That's one of the things that pisses me off the most about the 'Linux boom' of the past several years. When I search for the homepage of a project I haven't updated my version of, it's become a page on SourceForge. Now if and when SourceForge turns into smoke, lots of those projects will just disappear.
The one good thing that seems to remain stable is that Slackware hasn't ever been bought by 'the suits.'
I don't think Motorola is 'in a quandry.' Not at all. They're just refocusing. Getting outta desktop processors is a wise move on their part. If anything, their relationship with Apple has been a millstone around their neck. They make excellent, strong embedded processors. Every PalmOS device has a Moto chip in it, obviously, and the little cheap 8 bitters aren't going away any time soon.
Then, unless you actually have a bunch of incriminating evidence in your house, you finish off the house payments with the money from your winning lawsuit and retire to write free software for the rest of your life for fun.
The other thing that makes it easy for the NetBSD project to write clean 64 bit code is that the OS is already ported to all the other 64 bit processors.
NetBSD is the 'leading edge' research OS. Makers of new hardware, i.e. the Chalice Technology StrongARM hardware, port over NetBSD to feel out the architecture. That's what NetBSD is beautifully suited for.
Once incident 30 years ago isn't a very good trend.
They're still executing dissidents and 'political criminals' in China, aren't they?
Besides, you're being racist. Only about a month after Kent State, black students at Jackson State were killed in the same fashion. Why doesn't it get the same mention as Kent State? Because the racists who regularly refresh our memory about Kent State for whatever reason have a lot more sympathy for white middle class college students than they do for black college students.
(though there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government, when America has lasted half as long as the Ming or Han dynasty, then lets talk)
Nope. I just can't let anything as outrageous as this stand in your comment.
First off, we need to examine wether there's inherent stability in the Mao Dynasty. Perhaps some of the Sinologists in the crowd can expand on how inherently stable the 'Giant Leap Forward' and 'Cultural Revolution' eras were. Furthermore, the whole clown show didn't even start until 1949 in China.
Reality seldom, if ever, conforms to the textbook defintion of any single person. So obviously there's never been a true 'Adam Smith Capitalist' society just as there was never (and it looks like nobody's really trying much any longer) a purely Marxian Communist society.
Life is too complex for some egghead in a library to write up a book that explains it all.
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In at least a few of the cases you cited, it sounds like a case of someone grabbing a domain name because 'everybody else is grabbing them' and then trying to figure out afterwards what to do with it.
We need businesses like that, because there's always a market for used office furniture.
Actually, Outlook is just the agent that the viruses use to transmit themselves.
There's also a TCP/IP stack in the path of said viruses as they make their way around. And there are Sendmail servers in the path. Hell, there are even Linux boxes in the path. So they're all classifiable as agents that the viruses use to transmit themselves.
Does this make the TCP/IP Stack, Sendmail, and the Linux kernel viral? No. Not any more than it makes Outlook viral.
I have a small web browser that I've purchased called 'PalmScape' that I use with my Visor. It's not a plain vanilla Web browser, because it reformats the content of websites to fit on the tiny screen on my Visor.
Clearly it manipulates how Web content is presented to me.
Should I be carping and whining about that fact? Maybe what they do should be made illegal.
Since we're arguing about the integrity of the content as presented perhaps the safest thing would be for there to be a mandatory opt-in tag, otherwise all textual content is presented as white characters on a white background.
Anything less than that takes control away from the author in how their content is presented.
Nope. Smart tags just scan the text that's being rendered to appear on your display. If the word 'Octopus' comes up, it might insert a link to a definition of that word. Nothing has to trawl all over the web ahead of time. The Smart tags are generated at the client side dynamically.
The Stupid Idea was you posting your comment without knowing what you were talking about.
Likewise, the links behind Smarttags can be community specified. Just configure your system(s) to use a particular set of them. Share your set with your friends or your community.
He has the bad habit of just being another opinionated Journalist.
And while tech journalists often ooze slightly less 'essence of liberalism' than journalists in general, Petreley gravitates toward Katzness. He's truly one of the most zealous out there.
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Goodwill Industries does a pretty good job of it.
Of course, their merchandise is all donated.
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That's one of the things that pisses me off the most about the 'Linux boom' of the past several years. When I search for the homepage of a project I haven't updated my version of, it's become a page on SourceForge. Now if and when SourceForge turns into smoke, lots of those projects will just disappear.
The one good thing that seems to remain stable is that Slackware hasn't ever been bought by 'the suits.'
Why pay more for the Apple badge on the front?
When that question has been answered it'll be worth even thinking about above 'rackmount servers.'
Until then there are many, many adequate alternatives at a lower price point.
Apple isn't reknown for any of the things important in server side hardware. Let's be real.
