"I think humans are the only animal that does not run or exercise for the sheer fun of it: Horses run, Dogs run, dolphins swim, hell, even sloths hold on to trees with their tails.. But humans are sitting in front of the TV with a scotch."
I think if horses had Johnny Carson and scotch available to them, they'd be sitting in front of the TV as well. Heck, if there was a channel that
showed horses sitting in front of a TV drinking scotch and watching Johnny Carson, I'd watch that. Speaking of which, have you seen the monkey show? They dress up these chimps and put peanut butter on their lips so it looks like they're talking.
This is my sober response. Check back later for the one when I'm tanked. I'll make sure to have scotch in hand watching Carson reruns.
Let's take that philosophy one step further... so you'd support a company that sold a product that caused Cancer or AIDS as long as you didn't use that product? Nice to see you've got principles.
My Slashdot submission about this will be enroute to the Slashdot rejected bin in a few minutes... but subscribers can read it now by stopping by my office.
Seriously though, why don't they just give it some unique name and stop playing silly naming battles. I wish they'd focus on their product, and not silly legal battles that they KNEW they were inviting with their choice of name. Sure, it brought attention to their company, but get over it. Make it fast. Make it good. Name it "purple" if it makes you happy... just stop raising the cost of building the product with lawsuits.
I worked on some of the special effects for Starhip Troopers. While I didn't particularly like the story or acting, my biased opinion is that the film broke new ground when it came to effects. Both the bug/swarm scenes and the outer-space sequences were incredibl well done. If only they'd had a storyline that didn't involve Doogie Howser M.D. to back them up. I tend to object to straight-to-video sequels... but I guess the die-hard fans of the first one will probably like it... and hey, they get to reuse our special effects. If only I received royalties!
Seriously... what's the point of having a place with Windows if there's no Sun out there to light things up? By the way... Is it still April 1st in some timezone I'm not aware of?
Why the heck couldn't they have added a link to popup a search result. I'm constantly holding down the shift key to pop a result item in case it's not exactly what I wanted.
More than once, the Sun guy made reference to being free from the shackles of an old environment (an obvious reference to Windows). Last time I checked, you can do pretty much all of what he demonstrated using transparency, hardware acceleration, and creativity in an existing Windows environment. I'm all for creativity... and I'm all for giving access to APIs that allow developers to make use of clever functionality that has been built into an OS... but a technology that's trying to build marketshare should be able to stand alone on its merits. I don't see much to gain by making unsubstantiated claims about the technical limitations of their competitors. As a sidenote for Sun... I don't remember the last time I had a need to attach a note to the back of a webpage.
They purport to have a list of pirates... What they have is a list of people that downloaded something that most likely isn't a copyrighted work written by them (and admittedly made available freely online by themselves).
Not only that, they're infringing on the trademarks of the software they purport to be in order to run this little experiment, and a case could also be made that they're doing damage to the name of that software by associating it with their invasive software without consent from the actual publisher of the original work.
I'm all for protecting a product with the laws that are in place, but the laws shouldn't be taken into people's own hands with invasive and untested software.
I searched for a hardware store close to my Manhattan zip code. The first entry is sending me about 4 miles south... the second entry has me going to Jersey... and the third puts me in Brooklyn. I'm all for sight-seeing, but not when I just want to buy a wrench.
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I guess we've got our answer for this guy. Cliff, don't take a penny more than $27.62 an hou, then work a 90 hour work week.
Anybody have the summary PDF mirrored? I don't feel like creating another account with another password, and nobody's offered me chocolate to do so.
At last ... We've identified the sector of the Slashdot community that actually reads the articles.
This is my sober response. Check back later for the one when I'm tanked. I'll make sure to have scotch in hand watching Carson reruns.
Let's take that philosophy one step further ... so you'd support a company that sold a product that caused Cancer or AIDS as long as you didn't use that product? Nice to see you've got principles.
Strange as it may seem, my company invests in these little things called firewalls.
Guy That Sits One Cube Over ... Annoyingly Loud
... but subscribers can read it now by stopping by my office.
My Slashdot submission about this will be enroute to the Slashdot rejected bin in a few minutes
linDOS? I though we were well past DOS.
... just stop raising the cost of building the product with lawsuits.
Seriously though, why don't they just give it some unique name and stop playing silly naming battles. I wish they'd focus on their product, and not silly legal battles that they KNEW they were inviting with their choice of name. Sure, it brought attention to their company, but get over it. Make it fast. Make it good. Name it "purple" if it makes you happy
I worked on some of the special effects for Starhip Troopers. While I didn't particularly like the story or acting, my biased opinion is that the film broke new ground when it came to effects. Both the bug/swarm scenes and the outer-space sequences were incredibl well done. If only they'd had a storyline that didn't involve Doogie Howser M.D. to back them up. I tend to object to straight-to-video sequels ... but I guess the die-hard fans of the first one will probably like it ... and hey, they get to reuse our special effects. If only I received royalties!
This is where I lost interest.
Seriously ... what's the point of having a place with Windows if there's no Sun out there to light things up? By the way ... Is it still April 1st in some timezone I'm not aware of?
Do Slashdot subscribers get their April Fools content on March 31st?
Why the heck couldn't they have added a link to popup a search result. I'm constantly holding down the shift key to pop a result item in case it's not exactly what I wanted.
You failed to mention that it took you nine years to complete high school 'cause you were too busy playing DoomII.
It's nice to see that Babelfish has made such great strides in translation.
More than once, the Sun guy made reference to being free from the shackles of an old environment (an obvious reference to Windows). Last time I checked, you can do pretty much all of what he demonstrated using transparency, hardware acceleration, and creativity in an existing Windows environment. I'm all for creativity ... and I'm all for giving access to APIs that allow developers to make use of clever functionality that has been built into an OS ... but a technology that's trying to build marketshare should be able to stand alone on its merits. I don't see much to gain by making unsubstantiated claims about the technical limitations of their competitors. As a sidenote for Sun ... I don't remember the last time I had a need to attach a note to the back of a webpage.
This mornings there was a link for a Quicktime version of the movie. Now, it's only the garbage Real player. What happened?
Scheduled to die are...
The language C
Video games
TiVo
Tune in next week when we add another victim to the list.
They purport to have a list of pirates...
What they have is a list of people that downloaded something that most likely isn't a copyrighted work written by them (and admittedly made available freely online by themselves).
Not only that, they're infringing on the trademarks of the software they purport to be in order to run this little experiment, and a case could also be made that they're doing damage to the name of that software by associating it with their invasive software without consent from the actual publisher of the original work.
I'm all for protecting a product with the laws that are in place, but the laws shouldn't be taken into people's own hands with invasive and untested software.
I searched for a hardware store close to my Manhattan zip code. The first entry is sending me about 4 miles south ... the second entry has me going to Jersey ... and the third puts me in Brooklyn. I'm all for sight-seeing, but not when I just want to buy a wrench.
Where have you been? It's called product placement ... and it's been here for years.
We're still waiting for Duke Nukem Forever...