Schilling is likely to make it to at least 40, at an average of 15 games per season if he stays healthy and plays with a winning team (he managed four 15 or more win seasons and one 14-win season in *Philadelphia* for heaven's sake), giving him about 209 wins over 20 seasons. I'd say he's on the cusp, given how poor some of those Philadelphia teams were, and how good his first two seasons with Arizona were.
Many of the Microsoft Administrators I work with argued the more user friendly Linux becomes, the more vulnerable it becomes. They claimed making Linux a friend of Joe User will require it to 'open itself up' and become more susceptible to attack.
Spoken like a true MSCE. No, making Linux more usable will not open it up any more than necessary. One just needs to make sure that there isn't 1. a scripting host with direct access to the OS configuration, 2. all ports open by default, 3. lots of services open by default, 4. all user accounts with root access by default, 5. applications that can call the scripting host unecessarily (can we say Outlook running VBS attachments on open in the scripting engine with Admin privileges on a default installation?). None of these things really effects users. The two main ones that would affect users are 1. installation programs - just make installers call for an admin password when installed on default-configured accounts - which is what RPM for instance already does - and 2. make passwords mandatory (is that such a usability hardship?)
If, when they took these plates, it occurred to them that sooner or later someone would do this. There were already animation techniques involving revolving stills (the Zoetrope, for instance).
How hard will it be for Chinese nationals to poison each of the major linux applications + the kernel?
Let's see...work 4 to 5 years as a valued contributior to the kernel and then slip in tiny exploitable flaws without telling anyone except the Chinese government....
Yeah, and nobody else will notice those tiny exploitable flaws when they're vetting the code. Riiiight.
I've got a G5 and an iBook. I run Panther on both. And now I'm thinking about switching my iBook to a modern Linux distribution. It's not because OS X isn't terrific, it's because I'm being tempted back to extreme personalization. (If E0.17 would just come out, I'd make the switch today.)
The best part, though, is that I can just clone the existing distribution on the iBook via target mode to an image on my G5, then, if I get sick of the linux distribution, mothball that and reinstall the old Panther image.
MS got to be market dominant (which is NOT a true monopoly) by making genuinely good programs
Out of curosity, how old are you, and how long have you been using small / personal computers?
Oh, I'd say he's about
49 years old and has been using personal computers since 1981.
The only people who deny that Microsoft is a monopoly are Microsoft itself or its apologists. You can make the argument that the web browser SHOULD be part of the OS - after all, that's what Netscape was thinking at one point, to build a platform on the browser, and Mozilla has a good start in that direction - and you can make arguments against a number of the other cases that lead to the monopoly judgment; but you can't dismiss them all. Microsoft is a monopoly which has illegally leveraged that monopoly to drive competition out of most of the markets they've targeted. Those are the findings of fact produced by Penfield Jackson, a judge who was cherry-picked by MS after they claimed the previous judge, Daniel Sporkin, was biased against them; and then, of course, when Jackson judge ordered a break-up, Microsoft successfully got him dismissed for defending his ruling before the pro-Microsoft business press, helping Microsoft to stall the case long enough for a pro-MS administration to come in and pull the prosecution's fangs - as Jackson actually predicted (see the com.com link above)!
If the monopoly ruling had been used to enforce the imposition of standard formats for a handful of document types, to force MS to release their flagship applications for competing platforms, or best of all to divorce the applications product line from the platform product line via a break-up, we might see for all aspects of computing a degree of integration similar to what the web provides (common protocols that promote and ensure interoperability). Instead, we have hydraulic despotism - the entire world economy is beholden to Bill Gates' whims, because the only way a company can interoperate effectively with its corporate partners is through Microsoft on the desktop, and Microsoft on the desktop doesn't interoperate well with anything other than Microsoft on the network, except where Microsoft's competitors have made heroic efforts toward interoperability.
Do you remember the disaster that happened the last time Microsoft tried to collaborate with an industry partner on a new OS? The OS/2 / NT fork. If this is really what Sun has in mind, they aren't learning from history.
Yes, this is after all the Mac equivalent to double extensions on a machine with "hide known file extensions" turned on. I notice that noone has tried to fix this problem on Windows. And on Windows, you can make system-level changes with a koolmuzic.mp3.vbs file; not so with OS X.
That's like the bit in Fitzgerald's *Great Gatsby*, when Daisy says it's ok that she's a bad driver, since she won't have an accident until she meets another bad driver. Then she ends up killing a pedestrian.
Just use the Chicago one, add ideas (but not language) from the Apple style guide where relevant, and sprinkle it with the Jargon file for that UNIXy flavor.
In all seriousness, the LDP has a style guide, but it looks somewhat thin to me (I haven't read it through though, in best/. style). Publications style guides are for projects that do real documentation. That kind of documentation tends to be unpopular with FOSS, because it requires a level of feature stability that's not common in FOSS, and a certain amount of hierarchical management that's definitely not popular with FOSS. Besides, most people who participate in FOSS are doing so to scratch a development itch, and have a cavalier attitude about documentation. I'd suggest looking more toward a publisher like O'Reilly for a model of how to write documentation.
