Cable companies do not have monopolies in most areas today.
Not in Westchester, NY.. We suffer under the pricing yoke of Cablevision (and only Cablevision) ever since they bought out TCI's franchise in our area. IIRC NYC has some kind of thing where cable companies don't cross into each other's territory.
Cable companies have competition in all areas. Look at the millions of DBS dishes sold recently. Once the (gov't imposed) restrictions on carrying local channels is lift, I expect that market to explode.
The legislation to permit DBS providers to carry local stations was passed in the house in the anti-cybersquatting bill.. The senate may ratify it this week (before going on break until January) and pass it up to the Prez quite quickly..
Don't forget that there are lots of lobbyists for both the DBS and Cable (and Telco, and Tobacco, and Automakers, and $oftware, etc. etc.) who sway representatives on many issues which are unfriendly to driving costs for consumers down.
If we consumers could get our head out of our ass and find or form some non-partisan group whose only mission was to drive down prices for consumers, and use that to combat profiteering interests.. Or hell, if we could bother to get off our ass and vote.. Or if we could pressure our parties to nominate people who weren't complete chowderheads...
You can do one of two things: work within the system to improve it, or smash the system and build a new one. I happen to think that (based on my knowledge of the founding documents of this nation) this system is fundamentally oriented towards good, so rather than smash the system it would pay to 'overhaul' it.. But none of this will happen if instead of reading the newspaper and giving a shit, you just sit there fragging demons in Quake or watching Ally McBeal... Whatever your political and/or personal persuasion, please whatever you do, don't be another 'ignorant American' statistic...
I see libertarianism as a means of allowing corporations to control the public instead of the government - and we won;t get a vote in that aspect. I know that's not the intentions, but I think it will be the resulting effect.
We actually would end up with:
Voting with consumer $$$
Voting with common-stock shares
Voting with feet
I don't think we should surrender our system to big business, because they don't even have to pay lip-service towards the goals of improving the lives of citizenry: the avowed goal of modern corporations is to maximize shareholder value. Not to improve the lives of corporate employees, not to improve the character of the nations in which the corporation does business, but to (and let me emphasize this again) maximize shareholder value. Not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but certainly not the way I want my government to behave..
Did it ever occur to you that cable is so lame precisely because it is so heavily regulated by the gov't?
...
The answer is usually more competition, not more regulation.
Your logic here is schizophrenic. Cable being lame is not the case because it's so heavily regulated by the government, it's lame because CABLE COMPANIES HAVE MONOPOLIES ON CABLE SERVICE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES!!! If anything, there should be a refocus of regulation to emphasize competition and common-access to cable infrastructure. Eminent domain it if all else fails..
The answer truly is more competition, and whenever necessary the FedGov should force it so states and local communities can't get all cozy with local and regional monopolistic cable franchises.. The FedGov should in fact force competition in every non-competitive area of life now! Utilities, Professional sports, Software, CPUs, Currency printing, everything... Open it all up!
I'm a free market realist, meaning that I want a free market, by hook or by crook... Because I'm a smart and greedy consumer, who wants to be able to research as many options as possible before selecting the best price/performance on anything I need...
Pardom my libertarianism, but the Internet has done just fine without any regulation.
Er, most people access the internet via dialup modem lines, and ISPs use leased lines to aggregate packets off to their NAPs.. How much more $$$ would it cost to access the internet in this country if we hadn't had Ma Bell deconstructed?
Look at countries outside the US: where the telco is a monopoly (state or otherwise) adoption of the internet is much slower and more expensive..
Any way you slice it, you can't argue with the results.
And I tend to be a realist, not a libertarian. Government is useful if it can be trusted, and it could be, if we weren't so fucking complacent and apathetic... (in a Democracy, you should get the government you demand, but in the days of 30% voter turnout, you get the government you deserve... And there's nothing in the Constitution delineating only 2 parties...)
If there were a common library they were based on, it could be improved upon by all parties involved.
