Its good news, but in the end probably not more important than the 'sealed envelope' and the 'DNA experts' in the O.J. trial.
Say M$ does lose, anyone want to suggest what should be done to them? I'm pushing for a break up, different companies for different products. M$ can keep Windowsx/IIS, but IE and Office go somewhere else. As the problem is their ability to push their products with OS marketshare muscle.
Yeah that's right, or upsidedown right. Baha, puns. That reminds me of this Hendrix compilation album I saw where they inversed the picture of Jimi so he's playing right handed. It was pretty funny, I haven't seen that cover in a long time. Hopefully someone caught on. Though Fender did make a lefty guitar for Jimi, but I'm not sure I've ever seen him play it live.
And to remain on topic: How about Tux as the judge for the DoJ trial with him slamming down the gavel and yelling, "Guilty!"
Maybe we should stop pretending Open Source can be everything to everyone. If anything this article should encourage a slew of complaints against webmasters who make make incompatible pages and make you wonder to what ever happened to standards.
So who wants to vote for this month's most proprietary web pages? We'll make a nice webpage and a link to the lucky webmasters.
Scary thought: Inbox 10,000 emails with the subject, "Can't access your page."
A Tie-dye wearing Tux playing a left-handed strat a la Jimi Hendrix. You can play with all sorts of colors and support the 'power to the people' message. Go for the tech 60's revival.
A giant Tux, in space, sitting on the Earth, like its a penguin egg ready to hatch. Ooo, I like that one. Maybe you can use one of those famous 'whole earth' photos.
Tux and the Gates and Jobs holding up three identical pictures with their respective computers in the background. Under the photos you can list out Labor cost, Software cost, OS costs,etc...
Bah, If I had my way it would be Tux taking a flamethrower to Redmond, which is why I'd make a terrible graphic designer.
Warwick's last experiment is largely a joke. All it did was make him traceable throughout a building. The only difference between this and house arrest technology is that Warwick is wacky enough to put the transmitter under a flap of skin instead of tied around his leg. Big Brother? He's already here, at least for criminals.
This new experiment is a lot riskier and a lot more fascinating. Maybe I'll be able to get a 'type 100wpm' chip eventually, except of course it'll be a nerve recording of Warwick typing his out new book...
"Damn they sent the wrong chip, I wanted 'Ninjitsu' not '101 ways to please your man in bed.'" "Pop it in, a new skill never hurt anyone."
First of, even if you have the tech you'll never be able to feel as high as you want to. If the tech becomes that potent it'll be treated just like a narcotic and made illegal. "It's making our kids crazy," screams an angry mother.
This sounds like it'll have potential as a treatment for chronic anxiety or depression.
Actually it has a lot more to do with accessability regulations, and legal fears of not blindly following regulations. Heh, I love puns. There was a discussion about it at the straight dope website.
These are the same people who fight for government regulations that put braille on drive up ATMs.
These are the same people who protest the movie 'Mr. Magoo.'
As for the 'government at work' arguments, read the article this, is a civil lawsuit. I don't want to smack the blind on the back of their collective heads and say, "Too bad," but this is just overstepping the boundries of accessability. The same way the braille ATM does.
Do they really expect proprietary AOL software(crap) to work well with their speech synths? If anything this more proof that AOL stinks, especially for the blind. Try a different ISP, you'll like it.
The foundation for Nacrolepsy are filing a lawsuit against/. user gad_zuki! for writing posts that aren't interesting enough to keep them awake.
This article brings up a point I've been wondering about the Dreamcast. How do they keep the retail cost under $300? Just looking at some of this gear makes you wonder if they're selling systems below cost. Which is not a bad idea. Yeah, I know it could be anti-competition, but only if they're the only ones doing it.
I do know the retail markup on Dreamcasts are pennies which most likely means Sega told retailers, "You wanna sell my games, sell my console for nothing." The real money is in the software, which debuts at $40-60 bucks a pop. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Sega does subsidize its consoles by its software prices. In the quest for more 3D/FPS we might be looking at a future where expensive tech will be sold at a loss just to keep up the rep as being the biggest and fastest.
Am I the only one that keeps reading this title as the MS SEX-Bot?
I didn't know so many people could view the future. Good movies are about good storytelling and I really don't see how the, "Neo is a god, can't imagine a movie like that" complaint works, maybe thats why you aren't a writer. The same could have been said about Luke Skywalker after Empire, yet the story isn't all about him and his powers but about a greater backdrop of a revolution at work. Which I suspect will be the main focus of these movies, or hopefully it'll be about nothing I suspect and will be honestly surprised in the end. The same way I didn't expect reality to be CG.
People are just not willing to look past issues that seem important to them. Remember before the Matrix came out? Most complaints were, "Reaves? Awww man, hes going to ruin it." Reaves == Boring SurferBoy is definatly a problem, yet they used him as a stoic and soft spoken character which worked very well. If the W.Bros. could do that they can do anything.
"Duudes, maybe I can be the god of surfers in the sequel!" "Shut up Keanu." "Yes Mr. W."
