About time they woke up and realized that crap doesn't sell, and that remakes of the same old movies or the same genre done to death is just BO-RING.
No piracy - they just put out crap. Now if they could only get the same fricking idea about their "music", the world would be better off. Content that sucks leads to no sales.
The problem is that the morons outsourcing gifted people's jobs need to be shown the door. We can outsource their jobs and save companies millions at the cost of one person of out work versus the thousands of unemployed it takes to get the savings they want. It also helps the economy, as one person without a job is far better than thousands out of work. It's simple math, but even that seems beyond the executive capacity to fathom. Save the bottom line, outsource the CEOs to the mailroom guys and save the companies, the economy and our future.
When do you expect that executive staff will stop paying for FUD and start paying attention to what customers want? Why do Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer have to insult people who prefer a different brand of operating system? Who told Microsoft that insulting intelligent people was a way to increase sales? Why should my kid be forced to have the money collected for his school go to pay a god$%*& Microsoft license for fricking software that I don't want him to be forced to learn when I can teach him better than that? When will Microsoft really grow up and behave like adults and not spoiled brats?
Note: I used to use your software, but I really won't now, unless forced to. The insults from your paid pundits has put me off your software, and made me really dislike your company. Until that changes, I don't foresee a day that I would look forward to working with your software ever again.
Okay, just one question. While you are waiting, have you ever thought of talking to people around you? There is this thing called the physical world, with, um, you know, people?
How droll. As a former AV employee, I wonder just how the hell you are supposed to run AV on something meant for phone calls? This stupidity will never end. Next,, you will need that really cool 3D screen and a better graphics card, and then a patch for that virus, and then a controller, and a patch for that virus....
Just yesterday I saw an article that said Open Source wasn't ready for Antivirus software. Well - duh! It isn't all that necessary - yet. Most viruses are ineffective on Linux/Unix/BSD/OS/X because of FHS standards, rights and permissions.
Cell phones that play games are about as useful as the teats on a boar hog (and that is a colloquialism). It's the same old game - sell them a useless but "neat" feature that violates sensible security and then sell them a patch to correct that stupidity that they have to buy and buy and buy.
If you spend your money that way - it's your choice really, now isn't it?
When have they ever had anything in the games department that was backwards compatible? Every tried to play any MS technology games? How about any old ones for replay?
ID and EPIC make excelelent games that aren't locked in to the MSFT monopoly technobloat. The X-Box is just another gaming device that they can't figure out.
They should stay with Office. They can do that - but wait - who needs that anymore?
Why have any scientific thought at all when you can just pay for morons to buy the idea that they are supposed to be stupid?
That's what's great about America, Corporations don't have to be loyal, pay taxes, or even have a brain. PHB's rule and the decent people are screwed daily. What a country!
If you don't recognize my sarcasm, that is simply too bad.
I thought Eddie would never find a career when I watched Leave it To Beaver. He never seemed to have all that much going for him. To think, one day he would grow up and have a language named after him.
His pal Wally who seemed to have so much going for him is the model for Wally in the strip Dilbert. Functionally lazy, never wants to do work, and in fact, sees and avoids same at all costs.
Wonder who really turned out better in June's eyes?;P
Setting Java Free was actually Gosling's idea first, but the idea is correct. It should be free as in open source.
Maybe the critical path to being able to think simply involves being able to listen to ideas regardless of your personal feelings toward the messenger? Give the ideas some thought - it makes sense.
Roughneck, floorhand on an offshore rig for several summers. Working with Caustic Soda (an acid), Bauxite and Aqua Gel (made everyhting sticky and slimey. 12 hours a day seven days a week.
Only got burned once (eyes), and fell of the rig three times (once due to unsecured door, once to dynamite explosion and once due to smart ass boat crew).
Yes, those were the days of good working environments.
Oh, and of course, how about cleaning out separator tanks without any air hose, mask or oxygen tanks. You could only shovel for one minute thna you had to leave the sludge of green/gray hydrocarbons behind for some fresh air.
Maybe drilling in the Atchafalaya River Basin (off the Mississippi River) where the alligators would eye you waiting for you to fall off the rig and where the snakes would sun themsleves on the lower decks (poisonous, of course).
Or maybe digging pipeline by hand in the East Texas town of Moss Hill known for exploding without warning. Chevron (Warren Gas) had to move the entire town because homes regularly exploded without warning. I used to work there digging up pipes that no one was quite sure if they were live pipes or just abandoned and the Salt Domes regularly leaked out hydrocarbons that would explode on contact with a hot surface (like tail pipes from passing cars).
Oh yeah, those were fun times, and I never had any protective gear - it wasn't available.
The correct term is viruses, not virii. Please, when I read that here, I take offense, for it is like the mainstream media mangling the term hacker.
