Funny, I remember submitting that story too. 2000-07-13 22:13:19 Wired Reports Ballmer Bombs on Keynote at Comdex (articles,Microsoft) (rejected) But you're right about the serious lack of QA at MS. It makes me wonder why anyone would ever voluntarily switch to using an MS programming tool like C#. And considering they're in the midst of the appeals process, you'd think they'd have half a brain and at least give the appearance of behaving. Instead we see C#, Windows.NOT, and IE 5.5 all annouced or released. I guess they have yet to aquired the half a brain they'd need though.
I apologize for the minirant, it's early, and for some insane reason I have to go to work.
Now I'm no big Mac fan, but this is just FUD. All Macs since the launch of the iMac a few years ago have used USB for mouse and keyboard interface. Same USB that you use on a PC. It's simply a matter of device drivers.
So more likely, they're just putting off writing a USB driver for this new invasion of privacy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H tool for security...
Steak tartar... (raw pureed steak) Sashimi... (raw fish and vinegared rice) And about a dozen other dishes I can't remember. They're all either fish or steak though. No poultry in sight...
I had similar problems on my machine (it's NT, I'm at work, what can I say...). It's not the platform that's the problem, but rather the pages use of Cascading Style Sheets and Netscape 4.7x's rather mediocre implementation.
It took a while, but eventually I got through the article.
It's not Schuesan, it's Fukai-san. It's the name of one of the 2 primary comentators, and the san at the end of the name is simply a matter or respect (like mister).
Anyway, before I ramble too far off topic. It's a shame to lose ironchef.com, I could always count on that site for real information about the show. The foodtv.com page never did Iron Chef justice. Maybe they were too busy kicking things up a notch by promoting Emirl, but still...
actaully, there is one. It's called amaya and it's been developed by the W3C for use as both a browser and editor. It's not the prettiest of things, but it's not designed to be. It's designed to be a fully standards compliant web browser. Head to the W3C's page and take a look at it. It's available for most platforms and really quite useful.
Actually, a federal version of Megan's Law (named for Megan Kanka, a child in the state of NJ who was raped and killed by her neighbor, a convicted sex offender, released on parole). The federal version of the statue established minimum requirements for the state variations of the law. Worth noting is that the section of the law requiring community notification was struck down as unconstitutional in PA (state, not federal constitution). It will be interesting to see how the correction to the law (currently before the state senate) plays out. But I digress deeply off topic...:)
Look at the severity of what we're talking about. When the topic of the UCITA first came up it was always front page fodder, then, after nothing being posted on it for a while suddenly it's passed and its approval goes without mention on the front page because, "it was expected?" Come on! It's not too late to challenge this, it's currently up for approval in many others states. Idly languishing by instead of continuing to actively make our voices heard will only prove that we don't care about the blatent infringement of our rights by corporations.
Hate to break it to you, but those laws have been in place since the mid 1990s and they already are enforced. An excellent resource for information on them is at Junkbusters. They even have a script provided for you, the end user to follow to ensure they are following the law, and the steps to take if they are not.
Hope this helps clear the air.
-Jason
OT - RMS & Stock Options(Was: Re:Faulty reasoning)
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Stallman is just trying to distance himself from some of those stock options by showing us he's a "regular" guy who's concerned about anything that tramples our God-given right to "copy and distribute."
RMS doesn't have any stock options. He turned them all down for ideological reasons. Next time, check your facts before posting. I believe you're confusing RMS with ERS (big mistake!).
Is that as Jon tocuhed on, the ability to confront your acuser is completely absent, and there's nothing illegal about it! Since it can't be considered a legal process (after all, who's ever heard of a corporation taking the law into their own hands... *cough*MPAA*cough*) there is no consitutional basis for a challenge to this. It is after all, simply a voluntary (yeah right) program to protect our children.
