Hills Brothers

Hills Brothers
2005.10.22 4:20

Roppongi Hills in Tokyo -where we can find many young internet tycoons, one of them Hiroshi Mikitani, chairperson of Rakuten, recently bought 15.46% of shares of Tokyo Broadcasting System, one of the major 5 TV networks in Japan. This broadcasting company is a parent company of Mariners -one of the professional baseball teams.
Hills brothers- Hiroshi Mikitani -Rakuten and Takafumi Horie -Livedoor, both live in the same supper condominium -Roppongi Hills, they are not only acquired the Internet but try to acquire the media -especially TV companies. Horie's attempts to gaina control over FUJI-SANKEI TV network were failed. But now another IT tycoon is in a bid to gain the TV. By the way Rakuten already have had a proffessional baseball team, and needless to say SoftBank - affiliate of Yahoo! owns the baseball team here in Yahoo! City.
YUSEN -another IT company expressed their wishes to buy Marines. The president of USEN also lives in Roppongi Hills.
Those who rule the Internet have been successfully gaining the control of the trunk of this country.
Links as to the takeover bit
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Somehow I knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.22 4:34 (#13846963) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.29 7:51)
You couldn't possbly be talking about WWII era Coffee rationing [si.edu]. (I was originally going to point to the corporate website, but it seems this is one company that does not have one. What's up with THAT?!?!?!?
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Re:Somehow I knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.22 5:10 (#13847317) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.29 3:38)
I sometimes make coffee on my own -I don't have wife to make me coffee, I've got two favorites, one is MJB (founded in 1881) and the other is Hills Bros(1900).
All day long our TV has been airing this news, and that reminds me one of my favorite coffees. Rationings in the US? Unbelievable!
Recent surge by Hills Brothers are about to overcome the established authorities as if it were Original Hills Brothers that put an end to roasting shops and coffee mills.
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Re:Somehow I knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.22 5:56 (#13847813) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.29 7:51)
Back during WWII- it was dangerous to get shipments from Hawaii, due to your people's submarines, and trade with S. America wasn't yet at the present state of affairs. No place else in the United States has the climate for growing coffee, though in the late 1990s it became possible to grow coffee hydroponically. So for the duration of the war, coffee, like so many other items, was rationed.Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to use rationing again today- given the current mess with the middle east, 50% gasoline rationing would be a heck of a good idea, and would encourage the U.S. to become energy independant again.Speaking of which- have there been any good wind power and wave power projects in Japan yet? Here in Oregon, on a recent trip to Condon, I got to visit the Condon Wind Farm- 800 1-megawatt windmills.
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Re:Somehow I knew(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.24 0:31 (#13857900) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.29 3:38)
I think one wind power plant is located off the coast of Saga prefecture and a wave power plant is located off the coast of Maizuru, Kyoto prefecture. Both are very small and they are not yet really a practical use, I mean still in an experimental stage.
I encountered hundreds of windmills that were generating electricity in the vast field of New Mexico, that landscape was just amazing.
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Re:Somehow I knew(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.24 3:16 (#13858628) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.29 7:51)
Wave power seems to be an obvious solution for Japan- especially with the new vertical generation 100kw bouys, 500-600 of them could power Tokyo.
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Shark Fin Soup
2005.10.20 5:21

Shark fin soup used to be a very expensive cuisine -usually cost at least $50 in a restaurant in Japan. So nobody dares to try tasting it.
In Baguio, the Philipines I got tasted the soup in $5 with my former wife -Philipina, it was already more than ten years ago. After I came back from the Philipines I talked to my friends that we tasted the shark fin soup in $5 in the Philipines, but nodody here didn't seem to believe what I told.
Now many years have passed. We can avail ourselves of the soup in the form of canned food only in $1 per each person.
What actually the price means!

Oh, My Fans! - II
2005.10.20 4:52

I found doki_doki, and Real World Stuff in my fans list- thank you very much for befriending me. Real World Stuff - I noticed your entry few days ago but I was just unable to find where I should say my gratitude.
You see I am foreign to many people here so basically I am alienated, it might be just a word play though. So that would be one of main reasons I feel really secured when I found the new names in my fan's list. Fans are most valuable assets in my life, thanks.

