Yep, and they definitely are Kentucky Fried Chicken here in California. I just saw some a few days ago, but it did have me wondering when they switched back to Kentucky Fried Chicken from KFC. Yeh, "We do CHICKEN RIGHT"... Sure, tell that to the chickens...
What's next from KFC? DFAJ? Deep-Fried Alien Jerky?
But, maybe the Colonel will panic when I set up my 130,000 tiles visible from space, saying "COME AND GET US!". But, I guess the department of homeland insecurity will balk or arrest me for that one... I could get 20 years for conspiring to and inciting of an alien invasion.
----------- Speaking of 20 years...
"Mid-flight sexual play lands U.S couple in trouble"
Something graphic. Maybe even with a GUI. But, will he be able to "wiggle it"? Nevertheless, it would still be software, not hardware. And, the virus, even the Trojan, would be virtual. Now the worms... those might scare him.
But, if he hooks up to the Internets, he might be palmed... ummm pawned...
Did that one come from Google, or from Altavista/Babelfish?
Well, for gits and shiggles ("shits and giggles" for you Spoonerisms-deprived individuals) I thought I'd paste that English into Altavista, change it from English (prev translated) to Japanese, then from Japanese back to English....hmmm... Somehow, skin-peeling became part of the dialogue...: (The ++++ are where I parsed the original J-English translation in an attempt to not end up with one big-ole paragraph... Altavista got that wrong, too... it seems..)
Here goes:
"PLAYSTATION November 11th, 3 was sold. But ++ the quantity and the same type of sale are tend in the topic, it became, it becomes the product which is loading many of the good point and BD drive uniform hardware like the cell. It meaning that 60GB edition can insert in the hand, ++
you try the fact that you look at contents directly. First ++,
accumulation of the report which continues to introduce the individual product, after that you send is schedule.
++ package. Weight when the box opens, the contents where the package is heavy
++ where it is extraordinary the left side of the rear substance of the outline substance of packing thing
++ the leader of the memory card of the surface of the right side of the substance
++ the HDD slot in regard to HDD of 60GB Seagete when does to make
++++++ where it can access the user note
++++++ disassembly/remodelling is done, guarantee of the manufacturer becomes not to be received. Conduct (disassembly and the same type), compilation staff that of the watch of PC does
++ this book-reading article, with damage that happens or or the manufacturer, does not owe the store criticism which is purchased. As for internal constitution and the description regarding the same type commonness with that it is thing in regard to the watch of all products PC of the compilation staff regarding this article in the individual question which cannot answer to inquiry the individual whom the compilation staff uses, in regard to that it does not limit, is.
+++the seal of warning which resembles to PS2. When this is peeled the skin,
++ where repair floats, rises and becomes the seal when is peeled the skin, not to be received, the letter "of the space" as for most special screws which are removed under the seal of warning outside covering large number is long in the card leader, it is removed, when, finally the chassis exactly on the screw which the cable which extends, is connected
++ where it is removed the chart cover when is removed in 1 and the cover you open. BD drive the left went the entrance and right of power source of power source [ ]. That enters the AC adapter, 100V directly, is not. The baseplate which has power source anteriorly in regard to small power source was related to the wireless LAN from sealing and wiring and the like the way, when the power source capacity which you the way feel relatively
++ BD drive and power source, the wireless LAN baseplate being removed, the seal of the motherboard discernibly finally. For central stay of fixing of the deviation from thermal vessel when in case of the side of the lowest being removed, angle of the modification where the enormous discernibly cooling fan is expressed for the present, it is the cooling fan which you saw.
++ where it has approximately 16cm of the movement which you pour around the cooling fan where the deviation from thermal vessel has been attached, as for the fin the cooling fan which at the time of a certain removes the deviation from thermal vessel when being removed, discernibly, it overturned. As for the heat pipe
++ where it is moving the motherboard surface (* in another window you open large image) the motherboard back section (* in another window you open large image)
+++4 large tips/chips with the motherboard discernibly. Side EE+GS of the left edge. 4 tips/chips where "RSX of 1 Tsuga graphics tip/chip for operating the software for PS2 which is next it is
Mshaft NEVER does anything "no strings attached" (Can anyone honestly name non-profits, biomedcials, local community centers who've taken ms money and got it to use Open Source Software? Does anyone honestly believe msoft will gladly non-strings-attached DONATE money (Novell doesn't count here...) to an ALL-LINUX Internet Cafe? Will ms drop the requirement for computer makers to say "X company recommends ms windows (version) for ALL YOUR computing/business/entertainment needs"?). Gates and co set out to destroy and "take the oxygen supply away from" Netscape, among others, lied under testimony, submitted two different versions of windoze to the courts hearing the cases (and got caught for it), enabled security-breaching back doors into foreign governments and corporations on behalf of a certain goverment, without informing those governments, (many of whom who "are our friends"). Mshaft and their shenanigans have wrought destruction upon innumerable well and not-so-well financed companies that could not withstand mshafts' malevolent, lying, cut-throat (well, beyond cutthroat... it was more like sword or pipe at light speed against the thorax by ms) tactics. For mshaft, it's about MONEY, POWER. And everything done to that effect is to ensure keeping top place. At what point will Karma befall ms? Unfortunately, if the longevity of mafias and corrupt governments and ramshackle, for-profit automakers (you KNOW which ones today) can endure, then I guess Karma won't be whacking msoft anytime soon.
OTOH, Linus most likely has NEVER had fame, glory, power and money on his agenda. He just got royally pissed off that he couldn't develop apps on cheap, ubiquitous hardware, and Sun was too inflexible and too expensive, so he "rolled his own" and gave it away for communal improvement. Seems pretty humble, tho not 100% liked (but who is perfect? no need to be PERFECT, just cause as LITTLE harm as possible...). Just give power to the people and let THEM decide best how to use it. His kernel was then and still is but a SMALL piece of Linux, but between him, Stallman, Raymond, FSF, Moglen and countless others, and their prescient drafting of rules/bylaws, social and legal contracts meant to promote and preserve the rights of developers, consumers and anyone else (even mshaft) to USE and adapt Linux/FSF/GNU stuff and also thanks to their timely and useful software and widgets, we have true software freedom beckoning, undulating, and threatening a megalomanical corporation and its underlings that know no ends to trickery, deceit, manipulation.... (OK, this is getting a bit too heavy AND too long for some in this audience...)
Linus is DEFINITELY a hero, especially to developing nations that don't want some foreign corporation hamstringing their sovereignty. Linus ought to be a Hero in the annals of many Asian countries, too, particularly Mainland China, Japan, and Korea. They have Asianux, Red Flax Linux, Turbulinux, and more. Implemented carefully, they can deprive ms of wrangling billions of dollars that can be spend on officials, roads, infrastructure of trains and such, even outside investment or internal investment.
So, the US or European version of Time (if it/they has/have not done so... (I did not read the article)...) might do well to have the Asia edition cover this angle... How Linus and Linux will enable West and East Asia to retain billions in otherwise lost dollars.
You need to go and find that book written by the former LAPD cop whose home was blasted and family threatened by masked motorcycling cops because he was threatening to expose corruption.
