Look at New York, downtown. Practically everyone living there would tell you that traffic is nigh-on impossible. But still, we tolerate it. We love our cars. We cannot give them up, not now, not ever... in fact, we want bigger ones!
I'd suggest that most New Yorkers have no problem with NYC traffic because most of them do not own or drive cars. So... what do you mean "we", white man? The subway is a vastly superior answer than the segway, for major metropolitan areas.
No. Copyright trumps the First Amendment every time. Application of copyright law leaves space for freedom of the press, but it does not allow wholesale dismissal of copyright.
That's the reason why the framers of the Constitution were careful to add copyright to the main body of the Constitution and not to the less authoritative Amendments.
That's the best news I've heard all week. You mean slavery is still legal? Sweet! I'm gonna go rustle me up some Negroes!
(Seriously, though, the interaction between the 1st amendment and copyright law is called "fair use". It is, despite everyone's confusion, pretty well defined. These screenshots are exactly legal.)
My old school (UPenn) has really fantastic terms of service for this sort of thing. I think most colleges probably do. This is about some external entity forcing the school to violate its own terms of service. Of course, my school did have clauses that allowed it to comply with court orders and not be liable to the students. I can't blame them for that.
One of the coolest things in the ToS was that computer lab workers were expressly not allowed to prevent people from viewing pornography in computer labs. This is because, of course, it's not up to the lab worker to decide if something is porn/art/science.
As I suggested on his blog, "Internet Explorer" also has the benefit of having already been cleared by Microsoft's lawyers - Didn't they prove that "Internet Explorer" was a generic term and not trademarkable?
But Apple as usual ignored our many requests (I've been pushing for Macs for a long time, but Apple's so stupid and stubborn I just gave up on them one day), so then my manager realized they were incompetent (they're less incompetent now, but not much) and had us short Apple hard in 2001 and we made a huge wad for the company when they fell apart.
He could have shorted any tech company (ibm, for example) in 2001 and made a huge wad for your bank. Apple is doing shockingly well, given the economic climate.
Also, you are right, there is more variety among PC laptops, but the Apple line provides an excellent ballance of size and features. If he wants a small full featured laptop, it doesn't get much better than the 12" pb.
And Apple machines don't use BIOS. They'll have the 17" booting in a week. Hacking OpenFirmware is all kinds of fun.
The comic is set in Victorian England. No roadsters. Everyone travels via Captain Nemo's submarine, train, or occasionally airship.
This movie, which has taken all of the inessential parts of the comic, and none of the essential parts of the comic, has apparently set everything in a London that has never existed and will never exist. And the Extraordinary Gentlement must have been put in cryogenic stasis so that they can save london one last time.
I can't tell you how lame this movie will be. No, don't think Mystery Men. Think The Avengers. Without the soul.
Right. Except that thousands of mac users care if Dave Hyatt says absolutely anything. Many thousands of readers care about this blog. I have three friends that honestly care about what I have to say. Ok, maybe two friends. But still.
If google arrives with some kind of RSS ninjitsu, and figures out an essentially better way to deliver the information that you, personally, are interested in, it might be good for everyone.
Thank you. Also, if all the bayesian filtering advocates are right, then the users should be able to mark the Cryptogram as non-spam, and the filter should adapt. More to your point, though, is that lack of spam-filtering software can cause false-positives in your own personal, analog, spam filtering algorithm. Many of my users have deleted important, non-spam, automated emails manually because they thought it was spam. Sometimes, the machine might have less false positives than they would.
Huh. It occurs to me that it seems like some spam filters might pass a turing test if the only output is their spam judgment. Wow. The future is now, dude.
A slasdot usersuggested something very similar to this in the last story on this issue. And personally, I think the Opera folks are being fantastically polite by using bork, rather than pubjames' idea. Translating the page to German and back would make MS look much, much worse.
Once it's done, you'll have free VMWare, right? Do you have any idea how cool MacOnLinux is for LinuxPPC users? Plex86 should be at least that cool for x86 machines. You'll be shocked how many people will use this every day.
spam spam spam. if spam should be illegal, so should any form of unsolicited communication. that includes conversing to persons without their permission at the local pub.
Especially now that hot chicks at the local pub might be shills.
Pretty Girl: "Hey, how you doing?" Shmoe: "Uh... Fine. How are you?" PG: "Great. My head is kindof reeling from this weird new movie thing I found on the internet." S: "Huh. That's interesting. What is it?"
Um. I wasn't trying to make anyone cower. The person that I corrected isn't even on/., they're the author of the article. I thought it was funny that the author suggested all solid objects are opaque, when we all know of many counterexamples. I was making a joke. Your post contained no information that was new to me. Patronize someone else.
They are already allowed carte blanche to arrange things entirely to their convenience, and they pay no lip service to the public.
If ICANN were no longer a government funded body, and could only recommend standards to their participants, then we'd have nothing to argue over. It'd be like the IETF. The only people that the members of the IETF answer to is their own customers, right?
I mean, if you want your own TLD, you are free to set up your own root server, right? ICANN can't take you to court, can they? If you want Verisign to pay lip service to the public, the public will have to stop giving their money to Verisign.
