Remember the infamous "Please send me pics of Sheryl Crow naked. Thank you" messages plastered all over USENET in summer '95? And there's countless other examples.
I always liked the winCE hardware. The color, the built in periferals (namely mics, real speakers, and real ports). I just hated the software. Looking at the new hardware that lusting continues. However I still don't like the software. I will admit though that this new software looks much better. If I was Palm or Handspring I'd be afraid of this thing. I'd improve my hardware (Similar to the way Handspring has done, but only with standard pcmica cards, not those handspring modules).
Damn straight! My mouse wheel STILL doesn't work. (Works everywhere else, just not in Mozilla. (Yes it an MS-mouse.)) The mail client in NS6p1 is excrutiatingly sluggish. The widgets lack consistent rightclickability. (I still think rolling their own widgets was a bad call.) Hell, they've had 2 years to make their HTML render engine, said it was the best thing on the block, and I still find major bugs in it. (namely text overlaying graphics and tables that get duplicated).
I REALLY want an opensource browser, but this is just becoming a debacle.
Lucas also isn't a member of the Director's Guild either. He resigned his membership shortly after SW:ANH was released. Why? The guild wanted him to insert opening credits and he refused. So he quit the guild and made the film his own way.
Also like it or not, SW:TPM is an independent film. He paid for it himself.
The stock market takes a hit greater than it did on Black Monday in '87, lossing over a Trillion dollars in the US and a shitload everywhere else and its a "non-story"? I don't know about you people but I would definitly file this under "Stuff that matters".
Sure it may matter in general, so did Kosovo; but you didn't see that on/. now did you? I read/. for a very small segment of my news, and that's tech news. If I want to know about world events (which is "Stuff that Matters") then I watch CNN or something. I don't turn to/. for it. If I want buisness news, I'll watch CNBC. I DON'T WANT/. COVERING THIS. For one it's redundant, and two/. is one of my only refuges from stupid ass stock crap.
The point is that his "philanthropy" is effectively no different than droping change in the March of Dimes bank in the checkout line at the grocery store.
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge today found that Microsoft Corp. violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, legal sources said.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that the company used its position to ``monopolize the web browser market'' to the detriment of competitors, the sources said.
The judge found that Microsoft could also be liable under state anticompetition laws, said the sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Throughout the trial, the judge had strongly urged both sides in the case to reach an out-of-court settlement. Those talks collapsed over the weekend, however, prompting Jackson to issue his ruling today. Both sides had reasons to settle the case. Among them: to avoid an appeals process that would likely keep the case in court for several years.
The judge's ruling had been expected to go against Microsoft based on harsh assessments he outlined last November in his ``findings of fact.'' In that document, Jackson found that Microsoft repeatedly engaged in anticompetitive behavior by taking advantage of its monopoly power.
Microsoft stock was battered during the day, losing about 15 percent of its value.
Saddly neither of Chicago's PBS stations WTTW nor WYCC is going to show it tonight, nor next month.
Ironically the PBS station I grew with back in "the sticks" of Southern Illinois WSIU (and the station I support) is running it tonight (mar 30)/tomorrow (mar 31) at 4:00 am CST.
Okay, if Ticketmaster.com, the web version of a larger corporate business, is an "open site", then what is a closed site? Intranet?
If it's designed for the general public to use, (i.e. any random website), then it's open. If it's backbehind a firewall it would be a "closed" site. (Of course you shouldn't even know about this site outside the firewall, but you get the idea.) I would go as far as to say that if it's a subscription only site that for some bizare reason only authenticates at the index.html, but not at/foo/bar.html, then it's "closed". Of course if you link to/foo/bar.html and it says, "Hey! You didn't pay us!" then deep linking isn't a problem, because then only the subscribers can follow the deep links.
So in short, it's "open" unless someone screwed up REALLY badly, then it's "closed" so that they can cover their ass.
