A False lawsuit designed to manipulate their stock price rather than being an honest attempt to win is illegal. The SEC should get involved and investigate. This would also make their managers personally liable for securities fraud if it was found that SCO never had any standing and knew it.
the Samson PL1602 is a real nice cheap rack-mount mixer. I use it to mix all my audio inputs, plus it has its own headphone port of the mix, and I can send arbitrary channels back to the computer (independent of what i am listening to) for recording audio from other devices.
There are a huge number of textbooks in the public domain or otherwise free. Dover books publishs them. They are quite inexpensive and quite good. Several math classes at Caltech use them as their primary textbooks. Highly recommended.
Microwaves are pretty harmless. the only reason microwaves in your kitchen do what they do is because they happen to be the exact frequency to tickle the rotational mode of water and are in a very high concentration.
This is not how science works. scientist A, who spent years working on AIDS, cannot just 'spend some time working on cancer'. heck, scientists working on cancer cannot spend time on it unless they have ideas and theories to test. Scientists ask for funding because they have an idea or theory they want to test which they believe could further understanding, you cannot just throw money/time at a problem and have it be equally spent by arbitrary research groups. perhaps they already gave all the tier 1 (likely to produce results) scientists working on strokes money, should they then grant the requests of those unlikely to produce results in strokes because strokes are a bigger threat than AIDS? no, they should give the money to the GOOD projects working on AIDS (or anything) likely to produce results.
where to spend money does not just depend on the disease they are fighting, but the quality of the proposal, its chances of success, and what it might uncover.
seriouly, there is a lot more money out there than sure-thing proposals. where it is spent requires more thought than just what the scientists are trying to show, and it is a grey area sometimes.
so, yes. it is right to spend $X in AIDS research if the project shows more promise than some other project. It is offensive to think that just dollars spent == scientific advancement. it is just not true.
This is traditionally called the Everett-Many-Worlds Hypothesis. In the SciAm article they call them Level III multiverses. for more information on the many-worlds hypotheses and other interpretations of quantum mechanics, see wikipedia: Wikipedia Many-Worlds
unfortunatly, there is no center of the universe. the universe is expanding everywhere at once. there is not a spot that is any more special than any other which could be considered the center.
Just a plug. farscape on the scifi channel has ruined all other (star trek, andromeda, etc..) shows for me. it is really well written with believable characters. highly recommended.
Haskell is pretty much a decendant from miranda, miranda was developed by a closed group of developers and i belive still is. haskell took many of the good ideas of miranda and created a basis for a publicly developed and availible language.. haskell is now THE de facto standard lazy language...
I got a tech plus (before the no-code tech) 10 years ago when i was 12 (it expires in 00) i was wonding if there is any way to renew it so that i can be upgraded to general? do i have to retake the test to renew my licence? it has been a while but i would like to keep it for, you know, emergencies.
it is amazing how much publicity the P3 serial number is getting when it has almost no use in any way, malicious or otherwise. look at any internet protocols. none of them have a spot for the P3 serial number reserved. if you were to grep all the documents you give out none of them would have the number in it. the number has to be read by software running on your personal machine. if you are running untrusted malicious binaries on your system then you have bigger problems. if you find a program which was grabbing the number then dont run that program or modify it. You ultimatly have complete control of all software running on your machine, you dont even need source, just edit out that opcode, if they use self-modifying code, fire up gdb.
There is no way to link this number to anything or use it as a trusted value in any way. since the software that ultimatly retrieves the number has to be running on your machine you can just fake any ID with some creative hex editing making it unuseful as a secret key or secure identifier. in any case CPUs are alot easier to swap than hard disks, and they already have unique identifiers. sorry for the semi-rant all the press about a PR stunt gone bad by intel gets to me after a while.
now of all things in the article this caught my attention most of all. no matter how fast computers get they still take forever to boot up. this is one of my biggest pet peeve with the pc architecture. there really is no reason it should take so long, I know alot of the time is spent in the 'isolation' phase of isa PNP (its rather heinous), is there other factors in legacy hardware that cause the horrible boot up times?
not to be a sore looser... but i have made several open source contributions and wasnt sent an email.. oh well.. and i just opened up an etrade account too... luck of the draw i guess... no riches for me just yet.... John
oddly enough.. I AM naked right now.. I just got out of the shower... freaky....
The real reason DIVX is a bad choice..
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Im thinking post-apocalyptic.. as long as i am able to keep a working TV and DVD player around and salvage some car batteries or a generator and a bit of mcguyvering I can entertain myself with my DVD movies indefinatly.... I hardly think DIVX would make it a priority to continue service in the wake of global thermonuclear war... just a thought:)
Language neutrality is a wonderful wonderful goal, its just that i have not seen an implementation of it yet which is... well.. good. or something that you look at and say, thats the right way to do it (tm).,CORBA was okay but it was very very slanted to C++ type languages, and even imperitive languages in general... (a mix of C++, haskel (http://haskell.org/), Prolog, whatever) is many times what one WANTS to be able to do in a project but with current systems it is almost impossible to do in any sort of portable way...
