>>Ford will not support any Ford car that is older than 7 years. A buddy of mine wanted to get the AC fixed and the Ford dealer pointed him to another unathorized place.
I'm taking my '95 Windstar to a dealer tomorrow to get a head gasket replaced, and they did a brake job for me a couple months ago, neither with any complaints. Maybe it's just that the dealer in question didn't service ACs.
Typical case of Slashbot Synecdoche, methinks.
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I work in the meat and poultry industry. To us, animal waste is not only a nuisance, but a major problem that has to be dealt with on a constant basis. Smell from a slaughter plant isn't just a sensory complaint from neighbors, it's also a health hazard for a number of reasons (ammonia vapors, flies, etc.). All of that waste has to be reprocessed and treated, quickly and effectively, in order for problems to not develop in the first place.
Olfactory testing is a valid, important, and cheap way to determine if problems are happening or will be developing. For you goofs to laugh at it just shows your complete ignorance of the world outside of your little milleu. So how about if you put down your precious code for a few seconds and think about where that burger or chicken sandwich you're stuffing down your face came from in the first place? It didn't appear by magic. It requires a lot of work, and a good portion of that work is messy, smelly, and potentially dangerous.
Hope that you all enjoy your cases of cholera, just to name one of a dozen different diseases that can be caused by improper monitoring and treatment of waste.
Intuit may have removed activation from their products, but there's no comparison here to Intuit, which makes most of their money from TurboTax and thus suffered greatly from a consumer backlash, and companies like Adobe and Symantec, who have much broader product lines and can withstand a backlash against their products having activation, even their flagship products like Photoshop and Norton Anti-Virus. I personally think that activation is moronic and ineffective, but that's really true of any kind of rights management scheme that software producers have come up with.
However, the original submitter is a moron for bringing up Intuit in the first place. But so are the Slashdot editors, which is the best reason why I think it was posted.
Next time that Stallman opens his mouth and says something that shows what an asshole he is, refer back to this thread before you reply and say what an asshole he is, and see if you licked said asshole before you write anything.
This is not a troll. This is just a simple warning against hypocrisy, nothing more.
And doesn't anyone else think that Michael Sims posting a brown-nosing article on Stallman pretty much defines Critical Mass Of Suck?
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Well, it was really one BBC management queer. That was John Nathan-Turner, the show's producer from Baker's final season until the 1989 cancellation. Admittedly, the three Doctors he cast were all straight, but it's been a pretty solid assumption among Whovians for a long time now that Matthew Waterhouse and Mark Strickson got cast as Adric and Turlough, respectively, due to casting couch skills rather than acting skills (Strickson was married but bi, so the story goes).
Nathan-Turner completely wrecked the show, but the gay situation was only a minor contributory factor. The fact is that the guy had no sense of what made for good Doctor Who and ended up imposing his own sensibilities at the cost of the show's credibility and creativity. Add to this the fact that certain members of the Beeb's senior management had a hard-on for the show and let him do his crap for eleven years is what killed it, not the fact that he was gay.
That's precisely like me saying that one of our food supplier's products has the potential to kill you if you eat it. It hurts their reputation as well as my restaurant's for serving their product, especially since I'm an authority figure at my restaurant (much like he was the CTO). Whenever I speak about the restaurant, I have to take my association into consideration.
I'm in the food industry on the wholesale level, and I don't have to. Why? I'm the QA Manager at my plant and the person who knows best what's safe to eat and what's not (even moreso than the inspectors because 1) I have a heavy scientific background, which most inspectors don't and 2) because I used to be an inspector myself). Yeah, I'd probably get fired for it. But the second I clean out my desk, I'm on the phone to a lawyer and a lawsuit for improper termination gets filed under federal whistleblower statutes. I was terminated in this case for doing my job, which is to ensure that the plant produces food that is safe to eat. My loyalty is to the company, but public safety trumps that.
This is exactly what's happening here. He is a computer security expert participating in a project outlining security flaws in an operating system. He was improperly terminated. Geer should file a whistleblower suit against @stake immediately.
