The fact that Lyons put so many of these anecdotes into the piece made me dismiss it as an ad hominem attack on Stallman and nothing more. I personally disagree with some of what Stallman says (and agree with other stuff) but if you write an article which pretends to explain why Stallman may be hurting Linux adoption, then write about what he's doing that hurts Linux. Don't write about how he eats soup with his own hair in it.
That's like writing a piece to call into question Bush's handling of the Iraq war by starting by pointing out that he farts around the less experienced White House aides. It's apparently true, but that isn't the best way to back up your anti-war position.
... the sound of Scotty's engines under heavy strain
A sound blocking technique that I use - in all seriousness - is some of the sound effects from Star Trek TOS. I ripped a few of them to ogg (I find the shuttle craft sound the most effective) and then run:
'mplayer -loop 0 Shuttle_Craft.ogg'
Actually, sometimes I distract myself adding the voices of Commodore Mendez and Captain Kirk debating Spock's fate
... the war culminating in the creation of the neutral zone was fought by primitive ships that had no visual capabilities
Spock actually said, more or less, that the ships had no 'ship to ship visual communication', which implies that they couldn't see each other while talking. Though it's interesting that Lt. Stiles, the bigoted navigator, knew what a Romulan ship looked like, but Captain Kirk did not.
I haven't watched too many episodes of 'Enterprise', so I'm not the best judge, but the few episodes I've seen show that their knowledge of Vulcan customs was quite advanced, while it's clear that in the original series, Spock was somewhat reluctant to showcase these customs and the crew seemed like they were finding out about these things for the first time. So the writers of 'Enterprise' obviously have bent a few rules there.
You're absolutely right. And not only that - the article uses very inflamatory language, calling it 'attack on multinational corporations'. The title also puts the word monopoly in quotes, as if to suggest that there are those of the opinion that Microsoft is a monopoly (ignoring, of course the fact that they were convicted of being a monopoly in the US, fined in the EU, Korea, etc.). In short, it's worded in such a way that it looks like a grave injustice is being done to poor Microsoft.
Maybe this is intended for the current generation of TV viewers who have been groomed on better special effects and for whom the original is absurd and the experience is marred
The special effects were quite good for the 1960's, but I do think some things could be cleaned up. There are some scenes with the shuttle craft where it is clearly pasted into the film and looks terrible. Other than that, I hope they don't re-touch too much because the FX are still reasonably good. Of course, I am as old as Star Trek, so maybe I'm not the best to judge.
Well said!. Only in the egocentric so-called "first" world do we have so much disposable stuff that we would worry about breaking it.
I am very pleased to see these machines working, however they might look. This is very important project. So much so that even Bill Gates is worried they're going to be a success. I wish him luck on his 'Mobile Phone Running Windows' project.
"Tragedy" is one of those words that gets thrown around too lightly. These were people who knowingly took a risk in order to do something they believed in.
To quote Richard Feynman: "In any event this has had very unfortunate consequences, the most serious of which is to encourage ordinary citizens to fly in such a dangerous machine, as if it had attained the safety of an ordinary airliner."
The 'ordinary citizen' he's referring to is Christa McAuliffe. I lived in Concord NH for three years, and I can assure you that for the people of Concord, it was a tragedy.
Your comment is pointless. When high officials in most governments (cabinet members of the US administration, for example) are fired, they always legally 'resign'. The whole point of his blog posting, if you had bothered to read it, is that he was pressured to the point where he had to 'resign' - ie. he was fired.
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One word comes to mind, and that is: bullshit
Obligatory defense response. Now we know it's astroturfing.
How much of a percentage of the operating system market does Microsoft possess?
What methods did it use to capture this percentage of the OS market?
Like the US courts have found, did the EU determine that Microsoft restrained trade in order to possess this market share?
If they did in fact determine this, then what fines were levied on Microsoft and what other remedies imposed?
Has Microsoft complied with EU directives?
If Microsoft has not, then should the EU have the right to determine what further penalties should be imposed?
Regardless of what you think about bureaucracy, doesn't the EU have the right to impose its own standards on Microsoft for doing business?
That should clarify.
Let's hope so!
Yes, we can put ourselves to work on a better solution ... until we run into a Microsoft patent
That's like writing a piece to call into question Bush's handling of the Iraq war by starting by pointing out that he farts around the less experienced White House aides. It's apparently true, but that isn't the best way to back up your anti-war position.
A sound blocking technique that I use - in all seriousness - is some of the sound effects from Star Trek TOS. I ripped a few of them to ogg (I find the shuttle craft sound the most effective) and then run:
'mplayer -loop 0 Shuttle_Craft.ogg'
Actually, sometimes I distract myself adding the voices of Commodore Mendez and Captain Kirk debating Spock's fate
Spock actually said, more or less, that the ships had no 'ship to ship visual communication', which implies that they couldn't see each other while talking. Though it's interesting that Lt. Stiles, the bigoted navigator, knew what a Romulan ship looked like, but Captain Kirk did not.
I haven't watched too many episodes of 'Enterprise', so I'm not the best judge, but the few episodes I've seen show that their knowledge of Vulcan customs was quite advanced, while it's clear that in the original series, Spock was somewhat reluctant to showcase these customs and the crew seemed like they were finding out about these things for the first time. So the writers of 'Enterprise' obviously have bent a few rules there.
The special effects were quite good for the 1960's, but I do think some things could be cleaned up. There are some scenes with the shuttle craft where it is clearly pasted into the film and looks terrible. Other than that, I hope they don't re-touch too much because the FX are still reasonably good. Of course, I am as old as Star Trek, so maybe I'm not the best to judge.
No, you're not.
Meet the new boss [insert Townsend guitar riff] - same as the old boss
I am very pleased to see these machines working, however they might look. This is very important project. So much so that even Bill Gates is worried they're going to be a success. I wish him luck on his 'Mobile Phone Running Windows' project.
To quote Richard Feynman: "In any event this has had very unfortunate consequences, the most serious of which is to encourage ordinary citizens to fly in such a dangerous machine, as if it had attained the safety of an ordinary airliner."
The 'ordinary citizen' he's referring to is Christa McAuliffe. I lived in Concord NH for three years, and I can assure you that for the people of Concord, it was a tragedy.
Excellent idea.
I ugree. I'm a seccessful auther to.
Yeh, please stop saying this. It's not true and nobody cares about this argument anymore.