He wrote about how Darrel Gates (former LAPD chief) misdirected funding for the nearly secret, but windowless version of the LAPDs own CIA. The LAPD had NO business amassing an CIA-type quality to it, where they tapped phones in LAX, spied on Mother Theresa, Michael Jackson, and numerous celebrities who used pay phones in the airport. Such people were followed.
He wrote the book because the LAPD threatened to kill him or behaved in such a manner after he was deemed to much a threat.
You say cops won't beat you without a reason? That author was (IIRC-- it's been years since I read my copy of the book) dispatched to a location where he ended up in a shootout that was staged, and NO backup arrived. That's when he decided to blow the whistle via his book.
You cay the cops won't beat you for no reason? You know how the LAPD gets people to on amateur video appear to be resisting arrest: they wear a ring with a thumbtac on it. When KNOW they are being filmed, and still want to beat your ass, they grip you with the ring. What happens next? Well, natural instinctual reflexes dictate you mind grows enraged while your body jerks or pulls away. NOW, you appear to be resisting arrest. When they try to "restrain" you, you keep getting jabbed, and you resist, FOR REAL. Now, your ass is getting beaten. On film. The civilian review board cannot SEE the ring, so there is little they can do except let the bad ones back on the street.
I won't go into the few little episodes ***I*** had with some cops, except this one:
I passed thru what I found out minutes later was a murder scene. I'd dropped off a friend a mile or so away, and I for some STUPID reason was attracted to the blue and red lights and the crowd that was near a house that was near my home address. Not much ever happened in my neighborhood, so I made a second pass. When I couldn't see anything, I turned around to go home. Thinking I was a suspect, the lit up my car with their flashlights and then chased after me, by which time I had already been pulling over since I knew NOW that I'd fucked up by passing that crime scene when I should have taken my ill ass to bed instead. They ordered me out of my car, checked it, and found NOTHING. I wasn't in any WAY connected to the evens, yet they kept interrogating me and demanded information about a person named (first name withheld) and were INSISTING that I knew the suspect they were after. Despite my having meds in my car and a prescription and an obviousness that I was trembling and in ill health and should not have been in cold weather and such, the cop/s wouldn't let me sit in my car or in the back of THEIR car so I could keep warm. I offered the fucker BOTH sets of my car keys, pleaded for my health, and by that time came up CLEAN on their computer check of my DMV/DL records. No go. When he saw my hands moving from the pushbar to the warm hood, he didn't like that, probably since he must have felt I was playing dumb with him. I even RESPECTFULLY asked to be allowed to put my hands on the warm hood of his car so I could not shiver and shake so much. He ordered KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE PUSHBARS.
I was never physically assaulted by him/them, but I wonder how the report would look had I gone into a seizure or collapsed and hit my head on something...
And, this wasn't in some ass-backwards part of the US. This was in San Jose, CA, SILLY CON-JOB ALLEY.
You, I think, need to read more about police officers. Even that bad one or 3 in every 500 is too much to be allowed contact with the populace. They need to be under cover or DEEP cover and tagged to make sure their cover is not a cover for acting an ass.
Moving the cube around in Compiz reminded me of Half Life/Counter-Strike levels where one could see world while awaiting resurrection.
Back in 2001 on Dell Latitude, panning was not too bad, but it was much better on my desktop at home. When I played with Compiz recently, I couldn't help but wonder how cool it was, and what the hell was going on with mshaft.
I, TOO, feel they are doing this on purpose to drive hardware sales. After all, Compiz worked on a 128 MB Radeon (fglrx) it tested, and I've read somewhere online that even a 64 MB card supporting XGL/3D ran fine. Of course, when I turned off 3D and stayed only in 2D, even my 16 MB ATI Rage in my slim desktop ran fairly fast, depending on if I hit sites with too damned many graphics intensive Java or flash or music players popping up all the time.
But, from ms' line of thinking, it's probably like this "who'll want to buy shiny new vista and then run it on a shitty, two-year-old card?".... Ummm....
Well, what if a bunch of no-gooders with Leitz-like camera flashes (that really are mini-EMP devices) just "light up" all the terminals they can get into? Or, if they can not get into the building anymore, light up along the roadways leading into the airports? Well, suddenly, a LOT of people, even registered travelers might be screwed. Maybe even a "hardened" Faraday cage won't help them...
The US leadership are taking away power from the people and giving it to the Communist-detracting leadership, and thus making their people nearly prisoners/slaves. That is almost the expected to happen in the West.
Hmmm, I dunno. For YEARS, many of the JCS and peripheral officers/offices HATED him, to the point of off the record calling him an "asshole", "stupid son of a bitch" and other epithets, apparently earned. We all know about the body/vehicle armor debacle. But, for the JCS (even if only 40%) hate his very existence, but sullenly bite their lips to keep their jobs while hoping he has an "accident" speaks volumes about that man. I am SURE if he really does step down a LOT of people will gesticulate and go get drunk and do things commensurate to this.
1. I think that msoft is trying to "divide and conquer" Linux by giving Novell cold hard cash and partnership, which equate to having an existence. Once ms defines what is and is not supported (seems they've been saying such things), then ANY companies "daring" to use Linux will start to (like sheep) feel that if msoft is supporting only Suse, then Suse will become the corporate Linux distro of choice, meaning Mandriva, Ubuntu, Debian, and maybe 5 other solid distros will be summarily cut off. Eventually, regardless of claims to not sue, companies will still be wary. But, since the Linux developer base is nimble and versatile, they'll likely keep improving code but directing much more of it toward Suse, meaning msoft will benefit. If the code is directed away from Suse in an effort to "crack" the code the way X-box/Hexed-Box is under siege, then ms can always lash out and in that way undermine non-Suse corporate use of msoft/Novell code. Yes, No, Maybe?
2.I could try to learn Xen (not trying to rhyme here...). I am using Lotus SmartSuite in Win98, running in Win4Lin running in Mandrake 10.1, and I have absolutely no advantage in buying the bloated XP or 2k. But, what sucks very much is that the last Win4Lin kernel I can use is mated to 2.6.8, and that means I cannot run it in Mandriva 2007 Free, which uses 2.6.17..... Not even in Mandriva 2006 Free.
What sucks is that although I am interested in finding out whether Xen would run a virtualized instance of my knonw-good disk containing Mandrake 10.1 inside of Mandriva 2007 Free or Mandriva 2007 Powerpack, I don't have the resources or skill to hack through any code or related problems.
Painfully, Win4Lin (maybe under duress from msoft?) dropped W98. It is NOT as if we users using 98 NEED tech support from Win4Lin. It is NOT as if Win4Lin maintaining the "bootability of W98" would seriously damage their reputation. There ARE still hundreds of thousands of (of course, poorly secured/unprotectable) W98 installations. Many probably run legacy software and don't neet to directly touch the Internet. But, for some reason, Win4Lin decided to support only XP and 2K. If Win4Lin would make a third version of their software that didn't force me to upgrade to xp or 2k, or didn't presume I'd want only TWO options: run a huge lan needing a virtual server, or run an XP/2K-only environment, then I would spring for it and pay up to $80.
So, I wonder if ms' potential product would explicityly check the OS signature and flat-out refuse to let W98 or W98 apps run even in Novell/Suse setups.
