BTW: what exactly is the difference between selling domain names and selling real-estate?
Land doesn't have a name associated with it. I think that the corporate mentality of you having an "open*" domain name is like you setting up your tent, campfire, and smelly hiking boots in the middle of their campus and saying "this is my land now".
Maybe that's a bad analogy, but I can't think of a better one at the moment:) Land is just land, but a domain name can affect your business and therefor your shareholders, etc etc etc. When we renamed our company we basically threw random ideas around and went through greek and roman books to alongside a browser open to register.com to see if we could find a word that was not taken already. We finally found one that suited our needs, and wasn't taken, but it was a hell of a fight.
That's not to say I agree with SGI in anyway. If they have a trademark on opengl that predates the opengl.com website, they should have the right to it. Having a trademark on opengl does NOT allow them to go after open*.*!
Dont' forget that it's a.nu addresss.... I wouldn't expect huge transfer rates if you are in bumsville idaho:) Course, if you're a.nu-er, then it outta fly!
(Vancouver, BC, Canada, nowhere near idaho, getting 113Kb/s over Telus DSL)
Actually I had a similar problem getting all my stuff onto rfs partitions. Don't remember if it was a panic or just a freeze, but I ended up going to do it in single user mode with *nothing* else going on. All is fine now, and rfs has been rock solid since, but yea, the initial problems made me re-think things a bit.
There is a difference between carrying a gun when you go to work in the city and carrying a gun when you're out in the bush:) I'm not saying there is no place for guns, I'm saying that there are places where there is no need for guns, or should be.
I think one of the big problems with people is something addressed by a comment up above that said that people who have guns but don't know how to use them may as well not have them. If the young woman was carrying a gun but didn't know how to use it, it would have been a shiny plaything for the big kitty:\
Yes, because someone else may have a knife, or a ball bat, or they may just be bigger and stronger than me.
Which is why I carry around a shoulder mounted small scale tactical nuclear weapon myself. Seriously though, at what point does the "mine is bigger than yours" stop? If I carry a knife I should be carrying a pistol, because someone might have a bigger knife. If I carry a pistol, hey, better get an UZI in case someone comes up to me with a desert eagle or some such thing.
My other concern in all this is no so much the protection aspect of it all, but what happens when you have your 40 guns and armor peircing bullets (of course, what happens when someone mugs you with 41 guns?) lying around the house and your kid plays with them. Or sneaks one out to show his friends? I have heard the "keep your ammo and gun separatly and locked up" and the "how can I protect myself when my gun is taken apart and in different parts of the house when the evil people come to invade my house" arguments. I agree with the latter of course, I've seen how kids play with things, and I *was* a kid, but I know that if my dad had a gun I probably would have snuck it out of the house if only to show off to my friends.
Dr. Kleck's research, which has been made highly visible by the NRA, shows that Americans use guns over 2,000,000 times each year in self-defense. Dr. Kleck is a liberal who set out to prove that gun ownership didn't help individuals, but he ended up proving the opposite.
No offense, but I trust this sort of research about as far as I can comfortably spit a dead rat:) Lies, damn lies, and statistics. If there was one thing I learnt in stats class it was that you can create statistics that show exactly what you want them to show:) I'm sure there is validity to such studies, but when I see some NRA nut on TV I turn them off.
... "traditional (insert religion here) morality" as a need for children, it really does nothing. it might keep kids from killing, but think of it this way - the most christian people in my school were the most cruel to me, and the hindi and agnostic kids were the most tolerant of me.
I think that there are bad people in either way. I've met some really awsome christians that I would gladly trust my life, children, and possessions with. I've also met some that I haven't even wanted to stay in the same room with. Same with non-christians. Same with people with black skin, red skin, yellow skin, and white skin. I think that anyone of any race or creed or religious belief can be a total ass, or a great person. I'm not discounting your experiences of course, but I think that people can go either way.
Note that he said "traditional christian morals", not beliefs. UltraBot2K1 could have meant the morals that christianity (supposedly teaches). I have no problem with this. I'm an athiest (I guess), but I have a set of morals that roughly corresponds to christian morals. Don't steal, don't lie, don't kill people, be nice to people, forgive people, etc. I disagree with any bible bashing or religious dick-size wars, but I do not agree with teaching people (kids or just people in general) to have a good set of morals.
Maybe I'm stupid and Canadian, but in an urban population with a decent sized police force, there should be no good reason for people to have to carry around weapons. I mean, Jesus, I remember driving in LA on vacation and seeing a cop in her squad car with the shotgun holster mounted right in the front seat. I mean, holy shit, that thing's loaded. I try not to think about how many loaded weapons there must be if I enter into a family restaraunt in the states with my kids.