The WWII era battleships of the Iowa class have spent a lot of time since WWII in dry dock, however they have been brought out and refitted a couple times -- notably to shell the city of Beruit and for the Gulf War. It would have been inpractical to keep these ships in service during peace time, when instead they can just be retrofitted with modern equipment and brought into service when the need arises.
You can do this with weapons. Afterall a big metal projectile is still a big metal projectile. The effectiveness doesn't really decrease, unless there's some revolutionary advance in weapondry (say modern steel versus cast-iron => cannon versus modern artillery). Also ALOT of money goes in to simply making a ship a ship, rather than a weapon system. Remove the gun turrets add a floor to them and flood them, and you got a cruise ship (albiet a very industrial luuking cruise ship)
You can't exactly do that with a computer. Trying to use a 6 year old computer is pretty painful. (Yes, it was upgraded 486SX-25 -> AMD 5x86-100. 4ram -> 20ram. Hell, I even cut out a hole in the top of the case to exteriorly mount two 3gig HDDs (my personal favorite hack).) I say simply fold them back in to the rest of the government. I'm sure someone needs new stuff.
Of course I would like to own one of those plasma displays. (Yeah it looks like photogenic equipment was one of the requirements for this.)
Now the LYNX, on the other hand, was very much The Right Thing from a programming standpoint. A fast little processor (for its niche), a good color bitmapped display, and a general purpose blitter.
I played with one of these back in the day. If I remember correctly the Sega GameGear and the Nintendo GameBoy were already established. (The GameGear may have already been in decline.) This kid at "Geek Camp" had one. What I remember about it was not only that it was quick, but that it's color screenm unlike the GameGear was crisp. (Playing Sonic on the GameGears was very much like playing with your eyes closed. The pixels simply didn't refresh fast enough, so all you got was a blur.)
Price and form factor weighed too heavily against it.
I don't remember it being that big. Maybe a bit bigger than the GameGear, but nothing absurd. It was quite expensive wasn't it.
I'll have to see if I can track down one of these things to purchase some time. It's by far my favorite piece of failed hardware.
I'm tired of signing ineffective petitions. I'm tired of participating in ineffective boycotts. It's time to DO SOMETHING!
Good Lord! How much longer are we going to have to put up with crap like this? The Corporate Man(tm) isn't going to do anything about this, because they either already have or are trying to aquire their very own frivolous patents. It's time for someone to stand up and start filing civil suits. I've got disposable income, I'll contribute.
I'm sorry but boycots/embargos simply don't work. (Blockades on the other hand...) They do in theory, but in reality it's pretty damn hard to reach critical mass.
This a great advantage of Open Source (preaching to the converted, I know) because that is the only open standard (and therefore durable) format. All other proprietary formats will come and go with the companies that make them.
What? I'm sorry but open source IS NOT a magic bullet. There's two problems with your statment; and ironically they work in opposite directions.
Just because a new dataformat comes around, doesn't mean people will use it. Look at PNG usage versus GIF usage.
Say your format gets adopted. Now say a new format comes along that can handle something ultra-cool that the previous data format simply can't do. Why would people want to stay with the obsolete standard?
If you want a really good looking and customizable desktop, run enlightenment by itself. Much nicer IMHO.
E is customizable in the way that emacs is. You know there's a way to do it, but damned if you know where/how to change it.
E is quick, but it's lacking in some serious respects. Namely in the themes arena. I'm not talking about the lack of themes (good lord! there's a lot), but the way themes are managed. If I want to change the color of my titlebar, I don't want to have open up some huge theme hunt around for the one line and change it from "SlateBlue" to "Salmon" or whatever. What E (and all themeable WMs in general) is a WYSIWYG theme editor, on the level of Windows's Contol_Panel|Display. Just a nice place where I can click on a title bar and say "make this putrid green" and WHALLA! It's done.
I also would like to have looks and feels seperated like how they are in Afterstep. (Which has config files that are pretty easy to understand). (In all honesty I haven't divulged down into the depths of E themes, just far enough to say, "This is too involved for such a trivial task. Fuck it.", so this may actually be the case in E, but if it is, it's not as obvious as it is in AS.)
