Where exactly do you live? You should know by now that every big company does that. Why do you think that Intel never got sued?
[sigh.... kids...]
the phrase "simply shocked" goes back to the movie Casablanca.
In the 1942 film classic, Casablanca, there is the villainous Nazi-Major Strohser who, shortly after entering Rick's Cafe and then having been mortified by a stirring rendition of "La Marseilles" led by his rival, Victor Lazlo, confronts Captain Renault the prefect of police and demands that he "close his cafe immediately!" To which renault replies, "But everyone is having such a good time, I have no excuse." To which Strohser snarls back, "FIND ONE!"
This, of course, leads Renault to order everyone out of Rick's Cafe and Renault's classic exchange with Humphrey Bogart when Rick demands to know on what grounds he is being shut down. Renault says, "I am shocked, simply shocked to hear of gambling going on in here!" while at the same time he is pocketing his winnings.
This phrase of "simply shocked" has since become more generalized to denote a cynical look at the facts of a situation, falsely claiming shock and surprise when in fact one knows or suspects otherwise, based on the inherent corruption of the scene.
Of course you realise, this is the Microsoft philosophy applied to the legal field. Microsoft has had a history of buying up tecnologies and expertise, many of which have simply disappeared, never to see the light of day again.
It is perhaps the only real innovation that I know of, to take their billions and buy up anything their legal opponents could use to convict them of their crimes.
I am sure other big companies are taking notes. This convicts them even more in my mind.
Like I have said before, every time I turn around there is something else that comes out and dirties their reputation in my eyes. Heck, if PR LapDogs like ZDNet are taking shots at MS, you know rats are starting to leave the ship.
I like the court briefs for the various spammers they have alreadfy acted against. And I also link them going after more than a thousand more. although it is more in the realm of real crime (chain letters, etc) vs just ordinary spam, what ever that is.
don't forget to forward your spam with full headers to uce@ftv.gov.
the only good spammer is a jailed spammer. although I would love a huge obscene fine to beat them with.
And you will of course let other people freely benefit from your bandwidth / CPU power / etc., will you ? No, I didn't think so either.
That is the exact argument that was made against the Internet when it was first proposed, back in pre Arpa net days. The only thing that made it happen was the mandate of the Pentagon.
It will take something similar for it to happen at this level as well.
>>US Code TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 119, Sec. 2511. (2) (a) (i)
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"...a provider of wire communication service to the public shall not utilize service observing or random monitoring except for mechanical or service quality control checks."
About covers the question for me. See the relevant section of the US Code as specified above at this link
Patents have been over-ridden before in the name of national security, etc. The earliest example I know of is the forced Licensing of the Wright Brothers Aircraft Technology to competitors during WWI. But there are others.
So I can see a government that would force a takeover of the patent even if they win.
It is about being able to opt out or opt in as you like.
It is about freedom of choice.
If they want to offer this as aservice fine. And maybe I might recommend it for your first time shopper, buying their first computer at the CompuMaximus Grotesguerria. But then maybe MS does know what the best choice would be for everyone in the country.
For Myself, I have sufficient experience that I would dare to have actual opinions about my choice of configuration.
For this I may well by relegated to that worse possible of all Microsoft hells. A world without Microsoft. Sign me up.
It is this sort of this that angers me. It angers me deeply and profoundly.
This Type of survics should always be an opt-in.
Most US law is on the basis of the ordinary citizen is automaticly opted-out of things unless they opt in. People do not have to opt out of buglary, rape, robbery, murder, slavery, etc.
Businesses now assume that you should be automatically want what they offer, and that we should automatically agree to any condition they impose. Microsoft is one of the largest sinners in this regard.
May Bill Gates be tortured by the demons of all worlds religions in the after life. May he be forced to suckle from the 16 poisoned leathern teats of Gophahmet, Whore of Betrayal, until he bursts from an unwholesome engorgement of curdled bile. And may many other such joys await him as well.
Don't mind me. I'm pissed, it's early, and I haven't had my coffee yet.
The original computer Museum was in Boston. It merge with the Boston Museum of Science, and since then the collection of items has moved around the country.
Which is really said, since it was a really great place. The huge collection of old stuff they had is now out at moffet field, as seen in at http://www.computerhistory.org
When baked, the tape will expand and become loose around the hub. For this reason, use flanges to protect the tape from coming apart. Cooking temperature is between 130F and 140F. Tapes wound on plastic reels with small hubs should be rewound onto large reels with NAB hubs. Be careful to thread the tape around the hub without any "folds." The goal is to minimize "mechanical distortions" that can be impressed upon subsequent layers causing dropouts. The "wind" must be smooth as if played!!!
