1. My brother's in-laws 'got the Internet' a few years ago. I said something about being online at 4am and they stated that it was impossible because the Internet goes down from 3am to 6am every morning for maintenance. Yes, they are on AOL.
2. Back when my dad started surfing (3.x browsers) he claimed that sometimes using Netscape was faster and sometimes using IE was faster. He thought that when you use a browser you are using them as some sort of additional ISP and were 'going through their systems.'
JumpTV's regioning isn't anything like DVD regioning. DVD's are regioned to attempt to reduce piracy, make the studios more money and give them more control over what people see.
JumpTV is simply trying to stay in business. If they were to broadcast to the world they'd be as dead in the water as iCraveTV was. If there were no legal problems with broadcasting to the world then they'd more than appreciate the additional revenue possiblilities.
And in other news, AP is reporting that Hell has frozen over. While this might sound good for those heading there soon, it doesn't appear that this will make Hell a better place to live, but it does make for a good sounding headline.
Never even mind the manufactured bands that don't write music or play instruments and sometimes don't even sing (Britney was caught lip singing at a concert, but that was covered up pretty well) -- the fact is that there's no evidence that pirating music affects record sales negatively.
Very few people seem to be downloading entire albums and most research indicates that record sales are helped when people have access to individual songs for free. The MPAA's complaints only seem to have any weight to people who don't know or don't understand the facts. Many musicians do want their music to be available for free. Offspring wanted to give away their latest album on their website, but it was their record company that nixed that idea. Don't say that it's the musicians who are being hurt when they're the ones who want everyone to have access to their music most of the time.
MS has every right to expect everyone who uses their software to have a license and conform to it (under proper fair use laws). Everyone who uses Linux is supposed to conform to the GPL and just because MS is charging huge amounts of money for their OS and has tighter restrictions doesn't change a thing. If a large company doesn't want to pay MS for all 10 000 copies of Windows 2000, they should use another OS, not break the license.
that must mean when I was 8 and I got one of those home science kits for my birthday that I was actually doing computer science. I gotta update my resume for that extra 5 years of CS experience I have now. Big raise here I come!
Maxim UK uses this for a really cheesey login system they use and theToronto Raptors (and the other NBA teams) use a generated sessionid in the URL for persistence. (raptors site is down right now, as usual)
The question is if the device will be permanently disabled after taking it out of the zone of if it will only be disabled while it's out of its zone.
Think of it this way, if they have a battery-powered GPS, all it needs to do is detect while it's on the truck to the store or your taking it home in the back of your pickup. It could permanently disable itself.
This isn't star trek, folks, where everything has two legs and can actually mate with one another.
I've always though it interesting that so much of life on Earth has developed so similar. Take the Mammals group for instance. Mammals tend to have 4 legs (sometimes used as arms), similar diets, similar mating techniques, etc.
While it's natural that a lot of life elsewhere will be totally different from here on Earth, it is also quite likely that a similar planet with a similar sun will produce similar life. Earth has produced a wide variety of life over its lifetime. Dinosuars, fish, insects, mammals, amphibians. It's not entirely unlikely that an animal group similar to one of those will develop elswhere. If what we're looking for is water, carbons, amino acids and other building blocks of life on Earth, we will probably find similar life.
Bill Gates arose and gazed upon the Aqua/XFree world and saw what it had to offer.
"I want this," he thought to himself, "I can make users around the world smile with delight by bringing them this."
And with that, Mr. Gates commanded his army of trained monkey programmers to create an innovative new interface secretly based on Aqua/XFree, but no one will notice, just like what they did for Windows 95.
Mr. Gates said, "All Your Innovations Are Belong To Us!"
This question can be applied to other areas as well and I think even moreso to web development. Most of the time, a web developer is asked to design a web site's layout as well as program it, while the artist's job is to provide the developer with graphics to slap into place.
Ideally, the artist should develop a site's layout with Dreamweaver or some other tool and the programmer should adapt that layout into their code. Why is it that this rarely happens?
With my microsatellite I'm going to write a question for the ages; one that will puzzle future intelligent inhabitants of this planet for generations. I want to enlighten, provoke unimaginable debate and become immortalized for all eternity.
