I got one of the "troll" mods in my meta-mod stack. If this is a software defect, I hope I'm not hurting someone's karma inappropriately when I give it a thumbs-down.
I had a Casio wristwatch that would do the same thing with digits. You draw the digits on the face of the display and the salient features are converted into characters for digital input.
Unless this is a licensee of the same patent that was very much later granted to Xerox, then this is clearly prior art
I am not sure when I bought it. I had it long before I moved in 1987, perhaps as early as 85.
Bayer's trademarks (in the US) were seized as war reparations after WW1 and handed to a US company. That company sold Bayer back to them much later, and lost control of Aspirin as you describe.
Expenditures would have to be cleared by the presidential committee, and then the committee pays for it.
I see. The central committee determines who is allowed to speak during campaigns. A world power tried a similar system for much of the twentieth century and faded from view about a decade ago. I don't think that this is a good system.
2) If campaign money is speech (Buckley vs Valejo!) then my voice is being drowned out by the roar of corporate cash. Let's investigate public financing so that we know in advance who has bought the candidates - us!
Forget it!
In addition to the problems with limiting free speech (which will cause the courts to CONTINUE to strike down your efforts), that puts the people in power in charge of handing out the ONLY money that can be spent by their oppostion.
An example is BC, in Canada. The (social democrat) government brought in rules limiting the amount of money that could be spent both "inside of" and "outside of" the official campaigns. Then they ran their next campaign using volunteers suppliedby and paid (outside of the limits) by unions. The law was constitutionally challenged and eventually overturned about three years after the campaign it covered.
The Canadian system mandates that employers allow employees significant time to vote. I think that the law is that 4 contiguous hours must be provided for each employee during the time that the polls are open. Since the polls are open to mid-evening, this is only a minor inconvenience to most employers. (eg, I get to leave at 4PM instead of my normal 5:30. Afternoon / evening shift workers get their hours in the morning.)
...the entire net is going to get slashdotted. I wonder if this needs a new name?
I've seen the term flash crowd used generically. It comes from a seventies short story by Larry Niven that predicted it in a slightly different context.
which is why I mentioned "common-sense" rules to allow for the filters to be bypassed on request for specific information.
My employer uses a blocker with some rather over-enthusiastic blocks. (I may be a nerd at heart, but a site for SAP Developers isn't a sex site even to me.) But they have specifically UNLOCKED anonymizer.com (which would have been blocked by default in our filter gateway). I presume someone reviews the logs for anonymizer and only use that override for "business case" browsing.
Public schools should be publicly financed and NO corporations should be allowed to propagandize students while their even *in school*.
Vouchers. Let parents make the decisions on what should be allowed in schools. Some will have all the "leetest" equipment with a few logos or sponsor interludes. Others will be using chalk on old blackboards but with absolute ideological purity. And every shade in between in the larger cities.
In short, he's the scariest fucker on the political scene since V.I. Lenin.
There are two reasons to vote for Nader. You may be voting for his positions (in which case your commentary is valid). But a very large number of people will be voting for him as a placeholder also known as "None of the Above".
Any pundits drawing conclusions on what Americans really want based on Nader's vote in November need to keep BOTH reasons in mind. It is still valid to vote for him on the latter reason even if someone agrees with you on the former reasons.
... so I'd bet that the media companies (NBC, et al.) also paid to have a clause in the contract that NO ONE ELSE can have the coverage.
It's not that the primary licensee wanted to restrict other types of media. The various media types are licensed separately. In Canada, the TV licensee was commenting in an interview that their web page could not do any streaming video at all, and some complex restrictions on images. The rights to web publication were sold to Rogers (Canada's biggest cable provider and one of the @home franchisss), while the TV rights went to the CBC.
In the given example, rights to print publication probably went to someone like NYT or USA2day, and NBC would be irrelevant.
Eproms are slow and not particularly easy to update. If the OS has a good caching algorithm, why not let *IT* decide how to best use the RAM?
The HD-less network workstation (Internet and Citrix) that Larry Ellison (sp?) is pushing uses a CD-ROM to hold its Linux OS. Presumably the boot-up takes some time, but a good cache algorithm will handle things from there.
Do we need to push boot times? How often do you need to boot Linux?
And the insinuation that MSNBC rigged the poll is preposterous at best.
The news item as presented here was that someone, somewhere, made two versions of a vote-stuffer bot that voted first for Win2K, and then for randomly selected non-Linux.
if you read comments that claimed the bot was related to MS ownership share in MSNBC, those comments never got moderated up to my reading level. I interpreted the phrase not knowing people at MSNBC or anything like that as commentary on their technical ability to prevent forging.
