Now hold on there a minute, big fella. What do you mean both sides of the story?
Let me preface this by saying Fax.com is full of shit with they advance this argument, But the restraint on communcations that the the anti-fax law does raise some 1st amendment issues.
I think the law if fine - it's just regulating commercial speach (not polical speach.)
The interesting thing is when a polical campaign "Blast-Faxes" for donations: it that political, or comercial speach.
Or when a charity "blast-faxes" for donations?
Where's the line?
The line is so far from Fax.com, it doesen't matter in this case, but there is a line somewhere where the diference between comercial and politcal speech is hard to diferentate.
I RTFA - it was a news piece that showed both sides of the issue. If anyhting, it had an anti-blast-faxer slant: all the quotes and stats from the anti-faxers were reasonable, and the quotes from the blast-faxers made the out to look stupid.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
I like the quote.. but just a thought:
Our natural state is to have rights - the freedom of speach, life, self-defence, liberty, etc.
It's only opressors who hinder us in the ability to excercise those rights: so in reality, we can't fight to gain rights, we fight to be able to express those "inaliable" rights.
We are naturally born with our rights - we only have to fight the people who atempt to hinder us.
I have to admit - that right after 9/11, if NASA asked for a passenger list - I'd would have probably given it to them as fast as possible.
The trouble comes, though, is when a passanger asked me: "Did you share my data with anybody?"
I *would* have told them "Yeah... NASA got a copy. Got a problem with that?"
Airplanse travel over provate and public property - there should be no expecation of pricacy. When a 747 flies over my house - I expect the governemnt to protect me by making sure that some fundelementalist asshole isen't about to crash the plaine into my house.
So what if NASA got a copy of the files ? - it's the hining that's desturbing.
that windows isn't just decided upon by fiat, but instead is the result of endless focus groups and user surveys to determine exactly what grandma actually works most comfortably with!
Focus groups suck for determining design.
Rememeber cars in the 80's that had a computerise voice to tell that "You're door is ajar"?
Focus groups *LOVED* the idea of the car taking to them - it really sucked in reality.
Just like Windows XP has that sucky search dog thing - it's cute the first time, buy annoying as hess lafter that.
we're not talking about especially complicated code in any case, so why bother with the overhead?
The rover isen't just a dumb remote controll car - NASA issues it rather sophisticated commands and the rover moves itself and decides on it own how to cary out those commands.
The reason for it is that Mars is too far away to manage the rover in real time - you have to wait 20 minuite to see the effects of your command.
Zenith Flat 14" VGA - around 1988 Zenith came out with a flat CRT. The thing was gorgeous - the things cost around $1100. IT *REAALY* was flat - it wasen't a curved tube with a bunch of thick glass on it to make it look flat. built like a tank.
IBM 17" Monochrome MGA/XVGA monitor - circa 1990. This monochrome monitor was the best thing ever for text. You could get it to sync at 120HZ - really. Andbecause it was monochrome the dot pitch for the shadow mask was really really small.
What does Apple use to compile OS X - and if IBM get the Objective C sections woking properly, could Apple use the IBM comiper to get OS X to run faster?
Rumor has it that Sharp will be releasing an update soon for 5000 style Zaurus's - it will have the same screen as the Zaurus 700 series (640x480 pixels)
Perhaps this is the reason for the discount.
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our company went ahead & did it anyway because we needed a gigabit ethernet driver that was only in FreeBSD 5 not 4.
The Broadcom Gigabit ethernet drivers that were needed were merged back into 4.8 and 4.9 - but 5.1 is so stable that we're not going to change anything.
I'm trying to get technology away from my life - it's not bringing me joy.
For $3500 - I could buy a DLP Projector or Or I could go to France for a month - get fucking drunk on good wine, eat good food and attempt to have fun with the pretty french girls.
Guess which one I'll be thinking about on my death bed?
How far away is the US probe from the beagle landing site? Could they send their own little explorer over to check out what happened?
