Although Kill Bill did have a certain comical "this is really bad" value that reminded me of some of the finer moments of some sewer grade anime I've seen-- still, that anime was better.
There's a difference between putting a cash register between people and the goods you want to sell and following people to their homes just to make sure they don't give what they've just bought to their neighbors.
Addendum: I meant they opened the firewall for that traffic when I said they enabled it for their laptop. As for the firewall, it was actually a personal firewall product of which I don't remember the name.
Since I consider Linux to be much more than both GNU and the kernel, I will continue to disagree with the claim that Stallman is the author of much of "GNU/Linux".
"Stallman is another obvious candidate for SCO's legal hit men. Not only did he write much of the code that makes up the GNU/Linux operating system, but in 1989 he created the GNU General Public License under which Linux and many other free software programs are distributed. SCO has challenged the validity of the GPL. "
um... ok... whatever...
if someone you know has a blank Administrator password-- so long as printer/file sharing is turned on, which it almost always is. People do that when they assume their firewalled machine is safe because Bill G. told them it all they needed was to do was use a firewall and to patch their system... cept they enabled netbios/SMB traffic on their laptop so they could access other lan shares and print stuff... oops.
\\<machinename>\C$
Boom! Thanks for the files. What's more, under these rules, it seems you're the one who is guilty!
Now, if they had specifically said something to the effect of "illegally copying copyrighted material to a publically accessible forum whose function was the redistribution of files" that might be a little more specific, don't you think?
Common sense would serve movie studios far more than strong-arm-tactics, I think.
Interestingly I count 14 widgets in the Juk pic and 14 widgets in itune.
Not counting grid columns or menus.
Aside: why so many people turn on the flameguns on slashdot whenever a KDE project tries to do something cool? It's almost as though people feel threatened or something; it is really getting annoying.
How many times have we seen on TV some amazing feat done by a single individual (for attention, to prove themselves, or just because they are just so damn pationate about the thing)
1: Like that fellow who for years built and maintained a minature model of the Whitehouse, painstakingly crafting every little piece of furniture, paying attention to every last miniscule little detail no matter how un-important. (alas I cannot recall his name right now)
2: Why do people constantly volunteer their efforts to all manner of contribution to society-- sometimes so wild people cannot bear to understand what motivated them. Mount Rushmore, for example comes to mind; surely Gutzon Borglum must have never existed, it's all an illusion, nobody would invest 14 years of their life into something that grand because of mere obession.
3: Have you seen the show on those odd homes? Like the example of the fellow who built a castle from bottles-- crazy yes; amazing, that too.
Some of these contributions to society made by mere individual people boggle the mind with their creativity and the drive it took to make them happen.
Yet, according to SCO and Microsoft none of these monuments and contributions can exist. Yesir, they can't you see, because only people motivated by money or by the threat of being fired if they fail will produce anything worthwhile and meaningful. Why is it so hard to understand that some very talented and smart people have their own special reason for doing something amazing and giving it away?
Ballmer and company don't get it. The thought of contributing something for Free for the betterment of society is counter-intuitive to them. It's un-american to them.
Yes, according to SCO and Microsoft every person in the history of America who ever did something amazing just for the pleasure of doing it didn't exist because they weren't getting paid for it.
That little retired lady down the streets who spends all hours a day manicuring her garden must be motivated by some manner of return on investment.. surely she isn't doing it for the mere pleasure of it.
Or maybe, just maybe, there is a community of really smart talented people whose main interest is producing something as amazing as Linux just because they are pationate about it.
It's hard not to laugh at the bully when he complains about being picked on.
Anyways, I'm ready to keep bashing Microsoft until they get their bloody act toghether and no amount of whimpering will change my mind.
Open source is about calling things the way they are: saying as loud as possible when something important sucks and need to be re-written. In Linux, thats what happens: when it sucks badly, it gets re-written. This is a concept most corporations often have a hard time digesting because it's too expensive for them.
"I began to see parallels between Microsoft's image problem and my own view of the Linux community."
I stopped at the first sentence. Nothing worth reading here.
(Aside: now that my XP installation has started spontaneously rebooting, I'm more than ever quite certain Microsoft has much more than an image problem-- and no, the problem does not manifest itself in Linux on the same machine, so it is not likely to be a hardware problem.)
They'll just spin that. A better way is to spoil your ballot. That gets counted and sends the same message in a better way.
Not until they come down in price ...
