The problem with all of those ideas are the same as the ones we have with slashdot...
Voting won't work because large compnaies can get people to vote for them through PR and links on the site and all sorts of manipulations.
Moderation by outsiders is subject to all kinds of abuse. Even without trolls and people just putting an automatic no on everything.
Most importantly, by putting it up for review to the public, every company's competitors would work their butts off to ensure that patent wasn't granted so they could use the idea themselves.
An acedemic review of sorts could work with a public request for prior art previous to ussuance but how long should the USPTO wait?
The system in place is broken but you would have to re-look at the whole idea of intellectual property in order to create a working system.
How many companies have direct dialing to every extension? Whole exchanges get filled up just so companies don't have to install a phone system to handle the company extensions?
I'm sorry, it's not my cell, and fax lines taking up the slack, it's the large company head offices taking up 5000 phone numbers and getting the CLEC to handle the hardware and take numbers away.
How about just making a corporate area code and making consumer phones not have to worry about 11 or even 10 digit dialing?
But Could you imagine going to a rave with stripes or lines of this on your clothes? Forget black light reactive, this stuff will go no matter what lights are on.
All you have to do is order from outside the US. If you want a book that's on the List of Evil* then all you do is order it from Canada or Europe or Australia or... and pay for shipping.
When your own government is out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking...
*(c) and TM Axis of Evil enterprises, created by a grant from the US government.
It's really nice except where I life it vcan get below -20C and it's normal in winter to be below 0C. What this means is, I have to get some kind of device for it that keeps it warm if it gets too cold and another that doesn't let it turn on until the car is warmed up.
Who is this for? People who live in Florida or California?
Preempt patch and 3rd party modules
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I installed the patch, recompiled and both ALSA 5.12a and nvidia's kernel module were broken. I got unresolved symbols.
It would be nice if there was some way to exempt these two from the optimization or there was a doc explaining what I would need to change
The one thing everybody is missing is the fact that US laws end at the borders.
I'll simply get parts from Europe, Japan, etc. and build my machine that way. Sure, many of the parts will have DMCA et al ability, but that won't be activated for non-US parts as they won't apply. And you can't possibly tell me that DMCA type laws will be in force everywhere as even copyright isn't universal.
So the little computer store down the street dies. I'll miss them but mail order works and maybe I'll pay a bit more for international shipping. But the true hardcore upgraders want parts before they hit the US anyway. It just will raise the rest of us up to the point where if we know it's available in then we order from there.
I doubt customs will open up the box, wire it in and activate the DMCA, etc protections on every part crossing the border.
I'm afraid that no amount of scare mongering is going to stop people from having hackable computers. The market is too strong. And even if Joe Bluecoller won't be able to build his own machine, really, they don't now anyway.
No, real men rsync slackware-current and the choose which update to install.
That way, you get to have the benefit of Pat's hard work in figuring out how to make the fscking software compile successfully. He even gives you the script! All you do is add your favourite GCC options.
Getting some of these mystical software packages to compile and not error out due to some library's typo from 8 years ago is not my idea of fun.
I attach this to all my personal messages. IANAL but I married one...
No disclaimer shall be read or observed. Any person (either corporate or individual) making any statement shall be held civily and criminally liable as a party to any act I may do while following the intentional, implied or inferred (whether correctly or not) directions from said statement. So there.
That way it's your fault if you reply to it and I screw up.
From the 188 total distributions, 28 are derived from the popular Red Hat Linux. So Red Hat is derived from the Linux kernel and then those 28 are derived from Red Hat. Nine of the 188 are derived from Debian. Where does this stop? This is starting to sound like we're headed back in time to the 1980's and 1990's era where retailers were locked into a single vendor's innovation.
And, of course, if everyone goes to windows, we won't be locked into any one vendor's innovation, well, except for being locked into Microsoft's...
Looks like it's time to let SI know that their corporate partner is being a crying spoiled brat
You want to let SI (An AOL Time-Warner publication) that Referee.com is making bad net press?
