Okay. 1. Anyone who thinks this is real either cannot read or has serious discernment issues they need to work out. 2. I understand why the FBI/CIA/NSA/DIA/WTF is bonkers over this type of stuff. It is inflamatory. Sorry ya'll. He puts the disclamers at the end of the tape and claims it's for discussion only? Right. People aren't going to notice that, they'd take it as gospel and go ballistic. They panicked on War of the Worlds, even tho it was cleary noted to be "fiction" (as my Dad says, he heard it)
I prefer something I can look at. I mean, I really don't trust an engine I can't work on. Why should I trust an OS I can't pull up the code and read with a cup of Coke?
Besides, if there's a bug, about 300 Slashdotter's will point it out. Best system in the world.
(Slashdotters... sounds like we are all Icelandic.)
I like the idea of Mr Marshall for Adult of the Century. I know europeans might not be keen on that, but he has had a lot of influence on the latter half of the 20th century.
No one person will get loved by everyone as "Carbon Based Life Form of the Century" It is human nature.
on the whole, Slashdot does a great job of dispelling rumors. We are the new model of journalism because we don't take anything the media says for granted, we find out ourselves.
We know money can corrupt easily. It just depends on who the person is. I think most programmers won't really worry about how much their options are worth, they are just paper anyway. You'll stil have to pay someone who does really good work good money, otherwise they will go elsewhere. besides with the GPL, everyone can see your work and make snide comments anyway.
We are all people who do not "live on the net". I cannot pull up a bunch of data and sit on it. I sit in my chair in my house and type on my keyboard. The ideas I type go to some computer system somewhere else in the world, so everyone who connects to the same system I do can see it. My ideas, thoughts and ethics go with me. They are evident in my actions.
If you think being on the 'Net is letting you "be someone else" you are wrong, you are still the same person. Think about that.
But is this insane pricing cause VA is such a great company? Or is it because investors know that anything with "linux" in the title or company profile will skyrocket on opening? I'd love to see how these stocks perform over time.
I think this is a case of investor feeding frenzy. Linux has a ways to go before the average Joe can use it.
I read one comment where Linux Beowulf clusters are cool, but can't really compete with a well built supercomputer. You can't do fluid modeling on one of these things, you don't have the memory speed. this is 100 Pentuims running at on 100 100mhz FSB....
Let's see... Once upon a time, an ex-coach founded a small LD company. Called it LDDS. (Long Distance Dialing Service) Acquired a bunch of compainies, renamed it Worldcom. Merged with MCI to make MCI worldcom. Now, with the Sprint thing coming on, it'll go back to Worldcom.
there isn't a Santa Claus. He ran afoul of of santaclaus.com, and was forced to change his name back to Kris Kringle. next day he recieved a letter threatning lawsuits unless he changed his name, signed CEO Kringle.com. St. Nick, Sinter Klaus, they all were taken by someone on the net.
broke, depressed, and alone, he sits at home at the north pole, watching Direct TV...
It's funny... age doesn't really matter in a profile like this. My wife, with the sole exception of being female (I am very thankful she's female), also fits this profile. A _lot_ of people I knew fit this. Instead of trying to beat everyone into a happy little mold, maybe they should try to fix the problems.
Nice to see that he's gone on to bigger and better things, and learned his lesson. Marketing is more than half of a successful product. We have Microsoft (and Intel, to a lesser extent) to thank for that.
The Blurb at the end about "the amiga will rise again" or something like that, is, like has been discussed here before, unlikely.
Everyone knows why.
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Corporations already try to control congress. Recall Microsoft is trying _hard_ to reduce the DoJ's budget. Wonder why? Why Pharaceutical Companies try to lobby the FDA and Patent office to extend a patent and ignore reams of previous ruling to the opposite.
Congress responds to money like it is an aphrodisaic. The more they smell they more they want to regulate. In some cases, it's a good idea; you can't trust a corporation to have your interests @heart.
I don't like Katz's tiring assertion that "market forces" will/could have/eventually fixed Microsofts problem. They are a monopoly. Monopolies tend to _Control_ the market.
I don't know if you read slashdot, but here we go.
1. Clothes. You know the sizes, and I always need them. 2. If you really wanna get silly, a T3 for the house. 3. Books, gift certificates for Books are cool. 4. My Playstation _is_ dead, you know... 5. I have a Van. It needs work. 6. I have two kids. 'nuff said. 7. Um... A Cray w/DOS emulator. 8. Linux for Cray 9. And everything I need but can't recall right now.
