I don't feel sorry for you at all. Instead of trying to make a martyr of yourself you should move on.
That's the problem. He can't move on. He's been mired in this whole legal problem.
Just another case where the punishment far outweighs the crime. With that kind of result, I would do exactly as he did.
RTFP, troll.
Everyone knows that mail-order CD/comic warehouses try to rip you off. If you were stupid or greedy enough to think you could get 12 CDs for $1 or whatever and never be obligated for more, you deserve the hassle (especially since artists generally don't get royalties for CDs sold at a discount like that).
Does this mythical Everyone you're referring to include the 14 year old latch-key kid who's parent's are too busy to monitor?
Your arguement seems to imply that parents are generally doing their job (ie, teaching kids what that certain things they should not do that could have disastrous consequences later on).
All the other people are being nailed for offenses they actually did commit. Drunk driving, and she only got a 60-day suspension? What the fuck? She could easily have killed someone. I wasn't that stupid when I was 16 or 18. Personally, I don't think she should be allowed to drive until she's 30. Getting turned down for a job seems like a small price to pay. Funny how everyone went nuts over Bush's DWI conviction, but it's somehow OK if you're just Joe Citizen.
Yes, there is a difference. If someone is the POTUS (and consequently be the most powerful president in the world), he better be a lot more responsible than Joe Citizen.
If you fuck up, there are consequences. Learn that, and everyone will be better off.
Who's doing the teaching? And when 15-year-old Jack get's goes to college and finds out that his earlier goof ups resulted in him losing an education????
The Matrix was a virtual community, and if I recall correctly, people were trying to get OUT of it, and INTO Zion
Of course, you have to ask yourself who these people were... all social misfits, who used handles (Neo, Morpheus, etc) didn't want to be part of the system.
In our world, the social misfits use handles and choose to get out of the real world and into a Matrix of their own.
Basically, the fact remains that successful communities do not apply to everyone, and some people will get excluded (either by self-choice, or forcefully).
Does this sudden "breakthrough" have anything to do with M$'s sudden interest in Corel?
I'm not so informed about the wine project, being currently chained to the redmond rock, but does anyone know about this?
If I could, I would have marked this story as a troll.
to cliff:
Seriously guys, you (new media) know you have many things that the establishment does not. True feedback, follups, retractions (albeit often embedded in the comments).
How much accountability should a news-redirector (/. itself has very little news) be accountable for? Not much, I hope, and definitely not, if the story queue was user-moderated in the least bit.
Accountability aside, a few people earlier mentioned:
* Spelling, Grammar, Hyperlink checks would be nice (although not entirely neccessary, IMHO).
* A double-editor review (although any amount of user-moderation would mitigate this issue)
* Involvement (although I think I prefer the editors to stay out of frays sometimes)
Yeah, so here's your fish: Keep up the good work, and LISTEN to the/. audience. We are the soul of the site! (hrrm, maybe that's what the other guy meant by editor involvement)
I have also yet to receive any spam on my yahoo mail account (except for the ones from yahoo itself, but that was in agreement to have them POP3-enable the email account).
Also I have found them to be faster, and more reliable than either hotmail or excite mail (especially from france or brazil)
Could someone please repost the above comment?(#25). Apparently, there's a glitch in the slashcode, or whatever that is not allowing us to "Read the rest of this comment...".
Perhaps by splitting the rest into another comment?
Except for a few intense activities (MPEG-4 encoding, kernel compilation, 3DStudio, etc.), A Pentium 200Mhz is quite adequate for your daily internet activity (assuming a piddly 56k), which is *the* killer app for PC sales.
Assuming adequate processor speed, bandwidth is, of course, the key factor in determining usability of the internet, and not until cable modem/DSL access points are readily available in mass quantity (and there is strong competition!), there will not be another big wave of purchases of PC's.
I'd like to know if there's any correlation between the arrival of cheap 56k access and bossted PC sales...
Of course, if there were a new killer app (not network bound) perhaps PC sales will rise again. I doubt marketing can do anything to persuade consumers otherwise, until then.
(still sitting happy with my ~400Mhz laptop for the past year or so)
If you check out the About AEA page, you'll be confronted with some scary stuff:
It's all about innovation. It's all about competition. It's all about productivity, efficiency and success.
Is it me, or has Microsft permanently tainted the word "innovation"? As another/.er's sig points out, you can tell how desperate they are by how many times they say the word "innovate"...
