Our building is faraday caged so phones dont bother them, although we are meant to switch them off when inside (to prevent interference). However cameras are a fireable offense and have to be checked at the main site gate (1.5 miles from the place where I work).
When I was 8-15 or so I pirated every game I played. My parents sure as hell wouldn't have paid for them.
This year alone I have paid nearly $200 for computer games and we are only 5 months in. I will probably carry on spending about this much for the rest of my life.
Is this adequate compensation for getting me into video games and computing? I happen to think so. Piracy amongst the young should be tolerated (but not legalised because these things are a hell of a lot more fun when they are illegal) as long as they do it themselves rather than buying it from someone else.
If artists get a cut (more than the RIAA approved 1%) then I'm all for it.
If, on the other hand, it's artists only chance to make real money getting fucked over by yet another greedy corp (in this case Clear Channel the venue owners in a lot of places), then it's a bit much.
Perhaps for his next trick he will stand outside RIAA/MPAA headquaters holding a 6 foot neon sign that says SUE ME AGAIN!
I hope that eventually someone incorporates this code into a iTunes client for Linux, as it would be nice to be able to buy music from iTMS but I have no desire to buy a Mac.
The military seem to think that micromanagement of small units remotley is not a great decision as 1) it removes general's attention from the big picture 2) it removes leadership from the unit officer who has to gain the trust of his men and keep it.
Instead the complex information systems seem to be more geared up to provide line officers with the same information the generals see so that they can consider more factors (without undue performance penalty) in making their own decisions. For example if they can see a tank brigade over the hill in their link from Dark Star/Division Intelligence, they sure as hell will chose to sit on the ridge with anti tank rockets rather than saunter over holding machine guns and not expecting any trouble.
Then make the penalty $10,000 for every 10th lawsuit you lose IF you have lost more than 5 of your last 10 lawsuits.
Wouldn't harm genuine litigators, would scare the crap out of people like SCO.
Also make sure you fine the lawyers the same ammount as the defendant to stop them pushing stupid fucking shit through the courts without any regard for ethics.
Looks like a decent replacement for lego for my kids now they are a bit old (7) for technic.
Of course when they get old enough to be left unsupervised with a soldering iron in a year or two I'll be introducing them to the joys of roll your own serial and ISA devices, but up until now there doesn't seem to have been a decent stop gap.
Usable for me is being able to read the man page once, write a script to automate it, and never have to look at the damn thing again until someone comes up with a better widget that does what I need faster/cheaper/better.
Pointy flashy clicky things just distract from getting real work done.
If all text (tagged by URL) was dumped into one file per month and made searchable.
That way when I am trying to remember where I saw the instructions for the excell driving game shown on Slashdot earlier I would only have to search the text I have seen, not try and use google (too many hits) or search by thumbnails and page titles... useless since it was posted in a pretty much unrelated subject.
Between Microsofts marketing attempts - Windows ME, the BSOD on stage, the DOCs with changes in them that insult users or other companties - it almost seems like Microsoft marketing is trying not to sell to users.
It would be fantastic to find out that MS is actually some kind of joke gone wrong. Like,
"Hey, lets make a really bad operating system and see what happens." "Holy cow, they are buying it!" "Man, thats insane, lets make another one and see if they still fall for it." "Jesys, can't these people learn? I know, lets hype up something that doesnt exist and then not bother releasing it." "Woah, demand is so high we can afford to pay for it to be made." "Why not, but insert some easter eggs that make it crash. That should let them realise it's all a big farce."
HP actually support their hardware pretty well on Linux. For example:
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
They sponsor development and supply information, and the resulting drivers are Free and free software. Pretty much all HP printers (including things like the USB flash memory drives on newer models) have robust Linux drivers.
The whole point about Linux is that we can Do It Ourselves, we don't want crappy binary drivers to come in the box, we just need the spec and we will design our own that can be distributed with the kernel, cups, or wherever else. A bit of support in doing this is even better.
By the time the figure something out I'm sure I'll have thought of something to fill up 5gb too. Mind you, I don't know if I'll be able to fit a DVDRW into my Atari...
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Our building is faraday caged so phones dont bother them, although we are meant to switch them off when inside (to prevent interference). However cameras are a fireable offense and have to be checked at the main site gate (1.5 miles from the place where I work).
We'll give Microsoft the code and they can make any changes they like. We won't even charge them for it.
Politicans fuck over the electorate. Film at 11.
Cron baby!
Auto order pizza every 12th minute past the 9th hour on tuesdays, wednesdays (and fridays if it's march).
When I was 8-15 or so I pirated every game I played. My parents sure as hell wouldn't have paid for them.
This year alone I have paid nearly $200 for computer games and we are only 5 months in. I will probably carry on spending about this much for the rest of my life.
