Windows is just as stable if you are a competant admin these days
This reminds me of my time as an AIX admin. AIX just rocked, as solid, everything worked. Did I mention I had access to a lot of "IBM Internal Use Only" documentation ?
From what I noticed, the same thing is true with Windows (I'm not a Windows Admin).
Ok, I might need some further clarification here. Aren't 55X errors supposed to be permanent, while 45X errors are temporary ? Why would the sender keep the message on the queue after a permanent error ?
Can you show me where in my previous posts I ever saw "software companies" ? Can you guys please look outside your little "software/OSS" windows for a moment ?
I'm just pointing to you guys some red flags that might be triggered on the legal department of those companies. Companies that work with mostly with non-software stuff, and get sued mostly by non-software stuff. Do you really think their lawyers are going to stand and say "Oh, lets forget everything we know, and all our past experiences, because this doesn't apply to software. I read on Slashdot about it!".
Better understanding a problem is the best way to try and solve it. I don't expect anyone to agree with this point of view (potential litigation). I don't. But we must understand this is the kind of thing that might be going on, and unless we do, we can't do anything about it.
Note do moderators: I like "Troll" better than "Flamebait", please.
I have seen companies getting sued (and loosing) based on a free product they offered. Maybe the GPL or some other OSS license will stop that from happening, but I really don't know. This is, anyway, a valid concern for their legal department.
Here are a few other ideas that will make the city very very very safe: - Kill all the population. No people = no crime - Cement their feet to the floor, and use very long straws to feed them. - Cut all their arms and legs off
Just because something will "make things safer" is NOT a good reason, much less a carte blanq to do it.
I didn't read TFA, but I'm sure he said something about thinking of the children.
Yes, taking sides is bad (Democrats can send messages, but Republicans can't). On the other hand, the company can (or should) be able to decide for "No Political Parties messages". As long as they are egalitarian. Why can't a company offer a "Political speech" free service ? I would sign with them. Must we be subjected to all that shit they keep throwing at us at election time ?
Or maybe you are suggesting something like the DnC list, which worked oh so well. Oh, never mind. Candidates would still call you, even if you were on the DnC list. And charities. And pro-choice orgs. And someone who had a previous relationship with whoever had your phone number before.
I say let them block, and keep an eye on them, so they don't abuse it. If they do, take away the blocking privilege. But only then.
eBay response is on the eBay chatter page, and seems to try and down play this "fraudster"'s activity."
I just read that response. I for one find it very professional and correct. What did you expect ? That E-Bay would just come forward and say: "oh, we haven't fully checked on this yet, but since it was a post on the forum, we are sure it is correct, so we are confirming it".
They are investigating. They are contacting the users that are potentially affected (just in case).
They are not silent. They are not denying that it could have happened. They are even taking preventive measures. What more did you want ?
It more likely is a hardware failure than anything. When I first tried Demonoid on Monday, the site was returning no data (it was responding to HTTP, however).
I had problems like that, both monday and yesterday, on other sites as well. EZTV-EFnet site is one of those.
Lets remember several TV series are starting a new season this week. It is also likely these servers just got overloaded and crash&burned.
Also, Apple is the one not playing fair here. Not the iPhone owners.
Hum ? I'm sorry but... hum ?
Apple developed a product, and is selling it only for the AT&T network. What is not fair about it ? Where is it written they have to sell it to all other networks as all ?
So you (him, whoever) changed their product. You want Apple now to take that into consideration ?
You have at least 2 valid options here. You can sue them, and you can buy stock from Apple and try to act as a shareholder.
What gives you the right to change the product, and then complain that Apple is not working around your changes ?
If you want to "do what you want with the product you paid for", it is ok. But don't expect further service from Apple (upgrades/updates).
But for some reason, this newfangled web doesn't seem to appeal to me, my friends, or anyone I know. I'm a Computer Science Masters student, and my friends work in industry. Am I backwards? Antiquated? Should I be mashing it up? I do it like I have for years - an xterm, an email app, an IM app, and a tabbed-to-the-hilt browser.
I'm glad I'm not alone.
I remember the first time I saw Java one a browser. I think it was 1995 or 96. I just asked myself "why?". The only really useful thing I've seem since 1996 on the web technology field was CSS and XHTML. Flash, Javascript, Java, Shockwave Director, ActiveX... I just keep asking myself: "Why?" These days, every stupid webpage needs Javascript and has some flash nonsense on it.