AOL Time-Warner?
It's probably the SI partnership that forced Referee.com to start the process. Everyone knows that AT-W loves competition and is loving in it's sharing of trademarks...
Unfortunately, there already is a 2.5 start for Linux PPC as the gang there was not willing to hold off on starting new projects and just setting down to squash bugs.
Ummm, I've got a radical idea...
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Instead of shipping new GMOs to various poor countries, why doesn't the US government stop paying farmers not to produce food, and ship the resulting excess to those self same countries?
I realize that's probably going too far. After all, those farmers have a right not to grow food and subsidies help maintain prices of crops. But it seems to me, that starving countries can't afford to buy these crops anyway (they wouldn't be starving if they could). So why not just ship any excess to them?
Of course, the old arguement that they wouldn't be self-sufficient if other countries just gave them food but maybe it could give them the the food (and therefore strength and time) they need to start themselves on the road to self-sufficiency.
I don't think a new GMO (with beta carotene and 75,000 essential nutrients) is the answer, enough food is the answer and most of the western world produces more than it needs and many (like those in North America) actively pay people not to grow crops. That's just dumb.
I beleive the war on drugs has been one. When Tipper entered rehab, the drug companies realized that their days were numbered do to a massive drop in valium sales. Can heroin, cocaine and marijuana be far behind?
2. Minority Religions...
I believe in minorities. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
3. Why give a tax cut?
'Cuz the republicans say they will.
4. electoral reform
I believe in reform. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
5. How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I believe in intellectual property. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
6. Encryption...
I believe in encryption. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
7. Rising Political Protests
No, I don't beleive they have reason to be concerned. After all, as long as I've been in office, no-one has successfully changed anything of consequence. However, I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
8. Asteroid Defenses
I was a great fan of Asteroids in the 80's. I look forward to a day where I can get a full one for the Oval Office.
9. The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
I believe in missions. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that everyone will get what I think they deserve.
This could be great for other suites
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All abuse of MS aside, This could be positive for the market as a whole.
Ignoring the Windows source and focusing on the office source, it could now be possible to use some of this source code to make things like StarOffice or AbiWord properly import Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents. Once you have the source, you could use it as a basis to write new import code for any other Suite.
The hardest part about getting people to move to OSS was the fact you couldn't convert between MS Word and back. Now, maybe we can and Linux, BSD and BeOS can make serious inroads.
Lets see what new submissions to the various OSS suites happen in a few months...
Well, I never thought I hear Microsoft level claims coming from a Linux based company.
How naive was I? Red Hat(cygnus, whatever) may be the largest distributer of OSS (except maybe freshmeat) but I never expected this crap from Red Hat. Not only have they started Open Source, they're the only distribution that matters now. They've won the distribution wars.
I guess it's time I uninstalled Slackware and pledged my allegiance to the hat.
Or maybe we can just put Red Hat on the same level as Redmond in our thinking from now on.
There's still something to be said for hand made models and costumes when it comes to realism.
That's the key. A CGI R2 may be given a bitmap that has "dirt" applied but can never look properly worn and interesting. The actual models of various sizes of R2D2 are really what makes the character stand out. It's understandable that Lucas wants to save money by not having to make 500 different R2's for use in various shots (after all he only make a few dollars with the series so far;-). It just shows that he's more concerned with what the kids say that what the people who started watching the series in 1977 say. The kids don't care about realistic, they want more lens flares.
I'm sure that if they destroy R2, the public will never forgive Lucas.
It's a nice idea but there are far more 12 year olds that really don't understand the "lovableness" of R2D2. They liked Jar Jar.
We're not the ones he cares about anymore. It's the little kids that bug mom into buying yet another Jar Jar figurine after breaking the last one the bugged mom about. We break ours once in anger and then feel better so we don't buy another.
I hope Lucas keeps at least some of R2's distictiveness in the future and maybe even uses Kenny for some shots (despite what he says). I just think he's lost the dream and relies on the cash.
