Hey, let's stop the whining and look at why we're last on the tech toy food chain:
1. We use English(American) measurements. The entire world, every single country, is now on metric. To sell to us, they have to convert the manuals, go through QA on the new verbiage, and go through our silly tech rules.
Answer: GO METRIC (except for perishable groceries and gas pumps, which is what people hate being converted the most).
2. We have ridiculous legal constraints. Face it, we're sue happy. We have 70 times per capita the lawyers of most Westernized countries. We elect them to office, even, which is the height of idiocy. So, to sell to the US, you need to make sure you can't be sued for product liability and unintential usage issues that no other country has to worry about. Man, talk about wasting time and dollars. Cheaper to do it in other countries first.
Answer: Shoot The Lawyers (not my brother or uncle, though)
3. We insist on retesting everything ourselves, instead of taking the tests of the EU and Canada and other countries into consideration. Seriously, we're talking an extra year right there. What we need to do is allow for certain tests by trusted countries to just be accepted right off the bat and then only insist on tests that we have stronger requirements on. Like EM emissions - if it passes Northern European standards, it's automatically way better than our tests, so skip the retest!
Answer: Dump the members of congress and the senate who resist this (hint, they're almost all Republicans).
4. We insist on stupid standards. Look at HDTV or Wireless. The entire world is using GSM and we insist on another standard for wireless. And don't get me started on HDTV.
Answer: Tie Pat Buchanan up with baling wire and dip him in a shark tank. No, this won't stop it, but I'd find it really amusing.
There's still a bunch of us planning on an April Linux bike trip from Versailles to Chinon to Bordeaux, with Wine, Women, CyberCafes, and Linux. Pricing folding bikes and checking with friends who have contacts in France so we can do the CyberCafe tour.
I wonder how much corporate tax the state of WA gets from Herr Gates?
Sure, but you were saying Seattle Weekly was his tool. The state may be, but we don't even have an income tax here, so all we get is B&O tax, and little of that, since high tech gets a cheap rate.
But I digress. Moody is still a twit, and a partial one at that. Find me evidence otherwise.
Of course he's a twit. What makes you think I don't agree? I'm just saying that the fact he's a twit and a MSFT shill doesn't mean that Seattle Weekly is bought and paid for by MSFT. Many people in Seattle can say lots of negative things about MSFT, and some of us have worked there, so we tend to know the real dirt. So don't jump from Moody's twitness to dissing Seattle Weekly or Seattle. It's not like he's one of the most read columnists, either.
seattleweekly? Where the hell do you think that is?... (poster rants)... No shit he doesn't like Linux.. It threatens his community!
Um, actually, Seattle Weekly is from Seattle. Bill G lives in Medina, works in Redmond, and probably reads the Eastside Business Journal.
There's this giant thing called a lake in between, so big that a massive barge just bashed out a column holding up one of the two floating bridges and they only shut down one of the lanes.
We have hydrofoil races on it, and you can float large naval vessels on it.
So... no, MSFT is not a major contributor to the taxbase of Seattle (the dotcoms in Fremont and Belltown are, as is Starbucks). It was the origin of a lot of local fortunes, but most of us don't work for MSFT or want to.
That's like me saying that New Jersey makes New York City do its bidding.
Since the USPS is going to give each citizen a free web-based email account (see CNN), then can Carnivore tap that email? And how can you stop it from intercepting USPS email if it reads all of it in the first place?
No, Carnivore doesn't understand the Constitution or it's amendments. But it does understand that it only applies to people without wealth, power, and influence.
Those with wealth, power, and influence can ignore it. Or run for President.
This is a convection cooled device. Unless you're hoping it'll work like a water pipe, covering the intake holes at the bottome might not be such a great move.
Hmmm. OK, How about we get a nice 4'x2'x2' fish tank, get some glass sleeve about the same cross section of the Mac Cube, put transparent plastic mount brackets in the corners, seal it, drop the Cube in, pop a fish tank cam or two below it (Scott was trying to see if this was feasible, looks like it might be a go), cut a hole for the cable drops and air circ below.