This is going on in the OpenBSD community, but don't forget that because of stupid and worthless crypto-export laws and IP 'patents', developers and users in the US may not be able to use it.
Sucks if you're a developer or user in the US, but it doesn't seem to be holding OBSD people back any... Your Working Boy,
I personally think the Disney story is more interesting... I still can't believe that Disney World is actually a legally-recognized town with its own taxes, courts, services, etc...
Don't forget to check out the 'House of Tomorrow' down there.. IIRC it's a set of stucco-like geodesic domes with some cool stuff inside (when I went it was Apple ][ based). I wonder if it still has that Curtis Mathes big-screen TV with the shatterproof glass..
Jon was contacted by a Norwegian firm (Simonsen & Musaus) who I assume threatened him with Norwegian copyright law
... And while quite possibly just a nusiance (IANANL), it would cost $$$ to defend himself in court. It'd be nice to see a 'DeCSS defense fund' for this, so we can have the software's fate legally decided in Norway once and for all...
I agree, but remember that it's not wrong necessarily to put functionality first on the list of design criteria. You can always steal neat ideas from your competitors, and implement them yourself. Do note though:
Focusing on security has meant that there has been less attention towards providing features, ease-of-use, ease-of-development. The glass is legitimately half-full and half-empty.
The shape of OSS is formed largely by user/developer demand. As the demand for more security increases, Linux will see more contributions in that area. OBSD's example is critical here, and I encourage all admins and OSS enthusiasts to give it a try, since we can steal the best ideas and incorporate them ourselves..;)
Competition is good, code rot and stagnation is bad. Let's keep it friendly competition though: the goal's the same.. (and what's that goal? Making the world a place where you don't have to suffer the nonsense of M$ and proprietary crap systems for a living!)
OpenBSD is licensed under the BSD license, so porting features to Linux (GPL) without raising licensing issues can be tricky.
Linux suffers from security-related flaws, but IMHO the most serious ones relate to misconfigurations implemented by the CKI (Chair to Keyboard Interface)..
(And why not use and promote multiple OSes? Two mottos come to mind here.. 'The right tool for the job', and of course, 'There's More Than One Way To Do It!';) Your Working Boy,
Shit, if the admin had root (and if you don't have root you're no admin), simply going to the root of the NFS/CODA server and doing:
find / -type f -name *.mp3
wouldn't involve passwords at all.. If you wanted to get _really_ cute you could update your magic file to include forbidden filetypes and pipe your find thru file and cull a list of files based on content... Your Working Boy,
IIRC Linux 2.x kernels supports filesystem concatenation (like Solaris DiskSuite) and if so, you may be able to concatenate a new fs onto your existing fs. Check the Software-RAID mini-HOWTO (on a RedHat linux workstation with documentation installed, it's here. Otherwise, check your friendly neighborhood HOWTO mirror...)
... And it's hard to break out of a lifetime's habits of shyness and discomfort around the opposite sex. I don't know why it's like that: when I hang around guys (and female friends) we can joke about and have a good time, but women seem (to me at least) to be fragile, where I have to mind my tongue and where everything I say or do is being evaluated. Paranoia? Most probably. I doubt it's out of fear anymore, more likely it's out of habit. I just have this feeling that I'm quite possibly one of the most peculiar people I've ever met, and have such a wide and varied range of tastes that I'm sure I'd offend any potential SO in one way or another (and have seemed to do so reliably since High School).. I also seem to attract psychos, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. How about the young lady whom I met at a local tavern who gave me her email address, then after I sent a message, started sending me naked pictures of herself? So, I asked for a date or two and never heard from her again.. Or the gal whom I met in engineering class and would talk with and study with (oh boy, a nerd-girl, imagine my luck!) for months, lunching occasionally, then when I called to ask her out, her boyfriend picked up while he was cooking breakfast (either that or her ass was made of bacon because there was sizzling swine on the other end of that line).. Now am I the bad guy here? Am I reading too much into our lunchtime socializing? I wear deodorant and shower daily, I chew with my mouth closed, I wear clothes that are largely free of holes or stains and tend to be reasonably presentable (if monochromatic).. Am I screwing up the translation of the signals (or lack thereof)? WHERE CAN I FIND THE DOCUMENTATION ON THESE CURSED 'SIGNALS' I KEEP HEARING ABOUT? WHERE'S THE MAN PAGE? WHERE'S THE RFC? WHERE'S THE FAQ??? I'M TRYING TO RTFM!!!! It's enough to put a boy off entirely, and that isn't nearly the start of my pathetic dating career...