Again, the existence of forged results is news. The fact that MS owns much of the org that fell victim to the forged votes is only a trivial part of the news item. Speculation on whether the forgery came from within MS or from script-kiddies sypmathetic to MS (or who see MS winning as some kind of ironic humour) stayed within the discussions, where it has a right to exist and where I found it interesting.
(I am sure glad that/. doesn't have a moderation category for cruel and unusual punishment of grammar. If it did, my karma would go negative in no time.)
first science fiction story I read was about a young kid who won a competition that allowed him to ask for a spaceflight as prize.
"Have Spacesuit - Will Travel" by Heinlein.
In that book, the protagonist placed several thousand entries into a soap company contest to go to the moon, but someone beat him on the postmark date for the winning entry. He wins a spacesuit instead. He ends up on the moon anyhow, following a collection of fluke events.
So when was this theoretical big comet or meteor which may have wiped out the dinosaurs? About that time, perhaps?
The big cluster of the martian ones seems to be just under 180 million years. On Earch, we have a big impact at 60 million years ago, and probably another one at 230 or 240. (I forget about the earlier, really big one)
Nothing special at 175 on earth, that I can recall.
The article took as a given that we know absolutely whether or not a particular meteor came from Mars. Can someone point me to an article saying how we know this?
What distinguishes a rock from Mars from a rock from earth? A chunk of magma congealing underground isn't going to have much interaction with the atmosphere. What else is consistently different on mars from any other solar system body?
The article mentions "weakly radioactive" isotopes. I was presuming that they were talking about potassium40 argon40 ratio. I don't know what the horizon is on this measurement.
C-14 is only useful for dating PLANT material or animals that eat (directly or indirectly) recent plants.
It used to be common for office workers to install Microsoft Office at home so they could work at home nights and weekends. No doubt they also wrote letters and recipies and resumes. Is there theft in any of this?
My employer assures me that our EULA on office 97 allows the primary user of the computer that the licensed Office is installed onto, to have the same product on another computer at home. I picked up a close-out legit copy of office 97 for home use for the convenience of having the install cd, so I don't know if this is still true.
I know someone who cancelled her Columbia House subscription. She hasn't bought a ce in three months. This may be because she is broke. Or it may be because of the 2.5 GB of napster on her HD. I believe that she has stopped buying 4-6 CDs a month because it is no longer necessary to pay money to obtain the music in a useful form.
I may be horrified at the copyright violation at people's MP3 collections. But I just realized that I spent much of my youth with paired tape recorders building compilation tapes from radio broadcasts. BUT THAT WAS DIFFERENT.... (When I do it, it is fair use. When kids today do it, it is a threat to society.)
I'd like to see some comments from people who know the internals about other non-IE browsers. If Mozilla-saur is dying of starvation in the ecosystem shift of the late nineties, does that mean that the other monster browser automatically wins?
My sister still runs Win 3.1 on an 8MB system. I talked her into buying Opera since neither big lizard even pretends to run in 8M. Her system falls over occasionally, but I don't think that it is Opera's fault.
Do page authors have to allow for Opera's quirks when laying out a page? Do they allow for... etc? When I convinced at least one person to pay for a browser in a free-browser world, I was hoping for a more-than-2-way battle.
In these discussions, the only mention I've seen of Opera was a quick dismissal from someone whose sister briefly tried it. In the opinion of the "news for nerds" community, is Opera still a player?
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I got one of the "troll" mods in my meta-mod stack. If this is a software defect, I hope I'm not hurting someone's karma inappropriately when I give it a thumbs-down.
Unless this is a licensee of the same patent that was very much later granted to Xerox, then this is clearly prior art
I am not sure when I bought it. I had it long before I moved in 1987, perhaps as early as 85.
Bayer's trademarks (in the US) were seized as war reparations after WW1 and handed to a US company. That company sold Bayer back to them much later, and lost control of Aspirin as you describe.
I think the opposite. I think that he was saying that the opportunity to vote for "this guy" was already present in the most recent election.
I see. The central committee determines who is allowed to speak during campaigns. A world power tried a similar system for much of the twentieth century and faded from view about a decade ago. I don't think that this is a good system.
Forget it! In addition to the problems with limiting free speech (which will cause the courts to CONTINUE to strike down your efforts), that puts the people in power in charge of handing out the ONLY money that can be spent by their oppostion.
An example is BC, in Canada. The (social democrat) government brought in rules limiting the amount of money that could be spent both "inside of" and "outside of" the official campaigns. Then they ran their next campaign using volunteers suppliedby and paid (outside of the limits) by unions. The law was constitutionally challenged and eventually overturned about three years after the campaign it covered.
The Canadian system mandates that employers allow employees significant time to vote. I think that the law is that 4 contiguous hours must be provided for each employee during the time that the polls are open. Since the polls are open to mid-evening, this is only a minor inconvenience to most employers. (eg, I get to leave at 4PM instead of my normal 5:30. Afternoon / evening shift workers get their hours in the morning.)
