I was in Australia last christmas and discovered from Alan's diary that he was going to be a keynote speaker. I was due to fly out of Sydney on the day before the conference, but managed to delay my flight for a couple of days. They had managed to get some very good speakers, including Alan, Maddog, Tridge, Rasterman and many other top developers. This year it will be in Brisbane (a great city) but a hell of a long way from the UK, so I don't expect to be going again:-(
I seem to recall from Alan's diary that he's done work on playing DVD's using Linux. In order to do that, he needs to circumvent the encryption, therefore making him a criminal in the eyes of the DMCA. I can't blame him for his stand at all, and fully support him. Besides, he's a nice guy!
Unfortunately I live in the UK, and we aren't getting the film until December (not sure when you lucky Americans are getting it, but it's bound to be before us:)
No! Us lucky brits are getting it first! See this BBC news article
Does anyone else think that it is irresponsible to try to persuade virus writers to target Linux? What happens if someone is successful and unleashes a particularly nasty linux virus on us?
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You go
up to her and say, "Hi, I'm great in bed, how about it?".
That's Direct Marketing.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You
give
your friend a $10. She goes up and says "Hi, my friend over there is great
in bed, how about it?".
That's Advertising.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You
somehow mop up her mobile number. You call, talk to her a while and then
say
"I am great in bed, how about it?"
That's Tele-Marketing.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You
recognize her. You walk up to her, refresh her memory and get her to laugh
and giggle and then suggest, "I am great in bed, how about it?".
That's Customer Relationship Management.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You
walk around
playing Mr. Busy. You put on your best smile and walk around being Mr.
Congenial.
You stand straight, you talk soft and smooth, you open the door for the
ladies,
you smile like a dream, you set an aura around you playing the Mr.
Gentleman and
then you move up to the girl and say, "Hi, I am great in bed, how about
it?".
That's Hard Selling.
* You go to a party, you see an attractive girl across the room. SHE COMES
OVER and says, "Hi, I hear you're great in bed, how about it?"
Now THAT is the power of Branding.
...but Dick Smith? Does this mean that had some other Australian actor named Dick Smith wanted to get into show business, he would have had to have changed his name or risked a law suit?
Nope, you've misread (or misunderstood) the article, which says, "Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith."
This Dick Smith has a large chain of electronic shops, called "Dick Smith Electronics" in Australia & New Zealand and also has many other products including foodstuffs and 'dickheads' matches (which subject to another bizarre lawsuit). His picture is on every electronics shop and he looks like some kind of uber-geek - like Bill Gates, but even more so.
All of the news media is currently pointing the finger at Bin Laden. This strikes me as being slightly too suspicious. I have not read a single report that suggests that this could be a military strike by a country such as Iraq.
Look at the facts:
Iraq has been bombed heavily by the US over the last few years.
Iraq has the resources to stage an attack like this.
Iraq has elite troops who would be capable of hijacking and flying the planes.
Iraq really hates the US.
So why is no-one else speculating that Saddam could be behind this?
I am writing to inform you that we have recently discovered the presence of unlicense downloadable content accessible from your website:
(http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/Documentation/Pa ck ages/list/audio/ac3dec/README.html).
Now, if I ping www.jp.netbsd.org, I get:
PING pigu.iri.co.jp (203.139.62.211) from 213.121.105.87 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pigu.iri.co.jp (203.139.62.211): icmp_seq=0 ttl=227 time=676.017 msec
pigu.iri.cojp? Ha! The server is in Japan and belongs to the Japan NetBSD Users Group, not the NetBSD project. They should give the Dolby lawers a great big "Fuck off, you can't touch us" reply.
He's from New Zealand. He should be cooling 'Black Mac' (from Nelson). Fantastic stuff. I brought some back to England with me and a friend voted it the best beer he'd ever had.
No, I disagree. The/. editors screwed up by not reading the fscking article that they were posting. Even someone as clueless as a/. editor should have noticed that it's about email spam not pager spam.
I've given up submitting stories to/. They ignore lots of good stories and then post something as stupid as this.
I work in Interactive TV as an OpenTV developer. There's nothing to prove here. They openly state that their tools are based on GNU tools. For example, gcco is a gcc compiler that produces OpenTV 'o-code' bytecodes which are executed by the set-top-box (like java bytecodes). They have several other GNU-based tools like aso (o-code assembler etc.). They supply a copy of the GPL with these tools. But they won't provide the source when we ask them.
