Personally I'd never watch TechTV in a perfect world, but TSS and some other stuff, usually X-Play come on when nothing else I want to watch is on.
Other then some interesting stuff, such as the short history of data storage they had on recently, there's just a lot of bad advice going on there. I remember one person calling in after a power outage and the system wouldn't come back on. In fact I had this happen here not long ago. How did i fix it, just flip the switch on the power supply of then on again, and everything's fine. What was their suggestion? Format. without trying anything else they declared the drive corrupted and everything was gone.
They're just about as clueless as your every day user, and the computer is just as much a magical box to them as it is to Bob on the corner. The only difference is they've convinced themselves that they 'know' and its just dangerous.
Don't be too quick to discount it just yet. Aside from the places that just won't upgrade till hell freezes over, It appears you have a choice between a Netware kernel or a Linux kernel in their upcoming products.
Oddly enough I was talking about this to someone the other day and at the time based on other releases and info from Novell I had originally thought that Netware the OS would be quashed and would be reimplemented as a service layer on top of a Linux distro. I really didn't see having interchangeable kernels as the option.
If your using 2000 or XP you have no choice when you update/install IE6. It gives you no options, there is no custom install, the IE6 bundle includes OE.
It doesn't ignore the limited number of prizes. In order to win one you have to have the ability to do work that will be recognized and nominated. The vast majority of people aren't winning Nobel prizes not because there are only a handful awarded each year, but because they lack the skill, knowledge and will power as the poster mentioned.
I have never bought anything with a credit card anywhere. Nor have i given a company like a bank jurisdiction or even access to any of my financial assets,(money, credit, etc). Why? Because it is readily obvious how easily exploitable these mechanisms are.
I hate to say it but everything you use if your not careful is going to end up biting you in the ass eventually. Banks are broken into, credit card numbers are stolen, ebay makes it easy to get into contact with stupid people and paypal isn't perfect, but if your careful with everything you do, you have a good chance of not getting taken in.
If your happy with your paranoia, I hope it works out for you, but just because you say its obvious, and inevitable doesn't make it so. Ebay has made it a lot easier for me to find some parts that just aren't readily available around here. Ask some questions of the seller, check their feedback and in general be careful and everything should work out fine.
Ya well, you haven't seen her, you gotta take the good with the bad. And the good is very very good. Everyone calls me a dork or some variation of it, so its not some earth shattering, absolutely terrible insult.
Not only was it a Bird-of-Prey they were in, and it was the 80's as someone else mentioned, but they slingshotted around the Sun, so they would have approached Earth from the inner Solar System and would not have flown by Mars.
My girlfriend just called and called me a dork for watching Star Trek, and now I feel like one.
Yes many people do use Linux, and as regards Distributions, I believe Linus has given them that right or otherwise said that its fine. If however, a distro or other entity started doing things that were somehow questionable, Linus could revoke their right to use the name Linux and take action against them. Linus holds the trademark and so it is his decision who can and can not use it, its the same with the Mozilla Foundation here.
So let me get this straight, Mozilla is tainted because a large corperations supported it for a time, and there is no posible reason that they could have for taking action against people who wrongly, and possibly illegaly if they choose that route, are using their fame and their trademarks for profit in competition with Mozillas own store, other then the fact they are 'influenced' by AOL?
Hmm, ya.
Whether AOL 'influenced' the Mozilla Foundation or not, they have the right to take action against those who are profiting on their work without permission. I can't go around selling stuff that has Microsoft, or Apple or even Linux written all over it, and not realize that I'm infringing on trademarks and the owners could, if they so felt, take action against me. In this case, the Mozilla Foundation has done the admirable action of first asking those who are to please stop in markets that are in direct competition to their own store, and have stated they are quite willing to workout a deal. If those who are making these unlicenced products turn down the offer, its their own fault if Mozilla files a suit.
I fail to see how you can look at this and see anything wrong with the Mozilla Foundations actions.
Ya I'm not sure how to feel either. On one hand the support sucks and in recent months I've had outages lasting from 6 hours to 3 days. On the other hand, they seem to actually care about things.
I just don't see how a DDoS that does nothing except bog down your network connection, usually just to the outside world if you actually earned that job, is the scariest.
