"The lining up of a nucleus parallels the encoding of information in conventional computers as binary ones or zeros. However, unlike a traditional bit, which is either on or off, the nuclei are subject to the very weird laws of quantum physics that allow them to simultaneously be in multiple states. In other words, they can be a one or a zero at the same time."
Hmmm, more than one state at the same time, interesting. Sounds like this computer could end up being indecisive? What do you think?
"Analysis of the Drosophila genome revealed 90 previously unknown P450 genes, including those that affect the metabolism of drugs such as beta blockers for heart disease, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and codeine-a pain killer and cough suppressant. (No one knows whether a fruit fly can get a cough.)
Patient to Doctor:"Doc that gene treatment you gave me for my depression really worked well. But you know ever since I've had this strange urge to walk through s#@t."
"Gerald M. Rubin, head of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project and lead author of one of the Science papers, says, "about 60 percent or more genes are conserved between fly and human." In other words, nature practices the addage against reinventing the wheel. If you've got a core set of genes that work, why not use them over and over again in just subtly different ways."
So not only is there a law of conservation of matter and energy, there is also a law of conservation of genetic material. Now what were the drawbacks to Open Source?
I was talking about this issue with a non-computer using friend. He pointed out that record companies would love to get airtime on radio to promote their artists and albums. What all those people are doing that are downloading MP3s is free promotion for the record companies. Record commanies should be paying the creators of MP3 software and Napster for promoting their artists.
Record companies would be hard pressed to prove that they have been financially damaged. I believe it would be easier to prove that MP3 files and players, and programs like Napster are responsible for increased profits, through free publicity for their artists.
Instead of sueing individuals and software producers, the record industry and RIAA should be grateful for the increased exposure their artists. They couldn't buy an equivalent amount of air time!
Every piece of recording media has a has a fee attached to it that is to be returned to the artists for allowing 'Fair Use.' That's right! We already pay for 'Fair Use,' there is no reason to attach a per play fee (or piracy fee if you prefer.) I'd like to see the RIAA and Record Companies give an accounting of how much was collected, and how much was returned to the artists. Record Companies and the RIAA aren't concerned about profits for their artists, they are concerned about profits for themselves! Sites like MP3.com help to promote artists and sell CDs in a non-traditional manner. Record Companies are afraid they may be disintermediated by allowing artists to sell more directly. The record industry doesn't understand that the internet interprets censorship (or the perception thereof) as damage and routes around it!
Instead of fighting technology the industry should
Embrace and establish MP3 sites
Recognize the cost savings through free promotion and
Use technology to easily produce custom CDs and music/music videoDVDs from their internet site
Lower prices of CDs and DVDs to increase sales
Imagine being able to select 640MB of music for a custom CD (even more on a DVD, or perhaps Music Videos?), just the music you want, at a reasonable price; perhaps the minidisc could be the prefered format. Oh Well! Enough of my rant!
They can send a notice to all regestered owners informing them that they have 'defective' merchandise that may be returned for free exchange. Those regestered owners that do not return them for exchange may find the police and MPAA represenatives knocking on the door. I can just see the headlines,
"Local Police and MPAA Officials Confiscate Illegal DVD Players!"
Yeah, great publicity for the MPAA. Confiscate those DVD players! Just think of all the good will the MPAA will create doing a house-to-house search for those that didn't register the players. Let's see the MPAA call unknowing consumers Pirates, and take them to court! Of course, that will never happen:-)
Imagine what could happen if crackers organized and planted programs on computers similar to the DOS attacks recently. Then activated them remotely, silmultaneously, sending tanks and ships helterskelter.
Then again if they use Windows, what happens if the Pentagon decides to cut corners and not pay the latest and greatest license fees to M$. M$ could remotely shut down all the tanks and planes, rendering them useless!
Then there all those bugs, imagine having to stop during battle to install the latest patch and reboot the tank! How many crashes during battle are acceptable? Could give new meaning to Blue Screen Of Death!
The announcement of console gaming box by M$ may just be more Vaporware. M$ afterall is the KING of vaporware! Announcing 20 months ahead of time is a way of M$ saying 'we're staking a claim here, don't mess with us,' meanwhile M$ gets developers writing games for a machine it will never produce.
