I kept wondering why, why why why, that marines in the year 2195 didn't have flashlights standard on their helmets.... or why for that matter our hero in this game didn't have a helmet.
He did have a flashlight on his helmet. His real goal throughout the whole game has been to find his helmet!
To (mis)quote Isaac Asimov: "One is a very strange number and ought not to exist".
If the universe is inimical to life then we should not exist. If it is life-capable, then chances are that there are other life-filled worlds out there (possibly even life-filled stars). If there were 'only' a few millions such worlds, that would still only leave at most a couple such planets in our own galaxy. There would have to be billions of life-bearing planets for us to have a good probability of having (much less finding) a second one in our galaxy.
We are (for obvious reasons) the first life that we've found in this universe. The probability of being the only is low.
As for the fact that most of the planets we've found so far being gas giants close to their stars... well duh! We're mostly finding them as a result of things like star transits, and wobble effects. Earth has a near-zero effect on the wobble of the sun (too small). Jupiter is too far out -- if you consider the probability of Jupiter being observerved transiting the sun from some random orientation, that's near zero.
It's the legal bully principle. If the threat to sue is enough to convince someone to hand over the domain name (or anything else you want) then you win. At that point, actual legal rights have nothing to do with it.
It's like when a pair of cops walk up and 'asks permission' to search you. They really are asking permission, but they do it in a way that presumes compliance. The fact that you have the constitunal right to say 'no' doesen't come into play if you say "yeah, go ahead".
The model III was touted as a home/business model. It started at either 16 or 32K with no floppy disk.
The Model II was a massive business-oriented machine. it started with either 32 or 64K of RAM and an 8" floppy disk (capable of holding 512K single sided and (later) 1Meg double sided vs. 360K for the (later) double-sided 5.25" floppies that were optional on the Model III.).
As for the game -- yeah, I was told that I could have sold it, but I really didn't believe that until I saw some of the other garbage that was being sold commercially. By then, I was having a hard time finding the audio casette that I'd stored the program on.
I was told the same thing
Although it's posible that IBM transferred some SVr4 code into AIX, chances are that it's just small tidbits, not huge tracts. Presuming that IBM didn't transfer any system V code whatsoever into Linux, it doesn't matter what System Vr4 code is in AIX.
I also consider it rather likely that IBM stopped negotiating with SCO about the r4 code when it bacame clear that it would be easier and cheaper to just rewrite the changed code from scratch.
Until and unless I see more from SCO than random mutterings, I'm not going to think too much about it. I don't have any stock to short.
The original TRS80 Model 1 Level2 had 16K of memory and cost about $2000.
The first program I did for took a simple moon lander program (where you entered the brun for the next second) and changed it into a real-time display.
(I had to read the keyboard by peeks and pokes, and build the number input the hard way.) I used double-sized characters to fill the screen with data, and I think I even had a visual indicator of distance to the ground, and did the work to make sure that you didn't bounce off the ground. It was a couple of weeks work, and I was told I could have sold it. I lost my tape a long time ago.
This box had 24Meg of RAM and ran at roughly 1 MIPS in 1979. I Can't remember just how much hard disk space it had (I think it was well over 200Megabytes), but Don't believe it was included in the price tag.
It could handle up to about 300 simultaneous users before it started to slow down real noticably, and it cost about $6Million Dollars.
Ran Microsoft Xenix (which was later sold to (old) SCO).
It had a 68000 and a Z-80. When running as a Unix box, the Z80 functioned as an I/O processor. When runing as a Radio Shack Model II, the 68000 was essentially idle
The first box to land in Edmonton ran Xenix/Unix on 256KB of ram, and an 9MB hard disk. I don't remember how much the box cost but the (14" platter) Hard Disk was about $10K.
I actually managed to get Xenix, vi and nroff running off of one 1.2MB (12") floppy disk (including a swap partition) with the second floppy disk being used for user data.
