The new series will show a linux x86 cluster running the Enterprise (via a very customized cool Gnome desktop), and we will all grovel before the marketers like whipped dogs. But this need only be an incidental plot element.
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The best idea I ever heard for a new ST series was for it to take place after The Fall of the Federation. This would be especially rewarding for the fans, since then you would know what was lost, but not many of the characters would.
I think they should time-warp into the Star Wars universe and get their butts kicked.
"Ok everyone, set your phasers to stun." vvvvwwwoooouuuuuuhhhhh---kkksssssssccccccchhhhh (sound of slashing/clashing light sabres...and no more phasers)
Hey, I don't hate Star Trek (I like the older ones OK), but seeing every episode umpteen times is a bit much. Is it really true there is only one master script, with some variables in it? I still remember being in the grad dorm several years ago, and walking down into the TV lounge about 8pm Friday (totally deserted) and turning on the NBA playoffs. So all the basketball nuts come out and join me. We end up owning the lounge until 1 or 2am (yeah, that _is_ a bit selfish). Funny how right at 11, a big crowd spills out of the stairwell, looks at us, and turns right around and goes back. Turns out they were the Star Trek crowd, the reruns came on at 11. --
The last time I used Mozilla was around a year ago. I have a generic 350MHz box with 32 megs of RAM. It was too slow to be useable, though only just. Have things become better? I'd like to give it another shot, but I also want to know what to expect.
Old mozilla: think snail swimming in molasses in winter.
New mozilla: think slug swimming in molasses in summer.
Also, Netscape 6 and Mozilla have a virtually identical user interface, so it's not like people who can't tell the difference will, well, be able to ell the difference.
I do think it would be very cool to have in the upper-right corner (you know, that thing that says 'I am working') an animated dinosaur taking a bite out of something, such as an IE logo. Then users could tell the difference. --
Those who choose inferior solutions will pay the price, and lose to competitors. Shouldn't try to prop them up with unsolicited help. Though the chance to make some money off them sure is tempting. Got any spare bridges you could throw into the deal?
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That's the key part about avoiding plagiarism - you noted the outside sources that you used, rather than trying to skate by as if it was all your own work. Score one for the prof...
Copy one person, it's plagiarism. Copy many, it's research.
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Am I becoming a crusty old man, only telling stories of the "good old days"? The old days I am talking about here are when marketshare didn't mean a thing to us--we just used what worked for us and what we liked. For some of us, that was and is Linux. And it was cool to see how so many were adopting Linux because it worked and they liked it, and the marketshare grew anyway, even though nobody was trying to "grow" it.
Now, we sound consumed by getting market share. We are trying to _force_ Linux's success, instead of watching it grow naturally. Maybe we should go into marketing.
On the other hand, watching Microsoft writhe is kinda fun.
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If a company wants to buy software, assuming they have nothing/or something old to start, they use this plan from MS. Instead of paying upfront, they just pay the montly maintenance fee. They pay this non-stop forever and they dont have to ever worry about not-having the latest version. Its a fair trade off, in my opinion.
Yeah, until the NEXT time Microsoft changes the licensing scheme to suck more money out of its far-flung empire. Your assumption: "pay this non-stop forever and they dont have to ever worry..." in the context of Microsoft is a huge reach, IMO. --
But only in certain use cases. Such as: not using it. In Windows, just minimize Mozilla, and watch the RAM usage drop from, in my one experiment, 25MB to 5MB. Maximizing it brings it back up to 15MB. --
Realistically, if it came down to a fight in court, what do you believe are the chances the Gnu General Public License would be upheld and enforced? (And please don't answer with, "It depends":-).)
The key is to find a one-handed lawyer, so he can't say, "On the other hand...". Does this lawyer have two hands?
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Not according to the article. Between 30 and 60,000 if I recall. Techies do that well almost out of college these days. 60K just doesn't seem enough for the amount of actual work involved.
Yeah, but the Repo Man's car is paid off, and he's tracking down the techie's car for a nice "pop".
