Heh. I remember the SCC... man, lots of bad memories. Los Alamos kicked me off their computers for using IRC and visiting #hack. At least I think that's the reason, they never talked to ME about it. My teachers, and the principle, practically made a federal case about it for the rest of my high school years. On the other hand, it was my first exposure to UNIX and the Internet. I was in the 2nd and 3rd annual SCC's. My GF at the time won that year (met her through SCC), but alas she's dead now (suicide)...
That company would get sued for it*, just as if they didn't go through GPLNet. Therefore, under your current scenario, nobody has any use for GPLNet. You could always prove me wrong of course. In the words of ESR, "shut up and show us the code."
*assuming they were using GPL'd Kerberos code, which MS (to which you are alluding) was not.
No, people who want to distribute binaries of derivative works of GPL code while maintaining proprietary extensions. I'd charge people for adding a file to the network; companies would want to do this in order to take advantage of GPL code to create proprietary applications.
Why would a company pay you to distribute their proprietary extensions (GPL violations), so that anyone could download their proprietary extensions for free? Once again: who in the world would use GPLNet?
Insightful? Who would use it? People who want to download GPL'd binaries without getting the source code. Oooh, the rebels! Actually I can already download binaries from many distributions but they also have to offer the sources. With your GPLnet, people would get the exciting ability to download GPL'd code without source available. Who cares? Who would bother offering it? You can't exactly offer the downloads for money, as a business. You'd have to get the money somehow, then you could be tracked down and sued for violating the copyright of the authors. And it wouldn't be a case of 33,000 violators in that case.
Second, the post office has NO interest in stopping spam. For one thing, their paper-mail revenue stream isn't supported by those silly first-class stamps you've been buying. It is supported by third class 'business mail' aka junk mail. Good side: you get cheap postal mail. Bad side: you get a ream of banner ads in your mailbox every week.
Wrong. First class mail does not subsidize third class mail, nor vice versa, by law. However, short distance mail subsidizes long distance mail; you spend 33 cents to send a letter across town, or across the country.
Anyone desiring to use one or more of the Tolkien fanciful names and/or characters in connection with merchandise, stage adaptations, or services offered to the public is requested to submit a written proposal to Laurie Battle, Director of Licensing, 2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, California 94710.
Right, blame it on the fan sites, who usually start their sites out of love for the product.
Hmm... ya, that sounds like journalistic ethics.
[quote] Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.
[...]
Act Independently
Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest other than the public's right to know.
Journalists should: Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility. Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement, public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity. Disclose unavoidable conflicts. Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable. Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage. Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; avoid bidding for news.
I'm sorry if this sounds judgmental, and I'm not saying that nVidia is a shining example of great corporate ethics, but none of this would be a problem if the review sites had any independence and/or ethics. The author of the site signed a contract he didn't understand, and shouldn't have been proper for his site (as he says, just to get free equipment from nVidia), and when a PR from nVidia (I don't care if he's a contractor, if you act for the company you represent the company) enforced that contract (which had to do with posting competitors' logos, not reviews) he starts screaming that they are strongarming him. Make a deal with the devil.... Then when it turns into a PR nightmare the spin control comes in, and he uses his newfound clout to beg for more free stuff, to which the nVidia guy makes a noncommital bribe to get him to shut up.
Finally, the author brags that he could have made them give him 50 GeForce2 boards.
I'm sorry but this type of airing of dirty laundry of your business partners (which I consider signing the type of promotional agreement to be) reflects badly on yourself more than it does nVidia.
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That was during the whole O.J. thing. Peter Jennings never even saw it coming.:-)
It sounds like they are talking about a different hoax than you are talking about... but yes, the "famous Peter Jennings phone call" in which someone called in to the news program saying they were in the back of a news van, and they could see O.J. I actually have the "re-enactment" done by Howard and Robin recorded on a cassette tape somewhere. "I see O.J. man. I see O.J. and he be scared, cause there's cops all DEEP in this!"
If this is the way everyone is going to squable over DNS entries, I say we turn off the DNS and let everyone go to their rooms and think about what they have done wrong for a while. We can turn around this Internet right now and go home, do you want that?
This is a lot like the accusations related to the tucows/mandrake [non-]situtation, only in reverse. The only way to even have a chance of getting true journalistic independence is to do what Consumer Reports does with automobiles and other products. You buy the product off the shelf with your own money. Don't let the dealer know who you represent either, although this doesn't really apply as much to products that are not tied to store brands / licensed dealerships. This way you don't get a "pick of the litter" sample. Also, you review what people are actually buying, not some prototype or enhanced card. Finally you gain true independence from the whims of the manufacturers, and you don't have to be their buddies, which will affect your reviews whether or not you believe it.
