apart from the fact he's done more to shape IP laws, copy protection, open source software and linux - he's had to deal with this BS since he was *15*.
I was still sitting on legos and eating giant bowls of Sugar Crisp in front of the Smurfs when I was 15.
When will we see the takedown of fair use in this country?
OT Question: Don't the major linux players (IBM, RedHat, um.. Dell ect.) distribute some sort of linux DeCSS DVD player? Why are they not being hunted down and sued by the MPAA?
You must not have read far enough back to note that I am for the spread of knowledge, free exchange of ideas and speech, and the dissolution of the 'rights' of corporations.
I am not a fan of intrusive government, legislation of morality, and democracy driven by 'donations'.
I enjoy long walks by the ocean, a midnight snowfall, and a fine Guinness.
Turn-offs include: Bad moderation, spam, and focus-group music.
I hope this clears up your misperception of my comment.
Openness? I can't see how the biotech, medical, and defense companies could make a profit by giving the tools to research and create to just anyone.
Plus, wouldn't this put the tools of terrorism in the hands of those who would destroy us for the sake of tens of virgins in the afterlife?
The safe thing to do is to hide all knowledge of these technologies from everyone who isn't a corporation based in the U.S.. That way, these tools can only be used for the good of the human race.
I have a pretty gravy job that allows me to come and go as I please, but come time for the big projects, I end up spending 16 hour days there.
I bought a 15" Powerbook so I can work on stuff at home, sitting on the couch while my wifey watches her 'stories'. I don't pay too much attention to TV, I'm not the only one in the office (spooky at night), and I get to stop and *be at home*(rather than drive home, drive back, ect) and do something else for awhile.
I spent two days working at home last week and I knew that I didn't want to be home all of the time - I'd go crazy - so I make a point of going to the office most of the time.
Back in the day when I was actually making a living being a musician (bolded for the fact that this was absolutely amazing;)
I worked Thurs-Sat and had the rest of the week off. I used to ride my bicycle everywhere and smoke dope with the other members of the band. I highly (heh) recommend that if you're looking at passing (lots of) time. I don't quite know what happened for about seven years. Of course, thinking, concentration, thinking and attention, concentration, concentration, and concentration becomes a problem after awhile, but now that I've quit, I find that its no longer a problem. Attention.
Coffee shops are good if you're there often enough. You can probably get it on with one of the sultry coffee shop girls too, since you have a job. Excellent work if you can get it, and free coffee all the time!
If you're really in a bind for answers, think about what you did while you were unemployed. Most people have way more fun when they don't have a job - I don't know why, maybe because they just to get to do crazy stuff on a moments notice.
No matter what do NOT do the following:
Paint Minatures
Ice Fishing
Roll your own cigarettes
Become obsessed with the movie 'The Last Starfighter'
Collect screensavers
Visit the Hostess Outlet store
Barhop at 9:30 in the morning (ok, once is alright)
Read slashdot for more than 15 minutes
Read Fark right after slashdot
Hang out with Scientologists
Google's results seem to have degraded over the last couple of years. Full of linkfarm websites and searches that seem to lead to information, but only return another (sponsored) 'search'. It has made it a pain to find common information as the results are spammed by Amazon affiliates, and hard to find obscure information as the results are often buried under a pile of non-appropriate links.
I run a teeny Miva Merchant site which used to be a 'regular' (html, cgi) web store. It has been up since 1997 with little or no changes. No meta tags or keywords on the site.
A week after I messed with that stuff, Google put my site at the top of the list when you do a search for some uncommon keywords related to it. It was nice to see, but so far of limited usefulness.
Now with the Miva site (which are notorious for not being indexed) I will have to come up with a revised strategy.
I would tell anyone - pay attention to your tags, and the immediate content of your site. Everyone is fighting for placement using similar keywords, so checkout the top results and see what they are using.
OT - Doesn't Barry look like he's making some deal on the phone? "Yeah, I can get you Ted, but he's gonna cost ya. He's huge at the Laugh 'n' Snort. I think he'll go for that, I'll call ya back."
