If only they had bought the laptop division from IBM right now they cudve enjoyed this uber cool patent guaranteed to you impress your friends when you are juggling your laptop with a finger!
I dont know if it is sad or funny that when speaking about open source they were talking about if file systems had any problem.... lets not talk about API or anything trivial like that but hey this file system seems to be really meddling with creating a better UI and experience in Windows.
And OOXML.. seriously! Like how about they just release the stndards of OOXML to begin with!
Who said he would get hate emails from the general public. The public would adore him for speaking out. He would receive hate email from RIAA (possible even a couple of notices or so) plus hate emails form all those 'really poor artists' represented by RIAA.
This is not completely accurate. I am in Canada and I had gotten a Grand Central number. Maybe it is for US and Canada only but, how hrd is it to use a proxy in the US to register (or ask a friend to do it) and use that phone number if you want!
As if NSA spying wasnt bad enough now they want the ISP's to do the dirty work and hand them the result in a silver platter. With intelligence agencies doing the work you could atleast hope on their incompetence to keep you safe but now even that is gone.
Some people may lose the mod points I had given but this is important:
You are misinformed in the sense that Google does infact use cheap consumer grade hard drives. They find it cheaper than regular enterprise SAS or SCSI hard drives.
BitTorrent is as mainstream as YouTube is. With 100 million views a day at YouTube (wikipedia), it averages to less than 8.2 million at any one time making BT more popular than YouTube.
With all the publicity TPB et al has gotten with those ridiculous actions of MPAA, BitTorrent is now a mainstream. The same thing happened with Napster and the same thing would happen with private torrent sites when MPAA starts attacking them.
Dont nationlize the internet... that is just a bad idea. I am saying to nationalize the cables and in fact the 'last mile'. All ISP's could 'rent' the line and pay the government which would then be used to upgrade the system and increase development in rural areas.
And did you just suggest that everyone who does not like Bell start to lay its own cable? Even the economics aside, I can not do it because to government regulation and the fact that I would need right of way from everyone's house under which the cable passes. Also, think how would you feel if every other day some private company dug up your driveway and porch to fix a broken cable.... this would be as bad as having six different power lines from six different power companies passing though.
With courses like "Preparing for Terrorism" and such would be what every terrorist wants to learn from an accrediated university.... Dont go to those trianing camps, come to us and for a very low fee we would teach you everything you need to know to prepare for terrorism.
I am sure Osama would be the first one to register
The Canadian government should just nationalize the last mile cables and have a government agency responsible for maintaining and upgrading the lines. Bell has enjoyed its monopoly position with free right of way, government subsidies and floor pricing set by CRTC so Bell can not complain they made a loss by setting up the line in the first place.... their investment has been multiplied tenfold.
And for those skeptics who think they government would not be able to maintain it I would say this: If they could make our roads run in a decent way, the garbage collection in a decent way then the last mile cabling could be done in a decent way also. Ofcourse if required they could just contract the maintenance out to Bell Canada but then at least the government would be incharge.
The site has been slashdotted apparently but no fear, it does not contain anything useful information about the research anyways. You could download the original draft submitted to the journal at http://www.business.ualberta.ca/tcc/documents/TII_3_OMahoney_Ferraro_final.pdf [quote] The following is the quote from google's cached version: Scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization
Two academic management researchers performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization from the management perspective.
The study analyzed 13 years of Debian Project history, interviewed some Project participants and previous Leaders, and carefully observed patterns.
The open nature of history, registered at discussion lists archives and irc logs, meetings reports, helped a lot during the data collection phase.
The study is VERY interesting as scientific analyzed HOW an open source project survived, evolved and flourished during 13 years, overcoming many troubles only challenged by long term BIG communities, reaching a solid institutional foundations to resolve disputes.
The previously releasead version of the text can be found here.
The latest revised version, published at the Academy of Management Journal, Oct 2007, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p1079-1106, 28p; (AN 27169153), is copyrighted and can not be published here.
The authors are SiobhÃn O'Mahony , Assistant Professor at the University of California's Graduate School of Management, and Fabrizio Ferraro , General Management Professor at IESE
We at Canada have a policy of selling any weapons to rogue states. That is why when everyone was busy selling arms to states at war we Canada stayed at the fringes. Now, we believe the actions of the US government and its policies are detrimental to the democratic progress. We believe they could either lead to external aggression (most likely) and internal repression. Thus the Canadian government has decided not to sell the space technology to the United States.
