Hello. He will have the *option* of doing so if he so chooses.
buy a linux laptop from somewhere if you really wan't to help out
He is tired of MS's crap and looking at an alternative. This in no way obligates him to "help out" any hardware company just because they use linux. Perhaps to do his job (or hobby whatever) he *has* to use software that is only available on MacOS or Windows.
. I'm not sure of exactly what the rules are but they are established to keep the trial fair
The obvious one is evidence obtained illegally by the authorities. Wiretaps without a court order, searches without a warrant etc. These things are done all the time, but the evidence obtained is not admissable. They can and do use what they obtain to figure out where to look for evidence that they can use. Now these cases are totally irrelevant to this issue, but it does give an example of where your parent poster's comment: Surely in any trial ALL evidence should be investigated? fails. In my example, the reason is called the 4th ammendment.
Generally the conservatives stand against government legislation whenever possible.
This is such a bunch of crap. Historically there was some truth to this and it's still in the platform but in reality it is patently false. They're all for hands off of business, but they will regulate the shit out of personal freedoms. Now before you get all up in arms and point out all the failings of the democrats, let me save you some time. They are almost exactly the same.
100% of kids age 10+ have been sick after going outside in the winter, therefore, we should not let kids outside in the winter
Not to take away from your point, but the reason winter is "cold and flu season" is that people are cooped up inside together in *warm* environments much more than in the summer. The bugs that cause these illnesses hate the cold and thrive in warmth.
Shoddy undergrad analysis course if you never hear of Fourier transforms till grad school.
Well, I was being a little facetious. They were covered in Baby Rudin, but we skipped that chapter in order to have time at the end of the year to develop the Lebesgue integral.
They're just FFTs which nearly everyone who studies computer science winds up implementing
Yet if you study math you don't usually even hear about Fourier Transforms until grad school and then you just learn the theory behind them. You never actually calculate one. Way too many calculations with like actual numbers and stuff;-)
However he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds on the face of the planet.
Your opinion of course. Mine is that no one has yet come close to Trent Reznor. Something to be said for being an awesome musician *and* arguably the best studio engineer on the planet. Of course to large parts of the general public NIN is frightening noise;-)
Pros: Clearly identifies the organization responsible for injecting that message into the USENET network. Allows for fast identification of the sending party, and a path (albeit sometimes a crooked one) to contact them for abuse or transmission issues.
Except as pointed out about 50 times in the comments to this article, there are already 2 seperate headers specifically designed for this purpose. So no pro here.
Pros: Users can affiliate him/herself with whatever organization they need to (employer, club, self)
This is what should be done, but isn't being done in this case. Hence another no pro.
So there still hasn't been presented a single possibility for good intent toward the customer.
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The thought of Willem Dafoe in drag just scares me...
Then don't watch Boondock Saints. If you can get over that brief part, it's an awesome movie though.
Cool, thanks for the understandable explanation. I had some idea of the kernel/user idea, but didn't really understand it.
One thing that you mentioned brought up another question I've thought of before:
Whereas a user mode program screwing up generally doesn't do anything except shut down the offending program (Access Violation -- program terminated)
Woouln't it be fairly simple for the OS to send a signal to the program that it could trap rather than just terminating it? Say, for example, some menu command in the program caused the violation. Couldn't the kernel tell the program, "Forget it pal" and then the program could tell the user, "The kernel said no dice and I don't know why. Maybe you should restart the program or try a different command". So you could do anything else you needed to do before quitting, like maybe saving your work.
So to remove the chip you'll have to rip the cover off the book, which means you won't be able to re-sell it,
This is a possibility, but it's also possible that you will just have to damage it somewhat. If they're consistent in the placement a little practice will help minimize the damage. I really like books and would hate to damage one without good cause, but I would consider this that.
They will no longer need to track the ownership of the book
I could still give it away, or sell it somewhere that would take it, garage sale etc. I don't usually get rid of my books though. When then shelves get too crowded I'll sometimes dig through and fill a box with those I really will *never* read again and swap them out at the used book store. That'd probably be out at a legit store if I had to rip the cover off, but I'm willing to make sacrifices for my freedom. As small as this issue is in the grand scheme of things I think it is important to send the message that I am a citizen, not some wild animal who's migration patterns it is "their" business to study.
I actually met a person comparing Blender (yes, I know it's not a open source project) with Maya and argued it was much better. Quite funny:) I just asked him where the Undo/Redo features in Blender are. LOL!
Did he tell you to code them yourself, or try to convince you that you didn't need them;-)
One small example--in PS, if I make a selection and copy, and then do new document, the new document is sized to start with the right dimension..
