'Goodwins Law'...'Holocaust' - Brutal- a lot of grumpy/twitchy people here - and I'm not interested in going there.
I threw out a little modification of a famous quote that I felt encompassed the idea behind "Sue Me First" . When people stand up and say "SUE ME First!" they are doing exactly what needs to be done to prevent the trampling of Open Source under trumped up copyright/patent infringement charges. I'm pretty impressed with them, bold, brave defenders, so to speak, of the community. However maybe next time I will try a quote from a teen movie - or sports film
"Look, mister, there's two kinds of dumb. Uh, guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon(SCO), and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room(MS). First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with."
First they came for the Hackers, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Hacker.
Then they came for Novell, and I didn't speak up,
because I don't use Novell.
Then they came for the Linux Users, and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Windows user.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left
to speak up for me.
Well not really, but we seem to live best in a natural habitat - city dwellers have higher rates of asthma, there are always cases of sick buildings on the news(bad vents, mold, chemicals), and now fungus eating away at the structure of our space craft. We are really good at building big shiny metal boxes that look like they will stand up to anything, but a little bacteria and the whole thing crumbles. This is a pretty decent justification for 'Leviathan' type spacecraft - partially organic - capable of adapting to organic issues in a way that a metal box just fails.
User demand/requirements will always expand to the limits of an OS's resources/robustness.
This Breaks OS's
I don't mean all users, but every year I expect that much more from my computer/OS and in general user demands are rising.
Computers aren't a stable technology - in the sense that they aren't done evolving by any means, and user demands are high enough to create scarcity in the 'computer resources' available, forcing the continued expansion of OSs. It's a good thing that Users are Too Blame for the bugs in OSs, that's what's driving the evolution of the market.
Oh and I voted this garbage story down in the Firehose, I'm sure I wasn't alone, for what good it did.
1/2 press release on ongoing work, 1/2 Von Danikan / Tesla taking over the world.
ironically enough - the Canadian English dictionary I have doesn't recognize 'spellcheck' or 'plugin' as words.
shift the processing load to your own machine rather then expect Slashdot to do it, and your spellcheck is site independent.
Cold Sleep / Suspended animation....?
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This method uses the fact that cells can live on long after their oxygen supply is cut off, it uses cold to help preserve those cells and allow the oxygen supply to be restored safely.
How do we wake the sleeper? I'd love for this to be part of that answer, in fact before someone went to sleep for the first time it would be ideal to know how to wake them.
"according to sources familiar with the company's plans.----Specifics on which aspect of Silverlight will be open-sourced were not available, and Microsoft's public relations firm declined to comment."
So RTFA - but none of it's official, there are no details other then a little about the market space. In fact I suspect the discussion on Slashdot will be more interesting.
The profiling that is going on, according to various groups, political/media/family etc kids have/are:
- Currently engaging in unsafe sexual practises, rife with disease
- Raping and pillaging The Music and Movie industry blind
- Attention Deficit Disorder, hyperactive , under educated scholastic failures
- Zero self control, obese drug addicts
- Young psychos liable to snap from 1 too many Halo Missions and go Columbine
I'd hate to be a teen growing up now.
. but in both cases, it is collapsing for YOU, the observer. Every other observer has to make them collapse for themselves by either observing something the cat/rock, or observing something that has already collapsed those wave-functions for itself.
So a tree falling in the forest only makes a sound for those who hear it. This really seems to fall more into the realm of philosophy than science.
close I think, my answer to the tree falling question seems to line up with these ideas:
"The tree didn't make a noise until someone/something perceived that it fell, and then only for them."
Perception can be hearing it, seeing it, or spying a stump and body of a tree covered in moss. The time interval is irrelevant, the only important thing is the perception that this tree has fallen at some point in time, and therefore made a noise.
Or keying the teachers car with the initials of the jerk you don't like in your class. Gotcha ya pocker, 3 months detention and 200 repair bill. Seriously if I wanted to pock over some dood at work I'd frame him with a leak.
