Indeed, 187 different nanobot designs,all planning to add the "stop" command "sometime next spring":)
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I think this problem is actually worse than some people here seem to believe, not because it kills anybody to have the semi-mythical 179 text editors, but because it tends to build on itself.
Say you want a program that does 'x' and you go out looking and find 3 at 0.0.1alpha that do 'x/10' and crash or don't even compile on your machine. Which do you choose to work on? Will the maintainer accept or even respond to your patches? Will the project wither away despite your attempt to help? Faced with the prospect of forking the code or giving up on it, a lot of people probably just decide to start their own. Now there are 15 that do varying degrees of 'x'!
Certainly the richest x% pay more in taxes than the rest of the population, but that is because they hold x^n% of the wealth. It is ABSOLUTELY FAIR that if we decide to tax the wealth of the population that the amount of the taxation any one person experiences should be proportional to the amount of wealth that passes through their hands.
RMS and Bill Joy rely greatly on the security that they enjoy not being overrun by hungry poor people, do they not?
I don't know, but whatever it was, it probably has to do with pockets. My set of keys (3 linked rings, each with keys) often becomes inextricably tangled in such a way in my pocket.
The LCD doesn't even come into it. Only Claim 1 mentions a "screen", and that refers to a different sort of screen protector and is also struck out. All the other claims speak of a "major surface portion" which clearly includes the TV remote I bought before 1990 that had such a "protector" on it.
It is decreed that all copyrights held on Softwares not sold as new in their original form for the span of 10 years previous to this Declaration be Null and Void. That they be reverted to the Care and Keeping of the Peoples of this Realm. That these works may Prosper and find an environment in which to Execute, it is further declared that computer technologies and operating systems also no longer in Retail Abundance may be emulated, cloned, and reproduced by any and all who are so skilled.
To commemorate this Decree, and to provide for the Joy and Entertainment of our Peoples, it is also declared that a Frogger(tm) competition be held in the Square of each Town of our Realm on each Anniversary of this Day henceforth.
From His Majesty SmokeSerpent I, Emperor of Abandonware, Protector of ROM Havens, Wherever they may Rest
(With due Reverence and Obediance to Norton I formerly of the Great City of San Francisco.)
How would a world work where everyone made the same "good life decisions" as you have. Who would be the waitress?
If someone has to be the waitress, then being a waitress needs to be a job with which a person can support themselves. Either she must be paid more, increasing your Restaurant costs, or she must recieve some form of additional support from society.
I do not claim that the latter is the better choice, I simply postulate that in either case, it would be the people with a higher standard of living who would support this hypothetical waitress, either through higher taxation or through higher "lifestyle costs".
You have imagined a world where your taxes are decreased, and the waitress gets no asssistance (and probably pays the same tax rate as yourself, just to be "fair"), yet would you consider it reasonable to pay 2-3 times as much for a meal at a restaurant?
Or, you have imagined a world where there are no waitresses. Perhaps it will be your manservant who feeds you in this scenario.
Well, if we're getting picky, its REALLY more likely to be R29T5Y67U4FP9763D2 and C344H2RT559P0, since we know R2D2 is an "R2 unit". Speaking of which, if a bunch of astrodroids are R2 units, why is R2D2's nickname "R2"?
R2D2 and C3P0 (who first of all must really be named R2D29T5Y67U4FP9763 and C3P044H2RT559 since droids scurry throughout the Empire like cockroaches) are blown up in the escape pod in Ep. IV since the Emperial Starfleet has no reason to conserve one blaster shot after letting loose like a John Woo film in the first 5 minutes.
There should be a federal tax on money paid to accountants, like a sales tax. Then companies would have to pay at least some tax when they hire a kajillion high-priced accountants to fiddle the books to negate their income tax obligations.
Of course we will have one generic distribution, because developers like say, the GCC Steering Comittee, will continue to browbeat companies into packaging only their latest and greatest (but stable) releases.
what percentage of software included in Redhat actually is an "official release version?" I can understand not wanting people to think your software is crap because someone else is distributing a bad version of it, but what a great opportunity to get eyeballs to shallow your bugs!
Ah, now I know that my space training facility is even more accurate than I thought. The fungal blooms creeping in the corners and shadows are now a welcome addition to my home, rather than a hated nuisance. I may not have constant high levels of gamma radiation, but I watch a lot of TV, and run the microwave nearly 24/7.
