it promotes flex time, which means that parents can go to soccer games and workers can go to the office nearest them when there is a problem with trying to commute.
Why can't people with dedicated offices work flex time? Or is the idea that Sun now has fewer terminals than employees (to save money), thus forcing people to work staggered shifts?
After many years of GPL zealots shouting for open-source free software, UnitedLinux delivers a Linux distro with free source code (but charges for binaries). Now GPL zealots are shouting for free binaries?
the readers here actually think that GPLed code was immune to being hijacked by commercial interests?... Most however will probably move to some other fringe OS like AtheOS, OpenBEOS, QNX, or most likely a BSD variant.
If these people are afraid of their code being "hijacked", I seriously doubt they will leave Linux for QNX or BSD.
Anyways, I doubt UnitedLinux's "inhouse closed-source configuration and system management apps" really provide much value over the open-source standard admin options.
you are right, but this was after the supposed Woody release date of May 1. I figured that if Debian is THIS close to finally releasing Woody, then simple fundamental features like installation should probably be working. I guessed wrong, I suppose.
When I tried installing Debian Woody on my Sun Sparcstation IPX firewall, it would freeze at the same point during every installation attempt. I emailed Debian's Sparc list for help. One person said they had the same problem, but no answers. Another person said the standard boot floppies were broken and to try some random Sparc boot floppies on some guy's random FTP server, but those had the same problem.
I gave up on Debian and installed NetBSD 1.5 without any problems. Even with Debian's cross-platform "support", I would still be very wary of using Linux on non-x86 platforms. You will still need to jump through many hoops. Is Linux only free if your time is worthless? Admittedly, NetBSD is not as sexy as Linux, but it supports many hardware platforms, has a "business friendly" license, and has commercial support.
Unfortunately taxes I pay may well go to pay your hospital bills if you're badly injured or support your family if you're killed. In this situation, when you're going to be spending my money, I get to have a say in whether you wear a belt or not.
I don't like MY money being spent on other people's medical bills, but I also don't seat beat laws. Instead of requiring drivers to wear seat belts, who should require car manufacturers to install massive spikes in car dashboards. This strategy provides an incentive to wear seatbelts. Plus, those who freely choose not wear their seat belts won't waste MY money on medical bills after they are impaled on the massive spikes during their car collision.
The task goal is to produce ten working two-way prototypes from each of four teams by the end of 18-months. The languages that will be translated are Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Pashto, Mandarin, and Uzbeki.
DARPA might as well say:
The task goal is to produce a working two-way prototype from each of four teams by the end of 18-months. The languages that will be translated are English and Godless Terrorist.
if somebody spams me I can redirect that address back to them. I could just block it, but it's more fun to redirect it's destination to abuse@yourcompany.com.
Do you run your own mail server? Will NameZero do DNS for your mail server or do you use a different service?
MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder) is an example of someone writing cool GPL software and then successfully licensing it with a non-GPL license to many commerical products that do not want to share their code.
What is the big deal? Doesn't your Tivo already proactively record shows without your permission, shows that it "predicts" you might like? Nobody complains about Tivo doing that. Tivo and the BBC are now just influencing that existing algorithm (with cash money). This stupid BBC show is now just another OPTION on a list of choices. It's not like you are forced to watch this show against your will. This is not A Clockwork Orange or something..
Unfortunately, the only people that can actually change the system are the politicians that feed off of it. Enter perpetual cycle of enslavement.:-(
but perhaps there is some hope.. I'm reminded of a quote from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!"
If Microsoft tries to legally prevent open-source programs from using their helper-app registration APIs, then just write a closed-source proxy app that will register the open-source app as the helper. This is the reverse strategy that some companies try to use to create open-source proxies to dynamically load GPL libraries.:-)
According to someone on the Vorbis User and Discussion List, "Ogg Vorbis" is named after the "ogg tactical maneuver" in Netrek and Vorbis after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.
What does the name "Ogg Vorbis" mean?
First, Vorbis was taken from a character of an ''exquisitor'' in the book "Small Gods," a title in a series of Terry Pratchett fantasy novels. Formally, Vorbis is the name for the specific audio compression scheme used to create Ogg Vorbis files. It is ultimately part of the Ogg Vorbis CODEC project (a branch of the overarching, open-multimedia Ogg project), which is headed by Christopher Montgomery and his team.
I'm convinced that Google will become a giant AI. Google Sets seems like a small step towards machine understanding. The problem with older AI was bootstrapping their knowledge base. The Google AI systems will use the entire internet as an encyclopedia of self-correcting, peer-reviewed, continually-updated "facts". Suddenly, the problem of manual data entry for a AI system like Open Cyc is massively parallelized to the entire population of web users! Of course, the web is full of lies and self-promotion, but the web contains multiple voices, multiple "truths", that will create a general consensus using Google's PageRank algorithm.
"brittney's spears" and other misspelled searches
on
Google Experiments
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· Score: 2
Here's a funny list of misspelled Google searches for "Britney Spears". Google was able to automatically spell-correct all of them.:-)
Why is Slashdot wasting its time talking about a stoopid robot dog when honest companies like Google are releasing useful technology such as Google Voice Search??
Slashdot Mirror
I always assumed it was pronounced "goat sex", but then why about "goatse" (G to da mutha phukken oatse)??
I heard on Slashdot that Linux is bug-free and never crashes.. er, I mean I heard that Linux 2.6 will be bug-free and never crash.
Don't forget to mention that "analysts" upgrade a company when they want to "pump up" a stock so one of their firm's big clients can sell high.
it promotes flex time, which means that parents can go to soccer games and workers can go to the office nearest them when there is a problem with trying to commute.
