Isn't half of sourceforge beta products that work pretty well? I am running alot of stuff from CVS that's not even beta, but nightly builds... Just a thought
Whoa!!! I work for RR Business Class in Greensboro NC, and we don't do anything like that- however, we have a full time (well will be soon) abuse coordinator, that constantly gets calls from Microsoft, Adobe, etc... to stop people from sharing out their software illegally on servers. It's plain illegal to share Win2K on a server. No two ways about it. We also get calls from Sony and others about people sharing MP3s of their artists, we just normally call and tell them to turn off file sharing I think (but it's not my job so I don't know what they really do.)
I haven't heard anything about this port blocking here. Kazaa will probably go to dynamic port switching soon... Going to tell my boss that I dont like this...
That's assuming that you are running X... I use Linux pretty much only from the command prompt, and when I do have X installed, it's fully bare bones, just so I can run games in it, but little else.
Good interview in general, I am glad to see this lengthy responses, but. At then end of #9, he says "In fact I correspond with some pedophiles in prison."- Am I the only one that doesn't do this? Just seems a little odd to me, unless he is trying to write a book or gain some insight into these people. Any thoughts?
When I was talking about Zip files I meant in windows, and you would be suprized how many people don't know how to extract the file, and then find it (I just tell them to drag it somewhere). Tar files, i was refering to in *nix systems. Which alot of people don't know how to do.
From my experience, there are three things that you will find no matter what you search (ok a few exceptions). 1) Linux (ya!!!!) 2) Sex (or porn, or something freaky like that) 3) Programming (or scripting, something technical based like that, but mainly programming)
Let's test it out. Whitehouse- porn. Imaging- linux, porn, programming. Games- programming, sex, linux. Etc...
I think that search engines really get users on credibility. I know that with Google, I won't get popups, not too many banners, no porn ads. More importantly, getting what you search for is important. I know with google, I can find anything almost, and their Cache and Translate features really help out. I know with confidence that Google will give me the results I want.
So, why are these other Engines killing their credibility by jumping on this bandwagon, and not telling the users what they are getting? Less people will use it, and the service will die.
In addition: Check out this.. It's google's beta of their answer service. Ask a question, and Pay for the answer. Kinda cool if you have a complex or hard to find problem.
Why don't they have a DVD (or 2) with about 10 distros on them with "quickloaders" that would give you the option of OS (give a quick description on the merits of each), and do an optionless install (or have the "advanced" install available) that would install it just as if the store had it preinstalled. It's not like more distros cost them anything (GNU, duh!!!). I say give them as many distros as you can fit on a double density double sided DVD. Debian, Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, Slackware, Gentoo, Lindows, Redmond, etc...
Perhaps instead of trying to sell the computer they should run as a Non-profit org, and collect computers, accept donations, sell banner placement on their site (to buy parts and pay for building) etc and give away computer to the poor?
Giving away computers to the poor would be a great thing. Perhaps when a person goes on Suplimental Security or Welfare (not same thing I know) the government should give them a computer too (it's not like they aren't giving them a good bit of money anyway).
Too bad this company is having problems, because I think it was a good idea
Ok seriously, Linux isn't hard- but neither is Windows. But I have seen so many people that don't even know how to change their home page on their web browser.
It's not that perhaps the managers that are too stupid (well some are), but the general employees who get no training in sales or english, and the customers- who live in trailer parks (nothing against mobile homes...) and for whom Walmart is the best store that they will see that year. They don't know how to compile a kernel, or what a kernel even is.
You even mention Zip files to alot of users and they get confused let alone say, just untar the file. huh? ok just type tar -xzvf (name). I have worked in IT for a while, and everything that you assume that your users can do, they really can't.
Linux does have a long way to go for JoeBob, BillyBob, LittleBob, and MaryJoe being able to use in their singlewide.
I am glad to see that you can buy more than Windows at Walmart now, so you have some choice. But seriously, the Walmart employees are pretty stupid. Even something as simple as a PS/2 elluded two employees at a local store.
The PS/2 was either turned off, or just crashed (rarely they do...), and I wanted it turned on or reset (can't remember). I asked an employee to do so (just for kicks to see their stupidity)- and they said that they didn't know how. In addition to that, they wondered if the tape was in it- and then commented that they might need to call the sales rep at the manufaturer to come out and reset it.
