Spam is another form of Speech. Yes, it is grossly abused and outright annoying, but it is still protected here in the U.S. (except for pending anti-spam legislation).
But the actions of the spammers (Super-Zonda in this case) are reprehensible. They are clearly breaking the law in hacking into people's computers in the manner that they are, and they should be punished appropriately for that.
Here is one aspect of the DMCA that is very important to retain even if the rest is done away with. If you have a system with some sort of "protection" and someone deliberately circumvents that protection to use your system for illegal activities, that someone should be punished for not just the illegal activities but also for the circumvention of the protections you set up. While I don't advocate the creation of laws for it's own sake (like many gun laws), I think that having a law in place that punishes criminals not just for the crime itself but also for the method of the crime is important in cases like this.
Without getting into all the crap about the French being (insert witty defamation of French), I think there are legitimate reasons to want to see distros come and go.
The idea behind Mandrake is a dead one. Linux has shown time and again that it is simply not ready for the desktop. Something as simple and fundamental as attractive fonts is something that seems to befuddle Linux developers. Arcane commands and lack of consistent driver support grate on home users. Even with Mandrake's effort to bring a new level of ease to Linux installation, there is little headway being made in making Linux usable for the common user (your mother who uses Linux everyday notwithstanding).
It's nice to see a company working their way out of bankruptcy, but as far as Linux is concerned this is just another pothole in the Road Ahead. Linux has its place which it is very clearly carving out in the server space and in the embedded space it is providing a little leverage to device makers in the negotiation of prices of commercial Closed Source embedded operating systems.
But despite Mandrake's best efforts to bring Linux to the masses, it is still a pile of steaming crap on the desktop. Other than nostalgia, there really isn't a reason to support Mandrake as a company from here on out. The company is on life support because its products are unmarketable. In the market, it is important to let bad ideas like "consumer Linux" die and be replaced with better ideas yet to be thought up.
And risk running out of funds? That's a bad way to go about it.
Here's the short, fun way:
1) Come up with great game idea 2) Draw ideas up in PowerPoint 3) Present ideas with any working demos or mockups to investors 4) Get money (PROFIT!) 5) Develop game to Alpha stage 6) Release and gauge market response 7) Continue improving game if market likes it, drop development like a hot potato if the market thinks your idea sucks 8) ???
If you think that Western geeks are frightening in their repressed, shy, horny little ways, stay away from the Japanese hanging out in Akihabara. They make all other geeks look like gregarious, outgoing Rico Suaves.
Advertising can only take you so far. At some point you've got to sell your soul and talk to the bigwigs.
What kind of safeguards are going to need to be put in place to make sure that content isn't simply distributed to the ends of the earth like it is now? Un-bypassable commercials?
The thing I wonder is what the purpose of this kind of company-sponsored benchmark is supposed to prove? Especially in a case like this where the results of the benchmark do not point to a clear winner (what with the questions surrounding the tests).
Apple may be a hardware company, but it isn't the hardware that is attracting customers. It's the software, stupid. If anything, Apple should be talking up the benefits of the OS and the "Apple System" (where everything works seamlessly) rather than the raw speed of the processor and leaving the benchmarking to review sites.
Apple's core competence is in making systems that are easy to set up and easy to administer and easy to use. It has never been in making "the fastest machine".
I wonder how common it is that programmers come to hate programming or even computers in general.
I know many people including myself who has burnt out on computers. We are looking for other work in other fields but in the meantime computers pay the bills. One guy I knew went off to medical school, another teaches day care. They are both much happier now than at the point they quit from computer programming.
I wonder what the burnout rate is among programmers. What is the average industry lifespan?
In life you have an Image. This Image is how you conduct yourself and how you are perceived by others. Many factors including how you dress, how you smell, how you behave, and how you look all come together to form your Image.
In life, it is one of the most important things that you will carry with you everywhere. It is the first thing that people who meet you will grasp about you. The so-called "first impression" that someone gets of you is based on your Image rather than your abilities.