At the rate that the US probe can travel - it would take *YEARS* to get the the Beagle 2's remains. (this is assuming that Mars is flat - it isen't, it has huge valleys and mountains.)
Even then, it would be of no use - if the Beagle can't open itself, Sprit's arm woulden't have enought torque to help out. And beagle would be probably covered in dust.
Plus! We don't even know where Beagle 2 is!!! It hasen't contacted us.
1. Women start to look good 2. A game of Mumbleypeg does sound like fun! 3. "Hey, you and me, man, we're like brothers, man" 4. "Man...this universe...like...has other universes in it...and we're in another universe..." 5. Hey! I can speack Esperanto! 6. If found GOD! It has "American Standard" tatooed on his forehead!
At looking at the patent, it looks like TIVO forgot that the early claims are suposed to be more general. It almost looks like a defensive patent - somthing designe to quickly go through the USPO without a bunch of fuss.
This patent isen't overly broad - I'll give it that.
But I pity the TIVO lawer that has to go after EchoStar in court with this one - it's way too easy to sidestep, even if the court is convinced that it wasent a USPO mistake to issue it.
EchoStar could replace the "decoder" with a software on a general CPU. Or split the stream into three video, left audio and right audio. Or not split the stream. Or not use MPEG, but ROT13 MPEG.
At looking at the patent, it looks like TIVO forgot that the early claims are suposed to be more general.
Sure the TIVO patent is deigned to be quite specific - just to obfucate that the only thing interesting that their talking about is reading a file with at the same time, the file is being writen too.
It like a patent that reads:
"A process of speaking into a phone. While wearing a clown costume, and eating some cheese on toast. "
and then running around claiming that you patented "calling on the phone."
It is neither obvious nor trivial. Tell me who did real-time time shifting of TV shows (including watching the beginning of a show while the end of that same show is still recording) prior to TiVo.
I did it.
I used an MPEG capture card and software to record my home-made videos onto my computer. Just out of curiosity, I opend the MPEG file with a player at the same time the capture card was writing to the file.
It woked just fine (except that the CPU was VERY active)- I was timeshifting just like TIVO does.
These Microsoft adds give strenght to the the thought that "Linix has arrived". Microsoft is giving Linux much more publicity than ever, and anybody who reads these adds will come away with the idea "Microsoft is *REALLY* worried about Linux!!!"
That's why you don't see comapative adds for cars or any other industry that's figgured out that "basing your opponent only give them attention."
Thanks Microsoft - you're putting Linix into the mainstream one add, and one white-paper, at a time.
'Round where? You must not be in the USA, because here we call people who stand up for their rights against rich corporations "idiots", as you just noticed.
WTF - I am in the USA. Sure there's a bunch of cluster-fuck politicians in the backpocket of coporate industey - but this is still the freest socity in the world.
Our limits are trivial as compared to Euorpean limits - in huge swaths of Europe saying somthig struipd like "Hitler was a nice guy and only helped free the Jews" will get you thrown in the slammer. For a long time.
Hell you can't even sell nazi crap on large chunks of Europe.
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Now hold on there a minute, big fella. What do you mean both sides of the story?
Let me preface this by saying Fax.com is full of shit with they advance this argument, But the restraint on communcations that the the anti-fax law does raise some 1st amendment issues.
I think the law if fine - it's just regulating commercial speach (not polical speach.)
The interesting thing is when a polical campaign "Blast-Faxes" for donations: it that political, or comercial speach.
Or when a charity "blast-faxes" for donations?
Where's the line?
The line is so far from Fax.com, it doesen't matter in this case, but there is a line somewhere where the diference between comercial and politcal speech is hard to diferentate.
Kind of like the border between art and porn.
You don't see Forbes.COM publishing articles saying "pity the poor crack-dealers" now do you?
