I know Linkin Park is derivative of Limp Bizkit and if you go farther back, Faith No More, but like it or not, they started this current trend in rap metal. So what does that make Metallica if they're a copy of a copy of a copy?
Not that it makes much difference, but Lars quit the band. The Black album was still decent, but Load really marked their descent into sucktitude: all bluesy, ZZ Top ballads (nothing against ZZ Top), and now it's a lame ripoff of the Linkin Park rap metal sound (nothing against Linkin Park either).
"2. The software industry as a whole would suffer. Open standards are nice for interoperability, but not so nice for new development."
There's a time and place for new ideas in software. It's called research and experimentation. Production data and especially public records in government should most definitely be stored in documented, standards-compliant file formats. To see why this is a good idea, see the Dead Media Project. How many of your 20 year old computer files could you retrieve? Got an Apple II Appleworks filter for your office suite?
Even with this law, MS might say "we comply because the Office 2003 file format is XML", but won't do you much good if the namespace and schema are locked up.
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Nizzle is a milder, less offensive form of the N-bomb, just like shiznit and shit. Still, it's a point well taken; don't use slang you don't understand. Just don't overdo it. Mouthing off like Eminem or Jamie Kennedy won't help you get a job even if it makes you look young and hip.
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Hey, 30s is not that old. I'm Gen X and I could pass for 20s. If you think it's the kind of place that wants young people, go buy some clothes at Old Navy or Anchor Blue, get your hair frosted and go watch MTV, Jackass, Malibu's Most Wanted for vocabulary lessons. Fo' shizzle my nizzle!
Sure, TIA is possible with any kind of government. I played Alpha Centauri many times with a Democratic/Mind Control government. Let them think they have a choice.
I think trackable warranties would only work if the tags had enough bits to store a serial number and the serial number was recorded on the sales receipt. If the customers paid cash they'd still be anonymous. Also, the tags will most like be placed on the packaging and not on the product itself.
If we ever get to the point where Wi-Fi really takes off and the 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5GHz unlicensed bands get saturated, it could be a good use for those unused UHF channels. Even if they didn't remove any TV stations, these devices could scan the UHF TV band and transmit spread spectrum on the unused channels.
This may end up like Gnutella. Even though the original Nullsoft client was pulled, the idea and the Gnutella protocol is out there and others created independant implementations without using the questionable Nullsoft code. Think of it as reference code for an RFC.
He's talking about AT&T vs. UC Berkeley. Although Unix was copyright by AT&T, much of the code was contributed by the community. AT&T even took BSD licensed code and put their own copyrights on it. The result of that lawsuit was that four files in BSD had to be rewritten, and AT&T had no IP claims to the rest of BSD. There's not much Unix technology in System V source, that's not also found in BSD, which makes it public knowledge and not trade secret. Any claim of copyright or trade secret derived from owning the ancestral AT&T source is diluted by that lawsuit settlement.
Unless you're talking about something like an Interactive Blowjob porn game, most sexually explicit games wouldn't rate anything more than an R movie which is restricted for minors, but not prohibited. BMX XXX might have flashed some boobs and that's it. GTA talks about ho's and drugs, but they don't show much.
The ipod uses a 1.8in PCMCIA size hard drive which is IMHO the best balance today between size and capacity. If this new drive has good enough shock resistance and durability, I could see it competing with flash MP3 players, but it can't compete with the "carry your whole music collection" convenience of the ipod and other HD MP3 players.
You should be able to do this with VBscript using only trusted components from the OS like IIS, the file search objects and the SMB server. They'd cause some serious inconvenience if they required signing of script files.
It all depends on where and when the info is aggregated. If they have a raw database WITH the personally identifying information, that would be very dangerous simply because it exists. Any present promises of only using it in aggregate won't be worth the bits they're printed on in a bankruptcy proceeding.
