A new language designed to "compile" or streamline translation in to many different language. One that contains the meaning structures needed to output English, Mandarin, Spanish or any other language on the fly..
I could easily see how you could import a doc from your native language and have it ask questions from the operator to clarify ambiguities in meaning that would effect translation.
There are a few other companies that seem to have a solution, but this really looks more like a CDN with enough capacity and some filters to ride out what ever attack could be launched at them.
I'll give you my ASCII when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
But seriously. EBCDIC would work just as well.
ASCII is bad enough with hidden characters and where tabs and spaces look the same.
Where 1 & l & I or 0 & O or ' & ` are nearly identical in the wrong fonts.
How many times have I tried to compile only to get errors related to some invisible character that was imported from DOS or some guy's weird editor in Korea.
Really we want simpler. 8 Bit's is 2 bits to many already, This guy wants 16 Bit characters or 24 Bit.
Imaging 20 varieties of A that all look the same but behave differently!
I'm tell you right now. I will be doing ASCII for the rest of my life. I don't even like GUI IDE's I still prefer VI!
Imagine what a mess when you have 20 A's that all look identical but
We have over 1000's of years found and adapted plants that are good for us. Our diet's have evolved over very long time spans be optimized.
Now we come along since the Industrial revolution and using a little knowledge of Chemistry and Biology think we can do better then what we had been doing.
We let's look at the criteria.
If it's cheaper, tastier and didn't kill the lab rats and first people we fed it too right away, then, great were good.
Well what about 10 or 20 years out?
Now have 1000's of laboratories and companies putting these short term tested chemicals in to our diets. What's is the net effect of that?
What are the Odds that some of these will really have some terrible long term consequences?
One case. trans fats in margarine which was sold to us for 30 years as a cheaper healthier alternative to butter. Now we know causes heart disease and it so much worse them butter it's being outlawed in several states.
> There is NOTHING you can do to avoid them all. Some of them are even natural.
Why can't we just deal with the Natural ones.
Is it so bad that I don't want pesticides, or any other things that started in an oil well in my food?
Really I don't think this is asking too much.
I so much reading and research in the past 20 on some of this that I don't trust any testing ADM, Monsanto and other mega corporations do.
There is such a long history of people getting screwed up by bad drugs, chemicals, cosmetics that were "tested to be safe", is just overwhelming. So much that you can't really explain it to people.
Cigarettes where proven as having heath benefits at one point in time. The fight to just put warning labels on was monumental!
My point is it something that is so obviously harmful required near super human efforts to get the word out then we don't have any chance to slow down the less dangerous stuff.
The power of billions of dollars just overrides all good sense and judgment. Our political system is completely unequipped to respond.
So my point is, yea a few worked fell sick in China. Mean while we are all eating this stuff.
Just wait till the full effect of GM crops starts to effect us.
First, I know more about Chemistry then you think.
Eric was saying it's just as not as dangerous as the other isomer.
It's still dangerous in higher doses none the less.
It's more like I am noticing that when here in the USA in general I don't feel as well as when I am in China, India, or even Mexico. I have also noticed that is true for many people and the general populations as a whole.
Each short cut they take with our food on it's own we can tolerate. But now it's with everything. High fructose Corn syrup, high salt, food coloring, oily diet full of MSG and all sorts of processed crap. Add to that trace amounts of toxin, and heavy metals.
It starts add up. Each takes it's small toll.
When I am in India there is nothing but fresh. We search for weeks for a can opener with no luck, they just don't have canned food there.
Even refrigerators aren't in common use. Meat is hard to find.
Just don't drink the water.
If I wasn't so damb board when in India and the jobs pay so little I'd move there, I am sure I'd be far healthier. Problem is after a month the cravings for American fast food are far worse then kicking cigarettes. I mean I have tolerated 16 hours in a hot sweaty train just to get a Mc Donalds "Maharaja Mac" Chick version of a Big Mac, or some KFC. http://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/
I am sorry but there are several things that I don't want anywhere near my food.
1.) Deification and other bodily fluids. 2.) Heavy metals. 3.) Petroleum products.
You can't tell me well it's just a little bit of feces.
Yea it's just a little bit of neurotoxin.