I think, though, that maybe ms figured out that the virtualization game is something they can win at ONLY if they gut the primary reason for VMWare and Win4Lin and Transgaming/Cedega, Bochs, and Wine to exist: multi-OS/no-dual-booting environments. If they write and sign the code that supports heterogeneous Linux/windows environments and decreases sales of VMWare/Win4Lin products, then it probably will have to happen by enabling windows (specific or certified) apps to run, as mentioned in this thread, IN Linux without TOUCHING Linux.
But, I can't help but think that one company, Win4Lin will be a victim of this out of prior coercion by ms, or by W4L's own attitude toward users who NEED W98 to work in even the latest Kernel. I kinda will feel sorry for them if they bite the dust, but at the same time I am so pissed at how they ditched 98. They COULD have installed a component that would virtualize and sand-box W98 WITHIN their latest product offering. Instead, they chose the route they felt would coerce users into ponying up money for a product it now seems many people (well, by judging from complaints about the sitation and inadequate, convincing response to the ire of those posting) will be ambivalent about the future of at least W4L. But, again,
Fixed bad quotation marks selection which did not print; forgot to mention on-line language translation services and applications [0032] references to changing languages on behalf of the users. However, most language conversion would not be trusworthy enough (contextual references would be needed, and many of us who watch foreign or translated films and movies in their native and in the english subtitles and who as our friends to verify the similarities or differences know that much is lost in translation. It is the reason I watch foreign films in their native audio and follow the body language and intensity with less priority on the english on the screen.
NOT non-obvious; I am evolving such a thing, and
others are, too. Prior art can be found, though I have only ever released a couple of screenshots on a site (in 2003) that no longer exists.
This is such bs. (So far from what I am reading), a bunch of techno-mumbo-jumbo used as a wrapper to disguise the obviousness or actual pre-existence of software and hardware that only need cobbling together, not unlike taking a door off the hinges and using it as a snow mobile ski in an emergency and then finding it has real-world application, but is still NOT non-obvious.
It is definitely NOT non-obvious. Much of this can be obviated or nullified by putting together:
-Ace-CAD handwriting/drawing tablet -Database of permitted scenarios (Character A has attributes that would not normally allow action A; B says or hears or does something that makes Character A, C and E tell or allow overhearing by Character D; meanwhile Event A happens because Character B did not perform an action within a period of time....) -BBS-like features to support moderation in real-time or at-reading -Collaborative writing tools such as:
- A little bit of *(pod?.. Apple is seeking ownership of almost anything with pod in it)casting - Some electronic or manual dice-rolling, not all that different from playing Dungeons and Dragons or Electronic Battleship
(Others can add examples here:)
But, I will keep reading this patent and maybe I will find out I jumped the gun, but I have deep revulsion for the USPTO just handing out patents to keep the cash flow coming. I will concede that since ms spent all this money (not even a drop in the bucket) maybe they thought this through, but somehow I doubt it and strongly suspect they are trying to encroach upon the process of creativity -- in areas already practiced WITHOUT patents being sought: HEY, microsoft! There is a REASON many of these screenplay companies are not openly warring with each other: they thrive better on low-level competition and incremental improvements they can afford to make. With you coming on, you THREATEN that ecosystem! But maybe this fishy-assed patent will merit some legitimacy after all... as much as I would like to see it reversed.
A few nit-picks:
"Further, story generating system 30 may utilize one or more tools that may make generating stories fun to motivate users to operate system 30 for generating stories. For instance, story generating system 30 may request users to correctly spell the names of the images they desire incorporating into a story before allowing them to access the desired images to promote learning."
Excuse me! Any decent database that denies the ready access to wild cards will DEFINITELY deny access to or prevent the return of the data set sought out. Rather than making data trawling FUN, it most definitely will be a harrowing and nerve-grating process.
"Further, story generating system 30 may allow users to easily manipulate sophisticated three-dimensional images, such as for changing the perspe
others are, too. Prior art can be found, though I have only ever released a couple of screenshots on a site (in 2003) that no longer exists.
This is such bs. (So far from what I am reading), a bunch of techno-mumbo-jumbo used as a wrapper to disguise the obviousness or actual pre-existence of software and hardware that only need cobbling together, not unlike taking a door off the hinges and using it as a snow mobile ski in an emergency and then finding it has real-world application, but is still NOT non-obvious.
It is definitely NOT non-obvious. Much of this can be obviated or nullified by putting together:
-Ace-CAD handwriting/drawing tablet -Database of permitted scenarios (Character A has attributes that would not normally allow action A; B says or hears or does something that makes Character A, C and E tell or allow overhearing by Character D; meanwhile Event A happens because Character B did not perform an action within a period of time....) -BBS-like features to support moderation in real-time or at-reading -Collaborative writing tools such as:
- A little bit of *(pod?.. Apple is seeking ownership of almost anything with pod in it)casting - Some electronic or manual dice-rolling, not all that different from playing Dungeons and Dragons or Electronic Battleship
(Others can add examples here:)
But, I will keep reading this patent and maybe I will find out I jumped the gun, but I have deep revulsion for the USPTO just handing out patents to keep the cash flow coming. I will concede that since ms spent all this money (not even a drop in the bucket) maybe they thought this through, but somehow I doubt it and strongly suspect they are trying to encroach upon the process of creativity -- in areas already practiced WITHOUT patents being sought: HEY, microsoft! There is a REASON many of these screenplay companies are not openly warring with each other: they thrive better on low-level competition and incremental improvements they can afford to make. With you coming on, you THREATEN that ecosystem! But maybe this fishy-assed patent will merit some legitimacy after all... as much as I would like to see it reversed.
A few nit-picks:
Further, story generating system 30 may utilize one or more tools that may make generating stories fun to motivate users to operate system 30 for generating stories. For instance, story generating system 30 may request users to correctly spell the names of the images they desire incorporating into a story before allowing them to access the desired images to promote learning.
Excuse me! Any decent database that denies the ready access to wild cards will DEFINITELY deny access to or prevent the return of the data set sought out. Rather than making data trawling FUN, it most definitely will be a harrowing and nerve-grating process.
Further, story generating system 30 may allow users to easily manipulate sophisticated three-dimensional images, such as for changing the perspective view of the image presented in a graphical user interface, prior to incorporated the images into the story.
BS, again. While **I** have not filed a patent on something like that, I **HAVE** been for YEARS been toiling and actually using Lotus Approach for building my own screenplay application. I have image fields denoting sets and locations uses, but though **I** lack the programming skills to embed hotspots, others for YEARS have embedded hot spots on overlays and pictures in browsers and thick-client apps. Nothing NEW here, msoft!
It should be appreciated that story generating system 30, interface module 32, story collaboration module 36, and story publishing module 38 are illustrated in FIG. 3
"The rank of your abnormal play you know eldavojohn, you write, the image compression of JPEG is monopoly really. This the owner, originated with Forgent network, and many lawsuits between the other company which uses that. Yesterday Microsoft and other defendant of approximately 60 Forgent solved in condition of the $8,000,000. With that for the company which has the annual earnings of the $15,000,000 doing sneeze is nothing. Cover technology in digital video recorder. ' Vis-a-vis the cable company on the patent which is said, as a state of the article, the end of Forgent ' as for perhaps the sound which does not hear the request which that presently has been pursued yet a little value of the cash has, you like, you don't think? "
So, I guess that little high-profile dinner some time back wherein ms got assurances that windows would win in China were not to be. Seems ms is being mshafted.
