yeah, but if you spent years specifically training the monkey to stamp any documents that were put in your IN box... then, knowing that's what you'd trained him to do, you left him to handle all your paperwork for a few days, I think the argument could be made that you authorized themonkey to sign papers for you.
Maybe, I dunno. It just seems fishy to me. You most certainly couldn't claim that you didn't have any knowledge of what the monkey was supposed to be doing for you.
EULAs in the first place are pretty ridiculous. I can't believe they've been upheld in court.
By pushing for fewer regulations, the industry killed itself. It only survived because the rest of us paid for life support. ---
The lobbyists pushed for stupid laws that ruined their own business -- but don't make the claim that we paid life support and neglect to mention that we paid the life support against our will as well. It was only done because the lobbyists convinced Washington that the airline's inability to run their own businesses is our fault.
yes, I'm replying to myself - I'm not avery good writer as I said. For the geeks out there, my HP server worked on Debian almost without a hitch -- the only major pain was the network card, which is a Gigabit... Broadcom, I think? I've already managed to put the details in a file and forget them. Anyhow, to get THAT working, I first tried the manufacturer's supporting module, which failed to find the card. But using the "tg3" (tigron?) module in the 2.4.27 or 28 kernel did the trick. Figuring out tht I had to upgrade the kernel was thanks to some kind folks in #debian on irc.freenode.net. After that, it was all peaches and sunny days.
Or something. I'm no linguist.
I'm also no linux admin, if it doesn't show. I'm doing my best on limited resources!... Or something...
I'm not a very good writer, so I'll try to keep this breif, but as an amzing coincidence, I've just been put into a similar situation.
My company uses mainly HP and Windows, and they've felt the pain of closed-source too many times to count. I'm getting them to code their new solution on linux and have just rolled out the first server running Debian. I looked at Redhat and SuSE which are both better supported, but niether distro "gets it," as it were. They both off piad subscriptions to at least some parts of their software... one reason I like linux on the server is that "many eyes make bugs shallow." Many eyes can't see what you have to pay for.
Or something, I'm no linguist.
Anyhow, After evaluating SuSE and Redhat and trying to pick a lesser of two evils, Debian seems perfect. I think Eric S Raymond would be proud of me. Woody is old, sure, but he's stable, right?
This is absolutely true. And I'll admit that years ago when I had a Playstation and a mod chip, I only used it to do bad things.
But my real problem is I've heard a lot of stories about people ordering other products from suppliers of mod chips and they've been stopped at customs. What I really want to purchase now is a GBA flash cart, I've already been doing some GBA development and I'd like to be able to play it on the real hardware.
Not to mention that Ian Bell's Elite has been ported to GBA by some folks, if I had a flash cart, I could play it anywhere. That would sure be swell.
Anyone know any suppliers of flash roms for GBA development that aren't likely to be flagged at customs? All the suppliers I see are in HK or similar.
I guess you guys forgot how totally buggy Fallout I and II both were when they were released. Ever lose your car (and no, I don't mean the plot point where it's supposed to be stolen). and the savegame times!! don't get me started...
Also - don't get me wrong. Wasteland was my favorite game of all time, and then Fallout, and then Fallout II. I fully expect III to carry the tradition... and not be a stinking pile of Pool of Dreams.
Go to your Internet Explorer settings, set it to use a proxy, set the proxy to 10.0.0.1
I have yet to encounter another program that reads it's browser settings from IE, but I have many programs that will pop up IE to load shit I don't want, and this makes it so IE can't talk to anything.
I wouldn't have realized, because like you say, I don't use them. I don't use firefox because it's got a lot of features. I use it because it works, it renders pages correctly, and it doesn't hose my system.
What have extra features got to do with it? Unless "working right" is an "extra feature" in your world...
I'm not a lawyer either... but my reading of the actual TRO seems to indicate that under part (ii) the judge specifically disallows the very things every post here on Slashdot is afraid will happen.
(ii) by directly or indirectly causing the occurrence of superseding or conflicting BGP Global Routing Table entries; filters and/or access lists, and/or...
I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like this part of the ruling SPECIFICALLY says they cannot do the things to the global routing tables that all the slashdotters are afraid this ruling will cause to happen to the global routing tables.
In other words: The judge apparently is just as smart as all you folks and realizes that fucking with BGP stuff will ruin the internet.
I mean, really - can anyone who speaks lawyerese tell me I read that wrong?
Of course, this is a repeat of an old story. To help stave off the inevitable "this is useless!" crap, I seem to recall they thought it would be helpful in some kind of medical situations. What those might be, now, I can't imagine... or recall.
Hrm. Guess that was helpful, huh? Expect this to get modded insightful.
