After a horrendous dose of food poisoning from one of those international burger chains four years ago, I swore off fast food forever. I'm now back down to an acceptable weight, my recurring headaches are gone, and I have more energy and stamina. So... why is it that a company with a billion dollars invested in food processing equipment can't do any better at sanitation than the little locally owned snack shop down the street?
Anyway, for about three days I was really glad my toilet and my sink are right next to each other.
Where were they when Eazel tanked? What about the folks at SourceXchange? Are they doing anything more than thinking about marketing, pr facetime, and beating their own products to death?
Please don't get me wrong, I too am saddened and disappointed at Eazel's demise. But I appreciate the fact that IBM has adopted a mostly hands-off approach to third party open source development.
Consider that IBM did decide to fund a company like Eazel, what makes that any better than Microsoft funding Corel? I think IBM is doing the "right thing", and avoiding lots of nasty accusations in the process.
I work for one of those shops that has millions of lines of Motif code. That doesn't necessarily mean Motif is that great, just that if you lined up our years of Motif experience end-to-end, it would probably predate Noah and the biblical flood. It's hard to overcome that much momentum.
Before everybody starts dancing in the streets, SDMI was only one small battle, not the war. This is like battling the hydra of Greek mythology; you cut off one head and two more appear. Prof. Felten and colleagues may have effectively decapitated SDMI, but the Microsoft and InterTrust heads are springing up to take its place.
As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, content protection is inevitable. You know why I think that? Because every time there is an Anime' story posted here, it's usually only available on DVD and everybody here seems to have seen it. Now if the DVD CCA and its heathen spawn CSS are so evil, how come all of you have one of these things? The only way to make a statement to the RIAA and the MPAA is to vote with your pocketbook, and Slashdot has got more hanging chads than Florida.
And when content protected HDTV hits the market, how many of you are going to "just say no" then? From what I've seen here, probably far too few to even make the needle twitch on the copyright robber baron's give-a-shit meter.
I'm not trolling for flames, just stating what I see as obvious. If you want this copyright idiocy to go away, then large numbers of people have to revolt in the only way that's understood by content producers. If they lose money on this, it will die, but right now any sane person would place all his bets in the content provider's corner.
By the way, I don't own any DVD-related product. Well, except maybe for my DeCSS T-shirt.
And I have to agree with you. My personal opinion is that the Yahoo article is probably a poor or incomplete translation. There is valuable reason to restrict things like death threats and bomb threats through the e-mail. And I am thinking that what has made everybody here angry, the censoring of pornography, is more in the same line as the others - unwanted pornographic e-mail, not the viewing of it. Otherwise, what would the source of the complaint be? As the article seemed to be mainly addressing a way to put an end to all the complaints the Mumbai police were getting.
If I have time, I think I'll look for the news story untranslated. I just don't believe Yahoo got it accurate.
If George Washington Carver were alive today, he'd be litigated into anonymity. Perhaps we should start giving away Nobel prizes for greed, now that science for the good of mankind has been effectively abolished.
If this crap gets implemented, the analog TV set I have now will be the last TV set I ever buy. I'll listen to the radio, I'll read books, I'll take up knitting, I'll find something else to do. And you can take that to the bank.
This is the last straw. I have had it. I am angry. I will not put up with this childish bullshit any longer. HDTV will have no place in my home, and you can take your advertising dollars and your product and all your intellectual property rights and stuff them up your corporate ass where they rightfully belong.
I'd probably be less indignant if there were anything on TV worth watching, but it's been nothing but garbage for the last ten years. And I expect it'll only get worse.
Well, I guess I'll have to add "intellectual property" to my list of words and phrases that have had their original meaning diminished through incorrect usage.
1. Intellectual Property
2. Innovation
3. Proactive
4. Closure
5. Empowered
I'll forever equate the first two with "theft of another's ideas". The third really doesn't exist as a legitimate word. The fourth and fifth are pure Californiisms, usually seen only on late night TV paid programming for psychic hotlines.
My wife gave me a copy of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" for an anniversary present many years ago. Upon learning of his death, I went to the library and pulled it down from the shelf and blew off the dust to look at it one more time.
The illustration on the jacket ignited a few brain cells that I thought I had long ago killed with alcohol, and memories of my Commodore-64 days rushed through what is left of my brain. I recalled a "Hitchhiker" game for the C-64 that I had nearly completely forgotten. I vaguely remember being Zaphod and Ford and every other character in the book, saving the universe and everything in 64 k-bytes through a text interface.
Does anyone else remember this game or should I just check myself into a "home" (as my wife has threatened to do to me recently)?
Unless things have changed since I lived there, this isn't a conspiracy - it's just the same old overloaded phone system. Vegas is one of the fastest growing metros in the country, and the local telcos have never, ever, been able to keep up with the growth. Sucky SS7 links and an undercapacity PSTN do not a conspiracy make.
The population doubles on the weekends, so of course the phones start going intermittent every Friday evening. People who live there oughta know that.
