The virus is an old snake eating up corporate ressources since years inside MS - and her name is greed, stupidy, intolerance and lack of responsibility. The fish is stinking from the head since years, and everyone knows the name and the face of the stinkhead. Get rid of him, open up, create a new fresh image, real new visions, real new products, real leadership, real responsibility - and MS might be able to lead the world out of recession if well done. Greetings, Chris
It is refreshing to still have some real humans among us, who do not need to carefully avoid touching corporate interests when it comes to expressing a personal opinion. The open source community needs to be told the straight truth from time to time, and personally I would not be offended if he would have used the same words to criticize my own work. Actually, I would have fun imagining myself being part of a group of masturbating monkeys.:-)
While we should try to talk friendly to users, a bit of humor and stronger expressions are the urgently needed salt'n peppa in a decent conversation between developers.
The IT security industry was always sick, but it managed to gain much more importance recently, because the world felt into a period of stupid fear some years ago. I really hope some day we can start to do constructive and serious security based on proven risk management principles and facts again.
What's feeding my wallet, is often not right, though.
... and Microsoft is responsible for 50% of the damage because they invented the double-click where 1 single click would be sufficient.
Greetings,
Chris
"...and that it is being watched all the way up the chain of command into the Pentagon."
I donate my 5 voting moderation point this round to the Association of Former Cyber Crime Warriors (to be founded). Whatever I do when moderating here today, my motivation might be fully misunderstood by people who later on command the person with the gun in front of me. They might even just not share my taste of humor. So, I better shut up.;-)
Greetings,
Chris
... is the only final solution to get rid of all those control-maniac idiots who think their personal feelings are more important than tolerance and understanding of different opinions. Don't get me wrong: That is a message to all censors, whatever faith, believe or ideas they might have.
Greetings,
Chris
You will need to extract the fitting firmware to/lib/firmaware in order to get the new b43 driver working, which is already included into recent kernels. All info is here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43. No ndiswrapper needed, that's a stable native driver with good performance. If your distro of choice does not provide recent kernels, move. I recommend sidux. Greetings, Chris
Personally I do not approve any of Microsoft's licenses, Eulas or any other legal text they throw at me. If the OSI decides to approve 2 of their licenses, it has no relevance to me. I will not contribute to a code base licensed under any Microsoft born paper, and I will not buy, distribute, use or recommend any software created from such base.
So, why not follow me and simply ignore their propaganda?
Although I fully agree with the "release it today" approach, I cannot with "let them come". You need to make them come, you need to promote your project to developers and users, otherwise it will end like thousands other projects - as a virtual grave at Sourceforge.
Get your code properly licensed and into a SVN, add what ever you already did on documentation. If you find some time add comments to the code and your documentation, and try to answer other devs' questions. Don't hide flaws and missing pieces, instead point at them actively.
Promote you project at compeeting projects, let the people know about your new project. You might find unhappy devs here and there, and they might happily grab your code and continue your work.
By the way, I might personally be interested in this project. So, please post a link here if you're done.
Interesting things happen with the scores on this very topic.
While parts of Gore's film are definitely lacking scientific background, and emotional manipulations are used extensively and intentionally, there is still a core truth inside. Watching the conversation here I see a tendency to forgetting that while we are picking the questionable parts of Gore's work. Is this the thing we call "critical intelligence"? As a true elite we should give an example here on how to discuss controversal theories properly - for the sake of everybody.
So many other Slashdot discussions have been great pieces of information and inspiration, even for people actually working on the stuff discussed. Let's make this one the same quality.
Greetings,
Chris
There are different legal measures for illegal abuse of a market monopoly, and bundling hard- and software to a product without any monopoly. That's not double standards or unfair - that's fine legislative practice protecting people while still allowing (and encouraging) free markets. Therefore only Microsoft is mentioned in the think tank's proposal, which I hope will lead to fast legal action by the EU.
Greetings,
Chris
because you're on the money trail now. Simply start publishing more about it across the net, and don't forget to always mention the full company's name, address, web site and board of directors. The more you spread it, the better. While doing that let your lawyer approach them with a prepared law suit. After they got nervous about the bad publicity, ask for a new laptop (the best they got) and US$ 50,000 if you retain from actually suing them. Offer them to publish the fine outcome (a new laptop was given - don't mention the money of course) at all the sites where your campaign was spread. Send me 10% if it works out fine. Deal.
Greetings,
Chris
You all are not real, folks. So, stop behaving like real ones, stop telling me I should trust your realities - just stop influencing my live in this invasive way!
Greetings,
Chris
Well, welcome to the Dinosaur Club! With your point of view and the decision making process you mention your "billion dollar a year company" will not be alive in 5 years. Go on hunting the "one single costumer" who is abusing Excel.
