It's not just legal action. The RIAA has time and time again been connected to the mafia and some major organized crime. When this is the case, then it lobbying and court battles aren't the only things you have to worry about. You have to worry about arson, death to loved ones, and your own personal safety.
Probably the only large group with more connections than the RIAA is the MPAA.
Seems to me that they just need to rename it. Instead of "ARM7 Clone", just call it "ARM7 Reverse-engineered". If it wasn't reverse engineered, then it truly shouldn't be posted on the Internet.
You can usually get a response if you start with your local or state representatives.
You can often call, write letters, or even stop by the offices of these local guys. At least, then you will have a feeling of having your message heard.
Of course these only effect state laws, not the national anti-terrorist or SSSSCA crap.
I watched the second plane hit, too. The explosion blew out windows all the way across Broadway on the ground. A wave of people started running from the second explosion, running into cars and poles. Afterwards there were cell phones everywhere in the street.
I work at the far end of Wall St and there are ashes and papers falling everywhere.
I'm sure that there were many deaths. People are falling from the windows.
It's way cooler then the nailgun in quake. Check it out...
The revolutionary RAPTOR technology uses a helium-driven gas gun to accelerate projectiles such as steel nails to 5,000 feet per second. The gas gun uses a free-moving piston within a tube to compress helium from between 30 and 50 pounds per square inch (psi) to 15,000 psi and over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit in a fraction of a second. This rapidly compressed helium drives the projectiles. The 6.5-foot long, 265-pound device can break up six-inch-thick concrete. Researchers are confident that the device can be scaled up for even thicker concrete demolition.
I made no mention about violence. I said that there was no evidence of war which hardly represents violence within a tribe.
The Indian tribes in North America came way after what I was talking about. I was refering to when humans were hunter/gather's before there was any strict social structure. I'm sure that dominant males were violent with each other, but there is no evidence of any wars. When people became to abundant, or food became scarce, then they would split up and travel to where there was more food or less people.
With regards to Understudy's comment, I am unaware of what happened on the islands in the SE seas. Perhaps the lack of land for people to spread out into caused them to become territorial long before other areas of the world.
I guess I did needed to be more specific. I'm still willing to accept that I am wrong, but I think I was refering to a time earlier then you thought.
I don't really know where you get off saying unstable and disjointed, but with regards to mobile and fragemented here's an interesting point...
Back when society was composed of only Hunters and Gatherers we were entirely mobile and fragmented. Yet during the same time periods, archeologists have found no evidence of war, overpopulation, starvation (limited bandwidth, electronic censorship). It wasn't until after we settled down and developed cities that archeologists found evidence of the above mentioned.
Because of this, I claim that a mobile and fragemented society is more stable and more congenial then one which is locked up in position and with roots.
Sorry that I can't back up my facts with more details, but this was a main point of one of the archaelogy classes that I took.
There's a problem with that... Apple uses proprietary licensed stuff in many of the features of Aqua, so it couldn't be open-sourced. I'm sure a watered down version of Aqua could be created, but lacking the PDF windows and openGL programming, it'd be no more then the Aqua theme which I use with gnome.
Read more of the article first... From the news page:
6/2/00 - PUCC and the University announce the purchase of a $10,000,000 IBM SP/2 (272 processors) for general purpose scientific computing. It will complement (nicely) the smaller (?32? node) SP/2 they've already got. This comes after a long period where PUCC had little to offer in BIG computing. "Hey PUCC! Wanna race? Our MIPS/$ versus yours?" We look forward to running some jobs over there. It should be in production before the start of the school year in August 2000.
I think that the tide still says that the power is in the almighty dollar$$$$
As a result, the design of the cluster was done such that the minimum amount of traffic would appear on the network that connects all the nodes to the main systems as that clearly is the critical resource in this cluster. The compute nodes each had three network cards placed in them and were organized into a matrix of 5x5. The network cards then were used for rows, columns and everyone. The machines are named: A1, A2... E4, E5. The letter being the column and the number being the row. Because of the way the mechanical part of ACME was constructed, the machines are being built by column starting with E and working backwards toward A.
Dope! Answered my own question. Should have read ALL the pages first.
If anyone should Be on a Soapbox bragging about innovative OSes, it should Be someone who's talking about a high-caliBer OS. Behold the one true Multimedia Befitting OS. Benchmarking shows that this OS Belongs among the Best OSes in performance. Of course, I'm speaking on Behalf of... darn I forgot!
Of course, the company essentially took a briBe by ditching their desktop platform. Now we have to scriBe on a emBedded version if we even want to Begin to use this OS.
