$5 is well worth the ability to go back through the archives and relive each time Subject Line Troll accussed me of lacking male gentitalia, or once again vividly feeling the awe of one of Sexual Ass Pussy's stunning ASCII art fr1st ps0t's.
Remember when the IN SOVIET RUSSIA troll wasn't played out? Ahhhhhh, the good old days.
While the Helix media player is merely the player minus codecs, and the server is only an encoder that also lacks the codecs, it is still a step in the right direction.
When open source meets traditional business the results aren't always what the GNU and FSF might get excited about, but an honest effort is better then nothing.
Just imagine if someone like Adobe showed this much community support with open source.
The GNU's opinion is about as valued as corn in shit. They're fucking clown shoes. Linux won, it be the champion. BSD and GNU need to shave, shower, buy a suit and go get real jobs at IBM working with Linux.
Next time someone says "The Matrix has you", they probably won't be lying. Of course, you'll know all too well, when the CIA goons come crashing through the front door.
For 80% of the responses
Most people that read this article will say to themselves "Gen-what? Big deal, my *insert distro here* has already done all of that!" or "Wow, so some Linux distro does a few things that *insert Mac or Windows version* has been doing for months, or even years".
Just keep in mind this much: Whether you are a Red Hat user, a Mandrake enthusiast, or a Slackware zealot, we have all "been there". And like it or not, distros like Gentoo and Debian keep hope alive and stay true to the Linux and open source "roots".
No, I am not a Debian or Gentoo user. In fact I am a Red Hat and Windows 98 user. I recognize valiant efforts and righteous grass roots development movements when I see them, however, and I pay my respect and homage to them.
So, despite how bad this post may come off as a karma whore (and you all know that I love to write karma whores), just keep in mind that it is people like the Gentoo team that have made Linux the phenomenon that it is. OK, feel free to mod me down now.
Well, 20GB external USB 2.0 hard drives tend to run about $150 USD, like this one: Archos MiniHD
A decent MP3 player, 128MB with FM/AM tuner, tends to run between $100-130 USD: iRock 830
So basically, this Gateway offering is no more impressive then your run-of-the-mill 128MB MP3 player. All it adds is voice recording and the ability to use it for portable storage (which is handy, but at only 128-256MB doesn't impress me enough to buy it). However, you could buy a 20GB portable USB HDD and any other 128MB MP3 player for about $250 USD all together, which is only $80 more then their 256MB model.
Verdict: A. For $170 you can get a 256MB MP3 player with a voice recorder. B. For $250 you can get a 128MB MP3 player and a 20GB external drive. C. You could just buy a 20GB MP3 player for $240 USD: Archos Jukebox Recorder 20
I just landed a gig at a law firm (a rather large one) to install a bunch of imaging systems and "fix" their mail server. They decided not to use their usual guy because "he didn't always know everything that we needed, and would have to go look it up (sic)".
It depends on the client. Some don't mind. Some view incomplete mastery of a trade as laziness and/or ignorance.
Afterall, they all know that they could always find someone else.
My brief collection of "must knows" after a year of consulting:
1. Dress neat, above all else. Work out too. If you are good looking, PHBs don't care whether you know anything or not, especially the female ones
2. Never admit that you don't know something - act like you know everything that has to do with computing
3. Charge fair, but on the high end. If you charge too cheap, the PHBs think that you aren't skilled
4. Never linger. If Accounting is having problems with a database client, get in, find out what's wrong, and leave immediately until you fix the problem. Don't stop to chat with the pretty secretary and try to gauge her age. Just assume that she's 17 and get the hell out of there
5. It doesn't hurt to keep you mouth shut unless there is something that you absolutely, postively have to say. Chances are, they won't understand what you're talking about anyways, you'll confuse them, which makes them annoyed. Just shut up and nod yes and no
"We have been showing a portion of this code since early June. SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end users. We have been educating end users on the risks of running an operating system that is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX."
- Darl McBride, CEO, SCO Group
Again, end users are not at risk, if anyone is, but rather the distributors of the Linux kernel in question. Secondly, the code was released by SCO under the GPL, negating the claim. Third, by not asking the "infringers" (who would be IBM primarily and companies like Red Hat secondly) to remove the suspect the code and instead attack the customers of the "infringers", SCO has made no attempt to keep their trade secret a secret at all, which renders it's claim to secrecy invalid in legal terms.
SCO has buried itself. I can't believe that anyone is still buying their stock, all they are doing is making McBride richer.
"In any such meeting, we will provide example after example of infringement of our intellectual property found in Linux. Of course, any such demonstration must be pursuant to an acceptable confidentiality agreement and must be intended to further good faith discussions about resolving the differences between us.........If you seek information for the purpose of informal discovery intended to benefit IBM in the pending litigation, or for the purpose of devising your own litigation plans against SCO related to Linux, we must respectfully decline your request."
