If public funds are used to create, say, a word processor, then people should be pissed off if they can't get the source code for it, because it's their tax money paying for the software.
But what if public funds are used by the CIA to create a piece a software that spies on China or Cuba for example ? would you expect it to be open-sourced ? I hope not : the difference between the word processor and the spying software is, the former is a piece of software that people's tax money pays for, but latter is a tool to maintain national security.
I own a late sixties muscle car that gets less than that. But the difference is, it gets out of the garage on rare occasions, delivers over 500 horses, gobs of torque and looks a whole lot better than this horror of a truck:)
Oh dear, another road clogger
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So, is this going to be another very large very heavy off-road capable vehicle that idiotic SUV lovers will use to drive 5 miles to work everyday on perfectly maintained flat roads, doing less than 15 miles to the gallon, and threatening bicycle riders like myself ?
Hold on while I masturbate furiously in anticipation...:-(
Tired of not making enough MONEY ? HOW ABOUT $3000 PER WEEK OR MORE !
No, this is not a joke, YOU TOO CAN QUIT YOUR JOB AND MAKE THE MONEY YOU DESERVE !
HOW ?
Very recently, I have discovered that anybody on the internet receives "SPAM" emails, and that it is usuall possible to sue those "SPAMMERS". Most often, "SPAM" originates from VERY LARGE COMPANIES who have a LOT OF MONEY MOST OFTEN, and these companies don't want to lose their reputation in the "SPAM" industry, therefore they are usually willing to give plaintiffs A LOT OF MONEY to settle their claims.
I CAN ALREADY HEAR YOU SAY "HOW CAN I SUE SPAMMERS TOO AND RECEIVE A LOT OF SETTLEMENT MONEY ?" !
IF YOU SEND ME A RESPONSE AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE, I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO MY NEW BOOK CALLED "HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY SUE SPAMMERS AND RECEIVE A LOT OF SETTLEMENT MONEY". MY BOOK NORMALLY COSTS IN EXCESS OF $85 FROM NORMAL RETAIL CHANNELS, BUT ONLY FOR YOU, I OFFER YOU THIS INCREDIBLE MONEY-MAKING TOOL FOR ONLY $19.99 !!
DON'T PASS UP YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE THE MONEY YOU DESERVE. SEND ME A RESPONSE RIGHT NOW, OR CALL ME AT THE NUMBER BELOW.
I thought you needed a reactor core with dilithium crystal to make a matter-antimatter reaction possible. Can NASA produce dilithium crystals yet ? and visors for the reactor core technicians ?
"This one, located 58 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, contains more than 12 times the mass of all the planets in our solar system, astronomers estimate"
Just imagine how much money the Weight Watcher people would make over there !
As a musical instrument-based programmer, I still haven't found a grand piano with a good C compiler...
Seriously though, what the heck is a "PC-based musician" ?
"It can deliver, to as many as four televisions, video recorded from a TV signal off of its integrated cable/satellite receiver, video or audio downloaded to the hard drive or from a built-in DVD/CD player."
Dec 24, 2002 : Officially unveiled at the CES show earlier this week, the much awaited Moxi Media Center, created by former WebTV founder Steve Pearlman, will definitely not hit the shelves in time for Christmas.
"This is a huge disappointment for media lovers" declared Pearlman. "If people can't even play their own Super-8 tapes anymore, what does this mean for the future of the entertainment industry, I ask you ?". Originally scheduled to be a powerful media center capable of delivering as many as four televisions, video recorded from a TV signal off of its integrated cable/satellite receiver and video or audio downloaded to the hard drive or from a built-in DVD/CD player, pressures from the MPAA (movie picture association of America) and the RIAA (recording industry association of America) have gradually forced Moxi to reduce the scope of the Moxi Media Center to a simple Super-8 video player and vinyl disk (LP) player.
However, the MPAA still isn't satisfied with the Moxi Media Center's current feature list, and has launched an unprecedented lawsuit against Moxi. "The [MPAA] has to protect the interests of the studios, and therefore the interest of the American public" said MPAA president Jack Valenti yesterday "If we let anybody play their bootleg Super-8 videos, the world won't turn round anymore !".
Steve Pearlman is scheduled to organize an emergency meeting of Moxi's board of director : "We could conceivably turn the Moxi Media Center into a very nice looking multi-function shelf made of first-grade oak wood, that would serve video tapes and CDs on demand. The only remaining obstacle right now is to obtain the RIAA's approval for using the standard "12cm CD size"[tm], which should take no more than 6 month and should add no more than $2 on each Moxi Media Center's pricetag" said Pearlman. "As you can see, the public can count on Moxi to deliver new innovative media solutions that conform with the law".