I wouldn't call something as common as Salic Law a "bug", unless you regard Salic Law as being on par with Microsoft (which I'm certain some crunchies will). Queen Victoria was prevented from inheriting the Kingdom of Hanover on the death of her uncle William due to the fact that Hanover had Salic Law in place (and hence women could not inherit the royal title), so it passed to her uncle Ernst and then her cousin George, who was the last King of Hanover before its incorporation into Greater Germany.
Because of Salic Law, when Edward VII took the throne of England, he had to use his father's status as the younger son of a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to name the house because of the disconnection of his mother's foreign title from the line. The fact that Victoria was the granddaughter and niece three times over of Kings of Hanover didn't matter.
Hanover wasn't British, either. It was a quirk of ancestry and law (specifically the law in England providing for Protestant succession to the throne) that enabled Elector George of Hanover to become King George I of England (and if Queen Anne had died a couple months before she did, England would have had an octogenarian Queen Sophie I on the throne). It wasn't until George's great-grandson George III that the ruler of Hanover regarded himself as more English than German; George II even fought in Hanover's wars.
England's like that. "Plantagenet" was the nickname of Geoffrey of Anjou, who never ruled England, but was the progenitor of the line through the Empress Matilda, the last of the House of Normandy. Technically, his descendants were the House of Anjou, but no one refers to the royal house between Henry II and Richard III as that.
And you can install it without spyware and get all the functionality you need. Troll away. Thanks to the 2.0 Toolbar, I ditched my pop-up blocking software. It was actually better than what I was using.
And the first person to say the word "Mozilla" gets punched in the teeth.
23 Mil for a company that Apple almost purchased for big bucks
The smartest thing Amelio ever did at Apple was not purchase Gassbag's piece of shit alleged operating system. $240 million for that, my ass. Good for you, Gil. Just shows that anything Gassbag has is a pale imitation of his lord and master Jobs, from his NeXT-wannabe operating system to his Reality Distortion Field.
I'll never forgive that little French bitch peddling his POS to desperate Amiga users and whipping up false hope in the name of "word of mouth" so his company could con more VCs into sinking cash into his black hole. "Look at all the people talking about us! Give us more money!" I never felt so ashamed of being an Amiga user as when all those influential people in the Amiga world got sold on BeOS as "the only possible future".
And by the way, the $23 million settlement amount was about the same amount Apple figured out Be was really worth. So MS paid market value.
And all of your efforts in getting that functionality don't mean jack shit if the user looks at the application and 1) can't figure out how to use it or 2) is so put off by its look and feel that they don't want to learn how.
KDE and Gnome are essentially a standard desktop...then pick one of the two, develop for it specifically, and ditch the other. That's what "standardization" means: one option for the window manager with applications having a consistent look and feel.
Why is it so difficult for crunchies to understand that we users WANT a standardized windows manager, and that UI is NOT trivial to performing our daily tasks?
Presumably you're talking about the shows Benny made for the BBC between 1965 and 1969, and not the ones we here in America know, which were made for Thames and thus not part of the archive.
You want something that's had a lot of retroconning? Try the Bluto/Brutus situation.
Here's how that came about. The rights to produce cartoons of Popeye characters had fallen back to King Features, the Popeye comic strip distributors, after Paramount closed Famous Studios, its in-house cartoon creators, in 1957 (and proceeded to sell off the cartoons to AAP). The material from Fleischer Studios and then Famous are the cartoons broadcast by Cartoon Network.
(1957 wasn't a very good year for cartoons in Hollywood. MGM also closed their studio that year, and Warner Brothers instituted cutbacks that delayed their (first) closure until 1963.)
In the early 1960s, King Features sold the rights to create new Popeye cartoons for television. However, in order to make absolutely certain that there were no rights problems that would result in a suit by Fleischer, Famous/Paramount, or AAP, a mandate was included in the contract: only those characters created by Elzie Segar (and later by Doc Winner and Bud Sagendorf) for the comic strip could be used. King Features was absolutely certain that Max Fleischer had created Bluto for the first Popeye cartoons, so use of Bluto was forbidden.