I've seen the term flash crowd used generically. It comes from a seventies short story by Larry Niven that predicted it in a slightly different context.
My employer uses a blocker with some rather over-enthusiastic blocks. (I may be a nerd at heart, but a site for SAP Developers isn't a sex site even to me.) But they have specifically UNLOCKED anonymizer.com (which would have been blocked by default in our filter gateway). I presume someone reviews the logs for anonymizer and only use that override for "business case" browsing.
Vouchers. Let parents make the decisions on what should be allowed in schools. Some will have all the "leetest" equipment with a few logos or sponsor interludes. Others will be using chalk on old blackboards but with absolute ideological purity. And every shade in between in the larger cities.
There are two reasons to vote for Nader. You may be voting for his positions (in which case your commentary is valid). But a very large number of people will be voting for him as a placeholder also known as "None of the Above".
Any pundits drawing conclusions on what Americans really want based on Nader's vote in November need to keep BOTH reasons in mind. It is still valid to vote for him on the latter reason even if someone agrees with you on the former reasons.
It's not that the primary licensee wanted to restrict other types of media. The various media types are licensed separately. In Canada, the TV licensee was commenting in an interview that their web page could not do any streaming video at all, and some complex restrictions on images. The rights to web publication were sold to Rogers (Canada's biggest cable provider and one of the @home franchisss), while the TV rights went to the CBC.
In the given example, rights to print publication probably went to someone like NYT or USA2day, and NBC would be irrelevant.
I believe the operative phrase was... "and makes them money..."
Right. The criticism was the *AND*. The conjuction should be replaced with *TO*. The corrected version would thus be...
I doubt Microsoft in general really cares, as long as the product works to make them money
The HD-less network workstation (Internet and Citrix) that Larry Ellison (sp?) is pushing uses a CD-ROM to hold its Linux OS. Presumably the boot-up takes some time, but a good cache algorithm will handle things from there.
Do we need to push boot times? How often do you need to boot Linux?
The news item as presented here was that someone, somewhere, made two versions of a vote-stuffer bot that voted first for Win2K, and then for randomly selected non-Linux.
if you read comments that claimed the bot was related to MS ownership share in MSNBC, those comments never got moderated up to my reading level. I interpreted the phrase not knowing people at MSNBC or anything like that as commentary on their technical ability to prevent forging.
Again, the existence of forged results is news. The fact that MS owns much of the org that fell victim to the forged votes is only a trivial part of the news item. Speculation on whether the forgery came from within MS or from script-kiddies sypmathetic to MS (or who see MS winning as some kind of ironic humour) stayed within the discussions, where it has a right to exist and where I found it interesting.
(I am sure glad that /. doesn't have a moderation category for cruel and unusual punishment of grammar. If it did, my karma would go negative in no time.)
(Niven's story involved actual presence, but the concept was there)
"Have Spacesuit - Will Travel" by Heinlein.
In that book, the protagonist placed several thousand entries into a soap company contest to go to the moon, but someone beat him on the postmark date for the winning entry. He wins a spacesuit instead. He ends up on the moon anyhow, following a collection of fluke events.
I recall from the biographies that Howard Hughes got a court order stating that he was an adult for the purposes of running his company. (Inherited?).
Nothing special at 175 on earth, that I can recall.
What distinguishes a rock from Mars from a rock from earth? A chunk of magma congealing underground isn't going to have much interaction with the atmosphere. What else is consistently different on mars from any other solar system body?
C-14 is only useful for dating PLANT material or animals that eat (directly or indirectly) recent plants.
About the same time that you master enough technology to be heard outside your system, you master enough technology to kill off your species.
My employer assures me that our EULA on office 97 allows the primary user of the computer that the licensed Office is installed onto, to have the same product on another computer at home. I picked up a close-out legit copy of office 97 for home use for the convenience of having the install cd, so I don't know if this is still true.
I may be horrified at the copyright violation at people's MP3 collections. But I just realized that I spent much of my youth with paired tape recorders building compilation tapes from radio broadcasts. BUT THAT WAS DIFFERENT.... (When I do it, it is fair use. When kids today do it, it is a threat to society.)
My sister still runs Win 3.1 on an 8MB system. I talked her into buying Opera since neither big lizard even pretends to run in 8M. Her system falls over occasionally, but I don't think that it is Opera's fault.
Do page authors have to allow for Opera's quirks when laying out a page? Do they allow for ... etc? When I convinced at least one person to pay for a browser in a free-browser world, I was hoping for a more-than-2-way battle.
In these discussions, the only mention I've seen of Opera was a quick dismissal from someone whose sister briefly tried it. In the opinion of the "news for nerds" community, is Opera still a player?