think about how many people, friends, relatives, colleagues and alike, got adversely affected by what their acquaintance went through.
Not to mention absolute strangers. I don't have to know the kid, the disabled single mother, or the dead person who is target of the RIAA, in order to be appalled. For what is becoming a long time I haven't put a red cent into the coffers of RIAA member labels -- not the big four of Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner, nor smaller members as identified by riaaradar.com.
Actually in Canada the official opposition (Liberals) and our left-wing party (NDP) have come out in opposition to this bill.
That doesn't mean that the Liberals will vote against it. They may sit on their hands or run away as they have for past votes. Perhaps a historian of Canadian politics could say whether there was ever a wimpier opposition. I doubt it.
Do you honestly believe that you or your employees are going to build a system with higher availability than Google?
Our qmail/vpopmail based mail server is much more reliable than google. So why have we moved many accounts to Google if we have better availability? Because Google rocks when it comes to spam filtering. I wouldn't recommend Google for high availabilty and performance, but if you've got the too much spam blues, Google can take that headache off your hands. The perpetual battle against spam isn't something we want to devote extensive resources to beyond a few sensible, easy to implement measures.
Some greed masters like Masters Jobs and Wozniak break into a field of greed.
That's not entire fair to Woz. Jobs may have broken in, but Woz more or less stumbled in, and then reduced his role after a plane crash. He still has associations with Apple, but he's no "greed master" like Jobs or Gates. He's the sort who upon getting rich realizes he doesn't need to keep on with his day job, and moves on to more interesting things.
I had some email correspondence with a BBC tech shortly after they'd experimented with streaming ogg vorbis. He said they'd concluded that it wasn't sufficiently "scalable". I've never implemented anything on a scale like BBC World Service, so I don't know if there's anything to that or not, but perhaps there are slash dotters with the experience to comment.
When a lot of people complained about CBC pimping for Microsoft they set up streaming ogg vorbis for Toronto, but they haven't expanded it beyond that. I suppose they figured that was enough of a bone to throw us.
That first email gives me hope that one day linux will dominate the desktop. Such people could be just as easily confused by linux as by windows, so why not? It just has to come preinstalled on computers. That's what they curse. The computer. And whoever google sends them to for help with it.
Frankly, I'd rather see Microsoft in that position -- humbled, force-fed a fresh perspective, and one player among many -- than totally ground out of existence.
That's a very mature perspective, and one I shared with you some years ago. But as time passes and my sanity crumbles with each day, I become convinced that I will eradicate them in a cleansing inferno of justice, and that though their howls reach unto the sky, I shall show them no mercy. Yea, verily, my laughter will surround their towering howls, my savage joy a ring worn by the Bride of Death. She is consumed completely upon the altar of our joining. The wind blows away the ashes, and there is nothing left of Microsoft but a memory of a darker time. The way is clear for open source operating systems to empower the people, and the BSA is driven under bridges to make wary travelers who pass over them by night.
They'll have enough trouble trying to prove that they are the rightful heirs of the Knights Templar
Even if they could, they seem to be operating with the assumption that the Templars enjoyed the same rights as a modern multinational corporation. They might have operated that way, but as I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), they owed direct allegiance to the Pope who would have been within his legal rights to disband them.
It has become a geek meme. Can also be used as a pickup line, as in "Hey, babe, anyone ever tell you you're +5 beautiful?" Followed shortly by, "Hey, sweet stuff, I see you've barfed in your drink. Can I buy you another?"
Oh, aye, and I know someone who downloaded the cam version of The Dark Knight, watched it, and decided that it would be interesting to see on the big screen. But when he did, after being exposed to loads of advertising and previews for crap movies, and threats that if he camcorded the movie he would go to jail, he wondered if it wouldn't have been a better idea to simply wait for a dvd-rip to appear for download. Not the big screen, but better than camcorder recorded version, and much less of an assault on the mind, senses, and human dignity than going to a cinema.
I can see the usefulness of sponsorship by private enterprise, and it's reasonable to expect the sponsor to want their name on the craft, but this is ridiculous.
So my advice is this: If you're going to use a webhost, use somewhere small, and take the time to get to know the admins.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up just for that.