What do they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
That may be fine for animal feed, but it's getting to the point the point where no matter how much effort you can't protect yourself and your family from these things.
We are starting to see so many health problems in our western culture. Little by little so many getting traced back to diet.
Are you familiar with the engineering term "Accumulation of Tolerances" It's about predicting reliability. Say were building a car, and each part can be 1 mm off. After you connect 10 parts together in a chain, you can have on occasion be 10 mm off.
Well it's like that with tolerating toxins. Yea we can handle so much mercury and so much hexane and so much BPA, PFOE, Flouride, Aluminum, Cadmium etc. etc. etc...
Even Sodium.
With each product it pushing that limit. But in the real world we eat 20 products per day.
End result, Cancer, Autism, dementia, heart attack, diabetes, stroke, Asthma, allergies, lower IQ's, and a plethora of other problems.
How can anyone sort out what's causing what.
It's like badly written source code. You can't tell where the problem is. The only way out id to start correcting ugly code a piece at a time and without fail, the errors start going away.
Hexane is derived from petroleum. It is a colorless, volatile liquid with a mild, gasoline-like odor.
It's used in Electrical contact cleaner, and Computer monitor screen cleaners.
Hexane is the dominate extraction solvent for oil seeds throughout the world, including soybean and other high volume oils used for human and animal consumption. 95% of the world's corn oil is produced from corn germ obtained by wet-milling. The corn germ is dried, then shipped to hexane extraction facilities to obtain the oil.
Basically corn oil and high fructose corn syrup are contaminated with the stuff in small amounts.
I called some of the Debian Linux guys on there shit. Maybe it was them?
Problem is Acer or who ever Microsoft is going after would have to do the calling. For them it's down to $, what is cheaper or will make them the most money. The opponent is counting on negotiating a settlement where it's cheaper to pay them off then to fight.
Corporations don't have principals or a conscience.
Now if there were a group that could legally represent Linux they could file an suit against Microsoft.
Imagine if Microsoft threatened to sue people for using a Apple products.
But this is the inherent problem of non-profit / non-corporate organizations in a world dominated by economics and financial interests.
I really wish I had the time to work on it myself.
Basic audio and video capture should be really trivial, but I have no idea what the Mozilla code looks like inside.
Streaming audio and video from the browser is something I am currently trying to play with using Java, but I don't know java very well and and very rusty with it. Probably will need to pay a friend to help get it working.
I would be willing to share some of my older code (from livecam) and answer questions for anyone struggling to figure this stuff out.
I have heard as an argument for the legitimacy of a claim that company X,Y & Z have settled and making payments. So maybe not a legal precedent but still a precedent.
precedent/n. prsdnt; adj. prsidnt, prsdnt/ Show Spelled[n. pres-i-duhnt; adj. pri-seed-nt, pres-i-duhnt] Show IPA –noun 1. Law . a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases. 2. any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations. –adjective precedent 3. preceding; anterior.
I can't spell to save my life, I am a computer programmer.
So I am not even an amateur at law. But my former partner for 5 years was known as an attorney that could pull of the impossible. He broke Jean Claude Van Dam's unbreakable contract. Talk about Teflon coated.
He never ever went to court, it was all poker and maneuvering. His dad is one of the most powerful entertainment lawyer in Hollywood.
It was amazing to watch him work. When he was up against other lawyers it was like watching him pick the wings of a butterfly. They where playing law, he was playing a totally different game, they never stood a chance.
After many conversations with him, suddenly much of what I would see Microsoft and other large corporations do suddenly started to make a lot more sense. It wasn't about winning in court, but to win overall.
So many strategies all sort of within the letter law but dirty tricks. Things that as a logical computer programmer seems very unethical. But as it turns out is just business as usual for most of the big boys.
It's the reason the little guys almost always loose.
We had Microsoft sabotage our investment opportunities in 1996 by announcing a superior product with a completely faked demo, then not releasing anything for almost 5 years, and when they did it was nearly identical to what I was selling. There video streams even played in my 5 year old player without modification! They then disabled the ability for my product to work with the release of MSIE4.
I had CNN trademark "livecam" after they did a story on it. Then send us a siest and desist! Fortunately that didn't fly, I had the domain years before the trademark was filed. We were never able to get the trademark for ourselves after that.
