I would like to first say that you and I are very similar in interests... we are geeks and we are actors. Not often in the mainstream portrayal do the two come together. Hell, I shock people everytime I have a conversation on it. Left brain vs Right brain.
Anyways, excluding your tenure with ACME, would you ever consider stagework to fill in the gap of filmwork and as a off-camera showcase of your talent?
Also, I would like to extend my apologies to Anne. I have been sleeping with you for the past few nights as I try to eagerly finish "Just a Geek".
Funny, they create audio CDRs, MP3 players, rippers, VCRs, DVD burners, and the like. Then they complain when you use them. Its like buying an action figure and being told not to play with it. It just looks good in the box.
They are pushing the paraphenalia into the hands of the consumer, then seek, in turn, to sue them for the use of them. I would almost say it would be the equivalent of The Tree of Knowledge. Just listen to the "No" or I will splank you.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we must question the toys that bite us back. The more we spend, the more munitions we give them to fight with and fight against. Catch-22. Deny technology and deny freedom. Accept technology and deny freedom.
Contradictions.
Beware Greeks bearing gifts. Beware accepting the gratuitous scapegoat role.
I savor technology. I live on my curiousities. I have a CDRW, an MP3 player, a scanner, broadband, a VCR, a tape recorder,... Makes me wonder what percentage of sales made to me are being used again people like me.
And to the Corporations, for which it stands. One populace under suit...
All things have a potential for good or bad. Simply put.
If there is to be the software revolution for the consumer, the consumer is going to have to be the one to make the choice and must have the option readily available.
Desktop pre-installs of Lindows is doing just that. It is putting an alternative in front of the economic power base that must make the choice of acception or rejection.
Despite what it seems, marketing and product sales is the one field that is controlled by the common person and not the high level wealth. Why else would you have millions paid for Nascar or motorbike sponsorships? Bus panels for public transit?
Potential harm to Linux on the whole? Limite in my views. As far as I understand, Lindows is being advertised not as Microsoft Windows or as a Linux distribution, but as a growing bridge between them.
This could very well be a wake up call to software manufacturers. Or it could very well be another software tombstone. Risk.
I have yet to try Lindows. But I would not that there would be proprietary workarounds for some of X's quirks.
Let's just see. Hey, after all, MSDOS and Windows were built off of someone else's work. Look what we have now:).
Then we add in 2031 a Butlerian-like jihad against the machines and the addition of the Orange Catholic doctrine, "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" (Frank Herbert, Dune).
An Industrial Rerevolution leading to another level of discontent witnessed only previously by automation.
I unforunately work for a local ISP. Just wanted to start off by that statement.
I had a customer call in with a TCP/IP stack issue which normally is fixed by the removal TCP from network and/or removal of the Communications component and reinstalling it.
Little did I know that the restoration CD fro HP Pavilion with Windows ME, was not a full Windows CD as typical with most restores. Instead, it was an image of the hard drive spread across several CDs.
Please insert the Windows Millenium CD? Um, take your pick.
Hmmm....beta 1 realeased and we are only on the threshold of Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3. I would think it would be better to begin debugging when the two big ones hit the scene.
Now if only Mandrake can fix there package issues. Mandrake is great for installs, hardware detection, and configuring the like, but dreadfully lacks care in package building. RPMs with missing files, docs, etc. Was this symtomatic only of 8.1 which in MHO was too rushed. Beta 1 one week, Beta 2 the next, then RC 1, and bam! full version. 8.1 was nasty. I regressed to another distro with that one.
I currently use Mandrake 8.0 for my Powerbook. After tweaking for the resolution for my display, it works great.
Hmmm...this doesn't seem the answer to a current issue.
XP is out and about. But, as you well know it may
not become fully mainstream until the holiday season
when people buy new computers as gifts.
It would be nice to see an organized effort against this evil of an OS. Actually pick a day for continuous campaign of phone calls, e-mails, and media coverage.
