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  1. Re:I adore the Amiga on Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla · · Score: 1

    AROS is free and open source.

  2. Amizilla with an Arexx port.. on Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla · · Score: 1

    Now thats a thought.

    Does linux have any such thing or capability there now?

  3. Well of course its hype and here is why... on In Search of the Digital Uberdevice · · Score: 1

    ...There is simply more money to extract from stupid dumbass consumers in upgrading many devices rather than just one. But baiting with such plans intended to never be reached leads to better spoon feeding little pieces of convergence hype to the dumbass consumers to get them to feel good about being copper top.

  4. Finally they dug up.... on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 2

    ....A weapon of mass destruction.

    Now if they can just find the other excuse for mass destruction.

    Care to make a trillion dollar wager on whether they will or not?

  5. Wow, that was close... on Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was beginning to have DTs.

    But now that I got my dose fo SCO I'm ok.

  6. Contributing some info..... on Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe a little old but hindsight is better sight.

    From my own Web page

    PROBLEMS IMPORTANT TO SOLVE

    Attention Getting Points

    ------ FROM ------
    COMDEX SPRING and WINDOWS WORLD 95
    Power Panel - "What's Wrong with Software Development"
    ** In The U.S. Only **

    $81 Billion = 31% of software development gets cancelled before complete

    $59 Billion = 53% of software development has cost over-runs of 189%

    16% success - project success and failure ratio

    61% customer requested features and functions make it in

    Maintenance and repair is where most of the U.S. dollars are going,
    instead of new, better, easier to use software.

    ---- Overall ----

    Problems - all-around lack of complete documentation and weak training, faulty user input and feed back - self contradictory user request, lack of project leadership between developers and users, management created problems and low quality control standards, feature creep and software size increase, advancing technology rate of change and lack of general standards, solutions around the corner but never arrive and our tools are better than theirs attitude, lack of a value chain structure for value added abilities, failure to produce a functional model before coding and constant remodeling, etc.

    Solution directions - code re-use, object oriented programming, component-based programming, distributed components, better tools, better programming methodologies, leaner software, a splitting of code writer types into two catagories - architects and assemblers, better effort to establish a working vocabulary between developers and users so users can in some way lead development, etc.

    ---- A Few Comments from Panel Members ----

    A culture needs to evolve that respect software engineers as crafts-people. Writing code is not just writing code but like the field of writing where you have technical, creative, documentary, etc., there are different types of code writing. (Authors' note: I agree with this but also realize end users are even more specialized in what they need and do. Respect for the end user needs and abilities is needed even more so. Without respect given to the end user, the software engineer will not be given respect in return.)

    A fundamental change in the programming environment needs to happen that allows the tools to work together more. (Authors' note: the panel member making this comment, did not specify what tools or who the tools would be used by. It was a very general comment pointing to a fundamental programming environment change. A lead in to the concept of componet programming. But, there was no recognition given to the concept of componet software or componet applications. At least not in the sense of being outside of "plugins". Read on!)

    Jokingly - one of the best ways to copy protect software is to put it in a dll, give it an obscure name and put it in the windows system directory. Because you'd never find it. (Authors' note: This does not make it any easier for the end user in keeping their system organized, clean and optimized. This attitude of constraints, though humorous, cost end users alot.)

    The meaning of "intellectual property" became questioned. Did it mean you take the best ideas or something owned? (Authors' note: it was the panel supporting "best ideas" but wouldn't the correct term for this use be "intellectual value" rather than "intellectual property"? What would happen, regarding this, in a court room? The audience member whom brought this up, was a bit angry about the distortion. Her question was: Is it the developers whom are creating the problems? And what are the developers going to do about it? The responce was "that's not the problem!")

    Users shouldn't develope software but know, better than the developers, what they want and need. (Authors' note: users don't have the time to write code, it's not their job or duties!!! I can cut the lawn, I know h

  7. Just another example of .... on California Makes Recording in Cinema a Crime · · Score: 1

    old business methods not able to keep up with technology, an dthe refusal to change the business methods to work in accord with technology.

