Cooooome on. What possible damage could Microsoft do to SourceForge, other than shutting it down? Or maybe 2) was just part of the typical/. post formula--1 part anti-MS, 1 part general conspiracy, season to taste.
News at 11: Microsoft buys SourceForge, ends Open Source forever.
Sound ridiculous? Of course. I certainly agree with the other aspects of your argument--a single point of failure is never a good idea--it just struck me how ridiculous 2) was.
Finally, a comment on this issue with a little bit of insight.
The only time record companies take notice is when their bottom line is affected. So when they see that spending $XX million on copy protection isn't helping them sell anymore CDs, they'll ditch it. It's only a matter of time. They'll keep trying--perhaps even a couple more generations of copy "protection"--but they won't ever succeed in selling more CDs because of it, so eventually they'll drop it because it will become apparent that its a waste of money.
From your post:
No where in her write up does she note that it was the original management of Ars Digita who went out and raised the VC money.
From the article:
Around this time, we started looking in earnest for venture capital in order to accelerate growth and to allow ourselves the luxury of taking developers off of paying client projects so they could work full-time on our core product, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS).
Sounds to me like she said right there that they were the ones that went out and got VC money. Perhaps they were naive in their relationships with the VCs, but this article seemed to me like it was saying "beware, this is what VCs can do to your company" rather than "these evil people came in and took over and ruined our business and its not our fault at all".
There is a Perl compiler out there, so why not a Ruby compiler? As far as I know, the Perl compiler essentially just lumps an interpreter together with your script code into an exe. So I don't see why this approach would be any harder for any other scripting language. Granted, it isn't the most technically efficient solution, but it would certainly solve any deployment issues.
Granted, I've never used an iPod, but I'd be curious as to how easy it is to upgrade the harddrive in it. With this thing, just pop in a new Microdrive. The most interesting thing about this new one, though, is the voice recognition. Does the iPod have it?
Even better, myself and a couple of friends in HS convinced a friend of ours that the earth was being flattened out like a pancake due to "some unknown gravitational force". It did take us a few days of reinforcing the idea with her before she really seemed to believe it, but afterwards she ran around school for a week trying to convince everyone else she knew that the earth was flattening out.
Yup, those things were great. The Christmas before I graduated high school, some local store had them on sale for like $70. We bought one for each bedroom of the house and I think they're all still being used. At the time, the cheapest VCR was easily $150, so a $70 player was perfect. I haven't seen them being sold in a while, but I imagine the main reason is that you can get a VCR itself for close to $50 these days. I imagine one day that DVD players (DVDP's?) will serve the same purpose in regards to DVD recorders (DVDR's?) as VCP's did to VCR's.
Heh.. I actually had a couple different concert DVDs with multiple angles before I ever heard of porno DVDs doing it. So when I told my friend how cool multiple angles were, his immediate response "Ahh.. been spankin it to the porno DVDs, eh?"
You might try XP just for the games. A friend of mine kept Win98 solely for gaming as well, but he got rid of it after discovering his games worked just fine under XP (although I believe it was only 2 or 3 games).
Now, I've used Irix before in my daily job (only for about 6 months, though), and I've known at least 3 others that have used it or still use it for work. The key being that we were all essentially forced to use it. I'm not completely dogging Irix, I guess I just never found a reason to like it. It served its purpose decently and only occasionally gave me real problems, but I was still elated when everyone was moved from the SGI machines to x86 machines running Linux (oddly enough, because of management concerns regarding SGI's future).
My guess is they were mandated to just fill in time. Why? Obviously, commercials were sold for the Postgame Show. I can't think of any reason that they would keep the mindless drivel on other than to make sure they got those requisite commercials in. But that makes me wonder if they are making more ad revenue on the Postgame show than the Simpsons, and thus really pushing the Postgame show. NFL broadcasts in general are generally high-ticket time slots as far as ads go, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Postgame shows (which are all usually just mindless crap) do bring in more sizeable ad revenue than the Simpsons.
(all is controlled by the "state", in this case the company running the world)
Uh, it said quite clearly in the CNN article that players would be free to sell items among each other. Doesn't quite sound like everything is controlled by the "state".
