I'm sorry; I was relying on common knowledge. My post was made under the assumption that the folks who read it are at least somewhat acquainted with Rob Enderle's slobbering, frothing-at-the-mouth love-obsession with Ballmer and Gates, and EWeek's great reluctance to stop printing him.
BUT WAIT! That's not all! EWeek is also where you can find all your favorite quotes from Gartner Group and such esteemed analysts for the Yankee Group (which unlike EWeek, are PAID shills, and with even lower standards of integrity), such as Laura Didio.
...this is EWeek. All the shills that are fit to print (except S.V. Nichols, he's a cool dude).
Why do we expect any different from them? Heck, they may as well give Steve Ballmer his column. I haven't seen so many Microsoft fan-boys since the last Sun shareholder meeting.
Adobe does not have the support of any major camera vendor yet, that's where this really counts
Maybe that's because it's brand new and it's just been released.
Adobe in it's traditional greedyness did not release this as Open Source, they released a spec but not code. They just don;t get how to work with the open source community.
The way to work with the Open Source community to to release non-proprietary specifications for which we can write code ourselves. SO FAR they've done a pretty good job with PDF and DNG. What? Do you think no one is going to write an Open Source library for it?
Sheesh, talk about greedy; they could've colluded with camera manufacturers to monopolize on a closed, proprietary format, and you complain because they didn't give you the frickin' code? Get off your rear-end and write it yourself. That's the Open Source way.
PS: Adobe sucks for entirely different reasons (e.g. Dmitry Skylarov). This, however, is not one of those reasons. Adobe did right this time.
so i won't attempt any alternate history. The point is that he did nothing.
You mean that after Sept. 11, George W. Bush actually sat and thought about what happened for seven minutes before he nuked the hell out of China? What an inept, impotent fool. I hope if any Muslim terrorist groups attack America under Kerry's reign, he'll have the composure and courageous leadership to nuke North Korea immediately.
This hardly seems like a novel idea. Isn't the whole calling a computer virus a "virus" supposed to help us understand it in a biological/human way?
I don't like likening malicious computer use to biology. If we call Sasser a "virus", then we would likewise have to call port-scanning a "forcible proctology exam".
You don't want to know what buffer-overflow exploits would be called...
P2P networks like Bittorrent and DC++ have an air of "grab all you can and go offline, fuck the other guy" attitude that I really detest.
Gotta admint; when I still used Kazaa I was one of thsoe folks. When I moved to BitTorrent I was at first concerned about the fact that people could download off of me while I was still downloading, myself. But I soon learned that the sharing is more than out-weighed by the benifits of being shared with. I take some small case of the warm fuzzies by helping seed other folks' downloads.
For some reason, it feels almost like not being a leech makes the sharing more legitimate (I said "feel", for the "property-ownership-is-God-you-communist-pirate" corporate shills that like the hang around/.; I make no claims as to the actual legality of my fair-use rights), as if somehow helping out in the sharing makes one less of a hypocrite in the whole copyright-infringement process.
Isn't this already illegal? Lately I'm afraid of legislation banning things that are already illegal. Take the DMCA, for instance; copyright violations were already punishable, but all of a sudden a whole slough of other things are, too.
I say, let's strengthen our ability to enforce laws we already have on fraud and invasion of privacy. It seems new laws, making more things illegal will simply become another "gotcha" for folks using legitimate software.
Inflation is pretty tame these days excepting gas prices and there are a number of reasons behind those prices, and the situation in Iraq is NOT one of them.
I heard Kerry say if he were president, he would take a tough-guy stance with OPEC and pressure them to release more oil.
Ok mister know-it-all... we get a 10% increase... yet cost of living has increased 15% during that time period.
we get a 5% decrease! YAY!
I flip a big middle finger to all company owners for being fucking assholes and not giving raises that at least pace with cost of living.
It's your fault for moving into a bigger house and eating out more. My apartment building's rent hasn't changed in over 10 years, and Ramen is still 7 for $1.00 (just like 1990).