No Pain, No Gain
2005.10.19 4:34

Three weeks have already passed since I quit my second job. I think I have already restored my health and have been ready to start another job soon. I intend to find a job by the end of this month.
I will return to a hard worker, but at the same time I want to make use of the time well.
No pain, no gain. I am spending all the time in reading and analysing many issues relating to politics, economics, new technology, especially I knew nothing about information technology but now I'm quickly learning. But most of all what I need is experiencing in a real work. There will be another pain, but there will sure be another gain.

Divers Not Found
2005.10.18 6:24

If we won the game last night, we were sure to watch many people went dive to the Naka River, that's similar to River Liffey in Dublin, that goes through the centre of the city, small stream. We usually have about 100 plus stupid guys and girls who dive into the river from Fukuhakudeaibashi Bridge. Imagine just hundreds people jump from Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Some are with clothing and others are naked. In this late autumn they who dived are subject to being caught a cold. We didn't win. No people dived. This is the happiest thing in this unpleasant result.
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An even better tradition(Score:1)
by DisownedSky (905171) * <disownedsky@e[ ]hlink.net ['art' in gap]> on 2005.10.18 22:54 (#13816699) (http://home.earthlink.net/~disownedsky Last Journal: 2005.10.25 4:22)
The first snow of each Winter is greeted by the sophomores of Princeton university with the Nude Olympics. This consists of a nude footrace through town (footwear and headwear allowed) plus a few other events involving slipping and sliding in snow to whihc I have not personally been privy. I get all verklemt just thinking about it.
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Re:An even better tradition(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.19 0:20 (#13817489) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.29 3:38)
In the limited place at the special occasions, naked sliding on the snow or diving into the river would be allowed, here in my town a few among a hundred undressed and dived into the river but we hadn't heard any of them were arrested.
Probably it would be a tradition from the ancient world that people undressed dance and sing when they celebrate something.
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Truth About Japanese
2005.10.18 5:57

We have two baseball leagues, one is Central League and the other is Pacific League. SoftBank Hawks belongs to this Pacific League and the first winner of the 145 games long pennant race with 4.5 games margin. But the team had to win the play-off.
SoftBank Hawks lost to Lotte Marines with the total score 3 to 4 in 7 games.
SoftBank is an affiliate company of Yahoo! in Japan led by Masayoshi Son, whose ancester was originally from China more than 10 generations ago and from Korea more than 5 generation ago, he was born here in Yahoo! City, but educated in the US. The manager of SoftBank Hawks is Sadaharu Oh, who is wellknown as a homerun world recordholder with the total 846 homeruns is half Taiwanese.
On the other hands, Lotte was founded by wellknown Korean Japanese, and his company is not only big here but in Korea too.
Many Japanese believe they are Japanese, but they are just the result of intermixture from surrounding neighbouring areas, and countries.
Last game was held in Yahoo! Dome whose capacity is 48,000. There were many Hawks fans as well as Lotte fans, after the battle they went together to have some beer in downtown.
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Ainu(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.18 6:13 (#13812167) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.20 8:41)
I'd venture to say (but there are no pureblood Ainu left) that the Ainu are the only true Japanese. The rest are obviously a mixture of aisan races who landed in the Islands over the centuries.I still have yet to hear a believeable theory of where the Ainu came from; but the mongolian desert mummies, most of whom were caucasians and date back at least 10,000 years, provide a tantalizing clue of eastward expansion from the caucasian mountains.
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Tower of Babel(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.18 6:52 (#13812453) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
I think it's high time to forget about our ancestry background. Probably Ainu are thought to be one of the earliest tribes who migrated from Caucasus to eastward soon after the end of glacier period and left untouched out of the wave of intermarriages from other races.
On the other hands American native peoples are thought to be from Asian continent at the time still two continents were connected in northern lands, migrated through on foot and spread all over the two American continents long before Europeans came to the continents.
But I must say all these facts or speculations were gone or have no significant meaning in our daily life.
We all live in the age of Internet, now all we are in Tower of Babel, we don't have to worry about our difficulty in communication any more.
By the way your thousands comments in Draft is amazing. You must have learned a lot about economics. I took my hat off.
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Re:Tower of Babel(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.18 6:54 (#13812478) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.20 8:41)
It was only hundreds of comments- and I focused in on the obvioius hole. The libertarian/Austrian argument against interventionism sounds fine- until you examine what society woud be like without such interventions by the government into business.
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Re:Tower of Babel(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.18 7:24 (#13812683) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
These points are controversial. I keep silence for a while.
As to Tower of Babel, this is not a symbol of human arrogance. People started migrating with convincing that they are still able to communicate each other. But once they started moving they found difficulty in communication. That was the result of their arrogance. They had to wait another several thousands years to be able to communicate each other again.
Internet is the Tower of Babel in our times. Whether God will punish us again is not sure though.
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Orchard
2005.10.17 1:25