They wanted pervasiveness/pervasion. Well, they have pervAsian. Yeh,
Red Flag Linux?: maybe 5 RMB
A Linux distro in most places?: what you want to pay for it
windows, maybe even Vista? PRICE-LESS
windows will be "everywhere", but it will be "priceless!", not "priceless"
Yes siree... ms is could have a hard time as Asia reasserts its position in the world. They are NOT going to "meekly fork over billions of dollars year after year to microsoft..."
LXF= Linux Format LM/LMP= Linux Magazine/Linux Magazine Pro LU&D= Linux User & Developer
But this is my personal experience:
Personally, I've seen the Vista beta on an Lenovo laptop (forget the model...). It LOOKED kinda neat, all glassy and black, but it looked dense and maybe imposing. Honestly, for some reason, it MIGHT have been a more interesting if it had not been from ms, or if it had been some 3rd-party add-ons to enhance XP.
But, I just managed to get 3D effects. Admittedly, I didn't do any Compiz research other than reading a few of the Linux mags. But, quite by accident or serendipity did I figure out that pressing Ctrl+Alt and left-mouse-click rotated the Cube.
BUT, I found the OpenSource drivers for fglrx DON'T enable 3D, nor do the downloadable ATI drivers (the mags and Mandriva supply) I found in Linux Magazine. If I instead set the card to ATI Radeon (the generic/PLAIN driver choice, not fglrx), mysteriously, 3D effects are available, even tho the vt/console-run instance of drakconf/3D Desktop Effects module says "Your hardware does not support 3D Desktop Effects".... I DID have some trepidation when making the card selection. Also, there tends to be a small amount (and intermittent in presence) of "scrunched" fonts, but not at this moment, since I switched out of Full 3D.
I am using the AIGLX settings, since the Xgl settings won't let KDE nor Gnome get to the desktop. They blow up after some minutes of hesitation and then the log-in screen reappears. But, AIGLX boots smartly and nicely. SO, this is probably something to do with my card, or the specific, available drivers.
(BTW, on a lark, I reinstalled my OLDER ATI RageXL 16 MB vid card and Xinerama options appear in KDE/MCC (Mandriva Control Center), but since only have ONE hardware display, I had to move the cable from card to card. That brought out something I found interesting: On the main screen, the Mandriva FREE desktop that doesn't show user icons (despite my TELLING KDM to do so) and that blocks my login screen rotating images (many of them, changing once per minute). But, on the SECOND screen (same LCD, plug moved to older/2nd card), the login screen images appear and they rotate. I WISH Mandriva would quit being a pain in this regard. Also, my mouse settings keep aborting/never stick, and on most boots I have to reconfigure the mouse, save the X options, and cross my fingers. I previously blamed it on the Win4Lin kernel (on my Mandrake 10.1 daily and Mandriva 2006 test systems) then realized it was more about Mandriva, not Win4Lin.... )
(Another nice aside: My old (from 2002) BTV 847)
Interestingly, if I set the options minimally, I can move windows and apps around quickly. Also, the windows and applets wobble and fade and have nice translucency. I like how they zoom-fade-suck in to the Extra Task Bar when I click an app icon on the taskbar. I still have to figure out the switcher. And, I still need to try out Quinn's submissions in Compiz-Quinn....
Now, I've read (in Linux Magazine I think) that Vista will require:
-512 MB video Card (I've seen a 256 MB card in CompUSA claiming it's "Vista Capable"... note a difference from "Vista-Ready") ($150-$199) -1 GB system RAM ($brand-dependent, but assume around $150-$200) -2 GHz CPU/new mo-bo? (assume around $200-$400)
I saw in the news a company named Utube that is or is considering suing YouTube to "force YouTube to change its name or to get YouTube to help us find a new domain name", so I heard in the news.
One would think that companies with conflicting names would have an arbiter or someplace to submit their name so that a heuristic or some-such program would be Google-like and display as screen saying:
"Your request is remarkably similar to the name of a valid company that is receiving an extraordinary number of of irrelevant or non-transacting visits. Do you really want to visit:
O Utube, the machinery and tubing manufacturer or
O YouTube, the Comedy Central video clips site?
Please choose."
Thank you, and from all of us, our apologies for intercepting and delaying your page request.
Jeez UGLY Louise. How FRAKIN' hard is that to do? It would cut down on frivolous or almost-valid-but-avoidable lawsuits.
No country... I'll repeat NO GODDAMN COUNTRY has a "right to fight a war". They have rights to DEFEND, AT HOME, not "take a war to da enemy".
More lines of code should fall under scrutiny. But, I am sure some enterprising devs will find a way to improve the automated scanning and maybe even run the stuff in infinite-scenario virtual machines to look for signal injection hijacking and other techniques. But, war is not only suppose to be costly, it should be so frightening that most sane people will refuse to fight for unjust, unclear, or bogus reasons.
Maybe such fears of code being invaded will drive UP the cost of delivering troops to places they aren't wanted, or don't belong, or are on some government's expeditionary crusades.
A nice side effect from programmers of any country that outsources programming is that maybe those countries will inspire restoration of their home-grown development talents.
Since the code can never be FULLY trusted (yeh, "never say never", right?), maybe there's going to be a reduction in the gee-shucks- golly-wally ram-roading of slews of products that taxpayers fund but which never make it to the field, but somehow make it thru umpteen years of costly prototype phases. (Yeh, don't tell me about the Osprey, the Marines Killer"/"People Killer" machine.... yeh, it's a nifty machine, but the few number of units that took Marines' lives before full production is a vastly and woefully dismal record compared to the F-14, which saw HUNDREDS of units out of production, tho lives were lost across the F-14 history...)
You know, years ago I used to think Kinko's was in bed with the CIA. THEN, they put in those card payment devices which I felt could make it easy to tie a lot of unsuspecting people to love letters, nefarious plans, blueprints, you name it. But then, I keep hearing that MOST of our lives are boring and unworthy of such a huge efforts....
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Yep, and they definitely are Kentucky Fried Chicken here in California. I just saw some a few days ago, but it did have me wondering when they switched back to Kentucky Fried Chicken from KFC. Yeh, "We do CHICKEN RIGHT"... Sure, tell that to the chickens...
What's next from KFC? DFAJ? Deep-Fried Alien Jerky?
But, maybe the Colonel will panic when I set up my 130,000 tiles visible from space, saying "COME AND GET US!". But, I guess the department of homeland insecurity will balk or arrest me for that one... I could get 20 years for conspiring to and inciting of an alien invasion.
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Speaking of 20 years...
"Mid-flight sexual play lands U.S couple in trouble"
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/390426
THAT couple could get 20 years based on made comments to the flight attendant...
Something graphic. Maybe even with a GUI. But, will he be able to "wiggle it"? Nevertheless, it would still be software, not hardware. And, the virus, even the Trojan, would be virtual. Now the worms... those might scare him.
But, if he hooks up to the Internets, he might be palmed... ummm pawned...
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"A.K.A. I AM BATMAN!"
(INT, WTF!!! lameness filter aborting the line above this one... sheesh....)
(Captcha: numbed)
Did that one come from Google, or from Altavista/Babelfish?