If M$ is serious about producing and selling the X-box, I have to wonder where they intend to make their money. It wont be on the box, they will sell it at a loss. It wont be on the games, others will write the games. That leaves only licensing the APIs to game writers and some kind of promotional licensing to make a profit.
If M$ expects to make money by licensing either the APIs or some kind of promotional licensing, where does that leave the guy selling the Linux box?
The guy selling the Linux box can't sell it at a loss. The Linux APIs are open source, and promotional licensing is doubtful. Linux wont be able to line up developers ahead of time like M$. Unfortunately M$ just has too much marketshare.
Let M$ take on PS2 and let the Linux community do what it does best, produce a top rate OS. Console users and computer users are two different classes of people, computer users want to do more with their machines and need more versatility than a console user.
M$ is grasping for straws, they need to expand their marketshare somehow to keep up profits up, to push stock prices up. It has saturated the desktop market, is making little or no headway in the server market. M$ at present can only make more $$$ by charging more for products and product updates. Businesses are becoming tired of paying more for OS upgrades, that amount to little more than bug fixes and a few new features, (with new bugs!)M$ needes a new market to expand to, and must do it soon. Perhaps this is why gaming is looking attractive to M$ now.
First I forward it to Spam Recycle, then send a copy to my ISP, then delete it.
SpamRecycle collects spam, determines the true address (if possible) and notifies the ISP of the spamer, it also distributes lists of known spam addresses to ISPs so they can be blocked. SpamRecycle also testified before Congress about spam. My ISP is prety good about keeping spam from reaching their customers, and usually act when customers forward spam to them. I never reply to spam, not even to opt out, that would only verify that they have a valid address, and I would get more spam.
will come out of the woodwork, looking for the secret message left by alliens in human DNA. Of course others will claim the secret DNA message is contained in Hot Grits, or carried by Natalie Portman's DNA.
It would be possible for there to be only one copyright holder. For instance if a program was started and copyrighted by an individual and put up on a web site under GPL for interested parties to contribute code with the understanding that any code contributed becomes property of the copyright holder. The copyright could then be changed to a different license by the copyright holder without consulting anyone that contributed code.
I expect that if these things get introduced in the USA, a short time later, it will be hacked by someone, to set off the pagers of all of the opposite sex within range. Talk about instant charisima!
is legislation correcting the flaws, or better yet repealing the DCMCA! When even Fair Use is illegal, that is too much! Ordinary citizens need to reclaim their power!
are all intertwined together. The Miliatary wants to know what the capabilities of the enemy (and ally) are. For instance building a missile requires propellant fuel, a guidance system, and a warhead. It would behove the Military to know the accuracy of the guidance system. Guidance systems require microchips. therefore the spy guys keep an eye on the microchip industry of other nations. When the military has a question about intelligence it has gathered on a new microchip (several samples would be best), they ask experts what the potontial of the chip could be. The experts they go to for advice could be industry leaders of their own country. If the design is new then they may learn something about chip design from information that they can use. If it is not something new they can assess how long it will take to reach State-of-Art and how much it would cost to acheive the design. The Military would also be interested in potential production rates of a particular item. These would be based upon resources, logistics, machine/tool capabilities and capacities etc; as well as the ecconomic state of the country in general (to know how much taxes can be squeezed out of the populace for defense.) Anyway a government's Military wants to know advancements corporations and industries are making for their potential in military uses. In doing so some of this intelligence gets passed along to a countries own corporations and industries. This ait't new, it ain't gonna stop!
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If it is put on E-Bay for sale, maybe one of the psychic or sex line companies will buy it up. Their customers are already paying outrageous amounts of money, what's a few more $/minute to them? Motorola just didn't market it right:-)
Hmmm. Well Netscape does have a browser, and sponsors Mozilla. SOL, ooppps, I mean AOL did buy Netscape. This is one of those things that sounds both likely and unlikely at the same time. I'm not sure SOL, oooppppps there I go again, I mean AOL needs to give away boxes to get users to sign up; but it would be a cheap way to do it.
Anyway for an ISP to produce cheap computers to get users to sign-up makes sense, and it does get Linux on more desktops. Corel is a good choice also, Corel's distribution is specifically geared towards desktop users, and it is more newbie friendly at that. Who knows? Wait an see!
