Exactly, and that's what would make you a responsible parent. This guy seems to be saying that we shouldn't depend on parents to be responsible like you (not letting their kids play violent games until they're old enough to really understand life & death), but should rather force the game companies not to make violent games. While we're at it, we should probably get rid of all books with violence, & movies with violence, & songs about violence, &.. you see where this is leading, right?
I agree; I used joker for frantic.org & their service is really reliable. Plus, they don't bug me with spam & it's really easy to make changes to my records.
I agree, their starting prices are nuts. I got frantic.org for $18/year. What do they want for frantic.tv? Starting bid is $1,000. Now, I can understand the high starting bids for more popular names like nbc.tv etc. (even though whoever buys a name like that is going to face some serious lawsuit trouble), but starting EVERY bid at $1,000 is nuts. I guess it's the only way they figured they'd recoup their $50 million investment:)
Over at the Smoking Gun (you know, the guys who posted the restraining order against newly-married multimillionaire Rick Rockwell) they have a copy of his mugshot, as well as a copy of an accident report where they also mention that the mugshot was the result of some traffic violation.
I think it's got a lot to do with politics of censorware companies, as well. I seem to remember a certain software had competitors' sites on the list of blocks, which I'm sure they would rather not have publicized. Plus there's the other questionable sites blocked that don't jibe with the beliefs of the censorware blocklist compilers, such as sites about gay rights & planned parentood & other "controversial" things like that.
This is a different issue, though. He's saying that the interface elements are GPL'ed and he's worried about some company "acquiring" the GPL'ed code and using it for their own needs without giving any recognition to those who originally developed it. Linux may have effectively copied the UI of Unix, but there was (AFAIK) no code stealing involved. If there was, you'd know it, since the source is open. In this case, if a company takes the GPL'ed elements and packages them as their own, who is to really know without the source being open? Sure, there may be suspicions, but unless a court case is brought against the company, I can't see them showing you the source code to prove that it is/isn't stolen.
I think the worst thing about her bill was not the internet access problem, but her talk of banning people of the opposite sex from dorm rooms. I don't know what puritanistic students she talked to ("we are only responding to the requests of students"), but I can't see this being received well by anyone on campus.
Can anyone provide us with a list of the offending domain names? I imagine they were usual squatter fodder like sooperdooperlinuxopensource.com or something similarly unsightly, but you never know..
Ok, this is completely off topic, but you mentioning these things reminded me.. I know quite a few people in my dorm run these things from alladvantage & whatnot. Now, I thought they were pretty much scams, but I have seen people's checks for about $40-$50, so I wouldn't necessarily classify it as a scam. I guess it's good if you don't mind blowing a bunch of screen real-estate on a stupid ad.. my thought was, how hard would it be to write a cheap Linux program that simulates sending/receiving whatever the important packets are, so alladvantage thinks you have their program running constantly? Not that I'd ever even think of doing something so.. uhh.. not-so-legal?
Following the suggestion of another slashdot poster in some story awhile back, I checked out hurricane electric. My site's hosted there, and from what I can see they've got pretty good rates. And hey, they run Linux..
Ok, slashdot posts news that's relevant to what we discuss here (Linux, Star Wars, whatever). I seriously don't think that there are enough investors reading slashdot to raise Rob's shares more than a few cents. Don't forget that this story was a Reuters news article first, which is a far larger venue than slashdot. Do you question whether anyone who is affiliated with Reuters and/or any site that carries Reuters news owns Corel stock?
Nothing like punctuating a question with "you stupid fuck" to completely kill your credibility. Anyway, I have an 8 meg Creative Voodoo 2. I had absolutely no problems with any of the previous test versions, and then the demo test shows up and suddenly I'm experiencing big slowdowns and visual problems.
Doesn't this seem like awfully soon after the demo test release? I assumed that was released in order to get comments from end users and fix the bugs encountered there before having the game go gold. I know the Linux demo test version in particular was (at least for me and my friends) not all that great visually. Lots of texture problems on the walls and whatnot. Anyway, I just hope the bugs are ironed out so I can go on fragging merrily.
Yeah, I'm at Ohio State and I can vouch for that. There are advertisements for that thing ALL OVER THE PLACE around here. I checked it out, and it's really not that big of a deal, not to mention the fact that I have yet to hear any of my teachers freaking out about it. I know my Physics 131 teacher posts the answers to the week's homework assignments on his webpage, and the answers to (most of) the math problems are in the back of the book. Homework solutions aren't really all that big of a commodity compared with lecture notes.