... is like "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp".
Hahaha! You're so funny; so right, too. We throw those dumb jarheads some R&D money and the best they can spend it on is microwave ovens, nuclear energy, jet power, sattelite communications, medical advances, and the internet.
We need to give that money to some real innovators, like ad-development companies or music-video directors.
PS: I'm being sarcastic. That whole "military intelligence is an oxymoron" joke is tired and asinine. And just to be clear: space elevators will be done by a government or collection of governments, or it will not be done at all.
Google also owns the domains "GOS.com" "Gporn.com" "Goffice" and "Gword"
I think it's safe to say they've got big plans.
Little do you know, the G in GNU really stands for "Google's New Unix". They also own Gimp, Gnome, GTK, and Gator. That last one was just an insidious plot to create demand for their new pop-up blocking toolbar. Smart cookies, they are...
Since your name is Badnarik, I'm assuming you're not George W. Bush. Is that correct?
Absolutely correct. We really need to get the message out that all people who want to get rid of George W. Bush should vote for Michael "Not Bush" Badnarik, the freedom candidate.
My name is George Bush and I approve this message.
I just couldn't stop thinking "This looks like one of those 'interactive movies' computer games from the nineties.
Yeah, but at least you didn't have to watch it in 320x200x256. In a 90's IM game, Gwennyth Paltrow would be a five-pixel diamond (all #FFF0C0). Now, I'm not sure if you could say we're actually better off for it, but...
The IE team came up with something innovative for once
The only difference is size and placement. That's not innovation; if it was, I could sell IE with a green icon instead of blue and call it "innovative new technology."
Microsoft is playing catch-up, pure and simple. As for as pop-up-blocking goes, Mozilla beat them, Yahoo beat them, and Google beat them. It's just not new anymore.
PS: There's an error in my grandparent-post. Pop-up blocking is not a part of the AdBlocker plug-in; it's built in to Mozilla. I should have realized that at the time of post.
I was playing with 1.0PR last night and found the firebird developers have already mimicked IE. The "info bar" which displays when something is blocked is blatantly "stolen" from IE.
The very first version of AdBlock had a notification for when a pop-up was blocked (an unobtrusive exclamation mark in the bottom-right corner or the screen).
BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men!
At the risk of my karma...
You do know that booth babes typically do not use the products they hawk, don't you? I mean, honestly, how many of the booth babes at, oh... say... GenCon think it would be just awesome if some guy would ask them to go play D&D?
Aforementioned BSD mascot probably runs Windows XP at home.
Otherwise I can't recommend it -- the book is gibberish if you can't follow the math.
If you want it to make sense, you gotta accept the fact that the book, by itself, is not supposed to turn an interested laymen into a learned professor. Books like these, for me, spur me to go learn the basics instead. Even if I never get all the way through the book, I can at least use it to tell me what I need to know to be considered "learned" in the field.
I remember in college as a CS student, being spoon-fed the easy-to-learn computing theory and feeling like I was getting nowhere. I picked up the Hopcroft & Ullman automata book and was, at the time, completely inundated by the math (I went to a commuter college with a not-so-advanced math & CS dept.). But at least I knew what I really needed to learn next. I ignored the professor pretty much for the rest of the class (and never opened the textbook) and instead investigated only those things I required to understand the H&U book. I found that by the end of the class, though I was not yet a quarter of the way through the book, I knew a lot more than my classmates, who still struggled with the basic concepts of the field.
If the book seems too much for anyone other than an grad student, try using it instead as an index of things you need to learn first. Don't know those formulas? Look 'em up. Even if you don't grasp everything in your target book, you'll be smarter for it in the end.
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...what operating system it uses. Anybody know?
...clearly shows that there where 50% Linux-users and 50% Windows-users in the jury.
Or those dastardly Linux commie-hippies are voting multiple times. It's Chicago '63 all over again! Nooo!
I'm sorry; I was relying on common knowledge. My post was made under the assumption that the folks who read it are at least somewhat acquainted with Rob Enderle's slobbering, frothing-at-the-mouth love-obsession with Ballmer and Gates, and EWeek's great reluctance to stop printing him.