I have received several e-mails regarding "cooking time" and temperature. Provided the wind is smooth, I am not afraid to bake a quarter inch tape at 135F -- for two hours -- flipping every half-hour. You will find that cooking time varies with tape width, type, brand, condition and the number of reels being baked. Ampex tape from the seventies might require twice as much time as 3M tape from the eighties (as reported by Wendy Carlos when restoring her masters from that time period). Table One below can be used as a guide.
which indicate that this may not be a permanent solution, but is intended for tapes manufactered from the mid 70's forward, which had a tendency to absorb mosture.
The value of content probably lies in it being unique. Artist peformances, sporting events, that sort of think.
.News is getting more generic. For example there is News Blaster, a bot that uses AI to generate news summaries based analysis of stories over several days. It is actually semi decent, and better then at least half the writers out there.
The end result is to devalue local writers and generic content. having something like this for Slash would probably inprove content no end.
This trend has been going on for years, and of cours the IOC is being conservative with broadcasts, since these make up the majority of their income. Why should they give away their bread and butter free?
Personally I would not mind if they made things like this available online a week after the fact. Same thing for other venues, like court trials, etc.
Then folks will be able to see it if they want, but there is no conflict with the interests of the broadcasters. Deals could be made.
The Myth Vault site will serve as a central location for the Myth game server development community, with a forum for people interested in discussing the code and the possibilities. In the future this site may also offer links to fan run servers, leader boards, order databases, whatever--that's all up to you.
In fact, if someone out there is interested in mirroring about 40 gigabytes worth of video content from this server I believe that there is still a need for additional storage space.
Each lecture seems to come in at about half a gig, although YMMV. Not something to download lightly, at least not on a common cable modem line.
In a related news item, Buzz Aldrin is proposing a set of orbiting hotels to make the trip between Mars and Earth. Not orbiting the Earth, orbiting the Sun. Estimated trip = 8 months.
which is going to be wild in case someone goes loopy, goes broke in the casino, etc.
Take about Space Quest in real life. sign up now kiddies.
So you actually had a decnt chance of being included in the comment base if you took the time to actually write an intelligent thoughtful comment. Form letters were tossed as obvious attempts to flood the channel.
It probably winds up being similar to the number of comments in any number of Slash articles, and reading everything above 0.
!5,000 submittals that were not trolls, flamebait, etc, and which actually had some content is probably not that bad.
Heck, you could go for months here at slash before you hit that many.
Why wouldn't computer students have to write a program or two on punch cards and feed them to an old CDC pile of blinkenlights, and also toggle-in a bootstrap loader on a PDP-8 front-panel?
I like this line describing Windows: "Microsoft Windows is an installable device driver under MS-DOS 2.0 using ordinary MS-DOS files." Look how far they have come [smile]
There are likely many people whose vital achievements go unrecognized, and are under acknowledged by many younger programmers.
There probably should be something, a couple of semesters in the history of Computer Science, just so that folks can really know and appreciate the technical barriers that had to be overcome.
Given that many of these guys are still alive, it would be good to have accurate information, instead of geeks depending on various hollywood movies for their education.
Hell, not even your CHARACTER NAME is your property, because essentially, all you did was enter a variable in a program, but that variable was planned for. Everything you type was anticipated down to the exact sequence (which is why you can't type in names they don't allow, or characters the program can't interpret).
[snort] that sounds SO absurd. funny too.
Which of course means that everything has been done before, so creativity within a defined set of limitations is utterly impossible.
Actually what they are selling is right of use of gaming tokens as stored in the server. The right to flip those bits, which has been bestowed on you in consideration of the money you gave them.
Of course, if you had no right to flip the bits, then why did you give themn money in the first place?
But then, this is Microsoft logic. Sort of like buying the keys to a car, but not being able to let anyone else use the car.
If I as a character can bestow to any other character anything that I have, then to forbid me to do so screws up the game. To forbid me to speak or communicate about this to anyone else in the game really goes against good sense.
The only way to really enforce it would be to bond all of the players. and who would play the game then?
