This is an extremely significant thing. By hearing the case and making the same finding as the lower court, it sets the same precedent as if the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals were the first court to find for Cyberspace. The only reason it would be not significant is if the Court of Appeals had tacitly upheld the lower court decision by not hearing the case at all. The court did hear the case, and the ruling is very significant. It's not nationwide, but the different Circuit Courts tend to pay attention to one another, even though they're not as rigidly bound by precedent.
I did it in the days of the 486. My mom had done some favors for the local University, and thus was on their payroll. I set up an account under her name (technically with her permission, but as computer illiterate as she was at the time she didn't realize it) and I dialed up with an old 9600 kbps modem that my dad had lying around in the basement that he thought was broken. Actually it was fine except for the dip-switches being set wrong.
Ok, so maybe I'm not everyone's little kid, but the computers are easier these days, and the kids are getting computer literate a whole lot faster than the adults are.
I can just imagine the parent who thinks they've cut off their kid's access to the smut by pulling the plug on the cable modem coming home one day to find that their kid is watching the SOS but at a lower resolution over the free year of (insert 3-letter online service here) that came with the computer.
Rambus is an example of a design tradeoff. They sacrificed data pins for the ability to ramp up the clock speed. It's not at all an unfair comparison to look at a Dual Channel DDR vs. Dual Channel Rambus. Your 4-8 Channels of RDRAM is certainly not a better comparison. Besides that, Intel will probably never make such a monstrosity, because the cost of the controller would be hideous. The superior technology is the one that gets the most done for the least cost, at the highest quality. Dual channel DDR gets more done than Dual Rambus, costs less, by the OP's competent analysis, and is of a higher quality, in that the latency is far, far less.
The natalie portman, hot grits, and goatse.cx trolls are ridiculous, but the above post is a perfect example of high quality signal rising above the noise.
It's just you. I for one, would want a computer capable of not opening the doors, but that I could rely on to open them anyway. I'd want something loyal, yet still capable of decision-making. Not like I expect to see something like that in the first half of my lifetime.
I myself share in your amazement. I don't mind getting compliments, but this kind takes the joy out of getting modded up. Watch them mod it right back down now, and my Karma will drop because I'm at the cap. An interesting place, this/.
Free software vendor? Last I checked, anyone can be a free software vendor. That's the beauty of the system. Requiring apps to be signed cuts off the ability for people to do work as a labor of love, which is how some of our best free software was created and is still maintained.
Ok, so there are a few RISC OS machines on the market. A few. Tell me, how many of them are used for web browsing, particularly around the more leisure-oriented sites where non-html content is common? I would imagine it's a very small percentage of an already miniscule market.
You can't blame someone for using windows, what with the monopoly and all. Heck, I'm using windows right now. At least I'm using Netscape, though. Long live browser wars! (Maybe we'll get a good one out of the competition.)
This is exactly the kind of problem that Java was created to solve. Unfortunately, Java as we know it tends to be buggy as all hell, and runs with the speed and stability of a 3-legged cow.
Lots of embedded devices run on things like ARM processors or other chips that aren't found on the desktop market at all, so we're not just talking about resource optimization. Since many embedded devices also use alternative operating systems, the APIs are different, so we're talking about more than just a recompile there.
The only way to get around inconsistent APIs and processor calls that I can see having long-term portability is to standardize to the Java Virtual Machine. Just-in-time compilers and other sorts of wonderfulness are still in their infancy, and I've been told that Apple's Java VM runs bytecodes as fast as native compiled C code.
I know the whole system is kinda bloated at the moment, but the write-once-run-anywhere method does fall into line with the "worse is better" mantra of Unix programming, which has been incredibly successful over the years. Unfortunately, we are still it the point where worse is still worse, and have yet to see the really good benefits that portability and standardization promise.
I think Sun should be applauded for their vision. Let's face it, they've done wonders for the web, and Java is going to take it a lot further. Sure the tech is buggy at the moment, and they have been a little more reluctant to opening the standards than most here would like, but I think we should give credit where credit is due, and then kindly ask them if they'd turn their toy into a tool.
...if it meant that I could buy 5 minutes of powerpoint to print out my professor's lecture notes for the occasions that I miss class. I don't think this is what they have in mind, though. If so, expect to see some creative idle monitors.
...if Intel divests all of its Rambus shares. Throw them out in the gutter. Even the threat of such a divestiture would have the whole board at Rambus quaking in their boots. It would maim their stock value, and drastically reduce market confidence.
If they can crack down on anything that resembles kiddie porn, it makes it easier to crack down on kiddie porn. The purpose of this it so that the authorities don't have to find the poor kid in the picture to get a conviction.
