My most memorable session was the following. We were playing Xtrek in a newly equipped Sun lab (with Sun 3/60s and fancy grayscale displays) in fall of 1989. There were some guys from UC Berkeley also playing. Suddenly, we saw lines like "Did you feel that?" and "I think its an earthquake!" scroll by. Turned out it was the earthquake that hit the Bay area in Oct 1989! It almost felt like we were there, witnessing the earthquake firsthand.
Over here, we get have an OpenVMS machine, because we get some data in OpenVMS BACKUP format. When the number of files in a directory exceeds 4000 or so, doing anything in the directory becomes almost impossible! Deleting files takes about 1 sec/file!
VMS has some nice features, but the CLI is too clunky.
Yes, it'll all be okay, even if you no longer have any money and are living in a corporate run police state. Because at least you'll still have your ethics!
Exactly! You can take away everything I have, but you can not take away my morals and my ethics.
Money is something that other people can take away from you (or give to you). It is not in your control; it controls you.
My ethics and morals are my own. I didn't get them from anybody, and nobody can take them away from me.
Regardless of how much money you have, chances are 99.99999% that someone else will have more than you do. And if money matters to you (like it would appear), then that fact alone will make you miserable.
The Magistrate Judges are appointed based upon the recommendations of a citizen's merit screening committee.
Wanna bet that this "committee" is packed with media flunkies (in LA)?
People, November is coming up. *VOTE* . Make your voices heard. You can rant and rave all you want on/., but it'll have the same effect as a flea on an elephant's rump. When the geek crowd gets organized and STARTS VOTING in large numbers, then the congresscritters (and magistrates) will sit up and take notice.
This goes further than what Tivo does, as Tivo sends no unique ID with the data it collects. Wholly anonymous.
Wrong. TiVo's data is keyed to the ID of your TiVo unit, which is unique.
How does receiving publicly broadcast data bind you to a contract? It wasn't in the EULA when I bought my TV.
See that little red button on the remote? The one that says "power" or "pwr" ?
Yep, clicking on that button made you agree to and sign the EULA.
Isn't technology amazing!?!?
Some of the followups to that article mention that a working version of the
modem driver can be obtained from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem.
Given this, it would be nice if someone could put together a complete linux
distro (complete with the OpenOffice suite, etc.) ready-to-run on this
box. Heck, maybe we could even convince Wal-Mart to give it away with every box!
I'm waiting for the RoboHolligans contest.
I think the British RoboHooligans team will beat the crap out of the
other robots, stomp on their guts, set the opposing teams' handlers on
fire and run away (and be promptly banned from the next competition).
Once money changes hands, the contract is final
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Many of the people here seem to be missing one crucial point: once the money changes hands, BestBuy has to honor the price! They advertised a special "pre-order" deal. People who paid for this (and whose payment BestBuy accepted) have a right to get the card at that price. Once the money changes hands, the "contract" is in place.
People who never paid for this "special" pre-order don't have the same rights; they can't force BestBuy to honor the mistake (legally speaking).
I saw a news magazine program once which monitored a guy doing this
for weeks. They had a camera setup in the bedroom, and this dude was
supposed to perform mental tasks (puzzles, memorization, etc.) at
periodic intervals.
He seemed to be getting along just fine, until
about day 62 or so, and then he crashed, and crashed hard!
What all of your calculations don't include is the standard
200% markup that companies apply when supplying something custom-built
to the gummit. Anyone remember the $7000.00 screwdriver ?
For instance, 25 cents in India could equate to around $4.00 there.
The average income may be lower, but the difference is not that steep.
Look at it this way: a typical CD costs Rupees 200; and the cost per song is Rs 10 (or, 1/25 the cost of the CD). Use the same formula here (US), where a typical CD costs $15, and the cost per song works out to $0.60.
because of trade ageements, and treaties.
If you violate an american law, and live in a country that has signed a treay with us, we can prosecute you.
This is why WTO is bad.
OK, I'll bite. There are 1000s of laws around the globe that are violated
by Americans (among others, but lets pick on the good ole USofA for now) every day. Examples: possession of porn; conversion from one religion to another; visiting "banned" sites; reverse engineering things; etc. Should Joe Sixpack be prosecuted/extradited because he broke some obscure law in Lower Mongolia?
Why should the DMCA apply to, say, an author from India? Is the IEEE in
the business of enforcing laws from all over the world?? So, shouldn't
they adopt the "lowest common denominator" as the law that they'll adhere to?
I agree that the guy is playing fast and loose with the rules, but I think we should give him a chance by waiting until he meets his deadline. Then, if he doesn't open up, a lawsuit may be in order, but otherwise, what's wrong with waiting a few months?
Then this will become the new way to skirt GPL: grab other peoples' GPLed code; modify it somewhat to add some functionality; sell it for a year or so all the time claiming that its not "final" yet; and then release the source.
Folks, the GPL has been around for quite a long time. These sorts of issues would not be coming up unless there's an attempt to do an end-run around the GPL.
When Lindows doesn't want to release the source until they ship the definite version, let them. If they don't want to release the beta version under the GPL let them! This was a beta version! What are we complaining about? What is wrong with not releasing the source right away?
But what if there is never a final release? They are selling access to this "beta" version ($99); if someone pays for this version, then under GPL they are entitled to get the source. Remember, the GPL does not say "the source code can be released when convenient".
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Holy mackerel! I am in love. I've found the object of my dreams.
