I noticed that the hands are kept apart for comfort's sake, looks good, feels good I guess, though I think that I will stay with my old school Microsoft Natural Keyboard though. I still need to be able to see my hands occasionally while typing.
Well, with all the other idiot decisions that this company has made, and with that retard Jobs at the helm, we can all expect Steve to shit on the customers as he has always done. In fact I think that Steve is a Microsoft plant in the Apple board. Eventually he will be exposed and the board will find out what a worm he is. The rest of us will know already from taking it in the ass and just right n......
Unlike many others I am a relatively happy Qwest.net customer. For two years I have gotten quick reponses to my problems from their customer service reps who seem to truly care. They are also easily reachable as well. However, I have no interest in being an MSN customer so I will have to switch. I am curious about Speakeasy as an ISP. One friend of mine has had some problems getting arrogant responses from them concerning a problem that he had. I know that on their site that they have an email support response preference going on which is fine if it's fast and good. I liked being able to call up Qwest whenever I had a problem and get a quick response so I am curious as to how good people would rate Speakeasy.
Was that joke about Tim Berners-Lee and some MIT guy creating a new scripting language (like we need another) called CURL except they want to charge people up the ass to use it....haahahhahahha. Yeah right....oh wait......
I hear that Antarctica has loose laws concerning pornography and that Linus is taking advantage of this to webcast the world's first penguin porn site. They're so slippery, so sexy......
Actually those "new release" major studio rentals are more expensive than the regular videos that places have in stores. Only those that pay that much are guarenteed that they will get x copies of the big name releases. Older things are the same price however and you can make anything a rental.
Still for the Harlan Ellison thing as well as for the film makers, at least one copy was bought. Also, this process is fairly agreed upon by now, where we are just now working out the net stuff....
How is going to the library to read the book any different than downloading it off the net?
Because the library paid for it's copy. That's pretty fucking different.
In fact, a group of publishers are pushing to get rid of libraries (in the form we know them - free access) because they let people read without paying.
Of course it's the publishers not the authors. Much like the major labels, this group of "publishers" isn't realizing that libraries BUY books from them as well as not seeing that there are plenty of people who read some of a book in library to see if they want to buy it and then do so.
Lastly I don't know how it is that so many here do not understand the difference between works and reproductions via media but there is a difference. A chair that I make and sell is out fo my hands once the sale is completed. A speech that I make is not the same thing. Sure once I have uttered it, you can talk about it, buy my book and read about it, but the "REPRODUCTION" of it is mine to control. This is to keep you from making money off of or misusing my works. How is that asking for trouble? Go write your own speech.
I used MySQL on Solaris and front ended it through Access. You can use the MyODBC to connect and can write native MySQL queries in Access and send it as a pass-through query to hit the database. Then store all the queries in Access and you have your solution. On the other hand it wasn't really fast. I have to agree that if your boss wants to pay for SQL Server then I would say go for it. It's going to be faster and it is far more of a full featured database than MySQL (transactions anyone?). The only reason that I can see not to use it is hatred of m$ft but that is more of a religious issue than a technological one. It's not your money so let your boss do as he pleases. MS-SQL is a fine product.
Since emancipation is a legal status wouldn't you have to have the emancipation files for every one of the underage models on file? How many kids are emancipated? I don't think that this is a loophole at all really.....
For creating something that the Government will use to control every single thing that any individual may do or say. No hope of social change when the slapdown comes and you can't even whisper an disagreable comment.
I guess scientists are becoming the buttboys of the ruling elite.
Why would it need a camera? To watch what everyone is doing all the time. That ticket for that stop sign that you rolled through will be in your mailbox before you even get home. Your corporate employer will fire you when they see that you smoked pot on the weekend. Or that you didn't attend church on Sunday. After all those Faith Based (tm) charities that started under the Bush regime will be the Moral KGB of the future.
So thanks Doug for helping to ensure the enslavement of the human race......
Steve Jobs announced that after he left Apple in the 80's he was called Asshole so much that he got a patent on the term and is now to going to crack down on all who use the term. An Apple spokesperson was quoted as saying "You can tell by our business practices that Jobs is really an Asshole (c) and deserves this patent."
