comment moderation?
Newspapers don't publish every single letter that gets sent to them so I'm not sure why ever comment posted needs to even be published.
Oh yeah I know someone is going to say that's abridging someone's speech but fuck it...It's a blog, not a democracy.
at least among Open Source advocates. The beauty of OSS, and SCO has better thank their lucky stars, is that OSS is forgiving. It doesn't matter that SCO has been a bunch of dicks in the pst, they can still redeem themselves.... maybe
I am embarking on my two year bike journey/documentary. You can see it at worldcyclist.com
What I am using is a 3 CCD chip (A MUST!) Panasonic PV-GS120 (the 150 has replaced it). It has a few drawbacks, no deal breakers though. It has a cinema-like mode, not true 16:9 shooting. It does have a stereo mike input which, with 2 Radio Shack lavaliere mono mikes and a stereo y connector, works pretty good for interview subjects.
Before buying any Mini-DV get the manual from Amazon, you can download them usually.
Before you know it people will beat down a path to your door if you have a good idea. I have a proven Emmy winning director assembling mine, the book already optioned and a sponsorship from Sugoi apparel
I also smoked for 20 years, am slightly overweight and am 39 years old. No one is more surprised than me.
With a P/E of 110, GOOG buying anything huge (like ebay) would be similar to AOL buying Time Warner. We saw what happened there, all of the irrational exuberance of the dot coms crashing and AOL becoming a shadow of itself and becoming a subsidiary of it's purchasee.
Not that GOOG isn't profitable (and only will go up up in the future thanks to their BRILLIANT, calculated moves) but it's probably WAY overpriced right now. eBay on the other hand makes money from so many ways through it's auction service and float money from Paypal plus eBay has had the time to be subjected to market correction.
GOOG stock is set to be corrected to reality anytime now. It's gonna be ripe for the shorting soon.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Like Pets.com. Sure pet stuff by mail seems like a good idea but are people really going to go for it? Will people REALLY pay for shipping on a 25 lbs bag of food? Does it fill THAT much of a void? Probably not.
Linux will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
melts and milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on
your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play. It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.
It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there's company
coming over. It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and
interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck
in traffic. Linux will make you fall in love with a hardened
pedophile. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will
replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while
your current boy/girlfriend is dating behind your back and billing their
hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will seduce your grandmother.
It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Linux, it
reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
Linux will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full
bathtub. It will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and
pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole. It is insidious and
subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather
interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs. Be afraid. Be
very, very afraid. Windows is so much safer.
The weak spot in the credibility is always..."Microsoft commissioned report".
(Apologies to Laika)
If you REALLY want to make a statement fellow/.er immediately cancel your Sys-Con subscriptions. Then go a step further to discourage others from wasting their money on Sys-Con publications.
After all these folks who resigned are geeks of high knowledge and high moral fiber who are making the ultimate sacrifice for OUR community and on behalf of one our most important members. They are standing up for what's right. They are standing up for Groklaw. We need to stand up for them.
They gave up their jobs for reasons the right reasons. If there is a time to hit Sys-Con where it hurts it's now and financially.
It's not just about standing up for our own, it's also about letting these folks know that the/. community is behind them 100% and will not stand for this lightly.
There's a special place in heaven for PJ and the LinuxWorld Senior Editorial Staff.
Here I was ready to give Sys-Con the benefit of the doubt since they fire MOG but fuck it! This interview only proves that they aren't sorry, they do NOT see the err of MOGs ways.
If MOGs story WERE legitimate and they fired MOG not because of her story but because of it's unpopularity then that too would be mucho unethical.
Throw Sys-Con and it's publications into your meat/cyber space equivalent of a kill file.
Period.
She is no longer at RIAA, whatever she thinks is irrelevent. No one gives a shit Hilary about your opinion now.
You may mod me down now with extreme prejudice.
Karma is no fun if you can't burn some occasionally.
but as people get more and more accepting of OSS the more we'll see it. Who would've guessed 7 or 8 years ago that there would be an exodus of entire governments switching to OSS?
