"Umbrello Competes with Commercial Alternatives 14/10/2003
Poseidon and at least one other company have bought Umbrello as AdWords on Google. We would like to thank these companies for acknowledging that our Free Software competes with their proprietary and commercial offerings."
Why is everyone so obsesses with Apple when it comes to G5? What does Apple have to do with the G5?! This is the kiddie version of IBM's success CPU named Power4, if I'm not totally incorrect.
Apple, to me, is a group of cosmetologist hangarounds.;)
It is with great sadness I note that my quote from CNN has rececived 50% Offtopic and 50% Overrated moderations, resulting in a "Score:-1, Offtopic". No, I'm not a "karma whore", but, and that is a bloody BIG BUT - giving in to superstition, metaphysics, and supernatural beliefs in general is in no way not part of me.
How the [please insert any popular vulgarism] do people believe information is to spread rapidly through an impoverished polulation and, as from what the CNN article insinuates, an active mob infuriated from superstitious beliefs and with blatant disregard for human rights? No, they probably don't have internet access. Yet, this may be a first step towards a better, more educated world. Nothing more nothing less. There are, as far as I can see it, no fancy strings attached to it. Just a plain, public library.
Please, read the entire article. It IS horrifying. This is from 9th October 2003, not 2003B.C. Please read the entire article in full, again. Please. Besides, how the whats can this be Offtopic?! Here again:
BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said.
A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, some 15 km (nine miles) from the capital Banjul.
Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in the promise of a cure.
The police spokesman said many men in Serekunda were now afraid to shake hands, and he urged people not to believe reports of "vanishing" genitals. Belief in sorcery is widespread in West Africa.
Seven alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs in Ghana in 1997.
BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said.
Call me a cynic, but I am under the impression that without knowledged personnel (i.e. who don't need autowhatever) there will be, almost as sure as a natural law, a corrupt server or an autocrash. Don't do away yourself with knowledge - see what happened in the Windows world.
No, its not in the US. And, he pays about $250 per month. BTW, I'll get my 26Mbit/sec VDSL any week now, $250/month; check out Bostream to see if you live anywhere near their services.
My 73 yo father switched to broadband (10 Mbit/sec), voip, etc some two years ago. He surfs, reads the news, etc. He also pays all his bills via the net and is fighting hard to get me do it too - "Come on, it's really easy", he says. Not only that, know he wants me to install Linux on his machine so "he can see what all the fuzz is about". No, he never had a technical diploma of any sort.
Now, he bugs me with his fancy new voip connection. But, I am sure he never lobbied in Minnesota for their decision.
"XXXX writes "YYYY has finally moved ZZZZ into their new digs. Read about what went into the design of "the ultimate software development environment" from your (my) cube and drool."
What?! "new digs"? Sp34k g33k!;)
The world is full of systematic biologists which uncover relationships (natural history) between organisms every day. The may use DNA, anatomy or even ethology. Why not have a group of them analysing the raw data. Their methods have now been adopted by several linguists.
But, the linguists problems differ from that of most biologists, there is much infiltration of words from various languages into one language, therewith obscuring the true relationship between languages.
Maybe these guys can use an "objective method" to deduce the origins of various code snippets.
Gimme the ads, I'm already used to them though tv, cinema, magazines, newspapers, internet sites, including Slashdot.
This is one of the best commercial ideas for perpetuating a distro's economy I've seen in a long time.
However... However, I sincerely hope they will be able to keep their heads non-pc; i.e. non politically correct, and go for engineering before anything else. I hope.
"Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: 'I am waiting with baited breath for your answer'?"
The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it's so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there's every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: "She hasn't responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath".
It's easy to mock, but there's a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning "reduced, lessened, lowered in force". So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: "Shall I bend low and, in a bondman's key, / With bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness, / Say this...". Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: "Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale".
Torvald's open letter to Darl McBride
on
Back To SCO
·
· Score: 4, Informative
I don't know if I have missed this here on Slashdot, but here it is (again?):
"Open letter to Darl McBride -- please grow up.
