i read this article. from the headline, one could have thought:
hehe, these stupid semi-smart "geeks", complaining all the time about these insecure microsoft products. and now? they got these nice security holes themselves!
but, you know what? i rtfa. and i read this particular line:
Apparently, major users of these products have been notified and have patched their systems.
i mean, is that cool or what? the message that the system is insecure arrives at the same time as the
patch. and you dont't have to be a major user (translated: msce) to get the patch.
this is just one reason i trust my sources to cvs.
damn, this man was insightful. he wrote about an internet-like structure describing the network of the h2g2 book, but he did also describe (at a very detailed level) how to create and use this kind of sound "tools" in his "dirk gently" novels.
i mean, just read what he wrote about computer interfaces in h2g2 (when ford is breaking into the hq). adams was damn smart and way more funny than clarke.
but did you know that adams did not invent this style of writing sf? read "the star diaries" by stanislaw lem. funny. uh... just read anything written by lem. you think clark or heinlein novels are great? just as an example, do you wanna know where the matrix authors stole the idea of these human-driven fighting robots? "The Invincible".
"According to the Globe and Mail, gourmet coffees [...] apparently have lots more caffeine than their non-gourmet competitor
real news. why do you think in most companies an espresso machine is producing this gourmet stuff in stead of this cheap crap?. cocaine just isn't en vouge anymore, at least in the valley. but without a real stimulation the development of the 23rd "never seen before, scalable, fastest, easiest and failproof" enterprise application can become quite boring.
oh, and the trick is: drink it all day long and all at once. use buckets. they're of much use, if not for drinking, they might come in handy an hour later. depends on your constitution.
basically making you need to prove that it wasn't you who did it, instead of the other way around
maybe you should move to a country with a decent judiciary. in dubio pro reo. "the other way round" is not equitable and a clear sign that the judiciary sucks.
what's the point? it's just a marketing possibility the web offers. it's not illegal to state one's oppinion anonymously. just read/. and other forums. any ac who's got a business running will do the same. hell, when i'm writing usenet posts and someone's bitchin 'bout my companies products (the products i actually think are good) he'll get a response without stating that i work for this company. why do have most/. posters nicknames, and why do only posters with some ego problems sign their comments with "Chief Architect of blabla"?
... until they find out that p2p networks are mainly used by al quaida terrorists to communicate. you know, the whole internet is nothing but a platform for criminals. pr0n is everywhere, and you all know, in the internet you can find a blueprint for making a nuke for 10$. and then, there is quake. all young people turned into homicidal maniacs. thanks john. and the quake engine is GPL! and so is some encryption software! imagine, it's not enough for those criminals to communicate through the net, no cherie, they have something to hide! the internet is evil! pull the plug!
everyone with a mind of it's own knows that all this "technology" has nothing to do with preventing terrorist attacks. all the things that were done in the name of the "war against terrorism" wouldn't have stopped atta nor any other recent attack. atta had a valid passport and no record. but all these things are justified with that accursed date. man, this is
doublespeak at it's best. remember, the main point in 1984 is not big brother but the constant war.
are they mad or did i do something wrong? the i-tunes installer is about 20mb. wtf? it's just a media player! i for sure won't download a 20mb media player.
first, please stop that stupid blog bashing ala "the web would be a better place without all this uninteresting shit". a) remember: http is a request/response protocol, you only see what you requested. b) i'm sure in the next discussion about anything web-related on/. you're going to put your tinfoil hats on and start argueing against censorship (which is a good thing).
second, i like reading blogs. there's this certain time (mostly a sunday afternoon) when you're to lazy to do anything serious (and to smart to watch tv;) ) and just want to browse and read. blogs are far more interesting than most commercial websites.
Sorry pal, this isn't Civilization. You can't just improve relations with other countries by throwing money at them.
oh yes, you can. sorry, but that's the way this capitalism thingy works. for example, many "dangerous" countries are indeed very poor countries. helping them in building up infrastructure and feeding their citizens does make a very good relationship. it also strengthens the influence one has over these countries (nothing beats good ol' blackmail).
throwing money at them in stead of ruling them with steel and power made the usa the best friend of the former worst enemy of all the world, and it only took a couple of years, and this did more good to the whole world than any f*ckin war could have done. this comparison actually is not the best one, 'cause war had to be fought, but it ended when the enemy was defeated and money made this former enemy a friend.
