It looks to me as if they just provide http access. I don't know how they can do that exactly, but the FAQ says usenet doesn't work, so I don't see why anything else would. Furthermore, they wouldn't get any benefit out of the banners if you were using your access to play quake or something.
Side Note: The FAQ also says that all traffic is monitored so they can "tailor" their advertising banners. That probably doesn't sit too well with folks around here.
This is pretty base commercialism on the part of the Simpsons. They seem to have lost any counterculture satirical edge they may once have had. Now they're just another plastic lunchbox.
Would you mind explaining exactly what "content" they are producing/distributing? To me it seems like AOL's "online service" is on its last leg as internet access is getting more reliable and just as easy by other means.
I guess I should add that to my list of things that need money.
However, do they get any government money? Are they (you) a government branch?
I would be interested to see your arguements that oceanography has more potential benefit than space exploration though. Maybe for the short term, but not for the long term...
NASA is really an extremely cost effective branch of the government, perhaps the most cost effective. What branch can you name that is CONSTANTLY inventing new technology to be sent to difficult to survive environments?
NASA, and the Military.
Now, how many BILLIONS of dollars does the military get annually as compared to NASA's hundreds of millions
? NASA has put people on the moon and telescopes in orbit, invented re-usable spacecraft, all for less than Bill Gates loses on a bad day in share price. I personally can't think of one government institution that's more deserving of my money.
I'm confused. How can any trademark system all one to trademark a generic term? Linux is not a single piece of software. It's a loosley knit collection of pieces - a kernel source file here, an X server there - any of which is replaceable.
That's like trademarking the term "door". It's a generic term. No problem trademarking "AlphaBuster Door", and no problem trademarking "Foobar-Ni Linux", but you can't just trademark a generic term!
Stuff from the article that's badly writter or wrong:
In August 1999 when we start our company activities, we present ourselves the followin problem: What will happen if one person or organization try to register the name "LINUX" as a trademark?
Well, looks like you just found out.
Lamentablement, posterior facts demostrate us that we weren't wrong.
Posterior facts? Are you referring to the fact that your behavior can be well correlated to that of a posterior?
Unfortuneately, even though we are intelligent enough to install linux, according to some (non-linux users no doubt) in high places in our governments, we are still too stupid to know where to put our own money.
So that means that technically, they can only store 288 * 8/9 = 256 MB of data, and that 32 MB are there just as "checksum" or something? (How exactly does this work?)
So they are marketting it as 288 when it can only store 256 of real data?
What about all of those who have ideas for GNOME, but can't get all the way to Paris. Maybe if the GNOME developers started taking some of my bug submissions more seriously, they wouldn't need to spend all this cash.
Well, I was trying to jog my memory as to which MAD art Martin did, so I went a-hunting. This is the best I found. It's got about 15 comics. The ones with dialogue have been translated into German, but most of them don't have speach anyway.
I wasn't there, I live way too far away, but I'm really happy to hear the news. It looks like we brough to light the outrageous stupididy of DVD CCA's claims. Good work.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WERE ABLE TO ATTEND!!
"De Icaza is coordinating the development of a graphical interface called GNOME that makes Linux accessible to all by giving Linux the windows and icons that people have become accustomed to."
That statement is not really very accurate now is it? Windows and icons? Linux had those way before GNOME. Perhaps MIT is just a little bit in the dark? Besides, what about KDE? That's just as user friendly and not half as buggy. Not that De Icaza didn't do a good job, he is doing a very good one and I think eventually GNOME will kill KDE, but so far, they still have a looooot of bugs to fix.
"De Icaza was chosen both for his accomplishments in the GNOME Project and as a representative of the open-source software movement..."
If De Icaza is anything like RMS, I don't think he'll like the confusion between open-source and free software.
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Side Note: The FAQ also says that all traffic is monitored so they can "tailor" their advertising banners. That probably doesn't sit too well with folks around here.
This is pretty base commercialism on the part of the Simpsons. They seem to have lost any counterculture satirical edge they may once have had. Now they're just another plastic lunchbox.
So congradulations on being thouroughly useless in that post. I'm sure you are very proud.
Would you mind explaining exactly what "content" they are producing/distributing? To me it seems like AOL's "online service" is on its last leg as internet access is getting more reliable and just as easy by other means.
The "weekly roundup" sounds like it makes plenty of sense to me.
Do it! I think there should be a way of making anonymous donations though so the donators can't be prosecuted for "conspiracy".
However, do they get any government money? Are they (you) a government branch?
I would be interested to see your arguements that oceanography has more potential benefit than space exploration though. Maybe for the short term, but not for the long term...
NASA, and the Military.
Now, how many BILLIONS of dollars does the military get annually as compared to NASA's hundreds of millions
? NASA has put people on the moon and telescopes in orbit, invented re-usable spacecraft, all for less than Bill Gates loses on a bad day in share price. I personally can't think of one government institution that's more deserving of my money.
Doesn't it have any power out there wherever Uruguay is? Why not?
I'm sure you are going to be beating yourself over the head about this for a while. So sad.
It sure is a sign of your incompetence. That's for sure.
Does that mean that Linus can sue all companies that have the word "Linux" in their name for violating hit trademark?
That's like trademarking the term "door". It's a generic term. No problem trademarking "AlphaBuster Door", and no problem trademarking "Foobar-Ni Linux", but you can't just trademark a generic term!
Stuff from the article that's badly writter or wrong:
In August 1999 when we start our company activities, we present ourselves the followin problem: What will happen if one person or organization try to register the name "LINUX" as a trademark?
Well, looks like you just found out.
Lamentablement, posterior facts demostrate us that we weren't wrong.
Posterior facts? Are you referring to the fact that your behavior can be well correlated to that of a posterior?
Unfortuneately, even though we are intelligent enough to install linux, according to some (non-linux users no doubt) in high places in our governments, we are still too stupid to know where to put our own money.
So they are marketting it as 288 when it can only store 256 of real data?
mb would be millibits.
What about all of those who have ideas for GNOME, but can't get all the way to Paris. Maybe if the GNOME developers started taking some of my bug submissions more seriously, they wouldn't need to spend all this cash.
This is an example of cut-and-paste. Pathetic really.
The site is here: http://members.tripod.de/mad_2/donmar tin.html
Funny stuff.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WERE ABLE TO ATTEND!!
You did great!
He put the "human" in "human Gnome project".
I don't see any list there
It can be found here http://www.techreview.com /tr100/nominee-info/tr100_2.html
Try linux expo or the bazaar. :)
That statement is not really very accurate now is it? Windows and icons? Linux had those way before GNOME. Perhaps MIT is just a little bit in the dark? Besides, what about KDE? That's just as user friendly and not half as buggy. Not that De Icaza didn't do a good job, he is doing a very good one and I think eventually GNOME will kill KDE, but so far, they still have a looooot of bugs to fix.
"De Icaza was chosen both for his accomplishments in the GNOME Project and as a representative of the open-source software movement..."
If De Icaza is anything like RMS, I don't think he'll like the confusion between open-source and free software .
I don't think they should add stupid. Stupid is a matter of opinion after all.