That's right, depending on what you want to do there may be 4 or more different ways to do one thing under Windoze. These include right or left clicking on the desktop or menu bar; shortcut icon on desktop, Start Menu, or taskbar; dropdown menus; function keys and keyboard key combinations with 'ctrl,' 'alt,' and 'shift' keys.
On Windows there is no one agreed upon one right way to do a thing, some are not even documented. M$ wanted to cover all the bases, this has helped contribute to bloat and bugs. Some of the duplication may be reasonable, a typist may not want to stop typing to use a mouse. A internet surfer doesn't want to use multiple keystrokes when a mouse click will do.
Designers of Linux GUIs should try to allow users what is best for them, perhaps through the use of user programable function and keyboard 'hot' keys, shortcut icons, etc; in other words, instead of providing everything imaginable for the user, have changable defalts and allow the user to select and customize how best to interface with the computer. Just my $0.02 worth (M$ even replaced the cent sign with the $ on the keyboard!).
There are many users out there that have been spoiled by the Windows experience (BSODs included) that have read/heard about Linux and want to switch but fear potential problems they've learned about. Partitioning a Windows hard drive and possibly messing up their Windows partition is one possibility. Another is reformatting the hard drive, installing Linus as the only OS and encountering problems they are ill equiped to handle, leaving them without even internet access. Hardware compatability is another problem, especially WIN modems-don't work at all on Linux, and currently have no vendor support. Leaving them without one of their favorite applications, especially productivity apps (read games) is also a problem. File compatability with Windows Office apps is a problem that concerns buinesses more than the average home user. However home users do want file compatability with audio and video formats, this may be another sticking point with Linux.
OEMs pre-loading Linux will overcome some of the fear; that of installing Linux, and distributions by Linux OS vendors are becoming easier to install. Software vendor support will bring apps and games to Linux, more hardware vendors will support Linux when it becomes profitable for them to do so. The Linux community will do its best to ensure compatability with multimedia formats, whether total compatability is acheived may depend on the outcome of some current lawsuits.
The best users to target shouldn't be grandmas, but students! Students after all are the future users, raise the level of their computer sophistication. I don't want a Linux desktop OS with all the gadgets and gewgaws that Windows has if it causes Linux to bloat to the point where it will crash as often as Windows.
Landfil worker to supervisor, "Think we should look around again for them tanks?"
Supervisor, "Nah, don't waste your time lookin', it ain't been found by now, ain't gonna be. Go on and take a break."
Worker with cigarette to supervisor, "Got a light?"
TV News Anchor, "Just minutes ago an explosion ocurred here at the landfil, killing two, others have been injured. Cause as yet is undetermined but there is concern that the lost Oxygen tank may have caused or enhanced the explosion."
Seems to me if a person purchases a domain name and holds it for the purpose of making a future profit, that is cyber squating. This guy is actually using the name.
If OpenSSH still wants to use a.org domain, then how about TheOpenSSH.org, or RealOpenSSH.org, there was bound to be confusion between the.org and.com names anyway. Perhaps each site could have a prominent hyperlink to the others site for those that have gotten to the wrong site unintentionally. Instead of going to war, try to coexist!
The govt could delegate the responsibility of deciding what to do with all the computer equipment to some committee. Of course by the time the committee decided what to do the equipment would be so outdated it would be of use to no one. The second option would be to ask a consultant. Who better to ask than Al Gore, Father of the Internet!:-)
I propose that names be submited for here for inclusion and consideration in a/. poll. The winning name or names to be submitted to Beaver U. I'll start off with some suggestions. A change that has a rather sedate image and still is rodent is 'Woodchuck.' If they want a name that has high marketability especially with sports teams, I recomend 'Rabid Bat,' or perhaps 'Rabid Racoon' if they want to stick with rodents.:-)
I see today (1 March) that ZD Net has an article on the Amazon patent issue now. Interestingly enough the NASDAQ closed up 87.390 at a new record close (yawn). Amazon.com closed at 65&7/8, down 3 points. Think those thousands of people that signed the petition had anything to do with it?:-) I don't think Amazon is getting the kind of publicity it wants just now. It will have to explain to its stockholders why it is losing thousands of customers. The best way to hurt a business is in the pocketbook. Think of all the people that cancelled orders. Maybe Amazon will change its mind.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if anyone has considered adding hidden HTML to the CyberPatrol website so that the software would censor its own website!?
