Exactly, and they have not changed their tune at all.
They backed the SCO case until the end. They are/still/ shaking down companies for "sekrit patent dealz" if they use Linux (android).
Microsoft is not to be trusted. Ever.
With regards to the GPL, it has to be explained every fucking time to people like you who don't get it. "If you don't like the GPL, don't include GPL code in your project!" Seriously, you make it sound as if GPL actively goes out and "infects" projects. It doesn't. It's developers themselves who want to use a GPLed product as a stepping stone to their own closed software and then get all offended because the GPL is somehow "viral".
Stop using GPLed code if you don't like the license. It's that bloody simple. Go use BSD or public domain code or pay for a dual license from the author of the GPLed program. Stop being an avaricious lazy ass.
To this day, Microsoft is trying to shake down smartphone vendors using Android for 15 bux per phone "protection" against patent extortion^W lawsuits.
What patents, you ask? Well, we don't know. The only company that seems to have stood up to this kind of patent shakedown is Google in its battle with Oracle ("We read your patents and found them wanting"). To this day, nobody has a list of those 235 patents that Microsoft owns and that Linux supposedly infringes - hidden behind a wall of NDAs.
Funny how that works. It's using patents as if they are trade secrets. An abuse of the system if I ever saw one. What is Microsoft so afraid of that it can't point out which patents are supposedly being infringed? Could it be that they are bogus and full of prior-art and obviousness? Likely, or else they wouldn't try to hide them.
So now we have blatant extortion without the help of a patsy third company (SCO) since Microsoft is no longer under judicial supervision.
I read the other responses to your post. We now know who some of the Softie shills are on here.
(aka âoeThe Talking Asshole Routineâ from Naked Lunch)
William S. Burroughs
Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard.
This ass talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell.
This man worked for a carnival, you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called âoeThe Better âOleâ that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, âoeOh I say, are you still down there, old thing?â
âoeNah I had to go relieve myself.â
After a while the ass start talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time.
Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him: âoeItâ(TM)s you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat and shit.â
After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoleâ(TM)s tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous â" (did you know there is a condition occurs in parts of Africa and only among Negroes where the little toe amputates spontaneously?) â" except for the eyes, you dig. Thats one thing the asshole couldnâ(TM)t do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnâ(TM)t give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes went out, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabâ(TM)s eyes on the end of a stalk.
Where to start.... *looks* Ah fuckit. I can't even begin pointing out what's wrong with this without getting into a dissertation on trademark and copyright law. This guy that sent the letters is obviously a "talking asshole" or what is called (in technical terms) a "cartooney." You find them everywhere on the 'net and if you go through life never being impotently threatened by idiots like this, you aren't trying hard enough. (You get extra points if you get cartooneyed by a "lawyer" in Italy defending the "honor" of a porn website)
It's things like this that makes me think that, some day down the road, victims of moronic vexatious litigants are not going to bother with court anymore to rectify shit like this, but rather just have the asshole in question killed outright. And I would stand by and watch the entertainment and approve.
>Alt-Med has been growing like gangbusters, its popularity at an all time high: it must work.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
It's only popular because people like you have been able to dress your snake oil up in white coats and "professional" language. It's marketing.
>Mark my words.
I've marked your words, and underneath I've written "raving loony."
You should be sued into the ground. Indeed, if a single person has died because you discouraged him or her from seeking actual effective treatment in time, you should be charged with manslaughter, at a minimum.
But the intention of this post was always to identify how people are presently choosing their passwords and we have good insight into that now. Of course the next question is âoehow should people be choosing passwordsâ? The answer to this is simple: The only secure password is the one you canâ(TM)t remember.
This is why, when you have a password policy from hell, there are post-its stuck under keyboards or to the monitor. Users won't put up with your tyranny.
JOB DESCRIPTION: We are looking for candidates with experience managing/leading a development team in social networking, search engine, communication, e-commerce, API for integrating with 3rd parties, mobile & desktop smart client applications related environment. The Project Manager will be asked to take over their . NET development team. They will be responsible for managing the developers and development process. EXPERIENCE:- Candidates should have at least 7-10 years of experience.