Well, Popeye did need an arch-enemy (or cryptic lover if you believe certain Minute Maid commercials). So, out of the inkwell, so to speak, came a Bluto clone named Brutus, with enough differences to prevent a lawsuit but enough similiarities that the audience accepted him as a renamed Bluto.
Then someone at King Features decided to actually do some in-depth checking. It turns out that Elzie Segar had indeed created Bluto for the comic strip, and that the creators of the new cartoons had a right to use him. But by that time, Brutus had become established, so Brutus kept on being used.
A few years ago, the Popeye comic book, which is regarded as canonical, declared in plain terms that Bluto and Brutus are, in fact, two different people.
Insert your own SCO joke about intellectual property here.
Bubba Catts and Ronnie Scelson, two of the biggest spam kings around (and two of the most public), are Louisiana residents, and they do porn spam. The anti-spam crowd knows their stuff by sight and can easily provide info to the appropriate authorities. If they can get Bubba and Ronnie on spam charges and drain their bank accounts before they wimp out and move to Florida like the rest of them, maybe it would send a message to the spam community that LEOs and legislators are serious.
Oh, who am I kidding? I spent six months living in Louisiana, enough time to know that they'd screw up a one-person masturbation party.
Lessig may have me beat on copyright law, but I've heavily studied the history of animation, so I think I have him beat on the subject matter. I wasn't asking you where you got your information from. I was correcting the misinformation that you were spreading around (information that, for some reason, had been moderated up).
As for sources, how about any of Leonard Maltin's books on the history of animation or Disney? Or is one of the most respected movie critics in the US, and a highly-regarded historian on animation, not pertinent because he's not Lessig and therefore doesn't know what he's talking about?
Uh, Betty Boop isn't public domain. The copyrights on Boop are owned by Republic Pictures, and they released a pretty decent 10-tape compilation of Boop (not complete, but easily the majority of her cartoons) narrated by Richard Fleischer (who followed in his dad's and uncle's footsteps by growing up to direct films like 20000 Leagues Under The Sea) a number of years ago.
I have that collection, and it's terrific. If Warner Brothers did the same thing with their pre-color material as Republic did with Boop (clean it up and package it nicely), I wouldn't be using BitTorrent to grab old WB material.
No, Mickey Mouse was not based on anything that was PD. He was an evolution of a character that Disney created named Mortimer Mouse. And, again, "Steamboat Willie" was not the first Mickey cartoon ("Plane Crazy" and one other whose title escapes me at the moment came before it), it was simply the first Mickey cartoon with sound.
Now that's not to say that Disney didn't use PD for his own benefits. He used Lewis Carroll as a loose basis for the "Alice" cartoons (which came before Mickey Mouse), and he was able to provide proof-of-concept that an animated feature-length film could be successful by using the PD works of the Brothers Grimm.
I have no clue on where you got the information that Mickey was based on PD stuff came from, because that's simply not true. And the person who modded this as "Insightful" should do his research too.
Agent99? Boy, are you behind the times. Agent is at version 1.93. I think they got to 1.0 back in 1999 or 2000, thus eliminating the "99" part of their name.
It's still the standard for Windows Usenet readers as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the content on Usenet's driven me away from regular use.
Nothing is so clear that some idiot won't get confused and no piece of software of any complexity works perfectly.
Of course, you're not questioning the fact that rollback is there, which totally invalidates your first position. Playing sematic games with my response doesn't change the fact that you were wrong.
I gave MS 20 years to get it right before moving on. I don't see why they deserve any more chances than that.
Then why didn't you say that you were posting from past knowledge and put in a disclaimer that "I haven't run Windows since XXXX"? All you did by ignoring the rollback functions that have been in place since 1999 is make yourself look like a complete ass. And a crunchie.
Use windows update;
then watch as some app gets broken or your computer slows down to shit, and worst of all YOU CANNOT REMOVE YOUR shit ass windows update without a re-install.
Bullshit. That's what the rollback feature is for. And guess what? It's GUIed, simple to use, stated in clear language that EVERYONE can understand, and works perfectly. That's when you have to use it. I have used it a grand total of once since I installed XP a year and a half ago, and that was due to Stupid User Error rather than something being broken.
