If the GPL wasn't like this, Microsoft (or anyone else) could just "fork" Linux, put a windows sticker on it and call it their own, without returning anything to the community or making any of their changes redistributable.
The Chinese have low regard for human life and would be willing to throw millions of soldiers to their death against the Americans in any war. The scenario would be like a human wave, and the idea is for the wave to overwhelm our forces.
Your commie has no regard for human life, not even his own!
These machine-gun robots is the perfect answer to a Chinese wave attack. I could imagine them being amphibious. On a fine morning like 2006 December 7, millions of them would rise up out of the ocean tide and onto the beaches of China. They would march relentless across China, killing all the Chinese soldiers.
As long as our killbots' body counters are 64-bit...
(sorry for the multireply, this parent was priceless!)
The Chinese have low regard for human life and would be willing to throw millions of soldiers to their death against the Americans in any war. The scenario would be like a human wave, and the idea is for the wave to overwhelm our forces. These machine-gun robots is the perfect answer to a Chinese wave attack. I could imagine them being amphibious. On a fine morning like 2006 December 7, millions of them would rise up out of the ocean tide and onto the beaches of China. They would march relentless across China, killing all the Chinese soldiers.
Methinks you're about 55 years too late, Gen. MacArthur...
"An old soldier never dies, he just loses the ability to hold a charge...."
... Frankly, I would rather _not_ see my net access be controlled by my government. Nor do I think that the government should be blowing my tax dollars on something that ranks, quite frankly, far below reliable sanitation and pothole filling, let alone education, fire and police in the scale of municipal necessity.
OTOH, a private non-profit foundation setup to provide universal service at lowest cost would be fine. In concert with state funding for community development and perhaps some preferential treatment for universal-serving incorporated nonprofits when it comes to pricing and availability of public infrastructure, I can't see why such things can't be done without the government meddling with access to communications.
These are matters for local (or, at largest, state) areas, and tech equipment is so cheap that pricing advantage from collective scale is not terribly advantageous; That is to say, with competent planning and implementation, just about any metro area could be wireless'd by a smallish nonprofit assuming that the local government and population are not innately hostile.
.... as long as you're learning and doing well, and enjoying the experience, and the school is appropriately accredited and adequately equipped and staffed, I would stay.
Your undergrad 'name' doesn't mean _shit_ after your first or second real-world job, except if you network with alumni.
The biggest problem with public universities IMHO relate to the massive, impersonal undergrad study halls taught by distracted English-as-third-language grad students while the person whose name is on the course listing is off doing research or conference junkets and avoiding the paying rabble. Public research universities are the _worst_, unless you are actually researching. Great for grad school, but worthless for the first three years of undergrad.
And of course, if Daddy wants to shoulder the loan payments for the 'name', by all means, keep it in mind.. Who knows, you may end up writing for the Simpsons..
I've been wasting time on this site since, what, 1998, and I do believe the number of negative reviews (scoring 4 or lower) could be counted on no more than two Simpson hands.
Granted, one might argue that if one hasn't anything nice to say then one should say nothing at all, but that's actually wrong when it comes to product reviews. If you believe that tech book reviews 'matter', then it's as useful to know about bad ones to avoid as to know about good ones to buy.
BTW, some of the best reading ever can be found scanning Roger Ebert's 0-star movie reviews. Brutal, scathing, and usually hilarious, those reviews are better than the movies they harpoon.
Wake me when Canon has one that takes CF and can shoot 720p.. (Sony proprietary Memory schtick need not apply...)
PS: This is the answer to the question "How do we get non-DV-standard high-def into camcorders?" Instead of hacking the tape storage format, you just store large random access files on fast memory. This is actually super cool, but I'll hold off for a non-asshat implementation first..
Besides the fact that these warez could be virused, tweaked with cheats like autoaim or autododge, etc. I would hope that anyone playing a great Linux port (such as UT2004, thanks icculus!) is properly paid up.