This may be a really stupid question, but if I compile and install this over top of my Xfree86 4.01 installation, how badly will I have ruined my system?
Seriously, I burned my self out a long time ago. Precisely by not doing any of the suggestions people have sent in. Now, 10 years later, I'm trying to teach myself to code. I haven't forgotten syntax or style, just confidence. I'm terrified to write another line of code. And I doubt my syntax even though it still compiles (when I write enough to actually compile it).
The best thing you can do to maintain your ability to code is TAKE VACATIONS. Don't spend 80 hours per week, or more, coding and expect to be able to do it for long.
And don't use computer conferences as your "vacations". Actually take them. Go to beaches, forests or anywhere else where computers are at least rare. Leave your laptop, cell phone, palm pilot, or other toys at home when you go.
Above all, get out into the Big Blue Room(tm) and you'd be amazed how good it is. I watched all my friends remember this as I ignored it.
Well, lets see, at a buck a chapter, assuming 20-25 chapters, it's the same price as buying the book as a hardcover except there's no cost to them for printing.
Shouldn't we be getting a discount? His last book was $2.50 for the whole thing... Now we have to pay up to $20-$25 bucks for a book and hope that after 10 chapters he doesn't stop writing.
That's a rip off.
No matter how many chapters he writes, he's getting a fortune for a book and has no publishing costs. Shouldn't we be getting a break too? I could see 10 cents a chapter but not $25 bucks for an e-book.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem with all of those ideas are the same as the ones we have with slashdot...
Voting won't work because large compnaies can get people to vote for them through PR and links on the site and all sorts of manipulations.
Moderation by outsiders is subject to all kinds of abuse. Even without trolls and people just putting an automatic no on everything.
Most importantly, by putting it up for review to the public, every company's competitors would work their butts off to ensure that patent wasn't granted so they could use the idea themselves.
An acedemic review of sorts could work with a public request for prior art previous to ussuance but how long should the USPTO wait?
The system in place is broken but you would have to re-look at the whole idea of intellectual property in order to create a working system.
Don't we already have D&D Online? Neverwinter Nights is 3rd Ed rules for DND in an on-line setting.
If not, what have I been playing for all these months?
Maybe it will be first edition D&D and we'll all have to dig out our old rule books to figure out all the old restrictions...
I'm the paranoid type, I encode all my messages (like this one) with Double ROT13.
THat way I can feel secure.
There are two types of people in the world, those who dived people into two types and those who don't.
How many companies have direct dialing to every extension? Whole exchanges get filled up just so companies don't have to install a phone system to handle the company extensions?
I'm sorry, it's not my cell, and fax lines taking up the slack, it's the large company head offices taking up 5000 phone numbers and getting the CLEC to handle the hardware and take numbers away.
How about just making a corporate area code and making consumer phones not have to worry about 11 or even 10 digit dialing?
But Could you imagine going to a rave with stripes or lines of this on your clothes? Forget black light reactive, this stuff will go no matter what lights are on.
I want to know where I can get this stuff!
All you have to do is order from outside the US. If you want a book that's on the List of Evil* then all you do is order it from Canada or Europe or Australia or... and pay for shipping.
When your own government is out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking...
*(c) and TM Axis of Evil enterprises, created by a grant from the US government.
It's really nice except where I life it vcan get below -20C and it's normal in winter to be below 0C. What this means is, I have to get some kind of device for it that keeps it warm if it gets too cold and another that doesn't let it turn on until the car is warmed up.
Who is this for? People who live in Florida or California?
I installed the patch, recompiled and both ALSA 5.12a and nvidia's kernel module were broken. I got unresolved symbols.
It would be nice if there was some way to exempt these two from the optimization or there was a doc explaining what I would need to change
The one thing everybody is missing is the fact that US laws end at the borders.
I'll simply get parts from Europe, Japan, etc. and build my machine that way. Sure, many of the parts will have DMCA et al ability, but that won't be activated for non-US parts as they won't apply. And you can't possibly tell me that DMCA type laws will be in force everywhere as even copyright isn't universal.
