While ESR's blind ilegance to the light side of the force is usually encouraging, in this case it's laughable. Microsoft isn't going anywhere... Hell my parents just upgraded to Windows 98 - that means that they'll beusing it for another 5 years... and they're the technilogical savy couple in their neighborhood. Get my drift?
So sayeth the Jakyll.
I'd much rather have a small keyboard on my phone and type in a url or IP to ring someone rather than have to remember their area code (ha!) and phone number - phone numbers are obsolete. You type them into the config once and forget em:-)
Does anyone still call friends anymore? Or just ICQ?
Ontario, Canada is basically NY, US - Toronto being NY, NY, US.... We've had cable EVERYWHERE populated for few years. DSL is trickiling to thje less populated areas, but the remote (VERY canadian) areas have had sat access for years - its just not marketed. Canada has the LARGEST Fibe optic net on the planet. All of Canada is fibre - no real point, I'm just proud of Canada:-) VOTE LIBERAL!
This article, although fake, made perfect sense. Just because we use linux doesn't mean that it's better than W2K or whistler - MS will learn from our ways, embrace them, and extend them into Whistler. We are a strong group but irrelevant. Don't kid yourself that your Linux knowledge will mean anything in twenty years. Our market is fuelled my CEO's who watch MS commercials. I know I will be moderated as flame bait but how many of you have a boss that doesn't think that Novell or MS is the only solution and Linux is a fad????
So I here you're from mars, eh?
Want a Donut?
Where's your touque, eh?
Do they have running water on mars?
No DOOT ABOOT IT!!!!!!
Martian incident insues (This is funny for Canadians Only)
Canada in general is much for liberal and the States - Universal health care, no fear of being sick, drinking age is 19:-), and pot is practically legal with new legislation making medicinal use legal. OK, so these things don't make for a better society by themselves, but we just shake our heads at the race differentials south of the border, and the fear of sex, etc. BTW: females can be topless if they want - it was ruled in Ontario (Not BC) that if a man can remove his shirt it was discrimination to disallow females to do the same... I know I'll be moderated down for this comment but just had to rant a bit.
This looks like a draft copy of a proposed service agreement. Don't jump the gun and think a document with red ink and strike-out lettering is written in stone.
I'm with Cogeco@Home and while they won't lift a finger to support a VPN or any other feature beyond a single Mac or Windows PC connected directly to the cable modem, they don't care what you do with your connection as long as you aren't being a bandwidth bastard.
We are the only ones who understand than national laws, personal predudice, international debate - mean nothing on the Internet. The Internet is above all debate of nationalality for it is above this. The net has no nationality or laws, it just is. Old world copyright, old world censorship mean nothing. It may take a decade for this to sink in, and some people will just retire and die without ever realizing that the system doesn't apply anymore.
wow - I'm ranting.
I just returned from Nagoya, where I saw the true state of wireless communication first hand. The cell phones are truly pocket sized, and of excellent quality, weigh almost nothing, and vitrate etc out of the box (with a free cradle charger included) I had a phone made my Kenwood (yes the stereo people) and it was excellent. Instant messaging to any other phone made by any of the three major companies, order buttons, movie times, etc, etc, etc it even surfed the web and did email. You could by a little foldup keyboard to plug into the STANDARD port in the bottom of the phone for email. There are vending machines all around that you plug your phone into and download cool ring tunes to your phone for 100 yen. (roughly 1.00 American buck). EVeryone is equiped with a phone. EVERYONE. I miss Japan:-( But Toronto's nice too I guess.
The RIAA is after a ruling that they can use as a weapon in future technology that are much more threatening to the old world way of doing business. When everyone in the free world who wants one, has a 2mbit connection to their homes, and reliable DivX2 compression makes it easy to store two movies on a single CD, there will be no stopping people, and the RIAA is petrified of this. I believe strongly that there is no stopping it. The way the world works changes now, and has started changing since the Internet became widespread. Personally, I napster everything I can, I've downloaded a few movies, but for fun. I have a large DVD library and a digital sound system with a 16:9 TV... downloading a movie isn't good enough. And I download a LOT of MP3's, but I still buy my 1-4 CD's a year for the artists I truley appreciate. If you feel really guilty about downloading from Napster, wait until the song you want comes on the radio, and pretend your taping it, then click "GET FILE";-)
If they put the Linux executable in the box on the shelves they'd be bothered with calls from people trying to get to a c prompt or hit the start button so they can play the linux version... you know what I mean. This way everybody wins, and they can keep a d/l count of everyone who is downloading the linux executable, and officially say they don;t support it. Good thinking!
