Are they giving these laptops away, or do they have to be returned at the end of the year? What happens when (and not if) they get lost, broken, or stolen? Who pays for them? Losing a $20 mathbook is one thing, but what about a $1,000 laptop?
You are right, but you are also wrong.
Although "Kleenex" is a registered trademark, and you can't sell a product called "Kleenex", everyone still says "Kleenex" when the mean "facial tissue" or whatnot. A bake-off isn't a profit thing, it's just a word for a bunch of engineers getting together and test their latest creations. If you were at a friend's house, and you asked "Where are the kleenex?", and he points to a box of generic brand facial tissues, can Kleenes sue you? I sure hope not...
It's more than that. If he posted an obscene website about, say, you, do you think he'd have the police all over him? Since the site was taken down, I can't make a call about whether or not it was obscene, but I think a parody site would automatically fall under "literary value", and depending on how it's laid out, "political value". But, you are right, there's no way to tell until we actually get to see the page, and since the goverment censored it, we can't. But that's another thing at stake here, isn't it? I for one don't want the police telling me what I can and can't put on my web site. And tell me: how could he have gotten charged with "misuse of computer system information"? The computer was only the distrubuition medium. And I'm not even sure why the article mentions the books on hacking, either. They have nothing to do with the case; they might as well tell us what color his shoes are.
Heheh... My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 3. It had a tape drive. I mean a [i]tape drive[/i] for standard use. To load a program, you'd fast forward the tape by, say, 45 seconds and start loading from there. I had this really cool side scrollin game for it, though. You were a robot, and if you pressed down, you turn into some sort of rocket, and could fly around. The space bar used your lasers. I think it started with a 'T'. Does anyone know what it was? I wonder if there's a TRS-80 emulator...
Ah, horrible, horrible, nostalgia.
Well, spammers get a lot of addresses in their database that aren't real. Knowing which ones are real and which ones aren't can be a useful thing.
Question: do they ever remove addresses? Why do I ask? What if you sent back one of those e-mails you get bounced back at you when an e-mail account you mailed doesn't exist? Would their software remove you, beacuse you (in it's mind) don't exist? Just a thought...
But only one point, mind you. According to the article, fandom.tv copied articles from fandom.com and pasted them on their web site. If those are copyrighted works by fandom.com, then I support them fully, in this particular matter. After all, if I wrote a book, I wouldn't want people publishing it without my consent; it would rob me of a lot of money. What fandom.tv should do, is link to the fandom.com's article, Slashdot style.
But, they lose credibility when they start claiming that fandom.tv is domain squatting. I cannot fathom, by any definition of the term, where they get this idea. A domain squatter is a domain reseller, whereas fandom.tv is just a site that happens to be competing with it's.com equivilant.
Robo-lawyer, ATTACK!
What is the purpose of thise program? It seems as though the only purpose would be to multitask operating systems, and they say that you can run Windows programs under it, but wouldn't you still need to be running Windows, even if it is under Plex86? The only thing that makes it any better, as far as I can tell, is that I won't have to shut down linux when I want to play Thief, or something.
My experiences with fighting spammers have been good. A while ago someone was sending messages to almost every newsgroup I read advertising "DSS Free Link Page", which was hosted by Prohosting (www.prohosting.com)
I sent an e-mail to Prohosting, and they promptly removed his site. I don't know if it ever went though, but I know on their web page, spammers get charged $100 per complaint that prohosting gets. The thought that some spammer got charged $100 thanks to me makes my feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Perhaps people would be less inclined to spam if there were actual repercussions, like being charged large sums of money, instead of just getting kicked off.
This reminds me of Microsoft claiming they invented symbolic links.
The problem is, is it very hard to define the who started a "revolution". Take the example, of, oh, the American revolution. There are a lot of people who helped, but no one person can step up and say "Americans all owe thanks to me! I started this country!"
I like RedHat and all... But this makes me sick. It seems like they are getting too corperate. Whatever that means.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Rambus is suing AMD over unlicensed interfacing with their product?
If that's the case, that would be a direct violation of the anti monopoly laws. It's the same deal as "Ford trucks can only use Ford gasoline", but this time it's "Only our chips (or liscened ones), and use our RAM".
It seems to me that it would be hard to win a patent case, if the most specific you are going to get about your product is "secret sauce". Is there a better explaination somewhere, or is that actually how specific they got?
I belive that keeping the standards closed is best in this case. Although opening the standards and polling the public about them will help create better standards, it just means that the website X will know exactly what to do to spoof the results, no matter how good the criteria is.
Like Seti@Home, whose developers chose to keep the source closed to prevent spoofing results. I'm all for open source of pretty much everything, but sometimes there's something that is better off hidden.
This caught me off guard. A bicycle is the last place I expected an internet connection (maybe not the last, but it's low on my list). With all the fuss about cell phone drivers, what about bicyclists playing Nethack?
