Maybe a problem with the email system? Try logging in, see if it works. I never got notification of my acceptance. Any apply first to a small category, get the hang of it, then go big. Most people start small.:-)
Burning karma is fun! Someone tell slashdot to stop censoring these posts. I can't believe they bitchslapped the thread so it automatically goes down, that's mega lame.
Yes, that would indeed be cool. Unfortunately, it's not gonna happen. If they open source it then people could recompile it for windows, and boom, there goes their whole suite for windows down the drain! But still, with GCC already out there, does it matter?
Let me note that for the record, Reagan attempted to put him on the Supreme Court, but he was rejected. This was because of ideological reasons, hence the term "borked" was invoked when Bush appointed Ashcroft Attorney General. Anyways, just wanted to note that while he was nominated, he was not actually placed on the Supreme Court, as "Robert Bork, former Supreme Court appointee" suggests.
If companies have nothing to cover and nothing to hide, why should they be concerned about their deletion to begin with? Then again, I am sure paper memos are not kept forever, and if they can avoid lawsuits legally by deleting documents I would probably do the same in their position, as to not assist my prosecutors.
Plus, I think the original comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.
Maybe, but it still bothers me when people assume that everyone is the same religion as them. It isn't very tolerant of people with different beliefs. Anyways, I'm no expert on the Torah, but he was referring to the Christian Bible, which I do not believe, but thanks for correcting the mistake. Also, on a different note, what if I were Muslim or Buddhist, as surely some of the readers here are? I don't like when people accept notions blindly on faith, I prefer logic and reason.
All of the reports said "So and so CLAIMED to have done X and Y." Reporting a claim is not the same as getting a story wrong. I'm not saying that they SHOULD have published it but I don't see why they should publish a retraction...
So what? By publishing something like this it gives it credibility. It's like someone makes a new PI=3 proof and gets newspaper coverage. Or, like someone claims that they "solved" the pigeonhole principle or that the moon landing was a hoax. They should not give space to these absurd claims in the first place, they should simply ignore them. Unfortunately, the truth doesn't make for good, sensationalist news.
Yahoo not evil? But they have the Closed Directory Project! And at least AOL has some open source things, like Mozilla and DMOZ. AOL may have a crappy ISP service and a closed instant messaging system but they have other good stuff like WinAmp and whatnot.
I can just imagine, a couple month ago in Afghanistan, if the terrorists had some way to store a message...
In A.D. 2001
War had begun.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the plane
Operator: We get bombed
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your caves are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA....
Captain: Take off every 'Qaeda'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'Qaeda'
Captain: For great explosion
First the tick...then the x-files...then invader zim! What do these shows have in common? Several slashdotters enjoyed them, but they were cancelled. Instead of insulting the networks, perhaps there was a reason why?
These shows had low ratings! That's right! TV is not an area for art to shine through! It is a commercialized and mechanized zoo that automatically produces animals that the public in general will want to see for entertainment. Without people seeing them, they are not as valued, and who are we to say that our shows are better than anyone else's?
If you want to see some maverick but potentially good art, go watch independent films, or better yet, make your own! But don't look to TV for an art form, all it is is an area where they can broadcast 30 second advertisements to drones watching them, in hope that they can coerce them into buying something!
"To enable Netscape Communications Corporation to take appropriate action in the event of infringements by third parties, and in consideration for the opportunity to participate in the Open Directory Project, you hereby assign to Netscape the copyright in any material (whether link descriptions, email, communications, directory organization, or otherwise) that you have created and submitted to the ODP or will create and submit to the ODP in the future. However, you understand that Netscape is licensing back to you a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to use any material that you have created and submitted to the ODP. You further warrant that you have all rights necessary to authorize the distribution and re-distribution of any material you have submitted or will submit for inclusion or use in the ODP. You will provide information that Netscape reasonably requests related to any claim that material you submit infringes the rights of a third party."