Industry sources say that the only person who may have a legal challenge is Bill Gates and insiders at Microsoft say there have been meetings with company lawyers.
When a local paper questioned whether or not George Bush Jr. would have a possible legal challenge, a member or the patent office said "Absolutely not! Our research shows that he is called merely a 'dumbass' and would have no claim to actually being an asshole. One trait of assholism is strong decision making capabilities, and Mr. Bush falls short expecially when compared to the likes of Mr. Jobs and Mr. Gates. Now those guys are assholes."
You Kennedy curse analogy is flawed since your reductio of how they were killed is idiotic, and the simple matter is that the heirarchy of the family matters. The effects on an immediate family don't translate through the entire family. Two brothers dying counts for more than two distant cousins dying. Also the reason that no one can remember the Kennedy's who died in their sleep is because they weren't public figures. Almost all the Kennedy's who have been public figures have died and Ted just barely escaped himself. That is different in kind that what you are describing. However, your analysis that NFL players are no more dangerous than anyone else is true. There are a lot of players and considering what we ask from these people I am surprised that the crime figures are so low.
Perhaps if you are worried that you are going to end up next to Hannibal Lector(though I can't imagine what harm could come from being seated next to Heidi Fleiss unless you are afraid that it might make more sense to spend two grand to get laid rather than for something as moronic as the Superbowl and you would experience some sort of realization of what an idiot you are) then perhaps you shouldn't ever leave the house. There are no guarentees and there shouldn't be. Life should be free and I would rather be killed by a terrorist In A Free Land than be safe in a fascistic one.
Also the difference between cameras and live police is that live police don't have instant access in their heads to a database of images to compare you with to see if you are a "close match" for a criminal. They are just there to make sure that whoever you are, that you don't get out of hand. Which is fair.
I think that unless they inform the general public (ticketholders) in advance, then it is wrong. They are violating your rights because to compare your image to those of known offenders is assuming that you are guilty. The assumption of guilt is what starts investigations. Allegedly I am innocent unless there is a reason to assume that I am guilty. Come up with a reason. I didn't realize that attendence of the Superbowl meant that I am likely to be criminal. Good thing that I wouldn't ever attend an event like this.
Since they quoted the CEO of Linuxgruven I hope that all those Linuxgruven employees who signed up for accounts yesterday are posting to "support" their OS as part of the "community". Or if it was just that one guy I hope trying to maintain the fiction wears him out trying to post from 50 different accounts. Remember, now that you guys have all joined the Linux communtiy we will be watching to see if you're posting. You need to contribute to the community or we will think that you are just money grubbing bandwagon jumpers who are only in it for the short term......
I guess I will step up to this plate, as I wrote above, I have a dual-boot W2K/Redhat 7.0 laptop. Redhat stable, W2K (with service pack) unstable as shit. I also have problems with W2K Server on a PC. Linux +1, W2K -2.
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I have a dual-boot laptop with W2K and Redhat 7.0 on it and it was slightly more work to get the Redhat up and configured (DSL etc) but since then the Redhat is stable as a rock while there are all sorts of anamolies with W2K. I have tried a repair and installed the first service pack and I still have problems. At one point it worked with my CD burner now it doesn't and W2K will not shut down completely (which I have witnessed the same problem on another machine with W2K Server) it just gets to the blue screen and I have to pull the plug and yank the battery to get it to shut down. Go M$FT!!!
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As much as I would liket to say yes, the truth is no, though it did throw me off when they did say that it exploded. The chick wasn't paying any attention and I wasn't about to interrupt the procedings and I sure as hell wasn't going to point it out. That would be bad form.
I wonder why my personal true experience is listed as being a troll when every person here who was a kid whines about how they were upset seeing it at school when they were ten, gets a +5 insightful? I was older and the only reason I saw it was that particular situation, I would never have watched it on my own (back in those days I usually wasn't up before noon anyway). I said I thought it was tragic so I wasn't making light of it.
Too many moderators, too few with a sense of irony........
Considering the shitty quality of Taco's posts/flamebait recently, if he is right about Torvald's killing Linux the way he is killing Slashdot then we may be in serious trouble.....
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy and the Stooges.
