I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the
whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with
people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any
random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
Umm, I resent that, I'm in it for the +5 Funny.
But I was really hoping this particular wanking session wouldn't overflow
into Linux-kernel.
How could it not? Oh, I don't know, maybe by answering on the wanking session board instead of LKML.
I do appreciate his position. However, the whole thing makes me feel icky.
Cease and Desist from a Linux® Organization. Kinda Like getting a disease from immunization (no offeense RFK jr.)
Hmm, is it really a foregone conclusion that all "Corporate Media" has to have DRM?
IF they lose "Market Share" to non DRM media, would they not "shift their paradigm" to "adopt a more consumer friendly approch" to "increase profitability"?
OTOH, if it is a forgone conclusion, Should we not see and shape our own prison?
Every survey asked of customers includes questions to determine how many rights they can take away from us and still get $19.95. Not, surprisingly, most of the "Sheeple" answer the same way they do about the HomeLand Security Civil Rights grab. "I'm willing to give up some rights in the name of security." Seriously need better history curriculum in the US.
From WIKIQuote Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, Ben Franklin"
So on the "Gripping Hand" I have to say no to SUN and their recruitment efforts. I can not support the cause and ease the stockholders minds. If you want to make money off of media, produce and distribute good media. We'll buy it, maybe even in multiple formats, just for convience sake. You can't expect us to keep replacing our media forever.
For any execs who may be reading. Here's my little buying habit rant.
#1 Word of Mouth/Web introduction to Media$
Web Site or Friend or TV or Radio with full unencrypted Song/Movie/Vide/Level.
#2 Evaluate on merits.
No Brainer for us, completely misunderstood by the suits. No matter how good Bob and Steve said it was, if it sucks I say it Sucks. GOTO END
#3 Purchase Media.
This Means:
Video: I've seen a low quality Video off the web, I'd like to own it for the extras and repeated viewing and portability. DVD, DIVX download would be nice.
Audio: I've listened to a couple of tracks and I'd like to hear the rest, DVD, CD, MP3 or OGG Download would be best. Haven't bought an audio CD in 5yrs, maybe 3 in 10 yrs.
Game: Played the Demo. Verified it works on my System, Verified it was FUN, etertaining. Buy the Box, Downloadable ISO would be nice. Verify the MD5 associated with my Name to prove its mine ONCE.
TV: Watch a few episodes and realized I've missed the story, DVD Season purchase. Examples, Firefly, BattleStar Galactica. PBS/Discover/National Geographic.
Books: I read a ton of PDFs, as a matter of course for work. Out of that ton, I need 4 or 5 every 6 to 8 months. I purchase them, again for portability and repeated reference. Open Source Books understand this well, free PDFs sell DTF (Dead Tree Format) Books. I read all of the daVinci code first and then purchased it for my library.
Take notice of something here that the Studios/Publishers don't, they only involve them selves in the last part. Buying of the MEDIA the plastic/vinyl/paper/dvd. The art they put on the media is the best advertisement for the plastic/box/paper product. That's why concerts sell albulms, remember?
Joe Blancato, writing for the WarCry Network, a nest of Web sites that attracts more than one million enthusiasts of games, technology and entertainment, observed of the Microsoft-Exent deal:
"It's just another baby step toward the death of retail, that glorious day when we're not paying $20 for a box and $20 for a game. Instead, we'll probably just be paying $40 for just the game, but at least it'll go into the developers' pockets rather than a publisher."
Yeah that's what Microsoft, as a publisher, is trying to do. I do hope he is right though as a developer.
How much farther can geeks beat a joke into the ground?
Pretty Damn Far, I personally try to beat on or two a day.Hipocrisy?
The Microsoft Borg joke wasn't funny to begin with, yet slashdot keeps flogging it to death for some reason.
Ask Bungie, Rare and a list of thousands. May not be funny but would be stupid to ignore. All I can say is, assimilate me Bill, I could use the money.
Our of all the topic icons on slashdot, only Microsoft gets the crappy, derogatory icon. Why is that?
I dunno, why don't we have a derogatory SCO Icon? Isn't the MS logo some kind of trademark, We'd have scientology lawyers all over the place, no way, no thanks.
It's also funny how many Microsoft ads there are on slashdot.
What do you mean funny? Funny like a clown! Are we here to squeak our noses and amuse you? (Ok I'm here for that anyone else?/squeak)
You guys hate them so much, yet have no problem taking their advertising dollars.
