Sound of your front door being blown up because you forgot the turn the damn thing off before walking upstairs: Funny (for everyone else at least)
Seriously, if anyone has even remotely considered this (and why are you reading this if you haven't), use one of those dye packs like a bank has. It's not hard for the officer to put out an APB for the big blue smurf and you have a lot less explaining to do to the judge.
Insert any popular sybian vibrator joke here
Of all the companies that change their name for all the wrong reasons, this is one of those times where it would be for good reasons.
Unless you want to be known as the company with a name similar to a high end vibrator. Or perhaps they could add a smart phone attachment to the sybian?
Unfortunately, that specific mob of suckers that clicks on the spam messages isn't reading slashdot (we happen to be a completely different mob of suckers) and it's doubtful that they even know a "dot head". Therefore, telling us they should know better isn't going to do the least bit of good.
On the other hand, a different old argument would be appropriate for this group. Simply go to all those URL's (by retyping the top level url, clicking on them probably sends them a key to identify your email address), and submit lots and lots of fake orders. Heck, automate it if you can, with some kind of randomizer that picks odd names from a list so there's no easy way for the spammers to filter them out, and even better if you can impersonate a large network. Suddenly, to get one legit customer, you have to go through thousands of pieces of crap, and the business model no longer works.
Now, if someone could make a distribute app that accepts some kind of template (go to this url, put a name here, cc number there, etc) to automatically fill in and bang on a spam supported site, I'd be more than happy to run it.
This day is getting better by the minute. I've been getting sick and tired of connecting to exchange via webmail in firefox (or whatever it's called now). They turn off half of the features (spell check, alarms, etc) if you aren't using IE. My company doesn't allow me to setup a rule to forward all my mail off site, so I've been pretty grumpy about company email for a long while.
On an aside, I'm interested in finding a good imap server for evolution that lets me store calendar and address entries on the server. Is that even possible? If not, what other options are there?
The average consumer only cares about how many hours of shows (not even the quality), in this case how many channels at once, does it match all my other TV equipment, and how much.
Actually there's a big reason to do this, and it's not redundancy. You could span all the disks together, or more than likely, stripe the data. This gives you one big mount point so you don't have to worry about what drive has the space, and the speed-up of using all the disks at once. Downside being when one disk goes, you lose all your shows instead of just some of them, but that's not really a concern of the vendor.
we'll see cheap phones with good battery life and the regular PDA features such as calendar, internet access, decent addressbook, mp3 player, java VM, email client etc.
Here here.
I'm sad to admit that I've been known to go out for a day in the city (DC if it matters) with a cell phone, pda, mp3 player, a camera, plus a hands free piece and a pair of headphones. Give me a single device with all that, even if it's a little bulky, and I'd be happy.
However, I'd add to the above list a thumb keyboard, good display, fm tuner, voice recorder, speaker phone, bluetooth, and GPS. That way, as big as the thing may be, it can be put in a bag, left in a jacket pocket, or where ever, and all I need is a wireless ear piece for most usage. And when I need the internet, email, a camera, etc, who cares if it's a little bulky. It's one self contained device instead of the 3 or 4 I'd otherwise have, not to mention fewer batteries, cables, cases, etc.
Finally, the big thing I see coming down the pipe is a way to reliably disable features on the phone. Going somewhere with trade secrets? It would be nice to show that the camera is off and can't be turned back on until I leave. Getting on a plane? It would be nice to use the pda or listen to some music without *gasp* turning on the phone.
Once that's done, how about some standards support on these things. Connecting email to an IMAP server shouldn't be so hard. Oh, and how about a way to quickly move the chip from one phone to another for when I want to "slim down".
You're forgetting that the recent decision to remove firmware and documentation that do not adhear to the social contract may push the next release out until 2005.
That's not to say that there isn't a resolution to try to reinterpret or create an exception for this release. In which case, you would be right, this installer has been key to the release.
Seriously, there are already enough pictures
of it out there. Don't these guys check the web before making sure it hasn't already been done?
I for one welcome our new... oh... wait, nevermind.