Dear Darl,
Thank you so much for your letter.
We are happy that you agree that customers need to know that Open Source is legal and stable, and we heartily agree with that sentence of your letter. The others don't seem to make as much sense, but we find the dialogue refreshing.
However, we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery. We in the Open Source group continue to believe in technology as a way of driving customer interest and demand.
Also, we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about.
All of our source code is out in the open, and we welcome you point to any particular piece you might disagree with.
Until then, please accept our gratitude for your submission,
Yours truly,
Linus Torvalds"
Agreed. Two weeks ago, at my local "used book store", I bought one dozen one to three year old books from the "computer-shelf"; all in all for about 150 USD. No, not the latest or any of the greatest, but still.
Maybe somewhat outdated but still not counted out.
Slashdot Mirror
Umbrello even brags about this:
"Umbrello Competes with Commercial Alternatives 14/10/2003
Poseidon and at least one other company have bought Umbrello as AdWords on Google. We would like to thank these companies for acknowledging that our Free Software competes with their proprietary and commercial offerings."
Here is the evidence:
Pos. Requests Site name Average Max Latest OS Server Netblock Owner
1 13458 www.microsoft.com 51 202 43 Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
2 4098 www.netcraft.com 24 319 7 FreeBSD Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 Netcraft
3 2839 www.google.com 73 172 11 Linux GWS/2.1 Google Inc.
4 2623 www.daiko-lab.co.jp 1613 1660 1661 FreeBSD Apache/1.2.4 Daiko Corporation
5 2356 www.yahoo.com 44 229 79 FreeBSD unknown HotJobs.com, Ltd.
6 2287 microsoft.com 11 137 24 unknown Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Microsoft Corp
7 2250 www.ebay.com - - - NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 eBay, Inc
8 2148 www.hotmail.com 18 198 4 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Microsoft Corp
9 2116 www.apple.com 8 69 25 MacOSX Apache/1.3.28 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.2 Apple Computer, Inc.
10 2012 windowsupdate.microsoft.com 68 242 206 Linux Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Maybe they got hacked. What do I know?
Great feat - IBM!
;)
Why is everyone so obsesses with Apple when it comes to G5? What does Apple have to do with the G5?! This is the kiddie version of IBM's success CPU named Power4, if I'm not totally incorrect.
Apple, to me, is a group of cosmetologist hangarounds.
It is with great sadness I note that my quote from CNN has rececived 50% Offtopic and 50% Overrated moderations, resulting in a "Score:-1, Offtopic". No, I'm not a "karma whore", but, and that is a bloody BIG BUT - giving in to superstition, metaphysics, and supernatural beliefs in general is in no way not part of me.
How the [please insert any popular vulgarism] do people believe information is to spread rapidly through an impoverished polulation and, as from what the CNN article insinuates, an active mob infuriated from superstitious beliefs and with blatant disregard for human rights? No, they probably don't have internet access. Yet, this may be a first step towards a better, more educated world. Nothing more nothing less. There are, as far as I can see it, no fancy strings attached to it. Just a plain, public library.
Please, read the entire article. It IS horrifying. This is from 9th October 2003, not 2003B.C. Please read the entire article in full, again. Please. Besides, how the whats can this be Offtopic?! Here again:
BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said.
A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, some 15 km (nine miles) from the capital Banjul.
Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in the promise of a cure.
The police spokesman said many men in Serekunda were now afraid to shake hands, and he urged people not to believe reports of "vanishing" genitals. Belief in sorcery is widespread in West Africa.
Seven alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs in Ghana in 1997.
Public Libraries are important. With some luck, education of the public may get rid off ignorance and superstition. Here is one of the worst cases I have ever read:
BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said.
Call me a cynic, but I am under the impression that without knowledged personnel (i.e. who don't need autowhatever) there will be, almost as sure as a natural law, a corrupt server or an autocrash. Don't do away yourself with knowledge - see what happened in the Windows world.
