Why is it automatically assumed by members of this site that everything should be free? We do not think everything should be free, most of us just assume that after a reasonable amount of time most public knowledge, as well as intellectual copyrights and ideas should become public domain and freely available.
...after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive. Once again we don't talk about physical assets, we're talking intellectual rights. We're not demanding that DisneyLand/World/etc all now be in the Public Domain, we're thinking that 75 year old copyrights should be.
So why aren't you still with that small time provider, and why don't you mention the company's name so that other Slashdotters can take advantage?
The original company was Integrity Online, which got bought by Arilion (flash required...ugh) which I believe at least in the Tennessee Valley(North Alabama, South Tennessee) who is really providing their service through API-Digital
This was before they got bought and everything, but I have a friend who uses them and hasn't had a single problem with dialup or dsl support/uptime. Integrity Online use to do filtering with their DSL if you requested it... not sure if they still have that option or what, but anyway.
It also indicates a lack of trust in a relationship that you feel you have to go behind the other persons back.
Well if she wont tell you what you believe to be the truth about her past, then wouldn't that indicate a lack of trust in the relationship by her if you're correct, and in the case that you are then of course you couldn't trust her!!
Anyway, I'm just stating that there is often a very valid reason to be suspicious of people. In general I give people my utmost respect, but never trust them unless they have proven to me that they deserve that trust.
And now for my personal story... [blah blah blah] Sounds exactly like a problem I had with a couple girls, they wouldn't tell the truth about things(providing a lack of trust to me), so therefore I go behind their back and look shit up. They claim I didn't TRUST them.... NO SH*T, thats why I looked it up!!! And I was RIGHT to suspect because I was right all along... how is it that if someone lies about stuff then its found out, you're the guilty one for finding out?
Re:cable IS better
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I think the majority of the problem is the DSL providers making it HELL to use. Mostly the Bells trying to control their network by installing their sh*t all over your computer, giving you USB modems that suck, and generally giving crappy service. I had an excellent small time DSL provider that gave me INCREDIBLE service without the headaches and I would go back to them in a heartbeat, but the bells are completely worthless from day 1. Cable on the other hand almost always use ethernet modems from my experience and don't tend to install much if any special software on your PCs and don't hassle you as much... just my experience and $.02
Harassing the lawyer for doing his job is another step altogether. If he himself is harassing people, that's one thing; if he's just protecting the spammer's rights, he's doing his job.
well in that case spammers... "are just doing their jobs!" Just because your doing your job doesn't make it right by any means. Your logic is failed here.
:-) yes, but if i took a 2 year old to the bathroom in my house, i would expct to help him out using it, whereas if i took a 5+ year old, i wouldn't expect to have to explain how to use a bathroom.
Good retort though, made me smile, thats not too often nowadays with eulas, company inovation rights, etc, etc. nowadays....
i appreciate the counterpoint though, well said.
P.S. - gnome/kde usually explain in tech terms what things do anyway though, such as (flushes tiolet... i suppose if you did'nt know what flush or toilet was you woundn't understand, but in my terms thats a new user)
This is a HORRIBLE comparison. Gnome and KDE are completely different window managers. If you were going to make a comparison of bathrooms... then lets say GNU/Linux is the house, then KDE would be one bathroom and Gnome would be a different bathroom. Unless you want all the bathrooms in the house to look identical for some weird reason, their isn't a reason that they should get changed. All bathrooms have a toilet and sink, some may even have a shower, and looking different is usually considered an asset! Gnome and KDE each have their own way of doing things, I think this change was strickly made for newbies that don't understand how KDE/Gnome work. Or in the analogy sense, were trying to piss in the sink instead of the toilet.;-)
All that being said, I think if redhat wants to make itself the newbie distro, then thats fine, they'll probably draw a lot more people to the linux community and also gain a larger part of the distro market. I myself who have choosen redhat for the last 5 years or so will now be switching my distro to a more technical and less crippled desktop.
"...using Vorbis means your player and encoder choices aren't bound by licensing terms. Right now, you can only choose from a few encoders to create your MP3 files, because most companies won't or can't pay the licensing terms for encoders. Using Vorbis lets you choose from a wide variety of encoders."
A free open standard with not patent restrictions is always the better way to go.
Well I know its probably rediculous that I don't know what Microsoft-baiting is, but since I don't I tried to form a definition from everything2
Microsoft-baiting...
