Someone explain that to me. No I didn't read the article (on purpose), because that statement makes no sense at all! I'll go read the article now to see what it's *really* supposed to mean. Someone needs to do some better writing here...
I don't work there, but I knew someone that did, and they use Netscape 4.7x for the browser and email. I suspect still the old because they're all on relatively old computers (still fast, but not cutting edge), and at some point I'm sure they'll migrate to using Netscape 7.x
I'd go with MozillaBrowser and MozillaMail as seperate applications, but the Mail isn't quire mature yet, but it is still very functional. I recommend it, even if it isn't 1.0 yet. I would also recommend by default installing useful extensions for either product (AdBlock for Firebird, and View->MessageBodyAs for Thunderbird)
I believe that is the correct term for picking up complete strangers on the road. Wonder if they also abide by the Hitchhicker's book (read: Carlin in J&SBSB;))
What does SCO hope to gain? 1 Billion Dollars. Which would six-tuple their revenue from the last year. That's a lot.
Do they really think they have a chance against IBM's lawyers? Not a chance. Not especially since it's not just IBM, but the Linux community acting out against them. Just yesterday a programmer from Germany sent SCO a letter asking them to stop using OpenUnix and to provide him of all information as to who is running it, because it contains his copyrighted Linux kernel code and OpenUnix violates GPL (not part of it). I 'm sorry, I can't remember his name
Do they think they really have a case? Is this just some blatant attention-getting tactic? I don't think so, and many don't. Attention getting? I think so. Their stocks were 2$ in Feb, and now are at 10.50 (as of 17:05 yesterday), and will open.40 cents lower than yesterday's close. That is a huge gain. Lots of attention. Also, their VP is selling 10,000 shares on open this morning (cash in obviously). He probably thinks they've reached their high point and have no where to go but down. The case currently stands at 50$ billion, and that is a LOT of attention. The company itslef is only worth a couple hundred million dollars, and IBM could easily just squash them with a hostile bid and buy out all their stock. Which I'm sure SCO execs would love, because the shares are incredibly high compared to Feb '03. Will IBM? Why would they? They get nothing out of the deal except a mouse. They'll play SCO's cards and see where it takes them. Perhaps in the end IBM will buy SCO (then MSFT will be paying IBM for the Unix licence;))
BN 06/16 SCO Cancels IBM Contract, Seeks $50 Billion in Suit (Update4)
SCO Cancels IBM Contract, Seeks $50 Billion in Suit (Update4)
(Adds additional IBM comment in fourth paragraph.)
June 16 (Bloomberg) --- SCO Group Inc. canceled International Business Machines Corp.'s contract for the AIX Unix operating system and revised a lawsuit against IBM to seek as much as $50 billion.
The amended complaint also seeks an order forbidding the sale of IBM's AIX operating system, SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride said. SCO, which licenses Unix to thousands of companies, sued IBM in March claiming it transferred Unix code into the related Linux operating system in breach of IBM's contract. IBM, the world's second-largest software maker, denies the claims.
``The meter is now ticking with respect to AIX and will be ticking until we get conclusion to this,'' McBride said in an interview. SCO is seeking from IBM ``any amount they get from the AIX or related business lines'' while the case is pending, an amount he said could run as high as $50 billion.
IBM's AIX license is irrevocable and there is nothing in today's action that changes that, IBM spokeswoman Trink Guarino said. IBM will continue to ship AIX and develop products, the company said in a statement.
SCO shares fell 28 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $10.93 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after earlier dropping 14 percent to $9.60. Shares of IBM, the world's largest computer maker, rose $1.75 to $84.50 in New York Stock Exchange Composite trading. They've gained 9 percent this year.
Impede Marketing
SCO's lawsuit might hamper IBM and dozens of other companies' marketing of Linux, which Morgan Stanley and other companies use to cut costs, analysts said. Today's move escalates SCO's demands by expanding a previous demand of $1 billion in damages and seeking an injunction against AIX, which SoundView analyst John Jones said generated $2.8 billion in sales in 2002.
``For a fraction of that, IBM can buy SCO outright,'' said Carl Hoagland, an analyst with State Street Corp., referring to the demand for as much as $50 billion. ``Why bother to play these games?'' State Street is IBM's largest shareholder.
Lindon, Utah-based SCO, worth about $134 million based on today's closing stock price, bought Novell Inc.'s licensing rights to Unix for $145 million in 1995. Novell, whose software is used to manage computer networks, last month challenged SCO's claims, saying Novell retains ownership of the Unix patents and copyrights. SCO maintains it has legal entitlement to them.
SCO's suit was filed by attorney David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, who represented the U.S. Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and Vice President Al Gore in his dispute over the 2000 presidential election results. Both Boies' firm and IBM are based in Armonk, New York.