Then you've got fish swimming around a web server.
I dont see why this would be a 7.0 release. The only real major upgrade is XFree86...
Let's see now, major XFree86 release so we can get more game ports, version upgrade so we can call WindowsMe 20th Century technology, better SMP so we can go head to head with other servers and serve up those web pages...
Sounds like a big one to me!
Face it, most people play games and want clean installs that work well. The rest is nice chrome from their viewpoints, although better man pages might be nice to have...
If you twitch really fast, the mouse will go off in all different directions.
Excellent, it's just Apple's way of telling you to slow down and mellow out. Do some yoga and tai chi to get in the iMac frame of mind, and then you'll realize that Quake is just a game, and we're all just players who die in the end.
The G4 cube comes with gigabit ethernet and if you take the casing off them and lay two down side by side, they fit into a rack with just enough room to spare for some fans.
They already have fans.
Why not just immerse them in a tub of water - liquid cooled G4 cubes - ice cubes! Think about it...
Try printing MacSlash on Professional Resume paper - ow!
Most of the images wouldn't load, either!
Note the poll refers to Steve preferring the color beige... I have a very bad feeling about this...
The only thing I liked was the advertising - it's not a banner ad, placed on the left, and clearly labelled as advertising. That's way better than these obnoxious animated GIFs (not counting Tux doing Redmond, a classic) here.
Yeah, but I like dual Gauls in my boxen. Asterix et Obelix, the twin processors, both revved to the max - just watch out when you overclock those suckers!
Has anyone painted their cubes yet? Zebra stripes, polka dots, flowers, and PowerPuff Girl motifs spring to mind...
It's not going to pass in Washington State, that's for dang sure! It would have to get past four state reps on key committees and three state senators also on key committees, and they all understand why it's bad. Heck, one even left MSFT, so she really knows why it's bad.
Given that we've had umpteen OS wars, like unto the crusades in both their bloodiness and the invective used, can you discern any patterns in what determines the survivors of such conflicts?
For example, is it really the games that determines the winner, the "killer app", the ease of use, the cost, the marketing, or is it the media attention. If it is one of these, what are the most important elements, IYO, in determining the winner.
And, given the/. bias, what would you change in how Linux and BSD is progressing to maximize its survivability. Or is this all 20th Century thinking, and is the OS truly becoming irrelevant?
The majority of other programmers and "nerds" I know like anime. Some like it more than others, and so I see no problem with the topic on Slashdot. If you don't like anime, you can IGNORE anime topic posts, just like you would a Katz article. Not everyone likes anime. Not everyone likes Star Wars either, but it still has its own topic and nobody seems to complain.
While Anime has a high geek quotient (in that many in geekdom are nutso for anime), I don't think the same holds true for Katz. Jon is to geekdom as Hitler was to his victims - Both talk about them a lot, but neither respects them and both are given to overexaggeration of their abilities and importance or lack thereof.
Why not a Poll - Anime vs Katz - I expect you'd get a 4:1 ratio even with Jon trying to get the trolls to stuff the ballot box for him.
First, increase downloads of MP3. Why? Because it means that shutting down Napster didn't help, it made it worse. So, increase traffic to your favorite MP3 sites and only get your tunes there.
Secondly, upload private data about the judge. Hey, think about it. He assumes he's above the law and inviolate for his actions, that he can intrude on your private legal actions. So, show him all the data you can find on him and pub it to the web. And, while you're at it, let's track down some dirt on Lar$.
Thirdly, write some GPL. Ok, you should be doing that already. But, in this case, let's get something better than Napster, better than Gnutella, and pub it to the world. Then who gives a flying monkey about a US ruling - it's too darned late.
Fourth, email all your US Senators and US Representatives and State Governors. Complain about this. Judges like to pretend that they're immune to politics, but they're not. They go to the same parties, they golf with these people, they look aside when the politicos fracture the law. Well, take the fight to them.
