Moderators should have to pass a quiz indicating they have a sense of irony and a knowledge of current events.
In the meantime, did you know the War on Iraq is just about equal in cost to WWI? And is more expensive than all of our wars prior to WWI plus Desert Storm combined? And that the whitehouse says that George Bush's $87 Billion is anywhere from $55 to $75 billion too little? (The plan is that the french, germans, and russians will pay the shortfall.)
The story doesn't explain what the bill sets out a 'beacon' to be, but basically the intent is to (within a year of the bill's passage) develop a US standard for a magical 'beacon' one can set on a computer that will prevent people from installing P2P software on it.
With a futures market on software shipments we could easily determine when software ship date is., just as I can predict next years weather by looking at the price of orange juice futures.
And please don't tell me yet again about how economists point out that markets can't predict anything. Nattering nabobs indeed.
Moreover, if we had a futures market on software shipments, then we, as users and managers could lessen risk of software delay or software bugs by buying hedging options.
A futures market in software would also let unemployed, overly expensive, middle-aged with families, but otherwise wise programmers leverage the outsourcing trend. Whether the software is made here or there, certain factors creating delays, etc. will be present and us older and wiser programmers would be able to use our years of experience to arbitrage the market.
Futures markets -- why must our overlords keep us from them?
Realizing the truth of your argument, that there is nothing special about currency backed by gold, and implementing it by letting the dollar and other major currencies float, was surely one of the most remarkable (and remarked on) monetary actions of the 20th Century.
(However, it did cause stock in one bond (movie) to fall.)
Why sensors and cpus when we have a free market?
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NASA is a bunch of idiots and going about this all wrong. Sensors? Distributed Computing? Modeling? Algorithms? Fooey.
As everyone knows, a free efficient market will factor in all knowledge and forecase everything within seconds.
This is a terrible waste of taxpayer money so long as we can trade Orange Juice, Pork Belly, and Osama Bin Laden Futures.
It's close. It's too expensive (I mean a BIG, EXTERNALLY POWERED cell phone should cost LESS than a SMALL cell phone with EXOTIC batteries). It also isn't compatible with my current phone and their 2002 copyright and compatibility only with Nokia makes me wonder how they and their product are doing.
But I like it -- it helps confirm to me, that I am not totally crazy.
I want to ditch my local carriers entirely. They are too expensive by far and it's a monopoly I don't like (SBC.)
I want a cell phone as big as a class touchtone phone. Big buttons that my kids can use. A devoted 911 button. Real big phone. Weighs a few pounds. So big that you can't toss a book on top of it. It plugs into the wall for power. It's big and has a the best sound quality. And it has a built-in super duper antenna so that it always has five bars of reception.
Now it would be even better if it could share the same number as half a dozen other cell phones. When one rings, they all ring. It wonderful if I could stick a fax or modem jack into it.
How do I force pop up windows to have the full set of menubars and tabs?
When I visit most blogs and they pop up windows with comments (damn moveable type). But the windows don't make tabs visible, so it completely destroys tabbed browsing within that window. So if anyone leaves a link I wish to open, I have to open it in a new window and not just a new tab.
StarOffice is intended as a Microsoft Office replacement, and can read and write Office file formats. For most uses, it should be fine, but it does have limits.... There isn't a macro recorder, and for obscure technical reasons, there isn't likely to be one in the near future. The lack of a really top-flight office suite remains one of Linux's weak points, and it is one for which CrossOver Office isn't really a long-term solution: after all, if you're using Microsoft Office, why not use Windows as well?
I find writing the occasional macro useful in Word and mandatory in Excel. I know that many businesses do implement significant modifications and applications using VBScript for the Windows Office Suite. And there's a significant third party application market of these things, including some very sophisticated data modeling tools.
I understand why Open Office doesn't want to try to implement a VBScript clone, but why isn't there a Python, Ruby, or other scripting language implemented for OO?
What are the obscure technical reasons the article alludes to?
Most people hear that IBM is being sued for Linux IP violations and they think that all 3Gb of data on the RedHat CD is going to be trashed.
RMS makes this statement and suddenly everyone realizes that:
A) Worst case, say 20Mb of code is at stake, not 2.4Gb, so were talking 1% of the RedHat CD. (I'm just making wild ass guesses here)
B) That 20Mb/1% of code is modular and already has functional, but maybe not optimal alternatives
C) That RMS reminds them what their own lawyers tell them about IP, it's a vague term and is really many many forms of court determined litigated things. And then they realize, well while worst case is that 1% of the code is tossed, RMS points out that between the courts and the coders, most likely that very little will be tossed.
So by making a clear, factual and neutral statement about Linux the kernel, RMS shines a light on the scary shadows of FUD created by SCO.
So now the CIO realizes, okay, overnight my RedHat, my server room is not going to be forced to shutdown. I will not be forced to pay massive royalties and penalties. Worse case, we pay a royalty for a year or so and then we switch to an improved alternative kernel. Okay!