Just in case you've all been living under a rock, Caldera just acquired a truckload of intellectual property from the old Santa Cruz Operation. They'd be fools to give all that away after paying an arm and a leg for it, but they'd be villified from here to eternity if they don't share it with the OSS community somehow. It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
Caldera has always understood the rules as well or better than anybody else, and has played a fair game with the community. Why don't you all hold off on the flames until they release something under a different license model, and then make a judgement as to whether their intentions are honorable or not.
Y'all bemoan the fact, daily it seems, that OSS companies keep going broke, but when somebody tries to find a way to make an honest buck, you crucify them. Lighten up. Caldera will do the right thing based on their past performance.
Way too many people here have abandoned their logical thought processes and concluded that RedHat is supporting UCITA by doing this. This is absolutely not true. Maryland has already passed UCITA into law, the damage has been done. Redhat is simply trying to mitigate that damage on behalf of all open source advocates everywhere. How is this a "bad thing"?
I think UCITA is a bad law, and needs to be blocked where it hasn't passed, and repealed where it has. People shouldn't abandon these efforts. In the meantime, let's support RedHat's efforts to keep this carnivorous beast at bay until it's put back in its cage.
When we moved from our MVS environment to the simplified administration model of AIX, we doubled our IT staff. Whan we offloaded many of our AIX applications to the point-and-click simplicity of WinNT, we doubled our staff again. Now that IBM is promising yet another threshhold in simplification, I find myself asking only one question....
Where am I going to put all the new people I'll need to hire?
Lotus Notes 5.0 runs quite well under Wine on Linux. IE browser integration is broken for obvious reasons. It also doesn't exit cleanly, but there is a workaround for that minor annoyance. Complete step-by-step instructions are available several places on the web, including Lotus' own site (below).
Yes, I know, I'd rather have a native port too, but I have work to do and this lets me use Linux to do it. The alternative is far less appealing.
http://www.lotus.com/developers/itcentralnew.nsf/a llpublic/2D96D32F0ED19D26852569DD0067B3D0?opendocu ment
The grill will have a 400 square inch cooking surface, but it'll only be able to heat one item at a time. You'll have to completely replace your patio with a new one before you can use the lawnchairs. The watch will display time in a non-standards-compliant proprietery format. And worst of all, you'll have to pick five games from Microsoft that don't totally suck.
The only behaviour that eye-tracking technology would reveal about me is that I'm extremely fond of cleavage. These companies presume I'm actually looking at *their* product while I have the cute young blonde kneel down and reach deep into the glass display case? How arrogant of them.
Lest we offend those holding intellectual property rights in the form of registered trademarks, we should replace the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty with one that more accurately portrays the current climate of liberty and freedom in the U.S.
"The New (1)" by (2) (3)
"(4) (5) your tired, your poor, Your (6) (7) yearning to (8) (9), The (10) (11) of your (12)ing (13). (14) these, the homeless, (15)-(16) to (5). (17) (18) (19) (20) beside the (21) (22)."
1. Trimble Navigation Ltd.
2. Seattle Lab Inc.
3. Michael D'Aigle (indiv)
4. Give Music Group
5. Mancini Enterprises
6. Mark Mandzick (indiv)
7. Mass USA Inc.
8. Love and Beauty LLC
9. Andrew Suttner (indiv)
10. David Bascom (indiv)
11. Jay Thaxton (indiv)
12. Pepsi Cola Corp.
13. SD&M AG Corp.
14. Benjamin Slotznick (indiv)
15. Applied Materials Inc.
16. American Restaurant Corp.
17. Net Apparel LLC
18. Lift Apparel
19. Marble Sportswear Inc.
20. Lightsand Communications Inc.
21. Samuel Kevin Price (indiv)
22. Storefront Door Service, Inc.
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Anyway, for about three days I was really glad my toilet and my sink are right next to each other.
CERT appears to be conducting some additional research in this field right now. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6016900.html
It's not ugly, it's just French. Doesn't anybody else see a faint resemblance to the front end of a Citroen Xsara Picasso there?
Please don't get me wrong, I too am saddened and disappointed at Eazel's demise. But I appreciate the fact that IBM has adopted a mostly hands-off approach to third party open source development.
Consider that IBM did decide to fund a company like Eazel, what makes that any better than Microsoft funding Corel? I think IBM is doing the "right thing", and avoiding lots of nasty accusations in the process.
I work for one of those shops that has millions of lines of Motif code. That doesn't necessarily mean Motif is that great, just that if you lined up our years of Motif experience end-to-end, it would probably predate Noah and the biblical flood. It's hard to overcome that much momentum.
Actually, I thought it looked more like the United States is slowly but surely being "voted off the island."
As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, content protection is inevitable. You know why I think that? Because every time there is an Anime' story posted here, it's usually only available on DVD and everybody here seems to have seen it. Now if the DVD CCA and its heathen spawn CSS are so evil, how come all of you have one of these things? The only way to make a statement to the RIAA and the MPAA is to vote with your pocketbook, and Slashdot has got more hanging chads than Florida.
