hmm, the moderator that voted this to be interesting probably couldn't find the "Funny" button.:-) Though I must say those robots are cool. Look like those fifties things... "SCARY BOTS FROM SPACE":-)
I am willing to bet that none of the answers will be correct. I am willing to bet only the people of that college (not naming it) will be able to give the right answer. But please give it a try. It would be great to see....;-)
That really has to be the underlying theme. This press conference had almost no lead time, and the annoucement was so suspicious that the AP Wire put it up on the top of the important annoucements. The implication from the resignation is that the negotiations with DOJ over the breakup are not going well.
Its been done before. The Netherlands changed from an absolute rule monarchy into a constitutional monarchy in one night after King Willem received a letter from his daughter on the riots in Berlin against the monarchy there.
Vodafone-Mannesmann is NOT a company..... yet.
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Vodafone wants Mannesmann, but Mannesmann is not giving in. For the stockholders it is not a smart deal to sell to Vodafone now, because of the growth potential of Mannesmann. Espescially when they spin-off their non-wireless divisions. Gains from those non-wireless divisions will make Mannesmann catapult and their stocks soar. A takeover by Vodafone would not give such benefits.
I have emailed, (and suggest/. readers do likewise) the LinuxTech (Uruquay) site mgmt. with a simple English request that the folks who have made the application publicly discuss what they will do with it, and let the UG respond before we all come down in harsh judgment on one side or the other.
A couple of days ago I asked Linuxtech the same question. Haven't heard from them yet.
The official reaction of the UYLUG on the LinuxTECH document can allready be found on Slashdot. You can find it here. UYLUG also posted another link on Slashdot regarding the case. The link leads to a document in which they quite clearly explain their position on the matter. It containes a timeline of their actions (they also want to register Tux as a trademark) They claim to be willing to transfer the trademark to Linus and have told him so in an e-mail allready. (BTW the top part is in Spanish, at the bottom there is an English version. I have also read the babelfished version of the Spanish part and it seems to be alike.)
One of the directors of LinuxTECH is also on one of the committees of the UYLUG and is one of the founding members of the UYLUG. They don't seem to be on speaking terms anymore. I think this whole Uruguayan stuff is quite messy, with more involved then just a dispute over trademarks. It seems strange for a founding member to abandon the group he helped to start and to go against the general idea of what a LUG should do. The only way we can find if either intentions are true (and they might very well be!) is to see what they will do when they have been awarded the trademarks in the respective categories.
For the record: I am not from Uruguay and I am not involved with the UYLUG in anyway.
The terrible effects of Slashdot Addiction or SAd as it is commonly abreviated are becoming more and more obvious by the day. Signs of it are an uncontrolable need to surf the web, searching for submissions, standard 2 browserwindows or more open, one on continuous reload of Slashdot, high Karma.
Based on a 12 step program we offer to the poorly addicted a way to regain control over their life and live it as normal people again.
Some of the measures we use against SAd are: 1. deduction of Karma for each time Slashdot is viewed. Extra for postings and submissions. 2. Required reading of negative score posts. 3. Redirection of Slashdot.org to Jesse Berst Anchordesk 4. Chanting of Hare Gates 5. Compuserve 2000 account on WebTV
I must admit I have no idea who you are and I am going to correct that at Brittanica Online after this post. But what I am always interested in is what makes people tick. What makes it for you 'fun' to do physics and why did you go into certain subjects and others not?
A microdrive would be brilliant to have as a storage device in a Handspring Visor. I have no idea if it can be used, but imagine being able to use it as a storage device too, or as a portable MP3 player with some more capacity than on static RAM
Ok, you can get your webcasts now!:-) Have fun, I saw the first 10 mins before I had to go to class this morning and he seems to be very intelligent and funny.
Thank you for your message. I just checked. You are correct, the Stanford registration server seems to be down. The seminar-on-demand server is up and going, though.
