As soon as I learned of paypal around 1998, I instantly saw the possibilities of kiting. Just transfer $1000 to a friend that has agreed to give you $990 of it back to you and keep the $10 for themselves, bam, instant cash advance, without the associated fees and lack of grace period. You could string up tons of interest free debt if you played your cards right doing that. I believe it's also illegal, so don't try it.
They are not next to be a target of FUD, but next to be raped in their own way. All MS has to do to hurt BSD greatly is to make a Lycoris type BSD with MS branding. They will make it less attractive than their NT platforms, but attractive enough to push new users that would have gravitated toward BSD to use it instead.
In other news, BSD is doing quite well at dying on it's own. No, it's not just a troll anymore, it's clear that the BSD community is shrinking very quickly. There will always be a few hard core people, just like Amiga or Commodore or OS/2, but no one much will view it as viable for anything real.
That was an blaring inaccuracy I caught too. Reiserfs is definitely more incomplete and buggy than good old XFS.
With large file systems, there is almost no choice, you can't go with a toy like reiserfs. Maybe someday reiser will mature, but it looks like they are too busy chasing rainbows, trying to push a new concept in namespaces that will probably never catch on. I personally think that the UNIX handling of namespaces is just fine, and I would be highly resistant to change something so simple and elegant as what we have now.
Even if it passes, resolutions don't get signed into law per se, they are just an expression of the feeling of the body, they don't have any real force.
The analogy was meant to illustrate how even if it is a good deal, it is still ultimately hurting the consumers. And the analogy was weak, it would be more like that same drug dealer had 99% of the crack market, and was only giving out cheap hits in order to sell more later.
Well, it may not be possible anymore, since RAM is almost twice as expensive than when I built them.
Anyway, if you are still curious,
ECS K7SEM motherboards, they have built in ethernet, video, sound. They have two PCI and one AGP.
All the hardware is supported in Linux, the video card is kinda a bitch to get acceleration working on, but I doubt you would be using the on board video for gmaing anyway. You would do better getting XFree86 4.0 or higher, since the support is better there.
Add 256 Megs Kingston RAM, and that's about it. I bought 6 very cheap $10 cases, and threw the cases away and kept the power supplies. All of the above formed the basis of my MOSIX cluster.
Since in the US you can patent something as long as you file the application within 1 year of publication,
Publication has nothing to do with patents. You are thinking of copyrights, in which case, it gets a lot harder to copyright something if you don't do it before or soon after publication.
Don't worry about it. People won't generally sue you until you can afford lawyers and a nice juicy settlement. They wouldn't want to bite the hand that they leech off of, after all.
P.S. Answer me this: if MS really is such a big bad monopoly how were the univeristy people able to negotiate with them? Monopolies need not negegioate for lower prices, remember?
Oh, that's so weak. MS lowers the prices for colleges so that poeple will learn MS skills, and get jobs using MS software, at MS-bound companies.
Here's a case in point. My friend is a programmer, who has been through 3 years of a CS degree. He went in to try to find a temporary job at an appliance rental place. They read his resume with all the C++ and Linux experience on it, and then asked him, "Do you know how to use MS Word?".
He walked out, rightly.
Another example:
My girlfriend, while in college, signed up with a temp agency. They made her take computer proficiency tests, including one using MS Office. They took points off her score because she used Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy and paste, rather than going into the Edit menu each time.
MS breeds stupidity. MS gives colleges incredibly low prices, because that generates a whole fresh batch of MS-orons that will go out and get hires by equal morons that run MS software.
Because business method patents get through the system that are MORE obvious than swinging sideways, such as one-click-shopping, hyperlinks, exercising a cat with a laser pointer (I shit you not), etc.
They are just using this as an example of how broken the system is, sort of how that Representative got a resolution through his state legislature authorizing the use of submarines to torpedo gambling boats. (I forget the exact reference, google for details.)
That's an important point, there almost wasn't a Bill of Rights. When you make a list, even if you disclaim it with an entry that says that it isn't all inclusive, people will assume that the other rights just aren't as important. Part of the group that wrote the consitution didn't want a list, but the other part that eventually won, knew that if things were left to ambigous, it would be taken as license to do whatever the government wanted to do.
With motherboards and ram, the total bill was less than $1200.
They all run great, and they were the best price/performance ratio on the low end when I bought them. There were two dips in the price/performance ratio, one was midway up the Athlon performance curve, and one was at the 950Duron with the older core. I went with the durons, since I wanted quantity over single machine performance.
I'd love to see some Hammers in Sept-Oct. I've been putting off buying anything new in anticipation of this "next big thing"
Don't. I will be a long time before we have software that makes it worth it on anything but mostly custom systems, if and when this stuff goes mainstream. Wait if you think prices will fall for 32 bit, but don't wait for 64.
You can use any power supply with that motherboard, they provide a molex male on the board in case you don't have the square 4 pin on your power supply.
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Man, now I am going to have to redesign my page to get rid of all those uncompressed TIFFs.
If only MIME wasn't a hopeless mess in Linux.
As soon as I learned of paypal around 1998, I instantly saw the possibilities of kiting. Just transfer $1000 to a friend that has agreed to give you $990 of it back to you and keep the $10 for themselves, bam, instant cash advance, without the associated fees and lack of grace period. You could string up tons of interest free debt if you played your cards right doing that. I believe it's also illegal, so don't try it.
There is no mystical power that lawyers wield.
Just make it clear what your intent is, and the judge will go with it.
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There, was that so hard?
