We are (an unnamed) large computer services company and we use openSSH but the licence made our legal department throw fits. The wording in it is strange and basically says "I'm not sure what's in this code and there may be things that are or are not someone else's intellectual property but if anyone comes after you legally than I'm out of it..."
Before that we used F-Secure's SSH as a commercial version. It works great but is clearly more expensive than FREE.
You get interviewed and show up to work in someone's apartment. You see two or three no neck dudes with roid range towering over you telling you to do shit. Nobody really knows how you're making money and all the conversations are about (more or less) breaking the law. Your job is how to steal from customers and lie about it. Your boss tells you your new job is to produce a 'movie' in the apartment. Days go by when the bosses arent't around and when they are they're threatening to kick you ass and fuck your shit up.
So tell me why you work for this operation again? Are you so fucking deluded about making a krazillion dollars that you will literally eat shit, give head and fork over your lunch money to a psychopath to get it?
I'm calling on all open source folks to email their MS code back to MS. Until there is a law or Consitutional ammendment that says I have to use their stuff I say we should have the option of returning it back to them if we don't want it.
The average price of a CD is $19. That's right, $19. And some Phish CD's were $26. Sale items marked $17. And there is no difference whether the CD you're looking for is 14 years old or 14 days. Nineteen Bucks.
They need to gargle sulphur in hell while their children are eaten by Rhinos. Long live musci sharing.
That's fine as long as the ISP wants to negotiate a CIR with me. Otherwise they are stealing from me! When they say broadband it should have to be enforceable in a contract and none of this best effort shit.
this is so not PKD
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In PKD's world even the future is grimy, scratched, the windows are sandscored plastic, the light is yellow, the blue plastic chairs have cig burns on them. There is either mass transit or shitty old cars. You breathe in dust and brown smoke. The best things in life are somewhere else and the worst prison in the world is in your own brain.
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Not to my kids satisfaction there isn't
Desktop MVS is dead too.
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I'm not sure what 'Linux is dead' is representative of though. Compared to what? I thought home networking was the next big thing. If that's true then you'll see MORE linux in home use not less. Anyone running basic LAN services or their own mail server is more than likely going to do it with an old PC and Linux. You don't need a desktop for that (unless you like to config stuff that way..) I'm not sure that someone would build an entire W2K machine with a legitimate licence just for file serving? Maybe they would, maybe I'm just cheap.
At any rate there a few things Linux is not good at:
AOLIM Burning CD's Playing popular game/entertainment titles. Supporting the home Encyclopedia/Bartlett's Supporting MS office email attachments Any kind of demoware you get in the mail Getting broadbad ISP support - AOL. Earthlink (oh you have Lunix? click.)
Of course it begs the question that if Linux COULD do all of that would it not become Windows anyway and lose the reliability, stability and low horsepower requirements that make you want to use it to begin with? It would become..... Apple?
Honestly does anyone believe this is anything more than the usual 3 years early pre development hype? Software companies now take the tack that they talk about developing something before they try and then use the feedback as market research. It's a kind of reality check combined with mindshare.
Software likes to think of itself as 'engineering' but it's not. It's not structured, it's not methodical, it's not repeatable, it's not quanitatively quality controlled, it's not maintainable, it's not documented correctly, it's not impervious to new flaws after it's finished, it's never finished.
Project managers don't, requirements assessments can't, cost estimates are from Mistress Cleo. Nobody understands what success is supposed look like and no one can tell the difference between success and failure.
It's neither mass produced art nor is it artistic engineering nor is it special or inciteful. It's an ordinary product made by people who have to be extraordinary simply to overcome all of it's other failures. It's the dancing bear - interesting not because it dances so well but because it dances at all. It is a controlled crash.
That law is to protect the county from sweetheart deals where the procurement manager suddenly gets an all expense paid trip to Bermuda in exchange for the bid. It has nothing to do with the culpability of MS or not.
Wow. I can't hardly wait for the behind the scenes DVD bonus disk with 5 hours of extra material including interviews with people you never heard of and aren't too sure WTF they do. I especially like the 13 alternate endings to Road Trip. And what about that 'Making Blair Witch 4" which is 90 minutes of heavy breathing with the lens cap left on.
All DVD will do is further collapse the movie industry so that it makes and sells the dumbdownest T&A teen gross out action explosion R&B/HipHop video tie in buy the happy meal while listening to the soundtrack that's not on the movie anyway handjob.
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Yeah that's when I'll start to think there's problem that needs to be address, REGARDLESS of the reason. When the salmon come come out of the water already poached. When the birds drop out of the sky already deep fried.
Or when Mr. Cheney tells me, whichever comes first.
This is the kind of horseshit that causes people and countries to refuse to comply with 'international courts and tribunals'.
Everyone thinks the whole world is as civilized as they are but they're not. So what we should do is if one of our citizens is extradited and imprisoned in Zimbabwe, we should arrest and imprison every Zimbabwean living here and cut off all diplomatic relations with the country that extradited that person, with and economic embargo to follow.
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Get naked and start the revolution !!!
China? What?
mmmmm yeah that's what I'm talkin bout.
That's why you nimnertz!!!! For like 1 whole dollar more I can get the whole fucking concert in home theater sound vs. the audio CD.
The whole music industry is run by retarded drunken monkeys and they deserve nothing short of flaming death.
The greatest Kung Fu. They are unbeatable.
Who fucking cares.
