This term, which is an abuse of the UNIX trademark, and should not be used, is often used in association with products
that share some properties in common with systems carrying the UNIX trademark. Users of such terms should consult
the trademark usage guidelines, which give numerous examples of how to correctly use the trademark, and make the
necessary corrections.
You make it sound like the only thing that will make an American be polite is the threat of sudden and painful death.
There seems to be an American mindset is that people only learn through negative reinforcement. Do something bad and somebody might shoot you. Kill somebody and be killed. Show behaviour deviating from the norm and be punished.
Eeep! My bad. I'd like to apologise for insinuating you'd miss an obvious bug like that. However, I've got a few questions. Does the proliferation of phantom threads ever causes problems, and (is it)|(will it be) possible to turn said feature off?
What I want to know is, where in the article did Lessig mention tax? Did you miss the bit where Hemos said give it a full read?
The issue here is open access and choice for consumers, instead of taking the meager options available. Instead of a country-wide monopoly, you get area monopolies, with companies divvying up areas, and the people in them consequently getting lousy service.
Certain search engines select ads based on previous searches recorded in cookie form, in the hope of targeting markets. Search for porn, you get ads for porn. If the 16 year old in question really did "hit search and a picture of a naked woman appeared", maybe her parents were the ones looking up porn.
Methinks the parents do protest too much.
Also, I can't get Google's search engine to go off topic at all for the first few pages.
Verio seems to be subscribing to the market standard of Shotgun Copyrighting. "We must copyright EVERYTHING WE DO!" I'm suprised that they didn't try for W, H, O, I and S as well. No wonder the Copyright officials have problems- companies are playing "those with the most patents win." Perhaps some sort of limitation to the number of patents per entity per year would be one possible solution, albeit a very poor one.
G: We put flexibility into the ROM which isn't documented at all, and which is not sold as a feature on the thing.
THE EVOLUTION OF MICROSOFT 1980s- "It's not a feature, it's a bug" 1990s- "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
One of the things he seems most irate about is that people could possibly want more out of his program than he gave them, and that they were able to get it. I'm proud to see that the power of Open Source was felt even back then.
Does anyone else get the feeling that sometime between then and now the Patents Office just gave up trying to stop people from patenting things? Now it seems you can just patent whatever you damn well want, however illogical.
Re:And great opportunity for the spin doctors!
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Would you call a region of a wall that is a few percent less thick a "hole"?
I wouldn't even call it a wall. It's a fluid region of gas that changes depending on season and weather conditions that acts as a filter for UV-B and other radiation.
"experts" can't even explain the causes of the ice ages.
Nice straw man. What does meteorological history have to do with current climatic changes caused by emitted chemicals? Have a look at this to learn how ozone loss happens.
California wants to do just this to pretty much *anything* with a gas engine in it.
Also look at to learn that California is in the top bracket of states ranked by hazardous air pollutants.
a few percent less thick a "hole"?
A few percent less than what? Measured when? The actual value ranges from 11-30% during the year, measured by deviation from the levels during the 1960s. Over Australia, according to the 1997 State Of the Environment report, ozone levels hit about 89%. This means "the increase in erythemal UV-B radiation (the most damaging for plants and animals) is expected to be about 13%". Don't forget that zooplankton and phytoplankton have no protection from UV-B. If they start dying, the ocean has big problems.
Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world, both malignant and non-malignant.
One of the reasons that Slashdot and its ilk brings out the jerk in some of us is anonymity. Not only the "Nobody knows who I am" variety, but the anonymity brought about by being part of a pack. Rather than expressing distinct, well thought out opinions and facts as part of a cogent argument, people find it easier to engage in simple contradiction and personal attacks.
I know the geek community to be liberal, egalitarian and open to logical discussion. But when you look at it in a forum such as slashdot, it doesn't look like that at all.
The article fails to mention if the statistics include Hong Kong and Macau. The comment "Beijing residents accounted for more than 20% of users" seems to indicate that the SARs don't factor in.
I was interested to note that the CIA World Factbook has no stats on Internet usage at all.