Slightly bad?? Hell, I would have been elated. What the guy did was not only rude and arrogant, but flat-out idiotic considering he did so using his work e-mail address. To many companies, that in itself is grounds for termination, so this guy is probably lucky that he didn't lose his job. He shouldn't have done it in the first place, and I'm guessing now he won't ever do it again--which is why I would have been elated.
Heh.. even better, call your credit card company and the FBI and report them for credit card fraud. Nothing says FUCK YOU PAL like having the FBI show up on someone's doorstep.
In some ways, Windows is still based on DOS, which was crippled to begin with. It was never intended to do multitasking or run servers.
Uh, maybe Win9x-ME. But NT was a 32-bit multi-tasking operating system from the get-go. No it wasn't perfect at first, but it was certainly not based on DOS in any way, shape, or form. It had a DOS-like command window, but that was about it.
It is a load of crap. Just because they put it right there in your face to try and get everyone to do it, people think that they have to. I did the same thing you did--said No to a passport account and uninstalled messenger. But somehow it isn't exactly common knowledge, so I can see the scenario where someone just gets so fed up with seeing the little thing ask if they want a passport that they finally do it just to make the little nag go away.
Pleeeease. I have been using Borland products for about 6 or 7 years now and I would definitely chime in that they are wonderful tools. But I'm also not so disillusioned to think that the reason there haven't been tons of great commercial applications on Linux is because there hasn't been a development environment good enough to create them. It's simply because there isn't enough of a market for such products. And while having a tool that makes creating applications easier is always a good thing (look what VB did for Windows), Linux needs a lot more than a better development environment for it to better compete against Windows.
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2) Sourceforge is bought by Microsoft.
/. post formula--1 part anti-MS, 1 part general conspiracy, season to taste.
Cooooome on. What possible damage could Microsoft do to SourceForge, other than shutting it down? Or maybe 2) was just part of the typical
News at 11: Microsoft buys SourceForge, ends Open Source forever.
Sound ridiculous? Of course. I certainly agree with the other aspects of your argument--a single point of failure is never a good idea--it just struck me how ridiculous 2) was.
Finally, a comment on this issue with a little bit of insight.
The only time record companies take notice is when their bottom line is affected. So when they see that spending $XX million on copy protection isn't helping them sell anymore CDs, they'll ditch it. It's only a matter of time. They'll keep trying--perhaps even a couple more generations of copy "protection"--but they won't ever succeed in selling more CDs because of it, so eventually they'll drop it because it will become apparent that its a waste of money.
From your post:
No where in her write up does she note that it was the original management of Ars Digita who went out and raised the VC money.
From the article:
Around this time, we started looking in earnest for venture capital in order to accelerate growth and to allow ourselves the luxury of taking developers off of paying client projects so they could work full-time on our core product, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS).
Sounds to me like she said right there that they were the ones that went out and got VC money. Perhaps they were naive in their relationships with the VCs, but this article seemed to me like it was saying "beware, this is what VCs can do to your company" rather than "these evil people came in and took over and ruined our business and its not our fault at all".
There is a Perl compiler out there, so why not a Ruby compiler? As far as I know, the Perl compiler essentially just lumps an interpreter together with your script code into an exe. So I don't see why this approach would be any harder for any other scripting language. Granted, it isn't the most technically efficient solution, but it would certainly solve any deployment issues.
Yah, I'd say it's gotta be <7000. ;-)
Granted, I've never used an iPod, but I'd be curious as to how easy it is to upgrade the harddrive in it. With this thing, just pop in a new Microdrive. The most interesting thing about this new one, though, is the voice recognition. Does the iPod have it?
So you are either saying that he's lying (about his success with the Linksys) or he's just a complete moron. Which is it?
Are you kidding? Big football games was probably the #1 reason I even bought a TiVO. Not every geek hates football...
...was this:
....Microsoft chairman Bill Gates "is really annoyed by the incredible pain we put everyone through in computing."
But I guess it doesn't surprise me. Billy boy uses his own company's software, so I'm sure he's felt that incredible pain himself.
ehe.. thats one of my favorite episodes of all time. that and marge's gambling problem rank right up there.