To be quite honest, I'm pretty pleased that Bungie/M$ has put their foot down on Halo2 hijinks, it's good that there's a level baseline (where slow stick 'mouselook' is compensated by some constant autoaim) and a fairly cheat-resistant environment.
(Now if only H2 matchmaker had better gametype and map combos.. 8x8 on Zanzibar is a bit crowded.. UT2004 still 0wnz pure multiplayer...)
Here or coming shortly for that package: * corporate IM * Evolution compatibility * Groupware win32 client for scriptvirus free work * use Outlook via MAPI driver? * Runs on Linux, Solaris, et al.
Has anyone had success with this? I feel at this point there's a certain level of capability in OSS officeware that's 'good enough' for standalone tasks (such as writing memos/documentation, grinding numbers, doing slideshows) but the integration is lacking (due to, in part, balkanization of WMs and toolkits) and more advanced stuff is still too raw for prime time.
Freedesktop may provide the "LSB" equivalent for this functionality, but there's still a lot of 'quirkiness' that hackers may treasure but scare the living shit out of normals. The question is if someone can earn a living as a Stephensonian tour guide, and who knows, I just quit my job;)
The original Arthur Dent was very, very, very English - meaning that, no matter what happened, he approached it with the traditional (and much stereotyped) British "stiff upper lip".
What was it exactly that DNA himself said about casting HHG movies?
Aah, yes. Anything you like except Arthur had to be English.
According to the Man Himself, anything else could, as they say, go.
Then again, I can't imagine a better choice than Martin Freeman. You may know him as Tim from The Office, but the ultimate British "Stiff" upper lip performance from Love, Actually is probably closer to a 21st century Arthur.
(and "Ali G In Da House" of course gets mad Staines props...)
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Frankly, I think a serious problem with mainstreaming desktop Linux is the sheer number of choices in WMs, toolkits, etc.
While it may be a question for discussion whether or not this causes division/reduction of progress in any particular WM or toolkit (you can't say for sure whether people who prefer C would work on Qt classes and vice versa), it definitely causes user confusion.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a unification of theming and desktop stuff along the lines of freedesktop, GTK-QT, etc. A single platform (with as many bindings as necessary) that can be pushed and developed to the point where user confusion ends.
Granted, there's a large and legitimate contingent in the community that prefers lots of choices, but 'civilian' end users won't bite unless there's a unified, universally-supported (in terms of software, hardware and tech support) easy-to-use GUI platform that approaches Win32 or OS X in terms of usability, ubiquity, completeness and interoperability.
IMHO, KDE/Qt comes closest, even to the whole Framework concept that NeXT/Cocoa pioneers. DCOP is very handy, KParts is pretty much solid and complete in 3.3, and the latest versions have been pretty fast. ARTS is IMHO the last problem that needs to be solved or removed. But that's just me.
This being Slashdot, I'll likely get modded down for expressing heretical opinions,
No, you'll get modded down by attempting to preempt.. (but not by me, obviously)
but I approve of Bush's hardline foreign-policy stance. It's his domestic policies I don't like -- cutting taxes while there's a war on, raising (some) trade barriers, and of course, the Patriot Act.
This isn't K5, the commies haven't yet taken over the asylum.
I'm heartily glad he's gone.
I am as well, largely because I felt his religious enthusiasm created an appearance of nonsecularism in the judiciary leadership, and even though I don't know enough of what he did to see whether or not he ended up weakening secularism the appearance of hostility to secularism is enough to cause concern.
OTOH, I find Spencer Abraham more obnoxious, and him in concert with Cheney have halted any useful conservation, tax, etc policies on energy, which I find stupid and inexplicable.
Now, if Arafat would only hurry up and die...
They _still_ are having difficulty figuring out what brought his illness on.. I wouldn't put it past the Mossad (the CIA is too incompetent IMHO), but yeah, I think Thomas Friedman got it right in his last editorial on Arafat's legacy.
