...My DUMBASS broker was suppose to buy it in the morning a month ago when it was only $5 per share... the idiot didn't do it til 11am, and it was $8.75 by that time.
Off-topic question. What prevents a broker from buying a stock "for you", and then if it suddenly goes up, buying that same amount of stock at the higher price, saying that's yours, and the previous buy was his? (And then selling the original purchase at the new higher price for a nice profit.) Is there a check beyond the integrity of the broker on this sort of thing?
ok, so I know it's not real, but why not? My kids have lots of silly little games from Fisher-Price and whoever makes those Freddy Fish and Pajama Sam games, and these are blatently simple games.
I was able to get Pajama Sam running with Wine under Linux. The colors were messed up (and I think I saw a bug report for that Wine version about color probs), but it had the sound and such.
An extra-nice thing about this is that you can "lie" to Wine about which drive is the CD. Get a big ol' 20+ gig drive, copy the games to the drive, and the kids don't need to mess with the CD-ROM. I'm planning to do just that. Add a wireless mouse (which I have -- Logitech) and there's not even the risk of cable problems. Set them up with an account and icons for each of their games, and boom Linux works *better* than Windows. The only issue is the login, and I was thinking about seeing what it would take to set up a U.are.U fingerprint scanner for that...
(Now I just need to add some fans to the cabinet I store the computer in, to prevent overheating.
I tried both the System File Verification and the built-in resource monitor (forget what it's called, but it has three horizontal meters, one for memory, one for GDI resources, and one other) with nothing particularly notable being reported. One definite characteristic is that Netscape crashing on a complex page pretty much hoses the entire system, but (a) an application shouldn't be able to do that, a real OS recovers the resources used by a crashing application, and (b) I can have Netscape work perfectly and the problem still occurs, it just takes longer.
1080i? Give me 720p. Ever try to use an interlaced computer monitor? It isn't pretty. TV survives because of coherence -- but coherence means you don't have the detail the higher resolution is supposed to give you.
Hey, it's easy enough to check U.S. Federal law. Just go to http://uscode.house.gov/ and look it up. Particularly relevant section is Title 17:
a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures. - (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter. (B) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A) shall not apply to persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title, as determined under subparagraph (C). [...]
subparagraph (C) explains that it is the Librarian of Congress who is supposed to review cases where prohibition (A) may cause difficulties to people who have non-infringing reasons to circumvent an anti-piracy scheme.
Some of you may be familiar with VectorWorks, once called MiniCAD, which has a pretty good share of the Mac CAD market (and doesn't cost an arm and a leg like AutoCAD, just a few fingers.) We also have a Windows version, so we're willing to be cross-platform. If you're a potential customer for a commercial, professional-level (as opposed to consumer market) CAD program for Linux, send e-mail to rich@diehlgraphsoft.com, encouraging him to consider a Linux version.
If you hate all proprietary software, send hate mail to me instead.
I don't understamd how people who can configure a fairly complex OS like Linux can't keep Windows 98 from crashing.
Please, enlighten me, what the hell can I do with 98? It boots. Now what do I do to find out what's leaking resources? (I don't think it's memory, I've had Norton's monitors up and they don't show memory leaking.) After at most a couple of hours, things will start failing due to lack of memory. I can close all active applications, and it doesn't help -- it'll even crash during shutdown. Now, I admit it's quite possible the problem file is a non-Microsoft driver, but what does Microsoft provide me to track down this problem? Or must I just reinstall?
I don't use Linux all that much -- although I'm starting to use it more now -- but Netscape has only crashed on me once in Linux. It's crashed more often under NT on me. (Note: I find NT an acceptably stable OS.)
Microsoft also can ask for the law to change, legitimizing their practices through the political process.
In future, perhaps, but ex post facto laws are not permitted. Thus a class action suit against Microsoft could still get lots of money out of them.
One thing i haven't seen mentioned is that Judge Jackson hinted at at least one possible Microsoft sanction. He discussed the $89 cost of Windows 98 and that $49 would probably be a more reasonable cost in the absence of a monopoly. Given this, I would not be at all surprised to see Microsoft required to send a $40 check to everyone who purchased the Windows 98 upgrade, and possibly the Windows 98 SE version could be similarly impacted.
Microsoft is a *corporation*, not a human being. As such, it has no rights. Claiming enforcing laws passed long ago against a corporation as being wrong, then, is an insult to anyone who has really been wronged.