- Robert Bench, CFO, SCO Group
In other words, they still refuse to take action in defending their trade secrets and rectifying the problem. No moral judge is going to cut them any slack with this kind of behaviour.
"Of course, we will prepare our legal response as required by your complaint. Be advised that our response will likely include counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy."
- Darl McBride, CEO, SCO Group
It is amazing that this crook has the audacity to suppose that Red Hat is engaged in some kind of a conspiracy, considering the disgusting actions of his company. This is truly laughable.
You know, some fly-by-night internet "entrepreneur" is going to spin a tale about how this pioneering new technology can help you increase the size of your penis. You watch.
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What is a soul? Is there any scientific way to define it? Can this theory be tested, verified, and replicated? If it is non-existant, then what good is it in any real scientific (I.E. logical) debate and/or arguement?
Is creativity nothing more then a very basic function of an advanced brain? If we can develop such analytical adept brains, why can't another organism given time? Why can't we create one?
Even certain birds can solve puzzles using techniques that researchers never included in the equation. Nothing suggests that the human brain can accomplish tasks that we could never program a computer to do. The ideal of a "soul" is actually fable/fiction/pure speculation, and does not deserve to be included in a scientific debate.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowikimon and market them worldwide.
Awesome. Maybe after the trial Red Hat and SCO can rub both of their one-dollar bills together and split on a Big Mac.
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill. Red Hat is too poor to be getting into a legal slug fest with a company that has literally transformed themselves into a litigation firm. IBM has the money to fight, while Red Hat might end up getting dragged through the proverbial legal-mud, and never really get anywhere.
What might serve Red Hat better is to send their customers information regarding how absurd SCOs claims are, complete with the opinions of legal experts on the matter, like the OSDLs terrific "position paper". The people, especially those in the corporate world, have to be clearly shown how absurd and evil SCOs actions have been. Litigation by a small company is going to be long, expensive, and perhaps in the end fruitless.
Regarding the OSDL's paper, I personally like the analogy made concerning publishing houses:
Imagine the literary equivalent of SCO's current bluster:
Publishing house A alleges that the bestselling novel by Author X topping the charts from Publisher B plagiarizes its own more obscure novel by Author Y. "But," the chairman of Publisher A announces at a news conference, "we're not suing Author X or Publisher B; we're only suing all the people who bought X's book. They have to pay us for a license to read the book immediately, or we'll come after them." That doesn't happen, because that's not the law.
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Remember when the IN SOVIET RUSSIA troll wasn't played out? Ahhhhhh, the good old days.
In a year no one will even remember this guy's tale to care about his failed business.
When open source meets traditional business the results aren't always what the GNU and FSF might get excited about, but an honest effort is better then nothing.
Just imagine if someone like Adobe showed this much community support with open source.
I just find it hard to beleive that any company, throughout the entire passage of time, is this stupid. It has to be one big joke.
It even has a picture of the Media-GX in there.
The GNU's opinion is about as valued as corn in shit. They're fucking clown shoes. Linux won, it be the champion. BSD and GNU need to shave, shower, buy a suit and go get real jobs at IBM working with Linux.
Next time someone says "The Matrix has you", they probably won't be lying. Of course, you'll know all too well, when the CIA goons come crashing through the front door.
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you
With or without you
With or without you
Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you
With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
My hands are tied
My body bruised, she's got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose
And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away
With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you
Just keep in mind this much: Whether you are a Red Hat user, a Mandrake enthusiast, or a Slackware zealot, we have all "been there". And like it or not, distros like Gentoo and Debian keep hope alive and stay true to the Linux and open source "roots".
No, I am not a Debian or Gentoo user. In fact I am a Red Hat and Windows 98 user. I recognize valiant efforts and righteous grass roots development movements when I see them, however, and I pay my respect and homage to them.
So, despite how bad this post may come off as a karma whore (and you all know that I love to write karma whores), just keep in mind that it is people like the Gentoo team that have made Linux the phenomenon that it is. OK, feel free to mod me down now.
A decent MP3 player, 128MB with FM/AM tuner, tends to run between $100-130 USD: iRock 830
So basically, this Gateway offering is no more impressive then your run-of-the-mill 128MB MP3 player. All it adds is voice recording and the ability to use it for portable storage (which is handy, but at only 128-256MB doesn't impress me enough to buy it). However, you could buy a 20GB portable USB HDD and any other 128MB MP3 player for about $250 USD all together, which is only $80 more then their 256MB model.