I'm having a hard time caring about this situation. The problem is a bit millenium madness and a lot of Texas culture. Mix those two and you'll get a couple dozen, 'civil rights' cases a day. Texas will always be about 100 years behind most states in a country that is 100 years behind the rest of the world in just about everything that makes a society worthwhile.
This is just one of maybe 10,000 reasons why you should think, "Move from Texas."
Hahaha, I love it when the a Canadian spokesman starts yelling about the Yoo Ess, there's almost one for every topic. To think, Nationalism is alive and well someplace. Hopefully the next 'typical' slashdot list will be more like this:
Naww, I used to work with a lot of people who trash windows and M$ all the time. Yet, when I ask them about other OS's its always, "Macs suck" and "Linux is for nerds, but I might try it eventually, but I'm busy saving up for the newest hottest videogame that wont run on Linux."
Theres lots of anti-M$ people out there who are just like your average apathetic american who complains about the government 24/7 but votes Republican every year. "What can ya do?" Lots, if you're not lazy.
Is Windows 95/98 a buggy operating system? Yes 92% 7398 votes No 8% 632 votes Total: 8030 votes
Nice odds, yet if CNN asked the question, "Would you be willing to install Linux today" the numbers would be the same but with Yes and No reversed. I love it when the mainstream bashes M$ while they edit their stories using Word running on NT, holding a Microsoft mouse after putting the phone down and ordering W2k for 20 workstations. I'm starting to believe they think M$ bashing is exactly like Ralph Kramden threating to beat his wife, in they end they're still very much in love. Awwww.
Your analogy states that Echelon hasn't been created yet, but the hype has, and when the hype dies down it will be. Heh, which I certainly didn't claim. What I did say that drawing attention to someting ISN'T good disinformation. Making up excuses why this thing isn't important, which takes attention away from it, is.
However, it may also be useful to note that if the NSA is anywhere near as powerful as we have been led (or have led ourselves) to believe, we probably wouldn't know about it. Organizations (like the NSA) that operate on the perception of power have it in their best interest to spread disinformation about themselves, especially if they wish to remain obscure and secret.
This of course assumes a powerful organization can never do wrong, when really they spread disinfo to cover their mistakes. No matter how big and powerful your organization is it can never be perfect. Not to mention theres lot to be said about how the bigger you get the less secure you become.
Your disinformation example only verifies the existance of the listening network through untrustworthy sources, yet calls attention to it which leads to serious investigation of the rumor. Its like painting a sign that reads, "500 megaton ICBM silo" on a 10 megaton ICBM silo and expecting no one to see if its really a missile silo.
This concept is explored at great length in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy.
Heh, this guy defines crackpot. You cite a guy who claims to have talked to a multi-dimensional alien named Mescalito and, according to his own disinformation theory, spreads disinformation himself. I always thought of him as an ignorant new-age version of RA Heilein.
How do you know Echelon has done one thing to help you? You assume it works and cleans out terrorists. That statement is about as silly as assuming they're watching you right now.
What we do know is that there are no protections against using this system to further other political and economic agendas and corruption, especially in the US, is always a real concern.
There's a difference between 3D, the illusion of having 3 dimensions, and a perspective change. 3Dwm is like holding a piece of paper and turning it away from you, which is pretty silly and if you're trying to read it VERY silly. What 3D should be is building applications that are polygon based and using that extra dimension in a practical way.
"Alas, the Coders worked hard to fix their calendar problem only to find the Lawyer tribe destroying their efforts. Y2K famine soon became Y2K cannibalism, and both Coders and Lawyers were happily eaten by the Armed Masses."
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Say M$ does lose, anyone want to suggest what should be done to them? I'm pushing for a break up, different companies for different products. M$ can keep Windowsx/IIS, but IE and Office go somewhere else. As the problem is their ability to push their products with OS marketshare muscle.
"Wow, their copy of the Best Butts of '99 is 1 penny off!"
They're just one-click shopping their way into my heart.
That reminds me of this Hendrix compilation album I saw where they inversed the picture of Jimi so he's playing right handed. It was pretty funny, I haven't seen that cover in a long time. Hopefully someone caught on. Though Fender did make a lefty guitar for Jimi, but I'm not sure I've ever seen him play it live.
And to remain on topic: How about Tux as the judge for the DoJ trial with him slamming down the gavel and yelling, "Guilty!"
So who wants to vote for this month's most proprietary web pages? We'll make a nice webpage and a link to the lucky webmasters.
Scary thought: Inbox 10,000 emails with the subject, "Can't access your page."
Scarier: 10,000 emails a month until you fix it.
A giant Tux, in space, sitting on the Earth, like its a penguin egg ready to hatch. Ooo, I like that one. Maybe you can use one of those famous 'whole earth' photos.
Tux and the Gates and Jobs holding up three identical pictures with their respective computers in the background. Under the photos you can list out Labor cost, Software cost, OS costs,etc...
Bah, If I had my way it would be Tux taking a flamethrower to Redmond, which is why I'd make a terrible graphic designer.
This new experiment is a lot riskier and a lot more fascinating. Maybe I'll be able to get a 'type 100wpm' chip eventually, except of course it'll be a nerve recording of Warwick typing his out new book...