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Until those "smart phones" come with digestible user fees, usb ports through which they sync with my PC, don't have screens the size of postage stamps, have useable keyboards (I prefer graphiti) and don't cost 1000$CND, I'll be sticking to using my new palm thanks.
How long does your company need? 20 years? Thats a lot by any scale in the high tech world. Factor into the current situation the litany of trivial patents entering into the system and we're running head-on into a situation where products and services that might of been viable become unfeasible due to licensing costs owed to companies that have never manufactured a thing in their existence.
The problem is that the USPTO, for all intensive purposes, has abdicated its responsibilities and is now just rubber stamping things and leaving it up to the courts and the vultures that thrive there to determine if something should remain patentable.
The one-size-fits-all patent system needs to be dissolved. Period.
It needs to be replaced by something that recognizes real innovation whilst also taking into account both how that idea would be used by the owner of the patent and the real cost of the innovation in the first place.
I guess it's a matter of perspective. Everybody else seems to want to tie their graphics library to their specific platform. The SDL guys decided that in order to make gaming more readily available more widely we needed a toolkit that allowed companies to free themselves from their DirectX addiction. With the publication of those three games I mentionned, we have proof that games can be targetted at multiple platforms using the SDL and this, in my books, is innovation:
Finding a practical solution to a problem to which previously it had been maintained the solution was not possible.
But you only have to look at all the cool things the KDE guys are doing to convince yourself of the immense work that is being done.
Well, you're missing my point: which is I take issue with the bogus claim that there is no innovation in Linux. I wasn't talking about Apple's innovations AT ALL.
Well, I don't know.. maybe because it's a rock solid platform whose developers care about my privacy and the security of my computer?
If you refuse to acknowledge the innovation merely on the basis that it isn't platform specific (as if this was some indication of superior innovation) just so you can invent reasons why Linux might be inferior for yourself then please, by all means, don't let me stop you; I'll just leave you with the irony of making that claim as a mac user.
Actually you're completely wrong because Savage was simultaneously released for both platforms on the same distribution CD. I know cause I bought it and it's a great game.
They are innovative because they demonstrate it is VERY possible to target Linux as a gaming platform despite all the trolls on Slashdot who'd like everyone to believe only Windows is good for games. The innovation is in showing that a crossplatform graphics toolkit like SDL not can work, but work very well. I have no lag in any of those three games.
I'll give you that I don't agree with the editors at times. Very often, however, their commentary is necessary as the original post from a submitter overlooks a point or fails to complete itself in some fashion.
As my previous post suggested, I think it's unreasonable and unfair to deny editors the right to post their editorials on a subject merely on the basis of perceived bias. You argue that one cannot respond directly to an editorial through posts to the forums.. this is true, but it's also true for any other publication I know of.
I've been around Slashdot for a while now, and it's been a great source of information for me-- something I think the editors deserve more credit for. Anyways, I guess the tone of my response was a bit harsh.. sometimes I get a bit that way after reading a lot of nasty posts, so I apologize for that.
BTW, France is actually a very nice place-- if you don't stay in Paris. Parisians are notorious for a certain unpleasant behavior they dole out to everyone indiscriminately, French or otherwise.
Ed`i*to"ri*al, n. A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.
"His role is to just post the article. His role is not the tonesetter of discussion."
I see you've appointed yourself job description manager for Slashdot. Editors, take note, you are no longer allowed an opinion or to publish editorials; you are now only html formatters and may also no longer discriminate on what gets posted to Slashdot as that also constitutes the expression of an opinion. In fact, you may no longer post articles to the front page, as that too may be construed as having an opinion on the subject... all articles should now be redirected to MSN to be suitably screened for relevancy.
Anyways... don't like Slashdot? Start your own website.
Gads, with all these revelations about abuses originated by Ashcroft's own directives, one has to wonder which Constitution he was pledging to when he took his oath.
More than ever now, I shudder to think what will happen if America lets GWB get a second term in office. It's getting bad enough to make one become religious and start praying for his defeat.
Please God, why don't you put an end to America's misery and get rid of this administration for us... please please please please...
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No thanks, I buy my music.
Although Kill Bill did have a certain comical "this is really bad" value that reminded me of some of the finer moments of some sewer grade anime I've seen-- still, that anime was better.
There's a difference between putting a cash register between people and the goods you want to sell and following people to their homes just to make sure they don't give what they've just bought to their neighbors.