Which license causes more worry depends on which side of the development fence you're on. If you're a developer, then the BSD license allows you to close-source your code and, possibly, lock in customers. Some people see this as A Good Thing(tm).
If you're a non-developing client, then the BSD license allows the developer to close-source their code and, possibly, lock you in as a customer. Some people see this as A Bad Thing(tm).
the GPL means that the developer can't hold you completely hostage because, if worst comes to worst, you can always take the source code and find another developer. For a developer, it means that the competition can't take your code, change it, and lock you out of the (ultimate) result of your own work.
For the greedy developer, it can be something of a double-edged sword.
1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite,
much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit,
..... Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
All those hard working Indians are less apt to have bugs in their software!
And who cares -- Nobody will ever see the bugs and trojans that they inject anyways.
That's the whole purpose of Closed Source.
SOMEBODY needs to file a notice of objection
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I live in the wrong country so I don't think that I can do it. Someone like Red Hat would do nicely (especially if the
The Open Group group pitched in).
According to http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml, you need 15mA to lose muscle control. Assuming the resistance between my hands is about 600Kohms (which it is), I would need 9000 volts to achieve this.
It's a bit different if you've managed to break skin (e.g. wire thru finger). There are stories of people who've managed to kill themselves with two 9V batteries and a couple of needles.
It turns out to be a lot easier to kill yourself with DC than AC. A long jolt of DC across your heart will cause it to freeze up. The only way to get it going again is essentially a short jolt (preferrably of AC).
AC will keep your heart jerking, so in that case, fibrilation isn't as likely. My understanding is that the way electric chairs work is that they essentially cook you.
BTW: the reason why electric chairs use AC instead of DC is that Thomas Edison had a falling out with Telsa. Telsa pushed AC for power distribution, but Edison thought DC was the way to go. Edison had more money. Edison
ordered the electric chair to be invented to make the public think that AC was more dangerous. Whether or not it takes a lot more work to reliably kill someone with AC than with DC, that didn't stop Edison from making AC the standard for executions.
If Woody really put that on his copyright notices, then the people threatening JibJab are gonna have one hell of a time making their threats stick in a court of law.
I'd read his notes as an implict (explicit?) license.
Then, of course, there's the whole satire/parody thing.
I got a frantic IM from an acquaintence the other day. Someone who didn't like her website had hacked and trashed it. The following is an accurate log of the first part of the session: (names have been changed to protect the, uhm, innocent).
..... (16:13:55) hackeduser25: omg i cant belive they did this to me (16:14:35) stephen samuel: precisely what did they do?? All I saw was on the guest log page. (16:14:53) hackeduser25: they put porn on it and changed everything around (16:15:19) hackeduser25: im gonna havet to do it all over again it took me months and now i must re-type it all (16:15:23) stephen samuel: Do you have a backup copy at home? (16:15:29) hackeduser25: im gonna have a panic attack...no (16:16:05) stephen samuel: It's possible that (most of) the original stuff is still there. (16:16:18) hackeduser25: i know the site is frozen (16:16:35) stephen samuel: How do you do updates?? (16:16:49) hackeduser25: easily but i cant access my account!!!!! (16:16:52) hackeduser25: cuz they changed it all (16:17:30) stephen samuel: You may want to get to the people who host the site and ask them to reset it back to what it was yesterday... (at least the password). (16:19:26) stephen samuel: In the meantime, I'd suggest that you come up with a password that's not easily guessable. (16:19:48) stephen samuel: Did you have an 'easily guessable' password? (16:20:19) hackeduser25: well it was password. (16:20:47) stephen samuel: That explains why you got slimed... It's the first password that a hacker would try. (16:21:13) hackeduser25: omg great (16:21:15) stephen samuel: Literaly -- it's the absolute MOST used password by newbies. (16:21:27) hackeduser25: oh well great then (16:21:49) stephen samuel: justasec.. I'm looking for my file on how to create relatively secure passwords.... (16:22:13) hackeduser25: k (16:24:24) stephen samuel:
http://www.bcgreen.com/solaris/passwords.html .....
