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yep, its lame alright
actually, its kindof a running joke on the cobalt users mailing list. seems the thing always points out lame (acutally more accurately, non-autoritative) dns servers.
Re:Corporate America is modern Feudalism
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"For every moron who invested in some crappy dot-com, some crappy energy company, or some stupidly overvalue pet store, there is someone like myself who invests in guaranteed instruments. Savings bonds. I am going to retire a million in 40 years at the age of 61. It doesn't take much: $150 a month or so."
Look dude, i truly do find that admirable. However, i think the two of you are going to extremes.
Yes, in some distinctive ways American Business is like feudalism (i read a title i can't recall with the same theme, but talking about the 70's), with legal privelege of the few (see the music business and Duke Valenti of the RIAA). This is simply a natural consequence of market forces that tolerated the intense consolidation of American business from the early 80's through present. If Americans really didn't like lower prices for more goods, it wouldn't have worked. It did however set the stage for today's catastrophes by consolodating immense power in a proportional few.
On the other hand. The everyday investor earned more than ever before to buy goods that grew cheaper each year. The whole country went along on the drunken orgy (see above comment), and it approved so long as tommorrow morning, and the hangover (now) never came. Still, people who have faith that the USA will not become Argentina and default on our debt (which it did do in the early days) and make those savings bonds of yours worth less than enron stock (still highly unlikely today).
There is however one important idea that you, my patient, steady, long-term investing friend of mine, did not grasp.
You may have your million dollars in forty years, but it will be worth the same as 100,000 today. Meanwhile, these people of corporate privelege (like the M$ guy, or Bernie Ebbers $400 million!), who get away with it are rich with UnEarned income.
Some of my hosting clients see what I do as unearned, because i'm not sending out their html pages by hand. Meanwhile, i invest massive amounts of time improving daily. These CEOs who have on average 5.5 million dollars today and leave take the cake for the sum total of a couple of years of coasting on reputation.
In conclusion. If Feudalism is the extreme right and your anti-anti-everything rant is the left. Our country is dangerously far to the right. You may dispute this assesment, but historically, American politics today are closer to fascism than they have ever been (driven by George W). Our Senate passed a war resolution quickly to get to a far more important election. It is truly disturbing.
lets face it people, we'll never see such a drunken orgy again, while we're still young enough to enjoy it!
shoot man, when else will we find companies like InternetCash.com ???
These bozos ran around giving out samples of their "product" at awards shows for media outlets I've never heard of and lavish galas like their New Years y2k party. That one they rented an entire hotel on south beach, and got Perry Farrell and Mixmaster Mic to come and play. And play we did:) Free booze, grub, women, and . . . Their f%^& product was cash! They were just running around giving it away!
"As part of Ballmer's plan to woo open-source users, Microsoft is sponsoring Web sites to provide advice to developers and let them pool resources."
Yeah right! nda on everything, paid liscensing you can't read without an nda. then they steal your open protocol because its got pieces of their code. no thanks m$
wow, scary stuff. why doesn't the nsa lend them some SELinux technology to help out?
ok, i know, m$ wants them out of open source development. M$ spurns innovation, right?
gs
anyhow, i've seen stuff about win2k being used in military gear in 2008. i'm sure m$ will make it available to the military when they want it. they'll pay for it, after all, M$ is about the $.
Some programs can't be merged into the new system. They are either too antiquated to be compatible with the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system or aren't in compliance with security requirements.
Are they seriously going to use Win2k? What about security? This article doesn't really say much about the new system, just problems with the existing stuff.
Seems to me that they have acheived what M$ always holds as its triumphantly successful (hahaha) security through obscurity system. Why change now? (snicker)
omni web is a finished product, and the extension of many, many years of development by Omni Products. comparing it to Chimera is unfair. lets put it this way:
i used to use OmniWeb on my NeXT cube in 1996 when it was far faster than Netscrape.
Chimera is incomplete, and crashy, but very impressive and cat quick. If only it had a close tab icon.
either way, we win in this one.
gs
i once heard democracy described as the tyranny of the masses over the bourgeousie. ok, too many history classes, i know.
however, it seems to keep away the sort of political violence (even here in miami, where i live, and the Center for Democracy is coming to observe the Nov. 5 vote, like we're Costa Rica or something), that is commonplace throughout the world in places like Jamaica.
its our cross to bear. the dark side is hard to see, so we must watch its every step closely. sorry for the mixed metaphor. unfortunately, the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad press". to which i add, "there's no such thing as an IIS server that can't be/.'d in under 10 seconds".
my.02
"This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing," Spitzer said in a statement. "Our agreement will provide consumers with substantial refunds and result in the distribution of a wide variety of recordings for use in our schools and communities."
okay, five years of price fixing is only a measly $75 mil? i find it hard to believe. then again, the big five live in the land of make believe. and i'm going to continue to only buy CD's when i visit (never). this is a good time to support local artists like monkeyvillage.com and buy homegrown music.
being a die-hard *nix user, seeing stuff like this cracks me up . . . . check out what netcraft says they're serving the page announcing the win2k ban on.
