I don't see what the big deal is. The video images of the women's skirts are simply composed of bits and bytes. And information wants to be Free. Free the upskirt information bits!!
This is how the BSD licensed projects try to subtly encourage people to share their code changes. People or companies that use BSD code without sharing have a lot more maintenance to do themselves. So instead of using paranoid legal force like the GPL, the BSD projects politely encourage code sharing.
That reminds me of the goatse.cx troll whose web page would open an infinite number of windows of goatse.cx and play a.wav file that repeatedly shouted, "Hey, everyone! I'm looking at gay porn!!" You would be unable to stop the audio because your computer would be frozen by the infinite goatse.cx windows. I thought it was actually pretty clever.
The video game industry didn't surpass the movie industry in gross sales on little Billy's allowance.
That is an interesting contrast. Many video games are targeted at 18+ "mature" users, but I've noticed that there are many more PG and PG-13 movies than R movies in the past few years. The movie industry is trying to take away our sex and violence to make a quick buck from teenagers.;-)
I was joking. Your post has so many similarities to Douglas Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" that it must have been intended: a play-like discussion of artificial intelligence and one of the character's initials are GEB (Goedel Escher Bach).:-)
You should read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". It's about the USA's intellectual elite going on strike because they are tired of being abused by fat-cat carpetbagger politicians and the imbecilic masses.
Actually, the book is snobbish, very poorly written, and far too long, but the concept is interesting.
plus the woman's report of the men's 9/11 comment seemed to change in each news article I read. Everytime she was quoted, the wording of the supposed 9/11 comment was different.
It's her word against their word. These men are innocent until proven guilty.
Unfortunately, spaces in long URLs is NOT a bug. It is a Slashdot "feature" to prevent people using really looooooooong URLs to make the HTML page too wide. This mechanism has worked very well because we have NEVER seen one of those "wide" troll posts on Slashdot..
It wasn't just that C became the preferred development enviornment, it was because they decided not to support Pascal at all. This was a horrible miscalculation, because it put developers using what up to then was the preferred development environment at a huge disadvantage. They had to retrain their programmers and port their applications. This left some applications stranded in emulation land for two years or more.
hmm, that sounds an awful lot like Steve Jobs' plan for forcing application developers to use the "Yellow Box" or Cocoa. Apple introduced the backwards compatible Carbon APIs only after people (rightly) complained.
I think Steve Jobs is sometimes TOO eager to drop legacy hardware/software.
An interesting "fork" of the English language is Charles Ogden's Basic English . Basic English is like a Esperanto for the real world. Ogden wanted to create a small, consistent, non-redundant subset of the English language that would help foreigners quickly adapt to an English-speaking country. His languages contains just 850 English words of use in everyday conversations. He claims that it takes seven years to learn polished English, seven months to learn Esperanto, and only one month to learn Basic English.
I wish someone would do the same for other languages, such as Spanish. I guess you could just translate the Basic English dictionary to Spanish, but that does not address consistent grammatical rules like Ogden's book did when designing Basic English.
I'm going to build a hardware random number generator which contains an actual coin. Sure, I/O waiting for the device to flip the coin is slow, but the numbers are truly random.
I definitely agree that you should own the IP to your work IF you have not been paid. Don't check in your code or leave your laptop unattended, if possible.
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I don't see what the big deal is. The video images of the women's skirts are simply composed of bits and bytes. And information wants to be Free. Free the upskirt information bits!!
(that China continually tries to block).
This is how the BSD licensed projects try to subtly encourage people to share their code changes. People or companies that use BSD code without sharing have a lot more maintenance to do themselves. So instead of using paranoid legal force like the GPL, the BSD projects politely encourage code sharing.
That reminds me of the goatse.cx troll whose web page would open an infinite number of windows of goatse.cx and play a .wav file that repeatedly shouted, "Hey, everyone! I'm looking at gay porn!!" You would be unable to stop the audio because your computer would be frozen by the infinite goatse.cx windows. I thought it was actually pretty clever.
The video game industry didn't surpass the movie industry in gross sales on little Billy's allowance.
That is an interesting contrast. Many video games are targeted at 18+ "mature" users, but I've noticed that there are many more PG and PG-13 movies than R movies in the past few years. The movie industry is trying to take away our sex and violence to make a quick buck from teenagers.
We just ship people off to places like Israel or Egypt where they can be interrogated
or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If the US and Castro are such archenemies, why does it have a military base in Cuba?
FoxNews.com page rank = -2
What is your company's name? How can we verify what you are saying is true?
they aparently are abandoning their whole total-cost-of-ownership argument
Price != Total Cost. Is the price of your car the same as your total cost of gas and maintenance?
I was joking. Your post has so many similarities to Douglas Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" that it must have been intended: a play-like discussion of artificial intelligence and one of the character's initials are GEB (Goedel Escher Bach). :-)
Douglas Hofstadter? Is that you?
Why is everyone so stoked that Google is now slowing becoming yet another portal?
You should read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". It's about the USA's intellectual elite going on strike because they are tired of being abused by fat-cat carpetbagger politicians and the imbecilic masses.
Actually, the book is snobbish, very poorly written, and far too long, but the concept is interesting.
If these antennas cannot be seen, then how can the company's web site have a photo gallery of their antennas? Food for thought.
actually, the FBI's real plan is:
1. Make profile of someone
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!!!!!
plus the woman's report of the men's 9/11 comment seemed to change in each news article I read. Everytime she was quoted, the wording of the supposed 9/11 comment was different.
It's her word against their word. These men are innocent until proven guilty.
Unfortunately, spaces in long URLs is NOT a bug. It is a Slashdot "feature" to prevent people using really looooooooong URLs to make the HTML page too wide. This mechanism has worked very well because we have NEVER seen one of those "wide" troll posts on Slashdot..
It wasn't just that C became the preferred development enviornment, it was because they decided not to support Pascal at all. This was a horrible miscalculation, because it put developers using what up to then was the preferred development environment at a huge disadvantage. They had to retrain their programmers and port their applications. This left some applications stranded in emulation land for two years or more.
hmm, that sounds an awful lot like Steve Jobs' plan for forcing application developers to use the "Yellow Box" or Cocoa. Apple introduced the backwards compatible Carbon APIs only after people (rightly) complained.
I think Steve Jobs is sometimes TOO eager to drop legacy hardware/software.
Sun should watch out for blowback from these rebels. Look what happened when the US CIA funded, armed, and trained Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Laden.
In all seriousness, if the open source desktop succeeds, who is more likely to profit, Sun or Dell?
An interesting "fork" of the English language is Charles Ogden's Basic English . Basic English is like a Esperanto for the real world. Ogden wanted to create a small, consistent, non-redundant subset of the English language that would help foreigners quickly adapt to an English-speaking country. His languages contains just 850 English words of use in everyday conversations. He claims that it takes seven years to learn polished English, seven months to learn Esperanto, and only one month to learn Basic English.
I wish someone would do the same for other languages, such as Spanish. I guess you could just translate the Basic English dictionary to Spanish, but that does not address consistent grammatical rules like Ogden's book did when designing Basic English.
This gives new meaning to the "Dining Philosophers" problem..
Google seems to believe in System 5.0.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+%22System+5%2E
I'm going to build a hardware random number generator which contains an actual coin. Sure, I/O waiting for the device to flip the coin is slow, but the numbers are truly random.
I definitely agree that you should own the IP to your work IF you have not been paid. Don't check in your code or leave your laptop unattended, if possible.
and Plastikman's "Sheet One" album came with a (dud) sheet of acid