Remember those? W95?/98 had 'web channels' or some such thing. I seem to recall trying them out once (ooh Disney!), and quickly disabling them. (permanently with 98lite. OT- litePC for XP/2000 is out, remove all sorts of evil from windows)
I see this as MS being in the back seat on this one. Sort of like PNG for everyone else. Late to the party and you don't get any cake.
Slashdot - Home of Depressing news for musicians
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Gah. As a musician, I find slashdot pretty depressing. Hit-making software , synthesized singers, and no opportunity to actually make a living at it.
The only bright side is that I could eventually have the chance to delete Celine Dion.
Someone should make an algo to calculate which Slashdot comments will be moderated up to 5. Should be pretty easy...as long as you bash SCO!
It's tough to come up with an algorythm for slasdot moderations. SCO bashing will not guarrentee anything. In fact, I used some software similar to that mentioned in this article, and determined that this comment will be modded +5.
SCO RULES!
Bill Gates is your friend.
I enjoy RFID!
I can't get enough of that Jon Katz!
Linux is for little girls.
Look at my newest casemod! I put a flashlight in there!
Hilary Rosen is a super-fox!
I peed in your coffee.
The Simpsons/Matrix/Starwars/LordoftheRings totally sucks.
DRM is the answer to everything!
I just patented food!
These comments alone would not gain a +5, however, the self-referencial nature of this comment will.
Wouldn't a leak of Windows source be a great excuse for MS to sue everyone who codes, ala SCO?
I know when the BeOS source was leaked, every smart programmer stayed away from it - else be blamed for stealing 'IP'.
Consipiracy Theory #234,345,234: MS deliberately leaks the source to some EOLed code such as Win 95 or NT, and sues anyone who is making inroads with alternate OSes or applications, such as Linux, Mozilla, Open Office etc.
What fun! No doubt, there will be no need to show their code for National Security reasons. We'll just need to trust them.
If you ever read 50's-60's Scifi for boys (I know, small subset) there is a book called Danny Dunn and the Invisible Boy which talks about a small robotic dragonfly (actual size and look, as well) that uses bursts of air to fly, has video and sound output to a fully immersive virtual reality headset back at the base station, and can grab and move small objects.
I can't find it on my shelf right now, but the Professor who invented it destroyed it because of the *privacy implications*, before the military took it for 'national security' reasons.
Great book, and strangely pre-cognitive. Of course, it was used to catch a cheater on a spelling test, rather than spy on chicks in the locker room, so you know the timeframe in which it was written.
I'm half expecting to find 'Danny Dunn and the Boy Who Found The National Echelon Terrorist Database and Used Nanobots to Disable John Ashcroft's Wet Dream for Spying on the American Public' at my next flea market.
I'd have to agree. I got a 1.25 Aluminum 15" inch Powerbook just after they came out. I love it. And I don't have to see the price drop for a little while yet:)
Of course, I'll still be paying my Apple Store order off when the quad G7 48" Plutoniums come out...
Bullies should be killed. With a knife in the eye.
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Really. Just thinking about how someone can make someone else's life hell for no other reason than for the propping up of an immature personality, makes me so angry.
I used to get picked on in school, and now 15 years later I thiink about it and laugh, but a part of me would Grand Theft Auto those motherfuckers in a second and not shed a tear.
Sure, some may have 'grown up', but how many people that you know change that much from high school? Chances are, they're using the same techniques to bully their wives, children, co-workers, and others.
Crash it into the moon - we can then finally see if that flag is up there.
Send some elementary school kids up there. If they don't destroy it by doing the monkey bars on its delicate superstructure, they'll hasten its suicide by circling it and chanting, "One Eye, Got One Eye, One Eye, Got One Eye!"
Ask it what time it is, then when it looks at its wrist, hit it with a hammer.
Rename it Old Yeller. Dad'll put it down, while you weep into your dusty wool shirt.
Just put a Democrat on it! It will be sure to 'mysteriously' crash, probably in a wooded area full of hippies.
but I have a long history of getting my ass kicked at chess. The only time I *ever* beat a computer at chess was when I played the easiest level on Chessmaster 2100 on my Apple IIgs. I celebrated for days.
