If he was just out to make money, probably the last ingredient he would use would be a vegan cheese-substitute. It would probably be a damn sight easier (& cheaper) to use normal cheese - lots of cheese is made with vegetarian rennet, so using veggie cheese wouldn't have been a problem. But these things are deliberately vegan - not something that's normally a money-making strategy. If he was just trying to rake in the cash, they'd probably simply be junk food, without the vitamins & other (supposedly) healthy stuff.
If they sell 'em in the UK, I'll try 'em. They sound & look pretty good.
Whilst I dislike some of Tesco's policies, they have recently done several similar things to try to reduce the cost of overpriced goods. They unofficially imported Levi jeans from the US, as they're extortionately expensive over there. That landed them in trouble with Levi's. Then they did the same with expensive perfumes - again pissing off the manufacturers. A few weeks ago, they announced that they are going to start importing cars from Europe*, where they are much cheaper than here in Britain.
Now they want to import cheap DVD's, I guess. Good luck to them. Maybe if more large companies put pressure on the film industry, this fscking stupid zoning will be dropped.
HH
* OK, technically Britain is part of Europe, but we don't always see ourselves that way.
I think that this is the first positive review I've seen of this film. One reviewer suggested "Read the book and buy the soundtrack", rather than watch the film. I'd guess that Katz hasn't read the book or else he'd realise just how much they've fscked it about. They even switched the nationality of the main character from English to American, so that DeCrappio could play the part.
The book is definitely worth a read. Think I'll give the film a miss, though.
Have you read the article? It clearly states "The High-bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) approach encrypts each pixel as it moves from a personal computer or set-top box to digital displays" Displays such as digital flat panels don't convert to a recordable analog signal.
I would strongly object to anything that prevents me from recording the output from my computer. I fail to see why the link between a video card and a digital display needs to be encrypted.
we'll also have to develop full-on biceps to carry the batteries that will have to power the things.
Your right! These gadgets should become heavier not lighter. Girls would then flock after musclebound geeks weighed down with all the latest mobile computing devices. We should persuade Transmeta to drop Crusoe and develop a linux laptop with sheet-metal casing and lead-acid batteries instead.
"NT Server" is one of the greatest oxymorons (like "Military Intelligence" or "Microsoft Works"
I recently installed the Neoplanet web browser onto an NT box. It required a reboot. This sort of behaviour does not meet my definition of a modern server operating system.
I work in digital satellite TV in the UK. I'm sitting here with a 17" monitor (1280x1024@75Hz) and a brand new Sony Trinitron portable TV (approx 15"). Whilst TV's look OK at normal viewing distance (several feet away), up close the TV is abysmal. It's fuzzy and flickers really badly. If I display the same image on both displays, the one on the monitor looks infinitely better. The flicker on the TV is so bad, that I have to switch it off when not using it.
However you're right about the blurring effect smoothing video on a TV. If you try playing back VHS on a monitor it looks far worse than on a TV, but only because the monitor shows up the imperfections of VHS.
mp3.com DOES NOT own the MP3 format. They are simply a web site that distributes and sells music in mp3 format. This law suit in no way affects MP3 as a format for digital music, even if mp3.com drives itself out of the market.
I really can't see Red Hat buying Corel. RH already has development tools from Cygnus and, of course, a popular distro. Why should they buy more of the same (except to get an office suite)?
VA buying Corel would maybe make more sense. I suspect strongly that VA wants to make the big league (and I think they will) and Corel could help them achieve this. However having a distribution, tools, apps etc. tied to a single hardware vendor might not be such a good idea.
I think that (unlike RedHat), Corel is maybe aiming at being the M$ of Linux. Whether this would benefit or hinder Linux remains to be seen. I guess that now would be a great time to be a Linux startup with a good product - you could sell up to RedHat, Corel or VA and make a fortune.
I am sick and tired of seeing well thought-out, constructive, and well-written criticisms of your meandering, self-centered rants dismissed as "flames".
