An Open Source Licenced piece of software can go to a community who will not distribute it outside their peer group, however. If no binaries make it outside that community, no source needs to be distributed outside that community, either. It cannot be done by edict as part of the license. But that's the only restriction.
It's also worth mentioning that organized spectator (and also participatory) sports helps vent out the aggressive tendencies in big lanky tards. Give 'em something to shout about and they will do less damage in the real world, in real conflicts.
And better yet, when they do then break out in violence, it will be fan-against-fan violence in the grandstand. Nothing is more refreshing to a nerd than to hear that two of the hooligans who slammed him against the locker in High School have broken each other's noses over sports bullshit.
It will be refreshing if this is the only mention on Slashdot of that TV Show (the 'Superbowl') that they're running tomorrow. Not that I'm that hopeful. There are people here who worship advertising (i.e. Google Worship, since Google has essentially degenerated into an advertising firm) so I am certain there will be 'discussions' of the advertisements placed around the TV Show they're broadcasting Sunday.
It's not particularly creative to implment sliding window schemes. There's very little 'science' in 'Computer Science' because most of it was figured out by mathematicians decades ago. It's more of a craft, like knitting, which is also highly mathematical. It's Data Structures and Algorhythms. A variant on 'red white and blue scarves' or the 'fuzzy ball for the top of the hat' algorhythms your Aunt Minnie knows.
There's probably at least one 'freak' amongst the players with three. To say nothing about the contingent 'rap-star gangsta' players (the ones whose hair doesn't even fit inside the helmet) who've had one of theirs blown off in a driveby.
However, the LA times has no way to 'verify' any made up info you give them when registering, and no means of enforcing truthful answers. Rather than gripe about it, we should be actively suggesting to anybody who might register that they employ their creative skills.
So, basically, it's what 'Computer Scientist' dorks do to avoid having to go out into the real world and become 'IT' drones whose job it is to put more paper in the fucking LJ5 up on second floor in finance.
There's a very fine line between your average mailing list and your average spammer. One man's mailing list is another man's spam.
No, there is NOT a fine line.
Mailing lists are always positive opt-in. And they have an easy opt-out mechanism. And they specifically contain information that the recipient has requested. Often, they even echo back messages that the recipient has contributed to the discussion threads.
How is this in any way a 'fine line' differentiation from spam?
I'm becoming afraid that anti-spam ranting and hatred takes away peoples' common sense.
The way I read it, mailing list admins will have to pay this outfit or their messages will be blocked. I don't understand how you're interpreting it. It will kill free mailing lists. Or the top summary for this article is inaccurate. It says the listserv will have to PAY to be whitelisted.
Yes. This is another assault on traditional methods of 'net communications, this time the mailing list discussion group. Couched as 'retaliation for spam' it is the ISPs again removing a service they have traditionally been obligated to supply. I guess we are supposed to use 'Yahoo groups' or some other advertising-laden and top-down ('at the will of the site provider') alternative to listservs.
You're trying to make it sound like Uncle Sam is going to issue rolls of quarters to Joe Sixpack and haul him in a bus to the casino.
Which is a laughable parody. There is nothing 'sudden' planned about the Bush proposal. There will be nothing more hucksterish about it than 401K savings plans.
There is no explicit ownership of 'Television' either. But there are advertising firms nestled deep into the structure of the television industry. There's even TV Guide....
That's what Google is, BTW. An ad agency.
It's more complicated than that, in some ways, of course. They don't own the content they 'frame' their ads around, for instance... (There are even some content providers starting to say 'foul' to that.)
Personally, I figure that eating clean, fresh organic food won't hurt me or shorten my life. GM foods might not either, but why risk it? I make enough money to be choosy.
What you mean to say is that you make a high enough amount of money more than average to be able to afford to eat 'organic' food produced in today's world economy. There is no way in hell, the way the economy is set up right now, that the whole world's populace could eat organic foods. That might, and possibly should be, a far-off goal that we should be reaching for. But as of now, you're just crowing because you're on top. And the only reason you're on top is the fluke of you being born in the right time and at the right place.
And that is why the world's people should despise 'most eaters of organic food' as things sit today. They're leading selfish lives on velvet pillows.
Money invested in the stock market is money that represents capital. It's money in the economy and it keeps the economy thriving.
Money stuck away (fictitiously, I might add) in a 'Social Security Trust Fund' is money sunk into 'Government Bonds' and other political schemes by Politicians to rip off the people.
It's no surprise that a bunch of politicians feel very threatened by the idea of partially privatising Social Security. It's their slush fund that is at stake.
Actually, what Social Security does is you put $100 into an envelope every week but some government bureaucrat slips $20 out of it before it gets to you dad, so he only gets eighty bucks.