My most memorable session was the following. We were playing Xtrek in a newly equipped Sun lab (with Sun 3/60s and fancy grayscale displays) in fall of 1989. There were some guys from UC Berkeley also playing. Suddenly, we saw lines like "Did you feel that?" and "I think its an earthquake!" scroll by. Turned out it was the earthquake that hit the Bay area in Oct 1989! It almost felt like we were there, witnessing the earthquake firsthand.
Geez! I don't know what's with you OpenVMS chaps.
Over here, we get have an OpenVMS machine, because we get some data in OpenVMS BACKUP format. When the number of files in a directory exceeds 4000 or so, doing anything in the directory becomes almost impossible! Deleting files takes about 1 sec/file!
VMS has some nice features, but the CLI is too clunky.
Exactly! You can take away everything I have, but you can not take away my morals and my ethics.
Money is something that other people can take away from you (or give to you). It is not in your control; it controls you.
My ethics and morals are my own. I didn't get them from anybody, and nobody can take them away from me.
Regardless of how much money you have, chances are 99.99999% that someone else will have more than you do. And if money matters to you (like it would appear), then that fact alone will make you miserable.
What makes you think money is everything?
Just the fact that people with ethics often aren't the people with money, should tell you that ethics and money often don't go together.
Me, I'd rather be an honest and ethical person, rather than a rich one. At least I enjoy whatever little money I have!
Checkout their people page, and scroll to the bottom for pictures of some hectic research activity. These biochemists....
The Magistrate Judges are appointed based upon the recommendations of a citizen's merit screening committee.
/., but it'll have the same effect as a flea on an elephant's rump. When the geek crowd gets organized and STARTS VOTING in large numbers, then the congresscritters (and magistrates) will sit up and take notice.
Wanna bet that this "committee" is packed with media flunkies (in LA)?
People, November is coming up. *VOTE* . Make your voices heard. You can rant and rave all you want on
This goes further than what Tivo does, as Tivo sends no unique ID with the data it collects. Wholly anonymous.
Wrong. TiVo's data is keyed to the ID of your TiVo unit, which is unique.
How does receiving publicly broadcast data bind you to a contract? It wasn't in the EULA when I bought my TV.
See that little red button on the remote? The one that says "power" or "pwr" ?
Yep, clicking on that button made you agree to and sign the EULA.
Isn't technology amazing!?!?
Some of the followups to that article mention that a working version of the modem driver can be obtained from http://www.heby.de/ltmodem.
Given this, it would be nice if someone could put together a complete linux distro (complete with the OpenOffice suite, etc.) ready-to-run on this box. Heck, maybe we could even convince Wal-Mart to give it away with every box!
How does one compete in this tournament? It looks like all the teams have identical equipment: do the companies (like Sony) sponsor them?
I'm waiting for the RoboHolligans contest.
I think the British RoboHooligans team will beat the crap out of the other robots, stomp on their guts, set the opposing teams' handlers on fire and run away (and be promptly banned from the next competition).
People who never paid for this "special" pre-order don't have the same rights; they can't force BestBuy to honor the mistake (legally speaking).
Or is it? A Japanese no longer unthinkable
Hate to break it to you guys, but the dot-com days are over. How many of the slashdot crowd can afford to take a spin in a "business jet" ?
He seemed to be getting along just fine, until about day 62 or so, and then he crashed, and crashed hard!
If the poster would actually read the article, they'd see that the company Logicon sold the Oracle software to the state, not Oracle themselves.
Now I know where the "con" in "Logicon" comes from...
And note, each node has 12 gig of ram.
Sorry, chief, that should be 1.2GB of RAM.
What all of your calculations don't include is the standard 200% markup that companies apply when supplying something custom-built to the gummit. Anyone remember the $7000.00 screwdriver ?
For instance, 25 cents in India could equate to around $4.00 there.
The average income may be lower, but the difference is not that steep.
Look at it this way: a typical CD costs Rupees 200; and the cost per song is Rs 10 (or, 1/25 the cost of the CD). Use the same formula here (US), where a typical CD costs $15, and the cost per song works out to $0.60.
because of trade ageements, and treaties. If you violate an american law, and live in a country that has signed a treay with us, we can prosecute you. This is why WTO is bad.
OK, I'll bite. There are 1000s of laws around the globe that are violated by Americans (among others, but lets pick on the good ole USofA for now) every day. Examples: possession of porn; conversion from one religion to another; visiting "banned" sites; reverse engineering things; etc. Should Joe Sixpack be prosecuted/extradited because he broke some obscure law in Lower Mongolia?
Maybe the "mu" doubles as mu as in "micro" ?
I think Kathleen busted him, and he's in the doghouse. Hence the high UID.
Why should the DMCA apply to, say, an author from India? Is the IEEE in the business of enforcing laws from all over the world?? So, shouldn't they adopt the "lowest common denominator" as the law that they'll adhere to?
I agree that the guy is playing fast and loose with the rules, but I think we should give him a chance by waiting until he meets his deadline. Then, if he doesn't open up, a lawsuit may be in order, but otherwise, what's wrong with waiting a few months?
Then this will become the new way to skirt GPL: grab other peoples' GPLed code; modify it somewhat to add some functionality; sell it for a year or so all the time claiming that its not "final" yet; and then release the source.
Folks, the GPL has been around for quite a long time. These sorts of issues would not be coming up unless there's an attempt to do an end-run around the GPL.
When Lindows doesn't want to release the source until they ship the definite version, let them. If they don't want to release the beta version under the GPL let them! This was a beta version! What are we complaining about? What is wrong with not releasing the source right away?
But what if there is never a final release? They are selling access to this "beta" version ($99); if someone pays for this version, then under GPL they are entitled to get the source. Remember, the GPL does not say "the source code can be released when convenient".