Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
What do you want, this is Slashdot. Besides which, it's way too early to know anything about how MS is dealing with the security and stability problems in Windows. There are a lot of promises about this and that, but until a late beta gets released, what can you say about it? Nothing. Therefore, commence the MS bashing!
I'm certainly not a proponent of focusing all energy on one's job... but why should I 'take back my time' on this particular day? I have entered into an agreement with my employer that I will dedicate a certain amount of my time to things that will help his business, but I certainly don't consider it the most important aspect of my life or my identity (or else I wouldn't be on/. right now). Most of these ridiculous 'awareness days' take things that should be part of the fabric of life, and dedicate a single day, week or month to it. These things shouldn't be tied to a specific period of time, but should become part of a routine.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm so sick of various days and weeks and months being devoted to all this random crap. In this case it is entirely ironic because everyone's going to be 'taking back their time' rather than doing what they really want to do. Some people actually like working. It's just a bunch of people deciding that they know what you should really be spending your time doing.
I'm surprised that this article didn't mention biodiesel, which is starting to take hold. Unlike hydrogen, biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, and can be used to power any diesel engine. It's still somewhat expensive, but it can be easily mixed with conventional diesel, to get to various price levels. In fact, the US government currently offers tax breaks for biodiesel use. It has a lot of promise, and already sells for as little as $2/gallon in the US -- a price which would surely go down as a better production infrastructure comes into place.
Give me a break. The RIAA does not speak for the entire music industry, and there are plenty of great independant labels and pseudo labels (such as CD Baby) that whole-heartedly disagree with the RIAA on many levels. Even before the RIAA was suing its customers it was fucking over the artists, many of whom have become basically indentured servants to the 'big 5.' Personally, I haven't bought major label music in years, just because I think that in general it isn't innovative. Here's who I *do* buy from: Beta-lactam Ring Elevator Bath IDEA Wholly Other
And last but not least, the best independant distributor of anything ever... Forced Exposure
The winner will be whoever gets this technology into wi-fi mp3 players. But then again, a bluetooth connection between PC and stereo would be pretty sweet.
I would also like to see a way to play a song once for a lower price than buying it outright.
Well, ok, if you had other things in mind besides spam filtering, I can see going through that process. I would be afraid that people not on my white list wouldn't take the time to write me back when they got a message saying their email didn't go through. However, it all depends on what you use your email address for. In my case, enjoy many of my unsolicited (but non-commercial) emails from people I don't know.
That sounds way too complicated, when all you need is SpamBayes. Honestly, I use Outlook at work, and SpamBayes has cut my spam down to 1-2 per week, with NO false possitives. You can get it as a truly elegant outlook plugin.
Also, you didn't respond to the question. But if every email program came with good filtering, there would be no need to hunt em down because there wouldn't be any $$$ in the business.
Sad though it is, all the good blacklist sites are getting DDoSed out of existance. I don't think these spammers are responding to 'pressure.' Currently, the best offense is a good defense: bayesian filtering.
esepcially not when most large websites 'optimize for ie'
Lazy web development is a huge problem. Now, being a part-time web developer myself, I understand it's a pain in the ass to develop sites for every goddamn version of every goddamn browser on every goddamn platform. Luckily, most modern browsers are more or less standards compliant, so you basically have to check all the versions of IE, and then do a quick check in Mozilla or Opera or whatever, and you should be ok. And since IE development has ground to a halt, there aren't that many versions of IE out there (although the Mac and Windows versions definately render differently).
However, many developers don't want to do this. When I decided to file my taxes online it took me about 2 hours to find a site that would even LET me use Mozilla. Although my general browsing experience is that Mozilla works fine for just about everything -- including my bank (thank god).
HyperCard resembled a lot of things that we have now -- it was kind of like HTML, Visual Basic and even presentation apps like PowerPoint or Keynote. I can't remember if you could create links between stacks (which would make it more like HTML). The fact that it was so open-ended and easy to use meant that it had tons of potential, but as Scully says, nobody at Apple really saw that potential and ran with it. Imagine if you could easily pull up cards from stacks on other computers across an AppleTalk network -- it would have very much resembled an early version of HTML -- only more powerful.
Better yet, how about upgradable players? Add whatever codecs you like/get invented?
I think they are building the codecs into the hardware to make the players faster. While it's certainly not impossible to build hardware that can be upgraded, it poses a challenge and somewhat defeats the purpose of having an industry standard. Not to mention people wouldn't have to buy new players when the standard changes.
The latter clearly patents the method by which amazon.com suggests items for you to buy based on your prior buying habits and the popularity of the suggested items (e.g. 'Customers who purchased Microsoft Windows also purchased Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.').