Fifth, write a letter to the editor. Fax it in, with your name, address and phone number to your local newspapers. Or mail it snail mail. Build up a groundswell.
Sixth, make up some cool slogans and print up t-shirts. Sell them or give them to your crowd. See if the local Net cafe will take some. Make the RIAA uncool - they hate that. Have them kicked out of all the VC parties, all the geek shows, and ridiculed.
Seriously, the best method would be for you to host a web site outside the country in question, and encode inside some posted family pictures (you on trip to Yukon, at the KMart, etc) your basic message. All they need on the other end is the same encoding software for images and you're done.
Then, they could either host the images or send them via email (e.g. "Here's some pics of Marge and the kids fishing on the river Kwai"). Make it really boring ("Uncle Jim and Aunt Li-Po shopping").
The WSP is right. In the mindshare department, AOL (of which I have a few thousand shares) is a laggard in cranking out new versions, or even using their worldwide dominance to leverage the browser.
But, it's still way easier to hack IE.
I should mention a couple people at work pointed out the real threat to Netscape is that the HTML in sites pushed out with MSFT products has caused NS to break so often that they just gave up and now use IE at home. This is where the danger lies - MSFT makes sure the code it cranks out to pub will break NS and consumers take the path of least resistance. Yes, I own MSFT shares, but I also have RHAT as well.
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, AOL will survive. Netscape, on the other hand, may be offered up as a sacrificial lamb.
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Man, the gall of Hejlsberg. I used to code in VB, and some of us at work still do, and we were ROFL at this quote.
Maybe he meant "I can't write unsafe code with VB."
Or maybe someone spiked the punch again.
Hey, let's stop the whining and look at why we're last on the tech toy food chain:
1. We use English(American) measurements. The entire world, every single country, is now on metric. To sell to us, they have to convert the manuals, go through QA on the new verbiage, and go through our silly tech rules.
Answer: GO METRIC (except for perishable groceries and gas pumps, which is what people hate being converted the most).
2. We have ridiculous legal constraints. Face it, we're sue happy. We have 70 times per capita the lawyers of most Westernized countries. We elect them to office, even, which is the height of idiocy. So, to sell to the US, you need to make sure you can't be sued for product liability and unintential usage issues that no other country has to worry about. Man, talk about wasting time and dollars. Cheaper to do it in other countries first.
Answer: Shoot The Lawyers (not my brother or uncle, though)
3. We insist on retesting everything ourselves, instead of taking the tests of the EU and Canada and other countries into consideration. Seriously, we're talking an extra year right there. What we need to do is allow for certain tests by trusted countries to just be accepted right off the bat and then only insist on tests that we have stronger requirements on. Like EM emissions - if it passes Northern European standards, it's automatically way better than our tests, so skip the retest!
Answer: Dump the members of congress and the senate who resist this (hint, they're almost all Republicans).
4. We insist on stupid standards. Look at HDTV or Wireless. The entire world is using GSM and we insist on another standard for wireless. And don't get me started on HDTV.
Answer: Tie Pat Buchanan up with baling wire and dip him in a shark tank. No, this won't stop it, but I'd find it really amusing.
There's still a bunch of us planning on an April Linux bike trip from Versailles to Chinon to Bordeaux, with Wine, Women, CyberCafes, and Linux. Pricing folding bikes and checking with friends who have contacts in France so we can do the CyberCafe tour.
I wonder how much corporate tax the state of WA gets from Herr Gates?
Sure, but you were saying Seattle Weekly was his tool. The state may be, but we don't even have an income tax here, so all we get is B&O tax, and little of that, since high tech gets a cheap rate.
But I digress. Moody is still a twit, and a partial one at that. Find me evidence otherwise.
Of course he's a twit. What makes you think I don't agree? I'm just saying that the fact he's a twit and a MSFT shill doesn't mean that Seattle Weekly is bought and paid for by MSFT. Many people in Seattle can say lots of negative things about MSFT, and some of us have worked there, so we tend to know the real dirt. So don't jump from Moody's twitness to dissing Seattle Weekly or Seattle. It's not like he's one of the most read columnists, either.
seattleweekly? Where the hell do you think that is? ... (poster rants) ... No shit he doesn't like Linux.. It threatens his community!