I wonder if China fears the internet community as much as they do the Falun Gong. Perhaps soon they'll be policing it in the same way. Or do they already?
From http://slashdot.org/features/99/10/01/1215235.shtm l
"Clark's #7, sensory input. I just talked to a professor of neurophysiology here and he told me a few interesting things. He said that we would definitely be able to do this within 100 years. There's lots of research into this area, especially the eyes. Today we have a pad you can wear on your back that has thousands of pins in it. These pins put light pressure on the skin of your back to form a "braille" image of the b/w image from a camera. With practice, people are able to see with their skin. Fully jacking the brain should be do-able by 2100 he says definitely. I think he was being conservative."
Unless I've misunderstood this bit entirely, it is separate from Clarke's predictions.
Also of interest are braille monitors and reading machines- essentially they're monitors and OCR devices with vibrating pins instead of pixels. Nifty, eh?
Attempting to classify history into ages is probably a mistake. Whose technology do you base it off? The most advanced? The prevailing technology? The prevailing technology where? Still, it's amazingly cool. Anyone else feel like they're in a game of Civ:CTP, and their civilisation just started a Wonder of the World?
(1) Probably Too Much. (2) Will I die through the action or inaction of a vacuum cleaner? I could either be smothered by dust puppies, or... eeew. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Here's a link to a similar concept submitted to a design magazine in November. Due to poor frame html, the border isn't included.
Slashdot Mirror
That's why it's called Asynchronous DSL- upstream and downstream are not the same.
No, it's not. From the unix(TM) faq...
What is a "Unix-like" operating system?
This term, which is an abuse of the UNIX trademark, and should not be used, is often used in association with products that share some properties in common with systems carrying the UNIX trademark. Users of such terms should consult the trademark usage guidelines, which give numerous examples of how to correctly use the trademark, and make the necessary corrections.
You make it sound like the only thing that will make an American be polite is the threat of sudden and painful death.
There seems to be an American mindset is that people only learn through negative reinforcement. Do something bad and somebody might shoot you. Kill somebody and be killed. Show behaviour deviating from the norm and be punished.
Maybe education would be better than persecution.
Eeep! My bad. I'd like to apologise for insinuating you'd miss an obvious bug like that. However, I've got a few questions. Does the proliferation of phantom threads ever causes problems, and (is it)|(will it be) possible to turn said feature off?
For those of you who haven't figured it out, you can go places by editing the sid in the URLs by hand.
This needs to be fixed in Slashcode 1.1.
Otherwise, thanks for a great site, Pat and Chris.
Here's what I've found so far...
Slashdot Marketing
Hot Grits
Slashdot
Natalie Portman
What I want to know is, where in the article did Lessig mention tax? Did you miss the bit where Hemos said give it a full read?
The issue here is open access and choice for consumers, instead of taking the meager options available. Instead of a country-wide monopoly, you get area monopolies, with companies divvying up areas, and the people in them consequently getting lousy service.
You're probably thinking of Q-Bert.
It's true- the Fosters in America is imported from Canada.
Release Early, Release Often.
No reason why it can't apply to journalism.
Certain search engines select ads based on previous searches recorded in cookie form, in the hope of targeting markets. Search for porn, you get ads for porn. If the 16 year old in question really did "hit search and a picture of a naked woman appeared", maybe her parents were the ones looking up porn.
Methinks the parents do protest too much.
Also, I can't get Google's search engine to go off topic at all for the first few pages.
The whole point of BO2K was that it supported NT.
Just because you couldn't find it on the default settings, does not mean it isn't out there.
Verio seems to be subscribing to the market standard of Shotgun Copyrighting. "We must copyright EVERYTHING WE DO!"
I'm suprised that they didn't try for W, H, O, I and S as well.
No wonder the Copyright officials have problems- companies are playing "those with the most patents win." Perhaps some sort of limitation to the number of patents per entity per year would be one possible solution, albeit a very poor one.
G: We put flexibility into the ROM which isn't documented at all, and which is not sold as a feature on the thing.
