It's about time a judge or a jury with common sense stopped this nonsense right now. Nature is {who/whatever you believe in}'s creation. In the end, this would mean that mankind is patenting itself - this certainly cannot be done (we have the hen/egg problem here). OTOH, can I blame or even sue that company for any problems resulting from (improper?) use of this DNA? If then, I'll sue them for the 60M victims of WW2!
I have yet to see a system (well, an Intel system) where SlackWare fails to install. I've running it from a 386SX-16 up to PIII-450 with absolutely no crash no nothing (except for what I myself 'tuned' a bit too much). Installation is crisp, terse and clear. Configuration is simple (no tarzan rain-forests of rc.duh and rc.dah where your favourite command is 'find / -type f -exec grep -il "duh" {} \;').
I (a little pervert) am using SW 4.0 with kernel 2.0.37 (hey, see that dork? A downgrader!).
IMHO everyone consuming pre-digested information just for meetings or small talks at parties disqualifies him/herself. (Then they believe that 'internet' is a vertically challenged assistant and pat their shoulders for their french language knowledge)
Gartner et al anyway just feed them the stuff they'd like to hear so they can do their next quarter forecast without using brains or common sense. (when they plan to be on zero stock on 12/31 while their customers have zillions on not-yet-spent budget dollars available at exactly that time is a logical result)
Hmmm - I wonder if not only Gartner was bribed by M$ but also the IT decision-makers...? Imagine the headline: "Haywire Inc. CIO sacked $1M for switching from Novell to MS". That war may be dirtier than we'd imagined...
I think it's about time a reasonable judge with common sense stopped that whole lawsuit BS. (Same for 'caution wet floor' and 'caution ice-cream is frozen and thus hard to bite' suits).
If ever someone comes and talks about that information highway once more, I'll sue him because highway is the exact translation of my family name. And I don't want to see my family name show up in questionable contexts. -brrrr! Hold the horses!
Note to CmdrTaco: Go and trademark also 'backslashdot.org' - there's a lot of DOS (and sucessors) users out there! Maybe also its siblings like '.\' or './' or '..\' or '../' or '..\..' or '../..' and maybe 'A:\>'(you see the pattern, right?)
See you on acolonbackslashgreaterthan.org...
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What good is a rock-stable operating system if you run Microsoft applications on it? OTOH, if I avoid running MS applications (office et al), NT proved to be quite stable. (touch on wood, though);-) What's still on my wishlist for Linux: something like MS Works v 1.05 (yup, plain DOS, 1 Diskette, ole text mode). Maybe I should ask Bill to make it open source, as it surely is no longer of commercial interest (after all, that piece is about ten years old...) Had Text, Spreadsheet, simple database and communication. Phew...
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As I switch off my PC in the evening, I don't really care if it has an O/S on it that crashes once every 24 hours. It's just a vehicle driving my applications, no more, no less. BUT: I do care about an O/S crashing every so often if that's running (or crashing) on a server with some tens or hundreds of users. Or if it does some humble but important tasks like DNSing and/or gatewaying. Then it matters and then some *X-like O/S is better than NT and even OS/2. I don't mind Gartner et al telling the average computer illiterate (who can't even tell the difference between tip and end of his text marker) to stay away from Linux. It's a decision like buying a car with automatic vs. manual gear. Bo' come from A to B, some even from B back to A. Anyone with that 'one size fits all' dream is just lying to him/herself. So I'd rather stay among the chosen few...
I don't find that stuff surprising at all - after all the very same dept. can put an eleven-year-old boy in chains for 6 weeks into the slammer, for 'sexual harassment' of a five-year old neighbour kid. NB: there was no hearing nor court proceedings yet. (I will not make further remarks about a pending case)
Seems that even the chinese government will sooner or later outperform the DOJ and their Gauleiters in terms of 'honoring the Human Rights'.
We might have to define the term 'coffee' first. If you drink an espresso, only coffee parts that easily resolve in water will land in your cup. You can sleep like a rabbit (same about rutting) even after one or two espressos. OTOH, what comes out of a percolator and sits for hours on end in that jug in your favourite mouth water hole contains about all what's in that bean, friend and foe. It's especially the stuff that takes a long time to resolve in that hot water that will hurt you. Same is true for the brown soda usually referred to as cola. (no affiliations whatsoever). Hint: Stay away from those brown waters (be they hot or ice cold) and have a good strong espresso from time to time (spoon must stand stuck in the cup!). And avoid vending machines; usually you ingest more preservatives (NOT the rubber ones) than what you initially made you grab out that dollar bill for. If you head for a head-bangin' dose of caffeine, get some caffeine pills (aka "astronaut's coffee") Re Guarana - it is no caffeine but has about the same effect. So does tea.
