Yeah, could sound like it, but most likely it's one of the many mailinglists/newsletters that you can subscribe to, for endusers and partners. That's my guess.
You mean, just like Cherry Coke?:-)
I think that most times, it's just the opposite.
Like everything has to be called e-[something], "if there's a e or @ in front, it must be good" --------
"The (new) law states it is criminal to sell, distribute, manufacture or install a chip," Mr Ephraim said.
"It does not go after consumer but after the source. We're going after the bigger guys who earn $500-$2000 a week chipping consoles. Some of them are registered businesses."
He should relly _think_ about what he is saying, that just not make sense. I would say that the distribute and manufacture but would go after the "source", but that last bit is worse.
Anyway, if I lived there, I could be breaking the law by modifying some of my hardware in a way that could be used for unlawful purposes, even if that was not the intention? So I install a MPEG encoder/framegrabber I could be breaking the law because I could use it for copying movies? Or the installation of a graphic card with video out could be used for playing copied movies on my TV? I'm surpriced they not just didn't put a tax on the chips:-)
Well, you haven't forgotten the words of Jim Allchin allready, have you: "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business."
We need to copyright everything.;-)
This is the returning subject of companies taking copyright of the function in a application.
It rather seems to me that taking a patent on everything rather kills the software world. --------
Long live the lobbyists, otherwise I completely fail to see how this could catch the attention and time of the U.S. Goverment.
As said in the Simpsons "I guess poor people just can't afford justice".
Another reference could be:
- Motto at courthouse (bg):"Liberty and Justice for most"
Oh well, maybe it's overdoing it a bit, but it does however seem to me that a rich dude would have a better chance of winning and that the U.S. justice system is more about money than justice. Just call me a troll if you must, but that is the impression that you get as an "outsider". Anyone agrees?
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A lot of people have been jumping on the Linux / Open Source / Internet train with high hopes of making money. And with the hype these 3 things are getting, getting money for your project was easy.
Now some of these projects are failing, and the same crowd that generated the hype(in search for a story?), now can tell that it's in trouble and that it won't fly. Meanwhile, for the people who always have been working with these things, it's business as usual. Except that it is still growing.
So I am not worried, the support and effort of the people who created it in the first place is still there.
also "Sun" is a no go.
"Win98" is ok, but don't get your hopes too high of getting your name on the shoe if your first name given at birth was "Dick".
You "Compaq" lovers will have to call your shoe "Dell" instead.
You can't wear "Prince" shoes, but "Princess" is fine.
There is no "Napster" shoes for you my friend, but you can go jogging in your "Gnutella" shoes.
The only question remains, what am I going to do with those Princess shoes,,,,:-)
I have always had the opinion that laws should be made to protect people against other people doing nasty stuff to them, the most obvious one is that you may not kill someone.(ok, that one has some funny twists in the US, but where I live if I hurt an intruder in my house, I am the one on trial too:["couldn't you have hit him less hard?").
Anyway, it seems to me that these days, more and more laws are made to protect people from themself, like it's not enough to have "freedom with responsibility". Other signs are the increased monitoring in different forms of people everywhere.
What will we end up with, people acting irresponsible where they are out of reach of the laws or an area/subject not covered yet, prompting new laws tightning the grip further? I can imagine the thinking "there is no law against this or that so it must be ok", even if the thing they are about to do is a bad idea.
Do we want laws to tell people how to live? It's is the easy way out, the hard way is education. Like raising kids, the easy way is just "don't do that", you know you are going to get the question "why not", so let's not just make laws and say "because it say so", but take the time and explaing why putting your hand in the boiling water is a bad idea.
If you treat people like irresponsible individuals they are going to be ones, expecting someone telling them what to do.
Look at the old Russia, "hey the goverment will give me a job, there is no such thing as being unimployed, even if I do a half-assed effort"
A bit offtopic but,,
Ok, so I have learned to live with bannerads,
always thinking, "there is no such thing as a free lunch", but almost everytime I click on a link to a news story on cnet like the one for this story, I get pages with ad's like on this page.
