I mean, what the hell process is there to report bugs to Micro$oft -- and by that, I mean a process where there is any chance of so much as a response, let alone any hope change?
So/. is gonna pick on Open Source, where at least there *is* a process?
Whoring for posts again, Taco?
For shame, for shame...
'course that's nothing new.
t_t_b
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"...the Internet is full of 12-year-old girlie bloggers discussing the drab details of their lives..."
...regarding the whole "fii" deal in the word "diffiicult" is that the advanced keyboards in use by the/. staff actually have a specific key for the ligature "ffi" -- which used to be a specific piece of type for that letter combination (and there are others..), back in the old days when type was hand-set out a big drawer full of all the pieces of type for a specific font...
Anyway, the/. staff correctly typed the key for the ligature "ffi" and the spell check program (which the/. staff does use, despite what all their detractors think..), not being bright enough to recognize a ligature for what it was, stupidly inserted yet another "i" after the "ffi".
So it's not poor spelling on the part of the/. staff, but rather a crappy spell-checker.
...but it needs to be restated frequently, so those reading this thread rather late still get the important point:
Make no mistake, this phony confession is nothing but a strategic move to begin grooming the world to the idea that Palladium is the only hope for "Trustworthy Computing".
It's groundwork for a bald-faced pack of lies, Micro$oft FUD in it's purest form.
It's also further proof that Micro$oft's upper level minions are utterly without any moral compunctions whatsoever, always willing to pimp themselves again and again for the good of the Motherland.
"...At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a blow from a hammer, but it does flow, as the pictures demonstrate..."
So does asphalt.
Check out the pavement at most any bus stop.
In profile, the location where the bus's tires are most frequently becomes a valley, with two soft ridges rising on either side.
As transient as the weight of the bus is, for a given moment at a single point, the cumulative effect is more than enough to displace the pavement into a trough.
Valley-to-crest dimensions can reach several inches in total depth.
...is based upon the concept that the current crop of fragmented, independant nation-states are the highest form of human socio-political evolution.
Nonsense.
Someone in Renaissance Italy might have said the same thing about the Italian city-states.
Where are the Italian city-states now? Extinct.
Where will the current crop of nation-states be in, say, a hundred years? Extinct.
The Internet represents the first widespread oportunity for individual people to instantly experience something entirely outside the parochial culture of their little nation, and participate in a context that truly has no borders.
Too bad the author misses this minor detail entirely, in his little Euro-centric monologue.
It's unfortunate that he locks himself so tightly into his myopic agenda, because the larger question of how we stop the rush toward world-wide, United States-based global corporate hegemony is the *real* issue of our times...
It's the prevention of *that* holocaust that we all need to be working toward.
...that someone needs to take all the lawyers out and shoot^H^H^H^H^H re-educate them.
"The submittor had already been asked if that requirement was a necessity. She said yes, because of various legal precedents.
Read: so because some lawyers have screwed somebody previously, everybody else needs to be ready to screw somebody back from now on..
"We consulted a few people and yes, it looks like a license without click-wrap is weaker at protecting your rights.
Read: you have to be ready to "protect your rights" because some lawyer will be attempting damage them.
"So, folks, the lawyers are coming.
More like a plague of locust...
"The time is coming when you won't be able to distribute software unless you have presented the license to the user and their assent is necessary to access the software. Even free software.
Nonsense. If you can conduct yourself amongst your fellow citizens honestly and morally, you won't need to worry.. And this goes for both sides of the transaction.
"Our industry is maturing and we need to be more legally careful and rigorous.
"Maturing"? Hardly.
Nonsense again.
What it comes down to is an arms race: because some *sshole is willing to use a suck*ss lawyer at the drop of a hat, you're supposed to be ready to fight back at the drop of a hat. With another lawyer.
Unless, as I said at the top, we simply take all the lawyers out and shoot^H^H^H^H^H re-educate them.
"...What next - a bill to disallow modifying your PC ?"
I mean, honest to god.
What thinking person would worry about such utter silliness?
How would The Man(tm) *ever* enforce such an utterly hypothetical law?
Answer: it can't happen.
But it is further proof that most of what's posted as tag lines to "News for Nerds" on/. is just troll after troll after troll to sucker people into posting responses.
Remember, k1dd13s: more posts == higher advertising rates.
"...Gates also acknowledged that confusion still reigns about.NET's very definition. On Wednesday, he hammered home a new definition: "software to connect information, people, systems and services..."
So it's like Trumpet Winsock!
(anybody remember that? My god... I think I've still got a copy around somewhere...)
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So /. is gonna pick on Open Source, where at least there *is* a process?
Whoring for posts again, Taco?
For shame, for shame...
'course that's nothing new.
t_t_b
Where?
Where?
That's just what I'm looking for!
t_t_b
OK.
No great loss...
t_t_b
The same idiots who think that "girls" software has to feature Barbie(tm)?
What does the Tomb Raider game mod that has Lara running around naked tell these bright lights?
Nothing, apparently...
t_t_b
Anyway, the /. staff correctly typed the key for the ligature "ffi" and the spell check program (which the /. staff does use, despite what all their detractors think..), not being bright enough to recognize a ligature for what it was, stupidly inserted yet another "i" after the "ffi".
So it's not poor spelling on the part of the /. staff, but rather a crappy spell-checker.
hmm..
