I'm not talking about the freedom to speed, I'm talking about FREEDOM FROM BEING MONITORED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Seriously, people, I can't believe that this is even being debated... I don't care if it's to locate child rapists, nevermind speeders, WE SHOULD NOT BE MONITORED.
Hello? Big Brother? You listening? These people are ready for you now.
The issue here isn't speeding, it's monitoring. Technology must not be used to limit our freedoms, and we have to fight this everywhere we can as hard as we possibly can. If they can monitor your car to see how fast you're going, they can obviously monitor you to see where you are.
Governmental tracking systems cannot be allowed under any circumstances. Let's hope our bretheren in the UK are up to the fight.
You and Steve are obviously the biggest names that came out of the early Apple days, and for good reason.
Still, with projects like the Apple, Apple ][ and the Mac, the team assembled is at least as important as the leaders pushing them forward.
I work for a small software company founded by a former Apple exec, and we've got quite the atmosphere here, with loads of hard work and loads of just bizarro, freak-out time as well, and I'd imagine that the whole "Apple Gestalt" continues to drive a lot of innovation in the industry. Who else came out of those early days and continued to affect the industry?
I guess what I'm asking you is, "As for the spiritual aspects of the company that birthed the Apples and Macintoshes, where do you see that spirit carrying on today, and who do you think the 'spiritual leaders' are?"
Well, I was living in Grants Pass at the time, and so I guess I didn't get enough time to really dig through Eugene. Woulda been nice to be closer to Cougar Dam.:]
Eugene's a great city, I'll not deny that, I loved it there. We drove like 2 hours to spend Saturday market there a coupla times, and went camping out at the hot springs a coupla times as well. Great culture, great people, and apparently some decent jobs.
I'm with you. I grew up in the middle of nowhere as well, and it's heaven to me. I'm currently living in a quiet little town with a twisty & turny backroad commute into a city about 40 minutes away, but it's still too much to deal with some days.
I'm sick of being a slave to the traffic light. I had moved out to southern OR for a while, and was living cheaply on 100 acres with a 45 minute drive to the ISP I worked for -- a 40 minute drive with only 1 traffic light. The problem was the total lack of tech jobs.
Telecommuting is the key. I'd even take a job that was an hour away if I only had to drive in 2-3 days a week.
The ideal, of course, is a cabin in the woods near a stream with a vsat on the roof.
I agree wholeheartedly. I went to take a look at Burlington, VT. It's an amazing city if you've never been there, it's clean, it's got history, it's got an amazing downtown and it's overlooking the lake... It's just beautiful.
The thing is that if you're a tech, you have to work for IBM. There really aren't any other options for techs. Unfortunately, IBM knows this, and they use it to their advantage.
It's somewhat analagous to Eugene OR (OR being often referred to as Vermont on the west coast), where you've got a decent city, a gorgeous area, and just one tech company (Symantec) to deal with.
It's really sad the way all of the companies are going to SilVal. I'd checked SilVal out as well, and I'd rather be dipped in tar and rolled in roofing tacks before I'd live there. The accmulation of wealth and growth of individual companies is seriously destroying the area, while a lot of cities in this country aren't pulling in any big names at all.
If you want to pull in the geeks, you need:
a) fast, cheap high-bandwidth net access b) tech jobs -- programming, networking, design at several possible companies c) wages that are enough to keep geeks somewhat confortable in their -> d) readily available affordable housing -- apartments, condos, whatever.
Nice subject, eh? But seriously, there is a natural chemical compound in horseradish that will have the same effect on toxic/radioactive waste.
The problem with implementation is that it's somewhat expensive to extract the compound.
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Client-side Java was sabotaged by being integrated by startlingly incompetent organizations (the NN and IE authors). The JRE 1.2 plugin gives much better results, except that hardly any other platforms have adopted it.
Sun has only just released the plugin for Solaris, they originally developed it for and *on* NT. Blackdown had stated that they would release a plugin for Linux once they had a full release of 1.2.2, but that's now in a state of flux due to Sun's poor handling of the situation.
I love it when people's response begins with just one word:
WRONG.
