The problem isn't in the display driver! A good 16 LCD at 80ppi will pull 1280x1024. These folks have upped the resolution to 3200x2400. That's nearly impossible to read even on a 24 inch SGI monitor; everything is miniscule! Imaging trying to read that image, complete with tiny 10pt fonts and 80x80 icons, condensed into 16.5 inches! Thats the problem!
Corruption == Evil Power == Corruption Money == Power Bill Gates == Money Microsoft == Bill Gates Microsoft == Evil
So now that Microsoft has been proven both good and evil, are they an oxymoron? Or does it work like antimatter/matter annihilation, and most of Redmond just vaporized?
Theres a difference. If Linux was the only OS, there still would be quality-breeding competition. I'm not talking between the different distributions warring it out, but between the developers, the users, etc. I have rewritten many a line of code just to prove my implementations are better than theirs. OSS isn't about money or fame; It's about satisfaction, and showing up the other developers and improving the quality that hits the user are both very satisfying..
Come on! Jon Katz may not be Hemingway, but everytime he posts a 'rant' he starts a long/. argument. Arguments are a good thing on a discussion board, so I say let the man be.. Who knows, if you're nice to him, he might not put you in Geeks 2.0: Land of the Troll.
Say I put together three Itsy prototypes, one for myself and two for friends. The components cost me a total of $1,300, and taking the sick day needed to assemble them cost me $200. If I charge each friend $500, and no more, I doubt Compaq would have a problem with it.. I am not engaging in a commercial venture, per se. I could almost write it off like this: I am founding a small think-tank. My two assistants are taking an equal share in the startup expenditures, and we are researching the plausibility of wearable PC's. Since I only have three people in my company, and I produce three Itsy prototypes for 'internal research purposes', it is natural that I give each partner one. Then, having a dispute over which of us drank the last beer, we disband the company. All in the course of a day or two.
I'm sorry, but Carolina anoles don't even come close to chameleons in range, accuracy or intensity of color. I've owned both. Tha anole will do his best to change his colour to that of a leaf (when on a leaf), and to a branch (when on a branch) but is usually obvious. Chameleons have an amazing range, from pale green to black to brown and orange. More than a few feet away, on nearly any natural surface, they're indistinguishable!
Plus I've found chameleons, especially the Jackson's, to have a more pleasant disposition.
Really? My copy of 6.1 shipped with 6a, with an option to install 6b. No problems compiling Enlightenment from source, nor the newest GTK.. What release are you using?
Six CD's, three install diskettes, and it optionally comes on DVD-ROM!
You really should try it. I went SuSE over RH and Slackware, and I like it. It feels a little more, um, 'Solaris'ey than the others, but as soon as you get into the habit of using/opt it's fine.
Word of warning! Recompile the kernel from the main-tree RPM (Not the SuSE sources) or it will spit the occasional German error into the log, and you don't want to see a kernel panic! I hit one, half drunk, and almost wet myself. 'Sie hast Corrupteded die Kernal! Sie ist a eine Moron! Gehen sie back to Microsoft!' or something to that effect. I was drunk, okay??
Yeah. I can see Becker as very deserving of unsung hero. He was the original author of every Linux Ethernet driver I have ever used, and without him I would have gone over to *BSD.
Hopefully the 'Beanies' become an annual event. My only Q would be: 'If Linus won X this year, is he ineligible to be voted X next year, or are we unable to vote him in as A,B,C,Y or Z?'
When you hear/see/read about Linux, who do you hear mentioned? Linus. Not AC, who probably contributed as much code to the current kernel as any other human. Not AC, who has consistantly spearheaded the cutting edge development, through v4l, USB, etc.
In that sense Alan Cox was the man for the award. And deservedly so.
Best Newbie Helper went to Tom Christiansen, famous for helping newbies find their way out of #perl
I don't think the local trolls could have said it any better! Reminds me of the one helpful soul in #perl who, after looking at my code, told me what I could do with that copy of Perl Cookbook, and no, it wasn't RTFM.
illegal sites (i.e. a site that descibes how to mass pirate software or movies)
Excuse me? Since when is that illegal? Last I heard the only speech that wasn't protected was racist 'hate speech', and then only in extreme circumstances! I think I'll inform my colleagues that the information I provided them on how to copy that Tru64 disc set for lawful archival constitutes a felony! Gee, I guess any information that could be used in an illegal manner should be banned! I suppose I'll have to stop hand-rolling my cigarettes in public too! Someone could watch me and use the information to roll a joint! Free speech indeed!
Call me a tight-assed conservative, but I don't think that the government ought to be subsidising the erotic arousal of others.