"The lining up of a nucleus parallels the encoding of information in conventional computers as binary ones or zeros. However, unlike a traditional bit, which is either on or off, the nuclei are subject to the very weird laws of quantum physics that allow them to simultaneously be in multiple states. In other words, they can be a one or a zero at the same time."
Hmmm, more than one state at the same time, interesting. Sounds like this computer could end up being indecisive? What do you think?
"Analysis of the Drosophila genome revealed 90 previously unknown P450 genes, including those that affect the metabolism of drugs such as beta blockers for heart disease, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and codeine-a pain killer and cough suppressant. (No one knows whether a fruit fly can get a cough.)
Patient to Doctor:"Doc that gene treatment you gave me for my depression really worked well. But you know ever since I've had this strange urge to walk through s#@t."
"Gerald M. Rubin, head of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project and lead author of one of the Science papers, says, "about 60 percent or more genes are conserved between fly and human." In other words, nature practices the addage against reinventing the wheel. If you've got a core set of genes that work, why not use them over and over again in just subtly different ways."
So not only is there a law of conservation of matter and energy, there is also a law of conservation of genetic material. Now what were the drawbacks to Open Source?
Record companies would be hard pressed to prove that they have been financially damaged. I believe it would be easier to prove that MP3 files and players, and programs like Napster are responsible for increased profits, through free publicity for their artists.
Instead of sueing individuals and software producers, the record industry and RIAA should be grateful for the increased exposure their artists. They couldn't buy an equivalent amount of air time!
Every piece of recording media has a has a fee attached to it that is to be returned to the artists for allowing 'Fair Use.' That's right! We already pay for 'Fair Use,' there is no reason to attach a per play fee (or piracy fee if you prefer.) I'd like to see the RIAA and Record Companies give an accounting of how much was collected, and how much was returned to the artists. Record Companies and the RIAA aren't concerned about profits for their artists, they are concerned about profits for themselves! Sites like MP3.com help to promote artists and sell CDs in a non-traditional manner. Record Companies are afraid they may be disintermediated by allowing artists to sell more directly. The record industry doesn't understand that the internet interprets censorship (or the perception thereof) as damage and routes around it!
Instead of fighting technology the industry should
Imagine being able to select 640MB of music for a custom CD (even more on a DVD, or perhaps Music Videos?), just the music you want, at a reasonable price; perhaps the minidisc could be the prefered format.
Oh Well! Enough of my rant!
They can send a notice to all regestered owners informing them that they have 'defective' merchandise that may be returned for free exchange. Those regestered owners that do not return them for exchange may find the police and MPAA represenatives knocking on the door. I can just see the headlines,
:-)
"Local Police and MPAA Officials Confiscate Illegal DVD Players!"
Yeah, great publicity for the MPAA. Confiscate those DVD players! Just think of all the good will the MPAA will create doing a house-to-house search for those that didn't register the players. Let's see the MPAA call unknowing consumers Pirates, and take them to court! Of course, that will never happen
Imagine what could happen if crackers organized and planted programs on computers similar to the DOS attacks recently. Then activated them remotely, silmultaneously, sending tanks and ships helterskelter.
Then again if they use Windows, what happens if the Pentagon decides to cut corners and not pay the latest and greatest license fees to M$. M$ could remotely shut down all the tanks and planes, rendering them useless!
Then there all those bugs, imagine having to stop during battle to install the latest patch and reboot the tank! How many crashes during battle are acceptable? Could give new meaning to Blue Screen Of Death!
The announcement of console gaming box by M$ may just be more Vaporware. M$ afterall is the KING of vaporware! Announcing 20 months ahead of time is a way of M$ saying 'we're staking a claim here, don't mess with us,' meanwhile M$ gets developers writing games for a machine it will never produce.
If M$ is serious about producing and selling the X-box, I have to wonder where they intend to make their money. It wont be on the box, they will sell it at a loss. It wont be on the games, others will write the games. That leaves only licensing the APIs to game writers and some kind of promotional licensing to make a profit.