Since I quit my second job, I have been restoring my health rapidly. I asked my superviser that I can take holidays either Saturday or Sunday. Still large proportion of working population takes their holiday at weekends. My ex-wife has been also working five days a week and takes holidays at weekends, since I quit my second job, I haven't had to work on Saturday night, and this Sunday turned to be a holiday unexpectedly. We arranged our date on Saturday night and we went to orchard park near to our place on Sunday today.
Behind our place lies a park area, where a number of parks are located, since our city is surrounded by the sea in north and the mountains in south it is convenient to go to see the sea and the mountains. By the way I live near the mountains while she lives near the sea, from the sea to the mountains we have only ten kilometres away, so though we live separately we both live in the almost same area.
There were many fruits there, we saw apples, chestnuts, oranges. It took a little time to bear fruits for a love between middle-aged divorced couples. Today we reconfirmed our love being able to rejuvenile again.
It was a beautiful day.

Constellations
2005.10.17 0:10

These days a little bit chilly, while I was closing the windows this evening I noticed the moon and Venus were glittering on the sky. Their light was so shining so that I thought these two lights were the holes in the sky covered with dark cloth.
The moon and Venus, both are not the stars, they are just reflecting the light of the sun.
Now the time is almost midnight, and again I opened the windows then look up the sky. The moon is just above the head and instead of Venus, I saw Mars in the sky.
Chilly night. Windows I referred to are real windows, not XP.

Movement To OSS

Movement To OSS
2005.10.16 23:42

While I was visiting another site, I got curious in this movement. The movement is not big enought to change the current map but certainly the movement has already started. I am talking about the OSS -open source software.
For three days I was reading many articles related to open source software. And thanks to lots of comments from many friends and reading of the related articles, now I convinced that the movement to open source software is good.
By and large this great movement has just started, I am eager to see the consequences of this great experiment furthermore.
Here in Slashdot, many journals are dedicated to OSS, I've got to spend another three days to read.
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The movment is already changing the road map(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on 2005.10.17 0:35 (#13803466) (Last Journal: 2005.10.21 0:21)
Things have already changed a great deal and are heavily influencing things.The desktop market is beginning to change , Think Linux .The server market though , now that is where most of the change has already occurred .Massive waves of OSS have spread across many many companies .Apache is a good example of that , Linux servers replacing Windows and Older UNIX Servers .I have seen this happen in a few places first hand , I have had my hand in the process ;)Solaris recently went OSS as well .. the list goes on
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Re:The movment is already changing the road map(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.17 9:26 (#13806236) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
Oh, I see.
How about Microsoft? Isn't this giant opposing to the movement? Or trying to adopt the system as well?
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Re:The movment is already changing the road map(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on 2005.10.17 9:35 (#13806270) (Last Journal: 2005.10.21 0:21)
;) I am a systems admin , So not a great fan of MS .A giant may not oppose a legion. They will last a long time , but eventually will be felled .
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Happiness
2005.10.16 23:14

About a year ago this day today, I encountered Slashdot.org. At that time I had just started writing comments in other sites, but probably I started writing a comment in English in Japan's site, nobody replied to my comments.
Ignorance is the best policy to let unfavorables be bygones. I left their site.
At that time it never occurred to me that I might be able to visit a site in US. I found this site in Yahoo search, then visited for the first time. Reaction was not bad, quickly I got a couple of friends and I started keeping journals here in Slashdot.
You see, English is not my native tongue, sometimes I had visited foreigner's bar and enjoyed conversation, but of course in my daily life we don't normally use English.
I just wonder how the advent of the Internet brought me a revolutionary change in my life. Honestly speaking I never imagined I have been able to write journals in English for a year long. Thank you for many friends here, if it had not been for all of your help, I would have been unable to improve my English such a rapid pace.
Now I rarely go to the foreigner's bar, instead I make it a rule to face before the screen every day, and I can talk to many friends here. It's my happiness, just happiness.

