Hmm yeah, thanks for the idea. I had that idea earlier but apparently I forgot about it, but I'll probably do something like this next time I update my site.
ZDNet has an article of HP building a supercomputer like this as well, called the "I-Cluster." It has 225 networked computers running Linux Mandrake (so changes could be easily made) on 733 MHZ out of the box PCs. The only catch is that is is slightly more expensive- $210,000 (minus network cabling). On the other hand, they plan to release the open source tools they made as well, so that people can repeat this.
Yes, but in this case it's a non profit website that simply discusses and gives support and add-ons for TI's products. Your example is completely different, because that would hurt TI's trademark and their profits by profitting off the name. My site refers to their product and is about the product, not hurting their revenue at all (in fact probably helping it). Plus, it indicates that I am not in any way affiliated with TI.
I mean, if people got sued every time they mentioned a product, then why shouldn't companies like HP and Intel sue the New York Times for writing news articles about them, or sue Slashdot for that matter? Why shouldn't Palm should sue news organizations for reporting that it lost its court case against Xerox, since they did not give the organizations a license to use their trademark?
I say, as long as people aren't using a trademark to profit off of by attempting to offer similar services (such as selling calculators with the letters TI on them), then it should be perfectly ok to mention the product or create a website about it.
I manage a non-profit site geared toward people interested in the TI-89, a Texas Instruments graphing calculator, at www.ti-89.org. I do not have any illegal material there, and I clearly state that I am not in any way related to TI in my disclaimer. My website is simply a fansite that promotes interest in the TI-89, and in the message boards I've noticed that it has influenced several people into buying TI-89s.
This did not prevent them from sending me a letter threatening lawsuit if I did not sign an trademark "license" with them for the use of the letters T and I, placed consecutively. The letter stated that it was their trademark and that I would have to remove it or face lawsuit. They also wanted me to turn over the domain name as well, and the license they sent me was extremely restrictive.
I refused to agree with this agreement because it said that I couldn't say any negative things about TI or any of their products and had several other clauses restricting what I could say. I felt that this was censorship, and even though I haven't put anything negative about TI on my site, I didn't want my opinion to be biased toward them.
Anyway, that was the last I've heard from them (for now, at least). My site remains, and with over 100,000 visits it surely generates interest in TI's products, generating revenue for them. Luckily, they probably came to the conclusion that such a fansite was probably more beneficial to them than detrimental, and that sending threating letters wouldn't accomplish anything. If they decide to threaten me again about this, though, I might choose to simply remove my site, and thus the interest it generates for them, from the Internet. I simply do not have as deep pockets as they do and could not afford a lawsuit.
Then again, perhaps they were just sending me a form letter. I once received a letter from someone asking for advice about what to do, since Dell threatened him about his domain name, which had the word Dell in it. Consequently, Dell was his last name, and he had just as legitimate a right to the domain name as they did (even more legitimate, in fact, since he registered it first); they probably just chose to send out a form letter to all domain names with the word Dell in it.
How can they not compare XP with Linux? I'm sure their software engineers are at work RIGHT NOW setting up Linux to crash, and working out how to display the blue screen of death! Linux is open source, so they can do whatever they want with it! So they make up FUD? Then make a Linux distro as slow as XP!!!
you can find 50 years of coca cola ads. I especially like the ones with the polar bears.
they shouldn't be able to do this
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These companies have no right to do this to the moon. The whole universe was not put here so that we could carefully destroy planets one at a time. This topic has not even been placed up for debate before people have started to plan the moon's destruction! The action of these companies is reckless, as we need to more carefully manage our natural resources. These companies are simply looking for money, but it is ridiculous to think they have any right to go up and start chopping at the moon.
On the other hand, efforts to colonize North America were often driven by (fruitless) attempts for money.
The low cost reconfigurable slashpost! That's right! If you're an offtopic AC, a karma whore, or just some random/. reader you will never have to write new material for a slashpost again! Just take the old information and reconfigure it to whatever topic pops up! Only $99.99 (after upgrade rebate and purchase of Windows XP), and if you buy it today it comes bundled with a free college diploma! Earn a prosperous future and earn prosperous karma points in one easy phone dial!
This danger occurs with any technology. A while ago, when the most advanced weaponry was things like knieves and swords, a crazy person could only kill a few. Then came the gun, then the bomb, then chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and prospects for mass destruction got worse. No technologies can be restricted forever, and they never have been in the past.
Thus, we must be extremely careful with what we invent. We must also search for ways to defend against them in the inevitable possibility that someone will attempt abuse them. I worry that in the future everyone will need to wear suits to protect against things like this because you could have invisable nano agents attempt to hurt you or have something that looks like a fly and flies around but then injects you with something or releases something at you.
Oh, how fast the days have flown by. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. My thoughts are with you on this lonely day. What has the world come to when there aren't any automatic viruses floating around on buggy Windows systems? Maybe we'll get lucky and WinXP will have some colossal hole. For now, however, my lonely IP has nobody tracerouting it, scanning for open ports, or even sending it petty pings.
