I'm in Portland and I for one welcome our new parking overlords. Keeping $3 worth of quarters for on hand for a parking meter is a hassle. Plus, if you have several stops to make you can pay the meter at the first one, and then just park and go at the next stop because the payment transfers to other spaces.
Yeah. Too bad that never happened, though. He played two matches after 1972 and neither was against a top player. Spassky had long since retired and Polgar may be a grandmaster, but has never been a serious world champion threat.
I still have mine and it still works. I got the TI-59 and the print cradle in 1978. Using the magnetic storage cards I stored a program that would print out the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine. Took forever to key in, but it was well worth it. It was very cool. I also have a deck of computer cards with the full lyrics to Darkside of the Money punched out. Those were the days.
Well I didn't RTFA and I was really bummed that someone played the Socrates card before I got a chance. Of course, Plato's conclusion is wrong. The fact that the slave boy could answer easy questions and thereby arrive at a more sophisticated geometric truth is only an indication that real skills have more to do with knowing what questions to ask than with knowing the answers.
How about apply for a replacement card? It's really not that big of a deal. You go to the local Social Security Administration, fill out the application for a replacement card, and in a few weeks you have it. Why would you want to change your SSN anyway? Afraid you'll draw too much if they see all that money you made when you were young?
Yeah, nice logo. I wonder if they bought it from the guy who keeps emailing me with a pitch to move my company forward with a low cost custom designed logo? All this time I've just been deleting those messages. I guess I better check it out.
I bought my Thinkpad 3 years ago and remember seeing adds for similar alarm systems from IBM. A quick google for "laptop alarms" yields 87,300 results. Clearly this is not news. Guess it must be stuff that matters.
Ahh, but that is how SCO's plan is brilliant. It is a logical impossiblity to prove a negative.
Put down the bong. You're saying that any false existential claim is independent of first order predicate calculus. Why don't set your alarm clock and go to class once in a while?
That was a really scary essay. About a third of the way through I was terrified that I would crack my head open on my keyboard when I fell asleep from boredom. Amazing that anyone could write that many words without saying anything interesting at all.
Then again if you're using SCO you're an enterprise anyway.
Only if you define Enterprise in some nonstandard way. SCO built it's former business on smaller companies -- the kind of place that has no idea what operating system they are running because they just bought a turn-key business system from a VAR.
Of course, Red Hat would say that all businesses should have been using Enterprise Linux all along and that Red Hat Linux was only meant for the home user/geek crowd.
If you read further you'll see that the study was done at an airport bar. It just happened that an NBA team was waiting for a private charter while a group going to a reunion of the munchkins from the Wizard of Oz was waiting to see if they could get standby tickets to Hollywood. This may have skewed results.
Very astute. I guess that explains why humans are not able to design a computer that does arithmetic better than humans. Or balance a checkbook better than humans. Or lookup book titles in a library better than humans. Yeah, that must be right.
And all of you out there protesting against software patents should be very happy that software protection is not included in copyright protection, because that would make protection probably five time longer (at least).
Apparently you are new to this being a lawyer gig. Otherwise you would know that all software is in fact protected by copyright law.
But the whole thing is silly anyway, it can only possibly affect more recent parts of Linux, the core parts (e2fs filesystem etc) are pretty obviously developed independently of SCO, and owes nothing to them.
I think you have patents and copyrights confused. A patent can be infringed even if the technology in question was independently developed. That's what makes them so nasty when it comes to patenting mathematical expressions, which is all computer programs are. If SCO has a patent on "2 + 2 = 4" then nobody else can use that fact without paying royalties.
Before people post "Burn down the IP laws!", make sure you have a valid alternative that comes some way toward protecting the rights of creative people.
The thing is, I don't really consider those people to be creative, but rather, inquisitive. The point being that people do not create mathematical facts, they discover them. For someone to patent a mathematical algorithm because they were the first one to claim discovery of it is just foolish.
The real purpose of patent law and copyright is to ensure that discoveries are made available to the public. The discoverer is granted a limited period of exclusivity in exchange for full disclosure and utimately releasing the discovery to the public domain. Recent laws extending the period of copyright and allowing patents of methods instead of products are perversions of the original intent of these laws.
Here's a link to a new anthology of slipstream/magic realism stuff. You might find it interesting. Ursula Le Guin blurbed it, if that tells you anything.
Being well rounded is overrated. I say find what you like and read/listen to as much of it as you can. There are plenty of people who know a little bit about a lot of different things. There's also a place for specialists. Would the world be better off if Stephen Hawking decided he had spent too much time on Physics and took up literary criticism so that he could be more well rounded?
OK, I'll concede that point. I think if I had said maximize revenue per unit produced I'd be a little closer. The real point is that if if want to make a 50% margin, you don't do it by figuring your cost on each item and pricing accordingly. You have to price each item based on what the market will pay, and then prune out unprofitable items.
The idea of actually paying for products they use and paying more than the product was produced for is suddenly lost when they go online.
The cost to produce a product should have no bearing on the selling price of the product. Neither for the buyer or the seller. The buyer should only decide what they are willing to pay for what they will receive in return. The seller should price the product so as to maximize revenue. If it turns out that this interaction results in a negative profit, then the product is not viable and the seller should find a new business. If the seller just calculates his cost and adds 50% to get a selling price he'll never know if he's leaving money on the table, or wasting time on a losing proposition.
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Don't even think about the Southern Peninsula or you could create a black hole.
I'm in Portland and I for one welcome our new parking overlords. Keeping $3 worth of quarters for on hand for a parking meter is a hassle. Plus, if you have several stops to make you can pay the meter at the first one, and then just park and go at the next stop because the payment transfers to other spaces.