Movement To Open Source Software

Movement To Open Source Software
2005.10.13 1:27

Many people believe movement to open source software is good, why and in what point?
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open source is good...(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2005.10.13 3:17 (#13775143) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2005.10.20 4:38)
but what i see is more a co-existance with closed source programming.. rather than 'complete' replacement. open source is great for learning, back in the good old days of the Z80 computers came loaded with tons of information and tools to write your own programs. nowadays, unless you run/emulate those 'classic' PCs the only really readialy avialble 'learning' tools out there are open source. also, there is another thing, in a completely closed source world countless coumpanies spend countals thousands of hours trying to develop the same thing 'as the competetitor' or maybe something better, the point is they spend a lot of time and all those tens of thousnads of man hours of coding are producing nothing but 'legacy' code. once the company has made enough money off it, it becomes unused and unusable, especially to anyone out side the organization. open source can generate 'legacy' code too, but the difference is that other people can learn from the open source code, or find some bit of it they find useful when writing a new open source program.so there you go, sharing information is _always_ better than trying to make it into something so valueable it cannot be shared. america Used to get it, kinda, and western thinkers and society has 'gotten' it for a long time :) that's the primary reason why 'fan subbing' hasn't been 'compeletely' squashed, most groups are only trying to spread the artwork to an audience who may not have a chance to see it otherwise. and those groups will genenerally 'stop' subbing a title if the licenser requests it.. and most people who've been in fansubs a while rent or buy anime whenever they can afford to, although there are quite a few who have no means to afford anime but those people can still 'count as a demographic' and support 'fox kids' or 'cartoon network' by watching the engilsh 'americanized' version...
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Re:open source is good...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.14 9:52 (#13787111) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
Thanks for teaching me a lot, part of it I couldn't understand though it takes time to see more, thanks.
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Now you've gone and done it.(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <Allen@Zadr.gmail@com> on 2005.10.13 3:28 (#13775230) (Last Journal: 2005.10.16 9:32)
Now I've got to write a book of a reply, just for you. I could probably more easily point you to a web site with better thought out answers, but I'm a cocky sumbits* and will do my best.
Cost of Entry
If you have a great idea for a new type of automobile, what would you do? Do you have the resources to shape the sheet medal, and weld a frame, and forge an engine block? Why is it, that only 60 years ago, someone with decent financial resources (but not necessarily someone who is "rich") could start a car company? Now, while you could build a car, you couldn't make it road-legal in any developed nation... there are so many regulations, from emission controls, to mandatory black-boxes, to crash-test standards that make the cost of entry enormous.
Micro-Computers, only 30 years ago, were the domain of hobbiests. Some BIG companies used computers, but mostly, it was people who thought they were neat, and would go and buy hobby boxes, and start writing programs (simple programs) that could run on these micro-computers.
Enter Software as a Consumer Business. Microsoft, Lotus, Apple, and many other companies were born during these early days, all by small groups of people with little means, a lot of determination, and decent ideas. Now these companies have grown huge, or been absorbed by larger companies, but even through the 90s someone with decent ideas and a lot of determination can make a big business using computers. Google, eBay, Amazon.
For computers, the cost of entry is still attainable by a 'regular person'. Again, a computer may be too expensive for someone of very low income, but right now... the cost of entry is low.
Except for Windows.
If Microsoft gets their way, there are no computers that don't run windows. If you want to develop software for Windows, you have to buy Microsoft Visual Studio, and Visual Studio costs $600 and up. That's a lot of money, yet still attainable. Good thing there are competitors that can also allow you to write software for Windows, like Borland (there used to be Watcom... what happened to them?). If it wasn't for competitors, Visual Studio would cost many thousands of dollars. This is already true with 'Game Consoles'. You can freely create software that CAN run on a game console, but to actually make it run on a game console, you have to buy a development package, for many tens of thousands of dollars - or beg a huge company to let you use their stuff. Higher cost of entry greatly benefits the HUGE companies. Look up "Trusted Computing Initiative" if you want to see something that will make the cost of entry unattainable.
So, that's cost of computer business entry. What about a Job? Have you looked for a Job lately? How many places ask you to supply your résumé in "Microsoft Word" format? These people expect that you have gone out and spent $300 or more on Microsoft Office? To get a Job I need to spend $300. To spend $300, I need a job. Thank goodness there's Open Office. I can download it, and create a "Word Format" résumé for free. What if OpenOffice didn't exist? Would Office still be so cheap? There isn't a quick-and-cheap replacement for M.S. Access yet. I note that the Office price doubles if you get the package that ALSO includes Access... Why? It would sure help me if poor kids with Student Loans would stop trying to take my job. Maybe if I require they submit their résumé in Gold leaf.
Hardware and Software
