Sure, you can use my identity and by $50 million i bananas, I don't mind that, but you'll pay for them.
I am an individual, not a company. Companies and individuals have different rights. If someone creates something, other people should have the right to study it and create something like it based on their findings.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
What do you think would happen if someone created a fully-functional Windows clone? Something that looked almost exactly the same, minus the logo and the name, something that had the stability of Linux and the same UI, binary format, layout, etc, of Windows...?
This should be completely legal, but $10 says Microsoft would go after it. And that's just dumb.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
It depends on what the ulterior motive is. The issue is if you are studying things to find out how they work with the intention to create a compatible item to undersell your competitor. Now, obviously, I don't think this is wrong because Competition Is Good (tm). Again, we go back to the reverse engineering of the IBM PC BIOS. There was no harm there. It's capitalism at its best.
Maybe it sucks for the company that created the idea/product because they now don't have a monopoly (which, the last time I checked, was a good thing), but it sure as hell isn't theft. Any claims like that are ridiculous.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
RedHat recently bought a company by the name of Wirespeed. Wirespeed does embedded stuff. They were based out of Huntsville. The story goes that Wirespeed was interested in several people from the base. They wanted them to move to Huntsville to join the team, but these individuals didn't want to move. Wirespeed asked what if they opened up an office in Tullahoma, and this team was all over the idea.
So then RedHat bought out Wirespeed, and instead of a Wirespeed office here in town, it became a RedHat office here in town. They are doing embedded stuff. When I was there, one of the guys was working on Linux on an HP calculator. They are hiring.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
...they just recently opened up an office here in the town of Tullahoma, TN.
It's so interesting to go down the main street of a town of 25,000 here only because of a large air force base, and see a building with a RedHat logo on the side of it.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Slackware has an appeal to me. Maybe it's the fact that it doesn't have a curses or X-based install, maybe I find pleasure in installing it on a laptop that has only a floppy drive so I have to use 25 disks. Maybe I like having to do it all myself instead of having to press 4 buttons and it be installed, security holes and all. Maybe I don't like package managers. Maybe I like to know where all of my stuff is on my system. Maybe I'm stubborn. Maybe I like to take pride in knowing how it all works.
The interesting part is that I like(d) to use Linux because it was difficult, it wasn't point and click. It was an adventure. Tackling some goal that I wanted to achieve with Linux was FUN. I came out of each one with a mastery over it. I figured out how it ticked! I know how it works. And I took pride in it. RedHat's taken a lot of that away from me.
Slackware is my distro of choice. I'm through with RedHat.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I don't see how it could possibly *not* pass. IANAP (politican), but, I mean, it's all good. There's nothing bad about it. Assuming no conflict of interest in a majority in the House or Senate, this bill should definitely pass. It is about time someone listened or did something about these ridiculous patents. For a while there, I thought it was going to go on forever, another testament to the ailing US government.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
If Amazon's patent gets repealed (can you do that?), Apple's gonna look really dumb.
Well, I guess they already look pretty stupid for embracing the whole idea. But then again, they are a fruity company (sorry, evil, bad pun, gah, that was terrible).
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Yes, my bad, lactic fermentation is an anaerobic process.
When the cells are unable to provide enough ATP, they resort to breaking down glucose by glycolysis into pyruvic acid, and then into lactic acid. This process only yields 2 ATP per glucose, but it's very quick. It's much like comparing an internal combustion gasoline powered-engine to solid fuel booster rockets.
The aerobic process in cell metabolism is respiration, the process of converting oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide by breaking glycolysis down into pyruvic acid, and then into acetic acid. From there, it goes through the Kreb cycle to produce ADP, which is combined with another phosphate to produce ATP. This process takes much longer than fermentation, but is much more efficient.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Aerobic bacteria require oxygen to live.
Anaerobic bacteria thrive in the absence of oxygen.
The most notable anaerobic process is probably alcoholic fermentation, in which yeast (an anaerobic bacterium) converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. If you've ever been anywhere where they make alcohol, such as the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, TN (I live down the road from it!), and leaned over the vats very far, you can't breathe because of the massive amounts of carbon dioxide produced by the fermentation process. Not to mention it smells terrible.