Linux, developed by Finnish developer Linus Torvalds, is maintained and updated by a corps of volunteer programmers who make it available for free over the Internet. Companies such as IBM, Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc. make money from Linux by selling computers, software and services related to the operating system.
Unix was first developed in the late 1960s by AT&T Corp. Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and other companies over the years derived their own operating systems based on Unix. Linux is one of the most recent Unix offshoots to emerge.
Microsoft Corp. is the world's biggest software maker.
--Jonathan Berr in the Princeton newsroom (1) (609) 750-4516 or jberr@Bloomberg.net. and Dan Goodin in San Francisco, (1) (415) 743-3548 or dgoodin@bloomberg.net. Editor: Todd.
I don't know what kind of reference you used for that, but Russia has quite a few. I don't have my 20th yr anniversary picture book that Time put out (not technical at all), but it's got every documented fatalaty in there. Including all the Russian ones (from manned flights). Check your stats again. The NASA program, though highly dangerous, has a better track record that you give them credit for.
To Boldly Go. Simply put.
hehe, FreeBSD didn't get SCO's letter?
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And if they didn't, I suspect that they will have one mailed to them today...;)
I don't know if you will get this message or not, but you shouldn't assume that an '.edu' email address means anything. Given your childish response, it was no better than mine. Yes, I made a lot of assumptions in my statement, but your clarifications of my assumptions were simply telling everyone else what I omitted. Don't ASSume. It makes an ASS out of U (not me).
Now to clarify...Yes, it is Great Britain, but a single country is who adopts a currency, not a group of them. Of course Great Britain is quite the unique case, but let's leave that aside.
The British pound is strong, and in the long run currently they have no reason to change to the Euro. They will, but not just yet. A strong currecny, as you indicated does not imply the strenght of the economy. The USD is not very strong right now (vs. EUR and JPY) but the economy has been getting stronger. The USD is getting weaker on implications of a Fed Cut and things like that.
Again, don't just assume that because I have an edu email address you have to "go easy" on me. I bet most alumni from universities keep their edu address (as is my case).
Why in the world would England want to adopt the Euro? The Euro was there to stabalize the currency of many countries. England will only join the Euro when it becomes as strong as the Pound, which is very unlikely. The Sterling is one of the most stable and highest valued currencies in the world and you expect them to join the Euro so their own currency value goes down? Sure, the Euro would go up, but there are NO benefits for England here. They don't need a weaker currency right now and if and when they do, perhaps they'd consider this.
as in the tag that most people are referring to. The patent in question is about more than 1 web-page using a "static" menu which makes it look like part of the web-page does not change. That part of the page is called a "Frame." Also, this article is rather old...check this.
Also, to the person that said that the browser is the thing that uses frames, what a silly statement. Clearly you didn't read the patent either, and the comment should be modded down. Again, the patent is on using static content (such as a menu) which remains through a series of pages (more than 1) where by simulating what one would call a Frame. <frame> is just an easier way to do this, which is why it was created and used.
Really 4BAD.org???
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Did no one else try that? the NYTimes article points to http://0100101110101101.org/, which annoyed me right away with it's javascript alert popup, and then I just threw it into HEX, and the numbers changed into 4BAD...I wonder what the means. There is no 4BAD website, perhaps it's just a complete coinscidense (sp).
anyway, the site is rather interesting, though I haven't figured out what it is. On could probably spend hours going through all of the "private" email on that computer...
As for ZOMBO, I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I don't have flash installed (probably for this reason):)
And, then somehow the entire human race was wiped out with the diseases smallpox, polio and then aids, because the doctors thought it best that humans develop the antibodies to the viral infections themselves.
Of course, there are cases where the human body simply can't produce the proper immunity to the virus (or bacteria), whereby we would get help by getting the proper innocculation or antibiotics, etc.
Also picked up on Bloomberg. I don't have a link to the article, but here is the entire article:
Sony Denies Report That It Will Release PlayStation 3 This Year 2003-03-09 22:29 (New York)
Sony Denies Report That It Will Release PlayStation 3 This Year
Tokyo, March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., the world's largest maker of video-game consoles, denied a report in Taiwan's Commercial Times newspaper that it will introduce the successor to its PlayStation 2 video-game console as earlier as this year.
``The report is wrong,'' said Koichiro Katsurayama, a spokesman at Tokyo-based Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony's games unit. ``The timing of the successor machine to PlayStation 2 has not been decided.''
Sony may start selling the PlayStation 3 in Japan as early as mid-year and overseas by the end of the year, two years ahead of schedule so Sony can widen its lead over rivals Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp., the Commercial Times said, citing unidentified people at Taiwanese parts suppliers.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan, which assembles the PlayStation 2 for Sony, and other parts suppliers on the island will start trial production next month, the report said.
