oh, and have you ever noticed that our logo isn't the sun logo? They cease-and-desisted us for using their logo here to, even tho that is definitely fair use
You're a NEWS REPORTING SITE for fuxsake! You could have whipped them up to no end in court!!! Why did you bend over? Not even M$ sued over the Wine logo, or Bill-of-the-Borg! Geez!
Wouldn't it be simpler just to pass a law that says everybody not in the upper caste of 10,000 or so people owes an infinite amount of money to the caste, period?
Let's say you have two lamps which emit pure-wavelength red and green. Point those to a white wall and you'll see yellow. A third lamp emits pure-wavelength yellow. Point that to the wall and you'll see the same yellow.
Now our X-Woman would look at these two experiments and say, "How can you say it's the same color? It's not!"
1 month in Brazil. But since it is from day N of the month to day N of the following one, some management tends to push for February. Mine doesn't, thankfully (moreso because February has Carnaval, which is a national holiday here).;-P
- Speed: how far are the galaxies drifting away? I suppose there was an analyzable spectrum?
- Does it imply in a new lower bound for the age of the Universe? (I'd say at least 10 billion years -- they had to get there first, plus the light travel time)
Entities interested in stifling criticism will use any excuse to shut down a domain/website/whatever. Swear words are just too easy a target. If anyone is interested in venting his/her rage against one of such entities, I'll be happy to create a host definition under one of the domains I acquired recently:
isverybad[.com|.org|.net] or areverybad[.com|.org|.net]
You show me a page with meaningful content criticising entity X and I'll create entityx.isverybad.org or entitiesx.areverybad.net or whatever combination is preferred. For instance, http://softwarepatents.areverybad.org now points to the LPF. Let's see people shut down that.
Feel free to interpret my geographically-and-trigonometrically-spamproofed e-mail and discuss the subject with me.
Let's say everything is patented. For the sake of argument, let's presume scratching you left ear with the right hand is patented. Now, everyone scratch his ear with the opposite hand every once in a while, but they don't go after these people.
Now, someone starts to do things the big guns don't like (human rights campaigning for instance), so they wade through all recorded appearances of that person until they find an image of him scratching his left ear with the right hand. Boom, troublemaker is in jail.
To get a little closer to current reality, s/scratch ear/having MP3 in your HD/.
Remember, the architecture was designed long before the world was flooded with crappy PC-DOS/MS-DOS real mode software.
According to Intel's history page the 286 was born in 1982, so you have a point. Of course, PC ATs didn't see the light of day until 1984 and then the damage was done.:-/
The 8088 was a crippled 8086, kind of the "celeron" of it's day. It was limited to 8-bits externally, though it is 16-bits internally. Because of the 8088, early PC's were limited to being able to address 1MB of RAM.
Using a 8086 instead would do no good. The 1MB limit is because the segmented architecture consisted on left-shifting the 16-bit segment address by 4 bits, hence no resulting logical address could be greater than 0x0FFFF0 + 0x00FFFF = 0x10FFEF (roughly 1.06 MB).
This is true for the 8086, 8088, 80186 and 80188 families. True flexible segmentation was introduced by the 80286, although in a completely boneheaded way (no switch back to real mode, duh!)
Larry E decides to throw a fit and demand people stop "infringing intellectual property", I mirrored this site. NO, I won't tell where. I value my bandwidth. As I said, it's just in case.
Personal Computers for the library: $1,500 each
Internet access: $40/mo
Filtering software: $100
Republican politician's face when he sees his site has been censored: Priceless
That's interesting. Could a lawsuit based on this premise (current copyright law is unconstitutional because of this, this and that) have any chance of being successful?
We talk a lot about striking down the DMCA based on similar arguments, but this is way deeper. Come to think of it, this is the kind of stunt Ralph Nader would love to pull. *rubs hands in glee*
This could all be solved by various software and game companies releasing stuff into public domain, but I really can't see that happening on a large scale.
Of course not. Every time I find something -- anything -- that amuses me for some time and is free, it decreases slightly the probability of me buying the greatest and latest game. In other words, it's in their interest to cause artificial scarcity.
This reasoning is valid for every kind of business, even those who deal with matter instead of information. I bet the Coca-Cola Company doesn't want you to be able to plant an orange tree in your backyard.
I was a vocal opponent of a number of the school's policies, and they were just looking for something to nail me with.
Looking for something? Hah! What makes you certain they
1) Didn't put the files there themselves, and:
2) Didn't make up this stupid password policy with intent to use it against troublemakers in the first place?
We really still do not fully grasp the adverse effects prolonged exposure to a lowered gravity environment poses on the human body.
One doesn't have to be exposed to such risk. The smart thing to would be a rotating, duct-tape-roll-shaped station. For the life of me I don't know why they didn't go for that.
I'd bet many here have walked a similar path -- a period in NetWare consulting followed by a "rebirth" under Un*x. I myself worked as a CNE up until 1996. Didn't go to COMDEX, though. That anvil antics must have been awesome.:)
About the SFT/Linux thing: Yes, that would be the donkeys wotsits. Someone talked about Red Hat and Novell merging... just imagine! GNU/NDS! GNU/SFT! And of course that impossibly fast filesystem of theirs. MarsNWE is nice but it's not The Real Thing.
