I have made a corporate decision: there will be no purchases of anything with the Lenovo brand on it.
All my corporate services run on Linux. I have no corporate need of any non-Linux infrastructure. Lenovo has just lost any possible corporate spending on their laptops.
See http://memeticai.org/ for some work that was done for BioWare's Neverwinter Nights series. Interesting stuff, and pretty promising, but *hard*. The great thing about using NWN as the game is that there is a very accessible scripting language available, so the only thing you need to concern yourself with is the AI itself. It might not be the approach you want to take, but it does illustrate the potential for building AI in an RPG.
Do you know if you've had a phone conversation with any of those 3501 people? If you have, you may be a "person of interest", and subject to even more scrutiny. Have you ever bent the rules on your income tax returns? Rolled through a stop sign? Once you become a "person of interest", pretty much everything you do may become evidence of you being a terrorist.
The question I have, though, is: How many terrorists have been apprehended based on these 3501 subpeonas? Any? Any at all? If not, then that is the clearest indication that they probably should not have been granted by FISA in the first place -- because they were probably inappropriate in any event. That is the reason that every US citizen should be demanding their elected representatives cause the NSA to cease and desist this sort of activity.
Can some lawyer-type please explain to me why/how this is not prima facie evidence of a massive violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (other than that the victims are not in the US)?
Frankly, my opinion is that it should be illegal to bundle an OS with hardware -- for a general purpose computer (don't waste your breath arguing about embedded systems).
IMHO, the concept of making the useful working of a GPU only obtainable through NDA is about as sensible as having the same restriction on the instruction set of a CPU: not at all. The fact that Microsoft is willing to pay -- to my mind -- is a clear indication of their collusion with both NVidia and ATI to keep useful technology out of the hands of those who would benefit the most: we, the users. People, please vote with your wallets, and make it known *why* you refuse to use these products.
Oh, come on! A database that needs to be vacuumed every hour is just not a useful database! When Postgres overcomes that need, it will be useful -- not until.
This professor should be prevented from having any contact with computers for 5 years, and from communicating with or being within 100 yards of anyone under the age of 30 for 10 years.
How utterly irresponsible can a college professor actually be?!?!?!?!?
I believe this is a good thing. As soon as Bell South customers realize that they are *not* getting the content they desire, they'll migrate to other carriers, thereby putting Bell South out of business -- at least out of the Internet business. I will strongly suggest to their subscribers that if your Internet Service Provider does not treat all web traffic identically, then you acutally have a Localnet Service Provider, and as such, they have no legitimate reason to carry *your* traffic.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that prevents me from making fair use of copyrighted material that I have compensated the publisher for (and presumably thereby compensating the author/artist/etc.) should be made illegal. Now, I'd prefer to see the penalties be extreme, but there is no way that will ever happen, but lawmakers really need to get with the program here, and make certain that fair use rights are not restricted by anything at all.
Perhaps it is that Wikipedia is the information source they have (had) access to that was least influenced by the Chinese government, and must therefore be infinitely more reliable than any other source?
Some folks over there might be able to use http://answers.com/ to circumvent the direct censorship of Wikipedia; are there other sites that repackage Wikipedia's data?
I found Darwinia to be a very cute and very fun game; though it felt more like a 3rd person shooter, it did require significant strategy. There is a version for Linux, as well (works just fine for me with my RHFC3 box with Radeon 7200/QD). It's a little on the short side, and replayability is kinda low, but I feel the investment was well worth it. I'd love to see a follow-on to this one, for sure.
No, you don't get it. They don't want to put more data or better data on the disc. It only needs to have enough space to hold the lowest resolution they can get away with so that it will forever provide a tolerable experience, thus forcing people to spend $10/person to watch new movies in a theater. From the perspective of the content providers, you exist only to be raped.
Are any of you smart enough to vote with your wallets?