Just add a little thing in Mozilla to refuse to load any image that is 468x60 pixels. That is the standard size for banner ads, and I'm sure that the HTML defines this size knowing that all the images standardize to that size. I'm tempted to actually do this myself, but I don't have what I need to recompile it for windows, which is the platform I spend most of my time on (not by choice).
She had a scope too. Besides, I'm just reciting something from Terminator 2, which happened to come on yesterday. I thought the skynet reference made it obvious enough.
They are not directional antennas. An Iridium antenna is more or less just a huge cell phone antenna. Just because half of the antenna is farther away, doesn't mean that the first half isn't right next to your skull, putting out a lot more power than normal!
Judges make procedural decisions like this all the time. What evidence will be allowed, which witnesses, cameras or no cameras, plaintiff pays fees if defendant wins, or the reverse. In most cases there's a clear beneficiary. The whole point of this process is that an impartial judge takes a case, and lawyers try not to piss off the judge, so they stay away from borderline stuff that might give an unfair advantage. The system balances out.
Listen to the dulplicity of the slashdot crowd. This is why the critics of cyber-libertarianism call it "cyber-selfish". You want something to be free (speech and beer) and then you cry bloody murder when the company that makes it packages the consumer version with stuff to make money for them. You block out the banner ads on the sites that are losing money hand over fist to provide you with a service that is worth something to you, when that advertising revenue is the only hope they have of turning a profit.
Much of the Mozilla development was done by full-time employees of Netscape Corporation, now a unit of AOL. As long as they don't block access to competitors (granted, we're still waiting for an open IM, but that's not so much browser-related) we have no right to complain about their self-promotion. They even make it possible for competitors to create sidebars and such things to add on to the browser their own doo-dads if they care to take the effort to develop them and can convince people to install them.
I applaud AOL for their self-promotion method. They have given us massive amounts of open-source code to do with what we please. They have done most of the work to produce Mozilla, and they have made a polished and specialized binary for the average user. Their binary adds features that the average user wants. The average user buys the 18 gig hard drive because the nice person on the phone tells them it's good. They don't care about code bloat. They don't understand memory footprints. They just know that they have a nice, fast computer, and that it can play their mp3s while browsing the web and talking to their friends on IM. AOL has given them what they want, and has given us what we want, too.
If you think it's unfair for women to reject that responsibility, explain how it's fair that men get to do it all the time. When men carry the babies, I'll consider your point.
The psychological risks of an abortion are NOTHING compared to the psychological risks of burdening a woman with a baby she is not ready for. There is no greater slavery than that that people enter by their own will, and women, being essentially good at heart as all humans are, will not frequently abandon their children, and can rarely find more suitable caretakers, so they will sacrifice whatever potential they have for upward mobility for the sake of the child. Your giant leap for morality has just put a huge burden on society. I thought morality was supposed to make everyone's lives better? If not, it has no place superseding free choice.
Even the most outdated of the abortion methods currently in use are safer than childbirth. Abortion, at least in a legal, clinical sense, is not "dangerous".
As much potential as was wasted in the kids, think of all the potential in the mothers that was saved. Sure, there may be a few missed geniuses and inspirations, but kids who are born to unready mothers are FAR more likely to be the ones who fall through the cracks. All your sentimental longings for those missed geniuses are irrelevant, because when you talk of forbidding something on a societal level, that is necessarily a matter that must be treated statistically. Sure, it's a little dehumanizing, but so is poverty. Poverty is a condition of long duration, while an abortion can be recovered from rather quickly.
Moderators! You should be ashamed of yourselves. This is NOT a troll. I completely disagree with this post. I believe this post is expressing a close-minded and unfair opinion. That being said, it is an opinion. Opinions are not trolls. A mistaken analysis can be a troll, and an outright lie can be a troll as well. An opinion, one which I might add is shared by a huge population of this planet, is not a troll.
We now have the capability to realistically render (voluptuous female) human bodies with the more powerful compturs out there. We should take this limitation as an opportunity to find good uses for unclothed (voluptuous female) human CG. I personally think it could be a huge market.
Then how come every single residence in my city uses Sprint? The businesses use CFW, but Sprint owns the lines. We get our long distance choices thanks to the FCC. It's a wire monopoly. It's not everywhere, but it's here, and many other places as well, just Like the Cable monopoly in Broward county.
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This is an extremely significant thing. By hearing the case and making the same finding as the lower court, it sets the same precedent as if the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals were the first court to find for Cyberspace. The only reason it would be not significant is if the Court of Appeals had tacitly upheld the lower court decision by not hearing the case at all. The court did hear the case, and the ruling is very significant. It's not nationwide, but the different Circuit Courts tend to pay attention to one another, even though they're not as rigidly bound by precedent.
