There's a guy in my Networking class who works for the local sherriff's department. Recently he was telling us about the instructions that were given by one of his superiors with regard to a certain class of inmates in the county jail, namely migrant workers: "They're not citizens, and you don't really have to worry about protecting their rights. So if one of them gives you any lip, do whatever comes natural." (Or words to that effect.) My classmate then went on to say that this same superior recommended a piece of soap inside a sock as a good correctional instrument for use with non-citizens, since it doesn't leave obvious marks.
Boy, that really made me feel proud to be an American, I can tell you.
I find Bowie rather refreshing. He's always pushed the envelope.
Speaking of Reeves Gabrels, I've burned up 2 or 3 copies of the first Tin Machine album he and DB did with the Sales brothers (those are Soupy's boys, for you 60s/70s TV rerun fans). He plays guitar like a freakin' chainsaw. Thoroughly awesome.
With the way Mozilla is going, its very possible that in a few years, IE will be the only "modern browser"
Um, why don't you actually tryM10 milestone or a recent nightly build of Mozilla before you going saying things like that? You'll look a lot less foolish that way, my friend.:-)
Mozilla should be out by the end of this year. Even though it's still technically a pre-beta, it's already more standards-compliant (as in the latest ones for HTML, CSS, XML, DOM from W3C and for scripting from ECMA) than any version of MSIE. I don't know what your definition of "modern" is, but that sure as heck sounds pretty durn close to mine.
I say fie! upon Micro$oft's bloated, non-compliant "Internet Extensions to Windows" and the hideously twisted source code from whence they sprang. Let it keep them. Moz is doing just fine without them, thank you very much.
The preceding has been a public service of Zontar The Mindless, who has no official connection to Mozilla.org, just knows a good thing when he sees it.:-)
Do you really think that some 50 yearold hi court judge knows shit about computers?
Have you actually read what Judge Jackson wrote? The guy has done his homework. His findings are remarkably bare of technospeak and legalese, and do a damned fine job of presenting the facts in nice, plain, unintimidating English.
So, in a word, the answer to your question is Yes.
When I voted in this poll, there was a 46% "No" response rate to the question "Do you agree that Microsoft has monopoly power and that consumers have been harmed?" Given that the poll convenently disappears from the page once it has finished loading in Netscape, this is hardly surprising. (I had to copy & paste the URL into MSIE in order to vote.)
BTW, this appears to be standard practice with all M$NBC.com polls I've ever seen. Or am I the only one to have experienced this problem^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfeature?
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can even fool Zontar The Mindless from time to time -- but these guys ain't fooling me one bit.
Somebody please roto-root these spammers/scammers into last week.
Remember, 70% of all Internet servers, for example, are Apache (OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE!) and that means they are running either Unix or one of its various clones.
Not necessarily. I'm running Apache 1.3.9 on a Windows box right now. (It's strictly a testbed, not connected to the Net or anything, btw. ) Downloaded the binaries from apache.org, didn't even have to compile.
'This did in some way "bail Apple out" in that it lent Apple some badly needed credibility...' + '...it is a misinterpretation of the facts to say that "Microsoft bailed Apple out"' = NON SEQUITUR;
Either it did or it didn't. FWIW, I think, since (by your own admission) the MS actions helped (re-)legitimize Apple in the eyes of the public and thus jerked Apple's cojones out of the fire, it was in fact a bailout. No, the money itself didn't mean a whole lot; however, the PR value of what was done with the money did.
As of this posting, the Red Hat trademark story is still at LWN, and it says nothing about "Official" -- it refers only to the term "Red Hat."
Just in case there's anyone else out there who may have forgotten what a scroll bar is for, I'll quote from the LWN story (yes, I chopped some out -- I'm quoting, not copying, okay?):
Apparently (we have not been able to confirm this) Amazon.com was given a verbal "cease and desist" order by David Shumannfang, Red Hat's attorney, requiring them to stop selling products with the term "Red Hat" in the title.... Amazon turned around and told a number of its auction vendors to stop using "Red Hat" in their products....