I want there to be an HTML editor, installed by default, on every computer that has a browser. It's an ideological thing, about the web being useful for two way communications. And I mean beyond the idea that people can type into text boxes on web forms that end up on someone else's website.
It's just an idealistic vision, and I think one that was fostered at Netscape for a long time. Communications is a two way process.
Agreed. It's nothing more than a bullshit political game, and has been for a long time. Which is why the solution is just to cut off the air supply to the politicians. Shut 'em down. And lower our taxes while doing it.
You say that would be wrong? So you're just gonna continue to play the polytricks game?
I cannot recall the last time the Mozilla suite crashed on me. It's been robust enough to not crash for years, in my experience. I don't use the email component, though. There are far, far better choices for email, I personally use Sylpheed. But I will NEVER want to migrate to a 'browser' (brings visions to me of a stupid cow browsing in a pasture) that doesn't include a bundled HTML editor. Last week I commented about the importance of HTML editing, and someone responded about how 'we all post on blogs now, HTML editing is obsolete.' Wow, man. Is this still Slashdot?
Actually, I generally download the source tarball. But thanks for the tip anyway....
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I find it really disappointing that some of these people seem gleeful that Firefox is all 'shiney' and old Mozilla is tired and boring.
It's just weird, and it reeks of immaturity that they insist on slagging Mozilla.
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You may recall that the fruits of Mozilla.org's efforts did not gain any traction with the general browsing public until the Firefox interface came along,..
What I 'recall' is that I used the Mozilla suite for a long, long time and was quite happy with it. Then a bunch of people started hollering about 'Firefox' so I thought I would give it a try. I installed it, and found it missing all kinds of features and menu items I made use of with the suite. It basically gave me the impression of being the 'Windows XP' version of Mozilla.
I ditched it. I am using plain Mozilla (1.7.12) these days, built from pkgsrc on NetBSD. I don't know that I'll ever use 'Firefox' although I suppose eventually it will be installed by default on Windows XP machines, or their descendents. . .
I'm sorry, Firefox just looks all candied out and simplified. Like something that people who finally started using 'Linux' in 2002 or so would like.
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An Open Source Licenced piece of software can go to a community who will not distribute it outside their peer group, however. If no binaries make it outside that community, no source needs to be distributed outside that community, either. It cannot be done by edict as part of the license. But that's the only restriction.
It's also worth mentioning that organized spectator (and also participatory) sports helps vent out the aggressive tendencies in big lanky tards. Give 'em something to shout about and they will do less damage in the real world, in real conflicts.
And better yet, when they do then break out in violence, it will be fan-against-fan violence in the grandstand. Nothing is more refreshing to a nerd than to hear that two of the hooligans who slammed him against the locker in High School have broken each other's noses over sports bullshit.
It will be refreshing if this is the only mention on Slashdot of that TV Show (the 'Superbowl') that they're running tomorrow. Not that I'm that hopeful. There are people here who worship advertising (i.e. Google Worship, since Google has essentially degenerated into an advertising firm) so I am certain there will be 'discussions' of the advertisements placed around the TV Show they're broadcasting Sunday.
It's not particularly creative to implment sliding window schemes. There's very little 'science' in 'Computer Science' because most of it was figured out by mathematicians decades ago. It's more of a craft, like knitting, which is also highly mathematical. It's Data Structures and Algorhythms. A variant on 'red white and blue scarves' or the 'fuzzy ball for the top of the hat' algorhythms your Aunt Minnie knows.
There's probably at least one 'freak' amongst the players with three. To say nothing about the contingent 'rap-star gangsta' players (the ones whose hair doesn't even fit inside the helmet) who've had one of theirs blown off in a driveby.
However, the LA times has no way to 'verify' any made up info you give them when registering, and no means of enforcing truthful answers. Rather than gripe about it, we should be actively suggesting to anybody who might register that they employ their creative skills.
So, basically, it's what 'Computer Scientist' dorks do to avoid having to go out into the real world and become 'IT' drones whose job it is to put more paper in the fucking LJ5 up on second floor in finance.
There's a very fine line between your average mailing list and your average spammer. One man's mailing list is another man's spam.
No, there is NOT a fine line.
Mailing lists are always positive opt-in. And they have an easy opt-out mechanism. And they specifically contain information that the recipient has requested. Often, they even echo back messages that the recipient has contributed to the discussion threads.
How is this in any way a 'fine line' differentiation from spam?
I'm becoming afraid that anti-spam ranting and hatred takes away peoples' common sense.
The way I read it, mailing list admins will have to pay this outfit or their messages will be blocked. I don't understand how you're interpreting it. It will kill free mailing lists. Or the top summary for this article is inaccurate. It says the listserv will have to PAY to be whitelisted.