Every Katz article attracts many responses that are simply gratutious abuse. Here's some example responses from his previous story:
John Katz a bitch He's a big fat bitch He's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
ONCE AGAIN JON KATZ FSCKS UP An article with no content whatsoever, to waste all of our time. When are they going to get rid of this idiot?
Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot
Jon Katz could make Mother Teresa sound evil cuz she didn't use Linux.
And that's just a tiny selection of the abuse that's been directed at him. Do you consider these to be contructive and well-written criticisms? He's not complaining about the constructive and/or intelligent criticism - he's complaining about the gratuitious and idiotic flames like those quoted above.
If you don't like Katz, TURN HIM OFF IN YOUR PREFERENCES and quit whining.
Red Hat should buy Intuit (or at least become a major shareholder in them). Then we'd get Quicken / Quickbooks for Linux and many people would be able to wave Windows goodbye.
My cousin had severe wrist/hand pain and was diagnosed & treated for RSI. This did not work and eventually she was referred to a consultant who told her that it was her back/neck that was causing the pain in her wrists. Since being treated for this, her pain has got better. So not all wrist pain is RSI.
Someone mentioned stretching exercises. I would also highly recommend these as they do seem to help enormously with this kind of pain. Stress also seems to increase pain, so do some stress-reducing activities too.
As far as this Hedgehog understands things, Alan has been working for Red Hat (US) for some time as a contractor, though his own company 'Building No 3'. Now he's employed directly by Red Hat UK. All that's happened in that a non-existent middleman (Building No. 3) has been cut out. I believe that Alans main role for RH is as a sort of super support person for difficult problems.
Apparently he'll still be living and working at home in Swansea (accoring to a reliable source), rahter than working at the Red Hat office in Guildford.
Earlier today I was reading this article on IBM's developer site about Larry Wall and idly wondering if we should try to persuade Sun to adopt the Artistic License. What would be the advantages / disadvantages of this?
This could well be just stupidity on Sun's part, but has caused Sun to lose a lot of credibility with the open-source movement. I doubt that anyone will trust the SCSL anymore after this (if they did so before). Watch Sun's reaction to this very carefully - this is how we'll really find out where Sun stands (good company, stupid slip-up or bad company, preying on the good faith of open-source developers). Personally I'd still put my money on Sun turning out to be one of the good guys but, like any large company, it does have some real idiot PHB's (or did so when I worked there).
Mini-Windows? Perfect. Describes it exactly. Small, aggressive, bent on world domination, bastard cut-down clone of the original, big Evil version. And hopefully will suffer a similar fate to Dr Evil's Mini-Me.
KY Jelly is not Y2K compliant. A new product will be launched for the millennium - Y2KY Jelly - which allows you four digits in your date instead of two.
I'm very pleased to see companies adopt this kind of stance. I'm only buying hardware now from companies that have a positive attitude to linux, and letting companies know this. I'm now strongly tempted to buy an NVidia card to replace my G200.
Please let hardware (& software) companies know that there is money to be made in supporting Linux. I'm very gald to see that Creative Labs have caught on to this. With NVidia, 3DFX & Creative to set good examples, hopefully the rest will follow.
A while back (like in the 70's) people used to say exactly the same thing about the Japanese, "they can copy inventions but they can't invent things of their own". This may have been true whilst they were playing catch-up, but once they had caught up, they started innovating. I believe that Linux will also follow this pattern - catch up first, then overtake. That's when we'll see move innovation happening in the open-source community.
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Gods, and I thought that I was cynical.
If he was just out to make money, probably the last ingredient he would use would be a vegan cheese-substitute. It would probably be a damn sight easier (& cheaper) to use normal cheese - lots of cheese is made with vegetarian rennet, so using veggie cheese wouldn't have been a problem. But these things are deliberately vegan - not something that's normally a money-making strategy. If he was just trying to rake in the cash, they'd probably simply be junk food, without the vitamins & other (supposedly) healthy stuff.
