I propose that IBM, Novell, or the Slashdot community in general go online and order one of EACH LINUX PROGRAMMING BOOK and send it to the court courtroom/judge on this case shipped directly from Amazon.com.
Or maybe have IBM deliver a TRUCKLOAD of books to the court?
Someone needs to set up a system to ensure that exactly one of each book (rather than a million duplicates of the first 10 matches on Amazon) gets sent.
This will show the pathetic absurdity of this "expert" witness on the non-existence of Linux programming books.
In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard. "Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," said Brown in a blog post recounting the process of testing a document against the "strict" and "transitional" schema defined in the standard.
Plus if you use a small amount of encryption in your web tripwire / digital signature code, any ISP attempt to subvert the tripwire would be a DMCA criminal act in USA.
Any "Church" that charges for its teachings and also has them copyrighted to prevent free distribution is not a church it's a scam at best and a dangerous cult at worst.
The New International Version Bible is copyrighted and they charge for the text.
BTW, someone I used to work with made a "bible reader" program and checked with the NIV folks and sure enough they would not let him release the source without forcing him to charge for his formerly free Bible reader program, so that they could get their cut.
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> "It is impossible for the Democrats to stop anything in the House." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster > Nice try though, playing the victim. You are perfect Democrat material.
who the parent up as insightful??
first of all, the filibuster is only in the house, one of the US's 2 legislative bodies. the article was about a vote in the House, not the senate.
I emphasized the "Republicans* in the previous sentence because a Republican came up with the term..."Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), one of the proposal's leading advocates, coined the term before Republican strategists judged it a liability and urged Senate Republicans to adopt the term "constitutional option" instead."
Also, those who are FIREFLY fans will note the movie is mentioned in the post...
Moderate the parent down --"Factual and Objective"
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines "documentary" as A work...presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration. Further, it restricts the presentation to "facts" that are presented " objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter , as in a book or film."
Wow. The parent post managed to mangle two different definitions and mislead folks in the same way it condemns.
the parent post takes the separate "adjective" definition and splices in words into the "noun" definition while implying that it's all part of the "noun" definition of "documentary".
The noun version (the parent post did start with the words "A work...") in its entirey is "A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration."
The parent post spliced in words from the second definition of the adjective version of the word, and the adjective mentions the "objectively without editorializing", and even in that case it is only one of multiple valid definitions. The parent post purposely ignored the first definition of the adjective "Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents." (Yup, that's the first definition listed in its entirety).
And thus the parent post use of "Further, it restricts the presentation..." is highly misleading since it certainly does not make a firm restriction or preclude its use in other ways.
And the ONLY other NOUN definition on that page is "a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event". And certainly that describes F911 just darn fine.
SCO is the very best mirror in which to look if you wish to know what the open source community will look like at its worst. The flaming, hatred and threats are all characteristics that we're not too proud of, but SCO makes us face our demons and admit that we too are no angels.... The number of ways in which the SCO situation is actually good for the open source community are kind of scary.
Ugh, so then they become enshrined in our psyche as a cartoonish form of Ultimate Evil. Now we are going to have to start using:
SCOdwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a negative comparison involving SCO or Darl McBride approaches one.
Wired is reporting that a top lawyer from Microsoft will take over later this year as chairman of the American Bar Association's antitrust section
Does anyone know to whom we can appeal/complain at the ABA or elsewhere in the government about this potential conflict of interest? You know, and have the complaining/appealing be actually useful? If so, please post...
The article points out that this could easily be confused with an article from The Onion. I'd add "or an urban legend".
Did you notice the law firm that he claimed M$ uses to scare him? In order for the law firm to seem smarter and bigger than the peon they are suing, they are allegedly called "Smart & Biggar"! Obviously fake, right?
And then I looked it up, and it's a real law firm!!!!!! http://www.smart-biggar.ca/About/ (Presumably Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh is based on people's names...:-)
According to the FTC, D-Squared tapped into this bulletin feature to barrage consumers with pop-up advertisements hawking their software -- which promised only to stop the pop-up ads. That, Beales said, was extortion.
Oh no! How will public radio survive this new stance from the FTC? Isn't that the public radio/tv business model?
From S3's headquarters in San Diego -- 530 miles from the demonstration site -- satellite communications were used to disable the truck in seconds, proving S3's GlobalGuard and FleetGuard a viable solution to the challenge of controlling rogue hazardous waste vehicles that could pose a threat to homeland security.
And in other news, based on these tests the US Government signed a contract for full support for follow-up product for remote control of mobile military weaponry. You know, to make sure control doesn't fall into the wrong hands. The product, called SkyNet...