A few minutes later, they actually carded me when I bought "The Sum of all Fears" game (which doesn't touch Ghost Recon)- I normally don't buy games there, but it was cheap, and I was there. Money==Time.
Point is, that few will buy these machines (unless they just need an emergency Linux box at 2am). This is because the employees are so stupid that they won't know a single thing about the machines or the software. The linux machines won't even be an option that they will show people, or know about themselves. They lack proper training at all.
What they really need is a 30 minute course on how to sell linux (which isn't that hard to teach to someone), as long as they take the 36 month course on how to speak english first...
Hey, I am not against other languages or nationalities, but even Linus has always commented in English (and rather well at it).
Am I the only one who could care less about how big it is dimension wise as long as it's light? I like thin laptops like the tiBook, as well as light ones. Carrying a 10 LB laptop all the way across Boston just doesn't sound fun.
If it was 2-3 lbs, that would rock however, and the 16 inch screen would just be an advantage.
I am an employee of Time Warner Cable's Business class in North Carolina, and our policies say nothing against hooking up wireless equipment to cable. I know that NYC runs slightly differently, but I find this to be rather odd.
Our AUP says that you can't resell our service, which is standard for most ISPs really, but if someone wants to give it away, like a landlord with 'included' service, then it's ok. I hope this doesn't set a precident, but I have talked to people around the office, and we don't see anything wrong with it.
I do know however, that 'somewhere' we are investigating several new service options, which include wireless as a last mile solution. Perhaps NYC would be the first rollout, and we don't want it to be stomped on by public networks using our service.
I am going to try to convince the people in this region against stopping open wireless networks. I hope the ISPs don't do this in Boston, as I am moving there soon.
So they are going to charge royalties for extensions? Does that mean that I will have to pay to use.cgi on my site? Or am I thinking about the wrong thing?
Whatever it is, it seems to work against the standards that they are trying for
Before it's ./ed- Full text of letter
on
W3C Ponders RAND Again
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Because not one of us will be able to read the letter in a few minutes...
Hello,
Twenty people attended the 1 July 2002 Patent Policy Working Group
(PPWG) teleconference. The meeting was devoted to a new RAND
exception proposal circulated by three participants and the Chair.
When non-royalty-free IPR is discovered in a W3C Working Group, a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) might have a number of possible
outcomes. The proposal suggests that the Working Group's
specification could be split in two. "Core" work to be licensed
royalty-free would be produced as a W3C Recommendation.
"Extensions" that may require royalties could be done at W3C or by
another standards organization.
One person suggested Extensions work be dropped. Some said work at
the other standards organization needs to be a cooperative effort
with W3C. One person suggested a hybrid all produced at W3C. One
asked if the Core/Extensions split makes Extensions work less
important than Core. The consensus seemed to be that specs built on
top of Core work are valuable and that standardizing them is
important.
The group did not appear to universally accept the proposal.
Discussion may continue when the group meets next on 8 July.
Best wishes,
--
Susan Lesch
http://www.w3.org/People/Lesch/
mailto:lesch@w3.org
tel:+1.858.483.4819
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/
I Xnd the fact that this is a really great thing. My girlfriend has Albinisim (you know no pigment) and really can't see that well. These games like Quake don't really work out that well for her because they are low contrast games that require super fast visual reflexes. Ghost Recon is even worse because everyone is in camo and crawls/kneels along. She mainly plays slower paced games like The Sims because they aren't based on lightening fast reflexes to the eyes.
Now she has used up her last excuse not to play quake with me...:)
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Isn't half of sourceforge beta products that work pretty well? I am running alot of stuff from CVS that's not even beta, but nightly builds...
Just a thought
Whoa!!!
I work for RR Business Class in Greensboro NC, and we don't do anything like that- however, we have a full time (well will be soon) abuse coordinator, that constantly gets calls from Microsoft, Adobe, etc... to stop people from sharing out their software illegally on servers. It's plain illegal to share Win2K on a server. No two ways about it.
