Commodore is a single entity under law. As a corporation, or more literally, as an "embodiment", it can sue and be sued, hold property and so on as a single legal entity.
In other words, stop using the plural. It's just wrong. Commodore is not the Borg.
After logging thousands of frequent flier miles toting a corporate laptop, and having many business acquaintances who do the same, I have developed the following guidelines for a good laptop bag:
-Should have the woven "ballistic nylon". Skip on leather, pleather or other such nifty fabrics. The woven artificial stuff just won't wear out.
-Padding is key. Get something with lots of padding around the computer compartment, at least 1/2 inch around the sides where the impact is more focused. Padding is also important on the flat sides, but not as much is necessary, because your bag will almost never land flat. Even if it does, the impact is much better distributed. Still important to have wide-side padding, though, because it may happen. And it protects the laptop from the rigors of travel.
-Reinforced sides/corners. Plastic or rubber reinforcements on the narrow sides and on the corners diffuse the impact of a fall into your bag rather than into your laptop.
-Storage. A place for everything and everything in its place will prevent situations like having to untangle your CAT5 from your power cord, PDA sync cable, phone cable and security lock. Figure out what you plan to carry and make sure the bag accommodates it by design.
-Wide, padded, highly-adjustable shoulder strap. If lacking in any one of these, you will be uncomfortable with the bag. Guaranteed.
I just bought a bag at OfficeMax that cost about $40 that met all this. You don't need to spend a lot to get a good bag.
I'd give one of the WORMS games a try. It's fun, has cartoonish graphics, and isn't too hard to get a handle on how to play. Besides, it's a very creative little game. You can probably download a demo version if you'd like.
Or, Worms World Party will allow the LAN games you're looking for.
I think it will take 28 days to post a solution to Slashdot because of the following formula:
4 days to crack the encryption. It shouldn't prove too difficult to filter out the level of erroneus coding they're using.
24 days to retain a lawyer, to develop an anti-DCMA strategy, and to mail-order asbestos underwear.
I bet this was the music they played in the test of audio quality between Ogg, MP3 and other formats. According to the article, the encryption is actually bursts of "hiss" that a CD player should interpolate out of playback, but which an encoder will use to create noise.
The "golden ears" people in those tests placed Ogg close to the bottom - I bet this is the CD they tried to rip from.
My bet is on 4 weeks before something hits Slashdot about someone cracking this code....any takers?
The reason astronauts aren't famous anymore is that it isn't tabloid news, which is all that's reported today in the mainstream media.
For example, when Dennis Tito went up, the media could spin headlines like, "NASA objects to presence of untrained moron tourist", or "Russia finds a way not to tax it's people for spaceflight", or "Bitter feud between Russia and NASA hits orbit". It was like a Jerry Springer show.
So, NASA needs things like:
- Wrestling/Jesse Ventura in Space
- Elderly Tourists with Cameras
- Survivor (one astronaut voted out the airlock each week)
- Redneck-type controversy.
- William Shatner: Mission Commander.
That'll get the media, and therefore the American people, interested in space again!
Man, JK must be desperate for material to be quoting a consulting firm's book. Aren't they establishment?
Anyway, this book report had 1558 words across 24 paragraphs. I would've paid attention, but I guess my culture-ingrained ADD prevented me from
(Editor's note - author didn't finish this post due to lack of attention span)
Wideband EM transmission in the garage, huh?
I bet this will either:
1. Open your garage door over and over and over...
2. Start your car for you every time you download Natalie Portman pictures.
This ruling should open the door for all the companies paying Rambus royalties to cease all payments. Between that and the (begin sarcasm) massive income generated by RDRAM, (end sarcasm) Rambus should run out of LawyerCash pretty soon.
And might I say that it's nice to see the bad guy get it via lawyers' fees for a change, as opposed to genuinely innovative companies like Aureal.
Note the comment in the explanation of the.net strategy:
The paradigm shift that is at the core of phase three is the focus of the Microsoft.NET strategy..NET is a set of Web services that are user-centric rather than device-centric.
So, if the software is user-centric, then I should be able to just license software to myself (NOT my machine or hard drive) and use MS stuff on anything I have? If I buy a new PDA, and I (for some reason) have WinCE, my license should carry over? I should never have to pay for the OS software just because I bought a new computer?
