What I learned: 1. don't mention Beowulf again, even in irony 2. don't feed the trolls 3. don't mention moderation 4. don't comment on anticipated future negative comments 5. don't annoy 6. Last and most important: don't detract from the story or conversation
It was unintentional and I wasn't looking for replies, but I can see I made quite a number of mistakes in one post. It was a first and a last post of its nature from me. Not to be repeated.
I was just trying to be even handed, not upset anyone, and still try to make a point.
It's a tough balance, but I guess I ignored some info/intel.
The requirement for Mensa (what 2% of the general population or something) just doesn't impress me much, so I didn't even recognise the attempted boast.
Talking oneself up (or attacking another's action in Sen Hatch's case) sure sets a high standard though!
Well as an example only this can be seen as a similar situation to Sen Hatch in a way.
A person who represents themselves to be of a higher standard than the general population sets a bar for their own actions at that higher level.
To be seen acting at a lower level does tend to teeter the soap box under them a bit.
The difference here is that the person's userid is just that and not much more. I'm sure a large portion of/. posters are pretty darn smart, as are the parent posters. But it does create a requirement for constant proof.
It's the glass house idea. I know it isn't piracy per se, but it's a close enough cousin.
Before a person in office criticizes an action, they should make pretty darn sure that they don't even have the appearance of being tainted by the act or anything close. Delegate the role. But check.
The bar is lower for nonpublic figures. Our words don't weigh as much in the public eye.
Now he'll have to be the brunt of embarrassing questions like "why should your computer not be destroyed?" It just weakens his stance.
"Consumers are being empowered to use technology to customize the way they view something in the privacy of their own home, and this makes Hollywood nervous," said Jason Schultz, the EFF attorney
I don't see why empowering the customer in this way would be bad for Hollywood. The customer wins, but I don't see the flipside loss.
Is it that Hollywood would want to sell their own software to do this? Is it lost opportunity cost?
I have a feeling the UK's loyal friends within the Commonwealth will have a different opinion.
The Commonwealth looks like it's verging towards a common strategy.
"The OEE and the DTI are considering establishing open-source licence terms as the default for government-funded software"
This sounds like it's swinging the pendulum even further than South African plans.
"When the Government decides to develop software using a restrictive licensing base, such as the GNU GPL, (it) should be aware that this would prevent it from deriving commercial gain..."
Which would be bad because we all know how much of our software we buy from the British government.
That's true, we never had a spare football either. We'd just go home, but we'd walk mighty slow.
Well sometimes we'd send someone home to look for another ball, but there was always the danger they wouldn't come back because their mom told them it was time for dinner.
âoe... revitalizing MSN Search with its own algorithmic search technologyâ . Uh huh. Not quite the hand Iâ(TM)d choose to guide me through the dark unknown. Can we please see the algorithm?
Must be a great temptation to put a little english on a search. No thanks, I prefer my searches unspun. Well, not spun towards that big black hole over there anyways.
Last thing: Gurry said there are no "immediate plans" to change MSN's relationship with Inktomi
My interpretation of âoeno immediate plansâ is âoethis is a medium or long term planâ.
Man, that's exactly how it was! The worst was when the kid owning the bat went home. We usually had more than one ball for so we could still play catch though.
"These are proud professionals who don't want to be evaluated by a faulty apparatus"
Or even by a working apparatus.
This can go wrong in so many ways, false positives and false negatives along every border of the strike zone. But aside from the mathematical reasons, why take away the human element even more from baseball?
You know one of the most fun parts of playing sports in my neighbourhood as a kid was watching my big brother argue whether something was a goal or not, who was safe or out. It was subjective and it was fun!
Now we have photo radar and cars that will apply the brakes themselves too. Sheesh.
Sometimes theyâ(TM)re just injected with dye: Painted fish, which is pretty cruel.
I wonder how a buyer could tell the difference?
âas more than 90 per cent have been sterilizedâ I guess having your organs glow is a bit of a downside here too. Must make the remaining 10% glow relatively brighter.
Sometimes itâ(TM)s best to go low-tech, like Gibson says. (I hope you know where â¦)
And Iâ(TM)m sure the dolphin with the SQUID would agree.
A collection of talks about clustering, hmm?
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· Score: -1, Troll
Yes and a group of these would be a bookstore, okay?
Maybe there should be an article-level lowering mechanism for B_____f Bait. I can almost see the hordes salivating on the horizon over this one. (Doom doom)
A histogram of the mod scores will be skewed to the left than usual.
The review wasn't a ringing endorsement unfortunately. Maybe the plainer English will be more colorful though.
Itâ(TM)s a small fish that feeds on big fish. Not symbiotically either.
âBut it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies.â
Thatâ(TM)s because (law) practise makes perfect.