If they sell 'em in the UK, I'll try 'em. They sound & look pretty good.
HH
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Whilst I dislike some of Tesco's policies, they have recently done several similar things to try to reduce the cost of overpriced goods. They unofficially imported Levi jeans from the US, as they're extortionately expensive over there. That landed them in trouble with Levi's. Then they did the same with expensive perfumes - again pissing off the manufacturers. A few weeks ago, they announced that they are going to start importing cars from Europe*, where they are much cheaper than here in Britain.
Now they want to import cheap DVD's, I guess. Good luck to them. Maybe if more large companies put pressure on the film industry, this fscking stupid zoning will be dropped.
HH
* OK, technically Britain is part of Europe, but we don't always see ourselves that way.
I think that this is the first positive review I've seen of this film. One reviewer suggested "Read the book and buy the soundtrack", rather than watch the film. I'd guess that Katz hasn't read the book or else he'd realise just how much they've fscked it about. They even switched the nationality of the main character from English to American, so that DeCrappio could play the part.
The book is definitely worth a read. Think I'll give the film a miss, though.
HH
Have you read the article? It clearly states "The High-bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) approach encrypts each pixel as it moves from a personal computer or set-top box to digital displays" Displays such as digital flat panels don't convert to a recordable analog signal.
I would strongly object to anything that prevents me from recording the output from my computer. I fail to see why the link between a video card and a digital display needs to be encrypted.
HH
we'll also have to develop full-on biceps to carry the batteries that will have to power the things.
Your right! These gadgets should become heavier not lighter. Girls would then flock after musclebound geeks weighed down with all the latest mobile computing devices. We should persuade Transmeta to drop Crusoe and develop a linux laptop with sheet-metal casing and lead-acid batteries instead.
HH
"NT Server" is one of the greatest oxymorons (like "Military Intelligence" or "Microsoft Works"
I recently installed the Neoplanet web browser onto an NT box. It required a reboot. This sort of behaviour does not meet my definition of a modern server operating system.
HH
I work in digital satellite TV in the UK. I'm sitting here with a 17" monitor (1280x1024@75Hz) and a brand new Sony Trinitron portable TV (approx 15"). Whilst TV's look OK at normal viewing distance (several feet away), up close the TV is abysmal. It's fuzzy and flickers really badly. If I display the same image on both displays, the one on the monitor looks infinitely better. The flicker on the TV is so bad, that I have to switch it off when not using it.
However you're right about the blurring effect smoothing video on a TV. If you try playing back VHS on a monitor it looks far worse than on a TV, but only because the monitor shows up the imperfections of VHS.
HH
XEmacs has a jwz icon (jwz.png). CT could use that.
mp3.com DOES NOT own the MP3 format. They are simply a web site that distributes and sells music in mp3 format. This law suit in no way affects MP3 as a format for digital music, even if mp3.com drives itself out of the market.
I really can't see Red Hat buying Corel. RH already has development tools from Cygnus and, of course, a popular distro. Why should they buy more of the same (except to get an office suite)?
VA buying Corel would maybe make more sense. I suspect strongly that VA wants to make the big league (and I think they will) and Corel could help them achieve this. However having a distribution, tools, apps etc. tied to a single hardware vendor might not be such a good idea.
I think that (unlike RedHat), Corel is maybe aiming at being the M$ of Linux. Whether this would benefit or hinder Linux remains to be seen. I guess that now would be a great time to be a Linux startup with a good product - you could sell up to RedHat, Corel or VA and make a fortune.
HH
Corel has been around quite a long time too. I remember Corel Draw running on 286's with Windows 2 around 1988.
I am sick and tired of seeing well thought-out, constructive, and well-written criticisms of your meandering, self-centered rants dismissed as "flames".
