Remember NetZero, who wanted to sell your spare CPU cycles to Satan? Or TreeLoot, whose banner-sized Java applet consumed 73% of your CPU time just by moving that stupid monkey around?
Seriously, these companies need to find something beneficial (and not simply profitable) to do with people's time, money, and CPU cycles.
I have the IE6/Outlook Express 6 public beta, and aside from the plus signs on every folder in Explorer (regardless of whether they actually have subfolders or not), I haven't seen any weird things going down. Then again, I use the/etc/hosts trick to block out DoubleClick, and I've been very, VERY careful about my e-mail address (I'm still spam-free to this date).
I don't know if IE6 and Outlook Express 6 are free from this conundrum, but still, I haven't seen anything weird. I've only run IE 5.0 right from the Win2K disk before I got IE6, and I haven't seen anything like this. Of course, I'm also careful about where I browse, so that's half the battle.
What follows is a question regarding SGI their quest to go after anyone with any name starting with "Open" or containing "GL".
Remember when Sun Microsystems cease-and-desisted CmdrTaco because of "Java Invaders" and the usage of the Java logo on Slashdot?
Still, if SGI wants to go through with this, they'll have to hunt left and right for "offenders", like GLDuke, GLTron, GLQuake, OpenType (a joint font standard between Microsoft and Adobe), and others.
How long is it, before corporations begin to carve up the English dictionary and we won't be able to use a single word without following it with "(tm)"?
Not long. After receiving a strongly-worded letter from Idealab, FC has had to show the company's name as "idealab! (sm)". Still, Idealab (notice that I'm not complying with them?) is the reigning champion in corporate failures on that site.
So essentially, without support from Microsoft or the *nix/BSD community, Bluetooth will go the way of Betamax. Of course, IBM (Bluetooth's biggest promoter, from what I've seen) will still try to hold on, but then again, they did so with PC-DOS, OS/2, and the Aptiva. And look where those three are now.
They DID post it?!?! Damn, that was during my Internet hiatus, where the only access I had was from the overloaded dual T1's at my college and my mom's 56K on AOL. No wonder I missed it. Thanks.
Ah yes, criminal evolution at its finest.
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...promises to reduce the hassle of setting up a firewall by tunneling any TCP/IP application over HTTP.
And to think, only 50 years ago, the same type of people were evading a stone wall by tunneling an escape path under the penitentiary.
It doesn't hurt to have numerous failsafe systems in the government. After all, look at what happened right after the French Revolution: Napoleon came to power. The concept of totalitarianism that the Revolution had supposedly eliminated returned with a vengeance.
Would we still include legacy support for DOS applications??
Yes, DOS. What did most of today's Linux users use before Linus even started work on it? DOS. And what was the most popular version of DOS? MS-DOS (mostly because IBM kept fouling up numerous things in their version, PC-DOS).
Face it, most of the hardcore Linux users here used DOS before Linux existed. Unless, of course, they used Apple computers ever since the Apple II back in the late 70's. Or, in some RARE circumstances, used UNIX back when AT&T was still working on it.
And, in compliance with the GPL, provide all of the source code used in doing so.
The Slashdot Moderation War Code of Honour.
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Troll: to be used when a post downplays Linux, or brings up any German empire. Flamebait: to be used when a post is the parent of a 5-post long discussion, regardless of the content of those posts. Offtopic: to be used when a post does not cover all of the items discussed in a story. Redundant: to be used when a post contains one sequence of words used in a previous post, no matter how unique the post actually is. Overrated: to be used out of spite, or to fulfill a moderator's personal gain.
Total visible body count does matter. For instance, T2 and Total Recall had incredibly amounts of corpses. I can remember "Hot Shots! Part Deux" had a little section with a body counter, as though it was a game. "Bloodier than Die Hard! Bloodier than Total Recall!! BLOODIEST MOVIE EVER!!!!"
"Somehow NorthPoint officials decided that they are NOT going to pay employees any vacation balances exceeding 25 hours. That's right, three days!!! No severance package of any kind. This is the thanks one gets after their hard work and dedication for the past two years. But somehow in the midst of all this, [NorthPoint CEO] Liz Fetter still manages to receive a $45,000 bonus tomorrow."
NorthPoint will use up the remainder of their money to pay Liz Fetter. No severance to former employees, and no possible settlements or payouts as a result of filed lawsuits.
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Seriously, these companies need to find something beneficial (and not simply profitable) to do with people's time, money, and CPU cycles.