As an aside, I tried to read the decision and Slashdot about this under WIndows 98, and it crashed on me three times. So now I'm posting this from Linux. If only Mozilla had as good a news reader as Agent, I could switch to Linux for everything but the occasional game. (C'mon Blizzard, it's Linux time!)
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I would love to [refuse to work less], but if I don't, the company will find some schmuck that will. And quite likely, some schmuck that will do it for less money. That is the way of the world.
As long as you believe that is true, it is true. Don't want to risk getting fired this way? Job hunt on the side on the sly, and make sure any potential new employers aren't demanding ridiculous hours. You may find that they'll pay you more to work less than you are now.
I've worked in IT for 6 years and never worked much beyond 40 hours a week. And I don't plan to start. Ok, I am a C++ guru, but even so...
if we don't catch up and start supporting everything that the freakin' microsoftbrowser supports, then people won't move to linux.
But can Linux? Realistically?
Java and Flash should be doable, they're documented. The only potential problem is having to run apps designed for Microsoft "Java."
But ActiveX? Running ActiveX plug-ins? That's a whole 'nuther ball of wax. I'm not sure you'll ever get those running under Linux. And if you can't, some sites will always be inaccessible.
Also note that alcohol freezes at a lower temperature than water, so if you leave it exposed to the elements you may drink a liquid that is below freezing. Talk about your brain freeze...
You're assuming this guy believes God created AIDS. That's not the belief. Check this article .
A quote: NEW YORK -- In a recent survey of African Americans, more than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was caused by a man-made virus developed by the federal government to kill black people.
Don't they get tax writeoffs for most of that stuff?
Yes, but a tax "write-off" generally just means you don't pay taxes on that much of your income. Since the taxe rates are nothing like 100%, it's still a net loss for the company, just less than it would be without the writeoff.
How does a comment get a score of something other than 0 (anonymous cowards) or 1 (logged-in users) without a descriptor next to it?
There are a rare few, posters so enlightened, so well-spoken, so insightful that Slashdot detects their loquacious missives and instantly grants them a 2. Note, of course, that this posting is among them.
Seriously, though, if you post and your comment gets moderated up, your personal "karma" will increase. A 30+ karma (I think) gets a default 2 for every posting. You can see your (or anyone else's) karma rating by clicking on the name, anonymous cowards excepted.
Beats what I "got" from a class action settlement from Cellular One. What did I "get"? $15 off any *new* service costing at least $75, which does *not* include paying my current bills with it. Sounds like they made a deal with the lawyers, so the lawyers get megabucks, the company gets off relatively cheaply, and the customers get diddly.
I'm married to a lawyer, but she works for the government and thus I'll never see one of these settlements. (Oh well, at least I can live with myself...)
Check out the pbm2ppa project (via freshmeat or this site.) Color support is lacking though, and the last code update seems to have been a year ago.
Certainly there are other printers that are better suited for Linux, and HP deserves a large raspberry for refusing to reveal details of their printer protocol.
Nonsense. I dare you to list all the open-source programs that are clearly better than their commercial counterparts. You won't find many.
That wasn't the original claim. The original poster said that open source apps are better *designed* than the closed source ones. The closed source apps generally have more programmer time thrown at them, and thus the poor design elements get worked around. I know this from experience; I work on a large commercial app. It generally does the job, and it's certainly better than what little open source exists of its type, but there's some horrific code in there. And that code makes it harder to modify and harder to keep reliable. But if you sell software, you have the money to throw more and more programmers at it.
Sometimes at home I write particularly elegant code for release as open source. But a lack of time keeps me from doing nearly as much as I do during working hours.
So the real question is whether the money in selling software is going to stay enough to fund development in this style. So far it looks like it will, but more advanced open source apps may start eating away at the profit margins.
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...My DUMBASS broker was suppose to buy it in the morning a month ago when it was only $5 per share... the idiot didn't do it til 11am, and it was $8.75 by that time.
Off-topic question. What prevents a broker from buying a stock "for you", and then if it suddenly goes up, buying that same amount of stock at the higher price, saying that's yours, and the previous buy was his? (And then selling the original purchase at the new higher price for a nice profit.) Is there a check beyond the integrity of the broker on this sort of thing?
With all due respect, one might as well say that it is available, but only usable on the moon.
What about international waters?
