To bad I can't vote against the FBI and the so called Homeland Security shit.
You can't vote against it directly, but you can prepare a petition and/or contact your senator. If your senator realises that his consituants feel enough about this, then he will will represent your view in either the state or federal senate.
BTW When I see what is going on in the USA at the moment, I feel like Star Wars ep. 1 has some fightening parallels to the current reality.
As I write this it is 14:24 EST, so that means that Anchorage (Alaska,USA) has not to got to mid-day yet. Nor has San Francisco for that matter. So until there are no 12 noons left on 1st April 2003, then April fools has still got some fight left.
If you read the referenced links, then you would know that this works. Your joke seems to be as bad as the posts filling up the thread in the forum on this issue.
Sometimes people only speak when they having something worth saying. Other times they listen and experiment. The anonymous hacker appears to fall into this category.
"True wisdom comes from recognizing that the wise don't have all the answers, and that sometimes the village idiot sees the answer where the wise don't dare look."
I was going to come with the defence 'but the author is a woman', then discovered that he was a guy. The truth is the author has the right to use whatever pleases him. While it is true that I find it odd to use a 'feminin generic', I also find other things odd that others find perfectly normal. The truth is you just have to get used to it and not get insecure about it. If any feminist complains about you using the 'masculin generic', just tell them that you don't complain when they use the 'female generic' (and vice versa), and not be so insecure.
I sometimes use the 'plural generic' to refer to the generic person, as a PC way of doing things. Yes this is not American English, but plenty of people accept it.
Another advantage is when your company gets bought out and the hardware politics change. The company I work for develops large scale server solutions for transactions (I won't mention the industry). Up to now we have been running on Sun machines. The new parent companies now insists that all servers be Intel based. They originally mandated the OS should be MS-Windows, but they ended up accepting Linux. Having already had to bang my head in the past porting C/C++ code from one Unix to another, moving the Java code was a godsend in ease.
As I once said to someone else, porting code is hard work and expensive. In relative terms upgrading the hardware to the best out there without caring for your porting issues is very cheap. Not only that but you also minimize downtime.
Use what you want and understand everyone else's reason for using what they want.
What should also be looked at is the incredible world-wide coverage given by GSM. I think it it would be very short-sighted to be using CDMA when there is already a well established global standard. When rebuilding any country you should be helping the inhabitants, NOT the paying ransom money to the country that 'liberated', the country in question.
It is true that GSM was put together by European cell phone companies, but they did not want to repeat the mistake of the old incompatible analogue systems.
Most CDMA phones manufactured these days are in fact feature reduced GSM phones, and old models. While Qualcomm seems to insist on sticking to CDMA. Most cell phone manufacturers put their effort into the GSM range, which has a world-wide market: Motorola, Handspring, Alcatel, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Sagem, Sendo, Siemens, NEC and Sony Ericsson.
If Qualcomm finds it too expensive to switch to GSM, then it should fork out the cost for building the wireless system in Iraq, NOT the US tax payer. Since in the long run in a GLOBAL market GSM provides a level playing field for everyone to make better products upon. Infrastructure is best without fragmentation, so that the real competition can exist above it!
If you want to go beyond the media, then you might want to check out the papers by George V. Eleftheriades. BTW the article has a bad URL for the University of Toronto, is should be http://www.utoronto.ca.
A more appropriate warning: "Due to copy protection, this CD can not be transfered to your MP3 player". At least this will make it clear to people who don't quite understand what 'copy protection' means.
The problem here is that even if a law is passed how do you track down the people responsible. Given that headers are usually forged and the open relays are likely to stay open then this is going to be diffilcult. You could change SMTP so that everyone is tracked from end to end, but this brings up privacy issues.
Since most spam makes reference to a phone number or website then the people selling the product should be held accountable. Its not a perfect solution either, but it is the best thing I can think of. What should the punishment be? Not sure, though how about a fine, equivalent to the costs of bandwidth usage, in the same manner the MPAA calculates the 'loss' of sales.
You've got it all wrong. It should be 'electronic 1st person shooter', otherwise it would be too obvious. But then again its not as if the USPTO really cares.
I wonder, why didn't W3 try and pick up all these patents
In an ideal world they would. In reality patents cost money. There are a few patents these days that truely deserve being issued, but that there are so many that shouldn't that it paints a bad picture of the whole system. These stupid patents are usually bought by companies and used on their competitors in the same way as the mafia threatens your life with a mob.
I am pesimistic that the government has any incentive to clean up the patent system (see the Forbes article). For this reason I believe that we need to influence countries other than our dear USA to build a sane system that is not influenced by the stupidity of our own. I truely hope that I am wrong about our government.