Microsoft (thing) by fondue (12 hr) (print) ? 1 C! Thu Jun 22 2000 at 23:09:22
A very big company indeed. Microsoft actually makes more money from playing the stock market than from software these days...[shortened for length]...Microsoft do not, at present, produce any products that I would term "good". Define good by any criteria that fit that area of the market. This includes their optical mouse, touted as a great innovation (which it might be - for HP). The Windows platform (all 6 or 7 mutually incompatible fragments of it) is still used by me for some things because, while it is deplorable for many reasons*, it does do a large range of client-side tasks relatively bearably.... [shortened for length]...The other point is that Microsoft's business practices are indefensible. Muddying the water with politics or does not alter the fact that while they profit, everyone else suffers. They sunk upwards of $500 million dollars into trying to destroy Netscape. They are supremely arrogant - their insufferable belief that they have done no wrong, and their persistence in commiting large-scale crime dwarf the posturing of even the hardest Un*x zealot. (Their shady financial activities also dwarf any half-assed attempt at philanthropy by their top brass.)
In the US, they've bought enough senators (or is it congressmen? I can never remember) to keep the government at arms length...[shortened for length]
Baiting - (idea) by Nutloaf (2 y) (print) ? Sun Apr 02 2000 at 04:51:08
A sport played by bored teenagers everywhere. The idea is to enter a chat room or instant message conversation, and attempting to attract idiots to have cybersex with you. The minds of the victims are subtly (or not-so-subtly) played with, for the enjoyment of the baiter. Popularized by www.baiting.org
So I guess Microsoft-baiting would be something similar to:
A sport played by microsoft teenagers everywhere to enter a chat room, or IM conversation and attempt to attract idiots with their cloned software and bad innovation to get others to have cybersex with them while muddying the water with politics and crushing their competitors. Playing the minds of the victims (most likely the consumers) for the enjoyment of themselves. While using the bought government to keep the law at bay!
hmmm... seems like a decent reason to fire him, plus that seems like an odd thing to do for an open source supporter!
hehe
***/flush "carma go down the drain!" ***
Re:Socialism is all that works for information
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Without public schools, police, government, etc we'd have complete chaos because the people in this country arent intelligent enough, arent responsible enough, and they arent mature enough to successfully govern themselves.
You sound just like the politicians in washington, you spout off BS about how we NEED the government to run everything in our lives. Hell, the american people can't even flush the toilet without government help! They'd be eating their own slop if it wasn't for government!!
If thats seriously the case and most American's are as useless/helpless/stupid as you say, then let those that are die out! If they can't make it on their own they wont be a benefit to use supporting them, their just a burden dragging the rest of the helpful/intelligent/hard workers down with them. I can never understand why politicians can't get that if you leave people to support themselves or do things for themselves they'll be alright, we don't need uncle sam to wipe ourselves, and we don't need him taking our freedoms! The only tasks government should do is provide the most basic service of keeping people from killing eachother and settling disputes.
My stupid plastic cards won't even get accepted by a magnetic reader, let along do I think they put enough effort into something that could actually be tracked...
or maybe they just put all their money into developing a tracking system and then put on a magnetic strip that gets destroyed within weeks to save them money!
not EVERYBODY at H2K2 does these type of activities, but there will be a large number of Skr1p7 K1dd13z out there that will, and people should be prepaired.
Am I the only one that gets tired of the skript kiddie buzz word? I guess it's no longer used for skript kiddies, but for anything someone else doesn't appreciate.
Soon we'll have people saying... "Damn Skr1p7 K1dd13z with assault riffles and bullet proof vests came into my house today andd seized all my computer equipment, allong with any other electric device (phone, paper shredder, refrigerator, disposal) for evidence."
hehe
A script kiddie has NOTHING to do with social engineering! Learn a new buzzword.
Hell, M$ even has file sharing built into their OS, matter of fact they probably can't even seperate it from the OS if the courts deemed it necessary. And we all know what file sharing can lead to(besides trafficing of pr0n)...piracy!! hehe, the courts are such a waste of time and space(not that they should be, it just ended up that way).
If you have gasoline of anykind, drain-O, or lots of other extremely commmon household chemicals, then according to the government its quite viable and definately believeable that yes, you too have bomb-making materials and may well be a terrorist.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seems to cover it to me... to bad our founding rights that the country were built on are now the founding documents that our government walks all over now!
It seems to me there is an obvious answer to this problem. First off the company wants you to produce software and is will to pay you the hours at work that you would spend on this. The thing is you have an almost completed project that you've been spending a lot of time on and would like to market yourself. Wouldn't your current company be a perfect place to market your new project. You simply inform your superiors that you already have a product that matches that criteria and would be willing to sell them a license to this product. You spend a good few days finishing up your project, sell a license to your company and sell the licenses to whoever else you want as well. Everyone is happy, yes/no?!
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This has to be THE single most hummorous comment I have EVER seen on slashdot!!!!
roflmao
mad props to you.
Why is it automatically assumed by members of this site that everything should be free?
...after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive.
We do not think everything should be free, most of us just assume that after a reasonable amount of time most public knowledge, as well as intellectual copyrights and ideas should become public domain and freely available.