never underestimate the power of capital and money.
is there anyone out there to whom sco does not seem like a big joke?
if there was one smart person left in that company, they will remain quit, stop their court activities and die a peacefull death. i do not care about the harm sco may do to the gnu and linux community (because they do no harm), but i care about the harm they do to computer business in general. it is hard enough to raise vc nowadays, don't destroy the image of software companies any longer.
they overdo it. the world is changing (i feel in in the air...) na, no need to get pathetic, but that's just what happens to the computer world on a regular basis. some of you who are old enough (i'm not, sorry) experienced it: first there were computers as huge as a living room, the decreased in size, then came the wonderfull age of universities an unix, then there were pcs, and apple (yeah, the other way round, but frog is crap) and boom: no one expected that impact, there was the net.
i think that when the major players in a business start to behave really strange (i bet we wont see this tcpa crap on any average home computer) it is a sign that the business is going to change dramatically. c'mon, heads up. that's the last struggle.
no. everyone uses photoshop and complains that gimp is different. btw, i do not care what "most people". think. as an oss developer, you are very lucky, because you do not have to.
it is an image manipulation programme and not a photoshop clone/ rip off/ whatever.
i can't stand the attitude that free software has to mimmick closed software to be considered good. ever worked with maya? for a long time? ok, switch to 3ds. uh, it has a screwed up interface from your point of view, so 3ds must be crap.
see? i took the other way round, i never bought ps and did my design issues with gimp. at work, i often need to "design" some prototype websites to test the web frontend, and they got photoshop there, but i can't use it, 'cos of the screwed up interface, so i'll stick to the gimp.
and yes, the cymk seperation was an issue, but i reworked my pictures with 2.0 and i got two perfectly looking poster prints processed with gimp at the wall.
gimp2 is good, i do not care about interfaces as long as there is a possibility i can learn them. you know, learning, to some minds it is fun. i had a several discussion over and over again regarding blender and 3ds. not to mention that blender implements all the cutting edge (funny, in 3d modeling this means 2 things...) features. if you wanna know what a cutting edge modelling app has to have, have a look at the modelling forum run by bay raitt (he did gollums face animation system, maybe the best 3d modeller alive). i'm not posting a link here, cos if i did and i ever meet bay, i think he may kill me.
nothing against the mac fanatics, but there are a lot of ways out there to organize a UI, not only your way.
The Java Desktop probably (technically) does not violate the GPL
there is no "technically" or "probably". jds does not violate the gpl. sun does what it is permitted to do. that's what licenses are for. they tell you want you are allowed to do. where is your damn point?
And you're wrong about Red Hat. They devote a lot of resources to developing, supporting, and promoting Linux, Free Software, and Open Source software.
you might want to change your way of speaking. "open source" should not appear in your dictionary.
we're talking about an average company. i worked for quite a few, i never felt the need for AI. my argument (like any argument in the world) does not apply to special cases, 'cos the nature of special cases is, per definitionem, uhm, to be special.
1) never use this sentence anywhere in the real world(tm), especially at parties.
2) the explanation: everything annoyes RMS nowadays. in case your business is to print numbers on rice bags and you use linux for that purpose, don't expect just a comment, expect an essay from RMS if one of your rice bags topples down.
So you agree all software you could ever want, perfectly tailored to your company's needs, is available on sourceforge?
interestingly, it is. assuming your company a) has a smart admin and b) isn't tied to any proprietary software ("we only read CVs in the *.doc format").
The least they could do is acknowledge the REAL creators.
what's wrong with that? nothing. this is one of the business models the gpl implies. what about redhat? i didn't notice a popup message "this product is based on the holy GNU" following a 32meg list of all contributors to the kernel. it seems you didn't understand the open source issue: it means writing software for the sake of the software, not for the sake of the ego of the developer. the gpl explicitly allows selling glped software (which does not need to be created by you) as long as the source is available. the java desktop does not break the gpl, period.
