i'm not new here, have read it since before the domain was registered and it was Rob's personal page. the kernel releases are an artifact of the fact, that slashdot used to be Rob's linux news site, so if he wants to put every kernel release on the front page, it's his option.
I noticed in the article it said they noticed it as part of a routine check. Ok, let me get this straight, they recieved the patent in 1989, and in 2000 were doing this "routine check" and 'oh my gosh' discovered they happened to have a patent for this? First off, how routine is over 10 years, and if their check it more recent than every 10 years, why did they 'discover' their patent before? Obviously the patent they filed was tossed into the back room so to speak, and forgotten about. It looks like someone is just wanting to pick a fight with everyone right now. Obviously they did not expect for their idea to fly, or they would have kept a closer eye on the patent, instead of waiting so long before saying anything. The patent runs out in 2006, and they waited over half the time of the patent to claim their idea.
just went quite a ways out of town, broken clouds, and saw maybe a total of 6 here in oklahoma. we spent almost 2 hours out watching for them.. weather in oklahoma isnt friendly with plans. glad to hear someone beat the weather though, and still look forward to seeing everyone else's pictures.
Same weather here in Oklahoma. It's been clear for days, and today and tonight there are supposed to be overcast skys and possible thunderstorms, and clear again by Tuesday... Weather in the midwest always has a way of sneaking up on you at the worst times.
slashdot doesnt directly advertise in its stories. Having ads for a company, whether it is your sponsor, or a third party, is all up to the maintainer, but slashdot itself sells nothing except getting a commission from advertising space. They dont sell "Slashdot Advertisements" but over time have needed to have some income to support itself. I've read slashdot since just after Rob started it as his personal Linux News site, and havent really ever seen any direct advertisement for anything, including VA, other than the banner ad at the top. Last I knew, having a banner ad never said you were selling something, it just says you're willing to endorse whatever the ad says.
Wow.. it says they believe its ready for mission critical application. If you read the WindowsNT eula, it states NOT TO USE IN MISSION CRITICAL ENVIRONMENT. Therefore I guess Linux has even one more up on M$, considering it CAN be used in mission critical, while NT cant. Sorta goes along w/ M$'s statement in the eula about "If data is lost because of this application, Microsoft is not responsible." and M$'s statements about who to sue if Linux breaks.
True... true. I took the internationalization into consideration when commenting on the spelling. Just the way he put it made it seem like in order for you to be classed as a hacker and not a twit was to have g00d gRaMm3r.:)
I liked the part where he said not to publish or email anything that was full of spelling errors. He said it made you a twit and not a hacker. I wonder if he's seen any of Raster's emails. I also noticed quite a few spelling errors in that document itself. Sorta hippocritical (I can't even spell that) if I may say so. Linus has even sent quite a few emails w/ tons of spelling errors. Tons of people known to the world as "hackers" have terrible spelling when sending emails or such documents.
I guess he hasnt seen Enlightenment, Window Maker, Blackbox, KDE, fvwm, even twm looks better than the look he stole from OS/2 and made look trashy (just to name a FEW). Hell.. even color-ls kicks the pants off of DIR.
It looks like the modeled thier stuff and ideas from the movie "Hackers". If they wanna know what a real hacker looks like, not a 5r1p+ k1dd13, look towards Linus, or Alan, Ken and Ritchie, or any of the other TRUE hackers.. not a bunch of crap ass Micky$oft, MSN, and AOL chatroom brawlers. Sickening.
Exactly.. and its not like M$ had 10,000 integrated apps waiting for them when M$dos and/or win3.0 / 9x went mainstream either. It took a little while for development to build up. But I guess Muth *wasnt paying attention* back then.
I guess M$ thinks an OS or anything for that matter can just pop up from nowhere and have a ton of integrated apps waiting for it to appear.
I think what they did, and what a lot of M$ lookalikes do is get a collection of common words and phrases, and use them for 1 advertisement, then trademark them. If anyone remembers, the term Wardialer has been around A LOT longer than AOL has. Maybe it isn't too late to start trademarking "a", "the", "with", "and", "or", and "I". ??
I see it that way... Approx. 2 weeks ago a man recieved a $20 bill from a store as change, and thought it looked fake. It wasnt one of the new bills, just had things that looked fake about it. He took it to the bank to try to get it changed for smaller bills, hoping the bank would either tell him it was fake or not. Since he didn't ASK the bank if it was fake, they assumed he knew it was, and now he is in jail for 5 years for distributing counterfeit money. True story, happened in Kansas.
I dont think i would have handled the flames as well as he did. The new look kicked major ass. Everyone I talked to thought it was a great look, and worked even better. Most likely, if I was in the same situation as him, there would have been a ton of flamers getting signed up for every mailing list I could get my hands on, and getting their names/email address posted to every newsgroup possible.
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i'm not new here, have read it since before the domain was registered and it was Rob's personal page. the kernel releases are an artifact of the fact, that slashdot used to be Rob's linux news site, so if he wants to put every kernel release on the front page, it's his option.
