Here I was thinking he was actually suing them for Intellectual Property, like everyone else these days, but who dealing with these phony pharmecuticals, on either side, could be considered an intellectual. I'd like to know if these other things which have been bombarding my mailbox (about 50 a day) pushing codeine, tylenol3, etc. are also just bogus pills. Who's going to admit they got ripped off trying to buy prescription drugs by illegitimate means, eh?
Does any company actually have a business plan that isn't based around suing people any more?
Pay attention to who they are suing. Japanese companies are famous for folding at the least sign of litigation (remember Rambus, anyone?) thus a likely first target to raise capital to start suing others. It would be rather nice if the Japanese sent some Yakuza over to negotiate.
Bush Petitions the European Space Agency
on
NASA's Own X Prize?
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[Music:Hail to the Chief]
[Bush descends from Airforce One on a runway in Geneva]
Bush: Hello!
[pause]
Bush: Hello!
Frenchman: Allo! Who is eet?
Bush: It is George W. Bush, and these are my presidential aides. Whom am I addressing?
Frenchman: A representative of the European Space Agency.
Bush: Go and tell your superior that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest to land a man on Mars.
Frenchman: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, we've already been there, you see.
Bush: What?
Bush aide: He says they've already been there!
Bush: Are you sure you've been there?
Frenchman: Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we've already been there.)
Frenchmen: [chuckling]
Bush: Well, u-- um, can we come and have a look?
Frenchman: Of course not! You are American types-a!
Bush: Well, what are you, then?
Frenchman: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly president-a?!
Bush aide: What were you doing on Mars?
Frenchman: Mind your own business!
Bush: If you will not show us how you got there and back, we shall take your country by force!
Frenchman: You don't frighten us, American pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Bush President, you and all your silly NASA Astro-nnnnnnauts. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
Bush aide: What a strange person.
Bush: Now look here, my good man--
Frenchman: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Bush aide: Is there someone else we could talk to?
Frenchman: No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a! [sniff]
Bush: Now, this is your last chance. I've been more than reasonable.
Frenchman: (Fetchez la vache.)
Other frenchman: Quoi?
Frenchman: (Fetchez la vache!)
[mooo]
Bush: If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall--
[twong]
[mooooooo]
Jesus Christ!
Aides: Christ!
[thud]
Ah! Ohh!...
Years ago I was playing several hours a day, seven days a week, some games, like Ultima and such. Funny thing, when I went to stores I had to remind myself that things had to be paid for, you don't just pick up stuff and its in your inventory. I think there's some training of the mind that happens when you do play a lot of games and you may be unaware until you catch yourself thinking twice about some course of action.
This is good news. IBM surely has the money to fight the defense.
I'm certain these attorneys are IBM employees or on retainer, this suit is costing IBM almost nothing. SCO, OTOH, has put David Boies on the payroll. You know that SCO only has so many quarters to feed that meter.
In light of new developments, SCO has expanded their legal team to include two well known icons:
Stimpy: "Hey, Ren, if we keep piling things onto the suit, we'll never lose because it'll go on for ever."
Ren: "Stimpy! you're a genious!"
Stimpy: "All we have to do is keep finding investors to underwrite the suits, because if SCO runs out of money we'll have to find someone else to represent."
Ren: "So geet back to woork, you eediot!"
I keep hoping we'll just go back to silver and gold coins. It's easier to carry a pocket scale and countermark it than put with this crap.
All money will eventually be electronic or plast anyway. I've still got a see-thru aussie $10 a friend sent me years ago. Let's see you print that in your HP colorjet.
Suppose I want to design a certificate or some other artwork which resembles currency in some way, such as an elaborate engraved pattern border. What I don't want is 'COPY COPY COPY' or some crap interferring with it.
I propose that any and all spammers be subject to possible castration when caught.
Let's call it 'Eunuchs'
*ring ring**ring ring* "Hello?" "Hi, this is Darl McBride, Cease and Desist or send $690 to SCO to license this homophone or we'll sue your pants off!" *click*
While starting Computer Science students off with assembly (without first introducing them to a high-level language) may be a relatively new concept these days, the idea of teaching low-level languages to Computer Science students is not a revolutionary technique whatsoever. Every decent Computer Science curriculum includes several semesters of courses in which assembly language is required, to demonstrate their knowledge of basic computer processes.
I've found I get blank stares sometimes when discussing memory usage, I/O bottle neck or code optimization in front of PHB's. All they want is crap to run and if they've got the money they'll throw it at buying more power. Sadly I've seen BSCS people who care less about getting a project done rather than done well, often with hideous looking code which can choke the fastest quad processor servers. A little time spent, considering how code may be written to minimize impact or organize I/O more efficiently isn't even encouraged anymore, where it once was a hard rule.
Look at VB.NET, it's the very embodiment of just code and don't worry about it. So much of the work is buried in libraries/namespace, you really have no idea what impact calling routines will do.