    Otherwise.... We have the technology to cure cancer and a bunch of other real world problems but politics is keeping alive old business practices instead.

    Priority is to support outdated business.... fuck life.

  8. Cashing in sprint points... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 1

    I converted $150 worth of sprint points to travel anytime anywhere value but to collect on it you have to go thru the Valley Travel Group.

    Now Its a long wait on teh phone to make a reservation, even for a car rental. But I did that when I was in California visiting so friends.

    Ok Got my reservation and after hopping the hotel to LAX the nightmare began. Turned out the car rental was a smal operation that their shuttle was by only by call. No regular shuttle to and from LAX.

    When I got to teh rental place, finaly I was not impressed with the office. But they claimed they didn't know me, and knew nothing about sprint travel stuff. They even said they didn't have the minivan this whole thing was about. Got on teh phone to sprint/valley travel again waiting forever. OK so they didn't make any reservation but only called the car rental to see if they had a minivan. Interestingly enough they somehow came up with one but wanted more than the deal I had agreed to...... A Clear Bait and Switch.

    So I said NO, take me back to the airport. They Said NO, leaving me stranded. So I called Sprint/Valley Travel back again waiting forever and they said just get what ever I decided to get and send them the receipts..... Duh... Like why wasn't that simple to begin with?

    But it doesn't end, When I finally get back to atlanta I misplaced the paperwork I needed for the addrsss and redemption code. finally after several months I found it but not after trying to contact then by phone and email. Email also was such thet it became clear they were injecting problems where ever they could.

    Armed with the information I sent the paper work off onlyu to get it back a week later with a not deliverable stamp. Realizing then That I have used the address on the redemption code paper, I then sent it to the address I got in email.

    After the first car rental bait and switch problem , I did find a car from Thrifty (not to far a walk from the CON shop) open 24/7... and great service. But I several days later needed another car just for a day (the first car- nobody had minivans at that time - I had for 2 days.)

    So I sent both receipts in --- They paid me back for the second car (which I never went thru them for) - but the first car was for 2 day and almost twice as much --- The one I had gone thru them for.... They did not send me a check for that one.

    But they did include a questionair regarding service...

    I made a long distance call to try and streighten it out and they offered to connect me to a fucking answering machine claiming the person I needed wasn't at their desk. I hung up and called the next day and they connected me to the accounting department....a fucking answering machine.

    They are screwing me out of about $70 -- plus and additional $40 remaining of the $150 spring points I had converted to travel anytime anywhere value.

    There is no doubt in my mind that they have intentionally made all communications difficult and problematic.

    You see, they already got the money from sprint andt he program ends at the end of this year. Where they get to keep what ever is left over.

  9. Re:There is a saying... on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 1

    Why does not firebird thru slashdot not allow me to see a preview? Did slashdot do another upgrade?

    MS and The Art Of War on competition

  10. There is a saying... on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 1

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it..... ....unless you are in a war and playing trogan horse
    MS and The Art Of War on competition

    Meaing if MS has their software somewhere, it means the competition isn't there.

    But if it doesn't work right, to replace a demon of evil spirits, don't leave a void.

    Maybe some Linux companies should prepair a replacement....and stand up for consumer choice.

  11. Same ol Same ol... can't keep up... on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Business needs to change, to adapt to the benefits of our technology.

    Look at it this way:

    Technology advancements are supposed to be good for us. They are supposed to make our world better, our quality of life better.

    At what point does the old economic systems need to change in order to work in accord to such benefits of technology?

    The whole point of money is that of a value exchange system, but what happens when our production of value reaches the ultimate point of being able to supply everyone with the basic needs for near nothing?

    Lets say I'm an artist, I produce some work that is popular, I want value I can use to exchange for other things, including investments, etc.. and all of this is a matter of my quality of life and influence on the direction of things (personal power)...

    At what point of world quality of life and wealth does money hinder more than help?

