this pretext bullshit is proof that lawyers are complete and utter scumbags.
No, it's worse: the very fact that scumbag lawyers are even trying to get this exemption proves that they feel they have a chance to get it, which says a lot about the incompetence and/or corruption of the legislators. That alone is sad and worrying.
I mean, sure they don't get names and addresses directly, but when the **AAs put files up on P2P called "madonna.mp3" or "dirty_dancing.avi", let people download them (often dud files but hey, it's the name that counts), log IPs of people who downloaded them and pressure ISPs to disclose whose computers these IPs were at the time of the d/l, isn't this baiting people? IANAL, but I would think it's just as crass and illegal as outright pretexting.
Wow. They got a computer than ran OS X to run OS X.
Well, but it's not that simple: many embedded devices run some kind of desktop OS (Windows, Linux, as opposed to an embedded OS like VxWorks), but running a generic version of the OS on the device is noteworthy because there's more to it than just sticking a shell in it: usually one has to reorganize the bootloading process, making a custom image of the OS, possibly make custom drivers, etc... So making an Apple embedded device running a custom OSX run a generic version of OSX isn't necessarily trivial, and is interesting.
What I want to know is when is it going to run Ubuntu... (grin)
If it can boot OSX, it surely can boot Linux without much work at all. That on the other hand is old news.
Wow, Slashdot is losing its mind. Usually stories that make it to the front page start with "The breakthrough is done: Linux runs on ". But Apple's OSX (which is essentially BSD, which has been dead or dying too for decades incidentally)? and running on Apple hardware? really...
I find it hard to believe they cannot find a sponsor (maybe even a computer shop) to give them a copy to play with.
Perhaps because Microsoft will patch this and render the boot kit useless in less time that it takes to say "oh my god, my unsigned drivers don't work anymore"?
One evening I was driving through france, way faster than the allowed limit and the TGV passed me on the rails about 100 m to the west of the road. For a second I thought that I was standing still, a very strange feeling at that speed.
25000hp and most of it is used to push air in front of, and around the train. I wonder how much it would cost to build a vaccuum tunnel to run very high speed train in at a fraction of the power required by the TGV...
I read your post, and the first thing that sprang to my mind is that you haven't held a serious job yet.
Your vision of the american dream (the one I had before too) is the stereotypical Horatio Alger story that permeates the entire work culture of the United States, that can be summed up as: if you work hard, you will rise and get a better life. Unfortunately, and this is something that you learn as you get older and have been working for a while for one, more likely several companies, the Horatio Alger dream is just that, a dream. Yes it would be very nice if it was still true, but the reality is that very VERY few better their lives through hard work and perseverance. Very few people start out selling apples and end up millionaires, a-la rockefeller. What happens in reality is that most of the population toils to pays credit, and a sizeable part of the population toils just to make ends meet and stay off the street.
It's my opinion that the so-called american dream is mostly a myth implanted in people's minds early on in their lives to make them work harder for the same wage, constantly hoping for better days. The reality of America today is that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class finds the "middle" slowly drifting to the bottom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a "leftist" who complains about social inequalities, I have nothing against people being rich, and I myself work hard to have a better future, but without much hope because unfortunately, the social elevator that would allow people to make their lives better through hard work is mostly out of order: most of America is inside the cabin frantically pushing the buttons, hoping that it will finally start to rise, and it doesn't. I think you'll come to realize this too one day.
And hey, if your lack the skills or the ambition to go out and work to better your situation, you can always reapply -- I'm sure that red shirt will fit just as well in ten weeks as it does now
After 10 weeks bored out of your mind on the couch, watching tv with a beer in your hand and listening to your wife pestering you to find another job? not sure the red shirt will fit anymore...
So? does a low slashdot id equate to a knowledgeable, reasoned poster? I think not.
Anyway, not everything on Slashdot is worth reading by everybody. Each person has his own areas of interest. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with the GPLv2 and I've decided to stick with it for my personal software releases, so I'm not really following what's happening with GPLv3. As a result, just like the GP, I didn't know it was still a draft either, and I too think it's surprising it's still not complete.
many IT managers decide to purchase Microsoft so when something happens, well, "we couldn't go wrong with Microsoft" or "it's Microsoft, not us". Unfortunately, that's the extent of their plan, after pulling the network cable, i.e. cover their asses.
I have been shopping at Amazon since it opened, and have never bothered looking at any of the "Top Ranked" for suggestions.