BUT WAIT! That's not all! EWeek is also where you can find all your favorite quotes from Gartner Group and such esteemed analysts for the Yankee Group (which unlike EWeek, are PAID shills, and with even lower standards of integrity), such as Laura Didio.
...this is EWeek. All the shills that are fit to print (except S.V. Nichols, he's a cool dude).
Why do we expect any different from them? Heck, they may as well give Steve Ballmer his column. I haven't seen so many Microsoft fan-boys since the last Sun shareholder meeting.
Adobe does not have the support of any major camera vendor yet, that's where this really counts
Maybe that's because it's brand new and it's just been released.
Adobe in it's traditional greedyness did not release this as Open Source, they released a spec but not code. They just don;t get how to work with the open source community.
The way to work with the Open Source community to to release non-proprietary specifications for which we can write code ourselves. SO FAR they've done a pretty good job with PDF and DNG. What? Do you think no one is going to write an Open Source library for it?
Sheesh, talk about greedy; they could've colluded with camera manufacturers to monopolize on a closed, proprietary format, and you complain because they didn't give you the frickin' code? Get off your rear-end and write it yourself. That's the Open Source way.
PS: Adobe sucks for entirely different reasons (e.g. Dmitry Skylarov). This, however, is not one of those reasons. Adobe did right this time.
so i won't attempt any alternate history. The point is that he did nothing.
You mean that after Sept. 11, George W. Bush actually sat and thought about what happened for seven minutes before he nuked the hell out of China? What an inept, impotent fool. I hope if any Muslim terrorist groups attack America under Kerry's reign, he'll have the composure and courageous leadership to nuke North Korea immediately.
For those of us too young to have known anything about HHGG except the books.
This hardly seems like a novel idea. Isn't the whole calling a computer virus a "virus" supposed to help us understand it in a biological/human way?
I don't like likening malicious computer use to biology. If we call Sasser a "virus", then we would likewise have to call port-scanning a "forcible proctology exam".
You don't want to know what buffer-overflow exploits would be called...
P2P networks like Bittorrent and DC++ have an air of "grab all you can and go offline, fuck the other guy" attitude that I really detest.
/.; I make no claims as to the actual legality of my fair-use rights), as if somehow helping out in the sharing makes one less of a hypocrite in the whole copyright-infringement process.
Gotta admint; when I still used Kazaa I was one of thsoe folks. When I moved to BitTorrent I was at first concerned about the fact that people could download off of me while I was still downloading, myself. But I soon learned that the sharing is more than out-weighed by the benifits of being shared with. I take some small case of the warm fuzzies by helping seed other folks' downloads.
For some reason, it feels almost like not being a leech makes the sharing more legitimate (I said "feel", for the "property-ownership-is-God-you-communist-pirate" corporate shills that like the hang around
Isn't this already illegal? Lately I'm afraid of legislation banning things that are already illegal. Take the DMCA, for instance; copyright violations were already punishable, but all of a sudden a whole slough of other things are, too.
I say, let's strengthen our ability to enforce laws we already have on fraud and invasion of privacy. It seems new laws, making more things illegal will simply become another "gotcha" for folks using legitimate software.
Inflation is pretty tame these days excepting gas prices and there are a number of reasons behind those prices, and the situation in Iraq is NOT one of them.
I heard Kerry say if he were president, he would take a tough-guy stance with OPEC and pressure them to release more oil.
Good luck with that plan.
Ok mister know-it-all... we get a 10% increase... yet cost of living has increased 15% during that time period.
we get a 5% decrease! YAY!
I flip a big middle finger to all company owners for being fucking assholes and not giving raises that at least pace with cost of living.
It's your fault for moving into a bigger house and eating out more. My apartment building's rent hasn't changed in over 10 years, and Ramen is still 7 for $1.00 (just like 1990).
... is like "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp".