If we mandate Open Source in government all of us will benefit! Not that Open Source is always gratis, but think of the savings in the great beaurocratic halls of waste, $800 a head for Windows and MS Office, when OpenOffice would suffice.
I'm in Miami, where we have the most corrupt government in the USA. Our county manager was bought by Oracle, who after a year of committees and studies and what have you, chose them over PeopleSoft to create a county wide database.
The difference in cost was quite a few millions, not chump change. What made the episode even more shameful, was that the county's DBAs recommended the PeopleSoft system!
Fact, Open Source is typically a less expensive liscencing option. That's your money they're spending.
http://homepage.mac.com/hteric/FileSharing1.html
Also has compression in utility. Uses built in SSL to create blowfish or triple des encrypted files. Not so elegant as the image, but more shareable.
What a wonderful M$ idea. Now that they've killed that idea of.NET and everyone giving all their info to M$ for (not)safe keeping. Now that M$ has given up on.NET to SAVE THE WORLD. Now that M$ has launched the trustworthy computing initiative. Now M$ is wonderful and secure. I want them to have my balls, credit card and addresss. NOT
Now they come along with this bullshit! Its just a repackaged Hailstorm. The public has vetoed this once. I am shakily confident they will again. We need to help. I said that this was a them or us issue in the last post about this shit. Make sure its us.
Geez, this sounds like a nice rehashed Hailstorm to me. M$ wants to introduce more big brother ware to its vapid platform, AT WHAT ADDITIONAL COST??? Not that I really care, my mac and linux webserver have a security solution that works without hardware taht will only work "if we ship 100 MILLION" peice of shit privacy invaders, because we all know that M$ will abuse this with their EULA to learn litterally everything you do. This will be the death of them, or us.
Thank you santa jobs for giving us users with old boxes something to cheer. supporting hardware acceleration for old ati 2d graphics has given my machine a new lease on life! i'm switching to X for good now! photoshop ran fast and smoooooooothe. . . .
Ok, so your selected projects reflected a dearth of principles. What that does not reveal is the place of the super-user audience in OSS. The users who deploy open-source software are the QA department that most commercial companies, especially Microsoft, leave off the payroll.
I'm mainly a web developer and I can tell you that QA for even a small website can be a long, boring tedious process. A process which when performed by intelligent and industrious individuals makes the difference between a lump of crapware (windows, iis) and a stable, secure product (ssh, apache, mysql)...
Don't underestimate the power of the QA!!!!
What makes these guys think that a device larger than the old Newton is going to hit it big? All the old whining about the newton was that it was too big! Has Bill Gates lost his marketing touch this year or what? Xbox, new Newton, XP. All a big bunch of crap. I think M$ hired the Apple marketing department when they invested in the company.
Not that I'm complaining or anything. If they just keep it up for a few years (crossing fingers) they will pull an Apple and fade into tech hell (we can dream, can't we). I guess they'll go down kicking and screaming, after all they have 40 billion in the bank, or whatever.
The most wonderful thing about a nice Apache server on a *nix based platform is how it treats files. It won't alter your file information or harm your contents. With Apache 2, you have webdav, in addition to basically anything else you need like the ability to serve on a port other than 80, or nfs, samba, ftp. Plenty of network permission on everything. Perfect for internet, intranet deployment. I keep saying it, eventually somenone's going to listen.
How can anyone be surprised that a company who's main source of revenue for 80 years was a monopoly is all the sudden acting against its consumers once again.
Wake UP This is how they operate, and have for DECADES.
If you disagree, then take your business elsewhere. Get DSL, get Satellite, or, better yet, get your cable guy to hook you up. But quit whining.
It might suck, but that's life! (I just love saying that while i'm ranting).
http://www.phprojekt.com
I have this running to support a 200 unit condominium building. Its the best, has all the tools you need to organize a global team including incredible language support (course we know about the English thing). Good luck and . . . . .
Thanks Albrecht
(he made it mainly)
I run OS X on my old iMac 400 SE. It has grown faster and more responsive with every update installed. The IE browser, default here, is very good, and packed with easy to use features. I still use Opera, Chimera, Mozilla and others on occasion to see if its time to switch.
