is to the office staff what leaning on one's shovel is to the DOT road crews. It is a privilege of the senior employees. Yes, you could be fired for not working all day. Obviously, it is not going to happen to this supervisor any time soon. The fact is that this guy is not good guy whistle blower. He is just an idiot with an unproductive boss.
Installing unauthorized software on a state government computer WILL get you fired. Raise the bar, and install spyware on a state government computer and you could be facing criminal charges. It does not matter that the software install was for alleged "white hat" purposes.
Whoa, before you apply the feathers after that tar;-) , let me tell you that I never implied that Yoko was good.
My point, which I should have explained better, was that I _really_ did not like Arwen's character in the movie. Ms. Plastic Ono would have been as effective as Liv Tyler in my mind. I understant that Arwen was part of the story since she is the ultimate motivation for Aragorn's quest. But why Liv? Why such a subservient, meek, and whiny character?
No doubt, somebody convinced John that the Beatles were over, and I don't think it was Paul, George or Ringo. _Somebody_ told John that he was the brains and talent and the other three would flop without him.
Although you cannot say that the songs on the Double Fantasy Album were the worst, What if.....What if?
The campaign diary and newsletter are not new or revolutionary concepts. The ability to get daily or hourly updates is a great advance in communication.
The message of the Mr. Scott-Heron's song IMHO is that the revolution will happen before the press or media can inform you. And I lump the campaign newsletter/blog in the same group as the press and broadcast media.
I agree completly with your opinion that the song is also message to get involved; and not wait for the revolution to happen. But to say that the song is relevant to what Mr. Trippi accomplished with electronic communications, I respectfully disagree.
The Revolution will not be blogged either
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I think that Mr. Trippi misses the gist of Gil Scott-Heron's lyrics to 'The Revolution will not be Televised'.
Very informative point. And Mr. Robertson is carrying $10,000,000 of the company debt. I would guess they have a payroll in excess of $5,000,000. Also they must have $2,000,000 - $5,000,000 in annual expenses. (pure speculation, IANA accountant).
They sure could use this as a six month cash infusion and debt clearing payment. Even if the IPO pans out, they would have to grow the revenues by 25%-50% every year just to keep their balances up.
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No Problem and nothing personal. In fact, the worst thing I would worry about is being stung with a downmod for O.T.;-)
I would guess you are referring to this paragraph:
"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
So what is the problem with the grandparent?
Double disclaimer: besides the grandparent IANACOS, I am also not a philosopher.
Linspire had filed to take the company public on April 20th, 2004 and hoped to raise $57,000,000. No doubt that the venture capitalists pushed the management to take an additional 35% with this Microsoft deal. It is hard to "fight the good fight" with that kind of money on the table; or make an IPO.
It's easiest to find religious references in the strategy genre. Here religion is presented as historical context, or it's incorporated into the gameworld to function as Karl Marx put it, as "an opiate for the masses."
1.) Who knew that on slashdot, it would be good to apply the Communist Manifesto to anything.
2.) IF Karl Marx were to write about video games, he would have viewed that it had no place in the social order. (As you might glean from reading his works, he did not hate religion. He advocated for separation of church and state).
DISCLAIMER: IANACOS (I am not a communist or socialist)
It may seem like a lot of stuff will have Java powered stickers. However, the vast majority of microprocessor-controlled consumer electronics could well have a "[processor] Assembly Language Powered" or "[processor] Machine Language Powered" sticker - even the "Java powered" ones.
Even if the knowledgable geek cares, Joe BestBuy consumer does not care and will not preferentially select a Java powered item.
We looked at the 4 inch thick book of astronaut procedures and there it was -- they were supposed to put [the Rendezvous Radar Switch] on (in the AUTO position) prior to Descent. The computer had been looking for radar data....
Glenn Lunney, the Flight Director, calmly told the astronauts to "please put the Rendezvous Radar Switch in the Manual position".
So the users (astronauts) were doing exactly what they were supposed to do. Those guys had a well of trust a mile deep and nerves of steel. Their lives were in the hands of people on the planet below. Any wrongly executed instruction could have been life-threatening. Space was no place for people who could not follow orders.
Right on. The lawyers are acting as facilitators for Redhat's owners (the stockholders) to suck some cash out. Never mind that it dilutes the cash flow, net worth, and stock price; Or that the lawyers benefit from their cut. All it takes is one investor to grub for the cash and all the other investors fall in line because they don't want to be left out in the cold from the "free money" handout. Almost every tech firm on the NASDAQ has found themselves in this position as their stock price dropped for one reason or another.