Please do look it up or ask a person who has been in the serious end of the AV business before posting gobbledy-gook commercialized crap that f*cks up the correct terminology.
We shouldn't help the mainstream media screw the jargon because they are idiots.
Well now pardner, you must be one them old boys from Back Easy a ways, eh? Got a little hitch in yer giddyap 'bout us Texans then, huh?
What burr crawled up your britches and set your saddle on fire? You know a good coating of that there Preparation H can cure most things 'cept a bad temper-ment.
Didja hear the one 'bout the Yankee and the Texan at the parade?
Seems the Yankee came down to see a Rodeo parade ther in Austin see, and he got hisself all ready to stand there and watch as the procession rode by.
Well, the old Texan takes a look at him and sees that Yankee sitting there (he has to be a Yankee, cuz only a Yankee would wear a bowler to a damn Trail Ride parade) and notices he got him a dog on a leash there.
Natch, the Texan being all friendly, looks over at the Yankee and asks him: "Say Mister, what kinda dog you got there?"
The Yankee just looks down his nose at the Texan and let out a big "Harumph!" like he figured that there Texan warn't worth talking to.
Well, the Texan, he didn't particlarly like that see, so he asks him again: "Say Mister, I'm a talking to ya, what kinda dog is that?"
Well that thar Yankee, see, he was just all kinds of mean see, so he looks over to the Texan and he says: "Well, I tell you, he is half son-of-a-bitch and half-Texan, that's what he is."
Well, that made the Texan glad then, see. He turned to the Yankee and said:" Well now, I guess that makes him kinda related to both of us, don't it?"
BTW: This is called humor, and should be taken as such. The way I originally heard it told was from Justin Wilson in Dan McClusky's and the part of the Yankee was played by a Texan and the Texan was played by a Coon-Ass (Louisana Slang for Cajun:someone from South Louisiana of French descent who has adopted the Acadian lifestyles and manners and probably lives on the Bayous eating Crawfish and Shrimp, loving their red beans and rice, Cheyenne Pepper, Heinz 57 sauce and speaking French with a Spanish inflection).
Of course, most Americans don't know the Emeril Lagasse was a transplant and not a native of Louisiana. Real Cajun food is something to appreciate and enjoy.
Oh yes, I can speak regular English without an accent too. I only slip back into "country" mode when I go back into the rural areas of Texas.
We need these things to be built upon Open and Inspectable Source and on machines that the public can trust as giving valid results. Otherwise - it is all BS. I have been calling for a Corporation for Public Software to do just this. I continue to do so.
This simply is too important to allow hacked machines to spit out as answer that somebody pre-determined in a back-room deal.
We can do something about it now, or we can pay the consequences of an untrusted election system come next year. The choices are few, the ooportunities many. Write me off as stupid if you just don't give a rat's, but you will sooner or later.
Will Red Hat make any CDs or DVDs availabel for Fedora at all? I keep getting excellent Downloads, but the damn burning process is giving me fits for Fedora. Severn worked fine - Fedora is being cranky for some reason. All MD5 sums check out - just burining it and making it bootable isn't working like it should. Will Red Hat burn any Fedora Core CD's or DVDs and make them available?
I like the idea, it just bites when Severn burned fine and Fedora won't.
Mozilla is a great name. In fact, it was always such a good name that Microsoft ripped it off and put it inside IE to identify itself as "Mozilla" though it wasn't during the early browser wars.
As for Firebird and Thunderbird, you need to understand the history of the project release cycles for the Mozilla Project. They are wonderrul tools I use a lot (love them BTW).
But I didn't. They signed up SCO Group as a "licensee" under section III.E of the antitrust settlement, and only one day before their compliance report. The only other licensees were the ones who had previously held a license. They needed a "commercial licensee" to help prove their case that they are "complying" with the settlement. Of course, compliance with a slap on the wrist "Bad! Bad Micosoft!" is not that much of a real punishment anyway.
No, it is for Kernel 2.2 and up according to SCO Group's statements and that is entirely their belief and no one else's. I will fight them on the beaches, I will fight them in the Salt Lake, I will fight them in my home, and I will them with my words and deeds. They have bought a whole lot of well deserved anger. Don't buy their lies.
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About time they woke up and realized that crap doesn't sell, and that remakes of the same old movies or the same genre done to death is just BO-RING.
No piracy - they just put out crap. Now if they could only get the same fricking idea about their "music", the world would be better off. Content that sucks leads to no sales.
"guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donell fat."
:)
Hmm.. I like the sig I saw on a bike many years ago that said:
"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."
Gave that person a very wide berth, let me tell ya.
" Just out of interest, wasn't tarantella snapped up by IBM?"
Nope, it was Sun Microsystems.