Regarding the mounted shotgun, I think I've seen similar set ups up here (Vancouver). I gotta agree with you though, thinking about places like LA or Texas scare me, especially with people having license to carry concealed, or to carry period. Do you really need to wander down main street with a holster on your hip? This is the 21st century, not the damn wild west!
IMHO this is kinda an endless circle. I live in canada, don't own anything more dangerous than a hunting knife I take camping, and have never, ever needed anything more violent for any reason. I've never been mugged, shot at, stabbed, or had a gun pulled on me at a bar. But because in the states (for one) other people have guns, a fist fight could easily turn into a gun fight; and because there is that possibility, of course you have to own a gun too, or else you won't be the last one standing becuase the other guy surely has a gun. I can see people having guns for target shooting or hunting purposes, but if no one else had a gun, would you still need one for protection?
Don't forget splash damage either. Actually, with the RL as my favorite weapon I'd suck as a school shooter.... probably end up puncturing everyone's feet because I'm so used to aiming there for the splash damage.
This sounds very big brother-ish... only listen to the right music, go to the approved places, drive in gov't sanctioned cars.
Sure, I say this with sarcasm now, but even if They can't take away our physical rights, why not our electronic ones? Right now there is the possibility that Napster could turn into the only RIAA approved file sharing system right? And it'll only stock "approved" titles. So what makes you think that after a good relationship is established that gnutella etc aren't going to be what They start going after?
I hate to be a conspiricy theorist, but I appreciate my fair use rights as much as the next guy. Soon you won't be able to download non-sanctioned music, you'll have people monitoring what you watch on your HDTV, you won't be able to record it, and your HDTV won't really be under your control anymore anyway, as it's remote control capabilities allow Them to turn it off when They see fit. Oh, and those DVDs you purchased? Wanna watch them on a non-approved OS or using a non-licensed player? Sorry bub, no joy. Rip a CD to listen in an un-approved manner? Good luck!
Sarcasm now, but lets see what it's like in a few years.
... is that as they get more advanced in trying to stick ads in our faces, we'll get more advanced in avoiding them. Banner ads are removed by junkbuster, TIVO makes tv advertisments a non-issue, and CDs and mp3s make radio pretty much obselite. Why do they think that people arne't going to get around this with a simple checkbox in their browser of choice that says "avoid interruption based ads [x]"
They'll come back with some way around this, browser writers will come back with a better version, etc etc etc. Why can't they just realize that advertising doesn't work (or web advertising doesn't work) and leave us the hell alone! If they found a better way of advertising that DIDN'T piss off consumers, people would be happier? Know why we don't object all that much anymore to banner ads? We've learned to ignore them, so we don't bitch, and they are basically just something to scroll off the top of the screen when you start reading a page. This is the symbiosis we've attained with the advertising agencies on the net, and it's comfortable. I guess now they are realizing "hey, banner ads don't work! lets find a way to be more annoying and obnoxious". What they should say is "hey web advertising doesn't work! lets find a way to be more effective and more helpful".
Now I'm not against paying people for good work, or being rewarded for mine, but what makes libranet the "best distribution ever"? Why is it different from a default Debian (with a few extras such as a CD full of stuff, or an administrative tool), Slackware, or Redhat that we can download for free? Redhat (for example) makes money on support and such, and either gives the OS away for free, or cost of media/shipping (except for the bundled software/manual version).
I'm not saying that their methodology is wrong, they are basically saying that the LPBs get the same deal as the HPBs, an OS for the cost of shipping and media, but I'd like to know why this distro is any different.
This is actually an argument I've heard from a few christian friends when queried about things like carbon dating, dinosaurs, etc etc, invariably followed by "but I don't know everything". Asking who does will result in pointers to youth group leaders, pastors, the bible, etc.
Not that it's a bad argument. I argue evolutionary theory and I know nothing about it:) When someone gives me a hardcore question (ie: apparently carbon dating "just doesn't work" (to which I say why the hell are they using it if it doesn't work?)) I will quite easily say "uhmm., I donno, ask some scientist who does":)
This is something I've been kinda expecting for a while now. Redhat is a bit like a.com, and are searching for new revenue streams. Originally it was enough to say "we'll make money off of service", and they probably did quite well at this. However, now, because of unpopularity, or drying up of *other* revenue streams (ads, partnerships,.coms), they've been forced to go this way.
My company just did something similar. After saying that upgrades will always be free the salesguys (note this, it wasn't the developers idea) decided they wanted to track things better, and the only way to do it was to sell upgrades on a yearly basis. Now in some ways it gives us great things, ie: a way of tracking who is up to date (and when you're producing a security device this is a good idea) as well as a revenue stream. Of course, as a Open Source guy, I'd much rather have seen things stay always free.
