Why shouldn't it? Perhaps if technology were to remove the human "middle-man", something might actually get done around here. Besides, my workstations and servers have never asked for a couple weeks off to go snowboarding.
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Well now.. who is exploiting who?
It would seem to me that an integral part of the freedom of speech is trusting your citizens (users) with the ability to determine for themselves what is worth participating in (listening to, reading, viewing, etc.). I'm not talking about removing content from the entire network, just my box. If you do not even give the users the right to determine what they want to traffic on their own servers, where is the freedom in that?
I can see it now. Mere days after Microsoft IE/Office for linux are released, there will be product reviews on performance and features comparing the same products on the two OSes.
Amazingly, the Windows version of IE/Office will have more features, be more "stable" and be pushed as an "alternative" to IE/Office on linux. This will be echoed in all mainstream tech magazines and online product reviews. Moody will fodder for weeks.
I've checked freshmeat and the other usual suspects, perhaps someone has already implemented a reasonable AOLIM server for linux?
Behind the firewall/DMZ at work, I'd love to be able to host a chat environment with a client most local office and remote folks are already familiar with (and that has all of the AOLIM features).
Does anyone have any experience they could share with running Jabber as a server with AOLIM clients?
How soon until this gets added to the Mozilla project so I can run Word for DOS in my web browser that has been customized to have a Word 2000 GUI interface?
I've been using Blat! for one of my projects that requires a win32 command line mailer. Blat! has a very small footprint and lots of options (including attachments). If you don't want to install a whole scripting environment like WSH or Perl this might be a viable option.
I am curious to know whether or not NetPD downloaded and listened (in their ENTIRETY) to all the Metallica songs they deemed as copyright offenses as distributed by the target 335,000 Napster users.
Let's say that each of the Napster "copyright violators" had only 1 Metallica song they were distributing - the minimum for being a violator. My best guess is that the average Metallica song is probably around 4 minutes long. In order to determine that the files named "Metallica-AndJusticeForAll.mp3" really were Metallica bootlegs (and not just Backstreet Boys jams mislabeled) they would have had listened to 22333.33 hours of music ((335,000 songs * 4 minutes) / 60 minutes). At constant rate with no breaks and no sleep for 1 person that would be 930.55 days (22333.33 hours / 24 hours) worth of some serious headbanging. That was probably divided up into a team of people, let's say 4. So that would be 5583.33 hours each (22333.33 hours / 4 people) coming to 232.64 days concurrently (930.55 days / 4 people).
I'm sure all this wasn't free. NetPD probably isn't *that* dumb and since their customers are lawyers they probably billed out at over $100/hour. For the sake of the argument, let's say it was $100/hour. That means it cost the lawyers (4 headbangers banging away for 5583.33 hours each at $100/hour) a grand total of $2,233,333.33!
P.S. Please check my math. Too much Metallica has rotted my brain - just like mom said it would!
This comment doesn't address so much on "what" to invest in but "how" to invest. One of the best investing books I've ever read was from a couple of geek brothers that started the popular fool.com website. The book I am referring to is their second book titled "You Have More Than You Think". This book quite accessible for both the experienced investor as well as the newbie. It provides excellent and more importantly sound techniques for investing the stock market.. the Foolish Four and First Bank of Coca-Cola are great chapters. I do not believe there is an online version so you might have to snag it in meatspace. Best of luck!
Why would I want to re-read yesterday's news that I already read yesterday online?
Even for historical purposes, there are much better searchable archives online. Physical newspapers aren't searchable.
Why would I want someone's opinions of whom I don't know, mired in an outdated technology infecting the story? This is exactly why don't watch local news on TV. KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF. Just the facts, ma'am.
Why would I want to get black ink all over my hands and clothes?
Why would I pay 100% of the cost for something that I would be interested in 5% of? A physical newspaper has too much information, more than want to know, or worse yet, doesn't have what I want to read about because it didn't fit into their projected demographic.
Newspapers use unfair labor practices (Detroit News and Free Press for example).
