You have to remember, a lot of the people who sit in high political offices are former judges. They are old white men who care about appeasing each other's financial interests and don't mind if all the geeks in the world want to rip their throats out. Plus, you have to remember that there's a good chance any random judge will have SCO or one of it's alliances somewhere in their investment portfolio. They probably don't care about Linux one bit, nor grasp the importance of the GPL. It's more likely someone in this mindset would think "Well, if this free stuff would go away, then people would have to buy software from the guys I've invested in.. More money! Woohoo!"...
If there was any sanity or fairness left in our courts and political systems, the DMCA would have never gone into law. Nor would we have gone to war in Iraq [google.com]. It's a dark time for the little guy.:(
You're pretty far off of the point. With the exception of the Microsoft handslapping, the judicial system has been pretty fair and removed from Govt politics. The US Govt was set up that way, and of all of the branches of Government, the judicial branch to this day remains mostly neutral and unbiased.
You make it seem like it's a bad thing that some judge doesn't care about Linux or grasp the importance of the GPL. Well, Awptimus, that is the important point. We don't want the judge to care about Linux or bias his decision based upon the importance of the copyright license. We only want him to remain fair and unbiased and to determine how the different aspects of the case fit into the US Copyright Law. The copyright system is currently pretty screwed up, but it's not the job of some individual judge to take matters into his own hands when it comes to the all-important GPL. It's better for the USA if he only does his job to fit the SCO case into existing law. Leave it to law makers to make laws.
Finally, in your last comment, you seem to link the courts to drafting DMCA and to the war in Iraq... both of which the judicial system had NOTHING to do with. I think a course or a book on the US Government would be good for you since you either aren't from the USA or you failed 9th grade Govt.
There are many jobs that I would be happy to see REPLACED BY A ROBOT:
I can see it now: XL-bot4000 for USA President in 2044!! Hopefully he could avoid scandals involving big oil (& lubricant) corps. "I'd like to thank all my human constituents for putting me in office"
Although I agree that Outlook is a great program, it definitely sucks when it comes to managing emails (Every email client that I've used sucks in this regard).
Dragging an email from the inbox to the calendar opens up a new appointment with the message as the text and KEEPS the email in the inbox. This is great. But dragging a message from the inbox to my *saved messages* folder is not so great, it moves the message (or if I right click, it copies the message) to this new location. If bill sends me the message and I want to put it in *saved messages* and *bill* folders, I have to copy the message. I don't want 2 copies of the message though (what if I change the priorety of the message? Now I have to change it in two places). I just want to have the same message in two places.
My inbox has about 1050 emails messages, but I can't move them into individual project folders or who sent them folders, because in Outlook, I lose the ability to search in different folders with the same search.
IMO, microsoft needs to revamp the entire way that emails are organized. If they could throw in a relational database that was transparent to the end-user, then email organization would be a lot better. Typically, Apple comes up with this kind of thing and MS steals it, but either way I would like to see it soon.
I looked at all of the different views of the watch on Amazon.com and NONE of the views showed it telling the time. An organizer, calendar, and contacts are nice for a watch, but WHAT TIME IS IT??? Make it in great big numbers in the middle so I don't have to squint my eyes.
That's fine with me, though, since telling time is the ONLY thing that my cell phone is good at (with its eternally poor reception). It has a nice bright color screen (in a place of where extra battery life or an antenna might have gone) that tells what time it is.
Some trails aren't meant to be ridden by mountain bikes. On those trails, mountain bikes should be banned whether it is for safety, environmental, or whatever reasons. Everybody would agree. A mountain bike group working with the park or school would work together to remove mountain bikes from the trail you mention (is this in Ithaca?). The park/school's knee-jerk reaction is typically, ban all mountain bikers (geo-cachers, etc). The mountain bike group needs to say, "hold on, only ban us from this trail, but give us that less popular trail, or allow us to cut an environmentally safe new trail.
My point is that only throuhg early organization and planning will *NEW-ACTIVITY* become accepted as a reasonable use of the great outdoors.
BTW, mountain bike trails that were specifically designed for mountain biking require almost no maintenance for erosion and environmental protection.
