? (language in media, sex in media, soft drugs, prostitution, oppressive IP law) You are by no means free sir Read your comments below:
The competition amongst bicycle stores here in town has been wonderful for the consumer. They used to pay $100 for a nice saddle for their bike--now they pay $70. In 1985, most bicycle stores in this country were small and poorly stocked. Walk in any successful bicycle store nowadays and you will be amazed. The good stores now have damned near every product on the market and they have them in large quantities, with good prices. The stores are clean and well-lit with knowledgeable staff.
THANK GOD WE GET TO ENJOY OUR FANCY NEW BICYCLE SEATS - LETS ALL JOIN THE RECKLESS ORGY OF CONSUMERISM AND CONSUMPTION - ABANDON ALL HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD OR ANY HIGH IDEALS:: SPEND:: SPEND:: SPEND!!!!! ITS YOUR DESITNY!!! AVAILABLITY OF MODERN CONSUMER PRODUCTS IS THE HEIGHT OF TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE, AND CULTURE! AND YOU AND YOUR FATHER ARE BUILDING A BETTER WORLD BY PROVIDING US ALL WITH THIS FABULOUSLY IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY!!!!
And you say this is BAD? No, I say it is irrelevant.
Fine, Nader boy, live as if it was 1975 if you want.
Yes, its too late - abandon hope, lower your standards and indulge yourself, its so much easier and pleasurable.
Me, I'm happy with the low prices and selection that our free market has given us all.
You seem to be convinced that 'Modern American Ultra-Capitalism' is responsible for everything you see around you - it is absolutely not most of what it is responsible for is a polluted, uneducated, cultureless society of happy morons (not unlike yourself) who believe that consumerism is success and capitalism provides this wonderful existence. In reality CITIZENS OF THE PLANET build all the things you see around you - not fictitious corporations.
In reality the world would be A BETTER place if we could live and share more harmoniously. Why have petty fighting? Why have needless selfishness? Because people like you use the system to indulge your greed - and are too cowardly to admit your true motivations.
because his cuthroat prices have driven his competitors out of business. There is nothing wrong with this! It's life. Business is not fair!
When did it become ok to be an asshole in business? When did it become ok to run a business as if its survival and growth were the only things relevant in the world?
Listen up bicycle boy: Under NO CONDITIONS, BUSINESS OR OTHERWISE is it ok to purposefully ruin other peoples lives. The idea that all is far in business is sickening, and is leading the world on a quickening pace to oblivion. Eventually the planet will have to make a choice: 1) Continue to indulge ever greedy selfish shortsighted whim of pricks like your father
OR
2) Hold everyone and their decisions accountable to the greater good of the environment, democracy, social justice, freedom, free-speech, basic-human rights (ect) that a GOOD person would do - because there are people like ME in the world who find it incorrigible to do anything that doesnt have the best interests of everyone in mind its called community and sharing and caring. Idealistic? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Raise your standards people - you dont have to be vultures and pricks to 'get ahead'. People like YOU (your father) irk me to no end - that somehow YOUR happiness is more important than the happiness of your 'competitors'. Cretin.
Now: If you feel you have a conscience, and I have mis-judged you: Im sorry, your point above digs at me like nothing else, and exemplifies one of my greatest dislikes. But it is possible I may have leaped a little at your statement.
Attention America: Today is the day, do the world a favour:
I don't fault AOL/Netscape in putting money-making devices in the browser. They have to make money somehow, and they don't have OS or office suite cash cows to support the browser as a loss leader, so they have to recognize some revenue somehow
I see it a little differently - I see AOL gobbling up Netscape, and with it a massive chunk of Nerdish Karma. AOL absolutely has the resources to float an excellent Browser project - INSTEAD they are going to add a pile of cruft and dog-doo to Gecko and pass it off as Netscape 6.
Ive said it before, Ill say it a thousand more times around here: AOL has a very specific timeline and roadmap for Netscape/Navigator. Their license deal with Microsoft will be up in the new year - they have a MASSIVE amount of sheeple lusers who run AOL Browser (whatever it is) that is basically a re-branded IE. With MS's obvious goals of world-domination, MSN, MSNBC that strange 'search' thing that happens when you put other than a URL in the Address Bar on IE... all 'features' that steer a great amount of mind share and content control of the Net to MS.
