I don't know of any state other than Nevada that could be fairly described as "catching up" with Delaware--and Nevada has gone far belong catching up, and has left Delaware behind.
No, we don't have Chancery courts, but our regular system functions well enough that this isn't a problem . ..
ABC originally pulled off INstant Replay by using computer hard drives as analog devices . . . I forget how much time they held (not a lot!), but it was pretty much just an analog recording on the disk surface, allowing them to instantly go back a few seconds . ..
yes, they were much more interesting then, and you could build something from scratch that would keep up with anything commercial. And clever design still counted for a lot . ..
Anyway, it goes back farther than that. Somewhere in my stuff is an entire LP full of morse code at various speeds for learing it . . . something I never got around to doing, and don't have time for now . ..
unless she gets there early enough to get the money collection job tomorrow, she doesn't get the benefit of the fertilizer.
hawk, refraining from pointing out that there is no such job, and that that's just some lady who wandered in and takies advantage of gullible tourists:)
>Computers are not people. They are not "he" nor "she". They are "it".
No, definitely not people. "demonic beings from the planes of Hell" is more like it.
I don't know about "it," though--Damien, my old SE/30, picked up that name after the monitor suddenly spun 720 degrees in its mount. "It" just doesn't seem right, even thugh demons don't have gender (at least as we normally understand it) . ..
>Had to go to Vegas once a year for the annual meeting
For a very loose definition of "had to":)
I usually made sure that the bylaws allowed (but didn't require) phone meetings--I could sit in my Nevada office on a conference call and put words into my clients's mouths to conduct the meeting . ..
>Companies incorporate in Delaware because the >corporation law there is very favorable and the >chancery courts (courts that deal with corporate >matters) are knowledgable and relatively speedy.
Also, because they don't know that Nevada's law is even more friendly to corporations (or at least to the directors:), while eliminating the corporate tax entirely (OK, you pay a few bucks each year to file your list of 3 officers and director(s).
>Slashdot and eWEEK are insider sites, information >that is published here is not really published in >the general / popular media sense.
Once upon a time that was true.
As of a couple of years ago, it's rare to find technical announcements on slashdot that were not in that morning or the prior day's Wall Street Journal.
Of course, here in my exile, the WSJ doesn't usually make it until the afternoon, so I can't tell you if this one is in it today or not . ..
>And who pays 50 bucks for a computer game? I wait >2 years and let the price drop to 10-15 bucks.
Good heavens, why the rush?
I still haven't gotten to all the ones I found in a dollar store that had gone there to die--$1 for jewelboxes, $2 for packages--and then I bought a few more for $4 to $5 . ..
Of course, I need to find a set of win3.1 and dos 6 install disks, as the installation cd has flipped some bits, and some don't run under dark side 98 (no sound in Master of Orion!).
Shoot, I'm old enough to remember when you had to get software to slow your clock speed
down when playing the older games.
Are you *trying* to make me feel old???:)
If you need to lower your clock speed, you solder in a slower crystal . . . or put in a socket for your crystals . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need that, then go pay for it!
> To try is to never gain a "meeting of the minds", an absolute pre-requisite to contracts.
NO! The "meeting of the minds" is frequently repeated by many, including some lawyers and some textbooks, but it's just plain WRONG.
The standard is objective, not subjective. The validity of the contract is determined *entirely* from the provable circumstances, not what anyone thought they were doing.
Also, as long as I'm at it, boilerplate statements that the boilerplate can't be changed, and written contracts that prohibit oral modifications, range from tricky to flat out invalid. The oral change to the contract changes and sets aside the no oral changes rule . . . "no unauthorized person may change" isn't overrriden by a purported change by an unauthorized person, but there might not be an offer and acceptance (the actual rule), or the contract may be other than intended . ..
I'd give GNU almost the entire transmission to Linux's engine. Then you get the rest of the car from somewhere else, and end up naming it after the engine . . .
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No, we don't have Chancery courts, but our regular system functions well enough that this isn't a problem . .
hawk
hawk
Anyway, it goes back farther than that. Somewhere in my stuff is an entire LP full of morse code at various speeds for learing it . . . something I never got around to doing, and don't have time for now . .
hawk
Me, but I already have one
Know anyone who knows how to fix a wire recorder?
