It's their damn program, and they should be able to do what they want with it. Jesus H. Christ.
The government should have NO BUSINESS in this.
(and as a note -- I would like to see all chat programs using 1 protocol, but still -- the government forcing people to open it is WRONG. It is their program.)
How can we totally -remove- our account info? Changing it is NOT good enough. We need to make a show of it and when they see a bunch of accounts being removed, realize something is up.
Wonder how Wall Street will react to this. It's up half a point so far.
I AM GOING TO PATENT BREATHING AND CHARGE EVERYONE FOR AIR LOOK I MADE A FUNNY JOKE ON SLASHDOT
... that has been made about 198312912 times before. Give it up.
Re:Feeble egalitarian "equal but different" logic.
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Would you turn down the money if you were offered it? Of course not, don't be stupid.
If I was an athlete (and I am), this is my thought process:
1) I like sports
2) I like money
These sports generate revenue from ticket sales, concessions, and most importantly, tv contracts. If you don't like the higher salaries, vote with your wallet and stop watching and going to games.
It's no sweat off my back that athletes make that much $, because the owners would be getting it if they didn't. And more importantly, who cares? If you want to spend that much $ to go to a game, don't whine when you see players and owners being paid with your cash. You are being entertained (by some teams at least.. my Steelers suck this year:( )
Re:Feeble egalitarian "equal but different" logic.
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Oh, I see.
So you would rather the owners of the franchises get all the money?
There is a tremendous amount of revenue generated. It's only fair that players get their cut, regardless of if it's thousands or millions. It's not a situation where if the athlete only made 100K, you could hire X more teachers. That's just more money in the pockets of the team owners.
BTW, there's actually another reason: All gov't computers are required to
be fully POSIX compliant, which MS OS's are not.
"...shall have a POSIX compliant, multi-user, multi-tasking OS [operating
system] that is capable of providing the following services concurrently:
print, file, communications, networking, and database."
I've brought this up lightly at the Dept. of Ed. and people didn't care.
-brian
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Government Computer News column by S.M.Ryan:
>
> http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no20a/opinion/2449-1.html >
> brings up the topic of a Federal Acquisition Regulation Council rule,
> known as the 'blacklisting rule', that requires the government to
> do business only with vendors that it finds 'responsible'. He writes:
>
> The proposed standard remains the same: no finding of
> responsibility for vendors with "an unsatisfactory record
> of integrity and business ethics." But the new proposed
> rule requires contracting officers to rely more on
> objective measures, such as findings or decisions by U.S.
> courts, administrative law judges and boards of contract
> appeals.
>
> Could some enterprising contracting officer therefore
> conclude that Microsoft, the world's largest software
> company and a major seller to the federal government, has
> an unsatisfactory record of integrity and business ethics
> based on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's detailed ruling?
>
> I think the answer is yes.
>
> If this comes to pass, it would be quite explosive, and would
> certainly be a good argument for the Supreme Court to decide the
> Microsoft case quickly.
>
>
> p
>
>
> NB for the legal eagles among us, I think the crucial passage is 52.209-5 (D),
> page 40833 of Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 127, Friday, June 30, 2000
> and can be obtained via http://www.arnet.gov/far/ProposedRules/99010.pdf
>
--
Brian C Merrell
merrell@tux.org
Re:What's next? Web Wear
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If I forget to close a table tag and someone views me with Netscape, will they only see my head?
Don't blame the web designers. Sometimes management makes us do it. I just redesigned my company's page, and I lost the battle on Flash, saying it was not needed and what we wanted could be done with regular HTML, and have better support with older browsers.
The part that irks me so much isn't that, but the damn embed tag you have to use. IT ISN'T VALID HTML. Which means if I want to use Flash in a page, and have it viewable by NS and IE, I CAN'T MAKE IT HTML VALID. That really pisses me off, I pride myself on coding HTML, and I can't do it now.
It's refreshing that someone on Slashdot is able to see past their biases / hatred for AOL and see that in the end, this is an extremely good thing.
Mark me down as troll or flamebait, but it needed to be said. Get over yourselves, and realize that this is what Linux needs to reach a broader audience.
I'm somewhat interested in it.. I registered csharpplanet.com and planetcsharp.com, I just haven't gotten around to putting up content yet since I'm bogged down with other freelance work..
Perhaps I'm a purist, but I can't imagine playing Combat with anything other than regular Atari controllers, or playing Breakout with an Atari Paddle. It wouldn't be the same.