Speculation over the timing of Sony's next console comes as Kyoto-based Nintendo, the company behind the Mario the plumber game character, prepares a new version of its GameCube machine.
Chip Development
Tokyo-based Sony, in collaboration with International Business Machines Corp. and Toshiba Corp., is developing a new processor, called ``Cell,'' which will be capable of handling sophisticated graphics and sound over the Internet.
Sony and Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker, plan to use ``Cell'' in a range of digital consumer products, including TVs, cellular phones and the successor to the PlayStation 2.
The chip is still in development, Molly Smith, a spokeswoman with Sony Computer Entertainment America, said on March 4.
Sales of the PlayStation 2 console, which debuted in Japan three years ago this month, exceeded 50 million units in January.
Sony released the PlayStation 2 four years after the company introduced the original PlayStation console.
At the time McBride said SCO was concerned that programmers who had signed agreements to see proprietary SCO source code had moved on to other projects and might be incorporating his company's proprietary code into other projects.
So, does that mean this could be patent infringement if the "creater" copyrighted/patented this: for( int i = 0; i or what about
while( true ){// do stuff
I mean, where do you draw the limit. How can you enforce a patent on programming. A lot of what is out there can be regarded as common knowledge now. I didn't learn how to create a page table from UNIX. I learned from the Dinosaur OS book. So, am I breaking any laws if I happen to have implemented a paging system that is very similar to UNIX? Yes, I didn't see SCO's code prior to, but there is nothing that innovative out there in the UNIX OS anymore. We all know how it works.
I really wish there would be some businesses that aren't pushed by money and could be push forth by innovation instead.
Re:Average lifespan for a sheep...
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a million dead embry's from failed cloning attempts, in my mind is rather disgusting (goes with the idea that I personally am against cloning, because the entire concept to me is disgusting) - all the "it can be good for humanity" speeches need not be said.
It's the idea of cloning that makes the 1 million dead bodies disgusting. I'm not particularly bothered by the 1 million dead animals - hey, that happens at the slaughter houses everyday anyway.
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The point is, their lost lives were embryo's, not semen or eggs. They were fully feeding embryo's.
Abortion is the only thing that compares to that.
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is 10-14 years. Dolly lived to be 6+.
Not to draw any conclusions, but I don't think too many people will be taken back by this, unless of course you were one of the people who helped create Dolly and actually thought that she was completely normal.
Despite the fact I am against cloning, I would like to find out more results to this. What would the avg. lifespan be if there were 100 Dolly's (and I suppose 1,000,000 failed attempts as well). It might be interesting to know, though somewhat dusgusting to get to.
End result - this won't bode too well for cloning simply because Dolly developed this disease only half-way through her life. What will be much more interesting is to follow her child - I believe she gave birth to a female sheep in 1998 - 2 years after Dolly's birth.
Yikes...spelling error galore. I wish I could edit my own post....I of course meant "Big" Bang, not "Bing" Bang (as in Friends)...
Original Post:
Well, I'm no astophysicist, but won't this new theory disprove all previous theories about the Bing Bang as well, and everything we thing of the Universe thus far. If this susbstance will keep the Universe expanding forever, how was it ever possible to have a Big Bang in the first place? It would be inconcievable to think anything created the Universe in the Big Bang theory, because it could never happen, thus our Universe does not go in cycles (expand then contract - repeat).
So, How did the universe get created. Does this mean that there was actually a "beginning of time" as far as we can tell? What was that point? What existed before then? Since matter can't be created nor destroyed, where did it come from? (though that is a question beyond most planes of though, IMO)
I don't believe this story, and I think more research is needed here.
Well, I'm no astophysicist, but won't this new theory disprove all previous theories about the Bing Bang as well, and everything we thing of the Universe thus far. If this susbstance will keep the Universe expanding forever, how was it ever possible to have a Big Bang in the first place? It would be inconcievable to think anything created the Universe in the Big Bang theory, because it could never happen, thus our Universe does not go in cycles (expand then contract - repeat).
So, How did the universe get created. Does this mean that there was actually a "beginning of time" as far as we can tell? What was that point? What existed before then? Since matter can't be created nor destroyed, where did it come from? (though that is a question beyond most planes of though, IMO)
I don't believe this story, and I think more research is needed here.
Go to Google and put in 'http://www.yourvote.com/pci' and hit Search and click on the Cache, now, Click on another internal link, copy and paste that, and put it into Google, and then hit Cache, and repeat this process, and you can get something like this nVidia list
If you really wanted that list, write a perl script and save it on your hdd for later reference...of course, I wouldn't go out and publish all this lovely info...