My friend has a bicycle with a digital spedometer on it, and I'm afraid of that killing me;
"I wonder how fast I'm going, wow, 35 miles per h *WHUMP*"
Imagine if I could troll Slashdot at 20 miles per hour?
In my opinion, this is an unneeded and dangerous technology.
3 is the duration, in minutes, that the ISS is visible.
18 is the maximum elevation above the horizon. So that's how far above the horizon that it's fight path would take it, from your viewpoint. So it will be relatively low in the sky. 0 is on the horizon, 90 is straight up.
What I'm not sure about, is how this can be enforeced. I highly doubt that a German ruling will change the name of SAMBA/everywhere/, or even anywhere but Germany. Will linux distributors have to go in and change the man files, and the samba binary names or what? That just seems ridiculous.
Ok, this is a really cool idea, but it just won't work. I really like SETI and all, but how many people are going to spend $90+ just so they can run more SETI? What/would/ work is if they found someone to donate a lot of money, and distribute these boards for free, or negligable S&H charges. I would pay $5 for one of these, even if it did take up a PCI slot. -The Tempest [ mann2 at uswest dot net ]
I haven't been around from the very beginning, but the internet used to be a place where people could share ideas without worrying about age. Being 17 myself, I always say that I'm at least 21, not to throw off their user database stats, I don't care if they know how old I am, but beacuse it's very likely that I'll be under some restrictions if I do. My sister had to go though a whole bunch of parental permission forms when she opened a hotmail account. I know more about what I'm doing, softwarewise, than a lot of people, but technically, I can't install a lot of proprietary software, beacuse I'm not old enough to accept the license agreement (like that stops me, though). This decision isn't going to help anyone, all it's really going to do it throw off any database stats on the company's side, and cause a lot of annoyance on the user side. Anyway, it's more likely that I can determine more personal information from an e-mail address than an ICQ account. They aren't going to hurt anyone but themselves.
I'm a semi-game developer. I haven't really written anything, I'm just an amateur programmer teaching myself OpenGL so I can. The biggest problem I see with open sources games, is hacked up multiplayer client programs. One game I know of, Mangband, avoids this by keeping all information on the server. But they can afford this, beacuse it's a multiplayer roguelike, and doesn't take a lot of processing power. Imaging what would happen if Quake 3 Arena, to avoid hacked clients, did all the 3d rendering on the server side.
Well, I know I'm stating the obvious, but this is getting rediculous. I read on roguelike news (http://www.skoardy.demon.co.uk/rlnews/index.html) , that someone has a patent on CRPG interactive bartering systems! I feel inspired to write a game now just for the purpose of breaking that stupid thing.
I have a question for you guys aboue LinuxOne: Ok, I've gathered that it's a bad rip-off distrobution, and I won't argue with that, but is there any other reason it's getting so much hype?
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Are they giving these laptops away, or do they have to be returned at the end of the year? What happens when (and not if) they get lost, broken, or stolen? Who pays for them? Losing a $20 mathbook is one thing, but what about a $1,000 laptop?
You are right, but you are also wrong. Although "Kleenex" is a registered trademark, and you can't sell a product called "Kleenex", everyone still says "Kleenex" when the mean "facial tissue" or whatnot. A bake-off isn't a profit thing, it's just a word for a bunch of engineers getting together and test their latest creations. If you were at a friend's house, and you asked "Where are the kleenex?", and he points to a box of generic brand facial tissues, can Kleenes sue you? I sure hope not...
It's more than that. If he posted an obscene website about, say, you, do you think he'd have the police all over him? Since the site was taken down, I can't make a call about whether or not it was obscene, but I think a parody site would automatically fall under "literary value", and depending on how it's laid out, "political value". But, you are right, there's no way to tell until we actually get to see the page, and since the goverment censored it, we can't. But that's another thing at stake here, isn't it? I for one don't want the police telling me what I can and can't put on my web site. And tell me: how could he have gotten charged with "misuse of computer system information"? The computer was only the distrubuition medium. And I'm not even sure why the article mentions the books on hacking, either. They have nothing to do with the case; they might as well tell us what color his shoes are.
Heheh... My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 3. It had a tape drive. I mean a [i]tape drive[/i] for standard use. To load a program, you'd fast forward the tape by, say, 45 seconds and start loading from there. I had this really cool side scrollin game for it, though. You were a robot, and if you pressed down, you turn into some sort of rocket, and could fly around. The space bar used your lasers. I think it started with a 'T'. Does anyone know what it was? I wonder if there's a TRS-80 emulator... Ah, horrible, horrible, nostalgia.
Question: do they ever remove addresses? Why do I ask? What if you sent back one of those e-mails you get bounced back at you when an e-mail account you mailed doesn't exist? Would their software remove you, beacuse you (in it's mind) don't exist? Just a thought...