I still don't see Government as the big bad evil monster that Katz does. Granted, this is the first article in a while I haven't had the reflexive urge to strangle him for being dense. I think I like the government for keeping murders off the street, hunting down terrorists, making sure drunks don't kill my family, et al.
But I do know that whatever new thing comes along, Congress (opposite of Progress) usually thinks we need protecting from it. Seriously, we don't need tons of new laws, and if corporations can't do business on the net, too bad. I'd be heart broken if they had to leave and left the net to the people who can really change the world.
He does have one good point. Technology changes so fast, we will be able to tell our grandkids that we were there when it all started and made sure it didn't get corrupted...
I recall reading his sons Biography of him "messiah or Madman". Madman is more like it. his "religion" is nothing more than Computer Programming and a little psychology.
What is really sad is that there are people who can't see this fact, can't see that all this religion wants is your money, and fall for it. In florida they've already gotten away with a literal murder.
I didn't doubt that they'd pull something like this. It's a real cool deal if you can get into it. Think I'll set one of these up, I'll never have to actually do anything bad. What a world we live in when you can get paid real money to cover up serious breaches of trust.
I'm sure Gore is regretting visiting there. I wonder what Bush Jr said while there. If he's actually in favor of derailing the DoJ, I'd have to have words with him. I doubt Bush Jr is that stupid, tho.
I can't wait to see how this card works. It has to be better that Nvidia's unsupported T&L, Matrox's unsupported Enviroment Bump Mapping and the now ancient Riva TNT2 ultra. I doubt Nvidia will have anything out by then that can touch this.
To work out why we'd follow "rules" in war. War is a sorry way to solve problems anyway, and the only way you'd ever get convicted of one of these crimes is to get caught by the winners...
What's really scary is I've seen two people on here already defending Microsloth with hatred and virol. Sad.
This changes nothing except a few opinions in the media. now they get a big new story to report.
I don't think Linux was gaining as fast as Katz and Raymond hope. Both seem to hav his naieve idea that the "market" (spoken in tones that bring to mind worship) would have eventually evened things out is naieve and down right stupid. This is a corporation that _Controls_ the market. That's what a monopoly is.
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Okay. 1. Anyone who thinks this is real either cannot read or has serious discernment issues they need to work out.
2. I understand why the FBI/CIA/NSA/DIA/WTF is bonkers over this type of stuff. It is inflamatory. Sorry ya'll. He puts the disclamers at the end of the tape and claims it's for discussion only? Right. People aren't going to notice that, they'd take it as gospel and go ballistic. They panicked on War of the Worlds, even tho it was cleary noted to be "fiction" (as my Dad says, he heard it)
I prefer something I can look at. I mean, I really don't trust an engine I can't work on. Why should I trust an OS I can't pull up the code and read with a cup of Coke?
Besides, if there's a bug, about 300 Slashdotter's will point it out. Best system in the world.
(Slashdotters... sounds like we are all Icelandic.)
I like the idea of Mr Marshall for Adult of the Century. I know europeans might not be keen on that, but he has had a lot of influence on the latter half of the 20th century.
No one person will get loved by everyone as "Carbon Based Life Form of the Century" It is human nature.
on the whole, Slashdot does a great job of dispelling rumors. We are the new model of journalism because we don't take anything the media says for granted, we find out ourselves.
We know money can corrupt easily. It just depends on who the person is. I think most programmers won't really worry about how much their options are worth, they are just paper anyway. You'll stil have to pay someone who does really good work good money, otherwise they will go elsewhere.
besides with the GPL, everyone can see your work and make snide comments anyway.
I always have hated debates like this.
We are all people who do not "live on the net".
I cannot pull up a bunch of data and sit on it.
I sit in my chair in my house and type on my keyboard. The ideas I type go to some computer system somewhere else in the world, so everyone who connects to the same system I do can see it.
My ideas, thoughts and ethics go with me. They are evident in my actions.
If you think being on the 'Net is letting you "be someone else" you are wrong, you are still the same person. Think about that.
Didn't they try and scrap this idea in Britian a while back? I think it was unworkable there.
But is this insane pricing cause VA is such a great company? Or is it because investors know that anything with "linux" in the title or company profile will skyrocket on opening? I'd love to see how these stocks perform over time.
I think this is a case of investor feeding frenzy. Linux has a ways to go before the average Joe can use it.
I mean... if you don't have carpet, will this thing just blow hot air?
Seriously, I'm not _this_ lazy. I can get up and vacuum myself.
I read one comment where Linux Beowulf clusters are cool, but can't really compete with a well built supercomputer. You can't do fluid modeling on one of these things, you don't have the memory speed. this is 100 Pentuims running at on 100 100mhz FSB....
