This could be VERY dangerous. The first time a six year old who doesn't know any better puts his hand in the mouth of the dinosaur, and the gears in it cut his hand off, Disney is slapped with a $500 million dollar lawsuit, and you won't see these things ever again.
Just ignorance, nothing more
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"One of them is Linus Torvalds, chosen for his work in on Linux and 'Open Source'. Too bad RMS or Saint Ignuciuis he wasn't chosen, even though he was recommended."
The reason for the overlooking of the real developers of Linux such as RMS is the same reason as Tim Berners-Lee is credited with "inventing" the internet, when obvious evidence suggests otherwise. The American public is, at the base, ignorant of computers.
They think it is possible for only one person to invent the Internet, when geeks like us know the underlying protocols demand more than one inventor.
It is the same way with Linus and RMS, with RMS creating most of the base for Linux, but since Linus was the original bootloader writer, people assume he "invented" Linux, while overlooking the more important luminaries.
"Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold"
In other words, Chris Gulker is a professional troller.
Live concert recordings usually aren't that good, so this is analgous to them seeling a a 64kbps MP3. While it may get spread around, the recording is bad enough that it publicizes the band but still ensures users will want to hear a better studio recording.
1. The husband is usually the big breadwinner in the family (trying not being sexist) 2. This guy had a family 3. He dies 4. ??? 5. GIVE HIS LIFE'S WORK AWAY? NO
"3DRealms gave us an early Christmas present this year: they've released the complete Rise of the Triad source code in memory of William Scarboro, one of the game programmers who died earlier this year."
Somehow, I have a feeling William Scarboro would be happier with a $1 donation for the source code to his family than a free giveaway of one of his greatest works.
"'Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.' Could this be grounds for another anti-trust suit against Microsoft?"
1. They have the document spec closed 2. No legal repercussions! 3. They make it more open. (of their own free will) 4. Antitrust suit! 5. ??? 6. Laughed out of court!
It will help matters extremely well. But, after a couple weeks the 5 slashdot readers who actually do boycott the media will realize that no one else in the world is, give up
The Hindenburg and Goodyear blimps ruined the good name of blimp forever. Now were are reduced to puzzling out such obtuse synonyms as "spherical airships".
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"What, they're going to vote for anyone else on the list? Hardly..."
My point exactly.
Wanky groupthink doesn't foster anything positive.
Does everyone really think the RIAA is evil for not letting people get away with piracy, or is this just the usual wanky groupthink?
This could be VERY dangerous. The first time a six year old who doesn't know any better puts his hand in the mouth of the dinosaur, and the gears in it cut his hand off, Disney is slapped with a $500 million dollar lawsuit, and you won't see these things ever again.
"One of them is Linus Torvalds, chosen for his work in on Linux and 'Open Source'. Too bad RMS or Saint Ignuciuis he wasn't chosen, even though he was recommended."
The reason for the overlooking of the real developers of Linux such as RMS is the same reason as Tim Berners-Lee is credited with "inventing" the internet, when obvious evidence suggests otherwise. The American public is, at the base, ignorant of computers.
They think it is possible for only one person to invent the Internet, when geeks like us know the underlying protocols demand more than one inventor.
It is the same way with Linus and RMS, with RMS creating most of the base for Linux, but since Linus was the original bootloader writer, people assume he "invented" Linux, while overlooking the more important luminaries.
why won't they protect their own companies from their property being stolen?
Previews 6 months before the movie, geez.
Overhype maybe?
A Handspring Treo using Windows CE!
"just a challange to be more innovative and look beyond feature creap and UI concepts that are old and tired."
Well, before Mr. Dvorak challegened the developers, maybe he should have come up with some UI concepts that are new and exciting.
2D UI has become pretty much perfected, there is almost no way to improve upon it.
"Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold"
In other words, Chris Gulker is a professional troller.
"Where's the fucking logic?"
It's free and open.
Please name a viable alternative that is as useful and free.
I can't write a comment, I'm leaving for CompUSA to buy all remaining 802.11b transmitters + receivers!
People claiming that someone copied DRM.
"Virtual keyboards, DWDM, broadband connections using powerlines, wearable computers, free-space optics, low-power devices, UltraWideBand, voice over 802.11b"
anyways, back to all these technologies being overkill...
Live concert recordings usually aren't that good, so this is analgous to them seeling a a 64kbps MP3. While it may get spread around, the recording is bad enough that it publicizes the band but still ensures users will want to hear a better studio recording.
I'm downloading 512kbps version songs of my entire library right now to avoid this!
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if you don't know who Jon Edwards is, a simple google search (cache) will show you.
1. The husband is usually the big breadwinner in the family (trying not being sexist)
2. This guy had a family
3. He dies
4. ???
5. GIVE HIS LIFE'S WORK AWAY?
NO
4. ???
5. Help out his family!
"3DRealms gave us an early Christmas present this year: they've released the complete Rise of the Triad source code in memory of William Scarboro, one of the game programmers who died earlier this year."
Somehow, I have a feeling William Scarboro would be happier with a $1 donation for the source code to his family than a free giveaway of one of his greatest works.
"Too bad, too. It was a very cool-looking plane"
So, if it looks cool, you should make it?
Windows 95 looked cool too, until you met the BSOD!
AOL already does this!
I want to post, but there is so much to post about it!
So, I'm just posting to recommend ending quickies, because they're too hard to post to.
"'Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.' Could this be grounds for another anti-trust suit against Microsoft?"
1. They have the document spec closed
2. No legal repercussions!
3. They make it more open. (of their own free will)
4. Antitrust suit!
5. ???
6. Laughed out of court!
Intel lets me buy a motherboard and stick their chip in without paying them, why should I pay Transmeta?
It will help matters extremely well.
But, after a couple weeks the 5 slashdot readers who actually do boycott the media will realize that no one else in the world is, give up
"spherical airships"
The Hindenburg and Goodyear blimps ruined the good name of blimp forever. Now were are reduced to puzzling out such obtuse synonyms as "spherical airships".