Look on the bright side, now that the 'nerd' community is aware that Dvorak has said something stupid again, we now know where management is getting its facts from. This allows us to be wise and explain to management in simple terms that Dvork is on crack again and why what he proposes is unlikely to happen.
Just because your network is faster doesn't mean that your computer will dealing with the data any faster. Though, what it does mean, is that with more bits going though the pipe per second, you are less likely to feel a download hit when 30 other people start streaming data high bandwidth data through the same link.
Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun.
[sarcasm]Considering that JBoss is written in Java and uses the J2EE API, then is this a surprise? After all to use Java you need a JDK, which is written by Sun, as is the JDK.[/sarcasm]
I would certainly be interested to see what 'software' Phipps was refering to.
I think the thing that the designer doesn't quite get the concept of the store. It is meant to feel helpful and minamilist. You end up wanting to buy a product simply because you don't feel that you are being forced to buy something and thus you feel that you are buying by choice and with your defenses down.
Walking into an Apple store is akin to walking into a luxury car show room. Nobody talks prices or tries to sell you anything, until *you* want to, yet the product for sale is presented there and you buy it because you know you want it and that you feel you are being treated with due respect, rather than a jerk who will accept the salesman's forced pitch.
And remember you don't have go find a gas station every time you want more fuel. Just plug the EV into the wall in your garage.
This is fine for the person who runs their car around town. The issue is for the person driving 1000km and then realising they need to charge up. With current fuel based cars, and hybrids, you fill up in under 10 minutes and then go. I don't think anyone is willing to wait a couple of hours before continuing their journey.
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To bad I can't vote against the FBI and the so called Homeland Security shit.
You can't vote against it directly, but you can prepare a petition and/or contact your senator. If your senator realises that his consituants feel enough about this, then he will will represent your view in either the state or federal senate.
BTW When I see what is going on in the USA at the moment, I feel like Star Wars ep. 1 has some fightening parallels to the current reality.
You can get the beta right here. Looks real enough.
As I write this it is 14:24 EST, so that means that Anchorage (Alaska,USA) has not to got to mid-day yet. Nor has San Francisco for that matter. So until there are no 12 noons left on 1st April 2003, then April fools has still got some fight left.
Now my woman will be able to prove I was in the bar and not working late at the office. Is there to be no escape !!
Solution: leave your phone at work and then get it to forward calls to your secondary cell phone.
If you read the referenced links, then you would know that this works. Your joke seems to be as bad as the posts filling up the thread in the forum on this issue.
Sometimes people only speak when they having something worth saying. Other times they listen and experiment. The anonymous hacker appears to fall into this category.
"True wisdom comes from recognizing that the wise don't have all the answers, and that sometimes the village idiot sees the answer where the wise don't dare look."
I was going to come with the defence 'but the author is a woman', then discovered that he was a guy. The truth is the author has the right to use whatever pleases him. While it is true that I find it odd to use a 'feminin generic', I also find other things odd that others find perfectly normal. The truth is you just have to get used to it and not get insecure about it. If any feminist complains about you using the 'masculin generic', just tell them that you don't complain when they use the 'female generic' (and vice versa), and not be so insecure.
I sometimes use the 'plural generic' to refer to the generic person, as a PC way of doing things. Yes this is not American English, but plenty of people accept it.
Another advantage is when your company gets bought out and the hardware politics change. The company I work for develops large scale server solutions for transactions (I won't mention the industry). Up to now we have been running on Sun machines. The new parent companies now insists that all servers be Intel based. They originally mandated the OS should be MS-Windows, but they ended up accepting Linux. Having already had to bang my head in the past porting C/C++ code from one Unix to another, moving the Java code was a godsend in ease.
As I once said to someone else, porting code is hard work and expensive. In relative terms upgrading the hardware to the best out there without caring for your porting issues is very cheap. Not only that but you also minimize downtime.
Use what you want and understand everyone else's reason for using what they want.
What should also be looked at is the incredible world-wide coverage given by GSM. I think it it would be very short-sighted to be using CDMA when there is already a well established global standard. When rebuilding any country you should be helping the inhabitants, NOT the paying ransom money to the country that 'liberated', the country in question.
It is true that GSM was put together by European cell phone companies, but they did not want to repeat the mistake of the old incompatible analogue systems.
Most CDMA phones manufactured these days are in fact feature reduced GSM phones, and old models. While Qualcomm seems to insist on sticking to CDMA. Most cell phone manufacturers put their effort into the GSM range, which has a world-wide market: Motorola, Handspring, Alcatel, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Sagem, Sendo, Siemens, NEC and Sony Ericsson.
