I have a brother who used to work for Nynex... I am somewhat sure that Bell Atlantic ate up Nynex and essentially absorbed it completely before merging with GTE. The name change occurred when the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger took place.
Verizon is what used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic. With MCI in the fold, does this allow them to be a national phone company that can be a local carrier coast to coast, like Bell used to be in the 70's? I am suspecting not, but it's worth asking.
I know MCI is not a local phone company (at least they weren't when I had them as my long distance carrier), but that would make Verizon huge (even more so than they are now).
Their stories have been filled with hype and falsehoods on the hope that their ratings will not continue to fall.
It is just as interesting what they don't say as well as what they do. All of the networks, not just CNN, have a tendency to leave out important details, so that while they are not telling you lies, but they tell you just enough to lead you in the wrong direction.
I am trying to find a simple freeware/open-source todo list manager.
Even if you don't have a Palm Pilot, Palm Desktop under Windows isn't too bad. The price - FREE - is certainly right, too. It may not be the best out there, but it meets the basic requirements for a to-do list manager.
Now we'll start hearing about new improved "Air filters" that remove the new threat of "PBDE"...Only four monthly payments of $69.99! These companies will start cropping up, the moment this story hits the local news channels.
The sad thing is, if you're wrong at all, it would only be on the dollar amount. Sigh. 3-6 months - that's a good estimate as to when something like this will hit the market.
XP is faster to come up to the desktop. However, it is still busy accessing the hard drive and loading stuff in the background. You still have to wait for the OS to quit loading itself before you can use anything. Microsoft's claim that XP is faster than 2K was based on the time to desktop, apparently not time to usability.
Once loaded, XP has an annoying habit of wanting to refresh the desktop from time to time. That slows things down even more.
Yahoo is not the first to pull this stunt. At one time, Norton Internet Security (I think it was NIS2000, specifically) had known holes in the firewall component for different spyware applications. After enough people pitched a fit, they have since closed those holes (supposedly).
If the API used by P2P apps is open and documentation for it is readily available on the net (e.g. Gnutella protocol), does releasing this app as open source really prove much? The original Gnutella's source is still available and I would think this would be simpler to follow (was more of a simplistic implementation)...
Hey, I won't argue with making it OpenSource, I think it's a positive thing either way. In this case, though, I don't see too much benefit if the goal is to create spinoffs. If the goal is to have community recommendations, that might be a little more beneficial...
The solution to piracy is never going to find success in copy protection. As in the example, above, there is always going to be a "workaround."
There may be workarounds, but there will also be a fair number of people who will not want to put forth the effort to deal with such workarounds. It is a matter of convenience.
Now, where it gets interesting is whether the duplicates will also have copy limits. If you dupe an original and the copy scheme does not transfer to the duplicate, then what has the scheme accomplished. Nothing.
As for me, I like to dupe my CDs mainly so I can use them in the car without jeopardizing the originals. A copy limit would not hinder me in that regard.
All this patent will accomplish is it will give McAfee legal right to knock everyone else's products in the dirt, while they try to push their own. If their antispam product is anything like their antivirus, their product will suck. Net result - everyone will lose, except the spammers who will keep doing their thing while McAfee screws everone else out of making effective solutions.
The US patent office is becoming as bad as the US legal system that allows you to sue anyone at any time for any reason. *shakes head in disgust*
Bakers are, in a sense, biologists. They know that yeast in bread and rolls thrive in warm temperatures, and that the ideal temperature for yeast activity is between 120 an 130 degrees F. Heat the dough to 140, and the yeast dies. Salt will kill yeast if brought in direct contact with it as well. And yeast loves sugar - so much so that if you leave the sugar out of bread, the yeast will start breaking down the complex sugars in the flour, which in turn changes the flavor of the breads.
Bakers must know the environmental conditions they need to set up for yeast (a living fungus), or they will find themselves without a bakery. In this sense, they have to be biologists, albeit in a limited sense.
The article states that HP is giving testing and hardware support to these packages, and I assume that means they'll come up with a nifty little logo to show that it's "HP-Ready"... While that's all well and good, will they offer third-party technical support to users when these packages crash on HP servers? If not, who gets left holding the bag? If it were not open source, it would be cut and dry, but with the packages being open source and freely available, the issue of technical support gets blurred. The article didn't go into this fine point.
A lot of what makes Slashdot Slashdot is how Slashdot has handled the problems of trolls and AC posts in real time on a live system.
Not all trolls and ACs are problems. Sometimes, a good troll adds a bit of interesting humor to an otherwise dry thread. That said, that's not often the case... ACs are a completely different animal. It is all too often that you see someone who posts anonymously just so they can snipe at someone while hiding behind anonymity. Other times, there is a fascinating and well-thought-out post that is anonymous, which is a shame for the poster because it would be worth good karma points. I have yet to figure out why there are AC posts like that.
The article skipped journals, too. There's a whole lot of stuff happening in user journals. And not all of it technical. You're as likely to hear about a dead hard drive as you are to hear about someone's recipe for chicken soup in journal entries.