The other feature I'd like to see introduced is more control over icons in E. 1. I'd like to be able to have icons uniconify to where they were iconified from, not always the active screen. 2. I wish the icons wouldn't constantly resort themselves. It gets damn confusing. (I icononify and uniconify alot. I can keep track of what's what if the icons would just stay put.) Finally I'd like to beable to turn that damn icon box off. I REALLY don't like icon boxes; they're too confining (which is coincifently why I don't like taskbars/lists and CDE style button-based pagers). I websurf in a VERY atypical fashion. As I read a page I open interesting links in a new window and continue to read the original page. I then group relavent icons together. For instance when I read/. I develop an inverted comb of icons. such as:
SSS CCC 11 2
(where S = story, C = comments, # = newslink)
I can only work this way if icons go to the root window and can be moved anywhere I want. (forcing icons to stay in an icon corral on the root window is not acceptable. Infact it's just wierd.)
Because of these short commings I'm going to start playing with sawmill.
Your concepts of "Intellectual Privacy" and "anti-exploitation laws" are completely unworkable even in an ideal world, which this is not.
You claim that Intellectual Privacy would behave the same as a patent only that it didn't hurt someone from developing a solution second, but would punish those that "ripped off" someone else's idea. I don't see how this would work in practice. What would keep 1st Company from crying "2nd Company stole my idea!!"; while 2nd Company calls out "Uhh uhh!" Thus the long and protracted childish game of Uh-Huh-Uhh-Uhh (read: suits, countersuits, and appeals) until one company either loses interest, or goes bankrupt.
Of course, any sane person would see key issue in any Intellectual Privacy suit would be implementation, but this isn't ncessarily would would be the deciding factor. 1st Company could always claim the concept, along with the implementaion and thus closing out any competitors. There's also some concepts that are so basic, that they must be intentionally obfusicated to avoid the "cannonical implimentation" (i.e. cat(1)).
Your Anti-Explploitation law doesn't reinforce the benefits of Intellectual Privacy, but rather directly hinders them. 1st Company creates a widget. Everyone like the widget. 2nd Company says, "Hey, we can make a better widget and make it fully compatable with 1st Company's widget, and make it for less money too."
Since the 2nd widget is effectively a cheaper clone of the 1st wideget, 2nd company would be charged under you anti-exploitation law.
Your goals are admirable, but they simply won't work in the Real World. Companies are already quick to sue anyone that looks at them funny; your mock-laws simply renforce this behavior to the detriminete of everyone.
Actually he's not; he's just throwing away his copy of the license. If he regeisters it then he always has the license. Anyway The Man only comes looking for licenses if your a major company or they think you're a big time pirate. It's not worth their or the government's effort to go knocking down the door of every junior high boy in America.
My issue with this plan is the fact that it accomplishes nothing. He paid for it and then used the warez cooy. Big deal. So instead copying the cd "for archival purposes" he downloaded his "archival copy". BFD.
Also what's the big deal about reading the license. You have an idea what is in it anyway, if not you should read it. I have a problem with licenses in general for software. You should own software like you own a car. Your Mustang is yours and you can do what you want with it, but yet it is still Ford s intellectual property (ie you can't clone it).
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Remember the infamous "Please send me pics of Sheryl Crow naked. Thank you" messages plastered all over USENET in summer '95? And there's countless other examples.
ME TOO!
:)
I always liked the winCE hardware. The color, the built in periferals (namely mics, real speakers, and real ports). I just hated the software. Looking at the new hardware that lusting continues. However I still don't like the software. I will admit though that this new software looks much better. If I was Palm or Handspring I'd be afraid of this thing. I'd improve my hardware (Similar to the way Handspring has done, but only with standard pcmica cards, not those handspring modules).
this is under NT. :(
:/
Average uptime 2 days 14 hours 49 minutes.