As a long-time PowerBook owner, I can attest that computing in silence is bliss
I have two computers set up at home. One linux system as a server, and one windows system as a client. (e.g. run UT server, and UT client on the operating systems they work best with) They are both home-built Intel-type machines. They each have a power supply, and hard drive, and CPU fans, and one has a fan for the video card. What I ended up doing to solve the noise problem is to put my computers in the next room, and run the video/keyboard/mouse(and optionally, power) cables through the wall (where the Cable TV goes, actually) so I won't have to deal with the noise. I won't have to worry about the noise anymore. (Now, to solve the high pitch whine from the TV, the noisy fridge, and the fan-based heater (in the winter)... guess we can't have everything.)
It drives me nuts when people who are a little bit smarter like Miguel, start to think they are really smart, because while he can see problems, he is still not smart enough to see solutions.
Solutions, huh. You are aware that Miguel de Icaza is working on a little project called GNOME to address his complaints, are you not? What he's doing is explaining his goals by pointing out what he thinks is currently wrong.
Mononoke is anime. It's just being distributed in the US by a subsidiary of Disney that often does foreign or non-mainstream movies. It is some of the best animation I have seen, it is a really great story, and it is really great anime. I recommend it highly. Also, it DOES have demonic tentacled monsters in it! It's also not a musical or a love story. It is not like The Little Mermaid at all... although the Little Mermaid also did have a tentacled monster and a barely clad teenager, so I don't see what you have against it.:)
GUI's, or at least those of the Windows kind, were designed badly from the start, in that interaction for the most part was designed to be a series of pop-up dialog boxes to which the user had to respond.
Right now, using the Windows GUI is frustrating if what you want to do is different than what it wants to do. For instance, I can in the middle of typing this sentence, and if some other notice window pops up just before I hit the space bar, I will probably tell that window to perform its default action. Even if that doesn't happen, at the very least I will lose the focus, and I will have to click back to the window I want to give input to, or to be able to see completely.
If I am using the "Start" menu, and any window activity happens on the screen (which happens a lot for the first 30 seconds after boot up, when I usually want to start some programs) the Start menu pops back to its non-visible state. (This is probably just bad implementation on MS's part, there's no real reason it had to be implemented that way.)
I think actions of the computer in a GUI, to which the user is required to evalutate and make a response to, should only be based on direct actions of the user.
offtopic, but egoboo is in ESR's hacker dictionary, and it was borrowed (since the communities are very much overlapping) from science fiction fandom, which was fond of making those kinds of abreviations.
Hell, I bet you work for a corporation too. USWest.net maybe?
I normally don't respond to A.C.'s, espeically ones who flame me, but this is just too funny.
First of all, obligatory on-topic: The point of my posts was that Bill Gates didn't believe hobbyists could put in three man years of work into coding, testing and documentation.
As an aside, I also wasn't aware that providing links to prove a point (for the purpose of amusement) was karma whoring. Which is funny since that comment wasn't even moderated up.
But to address your point, I actually work for a non-profit organisation, a hospital. uswest.net is just my ISP, (you dumb fuck.)
big business can innovate and often does a damn better job than what comes out of somebody's garage
Yes, Bill Gates put it best:
"The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft."
The terminology I use is that agnosticism is the belief that the existence of god is unknowable.
Atheism is merely the absense of belief in a god.
I would call many people who call themselves agnostics, "atheists." I would also call some buddhists atheists as well, as many of them have no belief in deities.
However, I know that many people who think they are agnostics say that atheism is the positive beleif that there is no god. In atheism discussions we usually differentiate that definition as "strong atheism" as opposed to "weak atheism."
See also: George H. Smith's "Atheism: the case against god." I've seen it in bookstores, but you may just want to check it out at the library.
Since this is the web, this would be a quicker intro to the terminology, including the differences between weak atheism, stroung atheism, and agnosticism. http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
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Yep, I and a few other investors are going to be setting up another distributed file-sharing scheme [...]
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streetlawer, you are still a troll.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/08/01/1225
Heh. I remember the SCC... man, lots of bad memories. Los Alamos kicked me off their computers for using IRC and visiting #hack. At least I think that's the reason, they never talked to ME about it. My teachers, and the principle, practically made a federal case about it for the rest of my high school years. On the other hand, it was my first exposure to UNIX and the Internet. I was in the 2nd and 3rd annual SCC's. My GF at the time won that year (met her through SCC), but alas she's dead now (suicide)...
"Information wants to be anthropomorphized."
I love your sig! I've seen it often around slashdot, and whenever I start thinking about anything related to the issue, that sig comes to mind.