THE EVOLUTION OF MICROSOFT
1980s- "It's not a feature, it's a bug"
1990s- "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
One of the things he seems most irate about is that people could possibly want more out of his program than he gave them, and that they were able to get it. I'm proud to see that the power of Open Source was felt even back then.
Does anyone else get the feeling that sometime between then and now the Patents Office just gave up trying to stop people from patenting things? Now it seems you can just patent whatever you damn well want, however illogical.
Would you call a region of a wall that is a few percent less thick a "hole"?
I wouldn't even call it a wall. It's a fluid region of gas that changes depending on season and weather conditions that acts as a filter for UV-B and other radiation.
"experts" can't even explain the causes of the ice ages.
Nice straw man. What does meteorological history have to do with current climatic changes caused by emitted chemicals? Have a look at this to learn how ozone loss happens.
California wants to do just this to pretty much *anything* with a gas engine in it.
Also look at to learn that California is in the top bracket of states ranked by hazardous air pollutants.
a few percent less thick a "hole"?
A few percent less than what? Measured when? The actual value ranges from 11-30% during the year, measured by deviation from the levels during the 1960s.
Over Australia, according to the 1997 State Of the Environment report, ozone levels hit about 89%. This means "the increase in erythemal UV-B radiation (the most damaging for plants and animals) is expected to be about 13%". Don't forget that zooplankton and phytoplankton have no protection from UV-B. If they start dying, the ocean has big problems.
Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world, both malignant and non-malignant.
Don't laugh.
I'm not.
Or
"DIVX will never make de grade."
zorba
JOHN CAGE (strapped to table): Do you really expect me to conduct this antiquated tonal system?
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: No, Mr. Cage, I expect you to die!
One of the reasons that Slashdot and its ilk brings out the jerk in some of us is anonymity.
Not only the "Nobody knows who I am" variety, but the anonymity brought about by being part of a pack. Rather than expressing distinct, well thought out opinions and facts as part of a cogent argument, people find it easier to engage in simple contradiction and personal attacks.
I know the geek community to be liberal, egalitarian and open to logical discussion.
But when you look at it in a forum such as slashdot, it doesn't look like that at all.
The article fails to mention if the statistics include Hong Kong and Macau. The comment "Beijing residents accounted for more than 20% of users" seems to indicate that the SARs don't factor in.
I was interested to note that the CIA World Factbook has no stats on Internet usage at all.
I wonder if China fears the internet community as much as they do the Falun Gong. Perhaps soon they'll be policing it in the same way. Or do they already?
According to slashdot, this has already happened.
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From http://slashdot.org/features/99/10/01/1215235.sht
"Clark's #7, sensory input. I just talked to a professor of neurophysiology here and he told me a few interesting things. He said that we would definitely be able to do this within 100 years. There's lots of research into this area, especially the eyes. Today we have a pad you can wear on your back that has thousands of pins in it. These pins put light pressure on the skin of your back to form a "braille" image of the b/w image from a camera. With practice, people are able to see with their skin. Fully jacking the brain should be do-able by 2100 he says definitely. I think he was being conservative."
Unless I've misunderstood this bit entirely, it is separate from Clarke's predictions.
Also of interest are braille monitors and reading machines- essentially they're monitors and OCR devices with vibrating pins instead of pixels. Nifty, eh?
zorba
It's not the case now, but slashdot.com used to point to an white paper on cybersquatting.
Maybe Chris Richardson will be accommodating.
Using whose system?
Attempting to classify history into ages is probably a mistake. Whose technology do you base it off? The most advanced? The prevailing technology? The prevailing technology where?
Still, it's amazingly cool. Anyone else feel like they're in a game of Civ:CTP, and their civilisation just started a Wonder of the World?
zorba
(1) Probably Too Much.
(2) Will I die through the action or inaction of a vacuum cleaner? I could either be smothered by dust puppies, or... eeew. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Here's a link to a similar concept submitted to a design magazine in November. Due to poor frame html, the border isn't included.
Zorba