Damn straight! My mouse wheel STILL doesn't work. (Works everywhere else, just not in Mozilla. (Yes it an MS-mouse.)) The mail client in NS6p1 is excrutiatingly sluggish. The widgets lack consistent rightclickability. (I still think rolling their own widgets was a bad call.)
Hell, they've had 2 years to make their HTML render engine, said it was the best thing on the block, and I still find major bugs in it. (namely text overlaying graphics and tables that get duplicated).
I REALLY want an opensource browser, but this is just becoming a debacle.
Lucas also isn't a member of the Director's Guild either. He resigned his membership shortly after SW:ANH was released. Why? The guild wanted him to insert opening credits and he refused. So he quit the guild and made the film his own way.
Also like it or not, SW:TPM is an independent film. He paid for it himself.
The stock market takes a hit greater than it did on Black Monday in '87, lossing over a Trillion dollars in the US and a shitload everywhere else and its a "non-story"? I don't know about you people but I would definitly file this under "Stuff that matters".
/. now did you? I read /. for a very small segment of my news, and that's tech news. If I want to know about world events (which is "Stuff that Matters") then I watch CNN or something. I don't turn to /. for it. If I want buisness news, I'll watch CNBC. I DON'T WANT /. COVERING THIS. For one it's redundant, and two /. is one of my only refuges from stupid ass stock crap.
Sure it may matter in general, so did Kosovo; but you didn't see that on
The point is that his "philanthropy" is effectively no different than droping change in the March of Dimes bank in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Exactly. And to think people are supporting flat taxes as being more "fair". (Funny that was the exact reason we went to the graduated income tax.)
However, he's certainly a generous devil.
Recently, Gates has donated:
And at an estimated $85 billion this means:
To put this in perspective, that like me giving
Hardly "Giving till it hurts". Hell, lil' ol' ladies give more money to their church.
Jackson issues
Microsoft antitrust ruling
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge today found that Microsoft
Corp. violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, legal sources said.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that the company
used its position to ``monopolize the web browser market'' to the
detriment of competitors, the sources said.
The judge found that Microsoft could also be liable under state
anticompetition laws, said the sources, who spoke only on condition
of anonymity.
Throughout the trial, the judge had strongly urged both sides in the
case to reach an out-of-court settlement. Those talks collapsed over
the weekend, however, prompting Jackson to issue his ruling today.
Both sides had reasons to settle the case. Among them: to avoid an
appeals process that would likely keep the case in court for several
years.
The judge's ruling had been expected to go against Microsoft based
on harsh assessments he outlined last November in his ``findings of
fact.'' In that document, Jackson found that Microsoft repeatedly
engaged in anticompetitive behavior by taking advantage of its
monopoly power.
Microsoft stock was battered during the day, losing about 15 percent
of its value.
Saddly neither of Chicago's PBS stations WTTW nor WYCC is going to show it tonight, nor next month.
Ironically the PBS station I grew with back in "the sticks" of Southern Illinois WSIU (and the station I support) is running it tonight (mar 30)/tomorrow (mar 31) at 4:00 am CST.
Have to get my mom to tape it.
Okay, if Ticketmaster.com, the web version of a larger corporate business, is an "open site", then what is a closed site? Intranet?
/foo/bar.html, then it's "closed". Of course if you link to /foo/bar.html and it says, "Hey! You didn't pay us!" then deep linking isn't a problem, because then only the subscribers can follow the deep links.
If it's designed for the general public to use, (i.e. any random website), then it's open. If it's backbehind a firewall it would be a "closed" site. (Of course you shouldn't even know about this site outside the firewall, but you get the idea.) I would go as far as to say that if it's a subscription only site that for some bizare reason only authenticates at the index.html, but not at
So in short, it's "open" unless someone screwed up REALLY badly, then it's "closed" so that they can cover their ass.
As I read this I see:
(score:4 Redundant)
To who ever moderated this:
IT'S A FIRST POST YOU MORON!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT TO BE REDUNDANT
Good Lord! Get a clue!