This is how it is. And this is what make the system work (in the US). It's not going to change. This applies to everything in the gov't right now.
If we explain tax cuts in some very basic terms, it might go something like this:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for lunch. The bill for all ten comes to $100. But, instead of dividing it up equally, they decide the bill should be paid based on who can afford. So, its decided that the first four men -- the poorest -- will pay nothing; the fifth will pay $1, the sixth $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18,and the tenth man -- the richest - will pay $59.
The ten men eat lunch in the same restaurant every day and seem happy with the arrangement -- until one day, the owner throws them a curve (in tax language a tax cut). "Since you are such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily lunch by $20."
So now dinner for the ten only costs $80.00. The group still wanted to pay the bill based on who is the wealthiest... the way we pay our taxes. The first four men were unaffected, they still would eat for free. But the "problem" came when the other six -- the paying customers - tried to figure out how to divvy up the $20 "tax windfall" so that everyone would get his "fair share".
At first, the six men tried dividing up the $20, which came to $3.33 saved by each. But, when they subtracted that from everybody's share, the fifth and the sixth man ended up being PAID to eat their meal!!! That didn't seem right, so they asked the restaurant owner for an alternate plan and he suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill roughly in proportion to what they had been paying. He suggested that the fifth man along with the first four, would now pay nothing. The sixth would pay about $2, the seventh about $5, the eighth $9, the ninth $12. This would leave the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of the $59 he had been paying.
Each of the six was better off than before [the first four were already eating for free]. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He then pointed to the tenth man, "But he got $7!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man who now was getting a free meal, "I too only saved a dollar... it's unfair that the wealthy man got seven times more than I did."
That's true!" shouted the seventh man, why should he get $7 back when I only get $2 back. The wealthy get all the breaks!" Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "We didn't get anything. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men proceeded to surround the tenth man and began to beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. However, when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered... a little late... that the tenth wealthy man was very important to THEIR well-being. They were FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS short of paying the bill!
And that is how the tax system works... the people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table again.
I'm sorry, but if you are trying to sell a programming course, or curriculum, or whatever, it would be nice if the web-site worked...properly...with standards...since they are trying to teach Standards in Game Programming.
Anyway, there is no DOCTYPE in the page, sending the browser (Phoenix/Moz/Gecko based) into quirks mode, and the navigation is just a pain in the ass. It's a challenge of can I move my mouse fast enough over the other layers before the disappear or if I can move to the 2nd/3rd links before the sub-nav layer appears on top of the primary nav.
I'm glad they have this, and I think it is good, especially when being driven by these companies, but they should be able to present themselves too. After all, will you send your kid to a school that can't even present themselves? You are paying a lot of money...
This is a great idea and will work fine. For the 2-3 people that go to Gateway Country to hack the computers, you won't be doing much. Soon someone will come over and kick you out and restart whatever you tried to screw up. Just beacuse you can do it doesn't mean that you should (it is illegal afterall).
Anyway, in the end, this is brilliant, and I'm surprized that it took so long. Though I really feel that the only companies that will be able to utilize this ar ethe Drug companies to take care of some algorithms for them. A random hacker will have to spend their entire life trying to hack through to figure out what exactly is going on. The hacker will have 0 knowledge of what is being run on those computers and won't have the first clue as to what to make of the data. Stop pretending that these compuers are just made for hacking and breaking into. If this is what you're doing day in and day out, pick up a book or get a real job.
Anyway, I hope that this idea takes off and that others can really benefit from this. What would be ever better is if some comapanies "dontate" their spare computer time to organizations that try to produce results much like Corporations. That would greatly benefit everyone, and if people are hacking in and trying to break this...then they're just causing society more grief.
hey, an extra 10MM can't hurt Gateway all that much can it?
Apparently none of you caught any of my sarcasm. All of you basically dismiss me as a "superior snot" who hates the country that he lives in. I enjoy the fact that I live here, and I respect most of what it stands for.
I made my statement simply because it would bring out a point, though very sarcastically. Of course the US is better than China, IMO, but it is also starting to create a gov't which is more Big Brother than every before, and I am wholly against that. I am 100% against the gov't in place today, and don't believe in nearly anything they do. Everything that the gov't currently is pursuing undermines the average non-millionaire citizen. I don't care about a war in Iraq, nor do I care about building another missile , and I definitely don't think that watching every citizen of counrtry is the answer to terrorism. Perhaps not supporting one side of the Isreal/Palestine war...that might be a possible solution.
So you see, my post was just a tad bit of sarcasm, and to the AC's who responded to me with nothing useful to say. Fuck off, and start to read more intelligently. At least I can claim what I say. Never post as an AC.
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Someone explain that to me. No I didn't read the article (on purpose), because that statement makes no sense at all! I'll go read the article now to see what it's *really* supposed to mean. Someone needs to do some better writing here...