That Windows isn't getting any more usable as versions go up is not entirely true : remember Windows 2.0 ? the only person I know who still uses it is a friend of mine who doesn't have a lot of money and wants to keep his 286. And 2.0 is about the only thing that'll run on his 286 with the amount of memory he has. Well, guess what ? 2.0 is a huge TURD. And truthfully, 3.0 was better, 3.11 better still, 95 a lot better, NT was a lot better than the whole lot just mentioned, and I haven't tried any later version but each time there is one out, I'm told it's better.
Better, but always "not quite there yet". So is Windows not getting better ? no, it is getting better, only it's always at a level of "betterness" that's 10 years behind what Un*x users have come to expect. M$ has fought so hard over the years to brainwash people into thinking that computers naturally and unavoidably hang regularly that people actually believe it ! (remember that famous quote supposedly from a M$ support guy saying to a customer that "memory is like gasoline, you use it up then your computer has to fill up the tank again by restarting" ?)
To M$' credit though, they did design Windows to be run by computer idiots, so I'm not surprised that the OS has a lot of tradeoffs that make it unstable so it's easier to use, but then OS/2 was also designed to be run by anybody and it was a lot better than Windows. So I'd tend to think that Microsoft engineers either (1) suck, (2) are instructed to adopt shitty designs because Microsoft prefers to win battles on the marketing front than on the technical front, or (3) both
Richard, Intel's VP of marketing : John, we need to produce higher gogohertz CPUs, other CPU manufacturers are creaming us right now. John, Intel's VP of engineering : You mean "gigahertz" I 'spose : well, we can't, CPU core designs are reaching their limits. Technically, it's not very realistic you know. Richard : Who's talking about technical stuffs here ? I mean, just crank up the gogohertz man, we need more hype fast. John How about if we designed synchronous processors instead ? now *that* would be sexy. Richard : You mean hotter than more gogohertz ? John : Sure, it would impress the technical crowd, and we'd have a real actual breakthrough in CPU design in less than 5 year. That's pretty hot, I'd say. Richard : Yeah, well, tech people are nice, but the Joe Sixpacks who walk into Fry's and buy a new PC, they want more gogohertz. John : *sigh* Well, I guess we could double the clock and put a frequency divider inside the CPU...
"Now some Canadian company is claiming they own a US patent on RDF (doesn't Slashdot use RDF?)."
Just like Rambus tried to leech on the enormous computer memory market, it's quite plain that these crazy canuks just want a share of the huge revenue stream generated by slashdot.org.
I don't fear targeted marketing, it is merely a huge annoyance to me. But I do dislike the idea that someone somewhere knows more about me than what I told him.
"If you are not a terrorist, why do you fear Ashcroft?"
If you're not a communist, why should you fear McCarthy ?
"If you're not cheating on your taxes, why do you fear an IRS audit?"
I'd rather see the IRS people come to me directly and ask me what they want to know than do things behind my back. It's the same argument as the marketing data issue : I don't like things done behind my back, that's all.
"Pac-Man-like nature? IANAL but I think I understand the basics of the GPL but wtf is the Pac-Man-like nature of it?"
Agreed : I understood the "viral nature of the GPL" analogy, but I have no clue what Pac-Man has to do with this.
Anyhow, I think Microsoft should be sued by Namco for mis-using the "Pac-Man" trademark.
"How can you be sure that people will want and pay for Web services? The HailStorm model is based on consumers paying for these services.
Well, some will be free, and some will be for pay. The marketplace will decide. When you describe to people that every file on their machine will be backed up--photos of their kids, business documents, e-mail--if your machine is taken or breaks, those will be available to you."
and to Microsoft for marketing purposes, to Ashcroft for his latest terrorist witch-hunt, to the IRS for the audit they had in mind for you,...
Does Gate really think people will swallow that ? I mean, holy crap, hell will freeze over before I send any of my files to a remote storage volume owned by Microsoft (or owned by anybody else for that matter).
"Hint: you do not look good in a bathing suit, and rubbing up against a pole doesn't help either, tootsie"
I suggest you stop viewing jpegs in your hex editor : she's not bad really. I agree that she should leave the pole alone, but other than that she's quite a cutie.
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It's not so bad, if you have a TiVo, you'll be able to enjoy non fake-New-Year-happiness programs on TV, and there's always the bottle of Bourbon in the minibar.
"The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary!"
Here is the thread of their encounter on the well-known matchmaking site Slashdot.org :
Elysse : fIrST Pr0st !
Scott : What is taco-snotting? its when kids like SuckMyAssRaw43 give a "hetero-sexually challenged" boyfriend head, then take the cum load and blow it into his noze....
Elysse : Please mod this -1: Offtopic
Scott:
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Elysse: Dude, you're a 1337 troll, wanna come up to my place ?
Scott: Yeah okay...
The rest my friends, as you know, is Slashdot history...
"Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001"
Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.