When was the last time you ran Windows, crunchie? Sure as hell wasn't XP (or even ME), otherwise you'd never have made such an asinine statement.
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>>Ford will not support any Ford car that is older than 7 years. A buddy of mine wanted to get the AC fixed and the Ford dealer pointed him to another unathorized place.
I'm taking my '95 Windstar to a dealer tomorrow to get a head gasket replaced, and they did a brake job for me a couple months ago, neither with any complaints. Maybe it's just that the dealer in question didn't service ACs.
Typical case of Slashbot Synecdoche, methinks.
I work in the meat and poultry industry. To us, animal waste is not only a nuisance, but a major problem that has to be dealt with on a constant basis. Smell from a slaughter plant isn't just a sensory complaint from neighbors, it's also a health hazard for a number of reasons (ammonia vapors, flies, etc.). All of that waste has to be reprocessed and treated, quickly and effectively, in order for problems to not develop in the first place.
Olfactory testing is a valid, important, and cheap way to determine if problems are happening or will be developing. For you goofs to laugh at it just shows your complete ignorance of the world outside of your little milleu. So how about if you put down your precious code for a few seconds and think about where that burger or chicken sandwich you're stuffing down your face came from in the first place? It didn't appear by magic. It requires a lot of work, and a good portion of that work is messy, smelly, and potentially dangerous.
Hope that you all enjoy your cases of cholera, just to name one of a dozen different diseases that can be caused by improper monitoring and treatment of waste.
Intuit may have removed activation from their products, but there's no comparison here to Intuit, which makes most of their money from TurboTax and thus suffered greatly from a consumer backlash, and companies like Adobe and Symantec, who have much broader product lines and can withstand a backlash against their products having activation, even their flagship products like Photoshop and Norton Anti-Virus. I personally think that activation is moronic and ineffective, but that's really true of any kind of rights management scheme that software producers have come up with.
However, the original submitter is a moron for bringing up Intuit in the first place. But so are the Slashdot editors, which is the best reason why I think it was posted.
>>Has there ever been a GOOD UPN science fiction series?
Voyager, but only after Jeri Ryan came on the show. Isn't that Slashdot Holy Writ?
Good post, except for one thing: there won't be a "Bush Administration" in 2005 after the first twenty days.
Next time that Stallman opens his mouth and says something that shows what an asshole he is, refer back to this thread before you reply and say what an asshole he is, and see if you licked said asshole before you write anything.
This is not a troll. This is just a simple warning against hypocrisy, nothing more.
And doesn't anyone else think that Michael Sims posting a brown-nosing article on Stallman pretty much defines Critical Mass Of Suck?
Well, it was really one BBC management queer. That was John Nathan-Turner, the show's producer from Baker's final season until the 1989 cancellation. Admittedly, the three Doctors he cast were all straight, but it's been a pretty solid assumption among Whovians for a long time now that Matthew Waterhouse and Mark Strickson got cast as Adric and Turlough, respectively, due to casting couch skills rather than acting skills (Strickson was married but bi, so the story goes).
Nathan-Turner completely wrecked the show, but the gay situation was only a minor contributory factor. The fact is that the guy had no sense of what made for good Doctor Who and ended up imposing his own sensibilities at the cost of the show's credibility and creativity. Add to this the fact that certain members of the Beeb's senior management had a hard-on for the show and let him do his crap for eleven years is what killed it, not the fact that he was gay.
I'm in the food industry on the wholesale level, and I don't have to. Why? I'm the QA Manager at my plant and the person who knows best what's safe to eat and what's not (even moreso than the inspectors because 1) I have a heavy scientific background, which most inspectors don't and 2) because I used to be an inspector myself). Yeah, I'd probably get fired for it. But the second I clean out my desk, I'm on the phone to a lawyer and a lawsuit for improper termination gets filed under federal whistleblower statutes. I was terminated in this case for doing my job, which is to ensure that the plant produces food that is safe to eat. My loyalty is to the company, but public safety trumps that.