Well, for gits and shiggles ("shits and giggles" for you Spoonerisms-deprived individuals) I thought I'd paste that English into Altavista, change it from English (prev translated) to Japanese, then from Japanese back to English....hmmm... Somehow, skin-peeling became part of the dialogue...: (The ++++ are where I parsed the original J-English translation in an attempt to not end up with one big-ole paragraph... Altavista got that wrong, too... it seems..)
Here goes:
"PLAYSTATION November 11th, 3 was sold. But
++
the quantity and the same type of sale are tend in the topic, it became, it becomes the product which is loading many of the good point and BD drive uniform hardware like the cell. It meaning that 60GB edition can insert in the hand,
++
you try the fact that you look at contents directly. First ++,
accumulation of the report which continues to introduce the individual product, after that you send is schedule.
++ package. Weight when the box opens, the contents where the package is heavy
++ where it is extraordinary the left side of the rear substance of the outline substance of packing thing
++ the leader of the memory card of the surface of the right side of the substance
++ the HDD slot in regard to HDD of 60GB Seagete when does to make
++++++ where it can access the user note
++++++ disassembly/remodelling is done, guarantee of the manufacturer becomes not to be received. Conduct (disassembly and the same type), compilation staff that of the watch of PC does
++ this book-reading article, with damage that happens or or the manufacturer, does not owe the store criticism which is purchased. As for internal constitution and the description regarding the same type commonness with that it is thing in regard to the watch of all products PC of the compilation staff regarding this article in the individual question which cannot answer to inquiry the individual whom the compilation staff uses, in regard to that it does not limit, is.
+++the seal of warning which resembles to PS2. When this is peeled the skin,
++ where repair floats, rises and becomes the seal when is peeled the skin, not to be received, the letter "of the space" as for most special screws which are removed under the seal of warning outside covering large number is long in the card leader, it is removed, when, finally the chassis exactly on the screw which the cable which extends, is connected
++ where it is removed the chart cover when is removed in 1 and the cover you open. BD drive the left went the entrance and right of power source of power source [ ]. That enters the AC adapter, 100V directly, is not. The baseplate which has power source anteriorly in regard to small power source was related to the wireless LAN from sealing and wiring and the like the way, when the power source capacity which you the way feel relatively
++ BD drive and power source, the wireless LAN baseplate being removed, the seal of the motherboard discernibly finally. For central stay of fixing of the deviation from thermal vessel when in case of the side of the lowest being removed, angle of the modification where the enormous discernibly cooling fan is expressed for the present, it is the cooling fan which you saw.
++ where it has approximately 16cm of the movement which you pour around the cooling fan where the deviation from thermal vessel has been attached, as for the fin the cooling fan which at the time of a certain removes the deviation from thermal vessel when being removed, discernibly, it overturned. As for the heat pipe
++ where it is moving the motherboard surface (* in another window you open large image) the motherboard back section (* in another window you open large image)
+++4 large tips/chips with the motherboard discernibly. Side EE+GS of the left edge. 4 tips/chips where "RSX of 1 Tsuga graphics tip/chip for operating the software for PS2 which is next it is
need more than 640 of RAM....
Mshaft NEVER does anything "no strings attached" (Can anyone honestly name non-profits, biomedcials, local community centers who've taken ms money and got it to use Open Source Software? Does anyone honestly believe msoft will gladly non-strings-attached DONATE money (Novell doesn't count here...) to an ALL-LINUX Internet Cafe? Will ms drop the requirement for computer makers to say "X company recommends ms windows (version) for ALL YOUR computing/business/entertainment needs"?). Gates and co set out to destroy and "take the oxygen supply away from" Netscape, among others, lied under testimony, submitted two different versions of windoze to the courts hearing the cases (and got caught for it), enabled security-breaching back doors into foreign governments and corporations on behalf of a certain goverment, without informing those governments, (many of whom who "are our friends"). Mshaft and their shenanigans have wrought destruction upon innumerable well and not-so-well financed companies that could not withstand mshafts' malevolent, lying, cut-throat (well, beyond cutthroat... it was more like sword or pipe at light speed against the thorax by ms) tactics. For mshaft, it's about MONEY, POWER. And everything done to that effect is to ensure keeping top place. At what point will Karma befall ms? Unfortunately, if the longevity of mafias and corrupt governments and ramshackle, for-profit automakers (you KNOW which ones today) can endure, then I guess Karma won't be whacking msoft anytime soon.
OTOH, Linus most likely has NEVER had fame, glory, power and money on his agenda. He just got royally pissed off that he couldn't develop apps on cheap, ubiquitous hardware, and Sun was too inflexible and too expensive, so he "rolled his own" and gave it away for communal improvement. Seems pretty humble, tho not 100% liked (but who is perfect? no need to be PERFECT, just cause as LITTLE harm as possible...). Just give power to the people and let THEM decide best how to use it. His kernel was then and still is but a SMALL piece of Linux, but between him, Stallman, Raymond, FSF, Moglen and countless others, and their prescient drafting of rules/bylaws, social and legal contracts meant to promote and preserve the rights of developers, consumers and anyone else (even mshaft) to USE and adapt Linux/FSF/GNU stuff and also thanks to their timely and useful software and widgets, we have true software freedom beckoning, undulating, and threatening a megalomanical corporation and its underlings that know no ends to trickery, deceit, manipulation.... (OK, this is getting a bit too heavy AND too long for some in this audience...)
Linus is DEFINITELY a hero, especially to developing nations that don't want some foreign corporation hamstringing their sovereignty. Linus ought to be a Hero in the annals of many Asian countries, too, particularly Mainland China, Japan, and Korea. They have Asianux, Red Flax Linux, Turbulinux, and more. Implemented carefully, they can deprive ms of wrangling billions of dollars that can be spend on officials, roads, infrastructure of trains and such, even outside investment or internal investment.
So, the US or European version of Time (if it/they has/have not done so... (I did not read the article)...) might do well to have the Asia edition cover this angle... How Linus and Linux will enable West and East Asia to retain billions in otherwise lost dollars.
(Captcha: "impose")
your shirt? Or, are you just happy to see me?
(Sorry just had to strum that note...)
You need to go and find that book written by the former LAPD cop whose home was blasted and family threatened by masked motorcycling cops because he was threatening to expose corruption.
He wrote about how Darrel Gates (former LAPD chief) misdirected funding for the nearly secret, but windowless version of the LAPDs own CIA. The LAPD had NO business amassing an CIA-type quality to it, where they tapped phones in LAX, spied on Mother Theresa, Michael Jackson, and numerous celebrities who used pay phones in the airport. Such people were followed.
He wrote the book because the LAPD threatened to kill him or behaved in such a manner after he was deemed to much a threat.
You say cops won't beat you without a reason? That author was (IIRC-- it's been years since I read my copy of the book) dispatched to a location where he ended up in a shootout that was staged, and NO backup arrived. That's when he decided to blow the whistle via his book.
You cay the cops won't beat you for no reason? You know how the LAPD gets people to on amateur video appear to be resisting arrest: they wear a ring with a thumbtac on it. When KNOW they are being filmed, and still want to beat your ass, they grip you with the ring. What happens next? Well, natural instinctual reflexes dictate you mind grows enraged while your body jerks or pulls away. NOW, you appear to be resisting arrest. When they try to "restrain" you, you keep getting jabbed, and you resist, FOR REAL. Now, your ass is getting beaten. On film. The civilian review board cannot SEE the ring, so there is little they can do except let the bad ones back on the street.
