A beowulf cluster of these! Seriously, this is way better than all those pitiful voice-over-IP programs that never worked right. As long as you're paying for high-speed Internet access, you might as well use a little of it for your phone. I just hope the phone companies won't come up with some lame-ass reason why this is illegal. I wonder what the price and sound quality are, though...
Not in the context we're talking about here, because somebody (f'rinstance Microsoft) suing Slashdot would not be suing for damages incurred by Slashdot's negligence or anything like that, but instead for Slashdot's putative copyright infringement. Therefore, signing away the right to damages wouldn't save our beloved/.
Yes, but they are notable for their scarcity. Brown v. Board, which overturned the "seperate but equal" doctrine begun by Plessy v. Ferguson, and Roe v. Wade were exceptions to the rule. The current Court is opposed to judicial activism, and is conservative anyway, so it is very unlikely that copyright reform will come from the Court. However, they might be amenable to the argument that the DMCA's (or is it UCITA's?) prohibition on unfavorable reviews is restrictive of free speech, which is a completely seperate issue from that of copyrights.
I thought that the legal status of trade secrets was that they were unenforceable. That is, if you patent something, then other people may be barred from using it, or charged a royalty, but that if you make something a trade secret, it was unprotectable. For instance, the recipe for Coca-Cola is a trade secret because the company did not want to publish it. Of course, the DMCA or UCITA may have changed this along with everything else.
This guy Taschen asserts that "AOL tapped an abundance of good programmers who did all the work for free." However, the majority of the progarammers were Netscape employees, being payed explicitly for working on Mozilla. Of course, AOL owns Netscape, and has for a substantial part of the time that Mozilla has been in development. So AOL in fact paid employees to develop Mozilla, and kept the project open-source at the same time.
And Volentium has the added bonus of connoting wanting (volition), from the Latin word volo, velle, volui, meaning to wish or want. Alternatively, Intel could bring out the Stultium, Stultium Pro, Stultium II, etc. (stultus means stupid).
There are schools already where students take one course at a time. Cornell College (not University), in Mount Vernon, Iowa, for instance. Students take class for 3 and a half weeks, take a final, rest a couple days, and do the same thing again. I'm sure there are others, but this is one that I know of from reading one of the Princeton Reviews's college guides.
Slashdot's only reason for existence is not discussion. A lot of us also like to read Slashdot to find out what's happening these days in the nerd world. Stuff like this is important to know about.
Granted, the Reform Party is not liberal, but neither is it conservative in the traditional sense. Lots of conservatives, especially party-line Republicans, hate the Reform Party.
But don't forget! We can't have explosive taggants or bans on long-distant sniper rifles and heavy-duty bazooka-style assault weapons, because the recreational bomber (disclosure: that's G.B. Trudeau's phrase) needs privacy, and them deer can be a bitch to schoot from 3/4 mile, and even when you get 'em in your sights, them's sturdy bastards. I only wisch I have a Quake 3 railgun at my disposal.
Yeah, and in England, you can smoke when you're 16, but you can't drink until you're 21. This was frustrating when I was visiting this summer (with my mom, incidentally), because I just wanted a pint. I wasn't going to smash up some cars or anything. However, if I'd wanted to become addicted to tobacco and suffer serious long-term damage, instead of minor short-term damage, that would have been fine.
I refer to my Linux books and my printer manual and other books all the time, to remember things like what cartridges my printer takes and how to do certain things. A printed book still works even when you've fried your X server or removed/etc. Although online resources are convenient and useful, books still have a place.
I don't think LPs are a good example. It's very easy to play back a record, and requires no cryptanalysis or anything, as might be required for playback of a digital medium. You just stick a needle in the groove, and spin the disc. CDs, on the other hand, even assuming that the physical objects can survive for any reasonable length of time, which they can't, would be a little tricky to play back. They need all kinds of DACs and lasers and things, which might not be obvious to an alien. Given enough thought and experimentation, though, most things can probably be figured out.
