Isn't the whole idea behind the net to share information *without* any boundaries? Why do corporations and institution want to control everything? Sometimes control is bad.
This reminds me of the region coding restrictions on DVD.
I will start out by saying that I do not use Abi Word, nor do I plan on using it anytime soon. Being a developer myself, I actually agree with the Abi development team, but by hyping up the project, users get the wrong idea.
The first thing that caught my eye when I went to the site was the phrase "Word processing for everyone". With a catch-phrase like that, you had better be able to deliver on your promise. "Everyone" includes those rushed business execs who are too busy to become computer literate and need support *now*.
Maybe Abi should either drop the slogan, or deliver on it, before they give too many people the worng idea.
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If e-paper ever becomes standard, only people with computers or access to a computer will be able to write books and letters. If books are distributed digitally, then printed on e-paper, poor people may not be able to afford to read.
The document about the right to read really applies here whether you agree with it or not.
E-paper should go the way of E-toilet paper....
flush it down the toilet.
1. If Larry Ellison offered you a free copy of arguably the #1 database server (and the most expensive) on the market, would you turn him down?
2. The article makes no mention of what kind of data will be stored in the database server.
Even if there is no 'National ID card' information, Ellison saved our government lots of money by giving us expensive software. Lobbying the legislature, writing congress letters, etc. is up to us.
IMHO, the government probably listened to his schpiel, said thanks, and used the software for something else besides the ID card.
I found it ironic that my father-in-law, who keeps bashing me and my dialup connection lost service. He always used to brag about how he can click on a link and it loads instantly. Of course I was obliged to ask him 'How fast is your page loading now?'
You can get all of that stuff and more on prime time TV. Ripleys believe it or not.....
I think that the olympics are really trying hard to keep the sports respectable. The world isn't quite ready to see genetically altered freaks battle it out in the olympic arena.
So What? The article also states that the DOJ can get the logs of an ISP without a court order. That would be the equivalent of them asking the phone company to put a DNR (Dialed Number Recorder) on your line without a judicial hearing!
With the logs, they can tell where you have been and what you have sent to whom on the internet!
Depending on *what* the ISP logs, this may or may not be considered a wiretap. A simple IP address is not big deal. What would they do with that? Any real terrorist will encrypt non-trivial communications.
Once again, the legislature allows the real criminals to go unpunished and untouched while the average joe gets a large peephole drilled into the wall of his internet connection.
The real question here is who cares? There are already Multi-User Multi-Tasking OSes out there and retrofitting an old OS not designed to do these things would be a waste of time and a disaster waiting to happen.
The words CP/M and DOS invoke nice memories to me, but lets keep both of them where they belong - a computer museum.
I'm really not trying to troll here, but IMHO a game called "Tux Racer" will conjure up images of racing butlers. Without a more exciting name, people who don't know or care about "tux" the linux mascot will turn their noses up at this game.
Spammers typically do not make much money. One could probably make more opening up a lemonade stand on a corner in the summer. Spammers usually quit when they get kicked off of a couple of ISP's and lose a significant amount of money. The problem is that MLM and other pyramid schemes are promoting spam as a marketing tool, and the brainwashed 'salesman soldiers' are totally sold into the prospect of getting a new house, boat or vacation. What they do get is alot of complaint letters from ISP's and a large amount of debt.
As long as people are stupid enough to buy a MLM salesmans pitch, there will be new armies of spammers awaiting. The spammer is usually short lived, but fired up by a motivational speech and more likely to turn other dimitted folk into spammers.
Just quietly delete all of you spam, and when spammers stop making money then they will eventually stop. Or if you don't want spam, just don't use email.
As long as nobody complains or does anything about spam, it will not stop. For some people spam really hurts on bandwidth costs. Would you complain if somebody was stealing electricity from you, or would you let them continue and hope that they will stop someday when they tire of it?
As far as not using email, that is not an option for many people.
The Author of the article does not specify which chip that the driver is supposed to use. Does this mean that this person wants an unfinished driver that only emulates the Vx.x protocols? The idea that I got from the post is that the author wants a driver that will work with any softmodem. Judging by the amount of chips that are out there, the driver would be huge, buggy, and take many developers lots of time to create. Not worth $20000 if you ask me.
Maybe all the evildoing is not going on at the hub.....
I worked in a shipping department in a small factory for 4 years and I have seen many UPS packages opened by the delivery driver. There was a womens underwear store nearby, and he would cut the tape, pull out the underwear, comment on how his wife was too fat to wear them, then re-seal the box. Many other boxes going to residents in the area (mainly women that this piece of work fancied) were opened. The real kicker was a Next Dar Air envelope full of cash (around $2000) destined for a hotel was opened. The driver forgot to take the envelope with him, and I ended up bringing the cash over to the hotel in person.