What was the point of this? There was just a feature comparison. I thought that these two were going to battle it out, though I bet that wimpy Aibo would go running with its metallic tail between its legs when the Omnibot came at it. I don't what why these guys thought that a barking robot wouldn't get boring as quickly as the Omnibot. It's not like it's going to get smart enough to sit down and discuss Hegel with you or anything.......
I think that M$FT being down is news since many poeple use Windows. Maybe you don't, fine, but since it is the most used operating system in this country I bet a lot of Slashdot readers are interested. Considering some of the crap that you guys post I would think that this matters.
I use Microsoft's site to find information much the same way that I use Redhat's or Linux.org or Sourceforge to find Linux information. In fact I was trying to track down an error message last night when I noticed it was down. I kept checking to see if Slashdot or somebody had noticed and never saw anything, I guess it wasn't newsworthy enough that the largest maker of software in the world's site is down. How stupid and short-sighted to say that doesn't matter. If even just in the "Hooray, let's watch the man go down in flames!", it's noteworthy.
I don't think that your post is helpful to the community at all. Unless your goal is to alienate anyone that has/wants to use Windows. I am not a huge Windows fan but I think that there are a lot of ways to do things and that some have advantages over others.
As Slashdot was more than happy to post a story about the M$FT/Sun Java agreement yesterday I see no reason to come off as a crank about what is obviously news. It just makes you look stupid and short-sighted, not to mention hypocritical.
Hey, I've got an idea, someone ask Suse to respond to what the thinking was behind this!
Nah, let's start whining about something that seems kinda lame but pretty harmless. Since I don't know czech I guess I would have to take it on faith that this person knows what they are talking about (not the language but the business speak angle can be pretty complicated, especially if it was translated into czech for the web site). But I'll wait to see if anyone gets any verification on this, though on Slashdot these days it seems that there is an awful lot of "chicken little" being posted.
Damn, I am not so interested in bashing Suse as I am Apple, so I guess really don't have a vested interest in this story.......though I am sure that this gives the Redhat crowd a reason to support their distro......not to mention anyone with a gripe against Suse...I can just hear it now: "Once Suse was mean to me and never answered my email......"
We didn' t have the wherewithal to "invent" a language. We coded in grunts and if I used it now none of you whippersnappers would get it. You guys with your MIT degrees and your god Chomsky always talking about Language and Liguistics and Fortran and LISP and C and all the rest of your newfangled languages and crazy language ways. This is what happens when you try to build a tower to god. A babel-esque plethora of OS's and more languages than you know what to do with. Before it was just about moving from roaches to gerbils as that other guy pointed out. That was called progress! Then it became competitive and now look what you have! A mess I tells ya a MESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! Why if I wasn't in this iron lung I'd whip the lot o' ya!!!!
This is because before the internet, 12 and 13 year old kids used to steal their Dad's porn from the closet or the garage. Now because of the internet, Dad doesn't have any mags to sneak out with since he views porn online while Mom's cooking dinner. And the older kids that used to pass this stuff down aren't holding up their end of the bargain either since it all on their hard drives. So where else can a kid go these days to get some porn? The library.
Sad but true that these venerable institutions have to help kids through adolescence because the internet has reduced the number of hard copies to be stolen and hidden and found by mothers so that she can ground you. It's too bad that libraries have to have computers at all.....but if they have them then they have to have the right to be free. The biggest failure here is of the parents.
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I noticed that the hands are kept apart for comfort's sake, looks good, feels good I guess, though I think that I will stay with my old school Microsoft Natural Keyboard though. I still need to be able to see my hands occasionally while typing.
Well, with all the other idiot decisions that this company has made, and with that retard Jobs at the helm, we can all expect Steve to shit on the customers as he has always done. In fact I think that Steve is a Microsoft plant in the Apple board. Eventually he will be exposed and the board will find out what a worm he is. The rest of us will know already from taking it in the ass and just right n ......
Unlike many others I am a relatively happy Qwest.net customer. For two years I have gotten quick reponses to my problems from their customer service reps who seem to truly care. They are also easily reachable as well. However, I have no interest in being an MSN customer so I will have to switch. I am curious about Speakeasy as an ISP. One friend of mine has had some problems getting arrogant responses from them concerning a problem that he had. I know that on their site that they have an email support response preference going on which is fine if it's fast and good. I liked being able to call up Qwest whenever I had a problem and get a quick response so I am curious as to how good people would rate Speakeasy.