AOL likely has VERY little interest in aiding MS broaden their user base. As has been said "the browser is a platform", which is becoming true (for good or ill) but AOL has an interest in maintaining their market share/$ in this 'new web-centric' world.
Heres what will happen: AOL will TAKE ADVANTAGE OF a massive OpenSource effort (Mozilla/Gecko), then release AOL(Netscape)Browser 6 to the mindless masses. If the Mozilla/Gecko/OpenSource project didnt exist; AOL would have built its own rendering engine and have released AOL(Netscape)Browser 6 (sans Gecko) on the same day. But by Mozilla being involved the rest of the world gets the OpenSource engine and a standards compliant effort (vs whatever standard AOL would have specified and designed to(probably as anti-competitive as MS))
I believe in the new year, when AOLusers are given the AOL(Netscape) 6 browser two things will happen: 1) The IE vs Navigator stats will change very quickly and dramatically - with it will come a big 'The Browser wars are not over' media bonanza, and the self-fulfilling momentum for Netscape that will ensue 2) We will have a terrific/compliant/fast/capable browser for Linux. Maybe not at 6.0 definitely soon after. (For a good reason: AOL will not risk putting out a buggy/crappy AOL(Netscape) 6 so the sheeple can say "boy AOL suxors - im switching to MSN so I can use IE it is better dude") And besides: how could they possibly add more features? - they'll have to start on killing the bugs...;)
DV Linux (Indrema's distro) will have a serious binary-only component which will do content management. It will certainly be non-trivial to circumvent this system - Im sure they understand the nature of the OS community which has a significant component of people who feel information ought to be free (libre&gratis). This community of hardcore first-adopters will not stand for over zealous ip-control, but no corporate entity ($ whores) will develop software for a system, marketed to the afore mentioned group, that hasnt some strong-ish method to control 'their ip' (i dont believe such a thing exists... but not the point of this article/post).
From the IDN site, to wit: The IES Digital Rights Management (DRM) system contains proprietary encryption code that protects an IES game, entertainment application, or digital media content from piracy.
When you say "certification for freeware is going to be totally unenforceable" I think we will find that this is not at all true - if Indrema does The Right Thing(TM) (which I believe they will) you will find that their is lots of Linux Apps that get 'ported' to DV Linux as long as their 'free cert' program is equally gratis/libre as the intent of OS developers.
If they dont do this - we will all be downloading XDV Linux distros and blowing DV off our beauty little boxes... ala iOpener et al.
Ok America, enough kidding around: Are you really going to continue to watch your Democracy sold to Corporate taskmasters?NO? Tomorrow do the world a favour and VOTE NADER!
In terms of software applications Indrema offers two separate certification programs: For Profit Certifications and Free-ware Certification
Both Certification Processes carry a one-time charge for review of each software submission. For Profit Games that will be distributed for profit will also be charged a royalty for each title sold.
I hope they are reasonable about the amount charged to GNU games built for the L600. If the charge is anything more than a token $50 or dollars who is going to develop free (gratis) games for a system that has a $ cost for certification? I hope someone from Indrema can clarify this point quickly.
I may spend some time developing apps for the IES when its available, and release them GNU/Free-Ware cert - but if Indrema asks for much in the way of a "one time charge" they are going to SERIOUSLY hinder OS developer support.
ON TUESDAY PLEASE USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DISRUPT THE SYSTEM OF CORPORATE IMPERIALISM, AMERICA DO THE WORLD A FAVOUR:
It also means that the most profound appreciation of life's essential unity
Did anyone else hear General Ripper (Sterling Haden) say "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." when they read that?
Im not saying anything negative about Mr. Hagelin, I just had a strange recall...
In the international community, the challenge is even tougher since we must both help establish a legal framework for intellectual property protection and ensure it is enforced.
Read as: We will do everything in our power to coerce and pressure the rest of the world, by acting on a political level, to build a system where American Corporations can extort profit from consumers."
Listen up Dubya: Keep your corporate imperialism away from Canada. Do what you will in your own country - but dont try and force this crap on the rest of us. Im still hoping the citizens of your country will wake up from their mass-market haze and throw you bastards (and the democrats) in jail for crimes against humanity...