It slows things down, to a crawl or a dead stop, its irritating, and all you can do is sit it out, but in the end, what did it really do, again from the admins perspective? Nothing, it didn't do anything. You don't now have to worry about machines being used as zombies or otherwise compromised and there's next to no cleanup. And as for the there's no hope till the AV companies update scanners, I don't really recall MS's net admins running around and crying when MyDoom.whatever was supposed to flatten their network.
There may be monetary implications in a DDoS, but from an admins perspective, there's nothing to do, and nothing to worry about.
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Ya, Im glad that RMS et al seem to think that they're dictations as to what is evil and what is ok and therefore what I can and can't do with my systems are, I just hate thinking for myself.
I'm looking forward to building XFree 4.4 tonight, so if everyone who thinks XFree is the devil at the moment please stop reading the release notes so I can, thanks.
Why would it mean anything. It seems its just a development environment for the Xbox, and considering that it seems the Xbox 2 will have no backwards compatibility why would this environment help in porting, when they have turned their back on intel architecture for the platform. Just because it has a NT kernel doesn't mean anything, remember NT ran on PPC as well as Alpha and Intel when NT was actually called NT.
You can't have it both ways, and ESR has chosen what he wants.
Many, including ESR, will tell you that the 'freedom' in Free/Open source apps is that you the user have the freedom to change it. And it seems thats exactly what he wants done here, except he's gonna whine about it till someone else does it.
So what is it? Do you the user change it to what you feel is right, or do you whine, in this case publicly, that its too hard for you.
The current trend among some high profile advocates recently seems to be making Linux 'Ready for the desktop" or "work like windows because you cant honestly think that people will think for them selves," except this is called for by people who don't seem to be willing to actually work for it.
A UI that requires documentation is not a failure, unless your intended audience are complete retards that cant read. So, Mr. Raymond, all I have to say is this, you have a problem with it, you have the source, fix it, that is the 'strength' Open Source after all, isn't it?
Nice, but I didn't misspell it. From dictionary.com Ether:1. (Physics) A medium of great elasticity and extreme
tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of
solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of
transmission of light and heat; hence often called
luminiferous ether.
That was funny though. Perhaps we could have the ether bunny as a metaphysics mascot.
Yes the studies were in rodents, but there is a reason for this they didn't just decide one day to study it in mice:
they realized that human neurogenesis in the hippocampus mirrors the same process in rodents, so they can turn to mice and rat studies for clues
Also it should be noted that they *had* seen regeneration of neurons in the human hippocampus, which is what lead to the study of these rodents.
As far as creating new pathways or generating new cells, I wasn't talking about the formation of new memories but actually keeping those memories longer then the lifetime of the cells.
neurons themselves are largely established by childhood
Ah, yes, i rememeber being told this as a child to stop me from doing silly things. Its a common belief the might not be right. This really shouldn't be all that suprising, as the latter artical mentioned, how could we form long-term memories if our brain is rotting away and never being repaired.
Might want to add that little peice of knowledge to the existance of Santa Clause and ether.
Well concidering that Apple is a Hardware company and doesn't make all that much on its OS, porting the MacOS to something that Apple doesn't make would be suicide for the company.
First, your right, I should have been more clear, by commercial usage I meant inclusion in a commercial product, other then my own, and yes I know about dual licencing, but in most cases if I wanted to allow that, why choose th GPL in the first place
As regards your attempt to say I can make money just like Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE yada yada yada, they do not make money selling the GPL sotware. Mandrake makes money on support or selling disks, mainly support. Red Hat ans SuSE don't even have free downloads of their products, and make money on the incluseion of Non-gpl software and once again, support. MySQL only makes money by selling a NON-GPL product for you to do things otherwise considered wrong by the GPL.
Lets put it this way, I make this really great peice of software, it fills some niche market that no one else has, and I GPL it, my own fault i know but it wouldn't be much of an example if i didn't. Some one buys it, so of course, they get the source, AND ALL RIGHTS TO THE PRODUCT, except including it in a closed environment, including to freely distribute it to anyone whom they wish. I spent ALL that time creating this product, to sell one copy, and now all I can do is charge for support, and even then, I cant charge too much, because someone else, riding on my coat tails, can offer the same support but cheaper bc they also undercut who knows who else as well.
The GPL has its place and it is usefull, all I was saying is that the person i was originally responding to is being extreemly short sighted in declaring that everything and anything should be given away.
