Good thing nobody is enforcing a trademark on "telnet," eh?
Well, then, there's the solution: just rename OpenSSH to OpenSTN (Secure TelNet).
Sure, name changes are hard, but in Quake, when a rocket is barreling towards you, what do you do? Strafe to the side, right! And this is the legal equivalent of that.
What I want to know is, if I do pay somone when I buy equipment that enables me to copy copyrighted Items, do I gain rights to do so? If not, what am I paying for?
You're paying for the record companies' lost revenues due to your failure to purchase the album. Sony and Bertelsmann both wanted to get revenues from the mp3 industry. Bertelsmann bought out Napster, while Sony made ultra-proprietary music players (they didn't even take mp3 natively; you had to convert every song to OpenMG, which took longer than encoding the mp3 in the first place). Both companies received scant revenues from these ventures, so now they're going for the jugular: the devices responsible for the mp3 craze.
Any computer with a sound card could be used for copying digital music. For that matter, any computer with a CD-ROM drive could be used for copying digital music. There would be tariffs on almost everything in an electronics store. And all to fuel Bertelsmann's jihad.
Sorry, I meant 5. I must have recalled another number on the monitor screen.
Also, did you know that Wells Fargo ditched Netware for Win2K? Yeah. Credit Suisse First Boston is also using it. Besides, even though they have 6- and 8- drive arrays, these servers have to be running a reliable OS -- and Linux isn't one of them. If a Dell desktop computer can stay running for more than 720 straight hours of work three times the intensity that a normal human puts the computer through (ZDLabs actually did this test) while a comparable Linux box is spitting out three core dumps per hour, then it's obvious which OS you're going to choose.
It is a threat to bandwidth and system stability(much like Napster and Gnutella are). If I were in charge of a large LAN (over 1000 clients connected), then I would develop a blacklist of smut websites for the router to block out.
I saw this at Shugashack: Here it is. Watch out; it's in French, so have the fish ready. That price is equivalent to $567, so yeah, the NV20 is going to take a chunk out of your wallet. I'm definetly not getting the Hercules one; I don't need DVI, so that might chop off $30 from the price (though I hope I'm underestimating the reduction).
Remember Quantum hard drives? They had the strongest damned voice coils of any hard drive out there. Unfortunately, that was a bad thing; I remember my 1 GB Quantum SCSI making a repetitive clunking noise, like the drive head was banging against the side of the wall again and again. Also, anyone remember the Quantum Bigfoot? That was their 5.25" hard drive series; unfortunately, that series had the highest motor burnout rate of any hard drive due to the huge platter diameter. And then there was the Quantum Fireball, or should I say, the Quantum "burning up in a" fireball.
I'm proud to see Maxtor learning from the mistakes made by the company they just bought out. Maybe they can teach a lesson to Creative, which is in a similar position.
The Sound Blaster Live. For over two years, the only change that the soundcard itself has undergone was a jack reorganization (putting the stupid PC99 colors on the jacks). The card still only processes 64 stereo voices and 32 "3D" voices. There is no true 3D sound processing, just directional reverb, chorus, and delay effects through EAX. Creative has failed to do anything at all with A3D, which it acquired after buying out Aureal. And the latest driver release (LiveWare 3) has created more problems than it has fixed.
By now, there should be a soundcard that can process 256 stereo channels and 128 "3D" channels, but Creative has rested on their laurels, and they have failed to improve the soundcard world. Instead, they push their ultra-proprietary software packages that often crash the user's computer, not to mention the Nomad Jukebox, which until recently has been locked in the realm of Windows.
Wake up, Creative. It's time to destroy the farce that you have created, and build a better soundcard.
If I ever saw BSD running on a fruity translucent box, I'd run like hell too. And if I had a gun, I'd empty the clip shooting at the damned thing!
Sheesh! There's trade secrets in fan design?
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I thought the biggest advance in fan design was ball bearings and teflon-coated rotors. Either way, I have a total of 11 fans in my system, and I'm trying to sneak two 3.7" fans in somehow. I also plan to make a wood faceplate for my computer.
On November 17, 1967, Surveyor 6, a lunar lander in a program researching possible moon landing sites, made history. The lander's rockets were fired for 2.5 seconds, lifting the lander 12 feet and sending it 8 feet west. It then soft-landed and continued to function normally. It had become the first spacecraft to lift off from the moon.
I want this thing to act just like one dismissable DOS box/*nix terminal with a looong history. Just like the Quake console is, but with more functionality.
Think about it; anywhere in the GUI, you could pop-down the console and type a command. That would cover most of the text-based stuff, but if the program did something else (like a Linux game accessing SVGALib), then the program would start either in its own window or full-screen.
I'm surprised that there isn't a OS GUI that does this yet; perhaps I should make the Windows version of it myself. It could be Quake's donation to the GUI world.
Think about it. Of all the problems in Windows mentioned here, almost none of them pertain to the Windows GUI. Now if only someone could tap that ingenuity and make a *nix GUI that looks and works like that in Windows. Of course, there would have to be changes to reflect the *nix filesystem and driver model, but I think that it could be done.
My idea for the name of such a GUI: ATOG (A Taste of Gates).