This May 2004 Macworld editorial [macworld.com] talks about "Henny Penny" attitudes. [I guess they meant "Chicken Little" as in "The sky is falling".] Macworld writers have been dismissing Secunia for months as a FUD source for security issues with Linux and MAC OS.
This program is on PBS on name recognition. PBS jumped at the chance for their own cop show drama. Black and Dreyfuss probably cound not make this a go on FX and draw the potential viewership of the PBS network. They could change the broadcast venue and play what they like. But then there would not have been near the publicity and it would have been dead in the water.
R Rated cop show on cable or network TV (yawn)
R Rated cop show on PBS government supported TV (OOOH controversy!)
Pledging money to PBS is a little like The United Way. They hit you up and make you feel uncomfortable. They do alot of good, but do some freakshow stuff with your money too.
You don't give your money to PBS thinking you are only paying for Sesame Street and Masterpiece theater. (Just like you don't give your money to the United Way thinking that all the money goes to widows and orphans.) I feel sorry for the PBS directors because of the dreck they have to program to please everybody and anger nobody.
You are SOL if you live in a large metropolitan area where the housing market is booming. If the guy cannot afford a pricier antenna or a lawyer to stiffarm the landlord, he sure cannot afford to buy a house any time soon. Maybe it is time to "El Breako the Leaso" and move to a different friendlier building (with broadband too.)
I do understand the point. And I have read the GPL and newer versions; BSD too. Not that it has sunk in;-)
I could get torched on this. But I gotta ask. What really happens if you fork some code, with one re-use license (BSD just for example) make modifications and then paste a different re-use license on it then use it? That is a licensing violation and "piracy" in the software sense. But truly, what is the legal recourse? The previous licensor, if aware of the violation, could send a cease-and-desist letter to the new licensee. I do not think you could recover monetary damages or really force the issue.
Thanks;-)
The <em> and </em> made it in, but wrapped all paragraphs instead of just the article quote (view source). But nobody has nicked me for spelling, so that is always a plus.
"If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a day job. If you want to give it away, you work on it at night," he said.
Then I have RTFA for the third time... I am having trouble with the "killing" part. IMHO this reads as Gates saying: "People work on open source in their spare time as a hobby." Nobody has yet posted righteous indignation about their occupation being called something done in their spare time and not relevant to the economy.
Plus the article was covering Gates' talk on open source and piracy. Clearly, with open source there is no such thing as piracy because you can do what you want with the software. It is when you try to sell the open source software (not present it as part of a service) that you get into trouble. I think we all get the diametric opposition part already.
Finally, -Bill Gates bashed open source- surprise! Next article.
The MCE box is a general-purpose WIndows XP machine, so you can use it as a web browser, email terminal, and game machine.... Of course, the downside of this is that you have to keep your MCE up to date on patches and fixes-- something that might be an unwanted hassle for people who don't live patch management every day.
So as long as you keep it disconnected from the internet, you are better off until MS figures out how to deliver TCP/IP safety to the masses. The MCE is feature rich and aimed towards providing a full entertainment control center for audio components (AF/FM CD/TAPE/Record Player/Digital jukebox) as well as video components (PVR/Tuner/DVD Player/Digital jukebox). The internet connectivity or broadband cable/satellite are going to be part of the experience too. So Microsoft is going to have to address the security problems to make this fully marketable. It is not going to do well if it has a big sticker that says "Warning: do not connect to the Internet".
Well, it looks like the hackers have a new target
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The HelpMate asks people, "please examine my contents," when it makes a delivery.
I can't wait to see what phrase gets hacked into the voice processsor to replace this informative gem.
...that there was an adverb overload at slashdot and a few extras popped out in this post. Also, the spell checker prefers the United Kingdom spelling. As in, "I was in a good humour as I practised syphoning they grey-coloured draught from my aluminium cauldron."
This May 2004 Macworld editorial talks about "Henny Penny" attitudes. [I guess they meant "Chicken Little" as in "The sky is falling".] Macworld writers have been dismissing Secunia for months as a FUD source for security issues with Linux and MAC OS.
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is to the office staff what leaning on one's shovel is to the DOT road crews. It is a privilege of the senior employees. Yes, you could be fired for not working all day. Obviously, it is not going to happen to this supervisor any time soon. The fact is that this guy is not good guy whistle blower. He is just an idiot with an unproductive boss.
