"use the strength of your enemy against the" -anonymous master
I think it is pretty clear which side of the fence cyber-vandal sits... His rantings and complaints are so over the top that the falsity is obvious. and this, right after a post claiming zealotry to be an embarrasment? CV is just proving the point. I think he might even be an MS shill!
As anyone who's ever seen a VG publisher's marketing department get busy can attest, this happens with regularity, everywhere in the industry. But judging by the critical tone of the write-up here, you'd think Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer personally made these 'doctored' screenshots. You can all relax though, because it was just a USD$30k/year marketing lackey following orders and making something to show, and only for the benefit of their boss. (who's no doubt much more interested in cocktail hour than video games or the veracity of their representation)
Personally, I find the accusatory and suspicion tinged slant of the/. write up to be more unflattering to Slashdot than miscor$oft. This is completely typical of the industry, not a grand conspiracy to commit fraud. sheesh.
I mean, really, the 'master class' ie., corporations have twisted the laws around until common citizens are little better than French peasants. There will never be another Thomas Edison or Leonardo DaVinci with such intractable legal and finacial restrictions in place. I predict that soon, here in the western world at least, Corporations will step on so many rights that the only recourse for change will be violence. I do not condone this, but it's true. So the next time you make a sloppy or lazy decision at work, in your employers' name, that effects the citizenry, be it through rude costomer relations or anti-piracy measures in your software, you are directly destroying our civilisation.
are the anal retentive folks like you often constipated? wtf is wrong with you, belabouring semantics in such a bitter and extensive manner?
not to mention the numerous semantical errors found within your own thesis. fool.
But I think the most insulting aspect of your little belinked tirade is the implication of surety, that you simply must be right in your beliefs because 'blah blah blah, valid science'. This is pure foolishness- you've clearly no idea the damage that 'scientific method' has caused the world. And it is nit-picking like this what re-enforces the torture. Look around you. the soul of western civilisation is utterly bankrupt. from prozac to hell mouth, tampon ads to trailer trash, our entire populace faces implosion. and the meat of the matter lay in so-called 'scientific method' robbing us of our very humanity, be it through denying us our important capacity for superstition or industrializing our bread and butter.
knowledge without wisdom is about the most contemptible and evil trait going. congratulations.
well well well, in case you haven't noticed, there are a bajillion ways to tweak the statistics. I think my points still stand though. There may be ways to make lead-battery electric vehicles actually 'green' someday, but the state of the art doesn't offer us any now. And all of the well meaning environmentalist advocates that haven't thought this one through need all the help we can muster to open their eyes.
And those other numbers you mention, well, I don't see how they include realistic transmission loss numbers or actual (read:realistic) power production pollution statistics.
Not to mention the outrageous number of power plants that must be built in order to adopt this as a primary technology.
'That these impulses have survived so long represents something of a miracle. The Net Revolution has been under siege -- from corporations, adolescent flamers, lawyers, phobic moralists and politicians -- almost from the moment of its inception.'
This is base and tactless fear mongering. 'adolescent flamers'?! are ruining the web? corporations are beseiging it? If memory serves, there were just a handful of caucasian college+ elitists on the web prior to 1994 (myself included). It wasn't until the unwashed masses, the corporation and the lawyers got involved that this thing really started to take off. And here you are bemoaning it? Your livelyhood depends on these things, Mr. Katz, and I am a little dissapointerd to hear you complaining about it now.
I'm sure it seems like a stalled revolution from the perspective of anyone attached to VALinux, but I have to say, between gnutella, IRC, usenet and google, the web is full of more anti-establishment information now than ever. And from what I can gather of your rant here, this is what qualifies as 'revolutionary' to you. There is a curious feature of the internet in that any and all private interests have ample room to operate. I'm not sure what you are complaining about, exactly, perhaps the music industry beating up on Napster? I can still get pirated music from at least 5 different avenues besides Napster. Perhaps you are concerned with things like Carnivore, et al.? don't use words that raise flags and you are fine. or better yet, encrypt. The point here is that regardless of the attempts of any given private interest, there is already far too much traffic volume, far too many avenues of communication through the Net for any one interest to contain. regardless of what they'd have you believe.