It really helps open people's minds to your point. In my state, I cannot vote in a primary unless I'm registered for that party. I'm a registered Libertarian, and there isn't a very strong party in my area anyway, so there have been no primaries for quite some time.
So, it may be "Wrong" in your state, but it's the way things are here. Thanks for playing.
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse *7 have been arrested for fraud *19 have been accused of writing bad checks *117 have bankrupted at least two businesses *3 have been arrested for assault *71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit *14 have been arrested on drug related charges *8 have been arrested for shoplifting *21 are current defendants in lawsuits *In 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving
There is nothing special about the Democratic or Republican parties. They are not enshrined in the constitution, they haven't always been around. And they both seem to be a bit long in the tooth.
You're right, they used to be called Whigs and Tories. Still the SOS though.
I have voted third party in the last 3 presidential elections, and will continue to do so. If all of the whiny bastards who don't show up to vote because "it doesn't matter" or "I'd just be throwing my vote away" actually turned out and voted, there'd be a hell of a showing of newfound support.
If you're not in a party you're not allowed to vote in primaries... Case in point, we may not even get to vote for Bradley if Gore is our only Democratic choice.
You can be registered with any party and still vote freely.
This shit really pisses me off. I'm normally pretty restrained when I'm posting here, but these are just fucked up tactics that were used on us in like 2nd and 3rd grade. I'd like to think that as a society we've gotten past them, but things like this keep getting dragged out again and again. "The hackers and/or crackers are ruining things for you. We will single them out and you won't get your new media format as quickly." This way the uninformed (which is the vast majority of the American populace) will believe that they're missing out on something, and distrust us.
The thing that really burns my toast here (ow, quit scraping) is the idea that we're somehow missing out on something by waiting for DVD Audio. Great, another digital audio format, just what we've all been begging for.
This gets into the real reason why MP3 and digital music in general scares the crap out of the music industry -- they can't ream us for new media anymore.
I have a couple of CD's that I also have on cassette and also on Vinyl. Hell, I even have a couple of 8-tracks that match other formats. What does this mean? It means that every 4 or 5 years the recording industry gets to sell you the same product *again*. The electronics industry gets to sell you an expensive player for a new format as well. Big, repeatable, mass-industry bucks for changing formats every couple of years.
The delay of DVD audio, to me, is a good thing. It gives the rest of digital formats time to mature, and may even be delayed long enough for the first DVD audio devices on the market to be recordable.
The first ones won't be recordable, though, since selling player-only units for a few years will generate revenue, then everyone will have to replace those units with recordable ones. That should keep the revenue streams pretty solid for a few years while the latest, hottest new formats are developed and we have to start all over again.
Meanwhile, for decent quality digital audio files we've got MP3 and SHN... And look, these data files don't become obsolete... "You mean I can archive this stuff? I won't have to buy a new cassette/CD when this one gets scratched? How will the recording industry survive?"
Well, their greed is limitless, and they'll never starve. They'll manage to bleed billions from the actual artists who create the recordings and the fans who enjoy the sounds.
It's going to be tough for Digital to edge into Intel's market, mainly because nearly all consumers have been brainwashed to look for the "Intel Inside" Logo.
It's the other way around, really, with Intel trying to get into Alpha's market. I say this mainly because I don't believe that either chip is going to be aimed at anything but the server market for a long time...
OK, I'm on the side of "Let people post freely." Sometimes first posts are amusing, but 99% of the time they're just annoying crap.
This one, however, I take issue with. Can we implement a rule whereby schmuck-ass losers like this one, who post these moronic alladvantage.com links, essentially just trolling for cash, get blocked or something?
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I'm not talking about the freedom to speed, I'm talking about FREEDOM FROM BEING MONITORED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Seriously, people, I can't believe that this is even being debated... I don't care if it's to locate child rapists, nevermind speeders, WE SHOULD NOT BE MONITORED.
Hello? Big Brother? You listening? These people are ready for you now.
The issue here isn't speeding, it's monitoring. Technology must not be used to limit our freedoms, and we have to fight this everywhere we can as hard as we possibly can. If they can monitor your car to see how fast you're going, they can obviously monitor you to see where you are.