It'll be interesting to see how redhat does, and if they are more or less popular. I'm a debian user and as much as a zelot as I seem, apt does rock. Redhat is probably heading towards a similar system, the question is, will it be free?:)
Yay! A voice of reason! I cut my teeth on slackware 2.0 and loved it and it taught me much more than I could have learnt if I started with linux today. Currently I use debian because it's the most like slackware except with the added bonus of package management. Slack is pure, but when you know what you are doing you know that some things make life easier:)
Friendly graphical installers like the one that comes with Red Hat, or like the one that comes with Windows? There are only 5 varieties of Windows, but their installer still confuses most 1-2year Windows admins I've seen.
No offense, but I think you must know some really stupid "windows admins" then:) I've installed windows many times, but I still don't remember finding a step in it that was confusing to anyone other than a grandmother who doesn't know what a NIC is. Granted, NT installs are a little worse due to the overall complexity of the networking services, but I still think you're stretching things...
Will people (who were bitching about the windows only aspect of.NET) now start with the conspiricy theories about MS trying to kill linux by putting.net on non-windows platforms.....:)
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Every once and a while I see something "good" on TV, more often than not a comedy (ie: malcom in the middle, a good simpsons, futurama, lone gunmen, etc), I find that generally there is crap on. I live in canada, so 99% of the content I watch is american...
However, I have to agree with the original poster, as well as OmegaDan, that British TV, no matter how "evil" and "unamerican" it appears, pumps out far better quality programs than the likes of Fox. This is not to say that there aren't good shows on n.american TV, but in... quantity over quality ya know?
Multiple angles in porn is already here. I was in seattle about a year ago browsing dvds with a buddy of mine when he called me over to the stack of dvds at the end and pointed to ones with "multiple angles" as a special feature.
I'm not a porn dvd viewer myself, so I can't say if multiple angles is done for certain scenes, or if you can view the entire "movie" from different angles.
This would be interesting for interactive childrens dvds too... imagine a full length feature using "build your own adventure[1]" type stories.
[1] Some books I read as a kid (early-mid 80s) were "Build your own adventure" books, where you'd get to the bottom of a page and it would say something like "do you jump into the time machine or keep running? If you jump in, turn to page 42, if you keep running, turn to page 24". They were quite fun IIRC.
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BTW: what exactly is the difference between selling domain names and selling real-estate?
Land doesn't have a name associated with it. I think that the corporate mentality of you having an "open*" domain name is like you setting up your tent, campfire, and smelly hiking boots in the middle of their campus and saying "this is my land now".
Maybe that's a bad analogy, but I can't think of a better one at the moment
That's not to say I agree with SGI in anyway. If they have a trademark on opengl that predates the opengl.com website, they should have the right to it. Having a trademark on opengl does NOT allow them to go after open*.*!
Dont' forget that it's a .nu addresss.... I wouldn't expect huge transfer rates if you are in bumsville idaho :) Course, if you're a .nu-er, then it outta fly!
(Vancouver, BC, Canada, nowhere near idaho, getting 113Kb/s over Telus DSL)
Actually I had a similar problem getting all my stuff onto rfs partitions. Don't remember if it was a panic or just a freeze, but I ended up going to do it in single user mode with *nothing* else going on. All is fine now, and rfs has been rock solid since, but yea, the initial problems made me re-think things a bit.
There is a difference between carrying a gun when you go to work in the city and carrying a gun when you're out in the bush :) I'm not saying there is no place for guns, I'm saying that there are places where there is no need for guns, or should be.
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I think one of the big problems with people is something addressed by a comment up above that said that people who have guns but don't know how to use them may as well not have them. If the young woman was carrying a gun but didn't know how to use it, it would have been a shiny plaything for the big kitty
Yes, because someone else may have a knife, or a ball bat, or they may just be bigger and stronger than me.
Which is why I carry around a shoulder mounted small scale tactical nuclear weapon myself. Seriously though, at what point does the "mine is bigger than yours" stop? If I carry a knife I should be carrying a pistol, because someone might have a bigger knife. If I carry a pistol, hey, better get an UZI in case someone comes up to me with a desert eagle or some such thing.
My other concern in all this is no so much the protection aspect of it all, but what happens when you have your 40 guns and armor peircing bullets (of course, what happens when someone mugs you with 41 guns?) lying around the house and your kid plays with them. Or sneaks one out to show his friends? I have heard the "keep your ammo and gun separatly and locked up" and the "how can I protect myself when my gun is taken apart and in different parts of the house when the evil people come to invade my house" arguments. I agree with the latter of course, I've seen how kids play with things, and I *was* a kid, but I know that if my dad had a gun I probably would have snuck it out of the house if only to show off to my friends.