If M$ expects to make money by licensing either the APIs or some kind of promotional licensing, where does that leave the guy selling the Linux box?
The guy selling the Linux box can't sell it at a loss. The Linux APIs are open source, and promotional licensing is doubtful. Linux wont be able to line up developers ahead of time like M$. Unfortunately M$ just has too much marketshare.
Let M$ take on PS2 and let the Linux community do what it does best, produce a top rate OS. Console users and computer users are two different classes of people, computer users want to do more with their machines and need more versatility than a console user.
M$ is grasping for straws, they need to expand their marketshare somehow to keep up profits up, to push stock prices up. It has saturated the desktop market, is making little or no headway in the server market. M$ at present can only make more $$$ by charging more for products and product updates. Businesses are becoming tired of paying more for OS upgrades, that amount to little more than bug fixes and a few new features, (with new bugs!)M$ needes a new market to expand to, and must do it soon. Perhaps this is why gaming is looking attractive to M$ now.
First I forward it to Spam Recycle, then send a copy to my ISP, then delete it.
SpamRecycle collects spam, determines the true address (if possible) and notifies the ISP of the spamer, it also distributes lists of known spam addresses to ISPs so they can be blocked. SpamRecycle also testified before Congress about spam. My ISP is prety good about keeping spam from reaching their customers, and usually act when customers forward spam to them. I never reply to spam, not even to opt out, that would only verify that they have a valid address, and I would get more spam.
will come out of the woodwork, looking for the secret message left by alliens in human DNA. Of course others will claim the secret DNA message is contained in Hot Grits, or carried by Natalie Portman's DNA.
then go to bandersnatch.com, then onto General Delivery University, fill in the blanks and print out a diploma for anything you wish.
It would be possible for there to be only one copyright holder. For instance if a program was started and copyrighted by an individual and put up on a web site under GPL for interested parties to contribute code with the understanding that any code contributed becomes property of the copyright holder. The copyright could then be changed to a different license by the copyright holder without consulting anyone that contributed code.
I expect that if these things get introduced in the USA, a short time later, it will be hacked by someone, to set off the pagers of all of the opposite sex within range. Talk about instant charisima!
is legislation correcting the flaws, or better yet repealing the DCMCA! When even Fair Use is illegal, that is too much! Ordinary citizens need to reclaim their power!
are all intertwined together. The Miliatary wants to know what the capabilities of the enemy (and ally) are. For instance building a missile requires propellant fuel, a guidance system, and a warhead. It would behove the Military to know the accuracy of the guidance system. Guidance systems require microchips. therefore the spy guys keep an eye on the microchip industry of other nations. When the military has a question about intelligence it has gathered on a new microchip (several samples would be best), they ask experts what the potontial of the chip could be. The experts they go to for advice could be industry leaders of their own country. If the design is new then they may learn something about chip design from information that they can use. If it is not something new they can assess how long it will take to reach State-of-Art and how much it would cost to acheive the design. The Military would also be interested in potential production rates of a particular item. These would be based upon resources, logistics, machine/tool capabilities and capacities etc; as well as the ecconomic state of the country in general (to know how much taxes can be squeezed out of the populace for defense.) Anyway a government's Military wants to know advancements corporations and industries are making for their potential in military uses. In doing so some of this intelligence gets passed along to a countries own corporations and industries. This ait't new, it ain't gonna stop!
If it is put on E-Bay for sale, maybe one of the psychic or sex line companies will buy it up. Their customers are already paying outrageous amounts of money, what's a few more $/minute to them? Motorola just didn't market it right :-)
Hmmm. Well Netscape does have a browser, and sponsors Mozilla. SOL, ooppps, I mean AOL did buy Netscape. This is one of those things that sounds both likely and unlikely at the same time. I'm not sure SOL, oooppppps there I go again, I mean AOL needs to give away boxes to get users to sign up; but it would be a cheap way to do it.
Anyway for an ISP to produce cheap computers to get users to sign-up makes sense, and it does get Linux on more desktops. Corel is a good choice also, Corel's distribution is specifically geared towards desktop users, and it is more newbie friendly at that. Who knows? Wait an see!
