How many "real Hitchhiker fans" are there? I'm guessing that making money off the people that will pay to see it is why he'd "even bother trying." This movie is going to rake-in piles of cash, just wait and see. Plus, even if the "real Hitchhiker fans" hate it... guess what? They bought a ticket.
Why bother doing anything, though really, right? I mean, if you're not going to be satisfied, then everyone should just stop doing everything.
Don't be such an ass.
I was shocked to realize that comcast uses windows for dns. I mean, think of the scale that comcast serves. How could they even think about putting that many millions of users dns on anything but a tried and true unix system. I'd think they were running Sun/Solaris or maybe AIX on most of their backplane.
Last night I couldn't reach google, comcast.net (my GF's email[although I warn her everyday about relying on ISP-based email{lock-in and all that...}]), yahoo, and a number of other sites. Strangely, Happypenguin, slashdot and sourceforge all worked just fine. I figured it must have been dns issues and kind of assumed it was this poisonning that's been happenning. Needless to say, it was annoying as hell. Add to that; 800-comcast and 888-comcast were giving fast busy signals, so their call center was being DDOS'd by a swarm of angry customers.
I have a theory that you can't possibly be personally scanning every/. tread for the "you must be new here" meme. My theory is that you're a script sitting on some college kid's riced-out box that sits in the corner of his dorm room compiling ebuilds all day and secondarily playing the part of New Here.
So here's my test:
You must be new here!
To what extent does a company need to do business in a country in order to consider "they do business there!"
Don't get me wrong. Your post is the most interesting that I've found on this story; but does (do, for you wacky Brits)The Washington Post have a headquarters in Ontario? Do they own a Canadian newspaper as a separate company? I don't know; but consider this:
I custom build and ship Aster*sk boxes for SOHO. I ship about 5 boxes/month across the border, and sell 40/month here in the states. Is that enough for me to "do business there"? Other than the clients that purchased from me, would anyone be able to sue me in Canadian court for something they thought was libel on my website? What about a northern competitor that doesn't like that I'm taking a part of "his cut" of the SOHO PBX (Small Office/Home Office, Private Branch Exchange, check digium.com if you don't know what Aster*sk is.) market? Can he start forcing me into Canadian courts with frivilous false advertising claims or whatnot? That's a pretty scary thought for anyone trying to do business on the web. Although I suppose I could be safe and refuse those few orders each month, making me much less profitable.
Penguin recipes can be found
here!
The Penguin Kabob sounds delicious!
Is there noone in the Antarctic to post some good recipe reviews?
Bah! Preview is your friend, preview is your friend, preview is you friend...
I'm glad you joined in the conversation. I hope that you noticed that I didn't have anything negative to say, just providing some info and posing a question.
Can you comment on the relation of the two incidents (if there is any)? Have you been getting internal pressures from Bruce and company to stand down? I'm not trying to drag anyone through the mud or anything, I'm honestly just very curious.
By the way, I think the only mistake that was made was taking down the original article. Sometimes you need to shake things up in order to get people to really think about a subject like the one you were attempting to tackle. Censoring yourself after the fact seems like a poor choice to me.
I simply laid out the facts to allow people to draw their own conclusions. The fact is, he has been getting a lot of heat about the article. I simply questioned whether the two incidents are possibly related.
No need to be so knee-jerk.
What's really, REALLY impressive is typing google into the Google-cached site of itself and hitting "I'm Feeling Lucky."
That's redundency even GNU would be proud of.
I don't really know what you're talking about, I haven't had a chance to read the article. I've been too busy running around the house eating these yellow dots and OMG A GHOST!!!!!
Actually, every time you mention Red Hat, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or any other variation of Red Hat you can find, you should just link to the free version of Red Hat.
Oh, and speaking of Red Hat, I really do like Red Hat products and have to admit that Red Hat 5.2 was my first introduction to linux.
What does everyone else think we should do about the Red Hat trademark problem?
Addendum requested: ;-P
According to CNN, she's getting $28M.
Not too shabby for someone who was apparently (gethered by the rise in stock this morning) a $7B detrement to the company.
But, I went to a Lutheran HS in Chicago. We had chapel every Thursday. One day, a girl I had had a crush on forever (she went to my grade school as well), a well-perceived, good-faithed, honor roll student, was giving the sermon at chapel.
The service was supposed to be decrying sexual immorality, but the entire 20 minute sermon, she unknowingly used the term "sexual immortality."
Every time. And everyone laughed. Every time.
A lot of us were suprised they didn't cut her short. Just thought I'd share:)
Slashdot Mirror
Where's the torrent? ;)
He's INSOURCING from India, you incensitive clod!
How many "real Hitchhiker fans" are there? I'm guessing that making money off the people that will pay to see it is why he'd "even bother trying." This movie is going to rake-in piles of cash, just wait and see. Plus, even if the "real Hitchhiker fans" hate it... guess what? They bought a ticket. Why bother doing anything, though really, right? I mean, if you're not going to be satisfied, then everyone should just stop doing everything.
Don't be such an ass.