The former I couldn't really decifer, but it doesn't seem like one-click shopping to me.
Somehow it seems that taking the content of the internet out of the context of the internet allows you to see it in a new light. Just as the internet brought new meaning to content through interactivity, multi-media presentation and hyperlinkage, books have their own virtues that cannot be replicated on the net. Whereas the internet encourages and supports a short attention span, and IMO, detail-oriented thinking, the book format usually demands a longer attention span and 'big picture' sort of attitude.
Both have their place, of course, and I don't think a short attention span is necessarily a bad thing. But books try to force you to carry a thought through to a conclusion, within limited parameters, where the internet allows you to branch off and fragment your thought -- which in turn allows you to consider many ideas from many points of view -- just not very deeply.
So putting the internet into a book may just force some people to think about the implications of the new media, rather than focusing on the ever changing content.
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For one thing, right now Linux is a hot news item, so people listen. Whereas the city of Munich changing OSs wouldn't be much of a story a few years ago, now it is. Of course, this doesn't mean everyone's going to switch, but one more major corp. switching to Linux, one more major Windoze worm outbreak, people start to notice.
I'm gettin a little late in the game (already over 500 posts), so this'll probably never see the light of day, but...
Have you considered checking into other alternative fuels such as E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) or biodiesel (comes in different ratios, but B100 is available, which is 100% vegetable oil derived fuel)? Cars that run these fuels are in some senses superior to hybrid, in that you reduce dependance on the oil industry to an even greater degree. In some areas gas stations have biodiesel, roughly the same price as gas, better mileage, and far better for the ecosystem.
More here
Acutally, when you multiply the the P by the 4 you get a much bigger number than muliplying the G by the 5. See, you have to look at all the variables.
Man, I was really hoping to see a G5 in there. Too hot? Or would that spread the limited G5 supply too thin?
BTW US dollar prices are:
$1299
$1799
$2448
Interesting that a bank of computers replicating human music can be so much more interesting than humans trying to replicate human music. I guess they have have a long way to go before they can make music as boring as most major record labels. "It's a feature, not a bug."
Tibco filed for it on May 20, 2002. Apple filed for it May 6, 2002. Yet Tibco was granted the trademark on March 4, 2003. Apple has yet to be granted the trademark. However, it was filed for opposition on July 8. My understanding is that after it is filed for opposition, other companies (i.e. Tibco) have 30 days to oppose.
I'm not sure why Tibco's trademark was registered before Apple's, when Apple applied for it first.
Yes. Yahoo! uses FreeBSD for all of its shared hosting. Other hosting businesses such as Verio, Infospace and Datasync also have very large deployments of FreeBSD (each of the hosts I named have over 100,000 active sites running on FreeBSD).
This is true. I really don't know much about the DRDOS case.
I think you make a good distinction between the cases, and it is important to recognize the differences. However, my point was that SCO tends to buy software based on what they can get from it -- legally. I don't think it really mattered much to SCO that they had a legitimate case, or that they have an illegitimate case now. Or I should say, it only matters to them in so far as it impacts on their ability to win the case, and get money for doing nothing.
The way I see it, an attack on one member of the Open Source community is an attack on all of us.
I don't see this as just an attack on the Open Source community. This is an attack on our society, because it is an abuse of our legal system. As far as I'm concerned, abusing the legal system is worse than breaking the law. I noticed in an article that some SCO users, who even had booths at SCO Forum, were outraged by what this company is doing. And has been doing. Forbes points out that SCO has pulled this same shit with Microsoft -- and won. In this case they bought the rights to an old, 'decrepit' version of DOS and proceeded to sue the shit out of Redmond. They are crafty bastards. And they basically leverage intellectual property law to fuck other people over. Obviously.
This kind of behavior, taken to these extremes, has the potential to seriously disrupt the fabric of our society. Especially since our society is becoming increasingly dependant on software. If SCO wins, which they might (I mean hell, they beat MS), their example has the potential to make the software industry even more litigious, even less focused on solid product design and just generally shittier. EVERYONE should be up in arms about this... Darl McBride makes Bill Gates look like freakin RMS.
The only thing that came close to pissing me off this much was when Rosa Parks sued Outkast -- although the stakes were much, much lower.
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Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
What do you want, this is Slashdot. Besides which, it's way too early to know anything about how MS is dealing with the security and stability problems in Windows. There are a lot of promises about this and that, but until a late beta gets released, what can you say about it? Nothing. Therefore, commence the MS bashing!
