I generally lean to the left (ie democrat) or libertarian. But Sen. McCain would have been my pick for president. If McCain was had runned I wuld have voted republican for the first time in my life. This guy totally kicks ass. An honest, straightforward person who I know would represent us equally. Unfortunately, we got Bush and his Texas diplomacy. Goddam it, I get so mad knowing that I ddin't get a chance to nominate this guy.:(
Heh. If you really want to give the HOA a headache. Start coloring yourself. Most of those rules is so that the neighborhood looks nice and it's liveable. As soon as you add malcontents that color their hair, have dirty cars and other stuff they can't control making the area cheap they'll start getting a headache.:-) It's going to be hard for the HOA to start enforcing a dress and behaviorial code.:)
I think this is probably the most sensible solution rather than trying to censor sites that may or may not be kid friendly.
We can now use DNS to search only the *.kids.us domain on particular machines while adults can use the other. That way at least is one good way to stop your pre-teen kids from using the computer in their room to see things they probably should not without proper supervision.
This is also creates the assumption that most content is more adult content rather. I much rather believe that than to have companies and parents trying to censor the Internet as a whole as most knee-jerk people are prone to do.
Internet is really an adult oriented culture and not really suited yet for pre-teens. (teens are fair game in my book)
What we really need is a great website thats like a slashdot for music lovers. Where we find out news about the latest non-label groups. Slashdot spread through word of mouth. Just imagine the POWER this website could do! We'd screw the RIAA over so bad they wouldn't know how to conteract it. (except to sign on every band member mentioned in MusicSlash or whatever you want (I suppose it should be named after one of the music symbols:-)
It looks like we are seeing more and more tech saavy judges who are really interested in this issue. Really though more people should be involved as it's a whole new area of law to be researched.
Hopefully with this trend we'll be seeing more fairness in our laws and not have another Dmitry type affair here.
The big multi-national companies are now moving their operations to other countries. Countries like India and China can now do the skilled labor job cheaper than us Americans.
India for instance has a glut of skilled Computer Science people. These people are incredibly smart and incredibly cheap if you hire them in India.
With jobs moving to these nations it's not going to be easy to compete against them. (admittedly I have a slight edge.:-) The question is, how are Americans going to compete against this. Will our government use protectionist schemes or will try to make ourselves more attractive. Thats going to be a very interesting question in the coming years.
There is a linuxbios project (http://www.linuxbios.org) that probably could do serial redirection.
The problem is that the number of motherboards they support is very narrow. But it's definitely something to look at later on.
As a previous poster said, if you want to do remote admining you should probably get Sun boxes unless you're managing a linux farm or something then you could probably get newer motherboards that allow you to do bios through the serial line.
But check out linuxbios I bet that could help right there without all that wierd hardware you're doing.
I'm probably being naive but eventually I think people will get it. However, we should play our part by writing articles in newspapers and magazines and hilighting that. Individuals can make a difference by forcing people to think.
This is something I would like to write sometime. I should definitely try.
It's not clear to me that what the recording industry wants will work with consumers. As a consumer, I would be very irritated if I had to keep paying each time I had to pay for a stream.
I also don't see streaming as being as good quality as a DVD or other local device. It's not "good enough" to pay for and what happens if the net dies while your watching? If the initial market is comparable with what we have today I don't see anybody going for it.
To wit:
Lets compare the VHS tape market with movie requests from cable or satellite:
I can watch the movie as many times as I want.
(more importantly, children who want to watch the same funny scenes multiple times can do so if they want if you're a parent)
it's relatively anonymous. If I wanted to rent a porn movie while my wife's out I can without it showing up on next months cable bill.
I get to keep it for a number of days.
This has been customer expectation for 20 years. If I had to switch to a nickle and dime version I will almost certainly be disgusted and do something else.
Senator Hollings better be careful. Once consumers find out who started this whole mess they'll be fingering him and the Democratic party. Consumers take their entertainment very seriously in the U.S.:-)
I for one would like to ask why the single most popular, informative linux news site failed? What does that speak of the market for real Linux Journalism? Will we be forever forced to read weblog news or listen to the whines of other journalists who just don't get it?
LWN filled a niche for me that nobody else could do. It was one of those sites where you got up in the morning and grab a mug of coffee and start reading!
If anything we shouldn't allow LWN to close. We should be running a campaign to save lwn.
Nothing is free. I hope the technology to watermark and protect our copyright will be available for the general public. In which case I will make sure that the MPAA and what not are not using my stuff. What works for the wolf should work for the goose.
I can well imagine the uproar in society if the power to protect the copyright at the general public level would be. I suggest a GNU program to do this would be great.
Because providing connectivity to Exchange clients is a more lucrative business. Microsoft/Linux combo shops will pay big bucks for interop of a linux client. Why? Because a linux desktop is overall a cheaper solution than a microsoft OS. phpGroupware will not provide the source of income this will. Secondly, I would suspect you would want this open source and it cost money to pay engineers. Not going to happen.
