I look forward to my orders actually being correct - my having input them rather than some kid trying to find the right buttons to hit for the product I want. Lots of mistakes get made on the front end, when someone actually can't find the button for a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, for example. Errors made in the food prep area are a different thing, and will always be hard to catch....
It'd be great if we could use NFC in a phone to input the order we usually get, too - and then modify it. Everyone has their favorite items; I hope McD's is listening / trawling/.
You don't get a degree in English to make money. You do it because you're a decent human being who enjoys what they're doing. [And, possibly, is just chronically allergic to thinking about future earnings in any reasonable way... which sometimes leads to Bad Things later, but... if you're lucky, you recover from that.]
As the sysadmin you should have a seat on the CAB. That's it.
You're the person doing implementation, and you're the person most suited to evaluate the technical impact of the changes that you're making.
If you were not a lone sysadmin, it would be your director or their delegate who ought to be on the board; as a standalone sysadmin, though, including you is the sane thing to do.
funny, i don't see at-large membership specifically excluded. specifically, i'm reading it as included or subsumed in:
(2) Five nominated by open Nominating Committee process and confirmed by Board of Trustees
the At-Large membership organization for individuals has been discussed, already, elsewhere. its quite different than the at-large board membership positions currently occupied by the likes of Karl Auerbach. please don't conflate the two, intentionally or otherwise.
maybe Lynn is guilty of the "sin of omission" in not making explicitly clear his stance on at-large board members, but he doesn't state that they will cease to exist.
like i said - the whole story is flamebait. it needed a better, less passionate, more balanced writeup.
the story's submitter obviously didn't read the proposals the icann president made. he was far more reasonable than usual. go read the goddamn thing before you make assumptions about what he said.
what a fantastic hit list for any lurking virus authors... thanks so much.
fortunately, half the people on slashdot are clueless morons, and it seems highly unlikely that many of them will be able to write any sort of working executable code:)
most copy-protected CD media are recorded with bogus track and data-size information. the drives can't handle being fed incorrect information very well at all... (try making an ISO9660 image and changing a few bytes here and there in the header... it isn't pretty.:) )
so are child porn and bomb making files "information" or not? it seems that they would want to be free as well.
i don't think either of the above will ever totally disappear.. just like mp3's. maybe that's unfortunate. child porn is certainly rather sick and perverted.:( bomb making texts might actually be useful if you have a government you want to overthrow, though.
if we lock up all the books and information so you can only access them for "need-based purposes", then soon we'll be living in a harsh dictatorship where they make me listen to N'Sync all day long.:)
Re:Debian Linux does public betas too.
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just change your/etc/apt/sources.list file to point to potato instead... then do 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. i'm running on alpha too; it worked fine.
Uh, if precedent is all that important, then anyone who wants to defeat the GPL, and who has enough money, can do this: write a stupid program, place it under the GPL, arrange for a friend to redistribute it under binary form only, bring him to court, arrange for his lawyers to be the best you can affort, and for yours to be the lousiest possible, and you lose the case, and you set a precedent for distributing binary only programs.
and then you go to jail for a VERY long time for trial tampering. this is a very bad idea. don't fuck with the legal system, it will come back to haunt you.
Re:Why not just use BSD license?-why indeed!
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>The BSD license benefits everyone. The GPL is >designed to help some people but hurt a specific >group: commercial programmers.
Would you be pissed off if you wrote a program and then someone took it, under the BSD license, and decided to sell it??? Without giving you any of their 'hard-earned' cash? (hard earned in the sense that they must have had to really work to find such a sucker....)
>This also harms the general population by >hindering or even preventing the development of >better commercial products.
How so? If a product is good enough to hold up a company, buying it (aka paying the programmers for their work) isn't a problem for most of the sane world. If a programmer (or firm, or whatever) develops a good piece of software, people WILL pay for it. for a little while. then people get sick of the random crashes and go find something else that meets their needs as well or better than the first program. odds are (and this has been the general pattern in the past) that by the time Company A is heading for release 2 or 3 of their new whiz-bang software, a GPL'ed equivalent has sprung up. Imagine that, a free market for ideas!:) its called "the academy", and is in large part responsible for the success of the computer age.