    We need incentive to keep going, we need to be doing something productive that adds or helps to maintain the wealth we have..instead of becomming fat and lazy..

    But its clear that music production is alot less costly then it used to be and distribution can ultimately be practically free. Making it possible to have a higher percentage of return against the investment... which might be less than the old expensive way.

    But if cost reduction is spread across all products and services...at some point it can be reduced to near nothing.... leaving only the need for incentive to keep going...

  12. by observation change follows... on Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music · · Score: 1

    Whats that experiment? Shrodingers cat?

    By observing the object, the object changes.

    One example of this is the trillion dollar bet where the only way to protect against such misuse or stockmarket card counting, is to make it public where everyone uses it.

    Something about making something untrue by making it public knowledge.

    If such a algorythim is possible then it can be programmed into a music program to generate intellectual property...So to own all hits before they are.

    Maybe we just need plugs in the back of our heads or our wallets...

  13. OT arrogance.Re:OT: You, sir, are a fruitball. on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Care to try again? Maybe you need some glasses?

    Longhorn was in the spoof for no reason

    I'm all for open source, only Gates is at the laffing at me stage which puts him ahead of GNU/Linux, which is ignoring me....Not totally cause there is some attention...maybe enough to know I tried to tell....

    There is a difference between being arrogant and just plain lying. MS lies....where does that leave GNU/Linux

  14. Re:OT: You, sir, are a fruitball. on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1

    I never claimed to have written a story...

    Considering your reading comprehension skills...

    you look like just another smith to me...

  15. Re:Gates is making fun of ME!!! We know that means on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    links screwed up even in not htmling them so here is a link to a page they work on.

    The last post on this page

  16. This stage is where we are at... on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1
  17. Gates is making fun of ME!!! We know that means... on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The following is from a post regaring a Sophia Stewart claiming she wrote the script. A lawsuit is supposedly under way....

    But then there is Myself ---- Should I be honored that Bill Gates is making fun of me?

    Sorry about the lack of html'in the links -- copy and paste...

    Here I am, knowing the wachowskis very probably (I could say I know.. but...) did get inspiration from me and my work online, mostly in usenet. Where I can show a ton more date timed stamped connections than Sophia, based on what has been shown regarding her work..

    Anyone can go to the copyright office web site and plug in her copyright numbers and it they will come up, be found. But unlike the patent office, you cannot access the copy online.

    Likewise anyone can go to google and search on me and see, for themselves....

    There are things in the trilogy which are references to real life event and things.

    So many people have stated the wachowskis stole their work.

    That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that they used real life people, events and things for inspiration in creating the semi-fictional work they did. This does not exclude referencing creative works of others, being inspired by such works of others.

    I.E. Neo: The Trinity, the one who cracked the IRS dbase? I thought you were a guy. Trinity: Most guys do.

    Believe it, it is a real life event reference.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=irs.cla ss-action
    http://www.neo-tech.com/irs-class-actio n/

    As to the thinking Sue was Frank Wallace..
    http://groups.google.com/groups?q=toonc es@cybergat e.com
    One of the messages by me contains:
    "... For myself it is doing so thru computers, but there are efforts of others as well and in other ways, such as addressing the many facets or perspective of government, religion, science, philosophy, humainty, etc... Changes that really began in our lifetime and are picking up speed to easily reach the goals in our lifetime. The current investigation of IRS abuse is in fact directly related to IRS Abuse this man received due the work. In team-work, whether knowledgable of each other or not, but supporting the same general goal, evey bit helps."

    I was mistaken, It wasn't Frank Wallace.

    Look at the dates of those usenet posts!!!!!

