He's just a bitter old man. He's been bitching about Star Wars for years. Check out his Autobiography. He's just managed to latch on to the most recent criticism of star wars.
So it was a movie he wasn't proud of. Wonderful -- more power to him. But it's just downright unprofessional to belittle something others consider so important.
Microsoft is not required to obey the same rules with regards to search warrants as the police are. As long as Microsoft wasn't acting under explicit instructions from the government, they're allowed to use their database in any way they see fit, and that includes finding people who distribuite viruses aimed at their products.
Not that I like the idea of Microsoft keeping a database of my software....
It's not all that long. Consider the minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 35 million miles and the max speed of this thing is about 180,000 miles per hour. That puts travel time at somewhere around 8 days.
Of course, that assumes it accelerates instantly and never has to slow down for entry. Which are not the case. It also assumes a straight line trajectory, which wouldn't happen.
Still, even if you half the speed and triple the distance you've got a trip time of only about 7 weeks. It's a vast improvement from the current 6-7 months trip time.
From what I remember about the case at the time, the kid actually raised the money by getting investors. Not only did he raise money for the points, but also raised money for suing Pepsi since he knew they wouldn't give the plane to him. He figured the shot at the possible payoff of a 20-30 million dollar jet would attract enough investors for him to fund the venture. Expect an appeal on this one. It's all about money.
If you want to change this obvious stupidity, or any other government stupidity (there's so much), write your congress person. If you don't know who your congress person is go to Vote smart and enter your zip code at the bottom of the page. It'll give you your congress person's name, snail-mail, and e-mail address. Write them, but PLEASE be polite. It doesn't help things to call the congress-people names.
For those of you stuck using Winblowz, Trumpet has announced Winsock 5.0 which does support IPv6 in the Win95 / 98 / NT environment, along with several improvements to standard IPv4.
As much as I hate to deal with the social implications of most issues this one strikes me as particuarly insidious.
I know there are plenty of Women who bemoan the fact that they "don't look like the models do". How are they going to feel when the models are computer generated and may have anatomical configurations not even possible in real life? In the computer they can tweak everything, muscle tone, body fat, hell they can even tweak gravity if they feel like it.
Further, aren't models supposed to show us what the garment will look like "in real life"? What's the point of having a model that doesn't really exist? It's going to be an idealized version of what the designer thinks the clothes should look like. You might as well just look at his inital sketches.
That really doesn't matter. Wordmarks are generally only enforcable within the industry they're registered for. A judgement is usually only renderd against a company when there is a reasonable chance that the two products could be confused.
The article you quoted stated that the French company has the trademark for a sports drink. I seriously doubt someone's going to mistake a $500 processor for a $2 sports drink.
I remember hearing a report on some news show or another (NPR?) where a new method of filtering is being tried out. Essentially all minors must use the filtering program until they get a parental consent form to use an un-filtered version. All non-minors are allowed un-filtered access.
It seemed to strike a quite agreeable compromise between First Amendment rights and parental responsibility.
I think you'll find if you read the article, that congress has not made really a law per se, but more a funding measure, much like how they changed the legal drinking age in every state. The threat of loss of funds can go a long way.
Congress has simply stated that if you don't comply with this regulation you will lose your federal internet subsidy. Congress is not required by law to give this subsidy, and they can decide who gets it on pretty much any criteria they feel they can get away with.
Let's be honest, the people running this Seti@home crap have screwed up in so many ways it's not even funny.
Their clients (particuarly the Winblowz) suck ass. The windows takes 2-3x the time to process a unit if you have the graphics on.
They're completely un-responsive, having not updated their news since the project began. I've sent three requests for help for a problem with using a solaris client behind a standard firewall, and haven't recieved a single response.
Then we find out that they've been sending the same 150 units to everyone.
While we're at it, let's discuss their excuse -- they said they couldn't run the servers to distribuite new worksets because all their load is being used by the webserver. Does anyone else think that their priority should be the worksets instead of the web page?
Guess that's what you get when you're more worried about the press releases than the science.
I think it's a great concept, but until they get the bugs sorted out I'm sticking with distributed.net
What I want to know is what happens when this "dynamic filtering system" of theirs goes down? Does the whole country get cut off from the outside world?
I don't see to many boys and girls getting this as a Birthday / Christmas / Hanukkah present. As far as I can tell, the console game market has depended upon kids begging their parents for the newest thing. How many kids do you think can pull off a $500 job of begging?
Probably long enough that you'd never live to see the completion. 32 PIII's wouldn't do squat. As of May 4th, Distributed.net has the equivilant of 72,000 PII/266's running around the clock, and are completing about.03% of the keyspace per day. Quite frankly, 32 PIII's don't amount to anything at that kind of scale.
On the subject, I really like what they're doing with the cosm project. Think generic distributed.net, people can put in their own projects, put up their own reward system, it's the world's largest beowulf cluster -- okay, not strictly speaking but it's still a hell of a lot of horsepower.
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He's just a bitter old man. He's been bitching about Star Wars for years. Check out his Autobiography. He's just managed to latch on to the most recent criticism of star wars.
So it was a movie he wasn't proud of. Wonderful -- more power to him. But it's just downright unprofessional to belittle something others consider so important.
Microsoft is not required to obey the same rules with regards to search warrants as the police are. As long as Microsoft wasn't acting under explicit instructions from the government, they're allowed to use their database in any way they see fit, and that includes finding people who distribuite viruses aimed at their products.