I am going to be self serving this morning. This was posted early this morning over on Radio Free Nation.:
The BBC is reporting a sort of experiment with robots, where robots are being let loose in a colony of machines in an attempt to find out whether they can learn from their experiences. The Living Robots Experiment will be open to the public from 27 March at the Magna Science Adventure Center in Rotherham in England. The scientists behind this unusual experiment describe it as an evolutionary arms race for robots. The robots have one goal - to obtain enough energy to survive and breed. The "prey" robots find their food from light sensors within the arena, while the robot predators feed off prey by stalking and chasing them before sucking away their power. 'Living Robots' is a world-first experiment into artificial evolution." huge amount of info at the Living Robots link
yeh, and there is an electronic form of genetics too. Links on the RFN site in the story
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[sigh .... kids ...]
the phrase "simply shocked" goes back to the movie Casablanca.
In the 1942 film classic, Casablanca, there is the villainous Nazi-Major Strohser who, shortly after entering Rick's Cafe and then having been mortified by a stirring rendition of "La Marseilles" led by his rival, Victor Lazlo, confronts Captain Renault the prefect of police and demands that he "close his cafe immediately!" To which renault replies, "But everyone is having such a good time, I have no excuse." To which Strohser snarls back, "FIND ONE!"
This, of course, leads Renault to order everyone out of Rick's Cafe and Renault's classic exchange with Humphrey Bogart when Rick demands to know on what grounds he is being shut down. Renault says, "I am shocked, simply shocked to hear of gambling going on in here!" while at the same time he is pocketing his winnings.
This phrase of "simply shocked" has since become more generalized to denote a cynical look at the facts of a situation, falsely claiming shock and surprise when in fact one knows or suspects otherwise, based on the inherent corruption of the scene.
I hear the movie is a decent film. You should see it some time.
right
Of course you realise, this is the Microsoft philosophy applied to the legal field. Microsoft has had a history of buying up tecnologies and expertise, many of which have simply disappeared, never to see the light of day again.
It is perhaps the only real innovation that I know of, to take their billions and buy up anything their legal opponents could use to convict them of their crimes.
I am sure other big companies are taking notes. This convicts them even more in my mind.
Like I have said before, every time I turn around there is something else that comes out and dirties their reputation in my eyes. Heck, if PR LapDogs like ZDNet are taking shots at MS, you know rats are starting to leave the ship.
Do not use while operating heavy machinery. May cause drowsiness, dizziness, and occasional disorientation.
etc.
I like the court briefs for the various spammers they have alreadfy acted against. And I also link them going after more than a thousand more. although it is more in the realm of real crime (chain letters, etc) vs just ordinary spam, what ever that is.
don't forget to forward your spam with full headers to uce@ftv.gov.
the only good spammer is a jailed spammer. although I would love a huge obscene fine to beat them with.
That is the exact argument that was made against the Internet when it was first proposed, back in pre Arpa net days. The only thing that made it happen was the mandate of the Pentagon.
It will take something similar for it to happen at this level as well.
So I can see a government that would force a takeover of the patent even if they win.
Or Maybe everyone would force them to sue first.
I can see the peasants storming the castle now.
How about software enters the public domain once a compnay stops providing tech support for it plus, say 3 years.
This would certainly put the stop on the tread mill of constant upgrades. [smile]
I can see the Sci-fi scenarios now: Saddam Hussein breeding an army of clones to conquer the world.
Talk about Pinky and the Brain.
It is about being able to opt out or opt in as you like.
It is about freedom of choice.
If they want to offer this as aservice fine. And maybe I might recommend it for your first time shopper, buying their first computer at the CompuMaximus Grotesguerria. But then maybe MS does know what the best choice would be for everyone in the country.
For Myself, I have sufficient experience that I would dare to have actual opinions about my choice of configuration.
For this I may well by relegated to that worse possible of all Microsoft hells. A world without Microsoft. Sign me up.
This Type of survics should always be an opt-in.
Most US law is on the basis of the ordinary citizen is automaticly opted-out of things unless they opt in. People do not have to opt out of buglary, rape, robbery, murder, slavery, etc.
Businesses now assume that you should be automatically want what they offer, and that we should automatically agree to any condition they impose. Microsoft is one of the largest sinners in this regard.
May Bill Gates be tortured by the demons of all worlds religions in the after life. May he be forced to suckle from the 16 poisoned leathern teats of Gophahmet, Whore of Betrayal, until he bursts from an unwholesome engorgement of curdled bile. And may many other such joys await him as well.
Don't mind me. I'm pissed, it's early, and I haven't had my coffee yet.