*sigh* What ever happened to the days of simply getting harrassed, teased and occassionally roughed up simply because you were different? Now you have to worry about secret profiling, your own peers spying on you, and potentially much worse. It's not as if I'm remembering a time all that long ago either. I graduated high school in 1995, and I must say I had the good fortune of graduating from a high school that, while not the most accepting of places, at least allowed kids to be different. Now I find when I went back last week to visit a former teacher of mine, there are security cameras everywhere, students must wear id badges, and those who are not the classic, good little J. Crew model kids are afraid to even talk to each other.
So here's my idea. After speaking with a few former teachers of mine (who also can't stand where things have gone, but they have to follow administration, or else they lose their jobs), none of whom are happy about where things are heading, this is what they'd like to do. They'd like to be allowed to actually play a role in their students lives. They'd like to be allowed to be friends again, and instead of further marginalizing those who are different (many of whom read this) and actively pushing them towards violence (that's what things like this do, it's very easy to adopt a cornered animal mentality in this type of setting), why not allow faculty to get to know students again. Maybe if teachers can be mentors again, instead of secret police there wouldn't be such a serious problem facing schools.
But then again, what do I know, I've only been then, graduated, and moved on to a successful life, thanks in large part to teachers who not only were mentors, but were also friends.
Only under Common Law, which hasn't been used in the majority of the United States since the early seventies (VA being one of the few exceptions, if I paid enough attention in my criminal law classes).
Under current legal definitions ( The Model Penal Code), theft does not require a tangible object. It only requires the deprivation of possession from the rightful possessor. In this case, the deprivation is the theft of services and the rightful possessor is OSU.
PLEASE get this right. They'll be charged with (if under UK law) "obtaining services by deception", NOT with theft. Their local legal system will make a similar distinction.
And what makes you think they fall under UK law? This is a case in Oklahoma. Oh, wait, there's that DeCSS case with the Norwegian being prosecuted under US law...
Finally, a subject I can offer an "expert" opinion on!
I myself have kidney stones, actually I just passed on with another on its way. They're more painful than childbirth or a gunshot wound.
Anyway, vitamin C is one of the contributing factors of most kidney stones. And I consume only slightly more than the US RDA. Of course I do have a slight genetic predisposition, but trust me, too much vitamin C is a _bad_ thing.
I think perhaps the most disturbing thing of this entire event was the justification for the arrest. If you read the article, it says that the protester was arrested for "stepping off the sidewalk into the street." Now that alone frightens me. A peaceful protester arrested for stepping off the sidewalk? Ack!
-Jason
Usenet Dying? What about Gopher?
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What confuses me more than the "impending collapse of Usenet" is the whimper which gopher died. Try as I may, finding even a mention of it anywhere is next to impossible. What happened?
Suse6.3 with YaST2 is probably the most impressive installer and distro combination I have yet to see. I use it all the time when helping friends convert. IIRC Mandrake 7 is also supposed to have a real nice installer too.
Also FYI, Suse6.3 even supported my soundcard (Live! Value) out of box, I didn't even need to compile new drivers. The breadth of hw support is incredible.
Pine Technologies has just such a device scheduled for release in the next few weeks. Unfortunately manufacturing was delayed during the past holiday season. I believe it will have a suggested list price at about $150 (US).
If you read the article, a full etymology is there, but for those of you too lazy to click the link, here it is...
The words "geek" and "nerd" have been floating around for decades and have morphed well beyond their original meanings. Here's a brief history lesson:
Of the two terms, "nerd" is the newest. Experts guess its etymology probably dates back to a 1950 work by Dr. Seuss, "If I Ran the Zoo." A passage from the book goes, "I'll sail to Ka-Troo and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!" Soon after the book came out, "nerd" started turning up in conversation. In the '60s, it was usually used in reference to your basic square. During the '70s, it came to carry the intelligent-but-socially-inept meaning that persists today.
