Yeh but who would say that? The only non-NASA people who *could* say that and have it mean anything are the politicians, and somehow I don't thing they'll be looking at it from a technical perspective...
C'mon folks, this is a good and evil story like no movie ever seen.
No it isn't. To most business-minded folks, MS isn't evil - it's the pinnacle of corporate success. This is just how the game gets played. If it's illegal then sure it might get press, but just being dirty scoundrals isn't enough to get anyone interested.
don't be such as ass. mandrake has said the offical 10 release will be much later. If you use a testing version, don't get all antsy because you were premature.
No, but I'm sick to death of the mind control spam that's *still* circulating. Last I read, the story likely originated from someone with schitzophrenic tendencies.
Wireless is cool, but the future is 3D porn, IMO. Not that silly rendered crap (although anyone that's seen Jue in The Animatrix might be tempted to disagree...), but stereoscopic. There's a shed load of mpegs and various movies, even interactive, but I dare some adult webmasters to try some 3D imagery. The problem I guess is that you can't buy "stock" images, but try out "jiggle vision" first, then get more serious.
Viewing can be either "jiggle" style, red/blue glasses, or send out viewing goggles to subscribers willing to pay for them. With large bandwidth you can provide movies this way too, and if differentiates you from the plethora of skin merchants out there.
Also if they are successful the Navy will be a sitting duck with a monoculture IT infrastructure and a successful exploit will be able to cripple it in short order.
Man, I hope Jeff Goldblum never joins a terrorist organisation./kidding. OTOH, maybe anti-terrorism laws will be a good way to round up all those script kiddies./only half-kidding.
["The European law was shepherded through the European Parliament by MEP Janelly Fourtou, wife of Jean-Rene Fourtou who is boss of media giant Vivendi Universal. "]
And there you have it.
Nice to see politicians (are MEPs even elected?) have *our* best interests at heart.
Woah dude, back off. What's this "make all of you realize" crap? I think most people here on/. generally think software and process patents are crap. Certainly I do, although I can grudgingly accept a specific implementation as being patentable - not that it's even necessary to do so, given existing copyright laws...
Windows AV apps are usually shipped with an auto-update feature. On Linux, you can just use a cron job - that works for NOD32 at least, and I presume most others have a similar setup.
That's a pretty serious worry to me. I imagine MS has a shitload of patents that could be used against Linux/GNU/Gnome/KDE/etc when the need arises. In fact, I'm wondering why they haven't already... unless IBM has had a quite word with them...
Yup, do it - if your patent mentioned compression as well. Your internal submission will be documented at Dell, and hopefully you have your own copies of the information as well. I suspect Sony would happily pay something for the information too.
Now that Linux is Good Enough, here come the hanger-ons wanted to sell it under the premise it's something it isn't. Market it! Productize it! Rebrand it!
Fuck it - most of the people who did the grunt work to get it this far don't give a shit if some middle-aged exec in a random office thinks the boot logo is "unprofessional". Many of us don't have a vested interest in selling more systems. The Tux logo is part of Linux history and culture. If people have a problem with it, they need to change not the Linux community. And if a logo is enough to inhibit adoptance of a better system, then again that ain't our problem or our loss. Of course, you're free to go and produce your own penguin free distro, and to produce your own penguin free marketing material, but something tells me you won't go to all that work...
Rebranding is masterbation. If you want executive compatible "professionalism" that badly, go and use Solaris or something and stick a Gnome desktop on it. Except maybe that Foot is a bit cartoony too, eh?
I've lived with lawyers, and they were the most pedanticaly anal assholes I've ever had the mispleasure of sharing a house with. Sure enough, when the flats dissolved, they were writing letters and making demands and generally pissing everyone outside of their clique off (obviously I was one of those on the receiving end). They don't seem to understand that notion of "give and take" that lets people get along smoothly. I can only imagine what landlords have to go through when things get difficult. Give me a flat with laid-back pot-smoking geeks anyday./generalizing, but that's my experience anyway...
Why yes. Yes it would. I'd wondered about that before... and came to the conclusion that it's brilliant where bandwidth is cheap. It's not cheap where I live.:-(
My thinking is that Linux on the desktop is going to need a contingency plan for a widespread vulerability, similar to what Microsoft does with Automatic Updates.
I'm guessing you don't use Linux then. All major distros release such updates very quickly, and RedHat at least had a desktop icon that alerted users if updates were available. The kernel will get patched if it needs to, but it's up to the distro vendors to include something "idiot proof" to yell if the system needs an update.
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Yeh but who would say that? The only non-NASA people who *could* say that and have it mean anything are the politicians, and somehow I don't thing they'll be looking at it from a technical perspective...
C'mon folks, this is a good and evil story like no movie ever seen.