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at last... hitler, linux and gpl in one sentence (post). congrats.
i read this article. from the headline, one could have thought:
hehe, these stupid semi-smart "geeks", complaining all the time about these insecure microsoft products. and now? they got these nice security holes themselves!
but, you know what? i rtfa. and i read this particular line:
Apparently, major users of these products have been notified and have patched their systems.
i mean, is that cool or what? the message that the system is insecure arrives at the same time as the patch. and you dont't have to be a major user (translated: msce) to get the patch.
this is just one reason i trust my sources to cvs.
damn, this man was insightful. he wrote about an internet-like structure describing the network of the h2g2 book, but he did also describe (at a very detailed level) how to create and use this kind of sound "tools" in his "dirk gently" novels.
i mean, just read what he wrote about computer interfaces in h2g2 (when ford is breaking into the hq). adams was damn smart and way more funny than clarke.
but did you know that adams did not invent this style of writing sf? read "the star diaries" by stanislaw lem. funny. uh... just read anything written by lem. you think clark or heinlein novels are great? just as an example, do you wanna know where the matrix authors stole the idea of these human-driven fighting robots? "The Invincible".
"According to the Globe and Mail, gourmet coffees [...] apparently have lots more caffeine than their non-gourmet competitor
real news. why do you think in most companies an espresso machine is producing this gourmet stuff in stead of this cheap crap?. cocaine just isn't en vouge anymore, at least in the valley. but without a real stimulation the development of the 23rd "never seen before, scalable, fastest, easiest and failproof" enterprise application can become quite boring.
oh, and the trick is: drink it all day long and all at once. use buckets. they're of much use, if not for drinking, they might come in handy an hour later. depends on your constitution.
basically making you need to prove that it wasn't you who did it, instead of the other way around
maybe you should move to a country with a decent judiciary. in dubio pro reo. "the other way round" is not equitable and a clear sign that the judiciary sucks.
what's the point? it's just a marketing possibility the web offers. it's not illegal to state one's oppinion anonymously. just read /. and other forums. any ac who's got a business running will do the same. hell, when i'm writing usenet posts and someone's bitchin 'bout my companies products (the products i actually think are good) he'll get a response without stating that i work for this company. why do have most /. posters nicknames, and why do only posters with some ego problems sign their comments with "Chief Architect of blabla"?
... until they find out that p2p networks are mainly used by al quaida terrorists to communicate. you know, the whole internet is nothing but a platform for criminals. pr0n is everywhere, and you all know, in the internet you can find a blueprint for making a nuke for 10$. and then, there is quake. all young people turned into homicidal maniacs. thanks john. and the quake engine is GPL! and so is some encryption software! imagine, it's not enough for those criminals to communicate through the net, no cherie, they have something to hide! the internet is evil! pull the plug!
no wait... someone mentioned pr0n...
everyone with a mind of it's own knows that all this "technology" has nothing to do with preventing terrorist attacks. all the things that were done in the name of the "war against terrorism" wouldn't have stopped atta nor any other recent attack. atta had a valid passport and no record. but all these things are justified with that accursed date. man, this is doublespeak at it's best. remember, the main point in 1984 is not big brother but the constant war.
are they mad or did i do something wrong? the i-tunes installer is about 20mb. wtf? it's just a media player! i for sure won't download a 20mb media player.
first, please stop that stupid blog bashing ala "the web would be a better place without all this uninteresting shit". a) remember: http is a request/response protocol, you only see what you requested. b) i'm sure in the next discussion about anything web-related on /. you're going to put your tinfoil hats on and start argueing against censorship (which is a good thing).
;) ) and just want to browse and read. blogs are far more interesting than most commercial websites.
second, i like reading blogs. there's this certain time (mostly a sunday afternoon) when you're to lazy to do anything serious (and to smart to watch tv
Try eating a steak dinner with chopsticks...or even with chopsticks and a knife. It's not easy.
;)
in asia, cutting the meat is the job of the cook. then came someone from the west and invented "finger food"
Sorry pal, this isn't Civilization. You can't just improve relations with other countries by throwing money at them.
oh yes, you can. sorry, but that's the way this capitalism thingy works. for example, many "dangerous" countries are indeed very poor countries. helping them in building up infrastructure and feeding their citizens does make a very good relationship. it also strengthens the influence one has over these countries (nothing beats good ol' blackmail).
throwing money at them in stead of ruling them with steel and power made the usa the best friend of the former worst enemy of all the world, and it only took a couple of years, and this did more good to the whole world than any f*ckin war could have done. this comparison actually is not the best one, 'cause war had to be fought, but it ended when the enemy was defeated and money made this former enemy a friend.
never underestimate the power of capital and money.
is there anyone out there to whom sco does not seem like a big joke?