Now in my mind a standard should encourage interopabilty first, AND sepertate from the IDL etc.. build up a good general IPC mechanism which can be generalized to dynamic libraries, internet connections, or whatnot, and then build the other stuff on top of it... the low level IPC functions should always be availible, those may be used for languages where the IDL mapping just doesnt work, or for small uses where you just need to comunicate.
in any case check out ILU ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
Its a pretty cool gadget.. although i highly recomend you get a better layout than the original.. there are several floating around on the net... unfortunatly its a little bothersome for me to use full time because my fingers get sore but for a laptop its quite a bit more convienent than a keyboard sometimes...
the 'jk' keys are still next to each other and the h,l are is a similar place.. i swapped my l and s and it works nicely... you also dont have to switch one over from standard position.. (a plus in my opinion as i tend to overshoot those off by one thingys..)
hate to repeat it but the best thing i ever did for my wrists and hands getting sore was to switch to dvorak... the much more useful benefit in my opinion than the speed increase (which was nice too)
The chip doesnt send anything out on the internet on its own.. no one is going to be able to track you for having a serial number on your chip... the only way to get at it is if a program running on your system gets it and sends it out... if big brother already has daemons running in the background on your computer then its too late anyway and a CPUID wont make a difference... also many devices have unique serial numbers such as hard disks. it is really useless to track a person or as identification because the plaintext is always availible to any program... software programs must do something with it and sofware isnt any less hackable because it calls this cpuserial opcode... its just a PR stunt by intel gone bad... they knew that it was useless for encryption and ID (its hard not to if you know anything about encryption) and that the functionality was already there... they just wanted to sell a few more chips.. (e-commerce is a buzzword) ha.. somebody got very fired over this. ah well... lates
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Stock Price Manipulation.
A False lawsuit designed to manipulate their stock price rather than being an honest attempt to win is illegal. The SEC should get involved and investigate. This would also make their managers personally liable for securities fraud if it was found that SCO never had any standing and knew it.
the Samson PL1602 is a real nice cheap rack-mount mixer. I use it to mix all my audio inputs, plus it has its own headphone port of the mix, and I can send arbitrary channels back to the computer (independent of what i am listening to) for recording audio from other devices.
There are a huge number of textbooks in the public domain or otherwise free. Dover books publishs them. They are quite inexpensive and quite good. Several math classes at Caltech use them as their primary textbooks. Highly recommended.
Microwaves are pretty harmless. the only reason microwaves in your kitchen do what they do is because they happen to be the exact frequency to tickle the rotational mode of water and are in a very high concentration.
This is not how science works. scientist A, who spent years working on AIDS, cannot just 'spend some time working on cancer'. heck, scientists working on cancer cannot spend time on it unless they have ideas and theories to test. Scientists ask for funding because they have an idea or theory they want to test which they believe could further understanding, you cannot just throw money/time at a problem and have it be equally spent by arbitrary research groups. perhaps they already gave all the tier 1 (likely to produce results) scientists working on strokes money, should they then grant the requests of those unlikely to produce results in strokes because strokes are a bigger threat than AIDS? no, they should give the money to the GOOD projects working on AIDS (or anything) likely to produce results.
where to spend money does not just depend on the disease they are fighting, but the quality of the proposal, its chances of success, and what it might uncover.
seriouly, there is a lot more money out there than sure-thing proposals. where it is spent requires more thought than just what the scientists are trying to show, and it is a grey area sometimes.
so, yes. it is right to spend $X in AIDS research if the project shows more promise than some other project. It is offensive to think that just dollars spent == scientific advancement. it is just not true.
This is traditionally called the Everett-Many-Worlds Hypothesis. In the SciAm article they call them Level III multiverses. for more information on the many-worlds hypotheses and other interpretations of quantum mechanics, see wikipedia:
Wikipedia Many-Worlds
the major version bump has nothing to do with major changes. the major version bumps if and only if there are incompatable changes. which there were.
perhaps you should read this. ozone generators indoors are harmful. placebo effect at work.
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
oh my gosh. the keyboard in that picture has a built in eraserhead. I have looked everywhere for one of those on a 'real' keyboard. sweet.
unfortunatly, there is no center of the universe. the universe is expanding everywhere at once. there is not a spot that is any more special than any other which could be considered the center.
a Roland UA-100 (http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/SNAMM98/Rolan d/UA-100.html)
it is very nice and has noticibly less noise than internal cards. plus it works with linux. this has been around for a while.