I did it in the days of the 486. My mom had done some favors for the local University, and thus was on their payroll. I set up an account under her name (technically with her permission, but as computer illiterate as she was at the time she didn't realize it) and I dialed up with an old 9600 kbps modem that my dad had lying around in the basement that he thought was broken. Actually it was fine except for the dip-switches being set wrong.
Ok, so maybe I'm not everyone's little kid, but the computers are easier these days, and the kids are getting computer literate a whole lot faster than the adults are.
I can just imagine the parent who thinks they've cut off their kid's access to the smut by pulling the plug on the cable modem coming home one day to find that their kid is watching the SOS but at a lower resolution over the free year of (insert 3-letter online service here) that came with the computer.
Rambus is an example of a design tradeoff. They sacrificed data pins for the ability to ramp up the clock speed. It's not at all an unfair comparison to look at a Dual Channel DDR vs. Dual Channel Rambus. Your 4-8 Channels of RDRAM is certainly not a better comparison. Besides that, Intel will probably never make such a monstrosity, because the cost of the controller would be hideous. The superior technology is the one that gets the most done for the least cost, at the highest quality. Dual channel DDR gets more done than Dual Rambus, costs less, by the OP's competent analysis, and is of a higher quality, in that the latency is far, far less.
The natalie portman, hot grits, and goatse.cx trolls are ridiculous, but the above post is a perfect example of high quality signal rising above the noise.
It's just you. I for one, would want a computer capable of not opening the doors, but that I could rely on to open them anyway. I'd want something loyal, yet still capable of decision-making. Not like I expect to see something like that in the first half of my lifetime.
I myself share in your amazement. I don't mind getting compliments, but this kind takes the joy out of getting modded up. Watch them mod it right back down now, and my Karma will drop because I'm at the cap. An interesting place, this /.
That 900 MHz is for the radio band, not the processor speed. This is still cool, but I'm not drooling quite so much any more.
Free software vendor? Last I checked, anyone can be a free software vendor. That's the beauty of the system. Requiring apps to be signed cuts off the ability for people to do work as a labor of love, which is how some of our best free software was created and is still maintained.
Ok, so there are a few RISC OS machines on the market. A few. Tell me, how many of them are used for web browsing, particularly around the more leisure-oriented sites where non-html content is common? I would imagine it's a very small percentage of an already miniscule market.
You can't blame someone for using windows, what with the monopoly and all. Heck, I'm using windows right now. At least I'm using Netscape, though. Long live browser wars! (Maybe we'll get a good one out of the competition.)
This is exactly the kind of problem that Java was created to solve. Unfortunately, Java as we know it tends to be buggy as all hell, and runs with the speed and stability of a 3-legged cow.
Lots of embedded devices run on things like ARM processors or other chips that aren't found on the desktop market at all, so we're not just talking about resource optimization. Since many embedded devices also use alternative operating systems, the APIs are different, so we're talking about more than just a recompile there.
The only way to get around inconsistent APIs and processor calls that I can see having long-term portability is to standardize to the Java Virtual Machine. Just-in-time compilers and other sorts of wonderfulness are still in their infancy, and I've been told that Apple's Java VM runs bytecodes as fast as native compiled C code.
I know the whole system is kinda bloated at the moment, but the write-once-run-anywhere method does fall into line with the "worse is better" mantra of Unix programming, which has been incredibly successful over the years. Unfortunately, we are still it the point where worse is still worse, and have yet to see the really good benefits that portability and standardization promise.
I think Sun should be applauded for their vision. Let's face it, they've done wonders for the web, and Java is going to take it a lot further. Sure the tech is buggy at the moment, and they have been a little more reluctant to opening the standards than most here would like, but I think we should give credit where credit is due, and then kindly ask them if they'd turn their toy into a tool.
Actually, the threshhold for human flicker resolution is about 72 fps. See previous slashdot coverage or the original article.
Actually, Tuvalo sold their TLD to a company called DotTV. See this story.
...if it meant that I could buy 5 minutes of powerpoint to print out my professor's lecture notes for the occasions that I miss class. I don't think this is what they have in mind, though. If so, expect to see some creative idle monitors.
...if Intel divests all of its Rambus shares. Throw them out in the gutter. Even the threat of such a divestiture would have the whole board at Rambus quaking in their boots. It would maim their stock value, and drastically reduce market confidence.
If they can crack down on anything that resembles kiddie porn, it makes it easier to crack down on kiddie porn. The purpose of this it so that the authorities don't have to find the poor kid in the picture to get a conviction.
