The Patriot Act is just like the DMCA. It's proponents are afraid to use its most draconian measures for fear that the result would be the courts striking the whole thing from the books. The Patriot Act, like the DMCA, is a means to cower the defenseless. No one who has the means to defend themselves will be attacked with any controversial provisions in the Patriot Act. In other words, the prohibition against the media reporting seizures is irrelevent, because no one the media would care to report on will be targetted by the seizure provisions.
Support the folks that regard as important the same ideals you regard as important. Amazon is not your friend. The Tattered Cover is. They are fighting the good fight, and at no small cost to themselves. You should thank them by sending them your business and your friends' business.
I'll bet no Vivendi exec has even [h]eard about bnetd.
Then you just go ahead and rush out to buy WC3 and contribute to the Bnetd legal harrassment fund. After all, Vivendi never heard of it, so there's no way any harm could be done.
The pressure hull is constructed of cylindrical sections of transparent structural acrylic - Lucite is the tradename, I think - about 8" thick. The portholes are made where the outer hull has porthole-shaped cut-outs to expose the lucite and create a window. The outer hull is shaped to give the cylindrical pressure hull better hydrodynamics.
Just in case anyone forgot, see Subject. C|Net seems unaware, and refers to Overture as if they had always existed. But it's still the same Idealab-spawned dot-com-bubble outfit that sued Disney's Go.com for trademark infringment and won.
Right on about the cheap CRTs. I have a Nanao T2-17TS that I bought in 1995 for just under $1000. It still has a beautiful picture, and can support high refresh rates even at 1600x1200. The controls are modern, and it has all the adjustments you could want, including Moire and tilt controls. It has HD-15 and RGB BNC inputs. Also, the video cable separates from the monitor, which is an important feature you don't get with el-cheapos.
I think the PC I owned at the time had a mighty AMD 486-100 CPU, and a VESA localbus video card from Orchid. Seven years later it looks even better with a P-III and a GeForce3 driving it. I also have a Micron brand 19" monitor, that came with my Micron brand PC, but it just does not have the sharpness of the Nanao. And the video cable is permanently attached.
My new Inspiron 8100 laptop with Radeon Mobility 7500 (64Mb!) and 15" UXGA+ is the first laptop I have used that is definitely game-ready. The display is fast - really fast (< 25ms up/down cycle). Q3A at 1600x1200x32 is awesome, with only the slightest touch of shearing or smearing. It totally kicks butt.
If it is, so what? Discrimination is perfectly legal. I will have coffee without milk, so I am discriminating against milk. I have a PC without Windows, I am discriminating against Windows. Big deal. What is your point?
That's funny. I say the same things about people who believe they are going to heaven. It's no good to forsake the real world for an imagined world, and any moral philosophy that does that, is bankrupt on its face.
You seem to be implying that code reuse stifles innovation. Why should anyone invent a new way to interact with the web, when the OS supplies The Way and makes it easy to use, and hard to adopt a different method? Why support a new codec when no one complains and revenue is not affected if I just support the ones that come with Windows?
This program WOULD NOT RUN if you stripped IE out of Windows.
Perhaps what is needed is a dependency resolver routine. What if there was a gigantic index of software available that could be searched in detail, and from the results you could fetch a component which would be transferred to your machine, so you could install it and resolve the dependency right there? Or maybe if you relied on third party software, the 3rd party might have some way of making their stuff available at any time, in case your customers didn't have it. I know, it's just a pipe dream...
The more 3rd parties are able to modify the layout and content of Windows, the more it will be a support nightmare. It's just a fact that, at my workplace, one quarter or so of windows users calling tech support don't know what version of Windows they're running and wouldn't know how to determine said version.
So you're saying that allowing Windows to be modularized by OEMs would make an already impossible situation.... more impossible?
At this point, they must be told that this icon does in fact exist and that they are a moron.
How do you know that icon exists? Did you or your staff install Windows on their machine? How come YOU don't know what version YOU installed?
What do we do when the users are using Dell Windows XP, Micron Windows XP or... Circuit City Windows XP?
Umm, put a bullet to your head for being incompetent? What IT shop allows users to install their own version of Windows? Sounds like self-inflicted sorrow to me.
Trying to support an OS the layout of which may be modified at all is a pain...
Oooo, a swipe at Linux distros....
...but trying to support an OS stripped apart and reassembled by the OEM to have their logo in every nook and cranny could be the nightmare Microsoft mentioned.
How so? No one can alter the binaries. Microsoft still possesses the source code to all the parts. They hold all the cards. If it's a support nightmare, it's because Microsoft made it so.
