You're right about the credit card. Apparently you have to sit on hold for 30 minutes with @home and make GOD DAMN SURE that they know you've changed your credit card number. They disconnected me as well.
Interestingly, after they settled the billing thing, my cable modem went bad (never came back up). It was another week before they came to replace it ("no, you cannot pick a new one up at the local office"). Pretty coincidental turn of events - not sure what to think there. Fortunately it only took three calls and a cumulative 1 hour on hold to get it settled.
As it is, with closed source, it's like Mr. Ford's "freedom" with respect to the Model T.
"You can have any color you want, as long as it's black
Actually, black paint was the only paint that would dry fast enough for Ford's assembly lines. The very first Model T's were available in other colors, but were discontinued.
...I'm sure it was also possible to repaint your Model T if you wanted to. And, literally, he would let you go under the hood too:)
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wasn't saying usenet had no worth, I was saying that Deja's archives had little monetary worth
So what you're saying is that you like hearing all the same questions asked over, and over, and over again?
You not that! That crazy! How anybody supposed when you something like that. Verbs a mainstay of the english language, and without them nobody able good sentences.
Exactly. The patent office has not been doing their job properly.
If you look at this bill, you have to realize that it only covers business practices and not patents in general. Why would they create a bill with such a narrow emphasis? To me, it looks like a few business (without patents) got upset and decided to line the pockets of these congressmen to get this bill passed.
The first digital computer was built by Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University. This would have been between 1937 and 1942 and has been awarded full rights as the first true digital computer.
Read about it here. They've even completed a replica model of it (the original one was cannibalized because interest in computers at that time was so low:)
...you'd code a spec and update a Jabber client that follows the spec for encrypted, instant messaging. Jabber is fully designed for this type of activity; peer-to-peer or through the server (we don't need anyone creating specs for commercial reasons for protocols that should be open, anyway. Thank goodness for OpenNap.).
I know a lot of people against gun control, but I think they'd be more pleased to see guns were designed in such a way that they could only be used for target shooting, I think they'd pretty much throw away their stance on gun control.
So the same with the GPL. We'll happily ditch the GPL if those we're fighting against will remove their restrictive licensing schemes. I'll ditch Napster if I can get a fair shake when I go to buy a CD.
The tubes, looking like giant chocolate kisses, are thrown onto a conveyor belt and carried into an environmentally sealed container to be crushed. The lead and glass are then separated with a heavy magnet and discharged for shipment as commodities.
Must be a pretty big magnet.
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From the article: "The OpenMind and the Mindpixel projects will tie their databases together 'at the back end.'
Mindpixel: "Dammit OpenMind, quit shoving things up my butt!!"
I tried adding the sites to/etc/hosts, but found that the Javascript banners that companies like burstmedia use tend to completely flake out the page. Netscape stops and doesn't display the page at all.
A little rough there. Aside from being the first time I've ever heard of a "monopoly" being formed from Ma & Pa companies, their shell server has everything you'd expect it to, and they do offer personal web pages for no extra fee.
Ok, I'll admit that it would really add to the ambiance of the game, but if you have a tornado ripping through the area, do you really think you'd be concerned about having your Quake fragfest interrupted?
Anyway, remember that they're only suggesting using radio waves from the grain elevators to people's homes... assuredly the grain elevators will be interconnected through (buried) fiber lines.
It's cute making fun of the situation, but I don't think you realize how well Iowa has done so far in keeping rural areas connected. AOL was just barely gaining steam and every rural town with a population of 5000 (and frequently less) already had local internet access (thanks mainly to NetINS). Iowa's fiber backbone isn't anything to chortle about either.
I remember submitting comments a long, long time ago (and remember all the hassle of sending it in PDF format). How did this second request differ from the earlier request which was at least 6 months ago?
I just skimmed the brief, and it could probably be considered defamation on the FSF, lots of people like Linus, ESR, various people like Bob Young, even Tim O'Reilly . . . Basically, it accuses anyone who claims to be involved with the `open source' movement of supporting theft of intellectual property. This might be my non-legal mind misunderstanding what they were saying, but it's pretty damned blatant, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe the defense will make a motion to request an apology from the plaintiffs for that opening statement. The best thing that could happen would be that the motion be denied; the plaintiffs (users of open source software themselves as the Apache web server on the DVD CCA site shows) would then be just as guilty as the defense.
The advent of languages like Perl and Python are mainly due to the fact that computers are finally fast enough to overcome the higher CPU cost of these languages. Even at this point in time, both of these languages suffer from the need to create many of their components in a faster language (e.g. C or C++). This will slowly dissappear as CPU becomes faster and cheaper, and programmers desire to become more efficient.
That details one of the biggest problems I have with people asking "who needs a 1 GHz CPU?". The end user doesn't, but the programmer does.
You don't need any exploit to exist to know that it is a problem. Exploits inevitably are created to attack open ports like these. It's like showing a thief a locked door instead of a wall - I'd rather show them the wall.