That totally destroys the readability of the page so even I say enough is enough and I almost always never click on the link if I see it point to cnet.
Anybody else feeling the same?
Permit me to quote the site: Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated euro 10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive "junk" e-mails.
Of course it might just be 1 cent for each user in connection time, but there's a lot of users, and a lot of spam.;-)
Not all have a flat-rate internet connection yet.
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It will live becuz it is some peoples idea of fun
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Oh, that's just another one of those headlines to catch your eye. Why must "they" always try to apply standard biz concepts to Linux, it just don't work that way.
Somehow they seem to forget the massive amount of support is has from people everywhere and that a lot of those people do it because it is their idea of fun.
Of course it will change, you might say that the Linux we know today might die, but it would then just evolve/change/mutate to something else because of these people who just loves to play with it.
Where else would you find people sitting down with analyzers thingies, crewdrivers and lots of coffee just to reverse ingeneer a bit of hardware where the manufacturer won't make drivers for Linux, OR supply the information needed to write ones. Their reward are a pat on the back and the nice warm feeling you get when you have made a good hack.
Not everything you do are related to making money, and as long these people exsist, Linux will exist too
On another note, take a look at the WAP standard for mobile phones. If you take away the fact that it sucks, it is painfully clear that that puppy won't fly. Everywhere you go to gather information and tools, you see greedy people wanting money for every bit of information needed for you to create a proper site. So innovation is driven by the wish for a quick buck rather than working with it because you want to make it good.
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Don't f... with mother nature.
Sure it's neat to just remove a few unwanted features or maybe add a few. But who can predict what small changes will have in 20 years. And then it might be to late because the original has been lost in time. Has happened before with animals where they now try to breed it back to the "original version."
Does all the mean that we wil have people coming out in their little ships chaining themself to the next big shipment of rice. And if they do, will anyone care, I think not. Personally I'd rather be watching TV.
So someone makes a Linux dist. and then someone takes that dist. and adds more stuff to it, if there's money in that then Linux is a real goldmine.
They should do what everybody else is doing, join their forces. Make it a part of Debian, unless it totally sucks that is(I wouldn't know haven't tried Stormix), when the death is only natural. Kill it if it can't fly.
He can't do that by himself, there's too many people using this thing. And if he quit, we'll all be OK as long as GNU doesn't get wiped from the face of the earth.
If anyone are stupid enough to buy it, be my guest.
Sony: "Don't you get too excited about this game, we'll do anything to avoid another Pokémon craze with OUR product".
I had just discovered that Tucows had BSD stuff, so I was looking forward to take a look at it when I got the time. But it was not like they did a lot to tell you that it was there, oh well. --------
How about Correcteur 101
Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. It analyzes, explains, and corrects grammatical and spelling errors.
It's not a educational program, but it should be able to help you get on you way.
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It's too late, as you can see, all here that question it are moderated as trolls.
Remember Southpark Chinpokomon? The geeks have been programmed.;-)
But I must say that I enjoy my share of cartoons to, mostly American, but maybe they have brainwashed me too? hmm who cares, I'm feelin' fine. --------
I think what's worse is that the nerds/(l)user ratio is shifting towards the (l)user.
It's getting longer between the good posts, you have to surf at at least +2.
I'd have to say that I am very happy with the stability of the power here in Denmark. I have no powerouts, brownouts or whatever. You can have a server running with a uptime of 2 years or more without problems(or course you need a proper OS).
In fact, our power is so good that I often have a hard time selling a UPS to my clients. I need to bring in the computers-in-industrial-environments speech and the conditioning of the power before they buy it.
And then of course install monitoring software so they can see that it does something, so they see why it is a good thing for their next system.
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Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, could sound like it, but most likely it's one of the many mailinglists/newsletters that you can subscribe to, for endusers and partners.
That's my guess.
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You mean, just like Cherry Coke? :-)
I think that most times, it's just the opposite.
