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Slashback: Centrinissimo, Damages, Software
Formalization schmormalization. kaisyain's review today of Software Craftsmanship raised a spirited conversation about the nature of software, software engineering, and related disciplines. cconnell conveniently submits a great companion piece: "I wrote this article a couple years ago but it has continued to get good readership within the software engineering community. Should provoke some interesting discussion..."
The bleeding edge costs money. JeffyVernon writes with an followup to CNET's early review of Centrino laptops: "AnandTech published two articles on Centrino today, an overview of the CPU architecture (including some interesting history behind the chip) and a roundup of four notebooks including the new Dell that wasn't in CNet's roundup. It looks like the 4.9lbs IBM T40p ended up winning the roundup, it lasted over 6 hours on battery!"
What scarcity was this exactly? RadBlock writes "Lawrence Lessig is addressing the issue of radio spectrum on CIO Insight... something that was talked about on Slashdot the other day. Lessig states that the spectrum has been defined too generally as if there can only be one message per frequency, when better equipment will vastly increase the amount of 'spectrum' that is usable."
I like that phrase "general welfare." We've mentioned eGovOS several times before -- now, here's a last-minute announcement that may be of interest: free registration is still open for next week's (March 17-19) eGovOS conference in Washington D.C., "Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU." Perhaps some folks there ought to consider the question eugene ts wong raised the other day, namely, Which North American government offices won't move to Linux? Someone needs to set up a big map with different colored countries and states!
Who's laughing and where is his bank? deelowe writes "From ars. Back in September we reported on a class action suit leveled at a number of Music industry players that accused them of anti-competitive price-fixing. Back in January, we reported that victims of said price fixing could hit this website and sign up (too late now), and eventually receive up to $20 in the settlement, provided of course that you had actually purchased a CD between January 1 1995 and December 22, 2000. 3.5 million Americans made their way to the on-line form, and it appears that victims will receive $12.60 apiece, should a judge approve it."
They still have a while to go ... sp1nl0ck writes CNet News.com.com.com are reporting that The Neo Project guys have restarted the attempt to crack the 2048-bit XBox key following advice from their lawyers. CNet are citing a link to Operation Project X, but it was a bit temperamental in loading earlier. Maybe it's been CNetted..."
I'll still think of it as the GIMP for a few years ;) Agermain writes "CinePaint has just released its first Windows build. From their website: "CinePaint is an open source painting program used by motion picture studios to retouch images in 35mm films. It was formerly called Film Gimp. It has been used in a dozen feature films including Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, and the Fast & the Furious... This first Windows beta release is mainly intended for developers and testers.""
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The end of human-readable TYRANNY is coming on
America is going to deal out sweet justice to those terrorists!!!
Did you see that 21,000 pound bomb!
Hell ya sucks to be some evil doer iraqi!!
AMERICA IS THE MOST BEST!
I've discovered a new little "game". Each day, I eat 1 kernel of corn. That is just the beginning. I then will look everytime I poop and play detective,trying to find the one kernel. I'm 4 for 7 since I started a week ago.
don't you realize that this is exactly what the zionists want???
Chirac answers to French oil interests like Bush answers to US oil interests. Remember, this was a country with a runoff between a bureaucratic worm (Chirac) and a fascist (Le Pen). The french people are not represented, only the Paris bureaucracy is. Germany and Russia are the other two largest investors in Iraqi oil fields, so they're trying to protect their own interests. Don't assume that the peace movement by these folks is for any high ideal, it's in their own self-interest.
Iraq, Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and several other conflicts arose when US-armed allies were let loose after the Cold War ended and we no longer needed them. Saddam was turned loose on Iran after their Islamic Revolution, to keep the Ayatollah from attacking the US directly (hostage taking is not an attack on US soil). This will come back to bite us for at least 20 more years, so keep that in mind when you watch the news.
We need to keep Iraq in one piece after the war. The south is oil-rich and wants to join Iran, the central area is the only solidly Iraqi territory, and the northern area is Kurd. These folks are like the Irish of 19th century America: treated like dirt, thought of as almost sub-human, and trying to get their own country. They want to carve a country from Northern Iraq, Eastern Turjey, and western Iran. They're militant, well-trained, and have the oil resources to cause trouble before being brought under control of allowed to get out of hand.
Finally, the UN is in no position to bark at the US. Article 73 of the UN Charter dictates that the rights of individuals may be suspended if they get in the way of the goals of the UN and no democracy allows one voter to stop a majority resolution. No one listens to them these days anyway, and it must be asked if the UN has become as obsolete as the League of Nations was by 1935 when Germany, Japan, and Italy had alreayd begun ignoring their demands. North Korea is watching, so if the UN is to deal with them at all, Saddam must be dealt with quickly, efficiently, and thoroughly as soon as possible.
So regardless of the bombs and stealth aircraft, our economy still sucks, we're paying money we don't have for problems we can't afford, and this foriegn adventure serves as much to distract from the domestic situation as to help the Iraqis.
As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment.
NOW THE THOSE ANNOYING SOVIETS ARE GONE NO ONE CAN TELL AMERICA WHAT TO DO!!!
YEEHAWW!!
TIME TO INVADE SOME COUNTRIES!
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