... Mr. Sands claims to have discussed the problem with Red Hat's legal department; Red Hat has denied, in a communication to LWN, that this discussion took place. However, Mr. Sands is quite specific with regard to exactly who he talked to and when....
Amazon has apparently stopped telling vendors to avoid the "Red Hat" term, pending some sort of written notification from Red Hat.... [A] coherent response from Red Hat seems to be hard to come by. They will not confirm that they are cracking down on trademark usage.
One possible outcome may be that RH will realize that it needs the services of an attorney who can do a little better than to issue a "verbal warning" and then leave on vacation. If indeed he did so, as we know nothing about this other than what Amazon has claimed. Or it may turn out that somebody at Amazon hit the panic button. Or it may turn out that RH is indeed tightening up on unauthorized use of its trademark.
Until we have it in writing from RH, it's nothing but a game of corporate Humour Rumour.
...the geek community shouldn't hold Sagan up as proof that marijuana can benefit society.No, but they can certainly point to him as an example that smoking cannbis does not magically turn you into some sort of vile, lazy, diseased, maddened ogre, either. It's called "simple disproof by glaring counterexample."
What next? Random inspections of everyone's machine to see if there's anything illegal!?
Why not? They already make you pee in a bottle, just in case something illegal might turn up there.
But don't you fret -- before long, they'll be able to monitor our thoughts directly, and then we'll finally be able to dispense with all this inconvenient "freedom" and "legal rights" crap...
I wish Rob would modify his discussion code so that any post containing the string "first post" would automatically be posted to/dev/null instead of to the discussion page.
It's happening again right now. Check out the forums at SJ Merc, NYT, CNN... same one or two people in all those places spewing their Randroid rants and making anything like meaningful discussion well nigh impossible. Look for posts from someone variously calling himself "Steve Stoddard" and "Goodold_Lucifer"...
...in the same way that Discordianism is a "religion"?
Are you insinuating that Discordianism is not a religion? I'm afraid the Region of Thud awaits scoffers like you. Repent!
More seriously: We should just start our own real Open Source country. I'm not joining anything that mentions VBScript in a positive light in its Constititution, that's for sure.
OTOH, I installed Red Hat 5.1 in October. I did it by my own little lonesome. I knew no Unix commands. I knew no C or C++ (still don't, although I'll be taking classes in it this fall). I've never compiled a kernel. I gritted my teeth, crossed my fingers, plopped the Red Hat CD in the drive, and basically let it do its thing. I got my monitor, mouse, and printer configured successfully. I got X configured successfully. I had to reinstall 2 or 3 times (each time because I messed with something I shouldn't have, screwed that something up and couldn't figure out how to fix it). I've upgraded to RH 6.0. And reinstalled that at least once since then (because -- guess what? -- I messed with something I shouldn't have, screwed that something up and couldn't figure out how to fix it). That's at least 5 Linux installations I've done in this machine. How many times have I ever done a successful Windows install? Not even once.
I'm still a lot more comfortable doing things on the Windows side. I'm still not a very capable Linux user. In point of fact -- and I'll be the first to admit it -- I'm very close to to being a complete fscking moron on the Linux side of things. I dual-boot because I am, alas, still largely dependent on Windows to get my work done. But I do have a working Linux installation. And I can do a few interesting and occasionally useful things with it. I can even do some of those things from the command line.
If a relatively clueless type such as myself can do a Linux install and have it work on the first try, then either (a) I'm actually a genius of godlike proportions and don't know it or (b) at least one Linux distro has reached the point where a clueless moron can install it. Much as I'd love to flatter myself by thinking that the former is true, the fact of the matter is that I'm probably not anything close to being a "genius".
Just something for the naysayers to think about...
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Zontar The Mindless,
Boy, that really made me feel proud to be an American, I can tell you.
