I use photoshop. Maxing out it's memory on XP is a trivial matter, especially if I have Firefox, Thunderbird, xemacs, and a few bash sessions running at the same time. This may be the one thing that pushes me to get a big expensive Mac unless I find out that XP64 has stabilized to the point that I can convert over without any problems.
Once you remove the 'hidden material terms' part of the argument, the rest of it mostly falls apart. And I would be very surprised if Google had left themselves potentially open to a charge of fraud of this magnitude.
Disorganized serial killers don't usually have long careers. They usually get caught because they've made a mistake. The true psychopaths are tend to be organized.
Sweden was high on my list of 'free' countries to which I could immigrate for a number of good reasons. If this gets made into a law, I'll have to find a new candidate for the top of my list.
I never really assumed Hans was either guilty or innocence. Based on information in the press, it seemed as if The State had a circumstantial case but possibly with holes. I had always hoped he was innocent; he was making a positive contribution to a part of society of which I am a member. That contribution will be missed. But I do hope that just has been or will be served in this case.
> The fact that several large governments were talking about ditching MS Office (over open file standards) is what got MS to play ball. Now that they support ODF (and likely OOXML once they iron that out as well a bit) those government agencies are likely to stay with MS Office.
The problem is that MS Office is not compliant with ISO-OOXML. Nothing is. Nor are there standards to determine precisely what compliance means.
> I didn't know TCP-over-moose technology had matured!
They've done it with TCP over pidgeons (there's an RFC out for it and it was implemented in Europe awhile back). The latency was horrid, however. I also think that TCP/flying-squirrel would be better than TCP/moose but you're making the classic trade-off between latency and bandwidth.
Doesn't the Senator know that the logical response to this will be millions of files with names like 'loli-rape.avi' that contain wonderful Rick Astely videos*? Is Biden up for reelection yet again or is this his normal level of cluelessness.
Don't blame me. I'm writing in Bruce Schneier and Lawrence Lessig!
*Wait. What am I saying. This is already happening...
Ever see Akira? Ever read the manga? Same thing with Ghost in the Shell. In both cases the movies didn't do justice to the books. The movies weren't bad but they were different, just slices out of the original.
The problem with Dune is that a lot of people have read the book. Doing it as a single movie will either have to be a summary or a slice.
> I've never heard anything about the RIAA or MPAA going after a user using a torrent client.
However, the MPAA does monitor torrents and will send a nasty-gram to a torrent client's ISP (Comcast, in my case) who will in turn let you know about the nasty-gram with the usual implied threats.
If this OOXML 'standard' gets completely through the ISO process in its current form, will it not be the case that _nobody_ (eg Microsoft) will have a compliant implementation ready and that _nobody_ will ever be able to (or want to, in Microsoft's case) implement this 'standard'? It's dead from day one.
ODF at least has compliant implementations now and more will be implemented in the future. At the ISO level, we have one spec that is functioning correctly and a second one coming up that never will for anyone for any purpose.
The point needs to be made that MS does not, in fact, implement the coming ISO OOXML standard and has made no commitment that it will in the future.
Personally, I don't really care if OOXML gets approved or not. It just shouldn't not be approved in its present form. Give MS a year or two to get the damn spec in order and I'll happily be out there as an advocate. It's just not ready now. Forcing it through will not accelerate the changes that are so desperately needed.
>For all we know, the mysterious "Dark Matter" could really be just a very dense repository of all of the discarded fruitcakes from around the universe.
Come on, now! Somebody come up with a pithy post vis a vis Eliot, the telescope, and his lady friends. It's another 36+ hours until Jon Stewart is on the air.
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I use photoshop. Maxing out it's memory on XP is a trivial matter, especially if I have Firefox, Thunderbird, xemacs, and a few bash sessions running at the same time. This may be the one thing that pushes me to get a big expensive Mac unless I find out that XP64 has stabilized to the point that I can convert over without any problems.
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Surely no one would ever need more...
Once you remove the 'hidden material terms' part of the argument, the rest of it mostly falls apart. And I would be very surprised if Google had left themselves potentially open to a charge of fraud of this magnitude.
