Seriously, Darl seems to be living in his own little world, doesn't he? Anybody want to venture a clinical guess on what's wrong with him? Paranoid schizophrenia? Delusions of grandeur?
I'll give him the layman's diagnosis. He's a crackhead. Only some kind of spped can do that to a person. There's a lot of coke in the valley...
How could you NOT want Real? But it has... But it can... But there's the... Aww hell, so there really isn't any reason to install it unless you hate yourself and want to be hassled a lot. Carry on then.
Imagine the implications if a patient could file frivolus lawsuit against you and you were not allowed to discuss the details with anyone!
A judge can seal the evidence so only the jury and attorneys from both sides can only view it. Of course, that defeats my question in the grandparent. Thanks for leading me to the answer!
Is this in some way a HIPAA violation? I realize that legal cases are public record here in the US, but I would think that this would be a HIPAA violation if details about any medical procedures or conditions are involved. This may be riding a fine line.
And they say that they're not a blacklist... just an informational database targeting a group of people a specific profession may not want to do business with... rrrrright... and I'm not computer geek... I'm just a very intelligent person who would rather spend time coding or doning computer related stuff instead of socializing...
Actually video games attract people who are fat and mean.
They may also attract people that are on the way there already.
My ex-wife will be pissed that her current role in my life, making me fat and mean, has been replaced by video games. Funny that... that's what happened to her role in our relationship too. I think it was even the same exact role!
Yep, the ink's still wet and SCO will have to amend their filing. The wheels of justice churn onward... *cough* *cough* er... The hamster wheels in Darl's head keep churning. My mistake. Sorry. Sometimes the sqeeky justice wheels sound just like hamster wheels.
Write all your code in big REXX like you were a CONSULTANT at a BANK in 1988!!!... a deadly scripting language in the horrible tradition of DOS batch programs and JCL.
If you're still doing work on an S390 or other IBM mainframe, REXX is so much better to cope with than JCL. Yeah, you still have to write a small JCL wrapper for your REXX app, but that's it. None of that hard to read JCL crap that goes on forever. Unfortunately, nobody seems to remember that PERL and other C based languages have been ported over to these MVS systems... REXX to me is another example of people clinging to what they know - wich is rampant in the mainframe world (COBOL, JCL, JES2, JES3, TSO... yadda yadda).
IBM has done a great job of evolving these systems with the times, but very few shops implememnet ports of common languages such as PERL. Just try telling your Senior Systems Programmer that you'd rather use C++ or PERL or write code for your CICS regions and they would think that you were crazy because they don't want to support that code. Ironically, when the shop I worked at starting interfacing MVS and NT systems for data warehousing, my knowledge of Regina REXX on the NT boxen made the production programmers on the mainframe side more comfortable. Regina REXX even had some built in functions for the Windows Registry! REXX can be a good intermediate language for mainframe programmers to be more at home on the target platform you are moving them to. Ah, memories... Long live IEFBR14!
Seems to me like they forgot the obligatory standoff screw (not a rejected sexual advance by the way). I have seen those things in many odd materials, sizes and shapes over the years. Some are brass, some are aluminum, some aren't anything but plastic plugs - I've even seen molded cardboard ones on daughter cards (bad pun waiting to happen). Anyone who can identify them by case style, case manufacturer, use and thread count is a hardcore geek.
Besides, nobody in their right mind will ever answer that question honestly... as they know that you will not get hired if you tell the person in the interview your real greatest weakness.
"...Eno had used "sampling" via tape loops in the early 70s..." Sounds like a Mellotron to me.
Actually, Eno has been an inventor for a long time and made his loop machines himself. He used the loops to let peices build on their own in a chaotic manner. He still does installations like those today. I bet he did get his hands on an old Mello or two occasionally though;)
ACK! That's horrid! Damn him... oh wait. He's a Christian now... Backhanded blessings then. grrrrr. I'm going to go listen to Erotic City now so I can feel better.
I don't think these guys are as worried about the success of the venture as much as creating some "tools" for artists to use in the music business. Not tools in the software sense, but ideas and techniques for artists to act more intelligently within the business and force the labes to be more up front and honest. They will prompt some interesting, revealing and important questions and through this have a method for getting some answers. Remember that these two have been innovators for a very long time (Gabriel did multimedia in 1993 with xplora 1, was an innovator of CG and Eno had used "sampling" via tape loops in the early 70s and scratched records creatively long before Hip Hop ever existed). The success is not as important as the waves they make to get some of these issues dealt with. Something will change.
These two have always been known for embracing tech and bucking the norm with it. They personally are against completely free downloads via the common piracy methods (P2P), but feel that should be left up to the artist and not the RIAA. They are going to wrestle some of the power away from the labels and the "machine" of the business I hope.
So where are Prince and Bowie? The four of them are the big names that are getting into this in a very constructive way and I think that they would be a powerhouse of influence.
I once went to the mall and saw a lego show where they had all these cool things made. A statue of liberty model about 4-5 ft high stands out in my mind.
I believe it lives at the Lego Store at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA with the rest of the New York skyline. The store is in Downtown Disney between the hotel and the park. I saw it last year, but it's not listed on the site so it may not be there any more. They also have 23 foot giraffe, a life size Bionicle, life size Darth Vader, life size Boba Fett and a really cool R2D2.
Point taken, but since these are John Doe lawsuits there isn't a real defendant yet - only a defendant place holder of sorts. This will slow down their "make an offer you can't refuse" tactics that they have been trying to get some revenu... errr... settlements from. Now they will have to play by real court process. It could be quite a while until they can offer any of these folk a "settlement". With any luck, this process may put a few dents into their strong arming of 12 year olds and such if a judge doesn't like how they are presenting these suits or throws the case out for lack of evidence (I can dream, can't I?).