I'm guessing that "public access" radio might be closer with its lower bandwidth and production cost requirements. I could easily forsee some kind of Wi-Fi peer-to-peer device blowing the radio market wide open. The software might resemble the streamer p2p protocol, but optimized with multicasting and some way to elect repeater nodes. Assuming a real world bandwidth of 1Mb/s, that gives us 16 64Kb/s channels. Not exactly an abundance of channels, but it's a start.
If you're not at home during the day, a $40/month cellphone plan should have plenty of minutes to replace your landline, especially with the extra night and weekend minutes. There's no reason to get a landline phone if you have cable modem service. Unfortunately, you can't get DSL without a phone line from the ILEC.
"No amount of licensing from SCO would allow anybody but the copyright holders to use those versions of the kernel."
This is essentially impossible. Unlike the FSF, Linux doesn't require contributors to the kernel to assign copyrights to him. You would need the permission of every single contributor to relicense the kernel.
The annoyance of those popups to "Upgrade to Quicktime Pro!" is enough to lump Quicktime for Windows into the shitty category no matter how good the player is. Let's hope they don't put in the same popup to "Upgrade to iTunes Pro!".
The obvious application would be an HTPC for playing DVDs, Divx, and all those other video files like Quicktime and Real. You get the fast boot time and don't have to worry about shutting down. DVD players are cheap now, but MPEG4 Divx players are still rare and expensive. However the no shutdown needed is less of an advantage since with the ACPI support in Win98SE, I can clean shutdown in 2-3 seconds by pressing the power button (on a 1Ghz Celeron, hardly a powerhouse).
In one sense ATI's tweak is not as bad because they're still rendering the scene with full image quality, where NVIDIA is rendering with reduced quality. However, it's still deceptive because it's optimizing for the special case of a benchmark, and real games (or a renamed 3dmark executable) will run slower.
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I know Linkin Park is derivative of Limp Bizkit and if you go farther back, Faith No More, but like it or not, they started this current trend in rap metal. So what does that make Metallica if they're a copy of a copy of a copy?
Not that it makes much difference, but Lars quit the band. The Black album was still decent, but Load really marked their descent into sucktitude: all bluesy, ZZ Top ballads (nothing against ZZ Top), and now it's a lame ripoff of the Linkin Park rap metal sound (nothing against Linkin Park either).
"2. The software industry as a whole would suffer. Open standards are nice for interoperability, but not so nice for new development."
There's a time and place for new ideas in software. It's called research and experimentation. Production data and especially public records in government should most definitely be stored in documented, standards-compliant file formats. To see why this is a good idea, see the Dead Media Project. How many of your 20 year old computer files could you retrieve? Got an Apple II Appleworks filter for your office suite?
Even with this law, MS might say "we comply because the Office 2003 file format is XML", but won't do you much good if the namespace and schema are locked up.
Nizzle is a milder, less offensive form of the N-bomb, just like shiznit and shit. Still, it's a point well taken; don't use slang you don't understand. Just don't overdo it. Mouthing off like Eminem or Jamie Kennedy won't help you get a job even if it makes you look young and hip.
Hey, 30s is not that old. I'm Gen X and I could pass for 20s. If you think it's the kind of place that wants young people, go buy some clothes at Old Navy or Anchor Blue, get your hair frosted and go watch MTV, Jackass, Malibu's Most Wanted for vocabulary lessons. Fo' shizzle my nizzle!
Nah, but maybe you'll be seeing more Bluetooth is dying... troll posts.
Sure, TIA is possible with any kind of government. I played Alpha Centauri many times with a Democratic/Mind Control government. Let them think they have a choice.
I think trackable warranties would only work if the tags had enough bits to store a serial number and the serial number was recorded on the sales receipt. If the customers paid cash they'd still be anonymous. Also, the tags will most like be placed on the packaging and not on the product itself.