What is truly revolutionary about the web is the speed and volume with which data can move about. This facet of the Net is not something that is in danger, now or in the forseeable future.
the amount of water mankind has re-distributed with dams in the past 150 years has caused a noticable wobble in the earth's rotation (not to mention changing the weather patterns)
Sheldon seems to be just another well meaning yet deluded fool in thinking that 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' will suffice to allow Canadian citizens all manner of 'guilt free driving'.
too bad really, because the sooner we start taking this situation seriously, the sooner we can start solving the problems.
I'll concede that the power plant is more efficient than an internal combustion engine in terms of generating electricity from fuel, but what about the 70% transmission loss? see how most of those precious joules are simply dissipated?
Also, recent electric vehicle systems can quick charge, and there are numerous recharge stations all over Los Angeles (in the parking garage of ever public building in fact, as well as many commercial building lots). These buildings are typically only open during banker's hours. I would reckon that the typical commuter would in fact prefer charging their vehicle for free, during work hours, rather than at night on their dime.
GAH! of all the short sighted environmentalist wankery, I swear! If you check out their web page, you'll see that they blithely boast of how efficient and 'green' their vehicle is. But if you stop and think this stuff through for a moment... Where does the electricity come from? it comes from oil and gas burning power stations. The handful of such power stations in California put out nearly 4 times the amount of pollutants than all of the cars and trucks and trains combined, and that's every day. Couple this with the 70% transmition loss (which is radiated away as heat on the lines, btw), and we are talking something on the order of 100's of times less efficient than my Honda Civic.
I shouldn't even have to mention the horrifying production process of these batteries, or the contamination we'll see after accidents, either on the road or in some redneck's front yard! You thought dumping motor oil was bad? holy goddam hell!
yeah, I hear what you're saying. I think the myth of these MIT hacks is much greater than the sum of they parts. WHy, the MIT hacks in Real Genius were ten times better than anything actually described in the real MIT hack gallery web page.
" You have yet to produce one smidgen of evidence... "
Provide evidence to someone unwilling to provide even a smidgen of identity?
besides, my only real point here is the similarity of G Bush Jr. and the pandering antics of the Roman leaders during the time of that republic's collapse. And I don't see that there's much to argue there.
If you read my post again, you'll see that I never accused the President (moreover: his cabinet) of stupidity. only suggested that he holds the american populace and the pursiut of science in contempt. and then I suggested he might be justified, refering to network television and alluding to it's low-brow nature.
then you posted, and validated my final statement, by suggesting I shouldn't refer to the president as 'stupid'. I believe poor reading comprehension is a subset of 'stupid'. thank you.
you shouldn't have posted this as AC. I would like to discuss it. See, the US President is typically the singlemost influential person responsible for the political mood here in the US, and if Nasa is suddenly scrapping a bunch of projects in response to the new administration, who better to blame? and it seems obvious to me that all the recent news about NASA projects facing the axe is more than coincidental to the new administration finally getting a head of steam on.
so duble-yuh has made it clear that science and technology mean nothing to him. I think he is eager to buy the american mindshare directly than by way of succesfully governing, much like Crassus or Caeser during the fall of the Roman Republic. I urge you all to make your voice heard, to let the arrogant slimeball know that the status quo isn't as stupid as network TV makes us seem. Or are we?
This particular budget cut is a travesty of magnificent proprtions. The celestial clock happens to be perfectly in tune with our technological advancement, to offer us this rare glimpse of our environment, as a species. To decide that we can't afford to redirect a few paltry resources to the task strikes me as narrow and crude. It's almost as if, as a species, we are too lazy to bother craning our necks a little to see what's outside the crib.
