Nobody, that's who. If there is a market for blind-sensitive web (or any other) materials, then there is big money to be made. If AOL doesn't want that money, that's their problem. If Govt. steps in here and regulates, you'll dramatically increase the cost of doing business on the web, and hence kill lots of innovation. If you're a company, you'll have to get lawyers and experts to OK every single HTML page you post. That is an outrage.
Well said. MP3.com ran an article (way back in the day before the IPO and the whole new "we are sooo corporate redesign") called "Why drug dealers don't sell aspirin." The upshot of the article is that people would much rather get a common product at a reasonable price from a reputable source. The rise of MP3s was caused by the gross price inflation of music CDs. Same goes here.
I'll see if I can dig up the URL of that old article...
In a press release today, Andover.net announced that they will be fixing the/. "not enough presents" bug by going public. The "not enough presents" bug has plagued/. employees for some time, and is (according to insider sources) similar to the Microsoft WinCE "no power on" bug reported by news sources earlier this year.
An anonymous source inside/. was quoted as saying "I can't wait to have a dumptruck full of money driven up to my house. Then I can have anything I want. Except women - oh wait, no, including women too."
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates used his 18 Charisma to make the following statement: "I have not had the not enough presents bug appear in any of my code for the last 20 years. Besides, bugs are a myth designed to scare the public."
In unrelated news, more and more tech toys are getting more and more expensive.
Hey, if you wanted real humor, you should have read theOnion.
Of course, the way to make the Matrix (and its sequels) kick ass is to modify the plot like this:
It turns out that the Matrix is not the real world, but actually the sucky "humans v. computers" world that Neo "wakes up" into.
Neo was duped (by whom? we don't know yet) into thinking the real world was fake, so that he could learn to "overcome" rules like gravity, etc.
The kicker: because of this new mindset, Neo really *is* able to do all the cool things (except flying, which is lame) he was able to do "in the Matrix" in the real world!
Sure, it's a bit Nietzschean for the mainstream, but I think it makes the whole plot way cooler, PLUS it leaves plenty of room for that "wonder" feeling in the sequels, since most of the "plot" from the first movie was just an elaborate ruse. My one real problem with the Matrix as it stands is that Neo really hasn't accomplished all that much by the end of the movie. He just magically masters this whole cyberworldthing and that's the end of it. Let's see if they can do better next time:)
Unfortunately |pause| nobody can be |long pause| told |pause| what the Matrix is - you have to see it in my glasses.
hey, thanks man. Maybe next time I should post yet another joke about cryptography export laws. Somehow that's always "funny" and never "offtopic"... I thought the same was true of Bill Gates jokes, but I guess not.
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Get off the political bandwagon, Redhat, you're not running for office. If you want to help society, then put out a better product than everyone else.
This is an incredibly naive statement. In the real world (that thing where people don't read/. seven times a day), marketing, politicking, handshaking, etc. go much further to advance a product than sheer technical wizardry. It surprises me again and again to see very smart people miss this basic point. If Linux/OSS is ever going to succeed commercially, it's going to need every possible form of publicity and information distribution. If Redhat wants to do activism on the part of OSS, we should say "Thank you."
People need to be taught what is a better product. Not everybody can judge whose kernel has a better scheduling algorithm...
What's the NSA going to say about importing new Martian encryption technology? Or, heaven forbid, providing the new superadvancedaliens with 128-bit DES:)
Mosaic is also used by Yale University and federal courthouses to evaluate the potential for violence of individuals who make threats. None of the many media stories about Mosaic in the past few days even raised the question of why such a Draconian security program -- do we really want schools to be run like federal courthouses? -- would be deployed against schoolchildren at a time when violence among the young has dropped to its lowest levels in nearly half a century.
Anyone know what this is used for here? I'm a student here, and AFAIK there haven't been any terrorist threats lately. Of course, maybe that's just what "they" want us to believe...
Sounds like Compaq is finally showing their understanding of OSS. Not bad, but what exactly is this test drive program? In what ways will Compaq be supporting *BSD? Anyone tried using it yet?
Too bad the author didn't get a chance to talk about 3001. I felt like such a sucker after buying that - I found it really immature and ideological. What could he have been thinking? He seems pretty smart in the article, I guess he just doesn't take his fans too seriously. Alas
Anyone know anything about the software that is used to drive the database? We've been working on a software package that would connect two groups of users trying to find each other (in the case above, it would be driver developers and driver users) using a database-backed web site.
We've thought about generalizing the software and then open-sourcing it, but I'm curious if this problem is already solved...?
Is it just me or does everything that comes out of T.H. seem really reliable? There was a time that I trusted him exclusively for all my HW advice (I'm really a software guy at heart). I've been a bit skeptical about his site since he went commercial, but what does the rest of/. think?
I thought I'd try anyway. In particular, I'm curious how other/. types feel about this aspect of our society that requires you to misrepresent yourself in order to let people "find out who you really are." I've gone back and forth about whether or not this constitutes outright deception, or just putting your best foot forward.
I have to agree here. This really doesn't have anything to do with "our rights online"
This test is a tool. I'd be MUCH more interested in an article about HOW they develop tests like this, or even how the software got written, or how it was adopted by the govt or ANY kind of useful information. Speaking of which, does anyone on/. actually know anything about this?