Online? I used to do that in college (on vaxen oh so many years ago;) but it never really seemed particularly fulfilling when it was good, and when it was bad it was so sordid as to throw me off quite thoroughly. Your Working Boy,
Please somebody create webservers and SOME tools to stem the tide of these webmaster morons moving to M$ products, please?!?!?
I hate to say it, but if someone actually goes and does the work to do this in order to attract M$ moron dollars,
It'll have to run on NT because they can't be bothered to learn Unix or find people that are useful in Unix
If it's GPL or licensed under any other OSS-compliant license, it'll be considered 'fringe' software that can't be trusted
If it's commercial software, then it's competing against M$ on M$' terms. Game over.
Until we *ix sheepdogs can drive off the shiny, crafty, devious M$ sheepdogs, they'll still be herding those sheep.. Or, perhaps, we just need to continue honing, crafting, putting OSS in when people aren't looking, and maybe it'll hit them like a blinding flash: we're using OSS and we haven't gone out of business yet!
Keep bringing it up, and keep fighting the fight (and it is a fight, a rather lonely one in most booby-hat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompanies)..
And please, document your Perl code, because when these morons finally have sent you over the loop, and you leave to go startup a CoolCompany.com (TM), I may well have to go and figure out what the hell you meant when you built that damn list of hash references pointing to hashes of list references...
Holy crap if I were a webmaster I wouldn't read past sentence 1 of such an insufferably superior attitude
Well, I'm a sysadmin, and as such I am entitled if not required to have an insufferably superior attitude.. Comes with root password.. (and staying up until 4:30 on a sunday trying to figure out which jackas^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer started advertising pr0n)
How about: "I'm trying to read your page with on . It's broken, such and such doesn't render properly. Looks like you have an unclosed table tag [or whatever is the problem]. Could you please fix it? Thanks from a potential paying customer."
Big difference between badly-formatted HTML and using a POS 'extension' that simply cannot be made usable for many users. What would the webmaster say to the Linux user, or the vision-impaired user, who can't make any use of their site because it was coded in CraptiveX or Flash or Shockwave or whatever other gimcrackery that's not appropriately cross-platform? 7 out of 10 dentists agree that the webmaster would condescendingly say 'update your browser'..
Just because you're right doesn't mean you have to be righteous.
It only sounds righteous because it hits a little too close, methinks.. The point is, cross-platform compatibility should be considered among the principal design criteria of any popular website. If not because you wish to alienate as few potential viewers as possible, then possibly to avoid legal action.
Note for our non-US friends: in the US, it's becoming very interesting to see what kind of prosecution will occur because of flashy sites not being compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. That act, passed largely to make sure publicly-available facilities are accessible by differently-abled citizens (adding ramps and/or elevators for wheelchairs, larger-print and/or braille menus in restaurants, and many other changes to building codes and other areas of life), may be applicable to websites publicly available and hosted in the US. So, in theory, any public website in the US needs to be compatible with a vision-impaired web browser (such as Lynx). Of course wags make snide jokes about advocates for the hearing-impaired suing radio stations but the idea (at least for the web) has merit IMO, as any information should be made available to the widest possible audience, and with the internet as a medium of communication metastasizing in importance it is crucial to include as many people as possible regardless of race, creed, economics, gender, disability, etc.