As far as what was intended in the law originally, laws change, get over it. Remember prohibition, should we go back to that? Or perhaps that First Amendment thing, that wasn't in the original agreement between "The People" and the powers at be, perhaps it should never have been created, because obviously if it wasnt in the original document, The Founding Fathers must not have had it in mind.
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Personally I'd never watch TechTV in a perfect world, but TSS and some other stuff, usually X-Play come on when nothing else I want to watch is on.
Other then some interesting stuff, such as the short history of data storage they had on recently, there's just a lot of bad advice going on there. I remember one person calling in after a power outage and the system wouldn't come back on. In fact I had this happen here not long ago. How did i fix it, just flip the switch on the power supply of then on again, and everything's fine. What was their suggestion? Format. without trying anything else they declared the drive corrupted and everything was gone.
They're just about as clueless as your every day user, and the computer is just as much a magical box to them as it is to Bob on the corner. The only difference is they've convinced themselves that they 'know' and its just dangerous.
Don't be too quick to discount it just yet. Aside from the places that just won't upgrade till hell freezes over, It appears you have a choice between a Netware kernel or a Linux kernel in their upcoming products.
Oddly enough I was talking about this to someone the other day and at the time based on other releases and info from Novell I had originally thought that Netware the OS would be quashed and would be reimplemented as a service layer on top of a Linux distro. I really didn't see having interchangeable kernels as the option.
If your using 2000 or XP you have no choice when you update/install IE6. It gives you no options, there is no custom install, the IE6 bundle includes OE.
It doesn't ignore the limited number of prizes. In order to win one you have to have the ability to do work that will be recognized and nominated. The vast majority of people aren't winning Nobel prizes not because there are only a handful awarded each year, but because they lack the skill, knowledge and will power as the poster mentioned.
I have never bought anything with a credit card anywhere. Nor have i given a company like a bank jurisdiction or even access to any of my financial assets,(money, credit, etc). Why? Because it is readily obvious how easily exploitable these mechanisms are.
I hate to say it but everything you use if your not careful is going to end up biting you in the ass eventually. Banks are broken into, credit card numbers are stolen, ebay makes it easy to get into contact with stupid people and paypal isn't perfect, but if your careful with everything you do, you have a good chance of not getting taken in.
If your happy with your paranoia, I hope it works out for you, but just because you say its obvious, and inevitable doesn't make it so. Ebay has made it a lot easier for me to find some parts that just aren't readily available around here. Ask some questions of the seller, check their feedback and in general be careful and everything should work out fine.
Ya well, you haven't seen her, you gotta take the good with the bad. And the good is very very good. Everyone calls me a dork or some variation of it, so its not some earth shattering, absolutely terrible insult.
Not only was it a Bird-of-Prey they were in, and it was the 80's as someone else mentioned, but they slingshotted around the Sun, so they would have approached Earth from the inner Solar System and would not have flown by Mars.
My girlfriend just called and called me a dork for watching Star Trek, and now I feel like one.
I thought thats all the turbo button did anyway.
Yes many people do use Linux, and as regards Distributions, I believe Linus has given them that right or otherwise said that its fine. If however, a distro or other entity started doing things that were somehow questionable, Linus could revoke their right to use the name Linux and take action against them. Linus holds the trademark and so it is his decision who can and can not use it, its the same with the Mozilla Foundation here.
So let me get this straight, Mozilla is tainted because a large corperations supported it for a time, and there is no posible reason that they could have for taking action against people who wrongly, and possibly illegaly if they choose that route, are using their fame and their trademarks for profit in competition with Mozillas own store, other then the fact they are 'influenced' by AOL?
Hmm, ya.
Whether AOL 'influenced' the Mozilla Foundation or not, they have the right to take action against those who are profiting on their work without permission. I can't go around selling stuff that has Microsoft, or Apple or even Linux written all over it, and not realize that I'm infringing on trademarks and the owners could, if they so felt, take action against me. In this case, the Mozilla Foundation has done the admirable action of first asking those who are to please stop in markets that are in direct competition to their own store, and have stated they are quite willing to workout a deal. If those who are making these unlicenced products turn down the offer, its their own fault if Mozilla files a suit.
I fail to see how you can look at this and see anything wrong with the Mozilla Foundations actions.
That would be interesting if AOL still owned Mozilla. Unfortunatly for you, they don't.
That wasn't a pre-release bug, its in the final product.
Ya I'm not sure how to feel either. On one hand the support sucks and in recent months I've had outages lasting from 6 hours to 3 days. On the other hand, they seem to actually care about things.