Happy Birthday Email!! ILOVEYOU! I send you this file in order to have your advice. It contains information about how to make $100,000 per month, no risk! That's right, obtain a prosperous future with a college diploma for only $99!
Businesses, of course, make money from selling as many licenses as they can. A used software product is just as good as the original, and thus the companies do not want discounted used copies circulating. Plus, their business plans are sustainable. People don't buy software thinking about reselling it, they buy it for their own use! Plus, they often need this software (or think that they need it, not aware of alternatives), so they aren't in a position to negotiate. Thus, the license based system, while arguably morally wrong, is sustained.
P.S. There have been studies showing that over 90% of software sold on ebay.com is pirated. Even if 10% should be allowed, if you were an honorable software company selling useful software, would you want these 10% to benefit while 90% being pirated software cutting into your revenues?
P.P.S. I do not necessarily believe all of the preceding comments, I simply wish to advocate logically for a source that does not find much sympathy on this site.
Mr. Zimmerman, there has been a lot of debate about restricting PGP, but do you believe that it is even possible anymore? I mean, the code is already widely circulated on the Internet, in both binarie files and source code, so couldn't people who have been using it simply continue to use the same versions or find it online somewhere? Plus, if data is perfectly encrypted, would the government even be able to distinguish it from random data? These possibilities make me question who new laws against encryption will actually stop, as they would be useless if law abiding citizens followed new laws but terrorists had the means to disobey them.
The Super Bowl does not have to do with "news for nerds" directly, but with millions of dollars being paid into high tech ads, which often bring out some of the best of the year, it can be pretty interesting stuff. And notice how the news article did not comment on the game.
Slashdot Mirror
First lightning fast air travel, then lightning fast internet access. What's next, lightning fast pizza delivery?
Hmm yeah, thanks for the idea. I had that idea earlier but apparently I forgot about it, but I'll probably do something like this next time I update my site.
ZDNet has an article of HP building a supercomputer like this as well, called the "I-Cluster." It has 225 networked computers running Linux Mandrake (so changes could be easily made) on 733 MHZ out of the box PCs. The only catch is that is is slightly more expensive- $210,000 (minus network cabling). On the other hand, they plan to release the open source tools they made as well, so that people can repeat this.
Yes, but in this case it's a non profit website that simply discusses and gives support and add-ons for TI's products. Your example is completely different, because that would hurt TI's trademark and their profits by profitting off the name. My site refers to their product and is about the product, not hurting their revenue at all (in fact probably helping it). Plus, it indicates that I am not in any way affiliated with TI.
I mean, if people got sued every time they mentioned a product, then why shouldn't companies like HP and Intel sue the New York Times for writing news articles about them, or sue Slashdot for that matter? Why shouldn't Palm should sue news organizations for reporting that it lost its court case against Xerox, since they did not give the organizations a license to use their trademark?
I say, as long as people aren't using a trademark to profit off of by attempting to offer similar services (such as selling calculators with the letters TI on them), then it should be perfectly ok to mention the product or create a website about it.
Yeah, Everything2 links to itself a lot as well.
I manage a non-profit site geared toward people interested in the TI-89, a Texas Instruments graphing calculator, at www.ti-89.org. I do not have any illegal material there, and I clearly state that I am not in any way related to TI in my disclaimer. My website is simply a fansite that promotes interest in the TI-89, and in the message boards I've noticed that it has influenced several people into buying TI-89s.
This did not prevent them from sending me a letter threatening lawsuit if I did not sign an trademark "license" with them for the use of the letters T and I, placed consecutively. The letter stated that it was their trademark and that I would have to remove it or face lawsuit. They also wanted me to turn over the domain name as well, and the license they sent me was extremely restrictive.
I refused to agree with this agreement because it said that I couldn't say any negative things about TI or any of their products and had several other clauses restricting what I could say. I felt that this was censorship, and even though I haven't put anything negative about TI on my site, I didn't want my opinion to be biased toward them.
Anyway, that was the last I've heard from them (for now, at least). My site remains, and with over 100,000 visits it surely generates interest in TI's products, generating revenue for them. Luckily, they probably came to the conclusion that such a fansite was probably more beneficial to them than detrimental, and that sending threating letters wouldn't accomplish anything. If they decide to threaten me again about this, though, I might choose to simply remove my site, and thus the interest it generates for them, from the Internet. I simply do not have as deep pockets as they do and could not afford a lawsuit.
Then again, perhaps they were just sending me a form letter. I once received a letter from someone asking for advice about what to do, since Dell threatened him about his domain name, which had the word Dell in it. Consequently, Dell was his last name, and he had just as legitimate a right to the domain name as they did (even more legitimate, in fact, since he registered it first); they probably just chose to send out a form letter to all domain names with the word Dell in it.