It isn't electronic. I can't easily copy/paste articles into emails, notes or documents on my computer.
I half expected on a page reload to see an animated GIF of some pr0n star's head bobbing up and down on a fat chubby... Click HERE for the hotest LINUX IPO Pr0n!
Mountain View, CA., September 22 - HURDOne, Inc., a leading-edge developer of HURD software, products and services, filed to raise $24 Million in an initial public offering, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The Mountain View, California-based Company offers online products, tools, news, and services for the HURD operating system and other "open source" communities, at its website http://www.hurdone.net/.
Under its open source model, anyone may contribute to the software coding.
The Company's principal product, HURDOne OS, provides a wide variety of server functions, including setting up a web, e-mail, file or print server, as well as using the computer as a general purpose desktop workstation to perform virtually any computer function. HURDOne OS will be available in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish and French.
HURDOne plans to sell 3 million shares in the IPO and will have approximately 9.2 million shares outstanding once the sale is completed, according to the filing.
The company was founded and is run by its President, Dr. One L. Inux, Jr., who has worked in senior engineering and technology positions at Hughes Aircraft Co., Teledyne Systems, Co., and California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Inux was also Chief of Artificial Intelligence Branch, NASA Ames Research Center and organized Lockheed's Artificial Intelligence Center. He was the former founder and CEO of Alantic Macroelectronics and WebCIS.
HURDOne applied to sell its shares on NASDAQ under the symbol "HURD".
The company will be in its "Quiet Period" during SEC review of its filing, which is available on EDGAR.
About HURDOne
Our company provides world-class quality HURD software targeted to the server, workstation and home environments. It is distinguished by the unchallenged availability of applications and platform support, ease of installation and use, and technical support. The software is characterized by stability, security and usability. HURDOne expects to become the highest rated supplier of HURD solutions based on packaging, support, and capability worldwide.
It would seem to me that this all boils down to the bottom line.. how can Apple make money from releasing a linux-compatible quicktime player.
There are an estimated 10 million linux users out there. I'll bet if this market is opened to playing quicktime movies there would also be a large group of linux users who will then want to make quicktime movies.
Release a quicktime player for linux and sell a quicktime development environment for linux.
Mine and his comments weren't about the LinuxOne prospectus, but about the orignial commenter's examples of "scary stuff" regarding website aesthetics, phone support availability, webmaster email account snobbery and what people choose to spend money on.
I believe my points on judging people without reasoning were lost on you. Perhaps you would take the Linux community's "truth" about LinuxOne automatically without investigating the details?
Have you ever been inside a wal-mart? Flea market tables selling bargin bin merchandise.. yet they are an economic powerhouse. Can you really judge so much by appearances?
Investigating the details indeed. LinuxOne never had a chance with any of you, did they? I'm not a LinuxOne advocate.. I think it and their prospectus is a sham, but not because of what/. tells me to think. I am, however, an advocate for sound reasoning. Let's make better arguments people.
Not about the no co-ed thing (since it descriminates against hetros but not homos)
So with your logic it would be right to discriminate only if heteros and homos are both discriminated against? Or wait, it's okay to discriminate against homos, but not heteros? Could you please clarify?
but when it's funded by tax payer's dollars there should be some provisions so that it doesn't get abused
Since they are MY tax dollars spent in MY school district/state with MY childern in them, shouldn't I get some say in how my tax dollars are spent?
give us free net access
Huh? When was the last time you checked a tuition bill for your local state university? I'm not talking about "per credit hour". I'm talking about administrative and resource fees. This shit ain't cheap!
The website that claims to have bought $500,000 of software looks like a gaudy high school kid's site
Were you able to hit the site and get information? Was it available to you regardless of its aesthetics?
run by a webmaster with a hotmail account
So the webmaster published their email address and is available to be contacted, which is a lot more than I can say for other higher-profile sites out there in their genre. Did you try to contact the webmaster? Did they respond?