Did they just admit that social networking already predates their patent?
The beta is restricted to 18+ This was confirmed through... googling, specifically, the google dev blog.
This will come down to 13+ when it comes out of beta.
My reference to the other guy's page and COPPA was that I believed that your post was whining, that's all and I wanted to give justification as to why Google was restricting access..
Literacy changed the way how we remember things. Before that, we had to rely on oral tradition.
If you think that external tools weaken your brain and are bad for you, I suggest you try giving up reading and writing for a week. Not forever, just a week. No newspapers, just word of mouth. No jotting things down on post-it. No Sacred Shopping List for your Fallout Shelter.
CAD is also used to generate code for machining in post-processing. If i do not have a really accurate model, I'm not going to have parts that come out to the tolerances I want.
How accurate are the surfaces generated by Blender or Maya? Do they even close? For film and graphics and such, this doesn't matter. Nobody's going to care. A milling machine or lathe with garbage code from garbage surfaces, is going to give you garbage parts.
While I was dickish, I have neither the time nor the ability to even begin pointing out the differences between working in CAD to design something and "using a program that looks like CAD to design something."
The reference by the other person in this thread to Minecraft was insulting, frankly.
Just because you're working in 3D doesn't mean what you're doing is CAD.
I'm also going to go out on a limb here and say that Maya and Blender, while resembling parametric solid modeling to the casual user, aren't.
If this sounds elitist, then so be it. CAD is for stuff that eventually becomes physical. Accurate representation is/everything/.
There's something about CAD that drives the free drivers over the edge.
Like I said, in some situations, the free driver is certainly enough.
I consider the driver as part of the card. I can't modify the card itself, and it doesn't bother me that I can't go mess around in the proprietary driver changing things around. In an ideal world, self help for fixing proprietary drivers would happen, but both ATI and Nvidia think that keeping features locked away is a competitive advantage because it keeps "the other guy" from copying hardware or such.
I have CAD at home on Linux (Draftsight for 2D and Varicad (It's Linux native!!) for 3D), and there's no substitute for the Catalyst driver. The free drivers don't cut it. They may cut it for generic desktop stuff like playing video and spinning desktop cubes, but somehow combining the free driver and any CAD package gets you a very slow experience.
Until performance really does reach 80 percent, I'm gonna have to stick with the proprietary one. And since this is only for the 6000 series and not the 4000 series (my card), I'm just gonna have to forget about it until I get new hardware.
Hands up if you've ever had to call the ATI BBS in Peterborough, ON back in the day to get the driver of the week for Mach32 on any system.
By the way, if you want free 2D Cad for Linux, get your ass over to Dassault Systems and download Draftsight.
In the Pivot monitor, it's a mercury switch, operated by gravity (acceleration at 9.8m/sec^2).
Apple could have used a mercury switch and done the same thing and the user would not have noticed the difference. The only thing about an acelerometer chip is that it's a mercury switch without the mercury (I'm oversimplifying, of course).
Slashdot Mirror
>started last Sunday
Slashdot. Yesterday's news next week.
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>This was 10 years ago. A long time.
Exactly, and they have not changed their tune at all.
They backed the SCO case until the end. /still/ shaking down companies for "sekrit patent dealz" if they use Linux (android).
They are
Microsoft is not to be trusted. Ever.
With regards to the GPL, it has to be explained every fucking time to people like you who don't get it. "If you don't like the GPL, don't include GPL code in your project!" Seriously, you make it sound as if GPL actively goes out and "infects" projects. It doesn't. It's developers themselves who want to use a GPLed product as a stepping stone to their own closed software and then get all offended because the GPL is somehow "viral".
Stop using GPLed code if you don't like the license. It's that bloody simple. Go use BSD or public domain code or pay for a dual license from the author of the GPLed program. Stop being an avaricious lazy ass.
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Indeed.
To this day, Microsoft is trying to shake down smartphone vendors using Android for 15 bux per phone "protection" against patent extortion^W lawsuits.
