the idea of distributed computing as a business model is perhaps a bit premature.
Premature? Premature?! Of course it's not premature, it's about 30 years too late. Distributed computing used to be nice and profitable, but processors are just too cheap now for it to work. For large-scale, nonprofit efforts like SETI, sure, but if someone's actually going to pay to rent computer time, it would just be cheaper to buy the processors themselves. Or, if it was truly profitable to rent computer time, specialized computers with intel/amd clusters would pop up to provide it with less overhead. --
Why is everyone pointing out the problems in their lawsuit? Everyone here agrees, it's idiotic. But you're all writing these long carefully drawn up logical arguments against a bunch of lawyers who aren't even going to read them.
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The problem is X-windows just isn't mature enough for the home market. It's only been around what, 15 years? Get cut and paste across different programs, get click and drag, get better graphical performance, and maybe we'd have something. --
"Vocal" is the keyword. Libertarians are in an extreme minority, but they tend to be a lot more louder than everyone else. Most of you probably remember a few years ago the Modern Library released a list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century; they also had a web poll on the same subject. First place: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Second place: The Fountainhead, by same. Now if you have any literary or philosophical background you probably consider those particular volumes as jokes, but the objectivist/libertarian contingent voted en masse for it. Does it mean that it's the most popular novel of the 20th century? Of course not, it just means the proponents of the ideology it follows were more likely to vote, then vote again, then tell their friends to vote for it than everyone else. Libertarians are even more vocal than scientologists it seems (Battlefield Earth was in third place). --
This type of diatribe seems to come from people who have been in love with Japan for years, then go there and see exactly what they were looking for without noting anything that would interfere with their schoolgirl crush on the country.
Yo-Yo Ma did an interesting thing with Francois Girard where he performed in a building by an 18th century Italian architect; the building had been designed but never built, so they instead created it digitally, and had Yo-Yo Ma playing in it. Thought it was pretty interesting, and of course the music was great.
You can find it on Amazon, or search elsewhere for "Inspired by Bach Vol. 1: The Music Garden/The Sound of the Carceri". --
Researcher Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya said the chances are "50-50" this species could have been an early ancestor of human beings at that time, instead of Lucy's species.
So this is either a direct ancestor of humans OR...It's NOT! Great quote...There sure is nothing like providing some concrete evidence...
Keep in mind that the Leakeys and Don Johanson (the paleoanthropologist who found Lucy) have fought bitterly for years over the pre-human family tree. Not sure if the fight's still being carried on, but if it is the Leakeys would probably love to find something that knocks Lucy off the earliest human spot. --
The Leakeys have been scouring Kenya for the past 60 years, and they have a pretty extensive operation going; they haven't discovered all these themselves, but they get the credit if one of their workers find it (for example, Kamoya Kimeu discovered Turkana Boy and Homo Habilis). --
Wouldn't that be 2^1401? If you can find a hard drive that can store that many bytes, please don't bring it anywhere near me, I'm allergic to those kind of gravitational fields. They make me compress. --
Am I missing something here? I know copying outright is wrong but if I wrote code for programming 101 I should be free to use the code I wrote in 102 and beyond. The purpose of education is to build on what you learn so that when you get to CSC400 courses you can look back and really understand what you did in CSC101
I don't think so. The purpose of education is to build on what you learn, not build on what you've produced already. --
Federal laws can't legitimately pre-empt state laws anyhow -- that's in direct contradiction to the 10th and 9th amendments
Beyond the points about interstate commerce laws that have already been raised here, the UCITA essentially deals with intellectual property rights, and the power to deal with those have been relegated to Congress:
From Section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To...
promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
I haven't decided on my ethnicity yet, I'll come up with something.
Ewok?
Seriously, I'm not sure I'd want to mislead the census takers; it was considered important enough to put in the US Constitution, but maybe people elsewhere take it less seriously. The government takes it seriously because it's in the Constitution; I take it seriously because it determines my congressional district.
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Last but not least, Insurrection. Come on, it wasn't that bad. Stop comparing it to First Contact. We all know that one was better. Look at it this way: it was definitely the best odd-numbered movie.
I guess I'm the only one here who liked Insurrection better than First Contact. --
I used to have a very low opinion of Voyager, but recently I started watching a few episodes, and I'll be damned if it hasn't greatly improved. Of course now that they finally get some decent storylines the series ends.
Havn't you ever noticed that all the episodes of Voyager are the freaking same???
I guess TNG inured us to that. "Another entity made from pure energy? What if we reconfigure the sensor array to produce ?"
Tape a camcorder onto one handlebar, and hang a bang of blank video tapes on the other. When the film runs out, remove the video tape and toss it over your shoulder. Have a friend collect them. --
Anyone else think this hippie thing is a really bad idea? When I'm choosing a platform for a bunch of enterprise servers, I'm looking for "Speed, Power, Stability", not "Peace, Love & a VW bus full of stoned penguins"!
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The Washington Times? Couldn't you find a more reputable source?
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the idea of distributed computing as a business model is perhaps a bit premature.
Premature? Premature?! Of course it's not premature, it's about 30 years too late. Distributed computing used to be nice and profitable, but processors are just too cheap now for it to work. For large-scale, nonprofit efforts like SETI, sure, but if someone's actually going to pay to rent computer time, it would just be cheaper to buy the processors themselves. Or, if it was truly profitable to rent computer time, specialized computers with intel/amd clusters would pop up to provide it with less overhead.