Who needs ROMs? Seriously.. there's nothing like the feel of a controller in your hand, and 27" of screen. I can't imagine playing NHL 96 on an emulator would be even NEAR the same experience.
It's all about getting the buds together, and settling in with some booze for a nice night of Combat on the Atari 2600. A joystick breaks here and there, which you don't have the problem with with ROMS, but they're only a dollar. And I don't have friends vomiting on my keyboard, which I consider a plus.
I've recently (past 6-8 months?) bought an Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, Nintendo, and a Gauntlet II arcade machine that's in my living room. I love games, and playing them on the console that they came out on provides the best playing experience, IMHO. Even if the Blue controller doesn't move diagonal very well anymore.:\
Can someone tell me where you people find out about these things? I sometimes catch wind of the major ones, such as Black Hat, Defcon, etc.. but conferences like these are ones I would like to attend but don't know about, and only get to hear about when Slashdot posts a review of 2-3 days after the fact. I realize Slashdot can't announce every upcoming conference, but are there places on the web that I can go to to check this stuff out?
Actually, they did better than the street expected.
"The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company reported a net loss of $45.36 million, or a 37-cent loss per a share for the first quarter, excluding compensation and goodwill amortization costs. For the same quarter a year ago, the comparable net loss was $16.92 million, or a 17-cent loss.
Wall Street analysts on average had expected the company to post a loss of 39 cents a share, according to First Call/Thomson Financial, which tracks earnings data. "
Of course, the NASDAQ has been ass this week and it's dropping today, even though they performed better than can be expected. Ohwell.. I'm a minor stockholder in this, and am just hoping they do one last advertising blitz before x-mas, and then I'll just sell.. should be easy $ for anyone who wants to get in, it's just a game of who's caught holding the bag last in this one.
Slashdot Mirror
It's their damn program, and they should be able to do what they want with it. Jesus H. Christ.
The government should have NO BUSINESS in this.
(and as a note -- I would like to see all chat programs using 1 protocol, but still -- the government forcing people to open it is WRONG. It is their program.)
How can we totally -remove- our account info? Changing it is NOT good enough. We need to make a show of it and when they see a bunch of accounts being removed, realize something is up.
Wonder how Wall Street will react to this. It's up half a point so far.
Too true, too true. If there was ever an AC post to moderate up, this is it.
Anyone find where the hi-res quicktime stuff is? The links on the page are broken, can only view the tiny-really-grainy ones.
Aibo's playing soccer.. how cool is that.
Missed the Halo coming to PC bit. That's great news.. thanks!
:~(
I AM GOING TO PATENT BREATHING AND CHARGE EVERYONE FOR AIR LOOK I MADE A FUNNY JOKE ON SLASHDOT
... that has been made about 198312912 times before. Give it up.
Would you turn down the money if you were offered it? Of course not, don't be stupid.
:( )
If I was an athlete (and I am), this is my thought process:
1) I like sports
2) I like money
These sports generate revenue from ticket sales, concessions, and most importantly, tv contracts. If you don't like the higher salaries, vote with your wallet and stop watching and going to games.
It's no sweat off my back that athletes make that much $, because the owners would be getting it if they didn't. And more importantly, who cares? If you want to spend that much $ to go to a game, don't whine when you see players and owners being paid with your cash. You are being entertained (by some teams at least.. my Steelers suck this year
Oh, I see.
So you would rather the owners of the franchises get all the money?
There is a tremendous amount of revenue generated. It's only fair that players get their cut, regardless of if it's thousands or millions. It's not a situation where if the athlete only made 100K, you could hire X more teachers. That's just more money in the pockets of the team owners.
From the ma-linux tux list:
l
BTW, there's actually another reason: All gov't computers are required to
be fully POSIX compliant, which MS OS's are not.
"...shall have a POSIX compliant, multi-user, multi-tasking OS [operating
system] that is capable of providing the following services concurrently:
print, file, communications, networking, and database."
I've brought this up lightly at the Dept. of Ed. and people didn't care.
-brian
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Government Computer News column by S.M.Ryan:
>
> http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no20a/opinion/2449-1.htm
>
> brings up the topic of a Federal Acquisition Regulation Council rule,
> known as the 'blacklisting rule', that requires the government to
> do business only with vendors that it finds 'responsible'. He writes:
>
> The proposed standard remains the same: no finding of
> responsibility for vendors with "an unsatisfactory record
> of integrity and business ethics." But the new proposed
> rule requires contracting officers to rely more on
> objective measures, such as findings or decisions by U.S.