We also get calls from Sony and others about people sharing MP3s of their artists, we just normally call and tell them to turn off file sharing I think (but it's not my job so I don't know what they really do.)
I haven't heard anything about this port blocking here. Kazaa will probably go to dynamic port switching soon...
Going to tell my boss that I dont like this...
Didn't mean to place banners on their computer... I meant placing banners on their website (look up if you aren't subscribed..)
Check out Google Labs.. ./ the voice search.
It's got some pretty cool things, but let's not
Try This... Google Sets
It will guess other things in a set... Trying these now..
That's assuming that you are running X...
I use Linux pretty much only from the command prompt, and when I do have X installed, it's fully bare bones, just so I can run games in it, but little else.
I didn't think of that.
Good interview in general, I am glad to see this lengthy responses, but. At then end of #9, he says "In fact I correspond with some pedophiles in prison."- Am I the only one that doesn't do this?
Just seems a little odd to me, unless he is trying to write a book or gain some insight into these people. Any thoughts?
When I was talking about Zip files I meant in windows, and you would be suprized how many people don't know how to extract the file, and then find it (I just tell them to drag it somewhere).
Tar files, i was refering to in *nix systems. Which alot of people don't know how to do.
From my experience, there are three things that you will find no matter what you search (ok a few exceptions).
1) Linux (ya!!!!)
2) Sex (or porn, or something freaky like that)
3) Programming (or scripting, something technical based like that, but mainly programming)
Let's test it out. Whitehouse- porn. Imaging- linux, porn, programming. Games- programming, sex, linux. Etc...
I think that search engines really get users on credibility.
I know that with Google, I won't get popups, not too many banners, no porn ads.
More importantly, getting what you search for is important. I know with google, I can find anything almost, and their Cache and Translate features really help out. I know with confidence that Google will give me the results I want.
So, why are these other Engines killing their credibility by jumping on this bandwagon, and not telling the users what they are getting? Less people will use it, and the service will die.
In addition: Check out this.. It's google's beta of their answer service. Ask a question, and Pay for the answer. Kinda cool if you have a complex or hard to find problem.
Hey, they put the money somewhere (CEO's wallet, CFO's Ferarri, CFO's 24.5 million dollar house). It's somewhere, just they don't know where I guess..
Perhaps the gov't should just fine Worldcom ? billion dollars (that they misreported), and fund a free computer program for the poor...
Why don't they have a DVD (or 2) with about 10 distros on them with "quickloaders" that would give you the option of OS (give a quick description on the merits of each), and do an optionless install (or have the "advanced" install available) that would install it just as if the store had it preinstalled. It's not like more distros cost them anything (GNU, duh!!!). I say give them as many distros as you can fit on a double density double sided DVD. Debian, Redhat, Mandrake, SuSe, Slackware, Gentoo, Lindows, Redmond, etc...
It would make it more attractive to me at least.
Perhaps instead of trying to sell the computer they should run as a Non-profit org, and collect computers, accept donations, sell banner placement on their site (to buy parts and pay for building) etc and give away computer to the poor?
Giving away computers to the poor would be a great thing. Perhaps when a person goes on Suplimental Security or Welfare (not same thing I know) the government should give them a computer too (it's not like they aren't giving them a good bit of money anyway).
Too bad this company is having problems, because I think it was a good idea
Hey it can be a little difficult at times to do it from scratch. But that's not really the issue here either.
Ok seriously, Linux isn't hard- but neither is Windows. But I have seen so many people that don't even know how to change their home page on their web browser.
It's not that perhaps the managers that are too stupid (well some are), but the general employees who get no training in sales or english, and the customers- who live in trailer parks (nothing against mobile homes...) and for whom Walmart is the best store that they will see that year.
They don't know how to compile a kernel, or what a kernel even is.
You even mention Zip files to alot of users and they get confused let alone say, just untar the file. huh? ok just type tar -xzvf (name).
I have worked in IT for a while, and everything that you assume that your users can do, they really can't.
Linux does have a long way to go for JoeBob, BillyBob, LittleBob, and MaryJoe being able to use in their singlewide.