I'm certainly not a proponent of focusing all energy on one's job... but why should I 'take back my time' on this particular day? I have entered into an agreement with my employer that I will dedicate a certain amount of my time to things that will help his business, but I certainly don't consider it the most important aspect of my life or my identity (or else I wouldn't be on /. right now). Most of these ridiculous 'awareness days' take things that should be part of the fabric of life, and dedicate a single day, week or month to it. These things shouldn't be tied to a specific period of time, but should become part of a routine.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm so sick of various days and weeks and months being devoted to all this random crap. In this case it is entirely ironic because everyone's going to be 'taking back their time' rather than doing what they really want to do. Some people actually like working. It's just a bunch of people deciding that they know what you should really be spending your time doing.
Hopefully something will, though.
I'm surprised that this article didn't mention biodiesel, which is starting to take hold. Unlike hydrogen, biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, and can be used to power any diesel engine. It's still somewhat expensive, but it can be easily mixed with conventional diesel, to get to various price levels. In fact, the US government currently offers tax breaks for biodiesel use. It has a lot of promise, and already sells for as little as $2/gallon in the US -- a price which would surely go down as a better production infrastructure comes into place.
More info here.
Give me a break. The RIAA does not speak for the entire music industry, and there are plenty of great independant labels and pseudo labels (such as CD Baby) that whole-heartedly disagree with the RIAA on many levels. Even before the RIAA was suing its customers it was fucking over the artists, many of whom have become basically indentured servants to the 'big 5.' Personally, I haven't bought major label music in years, just because I think that in general it isn't innovative. Here's who I *do* buy from:
Beta-lactam Ring
Elevator Bath
IDEA
Wholly Other
And last but not least, the best independant distributor of anything ever... Forced Exposure
The winner will be whoever gets this technology into wi-fi mp3 players. But then again, a bluetooth connection between PC and stereo would be pretty sweet.
I would also like to see a way to play a song once for a lower price than buying it outright.
Well, ok, if you had other things in mind besides spam filtering, I can see going through that process. I would be afraid that people not on my white list wouldn't take the time to write me back when they got a message saying their email didn't go through. However, it all depends on what you use your email address for. In my case, enjoy many of my unsolicited (but non-commercial) emails from people I don't know.
That sounds way too complicated, when all you need is SpamBayes. Honestly, I use Outlook at work, and SpamBayes has cut my spam down to 1-2 per week, with NO false possitives. You can get it as a truly elegant outlook plugin.
Also, you didn't respond to the question. But if every email program came with good filtering, there would be no need to hunt em down because there wouldn't be any $$$ in the business.
Sad though it is, all the good blacklist sites are getting DDoSed out of existance. I don't think these spammers are responding to 'pressure.' Currently, the best offense is a good defense: bayesian filtering.
This man has no ideas. He doesn't even have hair!
Let's not listen.
esepcially not when most large websites 'optimize for ie'
Lazy web development is a huge problem. Now, being a part-time web developer myself, I understand it's a pain in the ass to develop sites for every goddamn version of every goddamn browser on every goddamn platform. Luckily, most modern browsers are more or less standards compliant, so you basically have to check all the versions of IE, and then do a quick check in Mozilla or Opera or whatever, and you should be ok. And since IE development has ground to a halt, there aren't that many versions of IE out there (although the Mac and Windows versions definately render differently).
However, many developers don't want to do this. When I decided to file my taxes online it took me about 2 hours to find a site that would even LET me use Mozilla. Although my general browsing experience is that Mozilla works fine for just about everything -- including my bank (thank god).
HyperCard resembled a lot of things that we have now -- it was kind of like HTML, Visual Basic and even presentation apps like PowerPoint or Keynote. I can't remember if you could create links between stacks (which would make it more like HTML). The fact that it was so open-ended and easy to use meant that it had tons of potential, but as Scully says, nobody at Apple really saw that potential and ran with it. Imagine if you could easily pull up cards from stacks on other computers across an AppleTalk network -- it would have very much resembled an early version of HTML -- only more powerful.
Better yet, how about upgradable players? Add whatever codecs you like/get invented?
I think they are building the codecs into the hardware to make the players faster. While it's certainly not impossible to build hardware that can be upgraded, it poses a challenge and somewhat defeats the purpose of having an industry standard. Not to mention people wouldn't have to buy new players when the standard changes.
Well, doing a search for patents owned by 'amazon' in the uspto.gov database brings up two entries: System and method for selecting rows from dimensional databases and System and method for exposing popular nodes within a browse tree.