Everything gives off terahertz radiation naturally, and like radio waves -- but unlike heat or light -- the waves can pass through some solid objects.
Light waves can't pass through solid objects? Except, you know, glass. Or clear plastic. Visible light can't pass through things that are opaque, moron. That's why they invented the damn word in the first place.
Perhaps its time that the running of the internet be taken out of any one nations hands. Perhaps the correct solution is to no longer leave the controlling body's in the hands of the US. Perhaps the running of the internet should become a United Nations function?
It is perfectly clear that no body whatsoever should be in control of the internet. ICANN holds no enforceable positions. They don't sway judges. They are in control because all the large companies that do the business of running the net are in control of ICANN. So long as those large companies all operate under the ICANN rules, then it's as if ICANN rules the net. There's no way to force them to rock the boat at ICANN except to take away your dollars.
I think the only important thing to do is remove public funding of ICANN. Once Verisign/Worldcom/Whoever has to run ICANN on their own dime, then we won't have this kind of confusion. If they want to keep public funding of ICANN, then they better damn well make *every* seat open to public elections.
I couldn't disagree more. His writings about the future were for the sole purpose of illuminating the present. He has now achieved the skill to illuminate the present without employing artifice of any kind.
The reason that Gibson is good has nothing to do with his hard hitting plotlines. It is because he has a fantastic understanding of what is interesting. I'm a third of the way into Pattern Recognition, and I think it's his best book yet.
He's a very different person since he wrote about Molly. Watch "No Maps for These Territories." Please, please watch it.
Microsoft has a long history of taking predatory, underhanded actions against anything they percieve as a threat to their domination of any industry that interests them.
Maybe, but they have never used patents to do so. Based on some quotes from billg, I even get the idea that he's opposed to it.
iirc, you bought it and have the right to use it, but you do not have the right to copy it. Some court case held that loading the program into RAM qualified as copying. You need additional license to copy the program into RAM.
No, I don't think this makes any sense, for a long list of reasons, but I think it's the whole rational behind EULAs.
And, of course, I could be completely wrong. Someone please correct me otherwise.
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Look at New York, downtown. Practically everyone living there would tell you that traffic is nigh-on impossible. But still, we tolerate it. We love our cars. We cannot give them up, not now, not ever... in fact, we want bigger ones!
I'd suggest that most New Yorkers have no problem with NYC traffic because most of them do not own or drive cars. So... what do you mean "we", white man? The subway is a vastly superior answer than the segway, for major metropolitan areas.
"I wouldn't have predicted the mountain would be so big," Kamen says, "and that there would be so many hills to cross to get to the top."
This guy makes more money than I do?
I think this article speaks directly to your point: No, right now, he's not making more money than you.
Yeah. I was an ITA too. Once spent a few hours getting paid to help some guy figure out how to better organize his porn collection.
No. Copyright trumps the First Amendment every time. Application of copyright law leaves space for freedom of the press, but it does not allow wholesale dismissal of copyright.
That's the reason why the framers of the Constitution were careful to add copyright to the main body of the Constitution and not to the less authoritative Amendments.
That's the best news I've heard all week. You mean slavery is still legal? Sweet! I'm gonna go rustle me up some Negroes!
(Seriously, though, the interaction between the 1st amendment and copyright law is called "fair use". It is, despite everyone's confusion, pretty well defined. These screenshots are exactly legal.)
My old school (UPenn) has really fantastic terms of service for this sort of thing. I think most colleges probably do. This is about some external entity forcing the school to violate its own terms of service. Of course, my school did have clauses that allowed it to comply with court orders and not be liable to the students. I can't blame them for that.
One of the coolest things in the ToS was that computer lab workers were expressly not allowed to prevent people from viewing pornography in computer labs. This is because, of course, it's not up to the lab worker to decide if something is porn/art/science.
As I suggested on his blog, "Internet Explorer" also has the benefit of having already been cleared by Microsoft's lawyers - Didn't they prove that "Internet Explorer" was a generic term and not trademarkable?
But Apple as usual ignored our many requests (I've been pushing for Macs for a long time, but Apple's so stupid and stubborn I just gave up on them one day), so then my manager realized they were incompetent (they're less incompetent now, but not much) and had us short Apple hard in 2001 and we made a huge wad for the company when they fell apart.
He could have shorted any tech company (ibm, for example) in 2001 and made a huge wad for your bank. Apple is doing shockingly well, given the economic climate.
Also, you are right, there is more variety among PC laptops, but the Apple line provides an excellent ballance of size and features. If he wants a small full featured laptop, it doesn't get much better than the 12" pb.
And Apple machines don't use BIOS. They'll have the 17" booting in a week. Hacking OpenFirmware is all kinds of fun.
The comic is set in Victorian England. No roadsters. Everyone travels via Captain Nemo's submarine, train, or occasionally airship.
This movie, which has taken all of the inessential parts of the comic, and none of the essential parts of the comic, has apparently set everything in a London that has never existed and will never exist. And the Extraordinary Gentlement must have been put in cryogenic stasis so that they can save london one last time.
I can't tell you how lame this movie will be. No, don't think Mystery Men. Think The Avengers. Without the soul.