Ordinarily, you are supposed to be registered first before they will provide you with the password for access. However, we have made it so that during these first few days, the colloquium content page is NOT password protected yet. I'll give you that link right now (goto http://stanford -online.stanford.edu/engelbart/colloquium/index.ht ml), if you promise me two things: (i) that you go register when the registration server comes back up (if you haven't already done so), and (ii) provide us feedback on your access experience by doing the survey at http://www.bootstrap.o rg/colloquium/col_webcast_survey1.html after you have had a chance to access the webcast. [The former is serious, the latter is just kidding, but would definitely appreciate it nonetheless.]
Presently, the colloquium is not available in other formats (as it is not just video stream we are talking about here) and not mirrored anywhere yet. If demand keep building, we might have to do the latter.
Thanks for the encouraging word. Look forward to your participation.
From the Meriam-Webster at: http://www.brittanica.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va= colloquium
Main Entry: colloquium Pronunciation: k&-'lO-kwE-&m Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -quiums or colloquia/-kwE-&/ Etymology: Latin, colloquy Date: 1844 : a usually academic meeting at which specialists deliver addresses on a topic or on related topics and then answer questions relating to them
Finally the watches that I allways have seen in Bond-movies, excluding the explosives ofcourse.
I wonder though, how much fun will it be listening to the mp3's, since arms will be moving around and this could jerk the headphones out of your ear (this could lead to injury, which could lead to lawsuit (only in America), which could lead to alot of laughing about the American legals system, I love it allready;-)). So either you need a very long cable or not wear it around your wrist.
The PC Unite watch would be the perfect invention for me, cause it would alarm me of meetings I forget. Also the 8200 character text browser is great for exams.:-)
Industry sources say the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is making a supercomputer in which research organisations of the defence ministry are showing a keen interest.
Just a small comment in the article, that just doesn't make me happy, espescially considering the recent tensions between India and Pakistan.
Considering the rivalry between the two countries, we just have to wait for the announcement that Pakistan has a slightly better super-computer. But seriously, with knowledge spreading I expect that very soon we will see several 'third world' countries operating low-cost supercomputers for good and bad.
I have no idea if they are lying or speaking the truth, but it seems that there is more to this story then meets the eye. The link down below will lead you to a document stating that the UYLUG was trademarking LINUX themselves. Anyways, I have asked them to clarify what they want to do with the trademark.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Raindeer wrote:
> Hello peoples, > > You're on slashdot, maybe you could join the discussion... and explain your > side of the story, cause nobody seems to understand why you want to > trademark LINUX. > > greetz... > > Rudolf aka Raindeer
Please read our reply to the "open letter" in our site.
CNN had a report on a similar program that is run by the NSA.
I wonder though if it will have the result that Clinton hopes it will have. First there is a lag of at least 5 years before these kids have a Masters degree. (correct me if I am wrong, the American uni-system is sometimes a bit confusing) That doesn't make them experts on security yet. 6 or 7 years is a long time in Computer Science. Can he wait that long? Maybe the money should be invested in solutions on a shorter term. (Hire @stake) Second: It is a fact that the Beta sciences are not as popular as the Alpha and Gamma sciences. I do not expect a sudden dramatic shift in the amount of people going for CS as a result of this. Third: Though governments generally give you cool stuff to play with and are often willing to spent money on hardware, the pay usually sucks. So does the overall image of the government. This scheme doesn't give me the idea that this is going to change, therefore not many people in my opinion will go for it. It might just be better to invest in better wages. Fourth (and then I will stop to rant): Is the threat really *that* big? Remember the Janes article on Cyberwarfare? I am not saying that security is not important, but I am wondering if the dangers are as high as some people try and make us belief
In the "Intro to Crypto" that Phil Zimmerman wrote and which is distributed with PGP, the man says that a good crypto scheme should be extensively peer reviewed. In the end it doesn't matter if the algorithm is known. What matters is how long it will take you to crack the code...
Yes, Linux does seem like a good choice. If you compare it with Windows CE, it is alot smaller and not as heavy on memory. (compare windows CE devices and Palm OS devices.) Linux also allows for alot of tweaking by Intel. I bet they are going to idiot proof these appliances and on top of that make sure that they do not become a too big threat for the PC market.
Interesting is that it is only open to US universities and that they need to cough up $25,000 membership fees and an investment of about $500,000 a year.