What patents, you ask? Well, we don't know. The only company that seems to have stood up to this kind of patent shakedown is Google in its battle with Oracle ("We read your patents and found them wanting"). To this day, nobody has a list of those 235 patents that Microsoft owns and that Linux supposedly infringes - hidden behind a wall of NDAs.
Funny how that works. It's using patents as if they are trade secrets. An abuse of the system if I ever saw one. What is Microsoft so afraid of that it can't point out which patents are supposedly being infringed? Could it be that they are bogus and full of prior-art and obviousness? Likely, or else they wouldn't try to hide them.
So now we have blatant extortion without the help of a patsy third company (SCO) since Microsoft is no longer under judicial supervision.
I read the other responses to your post. We now know who some of the Softie shills are on here.
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----------------------Shibboleth line---------------------
All responses to this message dismissing it as paranoia or not fact based is just shilling for Microsoft, because you know every word of it is true.
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it" - Linus Torvalds
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I didn't invent the term.
It was William S. Burroughs that did.
The Man Who Taught His Asshole to Talk
(aka âoeThe Talking Asshole Routineâ from Naked Lunch)
William S. Burroughs
Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard.
This ass talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell.
This man worked for a carnival, you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called âoeThe Better âOleâ that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, âoeOh I say, are you still down there, old thing?â
âoeNah I had to go relieve myself.â
After a while the ass start talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time.
Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him: âoeItâ(TM)s you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat and shit.â
After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpoleâ(TM)s tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous â" (did you know there is a condition occurs in parts of Africa and only among Negroes where the little toe amputates spontaneously?) â" except for the eyes, you dig. Thats one thing the asshole couldnâ(TM)t do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldnâ(TM)t give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes went out, and there was no more feeling in them than a crabâ(TM)s eyes on the end of a stalk.
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Where to start.... *looks* Ah fuckit. I can't even begin pointing out what's wrong with this without getting into a dissertation on trademark and copyright law. This guy that sent the letters is obviously a "talking asshole" or what is called (in technical terms) a "cartooney." You find them everywhere on the 'net and if you go through life never being impotently threatened by idiots like this, you aren't trying hard enough. (You get extra points if you get cartooneyed by a "lawyer" in Italy defending the "honor" of a porn website)
It's things like this that makes me think that, some day down the road, victims of moronic vexatious litigants are not going to bother with court anymore to rectify shit like this, but rather just have the asshole in question killed outright. And I would stand by and watch the entertainment and approve.
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>Alt-Med has been growing like gangbusters, its popularity at an all time high: it must work.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
It's only popular because people like you have been able to dress your snake oil up in white coats and "professional" language. It's marketing.
>Mark my words.
I've marked your words, and underneath I've written "raving loony."
You should be sued into the ground. Indeed, if a single person has died because you discouraged him or her from seeking actual effective treatment in time, you should be charged with manslaughter, at a minimum.
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This is why, when you have a password policy from hell, there are post-its stuck under keyboards or to the monitor. Users won't put up with your tyranny.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1P6KUyOhBc
And why they never buy the Sun:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4258455.stm
Basically the Sun isn't even fit to line a birdcage.
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JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for candidates with experience managing/leading a development team in social networking, search engine, communication, e-commerce, API for integrating with 3rd parties, mobile & desktop smart client applications related environment. The Project Manager will be asked to take over their . NET development team. They will be responsible for managing the developers and development process.
EXPERIENCE:-
Candidates should have at least 7-10 years of experience.
Did they just admit that social networking already predates their patent?
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Talk
Ytalk
VMS Phone
VMS "CB Simulator"
IRC
Telnet chats
MUDs, MOOs and such.
ICQ - and every variation of this from here on like yahoo chat and AIM.
Those are just the ones I've had hands-on experience with
I am sure there must have been some sort of instant messaging under Multics back in the '60s.
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I stand corrected.
The beta is restricted to 18+ This was confirmed through... googling, specifically, the google dev blog.
This will come down to 13+ when it comes out of beta.
