While entirely laughable, I'm glad this story is in the New York Times. Getting the Spanish Inquisition-esque ways of the these enforcement agencies out into the media is going to be one of the few ways to make it stop. Hopefully people (meaning the general public, and not just us here on/.) will soon realize just how ludicrous these methods are.
Sadly the proof that P=NP that was etched into the ice was melted as scientists began the process of extracting the vengeful bacteria. Ironically, the reason for it melting was due to the scientists using more bore holes than necessary to connect all of the pockets of bacteria cultures in the ice.
The game was amazingly done, and it has many qualities that would bring me to expect it to do well. Mainly:
-It is for more platforms that most mainstream games (Mac/Windows/Linux/Xbox360).
-The animated cutscenes were brilliantly done, especially how they used an animated version of the character you created at the start.
-The script was hilarious.
-The popularity of penny-arcade lent to easy advertising.
-It was only $20
This is a step in the right direction. Hopefully the US patent system realizes that it's messed up, and now that companies (especially ones that hold as many patents as red hat) are asking for limits on those (which would inevitably annul some of the ones redhat holds) it might be the push that's needed to spark reform.
Lunch Money...
on
The DIY Tank
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· Score: 4, Funny
And now all the bullies that took this geek's lunch money as a kid will run in fear - as the geek now has a tank.
Let's try that again with formatting!
Tech Support: Hi welcome to Cup Tech support, how can we assist you today? Luser: Yea my cup won't turn on. Tech Support: Is it fully charged sir? Luser: Yea its in the charging station right now. The ring around it is all red. Tech Support: K, I'm going to need you to bring up the diagnostic screen, it's the touch button at the bottom of the cup on the inside. Luser: Um... I can't reach there right now... Tech Support: Uhhhh may I ask why? Luser: Well the coffee in it is too hot and I'd burn my hand. Tech Support:...Sir... you can't put coffee in your computer. Luser: It's ok, I didn't put any sugar in it so it wont get sticky or anything. Tech Support: No sir, you computer is broken. Go take it in to get it repaired. Luser: WHAT? Etc, etc.
Tech Support: Hi welcome to Cup Tech support, how can we assist you today?
Luser: Yea my cup won't turn on.
Tech Support: Is it fully charged sir?
Luser: Yea its in the charging station right now. The ring around it is all red.
Tech Support: K, I'm going to need you to bring up the diagnostic screen, it's the touch button at the bottom of the cup on the inside.
Luser: Um... I can't reach there right now...
Tech Support: Uhhhh may I ask why?
Luser: Well the coffee in it is too hot and I'd burn my hand.
Tech Support:...Sir... you can't put coffee in your computer.
Luser: It's ok, I didn't put any sugar in it so it wont get sticky or anything.
Tech Support: No sir, you computer is broken. Go take it in to get it repaired.
Luser: WHAT?
Etc, etc.
Hasn't apple prided itself in that mac's are for "fun and artistic purposes" rather than business purposes? It seems to me that apple is shooting itself in the foot here, and then pouring lemon juice on the wound just for good measure.
That this seems to be the case with may of Edison's "inventions". Many of them were either invented by one of his subordinates and simply registered under his own name in the patent process, or were taken altogether from another scientist and claimed directly as his own. Take a look at Nikola Tesla's history and you'll see what I mean.
...when I say that we'll miss you stage6. You provided us with an alternative to the much lower quality videos on youtube and many other like sites. Great job divx.
Firefox keeps by default ten previously closed tabs in memory. So even if you close 10, you won't get any memory back - because while they don't show up in the tab bar, they're still there, with their forward and back sessions stored in their entirety as well. You can recover closed tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+T
It seems to me that doing this with actual lego blocks should be much simpler. If each bump on the blocks had a small contact point with the ability to identify what it was connected to, the blocks could daisy chain the information to a computer, which could easily construct a full model of the blocks if it knew how each block was connected to its neighbor. Very cool idea though, kudos to the makers.
If the media can only report what the courts tell them, then who's to say that the information isn't censored? Seems very 1984ish to me. If Australia takes this step, it's only a matter of time before they're creating news altogether.
"The organization argued that it was the defendant's fault that the record companies sued the wrong person, because the defendant didn't tell them that his daughter was the file sharer they were looking for."
I know things called "rules" are hard for you guys at the RIAA, but there's this one thing called the 5th amendment. I recommend you check it out. It's a good read.
Despite this most likely happening right after duke nukem forever comes out, if it does happen, it'll be a great thing to have. Right now Apple needs a rival. If they sit at the top alone with the iPhone, it won't have any incentive to get better. Google is just the company to give them this competition, and Dell's equally enormous resources will surely fuel the hardware side of the development.
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If this testing suite becomes decently popular, I predict a future full of flamewars about which distros are faster.
While entirely laughable, I'm glad this story is in the New York Times. Getting the Spanish Inquisition-esque ways of the these enforcement agencies out into the media is going to be one of the few ways to make it stop. Hopefully people (meaning the general public, and not just us here on /.) will soon realize just how ludicrous these methods are.