I don't work there, but I knew someone that did, and they use Netscape 4.7x for the browser and email. I suspect still the old because they're all on relatively old computers (still fast, but not cutting edge), and at some point I'm sure they'll migrate to using Netscape 7.x
I'd go with MozillaBrowser and MozillaMail as seperate applications, but the Mail isn't quire mature yet, but it is still very functional. I recommend it, even if it isn't 1.0 yet. I would also recommend by default installing useful extensions for either product (AdBlock for Firebird, and View->MessageBodyAs for Thunderbird)
I believe that is the correct term for picking up complete strangers on the road. Wonder if they also abide by the Hitchhicker's book (read: Carlin in J&SBSB ;))
What does SCO hope to gain?
.40 cents lower than yesterday's close. That is a huge gain. Lots of attention. Also, their VP is selling 10,000 shares on open this morning (cash in obviously). He probably thinks they've reached their high point and have no where to go but down. The case currently stands at 50$ billion, and that is a LOT of attention. The company itslef is only worth a couple hundred million dollars, and IBM could easily just squash them with a hostile bid and buy out all their stock. Which I'm sure SCO execs would love, because the shares are incredibly high compared to Feb '03. Will IBM? Why would they? They get nothing out of the deal except a mouse. They'll play SCO's cards and see where it takes them. Perhaps in the end IBM will buy SCO (then MSFT will be paying IBM for the Unix licence ;))
1 Billion Dollars. Which would six-tuple their revenue from the last year. That's a lot.
Do they really think they have a chance against IBM's lawyers?
Not a chance. Not especially since it's not just IBM, but the Linux community acting out against them. Just yesterday a programmer from Germany sent SCO a letter asking them to stop using OpenUnix and to provide him of all information as to who is running it, because it contains his copyrighted Linux kernel code and OpenUnix violates GPL (not part of it). I 'm sorry, I can't remember his name
Do they think they really have a case? Is this just some blatant attention-getting tactic?
I don't think so, and many don't. Attention getting? I think so. Their stocks were 2$ in Feb, and now are at 10.50 (as of 17:05 yesterday), and will open
Story from Bloomberg...
BN 06/16 SCO Cancels IBM Contract, Seeks $50 Billion in Suit (Update4)
SCO Cancels IBM Contract, Seeks $50 Billion in Suit (Update4)
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June 16 (Bloomberg) --- SCO Group Inc. canceled International
Business Machines Corp.'s contract for the AIX Unix operating
system and revised a lawsuit against IBM to seek as much as $50
billion.
The amended complaint also seeks an order forbidding the
sale of IBM's AIX operating system, SCO Chief Executive Darl
McBride said. SCO, which licenses Unix to thousands of companies,
sued IBM in March claiming it transferred Unix code into the
related Linux operating system in breach of IBM's contract. IBM,
the world's second-largest software maker, denies the claims.
``The meter is now ticking with respect to AIX and will be
ticking until we get conclusion to this,'' McBride said in an
interview. SCO is seeking from IBM ``any amount they get from the
AIX or related business lines'' while the case is pending, an
amount he said could run as high as $50 billion.
IBM's AIX license is irrevocable and there is nothing in
today's action that changes that, IBM spokeswoman Trink Guarino
said. IBM will continue to ship AIX and develop products, the
company said in a statement.
SCO shares fell 28 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $10.93 at 4
p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after earlier
dropping 14 percent to $9.60. Shares of IBM, the world's largest
computer maker, rose $1.75 to $84.50 in New York Stock Exchange
Composite trading. They've gained 9 percent this year.
Impede Marketing
SCO's lawsuit might hamper IBM and dozens of other
companies' marketing of Linux, which Morgan Stanley and other
companies use to cut costs, analysts said. Today's move escalates
SCO's demands by expanding a previous demand of $1 billion in
damages and seeking an injunction against AIX, which SoundView
analyst John Jones said generated $2.8 billion in sales in 2002.
``For a fraction of that, IBM can buy SCO outright,'' said
Carl Hoagland, an analyst with State Street Corp., referring to
the demand for as much as $50 billion. ``Why bother to play these
games?'' State Street is IBM's largest shareholder.
Lindon, Utah-based SCO, worth about $134 million based on
today's closing stock price, bought Novell Inc.'s licensing
rights to Unix for $145 million in 1995. Novell, whose software
is used to manage computer networks, last month challenged SCO's
claims, saying Novell retains ownership of the Unix patents and
copyrights. SCO maintains it has legal entitlement to them.
SCO's suit was filed by attorney David Boies of Boies,
Schiller & Flexner LLP, who represented the U.S. Justice
Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and
Vice President Al Gore in his dispute over the 2000 presidential
election results. Both Boies' firm and IBM are based in Armonk,
New York.