A fair portion of the scripting that makes the major B2B software Ariba (Version 6.1 and earlier) was made with Scheme. (a subset of lisp)
They moved away from Scheme into Java for version 7.0 because most traditional companies (read: clients) couldn't get resources to maintain the stuff. So while the limited use of Lisp was an advantage to some startups, it was actually a disadvantage to Ariba. The article quoted in the story does talk about why that is, however.
Yes, the school district did the typical CYA thing. No shock here. But don't pull your child out of the social interaction of school. I had many of the problems in high school that your child did - and I gave it back full force. Towards the end of high school people were afraid to pick on me because of what I might say to them; suffice it to say that I could be verbally viscious without cursing.
I learned to get people off me by dealing in the same embarassment tactics they used. Bullies are jackals, and will turn on each other if they smell (emotional) blood. Have your son use this. He will need to use it judiciously, but it is the best sword we have.
But, put him in a non-religious private school where excellence is praised, not punished as it is in public schools. Nothing in America is hated as much as youthful intelligence, he must find a refuge from this backward attitude. (I say non-religious because religious instruction takes time away from academic subjects. Spiritual subjects should be taught at home/church) Good luck, and don't forget that Nerds Will Rule The World.
Apple is the penulitmate closed OS. Not only will they not publish the source code (understandable for a corporate effort), but they don't want you developing for it unless you only use what they give you, which seems to be less than even MS does.
Cults, according to ex-cult.org, are groups which display the attributes of Totalism. Here is their definition, does it sound like most "Mac People" you know? Located within ex-cult.org
Totalism is defined by psychiatrist Robert Lifton as the tendency to view
the world in terms of 'all or nothing' alignments. Lifton details 8
'psychological themes' that can be found in totalist groups:
-- A 'sacred science' -- an ideology that is held to be true for all people at all times. This ideology generally claims to be inspired
and scientific at the same time.
-- 'Milieu control,' the control of human communication, not only over our communications with others, but also with ourselves.
-- 'Mystical manipulation' -- including deception and 'planned spontaneity' which seeks to limit self-expression and independent action.
-- The demand for purity, the notion that absolute purity exists, and that anything done in the name of this purity is ultimately moral.
-- 'The cult of confession' -- "There is the demand that one confess to crimes one has not committed, to sinfulness that artificially induced, in the name of a cure that arbitrarily imposed." (Lifton, _Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism")
-- 'Loading the language' -- redefinition of language, with an emphasis on moral polarization, and thought terminating cliches.
-- 'Doctrine over person' -- the subordination of personal experiences to the doctrines of the sacred science.
-- 'Dispensing of existance' -- the doctrine that the group can decide who has the right to exist, and who does not.
So much of this applies to OS X and to this situation that it scares me.
I like the idea that computers are being made more usuable for everyone. It's a shame that the main interface to a computer has to be a visually-oriented mechanisim, since so many of us either have problems with vision or are developing them from using computers.
On the other hand, (no pun intended) it's yet another friggin' standard we have to code web pages for. We already have Netscape vs. Microsoft, Computer vs. PDA/Portable, and options like XML and Javascript. Now we have something else? Arrgh!
It would be better if websites could be more focused, so that bandwith use by individual pages could be more limited, or at least so that coding could be more focused.
Still, who wouldn't want to feel your opponent in UT get fragged? That could be pretty cool!
What they should do is open source the software, and sell the hardware blueprint for $10 a copy. This way they don't have to worry about the production function or increased investment.
Once they finish the working prototype, selling instructions on building the hardware will allow people to construct a linux gaming system the way they'd construct a PC, but still make their own games, retaining the company's innovative vision. It would also represent a new influx of cash.
I'd like to bring this question together with the statements of a poster below:
peter303 Conflict with textbook publishing. The popular textbooks, several which are written by MIT profs, are big money makers for the publishing houses
Hmm, I'm sure that those of us who have gone to college remember seeing the "MIT press" logo on at least a few of our college textbooks. If would-be students and lazy professors all use the suggessted texts, then some publishing houses would be in for some massive sales...maybe that's how online course posting will be funded? MIT should make money through their own press, and if you imagine the possible kickbacks, this could be an incredible moneymaker for MIT, not to mention a few favored publishers.
...but a new marketplace. The closest modern comparison to the explosion of the Web is the fall of the Iron Curtain across eastern Europe.
In those days, companies were rushing to get a foothold in the new markets. Ideas flooded in to places they had never been seen, and 40-year old men ate a bananna for the first time in their lives (no joke - think how basic that seems to the rest of us). But the Iron Curtain's fall did not create, organize, or lead these ideas. It simply allowed old ideas to reach new ears, and companies to reach a group of people in a different, more open way.