The WWII era battleships of the Iowa class have spent a lot of time since WWII in dry dock, however they have been brought out and refitted a couple times -- notably to shell the city of Beruit and for the Gulf War. It would have been inpractical to keep these ships in service during peace time, when instead they can just be retrofitted with modern equipment and brought into service when the need arises.
You can do this with weapons. Afterall a big metal projectile is still a big metal projectile. The effectiveness doesn't really decrease, unless there's some revolutionary advance in weapondry (say modern steel versus cast-iron => cannon versus modern artillery). Also ALOT of money goes in to simply making a ship a ship, rather than a weapon system. Remove the gun turrets add a floor to them and flood them, and you got a cruise ship (albiet a very industrial luuking cruise ship)
You can't exactly do that with a computer. Trying to use a 6 year old computer is pretty painful. (Yes, it was upgraded 486SX-25 -> AMD 5x86-100. 4ram -> 20ram. Hell, I even cut out a hole in the top of the case to exteriorly mount two 3gig HDDs (my personal favorite hack).) I say simply fold them back in to the rest of the government. I'm sure someone needs new stuff.
Of course I would like to own one of those plasma displays. (Yeah it looks like photogenic equipment was one of the requirements for this.)
Now the LYNX, on the other hand, was very much The Right Thing from a programming standpoint. A fast little processor (for its niche), a good color bitmapped display, and a general purpose blitter.
I played with one of these back in the day. If I remember correctly the Sega GameGear and the Nintendo GameBoy were already established. (The GameGear may have already been in decline.) This kid at "Geek Camp" had one. What I remember about it was not only that it was quick, but that it's color screenm unlike the GameGear was crisp. (Playing Sonic on the GameGears was very much like playing with your eyes closed. The pixels simply didn't refresh fast enough, so all you got was a blur.)
Price and form factor weighed too heavily against it.
I don't remember it being that big. Maybe a bit bigger than the GameGear, but nothing absurd. It was quite expensive wasn't it.
I'll have to see if I can track down one of these things to purchase some time. It's by far my favorite piece of failed hardware.
Congratulations. You have successfully proposed moving "www" from the front of the namespace to the end of it. What does this accomplish?
.net .com .org are starting to merge is due to the fact that no one paid attention to the guidlines. Plain and simple.
The fact that
I'm tired of signing ineffective petitions.
I'm tired of participating in ineffective boycotts.
It's time to DO SOMETHING!
Good Lord! How much longer are we going to have to put up with crap like this? The Corporate Man(tm) isn't going to do anything about this, because they either already have or are trying to aquire their very own frivolous patents. It's time for someone to stand up and start filing civil suits. I've got disposable income, I'll contribute.
I'm sorry but boycots/embargos simply don't work. (Blockades on the other hand...) They do in theory, but in reality it's pretty damn hard to reach critical mass.
What? I'm sorry but open source IS NOT a magic bullet. There's two problems with your statment; and ironically they work in opposite directions.
If you want a really good looking and customizable desktop, run enlightenment by itself. Much nicer IMHO.
/. I develop an inverted comb of icons. such as:
E is customizable in the way that emacs is. You know there's a way to do it, but damned if you know where/how to change it.
E is quick, but it's lacking in some serious respects. Namely in the themes arena. I'm not talking about the lack of themes (good lord! there's a lot), but the way themes are managed. If I want to change the color of my titlebar, I don't want to have open up some huge theme hunt around for the one line and change it from "SlateBlue" to "Salmon" or whatever. What E (and all themeable WMs in general) is a WYSIWYG theme editor, on the level of Windows's Contol_Panel|Display. Just a nice place where I can click on a title bar and say "make this putrid green" and WHALLA! It's done.
