I got really sick of the idiocy on CNN. I started reading the Wall Street Journal in the 90s and decided that I didn't like news aimed at 4th graders. Thanks to FOX News, I CNN's gone way up in the past few years. I think they're at least up to highschool level. Or maybe its just that FOX News has pushed the bar further down. Sit in on a grade school bible study, then watch FN. I think you'll see the similarity. Expecially when they start talking about the book of Revelations and the rapture.
Gaim is just trying to follow the look of the rest of the linux desktop experience.. antiquated and generally pretty ugly!
Which desktop are you talking about? And why? Because KDE only vaguely feels nothing like Suckfish/Gnome/Metash*ty which looks and feels nothing like enlightenment, which is nothing like Blackbox. (I'll admit, IceWM sucks, its kinda like going back in time and using Motif, but without the features.
I think that CMM Level 5 is the only environment where one can actually be assured of reasonable quality code.
Having dealt with a CMM-5 shop. I can tell you that CMM-5 is worthless, unless you want to pay for paperwork.
In the CMM-5 shop they tracked everyting. Everytime somebody looked, that's looked at a bug repot or request, the system sent an email to ALL concerned parties. Everyone in the project got hundreds of emails per day, just from people looking at bugs. In addition I would describe the code as crapola. Nobody knew how it worked, and the application was lucky if it could stay up for more than 30 minutes, just idling. The code was put out in multiple releases, that important things like reliability kept getting put off till the next ineration. In addition they kept asking people to evaluate it, and write feature requests, and error reports.
I've seen better, and more maintainable code come out of a CMM-1 shop.
Korgan better watch out for RMS and GNU/flunkies. He called it: "Red Hat version of the open-source Linux operating system". Not: Red Hat version of the Free as in speach GNU/Linux operating system.
And who's fault was the proliferation was the PC Clones?
Could it be that Apple and Commodord were still using 1979 Chips while the PC builders were using 386's?
Could it be that Apple was lying to customors by saying the the AppleIIg would be supported, after the Mac was introduced and then canning support for the IIg the day Mac was out?
Could it be that the Mac was little more than an doorstop when it was released? Becuase it had half the memory it needed and was un expandable.
Could it be Commodore didn't descent system untill the A500 was released? (Kickstart on floppy).
Could it be that both Commodore and Apple kept trying to push 2nd rate systems on customers? A600, CD32, CDTV, A1200, Mac classic color, Mac se/30, when people were buying 486s? with descent harddrives. Those systems should have been released in 1988, not 1993!
Could it be that the Quadra should have been the saving grace of Apple, (And in many respects was.) But nobody know how to sell it or what it could do because Apple kept changing the specs and not telling or training anybody?
Could it be that Commodore and Apple both alienated 3rd party vendors. (Apple by not letting them in, and Commodore by not allowing for cross compatibility. A2000 vs A3000 compatibility for the Video Toaster.) And Apple did have some clones for awhile, but they were pretty much garbage.
Could it be that both companies had the edge in vision and technology, but rested on their laurals, and failed to press it? because they wanted low volume high profit machines, and made their low end machines overpriced and incompatible, hardwarewise with the industrial grade boxes.
The reason we have to deal with garbags OS's like XP on today is because both CBM and Apple failed. In fact Apple has still failed because there are applications that will not work because Apple will not implement multiple event threads within OS-X https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6738 4#c14 !
It may gain density, but gain little in reliability. I have a Ph.D. in solid state physics, so I should respond. The carbon nanotubes bend to make connect with an electrode, so something moves. This is usually a bad sign for long-term reliability. Ask telecom technicians if they would like to replace their solid state transistor-based switches with moving switches. Their answer will be that these moving parts wore out.
The question is what is the wear rate and meantime between failures of the nanotube?
Who does the fact checking for Encyclopædia Britannica?
Wikipedia at least allows the posting of crossreferences.
Its far from perfect, and probably far from the best system out there. Even checking up on things like Electric Universe, Wikipedia has a reference to Phil Platt's Bad Astronomy page. (They should also have a reference to Crank.net.) The Wikipedia reference to Aleister Crowley, is far more accurate than, (At least pervious versions), of Britannica.
I hate the RIAA and our corporation friendly government as much as anybody, but you have got to have one hell of a tin-foil hat to believe this will possibly happen.
Its already happened here with the DAT.
First of all, a company can't buy political influence if they don't have money to buy influence with.