Throug Memoranda of Understandings Internet2 has teamed up with similar organisations across the globe. So though it might be silent, it cannot be said that the organisation is not among the living anymore.
Again, I want some 'real' research. The New York Times is NOT research, Bioscience is ?????, The Ecologist is like asking Windows NT magazine to review the latest Red Hat release. What I am looking for is an article in an internationally acclaimed scientific magazine, with the proper refereeing. On top of that it would be nice if the article was corroborated by research done by others. It is easy to base an opinion on assumptions, but I would like to base it on something for a change.
Credit cards had problems in February allready.
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The Y2K manager of the organisation I did my internship at had this problem in Austria last Februari. His bank here in Europe had issued him a new credit card, which bounced in Austria, cause they were late with updating the creditcardmachines.
Y2K starts where the first computer has problems
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Though it may be that all kinds of things run on GMT, for me all that counts is local time and what my systems do... so that is local time. Ofcourse this combined with transnational systems like the Net etc. might mean that we see a prolonged time of systems going down, even before Y2K has started at location XYZ. So the US might be in trouble, because of data in Europe etc.
From the top of the article The information on this website is not a substitute for diagnosis and treatment by a qualified, licensed professional. Rachel's Environmental & Health Weekly erf@rachel.org (410) 263-1584
Basically the article is full of the same old mantra's we've heard since forever. I remember an article in Nature on the same subject, but it wasn't peer reviewed I belief. Does anyone have any solid information on the subject?
My personal uninformed opinion (I can have one, I gonna be a politician), is that geneticly modified anything is bad, since we have no idea of the long term effects GM has on our ecosystems. I wonder if we even know of the short term effects it has. Before you can alter somebodies code, you first have to understand it. If ya don't, don't fiddle with it to see what it does, or at least do it in a controlled environment.
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hmm, the moderator that voted this to be interesting probably couldn't find the "Funny" button. :-) Though I must say those robots are cool. Look like those fifties things... "SCARY BOTS FROM SPACE" :-)
PowderJect Lidocaine for local anesthesia
PowderJect Hepatitis B DNA Vaccine
PowderJect Alprostadil for male erectile dysfunction
:-)
The last one should get all the lame AC's going...
There are also some realvideo's of the product. I am just glad that this removes the need for needles in alot (though probably not all) cases
I am willing to bet that none of the answers will be correct. I am willing to bet only the people of that college (not naming it) will be able to give the right answer. But please give it a try. It would be great to see.... ;-)
That really has to be the underlying theme. This press conference had almost no lead time, and the annoucement was so suspicious that the AP Wire put it up on the top of the important annoucements. The implication from the resignation is that the negotiations with DOJ over the breakup are not going well.
Its been done before. The Netherlands changed from an absolute rule monarchy into a constitutional monarchy in one night after King Willem received a letter from his daughter on the riots in Berlin against the monarchy there.
Vodafone wants Mannesmann, but Mannesmann is not giving in. For the stockholders it is not a smart deal to sell to Vodafone now, because of the growth potential of Mannesmann. Espescially when they spin-off their non-wireless divisions. Gains from those non-wireless divisions will make Mannesmann catapult and their stocks soar. A takeover by Vodafone would not give such benefits.
I have emailed, (and suggest /. readers do likewise) the LinuxTech (Uruquay) site mgmt. with a simple English request that the folks who have made the application publicly discuss what they will do with it, and let the UG respond before we all come down in harsh judgment on one side or the other.
A couple of days ago I asked Linuxtech the same question. Haven't heard from them yet.
The official reaction of the UYLUG on the LinuxTECH document can allready be found on Slashdot. You can find it here. UYLUG also posted another link on Slashdot regarding the case. The link leads to a document in which they quite clearly explain their position on the matter. It containes a timeline of their actions (they also want to register Tux as a trademark) They claim to be willing to transfer the trademark to Linus and have told him so in an e-mail allready. (BTW the top part is in Spanish, at the bottom there is an English version. I have also read the babelfished version of the Spanish part and it seems to be alike.)