Even better, myself and a couple of friends in HS convinced a friend of ours that the earth was being flattened out like a pancake due to "some unknown gravitational force". It did take us a few days of reinforcing the idea with her before she really seemed to believe it, but afterwards she ran around school for a week trying to convince everyone else she knew that the earth was flattening out.
Heh, no kidding. I sure as hell wouldn't want this guy piloting the plane I'm flying on.
TOC is a protocol built on top of FLAP. Here's an old text file I found a while ago that details TOC:
l .txt
http://members.tripod.com/~s_impaired/toc_protoco
Yup, those things were great. The Christmas before I graduated high school, some local store had them on sale for like $70. We bought one for each bedroom of the house and I think they're all still being used. At the time, the cheapest VCR was easily $150, so a $70 player was perfect. I haven't seen them being sold in a while, but I imagine the main reason is that you can get a VCR itself for close to $50 these days. I imagine one day that DVD players (DVDP's?) will serve the same purpose in regards to DVD recorders (DVDR's?) as VCP's did to VCR's.
Heh.. I actually had a couple different concert DVDs with multiple angles before I ever heard of porno DVDs doing it. So when I told my friend how cool multiple angles were, his immediate response "Ahh.. been spankin it to the porno DVDs, eh?"
You might try XP just for the games. A friend of mine kept Win98 solely for gaming as well, but he got rid of it after discovering his games worked just fine under XP (although I believe it was only 2 or 3 games).
And some of us like IRIX just fine, thank you :-)
Now, I've used Irix before in my daily job (only for about 6 months, though), and I've known at least 3 others that have used it or still use it for work. The key being that we were all essentially forced to use it. I'm not completely dogging Irix, I guess I just never found a reason to like it. It served its purpose decently and only occasionally gave me real problems, but I was still elated when everyone was moved from the SGI machines to x86 machines running Linux (oddly enough, because of management concerns regarding SGI's future).
Who the hell mod'd this Funny? I haven't seen a more deserving Troll since I turned off viewing of Anon Cow posts.
My guess is they were mandated to just fill in time. Why? Obviously, commercials were sold for the Postgame Show. I can't think of any reason that they would keep the mindless drivel on other than to make sure they got those requisite commercials in. But that makes me wonder if they are making more ad revenue on the Postgame show than the Simpsons, and thus really pushing the Postgame show. NFL broadcasts in general are generally high-ticket time slots as far as ads go, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Postgame shows (which are all usually just mindless crap) do bring in more sizeable ad revenue than the Simpsons.
(all is controlled by the "state", in this case the company running the world)
Uh, it said quite clearly in the CNN article that players would be free to sell items among each other. Doesn't quite sound like everything is controlled by the "state".
Slightly bad?? Hell, I would have been elated. What the guy did was not only rude and arrogant, but flat-out idiotic considering he did so using his work e-mail address. To many companies, that in itself is grounds for termination, so this guy is probably lucky that he didn't lose his job. He shouldn't have done it in the first place, and I'm guessing now he won't ever do it again--which is why I would have been elated.
Heh.. even better, call your credit card company and the FBI and report them for credit card fraud. Nothing says FUCK YOU PAL like having the FBI show up on someone's doorstep.
In some ways, Windows is still based on DOS, which was crippled to begin with. It was never intended to do multitasking or run servers.
Uh, maybe Win9x-ME. But NT was a 32-bit multi-tasking operating system from the get-go. No it wasn't perfect at first, but it was certainly not based on DOS in any way, shape, or form. It had a DOS-like command window, but that was about it.
It is a load of crap. Just because they put it right there in your face to try and get everyone to do it, people think that they have to. I did the same thing you did--said No to a passport account and uninstalled messenger. But somehow it isn't exactly common knowledge, so I can see the scenario where someone just gets so fed up with seeing the little thing ask if they want a passport that they finally do it just to make the little nag go away.
Pleeeease. I have been using Borland products for about 6 or 7 years now and I would definitely chime in that they are wonderful tools. But I'm also not so disillusioned to think that the reason there haven't been tons of great commercial applications on Linux is because there hasn't been a development environment good enough to create them. It's simply because there isn't enough of a market for such products. And while having a tool that makes creating applications easier is always a good thing (look what VB did for Windows), Linux needs a lot more than a better development environment for it to better compete against Windows.