Also be nice to the people who hold your online existence in their hands. If they have a professional attitude even jerk clients will get the minimum service offered, but sysadmins may go the extra mile (or at least an extra several feet) for clients they've developed positive feeling and/or respect for.
Thing is, though, it's legal for the state but not for the nation. Who do you listen to?
How likely is it that the feds would contravene state law on state territory by arresting law abiding (from the state's perspective) citizens? On a practical level, that's what it comes down to. There are so many laws, many more designed for the benefit of corporations than citizens, that which laws you obey and which you break comes down to an assessment of risk.
The phrase "We are a country of laws" is essentially meaningless now. Ethics and morals are becoming exclusively the province of the individual, so here's hoping individuals remain good people for the most part.
Who would have thought that he'd go totally nuts one day.
I'm not sure that's entirely fair. Context also matters a lot with a statement like his. If he's expressing his personal beliefs, fine. It would be a different matter if he's asking us to believe the same because he's an authority, a founder of an institute, no less.
Knowledge coming to one "directly" is fine for the individual receiving it, but is not so good for sharing with others unless it can be backed up by other means. That doesn't mean that intuitive insight is the same as being totally nuts, just that it can't stand on its own in any kind of scientific context.
And how much electricity will this consume? It may not be that appealing to laptop users if it eats significantly into their battery life. And for servers many colo companies are finding themselves less constrained by space than by available electricity.
There are companies who aren't constrained by money as much as by electricity. There are colos with plenty of space, yet do not have the juice to feed racks and racks of units. Asking individual servers to do more, and looking at green solutions not so much for the environment but for making the most out of the least juice makes a lot of sense when your potential growth is constrained by available resources. In these cases there's no threat to jobs, if anything it's the opposite, allowing for growth by making the most of what until recently has been essentially squandered.
"Remembrances of my chemistry classes tell me this is not practical... "
magically make one person more qualified than dozens of environmental scientists with PhDs.
Unfortunately, we so seldom hear from environmental scientists with PhDs. For the most part, info comes second hand through a media which doesn't always do the greatest job of reporting faithfully. I say bless the slashdotters who paid attention in chemistry class. Wish I had.
If I didn't hate microsoft so much I might have a windows machine just for tv and couple of other things I need rarely enough that a vm will do.
You can probably get over a lot of your complaints (like why are you even using 7zip?), but tv I've found challenging. For my Hauppage tv card the only app that would do is VLC, and it isn't elegant as a TV viewer. Myth is overkill and a bitch to get working, and a lot of the simple tv viewers seem not to be developed anymore, so unless you have an old chipset, forget 'em. Getting a TV card to work is one area where the expression 'linux is only free if you don't value your time' has some truth to it.
I think the best reason for going to Mars would be to establish a breeding population of humans off the earth as a kind of insurance policy against disaster.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you regarding the time frame for the first manned landing, but I don't see the political will anywhere for that (and I mean really, not some joker flapping his jaw like Big Mouth Billy Bass).
I just wish someone had a good solution but I think if it existed someone would have used it already.
What's really required is a long term commitment to education and training people to think critically, without which democracy doesn't work. That requires a political will stretching across multiple administrations, probably of different parties.
But since it is those who pay the piper that call the tune, it is up to the corporations. And since a well educated, critically thinking populace could turn the tables on them, they may not see it as being in their interests to push for education.
Consequently, I don't feel very optimistic about it in the short to medium term. In the long term, who knows. Everything is run by people, including corporations. If people collectively change for the better, then there's hope. While it might sound trite, in the short term the best thing you can do is to try and work towards being that ideal person of the future. It probably won't make a huge difference in the short term, and it can be frustrating to be an educated, compassionate, critical thinker looking around and realizing you are in a seemingly powerless minority, but it is what's required. A better future requires better people.
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think about how many people, friends, relatives, colleagues and alike, got adversely affected by what their acquaintance went through.
Not to mention absolute strangers. I don't have to know the kid, the disabled single mother, or the dead person who is target of the RIAA, in order to be appalled. For what is becoming a long time I haven't put a red cent into the coffers of RIAA member labels -- not the big four of Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner, nor smaller members as identified by riaaradar.com.