Think how much fun it would be standing in the middle of a room with sprites representing all the different processes/threads of a high-volume web server. All those apache children constantly killing each other and re-spawning, plus DB, middleware, and OS threads all competing for resources. Be a much better way than 'top' to get a feel for what your machine is doing at the moment!
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Nobody, that's who. If there is a market for blind-sensitive web (or any other) materials, then there is big money to be made. If AOL doesn't want that money, that's their problem. If Govt. steps in here and regulates, you'll dramatically increase the cost of doing business on the web, and hence kill lots of innovation. If you're a company, you'll have to get lawyers and experts to OK every single HTML page you post. That is an outrage.
Here's the URL for the article. It is by Michael Robertson....
http://bboard.mp3.com/mp3/ubb/F orum8/HTML/000015.html
Well said. MP3.com ran an article (way back in the day before the IPO and the whole new "we are sooo corporate redesign") called "Why drug dealers don't sell aspirin." The upshot of the article is that people would much rather get a common product at a reasonable price from a reputable source. The rise of MP3s was caused by the gross price inflation of music CDs. Same goes here.
I'll see if I can dig up the URL of that old article...
In a press release today, Andover.net announced that they will be fixing the /. "not enough presents" bug by going public. The "not enough presents" bug has plagued /. employees for some time, and is (according to insider sources) similar to the Microsoft WinCE "no power on" bug reported by news sources earlier this year.
/. was quoted as saying "I can't wait to have a dumptruck full of money driven up to my house. Then I can have anything I want. Except women - oh wait, no, including women too."
An anonymous source inside
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates used his 18 Charisma to make the following statement: "I have not had the not enough presents bug appear in any of my code for the last 20 years. Besides, bugs are a myth designed to scare the public."
In unrelated news, more and more tech toys are getting more and more expensive.
Hey, if you wanted real humor, you should have read theOnion.
Sure, it's a bit Nietzschean for the mainstream, but I think it makes the whole plot way cooler, PLUS it leaves plenty of room for that "wonder" feeling in the sequels, since most of the "plot" from the first movie was just an elaborate ruse. My one real problem with the Matrix as it stands is that Neo really hasn't accomplished all that much by the end of the movie. He just magically masters this whole cyberworldthing and that's the end of it. Let's see if they can do better next time
Unfortunately |pause| nobody can be |long pause| told |pause| what the Matrix is - you have to see it in my glasses.
hey, thanks man. Maybe next time I should post yet another joke about cryptography export laws. Somehow that's always "funny" and never "offtopic"... I thought the same was true of Bill Gates jokes, but I guess not.
for anybody.
Does this mean we'll get exclusive DVD-only features like a widescreen installer? How about "the making of SuSE Linux" video?
How about linux installer subtitles in 87 languages? Simultaneously too?
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Anyone had any success running Eudora with WINE?
better product than everyone else.
This is an incredibly naive statement. In the real world (that thing where people don't read
People need to be taught what is a better product. Not everybody can judge whose kernel has a better scheduling algorithm...
The lecture series is about things that I learned about things
:)
Good try though
What's the NSA going to say about importing new Martian encryption technology? Or, heaven forbid, providing the new superadvancedaliens with 128-bit DES :)
Anyone know what this is used for here? I'm a student here, and AFAIK there haven't been any terrorist threats lately. Of course, maybe that's just what "they" want us to believe...
Sounds like Compaq is finally showing their understanding of OSS. Not bad, but what exactly is this test drive program? In what ways will Compaq be supporting *BSD? Anyone tried using it yet?
Too bad the author didn't get a chance to talk about 3001. I felt like such a sucker after buying that - I found it really immature and ideological. What could he have been thinking? He seems pretty smart in the article, I guess he just doesn't take his fans too seriously. Alas
Anyone know anything about the software that is used to drive the database? We've been working on a software package that would connect two groups of users trying to find each other (in the case above, it would be driver developers and driver users) using a database-backed web site.
We've thought about generalizing the software and then open-sourcing it, but I'm curious if this problem is already solved...?
Can I run this on my new PCS phone? Can I play it head-to-head with other users? What will my airtime charges look like??
Also, what "is online" anyway?
Is it just me or does everything that comes out of T.H. seem really reliable? There was a time that I trusted him exclusively for all my HW advice (I'm really a software guy at heart). I've been a bit skeptical about his site since he went commercial, but what does the rest of /. think?
I thought I'd try anyway. In particular, I'm curious how other /. types feel about this aspect of our society that requires you to misrepresent yourself in order to let people "find out who you really are." I've gone back and forth about whether or not this constitutes outright deception, or just putting your best foot forward.
So which is it?
I have to agree here. This really doesn't have anything to do with "our rights online"
/. actually know anything about this?
This test is a tool. I'd be MUCH more interested in an article about HOW they develop tests like this, or even how the software got written, or how it was adopted by the govt or ANY kind of useful information. Speaking of which, does anyone on
Anyone know how secure this kind of thing is? What type/level of encryption is required for the new law?
How is the system supposed to circumvent the obvious problems that have already been pointed out...?
can you export a cloned mammoth outside the usa?
..... Wake up Neo. Bill has you. Follow the black penguin.
/. tagline contest. Hats off to you...
Congrats, Deadcat. You win the best
Think how much fun it would be standing in the middle of a room with sprites representing all the different processes/threads of a high-volume web server. All those apache children constantly killing each other and re-spawning, plus DB, middleware, and OS threads all competing for resources. Be a much better way than 'top' to get a feel for what your machine is doing at the moment!