More recently the first CCTV DVR board which I designed and built while in Korea 1997 was copied by a number of Korean companies. Many Chinese company started making clone boards of the Korean boards. One of the Korean companies then threatened to sue me for reselling the Chinese version of the board which was my original design! Didn't take much to call that bluff.
So many dumb greedy people.
The number of time's I'd been burned in business by this stuff is disturbing.
My last experience It was a $120K software contract with $20K upfront. Then $50K and $50K. It was in writing that it would be based on open source.
We got much of the functionally working and demo'ed it. He demanded source code, eventually I caved in to get the next payment. He canceled his $50K check. He handed the code to a Russian company to complete and filed a suit to get his $20K back because it was all based on Open Source code!
Fortunately these days I am not so easily intimidated.
Rule 1. Anybody can sue anyone for anything. Rule 2. If they fail to respondent in general the one who filed the suit wins. Rule 3. If there is no ground for the suit it's easy to get it tossed out. Rule 4. The golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules, in other words the one with the most expensive lawyer wins. Rule 5. 90% of civil cases are settle out of court. This is mostly a poker game, with bluffs gambits deceptions , misdirection, Sleight of hand, deceit, corruption and hocus pocus.
A company like Microsoft is counting on the other party not doing there homework, not being as well connected, or not having as much leverage with politicians and judges. Rule 6. Carrying a bluff all the way to court, and getting called on it would be devastating for a company like Microsoft. The best thing that could ever happen is Microsoft actually following through with it's threat. Rule 7. Judges are held responsible for there judgments. I have noticed that they will do anything to defer to a previous similar judgment by another court on a related case rather then actually commit to a decision that they make themselves.
So in court what mostly happens is both parties are presenting similar cases in which the courts decided in there favor and the judge then decides who make the more relevant argument.
I have seem a similar strategy used to shake down companies for patent infringement on bogus patents. The corporation being sued will look at this from a strictly profit and loss perspective, it's cheaper and more profitable to remain on good terms with Microsoft.
So they start by shaking down a small plays because they know they will kowtow, and Microsoft will even kick them back a discount or some other bullshit so it really doesn't cost them. But this sets up a legal precedent establishing the legitimacy of Microsoft's claims. They then can go after larger or more resistant players. After a certain critical mass, it will be much more difficult to argue that the claims are fraudulent in court. The EFF & GNU could be in for one heck of a battle if they don't intervene sooner rather then later.
I just want my data in something really simple format such as comma delimited. I can copy and paste off the HTML and it's a mess. Or get my data in several formats that all require some Windows GUI based applications that you must pay for. Maybe there is something open source, but I just want a comma delimited file or just plain text even.
In my post I show a simple shell script that uses sed to flatten out a QIF file so i can use grep and awk to extract and sum data, such as how much I spent at Mc Donalds for the past year.
It doesn't store well. It's just a bad idea all around.
So I am not surprised because people were saying it's going to be a real safety issue are refueling stations. Bush kept pushing it and many went along with it anyway.
In the end I am sure electric will win. It's safer the Gas, stores better, transports better and is far cheaper.
It was like 20 years ago when I was working at the Stanford medical center, they had a mail delivery robot that committed suicide. For about a year it was zipping around delivering mail, and xrays. It even knew how to take the elevators.
But every now and again it would just hang out by the ATM machine and act weird.
One day it just drove down a flight of stairs and crashed to the bottom shaking the whole building and crushing it's plastic casing. I had a great photo of it lying in a pool of brown lubricant and battery acid, surrounded by doctors in white and blue coats.
There were rumors that the ATM machine rejected it.
All Rupert Murdoch news is heavily biased and full of propaganda anyhow. Maybe now the general public will get a chance to read unbiased, uncontrolled news and wake up.
The theory of panspermia is where microbes transmit life to habitable bodies in space in for form or comet's and asteroids. If a planet such as earth were to be impacted by something large, fragments would be launched in to space, these would immediately freeze and preserve microbes almost indefinitely. A few cubic meters of frozen sea water from earth would contain a soup of trillions of single celled microbes and be in a perfect delivery system to survive reentry on another planet. Given the large numbers of fragments ejected in to space from such an impact and the small number of microbes needed to populate a planet, there is a good chance that our DNA has evolved across the whole of our galaxy.