Consider: we have, just here at slashdot, the ears of a number of very technicallycapableindividuals that might be persuaded to help create a Pluto Probe in an open sourced, ameteur manner. Corporatesponsorship would be soon to follow. Perhaps I haven't thought it out too carefully, but it is apparent to me that the potential to deploy a probe exists, despite the government.
2024 Taurus Colony Set-up on Earths Moon, 15,000 Men, Women and children emigrate there. War was begining. Somebody set us up the bomb. The first Lunar Mining Plant is commissioned by the EEC (Eon Energy Commission) and they make a discovery that will change the future of mankind forever, a metallic compound similar to mercury in a vein of rock 1.7 miles below the surface.
Hey, is this some kind of sick deal wherein you guys are making Pater defend his job? He didn't ask to be interviewed on slashdot, so was he told to? Was he asked politely to do this? where there any dreadful implications to his refusing to? Who put him up to it? you? taco? roblimo???
I notice the quip about how he 'dearly appreciates his generous paychecks'. Seems like grovelling of a very specific flavor... Are you perhaps forcing Neal to expose himself to this ridicule and debasement in order to drive him away?
Is he the 20% your division has to axe?
I was recently laid off and I know first hand how wretchedly the cowardly managers act when they have to make tough decisions. All of this is perfectly plausible considering the atmosphere you guys must be working under at this point. I will be extremely pissed with you guys if Pater is gone in a month or two...
all you 1337 war3z k1dzi3z and mp3 pirates listen up- here's the plan...
Deja never bothered to archive binaries. and google won't either... but I think I've figured out a way to post binaries directly to google's caching system- break the file up into 98k pages, hosted on a free system like geocities. imbed a title, description and a link to an index of all the other segments of the file at the begining. Voila`! instant free binaries archive.
"...The problem is a lot of companies seem to think they own everything you do. Whether its on their time (where they are right in thinking so) or if you do it on your own time. (In which case they can kiss my arse because it's MINE noth theirs, as long as I have not stollen or used anything that's their IP)"
well, you can have them 'kiss your ass' all you like, but you are signing an agreement to the contrary. You are putting your name and reputation to a legal document. Are you suggesting that you are somehow above the law?
What if you came into the situation where you could use something you may have coded privately, for a company project?
would you re-write it from scratch? that would waste the companies time and money. if the code is available and you choose to waste time re-doing it, you suck that many hours away from the project. I'm sure you're well compensated, right? it sounds like a several thousand dollar fuck you from here.
would you use the version with your name on it? if you brought prior work that you failed to declare earlier, you'd be acting in bad faith. in fact, failing to divulge the work, regardless of your licensing choices, is a bald lie, surely at odds with your IP agreement.
Your opinion is hardly law. maybe they'll never find out, but the fact that you've done this thing makes you a bad employee. I'm sure you have ego and pride enough to ignore this, but the fact remains. It is very likely that you could make a modification to some GPL code, then leave having the PHB's thinking they own the code. half the/. stories on companies fucking up a GPL issue probably stem from the headstrong, myopic egocentrism of certain employees thinking they are somehow exempt from straight up disclosure. I hope you're proud of yourself.
I may be approaching luddite territory here, but your 'football-watching' dig certainly betrays the arrogance that I mentioned. and, to a lesser extent, your winblows email address betrays your elitism. This shoddy mental wardrobe of yours could one day cause someone harm. And you are probably ready to rationalize away any responsibility for it, aren't you? using devices such as indirectly claiming credit for the roof over my head...
I just want to urge people to think before they act! I have nothing bad to say about the accomplishments of Mr. Hubert. For all I know, he's a wonderful fellow. but the point is, there is not enough wisdom in our map-cap pursuit of knowledge. it's time to excersize our collective power of reflection and proceed with a modicum of caution. Thank you.
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"use the strength of your enemy against the" -anonymous master
I think it is pretty clear which side of the fence cyber-vandal sits... His rantings and complaints are so over the top that the falsity is obvious. and this, right after a post claiming zealotry to be an embarrasment? CV is just proving the point. I think he might even be an MS shill!
