"In other words, programming is only "part of you" it's not all of you. It's not your reason for living, and it's not even your best part, most likely"
This won't clear up shoddily written applications such as Excel. Windows itself works fine, it's poorly written applicatons that cause the majority of the errors. Explorer crashes because it has bugs. Excel causes numerous page faults and other memory errors, and is so poorly written that it causes faults in itself. Rewrite 'windows' all you want, it won't fix the problem, just the symptom.
I want to know how exactly it is that it's 'fair use' to make a copy in whole of any work.
As far as Napster goes the RIAA is barking up the wrong tree. It's like taking Ford to court because someone used a Ford vehicle in a bank robbery. What they should do is find out who the people are that are downloading and making available the protected works and sending them all invoices, or take them all to court, but it's easier to sue one entity rather than thousands.
You will find that passing work units off to a little plastic ball with flashing lights inside will give you visual feedback on how fast your SETI units are being processed, and it's fun for the cat.
Heavier than air flight was science fiction. Rockets to the moon were science fiction. Now, 'potions' is in the realm of fantasy, not science fiction, and I can't think of one reference to 'anti-gravity particle cannons'.
It's your kind of thinking that made it 'common knowledge' in the past that the world was flat, and the sun revolved around the earth.
"And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving; yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia. "
The world must look to the future, and that future is getting off this dust laden ball of rock and expanding. If people like you had their way an increasing amount of resources would be spent on people like those in Somalia who's actions show them to be no more than monkeys with guns, and eventually so much resources will be pissed away on touch-feely projects Earthside that will not solve anything that it will become impossible to have enough resources to commit to expanding into space. You want less strip mining for metals on earth? Space is where to get metals. You want less chemical production on earth? Space is where to get the chemicals, and where to refine the chemicals.
Finding life on another planet would give a world wide impetus in expanding space sciences, and would create more opportunities and less crap.
Of course you cannot do without the U.S. in all things. So, you would not be able to operate very long, if at all without the U.S. The world depends on the U.S. for everything from food to new technology to money. WE are the cornucopia of the world.
Earthlink is a Scientology company, and naturally Scientology doesn't want the FBI access to their basic means of computer based communications since they have been the target of investigations ranging from fraud to murder.
He does seem to play to the younger high school/college GiMi WaReZ/I run Linux/FREE ALL SOFTWARE crowd. His writing style does seem to be pretentious enough to appear in that damnable 'Mondo 2000' (whatever it was) book, but that must migh be the gloss and polish on it that makes it seem that way.
What people don't seem to get is that the majority of youth are more interested in playing games wheather it be on a PSX, Dreamcast, or PC than learning the technology. I know how to drive a car, but that doesn't make me a mechanic or smart about cars. Knowing how to use a telephone doesn't make anyone smarter than anyone else, and certainly doesn't make them a telecommunication genius. There are more people I know that just know how to use the machine, but don't have any skill at all with the actual technology. Same for the older crowd.
I seriously doubt it's in the 6k range. People have the bad habit of counting regional dialects as a language instead of stating that it's dialectic. It's like calling 'redneck' or 'ebonics', languages.
In 1000 years, much less 10,000 years there'll be nothing around to read the disks with...
given that...
Archeologists will just find these to be nickel curiosities, and any found will be melted down for other uses or made into jewelry. "The disks are curious. Some claim that they are roach made, but they appear in clusters which lead us to belive that they are natural formations created by an, as yet, unknown geological process"
Naw, capitalism doesn't suck ass. Greed sucks ass. Price fixing sucks ass.
How companies report 'profits' sucks ass. Say a company made 10 million in profit last year. This year they make 9 million in profit, and have the nerve to say that they 'lost money', and need to cut jobs and/or raise prices.
Look at gas stations in an area. Rarely will you find different gas stations charging different (or significantly different) prices on gasoline. This is price fixing. It doesn't take a meeting in a cigar filled room for it to happen.
Capitalism has been bastardized. it's not the system, it's the people running the system, and they need a kick in the teeth.