Just add a little thing in Mozilla to refuse to load any image that is 468x60 pixels. That is the standard size for banner ads, and I'm sure that the HTML defines this size knowing that all the images standardize to that size. I'm tempted to actually do this myself, but I don't have what I need to recompile it for windows, which is the platform I spend most of my time on (not by choice).
She had a scope too. Besides, I'm just reciting something from Terminator 2, which happened to come on yesterday. I thought the skynet reference made it obvious enough.
They are not directional antennas. An Iridium antenna is more or less just a huge cell phone antenna. Just because half of the antenna is farther away, doesn't mean that the first half isn't right next to your skull, putting out a lot more power than normal!
Judges make procedural decisions like this all the time. What evidence will be allowed, which witnesses, cameras or no cameras, plaintiff pays fees if defendant wins, or the reverse. In most cases there's a clear beneficiary. The whole point of this process is that an impartial judge takes a case, and lawyers try not to piss off the judge, so they stay away from borderline stuff that might give an unfair advantage. The system balances out.
Quick, get your M-16 with the silencer and lasersight and assassinate the Sparc chip designers before they can bring this plan to fruition!
If that fails, get your SPF 2 Million Sunblock.
Listen to the dulplicity of the slashdot crowd. This is why the critics of cyber-libertarianism call it "cyber-selfish". You want something to be free (speech and beer) and then you cry bloody murder when the company that makes it packages the consumer version with stuff to make money for them. You block out the banner ads on the sites that are losing money hand over fist to provide you with a service that is worth something to you, when that advertising revenue is the only hope they have of turning a profit.
Much of the Mozilla development was done by full-time employees of Netscape Corporation, now a unit of AOL. As long as they don't block access to competitors (granted, we're still waiting for an open IM, but that's not so much browser-related) we have no right to complain about their self-promotion. They even make it possible for competitors to create sidebars and such things to add on to the browser their own doo-dads if they care to take the effort to develop them and can convince people to install them.
I applaud AOL for their self-promotion method. They have given us massive amounts of open-source code to do with what we please. They have done most of the work to produce Mozilla, and they have made a polished and specialized binary for the average user. Their binary adds features that the average user wants. The average user buys the 18 gig hard drive because the nice person on the phone tells them it's good. They don't care about code bloat. They don't understand memory footprints. They just know that they have a nice, fast computer, and that it can play their mp3s while browsing the web and talking to their friends on IM. AOL has given them what they want, and has given us what we want, too.
Thank you, AOL.
I'm afraid you are speaking out of ignorance.
If you think it's unfair for women to reject that responsibility, explain how it's fair that men get to do it all the time. When men carry the babies, I'll consider your point.
The psychological risks of an abortion are NOTHING compared to the psychological risks of burdening a woman with a baby she is not ready for. There is no greater slavery than that that people enter by their own will, and women, being essentially good at heart as all humans are, will not frequently abandon their children, and can rarely find more suitable caretakers, so they will sacrifice whatever potential they have for upward mobility for the sake of the child. Your giant leap for morality has just put a huge burden on society. I thought morality was supposed to make everyone's lives better? If not, it has no place superseding free choice.
Even the most outdated of the abortion methods currently in use are safer than childbirth. Abortion, at least in a legal, clinical sense, is not "dangerous".
As much potential as was wasted in the kids, think of all the potential in the mothers that was saved. Sure, there may be a few missed geniuses and inspirations, but kids who are born to unready mothers are FAR more likely to be the ones who fall through the cracks. All your sentimental longings for those missed geniuses are irrelevant, because when you talk of forbidding something on a societal level, that is necessarily a matter that must be treated statistically. Sure, it's a little dehumanizing, but so is poverty. Poverty is a condition of long duration, while an abortion can be recovered from rather quickly.
Moderators! You should be ashamed of yourselves. This is NOT a troll. I completely disagree with this post. I believe this post is expressing a close-minded and unfair opinion. That being said, it is an opinion. Opinions are not trolls. A mistaken analysis can be a troll, and an outright lie can be a troll as well. An opinion, one which I might add is shared by a huge population of this planet, is not a troll.
We now have the capability to realistically render (voluptuous female) human bodies with the more powerful compturs out there. We should take this limitation as an opportunity to find good uses for unclothed (voluptuous female) human CG. I personally think it could be a huge market.
Then how come every single residence in my city uses Sprint? The businesses use CFW, but Sprint owns the lines. We get our long distance choices thanks to the FCC. It's a wire monopoly. It's not everywhere, but it's here, and many other places as well, just Like the Cable monopoly in Broward county.