Wait, let's see if I get this right. Cybersquatter dude registers a misspelled domain name, so that he can sell it to the owner of the correctly spelled domain, right?
They were obviously not making enough money to justify porting to linux. Therefore, they decided to stop supporting it. This is very simple.
Now, I'm no fan of business, but I would do the exact same thing if I were in their position. Saying "fuck them, they can't do this to us!" doesn't accomplish anything. Write your own clone if you don't like it.
I imagine $20 worth of LSD will "mentally transport you to a distant place, bringing the imagery of sights, smells, emotions, tactile feelings, tastes... even non-recorded sounds to a very real state" just as effectively as a $150k audio system. Not that I wouldn't mind a nice high-end system, you understand, but let's not get too far from reality.
Even assuming Microsoft didn't pay for the study, and assuming the Gartner Group weren't a bunch of filthy whores, who cares if linux can compete with MS in the marketplace?
If you're worried that your PHB will force you to use MS products based on this study, well, find a job with more enlightened management, or take his job yourself.
No one owns space. A while back, all of the superpowers (at the time) agreed that space (and I don't remember what definition...how far up they decided) would have the same openness as international waters.
My friend's sister had to move to Germany when she was in the air force. She got married and bought a house there. The key point here--try to follow me on this one--is that she still lived in Germany, which is a different region from the US.
And the MPAA can suck on my ass, but I'm sure I've mentioned that before.
Sell something using the same description he used, but send something that will keep the buyers from ever breeding (say, a sizable chunk of uranium, or a rabid badger). Should halt spam entirely within our lifetime.
How mind bendingly dumb would the filterer have to be to miss @u.WASHINGTON.edu addresses:)
Well, they did say "to the best of our technical ability." No one ever accused spammers of being nuclear physicists. Or of having a recognizable central nervous system, for that matter.
If you don't accept testimonials as proofs, you won't accept any proof as proof.
Spoken like a true idiot.
I'm still pissed that they didn't use my question for him: "Do crazy people know they're crazy? Like, when you're sitting there masturbating in your own feces, reading Guns and Ammo, do you just stop and go, 'Wow, it is amazing how fucking crazy I really am'?" -- Brad Pitt, Se7en
Of course companies are going to try to prevent their people from being snagged by other companies. That only means the company recognizes their value. You'll notice they aren't stopping employees from researching other employment. So I have to ask again: why is this non-issue on Slashdot in the first place?
But the article mentions that he was actually a rocket scientist for NASA at one time, I would have thought that would qualify him fairly well to comment.
Designing rockets is far different from studying how to keep humans alive in space. Had Tito been an actual astronaut he would have some qualification.
I agree with you that the USSR/Former Union of Soviet Socialist States/whatever they're calling themselves these days is doing things much cheaper than NASA these days. Hopefully NASA will take a clue from them and start working toward better efficiency.
"Do crazy people know they're crazy? Like, when you're sitting there masturbating in your own feces, reading Guns and Ammo, do you just stop and go, 'Wow, it is amazing how fucking crazy I really am'?" -- Brad Pitt, Se7en
In addition to making sure you click NO on all those "do you want worthless shit email from us?" radio buttons, you should also deliberately skew marketing surveys that are forced down your throat as part of "free" services. I routinely mark "$100,000+" for income, "Social Worker" as career (let them puzzle over that one), "55+" for age (or alternately, "18"), etc. The more of us there are who do this, the less useful those marketing databases get.
People are giving out chapters of the newest Grisham novel on the street. A few people have all the chapters available, but you have to look all over the city for them, and in most cases, you have to go to other cities (servers) to find them. Many of the people giving out free chapters photocopied them poorly. Some of the chapters get cut off before the final few paragraphs or even pages. Some of the people took the time to make very high-quality copies, but again, they are few and far between and you have to look all over the place before finding them. some people don't even bother to number the chapters, so you're going to have to find a list of those chapters elsewhere to be sure you have the whole thing. Then there's the whole problem that Grisham's books all read pretty much the same (think Brittney Spears.
Now, *my* intuition tells me that if Joe Blow were to get his hands on a free chapter and likes it, he's more likely to go buy the book than he is to go through the hassle of finding all the other chapters, making sure they're in the right order, and making sure they're from the right book.
I've been up for 40.5 (yes, that's right) simultaneous hours. Haven't been screamed at by Qwest yet.:)
Speaking of Qwest, they uniformly suck in almost every other area, but I've been damn happy with their DSL service here in Colorado. I've been a subscriber in two different locations; the first was a duplex built in the 30s and now I'm in an apartment complex built in the 50s. I'm farther from the CO now, but at both places I consistently got/get almost instant connects (Qwest DSL isn't "always on", you have to go through their router pool), fast speeds (640Kbps down and I believe 256 up, which isn't important to a leech like me--for $39.99/month), and the connection is rock solid--I've never once had a disconnection until I manually did it.
