I doubt government funds could be appropriated in this fashion. Instead what will happen is this would be treated like any other government contract. Companites, rather then individuals would compete, and skill/quality would be low on the list of requirements.
I am a big open source advocate where I work, and I feel the Apache model has the most merit. Of course projects such as Apache only really succede when they are large enough to attact a large number of developers and companies to support it. As with any open source projects, the vast majority of ASF's projects fail, mainly do to lack of intrest. But they come out with the ocasional gem.
Well, after speaking with the nice chap from take two, I found out the play and install disks are mislabeled. You need to put disk 1 "install disk" in the drive, not disk 2 even though disk 2 is labeled "play".
Well I shouldnt be too surprised. I just received and installed my copy of Civ IV today, and after the 2 disk install process, the game is unable to start as it cannot find the cd that is in my drive. If I am unable to make this work, it will just be going back to the store, which is a shame as I have been waiting for this game for quite a while.
The most amusing part about it is the error dialog has a link to their site. The link goes to a blank page.
And they wonder why we complain about stupid copy protection schemes.
Eventually it will escalate to sending elephants to chase off the lions or something. Then you will have to send in a mouse (or rat) to fighten the elephants away.
This domain name has been temporarily suspended for exceeding the daily bandwidth quota. The site will be automatically turned on again at 12:00AM PST (unless the site's allocated monthly limit is reached).
Good job slashdot. I won't even bother bringing up stuff such as coral or mirrordot, it just isnt worth bringing up since the editors just don't care.
Actually what Rambus patented was components of DDR SDRAM. They then used this as leverage to try to force the other DRAM makers to pay them royalities to ofset the extreme cost of their own product, RDRAM. The DRAM makers (expically the asian ones) told them to go to hell, and DDR became the de facto standard. Also, Intel had some shady dealings as they tried to push their systems to use only RDRAM, mainly because Intel held stock in Rambus at the time. Fortunatly for Intel they were smart enough to realize they cannot push the market around, and dropped RDRAM.
As it appears that it is the second stage that failed the accident does not reflect on the reliability of Russian ICBMs
Thats too bad, because it would make me feel safer that something that may have once been targeted at the US for mass destruction failed when launched.
I want to know what happened MRAM, a magnetic based, faster, and static replacement for our current DRAM? Guess they are faster at producing acronyms then product.
And while you can tell them to stop - they still have access to your account and you can't make them stop. Period.
This is why I never use my bank card for anything other then the ATM or emergencies. If someone commits fraud on my bank card, my bank account will be empty until I can get it sorted out with the bank. I know people that have had this happen and it has taken weeks for them to get any money at all, even from their direct deposit paychecks. Using the credit card get around this, because if I see bad charges on it, I can call up the credit card company and dispute the charges before I have to pay the bill.
They should split it into modules small enough so one person can understand one of the modules completely.
I would say they did. I have worked on projects like that before, unfortunatly what happens is if you dont have enough people grasping the entire archetecutre you end up with each module king of going their own way.
We termed this code "ravoli code". Each small chunk is well wrote, concise and serves its purpose well. But the individual ravoli's do not work well together.
The world has been aghast at how the Pennsylvania ADL hate laws could arrest and imprison eleven Christians for simply preaching the gospel at a "gay-pride" event...
Althought I hate this kind of law, it serves them right, because the Christian Right are the ones who are pushing these laws into effect. I suppose if they want to curtail the Bill of Rights, they had better damn well live with the concequences.
At first I thought "How the heck is EAServer #5?" Then I realized it was dead last amongst the other big J2EE servers. As horrible as EAS is, it was still ahead of.NET.
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I doubt government funds could be appropriated in this fashion. Instead what will happen is this would be treated like any other government contract. Companites, rather then individuals would compete, and skill/quality would be low on the list of requirements.
I am a big open source advocate where I work, and I feel the Apache model has the most merit. Of course projects such as Apache only really succede when they are large enough to attact a large number of developers and companies to support it. As with any open source projects, the vast majority of ASF's projects fail, mainly do to lack of intrest. But they come out with the ocasional gem.
Holy crap that link was frightening. That can't possibaly be legal, can it?
Hopefully someone will patent reality TV shows. I am rather sick of those.