Was that joke about Tim Berners-Lee and some MIT guy creating a new scripting language (like we need another) called CURL except they want to charge people up the ass to use it....haahahhahahha. Yeah right....oh wait......
I hear that Antarctica has loose laws concerning pornography and that Linus is taking advantage of this to webcast the world's first penguin porn site. They're so slippery, so sexy......
Still for the Harlan Ellison thing as well as for the film makers, at least one copy was bought. Also, this process is fairly agreed upon by now, where we are just now working out the net stuff....
Because the library paid for it's copy. That's pretty fucking different.
In fact, a group of publishers are pushing to get rid of libraries (in the form we know them - free access) because they let people read without paying.
Of course it's the publishers not the authors. Much like the major labels, this group of "publishers" isn't realizing that libraries BUY books from them as well as not seeing that there are plenty of people who read some of a book in library to see if they want to buy it and then do so.
Lastly I don't know how it is that so many here do not understand the difference between works and reproductions via media but there is a difference. A chair that I make and sell is out fo my hands once the sale is completed. A speech that I make is not the same thing. Sure once I have uttered it, you can talk about it, buy my book and read about it, but the "REPRODUCTION" of it is mine to control. This is to keep you from making money off of or misusing my works. How is that asking for trouble? Go write your own speech.
I used MySQL on Solaris and front ended it through Access. You can use the MyODBC to connect and can write native MySQL queries in Access and send it as a pass-through query to hit the database. Then store all the queries in Access and you have your solution. On the other hand it wasn't really fast. I have to agree that if your boss wants to pay for SQL Server then I would say go for it. It's going to be faster and it is far more of a full featured database than MySQL (transactions anyone?). The only reason that I can see not to use it is hatred of m$ft but that is more of a religious issue than a technological one. It's not your money so let your boss do as he pleases. MS-SQL is a fine product.
Overfiend rules! The rest of this shit is for pussies!
Since emancipation is a legal status wouldn't you have to have the emancipation files for every one of the underage models on file? How many kids are emancipated? I don't think that this is a loophole at all really.....
I guess scientists are becoming the buttboys of the ruling elite.
Why would it need a camera? To watch what everyone is doing all the time. That ticket for that stop sign that you rolled through will be in your mailbox before you even get home. Your corporate employer will fire you when they see that you smoked pot on the weekend. Or that you didn't attend church on Sunday. After all those Faith Based (tm) charities that started under the Bush regime will be the Moral KGB of the future.
So thanks Doug for helping to ensure the enslavement of the human race......
Industry sources say that the only person who may have a legal challenge is Bill Gates and insiders at Microsoft say there have been meetings with company lawyers.
When a local paper questioned whether or not George Bush Jr. would have a possible legal challenge, a member or the patent office said "Absolutely not! Our research shows that he is called merely a 'dumbass' and would have no claim to actually being an asshole. One trait of assholism is strong decision making capabilities, and Mr. Bush falls short expecially when compared to the likes of Mr. Jobs and Mr. Gates. Now those guys are assholes."
You Kennedy curse analogy is flawed since your reductio of how they were killed is idiotic, and the simple matter is that the heirarchy of the family matters. The effects on an immediate family don't translate through the entire family. Two brothers dying counts for more than two distant cousins dying. Also the reason that no one can remember the Kennedy's who died in their sleep is because they weren't public figures. Almost all the Kennedy's who have been public figures have died and Ted just barely escaped himself. That is different in kind that what you are describing. However, your analysis that NFL players are no more dangerous than anyone else is true. There are a lot of players and considering what we ask from these people I am surprised that the crime figures are so low.
Also the difference between cameras and live police is that live police don't have instant access in their heads to a database of images to compare you with to see if you are a "close match" for a criminal. They are just there to make sure that whoever you are, that you don't get out of hand. Which is fair.
I think that unless they inform the general public (ticketholders) in advance, then it is wrong. They are violating your rights because to compare your image to those of known offenders is assuming that you are guilty. The assumption of guilt is what starts investigations. Allegedly I am innocent unless there is a reason to assume that I am guilty. Come up with a reason. I didn't realize that attendence of the Superbowl meant that I am likely to be criminal. Good thing that I wouldn't ever attend an event like this.