For the sake of security, the vitality of independent ISPs, and software developers, I believe it is necessary to force an injunction against the Passport/MSN nightmare of a eXPerience.
I am sure we all remember the rise of Linux IPO's.
Redhat, VA Linux, Caldera, etc. Linux was becoming mainstream. However the mainstream idea of Linux was at the time like disco to the 1970s, a fad.
The rise of a Mandrake IPO, however, has the potentiality of violating the idea that fads die and possibly bring disco back. It is a strong distribution, end-user and non-end-user geared. Its popularity has seemed to be surpassing my home state's distribution of RedHat. Its combination of applications with interface has given a console OS a spark of beauty.
If I could afford to buy shares, I quite possibly would. However, I cannot afford the market for fun. I would at least need to yield some gain on my risk (any market is a risk, not just the concern of Open Source IPOs).
I suggest Mandrake go for it. Even if it may not capture the United States attention, Europe may have a strong interest. French-based. Focus on internationalization. As the Euro continues to consolidate, software needs to be there to take it all home. Can Mandrake take up the challenge?
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Damn,I thought this was an article on shaving. :)
For once I can take pride for living in North Carolina.
I would like to first say that you and I are very similar in interests ... we are geeks and we are actors. Not often in the mainstream portrayal do the two come together. Hell, I shock people everytime I have a conversation on it. Left brain vs Right brain.
Anyways, excluding your tenure with ACME, would you ever consider stagework to fill in the gap of filmwork and as a off-camera showcase of your talent?
Also, I would like to extend my apologies to Anne. I have been sleeping with you for the past few nights as I try to eagerly finish "Just a Geek".
Messenger, IE, CE, small simple. Its Virus-A-Go-Go!
Be sure to drink your ovaltine.
Out of the hospital and back at my terminal -- glad to be living in Brooklyn.
:P
Manhattan,
I just got out of the hospital after 2 weeks and 1 major surgery.
Here they are insisting on my showering to keep my wound clean!
fixed.
With permission of Dean Edward, I have copied the IE7 information and src download to my webserver for mirroring purposes. http://opensource.worldhuman.net/mirror/IE7
Just another product from a corporation that sues
for using their product.
Come on, this is Sony. Yes it is a leader in optical media technology, but it is also a leader in suits for that technology.
Must we insist on buying meat from a butcher with the history of e-coli?
Oh yeah, great device. Great price. Good funding for lawsuits concerning DVDs, MP3s, etc.
It's like having stove and being told not to cook.
Let's say no this time, shall we? Take our business elsewhere?
Funny, they create audio CDRs, MP3 players, rippers, VCRs, DVD burners, and the like. Then they complain when you use them. Its like buying an action figure and being told not to play with it. It just looks good in the box.
... Makes me wonder what percentage of sales made to me are being used again people like me.
...
They are pushing the paraphenalia into the hands of the consumer, then seek, in turn, to sue them for the use of them. I would almost say it would be the equivalent of The Tree of Knowledge. Just listen to the "No" or I will splank you.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we must question the toys that bite us back. The more we spend, the more munitions we give them to fight with and fight against. Catch-22. Deny technology and deny freedom. Accept technology and deny freedom.
Contradictions.
Beware Greeks bearing gifts. Beware accepting the gratuitous scapegoat role.
I savor technology. I live on my curiousities. I have a CDRW, an MP3 player, a scanner, broadband, a VCR, a tape recorder,
And to the Corporations, for which it stands. One populace under suit
DRM, DMCA
All things have a potential for good or bad. Simply put.
:).
If there is to be the software revolution for the consumer, the consumer is going to have to be the one to make the choice and must have the option readily available.
Desktop pre-installs of Lindows is doing just that. It is putting an alternative in front of the economic power base that must make the choice of acception or rejection.
Despite what it seems, marketing and product sales
is the one field that is controlled by the common person and not the high level wealth. Why else would you have millions paid for Nascar or motorbike sponsorships? Bus panels for public transit?