One of the directors of LinuxTECH is also on one of the committees of the UYLUG and is one of the founding members of the UYLUG. They don't seem to be on speaking terms anymore. I think this whole Uruguayan stuff is quite messy, with more involved then just a dispute over trademarks. It seems strange for a founding member to abandon the group he helped to start and to go against the general idea of what a LUG should do. The only way we can find if either intentions are true (and they might very well be!) is to see what they will do when they have been awarded the trademarks in the respective categories.
For the record: I am not from Uruguay and I am not involved with the UYLUG in anyway.
Related to this.
Basically, what makes you tick? What got you started and keeps you going and what makes physics 'fun' for you.
The terrible effects of Slashdot Addiction or SAd as it is commonly abreviated are becoming more and more obvious by the day. Signs of it are an uncontrolable need to surf the web, searching for submissions, standard 2 browserwindows or more open, one on continuous reload of Slashdot, high Karma.
Based on a 12 step program we offer to the poorly addicted a way to regain control over their life and live it as normal people again.
Some of the measures we use against SAd are:
1. deduction of Karma for each time Slashdot is viewed. Extra for postings and submissions.
2. Required reading of negative score posts.
3. Redirection of Slashdot.org to Jesse Berst Anchordesk
4. Chanting of Hare Gates
5. Compuserve 2000 account on WebTV
I must admit I have no idea who you are and I am going to correct that at Brittanica Online after this post. But what I am always interested in is what makes people tick. What makes it for you 'fun' to do physics and why did you go into certain subjects and others not?
A microdrive would be brilliant to have as a storage device in a Handspring Visor. I have no idea if it can be used, but imagine being able to use it as a storage device too, or as a portable MP3 player with some more capacity than on static RAM
Ok, you can get your webcasts now! :-) Have fun, I saw the first 10 mins before I had to go to class this morning and he seems to be very intelligent and funny.
t ml), if you promise me two things: (i) that you go register when the registration server comes back up (if you haven't already done so), and (ii) provide us feedback on your access experience by doing the survey at http://www.bootstrap.o rg/colloquium/col_webcast_survey1.html after you have had a chance to access the webcast. [The former is serious, the latter is just kidding, but would definitely appreciate it nonetheless.]
Thank you for your message. I just checked. You are correct, the Stanford registration server seems to be down. The seminar-on-demand server is up and going, though.
Ordinarily, you are supposed to be registered first before they will provide you with the password for access. However, we have made it so that during these first few days, the colloquium content page is NOT password protected yet.
I'll give you that link right now (goto http://stanford -online.stanford.edu/engelbart/colloquium/index.h
Presently, the colloquium is not available in other formats (as it is not just video stream we are talking about here) and not mirrored anywhere yet. If demand keep building, we might have to do the latter.
Thanks for the encouraging word. Look forward to your participation.
Have fun, PPY
Could someone help them out with a mirror. Preferably in a non-streaming format.
From the Meriam-Webster at:= colloquium
/-kwE-&/
http://www.brittanica.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va
Main Entry: colloquium
Pronunciation: k&-'lO-kwE-&m
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -quiums or colloquia
Etymology: Latin, colloquy
Date: 1844
: a usually academic meeting at which specialists deliver addresses on a topic or on related topics and then answer questions relating to them
has allready been done... Somebody analyzed server logs a while ago. Was posted here and interesting read for sure.
Finally the watches that I allways have seen in Bond-movies, excluding the explosives ofcourse.
;-)). So either you need a very long cable or not wear it around your wrist.
:-)
I wonder though, how much fun will it be listening to the mp3's, since arms will be moving around and this could jerk the headphones out of your ear (this could lead to injury, which could lead to lawsuit (only in America), which could lead to alot of laughing about the American legals system, I love it allready
The PC Unite watch would be the perfect invention for me, cause it would alarm me of meetings I forget. Also the 8200 character text browser is great for exams.
Industry sources say the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is making a supercomputer in which research organisations of the defence ministry are showing a keen interest.
Just a small comment in the article, that just doesn't make me happy, espescially considering the recent tensions between India and Pakistan.
Considering the rivalry between the two countries, we just have to wait for the announcement that Pakistan has a slightly better super-computer. But seriously, with knowledge spreading I expect that very soon we will see several 'third world' countries operating low-cost supercomputers for good and bad.