This works even better than you describe. In MacOS (somewhere pre X) I had some South Park folder icons that I wanted to used in a game. I copied the icon from the folder, pasted it in ResEdit which created all the various looks of the icon (hilighted, black and white large small etc.) Copied the one I wanted and pasted it into a new Photoshop document which defaulted to the perfect size. I don't know how much of the slickness of this was Adobe, and how much was Apple, but it really does kick ass and works with probably anything on the clipboard.
I never thought I would ever see anything even vaguely goatsex related that had *any* redeeming value, but that is funnier than anything I've seen in a while.
Bring the book to the counter, let them ring it up and pay for it. Then rip the chip out drop it on the counter and say loudly enough for nearby customers to hear (not the whole store, yelling just makes you look loony), "Just because I purchase a book from you does not entitle you to track me everywhere I take it, so you can keep this".
Generating bad feeling for the store stupid enough to do this works better than just disabling one.
There's no better indication that your product sucks when slashdot is collectively defending Microsoft for their actions.
There are some posts supporting this "poor little guy" against the "evil M$". Also, most posts aren't defending Microsoft per se, but you are indeed correct that the common concensus seems to be essentially, "This guy is a fucktard" which I can't come up with an argument against.
Sour grapes and lack of due diligence. What did he expect would happen?
After reading his whining, I sent him an email:
I just finished reading the comments posted on your web page detailing your feelings about your previous company's dealings with Microsoft and felt compelled to comment.
It certainly seems likely that Microsoft is guilty of, if not illegal, then certainly less than ethical business practices. You seem surprised at this. As an officer of a company, it is your responsibility to your employees and your investors to investigate any company with which you plan on entering a contract. It is clear that you did not do this.
Look at this quote from your page: "The browser is now back under Microsoft's control and it is possible that - having learned much from RealNames - it will develop its own version of our resolution service."
Had you bothered to do the most cursory investigation of Microsoft you would have found that this is one of their common business practices.
A few companies who Microsoft have been *convicted* of doing this to in the past are: Stacker Syn'x Relief There are several other cases where they have been convicted, and numerous others where the developers in question simply could not afford to pursue the cases. A simple internet search will reveal this to you, as it would have before entering negotiations
While it is arguably wrong of Microsoft to have done what they did, the fault of the failure of your company lies squarely with your failure to follow the adminition of any grade school teacher: Do your homework.
Look, I'm not saying I agree that RoadRunner's policy here is the best and most appropriate for their situation, but I don't see the evil intent here.
Can you see the good intent *for the customer*? You haven't come up with a single possibility for one. In the absence of this, the only proper thing to do is assume a bad intent. Now please don't just kneejerk a "paranoid" response. As a *citizen* of a free society, this is not paranoia, it is your responsibility.
but are people sure this isn't just a misconfigured nnrpd.conf (or equivalent)?
The same mistake, made everywhere at once?
Certainly it is *possible* I don't know the syntax for nnrpd.conf, or how Roadrunner handles global configurations so this isn't completely accurate, but here is a possible scenario:
Roadrunner has their configuration for news servers changed in one place for consistency. After configuration changes, tests are run to make sure it doesn't break on the test machine. Once the change has been tested, the changes are propogated out to all other news servers. Now to do something like this, it would be necessary to have site specific information in the config file. So something along the line of setting an environment variable say $LOCATION on each server would handle this. Now in your globally identical nnrpd.conf file you would have a line like (remember, I don't know the actual syntax): SET org="Roadrunner - $LOCATION"; Now if "SET" is the command to set the Organization in posts regardless of whether or not it is already set and the command to SET If Not Already Set to Something is "SETINASS", then there are a few ways the mistake could have been made. The admin might not have known or forgotten to use the more appropriate command. He might have misread the config instructions. Assuming the so freaking unlikely but theoretically possible possibility that I pulled the actual correct syntax from my ass, maybe he felt uncomfortable typing SET IN ASS.
So this shows that it is *possible* for it to be a mistake, and that it is *possible* for one mistake to be made everywhere at once. Likleyhoods are left as an exercise for the reader.
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Hello , you'll still be using IE and MS Office..
Hello. He will have the *option* of doing so if he so chooses.
buy a linux laptop from somewhere if you really
wan't to help out
He is tired of MS's crap and looking at an alternative. This in no way obligates him to "help out" any hardware company just because they use linux. Perhaps to do his job (or hobby whatever) he *has* to use software that is only available on MacOS or Windows.
