The problem is that (assuming Cringely is on target) Microsoft is ditching a few things (Netscape plugins, Java) that violate this patent. But they are not ditching (or haven't yet) ActiveX/OLE in the browser, which performs a very similar action (at least WRT the patent).
I don't have a problem with M$ ditching some of that compatibility. But I do have a problem with doing it to force 'us' to IE5.5.net.
Works for me. I pile EVERYTHING on my desk. Know where in the pile the important stuff is. Don't tell anyone else how the pile is arranged. Nobody will touch your stuff for fear of having to clean it up when it falls.
Many people will bitch, but the trick is to know how the pile works. People will ask me for some 'important' piece of paper, assuming it will take an hour to find it. It doesn't. If they complain, the answer is "it only took me a second to get it, what's your problem".
Another good trick is to keep extra cards lying around (I have an abundance of ISA SCSI cards and NIC's. Almost useless, but most people are afraid to touch them. Ergo, my stuff isn't touched.)
Actually, I disagree. My mother has an eBook reader, and really likes it. Because she can carry a dozen books in the space of one. She routinely reads thre-four books at a time. She also does crosswords, so she keeps a dictionary or two in there.
What she doesn't like is not being able to dump the books to the hard drive, and then put them back on. That is B$. The other thing she doesn't like is paying nearly (or more than) cover price for books without paper. Why pay $15 for an eBook when you can get the paperback for $10?
On what grounds did M$ ask the return to a lower court be delayed? Why would this make an injunction (against shipping XP) more difficult?
These are the real questions. The rest (the appeal to the Supremes) is/was expected. Appealing to the Supremes does not preclude other actions, so why wouldn't they do this? Due to the findings of the appeals court, the worse that happens in this appeal is that it goes back to district court for a new rememedy.
Another chickenshit AC. It's one thing to post AC if you are divulging company secrets. But so that you can be a karma whore? Be a man (or woman, as the case may be) and stand up and let your opinion be heard.
It's not trolling. It's an attempt to discuss what the point of the whole thing is.
It is getting embarrassing to tell people that I make my living on this medium. Some days it feels like a theme park, with all the cheesy sound and lights. Shudder.
If only it were as good as an amusement park. They're generally inocuous. A more apt analogy might be Las Vegas: fun for adults, but funded on allowing a lot of debauchery. Even more to the point: the house always wins.
Yeah, but in a few weeks, your car will be programmed to drive you there (whatever happend to the Clarion CarPC? Anybody buy one?) Even better, with the GPS feature talking to the local gendarme, you won't even break the speed limit.
This folks, is why the internet as a geek medium, or a medium for the common man is over:
"The promise of the Internet was always one-to-one marketing, but nothing has ever proven it out. We're proving it out," Eagle said.
Pack it up, go home. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm seriously considering dumping most of my computer stuff (and it's a literal ton) and opening some meatspace business.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but customer service can still get you a modest income and modest success. At 90% of the places I shop, I know at least a couple of the staff (and/or the owner) by name. And vice versa. If we had a non-chain bookstore, it would be an even higher percentage. No, none of them are millionaires, and they all work a lot. But they seem to enjoy it.
(Yeah, yeah, lots of flames coming my way. Let me take care of a few:
"It's just the man. We can keep the 'net for ourselves"
"You're a loser who is giving in"
"The internet is a wonderful medium for doing {x,y,z}"
)
Yeah. Whatever. Let's face it, assholes like this (and the ones at Kazaa, verizon, M$, etc.) have moved in and taken over with a little help from their friends in the government.
I'm beginning to wonder if Ted Kacinsky didn't have some of the right ideas.
Or at least the separatists living in the Rockies.
But I do have some early libc6 stuff. Actually, quite a bit of it. I thought about donating my old discs, but I'd rather burn a new distro for a new user.
Depending on when you started using Linux you have:
A huge stack of floppies of one distro. You used it, and it was good (early adopters)
About a billion Linux-Mall or Cheapbytes products (from their sampler packages. This is me)
A couple of iso's you burned yourself (the modern equivalent of the floppies) or a boxed distro (conspicuous consumption?)
Anyway, sorry, no help. I might have a RH 4.2 disk. Send email (remove second '@')
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To clarify:
I had the.edu first. I picked up Delphi when preparing to transfer schools. I figured having a relatively stable email address, kill files, etc. was fairly important. They had access prior to CIS or AOL. Or maybe CIS was first. If CIS was first, I went with Delphi because it was cheaper.