So If you believe that which I think is far easier to believe then faster then light travel. The idea of a Christopher Columbus scenario doesn't make sense. Any intelligent aliens arriving by craft would have a few problems. There 10's of thousands of years from home. The idea of having then arrive with an Attack fleet is just impractical given the times and distances involved, and the resources just for a small group to make such a journey. The one group that does arrive would be more like Robinson Crusoe trapped on an island with no technology other then what they can scavenge off there ship. Advanced technology would be impossible to replicate. Imagine trying to make a semiconductor fab with a small group stranded on an island, it's not happening. They also probably wouldn't be well adapted for our environment. The temperature, mixture of gasses etc. I think there first order would be like the Avatar movie scenario. To evolve hybrid creatures that can think like them and know their culture but be bio-compatible with earth. They would have to do this by mixing there DNA with earth creature DNA, which probably would work because of microbial panspermia. Mostly likely they would want there hybrids to fit in and rise to power based on there technological advantage and then leverage the local population to do there work for them.
Also if it happened with once race of aliens then it's probably happened with several each one landing and hybridizing local populations.
The other alternative is they have become a machine race, with there whole beings becoming entirely data. At which point our planet would be little more then a curiosity.
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A new language designed to "compile" or streamline translation in to many different language. One that contains the meaning structures needed to output English, Mandarin, Spanish or any other language on the fly..
I could easily see how you could import a doc from your native language and have it ask questions from the operator to clarify ambiguities in meaning that would effect translation.
Then we could run Ubuntu in a VM under Chrome.
I wrote this back in 2001, and it's still relevant!
http://www.dnull.com/dos/DOS-Block.htm
Running through something like a Citrix Netscaler helps filter out much if your lines aren't overwhelmed.
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=21679
There are a few other companies that seem to have a solution, but this really looks more like a CDN with enough capacity and some filters to ride out what ever attack could be launched at them.
http://www.prolexic.com/index.php/why-prolexic/ddos-mitigation-services/
http://www.arbornetworks.com/stop-ddos-attacks.html
I'll give you my ASCII when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
But seriously. EBCDIC would work just as well.
ASCII is bad enough with hidden characters and where tabs and spaces look the same.
Where 1 & l & I or 0 & O or ' & ` are nearly identical in the wrong fonts.
How many times have I tried to compile only to get errors related to some invisible character that was imported from DOS or some guy's weird editor in Korea.
Really we want simpler. 8 Bit's is 2 bits to many already, This guy wants 16 Bit characters or 24 Bit.
Imaging 20 varieties of A that all look the same but behave differently!
I'm tell you right now. I will be doing ASCII for the rest of my life. I don't even like GUI IDE's I still prefer VI!
Imagine what a mess when you have 20 A's that all look identical but
really dumb.
Now maybe if it were a wifi spot with shared data, but USB who cares.
We have over 1000's of years found and adapted plants that are good for us. Our diet's have evolved over very long time spans be optimized.
Now we come along since the Industrial revolution and using a little knowledge of Chemistry and Biology think we can do better then what we had been doing.
We let's look at the criteria.
If it's cheaper, tastier and didn't kill the lab rats and first people we fed it too right away, then, great were good.
Well what about 10 or 20 years out?
Now have 1000's of laboratories and companies putting these short term tested chemicals in to our diets. What's is the net effect of that?
What are the Odds that some of these will really have some terrible long term consequences?
One case. trans fats in margarine which was sold to us for 30 years as a cheaper healthier alternative to butter.
Now we know causes heart disease and it so much worse them butter it's being outlawed in several states.
We were all sold bullshit.
Gees man. Listen to your self.
> There is NOTHING you can do to avoid them all. Some of them are even natural.
Why can't we just deal with the Natural ones.
Is it so bad that I don't want pesticides, or any other things that started in an oil well in my food?
Really I don't think this is asking too much.
I so much reading and research in the past 20 on some of this that I don't trust any testing ADM, Monsanto and other mega corporations do.
