Instead, he claims, he was no better than a 'bag man for the mob'; coercing people into paying money for stealing services when he had no proof whether they had really done so."
If only he hadn't blown the whistle, he could have had attractive career opportunities at the RIAA.
Linux advocacy worldwide is clearly important, but i'd like to highlight something far more pressing : poverty, disease, malnutrition.
Here's a clue:
1 - Not every Ethiopian is poor and hungry. Most are, some aren't
2 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians get into Linux
3 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians can get access to computing thanks to Linux' low-low-cost, get good at it, start exporting their expertise
4 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians bring money into Ethiopia, become more wealthy, pay more taxes, create companies,...
5 - Less fortunate Ethiopians get to suffer less because the country becomes richer. The least unfortunate of them get enough disposable income to get into computers themselves...
6 - etc...
What I'm saying is, Ethiopia and other such poor countries need to get a kickstart. They have no oil, and they're not likely to develop a huge successful agricultural economy of course, so anything you give them that has a potential to become something they can export will enrich them. Clearly Linux is a better alternative than Windows to help Ethiopia get into computers, and perhaps turn computer expertise into a national asset they can export, like India.
"There is no real market for a consumer-grade Linux desktop," says Martin Fink, HP's Linux boss.
I'm surprised people in charge of any reasonably sized company can still say this classic idiocy:
Yes, there's not real market for consumer-grade Linux desktop, for the good reason that the market doesn't exist yet, and someone needs to create it, and whoever will take the plunge stands a fair chance to reap huge benefits from it.
Remember, investors said the same thing to Jobs when he tried to get backing to produce the Apple.
Mr. Fink, if I was your boss and I really wanted to push Linux, you'd be fired...
All the reports I've had from people who tried MDK 10 is that you should stick to 9.2 for now, that it's not as good and/or not ready for prime time.
That doesn't really surprise me actually : most x.0 releases of RedHat were crap too usually. In fact, generally speaking, one should stay away from brand new major releases of anything, until they get a chance to mature in the next minor versions.
What a Linsipid name. In my opnion it sounds like the name of a cheesy fly by night telemarketing company..
Remember, Microsoft is there to prove that it's possible to succeed brilliantly with crappy names. Remember how everybody laughed when a product called "windows" came out? I mean what next, "blinds"? And gee, even the name "micro-soft" is not exceptionally well chosen.
But nobody's laughing anymore today, and if you need to get a pane replaced in your house and you google for "windows", you'll never find what you want.
Linspire is non-consentual and "Microsoft-safe", and I can understand they want to avoid going through that again with the Redmond monster. But I'd have much preferred if they have renamed themselves "Lindoze" or "liNT" or "eXPect-more" or something like that, to piss them off...
Oh well, bland name but still a cool company. I'm just glad they escaped their (first) legal stint with Microsoft more or less unscathed..
a variety of local exploits, including the do_brk() and mremap() exploits on Linux
In other words, Stanford doesn't keep its Linux boxes up to date. These exploits have been fixed. Linux too requires maintenance and patching, not just Windows.
continue to do nothing except "advocate" free software
Evidently spoken by someone who uses free software like it was some kind of naturally happening thing...
If not for the FSF, and Eblen amd RMS and the other, you might be posting your drivel with some non-free software, because some corporation would have managed to squash free software in order to grab more marketshare.
I wish people like you were less ingrate and remembered whom you owe having the choice of running free software in the first place to.
I myself live in ________, WA and I'm so glad I live in a free country. I mean, I really feel for those poor people who don't have the __________ amendment to protect their speech in _____land.
However, I'm a bit concerned that our current ad_______ might be going slightly overboard with this Home_____ _______y thing. In particular, John A_____ is really a bit worrying.
But no matter, nothing can take our __ghts away from us, thanks to our Const______ that I'm sure everybody would defend with their lives should it ever be under threat.
Anyway, this is just my __ cents. Regards, ______ _______
(hold on a sec, someone's at the door, probably to inquire about the 3 black vans parked under my window...)
how the hell can a soviet-russia be modded anything but "-10, Incredibly Annoying" these days? The joke was already feeble years ago, but now these posts are like an itch you can never scratch.
Take the vibrating alert.. Thats a good start. Why not improve on it? like make a little ring or bracelet or pen or whatever and make that vibrate too?
Two electrodes and a wristband would be a good attention-getter...
Interestingly enough, subjects were also asked whether the ring tone is annoying, and people didn't find the ring to be particularly bad."
The ringing isn't really the problem. The real problem is this: john: so you see, I had to go see him yesterday.
Peter: yeah, I know what you mean [ring ring]. Hang on a sec there John... HELLO! YES! HI SWEETY HOW ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? WHEEEERE?! CAN'T HEAR YOU, GOING UNDER A TUNNEL!! WHAAAT?
Java is a bright success! All fortune 500 companies are using it in one way or the other. Developers are counted by the millions. Where is.NET?!?