Does anybody notice the similarities between Geocaching, and mountain biking?? When mountain biking was new (1990s), many parks and recreation areas were banning it because it was *tearing* up there delicate trails and hillsides. I remember horseback riders were the biggest complainers of trail destruction, yet horses are far worst on trails than mountain bikes.
Today, after 10 years of creating mountain bike associations and working with parks and elected officials, mountain biking is accepted and popular at most state and national parks.
a similar thing will happen with geocaching. Hopefully the geocachers will get together and convince the parks' officials that geocaching is an accepted form of land use. It looks like htings are already headed this way.
They ROCK. I haven't had this much fun with a computer in 20 years!
Sure, it's all fun and games until you decide to get cute and use OS X's built in DVORAK support. You pull off all of hte keys, put them back in the DVORAK arrangement and realize that you have to strain your head just to type this slashdot comment. It hurts my head to think so hard. Now I want my QWERTY back, but I broke my 'I' and 'G' key setting up DVORAK so I'm afraid to switch the keys back. I don't want to break any more keys on my $3000 laptop!!
This guy has some major disposeable income. He must still be living with mom & dad. Did you notice the guitar & amp, skateboard, Ti Powerbook? I hope that he's setting aside some money for his future.
Compare that to the >10 cables on my machine, and then having to have the cables running back behind the machine versus having even simple things like USB literally at my fingertips...
I have exactly 2 cables running to my PC. One is the powercord which I occasionally remove if I carry my laptop around the apartment. The other is to my USB hub. This hub is connected to bluetooth, printing, wireless mouse, digital camera, etc. (everything connects to the USB hub).
I don't have a network cord (802.11b), no monitor or keyboard cord (it's a laptop).
Originally the Weiderman-Franz law was said to apply to *all* materials, so yes, Diamond was an exception. However, people soon learned about lattice vibrations and disproved^H^H^H^H refined Wiederman-Franz law to only deal with metals.
On inreresting point is that Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of *all* non-superconducting materials. Put that on your OCed CPU and smoke it!
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Good point. Does anyone know of a time table for these features, if they are to be released at all?
I don't know. You might want to contact the creators of this patch and ask them for a time table. I think I saw an email address somewhere below the following portion of their webpage:
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS: Tough luck. Do NOT contact us with bug reports at this time. Do NOT contact us if you can't get it to build. Do NOT contact us for copies of the game. In fact, if you aren't sending us code, don't contact us at all.
Mr. Kocher would point out that in computer security, redundancy is key
Therefore, "Please try not to ask questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of online research." should be rewritten as, "Please try not to ask or moderate up questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of online research. "
I guess that I should have been more clear. I was play Euchre in the real world (aka Meat-space). I've played online with other people when my teammate and I sat on computers right next to each other. We could see each other's screen.
It's like when I used to play Euchre with my friend Ryan. Everybody would accuse us of cheating with comments such as: "You must cheat at Euchre because whenever you are partners, you always win".
The same people who considered that to be valid logic when on to become doctors and engineers.
As a Systems engineer at Lockheed Martin we used the following:
- Matlab for prototyping, visualization, and quick rough estimates (image processing library is awesome)
- C/C++ for implementation and productization (combined with ImageMagick and a proprietary Linear Algebra library)
Mix into a large bowl and apply a generous amount of Perl.
Basically, we would start every new problem or algorithm in Matlab and as we would begin to test and reuse these algorithms, they would slowly be converted to C/C++. For products that were implemented on runtime machines (mail sorting machines/image processing-OCR algorithms), we would rewrite in C/C++.
Surface energy is our friend. Dissolve a little soap in the water (to increase surface energy to bulk volume energy ratio) and these little blocks should stick together very well.
Many people (scientists included) under estimate the significance of surface energy in day-to-day life. For example, crack a drinking glass on the counter top and measure the energy that it took to crack it. Now measure the energy it takes to crack it underwater and you will see that it is significantly and noticeable harder to crack glass underwater. Furthermore, the glass will rarely shatter underwatter. You may be able to notice a difference between cracking the glass on a humid day and on a dry day.
"Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, an absolute must-read for anyone who owns a brain) has written an excellent article that shows how Taleb's reasoning runs counter to just about every bit of conventional Wall Street wisdom. If you're interested in the markets, especially derivatives, and how Taleb trounces most of Wall Street's voodoo doctors, this moderately technical interview from 1996 is worth reading too."
I don't agree that his reasoning runs against conventional Wall Street wisdom. In my two years of studies at NYU's mathematics of finance program, not once have we learned anything that runs contrary to Taleb's claims. In fact, we have devoted many lectures and class projects to showing the exact points that are brought up in this review. The problem isn't convincing Wall Street of these ideas, the problem is trying to convince Joe Six-pack-investor of these ideas. I realized just how stubborn my parents are after I tried to explain some of these concepts to them with respect to their personal investments.
Since we've recently (and hopefully) completed a big Boom-Bust cycle, many of the ideas in this book have a large effect on investing. We can't just throw money into anywhere and expect a return. Nor can we throw our money at the best performing investment strategies and expect it to outperform other strategies. Survivor bias is a big part of every type of investment strategy.
Taleb's other book "Dynamic Hedging" is a must read for any quantitative finance specialist. Hopefully his self promotion doesn't ruin the book for me. This isn't a factor in "Dynamic Hedging" because of the more technical/analytical nature.
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I'll 2nd this recommendation.
My Iopener has 800x600 and blackbox is the only way to go.
You're pretty far off of the point. With the exception of the Microsoft handslapping, the judicial system has been pretty fair and removed from Govt politics. The US Govt was set up that way, and of all of the branches of Government, the judicial branch to this day remains mostly neutral and unbiased.
You make it seem like it's a bad thing that some judge doesn't care about Linux or grasp the importance of the GPL. Well, Awptimus, that is the important point. We don't want the judge to care about Linux or bias his decision based upon the importance of the copyright license. We only want him to remain fair and unbiased and to determine how the different aspects of the case fit into the US Copyright Law. The copyright system is currently pretty screwed up, but it's not the job of some individual judge to take matters into his own hands when it comes to the all-important GPL. It's better for the USA if he only does his job to fit the SCO case into existing law. Leave it to law makers to make laws.
Finally, in your last comment, you seem to link the courts to drafting DMCA and to the war in Iraq... both of which the judicial system had NOTHING to do with. I think a course or a book on the US Government would be good for you since you either aren't from the USA or you failed 9th grade Govt.
I can see it now: XL-bot4000 for USA President in 2044!! Hopefully he could avoid scandals involving big oil (& lubricant) corps. "I'd like to thank all my human constituents for putting me in office"
Thanks. This is very helpful!!
Dragging an email from the inbox to the calendar opens up a new appointment with the message as the text and KEEPS the email in the inbox. This is great. But dragging a message from the inbox to my *saved messages* folder is not so great, it moves the message (or if I right click, it copies the message) to this new location. If bill sends me the message and I want to put it in *saved messages* and *bill* folders, I have to copy the message. I don't want 2 copies of the message though (what if I change the priorety of the message? Now I have to change it in two places). I just want to have the same message in two places.
My inbox has about 1050 emails messages, but I can't move them into individual project folders or who sent them folders, because in Outlook, I lose the ability to search in different folders with the same search.
IMO, microsoft needs to revamp the entire way that emails are organized. If they could throw in a relational database that was transparent to the end-user, then email organization would be a lot better. Typically, Apple comes up with this kind of thing and MS steals it, but either way I would like to see it soon.
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That's fine with me, though, since telling time is the ONLY thing that my cell phone is good at (with its eternally poor reception). It has a nice bright color screen (in a place of where extra battery life or an antenna might have gone) that tells what time it is.
Some trails aren't meant to be ridden by mountain bikes. On those trails, mountain bikes should be banned whether it is for safety, environmental, or whatever reasons. Everybody would agree. A mountain bike group working with the park or school would work together to remove mountain bikes from the trail you mention (is this in Ithaca?). The park/school's knee-jerk reaction is typically, ban all mountain bikers (geo-cachers, etc). The mountain bike group needs to say, "hold on, only ban us from this trail, but give us that less popular trail, or allow us to cut an environmentally safe new trail.