I won't go into the few little episodes ***I*** had with some cops, except this one:
I passed thru what I found out minutes later was a murder scene. I'd dropped off a friend a mile or so away, and I for some STUPID reason was attracted to the blue and red lights and the crowd that was near a house that was near my home address. Not much ever happened in my neighborhood, so I made a second pass. When I couldn't see anything, I turned around to go home. Thinking I was a suspect, the lit up my car with their flashlights and then chased after me, by which time I had already been pulling over since I knew NOW that I'd fucked up by passing that crime scene when I should have taken my ill ass to bed instead. They ordered me out of my car, checked it, and found NOTHING. I wasn't in any WAY connected to the evens, yet they kept interrogating me and demanded information about a person named (first name withheld) and were INSISTING that I knew the suspect they were after. Despite my having meds in my car and a prescription and an obviousness that I was trembling and in ill health and should not have been in cold weather and such, the cop/s wouldn't let me sit in my car or in the back of THEIR car so I could keep warm. I offered the fucker BOTH sets of my car keys, pleaded for my health, and by that time came up CLEAN on their computer check of my DMV/DL records. No go. When he saw my hands moving from the pushbar to the warm hood, he didn't like that, probably since he must have felt I was playing dumb with him. I even RESPECTFULLY asked to be allowed to put my hands on the warm hood of his car so I could not shiver and shake so much. He ordered KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE PUSHBARS.
I was never physically assaulted by him/them, but I wonder how the report would look had I gone into a seizure or collapsed and hit my head on something...
And, this wasn't in some ass-backwards part of the US. This was in San Jose, CA, SILLY CON-JOB ALLEY.
You, I think, need to read more about police officers. Even that bad one or 3 in every 500 is too much to be allowed contact with the populace. They need to be under cover or DEEP cover and tagged to make sure their cover is not a cover for acting an ass.
No Karma Bonus taken for this post.
Moving the cube around in Compiz reminded me of Half Life/Counter-Strike levels where one could see world while awaiting resurrection.
Back in 2001 on Dell Latitude, panning was not too bad, but it was much better on my desktop at home. When I played with Compiz recently, I couldn't help but wonder how cool it was, and what the hell was going on with mshaft.
I, TOO, feel they are doing this on purpose to drive hardware sales. After all, Compiz worked on a 128 MB Radeon (fglrx) it tested, and I've read somewhere online that even a 64 MB card supporting XGL/3D ran fine. Of course, when I turned off 3D and stayed only in 2D, even my 16 MB ATI Rage in my slim desktop ran fairly fast, depending on if I hit sites with too damned many graphics intensive Java or flash or music players popping up all the time.
But, from ms' line of thinking, it's probably like this "who'll want to buy shiny new vista and then run it on a shitty, two-year-old card?".... Ummm....
Well, what if a bunch of no-gooders with Leitz-like camera flashes (that really are mini-EMP devices) just "light up" all the terminals they can get into? Or, if they can not get into the building anymore, light up along the roadways leading into the airports? Well, suddenly, a LOT of people, even registered travelers might be screwed. Maybe even a "hardened" Faraday cage won't help them...
This would very suck...
For a second I thought you were saying:
The US leadership are taking away power from the people and giving it to the Communist-detracting leadership, and thus making their people nearly prisoners/slaves. That is almost the expected to happen in the West.
captcha: propound
Hmmm, I dunno. For YEARS, many of the JCS and peripheral officers/offices HATED him, to the point of off the record calling him an "asshole", "stupid son of a bitch" and other epithets, apparently earned. We all know about the body/vehicle armor debacle. But, for the JCS (even if only 40%) hate his very existence, but sullenly bite their lips to keep their jobs while hoping he has an "accident" speaks volumes about that man. I am SURE if he really does step down a LOT of people will gesticulate and go get drunk and do things commensurate to this.
captcha: accident
Hmmm... Maybe it would make it unnecessary for me to have Win4Lin? What would this do to Win4Lin? Run them out of business?
1. Divide and Conquer?
2. Win4Lin dying out? / Xen/virtualization alternatives..
1. I think that msoft is trying to "divide and conquer" Linux by giving Novell cold hard cash and partnership, which equate to having an existence. Once ms defines what is and is not supported (seems they've been saying such things), then ANY companies "daring" to use Linux will start to (like sheep) feel that if msoft is supporting only Suse, then Suse will become the corporate Linux distro of choice, meaning Mandriva, Ubuntu, Debian, and maybe 5 other solid distros will be summarily cut off. Eventually, regardless of claims to not sue, companies will still be wary. But, since the Linux developer base is nimble and versatile, they'll likely keep improving code but directing much more of it toward Suse, meaning msoft will benefit. If the code is directed away from Suse in an effort to "crack" the code the way X-box/Hexed-Box is under siege, then ms can always lash out and in that way undermine non-Suse corporate use of msoft/Novell code. Yes, No, Maybe?
2.I could try to learn Xen (not trying to rhyme here...). I am using Lotus SmartSuite in Win98, running in Win4Lin running in Mandrake 10.1, and I have absolutely no advantage in buying the bloated XP or 2k. But, what sucks very much is that the last Win4Lin kernel I can use is mated to 2.6.8, and that means I cannot run it in Mandriva 2007 Free, which uses 2.6.17..... Not even in Mandriva 2006 Free.
What sucks is that although I am interested in finding out whether Xen would run a virtualized instance of my knonw-good disk containing Mandrake 10.1 inside of Mandriva 2007 Free or Mandriva 2007 Powerpack, I don't have the resources or skill to hack through any code or related problems.
Painfully, Win4Lin (maybe under duress from msoft?) dropped W98. It is NOT as if we users using 98 NEED tech support from Win4Lin. It is NOT as if Win4Lin maintaining the "bootability of W98" would seriously damage their reputation. There ARE still hundreds of thousands of (of course, poorly secured/unprotectable) W98 installations. Many probably run legacy software and don't neet to directly touch the Internet. But, for some reason, Win4Lin decided to support only XP and 2K. If Win4Lin would make a third version of their software that didn't force me to upgrade to xp or 2k, or didn't presume I'd want only TWO options: run a huge lan needing a virtual server, or run an XP/2K-only environment, then I would spring for it and pay up to $80.
So, I wonder if ms' potential product would explicityly check the OS signature and flat-out refuse to let W98 or W98 apps run even in Novell/Suse setups.
I think, though, that maybe ms figured out that the virtualization game is something they can win at ONLY if they gut the primary reason for VMWare and Win4Lin and Transgaming/Cedega, Bochs, and Wine to exist: multi-OS/no-dual-booting environments. If they write and sign the code that supports heterogeneous Linux/windows environments and decreases sales of VMWare/Win4Lin products, then it probably will have to happen by enabling windows (specific or certified) apps to run, as mentioned in this thread, IN Linux without TOUCHING Linux.