If MS keeps milking developers for more money, they will ultimately lose out. Developers are the life blood of MS. What would they do without shareware?
My boss has a saying....
Microsoft thinks that they have everyone by the balls, but eventually, those people will beome eunuchs (UNIX).
Excuse me but I own my computer, I own my HD, and I own their OS. They don't own me.
Actually, you do not *own* the OS. Microsoft owns it and sells you a license. It is actually more like leasing than it is owning. Read the license (esp. the part about reselling) if you do not believe me.
This does make a world of sense to a software developer or a techie, but try telling that to a Marketing Manager or any other suit in upper management. What you will get is some spew about how they have to 'shit or get off the pot' and that spending extra time on security is not 'value added activity'.
The bottom line is that marketing and upper management knows that nobody can *prove* that any MS product is sloppily coded because the source is not available to the world. Surely the participants in the shared source program are not allowed to talk about the poor coding in Windows ala the Frontpage Clause.
Since MS management cannot see immediate monetary gains through holding a product's release date to resolve security problems through proper testing and auditing, Microsoft products are doomed to be buggy and insecure.
For MS to release secure products, upper management must forget about all of the Management Methodology hype that has been drilled into them. IMHO, this would be equivalent to de-programming a cult member.
This guy obviously does not have a background in UNIX/Linux. Heres a snippet of an 'operational issue' that he had....
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File timestamps
When copying files under Linux, original timestamps are replaced with the current date. So the "date last modified" file attribute becomes "date last copied". This becomes a nightmare for anyone dealing with many files - how can you keep track of when a file was last modified. You can force the original timestamps using cp -p., but this means not using the GUI file manager. Very poor Linux design feature!
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WTF is he talking about? It has nothing to do with the design of linux.... this is the way a UNIX like filesystem works....
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Isn't the whole idea behind the net to share information *without* any boundaries? Why do corporations and institution want to control everything? Sometimes control is bad.
This reminds me of the region coding restrictions on DVD.
I will start out by saying that I do not use Abi Word, nor do I plan on using it anytime soon. Being a developer myself, I actually agree with the Abi development team, but by hyping up the project, users get the wrong idea.
The first thing that caught my eye when I went to the site was the phrase "Word processing for everyone". With a catch-phrase like that, you had better be able to deliver on your promise. "Everyone" includes those rushed business execs who are too busy to become computer literate and need support *now*.
Maybe Abi should either drop the slogan, or deliver on it, before they give too many people the worng idea.
Onstream 30 or 50 GB ADR Tape backup.
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Tapes are expensive
If e-paper ever becomes standard, only people with computers or access to a computer will be able to write books and letters. If books are distributed digitally, then printed on e-paper, poor people may not be able to afford to read.
The document about the right to read really applies here whether you agree with it or not.
E-paper should go the way of E-toilet paper....
flush it down the toilet.
"That could mean quicktime for Linux, but would we need it?"
Three words: Star Wars Trailers!
1. If Larry Ellison offered you a free copy of arguably the #1 database server (and the most expensive) on the market, would you turn him down?
2. The article makes no mention of what kind of data will be stored in the database server.
Even if there is no 'National ID card' information, Ellison saved our government lots of money by giving us expensive software. Lobbying the legislature, writing congress letters, etc. is up to us.
IMHO, the government probably listened to his schpiel, said thanks, and used the software for something else besides the ID card.
I found it ironic that my father-in-law, who keeps bashing me and my dialup connection lost service. He always used to brag about how he can click on a link and it loads instantly. Of course I was obliged to ask him 'How fast is your page loading now?'
You can get all of that stuff and more on prime time TV. Ripleys believe it or not.....
I think that the olympics are really trying hard to keep the sports respectable. The world isn't quite ready to see genetically altered freaks battle it out in the olympic arena.
Depends on how much money they need to bleed from the genie before it is too broke to defend itself.
So What? The article also states that the DOJ can get the logs of an ISP without a court order. That would be the equivalent of them asking the phone company to put a DNR (Dialed Number Recorder) on your line without a judicial hearing!
With the logs, they can tell where you have been and what you have sent to whom on the internet!
Depending on *what* the ISP logs, this may or may not be considered a wiretap. A simple IP address is not big deal. What would they do with that? Any real terrorist will encrypt non-trivial communications.
Once again, the legislature allows the real criminals to go unpunished and untouched while the average joe gets a large peephole drilled into the wall of his internet connection.
Thanks, Legistlators!
1+1 = 2.
Since this is on a message board, it's only my opinion. It is not fact.
1+1 = 3. Now that is just as valid since anything here is an opinion.
How many fingers am I holding up? four or five? You must actually SEE five fingers in order to be well!