A little off topic, but I actually tried heating paper to 451 degrees once, but it didn't burn. I put it in the oven, and in fact cranked it up to 500 or 550, but it still didn't burn. I realize that oven-style heat is qualitatively different from match-style combustion, but I thought it might work anyway. After all, temperature is temperature.
Aughhhhhhh! It still insists on having a Sidebar, even though I really don't want one. I remove it with the option int he View menu, and then it's back the next time. I don't know how to remove this. I've looked at the preferences files, but I didn't see anything. Other than that, it looks pretty great, guys.
You're right, in that we shouldn't criticize each other for living in countries with bad laws that none of us had anything to do with. However, I wouldn't say that the NRA is equivalent to the ACLU. The NRA is a special-interest group with a dubious interpretation of the Second Amendment (the Amendment recommends a "well-regulated militia," which is the National Guard, and anyway, guns were much less powerful 211 years ago). The ACLU is a legitimate, non-special-interest group that really does defend people's rights, not their desire to be able to explode deer and 9-year-olds into 470,702,342 little pieces.
I wouldn't say that telling offensive jokes is a "right." We all enjoy it sometimes, of course, but you have to think about context. If you tell a racist or sexist joke, think about who's going to be offended. Offensive jokes are...offensive. It's not an issue of free speech, but one of politeness.
They said that they thought of doing it with X10, but that it would have been too slow.
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What do you think? He probably doesn't have the right video card. That's my situation. I'm not hard-core enough to shell out another one or two hundred bucks for a Linux-supported video card, when my Permedia 2 is adequate. It's still a pain in the ass to have to reboot whenever I want to play Q3 or Unreal Tournament.
Fine! So they can use whatever toolit they want! Use Motif, for all I care, even though it is hideously ugly. The point is, make it actually a Linux program.
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Here's a way to get rid of those pesky reporters.....
Just kidding.
I think that's a very wise, and elegant, idea. Nice to see some thoughtful folks around, still.
A beowulf cluster of these! Seriously, this is way better than all those pitiful voice-over-IP programs that never worked right. As long as you're paying for high-speed Internet access, you might as well use a little of it for your phone. I just hope the phone companies won't come up with some lame-ass reason why this is illegal. I wonder what the price and sound quality are, though...
Not in the context we're talking about here, because somebody (f'rinstance Microsoft) suing Slashdot would not be suing for damages incurred by Slashdot's negligence or anything like that, but instead for Slashdot's putative copyright infringement. Therefore, signing away the right to damages wouldn't save our beloved /.
Yes, but they are notable for their scarcity. Brown v. Board, which overturned the "seperate but equal" doctrine begun by Plessy v. Ferguson, and Roe v. Wade were exceptions to the rule. The current Court is opposed to judicial activism, and is conservative anyway, so it is very unlikely that copyright reform will come from the Court. However, they might be amenable to the argument that the DMCA's (or is it UCITA's?) prohibition on unfavorable reviews is restrictive of free speech, which is a completely seperate issue from that of copyrights.
I thought that the legal status of trade secrets was that they were unenforceable. That is, if you patent something, then other people may be barred from using it, or charged a royalty, but that if you make something a trade secret, it was unprotectable. For instance, the recipe for Coca-Cola is a trade secret because the company did not want to publish it. Of course, the DMCA or UCITA may have changed this along with everything else.
This guy Taschen asserts that "AOL tapped an abundance of good programmers who did all the work for free." However, the majority of the progarammers were Netscape employees, being payed explicitly for working on Mozilla. Of course, AOL owns Netscape, and has for a substantial part of the time that Mozilla has been in development. So AOL in fact paid employees to develop Mozilla, and kept the project open-source at the same time.
And Volentium has the added bonus of connoting wanting (volition), from the Latin word volo, velle, volui, meaning to wish or want.
Alternatively, Intel could bring out the Stultium, Stultium Pro, Stultium II, etc. (stultus means stupid).
There are schools already where students take one course at a time. Cornell College (not University), in Mount Vernon, Iowa, for instance. Students take class for 3 and a half weeks, take a final, rest a couple days, and do the same thing again. I'm sure there are others, but this is one that I know of from reading one of the Princeton Reviews's college guides.