Unfortunately capitalism like communism is doomed to failure. Another experiment down the tube.
OK, so we just put up with companies that do a half-assed job hoping all the while that the situation get's better, and not worse. It's like not operating on cancer hopeing it get's better while you know deep down that it won't get better, it'll just get worse.
"I just read the patent three times and cannot believe it. It's a real patent filed for in 1980 long before Tim-Berners-Lee proposed the world wide web. To put it simply British Telecom came up with the idea of hyperlinks first, simply not in the context of HTML, but this does not change the fact that they did. To all those claiming this is a sign that patent reform is forthcoming are probably right but for the wrong reasons, in 1980 this was probably an original idea. "
But does it predate Xanadu? (re: "Computer Lib/Dream machines" (or whatever the hell it was called>?)
"On the whole, the harm done was only a week's wages. I would tell her to document it so her next employer won't have the same problem and to otherwise just suck it up."
What do you mean 'just suck it up."? Too many people are just sucking it up, and not doing anything to keep this sort of thing from happening. Every single instance if such a happening should be pursued vigorously to make sure that companies that provide data provide accurate data not half-assed data. I haven't decided if 'just suck it up' is a sign of apathy or stupidity. This sort of attitude is why things are going to crap in the U.S.
Ah, but I still have yet to see an aircrew member restricting use of 'airfone's (or whatever those damn things are called) while the plane is in flight. It's a cellular phone setup with the antenna bolted to the underside of the hull.
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"In other words, programming is only "part of you" it's not all of you. It's not your reason for living, and it's not even your best part, most likely"
HERETIC!
Someone bring out the...
COMFY CHAIR!
The Cube looks like a restroom trash can. All it needs is a foot lever and a pop-up lid.
This won't clear up shoddily written applications such as Excel. Windows itself works fine, it's poorly written applicatons that cause the majority of the errors. Explorer crashes because it has bugs. Excel causes numerous page faults and other memory errors, and is so poorly written that it causes faults in itself. Rewrite 'windows' all you want, it won't fix the problem, just the symptom.
I want to know how exactly it is that it's 'fair use' to make a copy in whole of any work.
As far as Napster goes the RIAA is barking up the wrong tree. It's like taking Ford to court because someone used a Ford vehicle in a bank robbery. What they should do is find out who the people are that are downloading and making available the protected works and sending them all invoices, or take them all to court, but it's easier to sue one entity rather than thousands.
You will find that passing work units off to a little plastic ball with flashing lights inside will give you visual feedback on how fast your SETI units are being processed, and it's fun for the cat.
Heavier than air flight was science fiction. Rockets to the moon were science fiction. Now, 'potions' is in the realm of fantasy, not science fiction, and I can't think of one reference to 'anti-gravity particle cannons'.
It's your kind of thinking that made it 'common knowledge' in the past that the world was flat, and the sun revolved around the earth.
"And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving; yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia. "
The world must look to the future, and that future is getting off this dust laden ball of rock and expanding. If people like you had their way an increasing amount of resources would be spent on people like those in Somalia who's actions show them to be no more than monkeys with guns, and eventually so much resources will be pissed away on touch-feely projects Earthside that will not solve anything that it will become impossible to have enough resources to commit to expanding into space. You want less strip mining for metals on earth? Space is where to get metals. You want less chemical production on earth? Space is where to get the chemicals, and where to refine the chemicals.
Finding life on another planet would give a world wide impetus in expanding space sciences, and would create more opportunities and less crap.
Of course you cannot do without the U.S. in all things. So, you would not be able to operate very long, if at all without the U.S. The world depends on the U.S. for everything from food to new technology to money. WE are the cornucopia of the world.
Now that's not a bad idea for website ads. A 'hit' could be logged if someone so much as looks at a banner.
Seems the mob rallies around and waves it torches.
Earthlink is a Scientology company, and naturally Scientology doesn't want the FBI access to their basic means of computer based communications since they have been the target of investigations ranging from fraud to murder.