The above session is now tacked on as a warning at the end of the referenced web page.
Like Some Guy I know says: Get the name right... Calling that act a patriot is like calling Bennedict Arnold a good guy. (OK: he didn't quite put it that way).
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He did have a flashlight on his helmet. His real goal throughout the whole game has been to find his helmet!
if they launch from Wreck Beach they should be able to safe a couple of (possibly critical) ounces of takeof weight.
If the universe is inimical to life then we should not exist. If it is life-capable, then chances are that there are other life-filled worlds out there (possibly even life-filled stars). If there were 'only' a few millions such worlds, that would still only leave at most a couple such planets in our own galaxy. There would have to be billions of life-bearing planets for us to have a good probability of having (much less finding) a second one in our galaxy.
We are (for obvious reasons) the first life that we've found in this universe. The probability of being the only is low.
As for the fact that most of the planets we've found so far being gas giants close to their stars ... well duh! We're mostly finding them as a result of things like star transits, and wobble effects. Earth has a near-zero effect on the wobble of the sun (too small). Jupiter is too far out -- if you consider the probability of Jupiter being observerved transiting the sun from some random orientation, that's near zero.
It's like when a pair of cops walk up and 'asks permission' to search you. They really are asking permission, but they do it in a way that presumes compliance. The fact that you have the constitunal right to say 'no' doesen't come into play if you say "yeah, go ahead".
The Model II was a massive business-oriented machine. it started with either 32 or 64K of RAM and an 8" floppy disk (capable of holding 512K single sided and (later) 1Meg double sided vs. 360K for the (later) double-sided 5.25" floppies that were optional on the Model III.).
As for the game -- yeah, I was told that I could have sold it, but I really didn't believe that until I saw some of the other garbage that was being sold commercially. By then, I was having a hard time finding the audio casette that I'd stored the program on. I was told the same thing
It's 'news' that effectively encourages people to go look at a competing network. For the CNN beancounters, this is most certainly not worthy news.
I also consider it rather likely that IBM stopped negotiating with SCO about the r4 code when it bacame clear that it would be easier and cheaper to just rewrite the changed code from scratch.
Until and unless I see more from SCO than random mutterings, I'm not going to think too much about it. I don't have any stock to short.
The original TRS80 Model 1 Level2 had 16K of memory and cost about $2000.
The first program I did for took a simple moon lander program (where you entered the brun for the next second) and changed it into a real-time display.
(I had to read the keyboard by peeks and pokes, and build the number input the hard way.) I used double-sized characters to fill the screen with data, and I think I even had a visual indicator of distance to the ground, and did the work to make sure that you didn't bounce off the ground. It was a couple of weeks work, and I was told I could have sold it. I lost my tape a long time ago.
It could handle up to about 300 simultaneous users before it started to slow down real noticably, and it cost about $6Million Dollars.
It had a 68000 and a Z-80. When running as a Unix box, the Z80 functioned as an I/O processor. When runing as a Radio Shack Model II, the 68000 was essentially idle
The first box to land in Edmonton ran Xenix/Unix on 256KB of ram, and an 9MB hard disk. I don't remember how much the box cost but the (14" platter) Hard Disk was about $10K.I actually managed to get Xenix, vi and nroff running off of one 1.2MB (12") floppy disk (including a swap partition) with the second floppy disk being used for user data.
Just imagine:
You can have a Beowulf Cluster of Those(tm) running on a single CPU!
When I first heard the Americanized version, I though it was a pale imitation of the Canadian version.
Hopefully these people aren't going to turn around and sue all of Canada next.
If you're a non-developing client, then the BSD license allows the developer to close-source their code and, possibly, lock you in as a customer. Some people see this as A Bad Thing(tm).
the GPL means that the developer can't hold you completely hostage because, if worst comes to worst, you can always take the source code and find another developer. For a developer, it means that the competition can't take your code, change it, and lock you out of the (ultimate) result of your own work. For the greedy developer, it can be something of a double-edged sword.