I'm not selling Qwest service. Like I said, they suck in every other department, but their DSL service in Colorado is outstanding.
The only thing I regret is getting the Intel 2100 win"modem" instead of the external Cisco 675 router for $100 more. I was hoping someone would come out with linux drivers by now, but Intel still hasn't bothered to release detailed specs. Does anyone know where we are with a way to get the 2100 to work under linux?
As I recall, Congress got the record companies to admit that they were artificially inflating prices through illegal collusion. Ever wonder why the government didn't step in and invoke RICO laws against RIAA? Repeat after me, kids:
M-O-N-E-Y.
That's right. The government of the United States of RIAA is open for business. Expect to be bombarded with bland pop on every street corner when they get the "mandatory public music" law passed next year.
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Wrong. Read the link before posting.
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Now, I'm no fan of business, but I would do the exact same thing if I were in their position. Saying "fuck them, they can't do this to us!" doesn't accomplish anything. Write your own clone if you don't like it.
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If you're worried that your PHB will force you to use MS products based on this study, well, find a job with more enlightened management, or take his job yourself.
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Haven't heard anything about it, but if I recall correctly, everyone was killed in the last episode of that series....
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My friend's sister had to move to Germany when she was in the air force. She got married and bought a house there. The key point here--try to follow me on this one--is that she still lived in Germany, which is a different region from the US.
And the MPAA can suck on my ass, but I'm sure I've mentioned that before.
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Well, they did say "to the best of our technical ability." No one ever accused spammers of being nuclear physicists. Or of having a recognizable central nervous system, for that matter.
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Spoken like a true idiot.
I'm still pissed that they didn't use my question for him: "Do crazy people know they're crazy? Like, when you're sitting there masturbating in your own feces, reading Guns and Ammo, do you just stop and go, 'Wow, it is amazing how fucking crazy I really am'?" -- Brad Pitt, Se7en
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Designing rockets is far different from studying how to keep humans alive in space. Had Tito been an actual astronaut he would have some qualification.
I agree with you that the USSR/Former Union of Soviet Socialist States/whatever they're calling themselves these days is doing things much cheaper than NASA these days. Hopefully NASA will take a clue from them and start working toward better efficiency.
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Most of those "routine duties" are in place to keep the astronauts/cosmonauts alive. They should have left him up there.
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People are giving out chapters of the newest Grisham novel on the street. A few people have all the chapters available, but you have to look all over the city for them, and in most cases, you have to go to other cities (servers) to find them. Many of the people giving out free chapters photocopied them poorly. Some of the chapters get cut off before the final few paragraphs or even pages. Some of the people took the time to make very high-quality copies, but again, they are few and far between and you have to look all over the place before finding them. some people don't even bother to number the chapters, so you're going to have to find a list of those chapters elsewhere to be sure you have the whole thing. Then there's the whole problem that Grisham's books all read pretty much the same (think Brittney Spears.
Now, *my* intuition tells me that if Joe Blow were to get his hands on a free chapter and likes it, he's more likely to go buy the book than he is to go through the hassle of finding all the other chapters, making sure they're in the right order, and making sure they're from the right book.
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I've been up for 40.5 (yes, that's right) simultaneous hours. Haven't been screamed at by Qwest yet. :)
Speaking of Qwest, they uniformly suck in almost every other area, but I've been damn happy with their DSL service here in Colorado. I've been a subscriber in two different locations; the first was a duplex built in the 30s and now I'm in an apartment complex built in the 50s. I'm farther from the CO now, but at both places I consistently got/get almost instant connects (Qwest DSL isn't "always on", you have to go through their router pool), fast speeds (640Kbps down and I believe 256 up, which isn't important to a leech like me--for $39.99/month), and the connection is rock solid--I've never once had a disconnection until I manually did it.
I'm not selling Qwest service. Like I said, they suck in every other department, but their DSL service in Colorado is outstanding.
The only thing I regret is getting the Intel 2100 win"modem" instead of the external Cisco 675 router for $100 more. I was hoping someone would come out with linux drivers by now, but Intel still hasn't bothered to release detailed specs. Does anyone know where we are with a way to get the 2100 to work under linux?
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Wow! Cool! Hey, somebody tell this guy that the GBA has been emulated since about 4 months before the thing even hit the shelves in Japan.
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M-O-N-E-Y.
That's right. The government of the United States of RIAA is open for business. Expect to be bombarded with bland pop on every street corner when they get the "mandatory public music" law passed next year.
-Legion