This is exactly what's happening here. He is a computer security expert participating in a project outlining security flaws in an operating system. He was improperly terminated. Geer should file a whistleblower suit against @stake immediately.
I wouldn't call something as common as Salic Law a "bug", unless you regard Salic Law as being on par with Microsoft (which I'm certain some crunchies will). Queen Victoria was prevented from inheriting the Kingdom of Hanover on the death of her uncle William due to the fact that Hanover had Salic Law in place (and hence women could not inherit the royal title), so it passed to her uncle Ernst and then her cousin George, who was the last King of Hanover before its incorporation into Greater Germany.
Because of Salic Law, when Edward VII took the throne of England, he had to use his father's status as the younger son of a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to name the house because of the disconnection of his mother's foreign title from the line. The fact that Victoria was the granddaughter and niece three times over of Kings of Hanover didn't matter.
Hanover wasn't British, either. It was a quirk of ancestry and law (specifically the law in England providing for Protestant succession to the throne) that enabled Elector George of Hanover to become King George I of England (and if Queen Anne had died a couple months before she did, England would have had an octogenarian Queen Sophie I on the throne). It wasn't until George's great-grandson George III that the ruler of Hanover regarded himself as more English than German; George II even fought in Hanover's wars.
England's like that. "Plantagenet" was the nickname of Geoffrey of Anjou, who never ruled England, but was the progenitor of the line through the Empress Matilda, the last of the House of Normandy. Technically, his descendants were the House of Anjou, but no one refers to the royal house between Henry II and Richard III as that.
And you can install it without spyware and get all the functionality you need. Troll away. Thanks to the 2.0 Toolbar, I ditched my pop-up blocking software. It was actually better than what I was using.
And the first person to say the word "Mozilla" gets punched in the teeth.
The smartest thing Amelio ever did at Apple was not purchase Gassbag's piece of shit alleged operating system. $240 million for that, my ass. Good for you, Gil. Just shows that anything Gassbag has is a pale imitation of his lord and master Jobs, from his NeXT-wannabe operating system to his Reality Distortion Field.
I'll never forgive that little French bitch peddling his POS to desperate Amiga users and whipping up false hope in the name of "word of mouth" so his company could con more VCs into sinking cash into his black hole. "Look at all the people talking about us! Give us more money!" I never felt so ashamed of being an Amiga user as when all those influential people in the Amiga world got sold on BeOS as "the only possible future".
And by the way, the $23 million settlement amount was about the same amount Apple figured out Be was really worth. So MS paid market value.
Yeah, you haven't installed XP. Otherwise you would have known that IIS is disabled by default and that Outlook comes with Office, not Windows.
KDE and Gnome are essentially a standard desktop...then pick one of the two, develop for it specifically, and ditch the other. That's what "standardization" means: one option for the window manager with applications having a consistent look and feel.
Why is it so difficult for crunchies to understand that we users WANT a standardized windows manager, and that UI is NOT trivial to performing our daily tasks?
Presumably you're talking about the shows Benny made for the BBC between 1965 and 1969, and not the ones we here in America know, which were made for Thames and thus not part of the archive.
Your attempt at sarcasm was pathetic.
Of course, The Prisoner shouldn't be on this list, having been produced for Britain's independent stations rather than for the BBC.
You want something that's had a lot of retroconning? Try the Bluto/Brutus situation.
Here's how that came about. The rights to produce cartoons of Popeye characters had fallen back to King Features, the Popeye comic strip distributors, after Paramount closed Famous Studios, its in-house cartoon creators, in 1957 (and proceeded to sell off the cartoons to AAP). The material from Fleischer Studios and then Famous are the cartoons broadcast by Cartoon Network.
(1957 wasn't a very good year for cartoons in Hollywood. MGM also closed their studio that year, and Warner Brothers instituted cutbacks that delayed their (first) closure until 1963.)
In the early 1960s, King Features sold the rights to create new Popeye cartoons for television. However, in order to make absolutely certain that there were no rights problems that would result in a suit by Fleischer, Famous/Paramount, or AAP, a mandate was included in the contract: only those characters created by Elzie Segar (and later by Doc Winner and Bud Sagendorf) for the comic strip could be used. King Features was absolutely certain that Max Fleischer had created Bluto for the first Popeye cartoons, so use of Bluto was forbidden.