This is the easiest to explain. We hate them so much for a lot of VALID reasons. But I think #1 is they have all the IT/Software money. It's a bitch to make a buck writing code. Guess what, if they wanna give me cash because I say they suck, right under their logo, How could I refuse? They are funding this conversation about why we think they suck Right now.
Nice hypocrisy there.
You're new here, hunh? We stand for what we stand for and nothing else. MS has a right to sell software/meeses/KBs/XBOXS/CellPhone/ADVERTISING and we have the right to bitch about, well, pretty much whatever we want. (as witnessed by your troll) And take whatever scraps they feed us.
As I click my bright orange Microsoft Optical wireless mouse on Submit I ask are you full yet?
Why doesn't this cover the Trademark Maintenance Fees? Do they (OSDL) pay Trademark licenses?
Help me Linus, We need you to tell us why "you" don't pay your lawyers and why we should.
This whole thing is unfortunate FUD-food. I'm even having a hard time deciding on good vs evil on this one. Is the name worth 200 bucks to me, hmmm. The Distro OS is, The kernel only, I dunno man. Now every OS vendor has to pay or make up a new name. I think I'll call mine NewYorknix there, now I'm in the clear.
This video workshop for K-6 teachers explores the scientific meaning of energy and examines the role it plays in motion, machines, the body, and the universe. http://learner.org/resources/series160.html
A Private Universe
This video documentary for grade 5-12 educators explores why students from early grades to Ivy League graduates don't really grasp basic science concepts.http://learner.org/resources/series28.htm l
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Yank his account but, I don't see any LAWS broken, but then again IANAJL.
Hmmm, Health monitoring Location aware. Sounds like a no brainer.
Ok, send the squad in, 8 blips in the green.....7 blips peaking heart rate.. air cover now,now... 6 blips. Pull those men out.
Mark location of 2 down soldiers for pickup.
Piracy doesn't dent MS's revenues, since they get the Dells and HPs of the world to pay them for every box they ship. Apple doesn't have that luxury.
But, they just as easily could. Apple Hardware = Mac osX86 on a card or USB dongle. Certified OSX86 stickers for OEMs. Cash Cow.
I think it would be the ultimate Irony if they could work a deal with http://www.lenovo.com/think/us/en/index.html IBM PCs produced not by IBM, OS Software produced not by IBM.
The best language is the one that the teacher can teach well. If the teacher can't do a good job explaining the language, it doesn't matter how good the language is for programming...
Don't know about you, My teachers taught me how to learn. Maybe some of it was incopentence or ignorance, maybe it was the fact that we were both looking at the computerized typewriter (no kidding Paper output only) for the first time. The very best example (and I use this with my children) is to say "I don't know, lets find out." I learned this early and often. How to find out is often way more important than the information you may need at this very second.
I later have had brilliant teachers try to impart what they know in the short time they have, and fail miserably with 90% of the class. Computer Programming is just Composition: Syntax, punctuation, Form and Logic(hopefully). But the rules change from language to language.
Reference Documentation is our life. The trick is how do you make the students want to know bad enough to read the dry docs.
I second Python and Pygame, for reasons already covered.
I also recommend the Excellent "Thinking in..." books by Bruce Eckels. C++, Java and Python(haven't read that one, yet.)http://www.mindview.net/Books
But my best recommendation, dont laugh:
Microchips PIC assembler. Short BOOKS/command list, lots of intro to memory, bits, arrays, data flow, Structure and syntax.Throw in some basic electronics. Nice introduction to the complexities of how things work.
Good C compilers but much bigger instruction set really should have c background first.
I got my site to print in any font I want the time AND date, powered by php, baby!
Ok, you got my click. Nice Layout, But the speed, oh god man, are you extolling the virtues of PHP with your private site, ON SLASHDOT? Maybe its just the effect of being posted here, but You scared me off PHP forever if your site is any indication of its speed. Because I realize you could be on a slow DSL or a Slow PC or Slashdotting, I am forced to withold my ASSessment, untill I check it again off PEEK hours.
Yeah that's it, that's why I bookmarked it.
BTW, It is customary to use the abbreviation NSFW when you post a link like this.
I took over during his last year (started helping him DEBUG), The Company did pay him, but poorly. Based on this experience, good example of "you get what you pay for". (They could have paid him a mint and he still wouldn't be able to code his way out of a for/next loop.)