Attention Americans: NOW IS THE TIME! TELL YOUR FRIENDS/NEIGHBOURS/RELATIVES/COWORKERS TO:
Hopefully LinuxMandrake will offer some tech support with the CD. I thought I read on a RH box that the basic $30 CD/BOX came with 30 days free tech support from RH. I hope that Mandrake offers at least that much support with each CD they sell at Walmart.
This tech support will hopefully be enough to get people with it installed - there are alot of very able user-types who will be able to get a dual boot going and get to understand/use Linux.
To say corporations are against people is insane, they are people.
A 'corporation' is an artificial construct. From the Western World, who's sole purpose is profit. It is neither a Person or is it really a display of the will of 'people'. The corporation employee's people - dont do as it asks: starve. The corporation lives forever, providing a mandate and continuity that becomes very powerfully: it lives 'forever' unchanging in its pursuit for power (concentration of wealth and other influences). The corporation will do things that are irrational and irresponsible to serve the bottom line: uncontrollable pollution/unnecessary layoffs/re-construct its environment (exert influence on a citizen organized government)
Although 'people' are the 'owners' and 'workers' that power corporations they are merely cogs - our economic system is being shaped to act as environment to foster the development of these beasts, but 'people' are not the ones putting it together - corporations, empowering themselves, will construct their own environment in order to assure there success.
Imagine a virus who is capable of building its own perfect host. This is what is happening to the governments of the western world.People are no longer in control A single person isnt capable of shouting loud enough, of hitting hard enough, of cutting deep enough to influence these gargantuan entities. Very few people are in control of the economic future of the world - by virtue of their greed or sheer luck they are in this position, ordinary people yes, but with an exorbitant amount of influence. A position that is so easily corrupted. The fact that 1000's of people organize to support it is an act of self-preservation, nothing more (on behalf of those citizens). With the overwhelming drive to keep oneself fed, clothed, sheltered - it becomes clear what the involvement of people becomes. Quite frankly, the present state of the world (that Katz describes) is undeniably true - look at the undemocratic nature of your government: closed debates, flawed electoral system (which would be the best, easiest step to right some of the present wrongs! dont forget about this people! share this information! tell your government to move to another voting system!), corporate lobbies and Soft Money all devices used to predicate the present broken/flawed system.
Change is good people - start demanding fundamental, basic changes in the system... no better time to start than 11.07.00
Start by telling your friends/neighbours/relatives/coworkers to:
This is nice - id be willing to pay say $1 (+/- $0.25) per month to use the Napster Membership service - only if the files were of guaranteed quality (highest MP3 bit/freq) and were maintained by the record companies so I dont waste bandwidth downloading incomplete/incorrectly labeled songs. And oh yeah - and if the RIAA was dissolved in the process. (or atleast the top 5 record companies disappeared and gave copyrights back to their respective owners!
Face it - the gig is up, the RIAA is flatly unnecessary in its current capacity, the internet has simply made the cost of distribution/manufacture of music virtually $0. They will no longer be able to extort control of the public (via promotion/radio (what you hear)) and the artists via the collusion and monopoly making the contracts identically oppressive/restrictive/majorscrewing.
RIAA: Try as you may, try as you might, your days are up. Maybe now you will have to work for a living instead of sucking the blood from artists and patrons alike. You reap what you sow. NOTE: MPAA -> YOUR NEXT.
Yeah - REAL is right, real damned expensive: try this currency converter at yahoo to tell you how much broadcast-warehouse's least expensive unit (1W) costs: $329UK vs $40CDN. Hint: Its over $700CDN
See the news from tripwire's new site TripWire.org which has the skinny from Tripwire directly. LinuxPower has an article. As does IGN over here.
T here is also a great article here regarding file system monitoring - and alternatives (additional OpenSource) to TripWire. Not quite as relevant now that TripWire is OpenSource but still a good read.
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Why get geeked about the PS2 and this thinly supported/implemented/considered Basic?*
You can buy the Indrema and use the devkits for free... Im willing to bet there will be some serious independent development for the L600 when its available - this Sony Basic crap is a simple effort to thwart UK tax law, shame on the $ony Corporate $WHORES$ who would purposely screw the tax laws in that country... The government should quickly add a clause to the tax laws to fuck Sony back - the bastards.
Who'd have though Sony (the proprietary crap consumer product kings) would do such a thing... puhleeze
*If anyone thinks that this Basic is going to be anything even remotely central to the PS2: Why isn't It being released everywhere? And at PS2 launch?