The RIAA companies have indevidual revenue in excess of a billion USD. They already have the money to buy the influence.
The government isn't going to pass a federal music tax, or any similar nonsense. If there's tax-money to be made, politicians want it going into pork, not music companies.
My mistake its already happened.
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 Section 1003. Obligation to make royalty payments
Prohibition on importation and manufacture
No person shall import into and distribute, or manufacture and distribute, any digital audio recording device or digital audio recording medium unless such person records the notice specified by this section and subsequently deposits the statements of account and applicable royalty payments for such device or medium specified in section 1004.
For Digital Recording Devices
Amount of payment.
The royalty payment due under section 1003 for each digital audio recording device imported into and distributed in the United States, or manufactured and distributed in the United States, shall be 2 percent of the transfer price. Only the first person to manufacture and distribute or import and distribute such device shall be required to pay the royalty with respect to such device.
For digital recording media
The royalty payment due under section 1003 for each digital audio recording medium imported into and distributed in the United States, or manufactured and distributed in the United States, shall be 3 percent of the transfer price. Only the first person to manufacture and distribute or import and distribute such medium shall be required to pay the royalty with respect to such medium.
It is law and it is real since 1992. Just to put throw a little salt on the wound: Section 1005
The Register of Copyrights shall receive all royalty payments deposited under this chapter and, after deducting the reasonable costs incurred by the Copyright Office under this chapter, shall deposit the balance in the Treasury of the United States as offsetting receipts, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury directs.
The Fed collects revenue, holds it, then provides for disbursment to interested parties.
Those lawyers worked very hard for their money in suing the Tobacco Cartel. While the victems deserve their share, so do the lawyers.
Perhaps when they're finished bankrupting the Tobacco Cartel, they will go after the RIAA and MPAA and bankrupt them.
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If you don't want to support this kind of thing, don't buy any more music from RIAA labels.
Its not going to do any good.
When people stop buying from RIAA labels, the labels are going to go to the government screaming piracy because they can show what they think the numbers should be they will blaim the loss of revenue from piracy. There will be no consideration of a Boycott. Then congress will start taxing things like burnable CD, digital media players, to make up for the lost revenue due to piracy. They've already tried to have laws passed allowing them to break into people's computers so they can investigate music piracy.
You're indies labels will be forced to start supporting the RIAA as well, because the equipment they use to press the CDs can be used to press pirate CD, the RIAA will demand a tax or surchange there. If they have them pressed overseas they will find a way of getting revenue from that too.
You reall want to stop the RIAA? You need laws like RICO, and Sherman Anti-trust. You need lots of independent lawsuits to bankrupt them. The RIAA and MPAA are predatory cartels, if you want to stop them boycotts aren't going to do squat, you have to sue them into oblivion.
If I'm running a GPL3 app somewhere one the middle, back, or OS side, with NO customer visibility such as a rules engine for my business logic, and it includes the RMS button, do I have to push the code for the button all the way to the front end?
The software on the HD in the safe isn't running the ship.
With modern day millitary messaging systems, It wouldn't surprise me if every system on the modern aircraft carrier were networked. And all you have to do is breach one system. Once you do that your secret/secure network is just another flipping network. Except the people maintaining the systems are expecting someone else to keep their systems secure.
Why should the revenue generated by the monorail be used eliminate bus fares?
Once the project has paied for itself, fares should be reduced to a maintence and overhead only level. Or go into a fund to expand service. It should not become a pofit center for the city.
First they're going to make the same promise they've made for years and tell people that the latest version of Windows is going to be so much more secure than the previous version. And people will buy it. They they will buy the latest version of Office other necessary software packages.
Then they intend to keep reselling software to people. That includes updated versions of Office to support DRM. Updated versions of Windows to support DRM. As the DRM "standards" are updated the can keep selling updated versions of the software because they will be able to hold people's data as hostage. Especially when they move to a subscription only model. Which will happen eventually.
Thanks to their DRM software they will be able to effectively keep people from writing "free" software because they will sell a digital signatures to keep Windows from screaming about unverified or unlicensed software. If you do decide to license their digital signature software, you will eventually have to pay a maintence fee to keep the signature current. In fact you may even have to pay a maintence fee so that you can send out patches for your own software.
In short DRM will ensure future profits, while reducing the corporate need for innovation.
Then there's the unpatched vulnerabilities. Some of these have been around for quite some time. Please explaine how a company with money and resources, who's top priority is security can have known security issues since March. Especially vulnerabilities involving remote code execution.