That company would get sued for it*, just as if they didn't go through GPLNet. Therefore, under your current scenario, nobody has any use for GPLNet. You could always prove me wrong of course. In the words of ESR, "shut up and show us the code."
*assuming they were using GPL'd Kerberos code, which MS (to which you are alluding) was not.
No, people who want to distribute binaries of derivative works of GPL code while maintaining proprietary extensions. I'd charge people for adding a file to the network; companies would want to do this in order to take advantage of GPL code
to create proprietary applications.
Why would a company pay you to distribute their proprietary extensions (GPL violations), so that anyone could download their proprietary extensions for free? Once again: who in the world would use GPLNet?
Insightful? Who would use it? People who want to download GPL'd binaries without getting the source code. Oooh, the rebels! Actually I can already download binaries from many distributions but they also have to offer the sources. With your GPLnet, people would get the exciting ability to download GPL'd code without source available. Who cares? Who would bother offering it? You can't exactly offer the downloads for money, as a business. You'd have to get the money somehow, then you could be tracked down and sued for violating the copyright of the authors. And it wouldn't be a case of 33,000 violators in that case.
Second, the post office has NO interest in stopping spam. For one thing, their paper-mail revenue stream isn't supported by those silly first-class stamps you've been buying. It is supported by third class 'business mail' aka junk mail. Good side: you get cheap postal mail. Bad side: you get a ream of banner ads in your mailbox every week.
Wrong. First class mail does not subsidize third class mail, nor vice versa, by law. However, short distance mail subsidizes long distance mail; you spend 33 cents to send a letter across town, or across the country.
Like I said, there are three different sections. Place names are on another page, here:
http://www.tolkien-ent.com/new/places.html
Misty Mountains is listed. Not like they would come after you (I've never heard of Tolkien-ent being like Fox or Paramount) most likely...
I thought you said you were leaving Slashdot for good.
According to Tolkien Enterprises:
Anyone desiring to use one or more of the Tolkien fanciful names and/or characters in connection with merchandise, stage adaptations, or services offered to the public is requested to submit a written proposal to Laurie Battle, Director of Licensing, 2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, California 94710.
list of things and events (there are also other lists, one for characters, and one for places).
[...]
Sindarin
Smials
Sting
Stone of Erech
talan
[...]
Right, blame it on the fan sites, who usually start their sites out of love for the product.
Hmm... ya, that sounds like journalistic ethics.
[quote]
Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.
[...]
Act Independently
Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest other than the public's right to know.
Journalists should:
Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement, public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity.
Disclose unavoidable conflicts.
Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable.
Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage.
Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; avoid bidding for news.
[unquote]
source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/ethics.html
And that's why I said this kind of thing wouldn't be a problem if the sites had any kind of independence (which equals ethics in this case).
I'm sorry if this sounds judgmental, and I'm not saying that nVidia is a shining example of great corporate ethics, but none of this would be a problem if the review sites had any independence and/or ethics. The author of the site signed a contract he didn't understand, and shouldn't have been proper for his site (as he says, just to get free equipment from nVidia), and when a PR from nVidia (I don't care if he's a contractor, if you act for the company you represent the company) enforced that contract (which had to do with posting competitors' logos, not reviews) he starts screaming that they are strongarming him. Make a deal with the devil.... Then when it turns into a PR nightmare the spin control comes in, and he uses his newfound clout to beg for more free stuff, to which the nVidia guy makes a noncommital bribe to get him to shut up.
Finally, the author brags that he could have made them give him 50 GeForce2 boards.
I'm sorry but this type of airing of dirty laundry of your business partners (which I consider signing the type of promotional agreement to be) reflects badly on yourself more than it does nVidia.
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I think I read somewhere where Miguel said, if you don't like Gnome, you're probably using RedHat's version... :)
Get HelixCode's version of GNOME (Helix GNOME). It kicks ass. http://www.helixcode.com/
It comes set up with sawfish as a default, and it is a very nice window manager.
That was during the whole O.J. thing. Peter Jennings never even saw it coming. :-)
... but yes, the "famous Peter Jennings phone call" in which someone called in to the news program saying they were in the back of a news van, and they could see O.J. I actually have the "re-enactment" done by Howard and Robin recorded on a cassette tape somewhere. "I see O.J. man. I see O.J. and he be scared, cause there's cops all DEEP in this!"
It sounds like they are talking about a different hoax than you are talking about
It has been over 25 years since the last discovery of an outer Jovian satellite (Voyager found three inner moons in 1979).
What did you get on your ACTs?
If this is the way everyone is going to squable over DNS entries, I say we turn off the DNS and let everyone go to their rooms and think about what they have done wrong for a while. We can turn around this Internet right now and go home, do you want that?
He's touching me!
