CDs are inconvenient and archaic. Jewel cases get broken, things get wet, discs get scratched... I never used to bother much.
Then I got on mp3s, and started listening to music more avidly. Well, mp3s are annoying to obtain - searching for obscure pirate sites, getting things in line with your naming scheme, seperating good encodings from poorer and broken ones... ARGH!
So, I find some songs I like, I search out the appropriate CDs on Amazon, then head to a nice local music store and load up, bring 'm back to the ranch, rip'n'encode. Mighty handy.
Why would I want to bother with CDs in the first place, if they weren't a delivery vehicle for getting good tunes in to my computer?:)
> shouldn't they have known this before doing anything?
i've worked at an ISP. the bizdev types at many organizations frequently don't know a thing about systems stuff. What's a DNS?
on the other hand, what do you know about product placement, or some other type of bizdev arcana? The other day, I didn't know what "Bill Stuffers" were...
Right.
Since those days, I've come to notice that better companies tend to have more well-rounded employees. Right now I work for a most excellent company with lots of really bright, well-rounded people, and I am not sure that our our GC would know what a WHOIS is. Luckily, we also have a lot of energy and internal communications, so even if our legal team might be unaware of WHOIS, they'd very likely run in to somebody who was before committing such a heinous gaffe.
So, if you ask me, this does not show that Verio are dumb; rather, it demonstrates that they may lack a healthy infrustructure where employees communicate effectively with each other.
... he should get his files back. If the government thinks they contain naughty bits then they can subpeona them and nail him for contempt of court when he refuses to cooperate.
Or perhaps I'm thinking a little too rationally or something.
It is interesting that the article talks about "India's first supercomputer to run Linux" and the Slashdot headline comes to read that India's first supercomputer is Linux-based.
Joy joy feelings to you, comrade Roblimo, for the double-plus good mindthink.
Algae are plural, they would collectively announce, but then us Americans tend to regard big monster companies in the singular, so I digress, except that I still get bothered by Algae "announces" anything.
I'm not the only one who read this as the Boy Scouts of america going after warezers. General Journalism Rule of Thumb: Eschew unfamiliar or potentially ambigouous acronyms.
Thank you. This has been a Public Service Accouncement (PSA) by dannyman.
... like browsing well-crafted content? maybe i'm being backward here, but but basic support for HTML, and on a good day, stylesheets, is what *i* find useful.:)
if your web site requires flash, shockwave, or javascript, and does not degrade gracefully, you've definately lost _my_ eyeballs.
It cost me $0 to get in to the Linux Conference recently held in San Jose, and I got free beer. (Thanks Slashdot!) I don't even like Linux!
I love FreeBSD, but not enough to shell out $395 just to get in the door!:( As a consolation though, I get an old cow-orker flown in from Chicago on my old employer's dime so he can attend the conference and snarf me up some goodies.
But you think they could try and give my poor pocketbook a break...
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CDs are inconvenient and archaic. Jewel cases get broken, things get wet, discs get scratched ... I never used to bother much.
... ARGH!
:)
Then I got on mp3s, and started listening to music more avidly. Well, mp3s are annoying to obtain - searching for obscure pirate sites, getting things in line with your naming scheme, seperating good encodings from poorer and broken ones
So, I find some songs I like, I search out the appropriate CDs on Amazon, then head to a nice local music store and load up, bring 'm back to the ranch, rip'n'encode. Mighty handy.
Why would I want to bother with CDs in the first place, if they weren't a delivery vehicle for getting good tunes in to my computer?
> shouldn't they have known this before doing anything?
...
i've worked at an ISP. the bizdev types at many organizations frequently don't know a thing about systems stuff. What's a DNS?
on the other hand, what do you know about product placement, or some other type of bizdev arcana? The other day, I didn't know what "Bill Stuffers" were
Right.
Since those days, I've come to notice that better companies tend to have more well-rounded employees. Right now I work for a most excellent company with lots of really bright, well-rounded people, and I am not sure that our our GC would know what a WHOIS is. Luckily, we also have a lot of energy and internal communications, so even if our legal team might be unaware of WHOIS, they'd very likely run in to somebody who was before committing such a heinous gaffe.
So, if you ask me, this does not show that Verio are dumb; rather, it demonstrates that they may lack a healthy infrustructure where employees communicate effectively with each other.
... he should get his files back. If the government thinks they contain naughty bits then they can subpeona them and nail him for contempt of court when he refuses to cooperate.
Or perhaps I'm thinking a little too rationally or something.
It is interesting that the article talks about "India's first supercomputer to run Linux" and the Slashdot headline comes to read that India's first supercomputer is Linux-based.
Joy joy feelings to you, comrade Roblimo, for the double-plus good mindthink.
0-12:49 dannyman@europa ~> whois dannyland.org
[...]
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
[...]
0-12:49 dannyman@europa ~> whois dannyland.org@whois.networksolutions.com
[...]
Administrative Contact:
Howard, Daniel Joseph (DJH26) dannyman@DANNYLAND.ORG
650 559 0302
[...]
Rocket science it aint.
Does the O'Reilley book cover how to hook up mindstorms with your Linux/BSD box? Is there any third-party or OS stuff out there?
Thanks for the O'Reilley, though.
No kidding!
I first parsed it as "Jean Luc Gasse Named CTO of Microsoft"
The similarities are creepy.
-dman
Algae are plural, they would collectively announce, but then us Americans tend to regard big monster companies in the singular, so I digress, except that I still get bothered by Algae "announces" anything.
Dude.
I'm not the only one who read this as the Boy Scouts of america going after warezers. General Journalism Rule of Thumb: Eschew unfamiliar or potentially ambigouous acronyms.
Thank you. This has been a Public Service Accouncement (PSA) by dannyman.
... like browsing well-crafted content? maybe i'm being backward here, but but basic support for HTML, and on a good day, stylesheets, is what *i* find useful. :)
if your web site requires flash, shockwave, or javascript, and does not degrade gracefully, you've definately lost _my_ eyeballs.
It cost me $0 to get in to the Linux Conference recently held in San Jose, and I got free beer. (Thanks Slashdot!) I don't even like Linux!
:( As a consolation though, I get an old cow-orker flown in from Chicago on my old employer's dime so he can attend the conference and snarf me up some goodies.
...
I love FreeBSD, but not enough to shell out $395 just to get in the door!
But you think they could try and give my poor pocketbook a break
this guy wasn't arrested for "internet piracy" - pirating an internet connection, he as arrested for software piracy over the internet.
:)
big difference. kids have been pirating stuff for years, but if a kid got arrested for pirating internet access, that would interest me.
"what's the senator's state sales tax? what if my path to the online merchant goes out of state and comes back?"
we could conduct transactions through an off-shore third party in some developing country whose inport/export isn't taxed, maybe.
different game?
-d