The "Canary Trap" from Patriot Games or some other Tom Clancey Novel. Instead of unique spelling mistakes, a selection of unique words to each email using a Thesaurus . One email says "We will find out who did this" another "We will discover who did this" another "We will locate who did this" and etcetera...
Of course all they can find out is who leaked the email, there is no reason the Richard who leaked the email is the same person who posted the bad review. My AdultFriendFinder name is Richard Steel, you won't find me in the phone book under that.
not flamebait, apparently true, Theo's response was derogatory, and rude. Beyond that it was way out of proportion to the original email from Buesch. Honestly if I knew the guy, we would not be friends, and if he communicated with me the way he tried too communicate about this issue I'd break his nose, and maybe a finger or two. Dood was Rude, quick to attack, and apparently unable to properly analyze what was going on. All you have to do is read the first 2 emails in this exchange to get an idea of what got everybody upset.
I worked in an office where the recently hired tech guy managed to destroy the VP of marketing's Email 3 separate times. All in the first 3 months of his contract. That was the end of him. It's not such a big deal to lose personal email, but for people who have integrated the use of email into their business it's ugly. I would like to think that people are backing up their 1.2 gig PST files, but I know that there are many smart successful people out there with big PST's that have no backup. This kind of behaviour by a Windows Live OneCare is just asking for disaster.
I called the dood a troll and blamed him for a ridiculously large amount (78%) of anti-American sentiment.
Do you believe that I calculated it?, or is it possible that I pulled the number out of my ass?, Similar to other numbers pulled out of other asses when describing the rates of piracy in Canada. But you have a point,
I was too precise with my ASS MATH so let me fix that sentence to read : " The guy is single handedly responsible for as much as 78% of the anti-American sentiment in Canada."
This story was discredited, it's a mess of bad stat's and unfounded allegations that are not supported by the actual facts.
The original Canada.com story stated Thursday, January 25, 2007
As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country. (someone note the bolded words, I could write as little as 0 % and not change the meaning of the sentence, why? Because it's a weak garbage sentence that implies far more then it supports.)
The link that you posted was a little more bald in it's assertions, but not really that different.
Try reading this link to the Toronto Star to see where reasonable minds dispute the "facts" presented by the American Media Companies.
Every week he seems to make a few comments bashing Canada, usually at public events, and typically
without any real justification.
Some of these comments are patently false, or non-applicable to the Canadian reality, many
of them are mean spirited and seem to be designed to damage the historically good relations between
Canada and the US.
The guy is single handedly responsible for 78% of the anti- american sentiment
in Canada.
it can come close, maybe even approximate for some groups, but pulling a random number out of your ass representing the number of spins around the sun it takes to become a responsible adult is silly.
In particular setting 30 as the age that someone can access violent video games is pretty silly, the kind of thing I expect from a person that would rather make a decision based on bias and lack of understanding. In this case someone long past 30.
If this law is even to approach reason it should operate more like effective gun control laws that require some element of education and licensing. That's a reasonable measure, can you pass a responsibility test?
But of course we are just talking about video games, games, make believe, imaginary, not actual real guns, or real killing or real explosions, you would think the honourable member would be old enough to figure out the difference.
I wonder if they could have given the same (work) computer with the same (work) assignment to any patrol officer and received the same result?
I could be wrong but Mr Meredith seems to me to be one of a class of employees whose primary job does not include programming new software. They singled him out for this assignment because of his personal interests, personal skills and recent training on the original software package. If the State has a habit of giving random programming assignments to police officers who also are responsible for patrol duties then I better get out of the business. If he had been transferred out of patrol into an IT department it might make sense, if there was specific paperwork outlining that this is above and beyond the duties of a normal patrolman and he would receive suitable compensation it might make sense. But to give programming tasks to random members of your organization regardless of what job they originally applied and were hired for? Maybe that creepy janitor is a cobol genius, I don't know, let's have him rework the database. It smacks of either genius or madness.
FTAEighteen months ago, the State Patrol praised trooper David Meredith for going beyond the call of duty by developing time-saving software that helps officers write traffic tickets electronically.