Exposing cows to E Coli is adding something to the lab that wasn't there.
Exploiting inherent weaknesses of a program is simply doing something with the material you already were presented with that someone else hasn't yet thought of.
In other words, reworking the genetic material that is already there.
It's pointing out the flaws and begging them to be fixed!
DirecTV is a great system. DirecPC is pretty fast as well, but costly. Don't forget you still need a lowly 33.6 modem for upstream data. DirecTV is also Dolby Digital, can't beat that.
Sadly the Logo Rob uses in the SLASHDOT header is the best I've seen. It's professional, powerful, and subtle. It says "This is Debian". The swirl says "Rub the lamp and an OS will appear!"
Man, haven't we all dreamed of this? I've been hoping to see this in my lifetime ever since the final scene in Back To The Future, and the entire Back To The Future II. Now even if this is really gonna be out be the end of the year: Imagine the layers and layers of red tape this is going to have to go through? Even if it can take off vertically, will it have to be done at an official airpad or runway? Where will you land? All these questions and regulations will tie up this machine for years.:-(
OK, I think we can take it for fact that this is real. My question is what do we do about it? We can talk about it here at Slashdot for a million more threads and nothing will stop it. If the US/Canadian government just admitted to it, I would be put somewhat at ease. But my goverenment does whatever the states tells them to do, and the US is sure not going to come forward. I think I can bet money this story never hits CNN. It will be brushed away and quietly dispelled as paroid fruitcakes taking themes from the movie "Conspiracy" and the X-Files.
And to those who say "why do we care"? Where in Russia are you from? My point is that NO ONE has the right to my personal life. Even if I was a bomb making ted-wanna-be Cather In The Rye reading freak, does that give the Government the right to invade my privacy under the blanket of "protection' and 'National Security'? If they really have National Security then how come the trade centre bombing wasn't prevented?
Infect: Email me. Im curious to see for myself just how shitty or cool these are. I have a feeling they're crap. (Lets make that strong feeling) And besides, if I like the movie, I always buy the DVD.
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screenshot looks cool? Download. Is there an RPM of an EXE? I'll try it.. I'm only a pseudo geek.
While ESR's blind ilegance to the light side of the force is usually encouraging, in this case it's laughable. Microsoft isn't going anywhere... Hell my parents just upgraded to Windows 98 - that means that they'll beusing it for another 5 years... and they're the technilogical savy couple in their neighborhood. Get my drift? So sayeth the Jakyll.
I'd much rather have a small keyboard on my phone and type in a url or IP to ring someone rather than have to remember their area code (ha!) and phone number - phone numbers are obsolete. You type them into the config once and forget em :-)
Does anyone still call friends anymore? Or just ICQ?
Ontario, Canada is basically NY, US - Toronto being NY, NY, US.... We've had cable EVERYWHERE populated for few years. DSL is trickiling to thje less populated areas, but the remote (VERY canadian) areas have had sat access for years - its just not marketed. Canada has the LARGEST Fibe optic net on the planet. All of Canada is fibre - no real point, I'm just proud of Canada :-) VOTE LIBERAL!
This article, although fake, made perfect sense. Just because we use linux doesn't mean that it's better than W2K or whistler - MS will learn from our ways, embrace them, and extend them into Whistler. We are a strong group but irrelevant. Don't kid yourself that your Linux knowledge will mean anything in twenty years. Our market is fuelled my CEO's who watch MS commercials. I know I will be moderated as flame bait but how many of you have a boss that doesn't think that Novell or MS is the only solution and Linux is a fad????
So I here you're from mars, eh? Want a Donut? Where's your touque, eh? Do they have running water on mars? No DOOT ABOOT IT!!!!!! Martian incident insues (This is funny for Canadians Only)
%finger seata3.flight437f.canadianairlines.ca
If it has an IP address and you hae a driver, what else do you need?
Canada in general is much for liberal and the States - Universal health care, no fear of being sick, drinking age is 19 :-), and pot is practically legal with new legislation making medicinal use legal. OK, so these things don't make for a better society by themselves, but we just shake our heads at the race differentials south of the border, and the fear of sex, etc. BTW: females can be topless if they want - it was ruled in Ontario (Not BC) that if a man can remove his shirt it was discrimination to disallow females to do the same... I know I'll be moderated down for this comment but just had to rant a bit.
Install the Outloos Web Access component. It works fine in Netscape for Linux
This looks like a draft copy of a proposed service agreement. Don't jump the gun and think a document with red ink and strike-out lettering is written in stone. I'm with Cogeco@Home and while they won't lift a finger to support a VPN or any other feature beyond a single Mac or Windows PC connected directly to the cable modem, they don't care what you do with your connection as long as you aren't being a bandwidth bastard.