What if I buy an Apple Mac. It has an open PCI slot, and I have a PCI device that is "made for Windows". The PCI device is electrically compatible with the Mac. What if the company that sold me this PCI device doesn't "support" Mac hardware? Obviously, PCI is supported, the Mac can physically and electronically interface to the card... the company simply did not write the software to do it. Hey, if I could only get my hands on the Source Code for the Windows driver. I could then simply re-write it to work with the Mac. Why not? This is done with many devices already, because someone reverse-engineered the steps required to make the device work, and released their effort in Open Source.
The Biggest Reason of All.
I have this little program that allows me to manage users in my LDAP database without having to do a great deal of work. However, when I create a user in my LDAP database, I also need to create a user-permission entry that isn't already part of this other program. After a minor change, this program does both. Besides saving me time, it also saves me from the times I've FORGOTTEN to do this little task. Tell Microsoft that you want your version of Word to do something a little different, you'll get a blank stare. ... I don't have time, or the inclination to write a whole user-management platform for LDAP, but I can grab one off of OpenSource, and tweak it to my special needs without a huge deal of effort.
That's my reasons for respecting Open Source.
*sumbits - sounds a little like a disparaging word, which I've chosen not to use.
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I have only one complaint...(Score:1)
by DaedalusHKX (660194) on 2005.10.13 9:27 (#13778100) (http://slashdot.org/ Last Journal: 2005.08.21 11:42)
OpenOffice 2.0 beta (1.9?) has a database app to replace access, but it is not a dropin, I haven't messed with it enough yet, as I have little need for access as my personal databases are on my gentoo linux server :)Yes, its Postgres, its fully SQL 2000 compliant, and I have little trouble doing EVERYTHING with it that MS"Sequel" can do... and more... for example, I don't HAVE to add a gig of ram for every 10 users that connect to the stupid thing... most IT guys will sell you another gig of ram every time windows "server" 2003 complains about low ram... too bad nobody paid attention but once small business server hits the 3 or 4 gig limit, it cannot use anymore... its there, it detects it, and puts NOTHING in it... unless this has been patched recently...Also, windows pages EVERY DAMN THING... EVEN LARGE CHUNKS OF THE ACTIVE APP!! Linux, and BSD for example do things the other way around... instead of paging everything to the drive, they use the ram first, and start paging once the ram runs low.When I added another 512 megs to my Linux rig (a 1600 Athlon XP), I saw MASSIVE speed increases, because it paged the RAID 5 a lot less... the windows rig... hmmm... only change was that "sequel" was less slow... but not by much... Windows running its "ADS" and "SQL" and "Exchange" crippled a 2 ghz athlon XP rig with a gig and a half of ram... Linux, running Sendmail, LDAP, Postgres, PHP, Webmin, Apache, Netfilter (iptables to the gearheads) and a few other goodies to remain nameless (including Clam AV to keep the windows mail clients from being infected by shit that gets past the "fine" security in MS Office XP and 2003) and I have NO issues (since replacing them all with mozilla tbird and other OSS software on the linux clients I have NO issues at all even if clam misses an update)...LAST POINT... 40 holes patched for Mozilla Firefox, 10 for IE6... ARE PEOPLE REALLY THIS STUPID?!?! THE WHOLE POINT IN OSS IS THAT BUGS ARE EASIER TO FIND... FOR MICROSOFT IT IS UNFEASIBLE TO FIND BUGS AND FIX THEM... THIS MAKES THEM NO MONEY... THEIR USER BASE IS LARGELY IGNORANT OR STUPID AND ALWAYS LAZY... THIS MEANS THEY DONT NEED TO FIX WINDOWS, THEY JUST NEED TO SELL A NEW PRODUCT TO "patch" the old holes...!! Remember the embedded JPEG, GIF and PNG issues in Red Hat linux? THEY WERE PATCHED 2 ***YEARS*** before MS released to the press that IE6 and Windows in general was also vulnerable...!! SAME DAMN VULNERABILITY IN TWO DIFF OS's... WHY DID M$ with its "superior" methods not discover this?? With closed source, by the time someone patches the vulnerability, you're fucked... remember the CISCO IOS flaws recently found? Anyone use FREESCO for their router? You may find this amusing, but it is cheaper than a CISCO router... and ummm (besides being an ANCIENT linux based mini OS for a ghetto router at home)... heh... well... it fits on a floppy and runs on any box with 2 LAN cards :) (okay there's better alternatives and FreeSCO is old (stands for Free Cisco) but it was a damn great tool back in 1998 and 2002...)Windows, in my honest opinion is only good for ONE thing... and the only reason one of my old athlons still runs it.... "gaming". Some games will not run in Linux despite all the hard work I put myself through... so for those times, I have a Windows HDD I plug into the system and then reboot it :)... for everything else, I run only OSS.~D
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Re:Now you've gone and done it.(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.14 2:56 (#13783199) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
Thanks, I think I was able to understand the points. Especially these days the matter of open source software caught me a lot in relation to copyright law, patent law, the protection of intellectual property, private property, etc. Since the liberation of knowledge is deeply related to that of humanities, and more and more I've been noticing the use of open source software has been dominating in the world scene.
I would like to see the consequences, though, seems expansion of open source software will be the inevitable step toward the favourable future.
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Bullet point man to the rescue(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <mailto:fidelcatsro@[%20]il.com%20[> on 2005.10.13 4:37 (#13775944) (Last Journal: 2005.10.21 0:21)
1:Cost2:Adaptation3: interoperability4: combined knowledge base5: Security through openness and a possible quantity of developers that no company could have checking for bugs and trying to speed it up and improve functionality6: Freedom to use the software as we wish (even including stinginess with the BSD license)7: Sharing is a great trait to teach our children
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Re:Bullet point man to the rescue(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.14 2:40 (#13783020) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
Well, nothing needs to add, I will learn by heart.
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Indian Summer
2005.10.12 11:26