You save money and gain clout. Most importantly you have a voice in Washington...
What do these guys do? They lobby for your needs and wants on the hill (trade association). GREAT!!! How do I sign up?... Us geeks need to get our voice into this channel to the whitehouse!
Wait, I can't. Because I must be a corporation. So how do we get a voice in this org?
Does anyone here know anything more?
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So we built a place of our own where we could get together freely to escape the crap that the future members of the "real world" heaped on us. And now that they see that you can make money off it, they want it all.
The Internet, I suppose? Who are you? Katz? The rebuttal for that has already been discussed in this forum. It was never our "hang out" in the first place... we were just the first people to set up shop on someone elses (military+scholastic) net.. and now we're pissed off that others want to take that virtual home that we supplanted in the first place? Sounds like time to deface some websites!!
I remember back in school, I wrote my AI programs in Delphi. Easy GUI's to manage and "view" the neurons in my backprop neural net, to see generations in my genetic alg's... but the kicker is that Delphi had properly modeled visual components that used non-visual objects (for example, listboxes were just the GUI controls, but the nonvisual object was the StringList, which is very optimal and has no overhead).
My classmates were pretty clueless about Delphi:
Me: I've decided to the cat analyzer in Delphi... Otherguy: Isn't that a database language? Wow... Anotherdude: Dude, I heard you're doing your AI in Perl...
Kewl thing was the fast compilation and no extra dlls (and headless operation... try *that* in VB).
(2) Use the same Webserver Software. How in gods name can you blame or claim any of these benchmarks on the operating system? Both are using completely different HTTP servers (one which is isnt even publically available and shouldn't have been used = TUX). If you want a legitimate operating system benchmark and not and HTTP server benchmark - try to compare Win2k running Apache for NT and Linux running Apache. Otherwise climb off your high horses right now - these are webserver benchmarks NOT OS benchmarks. I for one will say that Apache for NT consumes a lot less memory than IIS 5.0 - though on my small intranet site I've yet to notice any speed difference.
You have got to be kidding me. Apache on NT simply != Apache on Linux or on Solaris for that matter. Simply put, they are using the best http server for each OS, and the Linux OS (Redhat) won. I agree, the title should have been: Redhat beats Microsoft.
IE has something like 70% of the browser market now, mainly because it just browses, nothing else. This has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I have heard in a long time.
Let's take a quick look at exactly what IE does (yes most of thes *features* are intended to keep you from switching browsers):
Browsing, duh
Mail/News integration, a la Netscape of yore
Integration with netmeeting
Integration with hotmail (clicking on mailto: can let you open hotmail send page)
Integration with Explorer in windows (buggy... true, but most ppl consider it a feature)... a visible indication of COM/ActiveX integration
And furthermore, what do you consider as "simply browsing"? Me, that's handled by something like Mosaic. For a quick idea on all the features considered standard on today's browser, just look at Internet Options or Preferences in your browser. Too many to list.
So IE does a whole lot more than simply browsing... As does Mozilla.
Here's another page with some links and pdf files (whot are protected via password)
On a side note, who decided what the 10 top algo's should be? Where's the skiplist?
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MySQL is not appropriate for financial transactions, and if your boss really understood how you architected that house of cards he would understandably freak out.
Dude, you are totally right. MySQL=speed, but the cost is loss of ACID and transactions, which make a database really relaiable. Whoever wrote the original post is either a zealot or idiot.
Note that this was an interview with the Chief of Marketing. Of course, anyone doing battle against M$ in the marketing dept. are going to feel overwhelmed.
This makes sense, though it's a bit sad. Looks like marketing wins the product race, not tech.
First off: Digital cameras *are not* replacements for a good 'ol film based.
With that out of the way, it looks like the question really should be:
Based on my requirements below, should I get a digital camera, and which one should I get?
* Price/Affordability (digitals are expensive) * Image quality (1.3 megapixels != photo quality) * Optical zoom (lens features) * image development time (digital = immediate response, assuming some serial/usb connection) * digital print? (will this go on the web or a meatspace binder somewhere?)
I bought an olympus 320D before going to europe (15 min before going to the airport) just so I could send my pics over the internet within a day of taking them. It served my purposes well, but I lost a lot of good photo opportunities to the fact that the light processing in the digital just can't be hacked like film (exposure time, aperature width, etc). My dig is great for taking pics of ppl, and parties, etc. Not for scenery or anything requiring zoom (320D does not have optical zoom).