Am not!
This is a lot like the accusations related to the tucows/mandrake [non-]situtation, only in reverse. The only way to even have a chance of getting true journalistic independence is to do what Consumer Reports does with automobiles and other products. You buy the product off the shelf with your own money. Don't let the dealer know who you represent either, although this doesn't really apply as much to products that are not tied to store brands / licensed dealerships. This way you don't get a "pick of the litter" sample. Also, you review what people are actually buying, not some prototype or enhanced card. Finally you gain true independence from the whims of the manufacturers, and you don't have to be their buddies, which will affect your reviews whether or not you believe it.
As a long-time PowerBook owner, I can attest that computing in silence is bliss
I have two computers set up at home. One linux system as a server, and one windows system as a client. (e.g. run UT server, and UT client on the operating systems they work best with) They are both home-built Intel-type machines. They each have a power supply, and hard drive, and CPU fans, and one has a fan for the video card. What I ended up doing to solve the noise problem is to put my computers in the next room, and run the video/keyboard/mouse(and optionally, power) cables through the wall (where the Cable TV goes, actually) so I won't have to deal with the noise. I won't have to worry about the noise anymore. (Now, to solve the high pitch whine from the TV, the noisy fridge, and the fan-based heater (in the winter)... guess we can't have everything.)
It drives me nuts when people who are a little bit smarter like Miguel, start to think they are really smart, because while he can see problems, he is still not smart enough to see solutions.
Solutions, huh. You are aware that Miguel de Icaza is working on a little project called GNOME to address his complaints, are you not? What he's doing is explaining his goals by pointing out what he thinks is currently wrong.
Mononoke is anime. It's just being distributed in the US by a subsidiary of Disney that often does foreign or non-mainstream movies. It is some of the best animation I have seen, it is a really great story, and it is really great anime. I recommend it highly. Also, it DOES have demonic tentacled monsters in it! It's also not a musical or a love story. It is not like The Little Mermaid at all... although the Little Mermaid also did have a tentacled monster and a barely clad teenager, so I don't see what you have against it. :)
GUI's, or at least those of the Windows kind, were designed badly from the start, in that interaction for the most part was designed to be a series of pop-up dialog boxes to which the user had to respond.
Right now, using the Windows GUI is frustrating if what you want to do is different than what it wants to do. For instance, I can in the middle of typing this sentence, and if some other notice window pops up just before I hit the space bar, I will probably tell that window to perform its default action. Even if that doesn't happen, at the very least I will lose the focus, and I will have to click back to the window I want to give input to, or to be able to see completely.
If I am using the "Start" menu, and any window activity happens on the screen (which happens a lot for the first 30 seconds after boot up, when I usually want to start some programs) the Start menu pops back to its non-visible state. (This is probably just bad implementation on MS's part, there's no real reason it had to be implemented that way.)
I think actions of the computer in a GUI, to which the user is required to evalutate and make a response to, should only be based on direct actions of the user.
offtopic, but egoboo is in ESR's hacker dictionary, and it was borrowed (since the communities are very much overlapping) from science fiction fandom, which was fond of making those kinds of abreviations.
SEE ALSO: for instance this link
Hell, I bet you work for a corporation too. USWest.net maybe?
I normally don't respond to A.C.'s, espeically ones who flame me, but this is just too funny.
First of all, obligatory on-topic: The point of my posts was that Bill Gates didn't believe hobbyists could put in three man years of work into coding, testing and documentation.
As an aside, I also wasn't aware that providing links to prove a point (for the purpose of amusement) was karma whoring. Which is funny since that comment wasn't even moderated up.
But to address your point, I actually work for a non-profit organisation, a hospital. uswest.net is just my ISP, (you dumb fuck.)
big business can innovate and often does a damn better job than what comes out of somebody's garage
Yes, Bill Gates put it best:
"The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft."
After all, who would spend THREE WHOLE MAN YEARS developing software. Free software could never put that much work into programming, bug finding, or documenting, and distributing for free hobbyist (free) software.
The terminology I use is that agnosticism is the belief that the existence of god is unknowable.
Atheism is merely the absense of belief in a god.
I would call many people who call themselves agnostics, "atheists." I would also call some buddhists atheists as well, as many of them have no belief in deities.
However, I know that many people who think they are agnostics say that atheism is the positive beleif that there is no god. In atheism discussions we usually differentiate that definition as "strong atheism" as opposed to "weak atheism."
See also: George H. Smith's "Atheism: the case against god." I've seen it in bookstores, but you may just want to check it out at the library.
Since this is the web, this would be a quicker intro to the terminology, including the differences between weak atheism, stroung atheism, and agnosticism.
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
I look forward to your reply.