We are the only ones who understand than national laws, personal predudice, international debate - mean nothing on the Internet. The Internet is above all debate of nationalality for it is above this. The net has no nationality or laws, it just is. Old world copyright, old world censorship mean nothing. It may take a decade for this to sink in, and some people will just retire and die without ever realizing that the system doesn't apply anymore. wow - I'm ranting.
The Win2K recovery console is actually quite usefull - the downside is that I've had to use to rather often :-)
I just returned from Nagoya, where I saw the true state of wireless communication first hand. The cell phones are truly pocket sized, and of excellent quality, weigh almost nothing, and vitrate etc out of the box (with a free cradle charger included) I had a phone made my Kenwood (yes the stereo people) and it was excellent. Instant messaging to any other phone made by any of the three major companies, order buttons, movie times, etc, etc, etc it even surfed the web and did email. You could by a little foldup keyboard to plug into the STANDARD port in the bottom of the phone for email. There are vending machines all around that you plug your phone into and download cool ring tunes to your phone for 100 yen. (roughly 1.00 American buck). EVeryone is equiped with a phone. EVERYONE. I miss Japan :-( But Toronto's nice too I guess.
The RIAA is after a ruling that they can use as a weapon in future technology that are much more threatening to the old world way of doing business. When everyone in the free world who wants one, has a 2mbit connection to their homes, and reliable DivX2 compression makes it easy to store two movies on a single CD, there will be no stopping people, and the RIAA is petrified of this. I believe strongly that there is no stopping it. The way the world works changes now, and has started changing since the Internet became widespread. Personally, I napster everything I can, I've downloaded a few movies, but for fun. I have a large DVD library and a digital sound system with a 16:9 TV... downloading a movie isn't good enough. And I download a LOT of MP3's, but I still buy my 1-4 CD's a year for the artists I truley appreciate. If you feel really guilty about downloading from Napster, wait until the song you want comes on the radio, and pretend your taping it, then click "GET FILE" ;-)
Damn
Do the guys at Realdoll know about this?? ;-)
If they put the Linux executable in the box on the shelves they'd be bothered with calls from people trying to get to a c prompt or hit the start button so they can play the linux version... you know what I mean. This way everybody wins, and they can keep a d/l count of everyone who is downloading the linux executable, and officially say they don;t support it. Good thinking!
This is dumb, but what does a v6 addy even look like? just two more octets??
Exposing cows to E Coli is adding something to the lab that wasn't there.
Exploiting inherent weaknesses of a program is simply doing something with the material you already were presented with that someone else hasn't yet thought of.
In other words, reworking the genetic material that is already there.
It's pointing out the flaws and begging them to be fixed!
DirecTV is a great system. DirecPC is pretty fast as well, but costly. Don't forget you still need a lowly 33.6 modem for upstream data. DirecTV is also Dolby Digital, can't beat that.
Sadly the Logo Rob uses in the SLASHDOT header is the best I've seen. It's professional, powerful, and subtle. It says "This is Debian". The swirl says "Rub the lamp and an OS will appear!"
Man, haven't we all dreamed of this? I've been hoping to see this in my lifetime ever since the final scene in Back To The Future, and the entire Back To The Future II. Now even if this is really gonna be out be the end of the year: :-(
Imagine the layers and layers of red tape this is going to have to go through? Even if it can take off vertically, will it have to be done at an official airpad or runway? Where will you land? All these questions and regulations will tie up this machine for years.
OK, I think we can take it for fact that this is real. My question is what do we do about it? We can talk about it here at Slashdot for a million more threads and nothing will stop it. If the US/Canadian government just admitted to it, I would be put somewhat at ease. But my goverenment does whatever the states tells them to do, and the US is sure not going to come forward. I think I can bet money this story never hits CNN. It will be brushed away and quietly dispelled as paroid fruitcakes taking themes from the movie "Conspiracy" and the X-Files.
And to those who say "why do we care"? Where in Russia are you from? My point is that NO ONE has the right to my personal life. Even if I was a bomb making ted-wanna-be Cather In The Rye reading freak, does that give the Government the right to invade my privacy under the blanket of "protection' and 'National Security'? If they really have National Security then how come the trade centre bombing wasn't prevented?
Or am I just really tired and need some sleep?
Dan.
Infect: Email me. Im curious to see for myself just how shitty or cool these are. I have a feeling they're crap. (Lets make that strong feeling) And besides, if I like the movie, I always buy the DVD.