With the web, we have ideas - like Open Source and Fair Use rules - finding new ears. However, like when Eastern Europe discovered the glories and pitfalls of Capitalism, these ideas and the problems stemming from them are nothing particularly new, or unique to the space. Open Source has had its collaberative spirit in academia for ages, and fair use has been an issue since Gutenberg printed his first tract back in the 1500's.
The problem with America, as John pointed out, is that it's hard to keep anything (not just a revolution) going. The reason for this is that, as the philosopher DeToquivelle once pointed out, in America only ideas which make money and are widely approved gain an audience. We're seeing this effect right now in the ad revenue crunch many of our favorite web sites are now feeling. If the ideas aren't popular enough, as with moderated websites, they are squelched. The next stage of our new market's development will be to find a way to disseminate ideas which cannot be centrally controlled and need not be financially supported. Once this happens, our new market can never again lose so imaginative a participant as Napster, and the web will have the capability to be the staging ground of the next global revolution. This time, the revolution will not be based on physical capital, as the French and American revolutions really were, but on the capital of ideas.
So the web is not a revolution, but is a seeding ground for one. Anyone agree?
I think not renewing these temporary visas is a smart move by the American government - they've obviously learned the lesson Germany has to teach.
After WWII, Germany was, to say the least, short of men. Funny how losing wars will do that to you. Anyway, Germany offered people from other countries limited-term visas to come to Germany and work. The idea is they could earn good wages rebuilding the country and then go home. These temporary workers enabled the "Economic Miracle", or Wirtschaftswuender, that catapulted Germany into being the most powerful economy in Europe.
Now, however, these people (especially from Turkey) didn't leave. Parts of Germany are suffering under 50% (!!!) unemployment, and many young Germans resent the presence of these foreigners, who are essentially taking jobs from native Germans. This has fueled the neo-nazi/skinhead movements and made Germany a more unstable place.
The American goverment is playing this just right - allowing for temporary workers to keep the economy booming, but making sure that the workers stay temporary. Or would all the nice PC members of the/. community prefer a country with even more racial/class strife than is present today? That is the lesson Germany is coming to grips with today, and is a nasty little situation we're better off not having to face.
Slashdot Mirror
Please post any article on either the BBC's or on the Register's website which demonstrates this usage.
Quite simply, incorrectly using the plural form is not shorthand but slang. In any nation.
Commodore is a single entity under law. As a corporation, or more literally, as an "embodiment", it can sue and be sued, hold property and so on as a single legal entity.
In other words, stop using the plural. It's just wrong. Commodore is not the Borg.
Just went shopping for exactly that.
After logging thousands of frequent flier miles toting a corporate laptop, and having many business acquaintances who do the same, I have developed the following guidelines for a good laptop bag:
-Should have the woven "ballistic nylon". Skip on leather, pleather or other such nifty fabrics. The woven artificial stuff just won't wear out.
-Padding is key. Get something with lots of padding around the computer compartment, at least 1/2 inch around the sides where the impact is more focused. Padding is also important on the flat sides, but not as much is necessary, because your bag will almost never land flat. Even if it does, the impact is much better distributed.
Still important to have wide-side padding, though, because it may happen. And it protects the laptop from the rigors of travel.
-Reinforced sides/corners. Plastic or rubber reinforcements on the narrow sides and on the corners diffuse the impact of a fall into your bag rather than into your laptop.
-Storage. A place for everything and everything in its place will prevent situations like having to untangle your CAT5 from your power cord, PDA sync cable, phone cable and security lock. Figure out what you plan to carry and make sure the bag accommodates it by design.
-Wide, padded, highly-adjustable shoulder strap. If lacking in any one of these, you will be uncomfortable with the bag. Guaranteed.
I just bought a bag at OfficeMax that cost about $40 that met all this. You don't need to spend a lot to get a good bag.
I'd give one of the WORMS games a try. It's fun, has cartoonish graphics, and isn't too hard to get a handle on how to play. Besides, it's a very creative little game. You can probably download a demo version if you'd like.
Or, Worms World Party will allow the LAN games you're looking for.
Hey Austrailians.....
If you reported your religion as "Jedi" in the last census, you can access this information.
"By clicking on "I have read this important information" below,
if you are a physical person you hereby guarantee that:
1) You are residing in France
2) You are not a US resident nor a "US Person"
3) You are not an Australian nor a Canadian resident "
Well, Yoda said, "We are luminous beings, not this crude matter", so you're in, since you're not really a physical person!
