post a "hall of shame" page on your project's web page or in its release notes, that lists the names and all known contact information for people who have caused problems. Ammend your license terms to require that the list be distrubted along with the source for the software.
wonderful.
as if open source isn't sufficiently burdened by a reputation for infantile Animal House frat-fights
Am i the only one who notices punching keys is all they do in movies? even tho they have a graphical UI
Heinlein's Universe and Methuselah's Children exposes the problems more clearly.
The starships are sub-light.
The controls and displays must remain operational for decades -- centuries, more likely.
You cannot assume an infinite supply of spare parts or crewmen skilled in making the necessary repairs.
Nor can you risk so commonplace an accident as the slip of the hand that hits the wrong button. The most notorious example being Kirk's court-martial in Star Trek:TOS.
So that's a DVD install of your favourite distro, some web browsing, a couple youtubes, and you're over the limit.
EVDO is for surfing the web on your cell-phone. You want to download ISOs over a mobile - tracking - connection? Then pay the big bucks for enterprise wireless or satellite.
Companies are slowing evolving into lawyer-based companies
Those who remember Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon" will also remember Harriman's admiration of the fine print on a Western Union telegram --- which absolved the company of responsibility for errors or delays in transmission and delivery.
Companies have always been lawyer-based.
That is how you define and limit your legal and financial exposure.
here were also lots of light rail cars, electric and horse drawn before those. 'El' lines along with subways.
And they were, by and large, crowded and smelly - and didn't run door-to-door.
The geek has a post-card view of the past.
Horses had to be replaced every two hours or so -- meaning you needed to maintain eight to ten horses for each car. 8,000 horses for the largest systems. The Horse Car Era.
Each horse unloading 22 pounds of shit onto the streets each day.
The truth is most of these train lines were purchased by subsidiary companies of GM (General Motors) and the oil industry. They systematically dismantled them. Local routes were replaced by buses. Basically they encouraged the movement of every american to purchase their own automobile...
The Model T Ford cost about a penny a mile to operate.
In an era when a loaf of bread cost four cents and a quart of milk eight.
The reality is that the street car, the inter-urban, and passenger rail generally were in trouble before World War One.
But the new DST is probably here to stay -- letting the bill expire would mean re-patching a lot of systems again next year. So much for saving energy.
tell me again why you don't write a patch that makes it trivially easy to incorporate changes in local zone time?
I wonder why animated sci-fi was not included in the same vote. For example anime series such as Cowboy Bebop and Trigun could very easily compete with Serenity and Star Wars in all departments, especially in story and characters.
Of course they could.
The problem is that is that in the states The Simpsons is the only animated series that has ever received significant prime time exposure and recognition. on a major network.
The only prime time animated series to escape being Foxed into extinction.
It isn't as if the "western" product can't be damn good. Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Reboot in 1994. There is nothing wrong in Disney that couldn't be fixed if their writers and animators were given a freer hand. UnOfficial AmDrag Blog!
But an adult will never see any of this stuff unless he actively seeks it out.
So, in other words, it's ok for me to pay $400 for a new, standards-certified, HD-DVD player and then $30.00 each for HD-DVD-labeled movies, but I shouldn't expect them to work together?
There is a price to be paid when you are an early adopter. Edison's first commercial wax cylinders [1880s] were anything but flawless. Phonograph cylinder
This may work as a cheaper more portable option for storm chasers like me who like to have the weather channel on the go
If you are serious about this sort of thing - and you'd had better be serious, given the risks - what you need is a tracking antenna for your vehicle. TracVision Mobile Sattelite $2000-$3000.
When I go camping (usually 2 or 3 weeks a year), I don't take anything electronic except a cellphone, but even that stays turned off and in the backpack. if you are going to camp, then camp, otherwise just stay at home. Seriously.
One of my favorites: "... To summarize, the people who want to lead the government, are, by virtue of wanting to lead, the least qualified to do so. To summarize the summary: people are a problem."
This is just Plato's dream of a philosopher-king given a fresh coat of paint.
the image from New Orleans are clearly pre-Katrina, and are in fact the same images used by maps.google.com (the cars are all in the same places on the roads, for instance.)
Then it becomes fair to ask the question: Of what use is a mapping service if it significantly distorts the reality on the ground?
It's pretty pathetic that Wal-Mart did more to help the victims of Katrina than the US FEMA did, in the terms of cash and donated goods.
"Wal-Mart has given $17 million in cash, the largest corporate cash contribution to date, in addition to $3 million in products.