I find it interesting that geeks and the visually impaired have web design preferences in common: minimal 'stylistic' changes, only markup to represent various emphases in the data.. Your Working Boy,
IIRC, it was owned for a little while by Westinghouse.. Big row between W and Edison (Thomas, not Con) about that for years, and lots of mud slung about how AC will kill consumers.. All the while Edison wanting just to break AC out of W's control because it ended up being the technically superior choice for power distribution... Your Working Boy,
Pronto's screen is larger and it has additional buttons for controls (vol+/-, chan+/-, left and right)
It has a super-powerful IR element with like a 30'+ range or something. I doubt the Pilot's more than 10' (the Newton IR never guaranteed AV control over 6'!)
4AA batteries (or desktop charger) mean that it has power for months. See how long those AAAs run your IR emitter constantly.
The ProntoEdit IDE is powerful and simple IMO, and though I haven't seen the palm-based stuff I can't imagine it getting any easier or more powerful than PE.
the Pronto has a game Easter Egg in it, so if there's nothing good on TV you can play Tetris.. With the larger screen;)
Yeah, when it came out, it was $400, but nowadays it'll cost less and come with a recharger.. Personally, I think mine was worth it, and you can have it when you pry it from my cold dead fingers..;) Your Working Boy,
... And while many of us kinda laugh at the idea of linux desktops for the masses, I feel in terms of political freedom it's probably the most critical front.
All I can suggest is:
Send a polite but unambiguous note to the webmaster of any standards-noncompliant site informing them that because of their decision to break standards you will not be able to use their site in any way, and that you will never install a browser or software that supports their standards-noncompliant components. If it's a commerce site, let them know you will be taking your business elsewhere, and if they have a B&M component let them know you'll seriously consider taking your business elsewhere IRL as well.
Consider informing various advocate groups for people with disabilities, as if the site can't be used with Linux it probably can't be used with a browser that provides support for sight-impaired netizens. I bet that the junk which breaks Linux Netscape also breaks Lynx...
The only way we're going to break moron webmonkeys out of using noncompatible junk is to be a large enough audience to affect their planning. If we join forces with our differently-abled brothers and sisters, perhaps we can force the issue!;)
I don't know the laws of Norway, so what are the legal grounds for action against the authors/distributors of the DeCSS package? Perhaps someone more familiar with those laws should comment before we get in a tizzy about this.. Your Working Boy,
You _do_ have a motherboard that supports T64, right? The cheaper cloner motherboards (those that were meant for budget NT/Linux systems) don't have enough NVRAM to support a T64 installation. I'm not an Alpha nerd but definitely check into whether your Alpha board (or the board you want) actually supports T64. Your Working Boy,
Yes, but it's not really bloat in that most of those pkgs are optional.. IMO, the more code the merrier as it gives me a larger toolchest to draw from, though as I don't have a DVDROM in my PC yet, it's not terribly useful to me...
More bits for less $$$, I can't complain. Your Working Boy,
Slashdot Mirror
Then why not have the M$ penalty phase include a financial penalty that goes towards advertising OSS?
You won't get the eyeballs if they don't know where to look...
;)
Your Working Boy,
Cable companies do not have monopolies in most areas today.
Not in Westchester, NY.. We suffer under the pricing yoke of Cablevision (and only Cablevision) ever since they bought out TCI's franchise in our area. IIRC NYC has some kind of thing where cable companies don't cross into each other's territory.
Cable companies have competition in all areas. Look at the millions of DBS dishes sold recently. Once the (gov't imposed) restrictions on carrying local channels is lift, I expect that market to explode.
The legislation to permit DBS providers to carry local stations was passed in the house in the anti-cybersquatting bill.. The senate may ratify it this week (before going on break until January) and pass it up to the Prez quite quickly..
Don't forget that there are lots of lobbyists for both the DBS and Cable (and Telco, and Tobacco, and Automakers, and $oftware, etc. etc.) who sway representatives on many issues which are unfriendly to driving costs for consumers down.