The problem is that the morons outsourcing gifted people's jobs need to be shown the door. We can outsource their jobs and save companies millions at the cost of one person of out work versus the thousands of unemployed it takes to get the savings they want. It also helps the economy, as one person without a job is far better than thousands out of work. It's simple math, but even that seems beyond the executive capacity to fathom. Save the bottom line, outsource the CEOs to the mailroom guys and save the companies, the economy and our future.
"Sorry, but what competitors to VB6 does the OSS community have?"
How about REAL Basic from Real Software in Austin, Texas?
That's a real competitor (sees pun - decides to duck and run as tomatoes fly).
Have a nice day.
When do you expect that executive staff will stop paying for FUD and start paying attention to what customers want? Why do Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer have to insult people who prefer a different brand of operating system? Who told Microsoft that insulting intelligent people was a way to increase sales? Why should my kid be forced to have the money collected for his school go to pay a god$%*& Microsoft license for fricking software that I don't want him to be forced to learn when I can teach him better than that? When will Microsoft really grow up and behave like adults and not spoiled brats?
Note: I used to use your software, but I really won't now, unless forced to. The insults from your paid pundits has put me off your software, and made me really dislike your company. Until that changes, I don't foresee a day that I would look forward to working with your software ever again.
Use Linux.
Okay, just one question. While you are waiting, have you ever thought of talking to people around you? There is this thing called the physical world, with, um, you know, people?
Just a thought.
How droll. As a former AV employee, I wonder just how the hell you are supposed to run AV on something meant for phone calls? This stupidity will never end. Next,, you will need that really cool 3D screen and a better graphics card, and then a patch for that virus, and then a controller, and a patch for that virus....
Just yesterday I saw an article that said Open Source wasn't ready for Antivirus software. Well - duh! It isn't all that necessary - yet. Most viruses are ineffective on Linux/Unix/BSD/OS/X because of FHS standards, rights and permissions.
Cell phones that play games are about as useful as the teats on a boar hog (and that is a colloquialism). It's the same old game - sell them a useless but "neat" feature that violates sensible security and then sell them a patch to correct that stupidity that they have to buy and buy and buy.
If you spend your money that way - it's your choice really, now isn't it?
When have they ever had anything in the games department that was backwards compatible? Every tried to play any MS technology games? How about any old ones for replay?
ID and EPIC make excelelent games that aren't locked in to the MSFT monopoly technobloat. The X-Box is just another gaming device that they can't figure out.
They should stay with Office. They can do that - but wait - who needs that anymore?
Oh well, this too shall pass.
Surfs off to find better tools and topics...
OUTSOURCING!
Why have any scientific thought at all when you can just pay for morons to buy the idea that they are supposed to be stupid?
That's what's great about America, Corporations don't have to be loyal, pay taxes, or even have a brain. PHB's rule and the decent people are screwed daily. What a country!
If you don't recognize my sarcasm, that is simply too bad.
Have a nice day.
I thought Eddie would never find a career when I watched Leave it To Beaver. He never seemed to have all that much going for him. To think, one day he would grow up and have a language named after him.
;P
His pal Wally who seemed to have so much going for him is the model for Wally in the strip Dilbert. Functionally lazy, never wants to do work, and in fact, sees and avoids same at all costs.
Wonder who really turned out better in June's eyes?
Hey Wally, what's up with the squirt these days?
Setting Java Free was actually Gosling's idea first, but the idea is correct. It should be free as in open source.
Maybe the critical path to being able to think simply involves being able to listen to ideas regardless of your personal feelings toward the messenger? Give the ideas some thought - it makes sense.
Roughneck, floorhand on an offshore rig for several summers. Working with Caustic Soda (an acid), Bauxite and Aqua Gel (made everyhting sticky and slimey. 12 hours a day seven days a week.
Only got burned once (eyes), and fell of the rig three times (once due to unsecured door, once to dynamite explosion and once due to smart ass boat crew).
Yes, those were the days of good working environments.
Oh, and of course, how about cleaning out separator tanks without any air hose, mask or oxygen tanks. You could only shovel for one minute thna you had to leave the sludge of green/gray hydrocarbons behind for some fresh air.
Maybe drilling in the Atchafalaya River Basin (off the Mississippi River) where the alligators would eye you waiting for you to fall off the rig and where the snakes would sun themsleves on the lower decks (poisonous, of course).
Or maybe digging pipeline by hand in the East Texas town of Moss Hill known for exploding without warning. Chevron (Warren Gas) had to move the entire town because homes regularly exploded without warning. I used to work there digging up pipes that no one was quite sure if they were live pipes or just abandoned and the Salt Domes regularly leaked out hydrocarbons that would explode on contact with a hot surface (like tail pipes from passing cars).
Oh yeah, those were fun times, and I never had any protective gear - it wasn't available.
Enjoy.
