Unfortunately, their investers seem to want them to forgo their legitimate business interests and restructure their company around the pursuit of frivolous lawsuits. That kinda sucks.
I am working now through a contract company for $50 an hour. I don't have any benefits to speak of, and don't get paid holidays or sick time. But I would get overtime pay if the company I'm working at requests me to put in extra time. Because of that fact, they have yet to make such a request. I'd rather have the benefits and the time off, though. Looking forward to becoming a salaried employee soon.
``Back in 1985, there might have been a few engineers at Bell Laboratories who might have understood what a local area network was but not many others,'' said state Revenue Department spokesman Dave Bruns. ``That was essentially pre-Internet.''
If you hooked one of these up to a printing press and had it run continuously, you'd have money for nothing! Now if Minato can only get us chicks for free, he'd be my personal hero.
Let me trace the logic in the reply tree here for myself so it's laid out more clearly:
* The original article made a number of points about what the author saw as problems in many Open Source projects.
* Obertino replied to the article to say that the problems are not intrinsic to Open Source, but rather basically to code written by people who aren't getting paid.
* Ilan Volow followed up to state agreement with Obertino's point, but actually goes on to blame the whole problem on the influence of the UNIX programming environment on the Open Source movement.
* My reply to Ilan Volow's post challenged his assertion that the influence of the UNIX programming environment on the Open Source movement was detrimental, at least in the area of product documentation. The specific example given was that standard UNIX commands are typically better documented in the man pages than are many (not all) Open Source commands. Therefore it's a little weak to suggest that the influence of working in a UNIX environment is the cause of the deficiencies in documentation seen in many Open Source projects.
* maximilln replied to my reply to suggest that I'm intellectually feeble and that I am comparing two unlike things when I compare UNIX man pages to the Linux man pages of Open Source projects. He then goes on to talk about the documentation of Windows commands, apparently under the understanding that the Windows environment is much more similar to the Linux environment than the UNIX environment is, even though nothing has been said about Windows software in this branch of the reply tree.
Actually, now that I've reached this point, I don't really see a need to reply to this after all. But since I've gone to all this trouble...
I personally wouldn't say that's the case on the documentation issue. The man pages on practically any UNIX command are pages and pages long. While this is true as well of the commands associated with many Open Source projects, I can't think of a single standard UNIX command right offhand whose man page consists only of a simple usage message.
Uhhm, you may want to read that line again. Focus on features instead of core is exactly opposite to the OSS strength you refer to. The author was aiming criticism at those products which stray from that model.
Documentation in Open Source projects is world class? Not that there are exceptions with excellent documentation, but that the rule in Open Source software projects is exceptionally helpful documentation for end users without specially developed skill sets?
Out of curiousity, what colour is the sky in your world? I realize that's a flippant response, but an observation so blatantly at variance with the facts just has to be a troll.
Most of what I've seen looks like faked addresses to me, too. I can't really say all because I haven't thoroughly investigated every spam I've ever gotten. The only explanation I can come up with is that every once in a while (like maybe once every couple of months or so), a spammer sends out one spam with an actual address and checks it for bounce messages. That would seem to explain why it decreased gradually over a period of time (like months), rather than ceasing at once.
Are we sure spammers don't care about bad addresses in their lists? Because I used to get as much spam as anybody before I started using something called MailWasher. Gradually the amount of spam I was receiving decreased from enough to make me consider the address unusable to the level it is now where it's an unusual day if I receive even one spam email. The novelty of the MailWasher approach is that in addition to deleting the spam you have the option of replying to it with a forged bounce message from a mailer daemon. MailWasher is a Windows-only application, but the principle should be relatively simple to code into any of a dozen different approaches. I know the Hmmm link suggests that this should be completely fruitless because spammers won't care. But I'm just old-fashioned enough to find success difficult to argue with.
Here's a wacky idea. Take the precedents that have established the "personification" of corporations in American law (that is to say, that have defended the rights of corporations to any protections extended to individuals under the law) and apply them to situations like this. When a person takes actions intended to result in the dissolution of another person, the word we use is murder. In this case, there is documentation to prove that the actions taken were premeditated. Should Microsoft be brought to trial for murder one in the death of corporations? As persons under the law, do corporations like Go have this right?
While we're on the subject, can corporations get married as an alternative to mergers?
Get your geek something you'll enjoy doing with him. For example, I recently bought my girlfriend the SIMS game for Playstation2, which allows two people to sit together in the same place and play a game that's all about social interactions. We play that game a lot. We get to spend time together and do something geeky at the same time, which in our case is plusses all around. So my suggestion is, find something geeky that you can identify with on some level, and that the two of you can share. Game, movie, whatever.
Can't believe I haven't seen any previous posts ask this question, but what do you think the effect is going to be on the average user who has no use for or interest in a VirtualMachine? I remember serious issues dealing with the awkward integration of IE into the OS. (Okay, so my memory doesn't have to stretch too far for that, but I mean _especially_ in the early days.) Are we going to see a Windows where you have no choice but to run in an emulation layer that is poorly shoved into low-level OS routines?
Ah, so the problem is that some software that should be recognizing an IP as a clue that a reverse lookup is required is instead sending the request as a "standard" query? Well, I feel I've learned something.:)
In addition, 7 percent of all the queries already contained an IP address instead of a host name, which made the job of mapping it to an IP address irrelevant.
Is it just me, or is this a description of a reverse lookup? How does that qualify as unnecessary? This is a pretty common step in troubleshooting, and some software does a reverse lookup following a forward lookup to verify that the hostname it gets back is the same one it started with.
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Unfortunately, their investers seem to want them to forgo their legitimate business interests and restructure their company around the pursuit of frivolous lawsuits. That kinda sucks.