Software is becoming a commodity in functionality. As an example Word became all anybody needed with Version 97. M$, as an ongoing business concern needs to keep selling upgraded software even if the new features are things you don't need. This isn't something that OSS suffers from. If it ever gets the bugs out completely Open Office is set to become much more important. After all why keep upgrading M$ stuff when you don't need to? (Munich anyone?)
If we ever see Google embrace Open Office and champion OSS then it could become a viable threat to M$, the likes of which M$ hasn't seen.
OSS has been making great inroads these last few years and sadly it is not going away as much as M$ would love to see happen. M$ just needs to learn the lesson that IBM did. As time goes by you have to evolve from a company that creates standards to one that contributes to them. The past is littered with the carnage of companies who did not learn this.
Steven Newman's site theworldwalker.com. He is listed as the first man to WALK around the world. It took him 4 years and his book "Worldwalk" is a GREAT read (Order it and he'll autograph it and send it back to you).
He wrote a series of letters that were sent back and published in newspapers and all of them are being republished in their entirety on his web site right now.
Ironically he also ended up having a Japanese businessman to name a whole line of sporting goods after him.
in many areas not just software. This time it's a business model being threatened which starts the FUD just like MS does with Linux.
Verizon is evil generally and since having cable modem and Vonage I haven't paid a bill to them in at least two years. The charity I volunteer just switched to Vonage from Verizon and they are saving a couple of hundred a month.
Verizon has many reasons to be upset but technology marches on. You can't control everything. Learn a lesson from MS and their attempts to FUD Linux.
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comment moderation? Newspapers don't publish every single letter that gets sent to them so I'm not sure why ever comment posted needs to even be published. Oh yeah I know someone is going to say that's abridging someone's speech but fuck it...It's a blog, not a democracy.
but I live in the ghetto you insensitive clod!!!!!
Google probably has 'em beat. If Google offered the same number of services they'd probably beat them handily.
with your pet already then he'll know what he can and can't do. Which is why you should buy this first
Yep that's exactly the point I was making.
at least among Open Source advocates. The beauty of OSS, and SCO has better thank their lucky stars, is that OSS is forgiving. It doesn't matter that SCO has been a bunch of dicks in the pst, they can still redeem themselves.... maybe
The Panasonic line.
I am embarking on my two year bike journey/documentary. You can see it at worldcyclist.com
What I am using is a 3 CCD chip (A MUST!) Panasonic PV-GS120 (the 150 has replaced it). It has a few drawbacks, no deal breakers though. It has a cinema-like mode, not true 16:9 shooting. It does have a stereo mike input which, with 2 Radio Shack lavaliere mono mikes and a stereo y connector, works pretty good for interview subjects.
Before buying any Mini-DV get the manual from Amazon, you can download them usually.
Before you know it people will beat down a path to your door if you have a good idea. I have a proven Emmy winning director assembling mine, the book already optioned and a sponsorship from Sugoi apparel
I also smoked for 20 years, am slightly overweight and am 39 years old. No one is more surprised than me.
With a P/E of 110, GOOG buying anything huge (like ebay) would be similar to AOL buying Time Warner. We saw what happened there, all of the irrational exuberance of the dot coms crashing and AOL becoming a shadow of itself and becoming a subsidiary of it's purchasee.
Not that GOOG isn't profitable (and only will go up up in the future thanks to their BRILLIANT, calculated moves) but it's probably WAY overpriced right now. eBay on the other hand makes money from so many ways through it's auction service and float money from Paypal plus eBay has had the time to be subjected to market correction.
GOOG stock is set to be corrected to reality anytime now. It's gonna be ripe for the shorting soon.
Wow! Well that certainly sums it up....
Patriotism is unqualified support for your country always and for politicians when they deserve it.
Mark Twain I believe?
appreciate any techniques you may want to offer on how to phish out honey. Damn bear always getting his head stuck.....
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Like Pets.com. Sure pet stuff by mail seems like a good idea but are people really going to go for it? Will people REALLY pay for shipping on a 25 lbs bag of food? Does it fill THAT much of a void? Probably not.
Here's what else the Microsoft report found....
Linux will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play. It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic. Linux will make you fall in love with a hardened pedophile. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while your current boy/girlfriend is dating behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Linux, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear. Linux will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Windows is so much safer.