I don't think Motorola is 'in a quandry.' Not at all. They're just refocusing. Getting outta desktop processors is a wise move on their part. If anything, their relationship with Apple has been a millstone around their neck. They make excellent, strong embedded processors. Every PalmOS device has a Moto chip in it, obviously, and the little cheap 8 bitters aren't going away any time soon.
Why are you hoping that?
Because you value egg on the face of management more than the hordes of tech people who will be thrown out of work?
Then, unless you actually have a bunch of incriminating evidence in your house, you finish off the house payments with the money from your winning lawsuit and retire to write free software for the rest of your life for fun.
The other thing that makes it easy for the NetBSD project to write clean 64 bit code is that the OS is already ported to all the other 64 bit processors.
NetBSD is the 'leading edge' research OS. Makers of new hardware, i.e. the Chalice Technology StrongARM hardware, port over NetBSD to feel out the architecture. That's what NetBSD is beautifully suited for.
Once incident 30 years ago isn't a very good trend.
They're still executing dissidents and 'political criminals' in China, aren't they?
Besides, you're being racist. Only about a month after Kent State, black students at Jackson State were killed in the same fashion. Why doesn't it get the same mention as Kent State? Because the racists who regularly refresh our memory about Kent State for whatever reason have a lot more sympathy for white middle class college students than they do for black college students.
(though there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government, when America has lasted half as long as the Ming or Han dynasty, then lets talk)
Nope. I just can't let anything as outrageous as this stand in your comment.
First off, we need to examine wether there's inherent stability in the Mao Dynasty. Perhaps some of the Sinologists in the crowd can expand on how inherently stable the 'Giant Leap Forward' and 'Cultural Revolution' eras were. Furthermore, the whole clown show didn't even start until 1949 in China.
Also, I vote that we make Malda, Stallman, and Raymond wear red shirts on a landing party.
But what about people wishing to create derivative works, or use sampling?
Looks like maybe they'll have to connect an actual microphone (or MIDI keyboard) up to their gear and make some actual music of their own.
The HORRORS of it! No more 'publishing' with only a photocopy machine! No more Music from the mute!
It'll be filmed by Steven Spielbergo, the cheap Mexican equivalent.
(I can never hear that guy's name anymore without conjuring up the Simpson reference)
Reality seldom, if ever, conforms to the textbook defintion of any single person. So obviously there's never been a true 'Adam Smith Capitalist' society just as there was never (and it looks like nobody's really trying much any longer) a purely Marxian Communist society.
Life is too complex for some egghead in a library to write up a book that explains it all.
In at least a few of the cases you cited, it sounds like a case of someone grabbing a domain name because 'everybody else is grabbing them' and then trying to figure out afterwards what to do with it.
We need businesses like that, because there's always a market for used office furniture.
Actually, Outlook is just the agent that the viruses use to transmit themselves.
There's also a TCP/IP stack in the path of said viruses as they make their way around. And there are Sendmail servers in the path. Hell, there are even Linux boxes in the path. So they're all classifiable as agents that the viruses use to transmit themselves.
Does this make the TCP/IP Stack, Sendmail, and the Linux kernel viral? No. Not any more than it makes Outlook viral.
There have been books on Political Economy for centuries now. I have several on the bookshelf at home.
There are even books on Political Economy that don't espouse Capitalism.
I have a small web browser that I've purchased called 'PalmScape' that I use with my Visor. It's not a plain vanilla Web browser, because it reformats the content of websites to fit on the tiny screen on my Visor.
Clearly it manipulates how Web content is presented to me.
Should I be carping and whining about that fact? Maybe what they do should be made illegal.
Since we're arguing about the integrity of the content as presented perhaps the safest thing would be for there to be a mandatory opt-in tag, otherwise all textual content is presented as white characters on a white background.
Anything less than that takes control away from the author in how their content is presented.
Job security, ya know...
Europe definitely has the edge when it comes to Sport hooligans, though.
Nope. Smart tags just scan the text that's being rendered to appear on your display. If the word 'Octopus' comes up, it might insert a link to a definition of that word. Nothing has to trawl all over the web ahead of time. The Smart tags are generated at the client side dynamically.
The Stupid Idea was you posting your comment without knowing what you were talking about.
Neurotoxins.
From an evolutionary point of view anything which clouds an organism's senses is rather toxic to that organism.
Wether or not said organism later decides that said cloudyness is 'way cool, man' it's still a toxin.
Likewise, the links behind Smarttags can be community specified. Just configure your system(s) to use a particular set of them. Share your set with your friends or your community.
That points out one of my sore points with sites that insist I enter in some clue in case I forget the password.
Is it an intentional effort on their part to make sure I use my Mom or my cat's name as my password???
My clue is usually something like 'Not a chance' or 'None given'
He has the bad habit of just being another opinionated Journalist.
And while tech journalists often ooze slightly less 'essence of liberalism' than journalists in general, Petreley gravitates toward Katzness. He's truly one of the most zealous out there.