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And you thought you lived in the land of the free? You've been a slave all along and did not know it. But don't feel bad, 99% the world is in slavery, slavery from communism on the left and capitalism on the right.
Quacking sound of consumerist droid:
"War is Peace
Slavery is Freedom
Ignorance is Strength
BTW, hasn't China _always_ been our most hated enemy? 'Scuse me, gotta go to the 5-minute hate. Today's should be a good one! Wonder who's next after that devil Richard M. Stallman yesterday."
Folks, it ain't too far off when we're surrounded by droids like this.
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And you thought you lived in the land of the free? You've been a slave all along and did not know it. But don't feel bad, 99% the world is in slavery, slavery from communism on the left and capitalism on the right.
In the end, it will be the Global Mulitnationals (capitalists) working with the UN (world gov't, socialists) to enslave us all under a unified "Democratic Capitalist" system.
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Yes, indeed, the monitoring capabilities are scary. But WHAT is worthy of monitoring is very scary, too: the scope keeps growing. Now that they can monitor lots of stuff, they do (Echelon), and if you eat your chicken funny, you may be suspect.
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Interesting. jazman_777 gets modded up to 3: interesting while the post he is replying to gets modded down to oblivion during after a tug of war between 12 moderators. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
You can take comfort from having inspired me to such great heights. I stand on the shoulders of Giants.
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The first thing that pops into my head when the idea of key escrow is who do you trust to escrow keys and where do you keep them?
Ponderous Microsoft PR Machine Moves Into Action...
"Why Microsoft, of course! It's what customers want! Millions of people round the world already trust us with their data, storing their data in our proprietary but standards-loving formats (heck, even KOffice will import it!), on our proprietary but interoperable (no, I did NOT say 'inoperable'!) OSs! We are customer-focused. We LOVE our customers! It's a veritable love-fest here in Redmond!"
Whoops, sorry, I'm a bit too close to Redmond to pass up a rant opportunity. I look out the window of my office, and see a foul dark cloud hanging over Mordor, er, Redmond; I get chills of fear.
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Intellectual property laws exist only because capitalism is a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? With the exception of a few, we all do because we are all slaves and we are all disenfranchised. So now we are swimming in an ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
I wouldn't say that capitalism is inherently a slave system... G.K.Chesterton, for example, had a vision of distributed property ownership, called Distributism (?), which basically addresses a major problem of today: the centralization of property and wealth. He was seeing this almost a century ago, so it's not a new problem.
Right now in the US we have the Democrats, who love the state, working closely with Republicans, who love big business. Now both parties love both--what a deadly combo! Is there some way to slay this Statist Beast without a larger Statist Beast?
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Windows 2000 BSODs on me whenever I try to run RealPlayer. The latest NVidia drivers for my TNT2 M64 haven't helped.. So much for a solid M$ OS.
Almost the same here, using the same video chip, windows 2000. My wife got BSODs when she tried to reply to someone using Pegasus Mail. She'd push the "send" button, Boom! BSOD. And it was repeatable. It's happened before on NT, about a year ago. I told her to cut and paste the message into a new email, and try that. It worked, just like it worked before.
It's just gotta be the hardware, because those guys in the Win 2000 commercial are off celebrating and their servers never fail. --
Since we deal in a technical world, I think the key is for people to have some intellectual curiosity about what is going on.
Imagine a mechanic who doesn't like to tinker, and doesn't care about what makes a car work. You sure don't want him tinkering while you're paying him, but you sure do want him tinkering on his own time, so that the amount of time you pay him is reduced, because he knows what he's doing.
I've seen too many who don't have that curiosity, and want to be spoon-fed. --
Plus, Taiwan and China have the same people, and Taiwan has less resources, but Taiwan is a prosperous and wealthy nation while China is still trying to keep peasants from starving to death while selling vegatables at government-controlled prices. The reason for this is quite simple: Taiwan is a free and open society, while China is not. China has meddled very little with Hong Kong's laws, because having an open economy creates wealth.