Up to that point, it was an interesting read.
Disorganized serial killers don't usually have long careers. They usually get caught because they've made a mistake. The true psychopaths are tend to be organized.
Sweden was high on my list of 'free' countries to which I could immigrate for a number of good reasons. If this gets made into a law, I'll have to find a new candidate for the top of my list.
Any suggestions?
A directed EMP burst, perhaps? If there is such a thing.
AKA Rubberhose Decryption. Works every time.
All I know about the Scouts is what I learned from Matt and Trey and the kids from South Park. But I forgot what they told me my opinion is...
I never really assumed Hans was either guilty or innocence. Based on information in the press, it seemed as if The State had a circumstantial case but possibly with holes. I had always hoped he was innocent; he was making a positive contribution to a part of society of which I am a member. That contribution will be missed. But I do hope that just has been or will be served in this case.
My first thought on reading this was "3001: The Final Odyssey".
> The fact that several large governments were talking about ditching MS Office (over open file standards) is what got MS to play ball. Now that they support ODF (and likely OOXML once they iron that out as well a bit) those government agencies are likely to stay with MS Office.
The problem is that MS Office is not compliant with ISO-OOXML. Nothing is. Nor are there standards to determine precisely what compliance means.
> I didn't know TCP-over-moose technology had matured!
They've done it with TCP over pidgeons (there's an RFC out for it and it was implemented in Europe awhile back). The latency was horrid, however. I also think that TCP/flying-squirrel would be better than TCP/moose but you're making the classic trade-off between latency and bandwidth.
>having several hundred lasers in a single drive is a sure sign you've jumped the shark.
But think of the seek times...
"non-legitimately purchased content"
How do I non-legitimately purchase content? Are they talking about black-market Seinfeld videos?
How does this impact GPL-based work?
This bill doesn't necessarily sound like a "good thing" WRT to the GPL.
Doesn't the Senator know that the logical response to this will be millions of files with names like 'loli-rape.avi' that contain wonderful Rick Astely videos*? Is Biden up for reelection yet again or is this his normal level of cluelessness.
Don't blame me. I'm writing in Bruce Schneier and Lawrence Lessig!
*Wait. What am I saying. This is already happening...
Ever see Akira? Ever read the manga? Same thing with Ghost in the Shell. In both cases the movies didn't do justice to the books. The movies weren't bad but they were different, just slices out of the original.
The problem with Dune is that a lot of people have read the book. Doing it as a single movie will either have to be a summary or a slice.
I thought that would be 'embiggen'.
> I've never heard anything about the RIAA or MPAA going after a user using a torrent client.
However, the MPAA does monitor torrents and will send a nasty-gram to a torrent client's ISP (Comcast, in my case) who will in turn let you know about the nasty-gram with the usual implied threats.
If this OOXML 'standard' gets completely through the ISO process in its current form, will it not be the case that _nobody_ (eg Microsoft) will have a compliant implementation ready and that _nobody_ will ever be able to (or want to, in Microsoft's case) implement this 'standard'? It's dead from day one.
ODF at least has compliant implementations now and more will be implemented in the future. At the ISO level, we have one spec that is functioning correctly and a second one coming up that never will for anyone for any purpose.
The point needs to be made that MS does not, in fact, implement the coming ISO OOXML standard and has made no commitment that it will in the future.
Personally, I don't really care if OOXML gets approved or not. It just shouldn't not be approved in its present form. Give MS a year or two to get the damn spec in order and I'll happily be out there as an advocate. It's just not ready now. Forcing it through will not accelerate the changes that are so desperately needed.
>For all we know, the mysterious "Dark Matter" could really be just a very dense repository of all of the discarded fruitcakes from around the universe.
Where I come from, we call that "California".
You posted the wrong link for Delirium Tremens.
4chan logo - makes you end up with a file at the FBI
Come on, now! Somebody come up with a pithy post vis a vis Eliot, the telescope, and his lady friends. It's another 36+ hours until Jon Stewart is on the air.