I have no idea if they are lying or speaking the truth, but it seems that there is more to this story then meets the eye. The link down below will lead you to a document stating that the UYLUG was trademarking LINUX themselves. Anyways, I have asked them to clarify what they want to do with the trademark.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Raindeer wrote:
> Hello peoples,
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> You're on slashdot, maybe you could join the discussion... and explain your
> side of the story, cause nobody seems to understand why you want to
> trademark LINUX.
>
> greetz...
>
> Rudolf aka Raindeer
Please read our reply to the "open letter" in our site.
http://www.linux.com.uy/contestacion.html
Thanks for your comments.
Best regards,
Francisco Pereira and Enrique Place
CNN had a report on a similar program that is run by the NSA.
I wonder though if it will have the result that Clinton hopes it will have. First there is a lag of at least 5 years before these kids have a Masters degree. (correct me if I am wrong, the American uni-system is sometimes a bit confusing) That doesn't make them experts on security yet. 6 or 7 years is a long time in Computer Science. Can he wait that long? Maybe the money should be invested in solutions on a shorter term. (Hire @stake)
Second: It is a fact that the Beta sciences are not as popular as the Alpha and Gamma sciences. I do not expect a sudden dramatic shift in the amount of people going for CS as a result of this.
Third: Though governments generally give you cool stuff to play with and are often willing to spent money on hardware, the pay usually sucks. So does the overall image of the government. This scheme doesn't give me the idea that this is going to change, therefore not many people in my opinion will go for it. It might just be better to invest in better wages.
Fourth (and then I will stop to rant): Is the threat really *that* big? Remember the Janes article on Cyberwarfare? I am not saying that security is not important, but I am wondering if the dangers are as high as some people try and make us belief
In the "Intro to Crypto" that Phil Zimmerman wrote and which is distributed with PGP, the man says that a good crypto scheme should be extensively peer reviewed. In the end it doesn't matter if the algorithm is known. What matters is how long it will take you to crack the code...
and now I really need to go to bed
Yes, Linux does seem like a good choice. If you compare it with Windows CE, it is alot smaller and not as heavy on memory. (compare windows CE devices and Palm OS devices.) Linux also allows for alot of tweaking by Intel. I bet they are going to idiot proof these appliances and on top of that make sure that they do not become a too big threat for the PC market.
You can find all about it at the following link
Interesting is that it is only open to US universities and that they need to cough up $25,000 membership fees and an investment of about $500,000 a year.
Throug Memoranda of Understandings Internet2 has teamed up with similar organisations across the globe. So though it might be silent, it cannot be said that the organisation is not among the living anymore.
Again, I want some 'real' research. The New York Times is NOT research, Bioscience is ?????, The Ecologist is like asking Windows NT magazine to review the latest Red Hat release. What I am looking for is an article in an internationally acclaimed scientific magazine, with the proper refereeing. On top of that it would be nice if the article was corroborated by research done by others. It is easy to base an opinion on assumptions, but I would like to base it on something for a change.
The Y2K manager of the organisation I did my internship at had this problem in Austria last Februari. His bank here in Europe had issued him a new credit card, which bounced in Austria, cause they were late with updating the creditcardmachines.
Though it may be that all kinds of things run on GMT, for me all that counts is local time and what my systems do... so that is local time. Ofcourse this combined with transnational systems like the Net etc. might mean that we see a prolonged time of systems going down, even before Y2K has started at location XYZ. So the US might be in trouble, because of data in Europe etc.
From the top of the article The information on this website is not a substitute for diagnosis and treatment by a qualified, licensed professional. Rachel's Environmental & Health Weekly erf@rachel.org (410) 263-1584
Basically the article is full of the same old mantra's we've heard since forever. I remember an article in Nature on the same subject, but it wasn't peer reviewed I belief. Does anyone have any solid information on the subject?
My personal uninformed opinion (I can have one, I gonna be a politician), is that geneticly modified anything is bad, since we have no idea of the long term effects GM has on our ecosystems. I wonder if we even know of the short term effects it has. Before you can alter somebodies code, you first have to understand it. If ya don't, don't fiddle with it to see what it does, or at least do it in a controlled environment.