. I'm not sure of exactly what the rules are but they are established to keep the trial fair
The obvious one is evidence obtained illegally by the authorities. Wiretaps without a court order, searches without a warrant etc. These things are done all the time, but the evidence obtained is not admissable. They can and do use what they obtain to figure out where to look for evidence that they can use.
Now these cases are totally irrelevant to this issue, but it does give an example of where your parent poster's comment:
Surely in any trial ALL evidence should be investigated?
fails. In my example, the reason is called the 4th ammendment.
Generally the conservatives stand against government legislation whenever possible.
This is such a bunch of crap.
Historically there was some truth to this and it's still in the platform but in reality it is patently false.
They're all for hands off of business, but they will regulate the shit out of personal freedoms. Now before you get all up in arms and point out all the failings of the democrats, let me save you some time.
They are almost exactly the same.
100% of kids age 10+ have been sick after going outside in the winter, therefore, we should not let kids outside in the winter
Not to take away from your point, but the reason winter is "cold and flu season" is that people are cooped up inside together in *warm* environments much more than in the summer. The bugs that cause these illnesses hate the cold and thrive in warmth.
Shoddy undergrad analysis course if you never hear of Fourier transforms till grad school.
Well, I was being a little facetious. They were covered in Baby Rudin, but we skipped that chapter in order to have time at the end of the year to develop the Lebesgue integral.
They're just FFTs which nearly everyone who studies computer science winds up implementing
;-)
Yet if you study math you don't usually even hear about Fourier Transforms until grad school and then you just learn the theory behind them. You never actually calculate one. Way too many calculations with like actual numbers and stuff
However he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds on the face of the planet.
;-)
Your opinion of course.
Mine is that no one has yet come close to Trent Reznor. Something to be said for being an awesome musician *and* arguably the best studio engineer on the planet.
Of course to large parts of the general public NIN is frightening noise
Yes, I have thought about some great ways of using this technology and I'll be speaking about them with another developer at SIGGRAPH this year.
/. ;-)
What, no sneak preview for your friends here at
You know your secrets are safe here
The new camera and mic abilities of Flash allow you to do some really powerful things that you simply can't do any other way.
I can't think of one. Can you?
Pros: Clearly identifies the organization responsible for injecting that message into the USENET network. Allows for fast identification of the sending party, and a path (albeit sometimes a crooked one) to contact them for abuse or transmission issues.
Except as pointed out about 50 times in the comments to this article, there are already 2 seperate headers specifically designed for this purpose. So no pro here.
Pros: Users can affiliate him/herself with whatever organization they need to (employer, club, self)
This is what should be done, but isn't being done in this case. Hence another no pro.
So there still hasn't been presented a single possibility for good intent toward the customer.
The thought of Willem Dafoe in drag just scares me...
Then don't watch Boondock Saints.
If you can get over that brief part, it's an awesome movie though.
Cool, again thanks for the excellent explanation.
That is hilarious, I mean in a really sad way if you lost your job or anything.
I had some idea of the kernel/user idea, but didn't really understand it.
One thing that you mentioned brought up another question I've thought of before:
Woouln't it be fairly simple for the OS to send a signal to the program that it could trap rather than just terminating it? Say, for example, some menu command in the program caused the violation. Couldn't the kernel tell the program, "Forget it pal" and then the program could tell the user, "The kernel said no dice and I don't know why. Maybe you should restart the program or try a different command".
So you could do anything else you needed to do before quitting, like maybe saving your work.
So to remove the chip you'll have to rip the cover off the book, which means you won't be able to re-sell it,
This is a possibility, but it's also possible that you will just have to damage it somewhat. If they're consistent in the placement a little practice will help minimize the damage. I really like books and would hate to damage one without good cause, but I would consider this that.
They will no longer need to track the ownership of the book
I could still give it away, or sell it somewhere that would take it, garage sale etc. I don't usually get rid of my books though. When then shelves get too crowded I'll sometimes dig through and fill a box with those I really will *never* read again and swap them out at the used book store. That'd probably be out at a legit store if I had to rip the cover off, but I'm willing to make sacrifices for my freedom. As small as this issue is in the grand scheme of things I think it is important to send the message that I am a citizen, not some wild animal who's migration patterns it is "their" business to study.
I actually met a person comparing Blender (yes, I know it's not a open source project) with Maya and argued it was much better. Quite funny :) I just asked him where the Undo/Redo features in Blender are. LOL!
;-)
Did he tell you to code them yourself, or try to convince you that you didn't need them
One small example--in PS, if I make a selection and copy, and then do new document, the new document is sized to start with the right dimension..