A slashdot reader has called the number on the website before and woken the website's owner out of bed (it's his home #)
So someone called a contact number and someone answered? How is this a bad thing? How many customer support or sales lines have you called and were put on hold or not answered at all? So what if it is someone's home? One could call that dedicated. He was woken up? Is it possible that the person answering the phone is NOT in same time zone as the caller? Wouldn't 24 hour phone access be desired?
That doesn't sound like someone who has $500,000 to pay for software, now does it?
I have a grandfather that was a medical doctor who had a private practice for over 20 years. He wears the same pair of pants every day of the week and drives a beat-up old Ford truck. By appearances one could say that he doesn't have much money.. but he donates huge amounts of cash to charitable organizations, invests heavily in the stock market, has huge trust funds for his offspring and their offspring, etc. Are you so sure you can tell how much money someone can spend by appearances or by what they choose to spend their money on, if at all?
LinuxOne maybe a huge sham, but I think you need to re-work your judgments and get some facts. Scary stuff indeed: to be judged without reasoning.
I've been running redhat 6.0 on my inspiron 3500 for a while now and I love it. Everything (video, sound, pcmcia, touchpad, haven't had a chance to monkey with USB yet) works great under linux except the built-in LT Winmodem!
I've been to linmodems.org and the gist I got was that was that Lucent doesn't give a rip about the end user and probably couldn't be pressured into releasing a driver (or specs for us to write a driver) by us, the end users. Pressure to release a linux driver for their modems would have to come from their direct customer - the computer manufacturer - which would be Dell in this case.
HEY DELL! If you're reading this, how about giving Lucent a kick in the pants and releasing a linux driver or some specs for the LT Winmodem in your notebooks? I'll buy more of your products if you do.
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Why shouldn't it? Perhaps if technology were to remove the human "middle-man", something might actually get done around here. Besides, my workstations and servers have never asked for a couple weeks off to go snowboarding.
Well now.. who is exploiting who?
It would seem to me that an integral part of the freedom of speech is trusting your citizens (users) with the ability to determine for themselves what is worth participating in (listening to, reading, viewing, etc.). I'm not talking about removing content from the entire network, just my box. If you do not even give the users the right to determine what they want to traffic on their own servers, where is the freedom in that?
I can see it now. Mere days after Microsoft IE/Office for linux are released, there will be product reviews on performance and features comparing the same products on the two OSes.
Amazingly, the Windows version of IE/Office will have more features, be more "stable" and be pushed as an "alternative" to IE/Office on linux. This will be echoed in all mainstream tech magazines and online product reviews. Moody will fodder for weeks.
Kill your TV
I've checked freshmeat and the other usual suspects, perhaps someone has already implemented a reasonable AOLIM server for linux?
Behind the firewall/DMZ at work, I'd love to be able to host a chat environment with a client most local office and remote folks are already familiar with (and that has all of the AOLIM features).
Does anyone have any experience they could share with running Jabber as a server with AOLIM clients?
How soon until this gets added to the Mozilla project so I can run Word for DOS in my web browser that has been customized to have a Word 2000 GUI interface?
Nice researching a report. I am, however, surprised this doesn't happen more often. Too bad too. It would have been a cool piece of hardware.
Oh, they provide the source too. Check it:
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat. html
-the spoony fork
Let's say that each of the Napster "copyright violators" had only 1 Metallica song they were distributing - the minimum for being a violator. My best guess is that the average Metallica song is probably around 4 minutes long. In order to determine that the files named "Metallica-AndJusticeForAll.mp3" really were Metallica bootlegs (and not just Backstreet Boys jams mislabeled) they would have had listened to 22333.33 hours of music ((335,000 songs * 4 minutes) / 60 minutes). At constant rate with no breaks and no sleep for 1 person that would be 930.55 days (22333.33 hours / 24 hours) worth of some serious headbanging. That was probably divided up into a team of people, let's say 4. So that would be 5583.33 hours each (22333.33 hours / 4 people) coming to 232.64 days concurrently (930.55 days / 4 people).