... no, MSFT is not a major contributor to the taxbase of Seattle (the dotcoms in Fremont and Belltown are, as is Starbucks). It was the origin of a lot of local fortunes, but most of us don't work for MSFT or want to.
Um, actually, Seattle Weekly is from Seattle. Bill G lives in Medina, works in Redmond, and probably reads the Eastside Business Journal.
There's this giant thing called a lake in between, so big that a massive barge just bashed out a column holding up one of the two floating bridges and they only shut down one of the lanes.
We have hydrofoil races on it, and you can float large naval vessels on it.
So
That's like me saying that New Jersey makes New York City do its bidding.
Since the USPS is going to give each citizen a free web-based email account (see CNN), then can Carnivore tap that email? And how can you stop it from intercepting USPS email if it reads all of it in the first place?
No, Carnivore doesn't understand the Constitution or it's amendments. But it does understand that it only applies to people without wealth, power, and influence.
Those with wealth, power, and influence can ignore it. Or run for President.
I keep having my.yahoo.com time out and not even load, while cNet seems to be slow too. Slashdot timed out a couple of times.
Maybe it's solar flares?
This is a convection cooled device. Unless you're hoping it'll work like a water pipe, covering the intake holes at the bottome might not be such a great move.
Hmmm. OK, How about we get a nice 4'x2'x2' fish tank, get some glass sleeve about the same cross section of the Mac Cube, put transparent plastic mount brackets in the corners, seal it, drop the Cube in, pop a fish tank cam or two below it (Scott was trying to see if this was feasible, looks like it might be a go), cut a hole for the cable drops and air circ below.
Then you've got fish swimming around a web server.
Would look way cool!
It's a plastic casing.
...
Not electrically conductive.
Just immerse it about two-thirds up the case
Better yet, use jello!
I dont see why this would be a 7.0 release. The only real major upgrade is XFree86...
...
...
Let's see now, major XFree86 release so we can get more game ports, version upgrade so we can call WindowsMe 20th Century technology, better SMP so we can go head to head with other servers and serve up those web pages
Sounds like a big one to me!
Face it, most people play games and want clean installs that work well. The rest is nice chrome from their viewpoints, although better man pages might be nice to have
If you twitch really fast, the mouse will go off in all different directions.
Excellent, it's just Apple's way of telling you to slow down and mellow out. Do some yoga and tai chi to get in the iMac frame of mind, and then you'll realize that Quake is just a game, and we're all just players who die in the end.
one button mice stick. What next? Three button keyboard?i?
....
No, mice with zippers. Think about it
The G4 cube comes with gigabit ethernet and if you take the casing off them and lay two down side by side, they fit into a rack with just enough room to spare for some fans.
...
They already have fans.
Why not just immerse them in a tub of water - liquid cooled G4 cubes - ice cubes! Think about it
Try printing MacSlash on Professional Resume paper - ow!
... I have a very bad feeling about this ...
Most of the images wouldn't load, either!
Note the poll refers to Steve preferring the color beige
The only thing I liked was the advertising - it's not a banner ad, placed on the left, and clearly labelled as advertising. That's way better than these obnoxious animated GIFs (not counting Tux doing Redmond, a classic) here.
I'm more anxious about Linux on the daul G4!
...
Yeah, but I like dual Gauls in my boxen. Asterix et Obelix, the twin processors, both revved to the max - just watch out when you overclock those suckers!
Has anyone painted their cubes yet? Zebra stripes, polka dots, flowers, and PowerPuff Girl motifs spring to mind
Design Force One - Engage!
I saw a number of links in the Sunday NYTimes, and they weren't all Apple links either.
He invented the mouse and GUI.
...
Wasn't that Al Gore? It sure as heck wasn't George W. "Oil Slick" Bush
Or maybe Katz invented the Mouse?