I'm so confused.
I just don't see how a DDoS that does nothing except bog down your network connection, usually just to the outside world if you actually earned that job, is the scariest.
It slows things down, to a crawl or a dead stop, its irritating, and all you can do is sit it out, but in the end, what did it really do, again from the admins perspective? Nothing, it didn't do anything. You don't now have to worry about machines being used as zombies or otherwise compromised and there's next to no cleanup. And as for the there's no hope till the AV companies update scanners, I don't really recall MS's net admins running around and crying when MyDoom.whatever was supposed to flatten their network.
There may be monetary implications in a DDoS, but from an admins perspective, there's nothing to do, and nothing to worry about.
Seems that your throwing your life away there.
At least SCO actually has a product line,. Personally, I think naming it the Phantom was a big joke in the beginning.
Wouldn't this be a paradox though.
Ya, Im glad that RMS et al seem to think that they're dictations as to what is evil and what is ok and therefore what I can and can't do with my systems are, I just hate thinking for myself.
I'm looking forward to building XFree 4.4 tonight, so if everyone who thinks XFree is the devil at the moment please stop reading the release notes so I can, thanks.
Why would it mean anything. It seems its just a development environment for the Xbox, and considering that it seems the Xbox 2 will have no backwards compatibility why would this environment help in porting, when they have turned their back on intel architecture for the platform. Just because it has a NT kernel doesn't mean anything, remember NT ran on PPC as well as Alpha and Intel when NT was actually called NT.
You can't have it both ways, and ESR has chosen what he wants.
Many, including ESR, will tell you that the 'freedom' in Free/Open source apps is that you the user have the freedom to change it. And it seems thats exactly what he wants done here, except he's gonna whine about it till someone else does it.
So what is it? Do you the user change it to what you feel is right, or do you whine, in this case publicly, that its too hard for you.
The current trend among some high profile advocates recently seems to be making Linux 'Ready for the desktop" or "work like windows because you cant honestly think that people will think for them selves," except this is called for by people who don't seem to be willing to actually work for it.
A UI that requires documentation is not a failure, unless your intended audience are complete retards that cant read. So, Mr. Raymond, all I have to say is this, you have a problem with it, you have the source, fix it, that is the 'strength' Open Source after all, isn't it?
Nice, but I didn't misspell it. From dictionary.com Ether:1. (Physics) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
That was funny though. Perhaps we could have the ether bunny as a metaphysics mascot.
As far as creating new pathways or generating new cells, I wasn't talking about the formation of new memories but actually keeping those memories longer then the lifetime of the cells.
Might want to add that little peice of knowledge to the existance of Santa Clause and ether.
Well concidering that Apple is a Hardware company and doesn't make all that much on its OS, porting the MacOS to something that Apple doesn't make would be suicide for the company.
First, your right, I should have been more clear, by commercial usage I meant inclusion in a commercial product, other then my own, and yes I know about dual licencing, but in most cases if I wanted to allow that, why choose th GPL in the first place
As regards your attempt to say I can make money just like Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE yada yada yada, they do not make money selling the GPL sotware. Mandrake makes money on support or selling disks, mainly support. Red Hat ans SuSE don't even have free downloads of their products, and make money on the incluseion of Non-gpl software and once again, support. MySQL only makes money by selling a NON-GPL product for you to do things otherwise considered wrong by the GPL.
Lets put it this way, I make this really great peice of software, it fills some niche market that no one else has, and I GPL it, my own fault i know but it wouldn't be much of an example if i didn't. Some one buys it, so of course, they get the source, AND ALL RIGHTS TO THE PRODUCT, except including it in a closed environment, including to freely distribute it to anyone whom they wish. I spent ALL that time creating this product, to sell one copy, and now all I can do is charge for support, and even then, I cant charge too much, because someone else, riding on my coat tails, can offer the same support but cheaper bc they also undercut who knows who else as well.
The GPL has its place and it is usefull, all I was saying is that the person i was originally responding to is being extreemly short sighted in declaring that everything and anything should be given away.
As far as what was intended in the law originally, laws change, get over it. Remember prohibition, should we go back to that? Or perhaps that First Amendment thing, that wasn't in the original agreement between "The People" and the powers at be, perhaps it should never have been created, because obviously if it wasnt in the original document, The Founding Fathers must not have had it in mind.