If Qualcomm finds it too expensive to switch to GSM, then it should fork out the cost for building the wireless system in Iraq, NOT the US tax payer. Since in the long run in a GLOBAL market GSM provides a level playing field for everyone to make better products upon. Infrastructure is best without fragmentation, so that the real competition can exist above it!
If you want to go beyond the media, then you might want to check out the papers by George V. Eleftheriades. BTW the article has a bad URL for the University of Toronto, is should be http://www.utoronto.ca.
A more appropriate warning: "Due to copy protection, this CD can not be transfered to your MP3 player". At least this will make it clear to people who don't quite understand what 'copy protection' means.
What I'm wondering about is how you would buy something online where you can't really predict the address that shipping-confirmations
One approach would be for the web site to publish the addresses it posts from, so someone could paste this information into their white-list.
I hope the same logic is applied to spam.
The problem here is that even if a law is passed how do you track down the people responsible. Given that headers are usually forged and the open relays are likely to stay open then this is going to be diffilcult. You could change SMTP so that everyone is tracked from end to end, but this brings up privacy issues.
Since most spam makes reference to a phone number or website then the people selling the product should be held accountable. Its not a perfect solution either, but it is the best thing I can think of. What should the punishment be? Not sure, though how about a fine, equivalent to the costs of bandwidth usage, in the same manner the MPAA calculates the 'loss' of sales.
Is there any page that lists patents that are now in the public domain, or have a less than a year left? That is one page I would love to visit.
You've got it all wrong. It should be 'electronic 1st person shooter', otherwise it would be too obvious. But then again its not as if the USPTO really cares.
I wonder, why didn't W3 try and pick up all these patents
In an ideal world they would. In reality patents cost money. There are a few patents these days that truely deserve being issued, but that there are so many that shouldn't that it paints a bad picture of the whole system. These stupid patents are usually bought by companies and used on their competitors in the same way as the mafia threatens your life with a mob.
I am pesimistic that the government has any incentive to clean up the patent system (see the Forbes article). For this reason I believe that we need to influence countries other than our dear USA to build a sane system that is not influenced by the stupidity of our own. I truely hope that I am wrong about our government.
Look on the bright side, now that the 'nerd' community is aware that Dvorak has said something stupid again, we now know where management is getting its facts from. This allows us to be wise and explain to management in simple terms that Dvork is on crack again and why what he proposes is unlikely to happen.
Next month, Dvorak will have exclusive information on the release date for Duke Nukem: Forever!
I think it should be 'Duke Nukem: Forever, release date: infinite'
Just because your network is faster doesn't mean that your computer will dealing with the data any faster. Though, what it does mean, is that with more bits going though the pipe per second, you are less likely to feel a download hit when 30 other people start streaming data high bandwidth data through the same link.
I just visited the site and noticed in the 'Apple -> Apple Lisa (Sort of)' section right at the bottom the following:
Xenix is a Unix-ish operating system made by Microsoft - yes, Micro$oft - in the early 80s. They later ditched Xenix and it became SCO Unix.
Is this true? Maybe it would explain a few things.
Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun.
[sarcasm]Considering that JBoss is written in Java and uses the J2EE API, then is this a surprise? After all to use Java you need a JDK, which is written by Sun, as is the JDK.[/sarcasm]
I would certainly be interested to see what 'software' Phipps was refering to.
I think the thing that the designer doesn't quite get the concept of the store. It is meant to feel helpful and minamilist. You end up wanting to buy a product simply because you don't feel that you are being forced to buy something and thus you feel that you are buying by choice and with your defenses down.
Walking into an Apple store is akin to walking into a luxury car show room. Nobody talks prices or tries to sell you anything, until *you* want to, yet the product for sale is presented there and you buy it because you know you want it and that you feel you are being treated with due respect, rather than a jerk who will accept the salesman's forced pitch.
And remember you don't have go find a gas station every time you want more fuel. Just plug the EV into the wall in your garage.
This is fine for the person who runs their car around town. The issue is for the person driving 1000km and then realising they need to charge up. With current fuel based cars, and hybrids, you fill up in under 10 minutes and then go. I don't think anyone is willing to wait a couple of hours before continuing their journey.
Did you get any error message in the console? I'll take a look to see if I can get it running.
If you want to look at and change the Limewire code, then you can visit their open source development site
How about surfmusic.de. This site lists many analogue radio stations that are available on the web in streaming form.