Don't feed the beast.
Actually in Canada the official opposition (Liberals) and our left-wing party (NDP) have come out in opposition to this bill.
That doesn't mean that the Liberals will vote against it. They may sit on their hands or run away as they have for past votes. Perhaps a historian of Canadian politics could say whether there was ever a wimpier opposition. I doubt it.
Do you honestly believe that you or your employees are going to build a system with higher availability than Google?
Our qmail/vpopmail based mail server is much more reliable than google. So why have we moved many accounts to Google if we have better availability? Because Google rocks when it comes to spam filtering. I wouldn't recommend Google for high availabilty and performance, but if you've got the too much spam blues, Google can take that headache off your hands. The perpetual battle against spam isn't something we want to devote extensive resources to beyond a few sensible, easy to implement measures.
Some greed masters like Masters Jobs and Wozniak break into a field of greed.
That's not entire fair to Woz. Jobs may have broken in, but Woz more or less stumbled in, and then reduced his role after a plane crash. He still has associations with Apple, but he's no "greed master" like Jobs or Gates. He's the sort who upon getting rich realizes he doesn't need to keep on with his day job, and moves on to more interesting things.
I had some email correspondence with a BBC tech shortly after they'd experimented with streaming ogg vorbis. He said they'd concluded that it wasn't sufficiently "scalable". I've never implemented anything on a scale like BBC World Service, so I don't know if there's anything to that or not, but perhaps there are slash dotters with the experience to comment.
When a lot of people complained about CBC pimping for Microsoft they set up streaming ogg vorbis for Toronto, but they haven't expanded it beyond that. I suppose they figured that was enough of a bone to throw us.
That first email gives me hope that one day linux will dominate the desktop. Such people could be just as easily confused by linux as by windows, so why not? It just has to come preinstalled on computers. That's what they curse. The computer. And whoever google sends them to for help with it.
to cater the meetings to discuss the project.
There might be enough left over for a few print outs of the ping man page or something else networky.
Frankly, I'd rather see Microsoft in that position -- humbled, force-fed a fresh perspective, and one player among many -- than totally ground out of existence.
That's a very mature perspective, and one I shared with you some years ago. But as time passes and my sanity crumbles with each day, I become convinced that I will eradicate them in a cleansing inferno of justice, and that though their howls reach unto the sky, I shall show them no mercy. Yea, verily, my laughter will surround their towering howls, my savage joy a ring worn by the Bride of Death. She is consumed completely upon the altar of our joining. The wind blows away the ashes, and there is nothing left of Microsoft but a memory of a darker time. The way is clear for open source operating systems to empower the people, and the BSA is driven under bridges to make wary travelers who pass over them by night.
Ahem, do you know the Bishop of Norwich?
They'll have enough trouble trying to prove that they are the rightful heirs of the Knights Templar
Even if they could, they seem to be operating with the assumption that the Templars enjoyed the same rights as a modern multinational corporation. They might have operated that way, but as I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong), they owed direct allegiance to the Pope who would have been within his legal rights to disband them.
I don't want to do business with a company or people who try to cheat me.
Tried that. Wound up naked living in a hole subsisting on juniper berries. Then some bastards stole all the berries.
It has become a geek meme. Can also be used as a pickup line, as in "Hey, babe, anyone ever tell you you're +5 beautiful?" Followed shortly by, "Hey, sweet stuff, I see you've barfed in your drink. Can I buy you another?"
Oh, aye, and I know someone who downloaded the cam version of The Dark Knight, watched it, and decided that it would be interesting to see on the big screen. But when he did, after being exposed to loads of advertising and previews for crap movies, and threats that if he camcorded the movie he would go to jail, he wondered if it wouldn't have been a better idea to simply wait for a dvd-rip to appear for download. Not the big screen, but better than camcorder recorded version, and much less of an assault on the mind, senses, and human dignity than going to a cinema.
I, for one, welcome our new balloon rocket overlords.
Otherwise known as BOC and Cambridge Precision .
I can see the usefulness of sponsorship by private enterprise, and it's reasonable to expect the sponsor to want their name on the craft, but this is ridiculous.