Like everything has to be called e-[something], "if there's a e or @ in front, it must be good"
--------
"The (new) law states it is criminal to sell, distribute, manufacture or install a chip," Mr Ephraim said. :-)
"It does not go after consumer but after the source. We're going after the bigger guys who earn $500-$2000 a week chipping consoles. Some of them are registered businesses."
He should relly _think_ about what he is saying, that just not make sense. I would say that the distribute and manufacture but would go after the "source", but that last bit is worse.
Anyway, if I lived there, I could be breaking the law by modifying some of my hardware in a way that could be used for unlawful purposes, even if that was not the intention? So I install a MPEG encoder/framegrabber I could be breaking the law because I could use it for copying movies? Or the installation of a graphic card with video out could be used for playing copied movies on my TV?
I'm surpriced they not just didn't put a tax on the chips
--------
Well, you haven't forgotten the words of Jim Allchin allready, have you: ;-)
"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business."
We need to copyright everything.
This is the returning subject of companies taking copyright of the function in a application.
It rather seems to me that taking a patent on everything rather kills the software world.
--------
Long live the lobbyists, otherwise I completely fail to see how this could catch the attention and time of the U.S. Goverment.
As said in the Simpsons "I guess poor people just can't afford justice". Another reference could be: - Motto at courthouse (bg):"Liberty and Justice for most"
Oh well, maybe it's overdoing it a bit, but it does however seem to me that a rich dude would have a better chance of winning and that the U.S. justice system is more about money than justice. Just call me a troll if you must, but that is the impression that you get as an "outsider". Anyone agrees?
--------
A lot of people have been jumping on the Linux / Open Source / Internet train with high hopes of making money. And with the hype these 3 things are getting, getting money for your project was easy.
Now some of these projects are failing, and the same crowd that generated the hype(in search for a story?), now can tell that it's in trouble and that it won't fly. Meanwhile, for the people who always have been working with these things, it's business as usual. Except that it is still growing.
So I am not worried, the support and effort of the people who created it in the first place is still there.
--------
also "Sun" is a no go.
:-)
"Win98" is ok, but don't get your hopes too high of getting your name on the shoe if your first name given at birth was "Dick".
You "Compaq" lovers will have to call your shoe "Dell" instead.
You can't wear "Prince" shoes, but "Princess" is fine.
There is no "Napster" shoes for you my friend, but you can go jogging in your "Gnutella" shoes.
The only question remains, what am I going to do with those Princess shoes,,,,
--------
I don't know about the US but here in Denmark, the (national) writers gets a small fee everytime someone checks out their book.
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I have always had the opinion that laws should be made to protect people against other people doing nasty stuff to them, the most obvious one is that you may not kill someone.(ok, that one has some funny twists in the US, but where I live if I hurt an intruder in my house, I am the one on trial too :["couldn't you have hit him less hard?").
Anyway, it seems to me that these days, more and more laws are made to protect people from themself, like it's not enough to have "freedom with responsibility". Other signs are the increased monitoring in different forms of people everywhere.
What will we end up with, people acting irresponsible where they are out of reach of the laws or an area/subject not covered yet, prompting new laws tightning the grip further? I can imagine the thinking "there is no law against this or that so it must be ok", even if the thing they are about to do is a bad idea.
Do we want laws to tell people how to live? It's is the easy way out, the hard way is education. Like raising kids, the easy way is just "don't do that", you know you are going to get the question "why not", so let's not just make laws and say "because it say so", but take the time and explaing why putting your hand in the boiling water is a bad idea.
If you treat people like irresponsible individuals they are going to be ones, expecting someone telling them what to do. Look at the old Russia, "hey the goverment will give me a job, there is no such thing as being unimployed, even if I do a half-assed effort"
--------
A bit offtopic but,,
Ok, so I have learned to live with bannerads, always thinking, "there is no such thing as a free lunch", but almost everytime I click on a link to a news story on cnet like the one for this story, I get pages with ad's like on this page.
That totally destroys the readability of the page so even I say enough is enough and I almost always never click on the link if I see it point to cnet.
Anybody else feeling the same?