They are not next to be a target of FUD, but next to be raped in their own way. All MS has to do to hurt BSD greatly is to make a Lycoris type BSD with MS branding. They will make it less attractive than their NT platforms, but attractive enough to push new users that would have gravitated toward BSD to use it instead.
In other news, BSD is doing quite well at dying on it's own. No, it's not just a troll anymore, it's clear that the BSD community is shrinking very quickly. There will always be a few hard core people, just like Amiga or Commodore or OS/2, but no one much will view it as viable for anything real.
That was an blaring inaccuracy I caught too. Reiserfs is definitely more incomplete and buggy than good old XFS.
With large file systems, there is almost no choice, you can't go with a toy like reiserfs. Maybe someday reiser will mature, but it looks like they are too busy chasing rainbows, trying to push a new concept in namespaces that will probably never catch on. I personally think that the UNIX handling of namespaces is just fine, and I would be highly resistant to change something so simple and elegant as what we have now.
Even if it passes, resolutions don't get signed into law per se, they are just an expression of the feeling of the body, they don't have any real force.
I don't believe in the drug war.
The analogy was meant to illustrate how even if it is a good deal, it is still ultimately hurting the consumers. And the analogy was weak, it would be more like that same drug dealer had 99% of the crack market, and was only giving out cheap hits in order to sell more later.
Install quicktime, it will happily take over PNG MIME types for you.
Congratulations, I am a pretty hard core Libertarian, and you are probably the first person to make even me feel Liberal.
If you go up to a homeless guy on the street and offer him crack at a good price, is there a downside to that?
Well, it may not be possible anymore, since RAM is almost twice as expensive than when I built them.
Anyway, if you are still curious,
ECS K7SEM motherboards, they have built in ethernet, video, sound. They have two PCI and one AGP.
All the hardware is supported in Linux, the video card is kinda a bitch to get acceleration working on, but I doubt you would be using the on board video for gmaing anyway. You would do better getting XFree86 4.0 or higher, since the support is better there.
Add 256 Megs Kingston RAM, and that's about it. I bought 6 very cheap $10 cases, and threw the cases away and kept the power supplies. All of the above formed the basis of my MOSIX cluster.
Since in the US you can patent something as long as you file the application within 1 year of publication,
Publication has nothing to do with patents. You are thinking of copyrights, in which case, it gets a lot harder to copyright something if you don't do it before or soon after publication.
Don't worry about it. People won't generally sue you until you can afford lawyers and a nice juicy settlement. They wouldn't want to bite the hand that they leech off of, after all.
He didn't even use your pattern, as far as I can tell. He made one piece with 4 "wings" and then another piece as a lid.
P.S. Answer me this: if MS really is such a big bad monopoly how were the univeristy people able to negotiate with them? Monopolies need not negegioate for lower prices, remember?
Oh, that's so weak. MS lowers the prices for colleges so that poeple will learn MS skills, and get jobs using MS software, at MS-bound companies.
Here's a case in point. My friend is a programmer, who has been through 3 years of a CS degree. He went in to try to find a temporary job at an appliance rental place. They read his resume with all the C++ and Linux experience on it, and then asked him, "Do you know how to use MS Word?".
He walked out, rightly.
Another example:
My girlfriend, while in college, signed up with a temp agency. They made her take computer proficiency tests, including one using MS Office. They took points off her score because she used Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy and paste, rather than going into the Edit menu each time.
MS breeds stupidity. MS gives colleges incredibly low prices, because that generates a whole fresh batch of MS-orons that will go out and get hires by equal morons that run MS software.
The first hit off the crack pipe is always free. :)
Danny boy... Are you POSITIVE you don't work for MS? Maybe as a contractor, or indirectly as an MCSE-trained-monkey?
Because business method patents get through the system that are MORE obvious than swinging sideways, such as one-click-shopping, hyperlinks, exercising a cat with a laser pointer (I shit you not), etc.
They are just using this as an example of how broken the system is, sort of how that Representative got a resolution through his state legislature authorizing the use of submarines to torpedo gambling boats. (I forget the exact reference, google for details.)
That's an important point, there almost wasn't a Bill of Rights. When you make a list, even if you disclaim it with an entry that says that it isn't all inclusive, people will assume that the other rights just aren't as important. Part of the group that wrote the consitution didn't want a list, but the other part that eventually won, knew that if things were left to ambigous, it would be taken as license to do whatever the government wanted to do.
I just think it's kinda been run into the ground. I apologise, you caught me in an extra cynical mood.
Holger Rosendal .. Hilary Rosen. I dunno. Coincidence? I think not.
They're all clones! It's almost like this is an ATTACK of the CLONES.
Intel is brought to you by the letter "I" and the number "386".
I can't believe the USPTO actually let them trademark the letter I when used in relation to computers and such.
I guess we will have to write it "Bas*c Stamp" and things like that.
I own 7 Duron 950s for personal use.
With motherboards and ram, the total bill was less than $1200.
They all run great, and they were the best price/performance ratio on the low end when I bought them. There were two dips in the price/performance ratio, one was midway up the Athlon performance curve, and one was at the 950Duron with the older core. I went with the durons, since I wanted quantity over single machine performance.
I'd love to see some Hammers in Sept-Oct. I've been putting off buying anything new in anticipation of this "next big thing"
Don't. I will be a long time before we have software that makes it worth it on anything but mostly custom systems, if and when this stuff goes mainstream. Wait if you think prices will fall for 32 bit, but don't wait for 64.
You can use any power supply with that motherboard, they provide a molex male on the board in case you don't have the square 4 pin on your power supply.