And then there's the issue of paying $10 a month (after shelling out $300 for a SM receiver) and you still have commercials on some of the stations. Like I'm going to pay $10 a month for music that has commercials. I don't think so! I can buy a CD a month for that price.
Then there's this thing about not being a teenager with my first car. I try not to spend my entire day in my car, thank you very much. Their model is problematic for the majority of people and they probably don't even realize it.
"SearchKing began business as an Internet search engine and web hosting company in 1997"...
Wow, I've never even heard of them until this Slashdot blurb. I heard of Slashdot, Google, and all the other "cool" website by word of mouth because they were really good sites. I wonder if SearchKing is just mad because they're not as popular as Google? Could be.... It's too bad they have to resort to the courts though.
"In Virginia, when one small town, Bristol, wanted to set up its own broadband system, Verizon lobbyists persuaded the pliant, Republican-controlled state legislature to pass a law prohibiting any town from doing so."
Too many people with power are taking all these movies way to seriously. Come on people - they are just movies. It doesn't mean we have to actually implement every insane idea portrayed in a movie. It's called a "story" and I for one would like to keep it that way.
To the rest of the sane population:
If you don't want a nation based on Gataca and Minority Report, you had better start voting these a-holes out of office.
On your show you present many interesting facts about cooking and get into the nitty gritty details on how food, and the chemicals that make up food, interact with each other, the mixing surfaces, and the cooking environment. How much of this information was actually figured out ages ago and then basically forgotten by modern cooks and re-learned by you or is all this great information recently gathered by chemcial analysis and observation or some other methods?
Wanted: Someone to fill empty board seat at highly motivated company
Qualification:The perfect candidate will have no moral values what-so-ever. He (and I suppose she if one actually applies) will not have an honest bone in his (or her) body. Must be willing to disappear when the government catches wind of what we're up to. Candidate should think they are above the law.
I bet the ratio of users of Linux vs. Windows to dollars made for Linux vs. Windows is higher for Linux than Windows. Huh? Never mind, I have no idea what I just said - but I'm too lazy to erase it and not hit the submit button.
...Jack Valenti who has said that without proper security measures, the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast because they don't want viewers to record 'perfect copies' of movies."
So do it Jack. Stop playing your movies and lets see how long it will take before your advertizers pull their spots on TV because the millions of viewers won't be watching your movbies on TV and won't be watching those paid advertising spots. Hummm, seems to me you have a problem.
Seems to me that the viewing public has all the power. We just need a voice to lobby our case.
This is great. The more exposure OV gets, the closer we get to getting world wide acceptance of technology without legal overhead and high priced licensing.
If they don't want me to record and watch their shows and advertising, I will be happy to just go read a book - or a lot of them and give up on TV completely. I still have DVD movies to watch. So I guess I can eventually cancel my very expensive digital cable subscription and get back into reading - something everyone should do more of - and I mean the paper kind of book, not e-books.
Let's assume you are not shelling out hundreds for a commercial Linux distro. I say you get what you pay for. Also, you don't go into the Linux world with the intention of making it Windows or a Mac. If you want that kind of lifestyle, then go shell out the big bucks and get Windows or a Mac and stop complaining. If you want a lot of control over your OS and environment, enjoy fiddling and tweaking things, and don't mind digging in to figure out how to make some new peice of hardware work on your system, then Linux might be for you. Let's face it, Linux is not for my mother-in-law. There is no way in hell I'd ever recommend Linux to someone who just wants to get online and read emails, surf around, play games, and do some digital photography stuff. Get a Mac or Windows system and go wild. Linux, to me, is still a developer oriented OS and environment. Don't expect more out of Linux than what's being put into it. These guys writing free software and hacking the kernel deserve praise for their accomplishments, not comments like "gee-wiz, can't you make it do this and that - Windows can do it." If this is your attitude, go buy Windows and enjoy the new hell you just put yourself into. If you're like me, you'll get Linux, work hard to make it do what you want, write a book about it, and enjoy a MS free life.
Is instant messaging really that important? I don't know about you, but I don't spend my valuable time waiting for some dolt to send me an instant message (friends included). I'd rather read a book, work out in the yard, weld something, or continue tweaking that cool program I've been working on for the past five years. Instant messaging - who needs it? Okay - someone out there may feel its important. But until the big guys get it out of their collective heads that they can make big money with instant messaging, it will never come together. They all think their's is the one to have. Can you imaging if NBC, CBS, and ABC thought the same way 50 years ago? Everyone would have had to either choose a single channel to watch (the NBC TV) or have three TV's (one for each broadcast standard). These companies are whacked in their thinking and can't figure out how best to capitalize on a good thing so they bastardize the standards and make their own flavors. If people would just take control of their own fates and ignore the AOL's and MS's of the world and support open standards, perhaps we'd have a better time at things. Oh well - the people may never learn.