Actually, they are alosing at about 3 Million a quarter, last I checked. I don't know what for, but they were spending that much.
As Cartman would say, " I'll Roshambeaux you for it!"
:)
If you don't watch South Park, you won't get it. IBM just claimed the right of first kick.
The correct term is viruses, not virii. Please, when I read that here, I take offense, for it is like the mainstream media mangling the term hacker.
Please do look it up or ask a person who has been in the serious end of the AV business before posting gobbledy-gook commercialized crap that f*cks up the correct terminology.
We shouldn't help the mainstream media screw the jargon because they are idiots.
Well now pardner, you must be one them old boys from Back Easy a ways, eh? Got a little hitch in yer giddyap 'bout us Texans then, huh?
What burr crawled up your britches and set your saddle on fire? You know a good coating of that there Preparation H can cure most things 'cept a bad temper-ment.
Didja hear the one 'bout the Yankee and the Texan at the parade?
Seems the Yankee came down to see a Rodeo parade ther in Austin see, and he got hisself all ready to stand there and watch as the procession rode by.
Well, the old Texan takes a look at him and sees that Yankee sitting there (he has to be a Yankee, cuz only a Yankee would wear a bowler to a damn Trail Ride parade) and notices he got him a dog on a leash there.
Natch, the Texan being all friendly, looks over at the Yankee and asks him: "Say Mister, what kinda dog you got there?"
The Yankee just looks down his nose at the Texan and let out a big "Harumph!" like he figured that there Texan warn't worth talking to.
Well, the Texan, he didn't particlarly like that see, so he asks him again: "Say Mister, I'm a talking to ya, what kinda dog is that?"
Well that thar Yankee, see, he was just all kinds of mean see, so he looks over to the Texan and he says: "Well, I tell you, he is half son-of-a-bitch and half-Texan, that's what he is."
Well, that made the Texan glad then, see. He turned to the Yankee and said:" Well now, I guess that makes him kinda related to both of us, don't it?"
BTW: This is called humor, and should be taken as such. The way I originally heard it told was from Justin Wilson in Dan McClusky's and the part of the Yankee was played by a Texan and the Texan was played by a Coon-Ass (Louisana Slang for Cajun:someone from South Louisiana of French descent who has adopted the Acadian lifestyles and manners and probably lives on the Bayous eating Crawfish and Shrimp, loving their red beans and rice, Cheyenne Pepper, Heinz 57 sauce and speaking French with a Spanish inflection).
Of course, most Americans don't know the Emeril Lagasse was a transplant and not a native of Louisiana. Real Cajun food is something to appreciate and enjoy.
Oh yes, I can speak regular English without an accent too. I only slip back into "country" mode when I go back into the rural areas of Texas.
Since the original came from Reuters anyway, why no link to Reuters instead of For-bees, eh?
Follow the source to its destination.
they can land it in or significantly around the area of Lindon, Utah.
That would be okay then, I suppose.
We need these things to be built upon Open and Inspectable Source and on machines that the public can trust as giving valid results. Otherwise - it is all BS. I have been calling for a Corporation for Public Software to do just this. I continue to do so.
This simply is too important to allow hacked machines to spit out as answer that somebody pre-determined in a back-room deal.
We can do something about it now, or we can pay the consequences of an untrusted election system come next year. The choices are few, the ooportunities many. Write me off as stupid if you just don't give a rat's, but you will sooner or later.
Will Red Hat make any CDs or DVDs availabel for Fedora at all? I keep getting excellent Downloads, but the damn burning process is giving me fits for Fedora. Severn worked fine - Fedora is being cranky for some reason. All MD5 sums check out - just burining it and making it bootable isn't working like it should. Will Red Hat burn any Fedora Core CD's or DVDs and make them available?
I like the idea, it just bites when Severn burned fine and Fedora won't.
Mozilla is a great name. In fact, it was always such a good name that Microsoft ripped it off and put it inside IE to identify itself as "Mozilla" though it wasn't during the early browser wars.
As for Firebird and Thunderbird, you need to understand the history of the project release cycles for the Mozilla Project. They are wonderrul tools I use a lot (love them BTW).
But I didn't. They signed up SCO Group as a "licensee" under section III.E of the antitrust settlement, and only one day before their compliance report. The only other licensees were the ones who had previously held a license. They needed a "commercial licensee" to help prove their case that they are "complying" with the settlement. Of course, compliance with a slap on the wrist "Bad! Bad Micosoft!" is not that much of a real punishment anyway.
No, it is for Kernel 2.2 and up according to SCO Group's statements and that is entirely their belief and no one else's. I will fight them on the beaches, I will fight them in the Salt Lake, I will fight them in my home, and I will them with my words and deeds. They have bought a whole lot of well deserved anger. Don't buy their lies.