Do you think UCITA will pass in all fifty states?
It's not going to pass in Washington State, that's for dang sure! It would have to get past four state reps on key committees and three state senators also on key committees, and they all understand why it's bad. Heck, one even left MSFT, so she really knows why it's bad.
Given that we've had umpteen OS wars, like unto the crusades in both their bloodiness and the invective used, can you discern any patterns in what determines the survivors of such conflicts?
/. bias, what would you change in how Linux and BSD is progressing to maximize its survivability. Or is this all 20th Century thinking, and is the OS truly becoming irrelevant?
For example, is it really the games that determines the winner, the "killer app", the ease of use, the cost, the marketing, or is it the media attention. If it is one of these, what are the most important elements, IYO, in determining the winner.
And, given the
The majority of other programmers and "nerds" I know like anime. Some like it more than others, and so I see no problem with the topic on Slashdot. If you don't like anime, you can IGNORE anime topic posts, just like you would a Katz article. Not everyone likes anime. Not everyone likes Star Wars either, but it still has its own topic and nobody seems to complain.
While Anime has a high geek quotient (in that many in geekdom are nutso for anime), I don't think the same holds true for Katz. Jon is to geekdom as Hitler was to his victims - Both talk about them a lot, but neither respects them and both are given to overexaggeration of their abilities and importance or lack thereof.
Why not a Poll - Anime vs Katz - I expect you'd get a 4:1 ratio even with Jon trying to get the trolls to stuff the ballot box for him.
OK, economics 101 (a.k.a. modern warfare):
First, increase downloads of MP3. Why? Because it means that shutting down Napster didn't help, it made it worse. So, increase traffic to your favorite MP3 sites and only get your tunes there.
Secondly, upload private data about the judge. Hey, think about it. He assumes he's above the law and inviolate for his actions, that he can intrude on your private legal actions. So, show him all the data you can find on him and pub it to the web. And, while you're at it, let's track down some dirt on Lar$.
Thirdly, write some GPL. Ok, you should be doing that already. But, in this case, let's get something better than Napster, better than Gnutella, and pub it to the world. Then who gives a flying monkey about a US ruling - it's too darned late.
Fourth, email all your US Senators and US Representatives and State Governors. Complain about this. Judges like to pretend that they're immune to politics, but they're not. They go to the same parties, they golf with these people, they look aside when the politicos fracture the law. Well, take the fight to them.
Fifth, write a letter to the editor. Fax it in, with your name, address and phone number to your local newspapers. Or mail it snail mail. Build up a groundswell.
Sixth, make up some cool slogans and print up t-shirts. Sell them or give them to your crowd. See if the local Net cafe will take some. Make the RIAA uncool - they hate that. Have them kicked out of all the VC parties, all the geek shows, and ridiculed.
Then they'll pay attention.
Seriously, the best method would be for you to host a web site outside the country in question, and encode inside some posted family pictures (you on trip to Yukon, at the KMart, etc) your basic message. All they need on the other end is the same encoding software for images and you're done.
Then, they could either host the images or send them via email (e.g. "Here's some pics of Marge and the kids fishing on the river Kwai"). Make it really boring ("Uncle Jim and Aunt Li-Po shopping").
This is the stuff that they don't care about.
The WSP is right. In the mindshare department, AOL (of which I have a few thousand shares) is a laggard in cranking out new versions, or even using their worldwide dominance to leverage the browser.
But, it's still way easier to hack IE.
I should mention a couple people at work pointed out the real threat to Netscape is that the HTML in sites pushed out with MSFT products has caused NS to break so often that they just gave up and now use IE at home. This is where the danger lies - MSFT makes sure the code it cranks out to pub will break NS and consumers take the path of least resistance. Yes, I own MSFT shares, but I also have RHAT as well.
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, AOL will survive. Netscape, on the other hand, may be offered up as a sacrificial lamb.
I hear the next phase is the development of the SNO CONE, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory for Connect Optometric Neutrino Establishments.
Eh?