You are an asshole. I can think of a million reasons why.
But since I don't want to insult your intelligence, I'm not going to spoonfeed them to you. I'm sure you should be about to think up several hundred thousand without breaking a sweat.
Well, if they had it to do over again, UNIX isn't such a great name. I mean it looks like an acronym, and not too many people apprecite the pun on the name of a 30 year old operating system.
I still think Xeon sucks too as a name, but what do I know?
Many of the protestors in Seattle are - using new technologies like the Net - beginning to do the work of politicians, regulatory agencies, legislators and journalists
You mean Politicans, Regulatory agencies, Legislators, and Journalists are supposed to riot and trash a bunch of McDonalds and Starbucks?
J++ has a great IDE (three cheers for intellisense, or intellicomplete or whatever the hell its called), so combining that with tight integration with Rational Rose and you could design your classes with Rose, have automatic generation of all your stub code dumped straight into your IDE, and then have really nice documentation generated for you quickly in just a few steps.
I hope they have a license for the MS implementation of javac, as it blows away most of the other implementations on an x86 platform.
You know I read this on Wired yesterday and I thought, I was shocked... shocked... to find gambling going on at Rick's...er, that Slashdotters flew off the handle in their usual subtle as a brick way.
However, there is also no excuse for Wired and these guys posting those flames. If I posted every "bad" e-mail I got, the 'net would have run out of bandwidth long before now.
This is about a guy who is probably going to lose his business becuase a bunch of busybodies decided to start contancting his customers since he isn't "defending his rights" or whatever. Sounds like a news story to me.
Could this post have been worded better? Probably. At the moment, I'm alittle upset - both at how people responded, and how it was handled. The 'net is anonymous... stuff like this threatens that anonymity
I really don't see what this has to do with anonymity. Its not like the guy didn't want people to know he was behind the site or anything.
It is a little known fact that most lease agreements with malls provide that a mall receives a base rent and then usually some percentage of a stores revenues or profits.
Yeah, and when you can't buy a cigarette or a beer in 10 years becuase the nice government is looking out for people who are too stupid to make a rational decision, I'll know its thanks to smartasses like yourself.
If you believe than the free market can resolve all these issues by itself (and it hasn't obviously since this SN thingie has had LOTS of BAD publicity for months, and Intel is STILL doing it)
Well, you can look at this two ways. If people really cared about this, no one would by P3s, and the number would be removed. So either people really don't care about this (since sales of P3s seems to be good, or at least not bad enough for Intel to change this). Or people are really stupid, right? I mean, I'm well informed and I wouldn't not buy a P3 becuase of this, isn't possible other people came to the same decision?
Look, so what's your problem? Someone comes out with an allegation (no proof of course, becuase its a conspiracy, see? And if you find any evidence counter to our story, well that's part of the conspiracy too, see? Here, take another hit on this.... ahhhh) of some potential funny business. Why should the EU over-react? I mean does the average person think.. man, I don't want the NSA or FBI or whatever reading my pr0n, er.. email? The "evidence" for all this (and I use this term loosely) is out there. If someone wants to buy a damn P3, shouldn't they have the right to do so? If not, why should Sun workstations and ethernet cards be treated any differently?
Puhleeze.. no one has ever proved that. There are a hell of a lot better ways that putting a CPU ID on a chip to track someone down.
Does this mean that the EU will be considering an emargo on Sun workstations as well, since they contain a similar feature? How about Ethernet cards? IPv6?
I do mind you claiming that any of the people I've done consulting for in the last two years can think for themselves when it comes to processor choices. You do realize, of course, that most of them don't even know what a Pentium is... as opposed to just being some chip thingy in a computer thingy that does Word faster, right?
So, what's wrong with that? It's not like the information is out there on Pentium alternatives. If you are going to throw down the cash for a computer and don't do some investigating first, is it really the government's job to stop you from doing something stupid?
You can't buy house paint with lead in it. Why not? Why not let consumers decide if they want lead in their paint?