There is such a long history of people getting screwed up by bad drugs, chemicals, cosmetics that were "tested to be safe", is just overwhelming. So much that you can't really explain it to people.
Cigarettes where proven as having heath benefits at one point in time. The fight to just put warning labels on was monumental!
My point is it something that is so obviously harmful required near super human efforts to get the word out then we don't have any chance to slow down the less dangerous stuff.
The power of billions of dollars just overrides all good sense and judgment. Our political system is completely unequipped to respond.
So my point is, yea a few worked fell sick in China. Mean while we are all eating this stuff.
Just wait till the full effect of GM crops starts to effect us.
We really are the lab rats.
> I don't care if it isn't dangerous,
Maybe I wasn't as clear as I could have been.
First, I know more about Chemistry then you think.
Eric was saying it's just as not as dangerous as the other isomer.
It's still dangerous in higher doses none the less.
It's more like I am noticing that when here in the USA in general I don't feel as well as when I am in China, India, or even Mexico. I have also noticed that is true for many people and the general populations as a whole.
Each short cut they take with our food on it's own we can tolerate. But now it's with everything. High fructose Corn syrup, high salt, food coloring, oily diet full of MSG and all sorts of processed crap. Add to that trace amounts of toxin, and heavy metals.
It starts add up. Each takes it's small toll.
When I am in India there is nothing but fresh. We search for weeks for a can opener with no luck, they just don't have canned food there.
Even refrigerators aren't in common use. Meat is hard to find.
Just don't drink the water.
If I wasn't so damb board when in India and the jobs pay so little I'd move there, I am sure I'd be far healthier. Problem is after a month the cravings for American fast food are far worse then kicking cigarettes. I mean I have tolerated 16 hours in a hot sweaty train just to get a Mc Donalds "Maharaja Mac" Chick version of a Big Mac, or some KFC. http://www.mcdonaldsindia.com/
Eric,
Does it really matter?
Do you really want to eat that crap.
I am sorry but there are several things that I don't want anywhere near my food.
1.) Deification and other bodily fluids.
2.) Heavy metals.
3.) Petroleum products.
You can't tell me well it's just a little bit of feces.
Yea it's just a little bit of neurotoxin.
What do they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
That may be fine for animal feed, but it's getting to the point the point where no matter how much effort you can't protect yourself and your family from these things.
We are starting to see so many health problems in our western culture. Little by little so many getting traced back to diet.
Are you familiar with the engineering term "Accumulation of Tolerances"
It's about predicting reliability. Say were building a car, and each part can be 1 mm off.
After you connect 10 parts together in a chain, you can have on occasion be 10 mm off.
Well it's like that with tolerating toxins. ...
Yea we can handle so much mercury and so much hexane and so much BPA, PFOE, Flouride, Aluminum, Cadmium etc. etc. etc
Even Sodium.
With each product it pushing that limit.
But in the real world we eat 20 products per day.
End result, Cancer, Autism, dementia, heart attack, diabetes, stroke, Asthma, allergies, lower IQ's, and a plethora of other problems.
How can anyone sort out what's causing what.
It's like badly written source code. You can't tell where the problem is. The only way out id to start correcting ugly code a piece at a time and without fail, the errors start going away.
Hexane is derived from petroleum. It is a colorless, volatile liquid with a mild, gasoline-like odor.
It's used in Electrical contact cleaner, and Computer monitor screen cleaners.
Hexane is the dominate extraction solvent for oil seeds throughout the world, including soybean and other high volume oils used for human and animal consumption. 95% of the world's corn oil is produced from corn germ obtained by wet-milling.
The corn germ is dried, then shipped to hexane extraction facilities to obtain the oil.
Basically corn oil and high fructose corn syrup are contaminated with the stuff in small amounts.
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5118098_corn-oil-processing.html
I called some of the Debian Linux guys on there shit. Maybe it was them?
Problem is Acer or who ever Microsoft is going after would have to do the calling.
For them it's down to $, what is cheaper or will make them the most money.
The opponent is counting on negotiating a settlement where it's cheaper to pay them off then to fight.
Corporations don't have principals or a conscience.
Now if there were a group that could legally represent Linux they could file an suit against Microsoft.
Imagine if Microsoft threatened to sue people for using a Apple products.