No operating system is as monolithic as Microsoft claims Windows is. If it runs in userland, it can be easily separated. The fact that you can install new programs that were't built by Microsoft proves it is not that monolithic. Are they next going to claim that Word and Excel are inseparable from Windows?
Furthermore, the assertion Microsoft is making is testable. There is source code, it can be examined, a determination of the facts can be made. Doesn't the court have a duty to verify Microsoft's claim of indivisibility?
I didn't uncheck any boxes. I want all those Yahoo offers to be sent to me in the postal mail. They are just too good to pass up! And I want all my Yahoo offers to be sent and stored on my Yahoo account. Soem of them are valid for YEARS after they are sent. You never know when you'll need one, so I'll keep them all on my free-of-charge Yahoo mailbox, forever.
But I just noticed that my street address and phone number are way out of date in my Yahoo account. I just updated it. Here's my new street address, to which all my paper mail will be sent:
Mr. Stop Spamming Me 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 408-530-5062
Of course, no one but me should be using that street address. I wouldn't want to get flooded with a bunch of paper spam at "my" street address, so don't any of you go changing your street address to send me any of your offers. No sir, that would not be very nice. Don't do that.
Yahoo Groups is home to a lot of special interests that I follow, mostly astronomy-related. The participants are getting particularly annoyed at the ads, since they foist them off on the email-participants as well as the on-website participants, who have been slogging through ads to read the damn list for some time now.
I don't mind advertising, it's a necessary evil for a lot of websites. But when it gets to the point that it drives people away, you're doing something wrong. The people on these astronomy lists are not rabid anti-spam geeks, they are not the type to setup automated Spamcop-reporting procmail recipes on their inbox. They have a lot of disposable income, since astro-imaging is not exactly a cheap hobby to get into (expenses are comparable to owning a large boat or an airplane, in many cases). Those are the people being driven away by excessive advertising.
Slashdot Mirror
I really hope they don't suffer lost business from the Slashdotting... I should buy Richard's book from them or something... ugh, Termcap!!! :(
The Patriot Act is just like the DMCA. It's proponents are afraid to use its most draconian measures for fear that the result would be the courts striking the whole thing from the books. The Patriot Act, like the DMCA, is a means to cower the defenseless. No one who has the means to defend themselves will be attacked with any controversial provisions in the Patriot Act. In other words, the prohibition against the media reporting seizures is irrelevent, because no one the media would care to report on will be targetted by the seizure provisions.
In the future, instead of linking to Amazon when you want to refer someone to a book, link to The Tattered Cover, like this:
The Termcap Manual, by Richard Stallman.
Support the folks that regard as important the same ideals you regard as important. Amazon is not your friend. The Tattered Cover is. They are fighting the good fight, and at no small cost to themselves. You should thank them by sending them your business and your friends' business.
I'll bet no Vivendi exec has even [h]eard about bnetd.
Then you just go ahead and rush out to buy WC3 and contribute to the Bnetd legal harrassment fund. After all, Vivendi never heard of it, so there's no way any harm could be done.
The pressure hull is constructed of cylindrical sections of transparent structural acrylic - Lucite is the tradename, I think - about 8" thick. The portholes are made where the outer hull has porthole-shaped cut-outs to expose the lucite and create a window. The outer hull is shaped to give the cylindrical pressure hull better hydrodynamics.
A turbine-powered helicopter is no longer the ultimate accoutrement to a superyacht.
Damn! I just had it painted to look like Airwolf!!
Just in case anyone forgot, see Subject. C|Net seems unaware, and refers to Overture as if they had always existed. But it's still the same Idealab-spawned dot-com-bubble outfit that sued Disney's Go.com for trademark infringment and won.
And they STILL haven't turned a profit.
Right on about the cheap CRTs. I have a Nanao T2-17TS that I bought in 1995 for just under $1000. It still has a beautiful picture, and can support high refresh rates even at 1600x1200. The controls are modern, and it has all the adjustments you could want, including Moire and tilt controls. It has HD-15 and RGB BNC inputs. Also, the video cable separates from the monitor, which is an important feature you don't get with el-cheapos.
I think the PC I owned at the time had a mighty AMD 486-100 CPU, and a VESA localbus video card from Orchid. Seven years later it looks even better with a P-III and a GeForce3 driving it. I also have a Micron brand 19" monitor, that came with my Micron brand PC, but it just does not have the sharpness of the Nanao. And the video cable is permanently attached.
My new Inspiron 8100 laptop with Radeon Mobility 7500 (64Mb!) and 15" UXGA+ is the first laptop I have used that is definitely game-ready. The display is fast - really fast (< 25ms up/down cycle). Q3A at 1600x1200x32 is awesome, with only the slightest touch of shearing or smearing. It totally kicks butt.