That's right, depending on what you want to do there may be 4 or more different ways to do one thing under Windoze. These include right or left clicking on the desktop or menu bar; shortcut icon on desktop, Start Menu, or taskbar; dropdown menus; function keys and keyboard key combinations with 'ctrl,' 'alt,' and 'shift' keys.
On Windows there is no one agreed upon one right way to do a thing, some are not even documented. M$ wanted to cover all the bases, this has helped contribute to bloat and bugs. Some of the duplication may be reasonable, a typist may not want to stop typing to use a mouse. A internet surfer doesn't want to use multiple keystrokes when a mouse click will do.
Designers of Linux GUIs should try to allow users what is best for them, perhaps through the use of user programable function and keyboard 'hot' keys, shortcut icons, etc; in other words, instead of providing everything imaginable for the user, have changable defalts and allow the user to select and customize how best to interface with the computer. Just my $0.02 worth (M$ even replaced the cent sign with the $ on the keyboard!).
There are many users out there that have been spoiled by the Windows experience (BSODs included) that have read/heard about Linux and want to switch but fear potential problems they've learned about. Partitioning a Windows hard drive and possibly messing up their Windows partition is one possibility. Another is reformatting the hard drive, installing Linus as the only OS and encountering problems they are ill equiped to handle, leaving them without even internet access. Hardware compatability is another problem, especially WIN modems-don't work at all on Linux, and currently have no vendor support. Leaving them without one of their favorite applications, especially productivity apps (read games) is also a problem. File compatability with Windows Office apps is a problem that concerns buinesses more than the average home user. However home users do want file compatability with audio and video formats, this may be another sticking point with Linux.
OEMs pre-loading Linux will overcome some of the fear; that of installing Linux, and distributions by Linux OS vendors are becoming easier to install. Software vendor support will bring apps and games to Linux, more hardware vendors will support Linux when it becomes profitable for them to do so. The Linux community will do its best to ensure compatability with multimedia formats, whether total compatability is acheived may depend on the outcome of some current lawsuits.
The best users to target shouldn't be grandmas, but students! Students after all are the future users, raise the level of their computer sophistication. I don't want a Linux desktop OS with all the gadgets and gewgaws that Windows has if it causes Linux to bloat to the point where it will crash as often as Windows.
Landfil worker to supervisor, "Think we should look around again for them tanks?"
Supervisor, "Nah, don't waste your time lookin', it ain't been found by now, ain't gonna be. Go on and take a break."
Worker with cigarette to supervisor, "Got a light?"
TV News Anchor, "Just minutes ago an explosion ocurred here at the landfil, killing two, others have been injured. Cause as yet is undetermined but there is concern that the lost Oxygen tank may have caused or enhanced the explosion."
Seems to me if a person purchases a domain name and holds it for the purpose of making a future profit, that is cyber squating. This guy is actually using the name.
.org domain, then how about TheOpenSSH.org, or RealOpenSSH.org, there was bound to be confusion between the .org and .com names anyway. Perhaps each site could have a prominent hyperlink to the others site for those that have gotten to the wrong site unintentionally. Instead of going to war, try to coexist!
If OpenSSH still wants to use a
The govt could delegate the responsibility of deciding what to do with all the computer equipment to some committee. Of course by the time the committee decided what to do the equipment would be so outdated it would be of use to no one. The second option would be to ask a consultant. Who better to ask than Al Gore, Father of the Internet! :-)
I propose that names be submited for here for inclusion and consideration in a /. poll. The winning name or names to be submitted to Beaver U. I'll start off with some suggestions. A change that has a rather sedate image and still is rodent is 'Woodchuck.' If they want a name that has high marketability especially with sports teams, I recomend 'Rabid Bat,' or perhaps 'Rabid Racoon' if they want to stick with rodents. :-)
I think the school ought to sue the software companies whose software filters them out. :-)
I see today (1 March) that ZD Net has an article on the Amazon patent issue now. Interestingly enough the NASDAQ closed up 87.390 at a new record close (yawn). Amazon.com closed at 65&7/8, down 3 points. Think those thousands of people that signed the petition had anything to do with it? :-) I don't think Amazon is getting the kind of publicity it wants just now. It will have to explain to its stockholders why it is losing thousands of customers. The best way to hurt a business is in the pocketbook. Think of all the people that cancelled orders. Maybe Amazon will change its mind. :-)