Yet, they insist that a consumer only owns a license to view the content, not the content itself. So why can't I simply pay for replacement media, since I own the license? This is the question you're never going to hear the answer to
Actually, that is a good part of the question which will not be answered. The better part is this...If I own a license for the Matrix and my media is VHS, then if I damage my media I should be able to buy replacement cost media on CURRENT_PLATFORM (DVD:-) Really, if I own the license for Matrix what does platform matter, and if it does, well then I own the content... Yahoo!!
vary few of the software development skills msot companies look for are really developed or evaluated in the OSS world
Exactly right:-P (sorry sarcasm alert)
In an open source project you define a problem, break it down into its components and simplest definitions. Designa solution with other developers and implement it.
Does that beat coding at a major corporation, no. But you are looking for experience to open doors for you, so that should not be an issue as the major doors have not yet opened for you anyway. With consultants it is doubly useful. Would you hire the consultant who spends 30 hours a week waiting for his 10 billable hours or would you hire the one who spends thirty a week working on a passionate project in OSS thus plying his trade? I know who I hire.
One disturbing trend is an inverse relationship between wealth(social success) and number of children. Sucessful families with 1.2 children (below the replacement level, their genes are effectively selected against). Poverty level people having 3.6 children (geneticaly sucessfull).
We are effectively selecting against being sucessfull. Wierd.
What a Lamarckian sounding statement. Where is this social success gene located? Are you aware that Albert Einstein lived in a trailer park? He must not have had 'successful' genes. God, I hope HE didn't have 3.6 children.
Seriously, when society embraces your ideas it is not a long leap to 'enforced sterilization' from there it is a short trip to the gas chambers. Read your words and read some Hitler speeches circa 1939. Chilling.
I interpreted the person to be meaning that pilots were doing this by reflex like something out of Star Wars. Yes MC does warn them when something will be in their path but that is not so much maneuvering. It would be like me telling you...when you pass the exit for 95 get in the left lane as their is an accident coming up on the right. Hardly a 'Maneuver'
After all, anything going 17500 miles per hour hitting something like the space shuttle
Someone who worked for NASA at MSFC told me that they have actually had astronauts on the space shuttle change the shuttle's orbit slightly in order to avoid certain large pieces of debris.
If you watch the news when the shuttle is up, notice it is ALWAYS flying backwards (except for reentry) pebble size objects ping it constantly and the windshields get so damaged they are replaced every launch ($40,000).
Mission control plans the routes so that no human has to attempt the maneuvering you are speaking of. All happens far to fast.
Is he being a jackass? Or maybe a little turnabout is fairplay?
I vote jackass. What kind of turnabout is this "I am going to alienate THE largest portion of internet users. Then when they realize they are without me...that will show them." Give me a break. If this guy wants to "show them" he should show them his ability to be cross platform in standard support not his ability to be a sniveling "embrace and extend" snot....gee maybe he should patent this... I think he just wanted us to talk about him on/.
So if you use Windows, you must be some diseased leper who isn't fit to lick the boots of Nick Moffitt. What a jerk. This is exactly the kind of person who turns people off to Linux, free software, etc.
While I have no idea if the author was actually meaning to troll, I find it not so trollish. Linux is attempting to move into the enterprise on the merits of being what windows is not (ie a mature, stable standards based OS) This guy says look I can do the same kind of non conforming crap that M$ does.
If M$ brilliant marketing people don't notice this shmuck and post him all over there FUD I would be very surprised. This looks VERY unprofessional and is not what will help the 'free software' movement...
>I just ask you to go after someone who is "EVIL" (does this ring a bell, or sound familliar?) and provide some evidence. I'm not saying that Adid (or Bin Laden) isn't evil, but that we have a warped perspective, and that we're presented skewed and tainted evidence.
What you say here is a possibility. However, as a nation we have some of the most politically aware soldiers in the world. Not the average GI Joe in our Army I will admit, but the Rangers, Delta, SF and I would like to say the Airborne. We are all typically well aware before we go that we will be going. We will have a sense of mission before one is assigned. We are a global force and we are privy to sides of the story that CNN does not acknowledge exist (that being the non-liberal or conservative OTHER side ie NOT AMERICAN).
