China is currently facing the dilemma of joining the world community yet somehow
maintaining it's authoritarian (yes they are still communist) government.
Communism itself can't tolerate any kinds of rivals whatsoever. This
extends to churches like the inability of Tibetans to display pictures
of the Dalai Lama to the fact that Chinese Catholics cannot be loyal to
the Pope (he is not a Chinese National and therefore verboten).
Other Chinese intolerances include banning Falun Gong which commands
hearts and minds of a huge number of Chinese and is therefore an enemy
of communist ideology even though it's a relatively benign movement.
It should be no suprise that the Chinese want to develop their own standards:
using Microsoft for everything would basically put China in a position of
having their tech infrastructure being run by a foreign power. This is merely an
example and of course it's easy to pick on Microsoft but this idea extends to all
ideas that have their standard determined and dictated somewhere else other
than by the <SARCASM>glorious Chinese communists.</SARCASM>
Under communism there is no such thing as intellectual property rights
unless you are the State. Communism cannot afford any kinds of rivals whatsoever,
such is the nature of authoritarian regimes be them communist or otherwise.
I'm no conspiricy theorist, but did anyone notice that IBM - effectively the Microsoft of the 80s - has become the geek hero of the age?
Sure, this has cost them lots of $$, but they are going to emerge the champions of tech geeks the world over.
There's nothing to stop Microsoft from becoming a company that geeks could love. They just need to learn the painful lesson that IBM learned (eventually): how to transition from a company that makes standards to becoming a company that contributes to them.
Don't get a cell phone. Not only will you not get annoying calls but you also won't be one of the lucky recipents to get a brain tumor 20 years from now. Oh you know it's coming.......
I have the Visor with the collapsible keyboard and
I used to take that with me for my travel writing and although it worked
ok it kept crashing like crazy. I bought a Psion 5 on eBay and it ROCKS! Comes with a keyboard ( a little small
but usable ) built in voice recorder. Notably it takes a standard
CF card and I shoved a 40 something meg card into it. It comes with
reasonable versions of Word, thesaurus, spell checker, etc and it works
great. I even have an Ethernet adaptor for it.
You can see see the eBay Psion 5 stuff here. Runs on two AA batteries.
I wouldn't have thought to get one but I got the recommendation from
Robert Young Pelton author of the World's Most Dangerous Places. If it's
good enough for him....
Here's something to think about, the DMCA isn't just for
big mega corporations. Put together a private peer-to-peer network
using some kind of encryption and use a trusted invitation
method (like maybe Orkut) to invite people.
Protect your network communications under provisions of the DMCA.
Obviously if the DMCA knows what you're trading then THEY are violating
the DMCA because the only way they would know is if they somehow got
on and broke encryption.
Someone more technically more adept should be able to figure out how
to pull this off but there HAS to be a way to establish a peer to
peer network (which is still legal) and protect it via the DMCA.
He is one of the few members of Congress who actually gets it. He consistently comes up with workable solutions for
the consumer.
Maybe it's because he's not a well paid off lapdog like DMCA originator Orrin Hatch who so far this year has taken over $157,000 from the TV/Music/Movies industry (It's only May for crying out loud!)
Insert Jack Valenti "Boston Strangler" reference here.
I'd be more concerned. They pretty much blew their credibility wad the last time they put out an "open source is evil" report and it turns out that they were taking money from M$.
In all the zest and zeal to give away free software through libraries (see previous/. stories), maybe the next step is to now entice libraries themselves with an initiative to install this on all of their machines. For free...
"The official naughty-keyword list displays a conservative bias that labels any Web address with "gay" in them as verboten--a decision that affects thousands of Web sites that deal with gay and lesbian issues, as well as DioceseOfGaylord.org, a Roman Catholic site.
What? Never heard of...
push @naughtywords, $banned =~ m/gay\./
?