Extropians and former Art Bell listeners believe in a singularity beyond which everythign will change, in the year 2020 or therebouts
Therefore people who believe that there will be progress in computers or that there will ever be machine intelligence are nutty
I am a VR weenie who got overly excited about polygons floating in simulated 3-d space and thought everyone else would like to jerk off in a simulated cyber environment like me
Therefore I know what I'm talking about with these dern computers that betrayed my fantasies
BT is crazy if they think that they can patent hippolugging. My great grandfather invented hippolugging and placed it in the public domain in the late 1800's. Here is an extract from his journal, which was published by the Natural Geogrampa Society (emphasis added)...
"Having felled the great beast, we were faced with a perplexing dilemna, how to bring it henceforth to the base camp for shipment to the Natural History Museum. Conversing feverishly with the porters in their primitive tongue, we were eventually able to work out a solution. Two largish trees were cut and stripped, their bark used to construct a sort of sling to place beneath the monstrous creature. A net was employed to support this sling, and attached to the long posts by some stout hemp cord. Planting the end of the posts a short distance ahead of the animal, we contrived to use their length as a lever to LUG THE BULL HIPPO FORWARD some 6 or 7 metres at a time."
You can't have it recycled, as this would constitute "dissasembly" of the:Cue:Cat and would allow their precious intellectual property vapors to be released, cheapening their 5-year-in-development technologies.
Mega-corporations like AOL and Time-Warner have only gotten as big as they have because of government interference.
Imagine a world without local cable and telephone monopolies. In such a world, potential rivals to Time-Warner and AOL could have been much more creative and we would likely have more competition today. Instead, by giving these types of corporations a helping hand, government has a responsibility to protect us if it turned out to be too much of a boost-up.
I would like to live in a world with less government interference, but they can start but interfering less with the little guys, instead of interfering less with the titans.
You can't allow mad scientists to build monsters out of hanged criminals and then ban torches and pitchforks.
Why hire a $.05 lawyer to protect you by writing a usage policy on the cheap when you are worried about being attacked by a rabid pack of $120K lawyers?
As for copyright, you just need a simple statement on your part stating what happens to the copyright on submissions, and the sense to follow it.
Anything you do in an attempt to head off attack by corporations or school boards will likely increase their fervor when they do strike as you will be giving the impression of someone ready for a fight. The first letter you recieve may be an actual legally signifigant cease-and-desist instead of vague lawyerly threats.
/. does not get/.ed every day. To be/.ed is to recieve a sudden transitory increase in site traffic, exceeding the normal peak load. (Due to a bunch of lemmings blindly clicking every link posted on/.) Go play QuakeIII or finish your Algebra homework.
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Indeed, 187 different nanobot designs,all planning to add the "stop" command "sometime next spring" :)
I think this problem is actually worse than some people here seem to believe, not because it kills anybody to have the semi-mythical 179 text editors, but because it tends to build on itself.
Say you want a program that does 'x' and you go out looking and find 3 at 0.0.1alpha that do 'x/10' and crash or don't even compile on your machine. Which do you choose to work on? Will the maintainer accept or even respond to your patches? Will the project wither away despite your attempt to help? Faced with the prospect of forking the code or giving up on it, a lot of people probably just decide to start their own. Now there are 15 that do varying degrees of 'x'!
Certainly the richest x% pay more in taxes than the rest of the population, but that is because they hold x^n% of the wealth. It is ABSOLUTELY FAIR that if we decide to tax the wealth of the population that the amount of the taxation any one person experiences should be proportional to the amount of wealth that passes through their hands.
RMS and Bill Joy rely greatly on the security that they enjoy not being overrun by hungry poor people, do they not?
No wonder I'm always lost.
I think rather than "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" he meant "Star Trek: The Pieceofshit Movie.
I don't know, but whatever it was, it probably has to do with pockets. My set of keys (3 linked rings, each with keys) often becomes inextricably tangled in such a way in my pocket.
The LCD doesn't even come into it. Only Claim 1 mentions a "screen", and that refers to a different sort of screen protector and is also struck out. All the other claims speak of a "major surface portion" which clearly includes the TV remote I bought before 1990 that had such a "protector" on it.
It is decreed that all copyrights held on Softwares not sold as new in their original form for the span of 10 years previous to this Declaration be Null and Void. That they be reverted to the Care and Keeping of the Peoples of this Realm. That these works may Prosper and find an environment in which to Execute, it is further declared that computer technologies and operating systems also no longer in Retail Abundance may be emulated, cloned, and reproduced by any and all who are so skilled.
