So what choice did ISPs have? Ship the outdated Netscape 4 to all their new customers? Ship a buggy prerelease Mozilla build to all their new customers? Pay Opera for every new customer? Or just bundle Internet Explorer? Of course they did the latter.
OK, you correctly point out the fact that tactics matter more than strategy when we live and die by the quarterly report.
Now that the strategic investments in good infrastructure pay dividends, is it really necessary to force-feed any closed, OS-centric solution on anyone?
With Subversion, backing up/etc is trivial.
When stuff goes awry, it's nice to have a means of investigating/rolling back the boo-boo.
Yet another reason to eschew operating systems that hide the configuration data in a binary prison.
Right. Yet we see the SonyBMG imbroglio rather than an expansion of card usage.
I like the card making the company ownership of the content very explicit.
Helps in avoiding such. Perhaps that explains why companies haven't gone that route for their DRMery.
Six: Let's create a world where the consensus reality is as inclusive as possible.
I dunno. Smart cards are the big new thing in the US Department of Defense.
Inclusive, they are not, but they seem to be quite effective.
Once somebody arrives at a smart card used to implement DRM (quick: trademark DRMstick), society will transition from 'sheep' to 'card-carrying sheep'.
Often, there is a king who wants to alter the course of the enterprise, and brings in a Robbins Hood character to calibrate the Sherrif of Nottingham, who's a right corrupt sort of twerp, and give some life back to the enterprise.
The Sherrif, while not exactly intelligent, has no lack of low animal cunning, and ambushes Hood and his Merry Men. The death of Friar Tuck, played by an unexpectedly valiant Peter Quinn, drips pathos.
So Hood rallies the troops, heads South, and conquers France instead.
I had MCI try to mug me for about $800 once, in 1998.
I was stationed in Japan, and had to send a laptop back for warranty service to someplace in Tennessee.
To judge by the bill, the computer never logged the ~15 minute call to get a service ticket number as complete for something like 10 hours.
Or maybe their accounting department was just sharpening its crayons, as subsequent boo-boos could indicate.
In defense of MCI, they agreed the charge was bogus and cleared me straight away.
Now, is it a strictly US disease, or are people in other countries beset by idiots running the phone menu system?
"Hello, thank you for calling Bork-U. Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed..."
Did they? When? Can my phone with the options cooked into the speed dial react to this? Would I have realized it anyway when I got Accounting instead of Technical Support?
And has anyone felt like running amok at the airport when the goober at the gate uses the phrase "at this time" at a frequency higher than a teenager says "like"? It would be a syllable savings of 66%, for a constant level of annoyance, if they just said "um".
</rant>
C++ Continues Linux's Invasion
651 (DCLI)
C++ Command Line Interface
The name, as submitted, is a sufficient train-wreck that people savvy enough to know a compile shan't confuse it with something they want. Possibly it will appeal to the PHB audience.
Trivially, as when a politician vows to curb inflation, buys a dog, names it "Inflation", and curbs it daily.
Read that in Mad Magazine about 20 years ago.
Only change: Alfred E. Neuman has been elected. Twice.
Wikipedia needs to decide whether it should accept those which fall in the middle overlapping area or reject them outright.
What's the value in passing the judgement?
I, for one, am interested in seeing the edit history of a political leader's entry. If it looks like the entry has had more plastic surgery than Liz Taylor, then that, itself, is an interesting data point.
Serve it up, and let the audience judge.
What about some kind of moderation, and a means of voluntarily selecting 'trusted' sources of moderation to apply? I might like a William F. Buckley, Jr. take on things one day, or CmdrTaco's take the next.
Half the time, 'who' is saying things is as important as 'what' was said.
I strongly disagree with the Offtopic mod.
Gaming the system, both by
out-of-band signalling in a newspaper for the breakthrough, instead of a modest publication in a journal and research duplication first and
having <Teh Man> introduce the scientist to some oil buddies who'd like to hedge their bets in case this whole "hybrid" car thing takes off
are both aspects of the larger, modern system.