M$ IE still has the most support and consistency, today.
But M$ IE has never been a speed demon. Would you rather Apple use M$ reasoning in building the new system? Make the UI and video games blast, FUCK people who work on the machine! That's the M$ way, and thank you apple for making a killer OS. I'll wait for my pages to load slower, thank you.
ps. Chimera is lightning fast, too bad there's not plugin support, yet.
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yep, its lame alright
actually, its kindof a running joke on the cobalt users mailing list. seems the thing always points out lame (acutally more accurately, non-autoritative) dns servers.
Look dude, i truly do find that admirable. However, i think the two of you are going to extremes.
Yes, in some distinctive ways American Business is like feudalism (i read a title i can't recall with the same theme, but talking about the 70's), with legal privelege of the few (see the music business and Duke Valenti of the RIAA). This is simply a natural consequence of market forces that tolerated the intense consolidation of American business from the early 80's through present. If Americans really didn't like lower prices for more goods, it wouldn't have worked. It did however set the stage for today's catastrophes by consolodating immense power in a proportional few.
On the other hand. The everyday investor earned more than ever before to buy goods that grew cheaper each year. The whole country went along on the drunken orgy (see above comment), and it approved so long as tommorrow morning, and the hangover (now) never came. Still, people who have faith that the USA will not become Argentina and default on our debt (which it did do in the early days) and make those savings bonds of yours worth less than enron stock (still highly unlikely today).
There is however one important idea that you, my patient, steady, long-term investing friend of mine, did not grasp.
You may have your million dollars in forty years, but it will be worth the same as 100,000 today. Meanwhile, these people of corporate privelege (like the M$ guy, or Bernie Ebbers $400 million!), who get away with it are rich with UnEarned income.
Some of my hosting clients see what I do as unearned, because i'm not sending out their html pages by hand. Meanwhile, i invest massive amounts of time improving daily. These CEOs who have on average 5.5 million dollars today and leave take the cake for the sum total of a couple of years of coasting on reputation.
In conclusion. If Feudalism is the extreme right and your anti-anti-everything rant is the left. Our country is dangerously far to the right. You may dispute this assesment, but historically, American politics today are closer to fascism than they have ever been (driven by George W). Our Senate passed a war resolution quickly to get to a far more important election. It is truly disturbing.
gs
shoot man, when else will we find companies like InternetCash.com ???
These bozos ran around giving out samples of their "product" at awards shows for media outlets I've never heard of and lavish galas like their New Years y2k party. That one they rented an entire hotel on south beach, and got Perry Farrell and Mixmaster Mic to come and play. And play we did :) Free booze, grub, women, and . . . Their f%^& product was cash! They were just running around giving it away!
oh well, back to my personal austerity program
gs
Yeah right! nda on everything, paid liscensing you can't read without an nda. then they steal your open protocol because its got pieces of their code. no thanks m$
gs
wow, scary stuff. why doesn't the nsa lend them some SELinux technology to help out?
ok, i know, m$ wants them out of open source development. M$ spurns innovation, right?
gs
http://mah.www4.50megs.com/jokes/wince.html
anyhow, i've seen stuff about win2k being used in military gear in 2008. i'm sure m$ will make it available to the military when they want it. they'll pay for it, after all, M$ is about the $.
Are they seriously going to use Win2k? What about security? This article doesn't really say much about the new system, just problems with the existing stuff.
Seems to me that they have acheived what M$ always holds as its triumphantly successful (hahaha) security through obscurity system. Why change now? (snicker)
gs
omni web is a finished product, and the extension of many, many years of development by Omni Products. comparing it to Chimera is unfair. lets put it this way: i used to use OmniWeb on my NeXT cube in 1996 when it was far faster than Netscrape. Chimera is incomplete, and crashy, but very impressive and cat quick. If only it had a close tab icon. either way, we win in this one. gs
definately the fastest build i've used to date. running on mac os x jaguar. get it if you don't got it already.
i once heard democracy described as the tyranny of the masses over the bourgeousie. ok, too many history classes, i know.
however, it seems to keep away the sort of political violence (even here in miami, where i live, and the Center for Democracy is coming to observe the Nov. 5 vote, like we're Costa Rica or something), that is commonplace throughout the world in places like Jamaica.
my little iMac is tweaked like crazy. ok, yes, i miss the appearance manager, but it's still a putty like system.
its our cross to bear. the dark side is hard to see, so we must watch its every step closely. sorry for the mixed metaphor. unfortunately, the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad press". to which i add, "there's no such thing as an IIS server that can't be /.'d in under 10 seconds".