But, they lose credibility when they start claiming that fandom.tv is domain squatting. I cannot fathom, by any definition of the term, where they get this idea. A domain squatter is a domain reseller, whereas fandom.tv is just a site that happens to be competing with it's .com equivilant.
Robo-lawyer, ATTACK!
Can someone enlighten me?
Thanks.
I sent an e-mail to Prohosting, and they promptly removed his site. I don't know if it ever went though, but I know on their web page, spammers get charged $100 per complaint that prohosting gets. The thought that some spammer got charged $100 thanks to me makes my feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Perhaps people would be less inclined to spam if there were actual repercussions, like being charged large sums of money, instead of just getting kicked off.
This reminds me of Microsoft claiming they invented symbolic links. The problem is, is it very hard to define the who started a "revolution". Take the example, of, oh, the American revolution. There are a lot of people who helped, but no one person can step up and say "Americans all owe thanks to me! I started this country!" I like RedHat and all... But this makes me sick. It seems like they are getting too corperate. Whatever that means.
If that's the case, that would be a direct violation of the anti monopoly laws. It's the same deal as "Ford trucks can only use Ford gasoline", but this time it's "Only our chips (or liscened ones), and use our RAM".
It seems to me that it would be hard to win a patent case, if the most specific you are going to get about your product is "secret sauce". Is there a better explaination somewhere, or is that actually how specific they got?
Like Seti@Home, whose developers chose to keep the source closed to prevent spoofing results. I'm all for open source of pretty much everything, but sometimes there's something that is better off hidden.
This caught me off guard. A bicycle is the last place I expected an internet connection (maybe not the last, but it's low on my list). With all the fuss about cell phone drivers, what about bicyclists playing Nethack? My friend has a bicycle with a digital spedometer on it, and I'm afraid of that killing me; "I wonder how fast I'm going, wow, 35 miles per h *WHUMP*" Imagine if I could troll Slashdot at 20 miles per hour? In my opinion, this is an unneeded and dangerous technology.
3 is the duration, in minutes, that the ISS is visible. 18 is the maximum elevation above the horizon. So that's how far above the horizon that it's fight path would take it, from your viewpoint. So it will be relatively low in the sky. 0 is on the horizon, 90 is straight up.
Same here. It's 8:49 PST, which should be about 11:49 EST, right? I assume the site got slashdotted.
What I'm not sure about, is how this can be enforeced. I highly doubt that a German ruling will change the name of SAMBA /everywhere/, or even anywhere but Germany. Will linux distributors have to go in and change the man files, and the samba binary names or what? That just seems ridiculous.
Ok, this is a really cool idea, but it just won't work. I really like SETI and all, but how many people are going to spend $90+ just so they can run more SETI? What /would/ work is if they found someone to donate a lot of money, and distribute these boards for free, or negligable S&H charges. I would pay $5 for one of these, even if it did take up a PCI slot. -The Tempest [ mann2 at uswest dot net ]
Nah-uh. I would never use a single buttoned mouse. Hate them forever. Why? /bind mouse2 +moveup 'nuff said.
I haven't been around from the very beginning, but the internet used to be a place where people could share ideas without worrying about age. Being 17 myself, I always say that I'm at least 21, not to throw off their user database stats, I don't care if they know how old I am, but beacuse it's very likely that I'll be under some restrictions if I do. My sister had to go though a whole bunch of parental permission forms when she opened a hotmail account. I know more about what I'm doing, softwarewise, than a lot of people, but technically, I can't install a lot of proprietary software, beacuse I'm not old enough to accept the license agreement (like that stops me, though). This decision isn't going to help anyone, all it's really going to do it throw off any database stats on the company's side, and cause a lot of annoyance on the user side. Anyway, it's more likely that I can determine more personal information from an e-mail address than an ICQ account. They aren't going to hurt anyone but themselves.
I'm a semi-game developer. I haven't really written anything, I'm just an amateur programmer teaching myself OpenGL so I can. The biggest problem I see with open sources games, is hacked up multiplayer client programs. One game I know of, Mangband, avoids this by keeping all information on the server. But they can afford this, beacuse it's a multiplayer roguelike, and doesn't take a lot of processing power. Imaging what would happen if Quake 3 Arena, to avoid hacked clients, did all the 3d rendering on the server side.
Well, I know I'm stating the obvious, but this is getting rediculous. I read on roguelike news (http://www.skoardy.demon.co.uk/rlnews/index.html) , that someone has a patent on CRPG interactive bartering systems! I feel inspired to write a game now just for the purpose of breaking that stupid thing.
I have a question for you guys aboue LinuxOne: Ok, I've gathered that it's a bad rip-off distrobution, and I won't argue with that, but is there any other reason it's getting so much hype?
I apologize for the triple post. I'm tired, and I forgot about HTML formatting. Grug.
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