See details here
Which is really said, since it was a really great place. The huge collection of old stuff they had is now out at moffet field, as seen in at http://www.computerhistory.org
I was said to see that stuff go.
http://www.tangible-technology.com/tape/baking1.ht ml
When baked, the tape will expand and become loose around the hub. For this reason, use flanges to protect the tape from coming apart. Cooking temperature is between 130F and 140F. Tapes wound on plastic reels with small hubs should be rewound onto large reels with NAB hubs. Be careful to thread the tape around the hub without any "folds." The goal is to minimize "mechanical distortions" that can be impressed upon subsequent layers causing dropouts. The "wind" must be smooth as if played!!!
I have received several e-mails regarding "cooking time" and temperature. Provided the wind is smooth, I am not afraid to bake a quarter inch tape at 135F -- for two hours -- flipping every half-hour. You will find that cooking time varies with tape width, type, brand, condition and the number of reels being baked. Ampex tape from the seventies might require twice as much time as 3M tape from the eighties (as reported by Wendy Carlos when restoring her masters from that time period). Table One below can be used as a guide.
Other links:
http://www.audio-restoration.com/baking.htm
which indicate that this may not be a permanent solution, but is intended for tapes manufactered from the mid 70's forward, which had a tendency to absorb mosture.
http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/1996_articles/may96/s alvagearchives.html
is also good, and indicates that home ovens do not go low enough.
.News is getting more generic. For example there is News Blaster, a bot that uses AI to generate news summaries based analysis of stories over several days. It is actually semi decent, and better then at least half the writers out there.
The end result is to devalue local writers and generic content. having something like this for Slash would probably inprove content no end.
This trend has been going on for years, and of cours the IOC is being conservative with broadcasts, since these make up the majority of their income. Why should they give away their bread and butter free?
Personally I would not mind if they made things like this available online a week after the fact. Same thing for other venues, like court trials, etc. Then folks will be able to see it if they want, but there is no conflict with the interests of the broadcasters. Deals could be made.
Game over, Long live the new game
Each lecture seems to come in at about half a gig, although YMMV. Not something to download lightly, at least not on a common cable modem line.
which is going to be wild in case someone goes loopy, goes broke in the casino, etc.
Take about Space Quest in real life. sign up now kiddies.
Then there were the "me too"s
So you actually had a decnt chance of being included in the comment base if you took the time to actually write an intelligent thoughtful comment. Form letters were tossed as obvious attempts to flood the channel.
It probably winds up being similar to the number of comments in any number of Slash articles, and reading everything above 0.
!5,000 submittals that were not trolls, flamebait, etc, and which actually had some content is probably not that bad.
Heck, you could go for months here at slash before you hit that many.
Just taker a look at alterslash
on the other hand, MS will never release the code to Win 1.0 to the public domain. (even though you can still see what it looked like) or read the original article in Byte that announced it.
I like this line describing Windows: "Microsoft Windows is an installable device driver under MS-DOS 2.0 using ordinary MS-DOS files." Look how far they have come [smile]
There probably should be something, a couple of semesters in the history of Computer Science, just so that folks can really know and appreciate the technical barriers that had to be overcome.
Given that many of these guys are still alive, it would be good to have accurate information, instead of geeks depending on various hollywood movies for their education.
[snort] that sounds SO absurd. funny too.
Which of course means that everything has been done before, so creativity within a defined set of limitations is utterly impossible.
Actually what they are selling is right of use of gaming tokens as stored in the server. The right to flip those bits, which has been bestowed on you in consideration of the money you gave them.
Of course, if you had no right to flip the bits, then why did you give themn money in the first place?
But then, this is Microsoft logic. Sort of like buying the keys to a car, but not being able to let anyone else use the car.
If I as a character can bestow to any other character anything that I have, then to forbid me to do so screws up the game. To forbid me to speak or communicate about this to anyone else in the game really goes against good sense.
The only way to really enforce it would be to bond all of the players. and who would play the game then?
Are they saying that all player interactions are a work for hire benefiting the company?
Just how does the Company control this in terms of a legal argument?
I am so confused.
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God bless SlashHosting.com of course the Server went down hard at the worst time
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so here are the links
BBC News story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsi
Magna science adventure centre
http://www.magnatrust.org.uk/
Robotic Center with the good info
http://magna.livewwware.com/acg/acgsmg01.dll/ge
as for me, I have enough going on trying to keep food on the table.
Now to get some coffee