I have issues with Bush and his policies, but I have to say, watching leftists mope, wail and gnash is much more entertaining. I recall rightists during the Teflon Don Juan (Clinton) administration going off the deep end, but I don't think they have the mercurial creative bipolar thing that the more touchy-feely, sensitive leftists have. Also, watching naive college students who really REALLY care get deflated is kind of entertaining in a purely guilty Nelsonian-Schadenfreude way.
Here's what I hope.. The internet helps folks bypass the party tribe system, and that history is used as a lesson on which to base improvements of the future. That people can argue ideas on their merits, not on the tribal associations of those fielding the ideas.
Unfortunately, there's something in the limbic system that makes people want to conform and seek the approval of others in their social groupings, something hardwired in the primate brain.
The one thing about opensource that I would want to see in politics is the concept of meritocracy. People earn respect and legitimacy on how correct their code or arguments are. That's pretty unique in the world of human endeavor. There's rarely an 'old boy's network' in opensource, there's rarely arguments about technology that last longer than a few testable patches. How much of that is applicable to things like socialized medicine, foreign policy, the environment, etc. I don't know, but I'd hope it's more than what we have now:p
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If the GPL wasn't like this, Microsoft (or anyone else) could just "fork" Linux, put a windows sticker on it and call it their own, without returning anything to the community or making any of their changes redistributable.
In other words, BSD.
So once the USA has wiped out China, where will you buy all the stuff that was previously "Made in China"?
Wal-Mart?
At least until all that previously-made stuff runs out..
The Chinese have low regard for human life and would be willing to throw millions of soldiers to their death against the Americans in any war. The scenario would be like a human wave, and the idea is for the wave to overwhelm our forces.
Your commie has no regard for human life, not even his own!
These machine-gun robots is the perfect answer to a Chinese wave attack. I could imagine them being amphibious. On a fine morning like 2006 December 7, millions of them would rise up out of the ocean tide and onto the beaches of China. They would march relentless across China, killing all the Chinese soldiers.
As long as our killbots' body counters are 64-bit...
(sorry for the multireply, this parent was priceless!)
The Chinese have low regard for human life and would be willing to throw millions of soldiers to their death against the Americans in any war. The scenario would be like a human wave, and the idea is for the wave to overwhelm our forces. These machine-gun robots is the perfect answer to a Chinese wave attack. I could imagine them being amphibious. On a fine morning like 2006 December 7, millions of them would rise up out of the ocean tide and onto the beaches of China. They would march relentless across China, killing all the Chinese soldiers.
Methinks you're about 55 years too late, Gen. MacArthur...
"An old soldier never dies, he just loses the ability to hold a charge...."
... Frankly, I would rather _not_ see my net access be controlled by my government. Nor do I think that the government should be blowing my tax dollars on something that ranks, quite frankly, far below reliable sanitation and pothole filling, let alone education, fire and police in the scale of municipal necessity.
OTOH, a private non-profit foundation setup to provide universal service at lowest cost would be fine. In concert with state funding for community development and perhaps some preferential treatment for universal-serving incorporated nonprofits when it comes to pricing and availability of public infrastructure, I can't see why such things can't be done without the government meddling with access to communications.
These are matters for local (or, at largest, state) areas, and tech equipment is so cheap that pricing advantage from collective scale is not terribly advantageous; That is to say, with competent planning and implementation, just about any metro area could be wireless'd by a smallish nonprofit assuming that the local government and population are not innately hostile.
.... as long as you're learning and doing well, and enjoying the experience, and the school is appropriately accredited and adequately equipped and staffed, I would stay.
Your undergrad 'name' doesn't mean _shit_ after your first or second real-world job, except if you network with alumni.
The biggest problem with public universities IMHO relate to the massive, impersonal undergrad study halls taught by distracted English-as-third-language grad students while the person whose name is on the course listing is off doing research or conference junkets and avoiding the paying rabble. Public research universities are the _worst_, unless you are actually researching. Great for grad school, but worthless for the first three years of undergrad.