Instead of banning names or forcing ppl to change their PC's name, I suggest that Sony/Verant try the following:
1) There is a storyline, right? Why not allow only a fixed set of names to begin with, that "fit" in the world created? Too restrictive? 2) Make or allow players to create a list of "acceptable" names. Allow some sort of player/GM moderation of created names to be allowed. Make sure the rules for moderation are posted and understood. 3) Force players to get approval for their name when they join (from either a board of name verification consisting of both players and GMs), or allow the new player to submit this name to X colleages for submission.
Really, when you're dealing with a completely virtual world and the rules are generally fluid, banning seems like a pretty sorry solution compared to revising the rules as they stand.
So, basically what you're saying is that if MS comes up with an innovation, but there's something slightly similar elsewhere then it cannot be an innovation at all? Hmm, sounds like you're talking crap to me, and prejudiced crap at that.
No, what he's saying is that Apple had this BEFORE Microsoft (see MacOS 6.x, i believe). Innovation requires novelty, which in this case, was not there.
OLE, and DDE I'm not sure about but I bet they were also acquired/stolen.
My what an open-minded statement here. You don't know anything about these yet you still come out with a statement like this. If you don't have anything useful to say then don't bother saying it - you're just wasting my time with this kind of bigoted crap.
OLE was designed by IBM, and the copyright went back to them in 1997, I believe. MS reinvented OLE as COM, then ActiveX/DCOM.
Let's face it, you're just an emotional pro-MS troll.
... involved using and building Lego and Fischer-Technic machines, and writing the control software to control and manage the physical automata.
(this was back in '96, too)
My team created, modified and wrote the cotrol software for the 'turtle' automaton, which acted as a transport mechanism for the production system. The turtle had light sensors and lights, which allowed it to follow a path (with intersections), and we could program where it was supposed to turn, and what kind of turn (left, right, U-turn) it was to perform. The fun part was doing traffic control for 2+ turtles moving on the same closed path. Some of the other automata were:
LEGO: A brick sorter, which placed bricks into bins depending on what color they were
FT: A crane, which would pick up and drop these bricks given three dimensional coordinates
LEGO: A line-feed picture scanner, with pretty decent resolution (200 dpi, I believe)
I really had fun with my project, and I'm glad that Lego is back on track (still haven't had a chance to play with Mindstorms, tho).
From the byte article which was posted on/. several days ago: The final class of patent, statutory, does not afford any legal protection to the patentee, but does convey legal protection to the general public by registering the invention and thereby formally declaring it to be prior art for the purpose of future patent filings. This class of patent is most commonly used to register inventions made by the U.S. Government and it is known as Statutory Invention Registration, or SIR.
Anyone can apply to receive SIR patent status for a novel invention, and there is only a small one-time fee for this type of patent compared to the larger and periodic fees required to receive and maintain a regular patent. However, statutory patents are only used when the patentee wants to guarantee that no third party will ever be able to claim patent protection for an invention. This makes SIR a very interesting, if currently overlooked, option for protecting open source inventions.
Okay, patents as they are should definitely be fixed. But has anyone actually used the SIR patent method above to proactively stop this land-grab mentality? Maybe FSF or EFF should spend some of the members' money to make things more public domain. I would contribute if my money were used to stop the current insanity.
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That's the problem. He can't move on. He's been mired in this whole legal problem.
Just another case where the punishment far outweighs the crime. With that kind of result, I would do exactly as he did.
RTFP, troll.
Preach on, brotha!!!
Dude, Psi-catifern all the way!
Does this mythical Everyone you're referring to include the 14 year old latch-key kid who's parent's are too busy to monitor?
Your arguement seems to imply that parents are generally doing their job (ie, teaching kids what that certain things they should not do that could have disastrous consequences later on).
All the other people are being nailed for offenses they actually did commit. Drunk driving, and she only got a 60-day suspension? What the fuck? She could easily have killed someone. I wasn't that stupid when I was 16 or 18. Personally, I don't think she should be allowed to drive until she's 30. Getting turned down for a job seems like a small price to pay. Funny how everyone went nuts over Bush's DWI conviction, but it's somehow OK if you're just Joe Citizen.
Yes, there is a difference. If someone is the POTUS (and consequently be the most powerful president in the world), he better be a lot more responsible than Joe Citizen.
If you fuck up, there are consequences. Learn that, and everyone will be better off.