I think it will take 28 days to post a solution to Slashdot because of the following formula:
4 days to crack the encryption. It shouldn't prove too difficult to filter out the level of erroneus coding they're using.
24 days to retain a lawyer, to develop an anti-DCMA strategy, and to mail-order asbestos underwear.
I bet this was the music they played in the test of audio quality between Ogg, MP3 and other formats. According to the article, the encryption is actually bursts of "hiss" that a CD player should interpolate out of playback, but which an encoder will use to create noise.
The "golden ears" people in those tests placed Ogg close to the bottom - I bet this is the CD they tried to rip from.
My bet is on 4 weeks before something hits Slashdot about someone cracking this code....any takers?
The reason astronauts aren't famous anymore is that it isn't tabloid news, which is all that's reported today in the mainstream media.
For example, when Dennis Tito went up, the media could spin headlines like, "NASA objects to presence of untrained moron tourist", or "Russia finds a way not to tax it's people for spaceflight", or "Bitter feud between Russia and NASA hits orbit". It was like a Jerry Springer show.
So, NASA needs things like:
- Wrestling/Jesse Ventura in Space
- Elderly Tourists with Cameras
- Survivor (one astronaut voted out the airlock each week)
- Redneck-type controversy.
- William Shatner: Mission Commander.
That'll get the media, and therefore the American people, interested in space again!
Man, JK must be desperate for material to be quoting a consulting firm's book. Aren't they establishment? Anyway, this book report had 1558 words across 24 paragraphs. I would've paid attention, but I guess my culture-ingrained ADD prevented me from (Editor's note - author didn't finish this post due to lack of attention span)
Wideband EM transmission in the garage, huh?
I bet this will either:
1. Open your garage door over and over and over...
2. Start your car for you every time you download Natalie Portman pictures.
And might I say that it's nice to see the bad guy get it via lawyers' fees for a change, as opposed to genuinely innovative companies like Aureal.
Darn mutants! Turn 'em all in!!!
Personally, I think we've evolved beyond it, although it does work well "on paper". :-)
The paradigm shift that is at the core of phase three is the focus of the Microsoft .NET strategy. .NET is a set of Web services that are user-centric rather than device-centric.
So, if the software is user-centric, then I should be able to just license software to myself (NOT my machine or hard drive) and use MS stuff on anything I have? If I buy a new PDA, and I (for some reason) have WinCE, my license should carry over? I should never have to pay for the OS software just because I bought a new computer?
They moved away from Scheme into Java for version 7.0 because most traditional companies (read: clients) couldn't get resources to maintain the stuff. So while the limited use of Lisp was an advantage to some startups, it was actually a disadvantage to Ariba. The article quoted in the story does talk about why that is, however.
It seems that interpersonal relations are not the only place this school has it's head on the wrong end of the digestive system.
And, the school's website is back up! Hit 'em again! Hit 'em again! Harder! Harder!
I learned to get people off me by dealing in the same embarassment tactics they used. Bullies are jackals, and will turn on each other if they smell (emotional) blood. Have your son use this. He will need to use it judiciously, but it is the best sword we have.
But, put him in a non-religious private school where excellence is praised, not punished as it is in public schools. Nothing in America is hated as much as youthful intelligence, he must find a refuge from this backward attitude. (I say non-religious because religious instruction takes time away from academic subjects. Spiritual subjects should be taught at home/church) Good luck, and don't forget that Nerds Will Rule The World.
Cults, according to ex-cult.org, are groups which display the attributes of Totalism. Here is their definition, does it sound like most "Mac People" you know?
-- 'Loading the language' -- redefinition of language, with an emphasis on moral polarization, and thought terminating cliches.
Located within ex-cult.org
Totalism is defined by psychiatrist Robert Lifton as the tendency to view the world in terms of 'all or nothing' alignments. Lifton details 8 'psychological themes' that can be found in totalist groups:
-- A 'sacred science' -- an ideology that is held to be true for all people at all times. This ideology generally claims to be inspired and scientific at the same time.
-- 'Milieu control,' the control of human communication, not only over our communications with others, but also with ourselves.
-- 'Mystical manipulation' -- including deception and 'planned spontaneity' which seeks to limit self-expression and independent action.
-- The demand for purity, the notion that absolute purity exists, and that anything done in the name of this purity is ultimately moral.