But, like anyone who moves into a new area, they want to be the last one in the gated community. All those 'new-comers' screwed it up.
But to the earlier question, I think that the idea of staying on topic was happening prior to the web being a big thing.
How am I supposed to get Linux pre-loaded? I look at the page. In the slot for OS, it says Win2k (or was it 98/Me??) with no drop down to select Linux.
Probably only applicable to those of us in Silicon Valley, but is anyone else interested in taking him out for a beer and some decent food? Show him the parts of the US that don't suck....
Well, he's not allowed out of California, so I don't know how you'll be able to do this...
Seriously though, good idea. At the very least, someone may want to set up some housing for him.
I only found RTS games after playing the free version of Red Alert a few months before the sequel came out. What the hell was I missing? Just as I was about to dump Windows entirely, I found this lovely game. (And then shortly after, found Baldur's Gate).
Anyway, one of the reasons I was going to drop Windows games is that it would be much cheaper to get a console, and ignore the buy, upgrade, repeat cycle of 3d cards.
Things worked well. Until I bought Black and White. My poor SLI Voodoo2 setup was no longer sufficient. (of course, the 600mHz proc. might have had something to do with that as well:) So, out went the Voodoo, in went a GeForce MX (or whatever the bottom of the line, cheap shit GeForce is) and it works. Quite well for B&W. But that won't be for long.
Which is also okay. Turns out that I can use some of that ancient 3dfx crap in a Mame box. And if that doesn't work... Hell, for as much as the GeForce3 costs, I could at least one actual arcade game. Throw in a new motherboard, processor, etc. and I can get one of the pins that I've been wanting.
And the people in the neighborhood (okay, the kids) much prefer the arcade games when they drop by. (No, I'm not a molester. I'm just immature. Arcade games are in the garage, and the door is open if any neighborhood kids are playing. And I have their parents' numbers.)
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The problem is that (assuming Cringely is on target) Microsoft is ditching a few things (Netscape plugins, Java) that violate this patent. But they are not ditching (or haven't yet) ActiveX/OLE in the browser, which performs a very similar action (at least WRT the patent).
I don't have a problem with M$ ditching some of that compatibility. But I do have a problem with doing it to force 'us' to IE5.5.net.
Works for me. I pile EVERYTHING on my desk. Know where in the pile the important stuff is. Don't tell anyone else how the pile is arranged. Nobody will touch your stuff for fear of having to clean it up when it falls.
Many people will bitch, but the trick is to know how the pile works. People will ask me for some 'important' piece of paper, assuming it will take an hour to find it. It doesn't. If they complain, the answer is "it only took me a second to get it, what's your problem".
Another good trick is to keep extra cards lying around (I have an abundance of ISA SCSI cards and NIC's. Almost useless, but most people are afraid to touch them. Ergo, my stuff isn't touched.)
I think you mean Rita Hayworth. Doris Day, while nice, is certainly too inocuous. Rita Hayworth... Legs... Legs clear up to her arse.
Sounds like lots of weirdness with the NIC. What kind was it?
Of course Larry isn't stressed. After filming Apocalypse Now, any other shoot must be a cakewalk.
Actually, I disagree. My mother has an eBook reader, and really likes it. Because she can carry a dozen books in the space of one. She routinely reads thre-four books at a time. She also does crosswords, so she keeps a dictionary or two in there.
What she doesn't like is not being able to dump the books to the hard drive, and then put them back on. That is B$. The other thing she doesn't like is paying nearly (or more than) cover price for books without paper. Why pay $15 for an eBook when you can get the paperback for $10?
On what grounds did M$ ask the return to a lower court be delayed? Why would this make an injunction (against shipping XP) more difficult?
These are the real questions. The rest (the appeal to the Supremes) is/was expected. Appealing to the Supremes does not preclude other actions, so why wouldn't they do this? Due to the findings of the appeals court, the worse that happens in this appeal is that it goes back to district court for a new rememedy.
Another chickenshit AC. It's one thing to post AC if you are divulging company secrets. But so that you can be a karma whore? Be a man (or woman, as the case may be) and stand up and let your opinion be heard.
It's not trolling. It's an attempt to discuss what the point of the whole thing is.
If only it were as good as an amusement park. They're generally inocuous. A more apt analogy might be Las Vegas: fun for adults, but funded on allowing a lot of debauchery. Even more to the point: the house always wins.
The sad thing is that while you may be joking, someone, somewhere is pitching this idea to a VC.
>>If you set it up properly I bet you couldn't find an ad online if you went looking for one.
This week.