But, I can't help but think that one company, Win4Lin will be a victim of this out of prior coercion by ms, or by W4L's own attitude toward users who NEED W98 to work in even the latest Kernel. I kinda will feel sorry for them if they bite the dust, but at the same time I am so pissed at how they ditched 98. They COULD have installed a component that would virtualize and sand-box W98 WITHIN their latest product offering. Instead, they chose the route they felt would coerce users into ponying up money for a product it now seems many people (well, by judging from complaints about the sitation and inadequate, convincing response to the ire of those posting) will be ambivalent about the future of at least W4L. But, again,
be very suck. If you anything secret to say you better be hurry.
Fixed bad quotation marks selection which did not print; forgot to mention on-line language translation services and applications [0032] references to changing languages on behalf of the users. However, most language conversion would not be trusworthy enough (contextual references would be needed, and many of us who watch foreign or translated films and movies in their native and in the english subtitles and who as our friends to verify the similarities or differences know that much is lost in translation. It is the reason I watch foreign films in their native audio and follow the body language and intensity with less priority on the english on the screen.
NOT non-obvious; I am evolving such a thing, and
others are, too. Prior art can be found, though I have only ever released a couple of screenshots on a site (in 2003) that no longer exists.
This is such bs. (So far from what I am reading), a bunch of techno-mumbo-jumbo used as a wrapper to disguise the obviousness or actual pre-existence of software and hardware that only need cobbling together, not unlike taking a door off the hinges and using it as a snow mobile ski in an emergency and then finding it has real-world application, but is still NOT non-obvious.
It is definitely NOT non-obvious. Much of this can be obviated or nullified by putting together:
-Ace-CAD handwriting/drawing tablet
-Database of permitted scenarios (Character A has attributes that would not normally allow action A; B says or hears or does something that makes Character A, C and E tell or allow overhearing by Character D; meanwhile Event A happens because Character B did not perform an action within a period of time....)
-BBS-like features to support moderation in real-time or at-reading
-Collaborative writing tools such as:
Power Structure:
http://www.google.com/search?q=power+structure&ie= UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Celtix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtx
- A little bit of *(pod?.. Apple is seeking ownership of almost anything with pod in it)casting
- Some electronic or manual dice-rolling, not all that different from playing Dungeons and Dragons or Electronic Battleship
(Others can add examples here:)
But, I will keep reading this patent and maybe I will find out I jumped the gun, but I have deep revulsion for the USPTO just handing out patents to keep the cash flow coming. I will concede that since ms spent all this money (not even a drop in the bucket) maybe they thought this through, but somehow I doubt it and strongly suspect they are trying to encroach upon the process of creativity -- in areas already practiced WITHOUT patents being sought: HEY, microsoft! There is a REASON many of these screenplay companies are not openly warring with each other: they thrive better on low-level competition and incremental improvements they can afford to make. With you coming on, you THREATEN that ecosystem! But maybe this fishy-assed patent will merit some legitimacy after all... as much as I would like to see it reversed.
A few nit-picks:
"Further, story generating system 30 may utilize one or more tools that may make generating stories fun to motivate users to operate system 30 for generating stories. For instance, story generating system 30 may request users to correctly spell the names of the images they desire incorporating into a story before allowing them to access the desired images to promote learning."
Excuse me! Any decent database that denies the ready access to wild cards will DEFINITELY deny access to or prevent the return of the data set sought out. Rather than making data trawling FUN, it most definitely will be a harrowing and nerve-grating process.
"Further, story generating system 30 may allow users to easily manipulate sophisticated three-dimensional images, such as for changing the perspe
others are, too. Prior art can be found, though I have only ever released a couple of screenshots on a site (in 2003) that no longer exists.
This is such bs. (So far from what I am reading), a bunch of techno-mumbo-jumbo used as a wrapper to disguise the obviousness or actual pre-existence of software and hardware that only need cobbling together, not unlike taking a door off the hinges and using it as a snow mobile ski in an emergency and then finding it has real-world application, but is still NOT non-obvious.
It is definitely NOT non-obvious. Much of this can be obviated or nullified by putting together:
-Ace-CAD handwriting/drawing tablet
-Database of permitted scenarios (Character A has attributes that would not normally allow action A; B says or hears or does something that makes Character A, C and E tell or allow overhearing by Character D; meanwhile Event A happens because Character B did not perform an action within a period of time....)
-BBS-like features to support moderation in real-time or at-reading
-Collaborative writing tools such as:
Power Structure:
http://www.google.com/search?q=power+structure&ie= UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Celtix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtx
- A little bit of *(pod?.. Apple is seeking ownership of almost anything with pod in it)casting
- Some electronic or manual dice-rolling, not all that different from playing Dungeons and Dragons or Electronic Battleship
(Others can add examples here:)
But, I will keep reading this patent and maybe I will find out I jumped the gun, but I have deep revulsion for the USPTO just handing out patents to keep the cash flow coming. I will concede that since ms spent all this money (not even a drop in the bucket) maybe they thought this through, but somehow I doubt it and strongly suspect they are trying to encroach upon the process of creativity -- in areas already practiced WITHOUT patents being sought: HEY, microsoft! There is a REASON many of these screenplay companies are not openly warring with each other: they thrive better on low-level competition and incremental improvements they can afford to make. With you coming on, you THREATEN that ecosystem! But maybe this fishy-assed patent will merit some legitimacy after all... as much as I would like to see it reversed.
A few nit-picks:
Further, story generating system 30 may utilize one or more tools that may make generating stories fun to motivate users to operate system 30 for generating stories. For instance, story generating system 30 may request users to correctly spell the names of the images they desire incorporating into a story before allowing them to access the desired images to promote learning.
Excuse me! Any decent database that denies the ready access to wild cards will DEFINITELY deny access to or prevent the return of the data set sought out. Rather than making data trawling FUN, it most definitely will be a harrowing and nerve-grating process.
Further, story generating system 30 may allow users to easily manipulate sophisticated three-dimensional images, such as for changing the perspective view of the image presented in a graphical user interface, prior to incorporated the images into the story.
BS, again. While **I** have not filed a patent on something like that, I **HAVE** been for YEARS been toiling and actually using Lotus Approach for building
my own screenplay application. I have image fields denoting sets and locations uses, but though **I** lack the programming skills to embed hotspots, others for YEARS have embedded hot spots on overlays and pictures in browsers and thick-client apps. Nothing NEW here, msoft!
It should be appreciated that story generating system 30, interface module 32, story collaboration module 36, and story publishing module 38 are illustrated in FIG. 3
Then, go SKA dancing AND looking for ET at the same time. (Ahh, yae, yahh, Ahh, yae, yahh...)
Leatherface had a cell phone, he could, too... Oh. wait...
"The rank of your abnormal play you know eldavojohn, you write, the image compression of JPEG is monopoly really. This the owner, originated with Forgent network, and many lawsuits between the other company which uses that. Yesterday Microsoft and other defendant of approximately 60 Forgent solved in condition of the $8,000,000. With that for the company which has the annual earnings of the $15,000,000 doing sneeze is nothing. Cover technology in digital video recorder. ' Vis-a-vis the cable company on the patent which is said, as a state of the article, the end of Forgent ' as for perhaps the sound which does not hear the request which that presently has been pursued yet a little value of the cash has, you like, you don't think? "
Hmmm... weird I say, do you think?
slash image word it is seen, you say is "reciter"
So, I guess that little high-profile dinner some time back wherein ms got assurances that windows would win in China were not to be. Seems ms is being mshafted.