Addendum:
I meant they opened the firewall for that traffic when I said they enabled it for their laptop. As for the firewall, it was actually a personal firewall product of which I don't remember the name.
Since I consider Linux to be much more than both GNU and the kernel, I will continue to disagree with the claim that Stallman is the author of much of "GNU/Linux".
Cheers.
You will no doubt notice that the claim is with respect to GNU/Linux, and not just GNU...
I'm just tired of supposed high quality journalism putting toghether sentences like that. I guess I thought it was obvious.
"Stallman is another obvious candidate for SCO's legal hit men. Not only did he write much of the code that makes up the GNU/Linux operating system, but in 1989 he created the GNU General Public License under which Linux and many other free software programs are distributed. SCO has challenged the validity of the GPL. "
um... ok... whatever...
if someone you know has a blank Administrator password-- so long as printer/file sharing is turned on, which it almost always is. People do that when they assume their firewalled machine is safe because Bill G. told them it all they needed was to do was use a firewall and to patch their system... cept they enabled netbios/SMB traffic on their laptop so they could access other lan shares and print stuff... oops.
\\<machinename>\C$
Boom! Thanks for the files. What's more, under these rules, it seems you're the one who is guilty!
Now, if they had specifically said something to the effect of "illegally copying copyrighted material to a publically accessible forum whose function was the redistribution of files" that might be a little more specific, don't you think?
Common sense would serve movie studios far more than strong-arm-tactics, I think.
Interestingly I count 14 widgets in the Juk pic and 14 widgets in itune.
Not counting grid columns or menus.
Aside: why so many people turn on the flameguns on slashdot whenever a KDE project tries to do something cool? It's almost as though people feel threatened or something; it is really getting annoying.
How many times have we seen on TV some amazing feat done by a single individual (for attention, to prove themselves, or just because they are just so damn pationate about the thing)
1: Like that fellow who for years built and maintained a minature model of the Whitehouse, painstakingly crafting every little piece of furniture, paying attention to every last miniscule little detail no matter how un-important. (alas I cannot recall his name right now)
2: Why do people constantly volunteer their efforts to all manner of contribution to society-- sometimes so wild people cannot bear to understand what motivated them. Mount Rushmore, for example comes to mind; surely Gutzon Borglum must have never existed, it's all an illusion, nobody would invest 14 years of their life into something that grand because of mere obession.
3: Have you seen the show on those odd homes? Like the example of the fellow who built a castle from bottles-- crazy yes; amazing, that too.
Some of these contributions to society made by mere individual people boggle the mind with their creativity and the drive it took to make them happen.
Yet, according to SCO and Microsoft none of these monuments and contributions can exist. Yesir, they can't you see, because only people motivated by money or by the threat of being fired if they fail will produce anything worthwhile and meaningful.
Why is it so hard to understand that some very talented and smart people have their own special reason for doing something amazing and giving it away?
Ballmer and company don't get it. The thought of contributing something for Free for the betterment of society is counter-intuitive to them. It's un-american to them.
Yes, according to SCO and Microsoft every person in the history of America who ever did something amazing just for the pleasure of doing it didn't exist because they weren't getting paid for it.
That little retired lady down the streets who spends all hours a day manicuring her garden must be motivated by some manner of return on investment.. surely she isn't doing it for the mere pleasure of it.
Or maybe, just maybe, there is a community of really smart talented people whose main interest is producing something as amazing as Linux just because they are pationate about it.
It's ironic to be called a windbag by an Anonymous Coward tossing up tired cliches to help defend the Balmer Hot Air Machine (TM).
It's hard not to laugh at the bully when he complains about being picked on.
Anyways, I'm ready to keep bashing Microsoft until they get their bloody act toghether and no amount of whimpering will change my mind.
Open source is about calling things the way they are: saying as loud as possible when something important sucks and need to be re-written. In Linux, thats what happens: when it sucks badly, it gets re-written. This is a concept most corporations often have a hard time digesting because it's too expensive for them.
"I began to see parallels between Microsoft's image problem and my own view of the Linux community."
I stopped at the first sentence. Nothing worth reading here.
(Aside: now that my XP installation has started spontaneously rebooting, I'm more than ever quite certain Microsoft has much more than an image problem-- and no, the problem does not manifest itself in Linux on the same machine, so it is not likely to be a hardware problem.)
"Stop voting, completely."
They'll just spin that. A better way is to spoil your ballot. That gets counted and sends the same message in a better way.