My microsatellite will contain a solitary piece of paper with the words:
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US."
What may be interesting is id's new Doom game - supposedly a story-driven single player game. They have mastered the art of the little-story FPS, but are they seeing a trend that we're not? Metal Gear Solid was a huge success and it was based a lot on story. Perhaps the trend started by Wolfenstein and carried through to Doom and Quake will be coming to an end as the developers of those games now opt for story-rich games instead.
Nobody can stop you from using a name that you have been using since before another company trademarked it.
To make it a bit clearer, if you start using FuzzyMole, then next year a company trademarks that name for, let's say, a sex toy, you can still use it and may, in fact, actually own the trademark without ever having to do anything. The trick is usually proving that you've used the name before in a business transaction, advertising, etc.
Where you'll have to be careful is if you get a company that argues that you have not used the name in a business transaction because you don't sell a product. You'll have to argue that while money isn't being exchanged for your product everyone does get value from developing it.
I recommend that you register as a company just to give you more power.
That's a troll if I ever heard one, BUT in some ways maybe it's correct. Ok, bear with me here.
I work in a company where.5% of the users have 99.999% of the computer knowledge, and I know a lot of other companies are in a similar situation.
What would the other 99.5% of the users do with Linux? They don't know how to change their default start page in IE or remember where they saved a powerpoint presentation. Windows is the perfect OS for them (or MacOS maybe). The Linux market is still very niche. Windows is better for the average user, Linux is better for the power user.
Budget cuts have often come with the simple reasoning that not enough comes out of the space program and individual missions rarely bring in value to exceed their cost.
The NEAR mission has been a total success beyond anyone's wildest dreams. They even recovered from almost certain tragedy when a mis-fire forced them a year off course. It has proven that sometimes the value of the mission does exceed the cost.
No one ever believes their code is rejected on technical merits
While this is true, Linus would still have known about the issues. The question remains why he didn't correct the problem before the release of 2.4. I hope the thought of pushing back the release date again didn't scare Linus into ignoring some problems just to get it out the door. That's how MS released Windows 2000.
sharkticon's point was that sometime's it's impossible to cater to a small part of the audience. Why aren't all US federal web sites in Spanish as well as English? The answer is because it isn't worth the time for such a small part of the population even though Spanish-only speaking people have the right to access the same information as the rest of us.
Here in Canada there's a law that forces businesses to make their office/store accessible to handicapped people. While this sounds great, what does a struggling mom and pop shop do? make $8000 in renovations to accomodate 1 or 2 people? That could easily put some small businesses out of business.
I wish there was a perfect solution as much as the next person, but there isn't.
Read my Further to my last post... post on this same thread.
The merger of Linuxcare and TurboLinux create a real business model -- an enterprise network and workstation solution. Most enterprises have at least a passing interest in Linux, but it hasn't been practical in the past. A Linuxcare-TurboLinux packaged solution is a totally different business model to that of a distro. It might cost a medium-sized corporation hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement one of their solutions, and that's a good business model when you consider the advantages of switching to Linux.
Linuxcare Professional Services is ready to work with you through all stages of Linux deployment
Their services are a direct complement to any Linux distro. The entire point of this merger seems to be to get TurboLinux on more corporte desktops and servers. That is a huge plus both for TurboLinux and for the Linux community in general.
Mergers and companies going out of business is often a sign of market correction.
Take for instance the recent dot-com troubles. Those aren't quality companies having trouble -- the good ones are still doing quite well. The flooded market assured that many would not make it.
Linux companies merging and going out of business is good because it will ensure that the best and strongest survive. Two weaker companies like TurboLinux and Linuxcare merge so that they will outlive the future Linux market correction. They are now a stronger company and the Linux community can only benefit from that.
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1. My brother's in-laws 'got the Internet' a few years ago. I said something about being online at 4am and they stated that it was impossible because the Internet goes down from 3am to 6am every morning for maintenance. Yes, they are on AOL.
2. Back when my dad started surfing (3.x browsers) he claimed that sometimes using Netscape was faster and sometimes using IE was faster. He thought that when you use a browser you are using them as some sort of additional ISP and were 'going through their systems.'