Well, you give them the copyright to your data. Maybe I misremembered this from the time I was on the ODP (I used to be an editor (see here), but I got too busy to keep editing), since it gives you back a right to use your own data, but I remember that when AOL came in they changed the license and there was some concern amongst the editors about the new license, which somehow changed the copyright status of site descriptions. I don't think any problems came of this, I think it was just AOL protecting the ODP's assets, but it still did take away some rights from editors if I remember correctly, if there was ever a lawsuit.
Let's not forget the Open Directory Project. They haven't done too much to change with that either, except for messing with the license a bit to take away rights for editors.
Anyone have any idea how much these products are in China? I mean, China has a per capital GDP of $3600 (see here), vs. $36,200 in the USA (see here), so if Photoshop costs $600 there, that would cost 2 months of salary, equivalent to at least $6000 here, in addition to the fact that they still need to spend money for life's necessities (i.e. food, clothing, shelter).
Try as hard as you can to rationalize it, but if they are losing money there it makes good sense for them to drop out of the business there. I mean, cmon, piracy rates are over 90%! A vast majority of the software there doesn't make them any money and if they can't sell enough copies to recoup their losses, who can blame them?
So, now the pirates have two choices: stop pirating (or at least to the same extent), or lose language support for their copies.
I mean, they can pirate English versions still, but I'm sure they would prefer copies in their own languages. It is their own fault for this happening.
I don't believe that they have actually lost $4 billion, because not everyone buys copies, but even if 1% of those people would have bought copies they would have lost $40 million.
Even when Biosphere was being built it didnt seem that they were even trying to build it right and that it was more of a publicity stunt instead of a real research project.
The Biosphere 2 Center was most certainly not a failure nor a publicity stunt. True, the experiment with eight people living inside it for two years was not a complete success, but many things were learns, such as ways to avoid future problems with such an experiment. Many great inventors have had multiple failures before the final success, and a lot was learned from the project.
Anyway, a few years ago the Biosphere 2 Center was turned over to Columbia University (see here), and now it is Columbia's western campus. It is building new housing facilities and is also a serious research facility, conducting several experiments behind the glass, such as one indicating that coral reefs are gravely threatened by carbon dioxide emissions (see here).
It also has now more than a dozen university partnerships, and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson (from the Clinton administration) signed an agreement there to establish "a framework for developing Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center as a national user facility for earth system science, engineering and education" (see here).
If you ask me, the Eden Project sounds more like a tourist attraction than a serious research facility (although this sometimes goes hand in hand, as public interest can help the financial situation). I mean, does this look like much of a scientific endeavor to you?
They already have lots of other stuff here, at AtomFilms, but this is reallly cool! I love Aardman Animations, they are great! Some of my favorites are Creature Comforts (done by Nick Park) and Pib and Pog (two little kids playing around with sulfuric acid, lol, priceless).
ZeoSync really should look up the pigeonhole principle. You can't fit n pieces of data into n-1 slots with one piece of data in each slot.
Basically, if you can reduce 1 million bits to 10,000, then you can only represent 2^10000 different outcomes. But, they need to represent all 2^1000000 outcomes! There are only so many outcomes in there that can be compressed, and that means that the other outcomes take up more space.
In other words, their data is not random.
If a 12th grade high school student can figure this out, surely people with PHD's can see how this idea is flawed. I am surprised that such an absurd idea is even being taken seriously in the news.
Hmm. Does anyone remember this story, about how NSI holds expired domain names? I guess we are seeing the resolution of that. They really have no right to auction off domain names before they expire. This is just another example of them abusing their control of the DNS registries (in addition to things such as taking a large commission out of every domain name sale, so that even if you register with their competitors they gain money).
Someone really should do something. Too bad ICANN can't do anything. Maybe they could, but I don't see the old members giving up their spots to the elected anytime soon. Plus, NSI could "accidentally" cause down time if they tried to move the DNS registries. Unfortunately though, there are no feasable alternates.
That's right! Technology will end the recording industry and destory music! I read this article about some new gadget that lets people record and copy music! They can buy music from a store and make an exact copy for someone else. With this existing, those struggling musicians have no hope left.
It was called the "tape recorder."
Plus, used in conjunction with a pirate stream of music, called a "radio," you can record even more.