    There is plenty. The Wachowskis even wrote themselves into Reloaded. They are the twins, and they are Neo-cheating. However, what color of hat they are wearing is in question. White or Black (then there is the semi-truck headon crash...)

    http://www.neo-tech.com/neocheating/intro.html

    Oh yeah, an about the crew members of the Nebachadnezzar, they too, each represent something in the real world, and its all around you too..

    http://www.zionmainframe.org/users/threeseas/

    If you want to get a date on that, just google groups and you can find a date, but I identified them in early 1988.. Here's some history.
    http://threeseas.net/mind/vic-objective. html
    And if you don't believe the date, then just look for my earliest usenet post... but there are other archives that go back further.

    Oh yeah, the "Gotcha" Its literal in meaning... go to the source of the html...

    Usenet is a government building BTW, and so is the USPTO and nobody had ever done what I was doing in using usenet date time stamping to establish prior art.

    http://threeseas.net/mind/priorart1.html

    Ok so the date of that comment is after the first movie camre out.... a matter of the opportuinity to persent itself to be ......published by the USPTO themselves.

    What else??? Oh yeah...
    The Three Powerline in revolutions:
    http://www.threeseas.net/vic/html/3u is.html

    Sati is the sum total of a system that is far more open to the users regarding coding/programming that has been.
    http://lists.debian.org/lsb-discuss...1/msg 00105

  18. IS this relevant? Re:Out-Open-Sourcing Open Source on Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (Forwarded from Patents list)

    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: [Patents] MS Office 2003 XML patented
    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:48:11 +0100
    From: Carsten Svaneborg
    Organization: www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
    To: patents@aful.org

    Hi! Just came across the following:

    http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpat en tlicense.asp
    Office 2003 XML Reference Schema Patent License

    Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for
    you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that
    read or write files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the
    Office Schemas.

    So usage of MS Word XML files requires a patentlicense.

    :

    You are not licensed to distribute a Licensed Implementation under license
    terms and conditions that prohibit the terms and conditions of this
    license. You are not licensed to sublicense or transfer your rights.

    The licence is royalty free, but GPL 7 requires the right to sublicence
    patent rights to the people who obtain a GPL program from you.

    so in other words Microsoft is using patents to prevent GPLed programs from
    accessing the XML format that MS Word will be using.

    This is very good timing, and goes to show how important it is to ensure
    that the software patent directive has articles that protects
    interoperativity from consituting patentinfringemet.

    --
    Mvh. Carsten Svaneborg
    http://www.softwarepatenter.dk

  19. Metaphors of --re:Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions! on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 1

    Nothing like mass subsconscious programming...

    The metaphors and analogies to the real will be exposed.

    This rabbit hole goes alot" DEEPER and gets REAL and comment #4 protected

  20. Yeah, its REAL! -Re:How about Turing's 1935 paper? on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  21. We borg.... on Sony Music Testing New Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    call it whatever you want but trusting the consumer, isn't what it is.

    Its the consumers saying "we are right and there is nothing you can do about it but agree, otherwise we will not buy."

  22. You can Be CERTAIN... on Microsoft's Next Virtual PC Will Run Linux · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is doing this in what many know of MSs act of embrase and extend.

    Sure MS cannot own Linux, but it can add its functionality to their own and persent a combination that Linux alone cannot present.

    What MS is doing with longhorn and pursuing .net patents is most certainly consistant with this.

    Consider SCO as an associate with MS, where SCO is exploring the possibilities for MS to use, no matter how insane a possibility might seem doing such is looking for teh boundries of the GPL....in MSs effort to own or control everything.

  23. Clusterfuck solution - Author Computer Illiterate? on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Author is computer illiterate, But I'm not!!

    Look here for the solutions to your clusterfuck And Yes I do know of DotGnu, I'm on the list.

    Boy, did I get here late!!!

  24. Re:I'm a carpenter -- hammer nail.... on The Matrix: Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Timecube? you mean that fool who can't understand the point of the single 24 hour day? Nor the 24 day, day.?

    Maybe you should point him to internet time.

    Temet Nosce

  25. warning -- spoilers vs. depth of parent post on The Matrix: Resolutions · · Score: 1

    the parent post links lead to spoilers, but the contents at the links also expose depth you may not grasp by just seeing the movie.