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They wanted pervasiveness/pervasion. Well, they have pervAsian. Yeh,
Red Flag Linux?: maybe 5 RMB
A Linux distro in most places?: what you want to pay for it
windows, maybe even Vista? PRICE-LESS
windows will be "everywhere", but it will be "priceless!", not "priceless"
A First Look at Asianux 1.0
http://lwn.net/Articles/90823/
Asianux, recent stuff (need javascript on to see the site... sheesh....)
http://www.asianux.com/asianux.do
Microsoft Fights Piracy In China, Linux Wins
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtm
Red Flag Linux (from 2004-ish)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&o
Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration (from 2004)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,391
Unseating a software giant
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Unsea
Yes siree... ms is could have a hard time as Asia reasserts its position in the world. They are NOT going to "meekly fork over billions of dollars year after year to microsoft..."
Hmmmm...
Quick stab... Would that be COsined, or siGned? Sorry... Anyway...
OK, this one is LONG, but I hope it's useful. I'm aware that various mags covered some of this in:
Compiz/XGL/OpenGL
XGL: LXF 83, P57
Compiz: LM #68 p24 & p28
OpenGL: LM #68 p21
Compiz: LM #85 p96
Alternate Window Managers:
LU&D: #65 p42
LMP: #68 p32
LXF= Linux Format
LM/LMP= Linux Magazine/Linux Magazine Pro
LU&D= Linux User & Developer
But this is my personal experience:
Personally, I've seen the Vista beta on an Lenovo laptop (forget the model...). It LOOKED kinda neat, all glassy and black, but it looked dense and maybe imposing. Honestly, for some reason, it MIGHT have been a more interesting if it had not been from ms, or if it had been some 3rd-party add-ons to enhance XP.
But, I just managed to get 3D effects. Admittedly, I didn't do any Compiz research other than reading a few of the Linux mags. But, quite by accident or serendipity did I figure out that pressing Ctrl+Alt and left-mouse-click rotated the Cube.
Specs of my machine I bought in Sept 2001:
Mandriva 2007 Free (From Linux-Magazine Pro, Issue 72)
FIC MOBO
-800 MHz Celeron chip
-256 MB RAM (and it runs on 128, too)
-128 MB CompUSA/ATI Radeon 9250chipset
-17-Inch Hyundai ImageQuest L70S (VGA, not DVI)
BUT, I found the OpenSource drivers for fglrx DON'T enable 3D, nor do the downloadable ATI drivers (the mags and Mandriva supply) I found in Linux Magazine. If I instead set the card to ATI Radeon (the generic/PLAIN driver choice, not fglrx), mysteriously, 3D effects are available, even tho the vt/console-run instance of drakconf/3D Desktop Effects module says "Your hardware does not support 3D Desktop Effects".... I DID have some trepidation when making the card selection. Also, there tends to be a small amount (and intermittent in presence) of "scrunched" fonts, but not at this moment, since I switched out of Full 3D.
I am using the AIGLX settings, since the Xgl settings won't let KDE nor Gnome get to the desktop. They blow up after some minutes of hesitation and then the log-in screen reappears. But, AIGLX boots smartly and nicely. SO, this is probably something to do with my card, or the specific, available drivers.
(BTW, on a lark, I reinstalled my OLDER ATI RageXL 16 MB vid card and Xinerama options appear in KDE/MCC (Mandriva Control Center), but since only have ONE hardware display, I had to move the cable from card to card. That brought out something I found interesting: On the main screen, the Mandriva FREE desktop that doesn't show user icons (despite my TELLING KDM to do so) and that blocks my login screen rotating images (many of them, changing once per minute). But, on the SECOND screen (same LCD, plug moved to older/2nd card), the login screen images appear and they rotate. I WISH Mandriva would quit being a pain in this regard. Also, my mouse settings keep aborting/never stick, and on most boots I have to reconfigure the mouse, save the X options, and cross my fingers. I previously blamed it on the Win4Lin kernel (on my Mandrake 10.1 daily and Mandriva 2006 test systems) then realized it was more about Mandriva, not Win4Lin.... )
(Another nice aside: My old (from 2002) BTV 847)
Interestingly, if I set the options minimally, I can move windows and apps around quickly. Also, the windows and applets wobble and fade and have nice translucency. I like how they zoom-fade-suck in to the Extra Task Bar when I click an app icon on the taskbar. I still have to figure out the switcher. And, I still need to try out Quinn's submissions in Compiz-Quinn....
Now, I've read (in Linux Magazine I think) that Vista will require:
-512 MB video Card (I've seen a 256 MB card in CompUSA claiming it's "Vista Capable"... note a difference from "Vista-Ready") ($150-$199)
-1 GB system RAM ($brand-dependent, but assume around $150-$200)
-2 GHz CPU/new mo-bo? (assume around $200-$400)
Vista could cost $400, depending on
Well, if they get on a roll, the FCC will stand for "Frakin' Cool Choices"
I saw in the news a company named Utube that is or is considering suing YouTube to "force YouTube to change its name or to get YouTube to help us find a new domain name", so I heard in the news.
One would think that companies with conflicting names would have an arbiter or someplace to submit their name so that a heuristic or some-such program would be Google-like and display as screen saying:
"Your request is remarkably similar to the name of a valid company that is receiving an extraordinary number of of irrelevant or non-transacting visits. Do you really want to visit:
O Utube, the machinery and tubing manufacturer or
O YouTube, the Comedy Central video clips site?
Please choose."
Thank you, and from all of us, our apologies for intercepting and delaying your page request.
Jeez UGLY Louise. How FRAKIN' hard is that to do? It would cut down on frivolous or almost-valid-but-avoidable lawsuits.
No country... I'll repeat NO GODDAMN COUNTRY has a "right to fight a war". They have rights to DEFEND, AT HOME, not "take a war to da enemy".
More lines of code should fall under scrutiny. But, I am sure some enterprising devs will find a way to improve the automated scanning and maybe even run the stuff in infinite-scenario virtual machines to look for signal injection hijacking and other techniques. But, war is not only suppose to be costly, it should be so frightening that most sane people will refuse to fight for unjust, unclear, or bogus reasons.
Maybe such fears of code being invaded will drive UP the cost of delivering troops to places they aren't wanted, or don't belong, or are on some government's expeditionary crusades.
A nice side effect from programmers of any country that outsources programming is that maybe those countries will inspire restoration of their home-grown development talents.
Since the code can never be FULLY trusted (yeh, "never say never", right?), maybe there's going to be a reduction in the gee-shucks- golly-wally ram-roading of slews of products that taxpayers fund but which never make it to the field, but somehow make it thru umpteen years of costly prototype phases. (Yeh, don't tell me about the Osprey, the Marines Killer"/"People Killer" machine.... yeh, it's a nifty machine, but the few number of units that took Marines' lives before full production is a vastly and woefully dismal record compared to the F-14, which saw HUNDREDS of units out of production, tho lives were lost across the F-14 history...)
You know, years ago I used to think Kinko's was in bed with the CIA. THEN, they put in those card payment devices which I felt could make it easy to tie a lot of unsuspecting people to love letters, nefarious plans, blueprints, you name it. But then, I keep hearing that MOST of our lives are boring and unworthy of such a huge efforts....