Why can't people with dedicated offices work flex time? Or is the idea that Sun now has fewer terminals than employees (to save money), thus forcing people to work staggered shifts?
After many years of GPL zealots shouting for open-source free software, UnitedLinux delivers a Linux distro with free source code (but charges for binaries). Now GPL zealots are shouting for free binaries?
the readers here actually think that GPLed code was immune to being hijacked by commercial interests? ... Most however will probably move to some other fringe OS like AtheOS, OpenBEOS, QNX, or most likely a BSD variant.
If these people are afraid of their code being "hijacked", I seriously doubt they will leave Linux for QNX or BSD.
Anyways, I doubt UnitedLinux's "inhouse closed-source configuration and system management apps" really provide much value over the open-source standard admin options.
you are right, but this was after the supposed Woody release date of May 1. I figured that if Debian is THIS close to finally releasing Woody, then simple fundamental features like installation should probably be working. I guessed wrong, I suppose.
When I tried installing Debian Woody on my Sun Sparcstation IPX firewall, it would freeze at the same point during every installation attempt. I emailed Debian's Sparc list for help. One person said they had the same problem, but no answers. Another person said the standard boot floppies were broken and to try some random Sparc boot floppies on some guy's random FTP server, but those had the same problem.
I gave up on Debian and installed NetBSD 1.5 without any problems. Even with Debian's cross-platform "support", I would still be very wary of using Linux on non-x86 platforms. You will still need to jump through many hoops. Is Linux only free if your time is worthless? Admittedly, NetBSD is not as sexy as Linux, but it supports many hardware platforms, has a "business friendly" license, and has commercial support.
I liked Trade Wars and all, but my favorite WWIV games were Dominion, Leech, Pimp Wars, and Dick Wars. :-)
I have a friend who wants to port WWIV to the web: WWWWWIV. I don't even know how you would pronounce that..
Unfortunately taxes I pay may well go to pay your hospital bills if you're badly injured or support your family if you're killed. In this situation, when you're going to be spending my money, I get to have a say in whether you wear a belt or not.
I don't like MY money being spent on other people's medical bills, but I also don't seat beat laws. Instead of requiring drivers to wear seat belts, who should require car manufacturers to install massive spikes in car dashboards. This strategy provides an incentive to wear seatbelts. Plus, those who freely choose not wear their seat belts won't waste MY money on medical bills after they are impaled on the massive spikes during their car collision.
Imagine backlash of US citizens when the US gub'mint starts hacking off the hands of college students who copy MP3s in their dorm rooms.
The task goal is to produce ten working two-way prototypes from each of four teams by the end of 18-months. The languages that will be translated are Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Pashto, Mandarin, and Uzbeki.
DARPA might as well say:
The task goal is to produce a working two-way prototype from each of four teams by the end of 18-months. The languages that will be translated are English and Godless Terrorist.
The main rumor is that Portman will film a "flashback" scene to be inserted into ROTJ when Luke asks Leia if she remembers her mother.
Maybe the flashback will include Portman breastfeeding Leia?
if somebody spams me I can redirect that address back to them. I could just block it, but it's more fun to redirect it's destination to abuse@yourcompany.com.
Do you run your own mail server? Will NameZero do DNS for your mail server or do you use a different service?
thanks.
MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder) is an example of someone writing cool GPL software and then successfully licensing it with a non-GPL license to many commerical products that do not want to share their code.
What is the big deal? Doesn't your Tivo already proactively record shows without your permission, shows that it "predicts" you might like? Nobody complains about Tivo doing that. Tivo and the BBC are now just influencing that existing algorithm (with cash money). This stupid BBC show is now just another OPTION on a list of choices. It's not like you are forced to watch this show against your will. This is not A Clockwork Orange or something..
Unfortunately, the only people that can actually change the system are the politicians that feed off of it. Enter perpetual cycle of enslavement. :-(
but perhaps there is some hope.. I'm reminded of a quote from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!"
If Microsoft tries to legally prevent open-source programs from using their helper-app registration APIs, then just write a closed-source proxy app that will register the open-source app as the helper. This is the reverse strategy that some companies try to use to create open-source proxies to dynamically load GPL libraries.
According to someone on the Vorbis User and Discussion List, "Ogg Vorbis" is named after the "ogg tactical maneuver" in Netrek and Vorbis after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.
What does the name "Ogg Vorbis" mean?
First, Vorbis was taken from a character of an ''exquisitor'' in the book
"Small Gods," a title in a series of Terry Pratchett fantasy novels.
Formally, Vorbis is the name for the specific audio compression scheme used
to create Ogg Vorbis files. It is ultimately part of the Ogg Vorbis CODEC
project (a branch of the overarching, open-multimedia Ogg project), which is
headed by Christopher Montgomery and his team.
I thought that Israel was the 51st US state. That would certainly explain a lot.
This is an example of the Paradox of the Best Network:
I'm convinced that Google will become a giant AI. Google Sets seems like a small step towards machine understanding. The problem with older AI was bootstrapping their knowledge base. The Google AI systems will use the entire internet as an encyclopedia of self-correcting, peer-reviewed, continually-updated "facts". Suddenly, the problem of manual data entry for a AI system like Open Cyc is massively parallelized to the entire population of web users! Of course, the web is full of lies and self-promotion, but the web contains multiple voices, multiple "truths", that will create a general consensus using Google's PageRank algorithm.
Here's a funny list of misspelled Google searches for "Britney Spears". Google was able to automatically spell-correct all of them.
Britney Spears
people who utilize pop-up or pop-under ads should be put in an enormous sling shot and slung towards the black hole ..
which black hole is that?
Why is Slashdot wasting its time talking about a stoopid robot dog when honest companies like Google are releasing useful technology such as Google Voice Search ??