Installing unauthorized software on a state government computer WILL get you fired. Raise the bar, and install spyware on a state government computer and you could be facing criminal charges. It does not matter that the software install was for alleged "white hat" purposes.
Whoa, before you apply the feathers after that tar ;-) , let me tell you that I never implied that Yoko was good.
My point, which I should have explained better, was that I _really_ did not like Arwen's character in the movie. Ms. Plastic Ono would have been as effective as Liv Tyler in my mind. I understant that Arwen was part of the story since she is the ultimate motivation for Aragorn's quest. But why Liv? Why such a subservient, meek, and whiny character?
No doubt, somebody convinced John that the Beatles were over, and I don't think it was Paul, George or Ringo. _Somebody_ told John that he was the brains and talent and the other three would flop without him.
Although you cannot say that the songs on the Double Fantasy Album were the worst, What if.....What if?
Radagast.....
And Yoko Ono as Arwen
The campaign diary and newsletter are not new or revolutionary concepts. The ability to get daily or hourly updates is a great advance in communication.
The message of the Mr. Scott-Heron's song IMHO is that the revolution will happen before the press or media can inform you. And I lump the campaign newsletter/blog in the same group as the press and broadcast media.
I agree completly with your opinion that the song is also message to get involved; and not wait for the revolution to happen. But to say that the song is relevant to what Mr. Trippi accomplished with electronic communications, I respectfully disagree.
I think that Mr. Trippi misses the gist of Gil Scott-Heron's lyrics to 'The Revolution will not be Televised'.
Very informative point. And Mr. Robertson is carrying $10,000,000 of the company debt. I would guess they have a payroll in excess of $5,000,000. Also they must have $2,000,000 - $5,000,000 in annual expenses. (pure speculation, IANA accountant).
They sure could use this as a six month cash infusion and debt clearing payment. Even if the IPO pans out, they would have to grow the revenues by 25%-50% every year just to keep their balances up.
No Problem and nothing personal. In fact, the worst thing I would worry about is being stung with a downmod for O.T. ;-)
I would guess you are referring to this paragraph:
"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
So what is the problem with the grandparent?
Double disclaimer: besides the grandparent IANACOS, I am also not a philosopher.
Linspire had filed to take the company public on April 20th, 2004 and hoped to raise $57,000,000. No doubt that the venture capitalists pushed the management to take an additional 35% with this Microsoft deal. It is hard to "fight the good fight" with that kind of money on the table; or make an IPO.
It's easiest to find religious references in the strategy genre. Here religion is presented as historical context, or it's incorporated into the gameworld to function as Karl Marx put it, as "an opiate for the masses."
1.) Who knew that on slashdot, it would be good to apply the Communist Manifesto to anything.
2.) IF Karl Marx were to write about video games, he would have viewed that it had no place in the social order. (As you might glean from reading his works, he did not hate religion. He advocated for separation of church and state). DISCLAIMER: IANACOS (I am not a communist or socialist)
It may seem like a lot of stuff will have Java powered stickers. However, the vast majority of microprocessor-controlled consumer electronics could well have a "[processor] Assembly Language Powered" or "[processor] Machine Language Powered" sticker - even the "Java powered" ones.
Even if the knowledgable geek cares, Joe BestBuy consumer does not care and will not preferentially select a Java powered item.
We looked at the 4 inch thick book of astronaut procedures and there it was -- they were supposed to put [the Rendezvous Radar Switch] on (in the AUTO position) prior to Descent. The computer had been looking for radar data. ...
Glenn Lunney, the Flight Director, calmly told the astronauts to "please put the Rendezvous Radar Switch in the Manual position".
So the users (astronauts) were doing exactly what they were supposed to do. Those guys had a well of trust a mile deep and nerves of steel. Their lives were in the hands of people on the planet below. Any wrongly executed instruction could have been life-threatening. Space was no place for people who could not follow orders.
Right on. The lawyers are acting as facilitators for Redhat's owners (the stockholders) to suck some cash out. Never mind that it dilutes the cash flow, net worth, and stock price; Or that the lawyers benefit from their cut. All it takes is one investor to grub for the cash and all the other investors fall in line because they don't want to be left out in the cold from the "free money" handout. Almost every tech firm on the NASDAQ has found themselves in this position as their stock price dropped for one reason or another.