I also would like to have looks and feels seperated like how they are in Afterstep. (Which has config files that are pretty easy to understand). (In all honesty I haven't divulged down into the depths of E themes, just far enough to say, "This is too involved for such a trivial task. Fuck it.", so this may actually be the case in E, but if it is, it's not as obvious as it is in AS.)
The other feature I'd like to see introduced is more control over icons in E. 1. I'd like to be able to have icons uniconify to where they were iconified from, not always the active screen. 2. I wish the icons wouldn't constantly resort themselves. It gets damn confusing. (I icononify and uniconify alot. I can keep track of what's what if the icons would just stay put.) Finally I'd like to beable to turn that damn icon box off. I REALLY don't like icon boxes; they're too confining (which is coincifently why I don't like taskbars/lists and CDE style button-based pagers). I websurf in a VERY atypical fashion. As I read a page I open interesting links in a new window and continue to read the original page. I then group relavent icons together. For instance when I read
SSS
CCC
11
2
(where S = story, C = comments, # = newslink)
I can only work this way if icons go to the root window and can be moved anywhere I want. (forcing icons to stay in an icon corral on the root window is not acceptable. Infact it's just wierd.)
Because of these short commings I'm going to start playing with sawmill.
Your concepts of "Intellectual Privacy" and "anti-exploitation laws" are completely unworkable even in an ideal world, which this is not.
You claim that Intellectual Privacy would behave the same as a patent only that it didn't hurt someone from developing a solution second, but would punish those that "ripped off" someone else's idea. I don't see how this would work in practice. What would keep 1st Company from crying "2nd Company stole my idea!!"; while 2nd Company calls out "Uhh uhh!" Thus the long and protracted childish game of Uh-Huh-Uhh-Uhh (read: suits, countersuits, and appeals) until one company either loses interest, or goes bankrupt.
Of course, any sane person would see key issue in any Intellectual Privacy suit would be implementation, but this isn't ncessarily would would be the deciding factor. 1st Company could always claim the concept, along with the implementaion and thus closing out any competitors. There's also some concepts that are so basic, that they must be intentionally obfusicated to avoid the "cannonical implimentation" (i.e. cat(1)).
Your Anti-Explploitation law doesn't reinforce the benefits of Intellectual Privacy, but rather directly hinders them. 1st Company creates a widget. Everyone like the widget. 2nd Company says, "Hey, we can make a better widget and make it fully compatable with 1st Company's widget, and make it for less money too."
Since the 2nd widget is effectively a cheaper clone of the 1st wideget, 2nd company would be charged under you anti-exploitation law.
Your goals are admirable, but they simply won't work in the Real World. Companies are already quick to sue anyone that looks at them funny; your mock-laws simply renforce this behavior to the detriminete of everyone.
They perform the nominated songs during the ceremony.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
First. There's no way you could have known this without doing it.
Second, you are taking the Internet WAY too seriously. It's justs bits people. Big deal. (I'll for go my IRC bastards rant for now)
Frankly it's about time the Masses realize that the computers don't emitt Smartness-Radiation and that a dope infront of a TTY is still just a dope.
X-Net (sex and dark and forbidden pleasures) Shouldn't that be XXX-Net and not the wonderous ISP?
Actually he's not; he's just throwing away his copy of the license. If he regeisters it then he always has the license. Anyway The Man only comes looking for licenses if your a major company or they think you're a big time pirate. It's not worth their or the government's effort to go knocking down the door of every junior high boy in America.
My issue with this plan is the fact that it accomplishes nothing. He paid for it and then used the warez cooy. Big deal. So instead copying the cd "for archival purposes" he downloaded his "archival copy". BFD.
Also what's the big deal about reading the license. You have an idea what is in it anyway, if not you should read it. I have a problem with licenses in general for software. You should own software like you own a car. Your Mustang is yours and you can do what you want with it, but yet it is still Ford
s intellectual property (ie you can't clone it).
Step 1. /. asks Katz questions about himself. /. flames Katz for talking about himself.
Step 2. Katz answers the questions about himself.
Step 3.
Anyone see a problem here?