I can't speak for Douglas Adams but Chuck Jones' entire enterprise is handled by
his lovely daughter Linda who literally busts her butt to run everything. That's hardly a
"staff". Chuck would have been content to never have drawn another cel or market
anything but thank heavens Linda suggested it.
Frankly as far as data and death are concerned most of you/.ers reading this should be concerned
with one thing: finding a porn erase buddy and give them a housekey and all of your passwords.
The idea is that if you die unexpectedly your porn erase buddy will go into your machine, clear your machine of all the pornographic files. In addition you can also have him/her to clear out your conventional
meatspace porn so your Momma will still highly of you even after you're gone.
Automated Computer: Good morning shopper, I see the pack of ultra ribbed, extra small condoms in your pocket is still full and you bought them quite some time ago. Not getting any?
The stock price is down almost 5% today on the AutoZone news. IBM is starting their full court press with the attorneys and one of their bigger investors (Baystar) is VERY unhappy with them.
Buy SCO stock (Nasdaq: SCOX), the time to short is now! You just know it's gonna drop further especially when Daimler comes out with their legal response.
invented litigating you out of business. SCO kicked up enough dust to raise their stock price temporarily but several events have signalled that SCO is headed fast to their inevitable end.....
1. Plunging stock price
2. The Baystar admissions
If you are thinking of buying SCO stock, do it to short it. It only goes down from here.
See ya in hell Darl.
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China is currently facing the dilemma of joining the world community yet somehow maintaining it's authoritarian (yes they are still communist) government. Communism itself can't tolerate any kinds of rivals whatsoever. This extends to churches like the inability of Tibetans to display pictures of the Dalai Lama to the fact that Chinese Catholics cannot be loyal to the Pope (he is not a Chinese National and therefore verboten). Other Chinese intolerances include banning Falun Gong which commands hearts and minds of a huge number of Chinese and is therefore an enemy of communist ideology even though it's a relatively benign movement.
It should be no suprise that the Chinese want to develop their own standards: using Microsoft for everything would basically put China in a position of having their tech infrastructure being run by a foreign power. This is merely an example and of course it's easy to pick on Microsoft but this idea extends to all ideas that have their standard determined and dictated somewhere else other than by the <SARCASM>glorious Chinese communists.</SARCASM>
Under communism there is no such thing as intellectual property rights unless you are the State. Communism cannot afford any kinds of rivals whatsoever, such is the nature of authoritarian regimes be them communist or otherwise.
this thing used an OS... What? I forgot the "M"? How about a big O?
I'm no conspiricy theorist, but did anyone notice that IBM - effectively the Microsoft of the 80s - has become the geek hero of the age?
Sure, this has cost them lots of $$, but they are going to emerge the champions of tech geeks the world over.
There's nothing to stop Microsoft from becoming a company that geeks could love. They just need to learn the painful lesson that IBM learned (eventually): how to transition from a company that makes standards to becoming a company that contributes to them.
It's a tour of an abandoned missile silo. Pretty kool. Don't try this at home (well unless your home IS a missile silo).
Don't get a cell phone. Not only will you not get annoying calls but you also won't be one of the lucky recipents to get a brain tumor 20 years from now. Oh you know it's coming.......
Really does anything more need to be said?
AdTI.
They have been proven to be on the take, they put out error ridden papers and they can't even manage to put together a respectable website.
Giving them press everytime they write some bone headed paper that M$ paid for is wasting time and giving them undue publicity.
Ok you can now start modding me down.
I have the Visor with the collapsible keyboard and I used to take that with me for my travel writing and although it worked ok it kept crashing like crazy. I bought a Psion 5 on eBay and it ROCKS! Comes with a keyboard ( a little small but usable ) built in voice recorder. Notably it takes a standard CF card and I shoved a 40 something meg card into it. It comes with reasonable versions of Word, thesaurus, spell checker, etc and it works great. I even have an Ethernet adaptor for it.
You can see see the eBay Psion 5 stuff here. Runs on two AA batteries. I wouldn't have thought to get one but I got the recommendation from Robert Young Pelton author of the World's Most Dangerous Places. If it's good enough for him....