I suspect "moot" has SPECIFIC legal meaning. Using websters to check its *legal* meaning isn't an acceptable method.... I'm not saying the g-parent post is right, just that your analysis doesn't take into account specific *legal/legaleese* definitions.
Actually, I was also quoting Garner in most of it. OK, quoting more text from Garner's Modern American Usage:
"In American legal usage, a new sense of 'moot' has taken hold: [[to render (a question) moot or of no practical significance]]"
-- Garner attributes everything in the brackets to Black's Law Dictionary, 2001 edition.
At least, their Friday babbling 1) misused "moot" to mean "no longer relevant" (instead of "arguable")
Umm, do your own research before complaining.
A visit to modern dictionaries show that moot has had several meanings over time, including "Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled" and "Of no practical importance; irrelevant." ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moot)
In fact, not only is it in dictionaries in the meaning you disliked, but according to Garner's authoritative "Modern American Usage", the meaning "of no practictical importance" in American English, "is the predominant sense of 'moot'". See the 2003 volume for an extended discussion of this word's transformation over time since its original sense of "arguable".
You may not like it, but some words have several meanings. Use 1 or 2 dictionaries or usage guides before criticizing.
0-20% of the third party applications just won't load
There are always developers who cheat the APIs a little, and mostly the small shops and shareware folks. Many of them don't think it's a big deal because they update soon enough, and some of them cheat them because they can't afford a real QA/testing team. But most of those apps/developers get the bugs sorted out within a few months -- as the article author pointed out.
If you tolerate risk, by all means get the dot zero version any major software release from any vendor.
If you are risk averse, the smart thing is to always wait a little, perhaps until the first update. In the mac world, you could choose to get 10.3.1, whenever that is, if you desired.
Not everyone has the same tolerance for risk, incompatibility, or new territory.
Regardless of agreement or disagreement with the RIAA in general or this particular lawsuit strategy, "suing your customers" is a silly way to put it. If I walked into Wal-Mart and stole a case of Coke, they would not worry about whether or not it was a good idea to "put one of our customers in jail". They would be stopping their loss and taking legal action against an offender. If I happened to be a past or future customer, that's a separate issue.
That's not why customers is the wrong word. It's the wrong word because I don't buy music from the RIAA.
The RIAA is an industry association -- some labels pay in and get PR for hire... and lawyers for hire too of course. If I buy from Wal-Mart and they sue me -- yes, I am/was/is/will-be a customer. But no one buys music directly from RIAA. The RIAA is more like the "bad cop" (visible, influencial, and negative) to the industry's more sunny face -- the PR machine for individual musicians, etc.
They may ultimately LOSE the public relations war, or may have already, but the RIAA can afford a little bad press because they have already accepted that their role is the bad cop role for "the industry".
The official Apple thing said it changed "Classic Compatibility" and after installing it wanted to "update resources" in Classic.
But what did it *change* in Classic? Anyone have any info on this?
I use Classic all the time for Adobe FrameMaker 7, which crashes about once a day, sometimes because it gets confused about window ordering and then all OS X apps get stuck. Sometimes I have to do a hard restart because I can't even force quit.:-(
BTW, for those who use FrameMaker, my data integrity tricks are (1) set the auto save to save once a minute (2) use Retrospect to backup (to a file, not using the network) that directory every hour, with compression, and skipping.auto and.backup files. For the love of God, I hope Adobe makes a native OS X version eventually.
I hear they moved their whole engineering team to India but they haven't made a formal announcement about whether the new team will support OS X. Since they had a UNIX version, you'd think they could leverage that to make a minimally functioning Panther version (X windows is built in to 10.3) easily enough, but I dunno. (Anyone else know?)
The Internet industry is trying to enlist broader public support with a campaign intended to show that its nemesis -- books and magazines -- are used not only to exchange knowledge but also pornographic images, including child pornography.
"As a guy in the publishing industry and as a parent, I am shocked to learn that books and magazines are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly!" said Lackie Andrew, the chief executive of NothingSuspiciousHere Books.
It's also funny that on the same page as he talks about working "for and with" Microsoft, he claims that he accurately predicted "the failure of Netscape months in advance of the actual events"! Boy, I wonder WHERE he got information about Microsoft's plans "to cut off Netscape's air supply"?
But as you noted, one merely needs a copy of VPC and appropriate Windows software to enable a Mac to do so.
You forgot to mention one important thing: a copy of Adobe Acrobat for Windows -- the Mac and Windows versions are separate products, separate product numbers, separate purchases.