From: Brian Valentine
Sent: Wed 1/2/2002 1:14 PM
To: WW Sales, Marketing & Services Group
Subject: Me again -- Linux updates (part 2)
Our elite PI squad has managed to break into the linux infrastructure! Now, all their source code base are belong to us! With their source code, we can now see how they do things. This infiltration of linux will let us defeat linux, once and for all, from the inside! All we must do now is figure out what the heck all that code means... We would know already, but Visual Basic wasn't able to open their source code files for some reason.
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Maybe a problem with the email system? Try logging in, see if it works. I never got notification of my acceptance. Any apply first to a small category, get the hang of it, then go big. Most people start small. :-)
Burning karma is fun! Someone tell slashdot to stop censoring these posts. I can't believe they bitchslapped the thread so it automatically goes down, that's mega lame.
Hmm. I didn't realize they already had open versions. I guess this makes sense from their point of views. I retract my previous statement. :P
Let me note that for the record, Reagan attempted to put him on the Supreme Court, but he was rejected. This was because of ideological reasons, hence the term "borked" was invoked when Bush appointed Ashcroft Attorney General. Anyways, just wanted to note that while he was nominated, he was not actually placed on the Supreme Court, as "Robert Bork, former Supreme Court appointee" suggests.
If companies have nothing to cover and nothing to hide, why should they be concerned about their deletion to begin with? Then again, I am sure paper memos are not kept forever, and if they can avoid lawsuits legally by deleting documents I would probably do the same in their position, as to not assist my prosecutors.
Actually, no it isn't, I'm Jewish. Don't be such a bigot.
Yahoo not evil? But they have the Closed Directory Project! And at least AOL has some open source things, like Mozilla and DMOZ. AOL may have a crappy ISP service and a closed instant messaging system but they have other good stuff like WinAmp and whatnot.
I can just imagine, a couple month ago in Afghanistan, if the terrorists had some way to store a message...
....
In A.D. 2001
War had begun.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the plane
Operator: We get bombed
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your caves are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'Qaeda'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'Qaeda'
Captain: For great explosion
First the tick...then the x-files...then invader zim! What do these shows have in common? Several slashdotters enjoyed them, but they were cancelled. Instead of insulting the networks, perhaps there was a reason why?
These shows had low ratings! That's right! TV is not an area for art to shine through! It is a commercialized and mechanized zoo that automatically produces animals that the public in general will want to see for entertainment. Without people seeing them, they are not as valued, and who are we to say that our shows are better than anyone else's?
If you want to see some maverick but potentially good art, go watch independent films, or better yet, make your own! But don't look to TV for an art form, all it is is an area where they can broadcast 30 second advertisements to drones watching them, in hope that they can coerce them into buying something!
From the you-know-what-page,
"To enable Netscape Communications Corporation to take appropriate action in the event of infringements by third parties, and in consideration for the opportunity to participate in the Open Directory Project, you hereby assign to Netscape the copyright in any material (whether link descriptions, email, communications, directory organization, or otherwise) that you have created and submitted to the ODP or will create and submit to the ODP in the future. However, you understand that Netscape is licensing back to you a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to use any material that you have created and submitted to the ODP. You further warrant that you have all rights necessary to authorize the distribution and re-distribution of any material you have submitted or will submit for inclusion or use in the ODP. You will provide information that Netscape reasonably requests related to any claim that material you submit infringes the rights of a third party."
Well, you give them the copyright to your data. Maybe I misremembered this from the time I was on the ODP (I used to be an editor (see here), but I got too busy to keep editing), since it gives you back a right to use your own data, but I remember that when AOL came in they changed the license and there was some concern amongst the editors about the new license, which somehow changed the copyright status of site descriptions. I don't think any problems came of this, I think it was just AOL protecting the ODP's assets, but it still did take away some rights from editors if I remember correctly, if there was ever a lawsuit.
Let's not forget the Open Directory Project. They haven't done too much to change with that either, except for messing with the license a bit to take away rights for editors.
Anyone have any idea how much these products are in China? I mean, China has a per capital GDP of $3600 (see here), vs. $36,200 in the USA (see here), so if Photoshop costs $600 there, that would cost 2 months of salary, equivalent to at least $6000 here, in addition to the fact that they still need to spend money for life's necessities (i.e. food, clothing, shelter).