>In short, there's no contest. The GPL is an >instrument of spite; the BSD license is an >instrument of freedom.
No, the BSD license is a way to make money off other people's code but still have enough disclosure (if the releasing company or organization so chooses) to fix buglets. The GPL prevents the concealment of the buglets totally, but at the cost of you being able to take my work, essentially steal it, and pass yourself off as a "commercial programmer."
Look at microsoft's "innovations" in the last few years. Many of them are outright THEFTS of other people's ideas. They do, of course, pick the best ideas. and if they don't think they can just take them and say "common idea", they tend to buy up the company.:)
Lucky for us though that a vast majority of the country is willing to put up with that as long as they get their TV and Rush on the radio. Who else would mow our lawns, babysit our kids, and wash our cars. It's good to be rich it sucks to be a slave.
so which rush are we talking about?
yes, i know what you meant.:)
Re:This commentary is misleading, what was said wa
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[quote]It has mostly been for tracking the amount of support we give by video card vendor. For instance, 3dfx and nvidia are about equal in players, but we get 10x the support email for 3dfx users.
The commentary states that user emails can not be linked to the information packets being sent in, thus carmack is lying. But read what carmack says, it seems to me the purpose is to get data so they can go to 3dfx and say [/quote]
umm, just because carmack knows what his support callers are using doesn't mean the data is in any way connected to what he's getting out of the packet stream....:)
umm, yeah. the things in the url i'm seeing are pretty obvious. if i didn't understand them, i might worry. but they're obvious (sid=story id, cid=comment id, threshold is my threshold...) and so i don't worry.
were people to really *care*, they'd figure it out pretty quickly. the community does a good job of figuring out what people are sending and reverse-bullshitting it.:)
(theory: most code is poorly designed BS, therefore reverse engineering of non-engineered code is...:) )
inbreeding doesn't matter so much with a population of 6 billion. random genetic mutations occur faster (i suspect) than we could possibly all interbreed.:)
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I look forward to my orders actually being correct - my having input them rather than some kid trying to find the right buttons to hit for the product I want. Lots of mistakes get made on the front end, when someone actually can't find the button for a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, for example. Errors made in the food prep area are a different thing, and will always be hard to catch....
It'd be great if we could use NFC in a phone to input the order we usually get, too - and then modify it. Everyone has their favorite items; I hope McD's is listening / trawling /.
You don't get a degree in English to make money. You do it because you're a decent human being who enjoys what they're doing. [And, possibly, is just chronically allergic to thinking about future earnings in any reasonable way... which sometimes leads to Bad Things later, but... if you're lucky, you recover from that.]
As the sysadmin you should have a seat on the CAB. That's it.
You're the person doing implementation, and you're the person most suited to evaluate the technical impact of the changes that you're making.
If you were not a lone sysadmin, it would be your director or their delegate who ought to be on the board; as a standalone sysadmin, though, including you is the sane thing to do.
funny, i don't see at-large membership specifically excluded. specifically, i'm reading it as included or subsumed in:
(2) Five nominated by open Nominating Committee process and confirmed by Board of Trustees
the At-Large membership organization for individuals has been discussed, already, elsewhere. its quite different than the at-large board membership positions currently occupied by the likes of Karl Auerbach. please don't conflate the two, intentionally or otherwise.
maybe Lynn is guilty of the "sin of omission" in not making explicitly clear his stance on at-large board members, but he doesn't state that they will cease to exist.
like i said - the whole story is flamebait. it needed a better, less passionate, more balanced writeup.
the story's submitter obviously didn't read the proposals the icann president made. he was far more reasonable than usual. go read the goddamn thing before you make assumptions about what he said.
what a fantastic hit list for any lurking virus authors... thanks so much.
:)
fortunately, half the people on slashdot are clueless morons, and it seems highly unlikely that many of them will be able to write any sort of working executable code
The sister ship of the Bismarck was called the Tirpitz. I built a model of it in about fifth grade.... it was pretty cool :)
most copy-protected CD media are recorded with bogus track and data-size information. the drives can't handle being fed incorrect information very well at all... (try making an ISO9660 image and changing a few bytes here and there in the header... it isn't pretty. :) )
so are child porn and bomb making files "information" or not? it seems that they would want to be free as well.