Let's see.. We can subsidise one local sicko, and it costs us nothing to do so. Alternativly, we can spend $85 per PC to install blocking software. If anything, the government would be subsidizing the censorware companies!
Beyond how governemnt administrates its own computers
Lest ye forget, they work for us. If we say 'no blocks', then anything else is tough cookies. And even the government answers to the Constitution, which seems to be the reason 'censorware' hasn't taken hold. Remember the article on how we paid thousands of dollars to protect Supreme Court Justices from porn sites? It was ridiculous then and it still is. If Sandra Day O'Conner wants to peek at some 'stud muffin' from her office PC, good for her! Come on! These are the people who defined 'hate speech' and 'pornography'!!
You can bet this will garner a complaint to SurfWatch. 'How dare you suggest we use your product when it labels us as pr0nographers!'
Sadly, even with the flaws in the blocking software revealed, the most the AFA will do is use a different vendor. I feel it is probably more likely that they do not respond even that intellegently: The brainwashed have a bad habit of recycling their mantra when challenged. Expect a 'So what! It blocks 'this-an-this-an-this'. You must be a pedophile or something!' response.
Thank you for standing up for the rights of your fellow Michiganians!
You have to have brains to pull off a successful swindle; That's why LinuxOne is tanking in so early. Look at some of the other big swindles!
Charles Ponzi, graduate of the University of Rome: Gave us the modern 'bubble scheme'. Made millions paying his early investors with the deposits of later ones.
William Gates III, college dropout, holder of several honorary degrees: Sold billions of dollars worth of an Operating System look-alike. Maintained his income through shady contracts and the media.
LinuxOne, questionable education: Simple compound stock swindle based on marketing-hype and optioning of Wall Street buzzwords. Uses the same structure as the failed 'gas-saver' swindles of the fifties and sixties; Offer stock based on UberUseful product coming to market, place stock in escrow with uninterested party, sell stock and run with cash to extradition-free island nation.
Shylocks, hucksters and con-artists of any ilk should be laughing outloud at LinuxOne. Why isn't the financial world??
100,000 shares at $22. Sale in 2 weeks through charitable foundation at 30-50. Guaranteed minimum take of $2.2 million USD. Disband charity, walk with the cash and watch stock plummet.
$2,200,000 goes a long way in Taiwan..
I honestly hope they're not as bad as all appearances lead me to believe.
Gawd I hope so.. Some of us have access to 8-track equipment still..
A simple run through a debugger, or even a asm dimp will reveal whither or not hformat has been altered. I honestly don't think it has: try a file checksum against the standard HFS binary. LInuxonE probably didn't even compile it, just rpm --install.
I'm sorry.. I haven't had a laugh like this in a while..
LinuxOne now has negative credibility.. If they were a/. poster, they'd have -120 karma..
BTW, LinuxOne! Yeah, you! Perhaps you should hire some actual programmers! Take me for example! I wrote essentially your entire 'LinuxMac' in an afternoon! Hell, just troll a the computer lab at your local community college! At least the newbies there have learned to properly catch white-space padding!
Just because this particular evil may drive people to OSS does not make it an acceptable evil.
Under the provisions of the UCITA, it is possible for me to advertise my produst, call it 'Webinfinite 2.0', as the greatest thing since FORTRAN. I can proceed to label copies of 'Stoned-B', complete with an installer that disables your virus scanner, as WI 2.0. Under the terms of my newly enforcable shrinkwrap licence, not only can I extort fees form you for the ability to uninstall it, I can prevent you from talking about it under penalty of fine.
Or worse yet, I can give you a perfectly functional bit of UberSoft, and then remotly disable it later; I have chosen to change my pricing structure. What! Ddn't you read the licence? Yes, the one in 2 point mirror image! You don't own that software! Now pay up the $49.99 like a good sheep or we will forcefully remove said software. I'll warn you in advance though, we usually corrupt the partition table in the process, and according to the license that is within our right as owner of the software..
So, Mr. Sheep, what was your credit card number again?
Then organize one in Philly! Call up every geek, techie, and MCSE you know and tell them there will be free beer and pizza at your house for everyone who shows up with a EFF donation in their hand! Then get it mentioned on/.! You'll comb in geeks from the burbs too!!
Good idea.. Plan a bunch of small, regional fundraisers for one night. It may not have the glamour of the Harvard Club, but I'm sure all of us will party to support the EFF and consumer's rights..
Slashdot Mirror
The problem isn't in the display driver! A good 16 LCD at 80ppi will pull 1280x1024. These folks have upped the resolution to 3200x2400. That's nearly impossible to read even on a 24 inch SGI monitor; everything is miniscule! Imaging trying to read that image, complete with tiny 10pt fonts and 80x80 icons, condensed into 16.5 inches! Thats the problem!