Probably the most familiar aerobic fermentation is lactic fermentation, which occurs within muscle tissue (as well as other places, like milk, yuck!). A saccharine (such as glucose) is converted into lactic acid, which builds up in the muscle tissue as oxygen is supplied during excercise. It is this build-up of lactic acid that causes muscles to be sore after exercise.
So, yes, this form of life can live in a vacuum. If they break down plastics and metals, I wonder what type of chemical reaction takes place, what type of fermentation is going on. It may be possible to use the byproducts of this fermentations to our advantage.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Re:Soon? 3dfx already dropped glide.
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Direct3D's development process is so much faster than OpenGL's. The core OpenGL spec hasn't changed in a long time. OpenGL 1.2 has been around forever.
Direct3D is constantly getting new functions, features, etc, that make common procedures faster. The Architectural Review Board seems to sit around and meddle over suggestions instead of making a decision and adding support.
In the graphic world, advantages, no matter how slight, are advantages, and as far behind as OpenGL is, Direct3D might as well be lightyears ahead.
If OpenGL was on par with Direct3D, there would be no question as to what I would use.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Soon? 3dfx already dropped glide.
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3dfx no longer supports glide, they've said this in the past. Not long after they opened up linux.3dfx.com and started releasing glide source, they announced that they would no longer be supporting it.
This is old news. Obviously they would go after one or more other APIs, and OpenGL is the only other choice after Direct3D, even though Direct3D is lightyears ahead of OpenGL.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I got modded as -1, troll in an earlier post, so I lost 3, fell to 28, then got two posts modded up to 4, so I'm back up to 31.
Yes, I'm a karma whore. 5 more points and I get 2 free extra large pizzas at papa johns, although I think I'm going to save up for the harrier, only 6,999,969 points to go.
Popcorn! Peanuts! Beer! Karma!
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Re:Make it more difficult...
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I am Slimey Lawyer representing Digital Convergence, and you just posted our Intellectual Property to a public forum. We are suing you for $780 million in punitive damages, even though we haven't lost a damned thing but our minds.
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Hi, I represent CBS, and we already own the rights to "Geo Scavenger Hunt" (tm) and would ask that you refrain from using that trademark in your posts, even though it's completely within your rights, but we don't care because we're a corporation.
The premise is the team that finds all of the items last has to pick someone from the team to strip down naked and run a gauntlet of fly swatters while people line up on each side and shoot them with rubber-band powered paper bullets. The hunts will be repeated until nobody is left on one team.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
It's called Artifact Quake. I'll give you a tarball of the mod if you want it.
Quakeworld sucked, can't stand it. Played it once, uninstalled it, never messed with it again. Also, I never really liked ctf in Quake. Tribes is a different story.
Have I actually played quake? What kind of question is that? I was on IRC in #quake waiting for id to release the quake test. I almost nutted my pants whenever I started it up. I have logged more hours of quake than any other game. I remember playing it for as many as 20 hours on end at a friend's house during the weekends. There were three of us, we'd rotate every level and we'd take 10 minute power naps and consume 2 cases of sundrop (if you even know what that is).
As a matter of fact, I just finished playing quake at the office, we played for about an hour and a half.
Rune (or artifact) quake is one of the best mods for Quake ever. And this is coming from me, a guy that doesn't like to play mods, a guy that prefers the vanilla side of quake.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I relieve it. 6pm, and it's quake time at the office. The rune mod (artifact quake) makes it so much more fun. The ultimate stress reliever.
Oh and it's cool to throw a couple of bots in, give them "customer" skins and set them to stupid so you can just blow them up and watch little customer gibs go everywhere.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, you can use my identity and by $50 million i bananas, I don't mind that, but you'll pay for them.
I am an individual, not a company. Companies and individuals have different rights. If someone creates something, other people should have the right to study it and create something like it based on their findings.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
What do you think would happen if someone created a fully-functional Windows clone? Something that looked almost exactly the same, minus the logo and the name, something that had the stability of Linux and the same UI, binary format, layout, etc, of Windows...?