So as I stated in my post I do not know if SECRETLY GHWB deployed our troops in support of some secret racial/capitalist agenda. But I do know that the troops who went there did not go for those reasons.
PS My sig on the last was not to say I am more dedicated etc...than anyone else, just to state that I was a soldier serving (even on heightened alert) during the Mogadishu incident
>1) They were not Special Forces. SF guys are Green Berets. They were Rangers from one of the Ranger Battalions and Delta operators.
Your post was very insightful. I will add just one point. "Delta Operators" belong to the "Delta Force" teams or more precisely First Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, so the Delta Ops were SF. This correction of course detracts nothing from your post.
A lot of people write about "the real reason that X happened" and usually those people are considered in the know for apparently no other reason than the fact that they can write. If George HW Bush and the UN had the motives you ascribe to them, they were known by very few other than those people (I won't say they didn't have those motives as I do not know GHWB personally). However the soldiers did go there for the reasons the public perceived. When this stuff happened the 82d airborne was placed on alert to also go in (these kind of missions are close to their calling as a light infantry division) I know because there were mornings we were woke up on alert for that incident.
I assure you that none us in the 82d that I knew of wanted to go there for "Protecting corporate interests abroad" or for "hating some Islamic government"
I hate to see those things used as reasons for US involvement. Remember, we freed Kuwait but we did not install some anglo-christian government to run the country. We assisted Bosnia (after GWHB and BC stalled for several years) but we did aid that Muslim population as well. US soldiers do not fight for racially motivated or capital motivated causes. We fight for our country, our beliefs and above all for Each other.
former soldier 3d/505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (82d Airborne Division)
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I almost e mailed this to Lindows, but then I remembered that all their base is MSs:-(
MS wants Lindows gone, MS has a LOT of cash. What is to say that MS doesn't peruse this list and go after the 50 most viable(Windows derived names)just to justify going after Lindows?
For a company that wanted to "Settle this outside of the courts" that sure is strange behavior. I would think in light of recent events Billie G would like to avoid the courtrooms. But then again I didn't just add the DOJ to my legal department either.
If they really wanted people to upgrade, they would (a) develop a new, proprietary format, (b) stop release of all current and future products on CD/VHS/DVD, (c) release ONLY on aforementioned proprietary format. Eventually, enough people would switch to make it worth their while.
If they really want people to upgrade then they should have equipped their device with Windows embedded then it wouldn't work with new media and they would have legislation that protects them from making it work.
1) Forged headers (SMTP auth would alleviate)
2) ISPs turn a blind eye or aren't as responsive as they should be. Many are repeat offenders which labels them "soft" on spam prevention.
Many ISPs turn a blind eye BECAUSE they can get a reputation for it. Think about it www.stupidlittleisp.com could make MORE money catering to big time spammers than it can with its normal home users. Their definitely needs to be a suit against the ISPs. If the ISPs are held accountable they will turn a vengeful (SMITE) arm on the spammers.
Trying to eliminate the digital divide directly is akin to going to a homeless person on your street corner and handing him a Palm Pilot with Internet access. He's not in a position to use it to his advantage. His problems are deeper than that.
Great point. Assist these people in finding work, shelter etc... Bring them up to a(an economic) level where they could benefit from it. The people speaking about the dgital divide are incapable of seperating need from want. I need the internet...or how would I get up to the minute stock quotes?!?
I think that senators believe that solving the digital divide issue would be easier than solving unemployment etc...that is why they place so much emphasis on it. It is one of those problems where simply throwing money at it will help.
but the focus of the Advogato article is on other countries
Maybe the intent was to focus on other countries, but the bulk of statistics were American. The author talked about the terrible divide then with American statistics showed that about 10% of Americans without access wish to get access. I think more research should have gone into acquiring statistics which were meaningful.
As for the parent of this post. I am glad your family was so good about managing your money. Unfortunately many underprivileged people may not place the same emphasis on education. To the children of those families should societies response be "Maybe if dad didn't drink so much you could go online" Then again, is the lack of internet access something that we should even be considering in a 'welfare assistance' type of sense. I go online a lot sure, but not going online would NOT affect my quality of life.