Dr. Kleck's research, which has been made highly visible by the NRA, shows that Americans use guns over 2,000,000 times each year in self-defense. Dr. Kleck is a liberal who set out to prove that gun ownership didn't help individuals, but he ended up proving the opposite.
No offense, but I trust this sort of research about as far as I can comfortably spit a dead rat
... "traditional (insert religion here) morality" as a need for children, it really does nothing. it might keep kids from killing, but think of it this way - the most christian people in my school were the most cruel to me, and the hindi and agnostic kids were the most tolerant of me.
I think that there are bad people in either way. I've met some really awsome christians that I would gladly trust my life, children, and possessions with. I've also met some that I haven't even wanted to stay in the same room with. Same with non-christians. Same with people with black skin, red skin, yellow skin, and white skin. I think that anyone of any race or creed or religious belief can be a total ass, or a great person. I'm not discounting your experiences of course, but I think that people can go either way.
Note that he said "traditional christian morals", not beliefs. UltraBot2K1 could have meant the morals that christianity (supposedly teaches). I have no problem with this. I'm an athiest (I guess), but I have a set of morals that roughly corresponds to christian morals. Don't steal, don't lie, don't kill people, be nice to people, forgive people, etc. I disagree with any bible bashing or religious dick-size wars, but I do not agree with teaching people (kids or just people in general) to have a good set of morals.
Maybe I'm stupid and Canadian, but in an urban population with a decent sized police force, there should be no good reason for people to have to carry around weapons. I mean, Jesus, I remember driving in LA on vacation and seeing a cop in her squad car with the shotgun holster mounted right in the front seat. I mean, holy shit, that thing's loaded. I try not to think about how many loaded weapons there must be if I enter into a family restaraunt in the states with my kids.
Regarding the mounted shotgun, I think I've seen similar set ups up here (Vancouver). I gotta agree with you though, thinking about places like LA or Texas scare me, especially with people having license to carry concealed, or to carry period. Do you really need to wander down main street with a holster on your hip? This is the 21st century, not the damn wild west!
IMHO this is kinda an endless circle. I live in canada, don't own anything more dangerous than a hunting knife I take camping, and have never, ever needed anything more violent for any reason. I've never been mugged, shot at, stabbed, or had a gun pulled on me at a bar. But because in the states (for one) other people have guns, a fist fight could easily turn into a gun fight; and because there is that possibility, of course you have to own a gun too, or else you won't be the last one standing becuase the other guy surely has a gun. I can see people having guns for target shooting or hunting purposes, but if no one else had a gun, would you still need one for protection?
I think there is a far difference between defending yourself and owning a semi/fully automatic rifle with armor piercing bullets.
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Don't forget splash damage either. Actually, with the RL as my favorite weapon I'd suck as a school shooter.... probably end up puncturing everyone's feet because I'm so used to aiming there for the splash damage.
Does this have something to do with the metric system again? :)
This sounds very big brother-ish... only listen to the right music, go to the approved places, drive in gov't sanctioned cars.
Sure, I say this with sarcasm now, but even if They can't take away our physical rights, why not our electronic ones? Right now there is the possibility that Napster could turn into the only RIAA approved file sharing system right? And it'll only stock "approved" titles. So what makes you think that after a good relationship is established that gnutella etc aren't going to be what They start going after?
I hate to be a conspiricy theorist, but I appreciate my fair use rights as much as the next guy. Soon you won't be able to download non-sanctioned music, you'll have people monitoring what you watch on your HDTV, you won't be able to record it, and your HDTV won't really be under your control anymore anyway, as it's remote control capabilities allow Them to turn it off when They see fit. Oh, and those DVDs you purchased? Wanna watch them on a non-approved OS or using a non-licensed player? Sorry bub, no joy. Rip a CD to listen in an un-approved manner? Good luck!
Sarcasm now, but lets see what it's like in a few years.