If we consumers could get our head out of our ass and find or form some non-partisan group whose only mission was to drive down prices for consumers, and use that to combat profiteering interests.. Or hell, if we could bother to get off our ass and vote.. Or if we could pressure our parties to nominate people who weren't complete chowderheads...
You can do one of two things: work within the system to improve it, or smash the system and build a new one. I happen to think that (based on my knowledge of the founding documents of this nation) this system is fundamentally oriented towards good, so rather than smash the system it would pay to 'overhaul' it.. But none of this will happen if instead of reading the newspaper and giving a shit, you just sit there fragging demons in Quake or watching Ally McBeal... Whatever your political and/or personal persuasion, please whatever you do, don't be another 'ignorant American' statistic...
Your Working Boy,
We actually would end up with:
I don't think we should surrender our system to big business, because they don't even have to pay lip-service towards the goals of improving the lives of citizenry: the avowed goal of modern corporations is to maximize shareholder value. Not to improve the lives of corporate employees, not to improve the character of the nations in which the corporation does business, but to (and let me emphasize this again) maximize shareholder value. Not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but certainly not the way I want my government to behave..
Your Working Boy,
Did it ever occur to you that cable is so lame precisely because it is so heavily regulated by the gov't?
...
The answer is usually more competition, not more regulation.
Your logic here is schizophrenic. Cable being lame is not the case because it's so heavily regulated by the government, it's lame because CABLE COMPANIES HAVE MONOPOLIES ON CABLE SERVICE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES!!! If anything, there should be a refocus of regulation to emphasize competition and common-access to cable infrastructure. Eminent domain it if all else fails..
The answer truly is more competition, and whenever necessary the FedGov should force it so states and local communities can't get all cozy with local and regional monopolistic cable franchises.. The FedGov should in fact force competition in every non-competitive area of life now! Utilities, Professional sports, Software, CPUs, Currency printing, everything... Open it all up!
I'm a free market realist, meaning that I want a free market, by hook or by crook... Because I'm a smart and greedy consumer, who wants to be able to research as many options as possible before selecting the best price/performance on anything I need...
Your Working Boy,
We are ALL individuals, and ALL different,
YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!
Follow the SHOE!!!!!
Your Working Boy,
Pardom my libertarianism, but the Internet has done just fine without any regulation.
Er, most people access the internet via dialup modem lines, and ISPs use leased lines to aggregate packets off to their NAPs.. How much more $$$ would it cost to access the internet in this country if we hadn't had Ma Bell deconstructed?
Look at countries outside the US: where the telco is a monopoly (state or otherwise) adoption of the internet is much slower and more expensive..
Any way you slice it, you can't argue with the results.
And I tend to be a realist, not a libertarian. Government is useful if it can be trusted, and it could be, if we weren't so fucking complacent and apathetic... (in a Democracy, you should get the government you demand, but in the days of 30% voter turnout, you get the government you deserve... And there's nothing in the Constitution delineating only 2 parties...)
Your Working Boy,
If there were a common library they were based on, it could be improved upon by all parties involved.
This is going on in the OpenBSD community, but don't forget that because of stupid and worthless crypto-export laws and IP 'patents', developers and users in the US may not be able to use it.
Sucks if you're a developer or user in the US, but it doesn't seem to be holding OBSD people back any...
Your Working Boy,
I personally think the Disney story is more interesting... I still can't believe that Disney World is actually a legally-recognized town with its own taxes, courts, services, etc...
Don't forget to check out the 'House of Tomorrow' down there.. IIRC it's a set of stucco-like geodesic domes with some cool stuff inside (when I went it was Apple ][ based). I wonder if it still has that Curtis Mathes big-screen TV with the shatterproof glass..
Your Working Boy,
If it was still sweeps we'd see a show about a Nazi Loch Ness monster...
"Hiel Herr Ness!"
Why did I just have a flashback to the Illuminatus trilogy?