:( bomb making texts might actually be useful if you have a government you want to overthrow, though.
:)
i don't think either of the above will ever totally disappear.. just like mp3's. maybe that's unfortunate. child porn is certainly rather sick and perverted.
if we lock up all the books and information so you can only access them for "need-based purposes", then soon we'll be living in a harsh dictatorship where they make me listen to N'Sync all day long.
just change your
elijah
gee that must put you somewhere in the brentwood/franklin/I-65 area.
elijah
Uh, if precedent is all that important, then anyone who wants to defeat the GPL, and who has enough money, can do this: write a stupid program, place it under the GPL, arrange for a friend to redistribute it under binary form only, bring him to court, arrange for his lawyers to be the best you can affort, and for yours to be the lousiest possible, and you lose the case, and you set a precedent for distributing binary only programs.
and then you go to jail for a VERY long time for trial tampering. this is a very bad idea. don't fuck with the legal system, it will come back to haunt you.
>The BSD license benefits everyone. The GPL is >designed to help some people but hurt a specific >group: commercial programmers.
:) its called "the academy", and is in large part responsible for the success of the computer age.
:)
Would you be pissed off if you wrote a program and then someone took it, under the BSD license, and decided to sell it??? Without giving you any of their 'hard-earned' cash? (hard earned in the sense that they must have had to really work to find such a sucker....)
>This also harms the general population by >hindering or even preventing the development of >better commercial products.
How so? If a product is good enough to hold up a company, buying it (aka paying the programmers for their work) isn't a problem for most of the sane world. If a programmer (or firm, or whatever) develops a good piece of software, people WILL pay for it. for a little while. then people get sick of the random crashes and go find something else that meets their needs as well or better than the first program. odds are (and this has been the general pattern in the past) that by the time Company A is heading for release 2 or 3 of their new whiz-bang software, a GPL'ed equivalent has sprung up. Imagine that, a free market for ideas!
>In short, there's no contest. The GPL is an >instrument of spite; the BSD license is an >instrument of freedom.
No, the BSD license is a way to make money off other people's code but still have enough disclosure (if the releasing company or organization so chooses) to fix buglets. The GPL prevents the concealment of the buglets totally, but at the cost of you being able to take my work, essentially steal it, and pass yourself off as a "commercial programmer."
Look at microsoft's "innovations" in the last few years. Many of them are outright THEFTS of other people's ideas. They do, of course, pick the best ideas. and if they don't think they can just take them and say "common idea", they tend to buy up the company.
elijah
elw@stderr.org
Lucky for us though that a vast majority of the country is willing to put up with that as long as they get their TV and Rush on the radio. Who else would mow our lawns, babysit our kids, and wash our cars. It's good to be rich it sucks to be a slave.
so which rush are we talking about?
yes, i know what you meant.
[quote]It has mostly been for tracking the amount of support we give by video card vendor. For instance, 3dfx and nvidia are about equal in players, but we get 10x the support email for 3dfx users.
:)
The commentary states that user emails can not be linked to the information packets being sent in, thus carmack is lying. But read what carmack says, it seems to me the purpose is to get data so they can go to 3dfx and say [/quote]
umm, just because carmack knows what his support callers are using doesn't mean the data is in any way connected to what he's getting out of the packet stream....
umm, yeah. the things in the url i'm seeing are pretty obvious. if i didn't understand them, i might worry. but they're obvious (sid=story id, cid=comment id, threshold is my threshold...)
:)
:) )
and so i don't worry.
were people to really *care*, they'd figure it out pretty quickly. the community does a good job of figuring out what people are sending and reverse-bullshitting it.
(theory: most code is poorly designed BS, therefore reverse engineering of non-engineered code is...
inbreeding doesn't matter so much with a population of 6 billion. random genetic mutations occur faster (i suspect) than we could possibly all interbreed. :)
elijah