To be fair, Lafforgue and Voevodsky are hardly "average" mathematicians. The point of the Fields Medals is to recognize that they are extraordinary mathematicians.
Extraordinary journalists HAVE had major impacts on civilization.
>Example: go out 40 light years and watch the TV >shows from 1962, raw and uncut. You'll need a >hell of an amplifier, but that's what modern >technology is for.
Modern technology is for watching old TV shows?
I'm suddenly very depressed.
"Sorry, Anne, I can't be bothered to fix your Oracle stuff right now... I'm more concerned about the I Love Lucy problem."
>If you found this record do you think you could >play it?
Me? Some J. Random Sysadmin finding this thing in the backyard? No.
A team of scientists studying this thing with tons of funding? Let's just say they've got a much better chance.
I'm going to assume that intelligent life on other worlds will have similar divisions, ranging from the unskilled laborers to the professionals to the hardcore research academics.
>watch a DVD on one PC while the disc is in >another
Why complicate things like this? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Mount the DVD drive via your favorite filesystem sharing protocol and stream the data. Decode on the local system.
Easier to do and easier on the network.
-l
Re:Wow. You seeem to really hate America.
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>Let's hear it for people who wholeheartedly >endorse paying poor people of other nations crap >wages!
Woah, woah, woah, settle down there, chief.
He never endorsed it, he never said it was a good thing, he never said he would suggest it.
He only explained why it was done that way.
Re-read before you go off on your rant.
Oh, and as you slam corporations in general, be sure to consider who made your computer, your car, and the trucks that bring you your family-farm-organically-grown produce. And I suppose it's a mom'n'pop small business providing your internet connection, too.
>No, it ran with 6. You needed a disk drive to >load the software.
Actually, it could run with 7.
Apple//e's had cassette tape support, and the software was available on tape.
That's how the Austin DDial (Austin Party Line) did theirs. At one point they had 12 lines, slots 1-6 on two different machines, with slots 7 on each taken up by a serial card.
Here in Austin there is a small chain (three or four stores) of pizza places called Mangia's.
http://www.mangiapizza.com/
They use a large green dino-dragon-esque mascot (his name is Marty), and have a pizza called the Mangiazilla. Their catering truck at one location has a large molded Marty-zilla along the back.... although now, having looked at their site, I notice very few references to Marty (one image on the "Fun" page, the patriotic banner on the front page has a reptillian hand/claw holding the pole), and the Mangiazilla pizza is no longer listed on the menu.
I guess they got their letter, too.
Isn't there some protection for places that obviously are not in a competing market? Couldn't a company make tiny pillows and call themselves Microsoft Bedding? Why don't the same protections apply to a web browser or pizza joint compared to a movie monster? Is it due strictly to the merchandising potential of something like a movie character?
>constitutionality of the state endorsing religion
There is no constitutionality issue involved here.
The US Constitution does not prohibit the state from endorsing or acknowledging religion. It prohibits the state from establishing a religion. Nowhere in the constitution or bill of rights does the vaunted "seperation of church and state" line appear.
The first amendment DOES say that Congress cannot make a law that establishes or prohibits a religion. They can make laws that DEAL with religion. They can make laws that MENTION religion. They cannot, however, declare that the official church of the United States is Catholicism.
It's unfortunate that a good amendment has been so kicked around and trampled and manipulated (much like many other amendments) by people with an agenda.
-l
(oh, and FWIW, I'm an atheist, and I simply don't say the "under god" part)
Re:All OSS no better than all CSS
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>if the country of Peru can afford to maintain >software, then I'm sure the United States can
Because the demands of the Peruvian infrastructure are certainly comparable to those of the US, right?
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>Additionally, how would you power such relay
>stations, solar?
>...
>Wind will be a major problem
Conclusion left as an exercise for the reader.
-l
>Ah yes, and where, please, is the compiler that
>accepts MS word documents?
Every version of MS WOrd I've ever used has a "save as text" option.
Your compilers DO take text, right?
-l
>;sh!t how do I exit this post?
Ctrl-Shift-Meta-A Alt-Q.
>Most respectable programmers I know would rather
>use emacs because of power and ease of use...
Most reprehinsible programmers I know would rather use Visual Studio because of power and ease of use...
>Don't forget the venerable Death Star vs
>Enterprise debate
"Yes, Jackie, you're right. The Fonz could beat up Bruce Lee."
--Michael Kelso
>Just how does the 4000 bc brick gain enough
>velocity to escape the gravity of the solar
>system (let alone the earth)?
Ass-launched bug-plasma. Duh.
-l
To be fair, Lafforgue and Voevodsky are hardly "average" mathematicians. The point of the Fields Medals is to recognize that they are extraordinary mathematicians.
Extraordinary journalists HAVE had major impacts on civilization.
-l
>Example: go out 40 light years and watch the TV
>shows from 1962, raw and uncut. You'll need a
>hell of an amplifier, but that's what modern
>technology is for.