Why not? I mean, who would buy it in the first place? Can you see the advertising campaign? Try our new foo paint, now with extra lead! Guaranteed to cause cancer or double your money back!
Why not let the market decide if mercury in your water is bad for you or not?
Well, unlike the CPU market, most water utilities have monopolies, at least I can see this one...
Why not let people decide if they want to buy irradiated food...
I'm all for irradiated food, as it destroys those nasty bacteria and all. Ask the EU about GM food though... geez...
Don't you just love those enlightened governments in Europe who give lip service to free trade, but are unwilling to let their people make decisions for themselves?
Here's a clue guys, let the market decide. If people are really in a tizzy about this, they won't buy the chips. If they don't care (like me), they will. See? It works out fine that way, and no government intervention needed.
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Yeah, not at all like that content-free Star Trek stuff that Brin (quite ignorently) keeps going on about.
And here is yet another example of fame making someone more important than any poor joe on the street...... money and fame really does equal importance in the world.
Al Gore, who helped enable the CDA, Echelon, the consideration of wiretap tech built into IP, ADA restraints on web publishing, and every other recent evil thing that's happening on the policy side of tech, is not sufficiently different than Jesse Helms or James Exon in this respect.
I'm not Al Gore fan, (I'm a Republican), but how can you say this? The VP doesn't vote on legislation, doesn't sign legislation, and doesn't enforece legislation. None of the votes on any of these issues were 50-50 in the senate, so what influence did they guy have on any of em?
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Look up in the sky.. its a bird, its a plane, it web sites dumping their information from hard to index databases to easy to read XML!
Wasn't this sort of thing what XML and RDF were originally designed for?
You are an asshole. I can think of a million reasons why.
But since I don't want to insult your intelligence, I'm not going to spoonfeed them to you. I'm sure you should be about to think up several hundred thousand without breaking a sweat.
But embedding serial numbers in all printer output? Maybe I just have a cynical mind, but I can think of about a hundred reasons this is a bad idea.
So why didn't you list a few then? Seems like a sign of bad journalism, or whatever you want to call this.
do you really think they'll bother making something for those of us who are a few stdevs out on the other end?
.3 percent of the population. (Free or otherwise)
Assumption: few >=3
I seem to recall that 3 standard deviations will take care of 99.7% of a normal distribution.
Yeah, theres a big market for software for
Well, if they had it to do over again, UNIX isn't such a great name. I mean it looks like an acronym, and not too many people apprecite the pun on the name of a 30 year old operating system.
I still think Xeon sucks too as a name, but what do I know?
Many of the protestors in Seattle are - using new technologies like the Net - beginning to do the work of politicians, regulatory agencies, legislators and journalists
You mean Politicans, Regulatory agencies, Legislators, and Journalists are supposed to riot and trash a bunch of McDonalds and Starbucks?
J++ has a great IDE (three cheers for intellisense, or intellicomplete or whatever the hell its called), so combining that with tight integration with Rational Rose and you could design your classes with Rose, have automatic generation of all your stub code dumped straight into your IDE, and then have really nice documentation generated for you quickly in just a few steps.
I hope they have a license for the MS implementation of javac, as it blows away most of the other implementations on an x86 platform.
You know I read this on Wired yesterday and I thought, I was shocked... shocked... to find gambling going on at Rick's...er, that Slashdotters flew off the handle in their usual subtle as a brick way.
However, there is also no excuse for Wired and these guys posting those flames. If I posted every "bad" e-mail I got, the 'net would have run out of bandwidth long before now.
This is about a guy who is probably going to lose his business becuase a bunch of busybodies decided to start contancting his customers since he isn't "defending his rights" or whatever. Sounds like a news story to me.
Could this post have been worded better? Probably. At the moment, I'm alittle upset - both at how people responded, and how it was handled. The 'net is anonymous... stuff like this threatens that anonymity
I really don't see what this has to do with anonymity. Its not like the guy didn't want people to know he was behind the site or anything.
Yes, but isn't that a crimial law, not a basis for a civil suit?
What are you going to sue for? How have you been damaged by this?
Hey, when you have a substandard product, you need all the marketing you can get.