In 2003, the state sent Meredith to Iowa to get trained on the Iowa Department of Transportation's Traffic and Criminal Software, or TraCS. Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes, said Kernats.
At the request of his superiors, Meredith tweaked the program so that it would work in Wisconsin and created a way to import driver information and criminal histories into it. The software that imports data saves time and prevents errors, said Jones, the union president
Dang, on the one hand he's praised for going beyond call of duty (great game too) and on the other he was assigned to the project by his bosses. This Trooper isn't a programmer first, he's a cop, who does cop things like write speeding tickets (over 2k a year FTA). He screwed up by doing what his bosses asked him to do without having paper in place to cover what would happen to his work. They screwed up by asking a non-programmer (I sure he is a code wizard but he was hired to be cop first) to do something beyond their job description using personal skills and ultimately personal time. Interesting enough, if I read it right, if the State gets control of the modified software, they won't be selling it for commercial gain, whereas it seems Mr Meredith is interested in making money off of his work, fair, but Iowa originally provided the software with a clause preventing that.
Armstrong and Aldrin found a thin dust layer on the surface of the moon.
'I am at the foot of the ladder. The LM [lunar module ] footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears. to be very, very fine grained, as. you get close to it. It is almost like a powder. Now and then it is very fine. I am going to step off the LM now. That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
When he started walking on the surface of the moon he said:
'The surface is fine and powdery. I can - I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides. of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints. of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.'
When he was collecting samples:
'This is very interesting. It is a very soft surface, but here and there where I plug with the contingency sample collector, I run into a very hard surface, but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. I will try to get a rock in here.'
Apparently the ground was unyielding enough that they had trouble getting the flag planted.
or, the definition that you support and claim is held by the majority of users is wrong. It's happened before, the majority of people thought the world was flat once, and they were wrong, someone thought you were insightful elsewhere and they were wrong. Nothing to lose sleep over though. The fact is an operating PC is under no requirement to be able to access Email/Internet, include a login prompt or even allow 3rd person software to be installed (though that would be boring). The point of this lawsuit is to request that the largest seller of PC's in the world provide it's customers the choice between paying for windows preinstalled on the machine, or not having to pay for windows preinstalled on their machine. That's it, all of your 80%'s or majorities can simply choose to buy their PC with windows preinstalled, the minority that actually understands that a working PC doesn't have to have windows on it just want to be able to buy OS Free PC's from the BIG BOY HP, taking advantage of the economies of scale that allows HP to sell top quality products at reasonable prices.
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I threw out a little modification of a famous quote that I felt encompassed the idea behind "Sue Me First" . When people stand up and say "SUE ME First!" they are doing exactly what needs to be done to prevent the trampling of Open Source under trumped up copyright/patent infringement charges. I'm pretty impressed with them, bold, brave defenders, so to speak, of the community. However maybe next time I will try a quote from a teen movie - or sports film
"Look, mister, there's two kinds of dumb. Uh, guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon(SCO), and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room(MS). First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with."
First they came for the Hackers, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Hacker. Then they came for Novell, and I didn't speak up, because I don't use Novell. Then they came for the Linux Users, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Windows user. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
Well not really, but we seem to live best in a natural habitat - city dwellers have higher rates of asthma, there are always cases of sick buildings on the news(bad vents, mold, chemicals), and now fungus eating away at the structure of our space craft. We are really good at building big shiny metal boxes that look like they will stand up to anything, but a little bacteria and the whole thing crumbles. This is a pretty decent justification for 'Leviathan' type spacecraft - partially organic - capable of adapting to organic issues in a way that a metal box just fails.
This Breaks OS's
I don't mean all users, but every year I expect that much more from my computer/OS and in general user demands are rising.
Computers aren't a stable technology - in the sense that they aren't done evolving by any means, and user demands are high enough to create scarcity in the 'computer resources' available, forcing the continued expansion of OSs. It's a good thing that Users are Too Blame for the bugs in OSs, that's what's driving the evolution of the market.