If we ever get to the point where Wi-Fi really takes off and the 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5GHz unlicensed bands get saturated, it could be a good use for those unused UHF channels. Even if they didn't remove any TV stations, these devices could scan the UHF TV band and transmit spread spectrum on the unused channels.
patent for allowing one to "fast forward"
You mean like the PgDn key? Digital cable remotes have Page+/Page- buttons for scrolling through the channel guide too.
This may end up like Gnutella. Even though the original Nullsoft client was pulled, the idea and the Gnutella protocol is out there and others created independant implementations without using the questionable Nullsoft code. Think of it as reference code for an RFC.
He's talking about AT&T vs. UC Berkeley. Although Unix was copyright by AT&T, much of the code was contributed by the community. AT&T even took BSD licensed code and put their own copyrights on it. The result of that lawsuit was that four files in BSD had to be rewritten, and AT&T had no IP claims to the rest of BSD. There's not much Unix technology in System V source, that's not also found in BSD, which makes it public knowledge and not trade secret. Any claim of copyright or trade secret derived from owning the ancestral AT&T source is diluted by that lawsuit settlement.
Unless you're talking about something like an Interactive Blowjob porn game, most sexually explicit games wouldn't rate anything more than an R movie which is restricted for minors, but not prohibited. BMX XXX might have flashed some boobs and that's it. GTA talks about ho's and drugs, but they don't show much.
The ipod uses a 1.8in PCMCIA size hard drive which is IMHO the best balance today between size and capacity. If this new drive has good enough shock resistance and durability, I could see it competing with flash MP3 players, but it can't compete with the "carry your whole music collection" convenience of the ipod and other HD MP3 players.
Well, the record store is spelled Wherehouse, but in this case he probably meant warehouse.
You should be able to do this with VBscript using only trusted components from the OS like IIS, the file search objects and the SMB server. They'd cause some serious inconvenience if they required signing of script files.
It all depends on where and when the info is aggregated. If they have a raw database WITH the personally identifying information, that would be very dangerous simply because it exists. Any present promises of only using it in aggregate won't be worth the bits they're printed on in a bankruptcy proceeding.
I'm guessing that "public access" radio might be closer with its lower bandwidth and production cost requirements. I could easily forsee some kind of Wi-Fi peer-to-peer device blowing the radio market wide open. The software might resemble the streamer p2p protocol, but optimized with multicasting and some way to elect repeater nodes. Assuming a real world bandwidth of 1Mb/s, that gives us 16 64Kb/s channels. Not exactly an abundance of channels, but it's a start.
You mean BOTH kinds, country AND western!
If you're not at home during the day, a $40/month cellphone plan should have plenty of minutes to replace your landline, especially with the extra night and weekend minutes. There's no reason to get a landline phone if you have cable modem service. Unfortunately, you can't get DSL without a phone line from the ILEC.
"No amount of licensing from SCO would allow anybody but the copyright holders to use those versions of the kernel."
This is essentially impossible. Unlike the FSF, Linux doesn't require contributors to the kernel to assign copyrights to him. You would need the permission of every single contributor to relicense the kernel.
The annoyance of those popups to "Upgrade to Quicktime Pro!" is enough to lump Quicktime for Windows into the shitty category no matter how good the player is. Let's hope they don't put in the same popup to "Upgrade to iTunes Pro!".
SCO was a bit player in Monterey compared to IBM and especially HP. This would be like Kuwait taking the credit for victory in Gulf War I.
The obvious application would be an HTPC for playing DVDs, Divx, and all those other video files like Quicktime and Real. You get the fast boot time and don't have to worry about shutting down. DVD players are cheap now, but MPEG4 Divx players are still rare and expensive. However the no shutdown needed is less of an advantage since with the ACPI support in Win98SE, I can clean shutdown in 2-3 seconds by pressing the power button (on a 1Ghz Celeron, hardly a powerhouse).
In one sense ATI's tweak is not as bad because they're still rendering the scene with full image quality, where NVIDIA is rendering with reduced quality. However, it's still deceptive because it's optimizing for the special case of a benchmark, and real games (or a renamed 3dmark executable) will run slower.