I don't know if IE6 and Outlook Express 6 are free from this conundrum, but still, I haven't seen anything weird. I've only run IE 5.0 right from the Win2K disk before I got IE6, and I haven't seen anything like this. Of course, I'm also careful about where I browse, so that's half the battle.
...why don't those hackers get it over with already and create .sux?
Remember when Sun Microsystems cease-and-desisted CmdrTaco because of "Java Invaders" and the usage of the Java logo on Slashdot?
Still, if SGI wants to go through with this, they'll have to hunt left and right for "offenders", like GLDuke, GLTron, GLQuake, OpenType (a joint font standard between Microsoft and Adobe), and others.
Not long. After receiving a strongly-worded letter from Idealab, FC has had to show the company's name as "idealab! (sm)". Still, Idealab (notice that I'm not complying with them?) is the reigning champion in corporate failures on that site.
So essentially, without support from Microsoft or the *nix/BSD community, Bluetooth will go the way of Betamax. Of course, IBM (Bluetooth's biggest promoter, from what I've seen) will still try to hold on, but then again, they did so with PC-DOS, OS/2, and the Aptiva. And look where those three are now.
Yeah, ZeroWing, I know. And your quote was too grammatically correct (you probably meant "All your base are belong to us").
They DID post it?!?! Damn, that was during my Internet hiatus, where the only access I had was from the overloaded dual T1's at my college and my mom's 56K on AOL. No wonder I missed it. Thanks.
And to think, only 50 years ago, the same type of people were evading a stone wall by tunneling an escape path under the penitentiary.
Oh yeah? What about this one:
2000-12-05 14:55:18 What really goes on at a DSL tech support center (yro,internet) (accepted)
That one was accepted, and has been delayed for almost four months and counting!
It doesn't hurt to have numerous failsafe systems in the government. After all, look at what happened right after the French Revolution: Napoleon came to power. The concept of totalitarianism that the Revolution had supposedly eliminated returned with a vengeance.
That's about as grammatically correct as "Somebody set up us the bomb."
Yes, DOS. What did most of today's Linux users use before Linus even started work on it? DOS. And what was the most popular version of DOS? MS-DOS (mostly because IBM kept fouling up numerous things in their version, PC-DOS).
Face it, most of the hardcore Linux users here used DOS before Linux existed. Unless, of course, they used Apple computers ever since the Apple II back in the late 70's. Or, in some RARE circumstances, used UNIX back when AT&T was still working on it.
And, in compliance with the GPL, provide all of the source code used in doing so.
Troll: to be used when a post downplays Linux, or brings up any German empire.
Flamebait: to be used when a post is the parent of a 5-post long discussion, regardless of the content of those posts.
Offtopic: to be used when a post does not cover all of the items discussed in a story.
Redundant: to be used when a post contains one sequence of words used in a previous post, no matter how unique the post actually is.
Overrated: to be used out of spite, or to fulfill a moderator's personal gain.
They'll probably put out an article about "GNU UNIX" or "The LAME MP3 Encoder".
...the Troll War and the War of the Flames.
If this article was a post, it'd be down to -1 with "Offtopic" moderations.
Total visible body count does matter. For instance, T2 and Total Recall had incredibly amounts of corpses. I can remember "Hot Shots! Part Deux" had a little section with a body counter, as though it was a game. "Bloodier than Die Hard! Bloodier than Total Recall!! BLOODIEST MOVIE EVER!!!!"
Damn, I missed The Capitol Steps again! It was on last night! DAMN!!!
Of course, if we get visited by the Borg, we're doomed.
Okay, it has nothing at all to do with Be, but wouldn't it have been cool if they bought it, or at least advertised on it?
But I want to go even easier. A Quake-style console that can be summoned and dismissed with one key combination sounds pretty appealing to me.
And all of those lawsuits will end up with the plaintiffs getting nothing, because NorthPoint is pretty much bankrupt. How much? I quote from a former NorthPoint employee's comments to DSLReports.com:
"Somehow NorthPoint officials decided that they are NOT going to pay employees any vacation balances exceeding 25 hours. That's right, three days!!! No severance package of any kind. This is the thanks one gets after their hard work and dedication for the past two years. But somehow in the midst of all this, [NorthPoint CEO] Liz Fetter still manages to receive a $45,000 bonus tomorrow."
NorthPoint will use up the remainder of their money to pay Liz Fetter. No severance to former employees, and no possible settlements or payouts as a result of filed lawsuits.