Oh and I voted this garbage story down in the Firehose, I'm sure I wasn't alone, for what good it did. 1/2 press release on ongoing work, 1/2 Von Danikan / Tesla taking over the world.
ironically enough - the Canadian English dictionary I have doesn't recognize 'spellcheck' or 'plugin' as words.
shift the processing load to your own machine rather then expect Slashdot to do it, and your spellcheck is site independent.
How do we wake the sleeper? I'd love for this to be part of that answer, in fact before someone went to sleep for the first time it would be ideal to know how to wake them.
So RTFA - but none of it's official, there are no details other then a little about the market space. In fact I suspect the discussion on Slashdot will be more interesting.
The profiling that is going on, according to various groups, political/media/family etc kids have/are:
- Currently engaging in unsafe sexual practises, rife with disease
- Raping and pillaging The Music and Movie industry blind
- Attention Deficit Disorder, hyperactive , under educated scholastic failures
- Zero self control, obese drug addicts
- Young psychos liable to snap from 1 too many Halo Missions and go Columbine
I'd hate to be a teen growing up now.
So a tree falling in the forest only makes a sound for those who hear it. This really seems to fall more into the realm of philosophy than science.
close I think, my answer to the tree falling question seems to line up with these ideas:
"The tree didn't make a noise until someone/something perceived that it fell, and then only for them."
Perception can be hearing it, seeing it, or spying a stump and body of a tree covered in moss. The time interval is irrelevant, the only important thing is the perception that this tree has fallen at some point in time, and therefore made a noise.
Or keying the teachers car with the initials of the jerk you don't like in your class. Gotcha ya pocker, 3 months detention and 200 repair bill. Seriously if I wanted to pock over some dood at work I'd frame him with a leak.
Of course all they can find out is who leaked the email, there is no reason the Richard who leaked the email is the same person who posted the bad review. My AdultFriendFinder name is Richard Steel, you won't find me in the phone book under that.
not flamebait, apparently true, Theo's response was derogatory, and rude. Beyond that it was way out of proportion to the original email from Buesch. Honestly if I knew the guy, we would not be friends, and if he communicated with me the way he tried too communicate about this issue I'd break his nose, and maybe a finger or two. Dood was Rude, quick to attack, and apparently unable to properly analyze what was going on. All you have to do is read the first 2 emails in this exchange to get an idea of what got everybody upset.
I worked in an office where the recently hired tech guy managed to destroy the VP of marketing's Email 3 separate times. All in the first 3 months of his contract. That was the end of him. It's not such a big deal to lose personal email, but for people who have integrated the use of email into their business it's ugly. I would like to think that people are backing up their 1.2 gig PST files, but I know that there are many smart successful people out there with big PST's that have no backup. This kind of behaviour by a Windows Live OneCare is just asking for disaster.
Just a natural talent with 'hole numbers
I called the dood a troll and blamed him for a ridiculously large amount (78%) of anti-American sentiment.
Do you believe that I calculated it?, or is it possible that I pulled the number out of my ass?,
Similar to other numbers pulled out of other asses when describing the rates of piracy in Canada.
But you have a point, I was too precise with my ASS MATH so let me fix that sentence to read :
" The guy is single handedly responsible for as much as 78% of the anti-American sentiment in Canada."
This story was discredited, it's a mess of bad stat's and unfounded allegations that are not supported by the actual facts. The original Canada.com story stated
Thursday, January 25, 2007 As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country. (someone note the bolded words, I could write as little as 0 % and not change the meaning of the sentence, why? Because it's a weak garbage sentence that implies far more then it supports.)
The link that you posted was a little more bald in it's assertions, but not really that different. Try reading this link to the Toronto Star to see where reasonable minds dispute the "facts" presented by the American Media Companies.
Every week he seems to make a few comments bashing Canada, usually at public events, and typically without any real justification. Some of these comments are patently false, or non-applicable to the Canadian reality, many of them are mean spirited and seem to be designed to damage the historically good relations between Canada and the US. The guy is single handedly responsible for 78% of the anti- american sentiment in Canada.
it can come close, maybe even approximate for some groups, but pulling a random number out of your ass representing the number of spins around the sun it takes to become a responsible adult is silly. In particular setting 30 as the age that someone can access violent video games is pretty silly, the kind of thing I expect from a person that would rather make a decision based on bias and lack of understanding. In this case someone long past 30. If this law is even to approach reason it should operate more like effective gun control laws that require some element of education and licensing. That's a reasonable measure, can you pass a responsibility test? But of course we are just talking about video games, games, make believe, imaginary, not actual real guns, or real killing or real explosions, you would think the honourable member would be old enough to figure out the difference.