-- 'The cult of confession' -- "There is the demand that one confess to crimes one has not committed, to sinfulness that artificially induced, in the name of a cure that arbitrarily imposed." (Lifton, _Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism")
-- 'Doctrine over person' -- the subordination of personal experiences to the doctrines of the sacred science.
-- 'Dispensing of existance' -- the doctrine that the group can decide who has the right to exist, and who does not.
So much of this applies to OS X and to this situation that it scares me.
On the other hand, (no pun intended) it's yet another friggin' standard we have to code web pages for. We already have Netscape vs. Microsoft, Computer vs. PDA/Portable, and options like XML and Javascript. Now we have something else? Arrgh!
It would be better if websites could be more focused, so that bandwith use by individual pages could be more limited, or at least so that coding could be more focused.
Still, who wouldn't want to feel your opponent in UT get fragged? That could be pretty cool!
Apple will give M$ the keys to the Firewire standard if they can use some M$ operating system architects on OS X. That would explain SOOOOO much!
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and tired in the eyes - Roger Zelazny
Once they finish the working prototype, selling instructions on building the hardware will allow people to construct a linux gaming system the way they'd construct a PC, but still make their own games, retaining the company's innovative vision. It would also represent a new influx of cash.
peter303
Conflict with textbook publishing. The popular textbooks, several which are written by MIT profs, are big money makers for the publishing houses
Hmm, I'm sure that those of us who have gone to college remember seeing the "MIT press" logo on at least a few of our college textbooks. If would-be students and lazy professors all use the suggessted texts, then some publishing houses would be in for some massive sales...maybe that's how online course posting will be funded? MIT should make money through their own press, and if you imagine the possible kickbacks, this could be an incredible moneymaker for MIT, not to mention a few favored publishers.
Available colors Metallic Silver, Metallic Red and Metallic Blue
OK, so it doesn't come in Apple, Grape, Strawberry, Blueberry...oh, wait, wrong overpriced artsy toy. Sorry. But it does have color.
In those days, companies were rushing to get a foothold in the new markets. Ideas flooded in to places they had never been seen, and 40-year old men ate a bananna for the first time in their lives (no joke - think how basic that seems to the rest of us). But the Iron Curtain's fall did not create, organize, or lead these ideas. It simply allowed old ideas to reach new ears, and companies to reach a group of people in a different, more open way.
With the web, we have ideas - like Open Source and Fair Use rules - finding new ears. However, like when Eastern Europe discovered the glories and pitfalls of Capitalism, these ideas and the problems stemming from them are nothing particularly new, or unique to the space. Open Source has had its collaberative spirit in academia for ages, and fair use has been an issue since Gutenberg printed his first tract back in the 1500's.
The problem with America, as John pointed out, is that it's hard to keep anything (not just a revolution) going. The reason for this is that, as the philosopher DeToquivelle once pointed out, in America only ideas which make money and are widely approved gain an audience. We're seeing this effect right now in the ad revenue crunch many of our favorite web sites are now feeling. If the ideas aren't popular enough, as with moderated websites, they are squelched. The next stage of our new market's development will be to find a way to disseminate ideas which cannot be centrally controlled and need not be financially supported. Once this happens, our new market can never again lose so imaginative a participant as Napster, and the web will have the capability to be the staging ground of the next global revolution. This time, the revolution will not be based on physical capital, as the French and American revolutions really were, but on the capital of ideas.
So the web is not a revolution, but is a seeding ground for one. Anyone agree?
I think not renewing these temporary visas is a smart move by the American government - they've obviously learned the lesson Germany has to teach.
/. community prefer a country with even more racial/class strife than is present today? That is the lesson Germany is coming to grips with today, and is a nasty little situation we're better off not having to face.
After WWII, Germany was, to say the least, short of men. Funny how losing wars will do that to you. Anyway, Germany offered people from other countries limited-term visas to come to Germany and work. The idea is they could earn good wages rebuilding the country and then go home. These temporary workers enabled the "Economic Miracle", or Wirtschaftswuender, that catapulted Germany into being the most powerful economy in Europe.
Now, however, these people (especially from Turkey) didn't leave. Parts of Germany are suffering under 50% (!!!) unemployment, and many young Germans resent the presence of these foreigners, who are essentially taking jobs from native Germans. This has fueled the neo-nazi/skinhead movements and made Germany a more unstable place.
The American goverment is playing this just right - allowing for temporary workers to keep the economy booming, but making sure that the workers stay temporary. Or would all the nice PC members of the