Geek, on the other hand, has its roots in a now-obsolete Dutch word, "geck," which meant "fool." By most accounts, the word "geek" came into common usage around the turn of the century to refer to a peculiar or eccentric -- but really smart -- person. In the late '20s, it was also used to describe a carnival performer with a repertoire of disgusting tricks such as biting off chicken heads. The original definition has prevailed.
Like the hot author of the (day,week,year), Neal Stephenson. Who can forget "Snow Crash" where in a future US everyone is tattooed with a bar code to allow easier IDing from the Mafia's helicoptors?
And yet another wrinkle... Just for kicks (and to see the type of damage it would do to my system here at work... tee hee) I decided to try it in Mozilla, specifically build 1999071417 and guess what... It works, flawlessly at that. Funny when I rebooted and tried it in NT using IE4.0 it couldn't even do that. Any ideas as to what the devil is going on?
Now I just need to see if I can break into it, play with some bios settings, and hoping the machine has a softbios, just adjust the voltage to the cpu...
consider it payback for my monitor exploding. (and yes, I am just kidding around about the voltage settings to the CPU. the monitor is a whole other story though...)
I'm sorry, but I beg to differ with you on this. VA having their own distro would not do them, or the linux community, much good. VA has done a phenominal job helping to mainstream linux, and provide a (fairly) reliable source for hardware. I personally do not have any experience with purchasing from them, however I have recieved quite a few reccomendations from friends of mine. VA has found a market where it was needed, and has filled that spot quite well. Diversification into the software market, especially by producing their own distro would add "yet another distro"(tm) to the market, and potentially weaken not only the growth potential of VA as a company, but linux as a whole. Now before I get branded as flamebait, or anything else, I'd like to clarify a few items. First of, i am a linux user, advocate, and occassional code tweaker. I haven't done much, since my coding experience is somewhat limited, but I'm hoping to improve. Now as to the though of "yet another distro"(tm) being a bad thing... in theory it would not be, every little bit of work on linux helps, but from the public perspective, seeing a new distro come out almost every other week can make some people scared. They worry about incompatibility (which really isn't an issue) and name loyalty. Any coders who would work to develop a new VA distro would probably be better of helping to improve one of the already existing distros.
I was going to add more, but I seemed to have misplaced my opinions. -j
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Funny, I remember submitting that story too.
2000-07-13 22:13:19 Wired Reports Ballmer Bombs on Keynote at Comdex (articles,Microsoft) (rejected)
But you're right about the serious lack of QA at MS. It makes me wonder why anyone would ever voluntarily switch to using an MS programming tool like C#. And considering they're in the midst of the appeals process, you'd think they'd have half a brain and at least give the appearance of behaving. Instead we see C#, Windows.NOT, and IE 5.5 all annouced or released. I guess they have yet to aquired the half a brain they'd need though.
I apologize for the minirant, it's early, and for some insane reason I have to go to work.
-J
Now I'm no big Mac fan, but this is just FUD. All Macs since the launch of the iMac a few years ago have used USB for mouse and keyboard interface. Same USB that you use on a PC. It's simply a matter of device drivers.
So more likely, they're just putting off writing a USB driver for this new invasion of privacy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H tool for security...
-J
Steak tartar... (raw pureed steak)
Sashimi... (raw fish and vinegared rice)
And about a dozen other dishes I can't remember. They're all either fish or steak though. No poultry in sight...
You all know the one... IP transmission by avian carrier...
Here if you need it explained...
Cheers...
Congratulations and best wishes for you and Adrienne as you start your future together!
I had similar problems on my machine (it's NT, I'm at work, what can I say...). It's not the platform that's the problem, but rather the pages use of Cascading Style Sheets and Netscape 4.7x's rather mediocre implementation.
It took a while, but eventually I got through the article.
It's not Schuesan, it's Fukai-san. It's the name of one of the 2 primary comentators, and the san at the end of the name is simply a matter or respect (like mister).