We are (an unnamed) large computer services company and we use openSSH but the licence made our legal department throw fits. The wording in it is strange and basically says "I'm not sure what's in this code and there may be things that are or are not someone else's intellectual property but if anyone comes after you legally than I'm out of it..."
Before that we used F-Secure's SSH as a commercial version. It works great but is clearly more expensive than FREE.
The peasant pushed a button and killed you only you don't know it yet.
hmmmmmm one MILLION!!!! PC's, eh what's that? Throw me a frickin bone people!
one BILLION PCs, bwahahahahahaha !!!!
You get interviewed and show up to work in someone's apartment. You see two or three no neck dudes with roid range towering over you telling you to do shit. Nobody really knows how you're making money and all the conversations are about (more or less) breaking the law. Your job is how to steal from customers and lie about it. Your boss tells you your new job is to produce a 'movie' in the apartment. Days go by when the bosses arent't around and when they are they're threatening to kick you ass and fuck your shit up.
So tell me why you work for this operation again? Are you so fucking deluded about making a krazillion dollars that you will literally eat shit, give head and fork over your lunch money to a psychopath to get it?
I'm calling on all open source folks to email their MS code back to MS. Until there is a law or Consitutional ammendment that says I have to use their stuff I say we should have the option of returning it back to them if we don't want it.
The average price of a CD is $19. That's right, $19. And some Phish CD's were $26. Sale items marked $17. And there is no difference whether the CD you're looking for is 14 years old or 14 days. Nineteen Bucks.
They need to gargle sulphur in hell while their children are eaten by Rhinos. Long live musci sharing.
That's fine as long as the ISP wants to negotiate a CIR with me. Otherwise they are stealing from me! When they say broadband it should have to be enforceable in a contract and none of this best effort shit.
In PKD's world even the future is grimy, scratched, the windows are sandscored plastic, the light is yellow, the blue plastic chairs have cig burns on them. There is either mass transit or shitty old cars. You breathe in dust and brown smoke. The best things in life are somewhere else and the worst prison in the world is in your own brain.
Not to my kids satisfaction there isn't
I'm not sure what 'Linux is dead' is representative of though. Compared to what? I thought home networking was the next big thing. If that's true then you'll see MORE linux in home use not less. Anyone running basic LAN services or their own mail server is more than likely going to do it with an old PC and Linux. You don't need a desktop for that (unless you like to config stuff that way..) I'm not sure that someone would build an entire W2K machine with a legitimate licence just for file serving? Maybe they would, maybe I'm just cheap.
At any rate there a few things Linux is not good at:
AOLIM
Burning CD's
Playing popular game/entertainment titles.
Supporting the home Encyclopedia/Bartlett's
Supporting MS office email attachments
Any kind of demoware you get in the mail
Getting broadbad ISP support - AOL. Earthlink (oh you have Lunix? click.)
Of course it begs the question that if Linux COULD do all of that would it not become Windows anyway and lose the reliability, stability and low horsepower requirements that make you want to use it to begin with? It would become..... Apple?
Honestly does anyone believe this is anything more than the usual 3 years early pre development hype? Software companies now take the tack that they talk about developing something before they try and then use the feedback as market research. It's a kind of reality check combined with mindshare.
'Ring ring'
'Hello?'
'It's me, I'm at the store, do you want ceiling fixtures that look like THIS?'
'Nah that's the wrong shape, find something octagonal'
'MMMk - ciao!'
Have you read James Perrow's "Normal Accidents"? A treatment of systems so complex that failure is built in and guaranteed.
Software likes to think of itself as 'engineering' but it's not. It's not structured, it's not methodical, it's not repeatable, it's not quanitatively quality controlled, it's not maintainable, it's not documented correctly, it's not impervious to new flaws after it's finished, it's never finished.
Project managers don't, requirements assessments can't, cost estimates are from Mistress Cleo. Nobody understands what success is supposed look like and no one can tell the difference between success and failure.
It's neither mass produced art nor is it artistic engineering nor is it special or inciteful. It's an ordinary product made by people who have to be extraordinary simply to overcome all of it's other failures. It's the dancing bear - interesting not because it dances so well but because it dances at all. It is a controlled crash.
That law is to protect the county from sweetheart deals where the procurement manager suddenly gets an all expense paid trip to Bermuda in exchange for the bid. It has nothing to do with the culpability of MS or not.
Wow. I can't hardly wait for the behind the scenes DVD bonus disk with 5 hours of extra material including interviews with people you never heard of and aren't too sure WTF they do. I especially like the 13 alternate endings to Road Trip. And what about that 'Making Blair Witch 4" which is 90 minutes of heavy breathing with the lens cap left on.
All DVD will do is further collapse the movie industry so that it makes and sells the dumbdownest T&A teen gross out action explosion R&B/HipHop video tie in buy the happy meal while listening to the soundtrack that's not on the movie anyway handjob.
Yeah that's when I'll start to think there's problem that needs to be address, REGARDLESS of the reason. When the salmon come come out of the water already poached. When the birds drop out of the sky already deep fried.
Or when Mr. Cheney tells me, whichever comes first.
No, there is no moral high ground. A country that can't or won't protect its own citizens from capricious tyranny is no country at all
This is the kind of horseshit that causes people and countries to refuse to comply with 'international courts and tribunals'.
Everyone thinks the whole world is as civilized as they are but they're not. So what we should do is if one of our citizens is extradited and imprisoned in Zimbabwe, we should arrest and imprison every Zimbabwean living here and cut off all diplomatic relations with the country that extradited that person, with and economic embargo to follow.