How many remote vulnerabilities have the default install of OpenBSD since it was released? Surely MS with its 40 Billion dollars in cash must have a greater number of skilled code auditors than Theo.
Layoff's should be easy, just have a contractor interview ALL the staff and ask the question: "What have you done lately?" Anybody who starts their answer with "Ummm..." is slated for the first round of layoffs. Anybody who starts with the "Well..." is slated for the second round.
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Try getting away from that trash.
Read a nice liberal rag like the Wall Street Journal.
What does FOX News report that isn't biased?
Pick a report, any report.
I got really sick of the idiocy on CNN. I started reading the Wall Street Journal in the 90s and decided that I didn't like news aimed at 4th graders. Thanks to FOX News, I CNN's gone way up in the past few years. I think they're at least up to highschool level. Or maybe its just that FOX News has pushed the bar further down. Sit in on a grade school bible study, then watch FN. I think you'll see the similarity. Expecially when they start talking about the book of Revelations and the rapture.
Which desktop are you talking about? And why? Because KDE only vaguely feels nothing like Suckfish/Gnome/Metash*ty which looks and feels nothing like enlightenment, which is nothing like Blackbox. (I'll admit, IceWM sucks, its kinda like going back in time and using Motif, but without the features.
It warms my heart to see annoy a spinelss AC. I'm going to have to post more messages exactly like this. :D
Having dealt with a CMM-5 shop. I can tell you that CMM-5 is worthless, unless you want to pay for paperwork.
In the CMM-5 shop they tracked everyting. Everytime somebody looked, that's looked at a bug repot or request, the system sent an email to ALL concerned parties. Everyone in the project got hundreds of emails per day, just from people looking at bugs. In addition I would describe the code as crapola. Nobody knew how it worked, and the application was lucky if it could stay up for more than 30 minutes, just idling. The code was put out in multiple releases, that important things like reliability kept getting put off till the next ineration. In addition they kept asking people to evaluate it, and write feature requests, and error reports.
I've seen better, and more maintainable code come out of a CMM-1 shop.
Time to burn a little karma :P
Korgan better watch out for RMS and GNU/flunkies. He called it: "Red Hat version of the open-source Linux operating system". Not: Red Hat version of the Free as in speach GNU/Linux operating system.
And who's fault was the proliferation was the PC Clones?
Could it be that Apple and Commodord were still using 1979 Chips while the PC builders were using 386's?
Could it be that Apple was lying to customors by saying the the AppleIIg would be supported, after the Mac was introduced and then canning support for the IIg the day Mac was out?
Could it be that the Mac was little more than an doorstop when it was released? Becuase it had half the memory it needed and was un expandable.
Could it be Commodore didn't descent system untill the A500 was released? (Kickstart on floppy).
Could it be that both Commodore and Apple kept trying to push 2nd rate systems on customers? A600, CD32, CDTV, A1200, Mac classic color, Mac se/30, when people were buying 486s? with descent harddrives. Those systems should have been released in 1988, not 1993!
Could it be that the Quadra should have been the saving grace of Apple, (And in many respects was.) But nobody know how to sell it or what it could do because Apple kept changing the specs and not telling or training anybody?
Could it be that Commodore and Apple both alienated 3rd party vendors. (Apple by not letting them in, and Commodore by not allowing for cross compatibility. A2000 vs A3000 compatibility for the Video Toaster.) And Apple did have some clones for awhile, but they were pretty much garbage.
Could it be that both companies had the edge in vision and technology, but rested on their laurals, and failed to press it? because they wanted low volume high profit machines, and made their low end machines overpriced and incompatible, hardwarewise with the industrial grade boxes.
The reason we have to deal with garbags OS's like XP on today is because both CBM and Apple failed. In fact Apple has still failed because there are applications that will not work because Apple will not implement multiple event threads within OS-X https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6738 4#c14 !
I'm sure it will be ready when my quantum computer is.
The question is what is the wear rate and meantime between failures of the nanotube?
Works great on my 1.7 MHz Dell laptop, even when the POS speed stops down to 500 MHz.
OTH the last few releases of Firefox have performed like shit.
So Wikipedia may have a few problems.
Who does the fact checking for Encyclopædia Britannica?
Wikipedia at least allows the posting of crossreferences.