"Our campaign against illegal file sharers is not missing a beat," said Cary Sherman, president of the recording association. "The message to illegal file sharers should be as clear as ever."
Yes. Obviously it's working since sharing is on the rise again. They must be scrambling to file suits to keep the "file sharing will get you sued" mantra going in the press. I don't think they'll have much success with just IP addresses though. NAT, Dynamic IPs and other such stuff is known for imcomplete or regularly purged logging from what I understand. By the time this gets to the point that a judge orders the names (or however they swing it), the data may be gone to the bit bucket.
This will get them attention, name recognition, and a number of supporters in the right, oh and it will save children from bad parenting... or not.
And here we are about four hours after this was posted on Slashdot and only 16 comments - most of them replying to you. Slashdot damnit! Where there are at least 16 "frist opst" comments for each headline! I think this is an example of how much thinking (an assumption I know) people really care what these two spout. With any luck, this will further push the view of these guys into the "right wing fringe zealot" category that almost nobody pays attention to. Even most conservatives ignore that faction for fear of being lumped in with them.
Any 3D modeller will tell you that Google Image Search is their new can't-do-without tool. Say a client tells you to model a klaxon, but don't know anything about them. You are moments away from being able to discuss what kind they are looking for without having to resort to e-mailing sketches back and forth or other such madness. For me, it makes my production schedule mich tighter.
One of the most interesting uses of the Image Search I have seen is to find screenshots of software you're interested in, say looking for Maya screenshots to explain why to need it to your boss without having to do much prep at all or a formal presentation about Maya.
The image search has been a huge time saver for artists like me. It's like having a catalog of visual reference material which would take years and lots of cash, travel and patience to compile. The results aren't always what you expect, but if you're familiar with how to do some of the syntax tricks for regular Google, you can refine quite a bit.
This is a direct result of efforts by Google Labs and I thank them for it almost daily.
An old and rare Billy Preston track called "I wrote a simple song". It's ironic that the song is about the greed of the music industry. I only had it on the b-side of a 45 from until that point.
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How could you NOT want Real? But it has... But it can... But there's the... Aww hell, so there really isn't any reason to install it unless you hate yourself and want to be hassled a lot. Carry on then.
And they say that they're not a blacklist... just an informational database targeting a group of people a specific profession may not want to do business with... rrrrright... and I'm not computer geek... I'm just a very intelligent person who would rather spend time coding or doning computer related stuff instead of socializing...
SCO is already "oblivious", now if we can get them into oblivion... that would be nice.
I guess I can get thin and nice now.
IBM has done a great job of evolving these systems with the times, but very few shops implememnet ports of common languages such as PERL. Just try telling your Senior Systems Programmer that you'd rather use C++ or PERL or write code for your CICS regions and they would think that you were crazy because they don't want to support that code. Ironically, when the shop I worked at starting interfacing MVS and NT systems for data warehousing, my knowledge of Regina REXX on the NT boxen made the production programmers on the mainframe side more comfortable. Regina REXX even had some built in functions for the Windows Registry! REXX can be a good intermediate language for mainframe programmers to be more at home on the target platform you are moving them to. Ah, memories... Long live IEFBR14!
Seems to me like they forgot the obligatory standoff screw (not a rejected sexual advance by the way). I have seen those things in many odd materials, sizes and shapes over the years. Some are brass, some are aluminum, some aren't anything but plastic plugs - I've even seen molded cardboard ones on daughter cards (bad pun waiting to happen). Anyone who can identify them by case style, case manufacturer, use and thread count is a hardcore geek.
ACK! That's horrid! Damn him... oh wait. He's a Christian now... Backhanded blessings then. grrrrr. I'm going to go listen to Erotic City now so I can feel better.
I don't think these guys are as worried about the success of the venture as much as creating some "tools" for artists to use in the music business. Not tools in the software sense, but ideas and techniques for artists to act more intelligently within the business and force the labes to be more up front and honest. They will prompt some interesting, revealing and important questions and through this have a method for getting some answers. Remember that these two have been innovators for a very long time (Gabriel did multimedia in 1993 with xplora 1, was an innovator of CG and Eno had used "sampling" via tape loops in the early 70s and scratched records creatively long before Hip Hop ever existed). The success is not as important as the waves they make to get some of these issues dealt with. Something will change.
So where are Prince and Bowie? The four of them are the big names that are getting into this in a very constructive way and I think that they would be a powerhouse of influence.
Go post it on Rent A Coder
Point taken, but since these are John Doe lawsuits there isn't a real defendant yet - only a defendant place holder of sorts. This will slow down their "make an offer you can't refuse" tactics that they have been trying to get some revenu... errr... settlements from. Now they will have to play by real court process. It could be quite a while until they can offer any of these folk a "settlement". With any luck, this process may put a few dents into their strong arming of 12 year olds and such if a judge doesn't like how they are presenting these suits or throws the case out for lack of evidence (I can dream, can't I?).
One of the most interesting uses of the Image Search I have seen is to find screenshots of software you're interested in, say looking for Maya screenshots to explain why to need it to your boss without having to do much prep at all or a formal presentation about Maya.
The image search has been a huge time saver for artists like me. It's like having a catalog of visual reference material which would take years and lots of cash, travel and patience to compile. The results aren't always what you expect, but if you're familiar with how to do some of the syntax tricks for regular Google, you can refine quite a bit. This is a direct result of efforts by Google Labs and I thank them for it almost daily.
An old and rare Billy Preston track called "I wrote a simple song". It's ironic that the song is about the greed of the music industry. I only had it on the b-side of a 45 from until that point.