Every Katz article attracts many responses that are simply gratutious abuse. Here's some example responses from his previous story:
John Katz a bitch
He's a big fat bitch
He's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
ONCE AGAIN JON KATZ FSCKS UP
An article with no content whatsoever, to waste all of our time. When are they going to get rid of this idiot?
Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot Katz is an idiot
Jon Katz could make Mother Teresa sound evil cuz she didn't use Linux.
And that's just a tiny selection of the abuse that's been directed at him. Do you consider these to be contructive and well-written criticisms? He's not complaining about the constructive and/or intelligent criticism - he's complaining about the gratuitious and idiotic flames like those quoted above.
If you don't like Katz, TURN HIM OFF IN YOUR PREFERENCES and quit whining.
HH
Red Hat should buy Intuit (or at least become a major shareholder in them). Then we'd get Quicken / Quickbooks for Linux and many people would be able to wave Windows goodbye.
HH
My cousin had severe wrist/hand pain and was diagnosed & treated for RSI. This did not work and eventually she was referred to a consultant who told her that it was her back/neck that was causing the pain in her wrists. Since being treated for this, her pain has got better. So not all wrist pain is RSI.
Someone mentioned stretching exercises. I would also highly recommend these as they do seem to help enormously with this kind of pain. Stress also seems to increase pain, so do some stress-reducing activities too.
HH
As far as this Hedgehog understands things, Alan has been working for Red Hat (US) for some time as a contractor, though his own company 'Building No 3'. Now he's employed directly by Red Hat UK. All that's happened in that a non-existent middleman (Building No. 3) has been cut out. I believe that Alans main role for RH is as a sort of super support person for difficult problems.
HH
Apparently he'll still be living and working at home in Swansea (accoring to a reliable source), rahter than working at the Red Hat office in Guildford.
HH
Earlier today I was reading this article on IBM's developer site about Larry Wall and idly wondering if we should try to persuade Sun to adopt the Artistic License. What would be the advantages / disadvantages of this?
HH
The Gateway machine is a Cobalt Qube. See the Cobalt press release for details.
This could well be just stupidity on Sun's part, but has caused Sun to lose a lot of credibility with the open-source movement. I doubt that anyone will trust the SCSL anymore after this (if they did so before). Watch Sun's reaction to this very carefully - this is how we'll really find out where Sun stands (good company, stupid slip-up or bad company, preying on the good faith of open-source developers). Personally I'd still put my money on Sun turning out to be one of the good guys but, like any large company, it does have some real idiot PHB's (or did so when I worked there).
HH
My favourite Jon Katz story title from the generator:
Interactive Buffy and The Open Source WB: The Morning After
Jon - Please, please, please write this!
Mini-Windows? Perfect. Describes it exactly. Small, aggressive, bent on world domination, bastard cut-down clone of the original, big Evil version. And hopefully will suffer a similar fate to Dr Evil's Mini-Me.
HH
KY Jelly is not Y2K compliant. A new product will be launched for the millennium - Y2KY Jelly - which allows you four digits in your date instead of two.
I'm very pleased to see companies adopt this kind of stance. I'm only buying hardware now from companies that have a positive attitude to linux, and letting companies know this. I'm now strongly tempted to buy an NVidia card to replace my G200.
Please let hardware (& software) companies know that there is money to be made in supporting Linux. I'm very gald to see that Creative Labs have caught on to this. With NVidia, 3DFX & Creative to set good examples, hopefully the rest will follow.
A while back (like in the 70's) people used to say exactly the same thing about the Japanese, "they can copy inventions but they can't invent things of their own". This may have been true whilst they were playing catch-up, but once they had caught up, they started innovating. I believe that Linux will also follow this pattern - catch up first, then overtake. That's when we'll see move innovation happening in the open-source community.
HH
The mosquito built from wood, not only to save weight, but to save metal which was in short supply.
Transputers are still alive and well and living in Sky Digital set top boxes (and most other digital stb's)
HH