This should be completely legal, but $10 says Microsoft would go after it. And that's just dumb.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
It depends on what the ulterior motive is. The issue is if you are studying things to find out how they work with the intention to create a compatible item to undersell your competitor. Now, obviously, I don't think this is wrong because Competition Is Good (tm). Again, we go back to the reverse engineering of the IBM PC BIOS. There was no harm there. It's capitalism at its best.
Maybe it sucks for the company that created the idea/product because they now don't have a monopoly (which, the last time I checked, was a good thing), but it sure as hell isn't theft. Any claims like that are ridiculous.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Actually, the time it takes for e2fsck to complete if a box goes down gives me time to check slashdot. ;)
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
But hey, I couldn't resist beating a dead horse some more.
They should be using CueCat XOR encryption (tm) for their watermarks.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Slack doesn't seem to have this problem
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
About a week ago.
RedHat recently bought a company by the name of Wirespeed. Wirespeed does embedded stuff. They were based out of Huntsville. The story goes that Wirespeed was interested in several people from the base. They wanted them to move to Huntsville to join the team, but these individuals didn't want to move. Wirespeed asked what if they opened up an office in Tullahoma, and this team was all over the idea.
So then RedHat bought out Wirespeed, and instead of a Wirespeed office here in town, it became a RedHat office here in town. They are doing embedded stuff. When I was there, one of the guys was working on Linux on an HP calculator. They are hiring.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
...they just recently opened up an office here in the town of Tullahoma, TN.
It's so interesting to go down the main street of a town of 25,000 here only because of a large air force base, and see a building with a RedHat logo on the side of it.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Definitely slackware.
Slackware has an appeal to me. Maybe it's the fact that it doesn't have a curses or X-based install, maybe I find pleasure in installing it on a laptop that has only a floppy drive so I have to use 25 disks. Maybe I like having to do it all myself instead of having to press 4 buttons and it be installed, security holes and all. Maybe I don't like package managers. Maybe I like to know where all of my stuff is on my system. Maybe I'm stubborn. Maybe I like to take pride in knowing how it all works.
The interesting part is that I like(d) to use Linux because it was difficult, it wasn't point and click. It was an adventure. Tackling some goal that I wanted to achieve with Linux was FUN. I came out of each one with a mastery over it. I figured out how it ticked! I know how it works. And I took pride in it. RedHat's taken a lot of that away from me.
Slackware is my distro of choice. I'm through with RedHat.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
That's where I live =)
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Yeah, I thought it was pretty bad, but hey, I couldn't think of anything else and thought maybe there haven't been enough dumb patent jokes.
.sig too, I could use a cold one right now. Anyone want to donate? =)
I've got karma whore's block. I'm stuck at 30.
I'll make a post that gets +3 and then I'll post something dumb like the above and I'll get modded as troll, flamebait, and offtopic.
I'll admit it openly. KWA: "My name's Mike, and I'm a karma whore." *applause*
I like my
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I don't see how it could possibly *not* pass. IANAP (politican), but, I mean, it's all good. There's nothing bad about it. Assuming no conflict of interest in a majority in the House or Senate, this bill should definitely pass. It is about time someone listened or did something about these ridiculous patents. For a while there, I thought it was going to go on forever, another testament to the ailing US government.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
If Amazon's patent gets repealed (can you do that?), Apple's gonna look really dumb.
Well, I guess they already look pretty stupid for embracing the whole idea. But then again, they are a fruity company (sorry, evil, bad pun, gah, that was terrible).
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Amazon already got a patent on legislature.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I meant to put "breaking glucose down by glycolysis," but I got ahead of myself ;)
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Yes, my bad, lactic fermentation is an anaerobic process.
When the cells are unable to provide enough ATP, they resort to breaking down glucose by glycolysis into pyruvic acid, and then into lactic acid. This process only yields 2 ATP per glucose, but it's very quick. It's much like comparing an internal combustion gasoline powered-engine to solid fuel booster rockets.
The aerobic process in cell metabolism is respiration, the process of converting oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide by breaking glycolysis down into pyruvic acid, and then into acetic acid. From there, it goes through the Kreb cycle to produce ADP, which is combined with another phosphate to produce ATP. This process takes much longer than fermentation, but is much more efficient.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Aerobic bacteria require oxygen to live.