Freedom brings prosperity to a nation. Those Russian hackers wanted to come here because they knew that being able to live in a freer and more open society would let them live better lives.
I don't recall mentioning Taiwan anywhere. Is Taiwan an independent country? Have the US recognized it as such?
What is interesting to me is the direction China and the US are taking. Deng Xiaoping said, "To get rich is glorious" which sounds like a paeon to the free market, which is the direction they are going--towards liberty. Even now, they are problably not much more economically regulated than the US are (no Americans with Disablities Acts, no EPA, FDA, etc, etc, etc). They are not there (civil liberty) by any stretch of delusion, but they just may get there. The US, OTOH, are moving toward a ponderous socialist worker's paradise...
Why are US Civil "Liberties" always accompanied by Government regulations, which always seem to remove Liberty?
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The rules are always different for government workers in positions of power. In fact, lots of rules don't even apply to them. Like Bill Clinton, for example. He was the Commander in Chief of all of the armed services at the time that he lied about the Monica Lewinski scandal. I know the creed of the Air Force Academy is: "We will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate among us anyone who does." Uhhh, don't you think the 'high commander' would be subject to this rule? Apparently not, because he's got good lawyers and all the power.
So don't think this will set a precedence in your favor of copying digital media. If anything, it will give the government more power to do whatever they want, and you less. Sorry man.
Hope all you rebels like northern North Dakota, or the hot wind-scoured plains of West Texas, because that's where the reeducation camps will be set up.
"He loved Big Brother". The chilling last line of _1984_.
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The new series will show a linux x86 cluster running the Enterprise (via a very customized cool Gnome desktop), and we will all grovel before the marketers like whipped dogs. But this need only be an incidental plot element.
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I think they should time-warp into the Star Wars universe and get their butts kicked.
"Ok everyone, set your phasers to stun." vvvvwwwoooouuuuuuhhhhh---kkksssssssccccccchhhhh (sound of slashing/clashing light sabres...and no more phasers)
Hey, I don't hate Star Trek (I like the older ones OK), but seeing every episode umpteen times is a bit much. Is it really true there is only one master script, with some variables in it? I still remember being in the grad dorm several years ago, and walking down into the TV lounge about 8pm Friday (totally deserted) and turning on the NBA playoffs. So all the basketball nuts come out and join me. We end up owning the lounge until 1 or 2am (yeah, that _is_ a bit selfish). Funny how right at 11, a big crowd spills out of the stairwell, looks at us, and turns right around and goes back. Turns out they were the Star Trek crowd, the reruns came on at 11.
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Old mozilla: think snail swimming in molasses in winter.
New mozilla: think slug swimming in molasses in summer.
Actually, the latest is _much_ faster.
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Also, Netscape 6 and Mozilla have a virtually identical user interface, so it's not like people who can't tell the difference will, well, be able to ell the difference.
I do think it would be very cool to have in the upper-right corner (you know, that thing that says 'I am working') an animated dinosaur taking a bite out of something, such as an IE logo. Then users could tell the difference.
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Those who choose inferior solutions will pay the price, and lose to competitors. Shouldn't try to prop them up with unsolicited help. Though the chance to make some money off them sure is tempting. Got any spare bridges you could throw into the deal?
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Copy one person, it's plagiarism. Copy many, it's research.
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Now, we sound consumed by getting market share. We are trying to _force_ Linux's success, instead of watching it grow naturally. Maybe we should go into marketing.
On the other hand, watching Microsoft writhe is kinda fun.
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Yeah, until the NEXT time Microsoft changes the licensing scheme to suck more money out of its far-flung empire. Your assumption: "pay this non-stop forever and they dont have to ever worry..." in the context of Microsoft is a huge reach, IMO.
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But only in certain use cases. Such as: not using it. In Windows, just minimize Mozilla, and watch the RAM usage drop from, in my one experiment, 25MB to 5MB. Maximizing it brings it back up to 15MB.
