Same goes for Buffalo NY area. It's an economic ghost town, been going downhill all my life. That's 35 years of losing. The fact that some of the original fiber (Sprint) backbone runs directly underneath downtown hasn't really meant much, even at the height of the dot-coms. From what I heard in my networking 101 classes, at least 1/2 of it is dark. Other than that, one of the original ARPAnet lines is nearby (appliedtheory.com). Again, no difference. The taxes and regulations here are absolute hell, let alone utilities. Hence, no business.
Microsoft.
Google?
BWAHAHAHAH MUUaaHAHAHAHaaaaaaa Hee heee....
Now, on a more serious note: I've got to start watching their respective financial statements.
This is so weird for me to say, and I know you weren't commenting seriously (just pushing the BSA's statements) but do you really think that the tools you use affects the ethics of your actions with those tools? Keep in mind that I've been compiling and using linux exclusively since 1997. I'm getting really interested in these types of debates because it all seems to boil down to questions of ethics, which leads into more questions such as: Whose ethics? The individuals? Big business? National? Various cultures?
Just thinking, cuz I don't have those exploding head problems. Thanks for listening.
April Fool's was found dead? Damn, must be a double-murder. If the body of *bsd wasn't found nearby, then I bet there's at least a few clues. Hope it wasn't near my part of town, anyway.
Meaning, "No argument" with the idea that ICANN needs fresh blood. However, I do question the idea that a global democracy is even possible, due mainly to global corporate interests and not geo-political interests.
from my majick hairball (the one from the seventh cat's stomach) and spake thus:
"How much would you like to bet that there's going to be a very ugly internal audit at CERT, with much finger-pointing and threats amongst the business partners?"
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I've been doing some patent searching myself at uspto.gov regarding clean energy sources. Evidently, the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) carries a lot of weight in the international patent arena, particularly in technical communities.
Myself, I have to wonder what is the nature of the relationship between the US and WIPO?
Anyway, HTH with your "international patent" question.
Dunno about you, but I don't even bother trying to build X from scratch anymore, it's probably been 2 years since I bothered. I recall at the time feeling that the results weren't worth the time spent tweaking and building. OTOH, I usually have decent luck with the kernel, and it's not such a pain to build. (shrugs)
I have a bad feling that this is goint to be one of those situations where *every* party involved is both right and wrong on some level. Even uglier is the possibility that this could occur on the *same* level. The fact that situations like this could arise in the first place tells me that maybe the architecture of XFree86 (the ideas underlying the code itself) is overly complex for today's needs.
Or another possibility: maybe the way XFree86 is currently implemented by the major *nix vendors is overly complex by default.
Either way, both the situation and the implementation are starting to look really messy.
Maybe they already *are* applied to tech, for example as programming languages being a specific-purpose subset of natural languages. The interesting part about that idea for me is that one could use programming languages to show and manipulate the most common mental tasks within any arbitrary language. The relative merits and weaknesses of the chosen language itself may show the strengths and weaknesses of its creator(s), and the set of needs they were trying to answer with it. History has a lot to say about that kind of thing.
For myself, I spend a lot of time on the job wondering about degrees of influence between the limits of language and thought (in a context of Western Civilization). In other words (no pun), How much does our language influence our thought, and vice-versa? What can we learn about ourselves as a culture by using our technologies as an imperfect mirror?
OBTW, I have a collection of 78 RPM records from my parents and also a pile of casette tapes from the 1970's... which are slowly being ripped to mp3 (family archives).
It's not very often that I reply to an AC, but I have to agree with you about WordPad. I like it ok myself, and you know what? I switched over to Linux and nothing else back in 1997.
I get people all the time who want me to support their Win 95/98/NT/2k/XP boxes, and the weird thing is this: Why is it that less than 10% of them even know of WordPad's existence? Those who *do* know of it seem to use Word anyhow, for various reasons:
"It's fancier" "There's an icon for it right there" "It came with it, so I might as well" "WordPad makes it look ugly" "I want to drag-n-drop *everything*"
and the list goes on...
Like I said, I actually don't mind WordPad a bit. I guess it's a question of work style or something. (shrugs - I dunno)
For sure, though: The anti-MS thing has as much if not more to do with their business practices/ethics as it does with their technology. That's why I like WordPad: text is text is text. I've never had a user who can be arsed to "Save As", even if they get the concept of it. Bummer.
Many other countries seem to have similar considerations on a nation-by-nation basis, whereas the USA, if it even considers the question, does so on a state-be state basis. It's probably the state-by-state basis that will effect any actual change. This, not even on its own merits, but upon financial merits.
[slightly OT] I wonder how US and State Gov't entities reconcile themselves with their own laws and decrees WRT OS-level stong encryption in such a scenario?
AFAIK there is nothing in US law to prevent you from recording both sides of a conversation "for Quality Assurance purposes" at long as this is announced at the beginning of a conversation. You'd be amazed at how many pests you can get rid of that way, especially with a voice-capable modem and some disk space...
Couln't have said it better myself, I totally agree. I *do* have to wonder, though: Why would the SCO group retain such an expensive lawyer (David Boies) if they thought the case was small or questionable?
Doubt it... it's one thing to own the code, and another thing to own the trade name. I'm still wondering where (if at all) the Open Group fits into all of this. Let alone Sun.
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Same goes for Buffalo NY area. It's an economic ghost town, been going downhill all my life. That's 35 years of losing. The fact that some of the original fiber (Sprint) backbone runs directly underneath downtown hasn't really meant much, even at the height of the dot-coms. From what I heard in my networking 101 classes, at least 1/2 of it is dark. Other than that, one of the original ARPAnet lines is nearby (appliedtheory.com). Again, no difference. The taxes and regulations here are absolute hell, let alone utilities. Hence, no business.