It is a little known fact that most lease agreements with malls provide that a mall receives a base rent and then usually some percentage of a stores revenues or profits.
Ah, what a thought provoking response. I belive Hobbes once made a similar point. Yes, thank you for showing me the error of my ways.
Yeah, and when you can't buy a cigarette or a beer in 10 years becuase the nice government is looking out for people who are too stupid to make a rational decision, I'll know its thanks to smartasses like yourself.
If you believe than the free market can resolve all these issues by itself (and it hasn't obviously since this SN thingie has had LOTS of BAD publicity for months, and Intel is STILL doing it)
Well, you can look at this two ways. If people really cared about this, no one would by P3s, and the number would be removed. So either people really don't care about this (since sales of P3s seems to be good, or at least not bad enough for Intel to change this). Or people are really stupid, right? I mean, I'm well informed and I wouldn't not buy a P3 becuase of this, isn't possible other people came to the same decision?
Look, so what's your problem? Someone comes out with an allegation (no proof of course, becuase its a conspiracy, see? And if you find any evidence counter to our story, well that's part of the conspiracy too, see? Here, take another hit on this.... ahhhh) of some potential funny business. Why should the EU over-react? I mean does the average person think.. man, I don't want the NSA or FBI or whatever reading my pr0n, er.. email? The "evidence" for all this (and I use this term loosely) is out there. If someone wants to buy a damn P3, shouldn't they have the right to do so? If not, why should Sun workstations and ethernet cards be treated any differently?
You surely aren't suggesting that the government always knows what is best for you, do you? They love sheep like you....
Well, I did do some work for Intel... unlike some of those EU officials, I bet.
Puhleeze.. no one has ever proved that. There are a hell of a lot better ways that putting a CPU ID on a chip to track someone down.
Does this mean that the EU will be considering an emargo on Sun workstations as well, since they contain a similar feature? How about Ethernet cards? IPv6?
I do mind you claiming that any of the people I've done consulting for in the last two years can think for themselves when it comes to processor choices. You do realize, of course, that most of them don't even know what a Pentium is ... as opposed to just being some chip thingy in a computer thingy that does Word faster, right?
So, what's wrong with that? It's not like the information is out there on Pentium alternatives. If you are going to throw down the cash for a computer and don't do some investigating first, is it really the government's job to stop you from doing something stupid?
You can't buy house paint with lead in it. Why not? Why not let consumers decide if they want lead in their paint?
Why not? I mean, who would buy it in the first place? Can you see the advertising campaign? Try our new foo paint, now with extra lead! Guaranteed to cause cancer or double your money back!
Why not let the market decide if mercury in your water is bad for you or not?
Well, unlike the CPU market, most water utilities have monopolies, at least I can see this one...
Why not let people decide if they want to buy irradiated food...
I'm all for irradiated food, as it destroys those nasty bacteria and all. Ask the EU about GM food though... geez...
If a device has privacy-fouling features which were inserted by the intellegence organizations of a foreign government...
So Intel is a branch of the government now?
Don't you just love those enlightened governments in Europe who give lip service to free trade, but are unwilling to let their people make decisions for themselves?
Here's a clue guys, let the market decide. If people are really in a tizzy about this, they won't buy the chips. If they don't care (like me), they will. See? It works out fine that way, and no government intervention needed.
Yeah, not at all like that content-free Star Trek stuff that Brin (quite ignorently) keeps going on about.
And here is yet another example of fame making someone more important than any poor joe on the street...... money and fame really does equal importance in the world.
So? What's wrong with that?
Al Gore, who helped enable the CDA, Echelon, the consideration of wiretap tech built into IP, ADA restraints on web publishing, and every other recent evil thing that's happening on the policy side of tech, is not sufficiently different than Jesse Helms or James Exon in this respect.
I'm not Al Gore fan, (I'm a Republican), but how can you say this? The VP doesn't vote on legislation, doesn't sign legislation, and doesn't enforece legislation. None of the votes on any of these issues were 50-50 in the senate, so what influence did they guy have on any of em?