Quake ought to look good on that sucker..
Sorry, I like my algo better!
Corruption == Evil
Power == Corruption
Money == Power
Bill Gates == Money
Microsoft == Bill Gates
Microsoft == Evil
So now that Microsoft has been proven both good and evil, are they an oxymoron? Or does it work like antimatter/matter annihilation, and most of Redmond just vaporized?
Theres a difference. If Linux was the only OS, there still would be quality-breeding competition. I'm not talking between the different distributions warring it out, but between the developers, the users, etc. I have rewritten many a line of code just to prove my implementations are better than theirs. OSS isn't about money or fame; It's about satisfaction, and showing up the other developers and improving the quality that hits the user are both very satisfying..
Come on! Jon Katz may not be Hemingway, but everytime he posts a 'rant' he starts a long /. argument. Arguments are a good thing on a discussion board, so I say let the man be.. Who knows, if you're nice to him, he might not put you in Geeks 2.0: Land of the Troll.
Vaporized hardware?
Blue smoke!
Say I put together three Itsy prototypes, one for myself and two for friends. The components cost me a total of $1,300, and taking the sick day needed to assemble them cost me $200. If I charge each friend $500, and no more, I doubt Compaq would have a problem with it.. I am not engaging in a commercial venture, per se. I could almost write it off like this: I am founding a small think-tank. My two assistants are taking an equal share in the startup expenditures, and we are researching the plausibility of wearable PC's. Since I only have three people in my company, and I produce three Itsy prototypes for 'internal research purposes', it is natural that I give each partner one. Then, having a dispute over which of us drank the last beer, we disband the company. All in the course of a day or two.
No problema!
A Linux Knowledge Base of sorts? I tried something like that, using the plain text HOWTOS and directive tags.(~~~AR to:, ~~~PR to:, etc)
Too much work for me! I went back to Doom after a week or so...
Black. They usually turn black when they get pissed off, and mirrors definitly piss them off!
Senegal chameleons have no horns. You're thinking of the Jackson's chameleon.
I'm sorry, but Carolina anoles don't even come close to chameleons in range, accuracy or intensity of color. I've owned both. Tha anole will do his best to change his colour to that of a leaf (when on a leaf), and to a branch (when on a branch) but is usually obvious. Chameleons have an amazing range, from pale green to black to brown and orange. More than a few feet away, on nearly any natural surface, they're indistinguishable!
Plus I've found chameleons, especially the Jackson's, to have a more pleasant disposition.
Really? My copy of 6.1 shipped with 6a, with an option to install 6b. No problems compiling Enlightenment from source, nor the newest GTK.. What release are you using?
Congrats! If you're in the US, do us all a favour and get piss drunk tonight, kay? I'll be sure to have an extra Heineken, just to help you celebrate!
Six CD's, three install diskettes, and it optionally comes on DVD-ROM!
/opt it's fine.
You really should try it. I went SuSE over RH and Slackware, and I like it. It feels a little more, um, 'Solaris'ey than the others, but as soon as you get into the habit of using
Word of warning! Recompile the kernel from the main-tree RPM (Not the SuSE sources) or it will spit the occasional German error into the log, and you don't want to see a kernel panic! I hit one, half drunk, and almost wet myself. 'Sie hast Corrupteded die Kernal! Sie ist a eine Moron! Gehen sie back to Microsoft!' or something to that effect. I was drunk, okay??
Yeah. I can see Becker as very deserving of unsung hero. He was the original author of every Linux Ethernet driver I have ever used, and without him I would have gone over to *BSD.
Hopefully the 'Beanies' become an annual event. My only Q would be: 'If Linus won X this year, is he ineligible to be voted X next year, or are we unable to vote him in as A,B,C,Y or Z?'
When you hear/see/read about Linux, who do you hear mentioned? Linus. Not AC, who probably contributed as much code to the current kernel as any other human. Not AC, who has consistantly spearheaded the cutting edge development, through v4l, USB, etc.
In that sense Alan Cox was the man for the award. And deservedly so.
Best Newbie Helper went to Tom Christiansen, famous for helping newbies find their way out of #perl
I don't think the local trolls could have said it any better! Reminds me of the one helpful soul in #perl who, after looking at my code, told me what I could do with that copy of Perl Cookbook, and no, it wasn't RTFM.
illegal sites (i.e. a site that descibes how to mass pirate software or movies)
Excuse me? Since when is that illegal? Last I heard the only speech that wasn't protected was racist 'hate speech', and then only in extreme circumstances! I think I'll inform my colleagues that the information I provided them on how to copy that Tru64 disc set for lawful archival constitutes a felony! Gee, I guess any information that could be used in an illegal manner should be banned! I suppose I'll have to stop hand-rolling my cigarettes in public too! Someone could watch me and use the information to roll a joint! Free speech indeed!