Now, lets get back to doing some real research, like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
To put it more simply, the only way someone could distribute software in violation of GPL and have it hold up in court is to get the court to both agree that: 1. GPL is a valid licence, and 2. all those terms in the GPL do not apply to you
The worst thing for you to do is prove that GPL is not a valid license because then our only option is copyright law. With GPL held up as a valid license, you still have the alternative of having a set of steps you must follow to be allowed to legally distribute your modifications.
I fully admit to using knowledge from previous employers (be it a script, program, or documentation) to recreate something for someone else. That being said, I keep the direct cut and paste to a minimum and stay quiet about the whole thing.
On the other hand, every US government employee is happy to announce that they share things explicitly all over to other parts, devisions, or branches. In their own mind, once it's labeled as government property, it's free to give away. Now this sounds pretty reasonable at first, until you consider the consultant who is paid to do a small project for a single branch. Once finished, they can now go and try to make some money doing the same thing for the other branches, and even reference the other branch that they did this for. At which point, the client picks up the phone, calls the reference, and has a copy of everything you've done sent to them. They see that they have everything they need, and tell you to have a nice day, since it's their property.
Before we start running around on a big witch hunt, let's have the US Government take a look at their own practices.
Those that want to open this can of worms tend to be the managers and other higher ups in companies. So the question to ask them is this:
Would you consider hiring someone with experience that would NOT reuse code? How quickly would you fire someone for refusing to solve a problem because it would require them to reuse code or "proprietary knowledge" they created or learned while at a previous employer?
The very requirement for experience with a technology or industry implies that they want to be able to use that experience, and code that you have written is little more than documented knowledge.
Keep in mind that you need a license to drive a car. They'll let just about anyone use a computer these days, and most of them are plugged into a network. If you need a license/knowledge to drive a car on public streets, why not the same for letting a user plug a computer into the internet?
P.S. There are lots of dopes in cars, too. Example 1 would be the guy to run a red light and spin me around once on the parkway because he didn't defrost his windshield and therefore couldn't see where he was going. Ask any first responder and they are sure to give you a hundred other stories like that. Sysadmins just happen to be the first responder for IT issues.
Dang, another day, another missed poll option. Cheapest way to send a person to mars is now: strap them on to the other side of a hypervelocity launcher, pull trigger. All we need now is an ACME logo on the launcher and the coyote has another genious plan.
Whenever I think about this, my thought is a dual license. Release a library under GPL (to prevent linking against non-GPL I think, if not, substitue another license there) and offer to release under a different license for a fee. This way, the software is out there, commercial companies can benifit, and the author can benifit. It would require that all submitters of patches/additions do so with a dual license (allowing the maintainer to relicense for a profit) and it would be a good idea to give some profits back to those that made significant contributions to a project. I've often thought about this, but never tried it, which is why I'm posting it here I suppose.
Heh, 4 feet of books is right. I just started on a project working with this thing, and I've spent my first week reading manuals and doing cbt's. It's basically a software package for maintaining most aspects in an enterprise of computers. You can distribute software, manage users and groups, monitor events (like log file entries), run or schedule jobs, monitor the network, and a whole slew of other things. All of this from a single console or parse it up any way you like. You can have multiple admins with different privledges and areas to watch over. You can run it on several varieties of unix, 95, 98, and nt. No support for the mac yet, and as you can see, linux is in the works. The good thing about working with this thing is the labs you get to play in, and all the travel to customer sites installing it:-)
With the exception of polls where bad results are a good thing (i.e. should encryption be exportable), Malda stop doing polls quite a while ago. It's not right to skew the results to these companies, the long term results can be bad for the companies and the linux community (as horor stories of failed attempts to join the linux movement surface). You can't tell slashdotters not to fill out the poll only if you mean it, so lets stop giving these kind of polls to slashdotters.
Which brings up the question, what kind of OSS is there for broadcasting audio and visual data or both synchronized. The current solution seems to be the real video stuff, but it's not OSS.
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Just as soon as this $54Mil bank transfer goes through for this poor Nigerian widow.
Sound of your front door being blown up because you forgot the turn the damn thing off before walking upstairs: Funny (for everyone else at least)
Seriously, if anyone has even remotely considered this (and why are you reading this if you haven't), use one of those dye packs like a bank has. It's not hard for the officer to put out an APB for the big blue smurf and you have a lot less explaining to do to the judge.