My reference to the other guy's page and COPPA was that I believed that your post was whining, that's all and I wanted to give justification as to why Google was restricting access..
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You're making this up. Do you know how I know?
Because the policy is 13+
There was an epic whine about the policy back on the third that made both Fark and Reddit and probably other news aggregators.
http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-son-cry.html
Just read. Read the fucking fail and self-entitlement within that posting.
Google+ follows COPPA. Who knew?
http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm
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Literacy changed the way how we remember things. Before that, we had to rely on oral tradition.
If you think that external tools weaken your brain and are bad for you, I suggest you try giving up reading and writing for a week. Not forever, just a week. No newspapers, just word of mouth. No jotting things down on post-it. No Sacred Shopping List for your Fallout Shelter.
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I said
>Accurate representation is /everything/.
I can't leave it at that.
CAD is also used to generate code for machining in post-processing. If i do not have a really accurate model, I'm not going to have parts that come out to the tolerances I want.
How accurate are the surfaces generated by Blender or Maya? Do they even close? For film and graphics and such, this doesn't matter. Nobody's going to care. A milling machine or lathe with garbage code from garbage surfaces, is going to give you garbage parts.
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While I was dickish, I have neither the time nor the ability to even begin pointing out the differences between working in CAD to design something and "using a program that looks like CAD to design something."
The reference by the other person in this thread to Minecraft was insulting, frankly.
Just because you're working in 3D doesn't mean what you're doing is CAD.
I'm also going to go out on a limb here and say that Maya and Blender, while resembling parametric solid modeling to the casual user, aren't.
If this sounds elitist, then so be it. CAD is for stuff that eventually becomes physical. Accurate representation is /everything/.
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>CAD = Computer Aided Design, right? Am I missing something here?
Yes.
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Maya and Blender both are not CAD.
And Minecraft certainly isn't.
There's something about CAD that drives the free drivers over the edge.
Like I said, in some situations, the free driver is certainly enough.
I consider the driver as part of the card. I can't modify the card itself, and it doesn't bother me that I can't go mess around in the proprietary driver changing things around. In an ideal world, self help for fixing proprietary drivers would happen, but both ATI and Nvidia think that keeping features locked away is a competitive advantage because it keeps "the other guy" from copying hardware or such.
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I have CAD at home on Linux (Draftsight for 2D and Varicad (It's Linux native!!) for 3D), and there's no substitute for the Catalyst driver. The free drivers don't cut it. They may cut it for generic desktop stuff like playing video and spinning desktop cubes, but somehow combining the free driver and any CAD package gets you a very slow experience.
Until performance really does reach 80 percent, I'm gonna have to stick with the proprietary one. And since this is only for the 6000 series and not the 4000 series (my card), I'm just gonna have to forget about it until I get new hardware.
Hands up if you've ever had to call the ATI BBS in Peterborough, ON back in the day to get the driver of the week for Mach32 on any system.
By the way, if you want free 2D Cad for Linux, get your ass over to Dassault Systems and download Draftsight.
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Now that you put it that way....
Excuse me for not getting your joke.
I'm going to need surgery to remove my hand from my forehead now.
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Thanks, I was unsure how the joke was going to go down.
It came out as a shibboleth. People who got it really got it. People who didn't, well, Disney? Really?
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You, and so many others here...
You need to see a movie. You need to see the documentary by Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, "The Aristocrats.
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It's a cheap kind of accelerometer.
In the Pivot monitor, it's a mercury switch, operated by gravity (acceleration at 9.8m/sec^2).
Apple could have used a mercury switch and done the same thing and the user would not have noticed the difference. The only thing about an acelerometer chip is that it's a mercury switch without the mercury (I'm oversimplifying, of course).
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BSD userland on top of GNU Hurd.
"What the hell do you call an OS like that?"
"I'll call it 'The Aristocrats'"
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Or you could simply take it as someone who truly gives of himself is a person who doesn't lord it over other people and say "look at me" all the time.
If you are self aggrandizing through charity, you are not giving. You are purchasing notoriety.
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