I found the following on the Adobe website (emphasis mine):
"We support nonprofit organizations that service disadvantaged youth, the homeless, people with disabilities, minorities, the elderly, and victims of abuse; provide disaster relief, medical and hospice care, and meal service; provide education and literacy programs; support human rights; support the arts; protect the environment; and support animal rights."http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy
Maybe the EFF could apply to Adobe for financial assistance in getting Dmitri freed.
[...]but the contractor can charge what he likes for.us names, he can tie in other services, and pretty much do what he likes, except.us has to have rules that favor trademarks,[...]
So does this mean, for example, that the website for the City of Phoenix, Arizona (www.ci.phoenix.az.us) could be found guilty of infringing a BIOS manufacturer's trademark? And the trademark holder is granted preference in a domain name dispute?
I'll bet the case would get thrown out before it even got to www.supreme.state.az.us.
My department has budgeted zero, zip, nada, squat for education and training for the past year. Oh, except for management. I've never understood why you send a manager to a technical training seminar but you don't send the tech who's actually going to be doing the work. And why are all the classes always held in Hawaii anyway?
And for some probably unrelated reason our training budget is inversely proportional to our turnover, which was 100% for the same period. Well, not quite 100% yet, but it will be as soon as I get done cleaning up the Word document I've got open right now.
So do stock market investors not RTFA? MS's stock is up 5%. It doesn't seem like MS is that much better off.
MSFT is up 5% because everybody's stock is up 5%. The NASDAQ-100 heatmaps are almost solid green across the board. And Sun and Oracle, two of the would-be losers in this judgment, are outpacing MSFT's gains.
It's difficult to tell whether this is exuberance over the 25-point price cut earlier this week, or today's ruling, or some other factor. However, MSFT investors appear to be just following the herd, and not jubilantly celebrating.
We have awarded bids to several vendors with a corresponding "vendorsucks" website. And no, we can't even post our own worst horror stories to a "vendorsucks" website without violating the law.
And that's actually a good thing, if you look at it from a taxpayer point of view.
We put out a lot of RFPs on a regular basis, and when we get letters of intent from vendors I go through a number of steps to satisfy my employer's requirements for "due diligence".
Eventually I go look at their website for the positive stuff, then I tag on the word "sucks" to their URL to see if there's an opposing viewoint. But a funny thing has happened in the year that I've been doing this... when I first started, I treated finding a "vendorsucks" website as a deficit. But lately, if I don't find a "vendorsucks" site for a bidder, I wonder if they're a serious contendor in the marketplace.
In other words, if they're not big enough to have pissed somebody off, somewhere, do I want to deal with them?
The old adage about bad publicity being better than no publicity seems to make sense.
Best of all, however, is that I don't think we have to worry about it too much -- if at all, especially in the US.
Not even in the hot and sticky regions of the US? Our weather outside right now is almost exactly like that being currently reported for Belize. The only difference is that we do have a temperate season; it fell on a Wednesday this year.
When I was a kid, I had a dream come true at Disneyland. I'd heard somewhere that Walt kept an apartment above the fire station on Main Street, so one weekend I decided to blow off all the rides and just hang out at the fire department and play on the antique steam pumper while my siblings used up all their ride tickets.
I got my wish. Walter Eugene Disney wandered in about four o'clock and his first words to me were... "where are your parents?" When I'd assured him that I was not an orphan and well looked after, he wanted to know if I was having fun. I could hardly speak, I was so happy. He wished me and my family well, and then left. I still don't know for sure if the rumors about his loft above the firehouse was true or not. I didn't care... I'd got to say "hello" to Walt.
Fast forward fifty years. Michael Eisner makes more money in a year than Walt did in a lifetime. Disney, BuenaVista, and their subsidiaries routinely make movies that feature nudity, foul language, and violence. Disney gets sued over underwear. Disney gets sued over wages and benefits. Disney announces layoffs just to perk up the stockholders. Disney is no longer a kindly old grandfatherly type that wants to know where your parents are; Disney is now just another faceless megalithic corporation that just wants to know where your money is.
As an aside, did you know why Annette Funicello never wore a bikini in any of her beach movies? Yup, Walt. He thought it would make a bad impression on youngsters if a former Mouseketeer showed too much skin. He held her to a contract provision for the rest of her career just because his sense of moral obligation made him sure that that was the right thing to do.
If there is an afterlife, I feel sorry for Walt, looking down on what has become of his dreams for family oriented entertainment and family values.
That wonderful day in the firehouse is gone forever.
Does anyone else find it quite odd that Mundie is giving a speech at an Open Source conference? It seems to me that's like having Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for a conference on Judiasm.
