In my travels across Canada, and some in Thailand, documenting graffiti walls, both public and private, sometimes a URL such as the one seen here can give a lot of interesting information. In that specific case I learned a lot about the graff scene in Toronto based on the information available at that link.
Sometimes it's an email address or URL for a musical group or just for the artists themselves. I think that links in public art are a great way to publicize one's art further.
Why this is news to the Slashdot community is beyond me.
They could release it in East Asia, where you find the deigner clothing that is made in the actual clothing factory by the same underpaid people who make your North American clothing, but for a quarter of the price. It's not a knock-off, it just happens not to be sold on your continent for a disgusting profit.
Do the rpesident of Diesel, and Tommy Hilfiger, and like likes of them know that their original clothing is esentially being "bootlegged" in Asia? If they do know, the more interesting question becomes do they care? They're still making boatloads of money off of American sheep who eat up their marketing like so much McDonald's that I can't really expect them to spend their precious time trying to get this stuff off of Asian streets...
But to be honest, I really don't care one way or the other what George Lucas, Tommy Hilfiger, or any other big rich American icon does with their time and money until they start stepping on the "little guy" to save their multibillion dollar Empires...
Indeed. I'd be curious to know for two reasons: 1) What distros do the kernel developers use? I'm sure they're not all LFS builders - That shit takes time... 2) Linux/PPC distros suck. Sorry, sorry, before I get the accusations flying at me I'll rephrase: Linux/PPC distros are disappointing if you've become accustomed to (a) the plethora of software available for, and large development base using, Linux/x86 and (b) OSX makes great use of the Mac hardware, but the Linux/PPC kernel and most distros fall far short of this.
I recently installed YDL4 and was sorely disappointed by its lack of packages (And yes, I've gotten used to how horrible RPM is). I should give Gentoo and Debian a shot one of these days have been a bit swamped with work of the paying kind recently, such as setting up a Linux/x86 fileserver.
To the people who have pointed out my error concerning the browser location bar and pasting URLs into the viewport, thank you - I haven't used X as my daily GUI for some time, and that slipped my mind. Quite right. Very convenient.
I also would like to add that I giggle everytime my Mac talks to me. I get a real hoot out of it even though it's not all that practical. "Sweet Zombie Jesus, are you sure you want to remove the items in the trash -permanently-?" "Holy Crap! Safari can't find the page."
Wow, did I ever mess THAT one up. *blush* Here goes again:
I had no family to support, only a cat, and no mortgage to pay off, only monthly rent with two other guys.
I was miserable day after day for a very long time, doing Linux work for America's largest patenter (That's just a tidbit of info - I was working in Canada).
I had nothing else lined up, and had never had a real job before, so writing a resignation letter was one of the hardest things I'd ever done.
After giving notice to my boss, but before letting all of my coworkers know, one of my equals said to me "Isn't it funny in a large corporation how much you can get away with ignoring people far away" (referring to he and I waiting on a chap in another city for a SSL signing). I agreed, knowing full well that it was one of my reasons for leaving.
I worked in a restaurant for a while because I wanted something new. I had a lot of fun with it, but only worked there for two months before becoming a NetCorps Intern. Now I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand working in an office of three people, doing web work and general IT stuffs for Nonviolence International's South East Asia office. I enjoy the work much more than my previous tech job, where I didn't care at the end of the day if the company made a buck or lost one.
My biggest regret? Leaving behind all of the good people I worked with, many of whom were just as miserable as myself but had much tighter budgets (kids, a house, car payments, etc). I hope they're doing well. I know I am.
I had no family to support, only a cat, and no mortgage to pay off, only monthly rent with two other guys.
I was miserable day after day for a very long time, doing Linux work for America's largest patenter (That's just a tidbit of info - I was working in Canada).
I had nothing else lined up, and had never had a real job before, so writing a resignation letter was one of the hardest things I'd ever done.
After giving notice to my boss, but before letting all of my coworkers know, one of my equals said to me "Isn't it funny in a large corporation how much you can get away with ignoring people far away" (referring to he and I waiting on a chap in another city for a SSL signing). I agreed, knowing full well that it was one of my reasons for leaving.
I worked in a restaurant for a while because I wanted something new. I had a lot of fun with it, but only worked there for two months before becoming a NetCorps Intern. Now I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand working in an office of three people, doing web work and general IT stuffs for Nonviolence International's South East Asia office. I enjoy the work much more than my previous tech job, where I didn't care at the end of the day if the company made a buck or lost one.
My biggest regret? Leaving behind all of the good people I worked with, many of whom were just as miserable as myself but had much tighter budgets (kids, a house, car payments, etc). I hope they're doing well. I know I am.
I'm just a simpleton with a three-button wheel mouse but it sounds like a good plan.
I remember one person describing how he used one of his five buttons for "Listen for speech commands while holding this button". I never use the speech commands in OSX because running it all the time totally destroys my poor little 550MHz Powerbook, but they are quite neat if you can get used to the right pitch/tone/speed.:)
And I agree with you about Expose. In Apple's previews I always saw it as just some nifty show-off thing, but it is probably the best development of UIs since the window.:)
Bread is nice, but sliced bread is just so much more convenient...