Virtual PC with XP Pro is $249 and Acrobat for Windows is $300... and that's in addition to whatever mac tools you use (Acrobat mac = $300).
Side note: To Mac folks considering Acrobat on Mac, be warned that it has limited utility on mac os x, but it sure made smaller camera-ready PDFs from my Freehand documents (by about 100x) compared to the basic print-to-PDF OS X functionality. However, the parent comment to this one has other geeky software that might help some avoid shelling out for the Acrobat for Mac for such things.
Don't get me wrong: I like Virtual PC. It's Adobe that I'm pissed at because they don't provide feature parity on Mac and they charge $600 to have Acrobat for my mac and my emulated PC.
Stuff a new Mac can do which a Windows PC (default software install on both) can't:
- make a.pdf from anything one can print
While that's true about out-of-the-box features, the mac cannot do everything Windows can do regarding PDF creation.
Despite what you might think from the Adobe web site, if you want to make nice Microsoft Word PDFs including proper use of bookmarks -- the "table of contents" turned into bookmark shortcuts -- that's trivial on Windows but impossible on Mac.:-( I wish it were otherwise, but MS and Adobe haven't gotten their shit together to cooperate on this feature.
I'm a tech writer. I have Virtual PC just to do that when I need to. (And I'm mobile most of the time and so using a 'real pc' doesn't always make sense.)
When I did mostly web stuff for a living, I'd use VPC for verifying the most important web pages (home page, etc.) and the most complex pages in IE for Windows.... just to make sure. It's a good thing, cause there are differences occasionally.
This guy has done VERY thorough testing on lots of brands of AAs, and geeks might also find much of the data useful to read regarding Watt-hours vs mAh and Simple Run Times, even if you don't care about AAs:
The Importance of the Charger (!)
One of the most interesting things I found was that the right (or wrong) charger can make a difference of nearly 2x in the results! The worst chargers (in terms of completeness-of-charge) produced "charged" batteries with only half the stored energy of ones charged with the best chargers. Interestingly though, the best overall results were obtained by combining the worst fast-charger with an inexpensive trickle-charger for topping-of and charge maintenance. - This combination was also the gentlest on the batteries. (Stay tuned for a detailed overview of battery chargers as I can get to it. For now, you can just take as given that the Maha C204 charger was among the most consistent I tested, and charged the batteries to close to their maximum capacity every time....
I use a digital camera (Minolta Dimage 7Hi) and I use his recommended ones: Powerex 1800 batteries and the very effective Maha C204.
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SPACE TEMPLARS! I know it does sound like a horrible B movie...
Religious interplantary crusades?
we got em...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_(Stargate)
when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist.
A quick search on Amazon of the phrase "Linux programming" returns 1,648 results.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=linux+programming&x=0&y=0
can someone say "no due diligence?"
I propose that IBM, Novell, or the Slashdot community in general go online and order one of EACH LINUX PROGRAMMING BOOK and send it to the court courtroom/judge on this case shipped directly from Amazon.com. Or maybe have IBM deliver a TRUCKLOAD of books to the court? Someone needs to set up a system to ensure that exactly one of each book (rather than a million duplicates of the first 10 matches on Amazon) gets sent. This will show the pathetic absurdity of this "expert" witness on the non-existence of Linux programming books.
In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard. "Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," said Brown in a blog post recounting the process of testing a document against the "strict" and "transitional" schema defined in the standard.
Ahem. Let me be the first to say:
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!
Plus if you use a small amount of encryption in your web tripwire / digital signature code, any ISP attempt to subvert the tripwire would be a DMCA criminal act in USA.
http://xkcd.com/369/
http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/01/died-in-blogging-accident.html
Any "Church" that charges for its teachings and also has them copyrighted to prevent free distribution is not a church it's a scam at best and a dangerous cult at worst.
The New International Version Bible is one of the most popular religious texts of the last century.
The New International Version Bible is copyrighted and they charge for the text.
BTW, someone I used to work with made a "bible reader" program and checked with the NIV folks and sure enough they would not let him release the source without forcing him to charge for his formerly free Bible reader program, so that they could get their cut.
The NIV is waaaaaay copyrighted:
http://www.studylight.org/info/copyright/bible/niv.html
> "It is impossible for the Democrats to stop anything in the House."
b uster)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
> Nice try though, playing the victim. You are perfect Democrat material.
who the parent up as insightful??
first of all, the filibuster is only in the house, one of the US's 2 legislative bodies. the article was about a vote in the House, not the senate.
secondly, the Republicans can take away the filibuster in what the *Republicans* called the Nuclear Option http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option_(fili
I emphasized the "Republicans* in the previous sentence because a Republican came up with the term..."Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), one of the proposal's leading advocates, coined the term before Republican strategists judged it a liability and urged Senate Republicans to adopt the term "constitutional option" instead."