NT 1.0 (aka OS/2) came out in 1989, a scant 2 years after the 386 was released retail. nice try though.
As anyone who's ever seen a VG publisher's marketing department get busy can attest, this happens with regularity, everywhere in the industry. But judging by the critical tone of the write-up here, you'd think Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer personally made these 'doctored' screenshots. You can all relax though, because it was just a USD$30k/year marketing lackey following orders and making something to show, and only for the benefit of their boss. (who's no doubt much more interested in cocktail hour than video games or the veracity of their representation)
/. write up to be more unflattering to Slashdot than miscor$oft. This is completely typical of the industry, not a grand conspiracy to commit fraud. sheesh.
Personally, I find the accusatory and suspicion tinged slant of the
I mean, really, the 'master class' ie., corporations have twisted the laws around until common citizens are little better than French peasants. There will never be another Thomas Edison or Leonardo DaVinci with such intractable legal and finacial restrictions in place. I predict that soon, here in the western world at least, Corporations will step on so many rights that the only recourse for change will be violence. I do not condone this, but it's true. So the next time you make a sloppy or lazy decision at work, in your employers' name, that effects the citizenry, be it through rude costomer relations or anti-piracy measures in your software, you are directly destroying our civilisation.
are the anal retentive folks like you often constipated? wtf is wrong with you, belabouring semantics in such a bitter and extensive manner?
not to mention the numerous semantical errors found within your own thesis. fool.
But I think the most insulting aspect of your little belinked tirade is the implication of surety, that you simply must be right in your beliefs because 'blah blah blah, valid science'. This is pure foolishness- you've clearly no idea the damage that 'scientific method' has caused the world. And it is nit-picking like this what re-enforces the torture. Look around you. the soul of western civilisation is utterly bankrupt. from prozac to hell mouth, tampon ads to trailer trash, our entire populace faces implosion. and the meat of the matter lay in so-called 'scientific method' robbing us of our very humanity, be it through denying us our important capacity for superstition or industrializing our bread and butter.
knowledge without wisdom is about the most contemptible and evil trait going. congratulations.
well well well, in case you haven't noticed, there are a bajillion ways to tweak the statistics. I think my points still stand though. There may be ways to make lead-battery electric vehicles actually 'green' someday, but the state of the art doesn't offer us any now. And all of the well meaning environmentalist advocates that haven't thought this one through need all the help we can muster to open their eyes.
And those other numbers you mention, well, I don't see how they include realistic transmission loss numbers or actual (read:realistic) power production pollution statistics.
Not to mention the outrageous number of power plants that must be built in order to adopt this as a primary technology.
'That these impulses have survived so long represents something of a miracle. The Net Revolution has been under siege -- from corporations, adolescent flamers, lawyers, phobic moralists and politicians -- almost from the moment of its inception.'
This is base and tactless fear mongering. 'adolescent flamers'?! are ruining the web? corporations are beseiging it? If memory serves, there were just a handful of caucasian college+ elitists on the web prior to 1994 (myself included). It wasn't until the unwashed masses, the corporation and the lawyers got involved that this thing really started to take off. And here you are bemoaning it? Your livelyhood depends on these things, Mr. Katz, and I am a little dissapointerd to hear you complaining about it now.
I'm sure it seems like a stalled revolution from the perspective of anyone attached to VALinux, but I have to say, between gnutella, IRC, usenet and google, the web is full of more anti-establishment information now than ever. And from what I can gather of your rant here, this is what qualifies as 'revolutionary' to you. There is a curious feature of the internet in that any and all private interests have ample room to operate. I'm not sure what you are complaining about, exactly, perhaps the music industry beating up on Napster? I can still get pirated music from at least 5 different avenues besides Napster. Perhaps you are concerned with things like Carnivore, et al.? don't use words that raise flags and you are fine. or better yet, encrypt. The point here is that regardless of the attempts of any given private interest, there is already far too much traffic volume, far too many avenues of communication through the Net for any one interest to contain. regardless of what they'd have you believe.