There are plenty of sites dealing with W2K security. Go to the Sans Reading Room [sans.org] for a start.
This coming to you from a MCP.
This coming to you from an MCSE that's had to deal with a few "secured" NT servers. First, all those sites deal with fixing MS flawed security model...nice, how about starting with a secure OS. Second, having IPSec doesn't mean the OS is secure. It means that MS did something about a specific security problem. It is good that they start hitting the list but they may wish to change more than one item per upgrade or Bills grandchildren won't see the day that MS ships a secure OS. MCP, take it from this MCSE don't FRITTER away anymore dollars in pursuit of MS education. Go for a 'nix cert. My MCSE has done little for me.
Umm... almost all the links lead offsite to reliable news sources... such as Reuters, Washington Post, etc. So if you don't want to believe it, and think it's shite cause you're a left-wing liberal, well that's up to you. It's still a good page.
First, wether or not I respect Matt Drudge as a journalist has nada to do with political orientation. The very fact that political orientation may play into it though suggests the site as a slant (that is strike one) BTW I am a republican thanks for asking. The headlines today include these sources:
http://www.townhall.com
Boston Daily news
etc... The man searches for outlandish news (sources are often times good) and prints it. Notice many BREAKING stories off the wire on his site NEVER make CNN...Hmmm Anyway, I enjoy reading sludge now and again but I NEVER take it to serious.
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This just in.....Taco Bell believes that this will be the one. Free food for all if there target finally gets pasted.
Yet, they insist that a consumer only owns a license to view the content, not the content itself. So why can't I simply pay for replacement media, since I own the license? This is the question you're never going to hear the answer to
:-) Really, if I own the license for Matrix what does platform matter, and if it does, well then I own the content ... Yahoo!!
Actually, that is a good part of the question which will not be answered. The better part is this...If I own a license for the Matrix and my media is VHS, then if I damage my media I should be able to buy replacement cost media on CURRENT_PLATFORM (DVD
vary few of the software development skills msot companies look for are really developed or evaluated in the OSS world
:-P (sorry sarcasm alert)
Exactly right
In an open source project you define a problem, break it down into its components and simplest definitions. Designa solution with other developers and implement it.
Does that beat coding at a major corporation, no. But you are looking for experience to open doors for you, so that should not be an issue as the major doors have not yet opened for you anyway. With consultants it is doubly useful. Would you hire the consultant who spends 30 hours a week waiting for his 10 billable hours or would you hire the one who spends thirty a week working on a passionate project in OSS thus plying his trade? I know who I hire.
One disturbing trend is an inverse relationship between wealth(social success) and number of children. Sucessful families with 1.2 children (below the replacement level, their genes are effectively selected against). Poverty level people having 3.6 children (geneticaly sucessfull).
We are effectively selecting against being sucessfull. Wierd.
What a Lamarckian sounding statement. Where is this social success gene located? Are you aware that Albert Einstein lived in a trailer park? He must not have had 'successful' genes. God, I hope HE didn't have 3.6 children.
Seriously, when society embraces your ideas it is not a long leap to 'enforced sterilization' from there it is a short trip to the gas chambers. Read your words and read some Hitler speeches circa 1939. Chilling.
I interpreted the person to be meaning that pilots were doing this by reflex like something out of Star Wars. Yes MC does warn them when something will be in their path but that is not so much maneuvering. It would be like me telling you...when you pass the exit for 95 get in the left lane as their is an accident coming up on the right. Hardly a 'Maneuver'
After all, anything going 17500 miles per hour hitting something like the space shuttle
Someone who worked for NASA at MSFC told me that they have actually had astronauts on the space shuttle change the shuttle's orbit slightly in order to avoid certain large pieces of debris.
If you watch the news when the shuttle is up, notice it is ALWAYS flying backwards (except for reentry) pebble size objects ping it constantly and the windshields get so damaged they are replaced every launch ($40,000).
Mission control plans the routes so that no human has to attempt the maneuvering you are speaking of. All happens far to fast.
I wonder if they can predict what the "catchment area" of the debris is going to be..
Not to worry...Taco Bells top scientists are working on it at this moment.
Is he being a jackass? Or maybe a little turnabout is fairplay?