--------
Permit me to quote the site: ;-)
Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated euro 10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive "junk" e-mails.
Of course it might just be 1 cent for each user in connection time, but there's a lot of users, and a lot of spam.
Not all have a flat-rate internet connection yet.
--------
Oh, that's just another one of those headlines to catch your eye. Why must "they" always try to apply standard biz concepts to Linux, it just don't work that way.
Somehow they seem to forget the massive amount of support is has from people everywhere and that a lot of those people do it because it is their idea of fun.
Of course it will change, you might say that the Linux we know today might die, but it would then just evolve/change/mutate to something else because of these people who just loves to play with it.
Where else would you find people sitting down with analyzers thingies, crewdrivers and lots of coffee just to reverse ingeneer a bit of hardware where the manufacturer won't make drivers for Linux, OR supply the information needed to write ones. Their reward are a pat on the back and the nice warm feeling you get when you have made a good hack.
Not everything you do are related to making money, and as long these people exsist, Linux will exist too
On another note, take a look at the WAP standard for mobile phones. If you take away the fact that it sucks, it is painfully clear that that puppy won't fly. Everywhere you go to gather information and tools, you see greedy people wanting money for every bit of information needed for you to create a proper site. So innovation is driven by the wish for a quick buck rather than working with it because you want to make it good.
--------
Don't f... with mother nature.
Sure it's neat to just remove a few unwanted features or maybe add a few. But who can predict what small changes will have in 20 years. And then it might be to late because the original has been lost in time. Has happened before with animals where they now try to breed it back to the "original version."
Does all the mean that we wil have people coming out in their little ships chaining themself to the next big shipment of rice. And if they do, will anyone care, I think not. Personally I'd rather be watching TV.
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I'd like to see Survivor and Junkyard Wars in one show.
Then you'd have to teams trying to kill each other like civilized people with fancy machines.
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So someone makes a Linux dist. and then someone takes that dist. and adds more stuff to it, if there's money in that then Linux is a real goldmine.
They should do what everybody else is doing, join their forces. Make it a part of Debian, unless it totally sucks that is(I wouldn't know haven't tried Stormix), when the death is only natural. Kill it if it can't fly.
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He can't do that by himself, there's too many people using this thing.
And if he quit, we'll all be OK as long as GNU doesn't get wiped from the face of the earth.
--------
If anyone are stupid enough to buy it, be my guest.
Sony: "Don't you get too excited about this game, we'll do anything to avoid another Pokémon craze with OUR product".
Uhm, something is wrong here.
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Yes,, yes it is :-)
Sadder
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Someone clearly has too much time on their hands,
/. so slow today,, hmm oh well nevermind
try to guess who, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Besides from that it's a nice hack.
Now why is
sql>optimize table USER_COMMENTS
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I had just discovered that Tucows had BSD stuff, so I was looking forward to take a look at it when I got the time. But it was not like they did a lot to tell you that it was there, oh well.
--------
How about Correcteur 101
Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. It analyzes, explains, and corrects grammatical and spelling errors.
It's not a educational program, but it should be able to help you get on you way.
--------
It's too late, as you can see, all here that question it are moderated as trolls. ;-)
Remember Southpark Chinpokomon? The geeks have been programmed.
But I must say that I enjoy my share of cartoons to, mostly American, but maybe they have brainwashed me too? hmm who cares, I'm feelin' fine.
--------
I think what's worse is that the nerds/(l)user ratio is shifting towards the (l)user.
It's getting longer between the good posts, you have to surf at at least +2.
--------
I can I have a UPS! :-)
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I'd have to say that I am very happy with the stability of the power here in Denmark. I have no powerouts, brownouts or whatever. You can have a server running with a uptime of 2 years or more without problems(or course you need a proper OS).
In fact, our power is so good that I often have a hard time selling a UPS to my clients. I need to bring in the computers-in-industrial-environments speech and the conditioning of the power before they buy it.
And then of course install monitoring software so they can see that it does something, so they see why it is a good thing for their next system.
--------