Here is my 'proposed solution' - as everyone else has one, I thought I'd toss this idea out. Why not extend the Gnutella protocol to include a method to subdivide the existing network. Meaning - instead of randomly collecting other nodes of any type - why not only connect nodes of a certain type say "Warez" or "MP3Z". Now if I have 1.2.3.4-MP3 and I choose to connect to the "MP3" subnet of gnutella I will.
Clients Can query the larger 'unsegmented' net to determine the 'subnetted' network extensions:
5.6.7.8:warez;
9.0.1.2:pron;
3.4.5.6:warez;
ect.
This could probably be implemented without breaking the existing clients and network where only Gnutella 'v2' clients would be able to choose a subnet to join. When the "MP3Z" network grows to the breakpoint - someone starts a MP3ZZ network.
As a side note: Has an organization or project formed on any collective level to address these problems? Is there a 'recognized' authority that is guiding the 'official' Gnutella protocol and a reference implementation? Gnutella is a very necessary model to pursue and develop because of the threat to Napster (though OpenNap provides a mechanism to thwart the $RIAA$MPAA$ whores - there is still the problem of having 'servers' to identify and attack (not to mention the problem that Napigator will have when Napster is finally shut down...))
Ok ok - go easy - I often find myself typing copy in bash shells and dir /page/date and other various DCL (VMS) commands in DOS shells and versa-vice. You know what i meant. ;)
have AMD machines now and when the dual-Athlon DDR SMP motherboards come out (purr purr) I will be getting another one.
Have you heard of who is going to be offering one of these units? I am looking to do the same when its available and all this 'on again' - 'off again' confusion has me flustered - Does anyone know the "REAL" skinny on the Dual Athlon MoBos?
an additional option for people who want to use their software in terms different from the existing ones, and everybody just comes out and denounces them for giving their customers a choice
.net crap is an effort to more tightly control Microsoft IP and further reduce REAL choice. Simple.
This is clearly flamebait, but I'll bite.
What are you talking about 'choice'? If MS was interested in offering 'choice' they would offer a product called UsefullOfficeApps v1.0 which included only about 10% of MSOffice's features and would come standard with their OS - or for $5. They are not offering 'choice' they are AGAIN using their market force to push something on computer users they dont really need - and trying to convince them its in their best interest. Sad.
This sir, is a clear and obvious effort to royally screw people. Simple - Microsoft's ASP initiative (.net) is an effort to extort money from people. MS has learned a lesson from the likes of the CueCat/RIAA/MPAA who do not want to sell you anything, give you anything or let you assume any rights to something you purchase. In the intellectual property based economy of the future - corporatists are getting scared when they realize that citizens presently own things, and are allowed to do as they will with these things... these clueless $whores$ are only concerned with selling you the temporary privilage of being a 'consumer' of their products for a time, never transfer any of their precious IP, and never actually sell you anything. This
you can't create *new* documents, not that you can't continue working on and reading existing ones
Im sure Mr.Bill has thought of us doing: cp c:\mydocu~1\generic.doc ~/generic.doc editing the file so it is absolutely different - then printing - emailing - or the really inventive cp ~/generic.doc ~/my_archived_important_file.doc
Im betting you wont be able to do ANY work with your 'subscription' version of Office 10 after your time is up.
From the article:
.xxx or .sex they dont have any appeal to major industry - just evil pornography peddlers - g-darn sinners all.
New domains approved by the board are subject to approval by the Department of Commerce
Nice to see the 'net has become an arm of the American Corporatist army - what the hell does the Commerce industry have to do with it? Maybe thats why you wont see
I want to vote "straight Democratic Party ticket" and then also punch a vote for Bush for President
Technically isnt that a spoiled ballot? Shouldnt it get confused...?
From the FAQ (quoted from you):Kylix open source project are currently under development and will be announced at a later date
From the article: will announce, at Comdex in Las Vegas this week, plans to release the source code of its Kylix
What here dont you understand?
In a popular vote, every vote counts
WRONG! go back and read the article at Discover (and re-read Katz's article above) If you elect your president by a purely popular vote every vote DOES NOT count - only the people who vote for the (eventual) winner count, everyone elses' vote means nothing. This is the basic problem with plurality voting (as you propose).
