The defendants would likely still need some amount of upfront legal costs, unless a) Their credit rating is unbelievably good or b) Its decent, AND the case is almost impossible to lose. Small companies wouldn't always have great credit ratings, they don't have much revenue or profits, and especially for newer internet companies they are likely have several loans out and items purchased on credit cards they are paying off.
Still, this would help, it may not enable everyone to mount an effective defense, but it would allow more people to.
It was a Family Matters crossover I believe with Step By Step but I could be wrong. The nerd from the second show mentioned to Steve Urkel that he was building a Cyclotron for an 8th grade science fair. Quote may not be 100% verbatim, I'm mainly unsure on the second word. HAven't seen the episode(or the show at all) in years, but I'd say this is nearly though not quite verbatim
"Any fool can build a cyclotron, what you've got to build is a linear accelerator!"
And I can remember bits of sitcoms that aired almost 10 years ago, but I can't remember where I put my wallet(which is in my hand) at times...
Probably not verbatim, as I haven't seen a BSOD since I started running XP, but here it is:
"Windows was not shut down properly so Scandisk is running to check the hard disk for errors. To avoid this happening in the future, always shut down windows properly"
Gee thanks! Maybe next time you will LET ME SHUT DOWN WINDOWS PROPERLY!
Umm.. Doing this could possibly drive the NYTIMES to make itself a pay site, or at least restrict free access to dead tree subscribers. If you don't want them to have your info, fake it. Log in so they can track how many ads get seen but don't give them any identifying info. Heck, some sites think I'm George Bush.
"Mig25s and 31s ARE vastly cheaper compared to Western designs. MiG25s for instance were built with titanium leading edges but steel wings making them far cheaper then F-16s.
The pilots may not be cheap depending on what level of combat ability you would like them to have. Gunning down a B-2 should be reasonably easy, an F-117 may be another matter. "
If the MiG 25 or 31 could get close to an F-117 the F-117 is going down. The F-117 is one of the few active combat aircraft LESS maneuverable than those two, and a hell of a lot slower. With a standard combat load a MiG-25 can hit Mach 2.8... It was designed as the first line of defense against American bombers, it had to be able to get in the air and reach its target before we reached ours. Of course, if we have some F-14s, 15's, 16's or 18's in the area the MiG 25 or 31 cannot match them in a dogfight. But if it gets to an unescorted F-117, it wins.
"Serbia didn't even have the resources to detect conventional aircraft, let alone shoot them down"
This was not my assertion. I was merely clarifying which aircraft was involved and the circumstances under which it was brought down. Though, the serbs certainly didn't have the tech to bring it down with any realistic probability of a direct hit. Shotgunning a lot of missles with proximity warheads was their only option, and it worked. Once.
As for fighters vs. bombers, in modern terms light to medium bombers are generally referred to as fighters or sometimes strike fighters. Only the big strategic heavy bombers like the B-52, B-1, and B-2 are really referred to as bombers nowadays. The F-117 is so far as I know strictly a strike fighter, in terms of bomb load it would be a light bomber to use older terminology. It probably could be fitted for interceptor duty, but not as a mainline air to air combatant. BTW... Interceptor fighters are relatively unmaneuverable but normally quite fast aircraft designed to intercept(hence the name) and take down strategic bombers, reconnaisance aircraft and the like. The MiG-25 falls into that class, being nearly as fast as an SR-71(unclassified speed just over mach 3 unloaded, about 2.8 with a combat load), the F-15 was the American response, a good bit slower but with a bigger payload and unbelievably superior maneuvaribility.
"Yes they did, and in Serbia they surprised everyone by taking down a Stealth bomber"
Actually it was an F-117 Stealth Fighter, not a B-2 Stealth Bomber. And from the reports I heard from the news, at the time it went down, a reporter witnessed a barrage of many missiles flying up towards its location. Basically, the Serbians simply proved that if you fire enough shots one will hit on sheer chance. Also, many SAMS use a proximity warhead... I can't get into details about the blast radius or anything, but a dozen missles blowing up near a fighter will take it down without a single missile scoring a direct hit.
"That's the Marine Corps. They're killers, all right,"
There is a difference between killers and warriors. Warriors fight and kill if necesary because they are protecting something they love, killers kill because they hate(or just enjoy killing). Its a philosophical difference more than anything else. Killing is an unfortunate part of the job- But if its kill an Al Quaeda who can now no longer harm my family and friends, however much I might not like it, its an easy decision to make.