Its far from perfect, and probably far from the best system out there. Even checking up on things like Electric Universe, Wikipedia has a reference to Phil Platt's Bad Astronomy page. (They should also have a reference to Crank.net.) The Wikipedia reference to Aleister Crowley, is far more accurate than, (At least pervious versions), of Britannica.
Its already happened here with the DAT.
The RIAA companies have indevidual revenue in excess of a billion USD. They already have the money to buy the influence.
My mistake its already happened.
For Digital Recording Devices
For digital recording media
It is law and it is real since 1992. Just to put throw a little salt on the wound: Section 1005
The Fed collects revenue, holds it, then provides for disbursment to interested parties.
Those lawyers worked very hard for their money in suing the Tobacco Cartel. While the victems deserve their share, so do the lawyers.
Perhaps when they're finished bankrupting the Tobacco Cartel, they will go after the RIAA and MPAA and bankrupt them.
Its not going to do any good.
When people stop buying from RIAA labels, the labels are going to go to the government screaming piracy because they can show what they think the numbers should be they will blaim the loss of revenue from piracy. There will be no consideration of a Boycott. Then congress will start taxing things like burnable CD, digital media players, to make up for the lost revenue due to piracy. They've already tried to have laws passed allowing them to break into people's computers so they can investigate music piracy.
You're indies labels will be forced to start supporting the RIAA as well, because the equipment they use to press the CDs can be used to press pirate CD, the RIAA will demand a tax or surchange there. If they have them pressed overseas they will find a way of getting revenue from that too.
You reall want to stop the RIAA? You need laws like RICO, and Sherman Anti-trust. You need lots of independent lawsuits to bankrupt them. The RIAA and MPAA are predatory cartels, if you want to stop them boycotts aren't going to do squat, you have to sue them into oblivion.
Fujifilm. I just had one of those suckers go through the washing machine a while back. Still works.
DRM like her username and password which is supposed to prevent unauthorized access viewing, and copying of her files?
The solution is 0% effective because 386 used SIMMS not DIMMS. :P
How about this?
If I'm running a GPL3 app somewhere one the middle, back, or OS side, with NO customer visibility such as a rules engine for my business logic, and it includes the RMS button, do I have to push the code for the button all the way to the front end?
That would pretty much sum up SAP.
The software on the HD in the safe isn't running the ship.
With modern day millitary messaging systems, It wouldn't surprise me if every system on the modern aircraft carrier were networked. And all you have to do is breach one system. Once you do that your secret/secure network is just another flipping network. Except the people maintaining the systems are expecting someone else to keep their systems secure.
Perhaps you should consult a lawyer or read up on Sherman Anti-Trust as to what a monopoly is, rather than a dictionary.
Why should the revenue generated by the monorail be used eliminate bus fares?
Once the project has paied for itself, fares should be reduced to a maintence and overhead only level. Or go into a fund to expand service. It should not become a pofit center for the city.
Of course this does't happen in reality.
No need to worry about future company profits.
First they're going to make the same promise they've made for years and tell people that the latest version of Windows is going to be so much more secure than the previous version. And people will buy it. They they will buy the latest version of Office other necessary software packages.
Then they intend to keep reselling software to people. That includes updated versions of Office to support DRM. Updated versions of Windows to support DRM. As the DRM "standards" are updated the can keep selling updated versions of the software because they will be able to hold people's data as hostage. Especially when they move to a subscription only model. Which will happen eventually.
Thanks to their DRM software they will be able to effectively keep people from writing "free" software because they will sell a digital signatures to keep Windows from screaming about unverified or unlicensed software. If you do decide to license their digital signature software, you will eventually have to pay a maintence fee to keep the signature current. In fact you may even have to pay a maintence fee so that you can send out patches for your own software.
In short DRM will ensure future profits, while reducing the corporate need for innovation.
So much for Microsoft's new emphasis on security.
Then there's the unpatched vulnerabilities. Some of these have been around for quite some time. Please explaine how a company with money and resources, who's top priority is security can have known security issues since March. Especially vulnerabilities involving remote code execution.
How many remote vulnerabilities have the default install of OpenBSD since it was released? Surely MS with its 40 Billion dollars in cash must have a greater number of skilled code auditors than Theo.
Layoff's should be easy, just have a contractor interview ALL the staff and ask the question: "What have you done lately?" Anybody who starts their answer with "Ummm..." is slated for the first round of layoffs. Anybody who starts with the "Well..." is slated for the second round.