Zontar The Mindless,
Speaking of Reeves Gabrels, I've burned up 2 or 3 copies of the first Tin Machine album he and DB did with the Sales brothers (those are Soupy's boys, for you 60s/70s TV rerun fans). He plays guitar like a freakin' chainsaw. Thoroughly awesome.
Zontar The Mindless,
Mozilla should be out by the end of this year. Even though it's still technically a pre-beta, it's already more standards-compliant (as in the latest ones for HTML, CSS, XML, DOM from W3C and for scripting from ECMA) than any version of MSIE. I don't know what your definition of "modern" is, but that sure as heck sounds pretty durn close to mine.
I say fie! upon Micro$oft's bloated, non-compliant "Internet Extensions to Windows" and the hideously twisted source code from whence they sprang. Let it keep them. Moz is doing just fine without them, thank you very much.
The preceding has been a public service of Zontar The Mindless, who has no official connection to Mozilla.org, just knows a good thing when he sees it. :-)
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
So, in a word, the answer to your question is Yes.
Zontar The Mindless,
BTW, this appears to be standard practice with all M$NBC.com polls I've ever seen. Or am I the only one to have experienced this problem^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfeature?
Zontar The Mindless,
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can even fool Zontar The Mindless from time to time -- but these guys ain't fooling me one bit.
Somebody please roto-root these spammers/scammers into last week.
Thank you.
Zontar The Mindless,
Let's do the Time Warp agaaaaaaainnnn...
Zontar The Mindless,
Hmmmm... perhaps it's time to change my sig line? ;-)
Zontar The Mindless,
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
Linux + Moz sounds pretty cool to me. :-)
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
Either it did or it didn't. FWIW, I think, since (by your own admission) the MS actions helped (re-)legitimize Apple in the eyes of the public and thus jerked Apple's cojones out of the fire, it was in fact a bailout. No, the money itself didn't mean a whole lot; however, the PR value of what was done with the money did.
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
As of this posting, the Red Hat trademark story is still at LWN, and it says nothing about "Official" -- it refers only to the term "Red Hat."
Just in case there's anyone else out there who may have forgotten what a scroll bar is for, I'll quote from the LWN story (yes, I chopped some out -- I'm quoting, not copying, okay?):
One possible outcome may be that RH will realize that it needs the services of an attorney who can do a little better than to issue a "verbal warning" and then leave on vacation. If indeed he did so, as we know nothing about this other than what Amazon has claimed. Or it may turn out that somebody at Amazon hit the panic button. Or it may turn out that RH is indeed tightening up on unauthorized use of its trademark.
Until we have it in writing from RH, it's nothing but a game of corporate Humour Rumour.
Now un-knot yer undies and get some sleep.
--Z.
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
...
But just in case you do, get in touch with me if you'd like to buy the Golden Gate Bridge for a mere $10,000.
Better yet, just send me a blank check. I'll take care of all the little details like amount, payee, date, etc., for you. <G>
Zontar The Mindless,
But don't you fret -- before long, they'll be able to monitor our thoughts directly, and then we'll finally be able to dispense with all this inconvenient "freedom" and "legal rights" crap...
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
Zontar The Mindless,
More seriously: We should just start our own real Open Source country. I'm not joining anything that mentions VBScript in a positive light in its Constititution, that's for sure.
Zontar The Mindless,
I'm still a lot more comfortable doing things on the Windows side. I'm still not a very capable Linux user. In point of fact -- and I'll be the first to admit it -- I'm very close to to being a complete fscking moron on the Linux side of things. I dual-boot because I am, alas, still largely dependent on Windows to get my work done. But I do have a working Linux installation. And I can do a few interesting and occasionally useful things with it. I can even do some of those things from the command line.
If a relatively clueless type such as myself can do a Linux install and have it work on the first try, then either (a) I'm actually a genius of godlike proportions and don't know it or (b) at least one Linux distro has reached the point where a clueless moron can install it. Much as I'd love to flatter myself by thinking that the former is true, the fact of the matter is that I'm probably not anything close to being a "genius".
Just something for the naysayers to think about...
Zontar The Mindless,