{USA Today] reports there are advantages to donating products instead of cash. The Internal Revenue Service allows a tax deduction greater than the products' costs..." Corporate Katrina gifts could top $1B September 13, 2005
FEMA provided about $6 billion dollars in aid directly to Katrina victims Katrina fraud cases
If anyone's read James Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds", they'd be familiar with a story in which a lost ship was located by tabulating/averaging the guesses from individuals (most with no search and rescue experience)
So, how many times has this "experiment" been replicated?
How is the problem defined and explained for the non-specialist?
In a random throw of the darts, I can usually hit the bull's eye. If you make the target big enough and let me move up real close.
if the distribution is any good, then magazines will start to include it on their CD/DVDs and then downloading/burning the image won't be needed either
Magazines? What magazines? When was the last time you saw a general-interest PC magazine on the racks?
I know that most of the crowd around here will be thrilled.. But I do wonder how broad the market actually is for this..
Time for the geek to put up or shut up.
There will be no stuffing the ballot box when it comes time to count sales.
Linux tanked for Walmart in the consumer market. If Linux tanks for Dell in the consumer market, you won't see any of the big boys picking up the ball anytime soon.
The lack of the MS tax will be great, but I have to wonder how many 'regular joes' and 'mom and pops' will try it out. We all know the stories about people setting up their parents with it, but that comes with an implied, and personal support system.
Too often the Slashdot conversion story can be filed under the less attractive heading of "undue influence." The appeal to authority, loyalty to your child, or out-and-out bullying. "It's my way or the highway."
the MS tax
I'll argue here as I have argued before that talk of the "Microsoft Tax" is lunatic.
The consumer PC market is at its core middle class. It is not a technical market. It is not a hobbyist market. The OEM Microsoft system install serves its needs very well.
The Dual-Core Toshiba Vista Premium laptop is $900.
The cost of the OEM Windows install is simply not a deal-breaker. When you buy from Target, you expect DVD play and Windows PC gaming out-of-the-box. That is something OEM Linux can't give you and still remain free-as-in-beer.
If the Linux desktop sells 1,000 units and the identical Windows desktop 100,000 units, which do you think gets the discount price and the big push in direct sales and big box retail?
2. I'm not aware of a single case having gone to trial
It worries me that the typical Slashdot poster has so little grasp of the most basic distinctions between civil and criminal law. The workings of a court. The way a judge thinks. The way a jury thinks.
Is this letter and letters like it the silver bullet that stops an RIAA lawsuit?
You win some, you lose some.
Posters here respond to the handful of stories that show the rights' agencies at their most vulnerable. But there is no running tally of the thousands - tens of thousands - of settlements which are paid out without much argument or fuss.
You may learn how to win your case here - but you won't learn how to lose your case here.
You might find a lawyer willing to chance an aggressive - and costly defense.
You might be willing to commit to two years of litigation. You might become the next poster child for the EFF. You might recover your costs. You might win the tri-state lottery.
More likely you will resign yourself to a schedule of monthly payments and a diet of mac and cheese. Only 1% of federal civil cases end a bench or jury verdict - which means you can forget about jury nullification. You will never get that far.
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Without first comparing prices, quality of service, and service contracts? I don't think so.
This isn't how CNN's (female) anchors reacted when the story hit. This isn't how the story played out world-wide.
Too often the geek reinforces the stereotypes that do him the most harm.
wonderful.
as if open source isn't sufficiently burdened by a reputation for infantile Animal House frat-fights
Heinlein's Universe and Methuselah's Children exposes the problems more clearly.
The starships are sub-light.
The controls and displays must remain operational for decades -- centuries, more likely.
You cannot assume an infinite supply of spare parts or crewmen skilled in making the necessary repairs.
Nor can you risk so commonplace an accident as the slip of the hand that hits the wrong button. The most notorious example being Kirk's court-martial in Star Trek:TOS.
EVDO is for surfing the web on your cell-phone. You want to download ISOs over a mobile - tracking - connection? Then pay the big bucks for enterprise wireless or satellite.
Those who remember Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon" will also remember Harriman's admiration of the fine print on a Western Union telegram --- which absolved the company of responsibility for errors or delays in transmission and delivery.
Companies have always been lawyer-based.
That is how you define and limit your legal and financial exposure.
And they were, by and large, crowded and smelly - and didn't run door-to-door.
The geek has a post-card view of the past.
Horses had to be replaced every two hours or so -- meaning you needed to maintain eight to ten horses for each car. 8,000 horses for the largest systems. The Horse Car Era.
Each horse unloading 22 pounds of shit onto the streets each day.
In New York in 1908 horse droppings were described as the breeding grounds for sixteen billion flies. The old gray mare was not the ecological marvel, in American cities, that horse lovers like to believe.