Umm... You forgot the Marine Corps. While they may work closely with the Navy they do have a fair bit of independence, the Commandant of the Marine Corps is a full member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is only at the service secretary level that they are consolidated. They work together, but neither is truly subordinate to the other.
Actually, you can get your student loans repaid... up to a limit, not sure what it is, in the tens of thousands of dollars if you enlist in a high demand specialty. Not to mention, real world applications of your skills under amazingly difficult conditions are a good thing to have on your resume.
Heh... Military service is a great option. 5 years USMC here. If it wasn't for that, being a geek for a living(my current ambition) wouldn't happen... I'd have just about enough drive and discipline to hold a job as a McDonalds janitor.
Thats an option. With a degree, you have the option of going straight to Officer Candidate School, or going enlisted(with an automatic promotion to E-2 or even higher depending on service and specialty) and going somewhere. If you take this option, and go active duty for a few years, GO OVERSEAS. Its a waste of a tour not to. Odds are there is something in the military related to your civilian training.
Granted, especially now, there is a serious risk with military service, but the pride will last forever, and most employers will see military service as something that sets you apart from a sea of resumes.
Which service to choose- That depends. You can go into whatever service your family is most connected to, you can go into the Marine Corps for a tough life, the Air Force to get in, go places, while staying as far away from the bad guys as possible, plus the Air Force has the most high tech type jobs available. The Navy is good if you want to go to sea or want to work on nuclear reactors, the Army... they are good if you want a military life but don't have a preference, or if you like the idea of ground operations and either hate water or don't want to make a religion out of your service(like the Marine Corps expects)...
Its an option, I wouldnt trade my five years in the Marine Corps for anything.
While the Linux kernel is far from everything, it is the piece of the puzzle that ties everything else together.
Therefore, the name Linux is perfectly appropriate for an OS based around it. If you feel the need to include the acronym GNU, it should be Linux/GNU, as GNU is the add on to the Linux Kernel, rather than the other way around. It would be pointless really, except for a proof of concept against the rampany GNU bigots, but anyone wiht the programming knowledge could create a complete linux system, compatible with current distros, without using a single piece of GNU code. Pointless, yes, but the fact that it can be done says that the GNU part is not central to what linux is, and that means there is no justification for this holy crusade.
1) Sign up for all the free websites you can. Throw as much scientology material as will fit in the space provided. Get as many people as possible to link to you. As each gets knocked down, keep putting more up. The internet can be faster than Scientology. Don't do this on paid webspace or a website you make money from unless you can afford the financial loss of the site getting pulled.
2) Throw megs and megs of anti scientology materials and "copyrighted" Scientology texts in your Kazaa, Direct Connect, Gnutella, etc. share directories. In Direct Connect, you can have a line that users will see a brief description of what you are offering. MAke sure to put Anti-Scientology there.
3) Get on pro Scientology mailing lists(there have to be a few with open membership) and spam it with anti scientology information. Even if they make it an invite only list in response, you still have won as fewer impressionable minds will randomly join.
Of course, you have to be a little careful especially with the last tactic, don't use your ISP email address.
ACtually, electricity IIRC travels at the speed of light... or close to it. Whether it is going through the air, or through a wire, electricity travels at the same speed.
So yes, ATT Broadband moves as fast as lightning. So do the old 300 baud modems I hope everyones upgraded:)
If you surf heavy flash/client side java/other crazy stupid stuff like that... a faster PC will make those parts of the internet faster.
Or if you are like me and have as I do at the moment- 20 windows, and 7 things in the system tray, spread across two monitors, playing Mp3s, some of the sites you have up most of the time have java/flash, plus you are often compiling during surfing, hell yes a faster CPU will impact internet performance. While the net itself isn't faster, with the way I work, a faster CPU will provide a noticeable boost in response times with my browser, email clients, FTP when its running, and noticeably increase how fast my system can recieve and display the data.
The way some people work, they are pulling so much stuff off the net at one time and off their local hard drive and stressing their CPU to the point where their intenet bottleneck actually is their PC.I'm sure I'm not the only one.
As a computer science student, I don't think its necesarily lazy programming.
The current push in programming education *is not* to write high performing apps. The theory is, with optimizing compilers being as good as they are, and hardware being so fast, it is better to write *maintainable* programs. UT2K3's code very likely is harder to understand for a maintanence programmer than JK2, they probably made fewer concessions in performance for simplicity in the code. Complexity of the graphics could also be an issue, but I haven't seen the games so I can't comment on that.
There are very few mentions in my programming textbooks of situations where you would sacrifice easy to understand code for performance. It is all reliability(code works) and simplicity(other coders can understand it).
