Think, man, THINK. Every six months like clockword the Plaintiffs will get a report about every little complaint against Microsoft that comes over the threshold of the TC's door.
I do my best to think, handicapped as I am!;-)
But for your part, please think about this: Microsoft managed to outmaneuver David Boise, Joel Klein, Judge Jackson, and the best legal support from Netscape, AOL, and Sun. They had a rock-solid case, won it at both the trial and appeals court levels, and Microsoft still managed to outflank them. And you promise to do better?
If you can get their attention and their respect, they treat you properly and with respect.
Two problems:
First, it isn't necessarily my responsibility as a consumer/customer/citizen to "get [Microsoft's] respect". It is
Microsoft's responsibility to obey the law. For the life of me, I don't understand why Judge Jackson didn't file contempt charges after the doctored vidoetape episode.
Second, I think you will find that the people at Microsoft whose respect you can earn are technical people. It wasn't the IE programming group that made the decision to "cut off Netscape's air supply": it was marketing and senior management. I believe that in the last 15 years many, many ISV's have made the fatal mistake of working with or negotiating with the technical side of M$, only to be crushed like bugs by the executive side.
The events and findings of the second MS anti-trust trial were more or less brought about by Microsoft's willful failure to follow either the letter or the intent of the first consent decree. Given that history, why would anyone expect that any level of "oversight" would prevent Microsoft from acting exactly as it did before?
According to Greygent's post the Navigator and Bombardier sit on a lower deck behind the pilot. If that is the case how/where do those particular ejection seats eject out from? Up through the upper deck(s) in some way or out the side?
Downward. Although the survival rate is rumoured not to be very high...
If you want to crawl around in the nose of a B-52 (and see the ejection seat rails for yourself), there is one at the Chanute Air Museum at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, 2 hours south of Chicago. They have a lot of neat stuff left over from Chanute's days as a training center.
"Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., questioned whether the settlement, which he called "an invitation to further litigation, might have "a few too many loopholes."
At lest one of them got it right. As long as it is monolithic and full of $$$, Microsoft won't change much.
Leahy also had some thoughtful and insightful concerns about the actions of the DOJ and John Ashcroft in relation to 9/11. For a while he appeared to be making headway. All of a sudden his voice was muted, then Ashcroft went before the Senate and branded anyone who disagreed with him a traitor. Now you aren't hearing any more criticism of DOJ's actions.
I would expect something similar in this case. A backroom deal has been cut (probably brokered by Cheney and Rove, now that they aren't so busy taking care of their Enron friends), and it will go through regardless of any concerns mere citizens might have.
Now, if Slashdotters were to send a couple of million $ in campaign contributions to some key senators, a little more backbone might appears.
Surely these things must work both ways? If we have the right to send email to whomever we please, and to do so without the content of our email being checked by a third party, shouldn't that privilege extend to companies wishing to promote a product - however irritating it might be?
Before anyone flames me: I did read the article, and I realise that the case cited was based upon the forging of the 'from' address, which rendered the spam illegal. But is even this a 'fair' thing? If I were to send someone an email address with faked details, wouldn't that be my prerogative?
Your right to exercise your biceps and knuckles ends at the tip of my nose. Whether or not information is or wants to be free, you have no right to impose monetary costs on me without my consent. Which, since I pay for dial-up access to my e-mail, is what spam does.
I wouldn't mind taking action of this nature against spammers, if I could figure out who to take action against. When spam arrives with no usable return address and no valid telephone number, who do you take to court?
As a business user, I'd be sore pressed to consider anything but Commercial software after reading this.
As a business user and manager, I approve deployment of all kinds of software. Some commercial, some free. Some with support contracts, some without. Some with huge userbases, some with 5 other known users. This page describes pretty much what you will get from any software vendor, free or commercial, with or without a support contract. Calling a commercial tech support line, for which you have paid big bucks, is not much different than spinning a roulette wheel. That's the facts of life in the software industry, paid or otherwise. At least with this product, if I were really deperate I could hire a programmer to take a look at the source code and see if a fix is possible, which isn't the case with closed source products.
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Funny, I just happened to re-read Tolkien's view on a movie version of LOTR last night. In a 1957 letter to his agent in response to an offer from an American studio, he basically said two things (a) he had no philosophical objection to movies and wouldn't mind if someone tried to create a screenplay/movie version (b) however, since he didn't trust Hollywood, his specific instructions were "either Art or Cash", meaning either full artistic control, or enough cash up front to drown his sorrows.