"It all comes down to the bottom line." Exactly. The bottom line is: Earth is rotating and the business world has changed. If your business still depends that desperately on the "one costumer", and does not have a communication base with him where different formats can be discussed, then your shares are worthless shortly.
Greetings,
Chris
"So what is so great about 1.4? First of all it is written using.NET 2.0 which allows for some cool new features but more importantly, thanks to Microsoft allowing developers to use visual C# express for free we were able to easily increase the development team, who simply could not afford to purchase visual studio."
What a mix: Open source development, sponsored by Microsoft and the CIA, completely done using closed source applications....
Hey, while we're at it, what do we need a CEO for? Overall intelligence has gone up over the years. I'm sure we're going to evolve to the point that we won't need a CEO anymore. After all, any one of us can do the job just as effectively, right? Let's hear it for true distributed management!
Although you still might that find funny a bit, that's exactly where we are moving. Never recognized that we already are hot-swapping CEOs?
I just don't understand why you think that being incorporated makes Mozilla's legal entity more inherently evil than for example the GNOME Foundation.
What would be the reason to build two different legal entities instead of just one? Mozilla runs the Foundation AND the Corp., while most other projects stick with a foundation only. Have a closer look at who/where is in charge and legally entitled to decide, and have also a very close look at who owns the shares, and how they might be distributed in the future. Such examination of Mozilla's legal framework will help you to answer your question.
And despite the ridiculous logo/trademark discussion - did you recognize that Mozilla is the only bigger "free & open source" project with GNU/GPL licensed products requesting patch reviews/control and legitimize this with "trademark protection"? That's actually an ugly abuse of the GPL - if not an illegal step.
Your idea about a full fork shows a complete lack of understanding about how the Mozilla project works. Why would you want to fork Gecko or XULRunner just because of disagreements over a front-end that makes up 10% of the code, tops? Because that's all Firefox is. At least learn the basics about Mozilla before calling for a fork of it, otherwise you won't get far.
I hope you are aware of the fact that FF itself started with a fork. Why would anybody? Well, the Debian community is always willing and ready to go the extra mile needed to protect the freedom of their users. Cdrecord was recently forked for very similar reasons - incompatible licenses (see wodim).
You should also understand that Debian is not an unimportant hidden club of crazy extremist communists, probably time to learn something about it's organisation, size and abilities instead of teaching me Mozilla project structures.
And for your "corporate governance" argument... Mozilla Corp. is just a subsidiary(sp?) the Mozilla Foundation created for administrative purposes.Obviously you did not understand - and I did not understand you. What do you mean by "just a subsidiary"? Does that mean Mozilla Corp. is "less corporate" because it's owned by a foundation? That's a faith it shares with some of the biggest corporations existing today, so the argument is interesting.
Greetings,
Chris
IceWeasel beats FireFox usage stats by end of 2007
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Mozilla vs Debian Analyzed
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· Score: 2, Insightful
That's something very likely to happen. The real power of free and open source software always was and is what happens with forks. After all, that's how evolution works. An IceWeasel (and no, I did not vote for this name) being an improved, faster and even more secure browser than it's parent can easily be adopted not just by other Linux distributions, but also by MacOS (and even Windows!) users.
It always begins with compatibility problems (incompatible code, license or personalities) and often creates the better software product. Let's support it and help make it strong. I vote for a full fork and substantial improvement. I would also invite all MozDevs to join IceWeasel, where a real free and open source browser will be done without "corporate governance".
Greetings,
Chris
Well, i never promoted the traditional famous Blackjack card counting formulas (hehe, "high" & "low" - is this mathematics, actually?). Instead, I was talking about correct probabilities for certain cards - and memorizing the already played ones.
Interesting - and typical for the "non-counting/non-memorizing", but "talking about" community - are those percentages mentioned. In your first post you where talking about 1%, while you now mention just "1/2% if you are perfect". Well, that's a 100% difference, or a 50% one?;-)
Who knows - if we calculate +1 for 1% (=high number), and -1 for 1/2% (=low number), and compare the big zero result with the difference between 100% and 50%, we might find similarities here.
Very few card counters are good enough for the casinos to actually worry about. And the advantage when successful is only 1% at best.
You're kidding here - right?
It's simple - but it needs training and is boring work. No fun there, just making somey money per hour. However, how did you calculate an advantage of just 1%? In a usual Blackjack setting with common rules correct counting puts your advantage over 18%, which is enough to beat the casino. It won't ruin them, however.;-)
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The virus is an old snake eating up corporate ressources since years inside MS - and her name is greed, stupidy, intolerance and lack of responsibility. The fish is stinking from the head since years, and everyone knows the name and the face of the stinkhead. Get rid of him, open up, create a new fresh image, real new visions, real new products, real leadership, real responsibility - and MS might be able to lead the world out of recession if well done.