Thanks for responding to me. What you say makes perfect sense; it's my mistake for taking your original meaning to suggest Socrates didn't exist.
I haven't read them in the original Greek (nor anything, for that matter, as I've enough trouble with english) but I have read them, and found parts to be entertaining, as you say.
Can you give me some evidence for your second claim? You're the first person I've heard argue that Socrates was a fictional character, and not a real person.
I'd love a reference, though - I like learning new things.
In the meantime, let me point out that there are independent records of Socrates' military service, and Plato is not the only student of Socrates who wrote about him (there was Xenophon, for example).
In 1983, I was about eight years old. One of my memories is visiting the jewelry store down the block with my father. I don't remember what he was shopping for, but I do remember very clearly the awesome TV wristwatch they had on display. The clerk was kind enough to show it off to me (must have been a slow day) and when I asked how much it was, she told me it was "Four ninety five." Now, I didn't have much concept of money as a kid, but I still knew enough to know she didn't mean five dollars. To this day I still feel a bit of humiliation at the fact that she felt the need to tell me, "That's four hundred and ninety five dollars, not four dollars and ninety-five cents. You couldn't buy it with your allowance."
Anyhow, I didn't realize that it was such a rare item. Is it really possible that there hasn't been a single other wristwatch telvision produced in the intervening 20 years? I sure thought it was cool when I was a kid...
I know, it's a joke, but.1666... !=.166...6 (The former is non-terminating, the latter is terminating at some infinitely distant point) (The latter is some really funky notation, I've no idea what quantity it might actually represent.)
Not event he digital kind, and I saw this crap on SpikeTV the other day. At the time, I kind of chuckled, thinking look at how these people are interrupting my program to play their power games. Now that I've learned that the target audience didn't even get to see the scroll, it's a laugh riot.
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yeah, but if you spent years specifically training the monkey to stamp any documents that were put in your IN box... then, knowing that's what you'd trained him to do, you left him to handle all your paperwork for a few days, I think the argument could be made that you authorized themonkey to sign papers for you.
Maybe, I dunno. It just seems fishy to me. You most certainly couldn't claim that you didn't have any knowledge of what the monkey was supposed to be doing for you.
EULAs in the first place are pretty ridiculous. I can't believe they've been upheld in court.
My first thought is, if you have a peice of software "signing" these EULAs for you -- who's bound by the "contract?"
By pushing for fewer regulations, the industry killed itself. It only survived because the rest of us paid for life support.
---
The lobbyists pushed for stupid laws that ruined their own business -- but don't make the claim that we paid life support and neglect to mention that we paid the life support against our will as well. It was only done because the lobbyists convinced Washington that the airline's inability to run their own businesses is our fault.
Every airline and airplane manufacturer has lobbyists to help defend them against the ever present tide of Washington and it's new laws.
---
From my perspective, those lobbyists are *responsible* for the ever-increasing "tide of Washington and it's new laws."
Government by the Corporations, for the Corporations.
Welcome to the USofWalmart.
Damn. I said, "for the geeks out there," on slashdot. What's the matter with me?
yes, I'm replying to myself - I'm not avery good writer as I said. For the geeks out there, my HP server worked on Debian almost without a hitch -- the only major pain was the network card, which is a Gigabit... Broadcom, I think? I've already managed to put the details in a file and forget them. Anyhow, to get THAT working, I first tried the manufacturer's supporting module, which failed to find the card. But using the "tg3" (tigron?) module in the 2.4.27 or 28 kernel did the trick. Figuring out tht I had to upgrade the kernel was thanks to some kind folks in #debian on irc.freenode.net. After that, it was all peaches and sunny days.
... Or something...
Or something. I'm no linguist.
I'm also no linux admin, if it doesn't show. I'm doing my best on limited resources!
I'm not a very good writer, so I'll try to keep this breif, but as an amzing coincidence, I've just been put into a similar situation.
My company uses mainly HP and Windows, and they've felt the pain of closed-source too many times to count. I'm getting them to code their new solution on linux and have just rolled out the first server running Debian. I looked at Redhat and SuSE which are both better supported, but niether distro "gets it," as it were. They both off piad subscriptions to at least some parts of their software... one reason I like linux on the server is that "many eyes make bugs shallow." Many eyes can't see what you have to pay for.
Or something, I'm no linguist.
Anyhow, After evaluating SuSE and Redhat and trying to pick a lesser of two evils, Debian seems perfect. I think Eric S Raymond would be proud of me. Woody is old, sure, but he's stable, right?
Why's it got to be one or the other? The more we explore, the more things we'll find to kill!!
Everbody wins!
This is absolutely true. And I'll admit that years ago when I had a Playstation and a mod chip, I only used it to do bad things.