And when content protected HDTV hits the market, how many of you are going to "just say no" then? From what I've seen here, probably far too few to even make the needle twitch on the copyright robber baron's give-a-shit meter.
I'm not trolling for flames, just stating what I see as obvious. If you want this copyright idiocy to go away, then large numbers of people have to revolt in the only way that's understood by content producers. If they lose money on this, it will die, but right now any sane person would place all his bets in the content provider's corner.
By the way, I don't own any DVD-related product. Well, except maybe for my DeCSS T-shirt.
If ever a mission specialist were to download an MP3 off of Napster while in flight, the RIAA would make damn sure it never flew again.
If I have time, I think I'll look for the news story untranslated. I just don't believe Yahoo got it accurate.
If George Washington Carver were alive today, he'd be litigated into anonymity. Perhaps we should start giving away Nobel prizes for greed, now that science for the good of mankind has been effectively abolished.
Me: "How many times do I have to tell you... put the beer down."
This is the last straw. I have had it. I am angry. I will not put up with this childish bullshit any longer. HDTV will have no place in my home, and you can take your advertising dollars and your product and all your intellectual property rights and stuff them up your corporate ass where they rightfully belong.
I'd probably be less indignant if there were anything on TV worth watching, but it's been nothing but garbage for the last ten years. And I expect it'll only get worse.
1. Intellectual Property
2. Innovation
3. Proactive
4. Closure
5. Empowered
I'll forever equate the first two with "theft of another's ideas". The third really doesn't exist as a legitimate word. The fourth and fifth are pure Californiisms, usually seen only on late night TV paid programming for psychic hotlines.
The illustration on the jacket ignited a few brain cells that I thought I had long ago killed with alcohol, and memories of my Commodore-64 days rushed through what is left of my brain. I recalled a "Hitchhiker" game for the C-64 that I had nearly completely forgotten. I vaguely remember being Zaphod and Ford and every other character in the book, saving the universe and everything in 64 k-bytes through a text interface.
Does anyone else remember this game or should I just check myself into a "home" (as my wife has threatened to do to me recently)?
The population doubles on the weekends, so of course the phones start going intermittent every Friday evening. People who live there oughta know that.
Caldera has always understood the rules as well or better than anybody else, and has played a fair game with the community. Why don't you all hold off on the flames until they release something under a different license model, and then make a judgement as to whether their intentions are honorable or not.
Y'all bemoan the fact, daily it seems, that OSS companies keep going broke, but when somebody tries to find a way to make an honest buck, you crucify them. Lighten up. Caldera will do the right thing based on their past performance.
In other news, "Farmers to use Foxes to guard Henhouses."
I think UCITA is a bad law, and needs to be blocked where it hasn't passed, and repealed where it has. People shouldn't abandon these efforts. In the meantime, let's support RedHat's efforts to keep this carnivorous beast at bay until it's put back in its cage.
Maybe while he's there, Hemos should take a couple of refresher courses on grammar and spelling, eh?
Where am I going to put all the new people I'll need to hire?
Yes, I know, I'd rather have a native port too, but I have work to do and this lets me use Linux to do it. The alternative is far less appealing.
http://www.lotus.com/developers/itcentralnew.nsf/a llpublic/2D96D32F0ED19D26852569DD0067B3D0?opendocu ment
The grill will have a 400 square inch cooking surface, but it'll only be able to heat one item at a time. You'll have to completely replace your patio with a new one before you can use the lawnchairs. The watch will display time in a non-standards-compliant proprietery format. And worst of all, you'll have to pick five games from Microsoft that don't totally suck.
The only behaviour that eye-tracking technology would reveal about me is that I'm extremely fond of cleavage. These companies presume I'm actually looking at *their* product while I have the cute young blonde kneel down and reach deep into the glass display case? How arrogant of them.
At least Microsoft doesn't run sixty-minute infomercials all night long on cable. Scary thought, huh?
"The New (1)" by (2) (3)
"(4) (5) your tired, your poor, Your (6) (7) yearning to (8) (9), The (10) (11) of your (12)ing (13). (14) these, the homeless, (15)-(16) to (5). (17) (18) (19) (20) beside the (21) (22)."
1. Trimble Navigation Ltd. 2. Seattle Lab Inc. 3. Michael D'Aigle (indiv) 4. Give Music Group 5. Mancini Enterprises 6. Mark Mandzick (indiv) 7. Mass USA Inc. 8. Love and Beauty LLC 9. Andrew Suttner (indiv) 10. David Bascom (indiv) 11. Jay Thaxton (indiv) 12. Pepsi Cola Corp. 13. SD&M AG Corp. 14. Benjamin Slotznick (indiv) 15. Applied Materials Inc. 16. American Restaurant Corp. 17. Net Apparel LLC 18. Lift Apparel 19. Marble Sportswear Inc. 20. Lightsand Communications Inc. 21. Samuel Kevin Price (indiv) 22. Storefront Door Service, Inc.