Angel of Haarlem..... U2
(But don't download it you devils)
Here's something to think about, the DMCA isn't just for big mega corporations. Put together a private peer-to-peer network using some kind of encryption and use a trusted invitation method (like maybe Orkut) to invite people.
Protect your network communications under provisions of the DMCA. Obviously if the DMCA knows what you're trading then THEY are violating the DMCA because the only way they would know is if they somehow got on and broke encryption.
Someone more technically more adept should be able to figure out how to pull this off but there HAS to be a way to establish a peer to peer network (which is still legal) and protect it via the DMCA.
He is one of the few members of Congress who actually gets it. He consistently comes up with workable solutions for the consumer.
Maybe it's because he's not a well paid off lapdog like DMCA originator Orrin Hatch who so far this year has taken over $157,000 from the TV/Music/Movies industry (It's only May for crying out loud!)
Insert Jack Valenti "Boston Strangler" reference here.
The blue screen of death will blend right in with the water!
Brilliant!
I'd be more concerned. They pretty much blew their credibility wad the last time they put out an "open source is evil" report and it turns out that they were taking money from M$.
Sadly they are giving their namesake a bad name.
To win radio trivia call in contests a few years ago. Using Google to answer trivia just like in Ghost World.
In all the zest and zeal to give away free software through libraries (see previous /. stories), maybe the next step is to now entice libraries themselves with an initiative to install this on all of their machines. For free...
640K was enough for anyone. Reckon not....
We got to the moon on less computing power than a Commodore 64 and Longhorn needs 2 Gigs o RAM. Amazing.
"The official naughty-keyword list displays a conservative bias that labels any Web address with "gay" in them as verboten--a decision that affects thousands of Web sites that deal with gay and lesbian issues, as well as DioceseOfGaylord.org, a Roman Catholic site.
...
What? Never heard of
push @naughtywords, $banned =~ m/gay\./
?
I can't speak for Douglas Adams but Chuck Jones' entire enterprise is handled by his lovely daughter Linda who literally busts her butt to run everything. That's hardly a "staff". Chuck would have been content to never have drawn another cel or market anything but thank heavens Linda suggested it.
/.ers reading this should be concerned
with one thing: finding a porn erase buddy and give them a housekey and all of your passwords.
The idea is that if you die unexpectedly your porn erase buddy will go into your machine, clear your machine of all the pornographic files. In addition you can also have him/her to clear out your conventional
meatspace porn so your Momma will still highly of you even after you're gone.
Timothy Leary is another good example of dedicated fans who keep the site running after he died and an even better example is Peter McWilliams who put the entire text of all of his books online before he passed on. I recommend Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do. The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Country.
Frankly as far as data and death are concerned most of you
What do they all have in common?
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1. None of them can tolerate rivals of any kind
2. None of them can withstand nor allow any kind of questioning
(You may mod me down now..flames |
It's part of their FAQ. Hee hee
Guess someone took 'em up on it...
Automated Computer: Good morning shopper, I see the pack of ultra ribbed, extra small condoms in your pocket is still full and you bought them quite some time ago. Not getting any?
See our special on blow up dolls on aisle 21.
The stock price is down almost 5% today on the AutoZone news. IBM is starting their full court press with the attorneys and one of their bigger investors (Baystar) is VERY unhappy with them.
Buy SCO stock (Nasdaq: SCOX), the time to short is now! You just know it's gonna drop further especially when Daimler comes out with their legal response.
The downside is that you have to leave Boston. Well one of many downsides......
invented litigating you out of business. SCO kicked up enough dust to raise their stock price temporarily but several events have signalled that SCO is headed fast to their inevitable end.....
1. Plunging stock price
2. The Baystar admissions
If you are thinking of buying SCO stock, do it to short it. It only goes down from here. See ya in hell Darl.
reaching for the Kleenex,.....err tissues. There's nothing worse than when someone takes your idea and Xerox.... err copies it.