I must say during the day time the temparature is still high enough -80 degrees.
It is too early to say it is indian summer though seems for we haven't had an autumn yet.
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as for me(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on 2005.10.12 14:43 (#13771353) (Last Journal: 2005.10.19 20:35)
I know I like the cold .. but i wouldn't consider -80 C that warm
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Re:as for me(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.13 0:01 (#13773457) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
Reporting from Mars.
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Disaster
2005.10.11 13:29

The earthquake in norther Kashmere tells us that the importance of political stability in the region.
In the late Tsunami disaster, political instability in Sri Lanka detered them from receiving aid from overseas, as well in the case of norther Sumatra.
Many years ago when medium earthquake was struck in Kuril islands, Russia strongly opposed to receive aid from Japan, they didn't like to see Japan increase influence over the region in the aftermath of the quake.
Real disaster is not coming from nature but humans.

Thanks! Chacham
2005.10.11 12:48

Today I found many new comments from Chacham in my latest JE-Serpent. Thank you very much indeed. The description of Bible allows us to have many possible interpretations, so I decided to leave unsaid for your contributions. Please feel free to post your comments any time, I really appreciate that. Welcome.
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Moo(Score:2)
by Chacham (981) * on 2005.10.12 3:52 (#13767018) (http://tkatch.com/ Last Journal: 2005.10.10 4:00)
Heh, sure. :)I don't have you friended (not sure why, did i friend then unfriend you?) but i have been checking the JE backlog regularly.I feel too strongly about Judaism to let simple interpretations, or at least simple comments to go with reaction from me. Whether i post those comments is another story though. :)
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Re:Moo(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.12 8:59 (#13769900) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
Thanks a lot. Keep on being a reader of my journal.
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Perfect Holiday
2005.10.11 12:35

I survived, I've been restoring my health greatly. Since I ended my latest job two weeks ago, I now just wonder my latest job had been affected me so badly and that's why I quit my job.
It's also one of another perfect autumnal days today, I go out to the beach to have some airing.