Wait no, this wont work. You need to have a story to be able to patent it. Soon all that will be on the air is reality TV. Noooo!
Well, after speaking with the nice chap from take two, I found out the play and install disks are mislabeled. You need to put disk 1 "install disk" in the drive, not disk 2 even though disk 2 is labeled "play".
Well I shouldnt be too surprised. I just received and installed my copy of Civ IV today, and after the 2 disk install process, the game is unable to start as it cannot find the cd that is in my drive. If I am unable to make this work, it will just be going back to the store, which is a shame as I have been waiting for this game for quite a while.
The most amusing part about it is the error dialog has a link to their site. The link goes to a blank page.
And they wonder why we complain about stupid copy protection schemes.
Great, and what will you send to catch the dog?
Eventually it will escalate to sending elephants to chase off the lions or something. Then you will have to send in a mouse (or rat) to fighten the elephants away.
The cycle never ends!
At 8:30 EST it reads:
This domain name has been temporarily suspended for exceeding the daily bandwidth quota. The site will be automatically turned on again at 12:00AM PST (unless the site's allocated monthly limit is reached).
Good job slashdot. I won't even bother bringing up stuff such as coral or mirrordot, it just isnt worth bringing up since the editors just don't care.
If he bothers you that much just tell him to click here.
Actually what Rambus patented was components of DDR SDRAM. They then used this as leverage to try to force the other DRAM makers to pay them royalities to ofset the extreme cost of their own product, RDRAM. The DRAM makers (expically the asian ones) told them to go to hell, and DDR became the de facto standard. Also, Intel had some shady dealings as they tried to push their systems to use only RDRAM, mainly because Intel held stock in Rambus at the time. Fortunatly for Intel they were smart enough to realize they cannot push the market around, and dropped RDRAM.
As it appears that it is the second stage that failed the accident does not reflect on the reliability of Russian ICBMs
Thats too bad, because it would make me feel safer that something that may have once been targeted at the US for mass destruction failed when launched.
I want to know what happened MRAM, a magnetic based, faster, and static replacement for our current DRAM? Guess they are faster at producing acronyms then product.
And while you can tell them to stop - they still have access to your account and you can't make them stop. Period.
This is why I never use my bank card for anything other then the ATM or emergencies. If someone commits fraud on my bank card, my bank account will be empty until I can get it sorted out with the bank. I know people that have had this happen and it has taken weeks for them to get any money at all, even from their direct deposit paychecks.
Using the credit card get around this, because if I see bad charges on it, I can call up the credit card company and dispute the charges before I have to pay the bill.
And what would you do differently if you could go back and reverse that decision?
That sounds like an interview question out of a HR script.
He was paraphrasing Jaws, when Roy Scheider's character says, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Ahh I realized why this is comming up again. The year ends in a 5. Every 10 years centralized computing becomes the hot topic again.
They should split it into modules small enough so one person can understand one of the modules completely.
I would say they did. I have worked on projects like that before, unfortunatly what happens is if you dont have enough people grasping the entire archetecutre you end up with each module king of going their own way.
We termed this code "ravoli code". Each small chunk is well wrote, concise and serves its purpose well. But the individual ravoli's do not work well together.
Employes are quoted as saying, "He really should put some clothes on."
Yeah the Bridge to Nowhere is in Pittsburgh.
The world has been aghast at how the Pennsylvania ADL hate laws could arrest and imprison eleven Christians for simply preaching the gospel at a "gay-pride" event...
Althought I hate this kind of law, it serves them right, because the Christian Right are the ones who are pushing these laws into effect. I suppose if they want to curtail the Bill of Rights, they had better damn well live with the concequences.
Yeah, a Galaxy class Enterprise server.
This is absurd, what year is this again?
1984
Why do you ask?
According to Google, you make "Astronomical Unit (US$ 150) = 2.24397 × 10^13 m U.S. Dollars"
At first I thought "How the heck is EAServer #5?" Then I realized it was dead last amongst the other big J2EE servers. As horrible as EAS is, it was still ahead of .NET.
Actually, if you're the boss, then that makes YOU the insensitive clod. And nevermind about Soviet Russia.
I like that article... best quote "Industry experts say it is the purity of the Olympic name that makes it so attractive a target."
Right...