Until those "smart phones" come with digestible user fees, usb ports through which they sync with my PC, don't have screens the size of postage stamps, have useable keyboards (I prefer graphiti) and don't cost 1000$CND, I'll be sticking to using my new palm thanks.
How long does your company need? 20 years? Thats a lot by any scale in the high tech world. Factor into the current situation the litany of trivial patents entering into the system and we're running head-on into a situation where products and services that might of been viable become unfeasible due to licensing costs owed to companies that have never manufactured a thing in their existence.
The problem is that the USPTO, for all intensive purposes, has abdicated its responsibilities and is now just rubber stamping things and leaving it up to the courts and the vultures that thrive there to determine if something should remain patentable.
The one-size-fits-all patent system needs to be dissolved. Period.
It needs to be replaced by something that recognizes real innovation whilst also taking into account both how that idea would be used by the owner of the patent and the real cost of the innovation in the first place.
I guess it's a matter of perspective. Everybody else seems to want to tie their graphics library to their specific platform. The SDL guys decided that in order to make gaming more readily available more widely we needed a toolkit that allowed companies to free themselves from their DirectX addiction. With the publication of those three games I mentionned, we have proof that games can be targetted at multiple platforms using the SDL and this, in my books, is innovation:
Finding a practical solution to a problem to which previously it had been maintained the solution was not possible.
But you only have to look at all the cool things the KDE guys are doing to convince yourself of the immense work that is being done.
Well, you're missing my point: which is I take issue with the bogus claim that there is no innovation in Linux. I wasn't talking about Apple's innovations AT ALL.
And in that case, why get Linux?
Well, I don't know.. maybe because it's a rock solid platform whose developers care about my privacy and the security of my computer?
If you refuse to acknowledge the innovation merely on the basis that it isn't platform specific (as if this was some indication of superior innovation) just so you can invent reasons why Linux might be inferior for yourself then please, by all means, don't let me stop you; I'll just leave you with the irony of making that claim as a mac user.
Actually you're completely wrong because Savage was simultaneously released for both platforms on the same distribution CD. I know cause I bought it and it's a great game.
They are innovative because they demonstrate it is VERY possible to target Linux as a gaming platform despite all the trolls on Slashdot who'd like everyone to believe only Windows is good for games. The innovation is in showing that a crossplatform graphics toolkit like SDL not can work, but work very well. I have no lag in any of those three games.
oops... I guess, according to your reasoning, that itunes isn't an innovation anymore then.
"Where is the similar inovation on the desktop? Even one hit game or one hit device would make a big difference in mind-share."
America's Army
Savage
Neverwinter Nights
These are all hit games that run natively on Linux.
khtml is a desktop innovation... KDE is full of other innovations that make it such a nice environment to use.
I'll give you that I don't agree with the editors at times. Very often, however, their commentary is necessary as the original post from a submitter overlooks a point or fails to complete itself in some fashion.
As my previous post suggested, I think it's unreasonable and unfair to deny editors the right to post their editorials on a subject merely on the basis of perceived bias. You argue that one cannot respond directly to an editorial through posts to the forums.. this is true, but it's also true for any other publication I know of.
I've been around Slashdot for a while now, and it's been a great source of information for me-- something I think the editors deserve more credit for. Anyways, I guess the tone of my response was a bit harsh.. sometimes I get a bit that way after reading a lot of nasty posts, so I apologize for that.
BTW, France is actually a very nice place-- if you don't stay in Paris. Parisians are notorious for a certain unpleasant behavior they dole out to everyone indiscriminately, French or otherwise.
Ed`i*to"ri*al, n. A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.
"His role is to just post the article. His role is not the tonesetter of discussion."
I see you've appointed yourself job description manager for Slashdot. Editors, take note, you are no longer allowed an opinion or to publish editorials; you are now only html formatters and may also no longer discriminate on what gets posted to Slashdot as that also constitutes the expression of an opinion. In fact, you may no longer post articles to the front page, as that too may be construed as having an opinion on the subject... all articles should now be redirected to MSN to be suitably screened for relevancy.
Anyways... don't like Slashdot? Start your own website.
Gads, with all these revelations about abuses originated by Ashcroft's own directives, one has to wonder which Constitution he was pledging to when he took his oath.
More than ever now, I shudder to think what will happen if America lets GWB get a second term in office. It's getting bad enough to make one become religious and start praying for his defeat.
Please God, why don't you put an end to America's misery and get rid of this administration for us... please please please please...