my .02
"This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing," Spitzer said in a statement. "Our agreement will provide consumers with substantial refunds and result in the distribution of a wide variety of recordings for use in our schools and communities." okay, five years of price fixing is only a measly $75 mil? i find it hard to believe. then again, the big five live in the land of make believe. and i'm going to continue to only buy CD's when i visit (never). this is a good time to support local artists like monkeyvillage.com and buy homegrown music.
being a die-hard *nix user, seeing stuff like this cracks me up . . . . check out what netcraft says they're serving the page announcing the win2k ban on.
typical
If we mandate Open Source in government all of us will benefit! Not that Open Source is always gratis, but think of the savings in the great beaurocratic halls of waste, $800 a head for Windows and MS Office, when OpenOffice would suffice.
I'm in Miami, where we have the most corrupt government in the USA. Our county manager was bought by Oracle, who after a year of committees and studies and what have you, chose them over PeopleSoft to create a county wide database.
The difference in cost was quite a few millions, not chump change. What made the episode even more shameful, was that the county's DBAs recommended the PeopleSoft system!
Fact, Open Source is typically a less expensive liscencing option. That's your money they're spending.
http://homepage.mac.com/hteric/FileSharing1.html Also has compression in utility. Uses built in SSL to create blowfish or triple des encrypted files. Not so elegant as the image, but more shareable.
What a wonderful M$ idea. Now that they've killed that idea of .NET and everyone giving all their info to M$ for (not)safe keeping. Now that M$ has given up on .NET to SAVE THE WORLD. Now that M$ has launched the trustworthy computing initiative. Now M$ is wonderful and secure. I want them to have my balls, credit card and addresss. NOT
Now they come along with this bullshit! Its just a repackaged Hailstorm. The public has vetoed this once. I am shakily confident they will again. We need to help. I said that this was a them or us issue in the last post about this shit. Make sure its us.
Geez, this sounds like a nice rehashed Hailstorm to me. M$ wants to introduce more big brother ware to its vapid platform, AT WHAT ADDITIONAL COST??? Not that I really care, my mac and linux webserver have a security solution that works without hardware taht will only work "if we ship 100 MILLION" peice of shit privacy invaders, because we all know that M$ will abuse this with their EULA to learn litterally everything you do. This will be the death of them, or us.
Thank you santa jobs for giving us users with old boxes something to cheer. supporting hardware acceleration for old ati 2d graphics has given my machine a new lease on life! i'm switching to X for good now! photoshop ran fast and smoooooooothe. . . .
Ok, so your selected projects reflected a dearth of principles. What that does not reveal is the place of the super-user audience in OSS. The users who deploy open-source software are the QA department that most commercial companies, especially Microsoft, leave off the payroll. I'm mainly a web developer and I can tell you that QA for even a small website can be a long, boring tedious process. A process which when performed by intelligent and industrious individuals makes the difference between a lump of crapware (windows, iis) and a stable, secure product (ssh, apache, mysql)... Don't underestimate the power of the QA!!!!
What makes these guys think that a device larger than the old Newton is going to hit it big? All the old whining about the newton was that it was too big! Has Bill Gates lost his marketing touch this year or what? Xbox, new Newton, XP. All a big bunch of crap. I think M$ hired the Apple marketing department when they invested in the company. Not that I'm complaining or anything. If they just keep it up for a few years (crossing fingers) they will pull an Apple and fade into tech hell (we can dream, can't we). I guess they'll go down kicking and screaming, after all they have 40 billion in the bank, or whatever.
The most wonderful thing about a nice Apache server on a *nix based platform is how it treats files. It won't alter your file information or harm your contents. With Apache 2, you have webdav, in addition to basically anything else you need like the ability to serve on a port other than 80, or nfs, samba, ftp. Plenty of network permission on everything. Perfect for internet, intranet deployment. I keep saying it, eventually somenone's going to listen.
How can anyone be surprised that a company who's main source of revenue for 80 years was a monopoly is all the sudden acting against its consumers once again. Wake UP This is how they operate, and have for DECADES. If you disagree, then take your business elsewhere. Get DSL, get Satellite, or, better yet, get your cable guy to hook you up. But quit whining. It might suck, but that's life! (I just love saying that while i'm ranting).
http://www.phprojekt.com I have this running to support a 200 unit condominium building. Its the best, has all the tools you need to organize a global team including incredible language support (course we know about the English thing). Good luck and . . . . . Thanks Albrecht (he made it mainly)
ps. Chimera is lightning fast, too bad there's not plugin support, yet.