And how long has Java been around, compared to.NET? If you compare their respective growth rates, taking into account the inertia due to the pre-existing entrenched Java market, and the fact that it's Microsoft who's taking it on, I think you'll find that Java is a virtual dead duck.
Crypto is one of those feel-good technologies that costs people a lot of money but doesn't really do much for anyone in the end.
Okay then, why don't you send me your credit card number in plain text then? no need to encrypt it, it's just feel-good technology, and I'm really an honest guy...
I don't care much for OO myself, but many people say at least the newer Java implementations are really quite good.
What put me away from Java since the beginning is the size of the executables, and their truly atrocious speed. And also the size and speed of another monster called Swing.
But, I remember a certain OS called Unix that used to be the archetype of bloatware, with a graphical system that used to open 2 megabyte (gasp!) temp files, in the past. Now that computers have caught up with it in terms of memory and speed, Un*x looks thin compared to Windows, and its creators seem like precursors and visionaries.
So sometimes I wonder if I'm not missing a boat with Java : perhaps it too is ahead of its time, and one day nobody will balk at the speed, because it'll run fast by virtue of the underlying hardware.
But I guess now that Microsoft and Sun have agreed to kill it, the question of whether or not I should try it is getting moot.
A slow bloated language-maker goes to bed with a slow bloated OS-maker. Can make more slow bloated software...
More seriously though, Java has lost to C#, dotNet and whatever Microsoft vaporware-du-jour. Plain and simple. The only reason Java has been around for so long is because Microsoft was slow to really set its target on it in the past.
What a neat idea, I've been looking for some portable culture for my daily commute
You must not have looked very hard: cat something.txt | festival --tts | lame - something.mp3
or something like that, I don't remember on top of my head.
I used to do that to get the news in my mp3 player automatically in the morning before hitting the road. Of course, it's not very convincing when it tells you something extremely sad or exciting, but it's understandable.
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Instead, he claims, he was no better than a 'bag man for the mob'; coercing people into paying money for stealing services when he had no proof whether they had really done so."
If only he hadn't blown the whistle, he could have had attractive career opportunities at the RIAA.
Linux advocacy worldwide is clearly important, but i'd like to highlight something far more pressing : poverty, disease, malnutrition.
...
Here's a clue:
1 - Not every Ethiopian is poor and hungry. Most are, some aren't
2 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians get into Linux
3 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians can get access to computing thanks to Linux' low-low-cost, get good at it, start exporting their expertise
4 - Reasonably wealthy Ethiopians bring money into Ethiopia, become more wealthy, pay more taxes, create companies,...
5 - Less fortunate Ethiopians get to suffer less because the country becomes richer. The least unfortunate of them get enough disposable income to get into computers themselves
6 - etc...
What I'm saying is, Ethiopia and other such poor countries need to get a kickstart. They have no oil, and they're not likely to develop a huge successful agricultural economy of course, so anything you give them that has a potential to become something they can export will enrich them. Clearly Linux is a better alternative than Windows to help Ethiopia get into computers, and perhaps turn computer expertise into a national asset they can export, like India.
"There is no real market for a consumer-grade Linux desktop," says Martin Fink, HP's Linux boss.
I'm surprised people in charge of any reasonably sized company can still say this classic idiocy:
Yes, there's not real market for consumer-grade Linux desktop, for the good reason that the market doesn't exist yet, and someone needs to create it, and whoever will take the plunge stands a fair chance to reap huge benefits from it.
Remember, investors said the same thing to Jobs when he tried to get backing to produce the Apple.
Mr. Fink, if I was your boss and I really wanted to push Linux, you'd be fired...
All the reports I've had from people who tried MDK 10 is that you should stick to 9.2 for now, that it's not as good and/or not ready for prime time.
That doesn't really surprise me actually : most x.0 releases of RedHat were crap too usually. In fact, generally speaking, one should stay away from brand new major releases of anything, until they get a chance to mature in the next minor versions.
What a Linsipid name. In my opnion it sounds like the name of a cheesy fly by night telemarketing company..
Remember, Microsoft is there to prove that it's possible to succeed brilliantly with crappy names. Remember how everybody laughed when a product called "windows" came out? I mean what next, "blinds"? And gee, even the name "micro-soft" is not exceptionally well chosen.
But nobody's laughing anymore today, and if you need to get a pane replaced in your house and you google for "windows", you'll never find what you want.
Linspire is non-consentual and "Microsoft-safe", and I can understand they want to avoid going through that again with the Redmond monster. But I'd have much preferred if they have renamed themselves "Lindoze" or "liNT" or "eXPect-more" or something like that, to piss them off...
Oh well, bland name but still a cool company. I'm just glad they escaped their (first) legal stint with Microsoft more or less unscathed..
which now strives to offer the Apple experience on PCs
They sell PCs with single-button mice, without floppy drives, at 3 times the price?
a variety of local exploits, including the do_brk() and mremap() exploits on Linux
In other words, Stanford doesn't keep its Linux boxes up to date. These exploits have been fixed. Linux too requires maintenance and patching, not just Windows.
continue to do nothing except "advocate" free software
Evidently spoken by someone who uses free software like it was some kind of naturally happening thing...