Not that I like the idea of Microsoft keeping a database of my software....
I don't know. A quick check of the phone book shows 91 Avery's and 65 Dennison's so it's not like it's an unreasonable argument.
It wasn't broken. It was in the wrong place. Hughes moved it to the (more or less) correct place by slingshotting it around the moon.
It's not all that long. Consider the minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 35 million miles and the max speed of this thing is about 180,000 miles per hour. That puts travel time at somewhere around 8 days.
Of course, that assumes it accelerates instantly and never has to slow down for entry. Which are not the case. It also assumes a straight line trajectory, which wouldn't happen.
Still, even if you half the speed and triple the distance you've got a trip time of only about 7 weeks. It's a vast improvement from the current 6-7 months trip time.
Here is a slightly more in-depth article.
From what I remember about the case at the time, the kid actually raised the money by getting investors. Not only did he raise money for the points, but also raised money for suing Pepsi since he knew they wouldn't give the plane to him. He figured the shot at the possible payoff of a 20-30 million dollar jet would attract enough investors for him to fund the venture. Expect an appeal on this one. It's all about money.
Too much information?
The poster probably means "Three Mile Island".
Weird, that's not the url I put in.
This is
If you want to change this obvious stupidity, or any other government stupidity (there's so much), write your congress person. If you don't know who your congress person is go to Vote smart and enter your zip code at the bottom of the page. It'll give you your congress person's name, snail-mail, and e-mail address. Write them, but PLEASE be polite. It doesn't help things to call the congress-people names.
What I find interesting is 3 hours of tech support is an additional $200. Man, for $60 an hour even I might consider doing tech support again.
For those of you stuck using Winblowz, Trumpet has announced Winsock 5.0 which does support IPv6 in the Win95 / 98 / NT environment, along with several improvements to standard IPv4.
As much as I hate to deal with the social implications of most issues this one strikes me as particuarly insidious.
I know there are plenty of Women who bemoan the fact that they "don't look like the models do". How are they going to feel when the models are computer generated and may have anatomical configurations not even possible in real life? In the computer they can tweak everything, muscle tone, body fat, hell they can even tweak gravity if they feel like it.
Further, aren't models supposed to show us what the garment will look like "in real life"? What's the point of having a model that doesn't really exist? It's going to be an idealized version of what the designer thinks the clothes should look like. You might as well just look at his inital sketches.
But I guess this way you could really give someone the finger.
Since when do you need drivers for RAM?
That really doesn't matter. Wordmarks are generally only enforcable within the industry they're registered for. A judgement is usually only renderd against a company when there is a reasonable chance that the two products could be confused.
The article you quoted stated that the French company has the trademark for a sports drink. I seriously doubt someone's going to mistake a $500 processor for a $2 sports drink.
I remember hearing a report on some news show or another (NPR?) where a new method of filtering is being tried out. Essentially all minors must use the filtering program until they get a parental consent form to use an un-filtered version. All non-minors are allowed un-filtered access.
It seemed to strike a quite agreeable compromise between First Amendment rights and parental responsibility.
I think you'll find if you read the article, that congress has not made really a law per se, but more a funding measure, much like how they changed the legal drinking age in every state. The threat of loss of funds can go a long way.
Congress has simply stated that if you don't comply with this regulation you will lose your federal internet subsidy. Congress is not required by law to give this subsidy, and they can decide who gets it on pretty much any criteria they feel they can get away with.
Let's be honest, the people running this Seti@home crap have screwed up in so many ways it's not even funny.
Their clients (particuarly the Winblowz) suck ass. The windows takes 2-3x the time to process a unit if you have the graphics on.
They're completely un-responsive, having not updated their news since the project began. I've sent three requests for help for a problem with using a solaris client behind a standard firewall, and haven't recieved a single response.
Then we find out that they've been sending the same 150 units to everyone.
While we're at it, let's discuss their excuse -- they said they couldn't run the servers to distribuite new worksets because all their load is being used by the webserver. Does anyone else think that their priority should be the worksets instead of the web page?
Guess that's what you get when you're more worried about the press releases than the science.
I think it's a great concept, but until they get the bugs sorted out I'm sticking with distributed.net
What I want to know is what happens when this "dynamic filtering system" of theirs goes down? Does the whole country get cut off from the outside world?
This one appears to work.
I don't see to many boys and girls getting this as a Birthday / Christmas / Hanukkah present. As far as I can tell, the console game market has depended upon kids begging their parents for the newest thing. How many kids do you think can pull off a $500 job of begging?
Probably long enough that you'd never live to see the completion. 32 PIII's wouldn't do squat. As of May 4th, Distributed.net has the equivilant of .03% of the keyspace per day. Quite frankly, 32 PIII's don't amount to anything at that kind of scale.
72,000 PII/266's running around the clock, and are
completing about
On the subject, I really like what they're doing with the cosm project. Think generic distributed.net, people can put in their own projects, put up their own reward system, it's the world's largest beowulf cluster -- okay, not strictly speaking but it's still a hell of a lot of horsepower.
They're going to teach an old version of RedHat?
6.0 comes out in May. Will people really want to pay for learning an already obsolete OS?
That's funny, because a whois lookup of trenchcoatmafia.org and trenchcoatmafia.net both have the following listed:
Billing Contact:
Troche, Jose domain name for sale (JDT92)
.com on the other hand (and arguably the most important) is registered by someone else, who may well be keeping it from being exploited.