Chuck
I am working now through a contract company for $50 an hour. I don't have any benefits to speak of, and don't get paid holidays or sick time. But I would get overtime pay if the company I'm working at requests me to put in extra time. Because of that fact, they have yet to make such a request. I'd rather have the benefits and the time off, though. Looking forward to becoming a salaried employee soon.
He's right, you know. Man, it must be Monday.
Chuck
``Back in 1985, there might have been a few engineers at Bell Laboratories who might have understood what a local area network was but not many others,'' said state Revenue Department spokesman Dave Bruns. ``That was essentially pre-Internet.''
Oh, ghod, I'm dyin'.
Chuck
If you hooked one of these up to a printing press and had it run continuously, you'd have money for nothing! Now if Minato can only get us chicks for free, he'd be my personal hero.
Chuck
Or bulls? Bells?
Let me trace the logic in the reply tree here for myself so it's laid out more clearly:
* The original article made a number of points about what the author saw as problems in many Open Source projects.
* Obertino replied to the article to say that the problems are not intrinsic to Open Source, but rather basically to code written by people who aren't getting paid.
* Ilan Volow followed up to state agreement with Obertino's point, but actually goes on to blame the whole problem on the influence of the UNIX programming environment on the Open Source movement.
* My reply to Ilan Volow's post challenged his assertion that the influence of the UNIX programming environment on the Open Source movement was detrimental, at least in the area of product documentation. The specific example given was that standard UNIX commands are typically better documented in the man pages than are many (not all) Open Source commands. Therefore it's a little weak to suggest that the influence of working in a UNIX environment is the cause of the deficiencies in documentation seen in many Open Source projects.
* maximilln replied to my reply to suggest that I'm intellectually feeble and that I am comparing two unlike things when I compare UNIX man pages to the Linux man pages of Open Source projects. He then goes on to talk about the documentation of Windows commands, apparently under the understanding that the Windows environment is much more similar to the Linux environment than the UNIX environment is, even though nothing has been said about Windows software in this branch of the reply tree.
Actually, now that I've reached this point, I don't really see a need to reply to this after all. But since I've gone to all this trouble...
Chuck
I personally wouldn't say that's the case on the documentation issue. The man pages on practically any UNIX command are pages and pages long. While this is true as well of the commands associated with many Open Source projects, I can't think of a single standard UNIX command right offhand whose man page consists only of a simple usage message.
Chuck
Uhhm, you may want to read that line again. Focus on features instead of core is exactly opposite to the OSS strength you refer to. The author was aiming criticism at those products which stray from that model.
Chuck
Documentation in Open Source projects is world class? Not that there are exceptions with excellent documentation, but that the rule in Open Source software projects is exceptionally helpful documentation for end users without specially developed skill sets?
Out of curiousity, what colour is the sky in your world? I realize that's a flippant response, but an observation so blatantly at variance with the facts just has to be a troll.
Chuck
Most of what I've seen looks like faked addresses to me, too. I can't really say all because I haven't thoroughly investigated every spam I've ever gotten. The only explanation I can come up with is that every once in a while (like maybe once every couple of months or so), a spammer sends out one spam with an actual address and checks it for bounce messages. That would seem to explain why it decreased gradually over a period of time (like months), rather than ceasing at once.
Are we sure spammers don't care about bad addresses in their lists? Because I used to get as much spam as anybody before I started using something called MailWasher. Gradually the amount of spam I was receiving decreased from enough to make me consider the address unusable to the level it is now where it's an unusual day if I receive even one spam email. The novelty of the MailWasher approach is that in addition to deleting the spam you have the option of replying to it with a forged bounce message from a mailer daemon. MailWasher is a Windows-only application, but the principle should be relatively simple to code into any of a dozen different approaches. I know the Hmmm link suggests that this should be completely fruitless because spammers won't care. But I'm just old-fashioned enough to find success difficult to argue with.
Chuck
Obviously not from Utah.
I am the new Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are, Number 6.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
*Laughter*
Here's a wacky idea. Take the precedents that have established the "personification" of corporations in American law (that is to say, that have defended the rights of corporations to any protections extended to individuals under the law) and apply them to situations like this. When a person takes actions intended to result in the dissolution of another person, the word we use is murder. In this case, there is documentation to prove that the actions taken were premeditated. Should Microsoft be brought to trial for murder one in the death of corporations? As persons under the law, do corporations like Go have this right?
While we're on the subject, can corporations get married as an alternative to mergers?
As long as you don't shit on it first, you should be okay.
Get your geek something you'll enjoy doing with him. For example, I recently bought my girlfriend the SIMS game for Playstation2, which allows two people to sit together in the same place and play a game that's all about social interactions. We play that game a lot. We get to spend time together and do something geeky at the same time, which in our case is plusses all around. So my suggestion is, find something geeky that you can identify with on some level, and that the two of you can share. Game, movie, whatever.
Can't believe I haven't seen any previous posts ask this question, but what do you think the effect is going to be on the average user who has no use for or interest in a VirtualMachine? I remember serious issues dealing with the awkward integration of IE into the OS. (Okay, so my memory doesn't have to stretch too far for that, but I mean _especially_ in the early days.) Are we going to see a Windows where you have no choice but to run in an emulation layer that is poorly shoved into low-level OS routines?
Chuck
Ah, so the problem is that some software that should be recognizing an IP as a clue that a reverse lookup is required is instead sending the request as a "standard" query? Well, I feel I've learned something. :)
Chuck
Is it just me, or is this a description of a reverse lookup? How does that qualify as unnecessary? This is a pretty common step in troubleshooting, and some software does a reverse lookup following a forward lookup to verify that the hostname it gets back is the same one it started with.
Chuckles