The article talks a bit about the moderation system, and karma, and all the fun stuff we have come to love here at SlashDot. What it carefully avoids is the discussion of trolls and AC posts. It is summarized by stating that -1 in the moderation system is sufficient to render a troll invisible.
Over time there have been a lot of discussions here about trolls and ACs. They have their place here, and they each contribute as well as take away. It would have been interesting to have read a little more about what the study found about trolls and AC posts, positive and negative...
One of the sublinks from the article is for Wireless Monitors. While I didn't immediately see a practical use for such, it occurred to me that it would be an awesome way to reduce clutter on the desk. I'm there, where do I pay?
David is unique, however we do not claim, nor have we ever claimed that David is 100% our own proprietary code.
and...
Lastly, Project David is not a repackaging of Codeweavers CrossOver Office. We are experimenting with some of the open source WINE code but we are not knowingly using any of the Codeweavers source code. Perhaps, Codeweavers has unwittingly released its code back to the WINE Project.
Ok, it sounds like they're being open and straightforward about it. They are recycling code. They also are putting this little disclaimer that they're not intentionally using CodeWeaver code. All right, if there is a problem, this should put up flags with concerned parties now, instead of waiting until they are all done. It would suck to be all done and then be told they had proprietary code that had to be removed. (This is reminiscent of the SCO situation -- perhaps they're trying to avoid that kind of aggravatiuon now?)
Where I went to college, the Art department chair was caught many years after that fact for plaigarizing his dissertation for his Ph.D. He lost his doctorate and his job, and probably faced legal actions as well.
Better to get nailed for plaigarism before you have your degree like this guy at the University of Kent did than to build a career around a falsehood like the department chair.
You can't tell from the photo if there is a decent safety rail up there, to keep people from doing something they shouldn't... If the railing isn't high enough, I would be willing to bet a box of doughnuts that someone will earn a Darwin Award by the end of 2005 on that bridge (or, rather, under it in a 2-mile radius). Heck, they might get one in spite of the railing...
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
7 years is the maximum for identity theft? That actually seems a little light. I would think they'd lock him away for 15-20 for something like that. Theft + potentially ruining someone else's credit and/or reputation.
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And they wonder why so many businesses left California for Oregon. Go figure. I guess this is a way to scare away residents now, too.
I have a brother who used to work for Nynex... I am somewhat sure that Bell Atlantic ate up Nynex and essentially absorbed it completely before merging with GTE. The name change occurred when the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger took place.
they own a major chunk of the internet backbone.
I had forgotten about this aspect of MCI... I forgot they essentially picked up UUNET a while back. Thanks for the reminder.
Verizon is what used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic. With MCI in the fold, does this allow them to be a national phone company that can be a local carrier coast to coast, like Bell used to be in the 70's? I am suspecting not, but it's worth asking.
I know MCI is not a local phone company (at least they weren't when I had them as my long distance carrier), but that would make Verizon huge (even more so than they are now).
Ah, I see what you were saying now. I misread your comment as meaning why should Red Hat care. My apologies.
why on Earth would I know about a minor distribution such as Centos?
When there is a potential that someone else will interfere with your revenue stream, as a manager you would definitely care.
Their stories have been filled with hype and falsehoods on the hope that their ratings will not continue to fall.
It is just as interesting what they don't say as well as what they do. All of the networks, not just CNN, have a tendency to leave out important details, so that while they are not telling you lies, but they tell you just enough to lead you in the wrong direction.
So when does their 'right to free speech' end and my right to be left alone on my personal computer, in my private residence, begin?
I am trying to find a simple freeware/open-source todo list manager.
Even if you don't have a Palm Pilot, Palm Desktop under Windows isn't too bad. The price - FREE - is certainly right, too. It may not be the best out there, but it meets the basic requirements for a to-do list manager.
Now we'll start hearing about new improved "Air filters" that remove the new threat of "PBDE"...Only four monthly payments of $69.99! These companies will start cropping up, the moment this story hits the local news channels.
The sad thing is, if you're wrong at all, it would only be on the dollar amount. Sigh. 3-6 months - that's a good estimate as to when something like this will hit the market.
XP is CRAZY slower than 2k.
XP is faster to come up to the desktop. However, it is still busy accessing the hard drive and loading stuff in the background. You still have to wait for the OS to quit loading itself before you can use anything. Microsoft's claim that XP is faster than 2K was based on the time to desktop, apparently not time to usability.
Once loaded, XP has an annoying habit of wanting to refresh the desktop from time to time. That slows things down even more.
Yahoo is not the first to pull this stunt. At one time, Norton Internet Security (I think it was NIS2000, specifically) had known holes in the firewall component for different spyware applications. After enough people pitched a fit, they have since closed those holes (supposedly).
If the API used by P2P apps is open and documentation for it is readily available on the net (e.g. Gnutella protocol), does releasing this app as open source really prove much? The original Gnutella's source is still available and I would think this would be simpler to follow (was more of a simplistic implementation)...