No it isn't. To most business-minded folks, MS isn't evil - it's the pinnacle of corporate success. This is just how the game gets played. If it's illegal then sure it might get press, but just being dirty scoundrals isn't enough to get anyone interested.
don't be such as ass. mandrake has said the offical 10 release will be much later. If you use a testing version, don't get all antsy because you were premature.
No, but I'm sick to death of the mind control spam that's *still* circulating. Last I read, the story likely originated from someone with schitzophrenic tendencies.
Wireless is cool, but the future is 3D porn, IMO. Not that silly rendered crap (although anyone that's seen Jue in The Animatrix might be tempted to disagree...), but stereoscopic. There's a shed load of mpegs and various movies, even interactive, but I dare some adult webmasters to try some 3D imagery. The problem I guess is that you can't buy "stock" images, but try out "jiggle vision" first, then get more serious.
Viewing can be either "jiggle" style, red/blue glasses, or send out viewing goggles to subscribers willing to pay for them. With large bandwidth you can provide movies this way too, and if differentiates you from the plethora of skin merchants out there.
That's what contrib is for
Man, I hope Jeff Goldblum never joins a terrorist organisation. /kidding. OTOH, maybe anti-terrorism laws will be a good way to round up all those script kiddies. /only half-kidding.
What if you accused the government?
["The European law was shepherded through the European Parliament by MEP Janelly Fourtou, wife of Jean-Rene Fourtou who is boss of media giant Vivendi Universal. "]
And there you have it.
Nice to see politicians (are MEPs even elected?) have *our* best interests at heart.
Woah dude, back off. What's this "make all of you realize" crap? I think most people here on /. generally think software and process patents are crap. Certainly I do, although I can grudgingly accept a specific implementation as being patentable - not that it's even necessary to do so, given existing copyright laws...
Windows AV apps are usually shipped with an auto-update feature. On Linux, you can just use a cron job - that works for NOD32 at least, and I presume most others have a similar setup.
That's a pretty serious worry to me. I imagine MS has a shitload of patents that could be used against Linux/GNU/Gnome/KDE/etc when the need arises. In fact, I'm wondering why they haven't already... unless IBM has had a quite word with them...
Yup, do it - if your patent mentioned compression as well. Your internal submission will be documented at Dell, and hopefully you have your own copies of the information as well. I suspect Sony would happily pay something for the information too.
IE theme for Mozilla. This might even be parent proof.
What're ya gonna do? Install a virus scanner.
Now that Linux is Good Enough, here come the hanger-ons wanted to sell it under the premise it's something it isn't. Market it! Productize it! Rebrand it!
Fuck it - most of the people who did the grunt work to get it this far don't give a shit if some middle-aged exec in a random office thinks the boot logo is "unprofessional". Many of us don't have a vested interest in selling more systems. The Tux logo is part of Linux history and culture. If people have a problem with it, they need to change not the Linux community. And if a logo is enough to inhibit adoptance of a better system, then again that ain't our problem or our loss. Of course, you're free to go and produce your own penguin free distro, and to produce your own penguin free marketing material, but something tells me you won't go to all that work...
Rebranding is masterbation. If you want executive compatible "professionalism" that badly, go and use Solaris or something and stick a Gnome desktop on it. Except maybe that Foot is a bit cartoony too, eh?
She will also enjoy his strong and nimble fingers, whereas the lonely mouse user will have to find his own use for his strengthed wrist.
Long lunches, late nights, are casual rising time are more Spanish. I think the siesta is more of a Mexican thing. /has been to Spain
I hear that UK bookies are no longer accepting bets on whether there is life on Mars. Odds were 16:1 when they stopped.
I kicked it last week. I feel much better now, but damn it was a hard week...
Heh. I'm still recovering from my last 3:00am "muffin experiment"... :-S
What are the odds of that eh? Lawyers pissing landlords off, so they won't rent to them, then they change the law so they can't not. Typical.
I've lived with lawyers, and they were the most pedanticaly anal assholes I've ever had the mispleasure of sharing a house with. Sure enough, when the flats dissolved, they were writing letters and making demands and generally pissing everyone outside of their clique off (obviously I was one of those on the receiving end). They don't seem to understand that notion of "give and take" that lets people get along smoothly. I can only imagine what landlords have to go through when things get difficult. Give me a flat with laid-back pot-smoking geeks anyday. /generalizing, but that's my experience anyway...
Why yes. Yes it would. I'd wondered about that before... and came to the conclusion that it's brilliant where bandwidth is cheap. It's not cheap where I live. :-(
My thinking is that Linux on the desktop is going to need a contingency plan for a widespread vulerability, similar to what Microsoft does with Automatic Updates.
I'm guessing you don't use Linux then. All major distros release such updates very quickly, and RedHat at least had a desktop icon that alerted users if updates were available. The kernel will get patched if it needs to, but it's up to the distro vendors to include something "idiot proof" to yell if the system needs an update.