I am glad to see that you can buy more than Windows at Walmart now, so you have some choice. But seriously, the Walmart employees are pretty stupid. Even something as simple as a PS/2 elluded two employees at a local store.
The PS/2 was either turned off, or just crashed (rarely they do...), and I wanted it turned on or reset (can't remember). I asked an employee to do so (just for kicks to see their stupidity)- and they said that they didn't know how. In addition to that, they wondered if the tape was in it- and then commented that they might need to call the sales rep at the manufaturer to come out and reset it.
A few minutes later, they actually carded me when I bought "The Sum of all Fears" game (which doesn't touch Ghost Recon)- I normally don't buy games there, but it was cheap, and I was there. Money==Time.
Point is, that few will buy these machines (unless they just need an emergency Linux box at 2am). This is because the employees are so stupid that they won't know a single thing about the machines or the software. The linux machines won't even be an option that they will show people, or know about themselves. They lack proper training at all.
What they really need is a 30 minute course on how to sell linux (which isn't that hard to teach to someone), as long as they take the 36 month course on how to speak english first...
Hey, I am not against other languages or nationalities, but even Linus has always commented in English (and rather well at it).
Am I the only one who could care less about how big it is dimension wise as long as it's light? I like thin laptops like the tiBook, as well as light ones. Carrying a 10 LB laptop all the way across Boston just doesn't sound fun.
If it was 2-3 lbs, that would rock however, and the 16 inch screen would just be an advantage.
I am an employee of Time Warner Cable's Business class in North Carolina, and our policies say nothing against hooking up wireless equipment to cable. I know that NYC runs slightly differently, but I find this to be rather odd.
Our AUP says that you can't resell our service, which is standard for most ISPs really, but if someone wants to give it away, like a landlord with 'included' service, then it's ok. I hope this doesn't set a precident, but I have talked to people around the office, and we don't see anything wrong with it.
I do know however, that 'somewhere' we are investigating several new service options, which include wireless as a last mile solution. Perhaps NYC would be the first rollout, and we don't want it to be stomped on by public networks using our service.
I am going to try to convince the people in this region against stopping open wireless networks. I hope the ISPs don't do this in Boston, as I am moving there soon.
So they are going to charge royalties for extensions? Does that mean that I will have to pay to use .cgi on my site? Or am I thinking about the wrong thing?
Whatever it is, it seems to work against the standards that they are trying for
Because not one of us will be able to read the letter in a few minutes...
Hello,
Twenty people attended the 1 July 2002 Patent Policy Working Group
(PPWG) teleconference. The meeting was devoted to a new RAND
exception proposal circulated by three participants and the Chair.
When non-royalty-free IPR is discovered in a W3C Working Group, a
Patent Advisory Group (PAG) might have a number of possible
outcomes. The proposal suggests that the Working Group's
specification could be split in two. "Core" work to be licensed
royalty-free would be produced as a W3C Recommendation.
"Extensions" that may require royalties could be done at W3C or by
another standards organization.
One person suggested Extensions work be dropped. Some said work at
the other standards organization needs to be a cooperative effort
with W3C. One person suggested a hybrid all produced at W3C. One
asked if the Core/Extensions split makes Extensions work less
important than Core. The consensus seemed to be that specs built on
top of Core work are valuable and that standardizing them is
important.
The group did not appear to universally accept the proposal.
Discussion may continue when the group meets next on 8 July.
Best wishes,
--
Susan Lesch
http://www.w3.org/People/Lesch/
mailto:lesch@w3.org
tel:+1.858.483.4819
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/
Am I the only one confused by this letter...?
Duh... what's four and five nines?
Wouldn't ISP's be that important? What about company VPN's? Hospitals? Google? Slashdot????
Web sites only work if people can view them, and when you have hundreds of thousands of hits per day, you could be loosing alot by being down
I Xnd the fact that this is a really great thing. My girlfriend has Albinisim (you know no pigment) and really can't see that well. These games like Quake don't really work out that well for her because they are low contrast games that require super fast visual reflexes. Ghost Recon is even worse because everyone is in camo and crawls/kneels along. She mainly plays slower paced games like The Sims because they aren't based on lightening fast reflexes to the eyes.
:)
Now she has used up her last excuse not to play quake with me...
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