If you think about it, ANYTHING is 'proprietary', simply by its value of being unique. The english language is proprietary, because to talk to an english-only speaker, you cant speak french.
The problem comes in when the proprietary-ness is so far different than what everyone else is using, or breaks from some well-defined standard. (See Compaq or Packard Bell PC's for example).
Granted, Linux is different from Windows, and can be viewed as exclusionary, but we, as the Linux community are striving for something better, not to corral people to use our stuff, and ONLY our stuff.
I myself wouldn't mind the moderation nearly so much if it didn't allow really small people to further their really small interests by punishing those with something productive to say.
Perhaps Im being a bit extreme here as well, but I dont generally find posts about hot grits or Natalie Portman to be particularly productive...
While I really don't see one console, computer, whatever becoming the only machine in my house, I can see where some families might opt for a multi-purpose machine to do everything they want. Heck, WebTV is being used, why not replace the dumb WebTV box with something that can play games (or store all that pr0n or mp3's).
Personally, I would like to see a communication standard between home appliances like Bluetooth take off. Then, my palm pilot, console, computer, cable box, and whatever else I have could be one big wireless network.
He has a way of just being able to turn on and off that accent, and it's amazing to hear the difference.
I remember seeing an intervew with him in the second or so year of the series. He was saying that he could get into the character and accent when they were putting on his makeup, by saying "Meester Girraballldeeee"...and he was set for the day's shooting...
While this is an example of deep linking, I dont think the "deep linking is legal" arguement applies to this case. Thats like saying "the sky is blue, therefore everything that is blue is the sky".
I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing here. The 'deep linking' is where you point to some page, or image, or something, thats inside my website, and allow people to surf to/view it (Thereby bypassing any obnoxious advertising, etc) . The injunction against 2600 is for linking to a certain page (deCSS) that the MPAA thinks is illegal.
I dont think that anything will really change, except people's opinons of Microsoft. The general population has a big herd mentality, and, however goes the press, goes the public. I think that in the next few weeks/months, we'll see alot of pro-linux/pro-mac/pro-whatever/anti-microsoft press, and that cant be anything but good for us. Even if the appeals drag on for years (as I heard this AM on NPR) Microsoft will be slowed, and allow the rest of the OS's to make more headway.
Back when the CyberPatrol thing was going on, I sent a very polite letter to Mattel telling them that I would no longer by any of their products because they were using their product to effectively censor criticism of their product etc. Finally, 2 days ago, I recieved a formletter from Mattel basically saying "for questions on our products, call this number"....
Great public relations, ignore the problem and it'l go away....
Ive been wondering this too, for a while. I can eliminate alot of other authors, why not AC's? Currently, I have it set to I dont see anything less than a Score: 1, so I dont view them, but thats more like a workaround than a fix.
That's why the proposal specifies the Time To Live value for the DNS entry as zero. This means that EVERY request for the domain name will cause the authoritative DNS server to be hit. That sounds a bit silly to me. If implemented as suggested, the DNS servers would fall down instead.
I get it, instead of letting the DOS attack happen on the targeted box, it takes down the DNS network instead? Doesnt sound too good to me....
Oh, I can see it now. Open the hatch, jump out, and....er...float....wow, exciting...Well, I suppose you could stay out there until your orbit decayed, but then there's the heat of re-entry....
za'ha'dum% ftp gods_site Connected to gods_site 220 gods_site.com FTP server (Version wu-25.0(1) Tue Jan 1 00:00:01 EDT 0001 ready. Name (gods_site:bob): bob 331 Password required for bob. Password: ******** 230 User bob logged in. Remote system type is Linux. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> get a_life local: a_life remote: a_life 220 PORT comand succesful. 550 a_life: No such file or directory. ftp>
Announced by the emmett over rested April 01, 14:10 of that-make-a-beowulf-large-with gather the Ellen service that Spertus writes " the history of the museum of the central calculation, located at the zone of Moffett in Mountain View, is to finance the series speeds of the PC of the maintenance called by Beowulf-Class: Series of Perpective Storico ' speeds of the PC of Beowulf-Class called speak: Given historical Perpective ' of Thomas sterling, that the place of NASA has the lead which developed first with the series speeds of the PC of the category of Beowulf-code and is the joint author how in order to build Beowulf. Maintenance will occur the evening of Thursday, April 13. RSVP with less than April 10. All the center of history of calculation communicates it had to be large
I go hiking...The tilt sensor 'senses' me falling down a cliff, the modem calls for help, and uses the GPS module to tell the rescue chopper where I am.
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If you think about it, ANYTHING is 'proprietary', simply by its value of being unique. The english language is proprietary, because to talk to an english-only speaker, you cant speak french.
The problem comes in when the proprietary-ness is so far different than what everyone else is using, or breaks from some well-defined standard. (See Compaq or Packard Bell PC's for example).