On May 13, 1997, United States Patent Number 5,629,678 was granted for a "personal tracking and recovery system," consisting of a miniature digital transceiver - implantable in humans - with a built-in, electromechanical power supply and actuation system.
Is this kind of concept really patentable? They've essentially patented any type of ANYTHING you might wear in or on your person that can track you.
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Interestingly, after they settled the billing thing, my cable modem went bad (never came back up). It was another week before they came to replace it ("no, you cannot pick a new one up at the local office"). Pretty coincidental turn of events - not sure what to think there. Fortunately it only took three calls and a cumulative 1 hour on hold to get it settled.
Actually, black paint was the only paint that would dry fast enough for Ford's assembly lines. The very first Model T's were available in other colors, but were discontinued.
So what you're saying is that you like hearing all the same questions asked over, and over, and over again?
#21: Mass slashdotting of discover.com causes a superdense nova to occur inside web server.
This rediculous.
Emerson just talked about the transcendental philosophy. Thoreau actually acted upon those ideals.
If you look at this bill, you have to realize that it only covers business practices and not patents in general. Why would they create a bill with such a narrow emphasis? To me, it looks like a few business (without patents) got upset and decided to line the pockets of these congressmen to get this bill passed.
Read about it here. They've even completed a replica model of it (the original one was cannibalized because interest in computers at that time was so low :)
...you'd code a spec and update a Jabber client that follows the spec for encrypted, instant messaging. Jabber is fully designed for this type of activity; peer-to-peer or through the server (we don't need anyone creating specs for commercial reasons for protocols that should be open, anyway. Thank goodness for OpenNap.).
So the same with the GPL. We'll happily ditch the GPL if those we're fighting against will remove their restrictive licensing schemes. I'll ditch Napster if I can get a fair shake when I go to buy a CD.
Your analogy doesn't hold water.
But lead? Isn't lead a little too non-magnetic for this?
Must be a pretty big magnet.
- From the article: "The OpenMind and the Mindpixel projects will tie their databases together 'at the back end.'
Mindpixel: "Dammit OpenMind, quit shoving things up my butt!!"I tried adding the sites to /etc/hosts, but found that the Javascript banners that companies like burstmedia use tend to completely flake out the page. Netscape stops and doesn't display the page at all.
A little rough there. Aside from being the first time I've ever heard of a "monopoly" being formed from Ma & Pa companies, their shell server has everything you'd expect it to, and they do offer personal web pages for no extra fee.
Ok, I'll admit that it would really add to the ambiance of the game, but if you have a tornado ripping through the area, do you really think you'd be concerned about having your Quake fragfest interrupted? Anyway, remember that they're only suggesting using radio waves from the grain elevators to people's homes... assuredly the grain elevators will be interconnected through (buried) fiber lines. It's cute making fun of the situation, but I don't think you realize how well Iowa has done so far in keeping rural areas connected. AOL was just barely gaining steam and every rural town with a population of 5000 (and frequently less) already had local internet access (thanks mainly to NetINS). Iowa's fiber backbone isn't anything to chortle about either.
Yes, you've read it correctly. This factoid has been posted on the RIAA's web site for quite a long time... try heading over there sometime.
I remember submitting comments a long, long time ago (and remember all the hassle of sending it in PDF format). How did this second request differ from the earlier request which was at least 6 months ago?
In the video clip, the newly inflated balloon hangs underneath the carrier balloon. Shouldn't that balloon be floating instead of hanging?
Dude, you sound like your stoned or something.
- I just skimmed the brief, and it could probably be considered defamation on the FSF, lots of people like Linus, ESR, various people like Bob Young, even Tim O'Reilly . . . Basically, it accuses anyone who claims to be involved with the `open source' movement of supporting theft of intellectual property. This might be my non-legal mind misunderstanding what they were saying, but it's pretty damned blatant, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe the defense will make a motion to request an apology from the plaintiffs for that opening statement. The best thing that could happen would be that the motion be denied; the plaintiffs (users of open source software themselves as the Apache web server on the DVD CCA site shows) would then be just as guilty as the defense.The advent of languages like Perl and Python are mainly due to the fact that computers are finally fast enough to overcome the higher CPU cost of these languages. Even at this point in time, both of these languages suffer from the need to create many of their components in a faster language (e.g. C or C++). This will slowly dissappear as CPU becomes faster and cheaper, and programmers desire to become more efficient. That details one of the biggest problems I have with people asking "who needs a 1 GHz CPU?". The end user doesn't, but the programmer does.
You don't need any exploit to exist to know that it is a problem. Exploits inevitably are created to attack open ports like these. It's like showing a thief a locked door instead of a wall - I'd rather show them the wall.
Is this kind of concept really patentable? They've essentially patented any type of ANYTHING you might wear in or on your person that can track you.