Cost Of Paper
2005.10.10 0:20

If you think cost of paper is almost nothing, look at a paper in your purse, you will find a paper that read as $10, $50, $100.
If you ask how about this paper pointing at the white paper nothing was written in it, then those papers are priceless.
In short we tend to agree to pay some money for something materialistic, we tend to pay less for services or others that are not materialistic. -This is a joke site.
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It isn't the paper(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on 2005.10.10 2:55 (#13751309) (Last Journal: 2005.10.19 20:35)
It's the ink
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Re:It isn't the paper(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.10 11:05 (#13753797) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
That's right, it's the Inc. whose revenue is enormous. But sometimes it's just a paper profit.
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But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.10 23:26 (#13756362) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
...all the cash in my pocket is plastic (except the coins).
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Re:But...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.11 9:52 (#13760863) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
Some people start using only card for payment, those who practice this correspond to the recent movement -elimination of the culture of paper. As we can get all the information and books through the Internet, more and more people prefer to use other than paper of notes, books, etc.
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Re:But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.11 20:48 (#13763603) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
I wasn't referring to credit cards (which I refuse to use), the actual cash notes in .au are made of plastic; we stopped using paper about ten years ago.The scary part of the move towards electronic funds transfer is that the systems involved are controlled entirely by private enterprise (with the usual open ended, customer-hostile conditions...I'm amazed contracts that allow terms to be re-written by one party without the other's consent are legally permissable, but that's another rant). Often, these are the same businesses that benefit from trading international currencies; it doesn't take a genius to realise this is a potential conflict of interest.
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Re:But...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.12 0:19 (#13765098) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
Oh, I see, there must be tens of obstacles to overcome in order to materialise the society only electric funds transfer is available, anyway it takes sometime.
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Re:But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.12 1:26 (#13765778) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
I'd give it 20~40 years or so until cash is a rarity, just long enough for the old folks who aren't good with pressing buttons to die off.
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Sacra & Cosmos
2005.10.09 0:18

Sakura means cherry blossoms in Japanese, and its pronounciation is very similar to sacra in sacrament, sacra- is Latin word for sacrid and in fact, Japanese sakura means where God whose name is Sa took his seat.
So obviously sakura-cherry blossoms have been regarded as something very sacrid and keep on being an objectives of faith from the Japanese for a long time.
Cosmos originally means order, universe, etc it's a very profound word and also used as a name for common autumn flower. Is it only me who think the flower appreciation derived from the faith or belief to natural God?
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Sakura(Score:2)
by Le Marteau (206396) on 2005.10.09 1:27 (#13746744) (Last Journal: 2005.10.18 7:19)
Regarding the derivation of Sakura... very interesting... thank you.There is a part of Denver called "Sakura Square" which is where I go when I am in need of tabi. Plus it's just a nice place to be. But I never knew what 'sakura' meant.I was told that the Cherry Blossom was alsa a symbol of the Samurai. I heard that it was a fitting symbol because the blossom falls in it's prime... while it is still beautiful and vibrant, exactly how a Samurai should be. A samurai should expect to die while in his prime.Of course, this may be totally wrong, it is just something I heard. I was told that story because I have a yumi wrap which has a cherry blossom pattern, and someone noticed.
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Re:Sakura(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.09 23:26 (#13750395) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
I was told that the Cherry Blossom was alsa a symbol of the Samurai. I heard that it was a fitting symbol because the blossom falls in it's prime... while it is still beautiful and vibrant, exactly how a Samurai should be. A samurai should expect to die while in his prime.
Your description is completely correct. If you were interested, see this link, that is 'Hagakure Nyumon' written by Yukio Mishima. [worldcatlibraries.org]
Sakura was, as you pointed out, used as a symbol of student soldiers who are going to frontiers and probably soon to die. Many students were enlisted slightly before the end of WWII.
Today many people have just forgotten sakura was used for beautification of sacrifice.
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Autumnal Cherry Blossoms
2005.10.08 22:10