Since they quoted the CEO of Linuxgruven I hope that all those Linuxgruven employees who signed up for accounts yesterday are posting to "support" their OS as part of the "community". Or if it was just that one guy I hope trying to maintain the fiction wears him out trying to post from 50 different accounts. Remember, now that you guys have all joined the Linux communtiy we will be watching to see if you're posting. You need to contribute to the community or we will think that you are just money grubbing bandwagon jumpers who are only in it for the short term......
"Those aren' t bugs, those are prizes!"
I have a dual-boot laptop with W2K and Redhat 7.0 on it and it was slightly more work to get the Redhat up and configured (DSL etc) but since then the Redhat is stable as a rock while there are all sorts of anamolies with W2K. I have tried a repair and installed the first service pack and I still have problems. At one point it worked with my CD burner now it doesn't and W2K will not shut down completely (which I have witnessed the same problem on another machine with W2K Server) it just gets to the blue screen and I have to pull the plug and yank the battery to get it to shut down. Go M$FT!!!
I wonder why my personal true experience is listed as being a troll when every person here who was a kid whines about how they were upset seeing it at school when they were ten, gets a +5 insightful? I was older and the only reason I saw it was that particular situation, I would never have watched it on my own (back in those days I usually wasn't up before noon anyway). I said I thought it was tragic so I wasn't making light of it.
Too many moderators, too few with a sense of irony........
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy and the Stooges.
What was the point of this? There was just a feature comparison. I thought that these two were going to battle it out, though I bet that wimpy Aibo would go running with its metallic tail between its legs when the Omnibot came at it. I don't what why these guys thought that a barking robot wouldn't get boring as quickly as the Omnibot. It's not like it's going to get smart enough to sit down and discuss Hegel with you or anything.......
I use Microsoft's site to find information much the same way that I use Redhat's or Linux.org or Sourceforge to find Linux information. In fact I was trying to track down an error message last night when I noticed it was down. I kept checking to see if Slashdot or somebody had noticed and never saw anything, I guess it wasn't newsworthy enough that the largest maker of software in the world's site is down. How stupid and short-sighted to say that doesn't matter. If even just in the "Hooray, let's watch the man go down in flames!", it's noteworthy.
I don't think that your post is helpful to the community at all. Unless your goal is to alienate anyone that has/wants to use Windows. I am not a huge Windows fan but I think that there are a lot of ways to do things and that some have advantages over others.
As Slashdot was more than happy to post a story about the M$FT/Sun Java agreement yesterday I see no reason to come off as a crank about what is obviously news. It just makes you look stupid and short-sighted, not to mention hypocritical.
Nah, let's start whining about something that seems kinda lame but pretty harmless. Since I don't know czech I guess I would have to take it on faith that this person knows what they are talking about (not the language but the business speak angle can be pretty complicated, especially if it was translated into czech for the web site). But I'll wait to see if anyone gets any verification on this, though on Slashdot these days it seems that there is an awful lot of "chicken little" being posted.
Damn, I am not so interested in bashing Suse as I am Apple, so I guess really don't have a vested interest in this story.......though I am sure that this gives the Redhat crowd a reason to support their distro......not to mention anyone with a gripe against Suse...I can just hear it now: "Once Suse was mean to me and never answered my email......"
We didn' t have the wherewithal to "invent" a language. We coded in grunts and if I used it now none of you whippersnappers would get it. You guys with your MIT degrees and your god Chomsky always talking about Language and Liguistics and Fortran and LISP and C and all the rest of your newfangled languages and crazy language ways. This is what happens when you try to build a tower to god. A babel-esque plethora of OS's and more languages than you know what to do with. Before it was just about moving from roaches to gerbils as that other guy pointed out. That was called progress! Then it became competitive and now look what you have! A mess I tells ya a MESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! Why if I wasn't in this iron lung I'd whip the lot o' ya!!!!
Sad but true that these venerable institutions have to help kids through adolescence because the internet has reduced the number of hard copies to be stolen and hidden and found by mothers so that she can ground you. It's too bad that libraries have to have computers at all.....but if they have them then they have to have the right to be free. The biggest failure here is of the parents.