Granted, Linux is different from Windows, and can be viewed as exclusionary, but we, as the Linux community are striving for something better, not to corral people to use our stuff, and ONLY our stuff.
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-=Bob
The two most valuable lessons I learned in college was to never turn down free food or free beer...
Perhaps Im being a bit extreme here as well, but I dont generally find posts about hot grits or Natalie Portman to be particularly productive...
Personally, I would like to see a communication standard between home appliances like Bluetooth take off. Then, my palm pilot, console, computer, cable box, and whatever else I have could be one big wireless network.
-=Bob
..or Ford Prefect!
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so"
...or George Harrison...
"I got my mind set on you..."
I remember seeing an intervew with him in the second or so year of the series. He was saying that he could get into the character and accent when they were putting on his makeup, by saying "Meester Girraballldeeee"...and he was set for the day's shooting...
-=Bob
Let's Go to the Map!
1.One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable.
2.A perplexing speech or text; a riddle.
[Latin aenigma, from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai, ainig- to speak in riddles, from ainos, fable.]
Fable? Does Aesop know about this?
-=Bob
I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing here. The 'deep linking' is where you point to some page, or image, or something, thats inside my website, and allow people to surf to/view it (Thereby bypassing any obnoxious advertising, etc) . The injunction against 2600 is for linking to a certain page (deCSS) that the MPAA thinks is illegal.
-=Bob
WAY off topic about speech, but on target for grammar:
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm
There's an interesting rant about language in his "Looking at Language" section.
-=Bob
I dont think that anything will really change, except people's opinons of Microsoft. The general population has a big herd mentality, and, however goes the press, goes the public. I think that in the next few weeks/months, we'll see alot of pro-linux/pro-mac/pro-whatever/anti-microsoft press, and that cant be anything but good for us. Even if the appeals drag on for years (as I heard this AM on NPR) Microsoft will be slowed, and allow the rest of the OS's to make more headway.
-=Bob
Ive got a license for this from about 10 years ago...I wonder if they'll honor it....
Back when the CyberPatrol thing was going on, I sent a very polite letter to Mattel telling them that I would no longer by any of their products because they were using their product to effectively censor criticism of their product etc. Finally, 2 days ago, I recieved a formletter from Mattel basically saying "for questions on our products, call this number"....
Great public relations, ignore the problem and it'l go away....
-=Bob
Ive been wondering this too, for a while. I can eliminate alot of other authors, why not AC's? Currently, I have it set to I dont see anything less than a Score: 1, so I dont view them, but thats more like a workaround than a fix.
...what does this kernel have in it? Where can I go to find out? Can some kind soul post a link or a list? Inquiring minds want to know....
I get it, instead of letting the DOS attack happen on the targeted box, it takes down the DNS network instead? Doesnt sound too good to me....
-=Bob
"Outer Space bungee jumping"
Oh, I can see it now. Open the hatch, jump out, and....er...float....wow, exciting...Well, I suppose you could stay out there until your orbit decayed, but then there's the heat of re-entry....
za'ha'dum% ftp gods_site
Connected to gods_site
220 gods_site.com FTP server (Version wu-25.0(1) Tue Jan 1 00:00:01 EDT 0001 ready.
Name (gods_site:bob): bob
331 Password required for bob.
Password: ********
230 User bob logged in.
Remote system type is Linux.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> get a_life
local: a_life remote: a_life
220 PORT comand succesful.
550 a_life: No such file or directory.
ftp>
AAhh, the power of bablefish....
Here, in English to french, then back to english:
Announced by the emmett over rested April 01, 14:10 of that-make-a-beowulf-large-with gather the Ellen service that Spertus writes " the history of the museum of the central calculation, located at the zone of Moffett in Mountain View, is to finance the series speeds of the PC of the maintenance called by Beowulf-Class: Series of Perpective Storico ' speeds of the PC of Beowulf-Class called speak: Given historical Perpective ' of Thomas sterling, that the place of NASA has the lead which developed first with the series speeds of the PC of the category of Beowulf-code and is the joint author how in order to build Beowulf. Maintenance will occur the evening of Thursday, April 13. RSVP with less than April 10. All the center of history of calculation communicates it had to be large
Great, now when his Aibo gets sick, he can drive it to the vet. Or is that the electrician?
-=Bob
Hmm....hardware... I can see it now...
I go hiking...The tilt sensor 'senses' me falling down a cliff, the modem calls for help, and uses the GPS module to tell the rescue chopper where I am.
Get Extreme Linux runing and have a virtual BEOWULF cluster.
We could have the worlds slowest supercomputer!
WOO!
-=Bob
Except the time the voices told you to that there was a spaceship behind that comet. Or the time they said to clean the guns...
Other than that, theyve been right...