If thirsty, drink (plain, and, more important, unsweetened (neither sugar nor nutrasweet)) water. If you need a kick, have an espresso or ask your boss/wife/husband/donkey (underline where appropriate)
Who was this Bill Gates person? Never heard of him. Zat the one who called Winders an operating system? If so, running KDE, do I have an operating system on top of another operating system? Zat the one who declared darkness the new industry standard? Zat the one re-doing the cream cake number? Or is He dah driving force behind free software? (if his winders were that clean, who might have wanted to invent a mop for them?) Be it as it may, some later generation will have to praise him for his marketing powers, or his near-to-godlike talent of combining stealing and selling. Where's the line between people like him and a common crook? (In no way I want to convey the impression I am not a true admirer of him...so lawyers, behave!)
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I am not an American nor am I a member of any well-known minority, but allow me some thoughts on that: All this starts way down deeper than domain names. Look at our kids. Before they leave school they see zillions of killings in TV (including scenes where proud army #1 whacks down villages in country #2, thereby 'introducing our new TX 7000 with twice the firepower of a WW2 Liberator, whoa!'). Otoh, when someone I knew there (KY) played a Hansel and Gretel guignol scene for kids, she was sued for 'violence' (ya know, the witch and the oven). Understand that? But hell breaks loose if a bare b*tt (I sure hope that's none of the words on the index) is shown on TV or in a newspaper, or if a radio person used f-words in a show.
What's the result? The opinion that (clean)violence is good and that (dirty) love is bad. Mom and dad think nothing when they see thir kids running around with toy weapons, pulverizing each other, but cancel TV comedies for a week if they catch their 12-year-old with a P*-Magazine.
Don't get me wrong: I think it is fundamentally wrong to use racial, sexist and whatever slurs against other people. But banning them from 'public' places doesn't make them vanish nor will it change people's minds. Else this would mean to start browsing thru the whole world literature (and music), including The Holy Book, and clean out all the filthy stuff (who determines what's dirty and what not?). One step further, and we'd burn all the whose contents we'd not agree upon. We had that sixty years ago, so don't repeat/copy it.
My advice? People using domain names like these will disqualify themselves. Banning would mean more and undeserved publicity for them. If I had a domain like 'dirty-ni***r.com', what would you think of me? I probably wouldn't visit a site called 'switzerland-sucks.com' unless I'd be curious enough to find out what the h*ck that m*ron has to say there.
In a nutshell: political correctness is bulls*** and bare hypocrisy as long as it only happens in the heads and not the hearts.
I just wondered why they called it that way, why not 'Minimalist' or 'Essentialist' which leads to 'Existentialist' and then again to 'Beatnick' (especially if there's one in black (and turtleneck and moustache and a Rayban), but I'm getting off-topic)
BTW: the knives given to the Swiss soldiers have no corkdriver:-(
BTW: did you see the 'executive' model there? Nail file, scissors and a small blade (for opening letters?). That's it. Sez a lot about the abilities of the targeted executives. Maybe they should also make a 'boss' model: no tools any more, just the red plastic, to throw at underlings...
Okay, lemme see... I have managed to trademark a product called ''. (ain't I clever?).
Now I'm looking for a lawyer who forces (under penalty threat) the Wild West Web community NOT TO USE THE COPYRIGHTED NAME '<html>' IN ANY PART OF A WEB SITE ANY LONGER, ELSE...
Would that work, and if yes, what could be done to stop nonsense like that?
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It's about time a judge or a jury with common sense stopped this nonsense right now. Nature is {who/whatever you believe in}'s creation. In the end, this would mean that mankind is patenting itself - this certainly cannot be done (we have the hen/egg problem here). OTOH, can I blame or even sue that company for any problems resulting from (improper?) use of this DNA? If then, I'll sue them for the 60M victims of WW2!
Did you know that the USA and Somalia are the only countries that still have not signed the UN Children's Rights Convention? Pfui!
I (a little pervert) am using SW 4.0 with kernel 2.0.37 (hey, see that dork? A downgrader!).
Gartner et al anyway just feed them the stuff they'd like to hear so they can do their next quarter forecast without using brains or common sense. (when they plan to be on zero stock on 12/31 while their customers have zillions on not-yet-spent budget dollars available at exactly that time is a logical result)
Hmmm - I wonder if not only Gartner was bribed by M$ but also the IT decision-makers...? Imagine the headline: "Haywire Inc. CIO sacked $1M for switching from Novell to MS". That war may be dirtier than we'd imagined...
If ever someone comes and talks about that information highway once more, I'll sue him because highway is the exact translation of my family name. And I don't want to see my family name show up in questionable contexts. -brrrr! Hold the horses!
Note to CmdrTaco: Go and trademark also 'backslashdot.org' - there's a lot of DOS (and sucessors) users out there! Maybe also its siblings like '.\' or './' or '..\' or '../' or '..\..' or '../..' and maybe 'A:\>'(you see the pattern, right?)
See you on acolonbackslashgreaterthan.org...
What good is a rock-stable operating system if you run Microsoft applications on it? OTOH, if I avoid running MS applications (office et al), NT proved to be quite stable. (touch on wood, though) ;-) What's still on my wishlist for Linux: something like MS Works v 1.05 (yup, plain DOS, 1 Diskette, ole text mode). Maybe I should ask Bill to make it open source, as it surely is no longer of commercial interest (after all, that piece is about ten years old...) Had Text, Spreadsheet, simple database and communication. Phew...