Anyway, before I ramble too far off topic. It's a shame to lose ironchef.com, I could always count on that site for real information about the show. The foodtv.com page never did Iron Chef justice. Maybe they were too busy kicking things up a notch by promoting Emirl, but still...
-me
actaully, there is one. It's called amaya and it's been developed by the W3C for use as both a browser and editor. It's not the prettiest of things, but it's not designed to be. It's designed to be a fully standards compliant web browser. Head to the W3C's page and take a look at it. It's available for most platforms and really quite useful.
-Jason
Actually, a federal version of Megan's Law (named for Megan Kanka, a child in the state of NJ who was raped and killed by her neighbor, a convicted sex offender, released on parole). The federal version of the statue established minimum requirements for the state variations of the law. Worth noting is that the section of the law requiring community notification was struck down as unconstitutional in PA (state, not federal constitution). It will be interesting to see how the correction to the law (currently before the state senate) plays out. But I digress deeply off topic... :)
-Jason
Look at the severity of what we're talking about. When the topic of the UCITA first came up it was always front page fodder, then, after nothing being posted on it for a while suddenly it's passed and its approval goes without mention on the front page because, "it was expected?" Come on! It's not too late to challenge this, it's currently up for approval in many others states. Idly languishing by instead of continuing to actively make our voices heard will only prove that we don't care about the blatent infringement of our rights by corporations.
Hate to break it to you, but those laws have been in place since the mid 1990s and they already are enforced. An excellent resource for information on them is at Junkbusters. They even have a script provided for you, the end user to follow to ensure they are following the law, and the steps to take if they are not.
Hope this helps clear the air.
-Jason
Stallman is just trying to distance himself from some of those stock options by showing us he's a "regular" guy who's concerned about anything that tramples our God-given right to "copy and distribute."
RMS doesn't have any stock options. He turned them all down for ideological reasons. Next time, check your facts before posting. I believe you're confusing RMS with ERS (big mistake!).
-Jason
*sigh* What ever happened to the days of simply getting harrassed, teased and occassionally roughed up simply because you were different? Now you have to worry about secret profiling, your own peers spying on you, and potentially much worse. It's not as if I'm remembering a time all that long ago either. I graduated high school in 1995, and I must say I had the good fortune of graduating from a high school that, while not the most accepting of places, at least allowed kids to be different. Now I find when I went back last week to visit a former teacher of mine, there are security cameras everywhere, students must wear id badges, and those who are not the classic, good little J. Crew model kids are afraid to even talk to each other.
So here's my idea. After speaking with a few former teachers of mine (who also can't stand where things have gone, but they have to follow administration, or else they lose their jobs), none of whom are happy about where things are heading, this is what they'd like to do. They'd like to be allowed to actually play a role in their students lives. They'd like to be allowed to be friends again, and instead of further marginalizing those who are different (many of whom read this) and actively pushing them towards violence (that's what things like this do, it's very easy to adopt a cornered animal mentality in this type of setting), why not allow faculty to get to know students again. Maybe if teachers can be mentors again, instead of secret police there wouldn't be such a serious problem facing schools.
But then again, what do I know, I've only been then, graduated, and moved on to a successful life, thanks in large part to teachers who not only were mentors, but were also friends.
-J
And what makes you think they fall under UK law? This is a case in Oklahoma. Oh, wait, there's that DeCSS case with the Norwegian being prosecuted under US law...
Hmmm, now what jurisdiction do I fall into?
-J
Finally, a subject I can offer an "expert" opinion on!
I myself have kidney stones, actually I just passed on with another on its way. They're more painful than childbirth or a gunshot wound.
Anyway, vitamin C is one of the contributing factors of most kidney stones. And I consume only slightly more than the US RDA. Of course I do have a slight genetic predisposition, but trust me, too much vitamin C is a _bad_ thing.
Excuse me now, I've got a stone to pass...