I played chess all the time with pals about 10 years ago. We were all at about the same level of bad. I thought I would prove my chess-skilz one day and played some guy at the local coffeeshop. After 3 moves, I was checkmated. My middle eastern opponent turned to my friend and said, "Your friend is stupid. I will not play him again.", swept all the pieces off the board, got up, shook his head and left.
That stung. So You Go Gary! I must live vicariously through you! Kick some ass! Then I must go back to OS X gnuChess which mocks me every time I play, "You are stupid. I will not play you again."
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Reinstall all of your apps after a windows reinstall/reboot-fest, and one beer turns into 30!
"Sexy mitochondria shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass
Sexy mitochondria shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass"
Great tune.
I was still sitting on legos and eating giant bowls of Sugar Crisp in front of the Smurfs when I was 15.
When will we see the takedown of fair use in this country?
OT Question: Don't the major linux players (IBM, RedHat, um.. Dell ect.) distribute some sort of linux DeCSS DVD player? Why are they not being hunted down and sued by the MPAA?
I'm waiting for Jackson to do The Silmarillion.
Relive the good ol' days at textfiles.com
I am not a fan of intrusive government, legislation of morality, and democracy driven by 'donations'.
I enjoy long walks by the ocean, a midnight snowfall, and a fine Guinness.
Turn-offs include: Bad moderation, spam, and focus-group music.
I hope this clears up your misperception of my comment.
Plus, wouldn't this put the tools of terrorism in the hands of those who would destroy us for the sake of tens of virgins in the afterlife?
The safe thing to do is to hide all knowledge of these technologies from everyone who isn't a corporation based in the U.S.. That way, these tools can only be used for the good of the human race.
Bleh.
I'm guessing this memory goo, e-paper and full bandwidth video phones are in the trunk of the flying car. Kill 10 birds with one stone!
Thee is one case where free doesn't win. When the quality of the free item is far inferior to the paid item. Fill in the blanks.
does it cook a turkey in under 3 1/2 hours?
I bought a 15" Powerbook so I can work on stuff at home, sitting on the couch while my wifey watches her 'stories'. I don't pay too much attention to TV, I'm not the only one in the office (spooky at night), and I get to stop and *be at home*(rather than drive home, drive back, ect) and do something else for awhile.
I spent two days working at home last week and I knew that I didn't want to be home all of the time - I'd go crazy - so I make a point of going to the office most of the time.
Back in the day when I was actually making a living being a musician (bolded for the fact that this was absolutely amazing ;)
I worked Thurs-Sat and had the rest of the week off. I used to ride my bicycle everywhere and smoke dope with the other members of the band. I highly (heh) recommend that if you're looking at passing (lots of) time. I don't quite know what happened for about seven years. Of course, thinking, concentration, thinking and attention, concentration, concentration, and concentration becomes a problem after awhile, but now that I've quit, I find that its no longer a problem. Attention.
Coffee shops are good if you're there often enough. You can probably get it on with one of the sultry coffee shop girls too, since you have a job. Excellent work if you can get it, and free coffee all the time!
If you're really in a bind for answers, think about what you did while you were unemployed. Most people have way more fun when they don't have a job - I don't know why, maybe because they just to get to do crazy stuff on a moments notice.
No matter what do NOT do the following:
Paint Minatures
Ice Fishing
Roll your own cigarettes
Become obsessed with the movie 'The Last Starfighter'
Collect screensavers
Visit the Hostess Outlet store
Barhop at 9:30 in the morning (ok, once is alright)
Read slashdot for more than 15 minutes
Read Fark right after slashdot
Hang out with Scientologists
I hope I have been some help. Good luck.
I run a teeny Miva Merchant site which used to be a 'regular' (html, cgi) web store. It has been up since 1997 with little or no changes. No meta tags or keywords on the site.
A week after I messed with that stuff, Google put my site at the top of the list when you do a search for some uncommon keywords related to it. It was nice to see, but so far of limited usefulness.
Now with the Miva site (which are notorious for not being indexed) I will have to come up with a revised strategy.