This May 2004 Macworld editorial [macworld.com] talks about "Henny Penny" attitudes. [I guess they meant "Chicken Little" as in "The sky is falling".] Macworld writers have been dismissing Secunia for months as a FUD source for security issues with Linux and MAC OS.
It is always a good day when you get paid to surf the internet.
Google search on "Soviet Video Games".... Hey, does this guy post on slashdot?
This program is on PBS on name recognition. PBS jumped at the chance for their own cop show drama. Black and Dreyfuss probably cound not make this a go on FX and draw the potential viewership of the PBS network. They could change the broadcast venue and play what they like. But then there would not have been near the publicity and it would have been dead in the water.
R Rated cop show on cable or network TV (yawn)
R Rated cop show on PBS government supported TV (OOOH controversy!)
Pledging money to PBS is a little like The United Way. They hit you up and make you feel uncomfortable. They do alot of good, but do some freakshow stuff with your money too. You don't give your money to PBS thinking you are only paying for Sesame Street and Masterpiece theater. (Just like you don't give your money to the United Way thinking that all the money goes to widows and orphans.) I feel sorry for the PBS directors because of the dreck they have to program to please everybody and anger nobody.
Jason has not posted lately on his blog . But here was an earlier post that referenced the January Slashdot article on SFU.
You are SOL if you live in a large metropolitan area where the housing market is booming. If the guy cannot afford a pricier antenna or a lawyer to stiffarm the landlord, he sure cannot afford to buy a house any time soon. Maybe it is time to "El Breako the Leaso" and move to a different friendlier building (with broadband too.)
While not a typical experience, you cannot sweep it under the rug.
This was hidden in the games section on July 7th, 2004. WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor
I do understand the point. And I have read the GPL and newer versions; BSD too. Not that it has sunk in ;-)
I could get torched on this. But I gotta ask. What really happens if you fork some code, with one re-use license (BSD just for example) make modifications and then paste a different re-use license on it then use it? That is a licensing violation and "piracy" in the software sense. But truly, what is the legal recourse? The previous licensor, if aware of the violation, could send a cease-and-desist letter to the new licensee. I do not think you could recover monetary damages or really force the issue.
Thanks ;-)
The <em> and </em> made it in, but wrapped all paragraphs instead of just the article quote (view source). But nobody has nicked me for spelling, so that is always a plus.
"If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a day job. If you want to give it away, you work on it at night," he said.
Then I have RTFA for the third time... I am having trouble with the "killing" part. IMHO this reads as Gates saying: "People work on open source in their spare time as a hobby." Nobody has yet posted righteous indignation about their occupation being called something done in their spare time and not relevant to the economy.
Plus the article was covering Gates' talk on open source and piracy. Clearly, with open source there is no such thing as piracy because you can do what you want with the software. It is when you try to sell the open source software (not present it as part of a service) that you get into trouble. I think we all get the diametric opposition part already.
Finally, -Bill Gates bashed open source- surprise! Next article.
The MCE box is a general-purpose WIndows XP machine, so you can use it as a web browser, email terminal, and game machine. ... Of course, the downside of this is that you have to keep your MCE up to date on patches and fixes-- something that might be an unwanted hassle for people who don't live patch management every day.
So as long as you keep it disconnected from the internet, you are better off until MS figures out how to deliver TCP/IP safety to the masses. The MCE is feature rich and aimed towards providing a full entertainment control center for audio components (AF/FM CD/TAPE/Record Player/Digital jukebox) as well as video components (PVR/Tuner/DVD Player/Digital jukebox). The internet connectivity or broadband cable/satellite are going to be part of the experience too. So Microsoft is going to have to address the security problems to make this fully marketable. It is not going to do well if it has a big sticker that says "Warning: do not connect to the Internet".
The HelpMate asks people, "please examine my contents," when it makes a delivery.
I can't wait to see what phrase gets hacked into the voice processsor to replace this informative gem.
...that there was an adverb overload at slashdot and a few extras popped out in this post. Also, the spell checker prefers the United Kingdom spelling. As in, "I was in a good humour as I practised syphoning they grey-coloured draught from my aluminium cauldron."
This May 2004 Macworld editorial talks about "Henny Penny" attitudes. [I guess they meant "Chicken Little" as in "The sky is falling".] Macworld writers have been dismissing Secunia for months as a FUD source for security issues with Linux and MAC OS.