A Feature is the main film at a screening, excluding the cartoons, the newsreels, the short subjects, etc. This one's never going to see the inside of a theater: according to Corona Coming attractions, it's direct to video:
Moviehole has more brand new images from the upcoming direct-to-video sequel STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION. Directed by FX master Phil Tippett, the sequel features a new cast of futuristic soldiers who pick up the battle against the bugs, this time on a remote outpost stationed on planet Angel Zulu. The film stars Richard Burgi, Sandrine Holt, Jason Shane Scott and Colleen Porch.
Nice one. Let's face, though, we don't have to imagine it: we've all seen it: Howard the Duck. [And now, kalidasa waits to become the first poster in/. history to get a -2 mod while horrified moderators try to re-suppress their memories of that horrifying experience featuring Lea Thompson Tim Robbins, and a walking, talking, animatronic duck/guitarist.]
Ain't gonna happen. When they started shifting the show around and introduced the whole escaped transgenics subplot, the ratings fell through the floor. Too bad, but there it is.
Farscape is as much SF as Star Trek or Babylon 5 (both of which are far less hard than Firefly); apparently TobiasTheCommie doesn't understand the laws of physics very well. So far, the only things about Firefly that are non-SF are River's secret powers.
Actually, sometimes series do write half a cliff hanger. And they nearly always only shoot half a cliff hanger. They don't have 4 hours of footage lying around; the miniseries is going to be newly shot.
There are different standards for software than there is for a work of fiction - in a work of fiction, if you have the same characters or the same plot, it looks like plagiarism; but software is about applications (in the generic sense of "things you do"), and one can pretty easily see that a certain amount of workalike implementation would be necessary for competition to be possible. IANAL, but if I were at the business end of this lawsuit, I'd ask my lawyer if the whole MS vs. Apple "look and feel" decision didn't set a damning (to SCO's position) precedent in this area.
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Schilling is likely to make it to at least 40, at an average of 15 games per season if he stays healthy and plays with a winning team (he managed four 15 or more win seasons and one 14-win season in *Philadelphia* for heaven's sake), giving him about 209 wins over 20 seasons. I'd say he's on the cusp, given how poor some of those Philadelphia teams were, and how good his first two seasons with Arizona were.
Many of the Microsoft Administrators I work with argued the more user friendly Linux becomes, the more vulnerable it becomes. They claimed making Linux a friend of Joe User will require it to 'open itself up' and become more susceptible to attack.
Spoken like a true MSCE. No, making Linux more usable will not open it up any more than necessary. One just needs to make sure that there isn't 1. a scripting host with direct access to the OS configuration, 2. all ports open by default, 3. lots of services open by default, 4. all user accounts with root access by default, 5. applications that can call the scripting host unecessarily (can we say Outlook running VBS attachments on open in the scripting engine with Admin privileges on a default installation?). None of these things really effects users. The two main ones that would affect users are 1. installation programs - just make installers call for an admin password when installed on default-configured accounts - which is what RPM for instance already does - and 2. make passwords mandatory (is that such a usability hardship?)
If, when they took these plates, it occurred to them that sooner or later someone would do this. There were already animation techniques involving revolving stills (the Zoetrope, for instance).
How hard will it be for Chinese nationals to poison each of the major linux applications + the kernel?
Let's see...work 4 to 5 years as a valued contributior to the kernel and then slip in tiny exploitable flaws without telling anyone except the Chinese government....
Yeah, and nobody else will notice those tiny exploitable flaws when they're vetting the code. Riiiight.
I've got a G5 and an iBook. I run Panther on both. And now I'm thinking about switching my iBook to a modern Linux distribution. It's not because OS X isn't terrific, it's because I'm being tempted back to extreme personalization. (If E0.17 would just come out, I'd make the switch today.)
The best part, though, is that I can just clone the existing distribution on the iBook via target mode to an image on my G5, then, if I get sick of the linux distribution, mothball that and reinstall the old Panther image.
MS got to be market dominant (which is NOT a true monopoly) by making genuinely good programs
Out of curosity, how old are you, and how long have you been using small / personal computers?
Oh, I'd say he's about 49 years old and has been using personal computers since 1981.
The only people who deny that Microsoft is a monopoly are Microsoft itself or its apologists. You can make the argument that the web browser SHOULD be part of the OS - after all, that's what Netscape was thinking at one point, to build a platform on the browser, and Mozilla has a good start in that direction - and you can make arguments against a number of the other cases that lead to the monopoly judgment; but you can't dismiss them all. Microsoft is a monopoly which has illegally leveraged that monopoly to drive competition out of most of the markets they've targeted. Those are the findings of fact produced by Penfield Jackson, a judge who was cherry-picked by MS after they claimed the previous judge, Daniel Sporkin, was biased against them; and then, of course, when Jackson judge ordered a break-up, Microsoft successfully got him dismissed for defending his ruling before the pro-Microsoft business press, helping Microsoft to stall the case long enough for a pro-MS administration to come in and pull the prosecution's fangs - as Jackson actually predicted (see the com.com link above)!