I'm sure all this wasn't free. NetPD probably isn't *that* dumb and since their customers are lawyers they probably billed out at over $100/hour. For the sake of the argument, let's say it was $100/hour. That means it cost the lawyers (4 headbangers banging away for 5583.33 hours each at $100/hour) a grand total of $2,233,333.33!
P.S. Please check my math. Too much Metallica has rotted my brain - just like mom said it would!
-the spoony fork
This comment doesn't address so much on "what" to invest in but "how" to invest. One of the best investing books I've ever read was from a couple of geek brothers that started the popular fool.com website. The book I am referring to is their second book titled "You Have More Than You Think". This book quite accessible for both the experienced investor as well as the newbie. It provides excellent and more importantly sound techniques for investing the stock market.. the Foolish Four and First Bank of Coca-Cola are great chapters. I do not believe there is an online version so you might have to snag it in meatspace. Best of luck!
If there is an IT job shortage, why am I still getting paid shit?
Why would I want to re-read yesterday's news that I already read yesterday online?
Even for historical purposes, there are much better searchable archives online. Physical newspapers aren't searchable.
Why would I want someone's opinions of whom I don't know, mired in an outdated technology infecting the story? This is exactly why don't watch local news on TV. KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF. Just the facts, ma'am.
Why would I want to get black ink all over my hands and clothes?
Why would I pay 100% of the cost for something that I would be interested in 5% of? A physical newspaper has too much information, more than want to know, or worse yet, doesn't have what I want to read about because it didn't fit into their projected demographic.
Newspapers use unfair labor practices (Detroit News and Free Press for example).
It isn't electronic. I can't easily copy/paste articles into emails, notes or documents on my computer.
I half expected on a page reload to see an animated GIF of some pr0n star's head bobbing up and down on a fat chubby... Click HERE for the hotest LINUX IPO Pr0n!
*sigh*
Mountain View, CA., September 22 - HURDOne, Inc., a leading-edge developer of HURD software, products and services, filed to raise $24 Million in an initial public offering, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The Mountain View, California-based Company offers online products, tools, news, and services for the HURD operating system and other "open source" communities, at its website http://www.hurdone.net/.
Under its open source model, anyone may contribute to the software coding.
The Company's principal product, HURDOne OS, provides a wide variety of server functions, including setting up a web, e-mail, file or print server, as well as using the computer as a general purpose desktop workstation to perform virtually any computer function. HURDOne OS will be available in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish and French.
HURDOne plans to sell 3 million shares in the IPO and will have approximately 9.2 million shares outstanding once the sale is completed, according to the filing.
The company was founded and is run by its President, Dr. One L. Inux, Jr., who has worked in senior engineering and technology positions at Hughes Aircraft Co., Teledyne Systems, Co., and California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Inux was also Chief of Artificial Intelligence Branch, NASA Ames Research Center and organized Lockheed's Artificial Intelligence Center. He was the former founder and CEO of Alantic Macroelectronics and WebCIS.
HURDOne applied to sell its shares on NASDAQ under the symbol "HURD".
The company will be in its "Quiet Period" during SEC review of its filing, which is available on EDGAR.
About HURDOne
Our company provides world-class quality HURD software targeted to the server, workstation and home environments. It is distinguished by the unchallenged availability of applications and platform support, ease of installation and use, and technical support. The software is characterized by stability, security and usability. HURDOne expects to become the highest rated supplier of HURD solutions based on packaging, support, and capability worldwide.
Are they (we) still paying the Microsoft/Intel bundle tax? Can someone from Dell comment on this?
It would seem to me that this all boils down to the bottom line.. how can Apple make money from releasing a linux-compatible quicktime player.
There are an estimated 10 million linux users out there. I'll bet if this market is opened to playing quicktime movies there would also be a large group of linux users who will then want to make quicktime movies.
Release a quicktime player for linux and sell a quicktime development environment for linux.
It's using General Packet Radio Service as push medium for mirroring DeCSS source code.
Mars needs opendvd.