... or like having Ralph Nader as the guest of honor at the Corvair Society of America's national convention.
At work, I have a Linux workstation and a Windows desktop running side by side. Visitors to my office always comment on how much more crisp and readable and faster Mozilla 0.9 is on Linux versus Explorer 5.0 on Windows. It can be done, but it takes a little effort.
My only complaint so far is that Mozilla has a tendency to barf and die on sites with a lot of Javascript or large PDFs; invariably I end up with an orphaned runaway mozilla-bin process that needs killing after that happens. It's a gripe, sure, but not any more of a problem really than IE when it hopelessly locks up. Both instances are rare, thankfully.
As soon as I can get the chance, I'll see if 0.91 fixes any of this. It's been a really good product lately, much better than any Netscape I've ever had to use on my UNIX workstations. Thanks, Moz-dev-guys. I appreciate it. Lots.
Our one-year experiment with Linux at our company is drawing to an unsuccessful close this month. Its failure had nothing to do with technological merit, or support, or cost of ownership. Our Linux trial was crippled and then killed by a cadre of data processing cro-magnons who were protecting their IBM SNA and Novell NetWare turf. Yeah, people still use that shit; I've even got a token ring card in my Linux desktop.
In the year that they've spent sabotaging the Linux evaluation, the number of NT servers at outlying offices has quadrupled. Fifty percent of the business applications that ran on the IBM last year now run on Microsoft systems that are outside the MIS department's control. These old dogs have done such a good job at marking their territory, they probably won't have a treetrunk left to piss on by next year.
You'd think they would have learned something by watching how easily Microsoft conquered the desktop. This time, they won't be able to just slap a token ring card in it and claim victory.
Thank you for that wonderful post. Others will now be able to see you Winvocates for what you really are. Angry, rude, and full of hate. A dying breed, proponents of the last of the proprietary operating systems.
I feel sorry for you. But I feel sorrier for your spouse and children.
It seems more likely they watched "Stripes", with Bill Murray. This is more like the Urban Assault Vehicle from that movie than anything that Bond or his villians have had.
I'd really rather not see them go public. Investors could care less about user friendliness, compatibility, and standards compliance; they're in it only for the profits. Mandrake will have to answer to its shareholders first, and its customers second. Don't we already have enough corporations doing that now? And badly, too, I might add.
When I was in college, I worked in the data processing department part-time to offset my tuition costs. This was back around the time of the beginning of the PC revolution, and I got to watch department after department secede from the university mainframe empire.
When we asked them why they wanted to do this, there were some common answers that we kept hearing. "Your priorities are not our priorities", "you don't understand our requirements", "it takes you guys too long to implement changes", "your chargebacks are inconsistent and make it difficult to budget", "your support staff doesn't work on the same schedule we do", and my all time favorite... "we just want local control over our data".
When I read about.NET and Hailstorm, all I see is the central data processing center of the 1970s carried to its illogical extreme. Except now there will only be one "glass house" to serve millions, and it will be in Redmond.
I expect we'll have to repeat history once again, 'cause it looks like nobody learned anything from the last time.
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"We support nonprofit organizations that service disadvantaged youth, the homeless, people with disabilities, minorities, the elderly, and victims of abuse; provide disaster relief, medical and hospice care, and meal service; provide education and literacy programs; support human rights; support the arts; protect the environment; and support animal rights." http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy
Maybe the EFF could apply to Adobe for financial assistance in getting Dmitri freed.
So does this mean, for example, that the website for the City of Phoenix, Arizona (www.ci.phoenix.az.us) could be found guilty of infringing a BIOS manufacturer's trademark? And the trademark holder is granted preference in a domain name dispute?
I'll bet the case would get thrown out before it even got to www.supreme.state.az.us.
If they'd just rename the place "pr0nland" I'm sure there'd be plenty of takers.
Maybe their Messenger servers caught a case of that particularly nasty GPL virus from the Interix kids next door; it's been going around, you know.
He looked old enough to play Sean Connery's father.
That would be way cool.
My condolences to all his loved ones.
And for some probably unrelated reason our training budget is inversely proportional to our turnover, which was 100% for the same period. Well, not quite 100% yet, but it will be as soon as I get done cleaning up the Word document I've got open right now.
MSFT is up 5% because everybody's stock is up 5%. The NASDAQ-100 heatmaps are almost solid green across the board. And Sun and Oracle, two of the would-be losers in this judgment, are outpacing MSFT's gains.