So it may not be laziness. Just education that doesn't teach that sometimes performance is better than simplicity.
Can't recall the name of the film, but Keanu Reeves did play a psycho serial killer well... he played this killer who sent a cop photos of his victims before the killing to give him a chance to save them. Great movie. Keanu was awesome in it.
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My fiancee calls me for help getting a new HD to work. Go through everything- even oddball BIOS settings that in no way should help, just on the off chance they will. Everything that should have helped was tried and failed.
Turns out, she had plugged the hard drive into the floppy connector because the hard drive cables wouldn't fit. Whenever I run across that, I go get a new hard drive cable that has a keying method that works with my mobo and drive. But thats me. Surprisingly, no damage to the hard drive. Not even bent pins. And she showed me later the cable she used, it was indeed a floppy cable, and wasn't just poor phone skills leading me to believe it was.
Then there were all the calls and visits to get the system stable. Finally I go to the temperature monitor in the BIOS. It reads 110 degrees CELSIUS. Yes, you could have boiled water according to that monitor. MY foolish self didn't believe it, so I powered it down and touched the heat sink. Pain was immense. I recommend that you trust the hardware monitor in the BIOS, if you have reason not to trust it, get a handheld thermometer to place against the heat sink, DON'T use your finger. Looking more closely, I discover that at some point she has disconnected the CPU fan.
The system is now running quite well. But was annoying getting it to that point.
First, as others have stated, this may be just what broadband needs. Also, the high prices may be in the beginning- I know for the video rental business, prices have gone down a bit(at least relative to inflation) and rental periods have gone up as the business gets bigger. More volume, you get more revenues and can afford to cut prices to spur more volume. That may be part of the high prices here. If this turns out to be profitable, I'd expect to see prices drop a little or at least a longer rental period. In addition to more movies being available, and perhaps even a few really old movies available for outright purchase. If they add a link to purchase the DVD, this could take off even more.
The one who claimed it isn't blocked- My suspicion is from his post that he works for a foreign company, and his company probably has a deal worked out for unfiltered internet access. I'd have to hear from someone in china to believe the reports were false.
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It was a jury that gave the old lady 4 million dollars for spilling coffee on herself. Don't put so much faith in juries.
Moderators, you screwed up on this one. This post should be "5-Funny"
The defendants would likely still need some amount of upfront legal costs, unless a) Their credit rating is unbelievably good or b) Its decent, AND the case is almost impossible to lose. Small companies wouldn't always have great credit ratings, they don't have much revenue or profits, and especially for newer internet companies they are likely have several loans out and items purchased on credit cards they are paying off.
Still, this would help, it may not enable everyone to mount an effective defense, but it would allow more people to.
A reliable webserver.
It was a Family Matters crossover I believe with Step By Step but I could be wrong. The nerd from the second show mentioned to Steve Urkel that he was building a Cyclotron for an 8th grade science fair. Quote may not be 100% verbatim, I'm mainly unsure on the second word. HAven't seen the episode(or the show at all) in years, but I'd say this is nearly though not quite verbatim
"Any fool can build a cyclotron, what you've got to build is a linear accelerator!"
And I can remember bits of sitcoms that aired almost 10 years ago, but I can't remember where I put my wallet(which is in my hand) at times...
Probably not verbatim, as I haven't seen a BSOD since I started running XP, but here it is:
"Windows was not shut down properly so Scandisk is running to check the hard disk for errors. To avoid this happening in the future, always shut down windows properly"
Gee thanks! Maybe next time you will LET ME SHUT DOWN WINDOWS PROPERLY!
Umm.. Doing this could possibly drive the NYTIMES to make itself a pay site, or at least restrict free access to dead tree subscribers. If you don't want them to have your info, fake it. Log in so they can track how many ads get seen but don't give them any identifying info. Heck, some sites think I'm George Bush.
"Mig25s and 31s ARE vastly cheaper compared to Western designs. MiG25s for instance were built with titanium leading edges but steel wings making them far cheaper then F-16s.
The pilots may not be cheap depending on what level of combat ability you would like them to have. Gunning down a B-2 should be reasonably easy, an F-117 may be another matter. "
If the MiG 25 or 31 could get close to an F-117 the F-117 is going down. The F-117 is one of the few active combat aircraft LESS maneuverable than those two, and a hell of a lot slower. With a standard combat load a MiG-25 can hit Mach 2.8... It was designed as the first line of defense against American bombers, it had to be able to get in the air and reach its target before we reached ours. Of course, if we have some F-14s, 15's, 16's or 18's in the area the MiG 25 or 31 cannot match them in a dogfight. But if it gets to an unescorted F-117, it wins.