Mine and his comments weren't about the LinuxOne prospectus, but about the orignial commenter's examples of "scary stuff" regarding website aesthetics, phone support availability, webmaster email account snobbery and what people choose to spend money on.
/. tells me to think. I am, however, an advocate for sound reasoning. Let's make better arguments people.
I believe my points on judging people without reasoning were lost on you. Perhaps you would take the Linux community's "truth" about LinuxOne automatically without investigating the details?
Have you ever been inside a wal-mart? Flea market tables selling bargin bin merchandise.. yet they are an economic powerhouse. Can you really judge so much by appearances?
Investigating the details indeed. LinuxOne never had a chance with any of you, did they? I'm not a LinuxOne advocate.. I think it and their prospectus is a sham, but not because of what
Nothing about how you also get the freaking source code??
So with your logic it would be right to discriminate only if heteros and homos are both discriminated against? Or wait, it's okay to discriminate against homos, but not heteros? Could you please clarify?
but when it's funded by tax payer's dollars there should be some provisions so that it doesn't get abused
Since they are MY tax dollars spent in MY school district/state with MY childern in them, shouldn't I get some say in how my tax dollars are spent?
give us free net access
Huh? When was the last time you checked a tuition bill for your local state university? I'm not talking about "per credit hour". I'm talking about administrative and resource fees. This shit ain't cheap!
Were you able to hit the site and get information? Was it available to you regardless of its aesthetics?
run by a webmaster with a hotmail account
So the webmaster published their email address and is available to be contacted, which is a lot more than I can say for other higher-profile sites out there in their genre. Did you try to contact the webmaster? Did they respond?
A slashdot reader has called the number on the website before and woken the website's owner out of bed (it's his home #)
So someone called a contact number and someone answered? How is this a bad thing? How many customer support or sales lines have you called and were put on hold or not answered at all? So what if it is someone's home? One could call that dedicated. He was woken up? Is it possible that the person answering the phone is NOT in same time zone as the caller? Wouldn't 24 hour phone access be desired?
That doesn't sound like someone who has $500,000 to pay for software, now does it?
I have a grandfather that was a medical doctor who had a private practice for over 20 years. He wears the same pair of pants every day of the week and drives a beat-up old Ford truck. By appearances one could say that he doesn't have much money.. but he donates huge amounts of cash to charitable organizations, invests heavily in the stock market, has huge trust funds for his offspring and their offspring, etc. Are you so sure you can tell how much money someone can spend by appearances or by what they choose to spend their money on, if at all?
LinuxOne maybe a huge sham, but I think you need to re-work your judgments and get some facts. Scary stuff indeed: to be judged without reasoning.
Check out the administrative contact email address in their whois record.. abuse@home.com! Now that's funny.
root@sumppump:~/ > whois home.com
Registrant:
Home Network (HOME-DOM)
425 Broadway
Redwood City, CA 94063
US
Domain Name: HOME.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Varsanyi, Ami (AV1662) abuse@HOME.NET
650-569-5333 (FAX) 650-482-4062
Billing Contact:
Du, Trung (TD2157) trung@CORP.HOME.NET
650-569-5437 (FAX) 650-569-5100
Record last updated on 28-Jul-1998.
Record created on 16-Dec-1993.
Database last updated on 13-Jan-2000 13:23:09 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.HOME.NET 24.0.0.27
NS2.HOME.NET 24.2.0.27
Yeah, binary only for RedHat 6.1. What if I am not running RedHat at all? I need freedom baby! Let me compile my own damn driver.
I've been to linmodems.org and the gist I got was that was that Lucent doesn't give a rip about the end user and probably couldn't be pressured into releasing a driver (or specs for us to write a driver) by us, the end users. Pressure to release a linux driver for their modems would have to come from their direct customer - the computer manufacturer - which would be Dell in this case.
HEY DELL! If you're reading this, how about giving Lucent a kick in the pants and releasing a linux driver or some specs for the LT Winmodem in your notebooks? I'll buy more of your products if you do.