(Please don't laBel me a BeOS fan, I just thought this was funny;-) It's amazing what: 'grep be/usr/dict/linux.words' will do!
As far as I'm concerned, the parts of Unix that Linux copies are for the most part, good.
I do think that Microsoft has come a long way with there line of products. This is a product of having a huge market share and constantly increasing it by adding new features and expanding into new markets. It's easy for large corporations to spend money making their products better (or at least making them look better).
Now it is time for Linux to show the power of a huge base of developers. Since the '90s Linux has had the power of many programmers putting there not nessecarily marketing skills into a product that they like and use.
It is apparent that Microsoft has put a lot of money into products when you look at what they did/do. They started with some existing technology and continuously morphed it with new technology. With lot's of money/market share they were willing to add new features without always ensuring that the existing features were refined well. Having a large developer population on the other hand means that you don't necessarily have as much capital, i.e. you're not as willing to invest in new 'features'. Concentration is focused on making things work smoothly. Ideas are not purchased, they are discovered/invented. Sure, Linux is almost Unix, but that sure was a good place to start.
It'll be great to see where the current Linux momentum takes us. Will there be a large new generation of coders, all willing to contribute to the open-source movement?
Don't forget that the average slashdot reader may like the extra math. I am interested in this book because of all the math that you and the reviewer didn't care for.
When they reviewed the Linux Source Code Commentary book, nobody said, "There's too much code in this book." Mathematics is the fundamental code of the universe, and IMHO there can never be too much of a reference to it. I am a big Linux fan, but the Math code that controls the universe is 10^6 times more elegant and beautiful.
Some good Math references... Lang, Algebra Gleick, Chaos Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics Churchill and Brown, Complex Variables and Applications Andrews, Number Theory
IANAP, but I had heard that certain scientists had predicted that Blackholes could lose mass/shrink/dissappear due to microwave emissions.
I guess now astrophysicists can accept that they don't shrink after all. They get HUGE!
I wonder if the new microwaves that travel 300x the speed of light can pass beyond the event horizon of a black hole? Since they could escape the black hole to begin with, I guess this is possible.
I used the beta version for little over a month before weird stuff started happening. One day I logged on and noticed that my computer was only recognizing 64 MB, I couldn't get ftpd working ever again, and mpg123 (via gqmpeg) failed to ever work again.
Instead of solving these three 'minor' problems, I just said, "screw the beta-version!" and went with the newest RedHat. I've always been partial to gnome anyway and installing a new distro is easier then figuring what was wrong with all that stuff.
I know that both RedHat and Mandrake offer gnome and KDE, but you gotta stick with your roots man. ...and your roots say... gnome=RedHat KDE=mandrake
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It has many of the features that you asked about.
Embrace and extend.
That's the way that MS would like it.
Probably the only large group with more connections than the RIAA is the MPAA.
Seems to me that they just need to rename it. Instead of "ARM7 Clone", just call it "ARM7 Reverse-engineered". If it wasn't reverse engineered, then it truly shouldn't be posted on the Internet.
And what a little amount of time it was!!
...this is just the beginning.
You can often call, write letters, or even stop by the offices of these local guys. At least, then you will have a feeling of having your message heard.
Of course these only effect state laws, not the national anti-terrorist or SSSSCA crap.
I work at the far end of Wall St and there are ashes and papers falling everywhere.
I'm sure that there were many deaths. People are falling from the windows.
This is all further evidence why we should quite speaking any lanuage that is based upon a dead language!
No more English, Latin, Russian, Chinese!
The whole world should communicate with Perl!
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That'd be more of a BFRG (Big Fscking Rail Gun)
I made no mention about violence. I said that there was no evidence of war which hardly represents violence within a tribe.
The Indian tribes in North America came way after what I was talking about. I was refering to when humans were hunter/gather's before there was any strict social structure. I'm sure that dominant males were violent with each other, but there is no evidence of any wars. When people became to abundant, or food became scarce, then they would split up and travel to where there was more food or less people.
With regards to Understudy's comment, I am unaware of what happened on the islands in the SE seas. Perhaps the lack of land for people to spread out into caused them to become territorial long before other areas of the world.
I guess I did needed to be more specific. I'm still willing to accept that I am wrong, but I think I was refering to a time earlier then you thought.
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I don't really know where you get off saying unstable and disjointed, but with regards to mobile and fragemented here's an interesting point...
Back when society was composed of only Hunters and Gatherers we were entirely mobile and fragmented. Yet during the same time periods, archeologists have found no evidence of war, overpopulation, starvation (limited bandwidth, electronic censorship). It wasn't until after we settled down and developed cities that archeologists found evidence of the above mentioned.