It is with sincere regret that I point out that the Information Age has done very little to alter the fundamental entropy of the human soul.
I hope this research pans out, and those suffering from AIDS get some relief. Possibly, the demand could would be so great as to tear down the Great Wall of Patents; think of the ensuing good.
However, those who've labored and sacrificed to do the research, or run the company that produces/distributes/retails the product, feel a legitimate desire to line their wallets.
And those for whom power is the ultimate drug have other priorities...
Is cynicism part of the problem, or mere observation?
If the world is baked, can the world unbake itself?
I go to sleep on these questions...
In that vein, what was your most sastifying moment? Was recently blocking the US Congress's IP addresses high on the list? Did you hear the cheer that bitch-slapping aroused in the real world?
Well, that's less than Kommodious. Isn't it a full-fledged XUL application? I, for one, wouldn't mind paying for the privilege of seeing that source code, just to learn how to code XUL.
BTW, the Python Cookbook is teh roxorz. Thanks.
Through judicious hackery and pythonic idioms, I've used VBA class modules with definitions like
Public do_not_try_this_at_home As i_wish_VBA_were_not_teh_suckin
Public Function a__init__( self As yeah_I_would_rather_code_python, but_WTF_this_is_what_they_gave_me As String ) self.do_not_try_this_at_home.a__init__( self.do_not_try_this_at_home ) End Function
Things get more interesting when you want to overload a function.
You can pass in Variants, which can be class modules, so you could have two leaf modules implement, say, a ThatHurts( self As yep_VBA_really_is_a_python_without_a_spine ) method. Trouble is, you have to instantiate the class module you want with a classically hack-tacular Select Case, a la:
Public Function foo_0( hey_we_can_implement_stuff_better_managed_by_the_r untime As Integer ) Dim ouch As Variant Select Case hey_we_can_implement_stuff_better_managed_by_the_r untime Case DISASTER Set ouch = New yep_VBA_really_is_a_python_without_a_spine Case Else Set ouch = Nothing End Select foo_1 ouch End Function
Public Function foo_1( ouch As Variant ) ouch.ThatHurts() End Function
You get the picture
And, no, I won't take it back.
Slashcode's refusal to support any code indentation only makes the idiocy more poignant.
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OK, you correctly point out the fact that tactics matter more than strategy when we live and die by the quarterly report.
Now that the strategic investments in good infrastructure pay dividends, is it really necessary to force-feed any closed, OS-centric solution on anyone?
As this timeline shows, for 1940:
Thus, the collapse of France in the face of the Blitzkrieg led to opportunism in Japan led to the embargo.
Hand-keying can be a great way to learn a new language, and a help to understanding an intricate function.
With Subversion, backing up /etc is trivial.
When stuff goes awry, it's nice to have a means of investigating/rolling back the boo-boo.
Yet another reason to eschew operating systems that hide the configuration data in a binary prison.
According to the Washington comPost, "men in Japan salivate over Reno".
Right. Yet we see the SonyBMG imbroglio rather than an expansion of card usage.
I like the card making the company ownership of the content very explicit.
Helps in avoiding such. Perhaps that explains why companies haven't gone that route for their DRMery.
Inclusive, they are not, but they seem to be quite effective.
Once somebody arrives at a smart card used to implement DRM (quick: trademark DRMstick), society will transition from 'sheep' to 'card-carrying sheep'.
No less surreal than the stuff happening in the White House or Congress.
Cheney jokes are way too obvious here.
You need to expand 'they' in your analysis.
Often, there is a king who wants to alter the course of the enterprise, and brings in a Robbins Hood character to calibrate the Sherrif of Nottingham, who's a right corrupt sort of twerp, and give some life back to the enterprise.
The Sherrif, while not exactly intelligent, has no lack of low animal cunning, and ambushes Hood and his Merry Men. The death of Friar Tuck, played by an unexpectedly valiant Peter Quinn, drips pathos.