He does seem to play to the younger high school/college GiMi WaReZ/I run Linux/FREE ALL SOFTWARE crowd. His writing style does seem to be pretentious enough to appear in that damnable 'Mondo 2000' (whatever it was) book, but that must migh be the gloss and polish on it that makes it seem that way.
What people don't seem to get is that the majority of youth are more interested in playing games wheather it be on a PSX, Dreamcast, or PC than learning the technology. I know how to drive a car, but that doesn't make me a mechanic or smart about cars. Knowing how to use a telephone doesn't make anyone smarter than anyone else, and certainly doesn't make them a telecommunication genius. There are more people I know that just know how to use the machine, but don't have any skill at all with the actual technology. Same for the older crowd.
I seriously doubt it's in the 6k range. People have the bad habit of counting regional dialects as a language instead of stating that it's dialectic. It's like calling 'redneck' or 'ebonics', languages.
Ok, let's face a few points here...
In 1000 years, much less 10,000 years there'll be nothing around to read the disks with...
given that...
Archeologists will just find these to be nickel curiosities, and any found will be melted down for other uses or made into jewelry. "The disks are curious. Some claim that they are roach made, but they appear in clusters which lead us to belive that they are natural formations created by an, as yet, unknown geological process"
Naw, capitalism doesn't suck ass. Greed sucks ass. Price fixing sucks ass.
How companies report 'profits' sucks ass. Say a company made 10 million in profit last year. This year they make 9 million in profit, and have the nerve to say that they 'lost money', and need to cut jobs and/or raise prices.
Look at gas stations in an area. Rarely will you find different gas stations charging different (or significantly different) prices on gasoline. This is price fixing. It doesn't take a meeting in a cigar filled room for it to happen.
Capitalism has been bastardized. it's not the system, it's the people running the system, and they need a kick in the teeth.
Unfortunately capitalism like communism is doomed to failure. Another experiment down the tube.
OK, so we just put up with companies that do a half-assed job hoping all the while that the situation get's better, and not worse. It's like not operating on cancer hopeing it get's better while you know deep down that it won't get better, it'll just get worse.
"I just read the patent three times and cannot believe it. It's a real patent filed for in 1980 long before Tim-Berners-Lee proposed the world wide web. To put it simply British Telecom came up with the idea of hyperlinks first, simply not in the context of HTML, but this does not change the fact that they did. To all those claiming this is a sign that patent reform is forthcoming are probably right but for the wrong reasons, in 1980 this was probably an original idea. "
But does it predate Xanadu? (re: "Computer Lib/Dream machines" (or whatever the hell it was called>?)
Well, I'll put it down as a sick joke since the login scripting isn't working so I think their a bunch of hacks.
Here's what I get...
"Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e21'
Invalid character value for cast specification.
/register/register.asp, line 53
"
If they can't keep their scripting together, I seriously doubt they can be believed.
"On the whole, the harm done was only a week's wages. I would tell her to document it so her next employer won't have the same problem and to otherwise just suck it up."
What do you mean 'just suck it up."? Too many people are just sucking it up, and not doing anything to keep this sort of thing from happening. Every single instance if such a happening should be pursued vigorously to make sure that companies that provide data provide accurate data not half-assed data. I haven't decided if 'just suck it up' is a sign of apathy or stupidity. This sort of attitude is why things are going to crap in the U.S.
Ah, but I still have yet to see an aircrew member restricting use of 'airfone's (or whatever those damn things are called) while the plane is in flight. It's a cellular phone setup with the antenna bolted to the underside of the hull.
same thing. clambake.org get's ya there also.
Windows keeps me in a job! More people should use windows! I'd choose windows over a night of nekkid wrestling in hot grits with natalie portman!
Check out clambake.org... learn about Xenu... nevermind where the Hawaiian islands were 75 million years ago!
Keanu Reeves didn't play in it.....
Leonardo DiCaprio didn't play in it...
Now, gimme!