As far as homework as a learning tool, I don't really find it that bad as long as it's a voluntary thing. I definitely think that doing a few problems for myself helps me grasp things much better than listening to the professor. Of course, in high school homework was what it was all about, which was stupid, but that's a whole different rant:)
Finally, just to add my $0.02 to the discussion at hand, I find no problem with posting lecture notes on the web. It's quite helpful if you miss a day here or there. Of course, it's inevitable that some people will look at this as a great reason to never go to class. I guess you're getting the same notes, but you're depending on some unknown student's note-taking abilities.
I think it's been said before in here, but it's not JUST the fact that they're a monopoly. It's the fact that that monopoly power may have been used in a way that was harmful to consumers.
Eh, I can answer that & save him the trouble. I believe his full name is something like John P. Vransevich, hence the JP. Also, his email addresses seem to generally be jp@whatever, so it seems that's what prefers, too.
and the great thing, is that he will be responding to challenges made from people who openly can't stand him.
The only thing I worry about is the fact that he chooses which questions he'll answer, so I doubt that the more interesting questions will be chosen. While it would be nice to know how much money he received for AO & just where it's all gone, I can't imagine him telling us that if it would make him look bad in any way. Then again, I may be proven wrong, who knows?:P
Wow, that is quite nice, but isn't $400 a little steep for a programmable remote control? I mean, for that price, couldn't you go out & buy an older Palm? You could use it not only as a programmable universal remote, but for all those other neat things Palms do. You could even put some games on it when there's nothing good on TV (or use it for that 'productivity' crap).
Although it's a (relatively) biased view, you can check out attrition.org, specifically this for info on attrition's thoughts on JP & antionline. As far as the happy hacker series goes, check here. Over at attrition they really don't like JP & Carolyn Meinel, though, so take what you read with a grain of salt:)
A friend of a friend saw that Jesux page and created the Lucix distro. Same stupid puns, just from the complete other side of the religious viewpoint:)
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This was done by an art museum in Pittsburgh: see this article at Wired for details.
Exactly, and that's what would make you a responsible parent. This guy seems to be saying that we shouldn't depend on parents to be responsible like you (not letting their kids play violent games until they're old enough to really understand life & death), but should rather force the game companies not to make violent games. While we're at it, we should probably get rid of all books with violence, & movies with violence, & songs about violence, &.. you see where this is leading, right?
-mike kania
I agree; I used joker for frantic.org & their service is really reliable. Plus, they don't bug me with spam & it's really easy to make changes to my records.
-mike kania
I agree, their starting prices are nuts. I got frantic.org for $18/year. What do they want for frantic.tv? Starting bid is $1,000. Now, I can understand the high starting bids for more popular names like nbc.tv etc. (even though whoever buys a name like that is going to face some serious lawsuit trouble), but starting EVERY bid at $1,000 is nuts. I guess it's the only way they figured they'd recoup their $50 million investment :)
-mike kania
Over at the Smoking Gun (you know, the guys who posted the restraining order against newly-married multimillionaire Rick Rockwell) they have a copy of his mugshot, as well as a copy of an accident report where they also mention that the mugshot was the result of some traffic violation.
-mike kania
I think it's got a lot to do with politics of censorware companies, as well. I seem to remember a certain software had competitors' sites on the list of blocks, which I'm sure they would rather not have publicized. Plus there's the other questionable sites blocked that don't jibe with the beliefs of the censorware blocklist compilers, such as sites about gay rights & planned parentood & other "controversial" things like that.
-mike kania
This is a different issue, though. He's saying that the interface elements are GPL'ed and he's worried about some company "acquiring" the GPL'ed code and using it for their own needs without giving any recognition to those who originally developed it. Linux may have effectively copied the UI of Unix, but there was (AFAIK) no code stealing involved. If there was, you'd know it, since the source is open. In this case, if a company takes the GPL'ed elements and packages them as their own, who is to really know without the source being open? Sure, there may be suspicions, but unless a court case is brought against the company, I can't see them showing you the source code to prove that it is/isn't stolen.
-mike kania
I think the worst thing about her bill was not the internet access problem, but her talk of banning people of the opposite sex from dorm rooms. I don't know what puritanistic students she talked to ("we are only responding to the requests of students"), but I can't see this being received well by anyone on campus.
-mike kania
Can anyone provide us with a list of the offending domain names? I imagine they were usual squatter fodder like sooperdooperlinuxopensource.com or something similarly unsightly, but you never know..