Greetings,
Chris
It is refreshing to still have some real humans among us, who do not need to carefully avoid touching corporate interests when it comes to expressing a personal opinion. The open source community needs to be told the straight truth from time to time, and personally I would not be offended if he would have used the same words to criticize my own work. Actually, I would have fun imagining myself being part of a group of masturbating monkeys. :-)
While we should try to talk friendly to users, a bit of humor and stronger expressions are the urgently needed salt'n peppa in a decent conversation between developers.
The IT security industry was always sick, but it managed to gain much more importance recently, because the world felt into a period of stupid fear some years ago. I really hope some day we can start to do constructive and serious security based on proven risk management principles and facts again.
What's feeding my wallet, is often not right, though.
Greetings,
Chris
... and Microsoft is responsible for 50% of the damage because they invented the double-click where 1 single click would be sufficient. Greetings, Chris
Well, the domain has not been transfered until now:
;-)
$ whois pizza.com|grep -A 5 Registrant
Registrant:
Clark, Christopher
ATTN: PIZZA.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Payment probably not settled?
Greetings,
Chris
"...and that it is being watched all the way up the chain of command into the Pentagon." I donate my 5 voting moderation point this round to the Association of Former Cyber Crime Warriors (to be founded). Whatever I do when moderating here today, my motivation might be fully misunderstood by people who later on command the person with the gun in front of me. They might even just not share my taste of humor. So, I better shut up. ;-)
Greetings,
Chris
... is the only final solution to get rid of all those control-maniac idiots who think their personal feelings are more important than tolerance and understanding of different opinions. Don't get me wrong: That is a message to all censors, whatever faith, believe or ideas they might have. Greetings, Chris
Why was this rated down? Greetings, Chris
You will need to extract the fitting firmware to /lib/firmaware in order to get the new b43 driver working, which is already included into recent kernels. All info is here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43. No ndiswrapper needed, that's a stable native driver with good performance. If your distro of choice does not provide recent kernels, move. I recommend sidux.
Greetings,
Chris
Personally I do not approve any of Microsoft's licenses, Eulas or any other legal text they throw at me. If the OSI decides to approve 2 of their licenses, it has no relevance to me. I will not contribute to a code base licensed under any Microsoft born paper, and I will not buy, distribute, use or recommend any software created from such base.
So, why not follow me and simply ignore their propaganda?
Greetings,
Chris
And just to add my sperm here: All those "former" CIA, NSA, FBI agents have always been such a reliable source of information. ;-)
Greetings,
Chris
Although I fully agree with the "release it today" approach, I cannot with "let them come". You need to make them come, you need to promote your project to developers and users, otherwise it will end like thousands other projects - as a virtual grave at Sourceforge.
Get your code properly licensed and into a SVN, add what ever you already did on documentation. If you find some time add comments to the code and your documentation, and try to answer other devs' questions. Don't hide flaws and missing pieces, instead point at them actively.
Promote you project at compeeting projects, let the people know about your new project. You might find unhappy devs here and there, and they might happily grab your code and continue your work.
By the way, I might personally be interested in this project. So, please post a link here if you're done.
Greetings,
Chris
Interesting things happen with the scores on this very topic. While parts of Gore's film are definitely lacking scientific background, and emotional manipulations are used extensively and intentionally, there is still a core truth inside. Watching the conversation here I see a tendency to forgetting that while we are picking the questionable parts of Gore's work. Is this the thing we call "critical intelligence"? As a true elite we should give an example here on how to discuss controversal theories properly - for the sake of everybody. So many other Slashdot discussions have been great pieces of information and inspiration, even for people actually working on the stuff discussed. Let's make this one the same quality. Greetings, Chris
There are different legal measures for illegal abuse of a market monopoly, and bundling hard- and software to a product without any monopoly. That's not double standards or unfair - that's fine legislative practice protecting people while still allowing (and encouraging) free markets. Therefore only Microsoft is mentioned in the think tank's proposal, which I hope will lead to fast legal action by the EU. Greetings, Chris
because you're on the money trail now. Simply start publishing more about it across the net, and don't forget to always mention the full company's name, address, web site and board of directors. The more you spread it, the better. While doing that let your lawyer approach them with a prepared law suit. After they got nervous about the bad publicity, ask for a new laptop (the best they got) and US$ 50,000 if you retain from actually suing them. Offer them to publish the fine outcome (a new laptop was given - don't mention the money of course) at all the sites where your campaign was spread. Send me 10% if it works out fine. Deal. Greetings, Chris
You all are not real, folks. So, stop behaving like real ones, stop telling me I should trust your realities - just stop influencing my live in this invasive way! Greetings, Chris
Well, welcome to the Dinosaur Club! With your point of view and the decision making process you mention your "billion dollar a year company" will not be alive in 5 years. Go on hunting the "one single costumer" who is abusing Excel. "It all comes down to the bottom line." Exactly. The bottom line is: Earth is rotating and the business world has changed. If your business still depends that desperately on the "one costumer", and does not have a communication base with him where different formats can be discussed, then your shares are worthless shortly. Greetings, Chris
"So what is so great about 1.4? First of all it is written using .NET 2.0 which allows for some cool new features but more importantly, thanks to Microsoft allowing developers to use visual C# express for free we were able to easily increase the development team, who simply could not afford to purchase visual studio."