In general, I tend to think a sizeable majority of the populace is a sad, ill-educated, TV addicted, if-my-neighbor-bought-that-I'll-buy-it-too bunch. As a result, I tend to avoid whatever seems popular, unless I have plenty of evidence that what people like en-masse is actually good. Therefore, I'll only buy things that I reckoned by myself are really what I want/need, or I'll buy after reading reviews from quality sources. By my reasoning, the "top ranked" rating is precisely the contrary: a pretty good indication that I *don't* want to read the book.
* Disgusting marketting company proposes astroturfing campaigns to shitty authors for way too much money * Shitty authors get top Amazon ranks for a little while * Ranks drop back down because, well, the authors are shitty and in the end, what they write doesn't sell and no amount of astroturfing can change that * Shitty authors disappointed
the submitter seems to have his pants in a knot over the FBI's misconduct, but he fails to realize that all police in all countries try to pull dirty tricks like that, and have done so for many decades. The difference between a free society governed by the rule of law and a dictatorship is that, in a free society, telcos have the liberty and *duty* to tell the police to sod off and come back with a proper warrant.
That US telcos comply to such oral requests alone should tell you something of the state of this country, which is the merging of the corporate world and the state. As in country that have this other form of government...
Who gives a **ck about either of these networks? Now they can share Kingship of a very, very small pond. Wake me in 924329992349 years when this merger is relevant to me.
I think it's likely that someone said exactly the same thing in 1969 when Arpanet was created. Look at what it morphed into in a mere 38 years. Given that Internet2 isn't radically innovative like the Arpanet was, I think the merger could become very relevant to you n 10/15 years.
However, the real question is, how will it grow? meaning, at which point various money-hungry telcos, ISPs and **AAs will attempt to put their greasy paws on the thing and take control of the content and/or delivery methods? Internet1 is more or less free by design, something the aformentioned organization lament over, and you can bet they won't make the same mistake twice if they can with Internet2. That's the real issue, not how fast it will go when.
As much as I like Debian, I must admit you're right: Ubuntu seems to be what Debian should have become. I currently run Debian, because I just can't be bothered to reinstall, but I must say it has a couple of quirks, not the least of which is, every now and then, apt-get upgrade does something stupid that hoses the entire package database and forces me to reinstall the whole darn thing.
Anyway, I can't remember the last time I played a truly great id game, so I would say the real reason they had to start developing for consoles was to pick from a larger and less discerning player base.
I'm not much of a gamer and I can remember great ID games. Surely with a 4-digit Slashdot id you must have tried Doom or Quake, so you never play at all or you have a memory problem.
As for console players, are you sure they're less discerning? I would think that, with the price they pay for the console and for the games, and the expectation they (rightfully) have of not having to deal with hardware, driver or Windows issues like with a PC game, they tend to be much more critical of any game they purchase.
Then again, I'm still happy playing Bubble Bobble and Pac Man, so perhaps I'm not too informed on the subject...
Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful.
Those are easy to deal with. The problem is with people who, under the cover of "doing good to the project", make everybody hate everybody else. Those usually spread rumors around, go tell John that Jack, frankly, doesn't work enough, while at the same time telling Jack that John, really, isn't leading the project in the right direction, etc...
We've had plenty of those at the company. More often than not, those are what we usually called "software diva", people whom management think are indispensable, and therefore should be more or less allowed to do or say anything.
My way of dealing with these folks was usually simple: single them out at the weekley meeting, sum up the shit they've been spewing around, and tell them they're allowed to run free with whatever they thought was best on a local fork of the project for a week and prove they're right and/or better and/or more efficient than Jack or John. Failing to prove it, they'd be relegated to the line-pisser pool, otherwise they could take my place as team lead. Usually the result was the software diva leaving the meeting all offended, and half of the time resigning after a couple of days. Public shame and the threat of putting their supposed programming skills where their mouth is is a very efficient method of putting these people in their place.
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this pretext bullshit is proof that lawyers are complete and utter scumbags.
No, it's worse: the very fact that scumbag lawyers are even trying to get this exemption proves that they feel they have a chance to get it, which says a lot about the incompetence and/or corruption of the legislators. That alone is sad and worrying.
I mean, sure they don't get names and addresses directly, but when the **AAs put files up on P2P called "madonna.mp3" or "dirty_dancing.avi", let people download them (often dud files but hey, it's the name that counts), log IPs of people who downloaded them and pressure ISPs to disclose whose computers these IPs were at the time of the d/l, isn't this baiting people? IANAL, but I would think it's just as crass and illegal as outright pretexting.