Sadly the proof that P=NP that was etched into the ice was melted as scientists began the process of extracting the vengeful bacteria.
Ironically, the reason for it melting was due to the scientists using more bore holes than necessary to connect all of the pockets of bacteria cultures in the ice.
So download it for Windows/Mac/Linux and play it on your computer.
The game was amazingly done, and it has many qualities that would bring me to expect it to do well. Mainly:
-It is for more platforms that most mainstream games (Mac/Windows/Linux/Xbox360).
-The animated cutscenes were brilliantly done, especially how they used an animated version of the character you created at the start.
-The script was hilarious.
-The popularity of penny-arcade lent to easy advertising.
-It was only $20
Wait Microsoft... developing open sour... *Head explodes*
This is a step in the right direction. Hopefully the US patent system realizes that it's messed up, and now that companies (especially ones that hold as many patents as red hat) are asking for limits on those (which would inevitably annul some of the ones redhat holds) it might be the push that's needed to spark reform.
And now all the bullies that took this geek's lunch money as a kid will run in fear - as the geek now has a tank.
Took me a sec, but let me say sir, that was epic.
What the hell do you want!?
But does it run linux?
If so you could run CUPS on cups... and that'd just be spiffy.
Let's try that again with formatting! ...Sir... you can't put coffee in your computer.
Tech Support: Hi welcome to Cup Tech support, how can we assist you today?
Luser: Yea my cup won't turn on.
Tech Support: Is it fully charged sir?
Luser: Yea its in the charging station right now. The ring around it is all red.
Tech Support: K, I'm going to need you to bring up the diagnostic screen, it's the touch button at the bottom of the cup on the inside.
Luser: Um... I can't reach there right now...
Tech Support: Uhhhh may I ask why?
Luser: Well the coffee in it is too hot and I'd burn my hand.
Tech Support:
Luser: It's ok, I didn't put any sugar in it so it wont get sticky or anything.
Tech Support: No sir, you computer is broken. Go take it in to get it repaired.
Luser: WHAT? Etc, etc.
Tech Support: Hi welcome to Cup Tech support, how can we assist you today? Luser: Yea my cup won't turn on. Tech Support: Is it fully charged sir? Luser: Yea its in the charging station right now. The ring around it is all red. Tech Support: K, I'm going to need you to bring up the diagnostic screen, it's the touch button at the bottom of the cup on the inside. Luser: Um... I can't reach there right now... Tech Support: Uhhhh may I ask why? Luser: Well the coffee in it is too hot and I'd burn my hand. Tech Support: ...Sir... you can't put coffee in your computer.
Luser: It's ok, I didn't put any sugar in it so it wont get sticky or anything.
Tech Support: No sir, you computer is broken. Go take it in to get it repaired.
Luser: WHAT?
Etc, etc.
You called?
Hasn't apple prided itself in that mac's are for "fun and artistic purposes" rather than business purposes? It seems to me that apple is shooting itself in the foot here, and then pouring lemon juice on the wound just for good measure.
That this seems to be the case with may of Edison's "inventions". Many of them were either invented by one of his subordinates and simply registered under his own name in the patent process, or were taken altogether from another scientist and claimed directly as his own. Take a look at Nikola Tesla's history and you'll see what I mean.
...when I say that we'll miss you stage6. You provided us with an alternative to the much lower quality videos on youtube and many other like sites. Great job divx.
...if dumb lawsuits slowly disappear, where will I get my humor from on /.?
Firefox keeps by default ten previously closed tabs in memory. So even if you close 10, you won't get any memory back - because while they don't show up in the tab bar, they're still there, with their forward and back sessions stored in their entirety as well. You can recover closed tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+T
Works very fast. This is right before I patched my system with the latest kernel ( you can see the ubuntu updater in the background ). http://www.cs.lmu.edu/~j/files/rootExploit.png
It seems to me that doing this with actual lego blocks should be much simpler. If each bump on the blocks had a small contact point with the ability to identify what it was connected to, the blocks could daisy chain the information to a computer, which could easily construct a full model of the blocks if it knew how each block was connected to its neighbor. Very cool idea though, kudos to the makers.
If the media can only report what the courts tell them, then who's to say that the information isn't censored? Seems very 1984ish to me. If Australia takes this step, it's only a matter of time before they're creating news altogether.
But it seems like this is just a fairly famous person telling us what we already know. Nothing new or insightful here IMHO.
I know things called "rules" are hard for you guys at the RIAA, but there's this one thing called the 5th amendment. I recommend you check it out. It's a good read.
Despite this most likely happening right after duke nukem forever comes out, if it does happen, it'll be a great thing to have. Right now Apple needs a rival. If they sit at the top alone with the iPhone, it won't have any incentive to get better. Google is just the company to give them this competition, and Dell's equally enormous resources will surely fuel the hardware side of the development.