I would tell anyone - pay attention to your tags, and the immediate content of your site. Everyone is fighting for placement using similar keywords, so checkout the top results and see what they are using.
OT - Doesn't Barry look like he's making some deal on the phone? "Yeah, I can get you Ted, but he's gonna cost ya. He's huge at the Laugh 'n' Snort. I think he'll go for that, I'll call ya back."
I see this as MS being in the back seat on this one. Sort of like PNG for everyone else. Late to the party and you don't get any cake.
The only bright side is that I could eventually have the chance to delete Celine Dion.
It's tough to come up with an algorythm for slasdot moderations. SCO bashing will not guarrentee anything. In fact, I used some software similar to that mentioned in this article, and determined that this comment will be modded +5.
SCO RULES!
Bill Gates is your friend.
I enjoy RFID!
I can't get enough of that Jon Katz!
Linux is for little girls.
Look at my newest casemod! I put a flashlight in there!
Hilary Rosen is a super-fox!
I peed in your coffee.
The Simpsons/Matrix/Starwars/LordoftheRings totally sucks.
DRM is the answer to everything!
I just patented food!
These comments alone would not gain a +5, however, the self-referencial nature of this comment will.
Granted, this software is still in beta.
I know when the BeOS source was leaked, every smart programmer stayed away from it - else be blamed for stealing 'IP'.
Consipiracy Theory #234,345,234: MS deliberately leaks the source to some EOLed code such as Win 95 or NT, and sues anyone who is making inroads with alternate OSes or applications, such as Linux, Mozilla, Open Office etc.
What fun! No doubt, there will be no need to show their code for National Security reasons. We'll just need to trust them.
I can't find it on my shelf right now, but the Professor who invented it destroyed it because of the *privacy implications*, before the military took it for 'national security' reasons.
Great book, and strangely pre-cognitive. Of course, it was used to catch a cheater on a spelling test, rather than spy on chicks in the locker room, so you know the timeframe in which it was written.
I'm half expecting to find 'Danny Dunn and the Boy Who Found The National Echelon Terrorist Database and Used Nanobots to Disable John Ashcroft's Wet Dream for Spying on the American Public' at my next flea market.
Of course, I'll still be paying my Apple Store order off when the quad G7 48" Plutoniums come out...
HAR HAR HAR
Hey, Steve must be sweating over this one. Wait a minute! Steve's ALWAYS sweating!
HAHAHAHA
Hey Bill, 640k emails ought to be enough for everyone, right?
WHOOOHOOHOOO
Give me a sec, I think I got one more.
Ok. I don't. Those will have to do.
G'Night Bill, don't let the Web Bugs bite!!
Yes!
Buy a Mac! ;)
Damn you corporate sweatshops!
I had no idea.
I used to get picked on in school, and now 15 years later I thiink about it and laugh, but a part of me would Grand Theft Auto those motherfuckers in a second and not shed a tear.
Sure, some may have 'grown up', but how many people that you know change that much from high school? Chances are, they're using the same techniques to bully their wives, children, co-workers, and others.
I don't wonder at school shootings at all.
Crash it into the moon - we can then finally see if that flag is up there.
Send some elementary school kids up there. If they don't destroy it by doing the monkey bars on its delicate superstructure, they'll hasten its suicide by circling it and chanting, "One Eye, Got One Eye, One Eye, Got One Eye!"
Ask it what time it is, then when it looks at its wrist, hit it with a hammer.
Rename it Old Yeller. Dad'll put it down, while you weep into your dusty wool shirt.
Just put a Democrat on it! It will be sure to 'mysteriously' crash, probably in a wooded area full of hippies.
I played chess all the time with pals about 10 years ago. We were all at about the same level of bad. I thought I would prove my chess-skilz one day and played some guy at the local coffeeshop. After 3 moves, I was checkmated. My middle eastern opponent turned to my friend and said, "Your friend is stupid. I will not play him again.", swept all the pieces off the board, got up, shook his head and left.
That stung. So You Go Gary! I must live vicariously through you! Kick some ass! Then I must go back to OS X gnuChess which mocks me every time I play, "You are stupid. I will not play you again."