Insert any popular sybian vibrator joke here
Of all the companies that change their name for all the wrong reasons, this is one of those times where it would be for good reasons. Unless you want to be known as the company with a name similar to a high end vibrator. Or perhaps they could add a smart phone attachment to the sybian?
Unfortunately, that specific mob of suckers that clicks on the spam messages isn't reading slashdot (we happen to be a completely different mob of suckers) and it's doubtful that they even know a "dot head". Therefore, telling us they should know better isn't going to do the least bit of good.
On the other hand, a different old argument would be appropriate for this group. Simply go to all those URL's (by retyping the top level url, clicking on them probably sends them a key to identify your email address), and submit lots and lots of fake orders. Heck, automate it if you can, with some kind of randomizer that picks odd names from a list so there's no easy way for the spammers to filter them out, and even better if you can impersonate a large network. Suddenly, to get one legit customer, you have to go through thousands of pieces of crap, and the business model no longer works.
Now, if someone could make a distribute app that accepts some kind of template (go to this url, put a name here, cc number there, etc) to automatically fill in and bang on a spam supported site, I'd be more than happy to run it.
This day is getting better by the minute. I've been getting sick and tired of connecting to exchange via webmail in firefox (or whatever it's called now). They turn off half of the features (spell check, alarms, etc) if you aren't using IE. My company doesn't allow me to setup a rule to forward all my mail off site, so I've been pretty grumpy about company email for a long while.
On an aside, I'm interested in finding a good imap server for evolution that lets me store calendar and address entries on the server. Is that even possible? If not, what other options are there?
The techie answer: sure, make sense.
The business answer: one word: "Money".
The average consumer only cares about how many hours of shows (not even the quality), in this case how many channels at once, does it match all my other TV equipment, and how much.
No point in Raid-ing a DVR
Actually there's a big reason to do this, and it's not redundancy. You could span all the disks together, or more than likely, stripe the data. This gives you one big mount point so you don't have to worry about what drive has the space, and the speed-up of using all the disks at once. Downside being when one disk goes, you lose all your shows instead of just some of them, but that's not really a concern of the vendor.
we'll see cheap phones with good battery life and the regular PDA features such as calendar, internet access, decent addressbook, mp3 player, java VM, email client etc.
Here here.
I'm sad to admit that I've been known to go out for a day in the city (DC if it matters) with a cell phone, pda, mp3 player, a camera, plus a hands free piece and a pair of headphones. Give me a single device with all that, even if it's a little bulky, and I'd be happy.
However, I'd add to the above list a thumb keyboard, good display, fm tuner, voice recorder, speaker phone, bluetooth, and GPS. That way, as big as the thing may be, it can be put in a bag, left in a jacket pocket, or where ever, and all I need is a wireless ear piece for most usage. And when I need the internet, email, a camera, etc, who cares if it's a little bulky. It's one self contained device instead of the 3 or 4 I'd otherwise have, not to mention fewer batteries, cables, cases, etc.
Finally, the big thing I see coming down the pipe is a way to reliably disable features on the phone. Going somewhere with trade secrets? It would be nice to show that the camera is off and can't be turned back on until I leave. Getting on a plane? It would be nice to use the pda or listen to some music without *gasp* turning on the phone.
Once that's done, how about some standards support on these things. Connecting email to an IMAP server shouldn't be so hard. Oh, and how about a way to quickly move the chip from one phone to another for when I want to "slim down".
...but all I heard was "Dave, what are you doing Dave?"
Hmm, maybe I should put away the screwdriver.
You're forgetting that the recent decision to remove firmware and documentation that do not adhear to the social contract may push the next release out until 2005.
That's not to say that there isn't a resolution to try to reinterpret or create an exception for this release. In which case, you would be right, this installer has been key to the release.
Seriously, there are already enough pictures of it out there. Don't these guys check the web before making sure it hasn't already been done?
I for one welcome our new... oh... wait, nevermind.
Now, lets get back to doing some real research, like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
Old news/joke: City officials almost ban foam cups
Funny yes, original no.
To put it more simply, the only way someone could distribute software in violation of GPL and have it hold up in court is to get the court to both agree that:
1. GPL is a valid licence, and
2. all those terms in the GPL do not apply to you
The worst thing for you to do is prove that GPL is not a valid license because then our only option is copyright law. With GPL held up as a valid license, you still have the alternative of having a set of steps you must follow to be allowed to legally distribute your modifications.