Wow. They got a computer than ran OS X to run OS X.
Well, but it's not that simple: many embedded devices run some kind of desktop OS (Windows, Linux, as opposed to an embedded OS like VxWorks), but running a generic version of the OS on the device is noteworthy because there's more to it than just sticking a shell in it: usually one has to reorganize the bootloading process, making a custom image of the OS, possibly make custom drivers, etc... So making an Apple embedded device running a custom OSX run a generic version of OSX isn't necessarily trivial, and is interesting.
What I want to know is when is it going to run Ubuntu... (grin)
If it can boot OSX, it surely can boot Linux without much work at all. That on the other hand is old news.
The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!'
Wow, Slashdot is losing its mind. Usually stories that make it to the front page start with "The breakthrough is done: Linux runs on ". But Apple's OSX (which is essentially BSD, which has been dead or dying too for decades incidentally)? and running on Apple hardware? really...
I find it hard to believe they cannot find a sponsor (maybe even a computer shop) to give them a copy to play with.
Perhaps because Microsoft will patch this and render the boot kit useless in less time that it takes to say "oh my god, my unsigned drivers don't work anymore"?
One evening I was driving through france, way faster than the allowed limit and the TGV passed
me on the rails about 100 m to the west of the road. For a second I thought that I was standing still, a very strange feeling at that speed.
Was that before or after you slammed into a tree?
a stronger, 25,000-horsepower engine
25000hp and most of it is used to push air in front of, and around the train. I wonder how much it would cost to build a vaccuum tunnel to run very high speed train in at a fraction of the power required by the TGV...
delivering broadband through sewers was the focus of CityNet Telecom, which raised $375 million in funding from major VC
Surely you meant "from major WC"...
I read your post, and the first thing that sprang to my mind is that you haven't held a serious job yet.
Your vision of the american dream (the one I had before too) is the stereotypical Horatio Alger story that permeates the entire work culture of the United States, that can be summed up as: if you work hard, you will rise and get a better life. Unfortunately, and this is something that you learn as you get older and have been working for a while for one, more likely several companies, the Horatio Alger dream is just that, a dream. Yes it would be very nice if it was still true, but the reality is that very VERY few better their lives through hard work and perseverance. Very few people start out selling apples and end up millionaires, a-la rockefeller. What happens in reality is that most of the population toils to pays credit, and a sizeable part of the population toils just to make ends meet and stay off the street.
It's my opinion that the so-called american dream is mostly a myth implanted in people's minds early on in their lives to make them work harder for the same wage, constantly hoping for better days. The reality of America today is that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class finds the "middle" slowly drifting to the bottom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a "leftist" who complains about social inequalities, I have nothing against people being rich, and I myself work hard to have a better future, but without much hope because unfortunately, the social elevator that would allow people to make their lives better through hard work is mostly out of order: most of America is inside the cabin frantically pushing the buttons, hoping that it will finally start to rise, and it doesn't. I think you'll come to realize this too one day.
And hey, if your lack the skills or the ambition to go out and work to better your situation, you can always reapply -- I'm sure that red shirt will fit just as well in ten weeks as it does now
After 10 weeks bored out of your mind on the couch, watching tv with a beer in your hand and listening to your wife pestering you to find another job? not sure the red shirt will fit anymore...
Surely you mean Short-Circuit City...
hmm: "Seumas (6865)"
You're kidding, right?
So? does a low slashdot id equate to a knowledgeable, reasoned poster? I think not.
Anyway, not everything on Slashdot is worth reading by everybody. Each person has his own areas of interest. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with the GPLv2 and I've decided to stick with it for my personal software releases, so I'm not really following what's happening with GPLv3. As a result, just like the GP, I didn't know it was still a draft either, and I too think it's surprising it's still not complete.
many IT managers decide to purchase Microsoft so when something happens, well, "we couldn't go wrong with Microsoft" or "it's Microsoft, not us". Unfortunately, that's the extent of their plan, after pulling the network cable, i.e. cover their asses.
I have been shopping at Amazon since it opened, and have never bothered looking at any of the "Top Ranked" for suggestions.