For some reason, reading this, Realize that this technology is inexorable, and come to the table,' says Hemming to our friends Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti.", immediately made me think of ELP's, Brain Salad Surgery. If this isn't a 70's rock and roll prediction of KaZaa and the Net, I don't know what could be....
. .. Step inside! Hello! We've the most amazing show You'll enjoy it all we know Step inside! Step Inside!
We've got thrills and shocks, supersonic fighting cocks. Leave your hammers at the box Come Inside! Come Inside! Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!
Left behind the bars, rows of Bishops' heads in jars and a bomb inside a car Spectacular! Spectacular!
If you follow me there's a speciality some tears for you to see Misery, misery, Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!
Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville We've a stripper in a till What a thrill! What a thrill! And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs, We pull Jesus from a hat, Get into that! Get into that! Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends We're so glad you could attend Come inside! Come inside! There behind a glass is a real blade of grass be careful as you pass. Move along! Move along!
Come inside, the show's about to start guaranteed to blow your head apart Rest assured you'll get your money's worth The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth. You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo. You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll....
Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline Will perform on guillotine What a scene! What a scene! Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand to Alexander's Ragtime Band Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! See the show!
Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool Seven virgins and a mule Keep it cool. Keep it cool. We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown were exclusively our own, All our own. All our own. Come and see the show! Come and see the show! Come and see the show! See the show!
a) letting the 3 & 5 year old talk to grandma, and that lets me translate from 3year old speech to 75 year old speech and fill in the gaps.
b) placing the phone down and getting back to coding when you are placed on hold again.
Don't think about crummy behavior in public with cellphones. Think about cellphones replacing wired phones. The only reason I have a landline is because I cannot find a cellphone with acceptable voice quality, yet. But speakerphones are almost a must have....
Also, chewie, you're a lucky guy to have so little to get frustrated over. But you may wish to lay off the caffeine.
Patents are weird shit if you ask me. I can patent non-obvious things, but I am supposed to show, on the patent itself, the prior art for those things. Makes my brain hurt.
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In the meantime, did you know the War on Iraq is just about equal in cost to WWI? And is more expensive than all of our wars prior to WWI plus Desert Storm combined? And that the whitehouse says that George Bush's $87 Billion is anywhere from $55 to $75 billion too little? (The plan is that the french, germans, and russians will pay the shortfall.)
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Bullshit, this is great. A pirate is a pirate. Ignorance is no excuse. At 12, she's certainly knows right from wrong.
If we let 12 year olds steal music, the terrorists will have won!
Palladium anyone?
With a futures market on software shipments we could easily determine when software ship date is., just as I can predict next years weather by looking at the price of orange juice futures.
And please don't tell me yet again about how economists point out that markets can't predict anything. Nattering nabobs indeed.
Moreover, if we had a futures market on software shipments, then we, as users and managers could lessen risk of software delay or software bugs by buying hedging options.
A futures market in software would also let unemployed, overly expensive, middle-aged with families, but otherwise wise programmers leverage the outsourcing trend. Whether the software is made here or there, certain factors creating delays, etc. will be present and us older and wiser programmers would be able to use our years of experience to arbitrage the market.
Futures markets -- why must our overlords keep us from them?
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The display boxes aren't physical, they are logical. Think a text/label field in a windowing api.
I suspect the inventor imagined a card with 3-4 LED displays, one for cc number, one for exp date, and one for name.
tomLehrer.flashSong("The Elements"), a song of the first 109 elements, ending with meitnerium.
I think you've made the parent's point.
Realizing the truth of your argument, that there is nothing special about currency backed by gold, and implementing it by letting the dollar and other major currencies float, was surely one of the most remarkable (and remarked on) monetary actions of the 20th Century.
(However, it did cause stock in one bond (movie) to fall.)
NASA is a bunch of idiots and going about this all wrong. Sensors? Distributed Computing? Modeling? Algorithms? Fooey.
As everyone knows, a free efficient market will factor in all knowledge and forecase everything within seconds.
This is a terrible waste of taxpayer money so long as we can trade Orange Juice, Pork Belly, and Osama Bin Laden Futures.
Thanks for pointing that out.
It's close. It's too expensive (I mean a BIG, EXTERNALLY POWERED cell phone should cost LESS than a SMALL cell phone with EXOTIC batteries). It also isn't compatible with my current phone and their 2002 copyright and compatibility only with Nokia makes me wonder how they and their product are doing.
But I like it -- it helps confirm to me, that I am not totally crazy.
Thanks!
This is somewhat off topic, but only somewhat, ...
I want to ditch my local carriers entirely. They are too expensive by far and it's a monopoly I don't like (SBC.)
I want a cell phone as big as a class touchtone phone. Big buttons that my kids can use. A devoted 911 button. Real big phone. Weighs a few pounds. So big that you can't toss a book on top of it. It plugs into the wall for power. It's big and has a the best sound quality. And it has a built-in super duper antenna so that it always has five bars of reception.
Now it would be even better if it could share the same number as half a dozen other cell phones. When one rings, they all ring. It wonderful if I could stick a fax or modem jack into it.
Why can't I get that?