If it is, so what? Discrimination is perfectly legal. I will have coffee without milk, so I am discriminating against milk. I have a PC without Windows, I am discriminating against Windows. Big deal. What is your point?
...for a Klondike bar?
That's funny. I say the same things about people who believe they are going to heaven. It's no good to forsake the real world for an imagined world, and any moral philosophy that does that, is bankrupt on its face.
Here's my impression of Steven (you know, the Dell Dude):
"Ummm...... Nooo...."
Who died and made you Mr. Poopy Pants?
"The product was not designed to be modular," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with Giga Information Group.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say the product was designed to be not modular.
It is interesting that IEradicator supports Windows 2000 up to SR1, but no further. Is SR2 the update where Microsoft added non-modularity as a "feature"? That would have occurred during the trial, am I right?
You seem to be implying that code reuse stifles innovation. Why should anyone invent a new way to interact with the web, when the OS supplies The Way and makes it easy to use, and hard to adopt a different method? Why support a new codec when no one complains and revenue is not affected if I just support the ones that come with Windows?
This program WOULD NOT RUN if you stripped IE out of Windows.
Perhaps what is needed is a dependency resolver routine. What if there was a gigantic index of software available that could be searched in detail, and from the results you could fetch a component which would be transferred to your machine, so you could install it and resolve the dependency right there? Or maybe if you relied on third party software, the 3rd party might have some way of making their stuff available at any time, in case your customers didn't have it. I know, it's just a pipe dream...
The more 3rd parties are able to modify the layout and content of Windows, the more it will be a support nightmare. It's just a fact that, at my workplace, one quarter or so of windows users calling tech support don't know what version of Windows they're running and wouldn't know how to determine said version.
... Circuit City Windows XP?
...
...but trying to support an OS stripped apart and reassembled by the OEM to have their logo in every nook and cranny could be the nightmare Microsoft mentioned.
So you're saying that allowing Windows to be modularized by OEMs would make an already impossible situation.... more impossible?
At this point, they must be told that this icon does in fact exist and that they are a moron.
How do you know that icon exists? Did you or your staff install Windows on their machine? How come YOU don't know what version YOU installed?
What do we do when the users are using Dell Windows XP, Micron Windows XP or
Umm, put a bullet to your head for being incompetent? What IT shop allows users to install their own version of Windows? Sounds like self-inflicted sorrow to me.
Trying to support an OS the layout of which may be modified at all is a pain
Oooo, a swipe at Linux distros....
How so? No one can alter the binaries. Microsoft still possesses the source code to all the parts. They hold all the cards. If it's a support nightmare, it's because Microsoft made it so.
No operating system is as monolithic as Microsoft claims Windows is. If it runs in userland, it can be easily separated. The fact that you can install new programs that were't built by Microsoft proves it is not that monolithic. Are they next going to claim that Word and Excel are inseparable from Windows?
Furthermore, the assertion Microsoft is making is testable. There is source code, it can be examined, a determination of the facts can be made. Doesn't the court have a duty to verify Microsoft's claim of indivisibility?
...a Disney sense of humor...
You mean the sense of humor that says "You vill vatch our product, und you vill like it, or you suffer penalties under federal law."
Is that the sense of humor you mean?
But it's hard to say what "'blank' is" is...
Here's an address I set in my Yahoo account info:
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
I don't recommend anybody else set the same address. No siree... that would not be nice. Don't do it.
But I just noticed that my street address and phone number are way out of date in my Yahoo account. I just updated it. Here's my new street address, to which all my paper mail will be sent:Of course, no one but me should be using that street address. I wouldn't want to get flooded with a bunch of paper spam at "my" street address, so don't any of you go changing your street address to send me any of your offers. No sir, that would not be very nice. Don't do that.
Yahoo Groups is home to a lot of special interests that I follow, mostly astronomy-related. The participants are getting particularly annoyed at the ads, since they foist them off on the email-participants as well as the on-website participants, who have been slogging through ads to read the damn list for some time now.
I don't mind advertising, it's a necessary evil for a lot of websites. But when it gets to the point that it drives people away, you're doing something wrong. The people on these astronomy lists are not rabid anti-spam geeks, they are not the type to setup automated Spamcop-reporting procmail recipes on their inbox. They have a lot of disposable income, since astro-imaging is not exactly a cheap hobby to get into (expenses are comparable to owning a large boat or an airplane, in many cases). Those are the people being driven away by excessive advertising.
Cluetrain: Minors can be bound by statute.
...and the movie with the kid seeing dead people (argh what was the title) ...
That was I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
I wish that bum would get back to work and finish Qmail 2.0!!