Besides.. the original elf was:
Omigod! Its' a friggin TriCorder and communicator in one package... Captin! It's brilliant!
And who cares -- Nobody will ever see the bugs and trojans that they inject anyways.
That's the whole purpose of Closed Source.
I live in the wrong country so I don't think that I can do it. Someone like Red Hat would do nicely (especially if the The Open Group group pitched in).
When you grab a bunch of grapes, write "grapes 2384" and tie that to the grapes. Makes life easy when you get to the checkout.
If they don't have bulk produce tags, then drop by an electronics store (e.g. Radio Shack) and get some wire labels.
It's a bit different if you've managed to break skin (e.g. wire thru finger). There are stories of people who've managed to kill themselves with two 9V batteries and a couple of needles.
It turns out to be a lot easier to kill yourself with DC than AC. A long jolt of DC across your heart will cause it to freeze up. The only way to get it going again is essentially a short jolt (preferrably of AC).
AC will keep your heart jerking, so in that case, fibrilation isn't as likely. My understanding is that the way electric chairs work is that they essentially cook you.
BTW: the reason why electric chairs use AC instead of DC is that Thomas Edison had a falling out with Telsa. Telsa pushed AC for power distribution, but Edison thought DC was the way to go. Edison had more money. Edison ordered the electric chair to be invented to make the public think that AC was more dangerous. Whether or not it takes a lot more work to reliably kill someone with AC than with DC, that didn't stop Edison from making AC the standard for executions.
It can do realtime hologram movies, and pop the popcorn while you're watching it.
A quick reference to his copyright notice...
And another -- than includes a reference to him being blacklisted for suspected communism.. (I mean, giving away your music -- how communistic can you get?)
I'd read his notes as an implict (explicit?) license.
Then, of course, there's the whole satire/parody thing.
(16:13:55) hackeduser25: omg i cant belive they did this to me
(16:14:35) stephen samuel: precisely what did they do?? All I saw was on the guest log page.
(16:14:53) hackeduser25: they put porn on it and changed everything around
(16:15:19) hackeduser25: im gonna havet to do it all over again it took me months and now i must re-type it all
(16:15:23) stephen samuel: Do you have a backup copy at home?
(16:15:29) hackeduser25: im gonna have a panic attack...no
(16:16:05) stephen samuel: It's possible that (most of) the original stuff is still there.
(16:16:18) hackeduser25: i know the site is frozen
(16:16:35) stephen samuel: How do you do updates??
(16:16:49) hackeduser25: easily but i cant access my account!!!!!
(16:16:52) hackeduser25: cuz they changed it all
(16:17:30) stephen samuel: You may want to get to the people who host the site and ask them to reset it back to what it was yesterday... (at least the password).
(16:19:26) stephen samuel: In the meantime, I'd suggest that you come up with a password that's not easily guessable.
(16:19:48) stephen samuel: Did you have an 'easily guessable' password?
(16:20:19) hackeduser25: well it was password.
(16:20:47) stephen samuel: That explains why you got slimed... It's the first password that a hacker would try.
(16:21:13) hackeduser25: omg great
(16:21:15) stephen samuel: Literaly -- it's the absolute MOST used password by newbies.
(16:21:27) hackeduser25: oh well great then
(16:21:49) stephen samuel: justasec.. I'm looking for my file on how to create relatively secure passwords....
(16:22:13) hackeduser25: k
(16:24:24) stephen samuel: http://www.bcgreen.com/solaris/passwords.html
The above session is now tacked on as a warning at the end of the referenced web page.
"My proprietary program went to the pentagon, and all I got was these silly battle plans:"
Like Some Guy I know says: Get the name right... Calling that act a patriot is like calling Bennedict Arnold a good guy. (OK: he didn't quite put it that way).