*YEOWWWWW!!!!*
I think perhaps the most disturbing thing of this entire event was the justification for the arrest. If you read the article, it says that the protester was arrested for "stepping off the sidewalk into the street." Now that alone frightens me. A peaceful protester arrested for stepping off the sidewalk? Ack!
-Jason
What confuses me more than the "impending collapse of Usenet" is the whimper which gopher died. Try as I may, finding even a mention of it anywhere is next to impossible. What happened?
Suse6.3 with YaST2 is probably the most impressive installer and distro combination I have yet to see. I use it all the time when helping friends convert. IIRC Mandrake 7 is also supposed to have a real nice installer too.
Also FYI, Suse6.3 even supported my soundcard (Live! Value) out of box, I didn't even need to compile new drivers. The breadth of hw support is incredible.
Pine Technologies has just such a device scheduled for release in the next few weeks. Unfortunately manufacturing was delayed during the past holiday season. I believe it will have a suggested list price at about $150 (US).
If you read the article, a full etymology is there, but for those of you too lazy to click the link, here it is...
The words "geek" and "nerd" have been floating around for decades and have morphed well beyond their original meanings. Here's a brief history lesson:
Of the two terms, "nerd" is the newest. Experts guess its etymology probably dates back to a 1950 work by Dr. Seuss, "If I Ran the Zoo." A passage from the book goes, "I'll sail to Ka-Troo and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!" Soon after the book came out, "nerd" started turning up in conversation. In the '60s, it was usually used in reference to your basic square. During the '70s, it came to carry the intelligent-but-socially-inept meaning that persists today.
Geek, on the other hand, has its roots in a now-obsolete Dutch word, "geck," which meant "fool." By most accounts, the word "geek" came into common usage around the turn of the century to refer to a peculiar or eccentric -- but really smart -- person. In the late '20s, it was also used to describe a carnival performer with a repertoire of disgusting tricks such as biting off chicken heads. The original definition has prevailed.
Like the hot author of the (day,week,year), Neal Stephenson. Who can forget "Snow Crash" where in a future US everyone is tattooed with a bar code to allow easier IDing from the Mafia's helicoptors?
How prior art is it? Try June 1992...
I know that at least here in the Northeast (US) you've been able to rent thenm from Blockbuster since at least mid-July.
And yet another wrinkle...
Just for kicks (and to see the type of damage it would do to my system here at work... tee hee) I decided to try it in Mozilla, specifically build 1999071417 and guess what...
It works, flawlessly at that. Funny when I rebooted and tried it in NT using IE4.0 it couldn't even do that.
Any ideas as to what the devil is going on?
Now I just need to see if I can break into it, play with some bios settings, and hoping the machine has a softbios, just adjust the voltage to the cpu...
consider it payback for my monitor exploding.
(and yes, I am just kidding around about the voltage settings to the CPU. the monitor is a whole other story though...)
-j
I'm sorry, but I beg to differ with you on this. VA having their own distro would not do them, or the linux community, much good. VA has done a phenominal job helping to mainstream linux, and provide a (fairly) reliable source for hardware. I personally do not have any experience with purchasing from them, however I have recieved quite a few reccomendations from friends of mine.
VA has found a market where it was needed, and has filled that spot quite well. Diversification into the software market, especially by producing their own distro would add "yet another distro"(tm) to the market, and potentially weaken not only the growth potential of VA as a company, but linux as a whole.
Now before I get branded as flamebait, or anything else, I'd like to clarify a few items. First of, i am a linux user, advocate, and occassional code tweaker. I haven't done much, since my coding experience is somewhat limited, but I'm hoping to improve.
Now as to the though of "yet another distro"(tm) being a bad thing... in theory it would not be, every little bit of work on linux helps, but from the public perspective, seeing a new distro come out almost every other week can make some people scared. They worry about incompatibility (which really isn't an issue) and name loyalty. Any coders who would work to develop a new VA distro would probably be better of helping to improve one of the already existing distros.
I was going to add more, but I seemed to have misplaced my opinions.
-j