Your Working Boy,
Jon was contacted by a Norwegian firm (Simonsen & Musaus) who I assume threatened him with Norwegian copyright law
... And while quite possibly just a nusiance (IANANL), it would cost $$$ to defend himself in court. It'd be nice to see a 'DeCSS defense fund' for this, so we can have the software's fate legally decided in Norway once and for all...
Your Working Boy,
Linux suffers from security-related flaws, but IMHO the most serious ones relate to misconfigurations implemented by the CKI (Chair to Keyboard Interface)..
(And why not use and promote multiple OSes? Two mottos come to mind here.. 'The right tool for the job', and of course, 'There's More Than One Way To Do It!'
Your Working Boy,
Shit, if the admin had root (and if you don't have root you're no admin), simply going to the root of the NFS/CODA server and doing:
find / -type f -name *.mp3
wouldn't involve passwords at all.. If you wanted to get _really_ cute you could update your magic file to include forbidden filetypes and pipe your find thru file and cull a list of files based on content...
Your Working Boy,
IIRC Linux 2.x kernels supports filesystem concatenation (like Solaris DiskSuite) and if so, you may be able to concatenate a new fs onto your existing fs. Check the Software-RAID mini-HOWTO (on a RedHat linux workstation with documentation installed, it's here. Otherwise, check your friendly neighborhood HOWTO mirror...)
Your Working Boy,
... And it's hard to break out of a lifetime's habits of shyness and discomfort around the opposite sex. I don't know why it's like that: when I hang around guys (and female friends) we can joke about and have a good time, but women seem (to me at least) to be fragile, where I have to mind my tongue and where everything I say or do is being evaluated. Paranoia? Most probably. I doubt it's out of fear anymore, more likely it's out of habit. I just have this feeling that I'm quite possibly one of the most peculiar people I've ever met, and have such a wide and varied range of tastes that I'm sure I'd offend any potential SO in one way or another (and have seemed to do so reliably since High School).. I also seem to attract psychos, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. How about the young lady whom I met at a local tavern who gave me her email address, then after I sent a message, started sending me naked pictures of herself? So, I asked for a date or two and never heard from her again.. Or the gal whom I met in engineering class and would talk with and study with (oh boy, a nerd-girl, imagine my luck!) for months, lunching occasionally, then when I called to ask her out, her boyfriend picked up while he was cooking breakfast (either that or her ass was made of bacon because there was sizzling swine on the other end of that line).. Now am I the bad guy here? Am I reading too much into our lunchtime socializing? I wear deodorant and shower daily, I chew with my mouth closed, I wear clothes that are largely free of holes or stains and tend to be reasonably presentable (if monochromatic).. Am I screwing up the translation of the signals (or lack thereof)? WHERE CAN I FIND THE DOCUMENTATION ON THESE CURSED 'SIGNALS' I KEEP HEARING ABOUT? WHERE'S THE MAN PAGE? WHERE'S THE RFC? WHERE'S THE FAQ??? I'M TRYING TO RTFM!!!! It's enough to put a boy off entirely, and that isn't nearly the start of my pathetic dating career...
;) but it never really seemed particularly fulfilling when it was good, and when it was bad it was so sordid as to throw me off quite thoroughly.
Online? I used to do that in college (on vaxen oh so many years ago
Your Working Boy,
I hate to say it, but if someone actually goes and does the work to do this in order to attract M$ moron dollars,
Until we *ix sheepdogs can drive off the shiny, crafty, devious M$ sheepdogs, they'll still be herding those sheep.. Or, perhaps, we just need to continue honing, crafting, putting OSS in when people aren't looking, and maybe it'll hit them like a blinding flash: we're using OSS and we haven't gone out of business yet!
Keep bringing it up, and keep fighting the fight (and it is a fight, a rather lonely one in most booby-hat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompanies)..
And please, document your Perl code, because when these morons finally have sent you over the loop, and you leave to go startup a CoolCompany.com (TM), I may well have to go and figure out what the hell you meant when you built that damn list of hash references pointing to hashes of list references...