Granted, I use xterm, read my e-mail on Mutt, run IceWM, keep javascript (NoScript) and Java (always) disabled, and generally block flash. What happened to keeping things simple ? That old Emacs joke seems now to apply to web browsers: "(Firefox|IE|Opera|Mozilla) is an excellent operating system, all it lacks is a good web browser."
I've found out that, as a rule of thumb, the flashier the site, the worst the content. Hummm, maybe that is why they do it...
Also, you need to brush up on what Communism actually is. I'm guessing, like most Americans, you don't really know anything about it other that "communism == socialism == un-American == bad".
Which only shows how wrong you are: 1) I'm not an American
2) I know every well what communism is, having read The Capital myself. I also studied the history of most "communist" countries (which weren't that communist, after all). To a point that what Karl Marx wrote, these days, is referred as Marxism, and not communism, due to the distortion of his idea as implemented on many places. Actually, most of the concepts attributed to Karl Marx were not his own, but really ideas that were floating around for a long time. You can find the base of many of his theories old Greek and Roman texts.
You really should take time to understand how much effort, study, and work it took to come up with many of those ideas you want to be free. Unless you think all research should be publically funded, including the study and education for those who are producing that material.
Do you want me only to talk about his logic ? Or should I talk the logic of the people applying his ideas to a different context. First, I don't see he saying "and do anything the receiver wants with that idea, including act like it was his own".
No one of forcing you to "dispossess" of the ideas. Tomas Jefferson is right on his point, but it only covers one part of the issue here. The original idea of copyright from the USA Constitution (?) is the correct one. Yes, one can keep the idea, but a limited time. Fair use should be allowed. Read USE, not ABUSE.
Copyright IS a good thing. IP IS a good thing. The problem is that these days, we have the like of RIAA abusing on one side, and a lot of users abusing on the other. No side can claim innocent.
Let me give you a quote for a quote. This is from Marion Zimmer Bradley (thus exercising my right of Fair Use):
Early in my career, I was accosted by one of those feminist types who knew I had put myself though college and supported my family by the commercial writing of romances for schlock paperback houses. She took it upon herself to enlighten me about what she called "artistic integrity." She accused me of being a literary prostitute and stated flat out that I should not write for money, but for higher artistic ideals. I told her that was all very well, but I had kids who were in the habit of eating; and the landlord, grocer, and local power company did not wait upon my artistic dreams. A literary prostitute, I told her, does not endanger anyone's health or morals - and at least my son never had to steal milk out of other people's refrigerators (a low blow, because I had found her own son doing just that).
Just because you don't like the abuse of an idea, does not justify attacking the idea itself. Fight the abuse. And I mean fight. Take them to court, take the street in protest. Buy directly from the artists, and support THEM.
Are you an artist ? Have you tried to make a living out of your art without the "backing" of some RIAA-like group ? Specially early on your career.
It is all very well for us to say copyright is bad, IP should not exist. Specially since most of us here don't need it to buy milk for our sons.
"Land" is a physical object. It is *fundamentally different* to information (or "data", or "ideas", or whatever else you want to call "intellectual property").
Exactly. What gives you the right to own the land ? Did you create it ?
"Land" ownership is just as arbitrary as "intellectual property". Specially "ownership" of an IP one didn't create.
Also, it is possible to copyright a novel, or a business trade secret. How about that secret recipe for turning bullshit into aluminum ? All of those can be defined as "owning" information.
I'm not quite sure I see your point.
See above.
How's that, exactly ? Communism dicates that physical property is not owned by the individual, but the collective. This is an intrinsically different position to take than "information cannot be owned".
There is no such thing as physical property. Communism dictates that is is not private property. Physical or not. Since you believe in "ownership", you can't claim something cannot be owner. The best you can do is to say it should be "owned by everyone", or "by the public", whatever.
Btw, can you please give US your phone number, SSN, bank account data and PIN ? Those are just information and, by your definition, you can't own them.
Uh, no, a "relaxed" attitude towards copyright may merely indicate a recognition of the fact you can't "own" information like you can physical property.
Considering people "own" the land, I'm yet to see the point in this. Also, it is possible to copyright a novel, or a business trade secret. How about that secret recipe for turning bullshit into aluminum ? All of those can be defined as "owning" information.
I agree they don't have a communist attitude toward copyright but you sir, certainly have.