So the little computer store down the street dies. I'll miss them but mail order works and maybe I'll pay a bit more for international shipping. But the true hardcore upgraders want parts before they hit the US anyway. It just will raise the rest of us up to the point where if we know it's available in then we order from there.
I doubt customs will open up the box, wire it in and activate the DMCA, etc protections on every part crossing the border.
I'm afraid that no amount of scare mongering is going to stop people from having hackable computers. The market is too strong. And even if Joe Bluecoller won't be able to build his own machine, really, they don't now anyway.
No, real men rsync slackware-current and the choose which update to install.
That way, you get to have the benefit of Pat's hard work in figuring out how to make the fscking software compile successfully. He even gives you the script! All you do is add your favourite GCC options.
Getting some of these mystical software packages to compile and not error out due to some library's typo from 8 years ago is not my idea of fun.
Of course Autoslack makes that just too easy.
I attach this to all my personal messages. IANAL but I married one...
No disclaimer shall be read or observed. Any person (either corporate or individual) making any statement shall be held civily and criminally liable as a party to any act I may do while following the intentional, implied or inferred (whether correctly or not) directions from said statement. So there.
That way it's your fault if you reply to it and I screw up.
From the 188 total distributions, 28 are derived from the popular Red Hat Linux. So Red Hat is derived from the Linux kernel and then those 28 are derived from Red Hat. Nine of the 188 are derived from Debian. Where does this stop? This is starting to sound like we're headed back in time to the 1980's and 1990's era where retailers were locked into a single vendor's innovation.
And, of course, if everyone goes to windows, we won't be locked into any one vendor's innovation, well, except for being locked into Microsoft's...
Who writes this stuff?
Looks like it's time to let SI know that their corporate partner is being a crying spoiled brat
You want to let SI (An AOL Time-Warner publication) that Referee.com is making bad net press?
AOL Time-Warner?
It's probably the SI partnership that forced Referee.com to start the process. Everyone knows that AT-W loves competition and is loving in it's sharing of trademarks...
Unfortunately, there already is a 2.5 start for Linux PPC as the gang there was not willing to hold off on starting new projects and just setting down to squash bugs.
Instead of shipping new GMOs to various poor countries, why doesn't the US government stop paying farmers not to produce food, and ship the resulting excess to those self same countries?
I realize that's probably going too far. After all, those farmers have a right not to grow food and subsidies help maintain prices of crops. But it seems to me, that starving countries can't afford to buy these crops anyway (they wouldn't be starving if they could). So why not just ship any excess to them?
Of course, the old arguement that they wouldn't be self-sufficient if other countries just gave them food but maybe it could give them the the food (and therefore strength and time) they need to start themselves on the road to self-sufficiency. I don't think a new GMO (with beta carotene and 75,000 essential nutrients) is the answer, enough food is the answer and most of the western world produces more than it needs and many (like those in North America) actively pay people not to grow crops. That's just dumb.
Like I said, it's a radical idea.
1. War on Drugs
I beleive the war on drugs has been one. When Tipper entered rehab, the drug companies realized that their days were numbered do to a massive drop in valium sales. Can heroin, cocaine and marijuana be far behind?
2. Minority Religions...
I believe in minorities. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
3. Why give a tax cut?
'Cuz the republicans say they will.
4. electoral reform
I believe in reform. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
5. How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I believe in intellectual property. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
6. Encryption...
I believe in encryption. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
7. Rising Political Protests
No, I don't beleive they have reason to be concerned. After all, as long as I've been in office, no-one has successfully changed anything of consequence. However, I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that they all get what I think they deserve.
8. Asteroid Defenses
I was a great fan of Asteroids in the 80's. I look forward to a day where I can get a full one for the Oval Office.
9. The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
I believe in missions. I've often thought to myself that many in these positions need something, and I will work to make sure that everyone will get what I think they deserve.
All abuse of MS aside, This could be positive for the market as a whole.