But this is the inherent problem of non-profit / non-corporate organizations in a world dominated by economics and financial interests.
I really wish I had the time to work on it myself.
Basic audio and video capture should be really trivial, but I have no idea what the Mozilla code looks like inside.
Streaming audio and video from the browser is something I am currently trying to play with using Java, but
I don't know java very well and and very rusty with it. Probably will need to pay a friend to help get it working.
I would be willing to share some of my older code (from livecam) and answer questions for anyone struggling to figure this stuff out.
www.videotechnology.com
I have heard as an argument for the legitimacy of a claim that company X,Y & Z have settled and making payments.
So maybe not a legal precedent but still a precedent.
precedent /n. prsdnt; adj. prsidnt, prsdnt/ Show Spelled[n. pres-i-duhnt; adj. pri-seed-nt, pres-i-duhnt] Show IPA
–noun
1.
Law . a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
2.
any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations.
–adjective precedent
3.
preceding; anterior.
I can't spell to save my life, I am a computer programmer.
So I am not even an amateur at law. But my former partner for 5 years was known as an attorney that could pull of the impossible. He broke Jean Claude Van Dam's unbreakable contract. Talk about Teflon coated.
He never ever went to court, it was all poker and maneuvering. His dad is one of the most powerful entertainment lawyer in Hollywood.
It was amazing to watch him work. When he was up against other lawyers it was like watching him pick the wings of a butterfly. They where playing law, he was playing a totally different game, they never stood a chance.
After many conversations with him, suddenly much of what I would see Microsoft and other large corporations do suddenly started to make a lot more sense. It wasn't about winning in court, but to win overall.
So many strategies all sort of within the letter law but dirty tricks. Things that as a logical computer programmer seems very unethical. But as it turns out is just business as usual for most of the big boys.
It's the reason the little guys almost always loose.
We had Microsoft sabotage our investment opportunities in 1996 by announcing a superior product with a completely faked demo, then not releasing anything for almost 5 years, and when they did it was nearly identical to what I was selling. There video streams even played in my 5 year old player without modification! They then disabled the ability for my product to work with the release of MSIE4.
I had CNN trademark "livecam" after they did a story on it. Then send us a siest and desist! Fortunately that didn't fly, I had the domain years before the trademark was filed. We were never able to get the trademark for ourselves after that.
More recently the first CCTV DVR board which I designed and built while in Korea 1997 was copied by a number of Korean companies. Many Chinese company started making clone boards of the Korean boards. One of the Korean companies then threatened to sue me for reselling the Chinese version of the board which was my original design! Didn't take much to call that bluff.
So many dumb greedy people.
The number of time's I'd been burned in business by this stuff is disturbing.
My last experience It was a $120K software contract with $20K upfront. Then $50K and $50K. It was in writing that it would be based on open source.
We got much of the functionally working and demo'ed it. He demanded source code, eventually I caved in to get the next payment. He canceled his $50K check.
He handed the code to a Russian company to complete and filed a suit to get his $20K back because it was all based on Open Source code!
Fortunately these days I am not so easily intimidated.
Rule 4. The golden rule
Sorry the rules aren't in order of precedence.
Sounds right.
In then end the poker part of the game still carry the most weight.
Rule 1. Anybody can sue anyone for anything.
Rule 2. If they fail to respondent in general the one who filed the suit wins.
Rule 3. If there is no ground for the suit it's easy to get it tossed out.
Rule 4. The golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules, in other words the one with the most expensive lawyer wins.
Rule 5. 90% of civil cases are settle out of court. This is mostly a poker game, with bluffs gambits deceptions , misdirection, Sleight of hand, deceit, corruption and hocus pocus.
A company like Microsoft is counting on the other party not doing there homework, not being as well connected, or not having as much leverage with politicians and judges.
Rule 6. Carrying a bluff all the way to court, and getting called on it would be devastating for a company like Microsoft. The best thing that could ever happen is Microsoft actually following through with it's threat.
Rule 7. Judges are held responsible for there judgments. I have noticed that they will do anything to defer to a previous similar judgment by another court on a related case rather then actually commit to a decision that they make themselves.