It's difficult to tell whether this is exuberance over the 25-point price cut earlier this week, or today's ruling, or some other factor. However, MSFT investors appear to be just following the herd, and not jubilantly celebrating.
NASDAQ-100 heatmaps
So does that mean if RedHat can sell just 13 million copies, we'll all break even?
And that's actually a good thing, if you look at it from a taxpayer point of view.
If Slashdot goes, how else will we be able to stress test all those webservers out there?
Eventually I go look at their website for the positive stuff, then I tag on the word "sucks" to their URL to see if there's an opposing viewoint. But a funny thing has happened in the year that I've been doing this... when I first started, I treated finding a "vendorsucks" website as a deficit. But lately, if I don't find a "vendorsucks" site for a bidder, I wonder if they're a serious contendor in the marketplace.
In other words, if they're not big enough to have pissed somebody off, somewhere, do I want to deal with them?
The old adage about bad publicity being better than no publicity seems to make sense.
Not even in the hot and sticky regions of the US? Our weather outside right now is almost exactly like that being currently reported for Belize. The only difference is that we do have a temperate season; it fell on a Wednesday this year.
I got my wish. Walter Eugene Disney wandered in about four o'clock and his first words to me were... "where are your parents?" When I'd assured him that I was not an orphan and well looked after, he wanted to know if I was having fun. I could hardly speak, I was so happy. He wished me and my family well, and then left. I still don't know for sure if the rumors about his loft above the firehouse was true or not. I didn't care... I'd got to say "hello" to Walt.
Fast forward fifty years. Michael Eisner makes more money in a year than Walt did in a lifetime. Disney, BuenaVista, and their subsidiaries routinely make movies that feature nudity, foul language, and violence. Disney gets sued over underwear. Disney gets sued over wages and benefits. Disney announces layoffs just to perk up the stockholders. Disney is no longer a kindly old grandfatherly type that wants to know where your parents are; Disney is now just another faceless megalithic corporation that just wants to know where your money is.
As an aside, did you know why Annette Funicello never wore a bikini in any of her beach movies? Yup, Walt. He thought it would make a bad impression on youngsters if a former Mouseketeer showed too much skin. He held her to a contract provision for the rest of her career just because his sense of moral obligation made him sure that that was the right thing to do.
If there is an afterlife, I feel sorry for Walt, looking down on what has become of his dreams for family oriented entertainment and family values.
That wonderful day in the firehouse is gone forever.
So just how do you suppose we measure brain damage in a group that seems predisposed to it?
My only complaint so far is that Mozilla has a tendency to barf and die on sites with a lot of Javascript or large PDFs; invariably I end up with an orphaned runaway mozilla-bin process that needs killing after that happens. It's a gripe, sure, but not any more of a problem really than IE when it hopelessly locks up. Both instances are rare, thankfully.
As soon as I can get the chance, I'll see if 0.91 fixes any of this. It's been a really good product lately, much better than any Netscape I've ever had to use on my UNIX workstations. Thanks, Moz-dev-guys. I appreciate it. Lots.
In the year that they've spent sabotaging the Linux evaluation, the number of NT servers at outlying offices has quadrupled. Fifty percent of the business applications that ran on the IBM last year now run on Microsoft systems that are outside the MIS department's control. These old dogs have done such a good job at marking their territory, they probably won't have a treetrunk left to piss on by next year.
You'd think they would have learned something by watching how easily Microsoft conquered the desktop. This time, they won't be able to just slap a token ring card in it and claim victory.
Shatner: "Oops. Sorry about that, Kaga-san."
Morimoto: "Wait! I have a recipe for toupee'...."
I feel sorry for you. But I feel sorrier for your spouse and children.
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It seems more likely they watched "Stripes", with Bill Murray. This is more like the Urban Assault Vehicle from that movie than anything that Bond or his villians have had.
I'd really rather not see them go public. Investors could care less about user friendliness, compatibility, and standards compliance; they're in it only for the profits. Mandrake will have to answer to its shareholders first, and its customers second. Don't we already have enough corporations doing that now? And badly, too, I might add.
When we asked them why they wanted to do this, there were some common answers that we kept hearing. "Your priorities are not our priorities", "you don't understand our requirements", "it takes you guys too long to implement changes", "your chargebacks are inconsistent and make it difficult to budget", "your support staff doesn't work on the same schedule we do", and my all time favorite... "we just want local control over our data".
When I read about .NET and Hailstorm, all I see is the central data processing center of the 1970s carried to its illogical extreme. Except now there will only be one "glass house" to serve millions, and it will be in Redmond.
I expect we'll have to repeat history once again, 'cause it looks like nobody learned anything from the last time.