The weak spot in the credibility is always..."Microsoft commissioned report".
(Apologies to Laika)
Journalism in America died years ago. All it's about now is finding the appropriate outlet that will validate one's views. (Fox news for example)...
Dvorak isn't a journalist, he's now a media whore who used to be a journalist.
I know that most folks are familiar with the Linux vs. Windows debate but look who could get replaced easier....Solaris.
A case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Maybe......
If you REALLY want to make a statement fellow /.er immediately cancel your Sys-Con subscriptions. Then go a step further to discourage others from wasting their money on Sys-Con publications.
/. community is behind them 100% and will not stand for this lightly.
After all these folks who resigned are geeks of high knowledge and high moral fiber who are making the ultimate sacrifice for OUR community and on behalf of one our most important members. They are standing up for what's right. They are standing up for Groklaw. We need to stand up for them.
They gave up their jobs for reasons the right reasons. If there is a time to hit Sys-Con where it hurts it's now and financially.
It's not just about standing up for our own, it's also about letting these folks know that the
There's a special place in heaven for PJ and the LinuxWorld Senior Editorial Staff.
Here I was ready to give Sys-Con the benefit of the doubt since they fire MOG but fuck it! This interview only proves that they aren't sorry, they do NOT see the err of MOGs ways.
If MOGs story WERE legitimate and they fired MOG not because of her story but because of it's unpopularity then that too would be mucho unethical.
Throw Sys-Con and it's publications into your meat/cyber space equivalent of a kill file.
No braces.....
OK, now it works.....
Period.
She is no longer at RIAA, whatever she thinks is irrelevent. No one gives a shit Hilary about your opinion now.
You may mod me down now with extreme prejudice. Karma is no fun if you can't burn some occasionally.
but as people get more and more accepting of OSS the more we'll see it. Who would've guessed 7 or 8 years ago that there would be an exodus of entire governments switching to OSS? Software is becoming a commodity in functionality. As an example Word became all anybody needed with Version 97. M$, as an ongoing business concern needs to keep selling upgraded software even if the new features are things you don't need. This isn't something that OSS suffers from. If it ever gets the bugs out completely Open Office is set to become much more important. After all why keep upgrading M$ stuff when you don't need to? (Munich anyone?)
If we ever see Google embrace Open Office and champion OSS then it could become a viable threat to M$, the likes of which M$ hasn't seen.
OSS has been making great inroads these last few years and sadly it is not going away as much as M$ would love to see happen. M$ just needs to learn the lesson that IBM did. As time goes by you have to evolve from a company that creates standards to one that contributes to them. The past is littered with the carnage of companies who did not learn this.
Not that M$ will ever go away.
Sending your calls over VoIP is more difficult to tap. Wiretaps grew by 19% last year (pops new window) and not a one was turned down.
VoIP is much tougher to tap by comparison. Remember kids, "Terrorism" is the new "Communism"(tm)
This is my friend's site (also in the .sig). He begins an around the world bike trip in July for a documentary and he has built one hell of a mapping routine for his site.
He's using NASA's data and Perl.
but Groklaw DOES cheerfully accept donations. I'm also sure that you went over and gave P.J. at least a couple of bucks didn't you? Didn't you?
You know folks the cure for FUD is an informed populace. God Bless you PJ. There is a place in heaven for you.
Steven Newman's site theworldwalker.com. He is listed as the first man to WALK around the world. It took him 4 years and his book "Worldwalk" is a GREAT read (Order it and he'll autograph it and send it back to you).
He wrote a series of letters that were sent back and published in newspapers and all of them are being republished in their entirety on his web site right now.
Ironically he also ended up having a Japanese businessman to name a whole line of sporting goods after him.
Sadly there is no way I can mod this up to 10- Insightful
in many areas not just software. This time it's a business model being threatened which starts the FUD just like MS does with Linux.
Verizon is evil generally and since having cable modem and Vonage I haven't paid a bill to them in at least two years. The charity I volunteer just switched to Vonage from Verizon and they are saving a couple of hundred a month.
Verizon has many reasons to be upset but technology marches on. You can't control everything. Learn a lesson from MS and their attempts to FUD Linux.