If you want to ask for the source for their GNU-based sofware, or complain, then email support@opentv.com
That's because australian beer is kangaroo piss and therefore alcoho-free. I've just returned from Oz and the beer really is vile stuff (though probably better than american 'beer'). Give me british ale or belgian beer any time.
Belgians probably pass out a couple of hours before the french, but so would anyone after a few glasses of belgian beer.
I'd like to see a Kawasaki or a Yamaha go from 0-200 in 15 seconds.
A Suzuki GSX-R1000 will do 0-130 in 8.90 seconds (tested in this months Bike magazine in the UK), with a top speed of over 180mph. So close, but not quite. Still bloody quick though.
fukkit - no mod pts left. I think that you're pretty much on the ball with your analysis. It also does interactive TV, but I'm not sure how they'll work that here in the UK as OpenTV and Liberate seem to have the big players. I'd love this to succeed though.
Their business plan (as I see it) does make sense. They're making this an open system and encouraging other companies to clone their design. The article says that they'd rather have a small piece of a large market than a large piece of a small market. Since they're the no.1 mobile phone company in the world they'll have good distribution channels and, more importantly, joe consumer has heard of them (unlike indrema). I don't think that they'll be competing directly with the X-box. This will probably be marketed as a kind of super-tivo with internet and interactive TV capabilities, that just also happens to play games. I'd be very interested to develop for this platform and am going to talk to my bosses tomorrow about it (I currently develop for the OpenTV platform (open my arse - they're gpl violators - try getting the source for gcco from them).
Remember the two things that Finland is most famous for - Nokia and Linus Torvalds. Alan Cox also visited their HQ in Finland last year. Rumours are that they are pretty serious about Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
See what happens if you use a 30 year old operating system!
HH
I suggest the following for the next poll:
Would you trust Microsoft Passport with your credit card details:
* yes
* no
* I'd give them Cowboy Neal's credit cards instead.
HH
I was in Australia last christmas and discovered from Alan's diary that he was going to be a keynote speaker. I was due to fly out of Sydney on the day before the conference, but managed to delay my flight for a couple of days. They had managed to get some very good speakers, including Alan, Maddog, Tridge, Rasterman and many other top developers. This year it will be in Brisbane (a great city) but a hell of a long way from the UK, so I don't expect to be going again :-(
HH
I seem to recall from Alan's diary that he's done work on playing DVD's using Linux. In order to do that, he needs to circumvent the encryption, therefore making him a criminal in the eyes of the DMCA. I can't blame him for his stand at all, and fully support him. Besides, he's a nice guy!
HH
Unfortunately I live in the UK, and we aren't getting the film until December (not sure when you lucky Americans are getting it, but it's bound to be before us :)
No! Us lucky brits are getting it first! See this
BBC news article
HH
Does anyone else think that it is irresponsible to try to persuade virus writers to target Linux? What happens if someone is successful and unleashes a particularly nasty linux virus on us?
Let the virus kiddies stick to targeting Windoze.
HH
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You go up to her and say, "Hi, I'm great in bed, how about it?".
That's Direct Marketing.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You give your friend a $10. She goes up and says "Hi, my friend over there is great in bed, how about it?".
That's Advertising.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You somehow mop up her mobile number. You call, talk to her a while and then say "I am great in bed, how about it?"
That's Tele-Marketing.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You recognize her. You walk up to her, refresh her memory and get her to laugh and giggle and then suggest, "I am great in bed, how about it?".
That's Customer Relationship Management.
* You go to a party and you see an attractive girl across the room. You walk around playing Mr. Busy. You put on your best smile and walk around being Mr. Congenial. You stand straight, you talk soft and smooth, you open the door for the ladies, you smile like a dream, you set an aura around you playing the Mr. Gentleman and then you move up to the girl and say, "Hi, I am great in bed, how about it?".
That's Hard Selling.
* You go to a party, you see an attractive girl across the room. SHE COMES OVER and says, "Hi, I hear you're great in bed, how about it?"
Now THAT is the power of Branding.
...but Dick Smith? Does this mean that had some other Australian actor named Dick Smith wanted to get into show business, he would have had to have changed his name or risked a law suit?
Nope, you've misread (or misunderstood) the article, which says, "Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith."
This Dick Smith has a large chain of electronic shops, called "Dick Smith Electronics" in Australia & New Zealand and also has many other products including foodstuffs and 'dickheads' matches (which subject to another bizarre lawsuit). His picture is on every electronics shop and he looks like some kind of uber-geek - like Bill Gates, but even more so.