Governmental tracking systems cannot be allowed under any circumstances. Let's hope our bretheren in the UK are up to the fight.
You and Steve are obviously the biggest names that came out of the early Apple days, and for good reason.
Still, with projects like the Apple, Apple ][ and the Mac, the team assembled is at least as important as the leaders pushing them forward.
I work for a small software company founded by a former Apple exec, and we've got quite the atmosphere here, with loads of hard work and loads of just bizarro, freak-out time as well, and I'd imagine that the whole "Apple Gestalt" continues to drive a lot of innovation in the industry. Who else came out of those early days and continued to affect the industry?
I guess what I'm asking you is, "As for the spiritual aspects of the company that birthed the Apples and Macintoshes, where do you see that spirit carrying on today, and who do you think the 'spiritual leaders' are?"
....and suddenly, all is silent.
Well, I was living in Grants Pass at the time, and so I guess I didn't get enough time to really dig through Eugene. Woulda been nice to be closer to Cougar Dam. :]
Eugene's a great city, I'll not deny that, I loved it there. We drove like 2 hours to spend Saturday market there a coupla times, and went camping out at the hot springs a coupla times as well. Great culture, great people, and apparently some decent jobs.
I'm with you. I grew up in the middle of nowhere as well, and it's heaven to me. I'm currently living in a quiet little town with a twisty & turny backroad commute into a city about 40 minutes away, but it's still too much to deal with some days.
I'm sick of being a slave to the traffic light. I had moved out to southern OR for a while, and was living cheaply on 100 acres with a 45 minute drive to the ISP I worked for -- a 40 minute drive with only 1 traffic light. The problem was the total lack of tech jobs.
Telecommuting is the key. I'd even take a job that was an hour away if I only had to drive in 2-3 days a week.
The ideal, of course, is a cabin in the woods near a stream with a vsat on the roof.
I agree wholeheartedly. I went to take a look at Burlington, VT. It's an amazing city if you've never been there, it's clean, it's got history, it's got an amazing downtown and it's overlooking the lake... It's just beautiful.
The thing is that if you're a tech, you have to work for IBM. There really aren't any other options for techs. Unfortunately, IBM knows this, and they use it to their advantage.
It's somewhat analagous to Eugene OR (OR being often referred to as Vermont on the west coast), where you've got a decent city, a gorgeous area, and just one tech company (Symantec) to deal with.
It's really sad the way all of the companies are going to SilVal. I'd checked SilVal out as well, and I'd rather be dipped in tar and rolled in roofing tacks before I'd live there. The accmulation of wealth and growth of individual companies is seriously destroying the area, while a lot of cities in this country aren't pulling in any big names at all.
If you want to pull in the geeks, you need:
a) fast, cheap high-bandwidth net access
b) tech jobs -- programming, networking, design at several possible companies
c) wages that are enough to keep geeks somewhat confortable in their ->
d) readily available affordable housing -- apartments, condos, whatever.
d)
Nice subject, eh? But seriously, there is a natural chemical compound in horseradish that will have the same effect on toxic/radioactive waste.
The problem with implementation is that it's somewhat expensive to extract the compound.
Client-side Java was sabotaged by being integrated by startlingly incompetent organizations (the NN and IE authors). The JRE 1.2 plugin gives much better results, except that hardly any other platforms have adopted it.
Sun has only just released the plugin for Solaris, they originally developed it for and *on* NT. Blackdown had stated that they would release a plugin for Linux once they had a full release of 1.2.2, but that's now in a state of flux due to Sun's poor handling of the situation.
You're uninformed. Get used to it.
/. users must be told EVERYTHING DOESN'T HAVE TO BE OPEN SOURCE. Jesus, 1999 appears to be the year of Open Source Fascists.
Support for Java is still growing. While it may be entertaining to spout crap like this, it's really not useful or constructive.
Once again,
I love it when people's response begins with just one word:
WRONG.
It really helps open people's minds to your point. In my state, I cannot vote in a primary unless I'm registered for that party. I'm a registered Libertarian, and there isn't a very strong party in my area anyway, so there have been no primaries for quite some time.
So, it may be "Wrong" in your state, but it's the way things are here. Thanks for playing.