The latter clearly patents the method by which amazon.com suggests items for you to buy based on your prior buying habits and the popularity of the suggested items (e.g. 'Customers who purchased Microsoft Windows also purchased Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.').
The former I couldn't really decifer, but it doesn't seem like one-click shopping to me.
Somehow it seems that taking the content of the internet out of the context of the internet allows you to see it in a new light. Just as the internet brought new meaning to content through interactivity, multi-media presentation and hyperlinkage, books have their own virtues that cannot be replicated on the net. Whereas the internet encourages and supports a short attention span, and IMO, detail-oriented thinking, the book format usually demands a longer attention span and 'big picture' sort of attitude.
Both have their place, of course, and I don't think a short attention span is necessarily a bad thing. But books try to force you to carry a thought through to a conclusion, within limited parameters, where the internet allows you to branch off and fragment your thought -- which in turn allows you to consider many ideas from many points of view -- just not very deeply.
So putting the internet into a book may just force some people to think about the implications of the new media, rather than focusing on the ever changing content.
For one thing, right now Linux is a hot news item, so people listen. Whereas the city of Munich changing OSs wouldn't be much of a story a few years ago, now it is. Of course, this doesn't mean everyone's going to switch, but one more major corp. switching to Linux, one more major Windoze worm outbreak, people start to notice.
I'm gettin a little late in the game (already over 500 posts), so this'll probably never see the light of day, but...
Have you considered checking into other alternative fuels such as E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) or biodiesel (comes in different ratios, but B100 is available, which is 100% vegetable oil derived fuel)? Cars that run these fuels are in some senses superior to hybrid, in that you reduce dependance on the oil industry to an even greater degree. In some areas gas stations have biodiesel, roughly the same price as gas, better mileage, and far better for the ecosystem.
More here
Acutally, when you multiply the the P by the 4 you get a much bigger number than muliplying the G by the 5. See, you have to look at all the variables.
Man, I was really hoping to see a G5 in there. Too hot? Or would that spread the limited G5 supply too thin? BTW US dollar prices are: $1299 $1799 $2448
Interesting that a bank of computers replicating human music can be so much more interesting than humans trying to replicate human music. I guess they have have a long way to go before they can make music as boring as most major record labels. "It's a feature, not a bug."
In fact, they only filed for it May 21, 2003.
Tibco filed for it on May 20, 2002. Apple filed for it May 6, 2002. Yet Tibco was granted the trademark on March 4, 2003. Apple has yet to be granted the trademark. However, it was filed for opposition on July 8. My understanding is that after it is filed for opposition, other companies (i.e. Tibco) have 30 days to oppose.
I'm not sure why Tibco's trademark was registered before Apple's, when Apple applied for it first.
Does anyone run this OS?
Yes. Yahoo! uses FreeBSD for all of its shared hosting. Other hosting businesses such as Verio, Infospace and Datasync also have very large deployments of FreeBSD (each of the hosts I named have over 100,000 active sites running on FreeBSD).
The information in this post came from here.
He put the odds of corrupting the software undetected at 1 billion to one. I'll put $50 on it.
Diebold is gonna bust out some DMCA on her ass if she cracks it...
you have not been studying your history.
This is true. I really don't know much about the DRDOS case.
I think you make a good distinction between the cases, and it is important to recognize the differences. However, my point was that SCO tends to buy software based on what they can get from it -- legally. I don't think it really mattered much to SCO that they had a legitimate case, or that they have an illegitimate case now. Or I should say, it only matters to them in so far as it impacts on their ability to win the case, and get money for doing nothing.
The way I see it, an attack on one member of the Open Source community is an attack on all of us.
I don't see this as just an attack on the Open Source community. This is an attack on our society, because it is an abuse of our legal system. As far as I'm concerned, abusing the legal system is worse than breaking the law. I noticed in an article that some SCO users, who even had booths at SCO Forum, were outraged by what this company is doing. And has been doing. Forbes points out that SCO has pulled this same shit with Microsoft -- and won. In this case they bought the rights to an old, 'decrepit' version of DOS and proceeded to sue the shit out of Redmond. They are crafty bastards. And they basically leverage intellectual property law to fuck other people over. Obviously.
This kind of behavior, taken to these extremes, has the potential to seriously disrupt the fabric of our society. Especially since our society is becoming increasingly dependant on software. If SCO wins, which they might (I mean hell, they beat MS), their example has the potential to make the software industry even more litigious, even less focused on solid product design and just generally shittier. EVERYONE should be up in arms about this... Darl McBride makes Bill Gates look like freakin RMS.
The only thing that came close to pissing me off this much was when Rosa Parks sued Outkast -- although the stakes were much, much lower.