Copy/Paste operations in X-Windows are usually quick, except that I often copy a URL and then expect to highlight-and-paste in the Location bar of my browser; Unfortunately, highlighting replaces what I put in the clipboard intentionally, and I paste the URL I'm trying to remove!
I've never quite gotten the hang of the focus-follows-mouse setup, but I can certainly understand your reasoning - It's very quick once you adjust. But you must be running OSX 10.2, because Expose in 10.3 has blown away anything I used to know about finding windows. Sure, my screen is cluttered beyond belief behind the front window, but I can quickly find any one I'm looking for with F9, or any of the same application with F10. If I need my desktop, F11 - No fussing to find the "Show Desktop" icon on the taskbar. Also, 10.3 comes with X11.
I also think that Comparing "Linux" to Windows or MacOS is a bit confusing, since I am a PowerBook owner. Linux/PPC doesn't have nearly as much development going on as Linux/x86. I recently installed YDL4 and was horrendously disappointed. I should give Debian/PPC a shot one of these days but haven't gotten around to it yet. Even if I did, OSX is still my OS of choice for most day-to-day stuff.
P2P downloads do not sound like "private copying" to me - they sound entirely more public. From the article:
"In Canada, if I own a CD and you borrow it and make a copy of it that is legal private copying; however, if I make you a copy of that same CD and give it to you that would be infringement. Odd, but ideal for protecting file sharers."
Sounds fine, but the problem is you are not lending your friend the CD, you're letting any number of people all listen to it at the same time, free of charge. That's Public Copying.
And the exact extent of who is doing the copying is debatable - That is, when a file is transferred, the receiver never has both copies, but the sender does (in part, one TCP packet at a time), so the person making the copy available is in fact the one making the copy.
For the record, I'm a proud Cannuck.;)
Ever look in the upper right hand corner of slashdot? There's this nifty little combo box with a selection called "All OSDN sites" and a text field next to it. Maybe SourceForge isn't big enough for everyone else, but it seems to suit my needs okay.
Slashdot Mirror
In my travels across Canada, and some in Thailand, documenting graffiti walls, both public and private, sometimes a URL such as the one seen here can give a lot of interesting information. In that specific case I learned a lot about the graff scene in Toronto based on the information available at that link. Sometimes it's an email address or URL for a musical group or just for the artists themselves. I think that links in public art are a great way to publicize one's art further. Why this is news to the Slashdot community is beyond me.
They could release it in East Asia, where you find the deigner clothing that is made in the actual clothing factory by the same underpaid people who make your North American clothing, but for a quarter of the price. It's not a knock-off, it just happens not to be sold on your continent for a disgusting profit.
Do the rpesident of Diesel, and Tommy Hilfiger, and like likes of them know that their original clothing is esentially being "bootlegged" in Asia? If they do know, the more interesting question becomes do they care? They're still making boatloads of money off of American sheep who eat up their marketing like so much McDonald's that I can't really expect them to spend their precious time trying to get this stuff off of Asian streets...
But to be honest, I really don't care one way or the other what George Lucas, Tommy Hilfiger, or any other big rich American icon does with their time and money until they start stepping on the "little guy" to save their multibillion dollar Empires...
Indeed. I'd be curious to know for two reasons:
1) What distros do the kernel developers use? I'm sure they're not all LFS builders - That shit takes time...
2) Linux/PPC distros suck. Sorry, sorry, before I get the accusations flying at me I'll rephrase: Linux/PPC distros are disappointing if you've become accustomed to (a) the plethora of software available for, and large development base using, Linux/x86 and (b) OSX makes great use of the Mac hardware, but the Linux/PPC kernel and most distros fall far short of this.
I recently installed YDL4 and was sorely disappointed by its lack of packages (And yes, I've gotten used to how horrible RPM is). I should give Gentoo and Debian a shot one of these days have been a bit swamped with work of the paying kind recently, such as setting up a Linux/x86 fileserver.
PPC users: What distros do YOU run?
To the people who have pointed out my error concerning the browser location bar and pasting URLs into the viewport, thank you - I haven't used X as my daily GUI for some time, and that slipped my mind. Quite right. Very convenient.
I also would like to add that I giggle everytime my Mac talks to me. I get a real hoot out of it even though it's not all that practical.
"Sweet Zombie Jesus, are you sure you want to remove the items in the trash -permanently-?"
"Holy Crap! Safari can't find the page."
Wow, did I ever mess THAT one up. *blush* Here goes again:
I had no family to support, only a cat, and no mortgage to pay off, only monthly rent with two other guys.
I was miserable day after day for a very long time, doing Linux work for America's largest patenter (That's just a tidbit of info - I was working in Canada).
I had nothing else lined up, and had never had a real job before, so writing a resignation letter was one of the hardest things I'd ever done.