I have to stories of my on regarding telemarketing:
1) Someone call from a company I'm already a client. So I start asking question after question, getting to a point were the caller would no longer know how to answer, and then would transfer me to someone else. After about 45 minutes, I told them I was already a client of them, and I would also be canceling, since I don't do business with that kind of company
2) "Oh, I'm so glad you called. I was feeling so lonely and wanting a person to talk to"... Lasted for about 13 minutes.
raytracing solutions will free up developers to implement more-dynamic scenes, more-dynamic lights and level designs where buildings and cities aren't glorified mazes where 90% of the architecture is an impenetrable facade.
I wish it would free the developers to create BETTER games.
What I have seem these days are wonderful looking games. Full of bugs, with lousy content, and almost a copy&paste of 40 other games just like it.
I will take Nethack over 99% of the games released in the past 4 years.
If I want eye-candy, I'll watch a movie. Or buy a playboy magazine. What I want is ENTERTAINMENT! How hard is to figure that one out ?
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This reminds me of my time as an AIX admin. AIX just rocked, as solid, everything worked. Did I mention I had access to a lot of "IBM Internal Use Only" documentation ?
From what I noticed, the same thing is true with Windows (I'm not a Windows Admin).
Ok, I might need some further clarification here.
Aren't 55X errors supposed to be permanent, while 45X errors are temporary ?
Why would the sender keep the message on the queue after a permanent error ?
People seem to miss the meaning of "alpha" and "beta" development stages.
If all the features are there, it is beta, no matter how buggy it is.
If it is still missing features, then it is alpha.
Please read this as "planned features for that particular release".
Can you show me where in my previous posts I ever saw "software companies" ?
Can you guys please look outside your little "software/OSS" windows for a moment ?
I'm just pointing to you guys some red flags that might be triggered on the legal department of those companies. Companies that work with mostly with non-software stuff, and get sued mostly by non-software stuff. Do you really think their lawyers are going to stand and say "Oh, lets forget everything we know, and all our past experiences, because this doesn't apply to software. I read on Slashdot about it!".
Better understanding a problem is the best way to try and solve it. I don't expect anyone to agree with this point of view (potential litigation). I don't. But we must understand this is the kind of thing that might be going on, and unless we do, we can't do anything about it.
Note do moderators: I like "Troll" better than "Flamebait", please.
Thats because you don't have one. If you decide to give it a try, or get one by accident, I'm sure you will think differently.
* Father of a 12yo girl
I have seen companies getting sued (and loosing) based on a free product they offered.
Maybe the GPL or some other OSS license will stop that from happening, but I really don't know.
This is, anyway, a valid concern for their legal department.
I'm pretty sure judges in many countries would also have problems with a company "releasing something and not supporting it".
That is sure to be another show stopper.
Here are a few other ideas that will make the city very very very safe:
- Kill all the population. No people = no crime
- Cement their feet to the floor, and use very long straws to feed them.
- Cut all their arms and legs off
Just because something will "make things safer" is NOT a good reason, much less a carte blanq to do it.
I didn't read TFA, but I'm sure he said something about thinking of the children.
I disagree with you, and strongly.
Yes, taking sides is bad (Democrats can send messages, but Republicans can't). On the other hand, the company can (or should) be able to decide for "No Political Parties messages". As long as they are egalitarian. Why can't a company offer a "Political speech" free service ? I would sign with them. Must we be subjected to all that shit they keep throwing at us at election time ?
Or maybe you are suggesting something like the DnC list, which worked oh so well. Oh, never mind. Candidates would still call you, even if you were on the DnC list. And charities. And pro-choice orgs. And someone who had a previous relationship with whoever had your phone number before.
I say let them block, and keep an eye on them, so they don't abuse it. If they do, take away the blocking privilege. But only then.
I just read that response. I for one find it very professional and correct.
What did you expect ? That E-Bay would just come forward and say: "oh, we haven't fully checked on this yet, but since it was a post on the forum, we are sure it is correct, so we are confirming it".
They are investigating. They are contacting the users that are potentially affected (just in case).
They are not silent. They are not denying that it could have happened. They are even taking preventive measures. What more did you want ?
I had problems like that, both monday and yesterday, on other sites as well. EZTV-EFnet site is one of those.
Lets remember several TV series are starting a new season this week. It is also likely these servers just got overloaded and crash&burned.
You must be new here. What about politicians, lawyers and such ? When can I expect them to die off ?
Hum ? I'm sorry but
Apple developed a product, and is selling it only for the AT&T network. What is not fair about it ? Where is it written they have to sell it to all other networks as all ?
So you (him, whoever) changed their product. You want Apple now to take that into consideration ?
You have at least 2 valid options here. You can sue them, and you can buy stock from Apple and try to act as a shareholder.
What gives you the right to change the product, and then complain that Apple is not working around your changes ?