if there was one smart person left in that company, they will remain quit, stop their court activities and die a peacefull death. i do not care about the harm sco may do to the gnu and linux community (because they do no harm), but i care about the harm they do to computer business in general. it is hard enough to raise vc nowadays, don't destroy the image of software companies any longer.
what's my beloved slashdot server trying to do? using a win2k box (don't know if it's pirated, not mine), and the pf tells me this:
/.org. humhum ;)
Someone from 66.35.250.150, port 32916 wants to connect to port 8080 [...]
fake ip? nslookup tells me it's
they overdo it. the world is changing (i feel in in the air...) na, no need to get pathetic, but that's just what happens to the computer world on a regular basis. some of you who are old enough (i'm not, sorry) experienced it: first there were computers as huge as a living room, the decreased in size, then came the wonderfull age of universities an unix, then there were pcs, and apple (yeah, the other way round, but frog is crap) and boom: no one expected that impact, there was the net.
i think that when the major players in a business start to behave really strange (i bet we wont see this tcpa crap on any average home computer) it is a sign that the business is going to change dramatically. c'mon, heads up. that's the last struggle.
no. everyone uses photoshop and complains that gimp is different. btw, i do not care what "most people". think. as an oss developer, you are very lucky, because you do not have to.
it is an image manipulation programme and not a photoshop clone/ rip off/ whatever.
i can't stand the attitude that free software has to mimmick closed software to be considered good. ever worked with maya? for a long time? ok, switch to 3ds. uh, it has a screwed up interface from your point of view, so 3ds must be crap.
see? i took the other way round, i never bought ps and did my design issues with gimp. at work, i often need to "design" some prototype websites to test the web frontend, and they got photoshop there, but i can't use it, 'cos of the screwed up interface, so i'll stick to the gimp.
and yes, the cymk seperation was an issue, but i reworked my pictures with 2.0 and i got two perfectly looking poster prints processed with gimp at the wall.
gimp2 is good, i do not care about interfaces as long as there is a possibility i can learn them. you know, learning, to some minds it is fun. i had a several discussion over and over again regarding blender and 3ds. not to mention that blender implements all the cutting edge (funny, in 3d modeling this means 2 things...) features. if you wanna know what a cutting edge modelling app has to have, have a look at the modelling forum run by bay raitt (he did gollums face animation system, maybe the best 3d modeller alive). i'm not posting a link here, cos if i did and i ever meet bay, i think he may kill me.
nothing against the mac fanatics, but there are a lot of ways out there to organize a UI, not only your way.
The Java Desktop probably (technically) does not violate the GPL
there is no "technically" or "probably". jds does not violate the gpl. sun does what it is permitted to do. that's what licenses are for. they tell you want you are allowed to do. where is your damn point?
And you're wrong about Red Hat. They devote a lot of resources to developing, supporting, and promoting Linux, Free Software, and Open Source software.
you might want to change your way of speaking. "open source" should not appear in your dictionary.
enlighten me, what is a "spider hole" in ny?
we're talking about an average company. i worked for quite a few, i never felt the need for AI. my argument (like any argument in the world) does not apply to special cases, 'cos the nature of special cases is, per definitionem, uhm, to be special.
Can someone explain the joke to me?
1) never use this sentence anywhere in the real world(tm), especially at parties.
2) the explanation: everything annoyes RMS nowadays. in case your business is to print numbers on rice bags and you use linux for that purpose, don't expect just a comment, expect an essay from RMS if one of your rice bags topples down.
So you agree all software you could ever want, perfectly tailored to your company's needs, is available on sourceforge?
interestingly, it is. assuming your company a) has a smart admin and b) isn't tied to any proprietary software ("we only read CVs in the *.doc format").
The least they could do is acknowledge the REAL creators.
what's wrong with that? nothing. this is one of the business models the gpl implies. what about redhat? i didn't notice a popup message "this product is based on the holy GNU" following a 32meg list of all contributors to the kernel. it seems you didn't understand the open source issue: it means writing software for the sake of the software, not for the sake of the ego of the developer. the gpl explicitly allows selling glped software (which does not need to be created by you) as long as the source is available. the java desktop does not break the gpl, period.
I appreciate much of the software RMS
honest question: why RMS and not RSM?
Why does everything have to bow down and act like the GPL is all holy?
simple. if you don't, stallman will write a bad comment about you. if you are very unlucky, stallman may think about writing an essay.
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beer. as in "free beer".