If that's your criteria, I'd go with Al Franken in a heartbeat. I'd vote for him anyway, tho.
of the 535 members of congress:
*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
*3 have been arrested for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are current defendants in lawsuits
*In 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving
There is nothing special about the Democratic or Republican parties. They are not enshrined in the constitution, they haven't always been around. And they both seem to be a bit long in the tooth.
You're right, they used to be called Whigs and Tories. Still the SOS though.
I have voted third party in the last 3 presidential elections, and will continue to do so. If all of the whiny bastards who don't show up to vote because "it doesn't matter" or "I'd just be throwing my vote away" actually turned out and voted, there'd be a hell of a showing of newfound support.
If you're not in a party you're not allowed to vote in primaries... Case in point, we may not even get to vote for Bradley if Gore is our only Democratic choice.
You can be registered with any party and still vote freely.
This shit really pisses me off. I'm normally pretty restrained when I'm posting here, but these are just fucked up tactics that were used on us in like 2nd and 3rd grade. I'd like to think that as a society we've gotten past them, but things like this keep getting dragged out again and again. "The hackers and/or crackers are ruining things for you. We will single them out and you won't get your new media format as quickly." This way the uninformed (which is the vast majority of the American populace) will believe that they're missing out on something, and distrust us.
The thing that really burns my toast here (ow, quit scraping) is the idea that we're somehow missing out on something by waiting for DVD Audio. Great, another digital audio format, just what we've all been begging for.
This gets into the real reason why MP3 and digital music in general scares the crap out of the music industry -- they can't ream us for new media anymore.
I have a couple of CD's that I also have on cassette and also on Vinyl. Hell, I even have a couple of 8-tracks that match other formats. What does this mean? It means that every 4 or 5 years the recording industry gets to sell you the same product *again*. The electronics industry gets to sell you an expensive player for a new format as well. Big, repeatable, mass-industry bucks for changing formats every couple of years.
The delay of DVD audio, to me, is a good thing. It gives the rest of digital formats time to mature, and may even be delayed long enough for the first DVD audio devices on the market to be recordable.
The first ones won't be recordable, though, since selling player-only units for a few years will generate revenue, then everyone will have to replace those units with recordable ones. That should keep the revenue streams pretty solid for a few years while the latest, hottest new formats are developed and we have to start all over again.
Meanwhile, for decent quality digital audio files we've got MP3 and SHN... And look, these data files don't become obsolete... "You mean I can archive this stuff? I won't have to buy a new cassette/CD when this one gets scratched? How will the recording industry survive?"
Well, their greed is limitless, and they'll never starve. They'll manage to bleed billions from the actual artists who create the recordings and the fans who enjoy the sounds.
did you ask for the colonel?
Well, if you want the source code, you can't just ask for the colonel. Make sure you ask for "The Colonel's Secret Recipe"
Are they named? That'd be way too funny. It was only up there for a coupla days, but long enough for a boatload of people to download it.
Ah, CNet, great distributor of contraband.
OK, this guy's putting this lame money-grubbing crap into all of his posts, and I'm the whore?
Yes, people can put whatever they want to in their sigs, congratulations. As for my posts, I can put whatever the fuck I want to in them, m'kay?
Just like the "tradition" of grabbing first post, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Tough call here... Either you're not Corrine Yu, or you haven't updated your user info/sig line in a damn long time.
uh, it's gramm a r.
It's going to be tough for Digital to edge into Intel's market, mainly because nearly all consumers have been brainwashed to look for the "Intel Inside" Logo.
It's the other way around, really, with Intel trying to get into Alpha's market. I say this mainly because I don't believe that either chip is going to be aimed at anything but the server market for a long time...
Easy way to remember this:
the possessive form does not possess an apostrophe.
so, the possessive form isn't.
OK, I'm on the side of "Let people post freely." Sometimes first posts are amusing, but 99% of the time they're just annoying crap.
This one, however, I take issue with. Can we implement a rule whereby schmuck-ass losers like this one, who post these moronic alladvantage.com links, essentially just trolling for cash, get blocked or something?
...going on over at JavaLobby, which is where I believe this was first posted.