P.S: US please dont take this seriously, we still love you, eh.
My final Prodigy bill was $350. Anyone got higher? This is when Prodigy finally got an elite web browser. Then I got Netcom NetCruiser..ahh the IX days.
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Okay, I hate to be a nitpick, but I've seen your posts to the KDE mailing lists and I can't take it anymore.Your apostrophes show up as Z's with semicircles over them on TTF fonts. (I think that's a Czech character, no?)
Hum. Well, Verdana looks nice in small sizes (compared to Helvetica..it seems the text on the side bars on Slashdot always looked like murder on it.) But in bold, large sizes such as the headlines for Slashdot, it looks like crap. Not enough space. Any ideas?
In ~/.netscape/preferences.js, there is an option called user_pref("intl.font_spec_list". Then next to it is a LARGE list of fonts (it's all one line, by the way.) The final font name is the default font for most things. Change it's -0- to -160- or whatever you want. Then save it (make sure Netscape isn't running), and change to root and chown preferences.js for root, then use chmod to make root the only person that can write to it (but still let users read it.) I used the Midnight Commander (regular version in an xterm or console) to do the chmod'ing and chown'ing. Of course, if you run netscape as root, you'll have to make a script that copies the correct preferences file under a different name to preferences.js.
Well, I don't think he was attacking people for speaking with clicks, but rather that if someone only speaks a language such as Ibo (one of the many languages of Nigeria), they're going to have a hard time on the Internet considering there aren't many sites in Ibo.
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If only they had bought the laptop division from IBM right now they cudve enjoyed this uber cool patent guaranteed to you impress your friends when you are juggling your laptop with a finger!
I dont know if it is sad or funny that when speaking about open source they were talking about if file systems had any problem.... lets not talk about API or anything trivial like that but hey this file system seems to be really meddling with creating a better UI and experience in Windows.
And OOXML.. seriously! Like how about they just release the stndards of OOXML to begin with!
Who said he would get hate emails from the general public. The public would adore him for speaking out. He would receive hate email from RIAA (possible even a couple of notices or so) plus hate emails form all those 'really poor artists' represented by RIAA.
Come on, think about Britney Spears
This is not completely accurate. I am in Canada and I had gotten a Grand Central number. Maybe it is for US and Canada only but, how hrd is it to use a proxy in the US to register (or ask a friend to do it) and use that phone number if you want!
As if NSA spying wasnt bad enough now they want the ISP's to do the dirty work and hand them the result in a silver platter. With intelligence agencies doing the work you could atleast hope on their incompetence to keep you safe but now even that is gone.
Next up: Hiring monkeys at NSA. Details at 11
Some people may lose the mod points I had given but this is important:
You are misinformed in the sense that Google does infact use cheap consumer grade hard drives. They find it cheaper than regular enterprise SAS or SCSI hard drives.
The research done by google could be accessed here: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
Ofcourse it wouldve been helpful had they given the nmes of the brand to resolve the issue once and forever on the Seagate vs WD vs Maxtor debate
BitTorrent is as mainstream as YouTube is. With 100 million views a day at YouTube (wikipedia), it averages to less than 8.2 million at any one time making BT more popular than YouTube.
And yes I agree with you.... BT could only go up
With all the publicity TPB et al has gotten with those ridiculous actions of MPAA, BitTorrent is now a mainstream. The same thing happened with Napster and the same thing would happen with private torrent sites when MPAA starts attacking them.
Dont nationlize the internet... that is just a bad idea. I am saying to nationalize the cables and in fact the 'last mile'. All ISP's could 'rent' the line and pay the government which would then be used to upgrade the system and increase development in rural areas.
And did you just suggest that everyone who does not like Bell start to lay its own cable? Even the economics aside, I can not do it because to government regulation and the fact that I would need right of way from everyone's house under which the cable passes. Also, think how would you feel if every other day some private company dug up your driveway and porch to fix a broken cable.... this would be as bad as having six different power lines from six different power companies passing though.
With courses like "Preparing for Terrorism" and such would be what every terrorist wants to learn from an accrediated university.... Dont go to those trianing camps, come to us and for a very low fee we would teach you everything you need to know to prepare for terrorism.
I am sure Osama would be the first one to register
The Canadian government should just nationalize the last mile cables and have a government agency responsible for maintaining and upgrading the lines. Bell has enjoyed its monopoly position with free right of way, government subsidies and floor pricing set by CRTC so Bell can not complain they made a loss by setting up the line in the first place.... their investment has been multiplied tenfold.