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Why is everyone pointing out the problems in their lawsuit? Everyone here agrees, it's idiotic. But you're all writing these long carefully drawn up logical arguments against a bunch of lawyers who aren't even going to read them.
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This guy actually has the audacity to exercise his right to free speech?!
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The problem is X-windows just isn't mature enough for the home market. It's only been around what, 15 years? Get cut and paste across different programs, get click and drag, get better graphical performance, and maybe we'd have something.
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"Vocal" is the keyword. Libertarians are in an extreme minority, but they tend to be a lot more louder than everyone else. Most of you probably remember a few years ago the Modern Library released a list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century; they also had a web poll on the same subject. First place: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Second place: The Fountainhead, by same. Now if you have any literary or philosophical background you probably consider those particular volumes as jokes, but the objectivist/libertarian contingent voted en masse for it. Does it mean that it's the most popular novel of the 20th century? Of course not, it just means the proponents of the ideology it follows were more likely to vote, then vote again, then tell their friends to vote for it than everyone else. Libertarians are even more vocal than scientologists it seems (Battlefield Earth was in third place).
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This type of diatribe seems to come from people who have been in love with Japan for years, then go there and see exactly what they were looking for without noting anything that would interfere with their schoolgirl crush on the country.
It's not really a diatribe then.
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Frankly, this is a bit too much out of the blue until there's a bit of proof to go with it.
Huh? They did it. What more proof do you need?
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Yo-Yo Ma did an interesting thing with Francois Girard where he performed in a building by an 18th century Italian architect; the building had been designed but never built, so they instead created it digitally, and had Yo-Yo Ma playing in it. Thought it was pretty interesting, and of course the music was great.
You can find it on Amazon, or search elsewhere for "Inspired by Bach Vol. 1: The Music Garden/The Sound of the Carceri".
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Researcher Meave Leakey of the National Museums of Kenya said the chances are "50-50" this species could have been an early ancestor of human beings at that time, instead of Lucy's species.
So this is either a direct ancestor of humans OR...It's NOT! Great quote...There sure is nothing like providing some concrete evidence...
Keep in mind that the Leakeys and Don Johanson (the paleoanthropologist who found Lucy) have fought bitterly for years over the pre-human family tree. Not sure if the fight's still being carried on, but if it is the Leakeys would probably love to find something that knocks Lucy off the earliest human spot.
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The Leakeys have been scouring Kenya for the past 60 years, and they have a pretty extensive operation going; they haven't discovered all these themselves, but they get the credit if one of their workers find it (for example, Kamoya Kimeu discovered Turkana Boy and Homo Habilis).
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Wouldn't that be 2^1401? If you can find a hard drive that can store that many bytes, please don't bring it anywhere near me, I'm allergic to those kind of gravitational fields. They make me compress.
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This shows that Amateurism has a place in space exploration.
Amateurism? Goddard was a professional physicist.
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Am I missing something here? I know copying outright is wrong but if I wrote code for programming 101 I should be free to use the code I wrote in 102 and beyond. The purpose of education is to build on what you learn so that when you get to CSC400 courses you can look back and really understand what you did in CSC101
I don't think so. The purpose of education is to build on what you learn, not build on what you've produced already.
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Stole? You mean they broke into your house while you were on vacation, rifled through your CD collection, and took down all the info they needed?
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Beyond the points about interstate commerce laws that have already been raised here, the UCITA essentially deals with intellectual property rights, and the power to deal with those have been relegated to Congress: From Section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution:
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This is not a "good" or a "bad" thing. It may be incredibly dangerous to us as individuals and a species
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd think that would fit quite comfortably in the "bad" category./HTML.
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I haven't decided on my ethnicity yet, I'll come up with something.
Ewok?
Seriously, I'm not sure I'd want to mislead the census takers; it was considered important enough to put in the US Constitution, but maybe people elsewhere take it less seriously. The government takes it seriously because it's in the Constitution; I take it seriously because it determines my congressional district.
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Simply wave your hand and say, "You have no need count my household."
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Last but not least, Insurrection. Come on, it wasn't that bad. Stop comparing it to First Contact. We all know that one was better. Look at it this way: it was definitely the best odd-numbered movie.
I guess I'm the only one here who liked Insurrection better than First Contact.
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Voyager is nothing compared to DS9.
I used to have a very low opinion of Voyager, but recently I started watching a few episodes, and I'll be damned if it hasn't greatly improved. Of course now that they finally get some decent storylines the series ends.
Havn't you ever noticed that all the episodes of Voyager are the freaking same???
I guess TNG inured us to that. "Another entity made from pure energy? What if we reconfigure the sensor array to produce ?"
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Well I don't think we should assume he came into contact through his current employer.
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Tape a camcorder onto one handlebar, and hang a bang of blank video tapes on the other. When the film runs out, remove the video tape and toss it over your shoulder. Have a friend collect them.
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Just imagine no cables between your computer and your external hard drive
Just imagined it. Wasn't too thrilling though.
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Anyone else think this hippie thing is a really bad idea? When I'm choosing a platform for a bunch of enterprise servers, I'm looking for "Speed, Power, Stability", not "Peace, Love & a VW bus full of stoned penguins"!
Don't be such a square, man.
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