...rebates secure revenue, and if the company holds onto the revenue from unfulfilled rebates, they have more money. Covad and Efficient Networks have done it (the infamous $199 rebate that had to be paid on every Covad DSL connection), Intuit does it every year with TurboTax and Quicken, and Microsoft does it with the "Gates' butt-kissing" rebate (when you upgrade Office from a previous Office version).
Also, customer satisfaction has fallen way below profit on the average company's priority list. So what if there's thousands of customers griping about not getting their rebates sent? The company has all that money to play around with, and so they go and waste the money on venture capital, R&D, or (more often than not) yet another hike of executive salaries. Then, when the BBB and FTC start investigating, they finally 'fess up and send the rebates before they become the target of class-action lawsuits.
I predict that this cycle will occur in companies all over the country. To the elitist capitalist, the famous excerpt of the Declaration of Independence reads: "...that among these are Strife, Misery, and the pursuit of Avarice."
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Well, then, there's the solution: just rename OpenSSH to OpenSTN (Secure TelNet).
Sure, name changes are hard, but in Quake, when a rocket is barreling towards you, what do you do? Strafe to the side, right! And this is the legal equivalent of that.
Linux 2.4's Fireballing
Oh, wait a minute, the government has about 300 morons like that in the House of Representatives alone.
If these new designs perform like that, this might be more like "Pie in the eye."
Promise that you won't program a video codec or a web browser in bash.
For instance, ISP's can't rely on Internet-based support; what if there's a customer who can't connect? What good is Internet support in that case?
I was hoping that they'd make the right decision, and they did. Now if only some other patents could be challenged for validity...
You're paying for the record companies' lost revenues due to your failure to purchase the album. Sony and Bertelsmann both wanted to get revenues from the mp3 industry. Bertelsmann bought out Napster, while Sony made ultra-proprietary music players (they didn't even take mp3 natively; you had to convert every song to OpenMG, which took longer than encoding the mp3 in the first place). Both companies received scant revenues from these ventures, so now they're going for the jugular: the devices responsible for the mp3 craze.
Have you paid your Napster tax today?
Any computer with a sound card could be used for copying digital music. For that matter, any computer with a CD-ROM drive could be used for copying digital music. There would be tariffs on almost everything in an electronics store. And all to fuel Bertelsmann's jihad.
Also, did you know that Wells Fargo ditched Netware for Win2K? Yeah. Credit Suisse First Boston is also using it. Besides, even though they have 6- and 8- drive arrays, these servers have to be running a reliable OS -- and Linux isn't one of them. If a Dell desktop computer can stay running for more than 720 straight hours of work three times the intensity that a normal human puts the computer through (ZDLabs actually did this test) while a comparable Linux box is spitting out three core dumps per hour, then it's obvious which OS you're going to choose.
Are they going to make it more stable than their day jobs this time?
Sex has no place in the workplace. Period.
Damnit, I said the exact same thing on the original article, and I got no moderation on it! Where's the justice in that?
I saw this at Shugashack: Here it is. Watch out; it's in French, so have the fish ready. That price is equivalent to $567, so yeah, the NV20 is going to take a chunk out of your wallet. I'm definetly not getting the Hercules one; I don't need DVI, so that might chop off $30 from the price (though I hope I'm underestimating the reduction).
I'm proud to see Maxtor learning from the mistakes made by the company they just bought out. Maybe they can teach a lesson to Creative, which is in a similar position.
By now, there should be a soundcard that can process 256 stereo channels and 128 "3D" channels, but Creative has rested on their laurels, and they have failed to improve the soundcard world. Instead, they push their ultra-proprietary software packages that often crash the user's computer, not to mention the Nomad Jukebox, which until recently has been locked in the realm of Windows.
Wake up, Creative. It's time to destroy the farce that you have created, and build a better soundcard.
If I ever saw BSD running on a fruity translucent box, I'd run like hell too. And if I had a gun, I'd empty the clip shooting at the damned thing!
I thought the biggest advance in fan design was ball bearings and teflon-coated rotors. Either way, I have a total of 11 fans in my system, and I'm trying to sneak two 3.7" fans in somehow. I also plan to make a wood faceplate for my computer.
On November 17, 1967, Surveyor 6, a lunar lander in a program researching possible moon landing sites, made history. The lander's rockets were fired for 2.5 seconds, lifting the lander 12 feet and sending it 8 feet west. It then soft-landed and continued to function normally. It had become the first spacecraft to lift off from the moon.
I want this thing to act just like one dismissable DOS box/*nix terminal with a looong history. Just like the Quake console is, but with more functionality.
Voice your outrage against the DVD-CCA's crusade of strife, misery, and the pursuit of avarice.
...though its users are ostracized daily from Slashdot.
I'm surprised that there isn't a OS GUI that does this yet; perhaps I should make the Windows version of it myself. It could be Quake's donation to the GUI world.
My idea for the name of such a GUI: ATOG (A Taste of Gates).
Also, customer satisfaction has fallen way below profit on the average company's priority list. So what if there's thousands of customers griping about not getting their rebates sent? The company has all that money to play around with, and so they go and waste the money on venture capital, R&D, or (more often than not) yet another hike of executive salaries. Then, when the BBB and FTC start investigating, they finally 'fess up and send the rebates before they become the target of class-action lawsuits.
I predict that this cycle will occur in companies all over the country. To the elitist capitalist, the famous excerpt of the Declaration of Independence reads: "...that among these are Strife, Misery, and the pursuit of Avarice."