"Serbia didn't even have the resources to detect conventional aircraft, let alone shoot them down"
This was not my assertion. I was merely clarifying which aircraft was involved and the circumstances under which it was brought down. Though, the serbs certainly didn't have the tech to bring it down with any realistic probability of a direct hit. Shotgunning a lot of missles with proximity warheads was their only option, and it worked. Once.
As for fighters vs. bombers, in modern terms light to medium bombers are generally referred to as fighters or sometimes strike fighters. Only the big strategic heavy bombers like the B-52, B-1, and B-2 are really referred to as bombers nowadays. The F-117 is so far as I know strictly a strike fighter, in terms of bomb load it would be a light bomber to use older terminology. It probably could be fitted for interceptor duty, but not as a mainline air to air combatant. BTW... Interceptor fighters are relatively unmaneuverable but normally quite fast aircraft designed to intercept(hence the name) and take down strategic bombers, reconnaisance aircraft and the like. The MiG-25 falls into that class, being nearly as fast as an SR-71(unclassified speed just over mach 3 unloaded, about 2.8 with a combat load), the F-15 was the American response, a good bit slower but with a bigger payload and unbelievably superior maneuvaribility.
"Yes they did, and in Serbia they surprised everyone by taking down a Stealth bomber"
Actually it was an F-117 Stealth Fighter, not a B-2 Stealth Bomber. And from the reports I heard from the news, at the time it went down, a reporter witnessed a barrage of many missiles flying up towards its location. Basically, the Serbians simply proved that if you fire enough shots one will hit on sheer chance. Also, many SAMS use a proximity warhead... I can't get into details about the blast radius or anything, but a dozen missles blowing up near a fighter will take it down without a single missile scoring a direct hit.
"That's the Marine Corps. They're killers, all right,"
There is a difference between killers and warriors. Warriors fight and kill if necesary because they are protecting something they love, killers kill because they hate(or just enjoy killing). Its a philosophical difference more than anything else. Killing is an unfortunate part of the job- But if its kill an Al Quaeda who can now no longer harm my family and friends, however much I might not like it, its an easy decision to make.
Umm... You forgot the Marine Corps. While they may work closely with the Navy they do have a fair bit of independence, the Commandant of the Marine Corps is a full member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is only at the service secretary level that they are consolidated. They work together, but neither is truly subordinate to the other.
Actually, you can get your student loans repaid... up to a limit, not sure what it is, in the tens of thousands of dollars if you enlist in a high demand specialty. Not to mention, real world applications of your skills under amazingly difficult conditions are a good thing to have on your resume.
Heh... Military service is a great option. 5 years USMC here. If it wasn't for that, being a geek for a living(my current ambition) wouldn't happen... I'd have just about enough drive and discipline to hold a job as a McDonalds janitor.
www.marines.com
Thats an option. With a degree, you have the option of going straight to Officer Candidate School, or going enlisted(with an automatic promotion to E-2 or even higher depending on service and specialty) and going somewhere. If you take this option, and go active duty for a few years, GO OVERSEAS. Its a waste of a tour not to. Odds are there is something in the military related to your civilian training.
Granted, especially now, there is a serious risk with military service, but the pride will last forever, and most employers will see military service as something that sets you apart from a sea of resumes.
Which service to choose- That depends. You can go into whatever service your family is most connected to, you can go into the Marine Corps for a tough life, the Air Force to get in, go places, while staying as far away from the bad guys as possible, plus the Air Force has the most high tech type jobs available. The Navy is good if you want to go to sea or want to work on nuclear reactors, the Army... they are good if you want a military life but don't have a preference, or if you like the idea of ground operations and either hate water or don't want to make a religion out of your service(like the Marine Corps expects)...
Its an option, I wouldnt trade my five years in the Marine Corps for anything.
GET A LIFE!
While the Linux kernel is far from everything, it is the piece of the puzzle that ties everything else together.
Therefore, the name Linux is perfectly appropriate for an OS based around it. If you feel the need to include the acronym GNU, it should be Linux/GNU, as GNU is the add on to the Linux Kernel, rather than the other way around. It would be pointless really, except for a proof of concept against the rampany GNU bigots, but anyone wiht the programming knowledge could create a complete linux system, compatible with current distros, without using a single piece of GNU code. Pointless, yes, but the fact that it can be done says that the GNU part is not central to what linux is, and that means there is no justification for this holy crusade.
Heres a few ideas on fighting back.
