True, but at least Microsoft were *still* churning out Win 95/98, and developing for it. So they hadn't burned their bridges. As mentioned a bit later on int he interview, the fatal thing to do is *abandon* the original product to work on the new version.
I'm not refering to users, I'm referring to the editors who decide which story to post.
OK, I 'm sorry - I was being a bit quick to judge your meaning. I agree the editors are biased in their choice of stories, but in this case it *was* relevant, and I don't think the story as posted even mentions Microsoft. Nor do I think it necesarily took sides - just did a bit of intra-Linux shitstirring. (Pardon my French)
PS, as long as we're making overly generalized assumptions, the Slashdot Readership also treats Microsoft as a monolithic entity.
Can't argue with that. Big, black, smooth, and emitting a faint hum...
Now wait a minute. Here on/., MS gets slammed because they want bugtraq and whoever to wait before they publicize a security hold until a fix can be reasonably made.
Now you guys are criticizing Red Hat for releasing information too quickly?!
OK, so now I know that you've gone back to the previous MS security story, searched out the identities of the (many) people critical of MS's (lack of) action, and compared them with those criticising Red Hat this time round. Care to provide some stats on the correlation?
Or perhaps you're making the same mistake of thinking that Slashdot (or Shashdot minus you)is a monolithic entity, capable of only one opinion on any subject. It's not.
You *could* read the ABC story linked to on the site. It's not even long:
Power Paper batteries can be used in so-called smart cards - plastic cards that contain microprocessor chips. Current smart cards require a separate bulky card reader to display the information stored on the cards' chips. But with a flexible battery, smart-card makers could soon include a tiny display screen on the card itself that would allow users easy access to that account data.
Yes, but if I tape Enterprise and hand the tape over to a co-worker who missed the episode I can't watch the tape while it is in his possession. For myself, I consider this to be a big @whatever but for the TV industry it would be a big issue.
That's just a quantitative difference. If you had the time and money, and were bothered, you could run off 16 videotaped copies. You could watch at the same time as all your friends.
It's still just a matter of convenience/ efficiency. If they were serious, and were on solid legal ground, they should outlaw VCRs. Or at least, make them so that you can't hook up machines to make duplicate tapes.
It's nice that the KDE office suite exists at all, but if I need this stuff on my machine, it's to open/process the Word documents and Excel spreadsheets people keep sending me. And that means StarOffice, slow and clunky as it is.
Does anyone know how to persuade administration people not to write emails as Word documents and attach them? Apart from being awkward to open in Linux, they fill up mailboxes...
"... which intends to break various water speed records for wind-powered vessels"
So they made this thing sentient, then?
The Problem With Abbreviations ...
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GPL FAQ
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· Score: 2
So tell me this: what does LGPL stand for? The FAQ says
"... there are a few programs [...] that use looser licenses, such as the Lesser GPL."
But it links to a discussion by Richard Stallman, where it's "Library GPL".
Does this matter? Perhaps not; geekspeak, with its morass of TLAs, is a language unto itself. All we need is an emergency vowel drop, and it'll be ready for verbal use...
"The same almost applies to snail-mail... contrary to what some would have you believe, throwing paper in a bucket ain't that hard; people do it every day!"
... which is worse.
Why let these people waste finite natural resources sending us paper junk we'll only throw away, because we don't want it?
Plus - stuff from credit card companies *might* have personal info inside, which can be used by people willing to sift trough your rubbish [is this too paranoid?]. One can check, of course, but it's time-consuming.
snail-mail junk and e-mail junk are similarly invasive. *All* marketing should be opt-in.
I've come to the opinion that all western countries (OK, Ireland, Great Britain and the U.S.) have essentially the same freedoms as far as the police are concerned.
What I mean is, everyone has the right to things like free assembly until they cross some kind of threshold the authorities aren't comfortable with (W.T.O. in Seattle last year, for instance). Then that right is bent/broken as much as is deemed necessary.
The language of law used to allow/justify such behaviour may differ from country to country, but when the fries are down, the behaviour is the same.
--- my sig has declined ever since I learned cursive ---
... well kind of. My old company, FX analysts, used it, and their trading system was entirely APL. (It was also a Y2K nightmare, but I think they got that sorted out...) I grew to love that language - much better than Matlab, for instance.
We got our APL from a company called Dyadic: http://www.dyadic.com/ . They're still in business (more than I can say about my ex-employers).
>DISC means the medium involves optics or lasers >in some way, such as "optical disc", "Compact >Disc" etc...
>DISK means the medium is magnetic based, so you >have "Hard Disk", "Floppy Disk" etc....
No no no. "Disc" is English from the correct side of the Atlantic. "Disk" means too many US computer-types decided they needed a word for "something bounded by a sirkel"...
Slashdot Mirror
Oops. I bow to your superior reference. The last two words should still have been "than I", though.
Not quite:
An anonymous reader's submission linked to a PC that fits in your car's stereo slot
or
An anonymous reader's submission linked to a PC, which fits in your car's stereo slot
Using "which" requires a comma, as it introduces a subordinate clause. "That" doesn't.
Oh, and unless some people like spending time in Rob, the last two words should be
than I
I see your woof, and raise you two barks.
True, but at least Microsoft were *still* churning out Win 95/98, and developing for it. So they hadn't burned their bridges. As mentioned a bit later on int he interview, the fatal thing to do is *abandon* the original product to work on the new version.
I'm not refering to users, I'm referring to the editors who decide which story to post.