Because of this, I claim that a mobile and fragemented society is more stable and more congenial then one which is locked up in position and with roots.
Sorry that I can't back up my facts with more details, but this was a main point of one of the archaelogy classes that I took.
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That's why I stock up on plenty of the drug grenades when I'm a medic in Quake 3, TF3.
The swerving/wavy screen always make me feel motion sick, so I know it screws with my opponent real good!!!
There's a problem with that...
Apple uses proprietary licensed stuff in many of the features of Aqua, so it couldn't be open-sourced. I'm sure a watered down version of Aqua could be created, but lacking the PDF windows and openGL programming, it'd be no more then the Aqua theme which I use with gnome.
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Read more of the article first...
From the news page: I think that the tide still says that the power is in the almighty dollar$$$$
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Why in the hell did they buy 107 network cards for a 16 node cluster?
Look at the budget! They bought 107 network cards! Now that's a lot of bandwidth.
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Yeah, there's a relationship. We always want/need more then we can afford. It all started with credit cards. Leasing things is another type of credit.
Of course, my explanation doesn't explain information (software, music, movies, data) very well, but we already feel comfortable with the idea.
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Get off your stupid soapbox about amiga!
;-) /usr/dict/linux.words' will do!
If anyone should Be on a Soapbox bragging about innovative OSes, it should Be someone who's talking about a high-caliBer OS. Behold the one true Multimedia Befitting OS. Benchmarking shows that this OS Belongs among the Best OSes in performance. Of course, I'm speaking on Behalf of...
darn I forgot!
Of course, the company essentially took a briBe by ditching their desktop platform. Now we have to scriBe on a emBedded version if we even want to Begin to use this OS.
(Please don't laBel me a BeOS fan, I just thought this was funny
It's amazing what: 'grep be
If it aint broke, then don't fix it!
As far as I'm concerned, the parts of Unix that Linux copies are for the most part, good.
I do think that Microsoft has come a long way with there line of products. This is a product of having a huge market share and constantly increasing it by adding new features and expanding into new markets. It's easy for large corporations to spend money making their products better (or at least making them look better).
Now it is time for Linux to show the power of a huge base of developers. Since the '90s Linux has had the power of many programmers putting there not nessecarily marketing skills into a product that they like and use.
It is apparent that Microsoft has put a lot of money into products when you look at what they did/do. They started with some existing technology and continuously morphed it with new technology. With lot's of money/market share they were willing to add new features without always ensuring that the existing features were refined well. Having a large developer population on the other hand means that you don't necessarily have as much capital, i.e. you're not as willing to invest in new 'features'. Concentration is focused on making things work smoothly. Ideas are not purchased, they are discovered/invented. Sure, Linux is almost Unix, but that sure was a good place to start.
It'll be great to see where the current Linux momentum takes us. Will there be a large new generation of coders, all willing to contribute to the open-source movement?
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Don't forget that the average slashdot reader may like the extra math. I am interested in this book because of all the math that you and the reviewer didn't care for.
When they reviewed the Linux Source Code Commentary book, nobody said, "There's too much code in this book." Mathematics is the fundamental code of the universe, and IMHO there can never be too much of a reference to it. I am a big Linux fan, but the Math code that controls the universe is 10^6 times more elegant and beautiful.
Some good Math references...
Lang, Algebra
Gleick, Chaos
Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
Churchill and Brown, Complex Variables and Applications
Andrews, Number Theory
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IANAP, but I had heard that certain scientists had predicted that Blackholes could lose mass/shrink/dissappear due to microwave emissions.
/. physicists. --
I guess now astrophysicists can accept that they don't shrink after all. They get HUGE!
I wonder if the new microwaves that travel 300x the speed of light can pass beyond the event horizon of a black hole? Since they could escape the black hole to begin with, I guess this is possible.
Please enlighten me Oh great
I used the beta version for little over a month before weird stuff started happening. One day I logged on and noticed that my computer was only recognizing 64 MB, I couldn't get ftpd working ever again, and mpg123 (via gqmpeg) failed to ever work again.
...and your roots say...
Instead of solving these three 'minor' problems, I just said, "screw the beta-version!" and went with the newest RedHat. I've always been partial to gnome anyway and installing a new distro is easier then figuring what was wrong with all that stuff.
I know that both RedHat and Mandrake offer gnome and KDE, but you gotta stick with your roots man.
gnome=RedHat
KDE=mandrake
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I hope that the implentation by loki of OpenAL is better then it is for windows. I can't even use it on quake3, it drops the fps by 30-40.
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