Anaerobic bacteria thrive in the absence of oxygen.
The most notable anaerobic process is probably alcoholic fermentation, in which yeast (an anaerobic bacterium) converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. If you've ever been anywhere where they make alcohol, such as the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, TN (I live down the road from it!), and leaned over the vats very far, you can't breathe because of the massive amounts of carbon dioxide produced by the fermentation process. Not to mention it smells terrible.
Probably the most familiar aerobic fermentation is lactic fermentation, which occurs within muscle tissue (as well as other places, like milk, yuck!). A saccharine (such as glucose) is converted into lactic acid, which builds up in the muscle tissue as oxygen is supplied during excercise. It is this build-up of lactic acid that causes muscles to be sore after exercise.
So, yes, this form of life can live in a vacuum. If they break down plastics and metals, I wonder what type of chemical reaction takes place, what type of fermentation is going on. It may be possible to use the byproducts of this fermentations to our advantage.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Direct3D's development process is so much faster than OpenGL's. The core OpenGL spec hasn't changed in a long time. OpenGL 1.2 has been around forever.
Direct3D is constantly getting new functions, features, etc, that make common procedures faster. The Architectural Review Board seems to sit around and meddle over suggestions instead of making a decision and adding support.
In the graphic world, advantages, no matter how slight, are advantages, and as far behind as OpenGL is, Direct3D might as well be lightyears ahead.
If OpenGL was on par with Direct3D, there would be no question as to what I would use.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
3dfx no longer supports glide, they've said this in the past. Not long after they opened up linux.3dfx.com and started releasing glide source, they announced that they would no longer be supporting it.
This is old news. Obviously they would go after one or more other APIs, and OpenGL is the only other choice after Direct3D, even though Direct3D is lightyears ahead of OpenGL.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I got modded as -1, troll in an earlier post, so I lost 3, fell to 28, then got two posts modded up to 4, so I'm back up to 31.
Yes, I'm a karma whore. 5 more points and I get 2 free extra large pizzas at papa johns, although I think I'm going to save up for the harrier, only 6,999,969 points to go.
Popcorn! Peanuts! Beer! Karma!
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I am Slimey Lawyer representing Digital Convergence, and you just posted our Intellectual Property to a public forum. We are suing you for $780 million in punitive damages, even though we haven't lost a damned thing but our minds.
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Hi, I represent CBS, and we already own the rights to "Geo Scavenger Hunt" (tm) and would ask that you refrain from using that trademark in your posts, even though it's completely within your rights, but we don't care because we're a corporation.
The premise is the team that finds all of the items last has to pick someone from the team to strip down naked and run a gauntlet of fly swatters while people line up on each side and shoot them with rubber-band powered paper bullets. The hunts will be repeated until nobody is left on one team.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
It's called Artifact Quake. I'll give you a tarball of the mod if you want it.
Quakeworld sucked, can't stand it. Played it once, uninstalled it, never messed with it again. Also, I never really liked ctf in Quake. Tribes is a different story.
Have I actually played quake? What kind of question is that? I was on IRC in #quake waiting for id to release the quake test. I almost nutted my pants whenever I started it up. I have logged more hours of quake than any other game. I remember playing it for as many as 20 hours on end at a friend's house during the weekends. There were three of us, we'd rotate every level and we'd take 10 minute power naps and consume 2 cases of sundrop (if you even know what that is).
As a matter of fact, I just finished playing quake at the office, we played for about an hour and a half.
Rune (or artifact) quake is one of the best mods for Quake ever. And this is coming from me, a guy that doesn't like to play mods, a guy that prefers the vanilla side of quake.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
I relieve it. 6pm, and it's quake time at the office. The rune mod (artifact quake) makes it so much more fun. The ultimate stress reliever.
Oh and it's cool to throw a couple of bots in, give them "customer" skins and set them to stupid so you can just blow them up and watch little customer gibs go everywhere.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
Or does EVERYBODY have to try to make some kind of subscription service for EVERYTHING?
I mean geeze.
It's just a glorified product service contract thingee.
Mike
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."