Who's doing the teaching? And when 15-year-old Jack get's goes to college and finds out that his earlier goof ups resulted in him losing an education????
Of course, you have to ask yourself who these people were... all social misfits, who used handles (Neo, Morpheus, etc) didn't want to be part of the system.
In our world, the social misfits use handles and choose to get out of the real world and into a Matrix of their own.
Basically, the fact remains that successful communities do not apply to everyone, and some people will get excluded (either by self-choice, or forcefully).
Does this sudden "breakthrough" have anything to do with M$'s sudden interest in Corel?
I'm not so informed about the wine project, being currently chained to the redmond rock, but does anyone know about this?
If I could, I would have marked this story as a troll.
/. audience. We are the soul of the site! (hrrm, maybe that's what the other guy meant by editor involvement)
to cliff:
Seriously guys, you (new media) know you have many things that the establishment does not. True feedback, follups, retractions (albeit often embedded in the comments).
How much accountability should a news-redirector (/. itself has very little news) be accountable for? Not much, I hope, and definitely not, if the story queue was user-moderated in the least bit.
Accountability aside, a few people earlier mentioned:
* Spelling, Grammar, Hyperlink checks would be nice (although not entirely neccessary, IMHO).
* A double-editor review (although any amount of user-moderation would mitigate this issue)
* Involvement (although I think I prefer the editors to stay out of frays sometimes)
Yeah, so here's your fish: Keep up the good work, and LISTEN to the
I have also yet to receive any spam on my yahoo mail account (except for the ones from yahoo itself, but that was in agreement to have them POP3-enable the email account).
Also I have found them to be faster, and more reliable than either hotmail or excite mail (especially from france or brazil)
Could someone please repost the above comment?(#25). Apparently, there's a glitch in the slashcode, or whatever that is not allowing us to "Read the rest of this comment...".
Perhaps by splitting the rest into another comment?
Except for a few intense activities (MPEG-4 encoding, kernel compilation, 3DStudio, etc.), A Pentium 200Mhz is quite adequate for your daily internet activity (assuming a piddly 56k), which is *the* killer app for PC sales.
Assuming adequate processor speed, bandwidth is, of course, the key factor in determining usability of the internet, and not until cable modem/DSL access points are readily available in mass quantity (and there is strong competition!), there will not be another big wave of purchases of PC's.
I'd like to know if there's any correlation between the arrival of cheap 56k access and bossted PC sales...
Of course, if there were a new killer app (not network bound) perhaps PC sales will rise again. I doubt marketing can do anything to persuade consumers otherwise, until then.
(still sitting happy with my ~400Mhz laptop for the past year or so)
It's all about innovation. It's all about competition. It's all about productivity, efficiency and success.
Is it me, or has Microsft permanently tainted the word "innovation"? As another /.er's sig points out, you can tell how desperate they are by how many times they say the word "innovate"...
You save money and gain clout. Most importantly you have a voice in Washington...
What do these guys do? They lobby for your needs and wants on the hill (trade association). GREAT!!! How do I sign up?... Us geeks need to get our voice into this channel to the whitehouse!
Wait, I can't. Because I must be a corporation. So how do we get a voice in this org? Does anyone here know anything more?
The Internet, I suppose? Who are you? Katz? The rebuttal for that has already been discussed in this forum. It was never our "hang out" in the first place... we were just the first people to set up shop on someone elses (military+scholastic) net.. and now we're pissed off that others want to take that virtual home that we supplanted in the first place? Sounds like time to deface some websites!!
This is too good to be true... can anyone actually say that they bought and received from these guys?
I remember back in school, I wrote my AI programs in Delphi. Easy GUI's to manage and "view" the neurons in my backprop neural net, to see generations in my genetic alg's... but the kicker is that Delphi had properly modeled visual components that used non-visual objects (for example, listboxes were just the GUI controls, but the nonvisual object was the StringList, which is very optimal and has no overhead).
My classmates were pretty clueless about Delphi:
Me: I've decided to the cat analyzer in Delphi...
Otherguy: Isn't that a database language? Wow...
Anotherdude: Dude, I heard you're doing your AI in Perl...
Kewl thing was the fast compilation and no extra dlls (and headless operation... try *that* in VB).
You have got to be kidding me. Apache on NT simply != Apache on Linux or on Solaris for that matter. Simply put, they are using the best http server for each OS, and the Linux OS (Redhat) won. I agree, the title should have been: Redhat beats Microsoft.