This thing uses a five or ten pound "cassette" to hold the wire spool it uses for audio recording. I even have a second (but broken) cassette for it.
hawk
hawk, refraining from pointing out that there is no such job, and that that's just some lady who wandered in and takies advantage of gullible tourists
hawk
No, definitely not people. "demonic beings from the planes of Hell" is more like it.
I don't know about "it," though--Damien, my old SE/30, picked up that name after the monitor suddenly spun 720 degrees in its mount. "It" just doesn't seem right, even thugh demons don't have gender (at least as we normally understand it) . .
hawk
For a very loose definition of "had to"
I usually made sure that the bylaws allowed (but didn't require) phone meetings--I could sit in my Nevada office on a conference call and put words into my clients's mouths to conduct the meeting . .
hawk, esq.
>corporation law there is very favorable and the
>chancery courts (courts that deal with corporate >matters) are knowledgable and relatively speedy.
Also, because they don't know that Nevada's law is even more friendly to corporations (or at least to the directors
hawk, esq.
Such a pity that the GPL stops anyone else from making and distributing those binaries frome the same source and scripts . .
hawk
correct. Linux is just another microsoft astroturf campaign in an effort to convince the DoJ that there's competition out there
hawk
hawk, shuddering at the notion of an 1802 compatible virus . . .
I forget when the Vax rolled around, sometime in the early 80's. They got called "vaxen", and it spread at some point to boxen in general . .
hawk
Good heavens, then where am I supposed to put the models I write? Running these is *why* I have fast systems . .
hawk
It used to be doable, but pricy, but on today's systems?
hawk
And Raskin proposed GUI's long before that.
On top of that, Apple had mockups of the Lisa interface long before the PARC visit. see Inventing the Lisa Interface
That apple got the idea from xerox is simply folklore.
hawk
Gee, and doesn't that stovepipe sound similar to "heat chimney" (or whatever apple called it?)
Now, if this thing had nine drive bays and a 500W power supply, it might make a difference to me
hawk
hawk
Why bother? It seems kind of odd to create another distribution whose purpose is to mimic the bsd's. Why not just use one?
hawk
>that is published here is not really published in
>the general / popular media sense.
Once upon a time that was true.
As of a couple of years ago, it's rare to find technical announcements on slashdot that were not in that morning or the prior day's Wall Street Journal.
Of course, here in my exile, the WSJ doesn't usually make it until the afternoon, so I can't tell you if this one is in it today or not . .
hawk
>2 years and let the price drop to 10-15 bucks.
Good heavens, why the rush?
I still haven't gotten to all the ones I found in a dollar store that had gone there to die--$1 for jewelboxes, $2 for packages--and then I bought a few more for $4 to $5 . .
Of course, I need to find a set of win3.1 and dos 6 install disks, as the installation cd has flipped some bits, and some don't run under dark side 98 (no sound in Master of Orion!).
Shoot, I'm old enough to remember when you had to get software to slow your clock speed
down when playing the older games.
Are you *trying* to make me feel old???
If you need to lower your clock speed, you solder in a slower crystal . . . or put in a socket for your crystals . . .
hawk
I'm surprised I didn't catch the math error given when I read it
hawk
>to the power of Infinity minus one, an irrational number
No. Aleph(0) is the infinity of the integers. Aleph(1) is the infinity of the continuum.
Aleph(i)=2**Aleph(i-1)
Aleph(i)+Aleph(j)=Aleph
Aleph(i)*Aleph(j)=Aleph(Max(i,j))
And so forth. So 2^infinity-1 = infinity, where "infinity" is whichever infinity you were talking about in the first place.
This is basic transfinite arithmetic,
hawk, who learned this directly from Halmos
(yes, *that* Halmos)
> To try is to never gain a "meeting of the minds", an absolute pre-requisite to contracts.
NO! The "meeting of the minds" is frequently repeated by many, including some lawyers and some textbooks, but it's just plain WRONG.
The standard is objective, not subjective. The validity of the contract is determined *entirely* from the provable circumstances, not what anyone thought they were doing.
Also, as long as I'm at it, boilerplate statements that the boilerplate can't be changed, and written contracts that prohibit oral modifications, range from tricky to flat out invalid. The oral change to the contract changes and sets aside the no oral changes rule . . . "no unauthorized person may change" isn't overrriden by a purported change by an unauthorized person, but there might not be an offer and acceptance (the actual rule), or the contract may be other than intended . .
hawk, esq
hawk