Well, Popeye did need an arch-enemy (or cryptic lover if you believe certain Minute Maid commercials). So, out of the inkwell, so to speak, came a Bluto clone named Brutus, with enough differences to prevent a lawsuit but enough similiarities that the audience accepted him as a renamed Bluto.
Then someone at King Features decided to actually do some in-depth checking. It turns out that Elzie Segar had indeed created Bluto for the comic strip, and that the creators of the new cartoons had a right to use him. But by that time, Brutus had become established, so Brutus kept on being used.
A few years ago, the Popeye comic book, which is regarded as canonical, declared in plain terms that Bluto and Brutus are, in fact, two different people.
Insert your own SCO joke about intellectual property here.
Bubba Catts and Ronnie Scelson, two of the biggest spam kings around (and two of the most public), are Louisiana residents, and they do porn spam. The anti-spam crowd knows their stuff by sight and can easily provide info to the appropriate authorities. If they can get Bubba and Ronnie on spam charges and drain their bank accounts before they wimp out and move to Florida like the rest of them, maybe it would send a message to the spam community that LEOs and legislators are serious.
Oh, who am I kidding? I spent six months living in Louisiana, enough time to know that they'd screw up a one-person masturbation party.
Yeah, but can Barbara Feldon automatically decode yEnc-encoded binaries?
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Lessig may have me beat on copyright law, but I've heavily studied the history of animation, so I think I have him beat on the subject matter. I wasn't asking you where you got your information from. I was correcting the misinformation that you were spreading around (information that, for some reason, had been moderated up).
As for sources, how about any of Leonard Maltin's books on the history of animation or Disney? Or is one of the most respected movie critics in the US, and a highly-regarded historian on animation, not pertinent because he's not Lessig and therefore doesn't know what he's talking about?
Bravo to the AC who called you out on trolling.
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I have that collection, and it's terrific. If Warner Brothers did the same thing with their pre-color material as Republic did with Boop (clean it up and package it nicely), I wouldn't be using BitTorrent to grab old WB material.
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Oh, dear God...
No, Mickey Mouse was not based on anything that was PD. He was an evolution of a character that Disney created named Mortimer Mouse. And, again, "Steamboat Willie" was not the first Mickey cartoon ("Plane Crazy" and one other whose title escapes me at the moment came before it), it was simply the first Mickey cartoon with sound.
Now that's not to say that Disney didn't use PD for his own benefits. He used Lewis Carroll as a loose basis for the "Alice" cartoons (which came before Mickey Mouse), and he was able to provide proof-of-concept that an animated feature-length film could be successful by using the PD works of the Brothers Grimm.
I have no clue on where you got the information that Mickey was based on PD stuff came from, because that's simply not true. And the person who modded this as "Insightful" should do his research too.
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It's still the standard for Windows Usenet readers as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the content on Usenet's driven me away from regular use.
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RTFA, jackass. They only examined 50 of the subpeonas. That means that Busta could be mentioned on about 250 of the total.
I gave up moderating this thing to post this? Of course, my points couldn't have countered the retards who modded this "Insightful"...
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Of course, you're not questioning the fact that rollback is there, which totally invalidates your first position. Playing sematic games with my response doesn't change the fact that you were wrong.
I gave MS 20 years to get it right before moving on. I don't see why they deserve any more chances than that.
Then why didn't you say that you were posting from past knowledge and put in a disclaimer that "I haven't run Windows since XXXX"? All you did by ignoring the rollback functions that have been in place since 1999 is make yourself look like a complete ass. And a crunchie.
Bullshit. That's what the rollback feature is for. And guess what? It's GUIed, simple to use, stated in clear language that EVERYONE can understand, and works perfectly. That's when you have to use it. I have used it a grand total of once since I installed XP a year and a half ago, and that was due to Stupid User Error rather than something being broken.
When was the last time you ran Windows, crunchie? Sure as hell wasn't XP (or even ME), otherwise you'd never have made such an asinine statement.
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