So you're not smelling a rat. It's just lower on their radar. Besides, wouldn't it be better to have a free implementation as in freedom implementation? This kind of plugin could really beneift from open source than a closed source?
My company tried them out. Their customer support was not very good. I've seen initial versions of their software when they first started releasing them and it seemed to have a strikingly similar interface to GNOME gncal (Gnome calendar). I haven't looked at it lately. We have since moved on to try out Ximian.
Please inform us when you've heard of a hindu terrorist?:-) In general, Indians don't make trouble. Americans should note that the number of crimes done by indians is very minute in just about any country.
Yes, Indiana is at it again. Restless again after a 10 year hiatus, Indiana hops a ride with the Klingon Warrior Fck'ou to the planet Vulcan to do battle with the Son of Sarek for the attentions of the evil Gou-uld Marootia which ends in a final climax in Marootia's bedroom.
If you thought this was goofy, you should see the original movie.:-)
Wait a minute here. I remember this thread on gnome-list. (please see: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-list/2000-Ju ne/039883.html)
I'm going out on a limb here. The reason (in my opinion) that some of the widgets are in gnome as opposed to GTK is that GTK widgets did not enforce policy. The GNOME abstraction on top GTK widget set is to also enforce policy. Thats why we have GNOME widgets and GTK widgets. The solution is not to have any GNOME widgets but to have GNOME libraries determine policy for GTK widgets.
As I understand it, some of the widgets will be moved into GTK 1.4. (hey guys someone step in and actually say something regarding this..)
What people couldn't comprehend was why fork the code for GnomeHTML. GnomeHTML was forked to CscHTML because Count Zero didn't want any dependency on GNOME and to avoid the library bloat and to avoid circular dependencies. However, I suggest you read the thread to understand fully the issue.
In the end, GnomeHTML will have configure options to not depend on GNOME libraries. So something was worked out.
Actually, GNOME has a really cool pilot package. Software can now sync with the pilot as long as they provide a CORBA interface. They've already done it with gnomecal and gnomecard.
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I generally lean to the left (ie democrat) or libertarian. But Sen. McCain would have been my pick for president. If McCain was had runned I wuld have voted republican for the first time in my life. This guy totally kicks ass. An honest, straightforward person who I know would represent us equally. Unfortunately, we got Bush and his Texas diplomacy. Goddam it, I get so mad knowing that I ddin't get a chance to nominate this guy. :(
sri
Heh. If you really want to give the HOA a headache. Start coloring yourself. Most of those rules is so that the neighborhood looks nice and it's liveable. As soon as you add malcontents that color their hair, have dirty cars and other stuff they can't control making the area cheap they'll start getting a headache. :-) It's going to be hard for the HOA to start enforcing a dress and behaviorial code. :)
sri
I think this is probably the most sensible solution rather than trying to censor sites that may or may not be kid friendly.
We can now use DNS to search only the *.kids.us domain on particular machines while adults can use the other. That way at least is one good way to stop your pre-teen kids from using the computer in their room to see things they probably should not without proper supervision.
This is also creates the assumption that most content is more adult content rather. I much rather believe that than to have companies and parents trying to censor the Internet as a whole as most knee-jerk people are prone to do.
Internet is really an adult oriented culture and not really suited yet for pre-teens. (teens are fair game in my book)
sri
What we really need is a great website thats like a slashdot for music lovers. Where we find out news about the latest non-label groups. Slashdot spread through word of mouth. Just imagine the POWER this website could do! We'd screw the RIAA over so bad they wouldn't know how to conteract it. (except to sign on every band member mentioned in MusicSlash or whatever you want (I suppose it should be named after one of the music symbols :-)
sri
It's when he hits 'D' that we need to worry.
"Developers, developers, developers..."
sri
It looks like we are seeing more and more tech saavy judges who are really interested in this issue. Really though more people should be involved as it's a whole new area of law to be researched.
Hopefully with this trend we'll be seeing more fairness in our laws and not have another Dmitry type affair here.
I think things are looking up here.
sri
The big multi-national companies are now moving their operations to other countries. Countries like India and China can now do the skilled labor job cheaper than us Americans.
:-) The question is, how are Americans going to compete against this. Will our government use protectionist schemes or will try to make ourselves more attractive. Thats going to be a very interesting question in the coming years.
India for instance has a glut of skilled Computer Science people. These people are incredibly smart and incredibly cheap if you hire them in India.
With jobs moving to these nations it's not going to be easy to compete against them. (admittedly I have a slight edge.
sri
Are you? :-)
sri
There is a linuxbios project (http://www.linuxbios.org) that probably could do serial redirection.
The problem is that the number of motherboards they support is very narrow. But it's definitely something to look at later on.
As a previous poster said, if you want to do remote admining you should probably get Sun boxes unless you're managing a linux farm or something then you could probably get newer motherboards that allow you to do bios through the serial line.