What is truly revolutionary about the web is the speed and volume with which data can move about. This facet of the Net is not something that is in danger, now or in the forseeable future.
Sheldon seems to be just another well meaning yet deluded fool in thinking that 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' will suffice to allow Canadian citizens all manner of 'guilt free driving'.
too bad really, because the sooner we start taking this situation seriously, the sooner we can start solving the problems.
I'll concede that the power plant is more efficient than an internal combustion engine in terms of generating electricity from fuel, but what about the 70% transmission loss? see how most of those precious joules are simply dissipated?
Also, recent electric vehicle systems can quick charge, and there are numerous recharge stations all over Los Angeles (in the parking garage of ever public building in fact, as well as many commercial building lots). These buildings are typically only open during banker's hours. I would reckon that the typical commuter would in fact prefer charging their vehicle for free, during work hours, rather than at night on their dime.
GAH! of all the short sighted environmentalist wankery, I swear! If you check out their web page, you'll see that they blithely boast of how efficient and 'green' their vehicle is. But if you stop and think this stuff through for a moment... Where does the electricity come from? it comes from oil and gas burning power stations. The handful of such power stations in California put out nearly 4 times the amount of pollutants than all of the cars and trucks and trains combined, and that's every day. Couple this with the 70% transmition loss (which is radiated away as heat on the lines, btw), and we are talking something on the order of 100's of times less efficient than my Honda Civic.
I shouldn't even have to mention the horrifying production process of these batteries, or the contamination we'll see after accidents, either on the road or in some redneck's front yard! You thought dumping motor oil was bad? holy goddam hell!
yeah, I hear what you're saying. I think the myth of these MIT hacks is much greater than the sum of they parts. WHy, the MIT hacks in Real Genius were ten times better than anything actually described in the real MIT hack gallery web page.
see the post here.
a full on hobbyist effort could accomplish the task.
" You have yet to produce one smidgen of evidence... "
Provide evidence to someone unwilling to provide even a smidgen of identity?
besides, my only real point here is the similarity of G Bush Jr. and the pandering antics of the Roman leaders during the time of that republic's collapse. And I don't see that there's much to argue there.
har har har,
If you read my post again, you'll see that I never accused the President (moreover: his cabinet) of stupidity. only suggested that he holds the american populace and the pursiut of science in contempt. and then I suggested he might be justified, refering to network television and alluding to it's low-brow nature.
then you posted, and validated my final statement, by suggesting I shouldn't refer to the president as 'stupid'. I believe poor reading comprehension is a subset of 'stupid'. thank you.
you shouldn't have posted this as AC. I would like to discuss it. See, the US President is typically the singlemost influential person responsible for the political mood here in the US, and if Nasa is suddenly scrapping a bunch of projects in response to the new administration, who better to blame? and it seems obvious to me that all the recent news about NASA projects facing the axe is more than coincidental to the new administration finally getting a head of steam on.
so duble-yuh has made it clear that science and technology mean nothing to him. I think he is eager to buy the american mindshare directly than by way of succesfully governing, much like Crassus or Caeser during the fall of the Roman Republic. I urge you all to make your voice heard, to let the arrogant slimeball know that the status quo isn't as stupid as network TV makes us seem. Or are we?
This particular budget cut is a travesty of magnificent proprtions. The celestial clock happens to be perfectly in tune with our technological advancement, to offer us this rare glimpse of our environment, as a species. To decide that we can't afford to redirect a few paltry resources to the task strikes me as narrow and crude. It's almost as if, as a species, we are too lazy to bother craning our necks a little to see what's outside the crib.
But it doesn't have to be this way. NASA isn't the only agency capable of sendiing the probe. in fact, maybe this feat could be accomplished on a voluntary basis? We have theories/plans for magical technology at our disposal, commercial support services to pester, potential launch capabilities and a wide variety of legal launch facilities around the world.