Modern technology is for watching old TV shows?
I'm suddenly very depressed.
"Sorry, Anne, I can't be bothered to fix your Oracle stuff right now... I'm more concerned about the I Love Lucy problem."
-l
>If you found this record do you think you could
>play it?
Me? Some J. Random Sysadmin finding this thing in the backyard? No.
A team of scientists studying this thing with tons of funding? Let's just say they've got a much better chance.
I'm going to assume that intelligent life on other worlds will have similar divisions, ranging from the unskilled laborers to the professionals to the hardcore research academics.
-l
He's not saying the DMCA isn't bad. He's not even saying the DMCA isn't THAT bad.
He agrees that the DMCA is bad and a threat to some people, just not to everyone the EFF said it was a show-stopper to.
He also makes a very good point: Activists that don't understand the impact of the laws they're protesting don't present very convincing cases.
-l
>watch a DVD on one PC while the disc is in
>another
Why complicate things like this? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Mount the DVD drive via your favorite filesystem sharing protocol and stream the data. Decode on the local system.
Easier to do and easier on the network.
-l
>Let's hear it for people who wholeheartedly
>endorse paying poor people of other nations crap
>wages!
Woah, woah, woah, settle down there, chief.
He never endorsed it, he never said it was a good thing, he never said he would suggest it.
He only explained why it was done that way.
Re-read before you go off on your rant.
Oh, and as you slam corporations in general, be sure to consider who made your computer, your car, and the trucks that bring you your family-farm-organically-grown produce. And I suppose it's a mom'n'pop small business providing your internet connection, too.
-l
>>Are you mowing the yard or playing Zork?
:-)
>This is an IP capable mower, after all.
Ooh. So it's a MUD. Gotcha.
-l
>Oh, and tied to a pole, your sheep would be easy
>pickings for any passing Australian, especially
>that Crocodile Hunter bloke...
"Crikey! Now he's REALLY pissed off! I won't be using my thumb this time, though..."
Are you mowing the yard or playing Zork?
-l
>S&G wrote the version that says "words of the
>prophets"
Heh, I was waiting for this.
Rush's lyrics in Spirit of Radio were
"For the words of the profits are written on the studio walls"
Simon's lyrics in Sounds of Silence were
"And the sign said: the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls"
Now, the joke here (and I'll go slow so I don't lose you) is that this is ADVERTISING, thus PROFIT based.
But it's on SUBWAY walls.
So. There ya go.
-l
Simon & Garfunkle did it first in "Sounds of Silence".
-l
The article headline didn't go as far with it as they could have.
"And the words of the PROFITS are written on the subway walls..."
-l
>and any good lawyer will run circles around you
>in court.
So will most bad lawyers.
>his lame arguments are no reason to stop pushing
>for governments to use Free or Open Source
>software wherever possible.
His point was that the legislation would require the government to use free or open source software at all times, not "wherever possible".
Use the best tool for the job. If that's free/open, great. If it's not, oh well.
As a citizen and taxpayer, I'd be more annoyed at the government being forced to use a cheaper yet inferior product if a better one is available.
-l
>No, it ran with 6. You needed a disk drive to
//e's had cassette tape support, and the software was available on tape.
>load the software.
Actually, it could run with 7.
Apple
That's how the Austin DDial (Austin Party Line) did theirs. At one point they had 12 lines, slots 1-6 on two different machines, with slots 7 on each taken up by a serial card.
-l
Here in Austin there is a small chain (three or four stores) of pizza places called Mangia's.
http://www.mangiapizza.com/
They use a large green dino-dragon-esque mascot (his name is Marty), and have a pizza called the Mangiazilla. Their catering truck at one location has a large molded Marty-zilla along the back.
I guess they got their letter, too.
Isn't there some protection for places that obviously are not in a competing market? Couldn't a company make tiny pillows and call themselves Microsoft Bedding? Why don't the same protections apply to a web browser or pizza joint compared to a movie monster? Is it due strictly to the merchandising potential of something like a movie character?
-l
>constitutionality of the state endorsing religion
There is no constitutionality issue involved here.
The US Constitution does not prohibit the state from endorsing or acknowledging religion. It prohibits the state from establishing a religion. Nowhere in the constitution or bill of rights does the vaunted "seperation of church and state" line appear.
The first amendment DOES say that Congress cannot make a law that establishes or prohibits a religion. They can make laws that DEAL with religion. They can make laws that MENTION religion. They cannot, however, declare that the official church of the United States is Catholicism.
It's unfortunate that a good amendment has been so kicked around and trampled and manipulated (much like many other amendments) by people with an agenda.
-l
(oh, and FWIW, I'm an atheist, and I simply don't say the "under god" part)
>if the country of Peru can afford to maintain
>software, then I'm sure the United States can
Because the demands of the Peruvian infrastructure are certainly comparable to those of the US, right?
-l
Now I'm waiting for someone to point out the flaws in the loooong evacuations in either Austin Powers 2 or League of Their Own.
-l