If you want to "do what you want with the product you paid for", it is ok. But don't expect further service from Apple (upgrades/updates).
Can we please cut this nazi crap and just shoot her ?
Considering that kind of thing we find on the net these days, Slashdot is worth a nobel prize in literature.
I'm glad I'm not alone.
I remember the first time I saw Java one a browser. I think it was 1995 or 96. I just asked myself "why?". The only really useful thing I've seem since 1996 on the web technology field was CSS and XHTML. Flash, Javascript, Java, Shockwave Director, ActiveX
Granted, I use xterm, read my e-mail on Mutt, run IceWM, keep javascript (NoScript) and Java (always) disabled, and generally block flash. What happened to keeping things simple ? That old Emacs joke seems now to apply to web browsers: "(Firefox|IE|Opera|Mozilla) is an excellent operating system, all it lacks is a good web browser."
I've found out that, as a rule of thumb, the flashier the site, the worst the content. Hummm, maybe that is why they do it
Which only shows how wrong you are:
1) I'm not an American
2) I know every well what communism is, having read The Capital myself. I also studied the history of most "communist" countries (which weren't that communist, after all). To a point that what Karl Marx wrote, these days, is referred as Marxism, and not communism, due to the distortion of his idea as implemented on many places. Actually, most of the concepts attributed to Karl Marx were not his own, but really ideas that were floating around for a long time. You can find the base of many of his theories old Greek and Roman texts.
You really should take time to understand how much effort, study, and work it took to come up with many of those ideas you want to be free. Unless you think all research should be publically funded, including the study and education for those who are producing that material.
No one of forcing you to "dispossess" of the ideas. Tomas Jefferson is right on his point, but it only covers one part of the issue here. The original idea of copyright from the USA Constitution (?) is the correct one. Yes, one can keep the idea, but a limited time. Fair use should be allowed. Read USE, not ABUSE.
Copyright IS a good thing. IP IS a good thing. The problem is that these days, we have the like of RIAA abusing on one side, and a lot of users abusing on the other. No side can claim innocent.
Let me give you a quote for a quote. This is from Marion Zimmer Bradley (thus exercising my right of Fair Use):
Just because you don't like the abuse of an idea, does not justify attacking the idea itself. Fight the abuse. And I mean fight. Take them to court, take the street in protest. Buy directly from the artists, and support THEM.
Are you an artist ? Have you tried to make a living out of your art without the "backing" of some RIAA-like group ? Specially early on your career.
It is all very well for us to say copyright is bad, IP should not exist. Specially since most of us here don't need it to buy milk for our sons.
Fight the abuse, not the concept.
If you call that "culture"...
Exactly. What gives you the right to own the land ? Did you create it ?
"Land" ownership is just as arbitrary as "intellectual property". Specially "ownership" of an IP one didn't create.
See above.
There is no such thing as physical property. Communism dictates that is is not private property. Physical or not. Since you believe in "ownership", you can't claim something cannot be owner. The best you can do is to say it should be "owned by everyone", or "by the public", whatever.
Btw, can you please give US your phone number, SSN, bank account data and PIN ? Those are just information and, by your definition, you can't own them.
Considering people "own" the land, I'm yet to see the point in this. Also, it is possible to copyright a novel, or a business trade secret. How about that secret recipe for turning bullshit into aluminum ? All of those can be defined as "owning" information.
I agree they don't have a communist attitude toward copyright but you sir, certainly have.
I have to stories of my on regarding telemarketing:
... Lasted for about 13 minutes.
1) Someone call from a company I'm already a client. So I start asking question after question, getting to a point were the caller would no longer know how to answer, and then would transfer me to someone else. After about 45 minutes, I told them I was already a client of them, and I would also be canceling, since I don't do business with that kind of company
2) "Oh, I'm so glad you called. I was feeling so lonely and wanting a person to talk to"
I wish it would free the developers to create BETTER games.
What I have seem these days are wonderful looking games. Full of bugs, with lousy content, and almost a copy&paste of 40 other games just like it.
I will take Nethack over 99% of the games released in the past 4 years.
If I want eye-candy, I'll watch a movie. Or buy a playboy magazine. What I want is ENTERTAINMENT! How hard is to figure that one out ?
Interesting fact.
I just checked other dictionaries here, all local editions.
2 agree with my assertion.
3 others agree with the 1 out of 10 assertion.
I don't think I can blame anyone for being confused on that one.
One from another country, in another language.
We just goes to show how much the meaning of a word can change from place to place.