"Damn they sent the wrong chip, I wanted 'Ninjitsu' not '101 ways to please your man in bed.'" "Pop it in, a new skill never hurt anyone."
This sounds like it'll have potential as a treatment for chronic anxiety or depression.
You can't get goofy off prozac you know.
"More than one window," heh you crack me up.
Actually it has a lot more to do with accessability regulations, and legal fears of not blindly following regulations. Heh, I love puns.
There was a discussion about it at the straight dope website.
These are the same people who protest the movie 'Mr. Magoo.'
As for the 'government at work' arguments, read the article this, is a civil lawsuit. I don't want to smack the blind on the back of their collective heads and say, "Too bad," but this is just overstepping the boundries of accessability. The same way the braille ATM does.
Do they really expect proprietary AOL software(crap) to work well with their speech synths? If anything this more proof that AOL stinks, especially for the blind. Try a different ISP, you'll like it.
The foundation for Nacrolepsy are filing a lawsuit against /. user gad_zuki! for writing posts that aren't interesting enough to keep them awake.
I do know the retail markup on Dreamcasts are pennies which most likely means Sega told retailers, "You wanna sell my games, sell my console for nothing." The real money is in the software, which debuts at $40-60 bucks a pop. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Sega does subsidize its consoles by its software prices. In the quest for more 3D/FPS we might be looking at a future where expensive tech will be sold at a loss just to keep up the rep as being the biggest and fastest.
Am I the only one that keeps reading this title as the MS SEX-Bot?
People are just not willing to look past issues that seem important to them. Remember before the Matrix came out? Most complaints were, "Reaves? Awww man, hes going to ruin it." Reaves == Boring SurferBoy is definatly a problem, yet they used him as a stoic and soft spoken character which worked very well. If the W.Bros. could do that they can do anything.
"Duudes, maybe I can be the god of surfers in the sequel!" "Shut up Keanu." "Yes Mr. W."
This is just one of maybe 10,000 reasons why you should think, "Move from Texas."
"After a glass of 2% I just forget all my complaints about the government, its very relaxing. Have some, its bliiiisssss..."
Beowulf that baby!
This is old news.
Hey what about my rights?!
This isn't newswothy.
It's big business again.
If only Americans were as smart as Canadians.
Somewhere north of here lies a patriot!
They did make a decent 286 system.
Everything else sucked. "Yeah we'll put the modem and sound on the same card! Genius! *Suit Highfive*"
Theres lots of anti-M$ people out there who are just like your average apathetic american who complains about the government 24/7 but votes Republican every year. "What can ya do?" Lots, if you're not lazy.
Yes 92% 7398 votes
No 8% 632 votes
Total: 8030 votes
Nice odds, yet if CNN asked the question, "Would you be willing to install Linux today" the numbers would be the same but with Yes and No reversed. I love it when the mainstream bashes M$ while they edit their stories using Word running on NT, holding a Microsoft mouse after putting the phone down and ordering W2k for 20 workstations. I'm starting to believe they think M$ bashing is exactly like Ralph Kramden threating to beat his wife, in they end they're still very much in love. Awwww.
"To the moon, Gates!"
Then again if that vote was slashdotted...
Your analogy states that Echelon hasn't been created yet, but the hype has, and when the hype dies down it will be. Heh, which I certainly didn't claim. What I did say that drawing attention to someting ISN'T good disinformation. Making up excuses why this thing isn't important, which takes attention away from it, is.
Is that a SingMolec Module in your pocket containing all Human Knowledge or are you happy to see me?
"Name, address, credit card numbers please.."
However, it may also be useful to note that if the NSA is anywhere near as powerful as we have
been led (or have led ourselves) to believe, we probably wouldn't know about it. Organizations
(like the NSA) that operate on the perception of power have it in their best interest to spread
disinformation about themselves, especially if they wish to remain obscure and secret.
This of course assumes a powerful organization can never do wrong, when really they spread disinfo to cover their mistakes. No matter how big and powerful your organization is it can never be perfect. Not to mention theres lot to be said about how the bigger you get the less secure you become.
Your disinformation example only verifies the existance of the listening network through untrustworthy sources, yet calls attention to it which leads to serious investigation of the rumor. Its like painting a sign that reads, "500 megaton ICBM silo" on a 10 megaton ICBM silo and expecting no one to see if its really a missile silo.
This concept is explored at great length in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy.
Heh, this guy defines crackpot. You cite a guy who claims to have talked to a multi-dimensional alien named Mescalito and, according to his own disinformation theory, spreads disinformation himself. I always thought of him as an ignorant new-age version of RA Heilein.
How do you know Echelon has done one thing to help you? You assume it works and cleans out terrorists. That statement is about as silly as assuming they're watching you right now.
What we do know is that there are no protections against using this system to further other political and economic agendas and corruption, especially in the US, is always a real concern.
Its just eyecandy.
"Alas, the Coders worked hard to fix their calendar problem only to find the Lawyer tribe destroying their efforts. Y2K famine soon became Y2K cannibalism, and both Coders and Lawyers were happily eaten by the Armed Masses."