In general, I tend to think a sizeable majority of the populace is a sad, ill-educated, TV addicted, if-my-neighbor-bought-that-I'll-buy-it-too bunch. As a result, I tend to avoid whatever seems popular, unless I have plenty of evidence that what people like en-masse is actually good. Therefore, I'll only buy things that I reckoned by myself are really what I want/need, or I'll buy after reading reviews from quality sources. By my reasoning, the "top ranked" rating is precisely the contrary: a pretty good indication that I *don't* want to read the book.
* Disgusting marketting company proposes astroturfing campaigns to shitty authors for way too much money
* Shitty authors get top Amazon ranks for a little while
* Ranks drop back down because, well, the authors are shitty and in the end, what they write doesn't sell and no amount of astroturfing can change that
* Shitty authors disappointed
Well, duh...
As we've previously discussed, the Folding@Home client is now available on the PS3, and already some early results are in [CC].
When will the SNES version finally be available?
Funny thing is, they've apparently already been doing it for years.
Oh yeah, that's funny. it's almost a real riot.
Click here to gain a new understanding of the sentence.
the submitter seems to have his pants in a knot over the FBI's misconduct, but he fails to realize that all police in all countries try to pull dirty tricks like that, and have done so for many decades. The difference between a free society governed by the rule of law and a dictatorship is that, in a free society, telcos have the liberty and *duty* to tell the police to sod off and come back with a proper warrant.
That US telcos comply to such oral requests alone should tell you something of the state of this country, which is the merging of the corporate world and the state. As in country that have this other form of government...
Who gives a **ck about either of these networks?
Now they can share Kingship of a very, very small pond.
Wake me in 924329992349 years when this merger is relevant to me.
I think it's likely that someone said exactly the same thing in 1969 when Arpanet was created. Look at what it morphed into in a mere 38 years. Given that Internet2 isn't radically innovative like the Arpanet was, I think the merger could become very relevant to you n 10/15 years.
However, the real question is, how will it grow? meaning, at which point various money-hungry telcos, ISPs and **AAs will attempt to put their greasy paws on the thing and take control of the content and/or delivery methods? Internet1 is more or less free by design, something the aformentioned organization lament over, and you can bet they won't make the same mistake twice if they can with Internet2. That's the real issue, not how fast it will go when.
Who gives a flying fuck about this? What of value is on Internet2 or National LambdaRail?
Dude, It's Internet2-on-rail. It's a major buzzword and hype innovation. Just look at the good it did to Ruby!
As much as I like Debian, I must admit you're right: Ubuntu seems to be what Debian should have become. I currently run Debian, because I just can't be bothered to reinstall, but I must say it has a couple of quirks, not the least of which is, every now and then, apt-get upgrade does something stupid that hoses the entire package database and forces me to reinstall the whole darn thing.
I think my next install will be Ubuntu.
Building Tomorrow's Solider Today
Yes, let's build it, so I can see what it looks like.
Anyway, I can't remember the last time I played a truly great id game, so I would say the real reason they had to start developing for consoles was to pick from a larger and less discerning player base.
I'm not much of a gamer and I can remember great ID games. Surely with a 4-digit Slashdot id you must have tried Doom or Quake, so you never play at all or you have a memory problem.
As for console players, are you sure they're less discerning? I would think that, with the price they pay for the console and for the games, and the expectation they (rightfully) have of not having to deal with hardware, driver or Windows issues like with a PC game, they tend to be much more critical of any game they purchase.
Then again, I'm still happy playing Bubble Bobble and Pac Man, so perhaps I'm not too informed on the subject...
Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful.
Those are easy to deal with. The problem is with people who, under the cover of "doing good to the project", make everybody hate everybody else. Those usually spread rumors around, go tell John that Jack, frankly, doesn't work enough, while at the same time telling Jack that John, really, isn't leading the project in the right direction, etc...
We've had plenty of those at the company. More often than not, those are what we usually called "software diva", people whom management think are indispensable, and therefore should be more or less allowed to do or say anything.
My way of dealing with these folks was usually simple: single them out at the weekley meeting, sum up the shit they've been spewing around, and tell them they're allowed to run free with whatever they thought was best on a local fork of the project for a week and prove they're right and/or better and/or more efficient than Jack or John. Failing to prove it, they'd be relegated to the line-pisser pool, otherwise they could take my place as team lead. Usually the result was the software diva leaving the meeting all offended, and half of the time resigning after a couple of days. Public shame and the threat of putting their supposed programming skills where their mouth is is a very efficient method of putting these people in their place.