Slashdot's only reason for existence is not discussion. A lot of us also like to read Slashdot to find out what's happening these days in the nerd world. Stuff like this is important to know about.
Granted, the Reform Party is not liberal, but neither is it conservative in the traditional sense. Lots of conservatives, especially party-line Republicans, hate the Reform Party.
How many liberal sites do you know that have nudity?
Green Party: Ralph Nader Nude!!!
Amnesty International: Hot Teen Political Prisoners!!!!
Sierra Club: Free Celebrity Tree Pics XXX Hardcore!!!
But don't forget! We can't have explosive taggants or bans on long-distant sniper rifles and heavy-duty bazooka-style assault weapons, because the recreational bomber (disclosure: that's G.B. Trudeau's phrase) needs privacy, and them deer can be a bitch to schoot from 3/4 mile, and even when you get 'em in your sights, them's sturdy bastards. I only wisch I have a Quake 3 railgun at my disposal.
Yeah, and in England, you can smoke when you're 16, but you can't drink until you're 21. This was frustrating when I was visiting this summer (with my mom, incidentally), because I just wanted a pint. I wasn't going to smash up some cars or anything. However, if I'd wanted to become addicted to tobacco and suffer serious long-term damage, instead of minor short-term damage, that would have been fine.
Back when I first got Red Hat 5.1, I used to read the manual on the can all the time. It was so nerdy.
I refer to my Linux books and my printer manual and other books all the time, to remember things like what cartridges my printer takes and how to do certain things. A printed book still works even when you've fried your X server or removed /etc. Although online resources are convenient and useful, books still have a place.
I don't think LPs are a good example. It's very easy to play back a record, and requires no cryptanalysis or anything, as might be required for playback of a digital medium. You just stick a needle in the groove, and spin the disc. CDs, on the other hand, even assuming that the physical objects can survive for any reasonable length of time, which they can't, would be a little tricky to play back. They need all kinds of DACs and lasers and things, which might not be obvious to an alien. Given enough thought and experimentation, though, most things can probably be figured out.
A little off topic, but I actually tried heating paper to 451 degrees once, but it didn't burn. I put it in the oven, and in fact cranked it up to 500 or 550, but it still didn't burn. I realize that oven-style heat is qualitatively different from match-style combustion, but I thought it might work anyway. After all, temperature is temperature.
Actually, IIRC, 2600 is named after the Atari 2600. I think it's because it was many hackers/crackers' first computer.
Aughhhhhhh! It still insists on having a Sidebar, even though I really don't want one. I remove it with the option int he View menu, and then it's back the next time. I don't know how to remove this. I've looked at the preferences files, but I didn't see anything. Other than that, it looks pretty great, guys.
You're right, in that we shouldn't criticize each other for living in countries with bad laws that none of us had anything to do with. However, I wouldn't say that the NRA is equivalent to the ACLU. The NRA is a special-interest group with a dubious interpretation of the Second Amendment (the Amendment recommends a "well-regulated militia," which is the National Guard, and anyway, guns were much less powerful 211 years ago). The ACLU is a legitimate, non-special-interest group that really does defend people's rights, not their desire to be able to explode deer and 9-year-olds into 470,702,342 little pieces.
I wouldn't say that telling offensive jokes is a "right." We all enjoy it sometimes, of course, but you have to think about context. If you tell a racist or sexist joke, think about who's going to be offended. Offensive jokes are...offensive. It's not an issue of free speech, but one of politeness.
They said that they thought of doing it with X10, but that it would have been too slow.
What do you think? He probably doesn't have the right video card. That's my situation. I'm not hard-core enough to shell out another one or two hundred bucks for a Linux-supported video card, when my Permedia 2 is adequate. It's still a pain in the ass to have to reboot whenever I want to play Q3 or Unreal Tournament.
Fine! So they can use whatever toolit they want! Use Motif, for all I care, even though it is hideously ugly. The point is, make it actually a Linux program.