I cannot imagine a circumstance or set thereof that would permit me to use such a system. Even a requirement foisted upon me by an employer would only result in them becoming my former employer.
is go to your 3 elected representatives (in the US, each citizen is represented to the Federal Government by 2 Senators (per state; sorry, D.C. and Territories) and a Representative (per Congressional District)) -- seriously, call up their offices and arrange a face-to-face meeting -- explaining why any legislation that in any way restricts the current "fair use" of copyrighted material is so basically wrong. Join the EFF. Explain how all "survey papers" would be made illegal if this restriction of fair use is permitted (remember, as soon as it applies to one medium, it will shortly follow that it will apply to all media).
The MPAA & RIAA are both mired in a business model that is out of date, unfair to most of the participants, and robs blind all the consumers. Ask any so-called "indie" producer. We must put a stop to this.
In fact, when I *started* to post, the referenced article hadn't been posted. Alas, some of us actually have work to do, and I was distracted by a soon-to-be-ex-coworker pulling the power cord for the mail server out of the UPS. Don't even ask.
Both patents use that word, and while some could argue that XML *can* also be hierarchical, I believe that on that basis alone, any attempt at a patent infringement case would be summarily dismissed with all court costs assessed against the claimant (right word? I ain't no lawyer; I mean patent owner). Of course, the other likely possibility is that any lawyer bringing such frivolous litigation may well be taken to task by the judge and/or suffer various forms of castigation by his/her/its Bar.
Is it really true that less than 0.0001% of/. readers actually click on the links in an article?
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Of course, if it is indeed intelligent life that is the disturbance, then it isn't very intelligent, is it?
If I want some sort of traditional reference material, the first best stop for me is http://answers.com/.
If I'm looking for almost anything else, I go directly to http://google.com/.
I have made a corporate decision: there will be no purchases of anything with the Lenovo brand on it.
All my corporate services run on Linux. I have no corporate need of any non-Linux infrastructure. Lenovo has just lost any possible corporate spending on their laptops.
Got a wallet?
Vote with it!
See http://memeticai.org/ for some work that was done for BioWare's Neverwinter Nights series. Interesting stuff, and pretty promising, but *hard*. The great thing about using NWN as the game is that there is a very accessible scripting language available, so the only thing you need to concern yourself with is the AI itself. It might not be the approach you want to take, but it does illustrate the potential for building AI in an RPG.
Do you know if you've had a phone conversation with any of those 3501 people? If you have, you may be a "person of interest", and subject to even more scrutiny. Have you ever bent the rules on your income tax returns? Rolled through a stop sign? Once you become a "person of interest", pretty much everything you do may become evidence of you being a terrorist.
The question I have, though, is: How many terrorists have been apprehended based on these 3501 subpeonas? Any? Any at all? If not, then that is the clearest indication that they probably should not have been granted by FISA in the first place -- because they were probably inappropriate in any event. That is the reason that every US citizen should be demanding their elected representatives cause the NSA to cease and desist this sort of activity.
Can some lawyer-type please explain to me why/how this is not prima facie evidence of a massive violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (other than that the victims are not in the US)?
Frankly, my opinion is that it should be illegal to bundle an OS with hardware -- for a general purpose computer (don't waste your breath arguing about embedded systems).
IMHO, the concept of making the useful working of a GPU only obtainable through NDA is about as sensible as having the same restriction on the instruction set of a CPU: not at all. The fact that Microsoft is willing to pay -- to my mind -- is a clear indication of their collusion with both NVidia and ATI to keep useful technology out of the hands of those who would benefit the most: we, the users. People, please vote with your wallets, and make it known *why* you refuse to use these products.
No, you missed my point. I'd just love to see a *fair* comparison w.r.t. the number of bugs per KLOC.
As for "the desire to put out a superior product", what does that have to do with Microsoft?
Used it on a site that took a million hits a day. Using the same table definitions, MySQL ran about 5 times faster.
Oh, come on! A database that needs to be vacuumed every hour is just not a useful database! When Postgres overcomes that need, it will be useful -- not until.