So then SCO isnâ(TM)t suing IBM because IBM is illegally interfering with implementing their business model, suing (IBM in this case) is their business model.
What then are they really contributing? Is SCO really a software company? What is it? Maybe it contributes within Canopy, but not for a wider good.
âThe scientists are not yet ready to claim the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma, however. That must await corroborating experiments, now under way at RHICâ
The Large Hadron Collider will hopefully be powerful enough to extend the Standard Model and get direct evidence of the Higgs boson as well.
âWe should all keep in mind though that there aren't any hard core greedy evil people in our industry. They are all basically good hearted people who chose trying to create a better society as their life's work at a substantial cost in personal income.... but there isn't enough money floating around to attract any genuinely bad folks into our industry. Not yet....;-)
With change accelerating we canâ(TM)t even have a âoenot yetâ last through the day. I dunno, that wink at the end seems a little more evil than I recall two hours ago...;-)
Most companies - in industries other than SCO's - don't create treaties to look for loopholes to shaft the other guy.
Up until 15 years ago, some of my industry's biggest treaties were "gentlemens' agreements" - sometimes largely verbal, where large companies would agree to long-term ways of conducting business with each other. The spirit of the deal was what mattered. Breaking the spirit of these would lead to the company being ostracized by its peers. So everyone played nice.
We got away from them primarily to save people the trouble of having to rely on their memories.
Didn't make it clear that part of what my company pays me for is to investigate a broad range of risks.
We have a enterprise risk management area. And it's been about three days since I've talked with our company's compliance chief/ombudsman. There's a lot of peer review here - I help with that too.
Otherwise I'd agree with you - it wouldn't be my place.
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What I learned:
1. don't mention Beowulf again, even in irony
2. don't feed the trolls
3. don't mention moderation
4. don't comment on anticipated future negative comments
5. don't annoy
6. Last and most important: don't detract from the story or conversation
It was unintentional and I wasn't looking for replies, but I can see I made quite a number of mistakes in one post. It was a first and a last post of its nature from me. Not to be repeated.
Ah, you're right.
I was just trying to be even handed, not upset anyone, and still try to make a point.
It's a tough balance, but I guess I ignored some info/intel.
The requirement for Mensa (what 2% of the general population or something) just doesn't impress me much, so I didn't even recognise the attempted boast.
Talking oneself up (or attacking another's action in Sen Hatch's case) sure sets a high standard though!
Well as an example only this can be seen as a similar situation to Sen Hatch in a way.
/. posters are pretty darn smart, as are the parent posters. But it does create a requirement for constant proof.
A person who represents themselves to be of a higher standard than the general population sets a bar for their own actions at that higher level.
To be seen acting at a lower level does tend to teeter the soap box under them a bit.
The difference here is that the person's userid is just that and not much more. I'm sure a large portion of
It's the glass house idea. I know it isn't piracy per se, but it's a close enough cousin.
Before a person in office criticizes an action, they should make pretty darn sure that they don't even have the appearance of being tainted by the act or anything close. Delegate the role. But check.
The bar is lower for nonpublic figures. Our words don't weigh as much in the public eye.
Now he'll have to be the brunt of embarrassing questions like "why should your computer not be destroyed?" It just weakens his stance.
Ahh, thanks.
Hollywood just doesn't seem to like computers much, do they?
It's like they've got a Post It on their desk saying "Computers=BAD", as a touchstone in case they have a policy decision to make.
Well it would sure make it easier for me to queue up the cute Ewok parts of "Return of the Jedi" for my kindergardener.
, so what's the problem?
"Consumers are being empowered to use technology to customize the way they view something in the privacy of their own home, and this makes Hollywood nervous," said Jason Schultz, the EFF attorney
I don't see why empowering the customer in this way would be bad for Hollywood. The customer wins, but I don't see the flipside loss.
Is it that Hollywood would want to sell their own software to do this? Is it lost opportunity cost?
I have a feeling the UK's loyal friends within the Commonwealth will have a different opinion.
..."
The Commonwealth looks like it's verging towards a common strategy.
"The OEE and the DTI are considering establishing open-source licence terms as the default for government-funded software"
This sounds like it's swinging the pendulum even further than South African plans.
"When the Government decides to develop software using a restrictive licensing base, such as the GNU GPL, (it) should be aware that this would prevent it from deriving commercial gain
Which would be bad because we all know how much of our software we buy from the British government.
That's true, we never had a spare football either. We'd just go home, but we'd walk mighty slow.
Well sometimes we'd send someone home to look for another ball, but there was always the danger they wouldn't come back because their mom told them it was time for dinner.
Hereâ(TM)s a link : google hehe.