Once again we don't talk about physical assets, we're talking intellectual rights. We're not demanding that DisneyLand/World/etc all now be in the Public Domain, we're thinking that 75 year old copyrights should be.
So why aren't you still with that small time provider, and why don't you mention the company's name so that other Slashdotters can take advantage?
The original company was Integrity Online, which got bought by Arilion (flash required...ugh) which I believe at least in the Tennessee Valley(North Alabama, South Tennessee) who is really providing their service through API-Digital
This was before they got bought and everything, but I have a friend who uses them and hasn't had a single problem with dialup or dsl support/uptime. Integrity Online use to do filtering with their DSL if you requested it... not sure if they still have that option or what, but anyway.
It also indicates a lack of trust in a relationship that you feel you have to go behind the other persons back.
Well if she wont tell you what you believe to be the truth about her past, then wouldn't that indicate a lack of trust in the relationship by her if you're correct, and in the case that you are then of course you couldn't trust her!!
Anyway, I'm just stating that there is often a very valid reason to be suspicious of people. In general I give people my utmost respect, but never trust them unless they have proven to me that they deserve that trust.
And now for my personal story... [blah blah blah]
Sounds exactly like a problem I had with a couple girls, they wouldn't tell the truth about things(providing a lack of trust to me), so therefore I go behind their back and look shit up. They claim I didn't TRUST them.... NO SH*T, thats why I looked it up!!! And I was RIGHT to suspect because I was right all along... how is it that if someone lies about stuff then its found out, you're the guilty one for finding out?
I think the majority of the problem is the DSL providers making it HELL to use. Mostly the Bells trying to control their network by installing their sh*t all over your computer, giving you USB modems that suck, and generally giving crappy service. I had an excellent small time DSL provider that gave me INCREDIBLE service without the headaches and I would go back to them in a heartbeat, but the bells are completely worthless from day 1. Cable on the other hand almost always use ethernet modems from my experience and don't tend to install much if any special software on your PCs and don't hassle you as much...
just my experience and $.02
Sounds like proper use to me!
well in that case spammers... "are just doing their jobs!" Just because your doing your job doesn't make it right by any means. Your logic is failed here.
The wife is already begging me to let us save our money so we can afford to realistically build of one these! ;-)
There are women as geeky as me!
Haven't been around slashdot very long eh?
heh
:-)
yes, but if i took a 2 year old to the bathroom in my house, i would expct to help him out using it, whereas if i took a 5+ year old, i wouldn't expect to have to explain how to use a bathroom.
Good retort though, made me smile, thats not too often nowadays with eulas, company inovation rights, etc, etc. nowadays....
i appreciate the counterpoint though, well said.
P.S. - gnome/kde usually explain in tech terms what things do anyway though, such as (flushes tiolet... i suppose if you did'nt know what flush or toilet was you woundn't understand, but in my terms thats a new user)
anyway, good counterpoint
This is a HORRIBLE comparison. Gnome and KDE are completely different window managers. If you were going to make a comparison of bathrooms... then lets say GNU/Linux is the house, then KDE would be one bathroom and Gnome would be a different bathroom. Unless you want all the bathrooms in the house to look identical for some weird reason, their isn't a reason that they should get changed. All bathrooms have a toilet and sink, some may even have a shower, and looking different is usually considered an asset! Gnome and KDE each have their own way of doing things, I think this change was strickly made for newbies that don't understand how KDE/Gnome work. Or in the analogy sense, were trying to piss in the sink instead of the toilet. ;-)
All that being said, I think if redhat wants to make itself the newbie distro, then thats fine, they'll probably draw a lot more people to the linux community and also gain a larger part of the distro market. I myself who have choosen redhat for the last 5 years or so will now be switching my distro to a more technical and less crippled desktop.
LOL
:-)
I'm thinking worldlingo just submits to babelfish and gives you the translation back from babelfish!
Most of this info is from Vorbis
"...using Vorbis means your player and encoder choices aren't bound by licensing terms. Right now, you can only choose from a few encoders to create your MP3 files, because most companies won't or can't pay the licensing terms for encoders. Using Vorbis lets you choose from a wide variety of encoders."
A free open standard with not patent restrictions is always the better way to go.
For me its more a matter of principle.
Well I know its probably rediculous that I don't know what Microsoft-baiting is, but since I don't I tried to form a definition from everything2
...The other point is that Microsoft's business practices are indefensible. Muddying the water with politics or does not alter the fact that while they profit, everyone else suffers. They sunk upwards of $500 million dollars into trying to destroy Netscape. They are supremely arrogant - their insufferable belief that they have done no wrong, and their persistence in commiting large-scale crime dwarf the posturing of even the hardest Un*x zealot. (Their shady financial activities also dwarf any half-assed attempt at philanthropy by their top brass.)