There isn't any way to neglect your Image. Every action you take shapes it and molds it, so even if you stop taking showers (for example) you have only shaped your Image towards that image. You can "improve" your Image by doing things that impress other people like combing your hair or brushing your teeth or wearing a suit. Likewise you can "damage" your Image by putting giant piercings in your ear or not showering for weeks. The "improve" and "damage" are in quotes because it is up to the individual as to what kind of Image he wants to project, these examples are only using the most general attitudes as a basis for determining Image bettering and Image damaging.
So when a business looks at a person who has "damaged" his Image, it is easy to make a quick judgement call about the person. He does not have enough willpower or drive or ability to take care of one of his most important possessions, so how can he be trusted to control some part of the company (someone else's important possession)?
If you decide that your Image should show that you are a slacker (through uncleanliness) or that you wish to separate yourself from the mainstream (through piercings or extravagant and obvious tattooing), then you must prepare yourself for rejection when attempting to enter the world of business where these things are generally frowned upon.
The only way around this is to build a reputation so that people can have a preconceived notion of your abilities even before they meet your for the first time. A good reputation is many times better than a good Image. However, a good reputation is many times harder to create than a good Image.
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It lets me know things are working correctly.
A silent hard drive is a dead hard drive.
A silent fan is a dead fan.
Give me as many physical clues to the health of the machines, if you please.
More regulations, less freedom.
Too bad God didn't GPL the airwaves instead of turning it over wholesale to the governments of the world.
My neighbors pay 100%
It just happens to coincide with the time he left Netscape to go start his own failed company LoudCloud.
5 years ago was a great time, though. Good times.
Maybe someone has seen something like this before. Are there any pics of it?
Many eyes make all oceans shallow.
Spam is another form of Speech. Yes, it is grossly abused and outright annoying, but it is still protected here in the U.S. (except for pending anti-spam legislation).
But the actions of the spammers (Super-Zonda in this case) are reprehensible. They are clearly breaking the law in hacking into people's computers in the manner that they are, and they should be punished appropriately for that.
Here is one aspect of the DMCA that is very important to retain even if the rest is done away with. If you have a system with some sort of "protection" and someone deliberately circumvents that protection to use your system for illegal activities, that someone should be punished for not just the illegal activities but also for the circumvention of the protections you set up. While I don't advocate the creation of laws for it's own sake (like many gun laws), I think that having a law in place that punishes criminals not just for the crime itself but also for the method of the crime is important in cases like this.
Glad to see you latching onto the point of my post there... ;-)
Without getting into all the crap about the French being (insert witty defamation of French), I think there are legitimate reasons to want to see distros come and go.
The idea behind Mandrake is a dead one. Linux has shown time and again that it is simply not ready for the desktop. Something as simple and fundamental as attractive fonts is something that seems to befuddle Linux developers. Arcane commands and lack of consistent driver support grate on home users. Even with Mandrake's effort to bring a new level of ease to Linux installation, there is little headway being made in making Linux usable for the common user (your mother who uses Linux everyday notwithstanding).
It's nice to see a company working their way out of bankruptcy, but as far as Linux is concerned this is just another pothole in the Road Ahead. Linux has its place which it is very clearly carving out in the server space and in the embedded space it is providing a little leverage to device makers in the negotiation of prices of commercial Closed Source embedded operating systems.
But despite Mandrake's best efforts to bring Linux to the masses, it is still a pile of steaming crap on the desktop. Other than nostalgia, there really isn't a reason to support Mandrake as a company from here on out. The company is on life support because its products are unmarketable. In the market, it is important to let bad ideas like "consumer Linux" die and be replaced with better ideas yet to be thought up.
And risk running out of funds? That's a bad way to go about it.
Here's the short, fun way:
1) Come up with great game idea
2) Draw ideas up in PowerPoint
3) Present ideas with any working demos or mockups to investors
4) Get money (PROFIT!)
5) Develop game to Alpha stage
6) Release and gauge market response
7) Continue improving game if market likes it, drop development like a hot potato if the market thinks your idea sucks
8) ???
But what would "international agreements" have to do with local laws in the country you want to do business?
s/plethora/variety/g;
What's the attraction?
Now I just need to figure out Maui.
I'll trade!
If you think that Western geeks are frightening in their repressed, shy, horny little ways, stay away from the Japanese hanging out in Akihabara. They make all other geeks look like gregarious, outgoing Rico Suaves.