[...] and boom Linux works *better* than Windows.
For kids as well as geeks, that is.
ok, so I know it's not real, but why not? My kids have lots of silly little games from Fisher-Price and whoever makes those Freddy Fish and Pajama Sam games, and these are blatently simple games.
I was able to get Pajama Sam running with Wine under Linux. The colors were messed up (and I think I saw a bug report for that Wine version about color probs), but it had the sound and such.
An extra-nice thing about this is that you can "lie" to Wine about which drive is the CD. Get a big ol' 20+ gig drive, copy the games to the drive, and the kids don't need to mess with the CD-ROM. I'm planning to do just that. Add a wireless mouse (which I have -- Logitech) and there's not even the risk of cable problems. Set them up with an account and icons for each of their games, and boom Linux works *better* than Windows. The only issue is the login, and I was thinking about seeing what it would take to set up a U.are.U fingerprint scanner for that...
(Now I just need to add some fans to the cabinet I store the computer in, to prevent overheating.
I tried both the System File Verification and the built-in resource monitor (forget what it's called, but it has three horizontal meters, one for memory, one for GDI resources, and one other) with nothing particularly notable being reported. One definite characteristic is that Netscape crashing on a complex page pretty much hoses the entire system, but (a) an application shouldn't be able to do that, a real OS recovers the resources used by a crashing application, and (b) I can have Netscape work perfectly and the problem still occurs, it just takes longer.
1080i? Give me 720p. Ever try to use an interlaced computer monitor? It isn't pretty. TV survives because of coherence -- but coherence means you don't have the detail the higher resolution is supposed to give you.
We need some law hackers.
Hey, it's easy enough to check U.S. Federal law. Just go to http://uscode.house.gov/ and look it up. Particularly relevant section is Title 17:
a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.
- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take
effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the
enactment of this chapter.
(B) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A) shall not apply
to persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a
particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be
in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of
such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of
that particular class of works under this title, as determined
under subparagraph (C).
[...]
subparagraph (C) explains that it is the Librarian of Congress who is supposed to review cases where prohibition (A) may cause difficulties to people who have non-infringing reasons to circumvent an anti-piracy scheme.
Some of you may be familiar with VectorWorks, once called MiniCAD, which has a pretty good share of the Mac CAD market (and doesn't cost an arm and a leg like AutoCAD, just a few fingers.) We also have a Windows version, so we're willing to be cross-platform. If you're a potential customer for a commercial, professional-level (as opposed to consumer market) CAD program for Linux, send e-mail to rich@diehlgraphsoft.com, encouraging him to consider a Linux version.
If you hate all proprietary software, send hate mail to me instead.
I don't understamd how people who can configure a fairly complex OS like Linux can't keep Windows 98 from crashing.
Please, enlighten me, what the hell can I do with 98? It boots. Now what do I do to find out what's leaking resources? (I don't think it's memory, I've had Norton's monitors up and they don't show memory leaking.) After at most a couple of hours, things will start failing due to lack of memory. I can close all active applications, and it doesn't help -- it'll even crash during shutdown. Now, I admit it's quite possible the problem file is a non-Microsoft driver, but what does Microsoft provide me to track down this problem? Or must I just reinstall?
I don't use Linux all that much -- although I'm starting to use it more now -- but Netscape has only crashed on me once in Linux. It's crashed more often under NT on me. (Note: I find NT an acceptably stable OS.)
Microsoft also can ask for the law to change, legitimizing their practices through the political process.
In future, perhaps, but ex post facto laws are not permitted. Thus a class action suit against Microsoft could still get lots of money out of them.
One thing i haven't seen mentioned is that Judge Jackson hinted at at least one possible Microsoft sanction. He discussed the $89 cost of Windows 98 and that $49 would probably be a more reasonable cost in the absence of a monopoly. Given this, I would not be at all surprised to see Microsoft required to send a $40 check to everyone who purchased the Windows 98 upgrade, and possibly the Windows 98 SE version could be similarly impacted.
Note: I Am Not A Lawyer.
X-mas? Don't you mean Hanukah? I jus' love dem latkes (potato pancakes)...
Of course, the Hamm distribution is problematic in this case.
Microsoft is a *corporation*, not a human being. As such, it has no rights. Claiming enforcing laws passed long ago against a corporation as being wrong, then, is an insult to anyone who has really been wronged.