What a mix: Open source development, sponsored by Microsoft and the CIA, completely done using closed source applications ....
o YES - Your pc will start now and give you many choices and tools in order to let YOU decide what works best for your task.
o NO - Your pc will start now and give you just a few choices in brown color and one single pre-selected tool WE found best fitting for all.
Greetings,
Chris
Hey, while we're at it, what do we need a CEO for? Overall intelligence has gone up over the years. I'm sure we're going to evolve to the point that we won't need a CEO anymore. After all, any one of us can do the job just as effectively, right? Let's hear it for true distributed management!
Although you still might that find funny a bit, that's exactly where we are moving. Never recognized that we already are hot-swapping CEOs?
Greetings,
Chris
I just don't understand why you think that being incorporated makes Mozilla's legal entity more inherently evil than for example the GNOME Foundation.
What would be the reason to build two different legal entities instead of just one? Mozilla runs the Foundation AND the Corp., while most other projects stick with a foundation only. Have a closer look at who/where is in charge and legally entitled to decide, and have also a very close look at who owns the shares, and how they might be distributed in the future. Such examination of Mozilla's legal framework will help you to answer your question.
And despite the ridiculous logo/trademark discussion - did you recognize that Mozilla is the only bigger "free & open source" project with GNU/GPL licensed products requesting patch reviews/control and legitimize this with "trademark protection"? That's actually an ugly abuse of the GPL - if not an illegal step.
Greetings, Chris
Your idea about a full fork shows a complete lack of understanding about how the Mozilla project works. Why would you want to fork Gecko or XULRunner just because of disagreements over a front-end that makes up 10% of the code, tops? Because that's all Firefox is. At least learn the basics about Mozilla before calling for a fork of it, otherwise you won't get far. I hope you are aware of the fact that FF itself started with a fork. Why would anybody? Well, the Debian community is always willing and ready to go the extra mile needed to protect the freedom of their users. Cdrecord was recently forked for very similar reasons - incompatible licenses (see wodim). You should also understand that Debian is not an unimportant hidden club of crazy extremist communists, probably time to learn something about it's organisation, size and abilities instead of teaching me Mozilla project structures. And for your "corporate governance" argument... Mozilla Corp. is just a subsidiary(sp?) the Mozilla Foundation created for administrative purposes.Obviously you did not understand - and I did not understand you. What do you mean by "just a subsidiary"? Does that mean Mozilla Corp. is "less corporate" because it's owned by a foundation? That's a faith it shares with some of the biggest corporations existing today, so the argument is interesting. Greetings, Chris
That's something very likely to happen. The real power of free and open source software always was and is what happens with forks. After all, that's how evolution works. An IceWeasel (and no, I did not vote for this name) being an improved, faster and even more secure browser than it's parent can easily be adopted not just by other Linux distributions, but also by MacOS (and even Windows!) users. It always begins with compatibility problems (incompatible code, license or personalities) and often creates the better software product. Let's support it and help make it strong. I vote for a full fork and substantial improvement. I would also invite all MozDevs to join IceWeasel, where a real free and open source browser will be done without "corporate governance". Greetings, Chris
And - even more specific - how is your understanding of doing this job? Do you understand it as bridging two worlds? Greetings, Chris
Well, i never promoted the traditional famous Blackjack card counting formulas (hehe, "high" & "low" - is this mathematics, actually?). Instead, I was talking about correct probabilities for certain cards - and memorizing the already played ones.
;-)
Interesting - and typical for the "non-counting/non-memorizing", but "talking about" community - are those percentages mentioned. In your first post you where talking about 1%, while you now mention just "1/2% if you are perfect". Well, that's a 100% difference, or a 50% one?
Who knows - if we calculate +1 for 1% (=high number), and -1 for 1/2% (=low number), and compare the big zero result with the difference between 100% and 50%, we might find similarities here.
Greetings, Chris
Very few card counters are good enough for the casinos to actually worry about. And the advantage when successful is only 1% at best.
;-)
You're kidding here - right?
It's simple - but it needs training and is boring work. No fun there, just making somey money per hour. However, how did you calculate an advantage of just 1%? In a usual Blackjack setting with common rules correct counting puts your advantage over 18%, which is enough to beat the casino. It won't ruin them, however.
Greetings, Chris