More info at
http://mediamatters.org/items/200505180006
Do not forget the shortlived Apple Newton eMate and the shortlived eWorld e-mail system that predate the iMac. :-)
eMate = 1997
eWorld = 1994
iMac = 1998
About each product...:0 0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#eMate_3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emate#eMate_300
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html
Also, those who are FIREFLY fans will note the movie is mentioned in the post...
Wow. The parent post managed to mangle two different definitions and mislead folks in the same way it condemns.
the parent post takes the separate "adjective" definition and splices in words into the "noun" definition while implying that it's all part of the "noun" definition of "documentary".
Here is the real dictionary.com link.
The noun version (the parent post did start with the words "A work...") in its entirey is "A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration."
The parent post spliced in words from the second definition of the adjective version of the word, and the adjective mentions the "objectively without editorializing", and even in that case it is only one of multiple valid definitions. The parent post purposely ignored the first definition of the adjective "Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents." (Yup, that's the first definition listed in its entirety).
And thus the parent post use of "Further, it restricts the presentation..." is highly misleading since it certainly does not make a firm restriction or preclude its use in other ways.
And the ONLY other NOUN definition on that page is "a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event". And certainly that describes F911 just darn fine.
Don't believe me? Here are the facts. You decide.
Ugh, so then they become enshrined in our psyche as a cartoonish form of Ultimate Evil. Now we are going to have to start using:
SCOdwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a negative comparison involving SCO or Darl McBride approaches one.
-- JX
Wired is reporting that a top lawyer from Microsoft will take over later this year as chairman of the American Bar Association's antitrust section
Does anyone know to whom we can appeal/complain at the ABA or elsewhere in the government about this potential conflict of interest? You know, and have the complaining/appealing be actually useful? If so, please post...
The article points out that this could easily be confused with an article from The Onion. I'd add "or an urban legend".
Did you notice the law firm that he claimed M$ uses to scare him? In order for the law firm to seem smarter and bigger than the peon they are suing, they are allegedly called "Smart & Biggar"! Obviously fake, right?
And then I looked it up, and it's a real law firm!!!!!! http://www.smart-biggar.ca/About/ (Presumably Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh is based on people's names... :-)
Oh no! How will public radio survive this new stance from the FTC? Isn't that the public radio/tv business model?
And in other news, based on these tests the US Government signed a contract for full support for follow-up product for remote control of mobile military weaponry. You know, to make sure control doesn't fall into the wrong hands. The product, called SkyNet...
Actually, I was also quoting Garner in most of it. OK, quoting more text from Garner's Modern American Usage:
"In American legal usage, a new sense of 'moot' has taken hold: [[to render (a question) moot or of no practical significance]]"
-- Garner attributes everything in the brackets to Black's Law Dictionary, 2001 edition.
Umm, do your own research before complaining.
A visit to modern dictionaries show that moot has had several meanings over time, including "Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled" and "Of no practical importance; irrelevant."
( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moot)
In fact, not only is it in dictionaries in the meaning you disliked, but according to Garner's authoritative "Modern American Usage", the meaning "of no practictical importance" in American English, "is the predominant sense of 'moot'". See the 2003 volume for an extended discussion of this word's transformation over time since its original sense of "arguable".
You may not like it, but some words have several meanings. Use 1 or 2 dictionaries or usage guides before criticizing.
There are always developers who cheat the APIs a little, and mostly the small shops and shareware folks. Many of them don't think it's a big deal because they update soon enough, and some of them cheat them because they can't afford a real QA/testing team. But most of those apps/developers get the bugs sorted out within a few months -- as the article author pointed out.
If you tolerate risk, by all means get the dot zero version any major software release from any vendor.
If you are risk averse, the smart thing is to always wait a little, perhaps until the first update. In the mac world, you could choose to get 10.3.1, whenever that is, if you desired.
Not everyone has the same tolerance for risk, incompatibility, or new territory.
Regardless of agreement or disagreement with the RIAA in general or this particular lawsuit strategy, "suing your customers" is a silly way to put it. If I walked into Wal-Mart and stole a case of Coke, they would not worry about whether or not it was a good idea to "put one of our customers in jail". They would be stopping their loss and taking legal action against an offender. If I happened to be a past or future customer, that's a separate issue.