/flush
Microsoft-baiting...
Microsoft
(thing) by fondue (12 hr) (print) ? 1 C! Thu Jun 22 2000 at 23:09:22
A very big company indeed. Microsoft actually makes more money from playing the stock market than from software these days...[shortened for length]...Microsoft do not, at present, produce any products that I would term "good". Define good by any criteria that fit that area of the market. This includes their optical mouse, touted as a great innovation (which it might be - for HP). The Windows platform (all 6 or 7 mutually incompatible fragments of it) is still used by me for some things because, while it is deplorable for many reasons*, it does do a large range of client-side tasks relatively bearably.... [shortened for length]
In the US, they've bought enough senators (or is it congressmen? I can never remember) to keep the government at arms length...[shortened for length]
Baiting -
(idea) by Nutloaf (2 y) (print) ? Sun Apr 02 2000 at 04:51:08
A sport played by bored teenagers everywhere. The idea is to enter a chat room or instant message conversation, and attempting to attract idiots to have cybersex with you. The minds of the victims are subtly (or not-so-subtly) played with, for the enjoyment of the baiter. Popularized by www.baiting.org
So I guess Microsoft-baiting would be something similar to:
A sport played by microsoft teenagers everywhere to enter a chat room, or IM conversation and attempt to attract idiots with their cloned software and bad innovation to get others to have cybersex with them while muddying the water with politics and crushing their competitors. Playing the minds of the victims (most likely the consumers) for the enjoyment of themselves. While using the bought government to keep the law at bay!
hmmm... seems like a decent reason to fire him, plus that seems like an odd thing to do for an open source supporter!
hehe
***
"carma go down the drain!"
***
You sound just like the politicians in washington, you spout off BS about how we NEED the government to run everything in our lives.
Hell, the american people can't even flush the toilet without government help! They'd be eating their own slop if it wasn't for government!!
If thats seriously the case and most American's are as useless/helpless/stupid as you say, then let those that are die out! If they can't make it on their own they wont be a benefit to use supporting them, their just a burden dragging the rest of the helpful/intelligent/hard workers down with them. I can never understand why politicians can't get that if you leave people to support themselves or do things for themselves they'll be alright, we don't need uncle sam to wipe ourselves, and we don't need him taking our freedoms! The only tasks government should do is provide the most basic service of keeping people from killing eachother and settling disputes.
My stupid plastic cards won't even get accepted by a magnetic reader, let along do I think they put enough effort into something that could actually be tracked...
or maybe they just put all their money into developing a tracking system and then put on a magnetic strip that gets destroyed within weeks to save them money!
Soon we'll have people saying... "Damn Skr1p7 K1dd13z with assault riffles and bullet proof vests came into my house today andd seized all my computer equipment, allong with any other electric device (phone, paper shredder, refrigerator, disposal) for evidence."
hehe
A script kiddie has NOTHING to do with social engineering! Learn a new buzzword.
Hmmm control by a few large greedy corporations
or owned by lots of smaller less greedy companies. What would I choose...
Larger companies:
Stability
Greed
Standardization on architecture
Greed
Less Helpful
Greed
Usually more informed
Did I mention Profiteering Glutton?
Smaller companies:
Not as big a wallet
Can be more helpful
Not as stable
More in touch with its customers
Government:
Inefficient
Cost ineffective
Technologicly challenged
Greed for power
Not at all helpful
Unresponsive
As long as its not run by the last one, the chances are we're better off.
Hell, M$ even has file sharing built into their OS, matter of fact they probably can't even seperate it from the OS if the courts deemed it necessary. And we all know what file sharing can lead to(besides trafficing of pr0n)...piracy!!
hehe, the courts are such a waste of time and space(not that they should be, it just ended up that way).
*sigh*
If you have gasoline of anykind, drain-O, or lots of other extremely commmon household chemicals, then according to the government its quite viable and definately believeable that yes, you too have bomb-making materials and may well be a terrorist.
Perhaps this is the problem... he graduated from college to get into the software/internet world, and he STILL didn't know Perl?!?!
Is this an educational system problem, or is it a just an individual's problem?
Seems like everyone graduating with that type of future in mind should definately already know perl... I knew perl in High School for Pete's sake!
It seems to me there is an obvious answer to this problem. First off the company wants you to produce software and is will to pay you the hours at work that you would spend on this. The thing is you have an almost completed project that you've been spending a lot of time on and would like to market yourself. Wouldn't your current company be a perfect place to market your new project. You simply inform your superiors that you already have a product that matches that criteria and would be willing to sell them a license to this product. You spend a good few days finishing up your project, sell a license to your company and sell the licenses to whoever else you want as well. Everyone is happy, yes/no?!