Re:Yep (Score:1)
by Spock the Vulcan on Wed Feb 07, '01 11:21 AM BST (#386)
(User #196989 Info)
1. Help is comming,....
2. Your English looks good.
Can't say the same about your English:-)
Actually 'comming' is the Aramaic word for 'Help' though of course not with that exact spelling.. jut phonetically. -- Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Lightweight? You have any 70GB RAID _laptops_ kicking about the place?.. You do? I can have one? It'll be in the post by the weekend? Cool, and thanks!!:)
p.s. My sig is totally and utterly out of date:) -- Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Owie... just look at linux.co.uk for a site about linux using flash. Really is there any need for it? -- Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Just advertise them in the same offensive way as is being suggested here. Anyone currently using your software won't see the ads, and thus won't care. This is a perfect way of targetting new customers:) -- Azrael - The Angel of Death
> What won't help the Third World is overpriced, > overly complex software like Windows, the
> glitzy and wasteful Web standards Microsoft has > been promoting, and the enormously expensive
> hardware needed to run it all.
I must admit, the last starving Ethiopean I met complained not about health or lack of food, but those damn non-standard HTML tags.
So on the one hand we should make sure they get lots of positive attention to encourage further OS releases by companies (otherwise as you say 'they won't bother'). Yet also stop patting them on the back? Well you can't have it both ways! If _you_ don't like it, then don't use it. And if no one uses it, big deal, it's not costing you anything at all. Just be glad that the effort is being made, even if it is only with something _you_ don't rate.
I'm planning on making a Squid cache proxy server... and am trying to decide what distro to use. I have SUSE 7, Mandrake 7.1 and Red Hat 6.2.
I was gonna go with RH6.2.. is it worth using Red Hat 7.0 ??
(ignore the sig.. posting with dreaded MSIE5)
-- Azrael - The Angel of Death
Apparently France, Germany and the UK voted against. Maybe the rest of Europe has little software industry of their own, so they don't see the problems.
Without wanting to appear too egotistical (I'm British) I think that France, Germany and the UK are the strongest EU nations.. so isn't it realy a matter of whatever those three want is ultimately what they'll get? Especially when these three are all in agreement with each other.
Replying to my earlier post using M13 now. Proves persistance pays. This is second try though, last time I tried to reply using M13 (I was typing that it hadn't even crashed on me) it crashed. My own fault for temptiong fate.
I just wanted to add: Speed....... slow. (but so is IE here) Rendering... Needs improvement, but can live with it for now.
Overall summary: If at first you don't succed, try try again. And if you do you'll just maybe be impressed.:)
I think the point is that patent system was never designed to cope with the Internet. Folks like CDNow are taking advantage of that to make a buck. Sure, it's a land grab and it's wide open. But this is happening so fast that nobody has bothered to think up the ground rules, never mind set them down in legal code. We have to proclaim some things on the Internet as "public" domain, instead of letting CDNow put up tolls. That's the way to keep it growing.
This is very true, there are few ground rules, and the internet has often been compared to anarchy.
However the idea to make up a group to object to these patents is not that good an idea.
Sure it will break those patents which should be broken due to prior art etc, but what about those bloody obvious patents that no one ever used 'cause they didn't get around to it?
Some things just _are_ patentable, and that's damn annoying.
The only solution is to form a group with the specific intention of seeking out all these 'bloody obvious ideas'(TM) and patenting them first, then freely licensing them.
With an anarchy like the internet the only way to make rules, is to force them to be made.
So who's with me on patenting _everything_ and licensing it for free?
--Azrael
Re:IF we have to wipe out every cat on the planet.
on
The Cat Cam
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· Score: 1
> Want to save koalas? Kill your fucking cat!
Ok, who wants to join me in the ritual sacrifice of cats in Europe to help preserve koalas??
Ummmm... jcr.... you are sure this will help aren't you??
.sig#2 'I'm a biro person really. Cheap and expendable'
* *It will come, to anyone who thinks they can rape *a species and get away with it. It might not *come in form we are expecting, but it is *inevitable... *
I thought they stuck wires into the cats brains, not raped them.... but maybe that was part of another experiment.
But seriously, some might complain about cruelty to animals and that we wouldn't treat humans like that etc.. What a lot of nonsense, we _would_ treat humans like that if we could get away with it..
Umm... when I say 'we' I'm not meaning me, uh-uh, no... the jury found insufficient evidence to prosecute me!!
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> Oh wait, I forgot, DeCSS is a scary gremlin
:)
> computer program ooooooo (in a ghost voice).
Actually it's a digital crowbar
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Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Mandrake 7.2 and upwards???
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Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Re:Yep (Score:1) ....
:-)
by Spock the Vulcan on Wed Feb 07, '01 11:21 AM BST (#386)
(User #196989 Info)
1. Help is comming,
2. Your English looks good.
Can't say the same about your English
Actually 'comming' is the Aramaic word for 'Help' though of course not with that exact spelling.. jut phonetically.