So my advice is this: If you're going to use a webhost, use somewhere small, and take the time to get to know the admins.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up just for that.
Also be nice to the people who hold your online existence in their hands. If they have a professional attitude even jerk clients will get the minimum service offered, but sysadmins may go the extra mile (or at least an extra several feet) for clients they've developed positive feeling and/or respect for.
Thing is, though, it's legal for the state but not for the nation. Who do you listen to?
How likely is it that the feds would contravene state law on state territory by arresting law abiding (from the state's perspective) citizens? On a practical level, that's what it comes down to. There are so many laws, many more designed for the benefit of corporations than citizens, that which laws you obey and which you break comes down to an assessment of risk.
The phrase "We are a country of laws" is essentially meaningless now. Ethics and morals are becoming exclusively the province of the individual, so here's hoping individuals remain good people for the most part.
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I don't know if Americans would be allowed to do that. Sounds like a potential violation of the DMCA.
Who would have thought that he'd go totally nuts one day.
I'm not sure that's entirely fair. Context also matters a lot with a statement like his. If he's expressing his personal beliefs, fine. It would be a different matter if he's asking us to believe the same because he's an authority, a founder of an institute, no less.
Knowledge coming to one "directly" is fine for the individual receiving it, but is not so good for sharing with others unless it can be backed up by other means. That doesn't mean that intuitive insight is the same as being totally nuts, just that it can't stand on its own in any kind of scientific context.
And how much electricity will this consume? It may not be that appealing to laptop users if it eats significantly into their battery life. And for servers many colo companies are finding themselves less constrained by space than by available electricity.
There are companies who aren't constrained by money as much as by electricity. There are colos with plenty of space, yet do not have the juice to feed racks and racks of units. Asking individual servers to do more, and looking at green solutions not so much for the environment but for making the most out of the least juice makes a lot of sense when your potential growth is constrained by available resources. In these cases there's no threat to jobs, if anything it's the opposite, allowing for growth by making the most of what until recently has been essentially squandered.
"Remembrances of my chemistry classes tell me this is not practical... "
magically make one person more qualified than dozens of environmental scientists with PhDs.
Unfortunately, we so seldom hear from environmental scientists with PhDs. For the most part, info comes second hand through a media which doesn't always do the greatest job of reporting faithfully. I say bless the slashdotters who paid attention in chemistry class. Wish I had.
The cows referred to in the song were actually a cow/chupacabra cross.
If I didn't hate microsoft so much I might have a windows machine just for tv and couple of other things I need rarely enough that a vm will do.
You can probably get over a lot of your complaints (like why are you even using 7zip?), but tv I've found challenging. For my Hauppage tv card the only app that would do is VLC, and it isn't elegant as a TV viewer. Myth is overkill and a bitch to get working, and a lot of the simple tv viewers seem not to be developed anymore, so unless you have an old chipset, forget 'em. Getting a TV card to work is one area where the expression 'linux is only free if you don't value your time' has some truth to it.
I think the best reason for going to Mars would be to establish a breeding population of humans off the earth as a kind of insurance policy against disaster.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you regarding the time frame for the first manned landing, but I don't see the political will anywhere for that (and I mean really, not some joker flapping his jaw like Big Mouth Billy Bass).
Couldn't we just rub it with a giant magnet?
I just wish someone had a good solution but I think if it existed someone would have used it already.
What's really required is a long term commitment to education and training people to think critically, without which democracy doesn't work. That requires a political will stretching across multiple administrations, probably of different parties.
But since it is those who pay the piper that call the tune, it is up to the corporations. And since a well educated, critically thinking populace could turn the tables on them, they may not see it as being in their interests to push for education.
Consequently, I don't feel very optimistic about it in the short to medium term. In the long term, who knows. Everything is run by people, including corporations. If people collectively change for the better, then there's hope. While it might sound trite, in the short term the best thing you can do is to try and work towards being that ideal person of the future. It probably won't make a huge difference in the short term, and it can be frustrating to be an educated, compassionate, critical thinker looking around and realizing you are in a seemingly powerless minority, but it is what's required. A better future requires better people.