But my real problem is I've heard a lot of stories about people ordering other products from suppliers of mod chips and they've been stopped at customs. What I really want to purchase now is a GBA flash cart, I've already been doing some GBA development and I'd like to be able to play it on the real hardware.
Not to mention that Ian Bell's Elite has been ported to GBA by some folks, if I had a flash cart, I could play it anywhere. That would sure be swell.
Anyone know any suppliers of flash roms for GBA development that aren't likely to be flagged at customs? All the suppliers I see are in HK or similar.
I guess you guys forgot how totally buggy Fallout I and II both were when they were released. Ever lose your car (and no, I don't mean the plot point where it's supposed to be stolen). and the savegame times!! don't get me started...
Also - don't get me wrong. Wasteland was my favorite game of all time, and then Fallout, and then Fallout II. I fully expect III to carry the tradition... and not be a stinking pile of Pool of Dreams.
One more tip after that:
Go to your Internet Explorer settings, set it to use a proxy, set the proxy to 10.0.0.1
I have yet to encounter another program that reads it's browser settings from IE, but I have many programs that will pop up IE to load shit I don't want, and this makes it so IE can't talk to anything.
Firefox continues to browse just fine.
I wouldn't have realized, because like you say, I don't use them. I don't use firefox because it's got a lot of features. I use it because it works, it renders pages correctly, and it doesn't hose my system.
What have extra features got to do with it? Unless "working right" is an "extra feature" in your world...
I'm not a lawyer either... but my reading of the actual TRO seems to indicate that under part (ii) the judge specifically disallows the very things every post here on Slashdot is afraid will happen.
I can't see the problem here.
(ii) by directly or indirectly causing the occurrence of ...
superseding or conflicting BGP Global Routing Table entries; filters
and/or access lists, and/or
I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like this part of the ruling SPECIFICALLY says they cannot do the things to the global routing tables that all the slashdotters are afraid this ruling will cause to happen to the global routing tables.
In other words: The judge apparently is just as smart as all you folks and realizes that fucking with BGP stuff will ruin the internet.
I mean, really - can anyone who speaks lawyerese tell me I read that wrong?
Of course, this is a repeat of an old story. To help stave off the inevitable "this is useless!" crap, I seem to recall they thought it would be helpful in some kind of medical situations. What those might be, now, I can't imagine... or recall.
Hrm. Guess that was helpful, huh? Expect this to get modded insightful.
Thanks for responding to me. What you say makes perfect sense; it's my mistake for taking your original meaning to suggest Socrates didn't exist.
I haven't read them in the original Greek (nor anything, for that matter, as I've enough trouble with english) but I have read them, and found parts to be entertaining, as you say.
Anyhow - thank you for clearing that up.
Can you give me some evidence for your second claim? You're the first person I've heard argue that Socrates was a fictional character, and not a real person.
I'd love a reference, though - I like learning new things.
In the meantime, let me point out that there are independent records of Socrates' military service, and Plato is not the only student of Socrates who wrote about him (there was Xenophon, for example).
In 1983, I was about eight years old. One of my memories is visiting the jewelry store down the block with my father. I don't remember what he was shopping for, but I do remember very clearly the awesome TV wristwatch they had on display. The clerk was kind enough to show it off to me (must have been a slow day) and when I asked how much it was, she told me it was "Four ninety five." Now, I didn't have much concept of money as a kid, but I still knew enough to know she didn't mean five dollars. To this day I still feel a bit of humiliation at the fact that she felt the need to tell me, "That's four hundred and ninety five dollars, not four dollars and ninety-five cents. You couldn't buy it with your allowance."
Anyhow, I didn't realize that it was such a rare item. Is it really possible that there hasn't been a single other wristwatch telvision produced in the intervening 20 years? I sure thought it was cool when I was a kid...
but I think the original poster's joke whizzed right past your head like a flying model of the Enterprise.
I built a wooden computer once. It was awesome. It had a wooden hard drive, a wooden monitor, a wooden mouse, even a wooden CPU.
There was only one problem: It wooden work.
I know, it's a joke, but .1666... != .166...6 (The former is non-terminating, the latter is terminating at some infinitely distant point) (The latter is some really funky notation, I've no idea what quantity it might actually represent.)
Not event he digital kind, and I saw this crap on SpikeTV the other day. At the time, I kind of chuckled, thinking look at how these people are interrupting my program to play their power games. Now that I've learned that the target audience didn't even get to see the scroll, it's a laugh riot.
Damn, and I thought I was going to post a really funny, original joke. Even at 4:30am I still lose.
I can't read japanese as well as I once could but I think it says, "Here is our video-capture of the opening scenes from Star Wars Episode IV"
The caption on the second link says, "Help us, Obi-Wan."
That's about all I can make out.
That's all I want to know.