There will certainly be allot of debate take place about how to change the present electoral system in the USA as a result of this mess. Please dont let this opportunity for REAL change pass you by, send a letter to your elected officials demanding the following 3 things (if your Canadian, just #1 & #2):
1) Stop electing people using Plurality and switch to Borda Voting - which is best suited to reaching consensus, which is what we want isnt it?
2) All 3rd party money should be stripped from all politics - arent you people tired of watching your politicians selling legislation and accepting bribes, money for your campaign in exchange for favour is nothing more than a bribe, what the hell are we thinking...
3) Toss out this silly EC idea* - allow each state to split its electoral college votes based on 'ridings' where each vote comes from, ie. divide Florida up in 25 'ridings' and allow each small area to elect the candidate that best speaks to that smaller region, maybe the candidate will have something that appeals to them more specifically. This smaller region can have a greater say in what is relevant specifically to them.
REAL-BASIC CHANGES ARE NECESSARY and with this mess, some changes are going to take place - PLEASE make the right choices and REALLY fix the problems...
*and for every person who is now going to say "we live in a Republic not a Democracy - because Democracy doesnt work - blah blah" give your head a shake... you had a Republic in a time when it took 3 weeks to send a letter to someone in Washington it wasnt technically feasible to govern such a large area with a democratic system... CHANGE IS GOOD stop thinking of your 'Forefathers' as infallible Gods and your 'Constitution' as their bible... BUILD A BETTER SYSTEM - RAISE YOUR EXPECTATIONS - CONTINUOUS IMPROVMENT SHOULD BE THE GOAL
$10 voice modem ain't gonna sell many albums
That would be relevant if you werent listening to MP3s via the $0.02 tinny-speaker via the copper phonelines. I dont think HI-FI/quality output is necessary when the weakest link in the system is definatley out of there control...
12" or so Touch TFT
ONboard everything type PC strapped on the back (ala IOpener)
Linux Supported Hardware
Wireless keyboard
1 10/100bt ethernet
USB/Firewire if you feel generous
So I can strap it on the wall in the kitchen, the foyer, the bathroom and the garage. Cant it be seen that their is a market for such a device - a terminal class PC with touch TFT up front...
"You hereby grant us permission to download Game-related files to you. You also grant us permission to access, extract and upload(i) Game-related data as part of the patching process and (ii)data relating to any program that we, in our reasonable discretion,determine interferes with the proper operation of EverQuest."
I am a former EQ player.. I no longer have an account on Verant's servers. I also do not wish do conceed to their License change - am I therefore able to receive a refund for this product that I purchased? It is 'no longer the same' product now that they have altered a 'all or nothing' license to use this product.
How the heck are Verant and the like getting away with this type of behaviour? Aren't there laws against this kind of crap? Like fraud, or theft or some such thing?
The world just doesn't work that way, buddy.
:: SPEND :: SPEND :: SPEND!!!!! ITS YOUR DESITNY!!! AVAILABLITY OF MODERN CONSUMER PRODUCTS IS THE HEIGHT OF TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE, AND CULTURE! AND YOU AND YOUR FATHER ARE BUILDING A BETTER WORLD BY PROVIDING US ALL WITH THIS FABULOUSLY IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY!!!!
The world doesnt work that way because of people like your Father. The success or failure of your Fathers business is so mind-numbingly unimportant. If your Fathers and the other bicycles shops decided to co-operate, maybe form a collective of bicycle shop owners/merchants maybe they could ALL enjoy success. Being 'successful' does not mean being a ruthless prick of a business person.
If you believe in evolution - I do.
you believe in competition. - I do.
I believe that the desire to perform more efficiently, more optimally to be successful can be brought about by competition. You are foolish to believe that competition brings efficiency and to interfere in the unending pursuit of profit would impede this efficiency, you probably also believe that if business is made accountable to the citizens of the planet that we wont enjoy as high a standard of living - that this prosperity is a product of this uncontrolled profiteering. Both are constructs sold to you by the propaganda machine.You can be responsible and efficient and prosperous. Corporatists would like you to believe that they are altruistic entities; only interested in providing for the people of your country, that if you demand accountability your country will be driven into a dark-deep depression. ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE
Uncontrolled, unadulterated corporate control of all things in the economy is a terrible result of a system controlled by the same greedy corporatists who strive to take what they can for themselves instead of allowing citizens to enjoy the benefits of human-knowledge and productivity.