So I would say ol' JRR had pretty clear vision in these matters.
So that when it freezes up you have some hope of resetting it without having to reboot the file server to which it is attached. You always need the greatest archive capacity on your most critical system!
Remember, than electromagnetic radiation travels with the speed of light! The time it takes for the electromagnetic signal from a lightning strike 10 km away to travel to the receiver is only 33 micro seconds. if you use the sonic signal, however, you would be able to do the triangulation fairly easily with relatively cheap watches. Your only concern would be that you and your friends should be certain that you measure the arrival time for the same lightning strike.
Interesting point. So how does the National Lightning Detection Network do it? GPS-based timing signals? And if one were to try to recreate this, with distances of, say, 250 km between low-cost detectors, would the clocking available on standards PC's be sufficient, or would special-purpose hardware be needed?
Thunderstorms are the thing I miss most about the midwest (I'm from Illinois, live in California), but it looks like the "third coast" (TX, LA, MS, AL, FL) is the place to be in the US for lightning.
Actually, if you Google on National Lightning Detection Network, you will find some information on this topic. When lighting researchers shifted from "thunder days" (as reported by weather station observers using the Mark I Human Ear) to RF-based detection systems, they discovered that the central Midwest had a lightning frequency as high as Florida. Just not as many people around to report it!
No wonder everyone here hates MS so much--the article talks about Win95, you're using Win98SE. Trust me, THOSE SUCK. Win95 sucks, 98 sucks, 98SE sucks, ME is probably the worst of all of them.
Actually, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 wasn't a bad home/light duty corporate/laptop system.
Which points out one of my real peeves about Microsoft: at a certain point they stop releasing service packs and patches, and start releasing changes to the OS using all sorts of sneaky non-documented methods. If you were an OEM and had access to OSR 2.5, great. But if you were a home user of W95, after Service Pack 1 (W95 SP2 being basically useless) you were out of luck. Same with NT 4 today: where is Service Pack 7?
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Yes, someone(s) with a particular ax to grind are spending a lot of moderation points on these threads. If the mods were for Offtopic I might see at least a valid argument (if not agree with it), but the Trolls and Flamebaits suggest a concerted effort to suppress any questioning of the party line.
Sort of like John Ashcroft's performance today, eh?
You are making an assumption about the purpose of Debian. You assume that it's about providing you with a new release. It is not. Debian as a project is about producing a free software operating system. If 1/2 of that definition is not met by 2/3 of the documentation, then it should be of major concern (to at least 1/3 of the team;)
OK, I can buy that. Given that statement, however, is waiting until two days before a frozen release date (but wait: I thought the purpose was not to provide new releases) the best time to start auditing for free-ness of the documentation?
Second, and most importantly, if he does in fact have the ear of a Senator, and if he is able to translate technical concerns into political babble, this is a very good opportunity to present concerns which aren't usually heard by the political class. And all without having to pay $250 for a plate of rubber chicken!
In other news, Attorney General John Ashcroft "detained" all 857 employees of the NIST as "suspected terrorists". They are being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location, awaiting execution by a miliary tribunal. "We can't just have people releasing encryption algorithms whenever they feel like it, even if they are employees of the US Government," said Ashcroft. When it was pointed out to him that bin Laden avoids technical means of communication in favor of face-to-ear whispers among trusted family members, Ashcroft replied: "That's OK. Better to execute 857 innocent geeks than allow one terrorist to slip through."
Why is it that "extroverts" (assuming that any of these personality models have any validity, which I think is quite open to question) feel that it is their duty to force others to be like them? And that doing so will make the lives of others better?
If the "introverts" among you decided to force the "extroverts" to sit facing the wall reading Slashdot for 12 hours "for their own good", would the "extroverts" find that acceptable? If not, then why do they think it is acceptable to force others to behave the way they think best in the name of "fun" or "loosening up"?
Can anyone think of an example where a technology company/organization with market momentum behind them created and started pushing a new "standard", a consortium formed to create a competing standard, and the consortium won out? Seems to me that the existance of the consortium usually just validates what the first company was trying to accomplish, and that company takes all the spoils. The consortium members usually just end up losing a lot of competitive time and some money.
If they wore T-shirts with their driver's license numbers writ large and visible from all angles, they wouldn't have formed lynch mobs.
That conveniently ignores the fact that the county sheriff usually knew exactly who the members of the lynch mob were, and his deputies were often part of the mob. So if an imbalance of power exists, having that information would probably only make it worse for those at the wrong end of the see-saw.