Call me a tight-assed conservative, but I don't think that the government ought to be subsidising the erotic arousal of others.
Let's see.. We can subsidise one local sicko, and it costs us nothing to do so. Alternativly, we can spend $85 per PC to install blocking software. If anything, the government would be subsidizing the censorware companies!
Beyond how governemnt administrates its own computers
Lest ye forget, they work for us. If we say 'no blocks', then anything else is tough cookies. And even the government answers to the Constitution, which seems to be the reason 'censorware' hasn't taken hold. Remember the article on how we paid thousands of dollars to protect Supreme Court Justices from porn sites? It was ridiculous then and it still is. If Sandra Day O'Conner wants to peek at some 'stud muffin' from her office PC, good for her! Come on! These are the people who defined 'hate speech' and 'pornography'!!
You can bet this will garner a complaint to SurfWatch. 'How dare you suggest we use your product when it labels us as pr0nographers!'
Sadly, even with the flaws in the blocking software revealed, the most the AFA will do is use a different vendor. I feel it is probably more likely that they do not respond even that intellegently: The brainwashed have a bad habit of recycling their mantra when challenged. Expect a 'So what! It blocks 'this-an-this-an-this'. You must be a pedophile or something!' response.
Thank you for standing up for the rights of your fellow Michiganians!
You have to have brains to pull off a successful swindle; That's why LinuxOne is tanking in so early. Look at some of the other big swindles!
Charles Ponzi, graduate of the University of Rome: Gave us the modern 'bubble scheme'. Made millions paying his early investors with the deposits of later ones.
William Gates III, college dropout, holder of several honorary degrees: Sold billions of dollars worth of an Operating System look-alike. Maintained his income through shady contracts and the media.
LinuxOne, questionable education: Simple compound stock swindle based on marketing-hype and optioning of Wall Street buzzwords. Uses the same structure as the failed 'gas-saver' swindles of the fifties and sixties; Offer stock based on UberUseful product coming to market, place stock in escrow with uninterested party, sell stock and run with cash to extradition-free island nation.
Shylocks, hucksters and con-artists of any ilk should be laughing outloud at LinuxOne. Why isn't the financial world??
Lets see...
100,000 shares at $22. Sale in 2 weeks through charitable foundation at 30-50. Guaranteed minimum take of $2.2 million USD. Disband charity, walk with the cash and watch stock plummet.
$2,200,000 goes a long way in Taiwan..
I honestly hope they're not as bad as all appearances lead me to believe.
Gawd I hope so.. Some of us have access to 8-track equipment still..
A simple run through a debugger, or even a asm dimp will reveal whither or not hformat has been altered. I honestly don't think it has: try a file checksum against the standard HFS binary. LInuxonE probably didn't even compile it, just rpm --install.
I'm sorry.. I haven't had a laugh like this in a while..
/. poster, they'd have -120 karma..
LinuxOne now has negative credibility.. If they were a
BTW, LinuxOne! Yeah, you! Perhaps you should hire some actual programmers! Take me for example! I wrote essentially your entire 'LinuxMac' in an afternoon! Hell, just troll a the computer lab at your local community college! At least the newbies there have learned to properly catch white-space padding!
Just because this particular evil may drive people to OSS does not make it an acceptable evil.
Under the provisions of the UCITA, it is possible for me to advertise my produst, call it 'Webinfinite 2.0', as the greatest thing since FORTRAN. I can proceed to label copies of 'Stoned-B', complete with an installer that disables your virus scanner, as WI 2.0. Under the terms of my newly enforcable shrinkwrap licence, not only can I extort fees form you for the ability to uninstall it, I can prevent you from talking about it under penalty of fine.
Or worse yet, I can give you a perfectly functional bit of UberSoft, and then remotly disable it later; I have chosen to change my pricing structure. What! Ddn't you read the licence? Yes, the one in 2 point mirror image! You don't own that software! Now pay up the $49.99 like a good sheep or we will forcefully remove said software. I'll warn you in advance though, we usually corrupt the partition table in the process, and according to the license that is within our right as owner of the software..
So, Mr. Sheep, what was your credit card number again?
Then organize one in Philly! Call up every geek, techie, and MCSE you know and tell them there will be free beer and pizza at your house for everyone who shows up with a EFF donation in their hand! Then get it mentioned on /.! You'll comb in geeks from the burbs too!!
Good idea.. Plan a bunch of small, regional fundraisers for one night. It may not have the glamour of the Harvard Club, but I'm sure all of us will party to support the EFF and consumer's rights..