JumpTV's regioning isn't anything like DVD regioning. DVD's are regioned to attempt to reduce piracy, make the studios more money and give them more control over what people see.
JumpTV is simply trying to stay in business. If they were to broadcast to the world they'd be as dead in the water as iCraveTV was. If there were no legal problems with broadcasting to the world then they'd more than appreciate the additional revenue possiblilities.
And in other news, AP is reporting that Hell has frozen over. While this might sound good for those heading there soon, it doesn't appear that this will make Hell a better place to live, but it does make for a good sounding headline.
Never even mind the manufactured bands that don't write music or play instruments and sometimes don't even sing (Britney was caught lip singing at a concert, but that was covered up pretty well) -- the fact is that there's no evidence that pirating music affects record sales negatively.
Very few people seem to be downloading entire albums and most research indicates that record sales are helped when people have access to individual songs for free. The MPAA's complaints only seem to have any weight to people who don't know or don't understand the facts. Many musicians do want their music to be available for free. Offspring wanted to give away their latest album on their website, but it was their record company that nixed that idea. Don't say that it's the musicians who are being hurt when they're the ones who want everyone to have access to their music most of the time.
The kid's father says "Without 2600 (he would) probably be one of those pot-smoking, crack-sniffing guys who gave up on life a long time ago."
It's good to know that guy has high regard for his own parenting skills. Dammit! If my son didn't meet those hackers who would have raised him right?!
MS has every right to expect everyone who uses their software to have a license and conform to it (under proper fair use laws). Everyone who uses Linux is supposed to conform to the GPL and just because MS is charging huge amounts of money for their OS and has tighter restrictions doesn't change a thing. If a large company doesn't want to pay MS for all 10 000 copies of Windows 2000, they should use another OS, not break the license.
that must mean when I was 8 and I got one of those home science kits for my birthday that I was actually doing computer science. I gotta update my resume for that extra 5 years of CS experience I have now. Big raise here I come!
If you had asked "somebody set us up the bomb",
would he have thought you were talking about Hiroshima?
And would he have replied,
"What say you!!"
Maxim UK uses this for a really cheesey login system they use and theToronto Raptors (and the other NBA teams) use a generated sessionid in the URL for persistence. (raptors site is down right now, as usual)
Crazy. Fucking Crazy.
The question is if the device will be permanently disabled after taking it out of the zone of if it will only be disabled while it's out of its zone.
Think of it this way, if they have a battery-powered GPS, all it needs to do is detect while it's on the truck to the store or your taking it home in the back of your pickup. It could permanently disable itself.
This isn't star trek, folks, where everything has two legs and can actually mate with one another.
I've always though it interesting that so much of life on Earth has developed so similar. Take the Mammals group for instance. Mammals tend to have 4 legs (sometimes used as arms), similar diets, similar mating techniques, etc.
While it's natural that a lot of life elsewhere will be totally different from here on Earth, it is also quite likely that a similar planet with a similar sun will produce similar life. Earth has produced a wide variety of life over its lifetime. Dinosuars, fish, insects, mammals, amphibians. It's not entirely unlikely that an animal group similar to one of those will develop elswhere. If what we're looking for is water, carbons, amino acids and other building blocks of life on Earth, we will probably find similar life.
Bill Gates arose and gazed upon the Aqua/XFree world and saw what it had to offer.
"I want this," he thought to himself, "I can make users around the world smile with delight by bringing them this."
And with that, Mr. Gates commanded his army of trained monkey programmers to create an innovative new interface secretly based on Aqua/XFree, but no one will notice, just like what they did for Windows 95.
Mr. Gates said, "All Your Innovations Are Belong To Us!"
And thus Windows XP was born.
This question can be applied to other areas as well and I think even moreso to web development. Most of the time, a web developer is asked to design a web site's layout as well as program it, while the artist's job is to provide the developer with graphics to slap into place.
Ideally, the artist should develop a site's layout with Dreamweaver or some other tool and the programmer should adapt that layout into their code. Why is it that this rarely happens?
With my microsatellite I'm going to write a question for the ages; one that will puzzle future intelligent inhabitants of this planet for generations. I want to enlighten, provoke unimaginable debate and become immortalized for all eternity.