So in court what mostly happens is both parties are presenting similar cases in which the courts decided in there favor and the judge then decides who make the more relevant argument.
I have seem a similar strategy used to shake down companies for patent infringement on bogus patents.
The corporation being sued will look at this from a strictly profit and loss perspective, it's cheaper and more profitable to remain on good terms with Microsoft.
So they start by shaking down a small plays because they know they will kowtow, and Microsoft will even kick them back a discount or some other bullshit so it really doesn't cost them.
But this sets up a legal precedent establishing the legitimacy of Microsoft's claims.
They then can go after larger or more resistant players.
After a certain critical mass, it will be much more difficult to argue that the claims are fraudulent in court.
The EFF & GNU could be in for one heck of a battle if they don't intervene sooner rather then later.
I just did a blog post after hitting this problem.
http://johnsokol.blogspot.com/2010/09/converting-qif-to-text.html
I just want my data in something really simple format such as comma delimited.
I can copy and paste off the HTML and it's a mess. Or get my data in several formats that all require some Windows GUI based applications that you must pay for. Maybe there is something open source, but I just want a comma delimited file or just plain text even.
In my post I show a simple shell script that uses sed to flatten out a QIF file so i can use grep and awk to extract and sum data, such as how much I spent at Mc Donalds for the past year.
It doesn't store well. It's just a bad idea all around.
So I am not surprised because people were saying it's going to be a real safety issue are refueling stations.
Bush kept pushing it and many went along with it anyway.
In the end I am sure electric will win. It's safer the Gas, stores better, transports better and is far cheaper.
He should have buried the money in a pickle jar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Two
Solar Two used molten salt, a combination of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate, as an energy storage medium
It was like 20 years ago when I was working at the Stanford medical center, they had a mail delivery robot that committed suicide.
For about a year it was zipping around delivering mail, and xrays. It even knew how to take the elevators.
But every now and again it would just hang out by the ATM machine and act weird.
One day it just drove down a flight of stairs and crashed to the bottom shaking the whole building and crushing it's plastic casing.
I had a great photo of it lying in a pool of brown lubricant and battery acid, surrounded by doctors in white and blue coats.
There were rumors that the ATM machine rejected it.
Prisonplanet.com
There are still small papers that do real reporting.'
And all the bloggers out there.
I agree, George Soros stuff us just as bad.
All Rupert Murdoch news is heavily biased and full of propaganda anyhow. Maybe now the general public will get a chance to read unbiased, uncontrolled news and wake up.
The theory of panspermia is where microbes transmit life to habitable bodies in space in for form or comet's and asteroids. If a planet such as earth were to be impacted by something large, fragments would be launched in to space, these would immediately freeze and preserve microbes almost indefinitely. A few cubic meters of frozen sea water from earth would contain a soup of trillions of single celled microbes and be in a perfect delivery system to survive reentry on another planet. Given the large numbers of fragments ejected in to space from such an impact and the small number of microbes needed to populate a planet, there is a good chance that our DNA has evolved across the whole of our galaxy.
So If you believe that which I think is far easier to believe then faster then light travel. The idea of a Christopher Columbus scenario doesn't make sense. Any intelligent aliens arriving by craft would have a few problems. There 10's of thousands of years from home. The idea of having then arrive with an Attack fleet is just impractical given the times and distances involved, and the resources just for a small group to make such a journey. The one group that does arrive would be more like Robinson Crusoe trapped on an island with no technology other then what they can scavenge off there ship. Advanced technology would be impossible to replicate. Imagine trying to make a semiconductor fab with a small group stranded on an island, it's not happening. They also probably wouldn't be well adapted for our environment. The temperature, mixture of gasses etc. I think there first order would be like the Avatar movie scenario. To evolve hybrid creatures that can think like them and know their culture but be bio-compatible with earth. They would have to do this by mixing there DNA with earth creature DNA, which probably would work because of microbial panspermia. Mostly likely they would want there hybrids to fit in and rise to power based on there technological advantage and then leverage the local population to do there work for them.
Also if it happened with once race of aliens then it's probably happened with several each one landing and hybridizing local populations.
The other alternative is they have become a machine race, with there whole beings becoming entirely data. At which point our planet would be little more then a curiosity.