But check out linuxbios I bet that could help right there without all that wierd hardware you're doing.
sri
I'm probably being naive but eventually I think people will get it. However, we should play our part by writing articles in newspapers and magazines and hilighting that. Individuals can make a difference by forcing people to think.
This is something I would like to write sometime. I should definitely try.
sri
I also don't see streaming as being as good quality as a DVD or other local device. It's not "good enough" to pay for and what happens if the net dies while your watching? If the initial market is comparable with what we have today I don't see anybody going for it.
To wit:
Lets compare the VHS tape market with movie requests from cable or satellite:
- I can watch the movie as many times as I want.
(more importantly, children who want to watch the same funny scenes multiple times can do so if they want if you're a parent)
- it's relatively anonymous. If I wanted to rent a porn movie while my wife's out I can without it showing up on next months cable bill.
- I get to keep it for a number of days.
This has been customer expectation for 20 years. If I had to switch to a nickle and dime version I will almost certainly be disgusted and do something else.Senator Hollings better be careful. Once consumers find out who started this whole mess they'll be fingering him and the Democratic party. Consumers take their entertainment very seriously in the U.S. :-)
I for one would like to ask why the single most popular, informative linux news site failed? What does that speak of the market for real Linux Journalism? Will we be forever forced to read weblog news or listen to the whines of other journalists who just don't get it?
LWN filled a niche for me that nobody else could do. It was one of those sites where you got up in the morning and grab a mug of coffee and start reading!
If anything we shouldn't allow LWN to close. We should be running a campaign to save lwn.
No man, the best quote in that book was this:
"It was tough dragging 250lb of sociopath up to Gotham Towers, the highest point in the city. But the scream alone was worth it.."
sri
Nothing is free. I hope the technology to watermark and protect our copyright will be available for the general public. In which case I will make sure that the MPAA and what not are not using my stuff. What works for the wolf should work for the goose.
I can well imagine the uproar in society if the power to protect the copyright at the general public level would be. I suggest a GNU program to do this would be great.
sri
If you want to see a violent film you should see hard-boiled. Jeez..there was so much shooting that I started feeling numb.
sri
Because providing connectivity to Exchange clients is a more lucrative business. Microsoft/Linux combo shops will pay big bucks for interop of a linux client. Why? Because a linux desktop is overall a cheaper solution than a microsoft OS. phpGroupware will not provide the source of income this will. Secondly, I would suspect you would want this open source and it cost money to pay engineers. Not going to happen.
So you're not smelling a rat. It's just lower on their radar. Besides, wouldn't it be better to have a free implementation as in freedom implementation? This kind of plugin could really beneift from open source than a closed source?
sri
My company tried them out. Their customer support was not very good. I've seen initial versions of their software when they first started releasing them and it seemed to have a strikingly similar interface to GNOME gncal (Gnome calendar). I haven't looked at it lately. We have since moved on to try out Ximian.
sri
Please inform us when you've heard of a hindu terrorist? :-) In general, Indians don't make trouble. Americans should note that the number of crimes done by indians is very minute in just about any country.
:-)
Indians do ass kicking when it counts.
sri
Actually, Yahmill is a county in Oregon. A lot of good wines are produced in Yamhill county. Beautiful place for a drive.
sri
Yes, Indiana is at it again. Restless again after a 10 year hiatus, Indiana hops a ride with the Klingon Warrior Fck'ou to the planet Vulcan to do battle with the Son of Sarek for the attentions of the evil Gou-uld Marootia which ends in a final climax in Marootia's bedroom.
:-)
If you thought this was goofy, you should see the original movie.
sri
So..
since things in the virtual world have value does this mean that if I
Wait a minute here. I remember this thread on gnome-list. (please see: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-list/2000-Ju ne/039883.html)
I'm going out on a limb here. The reason (in my opinion) that some of the widgets are in gnome as opposed to GTK is that GTK widgets did not enforce policy. The GNOME abstraction on top GTK widget set is to also enforce policy. Thats why we have GNOME widgets and GTK widgets. The solution is not to have any GNOME widgets but to have GNOME libraries determine policy for GTK widgets.
As I understand it, some of the widgets will be moved into GTK 1.4. (hey guys someone step in and actually say something regarding this..)
What people couldn't comprehend was why fork the code for GnomeHTML. GnomeHTML was forked to CscHTML because Count Zero didn't want any dependency on GNOME and to avoid the library bloat and to avoid circular dependencies. However, I suggest you read the thread to understand fully the issue.
In the end, GnomeHTML will have configure options to not depend on GNOME libraries. So something was worked out.
sri
To wish the priests respond:
Yes, we know, it's nothing new, it's just waste of time.
What need of you of open source? The world is doing fine.
sri
Actually, GNOME has a really cool pilot package.
Software can now sync with the pilot as long as they provide a CORBA interface. They've already done it with gnomecal and gnomecard.
sri
Aracnet rules. I see you're a Oregon resident. :-)
sri