> courts, administrative law judges and boards of contract
> appeals.
>
> Could some enterprising contracting officer therefore
> conclude that Microsoft, the world's largest software
> company and a major seller to the federal government, has
> an unsatisfactory record of integrity and business ethics
> based on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's detailed ruling?
>
> I think the answer is yes.
>
> If this comes to pass, it would be quite explosive, and would
> certainly be a good argument for the Supreme Court to decide the
> Microsoft case quickly.
>
>
> p
>
>
> NB for the legal eagles among us, I think the crucial passage is 52.209-5 (D),
> page 40833 of Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 127, Friday, June 30, 2000
> and can be obtained via http://www.arnet.gov/far/ProposedRules/99010.pdf
>
--
Brian C Merrell
merrell@tux.org
If I forget to close a table tag and someone views me with Netscape, will they only see my head?
I bet Japanese coders would find a way to make it have really big eyes and/or breasts.
Don't blame the web designers. Sometimes management makes us do it. I just redesigned my company's page, and I lost the battle on Flash, saying it was not needed and what we wanted could be done with regular HTML, and have better support with older browsers.
The part that irks me so much isn't that, but the damn embed tag you have to use. IT ISN'T VALID HTML. Which means if I want to use Flash in a page, and have it viewable by NS and IE, I CAN'T MAKE IT HTML VALID. That really pisses me off, I pride myself on coding HTML, and I can't do it now.
Thanks, Netscape.
Seriously. I was going to post much of the same.
It's refreshing that someone on Slashdot is able to see past their biases / hatred for AOL and see that in the end, this is an extremely good thing.
Mark me down as troll or flamebait, but it needed to be said. Get over yourselves, and realize that this is what Linux needs to reach a broader audience.
Oh well, I guess I learned my lesson by trying to introduce some humor on Slashdot.
Flamebait? WTF. Overrated I can see, but whoever moderated this as flamebait needs to get a clue.
well, damn, i'll have to post that more often then.
mod this guy up!
this is one of the funniest things i've read on slashdot. if anyone has some mod points to spare, mod this guy up.
I'm somewhat interested in it.. I registered csharpplanet.com and planetcsharp.com, I just haven't gotten around to putting up content yet since I'm bogged down with other freelance work..
Yep. We're so earth-centric, aren't we?
IE 2.0 still comes with Windows NT doesn't it? At least that's what the PDC here @ work is running.. :)
Link 1..
Link 2..
Beats the crap out of anything Illiad has ever drawn.
Perhaps I'm a purist, but I can't imagine playing Combat with anything other than regular Atari controllers, or playing Breakout with an Atari Paddle. It wouldn't be the same.
Who needs ROMs? Seriously.. there's nothing like the feel of a controller in your hand, and 27" of screen. I can't imagine playing NHL 96 on an emulator would be even NEAR the same experience.
:\
It's all about getting the buds together, and settling in with some booze for a nice night of Combat on the Atari 2600. A joystick breaks here and there, which you don't have the problem with with ROMS, but they're only a dollar. And I don't have friends vomiting on my keyboard, which I consider a plus.
I've recently (past 6-8 months?) bought an Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, Nintendo, and a Gauntlet II arcade machine that's in my living room. I love games, and playing them on the console that they came out on provides the best playing experience, IMHO. Even if the Blue controller doesn't move diagonal very well anymore.
BilldaCat
Can someone tell me where you people find out about these things? I sometimes catch wind of the major ones, such as Black Hat, Defcon, etc.. but conferences like these are ones I would like to attend but don't know about, and only get to hear about when Slashdot posts a review of 2-3 days after the fact. I realize Slashdot can't announce every upcoming conference, but are there places on the web that I can go to to check this stuff out?
Thanks,
Chad
Actually, they did better than the street expected.
"The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company reported a net loss of $45.36 million, or a 37-cent loss per a share for the first quarter, excluding compensation and goodwill amortization costs. For the same quarter a year ago, the comparable net loss was $16.92 million, or a 17-cent loss.
Wall Street analysts on average had expected the company to post a loss of 39 cents a share, according to First Call/Thomson Financial, which tracks earnings data. "
Of course, the NASDAQ has been ass this week and it's dropping today, even though they performed better than can be expected. Ohwell.. I'm a minor stockholder in this, and am just hoping they do one last advertising blitz before x-mas, and then I'll just sell.. should be easy $ for anyone who wants to get in, it's just a game of who's caught holding the bag last in this one.
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