In Japan's writing system, since we use ideogram, any pronouciation can be permissable, of course not always but sometimes when it is so closely related to the original image itself.
We write 'autumnal cherry blossoms' then we read 'cosmos' that's a flower in autumn, and we usually go to see cosmos in a cosmos garden nearest to our residence. Different from the cases of seeing cherry blossoms -we can appreciate almost all areas along the street -we usually have to go to see the cosmos garden. In today's case, we went to see it in Nokonoshima Island Park, where we paid $10 each. By the way, my current girlfriend refused to see me on Friday night for unknown reasons - apparently she was mad for something related to me. She's 33 years old, I cannot measure the feeling of young girls as ever as now as in the future. Instead I called my ex-wife and went to the park. It was probably for the first time in more than one year. My ex-wife and I have been on good terms with one another since we divorced 7 years ago and sometimes we go out together. But apparently it was not enthusiastic. We found fault with each other, she's 41 and I am 44, both are not young.
Any way our perfect holiday is over. Here's the picture http://midori.systemyz.com/images/k_clinic/nokonos hima02.jpg very similar to what we saw today's short trip in Nokonoshima. And I recall last time I saw cherry blossoms in Maizuru Park, I sent tens of photos to my friend but it never occurred to me that nobody in reading my journal was unable to see what I saw, so here's the link, http://www.climber-ph.com/tokusen/maizuru%20kouen3 .jpg perfect link.
We usually see cherry blossoms in spring, and cosmos in autumn. Hydrangea in early summer and cyclamen in winter. I like most of all cyclamen first and foremost, now it was over to see cosmos, I now prepare to buy a pot of cyclamen that will last till the end of winter. My Happiness.
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Re-visit(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <Allen@Zadr.gmail@com> on 2005.10.13 5:11 (#13776230) (Last Journal: 2005.10.16 9:32)
having read this when it was originally posted, I thought about it as I re-read your 'bio' (User Preferences).
"This 'Journal of mercedo' is totally dedicated to one woman whom I met with in Trecca, Kyoto, Japan..."
I wonder how your current beau reacts to such a statement.
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Re:Re-visit(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.16 22:44 (#13802930) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.19 4:34)
Yeah, she is from Uganda, educated in Canada, used to work in New York before she came to Japan. So if she knew I am keeping a journal in Slashdot under the pseudonym 'mercedo' probably she might feel very angry because of my bio in the first place. (I mean in the case of Japanese girls, even if they were told that I kept journals here, they can't read what I wrote.)
I didn't tell anyone around me that I'm keeping journals under the name 'mercedo', so the cases above you raised are categorically deniable. And I have been very careful not to tell anyone that I am 'mercedo'.
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Cost Of Paper
2005.10.10 0:20

If you think cost of paper is almost nothing, look at a paper in your purse, you will find a paper that read as $10, $50, $100.
If you ask how about this paper pointing at the white paper nothing was written in it, then those papers are priceless.
In short we tend to agree to pay some money for something materialistic, we tend to pay less for services or others that are not materialistic. -This is a joke site.
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It isn't the paper(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <.fidelcatsro. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2005.10.10 2:55 (#13751309) (Last Journal: 2005.10.11 23:24)
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Re:It isn't the paper(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.10 11:05 (#13753797) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.12 11:26)
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But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.10 23:26 (#13756362) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
...all the cash in my pocket is plastic (except the coins).--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery. [ Reply to This ]
Re:But...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.11 9:52 (#13760863) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.12 11:26)
Some people start using only card for payment, those who practice this correspond to the recent movement -elimination of the culture of paper. As we can get all the information and books through the Internet, more and more people prefer to use other than paper of notes, books, etc.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.11 20:48 (#13763603) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
I wasn't referring to credit cards (which I refuse to use), the actual cash notes in .au are made of plastic; we stopped using paper about ten years ago.The scary part of the move towards electronic funds transfer is that the systems involved are controlled entirely by private enterprise (with the usual open ended, customer-hostile conditions...I'm amazed contracts that allow terms to be re-written by one party without the other's consent are legally permissable, but that's another rant). Often, these are the same businesses that benefit from trading international currencies; it doesn't take a genius to realise this is a potential conflict of interest.--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery. [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:But...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.12 0:19 (#13765098) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.12 11:26)
Oh, I see, there must be tens of obstacles to overcome in order to materialise the society only electric funds transfer is available, anyway it takes sometime.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:But...(Score:2)
by Farmer Tim (530755) <roundfile&mindless,com> on 2005.10.12 1:26 (#13765778) (Last Journal: 2005.05.02 12:12)
I'd give it 20~40 years or so until cash is a rarity, just long enough for the old folks who aren't good with pressing buttons to die off.--The difficulties nerds have with the world stem from the fact that not all problems can be solved by nerdery.