Is this adequate compensation for getting me into video games and computing? I happen to think so. Piracy amongst the young should be tolerated (but not legalised because these things are a hell of a lot more fun when they are illegal) as long as they do it themselves rather than buying it from someone else.
If artists get a cut (more than the RIAA approved 1%) then I'm all for it.
If, on the other hand, it's artists only chance to make real money getting fucked over by yet another greedy corp (in this case Clear Channel the venue owners in a lot of places), then it's a bit much.
Can't go to the USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia or China.
Well, I guess if Russia doesn't work out for us liberty loving types we can always head for Mars.
AC beats computers (by cooling).
Electricity company beats AC (by huge bills).
Computers beat electricity company (by cracking the customer database).
It's a whole new game for the summer folks!
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/d ilbert2004042261455.jpg
A somewhat odd view... does anyone know which big music firm United Media (the Dilbert owners) is affiliated with?
Perhaps for his next trick he will stand outside RIAA/MPAA headquaters holding a 6 foot neon sign that says SUE ME AGAIN!
I hope that eventually someone incorporates this code into a iTunes client for Linux, as it would be nice to be able to buy music from iTMS but I have no desire to buy a Mac.
The military seem to think that micromanagement of small units remotley is not a great decision as 1) it removes general's attention from the big picture 2) it removes leadership from the unit officer who has to gain the trust of his men and keep it.
Instead the complex information systems seem to be more geared up to provide line officers with the same information the generals see so that they can consider more factors (without undue performance penalty) in making their own decisions. For example if they can see a tank brigade over the hill in their link from Dark Star/Division Intelligence, they sure as hell will chose to sit on the ridge with anti tank rockets rather than saunter over holding machine guns and not expecting any trouble.
Boy are they going to be pissed when they discover that god mode doesn't work in the real world.
Then make the penalty $10,000 for every 10th lawsuit you lose IF you have lost more than 5 of your last 10 lawsuits.
Wouldn't harm genuine litigators, would scare the crap out of people like SCO.
Also make sure you fine the lawyers the same ammount as the defendant to stop them pushing stupid fucking shit through the courts without any regard for ethics.
The robocup (real football/socer) people use 23cm diameter max robots. The american football people use 5 foot robots.
:o)
Bet the american football robots still insist on wearing body armour. Bunch of old women
Looks like a decent replacement for lego for my kids now they are a bit old (7) for technic.
Of course when they get old enough to be left unsupervised with a soldering iron in a year or two I'll be introducing them to the joys of roll your own serial and ISA devices, but up until now there doesn't seem to have been a decent stop gap.
Usable for me is being able to read the man page once, write a script to automate it, and never have to look at the damn thing again until someone comes up with a better widget that does what I need faster/cheaper/better.
Pointy flashy clicky things just distract from getting real work done.
All those people who flush their cache+history once per day to erase their porn hunting tracks won't be able to use this.
If all text (tagged by URL) was dumped into one file per month and made searchable.
That way when I am trying to remember where I saw the instructions for the excell driving game shown on Slashdot earlier I would only have to search the text I have seen, not try and use google (too many hits) or search by thumbnails and page titles... useless since it was posted in a pretty much unrelated subject.
Between Microsofts marketing attempts - Windows ME, the BSOD on stage, the DOCs with changes in them that insult users or other companties - it almost seems like Microsoft marketing is trying not to sell to users.
It would be fantastic to find out that MS is actually some kind of joke gone wrong. Like,
"Hey, lets make a really bad operating system and see what happens."
"Holy cow, they are buying it!"
"Man, thats insane, lets make another one and see if they still fall for it."
"Jesys, can't these people learn? I know, lets hype up something that doesnt exist and then not bother releasing it."
"Woah, demand is so high we can afford to pay for it to be made."
"Why not, but insert some easter eggs that make it crash. That should let them realise it's all a big farce."
When Microsoft is sued out of existance by China, the EU and Asia for anicompetative practice there will still be support for Open Office.
I'll have you know I've been wearing a VAX since the mid 70s.
Mobile power computing AND a good daily workout.
HP actually support their hardware pretty well on Linux. For example:
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
They sponsor development and supply information, and the resulting drivers are Free and free software. Pretty much all HP printers (including things like the USB flash memory drives on newer models) have robust Linux drivers.
The whole point about Linux is that we can Do It Ourselves, we don't want crappy binary drivers to come in the box, we just need the spec and we will design our own that can be distributed with the kernel, cups, or wherever else. A bit of support in doing this is even better.
Having the terrorists running Windows sounds like a good thing to me.
...or the US.
I'm sticking with my floppy drive.
By the time the figure something out I'm sure I'll have thought of something to fill up 5gb too. Mind you, I don't know if I'll be able to fit a DVDRW into my Atari...