Totally brilliant. Thanks to the parent for putting it over here; thanks to the author for writing it; thanks to/. for bringing the topic to the public's attention.
Could it be because there's not a lot you can do once you've succeeded in mixing Wet Application Terminal Entry Responses with Dusty Iterative Response Technology?
Has anyone thought of asking ken, dmr, and bwk what they think of this mess? I am sure they don't want to get involved, but this can't be in the spirit they built up the whole thing once upon a time?
I use a dual G5 shaver every morning, and the g/f always points out how I missed something here, something there, and it gets consecutively worse - I keep missing more and more.
And here I thought it was just because I was hungover.
There's a lady in California who is suing Microsoft. She won't be the last. Once there was a lonely person who did the implausible in suing a US tobacco company. Her lawyer has turned her case into a class action suit.
Every business in the world is culpable when it comes to negligence. Up to now, it's been shady - we've seen exploits but we haven't seen the code. NOW WE CAN.
Now we - or rather, adept legal experts - will be able to point to specific code snippets and say 'here, your honor - here is a typical example of negligence - the kind that got my client's SSN stolen on her Windows computer!'
In any other business, if it's found that manufacturing methods are scandalous, a scandal naturally results. Upton Sinclair's meat packers. There are countless examples.
What we've needed is a good expose; and now we have it. Let's not waste this opportunity - we cannot afford to let things go on as they have.
Of course the law is working! Look at the evidence:
1. Everyone is getting just as much as ever - if not more.
2. The spammers are basically protected now. They can do what they want, and corporations have to accept it. And they can't sue either - the US fed govt reserves that right (and will not exercise it, except for show, when the peanut gallery gets a bit too suspicious).
So it's pretty obvious then, that it's working? So what is everybody worried about?
Well my friend Sweet Jay took me to that video arcade in town, right? And they don't speak English there, so Jay got into a fight and he's all 'hey quit hasslin' me cuz' I don't speak French' or whatever, and then the guy said something in Paris talk, and I'm like, 'just back off!' And they're all 'get out!' and we're like, 'make me!' It was cool!
Jobs didn't say profits. He said making good products. Sculley didn't do squat, and that was Jobs's objection: from 1984 until jobs's return, Apple had one product, from all the way back in 1984: the Macintosh.
Jonathan Ive was more or less put on ice until Jobs discovered him working there. Jobs has otherwise done quite a job himself in turning the company around.
Besides - and this is the clincher - what if Sculley had been good for Apple? Just think how much better he would have been if he and his cohorts hadn't pocketed all that money Jobs speaks of? Just think how much better off Apple would have been!
Interesting parallel, seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley: the Big Brother face of the GATES when Jobs has returned and rescued Apple by making that deal with MS.
Good businessmen don't get picky. At least they know when to bury the hatchet. Business is, after all, business.
John Sculley ruined Apple, and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place - which was making great computers for people to use.
Years ago, people said 'hey that's a great record, can I borrow it?' Years ago, people responded 'I can make you a tape.'
This is years ago. The RIAA has been doing nicely all along, thank you. They're still in business, and they're still fat.
Now, however, we have a world global community, thanks to the Internet, so the means of communication have changed.
But the idea is the same. 'Listen to this.' 'Cool, can I borrow it?' 'I can make you a copy.'
People want to discuss and exchange music. They don't want an isolated existence. Witness the iPod flirts. Break off the communication between people, and you not only kill the life in music, you kill the life in people.
For someone interested in accuracy, you seem to get way off from the truth a lot.
1. Whatever the relationship with Sun, it is a fact that Adobe and NeXT worked together on the standard used on the latter's boxes.
2. NeXT did not develop Objective-C. Brad Cox did. NeXT licenced Objective-C from Brad's company Stepstone until 1995, when they bought the rights outright.
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Totally brilliant. Thanks to the parent for putting it over here; thanks to the author for writing it; thanks to /. for bringing the topic to the public's attention.
Venus: The Forgotten Planet
Geez - I'd forgot all about that.
Why Is Free MUD Development Lagging?
Could it be because there's not a lot you can do once you've succeeded in mixing Wet Application Terminal Entry Responses with Dusty Iterative Response Technology?
I'll trade Marvin Gardens and Park Place for all the property in Lindon, Utah.
Oh - Marvin Garden has two hotels.
Has anyone thought of asking ken, dmr, and bwk what they think of this mess? I am sure they don't want to get involved, but this can't be in the spirit they built up the whole thing once upon a time?
I use a dual G5 shaver every morning, and the g/f always points out how I missed something here, something there, and it gets consecutively worse - I keep missing more and more.
And here I thought it was just because I was hungover.
I don't disagree; I agree to 100%, and I think they should double your mod points and think seriously about what you've said.
Cheers.
It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God.
- Anonymous Slashdotter
If this is true, and I get a chance to kill me some GAY MARTIANS - I'm signing up!
Hey Mandrake guys,
Watch out!
I don't know no Paris talk, but you gotta watch out for King Features so they don't get you by the pate de foie gras again.