AS 1 IT/MIS/Software Engineer/Embedded Linux Engineer, I just don't see the need to divert my energy to a "mostly working" set of apps right now. Damn, I guess in my case you get four times what you pay for.
I spent some time as a PC tech, both corp and retail.
The EFF argues the police need a warrant. This repair tech gave them all they need for a warrant. Did they get one? No. Throw it out. Doesn't matter what the files were. (PATRIOT not withstanding). Due process is the LAW. (IANAL) But the trial judges threw it out & that's good enough for me. Sloppy police work sends crimnals home everyday, this is just another one.
As for expectaion of privacy, hmm. If I give you a folder full of sensitive documents and ask you to rearrange them alphabetically, my expectation goes out the window doesn't it.
Now, do they have reasonable cause to get his ISP records, I dunno, forbidden fruit & all.
Recompiling. Ha! I want to eradicate the offending and I do mean OFFENDING, code. Some of it uses ACCESS for crying out loud. If you don't know exactly "his" way, you can easily crash the Server Apps from the admin GUI. Yet, it still works, sort of. (If you don't delete any records.)
Damn VB programmers, no validation of forms before submit, no sanity checks, no freakin tab order. (Unexcusable: First Name - Tab - Start Hour -TAB- Middle Initial -Tab- PIN -TAB- Stop Hour -TAB- Submit -TAB- Last name) Oh the humanity (Computerity? Compu-titty? snicker.)
No offense to our VB using friends, he could have coded it morse and fscked it all up.
Slashdot Mirror
Linus Speaking is more newsworthy than EF Hutton in the 80s.
He did. http://lwn.net/Articles/148590/
I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
Umm, I resent that, I'm in it for the +5 Funny.
But I was really hoping this particular wanking session wouldn't overflow into Linux-kernel.
How could it not? Oh, I don't know, maybe by answering on the wanking session board instead of LKML.
I do appreciate his position. However, the whole thing makes me feel icky.
Cease and Desist from a Linux® Organization. Kinda Like getting a disease from immunization (no offeense RFK jr.)
In the interest of FUD-Stomping I offer this : http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/5 jul18.htm
Don't miss this part. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee200
That's just in th U.S.A. It is expensive and Requires all of this licensing.
My advice, Choose another name for you Distro/Service Company. Attribute Linux® trademark to Linus. Hmm, Time to change sigs.
IF they lose "Market Share" to non DRM media, would they not "shift their paradigm" to "adopt a more consumer friendly approch" to "increase profitability"?
OTOH, if it is a forgone conclusion, Should we not see and shape our own prison?
Every survey asked of customers includes questions to determine how many rights they can take away from us and still get $19.95. Not, surprisingly, most of the "Sheeple" answer the same way they do about the HomeLand Security Civil Rights grab. "I'm willing to give up some rights in the name of security." Seriously need better history curriculum in the US.
From WIKIQuote Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, Ben Franklin"
So on the "Gripping Hand" I have to say no to SUN and their recruitment efforts. I can not support the cause and ease the stockholders minds. If you want to make money off of media, produce and distribute good media. We'll buy it, maybe even in multiple formats, just for convience sake. You can't expect us to keep replacing our media forever.
For any execs who may be reading. Here's my little buying habit rant.
#1 Word of Mouth/Web introduction to Media$
Web Site or Friend or TV or Radio with full unencrypted Song/Movie/Vide/Level.
#2 Evaluate on merits.
No Brainer for us, completely misunderstood by the suits. No matter how good Bob and Steve said it was, if it sucks I say it Sucks. GOTO END
#3 Purchase Media.
This Means:
Video: I've seen a low quality Video off the web, I'd like to own it for the extras and repeated viewing and portability. DVD, DIVX download would be nice.
Audio: I've listened to a couple of tracks and I'd like to hear the rest, DVD, CD, MP3 or OGG Download would be best. Haven't bought an audio CD in 5yrs, maybe 3 in 10 yrs.
Game: Played the Demo. Verified it works on my System, Verified it was FUN, etertaining. Buy the Box, Downloadable ISO would be nice. Verify the MD5 associated with my Name to prove its mine ONCE.
TV: Watch a few episodes and realized I've missed the story, DVD Season purchase. Examples, Firefly, BattleStar Galactica. PBS/Discover/National Geographic.