Linux, developed by Finnish developer Linus Torvalds, is
maintained and updated by a corps of volunteer programmers who
make it available for free over the Internet. Companies such as
IBM, Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc. make money from Linux by
selling computers, software and services related to the operating
system.
Unix was first developed in the late 1960s by AT&T Corp. Sun
Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and other companies
over the years derived their own operating systems based on Unix.
Linux is one of the most recent Unix offshoots to emerge.
Microsoft Corp. is the world's biggest software maker.
--Jonathan Berr in the Princeton newsroom (1) (609) 750-4516 or
jberr@Bloomberg.net. and Dan Goodin in San Francisco, (1) (415)
743-3548 or dgoodin@bloomberg.net. Editor: Todd.
I don't know what kind of reference you used for that, but Russia has quite a few. I don't have my 20th yr anniversary picture book that Time put out (not technical at all), but it's got every documented fatalaty in there. Including all the Russian ones (from manned flights). Check your stats again. The NASA program, though highly dangerous, has a better track record that you give them credit for.
To Boldly Go. Simply put.
And if they didn't, I suspect that they will have one mailed to them today... ;)
I don't know if you will get this message or not, but you shouldn't assume that an '.edu' email address means anything. Given your childish response, it was no better than mine. Yes, I made a lot of assumptions in my statement, but your clarifications of my assumptions were simply telling everyone else what I omitted. Don't ASSume. It makes an ASS out of U (not me).
Now to clarify...Yes, it is Great Britain, but a single country is who adopts a currency, not a group of them. Of course Great Britain is quite the unique case, but let's leave that aside.
The British pound is strong, and in the long run currently they have no reason to change to the Euro. They will, but not just yet. A strong currecny, as you indicated does not imply the strenght of the economy. The USD is not very strong right now (vs. EUR and JPY) but the economy has been getting stronger. The USD is getting weaker on implications of a Fed Cut and things like that.
Again, don't just assume that because I have an edu email address you have to "go easy" on me. I bet most alumni from universities keep their edu address (as is my case).
Why in the world would England want to adopt the Euro? The Euro was there to stabalize the currency of many countries. England will only join the Euro when it becomes as strong as the Pound, which is very unlikely. The Sterling is one of the most stable and highest valued currencies in the world and you expect them to join the Euro so their own currency value goes down? Sure, the Euro would go up, but there are NO benefits for England here. They don't need a weaker currency right now and if and when they do, perhaps they'd consider this.
as in the tag that most people are referring to. The patent in question is about more than 1 web-page using a "static" menu which makes it look like part of the web-page does not change. That part of the page is called a "Frame." Also, this article is rather old...check this.
Also, to the person that said that the browser is the thing that uses frames, what a silly statement. Clearly you didn't read the patent either, and the comment should be modded down. Again, the patent is on using static content (such as a menu) which remains through a series of pages (more than 1) where by simulating what one would call a Frame. <frame> is just an easier way to do this, which is why it was created and used.
Did no one else try that? the NYTimes article points to http://0100101110101101.org/, which annoyed me right away with it's javascript alert popup, and then I just threw it into HEX, and the numbers changed into 4BAD...I wonder what the means. There is no 4BAD website, perhaps it's just a complete coinscidense (sp).
:)
anyway, the site is rather interesting, though I haven't figured out what it is. On could probably spend hours going through all of the "private" email on that computer...
As for ZOMBO, I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I don't have flash installed (probably for this reason)
And, then somehow the entire human race was wiped out with the diseases smallpox, polio and then aids, because the doctors thought it best that humans develop the antibodies to the viral infections themselves.
Of course, there are cases where the human body simply can't produce the proper immunity to the virus (or bacteria), whereby we would get help by getting the proper innocculation or antibiotics, etc.
Also picked up on Bloomberg. I don't have a link to the article, but here is the entire article:
Sony Denies Report That It Will Release PlayStation 3 This Year
2003-03-09 22:29 (New York)
Sony Denies Report That It Will Release PlayStation 3 This Year
Tokyo, March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp., the world's
largest maker of video-game consoles, denied a report in Taiwan's
Commercial Times newspaper that it will introduce the successor to
its PlayStation 2 video-game console as earlier as this year.
``The report is wrong,'' said Koichiro Katsurayama, a
spokesman at Tokyo-based Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony's
games unit. ``The timing of the successor machine to PlayStation 2
has not been decided.''
Sony may start selling the PlayStation 3 in Japan as early as
mid-year and overseas by the end of the year, two years ahead of
schedule so Sony can widen its lead over rivals Nintendo Co. and
Microsoft Corp., the Commercial Times said, citing unidentified
people at Taiwanese parts suppliers.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan, which assembles
the PlayStation 2 for Sony, and other parts suppliers on the
island will start trial production next month, the report said.