Is the rear parking assist. I like this option, tho night vision will be cool once I can get it on my van.
Let's see... Once upon a time, an ex-coach founded a small LD company. Called it LDDS. (Long Distance Dialing Service) Acquired a bunch of compainies, renamed it Worldcom. Merged with MCI to make MCI worldcom. Now, with the Sprint thing coming on, it'll go back to Worldcom.
Sigh.
there isn't a Santa Claus. He ran afoul of of santaclaus.com, and was forced to change his name back to Kris Kringle. next day he recieved a letter threatning lawsuits unless he changed his name, signed CEO Kringle.com. St. Nick, Sinter Klaus, they all were taken by someone on the net.
broke, depressed, and alone, he sits at home at the north pole, watching Direct TV...
Cause no one wants presents from John Doe.
Now if there was just a way to auto-refuse the nags that pop up now...
It's funny... age doesn't really matter in a profile like this. My wife, with the sole exception of being female (I am very thankful she's female), also fits this profile. A _lot_ of people I knew fit this. Instead of trying to beat everyone into a happy little mold, maybe they should try to fix the problems.
Nice to see that he's gone on to bigger and better things, and learned his lesson. Marketing is more than half of a successful product. We have Microsoft (and Intel, to a lesser extent) to thank for that.
The Blurb at the end about "the amiga will rise again" or something like that, is, like has been discussed here before, unlikely.
Everyone knows why.
Corporations already try to control congress. Recall Microsoft is trying _hard_ to reduce the DoJ's budget. Wonder why? Why Pharaceutical Companies try to lobby the FDA and Patent office to extend a patent and ignore reams of previous ruling to the opposite.
Congress responds to money like it is an aphrodisaic. The more they smell they more they want to regulate. In some cases, it's a good idea; you can't trust a corporation to have your interests @heart.
I don't like Katz's tiring assertion that "market forces" will/could have/eventually fixed Microsofts problem. They are a monopoly. Monopolies tend to _Control_ the market.
dear Santa.
I don't know if you read slashdot, but here we go.
1. Clothes. You know the sizes, and I always need them.
2. If you really wanna get silly, a T3 for the house.
3. Books, gift certificates for Books are cool.
4. My Playstation _is_ dead, you know...
5. I have a Van. It needs work.
6. I have two kids. 'nuff said.
7. Um... A Cray w/DOS emulator.
8. Linux for Cray
9. And everything I need but can't recall right now.
Thanks
I still don't see Government as the big bad evil monster that Katz does. Granted, this is the first article in a while I haven't had the reflexive urge to strangle him for being dense. I think I like the government for keeping murders off the street, hunting down terrorists, making sure drunks don't kill my family, et al.
But I do know that whatever new thing comes along, Congress (opposite of Progress) usually thinks we need protecting from it. Seriously, we don't need tons of new laws, and if corporations can't do business on the net, too bad. I'd be heart broken if they had to leave and left the net to the people who can really change the world.
He does have one good point. Technology changes so fast, we will be able to tell our grandkids that we were there when it all started and made sure it didn't get corrupted...
I recall reading his sons Biography of him "messiah or Madman". Madman is more like it. his "religion" is nothing more than Computer Programming and a little psychology.
What is really sad is that there are people who can't see this fact, can't see that all this religion wants is your money, and fall for it. In florida they've already gotten away with a literal murder.
I didn't doubt that they'd pull something like this. It's a real cool deal if you can get into it. Think I'll set one of these up, I'll never have to actually do anything bad. What a world we live in when you can get paid real money to cover up serious breaches of trust.
I'm sure Gore is regretting visiting there. I wonder what Bush Jr said while there. If he's actually in favor of derailing the DoJ, I'd have to have words with him. I doubt Bush Jr is that stupid, tho.
I can't wait to see how this card works. It has to be better that Nvidia's unsupported T&L, Matrox's unsupported Enviroment Bump Mapping and the now ancient Riva TNT2 ultra. I doubt Nvidia will have anything out by then that can touch this.
To work out why we'd follow "rules" in war. War is a sorry way to solve problems anyway, and the only way you'd ever get convicted of one of these crimes is to get caught by the winners...
What's really scary is I've seen two people on here already defending Microsloth with hatred and virol. Sad.
This changes nothing except a few opinions in the media. now they get a big new story to report.
I don't think Linux was gaining as fast as Katz and Raymond hope. Both seem to hav his naieve idea that the "market" (spoken in tones that bring to mind worship) would have eventually evened things out is naieve and down right stupid. This is a corporation that _Controls_ the market. That's what a monopoly is.