Just a plug. farscape on the scifi channel has ruined all other (star trek, andromeda, etc..) shows for me. it is really well written with believable characters. highly recommended.
Haskell is pretty much a decendant from miranda, miranda was developed by a closed group of developers and i belive still is. haskell took many of the good ideas of miranda and created a basis for a publicly developed and availible language.. haskell is now THE de facto standard lazy language...
I got a tech plus (before the no-code tech) 10 years ago when i was 12 (it expires in 00) i was wonding if there is any way to renew it so that i can be upgraded to general? do i have to retake the test to renew my licence? it has been a while but i would like to keep it for, you know, emergencies.
it is amazing how much publicity the P3 serial number is getting when it has almost no use in any way, malicious or otherwise. look at any internet protocols. none of them have a spot for the P3 serial number reserved. if you were to grep all the documents you give out none of them would have the number in it. the number has to be read by software running on your personal machine. if you are running untrusted malicious binaries on your system then you have bigger problems. if you find a program which was grabbing the number then dont run that program or modify it. You ultimatly have complete control of all software running on your machine, you dont even need source, just edit out that opcode, if they use self-modifying code, fire up gdb.
There is no way to link this number to anything or use it as a trusted value in any way. since the software that ultimatly retrieves the number has to be running on your machine you can just fake any ID with some creative hex editing making it unuseful as a secret key or secure identifier. in any case CPUs are alot easier to swap than hard disks, and they already have unique identifiers. sorry for the semi-rant all the press about a PR stunt gone bad by intel gets to me after a while.
now of all things in the article this caught my attention most of all. no matter how fast computers get they still take forever to boot up. this is one of my biggest pet peeve with the pc architecture. there really is no reason it should take so long, I know alot of the time is spent in the 'isolation' phase of isa PNP (its rather heinous), is there other factors in legacy hardware that cause the horrible boot up times?
actually we bought iplanet not too long ago...
not to be a sore looser... but i have made several open source contributions and wasnt sent an email.. oh well.. and i just opened up an etrade account too... luck of the draw i guess...
no riches for me just yet....
John
oddly enough.. I AM naked right now.. I just got out of the shower... freaky....
Im thinking post-apocalyptic.. as long as i am able to keep a working TV and DVD player around and salvage some car batteries or a generator and a bit of mcguyvering I can entertain myself with my DVD movies indefinatly.... I hardly think DIVX would make it a priority to continue service in the wake of global thermonuclear war... just a thought :)
Language neutrality is a wonderful wonderful goal, its just that i have not seen an implementation of it yet which is... well.. good. or something that you look at and say, thats the right way to do it (tm). ,CORBA was okay but it was very very slanted to C++ type languages, and even imperitive languages in general... (a mix of C++, haskel (http://haskell.org/), Prolog, whatever) is many times what one WANTS to be able to do in a project but with current systems it is almost impossible to do in any sort of portable way...
Now in my mind a standard should encourage interopabilty first, AND sepertate from the IDL etc.. build up a good general IPC mechanism which can be generalized to dynamic libraries, internet connections, or whatnot, and then build the other stuff on top of it... the low level IPC functions should always be availible, those may be used for languages where the IDL mapping just doesnt work, or for small uses where you just need to comunicate.
in any case check out ILU
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
Its a pretty cool gadget.. although i highly recomend you get a better layout than the
original.. there are several floating around
on the net... unfortunatly its a little bothersome
for me to use full time because my fingers get sore but for a laptop its quite a bit more convienent than a keyboard sometimes...
the 'jk' keys are still next to each other and the
h,l are is a similar place..
i swapped my l and s and it works nicely...
you also dont have to switch one over from
standard position.. (a plus in my opinion as
i tend to overshoot those off by one thingys..)
hate to repeat it but the best thing i ever did for my wrists and hands getting sore was to switch to dvorak... the much more useful benefit in my opinion than the speed increase (which was nice too)
The chip doesnt send anything out on the internet on its own.. no one is going to be able to track you for having a serial number on your chip... the only way to get at it is if a program running on your system gets it and sends it out... if big brother already has daemons running in the background on your computer then its too late anyway and a CPUID wont make a difference... also many devices have unique serial numbers such as hard disks. it is really useless to track a person or as identification because the plaintext is always availible to any program... software programs must do something with it and sofware isnt any less hackable because it calls this cpuserial opcode... its just a PR stunt by intel gone bad... they knew that it was useless for encryption and ID (its hard not to if you know anything about encryption) and that the functionality was already there... they just wanted to sell a few more chips.. (e-commerce is a buzzword) ha.. somebody got very fired over this. ah well... lates