Yes, I am aware that it is not only possible to "track me down," but that people have already done it for one reason or another. I'm not "hiding," I just don't particularly care, believe it or not, for putting myself forward.
To win the prize you have come up with what the "F" stands for. It's perfectly doable, if, like, you're a crazed stalker or something.
"Would you feel better if he replaced his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of reliable Linux blades running Oracle?"
Quite a bit, yes. Bear in mind that I'm also on record as detesting Oracle, even at times questioning the intelligence, professional competence and parantage of anyone who would work for the company as a programer.
"Is the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation suddenly going to replace his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of cheap Linux blades running MySQL. .."
If they are seriously interested in the field I would welcome them with open arms, but then I don't view education as a commercial enterprise or students as financial resources, even though I teach.
It's the AG's office, not a private law firm. The lawyers are public servants on salary, not working for a percentage. They are constrained by law to work in the public's (the people who provide their salaries) interest.
They're prosecutors.
When the NY Attorney General's office nailed Song BMG for "payola" the settelement included a $10 million grant to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to New York State, a non profit, to promote music education.
The EFF has also filled a rootkit suit against Sony BMG in LA. I guess you can decide for yourself whether these guys are just after a big paycheck.
"However, it should be possible for it to make mud impressions such as we have seen with ferns and tree leaves."
It can; and it does. It's just that none has been found dating that far back. One of the significant things about this finding is, again, the diversity of speciation of the grass. That shows that grass had already been around for long enough to develop that degree of speciation, pushing the development of the grasses back much farther the simple age of this particular fossil.
It can be hard to think, in this day when the grasses are completely unbiquitous and among the first plants to colonize any exposed soil, that once upon a time there was rich vegetable life, but no grass, but such is the case. They belong to a family of plants that developed at a later date than other types, much as the mammals developed at a later date than other forms of animal life.
The question is simply how far back do they go.
The issue is also a good example of how evidence that is staring you right in the face can be hard to think about as well, as people have been looking at grass eating dino and mammal teeth for 100 years and trying to find ways to explain them away, rather than conclude they were used for eating grass.
But it's also a good example of how as evidence mounts the scientific method tends to force a "reality based" view of the world, like it or not.
Sometimes it just takes awhile to gather the needed evidence and to give people time to be able see it as it is.
If you read more carefully written popular articles about this finding than the one linked to, written by authors who specialize in science reporting, you'll find that they say it is "suggestive" that the dinosaur at grass. The only thing that is really accepted as proven at this point is that grass existed at that time.
The OP's scoff is misplaced when aimed at "those whacky scientists." It should be aimed at the those whacky idiot reporters who report that the whaky scientists found "pieces of grass" when they did no such thing.
However, the distribution of the grass phytoliths in the copralite and the fact that they came from multiple species of grass is highly suggestive of consumption.
. ..they are practically out of business in the long run
And it's about fucking time. I believe I've written a few posts on this subject in the past. Most people just don't get what's really going on and why.
In my opinion, what they are trying to do with that DRM stuff is trying to put the genie back in the bottle, by recapturing control of the distribution channel. Not only because of pirating, but also to save the heart of their business model.
Exactly. The real risk isn't even the DRM stuff though, it's their willingness, and success at, buying law to support the business model.
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" Or how about a crazed guesser? :)"
Bad guesser, no Cheetos.
KFG
Yes, I am aware that it is not only possible to "track me down," but that people have already done it for one reason or another. I'm not "hiding," I just don't particularly care, believe it or not, for putting myself forward.
To win the prize you have come up with what the "F" stands for. It's perfectly doable, if, like, you're a crazed stalker or something.
KFG
Oh, absolutely.
KFG
Maybe they'll start working on that whan Dr. Banner gets back from vacation.
KFG
Only on /. could the first post be redundant.
And yet it happens often enough that your post is redundant.
What a world, what a world!
KFG
So I'd say . . . yes.
KFG
You left out:
G)Cowboy Neal
H)Boobs!
I)All of the above
KFG
The amount of Individual Freedoms this law steals from people is abhorrent.
There's a word for people who love Individual Freedoms.
KFG
"Would you feel better if he replaced his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of reliable Linux blades running Oracle?"