(damn the closeness between the submit and preview buttons)
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
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Re:Yep (Score:1) by Spock the Vulcan on Wed Feb 07, '01 11:21 AM BST (#386) (User #196989 Info) 1. Help is comming, ....
2. Your English looks good.
Can't say the same about your English :-)
Actually 'comming' is the Aramaic word for 'Help' though of course not with that exact spelling.. jut phonetically.
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
posted with: Mozilla (0.7)
Lightweight? You have any 70GB RAID _laptops_ kicking about the place? .. You do? I can have one? It'll be in the post by the weekend? Cool, and thanks!! :)
:)
p.s. My sig is totally and utterly out of date
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
posted with: Mozilla (0.7)
Owie... just look at linux.co.uk for a site about linux using flash. Really is there any need for it?
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
posted with: Mozilla (0.7)
Just advertise them in the same offensive way as is being suggested here. Anyone currently using your software won't see the ads, and thus won't care. This is a perfect way of targetting new customers :)
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
> What won't help the Third World is overpriced,
> overly complex software like Windows, the
> glitzy and wasteful Web standards Microsoft has
> been promoting, and the enormously expensive
> hardware needed to run it all.
I must admit, the last starving Ethiopean I met
complained not about health or lack of food,
but those damn non-standard HTML tags.
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
So on the one hand we should make sure they get lots of positive attention to encourage further OS releases by companies (otherwise as you say 'they won't bother'). Yet also stop patting them on the back? Well you can't have it both ways! If _you_ don't like it, then don't use it. And if no one uses it, big deal, it's not costing you anything at all. Just be glad that the effort is being made, even if it is only with something _you_ don't rate.
Rant: off
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Azrael - The Angel of Death
I'm planning on making a Squid cache proxy server... and am trying to decide what distro to use. I have SUSE 7, Mandrake 7.1 and Red Hat 6.2. I was gonna go with RH6.2 .. is it worth using Red Hat 7.0 ??
(ignore the sig.. posting with dreaded MSIE5)
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
Apparently France, Germany and the UK voted against. Maybe the rest of Europe has little software industry of their own, so they don't see the problems.
Without wanting to appear too egotistical (I'm British) I think that France, Germany and the UK are the strongest EU nations.. so isn't it realy a matter of whatever those three want is ultimately what they'll get? Especially when these three are all in agreement with each other.
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
Yeah, right, yankee boy. Something like your own 0.5-click-shopping, no?
Perhaps not as silly as it sounds... just link the 'buying' action to an 'onmousedown' rather than an 'onclick' and voila, 0.5-click-shopping.
Woo woo woo, let's make some money!!
--
Azrael - The Angel of Death
Replying to my earlier post using M13 now.
:)
Proves persistance pays.
This is second try though, last time I tried to reply using M13 (I was typing that it hadn't even crashed on me) it crashed. My own fault for temptiong fate.
I just wanted to add:
Speed....... slow. (but so is IE here)
Rendering... Needs improvement, but can live with it for now.
Overall summary: If at first you don't succed, try try again. And if you do you'll just maybe be impressed.
I downloaded M13 (serious probs w/ IE won't bore you with).
:(
But I can't get it to accept a proxy and work.
No proxy is not an option for me
Have I missed something? Does the proxy only work for you?
</whine>
Well, it is only an alpha....
I think the point is that patent system was never designed to cope with the Internet. Folks like CDNow are taking advantage of that to make a buck. Sure, it's a land grab and it's wide open. But this is happening so fast that nobody has bothered to think up the ground rules, never mind set them down in legal code. We have to proclaim some things on the Internet as "public" domain, instead of letting CDNow put up tolls. That's the way to keep it growing.
This is very true, there are few ground rules, and the internet has often been compared to anarchy.
However the idea to make up a group to object to these patents is not that good an idea.
Sure it will break those patents which should be broken due to prior art etc, but what about those bloody obvious patents that no one ever used 'cause they didn't get around to it?
Some things just _are_ patentable, and that's damn annoying.
The only solution is to form a group with the specific intention of seeking out all these 'bloody obvious ideas'(TM) and patenting them first, then freely licensing them.
With an anarchy like the internet the only way to make rules, is to force them to be made.
So who's with me on patenting _everything_ and licensing it for free?
--Azrael
> Want to save koalas? Kill your fucking cat!
Ok, who wants to join me in the ritual sacrifice of cats in Europe to help preserve koalas??
Ummmm... jcr.... you are sure this will help aren't you??
.sig#2 'I'm a biro person really. Cheap and expendable'
*
*It will come, to anyone who thinks they can rape *a species and get away with it. It might not *come in form we are expecting, but it is *inevitable...
*
I thought they stuck wires into the cats brains, not raped them.... but maybe that was part of another experiment.
But seriously, some might complain about cruelty to animals and that we wouldn't treat humans like that etc..
What a lot of nonsense, we _would_ treat humans like that if we could get away with it..
Umm... when I say 'we' I'm not meaning me, uh-uh, no... the jury found insufficient evidence to prosecute me!!
.sig#8 'The whole wide world is a tiny town'
telnet://luna.cs.unm.edu:6767