This works even better than you describe. In MacOS (somewhere pre X) I had some South Park folder icons that I wanted to used in a game. I copied the icon from the folder, pasted it in ResEdit which created all the various looks of the icon (hilighted, black and white large small etc.) Copied the one I wanted and pasted it into a new Photoshop document which defaulted to the perfect size.
I don't know how much of the slickness of this was Adobe, and how much was Apple, but it really does kick ass and works with probably anything on the clipboard.
It's the Girl from Ipanema! [analse.cx]
I never thought I would ever see anything even vaguely goatsex related that had *any* redeeming value, but that is funnier than anything I've seen in a while.
In fact, many hardware architectures only support two privildge levels, so it's impossible to fix this in general
How does this work? I've never actually written a device driver or similar, so I'm not arguing with you just curious.
It would seem that since the OS talks to the hardware, *any* sort of priviledges could be fairly controlled by the OS.
Bring the book to the counter, let them ring it up and pay for it.
Then rip the chip out drop it on the counter and say loudly enough for nearby customers to hear (not the whole store, yelling just makes you look loony), "Just because I purchase a book from you does not entitle you to track me everywhere I take it, so you can keep this".
Generating bad feeling for the store stupid enough to do this works better than just disabling one.
There's no better indication that your product sucks when slashdot is collectively defending Microsoft for their actions.
There are some posts supporting this "poor little guy" against the "evil M$".
Also, most posts aren't defending Microsoft per se,
but you are indeed correct that the common concensus seems to be essentially,
"This guy is a fucktard"
which I can't come up with an argument against.
Sour grapes and lack of due diligence.
What did he expect would happen?
After reading his whining, I sent him an email:
I just finished reading the comments posted on your web page detailing your
feelings about your previous company's dealings with Microsoft and felt
compelled to comment.
It certainly seems likely that Microsoft is guilty of, if not illegal, then
certainly less than ethical business practices. You seem surprised at this.
As an officer of a company, it is your responsibility to your employees and
your investors to investigate any company with which you plan on entering a
contract. It is clear that you did not do this.
Look at this quote from your page:
"The browser is now back under Microsoft's control and it is possible that -
having learned much from RealNames - it will develop its own version of our
resolution service."
Had you bothered to do the most cursory investigation of Microsoft you would
have found that this is one of their common business practices.
A few companies who Microsoft have been *convicted* of doing this to in the
past are:
Stacker
Syn'x Relief
There are several other cases where they have been convicted, and numerous
others where the developers in question simply could not afford to pursue the
cases. A simple internet search will reveal this to you, as it would have
before entering negotiations
While it is arguably wrong of Microsoft to have done what they did,
the fault of the failure of your company lies squarely with your failure to
follow the adminition of any grade school teacher:
Do your homework.
Look, I'm not saying I agree that RoadRunner's policy here is the best and most appropriate for their situation, but I don't see the evil intent here.
Can you see the good intent *for the customer*?
You haven't come up with a single possibility for one.
In the absence of this, the only proper thing to do is assume a bad intent.
Now please don't just kneejerk a "paranoid" response.
As a *citizen* of a free society, this is not paranoia, it is your responsibility.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance".
but are people sure this isn't just a misconfigured nnrpd.conf (or equivalent)?
The same mistake, made everywhere at once?
Certainly it is *possible*
I don't know the syntax for nnrpd.conf, or how Roadrunner handles global configurations so this isn't completely accurate, but here is a possible scenario:
Roadrunner has their configuration for news servers changed in one place for consistency. After configuration changes, tests are run to make sure it doesn't break on the test machine. Once the change has been tested, the changes are propogated out to all other news servers. Now to do something like this, it would be necessary to have site specific information in the config file. So something along the line of setting an environment variable say $LOCATION on each server would handle this.
Now in your globally identical nnrpd.conf file you would have a line like (remember, I don't know the actual syntax):
SET org="Roadrunner - $LOCATION";
Now if "SET" is the command to set the Organization in posts regardless of whether or not it is already set and the command to SET If Not Already Set to Something is "SETINASS", then there are a few ways the mistake could have been made.
The admin might not have known or forgotten to use the more appropriate command.
He might have misread the config instructions.
Assuming the so freaking unlikely but theoretically possible possibility that I pulled the actual correct syntax from my ass, maybe he felt uncomfortable typing SET IN ASS.
So this shows that it is *possible* for it to be a mistake, and that it is *possible* for one mistake to be made everywhere at once.
Likleyhoods are left as an exercise for the reader.
Too bad I still don't have my old 4 digit UID.
What did you do, sell it on eBay?