As I switch off my PC in the evening, I don't really care if it has an O/S on it that crashes once every 24 hours. It's just a vehicle driving my applications, no more, no less.
BUT: I do care about an O/S crashing every so often if that's running (or crashing) on a server with some tens or hundreds of users. Or if it does some humble but important tasks like DNSing and/or gatewaying. Then it matters and then some *X-like O/S is better than NT and even OS/2.
I don't mind Gartner et al telling the average computer illiterate (who can't even tell the difference between tip and end of his text marker) to stay away from Linux. It's a decision like buying a car with automatic vs. manual gear. Bo' come from A to B, some even from B back to A. Anyone with that 'one size fits all' dream is just lying to him/herself.
So I'd rather stay among the chosen few...
Seems that even the chinese government will sooner or later outperform the DOJ and their Gauleiters in terms of 'honoring the Human Rights'.
If you drink an espresso, only coffee parts that easily resolve in water will land in your cup. You can sleep like a rabbit (same about rutting) even after one or two espressos.
OTOH, what comes out of a percolator and sits for hours on end in that jug in your favourite mouth water hole contains about all what's in that bean, friend and foe. It's especially the stuff that takes a long time to resolve in that hot water that will hurt you. Same is true for the brown soda usually referred to as cola. (no affiliations whatsoever).
Hint: Stay away from those brown waters (be they hot or ice cold) and have a good strong espresso from time to time (spoon must stand stuck in the cup!). And avoid vending machines; usually you ingest more preservatives (NOT the rubber ones) than what you initially made you grab out that dollar bill for.
If you head for a head-bangin' dose of caffeine, get some caffeine pills (aka "astronaut's coffee")
Re Guarana - it is no caffeine but has about the same effect. So does tea.
If thirsty, drink (plain, and, more important, unsweetened (neither sugar nor nutrasweet)) water. If you need a kick, have an espresso or ask your boss/wife/husband/donkey (underline where appropriate)
Zat the one who called Winders an operating system? If so, running KDE, do I have an operating system on top of another operating system?
Zat the one who declared darkness the new industry standard?
Zat the one re-doing the cream cake number?
Or is He dah driving force behind free software? (if his winders were that clean, who might have wanted to invent a mop for them?)
Be it as it may, some later generation will have to praise him for his marketing powers, or his near-to-godlike talent of combining stealing and selling. Where's the line between people like him and a common crook?
(In no way I want to convey the impression I am not a true admirer of him...so lawyers, behave!)
All this starts way down deeper than domain names. Look at our kids. Before they leave school they see zillions of killings in TV (including scenes where proud army #1 whacks down villages in country #2, thereby 'introducing our new TX 7000 with twice the firepower of a WW2 Liberator, whoa!'). Otoh, when someone I knew there (KY) played a Hansel and Gretel guignol scene for kids, she was sued for 'violence' (ya know, the witch and the oven). Understand that?
But hell breaks loose if a bare b*tt (I sure hope that's none of the words on the index) is shown on TV or in a newspaper, or if a radio person used f-words in a show.
What's the result? The opinion that (clean)violence is good and that (dirty) love is bad. Mom and dad think nothing when they see thir kids running around with toy weapons, pulverizing each other, but cancel TV comedies for a week if they catch their 12-year-old with a P*-Magazine.
Don't get me wrong: I think it is fundamentally wrong to use racial, sexist and whatever slurs against other people. But banning them from 'public' places doesn't make them vanish nor will it change people's minds. Else this would mean to start browsing thru the whole world literature (and music), including The Holy Book, and clean out all the filthy stuff (who determines what's dirty and what not?). One step further, and we'd burn all the whose contents we'd not agree upon. We had that sixty years ago, so don't repeat/copy it.
My advice? People using domain names like these will disqualify themselves. Banning would mean more and undeserved publicity for them. If I had a domain like 'dirty-ni***r.com', what would you think of me? I probably wouldn't visit a site called 'switzerland-sucks.com' unless I'd be curious enough to find out what the h*ck that m*ron has to say there.
In a nutshell: political correctness is bulls*** and bare hypocrisy as long as it only happens in the heads and not the hearts.
I just wondered why they called it that way, why not 'Minimalist' or 'Essentialist' which leads to 'Existentialist' and then again to 'Beatnick' (especially if there's one in black (and turtleneck and moustache and a Rayban), but I'm getting off-topic)
BTW: the knives given to the Swiss soldiers have no corkdriver :-(
BTW: did you see the 'executive' model there? Nail file, scissors and a small blade (for opening letters?). That's it. Sez a lot about the abilities of the targeted executives. Maybe they should also make a 'boss' model: no tools any more, just the red plastic, to throw at underlings...
Now I'm looking for a lawyer who forces (under penalty threat) the Wild West Web community NOT TO USE THE COPYRIGHTED NAME '<html>' IN ANY PART OF A WEB SITE ANY LONGER, ELSE ...
Would that work, and if yes, what could be done to stop nonsense like that?