/.
I vote jackass. What kind of turnabout is this "I am going to alienate THE largest portion of internet users. Then when they realize they are without me...that will show them." Give me a break. If this guy wants to "show them" he should show them his ability to be cross platform in standard support not his ability to be a sniveling "embrace and extend" snot....gee maybe he should patent this... I think he just wanted us to talk about him on
So if you use Windows, you must be some diseased leper who isn't fit to lick the boots of Nick Moffitt. What a jerk. This is exactly the kind of person who turns people off to Linux, free software, etc.
While I have no idea if the author was actually meaning to troll, I find it not so trollish. Linux is attempting to move into the enterprise on the merits of being what windows is not (ie a mature, stable standards based OS) This guy says look I can do the same kind of non conforming crap that M$ does.
If M$ brilliant marketing people don't notice this shmuck and post him all over there FUD I would be very surprised. This looks VERY unprofessional and is not what will help the 'free software' movement...
so BOO on YOU
>I just ask you to go after someone who is "EVIL" (does this ring a bell, or sound familliar?) and provide some evidence. I'm not saying that Adid (or Bin Laden) isn't evil, but that we have a warped perspective, and that we're presented skewed and tainted evidence.
What you say here is a possibility. However, as a nation we have some of the most politically aware soldiers in the world. Not the average GI Joe in our Army I will admit, but the Rangers, Delta, SF and I would like to say the Airborne. We are all typically well aware before we go that we will be going. We will have a sense of mission before one is assigned. We are a global force and we are privy to sides of the story that CNN does not acknowledge exist (that being the non-liberal or conservative OTHER side ie NOT AMERICAN).
So as I stated in my post I do not know if SECRETLY GHWB deployed our troops in support of some secret racial/capitalist agenda. But I do know that the troops who went there did not go for those reasons.
PS My sig on the last was not to say I am more dedicated etc...than anyone else, just to state that I was a soldier serving (even on heightened alert) during the Mogadishu incident
>1) They were not Special Forces. SF guys are Green Berets. They were Rangers from one of the Ranger Battalions and Delta operators.
Your post was very insightful. I will add just one point. "Delta Operators" belong to the "Delta Force" teams or more precisely First Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, so the Delta Ops were SF. This correction of course detracts nothing from your post.
A lot of people write about "the real reason that X happened" and usually those people are considered in the know for apparently no other reason than the fact that they can write. If George HW Bush and the UN had the motives you ascribe to them, they were known by very few other than those people (I won't say they didn't have those motives as I do not know GHWB personally). However the soldiers did go there for the reasons the public perceived. When this stuff happened the 82d airborne was placed on alert to also go in (these kind of missions are close to their calling as a light infantry division) I know because there were mornings we were woke up on alert for that incident.
I assure you that none us in the 82d that I knew of wanted to go there for "Protecting corporate interests abroad" or for "hating some Islamic government"
I hate to see those things used as reasons for US involvement. Remember, we freed Kuwait but we did not install some anglo-christian government to run the country. We assisted Bosnia (after GWHB and BC stalled for several years) but we did aid that Muslim population as well. US soldiers do not fight for racially motivated or capital motivated causes. We fight for our country, our beliefs and above all for Each other.
former soldier 3d/505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (82d Airborne Division)
1. By submitting titles which can be added to our
:-(
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2. Send in printed materials which use the term "window(s)" generically such as software boxes or complete manuals to our offices, the older the better:
I almost e mailed this to Lindows, but then I remembered that all their base is MSs
MS wants Lindows gone, MS has a LOT of cash. What is to say that MS doesn't peruse this list and go after the 50 most viable(Windows derived names)just to justify going after Lindows?
If MS strongarmed Lindows into giving them this info will the courts not want information as well:
*What value to the case does this have?
*Why do you need these names?
Would it also not be contemptuous of MS to then use these names for targeted advertising (I am asking I don't know)
Furthermore we who are on the list are DETRIMENTAL to MS claims of trademark dilution (ie we didn't accidentally get ANY kind of Linux)
I can see it in court
"Can you Joe Slacker tell the difference between Windows and Lindows"
"Yes your' honor I most definitely can"
"Proceed"
"I think MS even has a patent on that blue screen so that HAS to be Windows"
For a company that wanted to "Settle this outside of the courts" that sure is strange behavior. I would think in light of recent events Billie G would like to avoid the courtrooms. But then again I didn't just add the DOJ to my legal department either.
you should know that a (fairly cheap) disc of The Gathering and In The Beginning was released before Christmas
I did not know this. Thank you.