Yes. This is another assault on traditional methods of 'net communications, this time the mailing list discussion group. Couched as 'retaliation for spam' it is the ISPs again removing a service they have traditionally been obligated to supply. I guess we are supposed to use 'Yahoo groups' or some other advertising-laden and top-down ('at the will of the site provider') alternative to listservs.
OSS will suffer for this, that is certain.
You're trying to make it sound like Uncle Sam is going to issue rolls of quarters to Joe Sixpack and haul him in a bus to the casino.
Which is a laughable parody. There is nothing 'sudden' planned about the Bush proposal. There will be nothing more hucksterish about it than 401K savings plans.
So what are these 5000 PhD's going to do? Take over Wickipedia and make it better??
That sounds like an 'Ask Doctor Science' kind of thing. He has a degree, you know. In Science.
There is no explicit ownership of 'Television' either. But there are advertising firms nestled deep into the structure of the television industry. There's even TV Guide....
That's what Google is, BTW. An ad agency.
It's more complicated than that, in some ways, of course. They don't own the content they 'frame' their ads around, for instance... (There are even some content providers starting to say 'foul' to that.)
If the latest ponderings of Goobuntu or whatever end up as a mainstream OS
What if it ends up another VA Linux?
(what are they selling these days, BTW? Is it VA Apples-on-the-corner yet?)
It rubs the cream upon it's skin. Or else it gets the probe again.
But you have to put the special cream on, too, eh?
Personally, I figure that eating clean, fresh organic food won't hurt me or shorten my life. GM foods might not either, but why risk it? I make enough money to be choosy.
What you mean to say is that you make a high enough amount of money more than average to be able to afford to eat 'organic' food produced in today's world economy. There is no way in hell, the way the economy is set up right now, that the whole world's populace could eat organic foods. That might, and possibly should be, a far-off goal that we should be reaching for. But as of now, you're just crowing because you're on top. And the only reason you're on top is the fluke of you being born in the right time and at the right place.
And that is why the world's people should despise 'most eaters of organic food' as things sit today. They're leading selfish lives on velvet pillows.
Yes, it might be tempting to be a lying S.O.B. but why bother when there is actual video footage to play instead?
Money invested in the stock market is money that represents capital. It's money in the economy and it keeps the economy thriving.
Money stuck away (fictitiously, I might add) in a 'Social Security Trust Fund' is money sunk into 'Government Bonds' and other political schemes by Politicians to rip off the people.
It's no surprise that a bunch of politicians feel very threatened by the idea of partially privatising Social Security. It's their slush fund that is at stake.
Actually, what Social Security does is you put $100 into an envelope every week but some government bureaucrat slips $20 out of it before it gets to you dad, so he only gets eighty bucks.
I want there to be an HTML editor, installed by default, on every computer that has a browser. It's an ideological thing, about the web being useful for two way communications. And I mean beyond the idea that people can type into text boxes on web forms that end up on someone else's website.
It's just an idealistic vision, and I think one that was fostered at Netscape for a long time. Communications is a two way process.
Agreed. It's nothing more than a bullshit political game, and has been for a long time. Which is why the solution is just to cut off the air supply to the politicians. Shut 'em down. And lower our taxes while doing it.
You say that would be wrong? So you're just gonna continue to play the polytricks game?
I cannot recall the last time the Mozilla suite crashed on me. It's been robust enough to not crash for years, in my experience. I don't use the email component, though. There are far, far better choices for email, I personally use Sylpheed. But I will NEVER want to migrate to a 'browser' (brings visions to me of a stupid cow browsing in a pasture) that doesn't include a bundled HTML editor. Last week I commented about the importance of HTML editing, and someone responded about how 'we all post on blogs now, HTML editing is obsolete.' Wow, man. Is this still Slashdot?
Actually, I generally download the source tarball. But thanks for the tip anyway....
I find it really disappointing that some of these people seem gleeful that Firefox is all 'shiney' and old Mozilla is tired and boring.
It's just weird, and it reeks of immaturity that they insist on slagging Mozilla.
You may recall that the fruits of Mozilla.org's efforts did not gain any traction with the general browsing public until the Firefox interface came along,..
What I 'recall' is that I used the Mozilla suite for a long, long time and was quite happy with it. Then a bunch of people started hollering about 'Firefox' so I thought I would give it a try. I installed it, and found it missing all kinds of features and menu items I made use of with the suite. It basically gave me the impression of being the 'Windows XP' version of Mozilla.
I ditched it. I am using plain Mozilla (1.7.12) these days, built from pkgsrc on NetBSD. I don't know that I'll ever use 'Firefox' although I suppose eventually it will be installed by default on Windows XP machines, or their descendents. . .
I'm sorry, Firefox just looks all candied out and simplified. Like something that people who finally started using 'Linux' in 2002 or so would like.