Actually you do
Forbs ran a "pitty the poor bud-growers" article a few months ago: link here
I RTFA - it was a news piece that showed both sides of the issue. If anyhting, it had an anti-blast-faxer slant: all the quotes and stats from the anti-faxers were reasonable, and the quotes from the blast-faxers made the out to look stupid.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
I like the quote.. but just a thought:
Our natural state is to have rights - the freedom of speach, life, self-defence, liberty, etc.
It's only opressors who hinder us in the ability to excercise those rights: so in reality, we can't fight to gain rights, we fight to be able to express those "inaliable" rights.
We are naturally born with our rights - we only have to fight the people who atempt to hinder us.
I have to admit - that right after 9/11, if NASA asked for a passenger list - I'd would have probably given it to them as fast as possible.
The trouble comes, though, is when a passanger asked me: "Did you share my data with anybody?"
I *would* have told them "Yeah... NASA got a copy. Got a problem with that?"
Airplanse travel over provate and public property - there should be no expecation of pricacy. When a 747 flies over my house - I expect the governemnt to protect me by making sure that some fundelementalist asshole isen't about to crash the plaine into my house.
So what if NASA got a copy of the files ? - it's the hining that's desturbing.
that windows isn't just decided upon by fiat, but instead is the result of endless focus groups and user surveys to determine exactly what grandma actually works most comfortably with!
Focus groups suck for determining design.
Rememeber cars in the 80's that had a computerise voice to tell that "You're door is ajar"?
Focus groups *LOVED* the idea of the car taking to them - it really sucked in reality.
Just like Windows XP has that sucky search dog thing - it's cute the first time, buy annoying as hess lafter that.
we're not talking about especially complicated code in any case, so why bother with the overhead?
The rover isen't just a dumb remote controll car - NASA issues it rather sophisticated commands and the rover moves itself and decides on it own how to cary out those commands.
The reason for it is that Mars is too far away to manage the rover in real time - you have to wait 20 minuite to see the effects of your command.
Zenith Flat 14" VGA - around 1988 Zenith came out with a flat CRT. The thing was gorgeous - the things cost around $1100. IT *REAALY* was flat - it wasen't a curved tube with a bunch of thick glass on it to make it look flat. built like a tank.
IBM 17" Monochrome MGA/XVGA monitor - circa 1990. This monochrome monitor was the best thing ever for text. You could get it to sync at 120HZ - really. Andbecause it was monochrome the dot pitch for the shadow mask was really really small.
What does Apple use to compile OS X - and if IBM get the Objective C sections woking properly, could Apple use the IBM comiper to get OS X to run faster?
Monistary Belnd cofee is roasted by Coffe Appassionato . REALLY GOOD STUFF. Some of the finest cofee you can buy.
Rumor has it that Sharp will be releasing an update soon for 5000 style Zaurus's - it will have the same screen as the Zaurus 700 series (640x480 pixels)
Perhaps this is the reason for the discount.
our company went ahead & did it anyway because we needed a gigabit ethernet driver that was only in FreeBSD 5 not 4.
The Broadcom Gigabit ethernet drivers that were needed were merged back into 4.8 and 4.9 - but 5.1 is so stable that we're not going to change anything.
(Did you buy some IBM eServer's too?)
I suppose you could also just pick a random person, transfer some money and ask them to pass it around, since there are only about 2,000 people there.
Hardly - the article mentions that they were looting from eachother while destater was only just ended.
I'm trying to get technology away from my life - it's not bringing me joy.
For $3500 - I could buy a DLP Projector or Or I could go to France for a month - get fucking drunk on good wine, eat good food and attempt to have fun with the pretty french girls.
Guess which one I'll be thinking about on my death bed?
Sure beats the first name: Oriantalnix.
How far away is the US probe from the beagle landing site? Could they send their own little explorer over to check out what happened?
At the rate that the US probe can travel - it would take *YEARS* to get the the Beagle 2's remains. (this is assuming that Mars is flat - it isen't, it has huge valleys and mountains.)