Cosmetic rays will indeed prove that the univers is shallow and one dimensional.
If they really wanted people to upgrade, they would (a) develop a new, proprietary format, (b) stop release of all current and future products on CD/VHS/DVD, (c) release ONLY on aforementioned proprietary format. Eventually, enough people would switch to make it worth their while.
If they really want people to upgrade then they should have equipped their device with Windows embedded then it wouldn't work with new media and they would have legislation that protects them from making it work.
When B5 comes out, I will buy a DVD player. No reason to get one yet though.
If Mr. Cerasleazy wants to "enter the marketplace", he can damn well pay for his advertising.
My post has no value of its own what so ever, but I could not help myself...What he said, DAMN IT!!!!
Tolls for spamming gladly accepted
1) Forged headers (SMTP auth would alleviate)
2) ISPs turn a blind eye or aren't as responsive as they should be. Many are repeat offenders which labels them "soft" on spam prevention.
Many ISPs turn a blind eye BECAUSE they can get a reputation for it. Think about it www.stupidlittleisp.com could make MORE money catering to big time spammers than it can with its normal home users. Their definitely needs to be a suit against the ISPs. If the ISPs are held accountable they will turn a vengeful (SMITE) arm on the spammers.
Trying to eliminate the digital divide directly is akin to going to a homeless person on your street corner and handing him a Palm Pilot with Internet access. He's not in a position to use it to his advantage. His problems are deeper than that.
Great point. Assist these people in finding work, shelter etc... Bring them up to a(an economic) level where they could benefit from it. The people speaking about the dgital divide are incapable of seperating need from want. I need the internet...or how would I get up to the minute stock quotes?!?
I think that senators believe that solving the digital divide issue would be easier than solving unemployment etc...that is why they place so much emphasis on it. It is one of those problems where simply throwing money at it will help.
but the focus of the Advogato article is on other countries
Maybe the intent was to focus on other countries, but the bulk of statistics were American. The author talked about the terrible divide then with American statistics showed that about 10% of Americans without access wish to get access. I think more research should have gone into acquiring statistics which were meaningful.
As for the parent of this post. I am glad your family was so good about managing your money. Unfortunately many underprivileged people may not place the same emphasis on education. To the children of those families should societies response be "Maybe if dad didn't drink so much you could go online" Then again, is the lack of internet access something that we should even be considering in a 'welfare assistance' type of sense. I go online a lot sure, but not going online would NOT affect my quality of life.
There are plenty of sites dealing with W2K security. Go to the Sans Reading Room [sans.org] for a start.
This coming to you from a MCP.
This coming to you from an MCSE that's had to deal with a few "secured" NT servers. First, all those sites deal with fixing MS flawed security model...nice, how about starting with a secure OS. Second, having IPSec doesn't mean the OS is secure. It means that MS did something about a specific security problem. It is good that they start hitting the list but they may wish to change more than one item per upgrade or Bills grandchildren won't see the day that MS ships a secure OS. MCP, take it from this MCSE don't FRITTER away anymore dollars in pursuit of MS education. Go for a 'nix cert. My MCSE has done little for me.
Umm... almost all the links lead offsite to reliable news sources... such as Reuters, Washington Post, etc. So if you don't want to believe it, and think it's shite cause you're a left-wing liberal, well that's up to you. It's still a good page.
First, wether or not I respect Matt Drudge as a journalist has nada to do with political orientation. The very fact that political orientation may play into it though suggests the site as a slant (that is strike one) BTW I am a republican thanks for asking. The headlines today include these sources:
http://www.townhall.com
Boston Daily news
etc... The man searches for outlandish news (sources are often times good) and prints it. Notice many BREAKING stories off the wire on his site NEVER make CNN...Hmmm Anyway, I enjoy reading sludge now and again but I NEVER take it to serious.