After giving notice to my boss, but before letting all of my coworkers know, one of my equals said to me "Isn't it funny in a large corporation how much you can get away with ignoring people far away" (referring to he and I waiting on a chap in another city for a SSL signing). I agreed, knowing full well that it was one of my reasons for leaving.
I worked in a restaurant for a while because I wanted something new. I had a lot of fun with it, but only worked there for two months before becoming a NetCorps Intern. Now I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand working in an office of three people, doing web work and general IT stuffs for Nonviolence International's South East Asia office. I enjoy the work much more than my previous tech job, where I didn't care at the end of the day if the company made a buck or lost one.
My biggest regret? Leaving behind all of the good people I worked with, many of whom were just as miserable as myself but had much tighter budgets (kids, a house, car payments, etc). I hope they're doing well. I know I am.
I had no family to support, only a cat, and no mortgage to pay off, only monthly rent with two other guys. I was miserable day after day for a very long time, doing Linux work for America's largest patenter (That's just a tidbit of info - I was working in Canada). I had nothing else lined up, and had never had a real job before, so writing a resignation letter was one of the hardest things I'd ever done. After giving notice to my boss, but before letting all of my coworkers know, one of my equals said to me "Isn't it funny in a large corporation how much you can get away with ignoring people far away" (referring to he and I waiting on a chap in another city for a SSL signing). I agreed, knowing full well that it was one of my reasons for leaving. I worked in a restaurant for a while because I wanted something new. I had a lot of fun with it, but only worked there for two months before becoming a NetCorps Intern. Now I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand working in an office of three people, doing web work and general IT stuffs for Nonviolence International's South East Asia office. I enjoy the work much more than my previous tech job, where I didn't care at the end of the day if the company made a buck or lost one. My biggest regret? Leaving behind all of the good people I worked with, many of whom were just as miserable as myself but had much tighter budgets (kids, a house, car payments, etc). I hope they're doing well. I know I am.
I'm just a simpleton with a three-button wheel mouse but it sounds like a good plan. I remember one person describing how he used one of his five buttons for "Listen for speech commands while holding this button". I never use the speech commands in OSX because running it all the time totally destroys my poor little 550MHz Powerbook, but they are quite neat if you can get used to the right pitch/tone/speed. :)
And I agree with you about Expose. In Apple's previews I always saw it as just some nifty show-off thing, but it is probably the best development of UIs since the window. :)
Bread is nice, but sliced bread is just so much more convenient...
Copy/Paste operations in X-Windows are usually quick, except that I often copy a URL and then expect to highlight-and-paste in the Location bar of my browser; Unfortunately, highlighting replaces what I put in the clipboard intentionally, and I paste the URL I'm trying to remove!
I've never quite gotten the hang of the focus-follows-mouse setup, but I can certainly understand your reasoning - It's very quick once you adjust. But you must be running OSX 10.2, because Expose in 10.3 has blown away anything I used to know about finding windows. Sure, my screen is cluttered beyond belief behind the front window, but I can quickly find any one I'm looking for with F9, or any of the same application with F10. If I need my desktop, F11 - No fussing to find the "Show Desktop" icon on the taskbar.
Also, 10.3 comes with X11.
I also think that Comparing "Linux" to Windows or MacOS is a bit confusing, since I am a PowerBook owner. Linux/PPC doesn't have nearly as much development going on as Linux/x86. I recently installed YDL4 and was horrendously disappointed. I should give Debian/PPC a shot one of these days but haven't gotten around to it yet. Even if I did, OSX is still my OS of choice for most day-to-day stuff.
#!/usr/bin/perl
3 .html");
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
my $useragent = new LWP::UserAgent();
$useragent->agent("New SCO Suit");
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.caldera.com/scosource/complaint3.06.0
my $complaint = $useragent->request($request);
$complaint =~ s/IBM/SGI/g;
$complaint =~ s/AIX/IRIX/g;
print $complaint;
P2P downloads do not sound like "private copying" to me - they sound entirely more public. From the article: "In Canada, if I own a CD and you borrow it and make a copy of it that is legal private copying; however, if I make you a copy of that same CD and give it to you that would be infringement. Odd, but ideal for protecting file sharers." Sounds fine, but the problem is you are not lending your friend the CD, you're letting any number of people all listen to it at the same time, free of charge. That's Public Copying. And the exact extent of who is doing the copying is debatable - That is, when a file is transferred, the receiver never has both copies, but the sender does (in part, one TCP packet at a time), so the person making the copy available is in fact the one making the copy. For the record, I'm a proud Cannuck. ;)
Wow, looks good to me. I'm going to get my copy of SCO Linux ASAP. ;)
For the purposes of amusement:
nerdcore.net [nerdcore.net]
Ever look in the upper right hand corner of slashdot? There's this nifty little combo box with a selection called "All OSDN sites" and a text field next to it.
Maybe SourceForge isn't big enough for everyone else, but it seems to suit my needs okay.