Even then, it would be of no use - if the Beagle can't open itself, Sprit's arm woulden't have enought torque to help out. And beagle would be probably covered in dust.
Plus! We don't even know where Beagle 2 is!!! It hasen't contacted us.
That was the 4th stage in out drunken scale:
Stages:
1. Women start to look good
2. A game of Mumbleypeg does sound like fun!
3. "Hey, you and me, man, we're like brothers, man"
4. "Man...this universe...like...has other universes in it...and we're in another universe..."
5. Hey! I can speack Esperanto!
6. If found GOD! It has "American Standard" tatooed on his forehead!
Right, and I actually wonder if EchoStar haven't done something very stupid like ripping off a TiVo design wholesale
You may be onto somthing! EchoStar system is also Linux based - like TIVO. Nothing wrong with Linux at all but it is interesting. more info
This will be a fun one - either EchoStar is really up to somthing bad, or TIVO is really overreaching.
At looking at the patent, it looks like TIVO forgot that the early claims are suposed to be more general. It almost looks like a defensive patent - somthing designe to quickly go through the USPO without a bunch of fuss.
This patent isen't overly broad - I'll give it that.
But I pity the TIVO lawer that has to go after EchoStar in court with this one - it's way too easy to sidestep, even if the court is convinced that it wasent a USPO mistake to issue it.
EchoStar could replace the "decoder" with a software on a general CPU. Or split the stream into three video, left audio and right audio. Or not split the stream. Or not use MPEG, but ROT13 MPEG.
At looking at the patent, it looks like TIVO forgot that the early claims are suposed to be more general.
Sure the TIVO patent is deigned to be quite specific - just to obfucate that the only thing interesting that their talking about is reading a file with at the same time, the file is being writen too.
It like a patent that reads:
"A process of speaking into a phone. While wearing a clown costume, and eating some cheese on toast. "
and then running around claiming that you patented "calling on the phone."
It is neither obvious nor trivial. Tell me who did real-time time shifting of TV shows (including watching the beginning of a show while the end of that same show is still recording) prior to TiVo.
I did it.
I used an MPEG capture card and software to record my home-made videos onto my computer. Just out of curiosity, I opend the MPEG file with a player at the same time the capture card was writing to the file.
It woked just fine (except that the CPU was VERY active)- I was timeshifting just like TIVO does.
Haha... You really believe that the USA is the freest (sp?) society in the world?
Yep.
America invented the Internet. Freenet. Email. Movies. Recorded Music. Satelites. PGP. Tele-phones. FAX. We are the censors worst nightmares.
Americans and Western civilisations developed the technologies that allow free flow of thoughts and ideads from anyone to anyone.
Just as Gutenberg's printing press helped spark the free echange of thoughts and ideas, the internet will do the same ten time over.
I can communicate any thought and idea to just about anyone - regardless of "laws" or "censors". I am free.
Comparative adds don't work!!!
These Microsoft adds give strenght to the the thought that "Linix has arrived". Microsoft is giving Linux much more publicity than ever, and anybody who reads these adds will come away with the idea "Microsoft is *REALLY* worried about Linux!!!"
That's why you don't see comapative adds for cars or any other industry that's figgured out that "basing your opponent only give them attention."
Thanks Microsoft - you're putting Linix into the mainstream one add, and one white-paper, at a time.
'Round where? You must not be in the USA, because here we call people who stand up for their rights against rich corporations "idiots", as you just noticed.
WTF - I am in the USA. Sure there's a bunch of cluster-fuck politicians in the backpocket of coporate industey - but this is still the freest socity in the world.
Our limits are trivial as compared to Euorpean limits - in huge swaths of Europe saying somthig struipd like "Hitler was a nice guy and only helped free the Jews" will get you thrown in the slammer. For a long time.
Hell you can't even sell nazi crap on large chunks of Europe.
Is this guy an idiot?
Jon is a noble-hearted man who is standing up to tremedous odds and tremendous risk to fight for somthing that is good.
'round here, we call people like that heros