;)
Your Working Boy,
Holy crap if I were a webmaster I wouldn't read past sentence 1 of such an insufferably superior attitude
Well, I'm a sysadmin, and as such I am entitled if not required to have an insufferably superior attitude.. Comes with root password.. (and staying up until 4:30 on a sunday trying to figure out which jackas^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer started advertising pr0n)
How about: "I'm trying to read your page with on . It's broken, such and such doesn't render properly. Looks like you have an unclosed table tag [or whatever is the problem]. Could you please fix it? Thanks from a potential paying customer."
Big difference between badly-formatted HTML and using a POS 'extension' that simply cannot be made usable for many users. What would the webmaster say to the Linux user, or the vision-impaired user, who can't make any use of their site because it was coded in CraptiveX or Flash or Shockwave or whatever other gimcrackery that's not appropriately cross-platform? 7 out of 10 dentists agree that the webmaster would condescendingly say 'update your browser'..
Just because you're right doesn't mean you have to be righteous.
It only sounds righteous because it hits a little too close, methinks.. The point is, cross-platform compatibility should be considered among the principal design criteria of any popular website. If not because you wish to alienate as few potential viewers as possible, then possibly to avoid legal action.
Note for our non-US friends: in the US, it's becoming very interesting to see what kind of prosecution will occur because of flashy sites not being compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. That act, passed largely to make sure publicly-available facilities are accessible by differently-abled citizens (adding ramps and/or elevators for wheelchairs, larger-print and/or braille menus in restaurants, and many other changes to building codes and other areas of life), may be applicable to websites publicly available and hosted in the US. So, in theory, any public website in the US needs to be compatible with a vision-impaired web browser (such as Lynx). Of course wags make snide jokes about advocates for the hearing-impaired suing radio stations but the idea (at least for the web) has merit IMO, as any information should be made available to the widest possible audience, and with the internet as a medium of communication metastasizing in importance it is crucial to include as many people as possible regardless of race, creed, economics, gender, disability, etc.
I find it interesting that geeks and the visually impaired have web design preferences in common: minimal 'stylistic' changes, only markup to represent various emphases in the data..
Your Working Boy,
Now what if AC was owned by a company
IIRC, it was owned for a little while by Westinghouse.. Big row between W and Edison (Thomas, not Con) about that for years, and lots of mud slung about how AC will kill consumers.. All the while Edison wanting just to break AC out of W's control because it ended up being the technically superior choice for power distribution...
Your Working Boy,
IIRC, it's wince based..
Your Working Boy,
Yeah, when it came out, it was $400, but nowadays it'll cost less and come with a recharger.. Personally, I think mine was worth it, and you can have it when you pry it from my cold dead fingers..
Your Working Boy,
All I can suggest is:
The only way we're going to break moron webmonkeys out of using noncompatible junk is to be a large enough audience to affect their planning. If we join forces with our differently-abled brothers and sisters, perhaps we can force the issue!
And I wonder if a boycott proxy would be helpful?
Your Working Boy,
I don't know the laws of Norway, so what are the legal grounds for action against the authors/distributors of the DeCSS package? Perhaps someone more familiar with those laws should comment before we get in a tizzy about this..
Your Working Boy,
You _do_ have a motherboard that supports T64, right? The cheaper cloner motherboards (those that were meant for budget NT/Linux systems) don't have enough NVRAM to support a T64 installation. I'm not an Alpha nerd but definitely check into whether your Alpha board (or the board you want) actually supports T64.
Your Working Boy,
Yes, but it's not really bloat in that most of those pkgs are optional.. IMO, the more code the merrier as it gives me a larger toolchest to draw from, though as I don't have a DVDROM in my PC yet, it's not terribly useful to me...
More bits for less $$$, I can't complain.
Your Working Boy,
Sounds almost exactly like what the DVD crackers did
Yes, but US laws don't apply in Norway.
Your Working Boy,
I also don't know of an equivalent to mod_perl that embeds Lisp in Apache
Doesn't AOLserver embed CL support?
Your Working Boy,