The Model T Ford cost about a penny a mile to operate.
In an era when a loaf of bread cost four cents and a quart of milk eight.
The reality is that the street car, the inter-urban, and passenger rail generally were in trouble before World War One.
tell me again why you don't write a patch that makes it trivially easy to incorporate changes in local zone time?
Of course they could.
The problem is that is that in the states The Simpsons is the only animated series that has ever received significant prime time exposure and recognition. on a major network.
The only prime time animated series to escape being Foxed into extinction.
It isn't as if the "western" product can't be damn good. Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Reboot in 1994. There is nothing wrong in Disney that couldn't be fixed if their writers and animators were given a freer hand. UnOfficial AmDrag Blog!
But an adult will never see any of this stuff unless he actively seeks it out.
This is silly on both counts.
Market share that is gained and held over twenty-five years implies loyalty and demands respect whether the geek is willing to admit it or not.
There is a price to be paid when you are an early adopter. Edison's first commercial wax cylinders [1880s] were anything but flawless. Phonograph cylinder
If you are serious about this sort of thing - and you'd had better be serious, given the risks - what you need is a tracking antenna for your vehicle. TracVision Mobile Sattelite $2000-$3000.
For a lot of folks - and not all of them seniors - the RV or the boat is where you live, it is where you work. Mobile Internet Satellite. Magellan Ground Control
Then there are the purists who would claim that line-of-sight to a tower is not really camping.
This is just Plato's dream of a philosopher-king given a fresh coat of paint.
in the corporate world - where the cowboy can cost his boss some serious money - the chances are good someone will care.
Then it becomes fair to ask the question: Of what use is a mapping service if it significantly distorts the reality on the ground?
"Wal-Mart has given $17 million in cash, the largest corporate cash contribution to date, in addition to $3 million in products.
{USA Today] reports there are advantages to donating products instead of cash. The Internal Revenue Service allows a tax deduction greater than the products' costs..." Corporate Katrina gifts could top $1B September 13, 2005
FEMA provided about $6 billion dollars in aid directly to Katrina victims Katrina fraud cases
either make something new of the joke or retire it.
So, how many times has this "experiment" been replicated?
How is the problem defined and explained for the non-specialist? In a random throw of the darts, I can usually hit the bull's eye. If you make the target big enough and let me move up real close.
Magazines? What magazines? When was the last time you saw a general-interest PC magazine on the racks?
Time for the geek to put up or shut up.
There will be no stuffing the ballot box when it comes time to count sales.
Linux tanked for Walmart in the consumer market. If Linux tanks for Dell in the consumer market, you won't see any of the big boys picking up the ball anytime soon.
The lack of the MS tax will be great, but I have to wonder how many 'regular joes' and 'mom and pops' will try it out. We all know the stories about people setting up their parents with it, but that comes with an implied, and personal support system.
Too often the Slashdot conversion story can be filed under the less attractive heading of "undue influence." The appeal to authority, loyalty to your child, or out-and-out bullying. "It's my way or the highway."
the MS tax
I'll argue here as I have argued before that talk of the "Microsoft Tax" is lunatic.
The consumer PC market is at its core middle class. It is not a technical market. It is not a hobbyist market. The OEM Microsoft system install serves its needs very well.
The Dual-Core Toshiba Vista Premium laptop is $900.
The cost of the OEM Windows install is simply not a deal-breaker. When you buy from Target, you expect DVD play and Windows PC gaming out-of-the-box. That is something OEM Linux can't give you and still remain free-as-in-beer.
If the Linux desktop sells 1,000 units and the identical Windows desktop 100,000 units, which do you think gets the discount price and the big push in direct sales and big box retail?
It worries me that the typical Slashdot poster has so little grasp of the most basic distinctions between civil and criminal law. The workings of a court. The way a judge thinks. The way a jury thinks.
The PC as a out-sized home theater component was probably miscast.
You win some, you lose some.
Posters here respond to the handful of stories that show the rights' agencies at their most vulnerable. But there is no running tally of the thousands - tens of thousands - of settlements which are paid out without much argument or fuss.
You may learn how to win your case here - but you won't learn how to lose your case here.
You might find a lawyer willing to chance an aggressive - and costly defense.
You might be willing to commit to two years of litigation. You might become the next poster child for the EFF. You might recover your costs. You might win the tri-state lottery.
More likely you will resign yourself to a schedule of monthly payments and a diet of mac and cheese. Only 1% of federal civil cases end a bench or jury verdict - which means you can forget about jury nullification. You will never get that far.