So Hood rallies the troops, heads South, and conquers France instead.
Happens all the time.
I had MCI try to mug me for about $800 once, in 1998.
I was stationed in Japan, and had to send a laptop back for warranty service to someplace in Tennessee.
To judge by the bill, the computer never logged the ~15 minute call to get a service ticket number as complete for something like 10 hours.
Or maybe their accounting department was just sharpening its crayons, as subsequent boo-boos could indicate.
In defense of MCI, they agreed the charge was bogus and cleared me straight away.
Now, is it a strictly US disease, or are people in other countries beset by idiots running the phone menu system?
"Hello, thank you for calling Bork-U. Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed..."
Did they? When? Can my phone with the options cooked into the speed dial react to this? Would I have realized it anyway when I got Accounting instead of Technical Support?
And has anyone felt like running amok at the airport when the goober at the gate uses the phrase "at this time" at a frequency higher than a teenager says "like"? It would be a syllable savings of 66%, for a constant level of annoyance, if they just said "um".
</rant>
C++ Continues Linux's Invasion
651 (DCLI)
C++ Command Line Interface
The name, as submitted, is a sufficient train-wreck that people savvy enough to know a compile shan't confuse it with something they want. Possibly it will appeal to the PHB audience.
Yes, the US government has...enjoyed...great...uh...success(?) therewith.
Thank God somebody saw through the ambiguity! ;)
Trivially, as when a politician vows to curb inflation, buys a dog, names it "Inflation", and curbs it daily.
Read that in Mad Magazine about 20 years ago.
Only change: Alfred E. Neuman has been elected. Twice.
I, for one, am interested in seeing the edit history of a political leader's entry. If it looks like the entry has had more plastic surgery than Liz Taylor, then that, itself, is an interesting data point.
Serve it up, and let the audience judge.
What about some kind of moderation, and a means of voluntarily selecting 'trusted' sources of moderation to apply? I might like a William F. Buckley, Jr. take on things one day, or CmdrTaco's take the next.
Half the time, 'who' is saying things is as important as 'what' was said.
Gaming the system, both by
out-of-band signalling in a newspaper for the breakthrough, instead of a modest publication in a journal and research duplication first and
having <Teh Man> introduce the scientist to some oil buddies who'd like to hedge their bets in case this whole "hybrid" car thing takes off
are both aspects of the larger, modern system.
It is with sincere regret that I point out that the Information Age has done very little to alter the fundamental entropy of the human soul.
I hope this research pans out, and those suffering from AIDS get some relief. Possibly, the demand could would be so great as to tear down the Great Wall of Patents; think of the ensuing good.
However, those who've labored and sacrificed to do the research, or run the company that produces/distributes/retails the product, feel a legitimate desire to line their wallets.
And those for whom power is the ultimate drug have other priorities...
Is cynicism part of the problem, or mere observation?
If the world is baked, can the world unbake itself?
I go to sleep on these questions...
In that vein, what was your most sastifying moment? Was recently blocking the US Congress's IP addresses high on the list? Did you hear the cheer that bitch-slapping aroused in the real world?
Doubt you not the Slashdot orthodoxy, infidel!
first, Grow: You're never going to get up, post!!!!!!
Well, that's less than Kommodious. Isn't it a full-fledged XUL application? I, for one, wouldn't mind paying for the privilege of seeing that source code, just to learn how to code XUL.
BTW, the Python Cookbook is teh roxorz. Thanks.
Things get more interesting when you want to overload a function.
You can pass in Variants, which can be class modules, so you could have two leaf modules implement, say, a ThatHurts( self As yep_VBA_really_is_a_python_without_a_spine ) method. Trouble is, you have to instantiate the class module you want with a classically hack-tacular Select Case, a la:
You get the picture
And, no, I won't take it back.
Slashcode's refusal to support any code indentation only makes the idiocy more poignant.
You're welcome.