HH
You could also call down a BSA audit on your soon-to-be-former company...
Yes, all of those boy scouts setting up tents and lighting campfires in the office, will surely cause havoc.
HH
All of the news media is currently pointing the finger at Bin Laden. This strikes me as being slightly too suspicious. I have not read a single report that suggests that this could be a military strike by a country such as Iraq.
Look at the facts:
Iraq has been bombed heavily by the US over the last few years.
Iraq has the resources to stage an attack like this.
Iraq has elite troops who would be capable of hijacking and flying the planes.
Iraq really hates the US.
So why is no-one else speculating that Saddam could be behind this?
HH
But did you notice that the author of the article is named DAMIAN?
After years of reading Slashdot, I'm sure that this is the first time that the editors have actually read the fscking article that they're submitting!
HH
In this case, the software is in Japan*. Not sure what the law is there on software patents. Anyone know?
HH
Pinging the server reveals that the site is hosted on pigu.iri.co.jp
I am writing to inform you that we have recently discovered the presence of unlicense downloadable content accessible from your website:
(http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/Documentation/P
Now, if I ping www.jp.netbsd.org, I get:
pigu.iri.cojp? Ha! The server is in Japan and belongs to the Japan NetBSD Users Group, not the NetBSD project. They should give the Dolby lawers a great big "Fuck off, you can't touch us" reply.
HH
He's from New Zealand. He should be cooling 'Black Mac' (from Nelson). Fantastic stuff. I brought some back to England with me and a friend voted it the best beer he'd ever had.
HH
No, I disagree. The /. editors screwed up by not reading the fscking article that they were posting. Even someone as clueless as a /. editor should have noticed that it's about email spam not pager spam.
/. They ignore lots of good stories and then post something as stupid as this.
I've given up submitting stories to
HH
I work in Interactive TV as an OpenTV developer. There's nothing to prove here. They openly state that their tools are based on GNU tools. For example, gcco is a gcc compiler that produces OpenTV 'o-code' bytecodes which are executed by the set-top-box (like java bytecodes). They have several other GNU-based tools like aso (o-code assembler etc.). They supply a copy of the GPL with these tools. But they won't provide the source when we ask them.
If you want to ask for the source for their GNU-based sofware, or complain, then email support@opentv.com
HH
That's because australian beer is kangaroo piss and therefore alcoho-free. I've just returned from Oz and the beer really is vile stuff (though probably better than american 'beer'). Give me british ale or belgian beer any time.
Belgians probably pass out a couple of hours before the french, but so would anyone after a few glasses of belgian beer.
prejudiced? moi?
HH (beer snob)
It's only a 3-atom thick layer of Ruthenium. 1000 gallons should last a very, very long time.
HH
I'd like to see a Kawasaki or a Yamaha go from 0-200 in 15 seconds.
A Suzuki GSX-R1000 will do 0-130 in 8.90 seconds (tested in this months Bike magazine in the UK), with a top speed of over 180mph. So close, but not quite. Still bloody quick though.
HH
fukkit - no mod pts left. I think that you're pretty much on the ball with your analysis. It also does interactive TV, but I'm not sure how they'll work that here in the UK as OpenTV and Liberate seem to have the big players. I'd love this to succeed though.
HH
Their business plan (as I see it) does make sense. They're making this an open system and encouraging other companies to clone their design. The article says that they'd rather have a small piece of a large market than a large piece of a small market. Since they're the no.1 mobile phone company in the world they'll have good distribution channels and, more importantly, joe consumer has heard of them (unlike indrema). I don't think that they'll be competing directly with the X-box. This will probably be marketed as a kind of super-tivo with internet and interactive TV capabilities, that just also happens to play games. I'd be very interested to develop for this platform and am going to talk to my bosses tomorrow about it (I currently develop for the OpenTV platform (open my arse - they're gpl violators - try getting the source for gcco from them).
HH
Remember the two things that Finland is most famous for - Nokia and Linus Torvalds. Alan Cox also visited their HQ in Finland last year. Rumours are that they are pretty serious about Linux.
HH
Thanks for the link to the reviews. You're right - none of the reviewers there mention having to sign anything. Maybe the BBC are mistaken.
HH
place t Shaun 2
/. nickname for the PS/2.
ROTFL
I think that should become the official
HH