And of course, if Daddy wants to shoulder the loan payments for the 'name', by all means, keep it in mind.. Who knows, you may end up writing for the Simpsons..
.... _Voting_ is for old people!
Besides, I'd rather have the choice to interact at my leisure than have the implicit requirement to reply all the time.
A negative book review on Slashdot.
I've been wasting time on this site since, what, 1998, and I do believe the number of negative reviews (scoring 4 or lower) could be counted on no more than two Simpson hands.
Granted, one might argue that if one hasn't anything nice to say then one should say nothing at all, but that's actually wrong when it comes to product reviews. If you believe that tech book reviews 'matter', then it's as useful to know about bad ones to avoid as to know about good ones to buy.
BTW, some of the best reading ever can be found scanning Roger Ebert's 0-star movie reviews. Brutal, scathing, and usually hilarious, those reviews are better than the movies they harpoon.
No Firewire, no Mac support...
Bad JVC no banana for you!!
Wake me when Canon has one that takes CF and can shoot 720p.. (Sony proprietary Memory schtick need not apply...)
PS: This is the answer to the question "How do we get non-DV-standard high-def into camcorders?" Instead of hacking the tape storage format, you just store large random access files on fast memory. This is actually super cool, but I'll hold off for a non-asshat implementation first..
Not worth nearly as much as a GF who collects comic books and tolerates geekery.
Now if only I could find a gal that knew the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow...
"I think this thing needs a little more all-weather testing!"
Seriously, if you haven't seen FTETTM, run right out and do so. Especially the Apollo 12 episode and 'Spider'.
That's almost as funny as Final Fantasy Ten Two.
See, the whole business of a sequel's sequel is pretty damn retarded, but how many "Final" fantasies are there?
It's like the bastard stepchild of ED4:AD2 and Neverending Story 2...
Comedy gold!!
... Will Ash be replacing his hand with a walkie talkie?
Groovy!
Besides the fact that these warez could be virused, tweaked with cheats like autoaim or autododge, etc. I would hope that anyone playing a great Linux port (such as UT2004, thanks icculus!) is properly paid up.
To be quite honest, I'm pretty pleased that Bungie/M$ has put their foot down on Halo2 hijinks, it's good that there's a level baseline (where slow stick 'mouselook' is compensated by some constant autoaim) and a fairly cheat-resistant environment.
(Now if only H2 matchmaker had better gametype and map combos.. 8x8 on Zanzibar is a bit crowded.. UT2004 still 0wnz pure multiplayer...)
Is there a 30-second commercial skip button?
That is the only reason at this point I don't ditch Tivo.
As soon as Tivo fucks with that feature, I'm gone.
Here's a question: How is Groupwise on Linux?
;)
Here or coming shortly for that package:
* corporate IM
* Evolution compatibility
* Groupware win32 client for scriptvirus free work
* use Outlook via MAPI driver?
* Runs on Linux, Solaris, et al.
Has anyone had success with this? I feel at this point there's a certain level of capability in OSS officeware that's 'good enough' for standalone tasks (such as writing memos/documentation, grinding numbers, doing slideshows) but the integration is lacking (due to, in part, balkanization of WMs and toolkits) and more advanced stuff is still too raw for prime time.
Freedesktop may provide the "LSB" equivalent for this functionality, but there's still a lot of 'quirkiness' that hackers may treasure but scare the living shit out of normals. The question is if someone can earn a living as a Stephensonian tour guide, and who knows, I just quit my job
TOS Warp or Next Generation Warp?
The original Arthur Dent was very, very, very English - meaning that, no matter what happened, he approached it with the traditional (and much stereotyped) British "stiff upper lip".
What was it exactly that DNA himself said about casting HHG movies?
Aah, yes. Anything you like except Arthur had to be English.
According to the Man Himself, anything else could, as they say, go.