The real question here is who cares? There are already Multi-User Multi-Tasking OSes out there and retrofitting an old OS not designed to do these things would be a waste of time and a disaster waiting to happen.
The words CP/M and DOS invoke nice memories to me, but lets keep both of them where they belong - a computer museum.
I'm really not trying to troll here, but IMHO a game called "Tux Racer" will conjure up images of racing butlers. Without a more exciting name, people who don't know or care about "tux" the linux mascot will turn their noses up at this game.
Spammers typically do not make much money. One could probably make more opening up a lemonade stand on a corner in the summer. Spammers usually quit when they get kicked off of a couple of ISP's and lose a significant amount of money. The problem is that MLM and other pyramid schemes are promoting spam as a marketing tool, and the brainwashed 'salesman soldiers' are totally sold into the prospect of getting a new house, boat or vacation. What they do get is alot of complaint letters from ISP's and a large amount of debt.
As long as people are stupid enough to buy a MLM salesmans pitch, there will be new armies of spammers awaiting. The spammer is usually short lived, but fired up by a motivational speech and more likely to turn other dimitted folk into spammers.
Just quietly delete all of you spam, and when spammers stop making money then they will eventually stop. Or if you don't want spam, just don't use email.
As long as nobody complains or does anything about spam, it will not stop. For some people spam really hurts on bandwidth costs. Would you complain if somebody was stealing electricity from you, or would you let them continue and hope that they will stop someday when they tire of it?
As far as not using email, that is not an option for many people.
The Author of the article does not specify which chip that the driver is supposed to use. Does this mean that this person wants an unfinished driver that only emulates the Vx.x protocols? The idea that I got from the post is that the author wants a driver that will work with any softmodem. Judging by the amount of chips that are out there, the driver would be huge, buggy, and take many developers lots of time to create. Not worth $20000 if you ask me.
Maybe all the evildoing is not going on at the hub.....
I worked in a shipping department in a small factory for 4 years and I have seen many UPS packages opened by the delivery driver. There was a womens underwear store nearby, and he would cut the tape, pull out the underwear, comment on how his wife was too fat to wear them, then re-seal the box. Many other boxes going to residents in the area (mainly women that this piece of work fancied) were opened. The real kicker was a Next Dar Air envelope full of cash (around $2000) destined for a hotel was opened. The driver forgot to take the envelope with him, and I ended up bringing the cash over to the hotel in person.
It would be nice to see Apple post something in a standard format like .mpg
Heh!, WTF....
I thought that it read 'Opiate is the religion of the masses.'
If MS keeps milking developers for more money, they will ultimately lose out. Developers are the life blood of MS. What would they do without shareware?
My boss has a saying....
Microsoft thinks that they have everyone by the balls, but eventually, those people will beome eunuchs (UNIX).
Excuse me but I own my computer, I own my HD, and I own their OS. They don't own me.
Actually, you do not *own* the OS. Microsoft owns it and sells you a license. It is actually more like leasing than it is owning. Read the license (esp. the part about reselling) if you do not believe me.
This does make a world of sense to a software developer or a techie, but try telling that to a Marketing Manager or any other suit in upper management. What you will get is some spew about how they have to 'shit or get off the pot' and that spending extra time on security is not 'value added activity'.
The bottom line is that marketing and upper management knows that nobody can *prove* that any MS product is sloppily coded because the source is not available to the world. Surely the participants in the shared source program are not allowed to talk about the poor coding in Windows ala the Frontpage Clause.
Since MS management cannot see immediate monetary gains through holding a product's release date to resolve security problems through proper testing and auditing, Microsoft products are doomed to be buggy and insecure.
For MS to release secure products, upper management must forget about all of the Management Methodology hype that has been drilled into them. IMHO, this would be equivalent to de-programming a cult member.
What do you think that the government will do when you are all used up? Will they put you up in a posh house with a butler and a maid?
No. They will lock you up and throw away the key, because you will kow too much by the time they are through with you.
If you get involved with a war, you will become a casualty of war.
The government hates hackers no matter what side that they are on because they pose a threat to authority.
The Internet is a peer-to-peer system where one peer can piss in the public pool.
Don't you mean to say pee-er to pee-er?
This guy obviously does not have a background in UNIX/Linux. Heres a snippet of an 'operational issue' that he had....
---
File timestamps
When copying files under Linux, original timestamps are replaced with the current date. So the "date last modified" file attribute becomes "date last copied". This becomes a nightmare for anyone dealing with many files - how can you keep track of when a file was last modified. You can force the original timestamps using cp -p., but this means not using the GUI file manager. Very poor Linux design feature!
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WTF is he talking about? It has nothing to do with the design of linux.... this is the way a UNIX like filesystem works....