I wonder if they could have given the same (work) computer with the same (work) assignment to any patrol officer and received the same result? I could be wrong but Mr Meredith seems to me to be one of a class of employees whose primary job does not include programming new software. They singled him out for this assignment because of his personal interests, personal skills and recent training on the original software package. If the State has a habit of giving random programming assignments to police officers who also are responsible for patrol duties then I better get out of the business. If he had been transferred out of patrol into an IT department it might make sense, if there was specific paperwork outlining that this is above and beyond the duties of a normal patrolman and he would receive suitable compensation it might make sense. But to give programming tasks to random members of your organization regardless of what job they originally applied and were hired for? Maybe that creepy janitor is a cobol genius, I don't know, let's have him rework the database. It smacks of either genius or madness.
In 2003, the state sent Meredith to Iowa to get trained on the Iowa Department of Transportation's Traffic and Criminal Software, or TraCS. Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes, said Kernats.
At the request of his superiors, Meredith tweaked the program so that it would work in Wisconsin and created a way to import driver information and criminal histories into it. The software that imports data saves time and prevents errors, said Jones, the union president
Dang, on the one hand he's praised for going beyond call of duty (great game too) and on the other he was assigned to the project by his bosses.
This Trooper isn't a programmer first, he's a cop, who does cop things like write speeding tickets (over 2k a year FTA).
He screwed up by doing what his bosses asked him to do without having paper in place to cover what would happen to his work.
They screwed up by asking a non-programmer (I sure he is a code wizard but he was hired to be cop first) to do something beyond their job description using personal skills and ultimately personal time.
Interesting enough, if I read it right, if the State gets control of the modified software, they won't be selling it for commercial gain, whereas it seems Mr Meredith is interested in making money off of his work, fair, but Iowa originally provided the software with a clause preventing that.
Armstrong and Aldrin found a thin dust layer on the surface of the moon.
'I am at the foot of the ladder. The LM [lunar module ] footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears. to be very, very fine grained, as. you get close to it. It is almost like a powder. Now and then it is very fine. I am going to step off the LM now. That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
When he started walking on the surface of the moon he said:
'The surface is fine and powdery. I can - I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides. of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints. of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.'
When he was collecting samples:
'This is very interesting. It is a very soft surface, but here and there where I plug with the contingency sample collector, I run into a very hard surface, but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. I will try to get a rock in here.'
Apparently the ground was unyielding enough that they had trouble getting the flag planted.
This is a really neat research project using crickets as the ghosts in Pacman. Considering that crickets can tell the temperature and that they have the most sensitive mechano-sensors known in the animal kingdom, this is a creature that demonstrates many geeky qualities.
or, the definition that you support and claim is held by the majority of users is wrong. It's happened before, the majority of people thought the world was flat once, and they were wrong, someone thought you were insightful elsewhere and they were wrong. Nothing to lose sleep over though. The fact is an operating PC is under no requirement to be able to access Email/Internet, include a login prompt or even allow 3rd person software to be installed (though that would be boring). The point of this lawsuit is to request that the largest seller of PC's in the world provide it's customers the choice between paying for windows preinstalled on the machine, or not having to pay for windows preinstalled on their machine. That's it, all of your 80%'s or majorities can simply choose to buy their PC with windows preinstalled, the minority that actually understands that a working PC doesn't have to have windows on it just want to be able to buy OS Free PC's from the BIG BOY HP, taking advantage of the economies of scale that allows HP to sell top quality products at reasonable prices.
who needs the excuse :)
but here's a little enemy action,
linking Bush and Novell
grab the tin foil hats and lets conspiracy theorize.