I actually think it's quite possible. Maybe they finally realized what's keeping Java from widespread acceptance is lack of true openness. My money is on "yes", I think they'll do it, in less than a year probably.
Slashdot Mirror
oh, and have you ever noticed that our logo isn't the sun logo? They cease-and-desisted us for using their logo here to, even tho that is definitely fair use
You're a NEWS REPORTING SITE for fuxsake! You could have whipped them up to no end in court!!! Why did you bend over? Not even M$ sued over the Wine logo, or Bill-of-the-Borg! Geez!
Who has the means?
Who has the opportunity?
Great, I knew Many Sensed it already.
Wouldn't it be simpler just to pass a law that says everybody not in the upper caste of 10,000 or so people owes an infinite amount of money to the caste, period?
Now our X-Woman would look at these two experiments and say, "How can you say it's the same color? It's not!"
Did I get it right?
1 month in Brazil. But since it is from day N of the month to day N of the following one, some management tends to push for February. Mine doesn't, thankfully (moreso because February has Carnaval, which is a national holiday here). ;-P
- Speed: how far are the galaxies drifting away? I suppose there was an analyzable spectrum?
- Does it imply in a new lower bound for the age of the Universe? (I'd say at least 10 billion years -- they had to get there first, plus the light travel time)
isverybad[.com|.org|.net] or areverybad[.com|.org|.net]
You show me a page with meaningful content criticising entity X and I'll create entityx.isverybad.org or entitiesx.areverybad.net or whatever combination is preferred. For instance, http://softwarepatents.areverybad.org now points to the LPF. Let's see people shut down that.
Feel free to interpret my geographically-and-trigonometrically-spamproofed e-mail and discuss the subject with me.
Let's say everything is patented. For the sake of argument, let's presume scratching you left ear with the right hand is patented. Now, everyone scratch his ear with the opposite hand every once in a while, but they don't go after these people.
Now, someone starts to do things the big guns don't like (human rights campaigning for instance), so they wade through all recorded appearances of that person until they find an image of him scratching his left ear with the right hand. Boom, troublemaker is in jail.
To get a little closer to current reality, s/scratch ear/having MP3 in your HD/.
According to Intel's history page the 286 was born in 1982, so you have a point. Of course, PC ATs didn't see the light of day until 1984 and then the damage was done. :-/
Using a 8086 instead would do no good. The 1MB limit is because the segmented architecture consisted on left-shifting the 16-bit segment address by 4 bits, hence no resulting logical address could be greater than 0x0FFFF0 + 0x00FFFF = 0x10FFEF (roughly 1.06 MB).
This is true for the 8086, 8088, 80186 and 80188 families. True flexible segmentation was introduced by the 80286, although in a completely boneheaded way (no switch back to real mode, duh!)
You must be kidding. Programming at 2 am is THE mark of true geekdom. Now if the screenshot had some coffee stains it would be perfect.
That's why darling
It's debatable
That someone so undeletable
Thinks that I am
Undeletable tooooooooo...
Sorry, had to do it. I'll take my medication now.
Gross Old People.
Larry E decides to throw a fit and demand people stop "infringing intellectual property", I mirrored this site. NO, I won't tell where. I value my bandwidth. As I said, it's just in case.
Personal Computers for the library: $1,500 each
Internet access: $40/mo
Filtering software: $100
Republican politician's face when he sees his site has been censored: Priceless
The way it's going, the next edition will be Infrared. You will need special goggles to find it on the shelf.
We talk a lot about striking down the DMCA based on similar arguments, but this is way deeper. Come to think of it, this is the kind of stunt Ralph Nader would love to pull. *rubs hands in glee*
Of course not. Every time I find something -- anything -- that amuses me for some time and is free, it decreases slightly the probability of me buying the greatest and latest game. In other words, it's in their interest to cause artificial scarcity.
This reasoning is valid for every kind of business, even those who deal with matter instead of information. I bet the Coca-Cola Company doesn't want you to be able to plant an orange tree in your backyard.
Looking for something? Hah! What makes you certain they
1) Didn't put the files there themselves, and:
2) Didn't make up this stupid password policy with intent to use it against troublemakers in the first place?
More than zero G???
One doesn't have to be exposed to such risk. The smart thing to would be a rotating, duct-tape-roll-shaped station. For the life of me I don't know why they didn't go for that.
What were the top 3 most asinine security holes you ever encountered on a GNU/Linux distro?
Your landlord has a problem with cats. It's the :Land:Lord you should worry about.
About the SFT/Linux thing: Yes, that would be the donkeys wotsits. Someone talked about Red Hat and Novell merging... just imagine! GNU/NDS! GNU/SFT! And of course that impossibly fast filesystem of theirs. MarsNWE is nice but it's not The Real Thing.
I actually think it's quite possible. Maybe they finally realized what's keeping Java from widespread acceptance is lack of true openness. My money is on "yes", I think they'll do it, in less than a year probably.