No, its not in the US. And, he pays about $250 per month. BTW, I'll get my 26Mbit/sec VDSL any week now, $250/month; check out Bostream to see if you live anywhere near their services.
My 73 yo father switched to broadband (10 Mbit/sec), voip, etc some two years ago. He surfs, reads the news, etc. He also pays all his bills via the net and is fighting hard to get me do it too - "Come on, it's really easy", he says. Not only that, know he wants me to install Linux on his machine so "he can see what all the fuzz is about". No, he never had a technical diploma of any sort.
Now, he bugs me with his fancy new voip connection. But, I am sure he never lobbied in Minnesota for their decision.
Huh? I thought any remark on superfluidity would be redundant. Well, here I am...
For the even more lazy, since June 20 it looks like some have bought shares for a total amount of $2,747,819 ;)
Will we ever hear Birdsong in space?
[Birdsong = Fuglesang = family name of Scandinavian astronaut whose space trip has been postponed three times for various reasons]
Unfortunately, news-googling on SGI and Linux only gives low-key results; i.e. nothing like Reuters, AP, Bloombergs, or NY Times.
"Credit where credit is due."
We'll see about that when this is all done; think - the history of the victorious; it may not be right but it will be the one which is remembered.
I know. But, still...
"XXXX writes "YYYY has finally moved ZZZZ into their new digs. Read about what went into the design of "the ultimate software development environment" from your (my) cube and drool." What?! "new digs"? Sp34k g33k! ;)
"I'm at work and don't have the time to research a link. Anyone care to find this?"
;)
Yes, I care, but I don't have the time, as I am at home; reasons vary...
Kitty should have met Isabel. But, perhaps not, after all. :)
All according to an article the mother-of-all-sources The Inquirer!
Offtopic? Hrrrrrmmm... Well, yes... But severely interestingly so, anyhow!
Galactically yours,
G3ckoG33k
In other news...
Astrologers Upset About Asteroid Panic - "Asteroids have no impact, it is all in your astral aura", claims several known astrologers.
Had you been a cunning linguist, she may had.
Why not use systematic biologist or linguists?
The world is full of systematic biologists which uncover relationships (natural history) between organisms every day. The may use DNA, anatomy or even ethology. Why not have a group of them analysing the raw data. Their methods have now been adopted by several linguists.
But, the linguists problems differ from that of most biologists, there is much infiltration of words from various languages into one language, therewith obscuring the true relationship between languages.
Maybe these guys can use an "objective method" to deduce the origins of various code snippets.
Gimme the ads, I'm already used to them though tv, cinema, magazines, newspapers, internet sites, including Slashdot.
This is one of the best commercial ideas for perpetuating a distro's economy I've seen in a long time.
However... However, I sincerely hope they will be able to keep their heads non-pc; i.e. non politically correct, and go for engineering before anything else. I hope.
The following comes from http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-bai1.htm:
...". Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: "Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale".
"Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: 'I am waiting with baited breath for your answer'?"
The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it's so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there's every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: "She hasn't responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath".
It's easy to mock, but there's a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning "reduced, lessened, lowered in force". So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: "Shall I bend low and, in a bondman's key, / With bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness, / Say this
I don't know if I have missed this here on Slashdot, but here it is (again?):
"Open letter to Darl McBride -- please grow up. Dear Darl, Thank you so much for your letter. We are happy that you agree that customers need to know that Open Source is legal and stable, and we heartily agree with that sentence of your letter. The others don't seem to make as much sense, but we find the dialogue refreshing. However, we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery. We in the Open Source group continue to believe in technology as a way of driving customer interest and demand. Also, we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about. All of our source code is out in the open, and we welcome you point to any particular piece you might disagree with. Until then, please accept our gratitude for your submission, Yours truly, Linus Torvalds"
As seen in an InfoWorld article.
Agreed. Two weeks ago, at my local "used book store", I bought one dozen one to three year old books from the "computer-shelf"; all in all for about 150 USD. No, not the latest or any of the greatest, but still.
Maybe somewhat outdated but still not counted out.