Yeah. Too bad that never happened, though. He played two matches after 1972 and neither was against a top player. Spassky had long since retired and Polgar may be a grandmaster, but has never been a serious world champion threat.
sed -e "s/Money/Moon/" $PARENT
Still can't type. Doh!
I still have mine and it still works. I got the TI-59 and the print cradle in 1978. Using the magnetic storage cards I stored a program that would print out the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine. Took forever to key in, but it was well worth it. It was very cool. I also have a deck of computer cards with the full lyrics to Darkside of the Money punched out. Those were the days.
About half of them.
Well I didn't RTFA and I was really bummed that someone played the Socrates
card before I got a chance. Of course, Plato's conclusion is wrong. The fact
that the slave boy could answer easy questions and thereby arrive at a more
sophisticated geometric truth is only an indication that real skills have
more to do with knowing what questions to ask than with knowing the answers.
Any advice on what he should do
How about apply for a replacement card? It's really not that big of a deal. You go to the local Social Security Administration, fill out the application for a replacement card, and in a few weeks you have it. Why would you want to change your SSN anyway? Afraid you'll draw too much if they see all that money you made when you were young?
I use the Nokia built in Samba. So far no one has noticed the cleverness of it, but I guess that's because I put it on vibrate except when driving.
Yeah, nice logo. I wonder if they bought it from the guy who keeps emailing me with a pitch to move my company forward with a low cost custom designed logo? All this time I've just been deleting those messages. I guess I better check it out.
I bought my Thinkpad 3 years ago and remember seeing adds for similar alarm systems from IBM. A quick google for "laptop alarms" yields 87,300 results. Clearly this is not news. Guess it must be stuff that matters.
Ahh, but that is how SCO's plan is brilliant. It is a logical impossiblity to prove a negative.
Put down the bong. You're saying that any false existential claim is independent of first order predicate calculus. Why don't set your alarm clock and go to class once in a while?
That was a really scary essay. About a third of the way through I was terrified that I would crack my head open on my keyboard when I fell asleep from boredom. Amazing that anyone could write that many words without saying anything interesting at all.
Then again if you're using SCO you're an enterprise anyway.
Only if you define Enterprise in some nonstandard way. SCO built it's former business on smaller companies -- the kind of place that has no idea what operating system they are running because they just bought a turn-key business system from a VAR.
Of course, Red Hat would say that all businesses should have been using Enterprise Linux all along and that Red Hat Linux was only meant for the home user/geek crowd.
If you read further you'll see that the study was done at an airport bar. It just happened that an NBA team was waiting for a private charter while a group going to a reunion of the munchkins from the Wizard of Oz was waiting to see if they could get standby tickets to Hollywood. This may have skewed results.
Very astute. I guess that explains why humans are not able to design a computer that does arithmetic better than humans. Or balance a checkbook better than humans. Or lookup book titles in a library better than humans. Yeah, that must be right.
And all of you out there protesting against software patents should be very happy that software protection is not included in copyright protection, because that would make protection probably five time longer (at least).
Apparently you are new to this being a lawyer gig. Otherwise you would know that all software is in fact protected by copyright law.
Who knows, you may have been right. Maybe Mike just figured 7 years is better than 20.
And that's the policy for nearly all of the other included packages as well.
And that's why we like Slackware so well. Keep up the good work. BTW, why no mod_perl?
But the whole thing is silly anyway, it can only possibly affect more recent parts of Linux, the core parts (e2fs filesystem etc) are pretty obviously developed independently of SCO, and owes nothing to them.
I think you have patents and copyrights confused. A patent can be infringed even if the technology in question was independently developed. That's what makes them so nasty when it comes to patenting mathematical expressions, which is all computer programs are. If SCO has a patent on "2 + 2 = 4" then nobody else can use that fact without paying royalties.
Before people post "Burn down the IP laws!", make sure you have a valid alternative that comes some way toward protecting the rights of creative people.
The thing is, I don't really consider those people to be creative, but rather, inquisitive. The point being that people do not create mathematical facts, they discover them. For someone to patent a mathematical algorithm because they were the first one to claim discovery of it is just foolish.
The real purpose of patent law and copyright is to ensure that discoveries are made available to the public. The discoverer is granted a limited period of exclusivity in exchange for full disclosure and utimately releasing the discovery to the public domain. Recent laws extending the period of copyright and allowing patents of methods instead of products are perversions of the original intent of these laws.
Here's a link to a new anthology of slipstream/magic realism stuff. You might find it interesting. Ursula Le Guin blurbed it, if that tells you anything.
Being well rounded is overrated. I say find what you like and read/listen to as much of it as you can. There are plenty of people who know a little bit about a lot of different things. There's also a place for specialists. Would the world be better off if Stephen Hawking decided he had spent too much time on Physics and took up literary criticism so that he could be more well rounded?
OK, I'll concede that point. I think if I had said maximize revenue per unit produced I'd be a little closer. The real point is that if if want to make a 50% margin, you don't do it by figuring your cost on each item and pricing accordingly. You have to price each item based on what the market will pay, and then prune out unprofitable items.
The idea of actually paying for products they use and paying more than the product was produced for is suddenly lost when they go online.
The cost to produce a product should have no bearing on the selling price of the product. Neither for the buyer or the seller. The buyer should only decide what they are willing to pay for what they will receive in return. The seller should price the product so as to maximize revenue. If it turns out that this interaction results in a negative profit, then the product is not viable and the seller should find a new business. If the seller just calculates his cost and adds 50% to get a selling price he'll never know if he's leaving money on the table, or wasting time on a losing proposition.