OK, I 'm sorry - I was being a bit quick to judge your meaning. I agree the editors are biased in their choice of stories, but in this case it *was* relevant, and I don't think the story as posted even mentions Microsoft. Nor do I think it necesarily took sides - just did a bit of intra-Linux shitstirring. (Pardon my French)
PS, as long as we're making overly generalized assumptions, the Slashdot Readership also treats Microsoft as a monolithic entity.
Can't argue with that. Big, black, smooth, and emitting a faint hum
Now wait a minute. Here on /., MS gets slammed because they want bugtraq and whoever to wait before they publicize a security hold until a fix can be reasonably made.
Now you guys are criticizing Red Hat for releasing information too quickly?!
OK, so now I know that you've gone back to the previous MS security story, searched out the identities of the (many) people critical of MS's (lack of) action, and compared them with those criticising Red Hat this time round. Care to provide some stats on the correlation?
Or perhaps you're making the same mistake of thinking that Slashdot (or Shashdot minus you)is a monolithic entity, capable of only one opinion on any subject. It's not.
You *could* read the ABC story linked to on the site. It's not even long:
Power Paper batteries can be used in so-called smart cards - plastic cards that contain microprocessor chips. Current smart cards require a separate bulky card reader to display the information stored on the cards' chips. But with a flexible battery, smart-card makers could soon include a tiny display screen on the card itself that would allow users easy access to that account data.
Just a suggestion, mind.
To quote from the original statement:
none of them are "facts" in the sense that they can't be proven wrong. This is the principle of falsifiability
I think you two are actually in agreement, just using ambiguous language. As far as I can tell, what Daniel Dvorkin means is:
none of them are "facts" (that is, things that can't be proven wrong) [...]
It's just your phrasing that could be misconstrued. Am I right?
Yes, but if I tape Enterprise and hand the tape over to a co-worker who missed the episode I can't watch the tape while it is in his possession. For myself, I consider this to be a big @whatever but for the TV industry it would be a big issue.
That's just a quantitative difference. If you had the time and money, and were bothered, you could run off 16 videotaped copies. You could watch at the same time as all your friends.
It's still just a matter of convenience/ efficiency. If they were serious, and were on solid legal ground, they should outlaw VCRs. Or at least, make them so that you can't hook up machines to make duplicate tapes.
... laws passed by the legislators, who *are* financially motivated to do so.
Doesn't that count as "security through obscurity"?
It's nice that the KDE office suite exists at all, but if I need this stuff on my machine, it's to open/process the Word documents and Excel spreadsheets people keep sending me. And that means StarOffice, slow and clunky as it is.
...
Does anyone know how to persuade administration people not to write emails as Word documents and attach them? Apart from being awkward to open in Linux, they fill up mailboxes
Heh, I'd love to have seen this...especially since Lucas has got to be pushing 300lbs these days. ;)
Matters size so much? So sure are you, mmm?
"... which intends to break various water speed records for wind-powered vessels"
So they made this thing sentient, then?
So tell me this: what does LGPL stand for? The FAQ says
...
"... there are a few programs [...] that use looser licenses, such as the Lesser GPL."
But it links to a discussion by Richard Stallman, where it's "Library GPL".
Does this matter? Perhaps not; geekspeak, with its morass of TLAs, is a language unto itself. All we need is an emergency vowel drop, and it'll be ready for verbal use
"The same almost applies to snail-mail... contrary to what some would have you believe, throwing paper in a bucket ain't that hard; people do it every day!"
... which is worse.
Why let these people waste finite natural resources sending us paper junk we'll only throw away, because we don't want it?
Plus - stuff from credit card companies *might* have personal info inside, which can be used by people willing to sift trough your rubbish [is this too paranoid?]. One can check, of course, but it's time-consuming.
snail-mail junk and e-mail junk are similarly invasive. *All* marketing should be opt-in.
Yeah, Max Headroom could be funny. But then he went and sold out to the big Pepsi ad that was "Back to the Future part II".
Ironic. Or something.
If you browse comments at 3+, you'll find that you
...
only see the people who know what GPL means.
And there's lots of them. And I'm going to have to browse at 4+ to avoid the repetition
... really? How do we know that the things it's landing are really legs? They could be ... oh who cares?
GrammarNazi's gone . Is GrammarRepublican available as a nickname?
I've come to the opinion that all western countries (OK, Ireland, Great Britain and the U.S.) have essentially the same freedoms as far as the police are concerned.
What I mean is, everyone has the right to things like free assembly until they cross some kind of threshold the authorities aren't comfortable with (W.T.O. in Seattle last year, for instance). Then that right is bent/broken as much as is deemed necessary.
The language of law used to allow/justify such behaviour may differ from country to country, but when the fries are down, the behaviour is the same.
--- my sig has declined ever since I learned cursive ---
... well kind of. My old company, FX analysts, used it, and their trading system was entirely APL. (It was also a Y2K nightmare, but I think they got that sorted out ...) I grew to love that language - much better than Matlab, for instance.
We got our APL from a company called Dyadic: http://www.dyadic.com/ . They're still in business (more than I can say about my ex-employers).
>DISC means the medium involves optics or lasers >in some way, such as "optical disc", "Compact >Disc" etc...
...
>DISK means the medium is magnetic based, so you >have "Hard Disk", "Floppy Disk" etc....
No no no. "Disc" is English from the correct side of the Atlantic. "Disk" means too many US computer-types decided they needed a word for "something bounded by a sirkel"