Ignoring the Windows source and focusing on the office source, it could now be possible to use some of this source code to make things like StarOffice or AbiWord properly import Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents. Once you have the source, you could use it as a basis to write new import code for any other Suite.
The hardest part about getting people to move to OSS was the fact you couldn't convert between MS Word and back. Now, maybe we can and Linux, BSD and BeOS can make serious inroads.
Lets see what new submissions to the various OSS suites happen in a few months...
Well, I never thought I hear Microsoft level claims coming from a Linux based company.
How naive was I? Red Hat(cygnus, whatever) may be the largest distributer of OSS (except maybe freshmeat) but I never expected this crap from Red Hat. Not only have they started Open Source, they're the only distribution that matters now. They've won the distribution wars.
I guess it's time I uninstalled Slackware and pledged my allegiance to the hat.
Or maybe we can just put Red Hat on the same level as Redmond in our thinking from now on.
What I like is the fact I can't reverse-engineer the source code.
I can see it now:
Okay guys I've left you alone with this source code. Without reverse engineering it into pseudocode, try to find out what it does.
There's still something to be said for hand made models and costumes when it comes to realism.
;-). It just shows that he's more concerned with what the kids say that what the people who started watching the series in 1977 say. The kids don't care about realistic, they want more lens flares.
That's the key. A CGI R2 may be given a bitmap that has "dirt" applied but can never look properly worn and interesting. The actual models of various sizes of R2D2 are really what makes the character stand out. It's understandable that Lucas wants to save money by not having to make 500 different R2's for use in various shots (after all he only make a few dollars with the series so far
I'm sure that if they destroy R2, the public will never forgive Lucas.
It's a nice idea but there are far more 12 year olds that really don't understand the "lovableness" of R2D2. They liked Jar Jar.
We're not the ones he cares about anymore. It's the little kids that bug mom into buying yet another Jar Jar figurine after breaking the last one the bugged mom about. We break ours once in anger and then feel better so we don't buy another. I hope Lucas keeps at least some of R2's distictiveness in the future and maybe even uses Kenny for some shots (despite what he says). I just think he's lost the dream and relies on the cash.
This may be a really stupid question, but if I compile and install this over top of my Xfree86 4.01 installation, how badly will I have ruined my system?
He's only released 2 chapters. Work it out. at $25 for the book (assuming 25 chapters) he's gonna make a mint and have no costs but the advertising.
Now if he'd released his book at $2.50 as he did the last one, maybe he'd be breaking even.
But with this one costing the same as a hardcover without the printing, binding, etc. costs. We're getting hosed and he's making lots.
That's what I did and it's helped me to no end...
Seriously, I burned my self out a long time ago. Precisely by not doing any of the suggestions people have sent in. Now, 10 years later, I'm trying to teach myself to code. I haven't forgotten syntax or style, just confidence. I'm terrified to write another line of code. And I doubt my syntax even though it still compiles (when I write enough to actually compile it).
The best thing you can do to maintain your ability to code is TAKE VACATIONS. Don't spend 80 hours per week, or more, coding and expect to be able to do it for long.
And don't use computer conferences as your "vacations". Actually take them. Go to beaches, forests or anywhere else where computers are at least rare. Leave your laptop, cell phone, palm pilot, or other toys at home when you go.
Above all, get out into the Big Blue Room(tm) and you'd be amazed how good it is. I watched all my friends remember this as I ignored it.
Now I'm in marketing at a major bank.
Please kill me.
Well, lets see, at a buck a chapter, assuming 20-25 chapters, it's the same price as buying the book as a hardcover except there's no cost to them for printing.
Shouldn't we be getting a discount? His last book was $2.50 for the whole thing... Now we have to pay up to $20-$25 bucks for a book and hope that after 10 chapters he doesn't stop writing.
That's a rip off.
No matter how many chapters he writes, he's getting a fortune for a book and has no publishing costs. Shouldn't we be getting a break too? I could see 10 cents a chapter but not $25 bucks for an e-book.
I think I'll stick to paperbacks.