My point is that only throuhg early organization and planning will *NEW-ACTIVITY* become accepted as a reasonable use of the great outdoors.
BTW, mountain bike trails that were specifically designed for mountain biking require almost no maintenance for erosion and environmental protection.
Today, after 10 years of creating mountain bike associations and working with parks and elected officials, mountain biking is accepted and popular at most state and national parks.
a similar thing will happen with geocaching. Hopefully the geocachers will get together and convince the parks' officials that geocaching is an accepted form of land use. It looks like htings are already headed this way.
I agree. This whole "Ask Slashdot" is probably covered in the "Troubleshooting" section of the manual.
I haven't had this much fun with a computer in 20 years!
Sure, it's all fun and games until you decide to get cute and use OS X's built in DVORAK support. You pull off all of hte keys, put them back in the DVORAK arrangement and realize that you have to strain your head just to type this slashdot comment. It hurts my head to think so hard. Now I want my QWERTY back, but I broke my 'I' and 'G' key setting up DVORAK so I'm afraid to switch the keys back. I don't want to break any more keys on my $3000 laptop!!
HELP!! please send advice.
This guy has some major disposeable income. He must still be living with mom & dad. Did you notice the guitar & amp, skateboard, Ti Powerbook? I hope that he's setting aside some money for his future.
I don't have a network cord (802.11b), no monitor or keyboard cord (it's a laptop).
Specifically, change the last sentence from:
to...
Don't limit yourself to MP3 players. Think about what a embedded tiny 1.5 GB drive would do for digital cameras, PDA's, you name it!!
I'm not sure how to write it either, but I'm certain that one would start writing it using Objective-C and applescripts.
Originally the Weiderman-Franz law was said to apply to *all* materials, so yes, Diamond was an exception. However, people soon learned about lattice vibrations and disproved^H^H^H^H refined Wiederman-Franz law to only deal with metals.
On inreresting point is that Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of *all* non-superconducting materials. Put that on your OCed CPU and smoke it!
Therefore, "Please try not to ask questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of online research." should be rewritten as, "Please try not to ask or moderate up questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of online research. "
I guess that I should have been more clear. I was play Euchre in the real world (aka Meat-space). I've played online with other people when my teammate and I sat on computers right next to each other. We could see each other's screen.
The same people who considered that to be valid logic when on to become doctors and engineers.
Using Moore's Law, we could probably come up with a virtual reality equivalent to the real word given 10,000 years or so.
- Matlab for prototyping, visualization, and quick rough estimates (image processing library is awesome)
- C/C++ for implementation and productization (combined with ImageMagick and a proprietary Linear Algebra library)
Mix into a large bowl and apply a generous amount of Perl.
Basically, we would start every new problem or algorithm in Matlab and as we would begin to test and reuse these algorithms, they would slowly be converted to C/C++. For products that were implemented on runtime machines (mail sorting machines/image processing-OCR algorithms), we would rewrite in C/C++.
Many people (scientists included) under estimate the significance of surface energy in day-to-day life. For example, crack a drinking glass on the counter top and measure the energy that it took to crack it. Now measure the energy it takes to crack it underwater and you will see that it is significantly and noticeable harder to crack glass underwater. Furthermore, the glass will rarely shatter underwatter. You may be able to notice a difference between cracking the glass on a humid day and on a dry day.
Since we've recently (and hopefully) completed a big Boom-Bust cycle, many of the ideas in this book have a large effect on investing. We can't just throw money into anywhere and expect a return. Nor can we throw our money at the best performing investment strategies and expect it to outperform other strategies. Survivor bias is a big part of every type of investment strategy.
Taleb's other book "Dynamic Hedging" is a must read for any quantitative finance specialist. Hopefully his self promotion doesn't ruin the book for me. This isn't a factor in "Dynamic Hedging" because of the more technical/analytical nature.
Lotteries are for investors who suck at math.