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The key is to find a one-handed lawyer, so he can't say, "On the other hand...". Does this lawyer have two hands?
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But their hardware runs well without Windows; find it here.
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Yeah, but the Repo Man's car is paid off, and he's tracking down the techie's car for a nice "pop".
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Quacking sound of consumerist droid:
"War is Peace
Slavery is Freedom
Ignorance is Strength
BTW, hasn't China _always_ been our most hated enemy? 'Scuse me, gotta go to the 5-minute hate. Today's should be a good one! Wonder who's next after that devil Richard M. Stallman yesterday."
Folks, it ain't too far off when we're surrounded by droids like this.
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In the end, it will be the Global Mulitnationals (capitalists) working with the UN (world gov't, socialists) to enslave us all under a unified "Democratic Capitalist" system.
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Yes, indeed, the monitoring capabilities are scary. But WHAT is worthy of monitoring is very scary, too: the scope keeps growing. Now that they can monitor lots of stuff, they do (Echelon), and if you eat your chicken funny, you may be suspect.
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You can take comfort from having inspired me to such great heights. I stand on the shoulders of Giants.
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Ponderous Microsoft PR Machine Moves Into Action...
"Why Microsoft, of course! It's what customers want! Millions of people round the world already trust us with their data, storing their data in our proprietary but standards-loving formats (heck, even KOffice will import it!), on our proprietary but interoperable (no, I did NOT say 'inoperable'!) OSs! We are customer-focused. We LOVE our customers! It's a veritable love-fest here in Redmond!"
Whoops, sorry, I'm a bit too close to Redmond to pass up a rant opportunity. I look out the window of my office, and see a foul dark cloud hanging over Mordor, er, Redmond; I get chills of fear.
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I wouldn't say that capitalism is inherently a slave system... G.K.Chesterton, for example, had a vision of distributed property ownership, called Distributism (?), which basically addresses a major problem of today: the centralization of property and wealth. He was seeing this almost a century ago, so it's not a new problem.
Right now in the US we have the Democrats, who love the state, working closely with Republicans, who love big business. Now both parties love both--what a deadly combo! Is there some way to slay this Statist Beast without a larger Statist Beast?
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I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us.
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Almost the same here, using the same video chip, windows 2000. My wife got BSODs when she tried to reply to someone using Pegasus Mail. She'd push the "send" button, Boom! BSOD. And it was repeatable. It's happened before on NT, about a year ago. I told her to cut and paste the message into a new email, and try that. It worked, just like it worked before.
It's just gotta be the hardware, because those guys in the Win 2000 commercial are off celebrating and their servers never fail.
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They are not there (civil liberty) by any stretch of delusion, but they just may get there.
Thanks for supplying the examples for me.
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Imagine a mechanic who doesn't like to tinker, and doesn't care about what makes a car work. You sure don't want him tinkering while you're paying him, but you sure do want him tinkering on his own time, so that the amount of time you pay him is reduced, because he knows what he's doing.
I've seen too many who don't have that curiosity, and want to be spoon-fed.
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Last I heard, the spy plane landed on a Chinese military base. Help me here, is that part of International Waters?
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I don't recall mentioning Taiwan anywhere. Is Taiwan an independent country? Have the US recognized it as such?
What is interesting to me is the direction China and the US are taking. Deng Xiaoping said, "To get rich is glorious" which sounds like a paeon to the free market, which is the direction they are going--towards liberty. Even now, they are problably not much more economically regulated than the US are (no Americans with Disablities Acts, no EPA, FDA, etc, etc, etc). They are not there (civil liberty) by any stretch of delusion, but they just may get there. The US, OTOH, are moving toward a ponderous socialist worker's paradise...
Why are US Civil "Liberties" always accompanied by Government regulations, which always seem to remove Liberty?
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Hope all you rebels like northern North Dakota, or the hot wind-scoured plains of West Texas, because that's where the reeducation camps will be set up.
"He loved Big Brother". The chilling last line of _1984_.
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