Then again, I can't imagine a better choice than Martin Freeman. You may know him as Tim from The Office, but the ultimate British "Stiff" upper lip performance from Love, Actually is probably closer to a 21st century Arthur.
(and "Ali G In Da House" of course gets mad Staines props...)
They could use this for assassination.
Dja think so, Kent?
Frankly, I think a serious problem with mainstreaming desktop Linux is the sheer number of choices in WMs, toolkits, etc.
While it may be a question for discussion whether or not this causes division/reduction of progress in any particular WM or toolkit (you can't say for sure whether people who prefer C would work on Qt classes and vice versa), it definitely causes user confusion.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a unification of theming and desktop stuff along the lines of freedesktop, GTK-QT, etc. A single platform (with as many bindings as necessary) that can be pushed and developed to the point where user confusion ends.
Granted, there's a large and legitimate contingent in the community that prefers lots of choices, but 'civilian' end users won't bite unless there's a unified, universally-supported (in terms of software, hardware and tech support) easy-to-use GUI platform that approaches Win32 or OS X in terms of usability, ubiquity, completeness and interoperability.
IMHO, KDE/Qt comes closest, even to the whole Framework concept that NeXT/Cocoa pioneers. DCOP is very handy, KParts is pretty much solid and complete in 3.3, and the latest versions have been pretty fast. ARTS is IMHO the last problem that needs to be solved or removed. But that's just me.
This being Slashdot, I'll likely get modded down for expressing heretical opinions,
No, you'll get modded down by attempting to preempt.. (but not by me, obviously)
but I approve of Bush's hardline foreign-policy stance. It's his domestic policies I don't like -- cutting taxes while there's a war on, raising (some) trade barriers, and of course, the Patriot Act.
This isn't K5, the commies haven't yet taken over the asylum.
I'm heartily glad he's gone.
I am as well, largely because I felt his religious enthusiasm created an appearance of nonsecularism in the judiciary leadership, and even though I don't know enough of what he did to see whether or not he ended up weakening secularism the appearance of hostility to secularism is enough to cause concern.
OTOH, I find Spencer Abraham more obnoxious, and him in concert with Cheney have halted any useful conservation, tax, etc policies on energy, which I find stupid and inexplicable.
Now, if Arafat would only hurry up and die...
They _still_ are having difficulty figuring out what brought his illness on.. I wouldn't put it past the Mossad (the CIA is too incompetent IMHO), but yeah, I think Thomas Friedman got it right in his last editorial on Arafat's legacy.
I have issues with Bush and his policies, but I have to say, watching leftists mope, wail and gnash is much more entertaining. I recall rightists during the Teflon Don Juan (Clinton) administration going off the deep end, but I don't think they have the mercurial creative bipolar thing that the more touchy-feely, sensitive leftists have. Also, watching naive college students who really REALLY care get deflated is kind of entertaining in a purely guilty Nelsonian-Schadenfreude way.
... We need a DOE head that doesn't consider conservation a 'life choice' but a 'patriotic duty'...
The blue states rest within drowning distance of oceans and great lakes.
Coincidence?
READ THE BOOK!
Here's what I hope.. The internet helps folks bypass the party tribe system, and that history is used as a lesson on which to base improvements of the future. That people can argue ideas on their merits, not on the tribal associations of those fielding the ideas.
:p
Unfortunately, there's something in the limbic system that makes people want to conform and seek the approval of others in their social groupings, something hardwired in the primate brain.
The one thing about opensource that I would want to see in politics is the concept of meritocracy. People earn respect and legitimacy on how correct their code or arguments are. That's pretty unique in the world of human endeavor. There's rarely an 'old boy's network' in opensource, there's rarely arguments about technology that last longer than a few testable patches. How much of that is applicable to things like socialized medicine, foreign policy, the environment, etc. I don't know, but I'd hope it's more than what we have now
His only real failure was to find willing investors that were incapable of running a business.
Or more succintly..
SUCKERS.