I noticed in the article it said they noticed it as part of a routine check. Ok, let me get this straight, they recieved the patent in 1989, and in 2000 were doing this "routine check" and 'oh my gosh' discovered they happened to have a patent for this? First off, how routine is over 10 years, and if their check it more recent than every 10 years, why did they 'discover' their patent before? Obviously the patent they filed was tossed into the back room so to speak, and forgotten about. It looks like someone is just wanting to pick a fight with everyone right now. Obviously they did not expect for their idea to fly, or they would have kept a closer eye on the patent, instead of waiting so long before saying anything. The patent runs out in 2006, and they waited over half the time of the patent to claim their idea.
this is off topic, but curiosity is a virtue i happen to have.
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just went quite a ways out of town, broken clouds, and saw maybe a total of 6 here in oklahoma. we spent almost 2 hours out watching for them.. weather in oklahoma isnt friendly with plans. glad to hear someone beat the weather though, and still look forward to seeing everyone else's pictures.
Same weather here in Oklahoma. It's been clear for days, and today and tonight there are supposed to be overcast skys and possible thunderstorms, and clear again by Tuesday... Weather in the midwest always has a way of sneaking up on you at the worst times.
slashdot doesnt directly advertise in its stories. Having ads for a company, whether it is your sponsor, or a third party, is all up to the maintainer, but slashdot itself sells nothing except getting a commission from advertising space. They dont sell "Slashdot Advertisements" but over time have needed to have some income to support itself. I've read slashdot since just after Rob started it as his personal Linux News site, and havent really ever seen any direct advertisement for anything, including VA, other than the banner ad at the top. Last I knew, having a banner ad never said you were selling something, it just says you're willing to endorse whatever the ad says.
Wow.. it says they believe its ready for mission critical application. If you read the WindowsNT eula, it states NOT TO USE IN MISSION CRITICAL ENVIRONMENT. Therefore I guess Linux has even one more up on M$, considering it CAN be used in mission critical, while NT cant. Sorta goes along w/ M$'s statement in the eula about "If data is lost because of this application, Microsoft is not responsible." and M$'s statements about who to sue if Linux breaks.
True... true. I took the internationalization into consideration when commenting on the spelling. Just the way he put it made it seem like in order for you to be classed as a hacker and not a twit was to have g00d gRaMm3r. :)
I liked the part where he said not to publish or email anything that was full of spelling errors. He said it made you a twit and not a hacker. I wonder if he's seen any of Raster's emails. I also noticed quite a few spelling errors in that document itself. Sorta hippocritical (I can't even spell that) if I may say so. Linus has even sent quite a few emails w/ tons of spelling errors. Tons of people known to the world as "hackers" have terrible spelling when sending emails or such documents.
I guess he hasnt seen Enlightenment, Window Maker, Blackbox, KDE, fvwm, even twm looks better than the look he stole from OS/2 and made look trashy (just to name a FEW). Hell.. even color-ls kicks the pants off of DIR.
It looks like the modeled thier stuff and ideas from the movie "Hackers". If they wanna know what a real hacker looks like, not a 5r1p+ k1dd13, look towards Linus, or Alan, Ken and Ritchie, or any of the other TRUE hackers.. not a bunch of crap ass Micky$oft, MSN, and AOL chatroom brawlers. Sickening.
Linus was just a small tot when OSS was concieved.
Exactly.. and its not like M$ had 10,000 integrated apps waiting for them when M$dos and/or win3.0 / 9x went mainstream either. It took a little while for development to build up. But I guess Muth *wasnt paying attention* back then.
I guess M$ thinks an OS or anything for that matter can just pop up from nowhere and have a ton of integrated apps waiting for it to appear.
anyone know of a mirror that has the diff? all the mirrors I've looked on had the tarballs of the source, but no patches. also, a ChangeLog?
I think what they did, and what a lot of M$ lookalikes do is get a collection of common words and phrases, and use them for 1 advertisement, then trademark them. If anyone remembers, the term Wardialer has been around A LOT longer than AOL has. Maybe it isn't too late to start trademarking "a", "the", "with", "and", "or", and "I". ??
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I see it that way...
Approx. 2 weeks ago a man recieved a $20 bill from a store as change, and thought it looked fake. It wasnt one of the new bills, just had things that looked fake about it. He took it to the bank to try to get it changed for smaller bills, hoping the bank would either tell him it was fake or not.
Since he didn't ASK the bank if it was fake, they assumed he knew it was, and now he is in jail for 5 years for distributing counterfeit money. True story, happened in Kansas.
I dont think i would have handled the flames as well as he did. The new look kicked major ass. Everyone I talked to thought it was a great look, and worked even better. Most likely, if I was in the same situation as him, there would have been a ton of flamers getting signed up for every mailing list I could get my hands on, and getting their names/email address posted to every newsgroup possible.