1) Sign up for all the free websites you can. Throw as much scientology material as will fit in the space provided. Get as many people as possible to link to you. As each gets knocked down, keep putting more up. The internet can be faster than Scientology. Don't do this on paid webspace or a website you make money from unless you can afford the financial loss of the site getting pulled.
2) Throw megs and megs of anti scientology materials and "copyrighted" Scientology texts in your Kazaa, Direct Connect, Gnutella, etc. share directories. In Direct Connect, you can have a line that users will see a brief description of what you are offering. MAke sure to put Anti-Scientology there.
3) Get on pro Scientology mailing lists(there have to be a few with open membership) and spam it with anti scientology information. Even if they make it an invite only list in response, you still have won as fewer impressionable minds will randomly join.
Of course, you have to be a little careful especially with the last tactic, don't use your ISP email address.
1) Are you guilty?
2) If so, do you feel what you were doing should be illegal?
3) If so, why did you do it anyways?
ACtually, electricity IIRC travels at the speed of light... or close to it. Whether it is going through the air, or through a wire, electricity travels at the same speed.
So yes, ATT Broadband moves as fast as lightning. So do the old 300 baud modems I hope everyones upgraded:)
If you surf heavy flash/client side java/other crazy stupid stuff like that... a faster PC will make those parts of the internet faster.
Or if you are like me and have as I do at the moment- 20 windows, and 7 things in the system tray, spread across two monitors, playing Mp3s, some of the sites you have up most of the time have java/flash, plus you are often compiling during surfing, hell yes a faster CPU will impact internet performance. While the net itself isn't faster, with the way I work, a faster CPU will provide a noticeable boost in response times with my browser, email clients, FTP when its running, and noticeably increase how fast my system can recieve and display the data.
The way some people work, they are pulling so much stuff off the net at one time and off their local hard drive and stressing their CPU to the point where their intenet bottleneck actually is their PC.I'm sure I'm not the only one.
As a computer science student, I don't think its necesarily lazy programming.
The current push in programming education *is not* to write high performing apps. The theory is, with optimizing compilers being as good as they are, and hardware being so fast, it is better to write *maintainable* programs. UT2K3's code very likely is harder to understand for a maintanence programmer than JK2, they probably made fewer concessions in performance for simplicity in the code. Complexity of the graphics could also be an issue, but I haven't seen the games so I can't comment on that.
There are very few mentions in my programming textbooks of situations where you would sacrifice easy to understand code for performance. It is all reliability(code works) and simplicity(other coders can understand it).
So it may not be laziness. Just education that
doesn't teach that sometimes performance is better than simplicity.
Can't recall the name of the film, but Keanu Reeves did play a psycho serial killer well... he played this killer who sent a cop photos of his victims before the killing to give him a chance to save them. Great movie. Keanu was awesome in it.
My fiancee calls me for help getting a new HD to work. Go through everything- even oddball BIOS settings that in no way should help, just on the off chance they will. Everything that should have helped was tried and failed.
Turns out, she had plugged the hard drive into the floppy connector because the hard drive cables wouldn't fit. Whenever I run across that, I go get a new hard drive cable that has a keying method that works with my mobo and drive. But thats me. Surprisingly, no damage to the hard drive. Not even bent pins. And she showed me later the cable she used, it was indeed a floppy cable, and wasn't just poor phone skills leading me to believe it was.
Then there were all the calls and visits to get the system stable. Finally I go to the temperature monitor in the BIOS. It reads 110 degrees CELSIUS. Yes, you could have boiled water according to that monitor. MY foolish self didn't believe it, so I powered it down and touched the heat sink. Pain was immense. I recommend that you trust the hardware monitor in the BIOS, if you have reason not to trust it, get a handheld thermometer to place against the heat sink, DON'T use your finger. Looking more closely, I discover that at some point she has disconnected the CPU fan.
The system is now running quite well. But was annoying getting it to that point.
First, as others have stated, this may be just what broadband needs. Also, the high prices may be in the beginning- I know for the video rental business, prices have gone down a bit(at least relative to inflation) and rental periods have gone up as the business gets bigger. More volume, you get more revenues and can afford to cut prices to spur more volume. That may be part of the high prices here. If this turns out to be profitable, I'd expect to see prices drop a little or at least a longer rental period. In addition to more movies being available, and perhaps even a few really old movies available for outright purchase. If they add a link to purchase the DVD, this could take off even more.
The one who claimed it isn't blocked- My suspicion is from his post that he works for a foreign company, and his company probably has a deal worked out for unfiltered internet access. I'd have to hear from someone in china to believe the reports were false.