That's not why customers is the wrong word. It's the wrong word because I don't buy music from the RIAA.
The RIAA is an industry association -- some labels pay in and get PR for hire ... and lawyers for hire too of course. If I buy from Wal-Mart and they sue me -- yes, I am/was/is/will-be a customer. But no one buys music directly from RIAA. The RIAA is more like the "bad cop" (visible, influencial, and negative) to the industry's more sunny face -- the PR machine for individual musicians, etc.
They may ultimately LOSE the public relations war, or may have already, but the RIAA can afford a little bad press because they have already accepted that their role is the bad cop role for "the industry".
The official Apple thing said it changed "Classic Compatibility" and after installing it wanted to "update resources" in Classic.
But what did it *change* in Classic? Anyone have any info on this?
I use Classic all the time for Adobe FrameMaker 7, which crashes about once a day, sometimes because it gets confused about window ordering and then all OS X apps get stuck. Sometimes I have to do a hard restart because I can't even force quit. :-(
BTW, for those who use FrameMaker, my data integrity tricks are (1) set the auto save to save once a minute (2) use Retrospect to backup (to a file, not using the network) that directory every hour, with compression, and skipping .auto and .backup files. For the love of God, I hope Adobe makes a native OS X version eventually.
I hear they moved their whole engineering team to India but they haven't made a formal announcement about whether the new team will support OS X. Since they had a UNIX version, you'd think they could leverage that to make a minimally functioning Panther version (X windows is built in to 10.3) easily enough, but I dunno. (Anyone else know?)
The Internet industry is trying to enlist broader public support with a campaign intended to show that its nemesis -- books and magazines -- are used not only to exchange knowledge but also pornographic images, including child pornography.
"As a guy in the publishing industry and as a parent, I am shocked to learn that books and magazines are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly!" said Lackie Andrew, the chief executive of NothingSuspiciousHere Books.
It looks like other /.ers haven't yet noticed that the author of the pro-Microsoft article actually does work for Microsoft.
From http://enderlegroup.com/profile.asp
"For over 20 years Rob has worked for and with companies like Microsoft...".
I particularly like the "for and with" which sounds even more like he is still affiliated with them even when he's not officially working for them.
For those who didn't know, this is also the dude who wrote the InternetWeekly article Linux isn't ready for the Enterprise: Reasons to Shun Open Sourcery
It's also funny that on the same page as he talks about working "for and with" Microsoft, he claims that he accurately predicted "the failure of Netscape months in advance of the actual events"! Boy, I wonder WHERE he got information about Microsoft's plans "to cut off Netscape's air supply"?
But as you noted, one merely needs a copy of VPC and appropriate Windows software to enable a Mac to do so.
You forgot to mention one important thing: a copy of Adobe Acrobat for Windows -- the Mac and Windows versions are separate products, separate product numbers, separate purchases.
Virtual PC with XP Pro is $249 and Acrobat for Windows is $300 ... and that's in addition to whatever mac tools you use (Acrobat mac = $300).
Side note: To Mac folks considering Acrobat on Mac, be warned that it has limited utility on mac os x, but it sure made smaller camera-ready PDFs from my Freehand documents (by about 100x) compared to the basic print-to-PDF OS X functionality. However, the parent comment to this one has other geeky software that might help some avoid shelling out for the Acrobat for Mac for such things.
Don't get me wrong: I like Virtual PC. It's Adobe that I'm pissed at because they don't provide feature parity on Mac and they charge $600 to have Acrobat for my mac and my emulated PC.
While that's true about out-of-the-box features, the mac cannot do everything Windows can do regarding PDF creation.
Despite what you might think from the Adobe web site, if you want to make nice Microsoft Word PDFs including proper use of bookmarks -- the "table of contents" turned into bookmark shortcuts -- that's trivial on Windows but impossible on Mac. :-( I wish it were otherwise, but MS and Adobe haven't gotten their shit together to cooperate on this feature.
I'm a tech writer. I have Virtual PC just to do that when I need to. (And I'm mobile most of the time and so using a 'real pc' doesn't always make sense.)
When I did mostly web stuff for a living, I'd use VPC for verifying the most important web pages (home page, etc.) and the most complex pages in IE for Windows .... just to make sure. It's a good thing, cause there are differences occasionally.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ACCS/BATTS/BATTS.H TM
An important snippet from that page:
I use a digital camera (Minolta Dimage 7Hi) and I use his recommended ones: Powerex 1800 batteries and the very effective Maha C204.