For the everyday Joe, competition is wonderful.
No, for wealthy business moguls competition in the current American culture is wonderful - they ware able to pollute the democratic system and enslave (quite literally) the citizens of the country. Via the WTO, IMF, World Bank American business is trying to become the next imperial world master. Americans will find it quite surprising how they really live if they cared to look beyond their borders and see how the rest of the world lives - and the way Americans are pitied because you are enslaved by corporate taskmasters. Do you know what labour laws are like outside of the USA? Do you know how little time off Americans get? How low the standard of living is on the world scale? Do you know that America is the most dangerous and violent country in the world? Do you know how you are brainwashed day in-day out to think the way you do - that information about the rest of the world and its policies are very actively kept from you. Did you know that the 'land of the free' are some of the most oppressed people in the world? (language in media, sex in media, soft drugs, prostitution, oppressive IP law) You are by no means free sir Read your comments below:
The competition amongst bicycle stores here in town has been wonderful for the consumer. They used to pay $100 for a nice saddle for their bike--now they pay $70. In 1985, most bicycle stores in this country were small and poorly stocked. Walk in any successful bicycle store nowadays and you will be amazed. The good stores now have damned near every product on the market and they have them in large quantities, with good prices. The stores are clean and well-lit with knowledgeable staff.
THANK GOD WE GET TO ENJOY OUR FANCY NEW BICYCLE SEATS - LETS ALL JOIN THE RECKLESS ORGY OF CONSUMERISM AND CONSUMPTION - ABANDON ALL HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD OR ANY HIGH IDEALS
And you say this is BAD?
No, I say it is irrelevant.
Fine, Nader boy, live as if it was 1975 if you want.
Yes, its too late - abandon hope, lower your standards and indulge yourself, its so much easier and pleasurable.
Me, I'm happy with the low prices and selection that our free market has given us all.
You seem to be convinced that 'Modern American Ultra-Capitalism' is responsible for everything you see around you - it is absolutely not most of what it is responsible for is a polluted, uneducated, cultureless society of happy morons (not unlike yourself) who believe that consumerism is success and capitalism provides this wonderful existence. In reality CITIZENS OF THE PLANET build all the things you see around you - not fictitious corporations.
In reality the world would be A BETTER place if we could live and share more harmoniously. Why have petty fighting? Why have needless selfishness? Because people like you use the system to indulge your greed - and are too cowardly to admit your true motivations.
because his cuthroat prices have driven his competitors out of business. There is nothing wrong with this! It's life. Business is not fair!
When did it become ok to be an asshole in business? When did it become ok to run a business as if its survival and growth were the only things relevant in the world?
Listen up bicycle boy: Under NO CONDITIONS, BUSINESS OR OTHERWISE is it ok to purposefully ruin other peoples lives.
The idea that all is far in business is sickening, and is leading the world on a quickening pace to oblivion. Eventually the planet will have to make a choice:
1) Continue to indulge ever greedy selfish shortsighted whim of pricks like your father
OR
2) Hold everyone and their decisions accountable to the greater good of the environment, democracy, social justice, freedom, free-speech, basic-human rights (ect) that a GOOD person would do - because there are people like ME in the world who find it incorrigible to do anything that doesnt have the best interests of everyone in mind its called community and sharing and caring. Idealistic? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Raise your standards people - you dont have to be vultures and pricks to 'get ahead'. People like YOU (your father) irk me to no end - that somehow YOUR happiness is more important than the happiness of your 'competitors'. Cretin.
Now: If you feel you have a conscience, and I have mis-judged you: Im sorry, your point above digs at me like nothing else, and exemplifies one of my greatest dislikes. But it is possible I may have leaped a little at your statement.
Attention America: Today is the day, do the world a favour:
I don't fault AOL/Netscape in putting money-making devices in the browser. They have to make money somehow, and they don't have OS or office suite cash cows to support the browser as a loss leader, so they have to recognize some revenue somehow
;)
I see it a little differently - I see AOL gobbling up Netscape, and with it a massive chunk of Nerdish Karma. AOL absolutely has the resources to float an excellent Browser project - INSTEAD they are going to add a pile of cruft and dog-doo to Gecko and pass it off as Netscape 6.