Try as hard as you can to rationalize it, but if they are losing money there it makes good sense for them to drop out of the business there. I mean, cmon, piracy rates are over 90%! A vast majority of the software there doesn't make them any money and if they can't sell enough copies to recoup their losses, who can blame them?
So, now the pirates have two choices: stop pirating (or at least to the same extent), or lose language support for their copies.
I mean, they can pirate English versions still, but I'm sure they would prefer copies in their own languages. It is their own fault for this happening.
I don't believe that they have actually lost $4 billion, because not everyone buys copies, but even if 1% of those people would have bought copies they would have lost $40 million.
Anyway, a few years ago the Biosphere 2 Center was turned over to Columbia University (see here), and now it is Columbia's western campus. It is building new housing facilities and is also a serious research facility, conducting several experiments behind the glass, such as one indicating that coral reefs are gravely threatened by carbon dioxide emissions (see here).
It also has now more than a dozen university partnerships, and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson (from the Clinton administration) signed an agreement there to establish "a framework for developing Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center as a national user facility for earth system science, engineering and education" (see here).
If you ask me, the Eden Project sounds more like a tourist attraction than a serious research facility (although this sometimes goes hand in hand, as public interest can help the financial situation). I mean, does this look like much of a scientific endeavor to you?
They already have lots of other stuff here, at AtomFilms, but this is reallly cool! I love Aardman Animations, they are great! Some of my favorites are Creature Comforts (done by Nick Park) and Pib and Pog (two little kids playing around with sulfuric acid, lol, priceless).
ZeoSync really should look up the pigeonhole principle. You can't fit n pieces of data into n-1 slots with one piece of data in each slot.
Basically, if you can reduce 1 million bits to 10,000, then you can only represent 2^10000 different outcomes. But, they need to represent all 2^1000000 outcomes! There are only so many outcomes in there that can be compressed, and that means that the other outcomes take up more space.
In other words, their data is not random.
If a 12th grade high school student can figure this out, surely people with PHD's can see how this idea is flawed. I am surprised that such an absurd idea is even being taken seriously in the news.
Hmm. Does anyone remember this story, about how NSI holds expired domain names? I guess we are seeing the resolution of that. They really have no right to auction off domain names before they expire. This is just another example of them abusing their control of the DNS registries (in addition to things such as taking a large commission out of every domain name sale, so that even if you register with their competitors they gain money).
Someone really should do something. Too bad ICANN can't do anything. Maybe they could, but I don't see the old members giving up their spots to the elected anytime soon. Plus, NSI could "accidentally" cause down time if they tried to move the DNS registries. Unfortunately though, there are no feasable alternates.
I'd rather have one of these...then again, it might be kind of hard to upgrade.
That's right! Technology will end the recording industry and destory music! I read this article about some new gadget that lets people record and copy music! They can buy music from a store and make an exact copy for someone else. With this existing, those struggling musicians have no hope left.
It was called the "tape recorder."
Plus, used in conjunction with a pirate stream of music, called a "radio," you can record even more.
>>the human brain does in fact GROW NEW NEURONS throughout life
I read about this study too, then read that no one has been able to reproduce the results and most scientists doubt it.
hey hey! take a gander at http://client.aavirtualoffice.com/LocalPartners/Pa rtnerDetail.asp?ID=8600&AccountID=9749 . it's a form at a website allowing you to email shifman...perhaps someone wants to set up a script to email him? or perhaps it should go straight to bernard@shifmanconsulting.com
From: Brian Valentine
Sent: Wed 1/2/2002 1:14 PM
To: WW Sales, Marketing & Services Group
Subject: Me again -- Linux updates (part 2)
Our elite PI squad has managed to break into the linux infrastructure! Now, all their source code base are belong to us! With their source code, we can now see how they do things. This infiltration of linux will let us defeat linux, once and for all, from the inside! All we must do now is figure out what the heck all that code means... We would know already, but Visual Basic wasn't able to open their source code files for some reason.