This has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I have heard in a long time.
Let's take a quick look at exactly what IE does (yes most of thes *features* are intended to keep you from switching browsers):
And furthermore, what do you consider as "simply browsing"? Me, that's handled by something like Mosaic. For a quick idea on all the features considered standard on today's browser, just look at Internet Options or Preferences in your browser. Too many to list.
So IE does a whole lot more than simply browsing... As does Mozilla.
On a side note, who decided what the 10 top algo's should be? Where's the skiplist?
Dude, you are totally right. MySQL=speed, but the cost is loss of ACID and transactions, which make a database really relaiable. Whoever wrote the original post is either a zealot or idiot.
This makes sense, though it's a bit sad. Looks like marketing wins the product race, not tech.
How about a new Blizzard (hey, aren't the owners of these guys French?) game:
SourceCraft
-Three sides-
* Government
* The Corporation
* H4x0rs
First off: Digital cameras *are not* replacements for a good 'ol film based.
With that out of the way, it looks like the question really should be:
Based on my requirements below, should I get a digital camera, and which one should I get?
* Price/Affordability (digitals are expensive)
* Image quality (1.3 megapixels != photo quality)
* Optical zoom (lens features)
* image development time (digital = immediate response, assuming some serial/usb connection)
* digital print? (will this go on the web or a meatspace binder somewhere?)
I bought an olympus 320D before going to europe (15 min before going to the airport) just so I could send my pics over the internet within a day of taking them. It served my purposes well, but I lost a lot of good photo opportunities to the fact that the light processing in the digital just can't be hacked like film (exposure time, aperature width, etc). My dig is great for taking pics of ppl, and parties, etc. Not for scenery or anything requiring zoom (320D does not have optical zoom).
Instead of banning names or forcing ppl to change their PC's name, I suggest that Sony/Verant try the following:
1) There is a storyline, right? Why not allow only a fixed set of names to begin with, that "fit" in the world created? Too restrictive?
2) Make or allow players to create a list of "acceptable" names. Allow some sort of player/GM moderation of created names to be allowed. Make sure the rules for moderation are posted and understood.
3) Force players to get approval for their name when they join (from either a board of name verification consisting of both players and GMs), or allow the new player to submit this name to X colleages for submission.
Really, when you're dealing with a completely virtual world and the rules are generally fluid, banning seems like a pretty sorry solution compared to revising the rules as they stand.
No, what he's saying is that Apple had this BEFORE Microsoft (see MacOS 6.x, i believe). Innovation requires novelty, which in this case, was not there.
OLE, and DDE I'm not sure about but I bet they were also acquired/stolen.
My what an open-minded statement here. You don't know anything about these yet you still come out with a statement like this. If you don't have anything useful to say then don't bother saying it - you're just wasting my time with this kind of bigoted crap.
OLE was designed by IBM, and the copyright went back to them in 1997, I believe. MS reinvented OLE as COM, then ActiveX/DCOM.
Let's face it, you're just an emotional pro-MS troll.
Try the 2600.com flyer
(this was back in '96, too)
My team created, modified and wrote the cotrol software for the 'turtle' automaton, which acted as a transport mechanism for the production system. The turtle had light sensors and lights, which allowed it to follow a path (with intersections), and we could program where it was supposed to turn, and what kind of turn (left, right, U-turn) it was to perform. The fun part was doing traffic control for 2+ turtles moving on the same closed path. Some of the other automata were:
I really had fun with my project, and I'm glad that Lego is back on track (still haven't had a chance to play with Mindstorms, tho).
The final class of patent, statutory, does not afford any legal protection to the patentee, but does convey legal protection to the general public by registering the invention and thereby formally declaring it to be prior art for the purpose of future patent filings. This class of patent is most commonly used to register inventions made by the U.S. Government and it is known as Statutory Invention Registration, or SIR.
Anyone can apply to receive SIR patent status for a novel invention, and there is only a small one-time fee for this type of patent compared to the larger and periodic fees required to receive and maintain a regular patent. However, statutory patents are only used when the patentee wants to guarantee that no third party will ever be able to claim patent protection for an invention. This makes SIR a very interesting, if currently overlooked, option for protecting open source inventions.
Okay, patents as they are should definitely be fixed. But has anyone actually used the SIR patent method above to proactively stop this land-grab mentality? Maybe FSF or EFF should spend some of the members' money to make things more public domain. I would contribute if my money were used to stop the current insanity.