Yeah, but in a few weeks, your car will be programmed to drive you there (whatever happend to the Clarion CarPC? Anybody buy one?) Even better, with the GPS feature talking to the local gendarme, you won't even break the speed limit.
No time at all. I can't believe it hasn't been done already with a simple redirect tag.
Actually, the redirect might be overkill.
Pack it up, go home. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm seriously considering dumping most of my computer stuff (and it's a literal ton) and opening some meatspace business.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but customer service can still get you a modest income and modest success. At 90% of the places I shop, I know at least a couple of the staff (and/or the owner) by name. And vice versa. If we had a non-chain bookstore, it would be an even higher percentage. No, none of them are millionaires, and they all work a lot. But they seem to enjoy it.
(Yeah, yeah, lots of flames coming my way. Let me take care of a few:
"It's just the man. We can keep the 'net for ourselves"
"You're a loser who is giving in"
"The internet is a wonderful medium for doing {x,y,z}"
)
Yeah. Whatever. Let's face it, assholes like this (and the ones at Kazaa, verizon, M$, etc.) have moved in and taken over with a little help from their friends in the government.
I'm beginning to wonder if Ted Kacinsky didn't have some of the right ideas.
Or at least the separatists living in the Rockies.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
At least you can choose not to have PPPoE. Some of us are stuck. And will be for quite some time.
If it weren't for Prozac, I'd probably take out a shotgun on the next Verizon truck I see.
But I do have some early libc6 stuff. Actually, quite a bit of it. I thought about donating my old discs, but I'd rather burn a new distro for a new user.
Depending on when you started using Linux you have:
A huge stack of floppies of one distro. You used it, and it was good (early adopters)
About a billion Linux-Mall or Cheapbytes products (from their sampler packages. This is me)
A couple of iso's you burned yourself (the modern equivalent of the floppies) or a boxed distro (conspicuous consumption?)
Anyway, sorry, no help. I might have a RH 4.2 disk. Send email (remove second '@')
I'd have more respect for a jailhouse lawyer. At least they've got access to a law library.
Sorry for slashdotting you dude.
To clarify:
.edu first. I picked up Delphi when preparing to transfer schools. I figured having a relatively stable email address, kill files, etc. was fairly important. They had access prior to CIS or AOL. Or maybe CIS was first. If CIS was first, I went with Delphi because it was cheaper.
I had the
But, like anyone who moves into a new area, they want to be the last one in the gated community. All those 'new-comers' screwed it up.
But to the earlier question, I think that the idea of staying on topic was happening prior to the web being a big thing.
How am I supposed to get Linux pre-loaded? I look at the page. In the slot for OS, it says Win2k (or was it 98/Me??) with no drop down to select Linux.
This is the same problem Dell had.
Well, he's not allowed out of California, so I don't know how you'll be able to do this...
Seriously though, good idea. At the very least, someone may want to set up some housing for him.
I'm sure it's been pointed out, but it ain't over yet.
Being a Dr. Pepper fan, I'd like to try that sometime.
(And regarding your sig, I don't have a choice. Only Verizon PPPoE at work and nothing at home:(
>>Well, yeah. For people who actually do their research, this article doesn't much matter.
/.)
Good point. But is the slashdot audience the type for whom this is news?
Nope. Says it on the masthead "news for nerds".
(But yes, for the average manager/consumer, it is news. But why post on
I only found RTS games after playing the free version of Red Alert a few months before the sequel came out. What the hell was I missing? Just as I was about to dump Windows entirely, I found this lovely game. (And then shortly after, found Baldur's Gate).
Anyway, one of the reasons I was going to drop Windows games is that it would be much cheaper to get a console, and ignore the buy, upgrade, repeat cycle of 3d cards.
Things worked well. Until I bought Black and White. My poor SLI Voodoo2 setup was no longer sufficient. (of course, the 600mHz proc. might have had something to do with that as well:) So, out went the Voodoo, in went a GeForce MX (or whatever the bottom of the line, cheap shit GeForce is) and it works. Quite well for B&W. But that won't be for long.
Which is also okay. Turns out that I can use some of that ancient 3dfx crap in a Mame box. And if that doesn't work... Hell, for as much as the GeForce3 costs, I could at least one actual arcade game. Throw in a new motherboard, processor, etc. and I can get one of the pins that I've been wanting.
And the people in the neighborhood (okay, the kids) much prefer the arcade games when they drop by. (No, I'm not a molester. I'm just immature. Arcade games are in the garage, and the door is open if any neighborhood kids are playing. And I have their parents' numbers.)