Chris DiBona, Don Marti, Jon "maddog" Hall
How about anyone who might have something important to say about the topic?
What about the Samuel Palmisano or Steve Ballmer or Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds?
It's no surprise that a group of anti-SCO zealots come out with an anti-SCO position.
Advertising can only take you so far. At some point you've got to sell your soul and talk to the bigwigs.
What kind of safeguards are going to need to be put in place to make sure that content isn't simply distributed to the ends of the earth like it is now? Un-bypassable commercials?
I was thinking...
Greg = 2 Steve
Greg (2 Steve) = 2 Greg
Greg (2 Steve) - 2 (2 Steve) = 2 Greg - 2 (2 Steve)
2 Steve (Greg - 2 Steve) = (Greg - 2 Steve) (Greg + 2 Steve)
2 Steve = Greg + 2 Steve
2 Steve = Greg + Greg
2 Steve = 2 Greg
Steve = Greg
But what are people doing with these things in the wild? Is everyone running rendering farms?
Do file/mail servers really need this kind of horsepower (assuming you aren't Google or Yahoo, of course)?
The thing I wonder is what the purpose of this kind of company-sponsored benchmark is supposed to prove? Especially in a case like this where the results of the benchmark do not point to a clear winner (what with the questions surrounding the tests).
Apple may be a hardware company, but it isn't the hardware that is attracting customers. It's the software, stupid. If anything, Apple should be talking up the benefits of the OS and the "Apple System" (where everything works seamlessly) rather than the raw speed of the processor and leaving the benchmarking to review sites.
Apple's core competence is in making systems that are easy to set up and easy to administer and easy to use. It has never been in making "the fastest machine".
I had loquats this morning. Tasty!
Really?
If you want OSX, you'll need to get the PPC.
If you want Windows, you'll get the x86.
If you want Linux, you can pick up 10 and build yourself a cluster for the price of one of these new machines.
So if the reason behind making these consoles not work between different countries is to increase sales, has it been successful?
Have people bought more than one X-Box or PS2 because they weren't able to play their favorite game on the unmodded box?
They've got this really bizarre idea over there, but they don't seem to have a realistic idea of how it would work in real life devices.
Does anyone have any ideas?
I wonder how common it is that programmers come to hate programming or even computers in general.
I know many people including myself who has burnt out on computers. We are looking for other work in other fields but in the meantime computers pay the bills. One guy I knew went off to medical school, another teaches day care. They are both much happier now than at the point they quit from computer programming.
I wonder what the burnout rate is among programmers. What is the average industry lifespan?
It's easy to understand. Follow me.
In life you have an Image. This Image is how you conduct yourself and how you are perceived by others. Many factors including how you dress, how you smell, how you behave, and how you look all come together to form your Image.
In life, it is one of the most important things that you will carry with you everywhere. It is the first thing that people who meet you will grasp about you. The so-called "first impression" that someone gets of you is based on your Image rather than your abilities.
There isn't any way to neglect your Image. Every action you take shapes it and molds it, so even if you stop taking showers (for example) you have only shaped your Image towards that image. You can "improve" your Image by doing things that impress other people like combing your hair or brushing your teeth or wearing a suit. Likewise you can "damage" your Image by putting giant piercings in your ear or not showering for weeks. The "improve" and "damage" are in quotes because it is up to the individual as to what kind of Image he wants to project, these examples are only using the most general attitudes as a basis for determining Image bettering and Image damaging.
So when a business looks at a person who has "damaged" his Image, it is easy to make a quick judgement call about the person. He does not have enough willpower or drive or ability to take care of one of his most important possessions, so how can he be trusted to control some part of the company (someone else's important possession)?
If you decide that your Image should show that you are a slacker (through uncleanliness) or that you wish to separate yourself from the mainstream (through piercings or extravagant and obvious tattooing), then you must prepare yourself for rejection when attempting to enter the world of business where these things are generally frowned upon.
The only way around this is to build a reputation so that people can have a preconceived notion of your abilities even before they meet your for the first time. A good reputation is many times better than a good Image. However, a good reputation is many times harder to create than a good Image.