These all seems to be issues with the phone itself, and not so much with the technology behind the network. That said, voice quality definitely relies on the technology, but I've never found GSM to be any worse than wired.
The problem here is that people in GSM-land compare the quality of GSM mobile to the landline quality they had before the mobile explosion. Try comparing landline quality in Europe in 1980 to landline quality in North America in 1980, and both against any current mobile technology. Compared to pre-breakup NA voice quality, mobile (including GSM) is a sick joke.
Thats why they run mostly Win95 on a Novell network
Thus speaks a student with no experience in large corporate networks. Start with Netware's stability, add the flexible set of access control permissions, then start looking at NDS. When you can match that with any other OS, including Linux, let me know.
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But for your part, please think about this: Microsoft managed to outmaneuver David Boise, Joel Klein, Judge Jackson, and the best legal support from Netscape, AOL, and Sun. They had a rock-solid case, won it at both the trial and appeals court levels, and Microsoft still managed to outflank them. And you promise to do better?
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If you want to crawl around in the nose of a B-52 (and see the ejection seat rails for yourself), there is one at the Chanute Air Museum at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, 2 hours south of Chicago. They have a lot of neat stuff left over from Chanute's days as a training center.
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I would expect something similar in this case. A backroom deal has been cut (probably brokered by Cheney and Rove, now that they aren't so busy taking care of their Enron friends), and it will go through regardless of any concerns mere citizens might have.
Now, if Slashdotters were to send a couple of million $ in campaign contributions to some key senators, a little more backbone might appears.
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I wouldn't mind taking action of this nature against spammers, if I could figure out who to take action against. When spam arrives with no usable return address and no valid telephone number, who do you take to court?
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Funny, I just happened to re-read Tolkien's view on a movie version of LOTR last night. In a 1957 letter to his agent in response to an offer from an American studio, he basically said two things (a) he had no philosophical objection to movies and wouldn't mind if someone tried to create a screenplay/movie version (b) however, since he didn't trust Hollywood, his specific instructions were "either Art or Cash", meaning either full artistic control, or enough cash up front to drown his sorrows.
So I would say ol' JRR had pretty clear vision in these matters.
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So that when it freezes up you have some hope of resetting it without having to reboot the file server to which it is attached. You always need the greatest archive capacity on your most critical system!
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Which points out one of my real peeves about Microsoft: at a certain point they stop releasing service packs and patches, and start releasing changes to the OS using all sorts of sneaky non-documented methods. If you were an OEM and had access to OSR 2.5, great. But if you were a home user of W95, after Service Pack 1 (W95 SP2 being basically useless) you were out of luck. Same with NT 4 today: where is Service Pack 7?
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Yes, someone(s) with a particular ax to grind are spending a lot of moderation points on these threads. If the mods were for Offtopic I might see at least a valid argument (if not agree with it), but the Trolls and Flamebaits suggest a concerted effort to suppress any questioning of the party line.
Sort of like John Ashcroft's performance today, eh?
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New York: Where do you work? How much do you earn?
Chicago: What neighborhood do you live in? What high school did you go to?
California: What are your interests? Are you happy?
That may have changed a bit with the dot com/dot bomb culture, but maybe not!
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Second, and most importantly, if he does in fact have the ear of a Senator, and if he is able to translate technical concerns into political babble, this is a very good opportunity to present concerns which aren't usually heard by the political class. And all without having to pay $250 for a plate of rubber chicken!
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In other news, Attorney General John Ashcroft "detained" all 857 employees of the NIST as "suspected terrorists". They are being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location, awaiting execution by a miliary tribunal. "We can't just have people releasing encryption algorithms whenever they feel like it, even if they are employees of the US Government," said Ashcroft. When it was pointed out to him that bin Laden avoids technical means of communication in favor of face-to-ear whispers among trusted family members, Ashcroft replied: "That's OK. Better to execute 857 innocent geeks than allow one terrorist to slip through."
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Why is it that "extroverts" (assuming that any of these personality models have any validity, which I think is quite open to question) feel that it is their duty to force others to be like them? And that doing so will make the lives of others better?
If the "introverts" among you decided to force the "extroverts" to sit facing the wall reading Slashdot for 12 hours "for their own good", would the "extroverts" find that acceptable? If not, then why do they think it is acceptable to force others to behave the way they think best in the name of "fun" or "loosening up"?
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