Yep. Instant slashdottage. Damn. Something's gotta be done about this silly Web we've saddled ourselves with. It's full of fun stuff, but the moment said fun stuff is "discovered," a modest server buckles under the load, or some poor bastard gets a bandwidth bill from his hosting service that's enough to make him spew root beer all over his monitor. This is not a sane system! What can be done?
Can someone who's actually USED a beta of RH8 talk about whether the KDE implementation is in fact crippleware? I was under the impression that it was just subjected to some Red Hat skinning and rejiggered so that some of the "scares the newbies" features were off by default. That doesn't sound like crippleware, but someone out there must know more.
I agree. This is a damn cool topic. It makes me wish I were a smart crafty engineer type of geek, but no, I'm a wannabe coder slash project coordinator type of geek. Color me full of self-loathing. Sigh. I'll just watch the nifty ideas fill the thread and wish I'd majored in something else in college...
Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" (1940) predates Clarke's Against the Fall of Night (1953). You can read the Heinlein tale in The Past Through Tomorrow. It tells the story of what happens when the blue-collar workers who run and maintain the moving-sidewalk "roads" go on strike. (Hint: Mayhem.)
Answering my own question, having read the decision: the court said "the doctrine of fair use does not sanction... framing." (Final page of decision.) Sounds like Google may need to get rid o' them frames.
Right. But someone's confused, and perhaps it's me: The article seems to indicate that the practice over at Google Image Search -- thumbnails with links to original images at original sites -- is fine. Then how can the lawyer at the end of the article say they're "basically going to do away with linking or framing without permission"? Is it the framing (which Google does) that's the problem? If so, the article doesn't make that clear. Time to do some homework and read the court decision, I guess...
Absolutely true. All the useful extras that come with Mandrake work well (for the most part...DrakFont...cough, cough), but they are ugly, unintuitive, and make newbies scratch their heads. They need just one "GUI nazi" in-house to take a look at everything and clean it all up, or they're going to get left behind.
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Just as books cannot be judged by covers alone, games cannot be judged by screenshots alone. Based on screenshots, would you ever play this game? No. But you should.
Similar experience last June. Jukebox 6000 #1 (from Fry's, San Jose) worked for an hour, then died. Jukebox #2 reported an error and "RETURN UNIT" on its tiny little screen.
Archos support suggested to me that I return unit #2 at a different Fry's location, because perhaps "the crate at San Jose Fry's got dropped." Sound advice: unit #3 came from a different location, and it's performed flawlessly from day one. Great product.
Perhaps with an Archos, if you get past the first day, you're in the clear.
Now what? Vote wisely, dammit! Go ahead, mod me down, say it's the overly-simplistic/obvious/cop-out answer, toss around all that bullshit about how votes don't matter. I don't care. You're wrong.
This is happening because there has not been a strong Populist movement in the US since the 1920s, and the reason for that is twofold: (a) not enough people voting, and (b) not enough people THINKING about WHO they are voting for and WHY.
Maybe you think money has so colored American politics that your vote is destined to be canceled out by Votes of the Wrong Kind. You're wrong there, too. Money buys exposure, money buys TV time, money buys billboards, but money ain't putting a gun to your head forcing you to be taken in by slick campaigns. Money doesn't turn off your brain. And money doesn't force you to push the little voting pin in next to some millionaire corporate shill's name.
So read your damn sample ballots cover to cover. Write outraged ("outraged"!=angry/spiteful/immature) yet eloquent letters to your reps when they do stupid things like vote for the DMCA. Above all, STOP ELECTING THESE MORONS WHO ARE WILLING TO TRAMPLE ALL OVER YOUR FREEDOM.
Update: 10/31 19:21 GMT by M: The submitter's write-up is wrong. Read the story. Keep in mind, as usual, that a "news" story whose sole source is an executive with an agenda to push is unlikely to portray the situation accurately.
Who's this little sermon directed at? Could it be...timothy?
I think it's wrong to say that "most Linux users" define closed source as the opposite of Open Source. In my mind,
Open Source--with the caps (or, if you're speaking, the little quote-marks gesture you make with yer fingers)--is what the OSI says it is.
open source (used casually) means "I can read/use/work-with the source."
closed source means the opposite of that: i.e., "no source for you!" NOT "meets none of OSI's requirements."
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I don't know if "critically-important government agencies like the Department of Agriculture" was meant to sound sarcastic, but I don't seem to be the only one who read it that way, judging from a couple of comments here. I'd just like to point out that the Ag Dept does an awful lot of good. Aside from variousprojectsthathelpkeepruralAmericaafloat, the Agriculture Department also runs the Forest Service, protects open space, keeps ag-related disease out of this country, provides low-cost foods for school lunches, and does all sorts of other nifty behind-the-scenes market-oriented stuff to help ensure that when you go to the store, the stuff you need is always there. And affordable. If the Ag Dept vanished, you'd notice.
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Hey blang: Go find yourself a dictionary, and then look up 'parody,' 'satire,' and 'caricature.' (A quick check of 'clearly' might be in order as well.) I don't think the post in question should be illegal, but it doesn't fall into any of the categories you've described.
There is one, and only one lesson to be learned here. You think it doesn't matter who you vote for? You're wrong. When utter MORONS like Dick Armey get elected, this sort of thing goes down.
IT MATTERS WHO YOU VOTE FOR. SO VOTE. AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN YOU DO IT.
I can't speak to the technical deficiencies of the game (I experience none of them), but I can say that, contrary to what michael is "reporting," the game DOES include a small booklet that contains instructions and installation help.