In all fairness to the developers,
After all, how lame would the software be to have a buffer overrun playing a fscking MIDI file?!?!
No more or less lame than any buffer overflow that was created after Morris took down much of the net in 1988.
Thanks. Have you figured out how to route around Haloscan?
A middle or right click on a javascripty haloscan comment pop-up just results in a "(Untitle)", empty tab.
How do I force pop up windows to have the full set of menubars and tabs?
When I visit most blogs and they pop up windows with comments (damn moveable type). But the windows don't make tabs visible, so it completely destroys tabbed browsing within that window. So if anyone leaves a link I wish to open, I have to open it in a new window and not just a new tab.
Thanks!
How do I fertilize my lawn with used motor oil? Are you serious?
How safe is that environmentally?
What happened to the rabbi at JPFO? The Ask the Rabbi column was wonderful stuff.
Yes, Harry Harrison produced a documentary about this very plan. Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers was a documentary account of this 747.
StarOffice is intended as a Microsoft Office replacement, and can read and write Office file formats. For most uses, it should be fine, but it does have limits.
I find writing the occasional macro useful in Word and mandatory in Excel. I know that many businesses do implement significant modifications and applications using VBScript for the Windows Office Suite. And there's a significant third party application market of these things, including some very sophisticated data modeling tools.
I understand why Open Office doesn't want to try to implement a VBScript clone, but why isn't there a Python, Ruby, or other scripting language implemented for OO?
What are the obscure technical reasons the article alludes to?
Most people hear that IBM is being sued for Linux IP violations and they think that all 3Gb of data on the RedHat CD is going to be trashed.
RMS makes this statement and suddenly everyone realizes that:
A) Worst case, say 20Mb of code is at stake, not 2.4Gb, so were talking 1% of the RedHat CD. (I'm just making wild ass guesses here)
B) That 20Mb/1% of code is modular and already has functional, but maybe not optimal alternatives
C) That RMS reminds them what their own lawyers tell them about IP, it's a vague term and is really many many forms of court determined litigated things. And then they realize, well while worst case is that 1% of the code is tossed, RMS points out that between the courts and the coders, most likely that very little will be tossed.
So by making a clear, factual and neutral statement about Linux the kernel, RMS shines a light on the scary shadows of FUD created by SCO.
So now the CIO realizes, okay, overnight my RedHat, my server room is not going to be forced to shutdown. I will not be forced to pay massive royalties and penalties. Worse case, we pay a royalty for a year or so and then we switch to an improved alternative kernel. Okay!
For some reason, reading this, Realize that this technology is inexorable, and come to the table,' says Hemming to our friends Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti.", immediately made me think of ELP's, Brain Salad Surgery. If this isn't a 70's rock and roll prediction of KaZaa and the Net, I don't know what could be....
.
....
. .
Step inside! Hello! We've the most amazing show
You'll enjoy it all we know
Step inside! Step Inside!
We've got thrills and shocks, supersonic fighting cocks.
Leave your hammers at the box
Come Inside! Come Inside!
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!
Left behind the bars, rows of Bishops' heads in jars
and a bomb inside a car
Spectacular! Spectacular!
If you follow me there's a speciality
some tears for you to see
Misery, misery,
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!
Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville
We've a stripper in a till
What a thrill! What a thrill!
And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,
We pull Jesus from a hat,
Get into that! Get into that!
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
There behind a glass is a real blade of grass
be careful as you pass.
Move along! Move along!
Come inside, the show's about to start
guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth.
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll
Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline
Will perform on guillotine
What a scene! What a scene!
Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand
to Alexander's Ragtime Band
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!
Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule
Keep it cool. Keep it cool.
We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown
were exclusively our own,
All our own. All our own.
Come and see the show! Come and see the show! Come and see the show!
See the show!
That's not my experience. I have never received a single piece of spam on a hotmail account I've been using for at least nine months.
I take my name and tack on an approximation of a transcendental number and no spam (and no dictionary attacks).
Now, no farkettes have written me either, but that's a different problem.
a) letting the 3 & 5 year old talk to grandma, and that lets me translate from 3year old speech to 75 year old speech and fill in the gaps.
b) placing the phone down and getting back to coding when you are placed on hold again.
Don't think about crummy behavior in public with cellphones. Think about cellphones replacing wired phones. The only reason I have a landline is because I cannot find a cellphone with acceptable voice quality, yet. But speakerphones are almost a must have....
Also, chewie, you're a lucky guy to have so little to get frustrated over. But you may wish to lay off the caffeine.
Yes, back in 1978, I too wrote my own version of Star Trek for an IBM 370 using APL.
APL. (Perl for arrays.)
Star Trek in 15 lines (and a lot of 0,0rho reshaping!)
Patents are weird shit if you ask me. I can patent non-obvious things, but I am supposed to show, on the patent itself, the prior art for those things. Makes my brain hurt.
My understanding is that wouldn't matter in a patent case, unless you are arguing the patent was for an obvious invention.
Patents do protect against independent inventions of the same patented technology.