Consider: we have, just here at slashdot, the ears of a number of very technically capable individuals that might be persuaded to help create a Pluto Probe in an open sourced, ameteur manner. Corporate sponsorship would be soon to follow. Perhaps I haven't thought it out too carefully, but it is apparent to me that the potential to deploy a probe exists, despite the government.
From the manual:
2024 Taurus Colony Set-up on Earths Moon, 15,000 Men, Women and children emigrate there. War was begining. Somebody set us up the bomb. The first Lunar Mining Plant is commissioned by the EEC (Eon Energy Commission) and they make a discovery that will change the future of mankind forever, a metallic compound similar to mercury in a vein of rock 1.7 miles below the surface.
Hey, is this some kind of sick deal wherein you guys are making Pater defend his job? He didn't ask to be interviewed on slashdot, so was he told to? Was he asked politely to do this? where there any dreadful implications to his refusing to? Who put him up to it? you? taco? roblimo???
I notice the quip about how he 'dearly appreciates his generous paychecks'. Seems like grovelling of a very specific flavor... Are you perhaps forcing Neal to expose himself to this ridicule and debasement in order to drive him away?
Is he the 20% your division has to axe?
I was recently laid off and I know first hand how wretchedly the cowardly managers act when they have to make tough decisions. All of this is perfectly plausible considering the atmosphere you guys must be working under at this point. I will be extremely pissed with you guys if Pater is gone in a month or two...
" ...and figured that the most this fellow would do would be to waste a lot of his time, and that of anyone else who decided to help."
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! you are prophetic.
all you 1337 war3z k1dzi3z and mp3 pirates listen up- here's the plan...
Deja never bothered to archive binaries. and google won't either... but I think I've figured out a way to post binaries directly to google's caching system- break the file up into 98k pages, hosted on a free system like geocities. imbed a title, description and a link to an index of all the other segments of the file at the begining. Voila`! instant free binaries archive.
thank you.
" ...The problem is a lot of companies seem to think they own everything you do. Whether its on their time (where they are right in thinking so) or if you do it on your own time. (In which case they can kiss my arse because it's MINE noth theirs, as long as I have not stollen or used anything that's their IP)"
well, you can have them 'kiss your ass' all you like, but you are signing an agreement to the contrary. You are putting your name and reputation to a legal document. Are you suggesting that you are somehow above the law?
What if you came into the situation where you could use something you may have coded privately, for a company project?
/. stories on companies fucking up a GPL issue probably stem from the headstrong, myopic egocentrism of certain employees thinking they are somehow exempt from straight up disclosure. I hope you're proud of yourself.
would you re-write it from scratch? that would waste the companies time and money. if the code is available and you choose to waste time re-doing it, you suck that many hours away from the project. I'm sure you're well compensated, right? it sounds like a several thousand dollar fuck you from here.
would you use the version with your name on it? if you brought prior work that you failed to declare earlier, you'd be acting in bad faith. in fact, failing to divulge the work, regardless of your licensing choices, is a bald lie, surely at odds with your IP agreement.
Your opinion is hardly law. maybe they'll never find out, but the fact that you've done this thing makes you a bad employee. I'm sure you have ego and pride enough to ignore this, but the fact remains. It is very likely that you could make a modification to some GPL code, then leave having the PHB's thinking they own the code. half the
but what really matters most to me is the fidelity/luminence of a given display's ability to show red. this is where tfts fall short.
"Now, then what are you afraid of?"
nukes and filthy mfctring methods.
I may be approaching luddite territory here, but your 'football-watching' dig certainly betrays the arrogance that I mentioned. and, to a lesser extent, your winblows email address betrays your elitism. This shoddy mental wardrobe of yours could one day cause someone harm. And you are probably ready to rationalize away any responsibility for it, aren't you? using devices such as indirectly claiming credit for the roof over my head...
I just want to urge people to think before they act! I have nothing bad to say about the accomplishments of Mr. Hubert. For all I know, he's a wonderful fellow. but the point is, there is not enough wisdom in our map-cap pursuit of knowledge. it's time to excersize our collective power of reflection and proceed with a modicum of caution. Thank you.