"Wouldn't the logical solution be "go straight to MacOSX" as it seems perfected already and skip the Linux headache in between?"
Next time Apple releases a new super-duper OS that requires you to buy a new Mac and renew your entire collection of software you bought with your hard-earned cash, I and my headache-making Linux box running on my PII-266 shall taunt you a second time.
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Kind of like TurboTax, but for free. And if it's open-source, so much the better, you can cheat on your taxes and still blame it on the software :)
But what if public funds are used by the CIA to create a piece a software that spies on China or Cuba for example ? would you expect it to be open-sourced ? I hope not : the difference between the word processor and the spying software is, the former is a piece of software that people's tax money pays for, but latter is a tool to maintain national security.
Am I the only one who saw this thing and imagined it standing on its rear wheels shouting "transformer" ?
I own a late sixties muscle car that gets less than that. But the difference is, it gets out of the garage on rare occasions, delivers over 500 horses, gobs of torque and looks a whole lot better than this horror of a truck :)
Hold on while I masturbate furiously in anticipation ... :-(
Tired of not making enough MONEY ? HOW ABOUT $3000 PER WEEK OR MORE !
No, this is not a joke, YOU TOO CAN QUIT YOUR JOB AND MAKE THE MONEY YOU DESERVE !
HOW ?
Very recently, I have discovered that anybody on the internet receives "SPAM" emails, and that it is usuall possible to sue those "SPAMMERS". Most often, "SPAM" originates from VERY LARGE COMPANIES who have a LOT OF MONEY MOST OFTEN, and these companies don't want to lose their reputation in the "SPAM" industry, therefore they are usually willing to give plaintiffs A LOT OF MONEY to settle their claims.
I CAN ALREADY HEAR YOU SAY "HOW CAN I SUE SPAMMERS TOO AND RECEIVE A LOT OF SETTLEMENT MONEY ?" !
IF YOU SEND ME A RESPONSE AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE, I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO MY NEW BOOK CALLED "HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY SUE SPAMMERS AND RECEIVE A LOT OF SETTLEMENT MONEY". MY BOOK NORMALLY COSTS IN EXCESS OF $85 FROM NORMAL RETAIL CHANNELS, BUT ONLY FOR YOU, I OFFER YOU THIS INCREDIBLE MONEY-MAKING TOOL FOR ONLY $19.99 !!
DON'T PASS UP YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE THE MONEY YOU DESERVE. SEND ME A RESPONSE RIGHT NOW, OR CALL ME AT THE NUMBER BELOW.
THANK YOU DEAR FRIEND !
email: SUCKER_RESPONSE@HOTMAIL.COM
phone: 1-800-YOU-SUCK
**********
THIS IS A ONE-TIME EMAIL, YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RECEIVE ANYMORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE OFFER.
I thought you needed a reactor core with dilithium crystal to make a matter-antimatter reaction possible. Can NASA produce dilithium crystals yet ? and visors for the reactor core technicians ?
Just imagine how much money the Weight Watcher people would make over there !
As a musical instrument-based programmer, I still haven't found a grand piano with a good C compiler ...
Seriously though, what the heck is a "PC-based musician" ?
Dec 24, 2002 : Officially unveiled at the CES show earlier this week, the much awaited Moxi Media Center, created by former WebTV founder Steve Pearlman, will definitely not hit the shelves in time for Christmas.
"This is a huge disappointment for media lovers" declared Pearlman. "If people can't even play their own Super-8 tapes anymore, what does this mean for the future of the entertainment industry, I ask you ?". Originally scheduled to be a powerful media center capable of delivering as many as four televisions, video recorded from a TV signal off of its integrated cable/satellite receiver and video or audio downloaded to the hard drive or from a built-in DVD/CD player, pressures from the MPAA (movie picture association of America) and the RIAA (recording industry association of America) have gradually forced Moxi to reduce the scope of the Moxi Media Center to a simple Super-8 video player and vinyl disk (LP) player.
However, the MPAA still isn't satisfied with the Moxi Media Center's current feature list, and has launched an unprecedented lawsuit against Moxi. "The [MPAA] has to protect the interests of the studios, and therefore the interest of the American public" said MPAA president Jack Valenti yesterday "If we let anybody play their bootleg Super-8 videos, the world won't turn round anymore !".
Steve Pearlman is scheduled to organize an emergency meeting of Moxi's board of director : "We could conceivably turn the Moxi Media Center into a very nice looking multi-function shelf made of first-grade oak wood, that would serve video tapes and CDs on demand. The only remaining obstacle right now is to obtain the RIAA's approval for using the standard "12cm CD size"[tm], which should take no more than 6 month and should add no more than $2 on each Moxi Media Center's pricetag" said Pearlman. "As you can see, the public can count on Moxi to deliver new innovative media solutions that conform with the law".