Today's lesson: Screw finesse, just throw more CPU and memory at it.
the one monitoring their web traffic just exploded.
Hey, explosions are analog, aren't they?
<Homer>Oooh, pretty colored explosion!</Homer>
"The Taiwan Chinese have replaced opium with motherboards, are you a technology addict? Do you crave the latest consumer electroics? Are there Tongs governing these things?"
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Google Bad:
Can crush your site like a grape if you're not ready for traffic
Selling out, selling words
Included lots of (subscription) news services without ability to exclude them (I know, it's free and I'm whining, but I think it's getting worse and I'm not about to subscribe to 200 news sites to see a picture of Jackson's boob)
Groups take too long to post messages and some groups not available.
I have fond memories of the Soo. My car being searched, coming and going. Easy to forget that it's a border point, as the upper peninsula is practically a part of Canada, culturally closer than it is to the rest of the US.
A pity about Tim Horton's, as I used to love their apple fritters. Canadian beer was good, all I get locally though is in cans.
The geek appeal (as much as there can be in bright daylight and some physical activity beyond opening a bag of Cheetos) of Searchmont was the names of the runs, that and the best skiing in driving distance from where I lived. Any idea why they changed the names?
Smaller die would loosely correlate to less power, with fewer power and ground pins (most of the pins on a processor)
Yeah, but processors down the road typically get better about power needs, as long as clock isn't going up, but low clock processors seem to have a market life of a couple years then they become NOS. Pin count for power is going to be established by the first out the gate and no matter how miserly the successors are, they're in the same package due to the socket standard and motherboard compatibility.
I guess the obvious question, since using squares on a round wafer wastes a certain amount of silicon, is why squares? Why not build a hex grid? That would seem to maximize the usage of the available area.
But then, I suppose cutting them out would be significantly more difficult.
What about triangles, then? Straight lines up and down, and in one (or both) diagonal directions.
Well, NVidia discovered rotating them 45 degrees give them a diamond instead of a square. Think they're onto something?
Smaller dies can also mean a much cheaper package with less pins.
Beg pardon? Seems for the last 20 years processors have been gaining pins like some adherence to Moore's law. Seen the Athlon 64's lately? Didn't the 6502, 8086 and z80 processors have like 40 pins? I can't see a correllation between pins and die size.
For those of you that have never been in a clean room, there is a tremendous amount of ambient sound due to the very important air cleaning/circulation system.
Well, shoot! That sure blows my image, I thought it was the disco music that people in Intel 'bunny suits' danced to.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is that? Lots of people move there from CA?
Here I was thinking he was actually suing them for Intellectual Property, like everyone else these days, but who dealing with these phony pharmecuticals, on either side, could be considered an intellectual. I'd like to know if these other things which have been bombarding my mailbox (about 50 a day) pushing codeine, tylenol3, etc. are also just bogus pills. Who's going to admit they got ripped off trying to buy prescription drugs by illegitimate means, eh?
Pay attention to who they are suing. Japanese companies are famous for folding at the least sign of litigation (remember Rambus, anyone?) thus a likely first target to raise capital to start suing others. It would be rather nice if the Japanese sent some Yakuza over to negotiate.
[Music:Hail to the Chief]
[Bush descends from Airforce One on a runway in Geneva]
Bush: Hello!
[pause]
Bush: Hello!
Frenchman: Allo! Who is eet?
Bush: It is George W. Bush, and these are my presidential aides. Whom am I addressing?
Frenchman: A representative of the European Space Agency.
Bush: Go and tell your superior that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest to land a man on Mars.
Frenchman: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, we've already been there, you see.
Bush: What?
Bush aide: He says they've already been there!
Bush: Are you sure you've been there?
Frenchman: Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we've already been there.)
Frenchmen: [chuckling]
Bush: Well, u-- um, can we come and have a look?
Frenchman: Of course not! You are American types-a!
Bush: Well, what are you, then?
Frenchman: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly president-a?!
Bush aide: What were you doing on Mars?
Frenchman: Mind your own business!
Bush: If you will not show us how you got there and back, we shall take your country by force!
Frenchman: You don't frighten us, American pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Bush President, you and all your silly NASA Astro-nnnnnnauts. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
Bush aide: What a strange person.
Bush: Now look here, my good man--
Frenchman: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Bush aide: Is there someone else we could talk to?
Frenchman: No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a! [sniff]
Bush: Now, this is your last chance. I've been more than reasonable.
Frenchman: (Fetchez la vache.)
Other frenchman: Quoi?
Frenchman: (Fetchez la vache!)
[mooo]
Bush: If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall--
[twong]
[mooooooo]
Jesus Christ!
Aides: Christ!
[thud]
Ah! Ohh!...
