So I trust this is NOT offtopic.... I just have to get this off my chest.
The only explanation I can think of to explain the Slashdot editors' unwarranted negativism is that they got scooped and are having sour grapes about it.
Not scooped in the literal sense, since I'm sure they knew about it long ago, but in the editorial sense: they made a bad decision in thinking that this story was irrelevant, and now they're going to defend it at all costs.
By the way, one of those costs includes trying to influence your opinion.
Microsoft commonly smurfs newsgroups and other public forums (letters to the editor, etc.) The more influential they perceive the forum to be, the more effort they put into it. Yes, this includes/.
Back on the old Canopus forum on Compuserve, there was a character named Arnold who wrote countless pro-Microsoft messages in the days of the war with OS/2. I'm talking about 1992-1995 when the need for PR was very great -- Microsoft had to convince people that they didn't need a 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking OS.
Arnold was incredibly prolific. He'd respond to your arguments in the space of a few minutes, and his response would demonstrate incredibly detailed understanding of the topic, both broad and deep. There were rumors that he was Bill Gates. But I' pretty sure the truth is that he was the external interface to a complex system that linked together many, many Microsoft and PR people in a sophisticated effort to influence the opinion of the high-level IT executives and writers who frequented the forum.
The reason I believe this is that Arnold himself suggested it to me.
Then there was Steve Barkto, a pro-Microsoft poster whose account, it turned out, had been paid for with a Microsoft credit card. That was probably the last time they did that.
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I wrote native QT (using licensed portions of XAnim) and native QTVR support for OS/2 some years ago and have been on a jihad for 5 years to get
Apple to wake up and port the QT client -- PLAYBACK ONLY -- to Linux. Just because it makes so damn much sense.
If your friend has any direct line to Jobs at all, I wish he could get one simple message through.
The enemy of your enemy is a BIG friend.
QT + Linux would deal a major blow to Windows Media Format.
When is Apple going to stop trying to out-microsoft Microsoft?
"New Media" is the term that people (dare I say like yourself) came up with to describe the Internet. They did this because they were initially unable to comprehend the aspects of it that were not directly analagous to their world. There are a range of totally wrong implications to the term, which have not been borne out in practice. For example, that having an "online magazine" was a reasonable thing to do.
Calling it "New Media" is about as accurate as calling it "New Bookstore" or "New Pornhouse."
I'm surprised at all the negative comments about Tomcat. I use it for a production site that gets ~35,000 page views/day and have found that all the bugs I THOUGHT were tomcat's were actually mine.
What you're seeing here is what happens when people who are spending their company's money and meeting their company's deadlines need a solution. The best thing about tomcat is it's free software. That matters very much if you're trying to create something wonderful. It matters less if you're building something that your boss told you to.
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"Why aren't they out arresting dope dealers?" --Carmella Soprano, on being pulled over for a speeding ticket.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Crimson (scroll down to the bottom of the directory).
This Java parser open-source, under the Apache project. It was developed by Sun under the name of JAXP and is far more lightweight than IBM's Xerces, mainly because it uses built-in Java I/O instead of reinventing the wheel as Xerces does (with its ChunkyByteArray etc.)
For whatever reason Sun plans to adopt Xerces as the official JAXP implementation. I dunno why... I think Crimson is much better for a lot of applications.
If you live inside the trial area for the Palo Alto, CA Fiber to the Home trial, you can get 100Mbps for a max of $175/month including upstream connectivity.
The program is managed by, you guessed it, Palo Alto's public utilities department. The same department installed a fiber ring throughout the city some years ago and licenses "dark fiber" (just the banwidth, ma'am) to anyone who wants to pay the drop charges plus $2,700/FMY (fiber-mile-year).
This is a PRIVACY issue and has nothing to do with DEMOCRACY.
Democracy is rule by the people. The people, being the rulers, can decide that they want to monitor your every email, sneeze, or trip to the can and there's nothing you can do about it except make your voice heard. Luckily, you're one of the rulers so maybe someone will listen.