If the monopoly ruling had been used to enforce the imposition of standard formats for a handful of document types, to force MS to release their flagship applications for competing platforms, or best of all to divorce the applications product line from the platform product line via a break-up, we might see for all aspects of computing a degree of integration similar to what the web provides (common protocols that promote and ensure interoperability). Instead, we have hydraulic despotism - the entire world economy is beholden to Bill Gates' whims, because the only way a company can interoperate effectively with its corporate partners is through Microsoft on the desktop, and Microsoft on the desktop doesn't interoperate well with anything other than Microsoft on the network, except where Microsoft's competitors have made heroic efforts toward interoperability.
Do you remember the disaster that happened the last time Microsoft tried to collaborate with an industry partner on a new OS? The OS/2 / NT fork. If this is really what Sun has in mind, they aren't learning from history.
ScaledComposites: when you absolutely, positively have to get there in an hour.
Yes, this is after all the Mac equivalent to double extensions on a machine with "hide known file extensions" turned on. I notice that noone has tried to fix this problem on Windows. And on Windows, you can make system-level changes with a koolmuzic.mp3.vbs file; not so with OS X.
Quick question: if the app hiding in this file made any system-level changes, would it alert you and ask you to enter your username?
That's like the bit in Fitzgerald's *Great Gatsby*, when Daisy says it's ok that she's a bad driver, since she won't have an accident until she meets another bad driver. Then she ends up killing a pedestrian.
OK, if any joke post deserved to be marked "insightful," this is the one. Of course, it doesn't matter, because it's an AC.
Unfortunately, though one can engineer smarter cars, only Darwin can engineer smarter drivers.
Just use the Chicago one, add ideas (but not language) from the Apple style guide where relevant, and sprinkle it with the Jargon file for that UNIXy flavor.
In all seriousness, the LDP has a style guide, but it looks somewhat thin to me (I haven't read it through though, in best /. style). Publications style guides are for projects that do real documentation. That kind of documentation tends to be unpopular with FOSS, because it requires a level of feature stability that's not common in FOSS, and a certain amount of hierarchical management that's definitely not popular with FOSS. Besides, most people who participate in FOSS are doing so to scratch a development itch, and have a cavalier attitude about documentation. I'd suggest looking more toward a publisher like O'Reilly for a model of how to write documentation.
Kinda like the Vietnam war: it was big gun USA against the piddling little Viet Cong, who were really just standins for the huge USSR.
Wait a minute, I don't really want THAT simile, do I?
A Feature is the main film at a screening, excluding the cartoons, the newsreels, the short subjects, etc. This one's never going to see the inside of a theater: according to Corona Coming attractions, it's direct to video:
Moviehole has more brand new images from the upcoming direct-to-video sequel STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION. Directed by FX master Phil Tippett, the sequel features a new cast of futuristic soldiers who pick up the battle against the bugs, this time on a remote outpost stationed on planet Angel Zulu. The film stars Richard Burgi, Sandrine Holt, Jason Shane Scott and Colleen Porch.
Nice one. Let's face, though, we don't have to imagine it: we've all seen it: Howard the Duck. /. history to get a -2 mod while horrified moderators try to re-suppress their memories of that horrifying experience featuring Lea Thompson Tim Robbins, and a walking, talking, animatronic duck/guitarist.]
[And now, kalidasa waits to become the first poster in
"Cheap bike lock," eh? And what's your background in encryption?
Ain't gonna happen. When they started shifting the show around and introduced the whole escaped transgenics subplot, the ratings fell through the floor. Too bad, but there it is.
Farscape is as much SF as Star Trek or Babylon 5 (both of which are far less hard than Firefly); apparently TobiasTheCommie doesn't understand the laws of physics very well. So far, the only things about Firefly that are non-SF are River's secret powers.
Actually, sometimes series do write half a cliff hanger. And they nearly always only shoot half a cliff hanger. They don't have 4 hours of footage lying around; the miniseries is going to be newly shot.
"Yep, name's Harry Tuttle. No, not Buttle, Tuttle. Just don't tell Houston I'm here. Tell them it fixed itself."
[Next Orbit, radio from Houston]
"It fixed itself, you say? Space Stations don't fix themselves."
[giggling sidekick] "No, they don't fix themselves."
"We'll just have to dump your atmosphere and see if that fixes it."
You're clearly not a lawyer. Lawyers do anything BUT oversimplify. :-)
There are different standards for software than there is for a work of fiction - in a work of fiction, if you have the same characters or the same plot, it looks like plagiarism; but software is about applications (in the generic sense of "things you do"), and one can pretty easily see that a certain amount of workalike implementation would be necessary for competition to be possible. IANAL, but if I were at the business end of this lawsuit, I'd ask my lawyer if the whole MS vs. Apple "look and feel" decision didn't set a damning (to SCO's position) precedent in this area.
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