My microsatellite will contain a solitary piece of paper with the words:
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US."
What may be interesting is id's new Doom game - supposedly a story-driven single player game. They have mastered the art of the little-story FPS, but are they seeing a trend that we're not? Metal Gear Solid was a huge success and it was based a lot on story. Perhaps the trend started by Wolfenstein and carried through to Doom and Quake will be coming to an end as the developers of those games now opt for story-rich games instead.
Nobody can stop you from using a name that you have been using since before another company trademarked it.
To make it a bit clearer, if you start using FuzzyMole, then next year a company trademarks that name for, let's say, a sex toy, you can still use it and may, in fact, actually own the trademark without ever having to do anything. The trick is usually proving that you've used the name before in a business transaction, advertising, etc.
Where you'll have to be careful is if you get a company that argues that you have not used the name in a business transaction because you don't sell a product. You'll have to argue that while money isn't being exchanged for your product everyone does get value from developing it.
I recommend that you register as a company just to give you more power.
sorry, I have no contributions for this story other than my pathetic attempt at getting a free t-shirt.
okaaaay... 2001-03-15 10:17:00
That's a troll if I ever heard one, BUT in some ways maybe it's correct. Ok, bear with me here.
.5% of the users have 99.999% of the computer knowledge, and I know a lot of other companies are in a similar situation.
I work in a company where
What would the other 99.5% of the users do with Linux? They don't know how to change their default start page in IE or remember where they saved a powerpoint presentation. Windows is the perfect OS for them (or MacOS maybe). The Linux market is still very niche. Windows is better for the average user, Linux is better for the power user.
Budget cuts have often come with the simple reasoning that not enough comes out of the space program and individual missions rarely bring in value to exceed their cost.
The NEAR mission has been a total success beyond anyone's wildest dreams. They even recovered from almost certain tragedy when a mis-fire forced them a year off course. It has proven that sometimes the value of the mission does exceed the cost.
No one ever believes their code is rejected on technical merits
While this is true, Linus would still have known about the issues. The question remains why he didn't correct the problem before the release of 2.4. I hope the thought of pushing back the release date again didn't scare Linus into ignoring some problems just to get it out the door. That's how MS released Windows 2000.
sharkticon's point was that sometime's it's impossible to cater to a small part of the audience. Why aren't all US federal web sites in Spanish as well as English? The answer is because it isn't worth the time for such a small part of the population even though Spanish-only speaking people have the right to access the same information as the rest of us.
Here in Canada there's a law that forces businesses to make their office/store accessible to handicapped people. While this sounds great, what does a struggling mom and pop shop do? make $8000 in renovations to accomodate 1 or 2 people? That could easily put some small businesses out of business.
I wish there was a perfect solution as much as the next person, but there isn't.
Read my Further to my last post... post on this same thread.
The merger of Linuxcare and TurboLinux create a real business model -- an enterprise network and workstation solution. Most enterprises have at least a passing interest in Linux, but it hasn't been practical in the past. A Linuxcare-TurboLinux packaged solution is a totally different business model to that of a distro. It might cost a medium-sized corporation hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement one of their solutions, and that's a good business model when you consider the advantages of switching to Linux.
They are now a stronger company
After reading some info on the Linuxcare site, this merger is making more sense all the time.
From their Professional Services page:
Linuxcare Professional Services is ready to work with you through all stages of Linux deployment
Their services are a direct complement to any Linux distro. The entire point of this merger seems to be to get TurboLinux on more corporte desktops and servers. That is a huge plus both for TurboLinux and for the Linux community in general.
Check out their Professional Services page for more details.
Mergers and companies going out of business is often a sign of market correction.
Take for instance the recent dot-com troubles. Those aren't quality companies having trouble -- the good ones are still doing quite well. The flooded market assured that many would not make it.
Linux companies merging and going out of business is good because it will ensure that the best and strongest survive. Two weaker companies like TurboLinux and Linuxcare merge so that they will outlive the future Linux market correction. They are now a stronger company and the Linux community can only benefit from that.
What about 'WipoMyAss.com'?