SCO dries up and blows away
/. eventually removes old SCO icon
IBM Develops some technology for OS/2
IBM adds it to AIX
SCO (claiming to own copyrights to Un*x) says anything derivative of Unix (AIX in this case) becomes their IP
SCO Sues IBM for copyright infringement
IBM demonstrates this technology existed prior and was given to both operatings systems as an add-on
SCO loses
Years ago I was playing several hours a day, seven days a week, some games, like Ultima and such. Funny thing, when I went to stores I had to remind myself that things had to be paid for, you don't just pick up stuff and its in your inventory. I think there's some training of the mind that happens when you do play a lot of games and you may be unaware until you catch yourself thinking twice about some course of action.
Grues are from Zork, or Dungeon as we knew it on the old PDP 11.
I'm certain these attorneys are IBM employees or on retainer, this suit is costing IBM almost nothing. SCO, OTOH, has put David Boies on the payroll. You know that SCO only has so many quarters to feed that meter.
Stimpy: "Hey, Ren, if we keep piling things onto the suit, we'll never lose because it'll go on for ever."
Ren: "Stimpy! you're a genious!"
Stimpy: "All we have to do is keep finding investors to underwrite the suits, because if SCO runs out of money we'll have to find someone else to represent."
Ren: "So geet back to woork, you eediot!"
Or you could use the Corbomite Maneuver to encourage other drivers to give you space, but eventually they catch on.
All money will eventually be electronic or plast anyway. I've still got a see-thru aussie $10 a friend sent me years ago. Let's see you print that in your HP colorjet.
Suppose I want to design a certificate or some other artwork which resembles currency in some way, such as an elaborate engraved pattern border. What I don't want is 'COPY COPY COPY' or some crap interferring with it.
"Captain, I believe there is a 1.6180339887 percent probability that any security officers beamed down to the planet will survive."
Let's call it 'Eunuchs'
*ring ring* *ring ring*
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is Darl McBride, Cease and Desist or send $690 to SCO to license this homophone or we'll sue your pants off!"
*click*
I've found I get blank stares sometimes when discussing memory usage, I/O bottle neck or code optimization in front of PHB's. All they want is crap to run and if they've got the money they'll throw it at buying more power. Sadly I've seen BSCS people who care less about getting a project done rather than done well, often with hideous looking code which can choke the fastest quad processor servers. A little time spent, considering how code may be written to minimize impact or organize I/O more efficiently isn't even encouraged anymore, where it once was a hard rule.
Look at VB.NET, it's the very embodiment of just code and don't worry about it. So much of the work is buried in libraries/namespace, you really have no idea what impact calling routines will do.
Today's lesson: Screw finesse, just throw more CPU and memory at it.
...Must strangle self...before too late...
Hey, explosions are analog, aren't they?
<Homer>Oooh, pretty colored explosion!</Homer>
"The Taiwan Chinese have replaced opium with motherboards, are you a technology addict? Do you crave the latest consumer electroics? Are there Tongs governing these things?"
Use Linux on cheep pc farm
Simple interface
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Images
News
Groups
Privately owned and free from evil influences (aside from those of ownership)
Cached stuff is way nice when sites are obnoxious or pages missing.
Google Bad:
Can crush your site like a grape if you're not ready for traffic
Selling out, selling words
Included lots of (subscription) news services without ability to exclude them (I know, it's free and I'm whining, but I think it's getting worse and I'm not about to subscribe to 200 news sites to see a picture of Jackson's boob)
Groups take too long to post messages and some groups not available.
A pity about Tim Horton's, as I used to love their apple fritters. Canadian beer was good, all I get locally though is in cans.
The geek appeal (as much as there can be in bright daylight and some physical activity beyond opening a bag of Cheetos) of Searchmont was the names of the runs, that and the best skiing in driving distance from where I lived. Any idea why they changed the names?
Things to do in Da Soo in the winter:
Play hockey
Watch hockey
Go skiing at Searchmont (Looks like they renamed the runs, used to be named Harddrive, Megabyte, etc.)
Wait for the spring thaw and the return of shipping through the Soo Locks
Drink beer
Eat donuts
I can just picture the lively uses for this in this remote city known for it's locks.
"Watched hockey game last night on the computer, eh!"
"Yeah, good thing, because the TV was broken, eh!"
Yeah, but processors down the road typically get better about power needs, as long as clock isn't going up, but low clock processors seem to have a market life of a couple years then they become NOS. Pin count for power is going to be established by the first out the gate and no matter how miserly the successors are, they're in the same package due to the socket standard and motherboard compatibility.
Heck, you should know all this by now.
But then, I suppose cutting them out would be significantly more difficult.
What about triangles, then? Straight lines up and down, and in one (or both) diagonal directions.
Well, NVidia discovered rotating them 45 degrees give them a diamond instead of a square. Think they're onto something?
Beg pardon? Seems for the last 20 years processors have been gaining pins like some adherence to Moore's law. Seen the Athlon 64's lately? Didn't the 6502, 8086 and z80 processors have like 40 pins? I can't see a correllation between pins and die size.
Well, shoot! That sure blows my image, I thought it was the disco music that people in Intel 'bunny suits' danced to.