Ive said it before, Ill say it a thousand more times around here: AOL has a very specific timeline and roadmap for Netscape/Navigator. Their license deal with Microsoft will be up in the new year - they have a MASSIVE amount of sheeple lusers who run AOL Browser (whatever it is) that is basically a re-branded IE. With MS's obvious goals of world-domination, MSN, MSNBC that strange 'search' thing that happens when you put other than a URL in the Address Bar on IE... all 'features' that steer a great amount of mind share and content control of the Net to MS.
AOL likely has VERY little interest in aiding MS broaden their user base. As has been said "the browser is a platform", which is becoming true (for good or ill) but AOL has an interest in maintaining their market share/$ in this 'new web-centric' world.
Heres what will happen: AOL will TAKE ADVANTAGE OF a massive OpenSource effort (Mozilla/Gecko), then release AOL(Netscape)Browser 6 to the mindless masses. If the Mozilla/Gecko/OpenSource project didnt exist; AOL would have built its own rendering engine and have released AOL(Netscape)Browser 6 (sans Gecko) on the same day. But by Mozilla being involved the rest of the world gets the OpenSource engine and a standards compliant effort (vs whatever standard AOL would have specified and designed to(probably as anti-competitive as MS))
I believe in the new year, when AOLusers are given the AOL(Netscape) 6 browser two things will happen:
1) The IE vs Navigator stats will change very quickly and dramatically - with it will come a big 'The Browser wars are not over' media bonanza, and the self-fulfilling momentum for Netscape that will ensue
2) We will have a terrific/compliant/fast/capable browser for Linux. Maybe not at 6.0 definitely soon after. (For a good reason: AOL will not risk putting out a buggy/crappy AOL(Netscape) 6 so the sheeple can say "boy AOL suxors - im switching to MSN so I can use IE it is better dude") And besides: how could they possibly add more features? - they'll have to start on killing the bugs...
Today's the day People, get out and VOTE NADER!
DV Linux (Indrema's distro) will have a serious binary-only component which will do content management. It will certainly be non-trivial to circumvent this system - Im sure they understand the nature of the OS community which has a significant component of people who feel information ought to be free (libre&gratis). This community of hardcore first-adopters will not stand for over zealous ip-control, but no corporate entity ($ whores) will develop software for a system, marketed to the afore mentioned group, that hasnt some strong-ish method to control 'their ip' (i dont believe such a thing exists... but not the point of this article/post).
From the IDN site, to wit: The IES Digital Rights Management (DRM) system contains proprietary encryption code that protects an IES game, entertainment application, or digital media content from piracy.
When you say "certification for freeware is going to be totally unenforceable" I think we will find that this is not at all true - if Indrema does The Right Thing(TM) (which I believe they will) you will find that their is lots of Linux Apps that get 'ported' to DV Linux as long as their 'free cert' program is equally gratis/libre as the intent of OS developers.
If they dont do this - we will all be downloading XDV Linux distros and blowing DV off our beauty little boxes... ala iOpener et al.
Ok America, enough kidding around: Are you really going to continue to watch your Democracy sold to Corporate taskmasters? NO? Tomorrow do the world a favour and VOTE NADER!
In terms of software applications Indrema offers two separate certification programs: For Profit Certifications and Free-ware Certification
Both Certification Processes carry a one-time charge for review of each software submission. For Profit Games that will be distributed for profit will also be charged a royalty for each title sold.
I hope they are reasonable about the amount charged to GNU games built for the L600. If the charge is anything more than a token $50 or dollars who is going to develop free (gratis) games for a system that has a $ cost for certification? I hope someone from Indrema can clarify this point quickly.
I may spend some time developing apps for the IES when its available, and release them GNU/Free-Ware cert - but if Indrema asks for much in the way of a "one time charge" they are going to SERIOUSLY hinder OS developer support.
ON TUESDAY PLEASE USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DISRUPT THE SYSTEM OF CORPORATE IMPERIALISM, AMERICA DO THE WORLD A FAVOUR:
It also means that the most profound appreciation of life's essential unity
Did anyone else hear General Ripper (Sterling Haden) say "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." when they read that?
Im not saying anything negative about Mr. Hagelin, I just had a strange recall...
In the international community, the challenge is even tougher since we must both help establish a legal framework for intellectual property protection and ensure it is enforced.