Exactly how does Passport work with the VMS system at my work. Or the Unix and IBM mainframe systems, or the 50+ proprietary applications that all have their own authentication system built-in. Passport is just another attempt by M$ to monopolize the industry. Where's the standard? Where's the ANSI stamp of approval? No, Passport is also a joke. You won't catch me handing over my personal information to M$. Hell, they can't even manage to put out browser without major security flaws, how can I trust them with my password.
Single sign-on is a joke. There is no standard for this. There is no single solution to authentication that spans across all platforms. Take, for instance, a vendor of a turn key product, say a web based materials management system. They would probably role their own authentication system because they need authentication but can't rely on their customers to have a particular system in place to interface to for authentication purposes. So in addition to the ten other papsswords I need to remember for all of the other systems with custom authentication, I will need to add one more to my list. Thee solution is the development of a authentication standard that can be applied to future systems and retrofitted in to legacy systems. Kerboros? Seemed good at the time, but why hasn't is caught on more? Tall order? You bet! But how else are you going to solve the problem of having to remember multiple passwords. Most people just go back to remember one or two and use them for all the systems they log in too. Not a good idea, but let's face the truth, almost everyone is doing this and this won't change until a real single sign-on solution is delivered.
I don't call it Linux. I don't call it GNU/Linux. I call it Debian. Let's face it, Linux is the kernel, GNU provides a lot, but not all, of the tools, and your distro maker provides the glue. So while I strongly agree that GNU and the FSF should be recognized for the work they've done, as well as Linus and all the other kenel hackers out there, when it comes down to it, I always refer to the OS on my system as Debian. This distinction far better for describing the system that is installed, IMHO.
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Can't these geniuses come out with something that isn't geared towards traveling sales people with top level salaries/commissions?
I would recommend Multitool Linux. My email to you will explain in detail.
....what you look like now," Logan's Run.
And then there's the issue of paying $10 a month (after shelling out $300 for a SM receiver) and you still have commercials on some of the stations. Like I'm going to pay $10 a month for music that has commercials. I don't think so! I can buy a CD a month for that price.
Then there's this thing about not being a teenager with my first car. I try not to spend my entire day in my car, thank you very much. Their model is problematic for the majority of people and they probably don't even realize it.
"SearchKing began business as an Internet search engine and web hosting company in 1997"... Wow, I've never even heard of them until this Slashdot blurb. I heard of Slashdot, Google, and all the other "cool" website by word of mouth because they were really good sites. I wonder if SearchKing is just mad because they're not as popular as Google? Could be.... It's too bad they have to resort to the courts though.
"In Virginia, when one small town, Bristol, wanted to set up its own broadband system, Verizon lobbyists persuaded the pliant, Republican-controlled state legislature to pass a law prohibiting any town from doing so."
So vote those legislators out of office, people.
I see a movie coming out of this.
Too many people with power are taking all these movies way to seriously. Come on people - they are just movies. It doesn't mean we have to actually implement every insane idea portrayed in a movie. It's called a "story" and I for one would like to keep it that way.
To the rest of the sane population:
If you don't want a nation based on Gataca and Minority Report, you had better start voting these a-holes out of office.
Egads! The next thing you know, the mice will be doing sociological studies on man.
On your show you present many interesting facts about cooking and get into the nitty gritty details on how food, and the chemicals that make up food, interact with each other, the mixing surfaces, and the cooking environment. How much of this information was actually figured out ages ago and then basically forgotten by modern cooks and re-learned by you or is all this great information recently gathered by chemcial analysis and observation or some other methods?
Wanted: Someone to fill empty board seat at highly motivated company
Qualification:The perfect candidate will have no moral values what-so-ever. He (and I suppose she if one actually applies) will not have an honest bone in his (or her) body. Must be willing to disappear when the government catches wind of what we're up to. Candidate should think they are above the law.
Note: Former Enron executives a plus.
I bet the ratio of users of Linux vs. Windows to dollars made for Linux vs. Windows is higher for Linux than Windows. Huh? Never mind, I have no idea what I just said - but I'm too lazy to erase it and not hit the submit button.