Right. Except that thousands of mac users care if Dave Hyatt says absolutely anything. Many thousands of readers care about this blog. I have three friends that honestly care about what I have to say. Ok, maybe two friends. But still.
If google arrives with some kind of RSS ninjitsu, and figures out an essentially better way to deliver the information that you, personally, are interested in, it might be good for everyone.
Go learn to read, it will help make your life easier as a thin skinned faggot.
Please do not malign us thin skinned faggots by associating us with grandparent poster.
Thank you. Also, if all the bayesian filtering advocates are right, then the users should be able to mark the Cryptogram as non-spam, and the filter should adapt. More to your point, though, is that lack of spam-filtering software can cause false-positives in your own personal, analog, spam filtering algorithm. Many of my users have deleted important, non-spam, automated emails manually because they thought it was spam. Sometimes, the machine might have less false positives than they would.
Huh. It occurs to me that it seems like some spam filters might pass a turing test if the only output is their spam judgment. Wow. The future is now, dude.
A slasdot user suggested something very similar to this in the last story on this issue. And personally, I think the Opera folks are being fantastically polite by using bork, rather than pubjames' idea. Translating the page to German and back would make MS look much, much worse.
Your 12" iBook weighs less than a Ti. It's 4.9 lbs. The TiBook is 5.4 lbs. The 14" iBook is 5.9 lbs.
:)
I've got a 12" iBook too, and the killer feature for the 12" pbg4, imho, is that it's 4.6 lbs
Your comment only makes sense in a PC environment. Apple laptops are much more competitive with their desktops than Dell, for example.
Once it's done, you'll have free VMWare, right? Do you have any idea how cool MacOnLinux is for LinuxPPC users? Plex86 should be at least that cool for x86 machines. You'll be shocked how many people will use this every day.
spam spam spam. if spam should be illegal, so should any form of unsolicited communication. that includes conversing to persons without their permission at the local pub.
Especially now that hot chicks at the local pub might be shills.
Pretty Girl: "Hey, how you doing?"
Shmoe: "Uh... Fine. How are you?"
PG: "Great. My head is kindof reeling from this weird new movie thing I found on the internet."
S: "Huh. That's interesting. What is it?"
Yes, that's what they should have said. It's just not what they did say :)
Um. I wasn't trying to make anyone cower. The person that I corrected isn't even on /., they're the author of the article. I thought it was funny that the author suggested all solid objects are opaque, when we all know of many counterexamples. I was making a joke. Your post contained no information that was new to me. Patronize someone else.
They are already allowed carte blanche to arrange things entirely to their convenience, and they pay no lip service to the public.
If ICANN were no longer a government funded body, and could only recommend standards to their participants, then we'd have nothing to argue over. It'd be like the IETF. The only people that the members of the IETF answer to is their own customers, right?
I mean, if you want your own TLD, you are free to set up your own root server, right? ICANN can't take you to court, can they? If you want Verisign to pay lip service to the public, the public will have to stop giving their money to Verisign.
From the article:
Everything gives off terahertz radiation naturally, and like radio waves -- but unlike heat or light -- the waves can pass through some solid objects.
Light waves can't pass through solid objects? Except, you know, glass. Or clear plastic. Visible light can't pass through things that are opaque, moron. That's why they invented the damn word in the first place.
Perhaps its time that the running of the internet be taken out of any one nations hands. Perhaps the correct solution is to no longer leave the controlling body's in the hands of the US. Perhaps the running of the internet should become a United Nations function?
It is perfectly clear that no body whatsoever should be in control of the internet. ICANN holds no enforceable positions. They don't sway judges. They are in control because all the large companies that do the business of running the net are in control of ICANN. So long as those large companies all operate under the ICANN rules, then it's as if ICANN rules the net. There's no way to force them to rock the boat at ICANN except to take away your dollars.
I think the only important thing to do is remove public funding of ICANN. Once Verisign/Worldcom/Whoever has to run ICANN on their own dime, then we won't have this kind of confusion. If they want to keep public funding of ICANN, then they better damn well make *every* seat open to public elections.
Ack. I'm sorry to hear that. Seen No Maps?
I couldn't disagree more. His writings about the future were for the sole purpose of illuminating the present. He has now achieved the skill to illuminate the present without employing artifice of any kind.
The reason that Gibson is good has nothing to do with his hard hitting plotlines. It is because he has a fantastic understanding of what is interesting. I'm a third of the way into Pattern Recognition, and I think it's his best book yet.
He's a very different person since he wrote about Molly. Watch "No Maps for These Territories." Please, please watch it.
Microsoft has a long history of taking predatory, underhanded actions against anything they percieve as a threat to their domination of any industry that interests them.
Maybe, but they have never used patents to do so. Based on some quotes from billg, I even get the idea that he's opposed to it.
iirc, you bought it and have the right to use it, but you do not have the right to copy it. Some court case held that loading the program into RAM qualified as copying. You need additional license to copy the program into RAM.
No, I don't think this makes any sense, for a long list of reasons, but I think it's the whole rational behind EULAs.
And, of course, I could be completely wrong. Someone please correct me otherwise.