As an aside, I tried to read the decision and Slashdot about this under WIndows 98, and it crashed on me three times. So now I'm posting this from Linux. If only Mozilla had as good a news reader as Agent, I could switch to Linux for everything but the occasional game. (C'mon Blizzard, it's Linux time!)
I would love to [refuse to work less], but if I don't, the company will find some schmuck that will. And quite likely, some schmuck that will do it for less money. That is the way of the world.
As long as you believe that is true, it is true. Don't want to risk getting fired this way? Job hunt on the side on the sly, and make sure any potential new employers aren't demanding ridiculous hours. You may find that they'll pay you more to work less than you are now.
I've worked in IT for 6 years and never worked much beyond 40 hours a week. And I don't plan to start. Ok, I am a C++ guru, but even so...
if we don't catch up and start supporting everything that the freakin' microsoftbrowser supports, then people won't move to linux.
But can Linux? Realistically?
Java and Flash should be doable, they're documented. The only potential problem is having to run apps designed for Microsoft "Java."
But ActiveX? Running ActiveX plug-ins? That's a whole 'nuther ball of wax. I'm not sure you'll ever get those running under Linux. And if you can't, some sites will always be inaccessible.
...or a broken Window.
there is just a LITTLE differnce between the making the net usable to a blind person and making visual art enjoyable to a blind person.
Note that you could make a bas-relief style engraving of the picture, and by touching that the blind could get some sense of the paintings.
No thanks, I only smoke baboons!
(Hey, given my alias, I *have* to participate in this thread...)
"Only two more days to the fort. I can just see the look on Major fFolkes's face now."
"My, you've got damned good eyesight!"
Also note that alcohol freezes at a lower temperature than water, so if you leave it exposed to the elements you may drink a liquid that is below freezing. Talk about your brain freeze...
Man, you're going to need a quad-processor host with 4 ethernet cards running NT to keep up with that bandwidth... :-)
Oww! Stop hitting me with that mackerel!
You're assuming this guy believes God created AIDS. That's not the belief. Check this article .
A quote:
NEW YORK -- In a recent survey of African Americans, more than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was caused by a man-made virus developed by the federal government to kill black people.
Don't they get tax writeoffs for most of that stuff?
Yes, but a tax "write-off" generally just means you don't pay taxes on that much of your income. Since the taxe rates are nothing like 100%, it's still a net loss for the company, just less than it would be without the writeoff.
How does a comment get a score of something other than 0 (anonymous cowards) or 1 (logged-in users) without a descriptor next to it?
There are a rare few, posters so enlightened, so well-spoken, so insightful that Slashdot detects their loquacious missives and instantly grants them a 2. Note, of course, that this posting is among them.
Seriously, though, if you post and your comment gets moderated up, your personal "karma" will increase. A 30+ karma (I think) gets a default 2 for every posting. You can see your (or anyone else's) karma rating by clicking on the name, anonymous cowards excepted.
Beats what I "got" from a class action settlement from Cellular One. What did I "get"? $15 off any *new* service costing at least $75, which does *not* include paying my current bills with it. Sounds like they made a deal with the lawyers, so the lawyers get megabucks, the company gets off relatively cheaply, and the customers get diddly.
I'm married to a lawyer, but she works for the government and thus I'll never see one of these settlements. (Oh well, at least I can live with myself...)
Check out the pbm2ppa project (via freshmeat or this site.) Color support is lacking though, and the last code update seems to have been a year ago.
Certainly there are other printers that are better suited for Linux, and HP deserves a large raspberry for refusing to reveal details of their printer protocol.
Nonsense. I dare you to list all the open-source programs that are clearly better than their commercial counterparts. You won't find many.
That wasn't the original claim. The original poster said that open source apps are better *designed* than the closed source ones. The closed source apps generally have more programmer time thrown at them, and thus the poor design elements get worked around. I know this from experience; I work on a large commercial app. It generally does the job, and it's certainly better than what little open source exists of its type, but there's some horrific code in there. And that code makes it harder to modify and harder to keep reliable. But if you sell software, you have the money to throw more and more programmers at it.
Sometimes at home I write particularly elegant code for release as open source. But a lack of time keeps me from doing nearly as much as I do during working hours.
So the real question is whether the money in selling software is going to stay enough to fund development in this style. So far it looks like it will, but more advanced open source apps may start eating away at the profit margins.