In particular, avoid the following King Features names when branding:
Anything 3G, Baby Blues, Barney Google, Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey, Betty Boop, Bizarro, Blondie, Buckles, CowParade, Curtis, Dennis the Menace, Flash Gordon, Funky Winkerbean, Hagar the Horrible, Hazel, Henry, Judge Parker, Katzenjammer Kids, Mallard Fillmore, Mark Trail, Marvin, Mary Worth, Moose, Molly, Mother Goose, The Phantom, Popeye, Prince Valiant, Redeye, Rex Morgan, Sally Forth, Sam, Silo, Sherman, Slylock Fox, Spiderman, Steve Roper, Mike Nomad, Tiger, Trudy, Tumbleweeds, Zippy, Zits.
Merci beaucoup.
This is after all the wine valley, and he does bear a faint resemblance to Chase Gioberti.
It's time to turn the tables.
There's a lady in California who is suing Microsoft. She won't be the last. Once there was a lonely person who did the implausible in suing a US tobacco company. Her lawyer has turned her case into a class action suit.
Every business in the world is culpable when it comes to negligence. Up to now, it's been shady - we've seen exploits but we haven't seen the code. NOW WE CAN.
Now we - or rather, adept legal experts - will be able to point to specific code snippets and say 'here, your honor - here is a typical example of negligence - the kind that got my client's SSN stolen on her Windows computer!'
In any other business, if it's found that manufacturing methods are scandalous, a scandal naturally results. Upton Sinclair's meat packers. There are countless examples.
What we've needed is a good expose; and now we have it. Let's not waste this opportunity - we cannot afford to let things go on as they have.
Of course the law is working! Look at the evidence:
1. Everyone is getting just as much as ever - if not more.
2. The spammers are basically protected now. They can do what they want, and corporations have to accept it. And they can't sue either - the US fed govt reserves that right (and will not exercise it, except for show, when the peanut gallery gets a bit too suspicious).
So it's pretty obvious then, that it's working? So what is everybody worried about?
Well my friend Sweet Jay took me to that video arcade in town, right? And they don't speak English there, so Jay got into a fight and he's all 'hey quit hasslin' me cuz' I don't speak French' or whatever, and then the guy said something in Paris talk, and I'm like, 'just back off!' And they're all 'get out!' and we're like, 'make me!' It was cool!
The thing is: this is NOT Bill Gates's happening, and that's what's freaking him out.
Jobs didn't say profits. He said making good products. Sculley didn't do squat, and that was Jobs's objection: from 1984 until jobs's return, Apple had one product, from all the way back in 1984: the Macintosh.
Jonathan Ive was more or less put on ice until Jobs discovered him working there. Jobs has otherwise done quite a job himself in turning the company around.
Besides - and this is the clincher - what if Sculley had been good for Apple? Just think how much better he would have been if he and his cohorts hadn't pocketed all that money Jobs speaks of? Just think how much better off Apple would have been!
this is certainly a simple cheat
Cheat? All he's doing is tilting the bottle!
Unbelievable - and while I'm at it:
'Don't look at the MS source code, Marion!
Interesting parallel, seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley: the Big Brother face of the GATES when Jobs has returned and rescued Apple by making that deal with MS.
Good businessmen don't get picky. At least they know when to bury the hatchet. Business is, after all, business.
Famous Steve Jobs quote on Pepsi guy:
John Sculley ruined Apple, and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place - which was making great computers for people to use.
Translation please:
Years ago, people said 'hey that's a great record, can I borrow it?' Years ago, people responded 'I can make you a tape.'
This is years ago. The RIAA has been doing nicely all along, thank you. They're still in business, and they're still fat.
Now, however, we have a world global community, thanks to the Internet, so the means of communication have changed.
But the idea is the same. 'Listen to this.' 'Cool, can I borrow it?' 'I can make you a copy.'
People want to discuss and exchange music. They don't want an isolated existence. Witness the iPod flirts. Break off the communication between people, and you not only kill the life in music, you kill the life in people.
So in other words the RIAA is King George?
Then who is Henry David Thoreau?
It doesn't need to be beyond a reasonable doubt, it merely needs to be proved.
One of the most egregious statements ever made in this venerable forum. There is such depth - and humour - in it that it stands firmly on its own.
I! am! all! for! competition! so! I! think! this! is! very! cool! and! wish! Yahoo!! all! the! luck! in! the! world!!
(Hey, can anyone lend me some exclamation points please? I'm all out.)
Sorry - excusez-moi - but sir: there's a four letter word and you are so full of it you could build a monopoly market.
Criminals everywhere keep committing crimes because they see it as economically viable.
This is so totally non-topic it's unbelievable. We have the flamebait in the introductory referral.
Ugh.
'Practical C++' is an oxymoron. C++ will never be practical. 'Practically extinct', on the other hand, we can always hope for.
Has anyone had a positive experience with these or other applications?
Why don't you instead ask if anyone has had a positive experience with Windows - ostensibly your platform of choice?
I just don't know - Windows on the net today looks like a battlefield, and you're going to risk making things even worse?
Ugh.
For someone interested in accuracy, you seem to get way off from the truth a lot.
1. Whatever the relationship with Sun, it is a fact that Adobe and NeXT worked together on the standard used on the latter's boxes.
2. NeXT did not develop Objective-C. Brad Cox did. NeXT licenced Objective-C from Brad's company Stepstone until 1995, when they bought the rights outright.
Et voila.