Potential harm to Linux on the whole? Limite in my views. As far as I understand, Lindows is being advertised not as Microsoft Windows or as a Linux distribution, but as a growing bridge between them.
This could very well be a wake up call to software manufacturers. Or it could very well be another software tombstone. Risk.
I have yet to try Lindows. But I would not that there would be proprietary workarounds for some of X's quirks.
Let's just see. Hey, after all, MSDOS and Windows
were built off of someone else's work. Look what we have now
Shhh! Now Capcom might enter in on the patent on Future.
Then we add in 2031 a Butlerian-like jihad against the machines and the addition of the Orange Catholic doctrine, "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" (Frank Herbert, Dune).
An Industrial Rerevolution leading to another level of discontent witnessed only previously by automation.
I unforunately work for a local ISP. Just wanted to start off by that statement.
I had a customer call in with a TCP/IP stack issue which normally is fixed by the removal TCP from network and/or removal of the Communications component and reinstalling it.
Little did I know that the restoration CD fro HP Pavilion with Windows ME, was not a full Windows CD as typical with most restores. Instead, it was an image of the hard drive spread across several CDs.
Please insert the Windows Millenium CD? Um, take your pick.
The United States, a disposable nation. We build our lives around the convenience of Dixie cups, Saran Wrap, dime store paper plates, a Ziploc bags.
Now, disposable movies. Like we needed one more thing for the landfill?
CSS encryption + these two companies = more AOL cds
Waste products.
As Nancy Reagan was once said, "Just Say No!" :)
Crashing so soon?
What version of Windows was it running?
Hmmm....beta 1 realeased and we are only on the threshold of Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3. I would think it would be better to begin debugging when the two big ones hit the scene.
Now if only Mandrake can fix there package issues. Mandrake is great for installs, hardware detection, and configuring the like, but dreadfully lacks care in package building. RPMs with missing files, docs, etc. Was this symtomatic only of 8.1 which in MHO was too rushed. Beta 1 one week, Beta 2 the next, then RC 1, and bam! full version. 8.1 was nasty. I regressed to another distro with that one.
I currently use Mandrake 8.0 for my Powerbook. After tweaking for the resolution for my display, it works great.
Hmmm...this doesn't seem the answer to a current issue.
XP is out and about. But, as you well know it may
not become fully mainstream until the holiday season
when people buy new computers as gifts.
It would be nice to see an organized effort against this evil of an OS. Actually pick a day for continuous campaign of phone calls, e-mails, and media coverage.
For the sake of security, the vitality of independent ISPs, and software developers, I believe it is necessary to force an injunction against the Passport/MSN nightmare of a eXPerience.
Anyone in on the idea?
1>Cannot display PNG graphics properly in its "standard compliant" browser.
2>violates Kerberos standard
3>cannot understand that Java is not theirs.
Linux: we believe in fostering the information future, not raping it.
I am running a "Disk Drive" amongst my employees
to get CDR/Ws, floppies, power cords, etc to send
to NYC.
Hope others join in.
Hmmm, "Reach out and touch someone". Just not
what I think AT&T meant with global communication.
I am sure we all remember the rise of Linux IPO's.
Redhat, VA Linux, Caldera, etc. Linux was becoming mainstream. However the mainstream idea of Linux was at the time like disco to the 1970s, a fad.
The rise of a Mandrake IPO, however, has the potentiality of violating the idea that fads die and possibly bring disco back. It is a strong distribution, end-user and non-end-user geared. Its popularity has seemed to be surpassing my home state's distribution of RedHat. Its combination of applications with interface has given a console OS a spark of beauty.
If I could afford to buy shares, I quite possibly would. However, I cannot afford the market for fun. I would at least need to yield some gain on my risk (any market is a risk, not just the concern of Open Source IPOs).
I suggest Mandrake go for it. Even if it may not capture the United States attention, Europe may have a strong interest. French-based. Focus on internationalization. As the Euro continues to consolidate, software needs to be there to take it all home. Can Mandrake take up the challenge?