It is not beyond plausibility that the Chinese govenrment could be considered to have copyright to the "simplified" character set which they invented in Mao's time.
I think this kind of misses the point. Web services isn't about making packaged software applications like Word available on the web.
It's about making EVERYTHING available on the Internet for use by other services as well as by end users. This means API's for finding car parts, building pizzas, calculating taxes, everything...
Step 1 - Orchestrate a fork of samba
Step 2 - Fake a break-in, establishing that MS source code is "out there."
Step 3 - Sneak MS source code into the new branch of samba.
Step 4 - Merge back into main samba branch.
Step 5 - Declare that samba is illegal and force everyone to use NT.
> The only true source of energy in the universe is fusion. This could be in reactors, or in some clever harnessing of a star
Clever ways of harnessing the power of a star:
1 - Photovoltaics
2 - Photosysthesis -> Decayed Plant Matter -> Petroleum
- Anyone who suggests overhauling or abolishing copyright law should remember that it's the legal foundation for the GPL.
- The world will not come crashing to a halt if it becomes impossible to charge people for an incremental copy of your work, which costs nothing or next to nothing to produce. You and the rest of the world will adjust to this new reality.
You didn't convince me that your fear of Napster is any different than the major labels' fear. You believe that the major labels have sold more CD's because of Napster. Wouldn't that be especially true for you? I mean, going from 0 to anything is a big jump. I think there's a leap of faith that you haven't taken yet. The better band you are, the more you should be giving away everything for free. But Napster will bring down lousy musicians as fast as it brings down scamming record labels. As Courtney Love put it, are you afraid of your own filler?
Slashdot Mirror
So I trust this is NOT offtopic.... I just have to get this off my chest.
The only explanation I can think of to explain the Slashdot editors' unwarranted negativism is that they got scooped and are having sour grapes about it.
Not scooped in the literal sense, since I'm sure they knew about it long ago, but in the editorial sense: they made a bad decision in thinking that this story was irrelevant, and now they're going to defend it at all costs.
By the way, one of those costs includes trying to influence your opinion.
Microsoft commonly smurfs newsgroups and other public forums (letters to the editor, etc.) The more influential they perceive the forum to be, the more effort they put into it. Yes, this includes /.
Back on the old Canopus forum on Compuserve, there was a character named Arnold who wrote countless pro-Microsoft messages in the days of the war with OS/2. I'm talking about 1992-1995 when the need for PR was very great -- Microsoft had to convince people that they didn't need a 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking OS.
Arnold was incredibly prolific. He'd respond to your arguments in the space of a few minutes, and his response would demonstrate incredibly detailed understanding of the topic, both broad and deep. There were rumors that he was Bill Gates. But I' pretty sure the truth is that he was the external interface to a complex system that linked together many, many Microsoft and PR people in a sophisticated effort to influence the opinion of the high-level IT executives and writers who frequented the forum.
The reason I believe this is that Arnold himself suggested it to me.
Then there was Steve Barkto, a pro-Microsoft poster whose account, it turned out, had been paid for with a Microsoft credit card. That was probably the last time they did that.
I'm a little tired of CmdrTaco's shameless begging for every new piece of equipment.
'nuff said.
If your friend has any direct line to Jobs at all, I wish he could get one simple message through.
The enemy of your enemy is a BIG friend.
QT + Linux would deal a major blow to Windows Media Format.
When is Apple going to stop trying to out-microsoft Microsoft?
"New Media" is the term that people (dare I say like yourself) came up with to describe the Internet. They did this because they were initially unable to comprehend the aspects of it that were not directly analagous to their world. There are a range of totally wrong implications to the term, which have not been borne out in practice. For example, that having an "online magazine" was a reasonable thing to do.
Calling it "New Media" is about as accurate as calling it "New Bookstore" or "New Pornhouse."
Sig. Heil!
Hey idiots, the Joke's on you. Katz did not write this piece. This appeared in the mainstream media earlier this week.