But seriously I canâ(TM)t see myself switching.
âoe... revitalizing MSN Search with its own algorithmic search technologyâ . Uh huh. Not quite the hand Iâ(TM)d choose to guide me through the dark unknown. Can we please see the algorithm?
Must be a great temptation to put a little english on a search. No thanks, I prefer my searches unspun. Well, not spun towards that big black hole over there anyways.
Last thing: Gurry said there are no "immediate plans" to change MSN's relationship with Inktomi
My interpretation of âoeno immediate plansâ is âoethis is a medium or long term planâ.
Re: going home with your stuff.
Man, that's exactly how it was! The worst was when the kid owning the bat went home. We usually had more than one ball for so we could still play catch though.
"These are proud professionals who don't want to be evaluated by a faulty apparatus"
Or even by a working apparatus.
This can go wrong in so many ways, false positives and false negatives along every border of the strike zone. But aside from the mathematical reasons, why take away the human element even more from baseball?
You know one of the most fun parts of playing sports in my neighbourhood as a kid was watching my big brother argue whether something was a goal or not, who was safe or out. It was subjective and it was fun!
Now we have photo radar and cars that will apply the brakes themselves too. Sheesh.
Sometimes theyâ(TM)re just injected with dye: Painted fish, which is pretty cruel.
I wonder how a buyer could tell the difference?
âas more than 90 per cent have been sterilizedâ I guess having your organs glow is a bit of a downside here too. Must make the remaining 10% glow relatively brighter.
Sometimes itâ(TM)s best to go low-tech, like Gibson says. (I hope you know where â¦)
And Iâ(TM)m sure the dolphin with the SQUID would agree.
Yes and a group of these would be a bookstore, okay?
Maybe there should be an article-level lowering mechanism for B_____f Bait. I can almost see the hordes salivating on the horizon over this one. (Doom doom)
A histogram of the mod scores will be skewed to the left than usual.
The review wasn't a ringing endorsement unfortunately. Maybe the plainer English will be more colorful though.
Hereâ(TM)s more from Honda:
CMS
So itâ(TM)s more than just the 300 ft test, which would be arbitrary. It looks at "distance, speed and and anticipated path".
Sounds worse than a backseat driver though.
Itâ(TM)s a small fish that feeds on big fish. Not symbiotically either.
âBut it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies.â
Thatâ(TM)s because (law) practise makes perfect.
So then SCO isnâ(TM)t suing IBM because IBM is illegally interfering with implementing their business model, suing (IBM in this case) is their business model.
What then are they really contributing? Is SCO really a software company? What is it? Maybe it contributes within Canopy, but not for a wider good.
âThe scientists are not yet ready to claim the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma, however. That must await corroborating experiments, now under way at RHICâ
The Large Hadron Collider will hopefully be powerful enough to extend the Standard Model and get direct evidence of the Higgs boson as well.
Naw it's just /. exercising their right of repetition.
From Hans Reiserâ(TM)s last answer:
... but there isn't enough money floating around to attract any genuinely bad folks into our industry.
;-)
âWe should all keep in mind though that there aren't any hard core greedy evil people in our industry. They are all basically good hearted people who chose trying to create a better society as their life's work at a substantial cost in personal income.
Not yet....;-)
With change accelerating we canâ(TM)t even have a âoenot yetâ last through the day. I dunno, that wink at the end seems a little more evil than I recall two hours ago...
"Knowlege is only valuable inasmuch as it contributes to your joy, and the joy of those whom you affect. "
Thanks for the insight!
Reminds me of a saying I heard many years ago "the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder".
For years I'd only thought of it only refering to one person, but as you say one person's knowledge can increase other peoples' joy.
"Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people." - H. Jackson Brown Jr (1993)
...
Just some advice for potential future business partners
"... with the resulting destruction of UNIX, IBM has clearly demonstrated its misuse of UNIX source code ..."
(shaking head and sighing) I don't know if they're hallucinating or just being overly creative. They're getting shrill.
I resemble that insulation.
Most companies - in industries other than SCO's - don't create treaties to look for loopholes to shaft the other guy.
Up until 15 years ago, some of my industry's biggest treaties were "gentlemens' agreements" - sometimes largely verbal, where large companies would agree to long-term ways of conducting business with each other. The spirit of the deal was what mattered. Breaking the spirit of these would lead to the company being ostracized by its peers. So everyone played nice.
We got away from them primarily to save people the trouble of having to rely on their memories.
Didn't make it clear that part of what my company pays me for is to investigate a broad range of risks.
We have a enterprise risk management area. And it's been about three days since I've talked with our company's compliance chief/ombudsman. There's a lot of peer review here - I help with that too.
Otherwise I'd agree with you - it wouldn't be my place.