Books: I read a ton of PDFs, as a matter of course for work. Out of that ton, I need 4 or 5 every 6 to 8 months. I purchase them, again for portability and repeated reference. Open Source Books understand this well, free PDFs sell DTF (Dead Tree Format) Books. I read all of the daVinci code first and then purchased it for my library.
Take notice of something here that the Studios/Publishers don't, they only involve them selves in the last part. Buying of the MEDIA the plastic/vinyl/paper/dvd. The art they put on the media is the best advertisement for the plastic/box/paper product. That's why concerts sell albulms, remember?
"It's just another baby step toward the death of retail, that glorious day when we're not paying $20 for a box and $20 for a game. Instead, we'll probably just be paying $40 for just the game, but at least it'll go into the developers' pockets rather than a publisher."
Yeah that's what Microsoft, as a publisher, is trying to do. I do hope he is right though as a developer.
Pretty Damn Far, I personally try to beat on or two a day.Hipocrisy?
The Microsoft Borg joke wasn't funny to begin with, yet slashdot keeps flogging it to death for some reason.
Ask Bungie, Rare and a list of thousands. May not be funny but would be stupid to ignore. All I can say is, assimilate me Bill, I could use the money.
Our of all the topic icons on slashdot, only Microsoft gets the crappy, derogatory icon. Why is that?
I dunno, why don't we have a derogatory SCO Icon? Isn't the MS logo some kind of trademark, We'd have scientology lawyers all over the place, no way, no thanks.
It's also funny how many Microsoft ads there are on slashdot.
What do you mean funny? Funny like a clown! Are we here to squeak our noses and amuse you? (Ok I'm here for that anyone else? /squeak)
You guys hate them so much, yet have no problem taking their advertising dollars.
This is the easiest to explain. We hate them so much for a lot of VALID reasons. But I think #1 is they have all the IT/Software money. It's a bitch to make a buck writing code. Guess what, if they wanna give me cash because I say they suck, right under their logo, How could I refuse? They are funding this conversation about why we think they suck Right now.
Nice hypocrisy there.
You're new here, hunh? We stand for what we stand for and nothing else. MS has a right to sell software/meeses/KBs/XBOXS/CellPhone/ADVERTISING and we have the right to bitch about, well, pretty much whatever we want. (as witnessed by your troll) And take whatever scraps they feed us.
As I click my bright orange Microsoft Optical wireless mouse on Submit I ask are you full yet?
I ran away from collectible cards back in the Hologram 90s.
These won't have holograms will they? Maybe I'll just buy 1 pack.
D'oh
Guess again.
Change the letters on the sign and put on your ties. Hurry.
I shall not soon forget the injustice done to me and mine.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050816
SlashDot, Check./ 1154231
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/19
LinuxMark, Check.
http://www.linuxmark.org/what_if.html
Hmm, something is missing. LINUS' words?, no, LKML, nope, Blog Entry, nada, maybe OSDL, Hmmm
http://osdl.org/about_osdl/legal/lldf
Why doesn't this cover the Trademark Maintenance Fees? Do they (OSDL) pay Trademark licenses?
Help me Linus, We need you to tell us why "you" don't pay your lawyers and why we should.
This whole thing is unfortunate FUD-food. I'm even having a hard time deciding on good vs evil on this one. Is the name worth 200 bucks to me, hmmm. The Distro OS is, The kernel only, I dunno man. Now every OS vendor has to pay or make up a new name. I think I'll call mine NewYorknix there, now I'm in the clear.
Seriously, We need you guidance Mr. T.
@ Learner.org
Science in Focus: Energy
This video workshop for K-6 teachers explores the scientific meaning of energy and examines the role it plays in motion, machines, the body, and the universe. http://learner.org/resources/series160.html
A Private Universe This video documentary for grade 5-12 educators explores why students from early grades to Ivy League graduates don't really grasp basic science concepts.http://learner.org/resources/series28.htm l
EduMUcate Yourself man. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/index.htm
Take a good look around those last two sites.
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Yank his account but, I don't see any LAWS broken, but then again IANAJL.
http://www.tadspec.com/lifecare/
and
http://communications.siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0, 2241,hq_en_0_109181_rArNrNrNrN_2%253A3,00.html
Ok, send the squad in, 8 blips in the green.....7 blips peaking heart rate.. air cover now,now ... 6 blips. Pull those men out.
Mark location of 2 down soldiers for pickup.
Course you have to seriously encrypt the blips.
