Not that I disagree with the statement that yelling fire in a crowded theatre (or crowded wherever) can cause harm... But try to remember the last time you were in a public place and the fire alarm went off. The last time I remember, everyone was standing around deciding whether or not to leave. Perhaps this is due to all of those fire alarms we experienced as kids in school.
Would you be asking this if it were: "38,000+ Linux-based computers to be installed in public schools?"
Granted, Apple in public schools isn't really a new thing. However, it's always good to hear about a non-MS desktop making a big sale. I know my day is brighter because of this news.
(this solution may or may not work, I haven't really thought it through) Maybe ISPs should setup a private net. Then when people get infected, they switch them to the private network, and all the customer can get is a site where they can download a patch for their machine.
Of course this would be an expense for ISPs, but it sure would be nice to have these people off the Internet until they get their stuff patched (yes, I realize that's what's happening now, but this would be a nicer way to do it). Anyway, just a thought.
How is it any less natural to store a memory of what I see in silicon that I keep internally than to keep it on videotape?
Until someone steals all your memories, re-encodes them in some low-quality format, and spreads your entire life all over the internet... (yes, all of it, including the times you're thinking of right now)
Or for all the conspiracy people, the government would really have a way to know exactly what you've been doing.
I'll take the visual enhancements, but you can leave my crappy memory in tact for the moment, thank you very much.
Perhaps this would make a good Slashdot Interview. Find a judge willing to read through the GPL (and/or others) and give his opinion on it, answer questions, the usual stuff. Unfortunately, this would require finding a judge willing to do that, which would probably be a hard thing to find.
This will probably be said several times here, but I'll say it anyway. Nintendo may not have the highest game count, but the games they do have are always great with good replay value. Take F-Zero for instance, I was considering buy a SNES from eBay just to play this game again (and a few others). For the GB Advance, they just made it portable (F-Zero : Maximum Velocity or something like that). A game that is what, 10 years old? They didn't have to spice it up or add guns and blood, they just shrunk it down for their new system. That's why Nintendo rules.
Anyway, for some good eye candy (both GBA and Game Cube), check out Nintendo's E3 site:
Ah yes, the OS where you inuitively drag everything to the trash when you never want it to be used again, except for removable media, where dragging it to the trash means "pop it out so I can use it later". And using the "Eject disk" menu item means "pop it out, but then nag me about it not being in the drive incessantly until I put it back in".
Unless these words are used somewhere in the MacOS manual, it's a matter of interpretation. You could also view dragging anything to the trash as meaning "Take whatever I'm dragging to the trash and get it the F@%# out of my computer."
All that GNU software wouldn't have been free for Caldera to capitalize if it HADN'T been for the GPL. This guy is clearly off his rocker.
This guy is not saying anything about the software they are capitalizing on... Just that he's not sure if they can make money developing their own code and distributing it under the GPL. He'll be more than happy to use everyone else's GPL'ed code though.
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And yes, the Caldera icon does look like a blue mickey mouse on a balloon. Another conspiracy?
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Also noted here is another non-windows problem:
Sergei notices that the Russian PCS laptop has locked up. He tries to reboot, but the Sun application software won't load. Lots of messages on the screen noting data errors. Sergei thinks that it may be the hard drive. He boots up windows to see if the windows partition runs OK--it does.
Furthermore, if you ask an economist to tell you why, they will tell you it's due to IT growth.
And not just any economist, but ask Alan Greenspan. He says exactly this in the "Hearing on Fiscal Challenges Facing the Bush Administration", January 25, 2001. (C-SPAN has this hearing in real media on their site, but this is not a direct link. It is somewhere in the Business and Economy category).
Close, but you seem to have missed a big part of the HP response. What I got out of it was: Stop whining, the feature you guys were bitching about (not being able to print to this thing from Linux) will be there soon via a free firmware upgrade. Oh and BTW, we are pumping money into SAMBA... etc.
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Not that I disagree with the statement that yelling fire in a crowded theatre (or crowded wherever) can cause harm... But try to remember the last time you were in a public place and the fire alarm went off. The last time I remember, everyone was standing around deciding whether or not to leave. Perhaps this is due to all of those fire alarms we experienced as kids in school.
Yeah, I can see it now... Walking down the aisles at a carnival hearing "PUNCH THE MONKEY AND WIN!!!"
-ictatha
Would you be asking this if it were: "38,000+ Linux-based computers to be installed in public schools?"
Granted, Apple in public schools isn't really a new thing. However, it's always good to hear about a non-MS desktop making a big sale. I know my day is brighter because of this news.
I don't think your analogy is quite accurate. From what I gather, your analogy should be:
So if you hire private security guards to protect your house, do you expect them to forcibly keep out the FBI even if they don't have a warrant?
These companies are ignoring the FBI trojan altogether. They aren't requiring a warrant to ignore it.