... is that as they get more advanced in trying to stick ads in our faces, we'll get more advanced in avoiding them. Banner ads are removed by junkbuster, TIVO makes tv advertisments a non-issue, and CDs and mp3s make radio pretty much obselite. Why do they think that people arne't going to get around this with a simple checkbox in their browser of choice that says "avoid interruption based ads [x]"
They'll come back with some way around this, browser writers will come back with a better version, etc etc etc. Why can't they just realize that advertising doesn't work (or web advertising doesn't work) and leave us the hell alone! If they found a better way of advertising that DIDN'T piss off consumers, people would be happier? Know why we don't object all that much anymore to banner ads? We've learned to ignore them, so we don't bitch, and they are basically just something to scroll off the top of the screen when you start reading a page. This is the symbiosis we've attained with the advertising agencies on the net, and it's comfortable. I guess now they are realizing "hey, banner ads don't work! lets find a way to be more annoying and obnoxious". What they should say is "hey web advertising doesn't work! lets find a way to be more effective and more helpful".
My $0.02
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Now I'm not against paying people for good work, or being rewarded for mine, but what makes libranet the "best distribution ever"? Why is it different from a default Debian (with a few extras such as a CD full of stuff, or an administrative tool), Slackware, or Redhat that we can download for free? Redhat (for example) makes money on support and such, and either gives the OS away for free, or cost of media/shipping (except for the bundled software/manual version).
I'm not saying that their methodology is wrong, they are basically saying that the LPBs get the same deal as the HPBs, an OS for the cost of shipping and media, but I'd like to know why this distro is any different.
This is actually an argument I've heard from a few christian friends when queried about things like carbon dating, dinosaurs, etc etc, invariably followed by "but I don't know everything". Asking who does will result in pointers to youth group leaders, pastors, the bible, etc.
:) When someone gives me a hardcore question (ie: apparently carbon dating "just doesn't work" (to which I say why the hell are they using it if it doesn't work?)) I will quite easily say "uhmm., I donno, ask some scientist who does" :)
Not that it's a bad argument. I argue evolutionary theory and I know nothing about it
This is something I've been kinda expecting for a while now. Redhat is a bit like a .com, and are searching for new revenue streams. Originally it was enough to say "we'll make money off of service", and they probably did quite well at this. However, now, because of unpopularity, or drying up of *other* revenue streams (ads, partnerships, .coms), they've been forced to go this way.
:)
My company just did something similar. After saying that upgrades will always be free the salesguys (note this, it wasn't the developers idea) decided they wanted to track things better, and the only way to do it was to sell upgrades on a yearly basis. Now in some ways it gives us great things, ie: a way of tracking who is up to date (and when you're producing a security device this is a good idea) as well as a revenue stream. Of course, as a Open Source guy, I'd much rather have seen things stay always free.
It'll be interesting to see how redhat does, and if they are more or less popular. I'm a debian user and as much as a zelot as I seem, apt does rock. Redhat is probably heading towards a similar system, the question is, will it be free?
Yay! A voice of reason! I cut my teeth on slackware 2.0 and loved it and it taught me much more than I could have learnt if I started with linux today. Currently I use debian because it's the most like slackware except with the added bonus of package management. Slack is pure, but when you know what you are doing you know that some things make life easier :)
Friendly graphical installers like the one that comes with Red Hat, or like the one that comes with Windows? There are only 5 varieties of Windows, but their installer still confuses most 1-2year Windows admins I've seen.
:) I've installed windows many times, but I still don't remember finding a step in it that was confusing to anyone other than a grandmother who doesn't know what a NIC is. Granted, NT installs are a little worse due to the overall complexity of the networking services, but I still think you're stretching things...
No offense, but I think you must know some really stupid "windows admins" then
Will people (who were bitching about the windows only aspect of .NET) now start with the conspiricy theories about MS trying to kill linux by putting .net on non-windows platforms..... :)
Every once and a while I see something "good" on TV, more often than not a comedy (ie: malcom in the middle, a good simpsons, futurama, lone gunmen, etc), I find that generally there is crap on. I live in canada, so 99% of the content I watch is american...
However, I have to agree with the original poster, as well as OmegaDan, that British TV, no matter how "evil" and "unamerican" it appears, pumps out far better quality programs than the likes of Fox. This is not to say that there aren't good shows on n.american TV, but in... quantity over quality ya know?
Multiple angles in porn is already here. I was in seattle about a year ago browsing dvds with a buddy of mine when he called me over to the stack of dvds at the end and pointed to ones with "multiple angles" as a special feature.
I'm not a porn dvd viewer myself, so I can't say if multiple angles is done for certain scenes, or if you can view the entire "movie" from different angles.
This would be interesting for interactive childrens dvds too... imagine a full length feature using "build your own adventure[1]" type stories.
[1] Some books I read as a kid (early-mid 80s) were "Build your own adventure" books, where you'd get to the bottom of a page and it would say something like "do you jump into the time machine or keep running? If you jump in, turn to page 42, if you keep running, turn to page 24". They were quite fun IIRC.
That and downloading music would be that much more fun!
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