Speculation over the timing of Sony's next console comes as
Kyoto-based Nintendo, the company behind the Mario the plumber
game character, prepares a new version of its GameCube machine.
Chip Development
Tokyo-based Sony, in collaboration with International
Business Machines Corp. and Toshiba Corp., is developing a new
processor, called ``Cell,'' which will be capable of handling
sophisticated graphics and sound over the Internet.
Sony and Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker, plan to use
``Cell'' in a range of digital consumer products, including TVs,
cellular phones and the successor to the PlayStation 2.
The chip is still in development, Molly Smith, a spokeswoman
with Sony Computer Entertainment America, said on March 4.
Sales of the PlayStation 2 console, which debuted in Japan
three years ago this month, exceeded 50 million units in January.
Sony released the PlayStation 2 four years after the company
introduced the original PlayStation console.
So, does that mean this could be patent infringement if the "creater" copyrighted/patented this:
for( int i = 0; i
or what about
while( true ){
I mean, where do you draw the limit. How can you enforce a patent on programming. A lot of what is out there can be regarded as common knowledge now. I didn't learn how to create a page table from UNIX. I learned from the Dinosaur OS book. So, am I breaking any laws if I happen to have implemented a paging system that is very similar to UNIX? Yes, I didn't see SCO's code prior to, but there is nothing that innovative out there in the UNIX OS anymore. We all know how it works.
I really wish there would be some businesses that aren't pushed by money and could be push forth by innovation instead.
a million dead embry's from failed cloning attempts, in my mind is rather disgusting (goes with the idea that I personally am against cloning, because the entire concept to me is disgusting) - all the "it can be good for humanity" speeches need not be said.
It's the idea of cloning that makes the 1 million dead bodies disgusting. I'm not particularly bothered by the 1 million dead animals - hey, that happens at the slaughter houses everyday anyway.
The point is, their lost lives were embryo's, not semen or eggs. They were fully feeding embryo's.
Abortion is the only thing that compares to that.
is 10-14 years. Dolly lived to be 6+.
Not to draw any conclusions, but I don't think too many people will be taken back by this, unless of course you were one of the people who helped create Dolly and actually thought that she was completely normal.
Despite the fact I am against cloning, I would like to find out more results to this. What would the avg. lifespan be if there were 100 Dolly's (and I suppose 1,000,000 failed attempts as well). It might be interesting to know, though somewhat dusgusting to get to.
End result - this won't bode too well for cloning simply because Dolly developed this disease only half-way through her life. What will be much more interesting is to follow her child - I believe she gave birth to a female sheep in 1998 - 2 years after Dolly's birth.
Yikes...spelling error galore. I wish I could edit my own post....I of course meant "Big" Bang, not "Bing" Bang (as in Friends)...
Original Post:
Well, I'm no astophysicist, but won't this new theory disprove all previous theories about the Bing Bang as well, and everything we thing of the Universe thus far. If this susbstance will keep the Universe expanding forever, how was it ever possible to have a Big Bang in the first place? It would be inconcievable to think anything created the Universe in the Big Bang theory, because it could never happen, thus our Universe does not go in cycles (expand then contract - repeat).
So, How did the universe get created. Does this mean that there was actually a "beginning of time" as far as we can tell? What was that point? What existed before then? Since matter can't be created nor destroyed, where did it come from? (though that is a question beyond most planes of though, IMO)
I don't believe this story, and I think more research is needed here.
Well, I'm no astophysicist, but won't this new theory disprove all previous theories about the Bing Bang as well, and everything we thing of the Universe thus far. If this susbstance will keep the Universe expanding forever, how was it ever possible to have a Big Bang in the first place? It would be inconcievable to think anything created the Universe in the Big Bang theory, because it could never happen, thus our Universe does not go in cycles (expand then contract - repeat).
So, How did the universe get created. Does this mean that there was actually a "beginning of time" as far as we can tell? What was that point? What existed before then? Since matter can't be created nor destroyed, where did it come from? (though that is a question beyond most planes of though, IMO)
I don't believe this story, and I think more research is needed here.
Through Google's Cache...it's really quite easy.
Go to Google and put in 'http://www.yourvote.com/pci' and hit Search and click on the Cache, now, Click on another internal link, copy and paste that, and put it into Google, and then hit Cache, and repeat this process, and you can get something like this nVidia list
If you really wanted that list, write a perl script and save it on your hdd for later reference...of course, I wouldn't go out and publish all this lovely info...
This is how it is. And this is what make the system work (in the US). It's not going to change. This applies to everything in the gov't right now.