Verdict:
A. For $170 you can get a 256MB MP3 player with a voice recorder.
B. For $250 you can get a 128MB MP3 player and a 20GB external drive.
C. You could just buy a 20GB MP3 player for $240 USD: Archos Jukebox Recorder 20
No buddy, it's Troll Tuesday! My name is mao che minh! I am a subscriber! HAHA! You fuck flap!
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It depends on the client. Some don't mind. Some view incomplete mastery of a trade as laziness and/or ignorance.
Afterall, they all know that they could always find someone else.
1. Dress neat, above all else. Work out too. If you are good looking, PHBs don't care whether you know anything or not, especially the female ones
2. Never admit that you don't know something - act like you know everything that has to do with computing
3. Charge fair, but on the high end. If you charge too cheap, the PHBs think that you aren't skilled
4. Never linger. If Accounting is having problems with a database client, get in, find out what's wrong, and leave immediately until you fix the problem. Don't stop to chat with the pretty secretary and try to gauge her age. Just assume that she's 17 and get the hell out of there
5. It doesn't hurt to keep you mouth shut unless there is something that you absolutely, postively have to say. Chances are, they won't understand what you're talking about anyways, you'll confuse them, which makes them annoyed. Just shut up and nod yes and no
Thank you,
Mao Che Minh
CEO
Your Mom
It was really hard to do without crashing with all kinds of errors before, yes. I got Photoshop 5 to run for like 10 minutes once.....
Haha, yes!
- Darl McBride, CEO, SCO Group
Again, end users are not at risk, if anyone is, but rather the distributors of the Linux kernel in question. Secondly, the code was released by SCO under the GPL, negating the claim. Third, by not asking the "infringers" (who would be IBM primarily and companies like Red Hat secondly) to remove the suspect the code and instead attack the customers of the "infringers", SCO has made no attempt to keep their trade secret a secret at all, which renders it's claim to secrecy invalid in legal terms.
SCO has buried itself. I can't believe that anyone is still buying their stock, all they are doing is making McBride richer.
"In any such meeting, we will provide example after example of infringement of our intellectual property found in Linux. Of course, any such demonstration must be pursuant to an acceptable confidentiality agreement and must be intended to further good faith discussions about resolving the differences between us.........If you seek information for the purpose of informal discovery intended to benefit IBM in the pending litigation, or for the purpose of devising your own litigation plans against SCO related to Linux, we must respectfully decline your request."
- Robert Bench, CFO, SCO Group
In other words, they still refuse to take action in defending their trade secrets and rectifying the problem. No moral judge is going to cut them any slack with this kind of behaviour.
"Of course, we will prepare our legal response as required by your complaint. Be advised that our response will likely include counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy."
- Darl McBride, CEO, SCO Group
It is amazing that this crook has the audacity to suppose that Red Hat is engaged in some kind of a conspiracy, considering the disgusting actions of his company. This is truly laughable.
You know, some fly-by-night internet "entrepreneur" is going to spin a tale about how this pioneering new technology can help you increase the size of your penis. You watch.
Is creativity nothing more then a very basic function of an advanced brain? If we can develop such analytical adept brains, why can't another organism given time? Why can't we create one?
Even certain birds can solve puzzles using techniques that researchers never included in the equation. Nothing suggests that the human brain can accomplish tasks that we could never program a computer to do. The ideal of a "soul" is actually fable/fiction/pure speculation, and does not deserve to be included in a scientific debate.
Just my two cents.
Ugh....nothing.....it's just, my computer....it told me that if I gave it some blood, it would run 1Ghz faster. Whoa.
Two cows:
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowikimon and market them worldwide.
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill. Red Hat is too poor to be getting into a legal slug fest with a company that has literally transformed themselves into a litigation firm. IBM has the money to fight, while Red Hat might end up getting dragged through the proverbial legal-mud, and never really get anywhere.
What might serve Red Hat better is to send their customers information regarding how absurd SCOs claims are, complete with the opinions of legal experts on the matter, like the OSDLs terrific "position paper". The people, especially those in the corporate world, have to be clearly shown how absurd and evil SCOs actions have been. Litigation by a small company is going to be long, expensive, and perhaps in the end fruitless.
Regarding the OSDL's paper, I personally like the analogy made concerning publishing houses:
Imagine the literary equivalent of SCO's current bluster:
Publishing house A alleges that the bestselling novel by Author X topping the charts from Publisher B plagiarizes its own more obscure novel by Author Y. "But," the chairman of Publisher A announces at a news conference, "we're not suing Author X or Publisher B; we're only suing all the people who bought X's book. They have to pay us for a license to read the book immediately, or we'll come after them." That doesn't happen, because that's not the law.
What's your body fat percentage, I bet its really high.
I never saw that word once, anywhere, until the Architect said it.......