Read as:
We will do everything in our power to coerce and pressure the rest of the world, by acting on a political level, to build a system where American Corporations can extort profit from consumers."
Listen up Dubya: Keep your corporate imperialism away from Canada. Do what you will in your own country - but dont try and force this crap on the rest of us. Im still hoping the citizens of your country will wake up from their mass-market haze and throw you bastards (and the democrats) in jail for crimes against humanity...
Attention Americans: NOW IS THE TIME! TELL YOUR FRIENDS/NEIGHBOURS/RELATIVES/COWORKERS TO:
Hopefully LinuxMandrake will offer some tech support with the CD. I thought I read on a RH box that the basic $30 CD/BOX came with 30 days free tech support from RH. I hope that Mandrake offers at least that much support with each CD they sell at Walmart.
This tech support will hopefully be enough to get people with it installed - there are alot of very able user-types who will be able to get a dual boot going and get to understand/use Linux.
To say corporations are against people is insane, they are people.
A 'corporation' is an artificial construct. From the Western World, who's sole purpose is profit. It is neither a Person or is it really a display of the will of 'people'.
The corporation employee's people - dont do as it asks: starve.
The corporation lives forever, providing a mandate and continuity that becomes very powerfully: it lives 'forever' unchanging in its pursuit for power (concentration of wealth and other influences).
The corporation will do things that are irrational and irresponsible to serve the bottom line: uncontrollable pollution/unnecessary layoffs/re-construct its environment (exert influence on a citizen organized government)
Although 'people' are the 'owners' and 'workers' that power corporations they are merely cogs - our economic system is being shaped to act as environment to foster the development of these beasts, but 'people' are not the ones putting it together - corporations, empowering themselves, will construct their own environment in order to assure there success.
Imagine a virus who is capable of building its own perfect host. This is what is happening to the governments of the western world.People are no longer in control A single person isnt capable of shouting loud enough, of hitting hard enough, of cutting deep enough to influence these gargantuan entities. Very few people are in control of the economic future of the world - by virtue of their greed or sheer luck they are in this position, ordinary people yes, but with an exorbitant amount of influence. A position that is so easily corrupted. The fact that 1000's of people organize to support it is an act of self-preservation, nothing more (on behalf of those citizens). With the overwhelming drive to keep oneself fed, clothed, sheltered - it becomes clear what the involvement of people becomes. Quite frankly, the present state of the world (that Katz describes) is undeniably true - look at the undemocratic nature of your government: closed debates, flawed electoral system (which would be the best, easiest step to right some of the present wrongs! dont forget about this people! share this information! tell your government to move to another voting system!), corporate lobbies and Soft Money all devices used to predicate the present broken/flawed system.
Change is good people - start demanding fundamental, basic changes in the system... no better time to start than 11.07.00
Start by telling your friends/neighbours/relatives/coworkers to:
This is nice - id be willing to pay say $1 (+/- $0.25) per month to use the Napster Membership service - only if the files were of guaranteed quality (highest MP3 bit/freq) and were maintained by the record companies so I dont waste bandwidth downloading incomplete/incorrectly labeled songs. And oh yeah - and if the RIAA was dissolved in the process. (or atleast the top 5 record companies disappeared and gave copyrights back to their respective owners!
Face it - the gig is up, the RIAA is flatly unnecessary in its current capacity, the internet has simply made the cost of distribution/manufacture of music virtually $0. They will no longer be able to extort control of the public (via promotion/radio (what you hear)) and the artists via the collusion and monopoly making the contracts identically oppressive/restrictive/majorscrewing.
RIAA: Try as you may, try as you might, your days are up. Maybe now you will have to work for a living instead of sucking the blood from artists and patrons alike. You reap what you sow. NOTE: MPAA -> YOUR NEXT.
Yeah - REAL is right, real damned expensive: try this currency converter at yahoo to tell you how much broadcast-warehouse's least expensive unit (1W) costs: $329UK vs $40CDN.
Hint: Its over $700CDN
See the news from tripwire's new site TripWire.org which has the skinny from Tripwire directly. LinuxPower has an article. As does IGN over here.
T here is also a great article here regarding file system monitoring - and alternatives (additional OpenSource) to TripWire. Not quite as relevant now that TripWire is OpenSource but still a good read.