To commemorate this Decree, and to provide for the Joy and Entertainment of our Peoples, it is also declared that a Frogger(tm) competition be held in the Square of each Town of our Realm on each Anniversary of this Day henceforth.
From His Majesty SmokeSerpent I, Emperor of Abandonware, Protector of ROM Havens, Wherever they may Rest
(With due Reverence and Obediance to Norton I formerly of the Great City of San Francisco.)
How would a world work where everyone made the same "good life decisions" as you have. Who would be the waitress?
If someone has to be the waitress, then being a waitress needs to be a job with which a person can support themselves. Either she must be paid more, increasing your Restaurant costs, or she must recieve some form of additional support from society.
I do not claim that the latter is the better choice, I simply postulate that in either case, it would be the people with a higher standard of living who would support this hypothetical waitress, either through higher taxation or through higher "lifestyle costs".
You have imagined a world where your taxes are decreased, and the waitress gets no asssistance (and probably pays the same tax rate as yourself, just to be "fair"), yet would you consider it reasonable to pay 2-3 times as much for a meal at a restaurant?
Or, you have imagined a world where there are no waitresses. Perhaps it will be your manservant who feeds you in this scenario.
Well, if we're getting picky, its REALLY more likely to be R29T5Y67U4FP9763D2 and C344H2RT559P0, since we know R2D2 is an "R2 unit". Speaking of which, if a bunch of astrodroids are R2 units, why is R2D2's nickname "R2"?
R2D2 and C3P0 (who first of all must really be named R2D29T5Y67U4FP9763 and C3P044H2RT559 since droids scurry throughout the Empire like cockroaches) are blown up in the escape pod in Ep. IV since the Emperial Starfleet has no reason to conserve one blaster shot after letting loose like a John Woo film in the first 5 minutes.
"Give a hoot, please pollute"
There should be a federal tax on money paid to accountants, like a sales tax. Then companies would have to pay at least some tax when they hire a kajillion high-priced accountants to fiddle the books to negate their income tax obligations.
Of course we will have one generic distribution, because developers like say, the GCC Steering Comittee, will continue to browbeat companies into packaging only their latest and greatest (but stable) releases.
what percentage of software included in Redhat actually is an "official release version?" I can understand not wanting people to think your software is crap because someone else is distributing a bad version of it, but what a great opportunity to get eyeballs to shallow your bugs!
Ah, now I know that my space training facility is even more accurate than I thought. The fungal blooms creeping in the corners and shadows are now a welcome addition to my home, rather than a hated nuisance. I may not have constant high levels of gamma radiation, but I watch a lot of TV, and run the microwave nearly 24/7.
BT is crazy if they think that they can patent hippolugging. My great grandfather invented hippolugging and placed it in the public domain in the late 1800's. Here is an extract from his journal, which was published by the Natural Geogrampa Society (emphasis added)...
You can't have it recycled, as this would constitute "dissasembly" of the :Cue:Cat and would allow their precious intellectual property vapors to be released, cheapening their 5-year-in-development technologies.
It's already been pointed out that this post is factually incorrect. Why after 5 hours has it not been modded down?
Mega-corporations like AOL and Time-Warner have only gotten as big as they have because of government interference.
Imagine a world without local cable and telephone monopolies. In such a world, potential rivals to Time-Warner and AOL could have been much more creative and we would likely have more competition today. Instead, by giving these types of corporations a helping hand, government has a responsibility to protect us if it turned out to be too much of a boost-up.
I would like to live in a world with less government interference, but they can start but interfering less with the little guys, instead of interfering less with the titans.
You can't allow mad scientists to build monsters out of hanged criminals and then ban torches and pitchforks.
Why hire a $.05 lawyer to protect you by writing a usage policy on the cheap when you are worried about being attacked by a rabid pack of $120K lawyers?
As for copyright, you just need a simple statement on your part stating what happens to the copyright on submissions, and the sense to follow it.
Anything you do in an attempt to head off attack by corporations or school boards will likely increase their fervor when they do strike as you will be giving the impression of someone ready for a fight. The first letter you recieve may be an actual legally signifigant cease-and-desist instead of vague lawyerly threats.
/. does not get /.ed every day. To be /.ed is to recieve a sudden transitory increase in site traffic, exceeding the normal peak load. (Due to a bunch of lemmings blindly clicking every link posted on /.) Go play QuakeIII or finish your Algebra homework.