A billion years is no problem to imagine. It's just 365^10 days! Sheesh!
yeah, it was XP on this box, and Kubuntu on the other. Both could hit slashdot etc. so it was probably cached in my wrt54g router.
I was shocked to realize that comcast uses windows for dns. I mean, think of the scale that comcast serves. How could they even think about putting that many millions of users dns on anything but a tried and true unix system. I'd think they were running Sun/Solaris or maybe AIX on most of their backplane.
Last night I couldn't reach google, comcast.net (my GF's email[although I warn her everyday about relying on ISP-based email{lock-in and all that...}]), yahoo, and a number of other sites. Strangely, Happypenguin, slashdot and sourceforge all worked just fine. I figured it must have been dns issues and kind of assumed it was this poisonning that's been happenning. Needless to say, it was annoying as hell. Add to that; 800-comcast and 888-comcast were giving fast busy signals, so their call center was being DDOS'd by a swarm of angry customers.
I have a theory that you can't possibly be personally scanning every /. tread for the "you must be new here" meme. My theory is that you're a script sitting on some college kid's riced-out box that sits in the corner of his dorm room compiling ebuilds all day and secondarily playing the part of New Here.
So here's my test: You must be new here!
To what extent does a company need to do business in a country in order to consider "they do business there!"
Don't get me wrong. Your post is the most interesting that I've found on this story; but does (do, for you wacky Brits)The Washington Post have a headquarters in Ontario? Do they own a Canadian newspaper as a separate company? I don't know; but consider this:
I custom build and ship Aster*sk boxes for SOHO. I ship about 5 boxes/month across the border, and sell 40/month here in the states. Is that enough for me to "do business there"? Other than the clients that purchased from me, would anyone be able to sue me in Canadian court for something they thought was libel on my website?
What about a northern competitor that doesn't like that I'm taking a part of "his cut" of the SOHO PBX (Small Office/Home Office, Private Branch Exchange, check digium.com if you don't know what Aster*sk is.) market? Can he start forcing me into Canadian courts with frivilous false advertising claims or whatnot? That's a pretty scary thought for anyone trying to do business on the web. Although I suppose I could be safe and refuse those few orders each month, making me much less profitable.
Penguin recipes can be found here!
The Penguin Kabob sounds delicious!
Is there noone in the Antarctic to post some good recipe reviews?
Bah! Preview is your friend, preview is your friend, preview is you friend...
Penguin recipes can be found here!
The Penguin Kabob sounds delicious!
Is there noone in the Antarctic to post some good recipe reviews?
I'm glad you joined in the conversation. I hope that you noticed that I didn't have anything negative to say, just providing some info and posing a question.
Can you comment on the relation of the two incidents (if there is any)? Have you been getting internal pressures from Bruce and company to stand down? I'm not trying to drag anyone through the mud or anything, I'm honestly just very curious.
By the way, I think the only mistake that was made was taking down the original article. Sometimes you need to shake things up in order to get people to really think about a subject like the one you were attempting to tackle. Censoring yourself after the fact seems like a poor choice to me.
I simply laid out the facts to allow people to draw their own conclusions. The fact is, he has been getting a lot of heat about the article. I simply questioned whether the two incidents are possibly related.
No need to be so knee-jerk.
I wonder if this petition has anything to do with this decision? For the uninitiated, Russ wrote on his blog (and since removed it) about corporate black culture, in an article titled "Blacks are Lazy."
Here's the google cache of the withdrawn article.
SCO on the rocks, ain't no big surprise.
What's really, REALLY impressive is typing google into the Google-cached site of itself and hitting "I'm Feeling Lucky."
That's redundency even GNU would be proud of.
And in other news:
e17 to ship with Duke Nukem Forever!
Rasterman, you're brilliant; but in the immortal words of Guillermo Díaz :
Wrap it up B!
I don't really know what you're talking about, I haven't had a chance to read the article. I've been too busy running around the house eating these yellow dots and OMG A GHOST!!!!!
Actually, every time you mention Red Hat, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or any other variation of Red Hat you can find, you should just link to the free version of Red Hat.
;-P
Oh, and speaking of Red Hat, I really do like Red Hat products and have to admit that Red Hat 5.2 was my first introduction to linux.
What does everyone else think we should do about the Red Hat trademark problem?
Addendum requested:
According to CNN, she's getting $28M. Not too shabby for someone who was apparently (gethered by the rise in stock this morning) a $7B detrement to the company.
I'm a drunk, you incensitive clod!
nucular... it's pronounced... nucular.
D'OH!
But, I went to a Lutheran HS in Chicago. We had chapel every Thursday. One day, a girl I had had a crush on forever (she went to my grade school as well), a well-perceived, good-faithed, honor roll student, was giving the sermon at chapel. :)
The service was supposed to be decrying sexual immorality, but the entire 20 minute sermon, she unknowingly used the term
"sexual immortality."
Every time. And everyone laughed. Every time.
A lot of us were suprised they didn't cut her short. Just thought I'd share
September in VOIPland. And no, it'll never end. (Sorry;)
He's just A New Hope.