That's the stat I want to see....
all AOL smtp traffic into and out of all firewalls I have domain over. You want an unlevel playing field for email? You got it!
This professor should be prevented from having any contact with computers for 5 years, and from communicating with or being within 100 yards of anyone under the age of 30 for 10 years.
How utterly irresponsible can a college professor actually be?!?!?!?!?
Ok, so when all USAians' salaries are dropped to the same levels as they are in India, who will be able to afford the price of a computer?
I believe this is a good thing. As soon as Bell South customers realize that they are *not* getting the content they desire, they'll migrate to other carriers, thereby putting Bell South out of business -- at least out of the Internet business. I will strongly suggest to their subscribers that if your Internet Service Provider does not treat all web traffic identically, then you acutally have a Localnet Service Provider, and as such, they have no legitimate reason to carry *your* traffic.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that prevents me from making fair use of copyrighted material that I have compensated the publisher for (and presumably thereby compensating the author/artist/etc.) should be made illegal. Now, I'd prefer to see the penalties be extreme, but there is no way that will ever happen, but lawmakers really need to get with the program here, and make certain that fair use rights are not restricted by anything at all.
Perhaps it is that Wikipedia is the information source they have (had) access to that was least influenced by the Chinese government, and must therefore be infinitely more reliable than any other source?
Some folks over there might be able to use http://answers.com/ to circumvent the direct censorship of Wikipedia; are there other sites that repackage Wikipedia's data?
This would indeed be quite effective, but it would also be in utterly poor taste.
Why don't the greedy b*st*rds get that they will only create animosity over stuff like this?
HEY! YOU! ISP!
The RIAA and MPAA have already proved that this is a fatally flawed business model. Wake up!
Oh, and you *will* *not* tell me what bits I can put on that wire!
I found Darwinia to be a very cute and very fun game; though it felt more like a 3rd person shooter, it did require significant strategy. There is a version for Linux, as well (works just fine for me with my RHFC3 box with Radeon 7200/QD). It's a little on the short side, and replayability is kinda low, but I feel the investment was well worth it. I'd love to see a follow-on to this one, for sure.
No, you don't get it. They don't want to put more data or better data on the disc. It only needs to have enough space to hold the lowest resolution they can get away with so that it will forever provide a tolerable experience, thus forcing people to spend $10/person to watch new movies in a theater. From the perspective of the content providers, you exist only to be raped.
Are any of you smart enough to vote with your wallets?
I cannot imagine a circumstance or set thereof that would permit me to use such a system. Even a requirement foisted upon me by an employer would only result in them becoming my former employer.
is go to your 3 elected representatives (in the US, each citizen is represented to the Federal Government by 2 Senators (per state; sorry, D.C. and Territories) and a Representative (per Congressional District)) -- seriously, call up their offices and arrange a face-to-face meeting -- explaining why any legislation that in any way restricts the current "fair use" of copyrighted material is so basically wrong. Join the EFF. Explain how all "survey papers" would be made illegal if this restriction of fair use is permitted (remember, as soon as it applies to one medium, it will shortly follow that it will apply to all media).
The MPAA & RIAA are both mired in a business model that is out of date, unfair to most of the participants, and robs blind all the consumers. Ask any so-called "indie" producer. We must put a stop to this.
In fact, when I *started* to post, the referenced article hadn't been posted. Alas, some of us actually have work to do, and I was distracted by a soon-to-be-ex-coworker pulling the power cord for the mail server out of the UPS. Don't even ask.
Both patents use that word, and while some could argue that XML *can* also be hierarchical, I believe that on that basis alone, any attempt at a patent infringement case would be summarily dismissed with all court costs assessed against the claimant (right word? I ain't no lawyer; I mean patent owner). Of course, the other likely possibility is that any lawyer bringing such frivolous litigation may well be taken to task by the judge and/or suffer various forms of castigation by his/her/its Bar.
/. readers actually click on the links in an article?
Is it really true that less than 0.0001% of