If not for the FSF, and Eblen amd RMS and the other, you might be posting your drivel with some non-free software, because some corporation would have managed to squash free software in order to grab more marketshare.
I wish people like you were less ingrate and remembered whom you owe having the choice of running free software in the first place to.
Now it seems that the FSF is abandoning Savannah in favor of Gforge. RMS himself has confirmed the plans
That's GNU/Savannah and GNU/GForge dammit!
I myself live in ________, WA and I'm so glad I live in a free country. I mean, I really feel for those poor people who don't have the __________ amendment to protect their speech in _____land.
However, I'm a bit concerned that our current ad_______ might be going slightly overboard with this Home_____ _______y thing. In particular, John A_____ is really a bit worrying.
But no matter, nothing can take our __ghts away from us, thanks to our Const______ that I'm sure everybody would defend with their lives should it ever be under threat.
Anyway, this is just my __ cents.
Regards, ______ _______
(hold on a sec, someone's at the door, probably to inquire about the 3 black vans parked under my window...)
how the hell can a soviet-russia be modded anything but "-10, Incredibly Annoying" these days? The joke was already feeble years ago, but now these posts are like an itch you can never scratch.
MOD PARENT DOWN FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!
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but the tech has come a long way (Soul eating registration required) in the past few years. Not that I'll be signing up anytime soon
That's right, it's just disgraceful. I'll never ever sign up to get NY Time account...
Take the vibrating alert.. Thats a good start. Why not improve on it? like make a little ring or bracelet or pen or whatever and make that vibrate too?
Two electrodes and a wristband would be a good attention-getter...
Interestingly enough, subjects were also asked whether the ring tone is annoying, and people didn't find the ring to be particularly bad."
The ringing isn't really the problem. The real problem is this:
john: so you see, I had to go see him yesterday.
Peter: yeah, I know what you mean [ring ring]. Hang on a sec there John... HELLO! YES! HI SWEETY HOW ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? WHEEEERE?! CAN'T HEAR YOU, GOING UNDER A TUNNEL!! WHAAAT?
(Well, and of course the ringing)
I am so sick of people whining "outsourcing sent my job to India" then walking out the door to climb into their Toyota
Hmm, I didn't realize a owning Toyota was a social statement.
But tell me, I drive a Yugo, does that give me the right to complain that outsourcing sent my job to India?
her associate, programmer/filmmaker Krishnan
Dear Krishnan,
Where will the film be produced?
Java is a bright success! All fortune 500 companies are using it in one way or the other. .NET?!?
.NET? If you compare their respective growth rates, taking into account the inertia due to the pre-existing entrenched Java market, and the fact that it's Microsoft who's taking it on, I think you'll find that Java is a virtual dead duck.
Developers are counted by the millions.
Where is
And how long has Java been around, compared to
Crypto is one of those feel-good technologies that costs people a lot of money but doesn't really do much for anyone in the end.
Okay then, why don't you send me your credit card number in plain text then? no need to encrypt it, it's just feel-good technology, and I'm really an honest guy...
"No matter what advances occur in digital computing, quantum encryption can never be deciphered, read or copied"
/dev/null
Linux already has an interface that you can move your critical documents to and they'll never be deciphered, read or copied:
Java and C# are crufty languages anyhow.
I don't care much for OO myself, but many people say at least the newer Java implementations are really quite good.
What put me away from Java since the beginning is the size of the executables, and their truly atrocious speed. And also the size and speed of another monster called Swing.
But, I remember a certain OS called Unix that used to be the archetype of bloatware, with a graphical system that used to open 2 megabyte (gasp!) temp files, in the past. Now that computers have caught up with it in terms of memory and speed, Un*x looks thin compared to Windows, and its creators seem like precursors and visionaries.
So sometimes I wonder if I'm not missing a boat with Java : perhaps it too is ahead of its time, and one day nobody will balk at the speed, because it'll run fast by virtue of the underlying hardware.
But I guess now that Microsoft and Sun have agreed to kill it, the question of whether or not I should try it is getting moot.
A slow bloated language-maker goes to bed with a slow bloated OS-maker. Can make more slow bloated software...
More seriously though, Java has lost to C#, dotNet and whatever Microsoft vaporware-du-jour. Plain and simple. The only reason Java has been around for so long is because Microsoft was slow to really set its target on it in the past.
What a neat idea, I've been looking for some portable culture for my daily commute
You must not have looked very hard:
cat something.txt | festival --tts | lame - something.mp3
or something like that, I don't remember on top of my head.
I used to do that to get the news in my mp3 player automatically in the morning before hitting the road. Of course, it's not very convincing when it tells you something extremely sad or exciting, but it's understandable.
Time to look into getting 4Mbps internet and upgrade the 120G hard disk to make room for the War and Peace mp3.