...Jack Valenti who has said that without proper security measures, the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast because they don't want viewers to record 'perfect copies' of movies."
So do it Jack. Stop playing your movies and lets see how long it will take before your advertizers pull their spots on TV because the millions of viewers won't be watching your movbies on TV and won't be watching those paid advertising spots. Hummm, seems to me you have a problem.
Seems to me that the viewing public has all the power. We just need a voice to lobby our case.
This is great. The more exposure OV gets, the closer we get to getting world wide acceptance of technology without legal overhead and high priced licensing.
If they don't want me to record and watch their shows and advertising, I will be happy to just go read a book - or a lot of them and give up on TV completely. I still have DVD movies to watch. So I guess I can eventually cancel my very expensive digital cable subscription and get back into reading - something everyone should do more of - and I mean the paper kind of book, not e-books.
Let's assume you are not shelling out hundreds for a commercial Linux distro. I say you get what you pay for. Also, you don't go into the Linux world with the intention of making it Windows or a Mac. If you want that kind of lifestyle, then go shell out the big bucks and get Windows or a Mac and stop complaining. If you want a lot of control over your OS and environment, enjoy fiddling and tweaking things, and don't mind digging in to figure out how to make some new peice of hardware work on your system, then Linux might be for you. Let's face it, Linux is not for my mother-in-law. There is no way in hell I'd ever recommend Linux to someone who just wants to get online and read emails, surf around, play games, and do some digital photography stuff. Get a Mac or Windows system and go wild. Linux, to me, is still a developer oriented OS and environment. Don't expect more out of Linux than what's being put into it. These guys writing free software and hacking the kernel deserve praise for their accomplishments, not comments like "gee-wiz, can't you make it do this and that - Windows can do it." If this is your attitude, go buy Windows and enjoy the new hell you just put yourself into. If you're like me, you'll get Linux, work hard to make it do what you want, write a book about it, and enjoy a MS free life.
Is instant messaging really that important? I don't know about you, but I don't spend my valuable time waiting for some dolt to send me an instant message (friends included). I'd rather read a book, work out in the yard, weld something, or continue tweaking that cool program I've been working on for the past five years. Instant messaging - who needs it? Okay - someone out there may feel its important. But until the big guys get it out of their collective heads that they can make big money with instant messaging, it will never come together. They all think their's is the one to have. Can you imaging if NBC, CBS, and ABC thought the same way 50 years ago? Everyone would have had to either choose a single channel to watch (the NBC TV) or have three TV's (one for each broadcast standard). These companies are whacked in their thinking and can't figure out how best to capitalize on a good thing so they bastardize the standards and make their own flavors. If people would just take control of their own fates and ignore the AOL's and MS's of the world and support open standards, perhaps we'd have a better time at things. Oh well - the people may never learn.
Exactly how does Passport work with the VMS system at my work. Or the Unix and IBM mainframe systems, or the 50+ proprietary applications that all have their own authentication system built-in. Passport is just another attempt by M$ to monopolize the industry. Where's the standard? Where's the ANSI stamp of approval? No, Passport is also a joke. You won't catch me handing over my personal information to M$. Hell, they can't even manage to put out browser without major security flaws, how can I trust them with my password.
Single sign-on is a joke. There is no standard for this. There is no single solution to authentication that spans across all platforms. Take, for instance, a vendor of a turn key product, say a web based materials management system. They would probably role their own authentication system because they need authentication but can't rely on their customers to have a particular system in place to interface to for authentication purposes. So in addition to the ten other papsswords I need to remember for all of the other systems with custom authentication, I will need to add one more to my list. Thee solution is the development of a authentication standard that can be applied to future systems and retrofitted in to legacy systems. Kerboros? Seemed good at the time, but why hasn't is caught on more? Tall order? You bet! But how else are you going to solve the problem of having to remember multiple passwords. Most people just go back to remember one or two and use them for all the systems they log in too. Not a good idea, but let's face the truth, almost everyone is doing this and this won't change until a real single sign-on solution is delivered.
I don't call it Linux. I don't call it GNU/Linux. I call it Debian. Let's face it, Linux is the kernel, GNU provides a lot, but not all, of the tools, and your distro maker provides the glue. So while I strongly agree that GNU and the FSF should be recognized for the work they've done, as well as Linus and all the other kenel hackers out there, when it comes down to it, I always refer to the OS on my system as Debian. This distinction far better for describing the system that is installed, IMHO.