-mike kania
Ok, this is completely off topic, but you mentioning these things reminded me.. I know quite a few people in my dorm run these things from alladvantage & whatnot. Now, I thought they were pretty much scams, but I have seen people's checks for about $40-$50, so I wouldn't necessarily classify it as a scam. I guess it's good if you don't mind blowing a bunch of screen real-estate on a stupid ad.. my thought was, how hard would it be to write a cheap Linux program that simulates sending/receiving whatever the important packets are, so alladvantage thinks you have their program running constantly? Not that I'd ever even think of doing something so.. uhh.. not-so-legal?
-mike kania
Following the suggestion of another slashdot poster in some story awhile back, I checked out hurricane electric. My site's hosted there, and from what I can see they've got pretty good rates. And hey, they run Linux..
-mike kania
Funny, all I got was a bunch of links to JPEGs (1-9.jpg or something) that all presented me with that nice Netscape "broken image" icon. Anyone else?
-mike kania
Ok, slashdot posts news that's relevant to what we discuss here (Linux, Star Wars, whatever). I seriously don't think that there are enough investors reading slashdot to raise Rob's shares more than a few cents. Don't forget that this story was a Reuters news article first, which is a far larger venue than slashdot. Do you question whether anyone who is affiliated with Reuters and/or any site that carries Reuters news owns Corel stock?
-mike kania
Nothing like punctuating a question with "you stupid fuck" to completely kill your credibility. Anyway, I have an 8 meg Creative Voodoo 2. I had absolutely no problems with any of the previous test versions, and then the demo test shows up and suddenly I'm experiencing big slowdowns and visual problems.
-mike kania
Means the game is done being coded and has been sent off to be pressed for mass distribution.
-mike kania
Doesn't this seem like awfully soon after the demo test release? I assumed that was released in order to get comments from end users and fix the bugs encountered there before having the game go gold. I know the Linux demo test version in particular was (at least for me and my friends) not all that great visually. Lots of texture problems on the walls and whatnot. Anyway, I just hope the bugs are ironed out so I can go on fragging merrily.
-mike kania
Yeah, I'm at Ohio State and I can vouch for that. There are advertisements for that thing ALL OVER THE PLACE around here. I checked it out, and it's really not that big of a deal, not to mention the fact that I have yet to hear any of my teachers freaking out about it. I know my Physics 131 teacher posts the answers to the week's homework assignments on his webpage, and the answers to (most of) the math problems are in the back of the book. Homework solutions aren't really all that big of a commodity compared with lecture notes.
:)
As far as homework as a learning tool, I don't really find it that bad as long as it's a voluntary thing. I definitely think that doing a few problems for myself helps me grasp things much better than listening to the professor. Of course, in high school homework was what it was all about, which was stupid, but that's a whole different rant
Finally, just to add my $0.02 to the discussion at hand, I find no problem with posting lecture notes on the web. It's quite helpful if you miss a day here or there. Of course, it's inevitable that some people will look at this as a great reason to never go to class. I guess you're getting the same notes, but you're depending on some unknown student's note-taking abilities.
-mike kania
I think it's been said before in here, but it's not JUST the fact that they're a monopoly. It's the fact that that monopoly power may have been used in a way that was harmful to consumers.
-mike kania
Eh, I can answer that & save him the trouble. I believe his full name is something like John P. Vransevich, hence the JP. Also, his email addresses seem to generally be jp@whatever, so it seems that's what prefers, too.
-mike kania
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:P
and the great thing, is that he will be responding to challenges made from people who openly can't stand him.
The only thing I worry about is the fact that he chooses which questions he'll answer, so I doubt that the more interesting questions will be chosen. While it would be nice to know how much money he received for AO & just where it's all gone, I can't imagine him telling us that if it would make him look bad in any way. Then again, I may be proven wrong, who knows?
-mike kania
Wow, that is quite nice, but isn't $400 a little steep for a programmable remote control? I mean, for that price, couldn't you go out & buy an older Palm? You could use it not only as a programmable universal remote, but for all those other neat things Palms do. You could even put some games on it when there's nothing good on TV (or use it for that 'productivity' crap).
-mike kania
You can check this out at www.sumpton.com, where he's got a listing of all the domain names he owns. You too can have an address @bulldozer.com :)
-mike kania
Although it's a (relatively) biased view, you can check out attrition.org, specifically this for info on attrition's thoughts on JP & antionline. As far as the happy hacker series goes, check here. Over at attrition they really don't like JP & Carolyn Meinel, though, so take what you read with a grain of salt :)
-mike kania
A friend of a friend saw that Jesux page and created the Lucix distro. Same stupid puns, just from the complete other side of the religious viewpoint :)
-mike kania
cut to a Jesse Burst article 3 months later...
..Linux is the wave of the future...blah blah blah...open source is the way to go...blah blah blah...
:)
-mike kania