Microsoft. Google? BWAHAHAHAH MUUaaHAHAHAHaaaaaaa Hee heee.... Now, on a more serious note: I've got to start watching their respective financial statements.
This is so weird for me to say, and I know you weren't commenting seriously (just pushing the BSA's statements) but do you really think that the tools you use affects the ethics of your actions with those tools? Keep in mind that I've been compiling and using linux exclusively since 1997. I'm getting really interested in these types of debates because it all seems to boil down to questions of ethics, which leads into more questions such as: Whose ethics? The individuals? Big business? National? Various cultures?
Just thinking, cuz I don't have those exploding head problems. Thanks for listening.
that they're not taking any clues from spammers. Recent examples for me include mortgage offers (I rent) and breast enlargement (I'm a guy).
April Fool's was found dead? Damn, must be a double-murder. If the body of *bsd wasn't found nearby, then I bet there's at least a few clues.
Hope it wasn't near my part of town, anyway.
if it supports the George Foreman iGrill? I'm waiting on the boxed set, and could really use the functionality.
Meaning, "No argument" with the idea that ICANN needs fresh blood. However, I do question the idea that a global democracy is even possible, due mainly to global corporate interests and not geo-political interests.
And no, I *didn't* RTFA.
I'll second that.
from my majick hairball (the one from the seventh cat's stomach) and spake thus:
"How much would you like to bet that there's going to be a very ugly internal audit at CERT, with much finger-pointing and threats amongst the business partners?"
Umm, yeah there's a change if I guess correctly. Specifically, NPTL support by default for glibc. The details are at ftp://people.redhat.com/drepper.
I'm not really surprised by this move at all, after playing with the beta a few times. And BTW, the beta absolutely rocked my already quick machine.
Oh.
I've been doing some patent searching myself at uspto.gov regarding clean energy sources. Evidently, the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) carries a lot of weight in the international patent arena, particularly in technical communities.
Myself, I have to wonder what is the nature of the relationship between the US and WIPO?
Anyway, HTH with your "international patent" question.
Dunno about you, but I don't even bother trying to build X from scratch anymore, it's probably been 2 years since I bothered. I recall at the time feeling that the results weren't worth the time spent tweaking and building. OTOH, I usually have decent luck with the kernel, and it's not such a pain to build. (shrugs)
... as performed by Pink Floyd:
"Wish you were here"
I have a bad feling that this is goint to be one of those situations where *every* party involved is both right and wrong on some level. Even uglier is the possibility that this could occur on the *same* level. The fact that situations like this could arise in the first place tells me that maybe the architecture of XFree86 (the ideas underlying the code itself) is overly complex for today's needs.
Or another possibility: maybe the way XFree86 is currently implemented by the major *nix vendors is overly complex by default.
Either way, both the situation and the implementation are starting to look really messy.
Maybe they already *are* applied to tech, for example as programming languages being a specific-purpose subset of natural languages. The interesting part about that idea for me is that one could use programming languages to show and manipulate the most common mental tasks within any arbitrary language. The relative merits and weaknesses of the chosen language itself may show the strengths and weaknesses of its creator(s), and the set of needs they were trying to answer with it. History has a lot to say about that kind of thing.
For myself, I spend a lot of time on the job wondering about degrees of influence between the limits of language and thought (in a context of Western Civilization). In other words (no pun), How much does our language influence our thought, and vice-versa? What can we learn about ourselves as a culture by using our technologies as an imperfect mirror?
OBTW, I have a collection of 78 RPM records from my parents and also a pile of casette tapes from the 1970's... which are slowly being ripped to mp3 (family archives).
heck, my stink is so bad that when I left my shirt on the floor, the cat tried to roll in it. Honestly.
It's not very often that I reply to an AC, but I have to agree with you about WordPad. I like it ok myself, and you know what? I switched over to Linux and nothing else back in 1997.
I get people all the time who want me to support their Win 95/98/NT/2k/XP boxes, and the weird thing is this: Why is it that less than 10% of them even know of WordPad's existence? Those who *do* know of it seem to use Word anyhow, for various reasons:
"It's fancier"
"There's an icon for it right there"
"It came with it, so I might as well"
"WordPad makes it look ugly"
"I want to drag-n-drop *everything*"
and the list goes on...
Like I said, I actually don't mind WordPad a bit. I guess it's a question of work style or something. (shrugs - I dunno)
For sure, though: The anti-MS thing has as much if not more to do with their business practices/ethics as it does with their technology. That's why I like WordPad: text is text is text.
I've never had a user who can be arsed to "Save As", even if they get the concept of it. Bummer.
Many other countries seem to have similar considerations on a nation-by-nation basis, whereas the USA, if it even considers the question, does so on a state-be state basis. It's probably the state-by-state basis that will effect any actual change. This, not even on its own merits, but upon financial merits.
[slightly OT] I wonder how US and State Gov't entities reconcile themselves with their own laws and decrees WRT OS-level stong encryption in such a scenario?
I've got one in the basement, been looking for a copy of the system disks for it. Let's talk, it seems to work ok from a hardware standpoint.
It got morphed into a "Stunning display of hippocampusy"
business as usual, in other words?
AFAIK there is nothing in US law to prevent you from recording both sides of a conversation "for Quality Assurance purposes" at long as this is announced at the beginning of a conversation. You'd be amazed at how many pests you can get rid of that way, especially with a voice-capable modem and some disk space...
Couln't have said it better myself, I totally agree. I *do* have to wonder, though: Why would the SCO group retain such an expensive lawyer (David Boies) if they thought the case was small or questionable?
Doubt it... it's one thing to own the code, and another thing to own the trade name. I'm still wondering where (if at all) the Open Group fits into all of this. Let alone Sun.