Hahaha! You're so funny; so right, too. We throw those dumb jarheads some R&D money and the best they can spend it on is microwave ovens, nuclear energy, jet power, sattelite communications, medical advances, and the internet.
We need to give that money to some real innovators, like ad-development companies or music-video directors.
PS: I'm being sarcastic. That whole "military intelligence is an oxymoron" joke is tired and asinine. And just to be clear: space elevators will be done by a government or collection of governments, or it will not be done at all.
...will I be able to watch without a babel fish?
Google also owns the domains "GOS.com" "Gporn.com" "Goffice" and "Gword"
I think it's safe to say they've got big plans.
Little do you know, the G in GNU really stands for "Google's New Unix". They also own Gimp, Gnome, GTK, and Gator. That last one was just an insidious plot to create demand for their new pop-up blocking toolbar. Smart cookies, they are...
Since your name is Badnarik, I'm assuming you're not George W. Bush. Is that correct?
Absolutely correct. We really need to get the message out that all people who want to get rid of George W. Bush should vote for Michael "Not Bush" Badnarik, the freedom candidate.
My name is George Bush and I approve this message.
If you install it, they will come.
...and hence we will never be able to do anything useful with the place.
I just couldn't stop thinking "This looks like one of those 'interactive movies' computer games from the nineties.
Yeah, but at least you didn't have to watch it in 320x200x256. In a 90's IM game, Gwennyth Paltrow would be a five-pixel diamond (all #FFF0C0). Now, I'm not sure if you could say we're actually better off for it, but...
The IE team came up with something innovative for once
The only difference is size and placement. That's not innovation; if it was, I could sell IE with a green icon instead of blue and call it "innovative new technology."
Microsoft is playing catch-up, pure and simple. As for as pop-up-blocking goes, Mozilla beat them, Yahoo beat them, and Google beat them. It's just not new anymore.
PS: There's an error in my grandparent-post. Pop-up blocking is not a part of the AdBlocker plug-in; it's built in to Mozilla. I should have realized that at the time of post.
I was playing with 1.0PR last night and found the firebird developers have already mimicked IE. The "info bar" which displays when something is blocked is blatantly "stolen" from IE.
The very first version of AdBlock had a notification for when a pop-up was blocked (an unobtrusive exclamation mark in the bottom-right corner or the screen).
Who's "blatantly stealing" from whom?
I was just informed that Ceren Ercen is, in fact, a tester for BSD labs, and does not run Windows. So my parent post should be modded (-1, Wrong).
As I told my informant; if you can't be wrong, what can you be?
BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men!
At the risk of my karma...
You do know that booth babes typically do not use the products they hawk, don't you? I mean, honestly, how many of the booth babes at, oh... say... GenCon think it would be just awesome if some guy would ask them to go play D&D?
Aforementioned BSD mascot probably runs Windows XP at home.
Otherwise I can't recommend it -- the book is gibberish if you can't follow the math.
If you want it to make sense, you gotta accept the fact that the book, by itself, is not supposed to turn an interested laymen into a learned professor. Books like these, for me, spur me to go learn the basics instead. Even if I never get all the way through the book, I can at least use it to tell me what I need to know to be considered "learned" in the field.
I remember in college as a CS student, being spoon-fed the easy-to-learn computing theory and feeling like I was getting nowhere. I picked up the Hopcroft & Ullman automata book and was, at the time, completely inundated by the math (I went to a commuter college with a not-so-advanced math & CS dept.). But at least I knew what I really needed to learn next. I ignored the professor pretty much for the rest of the class (and never opened the textbook) and instead investigated only those things I required to understand the H&U book. I found that by the end of the class, though I was not yet a quarter of the way through the book, I knew a lot more than my classmates, who still struggled with the basic concepts of the field.
If the book seems too much for anyone other than an grad student, try using it instead as an index of things you need to learn first. Don't know those formulas? Look 'em up. Even if you don't grasp everything in your target book, you'll be smarter for it in the end.
In Soviet Rus-- oh damn. I pulled out the wrong dead horse.