And for those skeptics who think they government would not be able to maintain it I would say this: If they could make our roads run in a decent way, the garbage collection in a decent way then the last mile cabling could be done in a decent way also. Ofcourse if required they could just contract the maintenance out to Bell Canada but then at least the government would be incharge.
hearing it now when the site is down for 'routine maintenance'.... I wanted to add my boss to the list!
The site has been slashdotted apparently but no fear, it does not contain anything useful information about the research anyways. You could download the original draft submitted to the journal at http://www.business.ualberta.ca/tcc/documents/TII_3_OMahoney_Ferraro_final.pdf
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The following is the quote from google's cached version:
Scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization
André Felipe Machado
TerÃa-Feira, 27 de Novembro de 2007
Two academic management researchers performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization from the management perspective.
The study analyzed 13 years of Debian Project history, interviewed some Project participants and previous Leaders, and carefully observed patterns.
The open nature of history, registered at discussion lists archives and irc logs, meetings reports, helped a lot during the data collection phase.
The study is VERY interesting as scientific analyzed HOW an open source project survived, evolved and flourished during 13 years, overcoming many troubles only challenged by long term BIG communities, reaching a solid institutional foundations to resolve disputes.
The previously releasead version of the text can be found here.
The latest revised version, published at the Academy of Management Journal, Oct 2007, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p1079-1106, 28p; (AN 27169153), is copyrighted and can not be published here.
The authors are SiobhÃn O'Mahony , Assistant Professor at the University of California's Graduate School of Management, and Fabrizio Ferraro , General Management Professor at IESE
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I just refuse to believe in any story which does not has the theme of international conspiracy in it. This is /. There can be no man made mistakes!!
This was the 'real' reason for lack of sale:
We at Canada have a policy of selling any weapons to rogue states. That is why when everyone was busy selling arms to states at war we Canada stayed at the fringes. Now, we believe the actions of the US government and its policies are detrimental to the democratic progress. We believe they could either lead to external aggression (most likely) and internal repression. Thus the Canadian government has decided not to sell the space technology to the United States.
P.S: US please dont take this seriously, we still love you, eh.
When would they learn that these actions are just harming them in the long run.
How much money did they 'lose' versus the amount of bad publicity they are getting in the meantime. And let us not forget all the lawyer fees.
Heh.
My final Prodigy bill was $350. Anyone got higher? This is when Prodigy finally got an elite web browser. Then I got Netcom NetCruiser..ahh the IX days.
"like Sting I'm tantric" -- Barenaked Ladies
Okay, I hate to be a nitpick, but I've seen your posts to the KDE mailing lists and I can't take it anymore.Your apostrophes show up as Z's with semicircles over them on TTF fonts. (I think that's a Czech character, no?)
late at night put the gun in you asshole and pull the trigger until it goes *click*
That quote seems familiar. Isn't it from The Jesus in The Big Labowski?
Hum. Well, Verdana looks nice in small sizes (compared to Helvetica..it seems the text on the side bars on Slashdot always looked like murder on it.) But in bold, large sizes such as the headlines for Slashdot, it looks like crap. Not enough space. Any ideas?
Okay, I think I found a way to get around this.
In ~/.netscape/preferences.js, there is an option called user_pref("intl.font_spec_list". Then next to it is a LARGE list of fonts (it's all one line, by the way.) The final font name is the default font for most things. Change it's -0- to -160- or whatever you want. Then save it (make sure Netscape isn't running), and change to root and chown preferences.js for root, then use chmod to make root the only person that can write to it (but still let users read it.) I used the Midnight Commander (regular version in an xterm or console) to do the chmod'ing and chown'ing. Of course, if you run netscape as root, you'll have to make a script that copies the correct preferences file under a different name to preferences.js.
God I hope this is fixed soon.
Ok, well, it's off-topic, but maybe it'll stop someone from becoming a crack addict:
Chronic is not just another name for "marijahoonie". Chronic is marijuana laced with crack (at least, I think so. Maybe it's other things). Not good.
Well, I don't think he was attacking people for speaking with clicks, but rather that if someone only speaks a language such as Ibo (one of the many languages of Nigeria), they're going to have a hard time on the Internet considering there aren't many sites in Ibo.
Doesn't talking Po say "faggot, faggot, faggot, bite my bum"?
Anyways, I sure am glad I don't believe in that insane Christian stuff. Else I wouldn't be allowed to watch Kids in the Hall, on top of Teletubbies.