"Learn about what they do with those systems, keep that inventory in your back pocket -- hell -- tattoo it on your butt if you have to..."
Sounds like M$ has come up with yet another unintuitive user interface... Could any of you read something that was tatooed on your butt?
(this solution may or may not work, I haven't really thought it through) Maybe ISPs should setup a private net. Then when people get infected, they switch them to the private network, and all the customer can get is a site where they can download a patch for their machine.
Of course this would be an expense for ISPs, but it sure would be nice to have these people off the Internet until they get their stuff patched (yes, I realize that's what's happening now, but this would be a nicer way to do it). Anyway, just a thought.
-ictatha
Just think about what we call them: Baby Bells
Hmm... so what would be a good name for the M$ spin-off companies? Perhaps : MicroSpawns?
Any suggestions?
-ictatha
Go to your favorite video store and rent Jerry Maguire. Not the same industry, but...
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Direct link to the gallery mentioned above.
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How is it any less natural to store a memory of what I see in silicon that I keep internally than to keep it on videotape?
Until someone steals all your memories, re-encodes them in some low-quality format, and spreads your entire life all over the internet... (yes, all of it, including the times you're thinking of right now)
Or for all the conspiracy people, the government would really have a way to know exactly what you've been doing.
I'll take the visual enhancements, but you can leave my crappy memory in tact for the moment, thank you very much.
-ictatha
Where do you see the FSF 5-10 years down the road?
-ictatha
Perhaps this would make a good Slashdot Interview. Find a judge willing to read through the GPL (and/or others) and give his opinion on it, answer questions, the usual stuff. Unfortunately, this would require finding a judge willing to do that, which would probably be a hard thing to find.
-ictatha
Things besides typing cause CTS and other RSIs.
Very true. My sister is a piano performance major, and she had to drop out of school for a little over a year because of CTS. Some hoax.
-ictatha
This will probably be said several times here, but I'll say it anyway. Nintendo may not have the highest game count, but the games they do have are always great with good replay value. Take F-Zero for instance, I was considering buy a SNES from eBay just to play this game again (and a few others). For the GB Advance, they just made it portable (F-Zero : Maximum Velocity or something like that). A game that is what, 10 years old? They didn't have to spice it up or add guns and blood, they just shrunk it down for their new system. That's why Nintendo rules.
Anyway, for some good eye candy (both GBA and Game Cube), check out Nintendo's E3 site:
http://e3.nintendo.com
-ictatha
Ah yes, the OS where you inuitively drag everything to the trash when you never want it to be used again, except for removable media, where dragging it to the trash means "pop it out so I can use it later". And using the "Eject disk" menu item means "pop it out, but then nag me about it not being in the drive incessantly until I put it back in".
Unless these words are used somewhere in the MacOS manual, it's a matter of interpretation. You could also view dragging anything to the trash as meaning "Take whatever I'm dragging to the trash and get it the F@%# out of my computer."
-ictatha
There is also a huge void on the Linux platform in server side software, like database...
Uh, yeah, ok... As long as you don't count Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and many more that I'm either forgetting or not aware of.
-ictatha
All that GNU software wouldn't have been free for Caldera to capitalize if it HADN'T been for the GPL. This guy is clearly off his rocker.
This guy is not saying anything about the software they are capitalizing on... Just that he's not sure if they can make money developing their own code and distributing it under the GPL. He'll be more than happy to use everyone else's GPL'ed code though.
-ictatha
And yes, the Caldera icon does look like a blue mickey mouse on a balloon. Another conspiracy?
Also noted here is another non-windows problem:
Sergei notices that the Russian PCS laptop has locked up. He tries to reboot, but the Sun application software won't load. Lots of messages on the screen noting data errors. Sergei thinks that it may be the hard drive. He boots up windows to see if the windows partition runs OK--it does.
-ictatha
Furthermore, if you ask an economist to tell you why, they will tell you it's due to IT growth.
And not just any economist, but ask Alan Greenspan. He says exactly this in the "Hearing on Fiscal Challenges Facing the Bush Administration", January 25, 2001. (C-SPAN has this hearing in real media on their site, but this is not a direct link. It is somewhere in the Business and Economy category).
-ictatha
when slashdot posts an article about my website (run by Debian), and brings it to its knees?
"Two is not greater than three, not even for large values of two."
It could be very interesting to watch Microsoft try to bully a company that it can't just buy.
You two can be a patent holder! You are only one click away from owning your very own intellectual property! Stake your claim now!
Well, actually is wasn't weightless. It only had the illusion of weightlessness caused by falling towards the earth at the same rate as the shuttle.
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Close, but you seem to have missed a big part of the HP response. What I got out of it was: Stop whining, the feature you guys were bitching about (not being able to print to this thing from Linux) will be there soon via a free firmware upgrade. Oh and BTW, we are pumping money into SAMBA... etc.
Is that a rhetorical question?