Hey, I won't argue with making it OpenSource, I think it's a positive thing either way. In this case, though, I don't see too much benefit if the goal is to create spinoffs. If the goal is to have community recommendations, that might be a little more beneficial...
The solution to piracy is never going to find success in copy protection. As in the example, above, there is always going to be a "workaround."
There may be workarounds, but there will also be a fair number of people who will not want to put forth the effort to deal with such workarounds. It is a matter of convenience.
Now, where it gets interesting is whether the duplicates will also have copy limits. If you dupe an original and the copy scheme does not transfer to the duplicate, then what has the scheme accomplished. Nothing.
As for me, I like to dupe my CDs mainly so I can use them in the car without jeopardizing the originals. A copy limit would not hinder me in that regard.
All this patent will accomplish is it will give McAfee legal right to knock everyone else's products in the dirt, while they try to push their own. If their antispam product is anything like their antivirus, their product will suck. Net result - everyone will lose, except the spammers who will keep doing their thing while McAfee screws everone else out of making effective solutions.
The US patent office is becoming as bad as the US legal system that allows you to sue anyone at any time for any reason. *shakes head in disgust*
Cooks wish they were biologists.
Bakers are, in a sense, biologists. They know that yeast in bread and rolls thrive in warm temperatures, and that the ideal temperature for yeast activity is between 120 an 130 degrees F. Heat the dough to 140, and the yeast dies. Salt will kill yeast if brought in direct contact with it as well. And yeast loves sugar - so much so that if you leave the sugar out of bread, the yeast will start breaking down the complex sugars in the flour, which in turn changes the flavor of the breads.
Bakers must know the environmental conditions they need to set up for yeast (a living fungus), or they will find themselves without a bakery. In this sense, they have to be biologists, albeit in a limited sense.
The article states that HP is giving testing and hardware support to these packages, and I assume that means they'll come up with a nifty little logo to show that it's "HP-Ready"... While that's all well and good, will they offer third-party technical support to users when these packages crash on HP servers? If not, who gets left holding the bag? If it were not open source, it would be cut and dry, but with the packages being open source and freely available, the issue of technical support gets blurred. The article didn't go into this fine point.
A lot of what makes Slashdot Slashdot is how Slashdot has handled the problems of trolls and AC posts in real time on a live system.
Not all trolls and ACs are problems. Sometimes, a good troll adds a bit of interesting humor to an otherwise dry thread. That said, that's not often the case... ACs are a completely different animal. It is all too often that you see someone who posts anonymously just so they can snipe at someone while hiding behind anonymity. Other times, there is a fascinating and well-thought-out post that is anonymous, which is a shame for the poster because it would be worth good karma points. I have yet to figure out why there are AC posts like that.
The article skipped journals, too. There's a whole lot of stuff happening in user journals. And not all of it technical. You're as likely to hear about a dead hard drive as you are to hear about someone's recipe for chicken soup in journal entries.
The article talks a bit about the moderation system, and karma, and all the fun stuff we have come to love here at SlashDot. What it carefully avoids is the discussion of trolls and AC posts. It is summarized by stating that -1 in the moderation system is sufficient to render a troll invisible.
Over time there have been a lot of discussions here about trolls and ACs. They have their place here, and they each contribute as well as take away. It would have been interesting to have read a little more about what the study found about trolls and AC posts, positive and negative...
One of the sublinks from the article is for Wireless Monitors. While I didn't immediately see a practical use for such, it occurred to me that it would be an awesome way to reduce clutter on the desk. I'm there, where do I pay?
From the article:
David is unique, however we do not claim, nor have we ever claimed that David is 100% our own proprietary code.
and...
Lastly, Project David is not a repackaging of Codeweavers CrossOver Office. We are experimenting with some of the open source WINE code but we are not knowingly using any of the Codeweavers source code. Perhaps, Codeweavers has unwittingly released its code back to the WINE Project.
Ok, it sounds like they're being open and straightforward about it. They are recycling code. They also are putting this little disclaimer that they're not intentionally using CodeWeaver code. All right, if there is a problem, this should put up flags with concerned parties now, instead of waiting until they are all done. It would suck to be all done and then be told they had proprietary code that had to be removed. (This is reminiscent of the SCO situation -- perhaps they're trying to avoid that kind of aggravatiuon now?)
Where I went to college, the Art department chair was caught many years after that fact for plaigarizing his dissertation for his Ph.D. He lost his doctorate and his job, and probably faced legal actions as well.
Better to get nailed for plaigarism before you have your degree like this guy at the University of Kent did than to build a career around a falsehood like the department chair.
You can't tell from the photo if there is a decent safety rail up there, to keep people from doing something they shouldn't... If the railing isn't high enough, I would be willing to bet a box of doughnuts that someone will earn a Darwin Award by the end of 2005 on that bridge (or, rather, under it in a 2-mile radius). Heck, they might get one in spite of the railing...
From the article:
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
7 years is the maximum for identity theft? That actually seems a little light. I would think they'd lock him away for 15-20 for something like that. Theft + potentially ruining someone else's credit and/or reputation.
We've seen this before here.