Better, but always "not quite there yet". So is Windows not getting better ? no, it is getting better, only it's always at a level of "betterness" that's 10 years behind what Un*x users have come to expect. M$ has fought so hard over the years to brainwash people into thinking that computers naturally and unavoidably hang regularly that people actually believe it ! (remember that famous quote supposedly from a M$ support guy saying to a customer that "memory is like gasoline, you use it up then your computer has to fill up the tank again by restarting" ?)
To M$' credit though, they did design Windows to be run by computer idiots, so I'm not surprised that the OS has a lot of tradeoffs that make it unstable so it's easier to use, but then OS/2 was also designed to be run by anybody and it was a lot better than Windows. So I'd tend to think that Microsoft engineers either (1) suck, (2) are instructed to adopt shitty designs because Microsoft prefers to win battles on the marketing front than on the technical front, or (3) both
Well okay, CompUSA then :) You're right, I spoke too fast : Fry's is actually very nice and reasonably technical.
John, Intel's VP of engineering : You mean "gigahertz" I 'spose : well, we can't, CPU core designs are reaching their limits. Technically, it's not very realistic you know.
Richard : Who's talking about technical stuffs here ? I mean, just crank up the gogohertz man, we need more hype fast.
John How about if we designed synchronous processors instead ? now *that* would be sexy.
Richard : You mean hotter than more gogohertz ?
John : Sure, it would impress the technical crowd, and we'd have a real actual breakthrough in CPU design in less than 5 year. That's pretty hot, I'd say.
Richard : Yeah, well, tech people are nice, but the Joe Sixpacks who walk into Fry's and buy a new PC, they want more gogohertz.
John : *sigh* Well, I guess we could double the clock and put a frequency divider inside the CPU
etc ...
Erik Schmoll : he made a 2 second appearance as the toilet paper delivery boy in Lethal Weapon III
Raymond Swzarznik : the much acclaimed actor how played the back of the 56th passenger in Airplane II: the Sequel.
Eugene Smith : the driver of the first Chevrolet passed by Drew Barrimore in Charlie's Angels.
Joseph Sixpack : the 6th left buttock from the right in "Anal orgy IV"
Good work guys, it's about time your talent and the talent of the approx. 500.000.000.000 people like you are recognized !
Just like Rambus tried to leech on the enormous computer memory market, it's quite plain that these crazy canuks just want a share of the huge revenue stream generated by slashdot.org.
This could become the redneck tech gizmo of the year : networking access points for cows !
I don't fear targeted marketing, it is merely a huge annoyance to me. But I do dislike the idea that someone somewhere knows more about me than what I told him.
"If you are not a terrorist, why do you fear Ashcroft?"
If you're not a communist, why should you fear McCarthy ?
"If you're not cheating on your taxes, why do you fear an IRS audit?"
I'd rather see the IRS people come to me directly and ask me what they want to know than do things behind my back. It's the same argument as the marketing data issue : I don't like things done behind my back, that's all.
Agreed : I understood the "viral nature of the GPL" analogy, but I have no clue what Pac-Man has to do with this.
Anyhow, I think Microsoft should be sued by Namco for mis-using the "Pac-Man" trademark.
Well, some will be free, and some will be for pay. The marketplace will decide. When you describe to people that every file on their machine will be backed up--photos of their kids, business documents, e-mail--if your machine is taken or breaks, those will be available to you."
and to Microsoft for marketing purposes, to Ashcroft for his latest terrorist witch-hunt, to the IRS for the audit they had in mind for you, ...
Does Gate really think people will swallow that ? I mean, holy crap, hell will freeze over before I send any of my files to a remote storage volume owned by Microsoft (or owned by anybody else for that matter).
So, maybe the article is about a full-size airplane made of paper that is powered by a human being who also happens to be onboard ?
I suggest you stop viewing jpegs in your hex editor : she's not bad really. I agree that she should leave the pole alone, but other than that she's quite a cutie.
It's not so bad, if you have a TiVo, you'll be able to enjoy non fake-New-Year-happiness programs on TV, and there's always the bottle of Bourbon in the minibar.
Here is the thread of their encounter on the well-known matchmaking site Slashdot.org :
Elysse : fIrST Pr0st !
Scott : What is taco-snotting? its when kids like SuckMyAssRaw43 give a "hetero-sexually challenged" boyfriend head, then take the cum load and blow it into his noze. ...
Elysse : Please mod this -1: Offtopic
Scott : .^
.8====D
. <O)
. ( \
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Elysse: Dude, you're a 1337 troll, wanna come up to my place ?
Scott: Yeah okay ...
The rest my friends, as you know, is Slashdot history...
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Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.
Next time Apple releases a new super-duper OS that requires you to buy a new Mac and renew your entire collection of software you bought with your hard-earned cash, I and my headache-making Linux box running on my PII-266 shall taunt you a second time.