His biggest mistake was assuming that you lot were literate enough to have seen it, and to recognize his first piece as the satire that it was.
'nuff said
I'm surprised at all the negative comments about Tomcat. I use it for a production site that gets ~35,000 page views/day and have found that all the bugs I THOUGHT were tomcat's were actually mine.
What you're seeing here is what happens when people who are spending their company's money and meeting their company's deadlines need a solution. The best thing about tomcat is it's free software. That matters very much if you're trying to create something wonderful. It matters less if you're building something that your boss told you to.
d
"Why aren't they out arresting dope dealers?" --Carmella Soprano, on being pulled over for a speeding ticket.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Crimson (scroll down to the bottom of the directory).
This Java parser open-source, under the Apache project. It was developed by Sun under the name of JAXP and is far more lightweight than IBM's Xerces, mainly because it uses built-in Java I/O instead of reinventing the wheel as Xerces does (with its ChunkyByteArray etc.)
For whatever reason Sun plans to adopt Xerces as the official JAXP implementation. I dunno why... I think Crimson is much better for a lot of applications.The program is managed by, you guessed it, Palo Alto's public utilities department. The same department installed a fiber ring throughout the city some years ago and licenses "dark fiber" (just the banwidth, ma'am) to anyone who wants to pay the drop charges plus $2,700/FMY (fiber-mile-year).
This is a PRIVACY issue and has nothing to do with DEMOCRACY.
Democracy is rule by the people. The people, being the rulers, can decide that they want to monitor your every email, sneeze, or trip to the can and there's nothing you can do about it except make your voice heard. Luckily, you're one of the rulers so maybe someone will listen.
It is not beyond plausibility that the Chinese govenrment could be considered to have copyright to the "simplified" character set which they invented in Mao's time.
It's about making EVERYTHING available on the Internet for use by other services as well as by end users. This means API's for finding car parts, building pizzas, calculating taxes, everything...
Astute readers will notice that Internet != Web
In the vein of BXXP and SOAP, have a look at something simpler, more true to XML and free (libre), Extensible Protocol.
Step 1 - Orchestrate a fork of samba
Step 2 - Fake a break-in, establishing that MS source code is "out there."
Step 3 - Sneak MS source code into the new branch of samba.
Step 4 - Merge back into main samba branch.
Step 5 - Declare that samba is illegal and force everyone to use NT.
Regarding your
If you create a system like this, it would be useful for finding EVERYTHING.
> The only true source of energy in the universe is fusion. This could be in reactors, or in some clever harnessing of a star Clever ways of harnessing the power of a star: 1 - Photovoltaics 2 - Photosysthesis -> Decayed Plant Matter -> Petroleum
Source for a universal turing machine should fit inside 6000 characters. Seems like we oughta keep that from getting lost.
2 thoughts -
- Anyone who suggests overhauling or abolishing copyright law should remember that it's the legal foundation for the GPL.
- The world will not come crashing to a halt if it becomes impossible to charge people for an incremental copy of your work, which costs nothing or next to nothing to produce. You and the rest of the world will adjust to this new reality.
I'd guess the top 4% is about half a million nodes.
News flash : The web is vulnerable! A new study shows that taking out the top 100% of nodes could potentially bring down the internet.
Have you considered this carefully? Wouldn't this mean that GCC should be licensed such that anything created with it was required to be open-sourced?
Yep, good or bad, at least she's willing to let the market judge. This guy hasn't gotten there yet.
Have you seen any articles about Microsoft wanting to protect the right to innovate? If so I call BS on the irony meter. It had to be already busted.
You didn't convince me that your fear of Napster is any different than the major labels' fear. You believe that the major labels have sold more CD's because of Napster. Wouldn't that be especially true for you? I mean, going from 0 to anything is a big jump. I think there's a leap of faith that you haven't taken yet. The better band you are, the more you should be giving away everything for free. But Napster will bring down lousy musicians as fast as it brings down scamming record labels. As Courtney Love put it, are you afraid of your own filler?