Here are a couple of good mirrors for BeOS 5.01 I noticed:
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t ion.exe
http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/system/other/beospe.ex
ftp://ftp.kando.hu/.3/beos/beos/BeOS5-PersonalEdi
How can they not compare XP with Linux? I'm sure their software engineers are at work RIGHT NOW setting up Linux to crash, and working out how to display the blue screen of death! Linux is open source, so they can do whatever they want with it! So they make up FUD? Then make a Linux distro as slow as XP!!!
Ok, so this might just be a start, but I think we all can agree that coca cola ads are some of the most memorable over the years. Believe it or not, the Library of Congress has archives of information important to America's cultural history, and at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/
you can find 50 years of coca cola ads. I especially like the ones with the polar bears.
These companies have no right to do this to the moon. The whole universe was not put here so that we could carefully destroy planets one at a time. This topic has not even been placed up for debate before people have started to plan the moon's destruction! The action of these companies is reckless, as we need to more carefully manage our natural resources. These companies are simply looking for money, but it is ridiculous to think they have any right to go up and start chopping at the moon.
On the other hand, efforts to colonize North America were often driven by (fruitless) attempts for money.
I think we should finish screwing up our own planet first before we go on and screw up others. Slow and steady does the job.
Umm, I didn't post that. I clicked on a link at some website and it did it for me. Someone at slashdot should fix this.
hahahaha yeah I know lmao fuck dem moderators they come from goatse or somewhere
The low cost reconfigurable slashpost! That's right! If you're an offtopic AC, a karma whore, or just some random /. reader you will never have to write new material for a slashpost again! Just take the old information and reconfigure it to whatever topic pops up! Only $99.99 (after upgrade rebate and purchase of Windows XP), and if you buy it today it comes bundled with a free college diploma! Earn a prosperous future and earn prosperous karma points in one easy phone dial!
This danger occurs with any technology. A while ago, when the most advanced weaponry was things like knieves and swords, a crazy person could only kill a few. Then came the gun, then the bomb, then chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and prospects for mass destruction got worse. No technologies can be restricted forever, and they never have been in the past.
Thus, we must be extremely careful with what we invent. We must also search for ways to defend against them in the inevitable possibility that someone will attempt abuse them. I worry that in the future everyone will need to wear suits to protect against things like this because you could have invisable nano agents attempt to hurt you or have something that looks like a fly and flies around but then injects you with something or releases something at you.
Oh, how fast the days have flown by. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. My thoughts are with you on this lonely day. What has the world come to when there aren't any automatic viruses floating around on buggy Windows systems? Maybe we'll get lucky and WinXP will have some colossal hole. For now, however, my lonely IP has nobody tracerouting it, scanning for open ports, or even sending it petty pings.
Happy Birthday Email!! ILOVEYOU! I send you this file in order to have your advice. It contains information about how to make $100,000 per month, no risk! That's right, obtain a prosperous future with a college diploma for only $99!
Does this mean that if I buy shares of PayPal with my PayPal account I get shares of my money back?
Businesses, of course, make money from selling as many licenses as they can. A used software product is just as good as the original, and thus the companies do not want discounted used copies circulating. Plus, their business plans are sustainable. People don't buy software thinking about reselling it, they buy it for their own use! Plus, they often need this software (or think that they need it, not aware of alternatives), so they aren't in a position to negotiate. Thus, the license based system, while arguably morally wrong, is sustained.
P.S. There have been studies showing that over 90% of software sold on ebay.com is pirated. Even if 10% should be allowed, if you were an honorable software company selling useful software, would you want these 10% to benefit while 90% being pirated software cutting into your revenues?
P.P.S. I do not necessarily believe all of the preceding comments, I simply wish to advocate logically for a source that does not find much sympathy on this site.
Mr. Zimmerman, there has been a lot of debate about restricting PGP, but do you believe that it is even possible anymore? I mean, the code is already widely circulated on the Internet, in both binarie files and source code, so couldn't people who have been using it simply continue to use the same versions or find it online somewhere? Plus, if data is perfectly encrypted, would the government even be able to distinguish it from random data? These possibilities make me question who new laws against encryption will actually stop, as they would be useless if law abiding citizens followed new laws but terrorists had the means to disobey them.
In reference to the shirt at copyleft, geekshirts.sourceforge.net also has a lot of funny geek / Linux shirts. My favorites there are I Want GNU, GNUtella, and There's no place like GNOME. This site also produced a few designs that have been produced by ThinkGeek, such as the emacs/vi police design.
I don't usually troll, I'm just curious if anyone will moderate this down before the posts below 1 are purged.
"Ewww, what's that coming out of their goat?" "It's the new Intel Pentium V!"
Open source programs close their source?
The Super Bowl does not have to do with "news for nerds" directly, but with millions of dollars being paid into high tech ads, which often bring out some of the best of the year, it can be pretty interesting stuff. And notice how the news article did not comment on the game.