Probably from Micro$oft...
t_t_b
Keeping up the good work, I see...
t_t_b
He said he was living in Indiana...
t_t_b
This clown's Big Idea(tm) is -- wait for it -- banner ads.
uh..
Has the guy been living under a rock the last five years?
Have you?
Banner ads?
Oh, right, the Next Big Thing(tm) on the Internet.
He doesn't need to look elsewhere for advice, he just needs to join the present, which may be sorely lacking while at university in Indiana...
t_t_b
Make no mistake, this phony confession is nothing but a strategic move to begin grooming the world to the idea that Palladium is the only hope for "Trustworthy Computing".
It's groundwork for a bald-faced pack of lies, Micro$oft FUD in it's purest form.
It's also further proof that Micro$oft's upper level minions are utterly without any moral compunctions whatsoever, always willing to pimp themselves again and again for the good of the Motherland.
Micro$oft uber Alles!
Seig heil!
t_t_b
Translation: only in academic circles could anyone waste time thinking up such nonsense.
Basketweaving, anyone?
t_t_b
"...Part of the mission is "to VERIFY Apollo and other landing sites..."
I mean, give me a break.
This new farce will just be assembled in the same warehouse in Roswell that Apollo was done in, and who's gonna fall for that?
Not me.
t_t_b
So does asphalt.
Check out the pavement at most any bus stop.
In profile, the location where the bus's tires are most frequently becomes a valley, with two soft ridges rising on either side.
As transient as the weight of the bus is, for a given moment at a single point, the cumulative effect is more than enough to displace the pavement into a trough.
Valley-to-crest dimensions can reach several inches in total depth.
Cool, huh?
t_t_b
The only masturbation being conducted here is that being perfomed by the "author" of this sophomoric piece.
Buzzwords as a substitute for writing.
And geek buzzwords, oh my!
That's certainly reason enough to get it mentioned on /.
t_t_b
Apparently you just copied the story off the Register
That doesn't surprise me, either...
t_t_b
It's Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Pioneer Square is in Seattle.
WTF: Seattle, Portland, if it's west of the Missippippi, it's all the same anyway.
Just like "Chinese" haiku: who cares?
Idiots.
t_t_b
Haiku being Japanese
Chinese must learn second-hand.
t_t_b
Funny.
Yours is the only reference to "the Gimp" in all the posts to this topic.
Running your own agenda again, and hoping no one will notice?
Shoo, M$ pimp..
t_t_b
Posts are now pre-moderated!
What was the offensive term?
"M$"
or
pimp?
t_t_b
t_t_b
Nonsense.
Someone in Renaissance Italy might have said the same thing about the Italian city-states.
Where are the Italian city-states now? Extinct.
Where will the current crop of nation-states be in, say, a hundred years? Extinct.
The Internet represents the first widespread oportunity for individual people to instantly experience something entirely outside the parochial culture of their little nation, and participate in a context that truly has no borders.
Too bad the author misses this minor detail entirely, in his little Euro-centric monologue.
It's unfortunate that he locks himself so tightly into his myopic agenda, because the larger question of how we stop the rush toward world-wide, United States-based global corporate hegemony is the *real* issue of our times...
It's the prevention of *that* holocaust that we all need to be working toward.
t_t_b
"The submittor had already been asked if that requirement was a necessity. She said yes, because of various legal precedents.
Read: so because some lawyers have screwed somebody previously, everybody else needs to be ready to screw somebody back from now on..
"We consulted a few people and yes, it looks like a license without click-wrap is weaker at protecting your rights.
Read: you have to be ready to "protect your rights" because some lawyer will be attempting damage them.
"So, folks, the lawyers are coming.
More like a plague of locust...
"The time is coming when you won't be able to distribute software unless you have presented the license to the user and their assent is necessary to access the software. Even free software.
Nonsense. If you can conduct yourself amongst your fellow citizens honestly and morally, you won't need to worry.. And this goes for both sides of the transaction.
"Our industry is maturing and we need to be more legally careful and rigorous.
"Maturing"? Hardly.
Nonsense again.
What it comes down to is an arms race: because some *sshole is willing to use a suck*ss lawyer at the drop of a hat, you're supposed to be ready to fight back at the drop of a hat. With another lawyer.
Unless, as I said at the top, we simply take all the lawyers out and shoot^H^H^H^H^H re-educate them.
t_t_b
I mean, honest to god.
What thinking person would worry about such utter silliness?
How would The Man(tm) *ever* enforce such an utterly hypothetical law?
Answer: it can't happen.
But it is further proof that most of what's posted as tag lines to "News for Nerds" on /. is just troll after troll after troll to sucker people into posting responses.
Remember, k1dd13s: more posts == higher advertising rates.
t_t_b
It was really pretty convenient, in that you could buy more "film" almost anywhere.
Even at the highest resolution (1024x768) I could get about 8 shots per "roll".
To view, stick the "film" in any floppy drive, and access via a web browser...
Now I've gone off in the opposite direction entirely: a Canon Pro 90IS that has a 340mb IBM Microdrive HDD in it..
t_t_b
So it's like Trumpet Winsock!
(anybody remember that? My god... I think I've still got a copy around somewhere...)
t_t_b
"a child...in college"?
"consequences"?
Wow.
Big shock.
Let me clue you in: it's really called "being an adult".
t_t_b