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Let me get this straight. We tried not to run this, but there are too many submissions to ignore. Tried not to run this? So it's all right to post a preview of a speech, along with ESR's preemptive strike against it, but there's no need for another post once the speech is given? At least Slashdot readers know a big story merits hearing from both sides. Too bad the Slashdot crew is clueless in that regard.
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Yep. Instant slashdottage. Damn. Something's gotta be done about this silly Web we've saddled ourselves with. It's full of fun stuff, but the moment said fun stuff is "discovered," a modest server buckles under the load, or some poor bastard gets a bandwidth bill from his hosting service that's enough to make him spew root beer all over his monitor. This is not a sane system! What can be done?
I wish I could moderate the update to this post as Offtopic.
Can someone who's actually USED a beta of RH8 talk about whether the KDE implementation is in fact crippleware? I was under the impression that it was just subjected to some Red Hat skinning and rejiggered so that some of the "scares the newbies" features were off by default. That doesn't sound like crippleware, but someone out there must know more.
Let's get literate: The phrase is "case IN point" not "case AND point."
No no: Kenny G albums would be vile .
Am I the only person who hadn't heard of this site till now? At any rate, I appreciate the big labels bringing it to my attention!
I agree. This is a damn cool topic. It makes me wish I were a smart crafty engineer type of geek, but no, I'm a wannabe coder slash project coordinator type of geek. Color me full of self-loathing. Sigh. I'll just watch the nifty ideas fill the thread and wish I'd majored in something else in college...
Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" (1940) predates Clarke's Against the Fall of Night (1953). You can read the Heinlein tale in The Past Through Tomorrow. It tells the story of what happens when the blue-collar workers who run and maintain the moving-sidewalk "roads" go on strike. (Hint: Mayhem.)
Well, would someone who's feeling lucky today ping an Air Force server and report back? ;)
(Hell no! I'm not gonna do it! You do it! --No way, man! I ain't gonna do it! You do it!)
Answering my own question, having read the decision: the court said "the doctrine of fair use does not sanction ... framing." (Final page of decision.) Sounds like Google may need to get rid o' them frames.
Right. But someone's confused, and perhaps it's me: The article seems to indicate that the practice over at Google Image Search -- thumbnails with links to original images at original sites -- is fine. Then how can the lawyer at the end of the article say they're "basically going to do away with linking or framing without permission"? Is it the framing (which Google does) that's the problem? If so, the article doesn't make that clear. Time to do some homework and read the court decision, I guess...
Absolutely true. All the useful extras that come with Mandrake work well (for the most part...DrakFont...cough, cough), but they are ugly, unintuitive, and make newbies scratch their heads. They need just one "GUI nazi" in-house to take a look at everything and clean it all up, or they're going to get left behind.
Just as books cannot be judged by covers alone, games cannot be judged by screenshots alone. Based on screenshots, would you ever play this game? No. But you should.
Archos support suggested to me that I return unit #2 at a different Fry's location, because perhaps "the crate at San Jose Fry's got dropped." Sound advice: unit #3 came from a different location, and it's performed flawlessly from day one. Great product.
Perhaps with an Archos, if you get past the first day, you're in the clear.
Archos media ban? No. Anti-Archos bias on Slashdot? Well, are there any 'Archos' posts modded up to 2 or higher (yet)?
This is happening because there has not been a strong Populist movement in the US since the 1920s, and the reason for that is twofold: (a) not enough people voting, and (b) not enough people THINKING about WHO they are voting for and WHY.
Maybe you think money has so colored American politics that your vote is destined to be canceled out by Votes of the Wrong Kind. You're wrong there, too. Money buys exposure, money buys TV time, money buys billboards, but money ain't putting a gun to your head forcing you to be taken in by slick campaigns. Money doesn't turn off your brain. And money doesn't force you to push the little voting pin in next to some millionaire corporate shill's name.
So read your damn sample ballots cover to cover. Write outraged ("outraged"!=angry/spiteful/immature) yet eloquent letters to your reps when they do stupid things like vote for the DMCA. Above all, STOP ELECTING THESE MORONS WHO ARE WILLING TO TRAMPLE ALL OVER YOUR FREEDOM.
Who's this little sermon directed at? Could it be...timothy?
Open Source--with the caps (or, if you're speaking, the little quote-marks gesture you make with yer fingers)--is what the OSI says it is.
open source (used casually) means "I can read/use/work-with the source."
closed source means the opposite of that: i.e., "no source for you!" NOT "meets none of OSI's requirements."
I don't know if "critically-important government agencies like the Department of Agriculture" was meant to sound sarcastic, but I don't seem to be the only one who read it that way, judging from a couple of comments here. I'd just like to point out that the Ag Dept does an awful lot of good. Aside from various projects that help keep rural America afloat, the Agriculture Department also runs the Forest Service, protects open space, keeps ag-related disease out of this country, provides low-cost foods for school lunches, and does all sorts of other nifty behind-the-scenes market-oriented stuff to help ensure that when you go to the store, the stuff you need is always there. And affordable. If the Ag Dept vanished, you'd notice.
Also, the 2600 case is not over yet.
IT MATTERS WHO YOU VOTE FOR. SO VOTE. AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHEN YOU DO IT.
Or maybe it's that he's a lazy motherfucker who can't be bothered to type in "matrix" at imdb.com and copy and paste "Wachowski" into his post...
I can't speak to the technical deficiencies of the game (I experience none of them), but I can say that, contrary to what michael is "reporting," the game DOES include a small booklet that contains instructions and installation help.
Let me get this straight. We tried not to run this, but there are too many submissions to ignore. Tried not to run this? So it's all right to post a preview of a speech, along with ESR's preemptive strike against it, but there's no need for another post once the speech is given? At least Slashdot readers know a big story merits hearing from both sides. Too bad the Slashdot crew is clueless in that regard.