So, someone starts talking abnoxiously on their phone in the middle of a restaurant? Hit them over the head with a chair, problem solved.
Seriously, how many cell phones did you see in the good old western movies? I rest my case.
I fully admit to using knowledge from previous employers (be it a script, program, or documentation) to recreate something for someone else. That being said, I keep the direct cut and paste to a minimum and stay quiet about the whole thing.
On the other hand, every US government employee is happy to announce that they share things explicitly all over to other parts, devisions, or branches. In their own mind, once it's labeled as government property, it's free to give away. Now this sounds pretty reasonable at first, until you consider the consultant who is paid to do a small project for a single branch. Once finished, they can now go and try to make some money doing the same thing for the other branches, and even reference the other branch that they did this for. At which point, the client picks up the phone, calls the reference, and has a copy of everything you've done sent to them. They see that they have everything they need, and tell you to have a nice day, since it's their property.
Before we start running around on a big witch hunt, let's have the US Government take a look at their own practices.
Those that want to open this can of worms tend to be the managers and other higher ups in companies. So the question to ask them is this:
Would you consider hiring someone with experience that would NOT reuse code? How quickly would you fire someone for refusing to solve a problem because it would require them to reuse code or "proprietary knowledge" they created or learned while at a previous employer?
The very requirement for experience with a technology or industry implies that they want to be able to use that experience, and code that you have written is little more than documented knowledge.
Keep in mind that you need a license to drive a car. They'll let just about anyone use a computer these days, and most of them are plugged into a network. If you need a license/knowledge to drive a car on public streets, why not the same for letting a user plug a computer into the internet?
P.S. There are lots of dopes in cars, too. Example 1 would be the guy to run a red light and spin me around once on the parkway because he didn't defrost his windshield and therefore couldn't see where he was going. Ask any first responder and they are sure to give you a hundred other stories like that. Sysadmins just happen to be the first responder for IT issues.
"It's strangely warm," Kaleri said. A few minutes later, he radioed: "It's amazing."
Dude, no farting in the space suit!
So that's what happened to the third astronaut.
"No, wait, I want to stay inside to keep an eye on the station!"
Dang, another day, another missed poll option. Cheapest way to send a person to mars is now: strap them on to the other side of a hypervelocity launcher, pull trigger. All we need now is an ACME logo on the launcher and the coyote has another genious plan.
I've got xxx-7390 (sex-operator). Now if I only had more sex this might be useful.
Whenever I think about this, my thought is a dual license. Release a library under GPL (to prevent linking against non-GPL I think, if not, substitue another license there) and offer to release under a different license for a fee. This way, the software is out there, commercial companies can benifit, and the author can benifit. It would require that all submitters of patches/additions do so with a dual license (allowing the maintainer to relicense for a profit) and it would be a good idea to give some profits back to those that made significant contributions to a project. I've often thought about this, but never tried it, which is why I'm posting it here I suppose.
Heh, 4 feet of books is right. I just started on a project working with this thing, and I've spent my first week reading manuals and doing cbt's. It's basically a software package for maintaining most aspects in an enterprise of computers. You can distribute software, manage users and groups, monitor events (like log file entries), run or schedule jobs, monitor the network, and a whole slew of other things. All of this from a single console or parse it up any way you like. You can have multiple admins with different privledges and areas to watch over. You can run it on several varieties of unix, 95, 98, and nt. No support for the mac yet, and as you can see, linux is in the works. The good thing about working with this thing is the labs you get to play in, and all the travel to customer sites installing it :-)
With the exception of polls where bad results are a good thing (i.e. should encryption be exportable), Malda stop doing polls quite a while ago. It's not right to skew the results to these companies, the long term results can be bad for the companies and the linux community (as horor stories of failed attempts to join the linux movement surface). You can't tell slashdotters not to fill out the poll only if you mean it, so lets stop giving these kind of polls to slashdotters.
Which brings up the question, what kind of OSS is there for broadcasting audio and visual data or both synchronized. The current solution seems to be the real video stuff, but it's not OSS.