If we explain tax cuts in some very basic terms, it might go something like
this:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for lunch. The bill for all ten comes to $100. But, instead of dividing it up equally, they decide the bill should be paid based on who can afford. So, its decided that the first four men -- the poorest -- will pay nothing; the fifth will pay $1, the sixth $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18,and the tenth man -- the richest - will pay $59.
The ten men eat lunch in the same restaurant every day and seem happy with the arrangement -- until one day, the owner throws them a curve (in tax language a tax cut). "Since you are such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily lunch by $20."
So now dinner for the ten only costs $80.00. The group still wanted to pay the bill based on who is the wealthiest... the way we pay our taxes. The first four men were unaffected, they still would eat for free. But the "problem" came when the other six -- the paying customers - tried to figure out how to divvy up the $20 "tax windfall" so that everyone would get his "fair share".
At first, the six men tried dividing up the $20, which came to $3.33 saved by each. But, when they subtracted that from everybody's share, the fifth and the sixth man ended up being PAID to eat their meal!!! That didn't seem right, so they asked the restaurant owner for an alternate plan and he suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill roughly in proportion to what they had been paying. He suggested that the fifth man along with the first four, would now pay nothing. The sixth would pay about $2, the seventh about $5, the eighth $9, the ninth $12. This would leave the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of the $59 he had been paying.
Each of the six was better off than before [the first four were already eating for free]. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He then pointed to the tenth man, "But he got $7!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man who now was getting a free meal, "I too only saved a dollar... it's unfair that the wealthy man got seven times more than I did."
That's true!" shouted the seventh man, why should he get $7 back when I only get $2 back. The wealthy get all the breaks!" Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "We didn't get anything. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men proceeded to surround the tenth man and began to beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. However, when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered... a little late... that the tenth wealthy man was very important to THEIR well-being. They were FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS short of paying the bill!
And that is how the tax system works... the people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table again.
I'm sorry, but if you are trying to sell a programming course, or curriculum, or whatever, it would be nice if the web-site worked...properly...with standards...since they are trying to teach Standards in Game Programming.
Anyway, there is no DOCTYPE in the page, sending the browser (Phoenix/Moz/Gecko based) into quirks mode, and the navigation is just a pain in the ass. It's a challenge of can I move my mouse fast enough over the other layers before the disappear or if I can move to the 2nd/3rd links before the sub-nav layer appears on top of the primary nav.
I'm glad they have this, and I think it is good, especially when being driven by these companies, but they should be able to present themselves too. After all, will you send your kid to a school that can't even present themselves? You are paying a lot of money...
This is a great idea and will work fine. For the 2-3 people that go to Gateway Country to hack the computers, you won't be doing much. Soon someone will come over and kick you out and restart whatever you tried to screw up. Just beacuse you can do it doesn't mean that you should (it is illegal afterall).
Anyway, in the end, this is brilliant, and I'm surprized that it took so long. Though I really feel that the only companies that will be able to utilize this ar ethe Drug companies to take care of some algorithms for them. A random hacker will have to spend their entire life trying to hack through to figure out what exactly is going on. The hacker will have 0 knowledge of what is being run on those computers and won't have the first clue as to what to make of the data. Stop pretending that these compuers are just made for hacking and breaking into. If this is what you're doing day in and day out, pick up a book or get a real job.
Anyway, I hope that this idea takes off and that others can really benefit from this. What would be ever better is if some comapanies "dontate" their spare computer time to organizations that try to produce results much like Corporations. That would greatly benefit everyone, and if people are hacking in and trying to break this...then they're just causing society more grief.
hey, an extra 10MM can't hurt Gateway all that much can it?
Apparently none of you caught any of my sarcasm. All of you basically dismiss me as a "superior snot" who hates the country that he lives in. I enjoy the fact that I live here, and I respect most of what it stands for.
I made my statement simply because it would bring out a point, though very sarcastically. Of course the US is better than China, IMO, but it is also starting to create a gov't which is more Big Brother than every before, and I am wholly against that. I am 100% against the gov't in place today, and don't believe in nearly anything they do. Everything that the gov't currently is pursuing undermines the average non-millionaire citizen. I don't care about a war in Iraq, nor do I care about building another missile , and I definitely don't think that watching every citizen of counrtry is the answer to terrorism. Perhaps not supporting one side of the Isreal/Palestine war...that might be a possible solution.
So you see, my post was just a tad bit of sarcasm, and to the AC's who responded to me with nothing useful to say. Fuck off, and start to read more intelligently. At least I can claim what I say. Never post as an AC.
The US passes laws without much trouble that lets the gov't snoop on all citizens and arrest them at will.
Is the US that much better? At least in China I wouldn't be arrested (because I wouldn't be able to find the site).