Quite a bit, yes. Bear in mind that I'm also on record as detesting Oracle, even at times questioning the intelligence, professional competence and parantage of anyone who would work for the company as a programer.
"It happens more than you think."
I doubt it.
KFG
"Is the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation suddenly going to replace his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of cheap Linux blades running MySQL. . ."
Good Lord! I hope not.
KFG
I wouldn't. At all.
If they are seriously interested in the field I would welcome them with open arms, but then I don't view education as a commercial enterprise or students as financial resources, even though I teach.
I teach because I like teaching.
KFG
"No sirree, we didn't play these childish games in the computer room in my day, and that's how we liked it."
May I show you my collection of LEGO shaped, stackable UNIVACs?
KFG
The proper form of the motto is:
Putty and paint makes up for what a carpenter ain't.
KFG
But for HD-DVD/Blu-ray and SACD, all players will support DRM.
That's what I said, innit?
KFG
Once we start thinking of everything as bits everything is everything, hardware, software and media.
An iPod is just a portable HD that happens to have a decoder in it.
KFG
" ". . .it will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players.'" "
Well, obviously all they need to do is put a stop to this sort of nonsense.
KFG
Right, whatever you say, "LilGuy."
KFG
Embed me please!
I'm flattered, but you're not my type.
KFG
Well, at least one of 'em made it.
Loser.
KFG
It's the AG's office, not a private law firm. The lawyers are public servants on salary, not working for a percentage. They are constrained by law to work in the public's (the people who provide their salaries) interest.
They're prosecutors.
When the NY Attorney General's office nailed Song BMG for "payola" the settelement included a $10 million grant to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to New York State, a non profit, to promote music education.
The EFF has also filled a rootkit suit against Sony BMG in LA. I guess you can decide for yourself whether these guys are just after a big paycheck.
KFG
"However, it should be possible for it to make mud impressions such as we have seen with ferns and tree leaves."
It can; and it does. It's just that none has been found dating that far back. One of the significant things about this finding is, again, the diversity of speciation of the grass. That shows that grass had already been around for long enough to develop that degree of speciation, pushing the development of the grasses back much farther the simple age of this particular fossil.
It can be hard to think, in this day when the grasses are completely unbiquitous and among the first plants to colonize any exposed soil, that once upon a time there was rich vegetable life, but no grass, but such is the case. They belong to a family of plants that developed at a later date than other types, much as the mammals developed at a later date than other forms of animal life.
The question is simply how far back do they go.
The issue is also a good example of how evidence that is staring you right in the face can be hard to think about as well, as people have been looking at grass eating dino and mammal teeth for 100 years and trying to find ways to explain them away, rather than conclude they were used for eating grass.
But it's also a good example of how as evidence mounts the scientific method tends to force a "reality based" view of the world, like it or not.
Sometimes it just takes awhile to gather the needed evidence and to give people time to be able see it as it is.
And, of course, some people refuse to ever see.
KFG
If you read more carefully written popular articles about this finding than the one linked to, written by authors who specialize in science reporting, you'll find that they say it is "suggestive" that the dinosaur at grass. The only thing that is really accepted as proven at this point is that grass existed at that time.
The OP's scoff is misplaced when aimed at "those whacky scientists." It should be aimed at the those whacky idiot reporters who report that the whaky scientists found "pieces of grass" when they did no such thing.
However, the distribution of the grass phytoliths in the copralite and the fact that they came from multiple species of grass is highly suggestive of consumption.
KFG
. . .they are practically out of business in the long run
And it's about fucking time. I believe I've written a few posts on this subject in the past. Most people just don't get what's really going on and why.
In my opinion, what they are trying to do with that DRM stuff is trying to put the genie back in the bottle, by recapturing control of the distribution channel. Not only because of pirating, but also to save the heart of their business model.
Exactly. The real risk isn't even the DRM stuff though, it's their willingness, and success at, buying law to support the business model.
KFG
Scoff if you will. . .
That's what I did. For that matter, so did you.
However it was found in a titanosaur's (a herbivore) shit. They didn't go around munching on mammals.
Therefore it couldn't have been a mammal that ate the grass. So why do you even bring them up? I didn't.
KFG
"Am I missing something?"
Yes.
KFG