Not so far fetched. According to Siemens (they make the GPRS radio chips) http://communications.siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0, 2241,hq_en_0_110776_rArNrNrNrN,00.html, the "watch" is to be manufactured by Tadiran a well know military equipment supplier based in Isreal. http://www.tadspec.com/home.php.
Is that like partially owned by Iran? Tad-Iran?
I think it would be the ultimate Irony if they could work a deal with http://www.lenovo.com/think/us/en/index.html IBM PCs produced not by IBM, OS Software produced not by IBM.
Worked for Microsoft, Can't beat 'em Join 'em.
Don't know about you, My teachers taught me how to learn. Maybe some of it was incopentence or ignorance, maybe it was the fact that we were both looking at the computerized typewriter (no kidding Paper output only) for the first time. The very best example (and I use this with my children) is to say "I don't know, lets find out." I learned this early and often. How to find out is often way more important than the information you may need at this very second.
I later have had brilliant teachers try to impart what they know in the short time they have, and fail miserably with 90% of the class. Computer Programming is just Composition: Syntax, punctuation, Form and Logic(hopefully). But the rules change from language to language.
Reference Documentation is our life.
The trick is how do you make the students want to know bad enough to read the dry docs.
Along those lines may I suggest you throw http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ at them.
I second Python and Pygame, for reasons already covered.
I also recommend the Excellent "Thinking in..." books by Bruce Eckels. C++, Java and Python(haven't read that one, yet.)http://www.mindview.net/Books But my best recommendation, dont laugh:
Microchips PIC assembler. Short BOOKS/command list, lots of intro to memory, bits, arrays, data flow, Structure and syntax.Throw in some basic electronics. Nice introduction to the complexities of how things work.
Good C compilers but much bigger instruction set really should have c background first.
VB.net Bad......VB EvIL
Basic lesser of three.
Unsubstaniated Rumors for Mongers. Stuff that doesn't mean shit.
OK, How hard is it to repeat before Respected IT professionals? Just once before presstime.
Proprietary not WiFi. The previous 125 mile record is across the Las Vegas desert using standard 802.11b Wi-Fi radios.
Even if they actually beat the distance with 132, it requires using proprietary equipment.
Never gonna beat those pigeon guys.
Ok, you got my click. Nice Layout, But the speed, oh god man, are you extolling the virtues of PHP with your private site, ON SLASHDOT? Maybe its just the effect of being posted here, but You scared me off PHP forever if your site is any indication of its speed. Because I realize you could be on a slow DSL or a Slow PC or Slashdotting, I am forced to withold my ASSessment, untill I check it again off PEEK hours.
Yeah that's it, that's why I bookmarked it.
BTW, It is customary to use the abbreviation NSFW when you post a link like this.
I took over during his last year (started helping him DEBUG), The Company did pay him, but poorly. Based on this experience, good example of "you get what you pay for". (They could have paid him a mint and he still wouldn't be able to code his way out of a for/next loop.)
AS 1 IT/MIS/Software Engineer/Embedded Linux Engineer, I just don't see the need to divert my energy to a "mostly working" set of apps right now. Damn, I guess in my case you get four times what you pay for.
The EFF argues the police need a warrant. This repair tech gave them all they need for a warrant. Did they get one? No. Throw it out. Doesn't matter what the files were. (PATRIOT not withstanding). Due process is the LAW. (IANAL) But the trial judges threw it out & that's good enough for me. Sloppy police work sends crimnals home everyday, this is just another one.
As for expectaion of privacy, hmm. If I give you a folder full of sensitive documents and ask you to rearrange them alphabetically, my expectation goes out the window doesn't it.
Now, do they have reasonable cause to get his ISP records, I dunno, forbidden fruit & all.
Step 2.Read Article
Step 3.Respond to asinine comments.
Guess my work here is done.
I have noticed people tend to hang on to the Link though.
No sir, but we do have 700 copies of Madden, NBA Street, NHL 200(1)(2)(3)(4)(5) at 6 bucks a pop.
http://mirrordot.org/stories/0e4768d9cefb72835cc26 04c911d6919/index.html
Nifty Display though. Cost anyone?
Damn VB programmers, no validation of forms before submit, no sanity checks, no freakin tab order. (Unexcusable: First Name - Tab - Start Hour -TAB- Middle Initial -Tab- PIN -TAB- Stop Hour -TAB- Submit -TAB- Last name) Oh the humanity (Computerity? Compu-titty? snicker.)
No offense to our VB using friends, he could have coded it morse and fscked it all up.